Trump Says U.S. Could Take Out Remaining Iranian Nuclear Sites in Just 10 Minutes

President Donald Trump isn't exactly leaving Tehran guessing about America's military capabilities. Following a phone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump made clear that the United States could eliminate what remains of Iran's nuclear program in a remarkably short amount of time. Apparently, the Pentagon has been keeping a few options on the shelf.

"There are 'one or two sites' left that need to be dealt with, including Pickaxe Mountain. We can do it in ten minutes. We have a plan for it, and we can execute it very quickly," the president said Sunday.

Trump also addressed the possibility of reaching another agreement with the Iranian regime, although his assessment of Tehran's negotiating habits wasn't exactly flattering.

"They want to reach an agreement, and we will see what happens. Things are moving along fine, but they are not really reliable. They reach an agreement and then back out. They want to reach an agreement, and we will see if they actually sign it."

Hours before those remarks, Trump spoke by phone with Netanyahu as the United States prepares to potentially resume strikes on Iran, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

The conversation followed discussions between Trump and senior military officials about options for resuming military operations. Those discussions included a meeting with CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine.

U.S. and Israel Prepare for Possible Strikes, But Timing Remains Uncertain

The Pentagon has reportedly spent recent weeks reinforcing air defenses, ammunition supplies, and other military equipment throughout the Middle East. At the same time, American forces have been repositioned away from bases considered vulnerable to an Iranian retaliatory attack.

The political calendar adds another complication. Trump is entering the final stretch of the campaign ahead of Tuesday's November 3 congressional midterm elections.

The war with Iran and rising fuel prices have become political liabilities for Republicans, and the president is working to strengthen his party's position before voters head to the polls.

Consequently, Washington has reportedly been pushing back the timetable for renewed military action. Tehran, meanwhile, appears quite content to drag out negotiations while the American political calendar works in its favor.

Defense officials reportedly believe the White House is unlikely to authorize an operation against the Islamic regime before Election Day unless intelligence reveals preparations for a surprise Iranian attack.

Israel's defense establishment has likewise remained deliberately vague about preparations for a possible escalation. Washington has continued offering Tehran another opportunity to return to negotiations, even as American and Israeli forces prepare for the alternative.

There are good reasons to doubt that diplomacy will produce much. Iranian officials are confronting an economic crisis that continues to worsen, but defense officials assess that the regime is unlikely to accept an agreement requiring it to completely abandon its nuclear program. Tehran is even less likely to agree to halt production of ballistic missiles, which now pose a threat to Europe as well.
American Military Reinforcements Arrive in Israel

Last week, ten U.S. Air Force transport aircraft arrived at Israeli Air Force bases in southern Israel as part of a larger military air convoy moving equipment throughout the Middle East, according to KAN News.

The aircraft originated at Fort Bliss in Texas and were reportedly carrying air defense systems intended to protect American and allied assets amid warnings of a possible "short, focused war with Iran."

Other aircraft in the convoy landed in Jordan, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. The arrivals followed an earlier report that Washington had transferred another Patriot missile defense system to the region in anticipation of a possible escalation.

An Israeli source told KAN that American and Israeli officials are coordinating closely on Iran. Reports also indicate that another U.S. aircraft carrier could join American forces in the region, accompanied by an additional Marine unit.

The military preparations aren't entirely one-sided. Two weeks ago, dozens of Israeli Air Force fighter jets flew "as far as the Iranian border" before turning around and returning to Israel during a practice sortie, according to an Axios report citing American and Israeli officials.
Tehran Says It's Ready for Negotiations. And War.

While Tehran continues to send diplomatic signals, it has also been busy issuing threats.

According to an announcement published in Tehran, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei ordered military commanders to prepare for an immediate and powerful response, without geographical limits, should the United States or Israel launch another attack.

Iranian Chief of Staff General Ali Abdollahi warned that his country has expanded its list of potential targets and that another American strike would trigger a broad response. He also insisted that Iran would determine when any new war ends.

That is quite a negotiating position for a government whose economy is in serious trouble and whose nuclear facilities have already been targeted.

The Trump administration, for its part, continues to maintain that diplomacy remains preferable to military action. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that if Trump had wanted to launch another military operation, he could have done so weeks or months ago. He also emphasized that the United States has all the capabilities necessary to carry out a successful strike.

For now, diplomacy and military preparations are proceeding simultaneously. Trump's conversation with Netanyahu underscores the close coordination between Washington and Jerusalem, while the military buildup makes clear that the diplomatic option isn't the only one on the table.

The big question is whether Tehran is finally prepared to make a deal or whether it is simply buying time until after the American elections.

Trump has already made one thing clear: If the negotiations go nowhere, the United States knows exactly what it intends to do, and apparently doesn't expect the operation to take very long.

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Talarico Isn't Fooling Voters About Bible Claims and Abortion

AUSTIN, TX—In a breathtaking display of a theological contortionist's gymnastics that would leave even a professional Cirque du Soleil acrobat weeping, Texas Democratic Senate candidate and ordained Presbyterian minister James Talarico managed to convince himself that a book containing roughly 800,000 words somehow forgot to mention the topic of ending human life.

