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Anti-fraud GOP candidate for Minnesota governor suspends campaign after daughter’s savage murder
Former St. Cloud City Councilman Jeff Johnson, a Republican candidate for governor in Minnesota, suspended his campaign on Monday after his 22-year-old daughter was savagely stabbed to death.
The Republican Party of Minnesota confirmed Johnson was dropping out and stressed that the group is “heartbroken by the tragic loss of Dr. Jeff Johnson’s daughter, who was killed in a violent crime Saturday night in St. Cloud.”
“There are no words that can adequately express the sorrow we feel for Jeff and his family,” continued the Minnesota GOP. “The loss of a child is unimaginable, and our thoughts and prayers are with them as they grieve this devastating tragedy.”
The City of St. Cloud Police Department indicated that officers responded on Saturday evening to a report of a medical emergency at the apartment of Johnson’s daughter, Hallie Marie Tobler, where they found her dead with multiple stab wounds.
‘Join us in lifting up the Johnson family.’
Dylan Tobler, her 23-year-old husband, was also found at the scene with life-threatening injuries that police believe to have been self-inflicted. Although initially taken to St. Cloud Hospital for treatment, police indicated Dylan Tobler — who is now in stable condition — will later be transported to the Stearns County Jail, “where he will be held for court on charges related to the homicide.”
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Last month, Dylan Tobler pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in connection to a June 2025 incident in which he choked his wife, reported the Duluth News Tribune.
By Tuesday, Johnson’s campaign page had been stripped down to its header.
The former councilman, who served for two terms in the 2010s, announced his candidacy for governor in March 2025, vowing to tackle Minnesota’s fraud and crime problems, keep businesses from fleeing the Gopher State, work with federal agencies to combat illegal immigration, and stand up to radicalism from the left.
“Quite frankly, Minnesota has been operating in full crisis mode under Gov. Tim Walz for years,” Johnson said at the time in an interview with the St. Cloud Times.
The Minnesota GOP asked for residents of the state “to join us in lifting up the Johnson family during this incredibly painful time.”
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‘Impossible to deal with’: Pete Hegseth reveals the real culprit behind defense contractor delays
War Secretary Pete Hegseth has made it his mission to slash through red tape and streamline defense production. But in order to do that, Hegseth says the Pentagon needs to take a look in the mirror.
Blaze News traveled with Hegseth as he visited defense contractors like Anduril and General Dynamics during his “Arsenal of Freedom” tour Monday, hammering the importance of overcoming burdensome production delays. In order to embolden the hardworking men and women who build America’s arsenal, Hegseth told Blaze News the Pentagon needs to take the first step.
‘There’s mazes of requirements.’
“A lot of the hang-up has been us,” Hegseth told Blaze News. “So we’ve got to look at ourselves first. The way we do business — we’ve been impossible to deal with.”
“A bad customer who, year after year, changes our mind about what we want or what we don’t want, and then we make little, small technological changes, which makes it more difficult for them to produce what they need to produce on time. So we have to fix our own house first: provide clarity, simplify the system, allow more people to access it, give that steady demand signal.”
Whether it’s building warships or acquiring the latest technologies for autonomous underwater vehicles, Hegseth acknowledged how often these projects often fall far behind schedule and go way over budget. In an attempt to combat this, Hegseth noted several DOW deals with defense companies like Raytheon, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin that facilitate investment because “they know we’re going to be buying in the future.”
“That’s groundbreaking stuff. Our department’s never done that. … That’s just good business. We haven’t operated … that way before.”
RELATED: Putting God back in ‘degraded’ US Chaplain Corps: Hegseth axes pagan codes and New Age guides
Like all other government agencies, Hegseth also pointed to bureaucracy and regulations as major hindrances for these defense companies.
“There’s mazes of requirements that this department has traditionally put on different systems and platforms that are impossible to navigate, and by the time you navigate them, you’re five years behind the actual technology,” Hegseth told Blaze News.
“We’re going to companies and saying tell us what you can do based on the parameters of what kind of capabilities we’re looking for. … Let’s tailor it accordingly.”
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Massie drops bombshell after review of unredacted Epstein files, helps put name to alleged co-conspirator
Roughly six weeks past the deadline to publish all of its files on child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Justice Department released over 3 million additional pages in response to the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
While the documents provide new insights into Epstein, his degeneracy, and his international network of affluent allies, they are rife with redactions. Lawmakers have, however, been afforded the opportunity to review the unredacted files in person at the DOJ after giving 24 hours’ notice.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who with Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna (Calif.) rushed to inspect the files at the first available opportunity in hopes of identifying “the men who Jeffrey Epstein trafficked women to,” revealed on Monday that he came across “the names of at least six men that have been redacted that are likely incriminated by their inclusion in these files.”
‘Give the DOJ a chance to say they made a mistake and over-redacted.’
While Massie indicated that it was prudent to identify the men from the House floor or in a committee hearing — where he would be protected from civil lawsuits over perceived defamation or libel — he told reporters that “at least one is a U.S. citizen, at least one is a foreigner, and the other three or four have names I’m not sure if they’re foreign or U.S.”
“One is pretty high up in a foreign government,” added Massie.
Khanna, addressing reporters jointly with the Kentucky Republican, chimed in to note that “one of the others is a pretty prominent individual.” The Democrat suggested there may be more questionably redacted names, stressing they had only scratched the surface with their two-hour review.
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The Kentucky Republican noted, “I would like to give the DOJ a chance to say they made a mistake and over-redacted and let them unredact those men’s names.”
‘It wasn’t unredacted until tonight.’
The DOJ seized upon the opportunity to make some adjustments.
Massie noted later on Monday that the DOJ had unredacted both “an FBI file that LABELS two individuals as co-conspirators” and “a file that lists several men who might be implicated.”
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed that the DOJ unredacted former Victoria’s Secret CEO Lex Wexner’s name from a 2019 FBI document identifying him as a possible co-conspirator in Epstein’s sex-trafficking case. He noted that Wexner’s name appears “thousands of times” elsewhere in the Epstein files and stated, “DOJ is hiding nothing.”
