ICE busts illegal Moldovan alian convicted of torture, murder via fenestration from 9th floor

Oh, joy. In a plot twist that even M. Night Shyamalan couldn't dream up, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has finally rounded up Victoria Sorocean, a Moldovan illegal alien and convicted killer whose idea of a good time apparently involved turning someone into a human piñata before yeeting them out a ninth-floor window. 

Victoria Sorocean was taken into custody in Los Angeles on Nov. 4 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after authorities learned she had been convicted of premeditated murder with exceptional cruelty in 2013, ICE told Fox News on Tuesday.

According to DHS, Sorocean and an accomplice tortured their victim inside an apartment in Chisinau, Moldova, beating the person with a stick and electrical cable before throwing the victim out a ninth-floor window.

She was sentenced to 17 years in prison but fled the country to avoid serving her sentence. Smart move, Victoria, because nothing says "commitment issues" like dodging a Moldovan slammer by hopping a flight to the land of the free... and apparently the home of the thrown.

Sorocean was first arrested by ICE on Jan. 10, 2020, under the first Trump administration, but she later filed multiple legal appeals and asylum claims to delay removal, DHS said.Officials said she was ultimately released back into the U.S. in 2022 under the Biden administration. Ah, yes, the Biden era: where "catch and release" isn't just for fishermen, it's the official policy for folks who'd make Hannibal Lecter blush. Thanks to that genius stroke of compassion, our neighborhoods got an upgrade to "international fugitive flea market."

DHS said the case highlights the failures of the previous administration, which it said allowed millions of illegal aliens, including violent criminals and murderers like Sorocean, to roam free in American neighborhoods.

DHS slammed the Biden administration for releasing millions of illegal aliens, including violent criminals and murderers like Victoria Sorocean. 

"It shocks the conscience that the Biden administration released into America a cruel, violent illegal alien who tortured a human being, beat them with an electrical cable and a stick and then threw her victim from a ninth-floor window," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.

"These are the types of barbaric criminal illegal aliens ICE is targeting every single day," she added. "Seventy percent of all ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S."

"This does not even include foreign fugitives like this convicted murderer. Under President [Donald] Trump and Secretary [Kristi] Noem, the world’s criminals are no longer welcome in the U.S.," McLaughlin said.

Sorocean will remain in ICE custody pending deportation proceedings, DHS said. Fingers crossed she gets the express lane back to Moldova, Vmaybe with a complimentary parachute this time, just to keep things thematic. In the meantime, here's to the adults finally showing up to clean up the mess left by the folks who thought open borders were a feature, not a bug.

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Agitators Turn Berkeley into a Real-Life 'Fight Club' – Minus Brad Pitt, Plus Way More Blood and Bad Ideas

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Oh, Berkeley. The People's Republic of California’s ground zero for everything from tie-dye to tie-ins with Hamas chic. Just when you thought the campus radicals had exhausted their supply of soy lattes and sanctimony, they decided to audition for a reboot of The Purge right outside UC Berkeley. And all because Turning Point USA dared to show up with actual speakers who aren't afraid to say words like "truth" or "Christianity" without triggering the safe space sirens.

Picture this: It's Monday afternoon, the sun's dipping low over the Bay Area haze, and a horde of keffiyeh-clad warriors, you know, the ones who think an Arafat scarf makes them experts on geopolitics, are milling about like they just escaped a bad Al Jazeera fanfic. Why? Because TPUSA's "This Is The Turning Point" tour is wrapping up with a bang, featuring the indomitable Dr. Frank Turek and the eternally snarky Rob Schneider. (Yes, that Rob Schneider. Deuce Bigalow himself, trading bedazzled thongs for intellectual takedowns. Progress!)

But hold onto your Birkenstocks, because two months after TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated at a Utah campus event on Sept. 10, these peace-loving protesters couldn't let a simple speaking gig slide. 

At around 4:30 PST, the whole thing erupts into a full-on kerfuffle. Two dudes go at it like they're auditioning for the WWE's "Woke Division," with one guy's face looking like he lost a bet with a cheese grater. Blood everywhere. It's the kind of scene that makes you wonder if Berkeley's "free speech" policy comes with a "free stitches" clause.

