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President Donald Trump on Monday highlighted another deadly weekend in Chicago, as he wondered "what is wrong" with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson who are opposing any deployment of National Guard troops to stem the violence in the Windy City.
"6 people were murdered in Chicago this weekend, 12 others were shot, and in serious condition," Trump said on Truth Social.
"This would mean that over the past number of weeks, approximately 50 people were killed, and hundreds were shot, many expected to die.
"Governor Pritzker just stated that he doesn't want Federal Government HELP! WHY??? What is wrong with this guy, and the 5% in Polls Mayor. I want to help the people of Chicago, not hurt them. Only the Criminals will be hurt!
"We can move fast and stop this madness. The City and State have not been able to do the job. People of Illinois should band together and DEMAND PROTECTION. IT IS ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE!!! ACT NOW, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter."
He posted another message touting the reduction of crime in the nation's capital since the Guard was deployed there to assist local law enforcement.
"Washington, D.C. IS A SAFE ZONE IN JUST A MATTER OF WEEKS," Trump said. "Thank you, President Trump. Who's Next???"
The president also shared an image revealing crime statistics in D.C., noting carjackings have dropped by 85%, robberies by 42% and violent crime by 24% since Trump began his crime crackdown.
On Saturday, he posted an "Apocalypse Now"-style message, saying: "I love the smell of deportations in the morning …
"Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR." Democrats have been reportedly losing their minds after that post.
One reaction to Trump's posts was an image of both Pritzker and Johnson starring in a spoof of "Dumb and Dumber," with the message: "They are having blood on their hands for allowing this crime to continue!"
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Outrage is exploding online as new video reveals graphic details of a black man who had been arrested at least 14 times allegedly slaughtering a white woman who had fled Ukraine for a peaceful life in America on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina.
On Friday, the Charlotte Area Transit System released surveillance video of Aug. 22, the night 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska was slain after she left her job working at a pizzeria.
"She ran from war in Ukraine. She came here for safety. And America FAILED her," wrote online journalist Benny Johnson.
"23-year-old Iryna Zarutska was butchered on a Charlotte light rail, her throat cut open by a violent repeat offender who had been arrested 14 times and was STILL free.
"This wasn't random. This was preventable. There is a war on White people. Her blood is on the hands of a system that lets violent criminals roam while innocent people pay the price.
"If Iryna were Black and her killer White, the media would be rioting nonstop. But because she's White, they stay silent. This is evil. And it's deliberate."
The surveillance footage shows Zarutska boarding the train in her work uniform at 9:46 p.m., and once seated, looking at her phone, completely oblivious of the danger behind her.
The New York Post reports:
Just four minutes later, 34-year-old Decarlos Brown Jr. allegedly whips out a folding knife and lunges forward, stabbing her three times, at least once in the neck, police said.
The chilling video then appears to show Brown then walking through the rail car, stripping off his sweatshirt and waiting by the doors – as passengers began to notice blood dripping from him.
Zarutska, who grabbed her neck as blood spilled onto the train floor, collapsed in her seat and was pronounced dead on the light rail, investigators said.
Surveillance video shows Decarlos Brown Jr., sitting behind Iryna Zarutska on a train in North Carolina, before allegedly pulling a knife and stabbing her.
Police said Brown got off at the next stop, where a folding knife was later recovered near the platform. He was treated at a hospital for a cut on his hand before being taken into custody on a murder charge.
It took six minutes for police to respond, according to Spectrum News, which noted transit security guards were on the train, but in the car ahead of Zarutska's when she was attacked.
Brown – who has multiple arrests dating back to 2011 – was charged with first-degree murder, according to CMPD. His record includes larceny, robbery with a dangerous weapon and communicating threats, according to court records obtained by the Post.
A GoFundMe page started by Zarutska's family indicates the victim, known by the nickname of Ira, "had recently arrived in the United States, seeking safety from the war and hoping for a new beginning. Tragically, her life was cut short far too soon."
More than $50,000 has been collected to date.
Reaction online to the case has been fierce.
"I'm sick of seeing this," said Lilly Gaddis, host of the "The Lilly Show" on X and Rumble. "It's everywhere. This story is shocking just because of the brutality of it alone. If we had a little bit more racial consciousness and we realized, 'Hmm, maybe don't put yourself anywhere in the vicinity of a black person.' Better yet, why don't black people have their own spaces?"
