IAF airstrikes kills 8 Hezbollah scumbuckets in Lebanon

Israeli airstrikes hammered eastern Lebanon late Friday, taking out eight members of Hezbollah, the Islamic terror group, including several local officials, according to two sources inside the organization.

The Lebanese Health Ministry bumped the overall death toll to 10 but conveniently declined to specify how many were militants versus civilians. This is the same game Hamassholes play when they give the media statistics about Gaza deaths, and the media believes them without question.

Those Hezbollonian officials, spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they weren't cleared to yap about it, confirmed the eight fighters were eliminated near the village of Rayak in northeast Lebanon. An AP crew on the ground Saturday morning confirmed the damage: the top floor of a three-story building was completely obliterated.

The Israeli military on Saturday, announced that several members of Hezbollah's missile unit were "eliminated" across three separate command centers in the Baalbek area. They added that the targets were "operating to accelerate readiness and force build-up processes, while planning fire attacks toward Israel."

One Hezbollah source named three of the dead as local commanders: Ali al-Moussawi, Mohammed al-Moussawi, and Hussein Yaghi. Yaghi was the son of prominent Hezbollah figure and founding member Mohammed Yaghi, who passed away in 2023. Mohammed Yaghi had also served as a close aide to the late Hezbollah boss Hassan Nasrallah, who was blown to bitesize pieces by an Israeli airstrike in September 2024.

Lebanon's Health Ministry reported Saturday that the strikes across eastern Lebanon killed 10 people and wounded 24, including three children.

Ali Abdullah, executive director of Rayak Hospital, told the media that the strike hit after sunset. They received 10 bodies and 21 wounded. Among the dead were two non-Lebanese: a Syrian man and an Ethiopian woman. The wounded included five Syrians and three Ethiopians. Ethiopians, of course, frequently end up in Lebanon as migrant domestic workers.

A funeral took place Saturday afternoon in the eastern village of Nabi Chit for two of the Hezbollah members killed in the strikes.

This all traces back to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamasshole-led attack on Israel that ignited the Gaza war. Hezbollah jumped in almost immediately, launching rockets from Lebanon into Israel in solidarity with Hamas and the Palestinians. Israel hit back with airstrikes and artillery. What started as a low-boil skirmish exploded into full-scale war in September 2024, only to be partially cooled, but not ended, by a U.S.-brokered ceasefire two months later.

Since then, Israel has repeatedly called out Hezbollah for trying to rearm and rebuild, responding with near-daily strikes targeting militants and facilities. Hezbollah has fired exactly one claimed strike into Israel since the truce.

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Friday's body count stands out as unusually high and lands amid spiking regional tensions. The United States has warned it could strike Iran, a key backer of both Hezbollah and Hamas, if talks over Tehran’s nuclear program collapse and no deal materializes.

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Woke woman Alex Taylor Fontenot faces stiff prison sentence for threatening to kill ICE agents: "just a joke"

Alex Taylor Fontenot, a woke 27-year-old woman from Lake Charles, Louisiana, has been federally indicted on charges of making threats in interstate commerce. Prosecutors allege she posted a social media video threatening U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, stating that if they entered her home, they would leave "in a body bag" and be "dropped like flies." 

She reportedly described herself as "crazy" and expressed eagerness to confront what she called a "tyrannical government uprising."

Well she may be crazy, but not so crazy as to now claim that she was simply joking about the killing/body bag thingy. She evidently FAed and now is about to FO.

The indictment was issued on February 4, 2026, following an FBI investigation prompted by the video seen in part above. 

If convicted, she faces up to 5 years in federal prison and 3 years of supervised release. However, my guess is she'll be given a pat on the hand and maybe some supervision, but I don't think there will be any hard time for her to face.

Recent coverage describes her as now claiming the statements were "just a joke" and expressing concern about her life being ruined, though federal authorities treated the statements as credible threats rather than humor.

This case has circulated widely on social media, often highlighted by accounts critical of left-leaning or anti-ICE views, with some framing it as an example of "leftist extremists." 

The ordeal of having to go to court and face possible incarceration may be enough to keep other cretinous-like leftists/anarchists from copying her example. These people tend to be more like keyboard warriors rather than actual ones.

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Anti-ICE thug who threw rocks at Feds faces big time fallout

A violent rioter who nearly killed a federal officer by chucking rocks through a car window during last summer's unhinged anti-ICE meltdowns in Los Angeles County finally pleaded guilty on Tuesday to assaulting a federal officer. Rocks, as you may know, are the objects thrown at non-Islamic folks such as gays, women who refuse to wear cloth coffins, and atheists, and are frequently killed by them.

