<p>Amid backlash for her support of trans-identifying athletes — and a spat with former NCAA swimmer and Outkick podcast host (&#8220;Gaines for Girls&#8221;) Riley Gaines — a post from 2017 came back to haunt Olympic gymnast Simone Biles.</p>
<p>&#8220;ahhhh good thing guys don&#8217;t compete against girls or he&#8217;d take all the gold medals !!&#8221; Biles said in October of 2017, in response to a post that has since been deleted — but her comment came just days after Chinese gymnast Xio Ruoteng won gold in the men&#8217;s all-around competition at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Canada and may have been in reference to that. Biles had not competed there, but two of her Olympic teammates medaled: Morgan Hurd and Jade Carey.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">ahhhh good thing guys don&#8217;t compete against girls or he&#8217;d take all the gold medals !! 🥇 <a href="https://t.co/gto13RzC8Y">https://t.co/gto13RzC8Y</a></p>
<p>— Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) <a href="https://twitter.com/Simone_Biles/status/918328165478666240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Gaines highlighted that post on Sunday, arguing that it showed Biles was well aware of the obvious advantage biological men have over women when it came to athletic competition.</p>
<p>&#8220;Oop don’t you hate it when your past self completely undermines your current nonsensical argument? How has 2025 Simone reconciled with the fact 2017 Simone was a &#8216;truly sick bully&#8217; by her own standard?&#8221; Gaines posted.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Oop don’t you hate it when your past self completely undermines your current nonsensical argument?</p>
<p>How has 2025 Simone reconciled with the fact 2017 Simone was a &#8216;truly sick bully&#8217; by her own standard? <a href="https://t.co/aQjKuNSmMh">https://t.co/aQjKuNSmMh</a></p>
<p>— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1931706202913747115?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Biles had picked a fight with Gaines two days prior — after Gaines commented on the fact that a boy had been allowed to lead his school&#8217;s girls&#8217; softball team to a Minnesota state AAAA title — and she claimed that Gaines was a &#8220;truly sick bully&#8221; for calling that out as unfair.</p>
<p>&#8220;You’re truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser,&#8221; Biles said, making the attacks personal from the start. &#8220;You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive OR creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sports. Maybe a transgender category IN ALL sports!! But instead… You bully them… One things for sure is no one in sports is safe with you around!!!!!&#8221;</p>
<p>Gaines pushed back, saying that neither she nor any other female athlete owed men the chance to take girls&#8217; opportunities away.</p>
<p>In her response, Biles resorted to attacking Gaines&#8217; physical appearance: &#8220;bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Riley_Gaines_</a></p>
<p>— Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) <a href="https://twitter.com/Simone_Biles/status/1931130395728498927?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 6, 2025</a></p></blockquote>

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2017 Post Comes Back to Haunt Simone Biles: ‘A Truly Sick Bully By Her Own Standard’

