A release from the Texas Education Agency included this capitulation from the Texas Mussolini: “Please note: mask provisions of GA-38 [Governor Abbott’s ban on mask requirements for public schools] are not being enforced as the result of ongoing litigation. Further guidance will be made available after the court issues are resolved.”

Of course, this is kind of a “win-win” for Abbott, as he gets to recognize reality and let districts impose mask mandates to protect their students, while insisting that he’s the victim of the woke mob and leftist judges, probably as the result of a huge liberal conspiracy funded by George Soros as part of an effort to get rid of all Texas oil refineries and replace them with socialist communes where the gays all teach each other to do pottery and sew pussy hats.

On the bright side, at least now the districts can impose the mask mandates and hopefully this will mean fewer students and teachers dying of COVID-19.

Any adult that works at an Oregon K-12 school must be able to show proof that they are fully inoculated against the coronavirus, Democratic Governor Kay Brown announced Thursday, the Associated Press reports.

Oregon is in the midst of a coronavirus surge, with hospitals at or near capacity and few intensive care unit beds available.  The medical care shortfall was illustrated by a COVID patient who died in the emergency waiting room at a Roseburg hospital because the facility didn’t have an open ICU bed.

“There are those who will disagree with the actions I’m taking today,” Brown said during Thursday’s news conference. “But school is starting across the state, and COVID-19 poses a threat to our kids. Our kids need to be protected, and they need to be in school. And that’s why I’m willing to take the heat for this decision.”

MAGA Assclown Mike Lindell is reportedly assisting a Colorado elections official suspected of leaking the passwords for Dominion Voting Systems equipment in her charge to an 8Chan shithead who went ahead and published them online. That Mesa County clerk, Tina Peters, is reportedly hiding out in a safe house provided by pillow salesman and conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell. If Peters is indeed being sought by the FBI for questioning in connection to the breach of Mesa’s election equipment, and Lindell is in fact concealing her whereabouts, then the concealment of Peters constitutes a conspiracy against the federal government.

This story is a perfect example of why federal law enforcement agencies need to start getting more aggressive in cracking down on fascism enthusiasts. American Democracy is on the line and if the Justice Department doesn’t start cracking heads (literally or figuratively, either ways is fine) these idiots are only going to become even more emboldened, just like Hitler was when he only got 8 months in prison for sticking a revolver in the face of a trio of German officials.

“Trump’s endorsement of David Perdue would completely upend the race. Perdue’s share of the vote more than doubles from 16% to 41%, while Kemp sees a huge chunk of his voters slip away, going from 41% to 26%. In fact, among initial Kemp voters, he is barely able to hang on to a majority of them. 3-in-10 initial Kemp voters shift to Perdue, and another 11% move to undecided.”

“Herschel Walker is the clear frontrunner in the race for U.S. Senate. Even with 35% of voters still undecided, Walker wins 54% of the vote, breaking the magic 50% threshold needed to avert a runoff. No other candidate breaks 5%, giving Walker a giant advantage out of the gate over any and all challengers” say the toplines from the Georgia GOP survey by Trump minion Tony Fabrizio.

“Ya know what happens… you know when a government becomes illegitimate?” Georgia Republican Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene asks a crowd at an insurrectionist meeting in Dew Des Moines, Iowa, obviously screwing up the set-up for an expected applause line.  “When it stops serving its citizens,” she says, and the waits for the expected applause.  (That’s not what makes a government illegitimate, incidentally.)  “And the American government, under the Biden-Harris regime, has stopped serving its citizens.  It’s an illegitimate government.

Accused murderer Kyle Rittenhouse made a video weeks before he killed two people in Kenosha, Wisconsin in which he apparently watched people looting a CVS and he mused, “Bro, I wish I had my fucking AR. I’d start shooting rounds at them.”

According to Insider, Rittenhouse made the video 15 days before he traveled to Kenosha during the riots that occurred after police shot Jacob Blake to, he claimed, help protect local businesses.  He obtained an AR-15 that he had a friend buy for him because he could not legally purchase one in Wisconsin.

Prosecutors are seeking to admit the tape into evidence in Rittenhouse’s trial for the killings of Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26.  Rittenhouse also shot and wounded 26-year-old Gaige Grosskreutz. 

