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REPORT: Police Accuse Repeat-Offender Protester For Setting 11 Of Their Cars On Fire

By The Daily Caller

The New York City Police Department (NYPD) identified New Jersey native Jakhi Lodgson-McCray as the suspect behind the torching of 11 police vehicles in Brooklyn earlier in June. The suspect has a criminal history and was arrested prior at multiple pro-Palestine protests, according to authorities.

NYPD said Wednesday that the 21-year-old suspect climbed over the gate at 1:00 a.m. June 12 at a parking lot one block from the Bushwick neighborhood’s police station and placed fire starters on the hoods, windshields and tires of police cars. Ensuing fires caused upwards of 800,000 dollars of damage, according to the New York Post. NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said “we do believe that he acted alone, and obviously he targeted this location because it is a police facility.” The suspect was allegedly captured by surveillance cameras fleeing the scene on foot and is still reportedly at large. Kenny added that the suspect changed his disguise “several times during his escape.”

The NYPD’s social media accounts posted photos Wednesday of Lodgson-McCray, adding that “there is zero tolerance for anyone who attacks the NYPD.”

Police are also investigating whether he is responsible for a similar attempt to set a police van ablaze Wednesday in another part of Brooklyn.

Though police have not confirmed a connection, Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams suggested that the crime was motivated by recent anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) riots. Lodgson-McCray’s extensive record of arrests — dating back to 2023 — includes an incident at an anti-ICE protest in May and for burning a flag at a city embassy as part of an anti-Israel demonstration, according to authorities.

The suspect was wanted previously for causing over 1,000 dollars of damage last fall to a Columbia University statue during pro-Palestine protests, police said. He reportedly has two open criminal cases, the first for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest for allegedly obstructing traffic May 28 and another for assault and resisting arrest in May 2024. He has pleaded not guilty in both cases and was released without bail.

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Caleb Ruger

Caleb Ruger is a student at William and Mary studying History. He serves as Publisher at The Wren Journal, the Collegiate Network paper at William and Mary. He also serves as the Secretary of the Virginia College Republicans and Vice President of the William and Mary College Republicans. A recent Catholic convert, he is the Vice President of William and Mary’s Thomistic Institute chapter.

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Stop the VA’s Assault on the Second Amendment — Support HR 1041

By Royal A. Brown III

Fellow Veterans — did you know that the VA has stripped the rights to possess firearms from over 250,000 veterans by reporting them to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)?

Because of this totally wrong VA determination process without any judicial hearing or due process and related loss of 2nd Amendment rights, some veterans refuse to use VA health care for fear of inadvertently making a disqualifying statement or disclosing a disabling condition.

There is now a Bill in the House, HR 1041 the Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act to end the VA’s arbitrary and unconstitutional practice of automatically sending veteran’s names to NICS simply because they might need a fiduciary to assist them in managing their finances. In other words they ae presumed guilty of being a danger to themselves or others and stripped of their 2A rights (similar to unconstitutional Red Flag Laws and their Risk Protection Orders with out Due Process which 18 states have in affect).

So far HR 1041 has 50 co-sponsors to this bill submitted by Mike Bost (R-Ill), a USMC veteran. Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) is championing the cause in the house. See here.

Please call your Representative and Senators and tell them to support/vote for HR 1041. You can contact them by calling the Congressional Swithchboard and asking for thier offices as per below.

TAKE ACTION: Call Congressional Switchboard at (202) 224-3121) — ask operator to connect you to their office. Leave message with Staffer or answering machine if a Staffer doesn’t answer!


Veterans Affairs strips 250000 veterans of gun rights without due process or medical evidence

The Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs held an oversight hearing on January 14, 2025, focusing on the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) practices regarding veterans’ rights, particularly concerning firearm ownership. The meeting highlighted significant concerns about the VA’s process for reporting veterans to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

A key point of discussion was the VA’s policy of reporting veterans who require fiduciaries to manage their finances due to disabilities. It was noted that this practice has led to over 250,000 veterans being stripped of their constitutional right to possess and purchase firearms without any due process. Critics argued that these veterans, who have served to protect the Constitution, are being denied their Second Amendment rights without sufficient justification.

The subcommittee emphasized that the VA reports these veterans to the NICS list without any judicial ruling or medical evidence indicating that they pose a danger to themselves or others. There was a strong assertion that the current system lacks necessary safeguards, as no medical professional is required to assess a veteran’s risk before they are reported. This raises concerns about the fairness and legality of the VA’s actions, as there is no data supporting the notion that a veteran’s inability to manage finances due to a disability correlates with being dangerous.

The hearing underscored the need for a review of the VA’s practices to ensure that veterans’ rights are protected while also addressing any legitimate concerns about safety. The subcommittee’s discussions may lead to further investigations and potential reforms in how the VA handles these sensitive issues.

Converted from Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Oversight Hearing meeting on January 23, 2025.

Link to Full Meeting

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DNC Reportedly May Need To Borrow Cash To Keep Lights On

By The Daily Caller

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has been grappling with infighting and a decline in donations in recent months, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

DNC Chair Ken Martin, who was elected in February, has overseen slowing fundraising from major donors, the NYT reported. Some top DNC officials have even floated the idea of whether it may be necessary to start borrowing money to continue paying the bills, according to the NYT.

Six anonymous sources told the NYT that major Democratic donors have been extremely slow to donate to the party this year. Additionally, two anonymous sources told the outlet that senior DNC officials have even floated the idea of potentially borrowing money in the coming months.

Rufus Gifford, who served as the finance chairman of former Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign, told the NYT that Democrats “need to come together and focus on the issues at hand.”

“What they are seeing is headline after headline of incompetence and infighting, and I think that is a real problem not just for the DNC but for the larger Democratic brand,” Gifford told the outlet. “We need to come together and focus on the issues at hand. That’s got to happen now. And I mean today. And if that can’t happen, we need to shift course.”

Democratic Wisconsin Rep. Mark Pocan told the NYT that the recent drama in the DNC was “worse than some high school student council drama.”

Martin told the NYT that he believes many major Democratic donors were “frustrated” by the results of the 2024 elections.

“People invested more money than they ever had before, they dug deeper than they ever had, and they are quite frustrated by the result,” Martin told the outlet. “They want answers. I don’t take it personally. I wasn’t in charge.”

“I know there’s a lot of people that are carrying grudges, that are still litigating the campaign that their person didn’t win,” Martin told the NYT. “I am not one of those people. There’s no sense of living in the past. I have no enemies other than Donald Trump and the Republican Party.”

The NYT’s report comes shortly after David Hogg, a gun control activist who was elected to serve as one of the DNC’s vice chairs in February, sparked massive backlash in the Democratic Party after he announced in April plans to primary incumbent Democrats. On June 11, the DNC voted to remove Hogg from his vice chair position and require him to run again due to a procedural complaint, Politico first reported.

On June 8, leaked audio revealed that Martin expressed concern about Hogg’s ability to lead the party due to the infighting his decisions had ignited, according to Politico. Martin notably paused twice and appeared to choke up during the recording, according to the outlet.

Moreover, Randi Weingarten, the longtime head of the American Federation of Teachers, and Lee Saunders, the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, announced they were leaving the DNC, the NYT reported on Sunday. Both of the union leaders had backed Martin’s main opponent in the DNC chair election earlier this year, Wisconsin Democratic Party chair Ben Wikler, according to the NYT.

Still, some Democrats have defended Martin’s leadership, including Maria Cardona, a longtime DNC member, who told the NYT that he “does the work” and “rolls up the sleeves.”

“Everything that Ken has done, regardless of the drama that it has caused, has been the right moves,” Cardona told the outlet. “He does the work. He rolls up the sleeves.”