"This was not front-page news. No one care because she's white. … People like this need to be made an example of. Law enforcement needs to do their job, and these people need to be sequestered in safe areas away from the rest of us.
"Because it's not fair that the rest off us who built this country, who pay for this country and go to work every day, it's not fair that we have to live under this sort of tyranny."
Ada Lluch said: "Remember what happened when the police arrested a drug addict convicted felon and he died of an overdose, George Floyd? Why is the mainstream media and leftists acting like the murder of Iryna Zarutska does not matter? Is it because she is white? Or because the killer is black?"
Some, including Elon Musk and End Wokeness are pointing out the lack of national news coverage of the horror.
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk slammed the national media as well, saying: "Dear CNN, WaPo, NYT, ABC, NBC etc etc. If you want to know why your ratings are in the tank and no one likes you, look no further than the brutal murder of Iryna Zarutska who moved to US to escape war in Ukraine, a story you refuse to tell. Sadly she couldn't survive the Democrats' criminal justice system.
"Yet you wouldn't shut up or stop villainizing Daniel Penny, a hero, who probably stopped a murder just like her's. Why? Because he was a straight white American male and the perp was black. Shame on you. Genuinely."
This case is reminiscent of a July racial beatdown of several white people in Cincinnati by a black mob, with the president pro tem of the city council indicating she was "grateful" for the vicious pummeling of white citizens and that "they begged" to be attacked.
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A lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania accuses a government official of weaponizing a township's requirements against a mechanic with whom he'd had an argument over work on his car.
"A powerful politician's personal vendetta is not a legitimate reason for the government to shut down a business," said lawyer Ari Bargil, of the Institute for Justice.
"It is clear that the only reason Gene received a cease-and-desist order was because of Supervisor Klusaritz's personal beef with him. That's not just unfair, it's unconstitutional."
The fight involves North Whitehall small business owners Gene and Debbie Weierbach who are challenging the constitutionality of the township's zoning.
It comes after "Township Supervisor Dennis Klusaritz weaponized the zoning code to order officials to investigate the Weierbachs' decades-old business following a dispute between Klusaritz and Gene regarding repairs to one of Klusaritz's cars," the IJ said.
Weierbach has run his auto repairs on his 16 acres for more than 20 years. He lives there with his wife and adult son, who has severe autism.
"Working on cars is my passion, and being able to do so from my own home ensures I can be there for my son when he needs me," he said.
It was in 2021 that Klusaritz became a customer at Gene's garage. Over the next two years, he regularly brought Gene three different vehicles to work on, including an old BMW with mechanical and wiring issues. In 2023, the two had a dispute over Gene's work on the BMW, the IJ explained.
Supervisor Klusaritz accused Gene of incompetence and overcharging him, and in response, Gene politely asked Klusaritz to take his business elsewhere. Shortly after the dispute, Klusaritz asked the township to investigate Gene's business.
The result was a cease-and-desist letter.
The Weierbachs fought back, and the township zoning hearing board then granted him a variance, but the township, led by Weierbach appealed, resulting in the variance being withdrawn.
The new escalation challenges the zoning code's ban on auto repair shops. And they've also appealed the variance rejection in state court.
"A beloved business that causes no harm to the community should not be shuttered because a government official doesn't like where it's located," said IJ lawyer Daniel Woislaw. "Zoning laws are meant to protect against real nuisances, not to give bureaucrats arbitrary authority to shut good businesses down."
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The police department in Dearborn, Michigan, which has a large population of Muslims, has gone for "unity" with a new Arabic-language patch for officers to wear.
It states, "Dearborn Heights Police," in Arabic.
A report at Fox News said the patch for now is "optional."
But U.S. Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., suggested there is reason for concern.
"They said their goal was to bring sharia law to America. You should've believed them. Pray for Michigan."
The department announced, ""The Dearborn Heights Police Department is proud to share a new optional patch that our officers may wear as part of their uniform."
It added, "This patch was created by Officer Emily Murdoch, who designed it to reflect and honor the diversity of our community – especially the many residents of Arabic descent who call Dearborn Heights home. By incorporating Arabic script alongside English, this patch represents unity, respect, and our shared commitment to service. We are proud of Officer Murdoch's creativity and dedication in helping our department better represent the people we serve."
