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...Earlier today, my Chico District Office and the neighboring businesses were evacuated because a clearly disturbed woman dropped off a package and devil worship candle display against "heteronormative, cisgendered, capitalists, ableists”...

Like his sugardaddy, Vladimir Putin, Venezuela's dictator, Nicolas Maduro, likes to take American hostages for use as bargaining chips. He's got a lot of them in his many dungeons. So surprise, surprise, he's traded a lot of them: According to ABC News:The more than 200 Venezuelan migrants who were deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador's mega-prison in March have left El Salvador to be sent to Venezuela as part of a prisoner swap that included Americans being held in Venezuela, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced on X. The deal included the release of 10 Americans held in...

Three Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies were killed in a blast at a compound that houses the agency’s arson and explosive unit on Friday morning. The explosion at the Biscailuz Center Academy Training facility in East Los Angeles resulted in the department’s worst loss of life in a single event since 1857. The officers were identified as Detective Joshua Kelley-Eklund, Detective Victor Lemus and Detective William Osborn, all of whom were assigned to the Special Enforcement Bureau’s Arson Explosives Detail. * * * Aerial footage from local news helicopters showed the explosion happened in a parking lot where patrol cars...

MONTEREY PARK (KABC) -- Authorities are investigating an incident at an LASD training facility in Monterey Park. It appears it may have been an explosion and several people were possibly killed. The incident was reported just before 7:30 a.m. Friday at what looked to be LASD's SEB compound, which houses the sheriff's department's special enforcement units and bomb squad. It appears something may have exploded near a law enforcement vehicle, according to AIR7 footage. The Los Angeles County Fire Department responded to the scene. It's unclear if there were any other injuries. There were no other details immediately available. This...

An explosion in East Los Angeles Friday morning that killed at least three people reportedly involved the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, according to preliminary reports. The blast occurred at 1060 N. Eastern Ave. at about 7:30 a.m., the Los Angeles County Fire Department said.

A member of a splinter faction of Italy's Red Brigades, arrested last month after a shoot-out in a train, admitted yesterday killing two prominent government advisers involved in the overhaul of employment laws. In a note handwritten in block letters, Desdemona Lioce, 43, said: "I claim responsibility for organising the actions taken against Massimo D'Antona and Mario Biagi." The admission was in a letter delivered yesterday to two Roman prosecuting magistrates, Franco Ionta and Pietro Saviotti. D'Antona was shot dead in May 1999 and Biagi in March last year. They were experts on labour law drafted in by the Minister...

The far left’s disgraceful response to September 11—it has temporized about terror, embraced moral equivalence between the Islamist fanatics who killed thousands of innocent Americans and the military actions of the democratically elected U.S. government, and even blamed the U.S. for the atrocity—shows that its hatred of democratic capitalism and, more broadly, Western civilization itself remains fierce more than a decade after the collapse of socialism. The intensity of this hatred will come as no surprise, however, to anyone who has paid attention to the praise that the academic left and its sympathizers in the liberal media have been showering ...

A 19-year-old man was arrested over the weekend after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Dickinson County Republican Committee headquarters in Iron Mountain, Michigan. Zayn Edward Arcand, who allegedly identifies as “genderfluid,” appeared for his arraignment via Zoom Monday afternoon. Arcand admitted to throwing the Molotov cocktail, which failed to ignite, at the Republican Party office “to send a message against the corruption.” The suspect acted out of dissatisfaction with Trump administration policies, according to authorities. Arcand was charged Monday in Dickinson County District Court with arson and manufacturing and possessing a Molotov cocktail. A witness reported seeing the suspect...

19-year-old Zayn Arcand, who describes himself as “he/they xe/she” and “demi boy, pansexual, emo artist and (high functioning) autistic,” has been arrested in his hometown of Iron Mountain, Michigan, after he was reportedly captured on a surveillance video attempting to throw a Molotov cocktail into a building where the local Dickinson Republican Party Committee has an office. Arcand goes by “Atomic Havoc” on social media. ... Arcand was charged with manufacturing and possessing an explosive and arson by the Iron Mountain Police Department. According to the press release, on Saturday, around 3:55 pm (in broad daylight), Arcand was captured on...

Federal authorities arrested a military veteran on Tuesday afternoon, who was wanted in connection with an attack on an ICE detention facility in Texas and remained on the run for nearly 11 days after the attack. The FBI Dallas Field Office said it apprehended 32-year-old Benjamin Song on Tuesday afternoon in Dallas. Song allegedly joined a group of 10 to 12 others in an organized attack on officers at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, on July 4. Ten assailants were apprehended at the time, though Song managed to evade capture, according to authorities. "The FBI has worked tirelessly...

