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In BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales’ first expose of potential H-1B visa fraud, she looked into Cubits Tech Systems business location — and was greeted by an angry man who immediately called 911 on her.

Gonzales left the property without incident, but after requesting the bodycam footage from the police after their encounter with the man, she learned that he spun an entirely different story to the cops than what actually occurred.

“Some lady, they came, and they are asking me about my company information, myself, and where is your company, 10 people are working here. All of this information they are asking I am so kind of afraid,” the man told police.

“I think some hate is going on. Something hate, something is going on,” the man continued, adding that Gonzales was full of rage as she asked him questions.

While Gonzales never once asked to go inside the house while she was speaking with the employer, he told police that she said “let me go inside” to him, and that when he closed the door, she was knocking “very loud.”

“So now you’re hearing this Oscar-worthy performance that I went up there and banged on his door, and I tried to get into his house, and I was like, ‘Where are the workers? Where are your workers?’ That’s the picture that he painted for the officers. He also said that I threatened him,” Gonzales says.

“Now I’d like to just remind you that faking an emergency call is a crime. It’s a serious crime. It refers to intentionally providing false or misleading information to emergency services such as 911 to elicit a response from police, fire, or medical personnel,” she continues.

The employer also updated the location of his business, which is now in a more legitimate office building.

However when Gonzales went to this address, all she found was an empty single room with a couple of card tables and a single chair.

“Certainly not any workers there,” she continues, asking, “Which again begs the question, where are the workers?”

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In Queens, New York, Jabez Chakraborty was shot by law enforcement following a call from his family involving a mental and emotional distress crisis.

Bodycam footage from officers shows an immediate act of aggression after they enter the home on January 26 as Chakraborty charges officers with a large kitchen knife.

‘I’m grateful to the first responders who put themselves on the line each day to keep our communities safe.’

New York Police Department Officer Tyree White orders Chakraborty to “put the knife down” several times, video shows. Chakraborty, 22, does not comply.

White then shoots Chakraborty, who sustained serious injuries but survived. Police said they recovered the knife at the scene.

The family later claimed they had asked for an ambulance, not police.

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However bodycam footage from another video shows a different account. In that video, a woman clearly says, “Yes,” when officers ask if she called them. She then opens the door and invites the officers inside. Officers again ask if they can enter the home, and she responds, “Yes,” confirming twice that she intentionally requested law enforcement assistance.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) initially praised first responders in a social media post.

“I’m grateful to the first responders who put themselves on the line each day to keep our communities safe,” the mayor said on X.

He later visited Chakraborty and his family in the hospital before shifting the tone of his public messaging.

“Jabez needs mental health treatment, not criminal prosecution by a district attorney,” Mamdani said.

“No family should have to endure this kind of pain,” he added.

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Critics say Mamdani is “playing a dangerous game of political theater,” downplaying the danger of the incident and framing Chakraborty as blameless because of his mental health.

No criminal charges appear to have been filed in connection with this case. Blaze News has reached out to the NYPD to inquire about Officer White’s status.

Mamdani has since said he is working on a plan to accelerate the creation of a Department of Community Safety, which would co-respond to 911 calls alongside law enforcement.

“What these policy options include are various co-response models involving teams of behavioral health specialists, peer experts, and of course police so that they can intervene if the need arises,” Mamdani said.

Critics have been quick to point out that creating the Department of Community Safety would be unaffordable as New York City is already under a $12 billion budget deficit.

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A group of national governing bodies under the Team USA banner say they are hoping to avoid distractions in Italy.

The Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic games began retrofitting a venue in a hotel in Milan last year in preparation for hosting USA Hockey, U.S. Speedskating, and U.S. Figure Skating.

‘This name captures that vision and connects to the season and the event.’

The boutique hotel called Aethos Milan is set to host meet-and-greets across the three sports, sponsor parties, and hold medal celebrations.

The planning goes back months and was celebrated at the time of the announcement, when the name was Ice House.

“We expect this venue to be a main hub for athletes, families, media, and our supporters,” said U.S. Figure Skating CEO Matt Farrell at the time.

“There is nothing like the magic of the Olympic Games, and we look forward to the Ice House serving as a welcoming home to celebrate our athletes,” said Pat Kelleher, executive director of USA Hockey.

U.S. Speedskating Executive Director Ted Morris added, “Ice House will be the place to be in Milan for the TEAM USA community.”

Now, all three governing bodies have banded together to change the venue’s name from Ice House to Winter House.

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The group of governing bodies told USA Today that the name change is an attempt to rid athletes of distraction.

“Our hospitality concept was designed to be a private space free of distractions where athletes, their families, and friends can come together to celebrate the unique experience of the Winter Games,” the group said in a joint statement. “This name captures that vision and connects to the season and the event.”

Other details may add some insight into the name change, including that the venue will also be a hub for media, including radio, digital, blogging, and podcasting personalities, U.S. Figure Skating reported.

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United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement will accompany the U.S. delegation to Italy for the Olympics, the New York Times reported, which drew comment from Italy’s foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, who reportedly said ICE agents would not be allowed to be deployed in Italy’s streets.

A crowd of mostly senior-aged Italians protested in the streets of Milan last week to express outrage about the presence of ICE, blowing whistles and holding signs that had phrases like “Ice Out!”

Other signs held by protesters included, “The only ICE I want is in my peach tea! Keep out!” and, “No ananas sulla pizzano[,] no cappucio col pranzo[,] no ICE,” which, when translated, means, “No pineapple on pizza, no cappuccio with lunch, no ICE.”

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Bill Gates is taking some intense heat after the latest Epstein document dump exposed email drafts Jeffery Epstein wrote and sent to himself accusing the Microsoft co-founder of multiple salacious activities. The most notable are the unverified claims that Gates requested help obtaining antibiotics to secretly give to his then-wife Melinda for STDs he had allegedly acquired from Russian prostitutes — and that he engaged in numerous extramarital affairs.

On Tuesday, February 3, a preview of Melinda French Gates’ recent interview with NPR’s Rachel Martin dropped. In the viral clip, the betrayed philanthropist weighed in on the latest allegations involving her ex-husband.