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For decades, many society influencers have touted the idea that the path to happiness for women is to be a career-minded professional with corporate titles and accolades, a platinum card and an absence of preschool, play-date and baby-sitting responsibilities.
That might work for some, but a new survey shows that more married women with children report being "very happy" than those unmarried without.
The survey by the Institute for Family Studies has found that 19% of married women with children report being very happy. That beats all other categories, including married without children at 11%, unmarried with children at 13% and unmarried without children at 10%.
The survey reported, "Married women are also more likely than unmarried women to say that life was enjoyable most or all of the time: 47% of married mothers and 43% of married childless women say life is enjoyable, compared to 40% of unmarried mothers and 34% of unmarried childless women."
The survey was done by Jean M. Twenge, Jenet Erickson, Wendy Wang, and Brad Wilcox, and Twenge wrote of her own decisions about marriage and children.
Then she explained, "These findings are not a one-off. Well-respected sources, such as the General Social Survey, show the same result; married mothers and fathers in that survey were more likely to report being 'very happy' than unmarried people and those without children. Another recent study found that married or partnered mothers are less likely to frequently feel depressed or anxious than people in the other three groups.
"Could it be not that marriage produces happiness, but that the causation goes the other way—that happier people are more likely to marry? One study controlled for premarital happiness levels and still found that marriage results in happier people and a less intense dip in life satisfaction at middle age.
"That's not to say the roles of wife and mother don't have their challenges. Roughly two-thirds of mothers in our survey, for example, said that they felt overwhelmed each day (though so did more than half of nonmothers). About six in 10 mothers said that they wished they had more time to themselves, compared with about four out of 10 childless women."
She noted, "Why, then, are mothers happier? The reasons speak to the profound experience of parenthood. Married mothers were the most likely to agree that their life 'has a clear sense of purpose' (28 percent), followed closely by unmarried mothers (25 percent). Only approximately 15 percent of women without children agreed. Mothers were also more likely than nonmothers to agree that their life 'feels meaningful' all or most of the time.
"I now have three children, and I am somewhat incredulous that in my premotherhood inquiries, no one mentioned the sense of purpose parenthood gives you. Yes, you're going to be tired and overwhelmed, but there's a deep knowledge that you're doing something important with your life: You're nurturing a human being. These feelings of purpose and meaning are sometimes difficult to put into words—perhaps why they aren't regularly discussed—but they are central to being a parent. I am fortunate to have a career I love and find meaningful; even so, the sense of purpose I have found through motherhood dwarfs every career milestone I have ever achieved."
She said, "The survey results also showed that marriage comes with several advantages. Married women are about half as likely to report being lonely as unmarried women. One factor may be that married women are more likely, they report, to regularly receive physical affection and touch. Touch is, in turn, strongly linked to happiness: 22 percent of women in the survey who experienced a high level of physical touch were very happy, compared with only 7 percent of those who received a low level of touch. Touch, especially from a spouse, is associated with reduced stress, increased trust, and greater feelings of safety.
"The false narrative that marriage and motherhood are a recipe for women's unhappiness is doing a lot of damage. In a nationally representative survey that I analyzed for my book Generations, the number of 18-year-old women who expected to have children plummeted by 11 percentage points from the late 2000s to the early 2020s. Negative messaging about marriage and motherhood is likely at the root of these Gen Z shifts, along with a pervasive pessimism about everything, egged on by social media, that borders on doomerism. Young people are also profoundly lonely and spend less time with their peers in person; the consequences for their adult relationships are unknown. Recent trends are even more concerning: AI girlfriends and boyfriends now offer the prospect of 'relationships' with an always-available entity that has no needs of its own. Meanwhile, the fertility rate in the U.S. is at an all-time low."
The survey reported, "Popular press articles often declare that single women without children are happier than married mothers, with headlines such as: 'Women are happier without children or a spouse, says happiness expert,' or '4 reasons why single women are the happiest people on Earth—by a psychologist,' and 'Why so many single women without children are happy.'"
It states, "Being married is the most important differentiator of happiness in America, with married people 30 percentage points happier than unmarried people. However, little of this research has focused specifically on women, and it is unclear how marriage and motherhood are linked to one another and to women's happiness."
The study was conducted by YouGov from March 1-12, 2025, with a representative sample of 3,000 women, ages 25-55, in the U.S.
The results also reported women, married with children, generally are less lonely. Only 11% reported being lonely most or all of the time in the last past 30s. For married without children, it was 10%, for unmarried with children 23% and for unmarried without children 20%.
