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Newly released dashcam video shows the moment of a crazy hit-and-run accident involving multiple vehicles in Southern California last week that led to a bizarre chain of events culminating in the arrest of the wife of rock band Weezer’s bassist.

As Blaze News previously reported, 51-year-old best-selling author Jillian Lauren Shriner was arrested last Tuesday and charged with attempted murder of a peace officer.

‘It’s crazy how just one man can cause so much chaos.’

Shriner exited her home in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles at the same time police swarmed the area to search for three suspects involved in a hit-and-run incident. Police say Shriner was armed with a handgun.

“The officers ordered Shriner to drop the handgun multiple times; however, she refused,” according to the police report obtained by KNBC-TV. “Shriner then pointed the handgun at the officers, and an officer-involved shooting occurred.”

Citing Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson Jennifer Forkish, the Los Angeles Times reported that Shriner “pointed her gun at officers” and “opened fire.”

Cops allegedly returned fire and shot Shriner in the shoulder, and then she fled into her home.

Shriner then purportedly exited her house and surrendered to the police. She was transported to a hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.

Police reportedly recovered a 9mm handgun from Shriner’s home.

Shriner — the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner — was taken into custody but released after posting a $1 million bond.

Police officers reportedly apprehended the alleged hit-and-run driver in a neighboring back yard. Video seemingly shows the suspect attempting to blend into the neighborhood by watering a garden and wearing only his boxers.

The man was arrested and charged with one count of misdemeanor hit-and-run. He allegedly got into a car crash with two other vehicles on a nearby freeway.

KABC-TV released wild dashcam video of the crash, as well as the suspect fleeing the crime scene with clothes and a guitar.

Video shows a gray sedan swerving across multiple lanes, slamming into a black car, and then a Tesla crashing into the other vehicles from the rear.

David Gonzalez was driving his brand-new Telsa when he was involved in the three-car collision.

“I thought I was in an episode of ‘GTA,'” Gonzalez said of the crash, referring to the Grand Theft Auto video game. “Honestly, that stuff just doesn’t happen.”

Gonzalez suffered an injured back and broken arm in the crash and will require surgery.

His Tesla, which he purchased just two weeks ago, was totaled.

Gonzalez said of the events following the car crash, “Ripple effect. At the moment, I had no clue what happened after, but it’s crazy how just one man can cause so much chaos.”

Shriner is scheduled to return to court on April 30.

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An American who had been a hostage of Iran called out the hypocrisy of Democrat Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey for hopping into action for a migrant from El Salvador after previously ignoring the man’s captivity.

Booker excoriated the Trump administration over the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an accused MS-13 gang member who was deported to an infamous terrorist prison in El Salvador. Xiyue Wang claims that Booker did nothing for him while he was held hostage in Iran.

‘Booker never advocated for my release & refused to speak to my wife.’

“The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that the Trump administration must facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia,” wrote Booker on social media. “The story of his detainment is horrifying, all of us must share his story and demand his quick and safe return. An assault on the due process rights of anyone is a threat to the due process rights of everyone.”

The unanimous ruling from the court said that Garcia must be brought back to the U.S., but the Trump administration has claimed that his return is out of its power, while the El Salvadoran president also rejected the idea when questioned by reporters.

Politico reported Tuesday that Booker was organizing a delegation of Democrats to go to El Salvador to try to help Garcia.

Wang responded to the report in a post on social media Tuesday.

“I was an NJ resident, Sen. @CoryBooker’s constituent, when I was jailed in Iran as an American hostage,” he wrote. “Sen. Booker never advocated for my release & refused to speak to my wife. Sen. Booker is a hypocrite.”

When he was confronted with some of the efforts Booker did undertake on his behalf, Wang admitted his error but persisted in his opinion that Booker did not do enough to free him.

“As Sen. Booker’s constituent, I expected him to do more,” he responded. “There are other members in Congress across the aisle, who weren’t my reps and did more, like [Rep.] Chris Smith (D-N.J.) & [Rep. Pramila] Jayapal (D-Wash.).”

“Sen. Booker does not appear to be consistent in advocating for unjustly detained Americans abroad, he seems to take a special interest in this specific case because President Trump deported the person in question,” Wang added.

Critics of the Trump administration argue that the evidence of Garcia’s gang membership was dubious because the man had never been criminally charged after entering the U.S. The claim that he was a gang member was made by a confidential informant and also on the basis that Garcia was wearing a Chicago Bulls hoodie and hat.

Attorneys for the Trump administration also admitted in court that he was deported based on a “clerical error.”

Wang, a Chinese-American graduate student at Princeton University, had been convicted of spying by the Iranian government without evidence and sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2017. The Trump administration was able to secure his release in 2019 as part of a prisoner swap.

Princeton had defended Wang’s actions and said he was innocent of the charges issued by the hostile Iranian government.

“He was not involved in any political activities or social activism,” the university said in a statement, “he was simply a scholar trying to gain access to materials he needed for his dissertation.”

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A federal judge sided with a school district that banned a protest against transgender athletes that involved pink wristbands with “XX” written on them, referring to female chromosomes.

Parents of female student athletes at Bow High School in New Hampshire filed a lawsuit against the Bow School District after they were banned from school property and all sports events over the protest.

‘The judge openly admitted that Pride flags are allowed because they promote “inclusion,” but wristbands defending women’s sports are banned because they might “offend” someone.’

On Monday, United States District Court Judge Steven McAuliffe said that the school was within its rights to ban the parents because the school had an obligation to protect any student from harassment or intimidation.

“The question then becomes whether the school district can manage its athletic events and its athletic fields and facilities,” said Judge McAuliffe, “in a manner that protects its students from adult speech that can reasonably be seen to target a specific student participating in the event (as well as other similar gender-identifying students) by invited adult spectators, when that speech demeans, harasses, intimidates, and bullies.”

“The answer is straightforward: Of course it can. Indeed, school authorities are obligated to do so,” McAuliffe wrote in the ruling denying a preliminary injunction.

The parents had worn the wristbands in a silent protest against the school allowing a transgender student to play in the girls’ soccer game. Officials stopped the game and had police issue “no trespass” orders against the parents.

Anthony Foote, one of the parents involved, told the New Hampshire Journal that they would continue fighting the issue in court.

“What was our offense? Supporting girls’ sports and defending biological reality?” Foote asked. “This ruling is a slap in the face to every parent who believes schools should be a place of fairness, not political indoctrination. The judge openly admitted that Pride flags are allowed because they promote ‘inclusion,’ but wristbands defending women’s sports are banned because they might ‘offend’ someone. That’s viewpoint discrimination, plain and simple — and it’s unconstitutional.”

The parents are represented by the legal nonprofit Institute for Free Speech, whose senior attorney Del Kolde released a statement about the ruling.

