Ukrainian woman suspect in Monaco parcel bomb shot dead in Kyiv

Anastasiia Berezovska

Anastasiia Berezovska, is the 39-year-old Ukrainian woman suspected of planting the parcel bomb in Monaco on June 29, 2026. Unfortunately for her, she was found shot dead near Kyiv.

Some of you might not remember or know about the Monaco Bombing so I will provide the facts as we know them.

A shrapnel-packed explosive device detonated in the entrance hall of an apartment building in Monaco, seriously injuring Ukrainian-born businessman Vadym Yermolaiev (a sanctioned oligarch with reported Russia ties), his partner, and their son. Authorities described it as a targeted attack. Berezovska was seen on surveillance disguising herself as a man (heavily built, dark long-sleeved top, light shorts, black bucket hat). She fled the scene on foot, then by car to Germany.Monaco prosecutors and Interpol issued a Red Notice for her on charges including attempted murder, placing an explosive device in a public place with criminal intent, and criminal conspiracy. She was Ukrainian, spoke German, and had a tattoo. German police raided a flat linked to her.

Her body was discovered by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) and the Prosecutor General’s Office on July 6 - 7. She suffered from gunshot wounds to the head where pistol cartridges were on the ground nearby outside Kyiv.  She had been buried and the site with torture tools was also discovered.

A serving Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR/GUR) officer confessed to killing her, along with a former law enforcement officer, who also took the law into his own hands. The officer admitted he acted on his own initiative, without informing superiors, and had prior contacts with Berezovska (including money transfers). 

The two men were detained.

No confirmed motive or direct link has been publicly established between Berezovska’s killing and the Monaco bombing’s organizers. Ukrainian officials emphasize the intelligence officer acted independently. Speculation (unconfirmed in official statements) includes possible Ukrainian intelligence ties to the original attack, given Yermolaiev’s profile and the rapid cross-border developments.

The case raises questions about internal Ukrainian dynamics and risks to sanctioned figures abroad.The bombing obviously shocked Monaco, a hub for wealthy Ukrainians and Russians and fast cars.

This remains an active investigation with cross-border elements (Monaco, Ukraine, Germany, Interpol). 

Details could evolve as more evidence emerges. 

[Sources include: BBC, Reuters, CNN, AP.]

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UN Peacekeepers' Sex Trafficking Legacy Lives On as Doctors Without Borders Joins the Club

The United Nations has a long and disreputable history of peacekeepers running sex trafficking rings, and now the humanitarian aid organization Doctors Without Borders has admitted that it does as well. A new report found a pattern of Doctors Without Borders staffers abusing and sexually exploiting refugees, including underage girls.

These left-wing, anti-Israel groups hide behind fashionable causes and moral posturing, but behind the rhetoric of compassion and justice lies an agenda that is destructive and evil.

" The international aid group Doctors Without Borders found a pattern of abuse and sexual exploitation by some local and foreign staff working in Chad along the Sudanese border, in some cases targeting underage girls or trading food or jobs for sex with refugees, according to a confidential internal memo obtained by The Associated Press," reports the Associated Press.The Doctors Without Borders report completed in July and first reported Saturday by The Associated Press found 59 allegations of abuse and said 18 staff members were dismissed and barred from future employment. In some cases, the group told AP, the allegations couldn’t be verified or the perpetrators identified. The report also said some of the repeated exploitation suggested potentially organized “sexual trafficking.”

The organization said it launched the monthslong investigation in response to AP reporting that women had accused staff of sexually exploiting them in displacement sites in Chad, where hundreds of thousands fled from Sudan’s devastating civil war, now in its fourth year. The report credited AP as playing “a fundamental role as an external whistleblower.” (Associated Press.)

It took over 11 months from the completion of the internal investigation to the disclosure of its findings. Because nothing says "Doctors Without Borders" like taking your sweet time to admit your staff was running a border-adjacent brothel while patting yourselves on the back for saving the world from conservatives.

Truly, the most ethical heroes money can launder.

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Midland, TX gunman dead and ID'd leaves 1 dead, 10 wounded

The FBI is now investigating after one person was killed and 10 others were wounded in a Friday shooting spree in Midland, Texas, because apparently America’s lunatic factory is still operating around the clock and guns are getting more violent and someone needs to speak to them.

The deceased suspect, identified as a 45-year-old man with a Hispanic sounding name allegedly opened fire on officers and innocent bystanders before barricading himself inside an abandoned veterinary clinic in downtown Midland, according to Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Steven Blanco.

Midland Mayor Lori Blong said during a news conference that police used robot and drone footage to confirm the shooter was dead inside the building. Authorities still do not know exactly how Villarreal died, which means the conspiracy theorists are probably already warming up their keyboards.

Of the 11 victims, Midland Memorial Hospital received nine gunshot victims, with four initially rushed into surgery.

The situation began in southeast Midland before spreading across south Midland in what sounds like the sort of chaos no community should ever have to deal with at eight o’clock in the morning. Police were first dispatched at 8:03 a.m. local time after reports of a disturbance involving weapons and shots fired, according to Midland Police Chief Greg Snow.

