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Concern over violent Democrats, violent Democrat rhetoric and those who would act on those words is pushing a number of Trump administration officials into protected housing on military installations in the Washington, D.C., region.
For example, War Secretary Pete Hegseth now is renting Quarters 8 at Fort McNair, a location that traditionally had been home to the Army's vice chief of staff but recently was vacant.
Other Trump officials have taken up other military-guarded residences, because of threats.
Marco Rubio, secretary of state, lives a couple doors down from Hegseth, mostly alone as his family has remained in Florida, federal officials confirmed.
And Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, is living in a structure owned by the Coast Guard. She also is paying "fair market rent," DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin confirmed.
Also in military housing is Daniel P. Driscoll, the Army secretary, and Navy Secretary John Phelan.
The threat level is turning out to be significantly higher than during Trump's first term, when only Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo resorted to living at protected locations.
American Military News pointed out the officials have taken up military location residence because of "repeated threats and security concerns."
"The Atlantic reported that at least 6 Trump officials are currently living in military housing instead of in private homes and apartments in D.C. and the surrounding area due to harassment and threats of violence against the officials. The outlet reported that several of Trump's top cabinet officials have been swatted, faced violent protesters, and been threatened by anti-Trump protesters during the first several months of the president's second administration."
Of course, Democrats have labeled President Donald Trump "Hitler" and his followers "Nazis" for years already. There have been a number of extremists that have tried to act on that ideology.
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The War on Drugs just went LIVE. Victor Avila, former ICE agent and now Assistant Director of External and Legislative Affairs for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, joins Elizabeth Farah to reveal how the United States is finally treating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
Avila exposes explosive new policies, including the use of Department of War resources, Homeland Security task forces, and military-grade intelligence once reserved for fighting ISIS and al-Qaeda.
He confirms that Chinese chemicals continue to feed Mexican fentanyl super-labs, flooding U.S. streets with poison, and details the administration's aggressive new interdiction strategy that now targets traffickers far south of the U.S. border.
He also breaks the shocking news that drug traffickers are exploiting the U.S. Mail, UPS, and FedEx to deliver fentanyl directly to homes across America, and explains how new scanning technology is being deployed to stop it.
Elizabeth reacts, challenges, and connects the dots from Beijing to Mexico City to Washington. Together, they expose the scope of the crisis and the unprecedented response now underway.
This is not the old War on Drugs. THIS IS WAR.
As he soft launches a presidential campaign, California governor Gavin Newsom (D) is coming under scrutiny for fostering the rise of open prostitution in his state - including the trafficking of children.
The liberal New York Times shone a light on the growing problem in a recent article that focuses on one notorious street in Los Angeles where girls as young as 11 and 13 stalk the sidewalks in lingerie.
"For the 77th Street Division, which covers the northern half of the Figueroa Corridor, prostitution had always been a problem. But in recent years, the officers had seen the magnitude of child sex trafficking explode,” the Times noted.
"With a dozen girls, one trafficker could easily make $12,000 a night," the article says.
Police in Los Angeles have felt powerless to stop this plague from spreading, thanks to the leftist policies of local and state politicians including Newsom.
While the Times fails to mention Newsom's role in the trafficking epidemic, the newspaper does mention SB357, which was introduced by Senator Scott Wiener and signed into law by Newsom in 2022. Wiener is now challenging Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) for her seat in Congress.
Like most soft-on-crime reforms, SB357 was conceived as a response to imaginary social ills, such as a lack of "dignity" accorded to prostitutes and supposedly rampant discrimination in policing.
But the law, which bars police from arresting anyone loitering for prostitution, has had the predictable impact of fueling the demand for illicit sex.
"The repeal, known as SB 357, was intended to prevent profiling of Black, brown and trans women based on how they dressed," the Times reports. "But when it was implemented in January 2023, the effect was that uniformed officers could no longer apprehend groups of girls in lingerie on Figueroa, hoping to recover minors among them. Now officers needed to be willing to swear they had reason to suspect each girl was underage — but with fake eyelashes and wigs, it was nearly impossible to tell."
At the time SB357 became law, Newsom downplayed the change, saying it would target "disproportionate harassment of women" and transgenders without legalizing prostitution.
