Eleven Chinese Nationals Busted by Feds in Alleged Marriage Scheme

Eleven people in New York, mainly Chinese nationals, have been indicted in what authorities describe as a massive sham marriage network that allegedly turned the American immigration system into something resembling a decade-long dating service for people who were not actually looking for love.

The alleged operation ran for roughly 10 years and arranged more than 1,000 phony marriages, allegedly for the sole purpose of obtaining legal status in the United States. Some customers were reportedly willing to pay more than $100,000 for the privilege of participating in the scheme.

"Gaining American citizenship and legal status to reside in this great nation is a sacred privilege, and we will ensure it is always done in accordance with the law, protecting our communities and national security,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday at a news conference.

"This scheme was not a quick fly-by-night operation, but rather a year's long multimillion dollar cottage industry to criminally assist people," he said.

The Wednesday indictments were filed entirely in New York City, but the Justice Department said the alleged sham marriages extended well beyond the Big Apple, with suspected activity in Massachusetts, Kentucky, Tennessee, several other states, China and Vanuatu, wherever that is.

Under the alleged arrangement, American citizens could receive as much as $30,000, paid in smaller installments throughout the process. Recruiters reportedly received about $5,000 for every American citizen they successfully brought into the operation.

U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald for the Southern District of New York told conservative media outlet Townhall that Americans were recruited through social media, including advertisements that may have been deceptive on their face.

So much for "love at first sight." Apparently, the real matchmaking algorithm was Facebook, cash and an immigration attorney.

"As alleged, this decade-long scheme turned marriage fraud into an international business model arranging countless sham marriages and causing hundreds of fraudulent Green Card applications to be submitted to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services,” Acting Executive Associate Director John Condon of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) said in a statement. 

“Through the Homeland Security Task Force, HSI and our partners will continue to dismantle criminal networks that undermine the rule of law, exploit federal laws, and profit from fraud.”

The case is a reminder that America's immigration system is not supposed to operate on the principle that anyone with enough money and a sufficiently creative story gets to skip the line.

For millions of immigrants who followed the rules, waited their turn and pursued citizenship legally, these alleged schemes do more than commit fraud. They undermine the very system that lawful immigrants worked so hard to navigate.

The American Dream is still available. Apparently, the Justice Department would just prefer people obtain it legally.

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Nashville Jury Convicts Man Who Poisoned Pregnant Girlfriend, Killing Her and Their Unborn Child

Justice was swift in Nashville. After fewer than three hours of deliberations on July 1, a jury found 30-year-old Blaise Taylor guilty of murdering his pregnant girlfriend, Jade Benning, and their 24-week-old unborn daughter. 

Later that same day, jurors recommended he spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Taylor was convicted of second-degree murder for Benning's death, first-degree premeditated murder for the death of their unborn child, and two counts of felony murder covering both victims.

Prosecutors argued that Taylor deliberately poisoned Benning during a February 2023 dinner at the couple's Nashville-area home in an effort to kill their unborn child.

As Alex Byington reported, "Prosecutors accused Blaise Taylor of poisoning Benning by allegedly spiking her pink lemonade with a deadly cocktail of cocaine and alcohol during a Feb. 2023 dinner at their Nashville-area home in an alleged attempt to induce an abortion."

The medical evidence painted a damning picture. Davidson County Medical Examiner Dr. Erin Carney testified that Benning had unusually high levels of cocaine in her system despite having no history of illegal drug use. Taylor initially tried to explain away the medical emergency by calling 911 and telling first responders that his girlfriend appeared to be suffering from an allergic reaction.

The testimony from one of Benning's closest friends proved especially devastating.

According to Li Cohen of WSMV, the friend had been with the couple earlier that evening. After they painted canvases together and took photos, Benning made a frantic phone call.

"She was like, 'I know you put something in my drink because I can't even walk straight.' She was just saying that she couldn't feel her legs," Nijaiha Jackson testified. "...You did this so something would happen to the baby."

Those words would become chilling evidence of what prosecutors said was a calculated act of murder.

The outcome was tragic.

"Benning was clinically dead before an ambulance was able to get her to a hospital," Cohen reported. "Her unborn daughter died within two days, and Benning was taken off life support a week after the incident, on what would have been her 25th birthday."

Taylor managed to avoid arrest for more than a year before authorities tracked him down in Logan, Utah, in March 2024.

According to Metro Nashville Police, the arrest followed "months of investigation" into the deaths. Detectives concluded that Taylor had poisoned Benning without her knowledge on February 25, 2023.

The guilty verdict closes one chapter in a horrific case that claimed two innocent lives. Taylor is scheduled to be sentenced on September 9, where he is expected to receive the punishment recommended by the jury: life in prison.

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"ChudTheBuilder" Charged with Attempted Murder

Dalton Eatherly, aka "ChudTheBuilder"

The internet has spent years proving that fame is easier to get than wisdom, and the saga of Dalton Eatherly, better known to his online devotees as “ChudTheBuilder,” is the latest exhibit in that digital museum of poor life choices.

Eatherly managed to transform what most people would consider a fast track to unemployment and public embarrassment into a surprisingly lucrative online brand. His formula was simple: walk up to strangers, yell racial slurs, film the reactions, upload the footage, and wait for the clicks to roll in. In the social media age, apparently all you need is a smartphone, a bad attitude, the personality of a scumcrumpet, and a complete lack of shame.

Now the 28-year-old live-streamer is facing attempted murder and multiple felony charges after allegedly shooting a black man outside a Tennessee courthouse earlier this month. The incident has reignited arguments about whether these professional outrage merchants are merely exercising free speech or deliberately pushing themselves toward increasingly dangerous behavior in pursuit of internet fame.

Authorities say Eatherly shot Joshua Fox, a veteran, outside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Clarksville on May 13. Fox was reportedly struck multiple times and airlifted to a hospital for emergency surgery. 