Naturally, it took a massive multi agency response to contain the situation. The FBI, HSI, Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas Rangers, Odessa Police Department, and sheriff’s offices from both Midland and Ector counties all joined the effort.

Using armored vehicles, Snow said officers were able to safely extract law enforcement personnel who had been pinned down behind their patrol cars. That little detail alone tells you how ugly this situation became.

Police then moved down Highway 80 to rescue civilians trapped in their vehicles, prevent the shooter from finding more targets, and lock down the area before things got even worse.

Snow confirmed that several officers exchanged gunfire with the suspect during the incident, which will now be investigated by the Texas Rangers and DPS.

Meanwhile, FBI El Paso deployed special agents and victim services personnel to assist at the scene.

Midland Memorial Hospital’s main campus was placed on lockdown for nearly two hours during the shooting, because when violent lunatics decide to turn a city into a war zone, everybody’s normal day instantly disappears.

Andrea Mendias told The Associated Press she heard what sounded like a small explosion at the abandoned veterinary clinic next to the body shop where she works and watched heavily armed officers flood the parking lot.

Some officers reportedly entered the building while others deployed robotic equipment into the area.

Mendias also said she heard what sounded like at least 40 gunshots before law enforcement finally cornered the suspect.

Video she recorded showed officers pouring out of an armored police vehicle while robots were sent toward the building, which sounds less like West Texas and more like footage from a failed state.

"Cecilia and I are deeply saddened by the senseless act of violence in Midland," Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wrote in a social media post. "We are praying for the victims, their families, and the entire community."

Blanco later confirmed that Villarreal was also the suspect accused of shooting at police earlier in the week.

"Yes, the identity of the suspect, [redacted because the scumbag doesn't deserve notoriety], age 45, is a suspect from the previous day's shooting," he said.

Midland sits near Odessa, roughly 330 miles west of Dallas and about 300 miles east of El Paso, proving once again that even places far removed from America’s elite urban circus are no longer insulated from violent chaos.

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Anti-Semitic/anti-Israel protester who interrupted Super Bowl LIX halftime show found guilty

The Super Bowl LIX halftime performer who decided to play protester by unfurling a pro-Palestinian flag on the field of the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans has been convicted in court and now faces a fine and possible jail time.

Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu was found guilty of resisting police, according to the Associated Press.

Nantambu, 41, is looking at up to a $500 fine and six months in prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced on June 1.

The guy was originally tapped to be part of Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime performance on Feb. 9, 2025, but things went sideways when he yanked a flag of Sudan and Palestinian territories sewn together out of his wardrobe and took off running across the field waving it like a complete genius.

Security and law enforcement personnel chased Nantambu, but he refused to comply with their commands to stop, according to Louisiana State Police.

Nantambu eventually surrendered. He was booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center on charges of resisting an officer and disturbing the peace by interruption of a lawful assembly.Chief Judge Juana Marine-Lombard this week found him guilty only of the resisting an officer charge, which is a misdemeanor.

"We appreciate the chief judge's careful consideration of the evidence and the decision to hold this individual accountable for resisting law enforcement officers who work every day to protect our communities," Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said in a statement.

While Nantambu's sentencing may or may not land him actual jail time, he does face a steep penalty from the NFL.

The NFL previously banned Nantambu from all future league events for life.

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Swalwell (D) freaks out--threatens legal action against FBI as Patel considers "Fang Fang" files release

Democrat Rep. Eric "Gas Man" Swalwell (CA) is threatening legal action against the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as it reportedly considers releasing potentially damaging files just weeks before he faces voters in California’s wide-open gubernatorial race. 

Never mind that Swalwell was diddling a Communist Chinese spy, he wants his privacy.

Lawyers for below average Swalwell sent a cease-and-desist letter to FBI Director Kash Patel, warning the bureau would violate federal privacy law if it moves ahead with releasing records regarding the congressman’s decade-old relationship with possible Chinese spy named Christine "Fang Fang" Fang.

"[Y]our attempt to release the file is a transparent attempt to smear him and undermine his campaign for Governor of California," Swalwell’s attorneys, Sean Hecker and Norm Eisen, said in a recent letter to Patel obtained by The Associated Press. "Your actions threaten to expose you, others at the FBI, and the FBI itself to significant legal liability. Indeed, disclosure of the investigative file would violate federal law in several respects."

Actually, an investigation might uncover more honey trap Chinese spies working Capitol Hill.

The FBI rejected claims of political motives in a statement to The Washington Post, which it also shared with Fox News Digital.

FBI Director Kash Patel is reportedly weighing the release of files related to Rep. Eric Swalwell's decade-old relationship with suspected Chinese intelligence operative Christine "Fang Fang" Fang.

"This FBI, being the most transparent in history, prepares documents for numerous different reasons, including for release to different agencies and departments to further review investigations that may have been opened under previous administrations," an FBI spokesperson said.

The letter comes as The Washington Post first reported that Patel is weighing the release of investigative records related to Swalwell’s past relationship with Christine 'Fang Fang' Fang, who is accused of cultivating ties with Swalwell and other California Democrats for espionage purposes, as is the wont of spies.

