New Orleans City Council’s Thursday meeting was brought to a standstill by spitting-mad activists protesting the Trump administration’s recent immigration crackdown in the city.

‘We’ll be back.’

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed this week the launch of Operation Catahoula Crunch in the Louisiana city, targeting criminal illegal aliens. The immigration enforcement efforts sparked backlash from some in the local community.

During a Thursday New Orleans City Council meeting, residents lined up to demand that council members designate all city-owned properties as “ICE-free zones” and pass an ordinance that prevents cooperation with immigration officials.

Several demonstrators held signs that read, “No collaboration with ICE/DHS.”

The council repeatedly muted the microphone after informing the protesters that their remarks were “not germane” to the agenda items.

Despite this, the activists continued to approach the microphone during public comments to repeat their demands. A couple of protesters refused to sit down and continued to shout and disrupt the meeting.

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Council members responded by suspending public comment on the agenda item and calling a recess.

The crowd of protesters then erupted, shouting and screaming at both the council members and the police officers present in the chamber.

Videos captured by FreedomNews.tv showed police officers slowly escorting the protesting crowd out of the building, with many individuals refusing to leave. Several officers were forced to carry out one unruly activist.

After several minutes of scuffling, shouting, cursing, and some protesters defiantly raising middle fingers at officers, the crowd was finally locked out of the premises.

“We’ll be back,” they shouted at the police from the other side of the fence.

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According to NOLA.com, 30 protesters were ejected from the council’s chambers.

Toni Jones, an organizer for the event and a member of the New Orleans Alliance against Racial and Political Repression, told Verite News, “We haven’t seen City Council take a stand, and we demand that they declare they will not cooperate with [ICE] in any way.”

On Thursday, DHS highlighted the arrest of a kidnapper and sex offender as a result of Operation Catahoula Crunch. According to the department, he was previously sentenced to 40 years in prison and later released on parole.

“These are SICK people who have lived among us for far too long. THEY WILL GO BACK,” DHS stated.

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German climate alarmists claimed in a study published last year in the journal Nature that even if carbon dioxide emissions were radically cut down, so-called climate change would still drive the world economy toward a global GDP reduction of 19%.

The alarmists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research suggested further that not only would global annual climate-change damages hit $38 trillion by 2049, but that under a high-emissions scenario, global GDP would be lowered around 60% relative to the baseline in 75 years — an impact reportedly three times larger than previous estimates.

‘Most people for the last decade have thought that a 20% reduction in 2100 was an insanely large number. So the fact that this paper is coming out saying 60% is off the chart.’

According to the U.K.-based Carbon Brief, this was one of the most-cited climate papers by the media, including the Associated Press, CNN, Deutsche Welle, and Reuters.

Just the News highlighted that numerous activists and institutions also cited it, including Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.) and the World Bank.

The problem for the climate alarmists and those who believed them was that the study’s conclusions were bogus.

A team of American economists pointed out in a commentary published by Nature in August that “data anomalies arising from one country in [the German researchers’] underlying GDP dataset, Uzbekistan, substantially bias their predicted impacts of climate change.”

The economists revealed that if the questionable data pertaining to Uzbekistan were excluded, projected global losses in 2100 would be 23% as opposed to 60%, which is more in line with previous estimates.

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The economists noted further that the Germans underestimated “statistical uncertainty in their future projections of climate impacts.”

“Most people for the last decade have thought that a 20% reduction in 2100 was an insanely large number,” Solomon Hsiang, a Stanford University professor who co-authored the August commentary, told the New York Times. “So the fact that this paper is coming out saying 60% is off the chart.”

‘We have to cut down our emissions drastically and immediately — if not, economic losses will become even bigger.’

The paper, which was originally published on April 17, 2024, was retracted on Wednesday.

The retraction notice indicates that “the results were found to be sensitive to the removal of one country, Uzbekistan, where inaccuracies were noted in the underlying economic data for the period 1995-1999.”

While the German alarmists attempted to correct the data for Uzbekistan and make other adjustments, they found that “these changes led to discrepancies in the estimates for climate damages by mid-century, with an increased uncertainty range (from 11-29% to 6-31%) and a lower probability of damages diverging across emission scenarios by 2050 (from 99% to 90%).”

