California officials confirmed that law enforcement officers responded to an active shooter report at the Islamic Center of San Diego in Clairemont Mesa on Monday afternoon.

The social media account for the San Diego Police Dept. said that at 12:03 p.m. PT, the incident was reported at the center on Eckstrom Ave.

News video also showed police escorting children out of the center.

Video on social media showed a massive police response in the area.

“Emergency personnel are on scene and actively working to protect the community and secure the area,” wrote San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria on social media.

At 1:06 p.m., police reported that the threat had been “neutralized.” A report from KGTV said there is at least one fatality.

News video also showed police escorting children out of the center, where there is a school. Several schools nearby were placed on lockdown.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) added that the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services was responding as well.

“We are grateful to the first responders on the scene working to protect the community and urge everyone to follow guidance from local authorities,” his office said.

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The Islamic Center in San Diego is the largest in San Diego County, according to its website.

This is a developing story.

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Comedy used to be about making people laugh first — not lecturing audiences about politics — and according to BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere, a few comedians are finally saying out loud what audiences have been thinking for years.

“You’re looking for funny first. You don’t leave out funny,” Stu says, arguing that modern late-night television has largely abandoned comedy in favor of partisan activism.

However, Conan O’Brien appears determined to resist that trend. In a recent interview, O’Brien criticized comics who go “the route of ‘I’m just going to say F Trump all the time.’”

“That’s their comedy,” he said.

“And I think, well, now a little bit you’re being co-opted because you’re so angry. You’ve been lulled. It’s like a siren leading you into the rocks. You’ve been lulled into just saying, ‘F Trump, F Trump,’” he continued.

“And I think you’ve now put down your best weapon, which is being funny, and you’ve exchanged it for anger. And that person or any person like that would say, ‘Well, things are too serious now. I don’t need to be funny.’ And I think, well, if you’re a comedian, you always need to be funny,” he explained, adding, “you just have to find a way.”

And Conan isn’t the only comedian that feels this way.

In an interview on his podcast “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend,” comedian Zach Galifianakis recalled an episode he did of “Between Two Ferns” with Hillary Clinton.

“I remember when I interviewed Hillary Clinton, and I could tell she didn’t want to be there, and I totally get that. I get it. But before we had set that whole thing up, they wrote back, ‘Well, you can’t bring up those emails,’” Galifianakis said.

“And I go, ‘Well, we don’t have to do the interview. That’s fine. We won’t do it.’ When you tell powerful people no, it’s crazy. They were like, ‘OK, we’ll do it. You can ask,’” he said, adding, “Because it’s not that important to me to do it the way they want to do it.”

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U.S. Border Patrol agents in San Diego discovered 19 people, including convicted drug traffickers, hiding in a drainage system near the border, according to a Customs and Border Protection press release exclusively obtained by Blaze News.

On the evening of May 4, Border Patrol agents from the Chula Vista Station, using the Remote Video Surveillance System, detected “suspicious activity” near the drainage tunnels. When they responded to the scene, they found a group of individuals attempting to illegally enter the U.S. through the drainage system.

‘If you try to illegally cross our border, we will catch you and arrest you.’

They arrested 19 suspects, 16 adults and three unaccompanied minors, all of whom are Mexican citizens.

“The dedicated men and women of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, alongside our law enforcement partners, have arrested and removed thousands of criminal aliens from the country — including gang members, rapists, kidnappers, and drug traffickers — to make our communities safer,” the CBP stated.

Raudel Carrillo-Padilla, 35, and his brother, Ivan Carrillo-Padilla, 31, were among those arrested. The two had previously been deported from the U.S. following a 2017 conviction for possession, transport, and intent to sell methamphetamine in Yreka, California. Ivan Carrillo-Padilla was deported a second time after he was arrested in 2019 for a drug-related interdiction stop in Eugene, Oregon.

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All of the suspects were transported to the Chula Vista Station for processing. They will face either removal or federal prosecution, the CBP’s press release stated.

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Image source: US Customs and Border Protection

“These smuggling attempts are not only dangerous, but they also frequently involve individuals who pose a threat to public safety,” San Diego Sector Chief Patrol Agent Justin De La Torre said. “Thanks to the vigilance of our agents and the effective use of surveillance technology, this group — which included convicted drug traffickers — was apprehended before they could move further into our communities. If you try to illegally cross our border, we will catch you and arrest you.”

