Trevor Preisel, the executive director at the New Castle Prism Initiative, said the LGBTQIA+ members of the center were upset by vandalism on their Pride flags.

The center is located at the Third Independent Presbyterian Church in New Castle, Pennsylvania, and is one of the only centers offering LGBTQIA+ support in the Shenango Valley area.

‘If people are doing things like this, if people are talking about you, it goes to show that what we’re doing is working.’

They were preparing for a Pride festival on Wednesday when they discovered the vandalism.

“People had torn down the progress flags and just thrown them on the ground on both sides,” said Preisel, who showed the destruction to WKBN-TV.

“There was also one in this general area, and someone had just completely stepped on and smashed the fence post, ripped the flag off, as well as down here, where those two flags are now. Those were just completely ripped off the rivets,” he added.

The center has replaced the flags and added surveillance cameras.

“We did feel targeted,” he added. “There was a police report that was filed.”

He went on to say the vandalism was evidence that they were making a difference in the community.

“Obviously, it does hurt in a sense, but to quote a lot of activists that have come before me, if people are doing things like this, if people are talking about you, it goes to show that what we’re doing is working, and what we’re doing is having an impact in this community,” Preisel added.

RELATED: Video shows teens cutting up Pride flags at gay bar during Pride Month — now they’re facing hate crime charges

The group posted images of the damage to social media and said the community responded through increased donations.

“We’ve had a lot of local businesses reaching out to us. We’ve had a lot of community members reaching out to us, a lot of people asking if they can donate toward putting new flags up,” Preisel added. “When things like this do happen, the community comes together.”

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As late ballots poured in overnight in the Los Angeles mayoral race, Democratic socialist Nithya Raman overtook Spencer Pratt — and BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler isn’t buying it, declaring that “the Democrats have stolen an election again.”

“It’s not a question of did they, it’s a question of how they did,” Wheeler says.

And President Donald Trump agrees.

“Not possible for Spencer Pratt to have lost the L.A. runoffs after the big lead he had. 3rd World Nation. Rigged Elections! Now they’ll be working on great guy Steve Hilton. Won’t have results for, possibly, TWO WEEKS, according to officials,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

“This is exactly what happened in 2020,” Wheeler says, claiming that conservatives are again being gaslighted over the results.

“Do not let them gaslight you. They are cheaters. They stole the L.A. mayoral election. The late mail-in ballot numbers are just quite literally unbelievable. There is no way that this councilwoman, this no-name councilwoman who no one knew who she was, Nithya Raman, before Spencer Pratt made ads about her home, there’s no way that she got 22% of the vote in person on election day,” Wheeler says.

“Meanwhile, Spencer Pratt, whose fundraising skyrocketed in the days before the election, supposedly completely bottomed out from 30% on election day to 20% of late mail-in ballots,” she continues.

Senior counsel for the Article III Project Will Chamberlain agrees, telling Wheeler that there was a boost in Raman’s prediction market odds — even though she was still very far behind in the count at that point.

“Honestly, I do think that … somebody somehow was aware that a bunch of ballots were going to start coming in for Raman,” he says.

“But you start with the assumption that California’s election laws are so frivolous. They lack integrity to such a degree that there are a myriad number of ways in which cheating could have happened,” he continues.

“Plus, if you look at the heat map of the late votes, doesn’t it show that it’s coming from Skid Row?” Wheeler asks.

“I actually lived in downtown L.A. a few blocks from Skid Row. Yeah, nobody lives there except homeless people. And the homeless people are drug addicts,” Chamberlain says.

“They’re not going to vote. They’re drug addicts,” he continues, explaining that’s where he believes the fraud originated.

“These operatives are going into homeless encampments and registering people to vote. That wouldn’t make any sense if you were trying to conduct elections on the level because you couldn’t count on those people to vote,” he says. “So that seems like a very unproductive use of your time unless, right, unless you are using those people to cheat.”

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A horrific attack in Northern Ireland by a Sudanese asylum seeker has led to rioting by anti-immigration protesters.

Video of the shocking attack showed the Sudanese man straddling a man on the ground and hacking at his neck with what appeared to be a kitchen knife.

‘The attack in north Belfast was heinous and wrong. But there are dangerous attempts to exploit that, to target and attack innocent people who are simply trying to live, work and raise their families here.’

Bystanders attacked the 30-year-old asylum seeker before police arrived to arrest him and transport the victim to a hospital.

The attacker reportedly obtained asylum in the United Kingdom in 2023 and traveled to Paris before going to Belfast in Northern Ireland. His identity has not been released, but he has been charged with attempted murder.

“The horrific attack in Belfast last night is sickening,” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in a statement on social media. “I have absolutely no tolerance for abhorrent scenes of violence like this on our streets. My thoughts are first and foremost with the victim, and I thank the first responders, including members of the public who intervened.”

