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Ballot Destruction on Long Island + Caitlin Clark Attacked & Mocked

June 26, 2026

Ballot Destruction on Long Island + Caitlin Clark Attacked & Mocked

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Hempstead, NY school clerk April Keys allegedly smuggled ballots out of her office and handed absentee ballots to candidate Victor Pratt to trash, leading the school district to file a 51-page petition to overturn Pratt's razor-thin win.

Hours after video caught Mercury player Alyssa Thomas driving a fist into Clark's neck and a knee to her groin with no foul called, Phoenix's official social media account posted a stick-figure cartoon mocking Clark — then deleted it.

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The dominant story today is a brazen act of election fraud in Hempstead, New York, where school district clerk April Keys allegedly smuggled official ballots out of her office and handed absentee ballots to candidate Victor Pratt so he could physically destroy them — some were found in a dumpster. The district's attorneys filed a 51-page petition with the state Education Department calling the irregularities so "pervasive" that they "vitiated the electoral process," and are now seeking to overturn Pratt's razor-thin victory. Criminal charges against Keys are reportedly possible. This is exactly the kind of real, documented ballot tampering that fuels the public's eroding confidence in election integrity — and it happened at the hyper-local school board level, where most people assume fraud couldn't reach.

Running nearly as hot today is the ongoing targeting of Caitlin Clark in the WNBA. During Wednesday night's game in Indianapolis, Phoenix Mercury player Alyssa Thomas was caught on video driving her fist into Clark's neck and throat and kneeing her in the groin during a loose-ball scramble — with no foul called and no flagrant reviewed. Clark left the game with a back injury. Indiana Fever head coach Stephanie White lit into officials postgame. Then the Mercury poured fuel on the fire by posting a cartoon on their official social media account that appeared to mock Clark's incident before deleting it. The league's silence and the franchise's tone-deaf response are drawing widespread outrage.

These two stories share a common thread: institutions failing to enforce their own rules. Whether it's election officials shredding ballots or a sports league ignoring on-camera violence against its marquee star, the pattern is the same — the people in charge look the other way, or worse, pile on. Meanwhile, VP Vance was delivering a sharp reminder at the Nixon Library that accountability and plain speech still matter, roasting protesters who heckled him in Spanish while waving Palestinian flags. And the Supreme Court handed Trump a win on asylum enforcement, while Iran escalated tensions with a drone strike on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz.

Tomorrow, watch for: whether New York state education authorities act on the Hempstead petition and if criminal charges are formally filed against Keys; any WNBA league response — or continued silence — on the Thomas-Clark incident and the Mercury's deleted post; and further developments on Iran's Strait of Hormuz provocations as the Trump administration signals zero tolerance for interference with international shipping lanes.