A California motorist suffered a broken back and rib after a bicycle-riding mob beat him up on a Santa Clara street amid an accident dispute Saturday, KGO-TV reported.

“On my left side, I have fractured rib number 12,” John Hidalgo recounted to the station. “And my number two lumbar vertebrae was fractured. You know, might not look like I’m severely injured, but, you know, I am in pain.”

‘The next time it happens, are they going to kill someone? Is somebody going to be tired of what they’re doing and run them over?’

Hidalgo told KGO an e-bike rider who ran a red light hit his car — and then a larger group on bikes arrived shortly after and blamed him for the accident.

Video shows the group brutally beating, kicking, and jumping on Hidalgo and destroying his car, the station said. You can view clips of the physical attack in KGO’s video report.

“I was just fighting for my life, you know?” Hidalgo added to the station. “I mean, you don’t really have time to think. It is unbelievable. But it’s starting to become kind of the norm now.”

Hidalgo told KGO he believes this group was part of a “ride out” — an informal gathering of bike riders who take over streets and sometimes perform dangerous stunts.

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Our cameras captured video of another “ride out” on Highway 101 in San Jose, where bike riders were slowing traffic behind them.

We’ve also recently reported on other “ride outs” that turned violent, including one where a man was attacked near San Francisco’s Aquatic Park.

“It’s disheartening when you think about innocent people who are getting affected by this,” Hidalgo also told KGO. “The next time it happens, are they going to kill someone? Is somebody going to be tired of what they’re doing and run them over?”

The Santa Clara Police Department told the station they are aware of the video and are investigating the incident.

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“We see these kids all the time swerving into traffic, swerving on the sidewalks, trying to hit people, we got to put a stop to it,” Hidalgo also told KGO. “When people are getting injured and violent crimes are happening, I don’t think that’s too much to ask for.”

Blaze News has covered similar incidents involving bike-riding mobs.

About a year ago, Los Angeles Police said a group of bike riders — ranging in age between 16 and 18 years old — physically attacked a lone male victim at an intersection in broad daylight. The attack was captured on cellphone video, which shows the mob of at least a dozen repeatedly punch, kick, and stomp on the victim, who winds up flat on his back and barely moving in the middle of the busy street.

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In the comic books, Galactus devours worlds without discrimination. In real life, that role belongs to the Democratic Party.

You can see it play out in Minneapolis right now. Colorado offers its own case study. That’s where Rich Guggenheim is under attack inside the Colorado Department of Agriculture because he thought being a plant health programs manager meant focusing on — stay with me — plants, not pronouns.

Most people choose comfort. They tell themselves they agree with freedom, but they live like they don’t. They fear conflict more than they fear losing the country.

Last November, Guggenheim logged into a virtual meeting with roughly a dozen department heads. One agenda item covered a grant report tied to pest surveys, “inclusive leadership,” and employee participation in a program called “Colorado for All.”

Because when I think about protecting America’s food supply from pests, my first concern always involves the state’s ideological diversity metrics.

Guggenheim wanted to keep plants healthy. He didn’t have patience for the ritual. He typed a short comment into the group chat: “DEI on steroids.”

That was enough to trigger a full-blown response from Plant Industry Division Director Wondirad Gebru. Gebru paused the meeting and labeled the comment “inappropriate” in front of colleagues. Gebru told Guggenheim to mute his microphone.

Guggenheim did something better. He turned on his camera and accused Gebru, on the record, of viewpoint discrimination.

See, that’s how it’s done, folks. No excuses. Just a jawbone of an ass wielded without apology. Take stupid out to the woodshed and bludgeon it.

“They are trying to frame me as disruptive,” Guggenheim said. “But how can they do that when the topic is actually on the agenda?”

Next, Guggenheim told Gebru via private chat that he would file a formal whistleblower disclosure with U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi at the U.S. Department of Justice. The letter he sent that same day alleged First Amendment violations through viewpoint discrimination and compelled speech, retaliation, and disregard for President Donald Trump’s executive order directing federal agencies to stop promoting, requiring, or funding diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives that impose ideological preferencing.

He filed additional complaints with the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the Office of Special Counsel whistleblower channel; an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission inquiry; a Colorado Civil Rights Division/State Personnel Board consolidated appeal; and a state whistleblower complaint.

A month later, Guggenheim received notice of a workplace investigation. The notice offered no specifics about the allegations, the complainant, or the policy at issue. The state hired an outside group to conduct the investigation.

That process is under way as Guggenheim pursues a federal lawsuit against a state whose political class has built a reputation for using institutions as weapons.

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold tried to keep Trump off the presidential primary ballot before investigators examined her office’s election-security failures. Last year, lawmakers also advanced a regime of pronoun policing and gender ideology that reaches into schools and families and invites the state to play commissar.

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Colorado’s leadership class doesn’t merely govern. It disciplines.

“Destruction of Western civilization is what queer theory is all about,” Guggenheim said.

Guggenheim is 46. He doesn’t sound demoralized. He sounds ready. He believes Colorado has boxed itself in legally, which left him with a choice: comply, stay quiet, and keep his head down — or put the issue on the record and force a confrontation.

Most people choose comfort. They tell themselves they agree with freedom, but they live like they don’t. They fear conflict more than they fear losing the country.

Guggenheim’s refusal to be emotionally bullied by the pronoun police should shame the rest of us. He didn’t beg for approval. He didn’t bargain. He didn’t self-censor to keep the peace. He documented the coercion and escalated through the proper channels.

One detail makes the story even harder for the usual activists to process: Guggenheim is openly gay.

He still drew the line. He still confronted ideological coercion in the workplace. He still chose risk over submission.

That’s the right standard. What’s your excuse?

