Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shae Moss, who have already technically won their defamation case against alcoholic shitbrain Rudy Giuliani, on Thursday filed a motion alerting DC Judge Beryl Howell that the gropey scumbag still hasn’t complied with court orders for document production or to pay them about $132,000 in legal fees awarded so far in the case over Captain 9/11’s false accusations that the mother-daughter duo were in on a plot to rig the 2020 election.

Don’t be shocked if this is the last straw and Rudy finally sees the inside of a jail cell for this, the judge is no doubt going to be PISSED. Even more serious than that is the question of why the hell he hasn’t complied with the production. Of course it could just be the money that he doesn’t want or have to pay to the document discovery firm, even though the Trump PAC covered his last outstanding bill. However at some point it has to be worth asking if there might be something like really seriously fucking criminally inculpatory for himself and/or his Orange Master or other co-conspirators in those documents. Something so damning that repeatedly angering a federal judge in a closely related civil case is the least bad of his terribly bad options in this situation.

If you didn’t know who Matt Walsh is and didn’t know The Daily Wire is a far right propaganda site, maybe even just by his appearance you might assume he’s a liberal complaining about uneducated Fox News fans voting for Republicans against their self-interest. We actually don’t know what the context is here, he doesn’t use a single proper noun in the entire rant. We do know by his history however he’s bitching about people voting for Dems and would hazard a guess that specific to something with gender policy in schools or some shit because this guy’s that kind of asshole.

Justice Department press release: “US District Judge Audrey G Fleissig on Wednesday sentenced a man from Jefferson County, Missouri to seven years in prison on a child pornography charge and ordered him to pay $57,000 to victims. Matthew Thilges, 60, pleaded guilty June 7, 2023, to one count of receipt of child pornography. He admitted possessing images containing child sexual abuse on his cell phone and computer. The investigation began after Thilges made a series of threats to kill employees of tech companies, including YouTube, Google, Facebook and Twitter, his plea agreement says. In the beginning of October 2020, Thilges began threatening law enforcement and children. A court-authorized search of Thilges’ home near House Springs, Missouri later that month found electronic devices, a child-like sex doll, eight assault rifles, one handgun and ammunition. Investigators found over 10,000 images containing child pornography on Thilges’ cell phone and computer and concerning images he had taken of a minor child in his home.”

“Fleissig overruled Thilges’ objections to paying restitution to the victims who have been identified in the images and videos that he possessed. Those victims were notified about Thilges’ possession of the images and his criminal charge, and 17 victims requested restitution to compensate them for mental health treatment and other medical services, as well as other expenses and losses.”

The United States House of Representatives on Thursday afternoon packed it in for the weekend after members put in lots of hard work but couldn’t quite figure out how to pass a bill to make sure the government doesn’t shut down at the end of the month, Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman reports.

Hey at least they tried. Don’t be so hard on them guys. They’re people too and the job can be really complicated. How about you try passing trillions of dollars worth of spending bills? Lots of folks don’t understand what goes on at the Capitol. There’s a lot of pressure to deliver and not let the government shut down. It’s really tough to figure this out even when you know what you’re doing.

Pop musician Taylor Swift, whom right wingers once regarded as “a pure Aryan goddess, like something out of classical Greek poetry. Athena reborn,” before she started getting political and not the kind of political they wanted her to, got 35,252 of her fans to register to vote on Vote.org on Tuesday, Axios reports. Probably not a lot of Republican-friendly voters in that set.

“The parties in this case and their attorneys are prohibited from making or authorizing statements to the media or in public settings, including through social media, that pose a substantial likelihood of material prejudice to this case. Such statements include, but are not limited to, (a) statements regarding the identity, testimony, or credibility of prospective witnesses; and (b) disparaging and inflammatory or intimidating statements about any party, witness, attorney, court personnel, or potential jurors. The defendant is also prohibited from causing surrogates to make such statements on his behalf,” says the gag order from Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s team as proposed to DC federal Judge Tanya Chutkan last week in the post-2020 election coup attempt case against disgraced former President Trump, which she could rule on any minute.

For whatever reason it was not made public until Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff was able to get it posted to the docket just now on Thursday, so props to him on that. It’s likely that the fat bastard’s team has a copy of it as in the last 24 hours he’s sent out at least two fundraising emails with subject lines like “…My LAST email to you” reading “If Joe Biden gets his way, this would be the last email I write to you… Crooked Joe is turning to the courts to try and impose a GAG ORDER against me and RESTRICT my right to speak out against his corrupt and tyrannical regime. We are watching our Republic die before our very eyes,” and other such histrionic bitching to his demented fans.

Of course Joe Biden isn’t a party to the case and Trump can continue saying whatever stupid bullshit he wants about him. The real fear is that he’ll be unable to stop himself from going off on Jack Smith, Tanya Chutkan, and others involved at some rally and end up violating the order.

