Nation Relocates Kids Of Dictator Who Massacred 200,000 To Ohio, Then Routes $1.8 Million In Medicare Their Way

COLUMBUS, OH - In another triumph of compassion, screening, and paperwork, the children of Somali dictator Siad Barre have been living quietly in Ohio for decades after their father was overthrown in 1991. 

Barre's regime is alleged to be responsible for killing as many as 200,000 people. A family-linked home health company later collected more than $1.8 million in Medicare funding. 

Ayanle Mohamed Siad and his sister, Deka Mohamed Siad, settled in Columbus after the family dictatorship collapsed. Deka and her late husband, former Somali ambassador Abdikarim Ali Omar, ran Vanguard Home Health Care, a company that received more than $1.8 million in Medicare funding, according to the New York Post. The company closed after Omar's death in 2021. 

Officials have not explained which box on the immigration form covers "child of the man who ran a 21-year slaughterhouse." They have explained that the billing looked fine.

Barre seized power in Somalia for roughly 21 years before being overthrown. Ayanle has been accused of serving as head of Barre's administration in the final years of the dictatorship. He currently lives in a $350,000 house with his wife and son, and his presence has left many in the Somali community outraged.

Survivors of the old regime now live in the same metro area as the old regime's children, which immigration planners apparently filed under "diversity."

“Siad Barre and his men committed so many war crimes so I was shocked to see his son [Ayanle] in the mosque enjoying his freedom,” one Somali, Ali-Guban Mohamed, told the New York Post. “My family were rounded up in a small township called Agabur and executed. Their bodies were put into a well, and that was happening across the board.”

“It was a 21-year military dictatorship, one man rule and a bunch of his men. Siad Barre dictated where you could go, where you could live, where you can travel,” he continued. 

Mohammad, who came to the US after Barre ordered the massacre of civilians in the Isaaq clan, said that “not a single person had been held accountable for the genocide that took place,” under Barre’s rule. “It feels very bad to know Ayanle is here. Others are scared to speak out but I don’t care. People need to know the truth. He was supposed to be the one who took over from his father, like Saddam Hussein’s son.”

American taxpayers, meanwhile, were held accountable right on schedule. Medicare sent the money. The house got bought. The mosque visits continued. The genocide file stayed in the "not our department" cabinet. 

Despite his atrocities, Barre is celebrated by the Somali Museum of Ohio, which has referred to him as its “honorable grandfather.” 

And let's also remember, AOC and Zohran Mamdani laughed out freaking loud at the 911 Memorial event. Of course, this has nothing to do with this story, but I had to mention it.

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Karmelo Anthony Apparently Wanted the Internet to Keep Receipts

Convicted killer and homophobe Karmelo Anthony apparently spent months assembling what can only be described as a digital scrapbook of crappy decisions, posing with guns, ranting about other black people, and accusing gay people of “f—king everything up” before fatally stabbing Austin Metcalf at a Texas high school track meet.

A newly uncovered 75-page document dump reportedly reveals a disturbing collection of texts between Anthony and his then-girlfriend, offering a glimpse into a teenager whose apparent solution to increasingly serious problems was to create even more serious problems because he's not so bright.

The Daily Mail first reported images of Anthony flashing a handgun in a November 2024 video, just months before he fatally stabbed Metcalf in the heart at a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas, in April 2025. 

Another image from May 2024 shows Anthony holding an AK-47-style rifle alongside three other teenagers. A third video reportedly shows Anthony aiming a gun at an unknown residence before running away on Jan. 4, 2025.

Apparently, this was not exactly the sort of wholesome extracurricular activity schools like to highlight in their yearbooks.

And because one apparently needs more evidence that Anthony had a serious problem with judgment, the newly uncovered texts reportedly show him directing profanity-laced hatred toward members of his own community.

A week before the killing, Anthony reportedly sent several messages to his girlfriend, Valeria Perez, expressing his deep disdain for other black people.

“I f—king despise Black b*tches,” he said, according to a screenshot.

“F—king n—ers,” he wrote, according to the documents. “They need to go die.” 

Anthony apparently wasn't finished offending people. In a June 2021 text to a friend, he reportedly turned his attention toward gay people.

“These f—king gay people are f—king everything up,” he wrote.

He also reportedly said he hated then-President Joe Biden because he’s “Gay ASB [as balls],” according to the New York Post.

It turns out the internet's permanent memory is not always your friend.

The dossier also contains allegations of criminal behavior unrelated to the stabbing. In an October 2024 text, Anthony reportedly told his girlfriend he “might gt [go to] jail” after claiming he had broken into a neighbor’s home and stolen a watch.

He also allegedly bragged about bringing a gun and knife to school.

Because apparently the concept of leaving the weapons at home was not sufficiently exciting.

The evidence never made it to trial and was not presented to the jury, despite offering prosecutors additional allegations about Anthony's behavior before the killing.

In August, a Texas judge rejected Anthony’s long-shot request for a new murder trial, dealing another setback to his appellate team, which had alleged several errors during the proceedings. The Collin County District Attorney’s Office has maintained that prosecutors acted ethically throughout the trial, The Daily Wire previously reported.

Evidence presented at trial showed that Anthony refused to leave another team's tented area and, when confronted by the unarmed Metcalf, stabbed him directly in the heart.

A Texas jury rejected Anthony’s self-defense claim and sentenced him to 35 years in prison.

