Kirk Bangstad, the twice–failed Democratic candidate who owns the Minocqua Brewing Company in Wisconsin, turned his fantasizing about President Donald Trump’s death into a marketing strategy.

That strategy appears to have been short-sighted in light of federal law enforcement’s recent interest in the blubbering brewer and his incendiary remarks.

How it started

Bangstad vowed in January to give fellow travelers “free beer, all day long, the day he dies,” then made clear in remarks to reporters and subsequent posts that he was referring to Trump, whom he unsuccessfully attempted to block from the 2024 presidential ballot in Wisconsin.

‘The FBI and Secret Service together followed up on information received.’

In the months since, the brewer has hyped his proposed Trump-death celebration, selling voodoo dolls bearing the faces of Trump administration officials and “I wish it was free beer day” T-shirts.

Bangstad — who derided Charlie Kirk immediately after the Turning Point USA founder’s assassination, circulated a wanted poster for a federal agent, and called for “regime change” in the U.S. — appears to have crossed a line on April 25 where federal law enforcement is concerned.

Less than an hour after an attempt was made on the president’s life at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Bangstad wrote, “Well, we almost got #freebeerday. Either a brother or sister in the Resistance needs to work on their marksmanship or he faked another assassination to get a a [sic] positive news cycle. We’ll never know. Regardless, we stand at the ready to pour free beer the day it happens.”

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The Democratic Party of Wisconsin and Democratic candidates apparently keen to distance themselves from this particular fellow traveler rushed to condemn Bangstad’s rhetoric as “dangerous and unacceptable.” They were, however, far from the only people paying attention.

How it’s going

On Thursday, Bangstad claimed that he had been contacted both by the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI, then shared a transcript of an alleged voicemail from a USSS agent on Facebook, including the agent’s alleged name and phone number. Bangstad proceeded to tell his followers, “Call this number and ask this secret service agent to stand down and honor his oath to his country.”

In a video the woke brewer uploaded hours later regarding an alleged in-person visit from law enforcement officials, Bangstad again instructed his followers, this time with tears streaming down his cheeks, to inundate the alleged USSS agent with calls.

Bangstad — who was ordered to pay a six-figure sum for defamation in 2023 — reassures his followers in the video that if he should disappear, “it’s because these guys did it, not because I did it.”

He also reiterates through tears that he had apparently doxxed an agent: “And then I copy-and-pasted the voicemail that I was left by the Secret Service, and I pasted that guy’s phone number, and I said, ‘Call this phone number, everybody, and remind this federal agent, remind this federal agent that he has an oath that he took to his country and that he shouldn’t break his oath.'”

He adds, crying, that “this s**t shouldn’t happen to anybody,” that the “federal government shouldn’t be coming after anybody,” and that he wasn’t detained on Thursday but likely only because he’s white.

In closing, he tells his followers that “everyone has to fight their own way.”

In a statement on Friday afternoon, Bangstad continued playing the victim and accused federal agents of trying to intimidate him. He added, “Under no circumstances was the post I made last Saturday, which had me trending nationally on X by Monday, threatening to Trump (notice I didn’t say President Trump).”

As of Friday afternoon, the post with the alleged name and phone number of a USSS agent remains available on the Minocqua Brewing Company Facebook page.

An attorney for Bangstad did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

The U.S. Secret Service and the FBI said in a joint statement to Blaze News, “The U.S. Secret Service follows up on perceived threats against the President of the United States or any one of our protectees. The FBI and Secret Service together followed up on information received and conducted further investigative steps, which included a voluntary interview with the individual. This is an ongoing matter, and we do not have further comment.”

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An American tech company is being sued by the Department of Justice for allegedly discriminating against U.S. workers.

Instead of hiring Americans, the company allegedly favored hiring workers with temporary visas, going to bizarre lengths to prevent U.S. workers from being able to properly apply for its vacant jobs.

‘Employers cannot use the PERM sponsorship process as a back door for discriminating against US workers.’

Cloudera is a software company based in Santa Clara, California, that predominantly stores data and was started in 2008 by former engineers from Google, Yahoo, and Facebook.

In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, the DOJ said the company violated the Immigration and Nationality Act by intentionally discriminating against Americans.

