The Democratic National Committee got absolutely lambasted for trying to politicize the death of U.S. military members on Memorial Day in order to attack President Donald Trump.

The post included photographs of 13 Americans who died during the U.S.-Israeli joint military strikes on Iran in recent weeks.

‘It’s wrong to politicize this day. I won’t hesitate to call out my own team when we fall short.’

“Today, we honor the American heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice in Trump’s war with Iran,” the post read.

The DNC was immediately criticized, even by Democrats.

“It is incredibly distasteful to use our heroic dead for a political attack on Memorial Day. I’m a Democrat and I condemn this post by the DNC,” responded Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois.

“If we want the moral high ground, we have to be better,” replied Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.). “I fought for our country and served with those who made the ultimate sacrifice. It’s wrong to politicize this day. I won’t hesitate to call out my own team when we fall short.”

Others pounced on the disrespectful post.

“Just when you think the left can’t go any lower … Absolutely disgusting but not surprising,” replied Republican Rep. Kat Cammack of Florida.

“Yes, we honor these heroes for defending America and our allies with their lives. What we won’t do is dishonor their sacrifice by turning Memorial Day into a cheap political attack. Their memory deserves better,” wrote Sen. Tim Sheehy (R) of Montana.

“Using Memorial Day to politically exploit fallen service members is appalling and disgraceful. One of the most disgusting posts I have ever seen,” said Republican National Committee Chair Joe Gruters.

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The DNC eventually deleted the post, but screenshots of the offensive message were widely circulated.

Trump has been seeking a peace deal to end the strikes on Iran, but the surviving members of the regime have made demands that the president has called “unacceptable” and “garbage.”

The war continues to be unpopular among Americans as the economic fallout has led to higher gas prices and increased inflationary pressure.

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Caitlin Clark kicked off her third professional season in the WNBA earlier this month with a mysterious back injury. Both she and Indiana Fever head coach Stephanie White have repeatedly insisted that it’s minor and will not impact Clark’s season, but Jason Whitlock is suspicious.

The BlazeTV host believes that Clark’s prowess is on the decline after her body has taken a brutal beating from WNBA bullies who find Clark a threat — not because she’s “the best thing that ever happened to the WNBA,” but because she’s white and heterosexual.

The anti-Clark bias, Whitlock points out, continues off the court. In 2024, despite her dominance in her rookie season, Clark was left off of the U.S. women’s basketball team for the 2024 Paris Olympics. WNBA legend Sheryl Swoopes also repeatedly criticized Clark in interviews and podcasts, questioning the legitimacy of Clark’s broken records and dismissing her success.

Whitlock can only come to one conclusion: The WNBA prioritizes its “agenda” above athletic success.

“If we have to sacrifice the popularity of women’s basketball to stay on message, to stay on agenda that this is a league dominated and controlled by black women and lesbian women and we’re hostile to white women and heterosexual women, we will sacrifice popularity, attention, ratings, everything to stay on message,” he laments.

To prove his point, Whitlock runs several clips of Clark getting brutally fouled by opponents, with the physicality so over the top that it looks like they have a personal vendetta.

And yet “no one [spoke] out,” he says, criticizing the media’s silence and, in many cases, defense of Clark’s attackers.

“The mental coupled with the physical attack on Caitlin Clark, we haven’t seen anything like it,” he sighs.

The bias against Clark, Whitlock argues, is even apparent on her own team.

“The Indiana Fever [is] not constructing a team around her to protect her,” he says, noting how Erica Wheeler — Clark’s “ride or die” who would “get physical and defend” her — was replaced by Sophie Cunningham, who he says is more effective as “an Instagram model” than “an enforcer.”

On top of that, the Fever head coach during Clark’s rookie season, Christie Sides, was replaced by Stephanie White, an “alphabet mafia soldier,” says Whitlock.

Based on his analysis, the team is more committed to “[indoctrinating] Caitlin Clark” into the WNBA’s “black and lesbian” culture than it is “[building] a team” around her.

“They didn’t put her in an environment where she can excel,” he says.

