The US economy added 263,000 new jobs in November, beating the pundits’ expectations of around 200,000 and continuing the record-setting pace of job creation at the beginning of President Joe Biden’s tenure.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate held steady at 3.7%, with 5.6 million people looking for work but unable to find an appropriate job.  Currently, US employers report more than 10 million openings.  Leisure/hospitality and health care were the top industries making hires.

Since taking office in January 2021, Biden has overseen the creation of more than 10.5 million jobs, averaging 478,000 new jobs created every month.  Month over month, wages increased by 18 cents to $32.82, 5.1% higher than one year ago.

Right wing conspiracy asshole Alex Jones filed for personal bankruptcy on Friday as he faces $1.5 billion in judgements from court cases brought by the families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre Jones repeatedly claimed were “crisis actors” who faked their deaths to create a pretext for a government crackdown on Second Amendment rights, the Washington Post reports.

Jones’s company, InfoWars parent Free Speech Systems, declared bankruptcy back in July. This personal bankruptcy comes just two weeks shy of the ten years since the Sandy Hook massacre.

The Connecticut Secretary of State’s office on Wednesday certified Democrat Christopher Poulos’ victory over Republican Tony Morrison in the race for the Assembly seat 81st Legislative District 5,297 to 5,296, the AP reports. It’s among about 20 state legislative races nationally, most of them in New Hampshire, which has a 400-seat State House of Representatives, that the AP found were decided by less than 10 votes. One race in the Granite State ended in a 970-970 tie between incumbent Dem state Representative Chuck Grassie and Republican challenger Dave Walker.

While a one-vote win is (obviously) the closest possible margin of victory in absolutes, at 10,593 votes cast in the Connecticut 81st District race it works out to a 0.0094% edge. Percentage-wise, the closest margin of victory in US history is Republican Louis Wyman’s 0.000901% win by two votes out of 110,926 cast over Dem John Durkin in the 1974 New Hampshire US Senate election. Dem state lawmakers initially sat Wyman, but pulled him three days later amid a turnover to a larger Dem majority in the state Senate. A special election was called and Durkin then won by 27,000 votes.

Jesus Freaking Christ, lol. Politico reports Kanye West’s free speech was too free for Elon Musk late Thursday, and the deranged rapper was banned for “incitement to violence” when he apparently posted an image of a Swastika embedded inside of a Star of David.

In an environment that screams the need to say, “I’m sorry, sir, but this is an Arby’s”–and you may actually be right about that–Donald Trump addresses the scores of accused domestic terrorists who attacked Congress in January 2021 in an attempt to subvert the Constitution, telling them that everything is so unprecedented and everyone who loves Trump is so victimized.  “It’s the weaponization of our Department of Justice and we can’t let this happen in our country because our country is going, not socialist,” accordion pantomime Trump declares in a very Cameo-esque video.  “They’ve skipped over that.  They skipped over socialism.  Our country is going communist.  This is what happens and we can’t let it happen.  We have to stop it.  So I want to thank everybody for working so hard.  I know how hard you’re working to get justice for people that are imprisoned right now and people that are being tormented.  Can’t let it happen.  We’re going to stop it and we’re going to win.  Thank you all very much.”

So again:  Who the fuck is this “they” he mentions?  Who, specifically “skipped socialism”?  And who, specifically, made such a momentous decision?  (It seems like a big step.  Like skipping a grade in elementary school.). And JFC, Trump, the US ran both Gitmo and Abu Ghraib, far worse than the admittedly poor conditions of the DC jail.

A San Antonio grand jury indicted a former police officer on three counts, including one count of attempted murder, for shooting an unarmed teen in a fast food restaurant parking lot, ABC News reports.

Former San Antonio Police officer James Brennand also was charged with two counts of aggravated assault for shooting 17-year-old Erik Cantu, who was exiting a McDonald’s drive-thru, eating a cheeseburger, when Brennand–believing the car to be stolen from an incident the previous day–opened the car door and demanded he exit his vehicle, when the boy sped away.  Brennand opened fire, hitting the boy in the stomach, chest and arm.  Cantu survived and was released from the hospital after nearly two months.

Days after the October 2nd incident, Brennand was fired from the police department, which said Brennand violated department policy regarding the use of a firearm and other issues.

