Dried Up!

Go somewhere.

Democratic Arizona governor-elect Katie Hobbs is not concerned too much about her rival's noise. 

However, she will probably hire more security and will make sure her No. 1 job will be restoring the trust in Arizona's election system. Hobbs defeated Kari Lake, a Washed Up 45 endorsed conspiracy theorist who once was a respectable news anchor.

The state certifies the results and the Republican continue to balk that the results were rigged to favor Hobbs despite the latter being false.

The certification opens a five-day window for formal election challenges. Republican Kari Lake, who lost the race for governor, is expected to file a lawsuit in the coming days after she’s spent weeks of criticizing the administration of the election.

Election results have largely been certified without issue around the country, but Arizona was an exception. Several Republican-controlled counties delayed their certification despite no evidence of problems with the vote count. Cochise County in southeastern Arizona blew past the deadline last week, forcing a judge to intervene on Thursday and order the county supervisors to certify the election by the end of the day.

“Arizona had a successful election,” Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat who beat Lake in the race for governor, said before signing the certification. “But too often throughout the process, powerful voices proliferated misinformation that threatened to disenfranchise voters.”

The statewide certification, known as a canvass, was signed by Hobbs, Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich and Chief Justice Robert Brutinel, a Ducey appointee.

Gov. Doug Ducey along with Secretary of State, Gov-elect Katie Hobbs sign off certifications of state results.

When the same group certified the 2020 election, Ducey silenced a call from Washed Up 45, who was at the time in a frenetic push to persuade Republican allies to go along with his attempts to overturn the election he lost.

“This is a responsibility I do not take lightly,” Ducey said. “It’s one that recognizes the votes cast by the citizens of our great state.”

Republicans have complained for weeks about Hobbs’ role in certifying her own victory, though it is typical for election officials to maintain their position while running for higher office. Lake and her allies have focused on problems with ballot printers that produced about 17,000 ballots that could not be tabulated on site and had to be counted at the elections department headquarters.

Lines backed up in some polling places, fueling Republican suspicions that some supporters were unable to cast a ballot, though there’s no evidence it affected the outcome. County officials say everyone was able to vote and all legal ballots were counted.

Hobbs immediately petitioned the Maricopa County Superior Court to begin an automatic statewide recount required by law in three races decided by less than half a percentage point. The race for attorney general was one of the closest contests in state history, with Democrat Kris Mayes leading Republican Abe Hamadeh by just 510 votes out of 2.5 million cast.

The races for superintendent of public instruction and a state legislative seat in the Phoenix suburbs will also be recounted, but the margins are much larger.

Once a Republican stronghold, Arizona’s top races went resoundingly for Democrats after Republicans nominated a slate of candidates backed by Washed Up 45 who focused on supporting his false claims about the 2020 election. In addition to Hobbs and Mayes, Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly was reelected and Democrat Adrian Fontes won the race for secretary of state.

Did The Far Right Sabotage The Power Grid Because Of A Drag Show?

Terrorist intentionally destroyed North Carolina power grid.

When will they hold these noise makers responsible for domestic terrorism?

Elon Musk, are you willing to enable "Libs of TikTok" by continuing this noise on your platform all in rights of "free speech?"

What has a drag queen ever done to you?

Anyway, these Christian extremists are worked up over drag queens performing at read-a-longs at public libraries and performing shows at community theaters.

This happened in Columbus, Ohio. The Patriot Front and the Proud Boys came to the city armed to protest a drag storytime at the Red Oak Community School. There were 50 to 70 ignorant bastards armed to the teeth. They wore tactical gear, face masks and chanted, "life, liberty, victory" and "reclaim America."

The Columbus Division of Police also iced a cop after he gave a high five to a white nationalist.

More on that later.

In North Carolina, the state authorities and the feds are investigating a possible act of domestic terrorism. Terrorists are suspected of causing a major power outage in Moore County. 

President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Gov. Roy Cooper, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), Sen-elect Ted Budd (R-NC) and the U.S. Representatives from the state are notified of this. 

Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields said that a mandatory curfew has been issued and Duke Energy has round the clock workers hoping to restore power to the county.

Libs of TikTok is a profile on Twitter and other far-right platforms. The profile probably posted the Downtown Divas show and some believe that an extremist deliberately attacked the power grid to interrupt the show. It was held in the city of Southern Pines. A fundraiser for LGBTQ youth and families, the Downtown Divas were there to perform for families.

