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Peter Strzok is the ex-FBI agent who orchestrated a lot of the Democrats' lawfare against President Trump back a few years ago.
Lisa Page was the FBI lawyer, his paramour, with whom he exchanged messages about how they would not allow Trump to be president. They talked about an insurance policy against that.
According to reports, now they're being subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in an investigation into John Brennan, who then was Barack Obama's CIA chief and appears to have been instrumental in that lawfare against Trump.
The developments were reported by Fox News after earlier reports that subpoenas were being created and sent out.
And yes, Brennan has been subpoenaed too, according to the report from Fox News Digital.
WND had reported only a day earlier that the investigation into Brennan would address, among other things, "probes by the CIA and FBI into Russian interference in the 2016 election."
Those claims included that Trump's campaign was coordinating with Russia, a claim that has proven to have been made up.
Jason Reding Quinones, the U.S. attorney in South Florida, is developing the evidence, along with senior staff at the DOJ in Washington.
The investigation was confirmed by the White House weeks ago after reports surfaced that Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered the probe based on a criminal referral from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
A lawyer advising the DOJ has confirmed that the grand jury will consider "whether top Obama and Biden officials engaged in a massive conspiracy to violate Donald Trump's civil rights through the Russia investigations and the probes by special counsel Jack Smith," MSNBC reported.
Smith brought two lawfare cases against Trump, both of which have since died.
Brennan, now working for MSNBC, claims he's innocent.
He has separately been accused by the House Judiciary Committee of lying to Congress, an allegation he also disputes.
WND previously reported that the Steele dossier, that collection of wildly false claims about President Donald Trump that was funded by supporters for twice-failed Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton and used by Democrats to undermine Trump's presidency, was coming back with a bite.
It was the CIA, through an officer, that drafted an annex containing a summary of the dossier, which actually came from a hired former British agent. And it was Brennan, then CIA chief, who decided to include information from the dossier in an "Intelligence Community Assessment." And it was Brennan who overruled senior CIA officers who opposed the inclusion of that material.
The claim is that Brennan "made numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact" about the dossier when testifying under oath to the House Judiciary Committee.
In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, from Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the chairman of the committee, said, "We write to refer significant evidence that former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Brennan knowingly made false statements during his transcribed interview before the Committee on the Judiciary on May 11, 2023. While testifying, Brennan made numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact contradicted by the record established by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and the CIA.
"Under 18 U.S.C. § 1001, a witness commits a crime if he 'knowingly and willfully . . . makes any materially false . . . statement or representation' with respect to 'any investigation or review, conducted pursuant to the authority of any committee . . . of the Congress[.]' Congress cannot perform its oversight function if witnesses who appear before its committees do not provide truthful testimony. Making false statements before Congress is a crime that undermines the integrity of the Committee's constitutional duty to conduct oversight," the letter said.
Brennan's accused of "denying that the CIA relied on the discredited Steele dossier in drafting the post-2016 election Intelligence Community Assessment; and … testifying when he told the Committee that the CIA opposed including the Steele dossier in the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA)."
This scenario was detailed on Jordan's letter:
On January 6, 2017, the CIA, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and National Security Agency published a declassified version of an Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) titled Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections. The ICA stated, among other things, that Russia 'developed a clear preference' for President Trump and 'aspired to help' him win the election. This conclusion—now known to be false—was based in part on the Steele dossier, which 'was referenced in the ICA main body text, and further detailed in a two-page ICA annex.' The Steele dossier was a series of reports containing baseless accusations concerning President Trump's ties to Russia compiled and delivered to the FBI in 2016 by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele. Subsequent investigations confirmed that the Clinton campaign and the DNC paid Steele via the law firm Perkins Coie and opposition research firm Fusion GPS to provide derogatory information about Trump's purported ties to Russia, which resulted in the discredited dossier. In July 2025, the Trump Administration declassified numerous documents showing that the ICA's main findings were false and that the Obama Administration knowingly fabricated the findings for the purpose of undermining the Trump Administration.
Further, evidence now confirms "Brennan falsely testified to the Committee. During a transcribed interview on May 11, 2023, Brennan stated that 'the CIA was not involved at all with the [Steele] dossier.'"
Brennan's claims, the letter charged, "cannot be reconciled with the facts."
