Summer Fishing Highlights

The summer months offer a wide range of recreational fishing and crabbing opportunities in Maryland, whether it be the nontidal waters, the Chesapeake Bay, or the waters near Ocean City and Assateague Island.

Freshwater Fishing

In the nontidal or what are commonly called freshwater fishing areas there are a world of possibilities. Starting from the far western regions of Maryland, there is Deep Creek Lake, which is a popular summer vacation destination. Deep Creek Lake holds a wide variety of fish species, just waiting for anglers. Several reservoirs in the central region of Maryland hold excellent populations of freshwater fish. The smaller lakes and ponds that are spread across Maryland all offer fun fishing and are often close to home. The freshwater hot spots webpage can take you to some of the freshwater fishing destinations.

Chesapeake Bay 

Fishing in the Chesapeake during the summer months always hold adventure for anglers. There are smaller fish such as spot, croaker and white perch and larger fish in the form of striped bass and bluefish. Large red drum and cobia await the more adventurous anglers. Anglers can also set out on their own or hire a fishing charter or guide to show them their expertise. Then there is recreational crabbing for Maryland’s famous blue crab. Recreational crabbing can be as simple as a few hand lines with bait off a dock to using collapsible crab traps or trotlines if one has a recreational crabbing license.

On The Coast
The popular summer vacation destination of Ocean City awaits anglers wishing to try their luck at fishing for flounder in the coastal bays and inlet area at Ocean City. The beaches of Assateague Island await surf anglers trying their luck for a variety of large and medium-sized fish. Ocean City has a large fleet of charter boats ready to take anglers to the offshore waters for species such as tuna and marlin. Anglers wishing to jump aboard a day fishing boat, often called party boats, can fish for black sea bass and flounder.

This summer, Youth Fishing rodeos continue to provide anglers aged 5-13 the chance to practice fishing. Check the Fishing Events page for updates on other fishing events.

June  Events

• June 13 – Free Fishing Day
• June 13 – Snakes on the Dundee
• June 13 – Eric Altemus Memorial Catfish Tournament
• June 13 – Battie Mixon Youth Fishing Rodeo
• June 13 – DeSimon Pond Youth Fishing Rodeo
• June 13 – Bynum Run Youth Fishing Rodeo
• June 13 – Spring Valley Fishing Lake Youth Fishing Rodeo
• June 20 – Youth Bass Bash – Sharpsburg Pond
• June 20 – Brownsville Pond Youth Fishing Rodeo
• June 20 – South Pond Youth Fishing Rodeo
• June 20 – Burkittsville Town Pond Youth Fishing Rodeo
• June 21 – Catfish Pond Youth Fishing Rodeo
• June 27 – Youth Bass Bash – Woodsboro Pond

July  Events

• July 4   – Free Fishing Day
• July 12 – Lake Halcyon Youth Fishing Rodeo
• July 18 – South Pond Youth Fishing Rodeo

August Events

• August 14 – Bynum Run Pond Youth Fishing Rodeo
• August 15 – Catfish Pond Youth Fishing Rodeo

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President Donald Trump on Thursday offered a preview of what is in store for Iran, outlining a one-two punch that would lead to American control of Iran’s energy production.

“The United States will be hitting Iran (Whose Navy, Air Force, Radar, Anti Aircraft, and all other forms of Defense, together with most of its offensive capability, are GONE!), VERY HARD TONIGHT,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“At some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets.”

Trump said taking control will work “much like we have with Venezuela, which is working out brilliantly for both Venezuela and the United States of America.”

According to CNBC, about 90 percent of Iran’s oil exports went through Kharg Island before the war.

CNBC reported that Trump told Fox News said he is unsure “America has the stomach” to carry out his plan.

“I think they’d like to see us come home, but we did it with Venezuela,” Trump said. “Venezuela’s worked out great for everybody.”

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El Nino has arrived, and weather experts fear the global climate phenomenon may be primed to match a deadly event that led to the deaths of more than 50 million people.

The natural climate pattern occurs when warmer-than-usual waters in the Pacific change the weather around the world for a minimum of several months.

Ocean conditions have now warmed to the point where El Nino is active and will likely continue well into next year, officials declared on Thursday.

A spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said: ‘El Nino conditions are present and expected to strengthen into the Northern Hemisphere winter 2026-27.’

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In response to a question on the topic posed by ZeroHedge reporter Liam Cosgrove, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently addressed the astronomical increase in alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-borne infection that causes potentially life-threatening allergic reactions to red meat:

“Last week, I went to New Hampshire… to address this explosion of alpha-gal, and we take it very seriously. One of the epicenters is Martha’s Vineyard where 50% of the adult population is now affected. It is really a devastating disease. You can’t eat red meat for the rest of your life. We are looking at medications that can serve as both prophylactics and also potentially cures for it. We’re funding those studies now and we’re working with the companies that are making those. We’ve also launched a major effort on tick control through a number of different strategies that address deer populations… Three ticks that are causing these, most of the tick-borne diseases, all breed on deer. And we’re looking at strategies for eliminating their breeding capacity.”

Over the last month, a groundswell of anecdotal accounts and videos from farmers and ranchers across the country have flooded social media, depicting massive tick infestations on their properties.

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A beautiful young life was snuffed out in the most senseless way possible — knifed in the heart in what should have been a completely safe place: a high school track meet.

And another young man, seemingly once promising, is going to prison for 35 years for fatally stabbing him.

It truly cannot get more depressing than the case of Austin Metcalf, killed by Karmelo Anthony in 2025.

But because Metcalf was white and Anthony is black, this  has been turned into a toxic stew of racial grievances, exacerbating an already heartbreaking story.

Outside Karmelo Anthony’s trial, protesters called out to “Free Karmelo” and called the verdict racist.The Dallas Morning News via Getty Images

Throughout the trial, protesters have demonstrated outside the Collin County courthouse, ranting that a guilty verdict would be racism. On social media, some have ghoulishly celebrated Metcalf’s death, while race hustlers like US Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) are trying to turn this avoidable tragedy into a racial reckoning for a broken nation.

“Black women live in fear and agony every single day. A fear and agony, I promise you the Metcalfs probably never spent a day living that way,” she so callously said in an episode of her podcast, “Clock It with Crockett.”

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Do Libtards even know what “PHOBE” means? While you call us fake names we are not in fear/phobe of any of you. 

Why does your party keep trying to imply you are all about loving others? Peaceful protests, while you destroy and burn.

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California Democrats have rigged another election, and outsider Spencer Pratt has been bumped from the Los Angeles mayoral race.  On Election Day, Pratt’s lead over third-place Nithya Raman was so large that she publicly cried over her loss.  After a week of mail-in-ballot shenanigans, Raman has surged to secure a coveted spot on the November ballot — a statistical improbability in any jurisdiction familiar with arithmetic and basic ethics.

This “come from behind victory” has made it difficult for the usual election-fraud-deniers to pretend that California’s elections are free, fair, legal, or remotely based in reality.  I noticed that National Review writer Dan McLaughlin — who spent a lot of time after 2020’s stolen election defending Joe Biden’s “victory” — felt compelled to make this small concession: “I’m suspicious of the voting in LA.  For now, in the absence of evidence, that’s just vague suspicion unsupported by proof, but the vote-counting process reeks.”

I wrote a number of essays describing the historic irregularities of the 2020 election after Joe Biden supposedly “won” more than fifteen million extra votes than Barack Obama had secured in his re-election victory.  In the 2020 election, President Trump won almost every traditional bellwether county across the country by double-digits.  He expanded his voter support in almost every demographic and did better with black voters than any Republican since Eisenhower.  He exceeded expectations in swing states.

