London Mayor implies "Israel's military campaign" is part of a "betrayal of humanity"

London Mayor Sadiq Khan, singled out Israel for criticism during Eid al-Fitr, a Muslim holiday during a greeting his week, while carefully ignoring the horrors committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023, suggested the Jewish state was guilty of “betraying humanity” by killing Palestinians in Gaza.

The March 29 remarks by Khan, who is a Muslim member of the Labour Party, prompted strong-worded pushback by British Jewish community groups.

“More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza as a result of Israel’s ongoing military campaign, including more than 15,000 children,” Khan said in his greeting for Eid al-Fitr, a joyous holiday that marks the end of Ramadan. The “appalling suffering and killing that continues in Sudan and Palestine” were “betrayals of humanity” that “tempered” the holiday’s joy, he added.

These numbers were recently lowered by Hamas, by the way.

London mayor who let Hamas mobs terrorize Jewish communities and locked up people for even mentioning Islamic terrorism complains about alleged messages https://t.co/PNXMNPNvRZ

— Daniel Greenfield – "Hang Together or Separately" (@Sultanknish)

The Jewish Leadership Council, the umbrella group of British Jewish organizations and communities, said in a statement that it was “disappointed” that instead of promoting “unity and fellowship between Londoners,” Khan’s greeting spoke “in emotive terms about an international conflict which has resulted in an unprecedented rise in antisemitism across the United Kingdom.”

Others criticized Khan for repeating disputed statistics originating from the Hamas-controlled health ministry in Gaza.

Asked about these complaints by the Jewish News of London, a spokesperson for Khan told the newspaper: “The mayor has repeatedly conveyed his outrage at attacks by Hamas on Israel and has strongly condemned these acts of terrorism. He is deeply saddened by the loss of all lives and continues to support calls for a permanent ceasefire.”

Believe that and I have a goose to sell you that'll make you wealthy.

The poison of Islamic Jew hatred is like a knee-jerk mental illness and is older than dirt.

Never forget that Khan allowed Hamasshole mobs to terrorize Jewish communities and jailed people who even mentioned Islamic terrorism.

The UK--land of the not so free.

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Russian nun deported for her anti-Semitic accusations about Israel and Oct. 7

Sister Extra Virgin Olive Oil

ISRAEL -- A Russian-born nun who we will call Sr. Extra Virgin Olive Oil claimed the Israeli government was behind the October 7, 2023 massacres and kidnapping in order to "distract" the Israeli public from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's criminal trial, according to a statement by Israel's Immigration and Population Authority.

This is akin to believing Adolf Hitler started World War II to "distract" from his chronic flatulence, but when it comes to anti-Semitism, nothing is off the table, I suppose.

Shortly after Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and a crap-load of Gazan civilians invaded Israel killing, raping, and torturing 1,200 Israeli and kidnapping 251 others, Sister Extra Virgin Olive Oil [let's just call her SEVOO] told a Russian-language television news channel that Hamas coordinated the terror attacks in advance with the Israeli government.

So, in spite of Bibi Netanyahu having served in the IDF's special forces and also having lost his brother in combat against Islamists, he was supposedly in bed with the Hamassholes to distract the public from the "criminal charges" pending against him by a biased ICC.

"Sorry sister, your sh*t don't fly," as the kids say.

The nun also falsely claimed the U.S. supplied Hamas with rockets that was used to target Tel Aviv and Jerusalem when the war first began. Now we all know Joe Biden is and was brain-dead when the war broke out between Israel and the religion of peace, and we all know he gave a ton of money to Iran, but to say that he supplied Hamas with rockets is like saying his flatulence smells like roses.

And let us remember that Hamas didn't even have long-range rockets on October 7th. 

SEVOO either lied in the advancement of Islamic terrorism, or is historically clueless. At the time, Hamas could only launch rockets against central Israel with American material support.

Yet despite her serious accusations against the Jewish state, SEVOO engaged in a long-running legal saga to avoid being deported from the country she hates.

This nun has lived in Israel since 1993, having been granted a special long-term visa for clergy. At the time of the interview, she was the head nun at a Greek Orthodox church in Jerusalem.

Following the broadcast of her anti-Zionist interview, Mativeva’s visa was revoked.

Officials from the Immigration and Population Authority summoned SEVOO for a meeting, informing her that she had to leave Israel. She appealed the visa revocation in court, delaying the deportation process by several months.

Eventually, a judge confirmed the Immigration and Population Authority’s decision that this dumpling of a woman could no longer live in Israel.

However, shortly before the date of her deportation in July 2024, the Jew hater went into hiding.

In February 2025, after some six months on the run, police discovered her living in Even Sapir, a small agricultural community near Jerusalem. She was arrested and detained at an immigration detention facility.

From there, she tried to claim refugee status in Israel. In her asylum request, she said that being returned to her native Russia would endanger her life, but her request was denied and she was finally sent back to Mother Russia.

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Many National Security Council staff fired after Laura Loomer visits White House

The Trump White House just got a spring cleaning, courtesy of activist journalist Laura Loomer, who waltzed into the Oval Office with a stack of opposition research thicker than a D.C. lobbyist’s expense report. 

