Dem Senator suffers a stroke: hospitalized Saturday

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke, according to a statement released Sunday by his chief of staff, Allison Herwitt. Doctors are encouraged by his progress and expect him to make a full recovery.

Murphy, 53, reportedly began experiencing numbness in his arm Saturday afternoon while attending his son's hockey game. He was initially taken to a local hospital, where doctors determined he had suffered a stroke, before being transferred to Johns Hopkins for further monitoring.

"He was taken to a local hospital, where it was discovered he had experienced a stroke. He was transferred to Johns Hopkins for further monitoring and is responding well to treatment," Herwitt said in a statement.

"The doctors are encouraged by his progress, he is awake and alert, and we are optimistic he will make a full recovery."

Murphy was first elected to the Senate in 2012 and took office in January 2013. He has since emerged as one of the more prominent voices in the Democratic Party and has been mentioned as a possible contender for the party's 2028 presidential nomination.

Although Murphy is not seeking reelection this year, he has been actively campaigning for Democratic candidates, spending the past several weeks trying to help his party reclaim control of the Senate. He had been scheduled to campaign for Democrats in New Hampshire on Sunday.

The sudden medical emergency is an unwelcome interruption to those political ambitions, although the news from his doctors appears encouraging.


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Democratic Florida Mayor arrested on charges of grand theft and scheme to defraud

Espinosa

KISSIMMEE, FL — In a stunning display of bureaucratic innovation, Kissimmee Mayor Eva Jacquelyn Espinosa was arrested on charges of Grand Theft and Organized Scheme to Defraud after allegedly treating federal COVID relief funds like a personal loyalty rewards program to the tune of $50,000 from a city initiative she personally championed.

Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the arrest Wednesday morning in a post on X.

During a press conference, Uthmeier detailed how the mayor treated public office as a family checking account despite clear warnings that self-dealing was frowned upon.

"Public officials do not get to write the rules and then write themselves a check," Uthmeier said. "The mayor used her position to push a COVID relief grant program, then took $50,000 from it for her family's businesses after being warned it was prohibited."

Investigators noted that Espinosa assumed office in November 2024 and wasted zero time advocating for and voting on the creation and expansion of the City of Kissimmee's Business Boost 2.0 program. Financed by federal American Rescue Plan Act dollars, the program was ostensibly designed to aid struggling small businesses in the municipality.

True to form, the moment the program opened for applications in September 2025, Espinosa and her immediate family members dutifully submitted paperwork for three businesses under their control, requesting a cool $50,000. Approval came swiftly, and the cash landed in accounts linked to the Espinosa clan on Nov. 7, 2025.

When the city attorney pointed out a minor conflict of interest on Dec. 5, 2025, suggesting she return the loot, Espinosa politely declined, announced she would fight any complaints, and kept right on moving.

"The voters put their trust in their public officials to do what is best for their community, not what is best for themselves," said Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia. "Jackie Espinosa abused that trust and cashed in at the taxpayers' expense."

The resulting warrant slaps Espinosa with one count of Grand Theft for amounts between $20,000 and $100,000, classified as a second-degree felony, alongside a count of Organized Scheme to Defraud of $50,000 or more, which is a first-degree felony. The joint investigation was a team effort by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Florida Department of Financial Services Criminal Investigations Division.

The case will be handled in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit by Office of Statewide Prosecution Public Integrity Unit Special Counsel Richard Mantei.

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El Sayed doubles down on anti-Semitic stance and vows to make America France again

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed has a message for American voters: Israel is not America’s friend, and apparently the best person to explain this is a candidate whose own political baggage keeps generating uncomfortable questions. 

But he doesn't tend to answer questions himself. When asked at a town hall meeting whether he denounces Hamas, he did not give an emphatic "yes, I denounce Hamas," but instead said "yes, sure," and then began asking the questioner about his knowledge of the US Constitution [and 'yadda, yadda. squirrel, squirrel'].

In an interview with ABC News (D) on Monday, El-Sayed doubled down on his anti-Israel/anti-Semitic rhetoric, arguing that the Jewish state is not an ally of the United States. His evidence? An analogy involving a freeloading friend who steals money from your children and starts fights with the neighborhood.

“An ally that takes your money to push you into wars you shouldn’t be fighting is not an ally,” he argued, leaving out the uncomfortable issue regarding the October 7, 2023 when Hamas massacred about 1,200 Israeli men, women, children and babies--what people with a functioning cortex would label genocide.

El-Sayed then expanded on his theory of international relations, comparing Israel to a friend who “keeps bumming off [your kids’ money] and then talks about them behind their back and gets them into fights with their other friends.” He evidently doesn't view Israel as a crucial Middle East ally. Perhaps he would like France in that role in the future once the Islamists and communists burn Paris down along with a bunch of other major French cities. 

Apparently, decades of strategic cooperation, intelligence sharing, and regional security concerns can all be reduced to the sort of playground dispute normally settled by confiscating someone's lunch money.

“What would you tell your kid?” he asked the reporter. “You’d probably tell them, ‘Maybe that’s not actually your friend.’” Actually, for El Sayed, the Muslim Brotherhood is his friend but he won't admit it. 