On a recent episode of “Pat Gray Unleashed,” Pat and the panel play the video and discuss Melinda’s measured but pained comments, questioning whether she knew more about Bill Gates’ alleged dealings with Epstein than she’s admitting.

Although Gates’ spokesperson called the recent claims “absolutely absurd and completely false,” Melinda appeared to have less confidence.

“So for me, it’s personally hard whenever those details come up, right? Because brings back memories of some very, very painful times in my marriage. But I have moved on from that,” she said.

In 2021, Bill and Melinda Gates announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage. One contributing factor was Bill’s admitted extramarital affair with a Microsoft employee that began years earlier.

“So whatever questions remain there of what I don’t — can’t — even begin to know all of it, those questions are for those people and for even my ex-husband. They need the answer to those things, not me. And I am so happy to be away from all the muck,” she stated.

When asked about her “dominant emotion” regarding the recent media coverage of the allegations against Gates in the latest Epstein document release, Melinda said it was “unbelievable sadness.”

“I’m able to take my own sadness and look at those young girls and say, ‘My God, how did they …? … And so for me, it’s just sadness — sadness for, you know … I left my marriage; I had to leave my marriage,” she added, expressing hope that Epstein’s victims receive the justice they are owed.

“That sounds bad for Bill Gates, does it not?” says Pat. “That sounds like she had some knowledge about what went on, and it was not legal and it was not right.”

“So why didn’t she come forward sooner, I guess would be a good question,” says co-host Keith Malinak. “I mean, she’s ready to move on, and Kash Patel is ready to move on. I’m not ready to move on. Now I would like some legal consequences for these people. They need to be held accountable.”

To hear more, watch the video above.

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A newly elected blue-state governor took steps on Wednesday to terminate state and local law enforcement agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

‘Now Fake Moderate Spanberger is attempting to turn Virginia into a sanctuary jurisdiction like her socialist friends in New York and California by banning state and local police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities.’

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D), a former federal law enforcement officer, issued an executive order establishing new state law enforcement policies based on “principles and policies that have long served as the north star for Virginia law enforcement.”

A press release from Spanberger’s office contended that law enforcement “exists to preserve human life” and emphasized that “public trust is a prerequisite to effective policing.”

“Virginia law enforcement does not engage in fear-based policing, enforcement theater, or actions that create barriers to people seeking assistance in their time of need,” it read.

As such, Spanberger’s administration stated that it will review all of law enforcement’s current policies and training to ensure they align with these standards.

“As a former federal law enforcement officer and the daughter of a career law enforcement officer, I know that effective policing is built on trust. Like so many of Virginia’s law enforcement officers, I have serious concerns that chaotic federal law enforcement actions across the country are eroding years of trust built by our officers within the communities they serve,” Spanberger stated. “When state and local law enforcement are pulled away from investigating crimes and upholding our Virginia laws to do the job of federal agents, it weakens their ability to deepen trust within their communities. This contributes to a culture of fear and distrust that makes it harder for officers to do their jobs.”

“Today, Virginia is taking important steps to both reaffirm the core responsibilities of our officers and help build public trust in Virginians who wear the badge,” she added.

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Through a separate executive directive announced on the same day, Spanberger declared that state law enforcement agencies are required to terminate all existing 287(g) agreements with ICE, arguing that these arrangements “placed Virginia law enforcement officers under federal control and supervision to conduct civil immigration enforcement.”

ICE’s 287(g) agreements authorize the agency to delegate to state and local law enforcement officers the authority to perform specified immigration officer functions under the supervision of ICE.

There are currently more than 30 law enforcement agencies in Virginia that have agreements with ICE, according to the agency’s website. The majority of those agreements, over two dozen, fall under the 287(g) program’s “Task Force Model,” which allows local officers to exercise “limited immigration authority,” including identifying immigrants during a DUI checkpoint and sharing information with ICE.

“Governor Spanberger said her administration has been closely reviewing agreements state law enforcement agencies were required to sign in 2025. These agreements forced Virginia law enforcement agencies to hand over their men and women to be supervised by ICE,” her office wrote.

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The Republican Party of Virginia reacted to Spanberger’s latest directive, stating, “From her very first hours in office, Abigail Spanberger has shamefully smeared and defamed the brave men and women of ICE while launching bad-faith attacks on their efforts to identify, arrest, and deport violent criminal illegal aliens.”

“Now Fake Moderate Spanberger is attempting to turn Virginia into a sanctuary jurisdiction like her socialist friends in New York and California by banning state and local police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities,” the statement continued. “Virginians deserve leaders who will use every available resource to arrest and prosecute violent criminals. Instead, Abigail Spanberger is putting Virginians in danger by shielding criminals from accountability to virtue signal to the left-wing mob. She should be ashamed of herself.”

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President Donald Trump weighed the possibility of making it to heaven during his humorous remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday.

Trump had previously joked about his eternal fate, initially saying he didn’t think he would make it to heaven. On another rare instance in which Trump addressed his faith, the president clarified that he thinks he would be welcomed to heaven even though he’s “not a perfect candidate.”

‘I don’t want to get in trouble!’

“I said, ‘I’m never going to make it to heaven. I just don’t think I qualify,'” Trump said Thursday. “‘I don’t think there’s a thing I can do. But all of these good things I’m doing, including for religion … I won’t qualify. I’m not going to make it to heaven.'”

“I was just having fun. I really think I probably should make it. I mean, I’m not a perfect candidate, but I did a hell of a lot of good for perfect people. That’s for sure.”

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Trump spoke about the role of religion in the United States, expressing his desire to “rededicate” the country to the faith of the founding fathers.

“We’re going to rededicate America as one nation under God,” Trump said, receiving a standing ovation.

“That’s what I mean by the spirit. It’s so incredible to see it. I see it so much. I’ve never seen anything like it in one year.”

Trump credited his administration’s success to God, noting that a country’s success is determined by the presence of faith not just in politics, but among the people.

“Maybe that’s part of the reason that we’re doing so well. There’s such great spirit … and it includes religion. I’ve always said, ‘You just can’t have a great country if you don’t have religion.’ You have to believe in something. You have to believe that what we’re doing, there’s a reason for it. There has to be a reason for it.”

