Dem former North Carolina Governor is “strongly considering a run” for the US Senate seat to be vacated by Thom Tillis next year and “will decide in the coming weeks” on whether to launch a campaign, Cooper’s top political adviser tells Politico about his thinking. It’s not clear what the hell the holdup is, even if “strongly considering” is obviously a good sign. National Dems see the seat as still winnable but a much longer shot should Cooper ultimately pass on it.

Further down the article Politico lists some potential backup candidates should Cooper end up passing: “former Rep Dan McCready, former Environmental Protection Agency Director Michael Regan, Lt Gov Rachel Hunt, state Rep Sarah Crawford and Canton, NC, Mayor Zeb Smathers.”

An April UNC Law School alum newsletter article includes a pic of Smathers’ head turning toward President Joe Biden in the Oval Office during a November 2024 meeting about the recovery efforts after Hurricane Helene. It’s not clear which one of the two men with short, dark hair looking at Biden is Smathers, though it’s likely he’s the one on the right since it’d make more sense to have then-Governor-Elect/Attorney General Josh Stein sitting closer to the president than a mayor.

A Tehran-linked hacker group on Monday threatened to release a shit ton of emails stolen from Trump Regime Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and psychotic weirdo swinger Roger Stone, Axios reports.

“Elon Musk knew, long before he so strongly Endorsed me for President, that I was strongly against the EV Mandate. It is ridiculous, and was always a major part of my campaign. Electric cars are fine, but not everyone should be forced to own one. Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa. No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE. Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this? BIG MONEY TO BE SAVED!!!” posted convicted felon President Trump overnight.

If not for the “Women’s Cologne” and “Men’s Perfume” mistake the graphic art, one might note the “For Patriots Who Never Back Down, Like President Trump,” because no one’s going to want to fuck you willingly if you walk around stinking of this bullshit, lol. Also the “This Scent Is Your Rallying Cry In A Bottle. Featuring Trump’s Iconic Image And Raised Fist, This Limited-Edition Cologne Embodies Strength, Power, And Victory,” while the little statue’s fist is pretty obviously not raised.

The president himself promoted the fragrances in a Truth Social post saying “Trump Fragrances are here. They’re called ‘Victory 45-47’ because they’re all about Winning, Strength, and Success — For men and women. Get yourself a bottle, and don’t forget to get one for your loved ones too. Enjoy, have fun, and keep winning! Go to: gettrumpfragrances.com/” in between all his presidenting stuff.

Bryan Kohberger, the sick fuck who in November 2022 broke into off-campus housing and stabbed University of Idaho undergrads Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin to death while they slept, has reached a plea deal with prosecutors, ABC News reports.

A new YouGov survey of US adults finds a large plurality, 48 percent, say they “Hate it” on the question of “How do you feel about high humidity?” while 29 percent “Dislike it,” 14 percent were “neutral,” 5 percent “Like it,” and 2 percent of respondents “Love it.” The crosstabs were broken down by politics for some reason. Slightly more Dems than Republicans hate humidity.

Convicted felon President Trump’s stupid lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles has been assigned to US District Court Judge Fernando Olguin, an Obama appointee, Politico reports.

Paramount is in what Bloomberg describes as “advanced talks” to settle with convicted felon President Trump in his batshit insane lawsuit against them over standard edits applied to former Vice President Kamala Harris’s October 2024 60 Minutes interview – the one Trump pussied out of.

If this goes through it is the patriotic duty of all Americans to cancel their Paramount+ subscriptions and boycott every movie and broadcast EXCEPT for CBS News. Their journalists have suffered gravely for this and to continue to support them is important. Do everything you can to lower their share price and make sure that piece of shit Shari Redstone gets a smaller payout from the Skydance merger that’s the whole reason for this capitulation to a fascist dictator.

Omaha Trump voter Richard Randall tells the Nebraska Examiner he was “naive” and didn’t know his pseudo-son Jazon Gonzalez Perez would end up in ICE custody and facing deportation after he was nabbed for making a wrong turn onto an Air Force base. “I said, ‘Hey wait, he’s not a terrorist. He manages a restaurant. He’s a good kid,'” Randall said. “I thought we were arresting gang members, murderers and rapists,” the fucking idiot continued, adding “Call me naive, but my clear understanding was we were going to go after the bad actors, not hardworking immigrants.”

