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Monday, May 04, 2026

The barefoot shoe is here.


Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) secretly helped state treasurer Stacy Garrity (R) in her 2024 re-election bid against her Democratic Party challenger Erin McClelland (D) because she had previously questioned whether Shapiro would be an appropriate 2024 VPOTUS running mate for Kamala Harris (D). Stacy Garrity, an "election denier" with an "extreme MAGA agenda," is who "Democrat" Josh Shapiro, who may run for POTUS in 2028, boosted over his fellow Democrat.

Disgraced ex-NYS Gov Andrew "Judas Iscariot" Cuomo also betrayed the Democratic Party by running (and badly losing) as an independent against Muslim Zohran Mamdani (D) in the 2025 NYC Mayoral Race


The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) destroyed a convent belonging to the Salvatorian Sisters, a Greek Catholic religious order, in what was described as a "deliberate act" and part of a broader pattern of systematic damage to homes in southern Lebanon aimed at preventing displaced civilians from returning.

IDF Committing Unspeakable Ecological Carnage in Southern Lebanon


At least 10 people were taken to hospital after a shooting at a lake party near Oklahoma City Sunday night, police said. No suspects are in custody, but there is no reason to believe there is an ongoing threat to the public, Emily Ward, a spokesperson for the Edmond Police Department, told CNN. Officers responded around 9 p.m. CT to reports of gunfire at a party at Arcadia Lake, Ward said. Ten victims were transported by emergency medical services to hospitals across the Oklahoma City metro area, she said, adding the victims were in "various conditions."


Saturday Night Live's Aziz Ansari humiliated FBI Director Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel when he portrayed him in a press conference at the White House:

  • "You guys should not be reporting the lies and the gossip. You should be reporting on the historic nature of my appointment. I'm a trailblazer. I'm the first Indian person to suck at their job."
  • "Everyone says Indian people are smart, hardworking, incredibly intelligent. I've proved without a shadow of a doubt that we can be just as incapable and incompetent as the whites. Let me be clear: this FBI director has never been drunk or hungover on the job. And this FBI director has definitely not stood on top of a couch at the VIP room of Tao Nightclub and shouted, Who wants the nuclear codes?!'"


    Purdue Pharma officially ended operations Friday, a year after the Sackler family reached a $7.4 billion settlement with a coalition of state attorneys general for the company's inescapable role in fueling America's devastating opioid crisis.

    "America's Most Hated Family?"


    For all the legacy media's obsessive warnings about far-right extremist Nick Fuentes, it has shown far less interest in confronting a dangerous left-wing counterpart: Hasan Piker.


    An investigation is underway after a United Airlines plane struck a light pole and a truck on the New Jersey Turnpike as it was coming in for a landing at Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday afternoon, officials said. New Jersey State Police said a preliminary investigation indicated a tire from the plane's landing gear and "the underside of the plane" hit both the pole and the tractor-trailer. The pole also struck a Jeep traveling on the turnpike, state police said.


    Sunday, May 03, 2026

    President Donald Trump has said that the US will help guide stranded vessels out of the Strait of Hormuz from Monday. "For the good of Iran, the Middle East, and the United States, we have told these Countries that we will guide their Ships safely out of these restricted Waterways," he wrote on social media, without specifying which countries would receive assistance. Read more


    Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City Mayor and a long-time champion of President Donald Trump, is in a "stable but critical condition" in hospital, his spokesman Ted Goodman said in a social media post on Sunday. Shortly after Goodman's post was published, Trump wrote on social media: "Our fabulous Rudy Giuliani, a True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR, has been hospitalized, and is in critical condition." Read more


    Man arrested by Secret Service after breaking into Trumps golf club.


    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.


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