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This is long but offers an entertaining summary of some of the week's news. I was chuckling throughout...
You can listen to this week’s Facepalm the Nation, courtesy of our mystery Newsfucker who did the awesome audio for it, here.
Let’s facepalm (including the shortened Thanksgiving week TFN, too!)…
This Impeachment’s Gonna Be Murder!
Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI) said Thursday that he’s bringing articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The offenses, according to Thanedar’s website, are “Murder and Conspiracy to Murder, and … Reckless and Unlawful Mishandling of Classified Information.”
That third one is about the U.S. strike in March against Houthi rebels in Yemen. The Defense Department inspector general on Thursday released a report concluding that Hegseth should not have shared classified details about the upcoming attack on Signal and in doing so may have jeopardized U.S. troops, who must never be jeopardized except by stupid U.S. policy or to protect U.S. companies exploiting other countries.
(The fact that the U.S. attacks on Yemen also included a possible war crime, of course, has been reduced to a footnote, specifically, this footnote:1)
The March strike was illegal, too; the Constitution still says it’s up to Congress to declare war, even against enemies that can’t fight back! So, Thanedar is oddly seeking to impeach Hegseth for jeopardizing one illegal mission and for, um, successfully carrying out another. Which brings us to murder!
There’s always debate over which high crimes and misdemeanors merit impeachment. Embezzlement? Pocket rescissions? Beats me! Do I look like Heather Cox Fucking Richardson?
But murder? No debate here!
As TFN has previously discussed, killing civilians in boats is murder according to every single legal and ethical rubric there is. U.S. law, international law, military law, the laws of war, the law of the jungle, the law of the sea, the law of the land, and of course the law of supply and demand — people really like cocaine!
Murder isn’t one of those sins that vary from creed to creed. This isn’t remotely like whether you can eat meat on Fridays. Or with dairy. Or on Fridays with dairy at Dairy Queen or TGI Fridays.
In fact, the only area where Thanedar falls short is that he appears to be limiting his articles of impeachment to the second round of Sept. 2 strikes, the one that killed two survivors of the first strike … as they clung to their demolished boat and tried to de-capsize it before they got decapitated.
MURDER, HE BOAT1 As TFN has said all along; they’re all murders. Including the latest, on Thursday, bringing the death toll of Hegseth and his commander in chief, The Boat-iac Killer™, to 87 across 22 criminal attacks. Hegseth posted video of Thursday’s new killing, because serial killers like to collect trophies.
And he left a disgusting note boasting about these murders.
First, Andrew Kolvet — spokesperson for the Christian organization Turning Point USA — wrote that “Every new attack aimed at Pete Hegseth makes me want another narco drug boat blown up and sent to the bottom of the ocean.”
This from a spokesperson whose boss’s neck was just blown up and sent to the bottom of the morgue.
Hegseth responded to Kolvet by posting his latest snuff video and writing, “Your wish is our command, Andrew. Just sunk another narco boat.” (And, yes, it reflects poorly on me that I’m offended about equally by Hegseth omitting the four deaths and by not saying “sank.”)
Luckily, the lead story of The New York Times this morning is all about the fact that they’re all fucking crimes.
Naturally, the Times doesn’t come right out and say that — who among us can say whether murder is a crime? — because Times gonna Times. But literally it’s straight-up straight-down murder even according to the administration’s own claims about what happened.
The Times frets in its headline that “Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump’s Boat Attacks.” Which is exactly the same point your smarty-pants TFN made four days ago! (The Fucking News: All the news that’s fucked to print, but four days early!)
This is also the Times telling Democrats to wake the fuck up. And a lead New York Times headline is pretty much the only thing capable of doing that.
PS Pres. Donald Trump is the president, owns all of this, made it all happen, and is just as impeachable as anyone else in this grotesquerie.
Contempt for Kristi Noem Now Official
The secretary in charge of America’s Homeland (sic) Security failed to secure the homeland’s (sic) rule of law when she disobeyed a court order, according to a new court filing.
Back in April, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg found that there was probable cause to hold federal officials in contempt of court, much in the same way the general public already holds them in contempt of everything.
At issue were the two infamous flights of Venezuelans in March that Boasberg ordered to return to the U.S. Which Trump administration officials didn’t do.
Boasberg just didn’t know which federal officials to hold in contempt.
