President Trump Announces Nomination For Labor Secretary
June 29, 2026
President Trump on Monday afternoon announced he is nominating Keith Sonderling to serve as Secretary of Labor.
Keith Sonderling is currently the Acting US Secretary of Labor.
Full statement from President Trump:
It is my Great Honor to announce that I am nominating Keith E. Sonderling, the outstanding Acting United States Secretary of Labor, to be permanent.
Keith previously served as Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer and, during my First Term, worked at the U.S. Department of Labor as the Acting and Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division.
Throughout his career, Keith has proven his dedication to delivering strong results for the Hardworking People of our Country, and I know he will do an incredible job in his new role.
Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Earlier this year, President Trump’s previous Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned amid an investigation into her husband’s sexual misconduct in the latest Cabinet shakeup.
She was the third Cabinet official to leave in Trump’s second term.
Then-Deputy Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling will replace Chavez-DeRemer as Acting Labor Secretary.
Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s husband, Shawn DeRemer, was under investigation for sexual misconduct.
WATCH: Seattle Pride Parade Participants Strip Naked, Chase Children Around Water Fountain
June 29, 2026
Naked pride parade participants take over the Seattle Center water fountain, with multiple children present
Fully naked adults exposed themselves to children in Seattle, Washington, at a pride parade on Sunday.
Hundreds of thousands reportedly gathered in downtown Seattle to revel in sexual degeneracy.
It’s a typical scene during Pride Month in liberal cities across the nation. The Gateway Pundit has reported on past Seattle Pride parades, where, likewise, naked men rode bikes and flashed children as they rode by. Of course, the police do nothing as nude adults abuse young children with indecent exposure.
In California on Saturday, thousands of nude bikers also participated in the World Naked Bike Ride, where they stripped nude and rode bicycles around the city. One vigilante was actually arrested on charges of assault with a deadly weapon for shooting bikers with his BB gun in a wild turn of events.
In one video from this past Sunday, fully naked adults are seen prancing around the Seattle Center water fountain following the parade with dozens of young boys and girls present. One man appears to chase a young boy around the fountain with his genitals swinging around. (WARNING: NUDITY)
In another video, nude bike and roller skate riders expose themselves to the city with children present.
A large group of "furries," dressed in animal costumes, is also seen walking by as innocent children watch, clap, and high-five the predatory individuals. A black Mini Cooper is then seen driving through the parade with a giant black d**do on the hood, and people wearing demented costumes follow-- all in front of children as young as toddlers.
WATCH:
Fully nude bicyclists participated in the Seattle Pride Parade, riding past children with their exposed genitalia.
Can a U.S. Senator Encourage Troops to Disobey Orders? The Mark Kelly Case
June 29, 2026
Retired Navy Captain and U.S. Senator Mark Kelly has filed a civil lawsuit against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, challenging the Pentagon’s censure and demotion proceedings after he and five other Democratic lawmakers urged U.S. troops to refuse unlawful orders, which the government argues undermined military discipline.
When six Democratic lawmakers released a video in November 2025 urging U.S. troops to refuse unlawful military orders, they framed it as a defense of the Constitution. The Trump administration called it sedition.
The video appeared against the backdrop of two controversial administration actions: the deployment of National Guard troops to U.S. cities, a policy being actively litigated in federal court, and U.S. military strikes on suspected drug-trafficking vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.
It is important to note that no court had issued a final ruling determining either policy to be illegal, nor had any court found that illegal orders were given to individual U.S. troops. Equally significant, even if the Supreme Court were to ultimately determine that the president lacked the authority to order these deployments, the duties carried out by individual soldiers would not necessarily constitute illegal orders. Both issues involve complex questions of constitutional law that ordinary soldiers are neither trained nor qualified to adjudicate.
The lawmakers named neither action in the video, nor did they identify any specific order they considered unlawful. That omission would prove legally significant. Under military law, there is a critical distinction between reminding soldiers of a constitutional principle and encouraging them to act on their own political judgments. The latter is not a constitutional safeguard. It is a prescription for insubordination, and in some circumstances a crime.
The senator at the center of the resulting legal battle is Mark Kelly, a Democratic U.S. Senator from Arizona, a retired Navy Captain, and a former NASA astronaut who commanded multiple Space Shuttle missions.
