Graham Platner has been the gift that has kept on giving for Republicans this campaign season.  The Democrat candidate for US Senate in Maine has been the subject of several high-profile scandals in recent months, from a Nazi-linked tattoo to sending explicit messages to multiple women who weren’t his wife. While some in the party continue to defend him, one voice of opposition can be found in Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), the notorious fan of very casual attire: NEW: Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) tells colleague @kayleighmcenany live on @FoxNews that if Graham Platner can prove all of the people he was chatting with on Kik & “sending dick pics to” were adults and there were no minors, he will wear a suit every day. — Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 6, 2026 Breitbart provided this context: While speaking to Fox News’s Kayleigh McEnany on Saturday in America, Fetterman was asked about “an interesting deal” he had made, the New York Post reported. Fetterman suggested that Platner could “set the record clear” regarding messages he sent to women early on his in marriage. “You proposed an interesting deal. You said, ‘Let’s make a deal,’ these are your words, ‘I’ll tell P-Hustle I’ll wear a suit everyday if he releases all those texts and messages that he has had with a dozen women,’” McEnany said. “Have you heard from him on this deal?” “No, of course I never heard from P-Hustle,” Fetterman responded. “But, what’s strange with P-Hustle is, back in April, he was doing an interview on that pro-Hamas Zeteo Network, or whatever that thing is, and he said I am the ‘bane of his existence,’ and really was angry at how I dress. And, now I said, P-Hustle, here’s a great chance, you can just prove that all these people that you were dropping those dick pics, and saying these things to were over 18. Now, I will wear a suit every day in the Senate.” Naturally, his intraparty challenge sparked some social media engagement: That sounds like a Babylon Bee headline — SafetySwipe (@SafetyNotorious) June 6, 2026 It should be a scary thought for leftists if he's their voice of reason. — Pro-freedom memer (@LibertatemRR) June 6, 2026 There was plenty more where that came from in the comments below Platner’s post on the matter: He seems very upset with you! pic.twitter.com/ff9HzJwiuG — + and – (@pos_and_neg) June 6, 2026 I would rather be a decent human being like John Fetterman, than a perverted communist like you. pic.twitter.com/aZnzMVKjSt — pammy (@pammy06012) June 7, 2026 Here’s what Newsmax added: “You can set the record clear and provide all of those texts and all of those conversations that you were having as a newlywed just before you were going to run for the Senate,” he said, then added a one-word demand: “Transparency.” Kik, an anonymous messaging app, has been probed over underage users. On Sean Hannity’s program earlier in the week, Fetterman put it more bluntly, saying Platner “had a problem with me, how I dress, but he seemed to have no problem posing in a towel at a disgusting website that consistently had serious problems about that kind of depravity.” Platner, who has admitted having an active Kik account while newly married, has denied wrongdoing and has not been accused of any unlawful conduct involving minors. And here’s some more coverage of the impact Platner’s scandals are having on the campaign: This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

A strong earthquake that struck near Cuba on Monday reportedly caused some Florida residents to feel shaking. The earthquake was reportedly felt in parts of Miami, Tampa, and other areas in the Sunshine State. “Shaking has been felt across much of Florida in the aftermath of the 6.1 magnitude quake just west of Cuba,” the National Weather Service Miami-South Florida stated. “*NO* tsunami threat is expected from the earthquake,” it added. Update: Shaking has been felt across much of Florida in the aftermath of the 6.1 magnitude quake just west of Cuba. *NO* tsunami threat is expected from the earthquake. https://t.co/v8qFN0vbs8 pic.twitter.com/qJBSOGE5PR — NWS Miami (@NWSMiami) June 8, 2026 NBC 6 South Florida has more: Multiple buildings in Miami were apparently evacuated due to shaking, including Miami-Dade’s Stephen P. Clark Government Center and the Dadeland Metrorail Station. “Minor tremors from an earthquake in the Gulf, SW of Cuba have been felt in South Florida. There is no cause for alarm,” the Miami Beach Fire Department posted on X. “We’ve received several recent reports of shaking across Southwestern Florida within the past 30 minutes. An earthquake has occurred just west of Cuba in the southern Gulf. @USGS_Quakes has since revised the magnitude down to a 6.1 at a depth of 10km,” NWS Miami added. 6/8 @ 2:15pm: We've received several recent reports of shaking across Southwestern Florida within the past 30 minutes. An earthquake has occurred just west of Cuba in the southern Gulf. @USGS_Quakes has since revised the magnitude down to a 6.1 at a depth of 10km. https://t.co/f1OyzUI6Sf pic.twitter.com/MAB4ptNk74 — NWS Miami (@NWSMiami) June 8, 2026 “Though the tremor triggered widespread reports of light shaking across Southwest and Central Florida, authorities confirm there is no threat of a tsunami. No significant injuries or structural damages have been reported at this time,” The Weather Channel wrote. BREAKING: A powerful 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the northwest coast of Cuba on Monday afternoon, sending low-frequency seismic waves across surrounding waters. Though the tremor triggered widespread reports of light shaking across Southwest and Central Florida,… pic.twitter.com/qw4hHbO83D — The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) June 8, 2026 FOX 13 Tampa Bay shared further: In Florida, the National Weather Service in Jacksonville reported receiving a wave of calls and messages detailing noticeable shaking and tremors from residents. FOX 13 also experienced an influx of emails and phone calls from people across the Bay Area who reported feeling the ground move. Meteorologists have not yet confirmed exactly how many total households felt the physical effects of the distant Cuban earthquake. Officials have also not disclosed any immediate reports of structural damage or injuries along the Florida coast. While the shaking caught many coastal residents by surprise, emergency management personnel stressed that area beaches are completely safe.

