Saturday, April 11, 2026

US military begin mission to clear mines in Strait of Hormuz, says CENTCOM

Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121)
(Photo US Navy)

In a region long accustomed to the theatrics of revolutionary bluster and the quiet calculus of power, the United States has once again demonstrated that freedom of navigation is not a slogan but a necessity enforced by steel and resolve. While negotiations between Washington and Tehran stutter onward in Pakistan, U.S. Central Command has moved with characteristic directness: its forces have begun the deliberate, painstaking work of clearing Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz, that narrow artery through which a fifth of the world's oil once flowed, now choked by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as an act of economic self-harm.

“USS Frank E. Peterson (DDG 121) and USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112) transited the Strait of Hormuz and operated in the Arabian Gulf as part of a broader mission to ensure the strait is fully clear of sea mines previously laid by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps,” CENTCOM stated plainly.

This marks the first transit by American guided-missile destroyers through those contested waters since the current hostilities with Iran erupted, a quiet but unmistakable signal that the era of Iranian impunity in international sea lanes is drawing to a close.

Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of CENTCOM, put the matter with naval understatement: “Today, we began the process of establishing a new passage and we will share this safe pathway with the maritime industry soon to encourage the free flow of commerce.”

The two destroyers had been operating in the Arabian Sea before making their crossing. CENTCOM was at pains to remind the world what should require no reminder: the Strait of Hormuz is “an international sea passage and an essential trade corridor that supports regional and global economic prosperity.” Additional American forces, including underwater drones, will join the clearance operation in the coming days.

One cannot help but note the irony. The regime in Tehran, which has spent decades railing against “imperialist” interference while happily profiting from the very global commerce it now seeks to disrupt, has once again overplayed its hand. By sowing mines in waters that belong to no single nation, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have not only endangered innocent mariners and spiked energy prices worldwide; they have invited the very response they claim to dread. The United States, for its part, is not engaged in conquest but in restoration, reopening a chokepoint that serves Arabs, Europeans, Asians, and yes, even the Iranian people far more than it serves the clerical elite clinging to power through provocation.

As the destroyers cut through those historically fraught waters, the message is clear: chokeholds on global trade will not be tolerated indefinitely. Civilization, after all, runs on predictable lanes of commerce, not on the capricious threats of a theocracy that mistakes mine-laying for strategy.

The work of clearing the strait is technical and dangerous; the principle behind it is simple and ancient. The seas must remain open.

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MN fraud suspect on the run, forfeits bond

Joe Thompson was the lead prosecutor that helped uncover the massive $250 million Feeding Our Future food fraud case tied to the state's Somali community. (AP Newsroom)

Abdirashid Ismail Said allegedly ran multiple Medicaid-funded agencies despite being barred after a prior fraud conviction.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) recaps his confrontation with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over alleged fraud in his state on 'Hannity.'

A man accused of orchestrating an $11 million Medicaid fraud scheme in Minnesota skipped a scheduled court appearance this week, prompting a warrant for his arrest, authorities said. Abdirashid Ismail Said, 50, failed to appear for a pre-trial hearing in Hennepin County, forfeiting his bond, according to FOX 9, citing the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a statement that his office is working with federal authorities to locate Said.

"A warrant has been issued for Said's arrest after he failed to appear for a pre-trial hearing," Ellison told the outlet. "My Medicaid Fraud Control Unit is working with federal law enforcement to locate Said and ensure he faces justice for the fraud he committed. This is a deeply frustrating setback, however, I remain committed to doing everything I can to hold Said and other Medicaid fraudsters accountable."

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison speaks at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on Capitol Hill. (Tom Brenner/AP Photo)

Said posted a $150,000 unconditional bond to avoid stricter conditions, including surrendering his passport, while a $50,000 conditional bond would have required it, according to FOX 9. Investigators also raised concerns about Said’s potential to flee, citing family ties abroad, according to FOX 9.

Prosecutors charged Said with racketeering and multiple counts of aiding and abetting theft by swindle in connection with an alleged scheme that defrauded Minnesota’s Medicaid program of nearly $11 million, according to the criminal complaint.

