Right wing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has canceled an appearance at a judicial conference of federal judges in the Fifth Circuit that was set to begin Thursday, just days after an explosive draft opinion he authored overturning Roe v Wade leaked, Reuters reports.

Calling it a “public” appearance might be a stretch, but if libs knew where he would be then there’d probably be a scene outside of the event, at the very least. A Supreme Court spokesperson did not give a reason for the cancelation, despite the very obvious non-coincidental timing.

Eastern European dictator Alexander Lukashenko told the AP in an interview that the snap military drills should not worry anyone in the West who might be afraid of the obvious might of the Belarusian war machine. “We do not threaten anyone and we are not going to threaten and will not do it. Moreover, we can’t threaten – we know who opposes us, so to unleash some kind of a conflict, some kind of war here in the West is absolutely not in the interests of the Belarusian state. So the West can sleep peacefully,” said Lukashenko, downplaying his country’s terrifying might.

Following the leak of a draft majority opinion that would strike down federal protections for access to abortion, Americans want to see major changes to the Supreme Court that would prevent one Party from manipulating appointments for generations.

The poll by Politico/Morning Consult found that 74% of Americans strongly or somewhat approve of enacting a code of ethics for justices, versus only 11% who would disapprove with that proposal.

Sixty-seven percent of Americans support term limits for justices, while 44% support expanding the Court to eliminate the conservative bias, compared to only 37% who disapprove.  Sixty-three percent support age caps for justices. 

Carla Sands, the third of three dilettante candidate for the Republican nomination for the Pennsylvania Senate seat, wants you to know that below her Marsha-Blackburn-meets-Max-Headroom look, she’s a strong Trumpian.  Standing between TeeVee host Mehmet Oz and hedge fund director David McCormick, Sands proudly shouts–while responding to a question from emcee Greta Van Susteren about the United State possibility of buying Greenland (!)–her support:  “To the men on, er, each side of me, they have both flip-flopped, and we know we want to send an America First senator to Washington, not a squish, because we know that’s how we’re losing our country to the radical left, ’cause the Democrat [sic] Party of today is not the Democrat Party of our childhood.  It’s not the Democrat Party of JFK.”

A new study shows that young transgender children rarely revert to their original assigned genders if they live for five years with their chosen social choices like names, pronouns and clothing style honored, the New York Times reports.

In the largest study of its kind, researchers tracked 317 children between the ages of 3 and 12 who undertook a social transition–changing identifiers such as names, pronouns and clothing–for at least five years.  The average age of child seeking a transition was 6.5 years.

After the five years, only 2.5% of the participants had reverted back to their previous gender identity.  The others had continued on in their gender discovery, with some even going so far as to start homone-based treatments to help their development align with their gender identities. 

In a wish-list of weapons he gave to a cadre of congressmen who visited Kyiv over the weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy included anti-ship missiles to help clear blockaded ports, NBC News reports.

Ukraine had a surprising success against the Russian navy by sinking the Russian Black Sea fleet’s flagship, the Moskva, in April, although the Russians claim the ship sunk due to a mysterious explosion in its ammunition cache.

Zelenskyy asked the contingent, which included Democratic Colorado Congressman Jason Crow, for weapons including Harpoon missile systems.  “They need ground-based anti-ship missiles, the Harpoon, or something like it, because one of the biggest challenges they face right now is getting their food exported,” Crow said. “They’re sitting on 12 million tons of foodstuff, wheat grains, sunflower oil, and this food needs to get out both for the Ukrainian economy, but also to prevent famine and starvation in Africa and the Middle East, in particular. If it doesn’t get out in the next couple months, it will go bad. We’ll see hunger spike throughout the world.”

A new hit against me just dropped.

Years ago, in this video, I was being crass with a friend, trying to be funny.

We were acting foolish, and joking.

That’s it.

I’m NOT backing down.

I told you there would be a drip drip campaign.

Blackmail won't win. We will.

— Madison Cawthorn (@CawthornforNC) May 4, 2022

So there’s this video of Madison Cawthorn.  This disturbing video.  We’re not going to post it here because it’s, well, disturbing.  It obviously depicts Cawthorn making some very homoerotic moves on a male sleeping in a bed in a hotel room–while another male records it–and Cawthorn makes some very guttural sounds.  So for the sake of your marriage and your children, keep the volume down if you’re not alone.

