The Biden Administration “an invasion into Ukraine that may result in widespread human rights violations and war crimes should diplomacy fail to meet their objectives,” per a US national security official, Bloomberg’s Jennifer Jacobs reports.

CNN’s KFile reviewed earlier reporting on House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s statements in the immediate aftermath of the Capitol riot, finding two instances in which the spineless gummy worm told others that Trump had admitted responsibility for the Capitol riot in private conversation.

In a January 11th, 2021 private meeting among the House GOP caucus, McCarthy told his party members, “Let me be clear to you and I have been very clear to the President. He bears responsibility for his words and actions. No if ands or buts. I asked him personally today if he holds responsibility for what happened. If he feels bad about what happened. He told me he does have some responsibility for what happened. But he needs to acknowledge that.” The next day, in an interview with California radio station KERN, McCarthy said “I say he has responsibility. He told me personally that he does have some responsibility. I think a lot of people do.”

While it’s possible, maybe even likely, that McCarthy is full of shit and just saying what he thought people wanted to hear because that doesn’t really sound like something Trump would say, since nothing is ever his fault. Then again all reporting on that chaotic time describes Trump’s mental state as “fragile”, so who really knows. Either way, this new old reporting underscores the need for the House January 6th Committee to get the notoriously cowardly McCarthy on the record.

How do we know these guys aren’t just homosexuals or pro-democracy activists?

“On January 12, 2022, the Del City Police Department received an Intelligence Bulletin that an individual was making threats to blow up the OSHA building in Oklahoma City. An Investigator was assigned and spoke to the people that overheard the threats. Investigators learned that the subject stated that he was going to rent a truck, fill it with gasoline, blow up the building, and then take his own life. It was also discovered that the subject had attempted to take money out of his bank account which would have given him the means to execute his plan.”

“The subject was making the threat because he did not agree with OSHA guidelines regarding COVID vaccinations or face coverings. Investigators immediately obtained an arrest warrant for the subject and located him at his residence in Del City. As the subject was taken into custody Officers and Investigator discovered that the subject was armed with two handguns. The subject is being charged with making a Terroristic Hoax” says a Del City, Oklahoma Police Department press release on the arrest of James Scott Moore, 53, a registered Republican.

Again, to reiterate, had this idiot been paying attention to the news, he would have known the Supreme Court was about to make a ruling on the OSHA vaccine mandate before it had been scheduled to go into effect. If convicted – which he probably will – he faces up to ten years in state prison, because he either was not aware or was unwilling to wait for the Supreme Court to decide.

A number of Ukrainian government websites were taken down in a major cyberattack Friday as the country stands on the brink of possible invasion by Russia, the AP reports. “Be afraid and expect the worst. This is for your past, present and future,” said a message on the hacked websites, warning Ukrainians’ personal data had been leaked. The sites have been at least partially restored, claimed Ukraine Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who added “the operability of the websites, not the registries,” was what was affected, not the personal info stored on in the databases. More than 100,000 Russian troops remain stationed on the Russian side of the border as peace talks continue to go from bad to worse, with one Russian diplomat calling it a “dead end” on Thursday.

Travis County, Texas district attorney Jose Garza has determined that Attorney General Ken Paxton violated Texas’ open records law by not turning over his text messages and emails from January 2021, when he appeared at the Ellipse rally just before the Capitol riot, the Austin American-Statesman reports. “After a thorough reviewofthe Complaint, the TCDA’s office has determined that Paxton and the OAG violated Chapter 552 of the Texas Government Code. The TCDAO will file an action against Paxton and the OAG for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief, if they do not cure the violations before the fourth day after the date they receive this notice,” said Garza in a letter to Paxton, giving him four days to comply before Garza files a lawsuit.

With a voice sounding like the result of a deviated septum and sucking a tank of helium, Junior went on Trump advisor (and prototype for every Flintstone’s character) Sean Hannity to falsely claim everything was roses and unicorns when his father left office.

“All Joe Biden had to do is nothing,” the guy who knows a lot about doing nothing with his life says.  “He could have sat back, rode the coattails of my father’s economy [Editor’s note:  His father’s economy lost a net 2.9 million jobs and in its last year, saw GDP fall 2.3%.], of his international policies [Editor’s note:  The United States was an international laughing stock], of Middle East peace [Editor’s note:  There was peace in the Middle East in 2020?  Who knew?], of jobs [Editor’s note: See net 2.9 million jobs lost], of American prosperity [Editor’s note: See 2.3% drop in GDP in 2020.] and energy independence [Editor’s note:  The US has never been energy independent, Junior.] and everything that was achieved.  Instead they spent five years trying to destroy him.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Thursday night that he is postponing the Senate recess and calling the Senate back into session on Tuesday with the stated purpose of debating the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, Rachel Maddow reported.

Schumer said should Republicans choose to filibuster the debate of the bill, the Senate will review options to circumvent the filibuster.

Schumer had stated he wanted to have a vote on the bill before Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, which is celebrated as a national holiday on Monday.

“… with no help from Brett Kavanaugh, that cringing li’l liberal,” mutters Fox host (and boy who has “Kick Me” tattooed across his back) Tucker Carlson, trying to denigrate a very conservative Supreme Court Justice.

In a case of life imitating art, a South Dakota nursing home got a special treat straight out of an episode of “Barney Miller” when a woman brought in a tray of brownies her son baked, not realizing they were his “special” brownie, NBC News reports.

With only medical cannabis legal in South Dakota, Michael James Koranda, 46, of Tabor, was arrested and faces possession of a controlled substance charges.  His mother will not be charged.