“This is significant because Kash Patel testified to Congress that FBI had no evidence of other sex traffickers,” Massie said in response. “This is FBI’s own 2019 document listing Wexner as coconspirator in child sex trafficking. It wasn’t unredacted until tonight.”
The DOJ standards recommend against identifying unindicted co-conspirators unless they have been charged with the same conspiracy by way of unsealed criminal complaint or information. The document Massie referred to alleges that Wexner was a co-conspirator of Epstein.
Wexner stated in July 2019 that he had long since severed any connection with Epstein and “would not have continued to work with any individual capable of such egregious, sickening behavior as has been reported about him.”
“When Mr. Epstein was my personal money manager, he was involved in many aspects of my financial life. But let me assure you that I was NEVER aware of the illegal activity charged in the indictment,” added Wexner.
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Blaze News has reached out to the Wexner Foundation for comment.
‘They’re trafficking girls all across the world.’
The Epstein Files Transparency Act permits the DOJ to redact portions of records that:
“contain personally identifiable information of victims or victims’ personal and medical files and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy”; depict child pornography; “would jeopardize an active federal investigation or ongoing prosecution, provided that such withholding is narrowly tailored and temporary”;”depict or contain images of death, physical abuse, or injury of any person”; or”contain information specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy and are in fact properly classified pursuant to such Executive order.“
Rep. Jared Moskowitz, a Florida Democrat who also reviewed the documents on Monday, concluded that there are “lots of co-conspirators,” reported CNN.
“I mean, it’s disgusting,” said Moskowitz. “There are lots of names, lots of co-conspirators, and they’re trafficking girls all across the world.”
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Whites not included? Texas Democrat urged certain racial groups to unite against ‘same oppressor’
A video of Democratic Texas state Rep. Gene Wu has resurfaced on the internet this week in what one large social media account called a “mask off” moment for the lawmaker.
In a December 31, 2024, episode of “Define American with Jose Antonio Vargas,” Wu, an immigrant who was born in China, openly urged minority racial groups to unite against their “same oppressor.”
‘Because we are the majority in this country now.’
In the video, entitled “In This Texas District, 1/3 of Residents Are Undocumented,” Wu was asked about different racial groups’ relationship to each other and particularly the relationship between Asians and Latinos.
“It’s not just Latinos. It’s not just Asians. It’s not just African-Americans. It’s everybody. Right? We, our country and the forces that be, the powers that be, have spent tremendous time, effort, and money to make sure that those groups are never united, that they always see each other as enemies, as competitors, without ever realizing that they share one thing in common: that their oppressors all are the same,” Wu responded.
“The oppression comes from one place,” he quickly added.
RELATED: Exclusive: GOP lawmaker wants Congress to take — and pass — a basic civics exam
Without explicitly saying who these “oppressors” are, Wu made it easy to read between the lines: “I always tell people the day the Latino, African-American, Asian, and other communities realize that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning. Because we are the majority in this country now. We have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone and to make things fair.”
“Shame on him,” Elon Musk said in response to the clip of Wu, who was first elected to Texas House District 137 near Houston in 2012.
The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh pointed out the rhetorical double standard between Republicans and Democrats, referencing a more recent controversy in which President Trump shared a meme some decried as racist: “So I’m supposed to be outrage[d] about an Obama monkey meme while Democrat elected officials are labeling the entire white race ‘oppressors’ and openly plotting to conquer and subjugate us? Trump can post all the memes he wants. I really don’t care at all.”
The resurfaced video has since garnered nearly 14 million views on X.
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Exclusive: GOP lawmaker wants Congress to take — and pass — a basic civics exam
Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt of Texas is looking to hold lawmakers to a higher standard, Blaze News learned.
Hunt introduced a bill Monday that would create a new constitutional amendment requiring members of Congress to pass a basic civics test before taking their oath of office, according to bill text obtained exclusively by Blaze News. Hunt, who is running for Senate, noted his Congressional Civics Act would simply insist elected officials pass the same civics test foreigners are required to take in order to become naturalized citizens.
‘When history is forgotten, it is destined to repeat itself.’
“As leaders, we swear an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic — an oath I take seriously,” Hunt told Blaze News.
“We must ensure that those entrusted with the highest level of American leadership fully understand that oath.”
RELATED: Trump blasts mass migration from ‘failed’ foreign countries in fiery rebuke: ‘Minnesota reminds us’
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Although naturalized citizens have a near perfect pass rate, just one in three Americans are able to pass the same test, according to a national survey conducted by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars. Notably, applicants need to get only 12 out of the 20 multiple choice questions correct, totaling just 60%.
“This bill would require American representation to demonstrate their knowledge of the Constitution and American history,” Hunt told Blaze News.
“That understanding is essential to protecting the foundation of American values,” Hunt added. “When history is forgotten, it is destined to repeat itself.”
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If the amendment is ratified, the exam would consist of 25 questions drawn from a pool of 100 questions that cover constitutional literacy and American history. The passing standards would be set by Congress for each 10-year census term.
Until the amendment is ratified, the legislation requires that members pass the civics exam before being assigned to a committee, starting in the 120th Congress. The bill would also provide for the public release of test results for all members who manage to successfully complete the exam.
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Jason Whitlock: Super Bowl ‘has fallen’ after worst halftime show ever
According to BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock, if you missed Super Bowl 60 this weekend, you didn’t miss much.
Whitlock believes that the “Super Bowl has fallen,” and it’s not just because the game between the Patriots and the Seahawks featured a slow loss.
“The entire Super Bowl halftime, the agendas related to the National Football League — the entire thing has fallen on its face,” he says, pointing out that perhaps the worst part was the halftime performance put on by Bad Bunny, which was entirely in Spanish.
“Bad Bunny will forever be remembered as the worst Super Bowl ever. … Nothing happened in this Super Bowl, other than Bad Bunny’s ridiculous Super Bowl halftime deal. And it will be forever remembered as the worst Super Bowl halftime and the worst Super Bowl ever,” Whitlock says.
However, he says, leftists appear to believe that what they witnessed was an incredible and brave performance.
“I get it. The leftists are all over social media right now, ‘Oh, it was amazing, the vibe, oh, the vibe was incredible,’” Whitlock mocks, pointing out that none of them could understand a “word that Bad Bunny said,” calling the artist a “Spanish-speaking mumble rapper.”