A DNC spokesperson did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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Ireland Owens

Reporter.

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Supreme Court Greenlights Tennessee’s Ban On Sex-Change Procedures For Kids

By The Daily Caller

The Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s law banning child sex change procedures on Wednesday.

In a 6-3 ruling, the court held that Tennessee’s law does not violate the Equal Protection clause.

“This case carries with it the weight of fierce scientific and policy debates about the safety, efficacy, and propriety of medical treatments in an evolving field,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. “The voices in these debates raise sincere concerns; the implications for all are profound. The Equal Protection Clause does not resolve these disagreements.”

“Having concluded it does not, we leave questions regarding its policy to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process,” Roberts continued.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented.

“[The majority] also authorizes, without second thought, untold harm to transgender children and the parents and families who love them,” Sotomayor wrote.

Sotomayor wrote that those searching for evidence of transgender discrimination “need look no further than the present,” referencing several policies implemented by the Trump administration.

“The Federal Government, for example, has started expelling transgender servicemembers from the military and threatening to withdraw funding from schools and nonprofits that espouse support for transgender individuals,” she wrote.

Tennessee passed its law, which restricts minors from receiving medical treatments intended to help them live as an identity “inconsistent” with their sex, in 2023. The Biden administration challenged the law as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.

Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) changed its position on the case in February but urged the Supreme Court to move forward with issuing a ruling.

Trump signed an executive order in January cutting federal funding for child sex changes, where he called the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) “junk science” and banned federal agencies from citing its guidance. The Biden administration relied on WPATH standards in its briefs filed before the court.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.

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Katelynn Richardson

Investigative Reporter.

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PODCAST: Missiles, Assinations, Riots, Parades, Nukes, NO Kings but a Duly Elected President!

By Conservative Commandos Radio Show and AUN-TV

“Will Not Settle For a Bad Nuclear Deal With Iran…UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.” — President Donald J. Trump

President trump has made it clear that U.S. policy is a nuclear Iran is not acceptable. Now is not the time to negotiate any deal with this brutal regime, and all sanctions must be fully enforced — no sanctions relief. The committee will work to ensure Iran’s full compliance with IAEA investigation into undeclared nuclear sites. Combat Threat of Iran Drones and Missiles. Iranian drones are fueling conflicts around the world, including attacks on U.S. servicemembers in the Middle East, Russia’s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine, and the conflict in Ethiopia.

Protect Americans.. The Trump administration will take significant action to deter Iranian a plots against Americans and Iran-backed proxy attacks on U.S. forces in the Middle East. Iran must immediately release American citizens being held hostages, and the administration must prioritize freeing these hostages as soon as possible.

‘No Kings’ protest fliers found in car of man suspected of shooting Minnesota lawmakers…

Fliers associated with Saturday’s nationwide protests of President Trump were found in the car of a man accused of killing Minnesota’s former House speaker and her husband and wounding two others. The Minnesota State Patrol warned residents to avoid “planned demonstrations” across the state Saturday, “out of an abundance of caution” as they hunt down the shooter. Police warned residents in the area not to open their doors for a cop impersonator as they hunt for the man they said is armed and dangerous. Rep. Melissa Hortman, the former speaker of the Minnesota House, and her husband, Mark, were killed, Gov. Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette, were shot multiple times in a separate attack by the same suspect and are undergoing surgery.

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Trump Targets Blue Cities With Deportation Strategy

By The Daily Caller

President Donald Trump explained that he is planning on having his administration target Democratic cities as a part of its latest deportation efforts.

Trump posted a Truth Social on Sunday that he is directing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to expand its deportation operations to “America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.” The president added that these cities are the “core of the Democrat Power Center.” Trump explained his Truth Social while at the G7 Summit on Monday, telling reporters that he wants to go after “sanctuary cities” because they have been “overrun by criminals.”

“I want them to focus on the cities, because the cities are where you really have what’s called sanctuary cities, and that’s where the people are. I look at New York. I look at Chicago. I mean, you got a really bad governor in Chicago and a bad mayor, but the governor is probably the worst in the country — Pritzker — but I look at how that city has been overrun by criminals,” Trump said, naming New York and Los Angeles as well.

“Biden allowed 21 million people to come into our country. Of that, vast numbers of those people were murderous killers, people from gangs, people from jails, they empty their jails out into the U.S.,” he continued. “Most of those people are in the cities, all blue cities, all Democrat-run cities and they think they’re going to use them to vote. It’s not going to happen.”

The Trump administration has increased its pressure on leaders of sanctuary cities over the last several weeks. Tom Homan told NBC News government officials could face consequences if they obstruct federal agents’ official actions in response to rioting in Los Angeles, California, that resulted from ICE raids. Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York and Democratic Illinois Gov J.B. Pritzker later responded in a House Oversight Committee hearing, daring Homan to come and arrest them.

In May, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security published a comprehensive list of cities, counties and states that were allegedly refusing to cooperate with ICE. The list was later removed after some city leaders argued they shouldn’t be on the list, but White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the Daily Caller that the list would soon be reinstated.



“These Radical Left Democrats are sick of mind, hate our Country, and actually want to destroy our Inner Cities — And they are doing a good job of it! There is something wrong with them,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“That is why they believe in Open Borders, Transgender for Everybody, and Men playing in Women’s Sports — And that is why I want ICE, Border Patrol, and our Great and Patriotic Law Enforcement Officers, to FOCUS on our crime ridden and deadly Inner Cities, and those places where Sanctuary Cities play such a big role. You don’t hear about Sanctuary Cities in our Heartland!” he added.

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Reagan Reese

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Israel took ‘Death to Israel’ seriously. We should take ‘Death to America’ seriously.

By Jihad Watch

Death to Iran’s regime.

Last month, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei told an enraged crowd of Islamists that President Trump’s statements weren’t even “worthy of a response.”

As the crowd chanted “Death to America”, Iran’s leader called Trump a liar, and warned that, “America should leave the region, and leave it will.” Then he called for the destruction of the Jewish State while the crowd chanted, “Death to Israel.”

The only question was whether America and Israel would take the regime’s threats seriously.

That question was answered when Israel, after two decades of trying to get the mostly fictitious “international community” to do something about Iran’s nuclear program, finally took action.

The endless negotiations in pursuit of an impossible deal that would somehow allow Iran to have nuclear technology without nuclear weapons were based on refusing to listen to what the Islamist terror regime said, as recently as weeks ago, and refusing to believe that it meant it.

To believe in a nuclear deal, you also had to believe that a terror state that gets its electricity from its abundant natural gas resources for a fraction of the cost of our electricity wanted a civilian nuclear program. To believe in any kind of deal with Iran, you had to believe, as the New York Times insisted to sell Obama’s nuke deal, that Iran “has a complicated relationship with the phrase” and that when it says, “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”, it doesn’t really mean it.

“The situation between America and Iran is this: When you chant ‘Death to America!’ it is not just a slogan – it is a policy,” Ayatollah Khamenei explained in 2023.

What did that policy look like in practice?

“‘Death to America’ means death to Trump,” Khamenei previously warned.

Last year, an Iranian operative was charged in a plot by the IRGC, Iran’s terror arm, to assassinate Trump before Election Day.  The “complicated relationship” wasn’t so complicated and it’s not a metaphor. “Death to Trump” literally meant trying to kill the president. “Death to America” means the destruction of America. And “Death to Israel” means just what it says.

Apologists for the Jihadist regime in Tehran try to pretend that it’s about our foreign policy, but beyond chanting for the destruction of America, Israel and England, the chants at the Khamenei speech included “Death to the hypocrites and infidels” (meaning the deaths of all non-Muslims and insufficiently devout Muslims) and death to those who oppose the supreme power of Sharia Islamic jurisprudence in the form of its Ayatollahs, Mullahs and other theocratic tyrants.