[H/T The Daily Wire]

Up to ten National Security Council officials got the boot after her visit, and if you believe Axios—who broke the story Thursday—this wasn’t just a random purge. Loomer reportedly handed Trump a hit list of staffers she deemed insufficiently loyal, and the firings followed like clockwork. A source close to the meeting called it “an anti-neocon move,” which is Washington-speak for “someone’s finally draining the swamp, and the alligators are pissed.”

Trump, ever the master of coy confirmation, chatted with reporters aboard Air Force One and didn’t exactly deny Loomer’s influence. “We’re always going to let go of people — people we don’t like or people that take advantage of or people that may have loyalties to someone else,” he said. When asked about Loomer, he didn’t hold back the praise: “Laura Loomer is a great patriot. She’s a very strong person. She makes recommendations and people, and sometimes I listen to those recommendations. I listen to everybody and then I make a decision. She always has something to say and it’s usually constructive … She recommended some people for jobs.” 

Translation: She’s got a loud mouth, a sharp eye, and the president’s ear—deal with it.

The rumor, per Axios, is that Loomer was fuming over “neocons” who’d “slipped through” Trump’s vetting process like cockroaches in a cheap motel. “She went to the White House yesterday and presented them with her research and evidence,” an official told the outlet, adding that three senior NSC bigwigs—plus as many as ten total staffers—got the axe. “Bloodbath” was the word used, and I’m guessing the survivors are updating their LinkedIn profiles as we speak.

CNN, [aka Comedy News Network] never one to miss a chance to clutch pearls, named the fallen: Brian Walsh, Thomas Boodry, and David Feith. Walsh, a former Marco Rubio lackey, was director for intelligence. Boodry, once Mike Waltz’s legislative director, handled legislative affairs. Feith, a State Department vet from Trump’s first term, oversaw tech and security. Sounds like a mixed bag of establishment types who didn’t get the memo that MAGA means business.

The meeting wasn’t a solo act—National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, VP JD Vance, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and personnel guru Sergio Gor were all in the room, per the Associated Press. Axios says Loomer’s beef was that these NSC folks weren’t ride-or-die for Trump’s agenda. Fair enough—why keep snakes in the grass when you can mow the lawn?

NSC spokesman Brian Hughes played the “no comment” card, while Loomer herself dodged The Daily Wire’s request for a chat. Instead, she took to X Thursday morning to blast “people in and around the West Wing” for leaking to the “hostile, left-wing media” about Trump’s private powwows. “I want to reiterate how important it is that people who gain access to the White House or the administration respect the privacy of their conversations with President Trump and his senior staff,” she wrote, sounding like the only adult in a room full of gossipy teenagers. 

But she couldn’t resist a victory lap: “It was an honor to meet with President Trump and present him with my research findings. I will continue working hard to support his agenda, and I will continue reiterating the importance of, and the necessity of STRONG VETTING, for the sake of protecting the President of the United States of America, and our national security.” 

Preach, Laura—someone’s got to keep the RINOs from sneaking back in.

Meanwhile, Trump jetted off to Florida with Waltz, Wiles, Gor, and a few other top dogs, per the travel pool. Sounds like the A-team’s ready to keep the MAGA train rolling, while the B-team’s left crying into their résumés. 

Loomer’s got her critics, sure, but if she’s the one sniffing out the disloyal, maybe she’s the pitbull this administration needs. Neocons beware—there’s a new sheriff in town, and she’s not afraid to bite.

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U of Wisconsin prof placed on leave after flipping over college Republican's table

Let us consider a scene from the increasingly unhinged campuses of America. On Wednesday, the chair of the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, one Professor José Felipe Alvergue, [the bizarre dude in the photo above] was placed on leave after allegedly flipping over a table manned by the College Republicans. 

This was no mere tantrum, but a physical assault on the very notion of free discourse. 

Tatiana Bobrowicz, a junior who leads this beleaguered chapter, recounted the incident to Wisconsin Public Radio with admirable clarity. Her group had set up their table on Tuesday morning, duly sanctioned by the university, in the outdoor campus mall to champion conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel. Hardly a revolutionary act. 

Yet, as she explained, “a man came up to our table and said, ‘What are you doing?’ I hadn’t even finished when he said, ‘The time for this is over,’ and just flipped the table.” 

The time for this is over? One wonders what clock this leftist professor is watching—perhaps one set to the authoritarian hour.

Bobrowicz, undeterred, issued a statement on the UW-Eau Claire College Republicans’ Instagram: “The university has since confirmed that this attacker was the chair of the university’s English Department. Once again, this type of violent attack will not be tolerated.” 

The aftermath, captured on video, spread across social media like wildfire, a testament to the absurdity of the moment.

The suspect, identified by campus police as Alvergue, now faces scrutiny. Bobrowicz told WPR, “We have students who are afraid to go to classes today because they are associated with our club, or they believe what we believe. 

This individual does not speak for all professors, but there is a type of example that he set and there are students celebrating his actions.” Here we see the ripple effect of such cowardice: fear among the young, and a perverse glee among those who mistake thuggery for virtue.