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“I mean, I behave because I’m afraid not to!” Trump said, looking up as if he were speaking to God. “Because I don’t want to get in trouble!”

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When it comes to the best Big Tech brands, Apple, Google, and Microsoft usually top the list (though not always in that order). Below that, the rest usually jockey for position based on a range of product launches and economic factors. However, thanks to the AI boom of 2025, one brand in particular leapt up the charts, and it could clamber even higher if AI growth continues apace. To understand what caused the market shift, let’s look at the top five most valuable Big Tech brands of 2026.

If there were an award for most changed brand of the year, it would go straight to …

Apple at $608 billion

As the first trillion-dollar company on the stock market, Apple regularly occupies the top spot, thanks to its multi-tiered business strategy that covers premium products, cloud services, and entertainment content. This year is no different with the Cupertino giant earning a valuation of $608 billion for 2026, a 6% increase from last year. Apple is expected to make waves with a stacked list of innovative new hardware in 2026, including the long-anticipated foldable iPhone and a more affordable (i.e., financially accessible) base model MacBook alongside multiple new MacBooks Pro, and it will enter the smart home category with a smart home hub that includes an integrated display.

Microsoft at $565 billion

Microsoft has spent several years in the second valuation slot, driven in part by the AI rush of the 2020s. As an early investor in OpenAI, Microsoft was one of the first brands that brought generative AI to market. Although Microsoft’s origin story is all about Windows, its business portfolio today covers a wide range of products and services, including its cloud platform Azure, office applications under Microsoft 365, AI endeavors built on the back of Copilot, and the gaming division under Microsoft Gaming and Xbox. All these together helped the brand grow 23% year over year, maintaining its spot on the chart.

RELATED: US officials tell Nvidia not to send top AI chips to China, prompting backlash

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Google at $433 billion

Also unchanged this year, Google maintains its third-place ranking due to its diverse portfolio driven largely by Google Cloud services, Google Ads, and revenue from Search. While these categories have long been value makers for Google’s brand, the company also built a robust AI platform known as Gemini. Last year, Google released Gemini 3, a generative AI solution so powerful that it made OpenAI sweat. This year, Google is partnering with Apple to build a custom version of Gemini 3 for Apple Intelligence in a deal worth $5 billion, further adding to Google’s 2026 valuation, which is 5% higher than last year.

Amazon at $370 billion

You know Amazon as the world’s largest online retailer, but it also runs the most popular cloud service provider known as AWS. With a leading 30% market share over Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, Amazon’s steady sales performance and cloud market dominance led to a valuation increase of 4% from last year, helping the e-commerce giant maintain its 4th place slot for the third year in a row.

Nvidia at $184 billion

If there were an award for most changed brand of the year, it would go straight to Nvidia.

As a recent newcomer to the top 10 most valuable tech brands in the world, GPU maker Nvidia blew the market away, jumping four spots from number nine to number five. With rapid growth exceeding 110% of its market value since 2025, Nvidia rode the AI wave to grand success. Today its high-powered GPUs are used in data centers to train and maintain the LLM models for the biggest generative AI companies on the planet, including OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft. Nvidia is also a strategic partner in President Trump’s Stargate AI initiative.

Nvidia’s meteoric leap up the charts highlights how important AI is for the brand, and it also shows that the company has a lot to lose if the AI bubble bursts. This may be why Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang is so adamant about pushing AI into society, adding AI agents into the workforce, and proclaiming AI as our digital manifest destiny.

What happens next?

This year marks the first time Nvidia has cracked the top five valuation list. Last year, it was barely in the top 10, and before that, it didn’t rank at all. Needless to say, the AI boom has been a huge boon to Nvidia’s business, catapulting it from a gaming GPU company to a vital AI hardware powerhouse. As for what will happen to the company next, that all depends on the future of AI itself.

If generative AI continues to expand throughout our apps, work, and daily life, Nvidia’s valuation will inevitably grow with it, potentially overtaking Amazon as it rises up the chart with ever-evolving hardware for the next block of data centers. Still there is a wide value gap between fifth and fourth place and an even greater gap between Nvidia at the bottom and Apple perched on top. It’s hard to believe that Nvidia will ever crack the big three tech brands that power the U.S. economy, much less overtake the top spot entirely, but it’s fun to watch it try.

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Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was hospitalized Monday night after experiencing “flu-like symptoms,” raising more concerns about the 83-year-old’s health.

The Kentucky Republican is poised to retire at the end of his term early next year, but has been under scrutiny over the several medical episodes he has had in recent years. McConnell’s spokesman David Popp said the former Senate leader checked himself into the hospital out of “an abundance of caution,” noting that his “prognosis is positive.”

This is just the latest in a string of medical episodes McConnell has suffered.

“In an abundance of caution, after experiencing flu-like symptoms over the weekend, Senator McConnell checked himself into a local hospital for evaluation last night,” Popp said in a statement Tuesday.

“He is grateful for the excellent care he is receiving. He is in regular contact with his staff and looks forward to returning to Senate business,” Popp added.

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This is just the latest in a string of medical episodes McConnell has suffered. On multiple occasions, McConnell has been seen “freezing” on camera and made use of a wheelchair. In recent months, McConnell has been increasingly seen holding on to staff to walk up stairs and through corridors on Capitol Hill.

McConnell sprained his wrist and cut his face after falling at a GOP staff lunch in 2024; took a fall at a D.C. hotel and was treated for a concussion in 2023; and fractured his shoulder when he fell in his home in Kentucky in 2019.

RELATED: Mitch McConnell receives medical attention after fall

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After several medical episodes, McConnell stepped down from his Senate leadership position in 2024. Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) succeeding him.

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American liberals are notorious for capriciously changing their supposedly deeply held views when doing so might help them better meet the political moment.

For example, liberals — who seemingly still can’t figure out what a woman is — used “believe all women” as a cudgel against Republicans but rushed to add an asterisk to the slogan when believing all women threatened their presidential candidate’s chances in 2020.

‘Irony meters have been melted.’

After long characterizing babies in the womb as clumps of cells whose death from abortion should be celebrated, liberals terrified over the potential repeal of birthright citizenship decided last year that unborn children actually deserve some legal protection.

