French President Emmanuel Macron finds himself in serious danger of losing reelection as his 2017 opponent, the white nationalist harridan Marine Le Pen, has surged in polls as inflation grips the country, the AP reports. The first round with a field of 12 candidates takes place on Sunday with the top two – widely expected to be Macron and Le Pen – facing off in the final round on April 24th. Le Pen has benefitted from insane asshole racist Eric Zemmour’s candidacy making her seem less extreme by comparison, as well as learning how to use racist dog whistles better than she did in 2017, when she suffered a crushing defeat from Macron.

Surprise 😉 pic.twitter.com/AWa5RjYosD

— Embassy of Ukraine to the UK (@UkrEmbLondon) April 9, 2022

Florida Republicans who support the state’s twisted “Don’t Say Gay” bill and constantly call critics of the measure “pedophiles” and “groomers” have been accepting donations from the vile Conservative pedophile former Congressman Mark Foley, who resigned in disgrace in 2006 after he was caught drunkenly trying to break into a dorm housing underage boys who worked as congressional pages, Insider reports. Since 2010, Foley’s former campaign committee has made $118,250 in donations and sponsorship to the Palm Beach County Republican Party – the party gau in which Mar-a-Lago, the holy Asgard of the MAGAverse from which all glory emanates, is located.

Even some currently serving Republican lawmakers have accepted campaign cash from the demented pervert, including Florida House members Mike Caruso and Rick Roth, who received $2,000 and $5,000, from Foley since 2016, per FEC records. In 2019 Trump minion Roger Stone – a sexual deviant himself – called Foley a “great American patriot” and excused away his squealery with “a man who doesn’t need to apologize because let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”

Republican Hampton County, Virginia Electoral Board Chair David Dietrich is refusing to step down from his post after a February 2021 racist tirade in which he called Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Retired General Russell Honore “stinking [n-words]” surfaced this week, WAVY reports.

“This situation with the United States military is getting more disgusting and dangerous by the day. First. we have a new Secretary of Defense, retired 4-star general Lloyd Austin, Standing dawn the military to ferret out ‘white nationalists.’ In Other words, he Wants to remove conservative, freedom-loving Americans from the And we have the appointment Of a retired 3-Star general, Russel Honere, by Nancy Pelosi, to review the ‘security of Capital [sic] Hill. To listen to this guy, you would think he was a Black Nationalist. These so-called ‘leaders’ are so vile and racist, there’s no way to describe them other than in terms their Own people understand, They are nothing more than dirty. Stinking [n-words]” Dietrich wrote in a Facebook post on February 17, 2021.

The Hampton County GOP Chair has called on a judge responsible for managing board appointments to remove Dietrich. “He’s responsible for what he wrote; I am responsible for who I recommend to the court. I can’t speak for what he thinks or what he believes but I can rectify the wrong that I made in having him appointed there,” Chairman Philip Siff told WAVY on Friday.

• Z is the new swastika.  Look for it at upcoming white nationalist rallies near you.  And there will be white nationalist rallies near you.
• With the swearing-in of Ketanji Brown Jackson, Black Americans will have representation on the Supreme Court for the first time in 30 years.  (There’s a difference between being a representative of a group and representing that group.  Clarence is the former, not the latter.)
• Republicans are pro-Russia and anti-Disney.  My long-dead father wouldn’t recognize today’s GOP.  
• Funny how first, the GOP railed against CRT being taught in schools, and now they’re against education acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ+ people.  It’s like they don’t want children to know that the straight white people they’re taught about in school sometimes include evil motherfuckers–and the people to admire in history weren’t all straight white people. 

In a move certain to shake up the white nationalist community, a Proud Boys leader pleaded guilty to two felonies relating to his participation in the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress and agreed to help prosecutors with other cases, the Washington Post reports.

Thirty-four year old Charles Donohoe of Kernersville, North Carolina pleaded guilty to conspiring to help organize an attack on Congress by supporters of President Donald Trump and to assaulting law enforcement officers.  He will receive a minimum sentence of 70 months unless prosecutors make a lighter recommendation based on his cooperation.

Donohoe testified that he helped plan the attack on the Capital, being named by Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio to The Ministry of Self Defense, a Proud Boys committee charged with planning an attack on January 6th. 

“I don’t understand where the men are.  Where are the dads, y’know?” epsilon male and Hungary’s next top model Tucker Carlson ponders to hyperhillbillyized fictionalist JD Vance, a Republican candidate for an Ohio Senate seat.  “Some teacher’s pushing sex values on your third grader; why aren’t you going in and thrash the teacher.  Like, this is an agent of the government pushing someone else’s values on your kid about sex!  I mean, w- w- w- where’s the pushback.”