The university’s Interim Provost, Michael Carney, issued a statement that at least nods toward principle: “I am deeply concerned that our students’ peaceful effort to share information on campus on election day was disrupted. UW-Eau Claire strongly supports every person’s right to free speech and free expression, and the university remains committed to ensuring that campus is a place where a wide variety of opinions and beliefs can be shared and celebrated.” He went on, “Civil dialogue is a critical part of the university experience, and peaceful engagement is fundamental to learning itself.” Fine words—though one suspects they will be tested by the inevitable clamor for leniency toward the professor.

Carney noted that Alvergue has been placed on administrative leave while the university, in concert with the Office of General Counsel, investigates. A prudent step, though the damage is already done.

Who is this table-flipping pedagogue? 

According to his personal website and staff bio, Alvergue was born in El Salvador, immigrating to the US at the outset of its civil war, growing up along the US-Mexico border. A journey that might have taught resilience, yet seems to have birthed a different lesson. His personal statement intones, “Now as a parent, as a partner, as a teacher, a voter, a neighbor, it has become ever more imperative for me to find new ways of clarifying where the self begins and ends, and tending to the clarity of one’s love for an other.” 

Noble, perhaps, until one considers that flipping tables hardly clarifies anything beyond petulance. His staff bio adds, “I believe that we can’t unlock the empathy hidden behind words if we don’t understand what is at stake in the risk writers and artists take when they decide to transform the matter which makes up the world around them into the story words communicate.” 

A pity he didn’t extend such empathy to the students whose table he upended.

This incident is not merely a campus squabble. It is a symptom of a deeper rot: the collapse of reason under the weight of ideology, and the willingness of those entrusted with education to silence rather than engage. The students deserve better. So do we all.

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H.S. track athlete, 16, murdered at championship meet, officials say

A student has been stabbed to death at a championship meet in Texas on Wednesday morning by a member of another team, officials say. Frisco Police confirmed that the 16-year-old died "despite lifesaving measures." He was a student from Frisco Memorial, according to the local reports.

Frisco Memorial Principal Brook Fesco wrote in an email obtained by Fox News Digital that Austin Metcalf, a junior at the school, had died Wednesday.

The suspect, a 17-year-old whose initials are K.A., has been charged with first degree murder.

The murder occurred at about 10 a.m. at Kuykendall Stadium at the University Interscholasic League's District 11-5A championship meet. The suspect attends Frisco Centennial, about seven miles away from Frisco Memorial.

According to the Frisco Independent School District, the meet was suspended shortly after the incident. The ISD added that the stadium "was immediately secured, and students were released and sent back to their home campus on FISD buses with expediency."

In her email, Principal Fesco said the school "will acknowledge Austin’s death during 2nd period and will offer support throughout the day," adding counselors would be available.

"As a parent, your guidance and support will be important in helping your child process grief. Talking about this together, face-to-face, will give you a chance to discuss how your family understands and copes with loss. You may also want to discuss with your child how to be a supportive friend to classmates," Fesco wrote. "This loss might remind your student of past losses as well. The most important thing you can do is provide your child a chance to be heard and to express their feelings."

K.A.

"The Frisco Police Department grieves with all those affected by this devastating loss and extends its deepest condolences to the victim’s family, students, and staff who are experiencing unimaginable pain," the department said in a statement. 

"The department is collaborating with the Frisco Independent School District and will continue to provide any support they need during this incredibly difficult time."

Metcalf, who also played football at the school, participated in both the boys shot put and discus events earlier in the day, with threw distances of 39 feet, 9¾ inches and 86 feet, 4 inches, respectively.

The suspect ran the boys' 100-meter dash in 12.38 seconds and was scheduled to compete in the long jump.

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"60 Minutes" host asks freed hostage if Hamas starved him because they didn't have enough food: ripped a new one

"60 Minutes" host Lesley Stahl is definitely not the brightest light on the Chanukah bush. She appears to be sympathetic to Hamassholes after she showed her hand during a Sunday night interview with an Israeli who had been held hostage by the terror group.

Bottle-blonde Stahl asked Keith Siegel whether the Hamas terrorists starved him on purpose or whether they didn’t have enough food to give him. Evidently she missed the videos of Hamas stealing the food from the myriad trucks Israel sent to Gaza, keeping it for themselves and not allowing the Gazans to benefit from Israel's beneficence. 

Lesley Stahl is either an idiot or a pro-Hamas stooge, or both.

During the CBS News program, she spoke to several hostages who had recently been freed from the terror group's clutches and returned to their families. Stahl spoke to Siegel, along with Tal Shalom, and Yarden Bibas — the man whose wife and two young children were murdered while in captivity — learning details about their horrific experiences living in Hamas-controlled tunnels in Gaza.

While Siegel discussed how his captors treated him, he stated that after his wife, Aviva, was released from captivity, Hamas became "very mean and very cruel and violent."

Yeah, killing babies and their mom is cruel and violent if you ask most people other than Lesley Stahl.

"They were beating me and starving me," Siegel said. Stahl followed by asking idiotically, "Do you think they starved you because or they just didn’t have food?"

