“The UK will give multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS) to Ukraine to help the country defend itself against Russian aggression, the Defence Secretary has announced. The cutting edge M270 weapon system, which can strike targets up to 80km away with pinpoint accuracy, will offer a significant boost in capability for the Ukrainian forces. The UK’s decision has been co-ordinated closely with the US decision to gift the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) variant of MLRS. Alongside the weapon system, the UK will also supply M31A1 munitions at scale. The decision by Ben Wallace comes in response to requests from Ukrainian forces for longer range precision weapons in order to defend themselves from Russian heavy artillery, which has been used to devastating effect in the eastern Donbas region,” – UK Ministry of Defence press release.

Pennsylvania MAGA terrorist Rachel Powell, charged with eight counts over her participation in the January 6th, 2021 Capitol riot, also turns out to be a shitty mom, per federal prosecutors who pointed out she left her six kids home alone while she was in DC in their motion opposing Powell’s bid for looser pre-trial conditions, WKBN reports. Forced to sell her home and move on to the property of her employer, Powell says she’s absent from her three teenage sons currently living in a separate rental home after 6:00 PM because it isn’t outfitted with equipment for her ankle monitor.

Federal prosecutors say too fucking bad because not only did Powell leave them and her other three kids alone when she travelled to the riot, but she also posted threats of a civil war in October 2020 and indicated she was surveilling the house of an unidentified public official about a week after the election, presumably because she thought this person was part of the Soros conspiracy against her Orange God Emperor. The feds also wrote that she doesn’t actually have custody of her kids, so whatever issues she has with parenting are exaggerated at best.

Following her arrest last February, Powell pleaded not guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding and abetting, destruction of government property, disorderly and destructive behavior in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, disorderly conduct in a capitol building, acts of physical violence in the capitol buildings or grounds, demonstrating in a capitol building, and entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon. That last one she got snagged on over the ice pick she was photographed holding outside of a broken window during the riot. That’ll cost her at sentencing.

The Carolina Panthers NFL club announced it has hired Justine Lindsay, a 29-year-old Black trans woman, as the league’s first transgender cheerleader after she auditioned for the cheerleading team with other applicants, NBC News reports.

Lindsay will join the Panthers’ cheerleading squad, called the TopCats, for the upcoming season.  “Cats Out the Bag you are looking at the newest member of the Carolina Panthers TopCats … the first Transgender female,” Lindsay wrote in an Instagram post. “This is a moment I will never forget and I cannot wait to show you all what this girl has to bring.”

After being on the receiving end of transphobic posts from around the country, Lindsay posted Monday:  “Thank you to all my haters who think I’m bringing the organization down, clearly I don’t. The carolina panthers Organization is an excellent one, one that supports all people.”

“Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation against Twitter for potentially false reporting over its fake bot accounts in violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. On Twitter, ‘bots’ are automated, non-human accounts that can do virtually the same things as real people: send tweets, follow other users, and like and retweet others’ posts… Twitter has received intense scrutiny in recent weeks over claiming in its financial regulatory filings that fewer than 5% of all users are bots, when they may in fact comprise as much as 20% or more. The difference could dramatically affect the cost to Texas consumers and businesses who transact with Twitter,” writes Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a Monday press release.

“To address this concern, Attorney General Paxton issued a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) to investigate whether Twitter’s reporting on real versus fake users is ‘false, misleading, or deceptive’ under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. The CID requires Twitter to turn over documents related to how it calculates and manages its user data and how these numbers relate to Twitter’s advertising businesses. Twitter has until June 27 to respond to Attorney General Paxton’s Demand. ‘Texans rely on Twitter’s public statements that nearly all its users are real people. It matters not only for regular Twitter users, but also Texas businesses and advertisers who use Twitter for their livelihoods,’ said Attorney General Paxton. ‘If Twitter is misrepresenting how many accounts are fake to drive up their revenue, I have a duty to protect Texans,'” concluded the man facing disbarment for his failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election by suing Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in the Supreme Court in December of 2020.

We skipped this because Elon Musk is a fucking assclown and we’re getting kind of sick of covering it every time he scratches his balls, but yet again on Monday he threatened to walk away from the deal to purchase the massively influential social media platform, something only an idiot would think is somehow unconnected to a douchebag like Ken Paxton making noises for the exact same reason, since Musk promised to let fat Former President Trump back on Twitter after the purchase.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson still has a job after Conservative MPs declined to boot him from office over the COVID-19 lockdown defying “Partygate” scandal, with 211 for and 148 against in the Monday night confidence vote, the Daily Mirror’s Rachel Wearmouth reports.

