Trump Admin Is Turning Ocean Into a Gas Station and Garbage Dump, Expert Says
Along with dismantling vital sea monitoring, Trump aims to expand deep sea mining and loosen fishing regulations.

While the term "Manosphere" is used to describe an array of anti-feminist ideologies —from MGTOWs (Men Going Their Own Way) to PUAs (Pickup Artists) to incels (involuntary celibates) — another term, "Womanosphere," is being applied to the Manosphere's female allies. Turning Point USA, the MAGA group led by founder Charlie Kirk's widow Erika Kirk, is a bastion of "Womanosphere" activists and influencers. Describing Turning Point's recent 2026 Women's Leadership Summit, The Atlantic's Elaine Godfrey emphasizes that a variety of women spoke — from some who sounded "a little feminist" to one who doesn't believe that women should vote."If the conservative Manosphere is associated with protein powder, pomade, and ancient Rome," Godfrey explains in The Atlantic, "then the conservative Womanosphere is its aesthetic opposite: a frilly wonderland of gingham tablecloths and Bible verses, as soft as goose down and as cotton-candy pink as Polly Pocket's Country Cottage. Which is why the cannons were so startling. Before each speaker took the podium at Turning Point USA's annual Women's Leadership Summit to advise feminine gentleness in all situations, tall columns of magenta smoke blasted from both ends of the stage, and the music's bass dropped, rattling the skulls of all 3,000 women in the ballroom of the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter. This year's event was full of such subtle contradictions."Godfrey continues, "It is difficult to tidily define womanhood, or to attach to the term a set of clear expectations. Yet Turning Point, the conservative organization founded by the late Charlie Kirk, professes to understand womanhood deeply — so deeply, in fact, that it holds a conference every June to elucidate the concept: Womanhood is getting married as soon as you can, and having babies — more 'than you can afford,' as Kirk often advised. It is embracing God and renouncing feminism."But Godfrey stresses that the messages and viewpoints at the 2026 Women's Leadership Summit were more "diverse" than "in year's past." And she cites podcaster Alex Clark as one of the speakers who felt "a little feminist," telling attendees that "never getting married is not a failure.""In her speech kicking off this year's event," Godfrey notes, "Erika Kirk gave advice you might hear at any Christian empowerment conference: Count your virtues and hone them…. Other speakers offered predictable messages: They railed against abortion and shared Christian wisdom on dating and motherhood…. But the overall message of the summit was, admittedly, a little hard to parse."Godfrey continues, "After several speakers reminded the young ladies in the audience that family should be their top priority, another presenter advertised an array of job-training programs for women hoping to become phlebotomists or plumbers. Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany cheerfully declared, 'I believe there could be a future president of the United States in this room today.'"
Along with dismantling vital sea monitoring, Trump aims to expand deep sea mining and loosen fishing regulations.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth drew strong criticism from Mormons and Utah lawmakers after releasing a new list of religious affiliations that didn't classify the Church of Latter-Day Saints (often described as the Mormon Church or LDS Church) as Christian. The Pentagon, Politico reported, walked back that part of its religious affiliation policy following the outcry from Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rep. Mike Kennedy (R-Utah), and others. But according to Salon's Amanda Marcotte, Hegseth's treatment of Mormons shatters MAGA Republicans' claim that they are promoting freedom of religion."In his eagerness to marginalize people of non-Christian faiths," Marcotte explains in Salon, "Hegseth accidentally exposed a major MAGA myth: that there's a coherent, much less peaceful, way to impose their theocratic views on the country. On the contrary, any effort to turn this into a 'Christian nation' is destined to reveal the deep divisions between Christian factions…. To recap, for those who missed the furor: the Department of Defense used to recognize 211 separate religious designations for service members, which help shape everything from chaplain services to what marker is put on a tombstone. Under the guise of 'streamlining' services, this number was reduced to 31. Anyone who looked at the new list, however, could see that Hegseth's unsubtle goal was signaling the superiority of Christians to everyone else."Marcotte adds, "The new list gives Christians 21 subcategories to choose from, but Jews, Muslims and other major religious groups only get one option, ignoring the diversity within those faiths. Atheists, humanists, Wiccans, pagans and other belief systems that the Christian right believes are demonic, were erased entirely."Hegseth, the Salon journalist laments, "has barely concealed his hostility to recognizing that anyone non-Christian could be a legitimate American, much less an honored military service member.""What did seem to shock some people, however, was that Hegseth also kicked members of the Church of Latter-Day Saints out of his Christian tribe," Marcotte observes. "While all other followers of Jesus, from Quakers to Catholics, were officially designated as variations of 'Christian,' Mormons did not enjoy the Christian label. Mormon leaders should have seen this coming."Marcotte adds, "White evangelicals don’t hide their belief that Mormons have no right to call themselves 'Christians.' In May at Rededicate 250, the Christian nationalist event backed by the Trump administration in Washington D.C., there were a couple token Catholics and one Jew among otherwise evangelical-led speaker list, but no Mormons were invited. On the contrary, many speakers are anti-Mormon, including Trump ally and Southern Baptist megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress, who has repeatedly called the Latter-Day Saints a 'cult'…. So, there was a widespread anger when Hegseth reminded Mormons that they'll never be part of the evangelical-led Christian nationalist in-group."