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A hysterical call for liberals to fight against the South from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was immediately undermined by an embarrassing mistake in her speech.

The far-left socialist Democrat made the caustic comments while addressing supporters in Montgomery, Alabama, on Saturday. She appeared to employ language intended to hearken back to the Civil War.

‘What they thought was the final blow is actually just the opening silo!’

Ocasio-Cortez was excoriating the efforts by Republican-controlled states to redistrict in order to help Republicans gain an advantage in the congressional midterm elections.

“For all those watching today, when they ask, ‘What do we do in this moment? I feel helpless; what action can I take?'” said Ocasio-Cortez.

“It is time for the North to pull up to the South! It is time for New York to pull up to Alabama! It is time for all of us to come to Georgia, to Louisiana, to Tennessee, to Mississippi!” she yelled to loud applause. The phrase “pull up” is street slang referring to someone rushing into a confrontation or fight.

“And let them know exactly what they have uncorked with this injustice!” she added. “They think they can draw us out of power; they do not know the sleeping giant that they just awakened!”

She finished up the speech accidentally using the word “silo” when intending to use the word “salvo” instead.

“So if you are not from here, it is time to pull up!” she added. “Because what they thought was the final blow is actually just the opening silo!”

Video of the flub was widely circulated on social media, where she was ridiculed by critics.

RELATED: Gavin Newsom tries to dunk on Trump and gets obliterated with online ridicule

“She just can’t help taking every single opportunity to show the world how low her IQ is,” responded one user on X.

Hilariously, this wasn’t the first time she made that exact same mistake. In a post on social media from 2024, she referred to a Republican’s “opening silo” of rhetoric.

Ocasio-Cortez posted video of the speech on her YouTube channel, but the captions said “salvo” rather than “silo,” which she clearly says.

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Canada’s Indian mass-graves hoax never stood up to scrutiny, so radicals are now working to denigrate and discredit their most vocal scrutineers — those derisively referred to in recent years as “denialists.”

A propaganda program called “Northland Tales” is currently being produced for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation — a Canadian state media outlet — and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.

According to the Indigenous Screen Office, the show is “an unscripted, half-hour comedy series where an Indigenous activist trio uses pranks as a form of social action.”

‘This fraudulent activity is being conducted with our tax dollars.’

Those behind the program have reportedly used false pretenses and fake companies to lure skeptics of claims about Indian mass graves into sitting for what are effectively struggle sessions.

Conservative lawmakers and critics have condemned the deceitful propaganda campaign, while defenders have alternatively framed it as a means toward reconciliation and a better understanding of perceived historical wrongs.

Quick background

Residential schools were established across Canada in the 1880s as part of a federally mandated campaign both to educate Indian children who had no alternative local school options and to assimilate them into contemporary society.

These schools — which were in many cases operated by various Catholic dioceses as well as by Anglican and Presbyterian churches — operated until the second half of the 20th century. An estimated 150,000 children attended the schools over the course of a century.

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Kamloops Indian Residential School. NICHOLAS RAUSCH/AFP/Getty Images

While thousands of children allegedly died while attending the schools, the main killer was reportedly tuberculosis, a disease that swept the rest of the nation as well.

Years after the last school was shuttered, a grievance industry grew around claims of abuse and so-called cultural genocide in the residential schools — claims that former newspaper publisher Conrad Black called “an outrage and a blood libel on the English- and French-Canadian peoples.”

Apparently getting in on the action, the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation announced in May 2021 that it had confirmed the discovery of children’s remains in an apple orchard near a former Catholic-run residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia.

To date, not a single child’s body has ever been located there.

Despite a glaring absence of evidence,

The liberal media and various academics hyped the false narrative; Then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other officials in Ottawa expressed grief, observed a “moment of silence” to mark the supposed discovery, and badmouthed the country; A radical parliamentarian passed a motion with unanimous consent demanding the Canadian government “recognize what happened in Canada’s Indian residential schools as genocide.”Canadian institutions lowered the national flags in memory of the imagined missing children; Canada Day festivities were canceled around the country;Statues remembering historic figures were toppled; andHundreds of churches were vandalized and/or torched.

