Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters & Dave Matthews Headline Leftist ‘Power to the People’ Protest Festival Ahead of 2026 Midterms, Tom Morello Promises Day of ‘Rage Against the Machine’ Activism

Communist Zohran Mamdani First Mayor in Over 60 Years to Skip NYC’s Annual Israel Day Parade

No one should be surprised that radical socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will be the first mayor in over 60 years to skip the city's annual Israel Day Parade, which will be held on Sunday, May 31, despite attending other events that celebrate the city's diverse cultural landscape. The post Communist Zohran Mamdani First Mayor in Over 60 Years to Skip NYC’s Annual Israel Day Parade appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

‘I’ll be right there marching…’ Eric Adams trolls Mamdani after he boycotted Israel Day Parade

Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams is trolling his successor by vowing to attend the Israel Day Parade. Adams took to social media to declare that […]

Q-Day is coming — And America’s digital locks may already be broken

Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author. For years, “cyber apocalypse” talk sounded like the tech version of a guy on a street […]

DHS chief wins battle for Delaney Hall amid anti-ICE protests

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin claimed victory after New Jersey’s governor ordered state police to manage the chaotic demonstrations blockading Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Delaney Hall detention center in Newark.

GOP leadership prepping for Alito retirement before midterm election: report

With the current Supreme Court term coming to an end soon, there is growing speculation that 76-year-old Justice Sam Alito may step down from the seat he has held for 20 years, and that is leading to some under-the-radar maneuvering.According to the Washington Post, Alito is widely considered the justice most likely to step down, with observers pointing to his age, the release of his first book, and the November midterm elections as potential motivators due to Republican fears of losing control of the Senate. That has Republican leaders already preparing to fast-track a successor, including Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT), both of whom could be pushed through swiftly.Though recent reports suggest Alito has no plans to retire, the speculation has also triggered a broader shift in judicial behavior across the conservative legal establishment, the Post is reporting.Legal experts warn that many conservative judges are now deliberately writing attention-grabbing opinions as a form of open "auditioning" for higher office — a phenomenon they attribute directly to Trump's well-documented preference for loyalty and grandiose personalities."Trump, and the people around Trump, are going to try to look for people that they have more confidence in even than the previous set of nominees, and that is going to require some kind of further signals of loyalty to the agenda," Daniel Epps, a law professor at Washington University who closely follows the Supreme Court told the Post. "That just increases the incentives to audition as much as possible."The trend has accelerated since Republicans eliminated the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees in 2017 when Democrats blocked Neil Gorsuch's nomination, allowing confirmations by simple majority instead of requiring a two-thirds vote.That rule change fundamentally altered the incentive structure for ambitious judges, making partisan grandstanding less risky and more rewarding.Even before the filibuster elimination, then-appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch demonstrated the effectiveness of the strategy. In 2016, he wrote both the majority opinion and a separate concurring opinion in a federal agency power case — a calculated approach that showcased his judicial philosophy before his eventual Supreme Court nomination.Mike Fragoso, an attorney at Torridon Law who served as chief counsel to then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, acknowledged the phenomenon while noting it can be difficult to distinguish between genuine judicial positioning and deliberate auditioning."But in the Trump era, writing buzzy opinions can't hurt a judge's Supreme Court prospects," Fragoso said.

The 2026 Battle for the Senate Is Still Likely Republican

Inflation won Trump the presidency, but could cost him the midterms

Trump’s pursuit of policies that drive up prices, including tariffs and war, might be punished in November’s electionsFor such an uncannily successful politician, Donald Trump exhibits a perplexing political myopia. His most recent own-goal was endorsing Ken Paxton, a state attorney general, against four-term senator John Cornyn in the Republican primary for Senate in Texas. Trump’s endorsement helped push the ethically compromised Maga firebrand over the top, to run against popular Democrat James Talarico in November, complicating the Republicans’ chances to keep the seat.But what truly screams “I want us to lose the midterms” is what Trump is doing about inflation, which is becoming his most vulnerable issue. According to a New York Times/Siena poll of registered voters earlier in May, Trump’s approval on handling the cost of living is underwater by 42 percentage points, poorer than his rating on handling the economy (minus 31 points) and the unpopular war in Iran (minus 34 points). Continue reading...