“Plaintiffs President Donald J Trump, Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks, and Former State Senator Bradley Zaun, give notice of their dismissal of this action without prejudice pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(1)(A)(i),” says a notice of dismissal from the Orange Overlord and his minions in their case against pollster J Ann Selzer and the Des Moines register over the pre-election survey finding former Vice President Kamala Harris with an unrealistic lead over the fat fuck in the corn-filled red state. “Defendants and their cohorts in the Democrat Party hoped that the Harris Poll would create a false narrative of inevitability for Harris in the final week of the 2024 Presidential Election. Instead, the November 5 Election was a monumental victory for President Trump in both the Electoral College and the Popular Vote, an overwhelming mandate for his America First principles, and the consignment of the radical socialist agenda to the dustbin of history,” wrote Trump’s lawyers as they channeled Steven Cheung in the original complaint.

How can you call yourself the Freedom Caucus if you vote for a DEBT SLAVERY bill with the biggest debt ceiling increase in history?@RepAndyHarrisMD @chiproytx

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 30, 2025

“Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame! And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth,” Musk later continued.

A spokesperson for Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Monday told the AP’s Seung Min Kim that her boss was not at the White House on this morning and does not plan to meet with convicted felon President Trump at all on Monday, denying Krazy Karoline’s statement that Thune and Jesus Dork Mike Johnson “were here this morning, actually.” Why this denial was necessary is unclear.

“To show people how spoiled Countries have become with respect to the United States of America, and I have great respect for Japan, they won’t take our RICE, and yet they have a massive rice shortage. In other words, we’ll just be sending them a letter, and we love having them as a Trading Partner for many years to come,” posted convicted felon President Trump on Monday.

Doesn’t sound like one of the 90 deals in 90 days when it comes to trade negotiations.

The fat Karen then complained about AT&T service, posting “I’m doing a major Conference Call with Faith Leaders from all over the Country, and AT&T is totally unable to make their equipment work properly. This is the second time it’s happened. If the Boss of AT&T, whoever that may be, could get involved – It would be good. There are tens of thousands of people on the line!”

“I apologize for the long wait on the Faith Leaders Conference Call. AT&T ought to get its act together. Please pass along the word to the tens of thousands of people who are there. We may have to reschedule the call, but we’ll use another carrier the next time. AT&T obviously doesn’t know what they’re doing!” he then added. Lol. Weird how he didn’t accuse them of being woke.

One of the members of the Boulder, Colorado Jewish community burned by lone wolf terrorist Mohamed Soliman during a June 1st walk-a-thon in support of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza has died, Jewish Insider reports, citing an obituary for 81 year-old Karen Diamond.

🚨BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Border Czar Tom Homan demands an immediate DOJ investigation into CNN for promoting an app that tracks ICE operations to help criminal aliens evade deportation.

"A national media outlet forecasting law enforcement operations. DOJ needs to look at this. Send… pic.twitter.com/1WeNp3ILe8

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 30, 2025

Well if he couldn’t put Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Gavin Newsom, and Karen Bass in prison after threatening them on right wing media shows then he’s DEFINITELY gotta strike big with CNN, right?

Also why how the fuck is CNN any more responsible for the app’s popularity – they report 20,000 users, mostly in Los Angeles – than, say, Apple and/or Google for putting it in their app stores? What about the guy who developed it and published it to the store(s)? This is so freaking stupid, lol.

Convicted felon President Trump’s Regime has filed a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles for, per Fox News’s Bill Melugin, “intentionally discriminating against the federal government by treating federal immigration officers differently than other law enforcement,” seeking a judge to enjoin the mayor’s office from enforcing their sanctuary city policies in the prayer for relief.

“Sanctuary policies were the driving cause of the violence, chaos, and attacks on law enforcement that Americans recently witnessed in Los Angeles. Jurisdictions like Los Angeles that flout federal law by prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens are undermining law enforcement at every level – it ends under President Trump,” said scumbag Attorney General Pam Bondi in a statement.