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What began as an unconventional celebrity campaign is quickly becoming one of the most disruptive political movements in California.

Spencer Pratt, whose home was destroyed during the Pacific Palisades Fire, has emerged as an unlikely challenger to Los Angeles’ political establishment — and his relentless viral campaign targeting Mayor Karen Bass is gaining serious traction.

And BlazeTV host Pat Gray is seriously impressed with what Pratt has accomplished so far.

“If you’ve not been following the mayoral race in Los Angeles, it has really heated up. It’s unbelievable what’s happening with Spencer Pratt,” Gray comments.

“The guy has run a brilliant campaign with these creative ads that have gone viral all over the place, and it seems like there’s a new one every day,” he says.

“And I really hope he wins because Los Angeles used to be a beautiful city, a great place to visit. I’m sure it was a great place to live. But look at it now. I mean, he pointed out some of the issues with the feces in the street and the homeless encampments,” he adds.

In the aftermath of Pratt’s creative ads, Bass is facing increasingly critical questions from the media about the state of the city.

“When you talked to Jake Tapper in 2023, you said that your goal was to end street homelessness in L.A. by 2026. It’s now 2026,” a reporter on “60 Minutes” said to Bass in an interview.

“And we haven’t ended it,” Bass interrupted, laughing.

“And we’re not close to ending it,” the reporter interjected, asking, “How were you so off?”

“Well, basically, when I said that, it was at the beginning of my term. I am very committed to achieving that goal. I didn’t anticipate some of the bureaucratic barriers that I would experience, but I am prepared to take those on now,” Bass responded.

“So,” Gray comments, “What she is saying is, ‘I’ve really sucked up until this point, but I’m going to be great.’”

In another part of the interview, Bass championed the “42,000 units of affordable housing” she has fast-tracked, claiming, “It still takes a couple years.”

“So basically the policy of L.A. city and L.A. county was we could accept street homelessness as long as we were building. We didn’t anticipate the problem metastasizing,” she continued.

Bass went on to claim that they “know what we need to do now to end street homelessness.”

“We need to end the failed policies of the past, which is, ‘All we’re going to do is focus on building. And we are going to ignore street homelessness.’ That is what the city and the county has done for years,” she explained.

“That’s insane,” Gray comments.

“If you buy into that, wow, you’ll get what you deserve,” he adds.

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A Florida female who was arrested earlier this year for allegedly urinating on Airbnb furniture is making headlines again after a similar accusation.

Back in March, Nicolette Keough, 31, was arrested on two counts of felony criminal mischief, WEAR-TV reported.

‘It goes to show that people will stoop to new lows these days to make money. And that’s a problem.’

Arrest reports said Keough urinated on furniture in two downtown Pensacola Airbnb homes, according to the station. She reportedly caused thousands of dollars in property damage, WEAR said, adding that she allegedly uploaded videos of the incidents to an adult website.

Keough was released from the Escambia County Jail on a $5,250 bond, the station said.

But now Keough is behind bars again following a similar accusation.

She was hit last week with a felony charge of property damage worth over $1,000, WEAR said in a new story.

In reference to the new charge, the owner of another Pensacola Airbnb on April 24 told police videos show Keough — who stayed at his residence last year from Aug. 31 to Sept. 11 — urinating on furniture inside the home, the station said.

Videos given to Pensacola Police reportedly confirm the allegations, WEAR said.

The total estimated property damage comes out to $17,395, the station said, adding that the breakdown is:

blue coral chair: $500king-size mattress: $4,000twin mattress: $2,900leather sofa: $5,195sleeper sofa: $4,800

Keough appeared in court Thursday, and a judge set her bond at $10,000, the station said. But Keough will remain in Escambia County Jail, WEAR reported, since her bond was revoked for violating bail conditions over a battery arrest in mid-March.

Keough is due next in court June 9 for a bond revocation hearing, WEAR said, adding that she’ll then appear June 12 for the property damage charge.

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Police told the station that while they believe there haven’t been new incidents since Keough’s first arrest in March, more charges for previous incidents are possible.