Outraged voices on social media called for a “protest against mass immigration” for Tuesday evening.

Assistant Chief Constable Ryan Henderson said there was so far no evidence that terrorism motivated the attack, but added that the investigation is still in its early stages.

RELATED: Sudanese national suspect attempts to behead UK citizen — but police beg public not to share images

“We have commenced an investigation to establish a motive,” Henderson said, adding that the “brutal attack will have sent shock waves through the community, causing real concern.”

Videos from Belfast showed several cars being lit on fire and dozens of rioters clad all in black.

Law enforcement officials also asked that residents stop sharing the very graphic video captured of the alleged attack, in order to avoid more public outrage.

Pastor Jack McKee reported that people in his congregation were being attacked just because they’re black.

“They’re good Christian people, and they’re getting put out just because they’re black,” McKee said to the BBC.

He said some church members were “getting put out of their home, had their house attacked, windows smashed, houses beside them burned.”

One report on social media said rioters were lighting fires in cars with gasoline bombs.

RELATED: German officials failed to deport Syrian migrant who allegedly butchered people at Christian concert

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Other reports said a Turkish barber shop had been vandalized in a nearby city.

Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill condemned the violence as nothing but “disgusting cowardice” in a post on social media.

“The attack in north Belfast was heinous and wrong,” she wote. “But there are dangerous attempts to exploit that, to target and attack innocent people who are simply trying to live, work and raise their families here.”

She added, “There can be no excuse and no justification for these attacks tonight. No one wants to see this on our streets and I again appeal for calm.”

The 40-year-old victim of the stabbing attack was treated for injuries to his eyes, back, and face.

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Some individuals in California will soon face federal election fraud charges, first assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli told Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on Monday.

California has faced criticism for the delays in counting votes in the gubernatorial and Los Angeles mayoral primary races, fueling concerns of fraud.

‘We will be charging some people.’

Now, a week after Election Day, California still has not counted all of the votes in its primary elections.

Last week, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles was investigating the delays.

Essayli noted in a post on social media that California allows its residents to register to vote using questionable forms of identification, including gym membership cards, employee ID cards, credit and debit cards, insurance cards, and prescription drug labels.

“This is permitted when a voter fails to provide a Social Security number or driver’s license at registration. Our office believes this policy deserves a closer look,” he wrote.

RELATED: Los Angeles mayor race called for far-left challenger after Pratt loses 40,000-vote lead

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During “The Glenn Beck Program” on Monday, Essayli told Beck that his office will be pursuing election fraud charges in the near future.

“It will be election fraud charges in the next — I hate to put timelines on things — one to two months, I believe. We need some of these results to be certified so we can prove some of the allegations,” Essayli stated. “But we will be charging some people.”

“At this point right now, we’re wide open for investigations,” he added.

RELATED: California gubernatorial race: A Republican and a Democrat appear headed for runoff election

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Essayli, who referred to California as a “fraudster’s paradise,” encouraged witnesses to come forward with any information.

“If someone voted in your name and you found out someone voted for you, we want to know about that. If you saw someone collecting ballots in a suspicious way or doing something odd with ballots, we want to know about that,” Essayli said. “Those are the kind of things we need direct evidence of right now so we can launch into deeper investigations.”

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Since the WNBA’s season kickoff in May, BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock has been sounding the alarm that Indiana Fever superstar and the GOAT of women’s basketball, Caitlin Clark, is in deep trouble — not because of anything she did, but because her own team is actively orchestrating her downfall.

Whitlock has warned that if something doesn’t change, Clark’s stardom will prematurely fade. At this point, he sees only one option: leave.

“Caitlin Clark has to demand a trade right now, immediately. It’s the only way to fix this Indiana Fever situation,” he argues on a recent episode of “Fearless.”

Clark, he argues, “can’t trust anyone” involved with Indian Fever, and that includes: head coach Stephanie White, assistant coaches Briann January and Karima Christmas-Kelly, general manager Amber Cox, team president Kelly Krauskopf, the players, and even her own agent, Erin Kane.

“Caitlin Clark needs a whole new team, from agent on down to team on down. Caitlin Clark has to take this situation by her own hands, with her own hands, and correct this. If she doesn’t, this thing will drag out, and she will be destroyed,” Whitlock warns.

Since the Indiana Fever is unlikely to oust Clark and thus become “bad guys” and “idiots,” his solution is simple: Clark’s dad should orchestrate her transfer to the L.A. Sparks.

“She needs her father to step up and assist her in putting together a whole new team from top to bottom,” he says.

The first order of business, he says, is to fire Kane.

“[Get] rid of … the power agent, Erin Kane, who can’t be on her side,” he says, calling Kane “a hardcore political feminist activist.”

Step two, Whitlock says, is to get out of Indiana, where the team is structured in a way that prevents Clark from self-actualizing.

