Month: May 2026

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As America prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding, the left is once again showing the country exactly what separates conservatives from the modern Democrat Party.

On MSNOW Sunday, a segment about America’s upcoming anniversary quickly turned into another example of Trump Derangement Syndrome. 

Instead of celebrating the country’s founding, its history, and its unmatched promise, the left-wing panel used the occasion to frame American patriotism as something suspicious, divisive, and tied to race.

The segment began by looking back at the 1976 bicentennial celebration, when America marked its 200th birthday with events across the country. New York Harbor hosted a parade of historic ships, the National Air and Space Museum opened in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia hosted major events near Independence Hall. 

Millions of Americans came together to celebrate the country’s founding.

That should be the model for 2026. President Trump has pushed for America’s 250th anniversary to be a national celebration, not just a Washington, D.C., event. The goal is to involve the entire country, including rural communities and forgotten parts of America that are often ignored by the political and media class.

But MSNOW could not simply celebrate America.

The network’s framing suggested that national pride and unity “rings false” for many Americans because of the country’s history and current politics. 

The message was clear: because Donald Trump is president, even celebrating America’s founding must be treated as controversial.

That is the difference between the right and the left. Conservatives fly the American flag whether a Republican or Democrat is in office. Conservatives may oppose a president’s policies, but they still love the country and want America to succeed. 

The modern left increasingly treats patriotism as conditional. When its preferred party is out of power, America suddenly becomes a dark, oppressive, and morally broken country.

The segment also brought on Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr., whose book focuses on race and America’s anniversaries. 

During the discussion, Glaude claimed that “white nationalists” have taken control of the federal government and that Trump and his supporters view America as a “white republic.”

This is the same tired racial narrative that the left uses in every debate. Immigration enforcement becomes racism. Patriotism becomes white nationalism. Celebrating the Declaration of Independence becomes an act of exclusion.

The American flag becomes a political symbol only because the left has spent years attacking the values it represents.

America has a complicated history, including slavery and racial discrimination. No serious person denies that. 

But America was not founded on the idea that race should define a person’s worth. America was founded on the principle that civil rights come from God, not government, and that every person is entitled to liberty under the law. 

The country has not always lived up to that promise, but the story of America is the story of expanding that promise to more people.

The left refuses to acknowledge that progress because its entire worldview depends on grievance. 

Critical race theory, DEI, and modern identity politics all rely on the claim that America remains permanently racist. If America has made progress, then the left’s racial industry loses its power.

Conservatives believe America is the greatest country on earth because of its Constitution, its freedoms, its opportunities, and its founding principles. The left increasingly sees America as a nation defined by oppression, racism, and guilt.

While President Trump and millions of Americans prepare to celebrate 250 years of American greatness, the left is preparing to lecture the country about why celebrating America is wrong.

That is exactly why conservatives must celebrate louder.

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Culture

Springsteen—and America—Have Lost the Spirit of Unifying Rebellion

Privileged celebrities exploit partisan outrage and pose as martyrs.

(Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images)

Stephen Colbert is off the air. I waited to write this to make sure that our democracy, despite warnings from Colbert and his regular guest Bruce Springsteen, remains intact. It does.

Colbert is widely pitied, and Springsteen widely celebrated as a hero, because the two seized a chance to make a very large amount of money telling people already predisposed to believe them that the sky was falling. They are the living embodiment of the blurring of lines between entertainment, righteous protest, and partisan outrage. Their audiences increasingly just want confirmation of their own biases. Springsteen in particular often sounds like he’s browbeating half the country to make the other half feel righteously superior; the kind of stirring rhetoric, found in historic speeches and in documents like the Declaration of Independence, which once reached across barriers to unite our nation, seems lost.

They are men of their times. We live in a world of constant media stimulation, and Americans have convinced themselves they are living through a uniquely apocalyptic moment for freedom in general and the First Amendment in particular. Every unpleasant event becomes evidence of democracy dying. Social media posts become the Reichstag Fire. A conservative commencement speaker becomes the death of free inquiry. A canceled TV show, like Colbert’s, becomes political persecution. It’s all about as deep as a puddle in the late afternoon sun.

