Hasan Piker’s Underwear Photo Displayed at RNC 10SEP26

 DID NOT MY pres drumpf/trump request this? After all he seems to be obsessed with Jaxon Dart of the New York Giants and is obsessed by the late Arnold Palmer's penis and loves the Village People so it will be no surprise if he becomes infatuated with Hasan Piker. This from Newsweek.....

Hasan Piker’s Underwear Photo Displayed at RNC

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Sep 10, 2026 at 02:34 AM EDT

updated

Sep 10, 2026 at 06:35 AM EDT

By Jordan King

Reporter

Hasan Piker reacted with disbelief after a photograph of him in his underwear appeared on giant screens at the Republican National Committee's midterm convention.

"What the f***?" the left-wing streamer said as he watched footage from the event during a livestream.

"Nooo!" he added while laughing. "They f****** posted the meat pic! Nooo! Yo! They posted the meat pic at the f****** Trumpalooza!"

The photograph appeared briefly in a video shown at the opening day of the Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas. Footage from inside the arena showed the image displayed behind the stage on Wednesday.

The unusual cameo came as Republicans increasingly seek to portray Piker, a self-described socialist with a large online following, as representative of the Democratic Party's left flank ahead of November's midterm elections.

The Dallas gathering is a two-day "special ceremonial convention," rather than a traditional presidential nominating convention. According to the Republican National Committee (RNC), it was organized to celebrate President Donald Trump's accomplishments and rally Republicans around a shared vision before the midterms. Official documentation specifies that delegates cannot conduct formal party business, adopt resolutions or hold elections during the event.

Newsweek has contacted the RNC and representatives for Piker for comment via email outside normal working hours.

Why Republicans Held a Midterm Convention

National party conventions are normally reserved for presidential election years. The Dallas gathering was designed to give Republicans a similar national platform before the midterms, when the party must defend narrow majorities in the House and Senate without Trump's name appearing on the ballot.

The event combined elements of a Trump rally, campaign showcase and fundraiser, with more than 50 administration officials, lawmakers and candidates scheduled to appear. Republicans are using the event to promote the administration's record, elevate candidates in competitive races and motivate voters in a year when the president's party would typically lose congressional seats.

Piker joked that showing the photograph was going to turn Texas blue, saying, "They're trying to make Blexas happen," referring to the prospect of the traditionally Republican state voting Democratic.

Why Hasan Piker Has Become a Political Flash Point

Piker has become a prominent figure in Republican messaging ahead of the midterm elections, with the party seeking to cast the streamer as an influential voice within a Democratic Party moving further to the left.

Republicans have highlighted his appearances with progressive candidates and repeatedly resurfaced statements he has made about the United States, Israel and the September 11 attacks. The RNC has described Piker as Democrats' "America-hating spokesman" and used his association with Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed to portray the candidate—and the wider party—as extreme. The RNC has repeatedly pressed El-Sayed to sever ties with the streamer.

Piker does not hold a formal position in the Democratic Party and frequently criticizes its leadership from the left. However, his large following among younger voters and appearances alongside Democratic candidates have made him a useful political symbol for Republicans seeking to tie the party's nominees to socialism and certain online rhetoric.

In an August 20 livestream, Piker said, "If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone is going to come around and take action, not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews."

Democratic leaders and lawmakers—including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senators Jon Ossoff of Georgia, Cory Booker of New Jersey and Jacky Rosen of Nevada—subsequently condemned the remarks, rejecting the suggestion that political advocacy could make Jewish Americans responsible for violence against them.

Ossoff's spokesperson described such rhetoric as "reckless and dangerous," adding, "American Jews and all Americans must have the freedom and security to speak out and petition their government without fear of reprisal."

