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Hundreds of incarcerated firefighters are helping battle the wildfires that are rapidly spreading across southern California as a powerful windstorm devastates the region. Via The Guardian: The California department of corrections and rehabilitation (CDCR) said on Thursday that it had deployed 783 imprisoned firefighters while the county fights multiple out-of-control blazes fueled by extreme winds and dry conditions.

It's official: DONALD TRUMP WILL BE THE FIRST CONVICTED FELON PRESIDENT. His last ditch effort to delay sentencing in the New York hush money case has failed. The highly corrupt Supreme Court actually did the right thing - barely - by refusing to delay Donald Trump’s sentencing. Barring an act of God (or a fake medical emergency), Trump will be the first person to be officially classified as a "FELON" to serve as President. Mazel tov! Trump will be sentenced on Friday after being convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment made to Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 election.

Above, Magic Giant performs, Disaster Party.. As we consider climate change while Los Angeles burns, we need to think about the up-coming maladministration of The Orange ?: the nominee for Department of Homeland Security —which over sees FEMA— is South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem. She doubts climate science. The EPA Director nominee is Lee Zeldin, who is also a climate change skeptic.

Convicted felon Donald Trump used his final Phone-A-Friend lifeline to beg 6 Republicans-in-robes on our Supreme Court to save him from a sentencing. Trump's half-handpicked SCOTUS, not including its 2 most venal, vain & villainous sewer-slurpers, Thomas & Alito, were his last chance to stop Judge Merchan's criminal sentencing of his spray-tanned-jabberwocky arse today on his 34-charge smackdown in the paying-off-the-porn-star case. Yes, I used "were" because last night even they rejected Trump's trumped up appeal.

One thing for sure: he'll never be called Joe the Great.

Hell has officially frozen over.