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Democrats desperately are trying to protect their minority numbers in Congress with several redistricting plans in states.
Analysts have concluded they're unlikely to gain much, but in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom, an ardent opponent of President Donald Trump and the Make America Great Again agenda, has gone so far as to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a campaign to have voters authorize a new redistricting plan.
His intention is to take away a handful of seats that now are held by Republicans, even though that might not even make up what his party lost in a redistricting already finished in Texas.
California's redistricting by law is supposed to be done by a nonpartisan committee, but Newsom's plan would have voters authorize a bypass so Democrats could gerrymander even further, a process that party already has used for years.
But President Trump is pointing out a potential problem.
And he's promising more information to come.
"The Unconstitutional Redistricting Vote in California is a GIANT SCAM in that the entire process, in particular the Voting itself, is RIGGED. All 'Mail-In' Ballots, where the Republicans in that State are 'Shut Out,' is under very serious legal and criminal review. STAY TUNED!" Trump said.
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A Democrat state lawmaker in North Carolina has quit after being jailed for allegedly committing child sex crimes.
A report from Libs of TikTok said it is state Rep. Cecil Brockman, a Democrat, who is out.
His own letter to the legislature conceded he's unable to do the work needed while the charges are pending.
Commentary online blasted him for being a "Black Lives Matter Marxist and anti-police Democrat NC Representative."
A report from LifeZette said Brockman has been accused of crimes involving a 15-year-old.
Officials in the state had said he needed to go away.
The report said, "Court records show that Brockman was arrested on October 8 and charged with two counts of statutory sexual offense with a child and one count of taking indecent liberties with a minor."
Brockman's letter said he needed to focus on his defense.
"According to police and court filings, Brockman met the teenager in May through an online app. Guilford County District Attorney Avery Crump told the court that Brockman later tried to locate the teen by using a tracking app and even called 911 in an attempt to reach the individual," the report explained.
He's been in custody in the Guilford County Jail on a million dollar bond.
He was being considered for expulsion from the legislature at the time he quit.
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Florida police have released borderline graphic video of when a sheriff's deputy was forced to take down a thug who had a knife and was threatening the life of a 7-year-old child.
The footage is from bodycam documentation of the confrontation between Antonio Gonzalez, of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, and the late Mario Comacho, 27, who died in the episode.
The video of the deputy confronting the suspect, who was reported to have a knife at the child's throat and was choking him, in a back room of a house in Brandon, Florida:
The sheriff's office later issued a statement about the incident.
Authorities said the confrontation happened on Sunday when deputies got a call about a domestic violence situation.
The caller said Camacho was armed with a knife and threatening the little boy.
"Once on scene, the suspect barricaded himself with his brother in a back bedroom. Deputies heard the child screaming for help and kicked down the door. Deputies encountered the suspect, who was holding a knife and refusing to let go of the child. The suspect was wearing a motorcycle helmet and two tactical vests with ballistic plates. After several commands to drop the knife, our deputy shot the suspect, rescuing the brother," authorities reported.
Camacho was pronounced dead at Brandon Regional Hospital.
The federal government has prevented a total of 6,525 known or suspected terrorists (KSTs) from coming into the United States since the fiscal year began in July, according to the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC).
This number is three times higher than the previous high number of 1,903 KSTs apprehended during the entire Joe Biden administration, and twice the more than 3,000 KSTs apprehended during fiscal year 2025.
The probable reason for the unusually high number of KSTs is the designation of Tren de Aragua, MS-13, other transnational criminal organizations and cartels as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) when Trump took office in January.
The NCTC identified nearly 1,200 KSTs inside the U.S. in the first 100 days of Trump's second administration, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said at the time.
Of that number, 750 were identified with MS-13, Tren de Aragua, the Sinaloa Cartel and others, according to reporting by The Center Square.
As of October, NCTC identified more than 35,000 KSTs and added them to the federal Terrorist Screening Dataset (TSDS), NCTC director Joe Kent said.
