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Fat former President Trump speaks to the terrorist army at the National Rifle Association fan fest in Houston, Texas, just days after the state saw the massacre of 19 children in Uvalde.

Jurors on Friday convicted Hitler-loving MAGA terrorist Timothy Hale-Cusanelli on a felony charge of obstructing an official proceeding related to his participation in the January 6th, 2021 Capitol riot, CNN reports. Hale-Cusanelli tried to argue complete nonsense like “I thought there were several buildings called ‘Capitol building,'” “I did not realize that Congress met in the Capitol,” and “I’m from New Jersey” in his testimony Thursday, which obviously helped for the quick turnaround in deliberations. The Hitler fanboy is the fifth Capitol rioter to be convicted by a jury.

Continuing its proud tradition of schisms splitting its adherents into ever-smaller denominations, on Friday Christianity saw a whole new sect come into existence as the Ukrainian Orthodox Church declared itself fully independent of the Russian Orthodox Church led by evil Jesus wizard Patriarch Kirill, the church declared on its website, citing Kirill’s support for the war in Ukraine.

“The council condemns the war as a violation of God’s commandment ‘Thou shalt not kill!’ (Ex. 20:13) and expresses disagreement with the stance of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia regarding the war in Ukraine,” the council said, asserting “the complete independence of the UOC.” The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) – the one now formerly loyal to the Russian Orthodox Patriarchy – is separate and distinct from the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU). The UOC expressed an interest in a “dialogue” with the OCU in its declaration Friday, so this may yet not be quite so much of a schism as a spinoff and merger. Either way the corrupt dirtbag Kirill loses out on cash to fund his lavish lifestyle. Martin Luther would be proud. Probably.

Law enforcement officials held a press gaggle in front of Robb Elemetary School in Uvalde, Texas, the site of a horrific mass shooting that left 19 children and 2 teachers dead.  Officials blamed an unnamed teacher for leaving a back door to the school propped open, which allowed the heavily armed shooter to enter the building.  They claimed they did not enter the classroom because after hearing “hundreds of shots in four minutes,” they assumed all the people in the classroom were dead; they were wrong.

“Semiautomatic weapons are fun for the whole family!” the since-shuttered Twitter account from Daniel Defense, the manufacturer of the two guns used in the Uvalde school massacre, seems to be implying in this photo from its website, accessed by the Web Archive, that features a toddler handling an assault weapon with a loaded magazine close by as a nearby adult grooms the child.  Note the “DD” watermark in the corner; they’re so proud of this image, they branded it.  The tweet featured a verse from the Bible:  “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” [Proverbs 22:6]

The company released a statement claiming that its weapons were “misused” in the attack, which is odd because they apparently worked well enough to kill more than 20 people, which is the purpose of a weapon.  Daniel Defense has said it will skip this weekend’s NRA convention in Houston because it had a previously scheduled event it had forgotten about, or it had to wash its hair, or something suddenly came up.

“After prayerful consideration and discussion with NRA officials, I have decided not to speak at the NRA breakfast this morning. While a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and an NRA member, I would not want my appearance today to bring any additional pain or grief to the families and all those suffering in Uvalde. This is a time to focus on the families, first and foremost” says Texas Lt Governor Dannie Goeb (aka Dan Patrick) in a statement. Goeb follows Governor Low Energy Greg Abbott in backing away from the weekend-long militia cosplayernfan fest in Houston. Fat former President Trump and Senator Ted “Pussy” Cruz are still scheduled to speak.

A federal judge has dismissed the stupid Trump lawsuit against New York Attorney General Leticia James over her ongoing investigation of his corrupt businesses, Forbes’s Zach Everson reports.

Every three hours, a young Black man dies by gun homicide.