Nothing can simply happen anymore. Not sure? One of the supposedly most critical issues facing our government today is whether to build a ballroom next to the White House. If every Trump-driven event is an existential threat, then every change he orders, however minor and cosmetic in the grand scheme of things, must also be existential. Something as transient as a TV show can’t simply have become old or irrelevant like I Love Lucy. No, fascist, anti-democratic forces must be silencing truth-tellers. We’ll soon be passing video loops of Colbert hand-to-hand like Soviet-era dissidents shuffling mimeographed manifestos around smoky coffee shops.

It’s funny that “the Resistance” chose as its spokesman Colbert, hardly a courageous rebel broadcasting via pirate radio. He hosted one of the most expensive network television programs in the country. He operated with corporate backing and fawning celebrity access. This is a wealthy comic employed by a multibillion-dollar corporation. Springsteen is reputed to be a billionaire himself, and he plays to audiences who can swing thousands of dollars for a ticket. I’m not suggesting that only poor artists can discover truth, but observing that Colbert and his supporting acts are part of a system of money and influence and corporate greed as big or bigger than MAGA. Their comedy/commentary is no longer sharp or clever. It is simply mocking, often crude, as when Colbert called Trump “Putin’s c*ckholster,” and almost always sanctimonious, as when Springsteen claimed (on Colbert’s show) that those who supported Trump were “small-minded people who got no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about.” Colbert could probably stand in front of an audience and just say “Trump sucks” over and over to applause. That takes no courage. Our American political culture is exhausted, and the progressive electorate is now dependent on such one-sided narration to tell it what to believe. That cheapens us.

I’ve never met Springsteen, whose music I’ve enjoyed since I was 17, but I suspect if we ever found ourselves in the same room, he would not be interested in talking with a guy like me. In songs like Born in the USA or The Ghost of Tom Joad, Bruce was angry, yes, but also an inclusive populist, talking about the hardships we all shared in one form or another as Americans no matter how we voted. In his blistering song about the death of industrialization in the Midwest, Youngstown, Springsteen does not ask if the forgotten steel workers are Republicans or Democrats. What if, in the aftermath of 9/11, Springsteen had written a song condemning Muslims instead of the prayer that became The Rising? Left-wingers wouldn’t have liked that, but it would have been consistent, in essence, with his current divisiveness.

In his very best music, Springsteen retains hope—at the end of every hard day, working people can find some reason to believe and to come together to make the world better. Artists who once, like his own hero Woody Guthrie, translated shared American pain into art now too often exploit partisan outrage. Not too long ago, Bruce still believed that what we shared as Americans mattered more than how we differed. He professed that we need a conscience, not a party affiliation, to make America great. I am mourning here something larger than just celebrity political disagreement. I mourn the loss of a shared American vocabulary, and of a great American icon whose old music still inspires me.

Et tu, Bruce?

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Culture

Among the Moguls

VMFA’s finest display on one of the most elite empires. 

(Photo by Pallava Bagla/Getty Images)

“India’s Great Mughals: Art, Power, and Opulence,” currently showing at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, is a great and rare exhibition that will be hard to replicate in the near future for various sociological reasons. 

In the greater Anglosphere and America, the decolonial left are a far cry from the empire-builders (and museum curators) of JP Morgan’s days. The know-nothing nativists of the right, on the other hand, do not know or care about anything foreign, much less about anything Indian, the current antagoniste social, and much, much less about anything Islamic, the ur-villain of our still young crusading century. In the land of the Mughals, ethnonationalists are on a mission to erase every trace of the dynasty from Indian history. The ideas of both a mass-consumption public museum and neutral non-ideological history will be increasingly rare in the darker ages fueled by permanently social media–addled brains. 

