Putin Warns Europeans That Moscow Can ‘Raze to the Ground’ Any Country Attempting to Attack Russian Enclave of Kaliningrad
May 31, 2026
Putin is not kidding around
Kaliningrad is the new powder keg.
The 5-year war in Ukraine hasn’t even finished yet, but a new conflict between Russia and the Euro-Globalists is already shaping up.
Yesterday, while talking to journalists, President Vladimir Putin warned that Russia has ‘all the means necessary at its disposal’ to destroy anyone who attempts to attack the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
Anyone stupid enough to have wet dreams over attacking Kaliningrad, will be razed from the earth. pic.twitter.com/qgCex5Hjpw
— Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil (@ivan_8848) May 29, 2026
“Putin was responding to a question about remarks made by Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys earlier this month who said that NATO had to show Moscow it was capable of penetrating Kaliningrad.”
Russia has activated the “Carpet” emergency protocol in Kaliningrad, completely halting airport operations amid reports of an unidentified aerial threat.
Flights are unable to land as fears grow that the war may now be reaching Russia’s Baltic doorstep. pic.twitter.com/gmcmbj4hjW
“Putin warned, however, Russia has the capability to ‘raze to the ground’ any country that attempts to attack it.
[…] He warned that Russia would treat all Ukrainian drone launch sites as legitimate targets, even if they operate from the Baltic states.
Putin called for an objective investigation into a drone strike on a residential building in the Romanian city of Galati near the Ukrainian border on Friday, which injured two people. Romania, along with its NATO allies, blamed Russia for the intrusion.”
Ex‑Pentagon analyst: Russia would “destroy anyone” attacking Kaliningrad – NATO’s threats are hollow
Retired USAF Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, former DoD analyst, tells Sputnik that Vladimir Putin’s warning is backed by real capability.
Xavier Becerra, the frontrunner in the race for California governor, has frequently drawn a line between deporting illegal migrants with criminal records and those without – at least in theory.
Even as the Trump administration has softened its deportation rhetoric in recent months, Becerra has continued to hit immigration officials for targeting those he says are “on the verge” of getting their green cards. “These are not the criminals,” he says, “These are not the people that Donald Trump always talks about trying to go after.”
Becerra says the administration’s policies prove that President Trump was never really interested in going after only the criminals and the people who were “doing harm in California.”
Yet, Becerra, the son of Mexican-American immigrants who became a member of Congress, state attorney general, and secretary of Health and Human Services in the Biden administration, has avoided taking a position on whether taxpayer-funded nonprofits should be shielding serious criminals from deportation.
Becerra again this week took aim at Trump and promised to fight the administration’s deportation policies.
“We will do everything we can to make sure that we show the federal government that we’re not participating in their ICE raids and their ICE actions,” he said.
Yet Becerra has been far more reticent about how he would treat illegal immigrants with serious criminal records. The question is a pressing one for all California Democrats after Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, wife of state Attorney General Rob Bonta, sponsored a bill that would require the state to pay for an attorney for every illegal immigrant. She has declined to say whether the bill would bar people with violent felony convictions from accessing taxpayer-funded legal aid to fight deportation.
A recent investigation by the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal found that California Democrats have steered at least $1 billion in taxpayer-funded grants and contracts to more than 80 nonprofits that provide myriad services to illegal immigrants during Gavin Newsom’s time as governor.
Some of those funds underwrite basics: food, clothing, water, and shelter for migrants crossing from Mexico. But a substantial portion – at least $100 million – went to legal aid organizations whose explicit purpose is to keep undocumented immigrants, whatever their criminal history, from being deported.
Many of those organizations operate under what they call a “merits-blind” policy. They do not screen clients by the severity of their crimes. They take the cases California law says should result in deportation – serious felonies, violent offenses – and they litigate them anyway. The work unfolds largely out of public view, shielded by a state law that bars courts from disclosing a defendant’s immigration status without judicial permission.
State lawmakers tried to close this gap last year. Under pressure from Republicans, the Democrat-controlled legislature prohibited state funds from being used on legal defense for immigrant felons. The problem is that the law has no reliable enforcement mechanism, leaving the prohibition largely symbolic.
