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Episode 1198 – PLEASE, SEND SOMEONE TO JAIL!

Donald Trump needs to throw some of the traitors within our government into prison. I have one example.

The Los Angeles City Council has decided to decriminalize crime which will lead to more car accidents and traffic deaths.

And Kathy Hochul bends to the economic desires of Zohran Mamdani…sort of.

She’s a Traitor

According to the New York Post:

A Democratic lawmaker is drawing backlash after saying she spoke with foreign ambassadors about getting oil to Cuba despite US sanctions, defending the outreach as “literally our right and responsibility.”

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., made the remarks during a recent Seattle briefing following a congressional delegation trip to Cuba, where she discussed the island’s worsening fuel shortages and US policy toward the communist regime.

“I was in conversations with the ambassadors from Mexico and some other places … trying to figure out how to get oil there,” Jayapal said during the briefing, calling the situation on the island “a crisis beyond imagination.”

Jayapal said the event was part of a broader briefing on the humanitarian situation in Cuba following her recent visit.

https://nypost.com/2026/05/07/us-news/dem-rep-pramila-jayapal-admits-to-working-with-mexico-to-sneak-oil-into-cuba/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social

No Crime, No Criminals

According to the Post Millennial:

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously this week to ban many types of traffic stops, placing new restrictions on “pretextual” stops to limit when police officers can pull drivers over for minor violations unless there is an immediate public safety concern.

According to The New York Post, the 14-0 vote by the Los Angeles City Council marks the latest effort by progressive lawmakers to reduce police-initiated encounters following years of pressure from criminal justice reform activists after the 2020 George Floyd riots.

Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson, who has pushed the proposal alongside former Councilman Mike Bonin since 2020, described the effort as part of a broader shift in policing policy. “This is a big down payment,” Harris-Dawson said, calling armed responses to minor traffic violations “barbaric” and “wholly uncivilized.”

Under the new framework, officers would face tighter limits on conducting traffic stops for low-level violations. The policy also formally restricts consent searches unless officers have a separate legal justification, such as probable cause or a warrant. Officers would additionally be required to state the reason for a stop on body camera footage before questioning begins and document any additional suspicion that develops during the encounter.

The proposal now heads to the Board of Police Commissioners.

https://thepostmillennial.com/la-city-council-votes-unanimously-to-ban-barbaric-uncivilized-traffic-stops

I Guess If You Cry Enough…

According to the Post Millennial:

New York Governor Kathy Hochul unveiled the state’s $268 billion 2027 budget on Thursday morning, including $28 billion for socialist Zohran Mamdani‘s New York City, far from what is needed to close the city’s budget gap. This comes after Mamdani pressured Hochul to raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers and on corporations. However, she did not mention any tax increases aside for a proposed “pied-à-terre tax” on second homes in the city to raise tax revenue as the Big Apple is facing a $10 billion shortfall in 2027.

“To help out New York City, we’re finalizing the details of a pied-à-terre tax to help close the city’s budget cap without eroding its tax base or burdening hard-working New Yorkers. And I’ll have more to say on that soon, but I want to be very clear, my commitment to New York City has been and always will be ironclad. This budget already includes $28 billion in total aid for the city,” Hochul said.

She noted that the total funding also includes a $9 billion increase from when she took office, but it is only a $2.2 billion increase since the FY 2026 budget was proposed, giving the Big Apple $25.8 billion. The pied-à-terre tax is only expected to raise around $320 million in tax revenue, far from the needed $5.4 billion to close the budget gap in 2026, per the New York Post. The New York City comptroller’s office expects that the $5.4 budget gap will balloon to $10.4 billion in 2027 unless more is done.

Hochul also took aim at the Trump administration, saying that the administration “gutted federal funds that we’ve learned to rely on,” which included $10 billion. She also touted how she has pushed sanctuary city policies, which bar local police from working with ICE to detain illegal immigrants.

The delayed budget, originally due on April 1, comes after Mamdani has been pressuring Hochul and begging for Albany to send them more funding as the Big Apple is facing a $5.4 billion budget gap. Ahead of Hochul unveiling the budget, state lawmakers were working to adjust pension funds and were hashing out up until Wednesday evening. The governor has been adamant that Mamdani needs to shore up some funds in the city in order to save his ever-growing $127 billion budget.

https://thepostmillennial.com/kathy-hochuls-new-budget-increases-funding-to-mamdanis-nyc-by-2-2-billion-in-2027-plan

Not Enough

According to California Post:

A former medical staffer at a now-shuttered federal women’s prison in California has been sentenced, marking the final criminal case tied to what authorities describe as the largest sexual abuse scandal ever uncovered inside a US federal prison system.

US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on Friday ordered Jeffrey Wilson, 32, of Eureka, to serve 4.3 years behind bars after he admitted to sexually abusing an incarcerated woman at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, Fox’s KTVU reported.

The facility, located east of Oakland, once widely known among inmates as a “rape club,” was closed in 2024 following years of misconduct allegations involving staff.

Wilson’s sentencing brings closure to the criminal prosecutions involving 10 former employees from FCI Dublin accused of sex crimes against inmates.

https://nypost.com/2026/05/04/us-news/womens-prison-officer-learns-fate-for-role-in-california-rape-club/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=capost&utm_source=twitter

Just Leave!

According to the Post Millennial:

Just weeks before Memorial Day and amid the United States’ 250th anniversary year, a city council member in Lynnwood, Washington, launched into a tirade against the American flag, declaring that the Pride flag is far more relatable to her and suggesting the 27 US flags at Wilcox Park should be replaced.

According to the Lynnwood Times, Councilwoman Isabel Mata made the remarks during the May 4 City Council meeting while discussing the city’s flag display policies. “To me, a pride flag is way more relatable than an American flag. I would not raise an American flag at my house because I just, I wouldn’t. I wasn’t even born here. But I would raise a pride flag,” Mata said.

A couple of things:

  • They are raising the American flag for Memorial Day. That celebrates those who gave their lives for this country.
  • The pride flag represents nothing. People did not die for gay people.
  • There are good things in other cultures, but our culture is the most important and best. Period!
  • Yes, the United States had a troubled history. All countries on the face of the Earth have the same troubled history and most have a worse history!

https://thepostmillennial.com/wa-lawmaker-says-us-flag-is-not-relatable-but-pride-flag-is

They’re Still Fighting

According to Reduxx:

A trans-identified male freshman from an elite school in California won the Women’s Varsity 400-meter race at the Prep League Championship Finals last week, defeating a number of more experienced female athletes to the title, including his own sister.

Paul Haaga, also known as “Lina,” won the girls’ final with a time of 59.45 seconds. His older sister, Sienna, finished second with 60.03 seconds.

Haaga attends the elite Polytechnic School in Pasadena, where tuition fees can reach $48,000 or more per year, while his sister attends the neighboring Flintridge Preparatory School. Haaga also helped his team take gold in the Women’s Varsity 4 x 400 relay to clinch first place by just under a second, once again pushing his sister into second place.

Despite only being a 14-year-old freshman, Haaga has already established himself as a strong competitor within multiple girls’ athletic disciplines.

.https://reduxx.info/male-student-wins-girls-prep-league-championship-track-title-beating-his-own-sister-for-gold/

What IS Wrong With People

According to the New York Post:

A heartless Florida woman killed 11 baby ducks by driving her car over the helpless brood “multiple times” because she was ticked off that they messed up her yard, according to police.

Beverly Sasberry, 64, was hit with 11 counts of felony animal cruelty for the shocking April 25 incident outside her home in Jacksonville, the sheriff’s office said on Facebook.

The department said a pair of passersby saw Sasberry behind the wheel of her red Honda Accord as she mowed down the ducklings and turned “her vehicle around multiple times to hit them.”