“These are incidents that happened around the same time frame,” Officer Mike Wood told WEAR. “It’s just that the owners are just now finding out about it and reporting it to us.”

Wood added to the station that Keough is “being very cooperative with us when she’s confronted — and that’s how we know there [are] probably going to be some more properties involved.”

If Keough is released on bond, WEAR said the judge ordered her to stay off social media.

Officer Wood added to the station that Keough’s motivation for these incidents is money: “It goes to show that people will stoop to new lows these days to make money. And that’s a problem.”

Wood also told WEAR that “social media platforms, even adult sites, have rules. And if they had a rule that something like this was not permitted, that would help a lot. Because then people are not able to make money doing this type of thing. And hopefully that would put a stop to this. But right now some of these sites are permitting this sort of thing, and these people are making money, and that’s a problem.”

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Alabama Republicans immediately called for an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after losing a redistricting battle at a three-judge panel of a federal court.

Republicans are trying to reinstate a 2023 congressional map that would allow them the possibility of picking up a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Democrats claimed the new map would send Alabama back to the ‘1950s and 60s.’

On Tuesday, a U.S. district court in Alabama sided against the map and ordered the state to use a map with two majority-black districts.

“Ultimately, we cannot see our way clear to requiring Alabamians to cast their votes in the 2026 elections under a districting plan tainted by intentional race-based discrimination,” read the ruling.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall released a statement after the ruling.

“I am disappointed, but not at all surprised, that the three-judge panel has again struck down Alabama’s blandly unobjectionable congressional map that has been in place for decades,” wrote Marshall.

“I find nothing in the U.S. Supreme Court’s vacatur order of May 11 that would provide a basis for this outcome; thus, we will immediately appeal this decision to the Supreme Court,” he added.

Rep. Shomari Figures, one of the Democrats representing a black-majority district in Alabama, praised the ruling but said Democrats were prepared to continue fighting at the Supreme Court.

“I am pleased with the Court’s decision, but this case is still not over,” he wrote.

“Although we expected the Court to reach this decision given the overwhelming evidence, we fully expect the State to immediately appeal the decision to the Supreme Court,” Figures added. “This is a significant step in the right direction, but there is still a long way to go before this fight is settled.”

Figures had previously claimed the new map would send Alabama back to the “1950s and 60s in terms of Black political representation in the state.”

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“We’ve seen it from Republicans across the country — their goal is to eliminate every opportunity district for an African American candidate in the country,” Figures added in a separate comment.

Marshall expressed confidence that the Supreme Court would side with Republicans.

“This is a very fluid situation, and I will do my best to keep the People of Alabama apprised of our efforts,” he added. “Know this — in my mind, it is not a matter of whether we win this case, only when.”

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There is a particular horror that attaches to threats you cannot see. In the days before Iran’s centrifuges exploded in Natanz, when they were spinning faster than their operators knew, when the gauges read normal and the logs looked clean, the malware was already there, silently acting. This condition is that of modern national security: the ambient, permanently contested digital terrain on which something is always happening, mostly out of sight.

AI accelerates this condition, introducing compression into cyber conflict, a shrinking of the intervals that give defenders room to think.

By the time anyone understood what was happening, it was over.

The interval between the disclosure of a vulnerability and its exploitation, already punishingly short, shortens further. The interval between reconnaissance and attack, between a phishing message and a compromised credential, between a software flaw and a working exploit, all contract. The U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre judged in 2025 that AI-enabled tools would, within two years, improve adversaries’ ability to exploit known vulnerabilities. By May 2026, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group reported a transition from tentative, experimental AI use in attack workflows to industrial-scale deployment, describing what it believed to be the first observed case of a zero-day exploit developed with AI assistance, built for a mass exploitation campaign.

The current moment shares an administrative dimension with earlier military revolutions. The decisive advantage in modern conflict has repeatedly been the capacity to see, sort, prioritize, and act across complex systems faster than the enemy. What is new is the degree to which that capacity is now embedded in software owned by private firms. Sovereignty in the cyber domain is exercised not only through ministries and militaries but through cloud identity systems, software supply chains, security vendors, and the access policies of model providers. When NATO describes cyberspace as contested at all times, it is describing a condition in which the terrain is mostly private property.