Siegel denied that his torturers didn’t have enough food, recounting, "No, I think they starved me, and they would often eat in front of me and not offer me food."

The former hostage and his wife were kidnapped from their kibbutz during Hamas’ terror attack in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Siegel spent 484 days in "unimaginable conditions" in Hamas captivity but don't tell that to Leslie Stahl. 

The ex-hostage also recounted how he was only allowed to bathe once a month by pouring a cup of water over his head into a bucket, and described witnessing Hamas members sexually assaulting female hostages.

Stahl’s question prompted backlash on social media platform X.

The U.S. organization "StopAntisemitism" wrote, "Ridiculous moment on @60Minutes: Lesley Stahl asks hostage Keith Siegel if Hamas starved him because they had no food. He shuts her down. Hamas not only starved him, they ate in front of him, mocked him, sexually humiliated him, and forced him to watch female hostages being tortured." 

It added, "Meanwhile, @CBS pushes Hamas casualty numbers and falsely claims Israel ended the ceasefire. Hamas ended it."

Jewish journalist Ari Hoffman savaged Stahl over the question, stating, "She should ask the Nazis if they meant to starve the Jews in the Holocaust or didn't have enough aid."

Pro-Israel account "Jews Fight Back" posted, "Lesley Stahl looked a Jewish hostage in the face—after being starved, tortured, beaten, and dragged through hell—and asked if maybe Hamas didn’t mean to starve him. Maybe they just didn’t have food. Are you f--- kidding me? Shame on 60 Minutes. Shame on CBS. And shame on every apologist who still can’t admit that Hamas is pure evil."

A Jewish activist account, "Vivid," declared, "I can't believe my eyes. Lesley Stahl had the audacity to ask a Jewish hostage, who was tortured and starved by Hamas, if Hamas really meant to starve him or if they just didn't have enough food. Is this a joke? How the hell can she even ask him that?"

Answer: She is able to ask that because a) she is an idiot; or b) she is a pro-Hamas sympathizer; or c) she is a pro-Hamas sympathizing idiot.

Am Yisrael Chai!

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Calif. suspect in Walgreens killing held "grudge" against pharmacies

It seems we've got another dangerous nutcase with a grudge making headlines. This time, it's an alleged gunman who decided to take out his pharmacy frustrations on a Walgreens in Madera, California.

According to the police, 30-year-old Narciso Gallardo Fernandez was caught on video waving a gun around like a lunatic before opening fire, leaving 34-year-old employee Erick Velazquez dead. 

Madera Police Chief Giachino Chiaramonte, who’s probably seen his fair share of crazy, [after all, it's California] said they’re still piecing together the "why" behind this mess, but Fernandez apparently had some choice words about big pharmacies. "We're having difficulties because some of the statements show that he had anger towards pharmacies in general, not specifically Walgreens," Chiaramonte noted, adding that the guy even told some victims "this isn’t about you." 

How thoughtful of him—rage with a side of courtesy.

Fernandez didn’t get far before he was captured and hauled his sorry self to Madera County Jail on homicide charges. 

Meanwhile, Walgreens put out a statement that hits all the right PR notes: "We are deeply saddened by last night's tragic event, which resulted in the death of one of our team members. Our thoughts and prayers are with their loved ones during this difficult time." 

Good ol' thoughts and prayers. Cliché much?

They’re also rolling out the corporate playbook—counseling services, cooperation with the authorities, the whole nine yards. "The safety of our customers and team members is our top priority," they added, because of course it is.

So, there you have it: one unhinged dude, a pharmacy vendetta, and a community left picking up the pieces. Just another Tuesday night in America, right? Stay classy, folks.

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Hamas-Hezbollah plot to kill Israelis foiled

The Israelis have once again demonstrated their resolve in the face of barbarism. 

On Tuesday, authorities announced they had foiled a major terrorist plot targeting Israeli interests abroad - a scheme they described as one of the gravest in recent memory. In a precision strike, the IDF and Shin Bet took out Hassan Ali Mahmoud Bdeir, a senior Hezbollah operative in Beirut's Dahieh district, a stronghold of the terrorist group.

Bdeir, it seems, was no mere foot soldier, but a key player in Hezbollah's Unit 3900 and Iran's Quds Force. Israeli intelligence revealed he was the linchpin in an unholy alliance between Hezbollah and Hamas - a rare coming together of Shiite and Sunni fanatics. 

Their plan? A large-scale attack abroad that could have left hundreds of Israelis dead.

The operation was the fruit of a long intelligence effort by a crack Shin Bet unit dedicated to smashing Hamas' overseas networks - networks that have been especially busy since the killing of Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut last year. With Military Intelligence providing support and the Israeli Air Force delivering the fatal blow, the strike was a triumph of coordination and will.

Shin Bet and IDF chiefs say this prevented a catastrophe and dealt a serious setback to Hezbollah-Hamas collaboration beyond Israel's borders. 

Hamas' tentacles, we are told, stretch from Turkey to the edges of Europe. Meanwhile, in a related development, Israeli flights have been barred from Paphos, Cyprus since January over unspecified "security concerns", now landing in Larnaca instead for a 90-minute trek to Paphos each way.

