02a U.S. Politics – Conservative

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Planned Parenthood is putting women’s lives and health at risk once again.

The abortion business has launched a program that sells abortion pills to women who are not even pregnant, allowing them to stockpile the drugs for possible future use in ending the lives of their unborn babies.

The initiative, called “Just In Case Abortion Pills,” comes from Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai’i, Alaska, Indiana and Kentucky.

It makes the two-drug regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol available in advance to residents of Washington state and Hawaii. Women can obtain the dangerous abortion pills in person at one of the affiliate’s 16 health centers or, in some cases, by mail.

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It takes a place as progressively backwards as Colorado to decide school children are safer around accused child molesters than other children who espouse the wrong beliefs.

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The stories of troubling past comments and behavior keep surfacing in the campaign of US Senate candidate Graham Platner, a Democrat from Maine.

After an initial controversy surrounding a tattoo that appeared to depict Nazi symbolism, he attracted backlash for unearthed explicit Reddit posts that many described as disturbing.

Now, more of his previous online musings are coming to light, and these are particularly objectionable, as Breitbart reported:

“This video never gets old,” Platner wrote in a June 2019 Reddit post, referring to a viral video featuring Pfc. Ted Daniels in a 2012 firefight with the Taliban, which resulted in the soldier being shot four times and earning a Purple Heart for his injuries.

“Dumb motherfucker didn’t deserve to live,” the Democrat Senate hopeful — whose archived Reddit rants can be found on the Maine Monitor’s database — said in his since-deleted post.

Platner went on to write, “At least his stupidity and fat ass wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness and hold in contempt.”

“Poor marksmanship on the Taliban’s part is the only reason this mouthbreather made it home, he managed to make every possible shit decision possible when it comes to small unit combat,” Platner added.

The unearthed posts come from a deleted, but archived, Reddit account known as “P-Hustle,” which Platner previously acknowledged was his.

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The owner of the Future Leaders Early Learning Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was charged with defrauding Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program on Wednesday. Fahima Egeh Mahamud is accused of filing bogus claims to receive $4.6 million in government grants to serve thousands of meals to low-income children, but the meals allegedly were never served.

Mahamud’s daycare center was one of the places featured in Nick Shirley’s viral video earlier this year, highlighting rampant fraud in Minnesota daycares. According to reports, Mahamud registered Future Leaders Early Learning Center in a federal child nutrition program through the Minnesota nonprofit organization Feeding Our Future. As part of the scheme, she allegedly claimed that her daycare center collected required co-payments from impoverished families to receive the federal government subsidies to provide meals to children, none of which actually happened, according to prosecutors.

“One of the requirements of participation, by both child care providers and recipients, was the collection and payment of co-payments,” read official court documents. “The co-payment was paid to the family’s child care provider biweekly. The co-payment amount was based on family and annual income after allowable de

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Maureen Galindo, a Democrat running for Congress in TX-35, says in an Instagram post that she would turn an ICE detention center near San Antonio “into a prison for American Zionists”, and will also use it as a castration processing center for pedophiles, “which will probably be most of the Zionists”.

Yes, it’s real, and yes the post is still up. She has a runoff election next week.

In other posts on her Instagram, Galindo claims that her runoff opponent, Johnny Garcia, was part of a human trafficking conspiracy orchestrated by “billionaire Zionist Jews.”

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A new report reveals that American Federation of Teachers (AFT) chief Randi Weingarten used hundreds of thousands of dollars in union resources to help write her controversial book Why Fascists Fear Teachers (WFFT.)

Breitbart reports that analysis from The Freedom Foundation also shows that Weingarten’s team then pocketed a portion of the proceeds totaling nearly $1.4 million for work on the book, which was described by her publisher as a “manifesto for our time.”

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Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) will advance to a runoff in June after securing his spot in the Republican U.S. Senate primary on Tuesday night.

Since no GOP candidate in the Georgia U.S. Senate race received more than 50 percent of the votes, two candidates, including Collins, will vie for the Republican nomination in a runoff on June 16. The Associated Press (AP) called the race at 9:43 p.m. with nearly 60 percent of votes counted.

