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AlterNet Crooks and Liars Daily Kos (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, May 6, 2026 at 5:31 PM EDT After over a decade of loyalty to President Donald Trump, most political analysts assumed his MAGA supporters would stick with him through just about anything. As he famously declared on the campaign trail in 2016, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters," and for a long while, that seemed to be the case. But now, according to the New York Times, MAGA turmoil over Trump's alignment with Israel is shifting into a death spiral. Some of his followers back Israel, while others say it's a betrayal of the "America First" values they demand from the president. The growing schism now threatens the movement that brought him to power in the first place, and has Republican insiders worried about their future. May 6, 2026 at 5:19 PM EDT President Donald Trump's first Supreme Court appointment, Justice Neil Gorsuch, has a children's book out about America's founding -- as well as some opinions on whether the current bench lives up to the founders' ideals. Gorsuch told The New York Times' David French in an interview that the U.S. Supreme Court has a long way to go in meeting those expectations. May 6, 2026 at 4:59 PM EDT Joseph Palange, a Cleveland-based writer and member of the Cleveland Fire Department, tells the Dispatch that his father is the old, original version of "conservative" -- but the old man's philosophy has very little to do with the modern GOP. "My father is and always has been the most conservative man I have ever met," said Palange, wo describes his Dad as a "live and let live kind of guy " the kind of man who would turn a bag of cash into the police department not just because it is the right thing to do, but because he knows the world doesn't give you a free lunch without a catch. He will not drive his company vehicle to the grocery store, and I never heard him swear until I was in my 20s." May 6, 2026 at 4:49 PM EDT MS NOW producer Steve Benen says the FBI faces serious questions following the reported raid on the offices of Virginia Democratic Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, because "the hyperpartisan leaders of the Justice Department and the FBI have made it impossible to give them the benefit of the doubt." Benen finds multiple issues with the execution of what is reportedly a search warrant, including that Fox News was on the scene reporting almost immediately -- an issue raised by online commentators as well. May 6, 2026 at 12:14 PM EDT Fox News was broadcasting immediately as the FBI conducted a raid on the office of Virginia state Sen. Louise Lucas, a Democrat, and progressive foe of President Donald Trump. Trump has spent the past several months using his Justice Department to target his political enemies after his former attorney general failed to secure indictments of them. May 6, 2026 at 11:56 AM EDT The White House is in panic mode, left scrambling and unable to figure out solutions to the Iran war crisis on any level, with one former biographer of President Donald Trump revealing that "they literally do not know what to do." Trump has attempted to claim on numerous occasions that he has already achieved a decisive victory over Iran, in reality, he and his administration are flailing as they have continually failed to find a peaceful, expedient and smooth way to end the conflict that could not be construed as a defeat. Efforts to reach a ceasefire deal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz have consistently fallen flat, with signs indicating that Iran has the ability to wait out the U.S. for better terms. May 6, 2026 at 11:47 AM EDT As Republicans celebrate the Supreme Court's decision to effectively end a key part of the Voting Rights Act, allowing the party to redraw congressional maps in a way that will eliminate previously-protected Black Democratic seats, some are arguing that this could in fact backfire, providing Democrats with a powerful means to "counter a MAGA power grab." Writing for the Washington Post, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center Henry Olsen asserts that while the short-term effect of the decision will favor Republicans who fear major losses in the November midterms, by 2032, "they may find that the hand that giveth can also take away." May 6, 2026 at 11:45 AM EDT On Tuesday, May 5, U.S. President Donald Trump announced, on his Truth Social platform, that he was pausing Project Freedom -- his plan for the U.S. Navy to guide ships stuck in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump is claiming that the operation is on hold because his negotiations with Iran are going well and a "complete and final agreement" on the war could be coming soon. But retired U.S. Navy Rear Adm. James E. McPherson is "skeptical." May 6, 2026 at 11:25 AM EDT The Supreme Court "broke democracy" after its latest seismic ruling set off a tidal wave of gerrymandering efforts, and according to a new analysis from Vox, it did so by "saying the quiet part out loud" when it would have best served the world by staying quiet. In a ruling last week, the conservative majority court effectively struck down a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, allowing states to eliminate "majority-minority" congressional districts, under the guise of strictly partisan-based gerrymandering. This ruling swiftly led several Republican-led states to plot abrupt new redistricting efforts, which critics warn could lead to a historic wipeout of black lawmakers in the House of Representatives. Democrats, meanwhile, began plotting a counterattack with more of their gerrymandering. May 6, 2026 at 5:54 AM EDT In his New York Times opinion column, Jamelle Bouie argues that Chief Justice John Roberts and the conservative Supreme Court majority operate under a fundamental misunderstanding of American reality, pursuing a "colorblind Constitution" that ignores the nation's persistent racial inequalities. Bouie traces the history of the Voting Rights Act since its 1965 passage, when President Lyndon Johnson called it "a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield." The landmark legislation transformed Black political participation, particularly after a 1982 amendment and a 1986 Supreme Court decision enabled the creation of majority-minority districts. By 1995, there were 43 Black voting members of Congress""a dramatic increase from just six in 1965. May 6, 2026 at 5:25 AM EDT Pope Leo XIV has publicly responded after President Donald Trump made baseless claims that the Chicago-born pontiff supports Iran's nuclear weapons program. The tension between Trump and Pope Leo XIV, who is the first American-born pope, escalated when the pontiff criticized the administration's Iran war, calling the escalation of violence "unacceptable" and warning against the "delusion of omnipotence." Trump responded by calling Leo "weak on crime" and "terrible on foreign policy," drawing sharp criticism from Catholic leaders nationwide. The conflict intensified when Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ, which drew condemnation from Catholic bishops and evangelical leaders. May 6, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT Google co-founder Sergey Brin, one of the three or four wealthiest people in the world, with a net worth hovering around $260 billion to $277 billion, is devoting some of his wealth to fighting California's wealth tax on billionaires. So far, he's spent $57 million trying to defeat the measure. |
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