Economic variables and historic precedent strongly forecast a Trump victory.  It was entirely reasonable to look at the statistical improbabilities of the 2020 election outcome (another race that was “decided” more than four days after Election “Day”) and conclude that the numbers did not make sense.

It was entirely appropriate for Americans to gather outside the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and demand that Congress refrain from certifying an election irreparably tainted by mail-in-ballot fraud.  Nevertheless, McLaughlin took time to mock me (and many others) and suggest that I had never heard of “split-ticket” voting.  McLaughlin-type pundits have a difficult time understanding anybody who doesn’t blithely repeat back talking points mass-distributed by the corporate “news” machine.

It strikes me as ridiculous that McLaughlin finds it necessary to couch his “suspicions” about California’s elections behind verbal acknowledgments that, absent “evidence” and “proof” of fraud, no clear conclusions can be drawn.  If you arrive home to find your front door smashed open, your house ransacked, and all your valuables missing, it is not a “vague suspicion” to conclude that your home has been burgled.

I get the sense that McLaughlin would tell police, “In the absence of evidence, any conclusion that I’m the victim of burglary is just vague suspicion unsupported by proof.”  I think this is why common-sense Americans have no interest in listening to pundits these days; doing so requires a level of pretending that makes most people feel dirty.

I don’t know Dan.  Maybe he’s a nice guy.  Maybe he believes what he writes.  But he seems like somebody who would defend a future Democrat president who rounds all of us up into “MAGA Camps,” so long as CNN quoted Eric Holder as saying that the whole thing was legal and right.  At some point, a person has to put his “thinking cap” on and start asking questions.

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Democrats defended the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and its mission to manufacture hate hoaxes and target conservatives by claiming Tuesday that the SPLC is basically a government law enforcement agency and also not at all anything like a government law enforcement agency.

At the second edition of the House Judiciary Committee hearing series “The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate,” Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., indicated the SPLC has the same power and authority as the FBI or other government law enforcement agencies to maintain confidential informants in extremist groups — and, ostensibly, to then fundraise off the manufactured chaos.

In an exchange with Georgetown Law Professor Mary McCord, a Democrat witness, Raskin justified the SPLC’s alleged funding of people to be “undercover as informants to find out what these groups are doing.”

“It is a very useful law enforcement tool to use informants and … cooperators to learn more, not just about hate groups and potential domestic violent extremism, but also as a tool to dismantle drug trafficking groups and human trafficking,” McCord said, listing other law enforcement activities.

Raskin then drew a direct comparison to the FBI, stating, “If the FBI sent someone undercover to expose a mafia organization, narco-traffickers, international human traffickers, that wouldn’t mean that the FBI is supporting those groups, would it?”

McCord also shrugged at violence against conservatives, stating a Trump memorandum about combatting left-wing domestic terrorism “relies for support on the murder of Charlie Kirk, assassination attempts against the president and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and the so-called riots in protest of ICE activity.”

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Bill Gates told a House committee Wednesday that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein tried to leverage information about marital infidelity by the Microsoft founder against him.

The billionaire told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that the infidelity was separate from his ties with Epstein, who was charged in 2019 with sex trafficking of minors. Gates added that he was not aware of any criminal activity by Epstein while they maintained a relationship.

“I learned Epstein had become aware of sensitive information about my personal life, including the fact that I had been unfaithful in my marriage,” Gates said. “These affairs had nothing to do with my interactions with Epstein, but they were painful for my family.”

This marked the committee’s 15th interview in its investigation of Epstein’s ties to powerful individuals and how the government handled its probe of Epstein. Epstein was known for spending time with leaders in the corporate and political world, including Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.

While Gates’ interview with committee members was behind closed doors, and members were given one hour of question time, his written opening statement was made public. A full transcript of the interview will be released at a later date.

Gates said he initially thought Epstein would be a financial supporter of charitable efforts by the Gates Foundation. He said he later “concluded Epstein would never deliver on his promises.”

Gates said in his statement that it was a “grave error” to ever talk with Epstein. They first talked three years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction in Florida.

Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to felony solicitation of prostitution, as well as procurement of minors to engage in prostitution. He was arrested again in 2019 on new sex trafficking charges. Epstein died in a New York prison cell in 2019, which investigators determined was a suicide. His business associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, was sentenced in 2022 for conspiring with Epstein to sexually exploit and abuse minor girls.

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The Department of Homeland Security is “ahead of schedule and… below budget on building the border wall” from California’s beaches to the Texas coast, says Rodney Scott, the nation’s top border patrol leader.

“We’ll have the entire system — to include a secondary barrier in places we need it, the water barrier in the Rio Grande River, and the [monitoring] technology that was paid for by OB3 [One Big Beautiful Bill Act] — done by July 2028,” he told Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies.

Scott explained:

Trump 45 got a bunch of border wall money in place, OB3 added to that. The [Joe] Biden administration did everything they could to prevent the border wall from being built, but Congress never rescinded that money, so they could not legally shut off the contracts. They couldn’t legally officially stop it, they just slow-rolled it for four years and wasted millions, actually probably billions of dollars.

We turned that back on on January 20. We kicked that back into place and started leveraging that money. And then the Big Beautiful Bill provided $46.5 billion to finish building out the smart border wall system.

It’s not just a wall… It is a barrier. There’s a 30-foot-high bollard wall that everybody’s familiar with. They see it. But I call it a smart wall because it’s infused with technology that allows our agents to be spread out farther. It cues them when anybody’s even close to it. It also includes some camera systems. The primary border wall will — I’ve made a commitment to the president — be done by the end of 2027.

Everywhere the border patrol has plans to build that wall will be done in 2027.

There are a couple of gaps, but basically from San Diego all the way to the Gulf. The only places we’re not building a border wall is places where we’ve made a conscious decision that we don’t need it. Big Bend National Park, for example, super remote area with very high cliffs, you can’t drive through the area… I’m not into wasting taxpayers’ money.

The barrier will be deepened by July 2028, he said:

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Hersheypark, the iconic chocolate-themed Pennsylvania amusement park, turned into a frightening chaos for families on opening day when dozens of kids and teens began fighting and forcing rides to stop.

Nearly two months later, Derry Township Police announced that 55 individuals between the ages of 12 and 19 had been criminally charged in connection with the brawl. Just three of those charged are adults: Omar Ibraham, 19; Jerome Ross III, 18; and Quaneek Williams, 18.

Charges include simple assault, conspiracy, theft, failure to disperse, disorderly conduct, aggravated assault, riot, and other misdemeanor and felony offenses.

The incident took place on Friday, April 3, during the park’s 120th season opener.

Park security reported multiple groups of teenagers fighting in various areas.

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Ever since his firing from 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley has been on a personal press tour, bellyaching about CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss wrecking – in his belief – one of the last bastions of truth in the news media.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

From the infamous Rathergate – where former CBS News anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes used forged documents in a hit piece about President George W. Bush’s National Guard Service to correspondent Lesley Stahl dismissing President Donald Trump on Hunter Biden’s laptop – even editing out his responses – the long-running show has abandoned journalistic ethics when it comes to covering conservatives and Republicans.

On the flipside, it’s run cover and offered softball coverage for Democrats like President Barack Obama, both Bill and Hillary Clinton, and used deceptive editing tactics to cover up former Vice President Kamala Harris’s gaffes.

NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham put it best in this 2024 column: “Nobody in TV news has been more overpraised than 60 Minutes. This horde of urbane leftist snobs has concocted syrupy minutes for Democrats (especially Barack Obama) and salty minutes for Republicans (especially Trump).”