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Fox News Digital caught the carnage on video, because of course they did, and it's a doozy. A gaggle of agitators circles the fray like vultures at a vegan barbecue, waving signs that scream every lefty trope from "Zionism is racism" to whatever fresh nonsense they're microwaving this week. Cops were out there playing human piñatas, slapping on shield masks and grabbing batons like it's casual Friday at the riot squad. The Berkeley PD later confirmed to Fox that at least two gladiators got zip-tied by 6 p.m. local time.

"I do not have the specific details of what the arrests were for," the police spokesperson said. "At this point, I can share that one of the parties was arrested for battery."

Shocking. A battery charge at a "mostly peaceful" protest? Next you'll tell me the keffiyehs weren't organic cotton. UC Berkeley's mouthpiece chimed in too, insisting the melee stayed off-campus, because nothing says "ivory tower integrity" like outsourcing your drama to the sidewalk. No word on injuries beyond the obvious facial faucet, but let's be real: In Berkeley, "wounded" could mean anything from a split lip to a bruised ego over not getting enough pronouns validated.

This all unfolded mere hours before Turek and Schneider took the stage, turning what should have been a mic-drop moment into a pre-show appetizer of anarchy. Dr. Turek, Kirk's longtime mentor and the guy who can defend Christianity with more logic than a Spock TED Talk, had been hyped about this stop for weeks. Chatting with Fox News Digital last week, he explained why Berkeley was his must-attend.

"If I could go to any one event with him, it would be that one," the Christian author said."I wanted to go to UC Berkeley because it is so progressive and liberal in their views, and I wanted to provide evidence that Christianity was indeed true."

That's what real courage looks like; strolling into the lion's den with facts instead of fidget spinners. (Kirk would've loved it, RIP to a legend who went out fighting the good fight.)

And the afterparty? Pure poetry in motion. As attendees filtered out, the protesters, fresh from their cardio session, swarmed every exit like Black Friday shoppers on Red Bull. Heckling, obscenities, the works. It's almost like they read the script from every Antifa playbook ever: Disrupt, destroy, then demand therapy dogs.

Look, if this is the "turning point," count me in for the sequel. Because nothing says "we're winning the culture war" like watching the other side devolve into a bloody Lord of the Flies LARP. Stay snarky, America. And maybe invest in some riot gear for Christmas. You never know when Berkeley's exporting its vibes.

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Nonprofit Linked to Sarsour's Anti-Semitic Circus Rakes in Millions from NYC and Albany Taxpayers

Well, here's a plot twist that shouldn't surprise anyone who's been paying attention to the progressive fever swamp: a nonprofit cozying up to anti-Semitic Muslima Linda Sarsour, longtime cheerleader for New York City mayor-elect, Democrat Socialist Zohran Mamdani, has been swimming in public cash like it's an open bar at a DSA happy hour. Public records lay it out plain as day: $4.1 million over seven years, courtesy of the good folks in City Hall and Albany who apparently think funding radical activism is just another line item in the budget.

The Arab American Association of New York (AAANY), where Sarsour reigned supreme from 2005 to 2017, pocketed over $3.3 million from the city and $854,000 from the state between her exit and 2024. The state cash mostly flowed from the New York State Department of State, with a cheeky $20,000 sprinkle from the Office of Children and Family Services, because nothing says "family values" like bankrolling allies of Hamas fanboys. 

On the city side, it's a black box of bureaucratic bliss: one $60,000 check from the Department of Small Business Services, and the rest shows no agency named, no questions asked. Watchdog OpenTheBooks had to dig through the muck to expose it, because transparency is so last century in Bill de Blasio's dystopia.

This bombshell drops right after Sarsour's latest victory lap, where she gloated about Mamdani's win and dangled threats over any Democrat who dares to love the Jewish state of Israel. 

Mamdani, predictably radio silent on whether he'll keep the gravy train chugging for his pal's old outfit once he parks his keffiyeh in Gracie Mansion. 

Democratic NY Gov. Kathy Hochul was mum on whether Albany's checkbook stays open for AAANY's agitprop. One can only imagine the internal memo: "Priorities: not affordable housing; but increased Sarsour slush funds, definitely.

It all bubbled up from a Canary Mission video of Sarsour preening at a September Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) confab, boasting that a CAIR-backed PAC was Mamdani's top sugar daddy, a nugget the Free Beacon flagged back in June. Remember, CAIR's boss Nihad Awad lit up the interwebs in late 2023 by admitting he was "happy to see" Hamas's Oct. 7 bloodbath against Israel. Classy crowd of racist pukes.

