Even if we must be politically correct to those committing crimes, which we certainly should not be, why can’t the left make an exception for shooters who disregard human life? Because, in whatever pursuit that is, Interim Seattle Police Chief Andre Sayles has renamed shooters “trigger pullers” because of BLM or whatever.
This is objectively stupid and even more proof that the left prioritizes the feelings of criminals, including the ones who disregard the value of human life, over public safety. There should be more outrage over this.
A violent 24-hour stretch in Seattle left three people dead and three others injured following three separate shooting incidents in and around the Belltown neighborhood.
Addressing potential staffing strains, Sayles said, “That’s something I have to look at. I haven’t really dove into what the staffing numbers looked like and if that was the case, then we will do what we need to do as a department to make sure that they are not overwhelmed.”
What a foolish response. It is his job to know the staffing numbers. He cannot even be bothered to do the bare minimum. What a disgrace this man is.
“We have officers in these dedicated areas. They’re a block or two away, and it’s one of those incidents where we respond to violence on a daily basis,” Sayles said. “It’s not like we can be there and stop it. But our goal is to be there and stop it.”
Maybe one day people like Sayles will fight for public safety the way he does for the feelings of evil losers, but until then, this is the best he can do. To call this a slap in the face to law-abiding Americans does not even begin to describe this absurdity.
Nancy Pelosi Disclosed a Multi-Million Dollar AI Investment Just Weeks Before the Stock Blew Up– www.westernjournal.com News Source EXCERPT:
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi disclosed a multimillion-dollar investment last month in an artificial intelligence company whose stocks exploded in value soon after.
Pelosi’s husband Paul invested in Bloom Energy, a California-based company that provides fuel-cell technology and power systems aimed at meeting the enormous electricity demands of AI data centers.
According to a financial transaction report Pelosi signed Aug. 21, her household made several Bloom Energy purchases in late July.
The transactions included 10,000 shares purchased July 24, along with 100 call options, according to reporting from the New York Post. Another 5,000 shares and 100 additional call options were purchased July 28.
The disclosed value ranges put the combined transactions at a minimum of roughly $3 million, although the actual amount could have been as much as $12 million, because congressional financial disclosure forms use broad dollar ranges.
The July 24 purchases came after Bloom Energy’s stock had suffered a significant decline.
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Then came July 28.
That was the same day Bloom Energy reported extremely strong earnings, with annual revenue growth of 165 percent, according to the Post.
Bloom Energy’s stock subsequently took off.
Then, on Sept. 4, another major development arrived: Bloom Energy was announced as a new addition to the S&P 500.
The company is scheduled to join the benchmark index Sept. 21, alongside Everpure and Illumina.
Bloom Energy shares surged following the announcement, with the stock gaining nearly 40 percent over a five-day period, according to the Post.
By Tuesday, Bloom Energy shares were trading around $282.50, compared with $184.89 on July 24, the day of the first Pelosi household purchase.
That’s a striking move in a matter of weeks.
And it makes the timing of the disclosure noteworthy.
Pelosi’s office has said the former speaker does not own stocks and had no knowledge of or subsequent involvement in the transactions.
The trades were made by her husband and reported through the congressional disclosure system as transactions involving a spouse.
In an article about the transactions, financial writer Rich Duprey of 24/7 Wall Street dubbed Pelosi “the queen of capital gains.”
“Pelosi’s trading record in Congress has consistently outpaced the S&P 500 and even Warren Buffett over comparable stretches, fueling suspicion that lawmakers with committee-level oversight enjoy an informational edge,” Duprey observed.
The New York Post said Pelosi “has faced heated blowback for her family’s trading activity — racking up a 65% return on her portfolio in 2023 while her venture capitalist husband made $38 million worth of stock trades in the weeks leading up to President Trump’s inauguration.”
Duprey noted that multiple bills to ban stock trading by members of Congress have been introduced, but they’ve all stalled.
The Democratic former House Speaker’s trades have been so notable that in 2023, GOP Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri introduced one such bill that he dubbed the Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments Act – or the PELOSI Act.
Hawley later met with Democrats and agreed to change the name of the bill to the HONEST Act — Halting Ownership and Non-Ethical Stock Transactions — which allowed enough Democratic support to advance the bill out of committee in July 2025.
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Los Angeles Is Flooded With Government-Funded Non-Profits– thefederalist.com News Source EXCERPT:
Massive sums of money, washing into an endless system of creeks and gullies, diffusing and disappearing.
The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, a county-city joint powers authority that has been largely abandoned by county officials over serious concerns about effectiveness, financial transparency, and basic operational competence, proudly says that it funds “more than 100 nonprofit partner agencies” in a single county.
To begin to understand what that giant system of non-profit corporations looks like in practice, look closely at a single example: Special Service for Groups (SSG). The Charity Navigator website describes SSG as an entity that performs a remarkably broad cluster of roles: “Provide behavioral health, support for older adults, social justice/anti hate, HIV/AIDS related, an extensive array of homeless, substance abuse and health access initiatives and services to vulnerable communities.”