The show also featured Hispanic men and women drinking and “gyrating.”
“This was an embarrassment. … They’re just gyrating all over each other while Bad Bunny mumble raps in the background. And you have white liberals, and liberals everywhere, because they hate Donald Trump, and because they want to troll Donald Trump, this is seen as a positive,” Whitlock says.
“Here’s what the leftists want you to believe: that there is some sort of love that can be born from hate,” he continues. “They want you to believe that love can be founded on hate.”
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Mom with child in tow accused of shooting toward sushi server. What allegedly triggered her is far from your average motive.
A St. Louis mother is facing multiple felony charges after police say she fired a gun inside a Kirkwood, Missouri, sushi restaurant amid an argument with staff last week, KTVI-TV reported.
Kirkwood police told the station the shooting took place just before 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.
‘You’re going to get it.’
Police said Aaliyah N. Moorehead, 31, told officers she believed restaurant staff were rude to her and her family when they arrived, KTVI reported, adding that Moorehead was with her 9-year-old child.
Moorehead also said she used a translation feature on her AirPods to determine that the cooks made racial and derogatory comments in Spanish about her and her family, the station said.
Police said Moorehead also got upset over what she described as an issue with her order, KTVI said. A server offered to correct the order, but Moorehead began swearing at the server and was asked to leave, the station noted.
Moorehead then threw a bowl of soup at the server, hitting him and others nearby, authorities told KTVI.
The server moved a chair between himself and Moorehead, the station said, adding that she grabbed the chair and threw it.
Moorehead then took out a 9mm Glock handgun, threatened the server, and fired a shot in his direction, police told KTVI, adding that Moorehead’s 9-year-old was walking between Moorehead and the server at the time.
Police told KMOV-TV that Moorehead said, “You’re going to get it,” before firing the shot.
The bullet missed the server, went through a refrigerator, and struck a wall, KTVI said, adding that no one was injured.
Police said the restaurant manager told officers the suspect drove away in a white SUV, and officers located the vehicle soon after and detained those in the car, KTVI said.
After reviewing the restaurant’s security video, police identified the SUV’s occupants as Moorehead, her 9-year-old child, and another adult woman, KTVI said.
Police told KMOV the entire incident was captured on surveillance video and that Moorehead admitted to firing the gun.
The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged Moorehead with first-degree assault, armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon, endangering the welfare of a child, and first-degree property damage, KTVI said.
Moorehead was still behind bars Tuesday morning at the St. Louis County Justice Center; jail records do not show a court date.
KTVI said Moorehead is being held on a $150,000 cash-only bond.
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The real villains aren’t in the movies. They’re looting America’s welfare system.
Somali pirates. Dead people “billing” taxpayers. Foreign terror networks thriving on Medicaid scams. Hackers stealing identities to collect benefits.
That lineup sounds like an over-the-top Hollywood heist movie. Americans now read versions of it on the front page.
Americans should treat this caper as a wake-up call. Elected leaders should treat it as an emergency.
Federal prosecutors charged 78 Somali immigrants with allegedly stealing more than $1 billion from taxpayers. National outlets noticed, including the see-no-immigrant-evil New York Times. Prosecutors also say suspected Medicaid fraud in Minnesota may top $9 billion, with new allegations and evidence surfacing by the day.
Hollywood can’t compete with numbers like that. In “Die Hard,” the crooks chased $640 million. Danny Ocean’s crew in “Ocean’s 11” made off with a mere $160 million. Minnesota’s real-life scammers allegedly went after far more, and they exploited programs meant to help the vulnerable.
Americans should treat this caper as a wake-up call. Elected leaders should treat it as an emergency: Prosecute the thieves, close the loopholes, and change the incentives that let fraudsters treat public benefits like an ATM.
For perspective, the fraud under investigation approaches the size of Somalia’s entire government budget and equals roughly 12% of Somalia’s economy, based on recent estimates. Minnesota’s Somali population equals about 0.5% of Somalia’s population and about 2.5% of the Twin Cities metro. Yet prosecutors say a small number of people allegedly moved sums that rival major industries back home.
Worse, investigators say some stolen money went overseas. In the Feeding Our Future case and related investigations, federal prosecutors have alleged that some proceeds flowed to al-Shabaab, a terrorist group the United States has targeted for years. If those allegations hold, taxpayers didn’t just fund fraud. They helped bankroll an enemy.
Minnesota’s scandal also exposes a national contradiction. Washington wages war abroad, welcomes refugees at home, and writes checks through the same federal programs that criminals can exploit — while the national debt nears $39 trillion.
Minnesota’s political class added its own layer of absurdity. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) built a profitable career calling America racist. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) delivered his re-election victory speech in Somali just days before the scope of these cases made headlines. Symbolic gestures came easy. Basic oversight did not.
Gov. Tim Walz (D) still owes voters answers. Did incompetence drive this disaster, or did indifference do the work? Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem argues both played a role. Reports now suggest state employees blew the whistle years ago about lax controls and sloppy management. Voters heard little of it when elections still hung in the balance.
RELATED: Trump has the chance to end the welfare free-for-all Minnesota exposed
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Walz reportedly knew about major fraud risks as early as 2020. His administration later resumed funding after recipients sued, accusing the state of racism. The Walz administration also handed an “outstanding refugee award” in 2021 to a woman now charged in connection with fraud — facts that undercut today’s alibis.
Federal investigators deserve credit. The Departments of Justice and Treasury have pursued these cases aggressively. House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) has opened another congressional probe. Prosecutions matter, but prevention matters more.
A new law President Trump signed this summer aims to make fraud more difficult to pull off. It requires states to recheck eligibility for able-bodied adults on Medicaid every six months instead of annually. For the first time, it also forces states to absorb more of the cost when they let fraud run rampant.
Those reforms should move quickly from paper to practice. States, red and blue, should implement them immediately. Fraudsters thrive on delay, confusion, and political excuses.
Taxpayer fraud deserves full prosecution. Political leaders who enable it deserve accountability too — whether they turned a blind eye, ignored whistleblowers, or refused to enforce the law. Every state in the Union should move now, or Minnesota’s scandal will spread.
