An Illinois YMCA is hosting an LGBT-themed camp for second graders alongside an activist organization that hands out so-called “gender-affirming” clothing items like “tucking underwear” and chest binders to anyone regardless of age.  The Stephens Family YMCA in Champaign will host “Camp Kaleidoscope,” a program designed for “LGBTQ+ youth or youth who are part of LGBTQ+ families.” The camp is offered at a “privately rented residential space” in partnership with Uniting Pride of Champaign County, an activist organization that distributes clothing items meant to alter the physical appearance of people who identify as transgender.  Two sessions will be offered: one for children in second through fifth grades in June, and another for kids in sixth through ninth grade in July. According to its summer camp guide, the program is run “in collaboration” with Uniting Pride, an LGBT “resource center” for Eastern Illinois that leases office space from the University YMCA in Champaign.  Gift Dad an All Access Membership. Use code DAD40 at checkout to save 40%! “Camp provides children with daily summer adventures that promote a healthy spirit, mind and body in a safe space where campers can meet new friends, learn team building, and experience character growth and development. This camp is a full day camp, which will take place at an offsite location for 5 days,” a description of the camp reads. “The goal of our camp is to experience joy in recreation, while creating a safe environment for youth who are part of the LGBTQ+ community to be authentically themselves.” Stephens Family YMCA The camp is held at a “privately rented residential space and includes woods, trails, a pond, indoor meeting space, indoor recreation, and more.”  The Daily Wire reached out to the Stephens Family YMCA for further clarification on what role Uniting Pride would have in the camp.  The American Parents Coalition, which has been leading an awareness campaign against the YMCA’s embrace of gender ideology and policies encouraging male access to female spaces, said the partnership should trouble parents.  “Summer camps are designed for kids to have fun, make new friends, or learn new skills — not as opportunities for the YMCA to push gender ideology on young kids who are away from their parents,” American Parents Coalition Executive Director Alleigh Marré told The Daily Wire. “The YMCA’s ‘Camp Kaleidoscope’ — which partners with a radical LGBTQ+ organization that offers chest binders and other clothes to gender-confused individuals, including youth – ought to deeply concern parents.” On its website, Uniting Pride makes clear that it believes that young people have the “right to privacy and autonomy over their gender or sexual identity” and the “right to express their gender identity in school and utilize all facilities that match their gender identity.”  Uniting Pride offers “free binders and waist cinchers for residents of Illinois who want them but are not able to afford them or who are not able to safely purchase them on their own.” They also state that they have “a small amount of tucking underwear available.” Binders are used to compress the breasts of females to appear more masculine. Tucking underwear is used to obscure male genitalia, and waist cinchers are used to make body shapes appear more masculine or feminine. Uniting Pride notes that its distribution program has no age restrictions.  “Anyone of any age is welcome to apply,” the organization says on its website, which has a “quick exit” feature, an option that critics have said enables kids to hide access from parents.  In a form provided to request the binders, Uniting Pride asks if an applicant is “able to afford or safely purchase a binder on your own” and offers to send new binder users information “about how to properly wear and care for your binder.” The organization notes that it accepts “used gender-affirming items” as long as they are “generally good condition and be free of stains and scents of any kind.” The organization also holds a stash of transgender-themed books aimed at young people such as “A Kids Book about Being Transgender,” “A Kids Book about Being Non-Binary,” “A Tale of Two Mommies,” “Being Jazz,” “Drag Teen,” and the sexually explicit “Gender Queer.”  The Stephens Family YMCA, which claims it has a mission of “putting Christian principles into practice,” says in its handbook that its access to private facilities is determined by gender identity.  “All members will have access to restroom and locker room facilities that correspond to their self-identified, self-reported gender identity to the extent permitted by applicable law,” the handbook says.  The YMCA has recently come under fire from conservative groups over its endorsement of its affiliates allowing access to showers, locker rooms, and overnight facilities on the basis of gender identity. The YMCA scrubbed or hid a plethora of transgender-themed resources from its website last week after the American Parents Coalition launched its campaign. “Camp Kaleidoscope’s partnership with these activist organizations is yet another indictment of the YMCA’s unacceptable prioritization of gender ideology over children’s safety,” Marré told The Daily Wire.