Conservatives erupt after DNC attacks top White House Official with vulgarity in personal attack

The official Democratic National Committee X account decided Wednesday afternoon that the best way to win back the normies was to channel their inner unhinged TikTok teenager. They dropped this gem in response to Stephen Miller needling a Democratic Senate candidate in Texas:

"Shut up, you ugly f--k" @TheDemocrats wrote. 

How mature. The kind of sophisticated discourse that makes you wonder if the DNC's social media intern is still grounded for talking back to Mom.

For context, Miller had been having a grand old time on The Will Cain Show pointing out that Democrats in Texas had just made history by nominating their first transgender Senate candidate, or at least that's what it looked like based on the visuals. 

Miller's crime? Mocking the absurdity. The DNC's response? Immediate nuclear-level personal insult, because policy debates are for chumps. But the truth is, when you're personally attacked with name-calling, you won the fight.

Katie Miller, who clearly doesn't get paid enough to deal with this circus, didn't miss a beat. She went full scorched earth on the account's operator: "Paulina Mangubat is who runs the Democrats’ account. She’s 30, unmarried with no kids. Put your name on it next time," Miller said. "This is what a sad, unhappy female liberal looks like. It’s why Pew reports 50% of them have been diagnosed with a mental condition."

Wow, that's a full psychological profile with receipts. Somewhere in a D.C. apartment filled with empty wine bottles and therapy workbooks, Paulina is refreshing her mentions and wondering where it all went wrong.

This is the party that spent years lecturing America about civility, unity and healing. The party that cried when Trump was ‘mean’ on Twitter. This is who they really are. And they wonder why they keep losing," Benny Johnson said.

"The official Democratic Party," the Libs of TikTok wrote in its own post, highlighting the spat."I'm sure this will get the votes you need," conservative radio host Dana Loesch posted on X."Hilarious these are the same people that complain about Trump being mean," conservative influencer Caleb Hull posted on X.

"This is where the median Democratic staffer's comms instincts are," Manhattan Institute VP Jesse Arm posted on X.

The greatest hits just kept coming. It's like the entire conservative internet showed up with popcorn to watch the Democrats live-tweet their nervous breakdown.

The target of the original Miller needle, James Talarico's campaign, responded by diagnosing everyone with "Talarico Derangement Syndrome." Cute. Almost as original as their entire platform.

Even some Democrats couldn't stomach the slop. Lifelong Dem strategist Jack Appleby clutched his pearls harder than a vegan at a steakhouse:

"As a lifelong Dem who’s donated free consulting to House Dem staffers, I find this so, so embarrassing for us. We complain about the right’s behavior, and now we’re doing stuff like this? Come on, Democrats. Do better."

Bless his heart. Someone get Jack a safe space and a participation trophy before the rest of the party excommunicates him for noticing.

This isn't an isolated brain fart—it's the new DNC brand strategy. Gov. Gavin Newsom's rapid response account has been telling critics to "f--- off" with the frequency of a sailor on shore leave. Apparently "aggressive and edgy" is what the kids are calling "completely unhinged and politically suicidal" these days.

The party that once clutched pearls over mean tweets has now devolved into the political equivalent of a drunk aunt screaming at the Thanksgiving table. And they're somehow shocked that normal Americans keep looking at this mess and saying, "Yeah, we're good, thanks."

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Radical Arrested For Bomb Threat Against Erika Kirk

A 26-year-old Texas man has been charged with making a terroristic threat after authorities say he threatened to kill Erika Kirk and bomb an upcoming Turning Point USA event where the widow is scheduled to speak.

The probe began after a local newspaper shared a Facebook post promoting TPUSA’s Women’s Leadership Summit, scheduled for June 5-7 at the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter on the River Walk, according to KSAT-TV.

“I know exactly where to bomb,” the suspect, identified as Jacob Wenske, replied to the post, according to law enforcement.

Authorities say Wenske also wrote in the same thread, “I can’t wait to be the valet for her escort.”

In a subsequent email, Wenske escalated the threats, writing: “Death to Erika Kirk and every single speaker there!! America will live on without those scum on this earth. Every Christian nationalist shall perish in the bombing that will take place at every single Turning Point rally and event,” according to the arrest warrant.

Wenske was charged with a third-degree felony count of making a terroristic threat involving fear of serious bodily injury and public disruption.

Court records show Wenske’s bond was set at a combined $120,000, KSAT-TV reported. In a statement to Fox News Digital, TPUSA spokesman Matt Shupe said the organization is treating the threats seriously.

“The safety of our attendees, speakers, and staff is always our top priority. All TPUSA events include enhanced, multi-layered security measures enforced by both private security and local police,” Shupe said. “We refuse to let threats silence us. We look forward to a successful and inspiring gathering June 5-7 in San Antonio for more than 2,500 women attending the Women’s Leadership Summit.”

