An FDA report released Sunday announced a reduced dosage of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine is effective in children five years old and younger in preventing coronavirus infections from progressing, NBC News reports.

The report will be reviewed on Wednesday by a panel of independent experts who will decide if shots for preschoolers should be recommended.  Last week, the FDA made a similar recommendation with the Moderna vaccine.

While children under six years old account for only three percent of recorded coronavirus cases, they have higher incidents of hospitalizations and fatalities than children in older age brackets.

Members of the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys, the leaders of which are under indictment for seditious conspiracy for their role in the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol, decided to take their bigotry to the Bay area, disrupting a drag queen story time at a library in  San Lorenzo, California, KGO ABC-7 in San Francisco reports.

A group of five men entered the San Lorenzo Library Saturday during Drag Queen Story Time, an event put on by the library to celebrate Pride Month.  The event, hosted by Kyle Chu, also goes by the drag queen name Panda Dulce, was designed for pre-school children.

The men made homophobic and transphobic remarks against a member of the LGTBQ+ community who was hosting the event,” Alameda County Sheriff’s Dept. Lt. Ray Kelly wrote in an email. “There was no physical violence. Deputies responded to the disturbance and are conducting follow up to identify the group of men and their affiliation. … We will initiate our hate crime protocol and will also address the annoying and harassing of children. More details to follow,” Kelly wrote. “The men were reported to be members of the Proud Boys organization.”

Turns out all that shit talk about a surge in the French parliamentary elections promised by the fanboys after President Emmanuel Macron defeated far right wing Nazi Marine Le Pen to win a second term was just that, as the Associated Press projects his centrist coalition will hang on to a majority of seats in the National Assembly, despite losing ground to a far-left coalition.

Le Pen’s far right National Rally party is projected to end up with anywhere 10 to 30 seats, a small gain from the eight they currently hold. Taking 15 or more would give the reich-wingers the ability to set up a parliamentary group, giving them a bit more power in the 577 seat chamber.

The Trump-appointed former US Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia BJ Pak, who abruptly resigned in the middle of the MAGA Reich’s coup attempt at the Justice Department in early January 2021, will testify at the House January 6th Select Committee’s public hearing on Monday morning, NBC’s Ryan J Reilly reports.

UPDATE 6/12/2022 4:29 PM: Trump 2020 Campaign manager Bill Stepien will also testify publicly on Monday, the AP reports. Stepien was the one who took over in 2020 after Trump demoted Brad Parscale, who later tried to kill himself.

A Washington Post story on how Russian President Putin’s transformation of Russian schools to be nationalistic, pro-military indoctrination centers where no lessons countering the official account of history and current events can be mentioned invites a comparison of his plans with those instituted in US states led by Republicans.

The immediate impetus for Putin to force schools to become indoctrination factories is the Russian invasion of Ukraine:  Putin has said that Russia invaded its neighbor and former Soviet republic because it had to purge “Nazis” from the Kyiv regime; there are no Nazis in the Ukrainian administration. He’s now ordering schools to teach students an exaggerated version of the Soviet role in defeating Hitler and actual Nazis to include the quest to include disinformation linking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is Jewish, to the Nazis, much like America’s far-right try to connect Jewish businessman George Soros to the infamous SS.

The Kremlin has ordered teachers who to fail to comply with the indoctrination lessons to be fired.  It’s demanded that old textbooks be scrapped in favor of lessons that glorify Soviet/Russian military action in places like Afghanistan, Georgia, Crimea and Ukraine. 

The new Russian fast food chain that we called McVlad’s in the headline but is actually named “Vkusno-i Tochka” – meaning “Tasty-period” in Russian – finally opened its doors Sunday, more than three months after McDonald’s ceased operations in the irradiated shithole country, the AP reports. International McDonald’s expert Thomas L Friedman was not available for comment, as he was revising his stupid fucking theory of globalization ever since it was disproven by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Or maybe he already did, but either way we don’t care enough to read his super complicated explanation for why he was actually right all along.

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— Kyrsten Sinema (@SenatorSinema) June 12, 2022

Moron New York Republican governor candidate Andrew Giuliani has been banned from appearing in-person at a Monday night primary debate against MAGA weenie Congressman Lee Zeldin and two other assholes, the New York Post reports. All Andrew needed to do was show proof he was vaccinated for COVID-19, but no, couldn’t risk his right wing street cred and will appear virtually. “While [your rules] will disrupt Monday’s debate, the true injustice is that policies such as these have deprived front-line heroes such as firefighters, police and healthcare workers of employment and benefits,” said a letter from Giuliani’s campaign to WCBS, which is holding the debate.