Kelly and his five colleagues, Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Rep. Jason Crow, Rep. Chris Deluzio, Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, and Rep. Maggie Goodlander, all veterans or former intelligence officers, released the video as the administration was actively discussing domestic military deployments. President Trump characterized the lawmakers’ actions as “seditious behavior” punishable by death. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth formally censured Kelly, placing a Letter of Censure in his permanent military record accusing him of “conduct unbecoming an officer” and undermining the chain of command, and initiated administrative proceedings to strip him of his retired rank of Navy Captain, a move that would significantly reduce his pension.
A Washington grand jury declined to criminally indict Kelly, but the administrative battle has continued in civil court. Kelly filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Kelly v. Hegseth, 1:26-cv-00081), seeking to block the censure, halt the demotion proceedings, and protect his pension. On February 12, 2026, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Pentagon from reducing Kelly’s rank or cutting his pension while the case proceeds. The Justice Department has since appealed. The clash has turned Kelly into a Democratic fundraising figure, with his campaign pulling in tens of millions of dollars from donors who view the Pentagon’s actions as an attack on free speech.
The lawsuit rests on two legal arguments. Kelly contends the executive branch is unconstitutionally retaliating against him for political speech made as a civilian, in violation of the First Amendment. He also argues that the Pentagon cannot use military law to discipline an elected member of the legislative branch without violating the separation of powers.
The government’s counter-argument invokes 10 U.S.C. § 1370, the federal statute governing military retirement grades. The Pentagon’s position is that “satisfactory service” in a retired rank is not locked in at the moment of retirement; a retiree drawing a pension must continue to maintain conduct befitting that rank, and Kelly’s video constitutes a current failure to meet that standard.
Kelly’s legal team argues that “satisfactory service” can only evaluate conduct while the officer was on active duty, which ended for Kelly in 2011, and that applying the statute to civilian political speech made fifteen years after retirement is legally unsupportable.
The deeper question, however, is whether Kelly’s video was legally defensible in the first place. Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), the federal law governing military conduct, orders issued through the chain of command, extending to the President as Commander-in-Chief, carry a presumption of legality.
Individual soldiers are neither constitutional scholars nor courts. They are not authorized to independently adjudicate whether a presidential directive is lawful before executing it. The soldier’s oath includes both defending the Constitution and obeying the orders of the President and superior officers.
Kelly and the other Democrats did not claim that any of Trump’s orders issued so far were illegal, leading to criticism that they were implying illegality where there was none, which could lead to insubordination and disarray in the military. On several Sunday morning talk shows, none of the lawmakers involved could point to a specific illegal order given by the president. By publicly warning troops to watch for “unlawful orders” without identifying any, Kelly was not invoking a legal principle. He was introducing political doubt into the chain of command.
The My Lai massacre, in which 2nd Lt. William Calley ordered his men to execute Vietnamese civilians during the Vietnam War, is the standard reference point in military training for the duty to refuse a manifestly illegal order. A manifestly illegal order is one so obviously criminal that any person of ordinary sense would recognize it immediately as such. That standard does not apply to the complex constitutional questions surrounding domestic military deployments.
The Posse Comitatus Act generally prohibits federal troops from performing domestic law enforcement functions. However, the president retains several statutory authorities to deploy troops domestically under defined circumstances. The deployments that formed the backdrop to Kelly’s video were carried out under different legal authorities depending on the city: federalization of National Guard troops under 10 U.S.C. § 12406 in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Portland; a separate authority applicable to the District of Columbia; and 32 U.S.C. § 502(f) in Memphis, where the governor consented to the deployment.
The Insurrection Act, which grants broader authority and explicitly overrides the Posse Comitatus Act, was repeatedly threatened but never invoked. Whether any specific statutory authority was validly exercised is a complex constitutional question that no individual soldier standing on a street corner is equipped to resolve.
The operational tasks assigned to troops in such deployments, including securing perimeters, guarding infrastructure, and providing logistical support to federal agents, are not manifestly illegal in the way an order to kill civilians would be. A soldier who refuses a lawful operational order based solely on the personal belief that the president exceeded his constitutional authority risks committing the offense of willful disobedience under Article 90 of the UCMJ.
Kelly’s defense team argues the video was not an instruction to soldiers to independently evaluate constitutional law or stage a mutiny, but rather a preemptive reminder that their ultimate allegiance is to the constitutional framework, not to any individual. The video’s actual language, however, contradicts that characterization. Kelly stated directly: “Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders.”
The video further told troops that “threats to our Constitution” were coming “from right here at home,” language that explicitly invited soldiers to form their own judgment about the legality of orders they were receiving in connection with ongoing domestic deployments. Determining whether an order is illegal requires precisely the kind of constitutional and legal analysis that individual soldiers are neither trained nor authorized to perform. The defense team’s framing of the video as a generalized constitutional reminder cannot be reconciled with language that pointed soldiers toward active domestic operations and told them their laws were clear.
