Second Lady Usha Vance delivered a rare rebuke to The New York Times over an article essentially claiming that women within President Donald Trump’s administration were using maternity fashion to weaponize pregnancy. Vance, who is pregnant with her fourth child with husband and Vice President JD Vance, mocked the outlet’s attempt to make her wardrobe political and made it clear that her maternity fashion choices were typically born of just three things: necessity, comfort, and economy. “Now that we know the political significance of my $8.75 coral maternity dress from Old Navy, can’t wait to hear what the New York Times has to say about my elastic-waistband pants and compression socks!” Vance posted via X. “In the meantime, enjoy my pregnancy fashion (or lack thereof) and a good story with your kids on ‘Storytime with the Second Lady.'” Along with her caption, Vance shared a video — also featuring the vice president — of herself wearing the dress in question as he read aloud from A. A. Milne’s classic, “Winnie the Pooh.” And here’s the receipt! pic.twitter.com/tgICmpbapQ — Second Lady Usha Vance (@SLOTUS) June 24, 2026 For good measure, Vance followed up with a screenshot of her receipt showing that she had, in fact, purchased the dress from Old Navy. It also showed that the coral-colored “Asymmetrical Shoulder Maxi Dress,” originally $49.99, had been marked down to $12.99 and she had saved an additional $3.74— making her final total $8.75. And while that choice may have been one of convenience and economy, Vance said in March that being pregnant as the Second Lady of the United States meant that she necessarily had to change her style, mainly because her position dictated a number of events that she would have to attend — and many of those would not be held in places where leggings and sweatpants were considered appropriate. “I have to dress up a lot more. I enjoyed my last pregnancy — there were a lot of sweatpants. I was working from home and sometimes put a blazer on over what was under,” she told NBC at the time. The article to which Vance was responding was published on Wednesday and was titled, “The Politics and Power of the Pregnancy Image.” If that did not paint a clear enough picture of the tone, the sub-headline removed all doubt: “Usha Vance, along with Katie Miller and Karoline Leavitt, shows how much is said by an expectant silhouette, without anyone saying a word.” The article proceeded to accuse women within the Trump administration of flaunting their pregnancies to make a political point: this is what women are supposed to do — and how they are supposed to look. Together, the women have created a notably consistent, and somewhat paradigm-shifting, picture of the White House’s family and fertility platform. If the bare-chested, muscled mixed martial arts fighters of the U.F.C. match that President Trump hosted on Flag Day were the poster guys for MAGA’s image of masculinity, then the pregnant women of Trump world are one half of their feminine counterparts. Along with the sheath-clad, lip-filled, pageant-haired Mar-a-Lago set, they offer an image of idealized womanhood that gives literal shape to the pronatalist movement. Jill Filipovic, the host of the “Week in Women” podcast, suggested that even though it’s highly unlikely that the pregnancies were coordinated, the presentation appeared to be: “It almost feels like a memo went out. They have quite intentionally opted to present themselves as, ‘I am really pregnant, and this is what women were chosen to do,’ and they are happy to say that both with their looks and their mouths.” Vance, quite clearly, said otherwise. Miller, whose fourth child with longtime Trump adviser Stephen Miller was born just days before Father’s Day, weighed in as well — and said that maternity fashion had been made more difficult as American birth rates had fallen. “Over the last few years, many clothing brands have largely stopped producing maternity clothes that most women actually want to wear. @SLOTUS has done a phenomenal job curating affordable, fashionable options that make pregnancy fashion accessible. The root cause is sadly straightforward: with fewer women having babies, it’s likely become unprofitable for brands to invest in dedicated maternity lines,” she said.

