CBS Miami reports the Kwik Stop in the 300 block of SW 6 Street in Fort Lauderdale, Florida was damaged when a Jeep SUV crashed into the store Monday. Video of the accident’s aftermath taken by local firefighters shows what appear to be Budweiser and Bud Light 18-packs crushed by the vehicle’s impact with the building. The number of individual servings of the beers wrecked in the crash was not provided in CBS Miami’s report, though given the unsellable condition of the cases, it is likely the other cans or bottles that remained intact within those cases will be sold on an individual basis or returned to the distributor for repackaging.

“In early 2020, a frustrated and furious Donald Trump described Joe Biden as ‘a mental retard’ while struggling to cope with his own placement in early polls, according to a passage from ‘Frankly, We Did Win This Election’: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost, a forthcoming book by senior Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender. The author notes that Trump vented his anger at the time by interrupting a policy meeting in the Oval Office to ask, ‘How am I losing in the polls to a mental retard?’ In another moment Bender writes that Trump held back on focusing his firepower on Biden during the primary stage of the election because he was convinced that the Democratic Party was scheming to switch out now president Biden for a different candidate – such as Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama – over the summer” Vanity Fair reports in a preview.

“The source of this conspiracy theory, per Bender, was Dick Morris, a former Clinton White House adviser who was ‘quietly advising Trump’ last year. ‘Dick Morris told Trump that Biden was too old and too prone to gaffes to be the nominee,’ Bender writes, while others in Trumpworld felt Biden would exit the race and be replaced by someone else if Trump began bashing him too hard. ‘Others said Fox News anchor Sean Hannity expressed concern that Biden would collapse under a sustained attack from Trump. According to Bender, Trump also felt that his attack strategy had backfired during the first stage of the Democratic primary. ‘The president, meanwhile, had often complained that his early attack on [Elizabeth] Warren had damaged her presidential bid, which he regretted because he viewed her as an easier opponent than Biden,’ Bender writes. ‘Now he worried that a heavy blitz of attack ads would hasten the secret plot being hatched by Democrats, and his mind raced with who they might select in Biden’s place.’ During a meeting held the month after the coronavirus outbreak hit the U.S., Trump expressed his Biden replacement theory to advisers, saying that Democratic leadership would ‘realize [Biden is] old, and they’re going to give it to somebody else. They’re going to give it to Hillary, or they’re going to give it to Michelle Obama.'”

CBC: “A 20-year-old man was charged Monday with four counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in a hit and run Sunday involving a pickup truck, in what London, Ont., police believe was a targeted attack on a Muslim family of five. Terrorism charges are also possible against Nathanial Veltman, 20, of London, said Det.-Insp. Paul Waight at a news conference.”

“Veltman appeared in court via video link Monday afternoon. ‘There is evidence that this was a planned, premeditated act and that the family was targeted because of their Muslim faith,’ said Waight. ‘This is a devastating loss of four members of our community,’ added police Chief Steve Williams at an afternoon news conference. The vehicle struck the family at 8:40 p.m. ET Sunday as they walked along Hyde Park Road, in northwest London.”

Washington Post:  “Vice President Harris sternly warned Guatemalans on Monday that they will be turned back if they come to the U.S. border illegally as she held a meeting in Guatemala City with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei focused on the root causes of a surge in migration from Central America.

“‘Do not come,’ Harris said during a joint news conference with Giammattei. ‘The U.S. will continue to enforce our laws. … If you come to our border, you will be turned back.'”

The Supreme Court unanimously upheld a lower court ruling, supported by the Biden Administration, that bars migrants who entered the country illegally but were granted “temporary protective status” from gaining permanent resident status, Reuters reports.

Under US law, migrants seeking permanent resident status, commonly known as “a green card,” must be in the country legally.  People with temporary protective status are barred from being expelled from the United States because of conditions in their home nations, but they may not be residing in the country through legal means.

The Court ruled that while the family suing to get their permanent resident status legally resided in the United States, they had not entered the US legally, and therefore were not eligible to claim a green card. 

The federal government has reportedly recovered millions of dollars paid to a group of hackers in a ransomware scam against the Colonial Pipeline last month, an attack that halted the distribution of processed petroleum products to the southeast United States for about a week.

According to CNN, the CEO of the Colonial Pipeline reported paying $4.4 million to the hackers.  It is unknown how much of the money was recovered.  The company made the decision because it did not know how deep into the IT systems the hackers had penetrated, and they shut off distribution through the pipeline as a safety precaution.

While the company was preparing to pay the ransom, it was also working with the FBI to provide information on the hackers and how to track the ransom payment.  The Department of Justice was scheduled to have a press briefing to provide information this afternoon.

