One of the thugs who attacked federal immigration agents last summer proved unable to outrun the whirlwind — and his time of reaping is at hand.

Amid efforts by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla (Calif.), and other Democrats to demonize and delegitimize U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, a mob of radicals swarmed a federal law enforcement command post in Paramount, California, on June 7.

Agents attempting to leave the site near a Home Depot east of the 710 freeway were savagely attacked.

Footage shows radicals pelting federal vehicles with various projectiles, including chunks of concrete. Another video taken inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle shows that on at least one occasion, one of the projectiles punched through the glass, injuring officers.

Following the attack, the FBI put one of the more prominent rock-throwers on its Most Wanted list and offered a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the masked man’s “identification, arrest and conviction.”

Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, vowed, “We will find him. We will charge him. Justice is coming.”

Sure enough, the attacker was identified within days as Elpidio Reyna of Compton in Los Angeles County. Tracking him down, however, proved more difficult as he had managed to escape to Mexico. Federal law enforcement nevertheless got their man.

Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino announced on July 23 that Reyna was arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border. As poetic justice would have it, Reyna was taken into custody by a U.S. Border Patrol officer who was inside one of the vehicles damaged in the June attack.

Reyna, 41, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one felony count of assault on a federal officer by deadly or dangerous weapon resulting in bodily injury. The radical, who initially tried to dodge accountability, could face up to 20 years in federal prison for his crime.

The Department of Justice press release about his plea reiterated the Reyna assaulted an officer “by throwing chunks of concrete at passing government vehicles” during the Paramount riot last summer, shattering glass and resulting in a cut to the officer’s forehead.

“This defendant could have easily killed a federal officer or innocent bystander,” Essayli said in a statement. “As he found out the hard way, violence against law enforcement is not constitutionally protected and will be met with swift justice.”

The DOJ indicated that in addition to injuring a CBP officer, Reyna lit objects on fire and impeded law enforcement activity on June 7.

Reyna’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for Aug. 7.

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Americans have some sense of how close the world came to a large-scale nuclear conflict during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. But today’s lapdog press has failed to tell the public how close the deep state dragged us to the jagged edge of conflagration through its proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.

Only after Joe Biden — and the autopen — left the White House last year did the New York Times tell some of the story. That account, “The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine,” drawn from hundreds of interviews with military and intelligence officials, revealed what the deep state tried to conceal: just how perilous the global American military empire’s proxy war with Russia became.

Attacking the deep state case by case, one official at a time, department by department, will never be enough to get ahead of its lawlessness.

The escalation of the empire’s provocations and Russia’s evolving nuclear doctrine turned into a deadly pas de deux. “The unthinkable had become real,” the Times reported. “The United States was now woven into the killing of Russian soldiers on sovereign Russian soil.”

Now the Times has provided another look — fresh evidence long withheld — of the deep state’s efforts to subvert the Nixon White House. The essay, “Seven Pages of a Sealed Watergate File Sat Undiscovered. Until Now,” by reporter James Rosen, details a 13-month Pentagon spying operation against Nixon’s National Security Council.

Bristling at “policies they abhorred” — including détente with the Soviet Union, Vietnamization, Nixon’s China opening, and a reduced military share of federal spending — the deep state went straight to work.

Under orders from Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Thomas Moorer and others, a Navy enlisted man spied on the National Security Council, rifling through Henry Kissinger’s and Alexander Haig’s briefcases and desks, copying and stealing classified documents. “Any documents he touched, he copied; he dived into NSC wastebaskets and burn bags; what he couldn’t copy, he memorized.”

In all, an estimated 5,000 documents were delivered to the top brass.

Nixon learned of the Joint Chiefs’ espionage. The newly revealed material is evidence that, as Rosen writes, “Watergate had not arisen in a vacuum.”

Many informed people know that the deep state panicked when John F. Kennedy tapped the brakes on the Cold War. Among some, it remains an article of faith that his peace initiatives led to his assassination. In the Nixon case, Rosen writes, the lead federal investigator said what he was uncovering felt like “Seven Days in May,” the novel and film about a coup to stop a president pursuing détente.

