Kenneth Chesebro, Donald Trump’s “Co-conspirator 5” in his federal indictment for trying to undermine the Constitution, followed soon-to-be-bankrupt conspiracy theorist Alex Jones around the Capitol grounds as Trump supporters attacked police protecting Congress, CNN reports.

One of the creators of the false elector plan to illegally void slates of valid electors from states, Chesebro was seen filming and photographing Jones as they were part of a group strolling outside the Capitol; neither Jones nor Chesebro is accused of attacking police or trespassing in the Capitol.  It’s unknown what relationship, if any, Jones and Chesebro had before or after the insurrection.

The former top commander of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, General Gennady Zhidko, died Wednesday of a “after a long illness,” CNN reports citing the Kremlin’s TASS news agency.

Zhidko’s story is convoluted as hell but basically he was a propaganda officer and not a real commander who effectively served as the Deputy Minister of Defense in the Putin Regime for much of last year before what we can only guess was Polonium that prompted his “long illness.”

MAGA Georgia state Senator Colton Moore, who definitely comes across as the kind of guy who lives with his mom, told deranged Newsmax host Greg Kelly on Thursday that she – and not his wife or girlfriend because he almost certainly doesn’t have one – “was worried about” Moore “taking action” after “Gestapo” Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis got a grand jury to hand down an indictment against fat former President Trump and his allies. It’s not clear what happened after that since Kelly wrapped up the segment, but we would have to guess that Mrs Moore told her son he’s a state senator so he should try to get Governor Brian Kemp to call the legislature in for a special session rather than strap on his body armor and load up the AR-15 he definitely owns and “take action” the way other men of his age, appearance, worldview, and relationship status usually do.

Urging the judge to apply a terrorism enhancement to the sentence, federal prosecutors submitted sentencing recommendations up to 33 years for the five members of the neo-fascist Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy and other charges for their roles in the January 6th Republican-led domestic terrorist attack on Congress.

Per NBC News, prosecutors are seeking 33 years in federal prison for Enrique Tarrio and Joseph Biggs, 30 years for Zachary Rehl, and 27 years for Ethan Nordean.  A fifth member of the group, Dominic Pezzola, was convicted of assault and other violent crimes, but not seditious conspiracy; prosecutors sought 20 years for him.

“A significant sentence is necessary ‘to afford adequate deterrence to criminal conduct’ by others,” the memo notes. “Here, the need to deter others is especially strong because these defendants engaged in acts that were intended to influence the government through intimidation or coercion—in other words, terrorism. And they were leaders of such efforts. Because these defendants not only contributed to the attack on the Capitol but helped to organize it, their sentences will be noted by those who would foment such political violence in the future.”

Jacob Smith was settling into the first day as a police officer in Pleasant Hill, Missouri on Monday. All the formalities had been done:  he was sworn in, the “welcome the new hire” email had gone out to the town’s employee list, and the department had announced the new hire on its Facebook page.

And according to the Atlanta Black Star, that’s where it went bad for Smith:  someone replied by posting a link to Smith’s social media accounts.  Sprinkled in the endorsements of right-wing views and politicians, Smith had posted comments and memes espousing violence and racism, including one about decapitating Black people, made less than a month previously.

Smith’s job with the Pleasant Hill Police Department–and hopefully his career as a police office–ended at 1 a.m. local time Wednesday when he was fired.  “This is totally our fault. We traditionally do a very comprehensive background. This time we failed to do so,” Pleasant Hill Police Chief Tommy Wright said in an interview with a local television news outlet.

Hard to imagine a Republican attorney general or district attorney seeing this and not saying “Okay asshole, so what the fuck are we supposed to charge Hillary Clinton or Stacey Abrams with? Is it still within the statute of limitations? Do you even know what the hell the statute of limitations is? No, of course you don’t because Fox News fucking hired you. Thanks for tying up our phone lines with your stupid hick audience calling us demanding we prosecute Abrams for refusing to publicly concede when she lost to Brian Kemp back in 2018. Or Hillary for not conceding to Trump in 2016 even though she actually did on election night. Those’ll be real slam dunk cases, you fucking genius. Why did we ever even bother going to law school and taking the bar exam when we could just watch Fox News to understand how to prosecute criminals? Boy do we feel like total suckers.”

“Rather than releasing the Report on the Rigged & Stolen Georgia 2020 Presidential Election on Monday, my lawyers would prefer putting this, I believe, Irrefutable & Overwhelming evidence of Election Fraud & Irregularities in formal Legal Filings as we fight to dismiss this disgraceful Indictment by a publicity & campaign finance seeking DA, who sadly presides over a record breaking Murder & Violent Crime area, Atlanta. Therefore, the News Conference is no longer necessary!” fat former President Trump posted on Thursday, chickening out of his “EXONERATING” press conference Monday as had been presaged by reporting earlier in the day.

That’s such fucking bullshit. We were eagerly looking forward to running it and mocking the fat bastard further incriminating himself from the podium at his stupid golf club. What a chickenshit.