Fresh off Mamdani's triumph, Sarsour wasted no time Thursday at a Puerto Rico shindig, vowing to purge pro-Israel Democrats from the party like they're haram. "You do the right thing, you keep your job," she crowed. "You don't do the right thing, you don't keep your job. There are some people that will do the right thing for the wrong reasons, but we don't care why you do the right thing as long as you do the right thing. If you do it because you think you're getting primaried, that's okay with us. People are saying 'free Palestine' because now they're getting primaried. Free Palestine." Ah, yes, the timeless leftist logic: Motives don't matter if the outcome feeds the narrative. Primaries as protection racket, 2025 edition.

Sarsour's out of the AAANY driver's seat these days, but don't worry, the radical bus hasn't slowed down. Current honcho Marwa Janini, a vet of Students for Justice in Palestine, threw her weight behind a 2021 petition pushing global boycotts of the Jewish state. The group's official line? All sunshine: "to support and empower the Arab Immigrant and Arab American community by helping them adjust to their new home and become active members of society." But under Janini, it's been pedal-to-the-metal on Mamdani's "Not on Our Dime" bill, which would've kneecapped New York nonprofits for any whiff of "unauthorized support for Israeli settlement activity." Mamdani's still playing coy on whether that covers, say, Band-Aids for West Bank civilians, humanitarian aid being such a slippery slope when you're auditioning for the anti-Zionist league.

And let's not forget AAANY's star turn backing the "Flood Brooklyn for Palestine" blowout just days after Oct. 7. What started as a "protest" turned into a full-on tantrum: roads gridlocked, street fires lit, eggs hurled at cops, and chants that made the Weather Underground look like a book club. NYPD scooped up about two dozen of the 5,000-strong mob. As one ringleader bellowed, as per the New York Post, this wasn't some milquetoast ceasefire plea, they were gunning for "an end to the occupation." 

Sarsour and Mamdani go way back, bonding over Khader El-Yateem's flop of a 2017 city council run. She's maxed out donations to his mayoral bid and dubbed him her "favorite guy," but don't get it twisted, she's got the accountability whip ready. "I won't let him do whatever the hell he wants when he gets to City Hall," she promises. 

Speaking of which, Sarsour's resume reads like a greatest-hits album of Jew-hating tropes: Zionism as "white supremacy in America," endless sniping at Israel's, and thereby the Jews' very existence. In 2017, Sarsour was the Women's co-chair where she platformed Louis Farrakhan's bile and Rasmea Odeh, the convicted terrorist. 

She is also the BDS queen snake [no bees here], insisting "One cannot be a feminist and a Zionist at the same time." Small wonder the March's founder booted her for good, blasting the "anti-Semitism, anti-LBGTQIA sentiment and hateful, racist rhetoric" she'd normalized.

In a sane world, taxpayers wouldn't subsidize this circus of a clusterfrack. But in Hochul's New York, where Mamdani's squad treats public funds like venture capital for revolution, it's just another day ending in 'y'. 

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Survey: Israeli Schools Failing Kids on English Fluency, Leaving Them Woefully Unprepared for the 'Real World'

Ah, the joys of modern education, where your tax dollars fund a system that treats essential skills like optional extras. A fresh survey, from Novakid drops the mic: Israeli elementary schools are delivering a pathetic 12% of the English exposure kids actually need to hit fluency. That's right, your little ones are being set up to stumble through the global stage like deer in headlights, all because the bureaucrats couldn't be bothered to prioritize. [H/T The Jerusalem Post.]

Picture this: It's September 1, 2025, and kids are filing into classrooms in Mevaseret Zion, backpacks slung over shoulders, dreams of conquering the world intact. Fast-forward a few months, and 73% of Israeli parents are telling Novakid's pollsters that their schools aren't prepping the little guys one iota for real-world chit-chat in English. Conducted with about 500 parents of 6- to 12-year-olds, this isn't some fringe gripe; it's a full-throated indictment of a curriculum that's more virtue-signaling than skill-building.

Nearly 70% of these parents aren't betting a shekel on their kids' ability to string together a coherent sentence in Shakespeare’s tongue, even after years of ESL starting as early as grades 1-3. English is compulsory from grade 3 on, but time crunches mean teachers are rationing it like wartime rations. 