The Trump Organization held on to the contract to run a golf course in the Bronx, New York after a court ruled New York City wrongly nullified the agreement because of Donald Trump’s encouragement of the domestic terrorist attack on Congress on January 6th, Reuters reports.

The office of previous mayor Bill DeBlasio had notified the Trump Org that it was canceling the contract for the company to run Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point, a management contract that was signed in 2015.  DeBlasio said Trump’s involvement in the attempt to subvert the Constitution harmed the course’s ability to host “first-class professional championship golf tournaments.”

Justice Debra James of the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan determined that the contract with the city did not have a provision requiring the company to host professional golf tournaments at the course, so the prime reason cited for the cancelation was invalid.

Skinny poindexter Ali Abdul-Razaq Akbar, better known as Ali Alexander, a fake name he adopted because he correctly surmised that racist MAGA assholes would never listen to his podcasts, is cooperating with federal prosecutors on their investigation into the now-famous January 6th, 2021 “Stop the Steal” rally on the Ellipse at which the Orange God Emperor incited his fans to violently attack the US Capitol, the New York Times reports. Akbar’s attorney told the Times his client received a subpoena from the federal grand jury impaneled to consider charges against an array of Trump minions, and would take a “a cooperative posture” in answering it.

A pariah in his own Party, Republican North Carolina Congressman and key bump aficionado Madison Cawthorn is experiencing fundraising, with his personal campaign account down to about a quarter million and his PACs hovering around zero, the Daily Beast reports.

Cawthorn has failed to raise a single dollar for his joint PAC with the National Republican Congressional Committee after raising $673,000 in the last cycle.  The account, called “Cawthorn Triumph,” gave about 60% of the donations to the RNCC, while rolling $83,000 for his own campaign and the remaining $65,000 went to MADISON Leadership PAC, Cawthorn’s fund from which he helps other candidates.

But MADISON PAC–MADISON stands for “Making A Difference In Service to Our Nation”–has only raised $2,000–and that came from a single donation from the group’s treasurer, who is also the treasurer of Cawthorn’s campaign. 

A Pentagon assessment determined that the Russian forces sent in on the initial invasion of Ukraine have experienced a casualty rate approaching 20%, with about one in five of their soldiers being killed or wounded, the Washington Post reports.

Defense Department spokesperson John Kirby told reporters the Russian forces were “almost completely devastated,” with Russian commanders sending units back to Russia or into Belarus to refit and rest before being redeployed back to Ukraine.

NATO estimates put Russian killed in action at between 7,000 and 15,000, or approximately 5-10% of the 150,000 Russian commanders used in the invasion.

It really seems like a lot of evil, powerful forces are trying to keep Eric Greitens out of the Senate. https://t.co/13stcY505P

— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) April 8, 2022

Kinder Candies, those little eggs with tiny toys hidden inside, have more than just a toy to surprise the young’uns this holiday season!  You also could get a surprise dose of everyone’s favorite intestinal distress, salmonella!

Reuters reports that the Ferrero plant in Arlon, Belgium has been shut down by authorities after more than 100 people who ate the chocolate candy became ill with salmonella.  Kinder Eggs have been pulled from the shelves in Spain, Britain, Ireland and United States.

Those sickened were mainly age 10 or younger, and cases have been tracked to at least nine countries.  Belgian health authorities warned people to dispose of Kinder Surprise, Kinder Surprise Maxi, Kinder Mini Eggs & Kinder Schokobons they may have purchased.

A diminutive, insecure tyrant publicly expressed concern Friday that neighboring a neighboring ultranationalist ally could be removed from power by an insurgent enemy, presenting a major threat on his kingdom’s northern frontier. “If Stacey Abrams is elected governor of Georgia, I just want to be honest, that will be a Cold War between Florida and Georgia at that point. I mean, I can’t have Castro to my south and Abrams to my north. That’d be a disaster,” said Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at the Indian Pass Raw Bar in Port St Joe, whose website boasts is full of “friendly locals in Tank Tops and Flip Flops. We’re known for our casual dining atmosphere, our wonderful food, and friendly service. When you get here, just grab a seat and get a drink from the cooler!”

Two days after the 2020 election, alleged cocaine enthusiast and still a disappointment to his parents Donald Trump Jr. texted White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows with a plan to nullify the inevitable election victory for Joe Biden by fascistically using government agencies to void the valid results, CNN reports. “We have multiple paths We control them all,” noting that the Trump camp has “operational control” over government to order vote tallies suppressed.

