02 U.S. Politics

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The U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights division announced Thursday, June 11, that the University of California, Davis School of Medicine (Davis Med) violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by discriminating on the basis of race in its admissions process. The determination follows a six-month investigation prompted by concerns over post-2023 affirmative action practices.

The findings center on Davis Med’s efforts to maintain racial diversity after the Supreme Court’s Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (SFFA) decision, which banned race-based admissions in higher education. The DOJ concluded that the school intentionally circumvented this ruling by using socioeconomic proxies for race.

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Politicians love to say they will be the guy (or gal) who represents all the people. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the same thing throughout his 2025 campaign for the highest office in the Big Apple: that he would be mayor for all the people. But at least one New York City councilman is now saying, “not so much,” when it comes to where in the city that Mamdani is focusing on various improvement projects.

City Councilman Phil Wong of Queens is accusing Mamdani of playing favorites, and distributing resources for city improvement efforts in neighborhoods that voted for him. There may also be some disturbing proof of this. A 2025 election map overlaid with Mamdani’s “First 100 Days” map using AI, compares voting demographics to where the various projects going on around the city are located. Some of these projects include roadwork, housing, and public transportation improvements.

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As more and more revelations come to the fore about Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, who just won the Democrat primary this week, many Democrats seem to have adopted a simple mantra regarding his campaign: Vote for the Nazi: It’s important.

The saying echoes a slogan from campaigns past — one that supporters of Republican Sen. Susan Collins, Platner’s opponent in the general election, would do well to employ against Platner. The slogan demonstrates how Democrats will embrace a candidate — any candidate — so long as that person opposes President Trump.

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Robert Jacob Hoopes, 25, of Portland, threw a large rock at an ICE agent’s head within close proximity.

A Portland Antifa-affiliated rioter has been sentenced to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for assaulting a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent during a violent June 2025 riot at the ICE facility in Portland, Oregon. Robert Jacob Hoopes, 25, of Portland, threw a large rock at an ICE agent’s head after breaching the federal building in concert with black-clad anarchists, leaving the officer bloodied and injured.

Hoopes was convicted in February of aggravat

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Major news broke today regarding one of the outright horrors of the previous administration: the trafficking of children brought into the United States as unaccompanied minors. But you didn’t hear about it on any of the evening newscasts at ABC, CBS, NBC or PBS.

Others stepped up, though. Watch the related segment below, as aired on NewsNation’s Katie Pavlich Tonight on Thursday, June 11th, 2026:

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The imminent deal ensuring Iran will never have a nuclear weapon was “the whole purpose” of the war, President Donald Trump explained Thursday at a press briefing announcing that a peace agreement will likely be officially signed in the next few days.

“Just had a big day,” Pres. Trump told reporters, noting that the deal is “subject to finalization of documents” at a signing ceremony expected to take place in Europe, perhaps over the upcoming weekend.

The signing will immediately trigger the end to the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the president said:

“The strait will officially open as soon as we sign, which could be soon, very soon, maybe, over the weekend, in Europe. I won’t be able to be there, but J.D. will be there, the vice president, and some other people.”

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Progressive city council member Nithya Raman has advanced to a November runoff against Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, setting up an unexpected matchup between two Democrats and former political allies to run the struggling city of nearly four million people.

The outcome means Spencer Pratt, a Republican and former reality television personality from The Hills, is out of the running. His candidacy had drawn national attention because of his celebrity and willingness to challenge liberal governance in a city dominated by Democrats, but the buzz did not translate into enough votes to make the runoff.

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It was unclear how the markings in the grass were made. In some areas, the grass turned brown to form the shape of numbers in contrast to the surrounding green.

The US Park Police said the cause of the “discolouration” has not yet been determined. A spokesperson said grass samples have been collected for testing and an investigation is ongoing.

The White House referred questions about the incident to the Department of the Interior. The incident comes as the National Mall is set to be the scene for events celebrating the 250th anniversary of US independence in the coming weeks.

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A federal appeals court has approved of President Trump’s backup tariff plan — at least, for now.

On Thursday, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit extended a block on a lower court ruling striking down the tariffs.