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<p>When the Justices on the Supreme Court are at odds over major and often contentious issues, the verbal jabs and sometimes even insults that typically play out behind closed doors can make their way into written opinions — and in the case of <em>Trump v. CASA, Inc.</em>, Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not disappoint.</p>
<p>Barrett penned the majority opinion in the case that revolves around the idea of birthright citizenship and whether it should apply to the children of illegal aliens — but also tackles the issue of the universal injunctions, being handed down on a regular basis by cherry-picked judges in liberal courts in an attempt to prevent President Donald Trump from implementing his policies.</p>
<p>Trump cheered the win in a post to his Truth Social platform, saying, &#8220;GIANT WIN in the United States Supreme Court! Even the Birthright Citizenship Hoax has been, indirectly, hit hard. It had to do with the babies of slaves (same year!), not the SCAMMING of our Immigration process. Congratulations to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Solicitor General John Sauer, and the entire DOJ.&#8221;</p>
<p>But in addition to laying out the Court&#8217;s opinion, Barrett took the opportunity to deliver a few precision strikes on the body&#8217;s newest justice, appointed by former President Joe Biden, Ketanji Brown Jackson. Barrett&#8217;s remarks aimed at Jackson — who is perhaps best known for her inability to answer, on direct questioning, &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yes-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-can-define-woman-the-woke-left-just-wont-let-her">what is a woman?</a>&#8221; — paint a clear picture of a justice more interested in activism than a Constitutional reading and application of the law.</p>
<p>Barrett began by addressing the principal dissent — which was joined by Jackson and Justice Elena Kagan, but written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor — and then panned Jackson&#8217;s by comparison.</p>
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<p>&#8220;The principal dissent focuses on conventional legal terrain, like the Judiciary Act of 1789 and our cases on equity,&#8221; Barrett wrote. &#8220;JUSTICE JACKSON, however, chooses a startling line of attack that is tethered neither to these sources nor, frankly, to any doctrine whatsoever. Waving away attention to the limits on judicial power as a &#8216;mind-numbingly technical query &#8230; she offers a vision of the judicial role that would make even the most ardent defender of judicial supremacy blush. In her telling, the fundamental role of the courts is to &#8216;order everyone (including the Executive) to follow the law — full stop.'&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Amazing. Justice Barrett goes straight after Justice Jackson’s inability to do law. Jackson wants to tell the entire executive branch what to do and refuses to comply with Constitutional limitations. Insanely dangerous, and Barrett is right to call it out. <a href="https://t.co/lRmkQvEgYZ">pic.twitter.com/lRmkQvEgYZ</a></p>
<p>— May Mailman (@MayMailman) <a href="https://twitter.com/MayMailman/status/1938605036184990038?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Still referencing Jackson&#8217;s dissent in the case, Barrett wrote, &#8220;We will not dwell on JUSTICE JACKSON&#8217;S argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries&#8217; worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. We observe only this: JUSTICE JACKSON decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Amy Coney Barrett pulls no punches on judicial authoritarianism. Says Jackson is at odds with “the Constitution itself” and “ decries an imperial executive while embracing an imperial judiciary.”</p>
<p>This is good ACB! <a href="https://t.co/vPFGm078qd">pic.twitter.com/vPFGm078qd</a></p>
<p>— Megan Basham (@megbasham) <a href="https://twitter.com/megbasham/status/1938629561601888502?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Observing the limits on judicial authority — including, as relevant here, the boundaries of the Judiciary Act of 1789 — is required by a judge’s oath to follow the law,&#8221; Barrett continued, adding, &#8220;J<span class="s1">USTICE </span>J<span class="s1">ACKSON</span> skips over that part. Because analyzing the governing statute involves boring &#8216;legalese,&#8217; <i>post</i>, at 3, she seeks to answer &#8216;a far more basic question of enormous practical significance: May a federal court in the United States of America order the Executive to follow the law?&#8217; <i>Ibid.</i> In other words, it is unecessary to consider whether Congress has constrained the Judiciary; what matters is how the Judiciary may constrain the Executive. J<span class="s1">USTICE </span>J<span class="s1">ACKSON</span> would do well to heed her own admonition: &#8216;[E]veryone, from the President on down, is bound by law.&#8217; <i>Ibid</i>. That goes for judges too.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">More of Barrett nuking Jackson from orbit: <a href="https://t.co/joKaIdtr0v">pic.twitter.com/joKaIdtr0v</a></p>
<p>— Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) <a href="https://twitter.com/conncarroll/status/1938606567508644039?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2025</a></p></blockquote>

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Justice Amy Coney Barrett Lays The Legal Smackdown On Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