“I think it’s time for us to realize that Israel is actually not our friend,” he concluded. 'Viva la France and burn baby burn,' his brain whispers.

The declaration offers Michigan voters a revealing preview of El-Sayed’s foreign policy priorities. Israel, a longstanding American ally, our best ally, is to be judged according to a schoolyard morality play, while the candidate delivering the lecture presumably expects voters to regard his own political associations and family controversies as matters requiring considerably more nuance.

The timing is also worth noting.

El-Sayed’s comments follow renewed accusations concerning his sister-in-law, Miriam Jukaku, who was reportedly involved in a federal terrorist watchlist lawsuit during the Obama administration. It's unknown as to whether she has a history of burning buildings in Paris or the USA, but she's what the kids call a jihadist.

El-Sayed dismissed the allegations when speaking to Fox News, insisting that she had done nothing wrong and suggesting that Islamophobia explained her designation.

"You've got this system where folks are guilty until proven innocent because they've got different kinds of names, because of the infrastructure that people like [Michigan Republican Senate candidate] Mike Rogers set up,” he said.

That is quite a defense of due process, although voters might reasonably wonder whether El-Sayed applies the same generous presumption of innocence when discussing America's allies. Israel, at least in his telling, appears to have been convicted without much of a trial.

The Democratic nominee has also faced scrutiny over alleged family connections to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Those allegations have added another layer of controversy to a campaign already marked by his increasingly hostile rhetoric toward Israel.

El-Sayed's remarks have not gone unnoticed among American Jewish leaders, some of whom are increasingly concerned about what his political ascent could mean for Jewish communities in Michigan and beyond.

Rabbis and other Jewish leaders have called on the Democratic Party to adopt a list of “nonnegotiable” principles for Jewish safety ahead of the November midterm elections. Their concerns reflect growing unease over whether a party that has historically enjoyed substantial support from Jewish voters is prepared to confront the consequences of its own anti-Israel rhetoric. Lately, of course, the Democratic Party has voiced enough anti-Israel/anti-Semitic rhetoric to make a skinhead blush.

Meanwhile, the Michigan Senate race has left some Democratic voters searching for alternatives. Students who identify as Democrats at the University of Michigan have recently joined the campaign as well, apparently hoping to influence a contest that has become increasingly uncomfortable for voters who support their party but remain unwilling to accept its hostility toward Israel without question.

For El-Sayed, the strategy seems straightforward: portray Israel as the troublesome friend, suggest that American taxpayers are being taken advantage of, and invite voters to reconsider a relationship that has endured across multiple administrations.

Whether Michigan voters find that argument persuasive remains to be seen. But El-Sayed has made one thing clear: if elected to the Senate, he intends to bring a rather different understanding of America's alliances to Washington, one in which a longtime democratic partner is cast as the neighborhood bully and the candidate making the accusation expects to be taken seriously as a judge of international character.

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Feds Discover Ilhan Omar’s Immigration File Does Not Match Her Public Biography After Reading Sister’s Texts

Ilhan Omar when she isn't angry

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) had her D.C. home raided this week as part of an ongoing immigration fraud investigation. The rumors have circulated for years. The Justice Department has now decided to treat them as something other than background noise. Federal agents searched her home and seized her phone, computer, and passport. Omar’s personal life contains a series of dates and relationships that refuse to line up in the same order twice.

She has misfiled campaign finance reports and her taxes. Staff members may have adjusted her date of birth in 2018 so the naturalization timeline would remain internally consistent. The probe began under President Joe Biden, which removes the usual option of labeling the entire matter a coordinated political attack. A significant development arrived through text messages recovered from the phone of Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor, which officials seized earlier this year. 

The New York Times reported:

Federal investigators have been reviewing family text messages as they aim to build a case implicating Representative Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, of conspiring to commit immigration fraud, three [anonymous] people familiar with the matter said this week.

The messages were obtained from a phone that officials seized earlier this year from one of Ms. Omar’s sisters, Sahra Noor, a health care executive and author, according to the three people.

The messages contained information that investigators had used to get a federal judge to authorize homeland security agents to search Ms. Omar’s Washington-area residence on Monday, the three [anonymous] people said. Agents spent hours searching the home of the congresswoman and were seen walking away with several boxes of seized items.

The people familiar with the seizure of Ms. Noor’s phone spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an open criminal investigation that is before a federal grand jury in Minnesota. Federal officials have issued subpoenas in recent days to Ms. Noor and several other people in Ms. Omar’s orbit.

The investigation seeks to determine whether Ms. Omar and her relatives lied or omitted crucial information in immigration paperwork they filed since moving to the United States in the 1990s. They were admitted as refugees after fleeing Somalia’s civil war.

Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, suggested last month that the investigation could ultimately result in Ms. Omar’s deportation.

The Justice Department on Friday did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Ms. Noor’s phone. It was not clear when or where her phone was seized.

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Ms. Noor, who recently published a memoir about her upbringing and the family’s journey to the United States, did not respond this week to several requests for comment. In recent years she has split her time between the United States and Kenya, and she spoke at events in the Minneapolis area this month to promote her book.

A Democrat judge approved the warrant. Judges generally prefer not to attach their signatures to searches of sitting members of Congress unless the supporting material is difficult to ignore. Federal agents also sorted through Omar’s trash in search of DNA evidence, which indicates the inquiry has moved past paperwork discrepancies into questions of biological relatedness.