That action was key in preventing the 6,525 KSTs from entering.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. We're doing this and more every day,” he said, noting that the Biden administration would have let those KSTs in.
CBP, Border Patrol agents, and multiple other law enforcement agencies receive biographical and biometric data for all KSTs listed in the TSDS.
Most KSTs had previously been apprehended at the Northern border with Canada, but the latest figures show that the largest number, 2,782, were apprehended at the Southern border.
The difference is Trump's designation of the drug cartels as FTOs.
KSTs identified at land ports of entry “are most commonly found inadmissible to our country and immediately repatriated or removed,” CBP says. “They may also be turned over to another government agency for subsequent detention and law enforcement action.”
If they are identified between ports of entry, they are typically detained and removed by Border Patrol or turned over to other agencies for detention and/or law enforcement action.
At a White House event last week, Gabbard said some high profile arrests have been made, including Sinaloa cartel leaders, money launderers and cocaine traffickers, and a CJNG cartel affiliated baby trafficker, “La Diabla” (“the devil”).
Turning Point USA founder and major conservative influencer was assassinated by a whackjob leftist in early September, and his death shook not only the foundation of this country, but it also sent reverberations across the entire globe.
According to the Daily Mail, the outlet reported that conservative activist Candace Owens recently revealed that Kirk had texted her in 2018 reportedly concerned about the possibility of being assassinated.
Owens said Kirk, who was a close friend of hers, would often speak of a recurring dream in which he would be assassinated. The dreams, understandably, haunted him.
She revealed a number of texts regarding what Kirk would call a "prophecy" regarding his ultimate death by assassination.
The text messages Owens revealed were not only disturbing, given what ultimately happened, but also scary and sad.
"If I tell you the true prophecy I know in my gut it's really sad," Kirk allegedly texted Owens at one point. "But I hope its wrong."
"Anyway I am not sure if I will live to see the end of this revolution," he said in a text. "Since the beginning of TPUSA I knew in my gut that I might get wiped out at any time."
Kirk would reportedly later tell Owens that he was "not really afraid" of his eventual murder, but told her he was "just telling you what I know to be true."
The Daily Mail noted:
Kirk also compared himself to Moses, the prophet who led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt and delivered the Ten Commandments.
'I might be Moses tho. I might not see this whole thing through lmao,' he wrote, according to the messages published by Owens.
Owens served as TPUSA's communications director from 2017 to 2019.
The two were tight for some time, but reportedly had a "professional" break up, according to TPUSA advisory board member Eric Bolling.
Bolling explained that while Owens and Kirk remained friends, their professional relationship was stretched because Owens went a little too far into conspiracy land for Kirk's liking.
"Charlie, to his credit, kept a cordial friendship with her for years, but it hasn't been a communication pipeline between the two for many years," Bolling said during a podcast interview earlier this year.
Tyler Robinson, 22, a left-wing college dropout, was charged with Kirk's assassination. He's currently awaiting trial.
It'll be interesting to see what else is revealed as the investigation into Kirk's shocking murder unfolds.
President Donald Trump's military strikes in the Caribbean Sea are causing ripples through Washington D.C., but it doesn't appear that it's fazing the president at all, because he just authorized another one.
According to the New York Post, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced over the weekend that the United States military eliminated another batch of drug smugglers in the Caribbean.
While the War Secretary revealed that it hit a US-designated terrorist organization, he didn't specify which organization the administration hit. Many in Washington D.C. have called on the strikes on drug vessels to end, but President Trump doesn't really give a rip.
The latest strike marks the 15th known strike on drug vessels in that area, and the administration hasn't indicated that it plans on stopping anytime soon.
Secretary Hegseth provided some details in his weekend announcement.
“This vessel—like EVERY OTHER—was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics," Hegseth said.
Overnight, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Tren de Aragua (TdA), a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO), trafficking narcotics in the Caribbean Sea.
The vessel was known by our… pic.twitter.com/lVlw0FLBv4
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) October 24, 2025
At least 64 narco drug runners have been killed since the Trump administration began deleting them from the planet.