President Obama works the crowd a little with his story about contemplating the potential battle between a vampire and a werewolf himself–something Texan Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for a Georgia Senate seat, regaled a crowd with earlier this week. Obama, however, noted that he did so when he was seven-years-old, not when he was running for Senate.

“The panel’s decision today is purely procedural and based only on jurisdiction. The decision does not address the merits that clearly demonstrate the impropriety of the unprecedented, illegal, and unwarranted raid on Mar-a-Lago. President Donald J. Trump will continue to fight against the weaponized Department of ‘Justice,’ while standing for America and Americans,” says a Trump spokesworm on the brutal appeals court decision ending the Special Master review of the documents seized by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago in August. Something about calling it “purely procedural and based only on jurisdiction” doesn’t quite ring true. Not sure what it is.

Congratulations to Congresswoman Lauren Boebert on her first grandchild! No, we don’t have any good sourcing yet on this, but fuck it. We challenge the MAGA kids to prove her 17 year old son did not father a child with his girlfriend. In fact we welcome the chance to issue a correction that it didn’t happen. It’ll be more than we got from the dickweasels who just knew Paul Pelosi was beaten with a hammer by a gay escort and never walked it back after the San Francisco police debunked that bullshit. Please by all means set us straight, you pricks. Tell us why we shouldn’t believe this when Boebert gave birth to the kid when she herself was 18 (in the front of a pickup truck, probably the same pickup truck in which he was conceived – when she was 17 and her future husband was 24) and her own mom gave birth to her when she was 19. Come at us bros. We’ll be your huckleberry.

President Joe Biden told the Democratic National Committee Thursday that he prefers South Carolina be the first state to host a Party primary, bumping Iowa as the traditional first bellwether, the Washington Post reports.

Biden has a special affection for South Carolina:  his win there in the 2020 primary–significantly boosted by the endorsement of esteemed Congressman Jim Clyburn of the state–catapulted Biden to the front of the Democratic field, pushing him to capture the nomination.

Biden also proposed moving the primaries for Michigan and Georgia earlier in the primary calender to increase the influence of Democrats in key swing states to shape the Party’s topline ticket, improving the likelihood of carrying the state in the general election.

A federal judge on Thursday rejected executive and attorney-client privilege claims from former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone and his sidekick Patrick Philbin and ordered the two to provide additional testimony to the DC grand jury investigating the fat former president’s failed coup attempt following his absolutely humiliating defeat to Joe Biden in the 2020 election, CNN reports.

Cipollone and Philbin had appeared before the grand jury in September but weaseled out of answering questions they deemed were protected by executive and/or attorney-client privilege. DC courts had previously rejected such claims from Pence minions in the same investigation.

Former NFL star Antonio Brown has reportedly barricaded himself in his home in Tampa, Florida after police made several attempts to arrest him on a domestic battery charge, WFTS ABC-17 in Tampa reports.

Police had sought an ex-parte risk protection order against Brown because, according to the application, Brown “poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to him or herself or others in the near future and beyond by having a firearm or any ammunition in their custody or control or by purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm or any ammunition.”  The application was denied, but the arrest warrant issued.  Brown is believed to have guns in his home.

Currently unattached to a professional team, Brown is holed up in his Tampa home.  He played most of his career with the Pittsburgh Steelers; he won a Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during a two year stint before being released at the end of the 2021 season.

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday tossed disgraced former President Trump’s lawsuit against the Department of Justice over the August 8th raid on Mar-a-Lago which found that he stole classified documents after leaving office following his defeat in the 2020 election.

As expected, the ruling ends the Special Master review of the documents seized by the FBI during the search. The review was imposed by shitty Trump-appointed Circuit Court Judge Aileen Cannon, who plainly did it to slow down the criminal investigation into the fat former President. The unanimous ruling notably comes from a three judge panel of which two were appointed by Donald.

“In considering these arguments, we are faced with a choice: apply our usual test; drastically expand the availability of equitable jurisdiction for every subject of a search warrant, or carve out an unprecedented exception in our law for former presidents. We choose the first option. So the case must be dismissed,” wrote the jurists in an absolute bloodbath of a ruling.

President Joe Biden said that he would be willing to talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin about Russia’s increasingly dire quagmire in Ukraine, but only to find out what the Kremlin needs to end the invasion, the New York Times reports.