Many divisions with different purposes live under SSG’s corporate umbrella. The Asian and Pacific Islander Forward Movement (APIFM) works within that local population on “community health and environmental justice issues,” for example, while Access to Prevention Advocacy Intervention & Treatment (APAIT) provides advocacy, education, and health services to “people at-risk for or living with HIV/AIDS.”
You can read about APAIT’s Trans Pride Gala here, as an example of their publicly funded work, and see a complete list of SSG’s divisions on the main SSG website (where they scroll across a banner near the top).
But SSG is becoming particularly important in homeless services, and is broadly funded as a homeless services agency. More about those details in a moment.
After its function, the next thing to understand about SSG is where the money comes from. In fiscal year 2025, which ended in June of that year, the organization had a little more than $264 million in revenue. You can find that number in their Form 990, the financial disclosure document a non-profit corporation has to file annually with the IRS. But if you open that document, keep scrolling down until you get to the sources of that cash. It’s on pg. 9, the “statement of revenue.” Screenshot:
Of $264 million in annual revenue, about $260 million comes from government grants, or about 98.5 percent of SSG’s total funding. As their audited financial statements show, about $60 million of that public funding comes in the form of federal grants, much of which has been “passed through” to SSG through state and local governments.
So in practice, SSG is a government agency without really being one, providing government-funded services as a private corporation that has no obligation to comply with transparency laws like the California Public Records Act or the state’s open meeting law for local governments. They spend public money under corporate transparency rules: private enterprise with government funds.
Still, SSG has some financial disclosure requirements as a non-profit corporation, and we can see on their Form 990 what they pay their top employees:
In its current form, SSG was created in September of 1993, from the bones of an older non-profit and a set of “restated” articles of incorporation.
You can scroll through twenty-five years of SSG’s financial history at ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer website. It’s a story of growth, then of rapid growth: In 2006, about $23 million in government grants (and $26 million overall); in 2016, about $53 million in government grants; and then, in 2019, after the Measure H sales tax increases for homeless services passed in 2017, a big jump to about $108 million in government grants.
Finally, as Los Angeles County voters passed the larger Measure A sales tax increase for homeless services in 2024, SSG’s annual revenue jumped in a single year by more than $50 million. You can go see that big jump for yourself, comparing fiscal year 2024 to fiscal year 2025 on the Nonprofit Explorer page for SSG. Also compare fiscal year 2023 to 2024, because they added almost $100 million in annual revenue in just three explosive years:
Around $167 million to $264 million, as a non-profit that had $26 million in revenue just 10 years ago.
As SSG has pushed more aggressively into the broad funding and delivery of homeless services, where a lot of public funding is available, its record has suggested that the non-profit may be growing beyond its expertise. With close to $8.5 million in city, state, and foundation funding, SSG now owns a former motel in South Los Angeles that it plans to convert into supportive housing for the homeless. Six years after the City of Los Angeles bought that property and passed it to SSG, a motel that was in operation and hosting guests when it was taken over now looks like this:
City officials have given SSG a few more years to find additional funding to begin the project, but for now a working motel has been turned into a stripped and gutted property with a security fence around it.
More controversially, SSG had a significant financial partnership for years with a Los Angeles businessman named Alexander Soofer, who is now awaiting trial in state and federal courts on a long list of fraud charges. Prosecutors allege that Soofer diverted $10 million in public funding that was intended for homeless services to his personal accounts, using the money to fund luxury travel and a $7 million house.
An interesting wrinkle in Soofer’s prosecution recently appeared in reporting from the Los Angeles news organization LAist, which pointed out for the first time that Soofer had two corporations with similar names: Abundant Blessings, a non-profit, and Abundant Blessings from Above, a for-profit corporation. Both LAHSA and SSG paid both of Soofer’s corporations with public funds to provide services like transitional housing to the homeless, but they don’t appear to have noticed that Soofer was using his for-profit corporation to collect homeless services funds. You can see this detail in SSG’s Form 990, for several years in a row. Here’s the most recent example, from the 2025 form:
For several years, SSG reported to the IRS that it was providing passed-through public funds to Abundant Blessings from Above, a 501(c)(3). But that was never true:
Distributing millions of dollars a year in public funds, they appear to have had no idea who they were paying.
The Federalist made a significant effort to discuss SSG’s use of public funds with SSG and LAHSA (which provides funding to SSG). The news media contact listed on SSG’s website, an executive at a private public relations firm, didn’t respond to messages, and an email message sent to SSG Executive Director Herbert Hatanaka was blocked by SSG’s email system. Finally, a reporter from The Federalist tried to visit SSG headquarters in person, but was denied access to the office.
LAHSA alone funds “more than 100 nonprofit partner agencies” in Los Angeles County. There’s one, with $260 million in annual taxpayer funding from all government sources, an emptied and gutted motel, and one of their major financial partners awaiting trial.
Chris Bray is a senior correspondent at The Federalist and a former infantry sergeant in the U.S. Army. He has a history PhD from the University of California Los Angeles, not that it did him any good. He also posts on Substack, at “Tell Me How This Ends,” here.
