Per Aaron Rupar, Tucker Carlson skipped any mention of the Russian atrocities perpetrated against innocent Ukrainian civilians in the town of Bucha on his show Monday night. Probably for the best since acknowledging it would come dangerously close to acknowledging the time said he was rooting for Russia against Ukraine back in 2019 (and a whole bunch of other shit more recently).

“The Plaintiff, DONALD J. TRUMP, by and through his undersigned counsel, hereby files his Motion to Disqualify The Honorable Donald M. Middlebrooks, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, under 28 U.S.C. § 455, and as grounds for disqualification states as follows:”

“1. The Plaintiff files this Motion for Disqualification of the Honorable Donald M. Middlebrooks under 28. U.S.C. § 455(a). 2. The basis for the disqualification of the presiding Judge is that Donald M. Middlebrooks was nominated to his current position as a Federal Court Judge, on January 7, 1997, by the then 42 nd President of the United States, William J. Clinton. 3. William J. Clinton and the Defendant, HILLARY CLINTON, are presently husband and wife. HILLARY CLINTON was married to William J. Clinton, during the time her husband nominated Judge M. Middlebrooks to his current position, as Federal Court Judge” and blah blah, write assclown Trump lawyers Alina Habba and Peter Ticktin in their motion asking Middlebrooks to recuse from the Orange Tyrant’s insane lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and about literally four dozen other defendants over the 2016 election.

Sacramento police on Monday arrested a man suspected of taking part in the shooting in the early morning hours of Sunday that killed six people and injured more than a dozen, the Sacramento Bee reports.

Twenty-six year old Dandrae Martin was arrested as a “related suspect” in the shooting and charged with assault with a deadly weapon and illegal firearms possession.  Martin is an ex-convict who was carrying a gun when arrested.  Authorities have said there were multiple shooters.

“As the investigation progressed, Sacramento Police Department SWAT and detectives served search warrants at three residences in the area,” the police said in a news release. “During the execution of the search warrants, at least one handgun was recovered.”

The massive cargo ship Ever Forward remains stuck in the shallow waters of Chesapeake Bay nearly a month after it originally became stuck nearly a month ago, and authorities are taking steps to unload the containers on the ship, the Baltimore Sun reports.

The Ever Forward is not blocking the main shipping channel in the estuary, and commercial traffic is alternating transiting around the container ship to keep ships traveling to and from the port of Baltimore.  The Ever Forward drifted from the channel running the length of the Chesapeake into the muddy shallows and got stuck March 13th.

Unloading the 20-foot containers while the ship is at sea, and on to another ship at sea, is a complicated task that will require significant planning and safety steps.  The initial plan is to remove a few hundred of the ship’s estimated 12,000 containers. 

I intend to vote in support of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to be an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. My statement: pic.twitter.com/uGaxx8sJn5

— Senator Mitt Romney (@SenatorRomney) April 4, 2022

UPDATE 4/4/22 6:35 PM EDT: Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski also announced her support for Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Monday evening, bringing her total to 3 Republican votes.

The nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to a seat on the United States Supreme Court will go to the Senate floor after the Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked 11-11 along Party lines on her qualifications, the Washington Post reports.

Despite Republicans on the committee praising her background and professional experience–including Lindsey Graham who voted to put her on the federal appeals court–and despite her not bawling about her love of beer or any other spirit, no Republican voted to advance her nomination.  Instead of attempting to query her judicial philosophy, the nomination hearing featured Republicans undertaking performance art, attempting to fire zingers at Jackson, and then claiming she a radical leftist who would remake the court, though the the philosophical split on the court would not change with her appointment.

Jackson is expected to get bipartisan support for her nomination on the Senate floor, a vote that would make her the first Black female to sit on the Supreme Court.

The Secret Service is spending over $30,000 per month to rent a mansion in Malibu to protect the First Crackhead, Hunter Biden.

That needs to end IMMEDIATELY!

— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) April 4, 2022

To our new MAGA commenters, please. By all means show you are sincerely outraged with Hunter Biden’s Secret Service protection detail (which he definitely needs to avoid being murdered by one of you fucking maniacs) being required to rent a house near his residence to the tune of $30,000 per month in taxpayer money. Please tell us what horrible waste and graft this is.

Just know that in the thread below our regulars are going to have the following links handy: Secret Service renting $8,500/month restroom trailers because Trump won’t let agents use bathrooms at New Jersey country club, Secret Service has paid more than $40,000 to Mar-a-Lago in 2021, Ivanka wouldn’t allow Secret Service agents to use the bathrooms at her DC home, agency paid $3,000 a month to rent one nearby, New documents show Trump Organization has charged Secret Service $628,000 since 2017, Secret Service paid tens of thousands to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club: report, and probably plenty of their own recollections of specific facts and figures. Proceed.

Dominion Voting Systems, alleged by OAN to be pulling the levers at satellite provider DirecTV, has by that standard scored a major win as the propaganda network goes off the air there permanently sometime after 12:00 AM Tuesday, per Bloomberg. It’s also a big win for communism and the far left cancel culture and all that other bullshit MAGA kids have been shrieking about ever since DirecTV announced they were dropping the propaganda network. Rand Paul’s boycott didn’t work.

SHIT! The convoy broke through! Truckers have infiltrated the White House lawn! President Joe Biden and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg are stuck there talking to the truckers about how necessary they are to the nation’s economy! Oh no! The government is listening to truckers!