California is now publicly accused by federal officials of blocking a Justice Department audit of its voter rolls. The accusation came from First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, who posted it from his official account on June 7, 2026. The timing could not be sharper. Los Angeles voters are still asking how the late ballot drops pushed Spencer Pratt out of the current mayoral runoff position. In the current unofficial Los Angeles County returns, Karen Bass sits first, Nithya Raman sits second, and Pratt sits third. The returns remain unofficial. No court has entered a fraud finding, but the public is still allowed to ask questions. Those questions get louder when the same state now says federal auditors cannot get the voter-roll records they want. California Is Blocking a Federal Audit of Its Voter Rolls California allows first-time voters to register using forms of ID that most Americans would find surprising, including: -Gym membership card-Employer ID card-Credit or debit card-Prescription drug label-Insurance… pic.twitter.com/kOEOzpctmb — F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) June 7, 2026 Essayli said the Department of Justice has spent more than a year trying to audit California’s voter rolls. He also said California refused to comply by claiming state privacy laws block the federal review. That matters because the fight reaches beyond one ugly vote count. President Trump’s Justice Department had already taken California to court over statewide voter-registration lists months before this latest Pratt/Raman controversy exploded. Here is how the Justice Department described the voter-roll lawsuits it filed last fall: Today the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced the filing of federal lawsuits against six states — California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania — for failure to produce their statewide voter registration lists upon request. “Clean voter rolls are the foundation of free and fair elections,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “Every state has a responsibility to ensure that voter registration records are accurate, accessible, and secure — states that don’t fulfill that obligation will see this Department of Justice in court.” According to the lawsuits, the Attorney General is uniquely charged by Congress with the enforcement of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) and the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), which were designed by Congress to ensure that states have proper and effective voter registration and voter list maintenance programs. The Attorney General also has the Civil Rights Act of 1960 (CRA) at her disposal to demand the production, inspection, and analysis of the statewide voter registration lists. So the federal position is simple: clean rolls are not optional, and statewide voter-registration records are not supposed to be off-limits to federal election-law enforcement. California’s own rules make the audit fight even more explosive. Essayli pointed to the forms of identification California accepts in certain first-time voter situations, and the state’s own election page backs up the core concern. California’s own California Secretary of State HAVA page says the proof-of-identity standard should be read broadly: This section shall apply in all instances where voters and new registrants are required by the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prove residency or present documents to establish identity. This section shall be liberally construed to permit voters and new registrants to cast a regular ballot. Any doubt as to the sufficiency of proof or a document presented shall be resolved in favor of permitting the voter or new registrant to cast a regular ballot. Current and valid photo identification provided by a third party in the ordinary course of business that includes the name and photograph of the individual presenting it. Examples of photo identification include, but are not limited to, the following documents: driver’s license or identification card of any state; passport; employee identification card; identification card provided by a commercial establishment; credit or debit card; military identification card; student identification card; health club identification card; insurance plan identification card; or public housing identification card. A health club card and a credit card sitting on the same example list as a passport is exactly the kind of thing that deserves daylight. California officials cannot brush that aside as conspiracy theory. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna quickly amplified the charge, quote-posting Essayli with the same central allegation: California is blocking a federal audit of voter rolls https://t.co/RheRFWemFV — Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) June 8, 2026 And the Spencer Pratt angle is why this story is catching fire now. For days, the public watched a race that looked one way on election night shift another way after later ballot updates. Trending Politics connected the voter-roll fight to the late-count controversy in Los Angeles: California is fighting efforts by the Trump administration to examine its voter rolls, setting up a legal showdown as questions mount over the state’s election practices and concerns about potential voter fraud. Bill Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, said Sunday that his office is pushing for a closer look at California’s election system amid scrutiny surrounding late-arriving votes that have benefited Democratic candidates. The issue has drawn fresh attention following the recent Los Angeles mayoral primary, where Democrat Nithya Raman appeared headed for defeat on election night and was visibly emotional as early returns showed her running in third place. But after additional