A FedEx cargo plane bound for Indianapolis quickly turned around and landed back at Newark International Airport in New Jersey on Saturday morning, minus one engine and at least one local bird minus its life after the hapless beast(s) got sucked into the jet intake, WNBC reports.

Video taken by witnesses shows the flames were quickly extinguished before the plane even touched back down, evidently the result of quick thinking by the pilot who closed off the air intake to the engine or something. The plane, its cargo – which may or may not have included one or more Wilson brand volleyballs and a pair of figure skates – and most importantly its crew then touched down safely. It’s not clear if the pilot was “a DEI hire,” and it probably never will be.

Unless the pilot is Black and/or LGBTQ and ignored warnings about bird activity in the area or something like that. Then it’ll be all over right wing media in a matter of hours.

The trail to Oregon is marked with misery, broken wagon axles, losing days due to heavy fog, Sarah getting shot in a hunting accident, Henry being exhausted, Samuel getting bitten by a snake, and, most famously, Mary contracting dysentery. What the game didn’t tell you however is the harsh reality of this Gateway Pundit article, largely copy-pasted from its upstream source at KOIN:

There’s dysentery in Oregon too. Cases of the horrible bacterial illness recorded by health officials have steadily increased in the Portland metro’s Multnomah County since June 2024 when there were only six to 45 in January 2025. On an annual basis, there were just 19 in 2017, rising to 158 in 2024, a spread mostly connected to the homeless population and drug use as 60 percent of those infected were said to be living on the streets. Noting this, the Gateway Pundit’s article asserts “It doesn’t have to be this way and it’s amazing that the taxpayers of Portland put up with it. There are Third World countries that do a better job preventing the spread of common diseases.”

Funny that, as since January 1st, 2025, the Pundit has printed a grand total of one article containing the word “measles”: a February 19th screed headlined “MIC DROP: Dr Paul Offit’s Attempt to Smear RFK Jr Blows Up on CNN as Calley Means Exposes His Big Pharma Ties – Calley Also Calls Out CNN for Bias.” The article is almost entirely blockquotes copy-pasted from the transcript of the CNN segment and the lone mention of measles outside of which is where the “Pundit,” Jim Hoft fondles himself over how Means “boldly called out CNN for its blatant bias, pointing out that while the network obsesses over a handful of measles cases, it ignores the true epidemic plaguing America: chronic disease fueled by ultra-processed food and overmedication.” Except for lib dysentery.

Damien Chazelle’s 2018 Neil Armstrong biopic First Man is pretty goddamned good. Okay, one could argue reasonably that not enough time is devoted to Apollo 11 because the director wanted to make it more “austere” or whatever. Or that Armstrong was “so much more than Apollo 11.” Who knows.

Whatever the point was in that decision it does not make the film any less worth watching. It can get fucking intense, especially the opener when Neil’s out on some extremely high altitude test flight in 1961. That shit with the bottom of his cockpit glowing red from the friction of the atmosphere. And then the gut-wrenching tragedy of his toddler daughter Karen’s death to cancer and the Apollo 1 test launch disater – The minimalism is freaking chilling and it’s so much better done than its (brief) depiction in Ron Howard’s Apollo 13 – which First Man is not a “spiritual prequel” to.

UPDATE 3/1/2025 12:01 AM: They movie became unavailable on YouTube at EXACTLY midnight, lol.

Naomi Dobbs, district southwest region director for Republican Congressman Jeff Hurd, took one look at the crowd that had showed up to the Monday night League of Women voters event at the public library in the town of Dolores, and turned right the fuck around, Montezuma County League chapter president Karen Sheek tells the Durango Herald, seeking to clarify what happened.

“I don’t want people thinking she didn’t come, when in fact she did,” said Sheek, adding that Dobbs did come, but left after seeing the size of crowd that had shown up. Montezuma County Sheriff Steve Nowlin, who had escorted Dobbs to and from the event, said that the Republican minion was uncomfortable being there after a “misunderstanding about what the size of that meeting was like.”

Sheek said Dobbs had since sent her a “vague” email explaining that “under the circumstances,” she decided to turn around but would be open to something else in the future. Now this is a pretty common practice for local staffers to fill in for members at public events, so it’s not like this was Hurd being a pussy and sending a woman to do his job instead. it was simply Dobbs being a fucking coward and not wanting to face the wrath of voters furious over the fascist Trump Regime.

On his way out of the White House on his way to a weekend down in Mar-a-Lago, convicted felon President Trump was asked Friday what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky can do to restart peace talks after this afternoon’s shitshow in the Oval Office. His answer, per Fwrd Axis’s Steve Michael, was “He’s got to want to make peace. He doesn’t have to say negative things about Putin.”

Any Trump fans want to step up with that one? Should Benjamin Netanyahu avoid saying negative things about Hamas or Hezbollah? Why was Trump offended on Putin’s behalf? Any takers here?

The US Mint at some point recently removed a commemorative coin struck to honor the cops assaulted and injured when convicted felon President Trump sent his scumbag fans to attack the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, NBC News reports on a new low mark in cuntish pettiness.