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Omar was just fine with the investigation, now karma steps in

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said in April that she would welcome any and all investigations into her personal history. On Monday morning, federal agents apparently decided to take her up on the offer, arriving at her Washington, D.C., home with a search warrant and a rather inconvenient interest in her immigration paperwork.

Omar quickly characterized the raid as a political hit job and another example of President Donald Trump “weaponizing” federal law enforcement. According to Fox News, investigators are examining immigration documents completed by Omar’s late father when the family arrived in the United States in 1995.

The investigation raises questions about a personal history that has attracted scrutiny for years, particularly Omar’s complicated marital timeline and allegations concerning her second husband. Whether those allegations establish any wrongdoing is a separate question, and one investigators will have to answer with evidence rather than political talking points.

Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1982, the youngest of seven children. After losing her mother at age two, she fled Somalia’s civil war at age nine and spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya. She arrived in the United States with her father in 1995 and became a naturalized citizen in 2000, at age 17.

Her journey to American citizenship is part of her public biography. The circumstances surrounding the paperwork filed on her family’s behalf are now reportedly part of a federal investigation. For a congresswoman who has made a career of commenting on American institutions, the prospect of having those institutions scrutinize her own records is an unwelcome change of scenery.

Then there is Omar’s marriage history, a subject that has generated years of headlines, allegations, and unanswered questions.

Omar first married Ahmed Hirsi, also known as Ahmed Aden, in a Muslim ceremony in 2002. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, she applied for a legal marriage license but did not complete a civil marriage. The couple had two children before separating in 2008. Since they had not legally married, no civil divorce was necessary.

In 2009, Omar married Ahmed Elmi, a British citizen who reportedly described himself as a “dirty dandy.” Reports have alleged that Elmi was Omar’s biological brother and that the marriage was arranged to help him obtain U.S. immigration status. Those allegations have never been conclusively established, and the absence of reliable birth records from Somalia’s civil-war period has complicated efforts to verify the claims.

The timeline only added to the controversy.

Omar reportedly ended her marriage to Elmi through a religious ceremony, leaving the legal status of that marriage unresolved. In 2012, she reunited with Hirsi, and the two had a third child. Omar and Elmi were legally divorced in 2017. In 2018, she legally married Hirsi.

In 2019, Omar legally divorced Hirsi. Several months later, she married political consultant Tim Mynett, who had worked on her congressional campaign before their marriage.

At this point, Omar’s marital history has enough plot twists to keep a daytime television writer employed. But complicated personal history and criminal conduct are not the same thing, and the distinction matters. Even if investigators were to establish that a marriage had been used to circumvent immigration law, that would not automatically prove every allegation circulating online.

The New York Post has reported that, even if a sham marriage involving Elmi were established, one possible consequence would be the State Department barring him from returning to the United States. That is a different matter from proving Omar committed a crime or violated the requirements for obtaining citizenship.

The current investigation reportedly concerns something potentially more consequential: the original immigration documents filed when Omar’s family entered the United States in 1995.

“If there’s enough evidence that she or [her father] lied on her immigration application to become a United States citizen, whether it was one time or several times, the Trump administration could initiate a denaturalization process that would strip her of her citizenship,” a top immigration official told The Post.

That is a serious allegation with potentially serious consequences. It is also a conditional statement, not a finding that Omar committed fraud. Any attempt to revoke her citizenship would require the government to establish the applicable legal grounds and satisfy the relevant evidentiary and procedural requirements.

The questions surrounding those original documents have also drawn attention to Omar’s father, Nur Omar Mohamed.

Mohamed served as a colonel in the Somali Army under Siad Barre, the socialist dictator who seized power in 1969 and introduced what he called “scientific socialism.” Mohamed is documented as having served during the Ogaden War in the late 1970s. Although forces on both sides of that conflict have faced allegations of war crimes and abuses, Mohamed has not been personally linked to those accusations.

Barre’s regime, meanwhile, became notorious for its brutal campaign against the Isaaq clan in the late 1980s. Between 1987 and 1989, government forces carried out a campaign widely described as genocidal, known as the Hargeisa Holocaust, in an effort to crush the Isaaq population and depopulate Somaliland. The atrocities included indiscriminate bombing, attacks on fleeing civilians, the use of land mines in civilian areas, the poisoning of wells, and sexual violence.

The precise date Mohamed left military service remains unclear, although some reports place the end of his service around the collapse of Barre’s regime in 1991.

His military background does not establish that he concealed anything on immigration forms. Nor does it establish that Omar knew of or participated in any alleged misrepresentation. But if investigators find that relevant information was omitted or falsified on documents submitted for the family, they will have to determine whether those omissions were material and whether they have any legal bearing on Omar’s citizenship.

That is the central question, not the political theater surrounding it.

Omar can call the raid politically motivated. The Trump administration can insist that the investigation is legitimate. Neither claim settles the matter. The documents, the evidence, and the law will have to do that.

For years, Omar’s critics have demanded answers about her immigration history and marriages. Now, according to reports, federal investigators are examining records that may help determine whether any of those concerns have a legitimate legal basis.