Becerra’s relationship to the nonprofits doing this work is not peripheral. It is central to his political identity.
His closest organizational ally is the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, known as CHIRLA, which received more than $100 million in state funds. The group uses those resources not only for legal aid but to organize street protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to maintain a rapid-response network that alerts undocumented immigrants across California to deportation raids. Becerra has called CHIRLA “my family.” The group’s political arm endorsed his gubernatorial campaign. Republican Steve Hilton, his closest opponent in the governor’s race, has accused CHIRLA of deploying undocumented immigrants to canvass against him.
The ties go deeper still. UnidosUS – formerly the National Council of La Raza and among the most powerful Latino advocacy organizations in the country – has maintained close relationships with Becerra for decades. UnidosUS maintains a group of 50 affiliates that provide legal services to immigrants, with some of the affiliates providing this legal aid to illegal immigrants with criminal records.
Becerra’s daughter interned there in 2012. The group helped shepherd his Senate confirmation as Biden’s Health and Human Services secretary. It paid at least $600 for him to attend a Philadelphia conference in 2005, as JusttheNews.com reported. He has appeared repeatedly at its events.
Then there is the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, which has received more than $146 million in California taxpayer funds over the past decade, according to a RealClearPolitics review of state contracts and grants. Becerra partnered with the group on immigration detention policy and at least one legal case during his tenure as state attorney general.
The ILRC’s current work offers a window into how legal advocacy can reshape the practical consequences of criminal conviction. On its website, the organization markets a how-to manual for “conviction relief” – a guide to erasing “the immigration consequences of crimes” – sold to lawyers and nonprofits for $140. On the same page, it highlights a Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling from earlier this year holding that assault with a deadly weapon no longer automatically qualifies as a violent crime warranting deportation. The ILRC notes that the ruling applies to domestic violence cases and aggravated felony cases alike, and it urges attorneys to use the decision to reopen removal orders for clients convicted of that offense.
“Advocates should consider filing motions to reconsider/reopen and motions to remand for cases where a person was ordered removed because of [an assault with a deadly weapon] conviction,” the group writes on its site.
The ILRC was not a direct party to the underlying case, United States v. Gomez, which was litigated by public defenders’ offices across the country, including one in San Diego. But the organization received at least $540,000 in state funds in 2020 specifically to “provide legal training and technical assistance” to public defenders’ offices and other state contractors, according to grant records. Neither Becerra’s campaign nor the ILRC responded to questions about whether state funds are being used in connection with those efforts.
Becerra built much of his relationship with the ILRC during his years as state attorney general. In 2017, the group praised him and Gov. Jerry Brown for supporting legislation that froze the expansion of private immigration detention facilities in California and allocated the attorney general’s office $1 million per year for a decade to monitor such facilities. Two years later, ILRC applauded a report from Becerra’s office detailing alleged abuses in detention conditions. The following year, the group joined an amicus brief alongside faith-based and immigrant justice organizations defending California’s restrictions on private detention when a private prison company sued to overturn them.
A subsequent Gavin Newsom-era law banning private detention facilities statewide was eventually struck down by a federal district court in 2023 as unconstitutional.
Despite that setback, Becerra signaled this week that he would revive the effort if elected governor.
“We would take every action we can to move away from having any facilities that are privately owned detention facilities located in California,” he said, while acknowledging that federal authority limits what the state can do. “We will do everything we can to make sure if there’s a facility in California, it meets California standards.”
This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.
Susan Crabtree is RealClearPolitics’ national political correspondent.
Why Does the Media Care That Has-Beens Are Withdrawing From ‘Freedom 250’ DC Event?
May 31, 2026
Martina McBride was, once upon a time, one of country’s biggest stars. The emphasis there is once upon a time; a long time, unless you’re one of those types who thinks it’s only yesterday that Pearl Jam and the Strokes were on the radio and any large group of people still listened to any of those three. (No shame in that; I’m in your numbers.)
