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The Senate Tuesday night passed a temporary spending bill that would avert a government shutdown after Democrats dropped Energy Independence and Security Act, the energy legislation sponsored by Democratic West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, the New York Times reports.

EISA had an uphill fight in the Senate if it were to go out on its own due to bipartisan opposition:  Democrats objecting on environmental grounds, Republicans because of politics.  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer attached it to the spending authorization bill believing Republicans would support the spending bill.  However, opposition to the bill stood strong, forcing Schumer to cut EISA from the spending bill.

Tallahassee.com reports it’s still not 100% clear if Gadsden County, Florida Commissioner Jeffery Moore has actually resigned over dressing up all MAGA way back whenever this pic was taken, just ahead of a deadline imposed by local faith leaders to either own up to it or deny it. Moore has apparently taken himself off the ballot for the election to serve a full term after being appointed by Governor Ron DeSantis in July. The bottom line appears to be that he definitely 100% resigned but did not effect it yet with a hurricane approaching. We’ll cede the “bigger fish to fry” excuse for now.

During the Tuesday sentencing of Capitol rioter Kyle Young, former DC Metro police Officer Mike Fanone was on the stand, saying he hoped Young would suffer in prison for assaulting Fanone brutally during the insurrection when a Trump fan in the audience stood up and screamed, calling Fanone a “piece of shit” before being dragged out by security. DC Circuit Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson then sentenced Young to 86 months in prison for his crimes against America.

Massive victory for the Kremlin! Huge Red Wave! Pro-Ukrainian libtards screaming at the sky! Russian annexation sweeps to a win in Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Luhansk, and Donetsk!

Not that this is surprising considering Dems wouldn’t be wasting their time working on it without buy-in from the Turtle-faced One, but Mitch McConnell on Tuesday announced his support for the Electoral Count Act reform designed to prevent another Capitol riot, the Washington Post reports.

“Congress’s process for counting their presidential electors votes was written 135 ago. The chaos that came to a head on Jan. 6 of last year certainly underscored the need for an update,” The Electoral Count Act ultimately produced the right conclusion… but it’s clear the country needs a more predictable path,” said Mitch. Should be a fun reaction from Trump.

“In light of Hurricane Ian bearing down on parts of Florida, we have decided to postpone tomorrow’s proceedings. We’re praying for the safety of all those in the storm’s path,” said House January 6th Select Committee Chair Bennie Thompson and Vice Chair Liz Cheney in a joint statement on Tuesday via CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. No word yet on a new day/date for the hearing.

Joe Manchin something with “permitting” controversy whatever, the mainstream media reports. Sources say something Manchin whatever Senate controversy Mitch screwed with him whatever, Manchin energy special plan wanted something special for West Virginia like every fucking legislative package because entitled asshole whatever. Bernie opposed because socialism.

West Virginia economy jobs something heroin whatever. Manchin not happy. Republicans not helping some petty revenge something even though would help their states who gives a shit whatever. Takes up space on mainstream political news sites so reporters happy for boring story National Zero not care about whatever. Joe Manchin sucks lol whatever something.

An administrative error led to the hiring of dozens of Alameda County (California) sheriff’s deputies who had scored below acceptable levels on a pre-employment psychological exam, resulting in the department suspending them last week, CBS News reports.

On Friday, Sheriff Gregory Ahern sent letters to 47 deputies involved, explaining that when they took the test during their hiring process, they scored a “D” on a standard school grading A-through-F system.  While in a scholastic setting a “D” is a barely-passing grade, it fell below the standard the department put in place in 2016, Ahern explained.

The deputies will have the opportunity to take the test again to retain their positions, but in the meantime, they are barred from carrying a weapon or any credentials from the sheriff’s department, and they are banned from making arrests or enforcing laws in an official capacity.  A number of them will be retained to take administrative positions, allowing uniformed officers in those positions to take up patrol duties.

As they do with literally every matter that crosses their table, the three Republicans on the six-member FEC this month deadlocked with the two Democrat and one Independent commissioners on whether to investigate the matter of straw donations from suspected ChiCom agent and massage parlor pimp Cindy Yang into Trump PAC coffers, the Florida Bulldog reports.

Yang, whose “Orchids of Asia” rub-and-tug shop first gained notoriety as degenerate Trump fan and detestable asshole New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s jerkstation of choice, ran a racket in which she would reimburse family members and employees of several family-owned businesses for making illegal conduit contributions on behalf of foreigners seeking access to Trump and other Republicans, who are supposed to hate human traffickers and Chinese communists.

The Orange God Emperor, probably pretty fucking pissed after the “Special Master” diversion basically backfired and did nothing to significantly slow down the federal criminal investigation into his theft of top secret documents from the White House, has removed his $3 million marquee lawyer, former Florida Solicitor General Chris Kise from the case, CNN reports.

Kise will stay on the Trump legal team and will purportedly work on other matters – on which there’s plenty to do – but we can’t help but think the Donald would have fired Kise if the attorney had not already managed to secure his $3 million retainer up front. Now the fat bastard feels like he needs to get his money’s worth out of this guy, even though he couldn’t deliver at a crucial juncture.

A DC jury on Tuesday convicted John Strand, a flamboyant male fashion model and boyfriend to anti-vaxxer quack Capitol rioter Dr Simone Gold, of four misdemeanors and one felony count for his participation in the January 6th, 2021 MAGA insurrection, Ron Filipkowski reports. Strand did not commit any crime of violence, vandalism, or theft while wandering inside the Capitol during the attack, he simply was such a total assclown that he couldn’t just to what his sugar mama did and take a plea deal for a single misdemeanor and two months in the clink.

