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By Tyler Durden Update(10:00ET) : With Vance and Witkoff in Switzerland, President Trump is still issuing some US redlines via Truth Social, and via apparent 'official leaks' - and quite quickly - through the press. Trump is warning the Iranians on the sticking points of Hormuz closure and the Lebanon crisis. He has newly threatened on Sunday to hit Iran again if it can't constrain its proxies, namely Hezbollah, in Lebanon. In parallel, Tehran is demanding that Washington reign in Israel. A fresh Sunday Truth Social... brief but firm: "You close it and you won't have a country." President Trump said he told Iranian officials about the Strait of Hormuz. "You won't even make it back to your fu*king country." "We may take over the Strait, if we have to," Trump said. "If they don't make a deal, we'll collect… pic.twitter.com/cErvdjCJmK — Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) June 21, 2026 As the American delegation continues the high...

By Adam Turner CNN is shocked, shocked: CNN’s statistician Harry Enten BREAKS DOWN the “stunning” rise of socialism in the Democratic Party. “Capitalism has absolutely fallen through the floor. Look at this: it’s now just 42% of Democrats who have a favorable view of capitalism. Socialism, on the other hand, has risen like a rocket…” WOW: CNN’s statistician Harry Enten BREAKS DOWN the “stunning” rise of socialism in the Democratic Party. “Capitalism has absolutely fallen through the floor. Look at this: it’s now just 42% of Democrats who have a favorable view of capitalism. Socialism, on the other hand, has… pic.twitter.com/LYCJAdWMtH — RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) June 19, 2026 CNN shouldn’t be surprised at all. No one should. When the U.S. educational establishment is made up of left-wing hacks who despise the U.S. and the capitalistic system, you are going to get American youth who hate the U.S. and love socialism. That’s how things have gone in the U.S. since the 1970s. Aft...

By Ben Smith The United States turns 250 years old in a few weeks, and the celebration is already taking shape in the usual big, patriotic ways: fireworks, concerts, military flyovers, historical exhibits, and events stretching from Washington, D.C., to Mount Rushmore. One of the newest additions, though, is aimed less at the country's past than at the kids who will inherit its future. Freedom 250 announced Friday that it is launching the 2026 Patriot Games, a nationwide athletic competition that will bring together high school athletes ages 14 through 17 from every state, territory, and tribal nation for three days of competition in August. One male champion and one female champion will split a $250,000 scholarship prize. JUST ANNOUNCED: The 2026 Patriot Games 🇺🇸 Athletes from across the country. One national stage. The competition that will define a generation. High school athletes ages 14 to 17 will represent every state, territory, and Tribal Nation. 🏆 Top male & fe...

By Nick Arama It's hard to believe, but some polling has Kamala Harris as the leading Democratic candidate for 2028.  It's very early, it's not even clear that she would run, and other candidates are likely to overtake her in a real primary. But if the Democrats were foolish enough to put her forward, given the sound drubbing that she got in 2024, feel free. I'm sure Republicans would love that.  Harris is clearly reaching low, if she's bothering to go on Don Lemon's podcast to try to promote herself.  Then, too, what she said was some stunning hypocrisy. Lemon asked her if people in the Trump Justice Department (DOJ) going after "political rivals" should "face some sort of justice." Don Lemon tells Kamala he thinks people in the Trump DOJ should “face justice" for going after "political rivals." Kamala agrees: “I absolutely believe that." Lemon: "If you are president in 2028, will you make sure that there's...

By Ward Clark There is little more important to the success of any nation's economy than energy. America, in general, and here in Alaska in particular, the United States has a lot of the raw materials that provide that energy: Coal, oil, and natural gas. But the Alaska state legislature has spent the last few weeks tossing brickbats back and forth over the state-level tax deal that would not only get the new natural gas pipeline from the North Slope to the Kenai Peninsula going, but would also give the State of Alaska a piece of the pie. The legislature didn't get it done in the regular session. Governor Mike Dunleavy (R) called a special session. The state Senate, in that special session, coughed up a proposal, about which Governor Dunleavy simply said, "It doesn't work."  Now, the legislature is, once again, in another special session . The Alaska Senate approved in a 12-8 vote Friday a bill that would reduce taxes on the Alaska LNG project. It was the last...

