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Dem congresswoman who allegedly assaulted ICE officer is indicted on 3 counts, faces years in prison
The Democrat congresswoman accused of assaulting an ICE officer is facing years in prison if convicted, according to a statement from Alina Habba, interim U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey.
Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey was caught on video in a skirmish with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer when Democrats tried to barge into a detention facility in Newark.
‘Today’s decision by the grand jury is the next step in a process that my Office will pursue to a just end.’
“Today a federal grand jury seated in Newark, New Jersey returned a three-count indictment charging U.S. Representative LaMonica McIver with forcibly impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officers,” said Habba in a statement on social media.
McIver’s defenders said that she was operating under the oversight authority of Congress and had been improperly blocked by federal officials.
“While people are free to express their views for or against particular policies, they must not do so in a manner that endangers law enforcement and the communities those officers serve,” continued Habba. “Today’s decision by the grand jury is the next step in a process that my Office will pursue to a just end.”
She went on to say that a conviction for the first charge carried a maximum penalty of eight years in prison, an additional maximum penalty for the second charge, and a maximum of one year in prison for the third charge.
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President Donald Trump had commented on the incident and denied that the prosecution was politically motivated.
“Give me a break. Did you see her?” Trump said. “She was out of control! She was shoving federal agents. The days of that crap are over! We’re going to have law and order!”
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LA erupts in violence — what the rioters are really rioting about will stun you
Los Angeles, California, is on fire yet again. Yet this time, nature isn’t to blame for the rapid spread, but rather riots over the lawful deportation of violent illegal aliens.
“Obviously the Trump administration is going in and doing what he said he was going to do, which includes deporting illegal criminals, and they were arresting a bunch of, I would say, the worst of the worst foreign criminals in an ICE raid over there in Los Angeles,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales explains.
And while those on the left are enraged by what they see as an authoritarian move by the Trump administration, Gonzales can’t help but point out that the criminals ICE was going after are not the best.
“One of them is an illegal from Vietnam with a criminal history that includes a conviction for second-degree murder. One of them, a 55-year-old illegal alien from the Philippines who was convicted of burglary, sexual penetration with a foreign object, and assault with intent to commit rape,” she explains.
“One of them, a 55-year-old Mexican national with a criminal history that includes discharging a firearm at an inhabited dwelling, vehicle battery on spouse or cohabitant, cruelty to a child, driving under the influence, assault with a semiautomatic firearm, and personal use of a firearm,” she continues.
“44 years old from Mexico, here’s another one. Sexual battery, receiving known or stolen property, and petty theft,” she says, adding, “Grand theft larceny, possession of a prohibited weapon. Ecuadorian national convicted of conspiracy to possess 5 kg or more of cocaine with intent to distribute.”
Despite their lengthy rap sheets, liberals are still burning the streets of their own city to protest their deportation.
“The Democrats are basically just the party of criminals at this point,” Gonzales says. “You’ve got Mexican flags being waved, you’ve got cars burning; they’re setting the cars on fire while they’re waving Mexican flags.”
“I keep wondering,” she continues, “if you love Mexico so much, why don’t you just go back, like why is it a chore to get you into law enforcement’s possession and just get you to go back where you came from if you love your Mexican flag so much and you love your home country so much?”
“You could just self-deport. It would save us a lot of time and a lot of trouble and a lot of money, if you love that country so much,” she adds.
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Coco Gauff: ‘I’m proud to represent the Americans that LOOK like me’
Coco Gauff has become the first American woman to win the French Open since Serena Williams, but her press interview that followed left those patriotic Americans who supported her — but maybe don’t see the world the same way she does — feeling a little less than inspired.
“Obviously, there’s a lot going on in our country right now,” Gauff said, before explaining that she feels like “a representation” of “people that look like” her in America. She went on to say that those who look like her “maybe don’t feel as supported during this time period” and that her win can be a “reflection of hope and light for those people.”
“After the election, everything, it kind of felt down period a little bit and things like that, and my mom told me during Riyadh, ‘Just try to win the tournament just to give something for people to smile for,’ and so that’s what I was thinking about today when holding that and then seeing the flags in the crowd,” she continued.
“Some people may feel some type of way about being patriotic and things like that, but I’m definitely patriotic, I’m proud to be American, and I’m proud to represent the Americans that look like me and people who kind of support the things that I support,” she added.
BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock and BlazeTV contributor Steve Kim are among those Americans feeling a little less inspired by her win after her press interview.
“Let me just say this as someone that’s always proud to be an American, not a Korean American, not an Asian American, an American American,” Kim tells Whitlock. “I believe that she’s paying the guilt tax, that if you are proud to be an American and you’re a POC, the darker you are, you are expected to have some guilt and expected to do some finger wagging.”
“There’s a pressure, to number one, feel some guilt. Number two, with that expected guilt, to then point the finger at America, claim some sort of oppression, whether there is or not, and you just can’t be proud to represent this great country,” he adds.
“I like your guilt tax,” Whitlock agrees. “But it’s also part of holding onto your black authenticity. And so, to really be black, you have to wag a finger at America, or you’re not really black. You have to be a victim.”
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Trump obliterates Gavin Newsom’s latest accusation — and produces the receipts
Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom lobbed an accusation against President Donald Trump on Monday, but the president fired back to contradict the claim and brought evidence to back him up.
Newsom has been in a legal and rhetorical feud with the president over the federal response to rioting in Los Angeles against deportation operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
‘More than anything else, this shows what a liar he is – said I never called. Here is the evidence.’
The governor responded to a video on social media in which Trump was asked by a reporter when he had last spoken with Newsom.
“A day ago. Called him up to tell him, ‘Got to do a better job.’ He’s doing a bad job. Causing a lot of death and a lot of potential death,” Trump replied to the reporter. “If we didn’t send out the National Guard, and last night we gave him a little additional help, you would have — Los Angeles would be burning right now.”
Newsom claimed that the president had not called at all.
“There was no call. Not even a voicemail. Americans should be alarmed that a President deploying Marines onto our streets doesn’t even know who he’s talking to,” he posted.
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The president apparently took umbrage at the accusation and sent evidence to John Roberts of Fox News that he had indeed spoken with Newsom.
“First call was not picked up. Second call, Gavin picked up, we spoke for 16 minutes. I told him to, essentially, ‘get his ass in gear,’ and stop the Riots, which were out of control,” Trump said, according to a social media post from Roberts. “More than anything else, this shows what a liar he is — Said I never called. Here is the evidence.”
Roberts posted a screenshot of the phone logs that showed one outgoing call for 2 seconds at 1:22 a.m. on Saturday morning and a second call for 16 minutes a minute later, at 1:23 a.m. The contact person listed at the top read, “Gavin Newsom.”