Novakid crunches the numbers: 71% of kids kick off lessons by end of third grade, yet 57% get a measly three hours a week. Only 15% score four or more. No wonder the rug rats freeze up outside the classroom, it's like handing someone a bicycle with three flat tires and calling it transportation.

Science backs this farce: Fluency demands about 25 hours weekly of immersion, roughly 30% of a kid's waking hours. Schools cough up three measly hours. 

Congrats, parents, you're on the hook for the other 22. If junior's logging 30 school hours, that means 40% of your home life turns into an English-only boot camp. Bon appétit, family harmony.

And the kicker? Only 28% of parents rate their kid's ESL setup as "good" or "excellent." Worse, 57% say the teaching quality's tanked over the last three years. Shocker: When the ivory tower cracks, trust evaporates faster than a politician's promises.

Enter the ESL tutor boom, because when Big Education fumbles, savvy moms and dads don't sit idle. Novakid's data shows 28% already shelling out for private lessons after hours, with 42% plotting to join the party soon. Preference? Old-school in-person with native speakers edges out the techies, but 30% are all-in on digital platforms that don't require schlepping across town."Parents in Israel, as around the world, recognize that strong English skills empower their children and boost their future prospects."

Spot on. In a world where Mandarin's rising and borders are blurring, saddling kids with broken English is educational malpractice. But hey, at least the system's consistently failing forward, one underfunded hour at a time.

Cue the Novakid rep: "When the school system does not deliver, parents refuse to compromise. Increasingly, they turn to digital alternatives, which have become more advanced in recent years."

Novakid, for the uninitiated, is a global ESL powerhouse for ages 2-14, with over a million students in 50+ countries. Israel is their third-biggest playground. Launched in 2017, it's all gamified AI wizardry, VR immersion, and natural language smarts tailored to each squirt. No cookie-cutter drudgery here; it's fluency engineering and it works.

Bottom line: If Israel's schools can't hack basic bilingual basics, no wonder parents are voting with their wallets. Time for the ed establishment to wake up, or watch the next generation outsource their futures to apps and tutors.

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DSA's Chilling Demands for Their Anti-Israel Puppet Mayor Zohran Mamdani: Boycott, Divest, and Arrest Netanyahu on Sight

"Smiley Z" 

If you thought the Democratic Socialists of America's takeover of New York City couldn't get any more unhinged, buckle up. Leaked docs reveal the Big Apple's DSA chapter is gearing up to strong-arm incoming Mayor Comrade Zohran Mamdani into shoving a toxic, Israel-loathing agenda down the throats of every hardworking New Yorker.

Tucked into the NYC-DSA's so-called "Anti-War Working Group" manifesto, a laundry list of 12 fever-dream "demands" for their handpicked mayor, is a full-throated call to slash every city contract with any company daring to do business with Israel. Oh, and let's not forget yanking all city funds from banks that have the audacity to lend a dime to the Jewish state. If there was no law against beheading Jews, well, figure it out.

This bombshell planning doc, first blown open by Just The News, was peddled at their November 2 public powwow, showing the DSA's been scheming since at least late September to lock in Mamdani's allegiance to their jihad against Israel once he swears in come January, and make sure he doesn't wimp out under "Zionist pressure."

The Democratic Socialists of America have big plans for card-carrying NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, especially when it comes to pushing its extreme, Israel-hating views on New Yorkers. NYC-DSA/ Instagram

The rest of this socialist fever dream? It's a greatest-hits of anti-Israel lunacy that'll make your blood boil:

Divesting city pensions from Israeli bonds and securities.

Banning Israeli products from the city-run grocery stores Mamdani wants to open.

Investigating real estate agents “hosting illegal sales of stolen lands in the West Bank.”

Stripping tax-exempt nonprofit status from entities that raise funds for the Israel Defense Forces.

End the NYPD’s training with Israeli Occupation Forces.

Arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and active IDF soldiers for “war crimes” if they enter the Big Apple.

Dismantle an NYC-Israel Economic Council formed by outgoing Mayor Adams.Mamdani, the unapologetic cheerleader for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) wrecking crew, won't even pretend to soften his core belief that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state. And don't get him started—or do—on refusing to denounce "globalize the intifada," the bloodthirsty slogan that's code for wiping Israel off the map. Dennis A. Clark“Well at least the DSA mask is off,” said state Assemblyman Kalman Yeger, a conservative Brooklyn Democrat and Orthodox Jew. “This was never about affordability, free buses or anything else. This was always about Jew hatred.

