MAGA folks brains are melting. They don't understand why Donalds Trump's hand-picked Supreme Court Justices — fine Christofascists, all of them — would crush Mike Lindell's glorious quest to overthrow the United State government? They must have been brainwashed by George Soros! — Read the rest

Mike Lindell, the MAGA movement's second-favorite crack addict, has a reputation for promises to reveal exclusive news that turns out to be as substantial as the filling in his pillows. Last week, the hoarse-voice fluff huckster promised to shock the world with something that was actually real for a change. — Read the rest

Mike Lindell, the loudmouthed pillow tycoon who traded his gambling and crack cocaine addiction for membership in the delusional cult of MAGA, is spitting mad that a federal judge is forcing him to pay a $5 million arbitration award to a man who proved that Lindell's "election fraud" evidence was garbage. — Read the rest

A defamation lawsuit filed against Kari Lake, the right-wing Republican who lost to Democrat Katie Hobbs in Arizona, can proceed. The judge's finding means that Lake, who repeatedly accused election official Stephen Richer of rigging the vote against her, now faces a similar legal mess to other conspiracy-mongers such as Rudy Giuliani, Alex Jones and Fox News–all of whom either owe or have paid massive settlements or damages to those they lied about. — Read the rest

Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd, elected county officials in Cochise County, Arizona, refused to certify 2022's election results after Democrats defeated their preferred candidate—a refusal that included defying a court order to do so and various delaying tactics. The two Republicans have now been charged with felony conspiracy and interfering with an election officer after a grand jury there found crimes to answer for. — Read the rest

Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, lawyer Rudy Giuliani and moron Mike Lindell have all been ditched by their legal teams, reports The Guardian, after failing to pay six- and seven-figure legal bills. Bannon is appealing a recent conviction for obstructing Congress and is preparing to face trial for his role in the "We Build The Wall" grift. — Read the rest

If you've ever played a claw machine, you probably know the claws usually don't grip tightly enough on a prize to carry it over to the exit chute. The last time I was in Japan, playing claw machines with my daughter, we won fewer prizes than ever before. — Read the rest

Mike Lindell, who thought it would be a good idea to become a vocal supporter of a vile aspiring dictator, is now suffering the consequences. Not only have sales of his pillows tanked, but he's also being sued by the Smartmatic and Dominion voting machine companies for defaming them. — Read the rest

Yesterday, America's mayor Rudy Giuliani lost a defamation lawsuit filed against him by two election workers he lied about–a default judgment reflecting the fact he offered no reply to their claims. But the court and the judge in it were real enough, and it turns out Giuliani is selling his New York City apartment. — Read the rest

Be they "Wireless Monitoring Devices" or perhaps "Weapons of Mass Dumbness," Mike Lindell has a plan. He is sticking wireless sniffers on hobbyist drones and hoping to catch the wireless address of Doctor Evil's election-stealing router. Sadly, for Mike, this airborne surveillance equipment is probably illegal in most places he'd like to try it. — Read the rest

Yesterday, a grand jury in Georgia indicted Trump and 18 others, including Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark, and Sidney Powell, on a massive slate of felony charges for being part of a conspiracy to subvert the presidential election.

The latest issue of the Public Notice newsletter unpacks the latest of Trump's four criminal indictments. — Read the rest

Defeated by Joe Biden in the 2020 election, then-president Trump illegally tried to tip the scales in Georgia, conspiring with his team to overturn the result, personally calling officials to demand they "find" the votes he needed to win, and even interfering with voting machines. — Read the rest

Sometimes even the most MAGA-minded will come to their senses when money is involved. Such as Arizona's deep red Mohave County that has overcome its Trump-fueled fear of voting machines, deciding to use the machines rather than spend over a million bucks to hand count ballots in next year's elections. — Read the rest

Trump cultist Mike Lindell's rage against the voting machine has caused big box retailers and shopping networks to stop selling his pillows, and now he's having to sell some of the company's equipment, reports The Minneapolis StarTribune. "Sewing machines, industrial fabric spreaders, forklifts and even desks and chairs are up for auction," according to the paper. — Read the rest

If there's an emerging consensus that Tucker Carlson's firing by Fox News had more to do with boss Rupert Murdoch's personal whims than anything else, don't underestimate the extremity of Carlson's misogyny and racism and his willingness to put it in black and white. — Read the rest

A binding arbitration panel has ordered Mike Lindell to pay $5 million to a cybersecurity expert who proved that Lindell's evidence that China interfered in the 2020 Presidential election was bogus. The winner of the prize is Robert Zeidman, a 63-year-old computer forensics expert who says he voted for Trump in the two most recent elections. — Read the rest

Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5m to avoid a defamation trial it expected to lose. The case centered on Fox News' broadcasting of lies and conspiracy theories about the company's voting machines, but Dominion isn't the only company suing it. — Read the rest

In the case of Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network, there will be a brief delay before the trial begins. In a four-minute hearing, the judge said "Things happen" and not much else.

Fox has also accused Dominion of generating "noise and confusion" around the case, stating, "the core of this case remains about freedom of the press and freedom of speech, which are fundamental rights afforded by the Constitution," specifically the First Amendment.

Fox News illegally withheld evidence in the $1.6bn defamation lawsuit filed against it by Dominion Systems, the maker of voting machines that Fox's presenters falsely and knowingly claimed were rigged. At a pre-trial hearing today, Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric M. — Read the rest

Fox News' effort to get Dominion's $1.6bn defamation case against it tossed out was itself ended today by Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis. The lawsuit will now go to trial–which looks like a dangerous one for Fox News, given the evidence already revealed in court showing that its presenters knew they were promoting lies about the company's voting machines. — Read the rest