There were protests though. The show started late because of the power outage. But after 40 minutes, the performers and guests improvised. They decided to use their phone lights and cameras to keep the show going.

They vow to return despite the noise of the far-right.

A 32-year old extremist from the state had made incriminating statements to why the power grid was attacked.

Naomi Dix impersonates Beyonce pose with mother and children.

"The power is out in Moore County and I know why."

This is the noise that is driven by the far-right. The politicians and media agitators who endorse the attack on the LGBTQ community are mainly responsible for the actions of those who sabotaged the electrical grid.

Assured if caught, they face state and federal charges. A heavy federal sandwich if they're caught of this. The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Kirstie Alley Passed Away!

Kirstie Alley passed away from late stage cancer.

Washed Up 45-supporting actress Kirstie Alley has passed away at the age of 71. Perhaps best known for her role on "Cheers" and the "Look Who's Talking?" franchise, Alley was the high school crush for many guys in the mid-1980s and early 1990s.

Her children confirmed on her official social media that their mother died of cancer. The family didn't discover the cancer until it was too late.

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— Kirstie Alley (@kirstiealley) December 6, 2022

"She was surrounded by her closest family and fought with great strength, leaving us with a certainty of her never-ending joy of living and whatever adventures lie ahead. As iconic as she was on screen, she was an even more amazing mother and grandmother," said the family. "We are grateful to the incredible team of doctors and nurses at the Moffitt Cancer Center for their care."

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Actor John Travolta, who lost his wife Kelly Preston to cancer and son Jett to an accidental drowning shared his thoughts on his friend and "Look Who's Talking?" co-star.

Her breakout role was as Rebecca Howe on the NBC sitcom. 

She got an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe for that role.

Alley also went to other sitcoms like "Veronica's Closet" and "Fat Actress."

Alley also in memorable films like "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," "Summer School," "It Takes Too," and "Loverboy."

Alley was considered a controversial figure when it came to politics and body image. She was addicted to cocaine and tried to get off it through Scientology. She got through it with Narconon, a Scientology-affiliated drug treatment program to end the addiction. She also battled alcoholism.

She was always afraid of folks considering her a fat woman. The actress became a spokesperson for Jenny Craig and endorsed their products for years until she gained weight again.

She was once a Democrat but ended that notion when she vowed to not support Hillary Clinton. She endorsed Washed Up 45 in 2016 and 2020. She said, "He's not a politician" and felt that he shook the core of America. 

She was considered a washed up celebrity. Many felt that her devotion to Scientology and support for Washed Up 45 led her to lackluster hiring. 

She had another one season sitcom, "Kristie" and continued that role on "Hot in Cleveland."

She also appeared on "The Middle", "Scream Queens," "Dancing with the Stars," "Celebrity Big Brother 22," and most recently "The Masked Singer."

Bob McGarth Passed Away!

Bob McGarth passed away confirms Sesame Workshop.

Sesame Street alumni Bob McGarth passed away at the age of 90.

McGrath’s passing was confirmed by his family who posted on his Facebook page on Sunday: “The McGrath family has some sad news to share. Our father Bob McGrath, passed away today. He died peacefully at home, surrounded by his family.”

Sesame Workshop tweeted Sunday evening that it “mourns the passing of Bob McGrath, a beloved member of the Sesame Street family for over 50 years.”

McGrath was a founding cast member of “Sesame Street” when the show premiered in 1969, playing a friendly neighbor Bob Johnson. He made his final appearance on the show in 2017, marking an almost five-decade-long figure in the “Sesame Street” world.

The actor grew up in Illinois and studied music at the University of Michigan and Manhattan School of Music. He also was a singer in the 60s series “Sing Along With Mitch” and launched a successful singing career overseas in Japan.

“A revered performer worldwide, Bob’s rich tenor filled airwaves and concert halls from Las Vegas to Saskatchewan to Tokyo many times over,” Sesame Workshop said. “We will be forever grateful for his many years of passionate creative contributions to Sesame Street and honored that he shared so much of his life with us.”

He is survived by his wife, Ann Logan Sperry, and their five children.

The Noise Got TJ Holmes And Amy Robach Iced!

The noise forced ABC News to pull anchors.

Here's my question.....

Why are you folks so fucking concerned about what goes on in the personal lives of people you've never met in your life?

I believe it is racism. Because it's an interracial couple.