So, Boasberg began criminal proceedings to determine exactly who the fuck decided not to bring those flights back (the men were initially delivered into the human-rights-abuse machine of the El Salvador penal system and then back home to Venezuela).
Last week, in that new court filing, the government finally exposed the dicks behind this penal-system shafting. So let’s whip them out individually to ensure they all show up in Google searches after Trump’s dead and they’re trying to convince people they were fighting for good on the inside!
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign relayed Boasberg’s Gloria Estefan-esque “Turn the Planes Around” order to both the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ)1.
The DOJ’s Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove issued legal advice about Boasberg’s order to both DOJ and DHS.
DHS Acting General Counsel Joseph Mazzara added his own thoughts and brought it all to…
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
The Justice Department’s own filing then says admits confesses:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA [Alien Enemies Act] detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador.”
In other words, it was Secretary Noem, in the billiards room, with a legal monkey wrench.
What do we know about Noem’s ability to assess the counsel of the finest legal minds the Trump administration had to offer? She is, after all, a former governor and leads the agency charged with protecting the security of this country, overseeing multiple law-enforcement agencies. So, of course, one could assume she had a firm grasp on basic American legal principles.
Noemp!
Remember, it was two months after her contemptible Boasberg-order ignoring that Noem testified to Congress that the right of habeas corpus is the right of the president to remove people from the country. That’s how far removed Noem is from the country’s foundational principles.
So, what happens now? Boasberg could decide he needs more information, or put the matter to bed. Or he could put the matter to a cot in prison!
Boasberg has already found probable cause that these previously unnamed mystery officials committed contempt of court by ignoring his order. He could now decide there was no contempt, it was all just a simple, everyday misunderstanding that could happen to anyone during the course of their daily shipping 100 people to a foreign hellhole without due process.
Or Boasberg could hold Noem and her co-conspirators in contempt of court, which could involve criminal penalties. But Boasberg isn’t the only recourse for justice here.
There’s nothing preventing Congress from considering contempt of court an impeachable offense. The way not knowing what habeas corpus is should be.
ENGAGE TIN-FOIL HATS! In less than a year of Trump2.0, Bove and Blanche have secured their places in history as facilitators of lawlessness in the most lawless administration since the early 1970s fever dreams of Richard Nixon aides Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. But who is Mazzarra?
He was in-house counsel for the outhouse that was the 2020 Trump presidential campaign. And why does that matter here?
If you’ve been following my reporting on Venezuela stuff, you may remember that the initial deportations of Venezuelans — and the claim to Alien Enemies Act powers — stemmed from information provided to the Trump administration by a team led by former CIA official Gary Berntsen and Venezuelan dissident Martin Rodil.
Well, as I recently revealed, Berntsen and Rodil were instrumental in serving up the key witness making the (false) claim that Venezuela helped steal the 2020 election. A claim debunked almost immediately by … the 2020 Trump presidential campaign…
…but now re-emerging as an increasingly explicit element of Trump’s crusade against Venezuela.
The Return of Election Denial
The New York Times reports that the pants of Nobel Peace Prize-winning Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado appear to be en fuego.
Specifically, Machado, a hard-line right-winger and Trump supporter who dedicated the prize to Trump, has been amplifying the Trump lies about Venezuela fed to him by Berntsen and Rodil.
That includes promoting Tren de Aragua and Cartel del los Soles to highly centralized, strategic organizations. (Cartel del los Soles is literally just a nickname for corrupt military officials, but whatever.)
Machado has also promoted the claim that Venezuela stole the 2020 election through U.S. voting machines, which even Trump’s campaign and first administration concluded did not happen.
And then Trump gave his most explicit endorsement yet of the election-theft claims of Berntsen and Rodil.
On Nov. 23, Trump posted that “We must focus all of our energy and might on ELECTION FRAUD!!” But here’s where he closed the circle: That post of his also shared a post by Lara Logan…
…promoting her interview with Berntsen and one of Berntsen’s team:
Logan’s post, which Trump shares, explicitly blames Venezuela:
“Gary Berntsen & Ralph Pezzullo explain how America’s enemies, foreign & domestic, are stealing the Republic. … blah blah Smartmatic … drawing connections that extend all the way to Venezuela.”
Now, here’s where it gets a little freaky personally. Before I found out Trump had shared this, what was I doing last night? I was literally watching this episode.
And what happens in this episode that Trump promoted? Well, Newsfuckers, they talk about my reporting that you made possible. And not in a good way!
