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To kick off Pride Month this year, a famous UFC fighter has posted an AI video that takes a shot at past woke corporate pandering — and several shots at the face of Bud Light’s biggest mistake.

On Tuesday, UFC fighter Sean Strickland posted an AI-generated video of him sparring with a likeness of Dylan Mulvaney, the infamous transgender-identifying influencer to whom Bud Light once sent commemorative cans of beer to celebrate his “365 Days of Girlhood.”

‘I’ve yet to see one rainbow flag. We’re back!!!’

In the video, Strickland can be seen punching Mulvaney several times in the octagon before knocking him out.

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Mulvaney is wearing a pink dress and gloves in the AI video.

The end of the video cuts away from the fight and reveals that it is a fake Bud Light commercial. “Bud Light. The official beer sponsor of UFC,” a voiceover says.

Strickland captioned the Instagram video, saying, “I’ve yet to see one rainbow flag. We’re back!!!” He also mentioned Bud Light in the caption.

At the time of this writing, Strickland’s fake Bud Light commercial garnered roughly 123,700 likes on Instagram.

In that same spirit, Strickland, who has been very active on X lately, lauded the changes in June 2026 compared to Pride Months in the past, crediting the current administration: “Say what you want about Trump but June has got far less gay.” He included several clapping hand emojis in the post.

Strickland has, however, also been vocal in his criticism of Trump in other areas. “Being elected in 2024 was the easiest job. … Better trade deals[.] Cut regulations[.] More gas[.] More building[.] No new wars[.] Enforce immigration laws[.] Thats it … thats all you had to do and we would of been happy,” he posted May 28.

Strickland celebrated his 31st professional career win in early May after a split decision in his face-off against Khamzat Chimaev in the main event of UFC 328.

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Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D), who has a habit of obsessing over LGBTQ “rights” when it comes to children, has finally answered questions about his love life.

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is not convinced he’s being honest.

“One of the more juicy bits of gossip that people are talking about is that people were like, ‘James Talarico does not have a girlfriend; there’s no way he has a girlfriend,’” Gonzales comments.

“He’s super secretive about his love life, and he has the scrawny arms, and he doesn’t eat meat,” she continues.

When Talarico was asked about having a girlfriend, he gave what Gonzales calls the “weirdest, probably least convincing answer ever.”

“You have a girlfriend?” Talarico was asked on “The Jamie Kern Lima Show.”

“I do,” he answered, laughing. “And she is my rock; she is my best friend. I don’t know if I could have gotten through the last six months of this crazy race if she hadn’t been by my side. So, um, yeah, thanks for asking about her as well.”

“Sounds like a beard if you ask me,” Gonzales says.

According to an exposé in the New York Post, Talarico’s girlfriend is a vegan named Brianna Menard who used to be his chief of staff.

“I’d like to see some receipts if this was happening as she was his chief of staff because I don’t think it’s a good look to prey on your staffers. In fact, the Democrats, the party of ‘Me Too,’ have reliably informed me that that is an abuse of power,” Gonzales says.

The girlfriend in question reportedly describes herself as a “cat mom” who “likes dancing the night away at her local gay bar.”

“Now I’m wondering if maybe that’s how they met. Maybe that’s how they originally met, and then he brought her on as chief of staff. I don’t know. But this is all tracking now,” Gonzales says.

“Of course, all of this is not helping to quiet the rumors that he is a flaming homosexual,” she adds.

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Iowa voters cast their ballots in the primary election on Tuesday, determining two of the state’s highest-profile November matchups, including the open gubernatorial race and an open U.S. Senate seat.

Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) announced in April 2025 that she would not seek a third term. In Sept., U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R) announced that she would also not seek re-election.

‘We now have the most Republicans ever. … There is no excuse for [Democratic] turnout to exceed ours here, but if that happens again … uh-oh.’

Five Republicans faced off in Iowa’s primary election, seeking to succeed Reynolds.

A survey conducted by JMC Analytics and Polling from May 27 to 28 predicted that the Republican gubernatorial primary may head to a convention, with none of the candidates able to secure the required 35% of the vote.

Of those surveyed, 24% stated that they would vote for businessman and former conservative political director Zach Lahn, 22% selected state Rep. Randy Feenstra, 15% selected former director of the state Department of Administrative Services Adam Steen, 8% selected former state Rep. Brad Sherman, and 4% selected state Rep. Eddie Andrews. However, 27% of those surveyed said they remained undecided.

Feenstra was endorsed by President Donald Trump, who called the candidate “MAGA all the way!”

Live ballot tabulations showed Lahn and Feenstra in a tight race on Tuesday evening.

With roughly 90% of the votes counted and Lahn leading by approximately 1,400 votes, BlazeTV’s Steve Deace stated, “I’ve seen enough. @ZachLahn will be the GOP nominee for governor in Iowa.”

Decision Desk HQ projected at 11:30 p.m. Eastern that Lahn would win the election against challenger Feenstra. With 98% of the votes counted, Lahn led Feenstra by less than one percentage point, according to the Associated Press. Lahn secured over 37% of the vote, avoiding a state party convention previously predicted by the polls.

Feenstra reportedly called Lahn Tuesday evening to concede.

Lahn will face uncontested Democratic nominee Rob Sand in the upcoming November 3 general election.

RELATED: A storm is brewing in Iowa — and Republicans should take note: ‘There are danger signs’

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Former state Rep. Jim Carlin and Trump-backed U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson went head-to-head on Tuesday seeking to become the Republican nominee to fill Ernst’s open seat in the Senate.

The same poll from JMC Analytics and Polling showed 58% of those surveyed were planning to vote for Hinson and that Carlin trailed behind by 39 percentage points. However, 23% of respondents stated they were still undecided.

On Tuesday, Hinson pulled off a massive victory against Carlin in the election. Roughly 30 minutes after the polls closed, Hinson was projected to be the winner by NBC News and the Associated Press. With 99% of the ballots counted, Hinson won by over 48 percentage points.

State Rep. Josh Turek won the Democratic primary race against state Sen. Zach Wahls to battle it out against Hinson on the November ballot.

RELATED: Pro-life senator announces she will not seek re-election

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Heading into Election Day, Deace shared his thoughts on the Iowa races and their national implications.

“We better hope the Democrats follow their heart with Zach Wahls and not their heads with Josh Turek, because the latter has run the best and most inspiring messaging I’ve seen from a Democrat statewide in Iowa in many years,” Deace wrote in a post on X. “Wahls is a construct of every Leftist fetish normies vote against if the economy isn’t totally in the tank. But if Turek is their nominee, the US Senate race in Iowa will be a way tougher pull for our side this fall. He gives normies a reason to vote for him and not just against Trump.”