It’s a tragedy all around. There is a lot to learn from a young martial empire that settled and intermixed with the local elite, imposed a coherent legal and administrative polity on a whole region, that then grew to be simultaneously the richest, most powerful, and arguably the most cosmopolitan empire of the world of its day—which then, over time, overstretched and turned inward, simultaneously into a fanatical, ethno-religious, and decadent entity, before rebellions, collapse, and conquest.

The exhibition deals with the three Great Mughals born within the subcontinent, Akbar, Jehangir, and Shah Jahan, and their near century-long rule, often considered India’s most prosperous days. The Mughal Empire was established exactly 500 years back in 1526, when a Timurid warlord from Central Asia named Babur lost his fief and found himself wandering with his ragtag army in medieval northwestern Hindustan, where he introduced the concept of flanking and firearms to the hapless Indians—brave and skilled with swords but without any sense of cavalry tactics or modern weaponry, according to Baburnama. He thereby established a northern Indian stronghold. By the time of the third emperor, Akbar, the imperial line was already indigenous and intermarried with the local elite. This exhibition deals with the wealth and cosmopolitanism of the empire, from Akbar onwards, to his illustrious grandson, the builder of the Taj Mahal. 

Akbar was the first and possibly only true pan-Indian emperor of modern times, as noted by Sir Jadunath Sarkar in his definitive work on the Mughals. He established an ethno-neutral elite and instituted administrative reforms that contributed significantly to the prosperity and stability of the Mughal Empire. From the 1580s onward, Mughal artistic traditions were enriched by European influences introduced by Jesuit missionaries arriving from the Portuguese territory of Goa, resulting in a dynamic and innovative cultural synthesis at the Mughal court. Akbar, who was illiterate himself, established imperial workshops known as karkhanas, where painters, calligraphers, weavers, architects, and other craftsmen worked collectively to produce objects for both ceremonial and private use, as well as kitabkhanas, or houses of books, which served as the center for the production and preservation of manuscripts. Akbar’s courtiers were economists and historians, some of the most enlightened of his days, including Todar Mal, Birbal, Tansen, and Man Singh, who were upper-class Hindus or converts to Sufism, and Abul Fazl and Faizi, who were both Muslims who translated Sanskrit to Persian. 

The reign of the Great Mughals coincided with the ascent of Elizabeth I, the late Renaissance, and the Spanish and Portuguese conquest of the Americas. The art displayed reflects that. Famous Mughal-school painters such as Basawan, Manohar, Kanha, Jagannath, Govardhan, and Abu’l Hasan worked side by side in imperial workshops, translating Indian epics such as the Mahabharata into Persian (Razmnama), and depicting events from Indian mythology, such as the arrival of Nanda into Vrindavan, taken from Harivamsha. Christian subjects such as the Descent from the Cross were copied and adapted in Mughal workshops, while European engravings by artists such as Adriaen Collaert inspired Mughal botanical studies, manuscript illumination, and architectural decoration. 

Objects in display include a bronze celestial seamless globe engraved with over 1,000 stars and 48 constellations inherited from Greek and Roman astronomy; nephrite jade cups from western China; and Renaissance-style iconography of the emperor towering over poverty itself, inspired by European imperial divinity of the era. 

Under Jehangir, Mughal learning expanded into the realms of natural science when the emperor commissioned detailed studies of exotic animals arriving through global trade networks, including a North American turkey brought from Portuguese Goa. Jehangir’s knowledge of animals was tested in 1624 during a hunt, when Imam Vardi, the imperial hunt-beater, challenged him to guess the gender of a captured francolin. The emperor unhesitatingly identified it as female, which was confirmed when the francolin was dissected and eggs were found inside it. Jehangir described the event in his memoirs and probably gave a European-made, francolin-shaped incense burner to the imam, whose name was inscribed on the bird’s breast. 

