New York City’s newly inaugurated mayor, Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani, revealed plans to increase taxes on “the richest New Yorkers” less than one month into his term, blaming former Mayor Eric Adams (D) for a budget shortfall.

On Thursday, Mamdani held a press conference to detail the “Adams Budget Crisis,” claiming that the former mayor “misled and misinformed” New Yorkers about the “true state” of the city’s finances.

‘And here’s the part socialists hate saying out loud: “Free” is a lie.’

“I will be blunt: New York City is facing a serious fiscal crisis. There is a massive fiscal deficit in our city’s budget to the tune of at least $12 billion. We did not arrive at this place by accident. This crisis has a name and a chief architect,” Mamdani said.

“This is the Adams Budget Crisis.”

He accused Adams of handing the new administration “a poisoned chalice” by “systematically” under-budgeting necessary services, including rental assistance, shelter, and special education.

“Knowing his time in office was likely coming to an end, Mayor Adams chose political self-preservation over fiscal responsibility. This is not just bad governance. It is negligence,” Mamdani remarked.

“The Adams administration dramatically and intentionally understated the problem.”

Mamdani vowed to balance the budget over two fiscal years by implementing “bold solutions,” including “recalibrating the broken fiscal relationship between the state and the city.” He argued that New York City contributes 54.5% of the state’s revenue but receives only 40.5% of its operating expenditures.

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Zohran Mamdani. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images

“Working people did not cause this crisis, and they cannot be made the victims of its solution,” Mamdani stated.

“The time has come to tax the richest New Yorkers and most profitable corporations,” he declared.

Mamdani stated that he could “build a stronger city for everyone” if New York’s top 1% earners paid an additional 2% in income taxes, while claiming that the increase was not significant enough to drive wealthy individuals to leave the state.

RELATED: ‘Tax them to the white meat!’ Mamdani’s new ‘equity officer’ posted now-deleted X posts against white women.

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Adams fired back at Mamdani in several posts on X, denying that he left a deficit in the city’s budget.

“Facts have a way of getting in the way when slogans replace math and blame replaces leadership,” Adams wrote. “I didn’t leave a ‘budget hole.’ I left over $8 BILLION in reserves. Only someone who can’t read a balance sheet would call that a crisis.”

“And here’s the part socialists hate saying out loud: ‘Free’ is a lie. Every so-called free program comes with a price tag, and someone always pays for it,” he added.

Adams argued that Mamdani’s real motive behind his press conference was to find a way to pay for the “laundry list of ‘free’ giveaways” he promised New Yorkers “to buy votes.”

“Now that the math doesn’t work, instead of owning the fact that he misled New Yorkers, he’s blaming me,” Adams said. “This is the same Mamdani who spent years attacking me for not spending enough during the migrant crisis. The only reason those reserves exist is because I ignored him and his socialist comrades who demanded we blow billions more with no guardrails.”

Adams mocked Mamdani in a third post on X, writing, “When you promise ‘free’ everything on Sunday, boldly declare that millionaires and billionaires shouldn’t exist on Monday, and by Tuesday you’re scrambling to fund your giveaways with the very people you wanted gone just yesterday.”

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A family-owned winter sports company is stepping in to save a critical piece of Americana.

Based in Maine, the 208-year-old publication had seemingly released its final edition in November, after offering weather predictions and gardening advice for more than two centuries.

‘It felt wrong to stand by while an irreplaceable piece of our national heritage disappeared.’

The company wrote a heartfelt goodbye on its website toward the end of the year, saying that the 2026 Farmers’ Almanac would be its final release.

“Though the Almanac will no longer be available in print or online, it lives on within you,” editors Sandi Duncan and Peter Geiger wrote.

Fading fast

While the team did not give a specific reason for the closure in their post, CBS News reported that the publishers cited growing financial challenges involved with producing and distributing in today’s “chaotic media environment.”

As the almanac was starting to fade from public memory, publisher Tim Konrad stepped in.

Konrad founded family-owned media company Unofficial Networks, which focuses on content related to skiing, snowboarding, national parks, mountain adventures, and outdoor exploration.

“I saw the announcement that one of America’s most enduring publications was set to close, and it felt wrong to stand by while an irreplaceable piece of our national heritage disappeared,” Konrad said in a press release on the almanac’s website.

RELATED: Trump gives American farmers $12 billion boost to overcome inflation, trade wars

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‘Living link’

Describing the publication as an important piece of American history, Konrad said it is “more than just a book — it’s a living link to generations of knowledge and curiosity about the natural world.”

