- Ex-Congressman George Santos, proving you can get him to say literally anything on his Cameo account.

Trump’s dastardly plans for this election and beyond are coming into view. And they’re not pretty.

• What’s an upcoming election if not an opportunity for disgraced former President Donald Trump and his posse of election-deniers to further sow chaos and distrust in our country’s voting system? Rolling Stone published a stellar deep dive into Trump’s latest fixation: ERIC. No, not his son (though I imagine a Freudian psychoanalyst could have some fun with that connection) but rather the Electronic Registration Information Center, a nonprofit that aims to help states maintain accurate voter registrations. Founded in 2012, a bipartisan mix of 33 states plus the District of Columbia have used ERIC to manage their voter rolls and reach out to unregistered voters. Of course, few things upset Republicans more than people exercising their constitutional right to vote. Starting in 2022, MAGA publications and eventually Trump honed in on the organization, and declared it a left-wing operation designed to throw the election against Trump. Needless to say, the charge is nonsense. Regardless, nine Republican-helmed states, including pivotal ones like Virginia, Ohio, and Florida, have left ERIC as a result. So of the original 33 states, there are now just 24 left. 

• These departures set the stage for voter disenfranchisement and dysfunction in the 2024 election. “There will be old records on the voter lists of people who are no longer eligible in the state that will fuel false claims of potential voter fraud,” David Becker, one of the creators of ERIC explains. “There will be inaccurate records [of those] who are eligible in the state who moved within the state that they will likely not catch.” Conveniently and coincidentally (cough cough), there is an alternative voter management system backed by pro-Trump activists on the market called EagleAI. So far only one county in Georgia has adopted it, even though the state’s director of elections said the EagleAI presentations he’d seen were “confused and seem to steer counties towards unlawful list-maintenance activities.” Sounds bad!

• Trump’s obsessive attempts to undermine ERIC, a beneficial-albeit-relatively-innocuous voter data maintenance system, over the past two years should serve as fair warning of what’s to come—whether or not states and counties adopt this EagleAI system. Trump already attempted to smash the machinery of democracy in 2020. Now, he’s at it again.  

• As long as we’re staring into storm clouds on the horizon, let’s also cast an eye down the list of weirdos and sycophants Trump might appoint to his cabinet should the election tumble his way. Top GOP insiders spoke with Axios about the old, white men who make Trump feel most empowered. Trump is reportedly putting a special emphasis on extreme personal loyalty and the willingness to work around established legal boundaries. For the VP slot, J.D. Vance has the potential to rise from his humble-holler roots. (That is, even further than he already has by capitalizing on them.) Kari Lake, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Tucker Carlson are also reportedly names being thrown around for top jobs. The architect of Trump’s inhumane immigration policy, Stephen Miller, might have sway in the Justice Department, or even become Attorney General. Also making a reappearance from Trump’s first term, after clawing his way back into the inner circle, is Steve Bannon, who has proven himself a born again devotee. (Unless, of course, Bannon ends up in prison over those pesky money laundering and conspiracy charges).

The clown car of Trump loyalists is as full as ever, especially now that Trump is firmly in the driver's seat of the GOP primary. What, then, could slow Trump’s roll? Unfortunately, the courts might not be fast enough to win this race. 

• On Thursday, Trump’s legal team announced plans to appeal a federal judge’s ruling rejecting his immunity in the 2020 election subversion case in Washington D.C. Trump is likely to lose this gambit in the end—but if the Supreme Court accepts the case, then that could delay the March 2024 trial date, giving him more time and availability to terrorize the nation on the campaign trail. The D.C. case matters, because it's the one most likely to reach a verdict before the 2024 election. If Trump bulldozes his way back into the White House before any of his four criminal cases go to trial, he might be able to pardon himself from at least his two federal cases (in D.C. and Florida), and have a much easier time delaying the other two state cases (in New York and Georgia).

Trump recently promised he’d only be a dictator on “day one” if re-elected. I dunno… he’s never struck me as a man with that kind of self restraint.