This means that President Trump can keep collecting 10% global tariffs under Section 122 temporarily as the further litigation continues.

Here are the details:

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The US government announced sanctions against Cuba’s state-owned oil and gas company on Thursday in a move expected to increase tensions between the two countries.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio asserted that key assets of the company, known as Cupet, were “unlawfully expropriated from American owners years ago.”

He also accused Cuba’s government of weaponising energy.

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Wall Street’s major indexes ended sharply higher on Thursday, with stocks extending gains after U.S. President Donald Trump said he canceled planned strikes against Iran, and on the eve of the market debut of Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

Hours before the expected strikes, ‌Trump said ⁠on Truth Social ⁠that negotiations with Tehran had advanced to the highest levels of Iran’s leadership and had been okayed by a broad coalition of regional powers.

Oil prices dropped sharply, while stocks added to their rebound from the prior session’s selloff. On Wednesday, major Wall Street indexes fell more than 1% and the S&P 500 Technology Index confirmed a correction.

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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced Thursday that the Trump administration has located 146,000 unaccompanied migrant children who were trafficked into the United States during the Biden administration and subsequently lost.

During a news conference at the Department of Justice with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and other Trump administration officials, Mullin credited a joint effort between DHS, ICE and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for finding the missing children, which he said President Trump has made a high priority.

Unfortunately, nearly 300,000 minors remain unaccounted for, according to Mullin, although officials continue to search for them.

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The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump just took a pivotal step toward removing government-endorsed discrimination from America’s legal system and undermining the institutional apparatus of critical race theory.

Critical race theory teaches that America is systemically racist and that even racially neutral policies are truly racist if they result in better outcomes for members of one race than for members of another. That’s the exact same logic as the legal theory known as “disparate impact.”

Cornell Law School defines disparate impact as a policy or rule “that seems neutral but has a negative impact on a specific protected class of persons.”

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Karmelo Anthony says he is unable to pay for an attorney for his appeal after being convicted in the murder of high school track star Austin Metcalf.

Anthony is requesting a court-appointed attorney, according to a filing that claimed he was a “penniless, destitute, and indigent person.”

The Anthony family reportedly purchased a new car and moved into a ritzy neighborhood in a gated community after the killer’s bond was lowered.

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On June 9, Karmelo Anthony, 19, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 35 years in prison.

He was found guilty in the April 2, 2025, fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, a track athlete from a rival high school, during a Frisco Independent School District track meet in Frisco, Texas. Anthony, then a student at Centennial High, stabbed Metcalf in the chest during an altercation.

Anthony’s defense claimed he acted in self-defense, despite Metcalf being unarmed.

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“We have to understand these guys, they are playing psychological warfare with us.”

In a June 7 episode of Native Land Pod, Democratic Pennsylvania representative, Summer Lee, said that once black Americans felt like they would not receive reparations, they would stop voting.

Podcast co-host Angela Rye asked Lee her thoughts on the White House’s $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” proposal in contrast with the lack of support Lee’s House resolution on reparations has only received 13 democrats cosigning it.

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The controversial fundraising campaign launched on behalf of Karmelo Anthony has been taken offline following his murder conviction, but the convicted murderer’s family will retain the more than $600,000 raised through the effort as they prepare to appeal the case.

Anthony was convicted Tuesday of murdering 17-year-old Austin Metcalf after a Collin County jury rejected his self-defense claims and sentenced him to 35 years in prison.

Less than 24 hours after the verdict, Anthony’s attorneys filed a notice of appeal, while family members vowed to continue fighting the conviction.

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Sens. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and Ed Markey (Mass.) are just the latest high-profile Democrats to throw their support behind scandal-plagued Senate candidate Graham Platner.

The progressive oyster farmer from Maine won the Democratic nomination Tuesday night, a result that was widely expected after Gov. Janet Mills (D) suspended her campaign in April. Despite Mills still appearing on the ballot, Platner managed to secure 72% of the vote share, setting up a general election against five-term incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R).

‘In November, Maine voters will elect Graham Platner, and we will win a Senate majority.’

