On Tuesday, the California State Assembly passed a controversial piece of legislation dubbed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” by Republican lawmakers. The bill, authored by Democrat Mia Bonta — the wife of California Attorney General Rob Bonta — passed the State Assembly in a 57-19 vote. All who voted in favor of the bill were Democrats.  The bill was proposed as journalists around the country have pushed to uncover government fraud, including independent journalist Nick Shirley. Shirley recently investigated misappropriation in California and Minnesota, and investigations by Daily Wire reporter Luke Rosiak have focused on apparent Medicaid fraud in Ohio. The bill, AB 2624, has been met with stark condemnation on the Right, since its restrictions on sharing addresses of immigration providers could allegedly criminalize reporters. Engineer and writer Michael Rothman explained how the bill could pose trouble to journalists. “[Nick] Shirley showed up with a camera crew to a state-funded Somali learning center in Los Angeles,” Rothman stated. “He found

A Florida judge shut down Planned Parenthood’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the abortion giant of false advertising over claims that the abortion pill is safer than Tylenol and Viagra.  Florida First Circuit Court Judge J. Scott Duncan ruled Monday against Planned Parenthood’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which Attorney General James Uthmeier filed in November 2025. The suit accuses Planned Parenthood of violating Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act by misleading consumers about the safety of the abortion drug mifepristone. Uthmeier is seeking up to $350 million in penalties.  “The Defendants did not simply claim the abortion-inducing medications were safe; rather, according to the Complaint, they claimed they were safer than other medications,” Judge Duncan wrote. “In making a comparison, the Defendants went beyond vague promotional language,” the judge added. “Now whether these statements are actionable or non-actionable may depend on the context in which they were made.” The lawsuit centers on a statement on Planned Parenthood’s website claiming abortion pills are “safer than many other medicines like penicillin, Tylenol, and Viagra.” Planned Parenthood argued that the statements amounted to legally protected promotional language and could not be treated as false advertising.  Uthmeier’s office praised the ruling.  “We thank our team of litigators who argued against Planned Parenthood’s meritless attempt to dismiss our case against them,” Jeremy Redfern, Uthmeier’s deputy chief of staff, told The Daily Wire. “This decision brings us one step closer to holding Planned Parenthood accountable for profiting from abortions by lying to women about abortion pills being safer than Tylenol.” Mifepristone cuts off the nutrients that an unborn child needs to survive in the womb. A second drug is then taken to expel the deceased baby from the mother.  The lawsuit seeks a $10,000 penalty for every chemical abortion performed in Florida under the alleged deceptive safety claims. Florida estimated that the total could be roughly $350 million based on approximately 35,000 abortions.  “Tylenol is an over-the-counter pain medicine that everyone understands, intuitively and by experience, to be safe,” the lawsuit said. “Chemical abortion, by contrast, uses mifepristone and misoprostol and is far more dangerous. Use of chemical abortion drugs routinely lands women in the emergency room with hemorrhaging and other serious complications.” The Food and Drug Administration says it is currently reviewing the safety of mifepristone. Pro-life advocates and several GOP attorneys general have urged the Trump administration to reverse Biden-era regulations allowing the drug to be prescribed without an in-person doctor’s visit.

Country, Motown, rap, R&B? How about a little Poison? The Great American State Fair has it all as part of its music lineup for the Freedom 250 celebration this summer in the nation’s capital, honoring the 250th birthday of the Declaration of Independence. The fair will feature such diverse performers as Martina McBride, Vanilla Ice, The Commodores, Flo-Rida, Morris Day and The Time, and Bret Michaels. Those names, plus Young MC, the artist behind the 1989 hit “Bust A Move,” Milli Vanilli, and military bands, will entertain thousands at the family-friendly event that will stretch from the United States Capitol to the Washington Monument. The music will take place on the main stage on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night for the 16-day event. (But in a dream world, at some point, they’d all sing ‘God Bless The USA’ together in a ‘We Are The World’ moment.) The event also brings together all 50 states and six U.S. territories in a grand fair celebration. The evening entertainment schedule can be found below, but for Poison fans, Bret Michaels will close out the shows on July 3. JUST ANNOUNCED: The lineup for The Great American State Fair is here — and it’s bringing the hits.

