NYPD: Man Who Set Himself on Fire Outside Trump Courthouse is Alive and in Critical Condition

NYPD: Man Who Set Himself on Fire Outside Trump Courthouse is Alive and in Critical Condition

The New York Police Department provided updates on the man who lit himself on fire outside a Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump’s trial is taking place, saying that the man was still alive and in critical condition.

Trump's unhinged rhetoric will continue to inspire nutcases and the courts do nothing. 

Shocking absolutely no one, the insane man who set himself on fire outside Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan today was a Trump supporter who overdosed on conspiracy theories. - AmoneyRes

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• World leaders urge calm after Israeli drone strike on Iran ratchets up tension
• US vetoes Palestinian attempt to gain statehood at the United Nations
• Republican Don Bacon Warns 'A Few of My Colleagues Would Like to See the Russians Win' Amid Ukraine Funding Fight

MTG stormed out furious with no comment.

Putin probably throwing champagne bottles out the window along with a few people. A good day for America. - Olga Lautman

SHOCKER: Moses Did The Right Thing

The House voted Friday in a bipartisan manner to advance a key foreign aid package, a significant step in sending aid to Ukraine and Israel and setting up a final vote as soon as Saturday.

In an extraordinary move, more Democrats (165) supported the measure than Republicans (151). The Democratic votes were necessary to overcome opposition from Speaker Mike Johnson’s right flank, who will likely only increase their calls to oust him.

Mike Johnson Calls for Exorcism of Marjorie Taylor Greene. - Andy Borowitz

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump Falls Asleep in Court Again, Scoring Courtroom Slumber Hat-Trick
• Judge Won't Force Prosecutors to Give Advance Notice of Witnesses Because Trump Can’t Be Trusted Not to Post About Them
• Judge denies Trump co-defendants' bid to toss classified docs charges
• GOP lawmaker blames ‘Gaetz and 7 useful idiots’ for House turmoil
• Fox News Anchor Reminds GOP Senator That Trump Killed His Border Deal
• 'Get Some Gumption': Mike Pence Called Out For Answer On Whom He's Voting For
• Trump lawyers say Stormy Daniels refused subpoena outside a Brooklyn bar, papers left 'at her feet'

The MAGA majority just got their assess handed to them by their own Speaker. 

Again. - Rachel Bitecofer

I Wonder How Many Jurors Will Be Threatened or Bribed.

A full jury has been selected in former President Trump’s hush money case, setting the stage for opening remarks to begin Monday.  

After nearly 200 prospective jurors were screened by the judge, Trump’s lawyers and Manhattan prosecutors, a total of 12 jurors and six alternates were selected Friday to hear the first criminal case of any former U.S. president. 

Trump Offers Each Juror $130,000 Not to Talk. - Andy Borowitz

Turns out Congress can actually get stuff done when Trump is tied up in court all day. - Kyle Keegan

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Rock The Voter News

• Democrats Save the Day for Johnson on Foreign Aid Bill
• 'You'll Still Have To Negotiate!' Dem Lawmaker Schools House Republicans on How Bills Become Law
• President Biden to deliver speech in Tampa denouncing Florida’s 6-week abortion ban

A former US president/current candidate is currently on criminal trial and when asked to describe her impression of him, a dismissed juror just said, “he was less orange and more yellow” than she had expected.

Less orange and more yellow.

You can’t make this up folks. - JoJofromJerz

And The Beat Goes On...

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) declared on Friday that he is backing a motion to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

The motion to vacate the speakership was filed by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and recently gained the support of Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) as Johnson is attempting to push through billions in foreign aid in the House.

Just a reminder that, yes, I STILL believe Anita Hill.

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Business/Tech News

• Oil prices steady after Iran plays down reported Israeli attack
• Tesla Recalls All 4,000 Cybertrucks Delivered So Far Over Problems With 'Trapped Accelerator Pedal'
• Once praised, settlement to help sickened BP oil spill workers leaves most with nearly nothing
• Schumer says US will provide $6.1 billion to Micron Technology for chip plants in NY, Idaho

So when do Alex Jones, Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump start paying any of the millions they owe? Looks like f*cking never to me. - Kona Lowell

America: Where Hospitals Turn Away Uninsured Pregnant Women In Need
One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn't offer an ultrasound. The baby later died.

Can you imagine if Trump was jailed for a few days and had to come to court without his morning drug cocktail?  The horror. - Bill Johnson

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Odd News

• Antarctic Ice Shelf The Size of France Suddenly Jumps Once or Twice a Day
• There's a volcano in Antarctica spewing $6,000 worth of gold dust per day — but you can't get there
• United Arab Emirates struggles to recover after heaviest recorded rainfall ever hits desert nation
• Enormous snake discovery from ancient India was longer than a school bus
• 'I tried telling them to stop': Video shows people yank bear cubs from tree for selfie
• Drunk vultures rescued and released after hangover meal, sobering up

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Capitol Reef National Park, Utah.

Happy Weekend Everyone!
Peace.