The case quickly became a national controversy, fueled in part by the narrative promoted by Anthony's family and what critics described as a striking lack of interest from legacy media outlets that have historically devoted enormous attention to incidents involving race.

The trial began June 1 with jury selection and concluded just nine days later.

Anthony broke down in tears and visibly shook as the verdict was read. He became emotional again when the judge announced his 35-year sentence.

When Metcalf’s family delivered victim impact statements, Anthony reportedly kept his head down and refused to look them in the eyes, even after being asked to do so.

Jeff Metcalf, Austin's father, wasn't interested in excuses.

“You can’t even look me in the eyes right now, but you can stab my f*cking son,” he said.

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BREAKING: LA Podcaster Arrested After Discovering ‘Kill Donald Trump’ Is Apparently Not A Great Free Speech Strategy

LOS ANGELES, CA: An LA-based left-wing podcaster has reportedly discovered the exciting limits of free speech after FBI agents showed up at his Westlake home to arrest him for allegedly threatening to kill President Donald Trump.

Azariah Southworth, 40, a gay Christian podcast host, was detained after allegedly making repeated threats against the president and stalking Trump's personal lawyer and the lawyer's family, according to the New York Post.

Apparently, Southworth had been operating under the increasingly popular California legal theory that anything can be considered protected speech as long as you say "free speech" loudly enough.

According to court documents, Southworth posted a video on Instagram on April 7 in which he declared, “I have been vocal in calling for the execution of Donald Trump. This government is illegitimate and out of control. It’s time for course correction. Kill Donald Trump."

Authorities apparently interpreted this less as a nuanced commentary on constitutional government and more as a threat, which is the correct interpretation if you understand English.

As police took him away, Southworth reportedly continued expressing his political opinions by yelling, “Donald Trump is a pedophile! The country has fallen!” Chances are Southworth is merely projecting.

Prosecutors said Southworth had called for Trump's assassination multiple times, both publicly and privately.

In a January text conversation with an associate, Southworth allegedly wrote, “If I encounter any Trump official in-person, I’m seriously afraid I will end up in Jail,” before immediately demonstrating an impressive lack of confidence in his own prediction.

“But if I could Kill him, I wouldn’t waste the opportunity," he added.

“I want to funnel this rage into street art. That’s my plan,” he continued. “But GOD I want that motherf*cker and his minions dead.”

Trump's minions

According to prosecutors, Southworth regularly used his podcasting platform to encourage violence against the president, apparently believing that the First Amendment includes a special clause covering people who really, really hate the president.

“I want to practice my free speech as a survivor of conversion therapy for five years,” he said in a video in March. “Kill Donald Trump. Kill that mothef*cking pedophile in the White House. Kill that traitor of the United States Constitution.”

The phrase "free speech" was reportedly invoked so frequently that somewhere, an actual First Amendment attorney quietly developed a migraine.

Then, in April, Southworth allegedly posted another video depicting himself teleporting into the White House behind Trump while raising a knife as though preparing to stab the president.

Southworth had apparently anticipated that his increasingly specific calls for the president's execution might eventually attract the attention of federal law enforcement.

On Instagram, he previously posted a statement to followers explaining what he believed might happen if he were arrested.

“I am making this video today in the event of my arrest. It has been a long-held belief that calling for the execution of the president of The United States will get you put on a list or arrested,” he said. “I have friends who are concerned this will happen to me as I have been vocal in calling for the execution of Donald Trump.”

It turns out his friends may have been onto something.

“It’s time for course correction,” he added.

“Kill Donald Trump.”

And thus concludes another fascinating chapter in the ongoing American experiment in which people discover that the First Amendment protects an astonishing amount of speech, but apparently does not come with a complimentary federal immunity package.

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Mamdani's War on the Bodega: Because Nothing Says “Helping Immigrants” Like Destroying Their Businesses

New York City Mayor and comrade Zohran Mamdani has apparently discovered the ultimate solution to economic inequality: have the government open grocery stores and compete directly with the immigrant entrepreneurs who spent generations building New York’s neighborhoods.

Naturally, the immigrant grocers being targeted by this brilliant socialist experiment are not impressed, especially since their own tax money is going toward the funding of these stores,

The Multicultural Business Coalition (MBC), which represents immigrant-run businesses, has filed two lawsuits against Mamdani’s plan to open government-run supermarkets, arguing that the city’s taxpayer-funded grocery empire could drive family-owned bodegas and supermarkets out of business.

One lawsuit represents “hundreds” of grocers who are “members of groups historically discriminated against,” according to The New York Post. The city plans to open the first of five government supermarkets next year.

Apparently, the revolutionary dream of replacing capitalism with socialism has reached the point where the government now gets to compete with the very immigrants Democrats routinely celebrate as the backbone of American entrepreneurship.

Sure, keep voting for these leftists, my Democrat friends, and quit complaining. You got what you voted for, good and hard.

MBC President Ken Roldan called the plan “a direct assault on minority business by a mayor who claims to be a champion of disenfranchised poor and working-class New Yorkers.”

That's one way to describe it. Another would be: “Congratulations, your reward for building a successful neighborhood business is a government competitor.” Again, on their own tax dollars.

Mamdani, naturally, is naively confident that everything will work out beautifully. On Monday, he defended the proposal, saying he is “fully confident in both the legality and the importance of our initiative.”

