Posts on Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Adam Hamawy, an Egypt-born former combat surgeon who once volunteered with an Al Qaeda-linked group in Bosnia, emerged victorious Tuesday in the Democratic primary for retiring Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman’s (D-NJ) seat.
Hamawy — a staunch critic of Israel who was endorsed by “Squad” Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), as well as socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — was the top vote-getter in the crowded Democratic primary race for the Garden State’s deep-blue 12th Congressional District.
An Iraq War veteran, Hamawy has made national headlines for saving Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s (D-Ill) life
He may be the Communist darling of left-wing livestreaming, but when the cameras are off, the real Hasan Piker is shallow and sex-driven, sources claim.
Although he recently debuted a more serious image, donning spectacles and suits for his broadcasts, those close to the 34-year-old told The Post he’s still a pervy, porn-obsessed frat boy — impulses they say get in the way of him ever realizing his goal of making it in the mainstream.
“Off camera he is very stiff and impersonal. I can’t tell how much of what he says he actually believes. He definitely leverages it to creep on women,” a former pal told The Post.
A tense hostage situation continued late Tuesday in Bakersfield, California, after a man allegedly barricaded himself inside a Chase Bank building following reports of a bomb threat, triggering a massive response from local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.
According to the Bakersfield Police Department, officers were dispatched to the Chase Bank building at the intersection of Chester Avenue and 17th Street at around 1 pm local time after receiving reports of a bomb threat. Upon arrival, authorities discovered that an adult male had barricaded himself inside the building along with several members of the public. No injuries have been reported so far.
Longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley is out of the famed news program.
Pelley, who spent over 30 years at CBS News, has been fired from the company after a clash with new "60 Minutes" top producer Nick Bilton, Business Insider has confirmed.
"Your antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear," Bilton wrote in a memo to Pelley that was seen by Business Insider. "I therefore write on behalf of CBS News, Inc. to inform you that your employment with CBS is terminated for cause effective immediately."
New York Democrats’ latest bid to suppress Republican voters launches this week as the Legislature gets the ball rolling on amending the state Constitution to allow it.
They claim they’re just countering GOP gerrymandering across the country, but that prompts the question: Why did they start trying to do this before the ink was even dry on the 2020 Census?
As we noted recently, New York Dems in fact triggered the gerrymander wars with their relentless efforts, starting in 2021, to undo the voter-passed prohibition on gerrymandering so they could draw district maps guaranteed to shut out the Republicans (who still draw over 40% of the statewide vote).
Inflation is hitting Iran hard in the midst of stalled negotiations with the U.S.
Iranian news agencies are reporting that the country has stopped talking with mediators about extending the ceasefire with the U.S. and Israel, the Associated Press reported.
President Donald Trump said Monday that he does not "care" if peace negotiations with Iran are over, stating that the negotiations had been taking too much time. However, Trump said on Tuesday that claims that the two countries have ceased communicating are "false and erroneous."
So long as no agreement is reached, Iran's oil-
The United States Central Command said Tuesday night that U.S. forces have successfully defended itself against aggressive Iranian behavior and countered with self-defense strikes on Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf.
The U.S. military said Iran launched several ballistic missiles toward regional neighbors in the Middle East, which all failed to hit their targets of Bahrain and Kuwait.
American forces also shot down three one-way attack drones that were launched toward civilian mariners in regional waters and conducted self-defense strikes on an Iranian military ground control station on the island.
American military forces carried out strikes on an Iranian island abutting the Strait of Hormuz in response to attempted Iranian drone and missile attacks, the latest clash between the two countries as President Trump pushes to strike a longer-term agreement with Iran.
U.S. Central Command said in a statement Tuesday it shot down three Iranian drones that targeted civilian mariners. Iran also launched ballistic missiles at U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf region that "all failed to hit their intended targets," according to CENTCOM, including three missiles that were fired at Bahrain but were shot down by air defenses, and two missiles
Comedian and HBO late-night host Bill Maher shared that he felt that reality star and Republican candidate for Los Angeles mayor Spencer Pratt was “authentic,” stating that he had him “at hello.”
During an episode of Maher’s podcast, Club Random, Pratt explained that he “never planned” to run for mayor of LA, adding that he “ran to have a bigger platform to expose all the negligence” under current LA Mayor Karen Bass (D) and Democrats such as Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA). Pratt added that the Democrats “failed” him. When asked if he was “strong enough to buck the unions,” Pratt spoke about how while Bass says “every single union endorses her,”
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday asking AI companies to let the federal government take a look at their most powerful models before releasing them to the public. No mandatory reviews. No licensing. No federal approval process. Just a request, with a 30-day window to act on it.