Proud Boys leaders Enrique Tarrio, Dominic Pezzola, Ethan Nordean, Joe Biggs, and Zachary Rehl, all five of whom were already facing charges in connection with the January 6th, 2021 Capitol insurrection, were hit with a superseding indictment of seditious conspiracy on Monday, the Washington Post reports. Joining 12 top members of their frenemy fascist group the Oath Keepers slapped with the same charge in January 2022, the indictment of Tarrio and pals brings the total to 17 MAGA scumbags hit with the highest level conspiracy charge. Let’s have one more “but if it was an insurrection then how come none of them got charged with sedition, libs?” for the road.

While Tarrio is the most well-known member of the Proud Boys, Nordean is the funniest for his rant in a Jan 20th, 2021 private text message which was later obtained by federal prosecutors: “Alright I’m gunna say it. FUCK TRUMP! Fuck him more than Biden. I’ve followed this guy for 4 years and given everything and lost it all. Yes he woke us up, but he led us to believe some great justice was upon us…and it never happened, now I’ve got some of my good friends and myself facing jail time cuz we followed this guys lead and never questioned it. We are now and always have been on our own. so glad he was able to pardon a bunch of degenerates as his last move and shit on us on the way out. Fuck you Trump you left us on [t]he battle field bloody and alone,” wrote Nordean.

The remainder of the “People’s Convoy”, now rebranded as the “1776 Restoration Movement”, numbering less than two dozen and camped out in an undisclosed location after being evicted from their raceway site in Hagerstown, Maryland and infighting tore apart their lame second attempt to emulate the great Ottawa Clustertruck of February and March, were trolled with the false promise of a 100 ft long Subway sandwich donated by locals, the Daily Beast’s Zach Petrizzo reports. The MAGA truckers were “extremely disappointed” when they found out there’d be no 100 foot long sub and blamed “Antifa extremists” for the prank, per Petrizzo.

Watch out Caucasians! There’s a horde of brown people headed towards the Southern Border! You should vote Republican because those Spanish speakers might want to come take your job cleaning toilets in an office building, washing dishes in a 105 degree restaurant kitchen, picking strawberries for 14 hours a day, ripping the feathers off of dead chickens in a poultry plant, or lugging paving stones from a truck into some rich asshole’s backyard! That doesn’t actually need to make sense, just vote Republican! There’s thousands of them, many wearing fresh t-shirts that say “Let us in Joe and Kamala” and nobody knows who the hell gave them those shirts but Fox News sure as fuck isn’t asking! Nor are their viewers asking why the caravans suddenly disappeared from Fox News’s programming the day after the 2018 Midterms only to magically reappear in June 2022!

Michigan State Police officials have obtained warrants to seize voting equipment in at least four different jurisdictions in the past two months as a probe into tampering of machines by MAGA scumbags trying to prove the 2020 election was stolen from Trump widens, Reuters reports.

At least 11 different incidents of breaches of election systems by pro-Trump public officials have occurred in Michigan since the 2020 election, per a Reuters estimate, leading state officials to suspect there may have been a larger, even national coordination of the attacks. “If there is coordination, whether it’s among those in our state or reaching up to a national level, we can determine that and then we can seek accountability for all involved,” said Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, adding she’s coordinating with state Attorney General Dana Nessel.

Among the locations under scrutiny are Irving Township, where cops seized voting machines on April 29th, Roscommon County where an elections administrator gave tabulators to some dead-enders without any sort of authorization, Lake Township where police raided election offices also in April, and Barry County, where racist Sheriff Dar Leaf is still “conducting his own investigation” despite being told to shut the fuck up by the Republican district attorney – all of these jurisdictions were ones Trump won by wide margins. Can’t imagine Biden voters in those places feeling very comfortable knowing that MAGA terrorists could potentially identify them with the leaked data.

A federal judge on Monday signed off on a DOJ warrant to seize two planes – a Boeing 787 in Dubai and a Gulfstream G650 in Russia – owned by Putin ally Roman Abramovich, CNBC reports. They’re probably not going to get the Gulfstream to be quite honest. But the 787 is probably a safer bet.

Unless the DOJ want to maybe “lose” it, rig it up with some remote controls, and then say those sneaky Al-Qaeda bastards must’ve gotten to it first when it plows into the Kremlin. Just spitballing some ideas here. Not totally serious. Might help if they load it up dynamite though.

Florida MUST follow Texas’ lead & BAN this sick act—sex shows are no place for kids

It’s time to protect Florida children https://t.co/OG6tza0U7v

— Anthony Sabatini (@AnthonySabatini) June 6, 2022

Now some of our readers might be tempted to respond below with that old “Bro, why you giving them a platform,” because at first glance it sounds like an impractical and/or unconstitutional jerk piece of legislation that won’t go anywhere. And maybe that’ll ultimately prove correct.

