The Justice Department fined a Virginia tech company that posted an online recruitment ad that sought only white applicants but notes that the information shouldn’t be “share[d] with candidates,” WTOP in Washington, DC reports.

As it posted on Indeed and other online recruitment sites, Arthur Grand Technologies sought “only US Born Citizens [white] who are local within 60 miles from Dallas, TX [Don’t share with candidates].”  That’s how they wrote it, bracketed text and all, according to the DOJ’s press release announcing the outcome.  Currently with around 160 employees of unknown hues, Arthur Grand also vows to provide further training for their employees, particularly in the human resources department, who should already know better.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. can’t find a political party that will allow him to carry their flag.  After leaving the Democratic Party, RFK Jr. tried to latch on to the so-far leaderless Libertarian Party, which roundly rejected the potential courtship of the Tempramental Tangerine Donald Trump on Saturday.  Kennedy was booted in the first round of nominations.

If you’re interested in watching the boredom, the Libertarian Party National Convention is being broadcast live, and it’s as exciting as you’d think it would be.  In the sixth round of voting, Chase Oliver got 49.53% of the vote, while challenger Michael Rectenwald got 44.73% of the delegate vote.  Donald Trump, Robert Kennedy, football analyst Dan Marino, and two other also-rans each got one vote.  Given that they did not get to 50% for any candidate, they’re still trying to figure things out.

According to the US Code [36 U.S. Code § 301], the only people who may properly salute during the National Anthem are those in uniform and those members of the military and veterans not in uniform.  All others are to stand solemnly with their hands over their hearts.  Donald Trump is not a veteran, and without his red tie he’s out of uniform.  Oh, and it’s “Amazing Grace” playing, not the National Anthem.

“The reason I didn’t file paperwork for the Libertarian Nomination, which I would have absolutely gotten if I wanted it (as everyone could tell by the enthusiasm of the Crowd last night!), was the fact that, as the Republican Nominee, I am not allowed to have the Nomination of another Party” posted disgraced former President Trump on Sunday, as if he didn’t just urge the Libertarians to nominate him anyway, and as if the Republican Party he controls would’ve somehow stopped him.

Same post continued: “Regardless, I believe I will get a Majority of the Libertarian Votes. Junior Kennedy is a Radical Left Democrat, who’s destroyed everything he’s touched, especially in New York and New England, and in particular, as it relates to the Cost and Practicality of Energy. He’s not a Libertarian. Only a FOOL would vote for him!” Robert F Kennedy Jr has never served in elected office in New England, New York, or anywhere, so obviously it doesn’t mean shit to say he’s “destroyed” anything, anywhere. Either way, it’s beyond dispute Brainworms received a much warmer, rubber chicken-free reception at the Libertarian convention than Trump did.

The fat bastard also posted, emphasis ours, “Congressman Mike Johnson is a tremendous champion for Louisiana’s 4th Congressional District!” in a boilerplate endorsement for Johnson’s reelection to his seat. Not to any other position he may currently happen to hold just yet.

Suspected Melania Trump understudy/lawyer-ish spokeswoman Alina Habba on Sunday told Maria Bartiromo understudy and former Congressman Sean Duffy she’s worried that jurors in her fat boss’s criminal trial aren’t sequestered and might be hearing from “Trump Derangement Syndrome”-suffering friends and family and televisions tuned into “MSDNC” on in the background while at Memorial Day weekend BBQ parties. And yeah, this is just about the best she’s got right now in terms of preemptively delegitimizing a potential guilty verdict against the Orange God Emperor.

Important related note: In not one but two podcast appearances last week, former Mueller Investigation prosecutor Andrew Weissmann warned libs not to freak the fuck out if and when the jury returns a verdict and the fat bastard may end up getting acquitted on the first 10 or so counts since the evidence is slightly weaker, as Trump did not personally sign a check to Michael Cohen for those specific instances of falsification of business records. Just stick a pin in that one.

The producers of the upcoming biopic The Apprentice, about fat former President Trump’s 1970s education in ruthlessness and nihilism from master sociopath Roy Cohn, have been slapped with a cease and desist order from Team Orange which, per Business Insider, whines that since the movie’s an Irish production, releasing it would amount to “direct foreign interference in America’s elections.”

Lol. Another Business Insider article about an entertainment lawyer’s take on the threat – spoiler alert: the lawyer Camron Dowlatshahi says the film’s use of “inspired by” and not “based on true events” makes legal action a non-starter – mentions that, on top of scenes of sexual violence toward’s Trump’s late first wife Ivana and abuse of amphetamines to lose weight, the film also depicts Donald as suffering from erectile dysfunction. The scriptwriters freely admit to having not so much made it up but inferred it. Insider explains it with “While there are no reports of Trump having ED, this creative liberty could have grown out of Trump’s former longtime doctor saying the former president had been taking finasteride for hair loss, The New York Times reported in 2017. The drug can cause erectile dysfunction.” Problem with that is finasteride, aka Propecia, wasn’t approved by the FDA until 1992, making this a little bit more than simply a creative liberty in film.