“The Department of Justice may institute civil proceedings to revoke a person’s United States citizenship if an individual either ‘illegally procured’ naturalization or procured naturalization by ‘concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation.’ 8 USC § 1451(a). The benefits of civil denaturalization include the government’s ability to revoke the citizenship of individuals who engaged in the commission of war crimes, extrajudicial killings, or other serious human rights abuses; to remove naturalized criminals, gang members, or, indeed, any individuals convicted of crimes who pose an ongoing threat to the United States; and to prevent convicted terrorists from returning to US soil or traveling internationally on a US passport. At a fundamental level, it also supports the overall integrity of the naturalization program by ensuring that those who unlawfully procured citizenship, including those who obtained it through fraud or concealment of material information, do not maintain the benefits of the unlawful procurement,” says a June 11th Department of Justice memo picked up on Monday by the Guardian. The memo then lists what a neutral observer might consider to be reasonable grounds for revocation of citizenship “war crimes, extrajudicial killings, or other serious human rights abuses” and “naturalized criminals, gang members, or, indeed, any individuals convicted of crimes who pose an ongoing threat to the US”.

Except for the ninth item: “Cases referred by a United States Attorney’s Office or in connection with pending criminal charges, if those charges do not fit within one of the other priorities,” emphasis added on pending because that sure sounds like a mere accusation can prompt denaturalization.

The top priorities when thinking about who is best suited to run for US Senate in 2026 are as follows. The candidate must:

1. Proudly support the President and his agenda. Work alongside him, not against him.

2. The immediate ability to mobilize. Now is not the time for…

— Mark Robinson (@markrobinsonNC) June 30, 2025

“2. The immediate ability to mobilize. Now is not the time for political training wheels. 3. The ability to fundraise, both nationally and here in-state. 4. Strong support from the political grassroots. They are the backbone of the conservative movement in our state. If conservatives are not engaged, Republicans cannot win,” the former Lieutenant Governor continued after the cutoff.

“Things to be thinking about,” Robinson then added in the finisher to his first known public comments following the abrupt withdrawal of Senator Thom Tillis from his reelection campaign.

Cops in Cour d’Alene, Idaho have identified 20 year-old Wess Roley as the psychopath who started a forest fire and then killed two firefighters and wounded a third in a sniper attack on Sunday, the AP reports. Anecdotal information on Twitter strongly indicates what you would have already concluded just by the fact that it’s Idaho and it was a horrific act of terrorism: Roley was MAGA.

Oh and the New York Post reports that the shooting happened 24 years to the day after the Coeur d’Alene Fire Department burned down the former compound of the Aryan Nations as part of a training exercise. The property was donated to the department after the Neo-Nazi group lost a court case against the Southern Poverty Law Center, who sued over the attempted murder of an Indigenous American woman who had walked too close to the compound. Interesting coincidence.

A story about a nine year-old Florida girl nearly getting her hand ripped off by a shark is not really within National Zero’s preferred aggregation model given the lack of appeal of the cruelties of nature being inflicted on a child while she was supposed to be having fun at the beach, but it happened earlier this month. A week later came the better news, closer to but still outside of this site’s bailiwick: Leah Lendel’s right hand may make a full and complete recovery thanks to snap decisions by first responders to fly her to the right hospital, per a June 19th story at WFTS.

“That decision in the field to fly directly here was monumental because if they would’ve flown to another hospital and then had to go through all this and then were flown here, we’d have been well outside of the six hours that we like to revascularize a hand,” the story quotes Dr Alfred Hess, right above a pic of an X-ray of Leah’s hand after the attack. Fair warning on that one. It’s ugly.

“By flying directly here and having the great care that they had in the ER here and then getting them immediately to the OR, we were able to revascularize the hand within four and a half hours, so that is so much better for the tissues and the recovery and the future function of this hand,” the orthopedic surgeon continued, adding “Children have a much greater chance of gaining sensibility to their hands, so sensation and reinnervating the little muscles, the intrinsic muscles in the hand to get coordinated hand function, so we think that she should get all of that back, we’re hoping, and we want to see what her wrist does.” So it’s going in the right direction for her.