Tuesday’s primary elections indicated that the divide within the Democratic Party, between the moderate and the more socialist factions, is only growing ever deeper. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) responded after three far left candidates — all backed by Democratic socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani — swept their individual races, making it clear that he too had chosen a side. “Our message to the oligarchs: bring it on. After last nights decisive wins, have a new, strong, bold Democratic party,” Khanna said.  Our message to the oligarchs: bring it on. After last nights decisive wins, have a new, strong, bold Democratic party. pic.twitter.com/cGqpQozYcn — Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) June 24, 2026 “The reality is that our platform of a new deal is resonating, it’s a platform that says no to foreign wars, no to genocide, but it’s also a platform that says yes. Yes to medicare for all, yes to childcare for all, yes to unions for all, and yes to a tax on billionaires and trillionaires.”  The three Mamdani-backed socialist candidates swept their congressional races on Tuesday, defeating two incumbent Democrats: Reps. Dan Goldman and Adriano Espaillat. Their challengers were viewed by many in the party as radical leftists.  Democratic primary winners Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez actually belong to the Democratic Socialist party of America. The New York Times Editorial Board learned Chevalier could not name an instance in which she would support a man being imprisoned for murder. Chevalier claimed that when “we put people behind bars in incredibly traumatizing conditions in a context where they cannot actually reflect on the harm that they caused.”  Along with abolishing prisons, Chevalier has advocated for abolishing police and national borders. Notably, she has said that “all deportations” — including those of immigrants convicted for murder, rape, and assault — should be banned, as imprisoning and deporting would be seen as “double jeopardy.” Valdez, who won New York’s 7th district, supports abolishing ICE, private healthcare, and strengthening unions.  Khanna is not alone in his support for the “new, strong, bold Democratic party.” Senator Cory Booker voiced support for the new candidates saying, “One of the things that makes the Democratic party great is it’s a big tent party, we need to stay that way.” He added, “The focus has got to be the November election.”  Members of the parties’ progressive left such as Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ro Khanna did not recognize the anniversary but celebrated Tuesday’s election. Alhamdulillah! I can’t imagine experiencing what she had to a still smiling as a first time candidate but respect her grace and resilience and I am very proud of her. We are very lucky to have a principled leader and someone who understands who it means to be a leader carrying… https://t.co/FpUI1tsr0v — Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) June 24, 2026 However, other establishment Democrats did not comment on Tuesday’s election, focusing their attention on the four-year anniversary of the overturning of Roe V. Wade. Former Vice President Kamala Harris, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and the Democrat’s page recognized the anniversary and did not make a comment on Tuesday’s election night.  When the Court overturned Roe, one thought kept running through my mind: Women of this generation were about to lose rights that previous generations had fought to secure. Four years later, we have seen exactly what that looks like — chaos, confusion, fear. Women denied care.… — Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 24, 2026 Senator Bernie Sanders and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani highlighted both events.

A former California State Parks superintendent faces 31 criminal charges for secretly recording nearly two dozen naked lifeguards in a Southern California locker room and sending those explicit images to two other men.  Starting in August 2024, Kevin Pearsall, 59, of Long Beach, allegedly set up a camera inside the Bolsa Chica State Beach Lifeguard Headquarters men’s employee locker room in Huntington Beach, California, according to Orange County prosecutors.  Almost a year later, a California State Parks officer found a USB flash drive in the men’s employee locker room, which prosecutors say included videos of state employees undressing. California State Parks then contacted the California Highway Patrol to investigate the device, which was found to contain hidden camera footage. The employee locker room is not open to the public but accessible to full-time personnel, seasonal lifeguards, office staff, maintenance, and park aides, according to authorities. The hidden camera captured both audio and video from August 2024 through July 2025.  “The CHP investigation identified 23 different men who had their genitals or buttocks filmed by the hidden camera placed in the employee locker room by Pearsall,” the Orange County District Attorney’s office said. “None of the men agreed to be recorded.”  A former California State Parks superintendent in Orange County has been released on bond after being accused of secretly recording lifeguards in a men’s locker room, authorities said. Prosecutors allege 59-year-old Kevin Pearsall placed a hidden camera in the men’s locker room… pic.twitter.com/mPyfDORFSO — ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) June 24, 2026 Authorities allege Pearsall sent nude images of three victims to two other men and made sexually explicit comments about his employees’ genitals. “Instead of protecting his employees, Pearsall used his position to spy on the men who worked for him while they were in the place where they should have been the safest and then share those intimate images of his victims,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said.  “These victims had their privacy violated in such a disgusting way, and we will do everything we can to ensure they receive the justice they deserve,” he added.  From 2023 through July 2025, Pearsall served as a California State Parks Superintendent, a sworn law enforcement position overseeing the management and operations of state parks in Orange County. He was first hired by California State Parks in 1994.  On Tuesday, June 23, Pearsall turned himself in on a $500,000 arrest warrant and was released by a judge on his own recognizance, according to prosecutors. He has been charged with five felony counts of eavesdropping, 23 misdemeanor counts of secretly filming another, and three misdemeanor counts of unlawful dissemination of private recordings. His next court appearance is set for August 6.  If convicted on all counts, he faces a maximum sentence of 18 years and eight months in prison. 

