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The YouTuber claims he is facing serious threats after a viral investigation into alleged Minnesota daycare fraud drew national attention and fierce online backlashIndependent content creator and YouTuber Nick Shirley has declared that he is receiving serious threats as a result of his viral expose into the alleged fraud surrounding childcare and other taxpayer-funded services in Minnesota, USA. Shirley's footage, which accumulated tens of millions of views on social media, shows several licensed daycare centres allegedly receiving large amounts in government subsidies despite showing little or no activity. Viral Expose and Money Claims In a 42-minute video released shortly before...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - A bakery in San Jose is calling on the public to help the owners identify the person who caused chaos in the shop over the weekend. It happened at Peters' Bakery, which has been around for 90 years on Alum Rock Avenue. Surveillance footage shared on social media shows a man swiping items off a countertop, then tackling a customer to the ground outside the bakery. Video shows the man damaging equipment, yelling at staff and assaulting a customer.

Criminals never cease to amaze. A Florida man who was a bell ringer for the Salvation Army for the Christmas season was arrested this past week for allegedly trying to impale the store manager of a grocery store with the tripod to the donation kettle, according to law enforcement. Steven Pavlik, 63, was found at his home and arrested. He was charged with resisting arrest and aggravated assault. The alleged victim was the store manager at Publix in Stuart, Florida. Fox News reported: A Florida man working as a Salvation Army bell ringer for the holidays was arrested Christmas week...

Two illegal aliens are accused of targeting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents with a van on Wednesday in Glen Burnie, Maryland. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said ICE officers were conducting an immigration enforcement operation in the area when the incident happened. “Agents positively identified the driver of a van as Tiago Alexandre Sousa-Martins, an illegal alien from Portugal. In the passenger seat was Solomon Antonio Serrano-Esquivel, an illegal alien from El Salvador,” the agency’s social media post read. Authorities said the officers approached the vehicle and told Sousa-Martins to switch off the engine. However, he...

Brian Krassenstein, one of two brothers who rose to viral fame via facile, curt responses to President Donald Trump’s tweets, is under fire after a post suggesting the president needs to be put “to sleep.” In a Christmas Eve missive, Krassenstein aped language Trump used about Stephen Colbert in a Truth Social post — albeit without the context that made Trump’s post passable — to imply that the 47th president needed to go by means one could reasonably speculate on. “Trump is a dead man walking,” Krassenstein wrote on Christmas Eve. “America should ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW. “It is...

Newly-released videos show the moments a man attacked a woman at random outside the King County Courthouse in downtown Seattle earlier this month. Fale Vaigalepa Pea, 42, was armed with a wooden board that had a screw through the end of it and used both hands to swing the weapon and strike the victim, 75-year-old Jeanette Marken, in the face, according to charges filed in King County Superior Court. The hit gouged out Marken's eye, and she just learned that she will not recover her eyesight in the affected eye, family members told KOMO News on Friday. "To take a...

Wild video shows a deranged gym member leaping over a counter to repeatedly beat a Planet Fitness employee in Miami — all because he made a simple request, cops say. The crazed woman, identified by cops as 35-year-old Kiara Bryant, now faces two misdemeanor charges after the attack on Dec 12. Cops were called to Planet Fitness in Little Havana, Miami, after a woman was reportedly seen running around the gym without clothing, according to NBC News. When the police arrived, they found Bryant in the parking lot yelling profanities and “attempting to fight everyone,” authorities said. Bryant’s went off...

Three people were killed and at least five more were injured in a knife attack in Taipei on Friday. A 27-year-old suspect ignited smoke bombs and Molotov cocktails at Taipei's main metro station, then ran to a nearby shopping district station, stabbing multiple people, according to Premier Cho Jung-tai. Cho stated that the suspect fell from a building and later died. The motive is still unknown. The attack took place during Taipei's evening rush hour, in the station that linked to a crowded underground shopping area. Taiwanese President William Lai pledged a rapid investigation. Such attacks are uncommon in Taiwan,...

16-year-old Andrew Meismer was stabbed to death at a Texas school by his 18-year-old classmate Aundre Matthews on Wednesday morning. Matthews allegedly has a history at the school that includes violent altercations. The Harris County DA’s office on Friday charged Matthews with murder after he fatally stabbed Meismer with scissors during a fight at Ross S. Sterling High School. Meismer was airlifted to a hospital on Wednesday, but he died from his injuries. Goose Creek Superintendent Dr. Randal O’Brien addressed the fatal stabbing. “After careful consideration, the administration decided that the best way to serve our students and faculty in...

Today I'm happy to announce the availability of the book Reflections on Violence, by George Sorel. A lot can be said about this book, but one of the keys to it is that the outlook it carries was instrumental to the syndicalism that motivated radicals in Italy in the early 20th century. It is a little outside of my normal focus but someone else started this work and then abandoned it, and I am aware of this book's importance so I continued its work to completion. It's been somewhat slow over at LibriVox these days, not that I haven't been...