Once more, Israel stands as a bulwark against those who would slaughter the innocent. The civilized world should take note.

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Former Biden aide describes him as "fatigued, befuddled, and disengaged: before the June debate

Former White House chief of staff the execrable Ron Klain revealed that President Joe Biden was "fatigued, befuddled and disengaged" before his debate with President Donald Trump in June, according to a new book.

Well, folks, the cat’s out of the bag, and it’s not a pretty sight. 

According to Chris Whipple’s [no relation to the Charmin toilet paper guy] upcoming book, Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History, our former fearless leader Joe Biden was less “commander-in-chief” and more “nap-time-in-chief” during his final days in the game. 

Whipple dishes out some juicy details in an excerpt published by The Guardian, and it’s a doozy.

Picture this: Biden’s first sit-down with his then-chief of staff Ron Klain at Aspen Lodge, the presidential cabin retreat. Klain, an execrable Biden loyalist who stuck with him from 2021 to 2023 and even helped prep him for that train wreck of a June debate against Trump, walks in expecting a strategy session. Instead, he finds Biden looking like he just stumbled out of a week-long Netflix binge. 

“At his first meeting with Biden in Aspen Lodge, the president’s cabin,” Whipple writes, Klain “was startled. He’d never seen him so exhausted and out of it. Biden was unaware of what was happening in his own campaign. Halfway through the session, the president excused himself and went off to sit by the pool.” Yep, while the campaign was circling the drain, Joe was apparently channeling his inner lifeguard. Nobody was there to rub his leg hairs however.

Whipple doesn’t pull punches. “The president was fatigued, befuddled, and disengaged,” he writes. Klain, watching this slow-motion car crash, reportedly thought the Trump debate would be “a nationally televised disaster.” 

Spoiler alert: he wasn’t wrong. 

So, the team scrambled to set up two mock debates to get Biden in fighting shape. How’d that go? First one was supposed to last 90 minutes, but Klain yanked the plug after 45. “The president’s voice was shot and so was his grasp of the subject,” Whipple notes. “All he really could talk about was his infrastructure plan and how he was rebuilding America and 16 million jobs. He had nothing to say about his agenda for a second term.” 

Infrastructure? Jobs? Joe, the election wasn’t a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Second mock debate? Even worse. “Twenty-five minutes into the second mock debate, the president was done for the day,” Whipple writes. Klain recalls Biden whining, “‘I’m just too tired to continue and I’m afraid of losing my voice here and I feel bad. I just need some sleep. I’ll be fine tomorrow.’ He went off to bed.” 

Sleep it off, champ—meanwhile, Trump’s out there swinging like it’s the ninth inning. Klain tried to nudge him in the right direction, but Biden was having none of it, getting cranky when anyone dared suggest he step up his game and maybe open his eyes.

Whipple’s not just spilling tea here; he’s tipping over the whole pot. In a chat with Politico, he says Biden’s inner circle was less “cover-up” and more “fog of delusion.” “I have fresh reporting on an hour-by-hour, day-by-day basis of Biden’s final days, and obviously his decline is a major part of the story,” he told them. “I happen to think that to call it a ‘cover-up’ is simplistic. I think it was stranger and way more troubling than that. Biden’s inner circle, his closest advisers, many of them were in a fog of delusion and denial. They believed what they wanted to believe.” 

Ouch. That’s not a staff; that’s a support group.

The Biden camp’s gone radio silent—no surprise there. But Whipple’s book isn’t the only one peeling back the curtain on this mess. You’ve got The Hill’s Amie Parnes and NBC’s Jonathan Allen dropping their own 2024 tell-all, with Allen claiming Obama was pulling strings to keep Kamala Harris off the ticket. 

Then there’s CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson with Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, hitting shelves in May. Sounds like 2025’s shaping up to be the year of “What the heck happened to Joe?”

So, there you have it—Biden’s last hurrah, as told by the folks who watched him shuffle off the stage. If this is what “rebuilding America” looks like, I’d hate to see the demolition phase. Stay tuned, patriots; the bookshelf’s about to get a lot heavier.

There was never a "build back better" by Biden. Just a pant-load of promises.

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Gov. Hochul releases convicts from prisons after firings of officers during shortage

New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul fired thousands of correction officers after they went on strike over dangerous work conditions, and now, after she has created the shortage, she's releasing hundreds of convicts. In other words, she created the problem and now has created another one to handle the problem she created.

New York State Department of Corrections (DOCCS) Commissioner Daniel Martuscello released a memo on Monday, ordering prison superintendents to start figuring out which inmates qualify for early release, per new rules. Who are they to release: those who only killed one person? Those who have been convicted only four times of DUI? Domestic violence offenders? Politicians?

“In view of the current staffing crisis, and in order to have the appropriate balance between safety and well-being of those working and residing in DOCCS Correctional Facilities and public safety, it is appropriate that I, as Commissioner, exercise my authority pursuant to … move individuals from the Department’s general conferment facilities, into Residential Treatment outcount status,” the memo states.