During a CNN and Jubilee town hall event featuring the segment “Change My Mind: Abortion,” Talarico looked straight into the eyes of voters and delivered the kind of profound ecclesiastical revelation normally reserved for a seminary dropout trying to pass a midterms exam.

“The Bible is silent on the issue of abortion,” Talarico stated with a straight face, adding, “It means you and I both have to look at different scriptures to try to come to a conclusion.”

Unfortunately for the candidate, one Catholic voter in the audience decided to bring a little thing called historical context to the party. Stepping up to the microphone, the voter delivered a rather blunt reality check.

“The Bible is not silent on abortion,” the voter responded. “There is the Ten Commandments, thou shalt not kill, and as Catholics, we take great insult when it’s spouted that way.”

The exchange immediately went viral across social media platforms, with conservative commentators eager to dissect the wreckage. 

Daily Wire reporter Jacob Wheeler described it as a “stunning moment” of pushback against the candidate. 

Political commentator Benny Johnson offered a slightly more dramatic assessment, writing that the Catholic voter essentially “nuked” Talarico from orbit. The voter’s remarks even managed to draw genuine applause from segments of the studio audience, proving that actual literacy remains surprisingly popular.

Talarico, who frequently weaves his Christian faith into a campaign supporting expanded abortion access, now faces the tricky task of convincing voters that God spent all that time etching commandments onto stone tablets just to leave a convenient loophole for elective medical procedures.

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Was James Talarico in a mental institution or did he actually have the flu?

Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico has returned to the campaign trail after nearly two weeks out of public view, but a recorded phone call alleging he was discharged from an Ohio mental-health facility has intensified scrutiny of his absence. His campaign insists he was home in Austin recovering from the flu. So far, neither the allegation nor the campaign’s account has been independently verified in full. 

But we all know a politician and his staff, would never lie on their behalf.

The state representative went roughly 12 days without an in-person campaign appearance in late September and early October. His campaign blamed influenza, saying he was diagnosed at a Dallas urgent-care facility on September 30 and recovered at home in Austin.

And we all know a politician and his staff, would never lie on their behalf.

For a candidate hoping to flip a Republican Senate seat, disappearing during a critical stretch of the campaign is hardly ideal. President Donald Trump, Republican nominee Ken Paxton, and political commentators all took notice.

Talarico resurfaced at the festival on October 9. Campaign spokesman JT Ennis posted video of the candidate and declared, “Hate to disappoint the conspiracy theorists, but James is still alive and meeting with voters at ACL today.”

Being alive and attending a music festival, however, does not answer every question about an extended absence. If you pay attention to some of the things he had said, including his take on Christianity, you would not be surprised to hear another take on where he actually was during his absence.

On October 11, independent journalists Nick Sortor and Rhein Amacher released a recording of a phone call with an unidentified employee at the Lindner Center of Hope, a residential mental-health facility in Mason, Ohio. According to the journalists, the employee reportedly said, after a pause, that Talarico “was just discharged this evening,” or within the preceding 24 to 48 hours, and confirmed the facility's name.

Sortor and others have presented the recording as evidence that Talarico was a patient there, contradicting the campaign's explanation that he was recovering from the flu at home in Austin. Related reporting has cited private-flight tracking involving a nearby Ohio airport and the fact that Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo previously stayed at the same facility. Neither detail independently establishes that Talarico received treatment there.
 
The campaign has categorically denied the allegation.

Ennis responded: “This is a lie designed to promote a pathetic conspiracy theory. Last week James Talarico was home in Austin, Texas recovering from the flu.”

The facility has issued no public confirmation of Talarico's alleged stay. Subsequent callers, including Brian Krassenstein, reportedly received the standard response that patient information cannot be confirmed or denied.

As of October 11, no official records, facility statement, or independent verification establishes that Talarico was treated at the center. The recording has fueled speculation, but it does not conclusively prove the allegation. Earlier reporting also described the mental-health rumors as unverified.

The distinction matters. Voters have every right to question a candidate's unexplained absence, but allegations should not be presented as established facts without evidence.

Talarico offered his own explanation during a September 30 video appearance at the United States Hispanic Business Council's “In Dialogue: Texas” candidate forum in Edinburg. He had originally planned to attend in person.

“I was starting to feel kind of under the weather a few days ago and last night it got so bad that I went to the urgent care here in Dallas, and I was diagnosed with the flu.”

His last scheduled in-person appearance before the illness was reportedly a September 28 New York fundraiser featuring actor Robert De Niro.

Talarico is expected to resume a full schedule of in-person events. CNN and Jubilee Media have also scheduled a live town hall with him in Fort Worth for October 14 at 7 p.m. Central, with Paxton invited.

That appearance will give Talarico another opportunity to address voters. Whether he can put the controversy behind him remains to be seen.
A Candidate With a Rather Unusual Christian Message

Talarico has made Christianity central to his political identity. His campaign describes him as “a Presbyterian seminarian studying to become a pastor.”

Yet his policy positions include support for federal legislation codifying Roe v. Wade and protecting same-sex marriage, putting him at odds with many traditional Christians.

His longtime Austin congregation, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, has previously listed Planned Parenthood Greater Texas among organizations that shared its “vision and goals for the world.” The church's benevolence budget has also supported the organization, according to The Dallas Express.