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Far-left Colorado,, where its state Supreme Court bench-sitters, all Democrats, wildly tried to exclude President Trump from the 2024 election ballot, has orchestrated a years-long war against a now-former county clerk who expressed concerns about the integrity of the election in 2020 and worked to preserve records.
Long has there been the suspicion that the Democrat state's actions against former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, now jailed on state counts, were "oriented more toward inflicting political pain than toward pursuing actual justice or legitimate governmental objectives."
Trump, in fact, has called for her to be freed.
Now a report at Just the News reveals the Department of Justice has asked the federal Bureau of Prisons to research paths for her to be transferred out of state custody and into a federal facility.
The report said the office of Deputy Attorney General, led by Todd Blanche, has dispatched an email to Bureau of Prisons Director William Marshall, calling on the BOP to do the necessary research.
"At the request of the Deputy Attorney General, please have the Bureau of Prisons explore any and all avenues within BOP's authority to seek and request the transfer of Ms. Tina Peters from the Colorado Department of Corrections to a federal BOP facility," the DOJ instructed.
"We ask that BOP send out a request to Colorado as soon as possible and that BOP begin preparations for any possible transfer into federal custody."
In a trial clouded by the comments and behavior of a state judge, Peters was convicted last year on multiple counts linked to an alleged election security breach after 2020's vote.
She was given nine years in jail, despite the fact her security "breach" was completely overshadowed by a similar "breach" committed by Democrat Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who was found to have posted pages and pages of election systems security passwords online, and was given no punishment whatsoever.
Trump, just weeks ago, said, "FREE TINA PETERS, a brave and innocent Patriot who has been tortured by crooked Colorado politicians, including the big Mail-In Ballot supporting the governor of the State.Let Tina Peters out of jail, RIGHT NOW. She did nothing wrong, except catching the Democrats cheat in the Election. She is an old woman, and very sick. If she is not released, I am going to take harsh measures!!!"
In fact, Colorado now is controlled by leftist extremists, from the office of homosexual Jared Polis to an all-Democrat state Supreme Court, and Democrat-majority bodies in the legislature.
Of course, evidence of vast levels of serious misbehavior remains in the state, and not just in the halls of state government in Denver. Records show the sheriff's office in one foothills county, Gilpin, had to pay out $700,000 some years ago for maintaining in official records references to a black resident as "N—– Roy." And Todd Vriesman, a state judge in that same county, recently had a case overturned because he violated the U.S. Constitution by clearing his courtroom out and sealing the doors, thereby depriving a defendant of a public trial.
The judge in Peters' case, Matthew Barrett, also made extra-judicial comments such as "you are a charlatan."
Trump several times has addressed, and opposed, the "weaponization" of the law enforcement and judiciary against him and his supporters.
Attorney General Pam Bondi already has established a group to review the "weaponization" actions under Barack Obama and Joe Biden, "to identify instances where a department's or agency's conduct appears to have been designed to achieve political objectives or other improper aims rather than pursuing justice or legitimate governmental objectives."
Peters has appealed her case and she filed a federal application for a writ of habeas corpus.
The DOJ previously had filed a statement of interest in her case, which said, "Tina Peters has sought relief in this action through an Application filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The United States respectfully submits this Statement of Interest pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 517. Ms. Peters is currently incarcerated while pursuing a direct appeal of her underlying nonviolent convictions and combined nine-year sentence. The Application explains that Ms. Peters suffers from serious health issues and that, while incarcerated, her physical and mental health have deteriorated. Reasonable concerns have been raised about various aspects of Ms. Peters' case."
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The Democrat Party was left in shambles by the 2024 presidential race. There, word-salad-spouting, Joe Biden wannabe Kamala Harris lost the vote, in a landslide, and at the Electoral College, in a landslide.
The party was left with Gavin Newsom, the radical California governor who is trying to take over Congress while letting thousands of business leaders move out of his state, and a few other less-notables as leaders.
Until Tuesday. That's when a Muslim socialist who actually advocates a lot of ideology from communism, took over.
He was elected New York City mayor, and that has the Democrat party now in a panic mode, according to an analysis from RedState.
Democrats, in fact, won several elections on Tuesday, from Virginia and New Jersey governors to Zohran Mamdani's vote in New York.
