Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders will run for a fourth term in November, ending whatever speculation there might have been that the 82 year-old liberal would hang up the mittens, Axios reports.

Testimony continues on day, um, maybe 12 of disgraced former President Trump’s 2016 election interference/pornstar hush money payoff trial. It’s not clear who’s going to testify on Monday but it’s possible either Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels, or Karen McDougal take the stand. Over the weekend George Conway told the Bulwark’s Sarah Longwell on their podcast that Cohen’s story has largely already been pre-corroborated and really all he need do is stay cool on cross-examination.

HOLY SHIT! Columbia University canceled their upcoming graduation ceremony because the leadership are worried about pro-Palestinian protestors disrupting it, NBC’s Antonia Hylton reports!

This is so devastating for Biden because it’s a sign of how chaotic things are to the everyday Americans concerned with law and order on woke, ultra-politically correct Ivy League campuses that are extremely out-of-touch with everyday Americans! Why couldn’t he just send in the National Guard to protect the ceremony for the elitists who paid like $500,000 to go there for four years?

How many other Ivy Leaguers destined to impose their petty cultural whims from their future perches in Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Beltway are going to have to get their diploma in the mail because this ongoing tantrum by far leftist freaks? How much more of this grating, tedious sarcasm do we need to spit out to make the point we couldn’t articulate by simply writing it normally in the way a chemically-balanced professional would?

Trump was impeached for this https://t.co/nmE5NEi4X9

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) May 5, 2024

Pizzagate conspiracy freak MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec isn’t following through with any “quid pro quo” stuff here, and why would he when the propaganda mills haven’t come up with “evidence” for it yet, but damned if we didn’t call this one correctly on Sunday when Axios first reported that the Biden Administration appears to be withholding an ammo shipment to Israel. It’s still not clear how much this is going to snowball on the right, as while there’s plenty of outrage to be found from mutants like Mark Levin and Elise Stefanik over the reported hold itself, it seems like Posobiec is the only one so far making the whataboutery connection to Ukraine in 2019 – if only just to say “Trump was impeached for this” without bothering to pretend there’s some corrupt intent on Biden’s part.

The Federal Elections Commission last week quietly dropped an advisory opinion allowing all candidates for federal office to raise unlimited sums for issue-advocacy groups pushing for ballot measures, an under-the-radar rule change that the New York Times hints is a serious force multiplier for President Biden in Arizona, Florida, and Nevada where state constitutional abortion rights referenda are expected to be sharing the ballot with him in November.

If the change seems abstract to non-campaign finance geeks, meaning everyone – even your median political news junkie knows approximately jack shit about the FEC’s vast bailiwick – let the NRSC’s protestations tell the story. “The risk of corruption inherent in direct foreign national contributions to candidates would simply metastasize to the ballot initiative context, with the same deleterious effect,” their lawyers wrote in a memo to the FEC before the opinion dropped. Always a good sign when the GOP alleges foreign cash could erode the integrity of American elections.

The Times report characterizes the timing of the opinion coinciding with the decapitation of RNC chief counsel Charlie Spies as interesting but they have no idea if there’s a connection. Trump Reichsminister of politics Chris LaCivita insisted the rule change was good for the Orange Fuhrer’s campaign in some secret way, telling the Times that they “will engage in all opportunities available, including new ones to defeat the corruption and failure of the Democrat machine.”

Obviously planning on ignoring fat former President Trump’s insistence that Democratic Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar is innocent and somehow being framed or railroaded by “Joe Biden” after being indicted for accepting nearly $600,000 in bribes from some Azerbaijani and Mexican scumbags, Politico Playbook reports House GOP leadership are eager to exact revenge on Democrats for fellow federal criminal defendant and Cameo star George Santos’s expulsion.

“Can swing district Democrats buck their party leadership who is protecting Cuellar and say he should resign? The House Democrats’ official slogan is ‘people over politics.’ Are they going to subscribe to that or no?” an NRCC official asked Playbook rhetorically. That it’s coming from the NRCC should tell you this is more of a campaign messaging thing than something more immediate about the vote count in the House. Unlike Santos, Cuellar wasn’t literally ripping off members of his own party (and their moms), is well-liked on both sides of the aisle, and hasn’t been hit with an Ethics Committee investigation yet. Still there’s probably an opportunity to squeeze Dems and no one should be surprised if a Republican just charges ahead with an expulsion resolution soon.

