Former Biden staffer charged with murdering his girlfriend

Either he's a complete fool, or it wasn't an accident.

A former staffer to former alleged President Joe Biden shot and killed his girlfriend on March 24 in San Francisco. He was arrested the following day. Police arrived around 10:45 pm to discover that Samantha Emge, 22, was suffering from a gunshot wound. She died at the hospital. 

Nation Wood, 25, claims he was dry-firing a firearm, which led to the shooting. He has been charged with involuntary manslaughter (via Fox KTVU):

KTVU has learned that the man charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of his girlfriend in San Francisco's Sunset District last week told police he was "dry-firing" a gun that went off and shot her while she was showering.

The suspect, Nation Wood, 25, is out on bail after San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins charged him in the March 24 shooting at 22nd Avenue and Santiago Street. A Superior Court judge set Wood's bail at $300,000. Wood pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on Friday.Dry firing a gun is when you pull the trigger of an unloaded firearm. But in this case, the firearm was primed when Samantha Emge, 22, a recent San Francisco State University graduate, was shot and killed.

When the story of the shooting first broke, District 4 Supervisor Alan Wong, a mayoral appointee, had said the discharge of the gun may have been unintentional.

Emge had worked in interior design, according to her LinkedIn profile.

Wood, who had also studied at San Francisco State University, worked in security, according to his LinkedIn profile. He was scheduled to leave San Francisco soon to serve in the National Guard.

He is now out on bail.

A week after the fatal shooting of his 22-year-old girlfriend, Samantha Emge, at their San Francisco Sunset District home, 25-year-old Nation Wood was in court on Wednesday.

"He is on electronic monitoring. His family posted bail. No weapons consent to warrant search and work with pre-trial services. All that he is going to do," said Paula Canny, Wood's attorney.Emge's parents and Nation Wood's dad were present. Wood appeared on Zoom from a hospital mental health unit. His attorney said he was admitted after posting $300,000 bail and is currently under psychiatric evaluation.

"We don't want to further compound this horrible tragedy by him ending his own life, which is what I think he wants to do now," said Canny.

This seems like a tragic accident, but we need more details. Did he forget to check his firearm? Where the hell was he doing this dry-firing exercise? Even if Wood checked and knew it was unloaded, you should not point it in any direction where someone could get shot. 

This is firearm safety 101, which anyone who owns a firearm, or knows anything about firearm safety already knows. Always treat a firearm as if it's loaded. The fact that he dry-fired it and pointed it at his showering girlfriend is just too convenient an excuse. 

I don't believe him . . . do you?

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Trans cult removed from court after shouting allegations of de-transition and murder

A suspected member of the radical "Zizian" cult was forcibly removed from a California courtroom after claiming an officer said she should be killed for being transgender.

Alexander "Somni" Leatham, is a 29-year-old man with gender dysphoria, a mental disorder that has become a plague in the West. Leatham is from Agoura Hills, California and is one of five alleged members of a group known as "Zizian." They are radical virgins, many have gender dysphoria and thus identify as trans, and they appeared in Solano Superior Court last Tuesday.

Leatham claimed that an officer told him that he "deserved to be shot for being transgender while he had a gun, and I was in chains," according to SFGate. 

Leatham, and other Zizian members, are being charged in connection with a string of murders across the country including the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent along the northern border.

The 29-year-old man reportedly went on a vulgar rant in the courtroom Tuesday, accusing authorities of attempting to de-transition him.

"The court has been hormonally detransitioning me for quarter of a decade as part of a state-sponsored conversion therapy program," he claimed, according to SFGate. "I am not suicidal. I have never been suicidal. If I am killed in police custody, it was murder!" 

Judge John B. Ellis ordered Leatham to be taken to an isolation room prior to the hearing, saying that he could appear via camera due to his behavior.

"If defendant Leatham can’t behave herself, she can be moved to the isolation booth," Ellis said, mistakingly referring to him as a female simply because he cross-dresses and may have had his genitals mutilated to look almost like those of a female.

Members of the Zizians have been charged or named as persons of interest in connection with six deaths across the country, including the stabbing of an 82-year-old landlord in January, the shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont in January and the 2022 double homicide of an elderly Pennsylvania couple.

Leatham and a guy named Suri Dao face attempted murder charges after a rent dispute with landlord Curtis Lind that ended with Zizian follower Emma Borhanian being fatally shot by Lind in self-defense. Lind was injured by a samurai sword during the altercation.

Lind had bought the property, placing 20-foot trailers and shipping containers on the land so he could rent them to people who were unable to afford the cost of housing in Vallejo, Patrick McMillan, a tenant who lives in a mobile home on the property, told the San Francisco Chronicle. Lind also lived on the property.

Curtis Lind

The group lived in a clusterfrack of trailer trucks, McMillan told the outlet. Initially, they paid rent but stopped paying during the pandemic.

"He had an agreement that they were going to fix up their vehicles, and then they were going to leave," Lind's daughter, Dina Morrill, told the newspaper.

"The truth is, they jumped him," Lind's son, Carl Lind, told KTVU.

Lind managed to shoot two of his alleged attackers, killing one of them, Borhanian. Prosecutors concluded that the landlord acted in self-defense.

"After they attacked him, he got his gun out and shot two of them, killed one of them," McMillan told the Chronicle. "The other one had three shots to the chest."

The landlord was left seriously injured after the group attacked him with a samurai sword. McMillan told KTVU that he had the sword "stuck through his back with about a foot of it sticking out in front."

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Lind survived the initial attack but was then stabbed to death in a second attack on Jan. 17, 2025. Maximilian Snyder, 22, another "Ziz" maniac, was arrested and charged with his murder, according to court records obtained by FOX 13 Seattle.

The next hearing is set for April 22 at 9 a.m. Fox News Digital reached out to Leatham's attorney.

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California Hypocrisy Alert: electric scooters dumped in lake, fish die

Oakland, California -- Woke tofu-eating vegans have some 'splainin' to do.

Environmentally friendly electric scooters are not so environmentally friendly when they are dumped in lakes. That is about as funny, ironic and hypocritical as it gets.

As they become less desirable the cheap mode of transportation that was designed for those who want a "green" earth, have been the source of "yucky" earth, or should I say 'lakes.' Now we're talking real pollution, baby.

This past October, cleanup crews at Oakland's Lake Merritt fished out 60 environmentally friendly, once upon a time, according to James Robinson, the Executive Director of Lake Merritt Institute, as reported by Fox News.

"We've been having a fair amount of the e-scooters come into the lake or thrown into the lake rather," he told KTVU. "These can be very damaging to our marine environment because they're not natural things that go into the lake.”

Fish cannot ride electric scooters and gas scooters are a joke.

Robinson is concerned that the damage is coming from the batteries in scooters, operated by both Lime and Bird scooter companies.

Chariots of dorks

Robinson took photos and the scooters appear to be from those two companies. He reported the situation to Lime and Bird but only Lime has sent employees to remove them.

With a company named 'Bird' you can imagine what Robinson wanted to flip at them.

So tell us how to live, residents of California. Tell us how important saving the environment is to all of you fine vegans and yoga mat shleppers. 

But it isn't only Californians who are liberal hypocrites. In Portland, activists created a blog called "Scooters in the River PDX" that documents how many e-scooters are dumped into the Willamette River-- 17 as of this writing.

Freaking hypocrites!

If you ride an electric scooter and you don't pollute lakes and you aren't a hypocrite, then you are not a dork.

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