The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday blocked a lower judge’s ruling ordering Biden Administration officials to sit for depositions in a batshit stupid lawsuit brought by red state attorneys general over supposed “collusion” with social media companies, Politico reports.

After team captains announced they would wear armbands supporting LGBTQ equality during World Cup games in Qatar, a systemic oppressor of LGBTQ people, the FIFA governing board banned the armbands, requiring captains to wear a design approved by FIFA (so as to not offend their hosts).  However, the ban did not extend to the wardrobe of television commentators, so BBC sideline reporter and former English national team star Alex Scott wore won while reporting from the pitch.

A DC federal jury on Monday found Pennsylvania MAGA terrorist Riley June Williams guilty on six counts related to her actions during the January 6th, 2021 MAGA insurrection while deadlocking on two, CBS’s Scott MacFarlane reports. Williams, a hardcore Neo-Nazi, stole House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s laptop during the mayhem and tried to sell it to Russian intelligence.

The three members of the Capitol Police Board, which oversees the operation of the Capitol Police, voted to designate as a death in the line of duty the suicide of a Capitol Police officer who was one of those attacked during the January 6th Republican-led domestic terrorist attack on Congress, Politico reports.

After staying on duty for days straight after being attacked and injured by the domestic terrorists on January 6th, 51-year-old Howie Liebengood took his own life on January 9, 2021.  Liebengood is one of two officers who took their own lives after the January 6th attack.  He was the son of former House Sergeant at Arms Howard Liebengood, who was in that position in the early 1980s.  After his death, the Capitol Police named their new psychological services center after Howie Liebengood.

The decision of the board–which is made of the Sergeants-at-Arms of the House and the Senate as well as the Architect of the Capitol–allows the families of Liebengood and the other officer, Jeffrey Smith, to receive benefits and honors befitting an officer killed on duty.

The Board of Supervisors in Mohave County, Arizona on Monday voted 2 to 1 to delay the certification of the midterm election results until November 28th, ABC 15’s Garrett Archer reports, writing that it’s a “political statement of solidarity with other counties that have delayed certification,” rather than, you know, their own actual questions of their county’s results.

On Friday the supervisors in Cochise County voted to delay certification of their results while Gila and Yavapai counties are reportedly planning to do the same (though info on this is spotty). Again, while we would have to believe that Governor-elect Katie Hobbs, while still working in her current job of Secretary of State for the next several weeks would take these bastards to court and win if they don’t sign off on or before next Monday, what does it matter if they don’t? Kari Lake won Mohave County by 40,000+ votes, Yavapai by 34,000+, Cochise by more than 8,000 – all they would do is increase her and the other statewide Dems’ margins of victory.

Worse, they might actually fuck their MAGA Attorney General candidate, Abe Hamadeh. He’s only behind Dem Kris Mayes by about 760 votes and there’s still ballots out there. He could really win, and they want to set him back by tens of thousands of votes for a “political statement of solidarity”?

A black SUV crashed through the front window of the Apple store in Hingham, Massachusetts Monday morning, killing at least one person and injuring at least 15, with authorities saying multiple people trapped in the store for hours after the incident, CBS News reports.

Police have the driver in custody by have not yet arrested the unnamed individual.  Police say the vehicle was driving on the lane in a shopping area when it jumped the curb and crashed into the crowded store around 11 a.m. local time Monday.  People were pinned to the store wall by the vehicle or trapped under fallen debris and furniture.  All those trapped have been released.

Authorities say the driver of the SUV was uninjured and is cooperating with police.  “There is an active criminal investigation going on,” District Attorney Tim Cruz said. “Regarding the operator of the motor vehicle, we’re looking into that. Regarding the status of the vehicle, we’re looking into that.”

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is considering reopening a criminal investigation against disgraced former President Trump over his illegal campaign hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in the weeks before the 2016 election, the New York Times reports.

The conservative former president, beloved by Evangelical Christians for his supposed defense of traditional family values, paid $130,000 to Daniels in October 2016 to keep her quiet over 45 seconds of sexual intercourse with Donald that occurred in 2006, a year or two after his third marriage to Melania and the birth of their son Barron. In 2018 former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to multiple federal felonies, including making the payment “in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office,” aka “Individual 1.” The scandal got buried under all the other dumb criminal shit Trump did before and since, but few of the facts are in dispute.

President Joe Biden on Monday used the sacred American tradition of the annual White House Turkey Pardon Ceremony to mock the concerns of real citizens who have lost faith in the election system. “The votes are in… there’s no ballot stuffing, there’s no fowl play – the only ‘red wave’ this season is going to be a German Shepherd, Commander, that knocks over the cranberry sauce on our table,” said Biden, making corny jokes at the expense of Republican voters who paid $30 to watch “2000 Mules,” which is no laughing matter. These people feel like their country is being stolen from them by absentee ballots and dumb Thanksgiving puns are offensive and insulting. Biden might as well be saying “Fuck your feelings” to the 74 million who cast a ballot for America First in 2020.

National Zero will resume our regular coverage now that we’ve feigned sympathy for our right wing readers’ bottomless feelings of victimhood. They ought to be very thankful for this.

A review of episodes of alcoholic Nazi degenerate Steve Bannon’s streaming talk show “War Room” by Media Matters found that, out of 59 Republican candidates for statewide or federal office who appeared on the show between January 1st and November 8th, 2022, 34 of them lost their races.

Only one of those 34 – Congresswoman Mayra Flores, who won a June special election in Texas – was an incumbent, making for 33 out of 48 non-incumbent losses. Among the remaining 15 are races that haven’t been called yet like Arizona Attorney General candidate Abe Hamadeh and Alaska Senate candidate Kelly Tshitblahblahka, so the number of losses is certain to increase.

