Man Who Thought He Could Play Dirty Harry with Babylon Bee's Seth Dillon Gets the Cuffs

Ah, the sweet symphony of justice: a Florida man who apparently mistook his keyboard for a license to kill has been hauled off in handcuffs. An "edgy intellectual" threatened to murder the guy who runs the Babylon Bee a conservative satire site.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier dropped the good news on X, like a mic at a comedy roast: "Last week, our Office of Statewide Prosecution was notified of multiple death threats made to Jewish conservative media members who live in Florida."

Prosecutors didn't waste time, they slapped together an arrest warrant faster than you can say "First Amendment," and the boys in blue executed it with the precision of a Bee headline. The perp, a 28-year-old idiot named Nicholas Ray (online handle: “zionistarescum," subtle, right?), is now cooling his anti-Semitic heels in custody, staring down "charges of extortion, written threats to kill, and unlawful use of a two-way communication device."

Ray's alleged X feed is a fever dream of Israel-bashing, Trump-trashing, and general Republican-roasting that would make your average campus safe space blush. The Daily Wire, a conservative website, dug through it like archaeologists at a dumpster fire, unearthing posts that scream "unhinged manifesto" louder than a TikTok rant.

This bust hits amid a political violence epidemic that's got more plot twists than a season of The Boys. Just Monday, Seth Dillon himself penned a piece for the Free Press, basically holding up a mirror to the fever swamps on both sides: urging the Right and Left to eyeball their own toxic ideologies and policies before someone else does it for them, with a baseball bat.

Dillon launched The Babylon Bee back in 2016 as a cheeky antidote to the humorless drudgery of "real" news, aiming to "speak truth through humor." Mission accomplished: the site's ballooned to 2.2 million Instagram devotees and over 5 million on X. But success breeds enemies, and pre-Musk Twitter slapped a suspension on Dillon for a zinger about USA Today's "Woman of the Year" pick. (Spoiler: It was a dude.) 

Elon Musk swooped in seven months later, bought the bird app, rebranded it X, and hit the "unban" button like it was payback for every bad tweet ever. Free speech: It's what's for dinner.Lately, the Bee's been slugging it out in court over Gavin Newsom's latest bright idea—a bill cranking down on "deep fake images" that basically hands Big Brother the satire censor's toolkit. The judge sided with the Bee, and their lawyer nailed the coffin shut: “The court was right to rein in California’s blatant censorship. We can’t trust the government to decide what is true in our online political debates.”

Meanwhile, Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) is cranking up the heat with a Tuesday hearing on this plague of politically motivated thuggery. Summer '25 alone? Two Democratic Minnesota lawmakers murdered, and the assassination of Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk.

Schmitt didn't mince words: "The rise of political violence on the left is deeply disturbing and antithetical to American values, disturbs the free exercise of our constitutional rights, and is a threat to our constitutional order."

In a world where threats fly faster than likes on a cat video, it's a reminder: Punch up with jokes, not fists. Or keyboards pretending to be guns. 

Your move, keyboard warriors.

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