Fox, The Daily Mail and many tabloid outlets were calling for cannon firings after it was revealed that TJ Holmes and Amy Robach were dating. Both are married and the two are apparently leaving their spouses.

But a series of photos showing the two having intimate acts has now drove the internet crazy.

The Daily Mail, a British far right tabloid known for pushing anti-Meghan stories, racial dog whistles and relentless bullshit reports that Holmes, 45 and Robach, 49 were pulled off the air.

Holmes is Black and Robach is white.

The two are the hosts of GMA 3: The Need To Know.

ABC News president Kim Godwin announced Monday during an internal call that the pair would not host their daily 1 p.m. show.

Godwin told staffers on the call that the alleged affair had become too much of an “internal and external distraction.”

She said, “After a lot of thought I am taking Amy and T.J. off the air as we figure this out.”

Ever since the photos were released, the noise was loud. Robach was married to actor Andrew Shue and Holmes is married to Marilee Fiebig.

The Daily Mail has been sued in the past for getting into people's lives without consent.

The Associated Newspapers Ltd. were sued by Duchess Meghan and Prince Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in the past. Meghan won a lawsuit against the Mail on Sunday, also affiliated with Associated Newspapers, in 2021, which she filed in response to the paper’s 2018 release of sections of a private letter she had written to her estranged father. 

Tampa Police Chief Iced After Flashing The Badge On Lawful Stop!

The Blue Wall of Silence and white privilege got Tampa Police Chief iced.

I wished I've lived in Tampa, Florida instead of Dayton, Ohio. The city has surpassed 414,000 residents. The only thing I hate about Florida, it's a shaped like a penis and the governor is a total dick.

Florida is the best for Floridah Man stories.

Tampa Police Department hired Mary O'Connor as their police chief. She recently appointed police chiefand now she is in the freezer after she flashed her badge at a Pinellas County deputy after he stopped a male motorist operating a golf cart without proper tags.

Mayor Jane Castor on Friday placed police Chief Mary O’Connor on administrative leave as the city investigates a traffic stop involving O’Connor last month.

Body camera video released Thursday shows O’Connor identifying herself to a Pinellas County sheriff’s deputy as Tampa’s chief, pulling out her badge and asking the deputy to “just let us go” after she and her husband were pulled over in a golf cart in Oldsmar on Nov. 12. The deputy, who pulled over the O’Connors because the cart did not have a license plate, let them go without a citation.

A statement from Castor said Assistant Chief Lee Bercaw is serving as acting chief.

The Tampa Bay Times had said that concerns rose early after Castor tapped her.

Jane Castor personally picked top cop despite concerns.

Castor a former police chief and the city's openly gay mayor now is one step closer to cannon firing a cop she personally chose to be her successor.

The incident has once again thrown into turmoil a leader whose tenure became mired in controversy as soon as Castor announced she had picked O’Connor for the position from among three finalists in February. Some residents, community leaders and City Council members thought Castor made a mistake by selecting O’Connor, in part because of how she behaved during a traffic stop in the mid-1990s. She and her then-boyfriend Keith O’Connor, who both were rookie officers at the time, were arrested, fired then later reinstated.

Yvette Lewis, president of the NAACP Hillsborough branch, said O’Connor should be asked to resign.

“You see how (law enforcement) look after each other and turn a blind eye, but they come to the community and say, if you see someone committing a crime, say something,” Lewis said. “But if it’s in your law-enforcement family, they don’t see and say something. They see something and close their mouths and walk away.”

It ain't over until the matter with Tiffany Cross is resolved.

Joy Reid, Yvette Nicole Brown, Melissa Harris-Perry, Leslie Jones, Jamele Hill, Lauren Lake, Laura Coates and notable Black journalists have shared thoughts on Tiffany Cross and her unceremonious cannon firing.

They show solidarity and restraint. 

Shortly after Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly launched their attacks on Cross, and the appearance on Charlamagne Tha Rapist's Comedy Central show, Cross was out.

Now a month later, the fire is still burning and Black women and regular watchers are saying sayonara to MSNBC.

Cross hired an attorney to protest her firing. The folks at MSNBC fear Rashida Jones.

Jones, who is an African American journalist turned president of the network got morale down. Multiple sources told us that as soon as Jones took over in 2021, months after Cross was hired, “she had meetings saying she wanted no snark, no name calling. She seemed particularly disturbed by anyone who said anything negative about Fox News,” the insider added.