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to Texas’s state legislative district maps as being racially gerrymandered “for want of jurisdiction”, CNN reports.

The Saudis and OPEC are in talks to partially walk back their recent production cut ahead of an upcoming European Union/G7 price cap on Russian exports, the Wall Street Journal reports. On the table at the cartel’s planned December 4th meeting is a 500,000 barrel a day production increase, a reversal of their October cut of 2 million barrels a day – which was effectively actually about 880,000 per day given that several members had already been pumping below quotas.

The Journal characterizes the reversal as one that “could help heal a rift with the Biden administration” which tapped into the national Strategic Petroleum Reserve earlier in this fall to ease gas prices ahead of the midterm elections, defanging Republicans’ bitching on the issue.

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— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) November 21, 2022

We’re not going to pat ourselves on the back for correctly calling it when we wrote on Friday evening that it would be “around Monday morning at the latest the fanboys will have their talking points together about Smith.” That wasn’t that hard to get right. It always takes them two or three days to come up with new bullshit after they get bad news or something challenges their belief system.

Feckless you-know-what Ivanka Trump earlier this month tried and failed to escape the oversight of an independent financial monitor appointed by Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron at the request of New York State Attorney General Letitia James, the Daily Beast reports.

Ivanka’s attorneys attempted to exclude herself – and only herself – from the eyes of retired federal Judge Barbara S Jones, who is tasked with sifting through the Trump family’s criminal empire and ensuring they don’t try to move any assets without court approval. Jones previously served as special master to sort out attorney-client privileged materials in the federal investigations into Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and shitbrained alcoholic Rudy Giuliani. Jones was also suggested by the Justice Department as a special master candidate to sort out the Mar-a-Lago documents case, but that role instead went to Brooklyn federal Judge Raymond Dearie.

Former Disney CEO Bob Iger can strike the “former” from the at title because he surprisingly is taking over for his success, as Iger replaces Bob Chapek, who took over for Iger in 2020.  Iger’s return is surprising given his choice to retire two years ago, CNN reports.

Disney’s growth suffered–obviously–during the pandemic of 2020 as amusement parks and theaters were shut down; however, Disney’s investment in streaming services is picking up, although it reported a $1.5 billion loss in the fourth quarter as, ironically, people started going back to amusement parks and theaters.

International nuclear regulatory officials are warning of a potential disaster as shelling increases around and in the area containing Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Ukraine’s six-reactor Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, ABC News reports.

Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, reported that although the plant has been struck by shellfire, no radiation has been released and the power is still able to operate safely.  The area targeted allowed reactors 5 and 6 to operate and supply electricity to Ukraine during the coming winter months.

In addition to the plant, Russian shelling damaged infrastructure in the Zaporizhzhia region as well as targeting a residential area where about thirty houses were destroyed.

The 22-year-old gunman who killed at least five in a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs is the grandson of a California Trump-alligned Republican member of the state assembly, and he had a run-in with police after threatening to blow up his mother’s house, the Washington Post reports.

Anderson Lee Aldrich’s grandfather is reportedly Randy Voepel, who represents the 71st District in the California state assembly.  Advocacy groups called for Randy Voepel’s expulsion from the assembly for calling for “Lexington and Concord” in the days prior to the Republican-led January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress.

Aldrich reportedly had an assault rifle and possibly one other weapon when he shot up the Club Q in Colorado Springs, killing at least five and injuring at least 25.  In June, Aldrich’s mother called police and told them her son threatened her and said he had a bomb planted in the house.  Police evacuated the neighborhood and confronted Aldrich at a neighbor’s home, which led to a one-hour standoff.  No bomb was found, but Aldrich was charged with felony menacing, kidnapping and other charges.

Maricopa County, Arizona Supervisor Bill Gates is in hiding and under the protection of a sheriff’s department security detail after receiving multiple death threats from MAGA terrorists blaming him for Republican defeats in the top-tier statewide midterm races, Fox 10 Phoenix reports.

Gates, a Republican, has defended the county’s election system after an issue with printers on Election Day led to numerous tabulation machines being unable to read some ballots. Fans of MAGA psychopath loser gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake have seized on the fuckup as purported evidence of a “rigged election.” It also definitely doesn’t help Gates that he shares his name with the Microsoft founder who right wingers think put mind-control nanobots in the COVID-19 vaccines.

To the delight of fans who chanted “Queremos cerveza, queremos cerveza!” because the fucking pricks refused to sell them any, the Ecuadorean national team defeated 2022 World Cup host nation Qatar 2-0 on Sunday, AFP reports. Serves them right for not serving booze.

You encourage this type of hatred. Get off Twitter and start looking inward.

— Chasten Glezman Buttigieg (@Chasten) November 20, 2022

A number of QAnon fans raged this week following disgraced former President Trump’s official 2024 campaign launch, seeing it as tantamount to conceding the 2020 election, Insider reports. “He just conceded 2020 election we’re just gonna skip over the 2020 and 2022 fraud. There’s no justice for treason, there’s no justice for crimes against humanity,” wrote one Q cultist on Telegram.

“Hey you guys, the elections are all rigged… But vote for me again! This is literally 1984-tier doublethink,” another wrote on the GreatAwakening.win forum. “I’m fucking done with this political shit show and WILL NEVER VOTE AGAIN! FUCK POLITICS AND THE NAZI REGIME!” said another one, though that could have been a liberal troll trying to get them to self-disenfranchise.