“We strongly disagree with the court’s opinion issued today denying our request for a preliminary injunction. This was adult speech in a limited public forum, which enjoys greater First Amendment protection than student speech in the classroom,” Kolde said.

“Bow School District officials were obviously discriminating based on viewpoint because they perceived the XX wristbands to be ‘trans-exclusionary.’ We are still evaluating our options for next steps,” he added.

McAuliffe has not yet ruled on the request for a permanent injunction.

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President Donald Trump’s Department of State is reportedly weighing closing nearly 30 embassies and consulates as part of its plan to massively reduce the agency’s budget.

State Department memos obtained by the New York Post and several other outlets revealed that the agency outlined a strategy to slash its spending by $26 billion in the upcoming fiscal year. The latest draft budget proposal suggested cutting the agency’s funds by nearly half compared to the previous fiscal year.

‘The president has made it clear that he is committed to cutting the federal deficit and improving the return on investment for the American people.’

The agency would endeavor to achieve these savings by reducing diplomatic engagement work by $4.5 billion and terminating $21.5 billion in foreign assistance, the Post reported. The document weighed slashing funding to the United Nations and NATO.

Additionally, the memo floated closing at least 17 consulates and 10 embassies, including posts in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, South Korea, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Malta, Maldives, Grenada, Luxembourg, Lesotho, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan.

One center in Iraq was listed for potential closure, and two others may see expenditures “drastically” reduced.

The proposed downsizing also considered consolidating outposts in countries with multiple consulates, such as Japan and Canada.

A State Department spokesperson told the Post, “The president has made it clear that he is committed to cutting the federal deficit and improving the return on investment for the American people.”

“As the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has said, the administration’s funding decisions will be reflected in the President’s Budget Request that will be provided to Congress soon,” the spokesperson said.

The closures have not yet been announced, “and operations continue as normal,” the representative added.

Tammy Bruce, a spokesperson for the department, suggested to CNN that reporting regarding the State Department memos was inaccurate.

“I would suggest that you check with the White House and the president of the U.S. as they continue to work on their budget plan and what they submit to Congress,” Bruce told the news outlet. “The kinds of numbers and what we tend to see is reporting that is early or wrong, based on leaked documents from somewhere unknown.”

During a Tuesday briefing, Bruce noted that there was “no final plan” on the yearly budget and any cost-cutting decisions would be “up to the White House.”

“I can tell you that whatever you’ve seen in public was not released from this entity, was not released from this department. It was not released by the secretary,” she said.

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The El Salvadoran national accused of being a member of MS-13 and was deported back to the Central American country has been showered with support from Democrats for being a “wrongly deported Maryland man.” New information about what he allegedly did while in the United States appears to bolster the reasons for his deportation.

While Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s family denies he is a gang member, court documents show his wife had previously asked for a protective order against him for alleged domestic violence.

‘Van Hollen said he promised Vasquez he will do everything he can to bring Abrego Garcia home.’

As first reported by independent journalist Andy Ngo and then confirmed by Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin, Jennifer Vasquez petitioned a Maryland court for a domestic violence protective order against Abrego Garcia in 2021. Vasquez also filed and received a protective order in 2020. The public court documents do not provide details of the alleged domestic violence.

The protective orders are in stark contrast to what Vasquez now says about Abrego Garcia. In a GoFundMe for the family, Vasquez says, “Kilmar is an excellent father. He has always been there for our three children and all of their needs. … Kilmar has been the main provider of our household and the love of my life for over seven years. Since our family has been separated, I have been devastated and confused.”

Vasquez added Abrego Garcia’s deportation has been an “unjust family separation.”

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday to advocate for the government to allow Abrego Garcia to be released back to the United States. In a video posted on X, Van Hollen said he promised Vasquez he will do everything he can to bring Abrego Garcia “home.” Van Hollen also expressed hope he would be able to meet with high-level government officials, indicating El Salvador’s government has not agreed to talk with him so far.

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El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele told reporters during his visit to the White House this week that Abrego Garcia will not be turned over to the United States. The Trump administration has also said if he ever is returned, he will simply be put back into federal custody because he does not have a legal basis to remain in the United States.

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Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D) has been in the headlines for her wild antics quite a bit in the not-so-distant past, but this time the reason appears to be a little more serious.

Crockett is officially under investigation by the Federal Election Commission for money laundering through the Democrat donation site ActBlue and alleged voter intimidation, after conservative advocacy group the Coolidge Reagan Foundation filed a complaint against her.

A donor was reported to have given 53 separate donations to her campaign that totaled $595 and were made through the ActBlue donations portal. The donations were tied to a 73-year-old Texas resident named Randy Best, but Best’s wife claims to have no knowledge of the donations.

“Now, we have an official FEC investigation into Jasmine Crockett’s campaign, which this says that it was $870,000 dollars of ActBlue donations and that it’s unclear how many of these are similarly fraudulent transactions made in the name of unsuspecting, innocent people, who did not actually provide the funds,” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” explains.

“It’s almost like ActBlue has been acting as this giant money-laundering operation for the Democrats,” she continues, adding, “That kind of talk is why I’m demonetized from YouTube.”

Eric July agrees that it’s likely a much bigger problem than just Crockett.

“I mean, you can just look at Congress in general. I mean, I feel like we talk about it every week, how it comes under question how so many of these people get rich despite the salaries that they have. And it’s not like they’re somehow becoming business gurus just by getting some congressional insight,” July tells Gonzales.

“I’m already under the impression that most of them are a bunch of crooks,” he continues. “I mean, they’re swindling the American people regardless, but I believe that a lot of them are also enriching themselves and just using the political system as it is to do it.”

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The left is the party that spawned critical race theory — the fundamentally flawed ideology that claims our constitutional framers were influenced by the racist norms of their time and therefore all the systems they created are tainted by those biases.

Mark Levin says it’s a shameful lie.

The truth is many of the framers despised slavery, but they had to make a hard deal with the slave states in order to form the United States. Without that union, there would have been no Civil War and no Abraham Lincoln to bring slavery to an end.

At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the delegates could not agree on the issue of slavery, so they left the issue to their children and grandchildren, Levin explains.

However, the framers knew that “a nation born out of the Declaration of Independence where all men were created equal” could not coexist with slavery.

Thomas Jefferson, who albeit owned slaves, tried to “put a provision in the Declaration of Independence about slavery,” but “it was withdrawn because they were in the middle of what started a revolutionary war for their own survival. … They had to come together to fight the [British].”

Ultimately, the fight for independence from Britain and national unity took precedence over the issue of slavery until Abraham Lincoln was elected president and the Civil War thankfully put it to an end.