After fruitlessly blowing hundreds of millions of dollars on the Kamloops investigation and similar grievance industry initiatives, the powers that be considered amending Canada’s Criminal Code to prohibit “denialism,” thereby criminalizing the public recognition of the whole thing as a hoax.

Legislation banning such wrong-think has so far failed to advance.

Unable to silence critics of the hoax, radicals are apparently attempting to humiliate them.

Stitch-up artists

Author Lindsay Shepherd — an outspoken skeptic of the unmarked graves claims who was fired from the B.C. Conservative Party over her criticism of the provincial legislature’s flying of a flag honoring so-called survivors of the residential schools — is one of the individuals targeted by the propaganda program.

Shepherd has written extensively about Canada’s first prime minister, John A. MacDonald, often regarded as a key architect of the residential school system. Shepherd noted online that “a production group with what I now know has a fake name and fake identities gave me a friendly interview about my book A Day with Sir John A, and about Sir John A Macdonald, back in Feb.”

The production group allegedly connected Shepherd with a fake company that “hired” her to perform consulting work.

“We had what I now know were fake meetings, fake documents, fake commercial shoot, fake prototype of a Sir John A collectible,” Shepherd said. “Then in a second filmed interview last week, they turned on me, and it was revealed to have all been a setup in order to demonize Sir John A and smear me.”

Frances Widdowson — a Canadian political scientist who was fired from Mount Royal University partly over her criticism of leftist revisionism about the residential schools and imagined genocide of Indians in Canada — was also targeted by the propagandists.

Widdowson told state media in a recent interview that she was asked in March to be part of a docuseries by an organization calling itself Forge Media. Widdowson said she was flown to Vancouver for an interview about how historical figures were portrayed. A man poorly dressed up as John A. MacDonald joined her during the supposed interview, then a pair of Indian men interrupted, dumping “a whole bunch of children’s shoes” on a nearby table.

Activists led to believe there were unmarked children’s graves by the Kamloops residential schools have left children’s shoes on the steps of government buildings and churches in protest of the imagined harms of yesteryear.

After cluing in that it was “all part of some kind of setup,” Widdowson took out her phone and began recording.

Igor Vamos, one of the activists involved in the propaganda program, told Widdowson that it was a “social experiment,” that she wasn’t a target but rather a “participant.”

Widdowson told state media, “I’ve seen this happen with numerous individuals, and it can be quite a funny and a liberating thing to watch that, but I don’t think that’s what’s going on here.”

Instead, she suggested the propagandists were targeting “citizens who are dissidents.”

The propagandists have allegedly attempted to bamboozle other dissidents and perceived foes of the revisionist left, including veterans of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police who were allegedly brought in to discuss life after service only to be criticized by ideologues.

Backlash

Former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said, “This is appalling, doubly so as this fraudulent activity is being conducted with our tax dollars.”

“I can’t believe the CBC did something like this,” Canadian Conservative politician Aaron Gunn said in a statement. “Using taxpayer money to mislead, deceive and outright lie to ordinary Canadians, including retired RCMP veterans, to trick them into taking part in some sort of twisted political propaganda film. Fake documentaries that slander Canadian history, defame Canadian institutions like the RCMP and smear the reputation of our first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald.”

Gunn has demanded that the Carney administration provide an “explanation and accountability for … the apparent use of taxpayer money to mislead, deceive and lie to Canadian citizens, including Members of Parliament, in attempts to trick them into participating in a fake documentary smearing the reputation of Canada’s first prime minister.”

Melissa Lantsman, deputy leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, wrote, “Fake documentaries. Hidden agendas. Entrapping ordinary Canadians and spending your tax dollars lavishly doing it. History-erasing ideologies who spare no expense.”

Chuck Thompson, CBC’s head of public affairs, defended the practice to the Canadian Press.

“Social experiments and satirical prank shows are a long-established television format used by broadcasters and streamers around the world, including many public broadcasters,” Thompson said. “In this case, the Indigenous creators are using the format for Northland Tales.”

Thompson added, “A form of comedy is being deployed to increase better understanding of historical injustices against indigenous peoples and support truth and reconciliation in Canada.”

CBC News and APTN both claimed to have “no involvement in this production or prior knowledge of it.”