There’s a lot going on in this interview and others that I’ve been transcribing, so expect more reporting on this in the coming days.
In the meantime, know that your support is shining a growing light on the truth behind Trump’s vendetta against Venezuela.
IS THE FIX IN? Berntsen has been pushing for Machado to replace illegitimate Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro if he’s removed from power. But she’s not necessarily the administration’s choice.
Back in September I reported Berntsen’s claim that the CIA is promoting former Maduro minister-turned-dissident Miguel Rodríguez Torres, whom Berntsen calls “Cartel light.”
What does Berntsen think of that? “We have to stop that,” he said.
Big A-Hole Trades in Future to Big Oil
Pres. Donald Trump on Wednesday drove America down the off-ramp from the future, nailing a hard U-ey towards our past of gas-pump prices that would’ve made us gasp except the air was too full of smog to risk it.
Surrounded by auto industry CEOs whose endless road trips through Hell will be even hotter than the planet they’re leaving us, Trump announced he’s going to change the rules to let cars belch more disgusting shit into our air and make cars that use more gas. (This isn’t right away; even with their lower mileage, this isn’t moving from 0-60 any time soon. There’s a long regulatory process ahead and then roadblocks in the form of lawsuits. Yay lawsuits!)
Under Pres. Joe Biden’s rules, American cars were expected to average 50.4 miles per gallon by 2031. Instead, it’s projected, cars under Trump’s plan will get left in the dust with an average of just 34.5 mpg.
The changes will benefit gas companies by forcing people to buy more gas, benefit car companies by freeing them from having to make more efficient cars, and benefit Americans by, um, increasing their options I guess except the options to slow the advance of climate change and of asthma.
Trump bragged that his new rule killing better rules will lower the price of new cars by $1,000. The average new-car price in October was $49,766, so as you math nerds have already back-of-the-enveloped, you’ll save 2% on your next new car for the low, low price of Earth.
And there’s no chance that Trump is full of shit and auto executives will funnel that $1,000 to their shareholders as is their solemn fiduciary douchey duty. Even though that would also boost auto-executive bonuses.
With Trump’s rules, American cars between now and 2050 will burn an estimated additional 14 billion gallons of gas.
As the Sierra Club’s Katherine García told the Associated Press, Trump’s rule would take us backwards, “keeping polluting cars on our roads for years to come and threatening the health of millions of Americans, particularly children and the elderly.”
Also fucked, responsible executives and investors who put their money into sustainable technology on the assumption that even a gibbering presidential baboon could see that China is leveraging electric vehicles and sustainable energy to win new levels of influence around a globe that’s increasingly disenchanted with the gibbering presidential baboon.
Trump is also pushing to end the right of states to impose their own limits on auto emissions. How come? Because California is so big that car companies basically design all their cars to meet California standards — which are sane.
Now let’s kick the tires on America’s big three automakers at Wednesday’s convoy!
FORD Trump said Wednesday to CEO Jim Farley: “Your people at Ford were coming to me all the time” pushing for rule cuts. And I’m old enough to remember when quality was job one!
Farley said, “Today is a victory for common sense and affordability,” after definitely not being coached to sound like New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and also smile and smell like him … that musky but spring-like, uh, never mind.
STELLANTIS1 CEO Antonio Filosa praised Trump’s plan for meeting “real-world market conditions,” which will be in a markedly hotter condition in the real world thanks to Stellantis.
GENERAL MOTORS At least CEO Mary Barra sounded still committed to EVs. But not so much to the right of states to decide how much fucking deadly shit companies can shove into people’s lungs.
Barra said, “I’m always going to advocate for one national standard and making sure regulatory requirements don’t get in front of the consumer,” where consumers won’t see them due to all the general smog from motors.
Trump to Follow Up Strike on SNAP Funds with Second Strike
After cutting $186 billion in food stamps from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) with his One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBuBBA), Pres. Donald Trump on Tuesday followed up with a second strike against potential survivors of the first one.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday said she’s preparing to cut billions of dollars more, potentially creating malnutrition and hunger for millions of kids and former kids. In blue states.
That’s because some states — i.e., blue — are refusing to give Rollins info on who their SNAP recipients are. Rollins in May said she wants that info to verify the SNAP eligibility of 42 million recipients and/or deport them and/or check their social media for posts about Israel starving Gaza. The federal government provides half of SNAP funding, because it fucking has to because laws.
