Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on Friday fired the state’s director of early childhood education over her refusal to ban a teacher training manual that had “woke concepts” in it, Politico reports.

Barbara Cooper the now-former chief of the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education wasn’t as concerned over the 881 page-long National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Developmentally Appropriate Practice Book, 4th edition’s minor nods to racial and gender inclusiveness and had to go. “The education of Alabama’s children is my top priority as governor, and there is absolutely no room to distract or take away from this mission. Let me be crystal clear: Woke concepts that have zero to do with a proper education and that are divisive at the core have no place in Alabama classrooms at any age level, let alone with our youngest learners,” said Ivey in a statement, again owning the libs for teaching children to be kind.

At the current national average price of $3.67 per gallon as of April 22, 2023, you could buy 11.98 gallons for the $36 plus $8 in shipping, handling, and unspecified “fees” being charged for the “Joe Biden Owes Me Gas Money Cotton T-Shirt” being sold on the official Trump 2024 campaign merchandise store. That’s more than half the 21.4 gallon fuel tank capacity of a standard 2023 GMC Canyon pickup truck, a model perfect for flying a $43 Trump 2024 flag from the back of the bed while driving back and forth outside of Mar-a-Lago (pole and mount not included).

• It’s a sad day in America when a Supreme Court order that doesn’t immediately strip rights away from women is a pleasant surprise.  
• In the second largest defamation case in US history–after Alex Jones’s recent loss–Fox will pay Dominion $787 million to do two things:  First, prevent its top personalities from testifying live and second, not having to admit on its airwaves that it lied.  
• Soon, Mike Lindell’s $5 million loss is going to seem so quaint for him.
• Fox failures are hitting new lows weekly.  First, the dud of Tucker’s January 6th tapes, then the text messages showing they knowingly lied to their audience, and then a former producer releasing damning tapes of interviews with Trump associates.  And this on top of the tens of millions they have to pay out for sexual harassment settlements.  There is an inherent problem at that network that goes beyond its ideology.
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Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee on Friday exposed another bullshit lie by spandex-wearing grapple freak Chairman Jim Jordan, calling out a blatant misrepresentation of an interview transcript which Jordan claimed now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken had interfered in the 2020 election by getting a former CIA deputy director to write a letter describing the first news of the Hunter Biden laptop as possible Russian disinformation in October 2020.

From a press release by the House Judiciary Dems: “In an effort to smear Secretary Blinken and sensationalize a three-year-old tabloid story, Jim Jordan has released cherry-picked excerpts of a transcribed interview. To be clear, no part of that interview demonstrates that Tony Blinken or any other Biden campaign official asked Mike Morell to write a letter about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Mr Morell is a former CIA Deputy Director and a highly decorated veteran of the intelligence community. For years, he has advised leaders of both parties – including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who awarded Mr Morell a Director’s Award for distinguished service. At no point during his interview did Mr Morell testify that Secretary Blinken directed or asked him to write any letters.”

“Instead, Mr Morell testified that Mr Blinken sought his advice, as many others have. In response to questions posed by Chairman Jordan’s own lawyers, he testified that Mr Blinken did not ‘direct, suggest, or insinuate in any way’ that he should write a letter about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Nor did Mr Blinken – then a private citizen – try to get at the letter indirectly. Mr Morell testified that Mr Blinken did not hint that the Biden campaign ‘could use some help on this’ or suggest that Mr Morell should ‘cook up something’ that the campaign should use. Instead of focusing on issues that actually affect American families, Chairman Jordan is engaged in yet another political stunt.”

MyPillow assclown Mike Lindell wasn’t happy over losing at arbitration against the expert who debunked his stolen election bullshit at the “Cyber Symposium” back in 2021 and had to sue to collect the $5 million prize (the guy’s a Trump voter too), telling Steve Bannon the decision was rigged because the arbitrators were liberal Democrats. Normal stuff for Lindell and Bannon.

The US Supreme Court on Friday stayed two lower court rulings reversing FDA approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, preserving access while the litigation continues, the AP reports.

Claiming “we were on the verge of breakthroughs in the states and state legislatures,” Trump advisor and guy who’s not just a reverse mortgage salesman; he’s also a client Peter Navarro the aptitude of Trump election lawyer Sidney Powell, whom Donald Trump reportedly considered naming as a Special Counsel to look into non-existent election theft.  Navarro claims Powell’s “shit” dissuaded a lot of people who were starting to believe conspiracy theories away from supporting Trump’s effort to undermine the Constitution.

