Trump team secretly prepping for brutal reckoning

Top Stories for May 5:

White House lawyers secretly prep Trump team for brutal midterms
Donald Trump may be putting on his bravest of faces for the public, but behind the scenes the MAGA cult leader’s team is bracing for a bloodbath.

Just spitballing here, but maybe the ominous electoral outlook in November has something to do with launching a costly and catastrophic war with Iran that’s driven fuel prices to historic highs, laying waste to the federal workforce thanks to DOGE, driving the cost of living through the roof with an idiotic and unconstitutional tariff crusade, pardoning thousands of Jan. 6 rioters and white collar crooks alike, the president slapping his name and likeness wherever he can like an aspiring teenage graffiti artist, aiding and abetting Benjamin Netanyahu’s ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza, and unleashing a de facto brute squad across the country to terrorize immigrant communities and Americans who happen to have darker complexions.

We could go on, but you get the idea.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Republicans execute brazen scheme to rig election
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s abominable ruling last week gutting the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Republicans across the country have gone into hyperdrive to gerrymander majority-Black congressional districts into extinction across the country. We are witnessing a return to Jim Crow-era legislative maps, where wealthy white Republicans can systematically — and legally — dillute Black representation to their hearts’ content. Brian Tyler Cohen goes deep on just how far the GOP is willing to go to cement one-party rule and what’s at stake in the 2026 midterms and beyond.

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Beloved Alaskan Mary Peltola SURGES in the race for critical red Senate seat
Mary Peltola for Alaska: Former Congresswoman Mary Peltola sent shockwaves through American politics when she won the only congressional seat in deep-red Alaska in 2022. Now she’s running for the US Senate seat held by MAGA millionaire Dan Sullivan. A new poll shows she’s engineered a TEN-POINT swing and now leads the race by 5%! A proven winner like Peltola with an Alaska First platform of “fish, family, and freedom” is just the candidate we need to flip this critical seat and retake the Senate. Will you chip in to help push her over the finish line?

Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards singled out young female aides for special attention
Congress’ long-needed #MeToo moment continues to pick up speed as a new ethics probe has been opened into North Carolina Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards, who told one young female staffer that she had “written a complex chapter in [his] heart.” Three sources told Axios they witnessed conduct by the 65-year-old Edwards toward two female staffers in their 20s that they described as inappropriate. The allegations include Edwards purchasing gifts, including jewelry for his young female staffers, taking them out for one-on-one dinners, and booking hotel rooms in Las Vegas with them.

Mr. FaMiLy VaLuEs has been married since 1980, for what it’s worth. A reckoning is upon Congress, and clearly it is long overdue. Congressional offices are for representing the people, not providing opportunities for creepy old perverts to prey on young women.

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Lindsey Graham now says US shouldn’t be “taking Kharg Island,” refuting Lindsey Graham’s earlier call to “take Kharg Island”
South Carolina Republican and perennial saber-rattler Lindsey Graham told Fox News’ Sean Hannity last night that the United States should not seize Iran’s Kharg Island, which will surely come as a surprise to South Carolina Republican and perennial saber-rattler Lindsey Graham, who told Fox News’ Shannon Bream six weeks ago that the United States should definitely take Kharg Island. Any questions?

Jesse Watters blames…Joe Biden for Spirit Airlines collapse
Fox News’ primetime bloviator, Jesse Watters, has cracked the case on just went wrong at Spirit Airlines after eleventh-hour government bailout talks collapsed and the budget carrier went belly up last weekend. You aren’t gonna believe this, but it’s all Joe Biden’s fault.

If your angry uncle on Facebook hasn’t already explained, here’s the gist of Jesse’s latest hot take: Spirit Airlines’ collapse can be traced back to a 2024 DOJ decision to reject a $3.8 billion merger between JetBlue and Spirit Airlines on antitrust grounds. In no way should the carrier’s financial troubles be pinned on the price of jet fuel literally DOUBLING since the start of Donald Trump’s idiotic war against Iran or the snowballing affordability crisis putting a damper on Americans’ discretionary spending on things like vacation and air travel. Nope, this all goes straight back to Sleepy Joe!

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Trump Secret Service agent placed on leave for masturbating in front of hotel guests in Miami after Trump golf event
Secret Service agent John Spillman (real name) has been charged with indecent exposure after hotel guests at the DoubleTree by Hilton Miami Airport & Convention Center called security to report that he followed them from the lobby to their room on the sixth floor and began masturbating. Security arrived on the scene to find Spillman still in the act outside the guests’ room.

The agent had been part of a team that guarded the perimeter of the Cadillac Championship at Trump National Doral earlier that day, where the president was a spectator at the 18th hole.

Uh, it’s Secret Service, Mr. Spillman, not self service. 🙄

Trump reignites Pope feud accusing pontiff of “endangering a lot of Catholics”
During what was probably supposed to be a softball interview on The Hugh Hewitt Show, America’s vainglorious imbecile-in-chief decided to revisit his grievances with the frickin’ head of the Catholic Church. With his poll number in the gutter and facing fierce political headwinds with the midterms approaching, Donald opted to go after the one man with a larger bully pulpit than his own, accusing the pontiff of putting the lives of the entire Catholic church in mortal danger.

The millions of American Catholics at risk of losing their healthcare, having their drinking water poisoned by corporate pollution, watching their homes set ablaze by rampant wildfires, and struggling to put food on the table or gasoline in their tanks thanks to skyrocketing prices could not be reached for comment.

New Trump rule puts millions at risk of losing rental assistance
The Trump administration is proposing a rule that would upend the way federal rental assistance is administered. By allowing new work requirements for the low-income Americans who receive aid, and more stringent time limits on beneficiaries’ periods of eligibility, some experts believe this move could put millions of vulnerable Americans at risk of losing their housing. Which is almost certainly exactly the point.

Timely reminder that America’s severely under-taxed billionaire class saw their collective wealth grow by $1.5 TRILLION in Trump’s first year back in office. By contrast, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development spends approximately $60 billion per year on ALL federal rental assistance programs.

It’s like the worst reboot of “Robin Hood” imaginable, where the poor are being robbed blind to finance the fanciest parties for the worst people on Earth.