He noted that Democratic voter turnout nationwide has far surpassed Republicans, which he called an obvious “potential danger sign for November.”

“But here in Iowa, we now have the most Republicans ever and more than a 200,000 voter registration advantage. There is no excuse for their turnout to exceed ours here, but if that happens again … uh-oh,” Deace added.

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Scott Pelley, a 68-year-old liberal who claimed in a commencement speech last year that “you only lose if you quit,” has been a fixture at CBS News since 1989.

Although he was ousted as the anchor of “CBS Evening News” in 2017 — allegedly because he complained “to management about the hostile work environment,” though his ratings also stank — Pelley clung to another position at the network, working for nearly a decade as a correspondent on “60 Minutes.”

CBS News kicked Pelley to the curb for good on Tuesday — a day after the talking head reportedly volunteered a number of criticisms of the network’s choices and personnel.

‘I have been in combat.’

At a Monday staff meeting in Manhattan, Pelley hammered Nick Bilton, a newly hired executive producer on “60 Minutes,” for his “slender” qualifications and characterized Bari Weiss, the blogger turned CBS News editor in chief, of being a hatchet man who is “murdering” the show and lacks a love for “this place,” reported the New York Times.

Bilton, an English-born filmmaker and former tech columnist who apparently has no broadcast news experience, announced on Tuesday, “We have parted ways with Scott Pelley.”

The purportedly slenderly qualified producer said in a missive to Pelley obtained by the Times,

I started this job excited to collaborate and to benefit from the wisdom and experience of the 60 Minutes veterans, with you among them. For that reason, one of the first things I did in my new role was call you to talk and invite you to dinner. It is a profound disappointment that you rejected that overture and chose ambush instead. Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt.

Bilton claimed that while he supposedly welcomes “a diversity of viewpoints and respectful debate,” Pelley’s “performative display of hostility” demonstrated that he has “no interest in contributing to the future success of the show, or approaching my new tenure with a mind open to collaboration and progress.”

RELATED: Polarization may be the cure — and the clarity — America needs

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After emphasizing that Pelley’s “antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear,” Bilton told the liberal that his employment was “terminated for cause effective immediately.”

Pelley, who complained in a woke speech last year that “journalism is under attack,” wasted no time reminding everyone of his bravery and “devotion” to journalism.

“I have been in combat in Afghanistan,” he told the Times in a phone interview after his termination, referring to his time as a war reporter while other men actually engaged in combat operations. “I have been in combat in Iraq. I have been in the war zone in Ukraine multiple times, risking my life and the happiness of my family because of my devotion to the broadcast.”

Pelley claimed that Bilton’s letter “betrays a complete misunderstanding of what we work for and what we live for at ’60 Minutes.'”

Earlier in the day, the ex-CBS News correspondent stated that the “incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc” at CBS News, adding that the “collapse of values at the top has become untenable.”

Pelley claimed further in another statement that the new owner of the network — Paramount Skydance — was casting aside the “legend” of “60 Minutes” in an effort to “curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.” He claimed further that new management had instructed him to “inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story.”

CBS News did not immediately respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

Now with Pelley out and Anderson Cooper having bailed out last month, the “60 Minutes” roster of correspondents includes Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim.

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Henry Nowak, a white teenager headed for home in the Southampton suburb of Portswood, England, was savagely attacked on Dec. 3 by a knife-wielding Sikh named Vickrum Digwa.

The attacker stabbed Nowak several times, filmed his desperate attempt to flee, and loomed over him as his chest cavity filled with blood. Adding grievous insult to injury, Digwa, joined by members of his family at the scene, falsely told police that his bleeding and crumpled victim was the real aggressor — that Nowak was a racist who attacked him, called him a “Paki,” and knocked off his turban.

‘A deep line needs to be drawn in the sand.’

Digwa was convicted of murder last week and sentenced on Monday to a minimum of 21 years in prison.

While Digwa will be going away, the scandal surrounding Nowak’s death isn’t — certainly not after the release of damning body camera footage showing how poorly police treated the teen in his final minutes.

Hundreds of protesters swarmed Southampton Central Police Station on Tuesday carrying English flags and signs that said, “All lives matter,” and demanding justice for Nowak, whom police arrested for assault, handcuffed, and treated as a criminal, all on the basis of Digwa’s lies.

In addition to reciting the Lord’s Prayer, denouncing the police involved in Nowak’s arrest, and chanting “Christ is king,” some protesters yelled, “I can’t breathe” — a phrase the young man apparently said to police nine times before losing consciousness, footage revealed.

RELATED: ‘White lives matter’: UK erupts over footage of English teen’s demise in handcuffs after stabbing by Sikh thug

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Remigration activist Tommy Robinson stressed to his fellow protesters that the public does not want the officers involved to resign “with fully bloody pensions” but to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

A spokesman for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary, which oversees Southampton, confirmed to Blaze News that three of the officers who responded to the scene of Nowak’s murder in December are still serving but that one officer has resigned.

The spokesman noted further that the Independent Office for Police Conduct, which is investigating the incident, is treating the officers as witnesses, meaning they are “not subject to any restrictions.”

The police department complained on social media Tuesday about “the significant spread of misinformation online” and has asked that “people avoid harmful speculation online” while the IOPC investigation is under way.

While Britons took to the streets to signal their displeasure, lawmakers and other officials — confronted with the bloody results of years of woke policies — have roundly condemned the murder and character assassination of Nowak.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer, for instance, called the body camera footage “harrowing” and noted that “it’s absolutely right that the IOPC is looking at this.”

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch blasted Britain’s “race-based laws” and “two-tiered policing.”

“The fear of being called racist was greater than dealing with Henry Nowak’s murder,” said Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, who demanded on Monday that England’s attorney general ensure that Digwa can never walk free again. “We should respond to this with pure cold rage.”

“Enough is enough — a deep line needs to be drawn in the sand. Talk is weak. Britain needs to say no more, and mean it,” wrote Rupert Lowe, the leader of Restore Britain.

In her lengthy response to the scandal, British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood made sure to reassure the public that “everyone in this country is equal before the law,” that there can be no justification for vigilante justice, and that the Labour regime “is committed to halving knife crime in this decade.”

