Speaking on the GOP propaganda network, former Detroit Police Chief James Craig used his time on the air to talk about the important things relating to the murder of ten shoppers in a supermarket in a primarily Black neighborhood of Buffalo by a self-declared white nationalist.  During one of the few all-Black panels you’ll see on Fox–because it’s about a Black issue–Craig tries to redirect the discussion:  “Lawrence, I think, uhhhh, in Buffalo, in York, they responded quickly and addressed this suspect, but let’s talk about the Supreme Court justices, who have protests happening at their homes and it’s a crime.  And this [mic goes out] doesn’t do anything.”

“I hear ya, chief,” Lawrence the Host interjects, obviously trying to silence the nutty analyst.  “It is, it is a matter of law and order.”

Law and order?  But what about the ten people killed by a white supremacist?

A federal judge on Saturday blocked Alabama authorities from enforcing a state government ban on providing gender-affirming treatments to people under the age of 19, a law that just took effect less than a week ago, the Washington Post reports.

The law would have assessed a penalty of up to 10 years in prison and fines of up to $15,000 for anyone convicted of providing such treatment.  However, Judge Liles Burke, a Trump appointee, ruled that cessation of treatment would would cause “severe physical and/or psychological harm” to Alabama’s trans youths as well as be an undue burden on the families.  Burke also asserted such a ban likely violates the children’s Constitutional rights.

In his opinion, Burke said that parents have “a fundamental right to direct the medical care of their children subject to accepted medical standards” and that “discrimination based on gender-nonconformity equates to sex discrimination.”

Speaking of his new-ish failing venture, social media pariah Donald Trump bleats, “it’s actually much, much better than Twitter, it’s so, it blows Twitter away, it really does.  Everybody loves it, especially the engagement it real– it’s amazing.  Elon Musk, so, I don’t believe he’s gonna buy Twitter, ’cause you have so many fake accounts, the bots.  All of the different things.  I think it’s gonna be very interesting.  He’s got some problems ’cause he bought a lot of stock he shouldn’t’ve bought.  He’s got a lotta problems with Twitter, but the Twitter’s got a lot of problems, so go to Troth… Truth Social, I think you’re gonna find,…”

Elon Musk has $200 billion, and Donald Trump claims $2 billion.  I doubt Elon’s paying attention.

The Minnesota State Republican Party endorsed for the nomination for governor Dr. Scott Jensen, a member of America’s Frontline Doctors and a coronavirus vaccine skeptic who described the inoculation as “not a vaccine. This is an experimental biological agent,” the Duluth News Tribune reports.

One of five candidates for the nomination, Jenson got the Party endorsement after nine rounds of voting among the 2,000 delegates.  Due to archaic rules in the state GOP, the other four candidate agreed to drop our of the primary and let Jensen be the only candidate on the ticket.

A state senator, the 67-year-old was one of the initial members of the right-wing advocacy group America’s Frontline Doctors, famous for having members that advocated quack medical theories like sex with demons causes gynecological problems.

A gunman who may have been streaming the attack online walked into a busy Buffalo supermarket Saturday and opened fire with a rifle, killing at least ten people, USA Today reports.

An unknown number of people were wounded.  The gunman was described as a white male in his late teens or early twenties.  Witnesses say he was wearing military clothing and body armor when he walked into the Tops Friendly Market busy with shoppers in a predominantly Black neighborhood and started firing.  He was taken into custody.

“He was standing there with the gun to his chin. We were like what the heck is going on? Why does this kid have a gun to his face?” said 20-year-old Braedyn Kephart, who was just driving into the parking lot when the shooter emerged. The shooter dropped to his knees. “He ripped off his helmet, dropped his gun, and was tackled by the police.”

Th Washington Post’s Colby Itkowitz reports that Yankee Diddle pictured above will not answer questions or make any eye contact with her or other reporters present as he prevents them from entering a Doug Mastriano-Kathy Barnette rally in Pennsylvania. Yes, you read that right. We meant to write “Yankee Diddle” and yes about the Mastriano-Barnette ticket. Despite Trump calling Mastriano and Mehmet Oz the “unbeatable team” for Pennsylvania governor and Senator, respectively, literally this morning in the previous article posted here, Doug is going ahead and campaigning with Oz’s rival for the nomination. Where they go one they go all.

“There is no one in Pennsylvania who has done more, or fought harder, for Election Integrity than State Senator Doug Mastriano. He has revealed the Deceit, Corruption, and outright Theft of the 2020 Presidential Election, and will do something about it. He will also Fight Violent Crime, Strengthen our Borders, Protect Life, Defend our under-siege Second Amendment, and Help our Military and our Vets. He is a fighter like few others, and has been with me right from the beginning, and now I have an obligation to be with him. Doug Mastriano and Dr. Mehmet Oz will make an unbeatable team going into the most important Midterm Election in the history of our Country.”

