Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-Georgia) illegally claimed a state tax credit on two different properties, saying that each of the properties were her primary residences so they could get the state’s homestead exemption, WSB ABC-2 News in Atlanta reports.

In Georgia, a homeowner under the age of 65 can claim a $2,000 tax credit on local school taxes for their primary residence.  (Residents over 65 can claim $4,000.)  But the exemption can only be claimed on the primary residence, not a second house or rental.  It’s illegal to claim it multiple times.

Greene owns a home in North Fulton County.  Last year, she and her husband bought a second home in Floyd County, in the congressional district she represents in Congress, for $610,000.

“Rep. Matt Gaetz attended a 2019 GOP fundraiser in Orlando with a paid escort and amateur Instagram model who led a cocaine-fueled party after the event,” the Daily Beast Reports. “The Florida congressman’s one-time wingman, Joel Greenberg, will identify that escort to investigators as one of more than 15 young women Gaetz paid for sex, according to a source familiar with the investigation.”

Openly vaccinated officials, by the numbers:

• 100% of Democrats in Congress
• 92% of Senate Republicans
• 45% of House Republicans

— The Recount (@therecount) May 14, 2021

The key word here is “openly.”  We know Republicans are closeted in a lot of ways.

Walmart and Trader Joe’s became the first two national chains to lift their corporate-wide mask mandates after the CDC said fully-vaccinated people can ditch the face coverings, news outlets report.

According to CNBC, Walmart will only require masks for its employees and customers in locations that have local mask mandates in place.  Fully-vaccinated customers will no longer have to wear masks as of Friday, while employees can stop masking up next Tuesday.  Employees, however, will have to verify before each shift that they are feeling well and that they’ve been vaccinated, the company said.  The change will impact the company’s Walmart and Sam’s Club stores.

Trader Joe’s announced earlier Friday that fully-vaccinated customers will not have to wear masks in their stores, USA Today reported.  At this time, however, employees will be required to still wear masks.

We all have regrets in life.  Dating that brunette.  Having that last shot at the bar Thursday.  Watching the ball roll through your legs in Game 6 of the World Series.

Liz Cheney’s regrets apparently are more world impacting (not to say Bill Buckner’s weren’t earthshaking for bookies around the country).  Cheney now says she regrets voting for Donald Trump in 2020.

“I was never going to support Joe Biden and I do regret the vote,” Cheney told ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl. “It was a vote based on policy, based on substance and in terms of the kinds of policies he put forward that were good for the country. But I think it’s fair to say that I regret the vote.”

Biden just killed the Trump Executive Order honoring hundreds in the Garden of American Heroes.

This “President” is evil.

— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) May 14, 2021

CNN: “Neera Tanden, the new administration’s only Cabinet nominee rebuffed by the Senate, has become a senior adviser to President Joe Biden, a White House official told CNN. A longtime health policy expert, Tanden will begin planning for potential policy changes that could result from the forthcoming Supreme Court decision on Republican legal efforts to strike down the Affordable Care Act. She worked in former President Barack Obama’s administration as the act was designed and implemented. Among other duties, the official said, Tanden will also launch a review of the US Digital Service. Biden originally nominated Tanden to be director of the Office of Management and Budget. But Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia joined Republicans in blocking her confirmation, citing her past acerbic criticism of political adversaries in both parties.”

President Joe Biden took a major step in repairing damage and waste incurred by his predecessor, revoking an executive order that barred immigrants who might incur a “public charge” on America’s healthcare system, saying it “does not advance the interests of the United States.”

“My Administration is committed to expanding access to quality, affordable healthcare,” Biden said in his announcement.  “We can achieve that objective, however, without barring the entry of noncitizens who seek to immigrate lawfully to this country but who lack significant financial means or have not purchased health insurance coverage from a restrictive list of qualifying plans.”

Biden also revoked a number of other Trump executive orders seen as wasteful or self-serving, including a minimum ten-year punishment for damaging a public monument and Trump’s planned National Garden of American Heroes.

“The US Navy photographed and filmed ‘spherical’ shaped UFOs… Filmed in the Combat Information Center of the USS Omaha / July 15th 2019/warning area off San Diego @ 11pm PST. No wreckage found. No craft were recovered” reports investigative filmmaker Jeremy Corbell.

“The Secretary of Homeland Security has issued a new National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin regarding the current heightened threat environment across the United States. The Homeland is facing threats that have evolved significantly and become increasingly complex and volatile in 2021. These threats include those posed by domestic terrorists, individuals and groups engaged in grievance-based violence, and those inspired or influenced by foreign terrorists and other malign foreign influences. Social media and online forums are increasingly exploited by these actors to influence and spread violent extremist narratives and activity.”

“Such threats also are exacerbated by the impacts from the ongoing global pandemic… Violent extremists may seek to exploit the easing of COVID-19-related restrictions across the United States to conduct attacks against a broader range of targets after previous public capacity limits reduced opportunities for lethal attacks. Historically, mass-casualty Domestic Violent Extremist (DVE) attacks linked to racially- or ethnically-motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) have targeted houses of worship and crowded commercial facilities or gatherings. Some RMVEs advocate via social media and online platforms for a race war and have stated that civi disorder provides opportunities to engage in violence in furtherance of ideological objectives” – DHS Bulletin.

Joel Greenberg, the man Florida Republican Congressman dubbed his “wingman,” pleaded guilty Friday to six felony counts including sex trafficking, money laundering and identity theft as part of a plea agreement in which he will cooperate with prosecutors in other investigations, the New York Times reports.

Greenberg did not specifically mention Gaetz by name in his plea agreement, but said that he “introduced the minor to other adult men, who engaged in commercial sex acts” with her, some of which he watched.