The complaint alleges Said carried out the scheme, from 2019 through 2023, by secretly operating multiple Medicaid-funded home health care agencies despite being barred from working with such programs following a prior fraud conviction.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz fields questions during a press conference about federal detention of children at the State Capitol building on Feb. 3, 2026, in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Authorities said Said and his co-conspirators billed Medicaid for services that were never provided, weren’t properly recorded or were backed by fake paperwork. Investigators also allege the group billed for services that weren’t eligible for payment and charged more than they should have.

According to court documents, the scheme involved millions of dollars in fraudulent billing, including more than $4.6 million paid to one agency based on falsified documentation. Investigators also found nearly $1 million was billed for clients who denied receiving services, along with more than $300,000 in overbilling and more than $5.8 million in claims that were not documented or were fraudulently documented.

Court records show Said was convicted of Medicaid fraud in 2022, ordered to pay $77,000 and barred from working with any Medicaid-funded agency, a restriction prosecutors allege he later violated.

The case has raised new concerns about oversight of taxpayer-funded programs, as state leaders, including Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison, have faced mounting criticism over their handling of fraud in Minnesota.

The development comes amid broader concerns over fraud in Minnesota, including the sprawling "Feeding Our Future" case, in which prosecutors allege defendants created fake meal programs and fraudulently claimed more than $250 million in federal funds.

Former Acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson has suggested fraud across some programs could total billions of dollars, potentially reaching $9 billion.

State officials have faced ongoing questions about oversight of taxpayer-funded programs, with critics pointing to additional fraud cases involving Medicaid and welfare spending.

Ellison, whose office has brought multiple fraud cases, appeared before Congress earlier this year to address concerns about enforcement and oversight.

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POTUS says the US is "starting the process of clearing out" Strait of Hormuz


The United States is beginning to clear sea mines laid by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz as the two-week ceasefire remains in effect, President Trump announced on Saturday morning.

Trump said the only threat that Iranian forces had left was that a ship may “bunk” into their sea mines, which the Islamic regime apparently can’t locate. Trump suggested this was the case because Iran doesn’t have the means to retrieve them.

“All 28 of their mine dropper boats are also lying at the bottom of the sea,” he wrote on Truth Social. [You gotta love 'mine dropper boats'. Technically they're called minelayers.]

“We’re now starting the process of clearing out the Strait of Hormuz as a favor to Countries all over the World, including China, Japan, South Korea, France, Germany, and many others,” he said. “Incredibly, they don’t have the Courage or Will to do this work themselves.”

Shortly before the announcement, Axios reported several U.S. Navy ships crossed the strait on Saturday in a move that was not coordinated with the Islamic regime.

Iranian state media reported that Tehran threatened to attack a U.S. destroyer if it continued sailing toward the Strait of Hormuz, communicating their warning to a mediator in Pakistan. The U.S. did not receive word of such a warning, according to an Axios reporter.

Both sides are engaging in peace talks in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Saturday after a tentative deal to pause the fighting was made earlier this week. Vice President JD Vance is heading the U.S. delegation.

A U.S. official said the operation was “focused on freedom of navigation through international waters,” referring to the sea mine recovery efforts.

Trump continues to boast that much of Iran’s military capabilities are destroyed and its senior leaders, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have been killed.

“Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti Aircraft apparatus is nonexistent, Radar is dead, [not Radar O'Reilly from M*A*S*H* since capitalizing that word might have confused older readers] their Missile and Drone Factories have been largely obliterated along with the Missiles and Drones themselves and, most importantly, their longtime ‘Leaders’ are no longer with us, praise be to Allah,” he said in a comment appearing to mock Islam.


Look, this is classic Trump, turning a military mop-up into a global public service announcement while the mullahs are still pretending they have a navy. The Iranians spent years bragging about their "asymmetric warfare" with those cheap little mine boats, and now all 28 of them are decorating the seafloor like some kind of underwater parking lot for losers.

The man is out here doing the world a solid, clearing the Strait of Hormuz so China and Europe do not have to get their soft little hands dirty, and they are still too cowardly to say thank you. 