<p>Rapper Curtis James Jackson III — better known to most simply as 50 Cent — said he was ready to put up six figures if it would get Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani to leave New York City.</p>
<p>Mamdani, who pulled out a surprise win against disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) in the Democratic primary, made a recent appearance on the popular radio show &#8220;The Breakfast Club&#8221; with host Charlamagne the God. While there, he promoted his economic vision for New York City — which included raising the corporate tax rate and hitting the top one percent with additional income taxes.</p>
<p>&#8220;We’re talking about corporations that are making millions of dollars, not in revenue, but in profit,&#8221; Mamdani explained. &#8220;And the second is taxing the top 1% of New Yorkers. We’re talking about people who make a million dollars a year or more, taxing them just by a flat 2% tax increase.&#8221;</p>
<p>He even took a moment to call out the rapper directly — and 50 Cent made it clear in his response that he was not impressed.</p>
<p>&#8220;I know if 50 Cent is listening, he’s not going to be happy about this. He tends to not like this tax policy, but I want to be very clear this is about $20,000 a year,&#8221; Mamdani said.</p>
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<p>&#8220;Where did he come from 👀 whose friend is this? I’m not feeling this plan, no. I will give him $258,750 and a first class one way ticket away from NY. I’m telling Trump what he said too,&#8221; the rapper captioned video from Mamdani&#8217;s appearance on the show.</p>
<p>Trump has also made his feelings about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-labels-nycs-mamdani-a-100-communist-lunatic">Mamdani</a> abundantly clear, saying in a post to Truth Social that the Queens Assemblyman is a &#8220;100% Communist Lunatic!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It’s finally happened, the Democrats have crossed the line,” Trump said. “Zohran Mamdani, a 100% Communist Lunatic, has just won the Dem Primary, and is on his way to becoming Mayor. We’ve had Radical Lefties before, but this is getting a little ridiculous. He looks TERRIBLE, his voice is grating, he’s not very smart, he’s got AOC+3, Dummies ALL, backing him, and even our Great Palestinian Senator, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, is groveling over him. Yes, this is a big moment in the History of our Country!&#8221;</p>

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‘I’m Not Feeling This Plan’: NYC-Native 50 Cent Says He’ll Put Up Six Figures For Mamdani To Go Away

<p>The official cause of death for legendary songwriter and Beach Boys founding member Brian Wilson was revealed on Thursday.</p>
<p>Wilson, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brian-wilson-beach-boys-founder-and-legendary-songwriter-dead-at-82">passed away</a> weeks ago at the age of 82, died of respiratory arrest, according to a death certificate obtained by entertainment website <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2025/06/26/brian-wilson-cause-of-death/">TMZ</a>. Respiratory arrest, the site explained, occurs when the heart is still beating, but the lungs cease to function, thus failing to deliver oxygen to the body.</p>
<p>Several other conditions were listed as contributing factors in the musician&#8217;s death, including sepsis, cystitis, neurodegenerative disorder, chronic kidney disease and respiratory failure, and obstructive sleep apnea.</p>
<p>Wilson was just 19 when he founded the iconic band alongside brothers Dennis and Carl Wilson, cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine — and the group made the laid-back surfing vibe into a musical movement. They solidified themselves as rock stars with 1966&#8217;s Pet Sounds album, which included standouts like &#8220;Good Vibrations&#8221; and &#8220;God Only Knows.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wilson struggled publicly with his mental health in his later years, once telling <a href="https://people.com/brian-wilson-dead-82-beach-boys-singer-co-founder-8548234">People Magazine</a>, &#8220;I’ve been through a great deal of mental anguish. I felt like a fat slob. It was very embarrassing. I used to go onstage and it was scary. Now I’m getting used to it. I feel a little more confidence in myself.&#8221;</p>
<p>He was placed under a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-beach-boys-member-brian-wilson-under-conservatorship-due-to-dementia-diagnosis">conservatorship</a> just over a year before he died — and following the death of his wife, Melinda — due to a &#8220;major neurocognitive disorder.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This decision was made to ensure that there will be no extreme changes to the household and Brian and the children living at home will be taken care of and remain in the home where they are cared for by Gloria Ramos and the wonderful team at the house who have been in place for many years helping take care of the family,&#8221; a statement from his family read. &#8220;Brian will be able to enjoy all of his family and friends and continue to work on current projects as well as participate in any activities he chooses.&#8221;</p>

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Cause Of Death Revealed For Beach Boys Legend Brian Wilson