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There is a building in Veldhoven, in the Southern Netherlands, where engineers fire droplets of molten tin through a vacuum chamber 50,000 per second. Each droplet is intercepted by a laser, vaporized into plasma, and impelled to emit light at a wavelength of 13.5 nanometers, less than a thousandth the width of a human hair. The plasma is briefly 40 times hotter than the surface of the sun.

The machine that does this work is called an EUV lithography scanner, made by a Dutch company named ASML, the only such manufacturer. Your smartphone only works because of it.

Welcome to the Veldhoven choke point.

The EUV lithography scanner is, by some measures, the most complex manufactured object on earth. In 2025, ASML recorded revenue of 32.7 billion euros, of which it spent €4.7 billion on R&D. The scanner itself weighs more than 150 metric tons. Shipping one requires roughly 250 crates, 40 freight containers, several cargo planes, and 20 trucks.

The ultimate printing press

Lithography is a printing process: a pattern on a mask is optically projected onto a silicon wafer coated with photoresist, and the exposed regions are chemically altered to form circuits. Smaller features require shorter wavelengths of light according to the Rayleigh criterion. For decades, the industry shortened wavelengths incrementally, moving from visible light through ultraviolet to deep ultraviolet at 193 nanometers, squeezing extra performance through immersion fluids and clever tricks of computational correction.

What looks like ubiquitous computation is, underneath, managed scarcity.

The next step, extreme ultraviolet at 13.5 nanometers, required a fundamentally different machine: vacuum chambers, because EUV is absorbed by air; reflective mirrors rather than glass lenses, because EUV is absorbed by glass; mirrors polished to picometer tolerances, because at that wavelength any surface irregularity is an error. Zeiss, in Germany, makes these mirrors. They are roughly a meter across. Each mirror has more than 100 alternating layers of molybdenum and silicon, each layer a few nanometers thick. The largest ones are the smoothest objects humans have ever made.

ASML did not arrive at this position through genius alone. The company began in 1984 as a joint venture between Philips and ASM International, in a shed behind the Philips campus, with a staff that was given little funding and told to figure things out. Its first commercial product failed. The company survived by licensing technology aggressively and co-developing with suppliers. When EUV became the industry’s necessary next step, ASML had already positioned itself at the center of the effort. It acquired Silicon Valley Group in 2001, inheriting proximity to the U.S. research base that had done foundational EUV work. It acquired Cymer in 2013, bringing the light-source development in-house. It launched a co-investment program in 2012 in which Intel, TSMC, and Samsung paid €1.38 billion for the right to help fund EUV’s development and own a piece of the company that would sell them the tools.

The first commercial electronics enabled by EUV appeared in 2019. The research had begun in the 1980s. Nikon and Canon, both serious competitors in earlier generations of lithography, fell behind because they lacked the network. They did not have the suppliers, the customer co-investment, the acquired capabilities, or the tolerance for 30 years of deferred returns. Dominance in hard technology can look like the patient assembly of dependencies.

Printing money

The scanner imposes a disciplined way of seeing matter at scales that have no analogy in ordinary experience. A human hair is approximately 70,000 nanometers wide. ASML’S next generation of scanner, the High-NA EUV, has a resolution of roughly 8 nanometers. This required a redesigned optical system called anamorphic optics, in which the image is scaled differently in horizontal and vertical directions.

It would be a mistake to think of ASML’s dominance as residing in the scanner. The actual dominance is in the installed base of machines already running in fabs in Taiwan, South Korea, and the United States; in the €8.2 billion in annual service revenue that grew 26% in 2025; in the field engineers who operate on a 24-hour global rotation, resolving roughly 95% of issues locally, constituting a permanent guild of expertise that no competitor can easily replicate.

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The Dutch government has restricted exports of ASML’s advanced tools since 2023, with additional restrictions added in 2024 and 2025. The United States has pressed allies toward wider controls. China, which generated roughly a third of ASML’s 2025 sales, has been cut off from the most advanced systems and is expected to account for only about 20% of revenue in 2026. In May 2026, the Dutch government publicly objected to proposed U.S. legislation that would extend restrictions further. A private firm in Veldhoven has become a standing item in diplomatic correspondence between sovereign states.

ASML employs more than 44,000 people of 143 nationalities across more than 60 locations, and approximately 80% of its components come from a global supplier network. The machine that prints the world’s smallest features is assembled from a wide collaboration: German optics, German lasers, American light-source expertise, Belgian research infrastructure, Taiwanese and Korean and American customers. What looks like a Dutch company is a Dutch-coordinated actor network that has been stabilized, over decades, into something that behaves like a single artifact.

We speak of the digital world as if it were weightless, as if computation were a condition of the atmosphere rather than a product of factories in specific places run by specific people under specific export licenses. EUV lithography makes the concealment harder to maintain. The allegedly frictionless economy runs on tin plasma, picometer-smooth mirrors, and the continued willingness of the Dutch government to issue the right permits. What looks like ubiquitous computation is, underneath, managed scarcity: a single network managed from Veldhoven.

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Florida police said a 27-year-old woman left a 3-year-old child in a hot car for several hours while she donated blood at a plasma center on Sunday afternoon.

The woman found the girl unresponsive when she came back to the car and frantically called police for help at about 4:32 p.m., according to a Facebook post from the DeLand Police Department.

‘I started to cry because I didn’t think I was going to be able to get her back.’

While police raced to the business park on New York Avenue, bystanders tried to help the girl, and one was giving her CPR when emergency responders arrived.

The girl was rushed to a hospital in critical condition.

An investigation by the DeLand Police Dept. determined that Latana Williams left the child unattended for about two hours on a day when the outside temperature had reached 84 degrees.

The girl was treated for symptoms consistent with heat exhaustion, according to the arrest report.

Police said Williams told them that the air conditioning was left running in the car and that she was monitoring the child through FaceTime on a tablet. However, police said they believed the car had been left with the ignition off.

One bystander named Marc Tait recorded Williams after she found her daughter and said he thought he was watching a child die.

Rosemary Roile told WESH-TV she was the person who gave the child CPR. She recalled becoming emotional after the child regained consciousness.

“I started to cry because I didn’t think I was going to be able to get her back,” Roile said.

Police arrested Williams on Sunday, and she was charged with child neglect, a first-degree felony. She denied any wrongdoing.

RELATED: Texas cops investigating odor at home believed someone died inside — they found 2 children living in horrific conditions

“Please take this as a reminder to always check your back seats,” said Captain Prurince Dice, one of the officers who responded to the scene.

