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.

Nike Releases First Caitlin Clark Ad on Their New Caitlin Clark Kobe 5 Protro PE Shoe – Available on Today – Monday – June, 30 https://t.co/HV7mLWBlx5

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) June 30, 2025

A selection of previous Gateway Pundit stories mentioning the iconic athletic brand: “Nike Hires Skinny-Legged Dylan Mulvaney to Sell Women’s Athletic Wear,” from April 6, 2023, “Nike Suspends Relationship with Kyrie Irving Over Alleged Promotion of Antisemitism Movie – But Continues Partnership with Communist China,” from November 5, 2022, “Nike Rep Colin Kaepernick Attacks USA as the Worst Nation on Earth – on the Fourth of July,” from July 4, 2019.

It’s not like this latest article is devoid of any criticism, as Jim “Pundit” Hoft writes “It took Nike over a year to promote their mega-star Caitlin Clark. But on Sunday, the sports apparel company dropped a video for Caitlin’s upcoming Nike Kobe sneaker that goes on sale Monday morning,” in the lede but it would seem otherwise like in this specific instance buying Nike is more of a necessary than actual evil given that the savior of white heterosexuality in the WNBA profits from the sales.

Posting on Truth Social at 2:23 AM EDT when he knew voters most likely to believe him would read it, convicted felon President Trump on Monday claimed his “administration has gotten costs down, very substantially, for the American Consumer. There has never been anything like this!”

Since he brought up costs: Since January 20th, the Consumer Price Index is up 1.1 percent, the national average price for a gallon of gas is actually 8 cents higher, health insurance premiums are up 4 percent, the CPI for shelter 1.3 percent, and home prices are up roughly 2 percent nationally.

Hungarian dictator Viktor Orban was made to look weak and vulnerable Saturday when an estimated hundreds of thousands turned out for a Budapest Pride march in outright defiance of the Trump-aligned autocrat’s ban on the public pro-LGBTQ demonstration, Bloomberg reports.

The mockery of Orban’s regime comes as pollsters have found waning support for his Reich-y Fidesz party, supposedly down 18 percent to the upstart Tisza party led by Euro Parliament MEP Peter Magyar, a former Orban minion who publicly betrayed Fidesz. “We can expect continued efforts to delegitimize the opposition, attempts to find a grip on Magyar personally and potentially put him on trial. We cannot exclude last-minute changes to the electoral code either,” German think tanker Zsuzsanna Vegh told Bloomberg of what she think’s Orban’s next move is.

Dem former Texas Congressman Collin Allred is prepping another run for the Senate and will be launching his bid against likely opponent Picasso-faced Attorney General Ken Paxton early next month, the Washington Post reports. Allred, who lost to podcaster Ted Cruz by 8 percent last November, still outran former Vice President Kamala Harris by 6 percent in the Lone Star State and raised $94 million, so he could present quite a formidable challenge to Paxton.

Dog-murdering Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was secretly paid at least $80,000 out of money she had raised for a nonprofit that promotes her political career while she was serving as governor of South Dakota in 2023, according to tax records obtained by ProPublica.

The money, which of course Noem did not list on her personal disclosure form to the Office of Government Ethics, was paid out from the dark money group – called “American Resolve Policy Fund” – to a Delaware LLC owned by Noem, from which she then took the $80,000 paycheck.

“If donors to these nonprofits are not just holding the keys to an elected official’s political future but also literally providing them with their income, that’s new and disturbing,” said former FEC attorney Daniel Weiner, now leads the Brennan Center for Justice’s campaign finance group.

Dozens of Israeli settlers with the Hilltop Youth Movement trashed and set multiple fires on an IDF base in the West Bank on Sunday, an attack prompted by – get this – the arrests of five of the settlers after a riot in a Palestinian town called Kfar Malik that left at least three Palestinians dead in a hail of gunfire and several businesses torched, the Associated Press reports.

“No civilized country can tolerate violent and anarchic acts of burning a military facility, damaging IDF property and attacking security personnel by citizens of the country,” Israeli dictator Benjamin Netanyahu said after the very January 6th-like incident wrought by supporters of his own regime.

“Great Congressman Greg Steube is 100 percent correct. An unelected Senate Staffer (Parliamentarian), should not be allowed to hurt the Republicans Bill. Wants many fantastic things out. NO! DJT” posted Fat Hitler on Sunday .

Yeah that’ll stop her.

Less than 24 hours after convicted felon President Trump began turning on him for opposing the Big Beautiful Bill, weakling North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis on Sunday dropped out of his 2026 reelection campaign, Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman reports on another scalp for the Orange Tyrant.

It’s not clear how close former Lt Governor Mark Robinson is to launching a bid for the seat.

Remember that time last year when Picasso-faced Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was so desperate to avoid being deposed in a lawsuit brought by his former lieutenants who had exposed his crimes that he appealed to the state Supreme Court to get him out of it and then they did him a solid just hours after convicted felon President Trump demanded they stay the deposition in a Truth Social post? Fucked up, but to be completely fair they’re just as corrupt as Paxton and probably were going to protect him from having to plead the Fifth anyway – especially since they eventually ruled for him – so their denial that Trump had anything to do with stay was more plausible than not.