The almost obvious Chinese spy operative helped fundraise for Swalwell’s 2014 House re-election campaign and placed at least one intern in his office. Swalwell cut off ties with Fang in 2015 after the FBI alerted him to the suspected Chinese influence campaign. 

He wasn't bright enough to figure this out for himself.

The Justice Department did not pursue criminal charges at the time and Swalwell has denied any wrongdoing. A probe launched by the House Ethics Committee also concluded in 2023 without accusing Swalwell of any violations.

Lawyers for Swalwell, a Democrat, have threatened the FBI with legal action if the bureau forges ahead with releasing decades-old files relating to his relationship with a probable Chinese spy.

Swalwell’s lawyers also accused Patel of potentially violating long-maintained DOJ policy that prohibits law enforcement from taking any public investigatory action against political candidates in the two months prior to an election.

Early voting for California’s June 2 gubernatorial primary begins in early May. Swalwell, who is on the Democratic side of the aisle, is vying to be among the top two vote-getters that advance to the general election after jumping into the race in late 2025.

"It's not lost on me that we're 34 days until Californians start voting," Swalwell told CNN’s Brianna Keilar on Monday. "We've consistently been in the lead in this governor's race. And the president wants a Western White House."

Swalwell, a Democrat, is a vocal critic of President Donald Trump and served as an impeachment manager during the president’s second impeachment in 2021, following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. His role as a manager was to keep count of the number of impeachment attempts the left has launched on the President. After all, Swalwell got a C+ in 8th grade math.

The California Democrat has also been criminally referred to the DOJ for alleged mortgage fraud.

The Gas Man has denied any wrongdoing over his relationship with spy Fang Fang Fang and was never criminally charged.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, (D-MD) has also blasted Patel for reportedly advocating for the release of the so-called "Fang Fang" files.

"What the hell does that have to do with law enforcement?" Raskin said Saturday. "This is plain weaponization of the FBI for partisan political purposes." Children all over the nation said "that man used a bad word."

Look, folks, here we go again with Eric Swalwell, the gift that keeps on giving to comedy writers everywhere. The guy whose idea of national security is apparently letting a Chinese honey trap waltz around his office is now waving legal threats at the FBI like it's his personal bouncer service. "Don't you dare release those files or we'll sue!" Because nothing says "I have nothing to hide" like trying to gag the bureau with a cease-and-desist letter right before voters get a say.

Classic Swalwell. 

The low-information Democrat who got easily played by "Fang Fang" like a kazoo is suddenly clutching his pearls over "privacy" and "legal liability." 

His lawyers are out there claiming it's all a dirty smear job timed to torpedo his long-shot gubernatorial dreams. Sure, because Kash Patel waking up one morning and thinking, "You know what would be fun? Releasing decade-old spy files on a random California congressman," is totally how this works. 

No, this smells more like the deep state finally getting a little sunlight after years of selective blindness.

And of course, the usual suspects are lining up to defend him. Jamie Raskin, bless his heart, is out there asking what any of this has to do with law enforcement. Jamie, when a suspected Chinese operative is fundraising for your campaigns and planting interns in your office, it has everything to do with law enforcement. But hey, in Democrat world, that's just "cultivating relationships." 

Shades of Dianne Feinstein.

Swalwell's out on CNN whining about the timing, how it's 34 days until voting starts and he's been leading (in his dreams, maybe). Meanwhile, the rest of us are wondering how a guy who couldn't spot a spy if she was wearing a "Made in Communist China" name tag thinks he's qualified to run the state that's already circling the drain.

This is peak Swamp, and in Swalwell's case, it's just as malodorous. 

The same crowd that spent years screaming about Russian collusion now cries "weaponization" the second someone suggests looking at actual Chinese influence ops. Sit back and watch, guys, November's going to be entertaining if this clown car keeps rolling.

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Tiger Woods arrested for DUI, released from jail, looks like 20 miles of bad road

Tiger Woods with bloodshot eyes

Tiger Woods was arrested on Friday for allegedly driving under the influence after a car crash that left his vehicle rolled over on the driver's side. [The term 'allegedly' is used here to avoid legal ramifications.] As luck would have it, he didn't kill anyone in this, his third accident.

The golfer was released from jail Friday night.

In a mugshot released hours after his arrest, Woods' eyes appeared bloodshot, as he donned a fashionable blue polo inside the Martin County Jail in Florida.

Woods was seen leaving the jail in the passenger seat of a black SUV after his release on bail late Friday, according to The Associated Press.

Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek confirmed in a news conference that Woods was traveling at "a high rate of speed" when his vehicle collided with another car, resulting in his vehicle rolling over onto the driver's side.

Authorities said Woods "exemplified signs of impairment." He blew "triple-zeroes" for alcohol but refused a urine test, which possibly [aka likely] indicates he was drug-impaired.

"DUI investigators came to the scene here, and Mr. Woods did exemplify signs of impairment. They did several tests on him. Of course, he did explain the injuries and the surgeries that he had. We did take that into account, but they did do some in-depth roadside tests," Budensiek added. 