A violent suspect who was arrested trying to shut down a pro-Daniel Penny rally in Manhattan was out on bond for a leftist domestic terrorism case in Atlanta. Teresa Yue Shen, 31, of Brooklyn, was one of several far-left militants charged with domestic terrorism in January in Atlanta, following a deadly shooting incident at an Antifa-linked autonomous zone occupation at the heart of the “Stop Cop City” movement. Shen’s $20,000 bond was fronted by far-left activist Daniel Hanley. The Atlanta Solidarity Fund, a project of 501(c)(3) nonprofit Network For Strong Communities, has been raising cash for Antifa and domestic terrorism...

This week the father of Austin Metcalf was 'swatted' by fans of Karmelo Anthony for the 6th time! That makes twice this month. Austin's mother has been swatted 2 times. This youtuber gets his info from Journalist Sarah Fields who is on X. Miss Fields has been covering the Karmelo case like no one else.

A group of government-backed, globalist-funded Dutch scientists is celebrating after developing a mutant strain of “bird flu” that spreads rapidly through humans and causes agonizing death in every single mammal that becomes infected with the deadly virus. The researchers used gain-of-function to modify the virus to jump from birds to mammals with a 100% fatality rate. However, critics are warning that the development is another dangerous chapter in the global gain-of-function agenda. The government-funded lab in the Netherlands has successfully engineered a mutant strain of H5N1 bird flu that spread between mammals and caused 100% mortality in lab animals, according...

A divided federal appeals court on Friday threw out an agreement that would have allowed accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to plead guilty in a deal sparing him the risk of execution for al Qaeda's 2001 attacks. The decision by a panel of the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., undoes an attempt to wrap up more than two decades of military prosecution beset by legal and logistical troubles. It signals there will be no quick end to the long struggle by the U.S. military and successive administrations to bring to justice the man charged with planning one...

As we reach the midpoint of 2025, it is evident that this year has been characterized by turbulence, uncertainty, and deepening despair for many in communist China.Six phenomena best capture the country’s current state: decline, fierce competition, political struggles, the “run” movement, random acts of violence, and the “lying flat” movement.They reveal the erosion of trust and a growing sense of disillusionment and unrest among the populace.DeclineFor many in China, 2025 is the most challenging year in nearly three decades, with numerous sectors of society experiencing a significant downturn. The real estate market is the most notable example.By the end...

New details have been revealed that one of Biden’s green card holders and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient is among one of the suspects in last week’s ICE ambush in Alvarado, Texas, where a group of individuals set off fireworks to draw law enforcement officers out of an ICE detention center and began shooting. Obama’s DACA program granted protections and work authorization to illegal aliens who came into the United States as minors. Ten people were charged with attempted murder connected to the incident that left one police officer injured with a gunshot wound to the neck. An...

A growing number of young Ukrainians have been unknowingly recruited by Russian forces as unwilling suicide bombers as the Ukraine-Russia War drags on in its third year, the Guardian reported last week. Russian forces have been recruiting Ukrainians, mainly teenagers, to bomb police stations, post offices, or military targets under the guise of odd jobs postings on Telegram as part of an ongoing shadow war. For example, 19-year-old Oleh told the Guardian that he was offered $1,000 to video himself vandalizing a police station in western Ukraine with provided materials. He collected a rucksack from a given exchange point with...

Democratic voters are asking their representatives to exhibit more violence while resisting Donald Trump's agenda - with some even suggesting lawmakers prepare to 'get shot.' The party - reeling in the wake of Trump's November victory - heads toward the 2026 midterms with polls showing their own voters are unhappy with their performance. Now, liberal politicians fear Trump haters are urging them to bend the law and even resort to violence in a desperate attempt to resist the president. 'Our own base is telling us that what we're doing is not good enough...there needs to be blood to grab the...

Alvarado police officer shot while responding to suspicious person call near Prairieland Detention Facility The shooting of a Texas police officer near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility and the firing of shots at federal officers over the weekend was a "planned ambush" on the building, resulting in 11 people being charged, authorities said Monday. An Alvarado, Texas, police officer was shot Friday night near the Prairieland Detention Facility, authorities said. "This was an egregious attack on federal and local law enforcement officers and it is part of an increasing trend of violence against them," said Nancy...

ALVARADO, Texas - Eleven people face charges after a "planned ambush" on an ICE facility in Alvarado where a group intended "to kill ICE corrections officers," according to law enforcement officials. …. According to court documents, the driver told the sheriff's deputy that he met some people online and took them from Dallas to the detention center to "make some noise". …. Ten people were arrested and charged with three counts of attempted murder of a federal officer. Cameron Arnold of Dallas, Texas Savanna Batten of Fort Worth, Texas Nathan Baumann of College Station, Texas Zachary Evetts of Waxahatchie, Texas...