Meanwhile, Tehran is issuing threats through Pakistani middlemen like it's 1979 all over again. Newsflash, guys, your destroyers are at the bottom of the ocean, your leaders are checking in with Allah and the Goats, and nobody in Washington even got the memo on your big scary warning.

This is what winning looks like when you actually have a president who is not interested in managed decline. The mullahs are finished, their toys are smashed, and Trump is out here mocking them in their own holy language. Praise be, indeed.

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Friday, April 10, 2026

Eric "Gasman" Swalwell's staffer drops a bunker buster re: sexual assault, exposing self


Sexual harassment allegations have been amplified online by Democrat-aligned politicos targeting Rep. Eric "Methane Monster" Swalwell (D-CA), one of the leading leftist candidates in California’s gubernatorial race.

Amid repeated denials and cease and desist letters sent by Swalwell’s lawyer, one of the alleged victims shared her story publicly for the first time, accusing Swalwell of taking advantage of her while she was 'plastered' on multiple occasions, according to a damning report published by the San Francisco Chronicle Friday. 

The alleged victim’s story also included claims that Swalwell pressured her to send naked pictures of herself and sent sexually explicit photos of his own, pulled out his junk while driving in a car with her and requesting she perform fellatio on him, among other disgusting incidents the victim said exposed how Swalwell treated her. But overall, he’s just a swell guy.

The unnamed female accuser, who spoke to the San Francisco Chronicle, reportedly worked for Swalwell for about two years and revealed that he started pursuing her, despite being married, shortly after she was hired as a young 21-year-old staffer in his district office. On multiple occasions, the young staffer recalls blacking out from alcohol consumption, before waking up naked in Swalwell’s hotel bed with signs she had engaged in intercourse. Swalwell allegedly distanced himself after the incident, and their relationship faded, before reuniting when she no longer worked for him, during which another incident allegedly took place.


“Eric Swalwell should immediately drop out,” Democratic strategist Bhavik Lathia said after the San Francisco Chronicle’s report dropped. “It is damning.” And hey, isn’t it coincidental how all the garbage stories come out just before elections?

Former San Jose Mayor and fellow Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate in California, Matt Mahan, also called on Swalwell to “drop out,” in order to improve his anemic chances of winning.

“To the survivor who risked everything to come forward, I believe you,” he said. “To the Democratic Party – you’d better hold him accountable,” Mahan said. They always believe the woman unless she’s a Democrat.

“If we don’t, we have no credibility asking anyone else to do the same,” he continued.Sen. Ruben Gallego, (D-AZ) a longtime friend of Swalwell who faced backlash earlier this week for trying to discredit allegations against the California Democrat, posted on Friday that he “regret[s] having come to his defense on social media prior to knowing all the information. I am equally as shocked and upset about what has transpired.”

“What is described is indefensible. Women who come forward with accounts like this deserve to be heard with respect, not questioned or dismissed,” Gallego said. “I am withdrawing my endorsement of Congressman Swalwell, effective immediately.”

If the 'Gasman' was cooking a bird, that goose is done. 

Swalwell recently said during a press gaggle that the allegations are “false,” including allegations that Swalwell previously pressured female staffers to sign non-disclosure agreements so they cannot speak out, or that he was involved in an alleged hush money settlement. 

Maybe he only sleeps with Chinese spies.

“It’s false. And also some of the allegations I’ve seen, which is that we’ve had NDAs in the office – never. There’s never been an allegation, and there’s never been a settlement,” Swalwell insisted this week.

“This false, outrageous rumor is being spread 27 days before an election begins by flailing opponents who have sadly teamed up with MAGA conspiracy theorists because they know Eric Swalwell is the frontrunner in this race,” Micah Beasley, a spokesperson for Swalwell, also said on Tuesday.

Cheyenne Hunt, a former Capitol Hill staffer who is currently a nonprofit director at the group Gen-Z for Change, is among the voices acting as a proxy for alleged Swalwell accusers and has been helping amplify their stories to screw him in a different way that he allegedly asked for. 

