Trump hands Dems HUGE gift after wild night in Texas

Top Stories for May 27:

Scandal-plagued Ken Paxton absolutely wallops four-term incumbent GOP Sen. John Cornyn and puts Texas in play for Democrats
Donald Trump “blessed” Texas Attorney General and sentient cigar nub Ken Paxton with his “Complete and Total Endorsement” just one week ago, leading to an absolute shellacking of four-term Sen. John Cornyn, who did everything in his power to ingratiate himself to the MAGA cult leader ahead of last night’s primary, to no avail.

Despite the scandal-plagued Paxton’s sizeable margin of victory, the real winner last night was Senate hopeful James Talarico, who now has a legitimate shot at becoming the first Democrat to win a statewide election in Texas since 1994.

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UFC ring construction towers over White House ahead of Trump’s ridiculous birthday party spectacle
Elect a clown, expect a circus.

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Democrats fight back against MAGA schoolboard takeovers
The School Board Project: Democrats just won huge in Texas, where right-wing anti-LGBTQ book-burning lunatics were kicked off of school boards and out of our children’s lives. The School Board Project is fighting to do the same all over the country, to make sure our children learn REAL history, not white supremacist propaganda. Chip in now to help support their mission!

Trump’s official “Board of Peace” fund for Gaza has received zero dollars
It seems that Donald Trump isn’t the only world actor who’s officially bored of peace, as The Financial Times reported that a grand total of ZERO dollars has been deposited in the president’s ballyhooed Gaza reconstruction fund, despite billions in pledged donations. Four months after America’s wannabe dictator announced the creation of his “Board of Peace,” which he laughably hailed as one of the “most consequential” international organizations ever created, the World Bank-administered project remains entirely unfunded.

Member states have pledged $7 billion for a Gaza relief package, while Trump boasted an additional $10 billion in US support. And while the official World Bank fund is still empty, some donations have reportedly found their way into a separate JPMorgan account instead, which is controlled by the organization and conveniently NOT subject to the same transparency requirements.

According to two sources involved in post-war planning in Gaza, “not one US dollar” has been spent to rebuild the enclave American taxpayer-funded weapons helped decimate.

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RFK Jr. pisses off anti-vax allies in effort to contain hantavirus
Raccoon penis collector, amateur snake-handler, and somehow still Health and Human Services Sec. Robert Kennedy Jr. has put himself directly in the line of fire from angry anti-vax activists who are livid over his decision to extend liability protections to drugmakers working on a hantavirus vaccine. Seemingly unmoved by the disease’s startlingly high mortality rate, anti-vaxxers are upset that Kennedy is putting any faith whatsoever in science.

It certainly ain’t easy trying to placate the crazies while also containing the spread of an incredibly deadly disease, but Bobby Jr. can take the heat. And if it gets too hot and he ends up really getting burned, we’re sure he can just rub some ivermectin paste on it.

Trump admits more white South African refugees in made-up “emergency”
At a time when his xenophobic regime is making it increasingly more difficult for people with higher levels of melanin to come to the United States, Donald Trump is bending over backwards to make sure a very specific group of South Africans are moved to the front of the line, pointing to an entirely made-up, long-debunked “white genocide” crisis that simply is not happening. In approving refugee asylum status for another 10,000 white South Africans due to “an unforeseen emergency refugee situation,” America’s racist Facebook uncle-in-chief is making his asylum policy crystal clear: you can come from a country he thinks is a “shithole” — so long as you look like him.

CDC asks staff to volunteer to help with Ebola screenings at airports amid DRC outbreak
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which has seen nearly 20% of its workforce slashed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. since he became the secretary of Health and Human Services, sent an “urgent request” to its short-handed workforce to VOLUNTEER TO HELP SCREEN PASSENGERS at international airports coming from Central Africa for any potential signs of Ebola illness, according to an internal email to staff obtained by ABC News. Kennedy took the wheels off the car, placed it on cinder blocks in the front yard, and now wants neighbors to help carry it down the road now that he’s got somewhere urgent he needs to be. Unbelievable.

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ICE detainees are dying by suicide at an “alarming” rate, an AP investigation finds
Public health officials and incarceration experts alike have said the unprecedented number of suicide deaths in ICE facilities is an indication that authorities are failing to properly oversee the detention of tens of thousands of people swept up in the Trump regime’s aggressive, immigrant-purging crusade. An Associated Press investigation found that at least 10 detainees, all men, have died by suicide since Trump took office in January 2025, a pace that far exceeds the growth in the detainee population, according to a review of ICE data, autopsy reports, coroner’s rulings, and police records.

And like icebergs and fraud in the age of Trump, the bit we can see is almost certainly dwarfed by the parts we cannot.

GOP senator said the constituents he helped kick off Medicaid didn’t deserve to be enrolled
Ohio’s Jon Husted cast one of the deciding votes in the US Senate to pass Donald Trump’s Big Bill of Bullshit last year, which kicked half-a-million of his own constituents off of Medicaid while handing hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to the obnoxiously wealthy. In an interview with The Daily Wire earlier this month, Husted explained that he simply isn’t bothered by upending the lives of 500,000 Ohioans, because everyone who lost their healthcare coverage were frauds who didn’t deserve to be on Medicaid in the first place.

In an earlier interview late last year shortly after the bill’s passage, Husted boasted, “I love doing that kind of stuff.” Heckuva campaign message, Jon.