In other words, the original conclusions hyped by the liberal media were worthless.

When the now-retracted paper was first published in April 2024, the German researchers made no secret of the point of the exercise: justifying societal and industrial upheaval coded as “adaptation.”

“Our analysis shows that climate change will cause massive economic damages within the next 25 years in almost all countries around the world, also in highly developed ones such as Germany, France, and the United States,” Leonie Wenz, lead scientist on the study, said in a release.

“These near-term damages are a result of our past emissions. We will need more adaptation efforts if we want to avoid at least some of them,” Wenz continued. “And we have to cut down our emissions drastically and immediately — if not, economic losses will become even bigger in the second half of the century, amounting to up to 60% on global average by 2100.”

Wenz and her team are hardly the first climate alarmists to have their conclusions proven to be as incorrect as they are outlandish.

Failed presidential candidate Al Gore, for instance, concern-mongered in 2009 that in addition to the significant rise in the global sea level that was supposed to happen “in the near future” but never did, the entire polar ice cap was likely going to be seasonally ice-free, perhaps by as early as 2014.

Gore told the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference that then-new research indicated there was “a 75% chance that the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years.”

In September, a paper published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Geophysical Research Letters revealed that Gore was dead wrong — that over the past 20 years, “Arctic sea ice loss has slowed considerably, with no statistically significant decline in September sea ice area since 2005.”

Rather than wait to be proven horribly wrong, Bill Gates — who has spent years fear-mongering about the calamities that would supposedly visit humanity unless governments neutralized certain industries and regulated into extinction certain behaviors — admitted in October that climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise.”

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Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth remains on offense, as another military official stands up in defense of the infamous boat strike against alleged drug traffickers.

The Washington Post published a story claiming that Hegseth ordered Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley to “kill them all” during a September 2 strike on alleged drug boats, insinuating that the alleged order amounted to a war crime.

‘I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat, load it with drugs.’

Bradley echoed remarks made by Hegseth and members of the administration defending the strike and calling the Post’s reporting into question.

Lawmakers exiting the Thursday-morning meeting with Bradley reaffirmed that the accusations levied against Hegseth and his Pentagon were unfounded, claiming there was “no such order.”

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“The first strike, the second strike, and the third and the fourth strike on September 2 were entirely lawful and needful, and they were exactly what we would expect our military commanders to do,” Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas said as he was exiting the classified briefing.

“Admiral Bradley was very clear that he was given no such order, to give no quarter or to kill them all,” Cotton added.

RELATED: Turns out that Hegseth’s ‘kill them all’ line was another media invention

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Cotton went on to describe the footage of the strike that was shown to the lawmakers.

“I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat — loaded with drugs, bound for the United States — back over so they could stay in the fight,” Cotton said. “And potentially, given all the context we heard, of other narco-terrorist boats in the area coming to their aid.”

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An Illinois church is facing scrutiny for politicizing its Christmas Nativity scene to criticize immigration enforcement efforts.

Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf of Lake Street Church of Evanston compared the plight of illegal aliens to the Roman Empire trying to kill Jesus Christ in the biblical account of his birth.

‘If you read the Gospels, how we treat our neighbors is how we are treating Jesus.’

“Jesus was born into a context … the Roman Empire, right?” said Woolf to WMAQ-TV. “He immediately has to flee and go into exile and become a refugee.”

The Roman centurions are depicted as ICE agents, and Joseph is lying on the ground as if thrown down.

“Our baby Jesus has zip ties on his hands because that’s an actual incident that happened in our city,” Woolf added. “These are real-world things that are happening, and we’re trying to depict them and bring the sacred into it to tell a story.”

WMAQ published video of the display and an interview with Woolf, who stood near the sign of the church that included an LGBTQ flag.

Woolf was among the protesters who was arrested for rioting at a protest at an ICE facility in Broadview in November. WMAQ’s report neglects to mention that several law enforcement officers were injured in the incident.

“It’s really important how we treat our neighbors because we find out if you read the Gospels, how we treat our neighbors is how we are treating Jesus,” Woolf added.

WMAQ said that the Department of Homeland Security did not return a request for a comment on the protest.