Candace Owens most of you have probably heard of, she’s an assclown and her husband is a Brexit dude, but Brandon Tatum is new to me. His most recent tweet saying “Pride month is of the DEVIL” on Monday makes it pretty clear who he is however. Also interesting how these crazy assholes ranting about fellow Black conservatives is kind of a mirror image of how MAGA trolls will often call white liberals “race traitors” for being opposed to police brutality against Black folks and what not.

AP: “Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek wants to expel a Republican lawmaker who allowed violent protesters into the state Capitol in December. Kotek introduced a resolution that says if two-thirds of the members of the House of Representatives concur, Rep. Mike Nearman would be expelled from the House. Minutes before the House opened its floor session late Monday morning, her office announced that Kotek appointed a committee to consider expulsion. The committee, composed of three Democrats and three Republicans, will convene later this week and take up the resolution, Kotek’s press release said. The incident on Dec. 21 rattled lawmakers and staff inside the Capitol and foreshadowed the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol by rioters spurred on by then President Donald Trump. Several of those who were among the crowds in Salem on Dec. 21 later were in Washington during the U.S. Capitol attack.”

“As lawmakers met in emergency session on Dec. 21 to deal with economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, far-right rioters entered the building. They sprayed chemical irritants at police who finally expelled them. Outside, protesters broke windows on the Capitol and assaulted journalists. Later, security camera video emerged showing Nearman opening a door to the capitol, which was closed to the public because of the coronavirus pandemic, allowing protesters to enter. Nearman allegedly told people in a video days earlier that he would let them in if they texted him, and he provided his cell phone number. The video was first reported Friday by Oregon Public Broadcasting. In her resolution, Kotek said personnel who were authorized to be in the Oregon Capitol described the events on Dec. 21 as intense and stressful, terrifying and distressing. ‘Law enforcement officers were visibly injured and shaken due to the demonstrators’ action.'”

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“How do you defend, uh, the fawning that we’ve seen by some in the media over the current administration,” Fox News host (apparently irony-free being) Harris Faulkner asks.

Florida Politics: “Twitter on Monday suspended Rebekah Jones, a former Department of Health data curator who made national headlines after being fired from the department for insubordination from its platform. While it is unclear why Twitter suspended the account, the social media giant typically sidelines accounts after they violate ‘Twitter rules.’ Jones reportedly told E.W. Scripps the suspension is in response to a recent Miami Herald story she overshared. The account, she added, would likely be reinstated soon. Jones, who helped build the state’s online presentation of its COVID-19 data, garnered national attention a year ago when she sowed doubt about the information being reported by the state when Florida was an epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. She suggested Health Department managers wanted her to manipulate information to paint a rosier picture, and that she pushed back.”

“Notably, the allegations thrusted Jones into the spotlight and pit her against Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. In the months since her termination, media outlets have jousted over Jones’ allegations. The DeSantis administration released a statement applauding the suspension shortly after reports began circulating, Politico reported. ‘This decision was long overdue,’ the statement said. ‘Rebekah Jones is the Typhoid Mary of COVID-19 disinformation and has harmed hardworking DOH employees with her defamatory conspiracy theories. I hope someone will ask Ms. Jones why she thinks she got suspended – will she allege that Governor DeSantis is somehow behind Twitter’s decision? That would be deeply ironic if she tried to spin that falsehood into her conspiracy theory, given the Governor’s stance on Big Tech.'”

“President Biden told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a phone call Monday that he looks forward to welcoming him to the White House this summer after returning from his trip to Europe, according to national security adviser Jake Sullivan. In an hour-long interview with Axios on Friday, Zelensky urged Biden to meet with him face to face before a June 16 summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin – offering to join him ‘at any moment and at any spot on the planet.’ The plea from Zelensky came after Biden waived sanctions on the corporate entity and CEO overseeing the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which will allow Russia to circumvent Ukraine and deliver natural gas directly to Germany” – Axios.

A Costa Mesa, California couple has been arrested in the road rage shooting that killed six-year-old Aiden Leos on May 21st on an Orange County freeway, KCAL CBS-9 reports.

Marcus Anthony Eriz, 24, and Wynne Lee, 23, were arrested on Sunday at their home and will be charged murder.  They were in a car that got into an aggressive driving situation with Leos’ mother on May 21st, during which a shot was fired from their car and struck Aiden Leos in the back as he was strapped into a booster seat in the back seat of his mother’s car as she drove him to kindergarten.

Joanna Cloonan, Aiden’s mother, reportedly tried to exit a carpool lane to take an exit to get to Aiden’s school when the white Volkswagen station wagon driven by Eriz cut off their access to their lane.  Cloonan made a hand gesture to the other car, afterwhich her car was struck by a single shot that murdered Aiden. 