Because when a socialist government starts opening competing businesses, the one thing you definitely do not need to worry about is whether the government knows what it is doing.

The second lawsuit raises concerns similar to those surrounding previous efforts to bring Walmart into New York City. Opponents of Walmart argued that the retail giant could drive small storefronts out of business.

But apparently Walmart was insufficiently progressive. Now New York City wants to become Walmart, except with taxpayers footing the bill and politicians deciding what gets stocked on the shelves.

The immigrant grocers also allege that the city “failed to study the discriminatory effects” of the planned supermarkets on family-owned bodegas and supermarkets operated by Hispanics, Arabs, and Asians. The lawsuit asks the city to conduct such a study.

Never held a real job until now

Frank Garcia, chairman of the MBC, explained why the issue is personal.

“My grandfather opened up one of the first bodegas in the late 1960s when East Harlem was burning, and the A&Ps and Walbaums were leaving,” Garcia said. “He established the first Latino Grocery Association to protect the rights of immigrant store owners. I am proud to be following up in his tradition because what Mayor Mamdani is doing is disgracing his memory.”

Nothing says “honoring immigrant entrepreneurs” quite like making them compete against City Hall.

Jairo Guzman, president of the NY State Mexican Chamber of Commerce, called the immigrant-run bodegas “New York City’s great mosaic,” and said that “Mayor Mamdani needs to withdraw his disastrous plan and work with us to find different ways to bolster and sustain what so many (New York City) immigrants have created.”

“The Puerto Ricans were the bodega pioneers and they were followed by the Dominicans, the Arabs, the Koreans, the Chinese, and finally, my Mexican business members,” Guzman said.

There was a time when the American dream meant immigrants arrived with little, worked hard, opened businesses, served their communities, and eventually built something their children could inherit.

Under Mamdani economics, the dream appears to be evolving into something more modern: work hard, build a successful business, pay your taxes, and wait patiently for the government to open a competing store next door.

Mamdani has pledged that the government-run grocery stores will offer products at prices 30% lower than private retailers.

Economists have warned that the plan could lead to supply-chain breakdowns and bare shelves.

But why worry about shortages when you can simply blame capitalism for them?

Venture capitalist Shaun Maguire recently offered a less optimistic assessment.

“This is LITERALLY how you destroy an economy,” Maguire warned, adding, “This is the story of the Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela, etc. Now coming to NYC!”

Of course, New York is not the Soviet Union, Cuba, or Venezuela.

Not yet, anyway.

But if Mamdani succeeds, New Yorkers may soon discover the exciting socialist experience of paying taxes to support a government grocery store while standing in line outside a private bodega that has already gone out of business.

At least the empty shelves will be affordable.

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'Habibi City,' New York Magazine's salute to anti-Semitism

Zaina Arafat

New York Magazine, an evil rag, has just published a special package in its issue of 10 August 2026, under the title “Habibi City,” also presented as a celebration of SWANA New York. The piece of crap sets out to applaud the rising cultural presence of Southwest Asian and North African [SWANA] communities across the city: the parties, the restaurants, the artists, the comedians, the bookstores, all led by a younger generation that has decided the moment is theirs.

The cover photograph shows a gathering at Laylit, held at Elsewhere. The principal essay is the work of the execrable Zaina Arafat. 

Critics, most prominently John Podhoretz writing in the New York Post, have described the cover and its accompanying package as the “evil ‘Habibi City’ cover.” Similar language has appeared elsewhere. They contend that the issue advances an anti-Israel and anti-Zionist outlook, treats Jewish New Yorkers with marked coolness or as an unwelcome presence, resorts to formulations such as “the land mass currently called Israel,” and rearranges the events after 7 October so that the sense of threat is inverted. 

All of this, they note, unfolds against the political backdrop of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s New York. 

The magazine itself presents the exercise as a cheerful affirmation of SWANA cultural influence and community spirit. The word “evil” is the critics’ own. The dispute is only a few days old, yet it has already provoked considerable objection both online and in the opinion pages. 

Arafat [no relation to Yassar] is a Palestinian-American writer who makes no secret of her strong anti-Zionist/anti-Semitic convictions, although she never has covertly mentioned the latter hatred in public. She describes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in terms that a range of Jewish organizations, the New York Post, The Free Press and others regard as antisemitic or as adding fuel to an antisemitic atmosphere.

In the lead essay she informs readers that SWANA New Yorkers continue to confront “xenophobia, Islamophobia, and Zionism.” Zionism is thereby placed on the same plane as racial prejudice or anti-Muslim hostility. 

She further presents the SWANA cultural flowering as “born out of the pain of the genocide in Gaza” and speaks of people “living under the threat of annihilation” in the period after 7 October.

The wider package, of which her essay is the centerpiece, employs the phrase “the land mass currently called Israel,” an expression critics have called an erasure of Jewish history and of any legitimate claim to the region. Coverage of Jewish and Israeli chefs and restaurants has been criticized as something closer to a hit piece.

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SPLC Official Secreted Money to Her Neo-Nazi Lover

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s legal case just got a lot juicier after it was revealed that one of the organization’s leaders had a sexual relationship with an individual who belonged to a neo-Nazi group. She is now under scrutiny for allegedly helping to pay her lover $1.2 million in donor money, according to The New York Post.