On Friday, Hunt blasted Swalwell for “tak[ing] a page out of the Trump playbook by attempting to silence women,” with cease and desist letters he allegedly sent out late Thursday night ahead of the San Francisco Chronicle’s report sharing a first-hand account from one of Swalwell’s alleged accusers.

The alleged victim, who began working for Swalwell during his short-lived presidential campaign in 2019, said a married Swalwell, who was 38, began pursuing her, including through messages on Snapchat, which allows users to send photos that subsequently disappear after someone has looked at them. She claimed the relationship rapidly progressed as Swalwell began asking for pictures of her face, then her naked body and eventually her genitalia. When messaging, the victim alleged Swalwell would sometimes send shirtless selfies or other images of his own genitalia, a là Anthony Weiner style.

Swalwell tried to kiss the alleged victim in her car when she drove him home from a donor meeting one night, and on another occasion he allegedly pulled out his sad penis while in the vehicle and asked her to perform oral sex on him. 

She admitted to doing the deed in a parking lot, but soon stopped out of fear someone might see them.

Meanwhile, in September 2019, the alleged victim, who was then working in Swalwell’s Castro Valley district office, reportedly said Swalwell invited her out for dinner and drinks when she drank too much and blacked out. She claimed to have not even remembered leaving the restaurant, but was woken up in Swalwell’s hotel room the next day with vaginal soreness indicative of sexual intercourse. 

She also reportedly had a brief memory of Swalwell sucking her toes [and she hadn't even washed her feet].

After the September 2019 incident at Swalwell’s hotel, the victim said the pair’s relationship faded as Swalwell distanced himself from her and began treating her more formally during public interactions because he's a fickle finklefuts. 

The woman eventually stopped working for Swalwell, but stayed in politics and noted Swalwell would occasionally remain in touch with her, including reaching out when she was looking for a job. It isn't known whether his wife was aware of his sexcapades. 

However, the woman claimed that five years later, while attending an April 2024 charity event Swalwell was being honored at, the pair reunited. She was not working for Swalwell at this later date, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The woman indicated that she and Swalwell went out for drinks after the event, during which, once again, she became inebriated and claims that she could only remember bits and pieces about the night, and a funny odor.

Smells his fingers, for some reason

“Even though he had hurt me in the past, I felt like he was someone I could trust,” the alleged victim said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. “Because we shared this secret together, it pulled me closer to him.”

According to the San Francisco Chronicle’s reporting on the alleged victim’s experiences, one moment she did remember from the night was pushing Swalwell away and telling him “no” as he allegedly tried to force her to have sex with him, which can be construed as illegal in some jurisdictions such as the United States of America and beyond.

The woman reportedly texted a friend after the incident telling her she had been sexually assaulted by Swalwell. Other messages reviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle reportedly showed the victim indicating she had “blacked out” but “woke up once during it and even told him to stop at one point.”

“This happened one other time when I was working with him, but I convinced myself I was an equal party in it even though same pattern: I blacked out and he had sex with me,” the alleged victim wrote, referring to the 2019 incident, according to the San Francisco Chronicle’s reporting. The outlet also indicated it spoke with the friend the victim was allegedly texting, as well as the woman’s then-boyfriend who she reportedly told about the assault the next day. The boyfriend reportedly encouraged her to report Swalwell at the time.

However, she did not go to the authorities at the time, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, because she was afraid she would not be believed. Medical records reportedly showed she did obtain a pregnancy and STD test a week following the incident.

Swalwell subsequently messaged the alleged victim after the 2024 incident and told her not to tell anyone about their interaction that night, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. “He even sent me a message: you said you didn’t remember anything last time i [sic] hope you do now,” the alleged victim reportedly texted her friend three days after the incident. “And i said: yeah I’m trying to forget thanks.”

“He was sending messages like we just had a romantic encounter like he knows what he’s doing,” the alleged victim also allegedly wrote to her friend at the time. “He was gaslighting me into thinking it was consensual.” [Interesting use of the term gaslighting in Swalwell's case.]

Swalwell’s alleged victim began talking to the San Francisco news outlet roughly a month ago, as she was weighing whether to go public with her allegations as they began anonymously surfacing online.