Talarico has also attracted criticism for declaring that “God is non-binary” and arguing that there were six biological sexes. He subsequently revised those positions.

In a September Fox News interview, he acknowledged that he had “missed the mark on some of my past statements,” said there are two sexes, and supported a federal ban on sex-alteration surgeries for minors.

The reversal raises an obvious political question: Has Talarico genuinely reconsidered his views, or is he adjusting his message to appeal to Texas voters as Election Day approaches?

Even some on the left have expressed dissatisfaction. The Washington Post reported that Texas Stonewall Democrats leader Robert Vargas III called Talarico's recent remarks “a significant shift,” while Equality Texas CEO Brad Pritchett said, “We expect better.”

Meanwhile, socialist streamer Hasan Piker has applied pressure from another direction. At a September 30 event at the University of Texas at Austin, Piker told activists who helped Talarico win his primary to remind the candidate who put him in power. As The Dallas Express reported, Piker said that “if he wants to maintain it he’s got to play ball.”

Talarico must therefore navigate competing demands from progressive activists while attempting to reassure voters who may be uncomfortable with his earlier statements. His challenge is to explain whether his changing positions reflect genuine conviction or political expediency.
Democratic Unity Shows Cracks

Talarico's difficulties extend beyond Republicans and religious conservatives.

The Congressional Black Caucus PAC endorsed him in September, and Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett publicly supported him after losing her own primary. Yet Crockett's Fueling Individual Rights Everywhere PAC later released an endorsement list that did not include Talarico.

That omission does not establish a falling-out, but it illustrates the complications facing a nominee who must unite competing factions of his party.

Sheena Flanary, a former Collin County Democratic Party chair who now serves as Texas Democratic Party vice chair for voter engagement, also said in an undercover recording that Talarico's campaign had rebuffed her offers of assistance, according to The Dallas Express.

Talarico has faced pointed questions from Black voters before, including at a July 19 town hall in Houston.

Winning the Democratic nomination is one thing. Building a statewide coalition is another. Talarico must persuade voters that his candidacy offers more than carefully calibrated messaging designed to appease whichever faction happens to be demanding his attention.
Why the Race Matters

Republicans hold 53 Senate seats, compared with 45 Democrats and two independents who caucus with them. A Democratic victory in Texas would eliminate one Republican seat in a cycle in which Democrats need a net gain of four seats to reach 51.

Texas has not elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate since Lloyd Bentsen won reelection in 1988. Flipping the state would therefore represent a major Democratic victory, with consequences for legislation, judicial confirmations, federal spending, and President Donald Trump's agenda.

For Republicans, the opportunity is to make Talarico defend his record, his shifting positions, and his vision for the country. For Talarico, the challenge is to demonstrate that he can withstand scrutiny and represent Texans rather than simply satisfy the demands of progressive activists.

The allegation concerning the Ohio mental-health facility remains unverified and should be treated accordingly. But the broader questions surrounding Talarico's campaign, including his public statements and ability to manage a high-stakes Senate race, are legitimate subjects of debate.

Voters need neither accept every campaign explanation at face value nor believe every rumor circulating online. They should demand evidence, examine the candidates' records, and judge them on their policies and conduct.

Early voting in Texas begins October 19 and runs through October 30. Election Day is November 3.

Talarico's return to public view may end his absence from the campaign trail, but it does not end the scrutiny. With control of the Senate potentially at stake, Texas voters deserve a clear account of what their candidates believe, what they intend to do in Washington, and why they should be trusted with the responsibility.

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Illegal Alien Allegedly Attempts To Outrun ICE, Then Discovers Federal Government Has Vehicles Too

Federal prosecutors on Monday charged an illegal alien who was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent after allegedly turning a routine immigration arrest into an impromptu demolition derby.

Venezuelan national Wilber Rafael Garces-Perez, 28, was charged with one count of assaulting, resisting and impeding a federal officer after he allegedly struck an ICE officer with his car’s side-view mirror while fleeing.

The incident began September 20 in Austin, Texas, when ICE officers pulled Garces-Perez over after determining that he had a deportation order and there were no Democrats to hide him.

This was apparently the moment when things could have remained extremely boring.

Garces-Perez handed the officers his driver’s license, which they used to verify his identity. The officers then asked him to put the car in park and step outside.

Instead, after approximately a minute of conversation in Spanish, Garces-Perez allegedly “abruptly closed the window and drove off.”

According to the Justice Department, he allegedly struck an ICE officer in the torso with the driver’s side-view mirror while making his escape.

At some point, the situation apparently graduated from immigration enforcement to the sort of event that causes police departments to start requesting helicopters.

Garces-Perez allegedly led officers on a high-speed vehicle chase. Hopefully it will eventually make its way to YouTube for our entertainment appetite.

During the pursuit, one officer lost sight of both Garces-Perez and his partner. Minutes later, the officer's partner called to report that Garces-Perez had allegedly tried to hit him with his vehicle and that he had fired his pistol.

Garces-Perez was shot.

The complaint confirms that the ICE officer who fired the shot was not wearing a body camera, ensuring that an already complicated incident could now become an even more spectacular argument on social media.