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The governor has filed an emergency motion against Trump taking control of California’s National Guard over the melee in L.A. At the beginning of the rioting, Newsom accused the president of needlessly antagonizing the rioters.
“That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions,” said the governor on Saturday.
“The Guard has been admirably serving LA throughout recovery. This is the wrong mission and will erode public trust.”
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Judge DENIES Newsom emergency request to halt Trump order for military in Los Angeles
Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom was dealt a judicial defeat after he requested an emergency motion to halt President Donald Trump’s order to use the military to oppose the Los Angeles riots.
Newsom named the president, the Defense secretary, and the Department of Defense as defendants in the request, and a judge allowed the defendants 24 hours to file a response to the request.
‘Defendants intend to use unlawfully federalized National Guard troops and Marines to accompany federal immigration enforcement officers on raids.’
United States District Judge Charles Breyer temporarily allowed the order to the National Guard to continue until Thursday, when the motion would be reconsidered after the defendants answered and the plaintiffs also responded.
Newsom had accused the president of trying to “militarize” Los Angeles. He asked the judge to halt the order within two hours of his filing.
“Defendants intend to use unlawfully federalized National Guard troops and Marines to accompany federal immigration enforcement officers on raids throughout Los Angeles,” the lawsuit claimed. “They must be stopped, immediately.”
The Trump administration filed a statement calling the request “legally meritless.”
The lawsuit said that the troops were not meant to secure federal buildings, as Trump has claimed.
“Specifically, these activities ― scheduled to begin today, June 10, 2025 ― will include ‘holding a secure perimeter in communities around areas where immigration enforcement activities would take place, and securing routes over public streets where immigration enforcement officers would travel,'” the lawsuit continued.
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The lawsuit claimed that the plan by the administration was meant to be replicated across the country.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta accused the president of acting unlawfully.
“The President is looking for any pretense to place military forces on American streets to intimidate and quiet those who disagree with him. It’s not just immoral — It’s illegal and dangerous,” said Bonta. “Local law enforcement, not the military, enforce the law within our borders.”
Judge Breyer is the brother of the former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and was appointed by former President Bill Clinton in 1997.
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MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace holds fast to J6 ‘insurrection’ smear — but won’t tolerate term’s application to LA riots
MSNBC talking head Nicolle Wallace performed, with the aid of a former Jan. 6 committee member, yet another mental gymnastics routine on Monday, framing as ludicrous the suggestion that the targeted violence against federal agents in Los Angeles over the weekend amounted to an insurrection while insisting that the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in Washington, D.C., still qualified.
By way of their acrobatics, Wallace and former Virginia Rep. Denver Riggleman accomplished little more than reveal “insurrection” to be a term used by liberals to differentiate riots on the left from riots on the right.
“Insurrection” is not explicitly defined by federal law. It is, however, prohibited and generally understood to be an organized and violent act of revolt against an established government or civil authority. Although a riot is similarly characterized by violence, it alternatively tends to be more spontaneous and localized.
Elements of the Washington establishment and the liberal media spent years hyperventilating about how the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — not the deadly 2020 Black Lives Matter riots that resulted in billions of dollars in damage, thousands of businesses ruined, and 2,037 police officers assaulted or injured — was somehow an insurrection.
This suggestion was used to great political effect.
For instance, its acceptance enabled the Democrat-appointed justices on Colorado’s Supreme Court to rule in 2023 that Coloradans couldn’t vote for then-candidate Donald Trump for president — a decision later echoed by a Democratic judge in Illinois but ultimately struck down by the Supreme Court.
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Some of the same personalities who liberally threw around “insurrection” in recent years, when doing so meant maligning peaceful Trump supporters and the unarmed boneheads who stole into the U.S. Capitol in 2021, are now coming out of the woodwork to insist that the term’s use to describe the targeted leftist revolt against governmental forces in California is inaccurate.
As always, MSNBC has been one of their go-to platforms, if not their base of operations.
Hosts, contributors, and staff at MSNBC have used the term “insurrection” without reservation when speaking of Jan. 6. MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance dubbed it a “mass insurrection.” Former MSNBC talking head Joy Reid routinely referred to the rioters and protesters as “insurrectionists.” The team over at “The Rachel Maddow Show” also adopted the term with that specific target.
Wallace continued using it in reference to Jan. 6 on her show Monday but bristled at the mention of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller referring to the L.A. riots as an insurrection and of both Trump and Vice President JD Vance calling some of the rioters who violently attacked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents “insurrectionists.”
Wallace said that “insurrection” is an important word, not only because of its relevance regarding the invocation of the Insurrection Act but because “anyone older than 4 years old remembers an actual insurrection and the way Trump spent his first day in office the second time, pardoning all the rioters involved in January 6.”
‘It’s about the target and purpose of it.’
Riggleman warned Wallace that the Trump administration is “trying to take the language of January 6.”
A similar game was being played over at CNN, where senior reporter Aaron Blake accused Trump of using a “broad definition of ‘insurrection.'”
RELATED: A president’s job is to stop the burning if governors won’t
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Whereas Wallace focused on reminding her viewers that the L.A. riots didn’t satisfy her criteria for insurrection, Blake identified other uses of the term that he regards as problematic, such as Stephen Miller characterizing an Obama judge’s recent decision to undermine the executive branch and temporarily prevent the Trump administration from revoking status for over 500,000 illegal aliens as a “legal insurrection against democracy and the American people”; and Miller’s suggestion that the radicals who marched on the Supreme Court and illegally mounted a pressure campaign at conservative justices’ homes around the time of the high court’s Dobbs decision were engaged in “an open insurrection.”
“An insurrection isn’t about the level of violence,” wrote Blake. “It’s about the target and purpose of it.”
So long as the liberal establishment agrees with radicals’ target and purpose, it appears it will refrain from calling organized revolts against governmental targets for a political purpose “insurrections.”
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Exclusive: Trump and Noem fuel record-breaking DHS recruitment surge, defying left’s anti-cop chaos
Outside of the left’s fiery anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement riots in Los Angeles, its relentless campaign to vilify law enforcement is floundering, as most recently evidenced by a robust turnout at the Department of Homeland Security’s latest recruiting event.
Blaze News exclusively learned that the DHS 2025 career expo for law enforcement experienced “record-breaking success,” with thousands of Americans attending the large-scale hiring event last week in Chantilly, Virginia.
‘These numbers were possible even despite doxxing threats, increased assaults, and the recent wave of politicians’ anti-cop rhetoric.’
A DHS press release obtained by Blaze News revealed that the expo aimed to “fill mission-critical law and immigration enforcement, border security, and national security roles across the department.”
More than 3,000 Americans attended, leading the DHS to issue over 1,000 tentative job offers. These latest recruiting numbers are nearly double those from the DHS’ 2023 law enforcement hiring expo, the last time a two-day event of this kind was held, where the department made only 564 tentative job offers.
