🚨DISGRACEFUL🚨
The Supreme Court has just DECLINED to block a contempt sanction against journalist Catherine Herridge.
This means she will have to pay $800 per day for protecting her confidential source.
This was a BIG First Amendment case and SCTOUS just dropped the ball.
Damn. No, the post is not true overall. It mixes one real event with a fabricated “consequence” to push a “go woke, go broke” narrative.
What is true
Mt. Olive Pickles did withdraw from the Great American State Fair (a Freedom 250 event tied to Trump’s America 250th anniversary celebrations) after a Confederate flag appeared in a video at the North Carolina booth on the National Mall.
•The company said it was unaware the flag would be included when it agreed to participate.
•It issued a statement: “We have withdrawn our participation. Our company stands on values of human dignity, opportunity, and freedom.”
•The booth was run by private sponsors (not the state government), the flag was later removed, and North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein criticized it as not representing the state or the spirit of unity for the anniversary.
This is confirmed by multiple news outlets reporting on July 1, 2026.1
What is false
There is zero evidence that Jimmy John’s had any contract with Mt. Olive Pickles (multi-million dollar or otherwise), that any CEO canceled it, or that anyone at Jimmy John’s made the quoted statement about “freedom of expression.”
•No credible news sources report any such deal, cancellation, or statement.
•The post names “James Johnson” as CEO — this appears to be incorrect. Jimmy John’s leadership has long included James North (recently transitioned to Global Brand Ambassador); the current Brand President is Darin Dugan.
•Jimmy John’s uses its own “Jimmy Pickles” (kosher dills) on the menu and has even run promotions like the viral “Picklewich.” There is no public connection to Mt. Olive as a supplier.
Replies to the original post already called this out, with users noting that Jimmy John’s never had a deal with Mt. Olive to begin with. The Telegram link in the post appears to be the source of the unverified claim.
Context on the account
The account @mcafeenew is a fan account (“John’s wisdom lives on… WWG1WGA!”) that regularly posts sensational right-wing/MAGA content. This fits its pattern of mixing real stories with exaggerated or invented follow-ups for engagement.
Bottom line: Mt. Olive’s withdrawal from the fair happened. The dramatic Jimmy John’s “cancellation” and CEO quote did not. The post is misleading.
😡 My heart is breaking watching this...
Justice Clarence Thomas just dropped the TRUTH that every American needs to hear. Progressivism isn’t just some harmless idea — it’s a direct assault on the very soul of this country. It wants to replace God-given rights with government-granted privileges. It demands we become weak, subservient, and dependent.
This is an OUTRAGE. I sure do hope that Congress will finally step up and FIX THIS before it’s too late. Justice Clarence Thomas is a TRUE PATRIOT — a man of courage, conviction, and unwavering love for the Constitution and the America our Founders envisioned.
In a time when so many are afraid to speak truth, he stands tall. I am sure that you are just as OUTRAGED over this as I am. If this video moves you like it moved me, share it. Loudly. Our rights don’t come from Washington. They come from God. And no government will ever take that away from us.
🚨 Today the California Senate Committee held a hearing on the “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” known as AB 2624. This bill will criminalize and punish anyone from looking into fraud inside immigrant communities in California.
This bill was created only after I exposed billions of dollars in fraud throughout immigrant communities in the US. “Immigration support services” have become a billion dollar industry in California, and now that the fraud has been exposed, they are trying to criminalize those who look into the fraud.
The bill has passed through the California Assembly and is set to pass through the Senate and then to Governor Newsom’s desk. This bill was created by the Attorney Generals WIFE and will allow him to go after citizens if they film nonprofits and “immigration support services providers”.
Welcome to Califraudia.
Kayleigh Bush lost her title and scholarships after refusing to sign a contract that goes against her beliefs - that biological men can compete in Miss America pageants as women.
Here's her story.
$60 BILLION “Company” Tied to a Sitting Congresswoman Just Got BUSTED as a TOTAL GHOST FIRM — Journalist Angela Rose Walked Every Floor and Found NOTHING!
No office. No signage. NO ONE had even heard of it.
A supposed $60B powerhouse... operating out of a WeWork mailbox?!
FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING!
As a writer, it is becoming increasingly difficult to cover the WNBA with the distance the job requires.
That is not something I say lightly.
Any serious writer understands the responsibility of separating observation from emotion, evidence from outrage, and analysis from personal bias. But Cathy Engelbert and the WNBA are making that separation harder by the day.
The latest example is almost impossible to defend.
The commissioner released a statement that appeared far more concerned with protecting the image of Caitlin Clark’s attacker than addressing what happened to Caitlin Clark herself... a star player who was throat punched, kneed, and trampled in a sequence that had very nothing to do with basketball.
At some point, silence becomes its own statement.
At some point, selective outrage becomes evidence.
And at some point, the refusal to protect the league’s most important player stops looking like incompetence and starts looking intentional.
Caitlin Clark did not enter the WNBA asking to be a symbol. She came to play basketball. She came to compete. She came to join a league filled with players she once admired.