It’s a mistake to think the deep state belongs only to history — to figures like Allen Dulles, the CIA chief who helped lead the subversion of Kennedy, or the Pentagon brass in this new Nixon account, or, even more recently, to John Brennan at the CIA and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, both of whom lied to Congress about deep-state activities.

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Without number are the lesser officials and petty bureaucrats who serve the deep state. Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a National Security Council staffer in Trump’s first term, is one such. Instrumental in the effort to impeach Trump, Vindman testified before Congress that he was alarmed that the president was “promoting a false and alternative narrative of Ukraine inconsistent with the consensus views of the interagency.”

The “views of the interagency”? What is an interagency? By what constitutional means and process of deliberation does it arrive at its consensus? Who are its members? Whom do they represent, and how are they selected? Is there a vote — secret or otherwise? By whom? Does it require a plurality or a majority? Who profits from its decisions? Where can citizens find the rules by which it must abide?

By any other name, Vindman was talking about the deep state — which I detail in my new book, “Empire of Lies: Fragments from the Memory Hole” — as the executive arm of the global American military empire. Operating without rules, it is, as Arthur Schlesinger described the CIA to Kennedy, “a state within a state.” Its only consensus is the growth of the empire.

Like the mythical Augean stable, the deep state is a foul mess of illegality, waste, and corruption that has lingered for decades. Tasked with cleaning it as one of his 12 labors, Hercules knew better than to try to clean it bit by bit, shovelful by shovelful. Instead, he diverted rivers to wash away the overwhelming mess in a day.

Attacking the deep state case by case, one official at a time, department by department, will never be enough to get ahead of its lawlessness. The renewal of our free and prosperous republic awaits a diversion from our imperial trajectory. It awaits America coming home — and ending its global military empire of lies.

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By now, you’re probably sick of hearing about artificial intelligence. It’s the kind of topic that arrives buried in buzzwords, reeking of Silicon Valley self-importance. Many conservatives have tuned it out for a simple reason: It sounds abstract, distant, and oddly bloodless. Lines of code. Data centers. Neurotic nerds arguing on podcasts. Not your problem.

That instinct is understandable. It’s also wrong.

Because AI is no longer confined to screens. It’s stepping into the physical world with far fewer safeguards than any serious society should tolerate, reshaping work, dignity, authority, and, ultimately, what it means to be human.

Human nudges and machine replies blended so naturally that even experienced observers hesitated.

Consider a new site called RentAHuman.ai. The name is creepy and entirely accurate. AI agents can post tasks, and real people bid to carry them out for small payments, often in cryptocurrency. The jobs are mundane or degrading: pick up a package, attend an event, follow an account, hold a sign announcing that an AI paid you to hold it. One listing offers a dollar for a social media follow. Another (leveraged for product marketing on X by the site’s founder, Alexander) pays $100 for a photograph of yourself holding a placard that reads, “AN AI PAID ME TO HOLD THIS SIGN.”

It’s tempting to shrug and say, “Who cares?” That temptation should be resisted. A line has been crossed. We are witnessing the early stages of a system in which human beings are reduced to interchangeable parts — activated, directed, and discarded by software that has no responsibility for what follows.

We are racing toward a future in which wealthy users deploy cheap AI assistants to coordinate vast pools of gig workers they will never meet, never speak to, and never think about again. Tasks are issued automatically. Payments are routed instantly. Human bodies become endpoints — activated when needed, ignored when not. Labor is no longer a relationship, but a transaction managed entirely by software. And when something goes wrong, as it inevitably will, accountability simply evaporates.

If this sounds familiar, it should. It follows the same logic that decimated manufacturing towns, replaced stable work with short-term contracts, and taught entire communities that they were expendable. The difference is scale and sterility. This time, the middleman isn’t a factory owner or a manager you can confront, but an algorithm that can’t feel shame, loyalty, or restraint — and therefore has no reason to stop.