In addition to a photo alongside Geiger, the entrepreneur said he has been working closely with the team to preserve its most beloved content, like its long-range weather forecasts, humor, and the publication’s “distinctive voice.”

Geiger praised the transition and exclaimed, “An American tradition continues!”

The editor went on to say that the values and wisdom of the almanac have been protected and nurtured for 200 years, and he is grateful to have found the “right next custodian in Tim Konrad.”

Geiger added, “I am also confident he will honor its heritage and carry it forward for generations to come.”

RELATED: Forget Greenland — we’re losing the real green land that feeds America

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New harvest

The Farmers’ Almanac — not to be confused with rival publication The Old Farmer’s Almanac — was founded in 1818 by poet and astronomer David Young and publisher Jacob Mann. It will continue to be accessible online, with plans to revive the annual print edition in future volumes.

Unofficial Networks has built a strong brand and following in its own genre, garnering over 250,000 subscribers on its YouTube channel. The channel features first-hand footage of avalanches along with skiing content.

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A criminal illegal alien accused of throwing a baseball-sized rock into a New Jersey school bus and fracturing the skull of an 8-year-old girl was placed on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer, the Department of Homeland Security said earlier this week.

The DHS, citing local reports, said the school bus was traveling on the New Jersey Turnpike to Yeshivat Noam — a local Jewish day school — after a field trip at Liberty Science Center on Jan. 7.

‘We hope New Jersey’s sanctuary politicians will help us keep him off American streets for good.’

Officials said Hernando Garcia-Morales of Mexico threw a rock at the vehicle, breaking a window and hitting the third-grade student, who was forced to have surgery.

The DHS said two days later — Jan. 9 — New Jersey Turnpike State Police arrested Garcia-Morales for aggravated assault, resisting arrest, and possession of a weapon. The Bogota (New Jersey) Police Department also charged him for aggravated assault, criminal trespassing-defiant, criminal trespassing-peering, and criminal mischief-damage property, DHS said.

NJ.com added that Garcia-Morales was found in a self-made campsite within Old Croaker County Park in Bergen County.

Garcia-Morales has had an extensive criminal history while living in sanctuary state New Jersey, the DHS said, noting that he was arrested for burglary in 2023 and for possession of a weapon and theft in 2006.

In addition, the investigation also linked him to multiple rock-throwing incidents in Bogota Borough, NJ.com reported, citing state police.

Garcia-Morales has since been placed in ICE custody, NJ.com added.

RELATED: Minnesota’s ‘worst of the worst’: DHS highlights arrests of repeat offenders, violent criminals in Operation Metro Surge

DHS said Garcia-Morales entered the United States on an unknown date.

“Violently targeting a school bus full of children is extremely wicked and heinous,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, who called the suspect a “monster.”

“Hernando Garcia-Morales should have never been in this country, let alone released, after multiple arrests, into New Jersey communities,” McLaughlin also said, adding that “we hope New Jersey’s sanctuary politicians will help us keep him off American streets for good. Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, criminal illegal aliens have no place in the U.S.”

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After BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales exposed the truth hiding behind H-1B visas in Texas, Governor Greg Abbott (R) decided to open an investigation into H-1B visa abuse and has directed all Texas state agencies to freeze new H-1B visa applications.

“In light of recent reports of abuse in the federal H-1B visa program, and amid the federal government’s ongoing review of that program to ensure American jobs are going to American workers, I am directing all state agencies to immediately freeze new H-1B visa petitions as outlined in this letter,” Abbott wrote in a statement.

“Evidence suggests that bad actors have exploited this program by failing to make good-faith efforts to recruit qualified U.S. workers before seeking to use foreign labor. In the most egregious schemes, employers have even fired American workers and replaced them with H-1B employees, often at lower wages,” he continued.

“Rather than serving its intended purpose of attracting the best and brightest individuals from around the world to our nation to fill truly specialized and unmet labor needs, the program has too often been used to fill jobs that otherwise could — and should — have been filled by Texans,” he concluded.

“Credit where credit is due,” Gonzales comments. “Let this play out. Let this investigation play out. Let them prove to us how far they are willing to go. This is step one of many different steps that need to take place in order for us to take our country back, in order for displaced American workers to be able to find work again.”

