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 *
* * * * * * * * * * * * *
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.

The scandal that has rocked Minnesota politics just got even worse.

A bombshell report released Monday by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Majority Staff concludes that Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison were repeatedly warned about widespread fraud in Minnesota’s taxpayer-funded programs for years, yet failed to take meaningful action while billions of dollars were allegedly siphoned from government programs.

The 205-page report, titled “The Cost of Doing Nothing: How Tim Walz and Keith Ellison Fueled Minnesota’s Fraud Explosion,” paints a devastating picture of political negligence, bureaucratic paralysis, and what investigators describe as a pattern of looking the other way while fraudsters looted public funds.

According to the report, senior officials in the Walz administration and Ellison’s office were aware of credible fraud concerns as early as 2019 within the Minnesota Department of Human Services and by 2020 within the Minnesota Department of Education.

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Election advocate renews calls for independent review of ballot printing

A duplicate ballot arriving at one Maryland home is raising new questions about a batch of replacement mail-in ballots sent to more than 400,000 voters.

The replacement mail-in ballots were rushed to voters last month after it was discovered that the state’s printer had mistakenly sent some Democratic and Republican voters the ballot for the wrong party. But in the rush, at least one voter received two replacement ballots.

New concerns about the replacement ballots arose last week. A family member of a Maryland Matters reporter received two new ballots in three days. Both ballots are marked as replacements.

State Elections Administrator Jared DeMarinis said last week that the duplication could be the result of a damaged ballot that was reprinted and mailed. He could not say why the duplicate was sent or if it was a singular instance. He asked for time to research the issue as well as to see if other voters were affected.

DeMarinis was not available for an interview Monday. A spokesperson for the agency did not provide answers to written questions.

The five-member board of elections is scheduled to meet on Tuesday. That meeting was scheduled on May 28.

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A Penn State student was shot dead during an apparent attempted robbery of his phone over the weekend.

Billy Schmidt, 22, was preparing for his senior year at the university, where he would have graduated in December with a degree in digital journalism and media.

But around 1.30am on Saturday, as Schmidt was walking home after watching the NBA Finals, the young man was shot in the chest by a person who appears to have stolen his phone.

The shooting took place just across the street from his family’s house in southern Philadelphia. Neighbors gave police disturbing surveillance footage that captured the shooting and the moments leading up to it.

In the videos, which were taken by multiple cameras from different angles, two young men in dark clothing with their hoods up can be seen talking to Schmidt, who could be heard saying: ‘Give me back my phone.’

The young man could then be seen following the pair down the block and around a corner. One of the men can be seen throwing the phone just before Schmidt caught up, and the other could then be seen raising a handgun and shooting the student.

Schmidt was quickly rushed to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead just 17 minutes after the shooting.

‘Over a phone. It’s abhorrent. It’s just unbelievable that someone would kill someone over a phone,’ one of the family’s neighbors, Ezra Roulinavage, told NBC Philadelphia.

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SALISBURY, Md. (WBFF) — 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.

Wicomico County Executive Julie Giordano, the first woman elected to lead the county, speaks at Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s ‘Delivering for Maryland’ tour stop on Thursday, June 4, 2026, at Salisbury University. (Steve Pierce/Spotlight on Maryland)

While Giordano flatly denied that such a document exists, describing the allegations as a “horrific rumor” and a product of political malice, Sheriff 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.

The conflicting accounts have prompted Spotlight on Maryland to file a formal demand for records under the Maryland Public Information Act (MPIA). The county has thus far withheld key documents, citing exemptions for personal privacy and records being “investigatory.”

The controversy stems from allegations that Giordano, both during her 2022 campaign and early into her tenure as county executive, sent nude or semi-nude photos to deputies in the sheriff’s office. Sources familiar with the matter allege that in October 2024, Lewis issued a letter to the county executive demanding an end to the behavior.

When asked about the situation last week, Giordano dismissed the claims as “false narratives.”

There was never a letter sent to stop,” Giordano said. “So, basically what happened was, there was a horrific rumor that went around, and that’s just what happens in a campaign, and so, we’ve moved on from it.”

Giordano said she and Lewis had discussed the matter and worked through it.

“We have a campaign coming up, so I think we have handled it quite well, and Sheriff Lewis and I have had those conversations,” Giordano said. “He seems to be, ‘I don’t really know where this came from, I don’t know why this happened,’ and that sort of thing, so we’ve worked together on that and sort of got over it together.”

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With 83.2% of the expected vote in, Democratic incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, who NBC News projected on election night will advance to the November runoff, maintained her lead with 250,871 votes, or 34.68%, according to the updated vote tally released by the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk on Sunday afternoon. Raman has 27.12% of the ballots counted so far, surpassing Pratt, who has 26.69%. She is now ahead of him by 3,113 votes.