House Speaker Mike Johnson led a wave of social media comments about how the old guard in the party, the Nancy Pelosis and Chuck Schumers and such, have demanded the shutdown of government for weeks now to "make it look like they can be tough," as they fear their own party's surging fringe.
The RedState analysis, by Rusty Weiss, pointed out that Mamdani, while calling himself "a democratic socialist (communist)" has confirmed his support for "seizing the means of production," opposition to law enforcement and more.
"They did so just shy of a quarter of a century after the worst terrorist attack on American soil.
Many of us outside the fanatical left-wing mindhive in the city are looking at the election results, convinced that Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's ascension is a suicidal blow to the Empire City."
The reaction already has begun.
"House Republicans have already produced digital ads set to run across dozens of battleground districts, pointing to the 'socialist mayor' in NYC, labeling him the 'future' of the Democrat party and warning voters, 'your city could be next,'" the report said.
Politico reports that Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., sent out donor letters noting that the fight against socialism will be 'shaping every major Senate Democrat primary in 2026,'" the analysis confirmed.
He noted, "The Democrats know what they have wrought here, and they are terrified."
On that, Politico said, "Some national Democrats are sounding alarms about the coming GOP onslaught," about the coming GOP agenda to remind Democrats and other voters about the "communist" Mamdani.
In fact, a campaign advisory team already has put into memo form that Mamdani is "politically toxic," and his ideals are anathema in states that Democrats need to win in 2026.
The analysis said, "Mamdani could have only won in an area that is a clear-cut deep blue outlier. Tying his policies to more mainstream congressional races will no doubt drag down any Democrat candidate trying to portray themselves as being distanced from the fringe extremists in their party."
For example, the platform of Democratic socialists includes "free[ing] all people from involuntary confinement" (i.e., closing all prisons and releasing ALL prisoners), "disarm[ing] law enforcement officers," "abolish[ing] the U.S. Senate," and "the nationalization of businesses."
Mamdani wasted no time, declaring his allegiance to such objectives in his first speech after the election.
"I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older. I am Muslim. I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this," he boasted.
Politico offered the warning that Mamdani now will be a "glaring distraction" in the 2026 election, which otherwise would have been a referendum on the party in power.
CNN analyst Scott Jennings after the election warned, "This is a terrible night for national Democratic image, given what is happening inside their party. Mamdani is an avowed socialist. It's not what people say that he is, it's what he says that he is. He's now the leader of their party. That's their energy."
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There's no doubt that the leftists across America are using often-leftist judges to fight President Donald Trump.
One state alone, Colorado, clearly is demanding that judges in black robes rule the nation instead of the duly elected president, having gone to court 41 times already against the president.
The result is there's been a flood of rulings, both for and against Trump's agenda, from the lower courts. And because of the attempt by states literally to take over the functions of the White House, deciding foreign policy, border security issues and more, a lot of battles have landed on the Supreme Court's emergency docket.
The result of that was that dozens of judges, anonymously, have "whined" to the public that they don't like what's going on, that they're not getting their way as they want, that Trump's White House actually is being given permission to act as the White House.
It was the New York Times that publicized the judges' politics.
That publication said at issue are "the quick-turn orders the Supreme Court has issued dictating whether Trump administration policies should be left in place while they are litigated through the lower courts."
That emergency docket, a fraction of those judges on lower courts complained, wasn't being used property.
"Sixty-five judges responded to a Times questionnaire sent to hundreds of federal judges across the country. Of those, 47 said the Supreme Court had been mishandling its emergency docket since Mr. Trump returned to office," the report said.
But Mike Davis, of the rule-of-law-protecting Article III Project, says those judges are out of line and either the Supreme Court or Congress needs to punish them.
"Judges have a modest, but crucial, role. They resolve cases and controversies of the parties before them with redressable claims. That is their Article III power. Nothing more; nothing less. Their job is not to run crying anonymously to reporters because the Supreme Court is acting in a way that these inferior court snowflakes despise. Chief Justice Roberts must issue an order to judges to stop talking to the media, either on the record or anonymously," he explained in a column at the Federalist.