Some family plans to sink $1 billion into building a “patriotic theme park” in Columbia Falls, Maine, centered around a 1,776 foot tall flagpole – flying an American flag the size of a football field – according to a Fox News article that reads basically like a press release. “Everyone feels the division we’re all experiencing right now. We hope this creates an opportunity for Americans to come together,” says “Flagpole of Freedom Park” managing director Rob Worcester, whose family runs the “Wreaths Across America” veteran’s memorial organization. The family plans to break ground in 2023, aiming to have the park open by the nation’s semiquincentennial on July 4th, 2026.

It’s not clear if the nigh-Biblical hubris of the proposed flagpole would be less evident if they were locating the park somewhere a little bit more central to the rest of the United States and not 40 miles from the Canadian border on the remotest possible stretch of the East Coast. “It’s all about healing America,” says park spokesperson Van Morris in a large typeface quote in the Fox News article, going all feel-goody in lieu of an explanation as to how the fuck a 1,776 foot flagpole is supposed to heal America – or even turn a profit – if it’s an hour and half drive from I-95 – on a good day – in a sparsely populated backwater corner of the United States.

Trump-endorsed moron former Governor Sarah Palin leads the first round of the special election to replace the late Congressman Don Young in Alaska’s at-large House seat with 29.8% of the votes counted so far, the AP reports. The Republican scion of an Alaska Dem political family, Nick Begich III follows at 19.3%, former Dem US Senate candidate turned independent Al Gross with 12.5%, Dem Mary Peltola with 7.5%, Republican Tara Sweeney had 5.3%, and a candidate legally named “Santa Claus”, a self-described “independent, progressive, democratic socialist,” at 4.5%.

As reported earlier here on NatZero, 31 members of the white nationalist criminal enterprise the Patriot Front were arrested after they arrived at a LGBTQ pride parade in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Saturday afternoon.  Per the Idaho Statesman, the people were arrested for suspicion of conspiracy to riot.

According to a police statement, the men came from 11 different states:  Texas, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, S. Dakota, Illinois, Arkansas, Wyoming, Washington, Oregon and Virginia.  Police have not yet released their names.  Police report that a concerned citizen called in a tip after seeing the group of men load into the back of a U-Haul moving van.  Police intercepted the U-Haul and arrested the cargo.

Professional wrestler and actor John Cena traveled to Amsterdam to meet a non-verbal boy with Down Syndrome who was motivated by his mother on their journey evacuating Mariupol by her telling him that they were searching for Cena, the boy’s idol.  Filming a movie in Europe, Cena was just an hour by air away from Amsterdam so he went to make the mother’s statement true.  “That means spending the afternoon playing blocks and eating cake,” Cena said.  “That’s a special afternoon when it comes to the new friends I was able to make.”

The latest large group of migrants making their way through Mexico–which Fox cable hosts have described as the Invasion of the Southern Border has been disbanded by the Mexican government about 900 miles from the Texas border, Reuters reports.

The Mexican government reached an agreement with the organizers of the group to legalize their status in Mexico and redirect them to immigration offices in Chiapas.  The migrants in the group are primarily from Central America, Haiti and Venezuela.

During the Summit of the Americas recently held in Los Angeles, the Canadian and American governments agreed to accept more guest workers.  The Trump administration had handcuffed a number of US industries by limiting the number of Mexican, Central American and South American guest workers, even as business owned by Donald Trump and his family requested hundreds of guest worker visas for their operations.

“Y’know, I’ve been, I’ve been first we went on the Trump campaign after these events, then I’ve been campaigning on my own Senate campaign for the, ah, last year and a coupla weeks and I’ve, I’ve told this story hundreds of, hundreds of times but boy then to go back and watch it again on video like we did yesterday, it’s ah, it’s shocking,” failing Republican Missouri Senate candidate and next spokesmen for penile implants for “compensation” Mark McClosky says of watching a video depicting him aiming an assault rifle at BLM protestors marching in front of his home as Mrs. “That’s alright, honey, I’m okay” brandished a handgun.  “I’m, I, a little bit of ah, of self, ah, self-promotion:  I’m surprised we stayed so calm facing what we faced.”

And then the Newsmax hostess comments on people wondering what would have happened if “that crowd” came to their homes… because what she means is Black people coming to their white enclave.