The relevant change in technology is agentic AI: systems that pursue objectives, use tools, spawn sub-processes, and take actions in the world with low human involvement. In offensive terms, this architecture compresses the cost of moving through each stage of an attack. The merely competent can now operate more coherently and at greater scale. Researchers at the University of Illinois demonstrated that teams of AI agents could exploit zero-day vulnerabilities, achieving 42% with five attempts on a benchmark of recent flaws, outperforming both open-source scanners and single models working alone. Anthropic and Carnegie Mellon found that frontier models equipped with a cyber toolkit could compromise more than half of 10 simulated business-sized networks.

The barriers to relatively autonomous cyber workflows are rapidly coming down.

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A bureaucracy of bots

A great deal of tacit expertise that once lived in specialist communities, in the accumulated institutional knowledge of people who understood how systems broke, has been translated into natural language interfaces, structured workflows, and reusable tool chains. Cyber capability becomes less the possession of a rare craft elite and more the product of workflow orchestration over commodity tools. In Anthropic’s account of an alleged AI-orchestrated espionage campaign, the operation relied overwhelmingly on open-source penetration-testing utilities and custom orchestration, with novelty concentrated in integration rather than exotic malware.

The imagination of cyber warfare has long been organized around elegance, exemplified by Stuxnet’s nearly surgical precision and the operatic complexity of a state-sponsored zero-day. What is actually emerging looks more like a very fast, very patient bureaucracy. The ENISA 2025 threat landscape found that AI-supported phishing represented more than 80% of observed social-engineering activity. The FBI reported that malicious actors were using AI-generated voice messages to impersonate senior U.S. officials. The losses from AI-enabled business email compromise exceeded $30 million in the 2025 complaint data.

AI does not unilaterally favor offense or defense; it amplifies existing asymmetries. Offense gains most where systems are poorly patched, identity is weak, or social engineering can bypass procedure. Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report found that exploitation of vulnerabilities grew to 20% of known initial access vectors, up 34% from the prior year, with a median remediation time of 32 days and only 54% of edge-device vulnerabilities fully remediated during the year. Mandiant found that one PAN-OS vulnerability spread from disclosure to exploitation by more than a dozen groups within two weeks. However, AI-enabled defense can also make disciplined organizations faster at moving from vulnerability discovery to verified remediation, more capable of turning telemetry into action, and better at maintaining the unglamorous processes on which security relies.

Can freedom survive?

States confronted by permanent digital vulnerability can feel pressure to centralize visibility, broaden preemption, and extend exceptional controls in the name of protection. The joint guidance issued in 2026 by the Five Eyes agencies on agentic AI systems spent considerable energy on accountability: explicit human oversight, incremental deployment, strong governance, clear delineation of which agents may do what, where, and under whose authentication. This guidance presupposes institutional cultures capable of following it.

AI is already changing cyber conflict by shrinking the interval between knowledge and action, making ordinary weaknesses more dangerous, and shifting national security toward a contest over who can govern complex socio-technical systems with the greatest speed and discipline. The centrifuges in Natanz spun faster than their operators knew and then did not spin at all. The lesson was that the attacker had more time inside the system than the defenders knew, and by the time anyone understood what was happening, it was over.

Speed of interpretation determines speed of repair. The new tools available to both sides are faster, and the intervals are getting shorter. The question of whether liberal societies can build a security order that is effective without becoming opaque remains open.

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Tom Kean Jr. — one of former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean’s twin sons — secured a seat in Congress in 2022 after serving for two decades as a Republican state senator. He is now running for re-election to represent the Garden State’s 7th Congressional District.

While Kean, whom President Donald Trump endorsed last May and touted as a “Tremendous Advocate of our America First Agenda,” has urged constituents in social media posts to vote for him, he hasn’t voted on their behalf in Congress since March 5, missing over 100 roll-call votes.