Foreign adversaries like Russia and China are stepping up efforts to turn federal employees who have been fired or fear they will be soon into intelligence assets, focusing mostly on those who have or did have security clearances to pass them along info in exchange for cash, CNN reports.

A source familiar says the ChiComs and Russians think the employees “are at their most vulnerable right now… Out of a job, bitter about being fired, etc.” Another said “It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to see that these cast aside federal workers with a wealth of institutional knowledge represent staggeringly attractive targets to the intelligence services of our adversaries.”

The insolent pig finally got a proper slap down in the Oval Office. And @realDonaldTrump is right: The Kiev regime is "gambling with WWIII."

— Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) February 28, 2025

“A Statement from President Donald J Trump: We had a very meaningful meeting in the White House today. Much was learned that could never be understood without conversation under such fire and pressure. It’s amazing what comes out through emotion, and I have determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for Peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations. I don’t want advantage, I want PEACE. He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for Peace,” says a statement posted to the fat fuck’s Truth Social account after that “disrespect” from a real leader.

You can tell this was a compromise between Trump and his handlers. One he actually wrote would’ve been in all caps and maybe even threatening to bomb Ukraine or ordering Zelensky arrested by the FBI before he can leave DC. The L’etat c’est moi shit was as far as they’d let him go.

The traditional joint press conference was canceled, per CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.

The Democratic National Committee, the DCCC, and the DSCC filed a lawsuit against convicted felon President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi’s regime seeking a judge to enjoin Trump’s Executive Order 14215 which “commands the [FEC] Commissioners and the Commission’s employees to treat Defendant Trump’s and Defendant Bondi’s ‘interpretations of law,’ including of FECA, as ‘authoritative’ and ‘controlling on [the Commissioners and the Commission’s employes] in the conduct of their official duties,’ and prohibits the Commissioners and the Commission’s employees from ‘advanc[ing] any interpretation of the law as the position of the United States that contravenes the President or the Attorney General’s opinion on a matter of law,” in the relief.

More plainly, Dems want Trump the fuck out of the FEC and warn that if he doesn’t back off Republicans will live to regret it the next time a Dem is in the White House.

Following up on how Nazi Tom Homan’s moronic threats against her are going, Dem Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi seeking “clarity on whether the Department of Justice has yielded to political pressure and attempts to weaponize the agency against elected officials whose speech they disagree with. Over the past two weeks, ‘Border Czar’ Tom Homan has gone on multiple forums threatening political prosecution against me, citing resources I distributed informing my constituents and the American public of their constitutional and legal rights. On February 13, 2025, Mr Homan announced that he had asked the Deputy Attorney General to open an investigation, and that I will be ‘in trouble now.'”

“It has been 14 days since Mr Homan first threatened to weaponize your agency, but I have not yet heard any referral from the government. Mr Homan’s repeated attempts to use your agency to politically intimidate duly elected officials are a textbook threat to the right to free speech in the United States. Threatening criminal proceedings for exercising the First Amendment is itself a violation of the First Amendment. Educating the public about their rights, especially in a time of rising uncertainty, is a key part of our responsibility as elected officials. A government that uses threats of investigations to suppress free speech is a threat to all, regardless of political ideology.”

“Please respond no later than March 5, 2025, with an update on the Department of Justice’s response to Mr Homan’s request and transparency as to whether my office or myself is actively under investigation for exercising their First Amendment rights and executing on our congressional responsibilities,” AOC concluded, with that last “demand” a pretty shrewd move politically.

Bumping this up to the top because it’s getting extremely heated in the Oval Office as convicted felon President Trump and his top Putin fanboy Jaydee embarrass the United States on the world stage.

The Texas regime lead by the unholy triumvirate of Gov Low Energy Greg Abbott, Lt Gov Dannie Goeb aka “Dan Patrick,” and Picasso-faced Attorney General Ken Paxton have been complete silent on the outbreak of measles in the state’s western portions, the Texas Tribune reports, whom haven’t seen a single post or statement from the three Republican scumbags on the matter, nor from any of the local, state, or federal legislators representing the districts hit by the disease.

“Everybody is so sensitive to the vaccine topic due to COVID,” said Ector County executive Dustin Fawcett. “We need to be very careful about how we address this topic… Our job is to provide the resources, not to tell people what they need to do.” Like getting their kids vaccinated.

The globalist regime currently driving America into the ground plans to issue an official edict declaring a foreign language the “official” one of the United States, CBS’s Weijia Jiang reports.

“English,” which did not originate in America but instead in a distant land during an era in which men wore frilly stockings everywhere they went and had really gay-looking facial hair too, will be enshrined as the official language here by President Donald Trump’s executive fiat as soon as Friday.

To shift the satirical tone here, the question now raised is why the fuck he won’t just declare the language is now to be called “American” on the basis that the United States has more native English speakers than any other one country, as well as simply stealing credit from the British. It’s not MAGA enough simply to proclaim it the official language which, to completely do away with the satirical tone, this order means fuck all and sure as shit won’t make eggs cheaper or lower credit card rates.