In The Fate of Empires, Sir John Glubb argued that empires tend to follow a recurring historical life cycle, regardless of geography, lasting roughly 200 years, and they always end, more often than not, in a self-created implosion rather than an outright conquest. 1526 was an interesting year. The Ottomans reached their imperial peak, defeating the Hungarians in a divided Europe, and the Mughals established the richest of early modern empires in Asia. By the time of the death of Shah Jahan in 1666, however, the rot was setting in. 

Aurangzeb, the third son of Shah Jahan, was an intellectual troglodyte, a religious fanatic and a bigot, and won a blistering civil war defeating his more moderate and liberal brothers, Darah Shikoh and Shah Shuja, who both favoured a continuity of Mughal cosmopolitanism mixed with Brahmin and Rajput courtiers. Instead, he reinstated religious taxes and filled his court with religious fanatics. It resulted in disaffected local Hindu elites (Rajputana), open rebellions in various provinces in the north (Punjab) and west (Marathas), and a quasi-independent feudatory in the richest province of them all (Bengal). By 1757, as Robert Clive marched into Bengal, the writ of the Mughals ran no further than the outskirts of Delhi, and the subcontinent was ripe for war and conquest. There is a lesson there for keen historians to perceive. 

And yet there is no India without the Mughals. Current ethnonationalist attempts try to portray Mughals as Islamist bigots, but no true historian should humiliate himself by engaging with such revisionism. From architecture to art to sartorial choices, from elite customs to cuisine, the Mughals enriched India beyond any measure; unlike the British, they kept their wealth mostly within the land and gentry. The empire was neither uniform nor unique, but its peak coincided with a certain refined cultural cosmopolitanism that is now despised by both green and saffron subalterns. 

Our memory of the three greatest Islamic empires is tainted, but there is a reason why the Gilded Age in America saw an increased interest in the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires, and that the J.P. Morgan Library in New York houses some of the finest Mughal paintings and calligraphy, purchased by Morgan himself from Sir Charles Hercules Read. Or why anyone obscenely successful and pioneering is still called a mogul, a word almost synonymous with elite.

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Foreign Affairs

The Recipe for an Iran Nuclear Deal Hasn’t Changed

Keeping negotiations narrowly on the nuclear file is the best way to secure success.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Recent reporting from Axios suggests that President Donald Trump is considering a new nuclear deal with Iran as a way to turn the temporary ceasefire into something longer-term and more sustainable. It also suggests that the Iranian regime is interested in playing ball. The reporting is light on details, but suggests that the deal will have the same core ingredients as the one negotiated by President Barack Obama and signed in 2015 that the U.S. later left—some kind of financial/sanctions relief in exchange for verification of promises not to pursue a weapons program.

These two ingredients are critical to any deal, but what is also critical is what is left off of the negotiating table. The president needs to remain vigilant and recall that the point of a nuclear deal is the nuclear weapons program and the nuclear weapons program alone. If we assume that the goal is preventing the Iranians from getting a nuclear weapon, any deal around this must remain narrowly focused to give it the highest odds of success. If, however, the goal is to fail to reach an agreement, then it also makes sense to require that the deal address the activity of proxies in the region and deal with missile systems. The Axios reporting suggests that some are pushing to do just that. 

This was exactly what helped nearly sink the original JCPOA in Congress—there was significant opposition to all the things the deal didn’t do. There was also much opposition to what it actually did—contempt for sunset clauses, for the fact that the deal would require some level of trust in addition to verification, and for arguments against any kind of financial relief for a regime some saw as illegitimate. 

Nearly a decade later, with oil prices sky-high, it is beyond parody that we are back to where this all began, except this time with a massive war as a kickoff rather than negotiations in Oman (as was the case back in 2013, when the JCPOA was first discussed between the Obama administration and Javad Zarif of the Iranian Foreign Ministry). 

This is by no means to say that the current negotiations aren’t worth pursuing; they absolutely are. The goal remains a quick end to the war before it has a chance to become another quagmire and cause sustained economic damage, although that window closes more with each passing day. It is for this reason that the president must guard very strongly against those who are unwilling to comprehend the basic reality of what a nuclear agreement needs to include and what can be left for another day. There is no time for an everything-bagel agreement. The administration must be willing to ruthlessly prioritize between nice-to-have and must-have, between things that can be negotiated in later agreements and what has to be part of any Phase 1 deal. 

