Protesters staged a satirical demonstration outside far-Left Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman’s home this week, constructing a mock homeless encampment to highlight the city’s ongoing homeless problem.  As seen in the viral videos circulating online, protesters erected tents, scattered trash and old tires, and even set up a barbecue in front of Raman’s multimillion-dollar home. “This is happening all over the city and we brought it to her doorstep so she can see what other people are going through,” a masked man who said he helped organize the demonstration told FOX 11. “We’re basically doing a parody ad for her.”  Fox 11: Group ‘Safe Cities USA’ Staged Fake Homeless Encampment In Front Of Nithya Raman’s House pic.twitter.com/N2xazUOzI4 — Alexandra Datig | Front Page Index

America was built on a simple, radical idea: work hard, build something, and no one can take it from you. The American Dream wasn’t an apology. It was an invitation. But today? Dream a little too big, climb a little too high, and become … dare we say it … a successful CEO or, worse, a billionaire? The modern Democratic Party will revoke that invitation and send you to the electric chair. Pennsylvania State Representative Chris Rabb just won the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District, the bluest House seat in the country. He will almost certainly be heading to Congress in January, and he’s insane. In a 2005 blog post, the Democratic darling reacted to news that 300 CEOs had earned $12 billion in pay and bonuses, declaring that corporate executives “should fry.” His exact words compared business leaders to gang members, argued their “gangs” were more destructive than the Crips or the Bloods, and announced that he was reversing his previous opposition to the death penalty so it could be used “more frequently and swiftly” against capitalist “gang leaders.” The Democratic death penalty; never for murderers or pedophiles, but anyone who builds a company and turns a profit? Yes. Of course, Rabb didn’t arrive at this moment alone. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaigned with him. Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar endorsed him. Congressman Ro Khanna stood beside him. And progressive activist and streamer Hasan Piker, the man who has spent years cheerleading “eat the rich” eliminationism, 9/11, and alleged killer Luigi Mangione, held rallies with him. Again, this isn’t fringe. This is the new norm. The Democratic Party isn’t moderating. It isn’t “evolving.” It is steering full steam ahead into radicalism. Wish death upon conservatives, Jews, capitalists, or any CEO who dares to succeed? That’s not a deal-breaker on the modern left. That’s your one-way ticket to power. Rabb doesn’t just fit that mold. He is the mold. He’s called for the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the convicted cop-killer who murdered Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner in cold blood in 1981, right in the heart of the very district Rabb now wants to represent in Congress. Abolish ICE, nationalize healthcare, groceries, and housing, push reparations, defund the police, and treat Israel as the enemy? Check, check, and check. Rabb hits every box on the modern Left’s radical bingo card, and he does it with a smile. Equally hilarious and alarming is the fact that the biggest outside money boosting Rabb came from an anti-Israel super PAC funded by, you guessed it, CEOs. American Priorities spent roughly $400,000 on ads backing him — bankrolled by $1 million from Showcase Commerce CEO Mohammad Waqas and another $1 million from Silicon Valley executive Omer Hasan. The man who wants corporate executives to “fry” built his political career on their money. Here is what the Left gets catastrophically wrong about CEOs and the executives they despise. The top 1% of earners in America, the entrepreneurs and executives who actually generate wealth, pay over 40% of all federal income taxes. Elon Musk flooded the market with electric vehicles, built reusable rockets that slashed space launch costs, and brought Starlink internet to some of the most impoverished corners of the world. Jeff Bezos employs 1.5 million people and has built the cloud infrastructure that powers half the internet. Tim Cook leads 164,000 Apple employees whose products have saved lives, connected families, and created entire ecosystems of developer jobs. These are not the villains of the American story. They are the authors of it. New businesses and the leaders who scale them create the jobs, the productivity gains, and the economic growth that lifts everyone. We can explain that to the Left. We cannot understand it for them. They don’t care to understand; they want blood. Ocasio-Cortez knows exactly what she is doing. She is not a fringe voice anymore. She is the operational center of the modern Democratic Party, and she is steering it with confidence, while wearing a hijab. She didn’t just endorse Chris Rabb — she campaigned with him, rallied with him, and called him exactly the kind of Democrat America needs. Because the progressives’ brand of Marxist class warfare, anti-Israel obsession, and “fry the CEOs” rhetoric isn’t a bug in today’s Democratic Party. It’s the feature. It’s the direction they’ve deliberately chosen. Safe blue seats like PA-03 are their laboratory, and Rabb is their proof of concept. Graham Platner cheers the deaths of fellow veterans. Obama-aligned activists post images of President Donald Trump in a grave. Piker celebrates a man accused of murdering a healthcare executive and openly wishes for capitalist blood. Mamdani is a terror-apologist. And now a man who called for killing corporate leaders is headed to Congress with the Democrats’ full blessing. This is not a party in transition. It is not moderating. It is not “finding its way back.” It is sprinting, deliberately and proudly, toward a politics that treats success as sin and demands blood as penance. November will be telling. But honestly, they have already told us everything we need to know.

