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Good morning kids. Well we certainly had a bit of good news out of Texas last night as RINO sellout John Cornyn was at long last kicked to the curb. Chip Roy was also sent to the showers. While in my view, certainly not as overtly odious a RINO as Cornyn, his record in advancing the conservative cause to be charitable was spotty at best, so as the late great NY Mets broadcaster Bob Murphy, would say "Here's the happy recap!"
Texas Republicans delivered major victories for conservatives Tuesday night, as state Sen. Mayes Middleton defeated Rep. Chip Roy in the Republican runoff for attorney general while Attorney General Ken Paxton ousted longtime Sen. John Cornyn in a closely watched Senate primary.
. . .Roy’s defeat marked a significant setback for Washington Republicans who had rallied behind the four-term congressman. Roy had built a national profile as a hardline conservative in Congress and received endorsements from figures including Ted Cruz and members of the House Freedom Caucus.
...Cornyn’s loss represented one of the most significant defeats for a sitting Republican senator in recent years and underscored Trump’s dominance over GOP primary voters.
Well, as I stated in contrast to the author of this piece, Roy's record despite the labels and endorsements has been spotty at best. I'll leave it to all our Texas commenters to weigh in as to whether I'm off base or not. Be that as it may, Look at who Ken Paxton is facing off against:
The Texas church where Democrat James Talarico has delivered his radical sermons is pushing radical gender ideology on children, featuring books filled with sexually explicit content and transgender ideology.
Talarico, the Democrat nominee for the crucial Senate election in November, attends St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin. There, children have access to a library stocked with “banned books” that promote ideas rejected by most Christians, including books that contain descriptions of anal rape, incest, and oral sex, according to a Daily Wire review of its offerings.
I want to thank Senator John Cornyn for his years representing our state. We don’t agree on everything, but we both still believe in public service. To Senator Cornyn’s supporters: you have a place in our campaign.
When I said train, I meant in cattle cars on your way to a gulag to get forcibly sterilized.
I would think Talarico doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell, certainly not with this background. And yes Texas is indeed a deep if not the deepest of red red states. But with the nation now really on a knife edge we can no longer tolerate the business as usual of go-along-to-get-along RINO grifters because since the ascendancy of Obama, the Democrat Party is now openly out to seize absolute power by any and every means necessary. The Trump miracle put the brakes on that and so the freak flags are flying in the breeze as the stolen election of 2020, the political persecutions, assassination attempts, riots, judicial coup, bureaucratic insubrdination, censorship and political violence against any and all voices of opposition have amply demonstrated.
...Wynton Hall, author of Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI talked about OpenAI. Hall said, “OpenAI has now contracted with 400,000 members of teachers’ unions to start to bake into the curriculum…all their tools.”
The news that President Trump has taken the unusual step of calling a full Cabinet meeting Wednesday suggests that, among other things, he’s exploring ways to jump-start the maddeningly slow talks with Iran.
The brainstorming is necessary because it is crystal clear that Trump gave peace a chance, a very good chance, but the mullahs aren’t willing to meet his generous terms.
The big question now is whether there is anything more within reason he can do to sweeten the offer, or whether Iran simply has no intention of ever getting to yes.
No doubt there also will be a political dimension to the conversations, in that the war is unpopular at home and growing more so the longer it goes on.
Its effect on rising energy prices and inflation are a major part of the GOP worry that Trump’s party could lose control of both chambers of Congress in November...
Moreover, the stakes in Iran are growing again because even the tenuous cease-fire is coming under severe stress.
The US conducted what it called “self-defense” airstrikes late Monday against two Iranian ships it said were laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
The US also said it took out a surface-to-air missile site based at Iran’s primary naval station that was targeting our warplanes.
In response, Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei threatened to strike American military bases elsewhere in the region.
The skirmishing is the latest sign that the mullahs have no intention of voluntarily meeting Trump’s top demand for peace.
For more than a decade, he has been saying the same thing: that Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon on his watch.
Of course the problem is Trump's watch will come to an end at noon on January 21 2029. Was the era of Donald Trump a one-off, a speed bump on the road to hell that our nation had or has been on for decades or has President Trump not only slammed on the brakes but has he succeeded in throwing us into reverse and putting America back on track towards sanity? The removal of saboteurs and fools like Massie and now Cornyn is a good sign, but the GOP must be utterly purged as we can see from this abomination of a back-stabbing out of South Carolina.
In a written message marking the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, Khamenei described Israel as a “cancerous tumor,” echoed his father’s prediction that the Jewish state would not survive another 25 years from a decade ago — effectively placing Israel’s destruction within roughly 15 years — and warned that regional nations would no longer serve as “shields” for American military bases. ‘Death to America’: Iran’s Supreme Leader Warns U.S. Will Have ‘No Safe Haven’ — Vows Israel’s Annihilation
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Supporters of the measures say the laws are needed as churches and synagogues remain on heightened alert following years of violence and politically charged confrontations targeting religious institutions. They say existing trespassing laws are insufficient to deter increasingly aggressive protests. States Toughen Penalties for Disrupting Religious Services
“I’m particularly gratified here that this is not a partisan effort. I believe we have a couple of representatives from the attorney generals in Connecticut and Oregon, and as I’ve said repeatedly… this should not be a partisan effort,” he said. Vance Hosts State Attorneys General at Anti-Fraud Task Force Roundtable
A federal panel on Tuesday blocked Alabama Republicans’ House map, ruling that the Supreme Court’s recent landmark decision limiting the Voting Rights Act does not affect their conclusion that the map was intentionally discriminatory against black voters. . .
After the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act decision in April 2026, Alabama moved to reinstate a 2023 congressional map — containing just one Democratic-leaning district — that had previously been struck down in court, Politico reported. Federal Judges Try Keeping Race-Based Congressional Maps Alive Despite Supreme Court Ruling (What does the word SUPREME mean assholes?! - jjs)
Dr. Jacob Agronin, a cardiology fellow at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, says that antisemitism is pervasive in U.S. healthcare and medical unions. Agronin is one of the 37,000 resident and fellow physicians represented by the Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR), which is as obsessed with Israel as any teachers union in America. Consider the CIR’s “Housestaff Against Apartheid” resolution, passed in May 2024, which declares that Israel is committing genocide and maintains “an apartheid occupation against the Palestinian people.” Is It Time for Jewish Patients in America to Start Worrying?
Trump is, of course, being maligned … again. What he said was that the cost of gasoline “is peanuts” next to what would happen if Iran got a nuclear weapon. He’s certainly right about that. Yes, Today’s Gas Prices Are ‘Peanuts’
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Governor Wes Moore (D) signed legislation Tuesday banning the sale Glocks and Glock-clones into law, making Maryland the second state to enact such a ban. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore Signs Glock Ban Into Law
In complete defiance of their voters’ wishes, a cabal of Republican state senators sided with Democrats on Tuesday in tanking a proposal that sought to redistrict South Carolina’s lone Democrat congressional seat ahead of the 2026 midterms. The Democrat seat is currently held by longtime Rep. Jim Clyburn, a former member of the U.S. House Democrats’ leadership team. By Sabotaging Redistricting, South Carolina Republicans Beg Voters To Hand Them The Pink Slip
For instance, while the establishment media and Democrats have continued to mock President Trump for stressing the need for a complex added to the White House – namely, a secure ballroom which now has more additions underground – 59 percent of respondents agreed that Congress has an obligation to fund it. Exclusive Poll: Broad Support for Trump’s Agenda Ahead of Midterms
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . AND HISTORY
The escalation has heightened tensions in the Middle East, with the U.S. having also launched strikes against Iran overnight amid crunch peace talks. Over 3,180 Lebanese fatalities have been reported since March, though these figures do not differentiate between civilians and combatants. Critics argue that Israel’s actions could undermine peace efforts aimed at dismantling Iran’s nuclear program, a longstanding concern for Israel and the U.S. Netanyahu Escalates Lebanon Strikes Despite Ceasefire.