The United States is negotiating from a position of strength, so it is likely that any negotiation will be more favorable to the Americans than to the Iranians when compared to the negotiations a decade ago. That said, the country is still not in a position to impose its will on the Iranian government, and any kind of agreement will need to be give-and-take. As a function of that, it will contain the same key ingredients as the JCPOA with differences of degree far more than differences of type. There has been no unconditional surrender, and as such it is effectively impossible to impose unilateral terms, especially when the Iranians have shown what they’re capable of doing to maritime passage through the Strait of Hormuz. 

Iranian nuclear weapons, despite being two weeks away for the better part of the last two decades, do represent a serious threat to America in a way that standard Middle Eastern saber-rattling does not; those seriously concerned about nuclear proliferation ought to guard against those with more expansive agendas. If the government is serious about a deal, it will require disappointing hawkish supporters, and the administration should steel itself for that sooner rather than later. 

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was on “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo to talk about the strength and resilience of the US economy.

Bessent explained that the media has not been honest in its reporting on the US economy, largely because of its opposition to President Trump.

Bessent also weighed in on how the US and President Trump have handled the war with Iran.

“How will you ensure that they keep their promises? I mean, after all of the lies and the back and forth with the Iranian leadership. Do you have confidence that they are gonna keep a promise?” Bartiromo asked.

“Well, what I have confidence in is that President Trump is going to hold them to it. With the Iranians, we’ll see,” Bessent said.

“We didn’t have regime change, but we changed the regime,” Bessent said.

“If President Trump agrees to this deal, I would tell the Iranian leaders right now he will enforce it and both militarily and economically,” Bessent said.

“What are the markers that you are going to use to ensure that they are keeping their promises?” Bartiromo asked.

“The easiest is freedom of navigation in the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz. Got to go back to the way it was before,” Bessent said.

“Let me get your assessment of the economy today. Are you surprised that the markets have been incredibly resilient? That the consumer seems to be still holding up even though we are seeing a spike in inflation?” Bartiromo asked.

Secretary Bessent explained that markets respond to the future, which is an indicator that the economy is doing well. He explained that the inflation spike has a lot to do with energy prices.

“It’s a very limited spike, I think, if you look. It’s energy-driven. It’s a supply shock. We will get to the other side of this. Markets live in the future. Markets are looking through this,” Bessent said.

“I don’t think the news is that bad. I think the news is bad. The quality of the reporting. The anti-Americanism. The anti, people are so anti-President Trump, anti-this administration,” Bessent said.

Watch:

Today, exclusively on @SundayFutures with @MariaBartiromo, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent talks about the resilience of the U.S. Economy. @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/ReOxJsrO74

— SundayMorningFutures (@SundayFutures) May 31, 2026

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An MSNOW anchor was forced away from the scene of a chaotic anti-ICE protest outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, after police moved in to restore order—and then spent the live segment complaining that law enforcement was preventing him from covering the story.

The protest outside the ICE detention facility had already spiraled into a tense confrontation between demonstrators and police. 

Officers in tactical gear, shields, and batons moved into the area as the scene grew increasingly unstable. Flashbangs were reportedly heard, arrests were made, and police were forced to establish a larger perimeter around the facility.

Yet MSNOW still tried to frame the situation as if law enforcement was the problem.

During the live report, the anchor described a large police presence outside Delaney Hall and repeatedly noted that officers were pushing him and his crew farther away from the protest. Police told him to step back as officers moved in to secure the area.

Instead of simply complying, the anchor repeatedly questioned officers about how far he had to move, whether he could stay where he was, and why he was being removed from the scene.

“We are press, though,” the anchor told police during the broadcast.

The officer’s answer was simple: everybody had to move back.

