Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith has sent a “target letter” to an unnamed employee of the Trump Organization warning the employee that he perjured himself in an interview related to the investigation into Donald’s theft and hoarding of classified documents, ABC News reports.

Under Twitter’s new ad revenue sharing model, only available to certain rightwing “content creators,” is generating thousands of dollars in payments for the influencers, many of whom had been banned by the platform before Elon Musk took over, the Washington Post reports.

Accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate posted that Twitter paid him $20,000.  Others like podcaster Tim Pool made $5,800.  An anonymous account with the handle “End Wokeness” reported more than $10,000.  They are generating revenue from the number of responses and engagements they get, encouraging more and more outrageous posts.

Twitter watchers and former employees, though, have expressed doubts about the legitimacy and sustainability of the program, with some thinking it’s a publicity stunt to spur content creators on rev share to create more.  Of course, it could just be a systemic error in Twitter’s accounting, which given Musk’s disastrous ownership record with the platform, would be right on brand.

Witting or unwitting Kremlin asset Dr Cornel West on Thursday laid out his strategy for a “just peace” in Ukraine after he wins the White House which, funny enough, sounds almost verbatim the same as Trump’s plan for “peace” there which, also funny enough, is what’s going to happen should he get on the ballot and sucker enough uninformed voters to vote for him instead of Joe Biden.

Fuck this guy and his LSD-brained ramblings about the “American Empire.” Props to Kaitlan Collins for sitting through this stupid bullshit patiently and letting him slowly realize how much of the game he gave away before belatedly remembering to mention that he’s not “pro-Putin.”

We knew it wasn’t going to end with a wedding website designer:  A Texas judge is suing a state judiciary oversight commission for admonishing her in 2019 for refusing on religious grounds to issue marriage licenses to LGBTQ couples, saying that the recent Supreme Court ruling supported her position, the Texas Tribune reports.

Waco judge Dianne Hensley seeks $10,000 from the State Commission on Judicial Conduct for damaging her professional reputation and violating her civil rights, saying she was proven right by the Supreme Court upholding the Colorado web designer’s right to discriminate against a fictional gay couple for a market she didn’t serve at the time of her lawsuit.

However, the Commission only cited her for violating the oath of office Hensley voluntarily took when she became a judge in Texas (and throughout the country) which requires them to “impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me” on the bench.

A 39-year-old Maine butcher who repeatedly charged at and attacked police lines during the January 6th Republican-led domestic terrorist attack on Congress was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday, the Maine Public Radio reports.

Wearing a butcher’s coat with “Kyle” on a nameplate, Kyle Fitzsimons was caught on camera wielding an unstrung archery bow like a staff running repeatedly at the police lines and attacking officers.  He was later photographed at an entry to the Capitol, blood dripping down the side of his face and a wild look in his eye.

Republican Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody seemed, well, moody in a letter sent to the Justice Department demanding it call of the dogs on GOP Governor and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis in its potential investigation of potential crimes in his program shipping migrants to northern or California cities to “own the libs,” Politico reports.

California’s Democratic governor and attorney general, as well as the Sheriff of Bexar County, Texas (home of San Antonio), send a letter to the Justice Department asking for a federal investigation into the flights, saying that the migrants were deceived into boarding the planes with lies about jobs and housing already set up for them.

“[California Governor Gavin Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta] take aim at the State of Florida because Florida’s governor is running for president and is among the front runners to be nominated to run against the current president,” Moody wrote. “The two most senior elected Democrats in California evidently do not believe that the current president can win re-election against Gov. DeSantis. Instead, they hope that DOJ can be improperly utilized, yet again, against a Republican presidential candidate during an election.”

Hunter Biden attorney Abbe Lowell on Thursday sent fat former President Trump’s lawyers a cease and desist letter demanding the Orange Slob immediately stop posting about his client, specifically in regard to the White House cocaine incident Trump won’t shut up about, ABC News reports.

“This is not a false alarm… We are just one such social media message away from another incident, and you should make clear to Mr Trump – if you have not done so already – that Mr. Trump’s words have caused harm in the past and threaten to do so again if he does not stop,” Lowell wrote, telling the lawyers that they should surely know, if Trump doesn’t, “that Mr Biden has neither committed nor been accused of the charges that your client is claiming… and that the Biden family was not at the White House (let alone in the vestibule) in the period when the cocaine was found.”