The federal lawsuit said the company “upended its normal hiring process and did exactly what the law prohibits. … Cloudera did not consider the applications some U.S. worker candidates submitted because the company earmarked certain jobs for workers on temporary employment visas.”

Cloudera was accused of posting openings for at least seven jobs — paying between $180,000 and $294,000 per year — that asked U.S. applicants to submit applications to a dedicated email address. However, the address did not accept messages from external email accounts, and applicants simply received an error message in response.

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Therefore Cloudera did not have any record of a person applying for particular roles, the DOJ stated.

The alleged end result was Cloudera attempting to fill the roles with temporary foreign workers through the permanent labor certification process, while “repeatedly” telling the Department of Labor that it couldn’t find any qualified American workers.

“Employers cannot use the PERM sponsorship process as a back door for discriminating against U.S. workers,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon. “The Division will not hesitate to sue companies who intentionally deter U.S. workers from applying to American jobs.”

The DOJ said an American worker alleged discrimination after attempting to apply to Cloudera via the designated email address but “received a bounce-back notification.”

Cloudera spokeswoman Hannah Fairbanks said in a statement to Blaze News that the company is “proud to hire American workers.”

“We do not discriminate against U.S. workers — or anyone — on the basis of citizenship status. We take the DOJ’s allegations seriously, and from the start, we have cooperated fully with the DOJ’s investigation, which stems from a recruiting email account that was simply not working as intended,” she continued.

“We believe the government’s claims misunderstand both our hiring processes and our intent, and we will address the matter through the appropriate legal channels. Cloudera is committed to fair, lawful, and open recruitment practices, and we will continue to cooperate with the DOJ as we work to resolve this matter. Because this is now pending litigation, we cannot comment further at this time.”

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Cloudera is charged with one count of discrimination in hiring: deterring U.S. workers; one count of discrimination in hiring: failing to consider U.S. workers; and one count of discrimination in hiring: failing to hire U.S. workers.

Cloudera had a reported revenue of $869.3 million for fiscal year 2021 and was sold that October in an all-cash deal for approximately $5.3 billion.

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You come at the King of Pop, you best not miss.

When critics condemned the new Michael Jackson biopic for ignoring the sexual abuse allegations that haunted the late pop star, audiences had a simple retort: Beat it.

The upstart politician uncorked a banger ad campaign that shredded current California leaders for crushing the City of Angels.

Last weekend, they packed in theaters to give “Michael” a monstrous $97 million stateside haul.

The chasm between critic and general audience has never been bigger.

Now, with those gaudy numbers in hand, Lionsgate is teasing a sequel. And yes, there’s so much left to share about Jackson’s life. That “marriage” to Lisa Marie Presley. The plastic surgery mania that left the singer looking radically different and shockingly frail.

The reliance on surgical anesthetic as a sleep aid, a habit that eventually killed him. Oh, and the numerous court cases and allegations saying he preyed on children.

That’s enough for a whole franchise, but given the Jackson family is still holding the keys to the saga, we’ll have to wait and see if any or all of the above finally gets a close-up …

‘Witch’ watch

Imagining. Reimagining. Rebooting.

Heck, just call it what it is. A desperate attempt to squeeze every ounce out of a horror franchise. We recently learned a “new” “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” film is in the works, with the director promising a fresh take on the property.

Let me guess … this time around the human pruning will be emissions-free.

Now, a movie that defined “lightning in a bottle” is coming back. The 1999 found-footage shocker “The Blair Witch Project” caught everyone off guard. The film’s sneaky marketing even tricked some viewers into believing it was a documentary.

The $60,000 flick ultimately became one of the most profitable films of all time — followed by two of the most underwhelming sequels of all time.

Despite this track record, the pitch for another “imagining” of the film (Lionsgate’s word, not ours) is heading to the Cannes Film Festival.

Let’s hope the project’s $10 million budget allows for someone to hold the camera steady …

Ding-a-ling

We thought “Jeopardy” champions were supposed to be smart.

Recent winner Jamie Ding wrapped an epic run on the venerable game show, and he used his 15 minutes of fame to bash … Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

First, he played the “as an immigrant and person of color” card. Wow, we’ve never seen that on our TV screens before. Stop the presses!

But even after 31 consecutive wins, Ding apparently can’t tell the difference between himself and the average undocumented Tren de Aragua member.

Maybe we can help: “What is illegal immigration?”

