Hopkinton Public Schools in Massachusetts has a policy that carves out a specific religious exception to its strict no-weapons rule, allowing initiated Sikh students to carry a ceremonial knife known as a kirpan on school grounds, while prohibiting knives, guns, replicas, and other weapons for every other student.

The policy, formally created in 2024, makes Hopkinton the first school district in the state to explicitly accommodate the kirpan for Sikh students.

These policies have received new scrutiny following the sentencing of Vickrum Digwa, a 23-year-old Sikh man convicted of murdering 18-year-old British university student Henry Nowak in Southampton, England, on December 3.

As Henry Nowak lay bleeding to death in the middle of a quiet residential street in Southampton, his wrists were chained together in handcuffs.

Police officers, who he thought were coming to his aid, had fallen for the lies of his attacker, Vickrum Digwa, a 23-year-old Sikh man… pic.twitter.com/kr04iPMM0S

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) May 28, 2026

Digwa stabbed Nowak five times with an 8-inch dagger he carried in addition to a kirpan.

Indian students are now allowed to bring weapons to school in the Hopkinton Public School district. This is in MA.

Sikh kids are now allowed to carry a kirpan for religious reasons.

The man who murdered Henry Nowak carried the same weapon. Will they start to demand this in… pic.twitter.com/ZykzOlp7Yl

— Kelly for Texas (@KellyIsRightTX) June 3, 2026

Under the district’s general weapons policy, possession of any “dangerous weapon” is banned on school premises, at school-sponsored events, or on school transport. This includes guns, knives, pocket knives, slingshots, brass knuckles, explosives, ammunition, and even replicas or toys that resemble weapons.

Violations can lead to suspension, expulsion, police referral, and possible exclusion by the School Committee.

However, the policy includes a dedicated section titled “Considerations for Recognized Religious Artifacts Resembling Weapons.”

It directs that sacred religious articles must be approved annually before the start of each school year or before the student begins carrying the item. The district evaluates exceptions based on school safety and reserves the right to suspend permission during specific events.

DID YOU KNOW

The @Hopkinton_PS passed a policy allowing Sikh students to bring and carry knives to school for religious reasons

They cited “changing student population.”

The man who stabbed Henry to death had special protections to carry a knife because he’s Sikh.

Now some… pic.twitter.com/2NzqIPx7kM

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 3, 2026

Under the Kirpan Wear on Campus agreement, the student must have a “deeply held religious belief” and have completed the Amrit Pahul initiation ceremony, maintain a record of “appropriate school behavior,” and the blade must be dull, no longer than 3.0 inches, sheathed and secured, and worn under clothing at all times so it is not visible.

Superintendent Carol Cavanaugh said during a 2024 School Committee meeting that some Sikh students already wore the kirpan under their clothing as a “required article of faith.”

“We wanted to ensure that this was also reflected in our policy…there are students who carry kirpans; it is their religious right to do so,” she said, according to a report from Hop News at the time.

The Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF) praised the district for becoming the first in Massachusetts to accommodate the practice, calling it a “significant step forward in recognizing religious rights.”

Multiple American school districts have implemented formal policies, court-ordered accommodations, or case-by-case agreements allowing initiated Sikh students to carry kirpans on campus, while having general weapons bans for everyone else.

Livingston Union School District in California began allowing students to carry the blades in the 1990s after three Sikh siblings were initially barred from wearing kirpans under the district’s no-knives rule.

After a federal lawsuit (Cheema v. Thompson), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the district must make “all reasonable efforts” to accommodate the religious practice.

The case settled, with the children allowed to wear kirpans sewn into their sheaths so they could not be drawn.

California’s Yuba City Unified, Live Oak School District, Jurupa Unified School District, and Central Unified School District also have exceptions for these weapons.

Other districts include Michigan’s Plymouth-Canton Community Schools, New York’s Greenburgh Central School District, and National Heritage Academies charter schools.

Sikh civil-rights organizations such as the Sikh Coalition and SALDEF state that “public school districts nationwide routinely provide accommodations” for Sikh students to wear kirpans from elementary through high school, both public and private. Accommodations are often handled individually but follow similar safety protocols.

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As “Pride Month 2026” kicks off, major children’s entertainment brands are once again flooding social media and theme parks with rainbow messaging aimed squarely at preschoolers and toddlers.

The deliberate indoctrination of the youngest kids who can’t even tie their shoes yet has been going on every June (and in some cases, year-round) for years.

Disney is rolling out the rainbows across its Florida parks for the entire month.

At EPCOT, the rainbow mural is back outside Connections Cafe. Hollywood Studios features a Mickey Balloon Pride photo op with 11 different Pride-flag balloons. Magic Kingdom has the Mickey Pride mural and a Pride Slushy at Astrofizz. Merchandise and special drinks are everywhere, Breitbart News reports.

