Missing again so far this week from the US Supreme Court’s regular orders release on Tuesday morning is any update on how the justices will handle disgraced former President Trump’s petition to remain immune from the conspiracy charges brought by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith in DC over the fat fuck’s post-2020 election coup attempt, an omission which University of Texas Law Professor Steve Vladeck writes “does *not* necessarily mean we won’t get a ruling later today (or this week). Rulings on emergency applications can come at any time.”

In response to a reply asking if the lack of actions from Los Supremos thus far was good or bad news for accountability, Vladeck wrote “Neutral. The longer it takes, the more likely someone is writing something (which marginally increases the odds that it’s a denial). But we’re not there yet.”

A registered Republican man residing in The Villages, Florida area has been released from a six month bid the Sumter County Detention Center after his June 2023 arrest for breaking and entering the Red Lobster at at Buffalo Ridge Plaza, Villages-News.com reports. The arrest occurred when a Sumter County sheriff’s deputy responded to a burglar alarm at approximately 2:00 AM and found 36 year-old Ronald Eric Johnson (no relation to Wisconsin Senator Ronald Harold Johnson) sitting in an Adirondack chair near the restaurant’s entrance, bar glass in his hand.

It was Johnson’s third arrest at a national chain establishment in as many years, as he was previously cuffed for mumbling incoherent statements” to guests at an area Holiday Inn Express in 2022 and for stealing a shopping cart from a Dollar General store in 2021.

The Twitter account belonging to Yulia Navalnya, widow of murdered Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, was inexplicably banned from the network at some point late Monday or early Tuesday for God knows what reason but as dar as we’re concerned it’s on Ketamine Brain to explain how and why it was somehow not a product of his desire to cater to the whims of dictator Vladimir Putin.

UPDATE 2/20/2024 8:43 AM EDT: Sky News reports the account has been restored. Now we’re never going to get an explanation as to why the fucker tried to silence Navalnya.

The manager of a Napa Valley winery on Monday called up CNN to tell them he remembers Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis paying her $400 bill in cash when she visited last year. “I ran up the thing and I showed her. I was expecting a credit card quite frankly. And she says I’ll pay cash. And so that was that. So then I just put the cash in, made change for her and she was very generous to me,” said Stan Brody, manager at Acumen Wines in Napa, California of the early 2023 visit from Willis and her then-romantic partner, Trump RICO case special prosecutor Nathan Wade.

Brody, who told CNN he’s a “news junkie,” said his memory was jogged last week when he saw Wade and Willis questioned over the DA’s use of cash on her excursions with her deputy during the astonishingly fucking petty bullshit the Orange God Emperor’s minions used to try to throw a wrench in the case that no less than four of their co-defendants have already pleaded guilty to.

“These are really nice people. I treat people at the winery every time… as if you’re sitting in my living room. And they were the kind of people that if I was having a party at my home that I would have invited. That’s what I came away with,” said Brody, who has not spoken to the court or DA yet.

The Speaker of the House meets with Mike Johnson https://t.co/hADNBRkjAL

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) February 20, 2024

South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on Tuesday found himself placed on a list of terrorists and extremists by Russia’s top financial monitoring service, Sputnik reports.

It’s not clear why the senator was singled out while other publicly known advocates for supporting Ukraine against the Putin Regime’s aggression in Washington, DC were not, or if the Kremlin’s hostility to LGBTQ individuals may have played a role in Graham being targeted.

FEC filing expert Rob Pyers on Monday flagged a new statement of organization notice for “TEAM STAND FOR AMERICA,” a South Carolina-based “2024 Delegate Committee” supporting former Governor Nikki “Birdbrain” Haley for what Pyers writes “can help with expenses in getting its delegates to the Republican National Convention in July.” What’s less clear is if this is a “just-in-case” backup or if Haley is for real with launching a floor fight against the Orange God Emperor at his big re-coronation event. Politico Playbook reports they ran the numbers and determined that the primary will be over completely by March 12th, or March 19th at the latest, when Trump will have clinched the majority of “bound delegates” to the presidential nomination.

Are you going to divest from New York however you can going forward? pic.twitter.com/hJRndmHbW2

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) February 19, 2024

This naked impotence would be sad if it wasn’t so goddamned funny. They really think they’re going to make a dent in the city’s economy by not coming to shop at the M&Ms store in Times Square and ride in those stupid open-top double decker bus safari tours. More significant would be if they pulled their deposits from Chase, Citibank, and all the others based in the city, or stop watching Fox News and Newsmax, to which we say please by all means. Bring on the pain, lol.

President Joe Biden’s campaign on Tuesday announced they had raked in $42 million in January as they start spending big on digital and television ads for the reelection effort, Politico reports.

An investigation into the July 2021 assassination of Haiti President Jovenel Moïse ended with Moïse’s widow Martine Moïse being indicted along with a former Prime Minister and the ex-leader of the country’s national police, CBS News reports. 

The judicial investigation charges Martine Moïse and former Prime Minister Claude Joseph with complicity and criminal association, their version of RICO. Léon Charles, the one-time chief of the Haiti’s national police faces charges of murder; attempted murder; possession and illegal carrying of weapons; conspiracy against the internal security of the state; and criminal association.  

Yeah, we can laugh at the GoFundMe effort to pay Donald Trump’s $450 million judgment handed down in the New York City fraud trail.  (The fund now has more than $560,000 in donations from 7,200 suckers.) But the hard fact of the matter is that Donald Trump claims he’s going to appeal the judgment, which by law in New York, means he needs to put 120% of the amount due up to file the appeal.