McBride’s last album that appeared in the Billboard 200 was released in 2014. Her last album certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America — for between 500,000 to 1 million sales or equivalent streams — was released in 2007. Her last RIAA platinum record — over one million — was in 2005. In less than five months, people born on the day that album was released will be able to legally drink.
Nor is she an artist with a cult audience. We’re not talking Barbra Streisand, or Phish, or the Pet Shop Boys — singers or groups with dedicated fanbases despite a lack of commercial success. Nobody’s following her around the country in a VW Microbus with the lyrics to “Wild Angels” painted on the side.
Ergo, why is the media not only paying so much attention to the fact that she and other third-rate musicians are pulling out of an event that was being hailed as the “worst concert lineup ever assembled,” but painting it as an act of brave anti-Trump resistance?
McBride became the biggest name (already saying something) to pull out of a concert series on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for America’s semiquincentennial. (That’s “250th anniversary,” for those of you subjected to a Common Core education.)
“I was presented with an opportunity to perform at a nonpartisan event but that turned out to be misleading,” McBride wrote on Instagram.
“I asked lots of questions and was assured this was a nonpartisan event that was meant to celebrate ALL 50 states.”
However, she stated that “things started changing.”
“I’ve spent my entire career singing songs about real people with real issues. I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to be a voice for those who have felt like they didn’t have one,” she wrote in the post.
“It greatly upsets me that any fan who has been moved by my music may now feel like I’m abandoning the meaning behind those songs.”
The reason behind this? Apparently the fact that the group putting on the bash is affiliated with President Donald Trump. She couldn’t have found this out through her agents — or by doing a Google search, or a ChatGPT prompt, like virtually anyone could have done.
Right, that excuse is totally believable. In the same way I find it believable that Jimmy Hoffa is alive and managing a Blockbuster Video on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Really! Some guy said it on a podcast somewhere. I think.
Nor, as The Hill pointed out, is McBride alone in the list of now-nobodies who are backing out.
Admit it: You can’t name anything Young MC has done since the song “Bust a Move,” which came out in 1989. But the media can name one more thing he’s done: Withdraw from the concert.
“I HAVE INFORMED MY AGENTS THAT I WILL NOT BE PERFORMING AT THE FREEDOM 250 EVENT,” Young MC said on Facebook. “The artists were never told about any political involvement with the event.”
“And despite the claims by the organizers that the event is non-partisan, SPIN magazine describes it as ‘Trump-backed’. I hope to perform in D.C. in the near future at an event that is not so politically charged.”
Others to pull out include Poison singer Bret Michaels, Morris Day, C+C Music Factory, and The Commodores. And pretty much every iteration of this mentioned some version of how “divisive” this is all going to be.
Dude, you’re the lead singer of Poison. If there’s anything divisive, it’s when “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” pops up on someone’s Spotify playlist during a long drive. If you’re the one in charge of the CarPlay, that’s an impeachable offense.
But herein lies the point: The Babylon Bee’s non-satire site, Not the Bee, had already asked, “What is up with the ‘worst concert lineup ever assembled’ for America’s 250th birthday celebration?” As in, who thought it was a good idea to invite Milli Vanilli and Vanilla Ice? Except if it was a way for them to obtain relevance again by loudly rejecting a gig they were wholly familiar with.
This is the very definition of manufacturing air-quotes “resistance.” You can almost taste the astroturf.
And it’s not as if America is clamoring for a show like this. Let’s say my aforementioned teenaged heroes were included, along with some of today’s better artists. I still don’t think, for our semiquincentennial, this is appropriate stuff. Get a band playing Sousa. Shoot off some fireworks. Save some money.
But no. Instead, we have what some are calling the “worst concert lineup ever assembled” and some members of that contingent bowing out to get a bit of coinage in the attention economy. Great work, everybody.
California Democrat Governor Candidate Tom Steyer Just Can’t Stop Focusing on Trans Athletes in Girls’ Sports (VIDEO)
May 30, 2026
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Tom Steyer, the liberal billionaire Democrat who’s running for governor of California, seems to think that trans athletes in girls’ sports is the biggest issue facing the state.