‘I understand the need for public transparency.’

Amid mounting speculation about his disappearance from work and public life, the 57-year-old Republican released a statement in late April thanking his “constituents and colleagues for their patience” as he addresses “a personal medical issue.”

“My doctors continue to assure me that my recovery will be complete and that I will be back to the job I love very soon,” said Kean. “I expect to return to a full schedule and be at 100 percent. I take my responsibilities seriously and have a strong record of showing up and delivering, which makes this absence all the more difficult.”

Neither Kean nor his campaign have revealed the nature of the medical issue. His office did not respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

“Nobody knows what’s going on,” Mary Melfoi, the Republican clerk of Hunterdon County, told Politico. “I’ve never seen a lid on anything tighter in my life.”

“Everybody’s hopeful that whatever’s going on is being addressed and he’s going to come back,” continued Melfoi. “But we’re not going around saying ‘Who do you think we should replace him with?'”

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Although apparently still actively trading stocks, Kean wasn’t seen or heard from for nearly another month after issuing the April statement. This continued absence prompted Democrats to increasingly like their chances of flipping the seat — an apparent “toss-up” even before he took a leave of absence — that Kean took in the last election with 51.8% of the vote.

Zoe Heath, Democrat chair of Sussex County, said that some of her fellow travelers figure Kean is doomed to lose, noting that “some Democrats are being incredibly cocky about this.”

Tina Shah, an anti-ICE liberal supported by the Hindu America PAC and Indian American IMPACT who is among the Democrats vying to face off with Kean, evidenced a willingness to politically exploit the Republican’s absence.

“What we are being assured is that his team is carrying the torch,” Shah said during a debate earlier this month. “But we elected Tom Kean Jr., not his team.”

Kean finally piped up last week, reaching out to a handful of Republican allies and telling the New Jersey Globe in a May 21 phone interview, “My doctors are confident that I’m on the road to a full recovery.”

The congressman claimed that his medical issue would not affect his cognitive health, that he is not expected to suffer any long-term effects or chronic health complications, and that he plans to “return to voting and to the campaign trail” sometime in the next couple of weeks.

“I understand the need for public transparency, and I appreciate the support of my constituents,” added Kean.

The Globe reported that Kean also spoke last week with Hunterdon County GOP Chairman Gabe Plumer, who said the congressman “sounds great and energized.”

Sussex County Republican Chairman Joseph LaBarbera also received a call from the absent congressman last week.

“I asked him if he needed anything,” LaBarbera told the Times. The chairman recalled Kean replying, “Just your prayers.”

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Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky has filed for a political campaign in 2028 but says he has not decided whether to run.

Massie, a self-identified libertarian, lost the Republican primary campaign for Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District to Ed Gallrein, a Navy SEAL veteran backed by President Donald Trump.

‘This allows me to raise funds to continue my political operations supporting my position.’

“I filed with FEC for the 2028 House race,” Massie wrote on his social media account on Tuesday.

“This allows me to raise funds to continue my political operations supporting my position as a current office holder and as a potential candidate for federal office,” he added. “I haven’t made a final decision about which office to seek, if I run.”

The Republican campaign for the 4th Congressional District was the most expensive primary election for a House seat ever.

Gallrein is likely to easily win the seat in the heavily Republican district.

“The uniparty in D.C. finally found someone willing to be a rubber stamp for globalist billionaires, endless debt, foreign aid, and forever wars in failed candidate and Lindsey Graham donor Ed Gallrein,” Massie said about his competitor.

Gallrein accused Massie of “burning every bridge” in Washington and voting against the president’s political agenda.

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Massie has been in office since 2012 and called the primary election an “inflection point” for the entire country. He also blamed campaign donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee for turning what he said would be an easy victory into a loss for him.

“He was a bad guy. He deserves to lose,” Trump said about Massie.

Despite Massie’s recent loss, his supporters still have hope for his political future. Even during his concession speech the night of the primary, the crowd encouraged him to run for president in 2028.

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