June 27, 2026

Stephen Miller was behind a DOJ memo that lets states institutionalize Americans with disabilities

June 26, 2026

kid dies weighing 255 pounds. parents charged with 2nd degree murder

June 26, 2026

Trump foe John Bolton enters guilty plea. Here's why his classified informaton case didn't fall apart

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/26/politics/john-bolton-plead-guilty


As several criminal investigations into President Donald Trump’s foes continue to flail, federal prosecutors are now ushering one of his biggest critics to a conviction.

Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of unlawfully retaining sensitive national security information — a rare win in the Justice Department’s list of prosecutions against the president’s political enemies.

Asked by the judge if he was guilty, Bolton said: “I am your honor and I’m sorry for it.”

The plea agreement prosecutors and attorneys for Bolton reached is for no more than 60 months in prison, with a $2.25 million fine. The first half of that fine will be paid within five days of sentencing, according to prosecutors. He will also forfeit his pension, according to prosecutors.

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“Today, Ambassador Bolton did what real leaders do. He took responsibility for a mistake he made, thereby saving the government resources to pursue a case that could expose additional sensitive information,” Lowell said. “By contrast, President Trump thumbed his nose at the classified information laws, took actual classified documents to his Florida mansion, interfered with the investigation of that conduct, and has never accepted any accountability for his conduct.”

June 25, 2026

Kash Patel's sugar baby girl friend has.no talent. She wouldnt be chosen to sing natl anthem at a college graduation

June 25, 2026

artist's award winning art found to be copies of the work of other artists including Basquiat

Her painting that won the Doyles Landscape Art Award last year, Seaside Explorers (main photo), appears to have been copied from the 2011 Nicholas Harding painting, Two Estuary Figures (below).


Two Estuary Figures by Nicholas Harding



Now questions are being asked about a second painting by Ms Allan, Weight of the Mind’s Periapt (above), which was a finalist in the Darling portrait prize in 2022. It won the Art Handler’s award, that came with $2,000 in prize money.

Weight of the Mind’s Periapt by Ms Allan has similarities with a work by New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (right).




Australian artist Jane Allan is facing allegations that she mimicked the work of New York neo-expressionist Jean-Michel Basquiat and British-born Australian artist Nicholas Harding in two paintings that won Australian prizes in recent years.

The Guardian reports that concerns first arose over Allan’s canvas Seaside Explorers, which won the AU$20,000 (US$13,800) Doyles Art Award for landscape painting in 2025. Australian news platform ABC revealed that Brisbane art dealer Philip Bacon, who represents Harding’s estate, had pointed out that the work was a “blatant copy” of the artist’s 2011 Two Estuary Figures, with a difference of scale. The original is a minor Harding work, Bacon said, explaining why judges might not have recognized Allan’s submission as a re-creation.



Jennifer Doyle, a cofounder of the long-running locally known prize, expressed disappointment over the discovery. “Why would you do that?” said Doyle. “If you’ve got the skill to do it, can’t you think of something to paint for yourself?”

Following the surfacing of these allegations, the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, Australia, announced that Allan’s Weight of the Mind’s Periapt, which was a finalist for the gallery’s closely followed Darling portrait prize in 2022 and took home the $2,000 Art Handler’s award that year, was “clearly influenced” by the work of Basquiat. Allan’s work is similar in composition, style, and content to the New York artist’s 1982 Untitled (Two Heads on Gold).

Basquiat’s piece depicts two robot-like figures side-by-side. The figure on the right has spiky hair, a distinctive nose shaped like an upside down T, white outlined features and spindly arms. The other figure appears to be angry, in a pose that is almost zombie-like. The painting has been described by the artist’s estate as a “vibrant, layered piece” in which Basquiat “[channels] raw energy into two faces that seem to echo and challenge each other, reflecting a sense of duality”.

https://www.artforum.com/news/prizewinning-artist-accused-of-copying-jean-michel-basquiat-1234753259/

June 25, 2026

FBI exhumes dead animals at NorCal rescue, hundreds more feared missing

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/fbi-dead-animals-rescue-22319130.php

Humboldt County animal rescue at the center of a widening cruelty and fraud investigation was searched again Tuesday as investigators began excavating the property for the remains of hundreds of missing animals.

Investigators served a second search warrant at Miranda’s Rescue in Fortuna at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, nearly two months after authorities first searched the property, according to a news release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. The new warrant authorized excavation “in an effort to locate additional deceased animals believed to be buried on site,” the sheriff’s office said.


Sheriff William Honsal said at a Tuesday afternoon press conference that investigators had identified 900 animals transferred to Miranda’s Rescue since January 2025 but had confirmed only 116 adoptions. He said more than 700 animals remain unaccounted for.