NYC Jewish community on high alert from protests threatened with trio of bomb threats at synagogues https://t.co/zLIB76ZiFU

— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 5, 2024

“Biden just Indicted Henry Cuellar because the Respected Democrat Congressman wouldn’t play Crooked Joe’s Open Border game. He was for Border Control, so they said, ‘Let’s use the FBI and DOJ to take him out!’ This is the way they operate. They’re a bunch of DC Thugs, and at some point they will be paying a very big price for what they have done to our Country. CROOKED JOE BIDEN IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!” posted fat former President Trump late Sunday night, calling a Dem who twice voted to impeach him “respected,” acting like bribery isn’t a serious crime to be accused of, and saying Biden was the one who indicted him and not a federal grand jury in South Texas.

All because of “Border Control.” That’s how badly this solipsistic freak is horseshoeing at this point.

May 5th kicks off Public Service Recognition Week, a time to recognize the work and dedication of local, county, tribal, state and federal employees as you’re standing in line at the Motor Vehicles Administration to pay for the fine you got for parking on the wrong side for a street sweeping day.

“Federal, state, local and tribal employees are dedicated to making a difference, and we honor and appreciate their efforts to protect our country and safeguard the health and well-being of the public,” a statement signed by the heads of 83 separate federal agencies and organizations.  “These government workers educate our children, maintain our infrastructure, strengthen our nation’s security, find cures for disease, serve our veterans, protect our interests around the world, defend cyberspace, and ensure we have safe food and clean water. And those are just some of the essential services they provide.”

While in the end, it’s an overall meaningless commemoration that Hallmark doesn’t even make a card for–it’s also Sun Awareness Week, Drinking Water Week AND Donkey Week on a crowded calendar–this year our public employees are more important than ever:  Election workers are public service employees.

Robert F. Kennedy’s campaign claims its a victim of the societal censorship–again!–after Meta admitted it unintentionally (though correctly) labeled a link to a 30-minute campaign ad as spam, knocking it off Facebook and Instagram for house after it was launched on Friday, per the New York Times.

The video, produced by the Kennedy-supporting American Values 2024 Super PAC, portrays Kennedy as the ultimate outside, free of the corporate influence and corruption of traditional politicians.  After supporters reported that their posts containing a link to the ad were being banned, the campaign sent out a new email asking them to document the issues and send them to the campaign–along with a donation to Kennedy to help the candidate The Man wants to silence.

New RNC co-chair Lara Trump on Sunday told Fox News assclown Maria Bartiromo she’s flatly opposed to votes being counted after election day. Now sure, this was couched in the context of mail-in ballots that were received after November 5th because some the postal service might be a little slow and what not, but it’s hard not to see this in the context of her degenerate father-in-law’s meltdowns before, during, and after the 2020 election on the specific topic. “Big problems and discrepancies with Mail In Ballots all over the USA. Must have final total on November 3rd,” the fat bastard tweeted on October 26, 2020, knowing full well about the “Red Mirage” ahead of time.

What’s even more insane about this is that two days after the 2020 election, Wisconsin GOP officials cold called people in Pennsylvania in a desperate, incredibly narrow attempt to try to find enough who hadn’t turned in absentee ballots to vote for Donald and mail them in as Pennsylvania law at the time allowed for late arriving ballots to still be counted under specific circumstances. Meaning that the lag Lara says she’s commanding the RNC’s lawyers to shut down here in Nevada this November is something that swing state Republicans tried (and failed) to exploit in 2020.

Two Israeli officials tell Axios that the US withheld a shipment of ammunition to the IDF last week, prompting “serious concerns inside the Israeli government and sent officials scrambling to understand why the shipment was held,” per Axios, who were unable to get the White House, Defense Department, or State Department to comment on why the bullets weren’t delivered.

The only question now is not whether we’ll see some right wingers claim it’s Biden strong-arming the Netanyahu Regime into announcing a criminal investigation into Trump and Jared Kushner but how far up the ladder of the MAGA propaganda-industrial complex such claims will go. More seriously this is a possible sign that the Biden is actually starting to turn the screws on “Bibi” and get him to stop massacring innocent Gazans after almost seven months of this horrific campaign.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem on Sunday came about as close as she could to admitting she simply lied about meeting Kim Jong Un in her upcoming memoir and saying she’s happy it’ll be removed from the book when it hits stores this week. As for the dog thing, Noem kind of said she wanted to shoot Joe Biden’s bitey German Shepherd, Commander, and throw him in a gravel pit too.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is facing unspecified criminal charges and is now wanted for arrest by the Russian Federation’s Interior Ministry, the Gateway Pundit reports credulously.