Eatherly was also injured during the confrontation, as well he should be.

Prosecutors have charged the lowlife with attempted criminal homicide, employing a firearm during a dangerous felony, aggravated assault, and reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon. During a Thursday hearing, his bond was lowered from $1.25 million to $1 million.

According to investigators, what began as a verbal confrontation escalated rapidly. Court documents allege that Eatherly, obviously a coward, reached toward a firearm inside his jacket before the two men became involved in a physical struggle. Surveillance footage reportedly showed bullets ricocheting near bystanders outside the courthouse. 

After the shooting, Eatherly claimed in audio later posted online that he acted in self-defense.

Before finding himself on the wrong side of a criminal indictment, Eatherly had built a sizable following through videos that revolved around provoking confrontations in public while loudly deploying racial slurs. He consistently defended the behavior by invoking the First Amendment, a constitutional provision that has been forced to endure all sorts of creative interpretations over the years.

His notoriety accelerated in 2025 after a road-rage encounter involving a black woman went viral, a situation where he felt less frightened by a woman.

Eatherly says the backlash cost him his contracting job and nudged him toward becoming a full-time internet personality. From there, his audience exploded. He accumulated more than 200,000 racist followers on X, launched fundraising campaigns, and cultivated a fan base that viewed him as some kind of free-speech crusader battling political correctness.

Others saw something far less noble and more as a piece of human excrement.

Critics argue that Eatherly belongs to a growing class of live-stream provocateurs who turn public outrage into a business model. The angrier people get, the more views arrive. The more views arrive, the greater the incentive to push the boundaries even further.

“He’s trying to build this following by angering people,” Joshua Fisher-Birch of the Counter Extremism Project told Rolling Stone. “They are incentivized over time to do more and more radical actions in the real world to gain followers online.”

That progression is exactly what worries legal experts and civil rights advocates. Tennessee attorney David Raybin noted that repeatedly approaching strangers while armed and aggressively hurling slurs could potentially move beyond protected speech and into conduct that creates a reasonable fear of imminent harm.

Meanwhile, portions of the online alt-right have rallied behind the cow chip known as Eatherly.

Reports indicate that supporters raised more than $100,000 for his legal defense within a day of his arrest, with fundraising totals continuing to climb afterward.

The courtroom drama has already started matching the online circus. During Thursday’s hearing, Judge H. Reid Poland III ordered several disruptive attendees removed, including the defendant's fellow scumcrumpet, Jake Lang, who left the courtroom in handcuffs rather than by choice.

As the legal process unfolds, Eatherly’s case has become a convenient vessel for every modern debate about online radicalization, rage-bait content, and whether social media platforms reward increasingly reckless behavior. Those conversations will continue for months.

Prosecutors, however, appear focused on a much narrower question: whether a man who built an online audience by provoking confrontations ultimately crossed the line from internet spectacle into real-world violence. That distinction tends to matter quite a bit more in court than it does in a live-stream chat.

Hopefully, Eatherly will get what he allegedly deserves.

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Seattle's Socialist Mayor [aka Olive Oyl] Has Problems After Attacking Starbucks

The socialist contempt for businesses is incredible. They believe corporations are the source and summit of all of society's ills, but their hatred of big business doesn't always extend to that business' tax dollars or the revenue businesses generate.

But they'll learn they can't have it both ways. You can't slap a business with one hand and grab its wallet with the other. That's what Seattle's inept socialist Mayor Katie Wilson is trying to do, and it may just drive the business that put Seattle on the map out of the city.

Wilson told voters she wasn't going to buy Starbucks and encouraged them to do the same. Calling for a de facto boycott of one of the city's biggest businesses backfired on her. Now Wilson is trying to do damage control.

Incredible.

Seattle’s lefty Mayor Katie Wilson admitted she was wrong to slam Starbucks and push for a boycott of the mega-coffee chain birthed in the Pacific city.

Wilson, 43, issued a terse mea culpa to the New York Times this week as questions swirl about whether the liberal Northwest city can attract and retain businesses. Starbucks, which recently chose to expand its footprint in Tennessee, is one of them.

The Democratic socialist made waves last fall when she joined a barista union rally as mayor-elect and expressed her disgust with one of Seattle’s most recognizable businesses.

But several months later, Wilson appeared to walk back her statement.

“Those comments were not productive in the sense that they caused more harm than good,” she told former newspaper, the New York Times.

Wilson also told the outlet she’s aware that everything she says could be used as possible anti-business missives, and she needs to have a “multidimensional relationship” with corporations like the coffee giant.

Starbucks has already moved some of its operations to Tennessee, bringing with it 2,000 jobs. Could the headquarters pull out of Seattle entirely?It seems people think it might.

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Federal Judge Just Smacked Down Biden's Transgender Overreach—Again

Will she get home in time to watch Judge Judy?

Oh, look, another day, another federal judge reminding the woke crowd that biology isn't a suggestion. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. tossed out a Biden-era rule that tried to shoehorn gender identity into Title IX protections and strong-arm doctors into performing transgender procedures like it was just another flu shot.

Guirola backed Tennessee and a posse of 14 other red states that dragged the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to court over this nonsense. The judge basically said HHS went full rogue, twisting "sex discrimination" into something it was never meant to be.

"Congress only contemplated biological sex when it enacted Title IX in 1972," Guirola wrote, dropping truth bombs like it's 1972 all over again. "Therefore, the Court finds that HHS exceeded its authority by implementing regulations redefining sex discrimination and prohibiting gender-identity discrimination."

This gem of a rule dropped on May 6, 2024, back when Biden's crew was still pretending they could rewrite reality with a pen stroke. Fast-forward to the Trump era, and the states weren't taking any chances. They figured why wait for the next round of bureaucratic bullying? 

Trump's HHS lawyers tried to calm everyone down, swearing up and down that with the boss cracking down on transgender ideology, no one's getting sued over this. But Guirola wasn't buying the "trust us, bro" routine. He called the threat of enforcement "real" and said sorting this out now would finally give everyone the clarity they've been begging for.