Although no news outlet has projected which candidate will face Bass in November, Bass’ campaign released a statement following Sunday’s drop, referring to Raman as the mayor’s “general election opponent.”

Spencer Pratt took to social media:

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Gigantic underground aquifers are being rapidly depleted all over the world, and once that water is gone it will take a very long time for it to come back. In fact, in some areas of the United States the recharge rate is less than an inch per year. That is a major problem, because more than half of the water that U.S. farmers use for irrigation comes from underground aquifers. What in the world are our farmers going to do once that water is gone?

The largest underground aquifer in the United States is known as the Ogallala Aquifer. It covers a vast area under portions of eight different states, and it accounts for approximately 30 percent of all groundwater that is used for irrigation in our nation…

The Ogallala Aquifer (oh-gə-LAH-lə) is a shallow water table aquifer surrounded by sand, silt, clay, and gravel located beneath the Great Plains in the United States.

As one of the world’s largest aquifers, it underlies an area of approximately 174,000 sq mi (450,000 km²) in portions of eight states (South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas).^[1] It was named in 1898 by geologist N. H. Darton from its type locality near the town of Ogallala, Nebraska. The aquifer is part of the High Plains Aquifer System, and resides in the Ogallala Formation, which is the principal geologic unit underlying 80% of the High Plains.^[2][3]

Large-scale extraction for agricultural purposes started after World War II due partially to center pivot irrigation and to the adaptation of automotive engines to power groundwater wells.^[4] Today about 27% of the irrigated land in the entire United States lies over the aquifer, which yields about 30% of the ground water used for irrigation in the United States.^[5]

The Ogallala Aquifer is one of our most important natural resources.

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The fraud in the H1-B visa program is even worse than we thought. We are getting people with fake degrees for these allegedly “high-skilled” labor jobs. The program is almost completely fraudulent.

Since 2015, over 70% of H-1B visas have been issued to India, and nearly 12% to China. And if you look at this map, you can see where most are being hired. The dark red spots indicate a high concentration of H-1B visa holders, and now we’re learning more about fraud within the program.

One former official tells Newsweek that up to 90% of applications, 90% from India, contain fraudulent documents or involve unqualified applicants. And India’s financial law enforcement claims it has uncovered a network of universities that produce fake degrees, which were possibly used to obtain these highly skilled H-1B visas, including one school that allegedly stole and sold over 36,000 fake degrees.

The degrees cost as little as $1,400. While these are supposed to be highly skilled employees, during almost all of Biden’s time in office, 83% got junior or entry-level positions. Now, Texas is taking action, cracking down on those abusing the program.

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A crazed liberal woman was caught on camera, screaming and crying about her mental disability outside the Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday after apparently being manhandled by police. 

Because she’s “f*cking autistic,” she felt that she could get away with disobeying police commands as they tried to conduct crowd control measures.

Video from the scene shows the unhinged woman, screaming at police after the confrontation, “You’re just following orders, right?”

She then shouts to the cameras, “I told them I was autistic and they still f*cking grabbed me and tried to f*cking jump me!”

“I f*cking tripped,” she said. “They grabbed my arms; my arms are scratched up. Two of them tried to pull me in and jump me!”

“I’m f*cking autistic! I told them I was autistic!”

Another man was seen saying, “I put both of my arms around her and pulled her the f*ck back because I don’t know what the f*ck they’re going to do, these sick f*cks.”

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At least six people were stabbed by an ‘emotionally disturbed’ person at New York City’s Penn Station on Sunday, just one day before President Donald Trump is set to attend the third game of the NBA finals at the overhead Madison Square Garden.

The unidentified suspect began stabbing victims near the Amtrak terminals at the busy transit hub just after 7pm, ABC 7 reports.

One person was said to have suffered serious injuries, while two others suffered moderate injuries and the others suffered minor injuries. All were then transported to a local hospital.

The suspect, who was considered emotionally disturbed, was then arrested by Amtrak police, who tackled him to the ground, according to AMNY.

A photo posted to social media showed officers pinning the suspect to the floor just outside of tracks five and six.

‘This guy just stabbed somebody in Penn Station,’ freelance film critic Brandon Norwood posted on X.

‘People were flooding out of the station.’

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A California McDonald’s manager was left with scorching second-degree burns after a staff member allegedly tossed scalding hot oil at him.

Jacob Smith, 20, was working his shift at McDonald’s in Yuba City on May 30 when a coworker allegedly tossed burning hot oil all over him, leaving him with second-degree burns across his face and body.