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The website for Lake Street Church has a web page dedicated to the cause of social justice that advocates for “dismantling racism” by trying to pass a reparations bill.

The web page says the church offers sanctuary for those targeted by “inhumane immigration policies” and claims that the church is currently housing an immigrant family in the process of applying for asylum.

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The New York Times has hit a new low and abandoned any semblance of journalism to focus on President Trump’s so-called fatigue — as well as his undocumented history of “insulting black people.”

“President Trump unleashed a xenophobic tirade against Somali immigrants during a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, calling them ‘garbage’ he does not want in the United States in an outburst that captured the raw nativism that has animated his approach to immigration,” one article reads.

“Even for Mr. Trump — who has a long history of insulting black people, particularly those from African countries — his outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry,” it continues.

“Now, you might be wondering at this point, did they give the same energy with Joe Biden, who actually does have a long history of insulting black people?” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales asks, though she knows the answer.

“Of course they didn’t say anything about Joe Biden and his long history of insulting black people,” she says, pointing out that this isn’t the only hit piece on Trump making waves from the New York Times.

Another recent article was titled, “Trump Appears to Fight Sleep During Cabinet Meeting.”

“‘Last month, he appeared to doze off during a meeting in the Oval Office,’” Gonzales mocks. “Like, Joe Biden was dead for four years. Like, where were the articles? All of a sudden they care about all of these things.”

But that’s not all. The New York Times also published an article titled, “Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office.”

“Still, nearly a year into his second term, Americans see Mr. Trump less than they used to, according to a New York Times analysis of his schedule. Mr. Trump has fewer public events on his schedule and is traveling domestically much less than he did by this point during his first year in office, in 2017, although he is taking more foreign trips,” the article reads.

“The heavy lifting, the mental gymnastics … that are required to write this type of article are truly incredible. The man is getting twice as much done in a shorter amount of time. Like, he’s actually just being more efficient. And the New York Times is like, ‘But he’s traveling less. He must be aging,’” Gonzales says.

“Guys, Joe Biden was 200 years old. You couldn’t even find a pulse on the guy the whole time he was in office,” she continues. “I’m not going to listen to this from you.”

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At 57 years old, writer Lilly Wachowski is still doing a lot of soul-searching.

Born Andrew, and one-half of the famous Wachowski Brothers, Wachowski and his older brother, Lana (60), born Laurence, are known for their iconic movie series “The Matrix.”

Both claim to be transgender.

‘As a trans person, the dark question that I had as a trans person was, “Who will ever love this?”‘

Andy became Lilly in 2016, while Larry was four years ahead, becoming Lana in 2012. Since then, the duo have leaned into their new identities, going so far as to retroactively characterize “The Matrix” trilogy as a “trans metaphor” in 2020.

Freedom fried

During a recent interview on “So True with Caleb Hearon,” Lilly Wachowski took another look back at his previous work and explained that he has a new perspective that helps him see how his work got him to where he is now, in relation to his gender status.

I look back on all of my previous work, and I see it because I’m looking at it from this higher place. It just creates this different perspective from this point of view up here, and I can see “Bound” — the first shot of the movie is a closet. And it’s like, “Okay, it looks like we’re going to be working on some stuff.”

Noting that “The Matrix” was about “liberation and identity and, like, freedom,” Wachowski then repeated a liberal trope about making art that can “will things into being that you need to see in the world,” before further saying that his movies have also been about finding love, while also being subliminal instruments for transgender storytelling.

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“A lot of the things that me and Lana were also writing about was love — that we needed to create stories that gave us a grounding to see that love was possible,” Wachowski tried to explain. “As a trans person … the dark question that I had as a trans person was, ‘Who will ever love this?’ … And it gave us this reminder that there was a future for us.”

Mad for it

Wachowski also noted another powerful source of creativity his new identity has given him: “trans rage.”

In 2017, he and a partner began working on a trans-themed screenplay — a process he described as “purging all this rage and horror out of the world and onto this page.”

After a few years executive producing the Showtime series “Work in Progress” — a vehicle for comedian and self-described “masculine queer dyke” Abby McEnany — Wachowski returned to the script in 2021, finding “catharsis” in responding to a world he found had become “way s**ttier for trans people.”