"Congress also must levy severe consequences against these judicial embarrassments. The House and Senate Judiciary Committees should open oversight inquiries to find out which anonymous and cowardly judges disgraced the bench through their pathetic public whining. If judges take off their judicial robes, climb into the political arena, and throw political punches, they should expect political counterpunches. Judges have life tenure to insulate them from political pressure, not so they can act like politicians in robes. Sadly, several dozen judges do not understand this basic tenet of our republic, and they must face public shaming."
The Times cited "more than three dozen" of the hundreds of federal judges because those are the ones who responded, claiming they were "confused" by the emergency orders from the high court.
Davis warned that the judges are violating the Code of Conduct for United States judges by "taking pot shots" at the Supreme Court.
"Some judges called Supreme Court reversals 'demoralizing,' while others whined that the Supreme Court's reversals at the very least created the perception of partisanship on the justices' part, as the Supreme Court mostly has been reversing rulings that had gone against Trump administration policies. One judge compared the relationship between the justices and that judge's district to 'a war zone,'" Davis explained.
There are about a thousand inferior judges, below the Supreme Court, who make rulings, and are bound by a code of conduct, which "prohibits judges from making political comments or even comments that a reasonable observer could view as such."
"The griping of inferior court judges stems from about two dozen rulings on the Supreme Court's emergency docket. This docket allows justices to pause orders from lower courts while the litigation proceeds. Radicals trying to grind to a halt President Donald Trump's electoral mandate repeatedly have run to district courts in leftist hellholes like the District of Columbia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, and Boston. The judges there are overwhelmingly radical leftists. Even the Republican appointees are, for the most part, milquetoast because home-state Democrat senators can veto quality conservative nominees thanks to a Senate tradition known as the blue slip. The Supreme Court has correctly reversed absurd inferior court orders issued by judges who refuse to accept that President Trump is implementing an agenda for which the American people voted," Davis wrote.
He noted the "cowardly" comments as the judges were not identified.
"These judges fail to see the obvious: their accusing the Supreme Court of partisanship in such a blatantly unethical way explicitly reveals their own partisanship. The biased authors of the article make sure to underscore that nearly half of the Republican-appointed judges who responded to questions about the Supreme Court were critical. But the authors do not tell us, for instance, where these Republican appointees sit. If these judges are in blue bastions like Massachusetts, Illinois, California, or Oregon, they do not remotely resemble judicial conservatives," he added.
Davis warned, "Chief Justice John Roberts needs to get his judicial house in order. This latest New York Times drive-by shooting by anonymous federal judges is the most recent blatant example of out-of-control rogue judges sabotaging the federal judiciary, the presidency, and American voters."
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Two federal prosecutors have been put on an administrative leave only hours after they filed a court document where they editorialized about how the Jan. 6, 2021, events in Washington were carried out by a "mob of rioters."
That's when thousands of protesters challenging the validity of Joe Biden's election to the Oval Office gathered. A few hundred did violate the law by going into the Capitol without permission, and a fraction of those vandalized it.
It turns out that the election was influenced by several outside and unique factors, including Mark Zuckerberg's handouts of $400 million plus to local election officials who often used it to recruit voters in Democrat districts, and the FBI's interference when it described accurate accounts of Biden family scandals as Russian disinformation. President Donald Trump later issued a pardon for most of the offenses from that day.
Earlier, a number of the prosecutors who pursued extreme charging and sentencing standards for offenders were dismissed or demoted.
But now two others, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, both assistant U.S. attorneys, have been assigned a leave after editorializing in a statement to the court in a case involving Taylor Taranto. He was a recipient of Trump's pardon for J6, but later involved himself in situations that generated other charges.
A report at Politico said Valdivia and White claimed the J6 events were done by "thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters," the report said.
It came in a sentencing recommendation for Taranto, where the prosecutors called for a term of more than two years for a hoax threat against a federal bureaucracy, and for driving in a neighborhood where Barack Obama's owns an expensive home while having firearms in his vehicle.
The prosecutors also alleged that Taranto was involved in having "promoted conspiracy theories about the events of January 6, 2021."
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, who leads the Washington, D.C., office prosecuting Taranto, said, "While we don't comment on personnel decisions, we want to make very clear that we take violence and threats of violence against law enforcement, current or former government officials extremely seriously."
Politico's report said Valdivia and White claimed Taranto returned to Washington in 2023 and "made livestreamed threats to blow up his van outside the National Institute of Standards and Technology," then drove his van, carrying weapons, through Obama's Kalorama neighborhood.