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke while aboard Air Force Three during his official visit to India, laying out details of a call he’d received from Moscow’s Sergey Lavrov on Monday in which the top Russian diplomat is said to have complained about European involvement in the war on Kyiv’s behalf, and advised America to withdraw its personnel from the city. Russia Warns U.S. to Evacuate Ukraine Embassy Before ‘Systematic’ Strikes Against Kyiv
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Piker’s comments come as he is facing a subpoena for a recent trip he made to Cuba, where he produced content sympathetic to the communist regime that may have violated U.S. sanctions. Piker has a long history of public controversies, including stating that “America deserved 9/11,” instructing his followers to “make f***ing suicide drones,” and appearing to suggest that former Florida governor Rick Scott should be “killed.” Hasan Piker Exposes Pro-CCP Tycoon Singham’s Funding of ‘Political Movements.’
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Americans overwhelmingly support commonsense work requirements for able-bodied adults receiving Medicaid benefits, not policies that are easily gamed. Medicaid Work Requirements Need Real Enforcement
A decades-long decline in the fertility rate that hit new lows in 2025 is sparking concerns among health experts of a larger fertility crisis that could impact the economy and national security. Declining Fertility Rate Becoming ‘Existential Crisis’
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
NASA officials today outlined its new reshaped program of unmanned missions to Moon, designed it says to lay the first groundwork for the manned lunar base to follow. NASA outlines new program of unmanned missions to Moon
Cool image time...The science team labels the image a “dune field.” What struck me immediately however was the vast range of colors, something that is usually not seen on Mars. Within a very short distance we go from bright orange to dark blue, with the change sometimes exceedingly sharp. Colorful Martian dunes
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Glenn Reynolds: At Bolt, Breslow said, the HR team “was creating problems that didn’t exist,” as part of “a culture of not getting things done and complaining a lot.” “The problems disappeared when I let them go.” Cubicle-dwellers across corporate America rejoiced. Bye-bye, HR — Let’s hope Bolt Financial CEO Ryan Breslow starts a trend
Woke is dying about as fast as Mr. Orange in Reservoir Dogs, but the writing is on the wall, and the final thrusts of the pugios are coming from the people who put Democrats in charge. Even the Big, Blue Towns Are Sick of the Democrat Freak-Show
HITHER & YON
The Harlem native and Grammy winner known for his virtuoso playing of the tenor saxophone collaborated with Thelonious Monk, Babs Gonzales, J.J. Johnson, Bud Powell and Miles Davis — all before he was 20 years old. Jazz Great Sonny Rollins Dead at 95
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A bit of an own goal this time around. TSMC staff have traditionally been paid a bonus based on corporate profits, but the company has been planning to cut the percentage paid to staff in order to fund capital expansion. I don't think anyone is hurting - like many other chipmakers the company is making record profits, so we're talking a reduced share of a much larger pie - but Taiwanese workers will be looking at the huge bonuses won by their counterparts in South Korea. And judging.
I'm a bit confused about the high bandwidth numbers, because the tests seem to exceed the theoretical bandwidth of the system, but I'm not going to worry too much since nobody's going to be able to buy one anyway.
— Declaration of Memes (@LibertyCappy) May 22, 2026
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My once great home state can't get the smaller, single span Key Bridge rebuilt - but sure, let's go ahead and plan for a new Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Much longer and two spans. Great idea!
Despite the dreary weather this Memorial Day weekend, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge has been very congested with holiday traffic at times – especially after a crash at the start of the eastbound span Friday morning – leaving some drivers wondering when relief will finally come for the aging bridge.
State officials are planning to replace the current bridge with two wider, safer spans, but it’s going to take a while and depend on funding.
After studying alternatives such as building new bridges elsewhere, in December 2025, the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) board voted unanimously on a plan that would lead to two new four-lane bridge spans (both with shoulders this time!) that would be built next to the current two spans. The old spans would be torn down.
I'm going to start some kind of non-profit which specializes in some obscure thing that has to be done whenever there is a bridge design / build. Need to get me a piece of that sweet state government largess!
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On to a construction project that is actually making progress
Construction is underway at the White House to build a temporary structure for next month's Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fight.
President Donald Trump is hosting the UFC Freedom 250 event on the South Lawn on Sunday, June 14, which will mark Flag Day, the day Congress approved the design of a national flag, and the president's 80th birthday.
Tickets are not listed for the 8 p.m. event, which will be available to watch on Paramount+, according to the UFC Freedom 250 website.
Crews have already started assembling the semi-circular structure on the lawn just behind the octagon and stands for people to watch. The structure was made in Pennsylvania and shipped to D.C.
Dana White, the CEO of the UFC, said he plans to keep the White House the backdrop for every fight.
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Paxton Retires Arrogant Liberal GOPer John Cornyn In Absolute Drubbing
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I was wondering why no one made a call given such a lopsided vote total. It's because voting was still going on in the western (Mountain time) corner of the state.
The moment the clock struck 8pm Central, they called it:
Update: Per Decision Desk, with 52% reporting, Paxton is absolutely curb-stomping Cornyn 62% to 37%. We're getting to the point where, in order to win, Cornyn would have to win 80% of the outstanding vote. That's not going to happen, obviously.
Even before the endorsement, Paxton led in runoff polling, though Cornyn was not far behind until the days leading up to Trump's announcement. Yet the most recent polling in the race -- including surveys conducted before the endorsement -- found Paxton leading by at least 10 percentage points. In Decision Desk HQ's polling average, Paxton leads Cornyn by 15 points, 54%-39%.
Cornyn's primary race against challenger Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton finally comes to a head in today's runoff election. After what has been a particularly bruising primary, Cornyn expressed his worry that Republicans stand to lose a seat that would be devastating for the party's hopes of retaining a majority in the upper chamber.
Speaking with Fox News Digital ahead of Election Day, Cornyn touted Texas as "the most conservatively governed state in the country," making it a "land of opportunity and where the American dream is still very much alive."
"But I think all of that's at risk, depending on how this primary runoff turns out, because I think Ken Paxton's flaws and the baggage he brings to the general election are going to be exploited up to the fullest by James Talarico and by Democrats," he said.
Whoever emerges Tuesday night will have to face state Rep. James Talarico, a Democratic rising star who many in the party believe has broad enough appeal to finally flip the state for the first time in over two decades.