That should have been the end of the discussion. When police are trying to control a protest that has already become volatile, the press does not get to decide where the security line should be. Law enforcement does.

But the MSNOW anchor continued complaining on air, saying the order to move back would hurt his ability to cover what was happening. 

He later said multiple officers were escorting him and his crew away from the scene, as if police were doing something suspicious by making sure the media followed the same safety instructions as everyone else.

The irony was obvious. The same media outlet that regularly lectures Americans about “respecting institutions” suddenly had a problem when police officers gave basic crowd-control instructions during an anti-ICE protest.

The anchor also claimed he was trying to “bear witness” to what was happening at Delaney Hall. But the situation outside the facility was not a press freedom seminar. It was a protest that had gotten out of hand. 

When police deploy a large number of officers, move barricades, and push people away from a scene, that usually means the area is no longer safe.

The left’s coverage of ICE follows the same pattern every time. Activists make allegations about detention conditions. Democrats rush to blame immigration enforcement. Protesters gather outside a facility. 

When the protest becomes chaotic, the media shifts the blame back onto law enforcement for trying to restore order.

The same thing happened in Newark.

Instead of focusing on the protesters who created the need for a police response, MSNOW focused on the inconvenience of being moved away from the scene. Instead of asking why anti-ICE protests keep becoming confrontational, the network framed police as the villains for doing their job.

This is the modern media’s ICE coverage in one clip.

If ICE enforces immigration law, the left calls it cruel. If police protect an ICE facility from chaos, the left calls it excessive. If officers tell a reporter to move back during a dangerous situation, the left turns it into a press freedom complaint.

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Colombia is heading to a presidential runoff after conservative outsider Abelardo de la Espriella finished first in Sunday’s election, setting up a high-stakes June 21 showdown with leftist candidate Iván Cepeda.

With more than 99 per cent of votes counted, De la Espriella secured roughly 43.7 per cent of the vote, ahead of Cepeda on 40.9 per cent, placing both candidates far beyond the reach of the remaining field.

According to betting markets, his victory now gives him an 82 percent chance of becoming the country’s next president.

JUST IN: “The Tiger” Abelardo de la Espriella wins the most votes in Colombia’s first round & advances to the presidential runoff.

82% chance he’s Colombia’s next president. pic.twitter.com/VQ8e1oe7jY

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) June 1, 2026

More than 23 million Colombians cast ballots in an election dominated by concerns over rising violence, economic instability, and dissatisfaction with the government of left-wing President Gustavo Petro.

The result marked a humiliating collapse for Colombia’s traditional conservative establishment led by former President Alvaro Uribe.

¡Vamos a derrotar la tiranía y el absolutismo!

Pasamos a segunda vuelta gracias a los más de 10 millones de colombianos que respondieron al rugido.

¡En 21 días haremos historia!

Los espero en el cubo de cristal del Malecón del Río, para celebrar juntos esta victoria.

Hoy más… pic.twitter.com/wf7ANOusVZ

— Abelardo De La Espriella (@ABDELAESPRIELLA) May 31, 2026

The candidate for the Democratic Center, Paloma Valencia, secured less than seven per cent of the vote before quickly endorsing De la Espriella ahead of the runoff.

A respected lawyer, De la Espriella, campaigned on a hardline law-and-order platform while promising sweeping economic reforms and a crackdown on Marxist terror groups that have expanded their influence under Petro’s presidency.

BREAKING: Trump-like right wing presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella WINS Colombia’s election round 1, getting MORE VOTES than the leftist despite trailing the polls

He’s going FULL NAYIB BUKELE: “Under my government, any bandit who resists will be eliminated as… pic.twitter.com/5Mgp9Jtbtd

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 31, 2026

He has frequently expressed admiration for President Donald Trump and Argentine President Javier Milei.

Following the result, Milei congratulated De la Espriella on X, declaring that the outcome reflected “the desire for liberty and progress of the Colombian people.”

