The propaganda being used to get us into a war with Russia is truly amazing. I guess I’ve seen so much nonsense that I’ve become cynical, but you had to know this one was fake right when it broke… unless you’ve been in a coma for the last few years. https://t.co/Yv4J6RT34I

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 2, 2022

Texas Gov Greg Abbott’s moronic “border inspection” shitshow that lasted 10 days last month and found zero drugs or migrants hiding in trucks crossing in from Mexico was already estimated to have cost his state’s economy at least $4.3 billion, but now that the Mexican government have decided they’ve had enough of the weak man’s bullshit and will reroute a planned international railroad corridor into New Mexico to avoid future issues, the Dallas Morning News reports.

“We’re now not going to use Texas. We can’t leave all the eggs in one basket and be hostages to someone who wants to use trade as a political tool,” said Mexican Economy Minister Tatiana Clouthier last week that the T-MEC Corridor’s route will now take it through Santa Theresa, New Mexico, completely bypassing Texas on its planned path from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Mazatlán on old Mexico’s Pacific coast. Abbott’s options for retaliating against this “economic terrorism” are not clear at this point though they may include more racism towards Mexicans, a lot more racism toward Mexicans, or even an extreme level of racism towards Mexicans. Publicly demanding that his state’s junior US Senator boycott Cancun is probably not on the table, however.

Athletes, coaches and spectators scrambled after an angered father of a youth basketball player pulled a gun on another parent and attempted to shoot him, with the gun thankfully jamming, during a Sunday youth AAU basketball tournament in Massachusetts, WFXT Fox 25 Boston reports.  Jose Mow, a 34-year-old Bostonian, was arrested by Westford police and charged with carrying a firearm without a license, ammunition possession, assault with a dangerous weapon, and causing a disturbance at a public assembly.

MAGA Congressman Ronny Jackson is refusing to incriminate himself in an act of seditious conspiracy by explaining to the House January 6th Select Committee why the fuck he was texting with the Oath Keepers during the Capitol riot. “I will not participate in the illegitimate Committee’s ruthless crusade against President Trump and his allies,” said Jackson on Monday after he and pals Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs were asked to answer some questions from the committee.

A former NYPD officer who claimed he was defending himself at the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress when he swung a metal flagpole at police officers and attempted to choke one out using the strap of the officer’s gasmask was found guilty of six charges after just two hours of jury deliberation, WNBC-4 New York reports.

Thomas Webster, a 56-year-old who is also a former Marine, will face a maximum of 20 years in jail.  He is the first of the January 6th domestic terrorists to claim he was acting in self-defense when he and others attack DC Metropolitan and Capitol Police who had formed a line to prevent the domestic terrorists from invading the Capitol.

Webster testified in his defense that he didn’t hit or punch one of the officers he was accused of assaulting, Metropolitan Police Department officer Noah Rathbun, and instead claimed Rathbun was askin’ for it by standing in his way and, Webster claims, punching Webster.  Video shown at the trial showed Webster was lying. 

Alabama authorities led by white Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton have issued a warant for the arrest of white corrections officer Vicky White, 56, on suspicion she absconded with white accused murderer Casey White, 38 (reportedly no relation, but it is Alabama), CBS News reports.

The white corrections officer White was driving the white suspected killer White from Lauderdale County Detention Center in Florence, Alabama to a mental health evaluation at the local courthouse with a practitioner that may or may not be white. But probably would have been, had the appointment actually been on the schedule. Instead Vicky White appears to have lied about her reason for driving Casey White out of the jailhouse, violated department policy by driving alone with him, and ditched her department vehicle in a nearby shopping center parking lot. As such it would appear more likely than not that the white criminal seduced the white corrections officer into becoming a willing participant in his flight, thus the all points bulletin for both Caucasians.

The House January 6th Committee on Monday sent letters requesting interviews with far right Reps Paul Gosar, Andy Biggs, and Ronny Jackson over their involvement in the coup attempt.

BREAKING: Former Mayor of New Smyrna Beach Adam Barringer has ENDORSED my campaign for U.S. Congress FL-7!

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— Anthony Sabatini (@AnthonySabatini) May 2, 2022

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, whose main contribution to the international community’s response to the murderous Russian assault on Ukraine was Jewsplaining to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky why indirectly comparing the invasion to the Holocaust is wrong, lashed out at Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday for comparing Zelensky to Hitler with the debunked old yarn that Hitler had some Jewish ancestry, Ynetnews.com reports.

On Sunday Lavrov told reporters that Zelensky “put forward an argument that because he is a Jew, there can be no talk about the ‘nazification’ of Ukraine. I might be mistaken, but Hitler also had Jewish blood. This means absolutely nothing. Wise Jewish people say that Jews are traditionally the most vehement anti-Semites. ‘There’s a rotten apple in every barrel,’ as we say.”

Bennett, a former tech bro sitting comfortably in an air conditioned building in the white side of the mostly safe and comfy Apartheid state he leads, was at least consistent in responding to Lavrov. “His words are untrue and their intentions are wrong. Using the Holocaust of the Jewish people as a political tool must cease immediately. Lies such as these mean to blame Jews for the horrible crimes committed against them throughout history and by doing so, remove responsibility from their enemies,” said Bennett, who probably then went back to bitching about non-Jewish Ukrainian refugees coming to Israel or trying to help Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich evade Western sanctions because they need his money to keep the lights on at the Holocaust museum.

