• Boulder terrorist’s plans and charges: Mohamed Sabry Soliman attacked Sunday’s Boulder, Colorado, event for the hostages Hamas is still holding. Soliman had been planning the attack for a year. He arrived three years ago on a B2 visa, and after that expired, the Biden administration granted him a work visa, which also expired in March. Soliman learned of the “Run for Their Lives” walk online and initially planned to purchase a gun to carry out the attack. He was unable to buy a gun due to his illegal status, so he researched how to create the Molotov cocktails he used in the attack. Twelve people have been identified with severe to moderate injuries, but Soliman is being charged with 16 counts of attempted first-degree murder, along with a hate crime and other charges. If found guilty on all counts, he faces a total sentence of 600 years.

• Christian fired from Kennedy Center over marriage beliefs: Back in February, Donald Trump appointed his first-term former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, who is openly homosexual, as the president of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. When Trump took control of the Kennedy Center, he argued that it had become too woke, saying that the shows chosen were “very boring” and “very radical left.” He promised to bring in very big shows and “very big surprises.” Well, apparently, one of those “very big surprises” is the firing of Floyd Brown, a Christian who had been recruited to join the Kennedy Center as vice president of development by JD Vance. Brown explained that Grenell fired him after he was asked about his past “statements about traditional marriage and homosexual influence in the GOP.” If this were the Biden administration, Brown wouldn’t have been hired in the first place.

• Education Department celebrates “Title IX Month”: Corporations no longer find catering to the Rainbow Mafia profitable, and now the Department of Education has declared that June is “Title IX Month.” The Daily Wire reports that the department will spend the month highlighting Trump’s actions to defend female sports and spaces. Additionally, the Office for Civil Rights in the Education Department will be launching probes into two egregious cases in which men pretending to be women were valued above real women. In Wyoming, a man was allowed to live in a Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house, where he demonstrated sexual interest in the women around him. In Colorado, students at a public school were assigned sleeping arrangements based on “gender identity” rather than biology. Parents were misled about the arrangements, being told that girls and boys would sleep separately.

• Trump’s former lawyer asks for pardon: Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former fixer, infamously turned on Trump after he pleaded guilty to a number of crimes, including tax and campaign violations. Cohen is now asking Trump for a presidential pardon. In a recent op-ed published in The Hill, Cohen is among five individuals who contended that Joe Biden unfairly denied them pardons. They then ask Trump for a pardon, writing, “Each of us respectfully requests it of President Trump now, for ourselves and for all those Americans who will need mercy and forgiveness in the future.” Interestingly, they blame Biden’s failure to grant their petitions on his cognitive decline. Cohen is unlikely to receive a pardon from Trump, given that he served as a key witness against Trump in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s dubious business fraud case.

• Trump begins reversing Biden’s gas and oil drilling restrictions in AK: The National Petroleum Reserve (NPR) in Alaska was first cordoned off by President Warren G. Harding in 1923 to serve as emergency fuel for the Navy. In the ‘70s, the NPR was opened up to drilling by the Department of the Interior, but under Joe Biden, drilling on those 13 million acres was banned. The Interior Department under Secretary Doug Burgum proposes rescinding that April 2024 rule and reopening the area to drilling. Rather than prioritize the possible harm to birds and caribou, Trump’s administration is looking to the future of America’s energy production and security. Burgum has visited the area with Alaska Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski and will speak at Governor Mike Dunleavy’s energy conference today.

• Obama-era IRS scandal official now heading IRS ethics office: Never let it be said that the U.S. government doesn’t hold itself accountable — wait, reverse that. Elizabeth Kastenberg, one of the IRS agents involved in the politically directed scrutiny of conservative groups under the Obama administration, is the new acting director of the Office of Professional Responsibility at the IRS. The 2012 scandal involved denying tax-exempt status to Tea Party-linked groups and audits that prevented groups from participating in the 2012 election. Also on the management team at the Office of Professional Responsibility is Jacqueline Bennett, who has called President Trump a psychopath and has a record of social media posts critical of conservatives. The IRS, it seems, is still a captured institution.

• More white South Africans arrive in U.S.: A second group of white South African refugees recently arrived in America. A U.S. embassy spokesman explained, “Refugees continue to arrive in the United States from South Africa on commercial flights as part of the Afrikaner resettlement program’s ongoing operations.” The first group of 59 Afrikaners sparked consternation from Democrats and Leftmedia pundits who objected to Donald Trump’s claim that these Afrikaners were suffering a genocide. When South African President Cyril Ramaphosa visited the White House last month, he also pushed back, claiming that the whole country is suffering from violent crime. Back in February, the Trump administration announced that it was fast-tracking resettlement for these Afrikaners while also suspending other refugee programs. According to Jaco Kleynhans, head of the Solidarity Movement, which represents Afrikaners, roughly 8,000 Afrikaners have applied for refugee status in the U.S.

• Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court allows “nonbinary” on birth certificates: The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico recently ruled that residents can get their birth certificate sex officially changed and marked with an “X,” signifying “nonbinary.” The Court noted that since 2018, gender-confused individuals had been permitted to switch their sex on their birth certificates. “But the Plaintiffs in this case are nonbinary,” the Court wrote, “meaning that their gender identity is neither male nor female. Their request is simple: to be permitted to have a gender marker on their birth certificate that reflects their true gender identity, like everyone else.” With this ruling, Puerto Rico joins 17 other states that permit residents to change their birth certificates to include a “nonbinary” identification. The fact that no such sex distinction exists doesn’t matter to these states. Apparently, truth is nontruth.

Headlines

• Joe Biden’s pardons investigated by Justice Department (Newsweek)

• House panel probes climate change crackdown on businesses by Biden’s DOJ and EPA (Washington Times)

• Major companies abandon law firms that signed deals with Trump (Newsweek)

• Maxine Waters slapped with $68,000 FEC fine for violating campaign finance laws (Washington Free Beacon)

• Ukraine strike decimates only bridge connecting Russia and Crimea, cutting crucial supply line (NY Post)

• Humor: Furious Al Gore seen blowing hair dryer at ice caps to stop them from regrowing (Babylon Bee)

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