The French government is setting up checkpoints and deploying thousands of police officers to prevent a “freedom convoy” from doing to Paris what Canadian truckers have done to Ottawa in protest of much more stringent French COVID-19 safety and vaccine mandates, the Guardian reports. In the city of Toulouse, about 425 miles south of Paris, a caravan of trucks, cars, and RVs mustered in a parking lot, ready to invade the capital. “The authorities cannot block everyone,” one Toulouse woman told the Guardian as she cheered on the protestors as they departed. “The convoys must force it, they must still try to enter.”

Republican Texas Congressman Troy Nehls has made a lot of headlines for his unsubstantiated claim that the Capitol Police are using “secret agents” to spy on him after (Nehls claims) they broke into his office.  In fact, a Capitol Police officer found Nehls office door open late one night and saw suspicious writing on a white board.

Sick of his colleague’s constant belittling of officers who fought domestic terrorists bravely on January 6th, Democratic California Congressman Eric Swalwell found out why:  Nehls had been fired by the Richmond (Texas) Police Department in 1998 for multiple issues.  Apparently, Swalwell feels, Nehls resentment toward law enforcement continues.

The cartoonishly wide distances kept between French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin were due to the fact that Macron refused to take a Covid test required by the Kremlin.  “We knew very well that meant no handshake and that long table. But we could not accept that they get their hands on the president’s DNA,” a source told Reuters.

Tesla management failed to act when Black employees complained about racist language and actions at its California assembly plant, state regulators claim in a new lawsuit against the electric car company, the Associated Press reports.

Besides the n-word being used on the assembly line floor, Black employees at the Fremont plant were called “porch monkeys” and “hood rats.”  Other employees told them to “go back to Africa.”  Employees also complained that the company failed to promptly remove racist graffiti found around the factory.

In court documents, lawyers for the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing asserted that Elon Musk’s decision to move the company’s headquarters from Palo Alto to Austin, Texas was influenced by his desire to avoid state inquiries into multiple complaints about discrimination at his companies.   State investigators spent nearly three years looking into claims of racial discrimination.

The mayor of Windsor, Ontario announced that he is seeking a court order that would allow the city to remove–by force, if necessary–the truckers blocking the Ambassador Bridge, shutting down a major trade highway between Canada and the United States, Reuters reports.

“(If) the protesters don’t leave, there will have to be a path forward. If that means physically removing them, that means physically removing them, and we’re prepared to do that,” Drew Dilkens, mayor of Windsor, Ontario said.  The blockade has caused factories on both sides of border to shut down as vital parts and ingredients are unable to cross into the other country.

The truckers are protesting US regulations that require them to be fully vaccinated in order to drive into the United States.

“It’s clear that homeless people, from the people that have spoken, want to be homeless,” mind-numbing third tier gameshow host Jessie Watters said on his Fox propaganda show, because he can speak for all half million homeless.

The Ontario Government has obtained a court order freezing funds from alt-right crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo from being disbursed to the trucker assholes occupying the capital city of Ottawa and several border crossings between the US and Canada, GlobaNews.ca reports. The order, from the Superior Court of Justice binds “any and all parties with possession or control over these donations” said Ivana Yelich, spokeswoman for Ontario Premier Doug Ford. More than $9 million had been raised for the scumbags via the “Freedom Convoy 2022” and “Adopt-a-Trucker” drives on GiveSendGo as of Thursday. Maybe Ron DeSantis and Ken Paxton can sue Ontario.

“Do not travel to Ukraine due to the increased threats of Russian military action and COVID-19; those in Ukraine should depart now via commercial or private means. If remaining in Ukraine, exercise increased caution due to crime, civil unrest, and potential combat operations should Russia take military action. Some areas have increased risk. Read the entire Travel Advisory. On January 23, 2022, the Department of State authorized the voluntary departure of U.S. direct hire employees (USDH) and ordered the departure of eligible family members (EFM) from Embassy Kyiv due to the continued threat of Russian military action. U.S. citizens should not travel to Ukraine, and those in Ukraine should depart now using commercial or other privately available transportation options.”