‘My son is God-fearing. He would give anything to anybody. If he had $5 in his wallet and you needed it, he would just give it to you,’ the young man’s mother, Amber Smith, told ABC 10.

Yuba City Police Department responded to the fast-food location on reports of another employee having attacked Jacob.

‘The victim was up walking around ambulatory and able to communicate with them, but had obvious burn marks on his upper torso and face area,’ YCPD Lieutenant Michael Bullard.

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This is just shocking!

Nearly half of all immigrants in Minneapolis-St. Paul were found to have committed immigration fraud.

A 2025  report by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services focused on more than 1,000 cases that had fraud or ineligibility indicators, conducted over 900 site visits and in-person interviews, and found evidence of fraud, non-compliance, or public safety or national security concerns in 275 cases—44 percent of cases interviewed.

This report came out BEFORE YouTuber and investigator Nick Shirley reported on the massive fraud taking place in the Somali-run child care centers in Minnesota.

In December 2025, Shirley published video exposing massive fraud in the state.

the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation increased their presence in the state and federal funding for the childcare centers was frozen.

Minnesota’s America-hating Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is famous for committing immigration fraud by marrying her brother.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that in 2009, Ilhan Omar married her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, after she had split from her first ‘husband’, Ahmed Hirsi (she was married to Hirsi in a Muslim ceremony, but not registered with the state).

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In a no-holds-barred takedown that has left the left-wing media scrambling, Fox News legend and bestselling author Bill O’Reilly has called for the immediate criminal prosecution of E. Jean Carroll, the aging advice columnist turned professional Trump accuser.

O’Reilly didn’t mince words: the entire E. Jean Carroll “fraud” against President Donald J. Trump must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Why? Because it turns out Carroll wasn’t some plucky underdog fighting for “justice” on her own dime. She was bankrolled to the tune of $7 MILLION by a shadowy nonprofit tied to billionaire LinkedIn co-founder and hardcore Democratic mega-donor Reid Hoffman, friend and confidant of Jeffrey Epstein.

And here’s the kicker: Carroll swore under oath in a 2022 deposition that no one was helping her financially. No pro bono lawyers and no outside funding. No mysterious benefactors pulling the strings. She claimed it was all on contingency — her lawyers only get paid if she wins.

She lied.

And now the walls are closing in.

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This post popped up on social media last night, reminding me of the corrupt and perverted Biden family.

A major security scare has rocked the buildup to the World Cup after nine people were injured in a shooting just a short drive from England‘s tournament training base.

Police were called to reports of an incident on Troost Avenue in Kansas City at around 4 a.m. on Saturday, launching a major emergency response to the area.

Kansas City Police Department confirmed that officers had been dispatched after shots were heard being fired, arriving at the scene to find a large crowd dispersing.

Three adult females who sustained injuries at the location were immediately rushed to a local hospital by emergency services. It later emerged that a total of nine adults had gone to various local hospitals suffering from non-life threatening injuries.

No suspects are currently in custody, but law enforcement officers are continuing to heavily patrol the location as the investigation into the shooting continues.

Troost Avenue is just a four-mile drive away from the training base and team hotel that the England squad will be stationed in during the early stages of the World Cup.

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Former First Lady Jill Biden left the most politically problematic Bidens off the pages of her new memoir, View from the East Wing.

The book, which was released on Tuesday, delves into Hunter Biden‘s struggles with crack cocaine addiction, though the former First Lady never mentions that he fathered a child during this tumultuous era.

That Biden grandchild, Navy Joan, 7, is the daughter of Lunden Roberts, who met Hunter at a party at his office above the Swedish embassy in 2016, a year after the death of Beau Biden.

She got pregnant with Navy Joan in 2018.

Roberts detailed her relationship with Hunter in her own book, Out of the Shadows: My Life Inside the Wild World of Hunter Biden, which was released in 2024.

The book was set to be released ahead of the November presidential election, but it came out several weeks after President Biden dropped out.

During the White House years, Jill Biden occasionally took heat for not acknowledging her granddaughter.

She famously neglected to hang a stocking for Navy Joan in 2021 and 2022 as part of the Christmas display when all the other grandchildren were named.

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Calling for new grand jury and new indictment after first scheme collapsed

Kris Mayes, the leftist attorney general in Arizona, orchestrated a grand jury indictment against supporters of President Donald Trump for allegedly trying to overturn the state’s 2020 election results back in the day.

The original case was thrown out of court, and the state Supreme Court left it there.

Now Mayes is trying to resurrect the claim from its grave.

