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Connecticut Governor’s Signature on Anti-Homeschool Bill ‘Marks First Regression of Homeschool Freedom In The Modern Homeschool Movement’

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) signed HB 5468 into law on May 26 – a day that national homeschooling advocacy organization HSLDA asserts now marks “a notable turning point in homeschool freedom.”

“HB 5468 profoundly transforms Connecticut from a state where parents had significant freedom, to the only state that imposes mandatory background checks by DCFS on every parent before they can homeschool,” HSLDA posted to Facebook to its members nationwide.

“Not after evidence of abuse. Not in response to a specific concern,” the group continued. “But as a condition of carrying out a basic responsibility of parenthood—choosing the best education for your child.”

The national legal advocate also warned that the effects of the alarming anti-freedom bill – passed by a Democratic supermajority even after thousands of parents of all political views demonstrated against it at the state capitol – could be felt in other states with like-minded lawmakers eager to flex their muscles against parental rights and add “layers of regulation, restriction and bureaucracy to homeschooling families.”

During debate on the bill, Education Committee Co-Chair State Sen. Douglas McCrory (D-Hartford) defended it by likening the requirement of a Department of Children and Families (DCF) background check on all parents who wish to homeschool to the background check required on all teachers in government schools.

If the parents are the teachers, the same standard should hold in order to “know that the adults who are responsible for educating these children do not have a history of harming children,” he said.

Senate President Pro Tem Martin M. Looney (D-New Haven) dismissed parents’ concerns over the legislation.

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ICE Pleads with Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger Not to Release Illegal Alien Accused of Raping Girl

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is urging Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) to make sure an illegal alien, accused of raping a teen girl, stays locked up in jail rather than being released back into the community.

Cristian Romario Saenz-Argueta, a 31-year-old illegal alien from El Salvador, was arrested in Prince William County, Virginia, on May 26 and charged with one count of rape by force, threat, or intimidation, and two counts of carnal knowledge of a child between the ages of 13 and 14.

According to police, Saenz-Argueta used social media to contact a girl who was under 15 years old, portraying himself as 18 years old. Police allege that in November of last year, Saenz-Argueta met up with the young girl in a parking lot and sexually assaulted her.

“This sick illegal alien from El Salvador now faces three felony charges for raping a girl under the age of 15,” the Department of Homeland Security’s Lauren Bis said:

DHS is asking sanctuary politicians in Prince William County, Virginia to not release this pedophile from jail and cooperate with ICE law enforcement. Due to the reckless policies of Governor Abigail Spanberger and her fellow sanctuary politicians, Virginia has become a magnet for criminal illegal aliens who know that they’ll be protected in this state. How many more innocent victims have to be hurt by illegal aliens before Governor Spanberger cooperates with ICE law enforcement? [Emphasis added]

Saenz-Argueta illegally crossed the United States-Mexico border as an unknown got-away before returning to his native El Salvador in 2022. At a later date, unknown to officials, Saenz-Argueta illegally crossed the border again.

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Dems Have A Voter Problem. Gerrymandering Was Never Going To Fix It

In November 2024, 47% of Virginia voters cast ballots for Republican congressional candidates. Under the map Virginia Democrats tried to push through, those voters would have ended up with exactly one Republican district out of 11. Going from a 6-5 to a 10-1 split was what Democrats called “restoring fairness.”

To get it done, Democrats bypassed a bipartisan redistricting commission that Virginia voters had specifically created in 2020 to end partisan map-drawing. They drafted the new map behind closed doors. They passed a constitutional amendment on Oct. 31, 2025, even though early voting for the general election had been underway since Sept. 19 – violating the state constitution’s requirement that an intervening election occur between the two legislative votes. They missed the requirement that amendments be posted publicly 90 days before a vote. And they put a ballot question before voters asking whether they wanted to “restore fairness” – language a circuit court judge called “flagrantly misleading.”

Every step of this process required ignoring a rule or deceiving a voter.

That is not a party making a policy argument. That is a party that has decided winning at any cost is more important than following the rules.