A 21-year-old political commentator was attacked and temporarily blinded by a masked individual while debating transgender violence on a college campus earlier this week. A video shows Ryley Niemi, a conservative who regularly debates leftist students, sitting at a table on the University of California Santa Cruz campus when a black-clad person wearing dark sunglasses and a mask approached him and dumped a bucket of black liquid on him. Niemi chased after the individual who fled the scene, and people in the area began cheering and shouting for Niemi to “get the f*ck off this campus.” The attacker escaped, but in an exclusive interview with The Daily Wire, Niemi said the police are “actively investigating this and looking for the person.” Niemi, said the liquid caused blindness in both eyes for three hours, and blindness for six hours in his right eye. “EMTs flushed my eyes with five vials of saline solution,” Niemi said. During his visit to the ER, Niemi learned that his “right eye has a corneal abrasion, and 48 hours later, my right eye still hurts and is slightly blurry.” He added that the attack resulted in semi-permanent damage to his right eye and cut short his debate at UC Santa Cruz. At @ucsc, a masked far-left extremist threw a bucket of black liquid on conservative activist @RyleyNiemi_. Leftists laughed and cheered on the attacker, who ran away. Leftists routinely engage in and urge political violence and harassment against their ideological targets. pic.twitter.com/a5qDhX6cdv — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) May 29, 2026 Niemi’s table featured signs that stated “trans women are men” and “transgenders are violent.” He said the attacker was “100% male” who appeared to be around 6′ tall and “has a modified voice [because of hormone therapy], long hair, and feminine earrings.” “The irony is,” Niemi continued, “that one of the signs said ‘trans-genders are violent.’ And then a transgender attacked me.” This is not the first time Niemi has been attacked. Six weeks ago, Niemi interviewed a gay couple with a baby on the street and asked them about statistics on gay men committing child molestation. One of the men shoved him and proceeded to follow Niemi, punching him in the back of the head. Niemi said he suffered a concussion from the attack. “The district attorney has let them off the hook,” Niemi added. The Right-wing commentator explained that he holds debates to “change the mind of the American public to be more conservative.” Why are they so triggered when @RyleyNiemi_ ask them completely reasonable questions about the child’s wellbeing? I hope he pressed charges. pic.twitter.com/ZiXnSrzH9l — Jake Rattlesnake (@jakerattlesnk) April 18, 2026

Something is going on, and it’s been going on for a while: ideological subversion. And it’s a dangerous threat to the United States of America. We all know that Candace Owens hates a lot of things: the truth, basic scientific knowledge, proper pronunciation of words, Charlie Kirk’s widow, and, naturally, the Jews. But undergirding all of that is a conspiratorial, anti-American worldview. She does not like America, and neither do her ideological allies. That’s why she is headed to Russia: to visit her friends, ideological handlers, and sponsors. The reason I’m saying that she has ideological solidarity with those governments is that our current status with Russia is not great. The United States government has a problem with the Russian government. The State Department currently advises Americans not to travel to Russia for any reason. They stated, “U.S. citizens are at risk due to terrorism, unrest, wrongful detention and other threats. U.S. citizens in Russia should leave immediately.” They warn that the American embassy in Russia will not be able to help you if you travel there and get in trouble with the Russian government. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pointed out that the United States has severe sanctions on Russia right now for a reason. Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson can go there because they are useful idiots for the Russian regime. They agree with the Russian regime that America is terrible and morally deficient. They agree that American power in the world is evil. A lot of people have speculated about what happened to Candace and Tucker; were they paid off? I don’t think that’s the case. I will grant them their sincerity. I think they honestly believe all the terrible things they’re saying. So do the Russians. So what is Candace doing in Russia? She’s not going there for the fashion. It has been reported that she is attending and speaking at the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum alongside Vladimir Putin as well as Alexander Dugin, known as “Putin’s brain,” the great theorist of Russian supremacism, as well as other members of the Russian government and Intel community. According to Ryan Mauro, “SPIEF, where Candace will speak on a panel, is a known hub for Russian intel. Leaked docs show that its panels serve as ‘recruitment pipelines’ for foreign collaborators. Top goals are ‘media partnerships’ with ‘foreign influencers’ as part of ‘state-directed soft power.’” None of this should be a shock. You’ll recall that recently, Candace Owens interviewed Hunter Biden. It was a warm interview; very, very strange. After her interview, Laura Loomer correctly reported that Russia Today, which is the Russian state media, posted 17 separate clips of Candace’s interview with Hunter Biden, which is not a shock because she is their ideological ally. They do the same thing with Tucker Carlson, another one of these Russian allies. He has spent years parroting Russia’s perspective on the world over and over again. When people say what happened to Tucker, the answer is: nothing. He always believed