ballots were counted in the days that followed, Raman surged into second place and secured a spot in the runoff, prompting critics to question the dramatic shift and renew calls for greater transparency in California’s vote-counting process. The federal government has sought access to California’s statewide voter registration database for more than a year as part of a review into whether the state is complying with federal election laws aimed at preventing voter fraud and maintaining accurate records. That is the heart of it. A state cannot demand unquestioning trust in late ballot drops while fighting to keep federal auditors away from the rolls. If California’s voter rolls are clean, an audit should clear the air. If California keeps resisting, voters are going to keep asking the obvious question. What are they so afraid of? This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

On Saturday, June 6, 2026, at least 1,000 Catholics gathered in downtown Washington, D.C., for a Eucharistic procession that moved near the White House. The theme was simple and unmistakably American: One Nation Under God. This was the fourth annual procession sponsored by the Archdiocese of Washington’s Catholic Information Center, and it landed at a meaningful moment as the country counts down to its 250th birthday. It was a public act of faith in one of the most public places in America. Here is what that looked like on the ground: Hundreds – if not thousands – of people gathered for a Eucharistic Procession outside the White House today. @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/NzXT4h2AAP — Spencer Lombardo (@SpencerLombardo) June 6, 2026 The day started with a 9:00 a.m. Mass outside the Catholic Information Center’s office, followed by the procession around 10:00 a.m. From there, the crowd moved through Farragut Square, Lafayette Square near the White House, and McPherson Square before returning to the Catholic Information Center around noon. The Daily Caller News Foundation covered the event on the ground and reported that the gathering drew at least 1,000 Catholics. The National Catholic Register, reporting through EWTN News, also reported more than 1,000 people processed through downtown Washington and said Father Charles Trullols estimated the crowd at around 1,300. That matters because this was more than a private church event moved outdoors for convenience. The point was public witness. The Catholic Information Center explained what a Eucharistic procession is: We invite you to the CIC’s Fourth Annual Eucharistic Procession in Our Nation’s Capital on Saturday, June 6, 2026. This year, we are delighted to partner with the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Route for the Archdiocese of Washington’s activities on the vigil of Corpus Christi. Please spread the word to your family, friends, and parishioners to come for a very special morning of prayer in this Jubilee Year of the Church. For the past three years, the closest tabernacle to the White House got a little closer with souls processing behind Christ’s Real Presence through the streets of downtown Washington. The Eucharist is the source and summit of the whole Christian life. A Eucharistic Procession, therefore, is a public witness of the veneration of the most holy Eucharist, conducted through public streets. It takes place in this way: A consecrated host – that is, the real and substantial presence of Jesus Christ: body, blood, soul and divinity – is placed within a monstrance, which is then lifted and carried by a priest who leads the faithful in procession. Whatever your denomination, you can see why this landed with force in Washington. For years now, the left has worked to push faith out of public life and treat prayer as something that belongs behind closed doors. Saturday was the opposite of that. It was prayer in the open, in the civic heart of the country, with the White House in view. This year’s procession also partnered with the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, tying a Washington event into a much larger national movement. The Archdiocese of Washington connected that pilgrimage directly to America’s 250th year and said the 2026 route would carry the theme One Nation Under God. The numbers behind the pilgrimage are not small. According to the Daily Caller, it began May 24 in St. Augustine, Florida, and ends July 5 in Philadelphia. The route runs more than 2,000 miles and involves at least 18 Catholic archdioceses and dioceses across 14 East Coast states. The Daily Caller also reported that roughly 10,000 people have taken part in partner processions along the way, according to the National Eucharistic Congress. That is a serious wave of public prayer moving toward the nation’s birthplace. The procession was not limited to the streets near the White House, either. The night before, the same witness reached the Washington Monument: Last night, Catholic Information Center Director Fr. Charles Trullols blessed America ahead of her 250th birthday at the Washington Monument. In a few hours, Fr. Charles and the Perpetual Pilgrims plan to lead thousands in a Eucharistic Procession near the White House…. pic.twitter.com/iIvGguj0Dz — Spencer Lombardo (@SpencerLombardo) June 6, 2026 The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage frames the whole effort as a call to pray for America: During the Eucharistic Revival, we sought to lift up our Lord, to place Jesus Christ at the center of the Church’s life once again. As our nation approaches its 250th anniversary, we seek to do the same on a national scale: to lift our Lord high, so that we might truly become one nation under God. The 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage is an invitation to intercede for unity, healing, and renewal in our country through our Eucharistic faith. As part of this pilgrimage, we are calling