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As the Iran war continues to drag on, another unforeseen effect on the economy is likely to hit American budgets very soon.

Tightening oil supplies from the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz have already raised gas prices, but now industry experts say it is also leading to a shortage of lubricants that are synthesized from specialized base oils.

‘This will impact not only consumers, but also industrial businesses that depend on machinery (which will end up impacting costs and supply throughout the economy).’

Internal communications from Nissan as well as Toyota indicated that service centers are seeing a shortage of motor oil stocks that is leading to increased prices.

“Due to ongoing global supply constraints impacting key raw materials and refining inputs due to the Middle East conflict, we have been advised of reduced production capacity for most lubricant products,” read the bulletin from the Nissan automobile company.

The bulletin outlined an expected drop of 45% for some motor oil supplies.

A spokesperson for the company confirmed the authenticity of the leaked bulletin to the Drive.

“Nissan is closely monitoring current oil supply constraints in coordination with our supplier partners,” read the statement from the spokesperson. “We remain fully committed to supporting our dealers and maintaining a high level of service for our customers.”

The shortage is likely to place more pressure on the Trump administration to reach a ceasefire deal with Iran and reopen the strait to oil tanker deliveries. President Donald Trump has forcefully rejected the latest round of negotiations from the Iranian regime and called its offer “garbage” and “unacceptable.”

Economic expert and Blaze Media contributor Carol Roth told Blaze News the shortage will likely affect the midterm election.

“Motor oil and lubricants are just a couple of the 6,000 derivative products of oil that are being affected by the conflict with Iran,” Roth wrote. “Retailers and auto dealers, among others, are reportedly being told to prepare for historic shortages. This will impact not only consumers, but also industrial businesses that depend on machinery (which will end up impacting costs and supply throughout the economy).”

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“While it seems like individuals haven’t reached the tipping point yet where they will take it out on politicians in the midterms,” she added, “we are getting closer to that point each day.”

On Tuesday the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly report indicating that inflation had spiked to 3.8% in April, which many believe is a direct result of the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran.

On the same day, the latest CNN/SSRS poll showed that about two-thirds of Americans believe the president’s policies have worsened economic conditions.

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Dutch commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek is well known for her criticism of Keir Starmer and mass immigration policies, which has resulted in the U.K. allegedly revoking her travel authorization.

“I just don’t see the inner hidden Nazi that everybody, I guess, in Parliament, in Europe, feels you are,” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck tells Vlaardingerbroek.

“I actually got banned back in January already. I received an email out of the blue,” she explains.

“I posted a tweet calling Keir Starmer an evil, despicable man just three days prior to receiving that email, and I had been on the phone with Tommy Robinson privately confirming that I would be speaking at that rally,” she says.

“When we’re talking about the many, many attacks on free speech here in Europe … I received a message from Apple a year ago saying that my phone was under mercenary spyware attack. Meaning someone’s listening to me all of the time,” she continues.

“I can only speculate, but I wouldn’t be surprised if someone thought, ‘Hmm, the fact that she’s calling out Starmer for what he is … and that she’s planning to go and speak again at that rally, and it was such a success last time, we want to avoid that from happening again,’” she tells Glenn.

“And now they’re banning basically everyone who was coming from abroad to speak at that rally,” she adds.

Glenn points out that they have also “pushed aside all of the working class, the farmers” and “destroyed the factories.”

“They’ve destroyed these communities. Now they’ve moved in people that just don’t seem to want to be English. They don’t want the culture. They want their own culture. … And, you know, Sharia law in particular is incompatible with the Western culture. It cannot happen or coexist,” he tells Vlaardingerbroek.

“And the list of countries where they’ve tried it shows it fails every single time. I’m trying to figure out where these elites think they’re going to end up. I mean, how do they even begin to think this is going to work for their country? What is their plan?” he asks.

“I think it’s very sinister,” Vlaardingerbroek answers, pointing out that those who are speaking out against immigration and the attack on free speech are growing in numbers.

“And he clearly fears that,” she says of Starmer. “So that’s what I think this comes down to. They want to suppress that at all costs.”

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While BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey applauds the Trump administration’s new Moms.gov initiative for offering support and resources to mothers and pregnant women — she argues that one of the website’s goals raises serious ethical questions.