While the law did not legalize prostitution, it was a massive boon for pimps - and without adequate policing, prostitution might as well be legal in places like Figueroa Street.
The Times obliquely notes the impact of the "defund the police" movement, which led to police in Los Angeles disbanding a special unit for combating trafficking.
"As trafficking grew, the means to deal with it shrank. In 2021, the Police Department’s central human-trafficking unit was disbanded following budget cuts, leaving each division fewer resources to tackle the problem," the Times reported.
In July, Newsom signed a law making it a felony to purchase sex from minors and making it a misdemeanor to loiter for the purpose of purchasing sex. Newsom opposed members of his own party who fought the part of the law that makes it an automatic felony to buy sex from 16- and 17-year-olds.
While the new law is a step in the right direction, open prostitution is still thriving in California after years of lax enforcement, and it is still illegal for police to arrest prostitutes for loitering.
We can expect this issue to come up more as Newsom chases the White House. He needs to answer for this.
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Leftist activists, Democrat politicians and others have taken to denying the existence of Antifa, the loosely structured organization that, across America, violently fights free speech and individual freedoms.
But police in Boulder, Colorado, itself a leftist enclave, have confirmed that it not only exists but has effective operational features.
That's because Front Range Antifa and Colorado Springs Antifa put out a "hit list" on a college student, a Turning Point USA leader, claiming that he is an "active member" of "neo-Nazi" groups and responsible for "white supremacist, antisemitic, and anti-LGBTQ vandalism" in Boulder, naming him, and that student immediately was targeted in a violent attack.
The Post-Millennial explained, "The Boulder Students for a Democratic Society shared the flyer to their social media, urging followers to 'share widely' and tag the school to notify them…"
Now police are looking for a suspect in the assault.
Boulder police said "Based on preliminary information, it appears as if the suspect may have followed the victim from the University of Colorado Boulder campus onto Baseline Road just prior to the assault taking place. In the interest of transparency, detectives are also confirming that they are aware that the victim was the subject of some social media posts and a digital flyer circulated by others prior to last night's incident. Whether these played a role in the reported assault is part of the investigation, and police are not commenting further on this finding."
But an official, Sarah Huntley, explained, "The investigative focus right now is on speaking with any witnesses and on identifying and locating the individual in the photos so that we can better understand what occurred and why."
Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley noted, "As Democratic leaders like Rep. Dan Goldman (D, N.Y.) insist that Antifa does not exist as a group, two Antifa groups — Front Range Antifa and Colorado Springs Antifa — put out a hit list poster on a University of Colorado sophomore and leader in Turning Point USA. He was promptly attacked by a person in the signature Antifa black outfit on roller blades who used a hockey stick to mete out the punishment."
He explained police said, "The suspect is described as dressed in 'all black clothing, a black ski mask, and had a green Gatorade bottle with an orange top in his back right pants pocket. He was skating with a hockey stick. The suspect fled the scene after the victim called 911, and Boulder Police and CU Police officers searched the area but did not locate him."
He noted, "The TPUSA student was not seriously injured, but the point was made by Antifa that any critics can be tracked down and attacked."
Turley pointed out, "Recently, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) claimed that 'nobody' knows what the left-wing terrorist organization Antifa is and that it does not exist. However, he previously promoted the 'Antifa Handbook' in 2018 and praised the group as terrifying Trump. Now, however, he has joined the chorus of Antifa denials as political violence rises around the country."
He cited others who have joined the denial:
"Former House Judiciary Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) was widely ridiculed for denying the existence of Antifa. Others on the left have joined Goldman in this absurd claim. Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel committed part of his monologue to assure viewers that Antifa is no more than a mythical 'chupacabra.' 'You understand there is no Antifa,' he said. 'This is an entirely made-up organization.'"
"The Colorado case shows just how real, violent, and organized this group is in the United States," he said.
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In a stunning development in President Donald Trump's war on illegal and dangerous drugs that are being pushed into America, the aide to a Democrat governor has been arrested on suspicion of cocaine trafficking.
The aide to Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat in Massachusetts, was fired immediately.
A report from Fox News said it was LaMar Cook, 45, of Springfield, who pleaded not guilty at his arraignment and was ordered held without bond.