A large contingent of the Patriot Front white supremacist group were cuffed after their arrival at an LGBT Pride Month event in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho on Saturday, the Idaho Tribune reports. Other sources mentioned the MAGA Nazis were charged with conspiracy to riot as their Uhaul was loaded with truncheons and riot shields. Cops had stopped their Uhaul – the group’s signature mode of transportation – a short distance from the event location, per a Daily Beast report.

This is a screenshot of an article published by Newsweek Friday afternoon, under the headline “Trump May Be Charged for Trying to Overthrow Election by End of the Month”:

Whoa, that’s a big deal, right? Fani Willis said on Friday that within three weeks she will make a decision on whether or not to charge fat former President Trump over his attempted to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. That’s like – well you think you would have seen that elsewhere, all over the news on Friday considering people have been waiting years for the fat bastard to finally face any legal consequences whatsoever for his crimes. You’d think that maybe Newsweek should kinda actually link to the Associated Press interview with Willis. Oh but wait here is is. Dated January 10, 2022, with the verbatim quote from the interview “I believe in 2022 a decision will be made in that case… I certainly think that in the first half of the year that decisions will be made.”

“If you want an #AmericaFirst candidate in the Senate from Alabama, there is only one in this race. As this independent polling shows, if President Trump will #ReEndorseMo, we will win. Then we can fight for the MAGA agenda, together!” tweeted Mo Brooks at 7:54 PM on Friday night, which he fucking deleted literally two minutes after we published this article with it embedded at the top.

In the tweet was a screenshot of a typed statement trying to pitch Trump on re-endorsing him. We didn’t read it, but just by the length you can tell how desperate Brooks was. The best part is how just 3 hours later Trump endorsed Brooks’ primary opponent Katie Britt, crushing the faint glimmers of hope and ending the long, sordid saga of Trump and Alabama’s Senate delegation for good.

Probably. The runoff is in ten days and we guess anything could happen before then. Maybe.

Trump has actually had an easier time with the Senate Class 3 seat (currently held by retiring Senator Richard Shelby whom Brooks and Britt are running to replace) than the Class 2 seat now held by fucking moron Tommy Tuberville. It was in 2016 when Jeff Sessions became the first member of the Senate to endorse Donald, for which he rewarded the Keebler man with the nomination to become his first Attorney General. Then Trump endorsed Sessions’ appointed replacement Luther Strange, only to see him lose in a primary against credibly accused child molester Roy Moore. Trump then supported Moore who lost to Democrat Doug Jones in the December 2017 special election to serve out the rest of Sessions’ term. After being fired in 2018 over recusing himself from the Russia investigation, Sessions ran to reclaim his old seat, only to see Trump endorse the dullard former college sportsball coach Tuberville against him, who handily defeated little Jeffy and then went on to beat Doug Jones in 2020.

Oh wait. Shit. Wrong picture. This is just Texas Governor Greg Abbott with Proud Boys leader Joe Biggs, one of the five indicted on charges of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Capitol riot last week. It’s not clear when the pic was taken – the earliest tweet with it was last month – but it’s unlikely to be after January 6th, 2021 as Biggs was first arrested on January 20th, 2021 for entering the Capitol and then jailed awaiting trial in April 2021 after he was hit with a superseding conspiracy indictment. Last July Biggs whined to a judge he was being “targeted” by gang members in the Seminole County, Florida jail where he was being held at the time. We’ll work on finding that Newsom-Antifa pic, we’re sure we have it around here somewhere. We’ll fix this mistake ASAP.

A New York foundation that offered to pay the funeral expenses for Black men who died from syphilis only if the families allowed their loved ones to be dissected as part of the Tuskegee Experiment formally apologised for its part in the inhumane test, the Associated Press reports.

One of the first private philanthropies in the country, the Milbank Memorial Fund offered $100 to the poverty-stricken families, primarily in Alabama, to cover the funeral costs for the men, but only if the families consented to allow scientists to examine the corpses for what they were told was “bad blood.”  In fact, the men had syphilis, which was left untreated to further the experiment.  The 399 men who remained infected were tracked for physical and mental symptoms of the disease, which could have been readily treated with available medications.

The Tuskegee experiment started in 1932 and was not officially ended until 1972, when the study was disclosed in media reports.  By that time, the consequences were devastating:  28 patients died directly from syphilis; 100 died from complications related to syphilis; 40 of the men’s wives were infected with syphilis, and 19 children were born with congenital syphilis.