“They will Fight, they will Win, and they will Produce for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and for the USA itself. I have fully Endorsed Dr. Oz, and now it is my great honor to give my Complete and Total Endorsement to a man who will never let you down, Doug Mastriano for Governor of Pennsylvania!” proclaimeth the Orange God Emperor.

A bait trap set by an alligator “expert” in the Villages, Florida has so far proved unsuccessful in capturing one of the vicious aquatic reptiles from the pond across from the pool and postal station on Canal Street in the Village of Bonita, Villages-News.com reports. The alligator is wanted by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in the Wednesday murder of a local dog whose partially eaten corpse is still floating in the pond as of Friday. FWC has deemed the alligator a “nuisance”, meaning it is subject to summary execution upon capture. It is unknown what will become of the meat if/when the beast is disposed of. Villages residents are advised to treat any excessively discounted Applebee’s or Chili’s “all white meat” boneless buffalo wings with caution.

Attrition is taking its toll on Russian forces deployed to Ukraine even before they meet the business end of an American-made missile, with troops shooting themselves in the limbs – or in some cases, the head – to escape the grinding war, a soldier told a Ukrainian journalist following his surrender this week, the Express reports. “Everyone was panicking, and wanted to leave, but there was no way… The only option to go was as ‘300’,” Andrey Ushakov, 20, told Ukrainian journalist Volodymyr Zolkin of Open Media Ukraine, after Ushakov voluntarily surrendered to Ukrainian authorities. “300” refers to the Russian military code for wounded in combat, but Ushakov claimed two others in his unit went all the way “because they couldn’t [cope], there was no other way out.”

“There was no food, no water. We were given little food in general. There were days when three of us shared one dry ration,” Ushakov, who was born at least two years after Putin seized power through false flag terror attacks in 2000, told Zolkin about the awful supply situation the Russian army forced on them. He then urged other young Russians to stay the hell out of the military.

The National Suicide Prevention Hotline in the United States is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week at 1-800-273-8255. Please call you need to talk to someone.

“With unseasonably hot weather driving record demand across Texas, ERCOT continues to work closely with the power industry to make sure Texans have the power they need. This afternoon, six power generation facilities tripped offline resulting in the loss of approximately 2,900 MW of electricity. At this time, all reserve generation resources available are operating.”

“We’re asking Texans to conserve power when they can by setting their thermostats to 78-degrees or above and avoiding the usage of large appliances (such as dishwashers, washers and dryers) during peak hours between 3pm and 8pm through the weekend” says an advisory from Electric Reliability Council of Texas interim CEO Brad Jones. What a dick.

The Indian government on Saturday cut off wheat exports many markets were hoping would ease shortages caused by Russia’s destructive invasion of Ukraine, Bloomberg reports. “We now have an environment with another supplier removed from contention in global trade flows,” said Aussie food economist Andrew Whitelaw, adding “The world is starting to get very short of wheat.”

• Message every Democratic candidate must repeat:  “I’m not just pro-America; I’m pro-democracy.  And I’m going to Washington to save ours.”
• First question for every debate moderator for every office:  “You’re for revoking Roe.  If your daughter is raped and becomes pregnant, would you require her to raise the child and interact with her rapist because he’s the child’s father?”
• Amy Coney Barrett writing that there’s not a sufficient supply of infants for adoptions in the United States is disgusting.  There are at least 400,000 children in foster care.  There are millions of children available for adoption around the world.  For her to claim that older children and foreign children are not worthy of her consideration for adoption is vile.  
• I swear Barrett has some type of Munchhausen syndrome, in that she thinks parents MUST have attention fawned on them when they have an infant, attention they wouldn’t get if the new family addition was older.  She reminds me of my first wife, who wanted the wedding but she didn’t want the marriage.  
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Fat former President Trump is “leaning toward” endorsing QAnon fan and “Stop the Steal” asshole Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano for the Republican nomination for governor, Axios reports.

Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano (left) with former House Candidate Rick Saccone in front of the Capitol on January 6th.

Almost certainly the single rank and file state legislator with the most mentions on National Zero (possibly excluding leadership), Mastriano’s rise from a simple, hardworking Pizzagater to running for the top job in the Keystone State was full of lows and more lows, from testing positive for COVID-19 just as he brought his son to the White House to meet Trump and conspire to overturn the election in late November 2020, to getting caught fabricating research on his doctorate in history, to getting caught lying about just how close he was to the Capitol on January 6th – to which he brought busloads of MAGA Pennsylvanians, many of whom were charged with felonies for the insurrection, to hanging out with a rioter sought by the FBI months later, to trying and failing to get fellow Republicans on board with a fake CyberNinjas-style “audit” like in Arizona – which he flew to Phoenix and scoped out last summer – a winding road paved with MAGA bullshit thicker than Donald’s flab. Best of luck buddy. May the future shine as bright as your bald fucking head.