“Give yourself enough time when you’re traveling so you’re not in a rush when you arrive at your destination,” he added.

Police said Monday that the child would likely recover but did not offer specifics about her condition.

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One of the enduring gifts of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” is that 50 years later, people still quote it.

My favorite scene involves the Black Knight.

King Arthur encounters him guarding a bridge, and a duel follows. The fight goes badly for the knight. Arthur lops off one arm, then the other. When the knight keeps fighting, Arthur removes both legs as well. Reduced to a torso lying in the dirt, the knight somehow surveys the situation and announces, “All right, we’ll call it a draw.”

The older I get, the more convinced I become that much of human behavior can be explained by that scene. We possess a remarkable ability to keep arguing with reality long after reality has settled the matter.

And which of us has not, in some absurd situation, said, “It’s just a flesh wound”?

Reality has a way of reminding us that some things we carry are, indeed, more than a flesh wound.

That thought crossed my mind recently while reading statements coming out of Iran. Whatever one thinks about the conflict itself, leaders standing amid rubble and declaring victory have a distinctly Monty Python quality. At a certain point, the rhetoric sounds less like confidence and more like the Black Knight insisting he still has a chance.

But Iran does not have a monopoly on reality rejection.

Recently, Jill Biden said she feared her husband was having a stroke during his one and only 2024 presidential debate. She described watching him struggle on stage and wondering whether he was experiencing a stroke or some other medical emergency.

As a caregiver, I am apparently behind the times. For 40 years, I foolishly assumed that if one suspects a spouse is having a stroke, the next step involves medical attention. Evidently, the new protocol may include chants of “Four more years!” at the after-debate rally, followed by a late-night visit to Waffle House.

Medical science has made huge strides.

Someone’s Waffle House hash browns were clearly scattered and smothered. Whether they were covered as well remains an open question.

As the Black Knight might say, it’s only a flesh wound.

Like Jill Biden, I am not a licensed physician. But watching her reminded me that I know enough to recognize when someone may need urgent care — or at least a cranial specialist.

Yet while I laugh at the Black Knight, sigh at Iran, and look with exasperation at Jill Biden — and at the reporter who let that remark pass without serious follow-up — I have to admit that defiance in the face of reality is not limited to them. Sometimes it appears in my own bathroom mirror.

The absurdity of these public examples points to a common problem in the human condition. Most of us have our own version of the same speech. We insist the exhaustion is not that bad, the debt remains manageable, the resentment is justified, the addiction is under control, or the diagnosis must be wrong.

RELATED: Caregivers should not have to lie to prove compassion

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Every day, I talk with family caregivers who insist things are fine while staggering under impossible burdens.

We twist ourselves into pretzels defending positions reality abandoned long ago. We can mock Iran’s leaders and Jill Biden. We can laugh at the Black Knight. But are we prepared to admit that we often travel the same road, just not as far down it?

The Serenity Prayer asks for the wisdom to know the difference between what can be changed and what cannot. Most of us would prefer a third option: the ability to negotiate with reality until it agrees to call the whole thing a draw.

Sooner or later, reality delivers its verdict and waits.

The question is whether we will acknowledge it.

The Black Knight never did. Iran’s leaders and Jill Biden seem intent on following him into absurdity. That is why we laugh at the knight and deride the others.

But perhaps we should stop laughing long enough to see ourselves.

Reality has a way of reminding us that some things we carry are, indeed, more than a flesh wound.

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Recent primary elections across the country have confirmed the end of bipartisanship in the United States — and the destruction of the uniparty that has ruled Washington since the early 1980s.

Both major parties’ congressional establishments are crumbling. Prominent, once-popular legislators and governors are falling to upstart socialists in Democratic primaries and to Trump-endorsed MAGA candidates in Republican contests.

The old bipartisan order blurred responsibility. Polarization reveals who stands for what.

This is the most important and positive change in American politics in decades. Bipartisanship is no longer possible. Polarization now defines American politics.

Contrary to what the media and establishment figures keep insisting, that is not necessarily a bad thing.

Two genuinely divergent political parties in Washington can serve the American people better than a cartel of polite agreement. Strong, fundamental disagreement keeps politicians from doing too much, too quickly, with too little scrutiny.

That is how the founders designed the system to work. They did not want easy majorities imposing their will on everyone else. They built a constitutional order full of friction, checks, divided powers, and obstacles to sudden national action.

Bipartisanship, by contrast, gets things done. That is often the problem.

When Washington becomes “effective,” it usually means politicians, powerful interests, and armies of professional grifters have found a way to expand spending for their mutual benefit. The public pays. The insiders profit. The press calls it “responsible governing.”

We see this across federal programs, from Medicaid to food stamps to defense spending. Fraud, chicanery, and outright theft flourish when both parties decide the money must keep flowing. The late Department of Government Efficiency began to expose some of the grift. It did not last long.

That is what bipartisanship often produces: waste, theft, and punishment for the people who expose it.

Polarization interferes with the trade of public money for political power. For everyone except thieves and grifters, that is a benefit.

Fortunately, American politics is now undergoing a thorough bifurcation.

The Democratic Party is nominating more open socialists at every level of government. They are winning in places such as New York City and Seattle and taking office. Republicans, for their part, are giving landslide primary victories to candidates endorsed by President Trump.

These events mark the end of the old bipartisan arrangement. The two parties are moving to opposite corners of the ring. The middle has grown thin.

RELATED: Barney Frank’s dying warning should worry conservatives

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Democrats have made their stand as the party of open socialism. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and her fellow Squad members call for vastly expanded government power and direct attacks on speech, enterprise, and excellence. Their politics increasingly divide Americans by race, sex, and class in pursuit of a utopian vision.

Their party tested many of these ideas during the pandemic and the racial upheavals of the past decade. We know they mean it. Republicans who assisted in those efforts are now being cast out of office as their terms expire — or are leaving before primary voters come for them.

Republicans, meanwhile, have coalesced around Trump’s MAGA movement, a call to restore American greatness through freedom and the rule of law. Trump, Vice President JD Vance, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), and Secretary of State Marco Rubio represent this vision. It seeks to unleash human excellence while dismantling the destructive concentrations of power built over the past century.

The two elements of the MAGA strategy — freedom and government retrenchment — reflect the two poles of the founders’ vision of ordered liberty. That creates some tension inside the movement. MAGA partisans must sometimes use government power to break up the crony system government helped build. More liberty-minded Republicans understandably find that uncomfortable, necessary though it may be.