The New York Post noted:
Trump has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the United States. He has asserted the US is engaged in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels, relying on the same legal authority used by the Bush administration when it declared a war on terrorism after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Some members of Congress are demanding that the Trump administration provide more details on their justification in continuing the strikes.
Users across social media reacted to Hegseth's statement regarding the latest strike.
"Our choices are to destroy the drug traffickers or let the drug traffickers destroy tens of thousands of people a year. Easy choice," one X user wrote.
Another X user wrote, "America is respected again! Drugs = Dead."
It'll be interesting to see how many additional strikes will be carried out in the coming weeks and months.
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Legendary actor Harrison Ford, best-known for his roles in "Indiana Jones" and "Star Wars" films, has developed a full-blown case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, calling the president the greatest "criminal in history" who "scares the s***" out of him.
In an interview with the left-leaning British newspaper the Guardian this week, the 83-year-old Ford launched a scathing attack on Trump, saying the commander in chief "doesn't have any policies, he has whims. It scares the s*** out of me.
"The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he's an instrument of the status quo and he's making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket."
"It's unbelievable. I don't know of a greater criminal in history."
Ford will be at Chicago's Field Museum this Wednesday to receive a conservation leadership award, and he blasted Trump for ignoring so-called climate change.
The president exposed climate change as "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world," in a speech to the United Nations in New York last month. "If you don't get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail. You need strong borders and traditional energy sources if you are going to be great again."
Ford is blaming natural disasters on climate change, saying: "I knew it was coming, I have been preaching this stuff for 30 years."
"Everything we've said about climate change has come true. Why is that not sufficient that it alarms people that they change behaviors? Because of the entrenched status quo."
The actor told the Guardian he was hopeful that Trump's fossil fuel-dominated outlook would not prevail.
"He's losing ground because everything he says is a lie," Ford said. "I'm confident we can mitigate against [climate change], that we can buy time to change behaviors, to create new technologies, to concentrate more fully on implementation of those policies."
"But we have to develop the political will and intellectual sophistication to realize that we human beings are capable of change. We are incredibly adaptive, we are incredibly inventive. If we concentrate on a problem we can fix it most times."
During the 2024 presidential election, Ford produced videos of himself endorsing the Democrat ticket of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
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Saturday afternoon, just a day after posting his displeasure with the ongoing persecution of Christians in Nigeria, President Trump threatened that country's government should it fail to protect the religious minority there.
Posting on Truth Social, the president stated, "If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, 'guns-a-blazing,' to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities."
Trump said he wants the U.S. military to be ready for possible deployment, saying, "I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians! WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!"
Friday, Trump asserted, "Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria. Thousands of Christians are being killed. Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter. I am hereby making Nigeria a 'COUNTRY OF PARTICULAR CONCERN' – But that is the least of it."
In response to that statement, pop star Nicki Minaj expressed her gratitude to Trump for highlighting the plight of Nigerian Christians.
"Reading [the president's statement] made me feel a deep sense of gratitude," wrote Minaj. "We live in a country where we can freely worship God. No group should ever be persecuted for practicing their religion. We don't have to share the same beliefs in order for us to respect each other."
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In a bold and unprecedented move, Florida has become the first state in the nation to take formal action against the use of foreign worker visas in its public university system. Gov. Ron DeSantis's new proclamation to "pull the plug"on H-1B visas in state institutions, sets a national example, one that could reshape how other states protect their own graduates and taxpayers.
"This is about putting Florida workers and American citizens first," DeSantis declared. "We can do it with our residents of Florida and with Americans."
It's a landmark moment, a state finally standing up to the federal government's decades-long neglect of American labor. However, the H-1B visa is just one part of a much larger system that feeds cheap foreign labor into American jobs.
The alphabet soup of visa programs
The H-1B visa is the most widely known program, allowing companies to hire foreign workers for "specialty occupations" like technology, engineering and business. Legally, employers are supposed to use it only when they cannot find qualified U.S. workers, but in practice, the system has been massively abused to cut labor costs, replacing Americans with cheaper foreign labor.