DC Circuit Judge Beryl Howell’s just about had it with drunken shitbrain Rudy Giuliani games in the defamation suit brought by Georgia 2020 election worker duo Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shae Moss over his false accusations the two were foot soldiers vast plot to rig the election against disgraced now-former President Trump, hitting Captain 9/11 with $89,172 in lawyers’ fees on Thursday while warning she’s this fucking close to slapping him with contempt or even summarily finding for the plaintiffs after months of Rudy jerking the court around on discovery evidence.

“Defendant Giuliani is CAUTIONED that failure to comply with the May Order, directing him to ‘search and produce all materials responsive to plaintiffs’ RFPs… within the date ranges agreed to by the parties, with the assistance of a professional vendor,’ including from his two eponymous businesses, for which he declared, subject to penalty of perjury, that he was ‘collecting, searching, and producing responsive materials… that are in [his] possession, custody, or control,’ see [73] Giuliani Decl. 12, may result in severe discovery sanctions, see Fed. R. Civ. P. 37(b)(2)(A) (outlining potential sanctions for a party ‘fail[ing] to obey an order to provide or permit discovery,’ including ‘(i) directing that the matters embraced in the order or other designated facts be taken as established for purposes of the action, as the prevailing party claims[:]… (vi) rendering a default judgment against the disobedient party; or (vii) treating as contempt of court the failure to obey’),” Howell wrote.

Less than a week ago we reported that Rudy was waving the white flag and wanted to settle, based on a joint filing. While it’s probably a safe bet those talks fell through, but that doesn’t mean the case isn’t coming to an abrupt and not at all good conclusion for Mayor Wetbrain and soon.

We’re not sure what the exact context was with creepy MAGA Arizona Congressman Eli Crane adding an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act but based on his speech we can guess that it has something to do with pretending racism doesn’t exist as Crane appears to envy the ethnically homogenous armed forces of Russia, China, and Iran. But it was the “colored people” part of his speech that caused an uproar, with Ohio Congresswoman Joyce Beatty demanding that Crane’s words be stricken from the record via unanimous consent. Her demand was quickly granted.

Investigators with the House Ethics Committee have been asking witnesses to far right Congressbro Matt Gaetz’s sex trafficking/statutory rapery and drug use to talk to them, CNN reports on a sign that, although the scumbag is reportedly no longer in federal prosecutors’ crosshairs, he’s not completely out of the woods with the unseemly allegations that have dogged him for over two years.

“The Ethics Committee typically operates through leaks and so this is no surprise, but the Ethics Committee has never found me to be in violation of House rules, though they’ve been investigating me during my entire seven years in Congress,” Gaetz said, as if the length of the investigation, under both parties’ majorities, is supposed to be a positive reflection on his character.

Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s team on Thursday responded to fat former President Trump’s bid for an indefinite continuance of his upcoming federal felony trial for stealing and hoarding classified documents, neatly demolishing each stupid argument. The highlights:

“Defendants Trump and Nauta claim unequivocally that they cannot receive a fair trial prior to the conclusion of the next presidential election, urge the Court to withdraw the current scheduling Order, and request that the Court not even consider a new trial date until some unspecified later time. There is no basis in law or fact for proceeding in such an indeterminate and open-ended fashion, and the Defendants provide none,” Smith’s team wrote in the opener.

“As for the impact of the Presidential Records Act on this prosecution, any argument that it mandates dismissal of the Indictment or forms a defense to the charges here borders on frivolous. The PRA is not a criminal statute, and in no way purports to address the retention of national security information. The Defendants are, of course, free to make whatever arguments they like for dismissal of the Indictment, and the Government will respond promptly. But they should not be permitted to gesture at a baseless legal argument, call it ‘novel,’ and then claim that the Court will require an indefinite continuance in order to resolve it,” they continue on page 9.

Former Trump White House Middle Eastern bribe coordinator Jared Kushner in recent weeks testified to the grand jury investigating his fat orange father-in-law’s attempt to remain in power following his humiliating defeat to Joe Biden in the 2020 election, the New York Times reports.