“Moms.gov is a good and new initiative by the Trump administration, and it’s a website that supports mothers and families,” Stuckey explains, noting that it helps expectant moms find nearby pregnancy care centers.

“God is working through these pregnancy care centers to give women truth, to give them resources, to connect them to believers, and to lead them to the gospel. It’s amazing what God is doing through these pregnancy centers, and I am so glad that the Trump administration is shining a light on that,” she says.

The website also provides information on nutrition and wellness for healthy pregnancies as well as breast feeding education and mental health support.

“If the left were really about supporting women and they were really about moms and babies, it would have been the Biden administration who created Moms.gov. It would have been a Democrat-led effort to make sure that moms have the resources that they need,” Stuckey says.

However, Stuckey doesn’t believe the website is as pro-life as it’s made out to be.

“On Moms.gov, the administration is promoting in vitro fertilization,” Stuckey says, pointing out that it’s being treated as a fertility treatment.

“IVF is not a fertility treatment, like it doesn’t solve infertility actually. It kind of tries to get around the issue, but it doesn’t solve the underlying cause of infertility,” she says.

And there are also “many ethical considerations” to make when discussing IVF.

“IVF almost always creates extra embryos that are stored, that are thrown away, that are frozen forever or used in experiments. Very often, this is a eugenic-type process where a couple will create more embryos than they could possibly transfer,” Stuckey explains.

“The vast majority of cases make as many embryos as you possibly can. Those embryos are then graded. If there is any kind of chromosomal abnormality … those embryos are discarded. Sometimes the couple doesn’t even know that those embryos are being discarded,” she continues.

“And morally for us, this is no different than abortion,” she says, adding, “because we’ve been saying in the pro-life movement for a very long time that Dr. Seuss line, ‘A person is a person no matter how small.’”

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A massive brawl broke out in a Washington, D.C., Chipotle restaurant Saturday night — with chairs being thrown and used as weapons — just one day after U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced she would prosecute parents of youths taking part in “teen takeovers,” WJLA-TV reported.

The Metropolitan Police Department said officers were called around 8:41 p.m. to the Chipotle in the 1200 block of First Street SE in the Navy Yard over reports of a large fight inside the restaurant, the station said.

‘It’s really puzzling to me because there’s nothing here for adolescents or teenagers. I understand DC is taking measures to involve youth in different programs, but I really think people’s parents need to get more involved and understanding where their children are.’

Officers were already deployed nearby, monitoring a large group, and arrived within one minute of the call, WJLA said.

But police told the station that by the time officers arrived on scene, those involved in the brawl had already fled.

The station’s video report described the incident as “teen chaos in D.C.”

Ken Ledet, a Navy Yard resident, told WJLA he’s witnessed similar danger in recent months.

“It’s not shocking anymore, since this has become routine on Saturdays and Friday nights, but it’s disappointing to know this is still happening,” Ledet told the station. “I actually come to this Chipotle at least three or four times a week, so thankfully I didn’t come here last night.”

WJLA said its cameras captured the moment police officers chased down and arrested an individual just across the street, in the community’s large field area.

RELATED: Parents of thugs in ‘teen takeovers’ may face fines — and even jail time, says Jeanine Pirro

Saturday night’s incident took place just one day after Pirro announced she would prosecute parents of youths taking part “teen takeovers,” the station said.

“Starting today, my office will aggressively prosecute parents under D.C.’s curfew law,” Pirro said Friday, according to WJLA.

“It involves contributing to the delinquency of a minor. This statute makes it unlawful for an adult to enable, facilitate, or permit a minor to engage in delinquent acts,” the station added.

More from the station:

In the past, MPD has established juvenile curfew zones in response to and to prevent incidents like what unfolded Saturday. Under D.C. law, there is already a citywide curfew for anyone under 18 from 11 p.m. until 6 a.m., Sunday through Thursday, and 12:01 a.m. until 6 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights.

However, under emergency laws and executive orders, the MPD chief has recently had the power to establish juvenile curfew zones in certain areas, starting at 8 p.m., that ban kids from gathering in groups of nine or more for up to three days.

Both the temporary emergency law and the most recent mayoral order expired, meaning MPD could not establish these earlier curfew zones this weekend.