At Tuesday’s cabinet meeting, Rollins said only 29 states have agreed to comply. Regarding the timeframe for cutting off funds, Rollins said “As of next week, we have begun,” without explaining how she’s already have begunning something she won’t have begun until as of next week.
It’ll be challenged in court, of course. But while much of the focus will be on blue states losing funding, compliant red states will also suffer. Why?
Because the data Rollins is getting about red-state recipients will be used to deny some of them food stamps. Citing that old shibboleth “waste, fraud, and abuse,” the USDA told the Washington Post Tuesday that the plan is to “scrub all available information to end indiscriminate welfare fraud.”
As longtime Newsfuckers know, “waste, fraud, and abuse” is a myth and a tell. When there is fraud and abuse in any benefits program, recipients are typically the victims, not the perpetrators.
In fact, I looked up food-stamp fraud — BIAD — and it turns out that literally on the same day Rollins made her stand against food-stamp fraud, the Government Accountability Office released a report on it. The report found that from October 2022 through December 2024 — aka two years or whatever — there was $320 million in food-stamp fraud … against legitimate recipients. People cloned or skimmed their cards and took the money. Illegally. Like Rollins is doing.
JESUS FOOD-STAMP CHRIST No one should ask how Christian Trump officials can starve poor people. Would one ask how a Jewish, Muslim, or atheist unqualified cabinet member could do it? No? Okay, then.
But also, the feature-not-bug of most religions is their pervertability — and, no, I don’t mean their ability to nurture and protect perverts — how conducive they are to multiple interpretations (or exegeses, for you fancy people). So, even the most Christian of Christians can find a Christian justification for the worst deeds. (See: Crusades, the.)
In this case, as literally no other news outlet will tell you today, Rollins is a sponsor of the weekly White House Bible study that teaches that Jesus loves feeding the poor but not by creating a government to do so more efficiently and effectively. As you and I revealed back in June, Rollins’ Bible study teaches that God is not just super-picky but omni-picky when it comes to who helps the poor and in His divine analness He does not want government doing it.
RIP, DOGE, GFY
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is dead. Like most things that die after an eight-month life-span, it fulfilled virtually none of its goals and barely developed a functioning brain.
Typically, Republicans oppose killing things eight months after conception, but even Pres. Donald Trump has hinted lately — using “DOGE” in the past tense — that he was fine flushing DOGE down the toilet once its deadbeat Dad, CEOaholic Elon Musk, skipped town.
So, the Reuters news service inquired about DOGE’s health, only to learn the sad, tragic news. “That doesn’t exist,” Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor told Reuters.
Established in January by Musk and Ohio’s now-gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, DOGE barely outlived its parents, both of whom abandoned it before it was capable of anything but burbling and shitting itself.
Musk initially claimed that DOGE would save taxpayers $2 trillion. Musk initially lied. Then he subsequently lied and said $1 trillion. Trump signed an executive order establishing that DOGE would exist through July 2026, probably the earliest sign that DOGE would never exist through July 2026.
So what did all those Muskrats do with their hard-earned experience slashing government jobs once DOGE shut down? Obviously, they got government jobs. Acting Administrator Amy Gleason shifted to a Trump agency that would appreciate and nurture her killing-people-through-government-defunding skills. She’s now chief technology officer for Health (sic) Secretary Robert Filanderin’ Kennedy, Jr., well known for not believing in technology.
And how much government efficiency did DOGE create? Y’know all that government efficiency you’ve been marveling at while waiting to find out whether your flight was canceled? That was DOGE!
How much money did DOGE save taxpayers by cutting government spending? Federal spending will be higher this year than it was under crazy sleepy socialist idiot mastermind Pres. Joe Biden!
And what changed, due to DOGE? Our priorities! According to the zombie DOGE.gov website, spending went down in some areas, but up in the ones we care about:
Treasury: +12%
Homeland (sic) Security: +6%
Defense: +4%
Labor: -7%
State: -7%
Environmental Protection: -17%
According to DOGE, its cuts saved the average taxpayer $1,329.19. How much will that cost us in terms of slashed research, education, and foreign-aid spending? We’ll never know! Except for the 600,000 dead from foreign-aid cuts, obvi.
Politico reports that two-thirds of the Veterans Affairs contracts killed by DOGE were with veteran-owned businesses. The vast majority of those businesses were owned by veterans wounded in combat. Y’know, suckers!