Politico explained, "It's unclear which portion of the memo triggered the move by Justice Department officials to place Valdivia and White on leave. However, they're the latest Jan. 6 prosecutors to face punishment for their involvement in related cases. Dozens of others were either terminated or demoted. One of them, former Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Gordon, is suing over his termination."
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Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, whose career includes teaching the Constitution, advising members of Congress on the Constitution and even representing them in court on constitutional issues, has lauded the fact that "the cause of free speech is alive in Europe."
He knows this because of one man's sentence to jail for … his free speech expression.
He explained it is the little-reported case of Emanuel Brunisholz in Switzerland, which infamously was unable to side with the allies against Adolf Hitler in World War II.
The defendant is reportedly about to start a 10-day prison stint "due to his voicing skepticism about claims that skeletons are transgender."
That's the concept that skeletons, which in fact exhibit characteristics of being male or female, cannot be defined that way, as a "male" skeleton during his lifetime may have been "female."
Turley explained, "There is very little coverage of this story. Free speech cases are often downplayed by European media. So, we have only limited information coming from conservative sites."
What is known is, "In 2022, he responded to a Facebook post by Swiss National Council member Andreas Glarner on the controversy. Some, including academics in the United States, are now claiming that you really cannot gauge the sex of individuals from their skeletons. The wind-instrument repairman thought that such claims were unfounded and posted a comment that said, 'If you dig up LGBTQI people after 200 years, you'll only find men and women based on their skeletons. Everything else is a mental illness promoted through the curriculum.'"
Police knocked on his door and prosecutors weren't far behind, claiming he engaged in "hate speech" and "public belittling."
"If true, this sounds like just another absurd use of the criminal conduct to silence those with opposing views. However, a court actually convicted him and then another court upheld the conviction. He was ordered to pay a fine or go to jail. He is now going to jail for simply expressing his view, a view supported by many scientists and citizens," Turley said.
He described how the case shows that free speech in Europe is in free fall.
"I spoke in Berlin at the World Forum, where European leaders gathered in one of the most strikingly anti-free speech conferences I have attended. This year's forum embraced the slogan 'A New World Order with European Values.' That 'new world order' is based on an aggressive anti-free speech platform that has been enforced for years by the European Union," he said.
Some anti-free speech campaigners, in fact, are inviting the EU to attack U.S. companies with sanctions for not censoring Americans, he said.
"Yet, there remain brave free speech advocates and groups still struggling to restore this indispensable right to their countries. By going to jail, Brünisholz is bringing needed attention to the crackdown on free speech in that country. Despite the disgraceful role of the courts in this effort, citizens like Brünisholz show that the cause of free speech is alive in Europe."
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Violence is surging across American politics, including the horrific tragedy of the assassination of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk just weeks ago, not to mention riots against federal ICE agents enforcing American border laws.
So is the rhetoric about violence, highlighted by the comments from Jay Jones, a candidate for Virginia attorney general, that have been found in which he says it would be a "good thing" for a former colleague, and the former colleague's children, to die.
Those thoughts came out in a message from Jones, who wrote, "Three people, two bullets. [Republican House Speaker Todd] Gilbert, [H]itler, and [P]ol [P]ot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head. Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time."
Delegate Carrie Coyner had pushed back on Jones' agenda, to which Jones confirmed that he was advocating for the Gilbert children to die.
"Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy," Jones continued. Jones also called the Gilberts' young children "little fascists."
A RealClearWire report confirmed leading Virginia Democrats have condemned the "hypothetical scenario" created by Jones, "but none have called for Jones to step aside."
Jones subsequently issued a statement that he was "embarrassed" by the texts.
Now the Federalist has a report pointing out that the actual statements are not what legacy media are saying is the problem.
That's actually that GOP members are "pouncing."
"The Associated Press's (AP) Steve Peoples and Olivia Diaz want readers to know that the Democrat candidate for Virginia attorney general fantasizing about murdering Republicans pales in comparison to the real story: Republicans 'pouncing," the report said.
"Instead, Peoples and Diaz think the real story is that 'Republicans are seizing on recently unearthed violent rhetoric from Virginia's Democratic candidate for attorney general in a push to re-shape the state's governor's race — and tarnish the Democratic Party nationally — less than a month before Election Day."