At the time, Collins had secured 41.6 percent of the votes, followed by Derek Dooley at 28.5 percent and Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) at 25.8 percent. Whoever secures the second-most amount of votes will face Collins in June.

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You’ll notice an important missing detail from this article.

Names. Despite a lengthy press conference, law enforcement did not identify the two dead suspects in the San Diego Islamic Center shooting.

In fact…the officials remained pretty vague concerning details about the suspects.

Law enforcement discovered a manifesto and over 30 guns while executing three search warrants:

Law enforcement officials also served search warrants on the suspects’ electronic devices during the investigation. Investigators said they recovered a manifesto, as well as writings outlining religious and racial beliefs “of how the world they envision should look,” according to FBI Special Agent in Charge Mark Remily.

“These subjects did not discriminate in who they hated, and let me be very clear to anyone who thinks they can end the world through violence: They’re sorely mistaken,” Remily said. “The FBI, our law enforcement partners and our community are much stronger than you think.”

Mark Remily of the FBI said during a news conference that authorities have uncovered writings by the suspects. Authorities declined to specify what ideologies or views were expressed by the shooters, only that they met online and shared a “broad hatred” toward different religions and races.

There was no specific threat against the Islamic center, which is the largest mosque in San Diego, but authorities found that the suspects engaged in “generalized hate rhetoric,” [San Diego Police Department Chief Scott] Wahl said.

Got it? This part:

Authorities declined to specify what ideologies or views were expressed by the shooters, only that they met online and shared a “broad hatred” toward different religions and races.

There was no specific threat against the Islamic center, which is the largest mosque in San Diego, but authorities found that the suspects engaged in “generalized hate rhetoric.”

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On May 5 and 6, the Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) filed two related Second Amendment lawsuits in Colorado: one challenging Denver’s ban on so-called “assault weapons,” including AR-15-style semiautomatic rifles, and another challenging Colorado’s statewide ban on magazines capable of holding more than 15 rounds. In both cases, DOJ argues that state and local officials are criminalizing arms commonly owned by law-abiding Americans in violation of the Second Amendment and Supreme Court precedent.

Colorado law generally prohibits selling, transferring, or possessing a “large-capacity magazine,” defined as a magazine capable of accepting more than 15 rounds, with an exception for magazines owned before July 1, 2013, and continuously possessed since then. Denver’s ordinance separately bans possession of so-called “assault weapons,” including many AR-15-style semiautomatic rifles.

The DOJ argues that the laws rely on deceptive language and fearmongering to try to justify an end-run around the Constitution. “The Magazine Ban uses politically charged rhetoric to describe the arms it bans,” the complaint states. “The Magazine Ban’s characterization of these magazines as ‘large capacity’ is a misnomer, because magazines capable of holding more than 15 rounds are, in fact, standard capacity magazines for many popular firearms, including the AR-15 rifle, the most popular rifle in America.”

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The Senate GOP is having a full-blown meltdown at President Trump’s decision to endorse Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate Republican primary over establishment darling John Cornyn. And it is nothing short of glorious.

Flanked by frowning members of Senate GOP leadership, Majority Leader John Thune somberly reaffirmed his support for the gun control-loving Cornyn, whom he called a “principled conservative.” Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker reportedly “remained stone-faced (appeared to be intentional) for about 20 seconds” when asked for his reaction to Trump’s endorsement of Paxton. Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski is reported to have thrown a temper tantrum at the president’s refusal to back Cornyn.

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President Donald Trump ramped up pressure Wednesday on Senate Majority Leader John Thune to fire Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough.

MacDonough serves as a de-facto referee to interpret Senate rules, which includes determining which provisions meet the strict requirements governing the budget reconciliation process. Trump called on Republicans to replace McDonough after she stripped out his $1 billion request to enhance Secret Service security measures during the construction of the White House ballroom.

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U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro sent a strong warning on Monday to D.C. parents who allow their teens to run wild after violence erupted at a Chipotle restaurant on Saturday.

The wild brawl took place one day after Pirro, irked with teen takeovers across D.C., said she would begin prosecuting parents when teens disrupt restaurants and other venues.

