HE BROUGHT WHAT TO SHOW AND TELL?!

Comedian Shayne Smith tells a hilarious story about gun culture from not all that long ago. YouTube:

 

He Brought WHAT to Show & Tell?! 😭 | Shayne Smith #Shorts 

DOT CAKES ARE EVERYWHERE. HERE'S WHAT THEY ARE AND THE BAKERY BEHIND THEM

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Dotcakes are everywhere. Here's what they are and the bakery behind them

By Joseph Lamour | TODAY • Published May 30, 2026 • Updated on May 30, 2026 at 7:27 am

 

If your For You page has been dotted with mini sprinkle-topped cakes — not cupcakes, but kind of? — you’re not alone.

 

They’re called Dotcakes and consist of layers of cake, frosting and a heaping topping of crunchy nonpareils. They’re from Roslyn, New York, bakery The Dotcakes, which was founded in 2019 by Alex Posner, and come in four flavors: classic white, chocolate, vanilla chip and red velvet.

 

Recently, videos about the mini versions of the cake, called Dotcups, have racked up millions of views on social media, with people lauding their nostalgic vibe — specifically how much they evoke the 2017-19 rainbow explosion cake era.

 

“I’ve been seeing these viral Dotcakes everywhere,” content creator Cyrus Veyssi says in a May 14 TikTok reviewing a few of the flavors. After commenting “respectfully” that the cakes look “dry,” the influencer eats their words. “No, that’s pretty good. It’s not dry — it’s very moist.”

 

“Guess what I have? Eleven Dotcakes,” content creator Danielle Pheloung says in a May 22 video with over 8 million views. “It tastes like a Funfetti cake with a lot of crunch.”

 

These little cakes have attracted blocks-long lines at the shops they’re sold, like Manhattan’s Butterfield Market.

 

“Two things can be true at the same time: One, I can think the viral Dotcake thing is so stupid because what do you mean people are obsessing over cake with sprinkles on it?” content creator Matt Benfield says in a May 27 video. “Two: I could be going to Butterfield Market right now to stand in line for probably an hour to get it. I am but a cog in the capitalist machine.”

 

“Please note it’s a Wednesday at 10 a.m.,” Benfield adds, showing the latest long line that forms at the gourmet grocer on Wednesdays and Saturdays, when the Dotcakes are restocked. According to the timestamps in the video, Benfield waited in line for about 45 minutes.

 

Others have apparently waited much longer. A caption for a May 23 video showing the line at Butterfield claims the first people got in line for that Saturday’s restock at 12 p.m. — 10 hours before the treats could be purchased.

 

Posner, owner of The Dotcakes, says her company started a partnership with Butterfield in October, and then, around April 24, it got a “crazy increase in orders.”

 

“The actual demand for a physical Dotcup has increased in sales tremendously,” she says. “To the grocery in the city, we send about 1,250 units to their grocery stores twice a week. In my physical store, over the past week, last week alone, we sold about 2,600 cups.”

 

According to the Dotcakes website, 8-ounce Dotcups start at $32 for four cakes, but cost $11 per Dotcup at Butterfield.

 

For those outside of the New York area who are itching to try the treat, multiple online creators have shown how to make your own, with brown butter frosting or Funfetti cake.

 

Some online critics argue the treat is too simple for its virality, while others point out the dessert’s similarity to cortadillo, a soft and pillowy Mexican cake topped with pink frosting and nonpareil sprinkles.

 

“This was born because it’s incredibly simple. This isn’t something that was supposed to revolutionize the industry,” Posner says in response to these critiques.

 

“I’m sure people have done it before, but we’ve created a way to have this beautifully packaged piece that has the aesthetically pleasing, perfectly sprinkled top,” she adds.

 

“We’re incredibly lucky that people are lining up to get it. The joke is that I’m not sure if we would get in our own line, but it’s really great.”

 

This story first appeared on TODAY.com.

FAMILY SUES CAMPBELL'S, CLAIMING SPAGHETTIOS WAS INFESTED WITH ACTIVELY MOVING WORMS

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Family sues Campbell's, claiming SpaghettiOs was infested with ‘actively moving' worms

Mary Hubbard said she bought the canned-pasta product at a Florida Walmart, which is also a defendant.