In the filings, made in federal court in Orlando, Florida, Justice Department prosecutors said they had other corroborating information to support Greenberg’s account, including a series of communications and transactions Greenberg had with the girl, and a list of dates of their sexual encounters.  The Times had earlier reported that Greenberg paid girls using the Venmo app, and that Greenberg paid girls the exact same amount of money Gaetz had paid him less than a day earlier.

The family of Andre Hill, an unarmed Black man shot and killed by Columbus, Ohio police as he walked out of a garage at a friend’s house, reached a $10 million settlement in a wrongful death suit against the city, NBC News reports.

Police were responding to a call from a neighbor complaining about a car that was repeatedly turning its engine on and off when the 47-year-old Hill emerged from a garage.  Adam Coy, since fired from the police department, shot Hill four times.  Hill did not have a gun, but was holding a cell phone.

Neither Coy nor his partner had their body cams on, but a “look back” feature allowed authorities to review what had happened.  Coy has been indicted on charges of murder in commission of a felony, felonious assault and reckless homicide, and he’s being held on $1 million bail pending trial.

https://youtu.be/hXO3rlHfCms

Texas Republican and one-time stupidest member of the House Louie Gohmert took to the floor Friday to defend Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA) angrily accosting New York Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez outside the House chamber Thursday.  Gohmert argued against any action the House Ethics Committee may take against Greene, claiming that a Democratic member of Congress “threatened to kick [his], um, buttocks.”

Louie Gohmert may not be a smart man, but he knows what partisanship is, Jenneh.

On John Kerry’s upcoming trip to London, Rome and Berlin, will he being flying maskless or on a private jet while spuing his hypocrital climate change rhetoric?

— Rep. Lauren Boebert (@RepBoebert) May 14, 2021

https://youtu.be/7slV90TNSh0

The stupefying “logic” of Donald Trump was on full display one year ago today as he stated the coronavirus pandemic was overblown because the United States conducted too many coronavirus tests, which *obviously* means the country has more cases.

Test less, Trump promoted, and we’ll have fewer cases.  It’s a perfect example of the Ostrich Method of Republican Governance:  if we don’t see it, it doesn’t exist.  On May 14, 2020, the US had passed 90,000 fatalities and 1.4 million cases of the coronavirus.

To the person who has ordered a Stuffed Crust 🍕 every day for the past five weeks: don’t worry, your secret is safe with us. 🤫

— Pizza Hut (@pizzahut) May 13, 2021

KDVR: “Prosecutors have filed new charges against Barry Morphew, alleging the man accused of murdering his missing wife submitted a presidential ballot in her name. Morphew was recently arrested on charges of murdering his wife, Suzanne, after she disappeared a year ago. She still has yet to be found. Court documents show he now faces one felony count for allegedly forging public documents and a misdemeanor mail in ballot offense. Bond has been set at $1,000 but he’s being held without bail on the murder charges.”

“According to the arrest affidavit, investigators responded to the Chaffee County Clerk and Recorder’s Office after the clerk made a report of alleged voter fraud in October of 2020. The clerk told investigators that they’d received a presidential ballot from Suzanne even though she was missing. The ballot didn’t contain Suzanne’s signature, but it did list Barry as the witness. The ballot was photographed and seized as a piece of evidence. On April 22, Barry was asked by FBI agents why he submitted a ballot for Suzanne. ‘Just because I wanted Trump to win…I know she (Suzanne) was going to vote for Trump anyways,’ he told investigators. He also said he thought the ‘other guys” were cheating so he would ‘give him (former president Trump) another vote.’ When FBI agents asked him whether he knew submitting a ballot for someone else’s ballot was illegal, he said, ‘I didn’t know you couldn’t do that for your spouse.'”

Long before she entered the political arena, Marjorie Taylor Greene stalked and harassed New York Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, including during a February 2019 visit to the Capitol which Greene posted on Facebook Live, but has since deleted.

The video, saved and described by CNN, shows Greene and group of other people wearing MAGA hats wandering the halls of the Capitol.  When they reach Ocasio-Cortez’s office, they sign a guestbook at the door, writing “Socialism sucks” (although the spelling they used cannot be confirmed).  The adult juveniles then scribble more in the guestbook and take selfies in front of the office door.  They stoop down to yell through the mail slot of her door.

“The security guard,” Greene says, “the security guard says people never do this.  It’s always the liberals and the leftists.” 

The Hill’s Scott Wong reports he witnesses a confrontation between QAnon adulteress Marjorie Taylor Greene’s spokesman Nick Dyer and California Dem Congressman Eric Swalwell on Friday. Dyer told Swalwell “Biden says you can take off your mask”, upon which Swalwell confronted Dyer, got in his face and said: “You don’t tell me what to fucking do!”, per Dyer.

A group of eighteen scientists from around the world are calling for an international blue-ribbon committee to determine the origin of the coronavirus, including studying the possibilities of “both natural and laboratory spillovers.”

The group references a report produced by the World Health Organization that did not completely rule out that the virus was produced in a laboratory in Wuhan, claiming that the investigators didn’t properly address the possibility.

“Although there were no findings in clear support of either a natural spillover or a lab accident, the team assessed a zoonotic spillover from an intermediate host as ‘likely to very likely,’ and a laboratory incident as ‘extremely unlikely’,” the letter says.  “Only 4 of the 313 pages of the report and its annexes addressed the possibility of a laboratory accident.  Notably, WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus commented that the report’s consideration of evidence supporting a laboratory accident was insufficient and offered to provide additional resources to fully evaluate the possibility.”