“There are continued reports of a Russian military build-up on the border with Ukraine, indicating potential for significant military action against Ukraine. The security conditions, particularly along Ukraine’s borders, in Russia-occupied Crimea, and in Russia-controlled eastern Ukraine, are unpredictable and can deteriorate with little notice. Demonstrations, which have turned violent at times, regularly occur throughout Ukraine, including in Kyiv”- State Department Travel Advisory.

Some of the documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago by National Archives staff were classified and clearly labeled “Top Secret” at the top, the Washington Post reports.

“The Teamsters Union denounces the ongoing Freedom Convoy protest at the Canadian border that continues to hurt workers and negatively impact our economy. The livelihood of working Americans and Canadians in the automotive, agricultural, and manufacturing sectors is threatened by this blockade. Our economy is growing under the Biden Administration, and this disruption in international trade threatens to derail the gains we have made. Our members are some of the hardest workers in the country and are being prevented from doing their jobs. The Teamsters call on the organizers of this action to end this protest and instead, engage in meaningful political discourse with the Canadian government to find a solution,” says a statement from Jim Hoffa, Teamsters President, and no he’s not the dead one buried under the old Giants Stadium or in a junkyard somewhere in Michigan or wherever the hell it was. Jim Hoffa is Jimmy Hoffa’s son.

Sarah Palin’s ability to collect massive damages from the New York Times was dealt a heavy blow by the judge presiding in the case Thursday, as Senior United States District Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that Palin cannot seek punitive damages in the case, Politico reporter Josh Gerstein writes.

Palin sued the times for a 2017 Times editorial that linked her and her PAC to the shooting of former Democratic Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Gifford, who was attacked at a Phoenix appearance after Palin had featured her congressional race on her website by spotlighting it with a target graphic.

Ruling that no reasonable juror could conclude that Times writer James Bennett harbored animus toward Palin, given that the information to which Palin objected was removed from the site immediately and there was no obvious intent to slander Palin.  “The evidence frankly that Mr. Bennett harbored ill will towards Ms. Palin is quite modest indeed,” Rakoff said.

While spending time with then-Vice President Joe Biden for research on her script for the HBO comedy series Veep, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, UK-born comedian Georgia Pritchett heard an interesting story from Biden’s late mother about her attitude toward Albion, the Guardian reports on an excerpt from Pritchett’s upcoming biography. Per Pritchett, Biden went on at length over how much Catherine “Jean” Finnegan-Biden “hated the English. His parents were Irish and she had written several poems about her hatred of the English. He went off to find them and returned with hundreds of poems describing how God must smite the English and rain blood on our heads.”

Biden also told Pritchett that when his late mother – who died in 2010 – stayed in a hotel Queen Elizabeth had once stayed in, Finnegan-Biden “was so appalled that she slept on the floor all night, rather than risk sleeping on a bed that the Queen had slept on.” There are, of course, worse things that could be done to a hotel bed a national leader once slept in, specifically if that leader is Barack Obama and that hotel is in Moscow. There’s even supposedly a video of these worse things.

The mayor of Windsor, Ontario on Thursday said police in his city are ready to remove the assholes blocking the Ambassador Bridge to Detroit by force, Reuters reports. “(If) the protesters don’t leave, there will have to be a path forward. If that means physically removing them, that means physically removing them, and we’re prepared to do that,” said Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens told CNN. General Motors, Ford, Toyota, and Chrysler have all had to close plants or cut production at facilities in the Detroit area due to parts shortages caused by the blockade.

There’s a movie with DOMINION in the name coming out June 10th. It’s unknown if there’s anything about voting machines controlled by Venezuela or Soros or Hillary Clinton, but there might be. There has to be some kind of connection to DOMINION if the movie has the word in its name, right?

The New York Times reports that the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress has discovered significant gaps in the official White House phone records kept by the Trump administration during the attack.

There is no indication if the logs were altered or incomplete.  The logs also don’t register calls made directly to Donald Trump’s cell phone, a mode of communications he was known to rely on during his term to call friends and supporters like Trump advisor Sean Hannity.

The call logs do not match records from other witnesses who testified before the January 6th committee that they reached out to the White House during the attack on the Capitol.  The logs are supposed to reflect the calls made through the White House switchboard as well as those outbound calls made by staff.

The passed by voice vote bill to overhaul how workplace sexual assaults and harassment claims are handled, ending the use of forced arbitration for those cases, NBC’s Frank Thorp reports.