Liberals have once again unwittingly embraced views at odds with their supposed convictions, this time regarding the importance of borders and knowing who crosses them.

In an apparent effort to prevent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from capturing more criminal noncitizens, some residents have erected impermissible roadblocks and checkpoints in the streets of Minneapolis where they have pressed passersby for identification and checked license plates.

The anti-ICE activists told WCCO-TV that this initiative was undertaken in the name of “public safety” and to prevent the incursion of interlopers whom they claim are “hurting their communities.”

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One middle-aged woman identified as Kelly Piatt told WCCO, “We are literally creating a place that we know who’s coming in and out of our neighborhoods.”

Wade Haynes, a local resident who apparently has the free time to stand guard at the roadside twice a day, suggested that he felt better having his neighbors keep watch for unfamiliar cars.

“I was like, ‘Wow, we got folks out there taking care of us, looking out for us,'” Haynes said without a trace of irony. “It’s good.”

“We need to keep our neighbors safe. We will be doing this again,” Piatt said after their roadblock was cleared by city officials.

Critics noted that what Piatt and her comrades were clumsily attempting to do at the local level resembled the work they have condemned ICE and Border Patrol for legally doing at the national level — namely enforcing America’s borders and ensuring that the country knows precisely who is coming in and going out.

Second Amendment activist and liberal-protest survivor Kyle Rittenhouse noted, “Imagine for a moment, there was a border, with a wall, and everyone in the community had identification cards — so you knew who everyone was, and knew that they belonged!”

“Irony meters have been melted,” wrote the popular X account Western Lensman.

Mike Davis, founder and president of the Article III Project, concluded that “liberal white women have IQs lower than the Somali pirates defrauding them.”

Border czar Tom Homan told reporters on Wednesday, “When I was made aware that the roadblocks exist, I called the chief of police, and he went and disbanded them after I got off the phone with him. He has promised to take enforcement action.”

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Police have revealed a new detail about what led to a wild brawl between an adult male with a MAGA hat and apparent high school students at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest in Texas earlier this week.

Buda Police said 45-year-old Chad Michael Watts of Kyle was charged Tuesday with two counts of assault causing bodily injury, which are Class A misdemeanors.

‘We want to be thorough in this investigation to make sure that everybody is held accountable that needs to be held accountable.’

Police previously said students from Moe and Gene Johnson High School in Buda were conducting a “walkout” protest Monday — then officers were dispatched for a fight in progress just before 3 p.m. Buda is about 20 minutes southwest of Austin.

Arriving officers were notified that a juvenile female on the sidewalk and an adult male in a vehicle were engaged in a verbal argument, police said, adding that the argument escalated into a physical altercation involving multiple people.

Police said further investigation determined that Watts was the primary aggressor in the physical altercation.

However Officer Matt Schima with the Buda Police Department told KEYE-TV that “I think mistakes were made on both sides.”

Schima added to the station that “it was clearly a difference of opinion on the immigration issue. And that’s what started the verbal altercation between the two primary parties. And then the juvenile ended up kicking the adult’s truck. He got out of the truck and then that’s when that physical altercation started.”

Schima told KEYE in a video interview that police also are looking into possible charges against the juveniles involved in the brawl and that “we want to be thorough in this investigation to make sure that everybody is held accountable that needs to be held accountable.”

Hays County Jail records indicate Watts was booked into jail Tuesday and released Wednesday on two surety bonds of $2,500 each. Police told KEYE that Watts has no previous record of violent offenses.

RELATED: 45-year-old ‘primary aggressor’ charged after wild brawl caught on video involving apparent HS students at ICE protest

While apparently no videos have surfaced yet showing what went down before things got physical between the adult male in the vehicle and the juvenile female arguing with him, one clip recorded from a distance shows what appears to be the adult male on the street swinging at a female as they move from the street to the sidewalk and to the grass.

A second clip recorded very close to the fight shows what appears to be the adult male holding a MAGA hat while swinging at a female and pushing her backward as she fights back; she momentarily grabs the MAGA hat before she falls to the grass.

A third clip shows the bulk of the brawl, and the adult male is outnumbered. At least a dozen apparent high schoolers punch and kick him, knock him to the ground, and even put him in a headlock until he’s able to get up and retreat to his vehicle. Those fighting and watching the brawl are heard yelling, “What the f**k?” and “Get him!” and “F**k ICE! You’re a bitch!” and “F**kin’ kill yourself!”

Once the adult male is back in his vehicle, one individual from the crowd is heard yelling at him, “Hey, you want another ass-beating, come on out!” The adult male eventually puts the MAGA hat on his head.

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Somali fraudsters apparently have some competition from other migrant communities.

A pair of Venezuelan nationals were charged along with two other migrants this week for allegedly stealing and using the identities of over 100 individuals to obtain millions of dollars in federal welfare.

The Venezuelans, both of whom previously enjoyed Temporary Protected Status — Roman Vequiz Fernandez, 32, and Coralba Albarracin Siniva, 24 — and Joel Vicioso Fernandez, a 42-year-old Dominican national and permanent resident of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, were arrested and charged with conspiracy to use, transfer, acquire, and possess Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.

‘It is not particularly hard to identify these scams.’

Joel Fernandez’s brother, Raul Fernandez Vicioso — a 37-year-old Dominican national and naturalized U.S. citizen who also lives in Fitchburg — was charged with conspiracy to commit SNAP fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, SNAP benefit fraud, aiding and abetting, and money laundering.

Charging documents allege that the men and their co-conspirators used 117 stolen identities from individuals in six states and Puerto Rico to create 24 “households” in SNAP applications. The “households” were said on average to contain four to five people, and all of the fraudulent “households” were listed as living in two single-family apartments in Providence, Rhode Island.

While there was already ample cause for the Rhode Island Office of Internal Audit to suspect something was off, the alleged fraudsters also used the same bogus lease agreement in support of 17 of the 24 applications and routinely submitted and accessed the online applications using the same out-of-state IP address.

RELATED: Mike Lee reveals the real victims of Somali fraud: ‘It is not the rich people who suffer’

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The charging document noted that Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance records identified the theft of approximately $115,000 in SNAP funds in relation to this scheme; however, the state agency did not appear to bother informing the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Inspector General or any other law enforcement agency.