Naturally, anti-ICE protesters soon took to the streets of Austin to denounce what they described as an unprovoked attack.

The protesters were apparently not impressed by the inconvenient details involving a deportation order, an alleged attempt to flee, a high-speed chase and a vehicle allegedly being used against an ICE officer.

Those details remain under investigation, where they will presumably receive considerably less attention than the outrage generated by the shooting.

Garces-Perez later said ICE detained him with a bullet still lodged near his spine, according to The Texas Tribune. He said medical staff told him they would not remove the bullet because of its proximity to his spine.

Calling into a news conference from detention, Garces-Perez offered a very different version of events.

He claimed an unmarked SUV sideswiped him twice before he realized that ICE officers were attempting to pull him over. The Venezuelan national said he made a U-turn under a freeway underpass when the SUV struck his car and that only then did the unmarked SUVs activate their emergency lights and sirens.

There is also the curious matter of why ICE was interested in him to begin with.

Garces-Perez had previously failed to appear for an immigration hearing at which a judge ordered his deportation, according to The Texas Tribune.

His immigration lawyer, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, offered an explanation for the missed hearing.

“I’ve been an immigration lawyer for 20 years, doing removal defense cases, like thousands of cases in the immigration court system. This is a very common outcome that the immigration court does not properly update people’s addresses,” she said. “The person doesn’t arrive, and they order them deported in absentia. I would say, maybe daily in my law practice, we see this happen.”

So, according to the defense account, the immigration system sent the notice to the wrong address.

Then ICE eventually found him.

Then officers allegedly asked him to get out of his vehicle.

Then he allegedly drove away.

Then an officer was allegedly struck by the vehicle.

Then there was a high-speed chase.

Then a gun was fired.

Then Garces-Perez was shot.

And then protesters took to the streets to explain why the entire thing was apparently the fault of ICE.

The legal system will now sort through the competing accounts and determine what actually happened.

Garces-Perez could face up to two decades behind bars if convicted.

For now, one lesson appears to be emerging from the case: when federal immigration officers inform you that they have located you and would like you to step out of your vehicle, attempting to turn the encounter into a high-speed chase may result in the federal government becoming considerably more interested in your whereabouts.

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Talarico’s Kindergarten Republic Leaves Grown-Ups Reaching for the Door

Texas Democrat comrade James Talarico, currently trying to talk his way past Attorney General Ken Paxton and into the Senate seat held by John Cornyn, stared into a camera and offered the country a governing model that sounds like it was workshopped during circle time and cookies.

“What if we ran our world like we run a kindergarten classroom? Because at the end of the day, aren’t we all just really big kindergartners?” the asked.

Voters who still think adulthood involves mortgages, jury duty, and the occasional original thought did not greet this as statesmanship. They treated it like a substitute teacher who lost control of the room.

“He’s just so … soft. I hate it,” Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet replied. “How is it possible that a grown man thinks this is a winning idea? Where have all the men gone? It’s baffling,”The Blaze contributor T.J. Moe added.

“Really Big Kindergartner is actually the best description I’ve heard of what Talarico looks like,” another added.

Conservative pundit Chris Loesch warned, “Never let this gelatinous creep around a kindergartner regardless how he identifies.” 

The pitch is consistent with a politics that already prefers citizens as dependents. First the state wants to manage your doctor. Then it wants to manage your snack and your feelings. Talarico simply said the quiet part with finger paint and mucous.

His campaign has also spent considerable energy pretending his earlier creepy record on children and gender ideology never happened. That record included support for giving young children access to cross-sex hormones and surgeries, plus a vote for a measure that would treat parents who refused to play along as child abusers. “Some of us, I think, really do consider this abusive behavior … an unwillingness to identify, or, to acknowledge a child’s gender identity, we consider that abusive to the child, abusive and destructive,” he said in 2019.

On Fox News he announced a late conversion [leaving out the real reason: political aspirations]. He no longer believes there are six genders [unless elected]. He also said he would oppose biological males in girls’ and women’s sports if their presence affected “safety and fairness.”

What a transparent scumcrumpet.

So the man who once wanted the government to overrule parents of actual five-year-olds now wants the rest of the country to sit on the rug while he explains how grown-ups should live. Texas will decide whether it prefers a Senate that treats voters like adults or one that hands out gold stars and timeout chairs.

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Historic First Openly LGBT Judge In Bexar County Forever Disqualified After Handcuffing A Lawyer Who Argued With Her

I honestly do not care who she sleeps with

SAN ANTONIO — Rosie Speedlin-Gonzalez, a Bexar (pronounced "Bear") County Court-at-Law No. 13 judge described in reporting as the first openly lesbian-identified judge elected in the county, agreed in April 2026 to resign immediately and accept a lifetime disqualification from judicial office in Texas. This marks what local observers called a rare moment in which a barrier-breaking career and a pair of handcuffs occupied the same résumé.

The deal followed a crazy December 2024 courtroom incident in which this judge ordered defense attorney Elizabeth Russell handcuffed and placed in the jury box during a heated argument over a plea in a domestic-violence probation case. 

Court records later confirmed that the argument had left the judicial process and the attorney's wrists in roughly the same condition. 