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Free speech in Britain is worse than you think
If you want to see where contemporary speech regulation leads, look to Britain.
My country, the birthplace of the common law tradition and parliamentary liberty, now arrests thousands of its citizens each year for “offensive” speech. Much of what Americans still debate as hypothetical has already hardened into policy here.
While commentators work to enforce elite consensus, perceptions of two-tier policing have fueled public anger.
This did not happen overnight, nor did it require a dramatic constitutional rupture. It emerged gradually, through well-intentioned laws, bureaucratic definitions, and institutional habits that now govern what may be said, by whom and about whom. For Americans who assume such restrictions could never survive contact with the First Amendment, Britain offers a sobering corrective.
Catalog of grievance
The roots of this crisis can be traced to the Equality Act 2010, which laid the groundwork for today’s restrictions on speech. The act provides a legal definition of “protected characteristics,” making it unlawful to discriminate against individuals on the basis of attributes such as sex or race.
The act outlines core areas — race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and gender reassignment — which form the foundation of modern hate-crime legislation. Crimes deemed to be motivated by prejudice or hostility toward individuals with these characteristics can result in longer prison sentences. Yet because prejudice and discrimination are inherently subjective and difficult to quantify, hate-crime legislation erodes the principle of equality before the law.
In total, there are nine protected characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. Although not all meet the legal threshold for hate crime, these categories are embedded across workplace training, education, and public services.
Institutionalizing them frames certain groups as uniquely vulnerable to harm, encouraging institutions to treat speech as a risk to be managed rather than a liberty to be protected, and confers a durable victim identity. Through the lens of identity politics, victimhood becomes a proxy for moral authority. Unsurprisingly this logic expands rather than contracts. Campaigns to add further protected traits — such as menopause, misogyny, or afro hair — reflect a constantly growing catalog of grievance.
12,000 arrests a year
This mindset has enabled some of the most restrictive internet-speech enforcement in the Western world. Each year, roughly 12,000 Britons are arrested for online communications deemed “offensive.” In widely reported cases, individuals have received custodial sentences for social-media posts seen by only a handful of people, or have been arrested for deliberately provocative but nonviolent acts. In another case, a man received a lengthy prison sentence for possessing music classified by authorities as “right-wing.” The cumulative effect has been chilling: Free expression now exists largely at the discretion of the state.
Even when not explicitly codified, the logic of victimhood drives these censorious impulses. Nowhere is this clearer than in the evolving concept of Islamophobia — a concept that Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, has pledged to “reform.”
With opinion polls faltering, Starmer finds himself electorally dependent on a sizable Muslim voting bloc. He must reassure the public that Britain remains a liberal democracy — one in which citizens are free to criticize, offend, and mock religion. The state’s response has been semantic rather than substantive. Islamophobia is now being reframed as “anti-Muslim hatred,” defined in draft guidance as:
Engaging in or encouraging criminal acts, including violence, vandalism, harassment, or intimidation — whether physical, verbal, written, or electronic — directed at Muslims or those perceived to be Muslim because of their religion, ethnicity, or appearance.
Although this definition is non-statutory and not legally binding, it is likely to encourage further self-censorship around legitimate discussion of Islam. A similar effect followed the adoption of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims’ definition of Islamophobia. The Labour Party and numerous public bodies — including more than 50 local councils, some governing Muslim-majority areas such as Bradford, Birmingham, Rochdale, and Leicester — have adopted it.
RELATED: Pakistani cousin marriage has no place in UK
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Hiding behind ‘Islamophobia’
These same regions have long faced serious criminal scandals, including the sexual abuse of young girls by grooming gangs disproportionately composed of men of Pakistani origin. Official inquiries have documented how institutional reluctance to address these crimes — often citing fear of being perceived as “Islamophobic” — contributed to prolonged failures of safeguarding.
As someone who has written extensively about the cultural practice of cousin marriage, I must ask: Does pointing out the well-documented link between consanguinity and elevated risk of congenital disorders now qualify as “hostility”?
Rather than encouraging honest debate, further definitional expansion risks reinforcing institutional silence. In recent years, National Health Service materials have presented first-cousin marriage in notably neutral or positive terms, while academic journals have warned that criticism of female genital mutilation can shade into racism — sometimes proposing euphemistic language in place of the word “mutilation” itself.
This kind of top-down enforcement rarely sits well with voters. Public frustration grows when large numbers of young male asylum seekers are housed in already strained cities, while criticism of immigration policy is constrained by speech codes. No amount of central planning can engineer a harmonious multicultural society. Rebranding Islamophobia as “anti-Muslim hostility” will not resolve these tensions. It instead grants the state wider discretion to interpret — and restrict — speech.
Expansion of civil claims
The revised guidance goes further, characterizing anti-Muslim hostility as “the prejudicial stereotyping and racialization of Muslims as a collective group with set characteristics.” Like all attempts to police expression, the language is subjective and elastic. What happens if one agrees with MI5 that Islamist terrorism represents the most significant national-security threat? Or if one cites court data showing disproportionate Muslim representation in grooming-gang convictions?
The guidance also gestures toward institutional liability, warning against the “creation or use of practices and biases within institutions.” This invites an expansion of HR enforcement and civil claims based on indirect discrimination. Recent employment-tribunal cases — some involving substantial settlements for “injury to feelings” — illustrate how these standards already operate in practice.
Britain already restricts expression where Islam is concerned. Although blasphemy laws were formally repealed in England and Wales in 2008, they continue to function de facto. In one recent case, a man who burned a Quran was charged with “offending the religious institution of Islam” — an offense unknown to statute. (He later won on appeal.) When prosecution proceeds on improvised grounds, it is not difficult to imagine future cases brought under the banner of “anti-Muslim hostility.”
This is the endpoint of multiculturalism: ad hoc speech regulations shaped by cultural sensitivities and sustained by mass immigration. While commentators work to enforce elite consensus, perceptions of two-tier policing have fueled public anger.
There should be no such thing as a hate crime — only crime. Conditions are likely to worsen before they improve. Open borders and cultural relativism have become default assumptions across much of the West, yet they sit uneasily with the rule of law and freedom of expression.