Omar once said she welcomed investigations. The government has reportedly begun one.

She is entitled to the presumption that allegations must be proved. The public is entitled to expect that immigration laws will be applied according to the same standards, regardless of whether the person under investigation serves in Congress.

If the records establish no wrongdoing, the investigation should reflect that. If they establish material misrepresentations, the government should follow the law.

Either way, the outcome should depend on evidence, not on who gets to label the investigation a political witch hunt first.

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Local Pride Festival Dissolves After Founder Allegedly Confuses "Protecting Children" With Exact Opposite

CAZENOVIA, NY — Organizers of the Cazenovia Pride Festival announced the cancellation of all events and the dissolution of the organization after its founder, local activist and school board vice president Travis Longo, was arrested on charges related to sexually explicit communications with a child and later hit with federal child pornography charges.

Residents expressed shock that a man who spent years lecturing everyone else about morality, inclusion, and community values allegedly turned out to be hiding a collection of interests that even Hollywood producers would describe as "a bit much."

Longo, 46, who also operated a coffee shop and served as vice president of the local school board, was arrested by New York State Police on June 18 after investigators alleged he engaged in a pattern of sexually explicit communications with a child under 12 years old.

Authorities charged him with four counts of endangering the welfare of a child, while federal prosecutors later alleged that investigators discovered child pornography on his phone, including material depicting the abuse of infants.

The arrest prompted an immediate response from the organization he founded. Cazenovia Pride leadership announced the cancellation of its upcoming Pride celebration and the complete dissolution of the nonprofit.

"This decision follows serious criminal charges against Travis Longo, the founder of Cazenovia Pride Fest and a longtime figure in our organization," organizers stated. "Travis Longo has no further affiliation with Cazenovia Pride, Inc. . . . We are deeply sorry for the pain and disappointment this causes our community. The years of support, love, and solidarity you have shown us have meant everything."

Sources say local residents were surprised to learn that repeatedly declaring oneself an advocate for children and vulnerable communities does not automatically guarantee one isn't secretly a monster.

The school district also moved quickly to distance itself from Longo.

"In the interim, the individual in question will not be permitted on any school grounds or at any district-sponsored events," district officials said. "The safety, well-being, and peace of mind of our students, staff, and community remain our absolute highest priorities."

The Board of Education, apparently realizing that having an accused child predator serving as vice president creates less-than-ideal optics, unanimously agreed to demand Longo's resignation.

The board later released a statement saying members were "shocked, deeply saddened, and outraged" by the allegations and pledged to pursue his removal if he refused to step down voluntarily.

To see the TikTok drag queen's video click here.

Federal prosecutors were less interested in discussing optics and more interested in discussing prison.

"As school board vice president, the defendant was entrusted by parents and the community to help protect and serve the interests of children," First Assistant U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III said. "Instead, as alleged, he exploited his position of public trust while actively seeking out and accumulating images and videos depicting the heinous sexual abuse of children. This shocking betrayal makes his conduct all the more reprehensible."

The charges carry potentially lengthy prison sentences, substantial fines, and mandatory sex offender registration if convicted.

At press time, dozens of corporate media outlets that normally insist there is absolutely no connection between radical activist spaces and occasional predator scandals were reportedly preparing another round of articles explaining that noticing patterns is the real danger to democracy.

The full press release can be viewed at justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/madison-county-man-charged-receipt-and-possession-child-pornography.

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Sanders Says Platner Has 'Guts' To Fight Billionaires, Also Apparently Every Other Scandal Imaginable

WASHINGTON, D.C., President Donald Trump's longtime rival and part-time billionaire detector Sen. Bernie Sanders assured supporters this week that Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner remains uniquely qualified to battle wealthy elites, despite accumulating scandals at a pace usually reserved for Netflix documentaries.

According to comrade Sanders, the controversy surrounding Platner has nothing to do with his Nazi-linked tattoos, resurfaced Reddit posts, sexting allegations, or a profile on a controversial messaging platform. Rather, he suggested the real culprit is a vast billionaire conspiracy terrified of a man who apparently cannot go 24 hours without generating a new headline.

"What we're looking at right now is a situation where billionaires have already pledged to spend $90 million in a tiny state like Maine," Sanders said. "Trust me, that is a lot of money. They don't want him in."

Observers noted that while billionaires are often accused of influencing politics, they have rarely been accused of secretly forcing candidates to get questionable tattoos, post strange comments online, and sign up for Kik.

"And the reason that they do not want him in the Senate is he has had the guts to stand up to the big money interests, to fight for healthcare as a human right, to demand the billionaires start paying their fair share of taxes," the communist senator continued.

Sources close to the campaign confirmed that every time a new controversy emerges, staffers immediately assume another billionaire has somehow orchestrated it.

Platner's troubles began after footage surfaced showing a totenkopf, or death's head tattoo, on his chest. Since then, a steady stream of revelations has left reporters struggling to keep up and opposition researchers complaining about excessive overtime.

Despite the growing list of problems, Democrats remain focused on defeating incumbent Sen. Susan Collins. 

[Senator Collins, you might have observed, has an obvious tremor in her extremities and in her voice. It's a common neurological condition that she publicly disclosed last month and it is treated with medication. The cause is from a benign tumor that does not affect cognition or memory, so she is clearly no Joe Biden.]