What follows is just a sampling of leftist agenda (via the MRC archives) forwarded by Pelley and his fellow 60 Minutes blabbers Lesley Stahl, Morley Safer, Mike Wallace and Andy Rooney:

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The extravagant self-righteousness and social engineering of the progressive elite, who celebrate multiculturalism as the pinnacle of civilization, come at a high price in human lives.

Henry Nowak was an 18-year-old university student from Essex. On December 3, 2025, he died on the streets of Southampton, stabbed to death by Vickrum Digwa. To carry out his crime, the latter used a 21-cm long blade carried under the auspices of Sikh religious exemption. The murder has become another harrowing emblem of Britain’s descent into multicultural anarchy.

To evade justice, Digwa and his family—living nearby—swiftly coordinated a grotesque deception. While his mother concealed the murder weapon, his brother called the police. Fabricating the seductive narrative of something as reprehensible as a “racist attack,” he cast Nowak as the aggressor. The authorities, conditioned by years of institutional hypersensitivity to racism allegations, accepted this inversion at face value. When officers arrived, they neglected the physical condition of the dying young Englishman. Indifferent to his tormented expression, anemic skin, and prostration, they resorted to force as they recorded the attacker’s mendacious claims.

At the same time, Nowak’s murder is an incomprehensible tragedy and a predictable symptom of a deeper civilizational malaise: the deliberate subordination of native British life, rooted in Judeo-Christian traditions of ordered liberty, individual dignity, and equal justice, to a relativist-destructive ideology of anti-Western pluralism that privileges imported customs over public safety and cultural cohesion.

A young man of promise—ambitious, kind, the first in his family to attend university—was savagely cut down. In his dying moments, adding insult to injury, Nowak suffered the inhumane and degrading spectacle of police manhandling him on the word of his attacker, the latter clinging unmoved to his false narrative.

The family’s grief, articulated with raw eloquence by Nowak’s sister Olivia and mother Lucy Ross, reveals a pain that “a lot of myself died when he died,” a void that no multicultural platitude can fill.

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With expectations of a 4%-plus print, all eyes are on this morning’s CPI report as we move past April’s shutdown-related distortions.

Headline CPI rose 0.5% MoM (as expected) in May, lifting prices 4.2% YoY (also as expected). The first 4%-plus print since April 2023…

Core Goods prices deflated in May while Energy remains a notable contributor…

CPI details:

Headline: The all items index rose 4.2 percent for the 12 months ending May, after rising 3.8 percent for the 12 months ending April. The all items less food and energy index rose 2.9 percent over the year, following a 2.8-percent increase over the 12 months ending April. The energy index increased 23.5 percent for the 12 months ending May. The food index increased 3.1 percent over the last year

• The index for energy rose 3.9% in May, after rising 3.8% in April and 10.9% in March. The energy index accounted for over 60% of the monthly all items increase. The index for shelter also increased in May, rising 0.3 percent.
• The food index increased 0.2% over the month as the food at home index rose 0.1% and the food away from home index increased 0.3%.

This is the first deflationary print for goods prices in a year…

• Household furnishings and Supplies -0.042%
• Transportation Commodities less motor oil: -0.49%
• Medical Care Commodities -0.54%

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Summary

• Trump to FOX: ‘We’ll bomb the shit out of them tomorrow night.’” The president declared “we’ll bomb them to rubble” again tomorrow night if there is no deal by then. US says strikes completed tonight.
• The IRGC is claiming to have struck 18 US military targets in two waves – including attack on Bahrain’s US Fifth Fleet HQ.
• US begins strikes on Iran for second straight night: according to Centcom, “US forces began launching additional self-defense strikes today at 5:15 p.m. ET against multiple targets in Iran at the Commander in Chief’s direction. The strikes are in response to Iran’s unwarranted and continued aggression.”
• Explosions had been heard in the Iranian towns of Sirik, Manab, Bandar Abbas and Bushehr,
• Hegseth confirms imminent attacks on key Iranian facilities
• Trump says “Will be attacking Iran hard again today”
• Trump says “secret mission” has reopened the Strait
• Trump tells Fox he “may keep going” with strikes.
• Trump says Iran took too long to negotiate, and now “will have to pay the price”.
• Tehran claims prior night attacks in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan as fulfilment of its previously vowed ‘retaliation’ – targeted the Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, footage shows.
• Iran again signals it could cut off all indirect talks & any negotiations, says it is ‘reviewing’ US talks after latest exchange of missiles.

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Trump Warns: “We’ll Bomb the Shit Out of Them” if No Deal

Fox News’ Trey Yingst has issued a new reporting update, quickly on the heels of a fresh Trump-ordered bombing of Iran. He says: “I asked the president what will happen if the Iranians don’t sign an agreement that was put forward by American negotiators. President Trump said, ‘We’ll bomb the shit out of them tomorrow night.’” The president declared “we’ll bomb them to rubble” again tomorrow night if there is no deal by then.

US MILITARY SAYS IT HAS COMPLETED LATEST STRIKES IN IRAN

Tonight’s aggression has prompted Tehran to once again declare the Strait of Hormuz closed to “all types of vessels”. Bombs have not yet fallen directly on the capital, but reportedly outside of it. This could quickly change. Importantly concerning Trump’s latest claims, Iranian leadership is denying that it engaged Trump directly tonight. The highlights from Fox’s Yingst:

• The President told me he spoke directly with Iranian officials tonight who asked him to stop bombing.
• 49 Tomahawk missiles had been fired by the United States at the time we spoke, along with bombing from fighter jets.
• Closest target to Tehran was approximately 40 miles outside of the city.
• Trump added that the bombing will stop shortly, but that if they don’t sign the agreement, “we’ll bomb the shit out of them.”
• President Trump called this “the most violated ceasefire in the history of the world.” V
• Vice President JD Vance told me the United States is dealing with both moderate and more extreme voices in Iran as part of the negotiation process.

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Drinks can spike blood sugar and increase risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease, doctors say

The latest beverage trend is far from clean – and it’s raising red flags with doctors.

Known as a “dirty soda,” it’s a soft drink that also includes a combination of added ingredients, such as flavored syrups, creamers, fruit juices and other garnishes. The result is a sweet beverage that’s a combination of a soda, mocktail and dessert.

Dirty sodas can easily deliver 250-400 calories and 55-70 grams of sugar in a single drink – which is often more than double the American Heart Association’s daily added sugar limit, according to Erin Palinski-Wade, a New Jersey-based registered dietitian.

“It’s more like a dessert beverage than a soft drink, even if people use diet soda as the base,” she told Fox News Digital.

The drinks are most dangerous for those with insulin resistance, prediabetes or diabetes, Palinski-Wade warned.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) could be “in a lot of trouble” for allegedly steering taxpayer money toward “fraudulent schemes,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said in the latest episode of “Pod Force One.”

The Kentucky Republican lauded the Trump administration’s latest efforts “to prosecute people in Minnesota” for alleged fraud and making an example out of “that Somali crime ring up there,” before suggesting Omar could eventually be a target of the crackdown.

“I do think Ilhan Omar is in a lot of trouble,” Comer told “Pod Force One” host Miranda Devine.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) could be “in a lot of trouble” for allegedly steering taxpayer money toward “fraudulent schemes,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said in the latest episode of “Pod Force One.”

The Kentucky Republican lauded the Trump administration’s latest efforts “to prosecute people in Minnesota” for alleged fraud and making an example out of “that Somali crime ring up there,” before suggesting Omar could eventually be a target of the crackdown.

“I do think Ilhan Omar is in a lot of trouble,” Comer told “Pod Force One” host Miranda Devine.

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“The United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack,” President Trump announced Tuesday of Iran’s shootdown of a US Apache attack chopper over the Strait of Hormuz.