According to Ayatollah Khomeini anyone who did not believe that Mohammed, Islam’s genocidal warlord prophet was a messenger of Allah, is defined as an infidel, and the only thing to do is to convert him, enslave him or kill him. “If one permits an infidel to continue in his role as a corrupter of the earth, the infidel’s moral suffering will be all the worse. If one kills the infidel, and this stops him from perpetrating his misdeeds, his death will be a blessing to him.”

Opposing the Ayatollahs just made America one of the first ‘infidels’ in line for destruction.

Iran kidnapped our diplomats, bombed our Marines, abducted and tortured our people, brutally killing them in the most grotesque ways, because its regime believes in “Death to America.”

Not as a metaphor or a complicated relationship, but as violently graphic as the Muslim terrorists jumping up and down on the body of Navy diver Robert Stethem and then putting up a microphone to his face to broadcast the screams or removing the skin from the face of Colonel William R. Higgins before castrating, killing him and dumping his body near a mosque.

That’s ‘Death to America’.

The Israelis, who live much closer to Iran than we do, did not decide to escape into the extended Carter administration diplomatic dreamworlds about a deal with Iran. They understood that Iran was serious and they acted. Whatever we do or don’t do about Iran, we would be fools to pretend that the Islamic terrorist regime isn’t serious about wanting us dead.

And bigger fools to act like we can bribe or negotiate our way out of the threat.

Right now, Israel is doing our work for us in fighting Islamic terrorists. It’s doing it even though our elected officials keep sending mixed messages, undermining Israel, calling for restraint and pretending that the Middle East would be more stable if it were dominated by the terrorists.

Obama already tried that with the Arab Spring. It turned out the same way Carter’s Iran tampering and every experiment in nation building and democracy by the Bushes, Clinton and other administrations did. Instead of standing up to Muslim terrorists, we let ourselves be intimidated by them, by their sheer numbers, by their destructiveness and willingness to die.

But Israel, far smaller than us, a country tiny enough that you can walk its width, stood up to an entire region. Iran is 80 times Israel’s size, has 9 times its population and yet Israel did what so many of our administrations feared to do. Why? Because Israel understood what we deny.

Israel knew that the calls for genocide are real and that the alternative to action is death.

Faced with the threat of death, Israel instead brought death to the IRGC leaders of Iran’s death machine, to its commanders and struck at the machinery of its ballistic missile and nuclear program meant to kill millions. Its secret wasn’t just its brilliant strategy, but its grip on reality.

Israel took Iran seriously and acted seriously. It faced down death threats and delivered death to the terrorist enemies of civilization. That is what serious nations do. Unserious ones play word games and take refuge in wishful thinking. As we confront not only Iran, but Islamic terrorists around the world and in our own country, it’s time we get serious too.

If our enemies want to kill us, we have a choice between killing them or letting them kill us.

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Authorities Identify Suspect In Assassination Of Minnesota Lawmaker

By The Daily Caller

Authorities reportedly have identified Vance Boelter as the top suspect in the killings of Democratic Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, as well as wounding Democratic Minnesota State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, on Saturday, according to The Associated Press.

Law enforcement believes that Vance Luther Boelter allegedly killed Hortman and her husband early Saturday morning before going on to shoot and seriously injure Democratic State Sen. John Hoffman of Minnesota and his wife, according to the AP.

Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz reportedly tapped Boelter in 2019 to serve on the Governor’s Workforce Development Board after having previously served on the Governor’s Workforce Development Council under former Democratic Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton, according to the New York Post.

🚨 Democratic Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed in their home overnight in an apparent act of political violence, and Democratic State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were shot and severely wounded in their home. pic.twitter.com/1qdvb1UFei

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) June 14, 2025

Police said they encountered the shooter, who they reportedly believe to be Boelter, at Hortman’s home and exchanged fire before the individual managed to slip away. The individual who engaged law enforcement at the scene posed as a policeman in order to carry out the attacks on Hortman and Hoffman.

Police found “No Kings” signs in the suspect’s vehicle, and advised residents not to attend planned anti-Trump “No Kings” protests in a Facebook post. Walz stated that Hortman’s murder was a “politically-motivated assassination” during a Saturday news conference, and authorities said they have recovered a manifesto as well as a list of other targets.

Multiple law enforcement entities have been searching for the gunmen throughout the day Saturday.

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Harold Hutchison

Media Reporter.

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Trump Reveals What Would Cause Him To Invoke Insurrection Act To Put Down LA Riots

By The Daily Caller

President Donald Trump said that he would invoke the Insurrection Act in response to the Los Angeles riots if “there’s an insurrection.”

As riots broke out across the streets in L.A. in response to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in the area, Trump ordered 2,000 National Guard troops to deploy to the city. Hundreds of Marines were then deployed to downtown L.A. to help control the riots, raising the question of whether Trump would consider using the Insurrection Act, which allows the deployment of U.S. troops to ease domestic unrest.

“Will you invoke the Insurrection Act to deal with the situation in California?” RealClear Politics White House correspondent Phil Wegmann asked Tuesday.

“If there is an insurrection, I would certainly invoke it, we’ll see. Can I tell you, last night was terrible. The night before that was terrible as you have seen on your networks,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

“People were with heavy hammers pounding the concrete, pounding the curbs and handing these big chunks of concrete to people and they were taking that concrete going up to bridges and dropping it into the roof of a car. They were throwing it at our police. They were throwing it at our soldiers that are there, and we got it stopped and we have them in custody right now. Look, if we didn’t get involved, right now Los Angeles would be burning just like it was burning a number of months ago with all the houses that were lost. Los Angeles right now would be on fire. We have it in great shape. We’re not playing around.”

“How will you determine whether or not there is an insurrection?” Wegmann followed up.

“Well you take a look at what is happening. I could tell you there were certain areas of Los Angeles last night you could have called it an insurrection. It was terrible these are paid insurrectionists,” Trump began.

“These are paid trouble makers. They get money. When you take a look at what they do, when they show up … everyone is like, ‘what is he doing?’ The one guy is pounding the curb, breaking the curb and handing big pieces of granite, in some cases it’s granite, and concrete to other people and running out with it and watch the other people and they try to throw it into the face of the soldiers, throw it into the face of the police and they hurt people badly,” he continued.

The Insurrection Act of 1807 gives the president the authority to use the National Guard and military in order to combat “unlawful obstruction or rebellion” within U.S. borders. It was first signed into law by Former President Thomas Jefferson after it was believed that then-Vice President Aaron Burr was plotting to acquire the Louisiana Territory and other land in the Southwest. Former President George H.W. Bush was the last to use the act in 1992 to quell Los Angeles riots. Before him, Eisenhower used the act in 1957 to enforce school desegregation in the south.

The unrest began over the weekend after ICE agents arrested 100 illegal immigrants, including drug traffickers and gang members, in raids across the city. The protests eventually turned into violent riots where some anti-Trump protesters burned cars and threw Molotov cocktails, rocks and fireworks. Some property was defaced with slogans like “KILL ICE.”

There were nearly 1,000 rioters that descended on the city as they caused damage to federal buildings and assaulted ICE agents, slashed tires and destroyed government property Friday night, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

AUTHOR

Reagan Reese

White House Correspondent. Follow Reagan on Twitter.

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PODCAST: Paid Insurrectionists are Behind the LA Riots

By Conservative Commandos Radio Show and AUN-TV

“Paid insurrectionists” are behind the rioting in Los Angeles, Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday as another day of violence prompted officials to make it illegal to enter the city centre at night. The U.S. president alleged that well-equipped “agitators” had been paid to cause chaos in the country’s second-biggest city, although he did not specify who was funding them or why.