The ‘Woke Language’ Interim Seattle Police Chief Uses to Describe Shooters Is Not Going Over Well – RedState– redstate.com News Source
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Like many Democrat-run cities across the country, Seattle is a hot mess when it comes to combating crime, with city “leaders” often demanding hands-off approaches to things like confronting street thugs, repeat offenders, violent wacktivists, and the like.
Though this approach has been favored for some time now by the Democrats and socialists who hold all the power, Seattle’s openly socialist mayor, Katie Wilson, took things to a whole new level once she took office, making stupid and dangerous decisions like these, for example:
Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson claims surveillance cameras are “primary threat to immigrants”—they helped identify suspect in brutal assault of elderly manhttps://t.co/QruGGeIx2c
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) May 6, 2026
UPDATE: Seattle Marxist Mayor Katie Wilson announced today that she has turned off the city cameras since the World Cup Matches are over.
Activists are still planning their protest against the cameras
Federal Grand Jury Subpoenas James Comey’s Longtime Advisor in New Classified Leak Investigation– slaynews.com News Source
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A federal grand jury has subpoenaed former FBI Director James Comey’s longtime friend and adviser as the Justice Department launches a new investigation into allegations that classified information was leaked to the media.
The subpoena issued Monday targets Daniel Richman, a longtime Comey confidant and former attorney who played a central role in an earlier investigation into disclosures to The New York Times, multiple law enforcement sources reportedly told Fox News Digital.
The development indicates that federal prosecutors have reopened scrutiny of the alleged leaking after the matter was investigated during President Donald Trump’s first term but discontinued after former President Joe Biden took office.
The investigation is separate from the federal case already pending against Comey over his controversial “86 47” social media post concerning Trump.
Comey Confidant Subpoenaed
Richman, a law professor who previously served as a special government employee for the FBI, has been closely connected to Comey for years.
He emerged as a significant figure in the original leak investigation in 2018 and later sued federal prosecutors over material seized from his electronic devices during investigations conducted in 2019 and 2020.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled in Richman’s favor in that dispute in December 2025, finding that prosecutors had violated his Fourth Amendment rights.
California lawmakers pass bill allowing people to identify their Jewish ancestry on state forms– abcnews.com News Source
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California would allow Jews to voluntarily identify their Jewish heritage on state forms under a bill the state Assembly passed Monday.
The bill, which needs a final vote in the Legislature to head to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk, would require state agencies that collect demographic information to add “Jewish” as an option for ethnicity or ancestry. The goal is to give state officials and researchers better data on Jewish Californians, including their unemployment rates and representation in schools.
The data would enable lawmakers to create policies that address the needs of Jews in the state, said David Bocarsly, CEO of Jewish California, an advocacy group.
“It’s about inclusion as a community,” Bocarsly said, noting the Legislature has passed laws in recent years to collect more inclusive demographic data on Middle Eastern, North African and LGBTQ+ communities.
Some opponents of the bill are worried about the idea of the state collecting such data given the traumatic history of the Nazi government keeping records of Jews during the Holocaust. The proposal would bar agencies from disclosing “personal identifying information,” and bill author Henry Stern, a Democratic state senator who is Jewish, said California already has robust privacy protections that should assuage those concerns.
Sydney Levy of Jewish Voice for Peace, a progressive anti-Zionist group, wasn’t convinced by that argument.
Mamdani Locked in Unexpected War with NY Teachers Union Over Big Bonuses– www.westernjournal.com News Source
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Well, this probably wasn’t on anyone’s scoreboard coming into Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s ballyhooed running of New York City.
As most could tell you, the far left — which Mamdani has acknowledged he’s a card-carrying member of — and worker’s unions have long been viewed as “on the same side.”
(There’s a reason President Donald Trump worked overtime to win worker’s unions in the lead-up to the 2024 election.)
But despite ostensibly being “on the same side,” it appears that Mamdani’s first true PR battle in the Big Apple won’t be against some conservative or Republican.
No, he appears to be going to war with the local teacher’s union — and some conservatives are actually lauding Mamdani for his stance on this.
And no, that’s not a typo. That’s literally how The New York Times frames it.
“By Fighting Union Pay Bonus, Mamdani Wins Rare Praise From Conservatives,” the outlet proclaims in its headline.
California’s Progressive Governor, Gavin Newsome, has signed the “Stop Nick Shirley” Act into law. The law makes it illegal for reporters to question immigration service providers on film and share the results online. The law selectively protects a certain class of people from American journalism. The law is sure to be challenged in the courts.
The law takes effect October 1, 2027. Progressive Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, who introduced the bill, claimed, “Our immigrant service providers are living in fear because of extremists looking to demonize the work that they do and the populations they serve.” This is not Americanism, this is progressivism. We are different nations altogether.
Newsom Signs ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ to Stop Investigations Into Immigration ‘Service’ Provider Fraud › American Greatness– amgreatness.com News Source
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Saturday expanding privacy protections for immigration service workers, despite warnings that the measure could chill investigative journalism and face First Amendment challenges.
Assembly Bill 2624, dubbed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” by Republican Assemblyman Carl DeMaio, expands California’s Safe at Home program to certain nonprofit employees who assist people navigating the U.S. immigration system.