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The event allowed applicants to meet with representatives from several of DHS’ law enforcement wings, including ICE, the Transportation Security Administration, Customs and Border Protection, the Federal Protective Service, the Secret Service, and the Coast Guard.
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In addition to connecting with the department’s various law enforcement representatives, interested and qualified candidates participated in interviews and began the security and background check processes.
“The record turnout for the event proves that President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem have inspired a new generation of Americans to serve their country in law enforcement,” the DHS stated. “These numbers were possible even despite doxxing threats, increased assaults, and the recent wave of politicians’ anti-cop rhetoric. Under their leadership, more Americans are willing to answer the call to protect and serve their fellow citizens.”
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“For example, between January–May 2025, more Americans applied to the Border Patrol than over any similar time frame in its history. U.S. Secret Service recruitment is up 200%,” the department concluded.
The DHS credited Trump and Noem for restoring “excellence across federal agencies” and contributing to the “historic recruiting success.”
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LA schools to set up police safety perimeters to keep ICE agents away from students and their families
School police in Los Angeles announced new measures to prevent federal agents from enforcing immigration law near public schools in California, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.
Critics of the Trump administration have pointed to some incidents where agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement sought to gain entry to schools in order to detain illegal aliens in deportation proceedings.
‘Our families are now forced to live in fear, looking over their shoulders on the way to school or their child’s graduation. This is just simply wrong.’
Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said the school police would be deployed to ensure that the families of students were safe from federal enforcement at graduation ceremonies.
“We stand strongly on the right side of law,” said the superintendent. “Every student in our community, every student across the country, has a constitutional right to a free public education of high quality, without threat. Every one of our students, independently of their immigration status, has a right to a free meal in our schools. Every one of our children, no questions asked, has a right to counseling, social-emotional support, mental support.”
Los Angeles has seen violent rioting over the weekend from protesters opposed to increased deportation operations ordered by President Donald Trump. Dozens have been arrested by police, and National Guard troops have been deployed to the area as well as some U.S. Marines.
Carvalho said school officials were prepared to oppose federal troops if they attempted to gain entry to schools with a judicial warrant.
“I think that would be a preposterous condition,” he said. “But then again, we have seen preposterous actions taken recently by this administration. We are prepared for everything.”
The report noted that if federal officials obtained a judicial warrant, school officials have no legal recourse to oppose their entry into schools.
Carvalho cited one example where a family was scared to see their daughter graduate because of the possibility of immigration officials catching them.
“I’ve spoken with parents who’ve told me that their daughter would be the first in their family to graduate high school, and they’re not going to be there to witness it because they have a fear of the place of graduation being targeted. What nation are we becoming?”
RELATED: LA schools deny DHS welfare checks on migrant kids Biden lost, left exposed to trafficking
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School board members spoke against the deportations in statements to the Times.
“Our families are now forced to live in fear, looking over their shoulders on the way to school or their child’s graduation,” said board member Rocio Rivas. “This is just simply wrong. It is also very, very cruel.”
Board member Tanya Ortiz Franklin made similar comments.
“This isn’t about keeping our community safe,” she said. “This is about a backwards belief about who belongs and who should be pushed out, locked up, and shut up.”
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Will Elon Musk be brought back into the fold?
Following President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s very public falling-out, the former DOGE head may be looking to reconcile.
Musk remained a close ally to Trump during his campaign and through the beginning of his second term. However, signs of tension began to appear publicly toward the end of Musk’s 130-day tenure as a special government employee.
Throughout the saga, Trump remained remarkably restrained.
Fault lines first emerged when Musk criticized Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” a landmark piece of legislation that would codify many of the president’s campaign promises. Musk first called the bill into question in May, saying he was “disappointed” with the amount of spending in it.
Although his critiques were relatively tame at first, they quickly devolved once he departed from the DOGE.
Musk poured fuel on the fire through a series of posts on his social media platform, X, starting in early June. The tech mogul decried the bill as an “outrageous, pork-filled … disgusting abomination,” shaming all 215 Republicans who voted to pass it in the House.
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Republican leadership, like Speaker Mike Johnson (La.) and Majority Leader John Thune (S.D.), quickly came to Trump’s defense, saying Musk was “terribly wrong” about the bill.
Despite the unification of Republicans behind the president, Musk continued to fan the flames with a series of online attacks.
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Trump and other Republicans suggested that Musk’s disapproval of the bill was due to a provision revoking tax credits for electric vehicles that his business Tesla has benefited from. Trump also said that Musk has had access to the legislation for a while and questioned why he waited until after the legislation passed the House to criticize it.
“False, this bill was never shown to me even once and was passed in the dead of night so fast that almost no one in Congress could even read it!” Musk said in response.
Musk went on to claim that Trump would have lost without his support, predicted the tariffs will cause a recession, suggested Trump should be impeached, and accused the president of being “in the Epstein files.”
Throughout the saga, Trump remained remarkably restrained. Trump addressed Musk’s comments a few times, saying he wished him well but that he was “not particularly” interested in talking to Musk.
Since then, Musk has deleted many of his posts, including those calling for impeachment and suggesting Trump was part of the Epstein conspiracy. In fact, Musk has gone back to posting on his social media platform as if nothing happened, leaving some to speculate that he may be trying to mend his relationship with the president.
Musk is back to retweeting Vice President JD Vance, posting American flags in support of the administration, and even posting Trump’s Truth Social posts on his page. One post shows Musk replying to Trump with a heart emoji, a far cry from the accusatory comments he made just days before.
“It’s outrageous how much character assassination has been directed at me, especially by me!” Musk joked.
Although Musk has yet to make a public apology to the president, it seems as though he is attempting to take a more reconciliatory approach. We will have to wait and see if it’s enough for the two political heavyweights to make amends or if Musk’s fall from grace will be permanent.
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‘Dangerous and corrupt’: Whistleblower demands DOJ probe Massachusetts migrant shelters
Massachusetts’ sanctuary policies, combined with the former Biden administration’s immigration crisis, have resulted in a disastrous situation for the state’s overwhelmed shelter system, which has become a hotbed of criminal activity and has led to the mismanagement of taxpayer funds.
Jon Fetherston, a former director for one of those emergency shelters, a Marlborough Holiday Inn that housed hundreds of individuals, gained firsthand experience with some of the shelter program’s most egregious and disturbing issues.
‘The system is bloated with bureaucracy and lacks meaningful financial accountability.’
Fetherston, who worked as the shelter’s director in 2023 and 2024, announced that his experiences prompted him to demand the federal government investigate Democratic Governor Maura Healey’s migrant shelters.
Fetherston called Healey’s program “dangerous and corrupt,” urging Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday to “immediately launch a full investigation” into “a disturbing pattern of criminal activity, sexual assaults, financial abuse, and the widespread use of no-bid contracts.”