Elpidio Reyna, 41, copped to one count of assault with a deadly or dangerous weapon resulting in bodily injury. He was among the dozens of geniuses rounded up after the riots kicked off when ICE actually started doing its job in the LA area.

"This defendant could have easily killed a federal officer or innocent bystander," said First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Essayli. "As he found out the hard way, violence against law enforcement is not constitutionally protected and will be met with swift justice. Those who engage in similar violence will be arrested, charged, and eventually convicted in a court of law."

Back on June 7, 2025, Reyna decided to join the party, hurling rocks and improvised explosives at federal officers near a Home Depot in Paramount (about 11 miles north of Long Beach, for those keeping score).

"Protestors, including the defendant, began to throw rocks at the officers' official vehicles, lit objects on fire, and impeded law enforcement activity. During this, defendant knowingly and intentionally lit objects on fire in the middle of the street and threw rocks at a convoy of law enforcement vehicles occupied by Customs and Border Protection Officers," according to the plea agreement.

One rock smashed through a window and sliced open a CBP officer's forehead. The Justice Department even released video showing Reyna, decked out in a motorcycle helmet like some kind of wannabe tough guy, pelting vehicles with rocks and chunks of concrete.

The FBI had to dangle a $50,000 reward before someone finally ID'd him from his brilliant TikTok videos. He made the FBI's most wanted list until he turned himself in at the U.S.-Mexico border on July 23 like the hero he isn't.

Reyna now faces up to 20 years when he's sentenced August 7 by U.S. District Judge Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha. He's been cooling his heels in federal custody since July 2025.

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Dozens got pinched during the June-July freak-outs across LA and San Francisco over federal immigration enforcement. The chaos got so bad that President Donald Trump sent in the National Guard to protect federal personnel and property, which of course triggered an epic, months-long legal tantrum from California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom over the "outrage" of actually defending federal law. Classic.

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FBI Dir. Patel is coming for those who are bankrolling Antifa.

We've seen the 2016 anti-Trump rallies, the 2020 George Floyd riots, and the ongoing anti-ICE protests in blue cities since President Trump started trying to clean up the illegal immigration disaster left by former President Joe Biden.

There's been one constant: Antifa.

The group, whose name is short for anti-fascist, is known for their menacing black outfits, complete with masks, and their often violent behavior. They show up as if by magic the moment a demonstration breaks out, and they're not there to keep the peace.

But where does their funding come from? Who's behind it?

FBI Director Kash Patel wanted to know, so he's been investigating it, and he says the bureau has found some answers.

As the Washington Examiner reports, Patel said Wednesday that investigators have uncovered what he described as major funding streams tied to Antifa. The revelation signals possible new enforcement action as the bureau intensifies scrutiny of left-wing violence.

Speaking on "The Dan Bongino Show," Patel said the FBI under President Donald Trump has been conducting a financial investigation into how demonstrations linked to the loosely organized far-left movement are supported.

By the way, all those who think that Bongino left his job as FBI Deputy Director on bad terms would be hard-pressed to explain why then Patel would appear on his show.

The director continued, saying they've identified some culprits, but they're not ready to reveal their identities just yet.

"These organizations don't operate alone or in silence," Patel said. "They operate with a heavy, heavy stream of funding. And we started looking into it, and guess what? We found them."

Patel did not identify specific donors, organizations, or financial mechanisms, but said more details could emerge in the coming months as the investigation continues.

"Money doesn't lie," he added. He also smacked former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden for ignoring the violent activists and calling the decentralized group "an idea." "It's not an idea when actual action follows the idea," he chided them.

Here's what that "idea" looks like in the real world, Barack and Joe: A public safety director at Reed College cooperated with the FBI investigation to identify Robert Jacob Hoopes. In response, the college fired the man, and leftists in public denounced him.

Currently, nine anti-ICE suspects have been charged with ambushing an ICE officer in Texas and wounding him with gunfire. A federal judge declared a mistrial Tuesday, but that was because the defense lawyer was wearing a politically charged T-shirt, about as dumb a thing as you could do as a trial attorney. We'll see where that goes next.

Patel said he had elevated the issue internally, and they're working hard on their case, but he did not announce any new imminent DOJ charges. Let's hope that changes in the near future.

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Iranian air force jet crashes during training execise, pilot killed, RIO survives

Pilot's last words: "What's this thing for?"