Wachowski channeled some of his rage into “creating caricature[d] buffoons of the right wing.” He also used it to inspire a vision of “an idealized family, a network, a Weather Underground of trans people coming together and supporting each other and holding each other up, trying to create a story that is the best of us.”

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Flip-flop

Wachowski’s new creative direction hasn’t been great for the bottom line.

A fourth installment of the beloved Keanu Reeves saga, “The Matrix Resurrections,” flopped when released in December 2021, making only about $38 million on a $190 million budget.

That’s less than a third of the $139 million its predecessor, “The Matrix Revolutions,” pulled in 2004 — and a far cry from 2003’s “The Matrix Reloaded,” which took in over $280 million.

The first “Matrix” made $171 million in 1999.

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Hollywood actress Halle Berry said she vehemently opposes the reported presidential aspirations of California Gov. Gavin Newsom over menopause health care.

The Academy Award-winning actress berated Newsom while speaking at the New York Times’ DealBook Summit.

The 59-year-old has become an advocate for expanding health care options for women going through menopause.

She said that the governor’s veto against the Menopause Care Equity Act (AB 432) led to her rejection of any presidential hopes he might have. The 59-year-old has become an advocate for expanding health care options for women going through menopause.

“Back in my great state of California, my very own governor, Gavin Newsom, has vetoed our menopause bill, not one, but two years in a row,” she said.

“But that’s OK, because he’s not going to be governor forever,” she added. “And with the way he’s overlooked women, half the population, by devaluing us in midlife, he probably should not be our next president either. Just saying.”

Berry endorsed Kamala Harris for president in 2024.

Newsom argued that the bill was too far-reaching when he vetoed it the last time.

“Last year, I vetoed a substantially similar bill, stating that it would limit the ability of health plans to engage in practices that have been shown to ensure appropriate care while limiting unnecessary costs,” the governor said. “That is still the case with this bill — despite my call for a more tailored solution. This bill’s expansive coverage mandate, in conjunction with a prohibition on [utilization management], is too far-reaching.”

RELATED: Newsom tries to hit Trump administration on energy prices — and gets humiliated online

Video of Berry’s comments were widely circulated on social media.

Berry won the Oscar for best actress in 2002 for her role in “Monster’s Ball.” She was the first black woman to win the award in that category and, to date, the only one to do so.

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An Arizona woman allegedly admitted to trying to murder her sleeping boyfriend on Thanksgiving, according to court documents. What’s more, authorities said the woman told her boyfriend, “Today is my independence day.”

Tamala Rudeseal — a 52-year-old from Mesa — was arrested on Thanksgiving night and booked into the Maricopa County Jail on attempted murder and aggravated assault charges. Her bond was set at $1 million.

‘God, I hope he is dead; it’d be a favor to me, his wife, and his children.’

Police said Rudeseal called 911 around 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving and reportedly made several alarming remarks.

Citing court records, KPNX-TV reported that Rudeseal was heard saying during the 911 call, “I’m sick of what you do to me, today is independence day.”

Court documents also claim Rudeseal was heard saying, “Yes … I did just try to murder you,” and “I’m ready to go to prison.”

Police said when officers arrived at the residence, they found Rudeseal’s boyfriend with a cut running from his left ear to the center of his neck.

The wounded man was rushed to a local hospital and underwent emergency surgery for a neck laceration, according to KSAZ-TV. Officials told the news outlet that the man is expected to survive.

The boyfriend informed investigators that the couple had argued earlier in the day, court docs stated.

Arizona Family, citing court documents, reported that the man told detectives he was asleep when he woke to a sharp pain in his neck. Court records also state that he told investigators that he thought he was going to die but controlled the bleeding with his shirt until police arrived.

The boyfriend said he’d been in a relationship with Rudeseal for 11 years and that she is often depressed around the holidays, according to court records.

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According to court docs, Rudeseal informed police that she told her boyfriend, “I’m going to slice your (expletive) throat.”

According to court docs, when asked by investigators if she was attempting to kill her boyfriend, Rudeseal responded, “Yes. God, I hope he is dead; it’d be a favor to me, his wife, and his children.”

According to court records, Rudeseal also told authorities, “I planned on doing the other side and then stabbing him in the heart.”

