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A convicted cop killer who became the second death row inmate in South Carolina to die by firing squad chomped on a ribeye steak, mushroom risotto, broccoli, collard greens and cheesecake before he was executed on Friday night. Mikal Mahdi, 42, had three slugs fired into his heart by trained correctional volunteers at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia and was pronounced dead at 6:05 p.m. for the ambush killing of Orangeburg Public Safety Captain James Myers in 2004. Mahdi, who washed down his hearty last meal with a sweet tea, did not make a final statement before his execution,...

Bob @Shariakill: CAIR/Muslim brotherhood has Muslim politicians training courses call JETPAC They're creating a “SQUAD” in every state “Total domination even if it takes a 100 years”. *

Ex-“Squad” Reps. Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman claimed that Democrats had originally wanted to pass $10 trillion in spending as part of former President Joe Biden’s doomed Build Back Better (BBB) Act. “We were at 10 [trillion] and then it went down to 6 and down to 3 and down to 1.7, I believe,” Bush said on the “Bowman and Bush” podcast on March 14. The two were reflecting on the collapse of Biden’s ambitious Build Back Better Act, which called for hundreds of billions of dollars of investments in “social infrastructure” programs such as universal child care, an expansion...

After the recent government shutdown vote, Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) offered a three-word response to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) after she complained about how Senate Democrats handled the deal, criticizing her party for caving to Republican demands and not pushing harder against the funding bill. In a blunt response, Fetterman told his fellow Democrat to "deal with it.” This exchange highlights the ongoing friction within the Democratic Party, where some members like Ocasio-Cortez argue for a tougher stance, while others, like Fetterman, prioritize pragmatic solutions to avoid a shutdown. On Friday, Fetterman told AOC to “deal with it” after she...

The husband of former Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) allegedly bilked taxpayers out of more than $20,000 in a COVID loan scheme and used the money for his “personal benefit and enjoyment,” according to the DC US Attorney’s Office. Cortney Merritts, 46, was charged in a federal indictment Thursday with two counts of wire fraud related to allegedly fraudulent applications he filed with the Small Business Administration in 2020 and 2021 that allowed him to collect – and never repay – government funds from the pandemic-era Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program (EIDL) and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Merritts received an $8,500...

Leading House Democrats, including former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and "Squad" member Rashida Tlaib, railed against the Department of Government Efficiency’s "cruel" cuts at a healthcare rally outside the Capitol, demanding the Trump administration not make "even a minor cut to Medicaid." For weeks now, Democrats have been pushing a narrative that the Trump administration is planning massive cuts to government health programs, including ObamaCare, Medicare and Medicaid. Several hundred protesters joined the rally organized by left-leaning groups, including the Women’s March, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and National Nurses United. Speaking during the rally, Pelosi said: "They said they were...

Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre spoke about how "shocking" it was to see Democratic Party leaders criticize then-President Joe Biden to the point where he stepped down from the race. A month into President Donald Trump’s second term in office, the Democratic Party is still reeling from the 2024 race. One of the race’s most contentious aspects was how leaders and influential figures in the party demanded Biden relinquish the party’s nomination after his disastrous debate performance last June. At an event at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University, Jean-Pierre was asked to share an anecdote about...

Idaho lawmakers have advanced a bill to make the state's newly revived firing squad its main method of execution as the quadruple murder trial of aspiring criminologist and alleged co-ed killer Bryan Kohberger approaches. The bill, H0037, has advanced to the Idaho House floor after clearing the Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee Tuesday. Bill sponsor Rep. Bruce Skaug, who previously pushed for legislation that restored the firing squad as a backup option to lethal injection, argued that the botched lethal injection of condemned serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech last year highlights problems with that method. Creech was first sentenced to...

Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley has caused quite a firestorm of controversy this week with comments she made about Iowa’s demographics. She claims that they don’t reflect the broader U.S. population. In the midst of a conversation concerning the early part of the primary process in presidential races, Pressley commented on Iowa being 90 percent white while only having 4.5 percent of its population made up of black people. She said that Republicans wanting to make the state of Iowa an example for the rest of the country is racist, as it wouldn’t reflect the actual racial makeup of our...

In a notable shift from previous years, numerous Democratic members of Congress are opting out of attending President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. However, the term "boycott" is conspicuously absent from their explanations this time. This adjustment in rhetoric follows Mr. Trump's significant electoral victory, which seems to have moderated the House Democratic Caucus's stance toward him despite lingering anti-Trump sentiments.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Faulkner Focus,” Belleville, NJ, Mayor Michael Melham stated that the state of New Jersey gave them guidance that day that if a drone is downed “we’re immediately to call the bomb squad of our county, and, second, our fire department has been instructed to make sure they wear HAZMAT suits” like it’s an attack on the homeland. Melham stated, “On the way here, I was on the phone with my OEM team and we now have guidance coming from the state. And that guidance does say two different things. First of all,...