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A federal jury convicted a North Carolina couple, a Missouri man, and an Ohio man earlier this week in relation to a scheme involving theft of union-member dues through the award of no-show jobs, lavish travels and dinners charged to the union, unearned vacation payouts, and an unauthorized $7 million loan made to a union-related bank.

The jury convicted Newton Jones, 72, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the former President of the International Brotherhood of  Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Forgers, and Helpers (Boilermakers Union), his wife Kateryna Jones, 33, of Chapel Hill, and the former Secretary Treasurer, William Creeden, 78 of Kearney, Missouri, of violation of the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act.

Those defendants, as well as one of the Boilermaker Union’s former Vice Presidents, Lawrence McManamon, 78, of Rocky River, Ohio, were convicted of embezzlement from the Union through various means, including:

• Taking elaborate foreign trips that were not related to Union business – all defendants;
• Charging personal expenses to the Union, including shopping trips and dinners out – Newton Jones and Kateryna Jones;
• Paying or overpaying unearned salary and relocation expenses for Newton Jones’s family members – Newton Jones and Creeden;
• Paying out of unearned vacation – Newton Jones and Creeden;
• Paying for unauthorized surveillance of Union employees – Newton Jones and Creeden;
• Making an unlawful $7M loan to a bank at which Newton Jones and Creeden were employed – Newton Jones and Creeden;
• Theft from the Union retirement plan – Newton Jones and Creeden;
• Health care fraud relating to unearned benefits provided to Kateryna Jones – Newton Jones, Kateryna Jones, and Creeden; and
• Wire fraud relating to failure to disclose required payments, outside employment, and conflicts of interest – Newton Jones and Creeden.

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First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California highlights Democrat stonewalling and dangerous loopholes that could let non-citizens and fraudsters cast ballots, all while the state hands out free healthcare to illegal immigrants.

In a devastating post on X, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli laid bare how California Democrats are actively fighting to keep their voter rolls hidden from federal scrutiny.

This explosive revelation comes amid a hostile media interview by Kristen Welker and repeated claims by California officials that “there is no voter fraud” in the state.

Essayli didn’t mince words. He revealed that for over a year, the Department of Justice, working with Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, has been trying to conduct a comprehensive audit of California’s voter rolls to ensure only eligible U.S. citizens are registered to vote in federal elections.

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Professor says organism poses greatest risk to those with open, unprotected wounds

So-called flesh-eating bacteria have been detected in one of the most luxurious vacation spots in the United States — but experts say beachgoers should use caution and care rather than panic about it.

East Hampton and Sagaponack on the South Fork of Long Island are exclusive enclaves where wealthy executives, celebrities and old-money families retreat. Yet there’s often an unwanted visitor.

The bacteria, Vibrio vulnificus, occur naturally in coastal waters and are more common in warmer, brackish areas where fresh and salt water mix.

It was once more prevalent in Southern states, but scientists have tracked it farther north as water temperatures rise.

Christopher Gobler, a Stony Brook University professor whose recent study set off fresh warnings about Long Island’s summer waters, told Fox News Digital the bacteria poses the greatest risk when it enters the body through an open wound.

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In yet another example of wasted money going to colleges Campus Reform is reporting “Boston University, a private Massachusetts-based research institution, appears to intertwine progressive ideology in its history department.”

In addition, instead of preparing students for the workforce “It seems to not just celebrate diversity in terms of job opportunities, however, as it includes a “Statement on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” on its webpage.”

This was banned throughout American schools as part of an executive order after President Trump was reelected President in some part because people wanted wokeness and DEI purged from academia.

The statement of DEI they have on the website reads like a BLM statement “The Boston University History Department recognizes and mourns the long history of racial injustice that has left deep scars on our society and which continues to manifest in horrific incidents of racial violence, including the very recent murders of Black men and women at the hands of police,”

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Administration (FNA) and the Ohio Department of Public Safety’s Ohio Investigative Unit (OIU) have issued violation notices to 19 alleged fraudulent Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) retailers across Ohio.

On June 3 and 4, 2026, OIU and FNA – working alongside the USDA Office of Inspector General (OIG) – issued formal violation notices to 19 SNAP retailers across Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, kicking off the enforcement process that holds bad actors accountable. These retailers are charged with committing blatant SNAP fraud, including exchanging benefits for cash, alcohol, tobacco and other illegal items. Charges include:

• A Cleveland convenience store trafficking more than $14,000 in SNAP benefits—stealing from taxpayers and families in need.
• A Columbus retailer exchanging more than $800 in benefits for $300 in cash and trading SNAP benefits for a glass bong and bottles of wine, items that have no place in a food assistance program.
• A Columbus retailer accepting SNAP benefits for beer, which is not and never has been allowed for purchase with SNAP benefits.