The ultra-popular YouTube kids’ channel Cocomelon, watched by millions of babies and toddlers, posted celebrating Pride on Instagram.

 

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“Happy Pride Month, from CoComelon” with a row of rainbow-colored heart emojis.

Parents flooded the comments with backlash.

“Why are we introducing our babies to this?” one user wrote, another added that “There is no need to” post such content.

 

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Many said they were unfollowing.

Nickelodeon’s Peppa Pig, aimed at ages 2-5, posted on social media, “Happy Pride Month to all our friends!” with a rainbow emoji.

The full caption reads, “We’re celebrating the joy of being yourself and the many wonderful families and friendships that make our world special.”

The video was a cartoon about having “two mommies.”

PBS’s Sesame Street posted a rainbow-colored image of the characters with the message: “Happy #PrideMonth from Sesame Street! Join us in celebrating and uplifting the LGBTQIA+ members of our community. Everyone is always welcome on Sesame Street.”

Happy #PrideMonth from Sesame Street! Join us in celebrating and uplifting the LGBTQIA+ members of our community. pic.twitter.com/kO9TAhnqDE

— Sesame Street (@sesamestreet) June 1, 2026

The post sparked immediate backlash, with thousands of people calling it inappropriate for toddlers.

Pop Crave shared an image of the Teletubbies, targeted at ages 1-4, standing in front of rainbow colors with the text “Happy Pride.”

The Teletubbies wish everyone a happy Pride Month. pic.twitter.com/lbZl73KQfq

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) June 2, 2026

The post triggered a wave of angry replies on X, including “Kids don’t need to know who y’all are f-cking,” “Another kids show,” and “Why on earth is a kids show promoting pride… That sends a message to me that they think it’s ok for toddlers… to know about ANY kind of sex.”

The same brands have faced criticism in prior years for similar social media posts, drag queen appearances in kids’ programming, such as Nickelodeon’s past Blue’s Clues Pride Parade, and the introduction of same-sex parent characters.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed the first case of New World screwworm (NWS) in American livestock in nearly six decades, sparking an immediate nationwide emergency response to protect the multibillion-dollar cattle industry.

The screwworms were found in a 3-week-old calf on a ranch in La Pryor, Zavala County, Texas, roughly 50 miles north of the Mexican border.

Larvae were found infesting the animal’s umbilical area.

The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed the case on Wednesday after samples were tested at the National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Ames, Iowa.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins described the situation as one the Trump Administration is treating with “the utmost seriousness.”

Rollins said, “We are treating the confirmed case of New World Screwworm on a Texas cattle ranch with the utmost seriousness and are responding aggressively alongside our state partners, TAHC (Texas Animal Health Commission). USDA’s proactive actions bought us nearly a year to prepare, as models had projected New World Screwworm would reach the United States by the summer of 2025. That preparation allowed us to move immediately when this case was detected.”

WATCH:

We are treating the confirmed case of New World Screwworm in a Texas cattle ranch with the utmost seriousness and are responding aggressively alongside our state partners @TAHC.

USDA’s proactive actions bought us nearly a year to prepare, as models had projected New World… pic.twitter.com/Ws5ceLc9ew

— Secretary Brooke Rollins (@SecRollins) June 4, 2026

New World screwworm is the larval stage of the Cochliomyia hominivorax fly.

Unlike ordinary blowflies that feed only on dead tissue, female screwworm flies lay hundreds of eggs in any open wound, cut, or mucous membrane of warm-blooded animals, including cattle, horses, deer, goats, pets, wildlife, and, in rare cases, humans or birds.

Once the eggs hatch, the larvae use hook-like mouthparts to burrow deep into living flesh, feeding aggressively and causing massive tissue destruction, secondary infections, and extreme pain.

Left untreated, a single infestation can kill a cow in as little as a few weeks.

The parasite does not infest meat, fruits, vegetables, or processed food products, so the nation’s commercial food supply remains safe under USDA inspection protocols.

The USDA has activated its pre-prepared New World Screwworm Response Playbook.

The Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) has established an infested zone covering parts of Zavala and Uvalde counties. All warm-blooded animals in the zone are under quarantine and cannot move without prior authorization from TAHC.

Additionally, millions of sterilized male flies that mate with wild females, producing non-viable eggs and crashing the population, are being released in the area.

No additional cases have been detected as of Thursday.

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AN incident aboard a Frontier Airlines flight turned into a scene straight out of an action film when a deranged passenger attempted to pry open an emergency exit door thousands of feet in the air, claiming he just wanted to “get off the plane,” before trying to force his way into the cockpit and choking an off-duty flight attendant.

The incident took place Sunday night on Frontier Airlines Flight 3345, which had departed from San Juan, Puerto Rico, bound for Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.