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(LifeSiteNews) – America First Legal (AFL) accused Chicago Public Schools (CPS), San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), and Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) of “socially transitioning” gender-confused students without the knowledge or consent of their parents in new complaints filed with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

The New York Post reported that the group maintains all three districts let students change the names and genders they use at school without parental involvement or notification, plus lets male students who “identify” as girls participate in female-specific athletics and use female lockers and restrooms.

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Most people with at least half a brain understand that what Karmelo Anthony did is legally defined as murder. This has nothing to do with the color of his skin. It should also not be controversial to throw convicted murderers in prison. But because this man had a certain skin color, many people with low IQs have a problem with this. And one of those low-IQ losers appears to be allegedly on the hunt for people who were on the jury that convicted the murderer.

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It took less than 12 hours for Representative Jasmine Crockett to run her mouth about Karmelo Anthony again. As a reminder, Crockett lost in the Democrat Senate primary and is not currently seeking reelection for a seat in the House of Representatives. President Trump told reporters he likes inflation and had…some kind of explanation as to why he said that? Let’s crunch some numbers. Another day, another list of lies Hasan Piker has to make up to keep his audience engaged. Let’s see what his Communist talking points are today.

 

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After a Sudanese national apparently attempted to brutally behead a man in Belfast, Ireland, The New York Times on June 10 claimed the real concern was “anti-immigrant sentiment,” not how the U.K.’s open border policies enabled the attack.

Video from the attack, which went viral on social media, shows the migrant attacking a native U.K. citizen named Steven Ogilvy in an apparent attempted beheading. The New York Times (NYT) article does not describe the attack until four paragraphs in, and does not use the word “beheading” once. The article also buries information about the suspect, including the fact that he was a Sudanese who may have fraudulently claimed refugee status, in the eleventh paragraph.

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A prominent Catholic priest is sounding the alarm over a multi-billion-dollar effort by Melinda French Gates to depopulate some of the world’s most vulnerable populations.

Father James Altman is accusing Bill Gates’s ex-wife of helping advance a global population control agenda while claiming to remain faithful to Catholic teaching.

Gates is accused of pumping $4 billion into plans to sterilize women in third-world nations in an effort to reduce human population numbers around the world.

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Since he came down the escalator 11 years ago, Donald Trump’s personal conduct made him uniquely unfit for office and Americans had a moral obligation to oppose him, so said Democrats. Character mattered in politics, they told us.

But on Tuesday, nearly 150,000 Mainers sent a different message. Democrats handed Graham Platner a landslide primary victory, a decisive win for the man who had a Nazi tattoo. And to be clear, Platner wasn’t the only candidate on the ballot. Incumbent Gov. Janet Mills and former Democrat Senate nominee in 2024 David Costello were on the ballot as well. And yet it was a landslide victory for Platner.

Platner spent 18 years bearing a Nazi tattoo and only had it removed when it became ever so slightly (emphasis on slightly) politically inconvenient. He also said women worried about rape should not “get blacked out, f*cked up around people” they aren’t “comfortable” with. He also allegedly said that if someone ever broke into his home, he would “rape them … [but] not in a sexual way, not in a gay way.”

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani hosted a Pride event at City Hall. He did this not because it makes the lives of residents better off, but because he is beholden to leftist ideology. The insanity should have stopped there, but of course, in perfect leftist fashion, it certainly did not.

The city will now offer new gender-affirming care services. Again, to claim this does nothing beneficial to anyone would be an understatement.

These people are “too gay to function.”

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Yesterday, I came across a video in which a black man films himself riding down the street on a bicycle, reportedly in Florida, before he pulls over where a white man is sitting on the ground talking to a white woman while they appear to be waiting for a bus. Out of nowhere and without provocation, the black man punches the seated white man in the head, accusing him of being part of the “jury selection” for the Karmelo Anthony trial; he also says to the white man, who is a veteran, “you gonna die.”

Black man in Florida filmed himself in an anti-white, racially motivated attack, “down to 4 crackers na free karmelo” by punching a veteran in the head, all for internet fame. He told the veteran he was going to die after mockingly accusing him of serving on the jury that… pic.twitter.com/Sh7vmYT6ly

— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) June 10, 2026