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“The Daily Show” isn’t the dumbest program on TV. That dishonor goes to “The View.” But this week, Comedy Central’s creaky fake news flagship threatened to steal the dunce cap from Whoopi and crew with a segment featuring Muslim comedian Mo Amer.

Amer whitewashed reality to both talk up Muslim achievement (fine, good!) and distract from the unrelenting headlines about radical Islamists (bad!). And of course, he wrapped by calling Americans racist for noticing the latter. Naturally.

“So stop using lazy tropes to divide people so you can bomb other countries, creating even more refugees, making you more upset at Muslims in America being doctors or engineers, lawyers, or selling you street meat out of delicious halal carts!”

Memo to Amer: It’s not so much the Muslim doctors who get under Americans’ skin — it’s the Jew-hating, terrorist ones. Although to be fair, some enterprising immigrants manage to pull off both careers.

And by the way, if you’re going to appear on “The Daily Show,” you might want to tell an actual joke or two. You never go the full Kimmel …

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Why does it take reality-show stars to fix our problems? The country elected Donald Trump twice to address the issues ignored by too many politicians, like our porous southern border. Now, “The Hills” alum Spencer Pratt is trying to do the same for Los Angeles.

The upstart politician uncorked a banger ad campaign that shredded current California leaders for crushing the City of Angels.

This is one sequel Hollywood desperately needs — “The Reality-Show Star Strikes Back.” Given the Golden State’s recent history, though, it might never get greenlit.

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On April 28, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D), speaking at a joint press conference with Council Speaker Julie Menin, declared a “budget crisis of a historic magnitude” larger than any “since the Great Recession,” blaming inherited mismanagement and a structural imbalance with the state.

“We cannot close this deficit with savings alone. We need new revenue. And we need a structural reset in our relationship with the state. … That is the only way to meet our legal obligation to pass a balanced budget and to do so without imposing a financial burden onto the backs of working people,” he stated.

“When a politician says, ‘We need new revenue,’ it’s not like when you’re working at the S&P, man,” scoffs Glenn Beck. “What that means is we’re going to tax people.”

But to avoid taking the working class, Mamdani is proposing what he always proposes: another “tax the rich” scheme.

There’s only one problem.

“You’ve already taxed [the rich] so much, and you’ve chased them out of your city!” exclaims Glenn.

“It happens every time. Socialism is neat until you run out of somebody else’s money. They’re running out of money. They’re running out of the rich people to destroy. They’re coming after you.”

Mamdani has also floated the idea of extending the timeline for the city to fully fund its pension obligations by pushing the deadline out to the 2040s.

“That’s illegal!” Glenn laughs.

“Highly educated elites,” like Mamdani, he argues, are always the ones who “[start] these revolutions.”

“It’s not the poor people. It’s the highly educated elites who are like, ‘You know what? We have to help all these poor people. I mean, I don’t want to touch them, but we have to help them,’” Glenn mocks.

The stats prove it.

Glenn’s executive producer, Rikki Ratliff-Fellman, points to a 2025 study from Skeptic Research Center that found that Americans with the highest levels of education (graduate or professional degree) are about twice as likely to support political violence than those with less formal education.

Glenn explains that this alarming trend has emerged because universities shifted from teaching “the Scriptures” to pushing “the philosophies of man.”

“And the philosophies of man are so rotted to the core now because there’s no universal truth. There’s no universal truth in science. They’ve made it so science is the exact opposite of faith and of God,” he laments.

“It’s nothing but nonstop arrogance.”

To hear more, watch the video above.

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Windows PC users will finally have their dreams come true with the smallest of tweaks by Microsoft.

On Friday, a Windows Insider blog said the company was ready to start rolling out an update that would change a feature that has aggravated users for more than 25 years.

‘The changes we’re rolling out today are focused on giving Windows users more control over their PC experience.’

The Windows blogger said she was excited to share the new update, which came after reading “over 7,621 direct verbatims” over the last few months.

Change is coming to Windows’ auto-update feature, a plague that has forced itself on users for more than a quarter of a century.

The updates started as optional when they were available to users of Windows ’98. However, PC users were robbed of that freedom when updates became automatic with shipments of Windows 2000, which embedded the feature in its software.

All of that is about to scale back.

