James Talarico Headlined Pride Event Alongside 11-Year-Old Child Drag Queen: 'Cutest and Youngest of Our Drag Performers'
Plus, 'independent' Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn compared immigration enforcement to Nazi Germany
Left-wing Texas Senate nominee James Talarico headlined a pride festival featuring “the absolute cutest & youngest of our drag performers”—an 11-year-old “drag queen” who goes by the stage name Kween Kee Kee, the Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross reports.
Taylor PRIDE, a group in the town of Taylor, Texas, held the June 26, 2021, event to raise money to help “rural LGBTQ communities.” Talarico and Kween Kee Kee, a local preteen named Keegan, were the biggest attractions. “[Taylor PRIDE] will be hosting numerous speakers such as State Rep. James Talarico, talented musical guests such as Venus Loves Mars, the absolute cutest & youngest of our drag performers Kween Kee Kee,” the group wrote in promotional materials. “Not only … will this amazing pre-teen be performing a number at Texas Beer Company but they will also host Kee Kee Storytime … where children will find lots of PRIDE inspired craft activities,” the group added in a separate post.
Photos from the event show Talarico speaking to the audience and posing with attendees. They also show Kween Kee Kee, a young boy, sporting a shimmery blue dress, heavy eye makeup, and a platinum blonde wig and doing the splits. Taylor PRIDE lamented afterwards that an unnamed conservative organization had “ridiculed & protested” the event “for being sexually explicit and exploitation of a child.” “You tell us if that rings true,” the group wrote.
“Talarico’s attendance at the festival—in a small, conservative town almost 50 miles from the liberal enclave of Austin—underscores how his positions on social issues, including exposing children to sexually charged subject matter, may differ from the views of the broader Texas electorate,” writes Ross. “Talarico expressed his ‘love’ for transgender children in a 2023 podcast interview after a group of them showed up at the State Capitol in Austin to rally in support of a pro-trans bill.”
The Democrat-endorsed “independent” running for Senate in Nebraska, Dan Osborn, compared contemporary immigration enforcement to the tactics deployed against Jews in Nazi Germany during an October 2025 town hall event, an audio recording first reported by the Free Beacon shows.
Osborn said during the event that the treatment of illegal immigrants in America today is no different than the persecution of German Jews in the 1930s, whom the Nazi regime accused of being the root cause of society’s problems. “You have to have a common enemy, right?” Osborn told an audience member during the town hall. “And in the 30s it was the Jews. This, they’re using the immigrants.” He added: “How can nobody sit here and tell me that you can blame all your woes on a group of people that don’t have political power? They have zero political power.”
“Osborn’s comments on ICE and Nazis, first reported here by the Free Beacon, reflect the left’s most incendiary anti-ICE rhetoric and pose a stark contrast with the centrist position on immigration enforcement he’s straddled on the campaign trail as he seeks to appeal to the center in deep-red Nebraska,” our Andrew Kerr writes. “Osborn has sought for years to portray himself as tough on immigration, even bragging in 2021 that he called ICE to report illegal immigrants he suspected of working at a Kellogg's plant.”
“At other times, though, Osborn has contradicted his hardline immigration positions, sometimes depending on the forum or publication involved. In September 2024, he told Semafor, a liberal publisher and events company, that he supports ‘meaningful immigration reform,’ saying ‘it’s time they get into Social Security already’ and called for 80,000 open jobs in Nebraska to be filled with ‘immigrant labor.’ … His flip-flopping on immigration policy led his Republican opponent, Sen. Pete Ricketts, to accuse Osborn in February of ‘dodging questions and talking out of both sides of his mouth.’”
An upcoming criminal trial may reshape public opinion about the 2025 Palisades Fire in Southern California—because it shows that the fire was “a consequence not of climate change but of class warfare,” our Ira Stoll writes.