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President Donald Trump was the "biggest obstacle" in the way of his own administration handling the Epstein files, according to a legthy new report from The New York Times, as insiders were "paralyzed" with fear and paranoia about how to handle the growing "crisis" despite him not wanting them to say anything about it at all.The report was written by longtime Trump-beat veterans, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, based on material from their forthcoming book about his second administration. According to the pair, the sense that White House officials gave, that Jeffrey Epstein was a minor non-issue for the administration, could not have been further from the truth, and Trump's repeated insistence that the story was "boring" or a "hoax" made it nearly impossible for them to adequately address it."People in his orbit found him snapping at them if they even raised the issue of Jeffrey Epstein," Haberman explained in a video accompanying the report.In July of last year, several top administration officials convened a meeting about the issue in the Situation Room, a place typically reserved for "classified and high-stakes national security matters." At the meeting, Haberman and Swan said it was clear that Vice President JD Vance was the most adamant in pushing for full transparency on Epstein, with some in the administration suspecting that he had bought in fully to past conspiracy theories about the deceased sex trafficker.While the rest of the officials balked at Vance's suggestion, the meeting resulted in two moves that ultimately did nothing to quell the growing discontent over the Epstein files within the MAGA base: pushing for judges to release grand jury materials related to Epstein to the public, and having then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche interview Ghislaine Maxwell in prison. The latter idea was put forward as a way to make the White House seem like it was fighting for disclosure, but in a way that the judges would likely never allow.In the video, Haberman noted that the idea of releasing the files became a "non-starter" for the administration as soon as it discovered that Trump's name was mentioned many times within them, even if it was often in reports detailing unverified allegations made against him over the years.Among the new revelations from their reporting, the pair revealed that they were able to view an internal document from "Trump's top pollster," Tony Fabrizio, which revealed that the Epstein files were still the sixth most important issue for GOP voters, based on focus groups conducted in March, well after an act of Congress forced the release of the files. This made it a more pressing issue for them than things like crime, safety, the military and AI data centers.“There is also a consistent mention of the Epstein files, which came up in every group and is a real negative with some of these voters," Fabrizio wrote in the "key takeaways" section of the report.Swan said that Trump was growing "more and more fed up" with the story dominating the narrative around his presidency, with Haberman adding that he was not used to losing control over what his MAGA base thought about things. She also stressed that all of the conversations roiling the administration about Epstein had to do with how to contain or "spin" the narrative, not about getting justice for his many victims."The Epstein crisis had exposed something that some of Trump’s closest advisers spent months refusing to see," the report concluded. "The president could break institutions, redirect the federal government against his enemies and bring the world’s richest men into the Oval Office bearing tribute. But he could not, it turned out, make Jeffrey Epstein disappear."
Hamas has built makeshift torture chambers inside Gazan hospitals and schools where its men are interrogating and abusing fellow Palestinians suspected of disloyalty. The reign of terror comes as Hamas moves aggressively to reassert its power over the Gaza Strip, according to video testimonials and official government documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. The post EXCLUSIVE: Hamas Turns Gaza Hospitals and Schools Into Torture Chambers as It Reestablishes Police State: Gazans Describe Horrific Interrogations, Beatings appeared first on .
