Police have apprehended Frank James, the 62-year-old man who shot at least ten people during an attack on a New York City subway in Brooklyn, an assault that injured at least 29 total, the Associated Press reports.

James was arrested in Manhattan.  As this is a new event, details surrounding the circumstance of the arrest are scarce.

The Tennessee anti-LGBT common law marriage bill that at first didn’t have an age minimum is officially dead for at least a year, after it became clear that the other issues in it – including potentially allowing polygamy – were too much even for some Republicans, the AP reports.

In a Politico piece reexamining Trump’s 2019 Ukraine scandal in which the fat fuck tried to actually induce foreign interference in an election by withholding Congressionally approved aid to an allied country, to which his ball-sucking cultists said was not only not an impeachable offense but it was actually pretty badass, there’s one interesting detail about the Pentagon planning to defy the Trump White House’s budget office and ship weaponry to Kyiv.

The plot hinged on imaginary bureaucratic red tape invented by the budget office to give cover to Trump’s plot to withhold the shipments and shortly before the whole thing blew up and the House Dems started investigating, US military officials began drawing up the contingency plan to fulfill the legal obligation to Ukraine. It’s almost too bad that they didn’t do it. Would’ve been way more badass to see the real men and patriots in the military telling MAGA Nazis to go fuck themselves.

Either way it’s still nice to have a reminder to the “This never would’ve happened if Trump wasn’t cheated out of a second term” dipshits that there’s an actual record of the flabby orange man betraying Ukraine for petty political gain, trying to torpedo Biden – and then losing to him anyway.

Macon County, North Carolina Board of Elections Director Melanie Thibault tells Citizen-Times.com that former Trump White House Chief of Staff and total chickenshit Mark Meadows has been removed from the state’s voter rolls after she found he voted in Virginia in 2021 and failed to list his North Carolina status on his registration form in the neighboring state – likely on purpose.

State law enforcement are still investigating whether Meadows and his wife committed a crime when they blatantly lied about their residence in a shack in rural North Carolina when registering to vote in the state in 2020. Not very hard to imagine that since some polling prior to the election said Biden had a strong chance of winning there, that Meadows decided to fuck around and vote illegally in his former home state rather than in Virginia – where he was actually living and where the Orange God Emperor lost by 10%. Every vote counts when you’re in an actual swing state.

I’m honored to have the support of President Trump! https://t.co/NVYzqHK1rl

— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) April 13, 2022

Having been caught blatantly lying about his academic credentials, Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker is moving on to imaginary success in the business world too by claiming he owns companies that don’t even exist, the Daily Beast reports on bullshit that would have ended past candidacies yet will do nothing to dissuade MAGA voters from backing Walker this fall, because he’s against high gas prices and CTR. Only the color of his skin could do that. Whichever white libertarian is running for the seat should look forward to possibly getting more votes than the delta between incumbent Dem Senator Raphael Warnock and Walker.

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenko claims to have captured 1,026 Ukrainian troops in its offensive against the besieged eastern port city of Mariupol on Wednesday, the Associated Press reports. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry did not confirm the Russian claim.

Even Zelensky the Comic came out of retirement to take shots at the Russians.

Responding to statements from Russian President Vladimir Putin that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is still going according to plan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reverted back to his previous career of comic actor.

“In Russia it was once again said that their so-called ‘special operation’ is supposedly going according to plan. But, to be honest, no one in the world understands how such a plan could even come about,” Zelensky said in his Wednesday (local time) daily video address. “How could a plan that provides for the death of tens of thousands of their own soldiers in a little more than a month of war come about? Who could approve such a plan?”

State health officials are warning Florida residents to be aware of a large outbreak of meningococcal disease, a deadly illness cause by a bacterial infection disease that is highly dangerous and sometime fatal, ABC News reports.

The bacteria is passed from person to person through close body contact, including kissing.  The outbreak in Florida has sickened 21 people since the beginning of the year, a total that is typically the five year average for the state.  This outbreak is primarily hitting gay and bisexual men in Florida, hinting that Patient Zero is likely a gay man who either lives in or visited Florida in the first part of the year.

“[Florida Department of Health] epidemiologists are investigating each case as well as contacting people with potential or direct exposure to known cases to provide them with information and treatment options,” the department said in a statement that did not include the word “gay,” apparently in compliance with Republican Governor Ron DeSantis’s wish that the state un-person the LGBTQ community.

Using a Presidential Drawdown Authority directive, President Joe Biden will send $750 million in additional military equipment, ammunition and supplies to Ukraine to help bolster that nation’s army in its battle against invading Russians, Reuters reports.

The authority allows the President to distribute equipment without seeking Congressional approval when dealing with an emergency.  The specific equipment has not been determined, but unnamed sources say it will include heavy ground equipment like howitzers.

Since February 1st, the United States has provided more than $1.5 billion in military aid and equipment to Ukraine, including anti-aircraft Stinger and anti-tank Javelin missiles, as well as ammunition and body armor.  Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy implored Western leaders to keep up the supplies of arms so Ukraine could fight off continuing Russian attacks.

The Left has corrupted the justice system.

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— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 12, 2022

I almost feel sorry for ridiculing Senator Ted Cruz (R-Quintana Roo) because it seems he never stops doing highly mockable things.  Y’know, like blaming his daughters for going to Cancun, or blaming his daughters for wanting to buy an electric car that makes fart noises, or blaming his daughters for trying to overthrow the governme– anyway, you get the idea.  So Cruz’s daughters are in for a doozy.