The law will take effect Oct. 1, 2027, after Newsom leaves office because of term limits.
Democratic Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, who introduced the bill in February, said the protections are necessary because immigration service providers face harassment and threats.
“Our immigrant service providers are living in fear because of extremists looking to demonize the work that they do and the populations they serve,” Bonta said Saturday.
The measure imposes penalties on people who distribute information or images of covered immigration workers under circumstances the law defines as inciting violence or threats. Penalties can range from $10,000 to $50,000, with violations potentially carrying jail or prison sentences.
Seattle Police scraps hiring bonuses despite extreme staffing shortage | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com News Source
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Katie Wilson previously wrote before she was elected mayor, “There’s a strong argument for simply disbanding police departments and starting over.”
The Seattle Police Department will eliminate its officer hiring incentives beginning Sept. 1, citing an uncertain budget outlook even as the department remains hundreds of deployable officers short of its staffing goal, hiring is running behind 2025 levels, and officer departures are on pace for their worst year since 2023.
The decision comes after Seattle spent years and millions of dollars attempting to rebuild a police force decimated during the city’s defund era. It also comes under Mayor Katie Wilson, who before taking office advocated cutting SPD’s budget in half, argued there was a case for disbanding police departments and once said activists wanted to move toward a future “entirely without SPD.”
SPD confirmed Wednesday that it will stop offering incentives to both entry-level recruits and experienced officers transferring from other agencies. Applicants already moving through the hiring process, along with those who apply before the end of August, will remain eligible for the bonuses.
“A decision has been made to stop the hiring incentives until a time when the budget forecast for the Seattle Police Department is clear,” SPD told KOMO News. “We have a responsibility to the people of Seattle to provide the best police service while also being fiscally responsible. We will continue to hire some of the highest quality candidates in the country and are dedicated to helping keep Seattle a safe and welcoming city.”
Ayanna Pressley: ‘The Confederacy Is Still Alive and Well — That’s All MAGA Is’– www.breitbart.com News Source EXCERPT:
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) compared President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement to the Confederacy.
Pressley made the remarks Monday at Roxbury Community College in Boston while campaigning for Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) in his primary race against Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA).
“It is bigger than Trump,” Pressley said. “Because whenever we do the work of ousting the occupant of the Oval Office, the Confederacy is still alive and well. That’s all MAGA is.”
“White supremacy is still alive and well,” she continued. “Anti-blackness will still be alive and well.”
Markey is seeking another term in the Senate but faces a Democrat primary challenge from Moulton. Pressley endorsed Markey in March after previously considering a Senate campaign of her own.
In announcing her endorsement, Pressley pointed to their work together on immigration, criminal justice, and other progressive priorities.
“I am proud to endorse his re-election so we can continue advancing the justice-driven solutions our communities need to not only survive, but thrive,”Pressley said.
Hasan Piker is STILL mocking Charlie Kirk’s assassination– www.theblaze.com News Source
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Radical leftist Hasan Piker is at it again after spending the weekend mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk — singing the “We Are Charlie Kirk” AI-generated song while on a live tour.
A video circulating on social media shows Piker mocking Kirk in front of a crowd while his podcast co-hosts laugh.
“We are Charlie Kirk, we carry the flame / We’ll fight for the gospel, we’ll honor his name,” Piker sang while the crowd and co-hosts laughed along.
“You have Hasan Piker, who these days is kind of just the Democrat Party spokesman, who just this weekend continued to mock Charlie’s death,” Gonzales says.
“It’s funny that a husband and a father was brutally murdered, assassinated in broad daylight for the entire world to see on film. It’s so funny. It’s so funny that he was murdered because he was speaking freely,” she continues.
“It’s so funny that Hasan Piker is out here mocking the death and somehow is still a hero to the left even though he literally calls for people to be murdered,” she adds, playing a clip of Piker saying that property owners should be killed.
“Kill those motherf**kers and murder those motherf**kers in the street. Let the streets soak in their f**king red capitalist blood, dude,” Piker said on his podcast.
Kelly: Hegseth’s Attitude That the Military Is About Killing People ‘Not Healthy’– www.breitbart.com News Source
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On Wednesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) said Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s attitude that the U.S. military is all about killing people is “not healthy.”
Kelly said, “I think the secretary of defense has done the members of the military a big disservice by the way he’s been conducting himself in his job, getting on a stage, talking about killing people and lethality. And you know, that attitude from the top, it’s not healthy for members of the military to hear this. I mean, just the stuff he was saying today, so you could see why officers who have attended service academies—imagine if you went to West Point, and every day you’re walking by that plaque where it says when the law and orders are in conflict, you follow the law, and you think about that, you think about some of the things that the military is being asked to do. And you have a secretary of defense that’s talking about setting records, 10,000 targets struck in this period of time. And now we set a new record, 12,000. Now 14,000, by the way, on the heels of what seemed to be a horrific mistake, where a Tomahawk missile goes into a school and kills over 100 Iranian schoolgirls. But then, not to dismiss that and continue with this, with this attitude of we’re just about killing people.”
