Thursday, May 28, 2026
Tulsi Gabbard To Go Nuclear On Deep State Before Leaving ODNI?
TYLER DURDEN
Last week, Tulsi Gabbard, President Trump's Director of National Intelligence, announced she will step down on June 30 to care for her husband, Abraham, who has been diagnosed with what she called "an extremely rare form of bone cancer."
"My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. He faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months. At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle," she wrote in her resignation letter.
"I cannot in good conscience ask him to face this fight alone while I continue in this demanding and time-consuming position."
Since taking the position of DNI, Gabbard has moved aggressively to overhaul the intelligence community, trying to root out the politicization and corruption, including exposing the deep state’s war on President Trump.
Gabbard revoked the security clearances of officials found to have "abused public trust," shut down DEI programs across the intelligence community, and redirected its focus toward foreign terrorist organizations.
Gabbard also prioritized transparency, and by May 2026, Gabbard had overseen the declassification of more than 500,000 pages of previously secret government documents.
Those documents span an almost surreal range of American history: assassination records on President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.; files connected to Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance; and Biden administration documents detailing the federal government's "Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism."
She also pushed the declassification of materials she argues expose the full mechanics of the Russia investigation, which her office says proved that the Obama administration weaponized intelligence to undermine Trump's 2016 campaign.
She may be leaving, but between now and her final day as DNI, Gabbard intends to make her departure felt by the deep state.
Gabbard plans to release findings from a string of sensitive investigations in weekly installments.
These revelations will include declassifications covering the Havana Syndrome, the origins of COVID-19, the alleged weaponization of the federal government under recent Democrat administrations, and the 2020 presidential election.
In her resignation letter to Trump, Gabbard pledged to stay focused on the mission.
"I am fully committed to ensuring a smooth and thorough transition over the coming weeks so that you and your team experience no disruption in leadership or momentum," she wrote.
"It has been a profound honor to serve the American people as DNI."
Trump responded to Gabbard’s resignation on Truth Social.
"Unfortunately, after having done a great job, Tulsi Gabbard will be leaving the Administration on June 30th," hewrote, noting Abraham's diagnosis.
He added, "I have no doubt he will soon be better than ever.”
He praised Gabbard’s tenure, saying she has "done an incredible job, and we will miss her."
Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Aaron Lukas will serve as Acting DNI.
However, the Trump administration now faces a real procedural challenge in confirming a permanent replacement. Tensions between the White House and Senate Republicans have been running hot in the wake of Trump's endorsements of primary challengers against Sen. John Cornyn of Texas and Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana.
With one month left in office, Gabbard has made her intentions clear. The secrets that the deep state hoped wouldn’t see the light of day will all be coming out before she walks out the door.
Things To Come: The Rise Of Global 'Interfaith Unity'
Is tolerance a higher virtue than truth? Is interfaith unity more important than doctrine? Is Biblical conviction now considered divisive? These are no longer theoretical questions; they are ones the modern world demands people answer in order to participate in what is quickly becoming a new global spiritual environment.
We are witnessing the rise of what could be called: The New Global Religion of Tolerance
When Truth Becomes the Enemy. A World United—But Around What?
We are living in an age where tolerance has become the supreme virtue of modern society. Governments promote it. Corporations market it. Schools teach it. Media platforms enforce it. Religious leaders increasingly preach it. At first glance, tolerance sounds noble. Christians are called to love people, show compassion, and treat others with dignity. But the modern definition of tolerance has evolved far beyond kindness or coexistence.
Today’s version of tolerance demands something far deeper. Not merely accepting people… but affirming every belief system, lifestyle, ideology, and moral framework as equally valid.
The moment someone declares that absolute truth exists, they are increasingly viewed as dangerous, divisive, hateful, or extreme. This is why the coming global culture is not merely political or social, it is spiritual. A new worldwide belief system is emerging, and its central doctrine is this: truth must never offend.
Today, tolerance demands affirmation, and anyone who refuses to affirm the spirit of the age is viewed as dangerous.
When Truth Becomes Hate Speech
Biblical truth is increasingly being treated as hate speech. But what exactly is hate speech?