But no warrant for a blood draw was requested, as is often the case with less famous people and Woods was off the hook, at least in part.

"We really weren't suspicious of alcohol being involved in this case, and that proved to be true at the jail. … But when it came time for us to ask for a urinalysis test, he refused. And, so, he's been charged with DUI, with property damage and refusal to submit to a lawful test."

Woods was spotted on the phone after the crash, wearing fashionable navy blue shorts.

The golfer was charged with DUI, property damage and refusal to submit to a test, all misdemeanor charges. No one was injured, authorities said. Woods was alone in the car and crawled out of the passenger door after the crash.

The man who hits little white balls into little holes was driven from the Martin County Jail after being arrested for driving under the influence following a car crash on March 27, 2026, in Stuart, Florida. "This could've been a lot worse," Budensiek noted.

Yes, he could have killed someone and/or himself, but he was lucky once again.

President Donald Trump commented on the arrest of his "very close friend."

"I feel so badly. He's got some difficulty," Trump said. "There was an accident, and that's all I know. Very close friend of mine. He's an amazing person, an amazing man, but some difficulty." Woods has not commented on the arrest.

Woods currently is dating Trump's ex-daughter-in-law, Vanessa, whose daughter, Kai, is set to play college golf in Miami next week.

This is Woods' second DUI arrest within the last decade. In 2017, he was taken into custody, also in Jupiter Island, after taking prescription drugs and being asleep behind the wheel of a running car at 3 a.m.

In 2021, he got into a wreck that resulted in serious leg injuries that kept him off the golf course for the entire year.

Woods made his return to competitive golf earlier this week in the TGL championship after rupturing his Achilles just before last year's Masters (this year's tournament is in less than two weeks). Woods has not appeared on the links since the 2024 PGA Championship, in which he missed the cut.

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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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Arc de Triomphe terror: police officers targeted in mass stabbing

A mass knife attack targeting police officers unfolded near the iconic Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Friday evening, right during the solemn rekindling ceremony of the Flame of the Unknown Soldier. The Islamist suspect, identified as Brahim Bahrir (or Brahim Bahri in some reports), a known radical with a violent history, tried to stab a gendarme with a knife and scissors. Another officer quickly opened fire, hitting the attacker multiple times. He was rushed to the hospital but later died from his injuries and is currently on his way to Jannah where his 72 virgins await him.

This wasn't the scumcrumpet's first rodeo against law enforcement. Back in 2012, he carried out a stabbing attack on police in Belgium, seriously injuring one officer, and got slapped with a 17-year prison sentence tied to terrorism charges. Yet somehow, he was released early just a couple of months ago and allowed back on the streets in order to make liberals feel good about themselves. 

France has turned the country over to Islamic supremacists, and what do they get? More terror.

The attacker targeted an officer securing the ceremony for relighting the eternal flame honoring unknown soldiers at the Napoleon-era landmark, according to a Paris police official. Another officer shot the attacker, who was hospitalized, the official said.

No bystanders or police officers were injured in the incident, the official told The Associated Press.

The French counterterrorism prosecutor's office has taken over the investigation and sent personnel to the scene. A heavy police presence locked down the area around the monument Friday evening, closing it to the public while the traffic circle stayed open for vehicles. The nearby metro station was also shut down at police request, per the RATP transport operator.

The incident has reignited fierce debate over how France handles repeat violent offenders, especially radicalized ones fresh out of prison, and the glaring security gaps at these major national ceremonies. Investigators are digging into the motive and any deeper extremist ties, but the pattern here is painfully familiar: a known threat gets released, strikes again at a symbolic site, and the public is left wondering why basic common sense wasn't applied sooner.

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Ric Grenell explains why artists may be refusing to perform at the Trump-Kennedy Center

The elites in the performing arts world are throwing a full-blown meltdown over President Trump's name joining JFK's on the Kennedy Center, and it's exposing just how intolerant the left truly is when they don't get their way.

Red State recently reported, that the board of trustees, stacked with Trump's appointees, voted unanimously to rename the iconic venue The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, or the Trump-Kennedy Center for short. This honors Trump's massive efforts throughout 2025 to rescue and revitalize the place, pouring in upgrades and modernization under the guidance of his handpicked interim president, Ric Grenell.

New signs went up almost overnight, and that's when the hissy fits began, not from ticket buyers, but from the performers themselves.

Nick Arama, another reporter from Red State, nailed the coverage on jazz musician Chuck Redd, who'd been hosting the center's Christmas Eve "Jazz Jams" since 2006. He bailed at the last minute after spotting the name change. "When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert," Redd told The Associated Press.

Grenell wasn't having it, hitting back hard and threatening a $1 million lawsuit against Redd for breaching his contract.

"Your decision to withdraw at the last moment — explicitly in response to the Center’s recent renaming, which honors President Trump’s extraordinary efforts to save this national treasure — is classic intolerance and very costly to a non-profit Arts institution,” Grenell wrote.

“Regrettably, your action surrenders to the sad bullying tactics employed by certain elements on the left, who have sought to intimidate artists into boycotting performances at our national cultural center," he added.

