A Hummer with 5-gallon cans of gas in the back caught fire in Florida, injuring 1

A Hummer with 5-gallon cans of gas in the back caught fire in Florida, injuring 1

One person was injured when a Hummer carrying five-gallon cans of gas caught fire in Florida on Wednesday, fire officials said.

The fire happened as people across the East Coast scrambled to fill their gas tanks this week after a cyberattack shut down the Colonial Pipeline, a major US gas provider.

May 12, 1846 - The Donner Party embarks on a journey that leads to tragedy, ruin, and cannibalizing each other.

May 12, 2021 - The Donald Party embarks on pretty much the same. - John Fugelsang

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Marjorie Taylor Greene confronts Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez outside House chamber
• Active-duty Marine officer arrested, facing multiple charges in Jan. 6 riot
• 2-year-old in Maine shoots parents with unsecured gun
• Biden says Colonial Pipeline hackers based in Russia, but not government-backed
• CDC: Vaccinated people can now remove masks in most group settings

The GOP's new slogan is: "Be thankful for the crumbs that we give you." - Aaron Parnas

 

Matt Gaetz Might Want To Take A Vacation To A Country That Won't Extradite Him. Russia Is Nice This Time Of Year.
A federal court has scheduled a change of plea hearing for Joel Greenberg, the Florida official and accused sex trafficker at the center of the legal investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), indicating he'll likely enter a plea agreement with federal prosecutors.

Bad time for the Feds to be closing in on Matt Gaetz. No gas for his white bronco chase. - Scott Linnen

 

Republican Shenanigans

• Palm Beach Police Have Reportedly Discussed Trump’s Possible Extradition If He’s Indicted
• Prosecutors subpoena NYC school in pursuit of info from Trump confidante: report
• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to pardon anyone charged for defying COVID rules
• DeSantis signs bill making to-go alcohol sales permanent in Florida
• McCarthy brushes off questions about GOP lawmakers downplaying Jan. 6 violence
• Meghan McCain Derails Insurrection Debate on The View By Complaining About 'Whether or Not I Can Get Gas in My Car'
• 'American Idol' favorite Caleb Kennedy abruptly quits over KKK video
• Missouri abandons voter-approved Medicaid expansion
• Prince Harry rips Joe Rogan for vaccine remarks: Have to 'be careful about what comes out of your mouth'

Poor Liz Cheney, doomed to wake up every morning into a world she helped create. - Jeff Tiedrich

 

Get Vaccinated & Receive A Lottery Ticket. Huh?

More cities and states across the country have announced incentives of various kinds to get people vaccinated. For example, New Jersey recently announced people who got vaccinated could get a free beer.

Ohio is now taking things up a notch with — and yes, this is real — a million-dollar lottery.

Thanks to Marjorie Taylor Greene, in addition to metal detectors, the Capitol will now also need straight jackets and frontal lobotomies. - Jeremy Newberger

 

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I just don’t want them to lift the sweatpants mandate. I can’t go back to jeans. - Jesse Lifson

 

Rock The Voter News

• Pelosi: Greene's 'verbal assault' of Ocasio-Cortez could be a matter for Ethics Committee
• Pelosi says firms should not pay ransoms to hackers
• Head of House Diversity and Inclusion Office urges more staff diversity
• John Podesta’s got a message for Joe Biden: Drop the Republicans

Every Bush Is A Dirty Rotten Scoundrel. Every Damn One.
George P. Bush, the son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), backed House Republicans for dropping Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) from their leadership team, arguing that she was pushing a personal vendetta against former President Trump.

If Biden offered a free bag of gas and a set of truck nuts with every vaccination, the pandemic would be over by the end of the month. - Hamish Mitchell

 

 

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Jeff Bezos is having a $1.2 billion yacht made with a smaller yacht to hold the helicopter to ride alongside. He paid no federal taxes and has made almost double what he made in 2020, pandemic and all. How's that $1400 holding up? - Erin Rogers

Business/Tech News

• Colonial paid hackers almost $5M in ransom: report
• Biden urges people not to panic about gasoline shortages
• Amazon looks to add 75K employees, offers $100 vaccination bonuses for new hires
• Bitcoin Price Drops After Elon Musk Tweets Tesla Will No Longer Accept It as Payment

Elon Musk Unveils New Clean Energy Luxury Car Pulled By 8 Tesla Employees. - The Onion

 

Kudos To The Secret Service!