Cornyn expressed worry about Talarico's fundraising abilities, citing the $27 million he raised in the first quarter of the year. He asserted that if Paxton wins, "there will be a tsunami of money coming into the state from outside."
He also asserted that "it's not only that Senate seat he [Paxton] puts at risk, it's also all the down-ballot races, state legislative races, local races, like the judges and the like."
"We haven't elected a Democrat in statewide office since 1994 in Texas," he said. "President Trump is not running, so the Senate race will be at the top, and I believe that I will be in a better position to help provide a significant margin, a winning margin, not only in my case, but also to help everybody down ballot."
"I don't think the attorney general can do that because of the significant baggage he brings into the race, which jeopardizes success from the top to the bottom," he said.
Paxton has faced a slew of scandals and legal problems that have battered him over the past decade. In 2023, the Texas House of Representatives voted to impeach Paxton, but he was eventually acquitted of all charges by the state Senate.
Should we really be worried that if Texas Republicans nominate the conservative MAGA AG Ken Paxton, Texas Republicans will suddenly flip and vote for James Talarico in the general?
This clip from Tuesday’s ‘CBS Mornings’ with @EdOKeefe covering the #TXSen runoff is the first time anyone has aired on a lead broadcast network morning or evening show (ABC, CBS, NBC) clips of Texas Democrat James Talarico saying there are “six” genders and “God is non-binary” pic.twitter.com/l0DAuIAjRQ
They say they're doing this for "states rights" or some cuck mumblemouth bullshit.
NBC:
The Republican-led South Carolina Senate on Tuesday voted against a measure to advance a new congressional map, ending the redistricting effort in the state for now.
The failed vote was a surprise rejection of President Donald Trump, who had urged lawmakers to pass a redrawn map that eliminated the state's single majority-Black district, represented by longtime Democratic Rep. James Clyburn.
The South Carolina House approved the map last week in hopes of putting it into place for this year's midterm elections. As part of the effort, lawmakers also sought to set another primary election for the affected districts in August. But after early voting began on Tuesday for the previously scheduled June primary, some Republicans changed their tune, arguing it was too late to enact new district lines.
"Neither my conscience nor my common sense will allow me to stop an election that is already underway," said Republican state Sen. Richard Cash, a Republican who changed his vote due to timing.
Speaking of ugly grifters who are going to lose their phony-baloney jobs: Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.
Florida Democrats wrong a Strongly Worded Letter condemning Debbie's psychopathic need for power.
Almost all of Florida's elected Democratic National Committee members are condemning Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz's decision to run for reelection in a district previously drawn to ensure Black voters' representation but targeted for redistricting by Gov. Ron DeSantis this year.
"Our party cannot credibly denounce the dismantling of Black political power by Republicans while treating one of Florida's few remaining majority-Black districts as a political opportunity for an incumbent seeking a safer seat," a group of 10 elected Florida DNC members wrote in a statement released Tuesday.
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Wasserman Schultz, in Congress for more than 20 years, chose to run in a safe blue seat where a Democrat is all but guaranteed to win in the general election, instead of in one of the surrounding districts, newly drawn to favor Republicans.
It's almost as if these districts were drawn to secure partisan advantage, not racial advantage.
Wasserman Schultz lives in Florida's new 22nd District, which stretches from Coral Springs to Marco Island. Her previous voters were split five ways in Florida's new voting maps, but only a small portion of them were drawn into the 20th District.
Critics say she chose to take her $2.5 million war chest to an easier Democratic-leaning district to ensure her own political power.
"We cannot claim to defend voting rights, racial justice, and representation while undermining Black political power when it becomes politically convenient," the Florida DNC members wrote.
I wonder what she'll do when she gets her fat droopy ass kicked to the curb.
Maybe she'll go into modeling.
Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a Quint in it
Trump went to his six month physical at Walter Reed. Chris Cilizza, who attacked anyone who suggested that Biden was aging poorly and called it "low" politics, now sounds the alarm over Trump seeing the doctor "three times in thirteen months."
It's six month check-up. You're supposed do three six-month check-ups in any 13 month period. Do the math, asshole.
How many times do you have a six month check up in a 13 month period? Not two. You have to add one more because the period begins and ends with a visit, with another one in the middle.
But anyway, the entire left is now demanding we get very serious about interrogating the president about his health after five years of insisting that Biden was literally running circles around his 25-year-old staffers and was a "super-ager" and that any video showing him losing his train of thought, forgetting that the woman he was honoring was in fact dead and repeatedly calling her to the stage, routinely babbling incoherently, never being available any earlier than 10:30 in the morning and never later than 4:30, etc. was all right-wing "cheapfakes."
Here's one obvious mouth-dick docking module claiming that Biden routinely faced questions about his age but Trump doesn't.
Jonathan Lemire
@JonLemire
NEW: The Newest Oldest President
Donald Trump has not faced the same scrutiny for his age as Joe Biden did. For now.
But as Trump is poised to turn 80 next month, questions about his health and increasingly erratic behavior are growing
Communist jihadist Zohran Mamdani did the inevitable and declared he would begin seizing the estates of "negligent" land-owners -- "wreckers," as the communist party calls them, people who don't use their property the way the state wants them to -- and give them to "responsible" managers, including the tenants of the buildings.
Speaking of socialist jihadis: Tucker Carlson advocates people just repudiating their debts. #FightThePower!
Tucker: "I think people should stop paying their credit cards."
Far-left political influencer Hasan Piker identified American Marxist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham as a major financier behind a network of pro-communist U.S. nonprofits engaged in "political advocacy" and "a lot of political movements," marking the first public acknowledgment from a figure inside the far-left network that organizations in the Singham network are operating with an explicitly political agenda.
The comments are significant because congressional investigators and watchdog groups have long argued that nonprofits connected to Singham are functioning as overt political operations while enjoying tax-exempt charitable status. Critics argue such activity may violate nonprofit tax laws, which place strict limits on the amount of political activity charities can conduct.
As Fox News Digital reported exclusively on Saturday, Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control issued an administrative subpoena to Piker and far-left CodePink co-founder Susan Medea Benjamin for possibly violating sanctions against doing business with the Communist Party of Cuba when they traveled to the island nation in March for an ideologically-charged transnational convergence of communists in an international "convoy."
Piker and Benjamin haven't responded to requests for comment, but they have publicly defended their trips to March as "humanitarian" missions to help the people of Cuba.
At about 37 minutes in a six-hour livestream on Monday, headlined, "FEDS ARE AFTER ME," punctuated with two cursing emojis, Piker stunned listeners knowledgeable about the intricacies of far-left networks by saying that he believes federal investigators are ultimately targeting Singham and the organizations he supports, including CodePink and the self-declared communist organizations ANSWER Coalition and Party for Socialism and Liberation, for the "political" work they do.
Together, these groups and others in the Singham network have organized, coordinated and staffed most of the divisive anti-U.S. street protests the nation has seen over the past decade. Party for Socialism and Liberation is called "PSL" by far-left activists.
"I think that ultimately the target is probably Singham and his operation from PSL to ANSWER Coalition to CodePink -- like anything that he has ever financed," Piker said during the stream.