When the Virginia Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that the effort was unconstitutional, Democrats did not stop and reflect. Instead, they doubled down. Rather than accept the Virginia Supreme Court’s decision, House Speaker Don Scott and Attorney General Jay Jones filed an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, riddled with spelling errors and mistakes. U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called the ruling “unprecedented and undemocratic.” U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene, chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said four unelected judges had “cast aside the will of the voters.” Most revealingly, the New York Times reported that, on a call with Jeffries, Virginia Democratic members of Congress discussed lowering the mandatory retirement age for Virginia Supreme Court justices from 73 to 54 – the exact age of the youngest justice in the majority. This would force the entire court to retire and create an opportunity to replace them with justices who would reinstate the map. Today’s Democratic politicians are showing their true colors: These are radicals in moderates’ clothing. Republicans should respond accordingly.

Republicans should not mistake what happened in Virginia for a one-off procedural accident. Democrats’ willingness to bypass a voter-approved bipartisan commission, ignore constitutional rules, mislead voters on the ballot, and then float court-packing to overcome their illegality is a window into how the modern Democratic Party operates.

But Democrats’ bizarre map was never going to solve their underlying problem.

People are voting with their feet by moving to well-run red states. The 2030 census is projected to shift eight to 10 electoral votes from blue states to red ones – a 16- to 20-point shift that will dramatically tighten the path to the White House for a Democrat candidate.

If Democrats want to compete in the years ahead, they will need to move to the middle to meet voters where they are. Instead of seeking to rig the game, Democrats should persuade voters on the issues the voters actually care about. They should support mainstream, commonsense ideas that they have too long resisted. School choice polls at roughly 74% nationally. Voter ID polls at 84%. Cracking down on welfare fraud polls at 71%, including 62% of Democrats. These are easy wins just waiting for politicians of both parties. It doesn’t take a political genius to realize that Democrats should stop their sprint to the left and side with the majority of voters instead.

Virginia’s brief attempt at gerrymandering was a disgrace and a national embarrassment. Democrats’ unhinged reaction to its defeat was even worse. But the aftermath should be a moment of reflection and readjustment for both parties. Voters are looking for leaders who listen to their concerns, make government work for them, and improve their lives. Democrats should seek to win, fair and square, by pursuing commonsense policies the people want. This is how our system is supposed to work. Otherwise, Democrats – and voters – will continue to see red.

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Bernie Sanders Says Graham Platner Has ‘the Guts’ to Fight, Despite Mounting Scandals

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) says scandal-ridden Graham Platner has the “guts” to fight billionaires — despite headline after headline proving a nightmare for the Maine Democrat Senate candidate’s campaign.

“What we’re looking at right now is a situation where billionaires have already pledged to spend $90 million in a tiny state like Maine,” Sanders said, according to a report by Fox News.

“Trust me, that is a lot of money. They don’t want him in,” the Vermont senator added of Platner, who, during his campaign, faced scrutiny for sporting a Nazi-linked tattoo.

Sanders, however, argues that the skeletons in Platner’s closet are only being revealed because he has “the guts” to stand up to billionaires.

“The reason that they do not want him in the Senate is he has had the guts to stand up to the big money interests, to fight for healthcare as a human right, to demand the billionaires start paying their fair share of taxes,” Sanders asserted.

Platner’s slew of campaign scandals began after video footage surfaced of his chest adorned with a tattoo of a totenkopf — a symbol of the Nazi war machine from World War II.

The 41-year-old first-time candidate has denied being a Nazi and maintains that he would not have gone through life with the tattoo had he known its significance.

Senator Sanders, however, does not seem phased.

“I think what we, as a nation, need to do is to focus on the important issues facing working families, 60 percent of whom are living paycheck to paycheck,” he said. “And I think that Graham and his wife, Amy, will work on their marriage, and I wish them the best.”

Meanwhile, unearthed Reddit posts show Platner admitting to masturbating every time he defecates in a porta-potty, as well as praising crude penis drawings he has spotted while inside portable toilets.

Additional recently revealed past Reddit posts also showed the Maine Democrat Senate candidate mocking a U.S. soldier and Purple Heart recipient who was shot four times in Afghanistan, writing, “Dumb motherfucker didn’t deserve to live,” among other similar sentiments.