<p>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt jabbed at members of the press corps during a Thursday briefing as she touted the success of Operation Midnight Hammer.</p>
<p>Leavitt’s regularly-scheduled briefing came just hours after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hosted a news conference to clear up confusion surrounding the United States military’s strikes on Iranian Nuclear facilities — confusion that was due in large part to a CNN report based on a “preliminary” intelligence assessment.</p>
<p>Leavitt began by reiterating the points made by Hegseth during that news conference, saying that the intended targets — three major nuclear facilities in Iran — had been rendered inoperable after the strikes.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">. <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> &quot;The objective of OPERATION MIDNIGHT HAMMER was to destroy the regime’s nuclear enrichment capacity and stop the grave nuclear threat posed to the United States, Israel, and the rest of the free world.</p>
<p>The mission was an OVERWHELMING SUCCESS!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/wMh627jl4b">pic.twitter.com/wMh627jl4b</a></p>
<p>&mdash; DOD Rapid Response (@DODResponse) <a href="https://twitter.com/DODResponse/status/1938285143254270255?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>“The objective of Operation Midnight Hammer was to destroy the regime’s nuclear enrichment capacity and stop the grave nuclear threat posed to the United States, Israel, and the rest of the free world,” Leavitt said. “The mission was an overwhelming success!”</p>
<p>The press secretary also praised the military for not only carrying out the mission successfully, but for doing so without anyone giving the game away.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">. <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> &quot;This was one of the most secretive and successful operations in United States history. I think many of you in this room would agree with that because</p>
<p> NONE OF YOU KNEW ABOUT THE STRIKE UNTIL IT TOOK PLACE!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/9kzeKOgNmk">pic.twitter.com/9kzeKOgNmk</a></p>
<p>&mdash; DOD Rapid Response (@DODResponse) <a href="https://twitter.com/DODResponse/status/1938286295039525019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>“This was one of the most secretive and successful operations in United States history. I think many of you in this room would agree with that because none of you knew about the strike until it took place,” Leavitt added.</p>
<p>The press secretary also called out CNN reporter Natasha Bertrand — who reported on the preliminary intelligence assessment that claimed the targets were not truly destroyed — reminding others in the room of Bertrand’s connection to legacy media attempts to cast doubt on the Hunter Biden laptop story.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">🚨WOW — <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> absolutely obliterates this Fake News CNN reporter after she leaked false intelligence about the strikes.</p>
<p>The reporter in question? Natasha Bertrand — a repeat offender when it comes to pushing disinformation:</p>
<p>&#8211; Claimed the Hunter Biden laptop story was… <a href="https://t.co/jFYWkqdyUx">pic.twitter.com/jFYWkqdyUx</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1938302008076697881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>“This is a reporter who has been &#8230; used by people who dislike Donald Trump in this government to push fake and false narratives. She should be ashamed of herself. That is not what reporting is. Journalists are trained to find the facts and the truth,” Leavitt said.</p>

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‘None Of You Knew’: Leavitt Tweaks Press Over How ‘Secretive’ Operation Midnight Hammer Was

