Vladimir Putin, apparently more concerned that Western orchestra houses are dialing back on the Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, and Rachmaninov sets than the Ukrainian army absolutely fucking shit up for them, went off against cancel culture in a Friday rant, Reuters reports.

Responding to reports that Western arts organizations have stopped performing pieces by Russian composers in protest, Putin lamented the result in Friday television address. “Today they are trying to cancel a whole thousand-year culture, our people. Today they are trying to cancel a whole thousand-year culture, our people,” Putin said, citing the cancellation of events involving Russian artists in some Western countries.  I am talking about the gradual discrimination against everything linked to Russia… a tendency unfolding in a number of Western countries.”

In totally unrelated news, the Ukrainian army is now in possession of 117 more functioning tanks than they had two months ago, all stolen from Russian forces.

Or they found a good enough body double. Or his wife resurrected him using a Satanic magic ritual. Or his clone was let out of the tank at the secret MAGA Deep State lab. One of those things. He’s out though, per Economist Supreme Court reporter Steven Mazie.

Republican State Sen. John Bizon was sentenced Wednesday to a year of probation, a mental health evaluation, and to pay $1,130 in court costs for grabbing a nurse by the waist when she refused to prescribe him (probably) ivermectin for his COVID infection last August, MLive reports.

We say probably because it occurred in August 2021, when the horse paste was the big fad among MAGA Land – if it’d been in 2020 then it probably would’ve been hydroxychloroquine. The 70 year old nurse did not specify exactly what right wing bullshit miracle cure it was, but told the court on Wednesday that Bizon had “tried to bully, coerce and intimidate me to practice quack medicine because he believed in conspiracy theories… Mr. Bizon, I forgive you, but I hope we both never forget.” Bizon, a first-term state Senator, will not face any discipline in the chamber because he’s taken responsibility for his actions, says Republican Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey.

The US and G7 have frozen the gold reserves of the Russian Central Bank, fully 20% of the central bank’s total assets, between $100 to $140 billion, reports Oxford egghead Sam Ramani.

Not for nothing, but we’re pretty sure Solo is a trademarked brand name and you can’t just say the kind of cheap plastic red cups you play beer pong with are “Solo” cups without, you know, paying the owners to license it. Like how Walgreens “Adhesive Bandages” don’t say “Band-Aid” on the box because “Band-Aid” is a brand name owned by Johnson and Johnson, not Walgreens.

Russian ultranationalist parliament member and leader of the “Liberal Democrat” party in the country Vladimir Zhirinovsky has reportedly died of COVID-19 at age 75, NEXTA reports, though the confirmation is disputed. Zhirinovsky, an anti-vaxxer who called for the annexation of Ukraine and all the other former USSR states, was a token opposition leader who at his core was a Putin loyalist.

Taras Ostapchuk, a Kyiv native who worked as chief engineer aboard a yacht owned by Putin crony and weapons tycoon Alexander Mikheev until he attempted to sink the 155-foot vessel as it was docked on the Spanish Mediterranean island of Mallorca on February 26, tells CNN he’s returned to his native Ukraine to join the army. “I made a statement to the police that I tried to sink the boat as a political protest of Russian aggression,” he told CNN about the sinking attempt. “You have to choose. Either you are with Ukraine or not. You have to choose, will there be a Ukraine, or will you have a job… I don’t need a job if I don’t have Ukraine… Now I serve in the army, and I hope that my service will bring our victory closer,” Ostapchuk said. Spanish cops arrested Ostapchuk for the sabotage attempt, but he left for Ukraine the next day. It’s not clear if he still faces charges, as the boat was seized on March 15th by Spanish authorities.

In the entire history of the United States, only one Supreme Court justice has ever been impeached.  That’s fewer than the number of presidential impeachments (four).  It’s time for the second.  

The Constitution allows for the House of Representatives to impeach judges and Executive Branch officials as a step in the removal of the official for misdeeds.  (There was one Senator impeached–William Blount, the first US federal official ever impeached–before Congress decided that each chamber would expel, not impeach, its own members.)  Twenty people have been impeached–one twice, and we all know who that was–with eight convicted and removed from office.  All those removed were federal judges.  