But the H-1B is just the visible tip of a much deeper structure of foreign visa pipelines. Another is the F-1 student visa, which allows foreign nationals to study in the United States. After graduation, those students can remain in America and work through programs called Optional Practical Training (OPT) and STEM-OPT (for science, technology, engineering and math fields).
OPT is billed as "hands-on training," but in reality it functions as a government-approved work program that lets international students hold real jobs for up to one year after graduation – or three years under the STEM-OPT extension. Employers don't have to pay Social Security or Medicare taxes for these workers, which means they are much cheaper to hire than Americans. In other words, the classroom has become the cheapest recruiting channel in America.
Universities feed the supply, employers feed the demand
The F-1 student visa and its work-authorization offshoots, OPT and STEM-OPT, have become universities' primary gateway into this system. Once marketed as "cultural exchange," these programs now function as revenue engines that allow schools fill classrooms with full-pay international students while giving corporations access to a never-ending pool of low-cost labor.
Each foreign student represents tens of thousands in tuition dollars for universities as well as a tax-free employee for participating companies. Under OPT, neither side pays payroll taxes, saving employers roughly 8% per hire while sidelining American graduates who must compete against subsidized foreign labor on their own soil.
According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' FY 2024 H-1B Characteristics Report, more than half of all new H-1B approvals were changes of status for people already inside the United States and 71% of those came directly from F-1 or F-2 student visas.
In plain terms, most so-called "new" H-1B workers aren't being imported from abroad at all; they're former international students who never left. The result is a closed-loop system in which universities import students, employers convert them to workers and the federal government keeps the pipeline open – all while Americans are told there's a "shortage" of talent.
Florida's universities show exactly how these visa pipelines operate in real life.
The University of Florida case study: When 'education' becomes cheap labor
The University of Florida is a case study of how this system operates. In 2024, UF ranked #40 in the nation for international student enrollment with 7,353 F-1 visa holders, according to federal data.
The same year, UF ranked #37 among the Top 200 Employers for OPT and STEM-OPT students, hiring 640 foreign students on OPT and STEM OPT extensions and ranked #43 among the top 100 campuses with F-1 foreign students employed on OPT with 1,675 students working in U.S. jobs through the program.
By comparison, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services records show UF filed just 252 petitions for H-1B visas that year. That means most of the university's foreign labor did not come from overseas hiring. Instead, most of the university's foreign labor came from international students already in Florida, who moved seamlessly from classroom to workplace under the F-1 and OPT programs, bypassing American job-seekers entirely.
A new model for protecting American workers
Florida's action follows on the heels of a major federal reform by President Donald J. Trump, who is once again taking on America's broken visa system. On Sept. 19, Trump signed a Presidential Proclamation on the Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers, which imposes new limits on foreign-worker entry under H-1B and other categories.
The proclamation, effective Sept. 21, raised the cost of H-1B petitions by introducing a $100,000 application fee, restricting entry for low-wage positions and granting the federal government greater authority to deny visas that do not serve the national interest. The move aligns with Trump's continuing "America First" labor policy, aimed at reducing corporate reliance on foreign labor and prioritizing American workers.
The state of Florida is the first-in-the-nation to strike against this cycle. By targeting H-1B visas in public universities, Florida has exposed how deeply the foreign-labor system has infiltrated the education sector.
But this is only step one. The F-1 student and OPT work programs are the universities' contribution to the same problem and they've quietly become the largest foreign-labor pipeline in the country. Ending abuse in these programs as well would mean millions of dollars in savings for taxpayers, new opportunities for American graduates and a shift away from the government-sanctioned system of undercutting U.S. labor.
Together, President Trump's federal crackdown and Florida's state-level enforcement create a new model of American labor protection, one that holds universities, employers and the federal government itself accountable for using visa programs in ways that undermine American workers.
Why reform can't stop with H-1B or OPT
For decades, universities and corporations have profited from a revolving door of student and worker visas, turning America's immigration system into an endless conveyor belt of cheap foreign labor. Now, for the first time in years, with federal and state governments finally aligned, that door is beginning to close.