“I am here to tell you it is going to stop,” Pirro said Monday, according to The Washington Post. “And parents, I’m talking about you now.”

“Parents, you are not a bystander in this crisis,” Pirro said. “If you know where your teen is, and what your teen is doing, and you allow them to continue their conduct and continue to allow them to flourish, then we’re going to prosecute you.”

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The incendiary and stochastic terrorist rhetoric of ABC and Disney’s The View took on its darkest and most dangerous form yet. During their Behind the Table podcast on Monday, co-host Sunny Hostin called for an open “rebellion” to fight President Trump and Republicans. Her inspiration was Disney’s Andor, a live-action Star Wars show about the early days of the Rebel Alliance and their violent and clandestine efforts to overthrow the Galactic Empire.

WARNING: There will be spoilers. They’re necessary to give an idea for the type of “rebellion” Hostin was calling for.

Hostin’s open call for a rebellion was the climax of her reaction to recent election related news items. First, she echoed her previous false suggestion that only Republicans were gerrymandering and played dumb about why party gerrymandering was legal while racist gerrymandering wasn’t (party affiliation was not a protected class) (Click “expand”):

HOSTIN: Look, I mean, we’re seeing after the Supreme Court decision–

TETA: In Virginia.

HOSTIN: In Louisiana.

TETA: Oh, Louisiana. I’m sorry you’re right. Yes.

HOSTIN: The Louisiana decision that you can gerrymander based on political party and not race.

TETA: Right.

HOSTIN: Apparently, if you gerrymander on race, it’s illegal, but an unconstitutional, but fine to do it for political party.

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Can you name one good thing the BLM movement has done for the Black community? No? I didn’t think so. You certainly can, however, name many bad things this movement and people involved in it have done that have been disastrous towards the Black community. This is why it is disingenuous for Sunny Hostin to imply this “uprising” has done anything beneficial for Black people.

According to Sunny Hostin, “there is no compassion between the Black Lives Matter movement and Jan. 6.” And in that regard, she is correct. There is no comparison. However, she justified this stance by claiming there was “very limited destruction of property and violence” during the “uprising of this movement.” This is incorrect because these riots caused the largest insurance claim in American history, while the amount of damage caused by Jan. 6 rioters was less than $3 million. While both numbers should be closer to $0, as Hostin said, it is comparing apples to oranges.

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A new free speech law named after slain Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk is “dehumanizing,” according to the Secular Student Alliance.

The bill, which will go into effect on July 1, seeks to protect free speech on campus and punish unruly disruptions of speakers. Republican Governor Bill Lee signed the law on May 5.

“What this law actually does is protect invited speakers – no matter how extreme or dehumanizing their views – while making it riskier for students to push back,” the Secular Student Alliance stated in a news release sent to The College Fix prior to the signing of the bill.

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CEASEFIRE INTERRUPTED: The U.S. military said the ceasefire with Iran remains in effect, even though it has been in a running battle with Iranian forces, after spotting what it assessed as an Iranian small boat laying mines near the Strait of Hormuz.

The two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps boats were “eliminated,” and surface-to-air missile sites in Bandar Abbas were also targeted, Capt. Tim Hawkins, a spokesman for the U.S. Central Command, told various media organizations.

“U.S. forces conducted self-defense strikes in southern Iran today to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces,” Hawkins said in a statement. “Targets included missile launch sites and Iranian boats attempting to emplace mines. U.S. Central Command continues to defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire.”

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Northern Nigeria is facing an ascendant ISIS insurgency, drawing Washington into the fray.

Since the jihadist insurgency in northern Nigeria began 13 years ago, the conflict has drastically changed in scope, amid concerted counterterrorism efforts from the Nigerian government, countless jihadist ideological splits, and international interventions. The 2020s began with ISIS and other terrorist groups on the back foot, but a change in tactics and fortunes has sent them back on the offensive in the last couple of years, turning the country into one of the foremost fronts in the Global War on Terror.

Alexander Palmer, a fellow in the Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the Washington Examiner that ISIS in Nigeria is “on the march, they are increasingly active, and they’re increasingly threatening military targets,” with a large-scale military campaign ISIS calls “Camp Holocaust.”