“I don’t have tourniquets for you,” a Russian non-commissioned officer tells a group of newly-arrived conscripts at a military camp.  She goes on to tell the conscripts that they must supply their own sleeping bag, medications, and first aid kit–she suggest the new soldiers get the IFAK (individual first aid kit) from their vehicles to use on the battlefield.  If they can’t get tourniquets, the NCO tells them to have their wives and girlfriends send sanitary pads and tampons to control blood loss.

The Consumer Confidence index, a measure that Republicans use to get swing voters to correctly trust them on the economy, was rigged by the Biden Administration in September in order to deprive right wing politicians and influencers of a key talking point, ABC News reports.

Rising from 103.6 in August to 108 in September, a number increase evident to the vast majority of MAGA pundits who know that seems fake even if they otherwise don’t really know what it represents, they nevertheless will be able to say something like “CONman Biden really puts the CON in CONsumer CONfidence. These numbers are a total CON-job!” Jim Jordan or Charlie Kirk or Marjorie Taylor Greene will write on Twitter to show their fans how rigged the whole thing is. Even if it’s not true, no lib can prove otherwise, and therefore they will be massively owned. MAGA!

National Zero will resume our regular news coverage now that we’ve rubbed some salt in a small wound on the diseased hides of our right wing readers. We hoped they enjoyed this nonsense.

Florida Gov Ron DeSantis is increasingly preparing for an all-out war with his likely rival for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, disgraced former President Trump, Vanity Fair reports.

A source tells VF’s Gabe Sherman that the diminutive autocrat “calls him a TV personality and a moron who has no business running for president,” and that “the only way to beat Trump is to attack him head-on. He says he would turn to Trump during a debate and say, ‘Why didn’t you fire Fauci? You said you would build the wall, but there is no wall. Why is that?'” which we will remark is impressive because that’s exactly what the fuck we’ve been saying a challenger should say.

The Donald for his part is building toward a public attack on the Ronald, calling him “overrated, disloyal, and a know-nothing,” with Sherman’s reporting correctly crediting Trump for helping the then middle-management GOP Congressman DeSantis over the finish line in the tight 2018 race.

An attorney with a so-called “Libertarian law firm” called the “Pacific Legal Foundation” has filed a federal civil complaint against the Biden Department of Education over the student debt forgiveness program, this first in a long expected assault on the plan. In the complaint, Frank Garrison of the PLF argues his standing is that because he paid off his debt to go to law school, he is injured by the forgiveness of up to $10,000 in student debt for Americans still carrying it.

“Student debt cancellation has been the subject of great debate in America for at least a decade. Some argue that the government should provide relief to students to offset skyrocketing tuition costs and the consequent debt incurred by many to attend college. Others point to the regressive quality of student debt relief, arguing that it is unfair to cancel student debts that were freely assumed with taxes raised from those who predominately have not attended college, or attended but avoided debt, or paid it off. Congress has authorized a variety of student debt relief programs, including the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, by which some debt is written off for students who choose to work in relatively lower-paying public service or non-profit organization positions after graduation and follow program rules for a period of years. Perhaps because of the costs of student loan cancellation, or its potential impact on the economy, or the inherently divisive nature of this debate, Congress has declined to enact more sweeping debt cancellation. This is, of course, Congress’s prerogative under our Constitution, as Congress is the branch of government that possesses the exclusive power to make law,” writes Garrison in the intro to the complaint.

Until the page was taken down late Monday, mentally ill Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s campaign website listed indicted Capitol insurrectionist/Taylor County co-chairwoman Mandy Robinson-Hand and fake Trump 2020 elector Kay Godwin as “County Captains” working to help him unseat Senator Raphael Warnock, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

Probably deciding they weren’t making enough money off of it so there was no real point to letting the torrent of bullshit continue, Facebook (or “Meta” if you want to indulge their lame attempt at rebranding) on Tuesday announced they killed off a large network of Russian bots propagating a sophisticated set of some 60 fake news websites pushing Kremlin talking points about the war in Ukraine to European users on Facebook and Instagram, the Associated Press reports.

“On a few occasions, the operation’s content was amplified by the official Facebook pages of Russian embassies in Europe and Asia. I think this is probably the largest and most complex Russian-origin operation that we’ve disrupted since the beginning of the war in Ukraine earlier this year,” some overpaid asshole with a made-up title who works for Facebook told the AP.

Russian men of prime age for conscription in dictator Vladimir Putin’s army have been pouring over the borders into pretty much any and every neighboring country except for the one with Ukraine, with some 10,000 a day heading into Armenia and the Republic of Georgia, AFP reports. One man who made into Georgia told the Moscow Times he waited 34 hours to cross the border by car.

Private jet companies meanwhile are charging between £20,000 and £25,000 to charter flights out of the country when the going rate for a typical eight-seater was formerly about £80,000 to £140,000 total, according to the Guardian. No word yet of any Russians swimming into Alaska.

Secret Service leadership in July 2022 confiscated and handed over two dozen agents’ phones to the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general as part of the investigation into the events surrounding the January 6th, 2021 Capitol insurrection, NBC News reports.

The Secret Service agents, possibly loyal to disgraced former President Trump, were reportedly pissed they had to comply with the order so quickly after DHS IG Joseph Cuffari announced a criminal investigation into the missing text messages on the days surrounding the failed attempt to overturn a legitimate presidential election. The agency has been under a cloud of suspicion for so quickly deleting relevant information about one of the darkest days in its history, more so now that Trump loyalist Tony Ornato has quickly retired and still has not testified under oath to contradict the explosive testimony of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Trump fanboys should be annoyed with that one, that a supposed patriot did not do anything to dispute the embarrassing story about him having a meltdown in the presidential SUV and attacking an agent.