The Department of Justice filed a superseding indictment against the SPLC accusing it of funneling donor cash to hate groups they were then telling donors they were fighting. It's like a fireman setting fires so he'd have the chance to put out fires.

One figure, referred to as “Employee-2” in the indictment, is described as a “person who would become Director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project.”

It also describes how “Employee-2” wrote an article based on material stolen from National Alliance headquarters in 2014 and then paid off an informant to take the blame for the robbery.

Based on the details in the June 2 superseding indictment, “Employee-2” is believed to be Heidi Beirich, a 58-year-old fascism expert who was the director of intelligence at the Alabama-based anti-extremism nonprofit between 2012 and 2019.The indictment alleges Beirich was very close to the informant known only as “F-9” who “infiltrated the neo-Nazi organization National Alliance.”

“[Beirich] was also in a romantic relationship with F-9. During this relationship, [Beirich] and F-9 shared a house and two bank accounts,” the indictment alleges.

“Between 2015 and 2021, approximately $140,000 in donors’ money flowed from the SPLC operating account … and was ultimately deposited into the joint bank accounts held by F-9 and [Beirich].”

The indictment alleges that while the SPLC was paying the informant, he was raising money for the National Alliance. Beirich and the informant allegedly used the money to pay for personal expenses as well.

One of the SPLC’s sources broke into the National Alliance’s buildings, stole a number of documents, and took them out of town to make copies. The individual later returned the originals. The indictment claims the SPLC tried to conceal their informant’s identity by paying another informant to confess to the robbery.

Beirich used the information to write a report about the organization.

The National Alliance chairman William White Williams told the Post that some of the informants wanted to leave the organization and went to the SPLC for this purpose. However, the organization persuaded them to remain with the alliance and “get paid.”

The SPLC’s funding for informants took on a variety of forms. It paid white nationalists and Ku Klux Klan members thousands to spend on cross burnings and other activities.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is facing a slew of charges for allegedly defrauding donors. Prosecutors say the organization covertly paid more than three million dollars to informants in hate groups between 2014 and 2023. The organization allegedly failed to inform donors that they were using the money for this purpose.

The payments were concealed through shell companies and fake bank accounts, the Justice Department noted. The indictment includes eleven counts of wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the organization was “doing the exact opposite of what it told its donors it was doing, not dismantling extremism, but funding it.”

In a shocking twist that surprises exactly no one who has followed the SPLC's long career of smearing grandmas who pray at abortion clinics as "hate groups" while raking in millions, it turns out the fearless Nazi-hunters were actually running a cozy little dating service for domestic terrorists. Nothing says "fighting extremism" like using donor cash to keep your boyfriend's neo-Nazi group flush with cash for whatever wholesome activities they had planned.

Who could have guessed that the group that labels everyone to the right of Bernie Sanders a dangerous bigot would end up in bed, literally, with the very monsters they claim keep them up at night? The SPLC: still the gold standard for turning tolerance into a six-figure grift.

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New Accuser Says Platner’s Nazi Tattoo Was Actually A Reminder That America Is The Real Villain

Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner’s increasingly cursed tattoo saga took another sharp turn this week after a former romantic partner claimed the candidate fully understood the meaning behind his infamous Nazi insignia and allegedly treated it like a progressive TED Talk on American imperialism.

The unidentified woman told the New York Post she was romantically involved with Platner in 2021, back when the future Senate hopeful was apparently juggling a fiancée, a dating app habit, and a chest tattoo straight out of a History Channel documentary on “Europe’s Worst Ideas.”

“As a person who is a leftist, I immediately looked at him and asked him, ‘Is that a Totenkopf?’ and he told me a whole, ‘he will hold this weight forever’ bravado sob story about how it was, but he decided to keep it as a reminder that the United States was the evil, bad guy overseas,” she told The Post.

Apparently Platner’s explanation was not, “Oops, my bad,” but instead the classic progressive defense of “Actually America is the real fascist.”

The Post reported it corroborated portions of the woman’s account through old text messages and social media posts, because in 2026 every political scandal now comes with archived receipts and emotionally unstable screenshots.

“I very briefly was talking to and then consequently seeing Graham Platner from about February 2021 until mid July 2021 when it was revealed to me that he was cheating on his fiancée at the time,” the woman posted on X. “He knew about the fu**ing tattoo.”

According to screenshots she shared, the relationship apparently involved Nazi tattoos, infidelity, bizarre bedroom sound effects, and enough red flags to qualify as a Soviet military parade.

In one message to her mother, she reportedly blasted Platner over his “Nazi tattoo” and “small d—k,” while also accusing him of making “weird noises” and “fu**ing around on his fiancée.” In another message to a friend, she warned, “Better not take a peek at the Nazi tattoo on his chest.”

Somewhere, Democratic campaign strategists are likely wondering whether it’s still too late to run literally anyone else.

The woman also pushed back against claims that critics of Platner are just right wing operatives trying to sabotage the campaign.

“I think you’ll find that contrary to the current spin of his campaign, I am not in fact a ‘Republican operative’ hell bent on destroying his campaign, but instead am and have been very much on the left side of the political spectrum,” she wrote.

That clarification probably hurt Democrats even more. It is one thing when conservatives call you out for questionable behavior. It is another when your fellow leftists start sounding like opposition research teams.

