Actor Rainn Wilson, who played Dwight Schrute on "The Office," has claimed that his iconic show would not be possible today due to cancel culture and political divisions.

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Iran’s state-run Fars News Agency on Monday cited a “knowledgeable source” who said the U.S.-Iran peace deal “includes U.S. acceptance, for the first time, of Iran’s right to collect fees for maritime services” in the Strait of Hormuz.

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Brazil's Lula da Silva landed in France for this week's 52nd G7 Summit amid expectations of a possible new meeting with President Trump.

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In ancient Athens at the height of the Peloponnesian War, the politician Cleon rose as the archetype of the demagogue. Thucydides, the great historian and fellow general, described him as a crude orator who first introduced shouting, vulgar abuse, thigh-slapping, and theatrical strutting into the Assembly—habits that lowered the tone of Athenian politics and encouraged irresponsibility.

Aristophanes, in his comedy “Knights,” caricatured Cleon as a corrupt, flattering slave who kept power by pandering to the people’s worst impulses, blackmailing rivals, and enriching himself while professing love for the common man.

Both witnesses saw the same danger—Cleon didn’t just break decorum; he made its destruction profitable. He saved his sharpest personal attacks for moments when the city needed steadiness and unity the most—because manufactured outrage bound his followers tighter and faster than any constructive policy ever could.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has been running the same script in 21st-century California.

For years, Newsom positioned himself as the adult in the room whenever Joe Biden came under fire. When Republicans pointed to the former president’s obvious physical and mental decline, slurred speeches, and policy wreckage, Newsom lectured them sternly about “cheap shots” and “obsessing over age.” 

He called Biden’s long career a strength, not a liability, barnstormed swing states telling Democrats to “buck up” and back Biden, while insisting that any focus on the president’s fitness was “unworthy” of real politics. Decorum mattered, he said. Unity mattered. Personal attacks had no place in governing.

Then Flag Day 2026 arrived—also the U.S. Army’s birthday—and President Donald Trump turned 80. Newsom’s office dropped an official statement that read like something scrawled on a bar napkin: “Happy 80th birthday to America’s biggest loser. He can blow out the candles, but he can’t wish away the damage.” 

For years, the Left denounced Trump’s late-night tweets as “mean,” “unpresidential,” and dangerous to norms. Yet, here is Newsom, using official letterhead and a social media post, delivering a crude personal insult on a milestone birthday.

The hypocrisy is glaring. Respect in progressive politics is strictly conditional.

What makes it especially galling is the state Newsom actually governs. California possesses extraordinary natural advantages: some of the richest farmland, the best climate, the busiest ports, and the most innovative talent on the planet. Yet, under his watch, it has become a slow-motion departure gate. 

Californians are not fleeing because of bad luck; they are fleeing sky-high taxes that punish work, regulations that strangle business, and social policies that turned downtown San Francisco and stretches of Los Angeles into open-air drug bazaars and tent colonies.

Billions have vanished into a high-speed rail fantasy that never materializes and green mandates that bring blackouts and soaring bills. Schools receive top-tier funding with bottom-tier results. Farmers watch water get flushed to the ocean while their fields dry up. The middle class has been voting with moving trucks for years, heading to places where competence still exists.

From this crumbling perch, Newsom feels qualified to lecture the rest of the country about “waste and chaos.” The projection is astonishing. 

On the very day Newsom chose to issue his insult, Trump was announcing major progress toward a deal with Iran—one that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, ease global energy pressures, and advance a framework to prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons. 

While the governor was slinging mud, the president was delivering tangible movement on a foreign-policy challenge that had bedeviled previous administrations for years. 

Trump’s first term delivered measurable gains for working people—real wage growth before the virus hit, energy exports instead of imports, criminal justice reform that actually passed, and peace deals between Israel and Arab nations that the foreign-policy clerisy swore could never happen. 

Trump was reelected because millions of voters looked at the alternative—open borders, inflation eating paychecks, cities in disorder—and said enough. Voters rejected the very approach Newsom champions. 

Newsom, safe behind security details and Napa hills, cannot process that verdict, so he continues to reach for insults.

Like Cleon before him, Newsom reserved his sharpest personal venom for a moment when the nation needed steadiness and unity most. On a day that honors the American flag and the Army—symbols of shared sacrifice and national continuity—he opted for partisan bile while Trump advanced real diplomatic progress on Iran. That choice exposes the insecurity of a fading coastal elite.

Democrats warn about “threats to democracy” while discarding traditional restraint. They celebrate every kind of diversity except diversity of thought. Protected by wealth and media, they rarely experience the disorder their policies create for ordinary citizens. The continuing exodus from California to red states is the referendum they cannot refute.

The country has endured plenty of ugly political theater. But when even presidential birthdays become fresh opportunities for partisan venom, something fundamental has frayed. 

Newsom’s polished image and 2028 daydreams cannot disguise the fact that the state he leads keeps losing people, businesses, and credibility. His attack on Trump’s 80th birthday did not damage the president; it only spotlighted the smallness of the man who launched it.

History judges by outcomes, not press releases. California keeps bleeding residents. Trump’s agenda advances. Americans are judging by results, not rhetoric. The birthday candles are out, but California’s failures burn bright.

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An illegal alien has been indicted for allegedly murdering his roommate with a machete earlier this year in DeSoto County, Mississippi.

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Transgender actor Laverne Cox says that President Donald Trump's reversal of federal diversity rules has cost trans actors "so much money" as the backlash to DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) programs grows.

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AI startup Anthropic has deployed senior technical staff to the nation's capital for emergency negotiations with Trump administration officials following export restrictions that forced the shutdown of its most advanced AI models.

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President Donald Trump meets with French President Emmanuel Macron at the G7 summit in the French Alps on Monday, June 15.

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Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Monday that Israeli forces will not withdraw from southern Lebanon, despite Lebanon’s inclusion in the peace deal between the United States and Iran announced Sunday by President Donald Trump.

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U.S. industrial production edged up in May as strength in high-technology, defense, mining, and durable manufacturing offset weakness in nondurable goods and consumer products.

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The G7 was originally constructed as an assembly for the U.S, Japan, Canada, Germany, Italy, France and the U.K.  However, in the past several years it is abandoned it’s limited economic purpose and agenda and morphed into an assembly of nations far beyond the original intent. Now we watch the ridiculous assemblies of dozens of […]

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Iranian military leaders celebrated the news on Monday that the country had agreed to the terms of a memorandum of understanding with the United States to end the current conflict, suggesting that the agreement represented "defeat and surrender" for America.

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