Kirk has recently drawn attention to what she describes as a broader media and cultural climate fueling political violence, arguing it contributed to the circumstances surrounding the public assassination of her husband Charlie Kirk in September.

“Seems to me that nothing will ever be enough for the evil in this world. Our country has become unrecognizable,” Kirk said following the recent shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. “These people have perverted the truth to the point that they motivated the murder of my husband.”

Another day, another unhinged leftist proving that the tolerance crowd's idea of debate is threats, bombs, and wishing death on anyone who dares to be conservative. Jacob Wenske, 26, decided to go full domestic terror enthusiast on social media and email, targeting Erika Kirk and a Turning Point USA women's event. 

The guy didn't stop at vague venting. He got very specific: knowing exactly where to bomb, offering to play valet for her "escort" in the most psychotic way possible, and then dropping a manifesto-level email promising death to every Christian nationalist at every TPUSA event. 

This is the kind of deranged rhetoric that used to get people locked up faster, but in 2026 America it takes a little extra paperwork.

TPUSA is handling it like pros, ramping up security and refusing to back down. Good for them. The left's climate of hate didn't die with Charlie Kirk. It just keeps churning out the next Jacob Wenske, convinced that violence is justified because orange man bad, or whatever the current media fever dream is.

Erika Kirk is right. The country is unrecognizable, and these people have poisoned the well so thoroughly that murder and bombing threats feel like just another Tuesday for them. The rest of us are left wondering when the adults are going to show up and restore some sanity.

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Seattle socialist mayor mocked for ‘irony’ as residents build walls to stop out of control shootings

Seattle democratic socialist Comrade Mayor Katie Wilson is being mocked online over the "irony" of residents in the blue-run city erecting barrier walls in a desperate attempt to stop out-of-control shootings.

Just months after Wilson took office in Seattle, terrified residents in the city’s Aurora Avenue corridor decided to take matters into their own hands to address near-nightly shootings believed to be connected to criminal turf wars, prostitution and illegal trafficking. After weeks of gang-related shootings and high-speed car chases, some residents spent Memorial Day weekend blocking off their own streets using metal planters, dirt, gravel, logs and chunks of concrete. The barricades were set up to block at least three streets leading into the neighborhood.

Though such artifices could incur fines, one resident named Peter Orr told KTVB 7, "It’s either this, or bullets in my neighbor’s houses."

News of the neighborhood barricades in Seattle has garnered scorn for Wilson’s policies online.

Among these was conservative commentator Paul Szypula, who wrote on X, "The Irony is Undeniable."

"When progressive policies result in neighborhoods literally barricading themselves off… that says everything," he wrote, adding, "What should Seattle leaders be doing so residents don’t feel forced to do this?"

Popular conservative account Libs of TikTok mocked, "Seattle residents are now building WALLS on their blocks to keep out criminals."

Commentator Eric Daugherty posted, "Furious blue city residents in Seattle are now building their OWN BARRICADES to BLOCK streets because shootings are so high Omg. This is MADNESS."

"The socialist mayor is IGNORING IT," he added. "BLUE CITIES ARE COOKED!"

Constitutional analyst Jonathan Turley wrote, "Nothing says socialism more than citizen barricades."

He mocked, "In this case, Les Miserables are seeking to protect their property. After electing a mayor who once called for the defunding of police, Seattle neighborhoods are reverting to self-help measures."

Wilson, who was sworn into office this January, wrote in a 2020 opinion piece about the defund the police effort that "there’s never been a better time to try."

In the piece, Wilson posited "there’s a strong argument for simply disbanding police departments and starting over," reasoning that "institutional culture change is hard."

"Leaving aside debates on the left about whether police abolition is possible under capitalism, or at all, let’s stick with the current movement demand of cutting the SPD [Seattle Police Department] budget by half. That’s a lot of officers. It may sound alarming, until you realize that U.S. police perform numerous functions for which armed personnel, trained for violent conflict, are unnecessary or unsuited — and often, unsurprisingly, cause harm," she wrote.

As mayor, however, Wilson has not moved to cut the police by half. She has responded to recent shootings by launching a "multi-pronged gun violence strategy," in which she convened a panel of experts to help the city reduce retaliatory shootings, address youth violence and coordinate efforts between police, schools and community groups. Somehow they need to stop those nasty guns to stop shooting people.

Wilson has paused expansion of the city’s CCTV surveillance and license plate reader programs pending a privacy audit, while maintaining existing police camera systems in high-crime areas, including the Aurora Avenue corridor.

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Democrats Hail Maine Senate Candidate As “Perfectly Mainstream” After Discovery Of Nazi Tattoo

AUGUSTA, ME — Maine Democrats have rallied behind Senate candidate Graham Platner after a series of troubling revelations confirmed he possesses the exact level of moral confusion required for modern political office.