Potential penalties for these charges range from prolonged suspension to permanent disqualification from SNAP as well as significant monetary fines.

This week’s enforcement sweep is part of an ongoing USDA-Ohio partnership that has already resulted in criminal convictions for SNAP retailer fraud. For example, during an OIU and FNA investigation, a Cleveland retailer trafficked more than $17,000 in SNAP benefits for cash with undercover agents.

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Los Angeles Mayoral Candidate Spencer Pratt fell into third place behind Democrat City Councilwoman Nithya Raman in the Los Angeles mayoral primary after a damning ballot dump heavily favored the Democratic candidates.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has already been projected to advance to the November runoff. The top two candidates will advance if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote.

Raman gained over 19,000 votes in the latest dump, Bass gained nearly 16,000, and Pratt gained just under 8,500. 80% of the batch went to the Democrats.

With an estimated 146,000 ballots remaining to count, Pratt now trails Raman by more than 3,000 votes. Previously, Raman trailed by roughly 40,000 votes.

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In a video message to constituents last week, Sen. Andy Kim agonized over the “chaos in the streets that ICE has unleashed” on the city of Newark, NJ. The Garden State Democrat pledged to “do everything I can to try to stop this chaos.”

What nonsense. If anything, the senator and his fellow Democrats have done everything in their power to inflame passions and drive violent agitators onto those very streets — putting the safety of civilians and law enforcement alike in jeopardy.

They don’t seem to care that they are encouraging political violence. Rather, they appear to welcome civil disruptions that they see as expressions of exploitable political zeal. This is hardly the first time Democrats have put good sense to one side to court the violent and disturbed.

A protestor chants on a megaphone as Newark Police officers push protestors back as they enforce a curfew near the Delaney Hall Immigration Detention Center in Newark.Getty Images

Readers of my new book, “Blood & Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence in America,” know exactly what they’re seeing unfold in Newark and the horrors that could flow from it.

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Two years after Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, fresh details from heavily redacted FBI records continue to expose troubling gaps in what the public has been told about the near-murder of President Trump. Judicial Watch’s successful FOIA lawsuit has forced the release of documents showing that Crooks emailed a deputy with the Butler County Sheriff’s Office prior to the July 13, 2024, attack.

The revelation, buried in 48 pages of materials turned over by the FBI, describes an exchange between the would-be assassin and a female deputy. According to the interview summary, the deputy only discovered the emails after a New York Times reporter contacted her in the aftermath of the shooting. She reportedly did not recognize Crooks when his face flooded the news and confirmed no personal interaction beyond the two emails, which concerned a redacted subject.

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Look at Los Angeles.

Saturday’s batch of 58,558 late-counted votes in the mayor’s race broke 40.2% for Nithya Raman, 33% for Karen Bass and a mere 17.6% for Spencer Pratt — no doubt a reflection of late-voting Democrats in a city where only about 16% of voters are registered Republican.

Pratt’s lead for the second runoff spot has been slashed to just 7,494 votes, with an estimated 150,000 mayoral ballots still outstanding, and potentially more arriving with a June 2 postmark. One more update like this and Pratt sinks to third place.

That is not a theoretical debate about election law.

That is a live campaign being reshaped after Election Day.

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Way back in 2011, then-House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) cited expert estimates that the federal government lost an estimated $228 billion, or about 7 percent of the $3.26 trillion total federal spending for 2010.

Now fast forward to 2020, when the federal budget reached nearly $6.6 trillion. If we assume the same seven percent loss to waste, fraud and corruption, then $459 billion of the hard-earned dollars of the American people never made it to the intended purposes. Experts were still saying it was difficult, if not impossible, to know the actual total lost to waste, fraud and corruption, just as they had cautioned in 2010.

Come 2024, and the experts still didn’t know the actual total losses! A frequently cited 2024 report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimated that losses to improper payments range anywhere from $223 billion to $521 billion between 2018 and 2022. That is, for example, excessive or wholly fake Medicare reimbursement outlays, Social Security checks to long-dead people, and Small Business Administration (SBA) loans going to con artists.

The same GAO report cautioned that its “fraud estimate’s range represents 3 to 7 percent of average federal obligations. These percentages should not be applied at the agency or program level,” and noted that “no area of the federal government is immune to fraud.”

And then came 2025 with Minnesota, Nick Sorley and Somalian fraudsters; much the same in Ohio; billions of dollars worth of Medicare fraud exposed in California; and perhaps the most revealing fact of them all in the war against waste, fraud and corruption:

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani made clear his vision for immigration enforcement during a recent appearance on MSNBC’s “The Weekend.” His prescription? Abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement entirely, claiming the agency’s practices embody unreformable cruelty.

