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Sunday, May 03, 2026

Six months out from November's midterm US elections, Donald Trump's disapproval rating has reached 62% " the worst of his two terms in office " according to a new Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll.

The US president received his worst ratings on the cost of living and other economic issues since launching his deeply unpopular war against Iran in February, which has plunged the global economy into an oil crisis and sent gas prices rocketing to a four-year high.


Donald Trump's golf course is hosting this weekend PGA Tour golf tournament in Miami (you can't miss the gold statue by the first tee). And the president himself pulled into the Cadillac Championship on Sunday, May 3 as part of a visit to Florida. It marked his first public appearance since the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington on April 25, where a man was arrested after law enforcement said he rushed the event with multiple weapons.


Give me the confidence of a mediocre MAGA man hiding behind his false bravado.


Hundreds of years ago, Yemen helped introduce the world to coffee. Lately, the mountainous, war-ravaged country that borders Saudi Arabia and Oman is exporting something else: its coffee culture. Yemeni coffeehouses are opening at a rapid pace across the U.S.


Five members of a pickleball club who died after the small plane carrying them crashed in Texas are being mourned by a tight-knit community of fellow players. The Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed Saturday that Justin Appling, Hayden Dillard, Brooke Skypala, Stacy Hedrick and Seren Wilson were on board the Cessna 421C that crashed Thursday night in Texas Hill Country. Appling was the pilot. The aircraft had departed from Amarillo and was heading to New Braunfels National Airport. It crash-landed in Wimberley, a city about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southwest of Austin, the Texas Department of Public Safety said.


Street signs are going up in the Orange County city of Westminster, California, inexplicably honoring slain good-for-nothing hatemonger Charlie Kirk.

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A search and rescue operation is underway in southern Morocco after two U.S. service members were reported missing off the southern coast of the North African nation during annual training exercises. A defense official told CBS News that the soldiers were last seen near ocean cliffs near the Cap Draa Training Area. Initial reports indicate they may have fallen into the ocean, the official said. No foul play is suspected, sources told CBS News. The names of the soldiers and further details have not yet been released. Ground teams, aerial assets and maritime elements from the Moroccan Royal Armed Forces, U.S. Armed Forces, and other African Lion participants are involved in the search, the defense official said.


cumbent U.S. Sen. John Cornyn's campaign is lashing out at his Texas runoff opponent over a "sweetheart deal" for a sex offender. Adam Hoffman, a lawyer in Waco, Texas, was facing a life sentence for the sexual abuse of a child that lasted three years. Attorney General Ken Paxton, however, reduced the charges last week so that Hoffman will serve only 30 days in jail and will not be required to register as a sex offender, according to reporting from KWTX in Waco. The initial plea offered by Paxton's office would not have required Hoffman to serve additional jail time, but it was rejected by the judge. Read more


US Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) blubbering on Faux News: "And a lot of these, you know, these terrible groups like Code Pink and a lot of the other ones that are strongly aligned to the CCP, without a doubt, they're being financed. I mean, it's ironic. I mean, these kinds of protests are being funded by billionaires against billionaires. I mean, I don't know if they realize the irony in many of those things right now. "And now there is kind of a small communist takeover in Maine, you know, Platner? Platner, he's already announced that he's an avowed communist. He's made that statement and he put that online. Now he's going to be the Democratic nominee. "So, there is a resurgent about the socialism, and that's becoming more and more a part of it. And now there's more, it's like a marriage of the Palestinian, the anti-ICE, the abolish ICE, and now turning into like an orgy of socialism here."

  • Why does a Democrat hate socialism and Palestinians, but loves ICE?


    On May 2, 2026, James Talarico gave a commencement address titled, "Unshakeable Things: Gen Z and the New Great Awakening" at Paul Quinn College, the oldest HBCU in Texas.


    Seismic data have captured the tense quiet of the COVID-19 lockdowns and the thunderous excitement of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. And now, another human experience has been written in seismic signals: the shock and awe of witnessing a total solar eclipse.


    Saturday, May 02, 2026

    No specific topic or genre. Just what may be on your playlist this evening... The thread link is... Capital Cities - Safe and Sound, live at Lollapalooza Brasil 2014


    From watching too much Nordic noir, I have learned the key lessons to Scandinavian safety: Stay out of the deep woods, avoid all "rustic villagers," flee every solstice or equinox ritual, and run screaming from any creature (human or otherwise) wearing antlers in the wrong anatomical location.


    The Honorable US District Judge Dale Ho of the Southern District of New York blocked DHS from deporting nearly 3,000 refugees back to war-torn and famine suffering Yemen, a country the US and Israel routinely bomb.

    i.ytimg.com>WHO Chief Almost Hit by IDF Strike in Yemen on 26 Dec 2024


    The House Ethics Committee is investigating Rep. Chuck Edwards (NC- 11th CD) for alleged sexual misconduct with a former aide. Edwards (65) has been married since 1980.

    Another Phony Christian and Hypocrite Exposed


    A successful Ukrainian strike on Shagol Airfield in Russia's Chelyabinsk region over 1,700 kilometres behind the frontlines has been confirmed by satellite images to have caused damage to Russian Aerospace Forces Su-57 fifth generation fighters and Su-34 strike fighters, representing one of the most significant and successful attacks launched against Russian airfields.


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