That report calls out how, "President Donald Trump, like Republicans across Virginia, called for Democratic state attorney general candidate Jay Jones to quit the race over the weekend. The Republican president described Jones as a 'radical left lunatic' and sought to link him to former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, Virginia's Democratic candidate for governor."
"For AP and the rest of the corporate media, the problem isn't that a Democrat fantasized about political assassination — it's that Trump might notice such rhetoric and point out that Democrats have a violence problem. It's not that Republicans are responding to a Democrat's bloodlust, but rather, according to the AP, that they are exploiting the moment," the Federalist said.
"That, ultimately, is the entire point of this piece of propaganda. The AP's framing isn't about condemning a Democrat candidate's violent rhetoric — it's about trying to portray Republicans' outrage as opportunistic. The scandal itself is an afterthought to the AP. Instead of asking why a major-party nominee fantasized about murdering Republicans and children, the AP tries to cast Republicans as simply milking the story for political gain," it explained.
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Leftists have been protesting, even rioting, against law enforcement operations of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
Sometimes where they are enforcing the law, sometimes at their offices, sometimes elsewhere.
It was happening this week at the Portland ICE office, in a city where federal agents have been working to secure America's border and deport illegal aliens, especially targeting illegal alien criminals.
Nick Sortor, an independent online journalist, was on hand, reporting on situations such as this:
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And this:
Then Sortor was attacked. And arrested.
A report at the Liberty Daily explained, "Tensions boiled over outside Portland's ICE building late Thursday night when police detained independent reporter Nick Sortor during a confrontation with protesters.
"Sortor, known for his on-the-ground coverage of stories often overlooked by mainstream outlets, found himself in handcuffs after what witnesses described as a defensive response to an attack."
The report explained an observer C.K. Bouferrache, who goes by Honeybadgermom on X, captured the confusion, explaining, "Looked like @nicksortor got jumped. We are on the lower roof at ICE but difficult to tell exactly what happened at this distance. Portland liaison officers stand nearby and watch."
Bouferrache said, "I cannot believe they arrested this guy for defending himself. The woman that went after him has taken part in a few assaults this last week."
The Liberty Daily said, "Just days earlier, reporter Katie Daviscourt suffered a brutal hit to the face from a flagpole-wielding assailant during similar protests, yet no arrest followed despite clear evidence. Portland officials cited safety concerns for not pursuing the attacker immediately, leaving many to accuse Portland law enforcement of being 'woke.'"
The report continued, "The Portland Police Bureau later clarified that three people were booked into jail on charges of Disorderly Conduct in the Second Degree following multiple fights at the protest: Angela Davis, 49, of Vernonia, Oregon; Nicholas Sortor, 27, of Washington, DC; and Son Mi Yi, 43, of Portland."
And it said, "This arrest unfolds against a backdrop of intensified federal involvement in Portland, where protests at the ICE site have persisted for months. DHS officials have condemned the violence, pointing to a 1000% increase in assaults on ICE personnel and vowing not to back down. With local police often criticized for limited engagement—sometimes attributed to city directives—calls grow louder for national intervention to reclaim control from the chaos. Sortor's detention serves as a stark reminder of the risks journalists face in these zones, where covering the story can quickly turn into becoming part of it."
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The Muslim mayor of Dearborn, Michigan recently put his city in an unwelcome spotlight when he told a Christian resident and taxpayer, who was objecting to promotions of violence, to go away.
Literally, Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud scolded resident Edward "Ted" Barham, telling him, "Although you live here, you are not welcome here."
The dispute had arisen over the naming of streets in honor of a business operator who publicly has promoted Hezbollah and Hamas terrorism.
Now an investigation by the Federalist has revealed that the Muslim leaders of the Muslim-influenced city are making it a "hostile place" for Christians and Jews.
Jewish leaders already call the city "America's Jihad Capital" and it is under the dominating influence of Islam.
The Federalist said Dearborn "has been extremely accommodating to Muslims, but not so much to minority Christians and Jews — particularly when it comes to the city's involvement in celebrating religious holidays."
Civil rights lawyers Robert J. Muise and David Yerushalmi have written to the city about concerns over its discrimination, and they told Hammoud, "The bottom line is that the City of Dearborn has become a hostile place for Christians and Jews.
