“Two days ago a bombshell was dropped that Arizona Secretary of State, Katie Hobbs, pressured Twitter to remove posts while she was running to become Governor of Arizona. Yesterday, the same Katie Hobbs certified her own election and crowned herself Governor following weeks of countless testimonies of voter disenfranchisement from poll workers and poll observers… We ask the Attorney General to investigate a possible violation of ARS 16-922 (Title: Independent and Coordinated Expenditures). In this case, Twitter made an expenditure to allow both Arizona Gubernatorial Candidates Hobbs and Lake to advocate for their election, and their opponent’s defeat, on the platform. This would normally be perfectly permissible. However, it appears that Secretary Hobbs, acting in her official capacity, using state resources, and at times in coordination with the Biden Administration, privately asked Twitter to remove posts on her behalf. It was at this point that she may have crossed the line into unlawful coordination,” says a letter from the Arizona GOP Chair Kelli “Chemtrails Kelli” Ward to state Attorney General Mark Brnovich, dated Tuesday.

Here’s the kicker: Chemtrails Kelli doesn’t provide any further details about the alleged crime in the body of the letter. It’s only in a link at the bottom of the second page to a story titled “Governor-Elect Hobbs Dictated Twitter Speech While Secretary of State” from some MAGA Arizona site, citing emails dated January 7th, 2021 in which Hobbs’s office asked Twitter to remove some posts that “falsely assert that the Voter Registration System is owned and operated by foreign actors. This is an attempt to further undermine confidence in the election institution in Arizona.”

Not sure what else to add to this. The fact that there wasn’t even a Biden Administration yet at the time is the most salient inaccuracy here, never mind that in early January 2021 Hobbs was very far from launching her gubernatorial campaign. And even if she had at least informally started, how the fuck does Twitter removing disinformation about the 2020 election constitute an illegal contribution to her bid? Just bad faith on top of bad faith on top of bad faith.

Trump criminal cabal special counsel Jack Smith has issued a series of subpoenas to state and county officials in Arizona, Michigan and Arizona for communications and records relating to Donald Trump’s campaign’s attempts to alter ballot counts to give him 2020 election victories in those states, the Washington Post reports.

Smith’s first round of subpoenas were served to officials over the past week:  Dane County, Wisconsin; Maricopa County, Arizona; and Wayne County, Michigan. received theirs late last week, and Milwaukee got one Monday.  The subpoenas for the Arizona and Wisconsin jurisdictions specifically mention Donald Trump in the document; it’s unclear if the Michigan one did as well, although Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson confirmed receiving a subpoena from Smith.

The subpoenas indicate that Smith is potentially expanding the previously existing Justice Department investigation into Trump and his allies’ effort to reinstall him in a second term even though he lost both the popular vote and the Electoral College tabulation; Trump et al intended to do this by undermining public trust in the integrity of election reporting by having local government officials refuse to certify factual election results.  The goal was simply to sow chaos and distrust.

At the Tuesday Congressional gold medal ceremony honoring Capitol and DC cops for the service during the January 6th insurrection, the family of slain USCP officer Brian Sicknick snubbed Moscow Mitch McConnell and Cowardly Bitch McCarthy. When asked later why they did it, Sicknick’s brother said “It’s self-explanatory,” and “Unlike Liz Cheney, [McConnell and McCarthy] have no idea what integrity is. They can’t stand up for what’s right and wrong. For them it’s party first.”

Separately, former DC Metro Police Officer Mike Fanone says he was heckled in the Capitol rotunda by Pro-Trump former fellow officers on Tuesday. “They called me a piece of shit and mockingly called me a great fucking hero while clapping,” and they called him a disgrace, said he was not a cop anymore, and said he didn’t belong at the ceremony. It tracks with what he’s said previously.

Officials have filed 305 charges against the right-wing terrorist who attacked a drag show Club Q in Colorado Springs that left five dead and 19 injured, with charges running from first degree murder, hate crimes and weapons offenses, CNN reports.