He went on, continuing his inability to use punctuation: “We have operational control Total leverage Moral High Ground POTUS must start 2nd term now.” It’s likely, but not known if Junior was under the influence of a narcotic when he wrote Meadows, though by all appearances it would seem to be the product of a cocaine-induced mania given the rapid fire semi-sentences in the texts. “Republicans control Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina etc we get Trump electors, Republicans control 28 states Democrats 22… Once again Trump wins. We either have a vote WE control and WE win OR it gets kicked to Congress 6 January 2021… Fire Wray, Fire Fauci… select Special prosecutor on HardDrivefromHell Biden crime family.” Not described in the CNN article are Meadows’ replies. Probably they were simply “Okay Don” or something similar.

What’s clearer however is he did appear to be under the influence of very bad legal advice. Junior pushed a claim that would later be echoed by disgraced lawyers like John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani: Republicans in Congress could simply ignore the results and install his daddy in for a second term. Likely taking his strategy from someone on Twitter, Junior urged Meadows to have shadow slates of electors appointed by Trump-loyal anti-Constitutionalists in battleground states. The existence of those shadow electors would force Congress to refuse to count those states’ designated electors, and voila! the Republicans in the House elect Trump because their state delegations outnumber Democratic delegations. That interpretation of the function of Congress and the Electoral College has been laughed out of discussions by Constitutional experts and anyone with an iota of constitutional law. Even one of the advocates of the plan, Eastman, noted that laws would have to be broken for that to take place.

As the Washington Post reports, four additional Starbucks stores voted to unionize over the last two days, bringing the number of shops owned by the Seattle chain to unionize to 14.  The push favoring unions–which also led to a New York Amazon warehouse unionizing–has sprung from the worker situation in the pandemic.

With job openings trending far above the number of people seeking jobs, the labor market is shifting.  Workers now hold the keys to whom they work for and their employment conditions, a situation brought on by workers quitting or being laid off from their high-risk/stress, low-wage jobs at the height of the pandemic, only to be begged back to the job by their employers who can’t find workers.

Since the end of the pandemic lockdown, these workers began to understand their worth in the marketplace:  they could charge more for their labor and have a more fulfilling life.  Coming back to work would be on their terms, and one of those terms will be to have unionized workplaces where their hard-earned rights are protected.

Four members of a white nationalist MAGA militia charged in the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov Gretchen Whitmer walked Friday, as Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta were found not guilty, and the jury deadlocked on the verdict for another two, Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr, Fox News reports.

Of the six MAGA militia members charged federally in the plot, which was broken up and exposed by the FBI in October 2020, only one has pleaded guilty so far. Ty Garbin reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors last January. Garbin testified against the others during the trial.

Louisiana MAGAchurch pastor and member of the state GOP governing board Reverend John Raymond was charged with three counts of child cruelty for taping kids’ mouths shut for talking too much at the Christian school he, the Louisiana Daily Advertiser reports. It is unknown if the children were talking about racial or gender identity in class, but it seems likely since white nationalist Christians have been freaking out about that kind of shit lately.

Besides the obvious happiness of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the self-hatred of Fox is apparent in the chyron by the fact that the only three narrower margins of a SCOTUS confirmation vote in history were for Brett “Brewski” Kavanaugh (50 ayes), Amy Coney Lithium (52 ayes) and Clarence “Make the check out to Ginni” Thomas (52 ayes).

Justice Department press release: “Ruben Verastigui, 29, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 151 months in prison on a federal charge of receipt of child pornography. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves, Raymond Villanueva, Special Agent in Charge, Washington, D.C. Field Office, Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and Robert J. Contee III, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).”

“Verastigui pleaded guilty on July 9, 2021, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He was sentenced by the Honorable Amit P. Mehta. Upon completion of his prison term, Verastigui will be placed on five years of supervised release. He also will be required to register as a sex offender for at least 15 years. According to the government’s evidence, from April 2020 through February 2021, Verastigui was active in an online group devoted to trading child pornography and discussing child sexual abuse. Verastigui shared child pornography videos with another member of the group and made numerous comments about sexually abusing children. Verastigui indicated his preference for babies, saying they were his ‘absolute favorite,’ and solicited another group member for videos of babies being raped. The other group member promptly sent Verastigui a video of a baby being raped, to which Verastigui responded enthusiastically. The other group member then sent Verastigui numerous other videos of child pornography.”