About 45 minutes into the flight, 51-year-old Juan Gabriel Reyes of Pahokee, Florida, began acting erratically, according to an arrest affidavit from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office and a federal criminal complaint, the New York Post reports.

Flight attendants and passengers spotted Reyes trying to open one of the aircraft’s emergency exit doors mid-flight.

When crew members ordered him to sit down and stop, he ignored them completely, rushed toward the front of the plane, and began shoving his shoulder aggressively against the cockpit door in an attempt to break in.

An off-duty flight attendant seated nearby volunteered to help keep the passenger under control, but when he briefly left to use the bathroom, the unhinged passenger allegedly snatched at his bag, grabbed him by the head, and began choking him.

That’s when a hero passenger stepped in.

Josh Longood, a Chicago-area former professional MMA fighter and Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt instructor who happened to be wearing a Jiu-Jitsu shirt, instantly jumped into action, using flex ties, seatbelts, and his fighting skills to restrain Reyes against the wall and tie him up in his seat for the remainder of the flight.

Cellphone video posted to social media captured the scene as Longood and multiple passengers held Reyes down while the plane was diverted for an emergency landing at Miami International Airport.

WATCH:

WATCH: Passengers restrain a man onboard a Frontier Airlines flight to Chicago’s O’Hare on Sunday after he reportedly tried to open an emergency exit door in an attempt to jump off the plane mid-flight.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, Frontier Airlines flight… pic.twitter.com/g3QBearixJ

— Breaking Aviation News & Videos (@aviationbrk) June 2, 2026

“He was just talking and acting crazy,” Longood told the Mansfield News Journal. “I could tell he wasn’t going to calm down, so I just kept an eye on him because there were females and young kids around.”

“I immediately responded and safely positioned him to where he couldn’t hurt anyone,” Longood said of the moment things hit the fan. “I’m just thankful I was seated close to him, so I was able to resolve the situation without anyone getting injured. It was my years of BJJ training that helped me stay calm and handle the situation.”

“I’m confident in my training and abilities to handle real-life situations like these,” he added.

The flight touched down safely around 11:55 p.m. local time.

Miami-Dade Sheriff’s deputies boarded the aircraft and arrested Reyes on a misdemeanor charge of battery.

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In what has to be one of the most awkward public moments in recent history, former President Joe Biden, 83, hijacked his wife Jill Biden’s debut book event Tuesday night, wandering up to the stage uninvited to ask her, in front of a live audience, “Who do you love most in the whole world?”

The cringe-inducing scene took place at the 92nd Street Y on Manhattan’s Upper East Side during a Q&A session promoting Jill Biden’s new memoir, A View from the East Wing.

The event, moderated by The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg, was meant to celebrate the former First Lady’s reflections on her time in the White House.

Instead, it turned into yet another spotlight-stealing display from the likely senile former president.

Jill Biden, 75, had just wrapped up the discussion when an audience member submitted a comment thanking Joe Biden for his service.

Jill stood and led the room in a standing ovation for her husband, who was seated in the audience.

That’s when Biden decided the moment was all about him.

Without a microphone and flanked by security, Biden left his seat, strolled to the edge of the stage, and interrupted the event by declaring, “I have a question,” according to a report from the New York Post.

“Joe has a question, like you couldn’t ask it later?” Jill fired back.

“Who do you love most in the whole world?” Biden responded, clearly not taking a hint.

“Whoopi,” Jill replied, prompting laughter from the likely-uncomfortable audience.

Biden, apparently unhappy with the response, just stared at her with his mouth agape.

“I love you most, Joe. Was that it? Was that the answer he wanted?” Jill said.

“It’s overwhelming, isn’t it?” Biden replied, still speaking without a microphone.

Jill kept the banter going, joking that she likes to keep him guessing, “Overwhelming, well, that’s what keeps him on his toes. He’s never 100% sure. I always keep him guessing, is that not true?”

At that point, Biden lowered his head and made the sign of the cross, a move that only added to the surreal atmosphere.

Goldberg tried to steer things back on track, urging the audience to buy Jill’s book. But Biden wasn’t done.

Biden pointed and began promoting his own upcoming memoir, “My book, which comes out in September, read it…”

A crew member finally handed him a microphone.

Jill, clearly trying to regain control of her event, joked, “Do I have to remind him that this is my event?”

Biden didn’t stop.

“The only thing that Jill does better than write [is], she’s a beautiful woman,” he said.

 

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Earlier in the talk, Jill reportedly spoke about Joe’s Stage IV prostate cancer diagnosis in May of last year, which had already spread to his bones.

She noted he completed radiation therapy in October and said, “You see Joe here tonight, he looks handsome as ever … but you know, cancer drugs, cancer treatments have those consequences, and those consequences are pretty tough.”