“[Abraham Lincoln] loved the Constitution of the United States, and he loved the Declaration, and he cited them repeatedly, especially the Declaration, as justification for fighting the [Civil] War to the end and abolishing slavery,” says Levin.

He wouldn’t have done that, though, if our founding documents were inherently pro-slavery and pro-white supremacy, as the left suggests they are.

To hear more of Levin’s analysis, including his take on the dangerous idea of nullification, a pre-Civil War movement that would have shattered the Republic, check out the clip above.

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Britain’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the legal definition of “woman” excludes male transvestites.

Conservatives and feminists such as J.K. Rowling celebrated the court’s affirmation of reality. Meanwhile, gender ideologues and LGBT activists who recently suffered other monumental defeats in the isles — namely Britain’s ban of puberty blockers and the landmark Cass Review’s confirmation that so-called gender science is bunk — melted down, characterizing the ruling as potentially harmful.

The court was tasked with sorting out the “correct interpretation” of the 2010 Equality Act, specifically the terms “woman” and “sex.” The act provides protection against discrimination on the basis of various immutable characteristics.

The case found its way to the U.K.’s highest court on account of a legal dispute between the feminist organization For Women Scotland and the leftist Scottish government.

The feminist organization For Women Scotland kicked things off in 2018 by challenging Scottish legislation that would include male transvestites in quotas for women. The Scottish government maintained that men who secured gender recognition certificates identifying them as female were women where the law was concerned, reported the BBC. The case snowballed from there.

“This examination of the language of the EA 2010, its context and purpose, demonstrate that the words ‘sex,’ ‘woman’ and ‘man’ in sections 11 and 212(1) mean (and were always intended to mean) biological sex, biological woman and biological man,” the court noted in its 88-page ruling.

‘Women are women and men are men: you cannot change your biological sex.’

“Interpreting ‘sex’ as certificated sex would cut across the definitions of ‘man’ and ‘woman’ and thus the protected characteristic of sex in an incoherent way. It would create heterogeneous groupings,” stated the court. “As a matter of ordinary language, the provisions relating to sex discrimination, and especially those relating to pregnancy and maternity, and to protection from risks specifically affecting women, can only be interpreted as referring to biological sex.

Just in case there was any remaining doubt, the court clarified that a female posing as a man and carrying a GRC is a woman where the law is concerned and a male posing as a woman and carrying a GRC is a man.

The court evidently did not buy the suggestion that admitting that men are not women under the law would cause disadvantage to transvestites, noting they were still protected from discrimination under the Equality Act.

Judge Patrick Hodge, deputy president of the U.K. Supreme Court, stated that the ruling should not be read as “a triumph for one or more groups in our society at the expense of another.”

Contrary to Hodge’s suggestion, the ruling amounted to a major victory for those Britons keen on keeping opportunistic men out of women’s spaces. After all, the court ruled that male transvestites with GRCs can be excluded from single-sex spaces such as women’s bathrooms, changing rooms, and hostels.

“If sex means biological sex, then provided it is proportionate, the female-only nature of the service would … permit the exclusion of all males including males living in the female gender regardless of GRC status,” said the court. “Moreover, women living in the male gender could also be excluded under paragraph 28 without this amounting to gender reassignment discrimination.”

“Absolutely jubilant here, tears!” For Women Scotland tweeted upon learning of the ruling.

Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch noted, “Saying ‘trans women are women’ was never true in fact and now isn’t true in law, either.”

Badenoch characterized the ruling as a “victory for all of the women who faced personal abuse or lost their jobs for stating the obvious. Women are women and men are men: you cannot change your biological sex.”

J.K. Rowling noted, “It took three extraordinary, tenacious Scottish women with an army behind them to get this case heard by the Supreme Court and, in winning, they’ve protected the rights of women and girls across the UK.”

The three women Rowling referred to are Trina Budge, Marion Calder, and Susan Smith, the directors of For Women Scotland.

The leftist Scottish government vowed to remain an inclusive country after its defeat Wednesday, reported the Telegraph.

A spokesman for the government said, “We want to reassure everyone that the Scottish government is fully committed to protecting everyone’s rights, to ensure that Scotland remains an inclusive country.”

“This judgment further reinforces that the Equality Act does not, and never has, allowed for the self-identification of sex under the Act,” the Edinburgh-based policy analysis group Murray Blackburn MacKenzie noted in a statement.

“Nonetheless, policies based on self-identification remain in place across the U.K., in hospitals, police forces, schools, and prisons. The U.K. and devolved governments, and the Equality and Human Rights Commission, need to take responsibility for their role in this, take urgent steps to clear up the confusion, and ensure the ruling has effect on the ground,” added the policy group.

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The intrigue swirling about Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James has deepened. According to a member of the Trump administration, James not only falsified records in connection with multiple properties, but she even previously listed her father as her husband to secure a mortgage.

In the last few weeks, allegations surfaced that James, 66, and a relative purchased a home in Norfolk, Virginia, in August 2023. In documents tied to the purchase, James pledged to use the home as her “principal residence,” an apparent violation of a New York statute that requires all statewide officeholders to reside in New York, as Blaze News previously reported.

A strong motivation for promising to use the home as her primary residence would be to secure better loan terms, since primary residences are considered less risky for lenders than secondary residences.

President Donald Trump turned a national spotlight on the allegations by posting a report about them on social media Sunday night. In the attending message, he called James “a totally corrupt politician” and a “wacky crook” who should resign “IMMEDIATELY.”

Within hours, William Pulte, the director of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency, sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche referring James for criminal investigation.

‘While this was a long time ago, it raises serious concerns about the validity of Ms. James [sic] representations on mortgage applications.’

In addition to the alleged misrepresentations on the documents related to the Norfolk home, James also falsified records related to a Brooklyn, New York, property, Pulte claimed. Though the property was listed as having five units in January 2001, after purchasing the property the following month, James allegedly listed the property as having only four units.

According to Pulte, the purpose of fudging the number of units would be to secure a conforming loan from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, entities of the federal government under the purview of the FHFA. To qualify for a conforming loan, a property may have no more than four units.

“Ms. James, for both properties listed above, appears to have falsified records in order to meet certain lending requirements and receive favorable loan terms,” Pulte wrote.

Pulte further alleged that James has a history of submitting fraudulent real estate documents dating back all the way to the early 1980s. In 1983, James and her father apparently signed documents claiming to be husband and wife to secure a mortgage on a home, Pulte said.

In other documents dated May 4, 2000, “Ms. James was listed again as ‘husband and wife,'” Pulte added, though whether her father was also mentioned in those documents is unclear.

“While this was a long time ago, it raises serious concerns about the validity of Ms. James [sic] representations on mortgage applications,” Pulte claimed.

On account of James’ apparent pattern of lies and obfuscations to game the lending system, Pulte recommended the Department of Justice look into whether she committed wire, mail, and bank fraud and made false statements to a financial institution, among other crimes.