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Following the discovery that Chinese communist agents were coordinating intimidation, espionage, and coercion campaigns out of illegal police stations in the United States, officials found something potentially more threatening in Reedley, California: a Chinese biolab containing deadly pathogens including Ebola.

The secret Chinese lab apparently was not one of a kind.

‘These items, importantly, were consistent in appearance to the items found and described in the Reedley, California, lab investigation.’

SWAT officers with the Las Vegas Metro Police Department raided a home in the city’s northeast end on Jan. 31, discovering a suspected illegal biolab apparently linked to the Chinese national who owned the Reedley site.

Footage shows local and federal agents massing outside a Sugar Springs Drive residence near Washington Avenue and Hollywood early Saturday morning while drones patrolled overhead.

A tactical robot dog explored the interior and conducted air sampling before members of the LVMPD’s All-Hazard Regional Multi-agency Operations and Response team made entry.

The main house was home to three renters who were safely removed and are apparently not targets of the investigation. The locked garage was home to “refrigerators, a freezer, laboratory-type equipment, and numerous containers holding unknown liquid substances,” according to police.

The apparent biological materials, which were carefully collected over the course of the weekend along with other evidence, were initially transported to a Southern Nevada Health District facility for safe storage, then taken to an FBI lab for testing.

LVMPD Sheriff Kevin McMahill indicated on Monday that “these items, importantly, were consistent in appearance to the items found and described in the Reedley, California, lab investigation.”

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McMahill noted further that “the home was owned by the same individual connected to a prior, illegal bio-lab investigation in Reedley, California, that occurred in 2023.”

That individual is Jia Bei Zhu.

The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party noted in its report on the Reedley biolab that the California lab operated under the direction and control of Zhu, a Chinese citizen associated with communist regime-linked companies as well with Chinese military-civil fusion entities.

‘This can’t keep happening.’

Zhu, a wanted fugitive from Canada, where he is the subject of a $330 million judgment for stealing American intellectual property, illegally entered the United States under the false identity of “David He,” said the report.

While unlawfully in the U.S., Zhu set up a network of companies and accumulated a vast supply of potential pathogens including including Ebola, COVID-19, HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis, which he is accused of keeping and poorly storing at one or more unlicensed and unregistered labs.

In addition to thousands of samples of potentially dangerous diseases and hundreds of boxes of medical devices subject to a U.S. Food and Drug embargo, the Reedley lab was home to roughly 1,000 mice that were genetically engineered to mimic the human immune system.

One lab worker reportedly told local officials that the transgenic mice were altered “to catch and carry the COVID-19 virus.” Dead mice were apparently disposed of “without the use of a licensed medical waste hauler.”

According to the congressional report, the Reedley biolab received millions of dollars in unexplained payments from Chinese communist banks.

Zhu was arrested by federal agents on Oct. 19, 2023, and indicted the following month for allegedly distributing adulterated and misbranded COVID-19 test kits and making false statements to authorities about his identity. He was slapped with additional charges in 2024 for alleged conspiracy and wire fraud.

Zhaoyan Wang, Zhu’s supposed lover and business partner, was charged with helping facilitate the alleged fraud through Universal Meditech Inc. and Prestige Biotech Inc. — biolabs she operated in Reedley and Fresno. Wang is also a Chinese national.

McMahill indicated that Zhu, who has a trial hearing scheduled for Feb. 23, remains in federal custody.

The LVMPD also arrested the property manager of the Vegas residence, 55-year-old Ori Solomon, on a charge of disposing and discharging hazardous waste. Solomon was booked into the Clark County Detention Center.

On Saturday, the FBI searched a second Vegas home on Temple View Drive but found no threat at the location. The FBI also revisited the Reedley lab on Sunday, reported KFSN-TV.

Republican Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.) said in response to the latest lab discovery, “This can’t keep happening.”

“The federal government must do more to stop illegal labs from operating in our communities,” added Kiley.

Kiley and fellow California Reps. Jim Costa (D) and David Valadao (R) have called for a hearing on their Preventing Illegal Laboratories and Protecting Public Health Act of 2025.

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Many young Christian men are familiar with the advice, “Just find your wife at church.”

However, BlazeTV host John Doyle points out that it’s just “an applause line.”

“They are saying that because it feels good to counter modern degenerate dating app culture by saying, ‘You know what you need to do? You need to be trad and you need to go to church. That’s where you’re going to find a good woman, is at church,’” Doyle says on “The John Doyle Show.”

Doyle believes that equality has shown that women “do not come to family as naturally as a lot of people would like to think,” and now those women who do want a family are fewer and farther between.

And too many conservatives make excuses for them.

According to Doyle, those conservatives will say things like, “Well, women actually are obviously desiring to have a family, and … if [society] would only stop tricking them, then they could go be happy.”

“All of the rhetoric surrounding this issue places women on this pedestal and says, ‘You are not an agent. We cannot hold you accountable. It is only society that has tricked you, and you would be an angel were it not for these people tricking you into making bad decisions,’” Doyle explains.

“I’m not, like, dogging on Christian women. There are plenty of wonderful Christian women. I’m just talking about this kind of online discourse that tends to want to give this advice to these young guys, which I just don’t think is productive,” he says.

“Now, to be clear, I totally understand why people would view church as the best of all options. It seems to be the safest,” he continues, though he points out that there are plenty of churches these days run by “trans lesbian priests” that might not have the best women in attendance.

“Of course, there are plenty of conservative girls who go to church. You would be an idiot to say that’s not the case. Yet that doesn’t mean that every girl or even most girls who go to church are conservative in any meaningful sense,” he says.

“Church attendance really doesn’t tell you that much,” he continues. “It’s literally a meme on Instagram.”

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