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Today is the start of “PRIDE Month” – a months-long celebration best known for sexualized LGBTQ+ parades and events like Drag Queen Story Hours.
But around here, we’re bringing back something better…
🇺🇸 American PRIDE Month
A few years ago, we flipped the script and used June to celebrate the country we love – and with America’s 250th birthday right around the corner, we’re bringing it back.
📧 Hit reply to this e-mail and send me your story of American PRIDE. Tell me about the moment, person, place, sacrifice, memory, or belief that makes you proud to be an American. It can be patriotic. It can be personal. It can be funny. It can be emotional. It can be completely unfiltered.
I’ll read every reply – and throughout the month, share some of the best ones with the Wake Up Right fam.
So let’s hear it: What makes America great to you?
🤡 CNN launched on this day in 1980
🗽 NYC ranks as worst U.S. city to start a career
🚤 U.S. has killed 202 in drug smuggling boat strikes
🤑 NYC pays $5.2M salaries for Mamdani's propaganda team
Sources: History, Wallet Hub, NY Times, NY Post
NJ Gov admits ICE riots are not organic
The anti-ICE protests outside a detention center in Newark, New Jersey, hit their ninth day this weekend, turning increasingly violent – but even the Democrat governor admitted this isn't a grassroots uprising…
Set the table: Masked rioters hurled projectiles, set tires ablaze, and rammed police barriers outside the Delaney Hall detention on Friday. New Jersey State Police moved in – arresting six people and clearing the crowd with tear gas and officers on horseback.
The headline: Following the arrests, Democrat Gov. Mikie Sherrill admitted who was really behind the madness.
"Five of the six people arrested last night by State Police were from outside New Jersey," Sherrill said, adding that "national extremist groups have become involved."
Fox News reporters captured signage from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the Progressive Labor Party, and other hard-left outfits.
Real talk from G: This was the exact vibe I had been getting. As a lifelong New Jersey resident, I know what our left-wing nutjobs look and feel like. The ones at Delaney Hall feel more like West Coast lib anarchists you see in Portland.
The money machine: Behind the masks sits an organized operation. The protests are coordinated in part by the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice — a coalition of 50+ activist groups including the ACLU-NJ and the NJ Working Families Party. Undercover footage showed "medics" handed ~$100 of brand-new gear each.
Up the chain: Marxist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham, who funds pro-CCP causes from Shanghai, has poured $285 million into the network since 2017.
Follow the money: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the crackdown is coming. New IRS rules will force nonprofits to vet their grant recipients — and own the liability if those recipients turn violent.
💬 Bessent promised, "a lot to report" in the "weeks and months ahead."
In related news: Marxist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker turned up at Delaney Hall to cheer the rioters on. He's currently being investigated over a March trip to Communist Cuba.
💬 And on a stream titled "FEDS ARE AFTER ME," Piker named Singham as the "funding vehicle" behind "a lot of political movements" — the first time a network insider said the quiet part out loud.
Big picture: When even a Democrat governor admits the rioters are bused-in extremists, the "spontaneous outrage" narrative collapses.
[Source: Zero Hedge, Fox News]
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MAHA war on ticks
Ticks are making Americans allergic to red meat — and the bites are spiking to near-record levels. Now the Trump administration is going to war with them.
Red meat allergies? Yes. Alpha-gal syndrome is a red-meat allergy you can develop from a single tick bite. It first popped up in the U.S. in 2009. The reaction is delayed and easy to miss – hives or worse, often showing up hours after a meal.
The details: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rolled out a sweeping federal offensive to take on ticks on Friday during the New Hampshire stop on his “Take Back Your Health” tour. The plan includes:
🐮🦌 A CDC-led pilot to wipe out ticks on wildlife before they ever reach people, starting in New England.
💵 Three innovation contests offering up to $2.5 million, including a $2 million prize for using AI to speed up diagnosis.
🥩 NIH-funded research into alpha-gal syndrome.
🌐 A new partnership letting patients find Lyme-experienced doctors at hhs.gov/lyme.
🏥 Educating doctors across the country on how to recognize Lyme disease
Big quote: Kennedy said: “We are going after this disease at its source, driving faster diagnostics and new prevention strategies, and delivering the urgency and action Americans deserve.”
The numbers: More than 476,000 Americans are diagnosed with Lyme disease every year. ER visits for tick bites recently jumped from 39 to 137 per 100,000 across ten Midwest states in a single month. Roughly 500,000 people already live with alpha-gal.
Back up: This builds on LymeX – a Trump-era partnership with the Cohen Foundation that has already brought two new Lyme tests to market – and the 2019 Kay-Hagan Tick Act, which set up the first national strategy to fight tick-borne disease.
The goal is to reduce Lyme disease cases by 25% by 2035.
[Source: HHS, The National Pulse]
🇮🇷 The United States and Iran traded strikes on military sites over the weekend and blamed each other for the escalation, further testing a ceasefire and ongoing diplomatic efforts to end the three-month war. Read more.
🎸 Country star Martina McBride and rocker Bret Michaels became the fourth and fifth performers to drop out of the upcoming “Freedom 250” concert put on by the White House, caving to pressure from the left. Read more.
🧑⚖ A federal judge appointed by Barack Obama and married to Joe Biden's personal defense attorney ruled that Trump’s name cannot be added to The Kennedy Center. Read more.
🙀 The wife of Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner said she was “deeply hurt” by revelations that he husband was having an extramarital “sexting” affair. Read more.
🩻 President Trump remains in "excellent health," his physician said in a memo released after his annual physical earlier this week. Read more.
😷 DHS has instructed ICE agents to ignore state and local laws restricting their use of face masks while carrying out their duties. Read more. Reminder that the agents are wearing masks because the radical left was posting their home addresses, threatening their families.
⛽ The average price for a gallon of gas dropped 24 cents to $4.32 – though it’s still almost 50% higher than pre-Iran war prices. Read more.
👑 Leftists with the "No Kings" coalition are planning a nationwide day of protest on President Trump's birthday, June 14. Read more.
❤ A pill has been found to almost double the survival time for advanced pancreatic cancer patients, with experts describing the trial as a game-changer. Read more.
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🎥 Vile protester threatens to kill ICE agent and his family — "Your children. Your wife. All dead." Watch.
🎥 Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket goes up in a massive fireball on the launchpad. Watch.
🎥 Bill Maher tells Democrats a hard truth they don't want to hear. Watch.
🎥 Rioters torch cars, loot stores, and riot across France — after a soccer win. Watch.
🎥 Spencer Pratt flips the script on a CNN host trying to corner him with a "conspiracy theory" smear. Watch.
🎥 A British journalist lays out the truth about U.K. rape stats — and a triggered leftist threatens him for it. Watch.
🎥 Crowds gather in Times Square to catch a glimpse of "Manhattanhenge." Watch. Fun fact: I filmed this annual celestial event in 2013 for the Wall Street Journal. There were fewer people and fewer phones in the air back then.
🎥 Trump shows off the construction of a temporary UFC arena outside the White House. Watch. He also gives a tour of the future White House ballroom. Watch.
🎥 You'll never hear about Jena Salem on CNN – who was raped and had her throat slit during a home invasion – because the races don't support their agenda. Watch.
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