Central Command soon launched “proportional strikes,” which don’t sound like enough: The prez needs to show he’s serious, or Tehran will keep trying to play him for a sucker as it has every president going back to Jimmy Carter.

Consider: Trump told the press just hours before that attack, “We’re very close to having a very, very good, strong, powerful deal.”

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Vice President Vance said late Monday that he will refer Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz 

The report said Walz and Ellison were aware of widespread fraud and government failures that led to an estimated $300 million in federal child nutrition funds and potentially $9 billion in Medicaid-related funds to be “lost” or placed at “serious risk.”

In a letter to Vance, whom President Trump tapped to serve as fraud czar, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) asked the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud and the Trump administration to investigate Minnesota’s social service programs.

“I’ve referred these allegations to DOJ’s new Fraud Division for criminal investigation,” the vice president wrote on social platform X.

“Minnesota state officials are not above the law, and if they facilitated fraud, lied under oath about what they knew, or harassed and intimated whistleblowers, they must face justice,” he added.

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A county executive in Maryland denied the existence of nude photographs of herself that were allegedly sent to a sheriff’s deputy, but a letter she wrote that was recently made public contradicts her claim.

Wicomico County Executive Julie Giordano gave a fiery press conference on Wednesday morning, during which she attempted to put to rest a years-old local sex scandal involving herself and the Wicomico Sheriff’s Office.

‘These allegations are false,’ Giordano said. ‘The alleged photographs have never been produced because they do not exist. And as county executive, I have never sent inappropriate photographs to a deputy or to anybody else.’

But later that same day, Spotlight on Maryland obtained a copy of a letter penned by Giordano in which she appeared to admit that the photos did exist and requested that an investigation into ‘alleged sharing of pornographic images of me’ be conducted.

The letter, which was obtained through a public records request, was dated September 12, 2024, and written on official county letterhead. It was addressed to Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis.

‘I am writing to formally request an investigation into the alleged sharing of pornographic images of me by one of your deputies,’ the county executive wrote.

‘It is deeply concerning that a deputy would share such a photo, and even more troubling that you have acknowledged possessing such an image.’

Giordano accused a deputy of sharing the nude photos as a form of ‘revenge porn’ and said that Sheriff Lewis told another local official that under state law, revenge porn only applies if the involved parties were in an intimate relationship.

Julie Giordano, Maryland’s Wicomico County executive, denied the existence of nude photographs of herself at a press conference on Wednesday

A letter written by Giordano and sent to Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis contradicts her claim that the photos do not exist

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Outgoing Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) went on an unhinged screaming rant against White men on Tuesday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, probing the Southern Poverty Law Center’s funding of extremist groups to weaponize the government against conservatives. 

Crockett will be leaving Congress after losing her primary for US Senate in Texas.

A federal indictment charges the SPLC with wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering after funneling millions in tax-exempt funds to neo-Nazi groups and manufacturing the hate they claim to combat. The group used its power over the Biden Justice Department and FBI to target conservative groups like Moms for Liberty, Turning Point USA, Alliance Defending Freedom, and pro-life Catholics.

Crockett used her time during the hearing to rail against Republicans for questioning the SPLC’s illegal tactics and scream about “White men.” Using her heavily emphasized fake black accent, Crockett launched her racist attack, saying Republicans on the Committee are not credible because “the vast majority of them are White men.”

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There is certainly a new flavor of socialism emerging amongst the younger generation. The updated addition to the socialist dogma is tinged with what is called the Me-First perspective, the current rallying cry for a new batch of socialists attempting to upset the economic apple cart. This latest flavor is not too far from the traditional utopian idea that socialism could work somehow if all that is tweaked are price controls, the elimination of private ownership, slowing down market forces, and stifling entrepreneurial incentive and motivation. In other words, the new age socialists’ prevailing cry for a socialist fix to the economy is to upset the apple cart for their own subsidization and effectively taxing everyone else. Put another way, it is about satisfying their wants using your means. Why do they use capitalist means of production to establish a socialist economy? Why doesn’t the new age socialist have a socialist means of production?

The problem with the Gen Z new age socialist frame of thought is that they have no means of production of their own. Put plainly, there are no such things as socialist means of production or economic market tools; if so, what are they? To Gen Z, putting private property in someone else’s hands and tweaking the economy to their benefit sounds workable, but the basic reality is very scary: they are under the impression that a socialist economy will solve their problems, and everyone else’s for that matter, because in their minds all you have to do is control prices, increase minimums, put a cap on this, overtax the other, overregulate this and that, confiscate wealth, and so on. Yet here is the red pill: the previously listed points are capitalist means of production for a market economy; without a socialist means of production, none of the utopian ideas are workable.

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Everywhere else in American politics this year, the progressive movement has stopped pretending. The activists who spent a decade insisting a man could become a woman now say it to your face and dare you to object. The candidates who once smuggled their radicalism past voters in soft language have decided the soft language is no longer worth the trouble. The mask is off — nearly everywhere.

Then there is James Talarico. The Texas Democrats’ nominee for United States Senate, set to face Attorney General Ken Paxton in November, is doing the one thing the rest of his movement has abandoned. He is putting the mask back on, and he is doing it in real time, in front of us, with the cameras rolling. A Democrat has not won a Senate seat in Texas since the 1980s, and Talarico has evidently concluded that the only way to break that streak is to convince Texans he is not the man his own record says he is.

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The students found out their dorms held more than 330 cameras from their own newspaper, not the school that installed them.

San Diego State University spent more than $1.3 million turning its campus into one of the most heavily watched in the California State University system and the students who study and live there learned the full scope from their own newspaper rather than from the administration.

University Police finished installing over 1,300 AI-enabled cameras in 2024, threading them through classroom buildings, bookstores, dining areas, parking structures, gyms and the residence halls where students sleep.

The picture only came together after investigative journalism students at The Daily Aztec pried the camera locations loose with a public records request.

Where the cameras went says a lot about who the system is built to watch. More than 330 of them point at student housing, close to 28 percent of the entire network.

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The Trump administration on Monday announced it is seeking to revoke the citizenship of 17 U.S. citizens accused of immigration fraud, expanding its unprecedented denaturalization campaign.

CBS News exclusively reported about the plans before they were unveiled by the Justice Department.

Officials said the move represents the largest-ever effort by the U.S. government to use its denaturalization powers, which were rarely invoked before President Trump returned to the White House last year with promises to launch a historic deportation blitz. Between 1990 and 2017, the Justice Department filed an average of just 11 legal complaints per year seeking to denaturalize American citizens, historical figures indicate.

Federal law has long allowed the government to try to denaturalize foreign-born U.S. citizens who officials believe committed fraud to obtain their citizenship, such as by concealing information, like criminal conduct, on their immigration applications. But the process has been historically lengthy, complex and seldom exercised, requiring officials to persuade judges to strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship in civil or criminal proceedings in federal court.

The Trump administration has sought to vastly escalate denaturalization efforts as part of its larger crackdown on illegal and legal immigration. In 2025, the Justice Department broadened the categories of naturalized citizens who should be prioritized for denaturalization. Last month, officials announced a dozen denaturalization cases, at the time the largest such effort in years.

Some of the 17 citizens targeted in the latest denaturalization campaign were convicted of violent or serious crimes, including sex offenses against children. Others were convicted of fraud crimes or accused of committing immigration fraud.

In federal court complaints filed across the country in recent days, Justice Department officials argued that the individuals concealed their criminal activity when they applied for U.S. citizenship or were otherwise ineligible to be naturalized, including because they lacked a “good moral character,” one of the requirements in the naturalization process.