Under this rule, states would've been stuck footing the bill for transgender surgeries through Medicaid and Medicare, while hospitals lost the right to keep bathrooms and locker rooms where they belong—segregated by actual biology. It would've nuked state health exchanges that dared to say no to the procedure parade.

Guirola laid it out plain: "When it enacted Title IX, Congress's concern was prohibiting sex discrimination in education. It was particularly concerned with inequality that female students experienced. It did not at that time contemplate gender identity, transgender status, or 'gender-affirming care,'" he wrote. In other words, Congress wasn't dreaming up a future where "sex" means whatever TikTok says it does.

Tennessee AG Jonathan Skrmetti was popping champagne over the win, and who could blame him?

"When Biden-era bureaucrats tried to illegally rewrite our laws to force radical gender ideology into every corner of American health care, Tennessee stood strong and stopped them," Skrmetti said. "This decision restores not just common sense but also constitutional limits on federal overreach, and I am proud of the team of excellent attorneys who fought this through to the finish."

Skrmetti hammered home how this would've forced hospitals into sex-segregated space chaos and made states subsidize the whole "gender-affirming" circus via Medicaid. 

The suit had the full Republican AG squad from Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, and West Virginia all piling on, because when it comes to fighting federal fairy tales, strength in numbers.Meanwhile, President Trump, never one to let Biden's legacy linger—is on a tear with executive orders to undo the transgender takeover. He's already kicked off a full audit of every Biden move on this front, making sure the madness gets the boot it deserves. 

Score one for sanity, zero for the ideologues.

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FBI arrests suspect who threatened to assassinate Sen. Marsha Blackburn

The FBI finally decided to grace us with some action, arresting a 22-year-old Tennessee nutcase for threatening to turn Senator Marsha Blackburn into a cautionary tale. 

Penelope Convertino, who apparently thought leaving a voicemail promising to shoot the senator and “blow up her head on national TV” was a fun way to spend a May afternoon, now faces charges for trying to scare the bejesus out of a federal official. The Justice Department’s not laughing, and neither am I.

Convertino’s unhinged rant included gems like, “My name is mother**ker and I’m gonna kill Marsha Blackburn. I’m gonna shoot her with a gun. I’m gonna blow up her head on national TV,” and, well, you get the picture—a real class act. If convicted, she’s looking at up to 10 years in the slammer and a $250,000 fine. Bet she’s regretting that voicemail now.

Blackburn, who’s gunning for Tennessee’s governor seat, took it in stride. “Threats against the life of any public official are unacceptable and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent,” she told WKRN. “I am grateful to law enforcement and federal prosecutors in the Middle District of Tennessee for taking this threat seriously and for their swift action. My focus remains on serving the people of Tennessee, and I will not be intimidated or deterred by those who seek to silence me.” Gotta hand it to her—she’s got more spine than the average politician.

But here’s where it gets spicy: Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) isn’t exactly throwing confetti over the FBI’s response time. “Someone threatens [Blackburn’s] life and it takes the [FBI] 3 months to arrest the dirtbag?! That’s a problem,” he posted on X. 

Sounds like the FBI’s moving at Biden-administration speed. Meanwhile, Convertino’s facing serious time, and Blackburn’s still in the fight, squaring off against Rep. John Rose in the 2026 GOP gubernatorial primary. Just another day in the Volunteer State, right?

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Antisemitic NYC mayoral candidate wants apartheid-inspired higher taxes against Whites

Don't let his smile fool you

Let's look to New York City, where the Democratic nominee for mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has unfurled a banner of socialist ambition that threatens to unravel the very fabric of the metropolis. 

This 33-year-old anti-Semite, who only deigned to become an American citizen in 2018, has proposed a scheme as audacious as it is divisive: to “shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods.” 

Yes, you read that correctly, whiter neighborhoods. The phrase drips with the kind of racialized rhetoric that ought to raise eyebrows in any society that values fairness over tribalism.

Mamdani, a self-professed socialist with a penchant for radical posturing, has laid out his vision in a policy memo that accuses the city’s property tax system of favoring “wealthier homeowners in gentrifying neighborhoods.” 

His remedy? To lighten the load on lower-income homeowners while, in his words, “raising the amount paid in the most expensive Brooklyn brownstones.” One might ask whether this is a policy rooted in equity or a thinly veiled exercise in class warfare, tinged with a troubling fixation on race.

Is it even constitutional? I doubt it.

But this is merely the tip of Mamdani’s ideological iceberg. His platform reads like a fever dream of far-left fantasies: city-owned grocery stores, defunding the police, and rent freezes. It is as though he has taken a leaf from the playbook of every failed utopian experiment and decided to test it on one of the world’s greatest cities. 

The backlash has been swift and deserved. Republicans and moderates alike have recoiled, with Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee leading the charge. In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Ogles called for Mamdani’s American citizenship to be stripped, citing the candidate’s alleged support for foreign terror organizations, a reference to Mamdani’s professed “love” for individuals convicted of funneling money to Hamas. 

Ogles did not mince words: “Zohran ‘little muhammad’ Mamdani is an anti-Semitic, socialist, communist who will destroy the great City of New York,” he declared, adding, “He needs to be DEPORTED. Which is why I am calling for him to be subject to denaturalization proceedings.”

The outrage is not confined to political circles. New York billionaire Bill Ackman, a man not known for sitting idly by, has thrown his considerable weight behind efforts to thwart Mamdani’s ascent. “There are hundreds of millions of dollars of capital available to back a competitor to Mamdani that can be put together overnight,” Ackman declared, signaling a financial bulwark against this socialist insurgency.

Mamdani’s improbable rise, having bested former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, now pits him against incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who is running as an independent in November’s general election. The stage is set for a clash not just of personalities but of visions along with sanity vs. insanity: one tethered to the realities of governance, the other soaring into the ether of ideological purity. 