And Redd's not alone in prioritizing politics over paying fans. The New York jazz outfit The Cookers ditched their New Year's Eve shows, bloviating that "Jazz was born from struggle and from a relentless insistence on freedom: freedom of thought, of expression, and of the full human voice."

Are you kidding?  Adding Trump's name to the building somehow muzzles "human voices"? 

Cut me a huss [don't Google it; Grok it], Trump didn't silence anyone; these guys are the ones ditching their audiences.

Country/folk singer Kristy Lee scrapped her January slot to preserve what she called her integrity, and the Doug Varone and Dancers company axed their April dates, whining they couldn't "step inside this once great institution." Of course it's their call, but don't pretend it's anything but a TDS-fueled tantrum.

Sure, artists cancel for all sorts of reasons: sickness, emergencies, or straight-up political freak-outs. But Grenell dropped a bombshell, claiming he's heard directly from booked acts that CNN and The Washington Post are actively emailing them, pushing boycotts of the Trump-Kennedy Center.

If that's accurate, and there's zero reason to doubt Grenell on this, it's outright interference, the media acting as left-wing activists trying to sabotage a national institution. Classic. It lays bare the left's entitlement: they think they own places like this, and if Trump touches it, they'll burn it down so nobody else can enjoy it. The real victims? The fans and patrons who lose out because orange man bad.

This is peak liberal hypocrisy on display, and it's glorious to watch it backfire.

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Habba: DOJ moved ‘swiftly and decisively’ stopping a ISIS-linked Halloween terror plot targeting Jews

Photo allegedly sent by Milo Sedarat online

In the grim annals of our age, where the West's complacency towards its own undoing has become a kind of collective delusion, comes yet another tale of thwarted barbarism, foiled, mercifully, not by some grand awakening of societal resolve, but by the quiet vigilance of those still willing to do the unglamorous work of keeping the wolves from the door. 

The Department of Justice, in a rare display of what might once have been called competence, has dismantled an ISIS-inspired network that stretched like a malignant tumor from the rust-belt suburbs of Detroit to the smug shores of New Jersey. And the target was not some abstract symbol of imperial hubris, but the everyday Jews of a quiet American neighborhood, alongside the usual litany of "infidel" outposts: LGBTQ bars and the like. 

Halloween, that peculiar pagan romp turned corporate confection, was to have been their stage for slaughter.

The plot, as federal prosecutors lay it bare, was a squalid affair of encrypted whispers and adolescent zealotry. It was a "sprawling federal investigation," as the Justice Department termed it, and turned into a cabal of young men who mistook jihad for a video game. At its heart lay the "pumpkin" scheme: a mass shooting scripted for October 31st, code-named with the banality of a child's prank but armed with the lethality of AR-15s, shotguns, handguns, and a stockpile of 1,680 rounds. 

Ayob Asamil Nasser, alongside brothers Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud, stand accused in a 93-page indictment from Michigan's Eastern District of conspiring to funnel material support to the Islamic State. They trained at local ranges, swapped ISIS propaganda like contraband trading cards, and eyed Ferndale's gay haunts and a Jewish community center with the cold calculus of butchers. Raids on that fateful All Hallows' Eve yielded tactical vests, GoPro cameras for their snuff-film fantasies, and magazines from a U-Haul unit that might otherwise have hauled pumpkins.

Across state lines, the tendrils extended to Tomas Jimenez-Guzel, 19, of Montclair, New Jersey, and Saed Mirreh, 19, of Kent, Washington, nabbed this week in a New Jersey indictment that knits their fates to the Michigan cell. Selfies exchanged in their fevered group chats, faces blurred in a nod to operational hygiene, show Jimenez-Guzel beneath an ISIS flag and Mirreh in jihadi drag, as if auditioning for a caliphate cosplay. 

They face charges of conspiring to aid a foreign terrorist outfit, with Jimenez-Guzel additionally tagged for attempting flight: arrested at Newark Liberty International as he angled for Turkey en route to Syria's meat grinder. Court papers, cited by the Associated Press, note how their travel frenzy accelerated post the Michigan busts, "picked up speed," as if this were a mere change in itinerary rather than a sprint from the law.

U.S. Attorney Alina Habba, presiding over the New Jersey front, cut through the fog with a statement that, in saner times, would scarcely merit remark. The defendants, she said, "had pledged themselves to ISIS" and were in "frequent communication with the Michigan cell." On Friday, she added: "We will continue to move swiftly and decisively whenever terrorism or hate threatens our communities. The threat of terrorism is real when Americans are threatened. We respond fast, focused and together." 

Words that land like a slap to the multicultural pieties that have long insisted such threats are but phantasms of Islamophobia. In Detroit, her counterpart Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. vowed persistence: "We will not stop. We will follow the tentacles where they lead." And FBI Special Agent Jennifer Runyan echoed the resolve: her team will "continue to investigate, arrest and disrupt all attempts or plots to do harm … to defend the homeland." Habba hailed the cross-jurisdictional tango as "a model of coordination against extremist threats."

