An explosion at lubricant manufacturer at Smitty’s Supply prompted an evacuation in Roseland in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana on Friday, ABC News reports. adding a large plume of smoke could be seen following the explosion. “Relocate IMMEDIATELY and stay away from this area until further notice,” the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office posted along with a pic of acrid black smoke and something white genocide from two years ago that Jesse Watters said was a thing in Ohio.

Convicted felon President Trump’s Reich has released a transcript of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview with Trump defense lawyer Todd Blanche in his official capacity.

Fox News of course rushed on air with clips of Maxwell saying what Trump wanted her to say.

From a Friday statement from lawyer Sean Hecker via Fox 17 Nashville: “Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. He is presently en route to his family in Maryland, after being unlawfully arrested and deported, and then imprisoned, all because of the government’s vindictive attack on a man who had the courage to fight back against the Administration’s continuing assault on the rule of law. He is grateful that his access to American courts has provided meaningful due process.”

Linda McMahon, the former CEO of fake fighting circus World Wrestling Entertainment, wife to a credibly suspected sex trafficker, and a complete fraud pretending to be the US Secretary of Education, was worried that appearing with Oklahoma Superintendent of Education Ryan Walters would make her look bad so she had Gov Kevin Stitt fill in for Walters at some bullshit “Returning Education to the States Tour” event in the Sooner State this week, NOTUS reports.

Sources said Walters, who was recently exonerated from wrongdoing in a bizarre porn scandal in a very unlikely manner, is still nevertheless too much of a “distraction” to be around McMahon.

Convicted felon President Trump will on Friday make a secret special announcement from the Oval Office on the day when the Justice Department is supposed to be handing a shit ton of its files on his best bud Jeffrey Epstein over to the House Oversight Committee. Could be big. Real big.

California Republicans, led by failed former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, are gearing up for a hell of a fight against the ballot measure – passed by Dems in the state legislature on Thursday to override the independent redistricting commission in response to the Texas gerrymandering ordered by convicted felon President Trump – but do not at all want the fat bastard’s “help,” CNN reports.

“All you need to do is make sure Donald Trump stays out of California for 10 weeks,” said Golden State Republican strategist Rob Stutzman. McCarthy’s head is in the same place as CNN writes he has “privately signaled to the White House that it would be helpful to minimize Trump’s involvement in the California political fight,” and that, naturally, “a spokesperson for McCarthy did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.” Asking the same question of former California GOP chair Jessica Millan Patterson, also leading the effort, CNN also got no answer. Pressed again, Patterson said simply “It’s pretty clear that Democrats have no other argument. We’re going to make sure that California voters are on to what Democrats have cooked up, and we’re going to continue to push that message out.”

A Los Angeles Times/UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies survey finds that, among all voters the ballot measure is at 48 to 32 percent support, but among respondents who regularly vote in statewide elections overall support for redistricting jumps to 55 percent to 34 percent opposed. Which kind of raises the question of why the fuck McCarthy and the other assholes are even bothering. It’s not like Joe Rogan and Theo Von bros are going to be turning out for this one.

Hungarian and Slovakian officials tell Reuters they’re looking at an at least five day halt to oil flows from Russia after a Thursday night Ukrainian strike on an oil facility cut off the flow to the two pro-Putin European Union countries. It’s the second time this week that Russian oil supplies have been cut to Hungary and Slovakia, after a halt on Monday and Tuesday from another Ukrainian strike.

Hungarian dictator Viktor Orban on Friday posted on Facebook a letter he wrote to convicted felon President Trump about another strike on Russian oil infrastructure from earlier this month in which Orban called the attack a “very unfortunate move.” On the image is a Sharpied response from Donald where he scribbled “Viktor – I do not like hearing this – I am very angry about it.”

Fun fact: The raid was over alleged classified material in Bolton’s book from 2020, the same year the Justice Department ran into a brick wall in trying to prosecute him for the same. It also comes just a week after Bolton on CNN said “I thought Trump looked very tired up there. I mean, very tired. Not disappointed. Tired. And we’ll have to reflect on what that means,” after the failed Alaska summit.

Basically telling convicted felon President Trump to go fuck himself on Friday, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell told a crowd of rich guys and economy geeks that “GDP growth has slowed notably in the first half of this year to a pace of 1.2 percent, roughly half the 2.5 percent pace in 2024. The decline in growth has largely reflected a slowdown in consumer spending. As with the labor market, some of the slowing in GDP likely reflects slower growth of supply or potential output. Turning to inflation, higher tariffs have begun to push up prices in some categories of goods. Estimates based on the latest available data indicate that total PCE prices rose 2.6 percent over the 12 months ending in July. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core PCE prices rose 2.9 percent, above their level a year ago. Within core, prices of goods increased 1.1 percent over the past 12 months, a notable shift from the modest decline seen over the course of 2024. In contrast, housing services inflation remains on a downward trend, and non-housing services inflation is still running at a level a bit above what has been historically consistent with 2 percent inflation.”