Two major earthquakes struck opposite sides of the globe within hours, toppling buildings in Venezuela and triggering alarms in Japan. A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, with tremors felt as far away as the capital, Caracas. Some initial reporting showed the quake with a magnitude of 7.1. Videos circulating on social media captured dramatic scenes as residents rushed out of dilapidated buildings, carrying pets to safety. Another video appeared to show plumes of smoke above destroyed structures.  BREAKING: Buildings have collapsed in San Bernardino Parish in Caracas, Venezuela following 7.1 magnitude earthquake, according to AlbertoRodNews. pic.twitter.com/DGvTmBN2p8 — AZ Intel (@AZ_Intel_) June 24, 2026 Minutes after, a powerful 7.5 magnitude aftershock also rocked the region, according to the USGS. Severe damage was reported at one of the country’s airports, social media showed.  It was not immediately clear whether anyone was injured or killed in either earthquake. BREAKING: Multiple buildings partially collapsed after powerful earthquake hits Venezuela – video pic.twitter.com/D3NmFcSfre — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) June 24, 2026 Severe damage has been reported at Simón Bolívar International Airport following a powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake in Venezuela. pic.twitter.com/xJyievTmJd — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 24, 2026   The U.S. Tsunami ​Warning ​System ⁠issued a tsunami threat for ​Puerto Rico ​and ⁠the Virgin Islands following the earthquake, according to Reuters.  A powerful earthquake also struck off Japan’s northern coast on Thursday, but there was no danger of a tsunami, the country’s meteorological agency said. The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 and occurred off the eastern coast of Iwate, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, according to the Washington Post. Located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, Japan is among the most earthquake-prone nations on Earth. The international quakes followed a milder 5.6 earthquake reported near Northern California on Wednesday morning. Residents from Eureka to Sacramento reported feeling shaking from the earthquake, according to the New York Times. This is a developing story. Stay with The Daily Wire for updates.

The communist, America-hating revolution isn’t coming. It’s already here. Last night, the New York congressional primaries turned third-worldist America-hating New York mayor Zohran Mamdani into an electoral kingmaker. A series of his endorsed candidates defeated very liberal Democrats and replaced them with outright communist terrorist endorsers, fans of criminality, and America-haters. According to these victorious candidates, America is a settler-colonial, genocidal, racist, fundamentally evil country that is now the moral litmus test for the new Democratic Party. You must despise America. You must hate everything America stands for. These candidates make Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi look like Right-wing American patriots. You might think that because this is all happening in New York, it doesn’t really affect you. Wrong. The Democratic Party of your parents is gone. Heck, the Democratic Party of 10 years ago is gone. It is being eaten alive by people who openly hate America. These are not people who are hiding the ball. These revolutionaries openly advocated for abolishing all prisons. Yes, all prisons, as well as abolishing ICE and abolishing our entire Department of War. They want limitless taxation for the kids. Limitless immigration. Taxpayer-funded abortion for all. They see America as fundamentally evil and our allies as genocidal, while seeing our enemies, people who wish to kill Americans, as heroic. I wish I were exaggerating. But last night in New York City, people who believe all of these things and say them openly swept very left-wing Democrats out of office in the primaries. I can hear you saying it: “It’s just New York. Let New York be New York. Why should we care?” But here’s the thing. This is all part of a very clever and concerted strategy by the far-Left, the Democratic Socialists of America, to take over the Democratic Party, to eat it, and then take over the country. This is a multi-step process. This is a revolutionary process that has been carried out before in countries that are not the United States. Step one: Eat the “normie” party, eat the Mensheviks. The Communist Party in pre-Soviet Russia was comprised of the communists, the Bolsheviks and other communists called Mensheviks. The Bolsheviks were run by Vladimir Lenin. When you are running a revolution, the goal is to take over very, very blue areas with insane radicals and then purge the people who are from the regular far-Left. Thus, the Bolsheviks had to purge the Mensheviks. The founder of Soviet communism, Vladimir Lenin — an idol for Hasan Piker and Zohran Mamdani — said, “The party must be purged of rascals of bureaucratic, dishonest or wavering communists, of Mensheviks who have repainted their facade, but who have remained Mensheviks at heart.” The idea here is that typical Democrats are bad and the chief target. Understand: The radicals hate the