<p>&#8220;Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit&#8221; star Mariska Hargitay revealed the huge gamble she took at her auditions for the gritty police procedural — and the fact that the whole scenario unfolded directly in front of series creator Dick Wolf.</p>
<p>During an appearance on the &#8220;Call Her Daddy&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AejC6m3w6PM">podcast</a> with host Alex Cooper, the 61-year-old actress confessed that she marched into her first interview and instructed Wolf to send another actress home: &#8220;This is my part.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hargitay explained that, at the time, she hadn&#8217;t really grasped just how big Wolf was in the television industry — but she knew the risk was worth it after she read the script for the first time.</p>
<p>&#8220;So I read it and I said, and I never had this experience, ‘I&#8217;ve never loved anything more. This is my show. This is the most progressive show I&#8217;ve ever seen. I love it. I need it. I have to do the show,’&#8221; she said, and with that in mind, she went for her second callback audition in front of Wolf — who had already earned a slew of nominations and one Emmy for the original &#8220;Law &amp; Order&#8221; series between 1992 and 1998.</p>
<p>&#8220;And then I had the audition and then I got a call back and on the second callback, Dick Wolf was there,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I see another girl in the waiting room and I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Oh no, this is not happening.&#8217; So I walked in there and I said, &#8216;Listen to me.&#8217; I didn&#8217;t know that Dick Wolf was like, king of television. And I go, &#8216;I don’t know who that is out there, but let me tell you something. This is my part.'&#8221;</p>
<p>Wolf, she said, seemed more amused than anything else. &#8220;He&#8217;s like, &#8216;Oh, is it?&#8217; And I said, &#8216;Yeah. So you tell her to go home.'&#8221;</p>
<p>Once the audition was over, Wolf gave Hargitay his notes on her performance. &#8220;I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Those are good notes. Thank you.&#8217; And he&#8217;s like, &#8216;Oh, are they, are they good notes?'&#8221;</p>
<p>Hargitay landed the role of Olivia Benson on the long-running drama, which explores sex crimes in Manhattan — but she admitted that no one actually sent the other actress home that day, mainly because she wasn&#8217;t there to read for the same part.</p>
<p>&#8220;Then it turns out that the beautiful, talented actress that was in the waiting room was there for another part. And she was in the pilot, and she&#8217;s a fantastic actor, actress. I was like, &#8216;Get her out of here.&#8217; And of course, you know, we&#8217;re friends now for life,&#8221; Hargitay said, although she did not reveal the name of the actress in question.</p>

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‘Law & Order: SVU’ Star Reveals Huge Gamble She Took During Auditions

<p>President Donald Trump unloaded on the legacy media after a Thursday morning press conference — which was meant to correct the record on the U.S. military&#8217;s recent strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities — held by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.</p>
<p>Trump took to his Truth Social platform to praise Hegseth for delivering one of the &#8220;most professional&#8221; press conferences he&#8217;d ever seen and called for the media outlets that had pushed ahead with leaked intelligence to &#8220;fire everyone involved.&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump prefaced the press conference — which he&#8217;d teased just a day earlier — with <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114749580476669594">another post</a>, saying, &#8220;Rumor is that the Failing New York Times and Fake News CNN will be firing the reporters who made up the FAKE stories on the Iran Nuclear sites because they got it so wrong. Let&#8217;s see what happens?&#8221;</p>
<p>Once the press conference ended, he took a sharper tone.</p>
<p>&#8220;One of the greatest, most professional, and most &#8216;confirming&#8217; News Conferences I have ever seen! The Fake News should fire everyone involved in this Witch Hunt, and apologize to our great warriors, and everyone else!&#8221; the president <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114749815668266552">posted</a>, piggy-backing on Hegseth&#8217;s comments.</p>
<p>Hegseth had said during his remarks that media outlets seemed so desperate to attack Trump that they didn&#8217;t care if the framing of their stories undermined the brave actions of the men and women of the United States military who had actually carried out the mission.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Thank you, Mr. President. <a href="https://t.co/oxHBnXLEB4">pic.twitter.com/oxHBnXLEB4</a></p>
<p>— Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) <a href="https://twitter.com/SecDef/status/1938224791741219296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The president added <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114749839848044904">his own comments</a> clarifying some of what was seen at the Iranian nuclear site — cars and trucks that some in the media have alleged might have been moving nuclear materials out of the site prior to the attack.</p>
<p>&#8220;The cars and small trucks at the site were those of concrete workers trying to cover up the top of the shafts. Nothing was taken out of facility. Would take too long, too dangerous, and very heavy and hard to move!&#8221; he declared.</p>
<p>Trump doubled down, attacking the media again a short time later, <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114750055630968441">posting</a> in all capital letters, &#8220;FAKE NEWS REPORTERS FROM CNN &amp; THE NEW YORK TIMES SHOULD BE FIRED, IMMEDIATELY!!! BAD PEOPLE WITH EVIL INTENTIONS!!!&#8221;</p>

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