Democrats struggled with their own internal split. For now, the hard-left democratic socialists have won. That is the real reason for today’s polarization: The party of the left has moved farther to the fringe.

The only thing both parties still agree on is that they cannot stop overspending. Even there, they overspend for different reasons. Democrats emphasize social programs. Republicans emphasize national defense and the border.

The current gridlock in Congress, with major legislation stalled in the Senate because of the filibuster, is not the fault of polarization. The Republican Senate majority could pass much of its agenda by eliminating the filibuster. It has chosen not to do so.

RELATED: Trump’s endorsement power keeps saving the wrong Republicans

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The country needs major federal reform, especially a large reduction in spending. Polarization is not the obstacle to that work. It is the beginning of clarity.

The old bipartisan order blurred responsibility. Polarization reveals who stands for what. Eventually, the American people will decide which vision they prefer.

That bifurcation gives voters clearer choices between parties, within parties, and among candidates. It is becoming much more obvious what citizens are voting for when they support either side.

As cities such as Detroit, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Portland deteriorate into hellscapes while their most capable residents move to Dallas, Nashville, Charlotte, Miami, and other places with lower taxes, less crime, and lighter regulation, the consequences of these rival political visions grow harder to ignore.

Political polarization is the source of that clarity. It is the one thing that can restore true self-government to the American people.

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While much of America will be celebrating Pride Month all June, conservative Christians across the country will be holding counter-celebrations in the name of “Noahic Covenant Month.”

This counter-revolution has in many ways changed the overall feeling of the month of June, but has it successfully quelled the hijacked rainbow crusade that turned God’s covenant bow into a banner for rebellion?

On this episode of “Relatable,” Allie Beth Stuckey delivers an honest breakdown of the good, the bad, and the ugly in America’s ongoing LGBTQ+ culture war.

The “bad news,” Allie says, is that some Pride Month celebrations and events are actually getting more radical.

For example, the Boston Public Library will host “19 drag queen storytime events for children during Pride Month.” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s Office of LGBTQ+ Advancement is also publicly backing and helping to amplify a “Trans Period Pride” event centered on “menstrual equity and the experiences of trans menstruators.”

On June 1, Strawbridge Elementary School in Haddon Township, New Jersey, used school grounds to host a K-5 event dubbed “Pride on the Playground,” where kids were invited to participate in LGBTQ-themed crafts, games, read-alouds, face painting, and more activities.

Despite the financially disastrous consequences suffered by companies like Target and Bud Light, some large corporations are continuing to participate in Pride Month. Allie exposes the popular craft store Michaels for selling colorful stickers with sayings such as “Protect trans kids” and “Be gay, do crime.” One sticker even features an AR-15 over the trans rainbow flag with the phrase “Defend equality.”

But there’s good news too.

“Over the last several years, conservatives have pushed back. Christians have pushed back and really have had success in pushing back against LGBTQ activism and the broader culture wars,” Allie says.

She highlights recent Gallup polling that shows declining support for gay marriage, especially among Republicans whose support is currently at its lowest point in 30 years. Pew Research data also indicates that over half the nation — roughly 56% (up from 46% in the June 2022 survey) — now supports laws and policies that ban health care professionals from providing care related to gender transitions for minors.

Even Democrat support for gender-transition procedures for minors has waned notably, with 35% in favor of banning gender-transition medical care for minors compared to 26% in 2022.

Support for requiring transgender-identifying athletes to compete based on biological sex has also increased across party lines.

Further, some Republican politicians are beginning initiatives to counter Pride Month. Allie gives the example of Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signing a resolution in April designating June as “Nuclear Family Month.” As a deliberate counter to Pride Month, he defined the nuclear family as one husband, one wife, and their biological, adopted, or fostered children, describing it as “God’s design for familial structure” and the bedrock of society.

Across the nation, several states have taken action to protect minors from gender-mutilating procedures as well.

“Nearly half the states in the country have now passed laws banning health care providers from giving minors puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or gender-mutilating surgeries. In 2025 alone, several states expanded or strengthened those laws, some even imposing penalties on medical providers who perform the procedures,” Allie recounts.

She then lists several more recent pro-family wins:

In January 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” which explicitly bars all federal funding, sponsorship, promotion, or support for gender-transition procedures (including puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries) for minors under age 19.As of June 2026, 27 states have laws or regulations that require school sports participation to be based on biological sex. Last month, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) reached a groundbreaking settlement with Texas Children’s Hospital, requiring the hospital to establish the nation’s first dedicated detransition clinic to provide medical care for minors harmed by prior gender-transition procedures, while also paying $10 million for alleged Medicaid fraud and firing several involved physicians.

Allie is heartened by the progress that’s been made in the LGBTQ+ culture war. The grounds gained are proof, she argues, that Christians must enter the political fray.

“Politics affects policy, policy affects people, and people matter. Why should Christians engage in the culture war? Because it does something,” she stresses.

To hear more of Allie’s in-depth analysis, watch the full episode above.

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The University of Chicago announced that it would no longer be flying the LGBTQ+ Pride flag for Pride Month at the UC Laboratory Schools after three years.

Activists expressed their outrage over the decision in favor of institutional neutrality. The LGBTQ+ flag had been raised at the flagpole in Blaine Courtyard for Pride Month every year since 2022.

‘You see the display of even basic symbols expressing the dignity of our students would be an unacceptable political stance and violation of neutrality.’

Interim Director Ethan Bueno de Mesquita announced the decision in an email Monday that made clear it only applied to the flagpole.

“To be clear, the full membership of LGBTQ+ people in the Lab community is not a contested issue. It is a core value,” he wrote.

The UC Laboratory High School is a program for gifted high schoolers to experience the University of Chicago.

Bueno de Mesquita said the flag would violate the school’s new policy on viewpoint-neutral teaching.

“I think the university saying that an observer who sees something flying from a flagpole and understands that to be a statement of the institution is a reasonable interpretation of how flagpoles operate, and so that doesn’t strike me as an unreasonable rule,” he said to U-High Midway, the student newspaper for the UC Lab.

The decision drew sharp criticism from the university’s American Association of University Professors.

“You see the display of even basic symbols expressing the dignity of our students would be an unacceptable political stance and violation of neutrality,” the chapter account wrote in a sarcastic tone.

“The KKK is alive and well at UChicago,” another response reads.

RELATED: Florida lesbians say $250-per-day fine against rainbow fence violates their constitutional rights

However, the College Fix news site noted that a student life office run by the school’s Center for Identity + Inclusion continued to offer support for “LGBTQ students, questioning students, and allies in the college and graduate and professional schools.”

