The House Select Committee investigating the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol has concluded Donald Trump engaged in a criminal conspiracy with members of his campaign to “defraud the United States” and prevent Congress from fulfilling its duty to certify the election results, Politico reports.

“The Select Committee also has a good-faith basis for concluding that the President and members of his Campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States,” the committee wrote in a filing submitted in U.S. District Court in the Central District of California.

Taking the battle to the people who will financial benefit from a continued Putin presidency, German officials have seized the $600 million Dilbar, a 512-foot yacht owned by Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, who was sanctioned by the European Union as part of the punishments for Russia invading Ukraine.  The vessel was being serviced in Hamburg when the German officials took possession, Forbes reports.

“Virtual every lawmaker in the room last night, from both Parties, arrived wearing some version of the Ukrainian flag.  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy came with both the Ukrainian themed pocket square and a Ukrainian Flag lapel pin. That’s about as Ukrainian as you can get,” Hungary’s business development director for the white nationalist market and Fox host Tucker Carlson says.  “Even the president of Ukraine doesn’t do that very often. What McCarthy conspicuously didn’t do is don an American flag pin. No, not at all, and many others went without that, too, because in the context of last night, the American flag was literally irrelevant. Lots of our leaders feel that way all of a sudden.”

Like a good Fascist, Carlson needs more and more nationalism and jingoism to feel certain that the United States Congress isn’t actually a satellite of Ukraine.

Moments after a single bullet hit a police car containing four officers Tuesday night, shattering its back window, a Philadelphia police officer shot a 12-year-old boy suspected in the shooting in the back, killing him, the Associated Press reports.

After the round hit the cop car, two officers took off in pursuit of Thomas Siderio Jr., firing multiple shots as they ran before one struck him in the back.  The officers then loaded the boy in the car and took him to a local hospital where he died.

The officers were called to the area after police monitored social media posts about gunplay in the neighborhood.  An officer in the car was injured in the face and eye by flying glass from the bullet.

Texas Republican Congressman Van Taylor abruptly dropped his reelection bid a day after coming just shy of a majority in his district’s primary after Breitbart reported Taylor had an affair with and paid in $5,000 hush money to a so-called “ISIS bride,” the Texas Tribune reports.

“About a year ago, I made a horrible mistake that has caused deep hurt and pain among those I love most in this world,” Taylor wrote in an email to fans. “I had an affair, it was wrong, and it was the greatest failure of my life. I want to apologize for the pain I have caused with my indiscretion, most of all to my wife Anne and our three daughters.” The woman whom Taylor had the affair with was reportedly once married to a commander for the Islamic State and a former jihadist herself.

It should go without saying the chances that Taylor would have dropped out if the woman had been white and Christian are virtually zero since adultery isn’t a dealbreaker in today’s GOP.

Said Napoleonic Governor Ron DeSantis to some college kids at a photo op: “You do not have to wear those masks. I mean please take them off,” to which the kids laugh nervously but then Ron makes it clear he’s not joking. “Honestly! It’s not doing anything and we gotta stop with this COVID theater. So if you wanna wear it, fine,” the diva continued. “But this is ridiculous.”

The Russian assault on Ukraine grinded into its second week on Wednesday, with Putin’s forces stepping up their artillery attacks on innocent civilians amid major setbacks suffered by infantry. Russian state news media outlet Sputnik made a surprising report in its coverage of the attacks, with the Russian Ministry of Defense acknowledging the deaths of 498 soldiers since he beginning of the operation – a toll believed to be considerably higher at 2,000 by US estimates, but that they’re mentioning any deaths occurred at all is surprising. The article includes the bullshit line that the “declared goals of the operation are the demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine, as well as defence of the Donbass republics,” so it’s obviously easy enough to blame the deaths on the “Nazi” enemy in this supposedly noble and just war. What will be less easy as time goes on is explaining how mighty Russia could lose so many of its troops to such inferior bastards.

Meanwhile Financial Times reports on a tense meeting that happened last week inside the Kremlin as Putin gathered all of his cronies to warn them they are fucked if they do basically anything other than business as usual while sanctions threaten to wipe them out. “Nobody really wants to suffer. But the message is we will have to. Being on the US sanctions list used to be a status symbol of patriotism. But now it’s a requirement. If you’re not on it, it’s suspicious,” an executive at a Russian state-owned bank told FT. Putin reportedly told his goons that any of them found to be avoiding doing business with entities facing Western sanctions would face consequences.

