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Zander Moricz, a graduating Florida high school senior and an LGBTQ activist, was instructed by his school administrators to avoid any mention of his activism or his lawsuit against Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over the “Don’t Say Gay” law banning educators from discussing anything relating to sexuality or gender issues with students.

I am the youngest public plaintiff in the “Don’t Say Gay” lawsuit. I am my Florida high school’s first openly-gay Class President. I am being silenced, and I need your help. A few days ago, my principal called me into his office and informed me that if my graduation speech referenced my activism or role as a plaintiff in the lawsuit, school administration had a signal to cut off my microphone, end my speech, and halt the ceremony.

Photo courtesy of NatZero special correspondent for reproductive health OfJack

Monday morning.  You’re going to work, getting ready to turn into the office complex with a line of cars behind you, when you spot them:  Protesters carrying signs demonstrating against something or another.

But you’re not just any worker.  You’re a teacher.  And it’s not an office complex; it’s a school campus.  Coming in behind you are the buses carrying your students, not commuters into work, and across the street are protesters picketing signs with aborted fetuses on them.

The guy in the photo above is what Mrs. Jack faced this morning as she started her workweek, with buses of students expected minutes later.  But the guy–and two of his colleagues–didn’t understand what they were getting into. 

Seriously, if the Alitos find their situation untenable, they should just move to a state that is more tolerant of their views and actions.  He doesn’t have to live in a tony Washington, DC suburb.  He could move to, say, West Virginia and commute in, like many people do.  It’s only a two hour drive, across state lines.

If people can do that for a medical procedure, Alito should be willing to do it for his job.

Americans need a plan IMMEDIATELY to solve the shortage of baby formula in our country.

The silence from the Biden administration and FDA is unacceptable as parents across the country are worried about feeding their children.

— Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) May 9, 2022

For a guy who’s supposed to have a Rolodex full of business leaders in every industry or knows how to craft legislation, Kevin McCarthy seems awfully feckless and weak while America is hit with yet another supply crisis. This isn’t to defend the Biden Administration’s handling or mishandling of the issue so much as to point out that this cunt seems long on complaining about problems and short on anything remotely resembling using independent action to pitch in, even for the sake of his own interest. Wouldn’t it be smart politics to be seen as trying to get ahead of Biden on an issue like this, especially for a party hell bent on making sure more babies are born?

White accused murderer Casey White and his white accomplice former Lauderdale County, Alabama Sheriff’s Department corrections officer Vicky White were arrested Monday in Indiana after several days on the run, AL.com reports. Vicky reportedly suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound as the pair’s vehicle flipped while they were being chased by cops in Evansville, Indiana, so it’s unclear if it was a suicide attempt or accidental discharge. Her condition is unknown.

The Kyle Rittenhouse fan PC game “Acquitted: Self-defense vs the Braindead” developed by a Swedish game studio called “Nordic Empire” and released on the Steam platform really sucks due to its low production values and short length, irrespective of its inspiration Kotaku reports.

Made by a three man team, one of whom is the former press secretary of a far right Swedish party, the developers opted to turn the Antifa enemies in the game’s blood green to make them into “zombies”, ostensibly to make the title less “graphic”, a decision which kind of blunts the provocation intended by developing and releasing it in the first place, Kotaku’s John Walker writes.

The thing with right wing entertainment is that its audience gets into this habit of lying to themselves that it’s actually good because they see it in service of a greater cause – it appears that “Acquitted” is no different from a Kevin Sorbo movie or the jokes on Gutfeld! in that regard. None of them ever seem to want to address the question of if you own the libs by making this totally based PC game/Christian movie/douchey “comedy” show, wouldn’t you own them harder if it were good?

BTW @newsmax is also blocking coverage of “2000 Mules.” I was booked on Grant Stinchfield’s Newsmax show and then the network cancelled on me. Criticize the move if you like, but why isn’t this a legitimate news story? How can so-called news networks pretend it doesn’t exist?

— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) May 9, 2022

Democrats on the House January 6th Select Committee are coming back around on the idea of subpoenaing House members such as Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs, Ronny Jackson, and Jim Banks to testify about their roles in Trump’s coup attempt, the Guardian reports. Earlier the thinking was that since Republicans will retaliate with subpoenas to Dem members such as Adam Schiff for their bullshit investigations should they take the majority that it isn’t worth the hassle, but now the strategy is to possibly go ahead anyway because either the MAGA assholes testify, which is the point, or they defy them and in doing so give Dems the greenlight to blow off theirs.

Russia has apparently hired the same promotional company as the Republicans who waved Russian flags during CPAC or put Soviet military hardware in GOP campaign ads.  In this case, the Russians wanted to honor all the brave Soviet men and women who fought the actual Nazis during World War II–because, y’know, they claim the Ukrainians are the direct descendants of Adolf Hitler even though the Ukrainians fought against the Third Reich–and they put up a photo of famous American “It” couple of the pre-war era, Bonnie and Clyde, the infamous murderers and bank robbers. … because just like the GOP, actual history means nothing to Russia.