Clarence Thomas has been skating through his time on the Court in relative peace.  Perhaps that’s because he’s been literally silent:  at times, months of court cases would have been heard in the Supreme Court without Thomas uttering a single word.  While that may reflect a contemplative nature, it’s more likely a sign that Thomas had predetermined outcomes in cases, prepped to follow the GOP’s Party line and not the law.  

Republican Nebraska Congressman Jeff Fortenberry was convicted in a federal court of lying to the FBI on Thursday, about an illegal $30,000 contribution to his campaign from a foreign billionaire, the AP reports. A federal jury in California found the nine-term Republican guilty on a count of falsifying and concealing material facts and two counts of making false statements. Fortenberry was charged after he lied in two interviews with FBI agents who were investigating Nigerian-Lebanese billionaire Gilbert Chagoury. The Deep State seriously kicked ass on this one.

Seriously. Is this show any good? Has anyone seen it and liked it or was it complete shit? We need some reader reviews of the premiere episode, which debuted on Paramount+ on Thursday. Really curious here to learn what people think of this highly anticipated new sci-fi action series.

Because it was fucking awesome and there’s no way I can be unbiased about it. The name “Spartan” comes from the cyborg super soldiers from the video game series this new TV show is adapted from, so I’m not a person who could be even remotely objective here. As such, it’d be best if someone who has never played the games before could check it out and let us know. Come in cold. Is it accessible? Do you think this is just utter nonsense or are you on board? Let’s hear it.

And to be sincerely objective: The CGI sucks just a little bit. Like in still images it looks great but the animations are just a little bit lame compared to other TV and movies in this day and age. The aliens are also just a little dorkier looking design-wise than they are in the games. But overall it’s worth watching for fans. It might actually be pretty entertaining for non-fans too.

Truckers in the “People’s Convoy”, still utterly ineffective in causing the level of chaos to DC their Canadian brethren successfully visited upon Ottawa, are now complaining they’ve been forced to piss themselves behind the wheel during their “protest” laps of the Beltway and other highways in and around DC as police block exit ramps into the capital, the Daily Beast’s Zach Petrizzo reports. In response, organizer Brian Brase says he’s “pursuing DC Metropolitan Police department for their violations of our 1st Amendment Right… Going to take this to the courts!”

This is seriously an admin of the People’s Convoy group on Telegram. It’s quite possible he’s an infiltrator (one completely blew up the Windsor, Ontario blockade last month) with the “Tired of winning” added and the group is just too fucked up and disorganized to purge him at this point.

Squeaky voiced man-boy Ben Shapiro is fucking so sick and tired of Disney’s wokeness he’s going to go ahead and start building his own children’s media empire, Mediaite reports. “Disney is a company that is meant to derive pleasure for children, that is what it is for. It is a company- their entire net-worth basically was built on the idea that they were going to give you a safe place to let your children be entertained… by the way, if you want entertainment that’s going to cater to your children. We’re going to start making kids content over here at Daily Wire specifically. So you don’t have to be catered to by companies who hate your guts and cater to the people who despise your values,” said Shapiro on the Thursday edition of his podcast.

The House January 6th Select Committee have obtained over two dozen text messages between election fraud committing piece of shit former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and fascist gorgon Supreme Court spouse Ginni Thomas sent between early November 2020 and mid-January 2021, CNN reports. Ginni Thomas recently revealed she had been present at the Stop the Steal rally that day but denied any involvement in planning the incitement-fest that preceded the violent MAGA insurrection. That Ginni was in communication with Meadows over the post-election period casts doubt on her assertion to the Washington Examiner.

UPDATE 3/24/22 5:21 PM EDT: The Washington Post published the content of the texts including one where Ginni wrote “Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!…You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice. The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History,” to Meadows on November 10th, 2020, just a week after the election. On November 24th Meadows wrote “This is a fight of good versus evil. Evil always looks like the victor until the King of Kings triumphs. Do not grow weary in well doing. The fight continues. I have staked my career on it. Well at least my time in DC on it.”