Trump trial updates: Two jurors dismissed from trial over concerns about safety, truthfulness

Trump trial updates: Two jurors dismissed from trial over concerns about safety, truthfulness

This is Yahoo News' succinct update on the criminal and civil cases against former President Donald Trump. Here are the latest developments:...

Trump, whining he can't get a fair trial, is already prepping for a guilty verdict...but if he's found innocent, he'll be praising the system. - Stephen King

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• Iran threatens change to nuclear ‘doctrine’ if Israel retaliates on nuclear sites
• Marjorie Taylor Greene Files Amendment to Israel Aid Bill for Space Lasers — And It Just Gets Weirder From There
• Top Democrat in fiery speech says House ‘diddling around’ while people ‘dying in Ukraine’ 
• Raskin: Greene ‘recycling direct Russian propaganda’

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "It's antisemitic to make Israeli aid contingent on funding Ukrainian Nazis."

Vladimir Putin: "Good one, Marge. I'll Venmo you." - Middle Age Riot

Will Moses Part The Red Sea?
Momentum is growing quickly behind the effort to remove Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from power if he moves to alter the motion to vacate rule as part of a package of foreign aid that’s expected to pass through the House this weekend.

Roe v. Wade has been replaced by Republicans v. Women. - Middle Age Riot

Republican Shenanigans

• Dismissed Juror Runs to MSNBC to Roast Trump: 'He Looked Less Orange'
• Trump quotes Fox News host on prospective jurors despite gag order 
• House Republican Is Over Marjorie Taylor Greene's Antics: 'Has to Come to an End'
• 'Ghoulish Mockery': Anchor Drops Devastating Commentary on the 'Sickening Rise' of Attacks on the Victims of Mass Shootings
• Jon Voight Rages Against 'Barbaric Animals Destroying' U.S. in Gushing Pro-Trump Rant Following His Trip to Mar-a-Lago
• Bo Dietl Dropped By Eric Adams Legal Team After Telling Reporter to 'Go Suck D**k Somewhere'
• 'Enough Already!' Don Jr. Turns Against Speaker Johnson With Damning Montage About Border Security
• Florida Gov. DeSantis says Satanists can't be school chaplains
• Republican voters prefer Casey DeSantis as next Florida governor, poll shows
• Trump demands 5% cut from GOP candidates who use his 'name, image and likeness' in ads

Trump now wants 5% of money from down-ballot candidates if they use his name or likeness in their fundraising.

Right after he directed all RNC money into his pocket with nothing left to go to candidates.

He’s f-cking over his own party and I absolutely love it. - Woman In The Moon

What's Next, Fisticuffs? Gunfire?
Tensions came to a boil in the House Republican conference with one congressman calling Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) “tubby,” according to new reports.

The House Republicans are holding together like a Boeing  737 in turbulence. - Machine Pun Kelly

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Rock The Voter News

• Full List of Polls Where Joe Biden Now Leads Donald Trump
• Senate begins FISA surveillance debate with deadline looming
• Harvard Poll of Young Voters Finds Biden with Wide Lead Over Trump, But Just 9% Think Country Is Moving in Right Direction
• Favorable views of Harris rival Beyoncé in new survey

On the one hand, I am enjoying watching the Republican Party destroy itself. On the other hand, I am really f*cking enjoying it. - Middle Age Riot

How The Kennedy Family Keeps Plowing Ahead Is Laudable

The Kennedy family formally announced on Thursday that they were endorsing President Joe Biden, and Kerry Kennedy made her case to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer while someone screamed bloody murder in the background.

To their credit, Kennedy and Blitzer plowed through the interview as the kerfuffle played out behind Kennedy at the campaign event venue.

There is a joke circulating in Germany:

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"What borders on stupidity?"

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"Mexico and Canada!" - timeforkind

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Business/Tech News

• New bill would force IRS to explain tax return errors
• Wyden says he’s ‘not in favor’ of Mnuchin purchasing TikTok as bill gains momentum
• Kimmel Bites Back at 'Ranta Claus' Trump After Oscars Ratings Dig By Showing Plummeting Truth Social Stock
• Biden administration issues final rule to allow local agencies to lease some federal lands

The judge ordered Trump to put his phone away and he pouted like a 13 year old in a geometry class. - Liam Nissan

Judge Asks The Press TO CUT IT OUT!
Judge Juan Merchan’s reproach of the press for publishing potentially identifying information about the jurors in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial appears to have fallen on deaf ears.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

—James Baldwin

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Odd News

• You will soon have a chance to see an exploding star: ‘Once-in-a-lifetime thing,’ NASA says
• Giant, 82-foot lizard fish discovered on UK beach could be largest marine reptile ever found
• Plastics industry heats world four times as much as air travel, report finds
• Unhoused residents build home on side of SoCal freeway
• 353 ballerinas stay on their toes to break world record in New York

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Kaoru Yamada is a contemporary Japanese illustrator. I love his work, it is delicate and delightful.
This piece is watercolor on paper.

Peace.

House Speaker Mike Johnson pushes ahead with Ukraine, Israel aid despite GOP revolt

House Speaker Mike Johnson pushes ahead with Ukraine, Israel aid despite GOP revolt

Speaker Johnson said that he would introduce foreign aid bills to the floor despite some opposition from his caucus.