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New Jersey is known as the Garden State, and honestly, if you get out of Newark or any of the other cities into the western and northern parts of the state, you really can see why. But New Jersey’s main garden crop these days seems to be questionable voter registrations. We have now learned that not only were noncitizens on the voter rolls in New Jersey, but some appear to actually have voted.

Noncitizens in a key blue state were on the voter rolls for years — and some even voted in prior elections, according to documents obtained via public records request.

The New Jersey Republican Party (NJGOP) and the Republican National Committee (RNC) requested voter rolls from all 21 counties in the Garden State and found multiple instances of noncitizens seeking naturalization asking to be removed from the rolls, claiming they were unknowingly registered to vote. Most were registered as Democrats.

Noncitizens cannot vote in state or federal elections, and the candidates for citizenship worried that being on the rolls would disqualify them.

Most were registered as Democrats. You don’t say.

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James Welsch teaches American politics at a high school in Maine. His classroom runs almost entirely on screens — students write blog posts, trade articles, pull up videos mid-discussion. A few years ago, he noticed something wrong with the writing. Essays submitted digitally had grown choppy. Whole passages looked copied. The fluency he expected wasn’t there. So he changed the routine. In some courses, Welsch now requires students to write first drafts by hand.

He is not alone in noticing. He is just one of the first to admit it out loud.

American schools spent roughly $30 billion on education technology in 2024 — ten times what they spent on textbooks the same year. The goal was to modernize instruction, close equity gaps, and prepare students for a digital future. What happened instead is now making its way through Congressional testimony, international research, and the quiet policy reversals of school districts from Kansas to North Carolina that would rather not talk about how much they spent on devices that are sitting in carts at the back of classrooms.

In January 2025, neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath sat before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and said what the ed-tech industry had spent years hoping no one would say under oath: Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to score lower than their parents on numeracy, literacy, and creativity. He had the data — Program for International Student Assessment scores showing a direct correlation between classroom screen time and cognitive decline. IQ scores in Western nations rose for over a century. They reversed right around when the devices arrived.

International research backs him up. Studies consistently find that students comprehend text more deeply on paper than on a screen, make more connections, and score significantly higher on reading comprehension tests when they read in print. An OECD analysis found that the more time students spend on computers during the school day, the lower their test scores — and that students using devices more than six hours a day scored two full letter grades lower than those who used no computers at all.

Other countries figured this out before we did and are already reversing course. Sweden — one of the first nations to replace textbooks with screens, back in 2009 — is now investing to put paper textbooks back in the hands of every student, after concluding that attention spans shortened and learning did not improve. France, Italy, the Netherlands, and China have introduced nationwide restrictions on devices in schools. South Korea passed a law in 2025 banning phones and smart devices during class hours entirely.

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WASHINGTON (TNND) — Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said that nearly 700,000 SNAP fraudsters have been found in cooperating states, calling it the “tip of the iceberg.”

“Under @POTUS and @VP’s leadership, we’re winning the fight against SNAP fraud,” Rollins posted on X Sunday.

“Right after I took office, we asked every state to share their data so we could go after the fraud we knew was plaguing the program. Red states, and even a few blue, stepped up. What we uncovered was staggering:

Nearly 200,000 fraudsters using dead people’s Social Security numbers

Nearly 500,000 fraudsters collecting benefits in multiple states”

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Eliot Abramson, a 17-year-old sophomore, spent nearly a week in intensive care after collapsing on the field

A Washington high school lacrosse star died after a regular play turned tragic on the field.

Eliot Abramson, a 17-year-old midfielder at Mercer Island High School near Seattle, was competing in a college recruiting showcase on June 1 when the incident occurred.

The 6-foot-2 sophomore had been involved in Mercer Island lacrosse since elementary school when he was struck by a fast-moving lacrosse ball at the base of his neck.

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The sign above the door has changed but a familiar figure is seen striding purposefully towards the front entrance.

Dr Milton McNichol might have shuttered his scandal-plagued IVF clinic after an alleged embryo mix-up led to a white couple having a ‘non-Caucasian’ baby, but a Daily Mail investigation can reveal he is still treating patients out of the exact same Florida office.

‘As an employee. I was the owner previously,’ insisted 63-year-old McNichol, who was president and head endocrinologist of the Fertility Center of Orlando until it ceased operations on May 20.

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Summary:

• US begins ‘self defense’ strikes against Iran
• Iran threatens retaliation after US retaliatory strikes
• Trump says ‘US must respond’ after Iran downed Apache over Strait 
• Trump says Washington and Tehran are in the “final throes” of cementing a deal, “two or three days”
• Iran shoots down US Apache helicopter over Strait, crew safe
• Despite Trump calls for Israeli ceasefire, casualties are rising in southern Lebanon

So much for the early hopes of an imminent deal…

US Begins “Self Defense” Strikes Against Iran, Iran Threatens Re-Retaliation

Just as President Trump has warned, US Central Command has just tweeted confirmation that the US military began ‘self defense’ strikes against Iran:

“U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. ET today at the Commander in Chief’s direction, in response to yesterday’s downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter.

The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.”

The extent of the latest strikes wasn’t immediately clear but they further undercut an already fragile ceasefire signed in April.

A US official tells Fox that airstrikes targeting Iran are “ongoing” and targets include air defenses and radar installations.

IRNA reports explosions in Iran’s Hormozgan province, while IRIB reports aerial attacks in Qeshm, Sirik and Bandar Abbas with six explosions reported in Qeshm

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It’s not often life showcases a problem in real time. It is now in the form of California and the Senate.

It’s become clear that California voting is designed to give Democrats the ability to cheat.  Aside from Ranked Choice Voting scam and a universal mail-out of ballots, the state allows 30 days for votes to be counted, a fraud facilitator if ever there was one.

We’re seeing it play itself out very much in real time.  Last week in Los Angeles in the battle for Mayor, at one point after an update of 24,000 votes, Spencer Pratt, a guy with 30% support, did not gain a single vote. I asked Grok for the odds and it was somewhere over 1 over infinity… basically, zero. In a city where only 43% of students can read, believing those vote totals would require you to think that when half the voters are practically illiterate, not a single one accidentally voted for Pratt. And now thanks to mail in voting, Pratt has lost the lead for qualifying for the runoff to someone who was polling 4 points behind him when voting started.

All of this makes me think of a quote by Elena Gorokhova when characterizing life in the Soviet Union: “The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.”  The Russians even have a word for it: Vranyo, a lie that everyone knows is a lie but pretends otherwise.

That’s exactly what’s been going on in America for decades. The Democrats have been using mail-in ballots, voting machines, and endless “recounts” to steal elections right in front of us.  It’s the theft that everyone is supposed to pretend is not happening. Christine Gregoire in 2004. Al Franken in 2008.  Joe Biden in 2020.

Then there’s the Senate. The same week the Senate took a shot at the SAVE America Act and it was defeated.  Voting with the Democrats were the four most despicable vermin in the Senate, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, and Thom Tillis. Even if they had voted with the GOP, it would have failed because the TDS afflicted John Thune refuses to get rid of the filibuster.

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Solar panels, it turns out, contain a lot of valuable materials: Not only glass, aluminum, plastics, and silicon, but also recyclable amounts of silver, copper, and rare earth minerals. These materials aren’t cheap – and, like copper wire and catalytic converters, which contain platinum, they are now becoming targets for thieves.

A recent Bloomberg piece highlights just such a problem in Chile.

Just before midnight, two men in white coveralls and black gloves scale an electric fence at a solar farm in Chile’s Atacama Desert, then slip soundlessly into rows of sleek panels.”