Meh. The movie’s already done and seeking a distributor, so we’re not going to lose any sleep over it, especially given that it’s not that much of a stretch for the addled bastard to have Cialis in his daily pharmaceutical cocktail and to have left his partners frustrated from time to time before it was invented. Also no need to sweat such a fabrication being visited upon a demented asshole who would lie about the color of the sky if he thought he could get away with it. Sucks for him.

Sycophantic Senator Tim Scott was happy on Sunday to speak to the MAGAmericans who tried to flood the room during his Orange Allah’s disastrous speech at the Libertarian convention on the previous night, not so happy to address the vicious booing and mockery from the crowd.

At least five people are dead in Valley View, Texas after powerful storms ripped through the area on Saturday night, three of them in one trailer, the Associated Press reports.

“We do have five confirmed (dead), but sadly, we think that that number is probably going to go up. There’s nothing left of this house. It’s just a trail of debris left. The devastation is pretty severe,” said Ray Sappington, sheriff of Cooke County, near the border with Oklahoma.

The Transportation Safety Administration reported it screened a record 2.95 million travelers on Friday, a record number of daily airline travelers and a sign that Americans are set for a busy summer season, CBS News reports.  The previous record of 2.9 million was set on the Sunday after Thanksgiving last year.

AAA said an estimated 43.8 million people will travel to a destination this holiday season, a four percent increase from last year.  “We haven’t seen Memorial Day weekend travel numbers like these in almost 20 years,” Paula Twidale, AAA senior vice president Paula Twidal said in a statement. “We’re projecting an additional one million travelers this holiday weekend compared to 2019, which not only means we’re exceeding pre-pandemic levels but also signals a very busy summer travel season ahead.”

So the Secret Service are confiscating the rubber chickens. Which is bullshit, but actually a good sign because it means the hecklers are filtering into the room, even reportedly elbowing out the Trump campaign’s astroturfed MAGA crowd from their seats in the front row of the event space. All signs otherwise indicate that Trump is indeed still going to speak and get booed viciously from the Libertarian maniacs and/or Robert F Kennedy Jr fanboys in the audience beginning in T-minus 37 minutes. Enjoy the Baghdad Bob-style pre-speech coverage from RSBN in the meantime. The lady actually just said something along the lines of “Just because you hear booing it doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re booing Trump, it could just be a policy disagreement,” lol.

Disgraced former President Trump’s worshippers are begging their Orange Allah to escape the “ambush” being planned for him during his appearance at the Libertarian convention planned for 8PM EDT on Saturday night, former Daily Beast extremism expert Zach Petrizzo reports, citing MAGA Telegram posts warning of RFK Jr fanboys handing out squeaky rubber chickens to mock him for refusing to take up Bobby Brainworm’s challenge for a debate, “Antifa activists” infiltrating the event, and of course the failed attempt for a “Donald Trump can go fuck himself” resolution.

So yeah, we’re going to have to carry this one if we can find it. Please be aware that any “WATCH LIVE” article here on National Zero is likely to have been pre-queued hours and if Trump cancels at the last minute our “coverage” may not reflect that. We’ll do our best to find an official Libertarian National Party feed for extra hilarity if that happens and someone else takes the stage.

A pair of kangaroos that escaped from a home in eastern Texas were returned safely after a few hours on the lam last week, miraculously not torn to shreds by an AR-15 from some deranged hick who thought they were space aliens or some secret government lab experiment, Fox News reports.

“We’re on our way to go eat breakfast, and I look, and I’m like, ‘That’s a freaking kangaroo!’ and it just starts hopping, coming down the road,” said a local who dialed 911 after spotting one of the marsupials. It’s not clear if the caller emptied a clip from his Sig Sauer in the direction of the animal during the brief encounter but that appears to be a safe assumption because Texas.

It’s also not clear how the two Australian beasts, named “Red” and “Hopper,” were eventually recaptured by owner Shelby Lowery, though it’s probably a given that she was armed with an assault rifle and ready to use deadly force to kill other Texans who were hunting them. At least one of the two animals had starred in the 2003 Jerry O’Connell comedy Kangaroo Jack, rated 9 percent positive on Rotten Tomatoes. Anthony Anderson and Christopher Walken were both nominated at the 24th Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Supporting Actor for their performances but lost to Sylvester Stallone’s role as main villain “The Toymaker” in Spy Kids 3D: Game Over.

In a possible bad sign for fat former President Trump ahead of his appearance Saturday night, surrogate Vivek Ramaswamy was viciously booed and heckled on mentioning the Orange Bastard to the crowd at the Libertarian convention on Friday night. Team Trump better figure out a way to fill the room with friendly faces and fast… He goes on stage in just over ten hours from now.

In related-ish news, Donald went off on brainwormed fellow Libertarian Convention headliner Robert F Kennedy Jr in a Truth Social post Saturday morning, writing “Don’t waste any Republican or Conservative votes on Junior. He’s one of the most Liberal Lunatics ever to run for office. He caused massive high energy pricing in New York and New England. He just admitted that he was actually OK with the Vaccine. Phony Radical Left fool whose poll numbers are TERRIBLE, and getting worse. His campaign is falling apart, great dissension!!!” Not clear why Trump is calling Bobby Junior out on being “actually OK with the Vaccine,” since that was supposed to be Trump’s accomplishment.