Platner — who has also been endorsed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) — faced backlash late last year when more recent Reddit posts resurfaced, including one from five years ago in which he referred to himself as a “communist” and “socialist.”

Other posts show him calling police “bastards,” saying Americans who live in rural areas are “stupid,” and claiming sexual assault victims should “take some responsibility for themselves and not get so messed up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to.”

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Senator John Fetterman Slams Fellow Democrat Graham Platner as a ‘Creep’ 

The most reasonable member of the Democrat party strikes again.

Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was asked about Graham Platner, the Democratic Socialist (communist) running for U.S. Senate in Maine on CNN and called him a ‘creep.’

That’s actually a very good word to describe Platner, who is now embroiled in a sexting scandal, in addition to his many other controversies.

From CNN:

Fetterman calls Platner a ‘creep’ after reports of extramarital sexting

Sen. John Fetterman issued a scathing takedown of Graham Platner as the leading Democratic candidate in Maine’s Senate race has become embroiled in a scandal over reports that he sent sexual text messages to women who were not his wife.

In an interview with CNN Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Democrat also laid into Platner over past social media posts that have haunted Platner’s campaign for months. Fetterman likened Platner to a “Nazi sympathizer” over a now-infamous tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol. Platner has apologized for the past posts and has pleaded ignorance over the meaning of the tattoo, which he has since covered.

“When I was growing up, if someone had a clear Nazi tattoo on them, you probably could conclude that they’re a Nazi sympathizer,” Fetterman said, before rattling off some of Platner’s more incendiary posts. “Are you going to continue to defend that or dismiss that?”

The sharp criticism comes as many Senate Democrats have been reluctant to criticize their party’s top candidate in Maine’s highly competitive Senate race after reports have circulated about Platner’s wife flagging his sexual texts with other women to his campaign…

“Oh, phustle,” Fetterman said of Platner. “What kind of a creep? What kind of a creeper has been on … a platform like Kik, and send a dozen explicit kinds of messages and who knows what else?”

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Kamala Harris’s LGBTQ+ Pride Month Message: ‘Ongoing Fight’

Former Vice President Kamala Harris released her annual LGBTQ+ Pride Month message on social media, calling it an “ongoing fight” for equality.

The failed presidential candidate took to X and Instagram on Monday, the first day of June, to recognize Pride Month while the Trump administration ignored it for the second year in a row. 

“Pride is joy. Pride is courage. Pride is a celebration,” Harris captioned photos of herself adorned with rainbow-themed LGBTQ+ merchandise. “And Pride is the ongoing fight to ensure every person can live as their authentic self.”

She continued, “This month and every month, we celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and all those continuing the fight for equality.”

“Happy Pride!” Harris concluded. 

While former President Joe Biden and federal agencies including the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services posted Pride messages in June during the previous administration, there has been a noticeable lack during Trump’s second term. 

Popular retailers have also reduced their LGBTQ+ marketing since the Biden administration, with Target no longer appearing to carry Pride items for children.

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California Legislators Shriek: ‘Stop Nick Shirley!’

Without the second Trump Administration, we would surely not have discovered, and most importantly, acted upon, the fraud being committed around the country, most notably in blue states like Minnesota and California. So much has been discovered so rapidly, President Trump appointed Vice President Vance to head an anti-fraud task force, and the DOJ hired additional prosecutors to handle the dramatically increasing number of cases. Federal officials are suggesting the sheer amount of fraud, discovered and yet to be discovered, is so staggering clawing back that money could balance the federal budget.

Instrumental in exposing sufficient fraud so it could no longer be ignored by local or state officials is independent journalist Nick Shirley, who exposed the infamous “Quality Learing Center” day care fraud in Minneapolis, as well as many less well-known fraudulent day cares. So effective was Shirley, and so quickly did his work anger local fraudsters and state officials, Shirley received so many death threats he apparently decided to give California a try. This was the immediate result: 

Independent journalist Nick Shirley has released a devastating 40-minute investigative video that exposes what appears to be massive waste and potential fraud in California’s hospice, Medi-Cal, and daycare programs. His report, now viewed more than 7.7 million times on X, uncovers over $170 million in questionable billings tied to ghost hospice and daycare operations that show virtually no signs of actually caring for patients or children.