The order puts America's most advanced AI to work defending power grids, hospitals, and government networks before China or criminal actors find the holes first.
Trump wrote in the order that America leads the world in AI because his administration cut the regulatory dead weight the Biden White House piled onto developers and researchers.
One of the few useful points from the DNC's aborted "autopsy," released two weeks ago by Ken Martin while renouncing it at the same time, focused on the Democrats' problems with men. Specifically – or as specifically as the report managed to get – the analysis pointed to Democrats' embrace of identity politics as particularly alienating to male voters, even those otherwise in minority demos:
Male voters require direct engagement. The gender gap can be narrowed. Deploy male messengers, address economic concerns, and don't assume identity politics will hold male voters of color.
There's a reason for that alienation,
It is now so common for leftists, indeed most Democrats, to call Trump supporters Nazis that it's easy to shrug and move on.
Unfortunately, as much as we would like to think it is a mere rhetorical flourish, it is not one at all. If you think that Democrats aren't serious when they propose what sound like insane measures, just remember what they did during COVID, what they are doing with alphabet ideology (literally sterilizing and mutilating kids and putting sex offenders into girls' locker rooms), and what they did to President Trump before his reelection.
They are quite serious about all the insane things they talk about
Tuesday on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” former first lady Jill Biden said she believed her husband, former President Joe Biden, would have beaten Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
Biden said, “I mean, Joe had to decide whether to run again. But like you said, you know, we did well, the Democrats did well in the midterms, and in 2023, the Democratic Party was totally behind Joe, and people, everywhere I went, ‘Joe’s got to do it again. He’s got to run. He’s got to run. And he was like, ‘Well, I don’t know’ – you know – ‘Am I too old?’ I mean, it was the age question
Kirkwood, Missouri, is an appealing suburb about 15 miles from St. Louis City. The city was founded in 1853 and is the first planned suburb west of the Mississippi.
Many families flock to the area for its suburban school system and safe environment.
But for those parents who thought their kids were getting a well-rounded education in Kirkwood, they may want to think again. Recently, the woke president of the Kirkwood School Board, Judy Moticka, took to Facebook and called for the assassination of President Trump.
Judy is a school board leader but wants President Trump killed and is not ashamed to admit her views on her Facebook account!
The Gateway Pundit reported that an anti-ICE rioter, identified as Brendan John Geier, was arrested and charged last week after kicking and biting ICE agents during protests, leaving the agent with horrific bite wounds.
In gruesome photos of agents’ injuries, gashes and teeth marks are seen on the agents’ skin. (Snip) The Justice Department has confirmed to The New York Post that Geier, of Madison, New Jersey, was previously charged with sexual abuse of children related to the dissemination and possession of child pornography in Pennsylvania.
President Trump on Tuesday reacted to the newly scheduled White House Correspondents’ Dinner and revealed it will be held at The Waldorf Astoria in DC.
Trump built the Waldorf Astoria in DC.
White House Correspondents’ Dinner president Weijia Jiang announced the event will be held on July 24.
“I’m proud to share the WHCD will be held on 07/24. Our first dinner is part of history, as will be the WHCA’s response. We will not allow an act of violence to have the last word, especially during a year when we are reflecting on America 250 and everything we stand for,” White House Correspondents’ Dinner president Weijia Jiang said.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz was asked to give medical advice to people who suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome on Tuesday.
The doctor did not have a cure. “Treating stupid is really hard, and it becomes a real problem,” he said.
Oz took the podium at a White House press briefing this afternoon, subbing in for White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who is currently on maternity leave.
Various top administration officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Vance, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, have stepped in as one-time Press Secretary.
Less than two weeks after a man was killed after opening fire on Secret Service agents mere steps from the White House – and just over a month since unhinged leftist Cole Tomas Allen was charged with trying to assassinate President Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner – an Obama-appointed judge has ordered that an "86 47" protest be allowed to continue near 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss issued a two-week restraining order against the National Park Service (NPS), which was sued after attempting to revoke the permit of Accountability Now, the leftist, anti-Trump group
Secretary of State Marco Rubio headed to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to face questions about the State Department's budget request for fiscal year 2027 – and the topic of the ongoing conflict with Iran was on everyone's mind. Things got heated when Democrats let loose with their mind-boggling questions about the ongoing negotiations.
