https://pjmedia.com/pajamas-weekend-review-6/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usFri, 12 Jun 2026 15:16:55 -0400<![CDATA[Praise the Lord, the Trump administration is finally standing up to an unlawful and dangerous piece of Democrat lawfare.]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:04:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Abigail Spanberger]]><![CDATA[DHS]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/12/dhs-says-it-wont-follow-virginias-dangerous-unmasking-policy-for-ice-n4953905<![CDATA[A Hamas fighter recorded himself inside an Israeli position, proud enough to turn a planned attack into a recruiting video. He thought the camera would sell courage, but Israeli intelligence turned it into a warning.]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:38:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[Hamas]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Terrorism]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/06/12/israel-isnt-waiting-for-permission-to-survive-n4953909<![CDATA[There’s a type of crime story that has unfortunately begun to crop up with increasing frequency. I don’t even need to read past the headline to know with shocking accuracy who the perpetrator is.]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:44:00 -0400<![CDATA[Athena Thorne]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]>https://pjmedia.com/athena-thorne/2026/06/12/can-we-please-stop-mass-importing-third-world-medieval-butchers-n4953904<![CDATA[Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is apparently back on the job and releasing more evidence that the federal government used American taxpayer funds for biolabs in well over two dozen countries.]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Anthony Fauci]]><![CDATA[COVID-19]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Tulsi Gabbard]]><![CDATA[Ukraine]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/12/us-taxpayer-money-funded-120-biolabs-in-30-countries-n4953899<![CDATA[Shabbat Shalom, may this Sabbath bring peace and rest for all of us, for Israel, for the U.S., and for the world.]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:15:51 -0400<![CDATA[Rabbi Michael Barclay]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[National Security]]>https://pjmedia.com/rabbi-michael-barclay/2026/06/12/rabbi-michael-barclays-iran-war-updates-for-june-12-n4953900<![CDATA[No one is surprised to find out that the Iranian regime is dishonest, manipulative, and underhanded. Well, President Donald Trump is frustrated that the Iranian regime still is not ready for peace, but of course, he isn’t part of a religion that teaches Jihad is the noblest calling and a shortcut to Paradise, as the ayatollahs are.]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:42:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Abraham Accords]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Terrorism]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/12/trump-says-iranians-arent-dealing-in-good-faith-even-after-he-left-out-our-ally-israel-n4953896<![CDATA[Hello and welcome to Friday, June 12, 2026. Today is National Peanutbutter Cookie Day, National Red Rose Day (or if you're Barbara Walters, Wed Wose Day), National Jerky Day, and National Movie Night.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:32:00 -0400<![CDATA[Eric Florack]]><![CDATA[Crime]]>https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2026/06/12/the-karmelo-anthony-case-race-as-armor-grievance-as-currency-n4953893<![CDATA[¡Bienvenidos, aficionados al fútbol! y bienvenido al tercer mundo!&nbsp;]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:04:00 -0400<![CDATA[Victoria Taft]]><![CDATA[Homelessness]]><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]><![CDATA[World Cup]]>https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/06/12/west-coast-messed-coast-hosts-world-cup-and-fans-from-third-world-feel-right-at-home-n4953892<![CDATA[If you haven't seen the Broadway musical 1776, you really should stream it this Independence Day.]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:39:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[History]]><![CDATA[Virginia]]><![CDATA[America 250]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/06/12/250-years-ago-a-committee-of-five-where-only-one-really-mattered-n4953894<![CDATA[The fact that Graham Platner had a Nazi tattoo on his chest for nearly 20 years should have been disqualifying. Instead, all the enthusiasm from the Democrat Party base was for him, and he won the Maine Democrat Senate primary on Tuesday. He will now face incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) in the fall. At this point, Platner has managed to get away with the tattoo in part because the Democrat base is antisemitic anyway, but also because he's claimed he had no idea what the tattoo meant.]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:48:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Maine]]><![CDATA[Senate]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/12/just-when-you-thought-the-graham-platner-scandal-couldnt-get-worse-n4953895<![CDATA["Austin Metcalf received the death penalty. Karmelo Anthony received 35 years," Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas) said on social media. "One of them lives. One of them gets a gravestone."]