Admitting that his Cuba trip was funded by the hostile communist foreign government may expose him to legal jeopardy:
Old clip of Hasan Piker saying the Cuban government facilitated the infrastructure for him to stream from the country, effectively providing a basis to arrest Piker as a foreign agent.
Tucker and the Turkish anchor baby Piker -- his parents quickly jetted to America to give birth there and make this foreign agent an "American citizen" -- will be guests on each other's shows well before the election.
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump's Triumphal Arch has just officially been APPROVED by the US government's Commission on Fine Arts
.. and this CNN host is on the verge of TEARS over it 🤣
The owner of a heavily decorated pro-Trump home in Southern California has died days after he was beaten to a pulp allegedly by a Navy veteran.
Kerry Sheron, a 69-year-old Army veteran known locally for covering his residence with MAGA banners and American flags, died Sunday night after nearly a week hospitalized in critical condition.
The attack happened May 20 outside Sheron's home in Escondido, police said.
Prosecutors allege 32-year-old Thomas Caleb Butler attacked Sheron in what officials described as an unprovoked assault.
Butler, who has been described in local reports as a Navy veteran, has pleaded not guilty to charges including attempted murder, elder abuse, criminal threats and battery.
"It was a single punch to the jaw," Garcia said. "The victim then falls to the floor, and there are subsequent hits to the victim's head area."
Security footage obtained by local media allegedly showed Sheron standing outside his Buchanan Street home before the suspect approached and attacked him. A nearby witness reportedly attempted to intervene before the suspect fled the area on foot.
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In the days before Sheron's death, his wife, Maria, gave an emotional update, telling reporters there was "no hope" for her husband as he remained hospitalized with devastating injuries.
She also said the family had been preparing for the worst after doctors warned that Sheron's condition had rapidly deteriorated due to severe head trauma.
It is with deep sadness that I share with you the news that Kerry Sheron, a 69-year-old Army veteran, tragically passed away Sunday night after being brutally beaten by his neighbor, all because he loved our country and President Trump.
The Democrats' tribute to the honored dead was to politicize the deaths of 13 servicemen due to Iranian drone strikes.
Now, I'll be honest, I don't think too much about complaints about anyone on either side "politicizing" deaths. Deaths are, either factually or arguably, a consequence of policy choices. I don't think it's out of bounds to point out that someone's policies result in excess deaths.
But this I do object to: Posting this on Memorial Day. Memorial Day is for honoring those who gave all in defense of the country, not puppeteering their bodies to make political ads.
They had nothing good to say about the dead of war until they caught hell for only seeing the honored dead in terms of political propaganda.
But what can we expect? Every single Christmas, the Democrats use the day of Christ's birth to tell us that Akshually Jesus endorsed every single plank of the modern Democrat Party, especially MuH aBoRtiOnzzz.
The Democrats are enemies of everything wholesome, virtuous, good and normal, and I don't think I want to share a country with them any longer.
Speaking of:
Mike Pence is on his newest grifter tour selling political pornography to his base -- liberals and NeverTrumpers (but I repeat myself) -- and scolding us that if we no longer give the benefit of the doubt to toxic, psychotic leftwingers, we're the same as Satan.
No really.
He writes this in the National Review, obviously.
Incivility is at the heart of the problem. Liberals love to pretend that Donald Trump invented incivility, but he's more a symptom than a source. Trump did not devise the personal attack in politics, though he may have perfected it. Sadly, Trump's abrasive and combative style, once unique and jarring in the Republican Party, has been widely aped by right-wing populists.
Long before Trump, however, left-wing progressives rejected civility and compromise. They followed the advice of the activist and agitator Saul Alinsky, who wrote Rules for Radicals, a 1971 manifesto on political confrontation. Among his thirteen rules, the most influential was the last: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Not surprisingly, the book includes an epigraph that praises "the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he won his own kingdom -- Lucifer."
Mike Pence whined and cried for years that January 6 caused him Moderate Stress but seems to have not noticed that his allies on the left keep trying to kill Trump every other month.
A gunman was killed in a shootout with the Secret Service outside the White House on Saturday, after officials said he took out a gun and started firing at officers.
What we know:
The Metropolitan Police Department responded to the area of 17th Street NW and Pennsylvania Avenue around 6 p.m. on Saturday.
According to the U.S. Secret Service, a person walked up to a security checkpoint, pulled a handgun out of his bag, and started firing at officers. Officers shot back, hitting the suspect. A male bystander was also hit and suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.
Paramedics took the gunman to the hospital and later died, the Secret Service confirmed. Police have identified the suspect as Nasire Best, 21, of Maryland.
Near nonstop political violence by the left against the right is pretty incivil, isn't it, Mike?
All Democrats Boycott JD Vance's Anti-Fraud Roundtable, Because They're the Party of Looters and Shooters; Nick Shirley's Right-Hand Man Says That Autism Billing Went Up 47,000% (Which Means 470x) In Past Few Years
The Justice Department today announced the Minnesota Health Care Fraud Takedown, which resulted in criminal charges against 15 defendants, including owners of child care centers and various Medicaid providers, for their alleged participation in various fraud schemes involving over $90 million in intended loss, including the two largest Medicaid fraud cases ever charged in the District and first-of-their kind charges involving additional Medicaid programs. The Justice Department also announced a major investment in combatting Medicaid fraud through a significant expansion of the Division's Health Care Fraud Section, allocating funding to permit the hiring of 15 new Trial Attorney positions to combat Medicaid fraud across the United States.
"Today, we are holding scammers accountable who ripped off the American taxpayer and harmed those deserving legitimate assistance from these programs," said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. "These alleged con artists stole taxpayer dollars while providing substandard care for children and abandoning at least one Medicaid recipient as they passed away. The DOJ Fraud Division, along with the White House's Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, will dismantle illegal schemes from coast-to-coast, just as they did today in Minnesota. This is just the tip of the iceberg."
"Driven by data showing a significant increase in Medicaid fraud across the country, the 15 additional prosecutors will serve as a force multiplier for our existing Strike Forces to combat this critical new threat," said Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the Justice Department's Fraud Division. "The Fraud Division is committed to supercharging the Health Care Fraud Strike Force program with the resources it needs to tackle the pervasive fraud in the health care industry and protect the vulnerable beneficiaries of these programs, including children and those suffering from chronic ailments."
A big source of fraud consists of paying off corrupt, criminal parents to take their children to a corrupt doctor to get a fake autism diagnosis. Then they get fraudulent benefits, and scammers bilk the taxpayers out of huge sums of money providing non-services to non-autistic children.
"Today's arrests mark the largest autism fraud bust in American history," said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. "Under the leadership of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, this Administration is carrying out the most aggressive anti-fraud effort in modern American history. These criminals exploited vulnerable children, stole taxpayer dollars, and diverted critical autism care and resources away from families who truly need support, and we will continue rooting out fraud to protect children and restore integrity to America's public health programs."
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Autism Fraud
In the largest Medicaid autism fraud case ever charged by the Department, two defendants were charged in connection with an approximately $46.6 million scheme to defraud the Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) program, a publicly funded Minnesota Health Care Program that offers medically necessary services to people under the age of 21 with autism spectrum disorder. In 2017, Minnesota became one of the first states to offer Medicaid coverage for EIDBI services. EIDBI claims skyrocketed from over $600,000 in 2018 to over $400 million by 2025.