Stephen Miller’s Wife Doxed This Young Dem. Then the MAGA Rage Hit.

Katie Miller, who is married to Stephen Miller, lashed out at a young Democratic operative on Thursday, after the Democratic Party’s official account called Miller’s husband an “ugly f–k.” The aggrieved wife of the top White House adviser posted the operative’s picture on X and ridiculed her personal life, declaring, “She’s 30, unmarried with no kids,” and adding: “This is what a sad, unhappy, female Liberal looks like.”That liberal is Paulina Mangubat, 30, who writes many of the Democratic National Committee’s tweets as its deputy chief mobilization officer. After Katie Miller named her and posted her picture, the MAGA fury started rolling in. I spoke with Mangubat Friday morning. The MAGA backlash has been swift, with people circulating images of her engagement photo shoot and insulting her and her fiancé’s appearance. People are posting decade-old pictures of her while commenting on her appearance, weight, and even her happiness in life.But in our interview, Mangubat stressed emphatically that this dustup should refocus everyone on the real victims of the moment.“Ultimately, this is not really about me,” Mangubat told me. “It’s about the people who are really being attacked by the Trump administration.”This saga all started after MAGA extremist Ken Paxton won the Texas GOP Senate primary, after which the DNC posted a fairly conventional tweet that included a picture of the Democratic nominee, James Talarico, adding: “It’s time to take back Texas.”That prompted Stephen Miller to tweet: “Democrats made history in Texas by nominating their first transgender senate candidate.” It’s a strange claim—Talarico is not transgender, though he’s spoken up for trans rights—but it’s obviously in keeping with the GOP strategy, which is to portray Talarico as woke and effeminate. Regardless, that’s the tweet that the DNC feed—Mangubat—responded to with “Shut up you ugly f–k.”Mangubat’s tweet was approved by the DNC. She says that the effort to make the Democratic Party’s social media presence more nimble and responsive is the much more important story here, especially given how well Trump and the GOP prosecuted the information wars in 2024. The DNC says its program has grown, pointing to an additional 6.3 million followers across all its social media platforms. It claims the programs have produced over nine billion impressions since Trump took office.Mangubat says that when Democrats did research into how to reach more people, “overwhelmingly what we heard is people want us to be more direct, speak more like real people, and be faster.”Speaking like real people also means letting them react in real time with real feeling—which is what happened here with Stephen Miller, Mangubat says.“All we did was say what everyone else is thinking, which is, ‘Shut up—that’s not what people care about right now,’” Mangubat says. She added that there’s no reason to regret using the “ugly” moniker to describe Miller.“What he’s doing is ugly—siccing federal agents on civilians, applauding when families are separated. It is ugly behavior,” Mangubat said. “The reason this happened is because Stephen Miller, who is one of the most powerful men in the country, decided that it would be a good use of his time to go on Twitter and hurl an untrue and transphobic attack against James Talarico.”It’s worth stressing that the roots of this saga lie in the depiction of Talarico as transgender—and that this was intended as a vicious insult. Indeed, Stephen Miller went on a tear after this exchange, going on Fox News and ripping Talarico as soft and effeminate in every way he could. Miller derided Talarico as “transitioning to female,” mocking his testosterone count and claiming Talarico’s blood is made of “soy milk.”It’s also worth dwelling on the vision of masculinity that Paxton presents. His wife divorced him on biblical grounds, he’s been impeached and indicted while in office, and he has subjected LGBTQ people to relentless abuse.But this is very much the MAGA vision of masculinity in action, according to Stephen Miller. During that Fox News hit, Miller described Paxton as a “real conservative” and “patriotic” and “God-fearing,” while claiming that Talarico will be roundly rejected by red-blooded Texans, given their manly “pioneer heritage” and “frontier history.” The roots of this saga, then, really lie in the MAGA-approved view that Talarico doesn’t count as a Real Man, while Paxton somehow does.Mangubat, the daughter of two Filipino immigrants, tells me she was born in Louisiana and raised in Arizona. She said Katie Miller’s claims about her being an unhappy liberal are false. “I feel very blessed in my life,” Mangubat said. “I love this country.