New laws and regulations against the LGBTQ+ agenda have reportedly led to an exodus of gender-confused people fleeing to Seattle, Washington, to seek gender refuge. Activists have called on the mayor to declare a civil emergency to provide support for community aid organizations.

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As Pride Month begins, BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock has noticed the usual Pride celebrations are much quieter — and Shemeka Michelle and Bryson Gray agree that America’s cultural landscape may be shifting.

But while it’s less prominent, “Pride” is still alive and well.

“I saw that it was trending ‘Pride Month’ over X. And I went and I saw so many sports organizations just saying happy Pride Month. And I’m thinking this is where men are supposed to be dominant, or straight men are supposed to be dominant. Yet, they’re giving all of this praise to gay sex. And it is very frustrating,” Michelle says.

“But I did look to see Target hasn’t said anything as of yet. Walmart hasn’t said anything as of yet. So some of these big corporations that had these huge displays in 2023 … they aren’t doing that now,” she continues.

Bryson Gray also thinks we’ve made “progress.”

“I can just tell you that from my own career, I think culturally it’s more acceptable to criticize and call out the LGBT. So progress, yes. Have we killed it? No, sir,” Gray says.

While the obsession with Pride Month appears to be fading, Whitlock asks if Black History Month and black pride should be tackled next.

“I think black history is just simply a part of American history wherever it fits. So I get the separation because of the history of this country. So I’m not going to say I’m against Black History Month, but I do think it should just be a part of American history,” Gray answers.

“And I think racial idolatry is a problem and that does stem from pride obviously,” he adds.

“Yeah, I hope that we can get rid of black pride,” Michelle chimes in. “I’m sick of seeing it. I was just saying I hate the term ‘black love.’ I don’t like ‘black girl magic,’ ‘black boy joy,’ ‘black excellence.’ I don’t want any of those things.”

“I don’t want to have ‘black love.’ I just want to have love. I want to cultivate it and learn how to love like God told us what love is,” she adds.

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Yet another left-wing extremist with ties to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) has been unearthed through a CNN investigation.

Mamdani endorsed Darializa Avila Chevalier in her campaign to replace Rep. Adriano Espaillat, a longtime Democrat, in New York’s 13th Congressional District.

‘I have grown considerably since in the years since these tweets.’

The report found that Chevalier deleted a social media account that advocated the abolition of police, prisons, and borders. She also advocated the seizure of private property and nationalizing major industries, policies popular in communist countries like Venezuela and Cuba.

“We’re gonna defund and abolish. You don’t get to water down our movements,” one deleted post reads.

“It means ending policing full stop. Period. No more police at all ever,” another reads, with several clapping emojis added.

“In New York they don’t say ‘I love you,’ they say ‘NYPD suck my d**k’ and I think that’s beautiful,” she posted.

She also called the Democratic National Committee a “big fraudulent white nasty status quo bitch” and added in another tweet, “I have no nuance to add. F**k Kamala Harris.”

Chevalier is a 32-year-old doctoral student and investigator from the public defender’s office in New York City.

The contest between her and Espaillat is considered another proxy battle in the war between the establishment, centrist Democrats and the upstart, far-left, socialist extremists.

The CNN report noted that the New York Post and Politico previously reported on extremist posts from Chevalier, but CNN’s report unearthed new deleted tweets from a review of hundreds of messages.

Chevalier released a statement to CNN that did not deny the authenticity of the posts.

“My opponent wants to live in the past. He is re-litigating social media posts from half a decade ago and continuing to champion an outdated politics that fails to serve our people,” Chevalier said. “I have grown considerably since in the years since these tweets, and I am focused on our community and our community’s future.”

Mamdani, meanwhile, reiterated his support for Chevalier.

“In Congress, she’ll take on corporate greed, bad landlords, and D.C.’s broken political system,” he said.

RELATED: Mayor Mamdani’s wife apologizes for insulting Israel, using N-word and gay slur in past tweets

“At a time when power is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, Darializa will fight in Congress for New York City’s working families,” Mamdani added. “She’s the champion we need for a city New Yorkers can actually afford.”

The Democratic primary election between Chevalier and Espaillat will be held June 23.

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The president said Tuesday that he has agreed to reschedule the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in order to defy the wishes of the man who allegedly tried to assassinate him.

The ritzy event on April 25 ended abruptly after Cole Allen allegedly rushed through a security checkpoint and fired a shotgun, prompting the Secret Service to usher President Donald Trump away.

‘This announcement is a very good thing in that we cannot allow Lunatics to change our way of life, or even its scheduling.’

Two months later, the president says the event has been rescheduled.

“In a sign of Strength and Fortitude, it was just announced that The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which violently ended rather abruptly on April 25th, will be rescheduled to July 24th,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account Tuesday. “This announcement is a very good thing in that we cannot allow Lunatics to change our way of life, or even its scheduling.”

He went on to say that White House Correspondents’ Association President Weijia Jiang asked him to speak at the rescheduled dinner and he accepted.

“I don’t know whether or not I will give the same rather nasty statements, at least as it concerns certain people, but we will soon find out,” he continued. “In any event, it will be a ‘HOT’ ticket!”

The suspect was captured in the Washington Hilton lobby and charged with a slew of crimes, including the attempted assassination of a president and assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon. He has pleaded not guilty.

Along with the surveillance video appearing to show Allen rushing into the event with a gun, investigators also discovered a manifesto where the suspect allegedly confessed to planning to kill the president.

RELATED: DOJ releases new video of WHCD shooting to dispel ‘friendly fire’ rumor

The new location of the dinner will be the Waldorf Astoria on Pennsylvania Avenue, a ballroom that the president renovated during his private career before entering office and sold in 2021.

Allen faces life in prison if convicted of the charges.

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Athletes and celebrities have long appeared alongside political candidates — especially if they’re on the left — so it was a welcome change when New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart introduced President Donald Trump at a recent rally.

“President Trump was at a rally, and he had, which is pretty common for presidents to do, had a celebrity slash athlete introduce him,” BlazeTV host Ron Simmons explains on “Relatable.”

“What an honor, what a privilege it is to be here. And without further ado, I’m grateful, I’m honored, I’m pleasured to introduce the 45th and 47th president of the United States of America, President Donald J. Trump,” Dart announced.

“Athletes and celebrities do this all the time. They do it all the time,” Simmons comments.

However, the women of “The View” do not see it the same way.