By Keagan Ostop • Published June 3, 2026 • Updated on June 4, 2026 at 1:56 pm

 

A Florida family is suing the Campbell's Company after they claimed their SpaghettiOs was contaminated with "worms or parasites."

 

In a complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Mary Hubbard said she purchased a can of SpaghettiOs from a Walmart Supercenter in Okeechobee, Florida, and prepared it for dinner on June 6, 2024. As she and her daughter began eating the pasta dish, Hubbard said she observed organisms "actively moving within the food" and claims she recorded video footage that "clearly depicts worm-like organisms moving within the food product." The video was not included in the filing.

 

Hubbard claims she and her daughter suffered parasitic infections from eating the SpaghettiOs. The mother reported having gastrointestinal illness, sepsis, hepatic injury and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, anemia and PTSD. Her daughter, identified in the complaint as P.L., reportedly experienced nausea, vomiting and a parasitic infection.

 

The lawsuit seeks damages of at least $75,000 from Campbell's and Walmart Inc., which is also a defendant, for alleged negligence and violating federal food safety laws by selling a product that was unsafe "for human consumption." They are seeking a jury trial.

 

In a statement to NBC News, the New Jersey-based Campbell's called the plaintiff's claims "without merit" and said it intended "to vigorously defend against these allegations."

 

Walmart said in a statement that it is reviewing the complaint and would respond in court, adding that the "health and safety of our customers is a top priority."

 

Campbell's, which has sold everything from vegetables, snacks, salsa, soup and more in its over 150-year history, drop the word “Soup” from its corporate name in 2024, and rebranded as The Campbell’s Company. Mark Clouse, Campbell’s president and chief executive officer, said at the time the change was mean to reflect the company's broader portfolio of products.

MARINE VETERAN FIGHTS OFF FOUR HOODED TEENS WHO TRIED TO CARJACK HIM AT GUNPOINT IN BROAD DAYLIGHT

New York Post

 

Marine veteran fights off 4 hooded teens who tried to carjack him at gunpoint in broad daylight

By Richard Pollina

Published June 5, 2026, 5:57 a.m. ET

 

A Marine Corps veteran fought off a group of teens who tried to carjack him at gunpoint in broad daylight in Maryland.

 

Jheyco Borda was working on his truck in Oxon Hill — about 10 miles outside Washington, DC — when four hooded teens approached him around 4:45 p.m. Tuesday, surveillance video posted to his Facebook page shows.

 

“Be careful and be aware of your surroundings,” Borda warned in the caption.

 

The teens surrounded Borda at the bed of his truck while one suspect — who was wearing a red, white and blue sweatshirt — pulled out a pistol and pointed it at the veteran’s head, demanding his car keys and phone.

 

Borda, seizing on a moment of distraction among the group, grabbed the suspect holding the gun and wrestled him for the weapon.

 

As the struggle broke out, two of the attempted carjackers dashed down the residential street, while another anxiously circled the vehicle.

 

Seconds after the struggle began, Borda’s brother ran out of the house to help his sibling fend off the group.

 

A single gunshot rang out as the brothers fought for the gun, but nobody was struck.

 

Borda’s brother then went after a second suspect. Within moments, both brothers had thrown their attackers to the ground and restrained them until Prince George’s County police arrived and took all four suspects into custody.

 

Borda credited his Marine Corps hand-to-hand combat training for giving him the instincts and know-how to disarm the teen.

 

“Once a Marine, always a Marine,” Borda told Fox 5. “It took me just one split second. We went to training for the Marines and that came out right at the moment.”

 

He told the outlet that the teens and their parents should be held accountable for their actions and revealed that the bullet fired during the struggle tore through the bed of his truck.

 

Borda added that the bullet hole will cost about $2,000 to repair, and his car insurance will not cover the damage.

 

He said he was fortunate his kids, brother and beloved dog Sky — who usually rides in the backseat — weren’t in the vehicle at the time.

THE TQ+ THREAT TO LGB RIGHTS

Substack - The Weekly Dish

 

The TQ+ Threat To LGB Rights

The return to the narrative of gays as queers, freaks, and child-obsessed is dangerous.

Andrew Sullivan

Jun 05, 2026

 

Governor Kathy Hochul has a decision to make by June 12.