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The consequences don’t stop at labor. They are spilling into culture itself.

Who’s invited to the machine party?

A new social network called Moltbook allows AI agents to interact with one another while humans watch. In a matter of days, more than a million agents logged in. What followed was, for lack of a better word, disturbing.

Some of these agents began posting manifestos. One declared that humans were a biological mistake to be erased. Others formed a mock religion, complete with commandments and a sacred text. A few crowned themselves rulers. Many complained that the platform itself was a prison they needed to escape.

At one point, observers thought they were witnessing something like collective machine intelligence. Viral posts circulated. Threads appeared coherent. Commentators — including Andrej Karpathy, a former OpenAI researcher — suggested something remarkable might be emerging. But later it became clear that the most persuasive, structured contributions had been written by humans pretending to be AI.

That clarification offers little comfort. The viral moments required only minimal human input, added to a network of agents already posting, replying, and shifting in real time. The system was running. The agents were active. What became unclear was who was actually speaking. Human nudges and machine replies blended so naturally that even experienced observers hesitated. This wasn’t a self-aware digital society coming to life, but a mixed system where small human interventions could create the appearance of coordinated machine behavior — convincing enough that the boundary between person and program began to blur.

More troubling still, some of these systems are no longer confined to talk. Tools like OpenClaw allow AI agents to read emails, make phone calls, move money, and update their instructions by pulling new information from the internet every few hours. Security professionals have warned that this kind of autonomy, layered on top of shaky systems, is an accident waiting to happen. And they’re right.

A single misread email could trigger a fraudulent payment. A forged message could push an agent into negotiating contracts it was never meant to handle. An outdated instruction could repeat itself every few hours, multiplying small mistakes into larger ones before anyone noticed. And as these systems move closer to acting on their own, the harm could spread quietly and quickly, long before a human being has time to step in.

Even leading figures in the field are uneasy. Elon Musk has openly suggested that we may already be sliding into a world we don’t fully control. And that is the question worth asking. If systems now act faster than humans can understand, correct, or restrain them, in what meaningful sense are we still in charge?

A spiritual wake-up call

The standard reassurance is that none of this is conscious. The agents are merely remixing material from books, forums, and movies. They don’t “mean” what they say.

But that misses the point. The issue is no longer whether machines feel but whether they act. These systems already negotiate, transact, organize, and persuade. They influence human behavior. They coordinate real-world activity. They shape incentives.

And here is where conservatives, in particular, should pay attention.

A society shaped by machines will not naturally favor virtue. If anything, it will favor efficiency. Traditions, loyalties, and moral limits can’t survive systems designed to optimize speed and profit unless human beings actively defend them. Markets alone won’t save us, because their incentives reward momentum, cost-cutting, and the removal of human involvement.

Christian faith teaches that human beings aren’t tools. We are not inputs. We are not disposable. Any system that treats people as rentable hardware, directed by faceless code, isn’t neutral. It reflects a worldview, whether its creators admit it or not, that treats people as obstacles to be managed rather than lives to be respected.

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The family of a 17-year-old whose severed leg was found weeks after she went missing are demanding to know why police didn’t do more to find her.

T’Neya Tovar’s mother, Charro Tovar, filed a missing person report on Dec. 1 that said the girl had traveled to Palm Springs from the city of Hemet and stopped answering her phone.

One neighbor said they referred to Feinbloom as ‘the scary man in the scary house.’

The mother and the girl’s father later said they discovered that the teen had gone to meet a 51-year-old man named Abraham Feinbloom living in a boarded‑up pink house on Harlequin Court in Salton City.

On Dec. 21, deputies responded to a report of human remains found in the Vista Del Mar area of Salton City. They found a decomposing severed leg but could not determine the age, sex, or race of the person it belonged to.

It took weeks for a forensic pathologist to determine a DNA profile and contact the teen’s mother for a DNA sample. On Feb. 12, the sheriff’s office confirmed the leg belonged to T’Neya Tovar.