In his opening statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rubio reiterated that the United States remains "the world's sole global superpower," noting we have the world's largest economy, most formidable military ("ever known to man, by the way"), and a strong currency. This all means nothing, he emphasized,
Slain Student's Family Blasts Chicago's
Sanctuary Policies After Killer Found
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Sanctuary Policies After Killer Found
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As rioters continue causing chaos outside of a New Jersey ICE detention facility, parents of the late Sheridan Gorman are reminding Americans of the devastating effects of leftist policy on illegal immigration. Sheridan Gorman was just 18 years old when she was shot and killed by an illegal alien less than a mile from Loyola University Chicago's campus. This week, Gorman's alleged killer, Jose Medina, 26, was found with a shank while in prison awaiting his murder trial. [Tweets]
Gorman's parents, Tom and Jessica, are fiercely speaking out against Chicago's sanctuary city policies that cost their daughter's life.
The Department of Transportation have announced that they have issued a subpoena to the state of New York after they have refused to cooperate in the investigation of a CDL holder who was unable to speak English that caused a crash that resulted in five fatalities. [Tweets]
Jing Shen Dong, a naturalized U.S. citizen from China, has been charged with manslaughter after causing a massive crash that led to the deaths of five and a further 44 injured. Four of those killed were the Doncev family, who were traveling to attend a wedding at the time of the crash.
One Migrant Learned the Trump Administration
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Late last month, the Trump administration announced it was cracking down on fraudulent asylum claims. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Counsel James Percival said of the change in a press release, "For many years, millions of illegal aliens have committed fraud in our immigration system. No place is this more rampant than in immigration court. Protection claims like asylum are intended to cover unique and narrow circumstances, but it is standard practice for immigration attorneys representing illegal aliens to assert that virtually every illegal alien is going to be persecuted or tortured in his or her home country."
Bill Maher used Friday's "Real Time with Bill Maher" to criticize California Democrats over education and green energy, arguing that Mississippi and Texas are outperforming the deep-blue state on issues Democrats often campaign on. "Democrats, these are your issues: education, race, the environment," Maher said. "And I say this with love: you’re losing to the Waffle House, car-on-the-lawn states." Maher said California’s school outcomes were especially difficult to defend when compared with Mississippi, citing fourth-grade results for Black students. "Did you know that a Black fourth grader in Mississippi is two and a half times as likely to be proficient in math and reading as one in California?"
Former New York Times reporter Paul Krugman, who worked for the outlet for more than two decades, is clearly grasping for relevance in his retirement and he's doing so by calling for violence against Trump supporters. The guy who once said the Internet's impact on the economy would be no different than the fax machine thinks the country needs a 'thorough purging' and he's targeting MAGA as the group that needs to go. [Tweet, video] "We need to de-fang Trump as much as possible and make sure that neither he nor anybody who follows in his footsteps has power after the next two elections," Krugman said.
President Trump has made the nation's capital beautiful again, with the White House announcing that over the past 14 months the administration has repaired an astounding 22 fountains, cleaned 28 statues, removed hundreds of instances of graffiti, cleared homeless encampments, restored ponds across Washington, D.C., and rat-proofed the city's trash cans.
"Decline was a choice. Not anymore," the White House official account wrote on X. "In just 14 months, @POTUS has restored our nation’s capital, making it SAFE & BEAUTIFUL."
"500+ instances of graffiti cleaned, 153 homeless encampments removed, 22 fountains restored, 28 statues cleaned, & more," it added.
Delaney Hall, the ICE center in New Jersey, has been the latest target of the anti-ICE Democratic Party and their Leftist foot soldiers. Federal agents have been blocking Democrats from entering the facility, amid claims that illegal aliens are holding a hunger strike to protest the conditions at the facility. Violent riots have taken place, too, with Leftist goons attacking ICE agents and threatening to kill their families.
New Jersey Republican Jeff Van Drew went to Delaney Hall to see what was going on. And, unsurprisingly, it's not at all how Democrats are claiming.
ICE agents arrested more criminal illegal aliens over the Memorial Day period and days after, including men convicted or charged in cases involving murder, child sexual abuse, sexual battery, robbery, burglary, drug trafficking, and violent assault. From DHS:
Yesterday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested more public safety threats across the country, including those convicted for murder, sexual battery, sodomy, and aiding and abetting burglary.