The Secret Service on Wednesday said it had helped in recovering around $2 billion in fraudulently obtained COVID-19 relief funds.

CNN reports that the agency has opened 690 cases of unemployment insurance fraud and 720 Payment Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan investigations since the pandemic began. The Secret Service has recovered more than $640 million from accused fraudsters.

Have you ever run out of gas because your plastic bag busted? - Mayo tweet 

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Odd News

• Freshly-Made Plutonium From Outer Space Found On Ocean Floor
• Vulture invasion besets residents of Florida neighborhood
• Police: Woman posed as student to promote Instagram page
• Dracula's castle proves an ideal setting for COVID-19 jabs
• 2 planes collide above Denver and land with no one injured

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A snapping turtle just after emerging from brumation (hibernation for cold-blooded animals is called brumation) buried in the mud. Mother Nature has a great sense of humor.

Peace.

The vote to oust Liz Cheney took only 16 minutes.

The vote to oust Liz Cheney took only 16 minutes

Before the House Republican Conference met Wednesday morning to oust the Wyoming congresswoman from her position as the third-ranking Republican member in Congress, sources told CNN they expected it to be quick.

Kevin McCarthy after ousting Cheney: 'I don’t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election'

We are all Liz Cheney today. 

We are also living in the upside down.

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Israeli strikes hit Gaza as violence escalates
• Kremlin-imposed cuts at US Embassy leave thousands adrift
• Lin Wood: Trump has secret military backchannel to authorize nuclear strikes 
• The data is in -- and it's damning: States led by GOP governors had higher COVID-19 death rates in 2020

Even I'm uncomfortable with what Israel is doing, and I'm Jewish. - TheTweetOfGod

What A Load of BS From Trump's Defense Secretary!

Two senior Trump administration officials defended their actions during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in testimony before Congress on Wednesday, with former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller standing behind every decision he made that day.

Miller told the House Oversight Committee that he was concerned before the insurrection that sending troops to the building could fan fears of a military coup and cause a repeat of the deadly Kent State shootings.

New Program Encourages Americans To Get Vaccine To Prevent It From Going To Foreigners. - The Onion

 

 

The Republican Party is Donald Trump’s new casino. - Tim Hannan

Republican Shenanigans

• Cheney Declares War on Trump Moments After Her Ouster: Will Do All I Can to Ensure He Never Gets 'Near the Oval Office' Again
• Trump Takes Victory Lap After Liz Cheney Ouster from House GOP Leadership: 'A Bitter Horrible Human Being'
• Adam Kinzinger Blasts GOP's 'Legislative Terrorists' in Epic Twitter Thread: Nowhere Have I Seen Jesus Christ Say 'It's Okay to Lie'
• Ted Cruz walks out of gun violence hearing after failing to change the subject
• Idaho governor signs bill to halt Biden moves on gun laws
• Elise Stefanik doesn't think the GOP should stop talking about 2020 'election security issues'
• Mike Lindell: 'There’s people that actually still think Biden won'
• Despite televised denial, Caitlyn Jenner did vote in 2020, records show
• Brett Favre owes $600K for speaking events he never attended in Mississippi: officials

Dick Cheney killed a million people bc he lied & Liz Cheney just killed her career bc she wouldn’t. - John Fugelsang

What's Next? Shoot The Fact Checkers?
A Trump-loving Michigan Republican is declaring war on the people who tell him when he's wrong.

The Detroit News reports that Michigan Rep. Matt Maddock has filed a new bill called the "Fact Checker Registration Act" that would force fact checkers to register with the state and would subject them to $1,000 daily fines if they are found to have made mistakes.

Cheney, Romney, Sasse, Toomey, Collins, Murkowski, and those republicans who "oppose" Trump? They fully embrace and advance their party's toxic platform of nationalism, exclusion, and obstruction. They embrace all of Trump's policies. 