Speedlin-Gonzalez was later indicted on charges of official oppression and unlawful restraint. 

She was suspended without pay, lost her March 2026 Democratic primary, and then reached an agreement with the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct. 

Criminal charges were dismissed “in the interest of justice.” She did not admit guilt, fault, or liability, a formulation that allowed every party to leave the room without having to explain the jury box. Under the agreement she is “forever disqualified” from sitting as a judge, running for or accepting appointment to judicial office, or performing judicial duties in Texas. 

Officials did carve out one remaining public function: she may still officiate straight and gay weddings if she does not wear a robe or invoke judicial authority, a rule apparently designed to keep the phrase "by the power vested in me" from making a surprise comeback.

A viral image reduced the episode to “banned for life,” “LGBTQ judge,” and “do you stand with this?” The phrasing is partisan and simplified. 

Multiple news outlets, including the San Antonio Express-News, Texas Public Radio, KSAT, the ABA Journal, and others, reported the same sequence of events and the terms of the deal. The handcuffing order, the resignation, and the lifetime bar from the bench in Texas are accurate.At press time, Texas still permitted the former judge to join two people in matrimony, provided nobody in the room could tell she used to run a courtroom.

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Deported Illegal Immigrant Allegedly Returns To U.S., Steals Audi, Gets Drunk, Drives Wrong Way, Kills Young Dad

DUNCANVILLE, TX, In what immigration officials apparently call the "we'll see you again soon" program, a previously deported illegal immigrant is accused of killing a young father while allegedly driving drunk in a stolen Audi the wrong way down a North Texas highway.

Alexander Nunez, 26, allegedly slammed into a vehicle carrying 29-year-old Kenan Ellis and two of his cousins shortly before midnight on September 3 on Highway 67 in Duncanville.

Ellis had recently celebrated his 29th birthday.

Unfortunately, the celebration was followed by what authorities say was an encounter with a previously deported illegal immigrant who had apparently managed to make his way back into the country, acquire access to a stolen luxury automobile, get intoxicated, and drive it directly into oncoming traffic.

Ellis was returning home from a music video shoot for popular rapper BigXThaPlug when the crash occurred, his uncle, Xavier Hicks, told conservative media outlet The Daily Wire. Hicks said the rapper was driving close behind.

Ellis leaves behind a 7-year-old son and a 5-year-old daughter.

Federal authorities had previously deported Nunez, a Department of Homeland Security spokesman told The Daily Wire. Nunez later illegally re-entered the United States without being encountered at the border.

Apparently, "You have been deported" is now less of a legal order and more of a customer loyalty program.

Nunez faces charges of intoxication assault, intoxication manslaughter, and unauthorized use of a vehicle. He is being held in the Dallas County Jail on a $110,000 bond.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement also lodged a detainer, asking local authorities to transfer Nunez to federal custody if they release him.

In other words, the federal government would very much like to have another opportunity to deport the man it already deported.

“Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, if you break the law, you will face the consequences. Criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the U.S.,” the DHS spokesperson said.

When Hicks learned that Nunez had previously been deported, his reaction was understandably brief.

“Wow.”

There are moments when the English language simply runs out of words.

“Honestly and truthfully, that’s unfortunate. But my faith keeps telling me that it was God’s timing,” Hicks said.

“I hold no malice in my heart for Alexander Nunez,” he added.

That is an extraordinary amount of grace from a man whose family has just been devastated.

Ellis’ cousins were left with multiple broken bones, while one is expected to be in a wheelchair for several months, according to Fox 4. Both are expected to recover.

The three men were roughly five minutes from home when the crash occurred.

Five minutes.

They were close enough to home that the tragedy almost certainly began with thoughts about getting through the front door, taking off their shoes and going to bed.

Instead, one man never made it home.

Authorities determined that Nunez was intoxicated after he failed field sobriety tests, Fox 4 reported.

Ellis’ sister, Siniya Allen, described her late brother as “a great dad,” “an amazing brother,” and “an amazing son.”

“He was there for all his friends. He was just a great person,” she told Fox 4.

Ellis is survived by his 7-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter.

Allen said Nunez’s alleged actions left her family with an overwhelming loss.

“He took something important from us. I lost a brother. My mom lost a son. I have another brother. He lost his sibling. His kids have to grow up without a dad. No kid should have to do that at the expense of somebody else’s actions,” Siniya said.

She is right.

No child should have to grow up without a father because someone allegedly decided that drinking, stealing a car and driving the wrong way down a highway was a perfectly reasonable evening itinerary.

And perhaps the most maddening detail is that this did not involve some mysterious individual who had never crossed the government's radar.

Authorities had already found him.

They had already deported him.

He came back.

Now a young father is dead, two families are dealing with serious injuries, and two children are growing up without their dad.

But at least the government has apparently discovered a bold new immigration policy:

Deport them and hope they don't notice the border is still there.

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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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James "with a nutsack' Talarico trashes "neighbors with a uterus"

Democratic Senate nominee James "With A Nutsack" Talarico has apparently discovered the secret to progressive theology: if you reduce a woman to a reproductive organ, you can then explain why protecting unborn children is somehow oppressive.

