Good News: Avenatti sentenced to 4 years for stealing nearly $300K from Stormy Daniels

I had a dream last night that Nazis had taken over America, only instead of Jews...

... they were rounding up Australians. It was pretty nightmarish. Also in my dream I was personal friends with Tony Dow and he didn't approve of the forced round up of Aussies either.

Horse kicks tree, farts on dogs, then runs away

I don't approve, but I do understand

McDonald's pulled out of Russia. Apparently Burger King & KFC have not.

I'm not able to boycott Burger King or KFC in outrage, since I never eat there. But I feel like something should be done about that.

The difference between combat and noncombat deaths is pretty arbitrary

If someone puts on a uniform, they're taking on all the risks that go with the service. Whether they're shot by an insurgent in a country we're stationing military advisors in or they crash a jeep on duty on an air base in Greenland or they suffocate in a kitchen fire aboard an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean, they've died taking the risks that come along with serving the security needs of the Republic. All these sacrifices are costly, necessary, and honorable.

Universal background checks. Now. No loopholes.

That is not all.

Dude messed with the wrong lady (warning: animal violence)

"Jesus Guns Babies" -- Republican campaign slogan imitates parody

Republican Candidate’s Bonkers Campaign Sign Has Everyone Puzzled

A Republican candidate seeking the party’s nomination for governor in Georgia held an event with a “Jesus Guns Babies” sign on her bus as she insisted that the state is a Christian theocracy.

“We’re gonna do a political rally and we’re gonna honor Jesus,” Kandiss Taylor said on Sunday, then dismissed any notion of separation of church and state.

“We are the church,” she said. “We run this state.”

She launched into a confusing explanation about how the church, as a business, can’t control the government “monetarily,” but that the church’s people do in fact control the government.

“We are the church, and if it’s of, by and for the people, the church runs the state of Georgia,” Taylor said. “This is our state. We decide what happens.”

"Smells So Bad" -- Kushner cashed in BIG in months after leaving office. Mostly Persian Gulf oil $

Jared Kushner, Donald's Trump son-in-law, and former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin collectively raised $3.5 billion from the Middle East shortly after leaving the Trump administration, presenting potential conflicts of interest given that both men cultivated diplomatic relations with Middle Eastern leaders during their time in government.

According to The New York Times, Mnuchin collected $1.5 billion from the Emiratis, Kuwaitis and Qataris within three months of his exit from the Trump administration. Kushner, a former senior advisor to Trump, likewise raised $2 billion from the Saudi government during a six-month period after his tenure was complete.

The investments, which both men raised for their respective private investment firms, appear to stem from relationships developed while Kushner and Mnuchin were touring around the Middle East to finance the Abraham Fund, a $3 billion fund designed to promote economic cooperation and development between the U.S., the UAE, and Israel. The fund ultimately disintegrated, but shortly after Kushner and Mnuchin left office, "each quickly launched a private fund that in some ways picked up where the Abraham Fund had ended," the Times reported.

Abortion-Travel Bans Are "Next Frontier" With Roe Set to Topple

Nine states—Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin—have abortion bans on the books, albeit unenforceable now, that were enacted before Roe was decided in 1973, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.

What’s not clear is whether states can enforce their laws beyond their own borders—in particular, by trying to stop their residents from traveling across state lines to terminate a pregnancy. Trying to impose their abortion policies upon other states is what one legal expert calls “the next frontier in anti-abortion legislation.”

“It’s going to be an invitation to states to innovate in restricting and banning abortion,” said David S. Cohen, a professor at Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law in Philadelphia, who’s authored an upcoming article on cross-state legal issues that could arise in the context of abortion rights. “There are going to be a number of states who are not satisfied with just knowing that there’s no abortion happening in their own state. They’re going to want to do more than that.”