“The effects of tariffs on consumer prices are now clearly visible. We expect those effects to accumulate over coming months, with high uncertainty about timing and amounts. The question that matters for monetary policy is whether these price increases are likely to materially raise the risk of an ongoing inflation problem,” Powell continued, according to his prepared remarks at Jackson Hole.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov tells NBC News there’s no meeting planned between dictator Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, contradicting convicted felon President Trump’s fantasies of brokering an end to the war within the near or middle term.

“Putin is ready to meet with Zelensky when the agenda is ready for a summit, and this agenda is not ready at all. President Putin said clearly that he is ready to meet provided this meeting is really going to have an agenda, presidential agenda,” said Lavrov, making it clear they’re dragging this out.

Cracker Barrel’s CEO this morning: “Okay, what if we bring back the logo, but he’s trans?”

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 22, 2025

“I think Cracker Barrel is fixing to Bud Light themselves”

We asked people what they think about the new Cracker Barrel logo. Here’s what they said. pic.twitter.com/cZyFKw4lR0

— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 22, 2025

This informational packet on creating LGBT safe spaces was distributed at Cracker Barrel’s corporate office in recent years.

It says a safe zone community "will not tolerate heterosexist, c*sgenderism comments & actions."

Do you think CB customers want to fund this? pic.twitter.com/plOcHXaMv8

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) August 22, 2025

Citing the differences between the New York Times and the New York Post’s reporting on the raid on former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton’s home in Maryland on Friday morning, the New Republic’s Greg Sargent highlights how the Post does not mention a judge approving a warrant, writing “Federal agents busted into Bolton’s house in Bethesda, Md, at 7 AM in an investigation ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, a Trump administration official told The Post,” while the Times writes “Asked about the visible FBI presence at Bolton’s home, a spokesperson for the bureau said agents were ‘conducting court-authorized activity in the area.'” Soooooo… Yeah, that’s weird.

Also note how the Post’s timestamp says “7:12 AM” EDT, and thus 12 minutes after the raid began.

FBI agents have executed a warrant on former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton’s home in Maryland for who knows what fake reason even while the real one’s obvious, Fox News reports.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered dog-murdering Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to stop shipping new inmates to Alligator Alcatraz and to begin dismantling certain parts of the gulag.

The Orange God Emperor is out and about in DC, now talking about how grass is alive that it has a life just like you. Seriously the fat fuck literally just said that in his demented rant.

Cracker Barrel lost almost $100 million in market value after its stock plunged Thursday following the release of a new logo that small-faced propagandist Charlie Kirk blamed on a “key woke reformer in the company was also part of the advisory board at the Human Rights Campaign, which promotes LGBTQ propaganda and scores companies on ‘progressive’ values. The former president of HRC admitted they were obsessed with targeting Cracker Barrel to force through woke reforms.”

Seriously Charlie Kirk fucking tweeted that nonsense about goddamned Cracker Barrel’s logo.

“The Executive branch has perpetuated Alina Habba’s appointment to act as the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey through a novel series of legal and personnel moves. Along the way, it has disagreed with the Judges of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and criminal defendants in that District about who should or may lead the office. Faced with the question of whether Ms Habba is lawfully performing the functions and duties of the office of the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, I conclude that she is not,” writes the Middle District of Pennsylvania’s chief federal Circuit Judge Matthew Brann in a ruling in two cases challenging Habba’s lawful authority to prosecute them. Brann had stepped in from the neighboring jurisdiction to “specially preside” over any potential conflict of interest in the Garden State.

Responding to a written question from the Associated Press, the Trump regime’s State Department said that all 55 million US visa holders are subject to “continuous vetting” for any indication that they could be ineligible for their visa and thus subject to deportation by some likely arbitrary criteria.

“We review all available information as part of our vetting, including law enforcement or immigration records or any other information that comes to light after visa issuance indicating a potential ineligibility,” the department said without explaining their “review” process.

Convicted felon President Trump and Howard Nutlick’s Commerce Department, under the imprimatur of something something tariffs, opened a “national security investigation” into the import of components used to construct wind turbines, Reuters reports on more of this stupid shit.