Later in the article:

The cruel incident comes just over three months after shocking surveillance video footage captured youngsters stomping and killing a duck in Fort Lauderdale.

The clip, which came from a neighbor’s Ring camera, was so disturbing that cops pulled it from the police department’s online announcement of a $5,000 reward for information on the young culprit.

In another gruesome animal cruelty case, Craig Vogt, 61, was arrested by the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office in Florida in September for allegedly killing, cooking and eating two of his pet peacocks.

According to police records, Vogt was angry that his neighbor kept feeding the birds so he killed them in a twisted act of revenge — and put a letter in the neighbor’s mailbox to tell him what he had done.

https://nypost.com/2026/05/03/us-news/florida-woman-runs-over-11-baby-ducklings-multiple-times-then-gives-heartless-reason-for-killing-them-police/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter

This Is Not the Solution

According to the California Post:

A newly launched Christian cell-phone network is aiming to be the first in the US to block pornography and LGBT content.

“We are going to create — and we think we have every right to do so — an environment that is Jesus-centric, that is void of pornography, void of LGBT, void of trans,” said Radiant Mobile’s founder, Paul Fisher, to the MIT Technology Review.

The phone network, which is scheduled to launch Tuesday, does not own any cell towers but rather buys bandwidth from T-Mobile, similar to President Trump’s “Trump Mobile” launched last year.

It uses the Israeli cybersecurity firm Allot to sort website domains into more than 100 content categories, blocking all pornographic content.

The company also has a default-on filter targeting “sexuality” content, aiming to remove gender-related and LGBT material from every device on the plan.

Fisher — who previously worked as an agent for supermodels such as Naomi Campbell — highlighted how the technology can even block specific sections of websites, such as a page on the Yale University site dedicated to LGBT issues.

https://nypost.com/2026/05/03/us-news/new-christian-phone-network-aims-to-block-porn-and-lgbt-content/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social

You’ve Got to be Kidding

According to the California Post:

California’s soaring cost for its dragged-out high-speed rail construction was inflated by another recent political embarrassment for the state: labor icon Cesar Chavez.

Calls are growing for California’s high-speed rail to be abandoned completely after revelations this week that the estimated cost of completing the fantasy train project has ballooned to a staggering $231 billion.

We’ve now learned about a billion dollars of that cost stems from a reroute around the resting place of Chavez and his wife at the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument in Keene — and rail regulators are now open to reconsidering, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Board directors at the High-Speed Rail Authority needed to route the train through the Tehachapi Mountains, which separates the San Joaquin Valley from the Mojave desert. Standing in the way was the national monument, a 187-acre compound and former headquarters of the United Farm Workers.

The Authority was under pressure to not disturb Chavez’s gravesite, as he was a revered figure for California Democrats.

Representatives for the Chavez center had argued that plans to expand tracks already near the memorial would be noisy and disrupt visitors. In response, the plan was altered to moved the track three-quarters of a mile away from the monument boundary, becoming a curve that would have to go through roads and tunnels.

That would cost $815 million, officials estimated in 2020 — now around $1 billion with inflation.

https://nypost.com/2026/04/29/us-news/detour-around-cesar-chavez-gravesite-adds-to-california-high-speed-rail-cost/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5862406-trump-mental-fitness-physical-health-poll

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Episode 1191 – The Left Hates Christians!

The Biden Justice department has not been playing well with others.

An anti-abortion father profits from the misdeeds of the Biden administration.

And New York isn’t learning a bloody thing about the Biden administration’s mistakes.

Who’s Weaponizing the Justice Department?

The article argues that the Biden Justice Department closely coordinated with major abortion-rights organizations to monitor, build cases against, and secure harsher penalties for peaceful pro-life activists using the FACE Act, while downplaying attacks on pro-life centers and religious opponents of abortion.

Core claims

  • The piece says internal DOJ emails, released in a Trump-era report, show senior Biden DOJ official Sanjay Patel treating an activist at the National Abortion Federation (NAF) as an “MVP” for flagging pro-life protests in real time and connecting her directly with FBI agents to spur FACE Act investigations and prosecutions.
  • According to the article, pro-abortion groups such as NAF, Planned Parenthood, and the Feminist Majority Foundation compiled and sent “dossiers” on pro-life activists to DOJ, including home addresses, photos of family members, travel plans, social media posts, associates, and even driver’s license numbers, years before some were charged.

Monitoring and prosecutions

  • The report described in the article claims Patel and the DOJ “monitored” certain pro-life families, like Calvin Zastrow’s, for years by tracking their social media and travel and by asking NAF for updates on where they might protest next, before later indicting them under the FACE Act for sit-ins and blockades at clinics in states like Tennessee and Michigan.
  • The article emphasizes that many of those prosecuted under Biden were engaged in activities it characterizes as peaceful—praying, singing, and sitting in front of clinic doors—yet some received multi‑year prison sentences, which the Trump DOJ now contrasts with lighter average sentences for pro‑abortion defendants in FACE‑related cases.

Alleged bias and disdain for religion

  • The Daily Wire piece highlights language from DOJ attorneys as evidence of hostility toward religious pro‑lifers, including descriptions of Christian pro‑life beliefs as “culty” and an email complaining about drawing a “very Catholic magistrate” who was careful about defendants’ First Amendment rights.
  • It further notes that, per the Trump report, Biden‑era task force lawyers were in “constant contact” with abortion clinics and advocacy groups yet had no contact with pro‑life pregnancy centers until months after a surge in vandalism and attacks against those centers following the Dobbs leak.

Relationship with abortion groups

  • The article says DOJ officials not only relied on abortion-rights groups for intelligence but also tried to help at least one such group, NAF, obtain private grant funding, with a DOJ lawyer asking ethics officers if they could vouch on DOJ letterhead that NAF was “valuable to our law enforcement efforts.”
  • The Trump report, as summarized, criticizes this as a conflict of interest: DOJ lawyers allegedly took an interest in the financial success of entities that were simultaneously shaping the department’s enforcement targets.

Trump administration response

  • The article frames the new 800‑page Trump DOJ report as part of a broader effort to “correct” Biden-era weaponization of the FACE Act, pointing to Trump’s early pardons of convicted pro-life activists and a recent seven‑figure settlement with pro‑life leader Mark Houck after his FACE Act prosecution and FBI raid.
  • It concludes that, taken together, the emails and report show a DOJ that partnered with abortion activists to pursue religious, pro‑life Americans while giving comparatively less attention to crimes against pregnancy centers and churches.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/explosive-report-reveals-the-biden-administrations-disdain-for-religious-pro-life-activists?topStoryPosition=undefined&author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&category=News&elementPosition=4&row=1&rowHeadline=Top+Stories&rowType=Top+Stories&title=Explosive+Report+Reveals+The+Biden+Administration%E2%80%99s+Disdain+For+Religious+Pro-Life+Activists
https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-biden-partnered-with-abortion-activists-to-track-and-imprison-pro-lifers?topStoryPosition=undefined&author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&category=Original&elementPosition=0&row=1&rowHeadline=Top+Stories&rowType=Top+Stories&title=How+Biden+Partnered+With+Abortion+Activists+To+Track+And+Imprison+Pro-Lifers

Justice Has Been Done!

According to Fox News:

A pro-life activist whose 2022 arrest by the FBI under the Biden administration drew national headlines has reached a seven-figure settlement after suing the Justice Department over his arrest and prosecution.

Mark Houck filed a lawsuit against the department in 2023 seeking restitution for what he called “a faulty investigation” and “excessive force” after a SWAT team of around 25 people arrested him in front of his children at his home on Sept. 23, 2022, allegedly with guns drawn.