In a blistering exchange Monday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s partisan influence, Rep. The post “Add Me to Your Hate Map” – Rep. Lance Gooden Torches SPLC CEO For Protecting Antifa Terrorists And Jane’s Revenge Church Arsonists While Labeling Turning Point USA And Family Research Council As ‘Hate Groups’ appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Some progressive Democrats are of the opinion that Donald Trump has changed American politics so fundamentally – that the system is now so corrupt and the dangers to liberal democracy are now so severe – that questions of moral character no longer count like they used to. As one progressive Democrat recently told NOTUS, "I get really tired of Democrats being held to some lofty moral standard when Republicans are just ‘boys will be boys.'"Therefore, for instance, if there's a chance for the Democratic Party to take back control of the United States Senate, it shouldn't matter that Maine's Democratic primary winner Graham Platner lied about being a "working-class Mainer"; lied about not knowing about the origins of his Nazi tattoo; cheated on his wife by sexting as many as a dozen women; allegedly abused and acted violently toward former girlfriends; among other scandals."I think when you look at politics in general, there are no saints in the United States Senate," US Senator Bernie Sanders, a progressive, told CBS News Monday. "People can argue about this aspect of Graham or another, but to my mind right now, we need allies in the United States Senate who have the guts to take on the big money that is dominating this country."In other words, he may be a dirtbag, but he's not a fascist.So it's OK to elect a dirtbag.But it's not OK and we all know it.That's why some progressive Democrats are spinning Platner's story so he doesn't look like a dirtbag but a man of integrity who struggled to overcome his past and redeem himself. California Congressman Ro Khanna appeared at a campaign rally in Maine the day after the Times reported on Platner’s toxic behavior toward numerous former girlfriends. One of them alleged that "this person does not respect women" while another alleged that he physically assaulted her and that he knew his tattoo was a Totenkopf, because he told her what it was.¹"Khanna’s appearance [during last week's Platner rally] was an exercise in tightrope walking," according to Politico this morning, "simultaneously condemning Platner’s behavior while espousing faith in the former Marine’s redemption from troubled times in his past."Khanna told the same redemption story on "Face the Nation": "His actions were misogynist. They were shameful. They were wrong," he said, "but ... he took accountability. He himself has said it was shameful and he had redemption. And now he’s running on a platform of national health insurance, while Susan Collins is voting to cut it. He’s talking about taxing billionaires. Susan Collins is for tax breaks to billionaires. And he’s opposed to this foreign war where Susan Collins supported the war in Iran. That’s why I’m still supporting him."Khanna's redemption story sounds convincing, but it runs into the fact that Platner cheated on his wife throughout 2024, years after his "dark period" in the aftermath of the Iraq War. PTSD might have explained, for instance, Reddit posts blaming victims of rape for the crimes against them, but what explains his bad judgment and untrustworthy behavior now? The redemption story also runs into the fact that Platner never accepted full responsibility for his Nazi tattoo. He claims he did not know what it was, only that it was a skull and crossbones. But even if he didn't know at the time he got it, in 2007, he knew by 2009. That year he tried to return to active duty service. The Marine Corps' anti-hate symbol policy would have meant that an enlistment officer explained what it was and why it prevented him from returning. (Importantly, he could have, at that point, chosen to cover it up, but did not.)The Washington press corps often compares Graham Platner to the president. Platner won yesterday's Democratic Senate primary in Maine despite his baggage, much as Trump won the White House twice despite his. But the men are not comparable. Trump is a sadist who wants to hurt people whom he believes are weaker than him, as do allies like Ken Paxton in Texas. Their vision for themselves is an America that's structured from the top down, with rich white Christian men dominating everyone under them. They will use force if they get the chance. They don't wear Totenkopfs on their skin, but they are fascists to the bone.There seems to be a broad disinclination to admit openly that "a dirtbag is better than a fascist," even though that's a pretty good argument in favor of voting for Platner. Platner isn't of that ilk. He's a talker, a bull------- a man who failed at adulthood but found compensation in the pleasures of saying shocking things. (A former girlfriend told the Times that he once said "if anybody ever broke in here, I would rape them.” She recalled him adding "not in a gay way.” “He was like, I would rape them to show them that I’m dominant,” she said.)I agree with this characterization from a Bluesky account I follow: "I don't think Graham Platner is a Nazi.