The Texas state representative and failed Presbyterian seminarian has repeatedly referred to women as “neighbors with a uterus” while defending the killing of babies in the uterus, apparently deciding that “women” was simply too biologically specific for the modern progressive vocabulary. What kind of Christian believes that garbage?

In one clip addressing a congregation after the 2022 Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, Talarico declared: “Every one of our neighbors with a uterus became the property of the state.”

This is, of course, a rather creative interpretation of what the Supreme Court actually did. The Court didn't announce that women had suddenly become government property. It simply returned the abortion question to the states, allowing voters and their elected representatives to decide whether unborn children should be legally protected. That's why we call our country is a republic, specifically a democratic republic.

Apparently, in Talarico's fake theological universe, allowing citizens to debate whether unborn babies should be protected constitutes government ownership of women. Somehow the unborn child, who is actually the one being killed, manages to disappear entirely from the argument--how convenient.

Talarico has also declared that he wants “our neighbors with a uterus to be able to control their own body.”

The phrase is certainly useful if the objective is to discuss abortion without mentioning the inconvenient biological reality that there are two bodies involved, much like the two tiny nuts in his sack.

A 2024 recording provides another glimpse into Talarico's linguistic gymnastics. While discussing the morality of abortion, he began to say “woman” before correcting himself and returning to his preferred leftist terminology.

Apparently, even the word “woman” has now been placed on the progressive theological watchlist.

Talarico later shared a version of his remarks on X in November 2022, accompanying video of himself bloviating: “This summer, more than half our population became second-class citizens. Every one of our neighbors with a uterus became the property of the State. And nothing is more un-Christian.”

Talarico replaces “woman” with a description from a medical textbook and then declares that anyone who disagrees with you is violating Christianity is contradicts Christian theology.

Jimmy with a nutsack has used the phrase repeatedly when discussing biological women and has even declared that “our trans community needs abortion care too,” apparently overlooking the minor biological inconvenience that men who claim to be women do not become pregnant simply because a progressive politician says they can.

Pro-life observers have condemned the language as demeaning and dehumanizing, arguing that reducing women to a single body part is hardly the great feminist breakthrough progressives claim it to be. Apparently, the movement that once insisted women should be valued as complete human beings has now decided that “uterus” is the preferred substitute for “woman.”

Religious and political figures have also sharply criticized Talarico's theological arguments, accusing him of bending Scripture to accommodate progressive political orthodoxy.

Islam much?

Evangelist Franklin Graham rejected Talarico's claim that Scripture is silent on abortion, saying: “Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico couldn’t be more wrong! The Bible is not silent on abortion as he claims—that’s an absolute lie. God commands us, ‘You shall not murder’ (Exodus 20:13). Abortion is taking a life—it is murder.”

Graham further warned: “Don’t be deceived by wicked politicians spouting lies like this.”

Daily Wire host Matt Walsh has likewise accused Talarico of twisting biblical teaching concerning life in the womb, describing him as a “creepy-looking heretic and fake pastor who pathologically lies to Christians over and over again about what the scripture says… he is completely insane.”

And evil, if you really consider what he spouts.

Blaze Media host Allie Beth Stuckey has also challenged Talarico's theological arguments, calling his use of Scripture to justify abortion “absurdly evil” and “demonic.”

The controversy, originally amplified earlier this year by groups supporting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, has resurfaced as the Senate race heats up.

And if Talarico's rhetoric is any indication, voters can apparently look forward to a Senate campaign in which the Democratic nominee explains that women are actually “neighbors with a uterus,” unborn children are apparently a secondary consideration, and the Bible becomes considerably more flexible whenever progressive politics needs a little divine assistance.

At this rate, the Ten Commandments may soon require a progressive translation. “You shall not murder” could become “Please respect everyone's reproductive choices,” while “Honor thy father and mother” will presumably be replaced by “Ask your neighbors with a uterus.”

Progressive theology has never sounded so strangely anatomical. 

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Baby Gabriel’s “Parents” Blast Ken Paxton for Saving Him From Abortion

DALLAS, TX: In a stunning development that proves the phrase “pro-life” can apparently be controversial even after the baby is born, the California couple who wanted Baby Gabriel aborted before birth are now furious with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for making sure the child receives lifesaving medical care. 

These so called parents are nothing more than ghouls.

Gabriel was born August 12 in Dallas with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a serious but treatable condition requiring a series of surgeries beginning in the first weeks of life.

Surrogate mother McKenna West, an Alaska nurse and single mother of two, refused the biological parents’ request to abort the child after a prenatal diagnosis revealed the heart defect. The surrogacy contract reportedly contained a clause allowing the baby to be killed if an “anomaly” was discovered.

West instead traveled to Texas before giving birth, where she would be recognized as the birth mother under Texas law, and named the boy Gabriel.

Naturally, this did not go over well with the people who had apparently commissioned a baby but wanted a return policy if the baby came with a defective heart.

Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed of Los Angeles, Gabriel’s biological parents, obtained a temporary court order granting them decision-making authority and took physical custody of the infant less than 24 hours after his birth.

The couple has now taken issue with Paxton’s office for intervening to ensure Gabriel receives medical treatment, arguing that the state lacks standing and that only the Department of Children and Family Services can intervene.