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is not giving up on Elon Musk, saying he texted the tech billionaire who was feuding with President Donald Trump on Thursday “a lot of information” about the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” that led to the dispute. Holding what he said was his chief of staff’s baby, Johnson told reporters in the U.S. Capitol that Musk “is a friend,” indicating there remains hope for a resolution to the conflict, and said he had been trying, unsuccessfully, to get on the phone with Musk. “I sent him a lot of information via text, hoping he reads it and considers it,” Johnson added. “And this isn’t personal. Policy differences should not be personal.” Mike Johnson tells us: “Elon said I’ve changed? No, I’m the same guy who has always been a deficit hawk.” Also downplays Musk’s attacks against bill and pushes back on Musk saying that Rs held House because of him. “If there’s one person (deserves credit), it’s Donald J. Trump.” pic.twitter.com/CXIedngRey — Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 5, 2025 Last week, Musk began to criticize the bill as he wrapped up a stint as a special government employee helping to oversee Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effort last week, and the conflict came to a boiling point on Thursday when Trump declared that he was “very disappointed” with Musk. In a series of posts to X, Musk fired back at Trump and also highlighted old comments from Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) in which they railed against the growing national debt — a central focus for Musk as he critiques how the bill is expected to impact the U.S. deficit. “I super agree with this guy,” Musk said in one post, pointing to a 2018 tweet from Johnson saying, “At some point, Congress has to stop this endless cycle of out-of-control deficit spending.” To a March 2023 post from Johnson warning about a federal debt topping $31.4 trillion (it is now approaching $37 trillion), Musk asked, “Where is the Mike Johnson of 2023?” Gift Dad an All Access Membership. Use code DAD40 at checkout to save 40%! Johnson shot back in a post that said, “The Mike Johnson of 2023 is the SAME Mike Johnson who has always been a lifelong fiscal hawk – who now serves as Speaker and is implementing a multi-stage plan to get our country back to fiscal responsibility and extraordinary economic growth.” He continued, “It begins with the critically important One Big Beautiful Bill that includes the LARGEST mandatory spending cut to the federal government in history (by almost 400%), the LARGEST tax cut in history, the LARGEST investment in border security in a GENERATION, along with arguably the STRONGEST collection of pro-growth provisions EVER passed. The same CONSISTENT Mike Johnson who has ALWAYS supported the America First Agenda.” X, which is owned by Musk, applied a Community Note to Johnson’s response, saying, “Multiple non-partisan groups have put out reports showing the reconciliation package will add over $2T in debt and potentially over $3T when you add increased debt payments.”

Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro broke down the schism that has erupted between President Donald Trump and his one-time wealthy ally, tech titan Elon Musk. Trump and Musk went from close friends and allies to hurling insults and threats at each other as simmering tensions blew up into the public on Thursday. The fight escalated into Trump threatening the government contracts of Musk’s companies, while Musk teased launching a new political party and suggesting Trump might have had associations with the late Jeffrey Epstein. “It’s gotten very, very personal between President Trump and Elon Musk. It doesn’t look like it’s going to calm down anytime soon because, again, you’re talking about two incredibly powerful men, two incredibly rich men with large egos who believe that they are in the right,” Shapiro said in an episode of “Ben Reacts” released on Thursday, adding, “so, this is likely to continue for some time.” Shapiro said that the rift between Trump and Musk broke down over time along political and business lines, and that contributed to a massive blowup between the two men personally. In politics, Trump and Musk’s objectives were in tension, according to Shapiro. After Trump won the 2024 election and brought Musk into the administration, Musk’s goal had been to lead efforts inside the government to cut waste, fraud, and abuse through the Department of Government Efficiency. Musk believes that the financial footing of the United States is unsteady with massive deficit spending constantly adding to an already historic national debt. For Trump’s part, while the president was happy to have Musk trim along the edges of government, Musk could not touch the main drivers of deficit spending in the United States’ budget, and Trump did not campaign on making cuts to programs such as Social Security and Medicare. The cuts that Musk envisioned making to the federal budget – in the trillions of dollars – were never going to materialize. The unbridgeable political divide contributed to a rift between the two men over Musk’s businesses, namely his electric car company Tesla and his space exploration company SpaceX. The “Big, Beautiful Bill” that passed the House with Trump’s backing cut electric vehicle tax credits without making significant cuts to the federal budget. While the tax credit cuts will harm Musk’s company, the tech titan would have been willing to absorb the cuts had he been able to point to meaningful savings for the United States, Shapiro said. But the bill lacked the deep cuts because political support for such cuts is too small and the risk too great to get through Congress. Trump also pulled the nomination of his pick to head NASA, Jared Isaacman, “after a thorough review of prior associations,” referring to Isaacman’s past support for Democrats. Isaacman is a friend of Musk’s and likely would have worked with Musk on his longterm mission to make humanity “multiplanetary” through SpaceX. Isaacman’s nomination was pulled soon after Musk left the administration. “The suggestion is that [Musk] was insulted. Between that and the EV stuff, he basically decided to go after President Trump. President Trump, of course, will not take a punch sitting down,” Shapiro said. “Now, you have two very big egos who do not take insults lightly going directly at each other.” The online battle between the two culminated in Trump threatening to cut billions in government contracts with Musk’s companies and Musk suggesting that Trump was blocking the release of the Epstein files because the president is implicated in them.

