Striking members of the United Auto Workers have reached a tentative agreement with General Motors to return to the job on terms yet to be announced, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Deeply corrupt Picasso-faced Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will go on trial on state-level charges of securities fraud in Houston on April 15, 2024, two elections, one impeachment and nearly nine years after he was first indicted, the Texas Tribune’s Patrick Svitek reports.

“Unlike the impeachment, this is going to be a fair trial,” special prosecutor Kent Schaffer told reporters after the Monday pre-trial scheduling hearing. “The judge is not corrupt,” Schaffer added.

On Monday a Denver, Colorado court will hear the opening arguments in the trial to determine whether disgraced former President Trump will be permitted to appear on the 2024 primary and general election ballot in the Centennial State. This sketchy “CNN-NEWS18” channel may not be legally rebroadcasting this. If they get cut off abruptly you can listen and watch via the WebEx meeting link here, just click on “Join from browser” to skip all the WebEx app download bullshit.

German police on Monday cuffed newly-elected 22 year-old Bavaria state legislator and “Alternative for Germany” member Daniel Halemba on several hate-related charges house after his frat house’s neighbors heard the assholes yelling “Seig Heil!” last month and called the cops, leading to a raid which turned up a shit ton of Nazi memorabilia in the undergrad party pad, Reuters reports.

Per usual for right wingers, Halemba was defiant over the charges in a statement posted to Telegram by his lawyers saying “They want to arrest me, an elected state parliament member, three days before I take my seat, using a totally lawless arrest warrant.” Sounds like someone we know.

Melting down again after the gag order in the DC case against him was reinstated on Sunday night, disgraced former President Trump in a Truth Social post divined the spirits of the long-dead signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as a reason his upcoming criminal and civil trials should be delayed until 2025, writing “These highly political (All started by Crooked Joe Biden!) Lawsuits and Indictments shouldn’t be allowed to start until AFTER THE ELECTION IS OVER! Our Founding Fathers are looking down at Biden with scorn!” It’s not clear if Trump used an Ouija board or some other method of communicating with the hereafter to get a feel for how Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and the rest of them see his legal troubles.

Trump also screamed about DC Circuit Court Judge Tanya Chutkan, writing “The Obama appointed Federal Judge in DC, a TRUE TRUMP HATER, is incapable of giving me a fair trial. Her Hatred of President DONALD J TRUMP is so great that she has been diagnosed with a major, and incurable, case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME!!!” which may or may not have been a violation of the gag order as it’s not clear if its proscription on attacks on “any of this court’s staff or other supporting personnel” encompasses Chutkan herself. Here’s hoping it does.

“In mid-October 2023, Russia’s Ministry of Education and Science reportedly instructed universities to avoid open discussion of any ‘negative political, economic and social trends’ in Russia during academic activities. This constitutes a further restriction of the information space in wartime Russia, making it more difficult to openly discuss policy issues. In the longer term, this will likely further the trend of Russian policy-making taking place in an echo-chamber of politically acceptable, pro-Kremlin perspectives. It is highly likely that the Kremlin wishes to further suppress negative perspectives on the ‘special military operation’ in the run up to President Vladimir Putin’s anticipated bid for re-election in March 2024,” says a UK Ministry of Defence intel update on the war in Ukraine.

In related news, Politico reports Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will host Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova in Louisville, Kentucky on Monday as part of a bid to pressure House Speaker Mike Johnson not to fuck around with defending Kyiv, all the more urgent after Johnson on Sunday said he would move forward on an Israel-only foreign military aid bill while the White House and Senate work to combine help for both allies together in one bipartisan package.

A new Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom Iowa survey finds that 65 percent of likely Republican caucusgoers say disgraced former President Trump can win against Joe Biden regardless of his grave legal troubles while another 32 percent agreed that the upcoming trials “will make it nearly impossible for him to win an election against Joe Biden.”

Michigan state Representative Rachel Whit last week conferred some type of certificates of achievement onto two of the men deemed either too stupid or incompetent by juries to be culpable in the trials of those involved in the 2020 plot to kidnap Gov Gretchen Whitmer, WOOD-TV reports.

“We’re here to recognize Bill and Mike Null for their unfortunate involvement in this scandal, if you will, and that’s what I’m going to call it,” Smit said at an event in Allegan. “If you would just accept these tributes on behalf of the state of Michigan and our office as your representative in the 43rd District.” The Null brothers were among the five who walked in the plot.

DC Judge Tanya Chutkan reinstated it on Sunday night after considering and rejecting the fat bastard’s whiny appeal claiming “Never in American history has any Court censored the speech of a political candidate least of all in the extraordinarily broad and vague terms” and blah blah blah.

A 43-year-old Manhasset, Long Island man faces two charges after he pointed a gun at the head of a 5-year-old boy trying to retrieve of gift bag of candy he and his older sister had left at the wrong house, WABC 7 in New York reports.