Platner, an oyster farmer and Democrat now favored to replace retiring Gov. Janet Mills as the party’s Senate nominee, has surged ahead of incumbent Sen. Susan Collins despite what political analysts described as “a truly inspiring collection of internet-era red flags.”

Among the resurfaced controversies are old Reddit posts in which Platner appeared to blame rape victims for failing to “take responsibility” for their own vulnerability, telling users, “How about people just take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f**ked up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to?”

Campaign staff later clarified that the remarks were merely part of Platner’s broader platform of “empowering women through regret prevention.” Yeah, sure.

But Democrats reportedly became even more excited after voters learned Platner spent nearly twenty years proudly displaying a Nazi SS Totenkopf tattoo across his chest.

“Look, he said he got the tattoo while drunk in Croatia and had absolutely no idea it was connected to the Nazis,” said one campaign spokesperson. “And honestly, who among us hasn’t accidentally commemorated one of history’s most infamous genocidal regimes during a beach vacation?”

Sources confirmed Platner only covered the tattoo after it became a campaign issue, and cowardice, which aides insist demonstrates “personal growth” and “a strong commitment to polling data.”

The campaign faced additional scrutiny after archived Reddit posts revealed Platner enthusiastically praised a Hamas raid that killed Israeli soldiers in 2014.

“From a strictly professional standpoint, this was a damn fine looking and successful raid against a superior opponent, I dig it,” Platner reportedly wrote while reviewing graphic combat footage online like a man auditioning for the world’s worst TED Talk.

Democratic strategists quickly moved to reassure voters that admiring Hamas operations, sporting Nazi imagery, and blaming sexual assault victims were all “complex, nuanced positions” requiring deeper understanding.

“Frankly, we’re proud to support a candidate willing to challenge outdated taboos like condemning terrorists or recognizing obvious fascist iconography,” said one party official. “This is what courage looks like.”

Meanwhile, party leaders stressed that the real scandal was not Platner’s comments, tattoo, or apparent admiration for Hamas tactics, but rather that Republicans continued to “politicize” them.

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At press time, Platner had reportedly announced plans to heal divisions by unveiling a new campaign slogan: “Believe Women Unless Reddit Gets Archived.”

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More on Graham Platner: a moron or an evil genius?

So who is Democrat presumptive candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, Graham Platner? We know he's running in the 2026 primary as a heavy favorite with rival Gov. Janet Mills dropping out, and will face lifer incumbent Sen. Susan Collins this November.

Let's look at some of his history.

As a wrestler previously at Hotchkiss School, a private boarding school in CT, he was expelled due to behavioral issues and refusal to attend class.

He then attended John Baptist Memorial HS in Bangor, Maine in 2003 where he was voted in the yearbook, "most likely to start a revolution."

His military service began with the USMC 2004 to 2008, and later Maryland National Guard from about 2009/2010 to 2011.

In 2005 he was deployed in Iraq's Al-Anbar Province to east Fallujah, then the following year he was deployed to Ramadi as a machine gun section leader at the Government Center. In 2007 after voluntarily extending his service, was a machine gun section leader with Kilo Co. 3/8.

He was honorably discharged from active duty on April 29, 2008 and was awarded with Combat Action Ribbon, Iraq Campaign Medal, GWOT Expeditionary Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (with gold star) and a Good Conduct Medal, which most Marines get unless they shoot another Marine. 

His Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) was 0331 Machine Gunner.

He enrolled at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, D.C., after his initial Marine Corps service, using GI Bill benefits. His attendance in class was sporadic and while a student he worked the same job as AOC, a bartender. 

Evidently, Platner's brain was full and he withdrew from GWU without graduating. He had been majoring in History and it's highly likely his professors were socialists or at least, progressives.

He has no bachelor's degree or higher formal education. His background is often described in contrast to his family's more privileged/educated roots (e.g., father is a Dartmouth-educated lawyer), as he chose military service over college right after high school. 

Return and final period (2011–2016): He resumed classes while bartending at spots like the Tune Inn on Capitol Hill (popular with congressional staffers). He alternated between academics, military-related obligations, and personal struggles with PTSD, heavy drinking, and disillusionment. 

He was exposed to Edward Said’s Orientalism, which shaped his developing anti-imperial and anti-colonial views. [Moron that later.]

A class on the history of Indochina (Vietnam-era conflicts), which led him to draw parallels with U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, viewing them through a lens of colonial-style justifications and violence.
Initial goals: He planned to study Arabic with the aim of working overseas for the U.S. State Department. 