They contend that the state’s actions would deprive them of their “fundamental constitutional interest in the care, custody, control and medical decision-making for their child without constitutionally adequate notice, process, and opportunity to be heard … in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.”

Because apparently the most pressing constitutional crisis in Texas right now is whether the government has given adequate process before insisting that a newborn with a serious heart condition be allowed to live.

The parents also denied any intention to withhold medical care, saying they have “consistently sought the opportunity to consult” with doctors and make informed medical decisions for the child as his “parents.”

Their attorney said they “had frequently sought involvement in the medical process and had made the decision, which they felt was best for the baby.”

Yes, that decision was the one where the baby doesn't get to participate in the decision because he would have to survive long enough to have an opinion.

Attorney Lee Budner added that the couple is “continuing to place their baby’s health and well-being first, following the advice of the baby’s medical team, as they always have and just as any loving parent would.”

The couple is also “devastated to see their family tragedy transformed into political theater by the Texas Attorney General’s office and McKenna West.”

Nothing says “political theater” quite like an attorney general going to court to make sure a newborn receives lifesaving surgery.

Paxton’s office rejected that characterization, issuing the following statement:

“Once the child is born alive in Texas, he will be a complete legal person, and Texas will protect his life without regard to the circumstances of his conception or the terms of any private agreement.”

It is difficult to imagine a more outrageous concept than the radical Texas idea that a baby who has been born is, in fact, a person.

Paxton subsequently secured an emergency court order requiring lifesaving medical care, including intensive treatment and at least one surgery, while also barring the infant from being removed from Texas.

Pro-life advocates have credited Paxton’s intervention with protecting Gabriel after his intended parents had sought to have him aborted because of his heart condition.

West is challenging the parentage orders, with her attorney arguing that Texas law recognizes the woman who gives birth as the mother. A separate order currently prohibits West from having any contact with Gabriel.

Meanwhile, the custody and medical decision-making battle continues as Gabriel receives specialized care at a Texas facility with an excellent track record of treating children with his condition.

For now, Baby Gabriel is doing something that has apparently become politically controversial in certain parts of America: he is fighting to live.

And Ken Paxton is apparently guilty of the shocking offense of helping him do it.

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Illegal alien stabs mother to death leaves her body in a park

Here we go again. An illegal alien from El Salvador allegedly stabbed a Virginia mother to death and then dumped her body near a jogging trail in Great Falls, Virginia.

Fairfax County PD said Wednesday that Alexis Antonio Cedillos-Campos, 19, was arrested in connection with the murder of Carmen Lizet Puch.

Cedillos-Campos illegally crossed the southern border into El Paso, Texas, in April 2024 and was quickly released into the United States. At that time, he said he wasn't afraid of being returned to El Salvador and he was released into Biden's open borders country.

A jogger discovered Ms. Puch’s corpse just before 7 a.m. on Monday. The body lay near her 2011 Honda Civic, that was parked in the lot at Difficult Run Park along Georgetown Pike near Old Dominion Drive, according to 7News.

“In Great Falls, it’s probably one of the safest places ever in the world,” Clare, who was out hiking with a friend Tuesday, said. “To have something happen like that feels personal, scary.”

Authorities said more details would be provided today, Wednesday, this afternoon.

“There is no immediate indication that this was a random act,” Capt. Jason Chandler said during a news conference on Monday. They evidently knew each other.

Puch was the mother of a young daughter and worked with Cedillos-Campos at Bitez restaurant in Herndon, according to NBC Washington. 

Cedillos-Campos allegedly stabbed Puch while she was inside her vehicle.

Abdul Anwari, the owner of Bitez, said he and his employees were shocked after learning of Puch’s murder. [Who wouldn't be?]

“I don’t know if you can process something like this. It’s not something you expect. It’s not something that anyone would ever want to happen,” Anwari told News4. “But you know, we’re still taking it [a] minute at a time.”

Anwari said a fundraiser has been set up to support Puch’s surviving daughter.

“We have a GoFundMe account set up, but we’re actually doing, we are personally donating to the family as well,” Anwari said. “But anyone in the community that can help, obviously, this is going to go directly to the family, and as far as I’m concerned, it should go to the daughter and make sure that she’s OK.”

Puch’s family members, who live in New Jersey, immediately drove to Virginia after learning of her killing to take care of her daughter, according to NBC Washington.

Joe Biden was not available for comment.

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Texas Airports Discover the Shocking Concept of Religious Neutrality

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R-of course) has apparently committed the unforgivable sin of asking whether government-owned airports should be in the business of providing religion-specific amenities.

Abbott ordered a review of state funding for airports across Texas after learning about Islamic ablution facilities at two of the state's largest airports. The question is fairly simple: If government is supposed to remain religiously neutral, why is it providing specialized facilities for the practices of one particular faith?

“These ablution facilities appear designed to single out one subset of the population for special treatment based on religion. That is illegal,” said Abbott.

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport plans to install separate foot-washing stations for men and women so Muslims can perform wudu, the ritual washing conducted before Islamic prayer. The project was originally listed as privately funded, with an estimated price tag of $300,000 and an August 31 start date.

Apparently, however, the phrase "privately funded" was experiencing a brief identity crisis.