Iranian air force jet crashes during training exercise, the pilot was killed and his radar intercept officer (aka Weapons Systems Officer) survived during a training exercise in the Nowbaran district.

The Iranian air force jet crashed during a nighttime training exercise in the Nowbaran district overnight on Thursday, killing one of the pilots, Iranian media reported. Obviously, the two-man crew failed the exercise but they don't really care at this time as they are busy collecting 72 virgins.

Semi-official state-sponsored outlet Mehr News Agency cited Hamzeh Emraei, the Deputy Governor of Hamadan Province for Political, Security, and Social Affairs, as saying that rescue personnel subsequently rushed to the scene of the crash, but alas, it was too late for the pilot whose only goal in life was to destroy Israel and its inhabitants.

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"This afternoon, a training plane crashed in the Nowbaran region, and rescue forces were immediately dispatched to the area," Emraei reportedly said. "The details of the accident are under investigation, and additional information will be announced later."

The F-4 Phantom first flew on May 27, 1958 and entered operational service with the US Navy on December 30, 1960. It saw extensive use in the Vietnam War starting in the mid-1960s and production ran until 1980 with more than 5,190 built, 

If the F-4 was a human being, it would be a  mentally impaired senior citizen, compared to the current military aircraft. It's less maneuverable, slower, and has outdated avionics compared to the F-35 and F-22.

Good luck, Iran.

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Biden administration shielded him from deportation and now he's arrested for brutal beach attack

The Biden administration waved this guy in, shielded him from deportation, and now he's been arrested for trying to drown a woman at a Florida beach. This is the kind of story that makes you wonder what exactly "border security" meant under the old regime under a brain-addled POTUS.

Conservative outlet, The Daily Wire, broke the exclusive: Venezuelan illegal immigrant Said Alexander Hernandez Gonzalez, 26, allegedly targeted a woman who was simply walking and chatting on the phone with her sister around 11 p.m. last Thursday at Tiger Shores Beach in Stuart. 

Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek laid it out during a Monday press conference, and it's as brutal as it sounds.

This guy was paroled into the U.S. in 2023 courtesy of the Biden circus, then handed temporary protected status, which basically slapped a "do not deport" sticker on him, per the Department of Homeland Security's confirmation to the outlet.

Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin's statement: "Said Alexander Hernandez Gonzalez, a product of the Biden administration's open-border policies brutally attacked a woman on the beach and attempted to drown and kill her."

McLaughlin continued: "She bravely fought back and survived this wicked attack. ICE has lodged an immigration detainer with the Martin County Sheriff's office, and because of Florida's cooperation with ICE, this sicko will never walk American streets again. Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the U.S."

Hernandez Gonzalez allegedly came up from behind, grabbed her by the throat, shoved her into the ocean, and held her under in a savage 3-5 minute struggle. The sheriff described how she fought like hell: "During that struggle, she punched him, she grabbed his groin area trying to get him to release her."

He just kept going: "He said he just held her down until she went limp," Budensiek said. Thinking he'd finished the job, the Venezuelan bolted, leaving her unconscious on the beach. Miraculously, she came to and flagged down a nearby officer to report it. Deputies scoured the area for two days with nothing.

Then Sunday night rolls around, a woman calls Port St. Lucie PD saying her boyfriend is "suicidal." Cops show up, and Hernandez Gonzalez starts confessing that he'd murdered a woman on a nearby beach. 

Martin County detectives swooped in, confirmed that he's their guy. He admitted he was at the beach smoking marijuana and drinking vodka when he spotted her, got angry for whatever twisted reason, attacked, and tried to drown her. He told investigators he "stopped when he believed she was dead." Before fleeing, he grabbed her cell phone and chucked it into the ocean.

Then he went back to his car, downed more weed and booze, and took off. And when asked if he felt any remorse? "When asked if he was remorseful, Hernandez Gonzalez stated he felt nothing."

He's now facing attempted murder charges. 

This is the predictable fallout from policies that prioritized catch-and-release over actual enforcement. The victim thankfully survived, but the fact that this monster was here at all, shielded from removal, says everything about the prior administration's priorities. Under the current setup, at least ICE is on it, and Florida's playing ball. 

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Criminal illegals like this shouldn't get a second chance to roam free.

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Another illegal alien truck driver allegedly kills Indiana man: taken into custody

Another day, another preventable tragedy on America's roads courtesy of the open-border disaster that's been raging since the Biden-Harris era kicked off, and yes, folks, this one hits close to home in the heartland yet again.