DOJ Press Release: “The Department of Justice unsealed two indictments today charging four defendants, all Russian nationals who worked for the Russian government, with attempting, supporting and conducting computer intrusions that together, in two separate conspiracies, targeted the global energy sector between 2012 and 2018. In total, these hacking campaigns targeted thousands of computers, at hundreds of companies and organizations, in approximately 135 countries. A June 2021 indictment returned in the District of Columbia, United States v. Evgeny Viktorovich Gladkikh, concerns the alleged efforts of an employee of a Russian Ministry of Defense research institute and his co-conspirators to damage critical infrastructure outside the United States, thereby causing two separate emergency shutdowns at a foreign targeted facility.”

“The conspiracy subsequently attempted to hack the computers of a U.S. company that managed similar critical infrastructure entities in the United States. An August 2021 indictment returned in the District of Kansas, United States v. Pavel Aleksandrovich Akulov, et al., details allegations about a separate, two-phased campaign undertaken by three officers of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and their co-conspirators to target and compromise the computers of hundreds of entities related to the energy sector worldwide. Access to such systems would have provided the Russian government the ability to, among other things, disrupt and damage such computer systems at a future time of its choosing. ‘Russian state-sponsored hackers pose a serious and persistent threat to critical infrastructure both in the United States and around the world,’ said Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco. ‘Although the criminal charges unsealed today reflect past activity, they make crystal clear the urgent ongoing need for American businesses to harden their defenses and remain vigilant. Alongside our partners here at home and abroad, the Department of Justice is committed to exposing and holding accountable state-sponsored hackers who threaten our critical infrastructure with cyber-attacks.'”

https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1507074045749215248

Marc Elias knows he’s so fucked he’s just pretending he’s going about his usual work. Real America First Patriots are on to him though. He can’t keep up this charade forever, acting like the 45th President doesn’t have his number. He’s doomed and he knows it. Fucking doomed. All the Russia, Russia, Russia Dems are going down. Big time.

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk announced Thursday that the first full-fledged prisoner swap deal with since the Russian invasion has freed 29 Ukrainian military personnel and civilians in exchange for 21 Russian military personnel and civilian sailors, NPR reports. It is unclear if the famously defiant “Russian warship, go fuck yourself” soldiers of Snake Island were among those freed, but Ukraine’s border agency had specifically stated earlier Thursday that Vereshchuk was working to secure their release. The 19 civilian sailors released are the crew of a ship captured as they attempted to evacuate the soldiers from Snake Island in late February.

“In the run-up to the 2016 Presidential Election, Hillary Clinton and her cohorts orchestrated an unthinkable plot – one that shocks the conscience and is an affront to this nation’s democracy. Acting in concert, the Defendants maliciously conspired to weave a false narrative that their Republican opponent, Donald J. Trump, was colluding with a hostile foreign sovereignty. The actions taken in furtherance of their scheme – falsifying evidence, deceiving law enforcement, and exploiting access to highly-sensitive data sources – are so outrageous, subversive and incendiary that even the events of Watergate pale in comparison. Under the guise of ‘opposition research,’ ‘data analytics,’ and other political stratagems, the Defendants nefariously sought to sway the public’s trust. They worked together with a single, self-serving purpose: to vilify Donald J. Trump. Indeed, their far-reaching conspiracy was designed to cripple Trump’s bid for presidency by fabricating a scandal that would be used to trigger an unfounded federal investigation and ignite a media frenzy,” and blah blah blah says the complaint in Trump v Hillary R. Clinton, HFACC, Inc., the Democratic National Committee, DNC Services Corporation, Perkins Coie, LLC, Michael Sussmann, Marc Elias, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Charles Halliday Dolan, Jr., Jake Sullivan, John Podesta, Robert E. Mook, Phillipe Reines, Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch, Nellie Ohr, Bruce Ohr, Orbis Business Intelligence, Ltd., Christopher Steele, Igor Danchenko, Neustar, Inc., Rodney Joffe, James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Kevin Clinesmith, Andrew McCabe, John Does 1 through 10 (said names being fictious [sic] and unknown persons), and ABC Corporations 1 through 10 (said names being fictitious and unknown entities).