Democrat James Talarico wasn’t always a politician.

When he was 21 years old, he was a sixth-grade teacher — and considering the comments he has made about transgender children in the past, BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales believes it’s worth digging into.

Gonzales found an old Facebook page dedicated to “Mr. Talarico,” where his 11- and 12-year-old students could gather to ask questions.

“This is already weird to me, in my opinion, to create a Facebook page for your students, because they’re 11. They shouldn’t be on Facebook,” Gonzales says.

But it gets worse.

“James Talarico frequently encouraged his young sixth-grade students to call his cell phone if they have any questions,” Gonzales explains, pulling up an old post from 2012.

“Read Chapter 11 in Hunger Games this weekend. Activity 2.11 is due on Monday. Call my cell or comment on this post if you have any questions,” Talarico’s post reads.

“How was he able to keep his employment doing this publicly?” Gonzales asks, pointing out that he even left his personal phone number on some posts.

“I’m just interested in asking what the hell was going on at that school, in that class, where Mr. Talarico is inviting 11- and 12-year-olds to call him on the phone,” she says, pointing out that in any other situation, his behavior would be a “red flag.”

“At worst, it is predatory behavior. At best, it is horrible judgment and horrible boundaries with young children,” she adds.

In another post on his Facebook page, Talarico wrote, “Looking forward to spending my birthday with the 6th grade boys at UT tomorrow!”

“Is that normal for a 21-year-old male? Gonzales asks. “Is that normal for a 21-year-old male to post on Facebook?”

“That is weird,” she adds.

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Louisiana police say that an alert police officer realized something was off with a girl who was found in a car belonging to a man accused of public urination.

The harrowing incident unfolded on Saturday when officers of the St. Gabriel Police Department made contact with a 39-year-old man identified as Lionel Moore.

Moore was convicted in 2005 of indecent behavior with juveniles in Iberville Parish but failed to register as a sex offender several times.

St. Gabriel Police Chief Kevin Ambeau said officers found that Moore had warrants out of East Baton Rouge for failure to register as a sex offender after checking his driver’s license.

Then one officer made eye contact with the girl in his car and grew suspicious.

“Captain on the scene noticed her characteristics. She was dressed older than she was, at 17,” Ambeau said.

She also gave him different birth dates that did match her age. The teenager then confessed to have been with Moore for nearly three years.

Police determined that the girl had been reported missing by her mother in 2024.

“My captain was able to get the mom’s number, and we contacted the mom, who had moved out of state,” Ambeau added.

Police called on the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services to help with the teenager.

Moore was convicted in 2005 of indecent behavior with juveniles in Iberville Parish but failed to register as a sex offender several times. He was taken into custody over the felony warrant.

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Ambeau said they are now trying to determine if the teenager was being forced into sex trafficking. They are utilizing facial recognition technology on images from police body cameras and searching for her on sex trafficking sites.

“I been here all my life, and I’m 62 years old, and I ain’t never of heard of nothing like this,” said Jeffery Ben, a resident of St. Gabriel. “That’s bad.”

St. Gabriel is a city of about 6,677 residents in southern central Louisiana.

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The Trump administration refused to allow FISA Section 702 to lapse for even one day, calling it a vital tool for counterterrorism. However, when it comes to ensuring Immigration and Customs Enforcement has the necessary tools to remove alien criminals without enduring endless lawfare by sanctuary judges, there seems to be no such reservation.

Simply throwing more money at ICE in the budget reconciliation bill without changing policy will not alter the current landscape of failed deportation promises.

Trump has won numerous cases from the Supreme Court on issues pertaining to due process, detention, and bond hearings, yet the lower courts continue to defy those rulings.

On the same day House Republicans, at the behest of the White House, rushed passage of the FISA reauthorization, they passed the Senate budget reconciliation bill, which offers ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection $75 billion in mandatory funding for the remainder of the presidency.

It is understandable why Trump would want to use his last party-line bill to front-load ICE funding in the face of Democrat opposition, but what is the purpose of funding ICE if it can’t even deport violent illegal aliens without lawfare? Why is the White House opposing efforts from House conservatives to expand reconciliation?

Sadly, the Trump administration has signaled that it is largely done with mass deportations and seeks to focus on what it refers to as “the worst of the worst.” So we will certainly remove all of the criminal aliens before his term expires, right?

Wrong!