The legal team also contends that Kelly’s statements as a sitting U.S. senator constitute protected political speech, and that using administrative UCMJ proceedings to strip a sitting lawmaker of his retired rank over public statements sets a dangerous precedent. However, calls to action encouraging insurrection, rebellion, or insubordination are not protected speech, regardless of whether Kelly is an elected official.
The court must now determine whether Kelly’s statements constitute protected speech or an actionable attempt to undermine military discipline and the chain of command, a distinction the Constitution does not resolve in his favor by default. There is little modern precedent for such a case, making Kelly v. Hegseth largely uncharted legal territory.
THE AIR-CONDITIONING WARS: ‘Modern’ Europe Faces the Summer With a Lot of Climate Panic and No A/C’s
June 29, 2026
It’s called summer: Wiki Commons
European Globalists whine and refuse to modernize in the name of their favorite fiction: ‘man-made global warming’.
This last week, European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen caught ‘a lot of heat’. Why? She decided that the European Commission HQ in Brussels would shut off air conditioning from floors 0 to 7 during Brussels’ summer heatwave.
That’s asinine, of course. But the worst: floors 8 to 13 — where von der Leyen works — remain icy cold with the simple technological gadgets that anyone in the rest of the world can enjoy.
Nowadays, every summer, the overlords utilize the hot weather to violently push their ‘net-zero lunacy’ on the populations, while refusing the obvious solutions.
Europe is sweating through a nasty heatwave this week.
The European Commission’s brilliant solution inside its main building in Brussels?
Forced shutdown of the air conditioning on floors 1 through 7.
Meanwhile floors 8 and above stayed perfectly cool.
“Once considered an unnecessary luxury across much of Europe, air conditioning has become one of the continent’s most politically charged household appliances after nearly two weeks of extreme and deadly temperatures. For decades, Europe distinguished itself from hotter parts of the world by relying on thick masonry buildings, shutters, tree-lined streets and mild summers. Air conditioning remained relatively uncommon, particularly in northern and western Europe but climate change could alter that reality.”
‘Climate change’, right? Their obsession.
When we hear Europeans treating 35°C as a calamity, we cannot help but smile at their lack of knowledge and gullibility. But when we hear that in Germany, for example, even surgical rooms do not have A/C, we start to wonder if they are not killing people on purpose.
“Climate advocates and government officials warn that widespread adoption of air conditioning risks creating a vicious cycle. More cooling requires more expensive electricity, increasing demand during heat waves when power systems are already under strain.”
A London pre-school kept their students happy and cool by hosing off students with water during lesson breaks to stave off the heatwave that’s gripped Western Europe https://t.co/vT9NEFURSGpic.twitter.com/j3kHGdJQ71
The warning comes from ‘climate advocates and government officials’ – but there is no difference between these two categories.
All the planet uses A/C – but Europeans think they are the center of the world and know better.
“However, the debate over air conditioning moved into the spotlight after French lawmaker Marine Le Pen (Front National) called for a mass, subsidized roll-out of the cooling appliance, with traditionally hostile Greens conceding that some air-conditioning may now be inevitable.”
[…] Air conditioning ownership has surpassed 1.5 billion units globally, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), yet usage varies widely across regions. While 90% of homes in the United States have air conditioning units, the figure is just 20% in European homes, the IEA said.”
The EU Commission says it has no “pro or contra” position on air conditioning despite Europe swelters through another heatwave. A spokesperson said the issue could be discussed at the political level and that, if so, Brussels would act if member states signal they want action pic.twitter.com/OlFPzPkDqg
Police in Monaco were hunting for a man suspected of detonating a makeshift bomb that wounded three people on Monday, French media reported.
The blast occurred shortly before 9 p.m. (1900 GMT). French newspaper Le Figaro said video surveillance images showed a man dropping a backpack at the entrance of a residential building shortly before the explosion.
ALERTE – Attentat à la bombe ce soir à #Monaco, près de la place des Moulins. Plusieurs victimes. De nombreux secours convergent sur les lieux. Un suspect est activement recherché, il a été aperçu sur les caméras de vidéosurveillance en train de déposer un sac à dos. pic.twitter.com/dko4LYev8J
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Europe is sweating through a nasty heatwave this week.
ALERTE – Attentat à la bombe ce soir à