The D.C. Council approved a law creating a permanent curfew, but it will not go into effect until later in the summer, the station said.

Residents like Ledet told WJLA that accountability is needed.

“It’s really puzzling to me because there’s nothing here for adolescents or teenagers. I understand D.C. is taking measures to involve youth in different programs, but I really think people’s parents need to get more involved and understanding where their children are,” Ledet noted to the station.

A police report sent to WJLA Monday morning states two groups of juveniles got into an argument inside the restaurant before things escalated into a physical fight.

The police report states that “there was no report of injuries or damage,” the station said.

Those with information are asked to call police at 202-727-9099 or text tips to 50411, WJLA added.

Indeed, teen takeovers have become a nationwide concern.

Blaze News recently reported about several such incidents in Florida, with one occurring in Tampa earlier this month involving individuals as young as 12 years of age. In April, fights erupted and sheriff’s deputies were hurt after more than 1,000 teenagers descended upon ICON Park in Orlando as part of a planned “takeover.”

Tampa Police said that with summer approaching, the growing “takeover” trend has become a concern for communities across the country.

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President Donald Trump has dropped his lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service on Monday after agreeing to a settlement that requires the Department of Justice to create a fund for government lawfare victims.

Trump, his two eldest sons, and the Trump Organization sued the IRS in January for $10 billion after a former IRS contractor admitted to leaking Trump’s tax documents to left-leaning media outlets.

‘The machinery of government should never be weaponized against any American, and it is this department’s intention to make right the wrongs that were previously done while ensuring this never happens again.’

Court filings show that the complaint was dismissed with prejudice.

Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization will receive a formal apology but no monetary damages.

“They have agreed, in exchange for the creation of this fund, to drop their pending lawsuit with prejudice, and also withdraw two administrative claims including for damages resulting from the unlawful raid of Mar-a-Lago and the Russia-collusion hoax,” the DOJ announced.

As part of the settlement agreement, the attorney general established the $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund to “provide a systematic process to hear and redress claims of others who suffered weaponization and lawfare.”

RELATED: IRS lacks ‘adequate controls’ to protect sensitive taxpayer info from unauthorized access: IG report

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The fund, consisting of five members appointed by the AG, will have the authority to issue formal apologies and monetary relief to victims.

One member of the fund will be selected in consultation with congressional leadership, and the president has the authority to remove any member.

RELATED: IRS contractor who leaked tax records of Donald Trump, ‘thousands’ of others gets prison time

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“The machinery of government should never be weaponized against any American, and it is this department’s intention to make right the wrongs that were previously done while ensuring this never happens again,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche stated. “As part of this settlement, we are setting up a lawful process for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress.”

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In March, NV Energy told a small California utility to find electricity elsewhere. By May, the rest of the country noticed. The reason? NV Energy needs the power for data centers.

Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents are about to lose 75% of their electricity supply. Their utility, Liberty Utilities, gets the other 75% from NV Energy under a decades-old arrangement. That contract expires in May 2027. NV Energy is not renewing it.

NV Energy spokesperson Katie Jo Collier says this was “a planned transition for many years, not a reaction to recent developments.” NV Energy sold its California electric assets to CalPeco (now Liberty Utilities) in 2011, after announcing the deal in 2009. It kept supplying power on a temporary basis. Extensions followed in 2015, 2020, and late 2025. Each time, Liberty had not yet lined up its own supply.

‘It’s like we don’t exist.’

The timing is not a coincidence. Northern Nevada has become one of the fastest-growing data-center corridors in the country. Google, Apple, and Microsoft have either built or are planning facilities around the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center east of Reno. The Desert Research Institute, using NV Energy’s own 2024 Integrated Resource Plan data, found that the 12 data-center projects in Northern Nevada could drive 5,900 megawatts of new demand by 2033. Data centers already consumed 22% of Nevada’s electricity in 2024, and that share could hit 35% by 2030.

At a regional business event last September, NV Energy Director of Business Development Jeff Brigger said, “These are unprecedented times.” He added that the company was eager to serve the new industrial load but that it could not “impact our existing customer base.” Except it is.