U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Leah Foley hammered this point again during a press conference on Tuesday, stating that the USDA OIG “is not aware of the Massachusetts DTA making any referral report to the USDA concerning this theft.”

Apparently eager to steal even more, the Dominican nationals allegedly used their own personal information to create additional fraudulent SNAP benefit accounts, which involved the alleged use of fake passports and passport cards.

Investigators found that metadata from images of the counterfeit documents indicated they were taken in Leominster, Massachusetts, at the site of El Primo Restaurant, an establishment operated by the younger brother.

The suspected fraudsters had allegedly been using the stolen welfare benefits to purchase bulk food items for retail sale at the restaurant.

Federal agents raided the restaurant and Vicioso’s residence on Sept. 24, 2025, and found approximately 20 fraudulently obtained Rhode Island and Massachusetts EBT cards, fraudulent documents, a handwritten list of identities, SNAP-related mailings, and a machine that enables stolen EBT card information to be loaded on a physical payment card, alleged the charging documents.

The Justice Department noted that in addition to allegedly fraudulently obtaining at least $440,000 in SNAP benefits from Massachusetts and Rhode Island between December 2023 and September 2025, the defendants allegedly also fraudulently secured over $700,000 by submitting bogus applications for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance benefits in Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington from 2020 to 2021.

For the alleged PUA fraud, at least 29 different identities were used on the applications, not including Vicioso and Fernandez, who also allegedly issued applications in their own names.

“This is just the tip of the iceberg,” Foley told reporters on Friday. “We are investigating many more benefit fraud cases in my office, and today is just the beginning.”

In December, Foley’s office announced the arrests of two men — Antonio Bonheur, a naturalized U.S. citizen, and Saul Alisme, a Haitian national — who allegedly engaged in a scheme to obtain millions of dollars’ worth of SNAP benefits through small retail stores they ran in Boston.

The duo are also accused of selling donated food product intended for starving children overseas.

“It is not particularly hard to identify these scams, but if you don’t even care to look or prosecute those involved, essentially allowing criminals to steal vast amounts of taxpayer money with impunity, the scams will continue to proliferate unabated,” added Foley.

The U.S Government Accountability Office noted in a September 2024 report that an estimated 11.7% or $10.5 billion of SNAP benefits paid out by the USDA in fiscal year 2023 “were the wrong amount or otherwise should not have been made.”

Last year, the USDA indicated that the national payment error rate for fiscal year 2024 was 10.93%.

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Court-packing — the act of adding judges to get favorable outcomes — is a no-go for anyone who cares about protecting a republic from backsliding into totalitarianism. Venezuela, Cuba, Poland, Hungary, and El Salvador, among other nations, are cautionary tales of what happens to countries who cheat the system by filling the courts with loyalists.

And yet, Utah has just done exactly that. On January 31, Republican Governor Spencer Cox signed Senate Bill 134 into law, increasing the Supreme Court from five to seven justices.

Glenn Beck is enraged that it was Republicans — who have historically rejected court-packing as a dangerous, anti-democratic move — who pushed this through.

“Any country that has ever done this, they fall into totalitarianism because they realize they can just change the referees. They’ll just add more referees, and they’ll add the referees they like,” he says, dismissing the Utah Republicans behind this judicial move as “hypocrites.”

Utah has been having problems with its judges legislating, instead of just interpreting existing laws, as is their designated role, he explains. This issue largely stems from the fact that Utah has adopted the Missouri Plan, in which a list of suitable judicial candidates is compiled by legal experts before the governor makes his or her selection.

“Can we stop being a country run by experts? We see exactly what the experts have done in every category. Stop it,” Glenn pleads.

The real issue, he says, is massive delays and overload in lower state courts. For years, Utahns have begged for reform but to no avail. Some may perceive the state government’s decision to add judges to the Supreme Court — which “wasn’t overrun” — as a solution to their woes, but it’s really just a power grab.

“This is not about efficiency. This is all about control,” Glenn says, “and I understand you have bad judges and they’ve been legislating, but you don’t do this, Utah.”

Republicans, accustomed to controlling Utah, have grown “soft,” “mushy,” and “embarrassed that they actually believe in the Constitution,” he explains, and now that they’ve “made all these mistakes, all these compromises,” they’re doing damage control by packing the Supreme Court.

“Republicans, you don’t get a pass here because Democrats would do it too. That argument damns the republic. … A legislature that expands a court after losing cases is not defending a republic. It’s announcing, constitutional limits only apply, you know, unless they’re inconvenient,” Glenn criticizes.

The root issue of Utah’s hypocritical compromising, he argues, can be found in America’s universities, which “despise the Constitution” and are teaching America’s future judges, journalists, lawyers, and bureaucrats that Marxism is morality.

“In a state that was raised on the Constitution, you know better than this,” Glenn says to Utah Republicans.

“Why are you shrinking from conflict, as if defending principles is somehow impolite?” he asks. “It is not impolite. It is required of you to stand. A republic cannot survive this kind of shyness. … You must stand, or you will lose everything.”

To hear more, watch the video above.

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Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah painted a bleak picture of the real consequences of the Somali fraud that was recently uncovered at illegitimate child-care facilities and “learing” centers in Minnesota.

During a Wednesday Senate hearing, Lee demonstrated that elites won’t have to foot the multibillion dollar bill, but rather everyday Americans.

‘This is, if anything, the tip of a tip of the iceberg.’

“You don’t put a hornet’s nest in your child’s bedroom and expect that it won’t cause problems at some point,” Lee said during the hearing. “You don’t release blank checks and allow those blank checks to be cashed at will by people who are not directly paying the bill because somebody else is, 350 million Americans who are sharing in that burden, and expect there not to be fraud.”

“Not just occasional fraud, but massive, earthshaking kinds of fraud that cause people to lose faith in the system.”

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Lee noted that the extent of this rampant fraud is not merely a bug, but a feature of Democrat-run states and soft-on-crime cities. Although the fraud uncovered by journalists like Nick Shirley is staggering, Lee and his Republican colleagues noted that Minnesota is bound to be just one example of many states that have turned a blind eye to this financial abuse.