Platner has described inconsistent performance (“I either got As, or I had dropped classes”) amid PTSD, depression, and alcohol abuse. He left in summer 2016 to return to Maine for treatment and recovery. He has cited this period as one of deep personal struggle, during which many of his controversial Reddit posts (under “P-Hustle”) were made. 

[Democrats love victims, so this explains a lot about how he got to where he's at.]

Platner got his Nazi tattoo known as Totenkopf or 'death's head' in 2007 in Croatia (specifically mentioned as Split in one account), while serving in the Marine Corps [pronounced 'corpse' by Barack Hussein Obama].

In a June 2019 Reddit post (under the now-deleted account "P-Hustle," which Platner admitted owning), he commented on a helmet-cam video of U.S. Army Pfc. Ted Daniels (a Purple Heart recipient) being shot four times by Taliban fighters in Afghanistan in 2012. 

Platner wrote: “This video never gets old. Dumb motherf----r didn't deserve to live. 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...”

What an American thing to say. What a guy this Platner is.

He has faced significant backlash for this disgusting anti-American comment, especially from us veterans. When confronted by Fox News, Platner did not apologize and instead pointed to his own service record (multiple combat tours), as if that gives him 'asshole immunity' for calling accusations of disrespecting veterans "slanderous and offensive." 

Platner has attributed some of his past online rhetoric to post-combat trauma/PTSD from his Marine Corps and Army National Guard service, and he has apologized for other old Reddit posts, but this specific incident has been highlighted in recent coverage of his U.S. Senate campaign in Maine.

So now he blames his PTSD, which seems to make him kind of wishy-washy.

Platner's anti-imperial views stem primarily from his combat experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, combined with intellectual influences during his time at George Washington University. 

He frames U.S. post-9/11 wars as "pointless," wasteful, colonial-style adventures that benefit defense contractors and elites while harming American service members, working-class communities, and people in the targeted countries. 

During his intermittent studies (history major, ~2008–2016), Platner encountered Edward Said’s Orientalism, which provided an anti-colonial and anti-imperial critique. A class on the history of Indochina (Vietnam era) was pivotal: he drew direct parallels between the justifications, violence, and patterns of those conflicts and U.S. actions in Iraq/Afghanistan. 

Evidently, Platner is easily influenced in the leftist direction.

Critique of Hegemony and Elites: Platner describes U.S. militarism as a mechanism to transfer taxpayer money to private interests “on the backs of working-class men and women, and on the backs of the people living in societies that we took the wars to.” He has referred to Washington as an “imperial capital.”

Fight the olagahkee, like Comrade Bernie suggests.

Bernie has been fighting the oligarchy since 1993--that's all he's got

Personal Radicalization: “My time in America’s imperial wars definitely radicalized me further.” He expresses ambivalence—pride in comrades and service, but bitterness toward politicians, brass, and the wars themselves.

Is Platner a socialist? 

Not in the sense of advocating for socialism as a system. He once self-identified that way online but currently distances himself and operates within the Democratic Party’s progressive/populist lane, in order to have a political chance of ever getting into office.

Critics who pay attention, still label him a communist/socialist based on the old posts to attack his campaign. Platner’s politics are best described as anti-oligarchy economic populism rooted in his veteran and working-class background, not orthodox communism or socialism.

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Illegal Immigrants at NJ ICE Facility Launch Bold Hunger Strike Demanding Better Food, Faster Release, And Perhaps A Participation Trophy

NEWARK, NJ—In a shocking display of intestinal fortitude (or lack thereof), roughly 300 illegal immigrants at Delaney Hall, a private ICE detention center, have bravely refused to eat since Saturday, May 23, to protest such unimaginable horrors as spoiled food, inadequate medical care, overcrowding, and the soul-crushing inconvenience of being detained after entering the country illegally.

Sources say the courageous strikers are demanding better treatment, speedier hearings, or immediate release so they can get back to the important business of whatever it was they came here to do. Organizers described the conditions as "basically Auschwitz with worse Wi-Fi," though witnesses noted the facility still provides three meals a day, meals that are apparently not quite up to the standards of a Michelin-starred sanctuary city restaurant.

Border Czar Tom Homan, unfazed as usual, offered the following compassionate, empathetic response:"Look, I've done this since 1984. Hunger strikes never work," Homan said. "We're not going to change what we do because someone goes on a hunger strike. As a matter of fact, if it gets bad enough and the physicians feel like they're putting themselves in extreme danger, medical danger, then we'll force-feed them. We'll get a court order and force-feed them."

"Hunger strikes do not work. So they can put themselves in a position where they're not eating, but it's not going to cause them to be released," he said. "We are going to continue to arrest people. We'll continue to detain people. As far as complaining about ICE contract facilities, well, guess what? We're building our own warehouse facilities. We will have the federally-owned detention facilities by the thousands of beds. So look for the future."