“Biden, along with the media, is truly the enemy of the people. Biden is the imbecile the criminals put in power. We are suffering the consequences.”

– The current top comment on the Breitbart article “Joe Biden Wants Even More Sanctions on ‘War Criminal’ Putin: ‘This Guy Is Brutal’“, posted Monday afternoon.

Digital World Acquisition Corp, the “special-purpose acquisition company” scam that plans to merge with the Trump Media and Technology Group so the Donald can go public without having to do any work, has lost 41% of its value over the past month, and over 10% Monday alone after news broke of Truth Social CTO and CPO quitting as things have gone from bad to worse for the app.

Congratulations to Viktor Orban on winning a victory well deserved! He’s leading Hungary the right way and we need this in America.

America should also ban sexually explicit media in sex-ed and all gender change information for minors under 18 intentionally confusing children. https://t.co/sHzCEOWjJw

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) April 4, 2022

President Biden on Monday spoke to reporters gathered on the White House lawn about the Bucha massacre, saying “You may remember I got criticized for calling Putin a war criminal. Well, the truth of the matter – you saw what happened in Bucha…He is a war criminal. But we have to gather the information.” Biden added that there will be additional sanctions and the US will be increasing shipments of weapons for Ukrainians to defend themselves against the onslaught.

💬@ZelenskyyUa:
We have strong, kind and die-hard people. Once again, I was convinced in this during a conversation at the center for the provision of humanitarian assistance in Bucha. pic.twitter.com/cioHhfhYMA

— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) April 4, 2022

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of a “non-civilized” response to the brutality of the Russian assault on his country Monday as he toured the town of Bucha, site of a horrific weekend massacre of civilians by Putin’s troops CNN reports. Zelensky told reporters present it was crucial they were on hand to witness the aftermath of the rampage, saying “We want you to show the world what happened here. What the Russian military did. What the Russian Federation did in peaceful Ukraine. It was important for you to see that these were civilians.”

“We are going to put maximum pressure. We shall not pause for one minute to find all the criminals and I think this will benefit civilization,” said Zelensky, adding ominously that “if we don’t find a civilized solution, [the Ukranian people] will find a non-civilized solution.”

FBI agents and Spanish Civil Guards executed a joint operation at the port of Palma de Mallorca on Monday to seize a yacht owned by Russian mining oligarch and Putin pal Viktor Vekselberg, the Independent reports. The seizure is the first involving American authorities after Attorney General Merrick Garland and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen assembled a task force called REPO (“Russian Elites, Proxies, and Oligarchs”) last month to hit the bastards where it hurts.

An order last month from the Treasury Department authorizing action against Vekselberg reads he “has maintained close ties with leading GoR [Government of Russia] officials, including Putin and former Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev (Medvedev). Medvedev personally appointed Vekselberg to serve as director and president of the Skolkovo Foundation (SF), a GoR initiative aimed at creating a Russian version of Silicon Valley in order to elevate Russia’s international status as a leading innovation center for technological developments. Furthermore, Vekselberg has taken part in Russian diplomatic and soft power activities on behalf of the Kremlin.”

https://twitter.com/JoshMandelOhio/status/1510958124257230856

Truth Social Chief Technology Officer Josh Adams and Chief Product Officer Billy Boozer have quit their posts at the Trump Media and Technology Group after the clusterfuck of a launch for what was supposed to be a “game changer” social media app forecasted to have 81 million active users, Reuters reports. “If Josh has left… all bets are off,” a source told Reuters about Adams, describing his departure as a serious setback in what was already a complete mess.

Truth Social really sucks. It is bad, and this exodus at the top could be a death blow. We cannot emphasize enough about how much of a disappointment this has been for those of us eagerly anticipating the comedy of a fully realized Trump-centered social media platform. We’re probably not exaggerating when we say we’re more upset by this than Trump fanboys who are either pretending everything’s going to be fine or just not saying anything because they don’t want to look like “RINOs” by vocalizing their disappointment. We would so much rather be reporting on Sonic the Hedgehog porn memes flooding the platform than two right wing asshole tech bros leaving because they were set up to fail at their jobs. Arrrrghhhh this is so fucking lame.

Pro-Commie Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, whose tenure saw an effective total dissolution of freedoms for citizens of the territory and then an endless hamster wheel of failed COVID-19 lockdown measures, including a literal culling of hamsters at pet stores, announced Monday she won’t be seeking a second five-year term in the post, the Associated Press reports.

“I will complete my five year term as chief executive on the 30th of June this year, and I will also call an end to my 42 years of public service,” Lam said at a press conference. Lam’s second-in-fake-command, John Lee, is expected to launch a bid for the rigged election process to succeed Lam.

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin congratulated fellow Eastern European autocrat Viktor Orban on successfully rigging his reelection in Hungary on Monday, the AFP reports.

Satellite photos have picked up evidence of atrocities committed by Russian soldiers occupying Ukraine:  a long trench that will be used for a mass grave in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, about 25 miles outside Kyiv, Reuters reports.

In the photo taken March 31st, the 45-foot long trench dug in the courtyard around an old church, the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints in Bucha.  An earlier photo, taken March 10th, shows the machinery that would be used to dig a trench in the church’s courtyard, meaning that the plan for the mass grave was long in the works.

Maxar Technologies, a Colorado commercial satellite imagery company, has been producing hi-definition satellite photos of the region for years