But embedded above is not the original tweet, it’s a quote tweet from a Florida state lawmaker, a total dipshit with a history of plagiarizing Texas Republicans’ legislation. Again, maybe not “momentum” to get such a batshit law passed in one or both states, but it’s not nothing either. And it doesn’t take a lot of imagination to think that maybe – even probably – such a law would be so ambiguously worded – and intentionally so – that not just “drag queens” who dress up for party time but otherwise live their lives identifying as men but also trans people merely in the presence of children would be a criminal act, because what good is a slope if you can’t make it slippery?

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from St Louis ambulance chasers and “gun couple” Mark and Patricia McCloskey to reclaim their law licenses, revoked by the Missouri Supreme Court following the 2020 incident where they threatened BLM marchers with their guns from their front lawn. Mark McCloskey parlayed his MAGA infamy into what’ll likely be a brief political career as polling indicates he’s pretty fucked in the Republican Senate primary.

Republican pollster Fabrizio Lee finds that cokehead moron Donald Trump Jr leading white collar criminal incumbent Florida Senator Rick Scott by a pretty staggering 57 to 32 in a hypothetical 2024 Republican primary matchup, Axios’s Jonathan Swan reports with a leaked slide. Of each share of the state’s GOP electorate sampled, 37% said “definitely” and 19% “probably” Don Jr to Scott’s 15% “definitely” and 17% “probably” with 12% undecided.

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WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Russian soldiers get turned into borscht by a Ukrainian landmine. In related news, Russian army Major General Roman Kutzov was canceled Sunday in the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine, by some counts at least the eleventh general KIA in the three month war.

Far right Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters, recently endorsed by fat former President Trump, told a podcaster in April he blames Black Americans for the gun violence epidemic in the United States, the Daily Beast reports. “We do have a gun violence problem in this country, and it’s gang violence. It’s people in Chicago, St. Louis shooting each other. Very often, you know, Black people, frankly. And the Democrats don’t want to do anything about that,” Masters said on the Jeff Oravits Show on April 11th, without explaining what he thinks Democrats are supposed to do.

Does Masters want Democrats to just add an asterisk to all proposed gun control legislation that says “* Background checks, red flag laws, waiting periods, and bans on assault rifles apply to Black people only” or similar? Would their bills gain Republican support then? Does he think MAGA terrorists like Kyle Rittenhouse, Patrick Cruisus, Nikolas Cruz, Payton Gendron, Dylann Roof, Stephen Paddock, and the rest of them were somehow unfairly singled out while urban gangbanger assholes settling scores with each other are swept aside by Democrats? Just asking questions, because while “But Chicago” is the go-to for MAGA trolls like Masters and his ilk every time some Trump fan goes on a shooting rampage, they never seem to want to actually follow through on why they think the urban gun violence problem is somehow separate from gun violence overall.

The House January 6th Select Committee have hired former ABC News chief James Goldston to dial up the “WOW Factor” of their hotly-anticipated Thursday prime time hearing, Axios reports. A top-notch news documentary producer, Goldston is reportedly choreographing the hearing like it were just that, mixing in never-before-seen footage from inside the Capitol, clips of taped depositions with witnesses, and photos from inside the White House during the insurrection.

It’s a big loss for Team MAGA, forced to rely on their own “talent” for a “counter-programming” propaganda campaign in response, starring losers like Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan. They should at least hire Dinesh D’Souza or Mike Lindell to make a GOP-friendly Jan 6 “movie”.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson could seriously finally get the axe on Monday as the House of Commons convenes for a no confidence vote in his leadership, the BBC reports. It’s not clear whether or not Johnson will survive after the crucial vote in response to revelations he and his staff had partied hard during the early dark days of COVID-19 lockdowns.

Suffolk County, New York on Long Island has been strictly enforcing “red flag” laws that allow law enforcement officers to confiscate guns from people who are deemed threats to others or themselves, and doing so has had a positive impact on the community, a report by the New York Times shows.

One of the gun control regulations proposed by advocates including President Joe Biden to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people after a spate of mass shootings in the United States, red flag laws are opposed by people who depend on guns to define their existence, falsely claiming that it violates Constitutional rights of due process.  (In fact, with most such laws, a judge issues a court order after hearing evidence.)

Since Suffolk County’s red flag law went into effect in 2019, more than 100 cases have been brought to seize firearms from people.  Police and counselors credit the law for diffusing the danger of various situations. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelinskyy traveled to the besieged city of Severodonetsk to review operations with area commanders and to award members of the Ukrainian military medals for their valor during the defense of the nation against Russian invaders.

Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited wounded Russian troops at a hospital in Moscow, minutes away from the Kremlin.

Officials in Wayne County, North Carolina has announced that there is an ongoing active shooter situation at the Wayne UNC Health Care in Goldsboro, WNCN CBS-17 in Goldsboro reports.

Police were called to the scene at 8:17 p.m. local time and the active shooter situation was still going on at 9:10 p.m.  This would be the third active shooter situation in a US hospital in the last week.

Thanks to Gomez for the tip.