The report noted investigators intercepted packages with the drug "slated to be delivered to a state office building where he worked," the report confirmed.
Cook, before his arrest and dismissal, was deputy director of Healey's Western Massachusetts office, the report said.
An official in the governor's office, confirming the immediate firing, said, "The conduct that occurred here is unacceptable and represents a major breach of the public trust. This criminal investigation is ongoing, and our administration will work with law enforcement to assist them in their work."
Local prosecutors confirmed that 21 kilograms of cocaine had been seized, including eight during the interception during a delivery at the Springfield State Office Building.
Fox explained, "The investigation stemmed from two prior drug seizures. Authorities intercepted and searched two suspicious packages at Hotel UMass (University of Massachusetts Amherst) in Amherst on Oct. 10 and found about 13 kilograms of suspected cocaine."
The suspect previously worked at that location.
Prosecutors continued, "Evidence collected during that operation was consistent with the narcotics recovered during the most recent controlled delivery in Springfield."
Trump's war on drugs has included missile strikes on many boats that were caught en route to the United States with loads of drugs. The smugglers, in those strikes, sometimes have been killed.
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Four weeks into the federal government shutdown, a woman claiming she's out of food stamps is bragging online about stealing from a grocery store while urging others to steal at will and "infiltrate" churches to get cash.
The woman who goes by "consiracycutiee" and has a username of @jaalagotanattitude posted her illegal shoplifting exploits on social media, using extremely graphic language.
"Everything out here is yours," she said. "Whether or not you take it, they call that sh** free will. I call that sh** eminent domain. You know what I'm saying? One thing I learned from the white men: Take it!"
"I don't give a f*** who's already sitting there. I don't give a f*** if your land was already established. B*tch, it's mine now, and I want it. That is what we should be preaching in the land to the f***ing masses.
"Act more like a white man. Take it for yourself, b*tch, and you won't be worried about who don't got it. You see what I'm saying? Get out there and ravish!"
"Last but not least, go into that church and infiltrate. Don't be stupid. Get in there. Ask them for some rent money. Ask them for some help. You've been tithing. Say your lights is off. You need a stipend. You need some food. Go to the church."
She concluded: "If the pastor don't help you out, blast him on social media. Quickest way to f*** up the church's money is ask for some."
Another foul-mouthed woman asked anyone who plans to steal to let her know so she could join the thievery.
"Let's band together and take these mother****ing markets down, b*tch," she exclaimed.
"I'm just as frustrated, I'm just as hungry and honestly, I'm just as f***ing broke. So if y'all are gonna f*** sh** up once they take y'all's stamps, put me in the f***ing game, coach."
One man urged people to steal irrespective of their financial aid being cut off.
"In light of the government cutting SNAP benefits Nov. 1, I want to remind everybody that stealing is never wrong. Sealing from multi-billion-dollar businesses is always OK, if not encouraged."
"Five-finger discount. It's the best discount you could ever get," he surmised.
But there are warnings appearing on social media about potentially fatal pushback against any thefts.
"I've also seen a lot of videos talking about how people are gonna grab baskets whenever they come out of the store. That way they're not stealing from a store, they're stealing from an individual," explained one man.
"Well, you grab my shopping cart full of groceries that I bought and paid for with my f***ing money, and you gonna hear two sounds. There are gonna be three sounds maybe.
"The first sound you're gonna hear is me saying, 'Ahem, that's a bad idea there. You better walk the f*** on.' If you don't walk the f*** on [as he apparently audibly cocks a gun], that'll be the next sound you f***ing hear."
"And the third sound is a sound I'll hear, but you won't."
"Now people are gonna come back on this video and say, 'You'd end somebody over a basket full of groceries?' Yeah, I would. You damn right, 'cause that person that decided to steal from me, they've already decided that that's what their life is worth.
"Well, they made that decision. They made that choice. You don't f***ing steal from me. F*** around and find out."
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A new survey from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression reveals the massive damage inflicted by hate campaigns that are launched against academics across America when they say something of which "the mob" disapproves.
FIRE surveyed more than 600 academics listed in its Scholars under Fire database who were sanctioned or targeted from 2020 to 2024, and 209 responded.