Sweden said the United States has given it security assurances that it will provide support to the European country if it should choose to apply for NATO membership, Reuters reports.

The US would provide assurances against Russian intrusion during the time it take the NATO members to vote on Sweden’s membership.  Russia has threatened aggression if it feels NATO recruiting its border neighbors; Russia invaded Ukraine because, it claims falsely, that Ukraine was imminently joining the Western alliance.

Sweden and its neighbors, Finland and Norway, have been repeated targets of Russian/Soviet aggression throughout history.  The Finland and Sweden have resisted joining NATO, but with Russia’s naked ambition in the region, are reconsidering their security options.

Stewart Rhodes, the one-eyed leader of the Oath Keepers charged with seditious conspiracy for his actions supporting the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress, tried to get authorization from Donald Trump to allow him to forcibly stop the certification of the 2020 election, The Guardian reports.

According to documents filed in the guilty plea of Oath Keeper William Todd Wilson, after the attack by the mob of domestic terrorists failed to stop the certification, Rhodes and other leaders of the Oath Keepers reconvened in a Washington, DC hotel suite.  There, Rhodes called an unspecified individual who he knew to have access to Trump to ask the person to get permission from Trump so armed Oath Keepers could storm the Capitol and take control of Congress.  The person refused to let Rhodes talk to Trump, effectively ending the plan.

“Wilson heard Rhodes repeatedly implore the individual to tell President Trump to call upon groups like the Oath Keepers to forcibly oppose the transfer of power,” the document says. “This individual denied Rhodes’s request to speak directly with President Trump.”

The always civilized discussion of things important to society as found on Fox’s The Five continued its tradition of civil discourse and fair debate, as Geraldo Rivera referred to resident smarm Greg Gutfeld as “You insulting punk!” as hilarity ensures. You know, typical deep analysis as defined by Fox, the reality show of news analysis.

Sources told the Associated Press that exceptionally “hyper” child of the former president who certainly doesn’t have a drug problem Donald Trump, Jr. testified on Tuesday to the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress.

Junior was a key figure in the January 6th timeline, appearing at a rally on the Ellipse with his former Fox personality turned exotic dancer for the right kinda money girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle.  Addressing the crowd, Junior’s speech screech evoked violent imagery of actions that could be taken if Congress didn’t upend the Constitution.

Junior also have extensive text conversations with a number of people in the days leading to January 6th and on that day itself, including texts with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows imploring him to get his father to do things because even Junior’s father doesn’t like to talk to him.

“This article is pushing a looo-dacris narrative that I’m some kind of drag [note uncomfortable breathy chuckle] queen on the side, aside from being a Congressman,” key-bump loving coke whore down for the orgy Madison Cawthorn whines in a campaign ad (?) to either deny credible allegations of crossdressing or raise money (?).  “And really, this is just poor journalism.  And I’m not surprised:  it is Politico, after all, not exactly the same journalistic standards as Fox or Newsmax.  And really with about five minutes of investigation, they could have found that this was taken well before I was in Congress, even before I was running for Congress.  But ask yourself th- this:  Have you ever taken a d-dumb photo on vacation?  Most people have.”

William Todd Wilson, the 44-year-old former leader of the Sampson County chapter of the Oath Keepers (and a man with three first names, so you know what that means) became the third member of the far-right nationalist organization to plead guilty to charges related to the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress, NBC reports.

A former law enforcement officer and a veteran, Wilson was charged just last week, so the fast resolution of the case is a sign that he has been cooperating with prosecutors, who were waiting to see his level of cooperation before deciding on charges.  Wilson reported continues to cooperate with investigators.

In court documents, prosecutors allege Wilson “conspired with” Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes to use force to prevent the peaceful transfer of power through the Congressional certification of the Electoral College votes.  Wilson reported help stage a cache of weapons in suburban Virginia to arm an Oath Keepers “Quick Reaction Force” that would come in to attack the Capitol as reinforcements to the first wave of domestic terrorists.

Whoever this reporter is, we need more of him and less of the Chuck Todds out there. Just damn good and ballsy journalism. Greg Lopez’s website seems to try to sell him as a centrist-ish Republican as the items on the “Issues” page (which is quaint in and of itself that a Republican still pretends his voters give a fuck about actual issues of governance) are pretty boilerplate stuff, some of it you wouldn’t even be able to tell if a Republican or a Dem wrote it. Even the “elections” section doesn’t say anything about “banning Dominion machines”, “forensic audits of every election”, or any of that kind of bullshit. It’s all just bland copy on reforming the redistricting process, with a few sentences devoted to repealing the automatic voter registrations, calling it “forced”.