He added that the 2,000 National Guard members and 700 U.S. marines he had deployed to Los Angeles would remain in place until he decided it was safe.

Mr Trump’s intervention came on the fourth day of protests sparked by immigration raids, during which cars have been set alight and properties vandalised in downtown LA. Demonstrators — and journalists lawfully covering the protests — have been tear-gassed and shot by police with rubber bullets.

Violence and looting has has become such a concern that on Tuesday night Karen Bass, the mayor, announced that people would be banned from the city centre from 8pm until 6am local time. Ms Bass said that an emergency had been declared and that a curfew was necessary to protect locals and businesses.

“Last night, there were 23 businesses that were looted and I think if you drive through down-town LA, the graffiti is everywhere and has caused significant damages to businesses and a number of properties,” she said. “These are paid insurrectionists. These are paid troublemakers. They’re agitators. They’re paid,” Mr Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “Do you think somebody walks up to a kerb and starts hammering pieces out, has all the equipment necessary and starts handing it out to people to use as a weapon? These are paid insurrectionists or agitators or troublemakers.”

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Trump Response to L.A. Riots Applies Lessons Learned in 2020

By Family Research Council

The Los Angeles riots have driven California progressives back to a familiar strategy: blame Trump. For instance, after days of dallying, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) on Tuesday finally declared an overnight curfew in Downtown Los Angeles “to stop bad actors who are taking advantage of the President’s chaotic escalation.” But Trump has “been here before,” and he knows how events play out.

“You have to remember, I’ve been here before,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I went right by every rule, and I waited for governors to say, ‘Send in the National Guard.’ They wouldn’t do it, and they just wouldn’t do it. It kept going on and on [and] got worse and worse.”

Trump was recalling the fiery protests in the summer of 2020, for which a mainstream media outlet devised the anti-description, “mostly peaceful.” After seven days of rioting in Minneapolis, Trump continued, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) “wouldn’t call the National Guard, and we ultimately just sent in the National Guard. We stopped it, but that was after seven days.”

“And I said to myself, ‘If that stuff happens again, we’ve got to make faster decisions because they don’t want to do it,’” Trump added. “If we didn’t send in the National Guard quickly, right now, Los Angeles would be burning to the ground.”

Some politicians disagree — or at least claim to. “You all don’t think that somehow, because they called out the National Guard, there was violence?” queried Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.). “There was no violence. I was on the street. I know.” The curfew imposed by Mayor Bass would beg to differ.

But the mainstream media is all too happy to back up the argument that Trump’s handling of the crisis has been heavy-handed. “Trump is acting like an authoritarian,” complained CNN. “This Is What Autocracy Looks Like” agreed The New York Times. “Sending the National Guard into LA is the administration’s clearest step yet towards authoritarianism,” echoed the Financial Times.

When the left-biased media calls a Republican president’s actions “authoritarianism,” it says less about the action itself than about the commentators’ dislike of authority wielded by their political opponents.

“What’s happened so far is that Trump has acted within the law … to use the National Guard (and now a contingent of Marines) to protect federal personnel and property in L.A.,” argued Rich Lowry. “Most people don’t feel threatened or provoked by guys in camo standing impassively in front of a federal building.”

At least at first glance, a federal judge agrees. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, a judge on senior status in the Northern District of California, denied Governor Gavin Newsom’s (D) emergency request for a temporary restraining order to prevent Trump from federalizing the California National Guard. Judge Breyer is a former Watergate prosecutor and the brother of retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, one of the court’s liberals.

Breyer scheduled a hearing on the motion for Thursday. He gave the federal government until 2 p.m. EST on Wednesday to file arguments, then California has until 9 a.m. on Thursday to respond.

The more time that passes, the more evidence suggests that Trump was right to categorize the L.A. riots as a re-run of 2020. Despite the intervening Biden administration, the players and politics remain fundamentally identical, except that Trump enjoys a stronger position. Even the cause — opposition to law enforcement — is nearly the same, although that is certainly no requirement to draw out leftist activists. Already, anti-ICE protests have spread across the country, including New York, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, and Atlanta. NBC News “counted at least 25 rallies and demonstrations coast to coast” on Monday and Tuesday.

Trump provided further explanation for his actions while speaking at Fort Bragg, days before the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday. The point of defending American property in American streets is the same as defending it abroad, he said. “Generations of Army heroes did not shed their blood on distant shores only to watch our country be destroyed by invasion and third-world lawlessness here at home — like is happening in California,” Trump urged. “As commander-in-chief, I will not let that happen.”

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Joshua Arnold

Joshua Arnold is a senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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113 Democrats Vote against Condemning Anti-Semitic Terror Attack

By Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.)

For anyone with lingering doubts about whether anti-Semitism in America has increased, 26% of the House of Representatives voted Monday night against condemning anti-Semitic terrorism. When the House took its roll call on a resolution (H.Res.488) “Denouncing the antisemitic terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado,” 113 Democratic members refused to condemn the violence. This disturbing development demonstrates how completely progressive ideology has warped the moral worldview of some American lawmakers, such that they cannot vote to condemn violent, racialized attacks.

On June 1, an Egyptian national, who was in the U.S. illegally, attacked a group of elderly Jews during their weekly march in recognition of the hostages still held by Hamas. Armed with Molotov cocktails and homemade flamethrowers, the man sent eight victims to the hospital with burns as he yelled, “Free Palestine.” The victims were aged 52 to 88, including a Holocaust survivor and certainly played no personal role in Israel’s military campaign against Hamas terrorists in Gaza; the man simply attacked them because they were Jewish.

It’s worth stating the good news, first: a clear bipartisan majority approved the resolution in the House of Representatives — 205 Republicans and 75 Democrats voted to condemn this vulgar terror attack. However, six members (Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene [R-Ga.] and five Democrats) voted “present,” while 33 members, split between both parties, did not vote.

The resolution, introduced by freshman Rep. Gabe Evans (R-Colo.), simply declared, after a modest preamble:

“That the House of Representatives—

“(1) condemns Mohammed Sabry Soliman and his antisemitic terrorist attack on peaceful demonstrators supporting the release of the hostages held by Hamas;

“(2) affirms that free and open communication between State and local law enforcement and their Federal counterparts remains the bedrock of public safety and is necessary in preventing terrorist attacks; and

“(3) expresses gratitude to law enforcement officers, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE] personnel, for protecting the homeland.”

This praise for law enforcement and condemnation of terror was too much for some members to stomach, and 113 Democrats voted against the resolution. (Perhaps these Democrats were thinking of the ongoing L.A. riots and did not want to support either ICE or cooperation between federal and state law enforcement — clever of Evans to include that.)

For his trouble, Evans earned only mockery from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). “Who is this guy? He’s not seriously concerned with combating anti-Semitism in America. This is not a serious effort. This guy’s going to be a one-term member of Congress. He’s a complete and total embarrassment,” Jeffries jeered. In answer to his first question (yes, he intended it rhetorically), Evans is a former Army Black Hawk pilot and former police officer.

Some Democrats criticized Evans’s resolution because they preferred a different resolution condemning the Boulder attack offered by Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.), in whose adjacent district the attack occurred. But the House only voted on one resolution — that offered by Evans — and even Neguse chose to vote for it.

The reason why most members, even a significant number of Democrats, supported the resolution is because the moral position is clear. Violent acts of terrorism against innocent civilians are always condemnable, whether committed by Hamas operatives against Israelis at the Nova music festival or by an Islamist radical in Boulder, Colo.

To underscore this point, Hamas is still an evil terrorist organization holding onto dozens of kidnapped civilians, which it cynically uses as bargaining chips to extract ever greater concessions out of Israel. The Boulder terror victims were attacked while attempting to remind an indifferent world of this fact.