"Nearly all (94%) who participated in the survey described the impact of their experience as negative. Roughly two-thirds (65%) experienced emotional distress, and significant chunks reported facing harrowing social setbacks, such as being shunned at work (40%) or losing professional relationships (47%) and friendships (33%)," the organization reported. "For some, the consequences were severe. About a quarter of the scholars who completed the survey reported that they sought psychological counseling (27%), and 1 in 5 lost their jobs entirely (20%)."
Nathan Honeycutt, the organization's manager of polling and analytics, said, "Cancellation campaigns are often wrapped in the language of preventing 'emotional harm.' But our survey shows that it's the mobs themselves that inflict lasting mental anguish on academics, many of whom still suffer the consequences long after the controversy subsided."
The report found the attacks to be one-sided, citing large numbers of professors, one in three, who say they have "toned down" their statements for fear of causing controversy: "These concerns are especially pronounced among politically moderate and conservative faculty members, who report self-censoring more frequently than they liberal and progressive colleagues.
"They also express greater worry about damaging their reputations or losing their jobs. In the 2024 faculty survey, for instance, more than half of conservative respondents reported at least occasionally hiding their political beliefs from peers in order to protect their careers. It remains unclear whether this climate of fear is primarily driven by the threat of cancellation itself or by the broader unwillingness of faculty to defend foundational principles of free expression," the report said.
The database from which FIRE drew contact includes a list of those who faced calls for sanction for their speech from 2000 to now.
"This database includes almost 1,700 documented sanction attempts, including a record number this year, with 300 of these attempts resulting in faculty terminations. Most of these incidents have occurred over the past decade."
One professor wrote, "Due to the extreme amount of hate mail and voicemails I received, I had a campus police officer posted outside my class for a period of time and an escort to my vehicle. My husband was constantly worried about my safety, we rarely went places in public, and my mother was harassed online by complete strangers."
Another found an email message: "You are unintelligent. You are poorly educated. You are nauseatingly fat and hideous. Your life has no value. Kill yourself."
They reported their families frequently were caught in the fallout, and there was a chilling effect.
""Overall, scholars were split on whether they'd speak similarly again. Along ideological lines, liberals were more likely to report their speech being chilled (i.e., that they were less likely to say similar things in the future), while conservatives were more likely to indicate they were not detracted (i.e., that they were as much, if not more likely, to say similar things in the future)," the survey found.
Further, "Public silence sends a message about what views are acceptable and safe to express, effectively narrowing the range of ideas deemed reasonable to discuss on campus. This may result in topic avoidance in teaching and research, especially on contested or policy-relevant issues."
Of the respondents, 65% reported emotional distress, 53% lost sleep, 47% lost professional relationships, 40% were shunned at work, 29% had family members with collateral damage, 27% sought counseling, and 20% lost jobs.
One of the problems that was revealed, FIRE said, was that "Nearly all institutions of higher learning promise academic freedom and free speech rights to their scholars. But many of the targeted scholars reported that they received no support from precisely the institutions and individuals who were supposed to have their backs in moments of crisis and controversy. Only 21% reported that they received at least a moderate amount of public support of their faculty union, for example, and a paltry 11% reported that they received public support from administrators."
FIRE said its report "also found a noticeable partisan gap in the level of public support reported by scholars. Larger proportions of conservative than liberal faculty reported that they received support from the general public (55% vs. 37%). But far fewer than their liberal peers reported that they received public support from their faculty union (7% vs. 29%) or their university colleagues (19% vs. 40%)."
"Support for academic freedom should never depend on the views being expressed, but our survey shows that's exactly what's happening," said FIRE research advisor Sean Stevens. "If faculty unions and institutions of higher learning won't stand by scholars in their moments of crisis, they can't claim to stand for free speech and inquiry."
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The U.S. military carried out another round of strikes against alleged drug runners Monday, this time killing 14 suspected narco-terrorists on four boats in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Tuesday: "Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out three lethal kinetic strikes on four vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations trafficking narcotics in the Eastern Pacific.
"The four vessels were known by our intelligence apparatus, transiting along known narco-trafficking routes, and carrying narcotics.
Hegseth explained: "Eight male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessels during the first strike. Four male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel during the second strike. Three male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel during the third strike. A total of 14 narco-terrorists were killed during the three strikes, with one survivor. All strikes were in international waters with no U.S. forces harmed.