“Yesterday, while ICE law enforcement arrested murderers, sexual deviants and burglars, anti-ICE rioters assaulted our federal law enforcement,” said Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis.
Iranian Endgames?
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The Trump administration has bent over backward to negotiate an end to Iran’s grand plans to develop nuclear weapons—before the June 2025 bombing, afterward, and again during the follow-up diplomacy of spring 2026.
Yet Iran is unlikely ever to abandon its pursuit of the bomb voluntarily. With nuclear weapons, Tehran hopes to become the de facto hegemon of the Middle East. Only then could it effectively coerce or deter both Israel and the wealthy Arab Gulf states. And that is the charitable view, one that excludes the possibility of a messianic Shiite theocracy believing that eliminating the “one-bomb” state of Israel would forever ensure the Shiite minority permanent preeminence
A Bay Area voter showed up to vote on Sunday night at a closed ballot center, just to discover its doors unlocked and the building unsecured.
San Mateo County voter Madelyn Webster wanted to vote in the June 2 governor’s race primary at Notre Dame de Namur University, but found no one there.
The voting center had closed an hour prior to her arrival at 6 p.m.
“We also checked the front door thinking maybe they’re taking a break in the front but that was locked. And then we called out again because there were restrooms there,” Webster said.
Webster wandered around the building for several minutes, believing it to be open
Texas Democrat James Talarico is running for the Senate, and his campaign thought it had a clever play. Reveal the girlfriend, and treat it like a power move against those questioning his sexuality. Instead, the move has sparked new questions that his campaign needs to answer, but so far won’t.
Last week, perhaps in response to Republicans mocking him as “Low-T Talarico,” his campaign cleverly revealed that he does, in fact, have a girlfriend, and she isn’t some mystery girl who lives in Niagara Falls, either. Her name is Brianna Manard, and she’s a radical left-wing lobbyist.
But that’s not the whole story.
The U.S. has committed to selling Australia three in-service Virginia-class nuclear submarines while pivoting from the planned acquisition of one new and two in-service Virginias as part the multi-billion-dollar AUKUS submarine deal.
Australia plans to acquire a fleet of cutting-edge, fast attack nuclear-powered submarines under AUKUS, a multi-decade defence pact with Britain and the United States.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles and U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey announced the revision to the AUKUS acquisition plan during the a recent AUKUS Defense Ministers Meeting
This isn’t normally the time when voters are asked whether they are better off than they were four years ago. That’s the question that tends to come around in presidential election years. But as the midterms approach, it’s what everyone should ask themselves as they decide who controls Congress for the next two years.
Because the answer is obvious.
Let’s turn the dial back to June 2022. Joe Biden had been occupying the White House for a year and a half. Democrats controlled Congress, handing him his $2 trillion “Build Back Better” spending extravaganza. The economy had more than recovered the ground
A Republican state senator who spotlighted his support for President Donald Trump and his MAGA agenda is one step closer to succeeding Ken Paxton as Texas attorney general.
State Sen. Mayes Middleton on Tuesday defeated Rep. Chip Roy, one of the most conservative members of the U.S. House, for the Republican attorney general nomination in Texas, The Associated Press reported.
Roy conceded the race shortly after the results came in, saying he had called Middleton to congratulate him.
Vandals sabotaged generators at an event for President Trump’s Freedom 250 event, according to a spokeswoman — and fuel leached into underground water tanks, contaminating them.
A generator fuel line set up for temporary lights for a May 17 event was was cut, causing it to seep into underground cisterns that collect rainwater under the Washington, DC, landmark, Freedom 250 spokeswoman Rachel Reisner told NBC News.
“Following the Freedom 250 team’s installation of temporary lighting on the National Mall, our equipment has been repeatedly targeted by vandals. The recent fuel leak was the direct result of that tampering,” she said.
Who could have guessed that yet another candidate that Zohran Mamdani endorsed—this time in a Congressional primary to take out a prominent New York Congressman who is the leader of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus—is a communist?
Not me. PolitiFact assured me in a fact-check that Mamdani, despite all his statements and social media posts, is not a communist because his campaign website failed to use that word! [snip]
She is, unsurprisingly, a far-leftist who works for the public defender's office and is steeped in all the trendy DSA/Communist ideology of defunding the police, seizing private property, and, of course, wiping Israel off the map.