To my fellow elected officials serving in Tallahassee, your constituents voted you into those positions to represent them, not to kowtow to the presidential ambitions of a Governor! Be strong and courageous, the people of Florida will thank you. https://t.co/WP7kcjHCbO

— Greg Steube (@gregsteube) April 21, 2023

An estimated 1,160 Americans died from the coronavirus in the past week, data indicate, marking the lowest number of fatalities from the virus since March 2020, the nascent days of the pandemic, ABC News reports.

During the week of March 18, 2020, just 169 confirmed deaths to the coronavirus were reported, with the following week marking the 1,000th fatality in the US, and deaths jumping to 500 per day by March 27th.  The US dropped below the 300-fatalities per day in mid-March 2023 and has remained around or below 200 daily coronavirus deaths for most of April.

Super secret Deep State psy ops agent Ray Epps will reveal everything about how he single handedly initiated the Capitol riot to discredit Trump fans in an interview airing on CBS’s 60 Minutes this Sunday and there are definitely some fanboys who will believe the shit we just wrote.

MASK OFF: Florida @GovRonDeSantis roasts Fauci-ism, saying it bares some responsible for today's economic problems. pic.twitter.com/JphzBITImg

— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 21, 2023

Prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia have obtained text messages sent between “Cyber Ninjas” CEO Doug Logan, Republican operatives tied to MAGA lawyer Sidney “Kraken” Powell, and others discussing using voter data they stole from the election clerk’s server in rural Coffee County to sell the Peach State’s legislature on decertifying the 2020 election results, CNN reports.

The breach happened the day after the Capitol riot, and these fuckers were still talking about overturning the presidential and Senate runoff elections the day before Biden’s inauguration even though Trump had said he would stop fighting the loss. “Here’s the plan. Let’s keep this close hold… We only have until Saturday to decide if we are going to use this report to try to decertify the Senate run-off election or if we hold it for a bigger moment,” former NSA spy Jim Penrose wrote to Doug Logan on January 19, 2021. “We only have until Saturday to decide if we are going to use this report to try to decertify the Senate run-off election or if we hold it for a bigger moment,” Penrose added.

It’s bad enough for these shitheads to have implicated themselves in a breach of an election authority’s Dominion-branded computer system (though of course the traitor former clerk had let them in). What’s worse is that they just might have implicated Trump in it too, as CNN pieces it together with testimony from former Trump deputy White House counsel Derek Lyons to the House January 6th Committee about a December 2020 meeting with Rudy and the Kraken. According to Lyons, Rudy told Trump that if he wasn’t going to go through with the insane plan to seize voting machines (which he didn’t) then they could use evidence gathered from Dominion equipment in Georgia. “His point of view was that in some way the campaign, I believe, was going to be able to secure access to voting machines in Georgia through means other than seizure,” Lyons said.

During debate Thursday in the Texas state Senate over SB 990 – a bill banning the practice of all-county voting locations, meaning a voter can show up at any polling place within their county to cast a ballot on election day rather than their home precinct, which of course passed along party lines and went to the state House – the Texas Tribune reports that the bill’s author, state Senator Bob Hall, told Democrats the bill was necessary to prevent people from voting at more than one precinct before admitting there isn’t any evidence of that occurring on a widespread basis.

“The data is so carefully guarded and kept from the public it is almost impossible to get the information,” said Hall. Dem San Antonio state Senator Roland Gutierrez promptly lit into Hall, saying “You have no evidence to prove anything that you’re saying. There is not one article in any publication in the state of Texas that proves what you’re saying. There is not a law enforcement officer that can prove what you’re saying?” Hall responded with “Correct. I’m saying we don’t know, there’s nothing to be proven,” whatever the fuck that’s supposed to mean.

If the Biden campaign was so willing to ask former Intel officials to weaponize their former positions to spread a blatant lie for political purposes, imagine what the Biden admin is doing now.https://t.co/hf8nIs1ntR

— Ronna McDaniel (@RonnaMcDaniel) April 21, 2023

It’s been 1,481 days since fake news hustler John Solomon published an opinion piece titled “Joe Biden’s 2020 Ukrainian nightmare: A closed probe is revived” a piece that at the time The Hill labeled as “opinion” because he failed to meet their already not particularly high standards of journalistic ethics. Then after he was fired the next year, the Hill corrected the piece to add that Yuriy Lutsenko, the Ukrainian prosecutor Solomon was citing, had just a month later said he wasn’t investigating Hunter Biden. And that Lutsenko had been fired and indicted on corruption charges.

And this is what Jim Jordan and his buddies are barking at now: That Antony Blinken had gotten a bunch of intel experts to sign a letter saying that the Hunter Biden laptop story was probably Russian disinformation during the 2020 campaign, which… Well, so fucking what? How is that illegal?