He described the program as a “disaster for public safety, government transparency, and fiscal accountability” that has failed Massachusetts residents and the migrants it is supposed to help.
Safety concerns
Among the most concerning failures Fetherston observed were rampant criminal activities within the shelters, which posed direct threats to vulnerable residents and the nearby community.
Fetherston pointed to disturbing cases of sexual assault, including an instance where a father residing at the state-run shelter was accused of repeatedly raping his minor daughter, resulting in her pregnancy.
Fetherston wrote to Bondi that the incident was not isolated and that he was “aware of other women and girls who were assaulted in shelters that had no adequate safeguards, supervision, or response protocols.”
Fetherston told Blaze News, “To this day, no one has been held accountable.”
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He noted that the state’s refusal to cooperate and share information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, while “often obscured by political rhetoric,” has resulted in “a real and urgent threat to community safety.”
Despite Healey’s claims that individuals undergo background checks before entering the state-run shelters, criminals and migrants with active deportation orders were “knowingly placed in family shelters alongside children and vulnerable residents,” Fetherston said.
“The governor claimed that all migrants were run through the Massachusetts [Criminal Offender Record Information] system,” he continued. “That was a blatant falsehood. She later said she directed her staff to do so but produced no documentation to prove it, and no one on her staff was held accountable. Moreover, running migrants through the CORI system only reveals crimes committed in Massachusetts, rendering it nearly useless for individuals arriving from other countries. This was simply more gaslighting from the governor.”
Financial abuses
In addition to endangering the community, the shelter system wastes taxpayer funds through rampant financial abuses, requiring urgent scrutiny, Fetherston revealed.
Fetherston outlined widespread fraud within the state’s shelter system, which he called “staggering and frankly insulting to taxpayers.”
He stated that he witnessed vendors bill for services never rendered and government contracts awarded without proper oversight.
Fetherston also pointed out that shelter staff would clock in for work and then leave. They used the hotel’s rooms for personal purposes, booked personal rideshare services through the shelter’s account, brought their laundry for the shelter’s vendors to handle, and even advised migrants on how to manipulate the immigration system.
“The system is bloated with bureaucracy and lacks meaningful financial accountability,” he stated.
Fetherston’s claims of financial mismanagement were backed by a state audit, which revealed issues in the shelter program’s contracting and oversight processes.
‘Until these reforms occur, public funds are wasted, and the families who rely on the system suffer the most.’
Massachusetts State Auditor Diana DiZoglio’s Office released a report in May, which revealed that the state’s Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities “failed to adequately assess and act upon the increased demand for shelter services, resulting in improper and unlawful no-bid emergency procurements for food and transportation services.”
The audit noted a “lack of fairness,” “transparency,” and “accountability” in the state’s contracting process that resulted in “unnecessarily high costs and inefficiencies.”
The audit also revealed that the state “mismanaged” its contracts with shelters and hotels, pointing to “a lack of administrative oversight at EOHLC” and “creating an avoidable risk.”
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Fetherston’s attempts to address these failures revealed deeper issues, including ignored warnings and personal consequences for speaking out.
Fetherston told Blaze News that his efforts to expose the shelter system abuses came at a personal cost, including “direct retaliation.” He noted that state officials consistently ignored his concerns.
When Fetherston attempted to save taxpayer-funded resources, he faced intimidation from one resident who allegedly crashed a vehicle into his office after he announced that residents with EBT and WIC benefits would no longer receive taxpayer-funded diapers, wipes, and formula through the shelter.
“Taxpayers have every right to demand transparency and results,” Fetherston told Blaze News. “That begins with full independent audits, strong whistleblower protections, thorough investigations, and a comprehensive overhaul of procurement and oversight processes. Until these reforms occur, public funds are wasted, and the families who rely on the system suffer the most.”
Fetherston asked the DOJ to open an investigation into “criminal activity and sexual violence within Massachusetts-run migrant shelters,” “widespread fraud and misuse of federal and state funds,” “the deliberate refusal to coordinate with federal law enforcement agencies,” and “the pattern of retaliation against those reporting abuse, danger, or misconduct.”
The DOJ could not confirm receipt of Fetherston’s letter.
Healey’s office did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.
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Trans ‘woman’ rates WOMEN’S bathrooms at Disney
Those who work in the service industry have always dealt with unruly or difficult guests, but with the advent of TikTok and other social media apps, those guests are only getting worse.
One of them, a transgender woman who goes by the name Lilly Contino, has built a following of over 400,000 on TikTok by dressing up as a woman and filming servers who “misgender” him.
However, Contino seems to have grown tired of terrorizing unsuspecting waitstaff just trying to pay their bills and has set his sights on a new target: women’s restrooms at Disney theme parks.
One of his recent TikTok posts shows Contino taking a mirror selfie of himself dressed like a child in Minnie Mouse ears and a hair bow with the caption, “Ranking every women’s bathroom at Disney World.”
In the selfies taken, there are women using the restroom in the background.
BlazeTV host Alex Stein of “Prime Time with Alex Stein” calls “Tino” the “Temu Dylan Mulvaney.”
“Imagine making minimum wage, you work at Disneyland, people are mean to you all the time, every day, evil even, and you’re just trying to make it,” Stein says. “You’re trying to be polite, and you’re trying, and then this person just wants to cancel you for making minimum wage as a food slave, handing them bread.”
“This person takes it as if, even if the person misgendered them, as if they were doing this viciously or maliciously trying to misgender them, when it was just an accident because they look like a freak,” he adds.
Now that “Tino” is infiltrating women’s bathrooms, he’s taken his shtick too far.
“Lilly Tino is absolutely mentally ill,” Stein says, adding, “That’s a crime in Texas to take a picture in a bathroom of somebody else.”
“That is weird to be in the bathroom taking photos,” BlazeTV guest Shayne Smith agrees. “It’s already uncomfortable that you’re taking apart your bathroom experience. I don’t think about the other dudes in the bathroom. Do you?”
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Billionaire Walmart heiress funds anti-Trump chaos, backs radical ‘No Kings’ protests
Christy Walton, a geriatric heiress to the Walmart fortune who had a 2% stake in the company as of last year, has made no secret of her liberal bent and has proven willing to shovel money into initiatives she apparently reckons will further the cause.
Walton, whose net worth Forbes presently puts north of $19 billion, co-hosted a fundraiser last year for Kamala Harris’ doomed presidential campaign and recently poured cash into a group supporting Senate Democrats.
She previously dumped tens of thousands of dollars into the Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump group founded by a handful of former Republican operatives, including John Weaver, who allegedly had a habit of sexually harassing young men online. Walton continued donating to the group even after it staged a fake white supremacist rally in late 2021 to smear then-candidate Glenn Youngkin ahead of the Virginia gubernatorial election.
