Anna Paulina Luna is on the warpath. The Florida congresswoman, and former Sports Illustrated model, is calling out colleagues on both sides of the aisle after a series of allegations of sexual impropriety. “I’m about to do a conference all-call to explain to members on both sides that it is illegal to sexually harass staff and interns,” she posted yesterday. “You all need to pull your shit together. Stop molesting the staff! Freaks.”
One target of Luna’s ire is her Republican colleague Tony Gonzales. Gonzales had an affair with a female staffer who later committed suicide by self-immolation; he is not standing for reelection after pressure from colleagues. The San Antonio Express-News published texts from 2020 between Gonzales and his campaign’s political director. Gonzales asks the woman, “What kind of panties do you wear?” He repeatedly pestered her for nudes, saying, “I know what I want and won’t stop until I get it.” “Pic needs to be higher,” Gonzales, a married father of six, said to the woman in response to a photo of her legs. Under House ethics rules, members are prohibited from having sexual relationships with congressional subordinates. Those rules do not apply to campaign staff.
Luna is also directing her fire and brimstone at Representative Eric Swalwell, who is running as a Democrat for California governor. She reshared an X post claiming that “Over a dozen former female employees and interns are preparing to come forward to accuse Eric Swalwell of inappropriate touching and sexual harassment.”
“If this is true, it is horrifying,” Luna wrote in response.
The post, from MAGA account @Badhombre, is presumably alluding to recent social-media posts from Cheyenne Hunt, the executive director of Gen Z for Change. Hunt made a video last week containing a text that alleges:
You know Eric Swalwell has slept with many of his interns and makes them all sign NDAs so they don’t speak up, right? And when I was 19 he tried hitting on me and sliding into my DMs and I have so many other friends that have similar experiences with him. Like it’s well known that he uses his power to sleep around with younger staffers and interns on the Hill but he uses lawyers to keep them all quiet.
Hunt claimed the message was “not unique.” In a follow-up video, Hunt said, “I am personally working with a group of women who want to come forward and share their stories… We have secured pro-bono legal representation for them and they are in the process of sharing their information with major outlets.” Swalwell, a married father of three, has yet to respond to the social media chatter – or to Luna. Watch this space…
On our radar
COOL HEADS In an attempt to urge Iranian negotiators to strike a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz before tonight’s 8 p.m. deadline, President Trump offered these calming words on Truth Social: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
JONESING FOR CHANGE Conspiracy theorists Alex Jones and Candace Owens called for the 25th Amendment to be invoked to remove Trump from office.
ICED OUT ICE made nearly 20,000 arrests in the DMV from January 2025 to the start of March 2026, according to a Washington Post analysis. Of those, 60 percent had no criminal record.
Bunny boilers
“I don’t think it gets much more hostile than Iran, they’re capable fighters and very tough people,” Donald Trump said, standing atop the South Portico. The President was recapping the hardships of the weekend’s rescue mission in the mountains. He was sandwiched between two figures with thousand-yard stares: his wife Melania, and the Easter bunny.
The crowd gathered on the South Lawn perhaps was not expecting to be regaled with war stories at the White House Easter Egg Roll yesterday morning. Children in seersucker suits and mothers in pastel dresses gazed up at the President. “Militarily it’s been one of the best Easters,” said Trump. “Our warriors are the greatest fighters on earth.”
Introducing his wife, he praised the success of the Amazon documentary about her. “She’s a movie star!” he boasted. The Easter bunny applauded the First Lady.
At the conclusion of the President’s remarks – “One year ago, our country was dead,” he told the children – he headed down the steps with the First Lady and stopped to enjoy the military band. His children Eric and Tiffany and their families waited in the heat until Trump moved on, to take questions from the penned-in press. From the other side of the fence, Trump-supporting attendees chanted “Four more years!” “Do you like to hear the crowd shout ‘four more years’?” Trump said mockingly to reporters. “They don’t realize that without me they’d go out of business.”
A number of White House staffers and their families were waiting, receding hairlines pinkening in the sun. Stephen Miller and his wife Katie watched their young sons play-fighting – a fitting precursor to the UFC fight the White House will host in two months. Cockburn also spotted Dan Scavino and Erin Elmore; Karoline Leavitt and Nicholas Riccio with their son; David Sacks; Jamieson Greer, and Jim Goyer. Kids rolled red, white and blue eggs on the President’s command. Earlier, as the press had waited to enter the South Lawn, a giant Secret Service agent escorted FBI Director Kash Patel and his partner Alexis Wilkins through their midst, the trio lined up tallest to smallest like a set of Russian dolls.
Trump headed off to prepare for his afternoon press conference after delivering the traditional Easter farewell: “We will never let Iran have a nuclear weapon.” The First Lady made her way back toward the White House, with the Easter bunny in tow. A reporter yelled to ask what she thought about the war. She smiled and kept walking. The rabbit was non-committal too. He has been coming to the Egg Roll since 1969, invited by Pat Nixon to distract from the smell of napalm. The horrors of conflict do not move him. No wonder his eyes are full of nothing.
Cat-astrophe averted
Mousers of the world, unite! Marxist cat enthusiasts will be delighted to hear that Crumbs & Whiskers, the cat café in Georgetown, has reopened – and that it now claims the mantle of the first unionized cat cafe in DC, purr-haps the world. According to Washingtonian, the café underwent temporary closure – a “paws,” if you will – after staff complained of “unsafe working conditions, low wages, and slow response times to feline medical needs.” Owner Kanchan Singh said, “We closed to find new management, which is a separate thing than the unionization.”
Not everyone is “feline” enthused, however: “While C&W has shared publicly that employee concerns have been addressed and that the cafe is proud to be unionized, many workers feel that their experiences do not yet reflect those statements,” the cat café’s union said in an Instagram statement. Fortunately, the café has eight more lives.
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