Cook Political Report election analyst Dave Wasserman reports that Minnesota state house representative Jeremy Munson, a member of the state’s far-right Freedom Caucus, was defeated in the Republican primary for the state’s 1st Congressional District by establishment GOP member Brad Finstad.  It is another loss for the far-right fringe of Party who support Donald Trump.

A task force of intelligence experts have concluded that instability and backsliding democracy to the nation’s south will become a major challenge to domestic security in the coming years, the CBC reports because – haha! – the intel experts are Canadian and the backsliding democracy is the United States. We’re so clever with our little bait and switch headlines and ledes, right?

“The United States is and will remain our closest ally, but it could also become a source of threat and instability,” says the report from the panel, whose members include former national security advisers, former Canadian Security Intelligence Service directors, ex-deputy ministers, former ambassadors, and academics. The report pointed specifically to the support the Ottawa Clustertruck drew from Fox News and other MAGA propaganda channels in the United States, saying “This may not have represented foreign interference in the conventional sense, since it was not the result of actions of a foreign government. But it did represent, arguably, a greater threat to Canadian democracy than the actions of any state other than the United States. It will be a significant challenge for our national security and intelligence agencies to monitor this threat, since it emanates from the same country that is by far our greatest source of intelligence.”

A report on an official investigation by British government journeywoman administrator Sue Gray has determined Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s staff basically acted like there were no COVID-19 restrictions at his birthday party in 2020, getting absolutely shitfaced and trashing the official residence at 10 Downing Street until the early morning hours, the New York Times reports.

“A number of these gatherings should not have been allowed to take place or to develop in the way that they did,”the report said, adding “at least some of the gatherings in question represent a serious failure to observe not just the high standards expected of those working at the heart of Government but also of the standards expected of the entire British population at the time… I was made aware of multiple examples of a lack of respect and poor treatment of security and cleaning staff. This was unacceptable. Many will be dismayed that behavior of this kind took place on this scale at the heart of Government. The public have a right to expect the very highest standards of behavior in such places and clearly what happened fell well short of this.”

As of Wednesday the Donald’s ultra-precious 2022 GOP primary endorsement record now stands at about 80-something wins and 11 losses for his candidates, including Idaho Lt Governor Janice McGeachin, MAGA bro North Carolina Congressman Madison Cawthorn, Nebraska sex machine Charles Herbster, former Georgia Senator David Perdue, MAGA Georgia Congressman Jody Hice (Georgia Secretary of State GOP primary), John Gordon (Georgia AG GOP primary), and Patrick Witt (Georgia Insurance Commissioner) who lost outright. Tennessee US House Candidate Morgan Ortagus and Michigan State House candidate Jon Rocha were disqualified, Mo Brooks he undorsed for the Alabama GOP Senate primary in March, and Sean Parnell dropped out of the Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary in November 2021. Seven more Texas candidates ran unopposed and even though the fat orange fuck still counts those as wins, we don’t.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that ExxonMobil must face trial for lying to the public about its understanding of climate change, minimizing the impact of fossil fuels, Reuters reports.

In a 7-0 decision, the Court ruled that Attorney General Maura Healey could pursue a lawsuit against the fossil fuel giant following a three year investigation into misleading consumers and investors about the role fossil fuels plan on worsening climate change.

ExxonMobil moved to dismiss the suit under the Massachusetts SLAPP provision, saying the lawsuit was motivated to keep the company quiet.  The Court, however, struck down the company’s argument, saying the SLAPP standard did not apply to state agencies.

Moderate Democratic incumbent Congressman Henry Cuellar is holding onto a 177-vote lead in the runoff for the Democratic nominee against Jessica Cisneros in the Texas 28th District with all precincts reporting, Dave Wasserman of Cook Politic Report reports.  Cuellar, an anti-choice Democrat, faced a challenge by pro-choice candidate Cisneros.

Moments after Pastor John B. Lowe II of the New Life Christian Church & World Outreach in Warsaw, Indiana confessed to his congregation that he had committed adultery–and received a standing ovation–a woman took the microphone to tell the church that she was the one who Lowe had the affair with, and she was only 16 when Lowe took her virginity on the floor of his church office.