According to the Times, that Kushner, who tried to stay the hell away from the White House and was not involved in any of the comically inept yet darkly fascistic plots to overturn the election during the interregnum, was subpoenaed for testimony could indicate that Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s team are interested in Trump’s state of mind and whether he knew he had lost the election but tried to overthrow democracy anyway as a means of establishing intent.

Former La Habra, California police chief and Capitol rioter Alan Hostetter’s bench trial in front of DC Circuit Judge Royce Lamberth ended in disaster Thursday as the jurist, long fed up with Hostetter’s defense team’s insane bullshit 2020 election conspiracy rants, found the January 6th insurrectionist guilty on all four felony counts, including obstruction, CBS News’s Scott MacFarlane reports.

Among the lowlights of the shitty case Hostetter’s defense tried to put up were arguing in a motion that “President Trump won the 2020 election in one of the biggest landslide victories in US history. Our constitutional republic was overthrown. An imposter president was installed. This was an actual act of treason rather than a false flag fedsurrection, as was J6. (FACT),” attempting to call to the witness stand Nancy Pelosi, the QAnon Shaman, and the manager of the DC hotel where Hostetter stayed before the riot (to testify about alleged FBI pre-surveillance in his room), and arguing in court that January 6th was peaceful and the “the real insurrection was on November 3, 2020.”

Hostetter defended himself at trial, in case you hadn’t already figured out where this was going.

The Screen Actors Guild has authorized a strike, according to a conference call with members, with the work stoppage to begin immediately.  The actors will join the strike of the Writer’s Guild, with both seeking additional compensation and benefits for work seen on streaming services, for which the artists receive less money than traditional broadcast and cable stations, among other issues.

“Legitimate Governor of Arizona” Kari Lake told KGUN she’s going to announce a decision on whether she’ll try to run against Dem Congressman Reuben Gallego (and possibly asshole “independent” Kyrsten Sinema) in 2024 saying “So we’ll be making a decision on that in the next couple of months and we’ll see. I’m actually eyeing the Senate race. It’s something I’m considering.”

George Soros handed empire to son, Alex, who is ‘more radical’ leftist, according to study of past rhetoric https://t.co/mZIeXG1Isz

— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 13, 2023

Dem Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes’s office has opened a criminal investigation into disgraced former President Trump and his minions’ attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state, the Washington Post reports on yet another potential criminal front for the Orange Tyrant.

The probe for now is in a “fact-gathering phase” and is focused on the fake Trump 2020 electors scam led by batshit former Arizona GOP chairwoman “Chemtrails Kelli” Ward. “This is something we’re not going to go into thinking, ‘Maybe we’ll get a conviction,’ or ‘Maybe we have a pretty good chance,'” Mayes’s chief deputy Dan Barr told the Post, adding the case “has to be ironclad shut.”

For those of you thinking “What the fuck?!? How has it taken this long?” here’s your reminder that Kris Mayes has only been at it for six months and until the end of last year the Arizona AG’s office was led by Republican Mark Brnovich, who spent most of the last two years trying to get Trump to endorse him in the GOP Senate primary by pursuing meaningless bullshit voter fraud investigations that went nowhere. Donald returned the favor by undorsing Brnovich before anointing Reptilian fascist Blake Masters to take on Dem Senator Mark Kelly, who won. So did Mayes, by a razor-thin 280 votes against hardcore MAGA candidate Abe Hamadeh. Elections have consequences, fanboys.

The New York State Independent Redistricting Commission’s 2022 fuck you to Democrats who aggressively tried to fuck the Republicans out of as many as six seats in the US House just moved toward getting unfucked Thursday as an appeals court ordered the IRC to redraw the maps as more favorable to Dems again, ruthless liberal election lawyer Marc Elias reports on his website.

Republicans will appeal and ultimately fail as the the state’s top court’s bench has shifted since the last try, likely netting Dems between four and six seats after a new blue gerrymander. As for whether or not it’s “fair,” to Republican voters and Congresscritters, no it’s not. But fuck them. This isn’t happening in a vacuum where Red States didn’t carve up cities like Nashville and Salt Lake City with blatant zeal. Fair would be if every state was required by the federal government to have a bipartisan commission with the final say on determining House district boundaries. House and Senate Republicans had the opportunity to work with Democrats make that happen in 2021 and 2022. They decided they were happier with this endless back-and-forth retaliation.