"And I've said from day one, we need to own more of these facilities when we operate them on federal land," he added. "And that way, we're not dealing with all this crap from the local politicians and the state and the governors because this is a federal facility on federal land. That's the direction we need to go to. And that's the direction we're heading in."

At press time, the hunger strikers were reportedly considering escalating their protest by dramatically sighing and rolling their eyes, while Homan reminded everyone that the border is secure, deportations are happening, and maybe next time just don't get caught.

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NYC Mayor Mamdani's East Harlem Grocery Store Already Snagged $25 Million In Taxpayer Funds Years Ago, Because Why Not Double The Waste

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has unveiled a brilliant plan to open a $30 million city owned grocery store in East Harlem. The location is a site that already received approval for a $25 million public upgrade nearly a decade ago. This innovative approach promises to transform the area into a $55 million monument to government efficiency that has left local business owners rubbing their temples in disbelief.

La Marqueta, the bustling food market tucked between East 111th and East 119th streets under the Metro North tracks, is where Mamdani wants to plant his socialist supermarket. Unlike those greedy private stores that have to pay rent and taxes, this glorious government venture will slash prices to the floor by simply not bothering with such capitalist nonsense.

The only problem is that the same spot already won the city's Economic Development Corporation blessing years ago for a $25 million facelift. City officials confirmed the combined price tag now stands at a cool $55 million. 

That's enough money to buy every resident in the neighborhood a lifetime supply of government cheese and still have leftovers for a parade.

"The $30 million figure by itself is outrageous," said Stephen Zagor, adjunct associate professor of food studies at Columbia Business School. "You'd expect the doorknobs and cash registers to be solid gold." And the employee toilets to play Gosudarstvennyy gimn Rossiyskoy Federatsii" (Государственный гимн Российской Федерации) aka the Russian National Anthem whenever they flush.

He added that the extra $25 million already earmarked for the rest of the aging La Marqueta should probably be revisited. Or not. Who cares? It's only taxpayer money.

According to the 2017 plan dusted off for local business leaders this month, the redevelopment includes a playground, a dog park, outdoor seating close to where dogs poop, and a market offering fresh produce, groceries, prepared foods, and public seating in a food hall environment where comrades can discuss how Marxism was never practiced correctly.

Mamdani somehow forgot to mention this preexisting project when he first announced his public grocery empire last month.

Anthony Pena, president of the National Supermarket Association, noted the stunning lack of transparency. "City officials have not been transparent and open about anything they are doing," he said. Shocking.

One detail in particular has sparked widespread eye rolling. The plan calls for a parking lot complete with electric vehicle charging stations.

"Electric vehicles tend to be more expensive," Zagor observed. "So are they catering to a higher income market? It sounds like they aren't focused on what they are trying to do in serving East Harlem residents."

It isn't as if  Mamdani has thought it all through--that would require an actual thought process.

Mamdani has budgeted $70 million total for five city owned stores, one in each borough. That averages out to $10 million apiece for the other four locations. Why East Harlem merits triple the cash remains one of life's great mysteries, right up there with why government projects always cost more than a private company would spend.

On May 18, the comrade also announced a 20,000 square foot public grocery in the Bronx set to open next year. Meanwhile executives point out that a typical 9,000 square foot grocery in Manhattan should cost about a third of Mamdani's proposal. "They are going to spend $10 million on a 20,000 square foot store and $30 million on a 9,000 square foot store," Pena said. "There is a massive disconnect right now and there are more questions than answers."

Could it be that hizzoner is planning to pocket the leftover spare change?

The Economic Development Corporation insists the $30 million store and the old $25 million revamp are completely separate investments. The $30 million will cover ground up construction, fit out, back of house needs, and that vital EV parking. None of the original $25 million will touch the grocery store itself. 

Everything is fine. Please stop asking questions.

The project has been delayed for years thanks to the pandemic and an MTA capital project overhead. Tenants at La Marqueta remain completely in the dark about their future. One business owner wondered if the city grocery will start selling potted plants and herbs, just to make private competitors' lives even more exciting.

In the end, New Yorkers can rest easy knowing their tax dollars are hard at work building the most expensive grocery store in history. After all, nothing says "affordable food access" like a government project that costs more per square foot than a Manhattan penthouse.

Fraud much?

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REPORT: Mohammed Odeh, responsible for the 10/7 murder, kidnapping, and injury of numerous Israeli civilians and soldiers dead

Israel announced on Tuesday that the Israel Defense Forces had carried out a strike in Gaza targeting Mohammed Odeh, [the surname 'h' is pronounced as an 'r'] whom officials identified as the new leader of Hamas’s military wing and a senior figure involved in the October 7 attack on Israel.

An Israeli official told Kan News that Odeh was killed in the strike, though his death has not yet been officially confirmed.