The insurgency in northern Nigeria is notable for the frequency and scale of ideological disputes triggering violent internal conflicts. Over the past few years, northern Nigeria’s main ISIS affiliate, Islamic State West Africa Province, has emerged as the primary jihadist threat.

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As a successor of the apostles, I have a solemn duty not only to preach the Gospel, but also to help the faithful discern the spirits of the age in the light of the unchanging truth entrusted to the Church by Our Lord Jesus Christ.

St. Paul exhorted Timothy to “preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine” (2 Tim. 4:2). That duty belongs to every bishop charged with guarding the deposit of faith.

Therefore, I feel it is important to address concerns regarding the recently released encyclical letter, Magnifica Humanitas, of the Holy Father Leo XIV. Some have found parts of it insightful and compelling. Others have experienced a deep uneasiness while reading it – a concern that, beneath many true statements, the document reflects a broader theological shift that risks placing man at the center in a way that obscures the primacy of God.

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Look, a lot has happened over the past few weeks, with Operation Epic Fury being the least of it—particularly the fiasco involving the January 6 pipe bomber who evaded the FBI for years. The Blaze probably jumped the gun in its story, identifying former Capitol Police Officer Shauni Kerkhoff, 31, as a potential suspect. This has led to a lawsuit since she had an alibi, and another suspect, Brian Cole, was arrested and charged in December 2025. Still, conspiracy theories and palace intrigue will likely surround Ms. Kerkhoff since she reportedly failed an FBI polygraph. She was cleared as a suspect, but in this era, that will continue to fan the flames.

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Florida just became the first state to seriously challenge the surrogacy industry after a gay couple living in France contracted with a woman in Florida to be their surrogate.

The couple petitioned the Broward County court for early parental rights.

While Judge Marlon Weiss granted their petition, he questioned whether surrogacy is constitutional, claiming it violates the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery.

“Judge Marlon Weiss argued that if unborn children

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The Democratic Party and the Democratic National Committee is facing intense backlash over a Memorial Day post that leveraged the deaths of U.S. service members killed in the Iran conflict in a partisan attack against President Donald Trump.

The post in question featured photographs of the fallen service members and included text that read, in part, “We honor the American heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice in Trump’s war with Iran” or similar phrasing such as “REMEMBERING THE AMERICANS WHO HAVE DIED IN TRUMP’S WAR WITH IRAN.” It was shared on platforms including X and Facebook under a number of official Democratic Party accounts.

The message drew backlash from a range of individuals, including veterans, political figures from both parties, and members of the public. Critics argued that framing the deaths in explicitly partisan terms on Memorial Day, a holiday traditionally dedicated to solemn remembrance of fallen service members without political attribution, was inappropriate.

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Fresh strikes on southern Iran were launched by U.S. military forces early Tuesday morning targeting Iranian missile sites and vessels attempting to lay anti-shipping mines in the contested Strait of Hormuz.

The targeted strikes were done “to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces,” but the military was “using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire,” Capt. Tim Hawkins, the spokesman for the U.S. military’s Central Command, said in a statement as reported by AP.

Following the strikes, the BBC reports U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said a deal was still possible and pointed to talks on Tuesday between Iran’s top negotiator and foreign minister and Qatar’s prime minister.

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Beginning this summer, University of California Berkeley School of Law students will be banned from using artificial intelligence to complete coursework or exams.

Under the newly adopted policy, students cannot “conceptualize, outline, draft, revise, and edit their work” using AI.

It also explicitly forbids students from asking AI to correct grammar mistakes or translate a paper into English.

Students are permitted to use AI for “research on papers ONLY for the limited purpose of identifying sources, such as cases, statutes, or secondary sources,” the policy states.

However, professors are permitted to make exceptions to this rule as long as they “do so in writing and with appropriate notice and require students to disclose any authorized AI use,” it states.

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A major opponent of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the emerging peace deal between the United States and Iran as talks progressed Monday.

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid reprimanded an “old” and “tired” Netanyahu over the deal’s reported terms, which he did not specify.