In a statement, a spokesperson for James dodged the specific allegations entirely and instead suggested that “bullies” in the Trump administration were attempting to “weaponize” the federal government against upstanding, law-abiding officials.

“Attorney General James is focused every single day on protecting New Yorkers, especially as this administration weaponizes the federal government against the rule of law and the Constitution. She will not be intimidated by bullies — no matter who they are,” the statement said.

‘[James] insisted that these technicalities matter and that the powerful should not be given a free pass.’

This turn of events is even more remarkable considering the accusations James has lobbed at Trump and the Trump Organization.

In October 2023, just two months after buying the Norfolk home and about the time she was supposed to make it her “principal residence,” James launched a civil suit against the Trump Organization, claiming it overvalued properties to negotiate better deals with banks and insurance companies.

A jury agreed and slapped the organization with a staggering $455 million judgment. The judgment is currently under appeal, and members of a New York appeals court already signaled support for overturning or at least reducing it.

Now that James is facing similar allegations, leftists and and their media allies are accusing the administration of exacting retribution against Democrat officials like James who engaged in a lawfare campaign against Trump. The Daily Beast claimed that Trump is seeking “revenge” with the criminal referral from Pulte.

But others, including legal scholar Jonathan Turley, noted that James set a high standard regarding Trump and his responsibility for any misstatements, no matter how minor, from the organization that bears his name. If held to the same standard, she will likely fall short, Turley indicated.

“She insisted that these technicalities matter and that the powerful should not be given a free pass,” Turley explained to Laura Ingraham on Fox News Tuesday night. “Well, that bill has come due.”

The DOJ did not respond to a request for comment from “The Ingraham Angle.”

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While the Biden administration normalized and encouraged declaring your pronouns to everyone you meet, the Trump administration is doing what it can to reverse the previous obsession with gender.

Starting with the “pronouns in bio,” which was made clear when White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that the White House will no longer respond to journalists who advertise their gender on their profiles.

“Any reporter who chooses to put their preferred pronouns in their bio clearly does not care about biological reality or truth and therefore cannot be trusted to write an honest story,” Leavitt said.

“I freakin’ love this so much,” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” exclaims happily. “It’s such a welcome change. What a departure from Sam Brinton having the nuclear codes and he was out stealing other women’s clothes, because he wasn’t one, but he dressed like one, but he didn’t look like one because he was doing the bare minimum effort.”

“If you live out there in fantasy land, and you don’t realize that if you have a penis you’re a man and if you have a vagina you’re a woman, there’s just really no point in this engagement,” Gonzales continues, adding, “I’m really not tired of the winning.”

And it’s clearly run its course, as even CNN hosts are getting called out for misgendering their fans.

In a town hall interview with Bernie Sanders on CNN, the mic was handed to a young woman whom Anderson Cooper introduced with “she/her” pronouns. The woman made sure that her first sentence to the pair was “they/them pronouns, actually, thank you.”

“A gay man just got corrected,” Gonzales comments, adding, “They’re not part of the protected class any more.”

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The mother of Rachel Morin expressed her disdain for Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) for going to extreme lengths to advocate for the return of an illegal alien who was deported back to El Salvador.

Patty Morin told Sean Hannity on Tuesday that Van Hollen and other Maryland Democrats did not reach out to her when her daughter was murdered by an illegal immigrant who gained access to the United States during the Biden-Harris border crisis. The man accused of the horrific crime was found guilty by a jury this week.

“I’m actually angry. I’m actually outraged, but I’m too sad at the moment to show anger at the same time. He did not call our family; he did not give condolences. There was no action [from] the Democratic Party in any way. … In Maryland, none of the senators did anything to help search for the murderer of my daughter,” Morin said.

The only Democrat who reached out to her was Maryland Governor Wes Moore, but he did so only after she had talked with President Donald Trump.

‘El Salvador has made it clear they will not be releasing Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States.’

Morin said many people do not fully understand how gruesome her daughter’s murder was.

“Three-fourths of her brain was hemorrhaged. … Three-fourths of her skull was bashed in. She had a six-inch square in the back of her head where the skull was shattered, the way that you would crush an eggshell. Her face was bashed in,” Morin explained.

“The murderer drag her 150 yards as blood gushed out of her head,” she continued.

Democrats, Morin said, are more concerned about letting illegal aliens like her daughter’s killer into the United States and defending their ability to stay in the country instead of defending American citizens.

Van Hollen posted a video on X Wednesday morning showing he was getting ready to fly to El Salvador’s capital.

“I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home,” he said.

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El Salvador has made clear it will not be releasing Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States because he is an El Salvadoran citizen. The federal government said even if El Salvador releases him back to the U.S., Abrego Garcia would be put back into federal custody and be subject to removal once again.

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California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) and Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) announced Wednesday morning that the state filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump to end the administration’s “unlawful” tariffs.

The complaint aims to prevent Trump from imposing increased tariffs against Mexico, China, and Canada and establishing a baseline 10% tariff on all countries.

‘His plan levels the playing field for businesses and workers to address our country’s national emergency of chronic trade deficits.’

Newsom claimed that Trump lacked the authority to enact the fees.

According to the lawsuit, while the administration is relying on the International Economic Emergency Powers Act to implement the changes, that law has never previously been used to justify tariffs. The complaint contended that only Congress can approve such action.

Newsom’s office said, “The IEEPA gives the President authority to take certain actions if he declares a national emergency in response to a foreign national security, foreign policy, or economic threat. The law, which was enacted by Congress in 1977, specifies many different actions the President can take, but tariffs aren’t one of them. In fact, this is the first time a president has attempted to rely on this law to impose tariffs.”

The administration has stated that increasing tariffs aligns with Trump’s “America First” agenda by boosting the economy and ensuring fair treatment for the U.S. in global trade.

Newsom, who has set aside $50 million to challenge the Trump administration, claims that the tariffs are hurting Americans. Meanwhile, California has asked the federal government for $40 billion in wildfire recovery aid, while it is borrowing billions of dollars to fund Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, after it was expanded to provide coverage to illegal aliens.

“President Trump’s unlawful tariffs are wreaking chaos on California families, businesses, and our economy — driving up prices and threatening jobs. We’re standing up for American families who can’t afford to let the chaos continue,” he stated.

The governor insisted that the tariffs amounted to a tax increase on the American people. Under Newsom, California has the highest taxes in the nation.

Bonta claimed that Trump’s tariffs would have “very real consequences for Californians across our state.”

“I am proud to go to bat alongside Governor Newsom to fight for California’s vibrant economy, businesses, and residents,” he said.

White House spokesman Harrison Fields responded to Newsom’s lawsuit announcement.