Twenty-two-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich, the son of a Trump-supporting one-time porn performer, entered Club Q on the night of November 19th and opened fire with an assault rifle and a handgun before being subdued by people in the club, including a former Marine officer who was there to support a friend of his daughter’s who was performing; his daughter’s boyfriend, also an audience member, was killed in the attack.

Aldrich, who uses gender-neutral pronouns, is being held without bond.  They is currently being represented by a court-appointed public defender.

“The Justice Department announced today its plans to monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws in four counties in Georgia for the Dec. 6, 2022, federal general runoff election. Since the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, the Civil Rights Division has regularly monitored elections in the field in jurisdictions around the country to protect the rights of voters. The Civil Rights Division enforces the federal voting rights laws that protect the rights of all citizens to access the ballot.”

“For this election, the Civil Rights Division will monitor for compliance with the federal voting rights laws on Election Day in four jurisdictions: Cobb County, Fulton County, Gwinnett County and Macon-Bibb County. Monitors will include personnel from the Civil Rights Division and from the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices. The Civil Rights Division’s Voting Section enforces the civil provisions of federal statutes that protect the right to vote, including the Voting Rights Act, the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, the National Voter Registration Act, the Help America Vote Act and the Civil Rights Acts,” says a Justice Department press release on the Tuesday runoff in Georgia.

I’m running for Speaker to break the establishment.

Kevin McCarthy was created by, elevated by, and maintained by the establishment.https://t.co/tKLPXUxSOA

— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) December 6, 2022

House January 6th Select Committee chair Congressman Bennie Thompson told reporters on Tuesday the committee has decided to issue unspecified criminal referrals to the DOJ. Thompson did not elaborate much besides saying that referring witnesses for perjury charges is “part of the discussion.” Worth noting that referrals for anything other than contempt do not carry any more weight than simply reporting a crime to the FBI, meaning only contempt actually compels federal prosecutors to investigate. That said, crimes like perjury and witness tampering are the kind of offenses the committee would have a large body of evidence for as it would have occurred pertinent to their proceedings and would be more persuasive than evidence of conspiracy or other offenses the committee believe Trump and his minions engaged in during the lead-up to the insurrection.

Sure looks like that after a Midterm when they had Tudor Dixon +1 over Michigan Gov Gretchen Whitmer (Whitmer won by 10.6%), Kari Lake +5 in Arizona (Katie Hobbs won the governor’s race by 0.6%), Josh Shapiro +5 and Mehmet Oz +2 in Pennsylvania (Shapiro beat Doug Mastriano by 15%, John Fetterman beat Oz by 5%), New York Gov Kathy Hochul tied with MAGA Congressman Lee Zeldin at 44% and Republican challenger Mike Henry +1 over New York AG Letitia James (Hochul won by 6%, James by 8%), MAGA challenger Don Bolduc +1 over New Hampshire Dem Senator Maggie Hassan (Hassan won by 9%) Vermont Congressman Pete Welch +6.5 over Republican Gerald Malloy in the Senate race (Welch won by fucking 40%), and, of course Herschel Walker +3 on Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (Warnock +1 in the first round), Trafalgar decided to stop the fanboy bullshit and conduct a realistic poll result in line with the other guys.

Hawaii Governor David Ige on Monday activated the state’s National Guard to assist in the response to the Mauna Loa volcano’s eruption on the Big Island as the lava pours towards a critical highway, or so says the official cover story according to a CNN report on the activation.

Sure, the state government says the lava flow threatens a crucial east-west highway on the southern coast of the island. They say the troops are there to “assist Hawaii County with traffic control and other roles in the Mauna Loa eruption.” They say the lava is hazardous. Okay. But why? Is this anything other than an all-too convenient pretext for troops loyal to a Democrat governor patrolling the streets? The word “control” is right there in the government’s official statement.