Bryan Rafael Gomez, a Dominican illegal alien who was released into the country in 2022, was arrested by ICE Boston on April 4, following a warrant for murder charges in his home country. Yet Judge Melissa DuBose, a radical Biden appointee, ordered him released and claimed his detention was unlawful.

Cases like this one are occurring on a daily basis, and despite the unambiguous language of statute and endless Supreme Court victories stating that ICE is permitted or even required to apprehend, detain, and remove these people, radical lower court judges just come back with slightly different plaintiffs and rule the same way.

As of February, illegal aliens have filed more than 18,000 habeas petitions during Trump’s second term challenging their detention in federal courts. It’s more than the number of such challenges filed over the last three administrations put together.

What these filings are designed to do is remove cases from immigration courts and bring them into Article III courts where American rights are often erroneously applied to people litigating their way into status after final removal orders.

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The entire purpose of a habeas petition was to give people a safety valve if they have a prima facie claim of being a citizen or a case of mistaken identity. But illegal aliens are now using habeas to block every removal, no matter how clear it is that the person is here illegally and even when they have a criminal record.

Earlier this year, U.S. District Judge John deGravelles granted habeas petitions and ordered the immediate release of four illegal aliens from ICE custody at Louisiana State Penitentiary, despite final removal orders. Who were the cast of characters?

Ibrahim Ali Mohamed (Ethiopia): Convicted of sexual exploitation of a minor (child sex crime/pedophilia). Entered/released into the U.S. under Biden policies; removed order issued September 2024. Luis Gaston-Sanchez (Cuba): Convictions for homicide, assault, resisting an officer, concealing stolen property, and two counts of robbery. Removed order from 2001.Ricardo Blanco Chomat (Cuba): Convictions for homicide, kidnapping, aggravated assault with a firearm, burglary, robbery, larceny, and selling cocaine. Removed order from 2002.Francisco Rodriguez-Romero: Convictions for homicide and a weapons offense. Removed order from 1995.

Three months later, these individuals, with convictions of rape, murder, assault, and robbery, remain in the country indefinitely.

In March, U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson ordered the release of Carlos Antonio Flores-Miguel, a confirmed MS-13 gang member, from ICE custody. He had multiple illegal re-entries/deportations and was initially released into the U.S. under Biden policies in 2022.

ICE arrested him in Minneapolis on January 20, after he violently resisted (punching/kicking officers and grabbing an ICE officer’s gun holster).

Trump cannot spend the remainder of his term counting the number of the worst of the worst being deported on one hand, and even having many of those deportations hampered.

The time has come to use budget reconciliation to defund any federal court case granting a habeas petition to illegal aliens unless there is a claim the individual is a citizen or of mistaken identity. Why has Trump never supported Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy’s effort to include this in reconciliation?

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To the extent this provision was ignored in last year’s bill, it is indefensible not to include it in this year’s bill now that we see deportations being ground to a halt.

Even if Trump or congressional Republicans are squeamish about applying this to every case, at a minimum they must block review of cases involving criminal aliens — at least for lower courts.

The notion that we can rely on the Supreme Court is absurd. Trump has won numerous cases from the Supreme Court on issues pertaining to due process, detention, and bond hearings, yet the lower courts continue to defy those rulings.

Years after the Trump v. Hawaii ruling made it clear the president can suspend immigration and visas from various countries, a new lower court judge issued an injunction against it. The same thing is happening with judges granting Temporary Protected Status despite Supreme Court rulings to the contrary.

So far, in neither Trump term has there been an effort from the White House to use reconciliation or any other must-pass bill to defund sanctuary cities, change any immigration laws, or jurisdiction-strip the courts.

These are all fiscal provisions that should be included in reconciliation. What is the point in throwing funding at ICE if it is legally hampered and the White House continues to abide by lawless lower court orders?

Then again, as we saw with FISA reauthorization, Trump seems to fight for what he wants. Perhaps if conservatives reallocated the defunded monies from sanctuary cities and judges to an ICE ballroom, it would get the attention of the man who promised 10 years ago to end illegal immigration.

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Reality TV star Spencer Pratt demolished his Democratic competition in a combative debate Wednesday evening in the Los Angeles mayoral debate.

Pratt went after Nithya Raman, who is aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America, after she tried to claim success in her efforts to ease the homelessness crisis as a city councilwoman.

‘I blame this person for burning my house and my parents’ house and my town and all my neighbors down.’

Pratt brutally mocked the “Inside Safe” program touted by Raman during the debate.