Sounds like Moses Mike Johnson is about to experience an exodus. - Rick Lenzie

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• Biden backs Johnson plan for Ukraine, Israel; calls for vote this week
• 'I Won't Support It!' Hardline Republicans Slam Mike Johnson For 'Disappointing' Israel-Ukraine Aid Bill
• WSJ Reporter Shares Stunning Clip of Russian Missiles Hitting Ukraine, Blames GOP For 'Strategic Gift' to Putin
• Democrats on Jan. 6 Committee Fear Trump Will Follow Through on His Threats to Jail Them: He Says 'What He Means'
• 'Strap on a Glock': Kari Lake tells supporters they're in for a bumpy ride

We should attend Donald Trump's sentencing hearing and chant "Four more years! Four more years!" - Mrs. Betty Bowers

Will Julian Assange Visit The U.S.?
The United States provided assurances to the British Foreign Office on Tuesday that it will not seek the death penalty against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange nor block his potential to “raise” First Amendment defences.

Assange released info stolen by the Russians that hurt Hillary Clinton and helped Donald Trump right before an election. He works for Vladimir Putin you silly dipsticks. - Liam Nissan

Republican Shenanigans

• 'Marjorie Taylor Greene Is An Idiot!' Fox News Publishes Stunning Op-Ed Which Absolutely Pulverizes MTG
• Trump Gives Frosty Response When Asked About Fate of Embattled Speaker Johnson, Just Days After Backing Him
• Arizona Republicans again block attempt to repeal 1864 abortion ban
• John Leguizamo on Trump’s Latino support: ‘He doesn’t like us, and he doesn’t want us here’
• GOP senators, Manchin challenge SEC climate disclosure rule  
• Bill Barr Voices Horror About Trump-Biden Rematch in Fox News Interview: It's 'Russian Roulette' Vs. 'National Suicide'
• Stephen Miller Hilariously Declares Trump a Generation-Defining 'Style Icon'

Stephen Miller calls Trump a “style icon.” Because:

- He brought back the hair soufflé

- Long red tie is the Republican genital

- White golf pants provide housing for 3 families

- Shapeless blue suit has influenced many shapeless white men

- Gravy with croutons as makeup

- Paul Rudnick

There's A Florida Democrat In Congress. Who Knew?
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) pulled no punches on Wednesday during a House Oversight Committee hearing as he responded to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) — who spoke before him...“When in 2022 she spoke at an event led by white supremacists and white nationalist Nick Fuentes, and when asked about it, doubled down on it and said, we’re going to focus on people, not labels. So get out of here with that damn hypocrisy,” Frost concluded.

Mike Johnson Claims Marjorie Taylor Greene Appears in Book of Revelation. - Andy Borowitz

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Rock The Voter News

• Senate dismisses two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security secretary, ending trial
• Biden Mocks Trump Over Tanking Stock Price In Campaign Speech
• Bob Menendez Is Planning to Throw His Wife Under the Bus in Foreign Bribery Case, Per Court Filing

The Mayorkas impeachment trial lasted about as long as Trump did with Stormy Daniels. Very anticlimactic. - BlackKnight10k

We really don't talk enough about how Trump tried to get Pence killed and the only person who tried to save him was Pelosi. - Victoria Brownworth

I Wonder What Jeffrey Epstein Would Think.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Wednesday he will vote for the “Republican ticket” in the November presidential election.

“I think it’s my duty to pick the person I think would do the least harm to the country,” Barr said on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom.” “And in my mind, that’s — I will vote the Republican ticket.”

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Business/Tech News

• Tesla asks shareholders to reinstate Musk's $56B pay package
• Hugh Grant Settles Privacy Case Against Rupert Murdoch’s Tabloid For 'Enormous Sum'
• Alaska Airlines briefly grounds flights due to technical issue
• Microsoft finds Russian influence operations targeting U.S. election have slowly begun

If we are going to respect the Constitution, we cannot legitimately find a "Jury of his peers" in the Human Population. - Brandon Unger

Apparently, New Yorkers Are Fed Up With The Economy

More than half of New Yorkers in a new poll say they think their economy is getting worse, prompting many to consider leaving the state.

The new Marist poll found 51 percent of surveyed New Yorkers described the economy as getting worse right now. Thirty-one percent said the economy has stayed the same, and 18 percent said they believe it is getting better, according to the survey.

I felt an earthquake about 30 minutes ago. Not much, but noticeable. Taco jumped up from his bed and looked at me, then barked and ran for the window.  It was a 5.5 magnitude in Nicaragua on the border with Costa Rica, about 100 miles away. Pura vida.

 

 

 

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Odd News

• NASA confirms debris that hit Florida home was trash from ISS
• Washington State study finds vampire-like bacteria
• Huge Saharan dust blob cooling eastern Atlantic
• UAE government unit denies cloud seeding took place before Dubai floods
• Elephant named Viola escapes circus, roams streets of Montana town

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Central Park, NYC. An oasis in the city.

Peace.