The victim was confused how the rumors began, considering she only told family and a small group of friends about the incident. [All of whom were likely Democrats, so that answers that question.] 

The victim reportedly called the Swalwell campaign in March to see if her name had surfaced among the rumored victims, to which one of Swalwell’s staffers reportedly asked her to vouch for Swalwell.

“He was so confident that I would stay silent that he wasn’t scared,” she said of Swalwell.“I have no skin in the game of who becomes governor of California, but I feel people have a right to know whether the person who leads a state that is a safe haven for so many women actually treats women with dignity and will protect their rights,” continued the woman, who still works on Capitol Hill, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. “No one protected me from him, and so I have to protect the other young women like me who aspire to work in this field and he could prey upon.”

As to the victim, Nancy Pelosi has been ruled out.

Late Thursday night, Swalwell’s attorney, Elias Dabaie, sent a cease-and-desist letter that Hunt, one of the individuals amplifying Swalwell’s accuser’s claims, argues is an effort to intimidate those trying to speak up about Swalwell’s history with women.

“Today we learned [Swalwell] is intimidating survivors, serving cease and desist letters on those coming forward with stories of sexual harassment and abuse. He sent this threat in the dead of night — another attempt to delay the truth,” Hunt wrote on social media, attaching a copy of the first letter of the cease and desist letter she claimed to have obtained.

“This is what it looks like when powerful men get caught,” Hunt continued. “These cease and desists are a disgusting abuse of power against brave women who are courageously working together to share their stories. It begs the question: if Swalwell has done nothing wrong, as his campaign claims, why not let the women tell their stories in the light of day? Our team remains steadfast. We will not relent. The women will not recant.”

Oh boy, here we go again, folks. Another day, another Democrat big shot caught with his pants down, literally, and the left is doing what they do best: circling the wagons while pretending they care about women. 

Eric Swalwell, the walking national security risk who once thought sleeping with a Chinese spy was just “part of the job,” is now staring down credible accusations of sexual misconduct that would make even Bill Clinton blush. But sure, let’s all pretend this is just a “MAGA conspiracy” and not the same pattern we’ve seen from one Democrat after another.

Look, the facts are laid out, and the hypocrisy is thicker than the fog in San Francisco. Swalwell’s team is out there screaming “false” and “outrageous rumor,” yet women are coming forward with details that line up, texts that exist, and friends who back it up. 

Meanwhile, the same party that spent years screaming “believe all women” is suddenly very quiet unless it’s convenient.

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Kamala Harris considers losing another presidential election

Harris doing her best attempt at sounding Black

Former Vice President Kamala Hahaharris (D) spoke at the National Action Network Convention with the hardly Rev. Al Sharptongue where she attacked the President and spoke with her black accent, but through her nose. She called President Trump a "mob boss" and made a poor attempt to impersonate him.

She also entertained us with her signature, nervous laugh.

She was interviewed by the race baiter and said that she's considering another attempt at running for president in 2028. Republicans are hoping she runs, because that would practically guarantee a win for the GOP.

“I’m thinking about it,” Harris honked, adding that her decision will depend on whether she believes she is the best person for the job.

“I spent countless hours in my West Wing office, footsteps away from the Oval Office. Countless hours in the Oval Office and the Situation Room,” she claimed. “I know what the job is and I know what it requires.”

So why didn't she do the least of what was asked of her as so called Border Czar?

"Giggles" also emphasized her broader message to voters, arguing that Americans are frustrated with government inefficiency. Drawing on her travels across the country, she said people “don’t want process, they want progress,” and stressed a need to cut government bureaucracy.

Speculation about Harris’s 2028 plans has laughingly grown in recent months, particularly after she declined to run for governor of California because she knew she'd lose. That decision was widely seen as keeping the door open for a presidential bid, but read the previous sentence.


While news of Harris possibly running again excited conservatives eager to see another “failed presidential run,” 

Sharpton, in the hope of perhaps getting a 'little trim', praised her during the interview, telling the audience that Democrats had already effectively chosen her when they voted for President Joe Biden.