The shocking details of his arrest spurred criticism from conservatives that the Justice Department under then-President Joe Biden was targeting pro-life activists.

After a three-year legal battle, 40 Days for Life President Shawn Carney announced April 9 that Houck had reached a settlement with the Department of Justice under President Donald Trump and had been awarded more than $1 million.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/pro-life-dad-whose-home-raided-fbi-wins-1-mil-settlement-from-doj

An Attack on Catholics! I’m Shocked!

According to Fox News:

Catholic nuns who have spent more than a century caring for the dying poor are suing New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, saying a new state law could force them to choose between their faith and their mission or face fines, loss of licensing and even jail time.

“We are consecrated religious Sisters and have one mission,” Mother Marie Edward, O.P., told Fox News Digital in a statement. “It is to provide comfort and skilled care to persons dying of cancer who cannot afford nursing care. We do not take insurance or government funds or money from our patients or families. The care is totally free.”

“We are supported by the goodness of our benefactors,” she continued. “We do this without discriminating on the basis of race, religion, or sex. We do it because Jesus taught us that, when the least among us are sick, we should care for them, as if they were Christ himself.”

Signed into law on Nov. 30, 2023, the “Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and people living with HIV long-term care facility residents’ bill of rights” bans long-term care facilities and staff “from discriminating against any resident on the basis of a resident’s actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or HIV status,” according to a press release from Hochul’s office.

The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, who run Rosary Hill Home in Hawthorne, New York, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the law they say would require them to assign rooms by gender identity, not biological sex; allow access to opposite-sex bathrooms; allow expression, relationships and identity practices; use preferred pronouns; require staff training in gender ideology; and post a public notice stating compliance with the law.

Edward told Fox News Digital that “New York’s gender ideology mandates not only violate our Catholic values, they threaten our existence with fines, injunctions, license revocation, and even jail time. This is why we were forced to go to court to seek protection of our religious exercise and freedom of speech so that we can continue our ministry to the poor.”

The letters listed New York’s demands and included a training curriculum “requiring the sisters to align patient care and the training of their sisters and employees with the State’s gender ideology.”

If the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne do not comply, they face fines up to $2,000 per violation — rising to $5,000 — court-ordered forced compliance, loss of licensing and up to one year in prison and fines up to $10,000.

In their lawsuit, the sisters highlighted that during the four-year reporting period from Feb. 1, 2022, through Jan. 31, 2026, the New York State Department of Health had received “zero complaints” from Rosary Hill Home residents, compared with “more than 55,000 complaints against other nursing homes,” and an average of 23 citations per facility during the same period.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/catholic-nuns-caring-dying-patients-fight-new-york-trans-rule-face-jail-time

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Episode 1184 – So Much For “Free”!

I have some bad news for those that use Netflix.

Zorhan Mamdani opens his first “free” daycare center, which isn’t all that free.

And the Supreme Court makes a big decision today. That decisions seemed pretty bipartisan.

News

Here is some news:

  • But as digital payment systems increasingly suggest gratuities automatically, a new debate is emerging: Should those tips be calculated before or after tax?
    • The question has drawn attention following controversy at a Dave & Buster’s location, where suggested tips were reportedly applied to the post-tax total.
    • Two restaurant owners said tips should be calculated on the pre-tax amount — and not the total bill.
    • The recent controversy also reignited the greater debate about tipping culture in general.
  • Updated pricing listed on the company’s U.S. website shows the ad-supported tier at $8.99 per month, up from $7.99, while the standard plan is priced at $19.99 and the premium tier at $26.99.
    • Fees to add members outside a subscriber’s household have also increased, with extra members costing $7.99 per month on ad-supported plans and $9.99 on ad-free tiers. Netflix says accounts are intended for use within a single household, with added charges for users who do not live together.
  • A bipartisan panel of House lawmakers voted to kickstart a process that could lead to the expulsion of a congressional Democrat accused of laundering millions of disaster relief funds into her campaign account.
    • A House Ethics investigative subcommittee approved a motion for summary judgment, effectively finding Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., guilty of nearly all alleged violations outlined by the committee earlier this year. 
    • The verdict came after a rare public ethics hearing on Thursday — the first since 2010 — that lasted more than six hours as lawmakers from both parties grilled Cherfilus-McCormick’s counsel. The eight-member adjudicatory subcommittee, helmed by Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss., announced its decision in a written statement Friday morning. 
  • Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the opening of a new daycare center for municipal workers Monday that will cost more than double the average price of child care — to a tune of nearly $60,000 per kid.
    • Mamdani said the Adams administration didn’t allocate operating funds for the center, which Hizzoner said would have a $2.3 million price tag and will be included in the city’s upcoming executive budget.
    • That works out to $57,500 per child to attend the day care from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
    • On average, day care costs in the city for infants come in at $26,000 and $23,400 for toddlers, according to the city comptroller’s office. 
  • Apollo Global Management, a $900 billion asset manager, is plotting a second US headquarters in the Sunbelt just as Mayor Zohran Mamdani pushes to hike taxes on deep pocketed corporations, according to a report in the Financial Times.
    • Steve Fulop, president and CEO of the Partnership for New York City, a business lobby group, framed Apollo’s move as a natural reaction to an increasingly unfriendly business climate in the Big Apple.
    • Apollo leaders have already quizzed partners and managing directors on where they’d rather move their families and bonuses — Texas or Florida — sources told FT.
  • The Supreme Court made a huge decision today.
    • The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Colorado cannot enforce its so-called “conversion therapy” ban regarding conversations between therapists and minors, saying the law likely violates the First Amendment by allowing some viewpoints but not others.
    • In an 8–1 decision, the high court said the law favors one viewpoint by allowing therapists to affirm a minor’s gender identity or sexual orientation, but not help them to change it if they want to.
    • The decision stemmed from a lawsuit brought by Kaley Chiles, a licensed Christian therapist, who argued her conversations with youth clients were a form of protected speech. The Colorado government had said the conversations amounted to professional conduct that the state was allowed to regulate.
    • In the lone dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the majority “plays with fire in this case” and that she feared “the people of this country will get burned.”

https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/restaurants-may-quietly-inflating-your-tip-diners-starting-notice
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/netflix-raises-subscription-prices-across-all-plans
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/indicted-democrat-rep-sheila-cherfilus-mccormick-one-step-closer-expulsion
https://nypost.com/2026/03/30/us-news/mamdani-rolls-out-2-3m-day-care-pilot-for-nyc-workers-with-hefty-60k-cost-per-kid/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
https://nypost.com/2026/03/29/us-news/major-wall-street-powerhouse-weighs-southern-move-as-mamdani-led-tax-threats-swirl/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-overturns-ban-so-called-conversion-therapy-first-amendment-grounds

Dumbass of the Day

Here is Jim Himes (D – CT)

This Is EVIL!

According to the New York Post:

Gang-rape victim Noelia Castillo’s father had battled for years to stop her from dying by euthanasia — before finally losing out to the power of the courts.

Geronimo Castillo, supported by a group called Christian Lawyers, argued that his 25-year-old daughter’s mental illness impaired her ability to decide to end her own life.

He also accused the Spanish state of “abandoning” his daughter by offering death instead of further psychiatric treatment.

His daughter acknowledged how much her death would pain her friends and family — especially her father — in a final interview before she was euthanized Thursday

“None of my family is in favour of euthanasia. But what about all the pain I’ve suffered during all these years?” she said.

“The happiness of a father, a mother, or a sister cannot be more important than the life of a daughter,” she maintained defiantly.

Noelia launched her euthanasia process in April 2024, almost two years after she was paralyzed when she attempted suicide by jumping off a building — which her dad had witnessed, she said.