“Never Trumpers will always oppose him, but President Trump is standing up for Main Street by putting an end to our trading partners — especially China — exploiting the U.S. His plan levels the playing field for businesses and workers to address our country’s national emergency of chronic trade deficits,” Fields said.

On Tuesday, Trump posted on social media, “The United States is taking in RECORD NUMBERS in Tariffs, with the cost of almost all products going down, including gasoline, groceries, and just about everything else. Likewise, INFLATION is down. Promises Made, Promises Kept!”

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Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Wednesday that he will prevent the Senate from advancing President Donald Trump’s nominations.

Schumer argued that Trump intends to use the justice system for political gain, despite the president himself being the target of government weaponization for the last decade.

Since Schumer lacks enough senators to block nominees through a vote, he will instead invoke a lesser-known tactic.

“Donald Trump has made clear he has no fidelity to the law and intends to use the Justice Department, the U.S. attorney offices and law enforcement as weapons to go after his perceived enemies,” Schumer said in a statement. “Such blatant and depraved political motivations are deeply corrosive to the rule of law and leaves me deeply skeptical of Donald Trump’s intentions for these important positions.”

Although Schumer has decided to lead the charge and thwart Trump’s nominees, the Democrats have not yet been successful in their efforts. Thanks to the Republican majority, all of Trump’s nominees have been confirmed, even those who were subjected to aggressive backlash and behind-the-scenes lobbying campaigns.

Since Schumer lacks enough senators to block nominees through a vote, he will instead invoke a lesser-known tactic.

Senate leaders like Schumer typically rely on senators to approve confirmations for judicial nominees from their states, waiting to advance the confirmation until they receive a “blue slip” signaling the senator’s approval.

Schumer, who represents New York, will refuse to return the “blue slips,” which would allow the confirmation process to begin for Jay Clayton, who was nominated to serve as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Joseph Nocella Jr., who was nominated to be lead prosecutor in the Eastern District.

Republicans are now forced to weigh their options. In the past, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, abandoned the “blue slip” practice for circuit court nominees during Trump’s first administration. Since then, the Senate has upheld the practice for other nominees, and Grassley has signaled that he will honor the precedent for U.S. attorney nominees.

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Police charged a Washington State University instructor as well as a college staff member with assaulting a MAGA hat-wearing student of color on Feb. 28, according to a video report from Turning Point USA’s Frontlines.

WSU junior engineering student Jay Sani — a conservative and big supporter of President Donald Trump — said in the clip that WSU instructor Patrick Mahoney and staff member Gerald Hoff ambushed and physically attacked him outside of the Coug, a campus bar. The attack was captured on surveillance video and is included in the Frontlines video report, which you can view here.

‘To make it clear, I hate to say this, but I’m brown, but forget it. I’m an engineering student that wants to get the degree and move on. So what if I like someone that you don’t like. We have the 1st Amendment, and it’s not okay that just because you don’t like that person, I should be attacked for it. You had a chance in November to oust [Trump], but you didn’t.’

Sani said he was wearing a red Make America Great Again hat at the time of the attack and that Mahoney “ripped the hat off my head.” In a Facebook post describing the attack, Sani said Mahoney “crumpled” up the MAGA hat and “threw it into the street, and yelled … words to the effect of ‘go get it bitch.'”

Sani said he threw his food at Mahoney’s face but that Mahoney and Hoff ganged up on him, saying Mahoney “grabbed my chest and slammed it on the concrete as I was falling” and “punched me a bunch of times on the back” and that Hoff “kicked me a bunch of times, too.”

The Frontlines report includes images of Sani’s “multiple scrapes and bruises” resulting from the two-on-one beatdown.

Caught and cuffed

The video report also shows Pullman police catching up with Mahoney and Hoff on bodycam video timestamped in the early morning hours of March 1, just hours after the attack.

“I seen this guy f**king on campus before,” Mahoney says on police bodycam video in reference to Sani. “I know he’s, like, [a] f**king right-wing dude.”

Mahoney also tells police, “I, like, grabbed his hat, threw it, and said, like, ‘go get it.'” Hoff admits to police that “we did grab him and bring him to the ground.”

However, Mahoney is heard actually telling cops that he didn’t hit Sani and that “I don’t think I did f**king something illegal, right?”

A voice — presumably an officer — is heard saying on the bodycam clip that “it’s unwanted touching,” after which Mahoney says, “It’s unwanted touching. I don’t know what that is, right?”

Mahoney adds on the bodycam clip that Sani “wanted to fight” and “f**king got what was coming to him, right?”

The video notes that Mahoney and Hoff were arrested and charged with fourth-degree misdemeanor assault. The WSU student newspaper, the Daily Evergreen, confirmed their arrests and charges.

The Frontlines video report said Mahoney is a WSU graduate student and instructor who teaches a freshman-level political science class — and is a “notorious far-left activist who hates conservative values and is a regular at pro-Hamas protests in the city.”

Mahoney also “has strong ties to the Democratic Socialists of America, progressive pro-labor groups, and is someone who publicly touts his admiration for the communist party,” the video report adds, citing Sani. The video also points out a hammer and sickle pin seen on Mahoney’s jacket lapel in his WSU headshot:

Patrick MahoneyImage source: Washington State University website

The Frontlines video report adds that WSU temporarily suspended Mahoney from classes and teaching duties. The Daily Evergreen confirmed Mahoney’s suspension.

However, the video report said Sani is speaking up because Mahoney could be reinstated and that his victim doesn’t want that to happen. “He shouldn’t be teaching here in my opinion, because if you can’t tolerate different opinions, then what’s the point?” Sani said in the video.

In reference to Sani’s skin color, he added in his Facebook post, “To make it clear, I hate to say this, but I’m brown, but forget it. I’m an engineering student that wants to get the degree and move on. So what if I like someone that you don’t like. We have the 1st Amendment, and it’s not okay that just because you don’t like that person, I should be attacked for it. You had a chance in November to oust [Trump], but you didn’t.”

The Frontlines video report said WSU leaders wouldn’t comment on the situation, citing student privacy laws, and that a Frontlines reporter knocked on Mahoney’s door to inquire if he wanted to comment on the assault but that he replied, “No, go away,” from behind the closed door.

The Frontlines video report added that “we were unable to reach Hoff to get his side of the story, but found his LinkedIn account indicating that he’s employed at WSU. Again, the school would not comment on Hoff’s status, either.”

The video report added that WSU is preparing for a Thursday event featuring TPUSA founder and CEO Charlie Kirk and that the event “is already drawing online chatter from violent militant groups like Antifa and other left-leaning students who are promising to disrupt and cause chaos.”

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A New York-based activist group
successfully pushed in 2023 to have a historic painting depicting Jesus Christ covered up at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, where it had been proudly displayed for 76 years without incident. The alleged motivation behind this act of iconoclasm, which resulted in the painting’s exile to the building’s flood-prone basement, was to create “a welcoming environment.”

When Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy signaled earlier this month that the painting might soon make a triumphant return, Mikey Weinstein, the head of the iconoclastic activist group, let his mask slip, revealing there might be some prejudices lurking behind his iconoclastic campaign.

Weinstein, the president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, whom Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) previously
dubbed an “anti-Christian activist,” viciously attacked Duffy, Trump supporters, and midshipmen supportive of the painting’s return in a statement shared with the Christian Post and the Daily Kos.

“tRump’s [sic] Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is clearly bereft of any semblance of morality, ethical standard, or constitutional legality (obviously required with all MAGA filthy, ignorant, hateful, bigoted scum) and is merely throwing rotting dripping, fetid, red meat to the Christian Nationalist MAGA fascists in America, who are clearly sprinkled among the USMVA midshipmen, staff and faculty,” wrote Weinstein.

The activist, whose demand in 2023 USSMA Superintendent Vice Admiral Joanna Nunan apparently took seriously, added, “Duffy is simply a stray, feral dog, lifting his leg and urinating a rancid fundamentalist Christian fealty on what MAGA fascists now apparently view as a front yard lawn toy rather than an honored cornerstone of the defense of our constitutionally created secular democratic republic.”

The painting

The painting that has Weinstein all bothered is a heritage asset under the U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration titled “Christ on the Water.”

According to the USMMA, the 10’x19′ painting “depicts an image of Jesus and merchant seamen adrift in a lifeboat, presumably after being torpedoed in the Indian Ocean during World War II.”

‘The painting is perfectly in keeping with the Establishment Clause.’

It was painted on sail canvas by Lt. Hunter Wood in 1944 as a tribute to all merchant seamen.

Wood joined the U.S. Coast Guard with the rank of chief boatswain’s mate 10 days after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. He saw action during the invasion of North Africa in late 1942. Wood subsequently served as an artist in the Coast Guard Combat Artist Unit. He later joined the U.S. Maritime Service, with which he remained until the end of the war, advancing to lieutenant commander.

Wood’s painting hung for seven decades in the Elliot M. See Room of the USMMA’s Wiley Hall, which served from 1942 to 1961 as an interfaith chapel.

The complaint

The academy
indicated that in early January 2023, it received a complaint about “Christ on the Water,” suggesting it somehow sent an “improper message of preferred faith in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the Constitution.”

Weinstein, claiming to represent 18 midshipmen, faculty, staff, and graduates at the academy, demanded in a Jan. 10 letter
obtained by the Christian Post that Nunan “expeditiously remove a massive, sectarian painting illustrating the supremacy of Jesus Christ.”

“The outrageousness of that Jesus painting’s display is only further exacerbated by the fact that this room is also used regularly for USMMA Honor Code violation boards where midshipmen are literally fighting for their careers, and, often even more, as they face the shameful ignominy of potential expulsion with prejudice if found guilty of USMMA Honor Code violations,” wrote the activist.

Initially, the academy decided to keep the painting up but discontinue use of the room for official business. Accordingly, members of the community interested in viewing the painting were free to do so. Those who shared Weinstein’s hostility were free to avoid the painting altogether.

On Jan. 26, 2023, the academy — which supplies some officers to the U.S. military, at least
70% of which is Christian — announced that it had chosen to cover the painting with curtains and install a plaque describing the work’s history.

“The curtains will remain closed when official Academy meetings and events are conducted,” said the statement. “This solution balances legal requirements with the concerns of those who have an interest in the painting.”

The decision to oblige the iconoclasts prompted a
petition and letters to Nunan from various lawmakers, including Banks and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) demanding the painting’s unveiling.

Cruz
noted:

The relevant constitutional question is whether the Academy’s display of the painting meets the requirements of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. As a long-standing display that is consistent with the history and tradition of the United States and its Maritime Service, it clearly does. Under the Supreme Court’s standard for long-standing government displays, the painting is perfectly in keeping with the Establishment Clause.

Banks similarly underscored the lawfulness of hanging the painting in the academy, referring to a
2019 Supreme Court ruling that “historic displays with religious symbolism are not a violation of the Constitution.”

‘Let’s let him out! Bring him up!’

Despite the backlash and indications that the removal was wholly unnecessary, multiple sources
told Fox News Digital that the painting was moved to a chapel basement prone to flooding.

The return

During his April 4
visit to the academy, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy addressed a room full of midshipmen. During his speech, he signaled support for the painting’s return, stating, “Can we bring Jesus up from the basement?”

The audience burst into cheers, while scores of midshipmen leaped to their feet, applauding.

Duffy, a devout Catholic, continued, “Let’s not put Jesus in the basement. Let’s let him out! Bring him up!”

Since the USMMA falls under Duffy’s purview, he is apparently able to restore the painting to its rightful place in the academy — something his predecessor, Pete Buttigieg, proved unwilling to do.

The academy’s Christian Fellowship Club
launched a petition on April 7 to permanently move the painting into Ackerman Auditorium.

‘I think we’re returning to objective truth.’

The petition notes that “moving the painting to the Museum damns it. It declares, ‘This is who the Merchant Marine used to be once upon a time long long ago.'”

“We declare to you, faculty and staff, that this painting represents the Regiment of Midshipmen today more so than ever before,” said the petition. “Here us now: We identify with those sailors.”

The tantrum

Unlike those gathered at the academy, Weinstein responded poorly to Duffy’s remarks, going so far as to dehumanize midshipmen who dared signal support for the painting’s return.

“To the cheering robustious throngs of Christian Nationalist midshipmen at the U.S. Merchant of Venice Academy, and to their dear MAGA fascist cheerleader Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, MRFF commands: ‘Side Step HARCH!,’ you stinking piece-of-s**t Christian Nationalist insects,” wrote the activist.

Weinstein added in his statement that the return of the painting would “spark WORLD WAR 8.”

The activist continued ranting in an
unhinged YouTube video, where he suggested that midshipmen’s cheering of Duffy was a “despicable, shameful disgrace of [their] oath to the U.S. Constitution” and characterized their support for the DOT secretary’s remarks as cowardly.

“Jesus Christ represents ideals that are not specific to one group of people or another,” Jackson Tolle, a midshipman in USMMA’s class of 2026, told the Christian Post. “Ideals of sacrifice, ideals of love, compassion, and empathy; these are ideals and traits that we, as a culture, need to return to.”

“Moral relativism has failed the country and the world, more so than any belief system ever really has,” continued Tolle. “I think we’re returning to objective truth.”

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An Australian woman who advocates for women’s sports to remain female-only is facing two legal criminal accusations of “misgendering.”