Modern legal and cultural frameworks often define hate speech as speech that dehumanizes others, incites violence, promotes harm or fear, and encourages hostility or discrimination. Laws surrounding hate speech commonly address speech inciting imminent lawless action, fighting words provoking violence, true threats involving bodily harm or death, harassment severe enough to impact an environment, defamation, obscenity based on community standards, and speech causing major disruption in public settings
While many of these laws were created to prevent genuine harm, little by little, those who proclaim Biblical exclusivity—or refuse participation in certain interfaith movements—are being portrayed as intolerant, divisive, hateful, or dangerous.
This is how uncompromising Christianity is gradually becoming described and received in our modern secular culture.
The Rise of Global Interfaith Unity
Research on global trends in religious tolerance and interfaith dialogue has accelerated dramatically over the last two decades. A major academic analysis titled Global Research Trends on Religious Tolerance and Interfaith Dialogue examined worldwide trends between 2000 and 2025. The study analyzed countries, institutions, journals, authors, and publications.
Especially noteworthy was the growing emphasis on interfaith dialogue, global coexistence, and shared ethics over doctrine. In other words, what the world is accepting and seeking is ethics over truth and unity over doctrine.
At the same time, surveys continue to show rising concerns surrounding religious intolerance and ideological division across the globe. The world is searching desperately for unity. But increasingly, it wants unity without Biblical truth.
One highly publicized interfaith meeting in 2024 involved Pope Francis kissing the hand of the Grand Imam of Istiqlal Mosque while promoting coexistence among religions. During this gathering, the following statement was highlighted: “This testifies to the fact that throughout the history of this nation and in the very fabric of its culture, the mosque, like other places of worship, are spaces of dialogue, mutual respect and harmonious coexistence between religions and different spiritual sensibilities.”
The former Pope spoke of “spiritual sensibilities”? What exactly does that mean?
The language itself reflects a growing global movement away from doctrinal certainty and toward broad spiritual inclusiveness. Truth becomes secondary to coexistence. Doctrine becomes less important than dialogue. This is not Biblical.
Tolerance Becomes the Highest Virtue
The modern world treats tolerance as the supreme moral good. This creates a dangerous progression. Disagreement becomes hate, exclusivity becomes dangerous, and Biblical conviction becomes divisive.
The pressure against Biblical exclusivity continues to grow because Christianity makes claims of absolute truth that the world no longer wants to hear. Jesus declared: “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me” (John 14:6). Acts 4:12 proclaims: “And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.” These verses, and others, directly contradict the spirit of religious universalism.
The Coming One-World Spiritual Environment
The Bible repeatedly speaks of a future global spiritual deception associated with the last days.
2 Thessalonians 2 describes the rise of the “lawless one” accompanied by deception powerful enough to mislead the world. Revelation describes a future global system that will influence nations spiritually, politically, and economically. As the world embraces unity without truth, Biblical Christianity increasingly stands alone. This is one of the great prophetic realities of our time.
The infrastructure for global spiritual convergence is already forming through interfaith initiatives, Abrahamic faith movements, shared worship spaces, global religious summits, “common faith” language, and worldwide calls for religious harmony. None of these trends alone fulfill prophecy, but together, they reveal the direction the world is moving.
The greatest deception of the last days may not come through obvious evil. It may come through a counterfeit love that rejects Biblical truth in the name of peace and unity.
SCOTLAND’S LEADERS TAKE GUIDANCE FROM THE QURAN - CHRISTIANS SUBMIT (Video)
IDF strikes Beirut in first attack on Lebanese capital in 3 weeks, after refraining at Trump’s request
Times of Israel is liveblogging Thursday
Over 135 Hezbollah targets were struck over the past day, the military says.
In southern Lebanon and the eastern Beqaa Valley, the IDF says that it struck 10 rocket launching sites, along with a Hezbollah training camp.
In Tyre, 15 Hezbollah infrastructure sites used to advance attacks were struck, according to the military.
The Israeli Air Force also struck and killed several Hezbollah operatives who were seen leaving a rocket-launching site used in an attack on troops, the IDF adds.
The Lebanese army announces that a soldier was killed in an Israeli strike while traveling on the Zaqta–Deir al-Zahrani road in the Nabatieh area of southern Lebanon.