‘We will make action everywhere else the story of America that day.’
After throwing her money behind various political failures, she now appears keen to support something more consequential.
While fellow travelers were attacking police and federal law enforcement agents in Los Angeles, the Walmart heiress set about promoting even more unrest, placing a full-page ad in the New York Times on Sunday featuring an image of the Statue of Liberty and a list of collective declarations, including “we defend against aggression by dictators” and “we uphold and defend the Constitution.”
While nearly identical to an anodyne ad she placed in the paper in March, Walton’s new ad also contained a call to action along with a QR code directing viewers to a website for the “No Kings” demonstrations planned across the country for June 14.
An April 50501-organized protest in Nevada. Photo by KIA RASTAR/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images
According to the organizers’ tool kit for the demonstrations, “NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to the increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption of the Trump administration.”
The event page notes, “On June 14th, we rise up.”
President Donald Trump is planning to celebrate the 250th birthday of the Army with a parade in the nation’s capital. The No Kings rally is supposed to serve as a leftist counterpoint.
The tool kit states: “Instead of allowing this military parade to be the center of gravity, we will make action everywhere else the story of America that day: people coming together in communities across the country to reject strongman politics and corruption.”
While the Associated Press suggested the No Kings rally would involve a march to the White House, organizers claim on their website that they are not holding an event in Washington, D.C., directing fellow travelers in the area to instead find a mobilization in Virginia or Maryland.
RELATED: White House warns radicals now massing in Boston, elsewhere in wake of LA riots: ‘Think twice’
National Guard stands watching in front of the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles after the anti-ICE riots. Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
No Kings counts among its partners various radical organizations such Planned Parenthood, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and the Organization for Black Struggle. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), fresh off defending his private jet usage to and from speeches condemning inequality, is also apparently a supporter.
Randi Weingarten, the American Federation of Teachers boss instrumental in keeping kids out of the classroom during the pandemic, is hosting a “No Kings Day Town Hall” Tuesday evening, promising to help fellow radicals “get ready to organize, mobilize, and build power for the future.” Other such events are planned in the lead-up to the nationwide uprising.
The outfit behind the protests promoted by Walton is the 50501 Movement, a leftist anti-Trump protest group.
Blaze News previously reported that the Massachusetts chapter of the 50501 Movement was behind the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest in Boston on Monday.
Kylie Bemis, an organizer with 50501, framed the protests as a response to an “act of war.”
“This is an attack on American liberty,” Bemis said in a statement obtained by Boston.com. “The right to freedom of speech and due process of the law must be protected above all else, and the response by the Trump administration is tantamount to a declaration of war against the American people.”
‘President Trump will always do what is needed to keep American citizens safe.’
Blaze News reached out to the email provided at the bottom of Walton’s ad but did not receive a response by deadline. However, a source familiar with Walton’s thinking on the topic told Blaze news that the “ad is a personal message from Christy that focuses on encouraging people to engage peacefully and civically in next weekend’s events on June 14th.”
“Her message promotes peaceful dialogue and the sharing of diverse views and voices,” continued the source. “She condemns violence in all forms and continues to emphasize the importance of listening to one another.”
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) intimated that Walton’s advertisement might have less to do with ideology and more to do with maximizing the value of her stake in Walmart, noting, “Looks like the Walmart dynasty is big mad about China tariffs.”
Walmart declined Blaze News’ request for comment. The Walton family office could not immediately be reached for comment.
When asked about the forthcoming nationwide protests, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson previously told Blaze News, “Any individual who wants to mimic the violence, lawlessness, and rioting in California should think twice.”
“President Trump will always do what is needed to keep American citizens safe, especially when weak Democrat leaders fail to do so,” added Jackson.
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Anti-ICE violence spreads across America: Here’s a roundup from Monday
Violence and vandalism from the protests against deportation operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement have now spread from Los Angeles, California, to other cities and locales.
On Tuesday, large-scale protesting and rioting were reported in two cities in Texas as well as numerous other major cities. President Donald Trump had vowed to implement mass deportations, but those efforts have been stymied by legal challenges and violent protests against ICE officers and operations.
When the crowd became unruly and ignored commands from police, officers pepper-sprayed some of the participants and later deployed tear gas.
While some Democrat politicians have made statements against violence and vandalism during the protests, they have also accused the president of intentionally escalating the confrontation for political advantage.
Dallas
Rioters attacked police during a protest in downtown Dallas, prompting authorities to declare the protest an unlawful assembly and shut it down. Some fires can be seen in images from social media.
Hundreds joined the protest that began at Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge and lasted for hours.
WFAA-TV documented the arrest of two people, but the Dallas Police Department said only one had charges pending. The outlet reported that protesters had been throwing water bottles and a firework at police. The police deployed pepper spray and smoke against the unruly crowd.
Austin
Socialists organized a protest at the Texas State Capitol on Tuesday and marched to the J.J. Pickle Federal Building, which was used to hold ICE detainees, according to KXAN-TV.
Protesters chanted, “We will not put up with ICE. Say it once, say it twice,” and, “Whose streets? Our streets.”
When the crowd became unruly and ignored commands from police, officers pepper-sprayed some of the participants and later deployed tear gas. Austin Police then arrested some protesters.
RELATED: Stunning videos from inside CBP vehicles capture the moment vicious rioters attacked in Los Angeles
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The J.J. Pickle Federal Building was vandalized with messages that included, “ICE NEEDS 2 SURRENDER & RELEASE THE HOSTAGES,” and, “MODERN DAY SLAVERY DISGUISED AS CRIMINAL REFORM.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said about a dozen protesters were arrested.
“Between the Austin Police Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety, more than a dozen protesters were arrested in Austin,” he wrote on social media. “Peaceful protesting is legal. But once you cross the line, you will be arrested. FAFO.”
Los Angeles
In Los Angeles, swarms of rioters were zip-tied and loaded onto buses Tuesday evening. Trump has ordered 4,000 National Guard troops into the fray, while Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth ordered a battalion of U.S. Marines to deploy into the area as well.
Police reported that 50 protesters were arrested over the weekend rioting in Los Angeles, with charges including attempted murder with a Molotov cocktail as well as assault with a deadly weapon on an officer.
RELATED: Hegseth orders battalion of US Marines to quell anti-ICE rioting in Los Angeles
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Arrests were reported in other cities in California, including San Francisco, Santa Ana, San Jose, and San Diego.
New York and the East Coast
At least nine people were arrested in New York City protests, including an unruly mob at Trump Tower in Midtown. Protests were also reported in Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.
RELATED: Union president reportedly detained and injured in ICE raids in Los Angeles
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The South and the Midwest
Other rallies were reported in Atlanta, Memphis, Chicago, Detroit, Oklahoma City, Charlotte, and Louisville, according to NBC News.
Even more protests are being planned in other cities for the rest of the week.