In a lengthy statement, the woman explained she had moved to Maine during the pandemic to work at a “glamping resort” near Acadia National Park and joined Tinder because she knew nobody in the area. Unfortunately, instead of meeting a rugged outdoorsman or emotionally available yoga instructor, she matched with a Democratic Senate candidate carrying what appeared to be a live action Reddit thread on his chest.

The accusations are only the latest headache for Platner, whose explanation for the tattoo has been unraveling faster than a CNN fact check during a Republican debate.

Earlier this week, Platner’s former political director accused him of “a pattern of dishonest behavior,” which in modern politics is basically the equivalent of saying water is wet.

Despite the growing pile of controversies, Maine Democrats selected Platner on Tuesday to challenge Republican Sen. Susan Collins. The choice came after weeks of revelations involving disturbing social media activity, explicit messages with multiple women, and reports that Platner maintained an account on a platform allegedly frequented by child predators.

At this point, Democrats appear to be following the proven electoral strategy of “Surely voters won’t notice.”

Platner’s campaign attempted damage control yet again.

“Graham’s repeatedly said he picked a skull and crossbones tattoo off a wall in Croatia to commemorate surviving Ramadi and his friends who were killed there,” a spokesperson told The Post. “Graham has also since covered up the tattoo and answered countless questions about it.”

Critics noted this is a very unusual explanation, largely because most Americans commemorate military service with a shadow box, a challenge coin, or maybe a bumper sticker, not a symbol widely recognized from Nazi iconography.

Still, Democrats remain optimistic voters will focus on the important issues, like protecting democracy from mean tweets and banning gas stoves.

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‘Sleazebag’ Dad Caucus founder Rep. Jimmy Gomez admits to cheating on wife after Post exposé

WASHINGTON — Congressional Dads Caucus founder Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) finally fessed up Tuesday that he cheated on his wife, right after The NY Post dropped the April bombshell that he was caught playing tonsil hockey with a congressional aide outside a DC party. 

We don't know if he scored.

The Post’s report lit the fuse on a House Ethics Committee investigation that dug up all kinds of gross new details, absolutely torching Gomez’s painstakingly polished image as America’s most devoted family man.

“Years ago, I made personal mistakes outside my marriage that have caused real pain to my wife and family,” Gomez told CNN, describing the extramarital relations as “consensual.”

“I sincerely apologize to my wife, family, friends and the people that I have the privilege to serve,” said Gomez after he was caught, who in January 2023 wore his baby son in a sling around his neck during marathon votes for House speaker like the world’s most committed dad influencer.

“I sought professional assistance to help re-center and heal the relationships that mean everything to me, and move forward with the honesty, transparency, and respect that everyone deserves from the people they love. I continue to do this work.”

The Los Angeles Democrat was spotted making out with a much younger congressional aide for a different lawmaker outside the home of then-Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), The Post revealed in April.

Gomez, who is married, was making out with the aide at Swalwell’s bash to celebrate the start of that year’s August recess. Attendees did not recall seeing his wife or 11-month-old son anywhere in the vicinity. Shocking.

Swalwell, the man known for "the fart heard round the world," resigned in disgrace following a series of sexual misconduct allegations against him earlier this year. Birds of a feather and all that.

“This guy [Gomez] is a sleaze-bag. He should resign and use his free time to trade war stories with Swalwell,” said one Democratic source familiar with the matter.

“Hopefully he doesn’t hook up with another chief of staff at Eric Swalwell’s house. One is too many.”

Gomez and the younger Hill staffer were seen kissing by a stunned group of Democratic congressional aides, two of whom recounted their surprise to The Post. A third source heard of Gomez’s alleged relationship with the woman from additional Democratic sources.

The Post did not initially publish the name of the woman involved.

Gomez, a close Swalwell friend, strongly denied The Post’s reporting in April and his confession did not specify particular wrongdoing. How convenient.

A spokesman did not immediately offer comment on whether he was confessing to the relationship reported by The Post — after his blanket denials.

Gomez, who represents a heavily Democratic district in Los Angeles, also gave no indication that he planned to resign. Of course he didn’t.

“Although my actions were consensual in nature and haven’t violated the law or House ethics rules, that doesn’t diminish the impact that these mistakes have made on those I care about the most,” Gomez said in his statement.

“I take full responsibility and have committed myself to working through the pain privately with my wife and family.”

Sure, Jimmy. Keep that Dads Caucus membership card warm.

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NYC Mayor Drops $5.2 Million Of Taxpayer Cash On Brand New Socialist Propaganda Office

In a free society, government works for the people. The moment elected officials start funneling public money into operations designed to build political loyalty rather than deliver actual services, that relationship flips on its head. It is the oldest trick in the machine politician playbook. And every generation of Americans seems doomed to relearn the lesson the hard way. 

Here is the question every taxpayer should ask when scanning a city budget: Does this dollar go toward something citizens actually need? 

When the answer turns out to be a brand new office packed with campaign operatives and gift wrapped as civic engagement, you already know something rotten is going on. The numbers just dropped though, and they are worse than anyone expected.

Taxpayers are on the hook for 5.2 million dollars to pay the swollen salaries of the information ministers in socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani new City Hall propaganda bureau. A staggering 175 percent more than first thought, according to the New York Post.

It is barely been open for business for a month, but the Office of Mass Engagement has already seen its headcount balloon 186 percent from 14 to 40, with $5,123,756 earmarked for salaries, according to the city recently released 2027 executive budget.