— New York Yankees (@Yankees) May 26, 2022

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— New York Yankees (@Yankees) May 26, 2022

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, fresh off his win over Trump revenge primary pick dipshit Congressman Jody Hice, will testify to the Fulton Count, Georgia District Attorney’s grand jury investigating Trump’s infamous January 2, 2021 “Find 11,780 votes” call which Raff recorded and leaked to the Washington Post the next day, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Raffensperger is complying, as he said he would, with a subpoena issued by the “special purpose” grand jury impaneled by Fulton DA Fani Willis for that specific goal of obtaining Raff’s testimony.

If guns were evil, why did DC approve sending $40 billion worth to Ukraine?

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) May 27, 2022

Uvalde, Texas terrorist Salvador Ramos is reportedly one of the two then-unidentified teens arrested on charges of Conspiracy to Commit Murder in Uvalde, Texas in April 2018, in which he literally said he planned to commit a shooting after he turned 18 in 2022, per Rep Tony Gonzales.

No joke, this is from a statement from the Uvalde School District in May 2018: “Our school district is committed to the safety and education of all our students and we want to clearly communicate about safety issues when they arise. One of our Morales Junior High students was experiencing a crisis. Upon rendering aid and support, the student revealed a future plan to conduct a school shooting in the year of 2022. With the type of detailed information that was revealed by the student to law enforcement and confirmed in their investigation, the student has been arrested and will not be returning to our school. Our school district has a strong partnership with our local law enforcement agencies and emergency responders. They share our commitment to student safety, and we are working closely with them to ensure all information is thoroughly evaluated and our school is as safe as possible. We ask our parents to assist us in reminding their child/children of the importance of telling a staff member if they ever become aware of a plan to harm individuals or of a weapon at school. The STOPit app may be utilized by parents or students to inform administration of any inappropriate behavior. In this way, we are all working together to keep our schools safe.”

And this fucking guy was allowed to buy not one, but two AR-15s and a shit ton of ammo when he had made in crystal clear when and what he was going to do four goddamned years earlier. Nice job using the “STOPit” app. Glad it worked out for an asshole who had already dropped out.

Villages, Florida Trump fan Karen Frances Hackett pleaded no contest Tuesday to a charge of driving under the influence in the December 2021 post-Christmas golf cart parade curb crash that left her and a passenger injured, securing a deal that dismissed her disorderly conduct charge, Villages-News.com reports. The saga began at 7:30 PM on December 11, 2021, when Karen, 63, was driving home after drinking all day at the annual Christmas Golf Cart Parade at the Polo Grounds. Karen’s golf cart struck a curb in Lake Sumter Landing, sending her and an unidentified passenger tumbling onto the lawn in front of TooJay’s Gourmet Deli and Sonny’s BBQ. Diners seated on the patios of both establishments watched as Karen screamed “Get me [Governor Ron] DeSantis”, “I’m not vaccinated”, and profanities aimed at President Joe Biden to responding EMTs.

Karen and her passenger were both transported to a local hospital, where the boozy MAGA Villager was “belligerent” toward a nurse. Karen blew a range between 0.246 and 0.249 BAC in several breathalyzer tests, more than triple the legal limit of 0.08 in Florida. Per Villages-News, Karen was sentenced to a six month driver’s license suspension, a year of probation, and 50 hours of community service – the last of which she has asked the court to allow her “buy out” of.

The Federal Reserve Bank’s main annualized inflation rate gauge hit 6.3% in April, coming in below March’s 4-decade high, the Associated Press reports.

Complete piece of shit Republican Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson blamed “Critical Race Theory” and “wokeness” for the elementary school massacre which killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, Madison.com reports.

“This is a society-wide problem, a society-wide sickness that is not going to be solved by some gun law, additional gun laws here in Washington, DC… The solution lies in stronger families, more supportive communities, I would argue renewed faith,. We’ve lost that. We stopped teaching values in so many of our schools. Now we’re teaching wokeness. We’re indoctrinating our children with things like CRT, telling, you know, some children they’re not equal to others and they’re the cause of other people’s problems,” said Johnson in a Thursday appearance on Fox Business News.

