A 23-year-old was arrested for allegedly shooting and killing his mother, whom he accused of abusing him for many years, according to Florida police.

George Beemer called police on Saturday morning complaining of chest pains, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. After he was transported to a hospital, another 911 call reported that the home had caught fire.

‘I was devastated, absolutely devastated, and I can’t even stop thinking about it.’

Firefighters found the badly burned remains of a woman inside the home.

Police said that Beemer’s friend told them he had admitted to killing his mother and lighting the home on fire.

A medical examiner ruled the woman’s cause of death was a gunshot wound and the manner of death a homicide.

In testimony at court, a detective indicated that relatives had reported frequent arguments between the two and that the son would often break furniture in anger.

Beemer allegedly told police that his mother molested him and that he had had enough the day he killed her.

A friend of the mother told WINK-TV there’s no truth to the allegation.

“There’s absolutely no way,” the friend said. “No, no, absolutely never, never, no. I can’t buy it. I will never buy it. He’s using it as a defense mechanism to think that there’s any remote chance that this was justified.”

The friend said her first reaction to the news was to wonder what kind of drugs the son was on that day.

“I was devastated, absolutely devastated, and I can’t even stop thinking about it,” the friend added. “My oldest put me through hell and back, and I can remember sitting and talking with her. No mother deserves that.”

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Beemer was charged with second-degree murder, first-degree arson, as well as abuse of a dead human body.

He was held without bond, and his arraignment is scheduled for Aug. 24.

Police also said one cat was found alive inside the home, and one cat was found burned to death.

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Data center boosters routinely accuse local opponents of serving China or obstructing progress. In Coweta, Oklahoma, supporters of a proposed hyperscale project appear to have answered authentic opposition with something less democratic: phony support from real residents.

“Dear Vice Mayor Barnett, Project Atlas would generate millions for city services and schools, and all the needed upgrades are paid for by the developer. This seems like reasonable, low-impact growth. Please support this opportunity for Coweta.”

The data center lobby may have money, consultants, and automated emails. Its opponents have something more durable: actual voters and the truth.

The message appeared to come from a known Coweta resident. When the vice mayor contacted the supposed sender, the resident replied that he had not written it and opposed the project. Fox23 News confirmed the account with the victim.

That was not an isolated irregularity. Local farmer and activist Darren Blanchard obtained public records showing nearly 300 substantially identical messages supporting the data center. Many arrived at strange hours and apparently originated through an advocacy website that automatically generated letters to council members.

Automated advocacy tools aren’t new. But using the personal information of real people to send messages in their names without permission is not grassroots politics. It is political identity theft.

“What we suspect as to what was going on is that local citizens’ data — names, address, phone numbers, emails — was purchased, and probably a script was written and likely inputted into this advocacy website,” Blanchard said in an interview on my podcast. “And then nearly 300 people were impersonated within the community of Coweta, asking the city council to approve the data center. It was completely made up.”

The irony is hard to miss. Companies seeking to build facilities that warehouse and process vast quantities of information allegedly used residents’ personal data to impersonate them and manufacture consent.

The most grotesque message allegedly came from a dead man. Blanchard said a council member received an email supporting the project in the name of a deceased relative — on the second anniversary of that relative’s death.

That message persuaded city officials that the matter required the attention of law enforcement. Yet the city has redacted the names attached to the nearly 300 emails, making it harder for residents to learn whether their identities were used. Blanchard says an appeal to the Oklahoma attorney general has gone nowhere.

The proposed 270-acre hyperscale development from San Francisco-based Beale Infrastructure, backed by Blue Owl Capital, was abandoned at the end of March after intense local opposition and scrutiny of the campaign supporting it.

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Coweta is not an isolated case of public resistance. In Box Elder County, Utah, Kevin O’Leary proposed a data center complex projected to consume enormous amounts of electricity and occupy a footprint larger than thousands of Walmart Supercenters. A public-records review by the Salt Lake Tribune found overwhelming opposition in emails to county commissioners. Just seven messages — about 2% — supported the plan.

The voters delivered an even clearer verdict. Last month, two Box Elder County commissioners who backed the project were crushed in their Republican primaries. Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams, who played a prominent role in the state entity that approved the development, also lost.

In Calvert County, Maryland, Republican voters booted all three commissioners who had signed nondisclosure agreements with data center companies and then opposed a proposed moratorium.

These defeats expose the basic political problem facing Big Tech. Opposition to giant data centers is deep, local, and often bipartisan. Residents worry about electricity demand, water use, tax subsidies, land consumption, secrecy, surveillance, and the transfer of private risk to the public.

Those concerns cannot be erased by labeling opponents agents of China or enemies of innovation. Nor can they be overcome honestly by sending hundreds of nearly identical emails in the names of people who never authorized them.