New Yorkers, one suspects, will have much to ponder as they decide whether to entrust their city to a man whose policies seem less about progress than about settling scores.

Hasn't the West been suicidal long enough? It's time to think about the implications of electing this guy.

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SCOTUS rules on TN's stance on gender mutilation: Dem's heads explode

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court delivered a significant ruling upholding Tennessee’s prohibition on so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria. The decision, a 6-3 ruling, represents a pivotal moment in the ongoing national debate over the balance between individual rights, parental authority, and the state’s role in safeguarding vulnerable populations, in this case, children.

The Court’s decision reinforces Tennessee’s ability to enact laws protecting minors from medical interventions such as puberty blockers, hormone therapies, and surgical procedures, which remain the subject of intense medical and ethical scrutiny. 

At its core, the ruling hinges on the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, with the Court concluding that Tennessee’s law does not impermissibly discriminate based on sex or gender identity. Instead, the state’s restrictions are grounded in a legitimate interest: shielding children from their parents and the potential risks associated with these treatments.

Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts articulated the Court’s reasoning with precision, emphasizing that the law “does not classify on any bases that warrant heightened review” and “incorporates two classifications: one based on age…and another based on medical use.” 

The Court rejected the plaintiffs’ argument that any statutory reference to sex automatically triggers heightened scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause. As Roberts noted, “This Court has never suggested that mere reference to sex is sufficient to trigger heightened scrutiny.” This clarity underscores a critical point: not every law touching on sex or gender demands the judiciary’s most exacting review.

The majority opinion further clarified that “some medical treatments and procedures are uniquely bound up in sex.” Citing FDA guidance, Roberts pointed out that “[r]esearch has shown that biological differences between men and women…may contribute to variations seen in the safety and efficacy of drugs.” Because Tennessee’s law applies uniformly to all minors, regardless of sex, the Court found no evidence of discriminatory intent or effect.

A key aspect of the ruling addressed the plaintiffs’ contention that the law disproportionately impacts transgender individuals, who are the primary seekers of “gender-affirming” treatments. Roberts countered this claim, explaining that the law targets the medical diagnosis: gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder, or gender incongruence, rather than transgender status itself. “Although only transgender individuals seek treatment for gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder, and gender incongruence, just as only biological women can become pregnant, there is a ‘lack of identity’ between transgender status and the excluded medical diagnoses,” he wrote. 

This distinction is critical, as it situates the law within the state’s broader authority to regulate medical interventions for minors, rather than as an attack on a protected class.

The ruling arrives against a backdrop of fierce cultural and political division. Advocates for “gender-affirming care” argue that these treatments are essential for the mental health and well-being of transgender youth, often citing unsubstantiated claims that withholding such interventions could lead to severe psychological harm, including suicide. 

Yet, the Court’s decision reflects a growing skepticism, particularly in light of emerging evidence from European nations. Countries such as the United Kingdom, France, and Sweden have begun to question the efficacy and safety of these treatments, with some moving away from the “gender-affirming” model in favor of more cautious, evidence-based approaches. Studies from these nations have raised concerns about the long-term consequences of puberty blockers and hormone therapies, prompting a reevaluation of protocols for treating minors with gender dysphoria.

For critics of Tennessee’s law, the ruling may be seen as a setback for individual autonomy and progressive medical frameworks. They argue that such restrictions undermine the ability of transgender youth and their families to access care they deem necessary. Conversely, supporters of the decision view it as a victory for child protection, emphasizing the state’s responsibility to safeguard minors from irreversible medical decisions amid evolving scientific understanding. 

The debate is further complicated by reports that some medical professionals have pressured parents with dire warnings about the risks of refusing these treatments, a practice that raises ethical questions about informed consent.

From a constitutional perspective, the ruling underscores the judiciary’s deference to state legislatures in matters of public health and child welfare, provided those laws do not violate fundamental rights. By framing Tennessee’s law as a neutral regulation based on age and medical purpose, the Court avoided wading into the broader cultural wars over gender identity. Yet, the decision is likely to fuel further litigation, as other states with similar laws face challenges in federal courts.

The implications of this ruling extend beyond Tennessee, touching on the delicate interplay between individual rights, parental authority, and state power. As the science surrounding “gender-affirming care” continues to evolve, so too will the legal and ethical questions at the heart of this debate. 

For now, the Supreme Court has spoken, affirming that states may act to protect minors from treatments whose long-term effects remain uncertain. Whether this decision will serve as a model for other jurisdictions or ignite further contention remains to be seen. Let's hope it does.

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Biden blocked by judge from giving Obamacare to DACA recipients

A federal judge in North Dakota on Monday blocked the Biden administration from putting into action a new policy that would have made some illegal immigrants eligible for government-supported health care.

U.S. District Judge Daniel Traynor agreed to stop a new rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that would have let people with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status sign up for Obamacare. Traynor stated that Kansas and the 18 Republican attorneys general who challenged the policy were likely to win, so he issued a stay against it.

Traynor pointed out that CMS broke the law when it decided to include DACA recipients in the definition of "lawfully present" in the U.S. DACA recipients are people who entered the country illegally as children with their parents and were protected from deportation by an executive action from President Barack Obama.

“The authority granted to CMS by the ACA [Affordable Care Act] is to ascertain whether an individual meets the requirements for lawful status. It by no means allows the agency to circumvent congressional authority and redefine the term ‘lawfully present,’” Traynor wrote.

“As it currently stands, the ACA does not allow federal healthcare subsidies or coverage for aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States,” he added.

Traynor also agreed with the Republican attorneys general that the policy could encourage illegal immigrants to stay in their states because of the healthcare benefits.

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, who led the lawsuit, celebrated the decision, saying, “Big win for the rule of law. Congress never intended that illegal aliens should receive Obama care benefits. Indeed, two laws prohibit them from receiving such benefits. The Biden administration tried to break those laws. But we fought back, and defeated the Justice Department.”