Others use a poultry shear and electric angle grinder to breach the main gate. Three pickups without license plates pull in so the gang can load up their loot and race away. The thieves typically have less than an hour before police arrive to disable cameras, slice cables and extract dozens of panels before vanishing into the dunes. In this case, there was only one security guard, who was instructed to hide in case of an intrusion. They tied him up anyway.

This is a sophisticated, organized crime effort. They may be stealing these panels for resale, or for recycling of the valuable source materials. The why doesn’t really matter; it’s the what that’s important.

The theft of cables, panels or electronic equipment can temporarily shut down entire solar parks and cause significant economic losses,” said Erwin Plett, chief executive officer of renewable energy advisory Low Carbon Chile SpA, adding that it also drives up security and insurance costs. “Chile remains one of the most attractive renewable markets in the region, but maintaining that leadership requires ensuring the security of energy infrastructure.

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JD Vance suggested Israel may not be on board with a US-Iran peace deal as he was grilled over bombshell intelligence reports claiming Benjamin Netanyahu‘s spy agencies have been eavesdropping on American negotiators.

US intelligence officials are alarmed by Israel’s eavesdropping on American diplomats negotiating with Iran. The Pentagon now ranks Israel as a bigger counterintelligence threat than some of America’s enemies, according to The New York Times.

The report details concerns that Israel has been spying on senior Trump officials, including the President’s top negotiator Steve Witkoff and Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby, along with other American military and government personnel.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WICOMICO COUNTY, MARYLAND
MICHAEL JOHANNES *
Plaintiff *
v. * Case No.: C-22-CV-26-000095
JOSEPH ALBERO *
Defendant *
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ORDER
Upon consideration of Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss, and any opposition thereto filed by
Plaintiff, it is this ___________________ by the Circuit Court for Wicomico County, hereby:
ORDERED, that Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss is hereby GRANTED; and it is further
ORDERED, that Plaintiff’s Complaint is dismissed in its entirety, without leave to amend.
JUDGE
Wicomico County Circuit Court

My crazy neighbor filed a lawsuit against me demanding a judge turn over MY LAND to him and all kinds of defamatory statements. The honorable Judge saw right through his BS including multiple LIES.

Nevertheless, Wicomico County have also been subjected to Mike Johannes’ terroristic behavior filing TWO additional lawsuits against the County, all of which wads also dismissed but Johannes has appealed both cases. This nutcase has been costing taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars and go figure, local media refuses to expose such abuse.

Johannes filed a Peace Order against me several months ago which was immediately dismissed after he was caught in multiple lies and completer lack of evidence.

The fines from the County against this man is close to any value this property may have. This is a man who started renting out my land to RV’s and Campers illegally. His property has no water and sewer, well or septic.

The County forcefully removed/demolished a large shed on his property after a Judge gave him 30 days to remove it, he refused. Now he has illegally parked a yacht on jacks, (no trailer) and the County has had to demand it be removed immediately.

More to come, I’m sure…

SALISBURY, Md. (WBFF) — Letters obtained by Spotlight on Maryland reveal a private confrontation between Wicomico County’s two most prominent elected officials escalated into accusations of “revenge porn” and “nude selfies.”

The letters, released late Wednesday after a public records challenge by Spotlight on Maryland, provide a different account than the one offered by County Executive Julie Giordano hours earlier.

In a Sept. 12, 2024, letter sent on official county letterhead to Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis, Giordano formally requested an investigation into the “alleged sharing of pornographic images of me by one of your deputies.”

Wicomico County Executive Letter sent to Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis on Sept. 12, 2024. (Wicomico County Government)
Click here to view the PDF file

She claimed the sheriff had acknowledged seeing such images and asserted that the deputy’s actions violated state law.

“I have never consented to the creation of any visual representation of myself with my intimate parts exposed or while engaged in an act of sexual activity,” Giordano wrote. “I have never provided consent to distribute any visual representation of me with my intimate parts exposed or while engaged in an act of sexual activity.”

Giordano wrote that Lewis told Matthew Leitzel, Wicomico County’s deputy director of administration, that “‘revenge porn’ only applies in the context of an intimate relationship between the parties.”

“While I agree that no such intimate relationship exists between myself and the deputy in question, your interpretation of Maryland’s revenge porn statute is incorrect,” Giordano wrote. “That law does not require an intimate relationship between the individuals for the prohibition against distributing explicit images to apply.”

She added: “No member of the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office or any other law enforcement agency has permission to possess any visual representation of myself with my intimate parts exposed or whole engaged in an act of sexual activity.”

“This matter is straightforward: either a deputy shared a nude photograph of me, or they did not. If such an image has been shared, this constitutes a criminal act,” she added.

Giordano said she was prepared to cooperate fully with any investigation.

‘Nude selfies’

Public records now obtained show that Lewis responded to Giordano on Oct. 4, 2024, with a scathing rebuke.

“Since we last discussed your sharing of ‘nude selfies’ to one of my deputies, neither you nor anyone else requested an investigation be initiated into the possible dissemination of these ‘pornographic’ photos,” Lewis wrote. “Photos, of course, that any viewer would quickly discern were self-generated, self-created, and ultimately self-distributed.”

A severe thunderstorm packing wind gusts over 70 mph moved into New Jersey on Friday evening and destroyed the Antifa camp set up outside Delaney Hall ICE detention center.

Far-left rioters once again surrounded the Newark, New Jersey, ICE detention facility this weekend after a week of unrest.

Law enforcement clashed with anti-ICE protestors Thursday and Friday night. Police arrested numerous rioters who traveled to Delaney Hall from out of state and charged them with several offenses.

After several nights of violence, far-left Mayor Ras Baraka decided to pull police away from the ICE facility.

Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate previously said kids who underwent trans surgery are ‘an inspiration’

Despite making a serious deal about loving “the trans children,” James Talarico, the Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas, is suddenly singing a very different tune.

Appearing on the “Unity Over Division” podcast Monday with Houston defense attorney Dan Cogdell, the Texas state representtive declared, “I oppose gender reassignment surgeries for minors.”

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“You are going to see more ICE agents than you have ever seen in New York City.”

The Trump administration is set to surge Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in New York City in response to Governor Kathy Hochul’ recent anti-ICE measures in an effort to protect illegal immigrants from deportation.

“You are going to see more ICE agents than you have ever seen in New York City. And it’s coming. I just reviewed an operational plan. I’m not going to tell you exactly when it’s going to happen, but it’s coming,” Border Czar Tom Homan told Fox and Friends in an appearance on Monday.

“I’m keeping my promise. We are going to send more ICE agents to New York because you took away the efficiencies of safe arrests in county jails,” he added.

The bill that was signed by Hochul last month bans federal authorities from using public state and local facilities for immigration enforcement. In addition, the bill prohibits ICE officers from wearing masks.

Homan had warned that if New York were to bring the legislation, that the Trump administration would surge more ICE officers to New York, similarly to what has been done in places such as Minneapolis and Portland.

“If we can work with the sheriffs and arrest the bad guy in the safety and security of the jail, that means less teams into the neighborhoods, which causes a lot of panic, a lot of problems, right?” Homan

“I said but if you sign the legislation that I think you are getting about ready to sign, that means I am going to send more agents to New York because rather than one guy arresting one bad guy in a jail now we got to send a whole team into a neighborhood to find this person that didn’t want to be found because of officer safety reasons, you know, now we have to arrest this guy on his turf,” Homan added on Fox and Friends.

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As the nation grapples with the lingering consequences of open borders policies that flooded American communities with millions of illegal entrants, a familiar face from the front lines is stepping forward. Former Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino announced he is exploring a bid for the presidency in 2028, with one laser-focused mission: completing the deportation of what he estimates at 106 million illegal immigrants currently in the country.