"I think what we, as a nation, need to do is to focus on the important issues facing working families, 60% of whom are living paycheck to paycheck," Sanders said. "And I think that Graham and his wife, Amy, will work on their marriage, and I wish them the best."

Political analysts described the statement as one of the few times in American history a senator has pivoted directly from economic inequality to marriage counseling.

Collins, meanwhile, appeared exhausted by the daily revelations.

"I don’t have anything to add," Collins said. "Every day there's a new revelation about Graham Platner that reflects on his character."

Democrats backing Platner insist voters should focus on his authenticity rather than his ever-expanding collection of controversies.

Sen. Ruben Gallego argued that Platner has lived a "very, you know, real experience. He's talked about it."

"He's talked to his wife about it. There was, you know, the voters of Maine are gonna decide what they're gonna do, but, you know, we know that at this point, this man can still win the race, and as long as he continues, I think we'll all be there," Gallego said.

Republicans, meanwhile, have reportedly stopped spending money on opposition research and now simply subscribe to news alerts.

"I mean, this guy's a nut job," Sen. Eric Schmitt said.

"So, that's their call. But, you know, I won't hold my breath for the Democrats to sort of course correct on this. They're just, it's just about absolute power for them. So they want to support a dude with Nazi tattoos who has all this other stuff going on. I mean, that's on them."

At press time, campaign aides were bracing for Wednesday's scheduled scandal release, though they admitted they had no idea what it would be this time.

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Obama appointed judge fired over sex scandal

FOX Business contributor Katrina Campins broke down the mess of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's personal relationship with Nathan Wade on Jesse Watters Primetime.U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon dropped a motion on Friday to get Atlanta U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross tossed from a major election integrity case. Why? Because Ross admitted she went to a partisan Democrat fundraiser for Fani Willis, which is flat out illegal and screams she is anything but impartial.

But that is just the warm up for Ross's greatest hits album of judicial disgrace. 

Turns out that Ross, who is married, has been carrying on for years banging Atlanta deputy police chief Kelley Collier right there in her chambers during work hours. Staff overheard the sexual noises. When she got caught, she lied about it and then retaliated against the people who reported her.

This is textbook workplace sexual misconduct, lying, and obstruction of justice, folks. 

And what did the federal judiciary do about it? Gave her a freaking private reprimand. Yes, a private reprimand. That is the judicial equivalent of a participation trophy for being a sleazy embarassment. Ross should resign immediately or get impeached by Congress. She should also face federal criminal charges for lying to investigators.

The Atlanta Police Department has tons of cases in front of Ross's court. 

Collier, her regular courthouse hookup, is a nearly thirty year veteran who runs the Community Services Division and, oh yeah, he is also married. 

The Eleventh Circuit Judicial Council actually said it was only by pure happenstance that Ross never got assigned any cases from that division while she was banging the deputy chief. Relying on luck to avoid a screaming conflict of interest does not make you ethical. It makes you lucky and gross. Nothing indicates she would have ended the affair if a case had landed on her desk. 

Ross is  married to DeKalb County Circuit Judge Brian Ross. I wonder how he's taking it.

This went on right under the noses of her law clerks, young lawyers who were supposed to look up to her as a role model as opposed to a "Fans Only" woman. One former clerk had to blow the whistle to disciplinary authorities. She turned her fancy judicial chambers into a cheap love shack for several years, from 2023 until 2025. 

When staff pushed back on her illegal behavior, she cursed them out. Retaliating against whistleblowers has zero place in the federal judiciary.

Ross, an Obama appointee, also showed up at the victory party for Fani Willis, the same legal train wreck who brought that ridiculous, politically motivated indictment against President Trump and nearly twenty other defendants in 2023. Courts eventually booted Willis after it came out she was sleeping with special prosecutor Nathan Wade. 

Judges are not supposed to attend these partisan Democrat love clusterfracks. Ethical canons exist for a reason.

Ross showed zero integrity when Eleventh Circuit Chief Judge William Pryor confronted her. She flat out denied everything and called the allegations outrageous. She knew she was lying through her teeth. If a lawyer pulled that stunt in court, they would be disbarred and possibly prosecuted for contempt. But the Judicial Council went soft on Ross, kept the reprimand private, and refused to name her. That lack of transparency is garbage. The public has every right to know which judge is abusing her office, lying about it, retaliating, and trying to cover it up. 

She is a caught liar with no business on the federal bench. This fiasco is exactly why Congress needs to pass Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley's bill for an independent inspector general over the federal judiciary. These judges cannot police themselves, and for one in particular, don't even mention the word 'police,' it gets her all steamy hot.

Her eventual confession changes nothing. 

The council made her skip being chief judge of the Northern District and say sorry to the staff she screwed over. Big whoop. These are pathetic slaps on the wrist. As it stands, Ross keeps collecting that sweet lifetime federal paycheck and benefits. Other judges with half a spine have resigned over less. She should do the same. The Justice Department needs to prosecute her, and the House should impeach her.

Funny how Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff has been completely MIA on this. 