“For somebody to back a guy like Trump, whose history in discrimination and racism goes back to housing discrimination in the ’70s; DEI attacks and posting pictures of the Obamas as apes when he’s on a team that’s 55% to 60%, the NFL, is that many people, that much percentage of black people,” Joy Behar commented.

“That is just the definition of stupidity and racist in my opinion,” she added.

“I don’t think Joy Behar has any joy. She might want to change her first name,” Simmons jokes, asking, “Do they believe every person of color hates Trump? Do they believe that? Is that what they really believe?”

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Speaking from a classroom at Schuyler Middle School in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on Monday detailed the results of a statewide end-of-year survey on the state’s school smartphone ban.

Now in place for a full academic year, the ban has yielded encouraging results for students, educators, and parents alike.

The state law prohibits “unsanctioned use of smartphones and other internet-enabled personal devices on school grounds in K-12 schools for the entire school day,” including lunch, recess, homeroom, study halls, and open periods.

‘Social interaction between students, especially in the hallways and at lunch, has increased significantly.’

Individual schools are given discretion over how to enforce the policy. Methods of device storage range from students’ lockers to large lockboxes to the increasingly popular Yondr pouches specifically designed for phones.

The ban applies to public school districts, charter schools, and boards of cooperative services.

RELATED: Gavin Newsom signs bill to ban cell phone use in California public schools

Two students hold the Yondr pouches that lock their smartphones and prevent them from being used.Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images

Hochul’s office received 585 responses to the survey from teachers and school administrators, representing a mix of all grade levels. Forty-seven percent of the responses came from New York City, while 53% came from the rest of the state.

“Eighty percent reported that the students are behaving better in a more engaged way. They’re collaborating more. They’re talking to each other. … They’re acting like kids again, feeling that burden lifted from their shoulders. And they’re participating in class discussions. And teachers are feeling they can finally teach,” Hochul said.

Specifically, 311 respondents reported more active participation in discussions, 282 reported improved peer collaboration, and 273 reported better focus on assignments.

Bullying has also decreased as a result, with 60% of respondents reporting a decline in bullying and cyberbullying incidents.

“Young people could just go through the day without being harassed,” Hochul stated.

Ziad Attia, a senior at Blind Brook High School in Westchester County, shared with Blaze News his experience with the smartphone ban: “Social interaction between students, especially in the hallways and at lunch, has increased significantly.”

Attia explained that while the students are meant to store their phones in their lockers, “as long as they’re out of sight, they’re fine with it.”

However, Blind Brook junior Guy Golan took a more critical stance: “Students will find ways to use their phones regardless of who is telling them not to.”

Golan went on to say that “administrators rather than teachers” are the ones doing most of the enforcing, adding that he has witnessed students using their phones secretly in the bathrooms or in corners.

“Students are still able to use their phones when they feel it is necessary since faculty members cannot monitor them everywhere in the building,” Golan said, highlighting potential challenges in schools with more lenient storage policies.

As of this spring, at least 38 states and the District of Columbia require school districts to ban or restrict students’ use of cell phones in schools, according to an Education Week tally.

“I successfully fought for New York schools to go phone-free because our kids succeed when they’re learning and growing, not clicking and scrolling — and these survey results show our nation-leading policy is working,” proclaimed Hochul.

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Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt has something that professional politicians can’t manufacture: authenticity.

And BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler explains this powerful trait has left his opponents terrified.

“If we had a video camera on the faces of the Democrat political strategists and on Spencer Pratt’s opponents, you can bet your bottom dollar that they are just shell-shocked by this. They don’t know how to deal with this. They are so scared,” Wheeler says.

The reason why the Democrats are “scared,” she explains, is because while Pratt is all about no-nonsense policy, they have no policy to run on at all.

“They can’t run on Karen Bass’ record. They can’t run on Nithya Raman’s ideology. So what they do instead as their sort of final move — this is one week before the election; people are already casting early votes — is they try to use famous people to invoke groupthink among voters,” she continues.

And unlike past elections, this strategy isn’t working — as Pratt’s “X factor,” which Wheeler explains as “political savvy that can’t be taught” — is winning over voters left and right.

“It allows him or it enables him to speak in a way to voters that is not only relatable, but completely without the fear of offending the politically correct police,” she says, before playing a clip of Pratt demonstrating this “political savvy.”

“What are your plans for the over 40,000 homeless in Los Angeles?” a reporter asked Pratt.

“Well, they’re not homeless. They’re drug addicts. Most of these people are addicted to fentanyl and meth. This isn’t Spencer making it up,” Pratt responded.

“No matter what anybody tells you, we have housing and shelter for everyone that’s living on the street. They are choosing to be on the street because they want to do drugs. They don’t want rules. They don’t want to listen. They want to have animals to abuse. This idea that they are forced on the street right now is a lie that our city is perpetuating,” he continued.

“We’ve paid $24 billion to house these 40,000 people. There’s spots for all of these people. They are choosing, because they’re an addict, and you can do fentanyl and sewer meth on the sidewalk with no repercussions,” he added.

When the reporter pressed him on how he plans to address the “homeless” issue, Pratt explained that he plans to use federal land to build facilities for them in just 90 days — but only for the true Los Angeles homeless who want to change their lives for the better.

“These 40,000 people, 60% of them, City Watch just announced this week, are not from Los Angeles. They’re not from California. These people have been bussed in by scam rehabs, scam NGOs, scam homeless nonprofits. These people, when I unplug them and say, ‘You’re not taking our tax money any more,’” they’re all going to go to Seattle, where the mayor will welcome them,” Pratt said.

“So the people that want to keep doing drugs and live on the sidewalk — a lot of these people are going to leave. The other ones, there’s a lot of criminals, there’s people that are getting naked in front of kids. They’re going to jail,” he continued.

“Not everyone goes in the same box. So we have the money, we have the resources, and we have the facility,” he added.

“The reason that this is so effective,” Wheeler says, “the reason that the political savvy, the X factor that Spencer Pratt possesses, is so effective is because voters recognize authenticity when they see it.”

“Spencer Pratt is giving it to them straight,” she adds.

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President Donald Trump has announced who will replace Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence.

Gabbard announced her resignation as DNI last month after serving in the office for a year and a half. She cited her husband’s “extremely rare form of bone cancer” diagnosis as the main reason.

‘Bill is a great guy who recognizes that the bureaucracy of the intel community must respond to the elected leadership.’

Now, Trump has appointed William Pulte to take her place as acting director.