DFW later told the Dallas Express that the facilities would actually be paid for with airport funds. The airport blamed an outside design firm, which mistakenly selected "non-publicly funded" on a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.

“That was an error and it should have indicated that airport funds would be used projects. We are putting in firm erroneously selected no dollars for its operation to prevent that kind of error in the future,” said DFW.

This is reassuring. Nothing makes taxpayers sleep better than learning that hundreds of thousands of dollars in airport spending may have been accurately described as private funding due to an unfortunate encounter with a dropdown menu.

Abbott's review could result in existing state grants being revoked and future funding denied to airport operators, including DFW and George Bush Intercontinental Airport.

He has also asked the U.S. Department of Transportation to investigate both airports for possible religious discrimination.

While DFW is still deciding whether to install its ablution facilities, IAH [George Bush International Airport] already has one connected to a prayer room.

“Both airports are government-owned facilities,” said Abbott. “The federal and state constitutions prohibit government from facilitating this sort of discrimination.”

Abbott also asked Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to have the Department of Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration review the facilities and take corrective action if necessary.

Both airports receive federal funding and are required to comply with federal laws prohibiting religious discrimination. Which raises an awkward question for the modern bureaucracy: If government cannot favor one religion over another, how exactly did taxpayers wind up underwriting religious foot baths?

Surely this is all just a misunderstanding.

Perhaps tomorrow the airports will announce that Christians can receive complimentary baptismal pools, Jews can get kosher ceremonial washing stations, Hindus can receive a taxpayer-funded purification room, and atheists can be provided with a comfortable chair where they can contemplate the absurdity of the entire arrangement.

DFW's explanation does little to calm the situation. According to the airport, the outside design firm selected the wrong funding designation on the paperwork.

Apparently the airport's religious neutrality was not the problem. The checkbox was.

X users backed Abbott's move, with some calling for similar scrutiny of other airports.

At this rate, the next great airport security breakthrough may not involve detecting explosives. It may involve detecting whether the government has accidentally decided to become the facilities manager for someone's religion.

And somewhere, a taxpayer is still waiting for the airport to build a special foot-washing station for him.

He just hasn't figured out which religion gets one yet.

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Florida awards Zohran Mamdani as their "Economic Developer of the Year" in Times Sq. campaign

"Hey Zohran, thanks for the jobs" --love, Florida

Communism [the left calls it socialism] is apparently a strong motivator to get people to run as fast as they can away from where it's imposed. New York City, run by comrade Mayor Zohran Mamdani, is one case in point. The beneficiary of New York's exodus in large part is Florida.

At the corner of Broadway and West 43rd Street, basically the heart of the Big Appel, a massive new billboard is sending an infuriating message to New York leadership: "Thanks for the jobs!" [H/T Fox News.]

The United States is now facing a choice between free enterprise or more government control under socialism. Florida is having none of that and has launched a Times Square campaign naming  New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani Florida's "Economic Developer of the Year." Let this once again show the [wo]man in the street, how progressive socialist policies with their all encompassing taxing, are driving businesses and families to conservative-run states such as Florida and Texas.

Florida now has a $1,800,000,000,000.35 record-breaking wealth migration. That's even more money than Elon Musk has earned.

"We wanted to thank him [Mamdani] for the jobs, the companies, the people that they're pushing out of New York — and a lot of them are coming to Florida," Chamber CEO Mark Wilson first told Fox News Digital on Monday.

"America is at a crossroads right now. I think everyone that's paying attention knows that our country was built on freedom and free enterprise and people having the liberty to make their dreams come true," Wilson said. "And there's a push in our country right now to take those liberties away and to attack free enterprise. And that's never worked anywhere, and it won't work in America."

"What Mayor Mamdani is doing is dangerous for the country, right? It's bad for New Yorkers. It's bad for New York. It's very harmful for the country," Wilson continued. "We can choose free enterprise, which is what America was built on, or we can choose to destroy that, which is what the social[ist] policies do… And so, what we're hoping happens from this campaign is that we refocus America on free enterprise."

In addition to putting the blame on Mamdani, the Chamber’s campaign highlights its argument that lower tax rates yield higher total state revenues by incentivizing growth, while blue-state tax hikes trigger a tax-based exodus. According to the Chamber, citing IRS migration data, Florida gains approximately $2.4 million in net taxable income every hour, while New York loses approximately $1.1 million per hour. The Chamber also says Florida gains a net 551 residents daily, compared to New York losing 115 residents daily. Now that's an enormous difference.

"Heading South" [AI generated]

According to the Chamber's press release, New York’s state budget is over twice Florida’s, and New York City’s municipal budget alone is more than $8 billion higher than the entire Florida state budget.

"What do people like Mayor Mamdani do? They want to then increase taxes on the people who are left, which just further accelerates people leaving places like New York," Wilson explained, showing that comrades like Mamdani, know nothing about economics and are dangerous to their constituents and the country as a whole.

So just like Barack Obama was the gun industry's best salesman, Mamdani is Florida's best jobs head hunter.

"Florida's lowered taxes over 50 times in the last 15 years. And we have record revenues coming in because people want to be here. And when the economy grows, tax revenues grow. That's how free enterprise works," Wilson said.

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