Californians head to the polls to vote
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Californians go to the polls Tuesday to vote in primary elections that are expected to narrow the wide-open fields for November's General Elections in both the Los Angeles mayoral race and state gubernatorial contest – already the most expensive governor's race in U.S. history, with over $315 million spent so far.
Polling shows neither race having a clear leader, with Republican candidates in the liberal-leaning state among the front-runners in both.
In the governor's race, the campaign of billionaire Democratic candidate Tom Steyer has poured in over $200 million in ad spending, the most money of any candidate this election cycle in the country
Maine Gov. Janet Mills reminds voters
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that she is still on the ballot amid Graham
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Democratic Maine Gov. Jane Mills reminded voters Sunday that she is still on the ballot in next week's Senate Democratic primary as constituents grapple with reports that candidate Graham Platner allegedly exchanged sexually explicit text messages with several women earlier in his marriage.
The revelation came out this weekend that Platner's wife Amy Gertner alerted his campaign to the texts in August 2025 after discovering the messages earlier that year.
Campaign aides reportedly reviewed the matter during an internal vetting process shortly after Platner launched his Senate bid, but staff members ultimately decided the issue was personal—
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has launched a civil war in the Democratic Party with his controversial endorsement of a fellow socialist’s bid to oust incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat, insiders said Monday.
Mamdani’s decision to support fellow Democratic Socialists of America insurgent Darializa Avila Chevalier in the June 23 primary for the northern Manhattan/Bronx House 13th House District is part of a long-term effort by him and fellow socialists to take control of the Democratic Party, sources said. In New York City, it’s a civil war in the Democratic Party,” said campaign consultant Evan Roth Smith.
There must be something about the month of May for the radical "protesters" at Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, New Jersey, because May 2026 has been a lot like May 2025 in terms of the wild scenes that have unfolded there over the past two weeks.
RedState has extensively covered the clashes that the anti-ICE demonstrators have instigated with immigration enforcement agents, with one situation involving a violent agitator who allegedly kicked and bit two agents. New Jersey resident Brendan John Geier, 26, has been arrested in that case.
Another disturbing incident involved an agitator caught on tape threatening to kill an ICE agent and their family. The suspect, 27-year-old Brooklynite
Henry Nowak: The Bodycam Footage
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Bill has written here and here about Henry Nowak, the 18 year old Briton who was stabbed to death by Vickrum Digwa, a Sikh. The perpetrator, having stabbed Nowak, collaborated with family members to put out the story that Nowak was a “racist,” while his mother hid the murder weapon. This is the call that Digwa’s brother made to report the crime. The suggestion that the victim was a “racist” was all that London Southampton police needed to hear: Police officers arrived on scene. Henry Nowak, dying from stab wounds, could not respond coherently to their questions, although he did say that he couldn’t breathe.
We live in an age of wonders made possible by a combination of free markets and scientific advancement. This weekend a large group of oncologists, doctors who specialize in the treatment of cancer, met to show off their latest breakthroughs at a conference called ASCO26. The news from this conference is so good that it brought standing ovations from the assembled doctors.
The big breakthrough that everyone is excited about involves pancreatic cancer which has long been a death sentence for many people. For instance, cartoonist Scott Adams died from metastatic prostrate cancer earlier this year. But a new drug called daraxonrasib
Kind of a one-two punch out of ExxonMobil's senior vice president, Neil Chapman, today.
On one hand, a not-so-surprising announcement tying up the loose ends of Exxon's corporate existence. The company, which has long been legally homeported in increasingly business-unfriendly New Jersey, would move that as well, thanks to stockholders giving executives the thumbs-up.
...Chapman delivered his message on the same day that Exxon shareholders approved a plan to move the company's legal home from New Jersey to Texas.
Citing Texas' strong regulatory environment, ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods said the state was a better fit for the company in a statement.
In the popular Marvel film, 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier', the villainous organisation Hydra develops an advanced computer algorithm that mines every citizen's digital history to predict if they might pose a threat to the government in the future. A Chinese company is now on the verge of turning this science fiction plot into reality by developing an artificial intelligence-powered technology that would help authoritarian governments to not only monitor dissenters but also predict who could become one in the future.
The company, Geedge Networks, sells a commercial version of the surveillance and censorship software used by the Chinese government to control online activity. Leaked company documents