The Gateway Pundit will update this article if the video of the interruption is made public online.

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Top NIH virologist and gain-of-function advocate, Vincent Munster, has been charged with allegedly smuggling undeclared pathogen samples into America from Africa.

For years, animal testing watchdog White Coat Waste has documented how Munster’s reckless, cruel experiments on primates and bats waste millions in taxpayer dollars while posing serious biosafety and national security risks.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced that Munster, 53, a Dutch citizen and Chief of the Virus Ecology Section at NIH’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Hamilton, Montana, and his colleague Claude Kwe, 38, a Cameroonian research fellow in Munster’s lab, were charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy to smuggle monkeypox into the United States and making false statements to federal law enforcement.

According to the Justice Department complaint, Munster and Kwe flew into Detroit Metropolitan Airport’s McNamara Terminal on January 25 after traveling from Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, where a monkeypox outbreak was actively underway.

Customs and Border Protection officers noticed the pair carrying a large black plastic case. When questioned, both men falsely claimed it contained only “diagnostics and testing equipment.”

According to the DOJ, “subsequent investigation by CBP and FBI agents revealed that the case actually contained 113 vials in Styrofoam coolers. As of the date of the complaint, the FBI has tested 20 of the 113 vials. Seventeen of them contained deactivated monkeypox virus, one contained the Chickenpox virus, and two contained only human DNA.”

The press release added, “the work of both men is focused on ’emerging viral pathogens’ and how those pathogens ‘cross the species barrier.’ They work at a Biosafety Level 4 laboratory, which employs the highest level of biosafety precautions for scientific research of known and potential human pathogens.”

In a statement, U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. did not mince words: “These NIH experts apparently broke our laws by smuggling viral pathogens on a packed commercial airplane from an outbreak in the Republic of Congo. Let that sink in.”

FBI Detroit Special Agent in Charge Jennifer Runyan added, “No researchers should believe their positions, credentials, or professional status place them above the law… The allegations in this case are serious. They involve the dangerous and unlawful smuggling of deactivated Mpox virus into the United States and alleged efforts to mislead our federal agents.”

This is the exact smuggling incident White Coat Waste exposed weeks ago, as The Gateway Pundit previously reported.

BREAKING: FBI Has Reportedly Launched a Criminal Probe into Fauci’s Bat Virus Mad Scientist Vincent Munster for Smuggling Deadly Pathogen Samples from Africa

In May, we reported that the FBI had launched a criminal probe into Munster for attempting to bring back dozens of undeclared viral hemorrhagic fever samples, including monkeypox, from Africa without proper permits.

At the time, an NIH whistleblower told White Coat Waste Project that senior officials in Bethesda were in “full cover-up mode” to protect Munster. Both scientists were placed on administrative leave, their HHS directory profiles scrubbed, and the agency referred all questions to the FBI.

The same whistleblower alleged that a separate lab accident at RML, first exposed by White Coat Waste in January, involved a staffer being bitten by a macaque monkey infected with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), a deadly foreign virus.

The monkey was being subjected to NIH’s notorious “maximum-pain” experiments with no pain mitigation whatsoever.

The bite reportedly penetrated the worker’s protective suit.

🚨NIH Biolab Whistleblower

Vincent Munster, an @NIH animal experimenter tied to Wuhan gain-of-function, “got caught trying to sneak VHF [viral hemorrhagic fever] samples into the United States from Africa”

And a NIH lab staffer was “bitten by an infected monkey…that was being… pic.twitter.com/iYlS9MeWLD

— White Coat Waste (@WhiteCoatWaste) May 8, 2026

Instead of being transparent with RML employees, the incident was allegedly hidden from most of the campus, and the exposed staffer was quietly “flown out” to avoid drawing attention.

White Coat Waste, which has been hammering Munster’s taxpayer-funded animal experiments with billboards near the Montana lab for months, was the first to notice and report on his sudden removal from the official NIH employee directory.

.@WhiteCoatWaste is running billboards near NIH's biolab in Montana targeting Fauci-era animal tests by Vincent Munster & other mad scientists.

We just noticed Munster, who was part of the project to create COVID-like viruses in Wuhan, has been removed from the HHS directory… pic.twitter.com/5DADu4a5c4

— Justin Goodman (@JustinRGoodman) May 4, 2026

Munster’s lab at RML is a high-containment BSL-4 facility focused on how “emerging viral pathogens” cross the species barrier, precisely the kind of gain-of-function-style work long associated with Fauci’s NIAID and the COVID pandemic.

The mad scientist was also the main author on a 2018 NIH experiment exposed by White Coat Waste that infected bats purchased from a Maryland zoo with a Chinese bat coronavirus strain cloned from a virus collected by the Wuhan Institute of Virology and EcoHealth Alliance.