Bovino, who rose through the ranks during nearly three decades of service and became a prominent figure in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts, made his intentions clear on social media and through a newly launched exploratory website.

“My one and only priority is deporting the 106 million illegals who are here. That’s it,” he declared. If pursuing the White House is required to achieve that goal, Bovino stated that all options remain on the table.

This move comes amid ongoing debates about the pace and scope of border security restoration under the current administration. While significant progress has been made in reversing the chaos of the prior decade, Bovino’s announcement underscores a persistent reality: the invasion’s scale demands unrelenting commitment, not complacency.

His background leading high-profile urban operations positions him as a voice unfiltered by Washington bureaucracy, speaking directly to Americans weary of endless excuses and half-measures.

The exploratory site, Bovino2028.com, echoes the no-nonsense rhetoric that defined his tenure. It highlights his hands-on leadership in restoring order and promises a “great restoration” of American sovereignty. Proposals include creating a Department of Traditional Families and Holistic Living, alongside an emphasis on youth masculinity—direct challenges to the cultural erosion that has accompanied demographic upheaval.

Critics on the left have predictably recoiled, dredging up controversies from Bovino’s service, including operational incidents and his distinctive field attire. Yet these attacks ring hollow against the backdrop of cities transformed by crime, strained resources, and cultural fragmentation.

Bovino’s record as a career enforcer who confronted the crisis head-on stands in stark contrast to the virtue-signaling that enabled the problem in the first place.

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Historical precedents exist. The U.S. bought Alaska for $7.2 million in 1867 and the Virgin Islands for $25 million in 1917, but analysts say those examples are too old to provide useful benchmarks.

he Trump administration is considering buying the Chagos Islands in the central Indian Ocean from Mauritius, but the cost of such a deal is unclear and Mauritius says it hasn’t been approached.

The White House is weighing several options to secure the Diego Garcia base, including purchasing the Chagos Islands directly from Mauritius, bypassing the United Kingdom, which currently administers the territory but has been unable to complete a handover deal.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent brought the purchase proposal to President Donald Trump, although it is not considered a leading option, according to reports.

A White House official, speaking on background, said Diego Garcia is “a vital and indispensable military installation of significant importance to the national security of the United States,” and that Trump remains opposed to Britain’s plan to transfer sovereignty of the islands.

Mauritius said it has not been approached by the Trump administration. “Mauritius’s position remains unchanged: its sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago is non-negotiable,” the government said in a statement Monday.

Even if Mauritius were open to a deal, pricing such a purchase would be complicated. There is no standard methodology for valuing a strategic military asset like Diego Garcia. A merger-and-acquisition approach – valuing the territory based on its revenue stream – might be one option, but would likely not satisfy Mauritius or the indigenous Chagossian people.

Historical precedents exist. The U.S. bought Alaska for $7.2 million in 1867 and the Virgin Islands for $25 million in 1917, but analysts say those examples are too old to provide useful benchmarks.

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Higher education is not what it used to be. Gone are the days when students were required to study the classics. Nowadays it seems like any gibberish can pass for scholarly study.

The examples are myriad, write Daniel Buck, a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and Garion Frankel, incoming editor at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal.

“Oregon State University offers ‘Disney: Gender, Race, and Empire.’ Students at Indiana University can attend the course, ‘Having it All: Postfeminist Media After Sex and the City,’” the two wrote in The Hill on June 2.

“How about ‘Bad Bunny: Musical Aesthetics and Politics’ at Yale University? The Bad Bunny Syllabus that inspires this course — which lists topics such as ‘LGBTQ Activism,’ ‘Gender and Sexuality in Reggaeton’ and ‘Political Protests of Summer 2019’ for study — is also in use at Wellesley College and Loyola Marymount University. Both Swarthmore College and the University of Chicago offer courses on ‘Queering God.’”

The scholars go on to note these classes are no outliers:

Harvard offers an English course, “Taylor Swift and Her World.” At UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, students can take “Artistry, Policy, and Entrepreneurship: Taylor’s Version” through the Department of Economics. Penn State Berks offers a course titled, “Taylor Swift, Gender, and Communication.”

Another unofficial sub-genre of courses focuses on Korean pop music — “Lights, Camera, Action: The Visual Culture of K-Pop” at Columbia University, “K-Pop and Human Rights” at Binghamton University, “Kangnam Style: K-Pop and the Globalization of Korean Soft Power” at Stanford University, or “K-Pop and J-Pop Culture” at Florida International University.

The scholars point out that at a time when the return on investment for a four-year degree is plummeting and trust in higher education is at an all-time low, colleges and universities should return to their true purpose.

“A student who can tell you all about Swift’s entrepreneurship but cannot write a five-paragraph essay is not educated, but entertained,” the duo wrote.

“Why attend college in the first place? Universities were once places where students and faculty alike pursued higher aims — truth, beauty, ethics and even the divine. What are they now? Too often, they resemble four-year summer camps, designed to make students comfortable with a participation diploma at the end.”

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It’s not often life showcases a problem in real time. It is now in the form of California and the Senate.

It’s become clear that California voting is designed to give Democrats the ability to cheat.  Aside from Ranked Choice Voting scam and a universal mail-out of ballots, the state allows 30 days for votes to be counted, a fraud facilitator if ever there was one.

We’re seeing it play itself out very much in real time.  Last week in Los Angeles in the battle for Mayor, at one point after an update of 24,000 votes, Spencer Pratt, a guy with 30% support, did not gain a single vote. I asked Grok for the odds and it was somewhere over 1 over infinity… basically, zero. In a city where only 43% of students can read, believing those vote totals would require you to think that when half the voters are practically illiterate, not a single one accidentally voted for Pratt. And now thanks to mail in voting, Pratt has lost the lead for qualifying for the runoff to someone who was polling 4 points behind him when voting started.

All of this makes me think of a quote by Elena Gorokhova when characterizing life in the Soviet Union: “The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.”  The Russians even have a word for it: Vranyo, a lie that everyone knows is a lie but pretends otherwise.

That’s exactly what’s been going on in America for decades. The Democrats have been using mail-in ballots, voting machines, and endless “recounts” to steal elections right in front of us.  It’s the theft that everyone is supposed to pretend is not happening. Christine Gregoire in 2004. Al Franken in 2008.  Joe Biden in 2020.

Then there’s the Senate. The same week the Senate took a shot at the SAVE America Act and it was defeated.  Voting with the Democrats were the four most despicable vermin in the Senate, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, and Thom Tillis. Even if they had voted with the GOP, it would have failed because the TDS afflicted John Thune refuses to get rid of the filibuster.

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No One Is Above The Law, Right?

I know, everyone print out one of these signs to put on your dash and you’ll apparently be good to go.

Mind you, I was parked legally a couple cars ahead. The funniest part is, a Salisbury Police Vehicle was parked on the sidewalk area at the parking garage and did nothing about this. 

Finally, even though this very well dressed reporter was running to the GOB he was a good 10 minutes late for the press conference. Giordano didn’t give anyone from the western shore enough time to make the press conference, how convenient.

You could almost feel sorry for Joe Biden when he crashed his wife Jill’s debut book talk in New York last week.

Standing in the shadows at the 92nd Street Y, and with no microphone in sight, the former president looked lost as he rasped at his wife: “Who do you love most in the whole world?”

Up on stage, resplendent in a pastel skirt suit in her starring role alongside Whoopi Goldberg, Jill responds, “Whoopi,” laughs and turns on her stiletto heel.

Maybe it was a comedy routine the former first couple had practiced, but it fell flat. There wasn’t much laughter from the audience.

Who humiliates her 83-year-old husband in public to try to boost lackluster book sales?