“Across this feedback there are two key themes that persistently pop out: disruption caused by untimely updates and not enough control over when updates happen,” wrote Windows blogger Aria Hanson. “The changes we’re rolling out today are focused on giving Windows users more control over their PC experience, while keeping devices secure by design and by default.”

Users should be fairly happy with the rollout, and the changes were readily available at the time of this writing.

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The update consists of four main tweaks, starting with the ability to skip updates immediately during the “out of box experience.”

This means that when setting up a new computer or buying a new version of Windows, users can avoid lengthy updates that drastically delay the time it takes to get up and running.

Next is the ability to pause updates for as long as needed. This comes in 35-day increments for some reason, but Microsoft says it can be done indefinitely.

“This means you can now re-pause for up to 35 days at a time, with no limits on how many times you can reset the pause end date,” the company wrote.

Return tested this on a PC running Windows 11 and was able to pause updates for “5 Weeks,” or 35 days.

More relief has also come in terms of shutting down or restarting Windows.

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“Restarting or shutting down your PC should always be simple, predictable, and on your terms — even with updates waiting to be installed,” Windows said; and everyone agrees.

Windows can now shut down or restart without updating. Previously, this was mandatory. So if a computer crashed or froze and needed to reboot, that update was happening whether the user liked it or not.

Lastly, Microsoft promised more insights on updates and increased transparency on what drivers do.

“Often, driver updates would have similar, if not identical, titles. To help provide you with more insights, we have added the device class to the driver title,” the blog stated.

In the end, the company is promising fewer disruptions, but it will still push a “monthly quality update” to reduce “update experience to a single monthly restart.”

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One of the long-standing institutions of right-wing politics has been taken down. But it is not done fighting.

After 27 years, Infowars’ website has officially been taken offline after a protracted legal fight with satire website the Onion.

‘We are committed, and if God stands with us, who can stand against us?!’

Alex Jones, the face of Infowars for nearly 30 years, did a final stream on Thursday night before the final shutdown of operations became official.

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Although Jones said that the lights were being shut off at midnight on Thursday and the website would go dark, the fight is far from over.

He directed his audience to his new network, Alex Jones Live. He also suggested that the legal fight was just getting started, saying that he had “royal flushes” in the ongoing legal fight, including whistleblowers.

Nearing the end of his final sign-off, Jones gave a toast: “We commit ourselves to God in this holy fight. We are committed, and if God stands with us, who can stand against us?!”

“Thank you for everything you built with InfoWars, Mr. Jones. We know you won’t stop fighting for the Truth,” the John Birch Society said on X.

“Alex Jones was forced to shut down Infowars tonight. Never forget that free speech is being violated with Trump in office. This country has become a shell of what it used to be,” commentator Morgan Ariel said.

The Onion has attempted to acquire the Infowars domain for years but has hit many snags that have delayed the acquisition.

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A father running for office in Oklahoma has been found dead.

On Thursday, the body of Barry Christian, 54, was found inside his vehicle at a wildlife refuge near Erick, a small city in Western Oklahoma, just a few miles east of the Texas panhandle.

‘We are still not sure of everything that happened.’

Christian was reported missing on Wednesday after he failed to appear for a scheduled meeting. He was last seen on Tuesday in Sayre, Oklahoma, about 15 miles from Erick.

The Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation confirmed that Christian was running for the state Senate, and it seems his campaign was active at the time of his death. His Facebook account posted an invite to a meet-and-greet at a rattlesnake festival in Mangum on Saturday.

State election records confirmed that on April 2, he filed to run as a Republican for Senate District 38. On his campaign website, Christian portrayed himself as a pro-Trump “conservative” who supported the First and Second Amendments and opposed open borders and abortion.

Christian’s name will still appear on the ballot for the Republican primary race in June. There are two other candidates in the race, though the incumbent, state Sen. Brent Howard (R), is not one of them. Howard announced last year that he would not seek a third term, NonDoc reported.

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Like most of the state, the 38th Senate District is overwhelmingly Republican. President Donald Trump carried some counties in Southwest Oklahoma by upwards of 75% in 2024.

While the political race will carry on, the Christian family is shattered by the loss of Barry, according to a statement from daughter Brooklyn:

Please pray for our family and friends. Our world is upside down right now. We are still not sure of everything that happened, so please act with grace and treat my dad’s legacy with dignity. We’re extremely grateful for everyone who assisted in the search efforts, and all of the media outlets that shared his information. I know there will be lots of people devastated by his passing.