“My father saw me fall and couldn’t do anything. But after everything he’s done, I don’t feel sorry for him anymore,” she told Y Ahora Sonsoles in a final interview before her death.

“He hasn’t respected my decision and he never will,” she added.

She told her interviewer that the suicide attempt came days after three men assaulted her at an entertainment center.

Noelia also said she had been assaulted by a previous boyfriend and survived another attempted assault.

Her euthanasia was first approved by a medical board in Catalonia in July 2024 but in August, a day before the scheduled procedure, a Barcelona court accepted her father’s petition to postpone it.

The case moved through multiple courts in Spain throughout 2025 before, in January 2026, the Spanish Supreme Court upheld Noelia’s right to euthanasia, rejecting her father’s appeal.

In February, the Constitutional Court of Spain rejected a further appeal, stating there was “no violation of fundamental rights.”

On Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejected a final request for interim measures to stop the procedure.

A Barcelona judge denied a last-minute emergency injunction on Thursday, and Noelia received life-ending medication at 6:00 p.m. local time.

Noelia’s suicide attempt left her paraplegic and in a state of constant, “unbearable” physical and psychological pain, and she argued that under Spanish law, she met the criteria of having a “serious and incurable” condition and was mentally capable of deciding to end her life.

Geronimo argued that his daughter’s history of psychiatric conditions—specifically borderline personality disorder and OCD—meant she lacked the “mental capacity” to make a truly free and informed decision.

https://nypost.com/2026/03/27/world-news/noelia-castillos-dad-battled-for-years-to-try-to-stop-her-euthanasia/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

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Episode 1182 – The World Is A Better Place This Week

Two men have passed away and, I will say, the world is a better place for it.

A Leftist politicians is asked a question about solving her city’s debt crisis. Let’s just say she’s our Dumbass of the Day.

And Kathy Hochul is asking for a little help from the millionaires of her state.

Well, Maybe?

According to the Daily Wire:

Leonid Radvinsky, the owner of OnlyFans, has died at age 43 following a battle with cancer, the company announced Monday.

“We are deeply saddened to announce the death of Leo Radvinsky. Leo passed away peacefully after a long battle with cancer,” the subscription platform said in a statement. “His family have requested privacy at this difficult time.”

The Ukrainian-American billionaire entrepreneur purchased Fenix International, the parent company of OnlyFans, in 2018, according to The New York Post. He served as the company’s director and majority owner until his death. 

Radvinsky was known for staying out of the spotlight and had not publicly announced his illness. He was a graduate of Northwestern University with a degree in economics and is survived by his wife, Katie Chudnovsky, and their four children. The family resided in Florida.

He famously declined interviews and did not attend industry events. According to The Wall Street Journal, employees were required to sign nondisclosure agreements limiting unauthorized disclosures about the company and its operations. At the time of his death, Radvinsky’s net worth was estimated at $7.8 billion. 

The tech entrepreneur is credited with turning OnlyFans into the massively successful company that it is today. Under his leadership, OnlyFans grew into a highly profitable platform that allows creators to sell subscription-based content directly to users, including pornographic material. 

Critics say the model has expanded access to producing and distributing adult content and played a role in normalizing sex work.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/onlyfans-billionaire-owner-dead-at-43?author=Amanda+Harding&category=undefined&elementPosition=26&row=3&rowHeadline=Latest+News&rowType=Vertical+Carousel&title=OnlyFans+Billionaire+Owner+Dead+At+43

Yep, I’, Glad He’s Dead

According to the Daily Wire:

An infamous Pennsylvania abortionist convicted of murder for killing babies born alive during illegal late-term procedures has died while serving multiple life sentences in prison, state officials said Monday. 

Kermit Gosnell, 85, died March 1 after being transported from the State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon to a hospital. He had been serving multiple life sentences following his 2013 conviction on three counts of first-degree murder. His West Philadelphia abortion facility was dubbed the “House of Horrors.” 

The Gosnell case drew national attention after pro-life advocates highlighted the brutal nature of his abortion practice. Many of the gruesome details came out during his 2013 trial and through a grand jury report

“This case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women,” the Pennsylvania grand jury report said. “He regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third trimester of pregnancy – and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors.” 

Testimony during the trial described the practice in detail. Steven Massof, one of Gosnell’s former employees, explained the process. “We call it a transection, but it’s literally a beheading,” he testified. 

Massof estimated that around 100 babies had their spinal cords snipped. He said he “felt like a fireman in hell. I couldn’t put out all the fires. … I would run around with scissors.”

The grand jury report documented one case involving a 17-year-old whose baby was delivered at around 30 weeks. According to the report, the infant was “breathing and moving” before being killed.

“He was breathing and moving when Dr. Gosnell severed his spine and put the body in a plastic shoebox for disposal. The doctor joked that this baby was so big he could ‘walk me to the bus stop,’” it said. 

Gosnell denied that any infants were born alive, claiming that movements observed by staff were involuntary.

During the trial, jury members were shown pictures of unborn babies who had been killed by Gosnell, showing how their skulls had been crushed and spinal cords cut. 

Other workers stated that Gosnell stored baby parts in jars in a refrigerator and routinely did abortions past 24 weeks of gestation. “The bigger the baby, the more he charged,” the grand jury report stated. 

The investigation further found that Gosnell’s clinic operated in unsafe and unsanitary conditions. The grand jury described blood-stained furniture, improperly sterilized instruments, and the storage of fetal remains throughout the facility.

“It was a baby charnel house,” the grand jury said.

Gosnell was also convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a woman who died in his facility during an abortion. 

Additionally, he pled guilty to federal charges related to running a pill mill out of his facility and conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, including oxycodone, alprazolam, and codeine. 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/infamous-abortionist-who-ran-house-of-horrors-dies-in-prison-at-85?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&category=undefined&elementPosition=2&row=3&rowHeadline=Latest+News&rowType=Vertical+Carousel&title=Infamous+Abortionist+Who+Ran+%E2%80%98House+Of+Horrors%E2%80%99+Dies+In+Prison+At+85

Dumbass of the Day

We Thought Mamdani Was Bad!

Expect This At A State Near You

According to Perplexity:

Virginia’s Democratic-controlled General Assembly has advanced a broad package of gun-control bills in the 2026 session; many are now on Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s desk and are expected to be signed, but as of mid‑March 2026 most are not yet in effect.wtop+2

Major “assault‑style” firearm and magazine bills

  • HB 217 / SB 749: Ban the sale, purchase, or transfer of most “assault firearms” in Virginia after an effective date (July 1, 2026 is the operative date in current House language). Existing legally owned guns are generally grandfathered, but new sales or imports into the state would be prohibited.arlnow+3
  • Definition: An “assault firearm” is defined as certain semi‑automatic center‑fire rifles, pistols, and shotguns meeting feature and magazine‑capacity tests; language has evolved, but the focus is AR‑15‑style rifles and similar semiautos plus “large‑capacity” magazines.wset+4
  • Magazine capacity: Legislative drafts limit magazines to between 10 and 15 rounds for new manufacture/sales; one Senate version removed grandfathering and would criminalize possession of magazines above 10 rounds, while House language uses a 15‑round cap and grandfathers existing mags.lis.virginia+5

Open and public carry limits

  • SB 312 / SB 727–style measures: Prohibit carrying “assault firearms” (defined semiautos) in public places such as streets, sidewalks, parks, and “any public area,” effectively banning open carry of semi‑automatic rifles and many pistols with magazines over 10 rounds in most public spaces.nraila+1
  • SB 272: Bans carrying firearms in certain public buildings and at public institutions of higher education, including state‑owned or state‑leased facilities and places like the Capitol and state universities.yahoo+1