WCW Senior Vice President Justin Goodman appeared on investigative journalist Laura Loomer's show to discuss.

WATCH:

NIH @NIH researcher Vincent Munster was recently caught at the airport in Michigan smuggling vials of deadly African pathogens, raising serious questions about whether his reckless operations sparked the current EBOLA outbreak.

White Coat Waste @WhiteCoatWaste Senior VP Justin… pic.twitter.com/vyL1MStTKB

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) May 24, 2026

Loomer, who has been working with WCW to expose the deep corruption and pressure the administration to end these barbaric tests once and for all, wrote in a post on X, "White Coat Waste and I are totally vindicated after we broke this story several weeks ago about how NIH was covering up the fact that several foreign born virologists working at NIH under the Trump admin at Rocky Mountain Laboratory, a Biosafety Level 4 laboratory, snuck lethal pathogens into the US. They work at the same lab where an Ebola-infected monkey bit an NIH researcher, and this was also covered up by @DrJBhattacharya and NIH."

BREAKING:

Dr. Vincent Munster, a foreign born national virologist who works at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory under @NIH and Claude Kwe, one of his foreign born colleagues from Cameroon who also works at NIH in the same lab have officially been charged with smuggling… https://t.co/xHAkaTWL7j pic.twitter.com/IEutsbDPnM

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) June 3, 2026

WCW has repeatedly called on Congress and now, on the Trump administration’s Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to defund and decommission the Rocky Mountain Laboratory entirely.

The whistleblower’s letter to WCW reinforced those concerns, claiming the cover-up culture at NIH continues unchecked even after Fauci’s departure.

“RML needs to be defunded and decommissioned before Munster and his cronies cause another pandemic,” the letter warned.

In 2023, WCW teamed up with then-Rep. Matt Rosendale, a Montana Republican, in an attempt to slash Munster’s salary to $1 as part of an amendment to the Labor-HHS appropriations bill. The amendment read, “Reduces the salary of Vincent Munster, Chief, Virus Ecology Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to $1.”

Unfortunately, it ultimately failed.

If convicted, both researchers face up to five years in federal prison.

Goodman said in a statement provided to The Gateway Pundit:

“While the DOJ’s charges against him are new, NIH animal experimenter Vincent Munster has been on White Coat Waste’s most-wanted list for years.

Since we first exposed Dr. Fauci’s funding for gain-of-function animal experiments in Wuhan that likely caused COVID, we’ve warned that mad scientist Munster's animal tests with foreign viruses at Fauci's Rocky Mountain Lab—what we call 'Wuhan West'—were another disaster waiting to happen on U.S. soil.

Now, Munster has been arrested and charged with smuggling viruses and lying about it—a scandal first detailed in an explosive whistleblower letter released by White Coat Waste early last month that prompted Congressional calls for accountability.

Our investigations and lawsuits exposed Munster’s maximum-pain animal tests with Ebola, his bat experiments with Chinese coronaviruses prior to the pandemic, and his close collaboration with a new Fauci-funded bat virus lab in Colorado. He also has deep ties to EcoHealth Alliance and was involved in its early proposals to engineer COVID-like viruses in Wuhan.

For years, White Coat Waste has led the fight to defund Munster and his maximum-pain animal labs, and we recently called out their continued Fauci-era funding with our 'WTF RFK?' billboards near NIH’s Rocky Mountain Lab.

It’s time to defund and decommission the dangerous Rocky Mountain Lab and its maximum pain animal experiments before they cause a catastrophe: Stop the money. Stop the madness!"

Special Agent in Charge Marcus L. Sykes of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General said in a statement, "The arrest of these individuals on serious federal charges sends a clear and unmistakable message that no one—including HHS employees who have an obligation to safeguard our federal programs—is above the law. Any deliberate effort to conceal and smuggle biological materials into the United States without proper authorization is a breach of the public’s trust and could have placed the public at risk. HHS-OIG will continue to work alongside our law enforcement partners to ensure that anyone who is entrusted with protecting the health and well-being of the public is held fully accountable.”

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Far-left extremist California State Sen. Scott Wiener is advancing to the November general election in the race for California’s 11th Congressional District, the deep-blue San Francisco seat that Nancy Pelosi has held for nearly 40 years before announcing her retirement.

With roughly 49% of votes counted as of early Wednesday morning following the June 2 primary, Wiener led decisively with 41.3%, ahead of Pelosi-endorsed San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan at 28.6%, and former AOC chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti trailing behind in third place.

Under California’s top-two primary system, Wiener will advance to face Chan, or whoever ultimately finishes second, in November.

The district is so heavily blue that Weiner will likely win the fall election.

Pelosi had endorsed Chan just weeks before the primary, calling her a trusted ally who knows the district and Congress.