The states involved in the lawsuit were Ohio, Idaho, Nebraska, South Carolina, Alabama, Virginia, Tennessee, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, New Hampshire, Kentucky, Texas, Florida, and Arkansas. They argued that the rule was arbitrary, capricious, and would encourage more illegal immigration.

In response, CMS mentioned they were reviewing the judge's decision but couldn't comment further.

This rule change was opposed by President-elect Donald Trump, whose campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt called it “unfair and unsustainable” back in May.

“Joe Biden's handouts for illegal immigrants are especially devastating to Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, and union workers who are forced to watch their jobs and public resources stolen by people who illegally entered our country,” Leavitt, Trump's incoming press secretary, said at the time.

Last month, another judge overturned a different Biden administration program that would have given legal status to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants.

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Anti-Semite Candace Owens dumped from Trump fundraiser

Candace Owens is the new face of American anti-Semitism. She has a lot of company, however, with university presidents and their students as well as Iran-funded protesters who hate Jews and Israel, as much as they hate America. 

Owens had been a weekly host on the conservative outlet the Daily Wire but was fired for her anti-Semitic sentiment and her downplay of the Holocaust atrocities. She even claimed that the experiments performed by Nazi scumbag Joseph Mengele on Jews during World War II sounded "like bizarre propaganda."

She was originally slated to headline the Friday event, which I wrote about, but having her at the event ignited a ton of backlash due to her recent anti-Semitic comments.

Donald Trump Jr. was also planning on attending.

“Donald Trump Jr. is making an appearance with Candace Owens, who recently suggested that the real victims of WWII were not the Jews but the Germans and the real villains not the Axis but the Allies,” Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) wrote on X/Twitter after the initial announcement.

Dov Hikind, a former New York State Assemblyman from Brooklyn, New York and founder of Americans Against Antisemitism, argued on social media that the Trump campaign “being so closely associated with her [Owens] and the disgusting behavior we’ve witnessed from her almost daily, makes it near impossible to make the case to the Jewish people that the Republican Party is where we can trust that antisemitism in any form will not be tolerated.”

It was after these and many other negative responses about Owens' attending the event that she was removed from the poster  and no longer attending the event in Nashville, Tennessee.

“It was never announced Candace was hosting an event with” the Trump campaign, a spokesperson for Owens told Jewish Insider.

Perhaps not, but it certainly seemed that it was announced.

Owens got into a verbal altercation with a reporter on X who said she was kicked out of the event over her recent comments, including her suggesting on her podcast that AIPAC, the largest pro-Israel lobbying organization in the United States, was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. 

So in her warped mind, Lee Harvey Oswald was working for Israel or the American Jews. How did she make that bizarre connection? Oh wait, it's like the connection liberals make when a conservatives states a truism, calling them racists. 

She even claimed in the same podcast episode that the US is being “held hostage by Israel.” In other words, if the US doesn't do the bidding of Israel, Americans are no longer going to receive Israeli-made tahini sauce.  

The reporter mentioned above, Stella Escobedo, posted that she could confirm that Owens was off the panel for this week.

“I’m told it was a group of Bitcoin guys, not politicians who organized the event and didn’t know about her Jew hatred,” she tweeted.

“I’m told Don Jr. was invited to the event prior to Candace being added to panel. Zero tolerance for antisemitism.”

Owens denied the accusation saying, “I was definitively not canceled from any event over ‘Jew hatred,’ least of all because of anything to do with Trump’s campaign. This is just entirely made up out of thin air.”

Sorry, Candy, but I don't believe you.

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Steve Cohen beclowns himself

Dum. Rep. Steve Cohen (TN) is living proof that many politicians are as bright as a black hole. Remember, this is the same dummy who ate a bucket of fried chicken in the House of Representatives during Bill Barr's hearing and has the self-awareness of a stone.

So Cohen sharing a photo of himself on X that makes him look like a complete putz, should not come as a surprise to anyone. But the online response to the post was, as the kids say, priceless.

Now all you have to do is look at the photo above to conclude that Cohen is an idiot. Who puts a see-through condom on their head while trying to make a serious point, albeit a false one? Steve Cohen, that's who.

Anyway, his tweet was attacked on the platform immediately upon the posting:

If you almost died that day it was only due to the bag you were wearing over your head— Meghan Maureen (@Keggs719) January 6, 2024

Why would you post this photo lol— Mostly Peaceful Memes (@MostlyPeacefull) January 6, 2024

What a freaking human dildo. https://t.co/kmyCcowm5N— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) January 7, 2024

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Hump Day Report

Hamas scarf optional

1.  Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was censured by the House on Tuesday by a vote of 234 to 188, with 22 Democrats joining all but 4 RINOs who voted present. 

Tlaib is the only Palestinian "American" in Congress and she, along with her so called "Squad" and other anti-Semitic Democrats, poo-pooed Georgia Representative's Rich McCormick's resolution to condemn Hamas-supporting Tlaib and her rhetoric for the genocide of the Jewish people.

MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan refused to acknowledge the sadistic carnage of innocent Israeli civilians by Hamas and instead opined over the human shields used by Hamas who have been killed, saying that Tlaib's censure was "hard to believe." Tlaib's fellow anti-Semites, particularly those in the Squad, were livid that Congress put our ally Israel over an anti-Semitic terrorist organization whose charter calls for the annihilation of the Jewish State.

2.  The woman who believed herself to be a man and murdered six people at the Covenant School, a Christian school in Glen Hills, Tennessee. She was shot and killed by good guys with guns.

The mass shooting occurred on March 27th. The shooter, Audrey Hale, had a manifesto that has never been released because it didn't fit the left's narrative. However, podcaster Steven Crowder was able to obtain three pages of the shooter's manifesto and released it on Monday.

It turns out that Hale was a leftist who harbored racial hatred that targeted white people as "privileged."