Read that again. An office that did not exist six months ago has gorged itself to 40 employees and a 5.1 million dollar payroll. With another 26 hires on deck for next year at an average salary of $125,000. 

That is not a typo. For perspective, this single office budget now eclipses what the city allocates to entire agencies like the Board of Corrections and the Office for People with Disabilities. Disabled New Yorkers get less institutional support than the mayor personal propaganda arm. Stunning priorities.

Your tax dollars at work.

Even Democrats can not stomach this one. Democratic political consultant Hank Sheinkopf was blunt: “This is purely politics at a time when real services are needed. We have real deficits and this mayor is spending five million dollars to put 40 political operatives on the payroll. It’s morally incomprehensible… It’s outrageous.”

He went further. “This isn’t for anybody’s benefit but the mayor’s.”

Hard to argue with that when you look at the hiring. The office commissioner, Tascha Van Auken, served as Mamdani campaign field director. He's not a seasoned civil servant, nor a policy expert. Van Auken is merely a campaign operative who's now drawing a city salary. One listed role, a $150,000 campaign style director position, carries a job description virtually indistinguishable from political campaign work. These are loyalists with government email addresses and taxpayer funded paychecks.

From campaign trail to City Hall.

The ideological wiring here runs deep. A $150,000 'deputy director role for co governance'. Yes, that is the actual title. Used language nearly identical to a DSA co chair manifesto called Building Municipal Socialism in New York with DSA. 

Subtle, it is not. The office claims to champion marginalized communities, but critics point out it primarily caters to the mostly white and affluent DSA base that carried Mamdani into office.

The office debut initiative, Organize NYC, deploys staff for door to door canvassing and volunteer recruitment. Tactics ripped directly from the Democratic Socialists of America handbook. And what, exactly, are they organizing around? Rent Guidelines Board hearings tied to the mayor signature rent freeze proposal. City Hall insists the office will not advocate for any specific outcome.  

Yeah, sure. And the canvassers knocking on doors ahead of the mayor top policy vote are just there for the fresh air.

Here is a detail that deserves attention: workers have been canvassing the Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, and Brooklyn since early May. Missing from the list? Staten Island. The city lone Republican leaning borough. A spokesperson rushed to assure reporters that a borough rep had been hired. Draw your own conclusions.

Zoom out, and the pattern only sharpens. Mamdani has budgeted $51.8 million for the mayor office in 2027. A $7 million jump over his predecessor. His communications staff is expected to be the largest in New York City mayoral history. This is constructing a permanent campaign apparatus with public funds, brick by brick.

Americans who still believe government should be limited, accountable, and focused on serving citizens. Not itself. Need to pay attention to what is happening in New York. When a mayor first instinct in office is to build a multimillion dollar machine to organize political support for his own agenda, he is not expanding democracy. 

He is consolidating power. And every New York taxpayer is footing the bill, whether they signed up for it or not.

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Purple Heart recipient mocked by Nazi tattoo wearer Graham Platner

“I don’t understand the hatred toward veterans who served honorably"
Ted Daniels, Purple Heart Hero

The heroic Army veteran at the center of this latest Democrat clown show in Maine is finally speaking out, and he’s got a simple message for the party apparatchiks still clinging to their Senate hopeful Graham Platner: you people owe his kids an explanation.

According to the New York Post, Purple Heart recipient Ted Daniels unloaded on the top Democrats who are still circling the wagons for Platner even after his charming Reddit burner account comments resurfaced—where he mocked Daniels and said the man “didn’t deserve to live” after a brutal firefight in Afghanistan.

The whole mess has gone nuclear now that online sleuths also dug up images of the Democrat sporting what sure looks like a Nazi-linked tattoo. Shocking, I know. Democrats backing a guy with that rap sheet? In this economy?

Daniels, whose helmet-cam footage from a 2012 Taliban ambush went massively viral years ago, told the Post he doesn’t even want an apology from Platner anymore because it wouldn’t feel genuine.

Instead, he said he wants liberal lawmakers like Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, and Hakeem Jeffries to explain to his kids why they are backing a candidate who mocked the possibility of their father being killed in combat.

Daniels went viral years ago after helmet-cam footage showed him sprinting into open fire during a Taliban ambush while bullets ripped around him.

His team survived the onslaught, but not before Daniels, who drew the enemy fire away from his squad, was hit four times. He earned a Purple Heart for his actions.

Years later, Platner, now the presumptive Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, allegedly mocked Daniels on a burner Reddit account, calling him a “dumb motherf*cker” and saying he should not have survived.

Platner: an angry, vulgar, Nazi-loving, Democratic candidate

The New York Post reported that Platner has since deleted large portions of the account history.Daniels also criticized Platner over past comments targeting Chris Kyle and Vice President JD Vance over their military service.

“I don’t understand the hatred toward veterans who served honorably,” Daniels told the New York Post. “That part gets me.”

Platner has defended himself by pointing to his own military service, saying accusations that he disrespects veterans are “offensive” and “slanderous.” He just hates Jews, I guess. 

He has not apologized for the comments. Despite everything, Daniels said he is not attacking Platner’s military record and still considers him “a brother” because of his service.

But he also suggested it’s a lot easier to trash someone online than say those things face-to-face.