It’s not until you get to “Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)” which lists off batshit Jim Jordan-style talking points like “Critical thinking has been replaced with ‘Critical Race Theory’… Home economics have been replaced with putting condoms on fruit… Metal/Woodworking shop classes are replaced with gender studies” that shows Lopez is juiced up to his eyeballs on the MAGA Kool-Aid, making him a strong candidate for the Orange one’s complete and total endorsement.

Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona announced that the department has issued a change to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program that will allow 110,000 workers to have their student loan debt forgiven, CNBC reports.

Written by the GW Bush Administration, the forgiveness program allows people to get their loans discharged after making 120 monthly payments without defaulting if they work either as a nonpartisan government employee or a worker at a registered charity.  However, the rules governing the program were so poorly written, eligibility for the program is hard to determine, with many of those applying finding out they were eligible at one point but were no longer, or people who are eligible believing they are not.

The debt forgiveness is then granted through special directives like the one Cardona issued that open windows for applications to be open regularly.

Pope Francis said he told the head of the Russian Orthodox Church to remember his Christian mission and not kowtow to domestic politics and cower to President Vladimir Putin when the two spoke in March, the Washington Post reports.

Francis said he had a 40-minute conversation over Zoom with Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, a vocal supporter of Putin and someone who has supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  “I listened and then told him: I don’t understand anything about this,” Francis said. “Brother, we are not state clerics, we cannot use the language of politics but that of Jesus. We are pastors of the same holy people of God. Because of this, we must seek avenues of peace, to put an end to the firing of weapons.”

The Russian Orthodox Church said Kirill had reached out to the Pope in March to explain the patriarch’s pro-invasion perspective and that Kirill was disappointed Francis chose to share the content of their conversation.  Kirill cited sketchy reports of Russian speakers in Ukraine being attacked prior to the invasion.

More than 600 US Olympic athletes were honored at a Wednesday White House ceremony bringing together the teams that competed in the 2021 Tokyo Summer Games and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games including the Paralympics, the Associated Press reports.

“You represent the very soul of America,” President Joe Biden told the athletes. “It’s been a very divided nation … but you brought us together. No matter the divisions, when we see you compete, we feel a common pride in those three letters: USA.”

The athletes amassed more than 260 medals in the two sets of Olympic Games, with the Tokyo games being delayed a year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Legally blind former computer repair shop owner John Paul Mac Issac, a Trump fan who doesn’t know who actually dropped off the laptop purported to be owned by Hunter Biden because he couldn’t see the person, and didn’t do anything like have the person sign a work order or leave a credit card number to pay for the repair, on which were the emails he simply handed over to Rudy Giuliani like any ethical small business owner would, who shut his repair shop down because who the hell knows after the 2020 election, filed a defamation suit Tuesday against Congressman Adam Schiff, CNN, the Daily Beast, and Politico because they questioned if the asshole might’ve had some suspect motivations in the failed “October Surprise” attempt, the New York Post reports.

Our understanding is that the laptop was never actually owned by Hunter Biden, and only some of the emails it contains were written or received by him, hacked from his account and mixed in with thousands more faked ones and planted on the laptop. Some scumbag fixer working for Rudy and Steve Bannon left it at Isaac’s shop in early 2019, around the same time Rudy and John Solomon were “investigating” Hunter’s work in Ukraine. The whole thing was a hit job designed to torpedo Joe Biden’s candidacy at a time when early polls showed the former VP to be by far the biggest threat to Trump in the 2020 election, and the laptop was supposed to “discovered” after the Ukrainian government would announce an investigation into the Bidens. Problem was that Volodymyr Zelensky had just been elected and was a less than reliable partner to Team MAGA, and his administration announced in May 2019 that Hunter Biden didn’t commit any crimes there.

Watch Junior.  Watch Junior tweek.  Watch Junior talk at about 1.5x speed to get his paranoia completely on camera, while he starts Gosar-ishly jerking and twitching like he’s just done a dozen key bumps with Madison Cawthorn while smoking meth with the Rodent from Rifle after an orgy with Marge and a CrossFit patron.  Watch Junior burn out and quickly fall into irrelevance as he retreats into Truth Social.