“Our life turned upside down,” said Ilan Dalal, father of hostage Guy Dalal. “Me and my wife, we had two jobs each. We provided our family with dignity. And since then, we stopped working. We are unable to do anything except fight to bring them back.”

During a recent meeting at Family Research Council headquarters, Dalal took pains to remind Americans that hostages like Guy, and Guy’s lifelong friend Evyatar David, are human beings, just like everybody else. “They both had dreams, he said. “Guy just finished his education in computer science before he was abducted. He managed to work for a new company for two months, and he taught himself to speak and write Japanese because his dream was to go to Japan and travel and see the world. Evyatar also had a dream to become a music producer.”

The young men were 22 when captured, and now they are 24. “They both have already [had] two birthdays in captivity,” Dalal declared, “two birthdays in the tunnels, without their friends, without their family, without their love.”

For a while, the families held onto hope that at least their sons were still alive. But after the release of Tal Shoham, an older man who shared their captivity, they were shocked by the barbarous conditions. “We didn’t think that their conditions of captivity [were] so harsh,” Dalal reflected. “We really thought that they [were] treating them [with] more dignity. But when Tal was released, we found the truth.”

“The tunnel that they are held in is booby trapped with explosives, which the terrorists threatened to set off if the IDF is approaching. And, since we don’t know the quality of the explosives, it might go off accidentally and kill them. And one of the guards can go crazy … and he can kill them, or they just die from the bad condition they are in,” he related. “They are beaten, starved, and abused on a daily basis. And the last sign of life … was three months ago.”

To hear such accounts and conclude, “Actually, I’ll side with terrorists,” reveals a terribly warped moral compass. Ninety years ago, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party targeted Jews for extinction because his racial ideology viewed them as impure, inhuman. Today, a new racial ideology — a Marxist one — holds sway in leftist circles, and once again Jews find themselves the target. This time, the Left accuses the Jews of colonialism for returning to their homeland, siding with the interloping Arabs merely because — they suppose — Jews have white skin, and Arabs have brown skin — an imaginary distinction that pays little heed to the facts.

But a person’s moral character is revealed through his actions, not his skin color. To say otherwise is to descend into total moral relativism — with a sturdy dose of racism to boot.

Earlier this month, a cadre of diehard progressives determined to prove their morally backward hypothesis of Israel’s supposed evil by launching a so-called “freedom flotilla” to bring humanitarian aid from Sicily to Gaza, hoping somehow to break Israel’s naval blockade. But Israel called out the ship for what it was, a “selfie yacht” carrying less aid than a single truck entering Gaza from Israel. In fact, when Israel boarded the vessel, they came bearing food and water.

Israel offered a solution to the Left’s self-deception about the morality of their war with Hamas. They invited — nay, compelled — the activists (including the nearly forgotten Greta Thunberg) to watch a 43-minute film depicting the atrocities committed by Hamas against Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023.

Of course, unbelief is often a matter of the will, not the mind (Isaiah 6:9-10); the truth can only change the minds of those willing to accept it. Reportedly, the activists simply refused to watch the film.

“These anti-Semitic flotilla activists closed their eyes to the truth and once again proved they prefer the murderers over the victims,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said. “They continue to ignore the atrocities committed by Hamas against Jewish and Israeli women, the elderly, and children.” So, too, it seems, does a quarter of the House of Representatives.

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Joshua Arnold

Joshua Arnold is a senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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My Thoughts on the Little Swedish Hypocrite

By Barry Shaw

Early this morning the Israeli navy took control of the British-flagged yacht Madleen, emphasis on Mad, operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which was attempting to enter a war zone to give comfort adsupport to the genocidal death cult that invaded my country killing, torturing, raping, and kidnapping hundreds in including our elderly, girls, and babies.

The vessel, carrying 12 activists including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and French MEP Rima Hassan, was intercepted without incident, and no injuries were reported.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed the passengers were unharmed, provided with food and water, and would be repatriated to their home countries. The Ministry dismissed the flotilla as a “media stunt” and emphasised that the small amount of aid aboard would be delivered through authorised humanitarian channels.

The first thing this lying little Scandinavian told the press was,

“‘IDF soldiers kidnapped me.”

Give me a break!

Kidnapped?

Is this what a “kidnapped” person looks like? Getting a sandwich, water, and a free plane ticket to take her back home!

How dare she say those words when there are real Israeli hostages who’ve been held in tunnels under Gaza in hellish conditions for over 600 days!

She wasn’t going to Gaza to give water or a sandwich to our hostages – or even to visit them.

So spare me your moralising as the Western press fawn over you.

Our hostages didn’t get the press fawning over them as they are with this little ionized liar.

Neither the press, nor the Western politicians particularly the Scandinavian ones of which she belongs, have lifted a finger to force Hamas to release our lived ones.

On the contrary, they have booed and jeeered at Israel every day for a year and a half.

There are no limits to Greta’s lies.

She has made her fame and fortune over empty stunts like this and attracted millions of mainly immature activists willing to echo her every empty word, including those in the cause of a Palestinian death cult and against the one Jewish state that is under constant attack by evil regimes including but not exclusively Iran, Lebanon, Yemen, and within the Palestinian movement.

Would she perform this pantomime against Sweden if this death cult had invaded her country, killed over two thousand of her fellow Swedes, and taken 400 hostages, including members of her family and friends?

I doubt it.

So spare me your moralizing.

You are nothing but a vacuous political hypocrite.

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GOV. NEWSCUM ‘COME AFTER ME, ARREST ME’: California Governor, Los Angeles Mayor Encourage Anti-Law Enforcement Violence

By The Geller Report

The ICE officials, the National Guard and other cooperating law enforcement officials are simply executing what is a lawful act (immigration enforcement and protecting the safety and security of those engaged those actions).

This is the response of Democrat ‘leadership,” party of treason.

Gov. Newsom adds fuel to fire, dares Trump’s border czar Tom Homan to arrest him amid violent anti-ICE riots

By Emily Crane, NY Post, June 9, 2025:

California Gov. Gavin Newsom added fuel to the fire after daring President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan to arrest him for failing to crackdown on violent anti-ICE agitators in his state.

“Come after me. Arrest me. Let’s just get it over with, tough guy,” the defiant Democrat told NBC News on Sunday.

Newsom’s taunt came soon after Homan had warned that the governor and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass could both face federal charges for trying to thwart ICE raids throughout the city.

“I’ll say it about anybody,” Homan had said in a weekend interview as fiery scenes erupted throughout Los Angeles.

“You cross that line, it’s a felony to knowingly harbor and conceal an illegal alien. It’s a felony to impede law enforcement doing their job.”

In response to the violence, Trump said he’d deploy 2,000 California National Guard troops to the city as federal immigration agents faced off against scores of anti-ICE protesters for a third day.

Newsom, who insisted the Trump move would only exacerbate the conditions, stoked the flames — as he accused the administration of using federal power as a political weapon.

“He’s a tough guy. Why doesn’t he do that? He knows where to find me,” Newsom told the outlet.

“But you know what? Let your hands off 4-year-old girls that are trying to get educated. Let your hands off these poor people. They’re just trying to live their lives, man. Trying to live their lives, paying their taxes. Been here for 10 years. The fear, the horror.”
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“The hell are they doing? These guys need to grow up. They need to stop, and we need to push back. And I’m sorry to be so clear, but that kind of bloviating is exhausting. So, Tom, arrest me. Let’s go,” he added.

Newsom, for his part, said he plans to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration first thing Monday to thwart the deployment of troops.

“They had to coordinate with the governor of the state,” Newsom said.

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“They never coordinated with the governor of the state.”

“This is about authoritarian tendencies. This is about command and control. This is about power. This is about ego,” he added.