“With every municipal issue facing New York City’s government, the DSA doesn’t care about the state of our schools, streets, parks, subways, city budget or anything else. They care about Israel — Israel and only Israel.

“At least now they can stop trying to deny their antisemitism; most New Yorkers aren’t stupid,” said Yeger.Mamdani's dad, Mahmood Mamdani, perches on an advisory board that's made a cottage industry out of screeching "genocide" at the Jewish state. Campaigning? Sure, Zohran sprinkled some antisemitism condemnations like fairy dust while schmoozing Jewish leaders for votes. But it's all smoke, pure theater from a guy who's been marinating in this hate his whole life.

NYC-DSA’s “Anti-War Working Group” listed a dozen “demands” for the incoming Mamdani administration.

Enter Alicia Singham Goodwin, niece of China-loving Marxist moneybags Neville "Roy" Singham, who's the political puppet-master at Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. They rolled out a "Jews for Zohran" whitewash back in January, handing Mamdani a get-out-of-antisemitism-jail-free card, as The Post exposed in July.

But here's the kicker: He’s refused to budge on his longtime stance that Israel shouldn’t exist as a Jewish state or condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada” that calls for the destruction of Israel.

“Well at least the DSA mask is off,” said state Assemblyman Kalman Yeger, a conservative Brooklyn Democrat and Orthodox Jew. “This was never about affordability, free buses or anything else. This was always about Jew hatred.” Stefan Jeremiah for New York Post Councilwoman Inna Vernikov (R-Brooklyn) isn't mincing words, calling out "Comrade Zohran" as the ultimate "radical DSA puppet" after poring over these docs.

“It was always obvious that he would carry the will of the most radical among us to the highest seat of power in our city,” she said. “Now we will see what happens when the insane run the asylum.”

Mamdani and his DSA overlords? Crickets on requests for comment. Shocker. New Yorkers, brace yourselves—this is the red-flag circus coming to City Hall.

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Habba: DOJ moved ‘swiftly and decisively’ stopping a ISIS-linked Halloween terror plot targeting Jews

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In the grim annals of our age, where the West's complacency towards its own undoing has become a kind of collective delusion, comes yet another tale of thwarted barbarism, foiled, mercifully, not by some grand awakening of societal resolve, but by the quiet vigilance of those still willing to do the unglamorous work of keeping the wolves from the door. 

The Department of Justice, in a rare display of what might once have been called competence, has dismantled an ISIS-inspired network that stretched like a malignant tumor from the rust-belt suburbs of Detroit to the smug shores of New Jersey. And the target was not some abstract symbol of imperial hubris, but the everyday Jews of a quiet American neighborhood, alongside the usual litany of "infidel" outposts: LGBTQ bars and the like. 

Halloween, that peculiar pagan romp turned corporate confection, was to have been their stage for slaughter.

The plot, as federal prosecutors lay it bare, was a squalid affair of encrypted whispers and adolescent zealotry. It was a "sprawling federal investigation," as the Justice Department termed it, and turned into a cabal of young men who mistook jihad for a video game. At its heart lay the "pumpkin" scheme: a mass shooting scripted for October 31st, code-named with the banality of a child's prank but armed with the lethality of AR-15s, shotguns, handguns, and a stockpile of 1,680 rounds. 

Ayob Asamil Nasser, alongside brothers Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud, stand accused in a 93-page indictment from Michigan's Eastern District of conspiring to funnel material support to the Islamic State. They trained at local ranges, swapped ISIS propaganda like contraband trading cards, and eyed Ferndale's gay haunts and a Jewish community center with the cold calculus of butchers. Raids on that fateful All Hallows' Eve yielded tactical vests, GoPro cameras for their snuff-film fantasies, and magazines from a U-Haul unit that might otherwise have hauled pumpkins.

Across state lines, the tendrils extended to Tomas Jimenez-Guzel, 19, of Montclair, New Jersey, and Saed Mirreh, 19, of Kent, Washington, nabbed this week in a New Jersey indictment that knits their fates to the Michigan cell. Selfies exchanged in their fevered group chats, faces blurred in a nod to operational hygiene, show Jimenez-Guzel beneath an ISIS flag and Mirreh in jihadi drag, as if auditioning for a caliphate cosplay. 