The U.S. visa system has evolved into a sprawling web of programs that reach far beyond H-1B and OPT. Visas such as L-1 (intra-company transfers), H-4 EAD (spousal work permits), J-1 (trainee exchanges) and even investor visas have been quietly repurposed to serve the same purpose, giving employers a steady flow of lower-cost foreign labor at the direct expense of American workers.
If reform stops at H-1B, the system will simply shift to another category. If it stops at OPT, universities will invent new loopholes to keep the profits flowing. The problem is not a single visa program; it is the pipeline itself and the perverse incentives that reward institutions for bypassing U.S. citizens in favor of cheaper foreign alternatives.
America's future wellbeing depends on ending this revolving door of imported labor, student conversion and corporate offshoring once and for all. Every loophole, from F-1 to H-1B to L-1, erodes the promise of equal opportunity for the men and women who built this nation. Florida has proven that real leadership does not wait for permission and President Trump has shown that courage in Washington can still rewrite the rules for the working class.
But this fight cannot end with one state or one proclamation. It must extend to every program, every visa category, every offshore pipeline and every institution that profits from putting foreign workers and foreign interests ahead of Americans. Only when the entire system is dismantled, rebuilt and held accountable will the United States return to what it was always meant to be, a nation that rewards its own citizens first, values honest work and defends the American Dream without compromise.
Imagine walking into a state office building, expecting public service, only to find it’s a hub for a massive cocaine operation. That’s the shocking reality in Springfield, Massachusetts, where a high-ranking staffer for Gov. Maura Healey has been caught in a scandal rocking public trust.
This unfolding drama centers on Lamar Cook, a now-former deputy director in Healey’s western Massachusetts office, who was arrested and fired after being linked to a major drug trafficking probe involving huge amounts of cocaine and illegal firearms, as Breitbart reports.
Let’s start at the beginning, when authorities uncovered trouble with two major drug busts at Hotel UMass in Amherst, seizing roughly 28 pounds of cocaine in suspicious packages. Evidence from those seizures hinted at a larger operation, one that would soon lead to a state office building.
Next came a controlled delivery operation at the Springfield State Office Building on Dwight Street, where Cook worked. Authorities intercepted about 17 pounds of cocaine in a sting that revealed a dark side of state employment.
The Hampden District Attorney’s office confirmed, “The controlled delivery took place at 436 Dwight St., the Springfield State Office Building, where the suspect was employed.” That statement is a gut punch -- state property allegedly used as a drug drop-off?
If true, it’s a glaring example of how progressive oversight can stumble when accountability isn’t prioritized. One has to wonder if the focus on social initiatives distracted from basic staff vetting.
The night after the sting, investigators executed a search warrant at Cook’s former office in the same building. Evidence gathered there matched the narcotics from the controlled delivery, tightening the case against him.
It’s a grim reminder that corruption can hide behind a government title. How does this happen in a place meant to serve the public?
Then came the arrest during a traffic stop, where 45-year-old Cook was taken into custody. He now faces serious charges, including trafficking over 200 grams of cocaine and unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition.
The governor’s office acted quickly, confirming Cook’s immediate termination. A spokesperson declared, “The conduct that occurred here is unacceptable and represents a major breach of the public trust.”
That’s the right tone, but how did someone with such alleged ties land a deputy director role? It raises questions about hiring under an administration often more focused on narrative than rigorous governance.
Cook’s legal process began with an arraignment in Springfield District Court, where a not guilty plea was entered for him. The judge ordered him held in custody until a follow-up appearance.
The damage to public confidence is already done. When state offices become entangled in drug scandals, it fuels arguments that government overreach creates ground for misconduct.
For conservatives, this is why limited government and strict accountability matter. While empathy for personal struggles is valid, public roles demand integrity -- something allegedly missing here.
The investigation continues, and the governor’s office has vowed to assist law enforcement in resolving this mess. Let’s hope this scandal sparks a push for competence over political optics in state hiring practices.