The digital spoor of their conspiracy unfurls in the annals of a WhatsApp group dubbed "Muslimeen"—a forum for sharing beheading clips, plotting firearms drills, and syncing the "pumpkin" countdown. Prosecutors see it as one hydra-headed organism: some cells primed for homegrown carnage, others for the foreign lure of the caliphate's corpse. The Michigan trio cools its heels in Detroit custody; Jimenez-Guzel and Mirreh have shuffled through Newark and Seattle courtrooms. Juveniles may lurk under sealed dockets, their youth no shield against the presumptive innocence that cloaks them all—for now. A criminal complaint, after all, is but an allegation; guilt awaits the gavel's fall.

One pauses, amid this inventory of intercepted malice, to ponder the fragility of the veil we have drawn over such realities. These were not grizzled operatives smuggled across porous frontiers, but homegrown recruits, radicalized in the cradle of American liberty, their grievances nursed on the same screens that peddle TikTok dances and flat-earth follies. The Jewish center in suburban Detroit was no accident of selection; it was a deliberate echo of ancient hatreds, repackaged for the hashtag era. And yet, how swiftly the story will fade—eclipsed by the next outrage or apology tour, as our elites tut-tut about root causes that dare not speak their name. The threat endures, not in distant deserts, but in the encrypted chats of the disaffected, where the West's own hesitations furnish the accelerant. Until we confront that truth without flinching, the Habba doctrine—swift, decisive, unapologetic—remains our slender bulwark against the gathering storm.

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Trump Team Drops the Silverware Bombshell: Hillary's "Borrowed" China Cabinet Meets Trump's Fancy Footwork Floor

Ah, the White House—where the ghosts of scandals past waltz eternally with the drama of the present. On a recent episode of Fox News' Outnumbered, the panel dove headfirst into the Democratic dust-up over President Donald Trump's latest architectural fever dream: turning a chunk of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue into a ballroom big enough to host the entire cast of Dancing with the Stars... plus their egos.

In a plot twist straight out of a Capitol Hill soap opera, the Trump administration fired back at ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after she mustered her Twitter troops to torpedo the Prez's 90,000-square-foot privately bankrolled bash palace. Their weapon of choice? A dusty 2001 doozy, accusing the former First Lady of absconding with White House swag like it was Black Friday at the Smithsonian.

"Failed presidential candidate and former First Lady Crooked Hillary stole furniture from the White House on her way out until she was forced to return it," White House spokesman Davis Ingle spilled to Fox News Digital on Wednesday, with the relish of a gossip columnist at high tea. "Crooked Hillary is shameless and a total disgrace."

"Meanwhile, President Trump is restoring the White House to its proper glory for Americans to enjoy for generations to come — at no expense to the taxpayer — something we should all celebrate," Ingle added, because nothing says "unity" like dredging up old linen lists.Clinton, never one to let a renovation go unchallenged, had taken to the digital barricades earlier that October, rallying the masses against Trump's ballroom bonanza—a taxpayer-free extravaganza aimed at shoehorning a mega-entertaining space into the people's palace.

The Trump administration took a shot at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after she rallied Americans to reject President Donald Trump's White House ballroom construction project. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)

"It’s not his house," Hillary Clinton wrote on X Tuesday morning. "It's your house. And he's destroying it."

Oh, the irony—it hit faster than a dropped soufflé. Conservatives across the spectrum dusted off their 2001 highlight reels, replaying the tale of the Clintons' exit-stage-left luggage lift: an estimated $28,000 in donor-provided White House doodads that got packed up, only to boomerang back after the inventory elves cried foul. The power duo also forked over $86,000 to Uncle Sam for other inaugural swag, all chalked up to a "cataloging error" that sounds suspiciously like "oops, my bad" in legalese.

"Gifts did not leave the White House without the approval of the White House usher's and curator's offices," the Clintons declared in a 2001 statement, the verbal equivalent of crossing fingers behind their backs. "Of course, if the White House now determines that a cataloging error occurred ... any item in question will be returned."

When I asked Grok "did the Clintons take furniture and other things from the Whitehouse" the AI replied: 

Yes, there was a well-documented controversy in early 2001 when Bill and Hillary Clinton left the White House, during which they took several pieces of furniture, artwork, and other household items that were later determined to belong to the government or were disputed by donors. However, the situation is nuanced: many of the items were personal gifts they were legally entitled to accept and keep under federal rules (which allow presidents to retain gifts valued over $375 after disclosure), while others were intended as donations to the White House residence and were returned voluntarily after media scrutiny and donor clarifications.Key Details from Investigations and ReportsWhat Was Taken? Upon departing, the Clintons shipped out about 950 items worth roughly $360,000 in total, including furniture (e.g., sofas, chairs, rugs, and tables valued at around $68,000 overall, with $38,000 kept initially), china, silverware, artwork, lamps, and other household goods. Some furniture had been donated specifically to the White House in 1993 for tax deductions by donors, but the Clintons treated them as personal property based on a 1994 White House Counsel memo.

