Judge Joseph Bianco, a Federalist Society member appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit by former guy Donald J. Trump decided to risk the lives of millions of New York City school-children by granting an injunction preventing enforcement of a Covid19 vaccine mandate for New York City public school staff.

The Taliban’s Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the same leader who negotiated with Mike Pompeo for an Afghanistan “peace” agreement has given his soldiers the go-ahead to begin public hangings of suspected criminals. Eyewitness reports indicate that the Trump sponsored Taliban government recently hung an individual suspected of having attempted a kidnapping.

With a growing number of hospitals and other health-care providers mandating the Covid19 vaccine for their workers, a growing number of people are trying to blame these mandates for projected staff shortages. In Syracuse, NY an editorial appeared on a local news site blaming the state’s Covid19 vaccine requirement for health-care providers for a staff shortage that will lead to the closure of 13 operating rooms in the system. In San Francisco, local Sheriffs deputies also threatened to quit over a vaccine requirement.

Bloomberg: “Former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell sued the voting-technology company she falsely accused of rigging the 2020 presidential election, accusing it of trashing her reputation by taking her to court. Powell, in a series of counterclaims filed late Friday against Dominion Voting Systems Inc., claimed the company’s earlier $1.3 billion defamation suit against her was a ‘ludicrous’ abuse of the legal system intended to intimidate her for speaking out. She’s seeking at least $10 million in damages. The Texas-based lawyer is the architect of a debunked conspiracy theory that Dominion worked with corrupt election workers, communists and foreign hackers to flip millions of votes away from former President Donald Trump in November. The theory was at the center of a series of lawsuits she filed in key swing states to overturn the election, all of which failed.”

“Dominion’s motive in suing was ‘diverting attention from the failings of its election equipment, trying to change the ‘narrative’ that was exposing Dominion’s serious flaws and wrongdoing, and avoiding post-election inquiry into voting irregularities in the 2020 election,’ Powell said in the filing. Powell has never provided evidence of such failings or irregularities, and state election officials have rejected the allegations. Dominion spokeswoman Anna Lisa Lowenstein declined to comment.”

“China’s most powerful regulators on Friday intensified a crackdown on cryptocurrencies with a blanket ban on all crypto transactions and mining, hitting bitcoin and other major coins and pressuring crypto and blockchain-related stocks,” Reuters reports.

“Ten agencies, including the central bank, financial, securities and foreign exchange regulators, vowed to work together to root out “illegal” cryptocurrency activity, the first time the Beijing-based regulators have joined forces to explicitly ban all cryptocurrency-related activity.”

“A federal judge erupted at a Capitol riot defendant as he pleaded guilty on Friday, chastising him for participating in an ‘attack on our government’. ‘You’ve disgraced this country in the eyes of the world, and my inclination is to lock you up,’ Judge Reggie B. Walton said to defendant Anthony Mariotto, who pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor charge moments before. ‘I found it outrageous that American citizens would do what you did…To see someone destroy, or try to destroy, the Capitol is very troubling to me,’ Walton added. Walton has been outspoken in his disdain for the events of January 6,” reports CNN.

“The Centers for Disease Control released three studies in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) that highlight the importance of using layered prevention strategies including universal masking to stop the spread and minimize disruptions to school operations for safe in-person education. These studies found that school districts without a universal masking policy in place were more likely to have COVID-19 outbreaks. Nationwide, counties without masking requirements saw the number of pediatric COVID-19 cases increase nearly twice as quickly during this same period.”

“After all the scurrying, searching, sifting, speculating, hand-counting and bamboo-hunting had ended, Republicans’ post-mortem review of election results in Arizona’s largest county wound up only adding to President Biden’s margin of victory there. But for those who have tried to undermine confidence in American elections and restrict voting, the actual findings of the Maricopa County review that were released on Friday did not appear to matter in the slightest.”

“Former President Donald J. Trump and his loyalists redoubled their efforts to mount a full-scale relitigation of the 2020 election. Any fleeting thought that the failure of the Arizona exercise to unearth some new trove of Trump votes or a smoking gun of election fraud might derail the so-called Stop the Steal movement dissipated abruptly. As draft copies of the report began to circulate late Thursday, Trump allies ignored the new tally, instead zeroing in on the report’s specious claims of malfeasance, inconsistencies and errors by election officials. Significant parts of the right treated the completion of the Arizona review as a vindication – offering a fresh canard to justify an accelerated push for new voting limits and measures to give Republican state lawmakers greater control over elections. It also provided additional fuel for the older lie that is now central to Mr. Trump’s political identity: that the 2020 election was stolen from him” – New York Times.