LA LIBERTAD AVANZA

Quiero felicitar a @ABDELAESPRIELLA por su triunfo en la primera vuelta de las elecciones de Colombia, y a los colombianos por esta ejemplar jornada electoral.

Este resultado refleja el anhelo de libertad y progreso del pueblo colombiano, y una voluntad…

— Javier Milei (@JMilei) June 1, 2026

Speaking to supporters in Barranquilla after his first-round victory, De la Espriella vowed to “defend democracy with reason or with force” and warned that Colombia could not continue down its current path under leftist leadership.

Meanwhile, far-left President Gustavo Petro refused to accept the preliminary vote count, alleging irregularities in the electoral process without providing evidence.

Cepeda also declined to formally recognise the result, telling supporters in Bogotá that “we will not hand Colombia over to fascism.”

A De la Espriella victory would likely lead to improved relations with the United States, after multiple clashes between Petro and Trump since he returned to office last January.

WATCH: Trump Says US Will Now RUN VENEZUELA Until it Can be “Put Back on Track” – “We’re Not Afraid of Boots on the Ground… We’re Going to Make Sure That that Country is Run Properly”

The runoff now sets the stage for one of the most consequential elections in modern Colombian history.

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Seven men climbing out of a New York City sewer sounds like the setup of a bad joke.

Authorities, however, aren’t laughing.

A viral video swept the internet this week, courtesy of The Flatbush Scoop, showcasing that exact setup:

SHOCKING FOOTAGE – BREAKING STORY IN FLATBUSH: A bizarre and developing situation is unfolding on McDonald Avenue between Kings Highway and Avenue S, near Kosher Corner Supermarket.

Video shows approximately six individuals emerging from a manhole at around 2:00 a.m. after… pic.twitter.com/afm3L7Vfe8

— Moshe Schwartz (@YWNReporter) May 29, 2026

“A bizarre and developing situation is unfolding on McDonald Avenue between Kings Highway and Avenue S, near Kosher Corner Supermarket,” the viral post, sitting at over a million views, read.

“Video shows approximately six individuals emerging from a manhole at around 2:00 a.m. after reportedly spending nearly two hours underground — with the cover closed and a person standing watch nearby.”

Indeed, the video did appear to show just that — though it appears that there were seven individuals, not six, to ultimately emerge from the sewer.

Initially, the video showed what appeared to be that aforementioned spotter wearing a white shirt, standing by a trio of vehicles. He then walked over to the manhole in question and appeared to give some sort of signal.

At that point, seven individuals all crawl out of the sewers, with the first one physically moving the manhole cover near the cars.

Even more bizarre, several of the men then immediately began to strip down, and the video cut out shortly thereafter.

For obvious reasons, the internet had a field day with this.

Those boys are doing some Oceans 11 type things down there.

— B (@mrbluemellow) May 29, 2026

pic.twitter.com/MVxi1pdTLS

— LH (@LH78__) May 29, 2026

(For the unaware, that second post is a reference to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a fictitious group of anthropomorphized turtles who live in the New York City sewers.)

But for as much fun as the internet was having, according to the New York Post, local authorities were treating this much more seriously.

The outlet reported that the New York Police Department formally launched an investigation into the bizarre, viral video.

That investigation apparently involved sending one of their own men down the sewer, though nothing concrete appears to have materialized from that venture.

No arrests have been made.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Sadly, unsurprisingly, “The University of Pennsylvania’s ‘America 250’ courses celebrating the country’s semiquincentennial have little to do with America, conservative analysts say,” according to a report from Campus Reform.

The Penn Libraries website lists 15 courses with America 250 themes.

The catch, as the report notes, is that  “few of those courses address foundational themes in American history.”

“For example, none mention the Bill of Rights. Key American founding figures, including George Washington, James Madison, and John Adams, are excluded. Alexander Hamilton, Ben Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson are each mentioned only once.”

For most Americans familiar with the far-left bent and indoctrination at many universities, it is outrageous.