Storage, vehicles, and red‑flag laws

  • Safe storage in homes: Bills passed by both chambers would require firearms to be securely stored (locked, disabled, or in a locked container) in homes where minors or prohibited persons are present; violations can carry criminal or civil penalties.nraila+2
  • Storage in vehicles: A separate bill creates a civil fine (up to about $500) if someone leaves a firearm unsecured in a vehicle; the car may also be towed.[wtop]​
  • Expanded red‑flag (ERPO) law – HB 901: Broadens who can petition for an emergency substantial risk order beyond law enforcement and Commonwealth’s Attorneys to include immediate family, recent intimate partners, school officials, and licensed health‑care providers, and allows consideration of factors like ongoing substance abuse.yahoo+1

Taxes, training, and “gun‑violence” infrastructure

  • Waiting period – HB 700: Imposes a 5‑day mandatory waiting period on most firearm sales and transfers.[nraila]​
  • Excise taxes – HB 919 & HB 1094: Add separate 11% excise taxes on all firearms and ammunition sold by dealers or manufacturers; revenues go to a Virginia Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund or similar state programs.[nraila]​
  • Gun‑violence offices – HB 969: Establishes a Virginia Gun Violence Prevention Center as a central body for research, best practices, and implementation of firearm‑violence intervention programs.[nraila]​
  • Training – HB 916 & HB 1071: Tighten concealed‑carry training requirements and require school threat‑assessment teams to receive training on using red‑flag/ERPO procedures.[nraila]​

Additional prohibitions and disqualifications

  • Domestic‑violence and restraining‑order add‑ons: SB 160 closes the “boyfriend loophole” by extending firearm‑possession bans to certain misdemeanor domestic‑violence convictions involving intimate partners, not just spouses; SB 38 requires people under certain restraining orders to transfer guns to non‑cohabiting adults 21+.[yahoo]​
  • Mental‑health and hospital restrictions: SB 173 bans weapons in hospitals providing mental health or developmental services.[yahoo]​
  • Misdemeanor expansion – HB 1015: Adds additional misdemeanor offenses to the list that disqualify a person from firearm possession under state law.[nraila]​
  • Local authority – HB 926: Allows localities to restrict outdoor shooting on private property unless conditions like minimum lot size are met.[nraila]​

Status and politics as of March 2026

  • Passage status: At least a dozen of these bills, including the assault‑weapons sales ban, safe‑storage requirements, expanded red‑flag law, and public‑carry restrictions, have passed both chambers and are heading to or already on Gov. Spanberger’s desk.statenavigate+5
  • Expected outcome: Spanberger has publicly indicated support for major pieces like an assault‑weapons ban, ghost‑gun ban, stronger domestic‑violence restrictions, and stronger red‑flag laws, so supporters expect she will sign many of them; opponents (NRA, VCDL, Gun Owners of America) are preparing court challenges.vcdl-lis+4

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-are-the-proposed-gun-cont-Q7dEvm_PTd2TrvaF_FSf8g#0

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Episode 1179 – Socialism Sucks! Ask New York City!

The ratings are out for this past weekend’s Oscars. It’s pretty much what you expected them to be.

California has decided to honor the religions that is important to them.

And New York is quickly becoming a crap hole.

Just Funny

Not a Shock

According to the New York Post:

The Oscars are struggling to keep audiences glued to the screen. The 98th Academy Awards drew just 17.9 million viewers on ABC and Hulu. That’s down 9% from last year and marks the lowest audience since 2022.

Even host Conan O’Brien could not save the night. The late-night comic returned for his second year, bringing jokes, banter and the occasional awkward moment. Best Picture went to One Battle After Another.

The spectacle on stage did not translate into action on the remote. Fans seemed more interested in their phones than in the stars.

For perspective, the 1998 Oscars drew 57 million viewers, highlighting just how far live broadcasts have fallen. Even pre-pandemic ceremonies regularly pulled higher numbers.

https://nypost.com/2026/03/17/us-news/low-oscars-tv-ratings-revealed/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social

What About Christmas and Easter?

According to the Post Millennial:

The California State Legislature has introduced a bill that would designate the Muslim holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as state-recognized holidays.

“Festival of Breaking the Fast,” marking the end of the month of Ramadan and its daily fasting.

Eid al-Adha is the Islamic “Festival of Sacrifice,” the second and generally larger of the two main Muslim holidays and the one associated with the Hajj pilgrimage.

The bill was officially introduced last month by Assemblyman Matt Haney and formally announced this week. If passed, California would become the second state in the country to recognize these holidays, after Washington.

Eid al-Fitr, or the “Festival of Breaking the Fast,” marks the end of Ramadan. Eid al-Adha, the “Festival of Sacrifice,” takes place about two months later and coincides with the end of Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.

Under the proposed bill, public schools and community colleges in California could close in observance of the holidays, and they would be added to the list of required excused absences for students. State employees would be permitted to use eight hours of existing leave to observe them. The days would not, however, be designated as judicial holidays, meaning courts would remain open.

In a video announcement, Haney commented on the proposal with Muslim-inspired music playing in the background. The video began with him saying “Ramadan mubarak, everyone,” before arguing that Muslim students and workers in California are being “forced” to miss “one of the most holy days” for them.

“This is how we show, truly, that we are inclusive, that we value diversity, we celebrate diversity, and that our muslim neighbors, our friends, our colleagues, are fully included and able to celebrate without consequence the most holy day for them,” Haney said.

Heaney was joined by Bilal Mahmood, the first Muslim American supervisor in San Francisco. Mahmood said that the proposal “means a lot” to the thousands of Muslims in the city.

“With this Bill AB 2017, we will have Eid as a state holiday so they can see their values and their beliefs and their culture represented in ink,” Mahmood said.

Funny, we have completely banned the celebrations of Christmas and Easter.

We are a Christian country. This country was built on Christianity. Islam had nothing to do with it.

https://thepostmillennial.com/california-moves-to-recognize-muslim-celebrations-eid-al-fitr-eid-al-adha-as-official-state-holidays

Yeah, That’ll Fix It

Zohran Mamdani is doing everything to destroy New York. Here he is making a statement that goes completely the opposite of what is happening in the country’s largest city. It also goes against the basics of economics.

Some things:

  • This is what happens when you elect a failed rapper who never held a job as mayor of the largest city in the country.
  • He’s got it backwards. Regular workers aren’t leaving because the rich aren’t paying their fair share. Regular workers are leaving because the rich are leaving and taking the jobs with them.
  • The rich are leaving because raising taxes takes capital away from them to innovate. They go to states that will let them keep more capital to re-invest into their businesses. They aren’t stuffing money into their mattresses.

Well, he has more brilliant ideas. Of course, his ideas are always misdirected.

According to the New York Post:

Left-leaning members of the NYC Council are considering bizarre new legislation that aims to curb retail theft — by penalizing customers and business owners rather than criminals.

NYC supermarkets and pharmacies would be forced to impose a 15-item limit for customers using self-checkout lines, and have at least one employee assigned to every three of those lines, or face daily fines of at least $100.

“We’ve seen the consequences of removing workers from these spaces: increased retail theft, less oversight, fewer protections for both workers and customers, and generally decreased safety,” said Councilwoman Amanda Farias (D-Bronx) while introducing the legislation Tuesday.

“This bill is about protecting good jobs, supporting workers on the front lines and creating a more secure shopping environment for New Yorkers,” added Farias, contending the 15-item limit is to “maintain safety, accountability, and fairness in the checkout process.”

The legislation’s rollout comes on the heels of the Council’s far-left faction trying to drum up support for a separate bill backed by socialist Mayor Mamdani to increase the city’s hourly minimum wage from $17 to a nationwide-high of $30 — a plan business leaders warn would be a costly disaster for employers and likely cause NYC to lose many jobs.