“Let’s not kid ourselves,” Lee said. “This is, if anything, the tip of a tip of the iceberg.”

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“The federal government is $38 and a half trillion in debt,” Lee said. “When we look at the fact that we have impoverished Americans, keep in mind, when we spend this much money that we don’t have, adding to that $38 and a half trillion debt at a staggering rate approaching $2 trillion a year, what does that do?”

“I’ll give you a hint,” Lee said. “It is not the rich people who suffer.”

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Curling is more popular in the United States than you might think.

Around 100,000 Americans try curling every year, and the sport is picking up steam even in states like Montana. Now, after John Shuster took home gold in men’s curling in Pyeongchang in 2018, the United States will send teams in all three categories to Italy for the 2026 games: men’s, women’s, and mixed.

How is it played?

Olympic curling rules are not too hard to follow. Each match consists of 10 rounds, called “ends.” An end can be considered similar to an inning in baseball. Teams throw eight stones per end, looking to get their stones into the center of the bull’s-eye-like target at the other side of the rink, known as the “house.”

The center of the house is called the “button,” the innermost circle. The team with a stone closest to the button gets the points; every stone that is closer to the button than the opponent’s closest stone garners a point too.

For example, in the image below, the yellow team would get two points because it has two stones closer to the center than the red team’s closest stone.

Teams are allowed to knock each other’s stones out of position in any way they see fit using their own stones.

Only one team gets points in each round, and after all 10 rounds, the final score is calculated.

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Why are they screaming?

Viewers may not notice that when a curler launches a stone, he or she is twisting (or curling) the stone in attempt to curve it into position in the house while avoiding other stones.

As this is happening, the thrower is likely yelling commands at his teammates. Viewers may hear phrases like “hurry” or “hurry hard!” in addition to simple commands like “yes!” or “no!”

This is an attempt to get the teammates, or sweepers, to sweep the ice in front of the stone in order to melt the ice with friction to make the stone travel farther. Viewers will notice the most intense sweeping when a stone is moving too slowly or if the sweepers are trying to get a few extra inches to hit the button.

The only differences in mixed doubles curling, where teams are composed of one man and one woman, are fewer ends and fewer stones per end. Mixed curling has just eight ends instead of 10 and five stones per end instead of eight.

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How to watch

The United States will field teams in all three categories in 2026. Sweden is defending gold in men’s and Great Britain in women’s, while host country Italy is the reigning champion in mixed.

Team USA will likely be considered an underdog across the board, as the team does not break the top five in the international rankings in any category.

Mixed doubles are under way before the official opening ceremonies for the Olympics. The first matches aired at 1:05 p.m. ET, Wednesday, February 4, on NBC. The first U.S. match will be at 4:05 a.m. ET on Thursday, when the mixed team faces Norway.

The men’s category starts on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 1:05 p.m. ET, when Team USA goes up against the Czech Republic.

Women’s will start the next day, Thursday, Feb. 12, and the American women will play against South Korea at 3:05 a.m. ET.

Although Scotland is the world No.1 in both men’s and mixed doubles, the team competes under the flag of Great Britain at the winter Olympics. This team will likely be the favorite in those categories.

Canada, Switzerland, and Sweden are also mainstays as medalists in men’s, while South Korea, China, and Japan are also in the mix for women’s.

Mixed doubles has just two Olympic games under its belt since being included in 2018; Norway is the only country to medal both times.

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Last week’s FBI raid on Fulton County election offices marked a long-overdue reckoning for the corruption that plagued the 2020 election. Federal agents seized ballots and records from the jurisdiction that has done more than any other to plunge Georgia — and the nation — into lasting doubt about whether we can trust our election outcomes.

Fulton County sits at the center of the 2020 story for a reason. I remember election night clearly. As returns rolled in and Joe Biden “won” Georgia by fewer than 12,000 votes, the irregularities were impossible to ignore.

If we want trust restored, we need the truth — documented, preserved, and brought into the open. That is what the FBI’s raid makes possible.

After the election, I became the first elected official in Georgia to call for a special session to investigate massive fraud. I went on the record — publicly — because grassroots patriots knew something was wrong.

The numbers didn’t add up. Atlanta’s GOP establishment didn’t want a fight. They ignored me, threatened me, and eventually tried to remove me. They wanted to move on as if nothing happened. I refused.

The people of Georgia deserved answers. The country did, too.

Then came the absurd indictments. When President Trump and 18 other patriots were arrested under Georgia’s RICO Act, I was the first to call for a special session to investigate, defund, and impeach Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for weaponizing her office.

That prosecution served one purpose: silence Trump — and intimidate everyone else who dared question 2020. Willis abused her power for partisan gain and burned millions in taxpayer dollars pursuing a case built to punish political enemies.

Georgia Senate Republicans had a choice: stand with voters demanding transparency, or protect the old order. They chose the old order. The old guard punished me for speaking out by kicking me out of the Republican caucus.

Now the evidence has reached a point that even federal law enforcement can’t ignore. The raid didn’t happen by accident. It happened because Fulton County’s conduct raised questions serious enough to justify federal intervention.

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Here’s the scale of what we are talking about: Over 315,000 illegal ballots counted in Fulton County alone. Unsigned tabulation tapes for hundreds of thousands of early votes. Zero tapes not verified or signed at 32 sites. Uncertified results certified and submitted anyway. Polling places open until 2 a.m. Duplicate scanner serial numbers and unauthorized memory device transfers. Chain-of-custody failures at every turn.

That doesn’t describe “mistakes.” It describes a deliberate, coordinated attack on the integrity of an American election.

Fulton County was the epicenter, but the implications reach beyond Georgia. Americans deserve to know what happened in Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and every other battleground state where the same patterns appear and the same questions remain unanswered.

Wherever the chips fall, the standard must remain nonnegotiable: every legal vote counted, every illegal vote rejected, and every election run in a way the public can verify.

If we want trust restored, we need the truth — documented, preserved, and brought into the open. That is what this raid makes possible. Now we follow it through.

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The brutal murder of a beloved pastor in Arizona led to the arrest of a man who was plotting to attack 14 Christian leaders, according to an interview with the man in jail.