They face charges of conspiring to aid a foreign terrorist outfit, with Jimenez-Guzel additionally tagged for attempting flight: arrested at Newark Liberty International as he angled for Turkey en route to Syria's meat grinder. Court papers, cited by the Associated Press, note how their travel frenzy accelerated post the Michigan busts, "picked up speed," as if this were a mere change in itinerary rather than a sprint from the law.

U.S. Attorney Alina Habba, presiding over the New Jersey front, cut through the fog with a statement that, in saner times, would scarcely merit remark. The defendants, she said, "had pledged themselves to ISIS" and were in "frequent communication with the Michigan cell." On Friday, she added: "We will continue to move swiftly and decisively whenever terrorism or hate threatens our communities. The threat of terrorism is real when Americans are threatened. We respond fast, focused and together." 

Words that land like a slap to the multicultural pieties that have long insisted such threats are but phantasms of Islamophobia. In Detroit, her counterpart Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. vowed persistence: "We will not stop. We will follow the tentacles where they lead." And FBI Special Agent Jennifer Runyan echoed the resolve: her team will "continue to investigate, arrest and disrupt all attempts or plots to do harm … to defend the homeland." Habba hailed the cross-jurisdictional tango as "a model of coordination against extremist threats."

The digital spoor of their conspiracy unfurls in the annals of a WhatsApp group dubbed "Muslimeen"—a forum for sharing beheading clips, plotting firearms drills, and syncing the "pumpkin" countdown. Prosecutors see it as one hydra-headed organism: some cells primed for homegrown carnage, others for the foreign lure of the caliphate's corpse. The Michigan trio cools its heels in Detroit custody; Jimenez-Guzel and Mirreh have shuffled through Newark and Seattle courtrooms. Juveniles may lurk under sealed dockets, their youth no shield against the presumptive innocence that cloaks them all—for now. A criminal complaint, after all, is but an allegation; guilt awaits the gavel's fall.

One pauses, amid this inventory of intercepted malice, to ponder the fragility of the veil we have drawn over such realities. These were not grizzled operatives smuggled across porous frontiers, but homegrown recruits, radicalized in the cradle of American liberty, their grievances nursed on the same screens that peddle TikTok dances and flat-earth follies. The Jewish center in suburban Detroit was no accident of selection; it was a deliberate echo of ancient hatreds, repackaged for the hashtag era. And yet, how swiftly the story will fade—eclipsed by the next outrage or apology tour, as our elites tut-tut about root causes that dare not speak their name. The threat endures, not in distant deserts, but in the encrypted chats of the disaffected, where the West's own hesitations furnish the accelerant. Until we confront that truth without flinching, the Habba doctrine—swift, decisive, unapologetic—remains our slender bulwark against the gathering storm.

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BREAKING: Gunman fires at federal agents during Chicago immigration enforcement: manhunt underway

photo: just a normal day in the Windy City

Picture this: A routine immigration sweep in Chicago's Little Village, a neighborhood that's basically a slice of Mexico plunked down in Chicago, turns into a scene straight out of a bad action flick. But instead of heroes, you've got federal agents dodging bullets from some cowardly thug in a black Jeep, followed by a howling mob lobbing paint cans and bricks at law enforcement. 

Authorities are searching for a man who allegedly shot at U.S. Border Patrol agents Saturday during immigration operations in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Border patrol agents were conducting immigration enforcement operations when a man driving a black Jeep fired shots at agents and fled the scene, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).And if that wasn't enough to make you question sanctuary city logic, the aftermath? A group of people threw a paint can and bricks at border patrol vehicles, DHS said. Local affiliate FOX 32 Chicago reported a flash bang was deployed, as crowds surrounded federal agents for multiple blocks. At least one person was detained, according to the outlet.

Crowds threw paint cans, bricks at federal vehicles as chaos ensued. Police are searching for a man they said opened fire at U.S. Border Patrol agents in Chicago on Saturday. (Credit: WFLD)Police officers barricade a street in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. (WFLD)

Enter the virtue-signaling cavalry: City Alderman Michael Rodriguez, of the 22nd Ward, posted a video to Facebook accusing the agents of "causing all sorts of mayhem." "They’re doing things that are unconstitutional, that are illegal," Rodriguez said of the agents doing their jobs and what America voted for. "They are causing fear and mayhem in our communities and that's unacceptable."