A cause of death has not yet been determined, and the OSBI is still actively investigating this case. When reached for comment, the agency directed Blaze News to its social media page.

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A person of interest is in custody after two Kentucky bank employees were fatally shot during a robbery Thursday, the Associated Press reported, citing state police.

The individual is “believed to be involved” in the robbery of a U.S. Bank in Berea, the AP said, citing state police. Berea is about 45 minutes south of Lexington.

‘We’re deeply saddened by the tragic event that took the lives of two of our employees at our Berea, Kentucky, branch earlier today.’

A man wearing a gray-white hoodie, gloves, and a mask entered the bank and shot a male employee and a female employee, the outlet said, citing state police.

State police during a news conference late Thursday night identified the victims as 35-year-old Breanna Edwards and 42-year-old Brian Switzer, WLEX-TV reported.

State police announced the apprehension of the person of interest Friday morning.

CBS News said it’s unclear if the suspect fled from the bank with anything. The robbery and shooting happened just after 2 p.m., WLEX said, adding that state police confirmed that members of the public were in the Chestnut Street bank at the time.

State police told WLEX that the search for the suspect took officials throughout central Kentucky.

Law enforcement officers searched for the suspect driving a silver BMW with Alabama plates, WLEX said. State police told the station the vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed Thursday evening before a chase ended in the area of Johnston Road in Fayette County, after which the suspect reportedly was on foot.

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U.S. Bank told the AP it was working closely with law enforcement and is committed to supporting the victims’ families and bank colleagues.

“We’re deeply saddened by the tragic event that took the lives of two of our employees at our Berea, Kentucky, branch earlier today,” the company said in a statement, according to the outlet. “Our hearts go out to the families of the victims, our colleagues, and the entire Berea community.”

Berea is about 36 miles south of Lexington, the AP added.

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Katie Wilson, the 43-year-old leftist blogger elected mayor of Seattle last year, apparently finds it amusing that deep-pocketed residents and businesses are fleeing her crime-ridden city.

During a recent event at Seattle University, lecturer Joni Balter raised the matter of downtown Seattle’s apparent inability to “grow job these days,” noting that “the city has lost 25,000 jobs over four years, and the thinking is — the data folks say — that if you extend that out five years, it could be as high as 37,000 jobs.”

‘We still have the very regressive tax system.’

According to a recent report from the the Downtown Seattle Association, the Emerald City’s downtown has seen a 14% decrease in brick-and-mortar retail jobs since 2010 and lost an estimated 13,000 jobs just last year, amounting to the biggest decrease in jobs since the pandemic.

The report noted further that Seattle’s downtown office vacancy remained at a post-pandemic high of 25%; the central business district experienced an office vacancy rate of 32% last year, nearly double the previous high point during the Great Recession in 2009; and the combined taxable value of the 20 highest-valued properties in Seattle’s downtown has declined from over $10 billion in 2021 to roughly $5.1 billion this year.

When asked about her plan to “turn that around,” Wilson — who appeared on stage alongside fellow radical Girmay Zahilay, the newly elected King County executive — attributed Seattle’s exodus of jobs and businesses to a number of factors including potential workers’ apparent inability to afford living in or near the downtown; homelessness and public safety issues; and the “tax environment.”

While apparently interested in tackling the affordability, homelessness, and public safety issues, Wilson signaled that her city’s crushing taxes won’t soon be changed.

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Wilson, who co-founded the Transit Riders Union in 2011 and endeavored in years past to “Trump-proof Seattle,” was later asked about the “taxing climate” and whether progressive taxes were an “easy and promising solution.”

After noting that she found it “very exciting” that state Democrats passed a 9.9% tax on annual taxable income exceeding $1 million for individuals or households and recalling her efforts to push similar taxes in Seattle, Wilson said that claims that wealthy residents will flee the state are “super overblown.”

But to those beleaguered residents who have chosen to leave or might do so in the near future, the mayor waved, said, “Bye,” and laughed in concert with fellow travelers in the sparsely populated audience.

“In general, we still have the very regressive tax system, and my office is doing a lot of work to look at what our options are in terms of progressive taxation,” continued Wilson. “We do have more flexibility at the city than the county, in terms of our taxing authority.”