In a joint statement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz declared that the operation had been conducted under their direction and had targeted Odeh, “one of the architects of the Oct. 7 massacre.”

According to the statement, Odeh had served as head of Hamas intelligence staff during the October 7 attack and had been appointed only about a week earlier to replace Izz al-Din al-Haddad.

Odeh “was responsible for the murder, abduction, and injury of many Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers,” the statement said.

Israeli officials reported that al-Haddad himself had been killed in an IDF strike in the Gaza Strip some two weeks earlier. Al-Haddad had been the head of Hamas’s military wing, one of the central planners behind numerous terror attacks, and among the last remaining senior figures involved in orchestrating the October 7 massacre. He had belonged to Hamas for roughly three decades and was regarded by Israel as a major threat to both civilians and soldiers alike.

Netanyahu and Katz praised the Israeli military and security services for the precision of the strike.

“Congratulations to the IDF and the Shin Bet for their ongoing efforts to eliminate our enemies,” the statement said, repeating Israel’s solemn pledge to continue targeting those connected to October 7.

“We will continue to pursue everyone who took part in the Oct. 7 massacre. Sooner or later, Israel will reach all of them,” the statement said.

The announcement identified Odeh as merely the latest senior Hamas figure to assume a leadership role in the group’s military wing, only to meet the same fate as his predecessors following recent Israeli operations in Gaza. In this grim but necessary accounting, the architects of that day of slaughter find no refuge.

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Zohran Mamdani Just Announced Plans to Begin Seizing and Redistributing Private Property, Because This Time Socialism Will Be Different, Guys

New York City Mayor, Comrade Zohran Mamdani kicked off his plan to “fix” the city’s affordability crisis with his official housing policy agenda, titled “Block by Block,” under which one of the first priorities is to allow the government to seize property from owners deemed “negligent” and redistribute it to so-called “responsible stewards,” a category that includes anyone from land trusts, nonprofits, or even tenants themselves.

"Through our new citywide campaign, Fix the City, we will focus on the worst landlords in New York City," Mamdani, a communist who was born in Kampala, Uganda, announced. 

"When necessary, we will take aggressive legal action to remove negligent owners and property managers. And for buildings that have suffered chronic neglect, we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards. Stewards that include community land trusts, non-profits, or even the tenants themselves," he said. 

In other words, despite Mamdani’s claims that this time his own version of socialism will be different, it appears to be heading down the same familiar path, one that students of history expected upon Mamdani's victory, right before they started Googling “Venezuela real estate prices” and “how to flee to Florida.”

Government redistribution of private property, however, is not the only pillar of Mamdani’s “Block by Block” agenda. He has also vowed to fast-track the construction of low-income and government-subsidized housing, while promising to impose price controls on those units that would limit rent to just a quarter of a tenant’s income, because the surest way to create abundant housing is to make it illegal for anyone to actually profit from building it.

One has to wonder if the guy ever took a basic economics class as opposed to majoring in “Karl Marx, the Man, ther Freeloader, the Absent Husband.”

Mamdani ended his “Block by Block” agenda announcement with a unifying, though ironic, speech, praising the city for what it is known for: its iconic skyscrapers, bridges, and museums. They didn't get there via the collective.

Yet those achievements were made possible not because of politicians like Mamdani, but in spite of them, driven largely by private industry and capitalists who somehow managed to get things done before the government decided their buildings were “negligent” for not being run by community land trusts. 

Today, Mamdani’s own agenda still depends on the very economic forces he blasts daily, relying on private wealth to help fund his socialist policy vision—like a man standing on the shoulders of giants while loudly complaining that the giants are too tall and need to be seized for the greater good.

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US Strikes Iranian Boats, Missile Launch Sites In 'Self Defense,' Says CENTCOM

TEHRAN — In what military officials are calling a masterclass in "measured restraint," the United States launched pinpoint strikes on Iranian boats and missile sites Tuesday, proving once again that nothing says "ongoing ceasefire" quite like explosions, shock and awe, and sinking vessels.

"US Central Command continues to defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire," CENTCOM spokesperson Navy Captain Tim Hawkins said regarding the strikes.The US military carried out self-defense strikes in southern Iran against targets including boats attempting to lay mines and missile launch sites, Fox News reported on Tuesday.

“US forces conducted self-defense strikes in southern Iran today to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces,” US Central Command (CENTCOM) spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins said.

“US Central Command continues to defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire,” he added.

According to reports, two Iranian boats were spotted laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, an act of aggression so shocking it only took the U.S. military a few hours to respond with overwhelming firepower. Forces also responded after a missile site had targeted US warplanes, said the official.

He also confirmed that the US struck a surface-to-air missile (SAM) site in Bandar Abbas, following reports of explosions in the city by Iranian media. Other explosions were reported close to Sirik and Jask, located near the strait, in what Iranian state media described as "totally normal Tuesday activities."