Returns and Payments: In February 2001, following New York Times and Washington Post reports, the Clintons returned over $28,000 worth of disputed furniture and artwork (about 25 items, including sofas, a table, lamps, and a rug) to the National Park Service, which oversees White House furnishings. They also paid the government $86,000 to reimburse for other personal gifts received in their final months in office. Later that year, two minor items (a $1,725 easy chair and a $675 ottoman) were returned to the Clintons after NPS determined they hadn't been officially accepted as White House property.

So take that in your wet cigar, Hill and Bill.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton slammed President Donald Trump's construction project at the White House to build a ballroom. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) The backlash ballroom? It was a conservative conga line. Lawmakers and meme lords piled on, turning Clinton's tweet into a piñata party.

"At least he didn’t steal the silverware," Texas Sen. Ted Cruz posted to X Tuesday, because nothing disarms a dig like a dash of utensil-based shade.

"Hi Hillary, Remind us, wasn’t it you who walked off with $28,000 in White House furniture when you moved out?" conservative influencer Benny Johnson posted to X. "And your husband who defiled the Oval Office during his presidency? President Trump’s funding a beautiful new ballroom out of his own pocket."

"A Clinton would never defile the White House," former White House staffer Alex Pfeiffer shot back in response, dripping sarcasm thicker than White House gravy.

Fox News Digital pinged Clinton's camp repeatedly for a encore on her ballroom beef and the furniture fiasco mockery, but crickets echoed louder than a empty State Dinner hall.

Meanwhile, over in the demolition derby, the White House had already swung the wrecking ball at the East Wing to make room for Trump's terpsichorean triumph. (The Associated Press) Trump himself broke the glittery ground on Monday, because why whisper when you can trumpet? 

"I am pleased to announce that ground has been broken on the White House grounds to build the new, big, beautiful White House Ballroom," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Completely separate from the White House itself, the East Wing is being fully modernized as part of this process, and will be more beautiful than ever when it is complete!"

"For more than 150 years, every President has dreamt about having a Ballroom at the White House to accommodate people for grand parties, State Visits, etc.," President Donald Trump said. (Getty Images)

"For more than 150 years, every President has dreamt about having a Ballroom at the White House to accommodate people for grand parties, State Visits, etc. I am honored to be the first President to finally get this much-needed project underway — with zero cost to the American Taxpayer!" he continued. "The White House Ballroom is being privately funded by many generous Patriots, Great American Companies, and, yours truly. This Ballroom will be happily used for Generations to come!"

And just like that, the East Room gets an upgrade, the furniture files get a flip, and Washington waltzes on, proving once again that in politics, the only thing more enduring than a grudge is a good grudge match with a side of sequins.

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Palestinian activist who led Columbia U. protests arrested by ICE

Probably not Ilhan Omar behind him

Shalom Mahmoud.

In a move that ought to raise eyebrows among those still clinging to the notion of institutional integrity, a prominent Palestinian activist, Mahmoud Khalil, who spearheaded Columbia University's 2024 student encampment protests, found himself apprehended and arrested on Saturday night in New York City.

Federal immigration authorities, with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer in a library, claimed they were acting on a State Department order to revoke his green card, or so his attorney, Amy Greer, relayed to The Associated Press. One can almost hear the bureaucratic machinery grinding away, indifferent to the human cost.

Khalil was ensconced in his university-owned apartment, just blocks from Columbia’s Manhattan campus, when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stormed the building and hauled him into custody. Greer recounted to the AP that one agent, in a phone call dripping with officiousness, informed her they were executing a State Department directive to nix Khalil’s student visa. When she pointed out that Khalil, a December graduate, held permanent residency via a green card, the agent nonchalantly declared they were revoking that too. A tidy little escalation, wouldn’t you say?

This arrest dovetails neatly with President Trump’s bombastic pledge to deport foreign students and jail “agitators” tangled up in protests against Israel’s war in Gaza. The administration has trained its gimlet eye on Columbia, announcing on Friday a $400 million slash in grants and contracts—a punitive measure ostensibly tied to the Ivy League’s supposed failure to stamp out antisemitism on campus. One might wonder if this is less about principle and more about settling scores.

Greer noted that the authorities saw fit to leave Khalil’s wife—eight months pregnant, no less—in the dark about why her husband was being carted off. “We have not been able to get any more details about why he is being detained,” she told The AP. “This is a clear escalation. The administration is following through on its threats.” Khalil, meanwhile, has been shuttled to an immigration detention facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where he presumably sits, a pawn in a larger game.

A Columbia spokesperson, with the practiced neutrality of a tightrope walker, insisted that law enforcement must brandish a warrant before setting foot on university property. Yet they declined to confirm whether such a warrant was produced for Khalil’s arrest. The university’s website offered this gem: “There have been reports of ICE around campus. Columbia has and will continue to follow the law. Consistent with our longstanding practice and the practice of cities and institutions throughout the country, law enforcement must have a judicial warrant to enter non-public University areas, including University buildings. Columbia is committed to complying with all legal obligations and supporting our student body and campus community.” A masterpiece of saying much while revealing little.