“First off, Inside Safe, I like to say Inside Safe makes all of us outside, unsafe,” Pratt joked.

“The reality is, no matter how many beds you give these people, they are on super meth,” Pratt added. “They are on fentanyl. The DEA statistic says 93% of this is a drug addiction problem. I will go below the Harbor Freeway tomorrow with [Raman] and we can find some of these people she’s going to offer treatment for. She’s going to get stabbed in the neck!”

Pratt also went on the attack against incumbent Democratic Mayor Karen Bass, whose incompetence allegedly led to his house being burned down in the Pacific Palisades fires. Raman accused Bass and Pratt of working together to elbow her out of the race.

“First off, Mayor Bass and I are definitely not working together,” Pratt responded, to which Bass replied by laughing.

“I blame this person for burning my house and my parents’ house and my town and all my neighbors’ down,” Pratt jabbed.

He slammed both Bass and Raman of perpetuating the same old leftist policies that had led to a severe decline in living standards in Los Angeles.

Pratt appears to be making inroads despite running as a Republican with an electorate overwhelmingly identifying as Democrat. One report found that he had been able to raise more campaign funds than either of his competitors.

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Raman had previously been compared to the socialist upstart Zohran Mamdani, who pulled an upset victory to gain the New York City mayor’s office. After a stammering incompetent appearance on the debate stage, Raman’s campaign is facing heavy criticism.

“What really surprised me is how rough of a night Nithya Raman had,” Dustin Gardiner of Politico said to KNBC-TV. “She was struggling with some of her answers. The moderators were struggling to get her to answer some of the yes and no questions.”

Gardiner said people believing Pratt would “faceplant” in his first political debate were wrong.

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Philadelphia police said a male confronted a woman in a store last month, spit on her, physically attacked her, and caused injuries to her — and the brutal beatdown was recorded on surveillance video.

Police said the assault took place around 11 p.m. April 22 in the 4000 block of Market Street in the University City neighborhood.

‘He has no heart, no heart.’

Police said after the confrontation, the argument between the two escalated, and the male spit on the woman and repeatedly punched her in the face before knocking her to the floor of the store.

Police said the woman suffered several injuries due to the attack.

The male left the store in an unknown direction, police said.

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“Oh no, my God, oh, I’m so hurt to see it,” Linda Lofton of West Philadelphia said in an interview with WXTF-TV. “He has no heart, no heart, and everyone has a mother [or a] sister [or an] aunt. … Oh, it’s horrible.”

Rasheedah of South Philadelphia added to the station, “Why these men gotta attack women? There’s other ways to resolve conflict. It’s just so sad to see.”

Police added to WXTF that the victim has been connected with victim assistance and advocacy services.

“I’m quite sure she’s traumatized by what happened, so hopefully she’ll get the help that she needs,” Rasheedah added to the station.

Police said if you see the suspect, do not approach — instead call 911 immediately. To submit a tip via telephone, dial 215-686-TIPS (8477). Police said community members can use this electronic form to submit tips anonymously and that all tips will be confidential.

Police also said those with any information about this crime or suspect can contact the Southwest Detective Division at 215-686-3183/3184.

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The attempted carjacking of a family in Texas was perpetrated by a man not legally in the U.S., according to Garland Police.

Video shows 30-year-old Jose Ramirez calmly walking up to the white sedan on Sunday and beginning a struggle with a father in an attempt to steal his car, as Blaze News previously reported.

‘You could definitely tell that he was not in his right state of mind.’

Ramirez crashed his car into two vehicles and then tried to steal several other cars in a parking lot in Garland before spotting the family’s sedan, according to police.

The father of the family got into an altercation with Ramirez, who was able to get into the driver’s seat as some of the family members ran from the vehicle.

The father was able to shoot Ramirez from outside the car through the passenger’s side. Ramirez was transported to a hospital, where he later died.

Police later identified the man as a Mexican national who was not a resident of Garland.

They also said the father was not likely to be charged because he appeared to shoot the man in self-defense.

A witness named Tatiana Starks pulled out her cell phone and was able to record Ramirez before he walked toward her on the way to the family’s car.

Videos of the altercation were widely circulated online.

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“You could definitely tell that he was not in his right state of mind,” said Starks, who worked at a smoke shop near the incident. “I’m just glad that the man was able to protect himself and his family.”

Police said the father who shot Ramirez cooperated with their investigation.

“It’s just a blessing that the kids and the family walked away with no injuries,” Starks added.

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