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As for LA Mayor Bass, she’s a radical:

She has decades of infatuation with socialism and Cuba-style communism. When she was a potential VP pick for Biden in 2020, The Atlantic did a profile highlighting her decades of engagement in Cuba: she’s also the only person on Biden’s list who spent part of the 1970s working construction in Fidel Castro’s Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade, a group that has organized annual trips to Cuba for young, leftist Americans for half a century….. Bass went to see Castro speak in Revolution Square in Havana, joining “about a bazillion people” in the crowd, she said. Although she couldn’t understand him, he was “extremely charismatic.”… Bass’s interest in Cuba kept up after she became a member of the California assembly. She went to the country again in 2005, on a trip organized by the California lobbyist Darius Anderson and paid for out of her campaign account, according to campaign-finance records kept by the California secretary of state. She’s returned several times since being elected to the U.S. House in 2010. She visited Alan Gross, the USAID contractor whom Cuba accused of being a spy, during his five years in prison, and joined then–Secretary of State John Kerry when he went to Havana to raise the American flag over the reestablished U.S. embassy in 2015 (Atlantic).

And: Many of you will remember, Bass was in Africa during the devastating fires in January. Why was she in Africa? Desert Sun: Bass was in West Africa to attend the inauguration of Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama on Saturday. Jan 4 (Desert Sun).

Why is that so exciting for her? The Socialist International explains: The Socialist International congratulates John Dramani Mahama on his election as President of Ghana, a clear reflection of the trust placed in his leadership. We also applaud the National Democratic Congress (NDC), a valued member of our global family, for its dedication to democracy and social justice (Socialist).

Mahama in 2012: “I am still a socialist” (Newsweek). So: Bass abandoned Los Angeles in the fires to celebrate the achievement of her like-minded brother in Ghana. Don’t trust her today.

Governor Newsom: We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved (Newsom).

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass: My office is in close coordination with immigrant rights community organization. We will not stand for this (Bass).

More: We are going to fight for all Angelenos (Bass).

Fox 5: Peaceful protests turn violent…  (Fox 5).

Sarah Arnold of Townhall: California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) urged anti-ICE demonstrators to resist President Donald Trump’s actions, telling them not to give the president what he wants—even as he called on protesters to deescalate and stand down amid a third consecutive night of violent unrest. “California – Don’t give Donald Trump what he wants,” Newsom wrote on X.(Townhall).

Newsom calls Trump a dictator: These are the acts of a dictator, not a President (Newsom).

This is not the language of de-escalation. Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass endanger our first responders. California Rep. Darrell Issa: Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass have a real habit of letting Los Angeles burn (Issa).

Angeles Mayor Bass ordered LAPD to stand down when ICE was under siege.

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Instead of Shutting Down Immigration Riots, Newsom Suing Trump For National Guard Deployment

By The Daily Caller

Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom plans to sue the Trump administration for deploying the Army National Guard to California in response to anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) riots, he said Monday.

Newsom accused Trump of acting illegally by sending in 2,000 guardsmen to Los Angeles as riots raged over the weekend.

“He flamed the fires and illegally acted to federalize the National Guard,” Newsom wrote on X, adding, “We’re suing him.”

“We don’t take lightly to the president abusing his authority and unlawfully mobilizing California National Guard troops,” state Attorney General Rob Bonta echoed in remarks to reporters, according to the Associated Press.

Newsom’s legal threats come after Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan said that he is considering asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to prosecute California officials for “fomenting the anti‑ICE riots.”

Rioting began following ICE raids in LA, part of a broader push by the agency to ramp up illegal immigrant deportations. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the LA raids led to the arrest of several violent illegal alien criminals. ICE has made over 100,000 arrests since the beginning of Trump’s second term, and border crossings have fallen to historic lows, according to the White House.

Although Newsom has repeatedly insisted that California officials had the situation under control, the scene in LA suggests otherwise. Rioters were seen setting fire to police vehicles and autonomous taxis and tossing rocks at federal law enforcement officials.

In the face of California’s lawsuit, Trump is standing by his move to deploy the National Guard, saying in a social media post, “We made a great decision.”

Newsom’s current feud with President Trump is a continuation of California lawmakers’ repeated attempts to derail ICE operations. Democrats in the California Senate moved to pass legislation aimed at severely limiting ICE agents’ ability to effectively operate in the state. LA leaders designated the city a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants following Trump’s inauguration.

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LOS ANGELES WAR ZONE: Far Left Rioters Attack ICE With Hammers, Concrete Blocks in Brutal Takedown

By The Geller Report

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino announces crackdown on the left-wing rioters who attacked ICE agents in LA yesterday as Stephen Miller declares it was an “insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States.”

Bongino: “The days of chaos ruling the streets are over. Either obey the law, or go to jail, there’s no third option.”

“The Right to assemble and protest does not include a license to attack law enforcement officers, or to impede and obstruct our lawful immigration operations.”

ICE agents were trapped inside a building and faced serious threats from an angry far-left mob.

Yesterday, ICE agents were trapped in a building and surrounded by lunatics with LAPD not responding for hours after Mayor Karen Bass said she wouldn’t help federal police.

Trump admin officials blast LA Mayor Karen Bass’ response to ICE raids — as cops clash with violent protesters

By Victor Nava, NY Posrt, June 7, 2025, 12:21 a.m. ET

Several Trump administration officials fired back at Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Friday after she pledged to oppose federal efforts to nab illegal immigrants — as cops in her city had to use flash bangs to disperse the violent mob of protesters who descended on the arrest sites.

“We will not stand for this,” Bass said in a statement released after federal immigration authorities arrested 44 people in raids across Los Angeles.

“I am deeply angered by what has taken place,” the Democrat mayor fumed, noting that her office “is in close coordination with immigrant rights community organizations.”

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“You have no say in this at all,” Miller shot back on social media.

“Federal law is supreme and federal law will be enforced,” he noted on X.

Miller was one of several Trump administration officials that took issue with Bass’ statements.

“They’re Illegals. Not ‘immigrants.’ One just tried to burn Americans alive in Boulder,” White House adviser Sebastian Gorka wrote on X, referring to Colorado terror suspect Mohamed Soliman.

The Egyptian national overstayed his tourist visa before allegedly firebombing a peaceful march for Israeli hostages still held by Hamas on Sunday in a heinous antisemitic attack.

“If you’re aiding and abetting them you’re a criminal too,” Gorka said in response to the LA mayor’s comments. “Are you ready to be treated as a criminal?

“Because we are ready to treat you as one if you commit a crime,” he warned.

Justice Department official Harmeet K. Dhillon was stunned by Bass’ understanding of the law.

“It’s amazing the number of elected officials who don’t grasp the basics of federalism, or federal sovereignty over immigration issues, or the First Amendment,” Dhillon tweeted.

The Los Angeles immigration raids sparked protests at the arrest sites, and at least one person was taken into custody for allegedly obstructing federal law enforcement.

“Federal agents were executing a lawful judicial warrant at a LA worksite this morning when David Huerta deliberately obstructed their access by blocking their vehicle,” US Attorney Bill Essayli said in a statement. “He was arrested for interfering with federal officers and will face arraignment in federal court on Monday.”

“Let me be clear: I don’t care who you are — if you impede federal agents, you will be arrested and prosecuted.”

Huerta is president of the California branch of the influential Service Employees International Union.

Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin decried the city’s response to protesters’ clashes with federal agents – which escalated hours after the raids.

“Assaulting ICE enforcement officers, slashing tires, defacing buildings. 800 protestors have surrounded and breached the first layer of a federal law enforcement building in LA,” McLaughlin wrote on X. “@LAPD has not responded.”