The remains of 76-year-old Pastor William Schonemann of the New River Bible Chapel were found in his home by police on a welfare check in April of last year.

He said that he had zero remorse and that God would allow him to continue his plan to kill priests and ‘burn every church to the ground.’

Police said they found Schonemann covered in blood, and he had been posed with his hands positioned above him, similar to a crucifixion, and pinned to a wall.

Investigators zeroed in on 51-year-old Adam Sheafe as a suspect after Sedona police caught him breaking into a home while using a truck stolen from a home in Cave Creek. He was captured on surveillance video with the truck at the site of another burglary.

Evidence gathered at Sheafe’s home connected him to the murder of the pastor, as well as evidence found in the truck, in his backpack, and at the burglary scene in Cave Creek, according to prosecutors.

Sheafe was indicted in July on nine counts that included first-degree murder, first-degree burglary, criminal trespass, and kidnapping.

On Wednesday, Sheafe pleaded no contest to the charges.

In a bizarre interview with Briana Whitney of KTVK-TV, Sheafe explained why he wanted to murder 14 priests.

“There’s 13 tribes of Israel, so what I wanted to do was execute and crucify 13 priests and put one of the tribes of Israel in each of their right ears,” he said. “Which I did with this priest — I put the tribe of Benjamin.”

He went on to say that he believed priests had violated the most important commandment by preaching that Jesus is God. Sheafe explained in detail how he picked Schonemann to be his first victim. He said he had wanted to kill another priest for a total of 14.

Sheafe said he used a stud finder to find where to screw Schonemann’s hands to the wall and then put a crown of thorns on his head.

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He also said that God would not allow him to be executed, so he asked for his execution date to be scheduled quickly. He said that he had zero remorse and that God would allow him to continue his plan to kill priests and “burn every church to the ground.”

Sheafe may get his wish and face the death penalty.

Schonemann was a beloved pastor who was a Navy veteran that had served in the Vietnam War.

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The latest Epstein document dump not only exposed some shady characters, but it may give “conspiracy theorists” the ammo and evidence they need to prove their theories aren’t theories at all — but that they might just be the truth.

In photo evidence released by the Department of Justice, a framed photo from Epstein’s home of him with a young girl, whose face is redacted, is featured. The girl is perched on his shoulders, wearing an outfit that looks eerily similar to one JonBenet Ramsey wore.

“Also of note is that she went missing around the same time the pictures were taken, according to pictures of Epstein at the time. But here’s where it gets really, really strange. ‘Cause again, you could just say like, ‘OK, like, she was the only blonde girl in America who wore a jumper like that at the time,’” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

“But there’s another picture that the DOJ accidentally left unredacted that’s floating around in the internet … this is literally just like a glamour shot picture, photo, that was on Jeffrey Epstein’s wall,” she continues.

The face of the young girl is redacted, but the golden blonde hair spills out around her, and her tiny hands reflect the age she once was.

“My question though is, like, who is that girl, and is the DOJ doing their best not to just protect victims but to potentially match these photos with potential unsolved crimes, unsolved mysteries? I would like to know,” Gonzales says.

“I don’t need to know who that person is if it is a person who is alive and was, you know, trafficked and doesn’t want their information out there. But if there’s a missing cold case, we should know. We should know that the DOJ is at least taking steps to identify who this is and whether or not they need to alert authorities from a separate case,” she continues.

Gonzales also pulls out a photo of JonBenet Ramsey where a woman in the background resembles Ghislaine Maxwell.

“Now again, I get like there’s a million people that could look maybe a little bit similar to Ghislaine Maxwell, but there’s also a loose tie. Maxwell and the Ramsey family were both represented by the same law firm,” Gonzales says.

One woman even posted a video of herself on social media showing a comment she received on Instagram regarding Maxwell and Ramsey.

“My daughter was in several pageants with Jon Bonet & they were pageant pals,” the comment begins, misspelling Ramsey’s name. “I don’t know about this exact Pic, but we saw Maxwell on the circuit often, she would hang out with the Mom’s & girls.”

“Makes sense. If you are going to traffic young children, your greatest hits would probably be at pageants where there are a bunch of young girls who are dressing up and putting makeup on and getting pretty,” Gonzales comments.

“I mean, it’s disgusting,” she adds.

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When a dictator in a distant, war-torn nation announces a plan to shrink an ethnic group inside his borders, the Western world erupts. Anchors denounce it. Newspapers detail the plight of the targeted people. Sanctions follow. Diplomats whisper about regime change. The moral verdict arrives quickly, and it arrives correctly: ethnic cleansing.

Yet Western leaders now make a parallel declaration in a cleaner suit. Their countries, they insist, have grown “too white.” The white population must fall. The electorate must change. No denunciations follow. No sanctions arrive. Corporate press treats the project as enlightened policy. A global consensus that once claimed to oppose ethnic cleansing now tolerates it — provided the target is white people in Western nations.

If the West still claims to oppose ethnic cleansing, it should start by opposing it at home and refusing the polite lies that protect it.

French writer Renaud Camus gave us the “Great Replacement.” For years, polite society treated the phrase as radioactive. Say it on television and you became a pariah. Post it online and platforms erased you. That taboo held only as long as people could be bullied into denying what they could see.

The concept’s explanatory power proved stronger than the gatekeepers. Major conservative outlets now discuss replacement openly. YouTube will still attach warnings to videos that mention it, yet the subject refuses to disappear because the policy keeps showing up in schools, boardrooms, and border statistics.

A taboo cannot survive daily evidence.

Quest for permanent power

“Diversity” served as a euphemism for replacement long before anyone had heard of Camus. When a corporation, movie studio, or university says it wants to “increase diversity,” it never means it plans to hire more white, straight men because it has too many trans black women on staff.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion never aimed at demographic proportionality. Leadership announced a preference: more non-white members, fewer white members. Declare a goal of reducing any other demographic, and the public would recognize the project as naked discrimination.

Private institutions practicing anti-white discrimination is bad enough. Governments adopting the same objective is a nightmare. Progressive voices in the United States celebrate the declining share of white Americans and brag that demographic change will lock Democrats into permanent power. They frame replacement as destiny, then use policy to accelerate it, then denounce anyone who notices as a “conspiracy theorist.”