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‘Monster’ learns his fate for killing 2-year-old girl; officials say he ‘completely severed’ toddler’s spine
A Florida man learned his fate for the murder of a 2-year-old girl in 2022 after the mother of the child left her daughter in his care.
On Wednesday, 27-year-old Travis Ray Thompson was found guilty of first-degree murder for the killing of Jacklyn Schwingel, according to a statement from the Fifth Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office.
‘Life in prison is too good for this kind of evil.’
On May 3, 2022, a female toddler was rushed to the emergency room of AdventHealth Waterman, a hospital in Tavares. The child was in critical condition when she arrived.
Medical personnel attempted lifesaving measures on 2-year-old Jacklyn, but the young girl was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Hospital officials notified the Marion County Sheriff’s Office of a possible case of child abuse.
A detective with the sheriff’s office questioned the mother of the deceased child, who told the detective that she had left her daughter in the care of Thompson earlier that morning so she could go to work.
The Fifth Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office noted that Thompson called the mother approximately 25 minutes after she left to inform her that Jacklyn was unresponsive.
Thompson told investigators that the girl was in another room when he heard a loud noise. Thompson claimed he found the child unresponsive.
“Instead of calling 911, Thompson waited for 30 minutes for the victim’s mother to arrive and only then began driving to the hospital,” the Fifth Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office stated.
The mother noted that her daughter was lifeless and had a shallow pulse and a distended abdomen.
“While en route to the hospital, the victim’s mother directed Thompson to call 911 when she realized the victim had stopped breathing altogether,” the attorney’s office said.
Emergency medical services personnel met Thompson and the mother at a nearby business to bring the toddler to the hospital for medical treatment.
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According to officials, the little girl suffered abhorrent physical abuse at the hands of Thompson. Officials added that Thompson claimed he did not know how the victim became injured despite being the only person left with the victim.
On Sept. 1, 2022, the medical examiner’s office determined that Jacklyn’s cause of death was traumatic injuries to her torso with a severing of her spine and internal bleeding.
“Based on the severity and nature of the break, it was determined that Thompson applied significant, gradual force to the victim’s upper and lower body and bent her backward beyond her natural range of motion until her back broke,” the Fifth Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office said.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement, “Thompson physically abused the toddler while she was in his care, which resulted in her spine being completely severed.”
Thompson was arrested and taken to the Marion County Jail on Sept. 8, 2022.
Image source: Marion County (Fla.) Sheriff’s Office
After jurors deliberated for two hours Wednesday and delivered a guilty verdict, Judge Barbara Kissner-Kwatkosky sentenced Thompson to life in prison for Jacklyn’s murder.
“This monster stole the life of an innocent child, and today, the justice system made sure he will never walk free again,” said Bill Gladson, state attorney for the Fifth Judicial Circuit. “Life in prison is too good for this kind of evil.”
Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods added, “I’m incredibly proud of my major crimes detectives for their relentless work on this heartbreaking case. Their dedication helped secure justice for an innocent child.”
“I also want to thank State Attorney Bill Gladson and his team for delivering a guilty verdict,” Woods continued. “In Marion County, we protect our children — and we hold those who harm them accountable.”
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House Republicans reveal true feelings on possible $5,000 DOGE checks
House Republicans responded to the idea that money saved from federal cuts could be passed down to the taxpayer.
The money would come via cuts recommended by the Department of Government Efficiency under Elon Musk, which included savings from programs under USAID and the Treasury Department.
First proposed by investment CEO James Fishback, the “DOGE Dividend” checks would total $5,000 and be “sent to every taxpayer,” Fishback wrote on X.
‘We kind of got in the situation that we’re in by just sending checks to people.’
However, when approached for comment regarding the possibility of sending the refund checks to the taxpayer, at least five Republican members of Congress shot down the idea, with one even claiming it could cause inflation.
Rep. Mark Harris (R-N.C.) said checks to the public were specifically the problem, not the solution.
“We kind of got in the situation that we’re in by just sending checks to people, and we got a $36 trillion debt headed toward 37 rapidly,” Harris told the Daily Signal. “It’s going to make far more sense for any savings that we find to make sure that we get that debt under control, bend that curve, and make sure that we get our country on a really fiscally sound financial footing.”
Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.) answered similarly, saying the latest Republican budget is actually the answer the taxpayer seeks.
“The ‘big, beautiful bill‘ will be stimulative on its own,” Huizenga told the Daily Signal.
The congressman stated that the “additional cash infusion to folks … could potentially be inflationary.”
However, given that the DOGE cuts would be money that was already allocated and, in most cases, being spent, it is unclear how that would happen.
Huizenga added, “To me, with $36 trillion in debt, the most responsible thing that we can do is apply that” to the massive deficit.
RELATED: White House works to send DOGE cuts package to Congress
Rep. Mike Cloud, (R-Tex.), Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) all told the Daily Signal that paying down the deficit was more important then sending out checks.
“What we can do, and President Trump’s great at this, is find creative ways to grow the economy and grow our way out of this while we get a hold of in Congress our federal spending that’s way out of hand, to get rid of our spending addiction,” Cloud told the outlet.
“Let’s focus on tackling our $36 trillion debt, while also helping hardworking Americans prosper by making the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent and spending less of their tax dollars,” Lee told the Daily Signal.
“DOGE savings coupled with tax cuts will ensure Iowans and Americans can keep more of their hard-earned money in their pockets while also restoring fiscal sanity and addressing deficit spending,” Hinson said to the Daily Signal.
RELATED: Elon Musk formally departs from DOGE following a tumultuous tenure
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Reporter Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, who spoke with the Republicans, told Blaze News that the sources she spoke to “would love to give money back to the taxpayer” but are more focused on debt spending.
“They believe the best way to put more money in the wallets of taxpayers is to reduce the national debt.”
On June 6, Fishback wrote an update on his X page, saying the savings Musk promised the federal government did not come to fruition.
“The truth is that Elon set expectations that he relayed to the President, me, and the country that he did not come close to fulfilling.”
The investor still said he was proud of his proposal and that he intended to work with the Donald Trump administration to “return savings to taxpayers.”
On June 7, USA Today claimed that any DOGE dividend would actually be delivered on a per-eligible-household basis, which includes only those who pay more taxes than they get back.
USA Today said lower-income Americans would not qualify for the return.
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After Trump’s decisive action, protests cooling in LA
As the riots in Los Angeles lessened in intensity at the start of the week, President Trump has begun to change his tone toward the protests that shook the city streets over the weekend. With the worst lawlessness hopefully over, the rhetoric has likewise cooled down.
On Saturday and Sunday, Trump and other senior White House officials called the protesters “insurrectionists.” Vice President JD Vance called out the rioters on Saturday: “Insurrectionists carrying foreign flags are attacking immigration enforcement officers, while one half of America’s political leadership has decided that border enforcement is evil.”