A truck driver was arrested Wednesday after allegedly blowing through a red light and causing a fatal crash in Hendricks County, Indiana, just west of Indianapolis. And surprise, surprise: multiple federal law enforcement sources confirmed that the suspect is an illegal alien from Punjab, India.

Meet Singh Sukhdeep [pronounced 'Suck-Deep'], yet another Sikh who came here illegally and was given the gift of a Commercial Drivers License (CDL) in spite of not knowing much English.

He first got nabbed crossing the U.S. border illegally back in 2018 . . .  as a minor. Thanks to the infamous 1997 Flores consent decree (you know, the Clinton-era gift that keeps on giving), he was promptly released into the interior instead of being detained. Fast-forward to May 2025, and SIngh somehow scores a commercial driver's license. Now he's accused of killing an innocent American.

The crash is straight out of a nightmare. Eyewitnesses told WXIN (that's Fox affiliate KXIN) that Sukhdeep's Freightliner semi-truck, hauling a trailer, barreled through the red light, smashed into a Chevrolet pickup truck, sent it flying across the median, and then it collided with yet another vehicle. The driver of that Chevy pickup, 64-year-old Terry Schultz, was pronounced dead at the scene. A witness at the scene gave him comfort before he passed.

Sukhdeep is now in ICE custody, where he probably should have been years ago. DHS spoke to Fox News: "This tragedy comes less than two weeks after another illegal alien driving a semi-truck killed four innocent people in Indiana. It is incredibly dangerous for illegal aliens, who often don’t know our traffic laws or even English, to be operating semi-trucks on America's roads. These tragedies are 100% preventable and we pray for the family and victim."

So red lights don't mean stop in India? I don't think so--I was there last week and while the driving is on the verge of lunacy, a red light still means 'stop'.

DHS went on to explain the Flores mess: It stemmed from the 1993 Supreme Court case Reno v. Flores, where civil liberties and immigrant rights groups filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of illegal alien children detained in Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) custody. (INS later became USCIS, for those keeping score.) 

The decree basically mandated that kids who crossed illegally had to be released to a parent or adult relative rather than held. The Trump administration tried to kill this outdated policy in 2019, the year after Sukhdeep crashed the scene, but here we are.

And let's not pretend this is isolated. This horror show unfolded just two weeks after another illegal alien truck driver, Bekzhan Beishekeev from Kazakhstan, allegedly killed four people in yet another Indiana crash. That guy entered via the Biden-era CBP One app in 2023, got released, and later picked up a CDL in Pennsylvania.

Then there's last August's case: Indian illegal alien Harjinder Singh, who got his CDL in California, allegedly made an illegal U-turn, jackknifed his rig, and killed three people. He got slapped with three counts of vehicular homicide. The DOT later revealed the guy bombed an English Language Proficiency test, nailing just 2 of 12 verbal questions and identifying only one out of four highway signs correctly.

So who's passing these guys and why isn't that person being investigated?

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These aren't one-offs. They're patterns. They're policy failures with body counts. And every time another family buries a loved one because someone who shouldn't even be here is behind the wheel of an 80,000-pound death machine, the same tired excuses get trotted out.

Enough is enough. Secure the border, enforce the laws, and stop letting these preventable nightmares keep happening on American soil. Pray for Terry Schultz's family, and for the day when common-sense immigration enforcement actually becomes the norm again.

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Poor New Yorkers form breadline-like formation outside "free" grocery store pop-up

Folks, if there's one thing that can make a New Yorker forget about the rent, the rats, and the guy on the subway playing saxophone covers of death metal, it's the promise of free stuff, or at least stuff others have to pay for, And boy, did Polymarket deliver on that front with their little "first free grocery store" stunt in the West Village. Hundreds lined up like it was Black Friday at a Tiffany's liquidation sale, only instead of diamonds, they were fighting over pasta sauce and Tide Pods. [H/T Fox News Digital]

"New Yorkers are in pain," said Nick from Queens, who paid the recently hiked subway fare to get to Greenwich Village, waiting patiently (or as patiently as a Queens guy can) for his shot at some bath soap and laundry glory.

This whole circus popped up on Feb. 12 as a five-day giveaway courtesy of the crypto prediction market folks at Polymarket, who are apparently feeling the regulatory heat in various states, including the Empire State itself. Critics are calling it a not-so-subtle jab at Democratic NYC Mayor and Comrade Zohran Mamdani's grand plan for communist-style city-run grocery stores to combat the soul-crushing cost of living here. Because nothing says "we're serious about affordability" like a billionaire-backed pop-up that runs out of tickets faster than a politician runs out of excuses.