Another insider at NBC confirmed Jones’ new direction, telling us, “like CNN, trying to go straight down the middle seems to be what the appetite is. The MSNBC identity is being taken away.”

Where Joe Scarborough and Nicolle Wallace got away with vulgarity and jabs at Fox personalities, Tiffany Cross is sacked.

I only use clips from MSNBC on YouTube. I don't watch MSNBC or listen to it on TuneIn or SiriusXM anymore because of it. I have faithfully watched The Cross Connection on Saturday. Now I just don't care anymore about the network and I hate to say this but...

I really enjoyed watching Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Ari Melber, Nicolle Wallace, Joy Reid, Alex Wagner, Lawrence O'Donnell, Jonathan Capehart, Alex Witt, Symone Sanders, Rev. Al Sharpton, Jose Diaz-Balart, Stephanie Ruhle, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist, Katy Tur, Ali Velshi, Ayman Mohyeldin, Yasmin Vossoughian, Alicia Menendez, Katie Phang, Jonathan Lemire and Chris Jensing.

I am not a fan of Hallie Jackson, Mehdi Hasan and Chuck Todd but I watch them. 

The firing has led to a silent boycott. I want the network to understand that democracy is under attack. Fox is leading the charge towards fascism and Republicans are more engaged through that and now Twitter.

Without strong Black voices like Tiffany Cross on, it's proving hard to ignore the noise.

The noise is loud and they're willing to kill for their beliefs. Tucker Carlson and the like will motivate their base to vote, kill, dismantle and destroy.

Cross will get her base to boycott and protest. I am down for it.

Julia Reichert Passed Away!

American director Julia Reichert passed away.

An Oscar Award winning documentary director who filmed the closing of Dayton, Ohio's last GM Auto Manufacturer Plant has passed away. Julia Reichert passed away at the age of 76 from urothelial cancer. It was confirmed by her husband, fellow director Steven Bognar.

Her documentary American Factory won an Oscar. It detailed Fuyao, a Chinese auto glass maker that took over the GM Plant bring in jobs and controversy.

The film had its festival premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. It is distributed by Netflix and is the first film acquired by Barack and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground Productions. It won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

She died Thursday night in Yellow Springs, Ohio from cancer, her family said Friday through a representative. She was diagnosed with stage four urothelial cancer in April 2018.

Often called the “godmother of American independent documentaries,” Reichart told the stories of ordinary Americans, from autoworkers dealing with both plant closures (2009′s “The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant”) and foreign investors (2019′s “American Factory”), to members of the American Communist Party (1983′s “Seeing Red”) to female labor activists in the 1930s (1976′s “Union Maids”).

In her 50 years of filmmaking, Reichert won two Primetime Emmy Awards and was nominated for four Oscars, winning one with her partner Steven Bognar for “American Factory” in 2020. She quoted “The Communist Manifesto” in her speech, saying “things will get better when workers of the world unite.”

She was also nominated for two Peabody Awards.

Veteran film producer Ira Deutchman wrote on Twitter that she was one of “the kindest, most generous people I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with.”

“Her spirit was so indominable that somehow I thought she would eventually triumph over her illness,” he added. “I will miss her so much.”

“RBG” director Julie Cohen tweeted that she was “reflecting on the life of a woman who made an enormous contribution to the world of documentary. And the world generally.”

Julia and husband Steven Bognar winning an Oscar for American Factory.

Born in 1946 in Princeton, New Jersey, and raised in Bordentown and Long Beach Island with her three brothers, Reichert started finding her voice as a filmmaker at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, beginning her long residency in the state.

Her first film, “Growing Up Female” was a 49-minute student film made for $2,000 with then-partner Jim Klein that looked at the lives of six women, ages 4 through 35, and their socialization.

When they couldn’t find distribution, they founded their own company, New Day Films, which is still active to this day. In 2011, “Growing Up Female” was added to the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry and is considered the first feature documentary of the modern women’s liberation movement.

“I came of age in the ’60s. Millions of us saw racism, saw U.S. domination around the world. Imperialism. Saw huge inequalities class wise. We said the system’s not working and we became, in some broad sense, revolutionaries,” Reichert told the radio station WYSO last year. “Not that we wanted to attack the White House but we really wanted to change society.”

She and Bognar worked for eight years to make the 225-minute-long, Primetime Emmy Award-winning “A Lion in the House,” which looked at five families dealing with childhood cancer in Ohio.