Russian teenage douchebag pro gamer Ivan “Pure” Moskalenko got his team disqualified from an international DOTA 2 tournament in Sweden on Saturday when he drew a “Z” over the game’s map during a livestreamed intermission of the tournament, Kotaku reports . These fast strategy games are dense as hell, their concepts too idiosyncratic and inaccessible even to many of us who are gamers, but the easiest way to explain it is that, like 1990s-era football commentators, Moskalenko and his team were drawing lines on a live map of their wizard soldiers’ manuevers against their opponents’ – two of whom are Ukrainian – when Moskalenko went ahead and drew the “Z”.

Moskalenko and his teammates quickly tried to walk it back, scribbling over the letter, and the teenage fascist tweeting a video apology, but the damage was done. Officials with the Esports League One Dota 2 Stockholm Major promptly disqualified Vitus.pro’s DOTA 2 from the tournament for the implied support for the murderous assault on Ukraine. The team’s CEO then fired “Pure”.

“So you all support the Azov Nazi battalion? 33 Million to arm Nazis? Nato funded Nazis? If this shit site allowed attachments, I’d level you guys right now with proofs” says a commenter calling himself “GODISMYTR” on the Kotaku article, an obvious MAGA gamer who wandered far afield from his safe space on 4chan or wherever the assholes post their bullshit these days.

Fat former President Trump reportedly asked then-Secretary of Defense Mark Esper if US military troops could wound Black Lives Matter protestors as outraged demonstrations gripped the country following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, Axios reports on a preview of Esper’s new book.

“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?” Esper quotes Trump as asking him in June 2020, days after the Orange coward was rushed into the basement shelter by Secret Service agents worried the libs would storm the White House. Esper described the moment as “surreal, sitting in front of the Resolute desk, inside the Oval Office, with this idea weighing heavily in the air, and the president red faced and complaining loudly about the protests.”

DC Circuit Court Judge Timothy Kelly dismissed on late Sunday night the Republican National Committee’s lawsuit against the House January 6th Select Committee seeking to block a subpoena to Salesforce for the GOP’s fundraising data. The court will continue the RNC’s case against Salesforce attempting to block their compliance with the subpoena, but it’s not looking good.

Worse for the MAGA cult are the following rulings that will likely impact other bullshit lawsuits against the committee: That the panel is properly constituted, even without a full slate of 13 members, Liz Cheney can be considered the ranking member, and that the subpoena has against the RNC has a “valid legislative purpose.” That last one has to sting in particular since its inclusion in pretty much every complaint against a House subpoena since the Dems took over in 2019.

North Carolina parents outraged over school's 'Satan Club' https://t.co/hRaSU0B3XD

— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 1, 2022

This is one for the books ladies and gents. Some wiseass lib trolls set up a web page for an “After School Satan Club” at Joyner Elementary School in Greensboro, North Carolina which, per the Fox News article “is attempting to establish a presence at schools in the area” (they’re not, it’s fucking trolling), which causes MAGA parents to hold a prayer rally at the school (holy shit, lol), which gets picked up by Fox News, hook line and sinker. The last third of the article acknowledges that the “Satanists” are simply lib trolls, even quotes one of the ordained ministers of the Satanic Temple as saying they were asked to troll the school by lefty parents justifiably annoyed over flyers for some Evangelical club, but it might as well not be there at all. It’s not like the Fox News fans read that far.

“The United States of American was created as a Christian God fearing nation so why would we not continue to teach those beliefs in the American Public school system? Our children need more God, parental guidance and teachers who teach basic education in our Country ?? ?” says one of the top-ranked comments, by some dumbass who pretty obviously didn’t read that far.

Officials have told the 6,000 residents to prepare to evacuate the historic town of Taos, New Mexico because of the dangers of the wildfires encroaching around the area, Reuters reports.  First settled in the 1600s, Taos is a popular tourist destination known for its arts and culture.

Wildfires have been whipping through New Mexico in recent weeks, fueled by high winds and an ongoing drought.  State and local governments have been constructing fire breaks north and west of the city of Las Vegas, with 15,000 residents western New Mexico.

The largest of the regional fires, the Calf Canyon fire has destroyed an area about the size of the city of Albuquerque, just over 100,000 acres.

MyPillow assclown Mike Lindell’s new ban evasion Twitter account lasted approximately 3.5 hours, from the 1:25 PM EDT timestamp of his re-introductory tweet and the 5:02 PM screenshot by the Daily Beast’s Zach Petrizzo of the suspended account. Might’ve gone quicker on a weekday.

https://youtu.be/nmjdCdouSLQ

Take two of the Donald’s Nebraska rally with his complete and totally endorsed fellow sexual assaulter Charles Herbster after Friday’s try was canceled due to a tornado threat.

Lindell was sentenced to life in the birdcage in January 2021, and yet here he is again with a new account that, by all appearances is legitimately his and not some lib troll socking as him. Roger Stone’s recent return to the platform lasted all of six hours so let’s see if Mike Lindell can beat that running time. Keep in mind Elon Musk doesn’t actually own Twitter yet and will not until probably this fall at the earliest – and it’s still not a 100% done deal. Musk could very easily fuck it up.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is considering invoking “war powers” over the migrant “invasion” of the Mexican border in the latest effort to compensate for his inadequacies as a leader and a man, the New York Times reports. Abbott’s right-hand and not-quite-right-eyed man Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton believes the move would be workable because the Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution says “No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay,” which totally would apply to impoverished people looking for work on farms and in restaurant kitchens. Instead of using state troops to shoot them however, Abbott and Paxton want state police to arrest and deport them before federal immigration authorities can reach them.

Biden is just a front man. Obama, April 21: social media censors “don’t go far enough,” so the government needs to step in to do the job. Six days later, Homeland Security rolls out the 'Ministry of Truth' (aka Disinformation Governance Board). pic.twitter.com/CHOD4mbE0B

— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) May 1, 2022