“This violence against @ICEgov must stop.”

Richard Grenell, President Trump’s envoy for special missions, blamed Bass for the unrest.

“Karen Bass whipped all of this up. She attacked the rule of law. She undermined democracy,” Grenell wrote on X, sharing images of protesters attempting to block federal law enforcement vehicles.

“The @MayorOfLA is creating chaos in LA,” he fumed.

Cotninue reading.

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EXCLUSIVE: Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers Still Awaiting Justice 3 Years After Firebombing, Vandalism Spree

By The Daily Caller

The FBI has yet to solve at least five cases it opened into arson attacks targeting pro-life pregnancy centers in 2022, according to an investigation by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Biden FBI offered cash rewards in 2022 for information on suspects responsible for firebombings around the country, mainly directed at pro-life facilities, after the preemptive May 2 leak of a Supreme Court ruling that overturned the abortion precedent established by Roe v. Wade. Five local FBI field offices told the DCNF that the bureau is still offering the incentive for cases in ColoradoNorth CarolinaWashington stateOregon and New York, indicating suspects were never found or convicted.

The FBI’s Seattle field office told the DCNF that it’s typical for the bureau to update or delete the bulletins asking the public for information if suspects are caught, and if they’re on the website, the FBI is still looking for answers. The FBI’s national press office did not respond to a request for comment.

‘Enforce The Law Equally’

One targeted facility’s CEO, Jim Harden, told the DCNF he got a phone call from an employee around two in the morning on June 7, 2022, that changed his life. The Amherst, New York, building that was home to his organization CompassCare was set ablaze in what was eventually determined to be arson. The FBI released footage showing what it said were two suspects arriving in a car at night and throwing Molotov cocktails at the building.

Harden’s team had been on high alert that summer, having already contacted the FBI over concerns about a heightened risk of violence. Soon after the fire, he moved with his wife and children to flee an onslaught of threats against them as extremists lashed out at CompassCare, a Christian nonprofit providing free medical care to pregnant mothers to steer them away from abortion.

“Our lives are very different now,” he said in an interview with the DCNF. “We had to relocate our family … we had people riding past our house pointing guns at our kids.”

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said in April that there were more than 200 cases of pregnancy resource centers “violently attacked by activists with no action by law enforcement, federal or state” in the past several years. Family Research Council documented almost 50 instances of vandalism and other attacks on pregnancy centers and pro-life organization buildings from May through June 2022.

“I can say we are taking them seriously now and will be for the duration,” Dhillon told the DCNF about such cases. Dillon declined to comment about any specific prosecutions that may be ongoing or forthcoming.

“This Department of Justice is committed to protecting crisis pregnancy centers, pro-life organizations and places of worship from targeted acts of violence and will work to ensure justice is served to criminals who engage in this unlawful behavior,” a DOJ spokesperson said in response to questions about the unsolved cases.

The spree of violence even resulted in arson at a Portland pregnancy center run by a self-professed pro-choice woman in July 2022. As in the five cases involving pro-life groups, the FBI told the DCNF it is still offering a reward for information. The Dobbs opinion leak, which was investigated but never solved, also inspired an assassination attempt on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh near his home.

The Portland facility did not respond to multiple requests for comment. The other pregnancy centers with unsolved cases in Longmont, Colorado and Portland did not respond to multiple requests for comment, while one in Seattle declined to comment.

Harden, the CompassCare CEO, said the pro-abortion Biden administration seemed apathetic about solving the cases, despite the FBI interviewing him about the Amherst bombing. He recalled reaching out and asking urgently for updates, leading to a moment when he said an FBI agent “was screaming” over the phone that the bureau was not required to update him.

“Their job was to enforce the law equally,  and it did not appear as if they were doing so,” Harden said.

‘Mountain Of Evidence’

While announcements about pro-abortion vandalism cases were scarce, the Biden administration boasted in press releases about several prosecutions of pro-life activists under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act for protesting at abortion clinics. On his first week in office, President Donald Trump pardoned nearly two dozen pro-lifers accused of federal crimes.

Former Attorney General Merrick Garland explained the discrepancy in March 2023 by telling Congress that “it is quite easy” to identify and charge pro-lifers protesting in daylight.

“Those who are attacking the pregnancy resources centers, which is a hard thing to do, are doing this at night in the dark,” Garland said.

Harden did not — and does not — buy Garland’s explanation whatsoever.

“There’s a mountain of evidence,” Harden said of the vandals, noting that the authorities can search for license plate numbers, body mechanic imagery and cell phone IP addresses. “It’s just not possible they don’t know who they are. The FBI [is] the most technically advanced law enforcement agency on the planet.”

Some attacks on pro-life centers in 2022 were linked to a leftist group called Jane’s Revenge, with activists posting online threats in response to news about the leaked Dobbs decision. The FBI said the CompassCare vandals left the spray-painted message, “Jane was here.”

Harden told the DCNF his Amherst building was repaired at “miraculous” speed in 52 days thanks in part to volunteer workers, but the damage cost millions of dollars.

The attack inspired Harden to become more outspoken about political issues via media interviews. He also launched a campaign on a pro-life platform to fill Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik’s House seat in a New York special election. Stefanik announced she would remain in her role in April after Trump pulled her nomination to represent the U.S. in the United Nations.

‘Heart Problem’

Paula McSwain, executive director of the Crisis Pregnancy Center in Lincolnton, North Carolina, told the DCNF she received a letter from the FBI in August 2024 saying its investigation into arson at her building in June 2022 was closed. Surveillance footage showed someone at nighttime throwing what the FBI said was a Molotov cocktail.

The Lincolnton case is one of several for which the FBI is still offering a reward for information on any suspects, according to the bureau’s Charlotte field office.

McSwain said she was fortunate enough to get the pregnancy center up and running fairly easily.

“If they wanted to destroy the building, they could have done a better job,” McSwain told the DCNF.

The pro-life leader decided to respond to her ordeal by limiting public outcry.

“That’s what they were seeking, was attention,” McSwain said of the vandals.

Harden and McSwain said that if they could give any message to their attackers, it would be one of forgiveness through Jesus Christ.

“If you throw fire at any building, you’ve got a heart problem and there’s something not right with your life … We don’t seek revenge, we just pray for them,” McSwain said.

“The only reason I can forgive you is because forgiveness has been made available to me, and so I would encourage you to come out of the darkness and into the light,” Harden said his words to the criminals would be.

“Nothing is going to go unpunished if it’s sin,” Harden said.

AUTHOR

Hudson Crozier

DCNF Crime and Extremism Reporter.

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Unanimous Decision From Supreme Court: Discrimination Is Discrimination

By The Geller Report

“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.” —George Orwell, Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essay


This had to go to the Supreme Court because lower courts ruled that discrimination against groups targeted by the left (white, straight, male or Christian) was lawful.

Activist judges have allowed racial discrimination against whites since the 1980s. In a unanimous decision, SCOTUS has determined that ‘reverse discrimination’ is, indeed, discrimination. It only took 44 years for the court to figure it out...(X)

No matter who is doing it. It was a remarkable day at the Supreme Court, but the release of decisions was drowned out by the lively events of the day. The Supreme Court case here was Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services. The issue at hand is plaintiff’s claim that her LGBTQ boss was looking past her to promote her LGBTQ colleague. The court held—unanimously—that Title VII (prohibiting  “discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin”) does not vary based on whether or not the plaintiff is a member of a majority group. Stated differently: The fact that the plaintiff is straight can’t be used against her. In sum—in the closing words of the Court’s opinion: We conclude that Title VII does not impose such a heightened standard on majority-group plaintiffs. Therefore, the judgment below is vacated, and the case is remanded for application of the proper prima facie standard (Supreme Court).