Kirralie Smith, an activist, has had two Apprehended Violence Orders filed against her by two male athletes posing as females and was accused in court of “deliberately misgendering.”

Dennis was then listed as a 6’2″ athlete who broke the leg of a girl who is 5’6.”

While an AVO in Australia is typically reserved for domestic violence, it can be filed by any person who feels they are a victim of “physical assault, threats of physical harm, stalking, intimidation or harassment” and believes the threats will continue, according to New South Wales Police.

One of the claims came from a soccer player named Riley Dennis; Blaze News reported in 2024 that this individual was accused of injuring a female soccer player and sending her to the hospital. Dennis plays for the Flying Bats, a football club for “self-identified women and non-binary people.”

Dennis was then listed as a 6’2″ athlete who broke the leg of a girl who is 5’6″ and spawned two dozen other females to quit because they did not want to play against the transgender-filled team. Yahoo Sports reported that the injured girl’s leg was broken in two different places.

Activist Sall Grover was reportedly present during Smith’s court proceeding on Monday and claimed a barrister asked Smith if she would call Dennis “she/her,” to which the defendant said “no.”

Smith was also allegedly asked if not using the pronouns is “mean,” to which she replied that it would be mean to expect her to lie.

“Is it because she doesn’t like trans people?” Grover wrote about the court proceeding. “No. It’s a fact based statement,” Smith reportedly answered.

Sky News Australia described the court proceeding as having “dramatic scenes” and said the “entire case” centers around “a couple of tweets Kirralie Smith posted back in 2023.”

This was the second time Smith appeared in court for an AVO, however. Reduxx reported that Smith was accused by another male player, who goes by Stephanie Blanch, of holding unacceptable views. Blanch reportedly told a court he felt “threatened” by the idea that Smith did not think men should be in women’s sports.

Blanch’s supporting documentation included an X post by Smith about “a bloke on the women’s team in Wingham,” the team on which Blanch plays.

In December, an Australian court acknowledged that Smith “repeatedly referred to” Blanch as a “male, a man, a bloke” and “he.” A local judge declared that Smith indeed was “deliberately misgendering” Blanch, which was “stirring up controversy.”

Blanch was awarded what essentially amounted to a restraining order against Smith, which required Smith to refrain from contacting Blanch as well as not “nam[ing] or identify[ing] the Appellant by her name Stephanie Blanch or by [name redacted].”

The order ends in December 2026.

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Several radicals descended Tuesday on a town hall hosted by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) in Cobb County, Georgia. Some protesters fought with police while others repeatedly screamed out in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran MS-13 member deported on March 15 by the Trump administration.

The disruption did not go in the protesters’ favor.

The radicals — at least one of whom came from outside the district — not only failed to intimidate Greene, who laughed off their protest and underscored her support for the president, but were unceremoniously shown the way outside or, in some cases, to the ground by police officers who proved unwilling to tolerate leftist violence.

Footage shows one particularly unruly protester violently grab a police officer by the collar near a gaggle of journalists and cameramen. Additional cops can be seen rushing in to help march the protester toward the exit. A second camera captured footage of the same protester thrashing and lashing out at officers until one officer gives the order: “Put your hands behind your back.”

An officer can be seen drawing his taser, then lighting up the protester.

‘Blessed are the peacemakers.’

Greene, still at the podium, can be heard saying in response to the tasing, “There ya go!” as members of the audience cheered.

One of the protesters who decided to walk out without attacking police repeatedly screamed, “Free Kilmar!” in reference to Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien who was found by more than one immigration court to be a “danger to the community.”

Another cried out, “Free Garcia.”

Greene noted on X Wednesday morning, “For anyone questioning or criticizing the police at my townhall last night, the GREAT police officers conducted themselves in textbook fashion and protected every single person there by keeping the peace!”

“These protestors were deranged and aggressive and lost control of themselves the second the townhall started,” continued Greene. “Police officers should make more money, have better pensions, and deserve everyone’s gratitude and respect!!! Blessed are the peacemakers, because they will be called sons of God.”

The Acworth Police Department indicated in a release that while preparing for the event, crime analysts discovered posts online indicating that radicals had something planned for the town hall at the Acworth Community Center.

“Sadly, as soon as the Congresswoman began her presentation, several members of the audience became disruptive and created an imminent public safety threat for all in attendance,” stated the APD, which worked in conjunction with the Cobb County Police Department, the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office, the Kennesaw Police Department, and the Georgia State Patrol. “Their intentions were clear, to place the members of our beloved police department in a no-win situation in front of numerous media outlets.”

The APD indicated that six protesters were ultimately removed from the town hall without issue. Another three were arrested, two of whom were subdued with the aid of tasers.

‘I’m not intimidated by the Democrats who tried to shut down my town hall tonight.’

Andrew Russell Nelms, 40, of Atlanta and Johnny Keith, 45, of Dallas were both charged with simple battery on a law enforcement officer and obstruction of a law enforcement officer. Kiyana Name Davis of Dallas was cited for vulgar language.

Police indicated that in the process of removing the radicals from the event, officers “were threatened, physically resisted, and harmed.”

Greene stated, “I’m not intimidated by the Democrats who tried to shut down my town hall tonight. I refused to tolerate their selfish attempts to disrupt an event that was for all of my constituents, not just the ones who could make the most noise.”

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Back in December 2024, Phil Robertson, the revered patriarch of Duck Commander, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. The condition exacerbated other ailments, including a blood disorder and fractured vertebrae. His sons, Jase and Al Robertson, have been candid with the “Unashamed” audience about the ups and downs their dad has experienced since leaving the podcast. Earlier this month, Jase described Phil’s condition as “not good.”

Their mother and Phil’s wife, Miss Kay Robertson, has also faced her own health challenges. In February, she sustained a severe fall that resulted in an infected cut. The injury required surgery and 11 days in the hospital.

Between Kay’s time in the hospital and Phil’s professional care, the beloved Duck Dynasty couple has been separated.

However, in a recent episode of “Unashamed,” Jase and Al shared a heartwarming update: Phil and Kay have been reunited in a care facility.

While both parents are still struggling with their physical health, their reconnection is doing wonders for their spirits.

Jase celebrates their reunion as “fantastic”; Al agrees, calling it “a game-changer.”

“My dad’s not doing great overall, and my mom is not doing great physically,” but “she’s helping his morale” and vice versa,” says Jase.

“He’s been so much calmer since she came back in,” Al adds.

While the reunion has been sweet, it’s also posed some challenges. Phil and Miss Kay alike are adored people. Their family is big, and their friend group is even bigger.

“The challenge has been we have so many people coming up there, we’re being disruptive,” laughs Jase, noting that they’re working on solving the problem.

But being so loved and supported that you can’t accommodate everyone who wants to visit is no doubt a good problem to have.