Women married with children also reported more physical touch, which leads to being happier.
"Thus, one factor that explains why married women are happier than their unmarried peers is that they have more regular opportunities for kissing, hugging, and snuggling. For example, 58% of married women with children and 61% of married women without children report that they often get hugs or kisses, while only 36% of unmarried mothers and 18% of unmarried women without children report the same," the survey said.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently announced that his agency would be "launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI [antidepressant] drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence."
The announcement came one day after the Aug. 27 mass shooting of children in a Minneapolis Catholic School. Kennedy specifically said HHS would investigate whether drugs taken by transgender mass-shooter Robin Westman played a role in his church attack, during which Westman murdered 2 children and wounded 18 other people, 15 of them children.
Immediately, the establishment media went into high gear defending both the controversial drugs and transgenders with headlines like this from MSNBC: "RFK Jr. is propagating a dangerous myth about mental health treatment and violence." And the Washington Post led its coverage with, "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested that psychiatric drugs may have played a role in the Minnesota Catholic school shooting – a statement widely criticized as unsupported by science." Likewise, Google's search AI is entirely dismissive of RFK Jr.'s commitment to research the obvious link, denigrating the HHS secretary as a conspiracist and skeptic, whose "decision to launch the investigation has drawn sharp criticism. Opponents argue he is using a tragedy to promote disinformation and attack a vulnerable population."
In reality: 1) Individuals identifying as transgender very commonly are prescribed antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs due to high levels of anxiety and depression stemming from their "gender dysphoria"; and 2) Putting people on a regimen of powerful cross-sex hormones in a vain attempt to change their gender – something that is scientifically impossible – is well known to create havoc in both body and mind.
Indeed, as summarized below, there is a shocking and near-total correlation between psychiatric medications – particularly so-called SSRI and SNRI antidepressants – and America's most infamous and gruesome mass shooters in recent decades.
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*"When I was lying in my bed that night, I couldn't sleep because my voice in my head kept echoing through my mind telling me to kill them."
The words are those of 12-year-old Christopher Pittman, struggling to explain why he murdered his grandparents, who had provided the only love and stability he'd ever known in his turbulent life. He was angry with his grandfather, who had disciplined him earlier that day for hurting another student during a fight on the school bus. So later that night, he shot both of his grandparents in the head with a .410 shotgun as they slept and then burned down their South Carolina home, where he had lived with them.
"I got up, got the gun, and I went upstairs and I pulled the trigger," he recalled. "Through the whole thing, it was like watching your favorite TV show. You know what is going to happen, but you can't do anything to stop it."
His lawyers would later argue that the boy had been a victim of "involuntary intoxication," since Pittman's doctors had him taking the powerful antidepressants Paxil and Zoloft just prior to the murders.
Paxil's known "adverse drug reactions" – according to the drug's FDA-approved label – include "mania," "insomnia," "anxiety," "agitation," "confusion," "amnesia," "depression," "paranoid reaction," "psychosis," "hostility," "delirium," "hallucinations," "abnormal thinking," "depersonalization" and "lack of emotion," among others.
Pittman, who was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for murdering his grandparents, would later "transition" to the female gender and change his first name to Kristen. "I, as well as my family, know that I have identified as a 'female' most of my life," Pittman wrote in a lawsuit against South Carolina prison officials, "but due to my incarceration at twelve (12) years old I was not able to take the steps of transition that I needed over the years."
* Andrea Yates, in one of the most horrifying and heartbreaking crimes in modern history, drowned all five of her children – aged 7 years down to 6 months – in a bathtub. Insisting inner voices commanded her to kill her children, she had become increasingly psychotic over the course of several years. At her 2006 murder re-trial (after a 2002 guilty verdict was overturned on appeal), Yates' longtime friend Debbie Holmes testified: "She asked me if I thought Satan could read her mind and if I believed in demon possession." And Dr. George Ringholz, after evaluating Yates for two days, recounted an experience she had after the birth of her first child:
"What she described was feeling a presence … Satan … telling her to take a knife and stab her son Noah," Ringholz said, adding that Yates' delusion at the time of the bathtub murders was not only that she had to kill her children to save them, but that Satan had entered her and that she had to be executed in order to kill Satan.