This stance, once a fringe position, aligns with a growing chorus on the left that treats federal efforts to secure borders and deport criminals as moral atrocities rather than necessary functions of a sovereign nation.

Mamdani’s comments came in response to reports of conditions at a detention facility in New Jersey, where he expressed “pain” over what he described as offensive conditions endemic to immigration enforcement. He positioned sanctuary city policies and executive orders shielding local agencies from cooperation with ICE as points of pride for New York. For Mamdani and like-minded progressives, the very existence of an agency tasked with upholding immigration law represents not order, but oppression.

This rhetoric echoes the “Abolish ICE” movement that gained traction in the late 2010s and has resurfaced with vigor. Rather than address the root causes of strained detention systems—such as record illegal crossings and overwhelmed facilities—the solution proposed is to eliminate enforcement altogether.

One wonders: if ICE is dismantled, who exactly will handle the removal of individuals who have entered the country unlawfully, often with criminal records? The implication seems to be that open borders, or something approaching them, represent the humane path forward.

Critics rightly point out the disconnect between such idealism and the realities faced by American citizens. New York City, under sanctuary policies, has grappled with significant strains on housing, healthcare, and public safety resources amid large-scale migrant arrivals.

Mamdani’s uncompromising stance prioritizes non-citizens, including those with pending removal orders, over the rule of law and the security of residents who expect their government to maintain basic sovereignty.

History offers sobering lessons on the consequences of weakened borders. Nations that fail to control entry invite not only economic burdens but cultural fragmentation and security risks. The United States Constitution grants the federal government clear authority over naturalization and immigration, a power exercised to preserve the republic for its people.

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Three US citizens, including two in California and one in Kansas, have been arrested and charged with conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).

The suspects, Bisaam Ghafoor, 21, of Leawood, Kansas; Elias Shamsaldeen, 21, of Porterville, California; and Bereen Dzayee, 25, of Lakeside, California, are accused of “conspiring to provide material support to terrorism after collectively providing over $2,000 to an individual they understood to be a member of ISIS,” according to the DOJ.

They pledged allegiance to ISIS.

They plotted multiple attacks and targeted US service members.

“This FBI stopped them cold,” Patel said. “The success of this op shows once again the FBI’s continued record of stopping terrorist attacks before they happen, simply the best way to defend the homeland—and shows we’ll stop at nothing to defend Americans from those who seek to do us harm. I want to thank our teams in Kansas City, San Diego, Sacramento, Newark, and Richmond and the Counterterrorism Division for their outstanding efforts on this investigation and commitment to the mission.”

They communicated through Discord chats, voice calls, and other messaging platforms.

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There is a strange disconnect developing between financial markets and the average person.

Most people still see the situation with Iran as another distant geopolitical story. It appears on television for a few minutes, disappears behind domestic political news, and then returns a few days later when another headline emerges. Investors, however, are beginning to treat it very differently. They are not watching the negotiations because they care about diplomatic symbolism. They are watching because a growing number of traders believe the global economy may be far more vulnerable to a prolonged disruption than policymakers are willing to admit.

The irony is that the biggest threat is no longer war itself. The biggest threat is uncertainty.

For months, markets convinced themselves that a deal between Washington and Tehran was only a matter of time. There would be disagreements, public threats and last-minute complications, but eventually economic reality would force both sides toward some form of compromise. That belief became so widespread that many investors stopped considering what would happen if the opposite occurred.

Now that assumption is being tested.

Over the last several days, optimism surrounding a diplomatic breakthrough has faded once again. Conflicting reports about the future of the negotiations have pushed oil markets into another period of volatility, and prices remain dramatically higher than they were before the crisis began. Brent crude recently climbed back above $95 per barrel after fresh uncertainty surrounding the talks, while industry executives warned that the market may still be underestimating the risks ahead.

What makes this particularly dangerous is that the global economy no longer has the same shock absorbers it once had.

Back in 2008, governments could throw enormous amounts of money at a crisis. During the pandemic years, central banks unleashed trillions of dollars in liquidity. Today many of those same governments are carrying debt loads that would have been considered extraordinary only a decade ago. Interest costs are rising. Economic growth is slowing. Consumers have spent years absorbing inflation that never fully disappeared. The financial system looks stable on the surface, but underneath that surface there are clear signs of fatigue.

That is why the Strait of Hormuz matters so much.