“When we ended up with President Biden stepping back, there were some that said we need a primary, and we said we already had it. When we voted for Biden, we voted for Harris.”

No, when you vote in a presidential election, you generally vote based on who's running for president, not vice president.

Harris went on to rip Trump’s SAVE America Act, equating it to a poll tax and urging voters to check their registration status, claiming Trump has “cleaned voter rolls.”

Run Kamala, run.

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Tucker's rating circle the bowl after Trump tongue-lashes him


Tucker Carlson, the neo anti-Israel and anti-Semitic podcaster former Fox News host and neo podcaster whose neo outspoken opposition to the Iran war has strained his relationship with President Donald Trump, has seen his personal ratings circle the toilet bowl, including among Republicans, according to a new YouGov poll.

The survey was commissioned by UMass-Lowell between March 26-30. It found that Carlson’s overall favorability rating is now at a dismal 17%, with 38% viewing him like a pox. Nearly one-third of respondents said they had no opinion of him, and 15% had never heard of him.

Among Republicans, Carlson’s favorability rating is now just at 31%, with 24% viewing him unfavorably, and 35% offering no opinion for fear of being labeled liberal by the 24%. 

Interestingly, a Manhattan Institute poll of Republicans conducted in December 2025 found 63% of Republicans viewed Carlson favorably, with 21% viewing him unfavorably.

On Thursday night, Trump launched a powerful social media attack against the anti-Semite Carlson and other like-minded podcasters. He called Carlson as a “broken man” who never recovered from being fired by Fox News in 2023. 


President Trump’s post also included biting attacks against conspiracy-theorizing podcasters Candace Owens, Megyn Kelly and Alex Jones, calling them all “nut-jobs,” “troublemakers” and “low IQ” individuals.

The poll was conducted two weeks before Trump’s verbal bombs against Carlson and the far-right podcasters. That would suggest that their standing with conservatives has more room to fall in future polling.

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Anti-Semite scumcrumpet Mahmoud Khalil may soon be gone

They hate America yet hate to leave

An immigration appeals board has issued a final order of removal for the anti-Israel/anti-Semitic protester Mahmoud Khalil. This decision advances the Trump administration’s determined effort to deport the execrable Columbia University graduate, according to his own legal team.

The Justice Department’s Board of Immigration Appeals ruled on Thursday to deny Khalil’s bid to dismiss the case. It marks a significant development in the administration’s broader push to remove him from the United States, a place he does not belong.

Khalil, a thirty-one-year-old lawful permanent resident, has found himself at the center of a federal crackdown on noncitizens involved in anti-Israel campus protests tied to the war in Gaza. He was, after all, the first person whose arrest became publicly known as part of that crackdown. 

His legal team wasted little time in blasting the decision. They called it “baseless and politically motivated,” insisting that the government is retaliating against his speech and lacks any real evidence to support the case [other than his disgusting hubris about Israel].

“In all my decades as an immigration lawyer, I have never seen such a baseless and politically motivated decision,” Khalil’s lead attorney, Marc Van Der Hout, said in a statement issued by the American Civil Liberties Union. “The BIA’s decision has absolutely no support in the record, violates a federal court order, and we’ll be fighting it until the end.”

The Trump administration, for its part, has argued that Khalil’s protest activity was “aligned with Hamas,” a claim cited repeatedly by the Department of Homeland Security and other officials, though authorities have not publicly detailed any specific evidence linking him to the terrorist group.

Khalil has also denied allegations of anti-Semitism. Officials have further invoked a rare foreign policy provision of U.S. immigration law, sometimes referred to as a “Rubio determination,” along with alleged issues tied to his green card application.

Despite the ruling, Khalil’s attorneys insist he cannot be deported while his separate federal habeas case continues to play out in court.

A federal judge in New Jersey previously found that the government’s justification for detaining Khalil was likely unconstitutional and ordered his release. After his arrest, Khalil spent 104 days in immigration detention, missing the birth of his first child, before that same judge ordered him freed.