“American Factory” put Reichert and Bognar in a different kind of spotlight when Barack and Michelle Obama took interest in their film about an Ohio auto glass factory that had been purchased by a Chinese investor. It became the first project the Obamas backed with their production company Higher Ground.

“One of the many things I love about this film ... is that you let people tell their own story,” the former first lady said in 2019. ”‘American Factory’ doesn’t come in with a perspective. It’s not an editorial. I mean, you truly let people speak for themselves, and that is a powerful thing that you don’t always see happen.”

More recently Reichert and Bognar directed “9to5: The Story of a Movement,” about an organization that is trying to improve working conditions and maintain rights for women and families, and “Dave Chappelle: Live in Real Life,” following the comedian’s Yellow Springs shows in 2020 during the pandemic.

Throughout her career, Reichert made sure to pass on her wisdom to others, teaching film at Wright State University from 1985 through 2016 and writing a book about self-distribution called “Doing It Yourself.”

Reichert had been diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma in January 2006, while preparing to go to Sundance with “A Lion in the House,” but went into remission later that year.

The urothelial cancer, she knew, was incurable. In 2020, she told NPR’s Terry Gross that now that she was coming to the end of her life, she was focusing on things she hadn’t been able to do enough while making films, like spending time with her daughter and grandchildren.

Reichert is survived by Bognar, her daughter Lela Klein Holt and two grandchildren.

Jim Kolbe Passed Away!

Former Arizona lawmaker Jim Kolbe passed away from a stroke.

Former Arizona Republican congressman who was openly gay while serving in the U.S. House of Representatives passed away from a stroke at the age of 80.

Jim Kolbe came out as gay in August 1996 after his vote in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act spurred efforts by some gay rights activists to out him. He won re-election that year. In 2000, he became the first openly gay person to address the Republican National Convention, although his speech did not address gay rights. 

Kolbe served in the Arizona Legislature before being elected in 1984 to Congress, where he often was at odds with other Republicans over his support for free trade and an immigrant guest worker program.

Kolbe started his political career at 15 as a page for the late U.S Sen. Barry Goldwater in Washington and later served on the board that oversees the page program. He attended Northwestern University and then Stanford, earning a master’s degree in economics.

From 1965 to 1969, he served in the Navy. He was deployed to Vietnam, where he was awarded a congressional medal for valor.

After stints working in the Illinois governor’s office and in real estate, he entered Arizona politics. Kolbe was elected in 1976 to the state Senate and served until 1982. He was sworn in to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1985, the first Republican since Arizona statehood to represent a majority-Democratic district in the southern part of the state.

Kolbe was known in Congress for his advocacy for free trade, international development, immigration and Social Security reform. He also waged an unsuccessful campaign to eliminate the penny due to production costs.

He repeatedly co-sponsored a bill to scrap the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on homosexuality. He sat on the national advisory board of the Log Cabin Republicans, which represents the LGBT community.

Kolbe was married to Sarah Dinham, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Arizona, from 1977 to 1992.

In 2013, Kolbe married his partner, Hector Alfonso. That year, Kolbe was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case.

“He belongs to so many people,” Alfonso was quoted as saying Saturday by the Arizona Daily Star. “He gave his life for this city. He loved Tucson, he loved Arizona.”

Some people might have questioned Kolbe at times on political decisions, Alfonso said, “but no one could question his integrity and his love for Arizona,” the paper reported.

Kolbe endorsed anti-LGBTQ bills before denouncing them.

Although a moderate, pro-choice Republican, Kolbe came under fire for being anti-LGBTQ despite being associated with the community. It took almost 20 years and the Obergefell v. Hodges decision for him to finally support marriage equality.

Others anti-LGBTQ gay Republicans were Mark Foley and Aaron Schock before they came full circle and embrace Washed Up 45.

Kolbe would end up leaving the Republican Party in 2018 shortly after Martha McSally threw away her moderate positions for the extremism. McSally would lose to bisexual Democrat and moderate Kyrsten Sinema in a competitive Senate race.

McSally after being appointed to the Senate would later lose to Mark Kelly, the husband of Gabrielle Giffords, the lawmaker who succeeded Kolbe and survivor of a mass shooting attack.

Kolbe would endorse Joe Biden in 2020. 

Hunter Biden And Tara Reade On GOP's Priorities List!

They won't let it go.

They keep reaching.