Ross sits on the bench in his home state. Her antics have humiliated the Northern District of Georgia, the whole state, and the federal judiciary. Ossoff, a full-blown coward, has not called for her resignation, has not demanded transparency, and has not said a single public word about why they shielded her from accountability. That silence is deliberate, and Georgians should remember it come election time. 

Ross is a complete disgrace to the judiciary. She should slink away with whatever dignity she has left and be replaced by someone who understands that judicial chambers are not a Motel 6 for afternoon delights that the whole staff has to hear. 

The Senate Judiciary Committee, where Ossoff ought to be leading the charge instead of playing hide and seek, should demand answers on why her name stayed secret. Most important, the Justice Department needs to open a criminal investigation into the false statements she made to Pryor and her obstruction of justice. The judiciary and the country deserve way better than Eleanor Ross.

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Texas Dem Senate Candidate James Talarico Proudly Rebrands As "Talafreako," Launches Official Freak Merch Line

AUSTIN, TX—In a bold strategic masterstroke that political experts are calling "the most normal thing a Democrat has done all week," Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico has fully embraced his new nickname "Talafreako," graciously bestowed upon him by Republican opponent Ken Paxton.

Why did Paxton do so? Because Talarico freaking is.

The progressive leftist is now selling "I'm a Talafreako" T-shirts on his campaign website, proving once and for all that nothing says "serious Senate contender" like turning an insult into your entire brand identity, and while one can claim to be a socialist, it's capitalism that paved the way.

While speaking at a general election kickoff event in Houston this week, Talarico encouraged supporters to purchase a T-shirt, saying, "I also saw that Ken Paxton started calling me ‘Talafreako,’ and I am proud to announce that we have ‘I'm a Talafreako’ T-shirts on our website. So, when you go home tonight, make sure you grab one." 

After Talarico exited the stage, the crowd at the Houston rally began chanting "Talafreako" repeatedly, in what observers described as either unbridled enthusiasm or the auditory equivalent of a cry for help.

Despite the bravado, some believe that, with Talarico already having to deal with a series of highly controversial resurfaced comments, the move will backfire with moderate Texas voters. Talarico’s prior comments include saying that "God is nonbinary," that there are six genders and that the Bible supports abortion.

He offered no examples, no proof of his blasphemous and biological claims. For example, he said in 2021 during a Texas House debate on a bill restricting transgender athletes, that there are six biological sexes. “Modern science recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes — in fact, there are six.” This cretin was referring to chromosomal variations (e.g., XX, XY, XXY, XYY, XXX, XYY). Critics called it unscientific or an overreach to argue sex is a spectrum; he has since clarified there are two sexes (men and women) while noting rare chromosomal conditions deserve dignity.

In 2021 he said "God is nonbinary." In the same or related transgender policy debate, he stated: “God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is nonbinary.” He later explained it as intentionally provocative to mean God transcends human categories, citing Galatians (“in Christ there is neither male nor female”). 

Republicans and critics viewed it as insulting to Christianity or Jesus and even to God the Father.

In 2020 our genius lefty claimed that racism is a "virus." After Ahmaud Arbery’s killing. He posted on X equating racism to a virus and wrote: “White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus. But we spread it wherever we go—through our words, our actions, and our systems. We don’t have to be showing symptoms—like a white hood or a Confederate flag—to be contagious.” 

He called for diagnosing it within ourselves and supporting #BlackLivesMatter. 

When restrictions on transgender participation was proposed regarding men in women's sports, this idiot called parental concerns a "far-right conspiracy."

He criticized Christian nationalism, and supported progressive policies on abortion and immigration.

A strategist familiar with the Senate race remarked to Fox News Digital that "Talarico can’t run from his record of supporting every freaky left-wing policy under the sun."

"Selling merch that says ‘Talafreako’ on it is just going to remind people that he is on the wrong side of every 80/20 issue," the strategist said, adding, "It’s so weird."

The thing is, the dude really is a freak and if Texas votes him in, they will learn their mistake the hard way.

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Billionaire Dem Donor Who Turned on the Party After Swalwell Allegations Gets Arrested

The billionaire timeshare kingpin who suddenly ditched former Rep. Eric Swalwell and booted him from his California mansion over sexual misconduct allegations was arrested Tuesday. 

Stephen Cloobeck, the founder of Diamond Resorts International, turned himself in to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department in West Hollywood. He faces a felony charge of attempting to prevent or dissuade a victim or witness from testifying, the California Post reported.

Details on exactly what went down remain fuzzy. He posted $300,000 bail and walked out, per jail records. Fox News Digital asked the sheriff's department and Cloobeck himself for comment. 

"These charges are false, and we look forward to our day in court," a spokesperson for Cloobeck told the newspaper.

Cloobeck, a former gubernatorial candidate, had been backing Swalwell's run for California governor until the sexual assault claims surfaced. That was enough for him to bail on his old pal and the entire Democratic Party.

"I am no longer supporting Eric. F---ing tell everyone I’m a libertarian. F--- you, Democratic Party. I’m a libertarian now," Cloobeck told the Post at the time.

"I am now a Republican," he added to Fox 11 LA.

Swalwell has denied the claims against him in a video filmed inside Cloobeck's home. At the time, Cloobeck, who briefly ran for governor before dropping out and endorsing his former friend, said he kicked Swalwell out of his Beverly Hills mansion, stating that Swalwell "busted the trust" between them.