Yates had been taking the SNRI antidepressant Effexor. (SNRIs, short for serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, are similar to SSRIs, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, in that both chemically elevate the levels of neurotransmitters in the brain). In November 2005, more than four years after Yates drowned her five children, Effexor manufacturer Wyeth Pharmaceuticals (since acquired by Pfizer) quietly added "homicidal ideation" – that is, murderous thoughts and feelings – to the drug's list of "rare adverse events."
And what exactly does "rare" mean in the phrase "rare adverse events"? The FDA defines it as occurring in less than one in 1,000 people. But since that same year a staggering 19.2 million prescriptions for Effexor were filled in the U.S., statistically that means over 19,000 Americans might have been experiencing "homicidal ideation" as a result of taking just this one brand of antidepressant drug during that time period.
* Columbine mass-killer Eric Harris was taking Luvox – like Paxil and Zoloft (and trendsetter Prozac) a modern and widely prescribed type of antidepressant called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs. Harris and fellow student Dylan Klebold went on a hellish school shooting rampage in 1999 during which they killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 24 others before turning their guns on themselves.
Luvox manufacturer Solvay Pharmaceuticals concedes that during short-term controlled clinical trials 4% of children and youth taking Luvox – that's 1 in 25 – developed mania, a dangerous and violence-prone mental derangement characterized by extreme excitement and delusion.
The inescapable truth is, perpetrators of many of the most horrendous murder rampages in recent years were taking, or just coming off of, prescribed psychiatric drugs.
Pharmaceutical manufacturers are nervous about lawsuits over the "rare adverse effects" of their powerfully mood-altering medications. To avoid costly settlements and public relations catastrophes – such as when GlaxoSmithKline was ordered to pay $6.4 million to the family of 60-year-old Donald Schnell who murdered his wife, daughter and granddaughter in a fit of rage shortly after starting on Paxil – drug companies' legal teams have quietly and skillfully settled hundreds of cases out-of-court, shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars to plaintiffs. Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly fought scores of legal claims against Prozac in this way, settling for cash before the complaint could go to court while stipulating that the settlement remain secret – and then claiming it had never lost a Prozac lawsuit.
Meanwhile, the list of killers who were taking prescribed psychiatric medications is long and chilling. Some prominent examples most people will remember:
* Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old former student who in 2018 murdered 17 people – 14 students and 3 staff members – at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., was on psychiatric medications "to deal with his emotional fragility," his mother's sister, Barbara Kumbatovich, told the Miami Herald.
* In 2017, Las Vegas mass shooter Stephen Paddock had benzodiazepines (e.g. Valium and similar anti-anxiety drugs) in his system when, out the window of his 32nd-floor hotel room, he shot 58 people to death and wounded hundreds more in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
* Patrick Purdy went on a schoolyard shooting rampage in Stockton, Calif., in 1989, which became the catalyst for the legislative frenzy to ban "semiautomatic assault weapons" in California and the nation. The 25-year-old Purdy, who murdered five children and wounded 30, had been on Amitriptyline, an antidepressant, as well as the antipsychotic drug Thorazine.
* Adam Lanza, the school shooter who massacred 26 people – 6 teachers and 20 first-grade children – at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in 2013, was on psychiatric meds, according to Mark and Louise Tambascio, family friends of Lanza and his mother. As Louise Tambascio told correspondent Scott Pelley on CBS' "60 Minutes," "I know he was on medication and everything, but she (Cruz's mother) homeschooled him at home 'cause he couldn't deal with the school classes sometimes, so she just homeschooled Adam at home. And that was her life." Tambascio likewise told ABC News, "I knew he was on medication, but that's all I know."
* Kip Kinkel, 15, murdered his parents in 1998 and the next day went to his school, Thurston High in Springfield, Ore., and opened fire on his classmates, killing two and wounding 22 others. He had been prescribed both Prozac and Ritalin.
* In 1988, 31-year-old Laurie Dann went on a shooting rampage in a second-grade classroom in Winnetka, Ill., killing one child and wounding six. She had been taking the antidepressant Anafranil as well as Lithium, long used to treat mania.
* In Paducah, Ky., in late 1997, 14-year-old Michael Carneal, son of a prominent attorney, traveled to Heath High School and started shooting students in a prayer meeting taking place in the school's lobby, killing three and leaving another paralyzed. Carneal reportedly was on Ritalin.