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:58:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Fox News]]><![CDATA[Texas]]><![CDATA[Woke]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/12/wesley-hunt-austin-metcalf-got-the-death-penalty-karmelo-isnt-the-victim-n4953887<![CDATA[Top O' the Briefing]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:40:00 -0400<![CDATA[Stephen Kruiser]]>https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2026/06/12/the-morning-briefing-feds-keep-racking-up-law-enforcement-wins-dems-hardest-hit-n4953865<![CDATA[Chelsea Bink thought she was buying a subscription. The lawsuit says she was also feeding a pricing machine. From the Independent:]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:12:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[Jeff Bezos]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]><![CDATA[Washington Post]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/06/11/the-washington-posts-credibility-crisis-hits-the-checkout-page-n4953888<![CDATA[President Donald Trump didn't need a long speech to identify the problem. Sitting in the Oval Office, he named Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) as two Republicans who still find ways to make Democratic priorities easier and Trump's agenda harder.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:53:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[Bill Cassidy]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Lisa Murkowski]]><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell]]><![CDATA[Thom Tillis]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/06/11/mcconnell-and-murkowski-remind-trump-what-hes-up-against-n4953886<![CDATA[Federal authorities have identified over 15,000 individuals who sponsored three or more unaccompanied and unrelated minors in what could be a major child trafficking exposé.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:40:21 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Border Security]]><![CDATA[DHS]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Markwayne Mullin]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/11/traffickers-feds-identify-15500-sponsors-of-multiple-unaccompanied-kids-each-n4953878<![CDATA[The American Made Foundation and American Made Action announced this week that they are expanding their advocacy efforts to include adult guardianship and adult protective services systems, an area they say has received far less public attention than child welfare and family court proceedings despite growing concerns from families across the country.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:20:44 -0400<![CDATA[Maureen Steele]]><![CDATA[Judges]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]>https://pjmedia.com/maureen-steele/2026/06/11/american-made-expands-focus-to-adult-guardianship-and-protective-services-reform-n4953851<![CDATA[A fisherman walked into the Oval Office this week and thanked President Donald Trump for something Washington rarely gives working people: room to work. American fishermen weren't asking for another study or speech; they wanted access to American waters without being treated like enemies of the ocean.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:34:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Economy]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/06/11/trump-cuts-the-net-biden-threw-over-us-fishermen-n4953884<![CDATA[Senator John Cornyn of Texas has been sent packing by his constituents after almost a quarter century in Washington. Cornyn is one of those old guard Establishment Republicans who portrays himself as gentlemanly and always above-the-fray in a bitterly divided political climate — sort of like Mitt Romney without the zillion grandchildren. Because of that, there was a lot of hope that he wouldn't be petulant in defeat. When he was gracious the night he was soundly defeated by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the GOP primary runoff, I had hope that Cornyn was going to be the decent guy that all of his die-hard supporters kept saying that he was.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:26:00 -0400<![CDATA[Stephen Kruiser]]><![CDATA[John Cornyn]]><![CDATA[Ken Paxton]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Texas]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2026/06/11/so-much-for-hoping-cornyn-wouldnt-be-a-crybaby-on-his-way-out-n4953876<![CDATA[A college volleyball player says her coach promised her that her new university would be giving her a full-ride scholarship. At the end of the year, she said, she found herself saddled with bills, while her coach was uninterested in helping her but enthusiastically promoting a biological male teammate.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:15:06 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]><![CDATA[Sports]]><![CDATA[Transgender]]><![CDATA[Women's Sports]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/11/female-college-athlete-says-she-lost-scholarship-as-coach-prioritized-trans-player-n4953879<![CDATA[Keir Starmer lost two defense officials in one day, and both men left over the same basic charge: Britain's defense plans don't match the danger in front of it. John Healey, the UK defense secretary, resigned today. Al Carns, the minister for the armed forces, followed him out the door hours later.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:50:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[Keir Starmer]]><![CDATA[NATO]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/06/11/starmer-heads-to-nato-weaker-than-ever-n4953881