City lawyer Jeremy Romer also was copied on the letter, and he "should be familiar with Muise and Yerushalmi," because they already have won high-profile cases and huge judgments against Dearborn for religious rights discrimination.
The Federalist added, "For now, the attorneys' American Freedom Law Center, a nonprofit Judeo-Christian law firm 'Fighting for Faith & Freedom,' is reminding the mayor and the city that the Arab-majority city can't play favorites with religious displays."
"While all of the residents of the City do not share the same faith, they do share the same rights guaranteed under the United States Constitution," the attorneys' letter warned.
The legal team has documented multiple instances where city officials, specifically Hammoud, have publicly exhibited a "preference" for Islam over any other faith.
Banners have been flown in the city for weeks for Ramadan, but the city refused to present any religious displays for Christian or Jewish holidays other than "secular' components, the Federalist reported.
"Documents obtained by The Federalist show taxpayers paid thousands of dollars for the Ramadan displays and other items. One double-sided banner cost $1,512. The city paid $825 for another sign, according to city invoices. A Dec. 26 email from Jonathan Golich of Dearborn's Parks and Recreation Department notes festive lights and displays would be left up 'through Ramadan,'" the report said.
And city emails include the crescent moon design, honored by Muslims, and a greeting, "Ramadan Kareem' (Generous Ramadan) Downtown Dearborn," in Arabic and English.
Then there are the fundraising drives by the city police and fire departments that sold shirts showing Islamic religious messages.
"They did not provide similar opportunities for Christians and Jews to purchase clothing 'with messages appropriate to their faith traditions,'" the attorneys told Hammoud.
The recent pro-Islam scandal was sparked by Hammoud's attack on a taxpayer.
Barham had objected to renaming some intersections in Dearborn after Osama Siblani, Arab American News publisher who has promoted Hezbollah and Hamas, both Middle East organizations that have inflicted death, destruction and terror on Americans.
Hammoud issued a dangerous suggestion for Barham to not see the signs.
"The best suggestion I have for you is to not drive on Warren Avenue or close your eyes while you're doing it. His name is up there and I spoke at a ceremony celebrating it because he's done a lot for his community," Hammoud claimed.
He then turned to a personal attack on his city's resident, accusing Barham of being "a bigot, and you are racist, and you're an Islamophobe. Although you live here, I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here. And the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of this city."
Barham had explained Siblani is "a promoter of Hezbollah and Hamas. … He talks about how the blood of the martyrs irrigates the land of Palestine … whether we are in Michigan and whether we are in Yemen. Believe me, everyone should fight within his means. They will fight with stones, others will fight with guns, others fight with planes, drones, and rockets."
WND also reported only days ago that adjacent Dearborn Heights was forced into an embarrassing backtrack when officials announced a badge for police officers that said "Dearborn Heights Police" in Arabic.
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The suspect in a school shooting in Evergreen, Colorado, this week has died of self-inflicted injuries.
That's according to a report from Fox affiliate KDVR.
Classes at the school, located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains about 25 miles west of Denver, were canceled for the rest of this week.
Reports of an "active assailant" came in to authorities about noon on Wednesday, and the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office revealed three students were injured.
One student remained hospitalized in critical condition on Thursday, another had less serious injuries.
The shooter died at the hospital from his injuries.
Jefferson County Public Schools Supt. Tracy Dorland said, "We cannot pretend this is just another tragic incident. The pain of this incident reopens old wounds. I know there are many in our Jeffco community hurting and grieving tonight, in Evergreen and beyond. The urgency this moment demands is undeniable. Student safety is not an abstract issue for us in Jeffco. It is the most important responsibility we hold. Safety is our number one priority every day, and yet, here we are once again, grieving with a community over gun violence impacting our students."
Dorland also bashed those of faith who respond to tragedies with their "thoughts and prayers."
"The nation is tired of statements filled with platitudes and 'thoughts and prayers.' What we need is courage. What we need is the collective will of our entire community. Violence involving our young people should never be normalized, and we must face the difficult truth that too often, it is," Dorland said.
KDVR also posted a list, from state records, of shootings at Colorado schools that have taken place during school hours, "not including suicides."
They include:
There have been additional shootings on school grounds, and the list does not include mass Colorado shootings in movie theaters and such.