He added, “The U.S. military’s better than that. I mean, we’re supposed to be the good guys here who have a moral compass and have values, and could conduct ourselves with a certain amount of constraint and professionalism. And when I watch the secretary of defense, almost every single time he goes in front of a camera, I see the opposite of that.”
New York’s progressive Governor, Kathy Hochul, signed a new state law prohibiting police from aiding ICE agents in any way, shape, or form. During the signing she incited violence against ICE agents, characterizing their actions as “atrocities on our streets.”
This is a dog whistle for “ICE agents are Nazis.” The comments appear to be an effort to encourage more violence against ICE agents by progressive citizens of the progressive state of New York.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Announces New Law That Bars Police From Working With ICE– www.louderwithcrowder.com News Source
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has once again proved just how much the left hates you — the American people.
Hochul announced that a new state law that bars police from cooperating with ICE agents has gone into effect. She did this because, according to the left, no human is illegal. Well, unless, of course, you are a law enforcement officer working with federal agents to uphold national security. That, in fact, would be illegal, according to Hochul.
It bans local government agencies from maintaining agreements with ICE for civil enforcement. It also prohibits ICE agents from using local detention centers for civil enforcement, including mass raids.
“Local police will assist ICE only if a real crime has been committed,” Hochul said. “But on civil immigration matters, ICE is on their own.”
The problem with this claim is that breaking federal immigration laws is a crime. Can someone please clear that up for the Governor?
She said the law will help protect immigrants from aggressive enforcement while they pursue asylum claims.
What a bunch of nonsense. This is nothing more than an effort to vilify federal agents, while turning a blind eye to criminal aliens who have disregarded this country’s laws from the very start.
Back in July, state officials sent letters to 12 local law enforcement agencies that have agreements with ICE. The letters stated that they must unwind the agreements by Aug. 25.
CHAOS IN LOS ANGELES: Antifa-Linked Mob Storms Catholic Church, Chases Conservative Activist Into Starbucks, and Douses Him in Blue Paint While Screaming “Nazi!” (VIDEO)– www.thegatewaypundit.com News Source
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Screenshot: Eoin Richard/X
Left-wing extremists and Antifa militants stormed the Precious Blood Catholic Church in Los Angeles on Saturday, August 23, where right-wing activist and free speech advocate Eoin Richard was hosting a peaceful free speech, anti-Islam rally.
The confrontation unfolded after Connolly, known publicly as Eoin Richard, organized a “Take Back LA” free-speech rally criticizing Islam.
Connolly originally advertised the August 23 demonstration outside the Islamic Center of Southern California on Vermont Avenue.
A pre-event advisory circulated by opponents described the gathering as a “far-right” rally and accused its organizers of targeting the Muslim community.
As counter-protesters gathered outside the Islamic center, Connolly reportedly redirected supporters to the nearby Precious Blood Catholic Church in Koreatown.
Newsom Signs ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ to Stop Investigations Into Immigration ‘Service’ Provider Fraud › American Greatness– amgreatness.com News Source
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Saturday expanding privacy protections for immigration service workers, despite warnings that the measure could chill investigative journalism and face First Amendment challenges.
Assembly Bill 2624, dubbed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” by Republican Assemblyman Carl DeMaio, expands California’s Safe at Home program to certain nonprofit employees who assist people navigating the U.S. immigration system.
The law will take effect Oct. 1, 2027, after Newsom leaves office because of term limits.
Democratic Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, who introduced the bill in February, said the protections are necessary because immigration service providers face harassment and threats.
“Our immigrant service providers are living in fear because of extremists looking to demonize the work that they do and the populations they serve,” Bonta said Saturday.
The measure imposes penalties on people who distribute information or images of covered immigration workers under circumstances the law defines as inciting violence or threats. Penalties can range from $10,000 to $50,000, with violations potentially carrying jail or prison sentences.
Hasan Piker Sang About Charlie Kirk. The Crowd Cheered. That Says Plenty. – PJ Media– pjmedia.com News Source EXCERPT:
Most Americans are pretty good at leaving each other alone. Vote differently, worship differently, live differently, and go home to your family. But there are lines decent people recognize without needing a political consultant to explain them. Hurt children, brutalize women, or torment a grieving family.
Hasan Piker found one of those lines Friday night in San Francisco and danced on it.
During a live performance of his Fears& podcast, Piker led a packed theater in a mocking rendition of “We Are Charlie Kirk,” a tribute song that appeared after Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University last Sept. 10.
His co-hosts laughed, the audience cheered and sang along, and Piker later posted a photo from the show with the caption, “Carried the flame tn.”
What is exasperating is how hatemongers on the left want to enjoy hate speech while accusing others of hate and intolerance. They do so by excusing their actions or views by demonizing those who disagree. Democratic leaders continue the false claim that democracy is dying in America and that this may be our last free election. While made over multiple elections, the claim of the imminent death of democracy (unless they are elected) does not appear to register with their supporters.
Recently the rhetoric has reached hysterical levels. Florida Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon has compared Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to “modern-day slave catchers” and the government is “literally trying to kill us.”
It is a narrative that allows you to speak like a Nazi while claiming to be fighting Nazis.
