Officials ordered the evacuation of buildings and residences in the area surrounding a burning fertilizer plant in Leoti, Kansas, in the western part of the state, because of hazardous and explosive materials were stored at the plant, KQFX Fox 22 in Columbia reports.

No one was immediately reported injured at the plant, which was reported on fire at 3:30 p.m. local time.  Firefighting units and hazardous materials from two counties were assisting with the response to the fire.

The Justice Department will file an appeal of a Florida federal judge’s highly-criticized ruling to terminate mask mandates on planes and trains if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention deems reinstating them would be beneficial at this time, USA Today reports.

“The department continues to believe that the order requiring masking in the transportation corridor is a valid exercise of the authority Congress has given CDC to protect the public health,” the Justice Department said in a statement. “If CDC concludes that a mandatory order remains necessary for the public’s health after that assessment, the Department of Justice will appeal the district court’s decision.”

The transit mandate had been scheduled to be reviewed by the end of April to determine the need for it to be carried on.

“It’s absurd what they are claiming and lying about and the, they’re going to allow the press in the courtroom,” three toed sloth/human hybrid Congresswoman Majorie Taylor Greene (Q-Ga) tells former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis about her court appearance Friday in a lawsuit brought by her constituents to determine if she’s eligible for office and not a secessionist.  “They’re going to allow the whole thing to be, ah, videoed live out to go anywhere in, in the world they want to, and you know what that’s going to look like.  The Democrats and the nasty Mainstream Media, y’know, the, the ones that, th- that lie about me constantly anyways, well they’re gonna be able to twist and turn and clip out any little piece they want of the horrible things that these funded attorneys are going tah try and say about me, and it’s crazy, Jenna.”

One of two things will happen during Marge’s testimony:  she’ll totally renounce QAnon and the domestic terrorists who attacked Congress, for which she will be excommunicated from Q for her betrayal; or she’ll start dishing dirt on her House colleagues about who was involved to show she’s a “real patriot” desperate to hold her seat.

Fremont County, Colorado prosecutors have requested and were granted a motion to drop charges against terrible husband Barry Morphew, whose wife Suzanne disappeared without a trace in 2020 – after which Barry forged and mailed in her ballot for ex-President Trump, the Denver Post reports.

Coming just 10 days before Morphew’s trial was set to begin, the ruling – in which prosecutors straight up admitted they fucked up by withholding potentially exculpatory evidence – does leave open the possibility charges could be brought again. Then there’s also that DNA from an unknown male linked to sexual assault cases in other states was reportedly found in Suzanne’s SUV, which does actually add a lot of reasonable doubt. No word on the voter fraud charge Barry admitted to when questioned by the FBI in April 2021, saying “I know she (Suzanne) was going to vote for Trump anyways,” and he knew the “other guys were cheating” so he would give Trump “another vote” but they’ll probably let that go too since only libs cheat in elections.

Fox News reports white trash hag Roseanne Barr characterizes her 2018 firing from her eponymous sitcom over a racist tweet she blamed on “Ambien” sleep pills to be a “witch-burning” which is a total exaggeration because she wasn’t burned at all. She was just terminated from her job.

Twenty six Republican governors have decided to waste their state tax dollars on a publicity stunt to form a privately controlled military force ostensibly to patrol the southern border for illegal border crossings but is actually an expensive set up for photo opportunities.

According to a press release by Republican Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, the GOP state leaders settled on the name “American Governors’ Border Strike Force” for the band of state national guardsmen

Joining Arizona are the governors of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.

A 70-year-old Texas man is in custody and charged with murder after he shot and killed his 60-year-old neighbor because the neighbor’s dog was spotting running around the neighborhood, according to KTBC Fox 7 Austin.

William Duncan Womack went to talk with his neighbor, Eric Lee Elliott who was doing yard work in the front of his house, after Elliott declared to Womack’s daughter that he would shoot the Womack’s dog if it every wandered onto his property again.

As Womack approached Elliott, Elliott kicked Womack’s leg, knocking him to the ground.  Elliott then produced a .45-caliber handgun from his waistband and shot Womack once in the stomach.  First responders airlifted Womack to a hospital, where he died.

Witnesses said after shooting Womack, Elliott put the handgun back into his pickup truck and continued to do yard work until police arrived.

“A Florida man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to threatening a member of the US House of Representatives. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and US Attorney Roger B. Handberg for the Middle District of Florida made the announcement. On April 19, David Hannon, 67, of Sarasota, entered a guilty plea before U.S. Magistrate Judge Christopher P. Tuite to an information charging him with one count of threatening a federal official. According to information presented at the guilty plea hearing, on July 16, 2019, while in Sarasota, Hannon sent an email to US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar threatening to kill her.”

