a good start if they really go after it beyond the headlines;

Former CIA Director John Brennan and disgraced former FBI Director James Comey are now under criminal investigation by the FBI for potential wrongdoing related to the now-debunked Trump–Russia collusion narrative — including allegedly lying under oath to Congress, according to bombshell revelations from DOJ sources obtained by Fox News.

According to DOJ sources, CIA Director John Ratcliffe formally referred evidence of Brennan’s misconduct to FBI Director Kash Patel for criminal review.

Meanwhile, a separate FBI probe into James Comey is also active, though details remain under wraps.

Sources told Fox News that the feds are exploring a potential “conspiracy” between Brennan and Comey to politicize the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA).

The Gateway Pundit reported last week that a new CIA report reveals former FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and DNI James Clapper worked together to purposely corrupt the Trump-Russia investigation in 2016 before Trump entered office.

The three corrupt Obama officials even included the Steele Dossier in their quest to “screw Trump” knowing at the time that the Steele Dossier was complete rubbish............more......

 what else would you anticipate from a female joe appointment who can't even define what a woman is. this individual will hang around like an albatross around our neck for years to come;

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who appeared to be arguing a case entirely different from the one before the Court, was the only dissent.

In her fiery 15-page dissent, Jackson launched into a long-winded history lesson about executive overreach, Congress’s role in creating federal agencies, and past presidents' requests for reorganization authority.

She insisted that Trump’s Executive Order 14210 amounted to an illegal "critical transformation" of the federal bureaucracy that could not move forward without congressional approval.

But her alarmist dissent was so far off base that even Justice Sotomayor had to step in and gently remind Jackson that the Court wasn’t even ruling on the merits of the reorganization plans themselves.

Justice Sotomayor made it abundantly clear in her concurrence: the executive order merely instructed agencies to plan reorganizations “consistent with applicable law.” The actual restructuring plans haven’t even been challenged in this phase. The case isn’t about their legality—yet.

Sotomayor wrote in her opinion:.............more............

 some politically correct stuff from the georgia manatee;

For years now, Democrats have accused Republicans of being ‘election deniers’ but ever since Trump was reelected, people on the left seem to be competing to see who can come up with the most outlandish conspiracy theory about Trump and elections.

Rosie O’Donnell has accused Elon Musk of stealing the 2024 election for Trump. James Carville recently got an earful from Bill O’Reilly for claiming Trump will rig the midterms, and now failed Georgia governor candidate Stacey Abrams is getting in on the act.

While appearing on the Jimmy Kimmel show with guest host Anthony Anderson, Abrams went through a list of things that supposedly lead to an autocracy. Leaving aside the fact that most of the things she lists are things that her party has already done, her final point is that Trump will ultimately cancel all future elections.

Anderson just sits there and allows her to spew this nonsense with no pushback whatsoever, of course.

Partial transcript via NewsBusters:...........more.......

 we have achieved mencken's quote, but then again we also did with joe and the shrub, if not more;

"All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre."

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental…

So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack, or count himself lost. His one aim is to disarm suspicion, to arouse confidence in his orthodoxy, to avoid challenge. …

All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.

The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men.

As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.

We move toward a lofty ideal.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

– H.L. Mencken, July 26, 1920.............https://fee.org/articles/quote-of-the-day-hl-mencken-on-the-lofty-ideal-of-democracy/

 starvation in gaza;

At the end of our street is al-Sahaba market. It is no longer somewhere to fetch food.

It is now quiet and gray, a place where the people are often greeted with shelves as empty as their stomachs.

Since 2 March, Israel has – with rare exceptions – not allowed aid and food goods to enter Gaza. Famine is once again haunting us.

Every other day, my family gathers around a single pot of either plain lentils or clumped pasta. We only eat to survive.

Seeing al-Sahaba market stirs my memory.

Back in the sixth grade, I used to play football in al-Sahaba street beside the market every afternoon with Mahmoud, Karam, Abdallah and Yazen – my childhood friends.

We played football until sunset when our parents would call us home.

It is the same street where my childhood friends and I used to chase after water trucks, clinging to the back as we rushed late on our way to school.

In college, I would walk that same street at night, heading to Galaxy Café by the sea with my friends Hussien, Islam and Belal to watch a football game whenever there was one.

I refused to take a taxi home. I preferred to walk each friend to their doorstep, one by one, before going home alone.............more...........

 a former british diplomat gives his take on the iran situation;

“Depending on who you ask, the US bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan was either a smashing success that severely crippled Tehran’s nuclear programme, or a flashy show whose results were less than advertised … In the grand scheme of things, all of this is just drama”.

The big issue – second only to ‘what next in Iran’ and how they might respond — says Michael Wolff (who has written four books on Trump), is “how the MAGA is going to respond”:

“And I think he [Trump] is genuinely worried, [Wolff emphasises]. And I think he should be worried. There are two fundamental things to this coalition – Immigration and War. Everything else is fungible and can be compromised. It’s not sure those two elements can be compromised”. 

The signal from Hegseth (‘we are not at war with the Iranian people – just its nuclear programme’) clearly reflects a message being ‘walked back’ in the face of MAGA pushback: ‘Pay no attention. We’re not really doing war’ is what Hegseth was trying to say.

So, what’s next? There are basically four things that can happen: First, the Iranians can say ‘okay, we surrender’, but that’s just not going to happen; the second option is protracted war between Iran and Israel with Israel continuing to be attacked in a way that it has never been attacked before. And thirdly there is attempted regime change — although this has never been successfully achieved by air assault alone. Historically, America’s regime changes have been accompanied by mass slaughter, years of instability, terrorism and chaos...........more..........

 alex jones has some things to say about epstein;

Trump appears to be making backroom deals with Deep State and intel agencies of foreign nations.

& Triggered The Scandal Of The Century

Trump appears to be making backroom deals with Deep State and intel agencies of foreign nations

Alex Jones gives an extensive break down on why the Trump administration is claiming there is zero evidence that Jeffrey Epstein conducted blackmail, or that he kept an incriminating client list — or that he committed suicide............more..........