Remember, there are two cases Trump says he’s appealing, both of which require cash up-front:  E. Jean Carroll will tie up about $85 million over the course of Trump’s appeal, and his New York financial fraud case will require at least half a billion to finance the appeal.  Estimates put Trump’s cash reserves between $400- and $600 million, meaning that if he needed to put his own money up for it, he could foot most of the bill, but it would be crippling.

So what’s Trump do?  Sure, GoFundMe might be able to cover the difference–oh, and don’t forget the tax such crowdfunding efforts incur; you don’t want to add to Don’s problems, do you?–but it would literally take years at this pace.  He’s precluded from doing business with any financial institution in New York. And what bank without a relationship with him would loan him the money?  Who–oh, who?–will?

After Nikki Haley’s campaign said that the Republican candidate would make a “major announcement” on Tuesday regarding her presidential quest, her Senate appointment Tim Scott wants her to bow out of the race to pave the way for the indicted felon he supports.

“Listen, Nikki Haley has run the best race that she can run, and lately her campaign has been descending, honestly, it’s desperation you feel coming from her camp,” Scott says, being familiar with the odor having sensed it from his “girlfriend” when he asked her out the first time.

In a deal that would merge the top two credit card companies in the United States, Capital One will acquire Discover in an all-stock transaction valued at $35.3 billion, CNN reports.  While Discover is also a credit card network similar to Visa and American Express, Discover also issues its own cards and credit lines independent of a bank sponsor, bridging services of the card providers–traditionally banks, credit unions and other financial institutions–and the commercial networks.

In a ruling that sends tremors through the reproductive rights circles because it could targets artificial fertilization, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are people and that someone who destroys them can be held liable for their deaths, the Washington Post reports.

The case does not involve the intentional destruction of embryos that were not used in fertilization, a common practice after a patient ends in vitro fertilization treatments where multiple fertilized eggs are implanted in the patient’s uterus with doctors making multiple attempts.  In this case, an individual accidentally dropped and broke a container holding a couple’s fertilized eggs, destroying them.  The couple sued the individual for wrongful death under state law.

“{Alabama’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act] applies to all children, born and unborn, without limitation,” the Alabama Supreme Court wrote. “It is not the role of this Court to craft a new limitation based on our own view of what is or is not wise public policy. That is especially true where, as here, the People of this State have adopted a Constitutional amendment directly aimed at stopping courts from excluding ‘unborn life’ from legal protection.”

The FBI charged a freelance reporter from Indiana with making threats over state lines after posting online that he intended to “kill every Jew” in Fort Wayne and “shoot every pro-Israel U.S. government official,” ABC News reports.  Friends first reported concerns about 41-year-old Jeffrey Stevens after he made a series of inflammatory on Facebook about the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel.

But Stevens didn’t stop there:  he also posted on the CIA’s website as series of anti-Israel comments including one saying he was going to kill every US official who supported Israel and to “make sure that every CIA member who is pro-Israel is eliminated.”  And that still wasn’t enough for the claimed inebriant:  he then emailed the Fort Wayne police department promising to kill every Jew in the city.  Now, Stevens faces five years in prison

After years of Republican efforts to stave off their loss of power, Democratic Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers approved the new legislative district maps that will likely finally end more than a decade of gerrymandered Republican dominance of the state Legislature, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

The 99-seat State Assembly, now with a near-GOP supermajority of 64 Republicans to 35 Democrats will now have 36 districts leaning Republican and 35 favoring Democrats, with eight deemed by state political pundits as toss-ups.  Fearing a liberal-leaning state Supreme Court would impose a far less-moderate solutions, Republican leaders in the state accepted a map drawn by Evers after losing every court battle as they sought to secure a highly gerrymandered map they created to stay in power.

“NASA is seeking applicants to participate in its next simulated one-year Mars surface mission to help inform the agency’s plans for human exploration of the Red Planet. The second of three planned ground-based missions called CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) is scheduled to kick off in spring 2025. Each CHAPEA mission involves a four-person volunteer crew living and working inside a 1,700-square-foot, 3D-printed habitat based at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The habitat, called the Mars Dune Alpha, simulates the challenges of a mission on Mars, including resource limitations, equipment failures, communication delays, and other environmental stressors. Crew tasks include simulated spacewalks, robotic operations, habitat maintenance, exercise, and crop growth. NASA is looking for healthy, motivated US citizens or permanent residents who are non-smokers, 30-55 years old, and proficient in English for effective communication between crewmates and mission control. Applicants should have a strong desire for unique, rewarding adventures and interest in contributing to NASA’s work to prepare for the first human journey to Mars. The deadline for applicants is Tuesday, April 2,” says NASA’s casting call.

A 30 year-old Essex, England man is in big trouble after the uptight stiffs at the Basildon Crown Court decided he wasn’t so funny, Sky News reports on the 35 month bid Thomas Salton is facing for getting caught with nearly 500 canisters of nitrous oxide, aka laughing gas.

The 1,013 grams of ketamine and £39,000 in cash Salton was caught with were no laughing matter either. Maybe he should’ve sold bootleg Monty Python DVDs instead. Those are supposedly hilarious. The boomers really love the ones with the Spanish Inquisition and the dead parrot.

It’s not clear why these two are acting like Trump didn’t post what he did about Navalny four hours before this interview. Or maybe Cavuto knows about it but Texas Congressman Pat Fallon doesn’t – Cavuto’s known to be a ball-breaker to the MAGA crowd. This definitely was Monday too, the Dow Futures index was at that very level at that very time, per CNBC. Still funny either way how this jackass Fallon is so certain that Trump is going to be “just as appalled” over Navalny’s death.