If you want to see where contemporary speech regulation leads, look to Britain. Americans would be wise to do so while these questions are still debated in theory — rather than enforced in practice.
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Tunnel to underground bunker discovered in New Mexico neighborhood where crime surged after renters moved in, police say
Residents of a previously serene Albuquerque neighborhood are criticizing city officials’ response to the surge in crime allegedly related to renters that built an underground bunker.
The neighbors say there was a rise in stolen cars, stolen packages, and other nuisances after the newest renters moved in. Some of the incidents have been caught on video.
‘There was concrete. There were bricks inside. It was pretty large. That was built into the backyard of the house that led into the joining arroyo.’
The Esquibels have been in the neighborhood for several years but noticed the change in the last year.
“We moved here originally because we loved it,” Alandra Esquibel said to KOAT-TV. “We thought the location was great.”
The couple caught one person urinating near their property through surveillance video.
“You could see them coming in with bags, thuggish and homeless people,” Joshua Esquibel said.
Police records show that there were nearly 50 calls to the neighborhood in the last year before code enforcement discovered a tunnel leading to an underground bunker.
“It was a large dug-in tunnel network. It had support structures,” said Commander Chris Patterson of the Albuquerque Police Department. “There was concrete. There were bricks inside. It was pretty large. That was built into the backyard of the house that led into the joining arroyo.”
Police believe the bunker was being used by criminals as a hideout.
“There’s definitely some auto thefts that we’ve been able to track back to it,” Patterson continued. “Some property crimes, porch packages being stolen from porches, luggage items taken from people’s cars, so some auto break-ins. And then obviously we think there’s probably also a drug nexus as well.”
Despite all of the incidents, the renters were allowed to stay at the home.
The Esquibels and others question why city officials haven’t used a provision that allows them to condemn a property that has three criminal acts in the span of three months.
A code enforcement official said the division did not trigger the nuisance ordinance because it did not know about the police calls.
The tunnel has been filled in, but the residents worry there will be more crime if the renters aren’t moved out.
“This community is super scared because of the fact that they’re still there,” Alandra Esquibel said. “Maybe they’re renting out the bunker? I have no idea.”
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The new activism looks a lot like mental illness
Anti-ICE rebels aren’t simply “protesters.” Protest is public dissent: signs, slogans, marches, chants, petitions. It aims to persuade. It does not ram police with cars, swing fists at agents, loot businesses, or try to provoke violence.
When anti-ICE activists get detained or arrested, many shout “First Amendment” as if those two words erase everything that happened before the cuffs went on. The First Amendment protects speech, publication, and peaceful assembly. It does not give anyone a license to threaten people, incite lawless action, commit assault, trespass, vandalize property, or participate in criminal conspiracy and intimidation.
Clinical language can clarify motives, but it should not excuse crimes.
That distinction matters because many of today’s mobs don’t merely “speak.” They physically interfere with law enforcement. They obstruct operations. They harass officers and targets. They try to create fear.
We used to teach children to respect the rule of law and the people tasked with enforcing it. Today, many activists treat authority as the enemy by definition, and they feel entitled — sometimes obligated — to attack it.
Not every person in a crowd acts from the same motive. Still, the behavior patterns repeat often enough that clinical language can help explain what we’re seeing. I have divided these anti-ICE “rebels” into seven categories — not as formal diagnoses for individuals I have not examined, but as recurring profiles that show up in chaotic group behavior.
Trump derangement syndrome
Some rebels treat ICE as an extension of President Trump and react accordingly. In my view, this presents as an irrational, disproportionate fixation that can resemble “quasi-psychotic” hostility toward anything associated with Trump — spilling over to people and institutions that have little to do with him, including federal agents doing their jobs.
Celebrity worship syndrome
Some activists take cues from entertainers and influencers and translate slogans into action. This is an obsessive-addictive disorder more than mere fandom. Celebrity messaging can nudge fans from passive agreement to performative activism, especially when the cultural reward system prizes outrage. Public denunciations from stars can energize followers who want to prove loyalty through escalating conduct.
Mad hatters
Some participants display the impulsivity, defiance, and hostility toward authority that clinicians associate with oppositional-defiant disorder or conduct disorder. In its more destructive form, the behavior resembles conduct-disorder traits: aggression, property destruction, and contempt for basic social rules.
Lost souls
Some people arrive lonely, purposeless, or adrift. A mob offers identity, belonging, and a mission. The cause becomes a substitute for meaning, and the group’s adrenaline becomes a substitute for inner stability.
Regressed rioters
Some adults regress under stress and excitement into adolescent defiance — or younger. Think “terrible twos.” They seek confrontation, throw verbal tantrums, and act on impulse, not reason. They perform outrage as if outrage itself justifies whatever follows.
Mr. and Mrs. Personality
Certain personality disorders show up frequently in chaotic movements: paranoia, grandiosity, emotional volatility, hostility, and disregard for others’ rights. These traits can thrive in crowds because the crowd rewards extremity and dilutes individual accountability.
Substance abusers
Alcohol and drugs lower inhibition and increase risk-taking. For some, a riot becomes a party with a political soundtrack — an excuse to seek thrills while claiming a moral cause.
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These categories help explain how a crowd can form so quickly, swing into panic, and turn predatory. People mirror each other. They feed on fear and moral fervor. They swarm, then strike.
Clinical language can clarify motives, but it should not excuse crimes. Anyone who assaults officers, obstructs enforcement, destroys property, or threatens people should face arrest, prosecution, and due process. Speech receives protection; violence does not.
ICE agents enforce federal law. They face danger, hostility, and organized intimidation. A society that treats mob coercion as “protest” abandons the rule of law — and endangers everyone.
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Leaked recording: State Department official admits demographics are used to rig elections
A leaked undercover recording has exposed one State Department official saying the quiet part out loud: Demographics determine elections, which is why the powers that be are so focused on changing America’s.
“We actually have a guy from the State Department on tape saying, ‘Yeah, this is the purpose of this. This is the Democrats. This is what they’re doing. They’re using the Great Replacement to rig elections. They want the country to be less white because white people vote Republican. White people are conservatives,’” BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre says on “The Auron MacIntyre Show,” before sharing the clip from Project Veritas.
