The Air Force has discharged 27 MAGA dipshits for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19, the AP reports, citing a spokeswoman. Thousands of Air Force personnel missed the November 2nd deadline to have taken the shot, either having refused or sought exemptions, and the 27 airmen being discharged administratively will be the first of many crybabies thrown out on their selfish fucking asses for not getting one goddamned shot. The discharge ratings were not disclosed.

“Gov. Gavin Newsom misunderstands the actions of the Supreme Court – and the limits of his war on lawful gun ownership. His promise to run roughshod over the Second Amendment is little more than political theater. … He and fellow Democrats should proceed at their own peril: the American people will not tolerate another taxpayer-funded assault on constitutional freedom.” –The National Rifle Association statement in response to California Governor Gavin Newsom saying he’s ready to use the quirk of the Texas abortion law to go after gun industry members responsible for providing the weapons for mass shootings.

Sony Pictures has canceled “The Dr. Oz Show” featuring Mehmet Oz as its eponymous host pursues a nascent career in politics starting with a run for an open Senate seat in Pennsylvania, Politico reports.

The Ohio native and New Jersey resident seeks the Republican nomination for the Senate in a state he has never lived in, using his in-laws’ address as his qualifying residence.  Oz claims he moved to Pennsylvania last year, but his social media accounts feature photos of him in his northern New Jersey residence and he continues to film his television show in New York City, hours from his listed residence outside Philadelphia.

Oz came to national attention as the host of the daily show, which ran for 13 years and targeted housewives with a mix of celebrity news and questionable medical advice.

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin will plead guilty to federal civil rights charges stemming from the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2021, ABC News reports. In April Chauvin was found guilty of the murder in a state court and sentenced to 22.5 years in prison.

“Just in the last week, uh, we saw a New York Post item about a pickpocket with more than 30 arrests back out on the street,” unholy spawn Peter Doocy asks White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.  “Uh, we’ve seen an arsonist burn down a half million dollar Christmas tree in New York City back out on the streets.  Does the president think that that’s good governing?”

Doocy doesn’t want to appear to be whining more about the Fox News fake holiday decoration that was destroyed by a mentally ill homeless man who was released from police custody pending trial because his alleged crime didn’t meet the bail requirements according to New York law.

And on another note:  that fake tree cost $500,000?  The National Christmas Tree, in Washington, DC cost a total of just $139,000, and it’s a real tree decorated far more beautifully than the metal monstrosity that Fox News created.

West Virginia coal baron and Shadow President of The United States Joe Manchin, a Democrat whose “moderation” bullshit was already old months ago, will meet with a group of centrist Dem Senators on Tuesday to explore a filibuster carveout for national voting rights legislation, Punchbowl News reports. The movement comes as the 60 vote threshold for literally fucking everything that isn’t political appointments and appropriations was given a “one-time exception” to allow for debt-limit raises by simple majority, which we guess means since someone else opened the door then Manchin could sell election reform easier to his ultranationalist red state voters.

By  6-3 ruling, the US Supreme Court elected not to intercede to block implementation of the coronavirus vaccine mandate put in place by the State of New York for workers in hospitals and nursing homes, home health agencies, adult centers as well as hospices, CNN reports.

In deciding two suits file by three groups that claimed the vaccine mandate violated the rights of their members, the lawsuits were an attempt by conservative activists to block government mandates concerning the coronavirus.

Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas dissented.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich of the District of Columbia spiked a motion by two Capitol riot defendants attempting to dismiss felony charges of obstructing an official proceeding, National Law Journal reports. The ruling is important as it sets a precedent going forward for other defendants charged in the insurrection, surely to make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for other rioters to have the count tossed. Read the ruling here.

“I am pleased to announce that the City of Kingman [Arizona] will receive this critical funding for economic relief related to operational costs for cleaning and sanitizing the Kingman Airport to combat the spread of COVID-19. This funding is essential to maintaining safe and reliable air service to the community,” said white nationalist anime fan Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar on the Department of Transportation’s $32,000 award to the city from American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

Gosar and 209 of his fellow Republicans voted against the relief bill, but like with his colleague Gary Palmer and the Infrastructure bill, that’s not going to stop him from taking credit for it anyway.

Pennsylvania man Keith Smith was infected with COVID-19 in early November, testing positive for the virus on November 10th. Things took a turn for the worse on the 19th when the 52-year-old devout Christian structural engineer began coughing up blood and struggling to breathe. Keith’s wife Darla drove him to the University of Pittburgh Medical Center where he was intubated.

Darla knew there was only one hope for him: The miracle horse paste that they don’t want you to know about. But the socialist libtard UPMC doctors said no. They said “there’s no ‘evidence’ Ivermectin effective against COVID-19” and “You should’ve gotten vaccinated” or whatever they say. So Darla took them to court. And she won an order to have an outside doctor come in to the UPMC ICU and administer the precious, life-saving livestock dewormer to Keith.