Alexa tells me that $400 million is over 67,000 percent of $600,000. Or 670,000 times $600,000.
As alleged, the defendants paid kickbacks to parents who brought their children to autism centers, diagnosed children with autism regardless of medical necessity, and billed for autism services that were not actually provided, depriving children who did need assistance of needed care.
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Integrated Community Supports Fraud
In the first criminal prosecution involving fraud in Minnesota's Integrated Community Supports (ICS) program, one defendant was charged with a $1.4 million scheme to bill for services that were not provided as represented. ICS is a Minnesota Medicaid benefit designed to fill a gap in the service continuum between a person living in their own home and more restrictive settings such as group homes and assisted living. ICS was designed to help people live more independently in the community--as opposed to an institutionalized setting--with daily one-on-one help with health, safety, and household tasks so that qualifying individuals can live in the community. The defendant in the prosecution announced today submitted claims for vulnerable recipients who required 24-hour care, one of whom was found deceased a day after being billed for services he did not receive.
After paying out a total of approximately $4.2 million when the ICS program began in 2021, the cost has grown to more than $183 million in 2025. In all, claims data shows that the Medicaid system has paid out more than $460 million for ICS services since 2021.
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"Medicaid dollars are meant to support vulnerable Americans--not bankroll luxury cars and real estate empires for fraudulent providers who exploit people with disabilities," said CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz. "These prosecutions put Medicaid fraudsters on notice--the gravy train is over. We will cut you off, shut you down, and lock you up. They also send a clear message to the patients who depend on Medicaid and the taxpayers who fund it--this administration has your back."
And don't forget this: After a jury unanimously and quickly (four hours of deliberation) a Somali fraudster for stealing $7.2 million, a leftwing Karen judge decided to overturn the jury's verdict and set him free.
“Minnesota watched a Somali man walk FREE after a jury CONVICTED him of stealing $7.2 million in taxpayer money.”
The jury called the evidence overwhelming. The judge overturned the verdict anyway.
Panel of Hawiian Appeals Court Judges Ignores Supreme Court Rulings and Invalidates Alabama's 7-0 Gerrymander, Claiming "Muh Racism"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The Supreme Court did not forbid all judicial scrutiny of gerrymandered districts. However, it made it very clear that only real, demonstrable racism was cause to intervene in a state's legislative maps, and that Democrat Party bullshit about "dilution of minority voting power" wasn't enough. "Republicans are trying to reduce Democrat congressional power and that's racist, in a way, if you think about it" wasn't enough.
An appeals court decided they're The Real Judges Here and ignored the Supreme Court ruling, citing the precedent of Muh Racism v. Muh Midterms.
Alabama Republicans sought to use a previously blocked 2023 congressional map following the Supreme Court's recent ruling curbing the use of race in the drawing of electoral districts that helped minority communities increase their representation in Congress. Under that map, Republicans were slated to gain one electoral seat by erasing a Black-majority seat held by Democrats in the southeastern part of the state.
However, the three-judge panel said Republicans must continue to use a map that has two majority-Black districts where Democrats hold significant advantages.
"Ultimately, we cannot see our way clear to requiring Alabamians to cast their votes in the 2026 elections under a districting plan tainted by intentional race-based discrimination," the federal judges wrote. "We again cannot understand the 2023 Plan as anything other than intentionally discriminatory."
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said he would appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.
"Know this: In my mind, it is not a matter of whether we win this case, only when," Marshall said.
It is unclear why Alabama officials should comply with the panel's order, given that it is in direct conflict with two rulings from the Supreme Court, a higher authority, and the Voting Rights Act. How can the judges licitly rule that Alabama must use districts that are unconstitutional and violative of the Voting Rights Act from being drawn specifically based on how many black voters there are within the limits? The U.S. Supreme Court resoundingly ruled against such gerrymandering both in Louisiana v. Callais and Allen v. Caster.
As a matter of fact, Allen v. Caster specifically involved Alabama and its black-majority districts. The Voting Rights Act forbids the districts, requiring a redrawing of the map, according to the Supreme Court ruling. Therefore, how can a federal judge panel randomly decide to rule the opposite and demand Alabama officials comply?
The panel of judges claimed that not using the map with the two race-based districts was discriminatory, which is of course nonsense, because drawing congressional maps based on the skin color of voters is inherently discriminatory. And again, the panel's claim directly violates two Supreme Court rulings and the Voting Rights Act.
OUTRAGEOUS: A three-judge federal panel BLOCKED Alabama’s newly redrawn 6R-1D congressional map, ruling that the district lines “intentionally discriminated based on race in violation of the Constitution.”
Trans "Woman" Exposes "Pre-Op Privates" In YWCA Changing Room Seattle Is Now a Full Mad Max Highway-Gang Warzone
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The trans " " " woman " " " didn't just expose his "pre-op privates" -- known throughout history by non-insane people as "dick and balls" -- he "flaunted" them, because like many perverts invading women's intimate spaces, he's a pervert and exhibitionist and voyeur.
YMCA in liberal city finally cracks down with new rules after trans woman exposed pre-op privates in female locker room
A trans woman named Sammy has been banned from flaunting her pre-op privates at a YMCA in liberal San Francisco after a sustained freak out by gym goers, the Daily Mail has learned.
The Stonestown Family YMCA has posted new rules preventing the sort of behavior that got Sammy in trouble, prohibiting excessive nudity in the women's locker room.
Sammy, who's stood firm for two years despite horrifying women and children, hasn't been seen since the new rules went into effect.
'Nudity should be discreet, limited, and brief,' reads the new flier hanging in the changing room, headlined 'NEW YMCA LOCKER ROOMS GUIDELINES 2026'.
'Nudity is permitted only while actively showering. Members are expected to put clothing on or be covered during use of the space outside of showering.'
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Susan Pete, a 59-year-old member who was one of Sammy's most vocal critics, told the Daily Mail that the new rules seem specifically written for Sammy, who has been accused of violating each one of them.
Pete said she's happy Sammy's gone, but she and many other members are wondering about a new policy that seems impractical.
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She means it's unenforceable. She seems to be implying, but is too socially terrified to say out loud, that maybe male perverts should be banned from the women's locker rooms entirely.
Sammy had been a regular at the gym since 2024,< > prompting a series of confrontations by standing around naked in front of the mirror, blow-drying her hair while bent over.
Menacing stares would ensue, as Sammy would allegedly argue back, calling people not just 'intolerant' but also 'drunk'.
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YMCA officials, however, defended Sammy's use of the women's locker room, citing her 'civil rights'. This only inflamed outrage from other members who felt uncomfortable seeing a husky trans woman with male genitalia and 'slowly growing breasts' roaming around in front of women and children.
'I've seen that man more than most of my boyfriends,' Pete told the Daily Mail last year.
At the Berkeley YMCA, member Elizabeth Kenney recalled seeing Sammy 'harassing' an elderly member who'd asked her to 'cover up.'
'If you don't like the way I look, then you've got a sexual problem with yourself,' Sammy allegedly told the senior.