As their mother drove them around Saturday evening, the boy and his 10-year-old sister would run bags of candy to the porches of friends and ring the doorbell before leaving.  After one such delivery, as the mother was driving away, the daughter said she believed the kids dropped the last bag at the wrong house, so the mother send her son to retrieve it.

As the boy grabbed the bag, Michael Yifan Wen opened the front door of the home and pointed a gun at the boy’s head.  The family reported the incident to police who arrested Wen and charged him with menacing and endangering the welfare of a child.

An airport in the heavily Muslim Russian region of Dagestan was overrun by a crowd of angry locals who stormed the place looking to murder passengers disembarking an inbound flight from Tel-Aviv, according to an Associated Press report and a few tweets. The AP report seems to be almost minimizing the situation by calling it a protest. A tweet by Wall Street Journal chief foreign affairs correspondent Yaroslav Trofimov with a video describing the scene as “Mobs break into the Makhachkala airport, in Russia’s north Caucasus, looking to lynch Jews after rumors spread about the arrival of Jewish refugees from Israel” seems like it might’ve been a little more accurate.

Trump gets the name of the city he’s in wrong, forcing someone on stage to apparently whisper in his ear where he actually is: “You’re in Sioux City, Mr. President” pic.twitter.com/c0dEQbAElg

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) October 29, 2023

French President Emmanuel Macron announced that he would take steps to start the process to ensuring access to reproductive care by enshrining the right to abortion in the French Constitution by 2024, the Associated Press reports.

Abortion was decriminalized in France in 1975, just after the Roe decision in the US.  Macron’s announcement was reportedly sparked by concerns a right-wing faction could re-criminalize the medical procedure in the future, the way an appointed group of jurists reversed Roe after nearly a half century–which the most-recently appointed conservative members of the Court all have said was “precedent.“

Ron DeSantis was already not having such a great morning on Meet the Press when Kristen Welker got all fact-y with him, responding to his insistence that violent crimes have gone down in Florida since he took office with the CDC’s numbers showing an increase in the firearm mortality rate in Tiny D’s swampy, reptile infested kingdom. And it went even further downhill from there.

Speaker of The House Mike Johnson on Sunday told Fox News that Ukraine aid is not an “urgent need” so he’s moving forward with an Israel-only foreign aid bill this week, basically saying the White House and Senate can fuck off with the combination bill for both currently in the works.

Matthew Perry has died at age 54. The call was for a suspected cardiac arrest. While anything is possible, many will point out that Matthew was a big supporter of the COVID vaccines and even sold shirts saying "Could I BE Any More Vaccinated?" so I think it’s fair to ask that it… pic.twitter.com/crBn1UAmec

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) October 29, 2023

This failed 2022 Republican Tennessee US House primary candidate and right wing influencer might as well just throw this out there on a Saturday night, 40 minutes after TMZ first reported that Friends star Matthew Perry had drowned in his hot tub, right? It’s not like he’s actually trying to convince anyone outside the MAGAverse of the dangers of the COVID-19 vax so much as capitalize on a public figure’s death to “go viral” within his disinformation ecosystem. He probably got a shit ton of new followers for this post by connecting Perry’s pro-vax stance to his death telling those already open to such messaging what they wanted to hear. All the outrage and disgust from the mainstream serves only to increase his street cred among his fellow conservative douchebags.

Disgraced former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is still in damage control mode with respect to MAGA Nation as parts of a Friday CNN report apparently heavily sourced from his legal team seem to be aimed at allaying fears the North Carolinian right winger has “betrayed” the Orange God Emperor. “He’s just trying to be a good faith operator and work with [Jack Smith’s team],” a source close to Meadows told CNN. “That doesn’t mean that he’s selling anybody out or flipping,” the source continued, evidently trying to stop the MAGA freakout.

Team Trump meanwhile are plainly on edge, with one adviser saying “I think from our standpoint, we’re just taking his word for it. We’ve been pushing out his lawyer’s statements publicly.”

Reacting to former Vice President Mike Pence’s abruptly-announced decision to drop out of the 2024 GOP primary, NRSC chairman Senator Steve Daines on Saturday interfered in the election by calling on all the others to drop out, saying “it’s clear President Trump is going to be the nominee for Republicans for president, and the sooner we coalesce around him the better it’s going to be.”

The local sheriff issued a statewide alert a month ago for the Army reservist who killed 18 in Maine this week after police could not find him to question him about threats he made to the local military base, the New York Times & Associated Press report.

The Army Reserve reported threats Robert Card allegedly made against his fellow soldiers and the base in Saco, Maine itself.  A Sagadahoc County deputy sent to Card’s home could not locate Card, so the Sheriff issue the alert statewide.  The nature of the threats were unclear, and it’s unclear if this was the same incident from July that lead Card’s commanders to order him to seek mental health treatment.

Falling behind in the polls and the fundraising race, insurrection target Mike Pence has announced the suspension (read:  end) of his 2024 presidential campaign, which is probably for the best given only himself and Mother were certain to vote for him.