After hard-Left Democrat Boston Mayor Michelle Wu seemingly compared ICE agents to Nazis, the Department of Homeland Security fired back, calling the apparent comparison “sickening.” “I don’t know of any police department that routinely wears masks. We know that there are other groups that routinely wear masks. NSC-131 routinely wears masks,” Wu told reporters. “Mayor, just to clarify, are you comparing ICE to  — you said — to NSC-131, a neo-Nazi group? Are you comparing them to a neo-Nazi group?” a reporter asked. “What I said is that Boston police, and no police department that I know of at the local level, routinely wears masks” she answered. ? SHOCKING: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu compares ICE agents to neo-Nazis: "I don't know of any police department that routinely wears masks. We know that there are other groups that routinely wear masks. NSC-131 routinely wears masks." ? pic.twitter.com/kMOh8O9Vof — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 5, 2025 Gift Dad an All Access Membership. Use code DAD40 at checkout to save 40%! “Mayor Wu comparing ICE agents to neo-Nazis is SICKENING,” DHS wrote on X. “When our heroic law enforcement officers conduct operations, they clearly identify themselves as law enforcement while wearing masks to protect themselves from being targeted by known and suspected gang members, murders, and rapists. Attacks and demonization of our brave law enforcement is WRONG. ICE officers are now facing a 413% increase in assaults.” Mayor Wu comparing ICE agents to neo-Nazis is SICKENING. When our heroic law enforcement officers conduct operations, they clearly identify themselves as law enforcement while wearing masks to protect themselves from being targeted by known and suspected gang members, murders,… https://t.co/BrRbkql31O — Homeland Security (@DHSgov) June 5, 2025   The White House noted, “ICE just conducted its largest ever immigration enforcement operation across Massachusetts and Mayor Wu’s city of Boston, where they arrested nearly 800 illegals with criminal records. …   The streets of Boston and the surrounding area are safer today thanks to the men and women of ICE.  Mayor Wu’s disgusting demonization of ICE agents is part of the reason why they’re seeing a massive uptick in doxing, assaults and death threats.  She should be ashamed of herself.” ICE just conducted its largest ever immigration enforcement operation across Massachusetts and Mayor Wu's city of Boston, where they arrested nearly 800 illegals with criminal records. Here are just a few of the vicious monsters the heroes of ICE nabbed: ? — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 5, 2025 The streets of Boston and the surrounding area are safer today thanks to the men and women of ICE. Mayor Wu's disgusting demonization of ICE agents is part of the reason why they're seeing a massive uptick in doxing, assaults and death threats. She should be ashamed of herself. — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 5, 2025   A member of the United Front Work Department, an intelligence division of the Chinese Communist Party, served as co-chairman of a group that helped raise $300,000 for Wu’s 2021 mayoral campaign. Gary Yu, the co-chairman of the New England Chinese American Alliance, is listed under a different name vis-à-vis the United Front Work Department. After saying he would go to Boston, “bringing hell with me” after the Boston police commissioner said he would not aid ICE in finding illegal immigrants, border czar Tom Homan was accused of lying about the city by Wu in March. Homan reported that he had made good on his promise and led a team that reportedly found 370 illegal aliens in Boston and surrounding areas, with a majority being significant criminals. On February 16, Democrat-appointed Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox echoed Wu, who had promised resistance to the deportations enforced by the Trump administration. Cox said Boston police officers “don’t have authority to enforce federal immigration law.” When asked if his perspective countered federal immigration law, Cox said the Boston Police Department has pretty defined rules and abides by state law. Speaking at CPAC on February 22, Homan said he would go to Boston while quoting Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp in the classic Western film “Tombstone”: I read a story last night, the police commissioner of Boston, you said you’d double down on not helping the law enforcement officers of ICE. I’m coming to Boston. I’m bringing hell with me. I looked at the numbers this morning; I stopped counting at nine. Nine child rapists that were in jail in Massachusetts, but rather than honoring an ICE detainer, released them back into the street. You’re not a police commissioner; take that badge off your chest, put it in the desk drawer. You became a politician. You forgot what it’s like to be a cop. And guess what? The men and women of Immigration and Custom Enforcement, they found those predators, and they’re locked back up, and we’re going to deport them from the United States.