'Get away from her, leave her alone,' Kenney recalled telling Sammy. 'You're a man, you'd don't belong here.'
Hashtag #Accurate.
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One group member named Anne, who attends the Stonestown Y, filed a police report in late March, accusing Sammy of harassment. She described a time Sammy, after blowing drying her hair naked, walked up 'very close' to her, turned around and creepily used a handheld mirror to stare back at her.
'He used it as if it were a rear view mirror to look at me behind himself,' Anne wrote in the report. 'His eyes caught mine in the mirror and I froze.'
Anne described another time she allegedly 'paraded' around in front of two young children.
Elizabeth, 23, told the Daily Mail about another time she was 'repulsed and angry' to see Sammy 'blow drying his entire naked body, including his penis, posed in front of all of the other women.'
The new rules include an order that members 'use hair dryers for drying head hair only.'
They also now require that children aged five and older be accompanied by their parent or guardian while using changing rooms for the opposite sex.
So the rule limits the freedom of children who are using the correct locker room, while the aggressive, menacing male pervert gets to flap his dick around.
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'The transgender people ruined everything for women,' Pete told the Daily Mail. 'They ruined sports, ruined the locker room, they upset me.
'We've been very happy since he's been gone, but I don't know if he's going to come back and cover up, or fight against it,' she continued. 'Hopefully he just went to Seattle.'
The "hopefully he just went to Seattle" line reminds me of what Spencer Pratt just said about the criminal and drug-addicted homeless in LA: When he cracks down on open-air drug markets and taking over public spaces for drug-den shantytowns, most of the criminal drug addicts will just move to the even-more basket-case city of Seattle.
NEW: Spencer Pratt fires back at reporter after he was asked about his plan for the homeless, says they will all end up in Seattle.
Reporter: "What are your plans for the over 40,000 homeless in Los Angeles?"
Update: From @ComradeArthur: Seattle is now Thunderdome.
🚨THEY VOTED FOR IT: Seattle residents are forced to build DIY barricades to protect themselves from roving gangs shooting up their neighborhoods after defunding their police, harboring dangerous illegal aliens and electing radical Leftist @MayorofSeattle Katie Wilson. pic.twitter.com/kUjAoFAUOO
Corrupt Governor Tim Walz and Foreign Mayor Jacob Frey Honor the Heroes Who Gave Their Lives for Our Country By... Celebrating an Obese Drug Addict and Thug Whose Heart Finally Attacked Him and Is the Real Hero Here
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey received pushback Monday over a social media post remembering George Floyd, whose Memorial Day death six years ago triggered nationwide protests and riots, as well as calls to defund law enforcement agencies.
"Today, we remember George Floyd, who was murdered by a former Minneapolis police officer six years ago," Frey wrote on X. "That moment changed our city forever."
In subsequent posts, Frey wrote that the death of Floyd forced the city to "confront painful truths about race, policing, inequity, and trust -- and demanded hard conversations and accountability. Since Floyd's murder, our city has been challenged not just to say we've changed, but to prove it."
"We are committed to honoring this place both as a memorial with global significance and as a neighborhood where people live, work, gather, and heal," Frey added.
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Floyd died from cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression after being pinned to the ground by officers outside a convenience store where he allegedly tried to pass a counterfeit $20 bill.
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Frey's post immediately received criticism given that Monday was also Memorial Day.
"Newsflash: Today is Memorial Day, not George Floyd Day. Show our fallen heroes and their families some freaking respect," wrote State Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla. "You're a complete disgrace to America, @MayorFrey."
Others noted that Floyd's death triggered destructive riots across the country where stores and buildings were looted and burned.
"It changed your city, state and my country for the worse. Rioters on your side killed people and did billions in economic damage. And for what? Defunding police policies that have led to more people being killed," reporter Andy Ngo replied to Frey.
While the official autopsy ruled the death a homicide caused by police restraint, the medical examiner's report also noted that the amount of fentanyl in Floyd's system and his recent use of methamphetamine were contributing factors.
"At first I thought this had to be a parody," Tomi Lahren wrote on X. "I thought no way this fruity ass mayor was possibly honoring George Floyd on Memorial Day... But here it is."
"Today we remember the veterans who gave the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our freedoms. Not drug addicts who overdosed," Townhall.com columnist Dustin Grage wrote.
Only after being vigorously criticized as an anti-American foreign agent did Frey put up a half zero-hearted mention of the honored dead of war:
In a separate post, Frey honored veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice, saying: "We owe them -- and the families who carry their memory forward -- our deepest gratitude."
Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, is the definition of PEAK WOKE.
Not only did he sob at the casket of the criminal George Floyd, but here he again—on MEMORIAL DAY of all days, the day we set apart to remember and honor our US soldiers who have sacrificed their lives for our… https://t.co/WFxt9m0QtEpic.twitter.com/xF413hEkjm
The Republican primary for United States Senator in Texas is a snapshot of the tension between the entrenched interests of the corporate branch of the Republican Party, and a younger, aggressive, and unabashedly MAGA-adjacent conservative wing. The corporate Republican party (GOPe) has been the only game in town for many years, and their complacency in the face of the progressive onslaught on traditional America has created the existential issues we face today.
John Cornyn is a star of GOPe policies and attitudes, and his bristling antipathy toward President Trump should be enough for the good voters of Texas to boot him to the curb.
The idea of collegiality within the Senate is an antiquated idea that is used as a tool by the Democrat Party to undermine the Republican majority, yet Cornyn stubbornly insists upon a world-view that simply does not exist. The acquisition of power is the only driving force behind Democrat behavior, but Cornyn pretends that the traditions of the Senate are still powerful. Whether he believes it is secondary to his tepid support for the President's policies, and his embrace of some of the talking points of the progressive forces acting against the President.
"Insurrection?" No, Senator Cornyn. It wasn't an insurrection, and nobody was charged with it, so stop parroting your buddies across the aisle. And the filibuster is a marvelous tool to protect Democrat interests and subvert the will of the American people with respect to voting in America, yet you support it?
Begone with you! And let us discard your supporters for good measure. You know, like conservative stalwart Hugh Hewitt! Or the fine, upstanding Senator Thune! Or the United States Chamber of Commerce!
Support for President Trump and his policies should be axiomatic for the Republicans in the United States Senate. That there is a group of senators who are actively antagonistic is an affront to the concept of a political party and the obvious idea that the president is the leader of the party. These effete and out of touch senators have an inflated sense of their own importance, and if the people of Texas slap down Cornyn today, it will be a powerful message to the others.
So...you Texans out there...vote early...vote often!
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Here is a good example of the difference between seeing a painting in person, and seeing it on a phone or computer screen. In person, this is a wonderful and evocative painting, with subtlety and depth. On a screen? It's nice, but not nearly as powerful.
FYI: The Dallas Museum of Art does not allow concealed carry of weapons! Whether that prohibition is legal is a different question...
Good morning kids. And so it seems as if it's the same old shit vis a vis the situation with Iran. On the one hand we had President Trump and team confident of an imminent resolution and conclusion of hostilities. And yet:
Fresh strikes on southern Iran were launched by U.S. military forces early Tuesday morning targeting Iranian missile sites and vessels attempting to lay anti-shipping mines in the contested Strait of Hormuz.