Hochul, hoping to put a bandaid on an arterial bleed, approved the memo, with the governor’s spokesman Matt Janiszewski saying that her “top priority is the safety and well-being of all New Yorkers.” And if you believe that, you might think Jimmy Hoffa is buried below home plate in Yankee Stadium.

“The Governor is aware of Commissioner Martuscello’s memo and supports his efforts to safely address staffing shortages and personnel concerns,” Janiszewski added.

You knew it was coming. Citing staffing shortages — caused by the governor’s firing of 2,000 guards — the state of New York is releasing convicts from prison. pic.twitter.com/NVteaO6USI

— Bob Lonsberry (@BobLonsberry)

Hochul was criticized for the move, especially considering the debacle is her fault. 

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) called Hochul’s decision to back the early release of some inmates “a dangerous misstep that puts all New Yorkers at risk.”

But decisions like Hochul's rarely if ever affect the politicians who make them. 

“Albany Democrats’ pro-criminal policies, like the HALT Act, have crippled our prisons, leaving them understaffed and unsafe while crime surges in our communities,” Lawler’s statement said. “We need leaders who will tackle tough problems head-on, not resort to quick fixes that compromise the safety of law-abiding citizens. New Yorkers deserve better than policies that prioritize criminals over victims.”

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— Mike Lawler (@lawler4ny) April 1, 2025

“Kathy Hochul closed prisons and fired prison guards and now — citing overcrowding and insufficient staff — is releasing convicts from prison, just in time to buy favor with pro-criminal Democrats in the Assembly and Senate,” Rochester-based journalist and radio host Bob Lonsberry reacted. “What a funny coincidence.”

Any crimes committed by any of the releasees is on Hochul's empty head.

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Hamas lowers Gaza death toll on the down-low

Last month, Hamas performed a sleight of hand that would make even the most cynical propagandist blush, quietly erasing thousands of deaths from its war casualty count—including over a thousand children it had loudly accused Israel of slaughtering. This, according to a report from a media watchdog that has grown weary of the terror group’s endless charade, released on Monday.

“Hamas’s new March 2025 fatality list quietly drops 3,400 fully ‘identified’ deaths listed in its August and October 2024 reports – including 1,080 children,” wrote Salo Aizenberg, a board member of Honest Reporting, with the precision of a man who’s had enough of lies masquerading as statistics. “These ‘deaths’ never happened. The numbers were falsified – again.” It’s not a revelation so much as a confirmation of what anyone with a shred of intellectual honesty already suspected: Hamas doesn’t deal in truth; it deals in narrative.

Aizenberg, with the patience of a prosecutor dismantling a flimsy alibi, lays bare Hamas’s habit of inflating casualty figures like some grotesque parody of wartime accounting.

Early in the conflict, they claimed 471 people were killed in an IDF airstrike on Al-Ahli Hospital—a number swallowed whole by a credulous global press. The reality? An errant Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket had landed in the hospital parking lot, wounding a handful. Those “victims” were later scrubbed from the list, as if no one would notice the disappearing act.

In March, Hamas announced that Gaza’s death toll from this 18-month war had breached 50,000—a figure trumpeted across the world’s newsrooms to Israel’s predictable vilification. They’ve also clung to the claim that 70% of the dead are women and children, a statistic so perfectly engineered to inflame outrage that it’s almost admirable in its cynicism. It’s the kind of accusation that fuels genocide charges against the IDF, while the accusers sit smugly atop their edifice of half-truths.

But Aizenberg and his team, poring over Hamas’s PDF-disseminated lists of names and ages, uncovered a less convenient picture. Among those aged 13-55—combatant age, by any reasonable measure—72% were male. And of the teen deaths, 65% of those aged 13-17 were boys, a detail that points to Hamas’s use of child soldiers. 

This isn’t speculation; it’s arithmetic. Deploying minors in combat violates international law, but don’t expect the UN to muster much indignation over that.

The world’s media, meanwhile, dutifully recite figures from the Gazan Health Ministry without a whisper of skepticism—never mind that it’s run by Hamas, a belligerent in the conflict and thus about as impartial as a fox guarding a henhouse. 

Hamas doesn’t distinguish between fighters and civilians in its tallies, and it has scarcely acknowledged the deaths of its own gunmen in battles with the Israeli army. Instead, it sweeps everyone into the count—combatants, non-combatants, even those who died of natural causes like old age. The report estimates 8,300 of these “war victims” were just that: natural deaths, consistent with Gaza’s pre-war averages. It’s a grimly absurd inflation, but not a surprising one.

The IDF, for its part, has tracked the enemy combatants its forces have killed, putting the number at 20,000. That leaves a civilian-to-combatant death ratio of roughly one-to-one—an astonishingly low figure in the annals of warfare, where five-to-one is considered par for the course. 

This isn’t the indiscriminate carnage Hamas and its cheerleaders describe; it’s a military operation conducted with a precision that defies the chaos of urban conflict. In fact, the one-to-one ratio is the lowest recorded in human history.