They just don't like TRUMP. - Stonekettle

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden Administration Issues Final Approval For First Major U.S. Wind Farm To Be Built Off Martha's Vineyard
• Manchin to support measured voting reform in lieu of sweeping Democratic proposal
• Ocasio-Cortez has a Taco Tuesday with Buttigieg
• Democrat Nikki Fried teases possible challenge to DeSantis

Pregnancy rights mean abortion to them and I really don’t understand that because that’s not pregnancy. - Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)

Old School Republicans Want To Start A New Party. Democrats Are Ecstatic.

Over 100 former Republican officials will sign a letter on Thursday declaring that if the Republican Party does not break with former President Donald Trump and change course, they will back the creation of a third party.

The letter, headlined: "A Call For American Renewal," is an exploratory move toward forming a breakaway party, two of its organizers said. The group is dismayed by what it says is a modern Republican Party driven by its allegiance to Trump, who continues to falsely claim the 2020 election was stolen from him.

When Liz Cheney stands up and denounces the policies of the Bush Administration and the lies her father told, AND IS STILL TELLING, lies that sent people like me to war and killed half a million Iraqis, THEN you can call her a hero

Until then, she's just another Republican. - Stonekettle

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Business/Tech News

• 71 percent of gas stations in Charlotte area out of fuel
• Duke and Duchess of Sussex agree partnership with US brands giant Procter & Gamble
• Ellen DeGeneres to End Talk Show After 19 Seasons Following Toxic Workplace Controversy, Steep Ratings Drop
• Consumer safety agency offers gas storage tips as shortages expand: 'Do not fill plastic bags with gasoline'

What are the odds that people filling up plastic bags with gasoline, are the same ones who won't wear masks and whine they can't eat inside an Applebee's? - justiceputnam tweet

Elon Musk Does Not Approve

A motorist was arrested after an officer observed him in the backseat of a Tesla traveling on a San Francisco Bay Area freeway, the California Highway Patrol said.

Param Sharma, 25, was arrested for alleged reckless driving and disobeying a peace officer, the highway patrol said in a statement Tuesday.

Personal news: I got my first haircut in over 7 months. I no longer look like a bass guitarist in a grunge band. Thank you, @pfizer - Windsor Mann tweet

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Odd News

• Bartender attacked after woman complains drink wasn’t strong enough, Kentucky cops say
• McDonald’s worker shoots customer after dispute over change, Arkansas cops say
• Bikini-clad Florida woman claims cops were called by someone ‘jealous that her body looked good’
• Chunk of highway goes flying through truck's windshield after lightning strikes road
• Last wild macaw in Rio is lonely and looking for love

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La Venta, Mexico 1947: Archaeologists studying one of the gigantic Olmec statue heads. 

Peace.

Ransomware gang threatens release of DC police records

Ransomware gang threatens release of DC police records

A Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate that stole data from the Washington, D.C., police department says negotiations over payment have broken down, with it rejecting a $100,000 payment, and it will release sensitive information that could put lives at risk if more money is not offered.

DAILY REMINDER: Donald Trump killed over a half-million Americans and led an armed attack against our nation's capitol. - Tea Pain

 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Israel calls on Biden administration to stay out of Jerusalem crisis
• Russia school shooting: At least 7 children killed in city of Kazan
• US families ask UN to investigate police killings of Black Americans
• State Department Covid review blasts 'void of U.S. international leadership' under Trump and Pompeo
• 'Ill-informed and cruel': Growing number of GOP-led states move to end Covid unemployment benefits

I wonder if the GOP is having a civil war just so they can put up statues of the losers. - Stephen Colbert

 

 

Dear God, Don Jr.'s Wife & Sister Were Hitting On Secret Service Agents.

Two Trump family members got “inappropriately – and perhaps dangerously – close” to agents protecting them while Donald Trump was president, according to a new book on the US Secret Service.