Madison, Wisconsin Police Department Chief Shon Barnes, Asst Fire Chief Che Stedman, and federal law enforcement officials will give an update Monday on their investigation into the “Antifa” arson attack which mildly damaged the offices of an area anti-abortion group.

Fat former President Trump’s lawyers told a judge on Monday he lost the four phones subpoenaed by NY AG Leticia James, therefore the $10,000/day contempt fine imposed by the court should be dropped, CNN reports. Trump didn’t say the dog ate them, because he does’t own one.

Your 401k misses President Trump.

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) May 9, 2022

An ancient Roman bust dating to the 1st Century BC and believed to depict one of the sons of Caesar’s rival consul Pompey, looted from a collection that once belonged to King Ludwig I of Bavaria by an American soldier during World War II, was sold for a pretty decent price of $35 at a Goodwill thrift store in Texas, the AP reports. The new owner will reportedly give it back to the government of Bavaria, which is kind of bullshit since it was in Germany almost certainly only because the Visigoths looted it from Rome in like the 5th Century. So either hang onto it or send it back to Italy. The Germans are just middlemen here, even if it was for over 1,500 years.

Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says college students are misguided because he sees an occasional hammer-and-sickle Soviet era flag or people wearing t-shirts depicting Che “Kayvara”–unaware that much of that is worn ironically or iconoclastically.  But, alas, DeSantis doesn’t address the people who are truly trying to overthrow the Constitution, rather than those who are studying history and foreign governments.  You know, like these people:

What a surprise.. right on schedule … here comes the "midterms variant" https://t.co/NgHkNZdtsz @MorningsMaria

— Maria Bartiromo (@MariaBartiromo) May 9, 2022

Ferdinand Marcos Jr, son of late right wing Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr who stole an estimated $5 to $10 billion from public coffers during his 21 year reign before fleeing the country with the help of the Reagan Administration and dying in Honolulu in 1989, was elected to a six year presidential term with 59.7% of the vote on Monday, Bloomberg reports. The closest runner up was Vice President Leni Robredo at 28.3% of the vote. Former eight-division world champion boxer Manny Pacquiao got destroyed worse than in his 2015 bout with Floyd Mayweather.

Russian Ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev was greeted with a new coat of paint as he arrived at a ceremony marking the Red Army’s 1945 victory over the Nazis in Warsaw on Monday.

Russian billionaire Alexander Subbotin, a former executive with energy giant Lukoil, reportedly was suffering from a wicked hangover Sunday when he visited the home of – we’re not making this up, just relaying a translated report from the Moscow Times – a shaman named “Magua” to be treated with poisonous toads, which apparently caused Subbotin to croak (Sorry, couldn’t help it).

Now, we get that Russia is suffering mightily from international sanctions and Gatorade or Pedialyte might be hard to come by, but they’re just sugar water. There’s zero chance a billionaire would be unable to acquire them or some cheap domestic knockoff. Who the fuck is so hungover they need a goddamned venomous amphibian administered by some Russian hick magical shaman to fix it? If it’s really that bad go to the hospital and get a saline drip. Holy shit this is ridiculous.

The House January 6th Select Committee has had only mixed success securing cooperation from the top tier of the Trump Regime, but Politico reports they’re making solid progress nonetheless putting together a picture of the coup attempt with the help of lower-level assistants and aides who have less to lose by providing information and documents to committee investigators. “We are definitely taking advantage of the fact that most senior-level people in Washington depend on a lot of young associates and subordinates to get anything done,” said Congressman Jamie Raskin, adding “A lot of these people still have their ethics intact and don’t want to squander the rest of their careers for other people’s mistakes and corruption.”

Among the most helpful have been Cassidy Hutchinson and Ben Williamson, aides to former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and Ken Klukowski, lieutenant to fascist former Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Clark, all of whom have provided extremely detailed testimony to committee investigators about the lead-up to the insurrection on January 6th, and Trump’s actions during the assault on the Capitol. “Washington is a place where decision-makers will make decisions but it takes a staff to execute and implement them,” said Raskin. “Those people are not bound by the kinds of compromising political allegiances that their bosses are.”

The now-former supposed “treasurer” of the “America First Foundation”, a 501c(4) non-profit and the official arm of the “Groypers” leveled some apparently very serious accusations Friday of financial malfeasance by white nationalist asshole Nick Fuentes, the Intercept’s Nick Martin reports.

Jaden McNeil told the “Kino Casino” podcast that he was effectively treasurer in name only, that Fuentes and an assistant handled all the finances. Martin kind of leaves the implications here a bit vague, but he seems to be saying that Fuentes is simply embezzling whatever he wants from the foundation’s coffers with zero oversight. It’s not terribly surprising that a white nationalist group leader would be a corrupt asshole too given how often these things seem to go hand-in-hand (see Trump, Donald J), but then again it’s not like Fuentes is going to see any consequences as far as his popularity with MAGA white nationalists taking a hit. It won’t be if and until he’s in federal prison and can’t post on Telegram anymore that someone else will take over the “Groyper” spotlight.