“The House Judiciary Committee will be in Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, September 26, 2023, at 9:00 am CT. The Committee will examine, ‘Victims of Violent Crime in Chicago,’ and how Chicago District Attorney Kim Foxx’s pro-crime and anti-victim policies are leading to an increase in violent crime and a dangerous community for Chicago residents” says a House Judiciary Committee press release which lists the witnesses as “Gianno Caldwell, family member of a murder victim,” and “Lt John Garrido III, Retired Detective,” and “Carlos Yanez Jr, Retired Officer” both formerly with Chicago PD.

Gianno Caldwell, a Chicago native DC-based Fox News political analyst, did in fact tragically lose his younger brother to gun violence just last year. The kid was only 18 years old. However we already know where this is going: It’s won’t be about how weapons picked up by straw buyers in Indiana have been flooding the streets and turning the city into a bloodbath, it’ll be all “StOp eLeCtiNG DeMoCRatS beCAuSe tHeY R 2 sOFt oN cRiME!!!!11!!” and Jim Jordan is all too happy to exploit Caldwell’s grief (and he’s complicit too). There won’t be any community leaders, local clergy, anti-violence activists, or anyone actually dealing with this shit day-to-day there to talk about it. It’s all just “Violence in Chicago is bad. See? Look at the violence here! Isn’t it so freaking horrible?”

Which amazingly is somehow even more bullshit than the one he did in New York in April to make it look like District Attorney Alvin Bragg was too focused on prosecuting Trump and not enough on crime in his jurisdiction. It was a spectacular failure per usual with Jordan’s efforts this Congress.

I’m excited to announce the launch of the official Women for Trump Coalition!

President Trump is a champion for the dignity of women and trusts the science: there are only TWO genders Male & Female.

He also believes women are exclusively FEMALE.

JOIN: https://t.co/apd4pk9ovY

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) September 21, 2023

A foul monstrosity borne of the most cursed and bloodied dretch of hinter beckoned for godly and unblemished wives to unite in ritual assemblage before her Corpulent Baal. “Come hither ye wretchedly pious minivan driving souls, ye spake upon tumult within ye schoolpups incanting ‘pronouns’ upon return of each noon an praye for providence amidst. I deliver hopes to thee, all thou must do is consume the forbidden orange the serpent hath gifted to all,” the wicked crone bellowed.

“Since the start of 2021, Texas has experienced a significant amount of extremist activity. One driver of this phenomenon is Patriot Front, a white supremacist group that has distributed propaganda across Texas – and the rest of the US – with alarming frequency, using the state as a base of operations. Two other factors are extremists who continue to target the LGBTQ+ community and QAnon supporters who have gathered for conferences and rallies across the state. Texas has also seen a significant increase in antisemitic incidents over the last two years. It recorded the country’s fifth-highest number of antisemitic incidents in 2022, at a time when ADL has tracked the highest-ever number of antisemitic incidents nationwide,” says the introduction to the Anti-Defamation League’s new report “Hate in the Lone Star State: Extremism & Antisemitism in Texas.”

The ADL found an 89 percent increase in antisemitic incidents from 2021 to 2022 (112 to 212), 526 instances of white supremacist propaganda distributions across Texas a 60 percent increase from 2021 to 2022 (329 to 526), and a 33 percent increase in hate crimes (406 to 542). None of which is surprising in a state led by corrupt fascists who won’t shut the fuck up with the “invasion” rhetoric.

Nonagenarian right-wing media tycoon Rupert Murdoch on Thursday announced he’s retiring from his dark empire of hateful propaganda after irradiating the minds of generations of Americans and put fascist son Lachlan in charge of his two companies, freelance media expert Brian Stelter reports.

“I am writing to let you all know that I have decided to transition to the role of Chairman Emeritus at Fox and News. For my entire professional life, I have been engaged daily with news and ideas, and that will not change. But the time is right for me to take on different roles, knowing that we have truly talented teams and a passionate, principled leader in Lachlan who will become sole Chairman of both companies,” wrote Rupert in the announcement which goes on for considerably longer.

The label backing Mexican artist Peso Pluma, who might be described as a gangsta rapper if he were a rapper and not basically a mariachi band leader, announced Wednesday they were cancelling Pluma’s October 14th show after the Jalisco New Generation Cartel put up several banners around the city saying they would make it his last if he came into the city, KTLA reports.

At first you might read that and be like “Wow, so this Peso Pluma fella must be another vocal lib celebrity activist who really pissed off the cartels by speaking up for the regular folks who’ve been victimized by the evil assholes” and you’d be wrong because they want Pluma dead for dedicating a song to El Chapo. Yeah, the little prick is just a fan of the Jaliscos’ rivals, the Sinaloa Cartel.