Pulte was the head of Pulte Homes, the third-largest homebuilder in the U.S., with billions in revenue, before he was picked by Trump to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

“I am appointing the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and Chairman of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, William J. Pulte, to serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Tuesday.

“William has deep experience managing the most sensitive matters in America, the safety and soundness of the Markets, and over 10 Trillion Dollars at Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, a substantial increase from where it was just 12 months ago,” Trump added.

Pulte used the resources of the FHFA to find evidence of alleged mortgage fraud committed by some of Trump’s most vehement political enemies, including Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James and former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.).

Some Democrats cited those investigations as evidence that Pulte will do the same as DNI.

“I will be a hard NO on FISA Section 702 reauthorization,” wrote Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu of California in a statement on social media. “Whether or not the totally unqualified and corrupt Bill Pulte gets confirmed, trump’s nomination of Pulte has already shown trump would have no problem with weaponizing intelligence against Americans he doesn’t like.”

RELATED: Pulte calls for investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell — and for his removal

Vice President JD Vance praised the decision.

“Bill is a great guy who recognizes that the bureaucracy of the intel community must respond to the elected leadership (rather than the other way around). He’ll do great!” he wrote on social media.

For the time being, Pulte will serve as acting director. He will need Senate confirmation to become the official director.

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The hits keep coming for Graham Platner, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination in the race for one of Maine’s U.S. Senate seats.

On Monday the women of “The View” trashed Platner’s campaign and said he has no business being anywhere near Congress after grappling with so many scandals.

‘You’ve shown me who you are, and I heard you. This man should be nowhere near Congress.’

The most recent revelation that Platner, who is married, sent sexually explicit messages to at least half a dozen women in recent years is just the latest sting for his campaign.

“On the heels of apologizing for a tattoo associated with Nazis, the offensive posts about a wounded U.S. soldier. Now his wife, Amy Gertner, is responding to reports that she gave his campaign a heads-up about her husband sending sexually explicit texts to several different women,” said Whoopi Goldberg.

“Horrible. There is no doubt that this guy, Platner, is flawed, flawed, flawed in many ways,” added Ana Navarro.

“It is disturbing, and it is horrible. And why can’t we do better? Why can’t we have better candidates?”

“This guy just seems like a guy of not very good character,” said former Trump staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin.

“Don’t die on the hill of a guy who’s going to be a headache for you for years to come.”

Sara Haines took special offense to Platner previously saying a U.S. soldier should have died on the battlefield.

“If you are capable of saying that at any time in your life, you’ve shown me who you are, and I heard you. This man should be nowhere near Congress. We’ve already got a wealth of people we need out. We’re not sending one like this in.”

“So he’s a cheater,” added Sunny Hostin. “He’s an anti-Semite — because the fact that he had that tattoo for 20 years and didn’t know what it was is a lie. So he’s a liar, a racist, an anti-Semite; he’s a homophobe. So he’s all the things. And character does matter.”

Hostin also did not accept Platner’s excuse that his racist comments were caused by post-traumatic stress disorder from his experiences in combat as a Marine.

“I know a lot of soldiers that have PTSD that aren’t racist,” she said.

However, despite all of the problems they cited with Platner, Hostin went on to say they needed the victory in Maine to take control of the Senate away from Republicans.

The Republican Party in Maine posted clips of the most critical comments in a video that was widely circulated on social media.

RELATED: Trans-identifying 15-year-old plotted to kill classmate in order to resurrect Newtown shooter

In response to the sexting scandal, Platner’s wife put out a video calling the story “gossip” and trying to downplay it. Many described her video as uncomfortable to watch.

Platner is presumed to be the Democratic nominee to run against incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who has been criticized by many in her own party for being moderate and centrist. Platner’s main Democratic rival, Gov. Janet Mills, suspended her campaign in late April.

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Gay pride is still the norm for Major League Baseball, but the way teams are going about it is slowly changing.

Throughout June, pro baseball teams will once again put their marketing budgets toward recognizing lesser-held sexual orientations, with 97% of teams participating in the festivities.

‘46% of MLB fans claim “Pride Nights make them ‘less likely’ to attend MLB games.”‘

At the same time, though, these promotions have become increasingly unpopular among sports fans. Several recent studies have pointed to a near-even split between supporters and detractors; for example, Forbes noted a study that found “48-55% rated the Pride promotions negatively or neutral.”

Civic Science’s own research found that 46% of MLB fans claim “Pride Nights make them ‘less likely’ to attend MLB games.”

Furthermore, a Morning Consult study stated that “almost half of U.S. adults (47%) said they support leagues hosting Pride Nights.”

To that end, the only MLB team that has refrained from hosting Pride Night is the Texas Rangers, which have never hosted such an event. They do sell Pride-themed merchandise online, however.

Blaze News reached out to other MLB teams to find out whether they have changed their approach to Pride Nights for 2026 given the growing division it has sown among fans.

RELATED: Here are all the NFL teams that haven’t virtue-signaled for Pride Month

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Teams that responded mostly followed a new Pride Night trend being adopted by many MLB franchises: Instead of having a grand celebration and handing out gay-themed merchandise to all ticket-holders, fans have the option to purchase a special Pride package that includes tickets and memorabilia.

The St. Louis Cardinals organization is focused on making sure all fans “feel welcome at the ballpark, are respectful towards others, and can freely share in the commonality of our love for the Cardinals and the game of baseball,” a Cardinals spokesperson told Blaze News.

The Cards are offering a Pride-themed team cap for fans who buy a “theme ticket.”

The Cincinnati Reds commented that they have partnered with “Cincinnati Pride” and honored a recipient with a Pride Community Advocate Award. As part of their special ticket package, the Reds have included a cross-body bag that features the transgender flag on the strap.

A representative of the Detroit Tigers asked Blaze News for further context about the Pride-related questions but did not provide a response to any of the queries. Among many other promotions like “Juneteenth” jerseys, the Tigers are offering a Pride package that includes a rainbow-strapped belt bag.

RELATED: 5 pro athletes who boldly take a knee — for Jesus Christ

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The New York Yankees told Blaze News that they would continue to work with organizations to celebrate the Legacy of Pride, which has included donations to the Yankees-Stonewall Scholarship Initiative. “Stonewall” refers to a riot at a gay bar in New York City that was raided by police in 1969.

The Yankees organization noted that they have partnered with groups like Jewish Queer Youth, an organization that allegedly “empowers Jewish queer teens.”

The Yankees will also offer limited-edition Yankees Pride caps that are sold with specific tickets.

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