those things; he just had people in seats above him at Fox preventing him from going fully off the rails. The Tucker you’re seeing today is the real Tucker. Russia loves the real Tucker because he agrees with them, obviously. In 2024, Tucker traveled to Russia and praised the magic of their Russian-operated shopping cart because the man had never been to an Aldi. He is one of the most silver-spoon people in America, and he was astonished by the workings of basic grocery stores. So what is actually happening here? Candace, Tucker, Alex Jones, Steve Bannon, Thomas Massie; why all this warmth toward Russia? The answer is ideological kinship. But the really big question here is: Why is this important? Over the past decade, it has felt like everything in America is falling apart; the polarization is extraordinary. We’ve seen institutional distrust, economic unrest, and civil unrest. A lot of that is not a coincidence; it is part of an actual plan. That doesn’t mean everything that we’re seeing in America is dictated by the Russian government. They don’t have that kind of power. They didn’t rig the 2016 election or some nonsense like that. A lot of the institutional distrust that Americans have right now is earned: Russiagate or the government’s response to Covid, or the Black Lives Matter scam, or the cover-up of Joe Biden’s mental incompetence. There’s a lot of blame to go around for institutional distrust. But here’s the thing: Our enemies in Russia, China, and Iran wait for vulnerability in the United States, and then they exacerbate divides and exploit them. Here’s how the world works through the lens of actual legitimate influence operations. These are real things that have been going on for decades. Yuri Bezmenov was a Soviet informant and KGB operative. He defected to the United States in the early 1970s. In a 1984 interview that’s become famous online, titled “Deception was my job,” he laid out the four stages of what he called ideological subversion that were created by radical Soviet Marxists to indoctrinate and weaken nations from within and then destroy them. Listen to how he lays out the operation here: To change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite their abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country. It’s a great brainwashing process, which goes very slow, and is divided into four basic stages. The first one being demoralization. It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years which requires to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy, exposed to the ideology of the enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism, American patriotism. The result you can see: Most of the people who graduated in the 60s, dropouts, or half-baked intellectuals are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, educational system. You are stuck with them. You cannot get rid of them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. You cannot change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still cannot change the basic perception and the logic of behavior. Demoralization, as Bezmenov spells it out, is followed by stage two: destabilization. Destabilization is where you create the preconditions for stage three, which is a crisis, a breakdown. And then stage four is normalization of the new set of values. Right now we are still in the late stages of stage one demoralization, where we have had several generations of indoctrination at the highest levels in America into anti-Americanism. And that destabilization requires friends; it requires ideological allies. We could have destabilization at any moment. All it takes is a little push, and we’re in crisis. Maybe there’s an economic downturn, maybe there’s foreign chaos. But right now, our enemies are laser-focused on demoralizing us. Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon and Alex Jones, all the people that Russia has been openly using and allying with, are demoralization agents. They are doing the work. Russia needs them and is using them, and they’re not shy about this. Alexander Dugin has appeared on a wide variety of Woke Right shows, ranging from Tucker to Alex Jones. In 1997, he wrote a book called “Foundations of Geopolitics.” That book was then apparently used as a textbook at the General Staff Academy in Russia and became part of their actual policy. Here’s a quote from that book. See if you can spot what’s going on. It is especially important to bring geopolitical turmoil into the US domestic reality by encouraging all kinds of separatism. There is ethnic, social, and racial conflict, actively supporting all dissident movements of extremist, racist,and sectarian groups that destabilize internal political processes in the United States. At the same time, it makes sense to support isolationist tendencies in US politics. The theses of those often right-wing Republican circles that believe the US should confine itself to its domestic problems. This state of affairs is highly advantageous to Russia, even if isolationism is carried out within the original Monroe Doctrine warning i.e., if the U.S. limits its influence to America. This does not mean Eurasia — (meaning Russia) — should give up on destabilizing the Latin American world by seeking to remove certain regions from U.S. control. All levels of geopolitical pressure on the United States must be engaged simultaneously. He’s talking about demoralization. Find allies who are stumping for America to be weaker in the world, actively generate tension, actively generate sectarianism in American politics, actively pit Americans against one another, and find friends on the Right-wing side of the aisle to help foment all of that. The good news for Russia is that in the era of the internet — when there are no reliable fact checkers, when