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 Cancel those CARE packages to loved ones in New York -- the big trucker boycott has been called off.  Food, medicines and Kentucky bourbon are reaching the city as normal.  Organizer Chicago Ray deleted his call to arms:  "I took that video down from Friday bc it went viral and my grandson seen it on TikTok," he explained yesterday.  Probably his boss seen it, too, and told him his ass is fired if the delivery doesn't get to the Gristedes warehouse by seven.  Ray "stands by Trump 100%" but people need their cornflakes.

Cancel that "chemical analysis" of Alexei Navalny's corpse, too.  The internet knows how he died and it was a blood clot caused by the Pfizer covid vaccine.  Proof is neither required nor offered, of course, but it certainly looks like the anti-vaxers and the Putin supporters make a neat Venn diagram.  "Why would you blame Putin for something Navalny did to himself by taking an experimental MRNA vaccine?" someone identified as "Bruin Republicans at UCLA" demands.  Any bets he's a Junior Kennedy supporter?  (Full disclosure:  I had the Pfizer and I got neither covid nor a blood clot.)

Although he voted against the bill that would have provided aid to Ukraine, Lindsey Graham woke up to find himself on the "terrorists and extremists" list kept by the Russian financial monitoring agency.  After his cowardly vote he went on one of the bloviating shows and reiterated his love for Ukraine but the border (i.e. pleasing Trump) is more important.  Lindsey's silver tongue was always going to get him in trouble and now he can't take his rubles out of the country, assuming he has any.

"In Russia it is customary to speak good of the dead or nothing at all," said Sergei Naryshkin, who runs the Russian foreign intelligence agency.  He went on to describe Maxim Kuzminov as a "moral corpse" and a "traitor and criminal."  Kuzminov was shot six times and run over by a car.  Apparently he wouldn't take the Pfizer vaccine.

In other hypocrisy news, Polish farmers angry about environmental restrictions and rising costs blockaded a freight train and dumped Ukrainian grain even as Donald Tusk was reiterating Poland's support for Ukraine.  The Poles are understandably jumpy since Putin's lackey Medvedev warned that "the presumptuous Poles" could "lose their statehood" if they get snippy with Belarus.  Not jumpy enough to stop weakening Ukraine, though.

And in still more, Joe Biden talks about ending the carnage in Gaza but the US vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire, saying it would undermine a hostage deal.  (We may as well have voted with the other thirteen countries -- it's not as if Netanyahu would pay any attention.)  If you think that makes no sense, Rep. Rashida Tlaib wants Democrats to vote "undecided" in next week's Michigan primary.  Which is more important, "sending a message" to Biden or contributing to a Trump regime which promises to deport half your constituents, Congresswoman?  And maybe you?

Russia has taken another hostage, Ksenia Karelina, who lives in Los Angeles and holds US-Russian citizenship.  She was arrested in Yekaterinburg for donating $52 to Razom for Ukraine.  Which reminds me, I need to send them more money.  You know, for "tactical medical items" (first aid kits).  For such a mighty world power, Russia sure shits its pants over nothing, I mean $52? 

Speaking of diaper loads, Trump is still ranting about the bill he got from Judge Engoron.  "We'll appeal, we'll be successful I think because frankly, if we're not successful New York state is gone.  People are moving out of New York state and because of this they're going to move out at a much faster rate."  Ooh, tumbleweed on Broadway, coyotes along the Thruway, Rochester abandoned, you need to get over yourself, fat man.  As the judge wrote, "New York means business in combating business fraud," and if that means all the con men, perjurors and Ponzi schemers steal away to Florida, I don't see a downside.  And kindly drop the royal "we," you're not the ruler of the Empire State.  Even the Staten Islanders who adore you are not selling their houses and uprooting their lawn statues of the BVM.  Pay the clerk, asshole.

No matter how bad things get where you are, be grateful you don't live in Alabama.  Its Supreme Court has ruled that even teeny-tiny fertilized eggs are people, no surprise.  But they couldn't leave it alone, they had to quote from Jeremiah, right there in the decision.  The Old Testament prophet was thinking about in-vitro fertilization when he wrote, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you."  Hallelujah.  When Texas secedes, could y'all hitch a ride?