The Cherokee Nation is looking for Congress to make good on a provision of the 1835 Treaty of New Echota guaranteeing them a non-voting delegate seat in the US House, similar to the delegates sent by Washington DC and insular territories such as Guam and Puerto Rico, Axios reports. The Nation’s scholars did not even realize they’d been screwed out of something resembling representation in the treaty until a few decades ago – a treaty in which their forebears fulfilled their end of the bargain by marching from their ancestral homeland in Georgia and Alabama to present-day Oklahoma (historians estimate more than 4,000 died on the “Trail of Tears”).

To that end, in 2019 the Tribe Principal Chuck Hoskins appointed Kim Teehee to be the Nation’s delegate-in-waiting. House leadership say they’re working on getting her seated, chalking the delay up to administrative questions and fortifying the appointment from legal challenges.

Time gave it to some crazy asshole who owns both a car company and a rocket company.

On Monday the Supreme Court rejected an appeal from the right wing John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy against Dem Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers over access to press briefings, the AP reports. Former Governor Scott Walker, the dumbass who wasted billions in taxpayer dollars on a Foxconn manufacturing plant that never happened and was defeated by Evers in 2018, joined the suit MacIver had filed after their writing staff were denied the opportunity to take up space reserved for real journalists. Last year the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a previous ruling that MacIver didn’t need access to cover the governor’s office since they can just check his website.

On Sunday’s edition of Meet The Press, the host with the least Chuck Todd asked Kansas Republican Senator Roger Marshall if he has any regrets over voting against certifying the 2020 election after all the shit what Mark Meadows was up to that came out about since then, to which Marshall non-answered “Look, I’m always going to stand up for election integrity” and blah blah blah “want to make sure every state obeys their own laws and their own constitution” which is the fashionable way to walk the line on the 2020 election for Republicans in Congress these days.

Todd then asked “Do you believe you were elected fair and square in 2020?” and Marshall answered with “You know, absolutely I do. I think Kansas has some of the tightest election laws in the land.” “And do you believe that Joe Biden was elected fair and square?” Todd then asked. “You know, Joe Biden was sworn into office. I called him Mr. President since the day he was… sworn in. I still remain concerned about election integrity” Marshall said, still dicking around. Marshall then denied, stuttering like he was lying and covering his ass, about having seen Mark Meadows’ PowerPoint and being briefed on the China election interference fantasies post-election.

NBC News reports their count of deaths from the COVID-19 virus in the United States since February 2020 has reached 800,156 as of Monday. More than 200,000 of those deaths occurred after June 3rd, 2021, a few months into the distribution of vaccines for the virus nationwide, and more than 100,000 since October 2nd, long after any American who wanted to be fully vaccinated and was medically able to do so should have been fully dosed. As such – leaving aside the deaths from infections caused by refusing to wear masks, social distance, et cetera during the pandemic’s first year (a death toll that’s probably impossible to measure), it’s not an unreasonable conclusion to make that roughly 20 to 25% of all those who died in the pandemic did so completely preventably. Their deaths are on them – and the propagandists who made it a “choice” for them.

At least two people are missing after a British flagged container ship collided with a Danish flagged vessel off the coast of Southern Sweden early Monday, causing the Danish ship to capsize, ABC News reports. Nine Swedish ships and two Danish ships have been deployed to search for the two missing Danish sailors. Authorities say heavy fog in the area may have played a role in the collision.

“I don’t think Bibi ever wanted to make peace. I think he just tapped us along. Just tap, tap, tap, you know? My whole life is deals. I’m like one big deal. That’s all I do, so I understand it. And after meeting with Bibi for three minutes… I stopped Bibi in the middle of a sentence. I said, ‘Bibi, you don’t want to make a deal. Do you?’ And he said, ‘Well, uh, uh uh’ – and the fact is, I don’t think Bibi ever wanted to make a deal” – Trump to Axios’s Jonathan Swan, blaming Netanyahu for not wanting to get a Middle East peace deal done.

Fewer and fewer people are willing to put their money where their mouths are to pay to see Donald Trump and Bill O’Reilly attempt to out bloviate one another, as the venues in Florida where they debuted their “History Tour,” the Orlando Sentinel reports.

For Sunday’s performance at the Amway Center in Orlando, event personnel told people who had bought tickets in the upper decks to go to the main level because they had sold so few tickets.  The Amway Center holds 20,000 for NBA games, but significantly fewer when configured for a concert.  (Details of the program can be found in the link above, but suffice it to say it was a history blurring experience.)

For the December 18th and 19th performances in Houston, a check of online ticket sites shows the official outlet, Ticketmaster, claiming only “resale” tickets, but with hundreds of tickets in inventory.  The Houston venue, the Toyota Arena, shows hundreds of tickets offered as well.