the wave of information that Bezmenov talks about is unstoppable because there’s just so much conflicting stuff out there — it’s very difficult for anyone who’s not deeply in this stuff to find the truth. It’s a perfect environment for the spreading of this kind of demoralization and chaos. You can see who the friends are. Alex Jones spoke with Dugin (!) about rediscovering what it meant to be American. Tucker Carlson did an interview with Alexander Dugin and painted him as a victim of censorship and a non-regime-aligned philosopher, a true Platonic figure, protesting that “his ideas are deeply offensive to some people.” Dugin said that actually the reason the West hates Vladimir Putin is not because he’s an aggressive dictator, a former KGB agent who has fostered chaos and evil all over the world, and is currently involved in the invasion of a sovereign country that has resulted in the deaths of at least half a million people and threatening other Eastern European countries as well, spreading chaos down into Africa, spreading chaos into the Middle East. No, the reason — according to Tucker and Dugin — that the West has a problem with Vladimir Putin is because Vladimir Putin is a true “traditionalist.” When he’s not poisoning his enemies. I’m not saying that Tucker and Candace are working for Russia. I’m saying they agree with them. They agree with America’s enemies. The demoralization ideology has infected the entire Democratic Party. Whether it’s Hasan Piker or Michigan senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed, a terror supporter, or Maine senatorial candidate Graham Platner attacking a Purple Heart recipient or James Talarico saying that the American flag, Jesus, and the cross had been co-opted, it’s all the same. The demoralization operation is operating. Once you see what’s going on, it’s hard to unsee it. 

Billions of dollars in Iranian crude are still reaching China through a “shadow fleet” of anonymous, aging oil tankers, evading both U.S. sanctions and the American naval blockade of Iran’s ports, a Wall Street Journal report revealed Wednesday. The Journal’s investigation revealed what amounts to a floating black market for Iranian oil roughly 45 miles off the coast of Malaysia, where sanctioned tankers quietly offload their cargo to anonymized vessels bound for Chinese refineries — keeping Tehran’s most vital revenue streams alive despite U.S. efforts to choke off trade. China, the Iranian regime’s strongest ally throughout its conflict with the United States, has made a significant effort to help the regime sustain its oil industry, which accounted for nearly 15% of China’s oil imports last year. For Tehran, the black-market arrangement with the Chinese Communist Party is the financial lifeline that has allowed it to persevere through the economic devastation of Operation Epic Fury and U.S. sanctions. The Iranian regime hauled in roughly $31 billion in oil revenue from China over the past year, according to data from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. That trade represented about 90% of the oil Iran sold abroad and covered nearly 45% of the regime’s annual government budget. The Journal observed the process unfold in real time in early May. A U.S.-sanctioned tanker, loaded with Iranian oil, joined dozens of other vessels in a stretch of ocean known as the Eastern Outer Port Limits, or EOPL. The area lies within Malaysia’s exclusive economic zone but outside its territorial waters — a legal gray area that no government has clear authority to police. After arriving at the EOPL, the Iranian vessel carried out “ship-to-ship transfers,” pumping its cargo through massive hoses into a second, anonymized tanker, which then departed toward Chinese refineries. These secondary vessels, according to the Journal, belong to a network of about 1,500 aging oil tankers that mask their true owners behind “flags of convenience,” registering in countries like Liberia and Sierra Leone with limited maritime enforcement. As an additional precaution, the ships switch off their tracking transponders to conceal their movements and remove anything on board that could identify them. Many of the ships observed by the reporters were staffed by Chinese crews. The Trump administration, for its part, is aware of the shadow fleet and has ramped up efforts to clamp down on the illicit oil trade — most recently dispatching U.S. Special Forces to rappel from helicopters onto the decks of two shadow-fleet tankers in the Indian Ocean. As part of the administration’s “Economic Fury” campaign, the Treasury Department also announced new sanctions targeting individual tankers and Chinese oil infrastructure. “Under President Trump’s strong leadership, Treasury will continue to stop the Iranian regime from plundering the country’s natural resources in the name of terrorism,” a spokeswoman for the Department of the Treasury told the Journal. The effort is likely to become more effective over time. Energy firm Vortexa estimates that roughly 90 million barrels of Iranian oil were in international waters before the blockade even began. Because Iranian tankers need two to three months to reach Chinese ports and two to three more to collect payment, the regime will eventually exhaust this floating reserve, leaving it with little to no fresh crude able to leave Iran to replace it. This comes amid reports that U.S. and Iranian negotiators have reportedly agreed to a tentative 60-day framework extending the ceasefire that, pending President Trump’s final approval, would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and draw down the blockade in stages. If finalized, the noose would be at least temporarily loosened around the Iranian oil industry before its offshore reserves run dry in order to pursue a long-term peace deal.