“Hannon sent the email following a televised press conference held by Representative Omar and three other US Congresswomen. In his threatening email, which had a subject line that read, ‘[You’re] dead, you radical Muslim,’ Hannon referred to Congresswoman Omar and the other Congresswomen of color as ‘radical rats,’ and asked Congresswoman Omar if she was prepared ‘to die for Islam.’ The email further stated that Hannon was going to shoot the Congresswomen in the head. ‘Threatening to kill our elected officials, especially because of their race, ethnicity or religious beliefs, is offensive to our nation’s fundamental values,’ said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. ‘The Justice Department will not hesitate to prosecute individuals who violate federal laws that prohibit violent, hate-motivated threats. All elected officials, regardless of their background, should be able to represent their communities and serve the public free from hate-motivated threats and violence'” – DOJ press release.

Alleged son of an alleged assassin and man who knows a little too much about which premium cable channel to turn to to find softcore porn, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Quintana Roo):  “I think there are people who are misguided trying to drive, y’know, Disney stepping in saying, y’know, in every episode now they’re gonna have y’know, y’know, Mickey and Pluto going at it.  Like, really?  It’s just like, c’mon guys, these are kids and, and, y’know, y-y-y-you can always shift to Cinemax if you want that.  Like, like why do you have–it used to be, hey, look, I’m a dad and you used to be able to put your kids on the Disney Channel and be, alright, something innocuous is on.”

Is Ted Cruz thinking Disney will be putting zoophilia-oriented sexualized images of its cartoon characters on its television networks.  Or more likely, is Ted Cruz hoping Disney will be putting zoophilia-oriented sexualized images of its cartoon characters on its television networks?

CNN+, the streaming service which we bet no National Zero reader will admit to subscribing to, is likely fucked just months after its launch as Axios reports new owner Warner-Discovery has axed all marketing for the app and fired CNN’s CFO Brad Ferrer over the clusterfuck.

We’re going to put on our Dunning-Kruger hats and baselessly speculate that the paltry 150,000 monthly subscriber count for CNN+ has everything to do with the fact that there are already too many “plus” named streaming services, with Disney+, Paramount+, AppleTV+, AMC+, and BET+, just to name a few. All this marketing talent and all they could think of was the same fucking mathematical operator all the other guys – including newly merged in sister brand the Discovery Channel (yeah, there’s Discovery+ too) are using? Were they too afraid that “CNN Pro” would be too easy for dumbass MAGA trolls to lamely joke that it’s short for “CNN Propaganda“? Christ almighty CNN needs to grow a pair. And come up with some original dramas like “Jake Tapper, PI” or “Jeffrey Toobin’s Taxicab Confessions.” Those’ll put the asses back in the seats.

The tweet has since been deleted.  The above image is a screenshot.

The International Monetary Fund has revised downward its forecasts for worldwide economic growth due to the adverse effect of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the global markets, CNN reports.

The IMF says the war will cause a slowdown around the world as sanctions against Russia cripple that nation’s economy and other countries feel the bite of sanctions they put on the Kremlin for invading Ukraine.  The IMF moved its forecast to 3.6% for 2022 and 2023, a reduction of 0.8 and 0.2 percentage points, respectively.

Ukraine, obviously, is expected to take the biggest drop, losing 35% of its economic power due to the destruction cause by invading Russian troops.  Russia’s economy will constrict by more than 8% due to the sanctions imposed by the global community.

In direct and unhidden retaliation for the Walt Disney Company exercising its Constitutional right to free speech–a provision supported by the conservative-pushed Citizens United Supreme Court decision–Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced legislation that would repeal Disney’s status as a special taxing and governing body, the Miami Herald reports.

“I am announcing today that we are expanding the call of what they are going to be considering this week,’’ DeSantis said at a news conference held at the crime-ridden enclave The Villages, the site of massive voter fraud during the 2020 election. “Yes, they will be considering the congressional map, but they also will be considering termination of all special districts that were enacted in Florida prior to 1968 — and that includes the Reedy Creek Improvement District.”

The Reedy Creek Improvement District was the name given in the 1960s to the area of land where Disney World was developed.  It provided Disney with great latitude in running the property on which the massive Disney operation in Florida, which employs nearly 80,000 people directly, and supports hundreds of thousands of jobs in the state.

The husband of federal judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, who ruled that the mask mandate on public transportation was illegal because she claimed it led to torture and detention, is a former Trump administration appointee who was hired earlier this year as counsel for Jared Kushner’s new, Saudi-financed investment fund.