"Regarding the survivor, USSOUTHCOM immediately initiated Search and Rescue (SAR) standard protocols; Mexican SAR authorities accepted the case and assumed responsibility for coordinating the rescue.
"The Department has spent over TWO DECADES defending other homelands. Now, we're defending our own. These narco-terrorists have killed more Americans than Al-Qaeda, and they will be treated the same. We will track them, we will network them, and then, we will hunt and kill them."
On Friday, Hegseth announced "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."
"Six male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel during the strike, which was conducted in international waters – and was the first strike at night," Hegseth said. "All six terrorists were killed and no U.S. forces were harmed in this strike."
Some online reaction to Monday's operation includes:
"It's like word isn't getting back to the club! All the boats are spontaneously combusting."
"Can we get this in 4K? Asking for a friend."
"Death from above, below, by land or sea, it has been long overdue to rid ourselves of this terrible plague. I grow weary of the loss of life I see in the ER, and complications thereof from narcotic abuse. For what it's worth, I lost a daughter to this demon as well. It hits hard, and now, we strike back harder. Thank you Secretary Hegseth, and thank you, Mr. President."
The FBI announced on Monday that they had arrested 29-year-old Tyler Maxon Avalos, an alleged Minnesota anarchist who went by the nickname "Wacko," on October 16 after he posted a hit on U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi using the social media platform TikTok.
The post featured an image of Bondi with a red sniper dot on her forehead with the caption, "“WANTED: Pam Bondi / REWARD: 45,000 ‘ DEAD OR ALIVE / (PREFERABLY DEAD)."
Avalos added under the photo, "Cough cough. When they don’t serve us, then what?”
His TikTok account had a link to “An Anarchist FAQ book,” according to authorities.
Avalos also has a long rap sheet, including a stalking conviction in 2022 and a domestic battery conviction in Florida in 2016, when Bondi was state attorney general there.
The specific charge Avalos faces from the feds is interstate transmission of a threat to injure another person.
The investigation into Avalos started on October 9 when a user from Detroit "submitted a report to the FBI National Threat Operations Center" about his TikTok profile, including the pic of Bondi with a sniper dot.
The tipster also flagged the suspect's TikTok feed. TikTok, Google and Comcast helped the FBI track Avalos down.
Avalos's profile contained an anarchy symbol.
According to the court affidavit, anarchism "advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies and voluntary free associations."
When Avalos appeared in court Wednesday morning, he waived his right to a preliminary hearing.
He was released on his own recognizance but ordered to wear a GPS monitor.
That means a man who said online that he wanted to reward someone if they killed a member of the President of the United States's cabinet is out on the street again.
I will definitely sleep better knowing that, said no one ever. So glad our court system is taking this threat seriously.
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More and more evidence is coming out that all was not right with the Joe Biden administration.
The newest evidence comes from a letter signed by House Judiciary Committee chief Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and others.
It informs FBI Director Kash Patel that Biden's FBI "used a security-clearance process to potentially retaliate against a whistleblower, and even tried to interrogate his wife while denying her repeated requests for an attorney."
A report at Fox News outlines the allegations of egregious conduct.
The attack was on Special Agent Valentine Fertitta and his wife, in 2024.
The report noted Fertitta had revealed details of the FBI's misuse of "law-enforcement authorities," for which the Biden administration pushed for his "security clearance evaluation" to be extra long.
"During that time, the FBI made attempts to interrogate his wife, Emily Fertitta, and asked her to participate in a two-day interview," the report said.
She asked for her lawyer to be present, and the DOJ essentially said no.
"Documents available to the Committee show that SecD investigators denied Mrs. Fertitta the right to receive advice from an attorney during her interview and the opportunity to review FBI guidelines regarding the interview process beforehand," Jordan's letter warned.
She was told "policy guides, manuals, and an agenda or outline concerning the interview will not be provided."
Further, the administration warned her: "'An attorney may not be able to give you advice during the interview, nor ask any questions or prevent you from answering your questions during the interview. Essentially, he/she will just sit there silently."
The report noted such demands went "against the standard process for security clearance evaluations."