“So we’re not stopping. Obviously, public pressure works. We’re going to expose every aspect of this racket from the H-1B visas to all of the other visas that feed off of them, like H-4 visas,” she continues.

“But it turns out, yeah, your spouse can just get a visa too, if you’re on an H-1B. The kids too. There’s a visa for that. And so these H-4 visas have even less oversight on the rules of the kinds of jobs that they can get on and take on an H-4 visa,” she explains.

If an immigrant here on an H-4 visa wants to work at a place like McDonald’s, “there’s nothing stopping them,” Gonzales says.

“The whole thing is a racket,” she continues. “We will be exposing all of it.”

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“Breaking Bad” actor Giancarlo Esposito has a message for old white men: If you want civil war, you might just get it.

The 67-year-old told a reporter at the Sundance Film Festival that it is “time for a revolution” and that the powers that be “don’t even know that’s what they’re starting.”

‘They’ll kill 500, 50 million, however [many], but the rest of us would survive with a new [world].’

Esposito, who has also starred in “The Mandalorian” and “Better Call Saul,” elaborated on his theory at the premiere of his latest project on Tuesday in Park City, Utah.

Fring-a-ling

“You know, some very rich old white men are exerting their power to suppress our own people, thus creating a feeling of civil war in the streets, preparing the haters to hate, teaching them how to shoot — they’re not even trained right — to kill,” he explained. “This is all preparation for a very insidious problem that’s happening in our world.”

Esposito then told a reporter from Variety that while tens of millions may die from a revolution, the rest would get to live on in the new world.

RELATED: Sundance VIPs take 10-minute protest break in between screenings

Collateral damage

“I have to speak out that we will not be ICE’d out,” the actor continued. “This is not going to happen. They can’t take us all down. If the whole world showed up on Putin’s doorstep or on the Iranians’ doorstep or in Washington, it would stop [them]. They’ll kill 500, 50 million, however [many], but the rest of us would survive with a new [world].”

The TV actor went on to say that the unnamed forces don’t know what the revolution is that they are starting, but “we have to be strong enough to know that we can change the world. We have to change it from within.”

“Not by deporting immigrants” and “not by killing off brown … people,” the actor stressed.

RELATED: Brave Hollywood stars hit Sundance red carpet in defiance of ICE ‘gestapo’ terror

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Talk show

This year’s Sundance has seen the “premiere” of many celebrity political opinions. Edward Norton, for example, wowed audiences by comparing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Nazi gestapo.

Not to be upstaged, actress Natalie Portman told Deadline that what the Trump administration is doing is “really the worst of the worst of humanity,” while actor Elijah Wood of “Lord of the Rings” fame showed up for a 10-minute demonstration on Main Street to protest ICE with cell phones.

Wood said “folks” had been “unlawfully gunned down in Minnesota” and that the crowd at Sundance is “coming together” and is not divided.

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A Democrat Oklahoma state representative is resigning after she got caught trying to pay the Ethics Commission with a forged check.

Rep. Ajay Pittman, whose district includes part of Oklahoma City, announced her resignation Wednesday after pleading guilty to a felony charge related to the forged check. She was in her fourth term.

The Democrat had previously agreed to pay $12,000 in restitution and a fine over similar accusations in 2020 and 2022.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond said that part of the sentence for Pittman included her resigning from her office.

“I believe stepping aside allows my district to be served without distraction,” Pittman said. “Leadership is not only about holding office, but it’s also about knowing when to close a chapter with grace and clarity.”

Pittman was accused of violating the Oklahoma Computer Crimes Act in relation to campaign finance records, as well as forgery and embezzlement. Investigators searched Pittman’s office in October.

Drummond said that she forged a check to the Oklahoma Ethics Commission to avoid paying back funds to her campaign account.

“Public officials hold a sacred trust with the people they serve,” read a statement from Drummond in a press release. “When that trust is violated for personal gain, it strikes at the very heart of our institutions. This office will continue to hold elected officials accountable when they abuse their positions and betray the public’s confidence. No one is above the law in Oklahoma.”

Pittman also received a deferred sentence of seven years and has to pay full restitution for the campaign funds she is accused of embezzling.

RELATED: Congresswoman’s staffer indicted for spreading her intimate videos and photos online

The Democrat had previously agreed to pay $12,000 in restitution and a fine over similar accusations in 2020 and 2022.

Pittman either authored or co-authored more than 160 pieces of legislation during her time in the legislature. KOCO-TV said she was an influential and prominent politician in Oklahoma.