Farias’ bill is already co-sponsored by four other Dems: Manhattan’s Gale Brewer and Harvey Epstein, Tiffany Cabán of Queens, and Shirley Aldebol of The Bronx.

However, critics such as Councilwoman Joann Ariola said those pushing the bill have their priorities wrong.

“This is typical backwards leftist logic,” the Queens Republican said. “Instead of actually trying to punish criminals, my colleagues are pushing to make life even harder for businesses and consumers.”

https://nypost.com/2026/03/14/us-news/nyc-council-dems-bizarre-plan-to-crack-down-on-shoplifting/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

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Episode 1165 – There Might Be a Surprise This Weekend!

The Chicago Bears has had it with Chicago.

The first free grocery store opens in New York and it is working out just the way you’d think it would work.

And the 250th year of our country may be greeted with a bit of a stench.

News

Here is some news:

  • The Chicago Bears look to be moving to Hammond, Indiana.
    • All this is over a dispute over a new stadium.
    • The Illinois House committee meeting that was scheduled for Thursday to discuss funding a new stadium for the Chicago Bears has been cancelled. This cancellation makes a potential Bears move to Indiana feel like a very real proposition.
  • New York has opened its first free grocery store in West Village which is in lower Manhattan, New York.
    • The pop-up was opened Feb. 12 as a five-day store by cryptocurrency-based prediction market Polymarket. It comes as Democratic New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani advances a proposal for city-run grocery stores aimed at easing rising food costs and broader affordability pressures. 
    • It was billed as New York City’s first free grocery store, with critics casting it as a stunt riffing on Mamdani’s proposal as the prediction-market company faces heightened scrutiny from regulators in various states, including New York. 
    • New Yorkers need to get a “yellow ticket” in order to get into the store.
  • After nearly a decade in Virginia, Boeing announced on Wednesday that it is moving its Defense, Space & Security headquarters out of the state back to St. Louis. This comes just weeks after new Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger took office, replacing Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
  • In a major shift in European foreign policy, the Council of the European Union formally announced on Thursday that it has added the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to the EU terrorist list.
  • A trial in California is going after Mark Zuckerberg and Meta.
    • Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was grilled Wednesday about whether his company intentionally designed Instagram to be addictive, in front of the young woman accusing Meta and YouTube of hooking her as a child and damaging her mental health.
    • He believed he has navigated the safety of young users “in a reasonable way.”
    • Zuckerberg was pressed on Wednesday about whether children younger than 13 have access to Instagram. The app technically requires users to be 13 to sign up, and Zuckerberg said younger children are “not allowed on Instagram.”
  • A huge sewage spill has leaked millions of gallons of excrement into the Potomac River.
    • It could take a year to fix and clean up.
    • The cause is the ancient plumping system that hasn’t been updated since the 1960s.
    • Donald Trump has decided to have the federal government take over the disaster because Delaware Governor Wes Moore is incompetent.
    • Wes Moore is blaming Trump because part of the pipeline was on federal lands and Trump is a racist.
    • Drinking water is not affected.
  • Just a little FYI: the United States might be attack Iran this weekend.

https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/breaking-news/article/chicago-bears-potential-move-to-indiana-gains-steam-after-illinois-house-committee-meeting-cancellation-on-thursday-162539080.html
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-defense-contractor-announces-major-move-weeks-after-dem-governor-takes-office-win-heartland
https://www.dailywire.com/news/eu-finally-designates-irans-deadly-irgc-a-terrorist-organization?topStoryPosition=undefined&author=Hank+Berrien&category=News&elementPosition=2&row=1&rowHeadline=Top+Stories&rowType=Top+Stories&title=EU+Finally+Designates+Iran%E2%80%99s+Deadly+IRGC+A+Terrorist+Organization
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/18/tech/meta-mark-zuckerberg-testifies-social-media-addiction-trial
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5740260-potomac-sewage-collapse-repair/

Here They Come, Gavin!

According to the New York Post:

California officials who turned a blind eye to unemployment scams — potentially worth tens of billions of dollars during the pandemic — will now be put directly under the microscope of the federal government.

The US Department of Labor is set to send a letter to the state’s Employment Development Department announcing a “strike team” will soon be touching down in the Golden State to root out theft and abuse, The California Post has learned. The investigation will be similar to efforts currently underway in Minnesota.

Federal investigators have been combing through financial records tied to Minnesota fraud schemes after prosecutors uncovered what they describe as a sprawling web of pandemic-era theft, including the massive “Feeding Our Future” case that allegedly siphoned roughly $250 million in federal child-nutrition funds through fake claims and shell companies. 

In total, a staggering $9 billion may have been stolen in Minnesota, according to federal prosecutors. Nearly 100 people had been charged with crimes as of last month.

The breadth of fraud in California, however, could leave Minnesota’s thievery looking like chump change.

The feds provided California nearly $290 billion in relief funds during the pandemic, and EDD was among the largest recipients as it was tasked with rapidly implementing expanded unemployment benefits.

https://nypost.com/2026/02/18/us-news/feds-launch-investigation-into-california-unemployment-fraud/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=capost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter#Echobox=1771423408

Good for Her

According to the New York Post:

Amber Glenn skated to “Like a Prayer” during Tuesday’s short program. Now she’s in serious need of one herself.

One of the U.S.’s “Blade Angels,” Glenn was left in tears following a massive error in her skate — she landed a double loop instead of a triple — that left her in 13th place with just the free skate to go.

The 26-year-old was just one of two skaters on the day to land a triple axel, but her blunder was scored as an invalid element for which she received no points.

Glenn cried as she approached her coaches at the end of her skate, clutching the pearl necklace of her outfit. 

https://nypost.com/2026/02/17/sports/amber-glenn-in-tears-after-error-leads-to-us-figure-skating-heartbreak/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter
https://nypost.com/2026/02/19/sports/usa-hero-quinn-hughes-calls-america-the-greatest-country-in-the-world/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social

This is Just Dumb

Here is AOC’s answer of whether she would create a wealth tax. Which, of course, is yes. Included is Argentine Foreign Minister Patricia Bullrich’s response.

https://nypost.com/2026/02/12/us-news/californians-have-justified-outrage-over-2026-tax-ideas/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter#Echobox=1770948079

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Episode 1164 – Getting It Good and Hard!

We lost a couple of icons this weekend. One good, one not so good.

Another trans person loses his crap in Rhode Island.

And New York is getting what it deserves.

Some News

Here is some news:

  • Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84.
    • Inventor of the Rainbow Coalition.
    • Ran for president in 1984 and 1988.
    • Was a shadow senator for Washington DC.
  • Robert Duval has died at the age of 95.
    • Starred in movies like Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, and The Great Santini.
    • He won an Oscar for Best Actor for the movie Tender Mercies 1983.
  • Embattled Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey both made public overtures to the feds for reimbursement for usage of state and city resources and recouping of other alleged damages.
    • Frey estimated economic and financial costs to his city to top $203 million, telling Minnesota Public Radio he would like to see the state and federal governments help pay.
    • Minneapolis estimated $47 million in lost wages for people “afraid to leave home” for work, $81 million in small business revenue losses and $4.7 million from hotel cancellations, according to the outlet.
    • This comes as Minnesota is under investigation for $19 billion for fraud.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/civil-rights-activist-jesse-jackson-dead-at-84
https://www.dailywire.com/news/robert-duvall-star-of-apocalypse-now-and-the-godfather-dead-at-95
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/minnesota-democrats-demand-reparations-ice-losing-18-billion-somali-fraud

Here We Go Again

According to the Daily Wire:

Two people were killed and at least three others critically injured after a man who identifies as a woman opened fire at a high school hockey game in Rhode Island.

Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves confirmed in a Monday evening press conference that Robert Dorgan, who goes by the name Roberta Esposito, killed himself after what she said was likely a targeted shooting stemming from a family dispute. A clip circulating on social media appears to show Dorgan’s daughter leaving a police station and telling reporters that her father “shot my family” and “he’s dead now.” The woman added that Dorgan “has mental health issues,” and “was very sick.”

Court records from 2020 confirm that Dorgan had undergone gender reassignment surgery. Dorgan claimed to North Providence Police at the time that his father-in-law attempted to throw him out of the house following his surgery. Around that time, Dorgan’s wife filed for divorce, initially citing “gender reassignment surgery, narcissistic + personality disorder traits” as the reason before crossing them out and writing “irreconcilable differences.”

Authorities have not publicly identified the victims, nor have they confirmed the precise relationships involved in the apparent family dispute. Police have also not released information about the weapon used.

This is the latest shooting perpetrated by a transgender-identifying attacker. Earlier this month, a man who identified as a woman and wore a dress killed 10 people at a Canadian school. Transgender-identifying shooters perpetrated deadly attacks on schools in Nashville in 2023 and in Minneapolis in 2025. The latter attack was the subject of the last question Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was asked when he was assassinated in September.


https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-identifying-man-opens-fire-at-rhode-island-hockey-game-killing-two
https://thepostmillennial.com/andy-ngo-reports-rhode-island-trans-shooters-posts-show-years-of-obsessive-humiliation-of-his-ex-wife

They Deserve This

According to the Post Millennial:

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced his preliminary budget, saying that in order to raise enough tax revenue to fill the gap in New York City‘s budget, New York Governor Kathy Hochul will have to allow him to raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers and corporations, or that the tax burden will be passed onto property taxes, which would increase costs for everyday New Yorkers. The funding would primarily go to social services, as Mamdani presented on Tuesday. 

Here he is during a press conference yesterday:

Mamdani said that Hochul and Albany should raise income taxes on those earning over $1 million a year and the “most profitable corporations.” 

Mamdani, when asked about the prospect of raising property taxes, said that it should be a “last resort” and that the tax increases would have to be imposed on those who are the wealthiest in the city. The proposal, as a “last resort,” would be a raise of property taxes by 9.5 percent.

Without pursuing either of those two options, Mamdani said that the revenue gap would stay at around $4.7 billion.

Some facts:

  • The budget has a deficit this year of $3.5 billion.
  • He wants to spend another $1.2 billion.
  • The city has spent $3.75 billion on illegal aliens.
  • The total budget for New York is about $110-120 billion.
Property classTypical use2025–26 NYC tax rate (approx.)
Class 11–3 family homes, small residentialAbout 19.8% of assessed valuenyc+1
Class 2Large residential, co-ops, condosAbout 12.4–12.5% of assessed valuenyc+2
Class 3Utility and special franchise propertyAbout 11.1% of assessed valuenyc+2
Class 4Commercial/industrial (offices, stores)About 10.8–10.9% of assessed valuenyc

How your bill is actually calculated

For a given property in NYC, the tax bill is roughly:

  • Assessed value (after assessment rules, caps, and exemptions) × class tax rate = base tax.
  • Then NYC applies any exemptions or abatements (e.g., STAR, co‑op/condo abatements, senior/disabled homeowner exemptions) to reduce the bill.

Example: If a Class 1 home has an assessed value of 100,000 (not market value), the property tax before exemptions would be roughly 19,800 for the year at a 19.8% rate.

https://thepostmillennial.com/mamdani-details-plans-to-tax-nyc-homeowners-to-fund-social-agenda-if-hochul-doesnt-fork-over-more-cash
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-are-the-property-taxes-in-orlp4zbCTwa2UA.QNb7Kjg

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Episode 1154 – She Has Some ‘Splainin To Do!

Unfortunately, Conservatives are doing what I said they should not do. Let’s talk about.

Ilhan Omar has some explaining to do.

And Zorhan Mamdani is doing exactly what he said he wouldn’t do.

Unfortunately, This Is Going To Happen

According to Fox News:

House Republicans are coalescing around progressive “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., after she was attacked during a town hall in Minneapolis on Tuesday night.

“This is totally unacceptable. I am glad Rep. Omar is okay,” Rep. Pete Stauber, R-Minn., wrote on X in response to a video of the incident.

It’s a rare show of bipartisanship in the face of political violence that has become common in recent years amid increasingly volatile rhetoric on both sides.

Support for Omar came from both conservative and moderate Republicans after a man appeared to confront her and spray a substance on her before he was quickly subdued at her public event.

Of course it is Donald Trump’s fault. AOC made that clear:

“It is not a coincidence that after days of President Trump and [Vice President] Vance putting Rep. Omar in their crosshairs with slanderous public attacks, she gets assaulted at her town hall.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ilhan-omar-backed-house-republicans-after-minnesota-town-hall-attack

Then Do Something About It

According to the New York Post:

The House Oversight Committee is probing “Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar’s skyrocketing family wealth after a $9 billion Somali social services fraud scandal exploded in her district,The Post has learned. 

Oversight panel Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said staff lawyers are exploring the extraordinary step of subpoenaing Omar’s spouse over his allegedly shady business practices.

“We’re going to get answers, whether it’s through the Ethics Committee or the Oversight Committee, one of the two,” he told The Post.

Republicans want to know how Somali-born Omar (D-Minn.) and her politically-connected husband Tim Mynett went from nearly broke to being worth up to $30 million in just a year, according to her 2024 disclosure forms.

“There are a lot of questions as to how her husband accumulated so much wealth over the past two years,” Comer said. “It’s not possible. It’s not. I’m a money guy. It’s not possible.”

Separately, federal law enforcement is also probing.

“We are investigating all politicians potentially connected to any of this [fraud] in Minnesota. You can read between the lines,” said a law enforcement source.

Unlike the Biden administration, which took no apparent action, Team Trump is “on top of it,” the source said.

The comments came as The Post learned the FBI was briefed during the Biden administration on suspicions about an array of companies run by Omar’s hubby.

Investment firm Rose Lake Capital, formed by Mynett and partner Will Hailer in 2022, is part of a web of companies created by the lefty “Squad” member’s husband of five years.

Rose Lake Capital had a paltry $42.44 in its bank account in late 2022, according to court documents in a lawsuit against a related company filed in South Dakota.

Yet the firm rocketed in value from zero to up to $25 million in just a year, according to Omar’s 2024 filing.

Associates were perplexed enough in 2024 about alleged irregularities and questions about where the money was coming from that they brought information to the attention of federal investigators, sources said.

They wondered whether the businesses — including a winery — might be up to something improper, since none had a public track record.

Several prominent people had previously been listed as advising the Rose Lake firm, but are no longer present on its bright pink web page. They include former Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), who once chaired the Senate Finance Committee and served as U.S. Ambassador to China under Barack Obama.

Baucus said he had a single phone call with Hailer back in 2022 about a proposed deal to make storage units. “Then nothing came of it” beyond occasional emails from Hailer. “That went on for about four or five months or so, then just radio silence,” he told The Post.

“He stopped writing his emails about the investment – about how well he’s doing, all that stuff. You can read between the lines – it sounded a little bit fishy,” he said. Baucus said no one ever asked to use his name as an “advisor” on the company website.

Also previously listed were former Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), who once chaired the House Agriculture Committee, and J. Peter Pham, a fellow at the Atlantic Council who served as President Trump’s Special Envoy to Africa’s Great Lakes Regions.