DHS may have violated state election law, Virginia's AG says after whistleblower report 18SEP26

 THE threat to our democratic Republic from the neo-nazi fascist drumpf/trump-vance and the gop / greed over people-republican party. I have voted in every election held in the precinct I lived in since I registered to vote in 1976 and I have been volunteering to be an election official in Virginia since I retired. This is the first election I actually have concerns about what will happen if armed military, national guard and / or dhs gestapo agents show up at the precinct I am working at or to any election precinct anywhere in the country. I have never, ever thought anything like that was possible during any election before. I think that is part of the plan to disrupt the 2026 midterm elections by this administration and the republicans. Make people afraid so they do not go to the polls, so they do not vote. I refuse to be intimidated and have received my precinct assignment and confirmed I will be there for the whole day. Everyone who loves our country needs to meet the extreme right wings threat head on and vote, either vote early, vote by mail or vote in person on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026! Remember, DEMOCRACY IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT!!!

DHS may have violated state election law, Virginia's AG says after whistleblower report

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Associated Press

Sep 18, 2026 5:56 PM EDT

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia's attorney general said Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security may have violated several state laws after a whistleblower accused its employees of misrepresenting themselves on voter lookup tools to hunt for noncitizen voters.

In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, Attorney General Jay Jones demanded that DHS confirm in writing whether it had directed anyone to access Virginia voters' information without first obtaining permission from those voters.

"Virginia Election Code does not permit disclosure of this protected information to the federal government without a court order," he wrote in the letter to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. The state explicitly limits its voter lookup tools to individuals who attest under penalty of law that they are looking up their own records.

The AP has asked DHS for comment on the letter.

Jones also asked Mullin to preserve all related records, including access logs, correspondence and training materials mentioned in the whistleblower report.

The anonymous report, published Monday by Democratic Senate leaders, includes transcripts of a DHS training for a group of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services staffers, who it says were forced in late August to drop other work, complete a less than two-hour training and begin running DHS-provided lists of people through state voter registration systems to find "unlawful voters."

The whistleblower contends that agents have been asked to review 40 individuals per day, giving them about 12 minutes to determine whether each person is a legal voter and create federal records of anyone who is not.

President Donald Trump's administration has alleged that noncitizen voting could be a significant source of fraud in the November midterm elections, even as research shows voting by people who are not citizens is extremely rare. The Justice Department has sued to force the release of detailed voter data in 30 states and the District of Columbia, though it has not yet succeeded in those cases.

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Farmers’ Almanac Map Shows When the First Frost Hits Your State as Cold Air Moves In 11SEP26

 

Farmers’ Almanac Map Shows When the First Frost Hits Your State as Cold Air Moves In

The Climate Prediction Center expects a cold air mass to bring the season’s first frosts and freezes to the northern tier between September 18 and 24.

Sep 11, 2026 7:55 AM EDT

By Jenny Lynton

Trending News Writer, Men's Journal

The National Weather Service‘s Climate Prediction Center is tracking a cold air mass building east of the Rockies, and its latest outlook says that air could deliver the first frosts and freezes of the season to the northern United States in the second half of September.

The Farmers’ Almanac has released a map showing when that usually happens where you live. For a good part of the northern US, the average date and the current forecast now fall in the same week.

Cold Air Is Heading for the Northern Tier

The Climate Prediction Center’s week-2 outlook, issued September 10, shows a slight risk of much-below-normal temperatures over parts of the northern Plains, including the Upper Mississippi Valley and eastern Great Lakes, from September 18 to 20, and over northern New England from September 19 to 22.

Forecasters point out that near-freezing nights are not unusual for late September in those areas. They also note that any frost or freeze could still be “impactful to some vegetation and unsuspecting populations.”

Parts of the country have already had frost alerts. NWS Caribou issued frost advisories for northern Maine on September 8 and 9, with lows at 32 degrees, which is close to the Farmers’ Almanac average for that part of the state.

Where the First Frost Usually Lands

Alaska and the high country go first, with Fairbanks averaging its first frost around August 28 and Bozeman, Montana, around September 16.

Late September belongs to the northern Plains and Upper Midwest: Bismarck around September 23, Duluth around September 27 and Billings around October 1.