In the clip, the State Department official claims that “they want to change the demographics of the United States.”
“Project Veritas has an undercover guy speaking with a State Department official, and he comes out and says, ‘Look, it’s really simple. White guys in Nebraska, they’re not leftists. They’re conservatives. They’re naturally conservative,’” MacIntyre explains.
“And they’re not going to vote for radical leftist policies. They don’t want it. So, what do you do in a liberal democracy? What do you do if you’re the Democrats and you need to push this radical progressive agenda, but the native population isn’t really interested? And the answer is, you replace them,” he says.
“And by the way, this has been the policy of the left for basically ever. They’ve recognized this dynamic for a long time. Leftism cannot win in America. It is not sustainable in America without replacing the population,” he continues.
“They want to replace you because of your race,” he adds. “They want to replace you because of the color of your skin.”
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We escaped King George. Why do we bow to King Judge?
What do you call an official who claims the final say over the limits of his own power — and everyone else’s? Someone who can slap a “yes” on anything the elected branches do, or a “no” on anything they attempt, and treat his decree as the last word? That kind of power would have shocked America’s founders. In practice, it can exceed anything King George III exercised over the American colonies. Yet we keep granting it to federal judges by treating their overreach as binding even when Congress has said otherwise.
The founders worried most about the branches that wield force and money. The president commands the sword. Congress holds the purse. Both stand for election. Judges do not. Life tenure exists to protect judges while they decide cases, not to hand them an independent mandate to run the country. Judges possess no army and control no appropriations. Their influence depends on the political branches giving lawful effect to their rulings.
No individual right exists to use the courts as a substitute legislature to remain in the country. Judges cannot confer amnesty by injunction.
Those lawful bounds are not mysterious. Congress established the lower federal courts, and Congress defines their jurisdiction. Even the Supreme Court’s appellate jurisdiction is subject to congressional regulation. Article III, Section 2 makes it subject to “such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.”
Justice Clarence Thomas put it plainly in Patchak v. Zinke: “When Congress strips federal courts of jurisdiction, it exercises a valid legislative power no less than when it lays taxes, coins money, declares war, or invokes any other power that the Constitution grants it.”
Immigration offers the clearest test case because it sits at the heart of sovereignty. Over no issue do the political branches hold more constitutional authority than determining which foreigners may enter and remain.
As Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote in Galvan v. Press (1954), policies on entry and removal are “peculiarly concerned with the political conduct of government,” and Congress’ exclusive control over them has become “about as firmly imbedded in the legislative and judicial tissues of our body politic as any aspect of our government.”
Congress, then, holds plenary authority over immigration policy and sweeping authority over federal court jurisdiction — especially the lower courts. Yet now, every loser district judge routinely grants standing to illegal aliens to challenge detention and removal, even when Congress has restricted review.
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Take Temporary Protected Status. The Ninth Circuit ordered the Trump administration to continue TPS for Venezuelans, despite the Supreme Court staying the original injunction. Another district judge issued a similar mandate for Haitians — 16 years after Haitians received that “temporary” status under President Obama. What often goes unsaid: Congress barred judicial review over TPS determinations. Federal law states, without qualification: “No court shall have jurisdiction to review any determination” of DHS “in granting or withdrawing TPS.” Other provisions restrict review of many deportation-related challenges — limits judges often treat as suggestions.
Over the past year, judges who view themselves as latter-day Martin Luther Kings have used legal fog to hear cases Congress barred, even after signals from the Supreme Court. That brings the Trump administration to its decision point.
Administration officials argue — correctly — that courts lack authority to issue certain orders. But judges have neither force nor will beyond what the executive supplies. The executive’s job includes enforcing the jurisdictional limits Congress enacted. A court that lacks jurisdiction cannot establish it by decree.
If this judicial coup runs to its logical end, any district judge becomes the final arbiter of any political question: grant standing to any plaintiff, announce standing rules that override statutes, take jurisdiction Congress withheld, then command the elected branches to act. That is not the Supreme Court’s role, let alone a trial judge’s.
It also outstrips anything King George could do at the founding. He needed Parliament for matters like citizenship. We are now told a judge can dictate immigration policy regardless of the law.
Waiting on the Supreme Court to clean up the mess is a fool’s errand. District judges return with a slightly modified case and restart the process. During Trump’s first term, an immigration lawyer summed up the strategy: “May a thousand litigation flowers bloom.”
The numbers tell the story. In Minnesota alone, federal court sees an average of one habeas petition filed every hour. A judge even ordered a previously deported alien brought back. These petitions do not claim Immigration and Customs Enforcement mistakenly detained U.S. citizens. They aim to use courts to stall enforcement in bulk.
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Finality binds parties in cases; it does not bind the political branches into permanent policy submission. Lincoln drew that distinction in his 1858 debates with Stephen Douglas. Courts may decide individual cases. But if courts try to turn those decisions into national political rules, elected officials should not treat them as binding “political rules” that forbid any measure that does not “concur” with a judicial decision.
Lincoln practiced that view as president. His attorney general, Edward Bates, explained the judiciary’s proper scope: Judicial power is ample for justice “among individual parties,” but “powerless to impose rules of action and of judgment upon the other departments.”
Applied to immigration, the point is simple: No individual right exists to use the courts as a substitute legislature to remain in the country. Judges cannot confer amnesty by injunction. Congress has not passed a legislative amnesty in four decades for a reason: It requires majorities in both houses and the president’s signature, and the politicians who vote for it must face the voters. Yet the current judicial pattern grants amnesty through procedure — without hearings, without votes, and without accountability. Life tenure was designed for the opposite purpose.
No shortcut exists. The political branches must stop treating lawless judicial opinions as if they carry the force of law — especially when those opinions ignore statutes, exceed jurisdiction, and attempt to seize control of core sovereign functions.
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‘This one’s for you, Charlie’: TPUSA’s ‘All-American Halftime Show’ draws millions of viewers during Super Bowl
Turning Point USA’s “All-American Halftime Show” drew millions of viewers Sunday night as a digital alternative to the official Super Bowl LX halftime performance, drawing a sharp contrast with the Apple Music show headlined by Bad Bunny.