Conservatives are easily manipulated by disinformation and fake news. They will go beyond the pale to prove a conspiracy theory about a candidate they never met in their lives. They would make baseless accusations about the person they don't know personally without even fact checking the source. They literally spent their worthless lives worrying about issues that don't feed their families, heat their homes, improve their economic struggles and their social life.

It's almost like they literally want to keep people upset over issues that deflect from their own incompetence.

Yeah, Hunter Biden is the youngest and surviving son of President Joe Biden. He has a troubled history and has overcome mental illness and drug abuse. The president and First Lady Jill Biden love him and know his struggles will result in political fire from the Republicans.

The far right and the stench of Elon Musk.

Musk said he will release the tweet from The New York Post story on Hunter Biden's laptop and expose the executive he fired last month.

That arrived Friday night in the form of a lengthy and arduously slow tweet thread from pro-Kremlin leftist Matt Taibbi, who Musk appears to have leaked the documents to and coordinated for his findings to be posted to Twitter.

He unrolled a lengthy Twitter thread which I will not share. It is a worthless thread of allegations.

Taibbi along with Katie Halper pushed the Bernie Sanders was cheated, Biden was touchy feeley, the Tara Reade allegation and cognitive decline noise. None of this disinformation worked in their favor. Now this Twitter Files noise is a flop.

Elon Musk enlist Matt Taibbi, a known propagandist for Russia to unroll his Twitter Files.

Reade, a California woman who once briefly worked for Biden when he was senator claimed he sexually abused her. The woman claims the junk food media suppressed her claims and now she is asking Republicans to look into it. However she does not want to be under oath when she makes her case.

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) is calling for investigations into Google, Facebook and Twitter for blocking the story. 

The story was supposed to be an October Surprise by Washed Up 45, his allies like Sean "Softball" Hannity, Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon. Giuliani somehow got the hard drive from a nearly blind computer repairman who claimed that Hunter left it. He saw some things on it and instead of calling the feds, he goes to Giuliani who in turn notified Washed Up 45 and News Corp about the details of this laptop, hard drive, emails, nude pictures, cocaine use and whatever.

Somehow, it got lost in the noise. Washed Up 45 (having tested positive for the coronavirus) tried to debate Biden over Hunter. Then former vice president said that his son has struggles like many others and that regardless of how things are, he loves him and understands that other Americans deal with this as well.

Conservatives, the so called compassionate folks spend their lives worrying about Biden's health, the allegation of sexual abuse from a woman who spews pro-Kremlin propaganda, this laptop and the junk food media not covering these "scandals."

Robin Meade Out!

CNN kills HLN and lets go of Robin Meade and others.

Warner Bros Discovery has eliminated HLN, the CNN sister network.

Chris Licht has decided to cut HLN's longtime host Robin Meade, shutdown all of HLN live programs and eliminated all staff.

The news network is shutting down “Morning Express,” the daily program hosted by Robin Meade that has aired on CNN’s sister channel HLN since 2005.

Meade and her program’s staff will be departing CNN as part of an across-the-board reduction underway as parent company Warner Bros. Discovery attempts to bring down its debt.

Meade’s breezy, fast-paced news program based at CNN Center in Atlanta has a following among small-town viewers outside of the media hubs of Washington and New York. “Morning Express” is best known for “Salute to Troops,” a daily segment celebrating members of the military and their families.

Meade also has a side career as a country music singer and songwriter.

“Morning Express” will be replaced by a simulcast of “CNN This Morning,” the recently launched program with Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins.

“Weekend Express” on HLN will shut down as well. No date has been set on a final show, according to a CNN representative who confirmed the cancellation.

Ratings for “Morning Express” have been in decline as the number of people waking up with traditional TV continues to shrink because of cord-cutting and increased competition from online news sources.

“Morning Express” also had the challenge of airing on a network with little other live programming and had become a destination for true crime shows such as “Forensic Files.”

The mission for HLN — once known as CNN Headline News — has become even less clear recently, as it aired a marathon of “The West Wing” episodes during the Thanksgiving holiday.

In a memo to staff sent Thursday, CNN Chairman Chris Licht said HLN will no longer produce live programming. Kathleen Finch, chairman and chief content officer, US Networks Group for Warner Bros Discovery, will oversee HLN’s crime programming.

Fed Courts End The Special Master In Mar-a-Lago Probe!

The losing side of a court battle.