The official told Fox News that the strikes were "defensive," while two additional sources said that the strikes do not indicate that the ceasefire with Iran is over. Because nothing screams "ceasefire" like U.S. jets turning missile sites into parking lots.

Explosions were heard on Monday in various regions across the Strait of Hormuz, according to Fox. The official said that the US strikes were "over for now," which is Pentagon-speak for "until the next time they look at us funny."

At press time, Iran was reportedly considering a strongly-worded statement, while the U.S. Navy practiced its trademark "restraint" by not turning the entire region into a smoking crater.

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'Trump House' owner dies of his injuries--neighbor 32-year-old Thomas Caleb Butler faces homicide charge

Kerry Sheron, killed for supporting U.S. President Trump

The owner of a heavily decorated pro-Trump home in Southern California has died days after he was beaten to a bloody pulp allegedly by his neighbor, a Navy veteran.

Kerry Sheron, a 69-year-old Army veteran known locally for covering his residence with MAGA banners and American flags, died Sunday night after nearly a week hospitalized in critical condition, inflicted on him by 32-year-old Thomas Caleb Butler.

The attack happened May 20 outside Sheron’s home in Escondido, police said.

Prosecutors allege Butler attacked Sheron in what officials described as an unprovoked assault, unless you consider someone voting for the candidate you don't like is provocative. 

Butler, who has been described in local reports as a Navy veteran, has pleaded not guilty to charges including attempted murder, elder abuse, criminal threats and battery.

Deputy District Attorney Ross Garcia previously told the court that Sheron suffered catastrophic injuries during the incident.

“It was a single punch to the jaw,” California Post journalist Garcia said. “The victim then falls to the floor, and there are subsequent hits to the victim’s head area.”

Security footage obtained by local media allegedly showed Sheron standing outside his Buchanan Street home before the suspect approached and attacked him. A nearby witness reportedly attempted to intervene before the suspect fled the area on foot.

Police later located Butler nearby and took him into custody shortly after the incident, according to investigators.

In the days before Sheron’s death, his wife Maria gave an emotional update, telling reporters there was “no hope” for her husband as he remained hospitalized with devastating injuries.

She also said the family had been preparing for the worst after doctors warned that Sheron’s condition had rapidly deteriorated due to severe head trauma.

Photos published after the assault appeared to show Sheron bruised, bandaged and connected to medical equipment inside his hospital room.

Authorities said Butler remains jailed without bail. Prosecutors indicated the charges could now be upgraded following Sheron’s death.

He is expected to be formally re-arraigned as early as this week, with homicide-related charges now under consideration, officials said.

Investigators have not publicly identified a motive and said it remains unclear whether the two men knew each other before the confrontation.

Thomas Caleb Butler

Sheron had previously claimed his home, widely known in the community as the “Trump House” because of its large political displays and American flags, had been vandalized in the past. In a video posted months earlier, he showed torn flags and damaged decorations outside the property.

Maria previously told reporters she believed her husband may have been targeted because of the pro-Trump displays outside their home. Authorities, however, have not confirmed any political motive tied to the attack.

In recent days, dozens of supporters gathered outside Sheron’s home holding signs, flowers and American flags as news of his condition spread through the community.

Neighbors described the area as shaken by the violence, saying the attack felt sudden and deeply disturbing for a usually quiet residential street.

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Purple Heart recipient mocked by Nazi tattoo wearer Graham Platner

“I don’t understand the hatred toward veterans who served honorably"
Ted Daniels, Purple Heart Hero

The heroic Army veteran at the center of this latest Democrat clown show in Maine is finally speaking out, and he’s got a simple message for the party apparatchiks still clinging to their Senate hopeful Graham Platner: you people owe his kids an explanation.

According to the New York Post, Purple Heart recipient Ted Daniels unloaded on the top Democrats who are still circling the wagons for Platner even after his charming Reddit burner account comments resurfaced—where he mocked Daniels and said the man “didn’t deserve to live” after a brutal firefight in Afghanistan.

The whole mess has gone nuclear now that online sleuths also dug up images of the Democrat sporting what sure looks like a Nazi-linked tattoo. Shocking, I know. Democrats backing a guy with that rap sheet? In this economy?

Daniels, whose helmet-cam footage from a 2012 Taliban ambush went massively viral years ago, told the Post he doesn’t even want an apology from Platner anymore because it wouldn’t feel genuine.

Instead, he said he wants liberal lawmakers like Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, and Hakeem Jeffries to explain to his kids why they are backing a candidate who mocked the possibility of their father being killed in combat.

Daniels went viral years ago after helmet-cam footage showed him sprinting into open fire during a Taliban ambush while bullets ripped around him.

