More Sh*t From Jim Vandehei

Fred Trump III, Donald Trump’s nephew, very much hopes for a bipartisan national effort to better support the needs of disabled people, a passion driven by being the father of a disabled son. That’s why he tried—when his uncle was president of the United States—to use his family ties to push for disability rights. Fred did manage to have a White House meeting with disability advocates that his uncle Donald attended.

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Leticia Carvalho is clear what the problem is with the body she hopes to be elected to run: “Trust is broken and leadership is missing.” Today, at the headquarters of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) in Kingston, Jamaica, nations negotiating rules governing deep-sea mining face a critical vote that could impact the nascent industry for years: Who should be the next leader of the regulatory body? Carvalho, sponsored by Brazil, is in the running against the current secretary general, Michael Lodge, a British lawyer, who is being sponsored by Kiribati, a small Pacific state. The battle for leadership might sound to the average person like a remote, technical concern.

The man Donald Trump chose to be next in line to the presidency (and who will probably do the real work while Trump watches Fox News) has put millions into the online video platform, Rumble. From Talking Points Memo: Vance has had a six-figure stake in Rumble, an online video platform. The company has played host to Russian propaganda and to far-right personalities like Stew Peters and Tim Pool.

Scared Ketchup gets weird with J. D. Vance, who is already pretty damn weird And then there's the song, which is really fricking weird, except for the part with Vance looking like crazy cat ladies, that's just scary because it's so plausible. Get your weird on in the open thread below read more

South Carolina GOP Rep. Nancy Mace broke out her Xitter account to pose the stupidest question considering that today will go down in history for President Joe Biden—and not in the way that historians will write about Donald J. Trump. The President did what Trump failed to do. Mace's post didn't age well following the news of the historic prisoner swap between Russia, the U.

Who among the Bidenites came up with that travesty of justice, so insulting to the memory of his victims?