Ironically, some of those contracts were for services that were instead brought in-house at the agency. Which, good! Thanks for embiggening government, late demented DOGE!
Always remember, though, that DOGE may have been cut down in the prime of life, but like Charlie Kirk it will live on wherever people deride the government workers responsible for human civilization.
FLASHBACK DOGE issued massive bonuses for government workers to retire this year, aiming to get 5-10% to retire. Which is, um, the average rate anyway.
They ended up getting even less than usual to retire. And then hired back hundreds because oops governmenting is hard. Especially for geniuses.
Grand Jury Refuses to Indict Letitia James
We learned Thursday that Pres. Donald Trump’s personal vendetta against New York State Attorney General Letitia James has run into a brick wall. A brick wall called democracy, motherfuckers!
These days, the only people still so weak that they cave to Trump are billionaires and CEOs. Meanwhile, everyday folks serving on juries great and small are consistently telling Trump to suck a fat one.
First, Trump’s prosecution of James failed because he couldn’t follow rules even Pres. George W. Bush could figure out and appointed a U.S. attorney illegally. That got James’s first indictment tossed.
Then Thursday brought reports that when the Justice Department tried again to indict James, the grand jury refused. They’ll probably try again with another grand jury, making it even easier for James’s lawyers to get it tossed as political prosecution.
But Trump’s goal, I should have noted long ago, is to torment his enemies with the process, even if he fails to get a conviction. Because he has no convictions.
Mamdani Bearded the Lyin’
The world a couple weeks ago watched Pres. Donald Trump do something few have seen him do: Smile without cruelty or malice. With love and paternal joy, even.
What brought the president’s abused inner child out into the sun? Islamic Communist terrorist who wants to transgender everyone and then hide their new parts under hijabs just like Sharia law says Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
Their public meeting offered an instructive window to how Mamdani handled their closed-door meeting and came out of it with Trump asking whether Mamdani wanted fries with that.
I did a deep-ish dive into how Mamdani did it in a TFN Bonus Story that you can read here.
Campaign Watch
Tennessee state legislator Aftyn Behn lost Tuesday’s election for a previously Republican-held congressional seat. But she won the moral victory of leaving her mark in the shorts of the state Republican Party.
Republicans dedicated millions and their most precious resource — President That Guy — to holding on to the seat. Donald Trump won it by 22 points last year. Republican Matt Van Epps won it by nine points on Tuesday.
Before the returns came in, one senior House Republican reportedly said, “If our victory margin is single digits, the [GOP] conference may come unhinged,” as if anyone remembers the last time Republicans were hinged.
The Van Epps campaign strategy was straight out of 2024: Hitting Behn on irrelevanepps bullshit. Defund the police, which House members can’t do. Transgender everybody, which House members probably should do. But all of that 2024 strategy lost its potency after sitting on a shelf for a year.
And, as Politico tellingly tells us, Van Epps did not campaign on the wondrous bounty bestowed upon us by an almost-year but feels like 40 of re-President Trump.
And Matt Whitlock, a former adviser to the GOP’s Senate campaign committee, actually crunched the numbers — which is probably why he’s a former adviser to the GOP’s Senate campaign committee — and he concluded that Republicans should be making cartoonish anxiety gestures such as excessive collar tugging and exaggerated gulping noises.
Because Whitlock plugged Behn’s overperformance (which was lower than Democratic overperformances last month) into next year’s House elections. “If every House district in the country shifted left by this same amount – about 15 points,” Whitlock said, “we would be looking at a blue wave far worse than 2018 – estimated 43 seats flipping.”
Also flipping in that scenario? President That Guy.
Discontent of Our Summers
Former Clinton Treasury Secretary and perennial un-whack-a-moleable establishment insider Larry Summers may finally be getting shoved through the exit door. Or an exit door, anyway.
The American Prospect’s Robert Kuttner flags that the flags are at half-staff for Summers at the American Economic Association (AEA, just kidding, you’ll never use this acronym again). Because on Tuesday, the AEA (dammit) issued a lifetime ban on Summers.
Was that for rolling the Indiana Jones boulder onto the global economy in 2007/2008? Newsfucker, it was not. Was it Summers’ public defenses of his public sexism as a leader in academia? Newsfucker, it was not.
Was it for asking global #1 pedophile Jeffrey Epstein for help preying on women who trusted him?