The targeted strikes were done “to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces,” but the military was “using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire,” Capt. Tim Hawkins, the spokesman for the U.S. military’s Central Command, said in a statement as reported by AP. Following the strikes, the BBC reports U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said a deal was still possible and pointed to talks on Tuesday between Iran’s top negotiator and foreign minister and Qatar’s prime minister.
“We’ll see if we can make progress. I think it’s a lot of talking back and forth going on about specific language in the initial document, so it’ll take a few days,” Rubio told reporters during an official visit to India.
Well, first we have the President insisting that Iran turn over all of it's enriched Uranium, but considering the Mullah du jour along with the IRGC are still in charge and are still the same dark age Armageddon-seeking Shiites they've always been, if they turn over a moldy hunk of Halvah that would be a miracle in and of itself. But the President went on to push for a number of Muslim states to join the Abraham Accords.
Mentioning Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, and Pakistan, President Trump suggested that it should be “mandatory” for countries involved in the Iran negotiations to endorse the Abraham Accords, a series of U.S.-brokered agreements designed to normalize trade and diplomatic relations between Israel and Arab states.
Writing on Truth Social, he said that “it should be mandatory that all of these Countries, at a minimum, simultaneously sign onto the Abraham Accords.”
According to President Trump, refusal to join the accord would be seen as a sign of “bad intention” on the part of these states. “It should start with the immediate signing by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and everybody else should follow suit. If they don’t, they should not be part of this Deal in that it shows bad intention,” he continued.
The ayatollah and leading mullahs live in the holy city of Qom. It’s also the location of the most important madrassas (religious training colleges), and many venerable holy sites.
As Iran’s Islamic headquarters, Qom must be a major target for destruction because it houses the religious leaders who are Iran’s center of gravity. Iran can only be defeated by their destruction at a sufficient level that they can no longer effectively control Iran’s population. Yes, this is bloody, brutal and necessary.
It is also the only way to defeat religious fanatics that use terrorism and deceit as their world conquest tactics of choice.
It’s also the only way we can neutralize Shia Iran’s lying promises.
Unfortunately, Western fantasies of fair play probably prohibit President Trump from doing the necessary killing.
In other words, as I and others have been saying all along, this is, or should be a war against Islam. Islam is at war with the world and unless and until we and the rest of the civilized world recognize this, sooner or later we and the civilized world will be subsumed into a new and permanent dark age. And this is not just the Shiites but the Sunnis as well.
This Memorial Day, as we approach our 250th anniversary of being a nation, feels and looks much different than it did 50 years ago. I remember it well. In the lead-up to the Bicentennial, red, white, and blue was everywhere.
Every brewery and soft drink manufacturer had special edition bicentennial cans. Parades were ubiquitous, with seemingly every third person dressed up as Uncle Sam.
Today? Nothing. For example, Starbucks, which always has a coffee blend or merchandise collection for every holiday occasion ,has ... something called a 'Miffy' collection for the summer. America 250?
Nothing.
Even shortly after coming out of a war which we did not win in 1975, there was far more unity in the nation in 1976 than there is in 2026.
The newly elected vice president of Massachusetts's top teachers' union is a longtime left-wing activist who has denounced the United States as a "fascist oligarchy," objected to national borders as a "construct of colonizers," and pushed resolutions condemning Israel as "genocidal."
Massachusetts, where, 250 years on, the shot heard round the world is a myth, or worse. If you wonder why multiple assassination attempts can happen and be cheered on, this is why.
The targeted strikes were done “to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces,” but the military was “using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire,” Capt. Tim Hawkins, the spokesman for the U.S. military’s Central Command, said in a statement as reported by AP. U.S. Launches Fresh Strikes on Iran Hitting Missile Sites, Minelaying Vessels
Trump’s comments followed a report Saturday from the New York Times citing two U.S. officials who said Iran had broadly agreed to surrender its near-weapons-grade uranium stockpile. Trump: Iran’s Enriched Uranium Will Be Turned Over to U.S. or Destroyed (if we get a chunk of moldy Halvah that'll be it - jjs)
His promise highlights the rising concern among middle-class voters that they and their children are being sidelined by local use of the federal government’s various visa-worker programs. Merrick is pledging to support Donald Trump’s immigration policy and to oppose doling out more H-1B work visas for migrants who are hoping to take jobs from Oklahomans. Migrant Work Visas: Oklahoma GOP Gov. Candidate Jake Merrick Slams H-1Bs
The pope entitled his first papal encyclical Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity: On the Protection of Human Dignity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence). At over 42,000 words in English across an introduction, five chapters and a conclusion, it represents the Church’s most extensive response to the effects of generative artificial intelligence — popularized by ChatGPT’s November 2022 release — and other contemporary technologies on human civilization and interpersonal relationships. Pope Leo (the Lip) Issues Sweeping Teaching On Upholding Human Worth In A World Embracing Artificial Intelligence
America cannot win the AI race by handing the future to woke monopolists using “safety” rhetoric to rig markets, crush competition, and protect power. Anthropic and the Rise of Woke AI
With Election Day just over five months away, the 2026 midterm election cycle has already seen a wide range of stunning upsets at the ballot box. The 10 Biggest Election Upsets Of 2026 — So Far
Democratic Socialist candidate Janeese Lewis George, 38, has emerged as the frontrunner in the city’s mayoral primary race. Uh Oh: DC May Be Poised to Elect a Mamdani of Its Own(what have they had since forever?! - jjs)
Federal investigators served subpoenas to Piker and Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin as part of a probe into the “Nuestra America Convoy,” according to Fox News. The convoy consisted of a group of North American and European activists who traveled to Havana in March, purportedly to offer humanitarian aid and protest President Donald Trump’s blockade of the island. Hasan Piker Admits Treasury Subpoena Over Cuba Trip ‘Not Great’
Victor Davis Hanson: Israel is condemned for surviving a massacre while regimes guilty of actual ethnic cleansing and mass slaughter escape outrage and scrutiny. Spare Us the Selective Outrage
The longer Pennsylvania waits, the more children will be placed on a “transgender” path they cannot reverse, and the more taxpayer dollars will be spent funding it. The cost of doing nothing
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The warning signs have been there for decades. Back in 1983, American author Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a powerful book — The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment — arguing that a male revolt was underway. Since the 1950s, she suggested, men had begun rebelling against the breadwinner ethic, inspired by Playboy culture, the counterculture and a desire for personal freedom. They were rejecting the cultural ideology that had shamed them into tying the knot and becoming a good provider, lest they be seen as immature, irresponsible and less than a real man.
Ehrenreich understood that marriage was the mechanism by which society harnessed male productivity. Remove the shame and the yoke comes off.
Forty years on, the yoke has disappeared. In April 2026, the American male labour force participation rate hit its lowest level since records began in the 1940s, according to the US Bureau of Labour Statistics. One in three American men — roughly 33% — were not working or actively looking for work. The overall male participation rate for men aged 16 and over stood at just 67%, down from 73.5% two decades ago and from 87% in the postwar years when Ehrenreich’s story begins.
The trend is not confined to America. Similar declines — though less dramatic than in the United States — have occurred in the UK, Australia and Canada.