Despite Wilson’s casual dismissal, high taxes in Seattle appear to be chasing jobs to cities like Bellevue.

Jon Scholes, president of the Downtown Seattle Association, suggested that Amazon’s decision to relocate thousands of employees from Seattle to other King County locations was the direct result of Seattle’s overwhelming tax burden, reported the Center Square. Starbucks, which is headquartered in Seattle, also appears to be angling for greener pastures.

Among the taxes the city has implemented is the Social Housing Tax, a 5% levy on employee compensation exceeding $1 million, and the JumpStart Payroll Expense Tax, which the city slapped on companies with employees making more than $150,000 annually.

“What we need is more businesses in Seattle paying taxes,” said Scholes. “That’s how we strengthen the tax base.”

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The Worcester Police Department arrested an illegal alien from the Dominican Republic charged with assault and battery on April 4.

Although the City of Worcester, like other municipalities across Massachusetts, is loath to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the detainer for Bryan Rafael Gomez was reportedly honored, enabling ICE Boston to arrest the Dominican following his release on $500 bail.

‘An activist judge appointed by Joe Biden released this wanted murderer back into American communities.’

ICE revealed at the time that Gomez — who stole into the United States in 2022, was encountered by U.S. Border Patrol near Lukeville, Arizona, and was ultimately released into the homeland by the Biden administration — was a fugitive from justice.

The Coordination of the Courts of Instruction of the National District of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, issued an arrest warrant in Gomez’s name for murder on Jan. 24, 2023, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

While immigration authorities planned to keep the alleged murderer in custody until his removal from the U.S. — which appeared imminent granted an immigration judge issued Gomez a deportation order on April 28 — a judge appointed by former President Joe Biden to the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island in 2024 had other ideas.

Judge Melissa DuBose, a black lesbian who served as a member of the Committee on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in Rhode Island Courts and once described herself as being in a “Marxist Phase,” ordered the foreign fugitive’s release on Tuesday.

DuBose — who prefers the term “court user” to “defendant” — characterized the fugitive’s detention by ICE as “unlawful,” claiming that the legal authority under which ICE held him, which is intended for migrants captured at the border, did not apply to Gomez because he had been arrested by local police, reported Fox News.

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The Biden judge, confirmed in 2024 with the support of Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Susan Collins (Maine), determined that rather than mandatory detention, Gomez was alternatively entitled to a bond hearing.

ICE, which contended that Gomez was subject to mandatory detention because of the international arrest warrant for homicide in his name, is barred from rearresting the fugitive as a result of Judge DuBose’s order. Consequently, he is once again free to prowl American streets.

“Bryan Rafael Gomez is a criminal illegal alien from the Dominican Republic with an international warrant for homicide,” Homeland Security acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement. “An activist judge appointed by Joe Biden released this wanted murderer back into American communities. This is yet another example of an activist judge trying to thwart President Trump’s mandate from the American people to remove criminal illegal aliens from our communities.”

“Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, DHS will continue to fight for the removal of criminal illegal aliens who have no right to be in our country,” added Bis.

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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump welcomed King Charles and Queen Camilla to the White House for a state visit marking the 250th anniversary of America — the same anniversary that marks America’s freedom from having a king.

And while BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales isn’t a fan of the king, it appears that many Americans are.

“One thing I really will never truly understand is America’s fascination with Britain. I don’t get it. I don’t understand it,” Gonzales comments, pointing out that many of those Americans happen to be liberals.

“If one thing is clear in all of their rioting … they say very clearly that they hate kings. Like they are not about kings. So you would think that they would be out there protesting no kings,” she continues.

And not only was the liberal media not going after the president for buddying up with a king, in a segment Gonzales plays on NBC4, they were celebrating it.

“Apparently, the libs love kings again. It’s cool to be a king,” Gonzales laughs.

“That is so interesting how you have all of these libs and all of these local stations who had wall-to-wall coverage of all these No Kings protests, and they were all chanting about how they hated kings,” she continues. “Now all of a sudden, it’s a memento.”

“Isn’t it so interesting how that actually shakes out when you have no morals, no values, no principles. You really believe in nothing except nihilism and chaos and destruction,” she adds, asking again, “Isn’t that interesting?”

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