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Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin (D) gave a speech Wednesday on the Senate floor expressing both his intention to help starve the Department of Homeland Security of funds and his outrage over anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement agitator Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting on Saturday by a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent.

When discussing Pretti’s demise, Durbin relied on a large visual aid — a supposed photograph of the incident.

However the Democratic senator appears to have overlooked glaring indications that the image was significantly doctored. For starters, one of the federal agents depicted in the image appears to be missing his head.

‘AI enhancement tends to hallucinate details.’

“I’m going to show a photo of that scene, which is graphic, but I’m afraid is necessary to appreciate the horror of the moment,” Durbin said as he set the image for all to see on an easel. “This photo shows the last second before the ICE agent killed Alex Pretti on the streets of Minneapolis.”

After citing the image as evidence that it was “obvious” Pretti had made “no effort to resist” — a claim contradicted by footage taken from multiple vantages — and emphasizing that “the photo tells the story,” Durbin criticized the Trump administration for encouraging skepticism about the initial narrative surrounding the shooting.

“What was the Trump administration’s immediate response when they heard of this second killing in Minneapolis? Not to bring down the temperature but instead to rush to the American people with one message: ‘Don’t believe your eyes. Don’t believe what you see,'” said Durbin, pointing at the image, which is apparently an AI interpretation of a blurry still from footage taken of the incident.

RELATED: ‘Gentle nurse’ narrative cracks: New video appears to show Pretti spit toward federal agents and kick out taillight

Photo by Octavio JONES / AFP via Getty Images

There are numerous other signs of AI “hallucinations” in the image used by Durbin besides the absence of one agent’s head.

There are, for instance, confusing shadows; a seemingly impossible configuration of fingers on Pretti’s right hand; an unnatural bend in one of the legs of the headless agent kneeling next to Pretti; and a fantastical weapon in the possession of the agent depicted behind Pretti.

Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Information, told the Agence France Press, “The issue with these images is that the AI enhancement tends to hallucinate details.”

According to IBM, “AI hallucination is a phenomenon where, in a large language model (LLM) often a generative AI chatbot or computer vision tool, perceives patterns or objects that are nonexistent or imperceptible to human observers, creating outputs that are nonsensical or altogether inaccurate.”

Peter Adams, senior vice president of research and design at the News Literacy Project, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that such AI-generated images “are an example of how synthetic visuals can spread confusion and further divide Americans about important issues.”

Durbin was evidently not the only liberal duped by the image.

In fact, it went viral on multiple social media platforms, including X, where it netted tens of millions of impressions and was shared widely. Even retired Gen. Raymond Thomas III, the former commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, and MSNBC legal analyst Jill Wine-Banks appear to have been fooled by it.

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After the withdrawal of Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D) formally declared her candidacy for governor of Minnesota in a polished campaign video released Thursday.

Klobuchar emphasized unity during what she described as a period of deep division in the state but repeatedly invoked federal immigration enforcement as a core concern for voters.

‘Get out of our state.’

“I’m running for every Minnesotan who wants ICE and its abusive tactics out of the state we love,” Klobuchar said, echoing remarks she has made repeatedly on the Senate floor and in public appearances as Minnesota has grappled with a federal immigration enforcement surge.

In recent speeches, she has urged Immigration and Customs Enforcement to leave Minnesota and criticized congressional efforts that would fund expanded ICE operations.

Klobuchar said the federal immigration surge in Minnesota was “making us less safe” and called on ICE to “get out of our state,” arguing that the deployment of thousands of agents inflamed tensions rather than improved public safety.

RELATED: ‘Organized obstruction’: Leaked alleged Signal chats show anti-ICE radicals tracking ICE agents, chasing vehicles

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Following the fatal shooting of Renee Good, Klobuchar also issued a statement through her Senate office criticizing the operation as being carried out “against the wishes of local leaders” and warning that federal enforcement actions were destabilizing Minnesota communities.

Klobuchar further condemned congressional proposals that would increase ICE funding without additional restrictions, saying she would not support legislation that “doubles down on enforcement-first policies” while communities are already facing unrest tied to federal immigration operations.

Her gubernatorial campaign video opens with Klobuchar addressing recent tragedies, saying, “Minnesota, we’ve been through a lot,” before referencing a string of violent incidents, including the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both of which occurred amid unrest tied to federal immigration enforcement activity.