• So that whole “appearance of impropriety” thing is moot at this point, eh, Mr. Chief Justice?
• Donald Trump claims, incredulously, that Joe Biden was trying to assassinate him during the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, using an authority Donald Trump’s lawyers argue is a presidential power thanks to “absolute immunity.” 
• The Dow jumped over 40,000 (and will stay back over the line soon) and NASDAQ hits a new high:  the Biden economic highlights are starting to make headlines, and that will attract voters.
• You’re right, MAGAt:  Alito has a Constitutional right to fly that flag.  He does not, however, have a Constitutional right to be a judge.  It’s the second part that’s the problem. 
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The first class action lawsuit for customers against Live Nation alleging the company illegally profited from inflated prices in venues it managed has been filed following the Justice Department antitrust claim against the company, Reuters reports.

The case seeks $5 billion in damages for customers who bought tickets for sports, entertainment and arts events through Ticketmaster, a subsidiary of Live Nation, which also runs venues and manages tours across the country.  The case has been assigned to Biden-appointed Judge Arun Subramanian in the Southern District of New York.

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office filed a motion Friday night asking Florida Federal District Court Judge Aileen Cannon to mute Donald Trump and prevent him from saying anything regarding the FBI agents involved in the search of Mar-a-Lago, given that he’s falsely claimed they were trying to assassinate him.

The Government moves to modify defendant Donald J. Trump’s conditions of release, to make clear that he may not make statements that pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents participating in the investigation and prosecution of this case.1 The Government’s request is necessary because of several intentionally false and inflammatory statements recently made by Trump that distort the circumstances under which the Federal Bureau of Investigation planned and executed the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago.  Those statements create a grossly misleading impression about the intentions and conduct of federal law enforcement agents—falsely suggesting that they were complicit in a plot to assassinate him—and expose those agents, some of whom will be witnesses at trial, to the risk of threats, violence, and harassment. The Court has an “independent obligation to protect the integrity of this judicial proceeding,” and should take steps immediately to halt this dangerous campaign to smear law enforcement. […]

According to new user data analyzed by web traffic company Similarweb, the number of users on Trump’s flailing social media platform Truth Social fell nearly 40% year-over-year, with the site getting only 4 million visits on average over the last twelve months, NBC News reports.

Comparing data from May 2023 to April 2024, traffic to the site was down more than 39% over the previous 12 months.  May 2024 won’t be any better for the site:  to date this month, traffic to the site is down 21% from April and 34% from March, even as Donald Trump uses the site exclusively to electronically bleat his grievances and Nazi references.  With a market cap of $6 billion, Truth Social’s 48 million annual log-ins calculate to a value of $125 per visit.

The dissonance at Fox must be overwhelming:  on one hand, their hosts are pledged to repeat the false Trump talking point that the economy is in tatters, while the small portion of the company that must report verifiable facts announces another new record high for the NASDAQ exchange.  “The economy is terrible!  Now let’s celebrate another record high!”

Hiring the lawyer who won a record settlements from gun manufacturers for the Sandy Hook families, the survivors and the families of those killed in the 2022 shooting at an Uvalde, Texas elementary school filed a lawsuit for damages against the manufacture of the gun used, the parent company of Facebook, and the publisher of the Call of Duty game, the Washington Post reports.

Daniel Defense, the manufacturer of the AR-15-style assault rifle used in the shooting, frequently used children in its marketing.  The families claim Activision, which created Call of Duty, and Meta, Facebook parent company, helped market the weapons and violence to the shooter.  The lawyer, Josh Koskoff, said Facebook systemically overlooks its own rules against marketing and selling guns on its platform.

“Over the last 15 years, two of America’s largest technology companies — Defendants Activision and Meta — have partnered with the firearms industry in a scheme that makes the Joe Camel campaign look laughably harmless, even quaint,” the families claim in their suit.

Trump fanboys are kind of freaking the fuck out over this screenshot of a WABC 7 New York Eyewitness News broadcast from Thursday night. We don’t have a video clip of it. Nor do we have a lot of other context. It sure looks like that’s Trump on stage but we can’t say for certain. Maybe it was Andrew Giuliani warming up the crowd. Some whiny asshole tried to say that footage was taken before the rally, at 11:09 AM. Problem is that The View was on at 11:00 AM while the nightly newscast was at 11:00 PM. And it had also poured rain from about 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM Thursday.

So the preponderance of evidence we have at hand says there were low-to-mid four-digits of people there at best. Every single image we have from right wing sources is a ground-level view of the crowd, making it impossible to even ballpark the size of the crowd. There are no wide-angle shots of Trump on stage, surrounded by a mass of tens of thousands of revelers. We don’t need to speculate that it’s by design from the Unified Reich of the Trump campaign and MAGA media.