A new survey by Fox News finds President Biden leading disgraced former President Trump 44 to 41 percent in a 2024 matchup. At minus 3, the Orange Pharaoh does the best against Dark Brandon than his dead-end rivals for the nomination, with fascist millennial rapper Vivek Ramaswamy down 4 percent, heels-wearing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis down 5 percent, and South Carolinians Senator Tim Scott and former Governor Nimrata “Nikki” Haley down 6 versus Biden.

“Well, it is the million dollar questions.  I do not have any answers for that.  Um, why you would call yourself Robert L. Peters, Robin Ware, JRB Ware, I don’t know why you have multiple email addresses to send, receive and forward government correspondence.  Um, obviously I heard you talkin’ to the previous guest.  I can’t think of any good reason anyone would do such a thing.  I can only think of only nefarious, shady reasons why people would do such a thing.”

It’s actually not a new story; it broke in 2021.  So why a man who spent four decades in the Senate would have private email addresses that don’t blare his name isn’t difficult to figure out, particularly when emailing people outside the secure government system.  But the daughter-in-law of David Dennison Carolin Gallego John Miller John Barron Donald Trump Drumpf may want to look into the family history of using false names.

“President Donald J Trump, through counsel, submits this response in opposition to the government’s proposed trial calendar, Doc 23, and respectfully requests the Court place this case on the April 2026 trial calendar” write the former guy’s lawyers in a response to Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s proposed January 2, 2024 start date. Same decade at least.

Three stock transactions made by Republican Alabama Coach (not Senator) Tommy Tuberville relating to a company that later received praise for innovative medical treatments on the front lines of the Ukraine warn are raising calls for elected officials to put their assets into a blind trust, Newsweek reports.

Tuberville made three separate trades involving the small biotech company Humacyte on the same day, July 25th, with each trade having a total value between $1,000 and $15,000.  According to financial disclosure documents, Tuberville mainly traded in top-name companies including Pfizer, Proctor & Gamble, and Under Armor over the same period.

As a member of the Armed Services Committee, Tuberville would have access to reports about military intelligence about the Ukraine defense, its tactics and its equipment.  His seat on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee would connect him with information on new medical technology. 

The Republican-dominated North Carolina General Assembly passed an “election reform” bill that would end the three-day grace period for mail-in ballots to arrive after Election Day even the Republican leaders of both chambers supported the measure when it first passed, WNCN CBS-17 in Raleigh reports.

After state elections officials extended the grace period to nine days in the 2020 election, Republicans objected to any grace period to account for mail delays.  Instead of honoring the previous three-day grace period, the GOP legislators completely eliminated it.  In 2020, 13,669 mail-in ballots arrived in the nine-day period after Election Day; 85% came in within three days.

Election Day is “when folks are supposed to vote. Why are we counting ballots after that date?” Republican House Speaker Tim Moore said, echoing Republican Senate Leader Phil Berger, who also downplayed the impact:  “Folks have plenty of notice and should have knowledge that if they’re going to vote absentee, they need to make sure that they get their ballots in so that they will be received by the board of elections on time,”

Fulton County, Georgia law enforcement officials say they are taking seriously and investigating threats made online against the grand jurors who voted to indict already-indicted felon Donald Trump and 18 others for the scheme to undermine the results of the 2020 election in the state, the New York Times reports.

Georgia is unusual in that it requires grand jurors’ names to be listed on any indictment they serve.  Once Trump’s indictment was available online, his cabal started doxxing the people online, posting their alleged addresses, photos and contact inform.  Many of the posting including overt or veiled threats to seek revenge for the Trump indictment, as is the habit for the followers of someone who claims to support “law and order.”

House Oversight Committee chair James Comer requested a complete list of Joe Biden’s emails to Hunter Biden from the National Archives under the guise that there’s something nefarious hidden in them that investigators haven’t yet found after six years.

Comer notes in his letter that an email including a Biden’s schedule mentioning a call with the then-Ukrainian president in 2016 was copied to Hunter Biden using an email address set up for Biden using a pseudonym.  The then-VP used this account to send his son a copy of his schedule.  Insinuating bad acts, Comer only mentions that single occasion of the VP sharing his schedule with his son to make it appear the Bidens were coordinating for the call with Petro Poroshenko; in fact, the VP frequently sent his son his schedule using the email account.

Comer demands copies of all Joe Biden emails for which Hunter, Devon Archer, or Eric Schwerin are cc’d, as well as drafts of the speech Biden delivered in Ukraine in 2015 demanding the removal of the corrupt “diamond prosecutors” which Republicans believe was a corrupt act even though it had been the stated desire of the Obama Administration, a number of Congressional Republicans and virtually every First World democratic government on the planet.

Strapped for cash, sanctioned and expelled from the Trump cabal for supporting Ron DeSantis’s presidential bid, former Elite Strike Force Team member Jenna Ellis is attempting to raise funds for her legal defense against her criminal RICO charge in Fulton County, Georgia.