As of Wednesday, fully nine days after National Zero first was able to register @nationalzero with the new Trump-owned social network Truth Social, there has been zero movement on our account being able to access the platform. We had more fun using FreeTalk45 by OAN. Fuck Devin Nunes.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis brushed off demands from Florida Agricultural Commissioner Nikki Fried and others to take action against Russian-linked entities in the state such as divesting from companies with links to the Putin regime and seizing properties owned by his oligarchs, the New York Daily News reports. DeSantis spokeswoman Christine Pushaw said a letter from Fried outlining such steps “lacks necessary clarity,” as if DeSantis’s team couldn’t just figure out what to do on their own. “To the extent, Russian citizens purchase South Florida real estate, for example, that has nothing to do with the state of Florida investing in or divesting from ‘a list of Russian-headquartered entities’,” Pushaw added, which also just sounds like they’re simply playing dumb.

The State Board of Administration manages about $300 million in Russian-bases holdings, a small fraction of its overall $195 billion portfolio. Among the Russian scumbags who own properties in South Florida are Putin cronies Dmitry Rybolovlev, who in 2008 bought a Palm Beach mansion from Donald Trump for $60 million more than 2004 sale price and former Russian military construction chief Alexander Yuzvik who owns a Trump-branded luxury condo – among many others.

A CBS News/YouGov survey of 1,486 Americans who watched the State of The Union address on Tuesday night found 78% overall approved of the speech. While only 21% of the respondents identified as Republicans, 28% the sample identified as Independents.

(UPDATE:  Multiple media members who were in the room say it was Lauren Boebert who yelled.)

There’s no reason to heckle the President of the United States during the State of the Union Address.  None.  The speech is a Constitutional duty of the President to update Congress on the status of the country.  The President is invited to Congress to make the speech; he is an invited guest in the House and he should be treated as such.

Putting that aside, the woman who yelled “13 of them”–a reference to the 13 Marines who died in a bombing during the US evacuation of Kabul as they helped civilians board flights out of the airport–needs to be censured by the House, not just reprimanded by the Republican caucus.

That woman–whom I believe to be Marjorie Taylor Greene–yelled that while President Joe Biden was discussing providing medical care to those veterans and members of the military sickened by notorious “burn pits,” places on military bases where myriad toxic materials are burned releasing toxins into the air that have been shown to sicken anyone around them.

On Tuesday President Joe Biden will deliver his first State of The Union Address in the House Chamber of the Capitol, almost certainly unimpeded by MAGA truckers. This will be the latest date in the year that an address been delivered since the modern format was adopted in 1934 following the passage of the 20th Amendment. Stay with us for live updates and commentary.

Be sure to stick around for the response segments at the end, there will be more than one.

Tuesday is primary day in Texas and we’ll keep updating this article with the latest results. Hardcore MAGA Governor primary challenger Don Huffines has already conceded to incumbent Governor Low Energy Greg Abbott, the Texas Tribune’s Patrick Svitek reports. Stay tuned for more, especially in the hotly contested Republican Attorney General’s primary as National Zero public enemy Number 14 or 15 Ken Paxton faces a tough contest that seems likely to be headed for a runoff.

UPDATE 3/1/22 9:25 PM EST: CNN projects Abbott and O’Rourke headed for November face-off.

UPDATE 3/1/22 9:49 PM EST: Louie Gohmert appears to be completely fucked, lol. An weak fourth place finish dooms the dimwitted far right Congressman to the wilderness. Also fucked appears to be incumbent Attorney General Ken Paxton, as though he’s got a healthy lead, his opponents combined are keeping him well below 50% and ensuring a May runoff. Former state Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman and state Land Commissioner George P Bush are neck and neck for second place, with Guzman leading by less than 2,000 votes, at 21.1% and 20.9%, respectively.

UPDATE 3/1/22 11:33 PM EST: The Texas Republican Attorney General’s primary race will head to a runoff in May be Ken Paxton vs George P Bush as Georgie’s lead for second over Former state Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman has grown to over 51,000 votes with 79%, per CNN.

What you’ll hear:  President Biden touting the successes of his administration, like infrastructure funding, coronavirus vaccine distribution, and a booming economy.  What you won’t hear:  Republican applause.

What you’ll hear:  A strong rebuke of Russian aggression and a shout of support for Ukraine.  What you won’t hear:  Tucker Carlson claiming that his earlier comments supporting Russia were taken out of context.

What you’ll see:  A Black woman in a seat of honor during the State of the Union for the first time.  What you won’t see:  A Black Republican speaking for the Party.

What you’ll hear:  Praise for Ukrainian President Volodmir Zylensky.  What you might hear:  A cheer of “Putin!  Putin!  Putin!” from one side of the chamber.  

“The RINOs, Warmongers, and Fake News continue to blatantly lie and misrepresent my remarks on Putin because they know this terrible war being waged against Ukraine would have never happened under my watch. They did absolutely nothing as Putin declared much of Ukraine an ‘independent territory.’ There should be no war waging now in Ukraine, and it is terrible for humanity that Biden, NATO, and the West have failed so terribly in allowing it to start,” said the Fat Bastard of Mar-a-Lago. The statement continues but it’s just the same bullshit as usual.