“We are thinking worst-case scenario,” Honsal said, according to video taken by local TV station KRCR-TV. “... We are here to look and uncover whatever evidence that we can possibly find.”

Despite the active excavation of dead animals, the rescue is still operating with around 50 dogs on-site. Honsal said state law does not allow his agency to shut down the business. Shannon Miranda, the rescue operation’s owner, has not been charged with a crime

June 25, 2026

Connecticut GOP scramble for another candidate after Jadon MacCormack's anti-LGBT, anisemitic remarks surface

Jadon MacCormack, a Republican legislative candidate who has rebuffed calls from his own party to step aside over his anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, will face a primary challenger in August, state election officials confirmed Tuesday.

Anthony J. Emilio of Pomfret collected enough signatures to qualify for the primary ballot in the 50th House District and was included on the final list of primary candidates released by the Secretary of the State’s office this week.

He will face MacCormack, of Brooklyn, in the Aug. 11 GOP primary. MacCormack, a 23-year-old first-time candidate, received the endorsement of local party officials last month but has since faced a wave of backlash over his posts on social media calling for the death penalty for gay people, along with other anti-LGBTQ+ and antisemitic remarks.


House Minority Leader Vincent Candelora, R-North Branford, and Connecticut Republican Party Leader Ben Proto were among those who immediately called on MacCormack to end his campaign.

https://ctmirror.org/2026/06/23/jadon-maccormack-primary/

Connecticut Republicans’ nomination of a House candidate who called for executing gay people exposed a systemic problem within the state GOP, not just an isolated candidate, Senate President Pro Tem Martin Looney and Majority Leader Bob Duff said Monday.

Jadon MacCormack, the Republican nominee in the 50th House District, drew bipartisan condemnation last week after a series of social media posts attacking the LGBTQ community and radio appearances in which he called for restoring the death penalty for gay people.

Despite widespread pushback, MacCormack has declined to withdraw from the race.

In a statement Monday, Looney and Duff said MacCormack’s views, however extreme, did not appear without warning. MacCormack wrote a biography of preacher Steven Anderson, who has advocated the death penalty for gay people, has been banned from more than 30 countries, and leads a church that has been designated a hate group, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

https://capitoldispatch.substack.com/p/questions-surround-ct-republican

June 25, 2026

MAGA pastor said LGBTQ+ books & flags harm kids. Now he's going to prison for 15 yrs for abusing a child.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/06/pastor-said-lgbtq-books-flags-harm-kids-now-hes-going-to-for-with-a-child/


The judge sentenced him to the maximum prison term because he showed “no remorse” for his crimes.

Anti-LGBTQ+ MAGA pastor Silas H. Shelton of Wilmington, Ohio — a man who said that LGBTQ+-themed books and Pride flags harm kids — was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Monday for unlawful sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl. The judge said he gave Shelton the maximum sentence because he showed “no remorse” for his crimes during his trial.

Police originally arrested Shelton for 12 counts of rape, sexual battery, gross sexual imposition, and unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. However, he ended up pleading guilty to three third-degree felony counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and will serve a combined 15 years in prison. Afterward, he’ll have to register as a Tier II sex offender every 6 months for the next 25 years, according to WKRC.


The abuse started in 2019 and involved a 14-year-old girl who belonged to Shelton’s congregation at Blanchester Community Church. The abuse reportedly did not stop until a few months before his arrest last October 16.

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In 2023, Shelton spoke before the Little Miami Local School District board to decry the availability of LGBTQ+ books in schools. He was specifically angry that his 12-year-old daughter had seen the LGBTQ+ graphic novel series Heartstopper by Alice Oseman available at a book fair.

“I don’t think kids should ever question their sexuality. I don’t think kids should ever explore their sexuality. I don’t think any of that stuff ever ought to be in our school,” Shelton said. “But [my daughter] come home asking me why certain books were in that book fair, which were pertaining to books of gay. One of them was Heartstopper, which is where a gay boy pressures a straight kid into kissing him.”

June 24, 2026

Truth speaking heckler calls Trump a pedophile at Mack truck factory today

June 24, 2026

JP Morgan fires the employee who took (stole) the Knicks themed trash can.

rightwingers are focusing on her prior "DEI" job of course. that wasn't her current position at JP Morgan.





https://www.primetimer.com/news/woman-who-stole-knicks-themed-trash-can-in-viral-video-gets-fired-from-her-job-at-jp-morgan

Woman who stole Knicks-themed trash can in viral video gets fired from her job at JPMorgan
Angie Báez, a JPMorgan Chase executive, was fired after a viral video showed her taking a Knicks-themed trash can during New York's championship celebrations.