The AEA condemned Summers’ conduct as lacking in integrity and “inconsistent … with the trust placed in mentors within the economics profession.” Summers responded in a statement that ha no I’m kidding who gives a shit what he says.
Either way, after so many days of douching our economy, women, Harvard, and Harvard women, today, it appears, is Summers’ Eve.
Jan. 6 Pipe-Bombing Suspect Caught
We don’t have any insights yet into the potential motive of the alleged January 6 pipe-bomber, but the Justice Department said Thursday that it had arrested a suspect, 30-year-old Brian Cole, Jr.
Hilariously, because Pres. Donald Trump couldn’t be bothered to figure out which Jan. 6 attackers to pardon, so he pardoned them all, there’s now a legal argument Cole’s lawyers can make that Trump’s Jan. 6 blanket pardon applies to Cole, too.
As MS NOW’s Steve Benen WR ITES, there’s nothing to suggest Trump didn’t accidentally pardon Cole. The two pipe bombs were placed at the headquarters for both parties, near the Capitol. And one of the Capitol attackers also used a pipe bomb. So why shouldn’t Trump’s blanket pardon apply to Cole? No one likes a blanket-pardon hog!
FAKE-MEDIA WATCH Quick reminder that the right wing blamed the pipe bombs on … the FBI. Y’know, because Jan. 6 was a deep-state operation to deep-six Trump.
That was the bullshit served up by Dan Bongino, who called the pipe bombs an FBI “inside job” and now has an inside job inside the FBI. (h/t)
And on Thursday, FBI Deputy Director Bongino was asked about his previous, civilian claim that the bombing attempt was a hoax.
Bongino explained that that was when he was paid to give opinions and now he’s paid to give facts. “We evolve,” Bongino said, even though that’s not the official position of his party’s leaders.
Five Quickies
Layoffs have soared to their highest levels since the last time we sank to this presidential level. New private estimates — because it’s not like we’d trust federal data anymore — put November layoff announcements at 71,321. We’ve had 1.17 million this year, a 54% increase over the same 11-month period during the terrible Bidenconomy that parents use to scare their kids into behaving. It’s the highest layoff numbers since COVID. Which means Trump is now managing to tank the U.S. economy even without the help of a global pandemic.
U.S. manufacturing decreased in November, for the ninth month in a row, the most recent nine months of Pres. Donald Trump’s 11+ months of presidenting. Also down are new orders for crap, which are what drive the crap-manufacturing sector. It’s now the third month in a row that new orders are down. In fact, they’re near their lowest levels since 2010, y’know, after the last time a Republican president pooped on the economy. Two thirds of companies surveyed by the Institute for Supply Management said they’re “managing head counts … as opposed to hiring.”
Yes, the Supreme Court upheld the Trump-requested Texas gerrymander on Thursday. Yes, it sucks. Yes, we’ve got a lot of work to do to revive the Voting Rights Act. Yes, many Supreme Court justices need impeaching. But lament ye not, faithful Newsfucker, for all is not woe. Remember, the new congressional districts actually weaken Republican seats because they got greedy and spread their voters out into more districts — and the way Latino voters are rejecting the GOP, this might well bite Republicans in their lone star.
To borrow a line from The Lever, You Love To See It… The nightmare inferno that killed 151 people in a Hong Kong apartment complex has led to multiple arrests. Not of arsonists, of business people who reportedly sought to maximize their profits by cutting corners on substandard materials. They even tried to cover it up by using regulation-grade materials only where they thought inspectors would look. So far, officials have arrested 14 engineering consultants and contractors.
Hello, Michigan! Your forecast today calls for a downpour of millions more in energy bills, thanks to Pres. Donald Trump! In March, a three-day ice storm did $90 million in damage to the state’s power grid. That’s five times the threshold to qualify for federal aid, Politico reports. But in October, Trump rejected the state’s request for that aid. So the grid-rebuilding costs will be passed on to Michigan energy users, who now face energy-bill increases of thousands of dollars per household. On the plus side, Trump assures us that he has dramatically reduced the price of everything else. You’re welcome, Michigan!
Recommended Reading
MOURNING REMEMBRANCE The guy who founded Lending Tree died recently. And if any of you Newsfuckers hold a special place in your heart for predatory lenders or arborists, you’re definitely not gonna want to read the Lending Tree guy obituary by Peabody Award-winning writer Jim Earl, formerly of The Daily Show, WTF, and Morning Sedition at Air America Radio (with me!), by clicking on this link right here.
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