Wiener, a 56-year-old openly gay Harvard Law graduate and former San Francisco supervisor, has built a reputation as one of California’s most extreme politicians.

Wiener’s record is packed with legislation that has drawn intense backlash from conservatives, law enforcement, parents, women’s rights advocates, and even some moderate Democrats in San Francisco.

Among the most controversial is Senate Bill 132, the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act, which he authored and which Governor Gavin Newsom signed in 2020.

The law requires the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to house transgender, non-binary, and intersex inmates according to their self-identified “gender identity,” or wherever they say they “feel safest,” rather than biological sex, and mandates that staff use preferred pronouns and honorifics.

Female inmates, women’s safety groups, and anyone with common sense argue this law endangers biological women by allowing male individuals into female prisons and showers, potentially increasing assault risks, while Wiener has defended it as protecting “vulnerable transgender” inmates from “violence.”

Wiener also authored Senate Bill 239 in 2017, which dramatically weakened California’s HIV criminalization laws from the 1980s and 1990s.

The measure reduced penalties for knowingly exposing someone to HIV from a felony to a misdemeanor in many cases, repealed HIV-specific felonies for things like donating blood or soliciting sex without disclosure, and aligned HIV rules with other communicable diseases.

Weiner also took a sledgehammer to sex-offender policies with Senate Bill 145 in 2020, which extended judicial discretion on sex-offender registry requirements for all consensual acts between a minor, 14-17, and an adult no more than 10 years older, removing the prior mandatory lifetime registration for men who have sex with underage boys.

Conservatives branded it the “pedophile protection bill.”

Wiener has also gone after federal immigration enforcement with Senate Bill 747, the No Kings Act, which passed the California Senate in 2026 as first-in-the-nation legislation allowing Californians to sue ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal agents in state court for alleged constitutional violations.

The radical leftist has long called for abolishing ICE outright, labeling it a “terror organization,” and previously pushed bills banning federal agents from wearing masks during operations, despite constant doxing threats from his political allies.

Weiner has supported criminal justice reforms reducing penalties for nonviolent drug offenses and has championed additional transgender measures, including SB 107, making California a “refuge” for transgender youth and families fleeing red-state restrictions, and SB 59, automatically sealing court records for gender marker and name changes.

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Former reality TV star Spencer Pratt will advance into the November general election runoff for Los Angeles mayor.

With roughly 50 percent of the expected vote counted early Wednesday morning, Bass led with approximately 36-37 percent while Pratt pulled in a strong 29.2 percent.

Progressive City Councilmember Nithya Raman trailed far behind in third at 21.4 percent.

Under California’s top-two primary system, Bass and Pratt will face off in November, giving Pratt five more months to campaign.

Pratt decided to run on cleaning up the city after becoming fed up with rampant crime, homelessness, and losing his home in the devastating 2025 wildfires, which he, and many others, largely blame on incumbent Mayor Karen Bass’ extreme failures.

Though the election is non-partisan, with no listed parties, Pratt is personally a registered Republican.

The Hills star’s Pacific Palisades home was destroyed in last year’s wildfires. He announced his bid on the one-year anniversary of the destruction, positioning himself as the candidate who lost everything to government incompetence and is now fighting to fix it.

Pratt campaigned on aggressive homeless sweeps, tougher policing, business revival, and accountability for the Bass administration’s handling of disasters and street disorder.

Around 10:20 p.m. Tuesday night at his watch party at Don Antonio’s Mexican restaurant, Pratt stepped outside to address reporters after early results showed him advancing.

In a fiery statement to the gathered press, Pratt declared, “I didn’t know I’d be here tonight, but this is obviously God’s plan, and I’m going to go all the way, and I’m going to show everybody that I’m their mayor.”

WATCH:

Spencer Pratt: “I didn’t know I’d be here tonight, but this is obviously God’s plan, and I’m going to go all the way, and I’m going to show everybody that I’m their mayor.” pic.twitter.com/EEjPAfLc0s

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 3, 2026

Pratt also declared, “The Communists already lost.”

WATCH:

Spencer Pratt: “The communists already lost.” pic.twitter.com/Kb8I0VvgDj

— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) June 3, 2026

Clips of his statement quickly went viral across social media.

Earlier on election day, Pratt released a hard-hitting video blasting city leadership on affordability and economic growth, emphasizing his focus on boosting commerce and local prosperity.

WATCH:

BREAKING : Spencer Pratt blasts Los Angeles leadership on election day, accusing city officials of hurting affordability and economic growth.

He says his focus is boosting commerce, business, and local prosperity. pic.twitter.com/wV87dH6fXv

— Pushpendra Singh Digital (@PushpendraTech) June 2, 2026

The Gateway Pundit will continue tracking this high-stakes runoff campaign.