It seems  Caroline Camille Cruz and Catherine Christiane Cruz (yes, that’s their names) designed Dad’s new book cover featuring an image of the Russian statue “The Motherland Calls,” a Volgograd landmark calling people to defend Russia.  I s’pose the girls will be sent to bed without Daddy reading a passage from “Atlas Shrugged” as their punishment.  

An Alaskan youth basketball league is apologizing profusely after accidentally, they claim, including sexual abuse in a list of things the league would be held harmless for, the Anchorage Daily News reports.

The Alaska Association of Basketball Coaches included a waiver for players who were selected to participate in the state all-star games that would be held around the state, requiring the players travel with coaches and other chaperones.  Along with things like injuries incurred when playing and food allergy issues, the waiver held the association harmless if the child suffered sexual abuse.

The association’s president, David Porter, said that the association hadn’t changed the form and apparently the waiver for sexual abuse had been in the text for years.

Former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone, a far right asshole who nonetheless apparently stopped a lot of bad shit from happening as the Orange God Emperor’s regime crumbled in the late 2020 and early 2021, and his sidekick Patrick Philbin will testify to the House January 6th Select Committee this week, Politico reports. Highlights from the testimony are sure to include Cipollone threatening to quit if Trump installed traitor Jeffrey Clark as Attorney General, threatening to quit if Trump installed traitor Kash Patel as CIA director, threatening to quit if Trump appointed traitor Sidney “Kraken” Powell as special counsel, talking Trump out of self-pardoning, and warning White House staff to avoid Trump so they didn’t get prosecuted for treason on January 6th. Then there’s probably a bunch of other completely insane shit we don’t have any idea about yet.

Former New York City mayor and incompetent shitbrain lawyer Rudy Giuliani, still in not out of the woods with federal prosecutors nearly a year after an FBI raid on his home and office that seized no less than 18 different electronic devices (but not Hunter’s laptop, according to Rudy), recently unlocked three phones for investigators to show he had nothing to hide from them, CNN reports.

Remember this is a guy who needed to be instructed on the basics of courtroom procedure by a federal judge in a case that was supposed to decide the outcome of a presidential election, so who knows if he really knows what he’s talking about here. Does he even remember this shitshow started with Ukraine? Does he know what’s going on there right now, or does he plan to call Volodymyr Zelensky as a witness in his trial? He’s not too busy these days, right?

A communications and social media advisor to Republican dirty trickster (and guy who can show Madison Cawthorn where the cocaine orgies are) Roger Stone told a conference call of Trump supporters who were planning to attend January 6th protests in Washington that they should “storm the Capitol” and that Donald Trump would impose martial law to prevent election winner Joe Biden from being certified as the winner of the 2020 election, the New York Times reports.

One week before the January 6th certification of the 2021 Electoral College vote, Stone associate Jason Sullivan joined the call to urge people to attack the Capitol and disrupt the operations of Congress, recordings of the call show.

After he encouraged the group to do everything they could to intimidate members of Congress and/or force Congress to halt proceedings, Sullivan said, “Biden will never be in that White House. That’s my promise to each and every one of you.”

Robert Costa of CBS News reports that former vice president and Chalk American Mike Pence on Tuesday visited the memorial in Charlottesville, Virginia for slain anti-racism activist Heather Heyer, who was killed by white nationalists during an August 2017 protest in the city.

While he was vice president, Pence and Donald Trump coddled the white supremacist attackers, who were supposedly protesting the removal of a statue of defeated secessionist Robert E. Lee from a city park.  The white supremacists, which included members of neo-Nazi groups and the Ku Klux Klan, were praised by Trump as “very fine people” as he sought to diminish the importance of racists among his followers.  Heyer’s mother refused a phone call from Trump because he called in the middle of her daughter’s funeral.

Heyer was killed when a neo-Nazi, James Fields sped his car down a narrow street into a group of anti-racism protesters who had assembled to confront the white supremacists, who had marched through Charlottesville the night before carrying tiki torches and shouting slogans like “Jews with not replace us.”  Far right activists have said that the group were not white nationalists, but were people celebrating antebellum Southern culture, most of which centered around slavery. 

New York City police announced that the still-at-large shooter who opened fire on a city subway train in Brooklyn Tuesday morning had three extended-capacity magazines with him, but his .380 caliber handgun jammed, likely saving numerous lives, ABC News reports.

Twenty-nine people were treated for injuries in the incident, with five remaining in serious but stable condition.  Many of the injured were hurt as people stampeded away from the scene, where the shooter had deployed a smoke canister to cover his tracks and cause confusion.

Police recovered the shooters backpack, which held one loaded magazine.  Another magazine was located on the ground by the backpack, as was the gun, which police say jammed because the magazine was not properly seated in the magazine well.  It was not specified how many shots the gunman fired, or if the magazine found on the ground was loaded or empty.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which he characterizes as a mission to de-Nazify Ukraine and protect women and children, is going exactly as planned, the Associated Press reports.

Although Russia’s clear initial objective of capturing the capital city of Kyiv has fallen short, Putin claims the military plans are on schedule.  He said the invasion, which started at the end of February, would continue until all strategic goals of the invasion are met.