Piker thrilled the crowd by mocking a murdered man over his faith and his death. It is more than being simply classless. It is commodifying rage. Piker is reportedly raking in a fortune as are other hatemongers like Jennifer Welch. They traffic in rage to a nation of rage addicts.
It is a scene that only reaffirms the work of Kirk who sought to expose the hate and intolerance of the left, particularly on our campuses. Kirk infuriated many by challenging them to debate. There is no room for reason in an age of rage. Those who try to introduce opposing views on campuses are cancelled or attacked.
The timing makes the performance even uglier. Turning Point USA is preparing to return to Utah Valley University on Sept. 10 for a memorial marking one year since Kirk was murdered there.
The conservative youth organization said the “Freedom Built to Last” gathering will remember Kirk as a Christian husband and father, a free-speech advocate, and a leader who helped build a movement among young Americans.
“The gathering will honor Charlie as a faith-filled husband, father, and defender of free speech,” Turning Point said in Friday’s release, calling the event “a deliberate act of remembrance, and a call for students and supporters to continue his life’s work.”
The memorial will be held at UVU’s UCCU Center, about a five-minute walk from the amphitheater where Kirk was fatally shot while speaking to thousands of students during the opening stop of his “All-American Comeback Tour.”
Speakers will include conservative talk-show host and Blaze Media founder Glenn Beck; Christian author Frank Turek, a friend and mentor to Kirk; and Turning Point Chief Field Officer Andrew Sypher.
Erika Kirk, Charlie’s widow and now CEO and board chair of Turning Point USA, will help lead an organization and a family into an anniversary nobody should ever have to mark.
Piker knew what he was mocking, and so did the crowd.
The backlash from conservatives intensified as video of Piker’s disturbing display ricocheted across the internet Saturday.
Appalled by Piker’s deliberate mockery of the man who had once been his close friend and mentor, Turning Point spokesman Andrew Kolvet wrote, “Hasan Piker is engaging in pure, unadulterated evil. ‘Whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished.’ Proverbs 17:5”
Conservative firebrand Jack Posobiec noted in the X post below, “Here is Hasan Piker now mocking the murder of Charlie Kirk as we approach the 1 year anniversary of his assassination. The Bolsheviks will kill us all and they will laugh about it.”
Responding to Posobiec, Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) wrote, “These aren’t just people who disagree with us politically. They are enemies of everything that is good and holy about our civilization. And they will stop at nothing to destroy it.
Piker rejected accusations that he’s antisemitic and says he opposes anti-Jewish violence. His own words still leave a remarkable record for others to judge.
The country remains far less enthusiastic. A July poll found only 27% of Americans believe democratic socialists have at least some good ideas, while 51% say they have few or none.
So Democrats eventually have to answer a difficult question. After a decade in which opposition to President Donald Trump became one of the party’s defining forces, what else has been allowed through the door?
Political movements reveal themselves partly through what they celebrate, tolerate, and refuse to condemn. The first anniversary of his murder is approaching. His widow, family, friends, and organization are preparing to remember him.
Hasan Piker gave his crowd a song while they gave him cheers.
Character sometimes announces itself very clearly.
New York Woman Charged in Alleged ISIS-Inspired Plot to Attack State Capitol– legalinsurrection.com News Source
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The FBI announced that Jessica Bowie, 35, of Albany, NY, faces charges connected to a plot to attack the New York State Capitol.
“As alleged, Bowie plotted to deploy an explosive device at the New York State Capitol, intending to kill public officials and to destroy ‘as much of the building as possible’ before fleeing to ISIS‑controlled territory in Syria,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg. “The National Security Division and our law-enforcement partners are committed to the painstaking work of preventing plots like this from succeeding and securing convictions against those who attempt such plots.”
Bowie faces one count of violating 18 U.S.C. 2339B(a)(1) – Attempting to Provide Material Support or Resources to Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.
According to the criminal complaint, Bowie converted to Islam five years ago and goes by Aisha Saif.
FBI Special Agent Joshua Parker, in the affidavit in support of a criminal complaint, wrote that between May 2026 and July 2026, several social media accounts with messages that support terrorism were traced back to Bowie.
An FBI confidential human source (CHS-1) posed “as an ISIS facilitator” while communicating with Bowie between July 16, 2026, and August 17, 2026, on a messaging platform.
California set to ban ‘addictive’ social media features to protect teens– www.washingtonpost.com News Source EXCERPT: Advocates say legislation in the nation’s most populous state would carry particular weight in the national movement to curb tech’s influence on young people.
How Leftist Nonprofits, Judges Enable Crime Sprees In Red States– thefederalist.com News Source
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Oklahoma just witnessed another shocking example of what happens when the left takes over the criminal justice system and treats thugs like victims and victims like castoffs. Between 2022 and 2026, Ghanaian migrant Jeff Kofi Asare accumulated a hefty criminal record in Oklahoma with 7 convictions and a litany of charges including larceny, trespass, and resisting an officer. Asare saw little jail time for most of these offenses and spent a total of 75 days incarcerated for two breaking-and-entering convictions despite repeated criminal activity escalating in severity, which culminated in an alleged depraved sexual assault spree earlier this month.