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The University of Washington has confirmed that the portion of its NIH-backed muscular dystrophy experiments on dogs has officially ended, following a major investigation and public pressure campaign by the government watchdog group White Coat Waste (WCW).

The experiments intentionally caused dogs to suffer from muscular dystrophy before killing many of them.

WCW first requested documents on the UW muscular dystrophy dog lab from both the NIH and the university in July and August of last year.

The organization finally received the first tranche of records, including graphic photos and videos, from UW in early April. WCW is still waiting for additional records from the university.

Once those initial documents arrived, WCW immediately released the explosive findings.

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White Coat Waste reported:

Videos and records obtained by WCW through state and federal Freedom of Information Act requests in July and August 2025 show that UW’s canine colony recently confined ten dogs for experimentation. It was originally established using animals from a now-defunct Cornell University lab and an NIH-funded University of Missouri-Columbia colony — hosted in the same facility where the agency is still bankrolling Fauci’s maximum pain beagle tests.

UW’s lab preys on senior dogs around six to seven years old by forcing them to endure invasive experiments late in life.

Dogs are subjected to up to 50 injections into muscles or veins, along with muscle biopsies, neurological evaluations, and limb twisting.

The suffering doesn’t end there. They also develop painful, body-wide complications, like heart disease and difficulty standing and walking.

Beyond the main grant, the disabled dogs are also subjected to experiments paid for with other taxpayer funding.

After undergoing this debilitating testing, the dogs are killed.

The investigation and call to action prompted thousands of calls and emails from outraged supporters to UW administrators and RFK Jr.’s office at HHS, demanding that the university not renew the dog experiments when the muscular dystrophy grant expired on April 30.

Now, prompted by WCW’s investigation, UW has confirmed that it has ended those tests.

Sally Thompson-Iritani, DVM/PhD, Assistant Vice Provost for Animal Care, Outreach & 3Rs at UW, told The Gateway Pundit, “The part of the NIH-funded muscular dystrophy research that was using the dog as a model has finished. Dogs that were involved in the study were either adopted or reached their clinical/experimental endpoint.”

In a follow-up phone call, she added, “White Coat Waste was specifically referring to the muscular dystrophy grant initially. That one completed its portion that used the dog model… So for that particular grant, they don’t have any more proposed dog work right now.”

The experiments, which received more than $15 million in NIH funding over the years, deliberately bred dogs to suffer from a fatal form of muscular dystrophy.

The dogs developed severe muscle wasting, heart disease, inability to stand or walk, and enlarged tongues that prevented them from keeping them in their mouths.

They were subjected to up to 50 injections per muscle or vein, repeated muscle biopsies, neurological evaluations, and other invasive procedures before being euthanized.

As of June 1, the university has only one remaining dog on campus, a control animal from a separate prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia study, which is being placed for adoption.

“The other project evaluates a treatment for prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia. The current study has been completed, and the control animal is being placed for adoption. This is the only dog currently at the UW,” Thompson-Iritani told The Gateway Pundit.

However, Thompson-Iritani made clear that other dog research continues at UW.

“I know everyone wants to say ‘they’re never doing dog research again,’ but I can’t say that right now,” Thompson-Iritani said.

Thompson-Iritani said there is no way to know how many dogs will be at the lab being tested six months from now.

“We do currently have work that is funded to be done in dogs,” she stated. “We have worked in the dog model that is funded… they have decided that it is critical work that relies on that model. So, apparently, the prostate in the K9 is really unique in modeling a human prostate, so they have funding to do that work.”

WCW also filed records requests in July and August 2025 about UW’s separate prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia experiments on dogs. Those studies involved injecting healthy dogs with tumor cells directly into their prostates, performing experimental surgeries, and then killing the animals.

UW has still not provided any of those records to WCW, but the NIH finally released some documents last month. Records obtained by WCW show that experimenters implanted tumor cells into dozens of healthy dogs before the invasive procedures.

That project received a fresh $1,288,140 in NIH funding in August 2025 and remains scheduled to run through August 2027.

Thompson-Iritani said that they do try to adopt out the dogs whenever possible.

“We definitely prioritize adoption whenever possible,” she said. “There are certain things where if they need the tissues and stuff, sometimes we’re not able to adopt those dogs out. I know, like with the muscular dystrophy, some of the dogs were treated and lived here with a lot of human and animal interaction. They weren’t in somebody’s house, but they lived here with long-term care here at the university.”

Anthony Bellotti, founder and president of White Coat Waste, praised the end of the muscular dystrophy experiments as a direct result of WCW’s work but criticized the continuation of the prostate cancer dog tests.