His team survived the onslaught, but not before Daniels, who drew the enemy fire away from his squad, was hit four times. He earned a Purple Heart for his actions.

Years later, Platner, now the presumptive Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, allegedly mocked Daniels on a burner Reddit account, calling him a “dumb motherf*cker” and saying he should not have survived.

Platner: an angry, vulgar, Nazi-loving, Democratic candidate

The New York Post reported that Platner has since deleted large portions of the account history.Daniels also criticized Platner over past comments targeting Chris Kyle and Vice President JD Vance over their military service.

“I don’t understand the hatred toward veterans who served honorably,” Daniels told the New York Post. “That part gets me.”

Platner has defended himself by pointing to his own military service, saying accusations that he disrespects veterans are “offensive” and “slanderous.” He just hates Jews, I guess. 

He has not apologized for the comments. Despite everything, Daniels said he is not attacking Platner’s military record and still considers him “a brother” because of his service.

But he also suggested it’s a lot easier to trash someone online than say those things face-to-face.

The controversy exploded even further after Dave Portnoy publicly torched Platner over the tattoo controversy while rejecting an apparent attempt by the campaign to get Barstool involved in an anti-private-equity Red Sox message push.

The "Totenkopf" tattoo (German for "death's head" or skull)

Portnoy blasted Platner in a private exchange. “Yeah I’d be happy to talk to him about that tattoo and him being a Nazi,” Portnoy wrote before later posting screenshots of the exchange online. Look, this is just another day in the Democrat fever swamp: a guy who allegedly trash-talked a wounded warrior from behind a keyboard, rocks questionable ink, and the party’s blue-check royalty still can’t find the spine to walk away. 

Shocker.

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Iran Signals ‘Mass Sacrifice’ By Dusting Off Saddam-Era Participation Trophy While Trump Deal Is Already “Largely Negotiated”

TEHRAN—In a bold diplomatic masterstroke, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian reminded the world that his country is totally ready to throw another generation of young men into the meat grinder, just like the good old days, all while Trump’s team casually confirms the deal is basically done.

The remarks came as President Donald Trump said a deal with Tehran is "largely negotiated" but warned the U.S. could walk away entirely if the mullahs keep cosplaying 1982.

Pezeshkian invoked one of Iran’s strongest wartime symbols on May 24, signaling Tehran’s ironclad resolve to maybe, possibly, kind of fight the U.S. and Israel if they absolutely have to, according to a counterterrorism expert who sounded very impressed.

While Iran signaled broad agreement with Washington on some points, it emphasized that a final deal is not imminent because nothing says “serious negotiation partner” like publicly hyping up mass human sacrifice right before signing the paperwork.

In an X post marking the anniversary of the 1982 recapture of Khorramshahr from Iraqi forces during the Iran-Iraq War, Pezeshkian said, "Khorramshahr today is Iran, the Persian Gulf, and the Strait of Hormuz," adding that "resistance, self-sacrifice, and repelling aggression are rooted in the culture of this land."

Analysts claimed Pezeshkian was deliberately invoking one of the deepest ideological touchstones of the Islamic Republic, you know, that time they spent eight years and a million lives to win back one city from Saddam.

"This is the Iran-Iraq War reference, and the timing is the point," said Dr. Omar Mohammed, director of the Antisemitism Research Initiative Program on Extremism at George Washington University.

"This is one of the Islamic Republic’s foundational mythological moments, civilian resistance, mass sacrifice, repelling an ‘aggressor army.’ Roughly what the Great Patriotic War is to Russia. The rhetorical move is the extension," Mohammed told Fox News Digital.

"He’s mapping the 1980-82 defensive-war frame onto the current confrontation: Iran attacked by an aggressor, ordinary citizens (‘battle-untested but brave’) expected to stand and fight, with ‘resistance, sacrifice, repelling aggression’ cast as the cultural default mode."

Some of the phrasing, Mohammed said, also evokes volunteer and Basij fighters versus a professional invading army — or as the rest of the world calls it, “the Iranian business model.”

"Invoking the strait inside a wartime-mobilization frame, even rhetorically, is a deliberate signal, not throat-clearing," he added.

"The Khorramshahr frame is the deepest register the regime has. It’s what they reach for to signal existential war, not a managed crisis."

Mohammed explained that Pezeshkian’s X post is framing the current confrontation from the presidential account to send a "high-stakes message."

"It’s also a tell on internal posture: Khorramshahr, in short, means ‘we are being invaded and we will not negotiate,’" he added, “unless the deal is really, really good and Trump throws in some sanctions relief and maybe a new soccer stadium.”Sources say the tough talk is playing beautifully on Iranian state TV, where viewers are encouraged to cheer loudly while quietly hoping their kids don’t get volunteered for the next glorious mass sacrifice.


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