* In 2005, 16-year-old Native American Jeff Weise, living on Minnesota's Red Lake Indian Reservation, shot and killed nine people and wounded five others before killing himself. Weise had been taking Prozac.
* Kurt Danysh, 18, shot his own father to death in 1996, a little more than two weeks after starting on Prozac. Danysh's description of own his mental-emotional state at the time of the murder sounded strikingly similar to that of 12-year-old Christopher Pittman, who had shot his grandparents while on psychiatric meds. "I didn't realize I did it until after it was done," Danysh said. "This might sound weird, but it felt like I had no control of what I was doing, like I was left there just holding a gun."
* John Hinckley, age 25, took four Valium two hours before shooting and almost killing President Ronald Reagan in 1981. In the assassination attempt, Hinckley also wounded press secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy and policeman Thomas Delahanty.
* In still another famous case, 47-year-old Joseph T. Wesbecker, just a month after he began taking Prozac in 1989, shot 20 workers at Standard Gravure Corp. in Louisville, Ky., killing nine. Prozac-maker Eli Lilly later settled a lawsuit brought by survivors. Since then, Eli Lilly has reportedly paid out an estimated $50 million to settle 300 lawsuits filed as a result of homicides, suicides and suicide attempts connected with use of Prozac.
These are just some of the better-known offenders who had been taking prescribed psychiatric drugs before committing their horrendous crimes – there are many others.
Today, despite the fact that literally all modern antidepressants prescribed for Americans carry an FDA-mandated black box warning of increased risk of suicidal thinking and behavior ("behavior," of course, meaning actually killing oneself, or trying to), antidepressants are nevertheless wildly prescribed to the American public. As psychiatrist and antidepressant expert Josef Witt-Doerring, M.D., recently explained to Tucker Carlson, approximately 1 in 5 Americans are currently taking SSRIs.
In a surprising turn of events, Nathalie Rose Jones, who had made threats against President Trump, was released on electronic monitoring.
A New York City woman was released under electronic monitoring after making severe threats against President Trump, causing controversy in the legal community, the New York Post reported.
Nathalie Rose Jones, age 50, was taken into custody after her inflammatory social media posts aimed at the president came to light. The statements included a declared intention to end President Trump's life using a bladed weapon. This led to her arrest and subsequent charges of making felony threats against the president.
Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee, deemed Jones eligible for release with strict conditions on August 27. This decision came after U.S. Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya had previously refused to grant her bond, citing the ongoing risk and severity of her threats, which were seen as a credible danger to the president's safety.
Jones' release conditions are stringent. She must undergo electronic monitoring and has been ordered to consult a psychiatrist. Her case brought up questions about the balance between public safety and the mental health issues of the accused.
Details of her threats were chilling. In one Facebook post dated August 6, Jones expounded on her plan to dismember President Trump, a threat she intended to carry out by August 16, 2025. She also claimed she would act during an arrest operation involving various federal agencies, which she mentioned in her communications.
Despite her explicit and disturbing posts, friends of Jones described her as someone struggling with schizophrenia and having no history of violent actions. However, they indicated that her mental health might have influenced her threatening behavior.
Jones was explicit in her intentions, admitting to the Secret Service agents that she would kill Trump using a bladed object if it were feasible. Her repeated, specific threats led to heightened security concerns and a swift response from law enforcement.
New DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro emphasized the severity of the situation following Jones' arrest. Pirro declared, "Threatening the life of the President is one of the most serious crimes and one that will be met with swift and unwavering prosecution," underscoring the commitment to upholding justice in such high-profile cases.
The contrasting judicial opinions on Jones’ bond highlighted the complexity of handling cases where mental illness may play a significant role. The decision to provide her with psychiatric care as part of her release conditions points to an awareness of the underlying issues that may have propelled her actions.
As Jones awaits trial, the community and legal observers alike are left pondering the broader implications of her case for similar situations. Her actions and the subsequent legal decisions have unfolded amidst a broader discussion of safety, justice, and mental health in the judicial system.
While the outcome of this case remains pending, it continues to raise important questions about how threats are handled when intersected with claims of mental illness and how justice and rehabilitation can be balanced in such sensitive scenarios.
The case of Nathalie Rose Jones serves as a poignant example of the challenges faced in dealing with threats against public figures. It also highlights the complexities involved when an accused person has a documented history of mental illness.