Yesterday, the Lebanese army announced that a soldier had been killed in a strike on the Kfardoun–al-Khardali road in the same area of southern Lebanon.
On Tuesday, Lebanon said a soldier was killed in an Israeli strike in the western Beqaa region of Lebanon.
Troops from the IDF’s Duvdevan commando unit under the direction of the Shin Bet arrested five Palestinian terror suspects in a series of operations across the West Bank over the past two days, including one accused of planning an attack in the immediate future, the military says.
According to the IDF, the suspect was detained in Jenin.
In a separate raid in the village of Zeita, troops arrested a Hamas-affiliated suspect accused of “advancing terror activity.”
The IDF says three additional suspects were arrested in the Qalandiya and Al-Bireh areas, including one armed operative accused of incitement and another involved in assembling explosive devices.
Separately, undercover Border Police officers operating under Shin Bet direction arrested two additional Palestinian suspects overnight in Nablus who were also allegedly planning to carry out an attack imminently.
According to the IDF, the undercover forces surrounded the building where the suspects were hiding and negotiated their surrender before arresting them.
All of the suspects were transferred to security forces for further questioning, the military says.
Ceasefire rattled as Iran targets 4 ships at Hormuz, US fires on Iran, which then targets US base
The United States struck southern Iran on Thursday, after Iran fired drones at ships trying to cross the Strait of Hormuz, drawing retaliation from Tehran against a US military base, in the most serious clashes since an April ceasefire began.
The fighting, which drew in US ally Kuwait, threatened to jettison a fragile diplomatic push to forge a peace agreement and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which has become a key point of contention in efforts to formally end the war.
The fresh fighting appeared to begin when Iranian forces fired at four ships attempting to cross the strait, state broadcaster IRIB reported on Thursday.
“Four vessels attempted to cross the Strait of Hormuz and enter the Persian Gulf without coordination with the security forces,” IRIB posted on Telegram, saying the incident took place at around 12:35 a.m. local time. It did not provide details on the ships.
“They were warned, but after they ignored the warning, warning shots were fired at them, forcing them to return,” the broadcaster added.
US forces launched strikes that hit a ground control station in the southern port area of Bandar Abbas, a US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP.
According to Reuters, also citing a US official, the military also shot down four Iranian attack drones and hit the station before a fifth could launch.
“These actions were measured, purely defensive and intended to maintain the ceasefire,” the official said.
Three explosions were heard east of Bandar Abbas at around 1:30 a.m. local time, Iranian media reported early on Thursday, adding that air defenses were activated for several minutes and that authorities were following up to determine the origin of the sounds.
The attack prompted a swift response by Iran. A Guards spokesperson, quoted by IRIB, said it “targeted” the American base that the attack on Bandar Abbas was launched from at 4:50 a.m.
The Guards did not provide details on the location of the base, though Kuwait’s military said its air defenses responded to an “enemy” attack on Thursday.
Kuwait’s army said air defenses were deployed against missile and drone threats, without specifying their origin. It said explosions heard in the country were from interceptions.
Kuwait repeatedly came under fire from Iran and Iranian-backed Shiite militias in Iraq during the war.
The exchange of fire was the second flare-up in fighting this week. US forces on Monday attacked missile sites in southern Iran and boats trying to lay mines, describing the moves as defensive.
The strikes drew a thinly veiled threat from Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, but Thursday marked the first time since fighting halted that Iran retaliated against the US, potentially ratcheting up tensions even as the sides attempt to hash out a deal suspending the conflict.
US President Donald Trump has repeatedly said the end of the war is close, but told the media at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday he was not yet satisfied on a deal with Iran and the US was not discussing easing sanctions on it.
The US is seeking a deal with Iran that will keep it from nuclear enrichment activities, and wants to extract a stockpile of already near-bomb grade uranium.
Aside from seeking sanctions relief, Iran is insisting that the US unfreeze Iranian funds, the deputy secretary of its National Security Council said, according to a report by Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news outlet.
“We are seeking the release of all Iranian assets blocked by the United States, and this is the legal right of the Iranian nation,” Ali Bagheri Kani said. “Iran’s assets must be fully and unconditionally returned to Iran.”
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