“The emerging agreement with Iran is a disaster,” Lapid posted on X. “I supported the war in Iran from the very first moment, but the diplomatic management of the entire affair couldn’t have been worse. Everything that shouldn’t have happened—happened.”

“The current situation is the result of an ongoing governmental failure,” he wrote. “Benjamin Netanyahu is a man blessed with talents, but he has grown old and he has grown tired and he is surrounded by the least suitable people for running a country.”

Israel is not taking an active role in the negotiations. As talks continued in Qatar on Monday, the Israeli military intensified its airstrike campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Iranian officials are concerned that the military action may jeopardize a peaceful outcome if Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, is targeted.

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President Donald Trump said Monday that Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile will either be transferred to the United States or destroyed inside Iran under international supervision.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the uranium would either be “immediately turned over” to the United States to be destroyed or eliminated inside Iran or another approved location.

“The Enriched Uranium (Nuclear Dust!) will either be immediately turned over to the United States to be brought home and destroyed or, preferably, in conjunction and coordination with the Islamic Republic of Iran, destroyed in place or, at another acceptable location, with the Atomic Energy Commission, or its equivalent, being witness to this process and event,” Trump wrote.

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Taya Kyle, widow of the late Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, accused Maine Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner of making things up regarding her husband.

During a 2024 podcast interview, Platner claimed that Kyle ran up his kill count by shooting unarmed civilians while he served in a unit known as Task Force Bruiser.

“[Kyle’s] stories about how many people he was shooting certainly tracked with the behavior I witnessed [in Ramadi, Iraq]. It’s relatively easy to get high numbers like that if you’re a little less discriminating in your fire than, say, a more professional unit would be,” Platner said.

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“Nudity is permitted only while actively showering. Members are expected to put clothing on or be covered during use of the space outside of showering.”

A San Francisco YMCA has implemented new rules after a trans-identified male was seen walking around naked in the locker room in front of women and children, as well as allegedly harassing female members.

New rules at the Stonestown Family YMCA stated that “Nudity should be discreet, limited, and brief.” The rule added, “Nudity is permitted only while actively showering. Members are expected to put clothing on or be covered during use of the space outside of showering,” per the Daily Mail.

The new rules continued, “Respect privacy and personal space. Please maintain appropriate distance from others, be mindful of personal space during times of undress, and demonstrate courtesy at all times.”

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Some agitators were also seen digging up cement bricks from outside the building for use in the barricades.

Agitators on Monday clashed with ICE agents outside of New Jersey’s Delaney Hall, with agitators being seen constructing reinforced barricades at the facility’s entrance and exit.

Agents were seen in footage from Freedom News TV’s Oliya Scootercaster deploying pepper spray on agitators outside of the building as they attempted to move the crowd back. Agents appeared to take some people into custody.

Agitators were seen constructing barricades using building materials from a nearby dumpster. Some were also seen digging up cement bricks from outside the building for use in the barricades.

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The focus of Friday’s Washington Week in Review journalist roundtable (which aired on the eve of Memorial Day weekend) was the Department of Defense, especially on Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s war against wokeism, which the panel disapproved of, especially New York Times national security correspondent Helene Cooper, who all but accused Hegseth and the Trump Administration of racism and sexism.

Helene Cooper, National Security Correspondent, The New York Times: Well, that’s a great question, Jeff. I think I would start first with just he’s instilled an atmosphere of fear, which is pervasive now throughout the Pentagon, just because he has fired or threatened to fire or forced to retire just so many of the top brass….

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Chinese President Xi Jinping may not need to launch a full-scale invasion of Taiwan to put the island, the U.S. and the global tech economy in crisis, according to national security experts.

Some advisers to President Donald Trump reportedly fear Xi could move against Taiwan within the next five years following Trump’s recent summit with the Chinese leader, Axios reported. One Trump adviser told the outlet the summit signaled a “much higher likelihood” that Taiwan could be “on the table” during that window, warning that the highly vulnerable U.S. semiconductor supply chain would not be ready for such a crisis.

National security experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that this is simply not the reality on the ground.