RELATED: ‘You should f**king kill yourself’: DHS releases terrifying audio of anti-ICE agitator threatening Minnesota agent

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

She also criticized the presence of roughly 3,000 federal immigration agents operating in Minnesota communities, criticizing an administration she said “relishes division.” Klobuchar has publicly said that immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis are “making us less safe” and has joined other Minnesota leaders in calling those federal actions a threat to community safety.

Klobuchar said Minnesota needs leaders who can stand up to Donald Trump’s administration while still finding common ground to address problems at the state level.

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Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino posted a video message in support of federal immigration officers after he and some of his agents left Minneapolis in the wake of a lethal shooting.

President Donald Trump sent border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota to address growing rioting and protests after Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal officers Saturday.

‘I’ve got your back, now and always — I love you, I support you, and I salute you.’

Bovino, who has been lauded for his “turn and burn” tactics by immigration hawks, issued a statement of love and support for his officers in the social media video.

“Team, behind me are a few individuals there,” said Bovino, referring to former Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. “That’s the original turn and burn, the folks that helped make America.”

“But you know what? I’m very proud of what you, the mean green machine, are doing in Minneapolis right now, just like you’ve done it across the United States over these past tough nine months,” he added.

“And I want you to know that you’re the modern-day equivalent of turn and burn. It makes me very proud,” he concluded. “I also want you to know that I’ve got your back, now and always — I love you, I support you, and I salute you.”

Bovino coined the term “turn and burn” with his agents to describe mass deportations.

Homan has met with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey as well as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, both Democrats, after arriving in the state. Both Frey and Walz have said their goal is to shut down all federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota.

RELATED: More UNHINGED anti-ICE extremist footage: ‘I am a liberal, leftist, pagan, lesbian, transgender woman, and witch!’

Homan addressed reporters from Minneapolis about making the immigration enforcement operation safer.

“I am not here because the federal government has carried its mission out perfectly. The first thing I said to senior staff when I walked in here, is what I told you earlier: I didn’t come here for photo-ops or headlines. I come here looking for solutions,” he said.

“I do not want to hear that everything that’s been done here has been perfect,” he added. “Nothing’s ever perfect, and anything can be improved on. And what we’ve been working on is making this operation safer, more efficient, by the book. The mission is going to improve.”

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Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck has come up with a newly coined term to describe what has the left in a death grip — the “Barabbas trap.”

Glenn modeled the term after the Jewish insurrectionist and notorious prisoner Barabbas, who was released after Pontius Pilate asked a crowd during Passover whether he should release the insurrectionist or Jesus Christ.

The crowd chose to release the one who offered the easy way out, revolution, rather than Christ’s way.

And he believes the left is currently falling hardest for the “Barabbas trap” in Minnesota.

“This is possibly the biggest fraud case in American history, OK? And there’s no way the Democrats in power didn’t know about it. But no one’s talking about that,” Glenn says on “The Glenn Beck Program.”

“No one’s talking about how you, the taxpayer, the people who are now saying ‘Barabbas,’ how you were ripped off, how maybe your children were hurt because your government, the state government and the local government, was giving money knowingly to people who were abusing the system,” he explains.

“And when the government comes in to arrest, they start shouting for revolution. And they’re shouting for it because of the leaders. The same leaders who likely allowed the fraud, know the people in the streets will look past their egregious sins if it means stopping Trump,” he continues.

While Glenn agrees that it’s “sane” to have a healthy distrust of the federal government and demand “accountability and transparency” — he also notes that there’s a line where “distrust becomes devotion.”

“Where you stop evaluating the facts because you’re devoted, where your movement stops being about justice and becomes about being against something so completely that it doesn’t matter what you’re now defending,” Glenn says.

“When people are told these arrests are targeting truly dangerous criminals, the sober response isn’t blind faith in the government. I don’t have that,” he says, explaining that the sober response is asking for evidence.

“And if the claim is true, if people are being swept up, who are really violent, predatory, destructive, then the society is indeed standing at a knife’s edge, cliff’s edge … not because enforcement can’t be abused. It can. Not because the state can’t lie. It can. But because a crowd can begin to treat evil as an acceptable ally as long as it wears the right costume: resistance,” Glenn says.

“I would like to coin a term here. This is the ‘Barabbas trap,’” he adds.

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In a sudden turn of events, anti-ICE protesters are now being arrested, with some members of the Trump administration, including border czar Tom Homan, making their presence felt on the ground.