Catholics across the country to participate in a shared act of faith and hope for our nation. Together, we are working toward the offering of 250,000 Holy Hours, each and every prayer a beacon of hope, offered for the renewal and blessing of America. This campaign will be a quiet but powerful witness: a declaration that Christ is not on the margins of our lives or our nation, but at the center. Join us in this nationwide movement. Unite your prayers with thousands from every corner of our country, as we continue to fan the flame of revival across the nation. That is the part the secular political class never seems to understand. Public faith is not automatically political just because it refuses to hide. A thousand people praying near the White House is not a stunt. It is a country remembering who it has always claimed to be. The America 250 calendar makes the timing feel even bigger. The White House Freedom 250 page describes Task Force 250’s mission in language that fits the day perfectly: Under the President’s leadership, the Salute to America 250 Task Force (“Task Force 250”) is executing a full year of festivities, which began on Memorial Day, 2025, and will continue through the end of 2026. The White House is engaging all levels of government, the private sector, non-profit and educational institutions, and every citizen across the country to celebrate this historic milestone. To achieve this ambitious vision, we have created a new public-private partnership called Freedom 250. Task Force 250 aims to inspire a renewed love for American history, encourage citizens to experience the beauty of our country, ignite a spirit of adventure and innovation to help our nation succeed for the next 250 years, and invite Americans to pray for our country and our people and rededicate ourselves as One Nation Under God. On Sunday, May 17, 2026, the National Mall will be the scene of a historic gathering as Americans of every background across the country prepare for the nation’s 250th birthday with Scripture, testimony, prayer, and rededication of our country as One Nation to God. That is President Trump’s stated framing for the 250th, and it lines up exactly with what happened on the streets of Washington this weekend. The founders did not separate love of country from belief in God, and neither did the crowd on June 6. As America heads into its 250th year, a thousand-plus people walking near the White House in prayer is the kind of witness this country was built on. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

Federal agents arrested three men in Kansas and California this week on charges that they conspired to support ISIS. The Justice Department announced the arrests on June 5, 2026. According to prosecutors, the men allegedly handed over more than $2,000 to someone they believed was a member of ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization. The alleged plans were not abstract. DOJ says the discussions included drones, an RPG projectile, and U.S. Special Forces. Prosecutors say the men also discussed stabbing or injuring a U.S. servicemember and killing Americans. The three defendants named by the Justice Department are Bisaam Ghafoor, 21, of Leawood, Kansas; Elias Shamsaldeen, 21, of Porterville, California; and Bereen Dzayee, 25, of Lakeside, California. FBI Director Kash Patel said the subjects allegedly swore allegiance to ISIS and plotted multiple attacks before agents shut the effort down. The complaint was filed in the District of Kansas. The U.S. Department of Justice laid out the allegations in its announcement: Three U.S. Citizens Allegedly Discussed Violent Attacks and Tried to Develop a Cryptocurrency Scheme to Buy RPGs and Drones to Attack U.S. Servicemembers Early this morning, the FBI arrested three men in Kansas City, Kansas, San Diego, and Sacramento, California, on charges that they conspired to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Bisaam Ghafoor, 21, of Leawood, Kansas; Elias Shamsaldeen, 21, of Porterville, California; and Bereen Dzayee, 25, of Lakeside, California, were arrested on a complaint filed in the District of Kansas for conspiring to provide material support to terrorism after collectively providing over $2,000 to an individual they understood to be a member of ISIS. “These subjects allegedly swore allegiance to ISIS, plotted multiple attacks, and even targeted U.S. service members – but this FBI stopped them cold,” said FBI Director Kash Patel. That last line from Patel is the part worth holding onto. The men were arrested, not eulogized after an attack succeeded. The agents got there first. That is what aggressive counterterrorism work looks like when it is done right. The Gateway Pundit also covered the arrests and the DOJ allegations. The New York Post flagged the weapon-and-target allegations this way: Terrifying arsenal of rockets Navy sailor tried to buy for mass murder of Special Forces operatives https://t.co/LfYYqtrDlJ pic.twitter.com/kJ6NXUokIN – New York Post (@nypost) June 7, 2026 For readers who have watched federal agencies chase headlines instead of real threats in recent years, this is the kind of case that should restore some confidence. The targets here were not parents at school board meetings. They were people the government says wanted to harm American troops on American soil. It is also a reminder that ISIS sympathizers are still operating inside the country, and that they are willing to move money and talk weapons. One important caveat stands above the rest. These are allegations in a complaint, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. If the government proves what it has alleged, three Americans tried to arm and fund a terrorist group and were stopped before anyone was hurt. That is the outcome every American should want, and it is the standard the FBI should be held to going forward.