Amazing report from Dr. Shiva. Many questions for Maricopa County as well as exposure of incompetence & possible malfeasance. A FULL SIGNATURE AUDIT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY! #AmericasAudit

— Dr. Kelli Ward 🇺🇸 (@kelliwardaz) September 24, 2021

New York Times: “As scores of Proud Boys made their way, chanting and shouting, toward the Capitol on Jan. 6, one member of the far-right group was busy texting a real-time account of the march. The recipient was his F.B.I. handler. In the middle of an unfolding melee that shook a pillar of American democracy – the peaceful transfer of power – the bureau had an informant in the crowd, providing an inside glimpse of the action, according to confidential records obtained by the Times.

In the informant’s version of events, the Proud Boys, famous for their street fights, were largely following a pro-Trump mob consumed by a herd mentality rather than carrying out any type of preplanned attack. After meeting his fellow Proud Boys at the Washington Monument that morning, the informant described his path to the Capitol grounds where he saw barriers knocked down and Trump supporters streaming into the building, the records show.”

“At one point, his handler appeared not to grasp that the building had been breached, the records show, and asked the informant to keep him in the loop – especially if there was any violence. The use of informants always presents law enforcement officials with difficult judgments about the credibility and completeness of the information they provide. In this case, the records obtained by The Times do not directly address whether the informant was in a good position to know about plans developed for Jan. 6 by the leadership of the Proud Boys, why he was cooperating, whether he could have missed indications of a plot or whether he could have deliberately misled the government. But the records, and information from two people familiar with the matter, suggest that federal law enforcement had a far greater visibility into the assault on the Capitol, even as it was taking place, than was previously known.”

“Rivers of lava raced down the volcano and exploded high into the air overnight on the Spanish island of La Palma and the airport was closed as an eruption intensified and entered its most explosive phase so far. Since it began erupting on Sunday on the small island in the Atlantic, the Cumbre Vieja volcano has spewed out thousands of tons of lava, destroyed hundreds of houses and forced the evacuation of nearly 6,000 people” Reuters reports.

“Authorities said on Saturday that the 160 people evacuated from three more towns on Friday would not be able to return to their homes to retrieve their belongings because of the ‘evolution of the volcanic emergency’. Experts said the volcano had entered a new explosive phase. ‘Volcanic surveillance measurements carried out since the beginning of the eruption recorded the highest-energy activity so far during Friday afternoon,’ emergency services said in a statement on Friday.”

• Conservative science denial is a historical problem.  Climate change.  Pollution from fossil fuels.  Carcinogens in tobacco.  The HPV vaccine.  The contagiousness of AIDS.  The causes of hurricanes.  Evolution.  The Big Bang.  A round Earth.  They’ve never been good at the “hard” sciences, the soft sciences or economics.
• Peter Doocy and the Arizona GOP apparently both like to be repeatedly humiliated in public.
• The public should not be financially responsible for the failed California recall or the comical Arizona audit or any dog-and-pony show “recount.”  They are wastes of time and resources, and they should be paid entirely by the party (not necessarily political party) responsible for them.  You want to call for a recall in California?  Great.  Take out a $300 million bond to pay for it.
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Statement from Patrick Parsons, Chief of Staff to Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene: “The opportunity to have helped elect and serve as Chief of Staff for Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has been the highlight of my professional career. She asked me to come to Washington and help organize her office. After eight and a half months fighting the Socialist Democrats and RINOs in DC, it’s time to move on. Americans are seeing our freedoms threatened and taken away by the Communist Biden Administration running our nation today and I can do more to stop that threat working on the outside than in Congress, just as I did heading Georgia Gun Owners. Only this time, circumstances require this be on a much bigger scale. Marjorie Taylor Greene is an America First superstar who has become one of the leading policy-influencers in our party today.”

“She’s shaken up Washington, DC, stood up to the Swamp and her own conference, disrupted business as usual, and showed Republicans how to fight and never back down. America needs hundreds more MTGs in Congress and all levels of public service, and I’m going to help get them there. I look forward to continuing my work with Marjorie to Save America and Stop Socialism”

You all know the drill by this point. What’s fun about this round is we have a few fanboys caught in between the initial reporting Thursday night on the disappointing leak, but then refusing to believe it, and then the veracity of that initial conclusion being confirmed by the Cyber Ninjas assclowns Friday afternoon. Click on any part of the comments to open in a new tab to leave a reply.