An emergency medical services (EMS) expert testified Tuesday in the ongoing wrongful death lawsuit Mays v. City of Seattle, saying that Seattle Fire Department (SFD) medics failed to follow protocol and "abandoned their position as paramedics" during the response to the 2020 shooting of 16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. in the deadly Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, also known as "CHAZ" or "CHOP." This follows last week's testimony from Seattle Police Detective Alan Cruise, stating that officers were prohibited from entering the zone after the shooting under directives given by the City. Robyn McKinley, a veteran EMS professional who conducted an independent...

A new report claims that two of five people arrested in connection with what the FBI said was a plot to unleash a wave of terrorist bombings in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve are transgender. The FBI said that the people arrested were a splinter group of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, which federal officials said has a pro-Palestinian, anti-law-enforcement, and anti-government ideology, according to USA Today. The suspects were part of a Signal group chat calling itself “Order of the Black Lotus.”

The mayor of Savannah, Georgia does not want to concern himself with a terrifying crime that happened on his watch and was sure to let a constituent know in no uncertain terms.As The Gateway Pundit reported last week, a white Georgia woman named Ashley Wasielewski sustained horrifying burns to her face, neck, and scalp after a black man emerged from the bushes at a Forsyth park in Savannah and dumped acid on her.The suspect, who is still at large, approached the victim from behind and poured the liquid chemical on her. According to police, the attacker was not known to...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Savannah Mayor Van Johnson said Tuesday that investigators have identified and are interviewing a “person of interest” seen in a widely circulated image in connection with an acid attack that seriously injured a woman at Forsyth Park. The attack Wednesday night sent Ashley Wasielewski to the Augusta Burn Center with severe injuries. Johnson said the Savannah Police Department has been “working around the clock” on what he described as an ongoing assault investigation, interviewing dozens of people, reviewing evidence and tracking leads. He urged anyone who was in the park the night of the attack to come...

Multiple splinter cell members of the radical Turtle Island Liberation Front, which posts disturbing slogans such as “Death to America” on social media, were arrested last Friday for allegedly plotting a New Year’s Eve terror attack in the Los Angeles area. Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), a little-known “pro-Palestine, anti-law-enforcement, and anti-government” extremist group, has quietly been raising funds and resources to usher in a “revolutionary change in government.” “TILF also calls for the working class to rise up and fight back against capitalism,” an FBI affidavit noted. “Moreover, TILF advocates that liberalism and peaceful protest will be the downfall...

live videos from the disruption at the open-air concert. Transcript linked below video.

Maggots and blowflies, creatures that feast on dead human bodies, serve highly useful purposes by returning organic matter to the soil and removing potential sources of disease. So, it's possible that Chris Murphy might also be of some social utility -- although it's hard to see him as other than a self-promoting ghoul after a shooting. Even the left-leaning Politico has named Murphy, the Democrat junior senator from Connecticut, as one of "The 7 Most Shameless Attention-Seekers in Congress." And sure enough, just hours after the mass shooting at Brown University, there was Murphy on CNN's State of the Union....

Incident Analysis (High-Level, Non-Instructional) 1. Nature of the Event ​The video depicts an active terrorist attack in a civilian environment. ​A non-uniformed civilian (bystander) responds reactively, not offensively. ​The action occurs during the attack, not afterward—this is critical for legal and moral context. 2. Use of Environment ​The bystander uses a vehicle as hard cover, not merely concealment. ​This indicates instinctive or learned understanding that: ​Distance and barriers matter ​Exposure must be minimized before action ​ ​The car serves as a temporary survivability position, not a pursuit platform. 3. Decision-Making Under Stress ​The bystander does not flee blindly nor rush...

Extraordinary video has emerged from the Bondi Beach terror attack showing a hero creeping up behind one of the gunmen and successfully wrestling his rifle off him. Twelve people are dead after two gunmen opened fire at Bondi Beach on Sunday evening where a Jewish Hannukah celebration was underway. Video obtained by the Daily Mail shows a heroic man creeping up behind one of the gunmen via the carpark at the north end of the beach, and then wrestling him to the ground. The hero then waves a rifle in the man's face. The gunman then walks away and the...

A heroic shopkeeper (Achmad Al Achmad!) tackled and disarmed one of the terrorists who opened fire on a Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration in Australia Sunday. Video captured the moment that the good Samaritan, wearing a white shirt, sneaked up behind the shotgun-wielding gunman and wrestled the weapon away from him. The hero dramatically tackled the terrorist to the ground and disarmed him during the attack. Two gunmen dressed in black fired multiple shots on a bridge at Bondi Beach in Sydney. … At least 12 people were killed, including children, and 29 were injured after two terrorists opened fire at...