The trial of Jonathan Rinderknecht, who was indicted by a grand jury late last year on three charges, including arson, and has pleaded not guilty, is set to begin in October after the original case ended in a mistrial in June. A memo released by federal prosecutors in the case notes that Rinderknecht said someone might commit arson in the Palisades “out of resentment of the rich enjoying their money as ‘we’re basically being enslaved by them.’” It also notes that Rinderknecht was known to rant about capitalism and Luigi Mangione, searching the internet with terms like “free Luigi Mangione,” “lets take down all the billionaires, “ and “reddit lets kill all the billionaires.” Stoll writes:
To hear the Democratic politicians and most of the press tell it, the main cause of the 2025 fire was climate change. The Democratic presidential candidate in 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris, posted in February 2025, “In January, we saw historic damage in Altadena, Pacific Palisades, and throughout Los Angeles due to wildfires. These blazes — made worse by the climate crisis — devastated communities.”
The Times opinion pages also weighed in with a piece about “climatic changes that seem to increase those risks almost year by year.” Another guest essay, headlined, “As a Climate Scientist, I Knew It Was Time to Leave Los Angeles,” asserted, “For those who have lost everything in climate disasters, the apocalypse has already arrived. And as the planet gets hotter, climate disasters will get more frequent and more intense.” One New York Times opinion piece, by veteran Los Angeles Times reporter Mark Arax, had the audacity to blame the fires on, of all people, Rupert Murdoch: “If only the climate change deniers peddling their pap on Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News considered the last escapees from Coffey Park, a mundane suburban tract tucked behind a freeway in a corner of Sonoma County in Northern California. At 1:30 a.m. on Oct. 9, 2017, flames raced down the gully of an adjacent hillside, and a gust of fire roared toward them.”
There has been no such spate of Times opinion pieces blaming the California fires on left-wing television networks or opinion pages platforming wealth inequality handwringing by Senator Bernie Sanders, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, or economics professors Piketty and Zucman.
READ MORE: Palisades Fire Was Sparked By Anti-Capitalist Motivated By Hate of Rich, Prosecutors Say
Elsewhere:
Abdul El-Sayed won’t say whether it was a “mistake” to campaign with the socialist, America-hating streamer Hasan Piker. “I think people get real worried about him, but you think about who Mike Rogers has been palling around with, right?” El-Sayed said, referring to his Republican opponent. Rogers, in fact, has not been “palling around” with folks who say “America deserved 9/11.”
The rise of candidates like El-Sayed is prompting a $15 million push from the center-left group Third Way to discredit democratic socialism, the New York Times reported. The group plans to “target the Democratic Socialists of America” through “opposition research” and “social media programs.” Chuck Schumer may be absent, but at least somebody is speaking up.
The Senate’s government oversight committee voted to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after the embattled health official refused to answer questions in a hearing last week. Fauci pleaded the Fifth more than 100 times, including in response to questions like, “What day of the week is it today?” and, “What color tie are you wearing?”
An auto executive who resides in the United States but has been identified as a member of the Chinese Communist Party contributed $61,000 to Democratic campaigns in the second quarter of 2026, bringing the total he has given to Democrats this campaign cycle to more than $450,000.
A Republican lawmaker in North Carolina has received death threats after raising concerns about a pentagram-skirt-wearing transgender music teacher who has been hired by a local elementary school. After commenting about the ordeal on Facebook, Erin Paré woke up to a message reading, “I hope you end up kirked,” a reference to the assassination of the late conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
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Who is running the show in Texas, Muslims and Queers? Whomever put that 11 year old out there should be arrested and charged with something! Well, maybe just take the pervert out behind the saloon and put a .40 between their eyes! Works for me!
Steve MitznerAugust 7, 2026 at 10:18 am
Our Creator-inspired and founding father John Adams said it best: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” I.e. Not a Satan-inspired, Hell-bound mass baby-killing, mass-addicted, broken Church & Home neo-Sodom-Gomorrah LGBTQ-promoting world of today! We’re lucky God hasn’t wiped out our evil world again, as before!!!