So like how an American rapper might spit lyrics about how badass Al Capone and Tony Montana are, this guy does the same with El Chapo in his non-rap mariachi songs. Except that bastard is still alive, non-fictional, and much of his syndicate is still intact despite his permanent residence in an American federal prison. And he’s still got enemies who want to kill anyone associated with them, even a famous little mulleted singer guy who just this week performed at the American MTV Video Music Awards, not the “MTV en Espanól Musica Premios de Latinoamérica” or whatever.

With the facts above laid out to speak for themselves, we’ll skip the middle-aged white guy bitching about corporate pop culture and its glorification of criminal behavior in gangsta mariachi music.

The shitshow between Canada and India over the Modi Regime’s June assassination of Vancouver-area Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar over his support for Sikh independence escalated again Thursday as India blocked all visa applications to Canadians, the New York Times reports.

North Dakota Doug Burgum and former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson look to be short on the requirements for polling and donation to make the roster of candidates for next week’s second GOP presidential debate, the New York Times reports.

Seven candidates have already qualified, but only six–Christie, DeSantis, Haley, Pence, Ramaswamy, and Scott–are expected to participate in the September 27th debate hosted by Fox cable propaganda network at the Reagan Library in California.  The seventh will hold a mini-rally with 500 union workers in Michigan.

President Biden extended Temporary Protective Status to 472,000 Venezuelans living in the United States because of unrest in their home country, allowing the migrants to get work permits and access to other services, the Washington Post reports.

Under the program previously, only Venezuelans who entered the country before March 2021 were eligible to apply for TPS.  The redesignation of the program allows the record number of Venezuelans who have applied for asylum to be able to work, something local officials around the country have requested to help ease the migrant crisis.

“Our administration and our partners across the city have led the calls to ‘Let Them Work,’ so I want to thank President Biden for hearing our entire coalition, including our hard-working congressional delegation, and taking this important step that will bring hope to the thousands of Venezuelan asylum seekers currently in our care who will now be immediately eligible for Temporary Protected Status,” New York Mayor Eric Adams said on Wednesday.

A new liberal advocacy group vowed to spend $10 million in the 2024 and 2025 local school board elections to draft candidates and push voter turnout for vital down-ballot races that shape education policy on a local level, the Daily Beast reports.

Run For Something cofounder Amanda Litman said the group identified “a real hole in the ecosystem on the left, particularly around school and library board races in the electoral space.”  These offices have been targeted by conservative groups for years, allowing them to dominate in certain regions where far-right censorship stifles free speech.

“There are some organizations that show up at school and library board meetings to protest or speak up. There are some that train volunteers. There is no one actually asking people to run for school board and then helping them do that,” Litman said.  The group will use $3 million to test processes and messages in 2024 local races for school and library boards.

The Russian government released an app this week via the national government portal to enlist the public’s participation in its defense against the increasing number of drone attacks against the homeland from Ukraine, the Washington Post reports.

Called The Radar app, the platform allows people to report when and where they saw a suspicious aircraft flying overhead, as well as other information like the drone’s direction and a photo. The app will collect information and the Kremlin hopes, will give defense forces time to react.

The Radar also allows people to report non-aerial suspicious activities to authorities, who have been at a loss to stop a number of drone attacks and other targeted strikes, including car bombings.

The US Senate on Wednesday voted to confirm Air Force General CQ Brown to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, making Brown the first Black man to serve at the post and an at least temporary break in dickhead MAGA Senator Tommy Tuberville’s ongoing tantrum over military abortion policy.

Well she didn’t exactly use the word “weaponized,” but we thought it sounded good because former US Attorney Nora Dannehy’s actual description to the Connecticut state Assembly during her confirmation testimony for a seat on the state’s Supreme Court of why she quit her old job does kind of fit neatly with the kind of shit Jim Jordan constantly accuses the Justice Department of doing.

The AP reports Dannehy told Connecticut lawmakers that she “simply couldn’t be part of it. So I resigned” from her post in September 2020 after then-Attorney General Bill Barr began pressuring her then-boss John Durham to slap together an interim report to be released before the election as the Orange Slob then in the White House had been screaming at them to do. “I had been taught and spent my entire career at the DOJ conducting any investigation in an objective and apolitical manner. In the spring and summer of 2020, I had growing concerns that this Russia investigation was not being conducted in that way. Barr began to speak more publicly and specifically about the ongoing criminal investigation. I thought these public comments violated DOJ guidelines,” Dannehy said.

Disgraced former President Trump will skip the third Republican 2024 presidential primary debate set for early November in Miami, sources close to the fat bastard tell Bloomberg, citing his commanding lead in the polls and unwillingness to engage with the pitiful worms of the primary field.