The TPUSA event streamed across YouTube, Rumble, and partner networks including the Trinity Broadcasting Network. According to the New York Times, the livestream peaked at 6.1 million concurrent viewers on YouTube.
‘At least 20 million people tuned in.’
By Monday afternoon, the uploaded replay had surpassed 20 million views on YouTube, with Turning Point USA officials saying total viewership across platforms exceeded that figure and continued to climb.
The performance featured Kid Rock alongside Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, and Gabby Barrett.
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The roughly 40-minute pre-recorded concert opened with a dedication reading, “This one’s for you, Charlie,” followed by an electric-guitar rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The show included a tribute to Charlie Kirk, the organization’s founder who was assassinated in September 2025.
Kid Rock closed the performance with a cover of Cody Johnson’s “’Til You Can’t.”
TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet described the event as a success, citing viewership numbers and engagement across platforms.
“At least 20 million people tuned in,” Kolvet said, adding that the organization plans to repeat the event next year.
Reaction from conservative audiences was largely positive. Social media users highlighted the livestream’s audience size and praised the show’s patriotic and faith-focused themes.
“The best moments in broadcast so far this year? Jelly Roll at the Grammys & Kid Rock at the @TPUSA’s All-American Halftime Show!” House Speaker Mike Johnson raved.
“I was incredibly skeptical about the @TPUSA Halftime Show. … but I have to say, they crushed it. Over 5 MILLION people streaming it, just on YouTube. Excellent artists, insanely good vocals and amazing talent. 10/10,” Matt Von Swol added.
By contrast, Bad Bunny’s halftime show drew widespread criticism online, with viewers describing it as low-energy, unengaging, and disconnected. Donald Trump criticized the performance on Truth Social, calling it “absolutely terrible” and “one of the worst.”
TPUSA’s event relied exclusively on digital platforms rather than traditional television, underscoring the growing role of online counter-programming during major cultural events.
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Clinton judge strikes down Newsom’s edict banning masks for ICE agents
A federal judge ruled against the ban on masks for federal agents passed by Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom after finding it to be unconstitutional.
Newsom signed the “No Secret Police Act” in September after rioting broke out from protesters against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Los Angeles.
‘These federal agents are harassed, doxxed, obstructed, and attacked on a regular basis just for doing their jobs. We have no tolerance for it.’
U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder said the law discriminated against federal agents by excluding state police from the ban.
However, she upheld the similar “No Vigilantes Act,” which requires all law enforcement officers operating in California to display identification, including their name or badge number as well as their agency. It was signed at the same time as the secret police act.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi praised the ruling in a post on social media.
“ANOTHER key court victory thanks to our outstanding @TheJusticeDept attorneys,” Bondi said.
“Following our arguments, a district court in California BLOCKED the enforcement of a law that would have banned federal agents from wearing masks to protect their identities,” she added. “These federal agents are harassed, doxxed, obstructed, and attacked on a regular basis just for doing their jobs. We have no tolerance for it.”
Snyder’s ruling allows for the possibility of rewriting the law without the exemption for state police.
“We will continue fighting and winning in court for President Trump’s law-and-order agenda — and we will ALWAYS have the backs of our great federal law enforcement officers,” concluded the statement from Bondi.
Snyder was appointed to the court by former President Bill Clinton.
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DHS fires back at ‘absurd’ CBS report on ‘nonviolent’ illegal aliens by citing horrific cases
The Department of Homeland Security lashed out at an “absurd” report claiming that a majority of the illegal aliens being deported by the administration were nonviolent cases.
The CBS News report cites an internal DHS document it obtained that showed only 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested in the first year of the Trump administration had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses.
‘We will stop at nothing to remove these public safety threats and Make America Safe Again.’
In a post on the X platform, the official DHS account argued that many technically nonviolent illegal immigrants had criminal and violent pasts.
“Horrendous crimes such as the distribution of child pornography, drug trafficking, burglary, fraud, human smuggling, even being in a gang like MS13 or Tren de Aragua or being a known or suspected terrorist are considered ‘non-violent crimes’ by the media,” reads the statement from the agency.
DHS cited Antonio Israel Lazo-Quintanilla, an illegal alien whose only crime in the U.S. was driving without a license but is wanted in El Salvador for aggravated homicide, extortion, possession of drugs, and other felonies.
The point is emphasized by the thug’s booking photo, which shows him sporting a large “666” tattoo on his forehead.
“It is absurd to quantify Lazo-Quintanilla as ‘nonviolent’ when he is a confirmed member of the 18th Street Gang, a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), and was on El Salvador’s most wanted gang members list,” the agency continued. “He was a public safety threat that we were fortunate to apprehend BEFORE he could victimize Americans.”
DHS gives another example of brothers from Mexico who are “cold-blooded killers” wanted for multiple murders in their native country but are categorized as “non-criminals” in the U.S.
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“No one can reasonably consider MS-13 member Edward Hernandez a non-criminal just because, despite his FIVE savage murders back in El Salvador, he has no convictions in the U.S.,” the agency said in a third example.
“We will stop at nothing to remove these public safety threats and Make America Safe Again,” it added.
The CBS report also claims that President Donald Trump is losing support on immigration from Americans. One poll found that support on immigration fell from 59% at the start of the president’s second term down to 46%.
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VIDEO: Anti-ICE sheriff humiliated by Republican’s simple question during hearing about Iryna Zarutska’s murder
A North Carolina state probe into the horrific murder of Iryna Zarutska led to a stunning video displaying the ignorance of an embattled sheriff.
Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden was being questioned by Republican state Rep. Allen Chesser when he appeared confused about which branch of the government he serves. He also couldn’t answer how many branches of government there are.
‘This was not where I was anticipating getting stuck. … For the sake of debate, I will move on.’
Chesser was trying to establish some common points in his questioning when he asked McFadden to name the branch his job is associated with.
“What branch of government do you operate under?” Chesser asked.
“Mecklenburg County,” McFadden replied.
“What branch of government do you operate under, Sheriff?” Chesser asked again.
“Constitution of the United States,” the sheriff responded.
“Correct, that is what establishes the branches of government. I’m asking which branch you fall under,” Chesser asked a third time.
