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  • Ex-CIA analyst who admitted leaking docs about Israel strike on Iran gets 37 months in prison

    06/12/2025 12:44:38 AM PDT · by Libloather · 2 replies
    NY Post | 6/11/25 | Victor Nava
    An ex-CIA analyst was sentenced to more than three years in prison Wednesday for leaking top-secret documents about Israel’s plans to retaliate against Iran last year. Asif William Rahman, 34, had pleaded guilty in January to two counts of willful retention and transmission of classified information after he was arrested for absconding with records from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency last October that indicated Israel was planning to launch airstrikes in response to a massive Iranian missile attack. Rahman, who had been a CIA employee since 2016 and had access to top secret documents, leaked the stolen information on social media...
  • ICE agents ram car to take man into custody in Boyle Heights

    06/12/2025 12:41:50 AM PDT · by Morgana · 9 replies
    ABC 7 ^ | June 11, 2025 | staff
    BOYLE HEIGHTS, Calif. (KABC) -- A man was arrested in Boyle Heights Wednesday morning after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents rammed into his car and pinned it between two unmarked cars. The collision was reported at 10:47 a.m. in the 3700 block of Whittier Boulevard, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department told ABC7. Witnesses said federal agents in two unmarked vehicles -- a pickup truck and an SUV -- were involved in the incident, along with a civilian vehicle, a white sedan. LAPD said the crash was being investigated as a possible assault with a deadly weapon...
  • Trans TikToker “Lily Tino” Facing Possible Legal Action From Woman He Caught On Camera While Taking Photos In Female Restroom At Disney World

    06/11/2025 10:42:55 PM PDT · by Morgana · 6 replies
    Reduxx ^ | June 9, 2025 | staff
    A woman photographed in a female bathroom by an infamous trans-identified TikToker has announced she is considering taking legal action against him for violating her privacy. Nicholas Sylvan Cantino, known online as Lily Tino, is a transgender content creator with over 400,000 followers across social media. Cantino skyrocketed to notoriety after repeatedly filming himself berating frontline staff at restaurants after they accidentally “misgendered” him. His most viral video on TikTok, which has over 39 million views at the time of writing, is a compilation of those incidents, where he claims that being called “sir,” despite looking like a man dressed...
  • Far-left extremists plan 17 anti-Trump riots across NM on Flag Day (New Mexico, now 18)

    06/11/2025 6:07:41 PM PDT · by CedarDave · 52 replies
    The Piñon Post ^ | June 9, 2025 | Piñon Post staff
    Radical leftist agitators are planning a series of coordinated demonstrations across New Mexico on June 14, targeting President Donald Trump with what they’re branding as “No Kings” protests. But what organizers portray as “peaceful protests” have all the hallmarks of the kind of far-left mob activity that has already sparked violent insurrections in places like Los Angeles, where criminal aliens and anarchists recently clashed with federal law enforcement officers. The so-called “50501 Movement”—standing for 50 protests, 50 states, one movement—has aligned with fringe progressive groups to launch what they claim is a “nationwide day of defiance” against Trump’s leadership, coinciding...
  • Watch Pro-Illegal Moonbat Assault Federal Officers

    06/11/2025 4:11:16 PM PDT · by Morgana · 7 replies
    Moonbattery ^ | June 11, 2025 | Dave Blount
    The influx of refugees from the mess liberals have made of California threatens to turn the Phoenix area into New Los Angeles. Let’s see if law enforcement can still serve a search warrant to probable illegal aliens without being set upon by moonbats: ***VIDEO ON LINK*** A statement from Homeland Security Investigation, via Fox 10 Phoenix: “Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) executed a federal search warrant in Peoria, AZ. The search warrant was … in furtherance to a narcotics and human smuggling case. One person was arrested on federal charges and one other person was turned over to immigration officials. Special...
  • Waters: Trump Started L.A. Riots, ‘He Should Not Continue to Support Violence’

    06/11/2025 4:05:39 PM PDT · by Morgana · 24 replies
    Breitbart ^ | June 11, 2025 | Pam Key
    Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) claimed Wednesday on CNN’s “News Central” that President Donald Trump caused the Los Angeles immigration unrest. Waters said, “The backup plan is the President of the United States should do what he didn’t do when we were invaded in the Capitol. When they had the insurrection that he led, he should get on the phone and talk to the local police, he should talk to the people that he’s had deployed there. And he has a responsibility in all of this. He started this. There should be no violence. He should not continue to support violence.”...
  • L.A. Mayor Bass Claims ICE Raids to Blame for Riots, Looting

    06/11/2025 4:02:32 PM PDT · by Morgana · 23 replies
    Breitbart ^ | June 11, 2025 | Elizabeth Weibel
    Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) claimed that immigration raids conducted in Los Angeles on Friday are to blame for the rioting and looting that has occurred in the city. During a press conference on Wednesday, Bass spoke about how “everything was peaceful” in Los Angeles and other cities and that “things began to be difficult on Friday” when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conducted raids. Bass also suggested that the riots, looting, and violence that have ensued were “provoked by the White House,” and claimed that “maybe we are part of a national experiment to determine how...
  • Marine Tanks Stuck In Traffic On The 405

