Coeur d’Alene, Idaho QAnon fan Matthew Barszcz, 26, was indicted on charges of possession of child pornography last week by a federal grand jury, the Coeur d’Alene/Post Falls Press reports. Barszcz faces up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted on what had originally been a state-level charge when investigators traced activity on BitTorrent to his IP address in July 2020 and executed a search warrant which turned up a device containing the files in February 2021.

Barszcz’s excuse to police was that, as a QAnon adherent protecting America from Satanic Democrat pedophiles, he had downloaded the images of child sexual abuse to report them to law enforcement, without addressing the plot hole that he had downloaded all of them between June and October 2020 and waited until he was arrested four months later to claim that was his goal.

Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Monday that the state will lift its mandate that all people wear masks indoors and as of February 15th, only unvaccinated people will have to stay masked in public settings, CNN reports.

With declining infection rates as the omicron variant fades, and with the state exceeding 80% vaccinated, Newsom hopes to return the state to a closer feeling of normalcy.

Although the state is lifting its mask mandate, some counties experiencing particularly high rates may extend theirs, a move the Newsom administration would not likely challenge.

The Left wants to destroy the nuclear family in America.

— Rep. Madison Cawthorn (@RepCawthorn) February 8, 2022

This one is going to cause a lot of consternation for conservatives:  A hunter in Alabama nabbed an 8-point buck during hunting season, only to find that it was a buck at all, but a transgender doe that had grown horns like a buck, the Gulfport Herald Sun reports.

Matt Kelley put the carcass on the skinning rack when he noticed it didn’t have any male genitalia.  He notified the state’s Department of Conservation of the unique animal he found, and killed.

“A deer like this with hardened antlers will have testes inside the body cavity,” Chris Cook, the coordinator for the Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division’s Deer Program, said in the report. “They don’t have fully developed male or female organs. They may have external female organs, but they would have to have underdeveloped testes that were still large enough to produce enough testosterone to have that antler growth.”

Cook termed the deer’s condition “pseudohermaphrodism” and noted that he’s seen a number of cases of this in his career.

Eric Lander, the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy for President Joe Biden, has resigned his Cabinet position after he was the subject of numerous complaints about abusive management techniques he employed, Reuters reports.

Respectful treatment of workers was a key point of the Biden transition team, with Biden even mentioning it in the televised swearing-in ceremonies of early appointees.

“I am devastated that I caused hurt to past and present colleagues by the way in which I have spoken to them,” Lander said in the resignation letter submitted to Biden, noting “things I said, and the way I said them, crossed the line at times into being disrespectful and demeaning.”

Canadian government officials of all political persuasions are calling for American Republicans to stop encouraging and funding a group of rogue truckers who are blockading streets in the capital city of Ottawa, the Associated Press reports.  One Cabinet official referred to GOP efforts as “political interference” from a foreign government.

Republican US governors including Florida’s Ron DeSantis and Texas’s Greg Abbott; Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley; and titular head of the Republican Party Donald Trump have all urged Americans to donate to a fund supporting the truckers.

In response to a tweet by Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Canada’s Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino replied, “It is certainly not the concern of the Texas attorney general as to how we in Canada go about our daily lives in accordance with the rule of law. … We need to be vigilant about potential foreign interference … Whatever statements may have been made by some foreign official are neither here nor there. We’re Canadian. We have our own set of laws. We will follow them.”

The Republican majority in the Kansas state Senate failed on Monday to reach the required two-thirds majority required to override Dem Governor Laura Kelly’s veto of their batshit gerrymandered Congressional map, the Topeka Capital-Journal reports. Four Republicans have changed their vote since the map initially passed for different reasons, another one was missing Monday with his staff unable to locate him. The Senate majority leader changed his vote to a “no” to allow a second attempt at the override on Tuesday, though his ability to make it happen remains in doubt. The new map puts the liberal town of Lawrence, Kansas – 40 miles from Kansas City, Missouri, in a vast rural district that stretches all the way to the Colorado border.

Poor Fox host and Hungarian emissary Tucker Carlson and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade version of Tucker Carlson, Charlie Kirk.  They spent the best part of the segment discussing a study that had a mysterious 40% increase in the deaths of people aged 18 to 64 in 2021.

“We have a 40% increase in death,” Kirk declares, “and it’s not because of Covid.”

Oh, nay nay, bloated one.  The CEO of the life insurance company whom you cite, Scott Davidson of OneAmerica Financial, specifically said that the increase was due to the coronavirus pandemic:  “He said the data shows COVID deaths are greatly understated among working age Americans,” says the interview with Davidson from NPR.

Taking up a siege mentality, Canadian officials have cut off the supplies of food, fuel and other necessities going to the rogue truckers who are clogging the streets of Ottawa to protest a list of right wing crises, the Washington Post reports.

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson has asked federal and provisional governments to send 1,800 troops to the city to help restore order.  Police moved in to the truckers’ encampment and evicted everyone from a makeshift kitchen they had constructed.

Officers on the outskirts of the protest also seized a tanker bringing fuel into the encampment.  Police warned that anyone providing fuel to the protesters would face charges.  Police have said they launched 60 criminal investigations, issued hundreds of tickets, towed vehicles and made at least 20 arrests since Friday.

The famous “Sharpiegate” map Trump had personally altered in 2019 to falsely claim he wasn’t wrong about the forecasted path of Hurricane Dorian was among the documents the disgraced former president had absconded to Mar-a-Lago with after leaving office in January 2021, the New York Times reports, following up on a Washington Post report from earlier Monday detailing National Archives personnel had to fly to Mar-a-Lago to recover more than a dozen boxes of presidential records that belong to the federal government and not the fat idiot himself.