Chad Mizelle, who was the former assistant counselor to the president as well as former chief of staff and acting general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security.

Judge Mizelle has been widely criticized for her ruling for making her decision without hearing arguments, for citing debunked information, and for overextending the impact of her decision to all public transportation instead of just the parties involved in the case.  She was just seven years removed from law school after Trump appointed to her to the bench, from a position as an associate at a law firm who had never argued a case before a court.  She gained her seat on the bench despite being judged “not qualified” by the American Bar Association during her confirmation hearings.

Canceling 41% of math textbooks submitted for use in Florida public schools has benefited one company:  Accelerate Learning, a Texas-based company that finds itself as the only publisher whose kindergarten through fifth grade books qualify for the Florida purchase, the Tallahassee Democrat reports.

DeSantis and the Florida Department of Education ruled nearly half of the math textbooks submitted for consideration for use in Florida schools were unsuitable because, they claimed, the textbooks included “prohibited material” including information that promotes critical race theory.  The state has yet to release examples from these books that discuss the subject, which is taught in law schools, not math classes.

The CEO of Accelerate, Philip Galati, was a one-time donor to Republican candidates, having given a total of $1,500 to Mitt Romney’s and Scott Brown’s unsuccessful 2012 campaigns.  There are no public records of Galati or other officers donating significant amounts to political candidates in the past decade.

Fat ex-President Trump sure likes to complain about the border “crisis” in his statements these days – pretty much every one he puts out mentions it as a consequence of the media rigging the 2020 election against him by reporting on the stupid, evil shit he did in office – but he doesn’t seem to ever want to go there to defend America from the caravans of Venezuelan ISIS members invading to take the country away from “traditional Americans” (which is code for “Caucasians”).

We’re not making a big joke out of this like we did with that batshit story we made up about how he would save Ukraine with his super powers. This is just a medium joke adding color to a serious question: The fat fuck has plenty of time and financial resources scammed from his idiot fans to stage his own border expeditions that would be covered lavishly by RSBN. It’s only like a 2 or 3 hour flight from Palm Beach to southern Texas, he could do it 3 times a week. He wouldn’t even need to do anything, he could just stage a rally in some empty field next to his unfinished wall and say the same racist rants over and over again. So why doesn’t he do it? Is he really that goddamned lazy?

Moreover, if it’s such a “crisis” then why don’t the other dipshit Republicans spend more time at the border? Every so often they like to stroke it to tweets about how long it’s been since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been to the border, and outside of a few lame and moronically staged photo ops they haven’t really been spending all that much time there themselves. It’s not like they have any governing to do. They’re doing their voters a disservice by pretending to represent them from their air conditioned offices and douchey cocktail parties in DC instead of pretending to represent them from the dusty streets of El Paso. It’s time to get fucking serious and make a run for the border, you GOP pussies. Otherwise the libs might catch on and realize you’re full of shit.

CORRECTION: On Monday, we inaccurately referred to Malcolm Nance as an MSNBC analyst. To clarify, Nance is a former analyst and is not currently affiliated with the network.

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 19, 2022

Former Trump White House Doctor and current Congressman Ronny Jackson appears to be implicated in the Oath Keepers’ seditious conspiracy to overthrow the legitimately elected government of the United States, court documents filed Monday in the case reveal. In the long filing, transcripts of communications between the Oath Keepers during the riot, specifically their leader, Stewart Rhodes texting a fellow MAGA terrorist at 3:10 PM during the riot, saying “Dr. Ronnie [sic] Jackson – on the move. Needs protecti[on]… Give him my cell,” on page 145.

The owner of douchey MAGA twitter account @LibsOfTikTok has been officially doxxed by the Washington Post and her name is Chaya Raichik, an Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn “real estate investor” who was at the Capitol riot – and may or may not have been inside the building.

Fucking unbelievable: @TaylorLorenz, after sobbing on national TV 2 weeks ago, claiming she's the victim of "harassment," showed up at the house of the relatives of the citizen behind @libsoftiktok and badgered them, according to @libsoftiktok.

The bullies claim to be bullied.

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 19, 2022

And boy some people aren’t happy, lol.

Heinous gorgon and “sexy” cheerleader Kim Guilfoyle spoke with House January 6th Select Committee investigators for 9 hours Monday, NBC’s Julia Jester reports. The stygian banshee – heavily involved with planning the “Stop the Steal” Ellipse rally – had blown up a February interview because she was frightened by the presence of Space Laser guys Adam Schiff and Jaime Raskin.