Khalil later suffered a setback when a U.S. appeals panel ruled that the New Jersey judge had overstepped his authority. In a two-to-one decision, the panel held that the case must proceed through the immigration court system before it can be challenged in federal court. His lawyers are now requesting that the full appeals panel reconsider that decision. They have even asked one of the judges to step aside over his prior role as a Justice Department official involved in investigating student protesters.

Khalil himself has denied any wrongdoing and described the entire case as an attempt to silence him. After all, being an anti-Zionist isn't code for being an anti-Semite, right? Oh wait--it turns out it is. 

And like entitled children, they never clean up after themselves

“I am not surprised by this decision from the biased and politically motivated Board of Immigration Appeals,” he said in a statement released by the ACLU. “I have committed no crime. I have broken no law. The only thing I am guilty of is speaking out against the genocide in Palestine, and this administration has weaponized the immigration system to punish me for it.” 

“My family is here. My life is here,” he added. “I reject any attempt to intimidate me out of my home based on lies and ideological attacks. This is not justice. This is just another attempt to retaliate against me.”

Khalil, a prominent organizer of the anti-Israel protests that rocked Columbia University in 2024, was initially arrested in 2025 at his university-owned apartment in New York City. Homeland Security Investigations informed him at the time that they were revoking his green card, as he is merely a guest in this country. 

He was later transferred to a detention centre in Louisiana.

He had played a major role in those protests and had even met with school officials on behalf of Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a coalition pushing the university to divest from Israel. He completed the requirements for a Columbia master’s degree in late 2024.

Born in Syria, he is the grandson of Palestinians who were forced to leave their homeland, his lawyers noted in a legal filing. His wife, an American citizen, gave birth to their child while he was still in detention.


The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, previously defended the administration’s actions. She stated plainly that Khalil had allegedly distributed pro-Hamas propaganda fliers on campus, a place where it was unsafe for Jewish students to attend as they were attacked by anti-Israel anti-Semites.

“This administration is not going to tolerate individuals having the privilege of studying in our country and then siding with pro-terrorist organizations that have killed Americans,” Leavitt told reporters. She noted that on her desk sat the very “pro-Hamas propaganda fliers with the logo of Hamas” that Khalil was accused of distributing because there is evidence that he was.

“We have a zero-tolerance policy for siding with terrorists, period,” she said.

And Khalil is a terrorist supporter while not having the testicular magnitude to kill alongside them.

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Cross-dressing man livid that he cannot compete against women in darts competition


XX-XY Athletics founder Jennifer Sey weighs in on a disc golfer refusing to play against a transgender athlete on America Reports.

After the Darts Regulation Authority, DRA, passed a new policy that prohibits dudes from competing in women's competitions, a cross-dressing man whose best chance of winning the competition spoke out to blast the decision. 

Noa-Lynn van Leuven, the aforementioned cross-dresser of the Netherlands spoke out against the new policy on Thursday.


"Apparently, I just got retired, not by choice, but because I’m no longer allowed to compete," Van Leuven said in an Instagram video. 

Not true: he's just not allowed to compete in the women's competition and must compete against other men to level the playing field, as the kids say.

"I’ve worked so damn hard for years just to get here. I showed up, I competed. I respected the sport every game, every single day. And now, with just one decision, I’m being told I don’t belong anymore. This isn’t just about me. This is another huge hit for the trans community."

Van Leuven suggested taking further action to be able to participate in women's competitions.

"This isn’t the end. I’m just going back to the drawing board. I’m not done fighting," the player said.

Van Leuven had competed in the Women’s Series of the Professional Darts Corporation, and, in 2024, he became the first transgender [read cross-dressing] player to play at the PDC World Darts Championship women's competition.


The DRA said in a statement Thursday that it had begun a review of its policies in 2025. It included commissioning a report from "an academic developmental biologist who has published several papers on sex and categories in sport. The DRA has also considered extensive legal advice."

"As a result of its review, the DRA is satisfied that to achieve fair competition in darts, only biological females should be eligible to compete in women’s tournaments regulated by DRA Rules," it said.

By 'biological females' the DRA means females because all females are biological females and the only o other gender is male.

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