NV Energy pushed back last week, saying customers “will not lose power” and that the arrangement was always temporary. The company also denied that data centers influenced the decision, claiming the transition was planned more than a decade ago. But Liberty’s March filing specifically cited data centers in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center as one of the reasons NV Energy gave for ending the agreement.

A jurisdictional knot nobody wants to untangle

What makes this crisis so difficult is that no single regulator oversees the whole chain from generation to customer bills.

Liberty is a California investor-owned utility. Its customers live in California and pay rates approved by the California Public Utilities Commission. But Liberty’s grid sits inside NV Energy’s balancing authority, connects at 38 points, and relies entirely on Nevada transmission lines. Liberty’s territory is a narrow slice along California’s eastern border, inside NV Energy’s zone rather than the California Independent System Operator that coordinates the rest of the state’s grid.

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Building a direct connection to California’s grid would mean a new transmission line west over the Sierra. Liberty President Eric Schwarzrock put the cost at “hundreds of millions of dollars” with significant land impacts.

The CPUC approves Liberty’s rates and procurement requests. It cannot order NV Energy to keep selling wholesale power or tell Nevada how to plan for data centers. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regulates interstate transmission and wholesale electricity sales. California sets the rules, Nevada runs the wires, federal jurisdiction applies to the wholesale market, and nobody is accountable for the outcome.

In March 2026, Liberty asked the CPUC to authorize an expedited request for proposals for replacement energy beginning June 1, 2027. Liberty’s filing said NV Energy cited data centers in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center area and northern Nevada transmission constraints among the reasons for ending the arrangement.

Danielle Hughes, a North Lake Tahoe resident, CEO of the nonprofit Tahoe Spark, and a supervisor at the California Energy Commission’s Efficiency Division, put it plainly to Fortune: “It’s like we don’t exist.”

Rates were already climbing

The supply crisis lands on top of an existing affordability fight. In its 2025 general rate case, Liberty originally asked for a 19.1% revenue increase, which would have meant about $37.51 more per month for the average residential customer. The CPUC approved an 11.4% increase instead. The rate case highlighted wildfire costs, insurance premiums, and infrastructure spending in a high-risk mountain region. The CPUC noted Liberty’s wildfire exposure and its exclusion from California’s AB 1054 Wildfire Fund, suggesting that rising insurance costs (quoted at $31.7 million alone) for small utilities could warrant future rulemaking. Tahoe Spark opposed the rate-case settlement, arguing that it failed to examine the interstate wholesale power structure underlying the costs paid by California ratepayers.

Hughes says Tahoe is treated as a wealthy vacation-home market even though year-round residents include low-income workers and people who staff the ski lifts, hotels, and restaurants that keep the place running. The basin’s demand pattern illustrates how different this territory is from the rest of California: While most regional utilities peak in summer, Liberty’s demand crests around Christmas, when second-home owners arrive for ski season. Year-round residents bear the infrastructure costs driven by visitors.

The only lifeline has almost no margin for error

NV Energy is building Greenlink West, a 525-kilovolt transmission line from Las Vegas to Yerington, as part of its $4.2 billion combined Greenlink program. Greenlink West is expected online in May 2027. Schwarzrock said Liberty would be “first in the waiting line” when Greenlink opens, giving it access to a wider pool of energy providers.

That timeline matches the contract deadline exactly, leaving almost no margin for error. About 70% of the combined Greenlink program’s costs will be borne by Southern Nevada customers.

Hughes and the Sierra Club’s Tahoe Area Group want the CPUC to reject Liberty’s expedited approach and instead open a full proceeding. In an April 1, 2026, letter to CPUC commissioners, Sierra Club Vice Chair Tobi Tyler argued that the scale of the procurement, affecting 49,000 ratepayers in a high wildfire risk area, demands the transparency of a formal process.

Hughes is not optimistic about what comes after any short-term replacement. “Short term, you can commonly get good deals, but it’s unstable,” she told Fortune. “The short-term deal gets you through. But then you’re in the western market, competing against PG&E, Southern California Edison, data centers, and mining companies. We’re 49,000 customers. We have no leverage.”

She’s also worried that as California and Nevada move toward a more integrated western electricity market, Tahoe’s small customer base will be increasingly exposed to competition from larger utilities and industrial buyers with far more purchasing power.

“We have no representation,” Hughes said. “It’s resource extraction.”

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