Aizenberg, however, isn’t buying the notion that this latest revision makes Hamas a credible source. “Is the March 2025 list suddenly credible? No. Dropping names does not equal accuracy,” he writes, with a tone that suggests he’s tired of stating the obvious. “Hamas’ Ministry of Health was never reliable,” he adds, calling their stab at transparency “Managed fakery, dressed up as precision.” 

The verdict is damning: “From day one, Hamas has gamed the fatality data.” This isn’t their first foray into statistical fiction, nor will it be their last.

Here we are, then, in a world where a terror group’s lies are laundered through respectable headlines, where Israel is perpetually cast as the villain, and where the truth is an afterthought. Hamas falsifies, the press amplifies, and the cycle of moral blackmail rolls on. It’s not just a war of bullets and bombs—it’s a war of numbers, and Hamas knows exactly how to play it.

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Darrell Issa destroys Jasmine Crockett With real-time fact check re: impeaching judges

Well folks, it looks like Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) decided to play a quick game of "Gotcha!" with Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) during Tuesday’s hearing, and he didn’t even need to break a sweat. 

Issa took Crockett’s sanctimonious grandstanding and turned it into a self-inflicted wound faster than you can say "hypocrisy-suppository." All he had to do was point to her own rap sheet of judicial impeachment cheerleading to shut down her whining about Republicans threatening the sacred halls of justice.

Crockett, bless her racist heart, joined the usual chorus of Democrats clutching their pearls and wailing that democracy itself—yes, democracy itself—would crumble into dust if those mean ol’ Republicans dared to impeach any of the sainted judges who’ve been single-handedly thwarting President Donald Trump’s administration at every turn. Sniff.

Here’s where it gets good. Crockett went full drama queen, practically hyperventilating as she preached about protecting the judiciary’s pristine honor. That is, until Issa swooped in like a hawk with a memory and reminded everyone that Crockett herself co-sponsored legislation to impeach Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. 

Whoops! Townhall.com caught the fireworks on X: “Jasmine Crockett starts HYPERVENTILATING about protecting the institution of the judiciary — before PROMPTLY being reminded by @repdarrellissa that she cosponsored legislation to impeach Justices Thomas & Alito! ‘AOC filed articles of impeachment on Justice Thomas & Alito.…’” Oof, that’s gotta sting.

Then came the hypocrite's sermon. “The problem that we have right now is that if we continue down this road, we will not have a rule of law because we have people that are currently serving and they’re saying things like, ‘Ignore the judge’s order,’” she huffed, while conveniently forgetting to mention that her pal President Joe Biden pulled the exact same stunt when he rammed through his student loan forgiveness scheme after the Supreme Court told him to take a hike. 

Details, schmetails.

She kept going, laying it on thick: “What it means to have law and order in this country is that you follow the order and you go through the appeals process even if you dislike what the judge did,” she along with her mega-lashes declared, before flouncing back to her seat. 

Noble words—too bad they’re dripping with irony, given her own track record.

Crockett, like her fellow Democrats and their media parrots, leaned hard into the tired line that Republicans just want to axe federal judges over rulings they “don’t like.” Never mind that the actual beef is about alleged abuses of power—nah, that’s too complicated for the narrative.

Enter Issa, stage right, with the mic drop. 

Issa casually pointed out that when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) cooked up her impeachment articles against conservative Supreme Court heavyweights Alito and Thomas, Crockett was right there with pom-poms, co-sponsoring the whole circus. “It does seem interesting that when the shoe is on the other foot, everyone is self-righteous!” Issa quipped, before moving on like a boss.

And there you have it, guys—another day, another Democrat caught in the hypocrisy spin cycle. Gag me with a spoon.

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Iran-born Yale researcher fired over allegedly working with terror-tied "sham charity"

Let us consider the curious case of Helyeh Doutaghi, an Iranian-born associate research scholar at Yale University Law School, whose tenure has come to an abrupt and ignominious end. The reason? Her alleged ties to the Samidoun Network, a Canada-based outfit branded a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, and a "sham charity" fronting for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, another U.S.-designated terrorist group. 

One might have thought that such affiliations would raise eyebrows at an institution of Yale's stature, but it seems the rot of ideological indulgence runs deep.

Doutaghi was sacked on Friday, three weeks after being placed on administrative leave following these damning allegations. Yale, in its wisdom, sought clarification. "Over the last three weeks, Yale has repeatedly requested to meet with Ms. Doutaghi and her attorney to obtain clarifying information and resolve this matter," said spokesperson Alden Ferro. "Unfortunately, she has refused to meet to provide any responses to critical questions, including whether she has ever engaged in prohibited activity with organizations or individuals that were placed on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons list ('SDN List')." 

A refusal to cooperate, a silence that speaks volumes. And so, the university, perhaps belatedly grasping the gravity of the situation, terminated her forthwith.

This is no minor affair. Doutaghi held the lofty title of deputy director of the Law and Political Economy Project at Yale since October 2023. Her bio on the Palestine Center for Public Policy website boasts of her work on "the intersections of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), encompassing Marxian and postcolonial critiques of law, sanctions, and international political economy." 