traditional-Left folks more than they hate the Right, because they see them as obstacles to power. If they can purge those people, if they can get rid of the very, very Left- wing Democrats in Congress and replace them with people who are even more Left-wing, then they have a beachhead. You start with a very, very blue area. You start with an area like Brooklyn. You start with areas that are located inside Manhattan, the Commie-core. You get rid of the people who are very, very far-Left, and you replace them with actual America-hating communists. Now you have your beachhead. You can use this as a starting point to expand. Step two: Claim victory. You treat the takeover of these areas as indicative of a sort of broad national upsurge in radical Left-wing sentiments. You claim that you’ve taken over the whole party, and then you threaten the normal leftists in your coalition. This is the sort of thing that Lenin would do. Lenin famously labeled his opponents Mensheviks in Russian. That meant the minority faction, and he claimed that his faction was the Bolsheviks, meaning the majority faction, even though his faction was actually less popular in Russia than the Mensheviks. Again, the idea is to create a false sense of popularity. It’s the same here. The Democratic Socialists of America is taking over extremely blue districts with low vote totals, and then they are claiming that they have the run of the place and the momentum is with them. You repeat it over and over and over. You let social media run with it, and young people who live online actually start to believe it. Because if you are online all day long, you see clips over and over and over of Zohran Mamdani, people cheering Zohran Mamdani, people cheering Brad Lander, and people cheering various psychotic candidates like Darializa Avila Chevalier. You see that over and over: “This is the wave of the future. This is where we are going.” If your life is online, you start to believe that the radical Left is the wave of the future — and this stuff is aimed at the kids, the 12 to 30-year-olds. It’s a TikTok indoctrination campaign. This is not a political game for this election cycle alone. It’s how you turn a minority part of the Democratic Party, the Bernie Sanders psychotic wing, into the controlling faction of the Democratic Party. You start by saying there is a silent majority that supports you, then you get very loud online, turn up the volume, win a couple of primaries, claim that you have the momentum — and momentum is the name of the game. These folks are playing for a full-scale revolution among people too young to know better, and too impressionable to understand that reality exists offline. Step three is to threaten everybody who’s a normal leftist that you’ll come for them, too. Then you let them cave to you. You make them feel insufficiently committed to the cause. Dostoyevsky predicted this in a book called “The Demons” or “The Possessed.” Revolutionary characters in that book, who are supposed to be precursors to the communists, are amused about the possibility of cutting off 100 million heads, and one of the radicals says that it wouldn’t be hard to convince normal liberals to go along with them. He says I could make them go through fire. They’re not advanced enough. The idea is that Mamdani is a thought leader; Sanders is a thought leader; Duvalier is a thought leader. The real problem with them is that they’re too committed. They just love truth and decency and justice too much. Sure, they’re not practical enough, but their principles are right; their hearts are in the right place. Thus it’s not hard for the radicals to get Hakeem Jeffries or Nancy Pelosi or all the rest to say that it’s important to side with the DSA. All you have to do is say, “What are you going to do? Cave to the evil Trump Republicans?” If you force the normal Left to choose between Trump voters and the DSA, they will choose the DSA. Step four: Rinse and repeat. We’re all sitting here thinking, “Okay, fine. Let them try it. Let them try to run AOC on a national level. She’ll lose because the vast majority of Americans don’t believe this crap.” But that’s not the point. If you lose, you just repeat steps one through three. Again, the chief target here is not the Right — yet. The chief target right now is the normie Left. If you can attack the so-called normie Left here and you can destroy them, then you will take over one of the major parties. If you have a stranglehold on a major party, you have at least a 40% shot of winning national power, and then all you have to do is wait for your opponent to fall over face-first. You can stroll into power no matter how much people write you off. Take over any party, and you are one step away from taking over the country. In other words, President AOC is not some sort of remote possibility. It is becoming quite possible. And that’s why what happened last night in New York City is so important. It affects you. It affects your kids and the country. If you’re not concerned, if you are not actually terrified by what’s going on in New York and the media’s willingness to play into it, the momentum is all with the DSA and the Democratic Party. If you’re not terrified by that, it’s because you don’t understand the game.