October covers the middle of the country, with Denver averaging October 7, Indianapolis October 15 and Chicago October 28. After that, it slides south to New York City on November 11, Atlanta on November 19 and New Orleans on December 5.

Parts of the country have already had frost alerts. NWS Caribou issued frost advisories for northern Maine on September 8 and 9, with lows at 32 degrees, which is close to the Farmers’ Almanac average for that part of the state.

Where the First Frost Usually Lands

Alaska and the high country go first, with Fairbanks averaging its first frost around August 28 and Bozeman, Montana, around September 16.

Late September belongs to the northern Plains and Upper Midwest: Bismarck around September 23, Duluth around September 27 and Billings around October 1.

October covers the middle of the country, with Denver averaging October 7, Indianapolis October 15 and Chicago October 28. After that, it slides south to New York City on November 11, Atlanta on November 19 and New Orleans on December 5.

Phoenix averages December 25 and Orlando January 6. Miami gets frost only in a severe cold snap, and Honolulu doesn’t get frost at all.

Frost and Freeze Are Not the Same Thing

A freeze is an air temperature of 32 degrees or lower, while frost refers to ice crystals that form on surfaces.

Frost is ice crystals forming on grass, leaves and car windshields. It can show up when the official reading is several degrees above freezing because the air at ground level is colder than the thermometer a few feet up. Clear, calm nights provide the conditions frost needs to form.

The Almanac divides cold temperatures into three categories. A light freeze at 29 to 32 degrees kills tender plants, a moderate freeze at 25 to 28 degrees damages many garden plants, and a hard freeze around 24 or colder takes out most unprotected vegetation.

One more thing worth knowing before you circle a date: the averages on the map are 50 percent probabilities, not deadlines. Frost had already arrived by that date in about half of recorded years, and an early cold front from Canada can bring it sooner than the average date. What happens after the frost is a separate forecast, and the Almanac’s zone-by-zone winter outlook covers that.

Family of Woman Who Died While Pregnant Sues Texas Over Abortion Ban 16SEP26

 

Tierra Walker lived in San Antonio with her husband and 15-year-old son.Credit...via the Walker family

THIS is especially tragic because it did not have to happen. Tierra Walker should be alive and enjoying life with her husband and son. Every state official, every resident of Texas who supports this exceptionally restrictive abortion law is complicit in, had a part in Tierra Walker's death. Their pompous self-righteousness killed this lady and they should be ashamed. This from the New York Times.....

Family of Woman Who Died While Pregnant Sues Texas Over Abortion Ban

The lawsuit claims that state officials created a climate of fear that kept doctors from ending Tierra Walker’s pregnancy before she died.

By Edgar Sandoval

Reporting from San Antonio

Sept. 16, 2026

Days after a San Antonio emergency room sent Tierra Walker home with a diagnosis of pre-eclampsia in 2024, her son found her dead. It was his 15th birthday.

On Tuesday, Ms. Walker’s aunt Latanya Walker sued Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas and others arguing that her death was a result of the state’s ban on abortions. Ms. Walker had sought an abortion, her lawyer said, because she didn’t expect to survive the pregnancy with her diagnosis.

The lawsuit filed in a state court in San Antonio is the latest challenge to Texas’ abortion ban, which remains one of the strictest in the nation. The suit argues that the law’s medical emergency exception exists only on paper and that doctors who invoke it risk prison, fines and the loss of their license.

Other lawsuits by women who say they were denied abortions despite grave risks to their lives or their fetuses have been dismissed or blocked by state courts.

The suit specifically names the sitting attorney general, Mr. Paxton, a Republican who is running for U.S. Senate; the head of the Texas Medical Board; the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and several doctors who treated her for complications during her pregnancy.

The lawsuit claims that Mr. Paxton’s office and medical leaders in the state created a climate of fear that affected the care Ms. Walker received. Doctors who perform an abortion outside the law’s narrow exception can face up to 99 years in prison, fines of at least $100,000 and the loss of their medical license.

The plaintiff is seeking an unspecified amount of money. The lawsuit also called the law unconstitutional because it deprived Ms. Walker of her right to live, Latanya Walker’s lawyers said.