The Gateway Pundit writer, Paul Serran, clips heavily from Reuters and Associated Press reports in his article about the charges. “AP says that ‘the country has a democratically elected Jewish president’. OK, to begin with, Zelensky cancelled Presidential elections that should have happened in March. By May 22nd, his mandate will be over and he will be totally autocratic,” Serran writes, emphasis his, without mentioning how Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has maintained power since 2000. Serran’s article, printed Saturday, also includes an embed of one of his own tweets, reading “Ukrainian Nazis in full display,” with a pic. We can’t see the pic because Serran deleted the tweet but did not remove the code for the embed. Typical of the level of professionalism at the Pundit.

North Dakota Governor and Trump 2024 running mate hopeful Doug Burgum on Sunday morning tried to downplay the New York Times’s reporting on fat former President Trump’s Saturday night meltdown at a “retreat” for rich donors and other Vice Presidential contenders at Mar-a-Lago. Per the Times, “attendees were not authorized to speak publicly about the event, which was a closed-door briefing and gathering for party donors,” at which the orange slob complained President Joe Biden is running “a Gestapo administration. And it’s the only thing they have. And it’s the only way they’re going to win, in their opinion, and it’s actually killing them. But it doesn’t bother me.”

In remarks the Times compared to Mitt Romney’s infamous “47 percent” line, Trump also said “When you are Democrat, you start off essentially at 40 percent because you have civil service, you have the unions and you have welfare. And don’t underestimate welfare. They get welfare to vote, and then they cheat on top of that – they cheat.” All this Burgum insisted was “largely very upbeat.”

A new ABC News/Ipsos survey finds President Biden leading fat former President Trump 49 to 45 percent among likely voters six months out from their inevitable faceoff. Biden’s lead drops to 46 to 45 percent among registered voters and flips to Trump 46 – Biden 44 among “US adults.”

ABC doesn’t say the actual number in a five-way race including Russian assets Robert F Kennedy Jr, Jill Stein, and Cornel West, but writes “Among registered voters in the five-way race, it’s 42-42 percent, Biden-Trump, and Biden is a non-significant +3 or +4 points in likely voter models,” indicating that they’re not exactly happy to report their marginally positive bullshit findings .

“I never said that ‘some states may choose to monitor women’s pregnancies to possibly prosecute for violating any abortion bans.’ This was made up by Democrats and the Fake News Media. After 50 years, Abortion is now up to the States, where everybody, Republican and Democrat, plus all legal scholars and experts, have wanted it to be. The people choose, and many States, like Ohio and Kansas, have chosen. Many others are in the process of choosing. Arizona’s Legislature has just voted to kill an old 1800’s law, and a new one will soon be voted on by the people. It is all working, will never go back to the Federal Government, and our Country will soon start uniting on this long contentious issue. At the same time, nobody wants to see abortion in the 7th, 8th, or 9th month or, execution after birth, as some states, like the former Democrat Governor of Virginia said, was permitted. Listen to your heart, but common sense must also be applied. Remember, politicians must also win elections!” wrote disgraced former President Trump at 3:29 AM EDT on Sunday.

Charlie Spies, the chief counsel of the Republican National Committee, resigned Saturday after growing tensions with the Trump surrogates running the Party as well as with the presumptive nominee himself, NBC News reports.  A longtime GOP operative, Spies was hired in March after Lara Trump and Michael Whatley took the helm, but because Spies criticized efforts to overturn the 2020 election, a rift quickly developed with Team Trump.

Given that Spies had worked for Ron DeSantis, Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush in previous campaigns–Spies was part of the Ron DeSantis team’s Titanic performance in the 2024 GOP primaries–Donald Trump himself reportedly approved Spies’ hiring, but later learned of harsh comments Spies had made in the past about Trump’s election denialism.

#Reflecting pic.twitter.com/BIX8j5Du5M

— Karen McDougal (@karenmcdougal98) May 4, 2024

Former Donald Trump thang on the side Karen McDougal posted a photo on social media Saturday featuring her in a bathtub with an “Only For You” candle burning as she enjoys a glass of wine while reading Ronan Farrow’s 2019 account of the coverup of Harvey Weinstein’s predatory practices.

Using internal polling information from the campaign of a man on trial for distributing fraudulent numbers, senior advisors to Donald Trump’s political effort to avoid jail time told donors at an RNC retreat that Trump could flip Virginia and Minnesota, two states taken by Joe Biden in 2020, NBC News reports.

While Biden is targeting North Carolina and Florida–and with virtually every Red state reeling from the backlash of the Dobbs decision–Trump’s pollsters think Trump would prevail in a six-way race with four independent candidates including Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Jill Stein and Cornel West, to name some who might appear on the ballots in those two states.