“Mecklenburg County, duly sworn Mecklenburg County sheriff. We answer to the people of Mecklenburg County,” McFadden responded.
“This was not where I was anticipating getting stuck. Are you aware of how many branches of government there are?” Chesser asked.
“No,” the sheriff admitted.
“OK. For the sake of debate, I will move on and say there are three branches of government: legislative, executive, judicial. Of those three, which do you believe you fall under?” Chesser asked a fourth time.
“I believe I fall under the last one,” McFadden said.
‘Would you say it to me?” Chesser asked.
“Judicial,” he replied.
“OK. You are incorrect, sir. You fall under the executive,” Chesser responded.
The sheriff previously criticized the Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations of the Trump administration.
The sheriff was “eviscerated” at the hearing, according to a description by Axios. Lawmakers criticized him for refusing to take responsibility for failures that included numerous deaths at county jails and accusations of incompetence, misconduct, and abuse.
Chesser posted video of the interaction about the three branches of government to his account.
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‘Who would have thought?’: Mamdani takes side of knife-wielding suspect — not the cops
When 22-year-old Jabez Chakraborty was shot by NYPD officers in Queens for allegedly charging them with a large kitchen knife, the newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani, claimed that the suspect needs mental health treatment instead of criminal prosecution.
“I spoke with the Chakraborty family, and I visited Jabez in the hospital, and no family should have to endure this kind of pain. Jabez has lived with schizophrenia for many years, and this situation underscores just how urgently we need a different and more effective mental health response system that will be safer for New Yorkers who struggle with mental health concerns, for their families, and for police officers,” Mamdani said following the incident.
“Jabez needs mental health treatment, not criminal prosecution by a district attorney,” he added.
“Who would have thought that coming in and bringing a Muslim commie as your mayor in New York City would have its flaws?” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales jokes, before playing the bodycam footage from the incident.
In the footage, Chakraborty continues charging police officers with the knife after being asked several times to put the knife down. As he gets closer, an officer fires his weapon.
“I would say they gave him quite a bit of warning to put the shiny, very sharp object in his hands down while they were holding a firearm at him. I would say they gave him way more chances than I would have. They retreated. He continued engaging and moving forward,” Gonzales comments.
“Clear-cut case of attempted murder, which prosecutors are looking at potentially charging him with. I don’t know why potentially. It’s right there on camera,” she continues.
“They did everything right, and still, instead of Mamdani congratulating the NYPD, instead of using this as a moment where he’s like, ‘Our officers are very brave, and they are under attack right now; these guys were almost stabbed in the line of duty,’ this is how your new Muslim communist mayor of New York City reacts,” she adds.
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Trump admin ‘cleans house,’ busts 50+ suspected fugitive felons living in taxpayer-funded housing in just one Ohio city
A law enforcement operation found that more than 50 fugitives with felony warrants were taking advantage of taxpayer-funded housing in Columbus, Ohio.
U.S. Marshals partnered with agents from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office on “Operation Clean House,” targeting suspects living in HUD housing.
The warrants issued in the operation included rape, drug trafficking, endangering children, strangulation, and failure to register as a sex offender.
U.S. Marshal Michael Black with the Southern District of Ohio said that HUD reached out to him to cooperate on the operation, which lasted six days.
“Every time we do this, we’re making our community safer, one arrest at a time,” Black said.
The warrants issued in the operation included rape, drug trafficking, endangering children, strangulation, and failure to register as a sex offender.
“One of the houses, we recovered an AK-47. There were some drugs recovered,” Black said. “You know, one individual that’s wanted for felony strangulation, sex offenders, child abandonment, and numerous other violations.”
WCMH-TV was present at two arrests. One was a woman with felony warrants for weapons charges, and the other was a woman with a warrant for probation violation for aggravated burglary, assault, and ID fraud.
Thirty HUD agents were involved, and all the arrests were conducted without any critical incidents.
“Criminals are on notice — we will not tolerate crime in HUD-funded housing,” HUD Sec. Scott Turner said on social media. “The Trump Administration will ensure public housing is safe housing and taxpayer funds do not support criminal activity.”
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‘Moronic nonsense’: Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish sing the same tune
The 2026 Grammy Awards were supposed to celebrate music, creativity, and artistic diversity, but instead they became a showcase for Hollywood elites pushing the same political narratives.
“The pack mentality is strong,” film critic Christian Toto tells BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere on “Stu Does America.”
“The rhetoric is pretty familiar. It’s often ugly. It’s often ill-informed. And you know, for a while there, these award shows were political. There were a lot of lectures, a lot of woke asides, and then it seemed like they tapped the breaks on that. They’ve been a little bit less so in recent years,” he continues.
However that’s changing, yet again.
“I think we’re veering back into it, it’s all full-steam ahead at this point. And I can’t imagine what the Oscars will be, because last night was ugly at times, and even Trevor Noah, you know, not only his crack against President Trump, which could be litigious, but basically calling out Nicki Minaj just because she supports Trump,” Toto says.
“Aren’t we allowed to do that?” he asks.
And of course, one of the most culturally important voices — at least to the left — was this year’s Super Bowl halftime performer Bad Bunny.
When Bad Bunny accepted his Grammy, the first thing he said was, “Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say ICE out.” He went on to say that immigrants are not “savages,” “aliens,” or “animals,” but rather “humans” and “Americans.”
“If you’re a citizen you are, but those aren’t the people we’re talking about removing. We’re talking about removing people that are not Americans. That is the difference. And they just have no concept of this,” Stu comments.
Sticking to the liberal talking points, Billie Eilish also decided to bash Immigration and Customs Enforcement in her acceptance speech at the Grammys, telling the wealthy audience that “no one is illegal on stolen land.”
“I have to credit Matt Walsh for a great point, which is like if there’s no one that’s illegal, then you can’t steal land,” Stu says.
“There’s a point where Sabrina Carpenter is out in the audience,” he continues, “she’s this little, you know, pop star, and she’s just looking up and clapping with these, like, just innocent, dullard eyes, just this, like, ‘Oh my gosh, what you’re saying is so important,’ just this moronic nonsense, and it just summarizes everything in Hollywood.”
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