Mr. Paxton’s office did not respond to a request for comment. Officials with the Texas Medical Board and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio declined to comment.

Mr. Paxton has filed several lawsuits against medical providers and medical organizations that prescribe and send abortion pills from states where abortion is legal to people in Texas.

The Texas law offers a narrow medical emergency exemption to save the life of the pregnant patient.

Ms. Walker died in 2024 after seeing many medical providers to help address pre-eclampsia, a severe high blood pressure condition in pregnancy that can be life threatening, and other health issues, lawyers for Latanya Walker said. She also suffered from pre-eclampsia in 2021 while pregnant with twins who were stillborn.

“Tierra Walker is proof that there is no exception because if she did not qualify, if even her doctors were too scared to act, then the medical emergency exception is nothing more than words on a page,” said Molly Duane, one of the attorneys.

Latanya Walker is being represented by Amplify Legal, the litigation arm of Abortion in America, an abortion rights advocacy group, and the Marynell Maloney Law Firm. The lawsuit claims that the abortion ban contributed to Ms. Walker’s death.

“For months, Ms. Walker had been asking for termination of her pregnancy — even though this was a wanted pregnancy — because she did not think she would survive the pregnancy. Tragically, she was right. An abortion at any point during her pregnancy would have saved her life,” the lawsuit said.

Ms. Walker, who was 37, left behind a teenage son and a husband.

Several other women have died after being denied or delayed pregnancy care under the state’s abortion restrictions, though the role of the law in individual cases remains contested. The full number of women in Texas who have died or suffered severe complications because of the restrictions is unknown.

The Texas Department of State Health Services announced this month that it would break with past precedent of releasing its biennial maternal mortality report in early September and wait until after the midterm elections in November. The report was expected to unveil the first set of data on maternal mortality since abortion became all but illegal in Texas.

Thirteen states ban abortion outright. Seven more states bar it after six to 12 weeks of pregnancy. The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, ending a federal constitutional right to abortion that had stood for nearly half a century.

Ms. Walker’s story gained widespread attention after a report by ProPublica.

Ms. Walker spent long stints at area hospitals and visited the emergency room several times during her pregnancy, where she underwent several tests. Despite the health risks, the lawsuit said none of the hospital staff advised her “on the possibility of abortion as a lifesaving medical treatment, offered her this treatment, or suggested that she leave the state.”

“Instead, hospital staff kept insisting ‘nothing is wrong with the baby’ and continued to refuse the care that she needed on that basis,” the lawsuit said.

She returned to the emergency room one last time on Dec. 27, 2024, where she was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia, but was discharged. Her teenage son found her dead days later.

“We want justice,” Latanya Walker said Wednesday during a news conference. “I don’t want this to happen to anyone else. This needs to stop.”

Edgar Sandoval covers Texas for The Times, with a focus on the Latino community and the border with Mexico. He is based in San Antonio.

A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 18, 2026, Section A, Page 19 of the New York edition with the headline: Family of Woman Who Died While Pregnant Sues Texas Over Abortion Ban.

U.S. Abortion Landscape

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• Family Sues Texas: The family of Tierra Walker, who unsuccessfully sought an abortion and later died, sued Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas and others, arguing that her death was a result of the state’s ban on abortions.

• Rejected Ballot Measures: Voters shot down two Republican-backed ballot measures in Kansas and Missouri that could have made it easier to ban abortions in the future.

• Ruling in Missouri Restores Access to Medication Abortions: A judge in Missouri found that dozens of state laws undermined a state constitutional amendment that guaranteed reproductive rights. The state vowed to appeal the finding.

• Abortion After Down Syndrome Test: Jesse Ridgway, a popular YouTuber, and his wife, Ashley, had decided to terminate her pregnancy after a test revealed the presence of Trisomy 21, a form of Down syndrome. Death threats followed.

• Tracking Abortion Bans: We are tracking the status of abortion laws in each state following the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.