Project Veritas recorded a State Department official admitting that replacement migration functions as a political strategy meant to secure electoral victory. That admission matters less than the broader point: Public and private rhetoric have normalized the idea that a party may change the electorate to entrench itself.

‘Diversity’ invades the countryside

Even if ethnic hatred played no role — and it does — the effort to subvert democratic accountability through mass migration amounts to a political coup. A ruling class that imports a friendlier electorate to escape judgment for its failures announces contempt for the people it claims to serve.

Spain offers a clear example. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and the Socialist Workers’ Party plan amnesty for 500,000 immigrants. Sánchez could not secure parliamentary support for the scheme, so he bypassed Parliament with an amnesty decree. Spain’s population runs about 49 million. Scaled to American size, that’s roughly 3.5 million people granted legal status by executive fiat. Far-left politician Irene Montero went farther, telling a crowd she hoped for “replacement theory” and meant to use new migrant voters to wipe out her political opponents.

The United Kingdom looks worse. Visitors to London joke that the Englishman has become an endangered species in the cities his ancestors built. Officials now want the countryside next. The Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs has decided rural England feels “too white” and “too middle class.” It has launched programs to “diversify” protected landscapes and village life.

Officials then discovered an awkward detail: Many Muslim migrants dislike dogs, a staple of country living, and avoid living around them. Planners treat dogs, solitude, and preserved land as “white culture,” then hunt for ways to remake rural life so it attracts Pakistanis and Bangladeshis.

Listen to the admission hiding inside that language. The government intends to make the countryside less like a place where white people live so that fewer white people will live there. It plans to change the character of the land, the habits of the residents, and the public culture, all to engineer a demographic outcome. That is social transformation by state design.

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Drop the euphemisms

Diversity, equity, inclusion, decolonization — the euphemisms multiply, but the goal stays constant. Even the Great Replacement argument, while useful, still softens what the policy does. When a party, an institution, or a government targets a group for reduction, removal, or displacement, the correct term is not “diversification.” It’s ethnic cleansing.

This process does not arise from a neutral demographic ebb. Politicians announce it. Activists demand it. Bureaucrats implement it. Corporate managers enforce it. Then they threaten anyone who objects with professional ruin. Fear keeps the system humming, and euphemism keeps the conscience quiet.

Enough. That taboo deserves to die. When politicians, corporate leaders, and professors declare their intention to replace white populations, they deserve the same disgust any advocate of ethnic cleansing would receive in any other context. If the West still claims to oppose ethnic cleansing, it should start by opposing it at home and refusing the polite lies that protect it.

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Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent got into a rhetorical tussle during a congressional hearing Wednesday, and the White House weighed in on the incident.

Waters and Bessent were debating whether illegal immigration had a deleterious effect on the housing crisis when the Democrat called on the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee to “shut him up” after her time expired.

‘Mr. Chair, will you let him know that when I ask you for time … can you shut him up?’

Waters challenged Bessent on his previous comments linking tariffs to inflation, and he countered by citing studies that said tariffs were not inflationary. She went on to the housing crisis and blamed tariffs on lumber and steel for some of the housing price increases.

Bessent tried to argue with her, but she interrupted him and continued.

“Trump single-handedly made housing more expensive, and once again, you know it. As Axios has reported, you were planning to lift tariffs on housing production goods,” she said.

She went on to criticize Trump’s policies on immigration and argued that deportations had hurt the housing construction industry by deporting their source of labor.

“I ask you, Secretary Bessent, will you be the voice of reason in the administration and urge Trump to stop waging a war on American consumers and on housing affordability?” she asked.

When Bessent launched into an explanation, she interrupted numerous times.

“Will you be the voice?” she shouted. “Will you be the voice?”

He tried to talk over her, but she persisted in interrupting.

“Reclaiming my time!” she interrupted. “Mr. Chair, will you let him know that when I ask you for time … can you shut him up?”

“Can you maintain some level of dignity?” Bessent fired back.

“Gentlelady’s time has expired,” the chairman said.

“No, my time has not expired!” she protested.

Waters accused the chairman of protecting Bessent before they moved on.

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The White House Rapid Response account fired back at Waters on social media, calling her “rude and low IQ” and quoting from Bessent’s testimony.

“Adding 10 to 20 million new people demanding housing, Congresswoman, is what caused a great deal of housing inflation for working Americans — so you and the Biden administration should be ashamed,” he said.

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The city council of Minneapolis is taking steps to help those affected by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement surge against illegal aliens.

Members of the council are proposing an eviction delay as well as the provision of $1 million in rental assistance as ICE continues to target illegal aliens in the Minnesota city.

‘ICE is a deadly virus. If you come in contact with it, it can end your life — either literally, or by completely uprooting you, abducting you.’

City Council Minority Leader Robin Wonsley, a democratic socialist who wrote the proposal, criticized President Donald Trump in an interview with Jacobin, a socialist and Marxist magazine.

“Our president is a domestic terrorist who is actually not interested in negotiating in good faith,” Wonsley said. “He smells weakness. He feels emboldened by his perception that he got Walz to drop out of his gubernatorial race after pushing fraudulent charges for several months and building a public narrative around that.”

Wonsley also accused Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) of giving in to Trump.

“People are disappointed because the state has options, and it’s refusing to use them,” she added. “Instead of a rent moratorium so people can shelter in place, we get the political version of a boss’s pizza party: symbolic comfort and no material protection.”

She went on to accuse corporations of being complicit with fascism and added that this was the reason they needed rental assistance as well.

“We understand that, in addition to rental assistance — to support our big moratorium — there also needs to be business assistance,” Wonsley added. “People need help making payroll so that workers can keep their jobs. Right now, it’s touch-and-go because businesses are not getting customers.”

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She compared ICE to a virus that kills people and said Trump’s policies were akin to the pandemic in terms of their damage to the economy.

“ICE is a deadly virus,” she added. “If you come in contact with it, it can end your life — either literally, or by completely uprooting you, abducting you. From a public health standpoint, why would we want anyone to come in contact with an agency like that?”

The council will vote on the proposal on Thursday.

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