"I am no longer associated with a man that takes advantage of women," Cloobeck told reporters. "I support women’s rights."

Even in the clown world of California politics, this one has some extra layers of delicious irony. A big-money Dem donor finally sees the light, flips the bird to the party, and now finds himself in legal hot water. Hollywood could not script this stuff any better.

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Patel posts Van Hollen's bar receipt for imbibing with "gang-banging rapist"

FBI Director Kash Patel cranked up the heat on Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen (D) on Tuesday by blasting out the leftist's eye-watering bar tab from a swanky D.C. spot on social media. 

Patel and Van Hollen went at it during a hearing earlier that day over some Atlantic hit piece claiming the FBI boss has a drinking problem. After the fireworks, Patel dropped a campaign filing from December 12, 2025, showing Van Hollen's operation blew $7,128 at the Lobby Bar in D.C.

“The only person that ran up a $7,000 bar tab in Washington, D.C., at the Lobby Bar was you. The only individual in this room that has been drinking on the taxpayer dime during the day is you,” Patel said during the hearing.

A spokesman for Van Hollen told NBC that “this was a catering charge at a local restaurant where the Senator hosted an after-hours holiday reception as a thank you to the 50+ members of our team, paid for by campaign funds, not taxpayer dollars.”

During Tuesday’s hearing, Van Hollen unloaded on Patel over the drinking-on-the-job smears.“Director Patel, these reports about your conduct, including reports of your being so drunk and hungover that your staff had to force entry into your home, are extremely alarming,” Van Hollen said.

“So, there have been no occasions when your security detail had difficulty waking or locating you?” Van Hollen asked Patel.

“Nope, it’s a total farce. I don’t even know where you get this stuff, but it doesn’t make it credible, because you say so,” Patel fired back.

Patel has already slapped The Atlantic with a defamation lawsuit over the anonymous-source hit job. When Van Hollen kept swinging, Patel clapped back with a photo from El Salvador President Nayib Bukele showing the Democrat senator cozying up to accused MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia at a table that sure looked like it featured margaritas.

Bukele captioned the photo by saying that Abrego Garcia was “sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador.”

“Unlike your baseless reports, the only person that was slinging margaritas in El Salvador on the taxpayer dollar with a convicted gang-banging rapist was you,” Patel said.

Both Patel and Van Hollen dared each other to take sobriety tests right there in the hearing. Classic.

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Arcadia Mayor Caught Red-Handed As Chinese Spy, Immediately Claims "It Was Just A Personal Thing With My Fiancé"

Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang reached a federal plea agreement after being accused of acting as an unregistered foreign agent for China, promoting the country’s propaganda.

Wang admitted to posting Chinese government-directed content, including articles denying Uyghur persecution in Xinjiang. Because nothing says "dedicated public servant" like copy-pasting Beijing's greatest hits while wearing the mayoral sash.

Wang, who is a Democrat, naturally, served as mayor of the San Gabriel Valley suburb, entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors over charges that she acted under the control of the People’s Republic of China to promote propaganda in the U.S. between 2020 and 2022, according to court filings.

She was previously elected to the City Council in November 2022, stepped down as mayor on Monday hours after the plea agreement was unsealed. Arcadia officials and Wang’s attorneys said the conduct described by federal authorities occurred before Wang was elected, making her a pre-elected spy, of sorts. Just a harmless little hobby, they insist. Like scrapbooking, but with espionage and genocide denial.

Wang appeared in federal court in downtown Los Angeles during a brief hearing Monday, where a judge instructed her lawyers to set a date when she would formally enter a guilty plea.

The maximum sentence for the charge is only 10 years in prison.

Dressed in a blue suit jacket and skirt and accompanied by four lawyers, Wang listened to the proceeding through a Mandarin interpreter, because as a mayor of a California town, speaking English is evidently not disqualifying. 

She sniffled throughout the hearing, wiping at her eyes and her nose drippings with her hand and a tissue.

The magistrate judge ordered a $25,000 bond and for her to surrender all of her passports and travel documents. Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda B. Elbogen asked that the judge order Wang to refrain from any communication with the Chinese government, including consular officials in the U.S.

“Individuals in our country who covertly do the bidding of foreign governments undermine our democracy,” said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli in a statement Monday. “This plea agreement is the latest success in our determination to defend the homeland against China’s efforts to corrupt our institutions.”

In a statement, Wang’s attorneys, Brian A. Sun and Jason Liang, said “she apologizes and is sorry for the mistakes she has made in her personal life,” as if working as an agent for our enemy is a 'mistake,' a simple 'oopsie.'

“Her love and devotion for the Arcadia community have not changed and did not waver. She asks for the community’s understanding and continued support,” her attorneys said. 

The city of Arcadia’s website said Wang was “vacating her position” [aka quitting] and the process of selecting someone to step in as mayor would begin at the next City Council meeting.

“We understand this news raises serious concerns, and we want to be direct with our community about what we know and where we stand,” City Manager Dominic Lazzaretto said in a statement. “The allegations at the center of this case, that a foreign government sought to exert influence over a local elected official, are deeply troubling. We take them seriously.”