In a news conference after a three-hour meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, Biden said he would not negotiate an end to the invasion; the discussion would center on Russia’s requirements to get them to leave Ukraine.  Biden has repeatedly stated that he will not negotiate with Russia on behalf of Ukraine and that Ukraine must have a seat at the table regarding any conditions.

“I’m prepared if he’s willing to talk to find out what he’s willing to do,” Biden said. “But I’ll only do it in consultation with my NATO allies. I’m not going to do it on my own.”

“In response to numerous media inquiries, Parlement Technologies would like to confirm that the company has mutually agreed with Ye to terminate the intent of sale of Parler. This decision was made in the interest of both parties in mid-November. Parler will continue to pursue future opportunities for growth and the evolution of the platform for our vibrant community,” shitty right wing Twitter clone Parler announced Thursday, hours after the batshit idiot told Alex Jones he loved Nazis. Really sucks for that Brexit dipshit married to Candace Owens. He was so close to suckering West into buying the failing social network for undoubtedly way more than it’s worth now.

A judge in Arizona on Thursday ordered the Board of Supervisors in rural Cochise County to shut the fuck up and certify the results of the 2022 midterms, NPR reports. “You will meet today. You will canvass this election by 5 pm,” Pima County Superior Court Judge Casey McGinley ordered, finding that there was no legal basis for the refusal to certify as all precincts had reported their results.

The board’s refusal to certify by the deadline Monday immediately drew two separate lawsuits, from a group of voters and from Secretary of State/Governor-elect Katie Hobbs, suing to compel the three-member board’s two Republican members to suck it up. The MAGA dipshits, who falsely claimed the tabulation machines have been decertified (they weren’t) were last month hit with a similar court order to stop their moronic plan to count all ballots by hand.

The US Senate on Thursday approved a bill to bind railroad companies and workers to a compromise that was reached in September between the companies and union leaders, the AP reports. The deal did not include additional sick days for workers, who cannot actually call in without being penalized because of a shitty high-efficiency scheduling system designed to maximize profits. It’s not clear if this will actually avert a strike that would cripple the American economy.

The Supreme Court, unethically stacked by Republicans, will take up a case on the legality of President Joe Biden’s effort to unburden federal student loan borrowers of up to $20,000 in debt, based on their personal income, as conservatives try to undermine Democratic policies that help working-class Americans.

According to NPR, the Court announced it will hear arguments in the case in February 2023.  Six Republican-led states–Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and South Carolina–filed the lawsuit claiming the administration unconstitutionally applied laws and regulations from the pandemic and other situations to justify the student loan forgiveness program.

A lower court had previously denied the states’ claims that they have been irreparably harmed by the loan forgiveness because blah blah blah Biden did it and it will make Republicans look bad.  However, another court issued an injunction to stop the program from proceeding, prompting the administration to pause payments for student loans until the issue is resolved in the courts.

While we cannot confirm it’s Kanye West under the facecovering, but West and Hater of Non-Whites and Non-Catholics Nick Fuentes were scheduled to be on Alex Jones’s conspiracy fest today, so it’s likely guaranteed that the mentally-ill entertainer said these words:

“I have to watch my accounts because they’ve been frozen by Jewish banks, so I need to watch my mills [millions of dollars],” West claims without evidence.  After Jones lies and claims “CNN says white people are evil Nazis, so….,” West takes offense:  “I don’t like the word ‘evil’ next to ‘Nazis.’  I think we need to look at…  I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis.”  And a laughing Alex Jones responds, “[Chuckle] I have to disagree with that.”

Look, we here at National Zero don’t want to have a “mentally ill political figure” beat, particularly one that includes a performer who wears a full body condom in public, but we kinda have to given the GOP is putting people–West, Paul Gosar, Kari Lake, Herschel Walker, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump–with evident mental problems from sociopathy to paranoia to megalomania to sadism on ballots across the country.

On Thursday the House GOP Judiciary Committee Twitter account finally deleted the famous “Kanye. Elon. Trump.” tweet from October 6th, Media Matters’ Matt Gertz reports. It would seem that the final straw for account owner Jim Jordan came when Kanye West said he loved Hitler on Alex Jones’s show on Thursday. Not the other anti-semitic shit he said. Or when Elon Musk tweeted a fake story about Nancy Pelosi’s husband getting beaten by a gay escort. Or anything else those two unhinged assclowns said or did in the last two months (nothing would be too much for Trump).