Koranda reported went to Colorado, where recreational marijuana for adults over 21 is legal, and came home with a pound of THC-infused butter.  He baked his brownies and went to sleep.  The next morning, his mother awoke and took the brownies to a card game at the nursing home.  Later that day, police were called to the nursing home for a “potential poisoning.”

Child abuser, wife beater, author of violent self-published novels about women being brutalized, Sean Parnell, who dropped out of the Pennsylvania Senate GOP primary in November after it became clear he wasn’t going to win because of all his pathologies, has endorsed a new contender, robber capitalist David McCormick, Fox News reports in an article that appears to be written to imply that since Trump endorsed Parnell, Parnell endorsing McCormick is a Trump endorsement by proxy. “A combat vet from western PA who helped reignite the industrial flames of Pittsburgh – that’s someone we can all get behind,” said Parnell. “He’s the America First candidate in this race.”

Booking photo of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes at a Collin County, Texas jail following his arrest Thursday on charges of seditious conspiracy in the Capitol riot, via CBS’s Scott McFarlane.

But hey, the rights of the minority need to be protected. “I’m satisfied that there is no authority, no statutory authority to have drop boxes used for the collection of absentee ballots,” said Waukesha county Judge Michael Bohren on Thursday, ordering the state election commission to instruct all 1,850 municipal clerks to remove all ballot drop boxes, the Wisconsin Examiner reports.

California Governor Gavin Newsom rejected the recommendation of the state’s parole board to release Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, who has been in jail since 1969, the Associated Press reports.

“Mr. Sirhan’s assassination of Senator Kennedy is among the most notorious crimes in American history,” Newsom wrote in his decision. “After decades in prison, he has failed to address the deficiencies that led him to assassinate Senator Kennedy. Mr. Sirhan lacks the insight that would prevent him from making the same types of dangerous decisions he made in the past.”

Sirhan will be eligible for a parole hearing, no later than February 2023.  His advocates for parole, which include Kennedy’s son Robert F. Kennedy Jr., claim that either Sirhan has fulfilled his sentence or, like RFK Jr., believe that Sirhan was a patsy for the real assassin.

MyPillow pitchman and part-time democracy subverter Mike Lindell has brought onto his legal team a lawyer who was key to Donald Trump’s failed legal challenged to the November 2020 election outcome and a person who falsely claimed Vice President Kamala Harris is ineligible to hold office because, he says, she’s not an American citizen, CNBC reports.

William Olson, whose firm has also worked for key conservative PACs and Ben Carson’s 2016 presidential campaign, has repeatedly claimed that Harris was not born in the United States, echoing racist conspiracy theories first used against Barack Obama.  Contrary to Olson’s claims, Harris is a natural born US citizen, having been born in California.

Olson will join Lindell’s legal team that also features TheHill contributor and massage enthusiast Alan Dershowitz, who also worked for Donald Trump.

https://twitter.com/AdamBaldwin/status/1481656355064729601

The whole MAGA internet is going nuts with “O SO IF THE BIDEN REGIME CAN HAVE A CONCRETE BLAST WALL AROUND THE WHITE HOUSE THAN Y CAN’T WE HAVE ONE ON THE BORDER?!?” Problem is the walls are only around the White House North Lawn fountain, not the White House itself. Apparently it’s currently under renovation, per a live feed of the site.

You can see they’re not even concrete, they’re just some material colored white on the sides facing out because plywood’s a little ugly for the seat of power for the federal government. But that doesn’t stop this dipshit who – we should note – is an actor who was in the 2000 Revolutionary War action classic The Patriot. He played a South Carolina colonist who betrays his neighbors and fights for the British. As in a traitor. Looking forward to seeing “The Conservative Treehouse” issuing a correction for this mistake. If they don’t, maybe we should report that Adam Baldwin is Alec Baldwin’s secret gay husband. We can do that you know, we are a news site, after all.

The House January 6th Select Committee has subpoenaed Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit for information on users who participated in the Capitol riot, the Guardian’s Hugo Lowell reports.

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— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) January 13, 2022

NASA scientists on Thursday announced the Martian meteorite found in Antarctica in 1984 doesn’t actually have any fossilized extraterrestrial microbes on it as had been widely reported as possible back in 1996, Space.com reports. Although the organic compounds found on the rock were consistent with signs of possible life, the NASA team determined they were formed in chemical reactions between water and minerals on Mars approximately 4 billion years ago. The rock itself had a pretty remarkable journey, having been blasted into space by a meteorite impact about 17 million years ago, floating around the solar system for eons, and then becoming a meteorite itself and impacting in Antarctica approximately 13,000 years ago. It is not clear yet if NASA will sell it since they obviously no longer have any use for it anymore. They can’t clone the primordial Martian zombie virus back to life if there isn’t any. One idea they probably haven’t thought of is grinding it up and bottling the particles in a cinnamon flavored liqueur called Mars-schläger.

YoU CaN’T EaT aLL tHe PaNcAkEs – someone who doesn’t know that All You Can Eat Pancakes are back at IHOP, probably. pic.twitter.com/EJEJjSXSKx

— IHOP (@IHOP) January 10, 2022

Look at this fantastic deal! ALL YOU CAN eat pancakes for $5.99! How the hell can you say we’re in an era of rampant inflation if this syrupy sweet deal is available at IHOP locations nationwide? This should be the reply to every insufferable Jim Jordan tweet about how much the price of the Vaseline he uses on his jock strap itch has gone up because Biden. God Bless IHOP.