Graham Platner's troubles deepen as wife's warning about explicit texts surfaces

By Bennito L. Kelty
Published May 30, 2026 3:42 PM ET

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner sank deeper into hot water as his wife revealed that she found sexually explicit texts on his phone, per reporting by the Wall Street Journal.

Platner's wife, Amy Gertner, told his Senate campaign about the texts with several different women, insider sources told the WSJ. Gertner discovered the texts in spring 2025, and in August, she told an aide whom she considered a friend, while the campaign was doing opposition research on Platner, the WSJ reported.

Campaign aides told Gertner that they didn't expect the messages to be a problem as it was a "private matter," according to the WSJ, which mentioned that the couple had been undergoing counseling.

https://www.rawstory.com/graham-platner-texts-wsj-report/

Top White House aides mull over killing Trump's slush fund as GOP senators revolt: report

By Matthew Chapman
Published May 29, 2026 7:46 PM ET

White House officials are seriously considering abandoning President Donald Trump's $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund," a controversial legal "settlement" Trump arranged with his own administration that critics have called a slush fund to pay out his allies who have faced legal troubles.

The fund was created after Trump dismissed his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS for failing to keep his tax records safe from a whistleblower who illegally leaked the information to the public.

According to the Wall Street Journal, over a dozen GOP senators "privately urged top Trump aides to drop the fund since its creation last week, said people familiar with the outreach" — one of them being Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who not only is usually a close ally of the president but championed a controversial congressional provision to let himself sue over investigations into election interference.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-slush-fund-2676974793/

I want, and millions of other people in this country want these people to go before a court and testify how they came up with this scheme.........and then throw there sorry ass in jail............and that includes that traitor running around on our dime...............he knew .........fraud is fucking fraud.............

Opinion: Trump called POWs losers and dodged Vietnam. On Memorial Day, I honor someone who didn't

By Robert Reich- Commentary
Published May 25, 2026 7:52 AM ET

Friends,

Robbie was the kindest person I ever knew.

I met him in our dormitory the day we entered college in 1964. He saw me struggling to carry my big luggage crates up the two flights of stairs to my dorm room and, without saying a word, grabbed one and hauled it to the second floor.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-memorial-day-2676937865/?utm_source=opinion

I have two friends that came back in body bags, while my draft number from the draft birthday barrel in 1969 placed me in the reserves for that year...........

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Supreme Court delivers massive blow to Dems​' last-ditch gerrymander gambit

By Daniel Hampton
Published May 15, 2026 6:58 PM ET

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday slammed the door on Virginia Democrats' last-ditch effort to revive a congressional map that would have handed them a commanding advantage in the 2026 midterms.

In a one-line order, the justices denied an emergency stay application filed by House Speaker Don Scott (D-Portsmouth), Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell (D-Fairfax), and other top Democratic lawmakers seeking to pause a Virginia Supreme Court ruling that struck down the voter-approved redistricting amendment.

The decision means the state's court-drawn 2021 map — which gave Democrats a 6-5 advantage — will remain in place for the November midterms. The voided amendment, ratified by 51% of Virginia voters on April 21, would have allowed the Democratic-controlled General Assembly to redraw the lines in a map projected to favor Democrats in 10 of the state's 11 districts.

https://www.rawstory.com/virginia-redistricting-2676902942/

But this maga court is alright that votes don't count and voters made a choice...............expand the court..............oh I forgot they are all in on granting a traitor immunity for the Espionage Act...........

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'I didn't say that': GOP senator contradicts Trump after president posts false quote

By David Edwards
Published May 12, 2026 3:37 PM ET

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said that President Donald Trump had used a false quote to push a baseless claim about former President Barack Obama making money off of his signature health care legislation.

In a Truth Social post on Monday night, Trump shared the claim that Kennedy was "now publicly demanding that Barack Hussein Obama return $120 million that he allegedly earned through ownership related to 'Obamacare.'"

"He allocated money under his own laws using taxpayer-generated prestige," the fake quote said. "There's nothing ethical or legal about this."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-kennedy-false-quote/

Hey Kennedy.................what do you think he is going to say.................JFC grow a spine ...............and talk about his scams............

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Tuesday's Gone

'The hood is off': Internet explodes over GOP lawmaker's 'brazenly racist' interview

By Matthew Chapman
Published May 11, 2026 7:51 PM ET

Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA), already one of the GOP's most vulnerable incumbents even after state courts struck down efforts to redraw her district to favor Democrats, landed in hot water on Monday after a clip went viral of her agreeing with a right-wing talk radio host telling Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to "get your cotton-picking hands off of Virginia" — a common colloquial phrase, but one with a deeply charged double meaning given that Jeffries is Black.

The moment immediately brought her under fire on social media, including from some fellow members of Congress.

"The hood is off," wrote Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY). "Apologize and get out or you will be shown the door in November.

https://www.rawstory.com/jen-kiggans/

I can't wait for her to fill out an application for a job ..................she is in a different ball game when it comes to being a public figure..............usually when you get fired the company cannot ask why you were fired, but cause is still cause ........and her remarks are public.............no excuse can cover that simple fact