The best part of this is that it’s coming the same week that NBC News is reporting that federal prosecutors have considered charging Hunter Biden with two misdemeanor tax crimes, one felony tax evasion count, and a federal weapons charge because he lied about having a drug problem while filling out a permit application. Then there’s the possibly less credible Wall Street Journal report that a whistleblower inside the IRS is alleging pressure to slow down their investigation into Hunter.

Scumbag Trump lawyer and backer of the failed $FJB crypto scam Boris Epshteyn will be questioned for the second day in a row by prosecutors on Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s team in their investigation of the post-2020 election coup attempt, ABC News reports.

Sources say Smith sat in on some of the questioning Thursday put did not personally participate as Epshteyn was grilled on his interactions with fellow fascist lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Kenneth Chesebro, and John Eastman, and the Orange God Emperor himself. Just going to throw this out there, but it would seem extremely bad for Trump and his minions that this guy’s getting questioned by prosecutors rather than testifying to the grand jury, which could indicate he’s a target.

BREAKING NOOSE: Former Vice President Mike Pence will stick his neck into the 2024 GOP presidential primary and announce his bid for the White House in June, the Dispatch reports.

From there he’ll put together a sturdy platform – one without a trap door and lever – to rope in support among Iowa delegates, as Pence hopes to hang high in the fast-paced, low-oxygen campaign environment. The former Veep will focus hard on abortion policy in his push to gain traction in the early primary states, but don’t count out a bold proposal to reinstitute hanging as an execution method in federal capital punishment cases. That could really swing things his way.

The family-friendly image of The Villages retirement community in Florida was again badly tarnished on Easter Sunday when Robbie Audette, a registered Republican sales representative for Properties of The Villages, was arrested for allegedly throwing a box of buffalo wings at his wife after she angrily confronted him with accusations of infidelity, Villages-News.com reports.

The couple had just returned home from a party when Mrs Audette began berating Robbie as she suspected he was intent on going back out to meet up with his “lover.” Robbie admitted to receiving a text message from another woman, but claimed it was to ask him to tell his “jealous” wife to stop texting the other woman accusing her of homewrecking. Mrs Audette grabbed Robbie’s phone, causing him to throw the box of buffalo wings. Mrs Audette then locked herself in a closet, with Robbie banging on the door screaming profanities at her and threatening physical harm.

Robbie pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor assault earlier this week. It’s not clear if he’s still employed by The Villages’ corporate overlords. We’re also curious about whether the alleged infidelity actually occurred and the wife’s suspicions were justified. There’s no excuse for the domestic assault and menacing as described in the arrest report, we’re simply unsure of whether they’re both assholes and Robbie was lashing out at a paranoid, jealous psychopath who was humiliating him by harassing a platonic female acquaintance of his or if Mrs Audette was 100 percent right to rip into an abusive, adulterous scumbag husband. The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office arrest reports that the Villages-News sources from are usually pretty good about filling in those details.

“In a fundamentally undemocratic move, the Montana GOP is refusing to allow me to speak on any bill for the remainder of the legislative session. This unprecedented action comes directly after the passage of Senate Bill 458, a bill which erases transgender, nonbinary, and two- spirit individuals from 40 sections of Montana code. In response to the refusal to recognize me, my Democratic colleagues stood in solidarity, demanding that I be allowed to speak.”

“A rules committee was convened, after which the Montana GOP voted that the Speaker of the House can refuse to recognize anyone without reason or explanation. This decision is a direct assault on the principles of our democracy and serves to silence the voices of my community, as well as the 11,000 constituents I represent. The Montana GOP has pushed over a dozen anti-trans bills this year-targeting our art forms, our stories, our healthcare, and our very existence. It is particularly troubling that the moment they were confronted with the impact their legislation has, they chose to silence the only trans woman elected to public office in Montana as opposed to doing the right thing and voting down this harmful legislation,” says Democrat state Representative Zooey Zephyr in a statement after Republican Speaker Matt Regier refused to acknowledge Zephyr on Thursday following a Tuesday spat in which Zephyr warned the GOP would have “blood on their hands” if they passed a bill banning gender-affirming care for trans youth.

Disgraced former President Trump leads heels-wearing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in a Wall Street Journal survey of likely voters in the 2024 GOP primary, a switch from the last time the Journal polled the field in December and found Tiny D leading fat Donald 52 to 38 percent.

Nimrata “Nikki” Haley comes in third in the April survey at 5 percent, Senator Tim Scott at 3 percent and the rest at 2 percent or less. The survey was taken before new candidate Larry Elder entered the race on Thursday, but something tells us it wouldn’t actually be different if he was included.