He talked about this during a recent podcast appearance, and now he has released a video of himself talking with a trans athlete and making his support completely clear.
Steyer is obviously trying to signal his wokeness to the far left base of his party, but his relentless focus on this particular issue makes him look completely out of touch with Californians who care very deeply about more pressing matters for their state.
California Dem gov candidate Tom Steyer prompts mixed reactions for video with trans athlete AB Hernandez
California Democrat gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer posted a video with prominent transgender athlete AB Hernandez on social media on Friday, expressing support for the trans teen as Hernandez looks to win another set of state titles in girls’ track and field.
The video went viral across social media, with a mix of praise and criticism across the political spectrum…
Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton condemned Steyer for supporting trans athletes in girls’ sports in an interview with Fox News Digital on Friday.
“Tom Steyer has taken a wildly extreme position on this issue that is totally out of touch with most California families and young people,” Hilton told Fox News Digital before the rally,” Hilton said.
See the video below:
The role of the Governor is to protect Californians, and to stand between them and danger.
That’s a role I take very, very seriously, particularly when it comes to trans youth. pic.twitter.com/N6huW9NSuZ
The public made their position on this issue quite clear in the 2024 election. Steyer is ignoring that completely and continues to double down on it. California voters should take note.
Veteran Who Graham Platner Said Didn’t ‘Deserve to Live’ Slams Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders for Backing Him (VIDEO)
May 30, 2026
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Graham Platner, the Maine Democrat running for senate who has been plagued with multiple scandals calling his character into question, was recently exposed once again, for mocking a fellow war veteran and saying that he didn’t ‘deserve to live.’
That veteran is a man named Teddy Daniels and he just wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, firing back at Platner for his comments.
I’m the soldier Graham Platner mocked. Democratic men are having an identity crisis. He’s a prime example, writes Teddy Danielshttps://t.co/8wmZbK3nCJ
— Wall Street Journal Opinion (@WSJopinion) May 28, 2026
This weekend, Daniels appeared on CNN and slammed not only Platner, but Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders for backing Platner, despite all of these awful remarks and controversies.
I kind of consider the source on that, first and foremost, and I’ll be honest with you, what really upset me about the comments is — you know, I can’t even say that I was upset. I’m upset about the comment that he made about Chris Kyle. You know Chris Kyle has kids. He’s not here to defend himself.
I have kids and you know with people like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders backing this man, I want them, I want Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders to — my youngest is 8, he turns 9 in a couple days — to tell my kids that they’re supporting a man who said their father didn’t deserve to live. I mean, think about that. You know, that’s the issue there. It’s just sad that somebody like this is being considered for a position in leadership in the United States Senate.
See the clip below:
Purple Heart recipient Teddy Daniels calls out Democrats for supporting Graham Platner:
“With people like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders backing this man, I want them… to tell my kids that they’re supporting a man who said their father didn’t deserve to live.” pic.twitter.com/ma2bsGrW5g
In this clip from the same appearance, Daniels suggests that Democrats simply don’t care about veterans and their service to the country.
NEW: Soldier who Graham Platner mocked *FIRES BACK*
TEDDY DANIELS: “Those in the Democrat Party really, truly don’t care about veterans — about service — if they’re going to continue to back this man.” pic.twitter.com/dZsj33R7KL
Bernie Sanders is doing multiple campaign events with Platner. For her part, Elizabeth Warren publicly endorsed Platner, calling him, “My kind of man.”
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Anyone stupid enough to have wet dreams over attacking Kaliningrad, will be razed from the earth. pic.twitter.com/qgCex5Hjpw
Russia has activated the “Carpet” emergency protocol in Kaliningrad, completely halting airport operations amid reports of an unidentified aerial threat.
Russia has “commanding capability… https://t.co/SdWBojSQBh pic.twitter.com/JmhPoCIiJS
(@BillboardChris) 
NEW: Soldier who Graham Platner mocked *FIRES BACK*
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