Khalil, it should be said, had emerged as a poster boy for the pro-Palestinian cause at Columbia. When students pitched their tents last spring, he was tapped as a negotiator, parleying frequently with university administrators. Come September, with classes back in swing, he told The AP with defiance: “As long as Columbia continues to invest and to benefit from Israeli apartheid, the students will continue to resist.” A sentiment that, whatever one makes of it, has now landed him in the crosshairs of a system that seems less interested in dialogue than in deportation.

Here we see the collision of ideology and power, played out on the stage of a prestigious university that once prided itself on free thought. The question lingers: is this justice, or merely the heavy hand of retribution dressed up as policy? History, as ever, will be the judge.

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Zelenskyy unsure where the $100 billion plus went in US Aid

Zelenskyy made the claim in a recent interview with the Associated Press, where he casually admitted to having no idea the whereabouts of the majority of the funds allocated by the Biden administration.

“When I hear – both in the past and even now – from the U.S., that America has provided Ukraine with hundreds of billions, as the president of a nation at war, I can tell you – we’ve received more than $75 billion,” he said. “We’re talking about tangible things because this aid didn’t come as cash but rather as weapons, which amounted to about $70 billion.”

"But when it’s said that Ukraine received $200 billion to support the army during the war – that’s not true," he added. "I don’t know where all that money went."

Zelenskyy claims Ukraine only received around $75 billion of the $177 billion in aid that was sent from the United States. pic.twitter.com/mbdbtljvV1— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 2, 2025

So what's the big deal? Did he check the floor of his car? Maybe it fell under the seats.

"Perhaps it’s true on paper with hundreds of different programs – I won’t argue, and we’re immensely grateful for everything. But in reality, we received about $76 billion," he stated. "It’s significant aid, but it’s not $200 billion."

This means Zelenskyy is unsure of where just over 57 percent of the taxpayer money America sent to Ukraine is right now.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), some of the most vocal supporters of audits for the aid, may have a good point . . . unless, of course, Zee can come up with the dough.

seem like a rare duo who actually care what is happening with the funds and/or military equipment.

“We should immediately stop payments to Ukraine and begin a thorough audit of the $60 billion that Joe Biden and Congress have already sent there,” Massie wrote on X back in 2022.

From the days of bagman Hunter Biden, to the present day, Ukraine has been able to avoid accounting for the money we send them and it's only now that this administration is ready to turn off the money spigot.

In 2023, the Pentagon revealed an accounting "error" amounting to $6,200,000,000 that resulted in a surplus that would later be used in aid packages to the Eastern European nation.

Then-Deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh announced the error at a presser, noting it took place in fiscal years 2022 and 2023 and was a result of overestimating the value of weapons being sent to Ukraine.

Even the Comedy News Network's Jake Tapper, was shocked when the error was originally reported at $3,000,000,000. He went so far as to call it a "hell of an accounting error” that "provides a lot of fodder to critics ... who say there’s not enough oversight going on.”

One thing is certain: that money went somewhere and did not disappear in a puff of smoke.

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Oh those Violent Vehicles [VVs] that crash into Christian Christmas shoppers: this time 5 killed, 200 hurt: media leaves important information out

As we know by now, a vehicle going at high speed plowed into a crowd of Christmas shoppers in Magdeburg, Germany, killing 5 and injuring around 200 at last count. An arrest has been made but the media did not focus on the perpetrator, they focused on the event and the casualties. 

The driver, Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen, is a 50-year-old Saudi Arabia national who has lived in Germany since 2006. The horrific attack was at a Christmas market in Magdeburg about 100 miles from Berlin.

Saxony-Anhalt’s Prime Minister referred to the incident as “A terrible event, especially now in the days before Christmas.” 

Yes, it is a terrible event, but it's also a regular Islamist attack in spite of the intentional neglect by the media of that tidbit.

There appear to be signs that this might be the first of multiple attacks, according to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, said reports “suggest something terrible is to come.”

So why would there be multiple attacks? Copycat killers? Cars that do evil things?

Considering what we know, the Associated Press posted this on X:

A car has driven into a group of people at a Christmas market in Germany https://t.co/IepW8HsBZg— The Associated Press (@AP) December 20, 2024

 And then there's this:

Oh those evil SUVs and cars and trucks. Why do they go after Christians and Jews?

This is a miscarriage of journalism. Here's what the AP wrote:

MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — Germans on Saturday mourned the victims of an apparent attack in which authorities say a doctor drove into a busy outdoor Christmas market, killing five people, injuring 200 others and shaking the public’s sense of security at what would otherwise be a time of joy.

The alleged attack Friday evening in Magdeburg, about 130 kilometers (80 miles) west of Berlin, killed a 9-year-old and four adults and injured 41 people badly enough that authorities warned the death toll could rise.

Magdeburg marked the tragedy Saturday with the tolling church bells at 7:04 p.m., the exact time of the attack in the city of roughly 240,000 people.

But the good news is that people are waking up and are learning more about Islam, especially when it comes to jihad.

The Muslim who committed this atrocity was wanted in Saudi Arabia for criminal activity but Germany reefused to extradite him. Don't believe that he was anything but a jihadi.

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