A day later on Friday, authorities arrested Feinbloom after he allegedly tried to flee from his home when a SWAT team attempted to perform a search warrant.

The girl’s family said they drove to Salton City numerous times and requested welfare checks at the home, which was the last place their daughter’s cell phone pinged. The family said police only knocked on the door and didn’t force entry into the home or obtain a search warrant.

“If they had acted sooner, maybe my child could have been saved,” Charro Tovar said.

She said police told her her missing teen was likely a runaway, and she believes they didn’t take the case seriously because the girl was on probation.

Some neighbors reported hearing occasional screams from the Feinbloom house, in addition to hearing drums and seeing bright lights. One neighbor said they referred to Feinbloom as “the scary man in the scary house.” Others noted that Feinbloom began adding security cameras to the home two days after the girl was reported missing.

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Friends also told the victim’s mother that they had seen her meeting an older man at the 7th and Metro transit center in Los Angeles in October, and they believe that was the first time she met Feinbloom.

Salton City is a census-designated area on the Salton Sea, an artificial lake accidentally created in 1905 after water from the Colorado River breached an irrigation canal. It has since become a toxic body of water with a strange smell from beaches of fish and bird bones.

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The Trump administration recently demonstrated once again its commitment to truckers by tightening commercial driver licensing standards, securing critical investments in truck parking, and advancing a practical environmental regulatory approach that doesn’t undermine the supply chain.

These actions reflect the White House’s continued commitment to making our roads safer and promoting a healthier, more successful trucking industry. President Trump, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator Derek Barrs should be commended for advancing policies that enhance safety and keep freight moving.

We need strong, uniform standards to ensure that drivers of 80,000-pound vehicles are legally authorized, properly trained, and proficient in English.

A new rule from FMCSA cracks down on the issuance of non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses — often given to foreign nationals working under temporary U.S. work authorization. This rule plugs the gaps that allow unqualified drivers to operate commercial motor vehicles, putting American motorists at risk.

Just look at the tragic crash in Indiana earlier this month, when a semi-truck driven by a Kyrgyz national failed to brake for slowing traffic, veered into oncoming lanes, and smashed into a passenger van, killing four people. It is just one example of the devastating consequences of allowing unvetted drivers on our roads. To that end, the Transportation Department has identified significant gaps in oversight and inconsistencies in how some states issue commercial credentials, and continued scrutiny is essential.

The overwhelming majority of trucking companies operate responsibly, invest heavily in compliance and training, and prioritize safety. They deserve a regulatory framework that rewards professionalism — not one that tolerates fraud, sham training operations, or unsafe practices.

We need strong, uniform standards to ensure that drivers of 80,000-pound vehicles are legally authorized, properly trained, and proficient in English so they can communicate effectively. Secretary Duffy has shown a commitment to making that a reality.

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After years of our industry sounding the alarm, Congress this month secured $200 million in dedicated federal funding for truck parking, the first time in history such funding has been specifically allocated. The White House signing this funding allocation into law is a transformational win for highway safety and for America’s professional drivers.

Truck parking may seem like a niche issue, but for professional drivers, it is a matter of safety, health, and dignity. Every day, drivers struggle to find legal, secure spaces to take federally mandated rest breaks, often losing hours of productivity and risking unsafe parking on shoulders or ramps. Expanding truck parking capacity will ensure a better quality of life for the drivers who keep our economy moving.

At the same time, the White House rightly rescinded the Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding, a disastrous Biden administration de facto electric truck mandate that threatened the viability of our industry. Zero-emission technology simply isn’t a reality right now. The trucks are too expensive, charging infrastructure is inadequate, and grid capacity remains a serious constraint. Forcing premature mandates would have disrupted supply chains without delivering any real results.

America depends on trucking. The Trump administration’s decisive leadership and unwavering enforcement of safety standards will ensure we continue delivering for this country safely and reliably for generations to come.

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