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Dallas Morning News: “North Texas doctors have quietly developed a plan that seeks to prepare for the possibility that due to the COVID-19 surge the region will run out of intensive-care beds. If that happens, for the first time, doctors officially will be allowed to take vaccination status of sick patients into account along with other triage factors to see who gets a bed. A copy of an internal memo written by Dr. Robert Fine, co-chair of the North Texas Mass Critical Care Guideline Task Force, was sent to members of the task force – and leaked to The Watchdog. It summarizes the latest work by the task force, a volunteer group that periodically updates medical guidelines for hospitals in our region. There are about 50 members from various hospitals in the group. Although their recommendations are not enforceable, the guidelines are generally followed.”

“Although doctors make triage decisions all the time, the proposed guideline addition is significant. Casanova predicted that if this change were copied by others medical care, for as long as the crisis persists, ‘is going to look and feel different for everybody who is alive right now in the United States of America.’ Yet a leading medical ethicist who studies how COVID-19 affects communities says he worries that adding vaccination status to the triage of patients will unfairly harm low-income people and people of color. These groups are historically disadvantaged when it comes to obtaining proper medical care. One important note: A non-vaccinated person will not necessarily be denied care when competing with a vaccinated patient for an ICU bed, doctors say. Other medical factors come into play, such as underlying conditions and the likelihood that a patient will get better and leave the hospital.”

The new Papa John’s “Shaq-a-Roni” pizza, described as an “extra-large pizza that’s covered with extra pepperoni and extra cheese” with “toppings are spread all the way to the edge and cut into 8 Shaq-sized slices – our largest slice ever” is available for purchase only to a privileged elite of so-called “Rewards Members” as of Thursday evening, a National Zero investigation has revealed.

The pizza item, endorsed by star of the smash hit 1994 Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis fighting video game Shaq-Fu, the 1996 family comedy classic Kazaam, and a series of television commercials for a product called “Icy-Hot” that are typically aired during daytime broadcasts, Shaquille O’Neal, is emblematic of a growing class divide in the United States in which arbitrary barriers to entry to educational and employment opportunities, social connections, justice, and 8 Shaq-sized slices of extra pepperoni pizza are erected at whim by parties far removed from the life-and-pizza-altering consequences of their decision making experienced by the working class and also the working class, middle class, and wealthy who are not Papa’s Rewards members.

What drives the powers that be at Papa John’s to perpetuate this dreary, Dickensian purgatory of have-Shaq-a-ronis and have-Shaq-a-roni-nots? Is it just them going through the motions of generating a non-existent scarcity as only capitalist drones such as they are know how to do, attacking all those who question the system as radicals and heretics? “Someday you could be a Papa’s rewards member too!” they say to those striving desperately for entry into their exclusive circle of pizza, knowing full well that many, perhaps even most, will never see the gilded inside, savoring the taste of the extra cheese and pepperoni endorsed by Shaq.

Three United States Senators–Roger Wicker (R-MS), Angus King (I-ME) and John Hickenlooper (D-CO)–announced on Thursday they have each tested positive for the coronavirus, the Washington Post reports.

The three, who are all fully vaccinated, become the first Senator to test positive for the coronavirus since South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham announced he was coronavirus-positive.  King is 77 and a prostate cancer survivor. Wicker is 70, Graham is 66 and Hickenlooper is 69.

All three report no or mild symptoms, and they will isolate for at least the next ten days.

Wisconsin QAnon fan Ian Olson pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to one count of an attack on U.S. servicemen for attempting to shoot two Army reservists in uniform with a paintball gun outside of a military facility in Pewaukee, WI, WISN reports. On March 15th, Olson, 31, who had spray painted “Q” all over his car, drove up to the soldiers, screamed “This is for America!”. Olson then fired twice, missing both times, before his gun jammed. Olson then yelled “You’re lucky I missed!”, before the soldiers quickly slammed him to the ground and did the responding cops’ jobs for them. Olson faces two years in prison for the comically failed attack and is set to be sentenced on November 18th, unless Trump comes back and pardons him before then.