In a statement provided to The Gateway Pundit, Bellotti said:

“White Coat Waste is proud that our latest investigation and campaign exposing the University of Washington’s taxpayer-funded canine cruelty has forced the school to confirm it ended the $15 million Fauci-era experiment that deliberately bred dogs to suffer from muscular dystrophy, leaving the animals struggling to stand, walk, and even keep their tongues in their mouths before they were killed.

But we also uncovered that RFK Jr.’s NIH is still bankrolling other experiments at UW that inject healthy dogs with tumor cells to induce prostate cancer, subject them to experimental surgeries, and ultimately kill them. Records obtained by White Coat Waste show RFK Jr.’s NIH voluntarily doled out another $1,288,140 in taxpayer funding to these dog tests last August, and the grant is scheduled to continue through August 2027.

White Coat Waste was the first to expose Dr. Fauci’s beagle tests and has led the fight to defund dog labs ever since. We’ve defunded dog testing at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Pentagon, EPA, and USDA, but since Secretary Kennedy took office, his NIH has wasted nearly $150 million on dog and cat experiments and repeatedly lied to taxpayers about it. WTF, RFK?

Taxpayers are tired of being forced to bankroll barbaric and wasteful Fauci-style experiments on pets. The solution is simple: Stop the money. Stop the madness.”

White Coat Waste has successfully led efforts to defund dog testing at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Navy, the EPA, and the USDA. The group continues to demand full transparency and an end to all taxpayer-funded dog and cat experiments at the NIH.

WCW remains the only animal advocacy organization to shut down any government primate lab in nearly a decade, any government dog testing labs in almost 20 years, and any government cat lab in the last 40 years.

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In one of the deadliest industrial accidents in Washington state history, a massive chemical tank containing hundreds of thousands of gallons of highly corrosive “white liquor” ruptured and imploded at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging Company paper mill early Tuesday morning, killing 11 workers and injuring eight others.

The incident took place at approximately 7:15 a.m. local time during a shift change at the facility in Longview, Washington.

The tank, which held up to 900,000 gallons of white liquor, a caustic mixture of sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide used in the pulping process to break down wood chips into paper pulp, was roughly 60-90% full at the time of failure.

The rupture released a flood of hazardous chemicals across the plant grounds, overturning vehicles, damaging structures, and contaminating nearby ditches and the Columbia River.

Emergency responders from the Longview Fire Department, Cowlitz 2 Fire & Rescue, Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office, and other agencies arrived quickly.

Initial reports indicated at least one dead and multiple injured, with nine workers unaccounted for. Two workers were transported to area hospitals, where one later died.

The remaining nine were presumed dead due to the catastrophic nature of the incident.

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Firefighters battle an industrial fire on the Nippon Dynawave Packaging Company property in Longview, Washington this afternoon.

: Jon Hutton pic.twitter.com/ag2fXtwJSA

— Jeremy Scott (@jeremyscottpdx) August 26, 2025

Recovery operations were made more difficult by the unstable tank structure and hazardous chemicals.

Crews worked over several days, prioritizing responder safety and the dignified recovery of remains.

By Saturday, Longview Fire Chief Brad Hannig announced that all nine missing workers’ bodies had been recovered and decontaminated.

The final death toll stands at 11.

• Gilbert (Gilberto) Bernal, 52, Kelso – A grandfather and electrician described as a “Godly man” and beloved family provider nearing his 32nd wedding anniversary.
• Tyler Covington, 29, Castle Rock
• Brad Covington, 27, Castle Rock – Brothers who worked side-by-side at the mill. Tyler leaves behind a wife and three children.
• Robert Wilson, 48, Clatskanie, Oregon
• Dale Miller, 54, Portland
• Jared Ammons, 35, Longview – A devoted husband and father of two (with a third child on the way).
• Braydon Finkas, 38, Cathlamet – An electrician known for hosting exchange students and helping those in need.
• Clinton “CJ” Doran (or Duran), 26, Kelso – Described by family as the “spiritual leader” and “joy of their home.”
• John Forsberg, 51, Longview – A witty, trivia-night regular and father of two young children.
• Norman Barlow, 58, Vancouver
• Dillon Miller – A father of three girls who was planning a September wedding.

Speaking at a press conference on Saturday, Chief Hannig stated, “I hope today will give the families so affected by this incident the closure needed to begin the long process of healing.”

Hannig emphasized that the site remains an active hazardous environment and that response efforts could continue for weeks or months.

Officials stated there is no threat to community drinking water supplies or airborne contamination.

The mill has suspended most operations, with only critical infrastructure running on minimum staffing.

State records show the facility has a documented history of safety and environmental violations.

According to a report from local station KING5, the Washington Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) cited Nippon Dynawave four times between 2019 and 2025 for issues including fall-protection failures, respiratory-protection violations, face-covering requirements during the pandemic, and interference with an injury investigation.

Two additional L&I investigations were open at the time of the incident.

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