Source: NBC News
“An off-duty Secret Service officer was arrested in Miami-Dade County, Florida, at around midnight Monday and charged with indecent exposure after allegedly masturbating in a hotel hallway, according to a police affidavit. The officer, identified in the arrest record as John Spillman, 33, was placed on administrative leave, Richard Macauley, the chief of the Secret Service’s uniformed division, said in a statement obtained by NBC station WTVJ. … According to the arrest affidavit, law enforcement officers responded to the DoubleTree by Hilton Miami Airport and Convention Center and allegedly found Spillman naked and masturbating at the end of a hallway. A guest on the same floor told the officers that the suspect had followed her from the hotel lobby ‘and they immediately entered their room because she was in fear for their lives,’ the affidavit said. Hotel security also alleged they saw the suspect masturbating, it said.” (05/05/26)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/secret-service-officer-arrested-alleged-indecent-exposure-miami-hotel-rcna343617
Source: Exiled Policy
by Nick Gambill
“Leo XIV, in the role of Pontiff, does not act as a political figure. The Pope has no elections to run. His job is to safeguard doctrine, maintain the unity of the Church, and serve as a spiritual authority. This makes the President’s attack against the Pope unusually preposterous.” (05/05/26)
https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/trumps-crusade-against-the-holy-see
Source: Fox News Forum
by Liz Peek
“In 2016, then-presidential candidate Trump famously asked Black voters ‘What do you have to lose?’ Trump challenged African American voters to rethink their long-standing allegiance to the Democrat Party, which, he rightly claimed, took them for granted and had failed to deliver on the most pressing demands of African American families, including providing their kids with a good education. Steve Hilton, a Republican and former Fox News host, running to become governor of deep blue California, should be posing that same question to Golden State voters. California is one of the most expensive places to live in the country, entirely because of decisions made by Democrats who have controlled the state with a two-thirds supermajority in the legislature since 2018 and also occupied the governor’s mansion since 2011.” [editor’s note: It was one of the most expensive states to live in LONG before 2011 – TLK] (05/05/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liz-peek-california-voters-fed-democrats-may-turn-steve-hilton-change
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Hegseth Claims We’re In A Different War With Iran.” (05/05/26)
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1YxNrZploLzxw
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“As reported in the Monitor last week, the recent U.S. indictment of 10 Mexican officials poses a key test for President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo: how best to balance pressures from its neighbor and largest trading partner with the domestic imperative to defend sovereignty – while also tackling cartel crime and serving justice for ordinary Mexicans? More broadly, this development also tests both countries’ determination to collaboratively pursue legitimate shared interests in a way that stabilizes rather than further disrupts already-shaky economic, political, and security relations. Last Thursday, President Sheinbaum said the U.S. request for extradition of the 10 officials did not provide enough evidence for arrests. Instead, she said, Mexican prosecutors would investigate the cases to determine evidence of criminality. Her declaration came in the wake of increasing unease after a roadway incident in late April pointed to CIA involvement inside Mexico.” (05/04/26)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0504/Mexico-seeks-to-clean-house-its-way
Source: The Bulwark
by Cathy Young
“Last week, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the Victory Day parade in Moscow’s Red Square, which for decades has served as a symbol of Russian military power, will be drastically scaled back. Tanks and other military hardware will not be rolling across Red Square; there will be only a column of soldiers and military academy students marching on foot. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made no secret of the fact that the reason for this decision was the ‘terrorist threat’ from Ukraine — that is, the fear of drone strikes. … Elena Malakhovskaya, a host on the Khodorkovsky Live webcast, summed up the situation another way: ‘In the fifth year of the war, it’s Zelensky who decides whether Putin can appear at the parade on Red Square.'” (05/05/26)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/in-russia-victory-day-is-starting-to-feel-like-defeat-ukraine-war-drone-parade-putin
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“As the US ramps up its aggressions against Iran and Cuba under the supervision of psychopathic empire managers like Rubio, more and more eyes are opening to the depraved nature of the imperial power structure. It used to be challenging to help westerners recognize the truth that we are ruled by monsters and everything we learned in school about our nation and our world is a lie. Now it’s just becoming the mainstream normie understanding as people see more and more evidence of the empire’s savagery all around them. There’s only so many atrocities you can witness on your social media feed before reality begins to dawn and free your mind from the propaganda-induced trance it was groomed into. The empire couldn’t hide its ugly face forever.” (05/05/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/05/05/new-issue-of-johnstone-the-empire-can-no-longer-hide-its-ugly-nature/
Source: US News & World Report
“Portuguese law enforcement officials investigating cases of alleged torture at two central Lisbon precincts detained 15 police officers on Tuesday, raising the total number of those charged or arrested to 25, police and prosecutors said. In January, prosecutors charged two officers with torturing vagrants and migrants and then sharing images of their acts in an online chat with dozens of other officers, triggering a broader inquiry. The two are awaiting trial, accused of torture, acts of cruelty and abuse of power, according to the indictment. One also faces charges of rape, robbery and forgery. Another seven people were detained in March. Police confirmed Tuesday’s detentions that also included one civilian but would not say whether those held were suspected of carrying out torture themselves or of failing to report abuse they had witnessed in person or in shared videos.” (05/05/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-05-05/portugal-detains-15-officers-as-lisbon-police-torture-probe-widens
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Daniel Davis on What’s Been Happening in Ukraine.” (05/05/26)
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/4-30-26-daniel-davis-on-whats-been-happening-in-ukraine/
Source: Liberalism.org
by Sarah Skwire
“I read some really great political theory this week. And unlike Plato’s Republic or Aristotle’s Politics, this book had a dragon. Joe Hill’s most recent novel, King Sorrow, takes its main characters and its readers on a scary and suspenseful exploration of the dubious wisdom of the claim that ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend.’ That old political saw gets hauled out from the back corner of the basement whenever it seems expedient to make a morally dubious alliance with a stronger power. Hill’s novel, a deliciously gory and smart bit of horror in its own right, exposes the ethical void at the center of such alliances.” (05/05/26)
https://www.liberalism.org/p/the-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-a-really-big-dragon