“Obviously I’ve seen reporting, including in The Post, about Will’s partner who I’ve never met and his wife [Omar] – Tim and his wife’s sudden coming into riches. But [I] can’t say anything about that, other than certainly I had no share in that,” said Pham, who indicated he had a single meeting about a potential deal to build solar panels in South Africa and was called an “advisor” by the company. Peterson didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Rose Lake’s website claims to have had officers with “previous” experience managing assets worth $60 billion, an amount that would make the firm a player that might attract notice.

But Wall Street insiders told The Post they had never heard of Rose Lake, or of anyone investing with them despite the firm boasting on its website that it had been running billions of dollars of assets under management and engaging in an array of high-end financial activities including “deals, mergers and acquisitions, debt restructuring and capital raising.”

Another Wall Street source expressed shock that Mynett — a longtime political consultant in Minnesota — was suddenly running a financial firm.

The firm also is not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Wall Street’s top regulator, and doesn’t say how much it is managing now.

The Dodd Frank reforms imposed after the 2008 financial crisis created registration requirements for advisors overseeing $100 million in assets, or $150 million for private fund advisors, with some exceptions. So-called family offices can sidestep disclosure rules because they don’t solicit outside investors. Venture capital firms are also exempt and Rose Lake touts VC work as one of its specialties.

Still, Rose Lake’s boast on its website that it does private equity work and that its officers’ had billions in “previous” assets under management would suggest the fund would be required to register, said a former high-ranking SEC official. “I would continue to push on the disclosure issue because this looks funny,” the person said.

Financial experts have also pointed to multiple variations of similar names for Rose Lake entities as raising “red flags,” and that the company was scrubbing a list of its officers from its site in the wake of the multi-billion dollar fraud scheme involving the Somali community in his wife’s district after a front-page report from The Post.

In recent days, the firm has deactivated its LinkedIn page. Hailer is no longer mentioned on it.

His own LinkedIn page no longer lists the firm – although it does identify him as a co-owner of the eStCru winery, which he launched with Mynett in 2020.

Hailer previously worked as political director for then-Democratic National Committee chair Keith Ellison, now Minnesota’s attorney general.

The widening web of investigations are long overdue, House Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) told The Post.

“While Minnesotans have been getting fleeced to the tune of $9 billion by Somali fraudsters, Ilhan Omar and her husband have been raking in millions through their shady businesses,” he said.

“The explosion of wealth, plus the fact that convicted fraudsters helped fund Omar’s campaign, is worth an investigation by the Ethics Committee at the very least.”

An SEC spokesman would not comment when asked about Rose Lake and its filings. The Post has contacted Mynett, Hailer, and Rep. Omar’s office seeking comment.

https://nypost.com/2026/01/17/us-news/house-probe-to-unravel-mystery-of-squad-rep-ilhan-omars-skyrocketing-wealth/?utm_sf_post_ref=653359946&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_sf_cserv_ref=17469289&utm_source=twitter

They Love Law and Order

According to the New York Post:

NYPD cops have been ordered to cut back on overtime — in what the rank-and-file fear is just the beginning under far-lefty Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who campaigned on eliminating the department’s entire OT budget, The Post has learned.

Officers have been told they need to reduce their extra time by nine to 11 hours next month as part of a cost-cutting initiative, multiple sources said Friday.

It wasn’t immediately clear if the department planned to keep those caps in place after the shortest month of the year or if further cuts were in the works.

Insiders said the order didn’t come down from City Hall and chalked it up to a short month with few big-ticket events.

https://nypost.com/2026/01/23/us-news/nypd-ordered-to-cut-back-on-overtime-under-mamdani/?utm_sf_cserv_ref=17469289&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_sf_post_ref=658210999

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Episode 1143 – Well, It’s About Time!

Zorhan Mamdani hires an absolute communist as his tenant director. Her goal is going to be to ruin everyone’s lives. Of course, she’s a hypocrite. Let’s talk about it.

Health and Human Services has released their new dietary guidelines, and it makes a hell of a lot of sense.

And California is number one at something. Unfortunately, that’s not a good thing.

This Is Never Going to End

According to Fox News:

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, after authorities said she used her vehicle to try to run over federal officers during a targeted enforcement operation.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement that rioters began blocking ICE officers when one of the rioters allegedly attempted to “weaponize her vehicle” to hit law enforcement officials in what they described as an act of “domestic terrorism.”

“An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots. He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers,” the agency added.

“The alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased. Thankfully, the ICE officers who were hurt are expected to make full recoveries,” DHS added.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-involved-minnesota-shooting-vehicle-ramming-incident-dhs

More Bad Ideas

Going After Slum Lords

https://twitter.com/i/status/2006894305470984244

Ripoff Courts

World Cup Tickets

https://twitter.com/i/status/2008249681328128390

Cea Weaver

Here is Cea Weaver and is Zorhan Mamdani’s director of the New York City Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants. She is not a fan of private property.

https://twitter.com/i/status/2008693451014262912

Here’s her plan.

https://twitter.com/i/status/2008532219200217088

Well, needless to say, this is not going to be very popular. Zorhan obviously told her to take all this back. She went on Spectrum news and “calrified her stances:

https://twitter.com/i/status/2008959380956577969

Some things:

  • The government doesn’t produce anything. The government manages (and as little as possible).
  • The government should not be “competing” with the private market. It should be helping the private market.
  • $5 billion?! This is the problem with communist government. Spend your money, creating worthless bureaucracies, and taking away your rights an freedoms.
  • She lets the cat out of the bag. She says “take over homes” and corrects herself by saying “buy these homes”.

Notice how Democrats only destroy? She doesn’t talk at all about how they acquire property or how they are going to build property. They don’t even talk about how they are going to manage or distribute the property they seize. They only talk about how they are going to take from all you racist property owners.

Here is the irony. According to the New York Post:

The mother of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new woke renters’ rights honcho — who’s dubbed homeownership “a weapon of white supremacy” — is a professor at a prestigious college and owns a beautiful Nashville home worth $1.6 million.

Celia Applegate — whose daughter Cea Weaver is the director of Mamdani’s Office to Protect Tenants — teaches German studies at Vanderbilt University and owns a pricey classic Craftsman home just south of the main strip in Nashville, Tennessee.

Applegate bought the property with her partner, David Blackbourn, in July 2012 for $814,000 and real estate websites now list the pad’s value at more than $1.6 million, records show.

Remember this about communists, their policies never affect them.

https://nypost.com/2026/01/06/us-news/mom-of-zohran-mamdani-aide-who-said-owning-a-home-fuels-white-supremacy-has-1-6m-house-in-tennessee/?utm_source=twitter&utm_social_handle_id=17469289&utm_social_post_id=644275369&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost

Big Health Announcement

According to the New York Post:

Though the guidance is updated every five years by HHS and the USDA, there have been no major changes made to the DGA since its creation in 1980, making Kennedy and Rollins’ announcement particularly noteworthy. 

DGA guidance is extremely impactful and doesn’t just shape national messaging. It also heavily influences daycare and school lunch programs, military and hospital food, and even federal food assistance programs, like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). 

The DGA has been scrutinized for years, with critics arguing that it doesn’t reflect real science and has, instead, been heavily influenced by major companies and financial interests. For example, some scientists who serve on the DGA committee have received funding from food, beverage, or agricultural companies or even conduct research sponsored by industry groups. The conflicts are disclosed, but still raise red flags for Americans. 

Some of the most frequent criticisms of the DGA concern how ultra-processed foods were deemed acceptable and how low-fat diets, which often contain ultra-processed foods, are effectively promoted. Kennedy has outright called ultra-processed foods and additives “poison” and pinpointed them as a major culprit in the childhood obesity epidemic. 

During Wednesday’s press conference, Kennedy slammed past conflicts of interests that he said impacted food guidance. “The hard truth is that our government has been lying to us to protect corporate profit-taking,” RFK said, adding that “today the lies stop.”

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