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Summary

• Iran’s foreign ministry says US overnight action, especially bombing coastal radar facilities, is a violation of ceasfire.
• New nighttime salvo of missiles on Kuwait, Bahrain: Six ballistic missiles fired at Bahrain and Kuwait were intercepted, CENTCOM said.
• Overnight flare-up started with Iranian attack drones in Strait being intercepted by US forces.
• Trump admits Iran still has some 20% of its missile arsenal: “It’s a lot of missiles, but it’s not what it was when we first attacked.” (CNBC)

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Iran FM Blasts New US ‘Ceasefire Violations’

Iran has again accused the US of breaking the ceasefire, with the Foreign Ministry on Saturday stating the US “not only lacks the will to reduce tensions and return to the path of stability, but with its adventurist actions, it seriously endangers the security of the region.”

The ministry on X denounced fresh US attacks its coastal radar and surveillance facilities in Sirik region and on Qeshm Island – saying this breached the ceasefire. The ministry “strongly calls on the countries of the region to observe the principle of good neighborliness and adhere to the fundamental principle of international law of refraining from allowing aggressors to use their territory and facilities to plan and carry out aggressive actions against the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

It seems clear that for each US action, Iran is seeking to establish deterrence, and so is not hesitating to fire or inflict some kind of ‘cost’ either on US bases or the Gulf allies hosting them.

More Pakistani efforts to forge together agreement to get US-Iran back to the formal negotiating table:

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A privately built nuclear reactor went critical at Idaho National Laboratory on Thursday. It was the first time a private company has pulled that off in the United States in more than 40 years. The last time anything like this happened, Ronald Reagan was in his first term, and the Soviet Union still existed.

The reactor belongs to Antares Nuclear, which says it has raised more than $140 million in private funding. It is not yet generating electricity, but Antares has committed to producing power from the same Idaho facility by 2027. The reactor test took place ahead of a July 4 deadline that President Trump set by executive order.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright noted the historical importance of the moment:

“For the first time in more than four decades, a new privately developed non-light-water reactor has reached criticality in the United States. Thank you to President Trump for his bold leadership and thank you to the bold scientists and entrepreneurs at Antares and Idaho National Laboratory who helped make this moment possible. I look forward to seeing continued progress in the American nuclear renaissance.”

Antares CEO Jordan Bramble expressed his team’s commitment to the goal:

“Hitting our commitments is everything to us. Nuclear in America has been defined for too long by delays, by companies that said they would and then didn’t. We said criticality in 2026, electricity production in 2027, and power to the warfighter in 2028. Today is the first of those commitments delivered on the schedule we set.”

The company went from concept to a working reactor in under 12 months. Bramble credited the Reactor Pilot Program’s structure and decades of prior DOE investment in the fuel and manufacturing infrastructure behind it.

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Today, President Trump is taking action to help reverse the damage done to Maryland’s energy industry by directing federal support toward coal power infrastructure, including funding that could help restart Maryland’s Warrior Run power plant near Cumberland.

While combining the Defense Production Act, a 1950 law that gives presidents emergency authority over national security-related industries, and Department of Energy grants, President Trump is expected to send tens of millions of dollars to reopen the recently closed AES Warrior Run.

Maryland’s energy crisis was not an accident; it was a choice.

For years, Annapolis politicians and activists shut down reliable power, punished natural gas, forced unrealistic mandates onto families and businesses, and then acted shocked when electric bills exploded.

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Electricity prices are becoming one of the fastest-rising household expenses in parts of America.

Using data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), this map, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, shows how residential electricity prices changed across all 50 states over the past year.

The differences are striking. Washington D.C. saw electricity prices surge 23% year over year, over two times the national average increase of 10%, while several states in the West saw little change or outright declines.

Much of the pressure is being driven by rising grid investment costs and growing electricity demand, including from AI-related data center expansion in some regions.

Electricity Price Growth by State

The following table shows the annual change in average residential electricity prices by state in March 2026.

The limits of U.S. military power are now fully exposed.

2.5 months in to the U.S.-Israeli war against a nation that posed no threat to the United States’ vital interests, justified by a pyramid of lies, several things are abundantly clear. President Trump failed to define clear and viable political objectives to achieve in our role as Israel’s proxy in yet another war of choice. “Viable” here meaning objectives that are realistically attainable through the military means at a nation’s disposal.

In his classic work Strategy, British theorist B. H. Liddell Hart emphasized that a political leader’s foremost duty is to ensure that war aims are grounded in military reality. As he famously warned, political objectives must “not demand what is militarily impossible.”

Yet that is precisely the error President Trump committed.