“Kill those kids!!! Those crackers going to private fancy schools with those fancy khakis + sports backpacks w/ their daddies mustangs + convertables [sic],” the 28-year-old female shooter wrote in a diary entry dated February 3.“I wish to shoot you weakass d—ks w/ your mop yellow hair, wanna kill all you little crackers! Bunch of little f—gots w/ your white privileges,” she wrote.

Three photographs of the pages of the shooter’s diary were obtained by Crowder, who reported that his investigative team independently confirmed the authenticity of the images. 

The diary entries also reveal her schedule for “death day,” beginning at 7 a.m. (“get dressed”) and ending after 12:37 p.m. with “time 2 die.”

“I hope I have a high death count. Ready to die haha,” she wrote in a diary entry dated March 27, the day of her carnage. And while officials promised to release her diary, they never did.

Hale's ramblings also call the children “f–gots” and evoke stereotypes of traditional masculine children.

3.  The Democrats will retain control of the Virginia state Senate and now flipped the state House of Delegates from the GOP, according to AP projections. They predict at least 21 Democrats have been elected to the state Senate and 51 to the state House of Delegates.

The party reversals may be viewed as a bellwether to 2024 and may even predict that the country will continue to be run by a cognitively impaired geriatric unindicted felon, and a party that hires and appoints people in power based on their melanin levels and sexual proclivities.

4. Israel continues to kick Hamas' butt although they too are suffering military and civilian losses. The IDF is moving toward Gaza City and now has reached the busiest part of the city where there are many hiding places which greatly increases the danger for the IDF. 

The goal is to completely control new areas and completely enclose the busiest part of the city and limit Hamas escape routes. 

Tunnel maps have been recovered by Israeli soldiers and they are being systematically destroyed--more than 10 tunnels have been destroyed today.

On an even more positive note, Hamasshole leader responsible for the October 7th attack, Yahya Sinwar has been blown up into little bite size pieces.

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TN General Assembly passes bill prohibiting hosting drag shows in public places where kids may be

The Tennessee General Assembly passed a bill 74 - 19 that would make it illegal for drag shows to be hosted in public venues or in any places where minors might be present.

The bill makes it illegal to host “an adult cabaret performance” where children may be present. Cabaret performances are defined as those featuring “topless dancers, go-go dancers, exotic dancers, strippers, [and] male or female impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest.”

As the bill states, anyone hosting or performing in a drag show where children are present would be hit with a  class A misdemeanor, subject to a fine of up to $2,500 and up to one year in prison. Obviously, it would also include other lewd performances. Any additional violations would increase the charges to a class E felony which carries up to six years prison time and fines up to $3,000.

The Tennessee House passed the bill on Thursday along with HB1, which bans gender-reassignment surgery [aka genital mutilation] for minors. The bill specifically barred “hormone or puberty blockers” claiming to be aimed at helping “gender dysphoric” youth as opposed to waiting for their brains to mature to a point where they can make better life decisions.

Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire — whose investigative reporting in October 2022 revealed widespread abuses at Vanderbilt University’s transgender clinic, leading to a halt on all gender-reassignment surgeries for minors — applauded the decision. Walsh resides in Nashville and is best known for his documentary "What is a Woman?"

“The Tennessee legislature has now passed the bill banning child mutilation in the state. We’re fighting. We’re winning. And we aren’t even close to done,” Walsh tweeted.

Of course it should go without saying that LGBTQ groups condemned the legislation, making the illogical argument that it endangered young people. The Tennessee Equality Project is one such group that makes the argument that if children aren't allowed to "transition," i.e., have their genital mutilated or removed, those kids suffering from gender dysphoria would become suicidal. But if that was the case why didn't the suicide rate spike before it became popular to "transition" kids? So far, it hasn't changed.

“The House took life-saving healthcare options away from trans youth and their families and ignored the 1st Amendment by passing HB1 and HB9. Almost 300 organizations, congregations, businesses have spoken out against them. Governor Lee should veto them,” the group tweeted Thursday afternoon.

It sounds as if the Tennessee Equality Project confused 'life-saving' with 'life-altering.'

Meanwhile, both bills are headed to the desk of Tennessee governor Bill Lee, who is expected to sign them into law.

To date, 15 states have also introduced legislation that doesn't allow drag shows in public venues. This will have an effect on restaurants, bars and public libraries that feature "drag queen story hours."

It's beginning to sound like the ship is turning around to the right, and that's a good thing as I see it.

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Matt Walsh will hold "Rally to End Child Mutilation"

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Matt Walsh, host of the Daily Wire, documentarian and children's author is not just talking about the issue of child mutilation [otherwise known as transitioning children] he's doing something about it to bring it to the public's attention.  Walsh is holding a rally at the Tennessee state capitol in Nashville that is aimed at calling for an end of "child mutilation" in the state.

The rally is to take place on October 21st. 

Walsh tweeted:

“Join us on October 21 at the state capitol as we rally to end child mutilation across the state. We are going to put a stop to gender ideology’s assault on our children. Come and be a part of the movement.”

Matt will speak at the rally, which begins at 4:00 p.m. and there will be more speakers there as well--announcements to follow. The bestselling author also encouraged his followers to reserve a free ticket to the rally to “send a message to the entire nation that radical experimentation is not ‘medical care’ as the left has claimed—it is child mutilation, and Americans will not allow it to continue.”

It was Walsh who uncovered the practices of Vanderbilt University Medical Center where surgeries are being performed on children and whereby a large number of lawmakers demanded an investigation into the Nashville pediatric gender clinic. Shocking videos by a Vanderbilt doctor from the clinic described certain transgender surgeries as "huge money makers," and went into detail as to the post operative care people would require both in doctor intervention and medication costs.

A health law scumbag also called conscientious objections to transgender surgeries “problematic.” That is, if a doctor has, for example, a religious objection to cutting off a young girl's breasts, that doctor can find another hospital in which to practice.