Records show Rudeseal complained to officers that her boyfriend “does not do anything around the house” except sit, smoke, and drink.

Police detained Rudeseal at the crime scene and recovered a large folding hunting knife close to where she was found, authorities said.

The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office told People magazine that the case is “currently under review by our office.”

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday afternoon told Blaze News that Rudeseal “is still in custody.”

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California’s Democratic leaders have escalated their war against the Trump administration, taking action to hinder federal immigration enforcement efforts within the state.

‘They’re trying to intimidate our agents and scare them from doing their job.’

On Tuesday, state Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced the launch of a new tool, which they claimed would “assist members of the public in sharing information with the California Department of Justice regarding potentially unlawful activity by federal agents and officers across the state.”

The now-live portal instructs residents to report “potentially unlawful activity” committed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection agents, and National Guard soldiers.

Respondents are asked to provide details about the incident, including whether they were physically present or reporting on behalf of someone else, as well as the nature, location, and date.

The submission form allows individuals to upload up to five photos and five videos related to the incident.

Bonta accused President Donald Trump’s administration of “engaging in a campaign of terror and fear” by enforcing federal immigration laws.

RELATED: Los Angeles County Democrats vote to ban ICE from using masks — and the DOJ issues defiant response

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, California Attorney General Rob Bonta. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

“From unmarked military-style vehicles to detainments that more closely resemble kidnappings, Californians are rightly concerned that federal agents may be crossing the line and abusing their authority. The president’s actions these past 10 months only lend support to this conclusion,” Bonta stated. “Let me be clear: Federal agents can enforce federal laws, and no one should interfere with them doing their job. But federal agents must also do so lawfully and in compliance with the Constitution.”

Bonta encouraged Californians to report potentially unlawful actions from federal agents to his office.

“We’re not going to stand by while anyone — including federal agents — abuses their authority in California,” Newsom said. “This new portal gives Californians an easy and safe way to speak up, share what they see, and help us hold people accountable. No one is above the law.”

RELATED: DHS slams Newsom over illegal alien accused in death of 11-year-old boy on Thanksgiving

Bill Essayli, first assistant US attorney for the central district of California. Photographer: Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Newsom’s administration previously set aside roughly $50 million to file legal action against the Trump administration. Since Trump’s January inauguration, Bonta has filed 48 lawsuits against the federal government.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli, appointed by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, responded to Bonta and Newsom’s new portal in a post on X.

“We have a portal too. People can report California state officials engaged in illegal activity at the following link: tips.fbi.gov,” Essayli wrote.

During an interview with Fox News, Essayli said, “They’re trying to intimidate our agents and scare them from doing their job. And it’s not gonna work.”

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The future of rideshare transportation is here — but no, the cars aren’t flying yet. Uber, in partnership with a company that specializes in autonomous vehicles, just launched its first service area in Texas.

On Wednesday, Uber announced that it will be launching fully autonomous robotaxis as part of its rideshare service. At launch, the robotaxis will be available in a 9-square-mile area from downtown to uptown Dallas, Turtle Creek, and Deep Ellum.

‘We’re proving how AVs and drivers can work side by side to make transportation more convenient, sustainable, and affordable for people everywhere.’

Avride, a self-described leader in the autonomous vehicle and delivery robot industries, modified Hyundai Ioniq 5 models to convert them to robotaxis.

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The press release noted that an “on-board specialist” will be monitoring behind the wheel at launch. The fully autonomous, driverless ride will roll out in the future.

“We’re excited to launch autonomous rides in Dallas with Avride, as we continue to build towards an increasingly electric and autonomous future,” Sarfraz Maredia, the head of autonomous mobility and delivery at Uber, told The Hill.

“With the world’s largest hybrid network, we’re proving how AVs and drivers can work side by side to make transportation more convenient, sustainable, and affordable for people everywhere,” Maredia continued.

Avride, a tech company originally affiliated with Russian giant Yandex, has also developed autonomous delivery robots. These robots have been rolled out in several places.

Asked about future plans, an Avride spokesperson told Return that the company will start with a smaller fleet and “expand to hundreds of Avride robotaxis across Dallas in the next few years.”

Return reached out to Uber for comment but has not yet received a response.

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