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A previously private dispute between Wicomico County’s two highest-ranking elected officials has reached a breaking point, sparking a potential public records battle over whether the sheriff ordered the county executive to stop sending his deputies sexually explicit images.

Wicomico County Executive Julie Giordano and Sheriff Mike Lewis are at odds over the existence of a document that sources allege is a demand for Giordano to cease sending semi-nude, nude or pornographic photographs of herself to sheriff’s deputies.

While Giordano flatly denied that such a document exists, describing the allegations as a “horrific rumor” and a product of political malice, Lewis confirmed the letter’s existence in an interview last week. However, he said he would not release it to the public without a court order.

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While I republished a WBFF article early this morning referencing the county executive and allegations of very suggestive photos/letters that had allegedly been sent to a sheriffs deputy., Giordano  called it “fake news” and defamatory. 

While she refused to take ANY questions one audience member asked, did you send the photos before you became county executive? Another person yelled out, was Sheriff Mike Lewis behind all of this?

Look, these are serious allegations and while Giordano adamantly denies there are any letters or photos some people have some explaining to do. 

It’s an election year and crazy stuff like this comes up. We even have spouses of department heads all over Facebook attacking elected officials in the attempt to smear certain people because they have an axe to grind.

In my honest opinion, Julie should never have held this press conference. She needs to stop being so defensive and I personally think she walked right into a trap. I really do not know who is advising this her but she needs to stop relying on people with anger issues or lack of experience. 

Finally, the people mainly involved here are public figures, elected officials. You cannot be defamed, so stop the bellyaching! You chose to get into the public life and you will be challenged to the fullest. Do NOT stare me down because I republished an article from across the Bay Bridge. The public/locals have every right to know what OTHER news sources here on the shore COVER UP! 

It’s an election year and Salisbury News is on its way back. Play nice, be fair, be honest and I will cover both sides. However, push the wrong buttons and you will be exposed. 

A House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform report released Monday paints a devastating picture of both Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison, finding that they both knew about widespread fraud in state social services programs and failed to act.

The report centers on the Feeding Our Future scandal, in which a Minnesota-based nonprofit systematically exploited federal COVID-19 relief funds intended to provide meals to children.

So far, more than 60 people have already been found guilty of fraud in connection with the scheme, the majority of whom are of Somali descent. Some defendants used stolen taxpayer money to buy luxury goods, while others funneled proceeds to a radical Islamic terrorist group operating in Somalia. At least $300 million in federal child nutrition funds were placed at serious risk, and approximately $9 billion in Medicaid losses resulted from the broader fraud environment state officials allowed to fester.

“Fraud warnings were elevated to the most senior levels of the Minnesota state government, meaningful corrective action was delayed or avoided, and payments continued long after credible signs of fraud emerged,” the report states.

Senior officials in Walz’s office and Ellison’s office knew about systemic fraud concerns as early as 2019 within the Minnesota Department of Human Services and, by April 2020, within the state Department of Education, the report says, directly contradicting Walz’s and Ellison’s public statements.

This matters because both men held legal authority to cut off payments to fraudulent operators. Neither exercised it, even though Walz was aware of the suspected fraud in Feeding Our Future by 2020, and the payments continued.

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Thousands of homeless voters were registered to vote at LA shelters — despite many not living there or the facilities not having any beds.

And as Spencer Pratt was eliminated by Nithya Raman in the mayor’s race on Monday night, it can be revealed that one drop-in center that received $600,000 from the socialist candidate had 185 registered voters at the address but offers no accommodations.

The revelations have prompted US Attorney Bill Essayli to say he will investigate the concerns uncovered by The Post and “follow the evidence” to see if the law has been broken.

A review of records shows 7,600 voters tied to homeless shelters and service providers.

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Among them was the St. Joseph Center in Venice, a drop-in center that, according to voting records, had 185 voters registered to its address and received $600,000 in taxpayers’ money from the homeless and housing committee while Raman was chair.

Last week, The Post contacted her campaign and the center seeking comment regarding the relationship between the councilmember and the organization but has not heard back. However, a photograph showing Raman presenting a check was taken down from its website following our inquiries.

Martin Rowe, a homeless man living in Venice, told The Post he was registered to vote during an outreach effort outside a Ralphs grocery store.

“They asked you all the questions,” Rowe said. “They gave you a paper.”

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For generations, owning a home has been the cornerstone of the American dream. But for millions of homeowners, that dream is increasingly becoming a source of sleepless nights, financial stress and mounting anxiety.

A new study has found that one in four homeowners say the pressures of owning a home is having a major negative impact on their quality of life, as rising repair bills, soaring insurance costs and economic uncertainty leave families feeling trapped.

According to Hippo Insurance’s inaugural Homeowner Anxiety Report, 25 percent of homeowners say homeownership-related stress has a highly negative or extremely negative impact on their lives.

Nearly one in five homeowners say their house is now their single biggest source of stress – on par with concerns about careers and relationships.

The burden appears to be hitting younger Americans particularly hard.

More than three-quarters of Gen Z and millennial homeowners – 76 percent – say homeownership anxiety is affecting their wellbeing, compared with 51 percent of Gen X and baby boomers.

The findings paint a stark picture of a housing market where many buyers are struggling to cope with the realities of ownership after finally achieving what was once considered a major life milestone.

The report’s findings have struck a chord with homeowners online, where many describe feeling overwhelmed by a seemingly endless stream of repairs and unexpected costs.

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This is the Democrat Party’s idea of “secure” elections in their one-party utopia.

Investigative reporter Nick Shirley — the same journalist whose explosive February 2026 video we reported on here at The Gateway Pundit — knocking on doors and exposing the rotting corpse of the state’s Democrat-controlled election system, and the latest clip is pure fire.

Meet Doris. She lives in California. According to the California Secretary of State’s own voter rolls, she is 126 years old and has cast ballots in 51 elections.

There’s just one small problem.

Doris is not 126 years old. She was born in 1940. That makes her roughly 86 years old. She’s never voted in 51 elections. And when Nick Shirley showed up at her door to ask about it, she was stunned.

Nick Shirley and his team went straight to the address listed on the official rolls to confirm what the Democrat-run bureaucracy is hiding.

Here’s the exchange caught on camera:

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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins revealed on Fox News’ The Big Weekend Show that Democrat-run blue states are actively stonewalling and suing to hide massive fraud in the SNAP food stamp program while red states complied with a simple data request and immediately exposed jaw-dropping levels of abuse.

Speaking directly to the American people, Secretary Rollins explained that the Trump Administration is finally doing what no previous administration had the courage or will to do: demand basic accountability for the hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars the federal government sends to states every single day to run the food stamp program.

“No one had ever held the states accountable. The federal government funds the food stamp program. We send hundreds of millions of dollars a day to the states, but there’d never been a back-end accountability on how is that money getting spent. So we asked all the states to partner with us. It’s time to have accountability. The red states, of course, did.”

The results from red state data alone are explosive.

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Louis Erebia, a husband, father, and grandfather, was fatally shot in Houston on Saturday by a repeat felon following a carjacking.

According to law enforcement, Erebia, 56, tracked down the suspect who stole his son’s truck.

Erebia’s son was putting gas in his truck when Hogan Sr. approached him, pulled out a gun and stole the truck.

Louis Erebia located his son’s stolen truck by using GPS tracking.

The carjacker, identified as career felon London Hogan Sr., fatally shot Erebia during a confrontation.

Louis Erebia’s family is demanding justice.

“Tomorrow, we are asking all family, friends, and everyone whose life was touched by Louis Erebia to stand with us as we demand justice for a life taken far too soon,” the victim’s sister said on Facebook.