Looks like Don Junior's wife was bein' serviced secretly. - Tea Pain

 

 

So China couldn't keep a rocket from falling aimlessly back to Earth, but they were able to sneak 40,000 secret undetectable bamboo ballots into Arizona to tip the election for Joe Biden. Got it. - Jeremy Newberger

Republican Shenanigans

• ‘DeSantis said we don’t have to!’ Anti-masker punches Florida clerk over mask request
• Arizona GOP State Senator Now Regrets Recount: 'It Makes Us Look Like Idiots'
• Fmr Pence Adviser Says GOP ‘Actively Destroying’ Democracy Over the Big Lie: ‘All of These People Are Unfit to Be in Office’
• Kinzinger Says He Wanted a Vote of No Confidence Against McCarthy After Jan 6: ‘Should at Least Have His Leadership Challenged’
• Gaetz investigators reportedly seeking cooperation from his ex-girlfriend
• Caitlyn Jenner Defends Qualifications to Be California Governor on CNN: ‘I Have Been in the Entrepreneurial World’
• McCarthy rental from Luntz violated condo rules: Washington Post
• Vatican warns U.S. bishops about rebuking Biden, other Catholic pols
• O.J. Simpson stands by Liz Cheney amid GOP reckoning

Kevin McCarthy Forced To Fly To Mar-a-Lago To Sit And Listen To Things Trump Would Have Posted On Facebook. - Andy Borowitz

I Liked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's Jewish Laser Conspiracy Better Than This.
QAnon-loving Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Tuesday unleashed an insane conspiracy theory about Dr. Anthony Fauci paying to create the novel coronavirus.

Writing on Twitter, Greene made the claim as part of her push to get Fauci fired as America's top infectious disease expert.

"We must pass my bill, The Fire Fauci Act," she wrote. "No one elected Dr Fauci. He is the highest paid federal employee. At his direction, shutdowns and masks are ruining our country, for what appears to be a man made virus that Fauci paid for with our money."

Breaking: Dr. Fauci announces Rand Paul in hypocritical condition. - Grae Hall

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Rock The Voter News

• Poll: More Americans say U.S. is on right track than any time since 2017
• U.S. House panel to take up Postal Service reform measures
• Democrats move to advance sweeping election reform bill that faces long odds of Senate passage

Tucker Carlson Claims Hunter Biden Downloaded Music To Laptop. - Andy Borowitz

Dear God, Florida Is Sweeping Jeffrey Epstein's Sweet Deal Under The Rug. Paging Merrick Garland.
A state investigation has cleared two officials with the State's Attorney's Office of Palm Beach County as well as the county's sheriff's department of wrongdoing regarding their involvement in accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's 2008 prosecution and imprisonment.

Trump, a guy who's never won the popular vote, twice impeached, rated the worst president ever, serially corrupt, a traitor, rapist, racist, gave the GOP a perfect out on Jan 6. They could've easily just turned the page. But instead they said, "Nope, we'll stick with him." - David Rothkopf 

 

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Business/Tech News

• EPA moves to boost gasoline availability in mid-Atlantic states after Colonial cyberattack
• Michigan governor orders Enbridge to shut down controversial Canadian oil pipeline
• McDonald's teams up with HHS on pro-vaccination campaign
• Texas lawmakers approve bill banning 'meat' and 'beef' from labels of plant-based foods

You know what is a hoax? Trickle down economics. - ThePubliusUSA tweet

PayPal Is Getting Competition

Google Pay announced Tuesday that it is partnering with remittance companies  Wise and Western Union to offer options for users in the U.S. to transfer funds abroad.

American users will now be able to transfer money to app users in India and Singapore, and Google Pay plans to expand to 80 countries through Wise and 200 via Western Union by the end of the year.

I'm not sure why Biden's America is trending, but Biden's America is a pretty big improvement. I don't wake up worried we will nuke Switzerland. - Jeremy Newberger tweet

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Odd News

• Man with tiger arrested after high-speed chase with police
• Man Accused of Assaulting Sushi Restaurant Owner After Trying to Skip $70 Bill in Virginia
• Gene therapy restores immune function in children with rare immunodeficiency
• Recording a cop in Florida? One woman got arrested for it.
• Deputies say Florida woman stuffed cellphones, drugs into her underwear in prison smuggling scheme
• YouTuber who got into SpaceX Starship launch site now wanted by police

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Hieroglyphics caused by the sun, Philae Temple, Egypt.

Peace.