As People magazine reports, the woman, who is now in her 40s, said that she was encouraged to come forward after her younger brother broke decades of silence to ask what was happening when he found her in bed, dressed only in a t-shirt and panties, with the pastor of their church.

Katie Britt and one-time Trump endorsee Mo Brooks will advance to a runoff for the Alabama GOP Senate nomination, Cook Report prognosticator Dave Wasserman called.  Wasserman also called the race for the GOP nomination for Georgia Secretary of State for Brad Raffensperger, a Trump nemesis for being honest.

“There have been a lot of school shootings, ah, between 2020 and 2020-ah-21, there was a record number of school shootings across the country.  Somethin’s goin’ on out there,” The Fox Princess of Cattiness (Tucker’s the Queen) Laura Ingraham says.  Th-th-the-there’s something happening, um, urm, to our national psyche, or to families, or to mental illness or… I-I-I-I don’t know what it is, but there’s something very corrosive about our culture, ah, and that we have to get to the bottom of.”

And then some pro-gun idiot from an idiot pro-gun organization says, “Oh, I agree with you.  I don’t think it has anything to do with guns.”

Set aside that it has everything to do about guns; you don’t see a mass murderer go into a school with a knife and massacring children like this.  But how fucking ironic is Laura Ingraham is on Fox trying to figure out what made the culture “corrosive.”  Without an iota of self-awareness, Fox fuckin’ News is wondering what happened to our society.  The network that broadcasts Tucker Carlson and previously aired Bill O’Reilly wonders where the corrosive attitude of people comes from.  To quote Steve Martin:  “Well, excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusssssssseeee meeeeeeee!”

Congrats Sarah! BIG WIN!

The Texas Department of Public Safety says the death toll of the massacrfe at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde is now up to 20 – 19 children and two adults, plus the gunman, Salvador Ramos, whose body should be fed to crows, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports.

MSNBC reports that Republican Texas Senator John Cornyn has canceled an appearance he was scheduled to make at this week’s National Rifle Association conference that will be held Friday through Sunday in Houston, a four hour drive from the site of the school massacre in Uvalde. Cornyn cited a previously undisclosed personal event that would keep him in DC over the weekend.  The other Texas Senator, Ted Cruz, and Republican Texas Gov Greg Abbott are still scheduled to appear, as is Donald Trump, who will never pass on an opportunity to go in front of a friendly crowd.

Republican Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has survived a primary challenge and will avoid a runoff against Trump-endorsed white nationalist John Gordon, the New York Times projects. This marks Trump’s second loss of the night. Meanwhile Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is faring better than expected against Trump minion Congressman Jody Hice. If the current trend holds Raff will win outright Tuesday and avoid a runoff, racking up yet another primary defeat for fat Donald.

The same can’t be said in Texas as the greater of two evils, complete piece of shit Attorney General Ken Paxton, is utterly crushing Texas Land Commissioner George P Bush in the runoff for that office’s primary. There is no projection yet, but the Times has it at 66.9% Pax to 33.1% Bush. May we burn in hell for stealing the great Dave Wasserman’s line, but we’ve seen enough.

President Joe Biden addresses the nation in response to the murder of more than 20 people, including 18 second-, third-, and fourth-graders at a Texas elementary school.

Steve Kerr, the head coach of the Golden State Warriors NBA basketball team explodes at a pre-game press conference when his team will play in Dallas tonight.  “I’m fed up.  I’ve had enough.  We’re gonna play the game tonight, but I want every person here, every person listening to this to think about your own child or  grandchild, your mother or father, sister, brother, how would you feel if this happened to you today.  We can’t get numb to this.  We can’t just sit here and read about it and go, ‘Well,  let’s just have a moment of silence.  Yeah, go Dubs.  C’mon, Mavs, let’s go.’  That’s what we’re going to do.  We’re going to go play a basketball game.  Fifty senators in Washington are going to hold us hostage.  Do you realize that 90 percent of Americans, regardless of political party, want background checks, universal background checks.  Ninety percent of us.  We are being held hostage by 50 Senators in Washington who refuse to even put it to a vote despite what we, the American people want.  They won’t vote on it because they want to hold on to their own power.  It’s pathetic.  I’ve had enough.”