Holly Cow • 2 hours ago
️County obstructed the audit.
Fri, 9/24/2021 5:44 PM on ‘Trump blames media after Arizona audit finds Biden won’

Augustus • 8 hours ago
️Spin, libs, spin!
What the audit shows is that Biden actually cheated by a larger margin than the county’s official results show.
Fri, 9/24/2021 11:50 AM on ‘Arizona draft audit report shows Biden widened lead by 360 votes’

Rusty • 8 hours ago
️Trump Won and is the President.
The mockingbird fake news media is parroting claims that CyberNinjas confirmed a Biden win through a preliminary audit draft.The results aren’t even out yet.
Fri, 9/24/2021 11:38 AM on ‘Arizona draft audit report shows Biden widened lead by 360 votes’

tarajunky • 10 hours ago
️Time will tell, the breathless near instantaneous pre-reporting by every media outlet is highly unusual and doubtless coordinated.
Fri, 9/24/2021 10:50 AM on ‘Trump blames media after Arizona audit finds Biden won’

Joe • 10 hours ago
️Fake news! Biden and the Democrats cheated and the audit proves exactly that.
Fri, 9/24/2021 10:48 AM on ‘Arizona draft audit report shows Biden widened lead by 360 votes’

ThatsAFact • 10 hours ago
️What a damn lie. The report is going to be released at 1 PM today there is no information out yet saying that Biden won.
Fri, 9/24/2021 10:47 AM on ‘Trump blames media after Arizona audit finds Biden won’

A retired surgeon in Connecticut had her medical license suspended after she was caught providing signed exemption forms for vaccines, tests and mask-wearing to people who sent her a self-addressed stamped envelope, the Associated Press reports.

Sue Mcintosh of Durham didn’t know most of the people she provided exemption forms to, let alone had ever examined them.  State investigators received an anonymous tip about Mcintosh’s scheme and after a probe, called on the state medical board to suspend her license immediately, saying she is “clear and immediate danger to public health and safety.”

In a letter titled “Instructions for Medical Exemptions,” Mcintosh said the recipients “may copy and distribute as many forms as you wish to anyone.” She advised them to “keep blank copies for yourself for future use” and to fill in the name and date in black ink. She also provided blank forms that stated whoever filled them out had a “history of anaphylaxis to polyethylene glycol” and cannot be vaccinated for COVID-19 or was “highly allergic” to aluminum and mercury and cannot be vaccinated for any vaccine in general.

The tower is 432 Park Ave, and not the Trump Tower. Yeah, I know the Trump Tower is a death trap favored by money launderers too, but 432 Park is in a class of its own. 432 Park is 93 feet wide, 93 feet deep, and 1,396 feet tall, so it’s like living inside of the world’s tallest Jenga game with some substandard joints tying the blocks together. Residents have sued the developers for making their lives miserable, the Daily Beast reports, with colorful anecdotes of elevators programmed to slow down when the wind picks up that end up stranding residents in the for hours at a time, cracked ceilings, water leaks, electrical mishaps, grating noise and vibrations when the tuned mass dampers compensate for the wind, and “a garbage chute that sounds like a bomb going off”.

“President Biden has determined he will not assert executive privilege to shield Trump-era records from being seen by the committee investigating the Jan 6 insurrection attempt” – Manu Raju, CNN.

The debut of the new National Zero user account on Kevin Sorbo’s incredibly lame new social media app “FreeSpace” marks a new milestone in our quest to join as many “free speech alternative” platforms and then forget about them as possible. The other four are Parler, GETTR, FreeTalk45, and Gab, which sucks so badly we might as well just not count it. We also cannot link the National Zero FreeSpace page because unlike the others, it exists only as an iOS/Android app and there is no browser access. But we still encourage you to install it on your see it for yourselves. It also really, really sucks for fun and interesting ways different than Gab’s. Be sure to follow us too!

Screenshot of a banner at the top of statement by everyone’s second favorite QAnon fan dipshit Congresswoman, Lauren Boebert, spotted by Twitter user @nycsouthpaw. Later corrected on Boebert’s site, but like the time she misspelled her name, screenshots are forever.