    06/11/2025 10:21:27 AM PDT · by null and void · 33 replies
    The Babylon Bee ^ | Jun 10, 2025 | BB staff
    LOS ANGELES, CA — Embattled law enforcement officers trying to keep violent protesters at bay now have to wait even longer for help, as news broke that U.S. Marine tanks had gotten stuck in traffic on the 405 freeway. National Guard servicemen and Los Angeles Police Department riot officers had been waiting for the arrival of 700 Marines deployed at the order of President Donald Trump to deal with crowds of anti-ICE rioters, but the Marines were immediately held up in L.A. gridlock. "This is ridiculous. C'mon, people, move it!" shouted one Lance Corporal while poking his head out the...
  • Who is ICE arresting in SoCal raids? 7 On Your Side investigates

    06/11/2025 12:48:35 AM PDT · by Morgana · 31 replies
    ABC 7 ^ | June 10, 2025 | Kevin Ozebek and Julie Sone
    LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- While the U.S. Department of Homeland Security continues to claim ICE agents are going only after violent undocumented criminals, non-violent migrants are being rounded up and deported just the same in what has become a controversial part of the Trump administration's immigration policy. So exactly who are the people ICE is arresting in these raids in Southern California? 7 on Your Side Investigates spent the day trying to verify the backgrounds of some of the names ICE has provided. One person now in ICE custody is 49-year-old Cuong Chanh Phan. The feds say the Vietnamese national's...
  • Report: Atlanta Protesters Tear-Gassed After Throwing Fireworks at Police

    06/11/2025 12:41:19 AM PDT · by Morgana · 15 replies
    Breitbart ^ | June 10, 2025 | Elizabeth Weibel
    As anti-ICE protests spread across the country, protesters in Atlanta, Georgia, were seen being tear-gassed after they reportedly threw fireworks at police officers. WSB-TV 2 Atlanta reported that “hundreds” of protesters gathered for a protest hosted by the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) along Buford Highway. PSL hosted the protest to show support for the ongoing riots in Los Angeles that have involved demonstrators looting businesses, setting fire to and vandalizing Waymo self-driving vehicles, and tearing up sidewalks and throwing rocks at law enforcement officials over an overpass. Per the outlet, “by the end of the night, there was...
  • BREAKING NEWS ICE prepares full assault on five Democrat cities as LA goes into lockdown amid immigration riots

    06/10/2025 11:35:54 PM PDT · by Morgana · 48 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | June 11, 2025 | Stephen M. Lepore
    Donald Trump is set to deploy ICE tactical units to five Democrat-run cities amid the riots in Los Angeles as Gavin Newsom nearly broke into tears while blaming his administration for inciting the California chaos. The military-style units are set to storm New York City, Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia and northern Virginia, MSNBC reported. Four of those five are heavily blue cities, while northern Virginia contains the Democrat enclave of Alexandria. The ICE raids have sparked protests that brought Los Angeles to its knees, as the mayor has put the city on lockdown from 8pm to 6am this morning. The reports...
  • EXCLUSIVE The kill switch for dementia sufferers: Inventor behind the suicide Sarco pod reveals plans for implant that will automatically kill patients when their condition worsens

    06/10/2025 7:49:41 PM PDT · by Morgana · 19 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | May 22, 2025 | ELENA SALVONI
    The inventor of the Sarco suicide pod is building a 'kill switch' implant which could allow dementia sufferers to seal the time of their death years in advance. Dr Philip Nitschke, whose controversial capsule ended an American woman's life in Switzerland last September, has told MailOnline that his newest device is nearing the testing phase. His plans have been labelled 'disturbing' by critics, who argue that enabling people to trigger their deaths with a simple switch could have serious consequences for individuals with various mental and physical health conditions. The mechanism would be sewn into a person's body - most...
  • 3 killed in crash involving motorcyclist fleeing Southern California police

    06/10/2025 7:27:43 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 27 replies
    ktla ^ | 06/10/2025 | Josh DuBose
    Three people in San Bernardino County, including two uninvolved people, were killed in a crash involving a motorcyclist reportedly attempting to flee sheriff’s deputies, authorities confirmed to KTLA. The tragic incident unfolded at around 10:30 a.m. when deputies with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department attempted to conduct a traffic stop on the motorcyclist for reckless driving in Redlands. “The driver of the motorcycle did not yield and fled from the deputies,” SBSD Public Information Officer Mara Rodriguez said in a statement to KTLA. “The motorcycle driver collided [with] a vehicle on Redlands Boulevard near Tennessee Street.” All three individuals...
  • Car plows through Chicago ICE protest that draws thousands to Loop