The scene was pure New York chaos: lines wrapping around the block, people showing up before the sun bothered to rise, and that special anxiety over who snags a yellow ticket before the shelves go barren. It's like musical chairs, but the chairs are cans of soup and the music is the sound of security guards yelling.

As the crowd swelled, so did the drama. Fatima told right-of-center Fox News Digital that she rolled up at 9:00 and got the bad news: "They said that they ran out of tickets."

Sherrod from Jamaica, Queens, got the same brush-off: "They told me that they ran out of tickets. I couldn't get no more food.… I couldn't get access to the store."

Security eventually started herding folks away like stray cats: "Let's go people, let's go. Go home. Do not linger, do not look, do not watch. Please go home." So he paid another recently hiked subway fare and went home, we can suppose.

Charming. Nothing says "welcome to our generous giveaway" like being told to flick off. 

For those who scored tickets, it was a supervised shopping spree: pair up with a staffer, fill a blue tote bag, try not to look too greedy. Some loved it. Nick, who somehow landed fourth in line, praised the security: "Security's been phenomenal. This morning, there was a drunk guy over here harassing a lady... the head security guy... got him out of here. Protecting us."

The drunk guy is nowhere to be found and his family might be looking for him.

Others were less impressed. Michael, chilling outside with his chair like he was tailgating the apocalypse, griped about security's "presentation" when dealing with folks from "florid backgrounds," lacking that customer service polish, apparently. He was down to three cups of soup at home and figured the good stuff would be gone by quitting time.

Sumayah from Brooklyn hit it earlier in the week, snagging two dozen eggs and butter before the shelves turned into a ghost town. Out of work for months and on disability, she said this kind of help could save her $600 a month on food and basics. Still, the chaperoned shopping felt weird: "Someone shops with me and I'm kind of uncomfortable with that... they kind of rushed me through things and I couldn’t get all the stuff that I wanted."

It's like, "Do you really need that? Someone in greater need might need that quart of milk--put it back."

But overall? "Very much needed in New York" because it's free for those getting their ticket.

The turnout proved how desperate things are. Word spreads faster than a funny rash one can get sitting bare-butt on the D train. Sumayah even met someone fresh off a plane from India: "‘Oh my God, I'm in line. I'm coming to get free food.' I'm thinking like, how should I get back on the plane with that?"

Of course, the food in India is extremely cheap and delicious--I returned from India last week and you can have a huge meal for about 5 US bucks. Just don't forget to drink bottled water.

Everyone, ticket or no ticket, hammered the same point: food prices here are insane. Jaquan, homeless and riding the A train in, used to drop $300–500 on groceries living with Mom. Monique blew $200 recently and "didn’t even get much." Sherrod's family of four rings up $400–500 a month. Nick switched to fast food and it's wrecking his health, plus he's a month behind on his phone bill because groceries win every time.

The lucky 300+ who made it inside? Ecstatic. Nick emerged thrilled: "I got the spaghetti. I got orange juice. I like orange juice. I also got some ground beef. They had grass-fed ground beef, they had lean ground beef and the regular ground beef, so I'm really glad I got that. I'm really glad I got the grass-fed."

Polymarket [perverse] says they funded the whole thing, tossed $1 million to the Food Bank for New York City, and even handed out $50 gift cards to the folks stuck at the back of the line. How accommodating.

Shoppers saw it as a teachable moment for Mamdani and his city-owned store dreams: better security, no running out of food, crack down on line-cutters, put them in actual food deserts instead of fancy Manhattan blocks.

Because nothing screams "progressive utopia" like a crypto stunt showing exactly why government grocery stores might end in the same ticket frenzy, security shouts, and dashed hopes.

New Yorkers are in pain, alright. And free Tide Pods aren't fixing it because they still aren't edible, kids. 

So where is the money going to come from to pay for "free" groceries? From us, the taxpayers. And in order to pay for it the taxes are going to need to rise, and with Comrade Mamdani as Mayor, they will--at least the property taxes, because that's all he is allowed to raise. He will try to get NY Gov. Hochul on his communist bandwagon, and with elections coming up for her, it's doubtful she'll go along with his demands. 

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But if he raises property taxes the 9.5% he's saying, this will raise a lot of Big Apple hackles and he might even be challenged by the governor for possible removal from office. I've heard rumors but will not take them seriously unless I see some legal movement to end this communist regime.

Free food is not a bad thing, but it's a no-such thing. Nothing is free and someone has to pay for it. This will drive the richest New Yorkers to think twice about where they want to live.

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