It’d be interesting to see if the Jerusalem District Court is going to try a similar denial after postponing Israeli dictator Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled Monday hearing in his long-ongoing corruption case following a similar command from the Orange Yahweh. It might be a bit tougher of a sell as, per the Times of Israel, the court had twice denied Team Bibi’s motions to push it back because their client had important genocide stuff to do on Monday. Then the American dictator weighed in, threatening to pull military funding for the country if the court didn’t let him off the hook.

“The judges state in their ruling that the explanations provided had substantial additional information over what was presented in the requests on Friday, and therefore decided to cancel this week’s two scheduled hearings,” the Times writes, emphasis added. Bibi has more hearings scheduled for next week in the “long running, politically motivated… TRAVESTY OF ‘JUSTICE’ WITCH HUNT”

Sunday is shitty legislation funday here at National Zero and there’s going to be a lot of bullshit on the morning shows, so let’s stay on top of the action all in one AWESOME live feed.

A new study by Columbia’s Anna Papp and the University of Delaware’s Kimberly Oremus finds “that plastic bag policies lead to a 25 to 47 percent decrease in plastic bags as a share of total items collected relative to areas without policies. This relative decrease grows in magnitude over time after policy implementation, with no evidence of rebound or spillover effects.”

“Both full plastic bag bans and fees reduce plastic litter, whereas partial bans lead to the smallest and least precise effects, likely owing to exemptions for thicker plastic bags. Policies at all geographic scales are effective, with state-level policies being the most robust. Bag policies yield similar effects along coasts and rivers, with suggestive evidence for larger effects along lakes. They have the greatest impact in places where plastic bag litter is most prevalent. Lastly, we find an imprecise 30 to 37 percent reduction in the presence of entangled animals in areas with plastic bag policies, although we cannot rule out a null effect,” the researches continued in their bombshell report alleging that plastic bag bans may be more than simply a woke communist plot to destroy America and make everyone a bunch of gay transgender leftist pussies who hate freedom.

Who knows what the hell’s going to happen this afternoon. Thom Tillis claims he’s a no on the vote to open up debate which is supposed to come at 4 pm, while Susan Collins says she’s a yes but not yet on the bill itself, Josh Hawley is a yes on both and who the hell knows who else is in question.

“Thomas Pham LeGro, 48, made his first appearance today in US District Court for allegedly possessing child pornography. LeGro, a journalist at the Washington Post and resident of the District of Columbia, was arrested yesterday and taken into custody following a search of his home. The charges were announced by US Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro. Pirro thanks FBI Assistant Director in Charge Steven J Jensen and Chief Pamela Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department for their ongoing efforts in this investigation,” said DC US Attorney Box-o-Wine’s office in a Friday statement

“On June 26, 2025, FBI agents executed a search warrant at LeGro’s residence and seized several electronic devices. A review of LeGro’s work laptop revealed a folder that contained 11 videos depicting child sexual abuse material. During the execution of the search warrant agents observed what appeared to be fractured pieces of a hard drive in the hallway outside the room where LeGro’s work laptop was found. This case is being investigated by the FBI Washington Field Office’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, which is composed of FBI agents, along with other federal agents and detectives from northern Virginia and the District of Columbia. The task force is charged with investigating and bringing federal charges against individuals engaged in the exploitation of children and those engaged in human trafficking,” the statement continued.

In their lede on the story, the Gateway Pundit points out that LeGro was on the team that won a Pulitzer for exposing Roy Moore’s predatory sickfuckery, the implication of hypocrisy obvious.

Funny side note: The Gateway Pundit’s sole mention of former Moms for Liberty ally South Carolina state House member RJ May – arrested earlier this month for the same crime – was in a 2022 article.

Imploring Americans to conduct a deep introspection of the body politic, the President of the United States on Saturday posed the question of “WHY ARE THE DEMOCRATS ALWAYS ROOTING AGAINST AMERICA???” in a post on his social media platform, the capitalization aimed at invoking a sense of urgency in finding a consensus to a vexing issue after rigorous ponderance and reflection.

The challenge to reach deep within came after the President also posted “CONGRESSMAN KEVIN KILEY’S, ‘NO TAX DOLLARS FOR RIOTS’ legislation, should be passed immediately. I am hereby instructing my Administration not to pay ANY money to these radicalized groups, regardless of the legislation. They get paid to incite riots, burn down or destroy a city, then come back to the trough to get money to help rebuild it. NO MORE MONEY!!!” displaying a mastery of governance by saying, within the same sentence, that legislation is necessary but he will also simply unilaterally enact the proposed policy irrespective of whether a majority of the national assembly approves it first.

Steven Spielberg’s 2005 War of The Worlds is difficult to recommend strictly on the merits. Like to say that’s “good” is a bit of a stretch: Tom Cruise’s character Ray isn’t likable, his kids are fucking annoying, the part with Tim Robbins drags on far too long and is narratively incoherent, the cage dropping off the tripod onto the tree should’ve been pretty gory, and the aliens are boring.

AND there’s a freaking absolute travesty in the version of the movie in the YouTube embed above. At about 50:39 the family driving through the backroads of Rockland County, New York. The shooting script says “The radio is broadcasting the emergency alert test,” but it’s cut from the version above.