    06/10/2025 6:07:27 PM PDT · by Freedumb · 17 replies
    CBS News ^ | June 10, 2025 | Sabrina Franza, Jermont Terry
    Thousands of protesters gathered in Federal Plaza and marched along downtown Chicago streets Tuesday evening in a demonstration against the Trump administration and raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A car sped through a march for immigration rights in downtown Chicago Tuesday evening. Around 6:19 p.m., the car was seen barreling down the street as the protesters marched at Monroe Street and Wabash Avenue. It did not appear as if anyone was hit. A witness, Dr. Howard Ehrman, said the car came very close to slamming into the marchers — and accused Chicago police of failing to take sufficient...
  • 'Rooftop Korean' issues chilling threat about LA's future 30 years after Rodney King riots

    06/10/2025 6:00:31 PM PDT · by Morgana · 13 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | June 10, 2025 | Will Potter
    One of the 'rooftop Koreans' who took to LA's rooftops in 1992 during the Rodney King riots to defend their businesses is furious that history is repeating itself in modern day California. Tony Moon, one of the so-called 'Rooftop Koreans' who armed themselves in the race riots over three decades ago, has been sounding off on social media, lambasting Governor Gavin Newsom and the Democrats for their response. In one response to Newsom, he fumed: 'Shut up and sit down. This is the last f*** up that'll seal you (sic) political career as a "has been"'. Moon is a vocal...
  • Mad Maxine and the Los Angeles Illegal Alien Riots

    06/10/2025 12:38:45 PM PDT · by Morgana · 17 replies
    Moonbattery ^ | June 10, 2025 | Dave Blount
    Even as dark times unfold in moonbat-ruled California, at least we have clownish Los Angeles congresscritter Maxine Waters to provide comic relief. Here she is taunting National Guard troops and accusing them of wanting to shoot children: (video on link) Okay, that wasn’t so funny, considering that this malevolent moron has power over us. But the next video is good for a laugh. Watch as she stages a publicity stunt on behalf of David Huerta of the SEIU — who was arrested for taking part in riots — only to get the door of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los...
  • PHOTO: Top L.A. Official’s Twin Daughters Accused of Assaulting Cop During Anti-ICE Riots

    06/10/2025 12:34:17 PM PDT · by Morgana · 23 replies
    Breitbart ^ | June 10, 2025 | Amy Furr
    The 26-year-old twin daughters of a top Los Angeles official were arrested Sunday during anti-ICE protests that have wreaked havoc on the city. Los Angeles Chief Deputy Comptroller Rick Cole said his daughters, Lucia Aguilar and Antonia, were arrested, the New York Post reported Tuesday. The arrests happened after protests erupted on Friday as anti-ICE protesters tried to thwart illegal-immigration sweeps in the city, per Breitbart News. The Post said the two women were accused of assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon. KATV noted: It’s unclear which was the deadly weapon they allegedly used but they were arrested...
  • Trump defends decision to 'SEND IN THE TROOPS' amid LA protests

    06/10/2025 12:11:19 PM PDT · by Morgana · 11 replies
    FOX 11 Los Angeles ^ | June 10, 2025 | staff
    LOS ANGELES - As anti-ICE protests enter a fifth day in Southern California, President Donald Trump is doubling down on his decision to deploy thousands more troops to Los Angeles despite fierce opposition from California Gov. Gavin Newsom and local officials, including Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. What we know: In a Truth Social post on Tuesday, Trump defended his decision to deploy the National Guard to LA, claiming if he hadn't, "that once beautiful and great city would be burning to the ground right now." "If I didn’t "SEND IN THE TROOPS" to Los Angeles the last three nights,...
  • Harris ripped for 'appalling' LA ICE raids statement placing blame on Trump: 'The country dodged a bullet'

    06/10/2025 2:45:27 AM PDT · by Libloather · 15 replies
    Fox News ^ | 6/09/25 | Andrew Mark Miller
    Former Vice President Kamala Harris was slammed by conservatives on social media after she issued a statement on the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles, blaming the Trump administration and calling the unrest "overwhelmingly peaceful." "Los Angeles is my home," Harris posted Sunday as riots had broken out across the city for several days, led by protesters upset with federal agents arresting illegal immigrants in the city, prompting the Trump administration to send in the National Guard. "And like so many Americans, I am appalled at what we are witnessing on the streets of our city," she said. "Deploying the National...
  • Maxine Waters torched by feds for 'taunting' guardsmen and 'spewing lies' about riots, trying to enter jail

    06/10/2025 2:35:36 AM PDT · by Libloather · 26 replies
    Fox News ^ | 6/09/25 | Charles Creitz
    A top Homeland Security official lambasted Rep. Maxine Waters for "lies" about the peacefulness of the riots and her efforts to force entry into a detention center to meet a detained union leader. DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital on Monday that access to the Los Angeles detention facility was "temporarily restricted" to ensure the safety of both detainees and uniformed personnel – when Waters hurried toward a group of guardsmen entering a plywood-protected door to the building over the weekend. The 86-year-old, 18-term Democrat approached the guardsmen saying, "Hello, hello, hello — I’m Congresswoman Waters," but the...