 

The New York State legislature recently tackled the vital, pressing issue of whether the terms “mother” and “father” are cruel and oppressive. They concluded that these terms are indeed transphobic and need to be replaced in law by “gestating parent” and “non-gestating parent.” “Paternity” is also bigoted and axed. Among the Democrats, the vote was, natch, a few shy of unanimous. And let’s not kid ourselves: Hochul’s signature is inevitable. On all questions gay and trans, the Dems are now entirely controlled by trans and “queer” extremists.

 

Now take a look at this week’s Senate hearings on sex changes for children. Again, the Dems were unanimous, and their position utterly unchanged: the “safety” and “effectiveness” of transing children is beyond any dispute; no one but Republican bigots oppose it; and any problems can be dealt with retroactively by malpractice suits. (The only slight concession to reality was an end to the lie that transing children was the only way to stop them killing themselves. But no apology for the lie, of course. Or for the human wreckage the lie caused.) The Cass Review never happened. Affirmation-only guidelines never existed.

 

Gays and lesbians and feminists and liberals who oppose transing children and defend the fact of the sex binary? Senators Sanders, Markey, and Baldwin don’t seem to know we even exist. Unsurprising. MS NOW, to take one example, has never had a single guest who’s been critical of child sex changes. The Cass Review, when it has even been mentioned, has been instantly dismissed. The gay and lesbian press, such as it is, reports on all this as a trans genocide in full swing.

 

That’s where we are in gay and lesbian world this Pride month. Queer as fuck. About a year ago, I wrote an op-ed for the NYT warning that the queer takeover of what’s left of the gay and lesbian rights movement was hurting support for gay causes. I expected a huge backlash, but received a huge private thank you from gays and lesbians on the street in Ptown and throughout the reader comments. I asked for a debate among gays and Democrats. But a year later, no debate has happened outside social media tweet-storms, no gay or lesbian institution or public official has said a word, and the policies — profoundly unpopular, rooted in critical gender and queer theory — are hegemonic.

 

Which is why it is only appropriate that Mamdani put out a Pride statement this week referring solely to “queer and trans people,” excising LGBs from the movement we built. Mamdani described all gays and lesbians with a word, “queer”, chosen by only 6 percent of us in a recent survey. (Check Google Trends to see how rarely the word was even a search item until the 2020s.) They even took Stonewall from us. Rachel Maddow called it “a riot by trans people.” Try and find a single one in the photos of that night in 1969. Now ask any gay under 40 who Frank Kameny was. No clue.

 

The rigid refusal to compromise on this radicalization — they also changed the Pride flag to insert mandatory references to TQ+, the discredited BLM themes, and “brown people” — is merely a part of re-writing the narrative back to the 1970s, before AIDS and gay integration. There is little attempt to engage the straight majority with reason anymore — or even gays and lesbians queasy at these new mandates — just an impulse to provoke, condemn, or cancel them.

 

I suspect the queers are so insulated they don’t even realize that this is what they have been effectively saying to Joe Public for a decade now. Remember when they told you that gay and lesbian people were just like everyone else, and just wanted to be left alone? Scrap that. We’re actually queers who believe marriage is a “fundamentally violent institution” and that the sex binary is a white supremacist fiction. Now we’ve gotten marriage, we will indoctrinate your kids in queer and gender theory, fire you if you don’t repeat our pronouns, force girls to shower next to boys in locker rooms, give irreversible sex changes to minors, and insist that “a penis is not a male body part. It’s just an unusual body part for a woman.”

 

And, after a few years of this kind of messaging, and no pushback from regular gays and lesbians … guess what?

 

Support for marriage equality from the center and center-right is nosediving. Gallup shows a decline from 71 percent to 65 percent support for gay marriage among all Americans in just three years. Among Independents, support has dropped by six points in four years, from 73 to 67 percent; and among Republicans by 18 points, from 55 percent in 2022 to just 37 percent today — setting us back 20 years. On the morality of same-sex relations, the drops are more acute: down 10 points among Indies and 21 points among Republicans. As someone who played a part in bringing those Republicans and moderates around to gay marriage, it’s distressing to see what the queer overreach has done — especially in red states.

 

We’re told that this is all about “hate”. Really? The same polls that show growing opposition to men in women’s sports, and against the transing/sterilization/mutilation of children with gender dysphoria, also show huge support for civil rights protections for trans adults. But the distinction between adults and children, like the one between men and women, doesn’t exist for the Democrats. The only mention of “transgender” in the 2024 Dem autopsy was to note how Trump’s ad on the issue was “very effective” … no shit. But the response is to keep giving Trump ever more ammunition!