Fortunately, President Trump’s decisive action in sending the National Guard and Marines to reinforce the local police largely quelled the violence in Los Angeles. It remains to be seen what Mayor Karen Bass, Gov. Gavin Newsom, and other Democrat leaders will do in response to the Trump administration sending federalized troops against their wishes, although there is some indication that Trump is willing to find a diplomatic solution in the wake of the violence.
RELATED: Republicans clash with Democratic lawmakers defending violent anti-ICE rioters
During what appears to be the height of violence over the weekend, it was uncertain how far the riots would escalate. Republican leaders were pre-emptively considering their options, should the violence get worse.
Among these options was invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807, which gives the president the ability to “call forth the militia for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection, or of causing the laws to be duly executed.” The protesters’ interference with ICE operations, which began on Friday, was one of the main justifications for sending reinforcements, though this particular act was not invoked.
Former Representative Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) speculated that the repetition of the word “insurrection” by Republican leadership was a primer to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807, if needed.
Some, including a New York Times article, noted that Trump would be on “firm legal footing” if he invoked the act, largely because courts would be “unwilling” to rule on what exactly constitutes an insurrection or rebellion. This legal ambiguity gives him the power to act at his own “discretion.”
Due to the effective response of the National Guard and Marines, this option was no longer necessary. With the worst of the chaos potentially in the rearview mirror, Trump partially walked back his rhetoric from earlier in the weekend.
“I wouldn’t call it quite an insurrection, but it could have led to an insurrection,” Trump said on Monday. “That was a lot of harm that was going on last night.”
On Monday morning, Trump took full credit for the quelling of the violence in L.A.: “If I didn’t ‘SEND IN THE TROOPS’ to Los Angeles the last three nights, that once beautiful and great City would be burning to the ground right now.” He also bashed “incompetent” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom for their “disastrous” and “bungled” response.
This post appears to have been removed and is no longer available on Trump’s Truth Social page.
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Simone Biles apologizes to Riley Gaines for ‘personal’ attack but still falls short of admitting the obvious
Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles walked back her “personal” attacks against former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines for her activism to keep women’s sports for women only.
Biles called Gaines “truly sick” and a “sore loser” over her advocacy and said the former college athlete should be uplifting the “trans community” and trying to make sports more “inclusive.”
‘I was not advocating for policies that compromise fairness in women’s sports.’
The backlash against Biles was nearly limitless across the internet, including on her social media pages, which may have been the catalyst for the gymnast’s latest comments.
Biles returned to her X account to follow up on her remarks four days after the fact but fell short of stating men should not be able to participate in women’s sports.
“I’ve always believed competitive equity & inclusivity are both essential in sport. The current system doesn’t adequately balance these important principles, which often leads to frustration and heated exchanges, and it didn’t help for me to get personal with Riley, which I apologize for,” Biles, 28, wrote.
Without directly calling out the issue of transgender athletes, Biles referred to “sensitive, complicated issues” that she does not “have the answers or solutions” for.
RELATED: ‘She’s never had to compete against a man’: Female athletes respond to Simone Biles’ pro-trans rant
The seven-time Olympic gold medalist explained she was not “advocating for policies that compromise fairness in women’s sports,” but she did not say that men — or transgender women — should be barred from women’s competitions, either. Instead, Biles focused on protecting children from public scrutiny, an idea she did not mention in her previous remarks from days prior.
“Individual athletes — especially kids — should never be the focus of criticism of a flawed system they have no control over,” Biles continued. “I believe sports organizations have a responsibility to come up with rules supporting inclusion while maintaining fair competition. We all want a future for sport that is fair, inclusive, and respectful.”
In response, Gaines said that while she accepted the apology, she thought Biles’ idea of competitive equity “nonsensical.”
“The boys are publicly humiliating the girls. To suggest that women and girls must be silent or ignore a boy who is PUBLICLY hurting or humiliating them is wrong,” Gaines continued. “You can’t have any empathy and compassion for the girls if you’re ignoring when young men are harming or abusing them.”
Gaines still noted she has not seen the gymnast “championing this effort” to keep men out of women’s competitions but would welcome Biles in the fight to “support fair sports.”
RELATED: USA Today obliterated online over bizarre claim about transgender athletes
Biles’ new comments drew plenty of reactions from athletes who have been directly impacted by men in women’s sports, including those who commented on her statements from last Friday.
“Damage control time,” wrote Taylor Silverman in a post on X. Silverman is a skateboarder who lost to a male in a women’s competition.
“Here comes the woke mob. When you try to please everyone out of fear it makes you look worse. A swing and a miss from your PR team,” she added in another post.
Paula Scanlan, who swam on the same team as infamous transgender athlete Lia (William) Thomas, replied to Biles on X: “Empathy and respect apparently involves making fun of someone for their looks. got it.”
Scanlan was referring to Biles’ prior comments, saying Gaines should “bully” someone her own size, which “would ironically be a male.”
Overall, the predominant theme in the replies to Biles’ post was that the new comments did not seem sincere, with many alleging they could have been carefully crafted by a public relations team.
For example, Fearless contributor Jason Whitlock asked, “Who wrote this? It took 48 hours to write this?”
Representatives for Biles did not respond to prior requests for comment or to an updated request regarding her latest remarks.
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141 days after President Trump’s pardon, Jan. 6 defendant Elias Nick Costianes Jr. released from prison
One hundred and forty-one days after he was pardoned on Jan. 6 criminal charges by President Donald J. Trump, Elias Nick Costianes Jr. has finally been ordered to be released from prison on bond by Senior U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar.
Costianes was originally denied post-pardon freedom because Judge Bredar — a 2010 appointee of President Barack Obama — ruled that some of the charges stemming from a Jan. 6-related FBI search of Costianes’ Maryland home were not covered by Trump’s Jan. 20 pardon declaration.
Judge Bredar ruled that the pardon declaration did not apply to the 2022 federal charges that were lodged against Costianes in the District of Maryland. In a June 6, 2025, memorandum and order, Judge Bredar granted a Rule 48 motion from the U.S. Department of Justice to dismiss the Maryland indictment against Costianes. He stayed that order for 45 days.
“As the Court previously explained, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 48(a) provides that “[t]he government may, with leave of court, dismiss an indictment, information, or complaint,” Bredar wrote. “… The Court’s discretion in the Rule 48 context is very limited, and it ‘must grant the [Rule 48(a)] motion absent a finding of bad faith or disservice to the public interest.'”
Emergency motion filed
Costianes’ defense attorney, Carolyn Stewart, filed an emergency motion for reconsideration, seeking her client’s immediate release on his own recognizance. That motion was granted on June 10, and Judge Bredar set conditions of release.
Stewart walked out of the Edward A. Garmatz Federal Building and United States Courthouse with her freed client just before 3 p.m. on June 10.