In the wake of a synagogue shooting in Texas and nationwide bomb threats against historically Black universities, the Department of Homeland Security has issued a bulletin warning against hostile activities from both foreign and domestic extremists, Reuters reports.

Since 2017, federal law enforcement agencies have issued warning about the increasing threat from extremists, particularly those right-wing white nationalist groups who promote violent responses to issues from government mandates to racial justice.  In the past ten days, more than a dozen historically Black colleges and universities have been shut down due to bomb threats.

“Threats directed at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other colleges and universities, Jewish facilities, and churches cause concern and may inspire extremist threat actors to mobilize to violence,” the Homeland Security Department said in a bulletin.

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— Winning Team Publishing (@WinningTeamPub) February 7, 2022

The Ohio Supreme Court has rejected the state legislative GOP’s second Congressional district map just weeks after ordering them to redraw it, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. Conservative Justice Maureen O’Connor once again sided with the Court’s liberals in a 4-3 decision. The map drawing process now once again goes to the Ohio Redistricting Commission with orders to whip up a map reflecting the state’s 54% Republican, 46% Dem voting preferences split by February 17th.

Republican Sandy, Oregon Mayor and current gubernatorial primary candidate Stan Pulliam told Willamette Week that he and his wife MacKensey “explored relationships, mutual relationships with other couples, for a brief period of time before ultimately deciding that it wasn’t for us,” after being asked to explain a 2016 post on “Swinger Facebook Group PDX” in which he wrote “MacKensey and I are excited to be added to your little community. Some of you we have already had the pleasure to meet and we look forward to getting to know the rest of you!” to the 536 member group.

“I think people can relate from all different parts of the state who have been involved in marriages,” Pulliam said. “There are different stages of marriage and different ebbs and flows. This is something that was for a brief period in our past and is in the past.” Pulliam, a Trump fanboy polling decently in second place behind 2016 special election candidate Bud Pierce, denied rumors he is bisexual. “I’m a heterosexual male,” Pulliam said. “And I’ve only personally engaged in heterosexual activity.” No additional detail about watching from the corner was provided.

The Supreme Court on Monday froze a lower court ruling that Alabama’s new Congressional map violated the Voting Rights Act in a 5-4 decision that saw Chief Justice John Roberts joining the three liberals on the bench in dissenting, CNN reports. The current GOP-drawn map will remain throughout the primaries and likely the November election while a longer court challenge plays out.

Trump Media and Technology Group CEO Devin Nunes told Newsmax on Thursday that the Truth Social platform would miss its February launch target due to development issues, the Washington Examiner reports. “It’s very difficult,” Nunes said, adding “We cannot use any of the Big Tech companies. We’ve seen what has happened to other small startup companies. And when Amazon decides they don’t like them, they cut them off.” The new target is March 31st at the latest.

The executive committees of both the Limestone and Morgan County, Alabama Republican parties voted last week to challenge Madison County Commission Chair Dale Strong’s right to appear on the ballot in the primary for the state’s 5th Congressional District congressional race over Strong greenlighting the removal of a Confederate soldier’s statue from the front of the Madison County Courthouse in October 2020, AL.com reports. The statue of the generic soldier, subject to constant vandalism in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, was moved to a nearby cemetery.

“It was entirely about the monument,” Morgan County GOP Vice Chairman John Mays said last week. “The Legislature has made it a crime (to move such statues), he moved it, and he knew it was against the law,” Mays continued, without explaining why he thinks Strong hasn’t been arrested yet and trying to kick him off the ballot is the best he can do. “My understanding is to be taken off the ballot they’ve got to prove I’m not a Republican, and that will never happen,” said Strong, adding “We did not take our monument to a storage building. We took it directly to a location in an effort to preserve and protect it.” Nice how even the marginally less unreasonable guy, the one being harassed by hardcore MAGA extremists in Alabama is still pro-Confederate.

Former Trump pollster who got fired because the campaign couldn’t afford him anymore Tony Fabrizio was asked by JD Vance’s campaign to assess the hillbilly novelist’s chances in the dysfunctional clusterfuck Ohio Republican Senate primary and they ain’t looking great, judging by this Powerpoint presentation that leaked to Politico. Vance’s “precipitous decline” can be linked directly to an ad aired by rival Josh Mandel’s backers showing Vance badmouthing the Orange God Emperor. Probably why Vance (in all likelihood) paid QAnon psychopath Marjorie Taylor Greene to endorse him last month, to help stem the bleeding. Might even work.

Former Democrat turned hardcore pro-Trump Republican Vernon Jones has dropped out of the Georgia GOP gubernatorial primary to run for Congress instead, making former Senator David Perdue’s path against incumbent Governor Brian Kemp clearer, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Jones did not say which district he would run in, but reportedly the move came at Trump’s urging during a private meeting at Mar-a-Lago in which the Orange God Emperor guaranteed to endorse Jones in a different race if he dropped out – similar to how the Donald moved his chess pieces around the table in Alabama against incumbent Governor Kay Ivey.

Rudy’s son Andrew Giuliani leads Congressman Lee Zeldin in the New York State Republican Gubernatorial primary 18.2% to 16.4%, a new Zogby poll has found. It is Zogby, which is probably just a step above Rasmussen in terms of biased MAGA horseshit, but still hilarious that a jackass like Giuliani’s son can poll ahead of a pretty hardcore Pro-Trump congressman like Zeldin.