Republican Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and complete mental patient Senate candidate Herschel Walker both cruised to easy wins in their respective primaries Tuesday, Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman projects. The 40 point-plus loss for former Senator David Perdue is particularly brutal for fat former President Trump, who endorsed Chickenshit in a quest for revenge against Kemp for certifying the 2020 election in defiance of the Orange God Emperor’s commands.

• 18 students and three adults have been killed.
• The suspect’s grandmother was shot and wounded.  She was airlifted to a regional hospital for treatment and is still alive, but in critical condition.
• Although Republicans pushed for armed police officers at schools to protect students after the Sandy Hook massacre, no police officer was on site.
• Two responding police officers were wounded.  One of the wounded officers was a Border Patrol agent.
• President Joe Biden will address the nation tonight at 8:15 p.m. ET.  He ordered flags flown at half-staff through May 28th.
• Instagram has taken down an account reportedly run by the shooter.
• North Carolina Republican Senator Thom Tillis warned that this shooting should not lead to restrictions on gun rights for “law abiding” citizens.

“I would like to see this, a national push, instead of parents buying kids all these tools and toys and games, invest in the classroom to make it safer,” says Fox guest Maureen O’Connell, a former FBI agent, in the aftermath of the slaughter of 15 people, including 14 2nd-, 3rd-, and 4th-graders at an Ulvalde, Texas elementary school.  “There are companies out there that, that will do that.  They’ll come out and they’ll do a threat assessment on the whole school.  They’ll say, ‘This is an area of vulnerability that you might want to address, and this is how we would address it.’  And they have, I mean, they have blankets that you can put up on the wall that are colorful and beautiful, but they’re ballistic blankets.  I mean, there, there are ways to obscure the, ah, the classroom windows so that the shooter can’t have target acquisition.  I mean, there are just a million tools out there, but it’s, it, it….  but we’ve been banging this drum for years.  Let’s start investing in our kids!”

There’s a few major problems with O’Connell’s recommendations.  First, ballistic blankets and obscured windows don’t help when the shooter is already inside the school.  Second, conservative parents don’t want to invest in schools; they constantly complain about tax burdens.  And finally, the answer is not to put piecemeal products in place in the hope that schools won’t be targeted; it’s to get guns off the streets and make sure the people who do own guns are responsible for them and sane enough to own them.

Our nation needs to take a serious look at the state of mental health today.

Sometimes meds can be the problem.

America is failing our youngest generations from decades of rejecting good moral values and teachings.

We don’t need more gun control.

We need to return to God.

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) May 24, 2022

After another horrific shooting that left more than a dozen people dead, including the shooter, at Robb Elementary in Ulvalde, Texas, there’s a lot of information buzzing about.  Here’s a consolidation of information from various news reports:

• 15 people–14 students and one teacher–were shot to death.
• The children killed were in 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades.
• Located about 85 miles west of San Antonio, Ulvalde is a heavily Hispanic town, with about 80% of the population being of Hispanic heritage, according to the 2000 Census.
• Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott stated the shooter was an 18-year-old American male who attended high school in the town.  The shooter is also dead, reportedly killed by police.  Abbott identified the shooter as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos.
• The shooter carried a handgun and possibly a rifle into the school.  It’s unknown if two guns were used in the murders.
• A 66-year-old woman and a 10-year-old student are hospitalized in critical condition with gunshot wounds.
• The shooter shot his grandmother before going to the school.  It is unknown if the grandmother is among the people listed as killed or wounded at the school.
• This is the second shooting in 10 days with 10 or more fatalities, with the Buffalo supermarket shooting being the other.
• This is the 49th mass shooting (3 or more victims) in the United States in the month of May.
• This is the 251th mass shooting in the United States in 2022.  Today is only the 144th day of the year.
• This is the 25th mass murder (3 or more killed) in the US in 2022.
• There have been 26 mass shootings in Texas YTD.  This is the fourth mass murder in the state this year.
• This is the second mass shooting taking place at an education location in 2022.