Shades of Joe Biden in 2012, telling a largely black audience that Mitt Romney's "gonna put y'all back in chains." Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend played a wretched race card. Co-host Michael Steele teed up Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a member of that ultraliberal gang The Squad, suggesting that Trump would take America back to the era of Jim Crow. Pressley upped the ante: "We're on the precipice of going back again to Jim Crow—and then some."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

PITTSBURGH — Steel City has an aspiring Hamas terrorist in its midst — and he likes Squad Democrats. The FBI and Pittsburgh police arrested two Pittsburgh-area residents Wednesday on hate-crime charges for allegedly damaging or defacing Jewish buildings in July. Shockingly one of those individuals, Mohamad Hamad, self-identified as a “Hamas operative,” purchased and tested explosive materials for a future fireball and was a Pennsylvania Air National Guard member stationed near Pittsburgh International Airport, according to the criminal complaint. The US and Lebanese dual citizen also donated to Squad Democrats who have called Israel’s year-long-war in Gaza a genocide and...

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is two days away from learning whether she has won the Democratic primary for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, essentially ensuring her path to reelection. Her challenger, a familiar foe in former Minneapolis Councilman Don Samuels, believes he can unseat the sitting Democrat, arguing while campaigning on Sunday that she has been “divisive.” “The voters have had three terms under Congresswoman Omar’s leadership and service,” Samuels said to FOX 9. “They are dissatisfied.” “She goes hard after one point of view, condemns the other point of view, alienates half of her district, and becomes divisive,” he added.

Under the Kamala-Walz ticket, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be considered for a cabinet position, like Secretary of Energy or Secretary of the Treasury. https://t.co/mBdJsXXvVX— Steven Cheung (@TheStevenCheung) August 6, 2024pic.twitter.com/SlIAUfxvOM— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 6, 2024

Far-left Democrat Cori Bush appears to have lost her bid for re-election in Missouri’s First Congressional district by a landslide. While full results from the race are yet to be counted, it is already clear that Bush will not be returning to Congress next year. Cori Bush has LOST her primary in St. Louis. She is officially a LOSER! pic.twitter.com/DDjPedBfOe — Joey Mannarino (@JoeyMannarinoUS) August 7, 2024 With almost 20% report, incumbent Squad member Cori Bush is down more than 30% in her primary against pro-Israel Democrat Wesley Bell. Bush would join Jamaal Bowman as incumbents from The Squad to...

Radical Left Squad member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) celebrated Kamala Harris’s running mate choice Tuesday. Harris chose Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) – from Omar’s adopted home state – as her vice presidential nominee, as Breitbart News reported. Looks like they bumped Josh Shapiro to appease the Hamas Youth wing of the party pic.twitter.com/pH7r0gmKh3 — Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) August 6, 2024 “Let’s go,” Omar tweeted moments after the news broke, along with an arm flexing emoji and a Harris-Walz 2024 hashtag. Let’s go 💪🏽 #HarrisWalz2024 — Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) August 6, 2024 Omar’s district is home to more Somali refugees than...

A vocal anti-Israel activist, who has made several donations to Rep. Rashida Tlaib's, D-Mich., House campaigns, mourned the assassination of a top Hamas leader on Wednesday, saying his "martyrdom is not in vain." Zahra Billoo, a disgraced former Women's March leader and the executive director of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in San Francisco, took to social media after it was reported that Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran, Iran, prompting Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to vow "revenge" for the attack.

Progressive Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), a Squad member running a tight race for re-election in Missouri, is backing Vice President Harris to be the Democratic presidential nominee. Bush was among the earliest left-wing voices in the House to embrace Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee after President Biden announced that he was suspending his campaign on Sunday. She is competing to hold on to her seat in the state’s first congressional district against moderate Democratic challenger Wesley Bell, who is St. Louis County’s prosecuting attorney. “In 2020, voters turned out to deliver Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to the White...

Another member of the left-leaning “Squad” in Congress is on the ropes — facing a 23 percentage point deficit and possibly headed for defeat, a new poll claims. Rep. Cori Bush trails St. Louis prosecuting attorney Wesley Bell 56% to 33% in the Aug. 6 Democratic Primary for Missouri’s 1st Congressional District, the survey conducted by McLaughlin & Associates for the CCA Action Fund. The remaining 11% were undecided or backed lesser known candidates, Ron Harshaw and Maria Chappelle-Nadal. It’s the latest troubling sign for the liberal “Squad” after New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman was soundly defeated by moderate Westchester...