Astroturfing usually tries to make a small constituency look large. The Coweta campaign went further: It manufactured a constituency from stolen identities, including one voice from beyond the grave.

Republican officials need to decide which side they are on. They can stand with citizens demanding transparency and control over their communities, or with globalists and techno-feudalists willing to fabricate public support.

The data center lobby may have money, consultants, and automated emails. Its opponents have something more durable: actual voters and the truth.

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Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico continues giving Texans more and more reasons to vote against him in November. Not only does the progressive seminarian tout Christianity while supporting radical positions on abortion and transgenderism, but it appears he might be coming out in favor of race-based reparations now.

On this episode of “Come and Take It,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales exposes what she believes is Talarico’s radical agenda to bring anti-white policies to Texas.

After Talarico beat out fellow radical Democrat Jasmine Crockett back in March, Sara believes he’s been scheming to win over her voters, who she argues “voted for [Crockett] because she was black.”

But there’s one little problem: Talarico is a white man — the primary target of left-wing grievance politics.

“[Talarico] has checked all of the radical boxes for all of these other crazy things, but he hasn’t simped hard enough for black people specifically, which apparently angers the black community because you’re supposed to … go around telling black Texans how you are going to specifically work for them rather than for the good of all people,” Sara says.

She plays a recent video from Talarico’s July 19 town hall in southwest Houston, during which Black Lives Matter Houston activist Kandice Webber ripped into him, threatening, “You stay here, you answer our questions, or you suffer the consequences!” She then made it clear that she was attending the meeting “for my people, not for you.”

In her own social media video, Webber denounced Talarico as another “white moderate” whom her “people” would “undervote.”

“Black Texas voters, we ain’t f**king playing with you. Yeah, that white boy should have stayed where the f**k he was,” she raged.

“As radical as we know that James Talarico is, she calls him a white moderate. Like, that is insanity,” Sara says, accusing the Democratic Party of creating a “Frankenstein” mob so out of control, no level of radicalism could ever satiate it.

But it appears Talarico may be trying to do just that — satiate Crockett’s disgruntled voters.

The day after Webber’s threat, an audience member at Talarico’s town hall in DeSoto, Texas, asked, “Do you support reparations? And would you legislate for an anti-black crime bill?”

“Restoration, repairing past harms, is part of my faith tradition. It’s part of the values I was raised with, and it’s exactly why we need a lot of the policies we’ve been talking about here to invest in black communities, to invest in black Texans — whether it’s tuition relief, whether it’s homeownership grants, whether it is baby bonds to ensure that we are helping to build that generational wealth,” Talarico responded. “We have to correct the injustices of our past.”

“We are seeing the reverberations of slavery in modern-day Texas all over the place, and until we as a society are committed to righting those past wrongs, of restoring our black communities, we’re never going to be able to get this country back on track,” he added.

Sara translates Talarico’s calculated words: “Yes, I support reparations. Yes, I support legislation that puts black people on a pedestal and treats them better than anyone else because someone’s grandparents’ grandparents’ grandparents were mistreated a long time ago.”

She highlights the objective racism in his propositions.

“Tuition relief, aka free college, but for blacks only. White people, no thank you. Homeownership grants? Blacks only. Whites need not apply. Baby bonds, but only for black babies. Poor white kids? Sorry, you’re out of luck. You got the wrong skin color,” she fumes.

“That is so insanely racist, and yet it is the new policy proposition for James Talarico because he knows it’s his only play for getting the black vote.”

To hear more, watch the video above.

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A progressive owner of a Wisconsin brewery says he will fight “tooth and nail” after his alcohol permit was revoked.

Kirk Bangstad says the state’s Department of Revenue is revoking the permit for Minocqua Brewing Co. to operate at its two locations.

‘They’ll have to pry me out of my taprooms before I stop selling beer to thirsty progressives who come to visit us.’

Bangstad’s brewery has made headlines for its anti-Trump posts that included a promotion offering free beer whenever President Donald Trump dies.

“As you can imagine, I’m not taking this lying down,” the business owner wrote in a Substack post Sunday. “We’re going to fight the state of Wisconsin tooth and nail, and once again, they’ll have to pry me out of my taprooms before I stop selling beer to thirsty progressives who come to visit us.”

He went on to ask for donations to the brewery’s legal defense fund.

“As usual, fighting to keep my business alive means I have to pay lawyers, and that’s never cheap,” he added. “Every time this [happens], I rack up $100K in legal bills before we even see a judge. If you can help chip in to the Minocqua Company’s legal defense fund, I’d really appreciate it.”