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the second richest man on Earth, will join the first manned mission of his Blue Origin spacecraft, scheduled for July 20th, just days after he steps down as CEO of Amazon, NBC News reports.

The crew will take off on the New Shepard spacecraft, a suborbital craft designed and manufactured by Bezos’s Blue Origin Federation.  The booster rocket will push the crew cabin just over the Karman line, the point 100 kilometers above the Earth that is the designated point of space flight.  The booster rocket will make a controlled landing; after three minutes in space, the crew capsule will make a parachute-assisted landing into the West Texas desert.

“You see the Earth from space, it changes you,” Jeff Bezos said in a video announcing his plan. “It changes your relationship with this planet, with humanity. It’s one Earth. I want to go on this flight because it’s the thing I’ve wanted to do all my life. It’s an adventure. It’s a big deal for me.”

Associated Press:  “France’s anti-competition watchdog decided Monday to fine Google 220 million euros ($268 million) for abusing its ‘dominant position’ in the online advertising business, an unprecedented move, the body said.  Practices used by Google ‘are particularly serious because they penalize Google’s competitors’ in certain markets and publishers of mobile sites and applications, the statement by the Competition Authority said.

“‘The authority recalls that a company in a dominant position is subject to a particular responsibility, that of not undermining,’ the statement said.  Google, based in Mountain View, California, did not dispute the facts and opted to settle, proposing changes, the statement said.  The head of the authority, Isabelle de Silva, said the decision was unprecedented.

“'(It’s) the first decision in the world to look into complex algorithmic auctions processes through which online display advertising works,’ she said.”

David Dushman, a 98-year-old Red Army veteran of World War II and the last known member of the military who helped liberate the Auschwitz German extermination camp, died in Upper Bavaria over the weekend, CNN reports.

“Every contemporary witness who passes away is a loss, but the farewell of David Dushman is particularly painful,” Charlotte Knobloch, the president of the Jewish community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, said. “He was one of the last who could tell about this event from his own experience.”

In an interview with Reuters last year, Dushman said that the Red Army used tanks to knock down the fences of the camp.  “We had not known that Auschwitz existed,” he said.  Dushman was one of just 69 men in his 12,000-person unit to survive the war.  Dushman himself had a lung removed due to injuries in battle.

Fox News notified a Political Action Committee Friday that it would not run the group’s ad planned for Sunday about the violence Capitol Police and other law enforcement officers endured during the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol.

The Los Angeles Times (via Yahoo) reports Fox News did not provide any explanation for why the ad would not be run, nor did they provide any suggestions for how to make the ad compliant with network guidelines.

“We couldn’t have fathomed in our wildest imaginations that even a Fox News would reject an ad that simply condemns the insurrection, and condemns people who support the insurrection,” said Ben Meiselas, one of the co-founders of MeidasTouch, the liberal Political Action Committee that created the 60-second ad.  (You can view the ad after the break.)

Republican Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks, who has been avoiding public appearances so as to prevent process servers from finding him to slap him with a subpoena for Democratic California Congressman Eric Swalwell’s lawsuit over Brooks’ role in the January 6th insurrectionist attack at the Capitol.

According to CNN, Swalwell’s legal team hired private investigators to delivery the subpoena because Brooks has been actively avoiding public areas where he could be served.  The team successfully last night served the subpoena to Brooks’ wife at their Alabama home.

“Well, Swalwell FINALLY did his job, served complaint (on my WIFE). HORRIBLE Swalwell’s team committed a CRIME by unlawfully sneaking INTO MY HOUSE & accosting my wife!” Brooks wrote on Twitter.

Air Force Two, the plane carrying Vice President Kamala Harris, was forced to return back to Joint Base Andrews after the crew reported a “technical issue” thirty minutes into a flight to Guatemala, USA Today reports.

Journalists on the flight reported hearing unusual sounds coming from the planes landing gear, but there was no issue with landing the plane.  “It is a technical issue. There are no major safety concerns,” Harris chief spokeswoman Symone Sanders told reporters before landing.

“I’m good. I’m good,” Harris told reporters after she deplaned. “We all said a little prayer, but we’re good.”

Harris, her staff and the accompanying journalists switched to a different plane and resumed the travel schedule.

Multiple customers at a restaurant in Blacksburg, Virginia–home to Virginia Tech University–have experienced illness and disorientation after having drinks at its bar over the past few months, prompting police to investigate if the drinks were spiked, the Roanoke Times reports.

Blacksburg police are working with Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority and state Department of Forensic Science to investigate complaints it received and accounts posted on social media to investigate the incidents at the Centro Taco Bar, on the town’s Main Street.  So far, no evidence of drugs being used has been found.

A woman who became disoriented and began vomiting soon after eating and drinking at Centro Taco Bar on May 18th, and said police also were investigating another, similar incident at the restaurant.