May 25th, 2022, 2/2: -Gov. Abbott, when asked about gun laws in other states: “I hate to say it, but there are more people who are shot every weekend in Chicago than there are in schools in Texas”

May 25th, 2022, 1/2: -State Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL): “I have news for the embarrassment that claims to be our President — try to take our guns and you’ll learn why the Second Amendment was written in the first place”

May 24rd, 2022: -Newsmax host Greg Kelly: “I TOTALLY AGREE WITH PURDUE IN GEORGIA: STACY ABRAMS, WHO HATES GEORGIA, SHOULD GO BACK TO WHERE SHE CAME FROM. (I BELIEVE THAT’S WISCONSIN) A VERY LIBERAL STATE. SHE CAN SMOKE GONJA AND DO WHATEVER ELSE SHE WANTS!”

May 23rd, 2022: -It has been seven years since state A.G. Ken Paxton (R-TX) was indicted on felony securities fraud charges. He may win the GOP nomination for the third time and there's still no sign of when a trial will happen

SpaceX is going to drop this rocket into the Indian Ocean. I can’t even throw away a good box.

May 22nd, 2022: -Donald Trump Jr. is part of a felony poaching investigation in Utah after shooting a bear that had been baited with pastries -The CPAC conference in Hungary, at which DJT spoke, featured Zsolt Bayer, who has called Jews “stinking excrement” and Roma people “animals”

May 21th, 2022: -DJT complains in an interview on Fox News that the Russia investigations ruined his reputation: “Where do I get my reputation back?” -Russia bans 963 Americans, including JRB and VP Harris, but not DJT

May 20th, 2022: -Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) on the state of Louisiana having one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the nation: "We wouldn't be much of an outlier if you subtract the African American population from our numbers”

May 19th, 2022: -WaPo has verified 2014 emails in which Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and his wife asked Hunter Biden for help in getting their son into Georgetown -Former A.G. William Barr will cooperate with the Jan. 6th Committee

May 18th, 2022: -GWB, speaking to an audience: “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine” -Sweden and Finland submit official applications to join NATO -Croatia plans to block Finland and Sweden from NATO membership

May 17th, 2022: -The USSC sides with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), striking down the $250K limit on donations to candidates after elections -JRB travels to Buffalo to comfort families of victims of the latest mass shooting -The US will ease sanctions on Cuba

May 16th, 2022: -Ukrainian forces reach the border at Kharkiv -McDonald’s is leaving Russia permanently -Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) is recovering after a stroke

May 15th, 2022: -Sweden says it will apply for NATO membership -Lt. Gov. and Senate Candidate John Fetterman (D-PA) suffers a stroke, but says he will recover fully -DJT says he is busy writing a book called “The Crime of the Century” about how the presidency was stolen from him

May 14th, 2022: -DJT ally Roger Stone: “There is a satanic portal above the WH, you can see it day and night … it must be closed, and it will be closed by prayer … It popped up when Joe Biden became president, and it will be closed before he leaves”

Evergreen.

May 13th, 2022: -DJT’s North American trade agreement taxes baby formula imports at 17%+ and actively discourages importing formula from Canada -Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) is criticized after boasting of the reliability of the state’s power grid

May 12th, 2022: -Finland announces its intention to apply for NATO membership -The Missouri House and Senate pass a gag rule forbidding pharmacists from proactively questioning the efficacy of ivermectin treatment for anything

Project Hail Mary is available to buy or rent on Apple TV and others this morning. FYI. For those of us who don't have access to a movie theater, it's opening night!

May 11th, 2022: -Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) votes with Republicans, opposing codification of Roe v. Wade protections in US law -Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY), facing ongoing allegations of sexual misconduct, announces his retirement

May 10th, 2022: -A Florida high school is now censoring yearbook photos of students holding rainbow flags and “love is love” signs following passage of Florida’s Don’t Say Gay law. The law bans discussion of sexual orientation in all grades if it’s not “appropriate”

May 9th, 2022: -At his Victory Day speech, Putin blames the west for his invasion of Ukraine -Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) says she will vote to block Democrats’ bill codifying Roe v. Wade into law this week, allowing it to be filibustered

May 8th, 2022: -First Lady Jill Biden makes a trip to Ukraine to visit Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska -Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces the reopening of the Canadian Embassy in Kyiv

One year ago today: -Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s staff has informed the department that he likes freshly baked chocolate chip cookies and they want them baked in the department’s industrial ovens. He also wants water bottles brought to him to have their labels removed

Six years ago...