Instead, she has been asked to endure a level of hostility that no professional organization should tolerate.
The physical play is only part of the issue.
The larger failure is institutional.
The league has failed her. The Fever have failed her. Too many players have failed her. And now the commissioner has failed her publicly.
The next few days will be telling.
At a bare minimum, the Fever organization, its coaches, and its players should publicly support Caitlin Clark and make clear that what happened to her should never be normalized.
They do not need to attack anyone.
They do not need to escalate the controversy.
But they do need to stand beside their teammate.
Because if they do not, it becomes increasingly difficult to see a healthy path forward for Clark in a league where she is asked to absorb repeated physical punishment, public minimization, and institutional silence without visible support from the people closest to her professionally.
There is also a human element here that should not be ignored.
Clark is not just a basketball asset.
She is someone’s daughter.
Someone’s sister.
Someone’s friend.
And at some point, the people around her... family, representatives, sponsors, and trusted advisors... may need to ask whether any amount of money, fame, or professional opportunity is worth this level of physical and emotional strain.
Basketball is supposed to be demanding.
It is not supposed to be dehumanizing.
Clark has handled it with grace. That should be acknowledged.
But grace should not be required in the face of repeated mistreatment.
There comes a point when asking a young athlete to keep absorbing the blows... physical, public, and psychological... becomes indefensible.
For months, I dismissed calls for outside intervention as excessive.
I no longer feel that way.
If the WNBA cannot protect its own players fairly, then perhaps it is time for someone outside the league to ask why.
Fans, media members, former players, abuse survivors, and anyone who cares about basic fairness should speak up.
This is no longer just about basketball.
It is about workplace protection.
It is about institutional accountability.
It is about whether a professional league can allow one of its employees to be targeted, minimized, and publicly abandoned without consequence.
The WNBA does not need another statement.
It needs accountability.
And it needs it now.
As a writer, it is becoming increasingly difficult to cover the WNBA with the distance the job requires.
That is not something I say lightly.
Any serious writer understands the responsibility of separating observation from emotion, evidence from outrage, and analysis from personal bias. But Cathy Engelbert and the WNBA are making that separation harder by the day.
The latest example is almost impossible to defend.
The commissioner released a statement that appeared far more concerned with protecting the image of Caitlin Clark’s attacker than addressing what happened to Caitlin Clark herself... a star player who was throat punched, kneed, and trampled in a sequence that had very nothing to do with basketball.
At some point, silence becomes its own statement.
At some point, selective outrage becomes evidence.
And at some point, the refusal to protect the league’s most important player stops looking like incompetence and starts looking intentional.
Caitlin Clark did not enter the WNBA asking to be a symbol. She came to play basketball. She came to compete. She came to join a league filled with players she once admired.
Instead, she has been asked to endure a level of hostility that no professional organization should tolerate.
The physical play is only part of the issue.
The larger failure is institutional.
The league has failed her. The Fever have failed her. Too many players have failed her. And now the commissioner has failed her publicly.
The next few days will be telling.
At a bare minimum, the Fever organization, its coaches, and its players should publicly support Caitlin Clark and make clear that what happened to her should never be normalized.
They do not need to attack anyone.
They do not need to escalate the controversy.
But they do need to stand beside their teammate.
Because if they do not, it becomes increasingly difficult to see a healthy path forward for Clark in a league where she is asked to absorb repeated physical punishment, public minimization, and institutional silence without visible support from the people closest to her professionally.
There is also a human element here that should not be ignored.
Clark is not just a basketball asset.
She is someone’s daughter.
Someone’s sister.
Someone’s friend.
And at some point, the people around her... family, representatives, sponsors, and trusted advisors... may need to ask whether any amount of money, fame, or professional opportunity is worth this level of physical and emotional strain.
Basketball is supposed to be demanding.
It is not supposed to be dehumanizing.
Clark has handled it with grace. That should be acknowledged.
But grace should not be required in the face of repeated mistreatment.
There comes a point when asking a young athlete to keep absorbing the blows... physical, public, and psychological... becomes indefensible.
For months, I dismissed calls for outside intervention as excessive.
I no longer feel that way.
If the WNBA cannot protect its own players fairly, then perhaps it is time for someone outside the league to ask why.
Fans, media members, former players, abuse survivors, and anyone who cares about basic fairness should speak up.
This is no longer just about basketball.
It is about workplace protection.
It is about institutional accountability.
It is about whether a professional league can allow one of its employees to be targeted, minimized, and publicly abandoned without consequence.
The WNBA does not need another statement.
It needs accountability.
And it needs it now.
🚨JUST DROPPED: Great new short film on how a one-party Democratic control transformed the California Dream into Newsom’s Nightmare.
WATCH @SteveCortes's PARADISE LOST:
I have just finished reading Justice Clarence Thomas's 91-page dissent in the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down Trump’s birthright citizenship order.
It's incredible.
Here's everything you need to know: 🧵