An appeal court decision from the U.S. District Appeals of the 11th Circuit has come down against District Judge Alieen Cannon's decision to appoint a special master. The decision is to formally end the special master thereby giving the Department of Justice the authority to continue its criminal probe into classified top secret documents being held at Mar-a-Lago.

In August, Washer Up 45 posted on Truth Social that his Florida resort was searched by the FBI. 

The FBI did a search in the early morning on a warrant to obtain documents the former president failed to return to the National Archives. On top of that,he tried to use executive privilege to excuse his actions despite he is no longer the president.

The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s order appointing the special master to look through the 11,000 documents taken from Mar-a-Lago, in order to determine what documents should not be handed over to investigators. Washed Up 45’s legal team had requested the special master, which was approved by a Washed Up 45-appointed judge in a widely panned ruling many legal observers did not expect to stand.

The decision by the three-judge panel represents a significant win for federal prosecutors, clearing the way for them to use as part of their investigation the entire tranche of documents seized during an Aug. 8 FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. It also amounts to a sharp repudiation of arguments by the former president's lawyers, who for months had said that the former president was entitled to have a so-called “special master” conduct a neutral review of the thousands of documents taken from the property.

The ruling from the Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit had been expected given the skeptical questions the judges directed at a Washed Up 45 lawyer during arguments last week, and because two of the three judges on the panel had already ruled in favor of the Justice Department in an earlier dispute over the special master.

The decision was a unanimous opinion from the panel of Republican appointees, including two who were selected by the former president. In it, the court rejected each argument by Washed Up 45 and his attorneys for why a special master was necessary, including his claims that various seized records were protected by attorney-client privilege or executive privilege.

“It is indeed extraordinary for a warrant to be executed at the home of a former president — but not in a way that affects our legal analysis or otherwise gives the judiciary license to interfere in an ongoing investigation,” the judges wrote.

A Washed Up 45 spokesperson said Thursday’s decision was “purely procedural” and did not address the “impropriety” of the raid, and promised that the ex-president would “continue to fight” against the Justice Department. Lawyers for the former president did not immediately respond when asked if they would appeal the ruling.

The special master litigation has played out alongside an ongoing investigation examining the potential criminal mishandling of national defense information as well as efforts to possibly obstruct the documents probe. Attorney General Merrick Garland last month appointed Jack Smith, a veteran public corruption prosecutor, to serve as special counsel overseeing that investigation.

It remains unclear how much longer the investigation will last, or who, if anyone, might be charged. But the probe has shown signs of intensifying, with investigators questioning multiple Washed Up 45 associates about the documents and granting one key ally immunity to ensure his testimony before a federal grand jury. And the appeals court decision is likely to speed the investigation along by cutting short the outside review of the records.

The conflict over the special master began just weeks after the FBI’s search, when the former president sued in federal court in Florida seeking the appointment of an independent arbiter to review the roughly 13,000 documents the Justice Department says were taken from the home.

Washed Up 45 appointed judge is considered worthless.

A federal judge, Aileen Cannon, granted the former president's team’s request, naming veteran Brooklyn judge Raymond Dearie to serve as special master and tasking him with reviewing the seized records and filtering out from the criminal investigation any documents that might be covered by claims of executive privilege or attorney-client privilege.

She also barred the Justice Department from using in its criminal investigation any of the seized records, including the roughly 100 with classification markings, pending the completion of Dearie’s work.

The Justice Department objected to the appointment, saying it was an unnecessary hindrance to its criminal investigation and that Washed Up 45 had no credible basis to invoke either attorney-client privilege or executive privilege to shield the records from investigators.

It sought, as a first step, to regain access to the classified documents. A federal appeals panel sided with prosecutors in September, permitting the Justice Department to resume its review of the documents with classification markings. Two of the judges on that panel — Andrew Brasher and Britt Grant, both Washed Up 45 appointees — were part of Thursday’s ruling as well.

The department also pressed for unfettered access to the much larger trove of unclassified documents, saying such records could contain important evidence for their investigation.

In its ruling Thursday, the appeals court directed Cannon to dismiss the lawsuit that gave rise to Dearie’s appointment and suggested Washed Up 45 had no legal basis to challenge the search in the first place.

“The law is clear. We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant. Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so,” the judges wrote.

“Either approach,” they added, “would be a radical reordering of our caselaw limiting the federal courts’ involvement in criminal investigations. And both would violate bedrock separation-of-powers limitations.”