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The United States vetoed a United Nations resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on Friday. Thirteen other members of the UN Security Council supported the motion, which was put forward by the United Arab Emirates, while Britain abstained. Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the UN Robert Wood criticized the proposal as an “imbalanced resolution that was divorced from reality” and objected to its lack of language condemning Hamas’ October 7th attack. 

Today’s vote followed the invocation of a rarely used emergency measure known as Article 99 by UN Secretary General António Guterres. Article 99, which was most recently triggered in 1971, allows the Secretary General to focus the attention of the Security Council on “any matter which, in his opinion, may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security.”

Before the vote, Guterres spoke to the Security Council about the dire humanitarian state of Gaza. “The people of Gaza are being told to move like human pinballs—ricocheting between ever-smaller slivers of the south, without any of the basics for survival,” he said before calling for an immediate ceasefire. He concluded, “The eyes of the world—and the eyes of history—are watching.”

Hunter Biden was indicted on nine tax charges in California by a Special Counsel, adding to the legal trouble of President Biden’s embattled son. Hunter already faces a gun charge in Delaware. 

Texas Attorney General and miserable-seeming man Ken Paxton asked the Texas State Supreme Court to reverse the decision of a lower court permitting a pregnant woman, whose non-viable pregnancy could lead to a hysterectomy, to get an abortion. The history-making legal exception has now been met with the expected contemptuous and gross disrespect Paxon seems to hold for most women. 

Meanwhile, some legislators in Missouri are pushing for a law that would allow homicide charges against a woman who has an abortion. Thankfully, they haven’t gotten much traction yet, but… still. The preoccupation with limiting women’s bodily autonomy is sickeningly endless.

Trump’s gag order was largely upheld in his Washington D.C. criminal case over alleged election subversion, meaning the Orange One must stop attacking witnesses over their testimony. He must also lay off prosecutors, with the exception of Special Counsel Jack Smith. Trump can say whatever the heck he wants about Smith.

An NYU professor who was paid to testify on Trump’s behalf as an expert witness in the former guy’s $250 million New York fraud case earned a total of $877,500.00, by charging $1,350.00-per-hour. The guy said Trump is totally not a fraud. Sometimes the real crime is what’s legal, buddy! 

The European Union agreed to sweeping new regulations governing Artificial Intelligence, in an attempt to harness the benefits of the technology while minimizing the risks. The law, known as the A.I. Act, still needs final approval.

MAGA men can’t comprehend Taylor Swift’s success…so they’re making up conspiracy theories about her. 

Now, be you a Swiftie or a skeptic, you can’t deny that Taylor Swift has accomplished a lot recently. She’s put out three new albums and re-recorded four of her previous ones in the last three years. The Eras Tour, which is only just on pause before it heads overseas, has raked in $1 billion and become the highest grossing tour of all time. She was named Time’s Person of the Year. On top of that, she’s carving out time to become a Kansas City Chiefs fan. And yet, some folks on the right are looking at alllll of that and thinking she has time left over to be a leftwing government operative. 

“The Taylor Swift girlboss psyop has been fully activated,” conservative commentator Jack Posobiec tweeted Wednesday. Donald Trump’s co-defendant in the Fulton County, GA, case, Jeff Clark, retweeted Posobiec and added, “This is what happens when we cede culture to the Left. Brainless youth raising themselves on Taylor Swift’s saccharine bland music and that washing over into the serious world of politics.” Stephen Miller declared, “What’s happening with Taylor Swift is not organic.” Swift’s most recent deep state leftist stratagems include tweeting her disappointment in the reversal of Roe and baking cookies that read, “Biden 2020.” To quote Ms. Swift, “you need to calm down.”

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The FDA approved a landmark gene therapy, dubbed Casgevy, to treat sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder. The therapy uses the breakthrough gene-editing technique known as  CRISPR, the discovery of which was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020. 

The U.S. economy posted solid hiring numbers, and unemployment fell, in further evidence that the country might just achieve a so-called “soft landing”—in which inflation falls without a steep recession.