From late 2020 through at least 2022, Wang worked with Yaoning “Mike” Sun, her former fiancé, to run a website called U.S. News Center that branded itself as a news source for Chinese Americans, according to the plea agreement unsealed Monday. Both Wang and Sun “executed directives” from Chinese government officials, posting requested articles and reporting back with screenshots showing how many people viewed the stories, the agreement says.

On June 10, 2021, the agreement says, Wang received a message from a government official about “China’s Stance on the Xinjiang Issue,” which included a link to a letter to the editor in the Los Angeles Times from the consul general of the People’s Republic of China in Los Angeles. The consul general had been responding to a Times editorial supporting a boycott of products made with cotton produced in the Xinjiang region of China.

At the time, news reports were highlighting the Chinese government‘s campaign of incarceration, persecution and “reeducation” of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang province.

“There is no genocide in Xinjiang; there is no such thing as ‘forced labor’ in any production activity, including cotton production. Spreading such rumor is to defame China, destroy Xinjiang’s safety and stability,” read the message from the Chinese government official, according to the plea agreement.

Minutes after receiving the link, Wang posted the article on her website and responded to the Chinese government official with a link to the article on her website, according to the court filing.“So fast, thank you everyone,” the government official responded, the court records show.

Prosecutors also say Wang edited articles at the request of officials and shared information showing the reach of the posts.

“Thank you leader,” she wrote on Aug. 20, 2021, after being complimented for a post that was viewed more than 15,000 times, according to the plea agreement.

Wang never disclosed that the Chinese government had directed her to post the content, according to court documents.

Wang’s attorneys stressed in their statement “that the conduct underlying the information and the agreement with the government relates solely to Ms. Wang’s personal life — i.e., a media platform that she once operated with someone whom she believed to be her fiancé — and not to her conduct as an elected public official.”

Prosecutors charged Sun, a resident of Chino Hills, in December 2024 with conspiracy and acting as an illegal agent of a foreign government. Wang said her relationship with Sun ended in the spring of 2024.

Sun had also served as campaign manager for her City Council campaign to lead Arcadia, a landing spot for many Chinese and Taiwanese immigrants. Prosecutors accused Sun and his Chinese government contacts of cultivating Wang in hopes that she would rise in politics and help them strengthen China’s influence in California.

“We broke up the fiancé relationship,” Wang told the City Council after he was charged. “We keep the friendship.”

Sun was sentenced in February to four years in federal prison after pleading guilty in October 2025 to one count of acting as an illegal agent of a foreign government.

Sun worked as an illegal agent for the People’s Republic of China, submitting reports to high-level government officials about work he was doing on the government’s behalf, according to a federal sentencing memorandum. This activity included combating Falun Gong, a spiritual practice banned in China, and supporters of Taiwanese independence. Sun also was accused of monitoring the then-president of Taiwan during her April 2023 trip to the U.S.

Facing calls for her resignation on the heels of her former fiancé’s indictment, Wang vowed at the time not to step away from the council, emphasizing that she was “not responsible for the action of others.”

Wang said in a 2024 interview that she moved to Southern California from China 30 years ago. Her mother was a Chinese medicine and acupuncture doctor and her father was a physician in Sichuan province before working at USC, she said.

Wang appeared as usual at last week’s city council meeting, shepherding along discussions on street paving, the upcoming budget and a potential e-bike ordinance. Lazzaretto, the city manager, said in his statement that the city has conducted an internal review related to the charges and found no wrongdoing.

“We can confirm that no City finances, staff, or decision-making processes were involved,” Lazzaretto said in a statement. “We have found no actions that require reconsideration or that are invalidated as a result of these developments.”

In other news, sources confirm the "personal life" defense is now being workshopped by every CCP asset currently holding elected office in California.

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Democrat Mayor of Winnsboro arrested on 6 counts of Medicaid fraud

Alice Wallace, the Democrat mayor of Winnsboro, Louisiana (a small town in Franklin Parish), was arrested on April 21, 2026, and charged with six counts of government benefits fraud related to an alleged Medicaid fraud scheme.

Key Details of the CaseAllegations: 

Wallace, 50, is accused of fraudulently receiving Medicaid benefits for herself and a dependent from 2021 through 2026, totaling about $75,000, while ineligible due to her income and employment.

She allegedly failed to report changes in household income, marital status, employment (including her role as mayor), and access to employer-provided health insurance.

One count corresponds to each year of the alleged fraud. The investigation started from a referral by the Louisiana Department of Health.

She was arrested by the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation (under Attorney General Liz Murrill) and booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison. She turned herself in.BackgroundWallace became Winnsboro's first female mayor in 2022, winning by a narrow 12-vote margin. 

Wallace, like Chris Wallace [no relation] is a Democrat, in case I didn't mention it.

The charges cover a period including her time in office. Wallace has denied the allegations, calling them politically motivated ahead of her re-election bid (primary on May 16, 2026). At least she didn't call those who made allegations 'racists'. She pleaded not guilty, naturally.

In a Facebook post, Wallace stated she would be "vindicated" and blamed interference (including references to "the devil" in some reports) for trying to derail her campaign. The case is pending in Franklin Parish court.

This is a developing story.

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