The OnlyFans patronage website, which hosts exclusive content from celebrities and sex workers for their subscribers, announced Thursday that it will ban sexually explicit content from its site, raising the question of who would use the site if it did that.

According to the Associated Press, OnlyFans will still host nudity, but it will release guidelines for content contributors that will detail the specific types of activities it will host.  The announcement comes as OnlyFans attempts to diversify its offerings with OFTV, a planned network for fitness, cooking, comedy and music content developers.

OnlyFans reports having 130 million users and 2 million creators who have collectively earned $5 billion.

California Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder’s ex-fiancee Alexandra Datig says she broke up with Elder in 2015 after the Conservative talk radio host acted like one of those gangbangsta rapping thugs you see on MTV or BET hop hip video songs, waving a gun at her while he was high on grass, a revelation no doubt shocking to those who thought Elder was just – well you know – one of the Blacks who didn’t do things like that, Politico reported Thursday.

The article also says Elder demanded that Datig get a “Larry’s Girl” tattoo! That is not how women are supposed to submit to their husbands’ desires. That’s some really hood-lum stuff there! And they met at the Playboy mansion too! This article is full of terrible things about Larry Elder, making him seem like a blinging homie and not a proud Conservative Black man!

You know what? I bet this woman’s some lying racist lib making this stuff up because SOROS is paying her or something! Democrats founded the Ku Klux Klan and the Confederate Army, so most of them are probably secretly members now! Who else would burn a cross?!? They burn crosses and they burn flags, racist socialists! Alexandra Datig is a liar! Larry Elder for Governor!

“I’m aware of the Capitol bomb threat. I’m monitoring the situation. I am in Alabama. My Washington staff is accounted for and safe. I pray for the safety of Capitol Police and first responders on the scene in Washington. Sadly, violence and threats of violence targeting America’s political institutions are far too common. Although this terrorist’s motivation is not yet publicly known, and generally speaking, I understand citizenry anger directed at dictatorial Socialism and its threat to liberty, freedom and the very fabric of American society. The way to stop Socialism’s march is for patriotic Americans to fight back in the 2022 and 2024 elections. I strongly encourage patriotic Americans to do exactly that more so than ever before. Bluntly stated, America’s future is at risk”

– Congressman Mo Brooks statement. Note the playing dumb on Roseberry’s ideological motivation whilst simultaneously saying he understands Roseberry’s frustrations.

Screenshot of since-deleted tweet where QAnon adulteress Marjorie Taylor Greene misspelled Des Moines, Iowa. Some have speculated the trip signals presidential ambitions for the cruel maniac, as historically the Iowa state fair has been a first stop for many on the road to the quadrennial caucus.

The US Capitol Police announced that the man threatening to explode a device at the US Library of Congress has been taken into custody without any violence, ending a standoff that began around 9 a.m. Thursday morning.

A tax surcharge of 3.5% on the state’s wealthiest residents Arizona voters approved in a November 2020 ballot referendum is legal and may be assessed pending a court review of state spending laws, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Thursday, the Associated Press reports.

The tax surcharge, enacted with the passage of Proposition 208, would apply on income above $250,000 for individuals or above $500,000 for couples.  The surcharge would reap an estimated $836 million per year that would be used for K-12 schools in the state.

A different question could torpedo the referendum:  the court referred the case back to a lower court to determine if the amount raised by the surcharge would be in violation of spending limits set by the state constitution.  While the language of the referendum specifically notes that the revenue raised would be distributed in the form of grants, the state constitution limits the amount of spending available to the legislature.

More than one million Americans received the coronavirus vaccine on Thursday, the first time the nation has hit that mark since late June, as the delta variant sweeps across the United States and hospitals hit capacity, Politico reports.

The volume of inoculations has increase by 31% over the last week.  The surge comes 17 days after the US hit the 70% benchmark for adults having at least one vaccine dose.  While Republican politicians and conservative media personalities continue to cast aspersions on the vaccine, the American public seems to largely be ignoring them to get themselves and their children vaccinated.

“The vaccines do work,” Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said on MSNBC Thursday morning, “and because of that, we’ve got to get the unvaccinated people vaccinated. That’s a very important goal and a very important issue we need to address.”