The beer license revocations for the two locations in Madison and Minocqua will go into effect on Aug. 4.

A spokesperson for the Wisconsin Department of Revenue told Fox News Digital the brewery could file an appeal.

“We can confirm that the Department of Revenue has issued notice of a Brewer’s permit revocation for two Minocqua Brewing Company locations and notice of an Alcohol Beverage Warehouse permit revocation for one location,” the spokesperson said.

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“The business has until August 4th to appeal and can operate during the appeal process,” the spokesperson continued. “Should the business decide to appeal, the next step would be to appeal to the Secretary of the Department of Revenue, who will assign the appeal to a Department of Revenue hearing examiner for their recommendations as to proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law.”

Fox News Digital said Bangstad declined to comment directly about the report but made jokes about the death of Trump and Mitch McConnell and insulted Fox.

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A prestigious art academy in northern Michigan released an independent report that concluded there were 70 incidents of sexual conduct with their students by 47 abusers over many decades.

The harrowing 100-page report from the Interlochen Center for the Arts says one of the abusers was Jeffrey Epstein, who was a donor at the center and was later convicted of pedophilia.

The incidents were described as physical conduct of a sexual nature and involved adults who were given access to students and campers.

The report relied on 180 interviews of alums from the center, which is a boarding school and summer camp. They reported dozens of incidents both at the center and off campus.

Most of the alleged incidents occurred before 2000, and about a third of the accused abusers have since passed away.

The incidents were described as physical conduct of a sexual nature and involved adults who were given access to students and campers.

Two of the alums reported physical conduct of a sexual nature with Epstein. He was a donor to the center from 1990 until 2003 and had attended as a teen.

The center commissioned the investigation two years ago. Only five abusers’ names were released, and they are all dead or previously accused of abuse. The school has provided all of the names to the Grand Traverse County Prosecutor’s Office for review.

Trey Devey, the president of the center, released a statement along with the report.

“The abuse described in the report is heartbreaking and is contrary to everything Interlochen stands for,” he wrote. “We are grateful to everyone who came forward to share their experiences, and we are deeply sorry for the harm experienced by members of our community. We also want to say clearly: Interlochen will not tolerate predators or those who enable them. Our campus exists to protect, educate, and empower every student.”

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Board chair Barrett Rollins also released a statement.

“Student safety is a bedrock requirement and fundamental responsibility of this institution,” Rollins wrote.

“We recognize that the steps we have taken cannot erase harm that occurred,” he added, “but we hope they demonstrate our commitment to honoring those who came forward and to creating a safer future for all who are part of the Interlochen community.”

A building that was donated to the center by Epstein was demolished in June.

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The woke backlash against WNBA player Sophie Cunningham defending women in sports has seemingly morphed into fury against two teenage girls who held up a sign at a game Tuesday in Seattle, where the Seattle Storm were taking on Cunningham’s Indiana Fever.

The sign read, “Thank you Sophie for speaking up for girls!” and the girls wore shirts from the XX-XY athletics brand that promotes opposition to biological males in women’s sports.

‘We weren’t trying to be political. We were just trying to support Sophie.’

“We were being super respectful. We were just holding our signs and cheering for both teams,” one of the teens said to investigative journalist Brandi Kruse.

The teens said an older lady confronted them, told them that “Jesus loves everyone,” and then called them “f**king insane” while pointing to her head.

“For you to come here and pull this s**t,” she reportedly added.

Kruse posted video on social media of her interview with the girls from outside the Seattle Storm arena. Kruse also identified the culprit as Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton.

“One of them was left in tears,” Kruse said of the girls. “I tried to get security involved and was told I should email the front office.”

One of the teens said she was shocked by the co-owner’s behavior.

“She’s also a woman, and she just kinda cussed out two 16-year-olds that were just trying to have fun. We weren’t trying to be political. We were just trying to support Sophie,” she added.

The team responded to reports of the incident with a statement from majority owner Ginny Gilder.

“We are aware one of our co-owners made comments to two fans in attendance at last night’s game,” the statement reads. “We apologize that this happened. Everyone who attends a Storm game deserves to feel welcome, and we remain committed to creating an inclusive environment where every fan is treated with respect.”

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Kruse asked one of the teens to sum up her takeaway from the incident.

“Maybe we’re not being very hateful, and maybe they should work on being more kind to people, even though our opinions differ,” she said. “Because we were being respectful and kind people, and I don’t care if you think something else. It’s your opinion, but obviously she was not happy.”

Kruse said she would continue to investigate the incident.

“As usual, the people preaching ‘love and inclusion’ prove to be the most hateful bigots of all. I will have much more … and none of the culprits will be spared my fury,” she added.

The Fever beat the Storm, 105-95.

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