This situation underscores the continual need for vigilance and balanced approaches in enforcing laws related to threats against government officials. As this case progresses, it will likely remain a focal point for discussions on criminal justice and mental health reform.
Ultimately, Jones’ case may influence future legal standards for similar cases, especially those involving mental health considerations. Legal experts and policymakers may need to examine and adjust how these delicate circumstances are handled to ensure fair, effective justice and community safety.
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Amid growing unrest in the United Kingdom over immigration policies and disconcerting incidents of Brits arrested for publicly – and silently – praying, word comes that a popular comedian has been arrested because of a series of "anti-trans" X posts.
Graham Linehan, creator of the comedy TV show "Father Ted," was arrested by five armed police officers at Heathrow Airport, the Daily Mail reports.
The Irish comedy writer, who was traveling on an American Airlines flight from Arizona to London Monday, says he was treated like a terrorist after being detained as soon as he stepped off the plane.
Linehan says he was then escorted to a private are and informed he was under arrest "for three tweets."
Police confirmed that a 57-year-old was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence at "in relation to posts on X," the British news site reported.
After his arrest, Linehan says he required medical assistance "because the stress nearly killed me."
One of the posts, from April 20, said: "If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls."
Linehan decried the arrest, saying: "In a country where paedophiles escape sentencing, where knife crime is out of control, where women are assaulted and harassed every time they gather to speak, the state had mobilised five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer for this tweet.
"I promise you, I am not making this up."
He said he was "arrested at an airport like a terrorist, locked in a cell like a criminal, taken to hospital because the stress nearly killed me, and banned from speaking online."
"To me, this proves one thing beyond doubt: the U.K. has become a country that is hostile to freedom of speech, hostile to women, and far too accommodating to the demands of violent, entitled, abusive men who have turned the police into their personal goon squad," Linehan added.
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President Trump Tuesday posted a video showing U.S. military forces destroying a small ship in the Caribbean carrying drugs and piloted by designated "narcoterrorists" from Venezuela.
Said Trump: "Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility. TDA is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro, responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and acts of violence and terror across the United States and Western Hemisphere.
"The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in International waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States. The strike resulted in 11 terrorists killed in action. No U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike. Please let this serve as notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the United States of America. BEWARE! Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!!!!!!"
Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted on X: "Today the U.S. military conducted a lethal strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug vessel which had departed from Venezuela and was being operated by a designated narco-terrorist organization."
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U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, is coming under fresh fire for voicing what's being called a "fake ghetto" accent in an apparent attempt to appeal to black voters.
New video clips of the congresswoman have been posted on X, demonstrating two versions of Crockett, one sounding highly educated, and another less than erudite.
In the first clip, the so-called rising star of the Democrat Party says eloquently: "First of all it's good to see you in the new year. You know, no one could have told me that when I went down to Austin, now it looks like a little bit over a year ago that I would be running for Congress."
In the second juxtaposed clip, Crockett sounds more urban, saying: "Maybe 'cause these people, they are crazy. 'Cause they always talk about how Christian they is.
"Yeah, I don't know how many o' dem on dat side are getting divorced 'cause they gettin' caught up sleeping' with they coworkers, staffers, interns, all the things. Yeah, you ain't gotta believe me.
"Just go Google. You'll find some of it. I'm tellin' you, and the wives is bein' messy and petty. They puttin' in the divorce. I'm like, 'Woo! That's gotta be true 'cause your lawyer would know that they gonna lose it … .'"
Investigative journalist Laura Loomer said of the urban-sounding Crockett: "How the hell did this Shaniqua get into Congress? Can we get an Ebonics translator option on X?
"This is who @TheDemocrats call the new face of their party. A literal hood rat."
Other commenters online noted:
"I need it translated to English."
"It's a fake ghetto shtick. She's way upper middle class. And I predict she will drop that BS when she is up for reelection within new district parameters."
"Except that she's posing as a hood rat which to me is worse than wearing blackface on Halloween. She literally thinks she has to speak ghetto to identify with blacks because she's a privileged rich educated lawyer. Can you get anymore racist than that?"
"As a child, this woman attended Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School, in a zip code that is literally 2% black, and Rosati-Kain Academy, which is in Central West End, the most affluent neighborhood in St Louis. She grew up middle class with both parents at home."
"That's an act. And a poor one at that. I've said it before, it takes more to become a janitor working for the government than it does to become a congressperson."