The controversy exploded even further after Dave Portnoy publicly torched Platner over the tattoo controversy while rejecting an apparent attempt by the campaign to get Barstool involved in an anti-private-equity Red Sox message push.

The "Totenkopf" tattoo (German for "death's head" or skull)

Portnoy blasted Platner in a private exchange. “Yeah I’d be happy to talk to him about that tattoo and him being a Nazi,” Portnoy wrote before later posting screenshots of the exchange online. Look, this is just another day in the Democrat fever swamp: a guy who allegedly trash-talked a wounded warrior from behind a keyboard, rocks questionable ink, and the party’s blue-check royalty still can’t find the spine to walk away. 

Shocker.

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CBP busts 28 in huge child pornography operation aboard 8 cruise ships, including Disney vessel

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers decided to crash the party on eight cruise ships docked in San Diego, California last month, including one of Disney’s floating cash machines, and hauled off 28 people in a serious child sexual exploitation material investigation. 

Sounds Goofy to me, Mickey.

Federal agents boarded the vessels between April 23rd and 27th, a spokesperson for the agency told TMZ.

“After boarding the vessels and interviewing 26 suspected crew scumcrumpets from the Philippines, one suspected crew member from Portugal, and one from Indonesia, officers confirmed all individuals were involved in either the receipt, possession, transportation, distribution, or viewing of CSEM or child pornography,” a CBP spokesperson told the California Post.

The official added that the offenders’ visas were then canceled and that they were being removed from the United States.

Disney, in its usual corporate damage-control mode, wouldn’t say exactly how many of the pervs were on their payroll. The Mouse House did claim that most of the arrests did not involve staffers from its ship.

“We have a zero-tolerance policy for this type of behavior and fully cooperated with law enforcement,” a Disney spokesperson told the New York Post. “While the majority of these individuals were not from our cruise line, those who were are no longer with the company.”

The Disney cruise had just returned from a five-day voyage that included stops at Catalina Island and Ensenada in Baja California, Mexico.

Video footage hit the internet this week showing immigration enforcement officers nabbing Disney employees right at the San Diego International Airport after the Disney Magic docked. This naturally sent the usual anti-ICE crowd into full meltdown mode.

One vacationer, Dharmi Mehta, caught video of a man she said was her server getting detained.“He was full in uniform, which was in a blazer, tie. Some of the other employees were still in their chef’s uniforms with their name tags on it,” Mehta said during a press conference on Tuesday.

Before anyone knew what the arrests were actually about, the usual immigration rights groups were already screaming bloody murder. Even after the child exploitation details came out, plenty of advocates still insisted these clowns deserved full U.S. criminal prosecutions instead of a quick ride out of the country. Priorities, folks.

The Port of San Diego made it clear their local cops stayed far away from the whole thing.“The Port of San Diego Harbor Police Department did not have any involvement in the reported enforcement actions on April 23rd or April 25th at the B Street Cruise Terminal,” a spokesperson for the port told NBC San Diego, emphasizing that Harbor Police does not enforce federal immigration law.

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We Have Allen's Manifesto

Unless you've been living in a hermetically-sealed room on the moon, or perhaps Somalia, you are probably aware that the White House Correspondence Dinner (WHCD) was disrupted by a man named Cole Allen, a 31-year-old man from Torrence, California when he attempted to breach security and shoot people, most likely President Trump, and others in his administration. Fortunately, he was stopped after shooting a Secret Service agent in his tactical vest. 

Allen was tackled and taken into custody. Both he and the agent were taken to the hospital for non-life- threatening injuries.

While the motive is being sold to us as unknown, Allen apparently attended a "No Kings" rally and later admitted to targeting President Trump, his lovely wife Melania, Vice President JD Vance, and other top officials and congressional folks who attended the dinner.

Like all good psychopaths, Allen wrote a manifesto and we have a copy (via NY Post):

Hello everybody!

So I may have given a lot of people a surprise today. Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whose trust I abused.

I apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview without specifying it was for “Most Wanted.”

I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency (by the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly DO need to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status.)

I apologize to all of the people I traveled next to, all the workers who handled my luggage, and all the other non-targeted people at the hotel who I put in danger simply by being near.

I apologize to everyone who was abused and/or murdered before this, to all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this, to all who may still suffer after, regardless of my success or failure.

I don’t expect forgiveness, but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies.

On to why I did any of this:

I am a citizen of the United States of America.

What my representatives do reflects on me.

And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.

(Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I’ve had to do something about it.)

While I’m discussing this, I’ll also go over my expected rules of engagement (probably in a terrible format, but I’m not military so too bad.)

Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest

Secret Service: they are targets only if necessary, and to be incapacitated non-lethally if possible (aka, I hope they’re wearing body armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who *aren’t*

Hotel Security: not targets if at all possible (aka unless they shoot at me)

Capitol Police: same as Hotel Security

National Guard: same as Hotel Security

Hotel Employees: not targets at all

Guests: not targets at all

In order to minimize casualties I will also be using buckshot rather than slugs (less penetration through walls)

I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people *chose* to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn’t come to that.

Rebuttals to objections:

Objection 1: As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.

Rebuttal: Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial. I’m not a schoolkid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration.

Turning the other cheek when *someone else* is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.

Objection 2: This is not a convenient time for you to do this.