It’s about control. First, government scientists say the volcano is erupting – allowing for no alternative voices or second opinions on it. They diagnose the “problem” unilaterally. Next, they impose their own “cure,” unsurprisingly writing a prescription for more power for themselves, damn the crippling side effects being experienced by regular Hawaiians. Unelected “experts” in geology wielding power they did nothing to earn from voters is more destructive than any havoc a volcano could cause. Ask yourself if it’s really the lava that’s melting, and not individual freedoms.

National Zero will resume our regular coverage now that we’ve given our MAGA readers something novel to complain about. We hope they enjoyed this Mauna Loa eruption news update.

A Russian military airfield in the Kursk region was hit with a drone strike on Tuesday – almost certainly launched from Ukraine – which destroyed a large oil tank, in the second say in a row of retaliatory attacks on military assets inside the Russian Federation, Bloomberg reports.

Just when you think he can’t look any worse…  When he took office in January 2017, Donald Trump had a previously undisclosed $19.8 million debt to South Korean conglomerate Daewoo, a company that for nearly two decades was the only South Korean company allowed to operate in North Korea, Forbes reports.

According to documents obtained by the New York Attorney General in its investigation, Trump incurred the debt while partnering with Daewoo on a construction project by the United Nations complex in Manhattan.  Trump reportedly was careful to keep it off public documents, particularly during the campaign when he had to file Federal Election Commission statements.  The entire debt was cleared about six months after Trump took office.

The fact that Trump held a significant debt with a company tied to the North Korean regime calls into question some of the actions Trump took as a candidate and while in office, particularly his exceptionally deferential words to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

One of the great contradictions of the conservative hive mind is its coronavirus vaccine denialism–claiming falsely that Bill Gates was using the vaccines as a way to inject tracking chips into unaware dupes (they claim)–compared to its worship of a man who makes no bones about wanting to insert computer chips into people.  Now the addled conservative mind will think this is part of The Deep State Conspiracy:

After receiving internal complaints about animal cruelty and other issues, federal regulators have opened an investigation into Elon Musk’s medical device company, Neuralink, which Musk foresees implanting chips into people’s heads, Reuters reports.

Neuralink hopes to develop implants that can be inserted into the nervous system or brain of human patients as a potential treatment for neuromuscular disorders.  But we all know Musk wants to turn everyone into social media posting drones who pack Twitter with praise of the South African’s gelatinous physique. 

Republican Texas Secretary of State John B. Scott resigned his office Monday, fourteen months after taking office following the Republican legislature passing oppressive voter laws designed to suppress voter turnout, NBC News reports.

Appointed by Republican Governor Greg Abbott, Scott was charged with raising public confidence in a state-overseen election system that would void thousands of ballots in the 2022 election cycle because of problems with elections administration.

Upon his nomination, Scott stated that he believed the 2020 election was decided correctly, a statement that surprised some given he was briefly part of Donald Trump’s legal team trying to overturn the election results.  While in office, Scott participated in an audit of the 2020 election that found the official results to be accurate.

The RNC needs to immediately close its DC office and open up a main HQ in Arizona, Georgia, or Wisconsin then fire all consultants who write these insane “TRIPLE MATCH” emails.

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) December 6, 2022

The pride of Illinois’ premier third-tier community college, William Rainey Harper College, from which he did not graduate, Charlie Kirk has literally made millions scamming people who didn’t have the grades to get into William Rainey Harper College by inciting them to do stupid things.

Allow me to introduce Kirk’s newest stupid thing:  moving the RNC headquarters from Washington, DC–the political center of the nation where the Party’s leaders sit in their elected positions–to Bumfuck, Georgia or Caucasiana, Wisconsin… ’cause that’s were the people are!

Trump tried this, thanks to his stupidly bad idea of moving the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management to Grand Junction, Colorado.  Guess what?  The office moved back to DC in September 2021 because it’s stupid to move leadership away from the leaders.