The marriage collapse runs in lockstep with the workforce data. According to US Census Bureau data, married-couple households made up 71% of all US households in 1970; today it’s just 47%. As University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox documents in his 2024 book Get Married, the marriage rate has fallen 65% in the last half century.
TSA Says You Can Carry a Rotisserie Chicken in Your Carry-On: 'As Many as You Can Fit'
Exploring the TSA's quirky security rules that allow rotisserie chickens but restrict protein shakes.
Shortly after noon on Saturday, officers with the Scottsbluff Police Department responded to Short Stop, located at 2002 Avenue I, after receiving a report that an individual had been shot by a BB gun. While officers were en route, updated information indicated that the incident involved a shotgun.
Upon arrival, officers located a truck with an attached camper. The passenger side door panel of the vehicle had sustained damage consistent with a shotgun blast.
Through the preliminary investigation, officers determined that the owner of the truck had pulled into the convenience store to purchase merchandise. While the passenger of the truck was standing near the front passenger side door, a dog in the back seat moved from one side of the vehicle to the other. During that movement, the dog triggered a shotgun that had a live shell in the chamber, causing the firearm to discharge.
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A Memorial Day tribute to a fallen comrade – “Arnie Nakkerud, You Are Not Forgotten”
—Buck Throckmorton
An Ace of Spades reader sent me this touching essay written by her husband this Memorial Day to keep alive the memory of a fellow Army helicopter pilot who did not return from Vietnam.
I was a 20 year-old kid when I first met you at Ft. Wolters, Texas. We were both arriving to the base, young Army helicopter pilot cadets, class of 66-15. You were from Seattle and I was from a little coastal town, Hoquiam, in Washington State. Being from the same state is what we first had in common entering this new world of helicopter pilot training. That first meeting found us together through the checking-in process, being assigned rooms in the same barracks and attending classes together. We ran together when off-duty and also flew together during training.
We voluntarily held back a month after completing Fort Wolters training as our flight class was larger in numbers than Ft. Ruecker could accommodate. After that month of downtime, we arrived together with the class of 66-17 at Ft. Rucker, Alabama to complete our training. Through all of this, we continued as roommates, flying mates and running weekend trips to Panama City in my red 1963 Corvette. Memories of you, my friend, are many, some stories I can tell and some stories I will not tell.
To this day, your presence continues within me as a great friend who had a truly positive impact on my life and times while in the Army helicopter flight program.
You taught me how to be me and to open up and enjoy life. You taught me that in your presence, I was always laughing at your antics and wantings to bend the rules just enough to afforded us getting away with living the colors of life, closer to the edge. How many weekends we danced and drank the nights away on the beaches of Panama City, Florida.
I remember the trip one weekend when we hopped in the Corvette, top down just after being released Saturday morning. We skipped breakfast, threw some clothes in the back, topped off the gas tank and left Ft. Rucker for Panama City. We stopped in a small store for a quart of milk and a bag of Oreo cookies that we shared as our breakfast while driving south down the back roads. The weekend was ahead of us and we owned it!
A few miles down the road and in one of the dry counties, an old Sheriff pulled us over to check the car for alcohol. He found us drinking milk from a quart carton and finishing off a bag of Oreo cookies. We explained to him that we were helicopter flight cadets at Ft. Rucker and were on our way to spend the weekend at Panama City. The sheriff checked our milk carton for alcohol as that would have been the things young guys like us would do. But no. We were indeed telling the truth, milk and cookies.
There were many cars that day pulled off the road and being checked for alcohol. Folks were out of their cars as sheriff deputies checked their vehicles. The sheriff tipped his hat to us for being the "outstanding young men we said we were" and let us leave the line-up to get back on the road.
You and I laughed so hard several miles down the road when you pulled out the 5th of whiskey you had tucked under your seat. To this day, I still laugh about so many of those moments we shared.
The last time I saw you my friend was while placing a photo of you at the "Wall" in Washington DC, 2005. To this day, I weep as I am now.
I do look forward to the day when I do get to see you again. I am hopeful we are afforded the time to sit, talk and catch up on stories. Knowing you as well as I did here, I bet you have stories and stories to tell. You are not now nor never will be forgotten, my friend.
Podcast: CBD and J.J. Sefton discuss the newest iteration of the Iranian negotiations, with the hope that the President will stick to his guns and get rid of the nuclear material, Minneapolis mayor Frey is scum, and an idiot, Artificial Intelligence, and more!
Polls close in Texas at 7pm local (8pm for the East Coast). Vote the RINO out.
Those of you who are longtime Not Watchers of Stephen Colbert will not enjoy this flashback of Colbert dancing with Chuck Schumer while wearing ostentatious covid masks
Rush Limbaugh was an innovator in so many ways, including being among the first to not watch Stephen Colbert
DNI Tulsi Gabbard tenders her resignation for June 30, says her husband has been diagnosed with a rare bone cancer and she will have to help him through this
Podcast: CBD and Jim Lakely of The Heartland Institute chat about Heartland's two recent discussions: The affordability crisis in America, and The UN retreating from their most maniacal climate projections. Along the way we talk Democrat insanity and the changing electoral map...and more!
After threatening that the "clock is ticking" for renewed strikes on Iran, Trump once again calls them off to give negotiating a chance. I can't even cover this any more. It's embarrassing. It's like covering the endless negotiations over DHS funding. Trump is going to drag this out through the midterms and then lose them.
Note to the president: At some point, allowing the Regime to remain in power without actually forcing them to give up nukes is just a back-door, unacknowledged renewal of the Obama policy. Well, I guess we just have to wait for their economy to collapse and their troops to desert.
Podcast: Sefton and CBD are joined by Jeff Carter, candidate for NV treasurer, and seasoned finance professional, for a discussion of the issues facing Nevadans, and the larger financial challenges in America.
Few people remember that Norm MacDonald began his career as a ventriloquist MacDonald's old partner Adam Egot revealed that MacDonald repurposed a bit with one of his ventriloquist dolls -- that he was a "bad guy" who "didn't believe the Holocaust happened" -- for the Norm MacDonald show, in which he claimed Egot didn't believe in the Holocaust.
Funniest thing I've read about the Virginia mess. Back when they were hustling the referendum through the assembly both Senators, Warner and Kaine, advised them to go slow and play by the rules. Louise Lucas said she respected them but didn't need advice from the "cuck chair" in the corner. The gerrymandering was overturned and Louise is heading for the big house. Edward G. Robinson voice "where's your cuck now?"
Posted by: Smell the Glove
"Ahhhhh ahh I put my career on the line for Louise Lucas and Jay Jones thinking they'd vault me into presidential contention and we ended up costing Democrats 20 House seats and unleashing a Reverse Dobbs ahhhhh ahhh"
"It's f**king f**ked." -- reportedly a genuine comment offered by a "senior Labour source" Correction: I wrote that Labour is losing 88% (now 87%) of the seats it is "defending." I think that's wrong. The right way to say it is the seats they are contesting -- that is, they don't necessarily already hold these seats, but they have put up a candidate to run for the seat. It's still very bad but not as bad as losing 87% of the seats they already held.
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