In an email to Campus Reform, Veronica Bryant, an academic affairs fellow with the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, said that “only a small minority of the fifteen recommended courses offer a broad scope of American history or institutions.”

“Almost all these courses barely mention the founding documents of this nation, with none focused on the Constitution or Declaration of Independence,” she added.

Sadly, this likely reflects ambivalence and sometimes outright hostility towards America’s founding by the University.

“By contrast, five courses focus on slavery and two on immigration. Some of the courses, such as ‘Revolutions in Three Kingdoms: England, Ireland, Scotland and ‘Global Human Rights and US Immigration: Implications for Policy and Practice, barely mention the United States at all.”

“I expect universities to stretch the claim that their courses are related to the 250th anniversary of America,” Director of Research for the National Association of Scholars, David Randall,  told Campus Reform.

“What this list reveals is how few professors they have who are remotely qualified to teach such a course.”

As mentioned, it’s likely a combination of the lack of qualifications and a lack of respect for this nation and its founding.

These experts make the case that this stems from a lack of knowledge and, while it’s definitely true, there is an anti-American hostility from the Cultural Marxist Left, which is synonymous with academia in America.

Veronica Bryant argues that every university should be required to teach the American story in a semester-long course.

The experts argue that “such courses are necessary for students to become informed participants in civic life.”

While this is certainly true, they must be taught by professors who don’t have an axe to grind with America, a tall order in today’s academic environment.

We shall see if any of these suggestions are implemented.

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Ye is breaking records – and getting canceled.

Controversial rapper Kanye West was on a professional roller coaster last week, as he tasted record-breaking success in Istanbul, Turkey, while the news of the cancellation of his show by an Italian city foretells an uphill battle for re-acceptance in the (no pun intended) West.

The Italian city of Reggio Emilia has now joined a list that includes New Delhi, India; London, UK; Marseille, France; Basel, Switzerland, and Chorzów, Poland.

Watch: Kanye greets fans in Istanbul.

KANYE WEST İSTANBUL’DAKİ OTELİNİN ÖNÜNDE HAYRANLARI İLE BULUŞUP SELAMLAŞIYOR pic.twitter.com/zZbSGb1ITo

— imma (@immadexy) May 30, 2026

Sky News reported:

“A Kanye West concert in Italy has been cancelled over public order and security concerns. The US rapper had been due to perform in the city of Reggio Emilia this summer.

But local official ‌Salvatore Angieri ordered its cancellation because of concerns over the potential for protests, with West, known as Ye, having faced a wave of cancellations following years of antisemitic remarks.”

KANYE WEST İSTANBUL’U SALLADI
Ünlü rapçinin konserini yaklaşık 120 bin kişi izledihttps://t.co/3aX9bSxuNw

Video: AA pic.twitter.com/ILoWXbbrbF

— NTV (@ntv) May 31, 2026

The Jerusalem Post reported:

“US rapper Kanye West, who has been barred from performing in several countries due to past antisemitic comments, drew more than 100,000 fans to a concert in Istanbul on Saturday night.

[…] In his first appearance in Europe since 2014, and his first in Turkey, Ye performed for two hours in Istanbul’s Ataturk Olympic Stadium to an audience of 118,000, state-run Anadolu Agency said.

Among the audience were fans from Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Russia, Poland, and the Middle East, Anadolu said.”

KANYE WEST

Politik görüşleri nedeniyle bazı Avrupa ülkelerinin konserlerini iptal ettiği Kanye West’i (Ye) Dünya’nın başkenti İstanbul’da 120 bin kişi coşkuyla kucaklıyor ve bağrına basıyor.
Kanye de bu sevgiye olağanüstü performansıyla karşılık vererek onları eşsiz müziğiyle… https://t.co/wnMSwcPggP

— Çetin AYDIN (@cacetinaydin) May 30, 2026

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Unhinged Rapper Kanye West Sparks Outrage After Release of Bizarre “Heil Hitler” Music Video on Victory in Europe Day

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