She is also slated to join the University of Tehran [Go Camel Jumpers] as a post-doctoral fellow, where she will toil on "completing her manuscript on Iranian sanctions regime and neoliberalism." Quite the résumé for someone now entangled in such a sordid mess.

The allegations first surfaced from Jewish Onliner, a Substack "Empowered by A.I. capabilities," and Doutaghi’s response was telling—not of innocence, but of indignation. 

"Rather than defend me, the Yale Law School moved within less than 24 hours of learning about the report to place me on leave," she whined on X. "I was given only a few hours’ notice by the administration to attend an interrogation based on far-right AI-generated allegations against me, while enduring a flood of online harassment, death threats, and abuse by Zionist trolls, exacerbating ongoing unprecedented distress and complications both at work and at home." 

No due process, she claims, no time to consult her attorney. One might ask: if the accusations are baseless, why not simply answer Yale’s questions and be done with it?

This saga unfolds against a broader backdrop. The Trump administration, to its credit, has taken a firm stand against the creeping anti-Semitism plaguing America’s Ivy League. "Immediate action will be taken by the Department of Justice to protect law and order, quell pro-Hamas vandalism and intimidation, and investigate and punish anti-Jewish racism in leftist, anti-American colleges and universities," declares a White House fact sheet. 

Trump promised to deport Hamas sympathizers and revoke student visas—a promise already bearing fruit. Columbia University, another hotbed of such unrest, saw $400 million in federal funding yanked after its feeble handling of anti-Israel protests. On Friday, it capitulated, promising "significant policy changes" to appease the administration.

Doutaghi’s fall is but a symptom of a larger malaise—a moral and intellectual decay within these once-venerable institutions. Yale, which weathered anti-Israel protests and a graduation walkout last year, now finds itself excising a figure whose short-term contract was, conveniently, nearing its April end. One wonders how many more such cases lurk beneath the surface, waiting to be exposed. The reckoning, it seems, has only just begun.

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Former fed officer sentenced for smuggling illegsl aliens and getting paid by cartel

LAREDO, Texas – A former Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer has been sentenced to nearly 10 years in federal prison for two separate crimes: letting undocumented immigrants and cocaine cross the U.S. border, according to U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.

Emanuel Isac Celedon, a 37-year-old from Laredo, admitted guilt on March 11, 2024, for illegally helping undocumented immigrants enter the U.S. through the Lincoln Juarez Port of Entry in Laredo. He also confessed to taking bribes and trying to smuggle cocaine by accepting cash to let what he believed was cocaine come into the U.S. from Mexico.

U.S. District Judge Diana Saldana sentenced Celedon to a total of 117 months (just under 10 years) in prison for both crimes, followed by four years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $17,980. During the hearing, the judge pointed out that Celedon’s job was to stop drugs and unauthorized people from entering the U.S., but he failed at both. She noted that he was heavily involved in the criminal group and seemed eager to get even more involved.

“Anyone who helps or works for the cartel will end up facing serious federal charges,” Ganjei said. “This case is especially disturbing because of the trust the defendant was given in his role. His actions are the opposite of the brave work CBP officers do every day to keep our borders and ports safe.”

In 2023, while working as a CBP officer in Laredo, Celedon reached out to the Cartel del Noreste, a Mexican criminal group, to smuggle drugs and people through his inspection lane for money. During a secret police operation, he showed interest in smuggling cocaine for cash, shared his work schedule, and told a driver with a loaded vehicle to use his lane at the border crossing. He then let the vehicle enter the U.S. without trouble.

Using his position, Celedon allowed several kilograms of what he thought was cocaine into the U.S. on two occasions in October 2023, earning $6,000 in return. Investigations also showed he worked with at least three others to sneak undocumented immigrants into the country without proper checks. Celedon gave his lane assignment to Homero Romero-Hernandez, a 32-year-old Mexican national, who passed it to Jose Osvaldo Zapata-Vasquez, a 25-year-old with cartel connections. Zapata-Vasquez then hired Beatris Guadalupe Martinez, a 22-year-old from Cotulla, to drive.

Zapata-Vasquez gave Martinez directions based on Celedon’s tips about when to pick up immigrants in Mexico and which lane to use at the border. Evidence showed Martinez drove people through Celedon’s lane at least nine times between September and November 2023. Each time, Celedon let them in without checking the passengers. On at least two occasions, he even entered fake information into a CBP system to avoid sending Martinez for a required second inspection.

Celedon also asked Zapata-Vasquez and Romero-Hernandez to tell smugglers in Mexico that he was doing his part to help the cartel’s efforts. When he was arrested, police found $1,980 in cash on him, which he admitted came from smuggling people.

Judge Saldana had already sentenced Zapata-Vasquez to 46 months, Romero-Hernandez to 36 months, and Martinez to 42 months in prison. Celedon will stay in custody until he’s moved to a federal prison, which will be decided soon.

The investigation was carried out by several agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), and CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility, with help from other law enforcement groups.

This case is part of a larger effort called the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), which targets major criminal organizations threatening the U.S. It also ties into Joint Task Force Alpha (JTFA), a Department of Homeland Security program focused on stopping cartels and human smuggling networks in Mexico and Central America that affect U.S. border security.

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