To hear more about Phil and Miss Kay, watch the episode above.

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Don’t get lost in the latest scandal. Step back and take in the American media landscape in all its tortured absurdity. What’s the narrative? What stories get elevated? What, if anything, are we supposed to learn?

If your answer is, “Not a darn thing,” you’re exactly right. So let’s
check it out.

The reporters can’t help themselves.

The top story in American media right now — front and center, above all else — is an illegal immigrant and court-confirmed MS-13 affiliate from El Salvador. You might have missed that detail amid the wall-to-wall, overwrought coverage of a Maryland father dragged from his home. But his case perfectly illustrates the media’s favorite tactics: obfuscation, distortion, and outright lies.

Turn on the news or pick up the paper. Good luck learning that the man in question was selected for deportation in 2019, denied his initial appeal based on asylum (because if he was a refugee he should have applied for that at the outset, instead of seven years later when facing deportation), denied a second appeal under the Convention Against Torture treaty, but on third appeal was told he needed to be deported to a country that was
not El Salvador.

During the appeals process, the court was convinced by photographic evidence and an informant’s testimony that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was in fact affiliated with the MS-13 gang.

So why couldn’t he return to El Salvador? He claimed a gang there would torture him to extort money from his mother’s successful pupuseria.

Before the Trump administration could deport Abrego Garcia, Joe Biden took office. Over the next four years, Biden’s team let him carry on with his life in the United States.

When Trump returned to the White House, officials began reviewing the files of known MS-13 affiliates. That’s when Abrego Garcia was arrested (again) — and, in what the U.S. government admits was a mistake, deported to the very country he claimed to fear. The one with the pupusa gang.

What a travesty.

Anyway, a judge
who looks like this said, “No way, Jose,” and ordered the U.S. government to “effectuate” Abrego Garcia’s release and to “facilitate” his return. So the Supreme Court stepped in and ruled last week that the lower court’s order for the White House to make the return happen (“effectuate” it) was vague and may have overstepped the separation of powers. The White House, it declared, should “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s departure from El Salvador and keep the district judge appraised of its moves to do so.

As this has all unfolded, the story has dominated the news cycle. Donald Trump has been questioned about it. The president of El Salvador has been questioned about it. Top White House advisers have been grilled and harangued about it.

The reporters can’t help themselves. To state things as clearly as possible, this man is not an American citizen. He was here illegally, affiliated with a murderous international gang, and cleared for deportation. If he’d been sent to Guatemala, he would not be in the news. Yet he’s now the poster child for the Democrats — the story they decided to highlight after losing working-class voters and losing ground among black and Hispanic men, in particular.

Does it address a single concern that rigorous, deep-dive Democrat-led studies have pointed to for why Vice President Kamala Harris so handily lost the election? Does it contain an iota of the self-reflection corporate media once again (and hysterically, as always) promised after November? It does not.

Not to be outdone, let’s swing over to Brian Stelter’s newsletter, where he warns at
the top of the Tuesday edition of “growing authoritarianism” and dives into a book about “How Democracies Die,” published in 2017 by two Harvard University professors.

It’s difficult to find a credible after-action on the decided diminishment of Democratic (and media) influence and popularity that fails to mention the overreliance on poncy professors and the obsession with “democracy is under attack” fearmongering. Stelter nails them both, squarely on the head. It’s actually funny in its willful self-indulgence.

It’s also not surprising. America’s Democratic Party-aligned and Trump-obsessed media have promised repeatedly to address the giant misalignments between their own opinions and the concerns of the American people, but it’s pathological. They can’t help themselves.

Worse, it’s enforced by the audiences they’ve built over the past eight years, in particular. They crave more. You can’t simply tiptoe back from the precipice, like Jeff Bezos directed his Washington Post to do last fall, without massive drops in subscriptions, internal leaks and resignations, and condemnation from the paper’s supposed friends.

More than an addiction, it’s a dependence. They can’t quit it — the withdrawal could kill them. But like any chemical dependence, the drug itself is killing them too. It’s a vicious cycle, and all that’s left is rock bottom. If the past week of coverage is any indication, we’re not even close.

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X.com: Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin: ‘I call on my colleagues … to demand the return of people unlawfully taken to El Salvador on that so-called plane full of “gang bangers.”‘

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A Washington state police officer was demoted after lying to police on a vehicle stop, where he admitted he was drunk and had flashed his badge at a bar to gain special favor, according to a memo obtained by KCPQ-TV.

The memo said that officer Todd Roggenkamp had acted inappropriately during an alcohol-fueled series of incidents on October 18, 2023, that began at the Last Frontier Saloon in Fall City, about 25 miles east of Seattle.

‘Roggenkamp texted an image of the prank and added, “What’s up with the weird tactical antenna that [name redacted] was driving around with last night?'”

Roggenkamp’s wife reportedly left her cell phone inside the bar, but a bartender told them he could not reopen the business without a code to the alarm. That set off Roggenkamp, who flashed his badge and demanded that he reopen.

“’This badge says I can get in the building’ … is verbatim what he says,” said Andrew Goodman, a friend of the bartender who was present at the bar that evening.

Roggenkamp then threatened to fight the men at the bar and bragged about knowing “lethal combat laws” before his wife kicked Goodman in the groin and slapped him. Cameras outside the bar captured the incident.

The officer had a contentious debate with King County deputies, who can be heard on bodycam videos saying they could smell alcohol on him. Roggenkamp questioned the legality of the stop and told them to handcuff his wife, which they did eventually.

When a deputy indicated that they were merely trying to determine if his wife had assaulted someone, Roggenkamp interrupted and yelled, “Okay, let’s f**king go. Now!”

He also called one deputy a “f**king amateur” and the other one fat. He then drove to the King County jail and identified as a sergeant to try to have his wife released from custody.

Footage showed Roggenkamp mixing up his words and then adding, “I am drunk.”

The investigation into that night led to renewed interest in another incident where Roggenkamp was accused of attaching a phallic sex toy onto another officer’s marked police car in late 2023. The other officer drove around the community for several hours with the sex toy on the vehicle.

Roggenkamp texted an image of the prank and added, “What’s up with the weird tactical antenna that [name redacted] was driving around with last night?”

He admitted to investigators that it had been a bad idea, after saying he found it funny.

The Mercer Island Police Department reached a last-chance agreement with the officer rather than terminate him after 18 years of service. The department quietly demoted Roggenkamp from sergeant to officer in November 2024.

Roggenkamp did not respond to requests from KCPQ for comment by text, phone, and email.

He is being investigated by the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission, but a spokesperson for the commission said that the case of the sex toy incident had been closed over lack of jurisdiction.

Video from the bar’s security camera and the police vehicle stop can be viewed on the news report from KCPQ on YouTube.

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