Without clearly defined political objectives, it is impossible to construct U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), which is in charge of military operations in West Asia and appears to be moving from one ineffective tactic to the next without any unifying operational design. The repeated bombing of military‑related targets across a country the size of Western Europe with more than 90 million people is not a strategy; it is a tactic untethered to any discernible operational or strategic end state.

By limiting ourselves almost entirely to the use of airpower—fully aware that the American public will not accept another protracted ground war in the Middle East, particularly on behalf of Israel’s interests—the Trump administration has boxed itself into an approach with no historical precedent for success. No regime of Iran’s scale has ever been overthrown through airpower alone, and there is no reason to believe this conflict will be the first.

Despite repeated assurances that the war is being won, President Trump has provided no stable or coherent definition of what “victory” actually means. Is it regime change and internal overthrow of the Iranian government? Is it unconditional surrender of Iran’s armed forces? Is it the seizure of nuclear material previously claimed to have been obliterated? Take your pick. The absence of a clear, consistent political end state leaves military commanders struggling to determine what they are supposed to achieve.

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President Donald Trump just exposed yet another example of the radical Democrat regime’s war on hardworking Americans during an agriculture roundtable discussion in Wisconsin, this time, jailing people simply for fixing their own equipment.

Speaking before a crowd that included farmers and agricultural workers, Trump blasted government regulations that restrict Americans from repairing their own equipment and praised efforts to restore “right-to-repair” freedoms.

The president then recounted a case that left him stunned.

“The Democrats have a restriction that if you get caught fixing your tractor, they bring you to jail. You know that?” Trump told the crowd.

jail because he got caught fixing his car or his truck?”

Trump said he initially couldn’t believe what he was hearing.

“I said, ‘What did he do?’ Sir, he was fixing his truck.”

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Jesse Kelly of “The First” talked about a recent poll that showed a majority of Democrats hate the United States of America.

Kelly explained that when a society has a lot of people who hate the country they live in, it makes it very difficult to preserve it in the long run.

Kelly cited numerous examples, including Rep Ilan Omar, and leftist media personalities.

“250 years old. It’s a wonderful thing, isn’t it? And look, we’ve got problems, and every country gets problems. Every country has problems, but countries can develop a fatal problem if they are not careful,” Kelly said.

“And that fatal problem is one of the two political parties in the United States of America hates the country. The Democrats hate the country,” Kelly said.

“We just had a poll came out, one in five Democrats feel proud to be an American,” Kelly explained.

“You can survive a country with political parties that have bad ideas, wrong ideas, or a bad tax plan. You can survive long term a lot of these things,” Kelly continued.

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“This is the most insane amount of hypocrisy in the pursuit of political power. We need a Democratic party that can stand up to people like this, not promote them,” Scott Jennings said.

Jennings says so much more than that very succinctly. He nails it.

The Cantillon effect, coined by 18th-century economist Richard Cantillon, describes the uneven effect of money printing on different segments of the economy. When new money is created, it doesn’t distribute evenly across the economy. Instead, it benefits certain individuals, groups or sectors first, often those closest to the source of new money, while the wider population faces the inflation that inevitably follows the monetary expansion. This creates economic “winners” who gain purchasing power and “losers” who see their purchasing power diminish.

How Does The Cantillon Effect Work?

The Cantillon effect occurs when those closest to the new source of money, such as governments, financial institutions, and asset holders, benefit disproportionately from money printing compared to those on the periphery of the financial system. These entities can use the new money to acquire goods, services, and assets at prevailing prices before inflation sets in. This early advantage allows them to accumulate wealth more effectively. As they spend the new money, they contribute to rising prices. Prices rise because the increased money supply outpaces the available goods and services, creating a supply and demand imbalance that adjusts to a higher equilibrium price.

By the time the new money reaches those on the periphery of the financial system, such as everyday citizens, prices have increased substantially, offering little benefit to these late recipients. In fact, they find themselves worse off since their incomes and savings lost purchasing power due to the inflation. In other words, they can buy fewer goods and services than they could before the money was printed.

In our current monetary system, the primary beneficiaries of money printing are governments, financial institutions, and wealthy individuals, while the wider population is left to bear the cost of inflation. As the money supply increases, we observe an expansion of government influence, greater financialization of economies, and a widening wealth gap. In other words, the wealthiest sectors and individuals see significant gains in their net worth, while ordinary people struggle to keep pace with the rising cost of living. This trend is evident today, with governments larger than ever before, economies deeply financialized, and wealth inequality reaching levels not seen since the Gilded Age.

The Cantillon Effect In a Chart

As an example, the chart below highlights a direct correlation between money printing (as measured by US M2) and the increasing net worth of the top 0.1% of US citizens.

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