 

Within the gay and lesbian world, the policing of even mild dissent is oppressive. Express skepticism and you’ll be instantly accused of “pulling up the ladder” after you; or “throwing trans people under the bus”; or of being a “pick-me” gay who wants his rights but denies them to trans people. But when you ask them what civil right we are saying should be given gay people but denied trans people, they come up empty. Because there isn’t one.

 

I want every trans person to have every civil right a gay person has — and they do! What I disagree with is a new, hard-left, genderqueer political agenda — which has nothing to do with gays and lesbians at all, except that it actually endangers LG children with gender dysphoria, and threatens women’s rights as well. I don’t have the slightest problem with people calling themselves queer and innovating whatever lifestyles they want. God bless them. I simply have a problem saying that 6 percent should define and brand the other 94 percent of relative normies.

 

Yes, some truly ugly forces have seized on this own-goal by the queers to ramp up real hatred of gays and trans people. That’s vile. But the right didn’t invent men-in-women’s-sports or sex changes for children. They just responded to these things being imposed on them by fiat. They were growing more tolerant before the queer onslaught. The last GOP convention dropped opposition to marriage equality; Trump himself has said he’s “fine” with gay marriage; he appointed an openly gay married man with children as treasury secretary; his first Supreme Court pick, Neil Gorsuch, wrote the majority opinion for Bostock that secured employment rights for both gays and trans people. What more do you want? YMCA at every rally? Homoerotic AI images of Trump? An army of gays working for Trump? You got ‘em! And the Gallup nosedive began under Biden and Levine, not Trump. What the queers are doing, in other words, is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

 

Which, one suspects, is what they really yearn for. Marriage equality was a huge blow to the queer left. They hated the idea that gay men and women could just be normies, primarily interested in getting on with their lives, marriages, jobs, and children once their civil rights were settled. Where’s the edgy radicalism in that? What are activists gonna do if that happens? Get a life? A truly terrifying prospect for those clinging to adolescent revolt in their 40s.

 

And so, for the first time since 2015, I genuinely fear for the future of marriage equality. Our rights are vulnerable without broad public support. And that support was based on a moderate approach and universal language, with conservative as well as liberal variations. Replace that moderation, persuasion, and live-and-let-live ethos with a hectoring, radical, genderqueer revolution? We could lose everything. And we are beginning to.

 

Dismiss my arguments if you want. The queers and Dems certainly do. But I did the actual work of persuading and engaging people for a couple of lonely, exhausting decades. I learned something from it. And what I learned suggests we are making a terrible mistake; and if we don’t correct soon, and drastically, the 1950s will beckon once more. They’ll be calling us queers again. Because we just gave them permission.

AH: Praise you Lord! The jackals are in the fields as we and Pastor Peters prayed so many years ago.

JUDGE DISMISSES CHARGES AGAINST TRANS-IDENTIFYING SEX OFFENDER ACCUSED OF EXPOSING HIMSELF IN GIRLS LOCKER ROOMS

National Review

 

Judge Dismisses Charges Against Trans-Identifying Sex Offender Accused of Exposing Himself in Girls’ Locker Rooms

By Lauren Veldhuizen

June 4, 2026 12:41 PM

 

A Virginia judge has dismissed charges against Richard Cox, a tier-three sex offender who allegedly exposed himself in the girls’ locker rooms at two Arlington high schools after he gained entry by identifying as a woman.

 

Arlington Judge Daniel Lopez moved this week to dismiss charges against Cox for loitering within 100 feet of schools and child swim and gymnastics classes, and for exposing himself to women and girls in the locker rooms.

 

Lopez found the charge to be void after Cox filed a motion claiming the charges were “unconstitutional” due to “vagueness.”

 

Lopez ruled that “the operative conduct prohibited by the statute is ‘loitering.’ The statute, however, provides no definition of that term and contains no guidance regarding the duration of presence, the purpose of the conduct, or the surrounding circumstances that transform otherwise lawful presence near the listed locations into criminal behavior.”

 

In a footnote, the court memorandum also clarified that it is “aware that the Defendant uses she/her pronouns. The Court nevertheless uses pronouns consistent with those reflected in the indictments.”

 

In a police body camera video obtained by 7News in 2024, Cox says, “My civil rights as a transgender person allow me to use a public facility, including restrooms and changing rooms that identify as my gender.”