On Aug. 1, he was arrested for sexual battery and indecent exposure after allegedly groping two women near a bus stop and was subsequently released pre-trial. On Aug. 6, he was again arrested for sexual battery for allegedly groping a woman near a park and again released pre-trial. On Aug. 12, he was arrested for attempted rape after firefighters heard screams and rescued a woman, allegedly from his clutches.
Like Iryna Zarutska before them, these four alleged victims, who were simply trying to board a bus or take a walk in a park, made the reasonable but increasingly inaccurate assumption that they were not in the presence of a violent criminal who had been arrested and released numerous times.
Jeff Kofi Asare was arrested THREE times in just the past two weeks for allegedly r*ping women in Oklahoma. Nearly 2 dozen arrests since 2022.
Secret Service Responds To Major Threat Against Barron Trump– trendingpoliticsnews.com News Source
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The Secret Service has responded to a disturbing state media segment in which the Iranian regime placed a bounty on Barron Trump, the youngest son of President Donald Trump.
“The U.S. Secret Service is aware of the video and investigates anything that can be perceived as a threat toward our protectees,” Secret Service spokesman Nate Herring announced Tuesday. “Out of concern for operational security, we do not discuss matters of protective intelligence,” he added.
The nearly three-minute video was aired over the weekend by Iranian broadcaster IRIB, a state media outlet aligned with hardliners whose head is appointed by Iran’s supreme leader. It was also reportedly aired on the IRGC-linked Channel 3.
It opens with an English-language graphic reading “Where to kill Barron Trump?!” or “Where to Kill Barron Trump.” The segment labels the 20-year-old a “target” and features stylized graphics depicting locations where he is publicly known to spend time, including Trump Tower in New York and a Washington address tied to New York University, specifically references to dormitories at NYU’s Constance Milstein & Family Global Academic Center.
Iranian state TV aired a propaganda video titled “Where to kill Barron Trump?” showing stylized graphics claiming the 20-year-old is “fully monitored” and referencing a $10 million bounty.
The US Secret Service confirmed it is aware of the video and “investigates anything that… pic.twitter.com/PeF8fRBPzq
ICE Chief: Agents Being Stalked and Harassed in Los Angeles – LAPD Bound by ‘Sanctuary Policies’ Doing Nothing– www.westernjournal.com News Source
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ICE officers working in Los Angeles are being followed home, harassed on social media and confronted in person while carrying out immigration enforcement, the agency’s local field office director said this week.
Those officers receive little assistance from local police.
LAPD policy, rooted in Special Order 40 and the city’s sanctuary ordinance, bars officers from initiating action solely to determine immigration status or assisting in civil immigration enforcement, according to a statement from Chief Jim McDonnell.
Los Angeles ICE Field Office Director Thomas Giles told Fox News Digital that the sanctuary rules force his agents into the community instead of allowing secure transfers at local jails. Fox News Digital accompanied Giles and a team of officers on an enforcement operation in the Los Angeles area early last Thursday morning.
“The sanctuary policies definitely impact our operations in terms of it’d be a lot easier for us to have that transfer of custody in a secure environment,” Giles said. “So, what it does for us is it sends our officers out into the community, putting our officers at risk and other community members at risk.”
Hasan Piker mocks Charlie Kirk’s death while dressed up like Chairman Mao | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com News Source
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During the performance, Piker sang “We Are Charlie Kirk,” a presumably AI-generated gospel-style song.
Far-left streamer Hasan Piker mocked the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk by sarcastically singing the song “We Are Charlie Kirk” during a live show in San Francisco on Friday.
Piker appeared at the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco on August 21 as part of the opening night of the West Coast run of Fear&Live. The live show featured Piker alongside fellow Fear& hosts Will Neff, QTCinderella, and Austin Show.
During the performance, Piker sang “We Are Charlie Kirk,” a presumably AI-generated gospel-style song “honoring” the slain Turning Point USA founder. The song began circulating following Kirk’s assassination and has subsequently been used by left-wing users to mock Kirk and his supporters.
Video from the event showed Piker singing along as the song’s lyrics appeared on the screen in a karaoke-style format. While singing, Piker was dressed in an outfit resembling a Maoist-style uniform.
Piker also posted a photograph from the event with the caption, “carried the flame tn,” a reference to a lyric from the song.
Gottheimer: El-Sayed Won’t Condemn Piker Even as He Uses ‘Nazi-Like Formula’– www.breitbart.com News Source
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On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Inside Politics,” Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) said that Hasan Piker is “calling for violence against Jews, American Jews who support the U.S.-Israeli relationship, literally calling for them to be attacked, which is a Nazi-like formula” and Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed isn’t clearly denouncing Piker and is leaving the door open to continuing to campaign with him.