“I just want you to take home that saying that you’re not going to do something because of your religious beliefs is not without consequences and it should not be without consequences,” said Vanderbilt health law expert and pediatrician Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton.

“If you don’t want to do this kind of work, don’t work at Vanderbilt,” Clayton added.

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee’s (R) office also said he is in contact with state lawmakers about legislation regarding transgender care for minors.

“We should not allow permanent, life altering decisions that hurt children, like we saw on display at VUMC. The Governor is in communication with Leader Johnson and Leader Lamberth about legislative solutions, and we look forward to working with them and many other Tennesseans who are passionate about protecting children,” Casey Sellers, a spokeswoman for the governor, said in a statement to The Daily Wire.

The clinic performs “gender-affirming” double mastectomies on minor girls and offers puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors as well, according to Walsh. 

In one video uncovered by Walsh, a Vanderbilt "sado-doctor" affiliated with the adult transgender clinic, not the pediatric one, can be seen emphasizing how gender surgery is a big money maker.

“It’s a lot of money. These surgeries make a lot of money,” VUMC Clinic for Transgender Health’s Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor said.

This horrible doctor said that “gender-affirming” double mastectomies could bring in $40,000, and a female-to-male phalloplasty could bring in upwards of $100,000.

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Hopefully the rally will attract thousands of people from all over the nation because children deserve a voice both in or out of the womb, and I hope everyone who is reading this will attend.

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Tenn. BLM founder voted illegally: sentenced to 6 years

Pamela Moses, a Black Lives Matter chapter founder in Tennessee was busted for illegally registering to vote while she was still on probation for a previous crime.

Moses [not to be confused with the Jewish prophet who led his people out of Egypt and is also credited with writing the Torah, the Jewish. equivalent of the Koran but without all the beheadings and cutting] pleaded guilty in 2015 to felonies including tampering with evidence and forgery, and misdemeanor charges of stalking, perjury, theft under $500, and escape. For some reason, perhaps because it didn't happen in New York or California, this made her ineligible to vote in Tennessee due to her tampering with evidence charge and she was currently serving seven years of probation.

You might think that all these legal problems would have Moses think twice before committing another crime, but you'd be wrong.

"You tricked the probation department into giving you documents saying you were off probation," Criminal Court Judge W. Mark Ward told the founder of the BLM chapter in Memphis, on Monday.

However, Moses said at the hearing that she believed she could vote again despite her criminal past because the corrections department and county election commission both signed off on her voter registration application in 2019. 

And while it was not disclosed which party Moses belongs to, one might hazard a guess that she's on the Left of Bernie Sanders--most felons are.

As one might guess, the officials who signed off on her application admitted they were in error when they said her probation was over, according to the birdcage liner known as the Washington Post.

"I did not falsify anything. All I did was try to get my rights to vote back the way the people at the election commission told me and the way the clerk did," she claimed at the hearing.

Moses founded the local BLM chapter in Memphis. She also ran for mayor in Memphis in 2019, a position often held by criminals, but learned she could not be on the ballot due to her serving probation. It was also learned that her urine test came back angry.

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She is sentenced to serve six years and one day in the slammer, but her lawyer said Moses plans to appeal the sentencing.

"This case is one about the disparity in sentencing and punishment — and one that shouldn’t have happened," attorney Bede Anyanwu told the Washington Post. "It’s all very, very disturbing."

What's also very, very disturbing is that a Marxist ran for mayor and had she not been busted for her crimes, might have won.

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TN Dem. says "Let's go, Brandon" same as burning the flag

This is truly funny. A Democrat with cognitive dissonance in Tennessee said that the chanting "Let's go Brandon," a code for "F**k Joe Biden," should be equated to setting the American flag on fire. 

So what should be equated with, for example, Robert Di Nero not using code but actually saying, "F**k Trump" and also threaten to "punch him in the mouth?" Burning a federal building? Burning a police station?

And what about Kathy Griffin holding a likeness of Trump's severed head? 

And what Johnny Depp said about blowing up the White House? 

And so on.

Tennessee state Rep. Gloria Johnson tweeted her sentiments on Monday about the anti-Biden chant, that she thought it "should be equal to burning the flag." 

"As a friend said, I think it should be equated with burning the flag, in essence, that’s what they are doing," Johnson hypocritically wrote.

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Johnson added in a follow-up tweet that comparing the anti-Biden chant to burning the American flag was "not a legal take, it's a person’s opinion. And as a few were smart enough to understand-both are protected speech."

Sure we're smart enough to understand the First Amendment, but Johnson apparently isn't smart enough to understand the irony of her words.

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Wuhan Coronavirus daredevil crashes and burns with the virus

Like a female version of the late Evel Knievel, Ireland Tate, a 21-year-old Tennessee woman tried to cheat the Wuhan Coronavirus by exposing herself to the possibility of contracting the deadly virus. [H/T New York Post]

With sheer guts and what is perceived to be a low IQ, Tate put herself out there in crowds amongst other idiots who may have been infected with the virus. She simply did not take the pandemic seriously.

The barely legal Tate joked about not following instructions to stay home and practice social distancing. It isn't even known if she washed her hands or even bathed. As far as is known, she did not, I repeat, did not lick any toilet seats as some have done on Instagram.

But Tate fell sick, news station WZTV reported. Who'd a thunk?

In a social media video, the Nashville nincompoop told her followers that she is “aware that we’re supposed to be self-quarantining and social distancing” to “keep everyone safe” — but that she wasn’t worried. If she sadly succumbs to the virus, she will be in high contention for the Darwin Awards.

“Cool. I get it. I just don’t think that I’m going to get the virus,” Tate bragged in the video.

But just days later, the cockeyed optimist found herself suffering from symptoms associated with the dangerous virus and tested positive.

“It feels like someone is sitting on my chest at all times,” she said. “It’s really hard to breathe, I’ve coughed until my throat has bled.”