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Graham Platner slams articles over his alleged ‘sexting’ as ‘journalistic malpractice’

Democrat candidate for United States Senator from Maine Graham Platner accused media outlets that had reported on his alleged “sexting” scandal as “journalistic malpractice.”

Speaking to reporters on Sunday, he specifically called out the The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and The New York Times (NYT), which had reported on the scandal on Saturday.

“The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times ran stories without any evidence besides the gossip from a former staffer…I’m sorry, that’s frankly journalistic malpractice,” Platner stated.

According to reporting by both outlets, Platner’s wife had told the campaign about messages she had discovered of her husband “sexting” with multiple women, despite the couple having been married since 2023.

Current and former officials working on Platner’s campaign had confirmed the exchanges, according to the NYT. One current official reportedly said the conduct had stopped before the launch of his Senate campaign.

A former campaign senior aide, Genevieve McDonald, claimed that Gertner had reached out in 2025 about her husband’s alleged behavior, the NYT reported.

Per media reports, Gertner talking about feeling betrayed by an unnamed campaign staffer in a statement provided by the Platner campaign.

“I trusted this person with the most private chapter of our lives — the early days of our marriage before any campaign was on our mind — and I am deeply hurt by her betrayal and the invasion of our privacy,” Gertner said.

In a Saturday video statement posted to Platner’s social media campaign account, Gertner said she found the willingness to spread gossip “shameful.”

“It makes me really angry, disappointed. And I find it really shameful that there’s a group of media outlets and people who are willing to spread gossip instead of talking about real issues that Graham is running on,” she said.

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Jill Biden Laughs About Covering for Joe Biden’s Cognitive Decline 

Dr. Jill laughed about covering for Joe Biden’s cognitive decline during her latest interview amid her tour for her book, “View from the East Wing.”

Jill Biden continued to make the media rounds on Monday and sat down with Craig Melvin on the TODAY show to discuss life after the White House and Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.

Dr. Jill shocked the public when she recently claimed that she thought Joe Biden had a stroke during the 2024 presidential debate.

TODAY show host Craig Melvin asked Jill Biden about the moments after Biden finished the debate.

“I wanna say the things that are true, and so I said ‘you answered every question,’” Jill Biden explained.

“That’s a pretty low bar,” Craig Melvin said.

“Well…haha,” Jill Biden said, laughing.

“My mind is racing. What do I say to him? What do I say to him?” Jill Biden said about her husband’s disastrous debate. “I’m his wife. I’ve got to lift him up.

“I’m not going to get out there on the stage and say, ‘Joe, you really screwed that up,’” Jill Biden said.

She continued, “And we have all our supporters there. That’s who we are. I had to support him. I couldn’t come out and really publicly say, ‘Joe, you did a terrible job in that debate.’”

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Leftist Psychopath Paul Krugman Calls for “DeMAGAfication” – “We Really Need to do a Thorough Purging of the United States.”

Wackjob “economist” and former New York Times columnist Paul Krugman called for supporters of the President to be eradicated through “deMAGAfication,” openly admitting that he wants to replicate Germany’s post-World War II denazification in the United States.  

Following World War II, countless German soldiers and civilians were detained in internment camps slaughtered with full backing from the US. Krugman thinks the more than 77 million who elected Trump should face the same consequences.

“The president of the United States is mentally ill, but everybody knows that,” he said to kick off the vlog posted on Sunday.

“If you have been following uh some of the news, you may know that Trump’s mental deterioration, which was obvious, has been obvious for quite a while, got even more extreme in the past few days,” he continues, describing the United States as “the world’s formerly greatest power” and Trump as a “a lunatic who has far more power than any previous president.”

So, he argues, “we really need to do a thorough purging of the United States. We need a deMAGAfication.”

“I’m not going over the top by using a word that’s very similar to the denazification that we pursued successfully after World War Two in Germany,” he added.

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