The D.C. leftist who spit on then-U.S. Attorney Ed Martin could be jailed for violating the conditions of her release by continuing to harass Martin since her arrest. Emily Gabriella Sommer threatened Martin via X on Tuesday, using racial slurs against him and seemingly implying that D.C. jurors will engage in jury nullification by refusing to convict her, prosecutors said Thursday. Sommer was able to post on social media because of the court’s leniency, which released her without bail on May 22, the same day she was arrested, after she spit on Martin on camera while he was giving a TV interview. The government had not requested pretrial detention, but the conditions of her release prohibited “all contact, directly or indirectly, with any person who is or may be a victim or witness in the investigation or prosecution, including… Ed Martin.” Prosecutors found that Sommer, posting from her X handle with the display name “lefttits,” this week tagged Martin and wrote, “My property has essentially been seized and I do not have the basic necessities nor money to provide for myself nor my dog. F*** you, Ed… but since you’ve once again made me hostage in this city, I’ll make sure it eats you alive and spits you back out, like the felony ‘assault’ you’ve alleged, wit your punk-ass-b****-cuckold-neo-beo-no-brained-Neaderthal (no shade to actual non-Sapiens) cracka ass, jive-turkey redneck from the Midwest.” “You mad, bro? You got fired, and then caught a loogie to the shoulder. I don’t think that makes you any sort of ‘active’ official. You’re in the wrong court… Come at me dawg,” she added. Gift Dad an All Access Membership. Use code DAD40 at checkout to save 40%! Sommer also harangued Jeanine Pirro, who replaced Martin as President Donald Trump’s U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia after it became clear the Senate would not confirm him. “Lmaooooo @JudgeJeanine is the bish that took your job. That’s gotta hurt. And she’s got so much trash talk comin her way too, don’t worry bish, you’ll get it too,” she wrote, according to court papers. This afternoon acting DC US Atty Ed Martin was spit on by a psychotic lib during our interview. Hope she’s ready for a nice stretch in jail. pic.twitter.com/2Y5hj41V0l — Rob Schmitt (@SchmittNYC) May 8, 2025 Sommer was charged with “assaulting, resisting, or impeding a government official” and arrested on May 22. “In the course of the arrest, the Defendant kicked and spit on one Deputy United States Marshal and kicked another Deputy United States Marshal,” prosecutors said in court papers. Pirro on Thursday asked Judge Matthew Sharbaugh to revoke the conditions of Sommer’s release, saying “there is clear and convincing evidence that the Defendant violated a condition of release.” She wrote that tagging Martin “would likely cause the post to appear in the Notifications tab of the victim’s X account. The posts, therefore, violated the Court’s order to ‘avoid all contact, directly or indirectly’ with the victim.” “The Defendant’s conduct demonstrates that the Defendant is unlikely to abide by any condition or combination of conditions of release. In particular, the charged assault and subsequent assaults on law enforcement officers demonstrate the Defendant’s unwillingness to abide by the law and comply with lawful authorities. Likewise, the Defendant’s recent X posts demonstrate a disregard for the conditions of release set by this Court, which the Defendant agreed to follow less than two weeks ago,” she wrote. On May 8, Sommer approached Martin outside the courthouse as he was giving an on-camera interview with Newsmax. She said, “Are you Ed Martin? You are. Ed Martin.” “Next, Sommer lunged at [Martin] and spit on [his] left shoulder. Sommer then walked eastbound onto D Street Northwest and yelled, ‘You are a disgusting man. F*** you, Ed Martin. My name is Emily Gabriella Sommer, and you are served,” court papers said. Investigators found that Sommer used an X account in her name, @EmilyGabriellaS, to continue to take credit for the assault. Hours afterwards, she began replying to Martin’s tweets. Under a message that said “Make D.C. Safe Again,” touting the prosecution of a man who shot a five-year old, she wrote, “ED, that was me that spit in your face today in front of your not USDC for D.C. Courthouse, that absolutely definitely spit in your face on camera. Hi, hello. A pleasure to hawk a dehydrated, pithy white foam spit into your face. I only apologize that this city left me so dehydrated and unable to get water that I couldn’t produce more to stain and drip down your face.” Sommer, a graduate of the University of Southern California, is represented by a public defender.