Gottheimer said, “El-Sayed’s statement totally fell short. You’re talking about a guy, Hasan Piker, who’s a — as you pointed out, he posts on Twitch and streams on Twitch, millions of followers. He is nothing more than a grifter and a hater. Although, unfortunately, many of my colleagues have decided to campaign with him. Many of — many Democratic candidates have campaigned with him, including El-Sayed, who in his — the last night before his primary had Hasan Piker front and center with him. And his statement yesterday, instead of coming out and condemning Piker, condemning his statement, saying he refuses to ever campaign with him again, he did nothing of the sort. And, to me, the fact that he leaves the window open to do more with Hasan Piker, it’s totally unacceptable. You saw, of course, Leader Hakeem Jeffries coming out strongly against Hasan Piker. I think all of my colleagues should.”
Trump Administration Announces Uncovering More Than $13 Billion In Suspected Fraud– dailycaller.com News Source
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The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced Tuesday that the agency, alongside the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, has uncovered more than $13 billion in suspected fraud since beginning its work in March.
Federal contractors are responsible for the suspected fraud. They were tracked down by GSA and the task force through governmentwide contracting data, public reporting and inspector general enforcement information, according to a press release.
“Let this serve as a warning to any bad actors thinking of stealing from the federal government: we will catch you, we will work with law enforcement to ensure your arrest, and we will do everything in our power to help recover every dollar you stole,” GSA Administrator Edward C. Forst said in a statement.
A few weeks into the creation, the task force and the GSA identified nearly $6.3 billion in government contracts that are going to potentially fraudulent businesses, the Daily Caller exclusively reported.
Soros-backed democrat threatens to “blow up” Trump’s ballroom if Democrats are allowed to regain power– www.louderwithcrowder.com News Source
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As we approach the midterm elections, a good reminder of who the enemy is is to listen to what they are willing to say out loud BEFORE they regain power. Like, and this is just an example off the top of my head, Soros-backed Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner threatening to blow up a portion of the White House. He’s a democrat, so before we accuse him of making a terrorist threat, we have to wait for “independent” “fact” “checkers” to determine what he meant by that.
Drugs are fine. Crime is ok. But Trump ballroom is offensive.
I’m going to have a paperweight sitting on my desk. You know what that paperweight is going to be? It’s going to be a piece of the ballroom after we all blow it up.” … In an official ceremony, we’re going to blow it up.
The FBI under President Biden ran a covert operation designed to neutralize any effort to investigate allegations of corruption by the Biden family. The operation was called “Rounded River.” The Trump White House Transparency Task Force released their findings last week.
Newly declassified documents released by the White House Transparency Task Force allege the FBI operated a covert effort that identified journalists, senior Trump administration officials, and Republican lawmakers as “conduits” of Russian disinformation while treating prominent Democrats as the supposed targets of the same influence campaign.
The records center on an FBI operation codenamed “Round River,” which focused on intelligence involving the Biden family, Burisma Holdings, Ukraine, and alleged foreign influence during the 2020 election cycle.
The documents were declassified Wednesday by the White House Transparency Task Force, led by journalist John Solomon.
The release includes an Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) briefing presentation describing Operation Round River, along with a spreadsheet identifying individuals associated with the investigation.
OPERATION ROUND RIVER EXPOSED: Today the White House Government Transparency Task Force released documents newly declassified by President Trump that reveal a secret operation by the FBI and spy agencies to neutralize the Biden family corruption scandal during the 2020 election.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation ran a counterintelligence operation appearing to run cover for Biden family Ukraine business dealings and other Democrats, labeling them victims of Russian disinformation, while labeling many prominent Republicans as “conduit(s)” of such disinformation.
Democrat figures like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, George Soros, John Kerry, and Paul Pelosi were all labeled “target(s).” Republicans like Then-Attorney General Bill Barr, Then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Then-Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Then-Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, and Then-acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney were considered “conduit(s).”
NEW: Woman Identified and Arrested on Two Felony Charges After Vandalizing DC’s Sacred World War II Memorial – Faces Up to TEN YEARS in Prison– www.thegatewaypundit.com News Source
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Melissa L. Farris. Credit: U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro
The wicked individual who spray-painted and dumped chemicals on DC’s WWII memorial has been identified and arrested.
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, the World War II memorial in Washington, D.C., was vandalized on Thursday with bubbly soap and graffiti containing a very nasty message to the military.
The memorial fountain bubbled over with suds, and a complete loser painted the words “Clean hands Dirty $” on one of its surfaces.
The area was also splattered with red and green paint.
CNN Is Trying To Drum Up Another Race Hoax– thefederalist.com News Source
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“Police investigating after a Black woman was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi,” an X post from The Lead on CNN read, accompanied by a reporter hit that aired Wednesday from Omar Jimenez on the death of 29-year-old Tasia Fortune.
Fortune was found hanging from a tree behind an abandoned house earlier this month. Her death is undoubtedly tragic, and the circumstances are being investigated. But CNN appeared to be more interested in trying to insinuate her death is emblematic of racism in America by invoking the imagery of a racist lynching and by breezing past additional reported details surrounding Fortune’s death.
Jimenez stressed that little is known about the circumstances and that police have not said whether her death is considered suspicious, nor have they identified a suspect. But police have also similarly not suggested it was racially motivated either — so naturally, CNN decided to make the crime about race (or at least try).
“The raw imagery of a black person hanging from the tree in the American South evokes a very painful history,” Jimenez said.