On May 20, New York City experienced a summer storm, causing Brooklyn and Queens to flood, with streets turning into knee-deep rivers, cars submerged, and subway stations flooded. This happens whenever there is heavy rain; subway service has been disrupted due to flooded stations more than 75 times since 2020. This happens with some frequency because New York City’s infrastructure is ancient, poorly maintained, and falling apart. The city relies on catch basins — the grates in the street — to capture rainwater runoff, and this decades-old network floods any time rainfall exceeds 1.75 inches per hour — a not-uncommon event. Even when rainfall is within the sewer system’s capacity, the catch basins often back up because they are clogged with trash and other debris, and city crews don’t keep them all clear. In most areas of the city, stormwater drains into the same sewer that carries toilet waste to treatment plants, so when those grates back up, they flood the street with urine and feces. New York’s socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, says that this is happening because the city doesn’t have enough money and city agencies are “underfunded.” His solution is to “tax the rich,” with a new tax on incomes over $1 million, as well as increases in corporate tax rates. He believes these proposals would raise about $10 billion per year in new revenues. New York City residents already pay the highest tax rates in the country. But New York City’s municipal government is not “underfunded.” The city’s municipal spending is dramatically higher than that of other large cities, spending about $125 billion per year. Los Angeles, by comparison, has an annual budget of $14 billion, and Chicago’s budget is $18 billion. New York is spending about $23,000 per year per resident, while Chicago spends $9,100 and LA spends $5,400. New Yorkers might be forgiven for wondering where all that money is going as they watch rats fighting over garbage while they wait for delayed subway trains in dilapidated stations. For starters, New York pays about 10 times as much to build, update, and maintain things like sewers and subways as other global cities like Paris and Tokyo do for similar projects. Some of that cost is attributable to the complexity and age of New York’s underground infrastructure, but most of the expense comes from corrupt contracting, ridiculous labor rules that require excessive staffing at ridiculous wages, and complex and arcane environmental and regulatory requirements that employ armies of highly paid bureaucrats and consultants who fulfill the important task of producing reports that nobody reads at great public expense. New York also has to pay high salaries; NYC has about twice the population of Los Angeles, but has seven times as many public workers. The city’s department of social services has 12,000 employees, doing outreach and providing resources to drug addicts and the mentally ill. But despite the best efforts of so many city workers, it is routine to see homeless people sprawled unconscious on the sidewalk in Manhattan’s trendiest neighborhoods. Further, New York spends more per student than any other school system in the world, yet New York’s public school students lag behind those in other U.S. cities. Despite spending $35,000 per student per year, only 23% of NYC eighth graders achieved a score of proficient on the National Assessment of Education Progress test for math; 29% were proficient in reading. The school system is hiring more teachers and administrators even though it serves fewer and fewer students each year. Families are skipping vacations, wearing old clothes, and stretching their budgets to the limits to send their kids to private schools because Mamdani’s lavishly-funded public schools are so catastrophically inadequate. And, of course, New York taxpayers fund lavish benefits for illegal aliens. New York City has spent about $9 billion on this since 2023. The city allocates $350 per day to each migrant household to cover food, shelter, and security. The city is paying for over 21,000 hotel rooms each night to host these important guests. Zohran Mamdani thinks government is great and New York needs more of it. More city workers paid six-figure salaries to prompt ChatGPT to write emails that other city workers will then prompt ChatGPT to read. More money for NGOs. More money for more teachers and school administrators for fewer students. More money for migrants. And maybe, if New Yorkers can just dig a little deeper and pay just a little more, Mamdani’s underfunded government just might send somebody to clear out the storm drain. *** Daniel Friedman is the Edgar Award-nominated author of “Don’t Ever Get Old.”

A far-left activist network tied to teachers unions and left-wing advocacy groups has been distributing a detailed training manual encouraging K-12 students to organize disruptive political protests and school walkouts, according to documents obtained by Defending Education and provided exclusively to The Daily Wire. The 36-page “Direct Action Training: School Walkouts” toolkit, uncovered by the watchdog organization, explicitly instructs students on how to organize demonstrations, disrupt school operations, avoid oversight from administrators, and pressure institutions through coordinated acts of “non-cooperation” and “civil disobedience.” The packet was distributed through activist training webinars connected to the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools, a coalition backed by major left-wing education and activist organizations including the National Education Association, Journey for Justice Alliance, Center for Popular Democracy, and Schott Foundation for Public Education. The training materials themselves were produced by Alliance for Educational Justice, an activist group that has received financial support through leftist nonprofit networks connected to the Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Tides Foundation, and other left-wing grantmaking organizations. The document openly encourages students to engage in actions designed to disrupt schools and force administrators into political concessions. “Direct action is how everyday people use their collective power to force change when systems aren’t listening,” the packet states. It describes walkouts as a tactic intended to “interrupt business as usual and demand accountability.” The guide specifically promotes tactics including “school walkouts,” “boycotts,” “strikes – No School, No Work, No Shopping,” and even “class takeover,” which it describes as interrupting classrooms for “student-led discussion, training, or teach-ins.” In one section, the packet explains how students can transform “absence into power” by creating enough disruption that school officials are “forced to respond.” “When large numbers of students leave together, classes cannot operate normally and school leaders are forced to respond,” the guide states. “Ignoring a walkout often brings greater attention from families, the media, and the wider community.” The packet repeatedly frames schools as political battlegrounds and encourages students to view disruption as leverage. It also includes instructions on recruitment, messaging strategy, protest organization, media engagement, and “walkout leader roles.” Another section titled “Out Reach Safety” advises students to use VPNs because “a VPN can make tracking harder,” while encouraging students to refuse questioning from school officials without a parent or lawyer present. Though the guide insists direct action is “not about causing chaos,” many of the tactics outlined are explicitly designed to undermine normal school operations and pressure administrators through coordinated unrest. Defending Education warned the materials reflect a broader trend of activist organizations using schools and students as vehicles for political organizing. “Activists have realized they can use students to advance political agendas, and too many schools either won’t push back or will quietly enable it,” Paul Runko, Defending Education’s senior director of strategic initiatives, said to The Daily Wire. “Parents need to understand that students are increasingly being recruited as foot soldiers in the culture war, and they should have intentional conversations, especially with teens, about how to respond when friends, teachers, or outside groups encourage them to participate in protests or walkouts,” he added. The materials also reveal how activist infrastructure aimed at adults increasingly filters down into K-12 environments through affiliated nonprofits, education coalitions, and youth organizing initiatives that outwardly present themselves as community advocacy groups. The document argues that young people are uniquely positioned to pressure institutions because adults are constrained by jobs, caregiving responsibilities, or fear of arrest. Students, meanwhile, are encouraged to use their position inside schools to “step forward when systems refuse to listen.” Defending Education’s findings come amid a growing left-wing youth activist class and worries from parents over the political activism increasingly embedded in some educational environments, particularly as outside organizations gain influence through partnerships, webinars, and activist training programs directed at students.