Attorney General Pam Bondi joined Homan and other officials in Minneapolis on Wednesday with a post of some of the latest anti-ICE scalps police have claimed, including some who have since been catapulted to internet infamy.

‘We expect more arrests to come.’

“I am on the ground in Minneapolis today. Federal agents have arrested 16 Minnesota rioters for allegedly assaulting federal law enforcement — people who have been resisting and impeding our federal law enforcement agents,” Bondi wrote.

“We expect more arrests to come,” she continued.

RELATED: Somali radical accused of sickening salivary assault on federal agents after bizarre ‘bananas with rice’ speech

Nasra Ahmed. Attorney General Pam Bondi on X

Bondi wrote that all of the anti-ICE protesters were arrested for allegedly “assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees” under 18 U.S. Code § 111.

Christina Rank, Abdikadir Noor, Madeline Tschida, Nitzana Flores, Helicity Borowska, Quentin Williams, William Vermie, Paul Johnson, Gillian Etherington, Joshua Doyle, Kirubele Adbebe, Margaret Sager, Ilan Wilson-Soler, Nasra Ahmed, Alice Valentine, and Matrim Charlebois were named in the post as those arrested recently.

Bondi included booking photos of those arrested in her post on social media.

Among those in the photos was Somali radical Nasra Ahmed, who last week went viral for her bizarre, jumbled speech about Somalian nationality and bananas and rice.

Ahmed is accused of spitting in the face of a federal officer, leading to her detention. During the press conference held after her release without charges, she was wearing a prominent bandage on the right side of her forehead. No sign of injury or bandages can be seen in the booking photo, however.

Attorney General Pam Bondi on X

Attorney General Pam Bondi on X

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President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, pledged to stay and clean up Minneapolis until justice is served.

Homan traveled to Minneapolis this week in the aftermath of a second fatal shooting of an anti-ICE agitator. Despite new footage apparently showing Alex Pretti, the radical killed over the weekend, spitting on federal agents and kicking out a tail light, violent activists are continuing to ravage Minneapolis.

‘They’ll be held accountable.’

“The reason for the massive deployment is because of the threats, because of the violence,” Homan said during a Thursday press conference. “… We brought extra resources in to provide that security.”

“When the violence decreases, we can draw down those resources.”

RELATED: Alex Pretti broke a rib in a previous altercation with feds a week before he died: CNN

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Homan suggested that many of these violent mobs are not organic, but rather organized and well-funded groups of agitators motivated by ideology. Although he didn’t specify the approach, Homan committed to holding these agitators accountable.

“About the organization and the funding of the attacks on ICE,” Homan said. “I’m not going to answer a lot about that, because I’m not going to show our hand, but they’ll be held accountable. Justice is coming.”

RELATED: Federal cops in Pretti shooting placed on leave; Pretti’s family retains attorneys from George Floyd case

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Homan said a lot of progress has been made since he arrived in Minneapolis on Monday, claiming Minnesota has agreed to allow county jails to notify federal agencies like ICE when illegal aliens are released so they can be taken into custody. Although Homan acknowledged that this is a step in the right direction, he is committed to staying in Minnesota until the work is done.

Blaze News has reached out to Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison for comment.

“I’m staying until the problem is gone,” Homan said.

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As talks between the Trump administration and Minnesota leadership continue, with some possible success, police have begun dealing with protesters more efficiently this week.

In a surprising turn of events, protesters in Minneapolis were swiftly dealt with near the Graduate by Hilton hotel.

‘All individuals: You are under arrest. Please sit down.’

In video originally captured on independent reporter Brendan Gutenschwager’s livestream of the protests in Minneapolis on Wednesday night into Thursday morning, protesters could be seen being kettled by police on a street block.

Police officers, who were reported to be Minnesota state police and University of Minnesota police officers, quickly formed a line on the street.

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“All individuals: You are under arrest. Please sit down,” one officer says once the police line is set.

The video showed a few dozen protesters on the street, many of whom sat down immediately in compliance with the order.

Gutenschwager reported that this kettling tactic was used near the Graduate by Hilton Minneapolis.

A second video of the aftermath of some arrests shows police walking arrestees toward a line of blue buses.

Frontlines TPUSA posted a video on the ground of the same event. Describing the scene, the cameraman says, “They’re being taken into these buses now with bars on the windows.”

Though the crowds seemed subdued during and after the kettling tactic, Gutenschwager’s livestream showed that the protesters were much more energetic and disruptive in the earlier hours of the night.

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