Tate said she probably got the virus from an infected buddy in her group of friends and she’s now warning other young people to stay home. 

But at least she didn't lick any toilet seats. Can we at least give her credit for that?

“While it may not be affecting you, you could be affecting someone’s grandma or grandpa or aunt or uncle or sister,” Tate told the outlet.

I would hope her friends and others didn't need to listen to her words of wisdom before taking precautions. 

Clearly, as science shows, the brain is almost, but not fully developed by age 21, but in Tate's case, she has a very long way to go.

I wish her a speedy and complete recovery and that she will grow up and smell the Starbucks.


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UPDATE on salsa testicle dipper's case--Judge has something to say about him

You might know him as the salsa testicle dipper but his proud mother calls Howard Matthew Webb, "son."

The 31-year-old man who dipped his bollocks in a delightful salsa blend while being driven to a customer who ordered the Mexican food [without the side of pubic hair], appeared before Blount County General Sessions Court Judge Robert Headrick, in Tennessee.

The judge wasn't in the mood for Webb's levity when he heard the "double rock star" guffaw in his courtroom.

"What are you laughing about, Mr. Webb?" the judge reportedly said angrily when he heard the chuckling. "There is nothing about this situation I find cute or funny. It's abhorrent!"

Webb pleaded guilty to an amended charge of misdemeanor assault/offensive touching, according to a local paper. But he reportedly laughed after entering the plea and this drew the judge's ire, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported.

Webb was arrested last month and initially charged with felony adulteration of food, liquids or pharmaceuticals. A female delivery driver, with whom he had tagged along Jan. 12, recorded Webb allegedly in the act of "double-dipping" and posted the video online, saying it was retribution for an 89-cent tip for an almost 30-minute drive. 

According to local news outlets Webb was sentenced to six months' of supervised probation and is required to attend daily alcohol counseling sessions for three months. The delivery driver was not charged but has been fired from her job, the News Sentinel reported.


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Dem. Nashville Mayor admits affair and may have misused taxpayer funds

Democratic Mayor of Nashville, Megan Barry, admitted to having an extramarital affair with former head of her security team and admitted she hoped to repair "the damage I have done."

It's unclear if the damage she was referring to was to her husband, Bruce or to the taxpayers whose funds she may have misused.

The Barrys had a son, Max, who, on July 30, 2017 died of an apparent drug overdose in Denver, Colorado at the age of 22.

Some of Ms. Barry's accomplishments since she has been mayor of Nashville:

Gun violence has increased significantly, rising up to 21 shootings from January to October 2017. The Tennessean noted that 2017 was "the bloodiest year for teens and children in more than a decade," many of whom were black children who lived in city-run [aka Democratic run] housing projects such as the James A. Cayce Homes. Barry promised to "get illegal guns off of our streets and out of the hands of kids and dangerous criminals" and she offered more job training for local kids. She did not explain how she planned to accomplish the goal of getting illegal guns out of the hands of kids.

In December 2017, Barry dedicated the first historical marker in Tennessee to honor an LGBT activist, Penny Campbell, in East Nashville. It is unclear as to which, if any, gender Penny Campbell identifies with, but whichever one or two she or he or whatever does, you can bet Barry is on board.

On January 31, 2018, Mayor Barry admitted she had an extramarital affair with Sgt. Robert Forrest Jr., the cop in charge of her security detail.

The Nashville city council's budget chairwoman, Tanaka Vercher, is reviewing her options to investigate if Barry possibly misused taxpayer funds during her extramarital affair. Vercher heads the budget and finance committee and has asked the council's lawyer to determine her authority to investigate the mayor's expenses during her tryst with her former security chief.

Barry accrued over $33,000 in travel expenses combined between her and Forrest, from January to late October 2017. She claims all the trips were just business related, not 'monkey business' related.

The Tennessean reviewed the case finding over $7,000 in overtime working on trips attended by Barry et al. In 2017, Barry and Forrest went on nine trips together--including one excursion to Greece--which they claim were "business related."

Forrest said on January 17th that he would retire Wednesday after over 31 years with Metro Nashville Police, 14 years of which he spent supervising the mayor's security detail over three administrations, and only this last one did he have a sexual relationship with the person he was securing.

"Right now the perception is--whether it's true or not--that this affair occurred on taxpayer's dime," Vercher said.

Trips to Greece are often taken by mayors of Nashville to ensure that Nashville souvlaki shops are getting pure ingredients.

Barry vowed during a Wednesday news conference to cooperate with any investigators in her conduct review, as if she had much of a choice.

"There were no policies that were violated," [if you don't count divine policy] she said. "Nothing illegal happened. The records will absolutely show that the expenses matched what the overtime expected."

Barry was elected in 2015 and said she plans to continue in office.

The affair began soon after she took office.

"I accept full responsibility for the pain I have caused my family and his," Barry blathered in a statement. "I am so sorry to my husband Bruce, who has stood by me in my darkest moments and remains committed to our marriage, just as I am committed to repairing the damage I have done."

Poor Mayor Barry--she is definitely the victim here, it seems.

Taking a page out of the POTUS communication handbook she tweeted:

"God will forgive me, but the people of Nashville don't have to. In the weeks and months to come, I will work hard to earn your forgiveness and earn back your trust. nashville.gov/News-Media/New..."

It's nice to know that even a mayor of a major US city can know what God will do. She even admitted knowing her behavior was destructive and said she "did it anyway."

But the best part was her pontificating while apologizing. "I must hold myself to the highest standard of which the voters deserve to expect. Please know that I'm disappointed in myself but also understand that I'm a human and that I made a mistake."

In a statement carefully reviewed by his attorney, Forrest said he regretted allowing his "professional relationship" with Ms. Barry turn "into a personal one."

The poor guy asked for privacy as he works "to rebuild the trust of the ones I love most."

Good luck with that trust, dude.


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