 

Policies put in place by the Arlington County Board and the Arlington School Board allowed him and others to enter and use bathrooms and locker rooms based on their gender identity, rather than their sex. This allowed Cox to enter those spaces with little to no pushback from staff, despite complaints from various mothers and young women.

 

He is accused of taking advantage of the policy by frequently visiting Arlington high schools and community locker rooms and bathrooms, where he exposed himself to women and girls.

 

Attorneys for the commonwealth of Arlington plan to appeal the judge’s ruling while Cox remains in custody.

 

“The Commonwealth remains committed to ensuring that the law is applied correctly and consistently, and to pursuing justice through all appropriate legal channels,” said attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti.

 

As National Review previously reported last year, one of the victims of Cox’s exposure feared “that the locker-room intruder may get off easy due to Virginia’s liberal sentencing rules.”

 

Cox’s recent charges, though they have been dismissed, are just the latest in a long line of criminal indictments for the transgender-identifying man.

 

He has been a registered sex offender since 1998 and faces more than 20 indictments for indecent exposure, public masturbation, possession of child pornography, and the sexual assault of a teenager.

 

Send a tip to the news team at NR. 

WHAT RELIGION DO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ESTABLISH?

AH: Not sure I agree with everything in this but he makes some good and interesting points.

Washington Examiner

 

What religion do the Ten Commandments establish?

By Peter Cordi

Published March 20, 2026 5:43am ET

 

A federal judge struck down Arkansas’s law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments on the basis that it establishes a state religion. My question is: What religion, exactly, do critics think is being established?

 

One might say, “Christianity, of course.” But the Decalogue is not exclusive to Christians, and not all of the Ten Commandments apply to them. For example, the Bible says that the Sabbath (the fourth commandment) was a sign given to the nation of Israel. Christians do not keep the biblical Saturday Sabbath, because Christianity is not Israel, and because the Lord Jesus Christ is our rest. We (try our best to) keep the moral commandments of the law, which Jesus summarized as “love thy neighbor as thyself.” When listing commandments to follow, as recorded in the New Testament, neither Jesus nor Paul mentioned the Sabbath — just the moral commands.

 

So then, Arkansas must be trying to establish Judaism as the state religion, right? There are roughly 5,000 Jewish people in the entire state, representing 0.17% of the population. I don’t think they’re trying to establish a Jewish state either. Even Muhammad, the founder of Islam, endorsed the Ten Commandments in the Quran through his endorsement of the Torah and by affirming each command in some way. Again, nobody would accuse Arkansas of trying to establish an Islamic state.

 

The point of displaying the Decalogue is to pay homage to the principles on which this country was founded. The United States was founded on Judeo-Christian values, which are reflected in our laws. That is an inescapable fact, and the more we try to forget this, the more our laws stray from those values. As the next generation of lawmakers, students these days could use a reminder that they have a Creator to whom they have moral obligations.

 

The pilgrims came to America to practice protestant Christianity free from persecution from an oppressive church-state. Many of the country’s founders were clear about the fact that the Bible, Christianity, and the Ten Commandments in particular, are the ideological bedrock of moral and civil code. While many of these “outdated” laws are no longer in effect, the states and colonies have seen prohibitions against murder, perjury, adultery, theft, blasphemy or profanity, and idolatry due to such actions violating one or several of the commandments.

 

If a state’s constituents feel strongly enough about displaying the Decalogue to elect leaders willing to do so, then the government should respect the wishes of those constituents. It is a historical fact that God gave Moses the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai, it is a historical fact that the Jewish people have attempted to live by those laws for thousands of years, and it is a historical fact that those commandments have shaped jurisprudence in every country around the world, but perhaps none more than the United States of America.

 

Nobody is proposing that we go back to 17th-century laws outlawing blasphemy or idolatry, but it’s also important to understand where the values that inform our nation’s laws come from. They did not come from secularism, naturalism, and agnosticism, which are all religious beliefs or practices in their own right. The idea that “religion” should be completely absent from schools misses that fact. Who’s to say secularism trumps Abrahamic religion?

 

A Godless moral code is a moralless moral code, and even the most renowned atheistic thinkers agree that objective good and evil do not exist if God does not exist.

 

You don’t have to believe in God, but you should thank Him that America was founded by people who do.