The headline’s been edited from its source to fit the space allowed here at National Zero. The actual sentence copied from this Washington Post profile of 24 year-old Michigander and now-former National Park Service ranger Ryleigh Cooper was “She also believed him when he said that Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for the next Republican administration that suggested mass cuts to the federal workforce, was not his plan,” in explaining some of the reasons why the 2020 Biden voter switched to the Orange God Emperor despite hating him personally his history of sexual assaults, which the Post notes that Cooper’s relatives dismiss as either fake or that the women deserved it.

The next sentence “So Cooper filled in the bubble next to his name, thinking of the daughter she wanted. She planned to name her Charlotte,” refers to how the now-unemployed woman who just finished her first semester toward a master’s degree in forest management also believed that Trump would make IVF treatments free to any and every woman having difficulty conceiving – like her.

Oh and Cooper says she was sexually assaulted at age 16. But “life felt more complicated these days. Her mortgage was too expensive, groceries were nearly $400 a month, and one single cycle of IVF could cost more than 10 percent of her annual household income.” And “Kamala Harris didn’t do an interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast,” the article does not add but might as well have.

A few days after Elon Musk fired her, Cooper saw the executive order on IVF treatments, which quite predictably did not make them free for American families. “That’s bullshit”, Cooper said to herself.

“As the House and Senate work to land on a concurrent budget resolution, Congress may consider trying to measure their reconciliation bills relative to a ‘current policy baseline’ in order to mask the debt impact of deficit-financed tax cuts. Assuming this is allowed under budget rules, this would represent a massive budget gimmick that would justify and allow trillions of dollars of new borrowing. A current policy baseline assumes that all policies in place in the current year will continue regardless of scheduled expirations or phase-outs. Advocates argue that a current policy baseline better reflects reality, enables permanent policy that would maximize growth, doesn’t impede Congress’s ability to cut spending, and would remove a bias in favor of spending cuts. These claims are highly problematic,” say the Committee for a Responsible Budget eggheads in a release.

“We should be using ‘current policy.’ We need to avoid a massive, automatic tax increase,” Senator Ron “RonAnon” Johnson told NBC. “That seems like a perfectly rational thing to do, and there shouldn’t be a score.” Johnson supposedly used to be an accountant before leeching taxpayers.

A series of online correspondences in the immediate aftermath of the “release” of the Epstein Files paints a chilling picture of the complicity of the right wing influencers engaged in a cover-up of the disappointing perpetuation of the cover-up of the Epstein Files by the Trump Administration.

A Russian tourist was disarmed and neutralized by a local resident during a violent altercation that occurred Thursday near a scuba diving resort in the Batangas region of the Philippines, PNA reports.

The incident began when two tourists Ilya Perigudin, 29, and Maksim Melekhov, 39, hailing from dictator Vladimir Putin’s failed state were on an excursion off the De Luna Diving Center in Barangay Aninuan, Puerto Galera, and both were suddenly swept away by underwater currents.

Philippines Coast Guard personnel were dispatched and, after a brief search, recovered Peridudin’s body, minus two arms. Officials quickly surmised that he had been disarmed by a local shark, “as multiple sharks were observed in the vicinity during the recovery.” Melekhov meanwhile was found by divers on an excursion from another resort. He was transported to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead on arrival due to apparent drowning. Philippines Coast Guard officials called on divers and dive operators to conduct themselves “heightened vigilance and adhere to strict safety protocols,” particularly in areas with strong currents and hungry local marine wildlife.

Justice Department: “A resident of Glenwillard, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, Acting United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today. The one-count Indictment named Aidan Harding, 20, as the sole defendant. According to the Indictment and other information presented to the Court, on or about December 11, 2024, Harding possessed material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, including videos containing the sexual abuse of prepubescent minors.”

“On January 27, 2025, Harding was charged by criminal complaint and, at a February 12, 2025, detention hearing, ordered to be held without bond pending trial after the United States introduced evidence that Harding committed the charged offense and possessed additional materials depicting violent sexual assaults. In addition, in support of its contention that Harding presented an unacceptable danger to the community, the United States presented testimony and documentary evidence that Harding adhered to a racially-motivated violent extremist ideology, possessed more than 20 firearms, had targeted Pittsburgh’s Jewish community with antisemitic fliers, and made statements online about his interest in ‘political and revenge driven’ mass casualty events, including references to the shooter who murdered 11 congregants at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.”

“The evidence also established that Harding, who had been previously adjudicated delinquent for terroristic threats after discussing online his desire to commit a ‘high kill count’ attack, possessed videos of mass shootings from the United States and other countries, and had filmed himself re-enacting the Columbine mass shooting at a memorial honoring the victims of that attack.”

“As usual, Sleepy Joe Biden left us a total MESS. The Budget from last YEAR is still not done. We are working very hard with the House and Senate to pass a clean, temporary government funding Bill (‘CR’) to the end of September. Let’s get it done!” posted convicted felon President Trump late Thursday, even though this was supposed to be fixed already after he took office.