Rebuttal: I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple minutes and realize that the world isn’t about them. Do you think that when I see someone raped or murdered or abused, I should walk on by because it would be “inconvenient” for people who aren’t the victim?

This was the best timing and chance of success I could come up with.

Objection 3: You didn’t get them all.

Rebuttal: Gotta start somewhere.

Objection 4: As a half-black, half-white person, you shouldn’t be the one doing this.

Rebuttal: I don’t see anyone else picking up the slack

Objection 5: Yield unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.

Rebuttal: The United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.

I would also like to extend my appreciation to a great many people since I will not be likely to be able to talk with them again (unless the Secret Service is *astoundingly* incompetent.)

Thank you to my family, both personal and church, for your love over these 31 years.

Thank you to my friends, for your companionship over many years.

Thank you to my colleagues over many jobs, for your positivity and professionalism.

Thank you to my students for your enthusiasm and love of learning.

Thank you to the many acquaintances I’ve met, in person and online, for short interactions and long-term relationships, for your perspectives and inspiration.

Thank you all for everything.

Sincerely,

Cole “coldForce” “Friendly Federal Assassin” Allen

PS: Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone.

Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.

What I got (who knows, maybe they’re pranking me!) is nothing.

No damn security.

Not in transport.

Not in the hotel.

Not in the event.

Like, the one thing that I immediately noticed walking into the hotel is the sense of arrogance.

I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.

The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before.

Like, this level of incompetence is insane, and I very sincerely hope it’s corrected by the time this country gets actually competent leadership again.

Like, if I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed shit.

Actually insane.

Oh and if anyone is curious is how doing something like feels: it’s awful. I want to throw up; I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust this betrays; I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.

Can’t really recommend it! Stay in school, kids.

It appears that Cole Allen is a mentally ill, narcissist whose fifteen minutes of fame should land him life in the slammer. What a schmuck.

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Mamdani gives e-bikers the green light to kill

Comrade Mamdani and his signature grin

New Yorkers instinctively avoid frothing-at-the-mouth-street-corner lunatics. They don’t know if the psycho might suddenly come at them with a knife, so they cross to the other side to be safe. That's normal survival instincts.

But there’s no street to cross when the lunatic is the man they elected as their mayor. But if there was, they might get run over by e-bikers to whom Zohran (Madman) Mamdani gave license to kill.

Because the comrade wants to shield them from ICE, motorized bikers can now speed as fast as they want yet face only a civil ticket. This, even as he wants to slow auto traffic to a 10 mile per hour piddling crawl [perhaps to force them to give up their vehicles and take "free" buses and trains].

It isn’t breaking news that traffic lights and human life mean nothing to e-bikers. They zoom like bats out of hell up and down Avenues, and sometimes down the one-way uptown avenue. But with Madman Mamdani, they basically get a free pass.

New Yorkers elected this talent-lacking lunatic and got what the asked for, good and hard.

Maybe they will wake up next time, but I doubt it.

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Mojtaba Khamenei might be gay: Trump cracks up

It was learned that the cardboard Ayatollah Junior Mojtaba Khamenei is probably gay. 

As a young buck, he was allegedly caught in the showers with men and, in addition,  he had a long-time relationship with his childhood tutor. So I guess he was being taught things that in ordinary Iranian regime society can get a gay guy hanged.

According to the bombshell report from the New York Post, President Trump got briefed on the new Iranian Supreme Leader, a cardboard cut-out, and let's just say the details had the room in stitches.

US intelligence dropped this gem: the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had major reservations about handing the keys of the caliphate to his son Mojtaba, even though the kid had been helping run the show for years. 

Why the cold feet from dear old dad? Because he knew about Mojtaba's homosexuality, according to our spy guys and it isn't nice to hang your own kid from a crane as been the wont of the IRGC and "morality police." [Now that's an oxymoron if there ever was one.]

President Trump was stunned. The man "laughed out loud" right there in the briefing. Sources say he couldn't contain himself. The other officials in the room found the whole thing "hilarious," with a bunch of them cracking up right along with the president. One senior intelligence official "has not stopped laughing about it for days." Can you blame them? This is peak absurdity in the middle of all the Iran drama.

Three separate sources, including two intel officials and one close to the White House, confirmed that American spy agencies view this assessment of Mojtaba as a homosexual as credible. 

Not some random rumor, but solid.

Two of those sources told the Post that Mojtaba has been in a long-term romantic relationship with his childhood male tutor.

A third source said he's been having an affair with someone who used to work for the Khamenei family. And get this: Mojtaba has made "aggressive" sexual advances toward multiple men assigned to take care of him.

One source emphasized that these reports on the 56-year-old cleric's homosexuality come from "one of the most protected sources that the government has." That's how locked-down this info is.

Going back further, earlier reports pointed to a State Department file on Mojtaba noting he didn't get married until age 30, which is pretty late for a Shi'ite cleric, but not so much for a gay one. The file suggested it was likely due to an "impotency problem" that was "eventually resolved" during extended visits to three British hospitals for treatment. The leaked intel even mentioned a fourth visit before his wife finally conceived. Their first kid, Mohamed Amin, wasn't born until eight years after the wedding.

Look, this is the kind of raw, unfiltered intel that shows you how bizarre the world really is. While the mullahs over there stone people for this stuff, their new top dog might be living it. And Trump? He just reacted like any normal guy would — with a good, hearty laugh. Classic.

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