By Becca Lower Earlier on Saturday morning, RedState shared the latest developments in the peace negotiations between the U.S. and Iran ahead of planned meetings on Sunday: The Trump administration’s interim agreement with Iran is already under serious strain. Iran’s joint military command announced Saturday that it has re-closed the Strait of Hormuz , citing continued Israeli military operations in Lebanon and what it characterized as American “bad faith” and a “clear breach of its commitments.” The announcement came on Iranian state television, which warned that “if the aggression continues, subsequent steps have been planned.” Vice President JD Vance, in a comment during an interview Saturday, threw the Iranian regime's claim about closing the strait into question: Vice President JD Vance, speaking to Fox News Saturday morning, disputed Iran’s announcement, saying there is no evidence the Strait of Hormuz is actually closed despite Iranian state media reports to the contrar...

By Catherine Salgado When it comes to modern American politics, truth is stranger than fiction — such as a mafia hitman-turned-councilman who is once again in trouble with the law. John Alite has served prison time before for multiple murders and beatings when he was a hitman for the infamous Gambino crime family, according to the New York Post . Despite that lurid and bloody past, Alite now (or until this week) represents New Jersey’s Englishtown as a councilman. Alite claimed in March 2025, “I already had a bad past, and I’m here to redeem my whole life, and I would like to go out doing everything in a positive way.” That is a noble aspiration, so far as it goes, but unfortunately, it seems the former mobster did not live up to his promises of complete moral reformation. Also, unfortunately, it seems based on local reporting that Alite is affiliated with the Republican Party, since the Republican English Town mayor appointed him, so, unusually, a political crime scandal isn’t di...

By Ward Clark You can always rely on Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the daffy old Bolshevik from Vermont, for one thing: He insists on introducing all manner of socialist horse squeeze as proposed legislation. Lately, he's been constantly whining about the need for a wealth tax, proving that he doesn't understand Article I, Section 9, Clause 4 of the U.S. Constitution, much less why the 16th Amendment was necessary to implement the income tax. But then, the far Left has always seen the Constitution as something to be dodged, in any case. Now, though, Senator Sanders has a new idea, and it would make old Karl Marx clap his hands in glee: Seizing 50 percent of the ownership of all Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies and putting the assets into a sovereign wealth fund. (Yeah, like that would last.) A U.S. Senate bill would give the federal government a 50% ownership stake in the largest artificial intelligence companies, creating a sovereign wealth fund its sponsor estimat...

By John Solomon A federal judge has rejected Joe Biden’s bid to keep the Justice Department from releasing recorded conversations with his biographer a decade ago that prosecutors used to conclude the former president improperly shared classified information with the author. U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich ruled the public’s interest in the information outweighed Biden’s privacy rights in seeking a preliminary injunction to block the release of the transcripts and recordings to the conservative watchdog group The Oversight Project, which is affiliated with the Heritage Foundation. The judge noted she reviewed the transcripts of the conversations with author Mark Zwonitzer and found that the Justice Department had deleted all information about the Biden family and personal matters. “The harm to Biden’s diminished privacy interest is outweighed by the public’s interest in the Zwonitzer materials,” Friedrich wrote. "As now redacted, the Zwonitzer materials contain no informa...

By Matt Margolis The Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool has become the latest target in the left's war on anything Donald Trump touches, and the radical left isn't even trying to hide it anymore. According to reports circulating on social media, the National Guard and Park Police have ramped up patrols around the reflecting pool amid threats from leftists vowing to sabotage the recently renovated landmark. Independent journalist Nick Sortor sounded the alarm on the brazen plot. "American workers are pushing around the clock to finish the pool by July 4, but liberals have a vested interest in destroying it for some reason," Sortor wrote. We all know the reason: Trump Derangement Syndrome. It's truly a shame how badly these people want to humiliate our country on the world stage, and they're not even subtle about it anymore. President Trump confirmed on Friday in a Truth Social post that vandals damaged the newly renovated pool, and he didn't hold back. T...