Trump-loving, Xenu-hating, fettuccine-craving Hollywood actress Kirstie Alley on Monday died at the age of 71, Breaking911.com reports. She starred in some 80s sitcom and a movie where Bruce Willis played a baby that could talk to other babies and understand what adults were saying.

Rupert Murdoch has been ordered by the court to be deposed under oath about his cable propaganda network’s coverage of the 2020 election and its subsequent spreading of false conspiracy theories about the machines used in the election, the Washington Post reports.

The 91-year-old Australian-born media magnate will be questioned as part of the $1.6 billion defamation suit Dominion Voting Systems has filed against the Fox cable news network Murdoch controls.

“During the 2020 election, Twitter did this with the help of the FBI, committing censorship on behalf of one candidate while working to hurt the other candidate,” Hitler-lover-abettor –you forgot he edited an interview with Kanye West to exclude all the anti-Semitic shit, didn’t you?–Tucker Carlson whines without irony on the RNC cable “news” network, Fox.  “It is hard to imagine such a brazen attack on our democracy than this.  This is not how our system is supposed to work.  In fact, it’s illegal.  [EDITOR’S NOTE:  No, Twitter moderating content is most definitely not illegal.  And didn’t we already mention Carlson’s on Fox?]. What Twitter did is a violation of the First Amendment as well as established campaign finance law.  They never declared those contributions to the Biden campaign.  That’s a crime.”

I won’t sink to having to explain how Twitter, a private company, moderating content is absolutely not a violation of the First Amendment.  Unlike Carlson’s audience, NatZero’s knows the Constitution.  But can I just say it’s incredibly ballsy for Tucker fucking Carlson on Fox fucking News to say Twitter gave an illegal campaign contribution to Joe Biden’s campaign when two of his network’s prime time hosts were advisors to the criminal Trump administration and one of them hosted a fucking campaign rally for Trump.

Moore County, North Carolina declared a state of emergency and set a 9 p.m. curfew Monday with about 40,000 people still without power after an act of sabotage destroyed two electrical substations with gunfire, CBS News reports.

Although officials have not yet identified a suspect or a motive, alt-reich activists online have claimed the attack was to disrupt a drag show scheduled for Saturday night at a bar in a county community.  While there is no public evidence of their claim, it’s certainly not out of the question for a conservative extremist to do.

Utilities officials say 38,000 people are currently out of power and will be until both substations can be replaced.  The electrical utilities were able to reroute power to another 7,000 who had initially been impacted.

“Former President Trump on Monday insisted he does not want to ‘terminate’ the Constitution, responding to broad backlash after he said over the weekend its rules and laws should be disregarded so he can return to the White House,” reports The Hill on its top story as of 6:09 PM EST Monday, carrying fatass’s water and more than enough orange Kool-Aid mix to go with it. There was no “insist,” it was simply Donald trying to gaslight his way out of another self-created clusterfuck.

We rag on The Hill quite a lot here. Much of it is the product of a mostly one-sided and comically exaggerated personal vendetta against them, a dislike many of our readers share. This however is certainly more serious than complaining about the terrible moderation of their now-canceled comments sections or mocking some bullshit Jonathan Turley piece. The headline above is straight up malpractice, implying Trump walked back his insane rant when he did nothing of the sort.

During their nine-month occupation of the Kherson region of Ukraine, the Russians kidnapped at least one thousand children from schools, orphanages and hospitals, sending them to Russia; they remain missing.

The Associated Press describes efforts at one hospital to protect children who had been left at the hospital by their parents or caregivers, sometimes after the parents had been killed by the invading Russians.  Doctors and nurses forged medical records for each of the children describing diseases and conditions that would kill the children if they were to be taken.

“We deliberately wrote false information that the children were sick and could not be transported,” said Dr. Olga Pilyarska, head of intensive care. “We were scared that (the Russians) would find out … (but) we decided that we would save the children at any cost.”