With the overturning of Roe v. Wade likely to happen in the coming months thanks to an unethically tilted Supreme Court, various states will have laws kick in, making abortion illegal.  But a number of states have already implemented a law based on one passed by Texas that allows a civil “bounty” to be collected by suing anyone connected to a woman’s effort to have an abortion.

The law, known as SB8, allows any individual, from anywhere, to sue a person who facilitated the woman terminating a pregnancy, from the person who drives her to the clinic, to the doctor that performs the procedure, to the person who pays for it.  Each person can be sued for a minimum of $10,000 per abortion.  There is no stated limit on the number of people who can sue and the number of people who can be sued.

The despicable “beauty” of the law is that it holds the plaintiff in these civil suit harmless:  they cannot be countersued even if their complaint fails in court.

The man who killed ten Black people at a Buffalo supermarket invited six fellow members of a white nationalist channel on Discord to read his manifesto–which included details of his plan to murder Black people at that specific grocery store–and one of those people was a former federal law enforcement agent, the Buffalo News reports.

None of those people contacted law enforcement agencies, the FBI has confirmed, and it is unknown if any the six people who frequented the channel that discussed anti-Semitic tropes and white supremacy had accessed the writing.

The Discord channel was a location where the shooter and the others frequently communicated with each other.  The shooters writing laid out his plan to attack the Tops supermarket to inflict fear and terror in the Black community.

Thanks to Amy Bee for the tip.

“Well, what I lurned [sic] is that I never, ever want to be in a situation where the only person with a gun is the one who’s outta their mind, crazy, intent on killing people,” missing link cosplayer who always forgets to take off her costume Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-Ga.) says about something on Fox, as Hungary’s tourism ambassador listens looking constipated.  “It was the worst thing that could’a happened to any of us and it was terrifying.”

So to summarize:  Marge doesn’t want to be in a situation where she’s the only person with a gun.  For once, I agree with her.

“Sandy Cortez {Democratic New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] tweeting at me but she hasn’t taken up my offer to actually meet and work together and of course we saw Beto acting like a total jerk and tried to use the death of these children as a prop to advance his political candidacy,” The Rube from Rifle, Mean Girl Lauren Boebert claims.  “When 9/11 happened, we didn’t ban planes.  We secured the cockpits.”

Let’s go over some things:  She doesn’t know what a prop is.  Beto was holding the Texas state officials accountable when they refused to take questions from the media or the public. But most importantly, “we” didn’t just reinforce cockpits after 9/11:  we prevented some people from flying with a “No Fly” list.  We put everyone who wanted to fly through strict screening processes.  We tightened security to the point that if you even *joked* about doing something evil, you were prevented from flying.  And finally, we don’t let anyone who goes to a Walmart to fly a damn airplane.

Five hundred union workers will be back at the Chevron refinery next week after the United Steelworkers local came to an agreement to end a nine week strike with the energy company, pending the members’ vote to ratify, Reuters reports.

The workers sought a pay increase and improved health benefits from the company, which reported $6.2 billion in profit for the first quarter of 2022.  The workers wanted a 5% additional pay increase to cover the additional health care costs shifted to workers.

The strike did not impact the gas output at the refinery, which processes a quarter million barrels of oil daily; plant managers, supervisors and 50 scabs who crossed the picket line kept the refinery operational.

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-Ga.) has spent more campaign money on security in 2022 than any other candidate for federal or state office, election financial disclosure records show, according to the New York Times.

Greene spent more than $180,000 on a personal security detail since January, according to the report, on top of spending $92,000 of donor money to buy herself a luxury GMC Yukon Denali SUV for use by her campaign.

An ardent supporter of gun rights, it’s unknown why Greene needs such extensive security if she’s armed as she claims to be in campaign videos.  Early this week, Greene trolled a campaign office of a Democratic Congressional candidate, during which she had three large white men with her who may have been her security detail.  The video, shot in her home in Rome, Georgia, showed three men escorting Greene down an otherwise deserted street.