Ellis’s lawyer–apparently concerned about someone else from Trump’s circle not paying her bills–set up a page on Christian-themed crowdfunding site GiveSendGo, where supporters can send prayers in lieu of money.  Since it was set up, the site has raised $48,000 in the four days since the indictments were released.  She’s also amassed nearly 3,800 prayers, but those aren’t likely to count toward the lawyers’ hourly rate.

“This is the OFFICIAL crowdfunding support page for Jenna Ellis, created by her legal team.  Jenna Ellis, former senior legal adviser and personal counsel to President Trump, is being targeted and the government is trying to criminalize the practice of law,” the blurb for the crowdfunding page lies.  “Help her fight back and stand for the truth!

A GOP Georgia state senator demanded Republican Georgia Governor Brian Kemp call the legislature back immediately for an emergency session to review the Fulton County indictment of the multiply-indicted Donald Trump and the performance of District Attorney Fani Willis, Newsweek reports.

State Senator Colton Moore, citing a clause in the state constitution, said Kemp should convene the special session “an emergency exists in the in the affairs of the state, requiring a special session to be convened under [Article IV, Section II, Paragraph VII(b)], for all purposes, to include, without limitation, the review and response to the actions of Fani Willis.”

However, Kemp looked at the situation in another way, harkening back to 2020 when Georgia Republicans demanded a special session to rage over lies about a videotape from the ballot counting center in Fulton County.  “Where have I heard ‘special session,’ ‘changing decades-old law,’ and ‘overturning constitutional precedent’ before? Oh, right, prior to Republicans losing two Senate runoffs in January of 2021,” Kemp senior advisor Cody Hall said Thursday.

The pilot of a LATAM Airlines red-eye flight from Miami to Santiago, Chile on Monday night died in the plane’s bathroom three hours into the eight-hour flight after complaining of feeling unwell, the Independent reports.  The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner with 271 passengers aboard was diverted to Panama City where the co-pilot landed the plane safely.

Captain Ivan Andaur, 56, a veteran pilot with 25 years experience, told his co-pilot he was feeling unwell and went to the plane’s lavatory, where he collapsed.  Crew and passengers attempted unsuccessfully to revive him.  Passengers were rerouted on other flights on Tuesday for their journey to Chile.

Advisors for one of Florida’s multitude of GOP presidential candidates pushed Governor Ron DeSantis to focus his attacks during the upcoming debate on upstart political dilettante Vivek Ramaswamy, who has overtaken DeSantis in some polls, while scrupulously avoiding attacking Donald Trump, the New York Times reports.

The memo by Axiom Consultants, one in a series of “debate research” papers prepared by the company focusing on DeSantis’s strategy toward individual candidates, says DeSantis must stress “four basic must-dos” in the debate, scheduled for next Wednesday:  “1. Attack Joe Biden and the media 3-5 times. 2. State GRD’s [Governor Ron DeSantis] positive vision 2-3 times. 3. Hammer Vivek Ramaswamy in a response. 4. Defend Donald Trump in absentia in response to a Chris Christie attack.”

The goal, apparently, is to avoid attacking Trump directly:  instead of going after the frontrunner directly, the advisors say DeSantis should be more smarmy to Trump, who is not scheduled to attend the debate and is instead anticipated to turn himself into Fulton County, Georgia officials on RICO charges.

President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he is directing the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to reopen its offices in Havana, Cuba to help facilitate the reunification of separated families, the Miami Herald reports.

Donald Trump ordered the closure of the offices and ceased a number of programs implemented in the Obama and George W. Bush administrations designed to normalize relations with Cuba and provide more open communication for Cubans living in the United States, like Ted Cruz, to communicate and aid long-lost family members in Cuba.  (There’s no evidence Cruz has helped anyone but himself, let alone long-lost Cuban family members.)

“This administration is taking steps to reduce unlawful entries, deny resources to ruthless smuggling organizations, and streamline access to lawful, safe, and orderly pathways for those seeking humanitarian relief. Reopening the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office in Havana helps us do just that,” said Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas, whose family fled Cuba when he was an infant. “Cubans like my own family, who nearly 63 years ago fled the communist takeover, deserve the same opportunity to follow legal pathways to build a new life in the United States.”

The man picked by Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to head the largely impotent board overseeing the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, a created regulatory agency DeSantis will use to extort and terrorize the state’s largest private employer, cannot serve on the board until he resigns as DeSantis’s top ethics officer, the state ethics committee general counsel determined.

According to the Orlando Sentinel, Glen Gilzean cannot serve as chair of the state ethics commission which issued the opinion and as chair of DeSantis’s Disney harassment effort. Steven Zuilkowski, the ethics commission’s general counsel, announced that state law prevents a state employee from sitting on the state ethics commission.  As chair of the oversight district, Gilzean was awarded a $400,000 per year salary, and the ethics committee members are volunteers, so one can imagine which position the DeSantis sycophant will choose.