Let’s dispense with the term “reverse discrimination.” It’s an oxymoron. These are cases of discrimination, full stop. If someone’s sexual preferences are the basis for employment decisions, that violates Title VII, and the same is true for ethnicity, sex, religion, and so on. Discrimination is discrimination, and the very notion that certain classes of people within those categories have a higher evidentiary standard than others is itself discriminatory. The text makes that clear even to Justice Jackson: “As a textual matter, Title VII’s disparate-treatment provision draws no distinctions between majority-group plaintiffs and minority-group plaintiffs. Rather, the provision makes it unlawful ‘to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.’ …  By establishing the same protections for every “individual”—without regard to that individual’s membership in a minority or majority group—Congress left no room for courts to impose special requirements on majority-group plaintiffs alone (Hot Air).

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Trump Orders Probe Into Biden’s Presidential Actions

By The Daily Caller

President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Wednesday evening directing a probe into “who ran” the U.S. during former President Joe Biden’s time in office.

Questions regarding Biden’s mental state have rapidly developed among Democrats since the release of Jake Tapper’s and Alex Thompson’s “Original Sin,” detailing the former president’s mental decline while in office. In the White House’s press release, Trump said the memorandum will direct the investigation into “whether certain individuals conspired to deceive the public about Biden’s mental state and unconstitutionally exercise the authorities and responsibilities of the President.”

“The Memorandum also mandates an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Biden’s purported execution of the numerous executive actions during his final years in office, examining policy documents signed with an autopen, who authorized its use, and the validity of the resulting Presidential policy decisions,” the statement added.

Prior to the 2020 presidential election, Republicans began to sound off over concerns about Biden and his mental state. While some Democrats have still supported Biden following the book’s allegations, others have begun to question his time in the White House and the issues he oversaw.

According to the White House’s statement, Biden’s use of the “autopen raises serious concerns about the legitimacy of his actions,” citing reports that indicate the former president suffered from “serious cognitive decline.”

“Despite Biden’s cognitive deficiencies, the White House issued over 1,200 Presidential documents, appointed 235 judges to the Federal bench, and issued more pardons and commutations than any Administration in U.S. history,” the statement reads. “The authority to take these executive actions is constitutionally reserved for the President, yet the Biden White House used an autopen to execute the vast majority of Biden’s executive actions, particularly during the second half of his Presidency.”

In his final month in office, Biden issued a wave of pardons, notably commuting the sentences of 37 out of the 40 “most vile and monstrous criminals on Federal death row,” the White House said.

Tapper’s and Thompson’s new book, based on interviews with multiple sources, reveals Biden’s decline had become so alarming among aides that some considered placing him in a wheelchair following the 2020 election.

Though Democrats initially rallied behind Biden as their 2024 nominee, lawmakers and pundits quickly reversed course after his disastrous June debate against Trump, where the now-former president froze mid-sentence and struggled to complete his arguments. Questions about whether Biden could last another term spread immediately.

As calls from lawmakers mounted, Democrat donors also paused millions in contributions until Biden exited the race. By July 21, Biden announced his withdrawal and endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s next nominee.

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Hailey Gomez

General Assignment Reporter.

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‘Absolutely Horrific’: AI-Generated Child Porn Leads Teen to Commit Suicide

By Family Research Council

As their teenage son lay in the hospital with his life oozing out of him, Eli Heacock’s parents felt their grief compounded by confusion: They had no idea why he had committed suicide.

Then they found his phone.

Messages showed their son — 16-year-old Elijah “Eli” Manning Heacock of Glasgow, Kentucky — had fallen prey to an extortioner, who convinced Eli to send photos of himself, which the predator used to generate sexually explicit images using artificial intelligence (AI).

The victim’s father, John Burnett, said Eli scrambled to collect as much of the $3,000 bribe as he could, only to hear his predator tell him, “This is not enough.”

In despair, Eli shot himself on February 27, dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the University of Louisville Hospital the next day.

The tragic death highlights the changing profile of sexual abuse and predation. Parents “no longer [have] to be scared of the white van that drives around. You have to be scared of the internet,” said Eli’s mother, Shannon Heacock.

Her son is far from the first person to lose his life to online sexual extortionists. “From October 2021 to March 2023 … sextortion involved at least 12,600 victims — primarily boys — and led to at least 20 suicides,” according to the FBI.

But even in death, Eli, who lost his unique potential so young, stood out from others: Usually, exploiters lure their victims into sending sexually explicit photos, then blackmail them into sending money or more compromising photos. Eli apparently shared less explicit images, which the predator allegedly altered using artificial intelligence — which analysts say highlights another threat of nascent AI technology.

“It’s absolutely horrific and tragic that criminals used AI-generated images to extort money out of a teenage boy, ultimately resulting in him taking his own life,” Arielle Del Turco, director of the Center for Religious Liberty at Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand. FRC previously highlighted concerns raised by AI chatbots, which appear to be human, engaging in sexually explicit dialogue with minors online — or stoking pedophiles’ fantasies by posing as sexually precocious children.

With the rise of AI-generated pornography, a victim need not send his tormentor nude or suggestive photos. Powered by AI, child exploiters do not need their victim to send them any photos at all: They can download an image from the internet or take a candid photo without the victim’s knowledge.

People from all walks of life can fall victim to AI-generated “deepfakes.” Last month, New Zealand politician Lana McClure stood on the floor of Parliament and displayed nude photographs of herself, which she said she personally created in a matter of minutes using artificial intelligence software.

Lawmakers in Heacock’s native Kentucky reacted by adopting a law, S.B. 73, which makes sextortion a felony. President Donald Trump also made tackling “revenge porn,” including images created by artificial intelligence, an early priority in his second administration.

“Congress has recently worked to mitigate these types of situations by passing the Take It Down Act,” supported by First Lady Melania Trump, which passed Congress with near-unanimous consent and signed into law by President Trump, noted Del Turco. The law makes it illegal to knowingly publish, or threaten to publish, intimate images without a person’s consent; it also requires websites to remove such images within 48 hours of a victim’s valid request and help track down any sites that have republished the material. Del Turco noted that the new law “applies to AI-generated images. Policymakers should continue to enact prudent legislation to protect people from abusive uses of AI, including sexual extortion.”

Not every level of government shares Heacock’s concerns. Global governance bodies have allowed lawmakers to exclude AI-generated porn even of the youngest children. The United Nations Convention against Cybercrime, adopted last December 31, forbids “real or simulated sexual activity” but gives nations the right to limit the prosecution of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) to material that “[d]epicts, describes or represents an existing person.” That excludes child pornography images or videos that are entirely AI-generated and not based on one specific child.

“In several sections, the new UN treaty allows countries to de-criminalize virtual child pornography in all circumstances as well as private sexting by minors, even to adults,” noted Stefano Gennarini of the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM).

Americans also feel concerned some lawmakers have prioritized the explosive growth of the artificial intelligence sector at the cost of their children’s innocence, even their lives. The “One Big Beautiful Bill” which recently passed the House of Representatives contains a provision preempting states from regulating AI technology for 10 years. “I am adamantly OPPOSED to this and it is a violation of state rights and I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there,” wrote Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on social media Tuesday. “We have no idea what AI will be capable of in the next 10 years and giving it free rein and tying states hands is potentially dangerous.”

The bill is now before the Senate. The AI provision has raised alarms beyond the chamber. Many grieving parents wish leaders would give them stronger tools to keep their children safe from the ever-expanding reach of predators. “We can’t afford to be behind the ball on creating policies that govern AI,” Del Turco told TWS. “The effects are too far-reaching” — a fact Eli’s mother, Shannon, knows too well.

“I don’t want another mother to ever face this, another sibling, another father to face this,” she said.

AUTHOR

Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.

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