“The hearing was fair and run professionally by the judge — court proceedings as all should expect in the justice system,” Stewart told Blaze News. “The U.S. Marshals here in Baltimore also have been extremely professional and helpful. The 2.5-hour holdup has been waiting on the Bureau of Prisons to do release paperwork. Many thanks to those who prayed.”
Costianes had been detained in the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center in Youngstown.
Costianes, 46, of Nottingham, Md., was originally charged in the District of Columbia with Jan. 6 criminal counts: felony obstruction of Congress (later thrown out by the U.S. Supreme Court); unlawful entry; and violent entry, disorderly conduct, and other offenses on Capitol grounds. On March 3, 2021, a grand jury added criminal counts for entering and remaining in a gallery of Congress and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.
Based on President Trump’s Jan. 20 pardon declaration, those charges were dismissed Jan. 21 by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon.
RELATED: Fact-check: President Trump authorized 20,000 National Guard troops for duty on Jan. 6, 2021
A Metropolitan Police Department officer deploys high-velocity pepper spray at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images
When the FBI searched Costianes’ Maryland residence in February 2021 on the Jan. 6 charges, agents found four vials of testosterone, which is a controlled substance. They also found four firearms, two of which the FBI said were not registered to Costianes.
On April 21, 2022, a federal grand jury indicted Costianes on nine criminal counts, including conspiracy to distribute and possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute, use of any communication facility to facilitate a drug felony, three counts of distribution of a controlled substance, and possession of firearms and ammunition by an unlawful user of any controlled substance.
‘The President pardoned Mr. Costianes of the offenses in the indictment.’
The controlled substances at issue in the indictment were testosterone and cocaine, court records showed.
Costianes agreed in June 2023 to plead guilty to the firearms charge. Judge Bredar sentenced him to 366 days in prison. Costianes’ surrender date was weeks after President Trump took office, so Costianes asked the judge to delay his reporting date. The judge refused. Costianes reported to prison on Feb. 12, 2025.
He filed an emergency appeal the same day with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
RELATED: Trump pardons 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants, commutes the sentences of 14
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The new Trump DOJ indicated its belief that the president’s pardon declaration covered both Costianes’ Jan. 6 Washington, D.C., charges and his subsequent Maryland drug charges.
“After consulting with the Department of Justice’s leadership, the United States has concluded that the President pardoned Mr. Costianes of the offenses in the indictment,” wrote Assistant U.S. Attorney David Bornstein. “This determination by the Executive is ‘conclusive and preclusive.’”
Judge Bredar’s ruling allows Costianes to travel within the continental United States, so he will be able to visit his gravely ill sister, who is in hospice care in Williamsburg, Va., Stewart said.
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Pregnant woman allegedly struck in head several times, slammed into wall over seating — at kindergarten graduation: Cops
One would be inclined to consider a kindergarten graduation ceremony a joyful and fun occasion — the polar opposite of dangerous, in fact.
But in Philadelphia on Monday, one such ceremony at John Wister Elementary Mastery Charter School in the city’s Germantown neighborhood was anything but.
‘There was a carjacking in the neighborhood for which police were called separately.’
Police responded to the charter school after 10:15 a.m. over a disturbance involving seating arrangements between two parents, WPVI-TV reported.
Police told the station one of the parents allegedly struck the other parent — a 31-year-old pregnant woman — in the head several times and slammed her into a wall.
Witnesses told WPVI they saw the victim bleeding.
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Medical personnel took the pregnant woman in an ambulance to a hospital where she was treated for her injuries, the station said, citing police.
Police said the attacker — a female wearing a gray hoodie and black pants — took off from the scene and hadn’t been arrested, WPVI reported.
However, WTXF-TV reported that a letter from the principal was sent to the school community about “an altercation between two of our parents” that indicated police “arrived quickly to remove the parents from the scene. Contrary to online rumors, the only injuries were between the two parents involved, and no weapons were drawn or involved in the incident.”
In addition, the letter added that “there was a carjacking in the neighborhood for which police were called separately. This incident did not involve anyone in the Wister community, and the suspect was apprehended.”
Blaze News on Tuesday spoke to an employee of a business near the school who said the incident didn’t faze him because such violence “happens quite a bit.” The employee added to Blaze News that “there are some really rough areas in Germantown” and that the neighborhood his business shares with the school is “semi-rough but getting better” — however, it’s “not somewhere I’d send my kids to school.”
WPVI said Northwest Detectives are heading up an investigation into the matter and that those with information should contact them at 215-685-3353.
WPVI’s video report Monday evening indicated that the school wouldn’t make any other statements about the incident and that the victim — according to her family — was still hospitalized.
Police on Tuesday didn’t immediately respond to Blaze News’ inquiries regarding if the the female parent accused of carrying out the attack had been arrested or identified, if there was any word on the condition of the pregnant victim, or if there is video of the attack.
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2 teenagers accused of shooting homeless man to death took photos of themselves with a gun, police say
A 23-year-old homeless man found dead in his tent was shot to death by two teenagers, according to New Mexico police.
Christopher Sturluson was living in an arroyo in Albuquerque before workers at the Albuquerque Community Safety Department found his body on the morning of May 1.
‘We have two teenagers accused of killing a homeless person. The frustration level, quite frankly, is at a boiling point.’
Albuquerque Police Department officers responded after ShotSpotter alerts indicated that about 10 gunshots were fired around 9 p.m. April 30. Police talked to Sturluson, who told them that people had fired in his direction.
Later that same night, the ShotSpotter picked up another six gunshots in the same area between 10:15 and 11:50 p.m.
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Police identified two suspects through surveillance video and later arrested 18-year-old Joshua Curtis as well as a 17-year-old. Police said they were able to recover bullet casings from the scene. Police also found photographs the pair allegedly had taken of themselves with a gun, according to a KOB-TV report.
The 17-year-old suspect turned out to be on juvenile probation after he was caught with a gun at Sandia High School in 2022. He was expelled from that school. The 18-year-old suspect has a criminal history that includes a pending case for assault on an officer.
Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman said the fatality is clear evidence that the system is broken.
“We have two teenagers accused of killing a homeless person,” said Bregman. “The frustration level, quite frankly, is at a boiling point. This will be, I believe, the 47th juvenile that we’ve charged with murder in this office since I’ve been district attorney.”
Bregman has been calling for greater consequences for juvenile criminals.
“If we don’t start doing something, we will continue to see this kind of result. We’re not teaching our kids anything when we’re not giving them consequences,” Bregman added.
Bregman also said that “if convicted, this juvenile is facing the rest of his life in prison. We didn’t do any justice for the poor homeless person that’s dead, and we certainly didn’t do any justice for the kid that’s now charged with murder because we didn’t teach him anything when we had the chance.”
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