What’s interesting here is how he doesn’t actually specify how or in what way the “RINOs, Warmongers, and Fake News” are lying or misrepresenting what he said. Which is understandable since there isn’t really any way to misrepresent that, especially when it was recorded for a radio show and there’s an audio record, likely video too. Not like Trump can say some author or reporter is lying when it’s his voice on tape. Though he has been known to try that anyway.

The Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council announced Tuesday they had foiled an assassination plot against President Zelensky by agents of a Russian nationalist paramilitary.

“It became known about the liquidation of a group of elite Kadirivtsiv [Russian paramilitary], as they planned to kill President Volodymyr Zelensky. About the ceremonies Secretary for the sake of national security and defense Oleksiy Danilov at the briefing. ‘The special operation, as small as it was without intermission by the Kadirivtsy for the liquidation of our president, we are completely at home today. I can say that we took away the information from the representatives of the FSB, as if on this day they could not take part in this crooked war. And I’m sorry, I can say that that Kadiriv elite group was impoverished without a trace, as it violated itself for the liquidation of our president, ”Danilov said. Vіn is also rozpovіv, scho tsya ‘Kadirіvska group’ was divided into two. One of the bula (?) was found at Gostomel, and the other was known ‘at gunpoint'” said the agency which we’ll keep working on translating because it looks like Google didn’t quite nail it.

The Arizona state Senate censured racist extremist Republican member Wendy Rogers on Tuesday by a vote of 24 to 3, KNPX’s Brahm Resnik reports. The ayes included fellow MAGA assholes Sonny Borrelli and Senate President Karen Fann. Rogers, whose batshittery almost puts Marjorie Taylor Greene to shame, was hit with the resolution over her blatantly anti-semitic and pro-Putin tweets badmouthing heroic Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during the Russian assault on its smaller neighbor. We think that’s what the censure was over, but honestly it could be any number of shit this maniac has said and done, including how Rogers – like Greene and MAGA Arizona Congressman Paul Goasr – openly associates with Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes and his “Groypers”.

Andrew Giuliani is way ahead by 20% in independent polls.

Dictators dictate.

And Andrew is beating their mandated candidate by more than 2 to 1.

If the bosses and the candidate are afraid of an open primary, they just do-not have what it takes to change this state.

CHANGE!

— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) March 1, 2022

Long Island MAGA Congressman Lee Zeldin won the New York Republican Governor nomination at a party convention on Tuesday. Zeldin, a far right asshole – whose hometown has a Native American reservation that with one road and 436 people who have been hit with tens of millions in judgments for trafficking untaxed cigarettes – is expected to lose by 10% or more to Dem Gov Kathy Hochul in November. So maybe Andrew Giuliani should be happy he can lose quietly in some smoke-filled room (bootleg Cohibas courtesy of Smoke4Less Smokeshop on Poospatuck Lane) the old-fashioned New York way instead of publicly and humiliatingly as he most certainly would have.

Black Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker pulled out of a weekend campaign event with White Nationalist Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene after Greene appeared at a pro-Putin Neo-Nazi gathering hosted by Nick Fuentes on Saturday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Walker’s campaign confirmed their candidate would not be at the Second Amendment-themed event – which loser former Senator and current Georgia GOP primary gov candidate David “Chickenshit” Perdue is still going to, despite Greene’s latest batfuckery – without elaborating why.

Which is totally understandable because if they did then they would have to acknowledge that Greene is a racist and it’s not a good look for a Black candidate to be seen with her but that would alienate both the Georgia Republican voters who want to pretend that racism doesn’t exist and the ones who are openly racist but are willing to suck it up and vote for a [racial epithet] if it means that socialist [racial epithet] Warnock ain’t gonna be representing Georgia in the Senate no more.

Also, who are we kidding when we say Perdue is going “despite” Greene’s batfuckery? He’s going to appear with her because he wants to appeal to the same evil hicks she appeals to. Silly NZ.

Senate GOP cabal leader Mitch McConnell and his minions are seething at creepy evil wizard NRSC head Senator Dick Scott over his batshit unsanctioned “Rescue America” midterms platform released last week in defiance of McConnell’s edict that there be no official national agenda for their 2022 candidates, Politico reports. Mitch’s crew are correctly angry that Scott publishing an agenda that promises to raise taxes on middle class Americans, dissolve the US Department of Education, finish the border wall and name it after Trump, fire every non-essential government employee, among other right wing circle jerk fantasies, opens them up to attacks from Dems.

“This is not an approach embraced by the entire Republican conference. We’re going to keep our focus on inflation, crime, the border and Afghanistan. And some of these other things are things to think about… after the election is over,” said Senator John Cornyn, obviously angry that Scott said all the quiet parts loud. The Orange God Emperor is reportedly encouraging Scott to challenge Moscow Mitch for Senate GOP leader, setting up more opportunities for infighting to fuck things up as Scott ignores his 21.5 million or so other constituents to please just one.