Hillary Clinton spied on President Trump! Remember that? She and Obama tapped the wires in the Trump Tower, the Trump 2016 campaign headquarters, and even the White House. A few months ago Special Prosecutor John Durham, who’s going to take down the entire Democrat-led Deep State said she spied on Trump, so she should be indicted soon for that. And the uranium scandal. It was massive crime. She sold all of our uranium to Russia and personally profited from it. That was treason. She also colluded with Putin to undermine Trump’s presidency with the phony “Dossier”.

This is basically what’s happening now.

She’s going to prison. Any day now. All the corruption and evil Hillary has been involved with is, it’s like the biggest crime spree in American history. John Durham is a machine. He’s unstoppable. He’s going to take her down. Hard. Like capital punishment, purposely botched lethal injection hard. She spied on President Trump. Spying is treason. Treason is punishable by death. Hillary Clinton is so goddamned fucking screwed it’s not even funny. She’s doomed. Terminated. Done.

National Zero will resume our regular news coverage now that we’re done throwing some red meat to our right wing readers. We hope they enjoyed this in-depth Hillary Clinton crime article.

The latest conspiracy theory Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-Georgia) has latched on to is the perfect way to blame Joe Biden for the baby formula shortage:  Democrats are torching food processing plants around the country because of course they are, Rolling Stone reports.

Greene is unclear about how and why Democrats would do this, but it’s likely Jewish Space Lasers and George Soros are involved.  “The Biden administration and the Democrats … are destroying the very important, most critical part of the fabric of America, and that is our farmers,” Greene ranted on Conspiracy TV, better known as Infowars with Alex Jones. “They’re doing it on purpose. They want to be the global economy. They want to be completely involved. And here we have these ‘random,’ supposedly accidental fires at food processing plants.”

A couple dozen food processing plants have caught fire since the beginning of the year–including a plane crashing into the parking lot of a General Mills plant in Georgia in April which was highlighted on the Tucker Carlson show as an example of this dastardly plan–which is about on pace with the hundreds of factory fires in the US every year.

The White House, House Dems, & usual pedo grifters are so out of touch with the American people that rather than present ANY PLAN or urgency to address the nationwide baby formula crisis, they double down on sending pallets of formula to the southern border. Joe Biden has NO PLAN

— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) May 13, 2022

With North Carolina’s primaries set for Tuesday, members of the Republican Party are actively campaigning to replace Madison Cawthorn, but if he makes it through the primary and looks to retain his seat in the heavily Republican district, CNN reports.

Sick of Cawthorn’s antics–including at least four times where he’s had run-ins with law enforcement–GOP leaders, including those from the North Carolina state delegation, have told him if he has one more disgraceful incident, they’ll vote him out of the House GOP Conference, which would severely limit his ability to rise through Party ranks.

“I met with the guy and said, ‘Don’t break the law again. You break the law one more time, I’m going to start calling for you to be kicked out,’” One Republican lawmaker close to Donald Trump said. “And I don’t mean kicked out of (the House Freedom) Caucus, I mean kicked out of Conference. Voting him out. He’s a black eye on our conference.”

To be clear, the headline is about Abbott Laboratories, the manufacturer of Similac brand baby formula, whose product recall and closure at a Sturgis, Michigan plant over bacterial contamination is largely (but not solely) responsible for the shortage. They claim they’re working on it by importing some excess inventory from their warehouse in Ireland and switching an Ohio factory that makes the liquid Similac in bottles to dry powder production to increase the overall supply.

Meanwhile, Texas Gov Greg Abbott, the first MAGA politician we reported to be blaming the shortage on at most a few thousand migrant infants being held at CBP facilities being fed formula – as if having them starve would somehow make a dent in a national shortage – and hasn’t done anything except cravenly make it into a right wing political issue. Probably because he’s paralyzed from the waist down and wears adult diapers. That’s enough to make anyone angry at life.

End of an era in the Brady briefing room! Good luck, @jrpsaki pic.twitter.com/xr8bzLaA65

— Peter Doocy (@pdoocy) May 13, 2022

“There is no way Elon Musk is going to buy Twitter at such a ridiculous price, especially since realizing it is a company largely based on BOTS or Spam Accounts. Fake anyone? By the time you get rid of them, if that can even be done, what do you have? Not much? If it weren’t for the ridiculous Billion Dollar breakup fee, Elon would have already been long gone.”

“Just my opinion, but Truth Social is MUCH better than Twitter and is absolutely exploding, incredible engagement!” wrote the Orange God Emperor on Truth Social on Friday.