May 7th, 2022: -NYT: “Turning Tables on Russia With West’s Arms, Ukraine Goes on Offense” -Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) lays out the GOP plan for birth control. She says it should only be available for married couples

May 6th, 2022: -USSC Justice Amy Coney Barrett writes a brief about abortion rights. She notes the US needs a “domestic supply of infants” to meet needs of parents seeking to adopt -Twelve Russian Generals have been killed in Ukraine -Russian soldiers are suing over orders to serve in Ukraine

Anybody else just hanging on looking at pictures of kittens and watching Ukraine blow shit up?

May 5th, 2022: -Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), who earlier this week accused USSC Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch of lying to her about their support for Roe v. Wade, will not support Senate Democrats' bill to secure abortion protections in law

May 4th, 2022: -Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL): “How many of the women rallying against overturning Roe are over-educated, under-loved millennials who sadly return from protests to a lonely microwave dinner with their cats, and no bumble matches?”

May 3rd, 2022: -Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), on the leaked USSC opinion that could ban abortion: “If this leaked draft opinion is the final decision and this reporting is accurate, it would be completely inconsistent with what Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh (con't)

So a woman trained a horse that had to start at the back of the pack and relentlessly outperform everybody else to succeed? Color me surprised.

May 2nd, 2022: -A leaked draft of a majority decision suggests the USSC will overturn Roe v. Wade -Ukraine accuses Hungary of having advance knowledge of Russia’s invasion, and of planning to annex parts of western Ukraine in the aftermath

One year ago today: Trump: "An old fashioned term that we use -- groceries. I used it on the campaign. It's such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it"

May 1st, 2022: -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov: "The fact that Zelensky is Jewish does not negate the Nazi elements in Ukraine. I believe that Hitler also had Jewish blood”

Turns out 8647 is a prime number.

Working on a hall table.

April 30th, 2022, 2/2: -Ukraine regains control of five villages previously overtaken by Russia in the Kharkiv Oblast -Neil Parish, a British lawmaker from the governing Conservative Party, resigns after admitting he watched pornography on his phone in the House of Commons chamber

April 30th, 2022, 1/2: -Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA): “If you are defending pedophile priests and those who protect them, groomer teachers & Disney LGBTQ propaganda, Drag Queen story time, saying it’s not Satan convincing women to abort their unplanned child, (con't)

April 29th, 2022: -New post-Jan. 6th texts emerge between Fox News’ Sean Hannity and then-WH Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. The messages show Hannity’s shift from a staunch supporter of DJT’s election lies to being “fed up” with “lunatics”

April 28th, 2022: -From a Russian Army intercept: “My soldiers don’t want to fight. I even shoot them - no use. Especially the new ones coming. Cowardly. All I want is go back home to family, wife, children. And then… To hookers. Many, many hookers. Nothing else”

April 27th, 2022: -A Deutsche Bank whistleblower is found dead in L.A.’s Lincoln Park -The Deutsche Bank case was awarded to Judge Esther Salas in July 2020. Four days later a gunman killed her son and shot her husband at their front door. The gunman later committed suicide

So much for "third time's a charm."

For those who think Trump is going downhill fast, here he is this day last year, at Pope Francis' funeral (black attire requested):

April 26th, 2022, 2/2: -Rep. McCarthy told Republican leaders on a Jan. 10th call that Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Mo Brooks (R-AL), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), and Barry Moore (R-AL) were endangering the security of other lawmakers and the Capitol

April 26th, 2022, 1/2: -Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) is cited for having a gun at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. This is the second time he has been stopped with a firearm at an airport since he took office

Anybody want to talk about gun control, or is it too soon?

Going to guess the shots they heard in the ballroom was security shooting some random victim in the lobby.

April 25th, 2022, 2/2: -Sweden will transfer to the Armed Forces of Ukraine a batch of self-propelled guns (the FH77 BW Archer) -Ukrainian defenders gain control of territory in the area of ​​five more settlements of the Mykolayiv region near the administrative border with the Kherson region