“She’s standing in a circle of people that cannot support her. Look at her teammates. What organization would put four former South Carolina players on the same roster as Caitlin Clark? Those are Dawn Staley soldiers!” he exclaims.

For years, Whitlock has characterized Staley as a symbol of the woke, DEI-driven women’s basketball establishment that he believes is hostile to Clark’s rise.

“Who surrounds Caitlin Clark with Dawn Staley soldiers, knowing how Dawn Staley felt about Iowa, about Lisa Bluder, and Caitlin Clark?” he asks, alluding to Staley’s long-standing resentment toward Iowa, her bitter 2023 Final Four loss to Bluder’s Hawkeyes, and her recent insistence that Clark is ‘criticizable’ despite public praise.

“Caitlin Clark has to woman up and tell the world, ‘I want out of Indiana. I want out of this cesspool of deceit and destruction and chaos and dysfunction,”’ he comments.

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman of New York says his office was able to stop an operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement outside of a courtroom.

Goldman said in a statement on social media Monday that he saved “a father” from detention after confronting ICE agents and accusing them of violating laws.

‘Aggressive congressional oversight and legal advocacy are our best defense against this administration’s lawless dragnet.’

“[ICE] thought they could get away with breaking the law in broad daylight today. They were wrong,” said Goldman.

“This morning, I confronted ICE agents outside an immigration court room to remind them that they are prohibited from arresting anyone who appears as required at immigration court,” he added. “They didn’t seem to care and arrested a father outside of the courtroom right in front of his wife and two young kids.”

Goldman is known for organizing a “triage” center at his Manhattan offices in order to provide legal aid to migrants rounded up in ICE operations. He claims to have freed 42 federal detainees, the last of which came from the ICE facility at Delaney Hall in New Jersey.

“Our volunteer coalition immediately brought the family to my office’s triage center and my team sprung into action,” Goldman added. “Within minutes, one of my staff members demanded his belongings from ICE while @NYLAG prepared an emergency lawsuit and his kids had a snack and played games.”

Goldman claimed that ICE “quickly released” the man to his family.

“They knew they broke the law,” he added. “Aggressive congressional oversight and legal advocacy are our best defense against this administration’s lawless dragnet.”

A Blaze News request for comment to ICE was not immediately answered.

RELATED: Democratic mayor installs ‘anti-ICE’ signs all over L.A. — Trump issues MOCKING response

Goldman’s re-election campaign is facing a primary challenge from a far-left candidate who has gotten the endorsement of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D). Former NYC Comptroller Brad Lander claimed he’s better suited to oppose President Donald Trump and accused Goldman of being a “corporate Democrat.”

The Democratic primary will be held on June 23.

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Mayhem broke out Monday night on Manhattan’s 42nd Street as thousands of rowdy New York Knicks fans flooded the area outside an NBA Finals Game 3 watch party in Bryant Park.

After a highly anticipated watch party outside Madison Square Garden was canceled due to heightened security for President Donald Trump’s attendance at the game, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a 5,000-person watch party in Bryant Park, which required attendees to register in advance.

‘Last night was another shameful display from individuals who are more interested in brawling with each other, ripping up street signs, and hurling objects at cops than supporting their team.’

While the crowd inside the park was collected, thousands of fans who did not make it into the park began to wreak havoc on infrastructure, police officers, and other civilians.

Police said about 7,000 people were at Bryant Park and the surrounding area as the chaos erupted.

Multiple videos show people climbing scaffolding, walking on top of police vehicles, tearing down trees, engaging in fistfights, swarming a taxi cab, and aggressively shaking a bus stop signpost — detaching the sign in the process.

That bus sign was later used as a weapon in a brawl between multiple fans before police intervened.

Members of the crowd threw beer bottles at officers, which prompted the use of pepper spray. Multiple fans also attempted to climb a passing NYPD barricades truck while chanting, “Suck my d**k.”

RELATED: ‘USA!’ chants rock Madison Square Garden as Trump attends NBA Finals

Additional police officers were deployed in riot gear to disperse the crowd.

The NYPD said 21 people were taken into custody, eight of whom were charged, while the other 13 were released with criminal court summonses for disorderly conduct.

Two people were charged with assault on a police officer, while one man was charged with attempted assault on an officer, the NYPD added.

Five police officers were reportedly injured as well.

New York City Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry on Tuesday denounced the conduct: “Last night was another shameful display from individuals who are more interested in brawling with each other, ripping up street signs, and hurling objects at cops than supporting their team. We know New Yorkers are passionate about these NBA Finals, but police officers shouldn’t have to endure a barrage of mayhem after every single game.”

Hendry added that “our elected leaders need to send a stronger message and make it crystal clear that this behavior won’t be tolerated.”

The Knicks lost Game 3 to the Spurs 115-111 but still lead the series 2 games to 1. Game 4 is scheduled for Wednesday at Madison Square Garden, with NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announcing that watch parties outside the venue are expected to resume.

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