Oh, the irony. The guy's out there whining about "fear and mayhem" while his constituents are turning federal vehicles into piñatas, and more bullets fly there than Gaza.

And he wasn't alone in the social media circus. Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez, of the 25th Ward, was also live-streaming the chaos on social media. Sigcho-Lopez appeared to confront immigration agents, stupidly questioning them about why they were in the neighborhood, which is known as a largely Mexican-American community.

The Chicago Police Department (CPD) was called for assistance and cleared the scene. 

The shooter and vehicle remain at large, DHS officials said. "This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of violence and obstruction," DHS wrote in a statement on X. "Over the past two months, we’ve seen an increase in assaults and obstruction targeting federal law enforcement during operations."

Chief Border Patrol agent Gregory Bovino fired back at an X user who said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents "illegally fired tear gas into the street," saying there is "more to come." "Funny, you keep leaving out key facts including several shots fired at agents by a suspect, violent mobs throwing bricks and assaultive subjects," Bovino wrote in a post. "We still managed to apprehend illegal aliens today in Little Village. More to come."

"These confrontations highlight the dangers our agents face daily and the escalating aggression toward law enforcement. The violence must end."

Look, if Chicago's elected clowns like Rodriguez and Sigcho-Lopez spent half as much energy condemning the actual criminals, starting with the guy who turned a Jeep into a drive-by getaway car, instead of shielding sanctuary chaos, maybe we'd have fewer headlines like this. But no, it's easier to blame the badges enforcing the law than the mobs breaking it. 

Wake up, Illinois: This isn't "mayhem" from feds; it's the predictable fallout from years of the open-borders delusion. And as Bovino says, more to come, whether the local Dems and big Gov, Pritzker like it or not.

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IDF on High Alert: Remains of Long-Lost Hostage Hadar Goldin Possibly Heading Home After 11 Years in Hamas Hell

Look, if there's one thing that's defined the grim calculus of Israel's endless tango with Hamas, it's the terrorists' macabre habit of hoarding the dead like bargaining chips in some twisted game of poker. But tonight, after more than a decade of stonewalling and heartbreak, there's a flicker of hope piercing the fog of Gaza's latest excavations. 

The IDF is gearing up to receive the remains of a deceased hostage, fingers crossed, it could be those of Hadar Goldin, the brave 23-year-old lieutenant snuffed out in 2014 during Operation Protective Edge, his body unceremoniously carted off to Hamas's underground trophy case.

Hamas, ever the reliable source of propaganda and torture, crowed to Al Jazeera on Saturday that they'd finally "recovered" Goldin's remains from a dig in Rafah. Yeah, like they searched high and low to find a person they captured and killed as a bargaining chip.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir didn't waste a moment, traveling to the Goldin family home as soon as the reports hit, per KAN. Smart move; in a story this raw, you lead with empathy before the facts start flying.

"The chief of staff reiterated his personal and the IDF's commitment to bringing back Hadar and all the fallen hostages and emphasized the importance of restraint at these sensitive moments, until his arrival and the completion of the necessary checks and verification," the military said. [Hold the cheers, folks, Hamas lies like it's an Olympic sport.]

The IDF's Southern Command, chatting with Walla, laid it out plain: Hamas's backhoe brigade in southern Gaza unearthed seven bodies from the site, and Goldin's might be in the mix. But they're not buying it wholesale. The report can't be verified, and "the source of all the publications is Hamas alone." In other words, treat this like you'd treat a promise from the ayatollahs: Skepticism is your best friend until the DNA says otherwise.

Through it all, the Goldin family, those quiet warriors who've kept the flame alive for 11 excruciating years, clung to cautious optimism. "An entire country is waiting for Hadar to be returned to us," the family said in a statement. "The chief of staff arrived at the end of Shabbat to update us on the tremendous efforts to free the hostages, and we salute everyone involved in this national mission. We are waiting for news of official confirmation that Hadar has returned to Israel. We ask that you remain calm. Until it’s confirmed, it’s not over."

Hadar Goldin is displayed during a protest at Hostage Square, November 8, 2025. (credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/MAARIV)

God, if that doesn't hit you right in the gut. Late last month, whispers from a source confirmed what many suspected: Hamas knew damn well where Goldin was buried but played the stall game, dragging out the agony like it was just another leverage point in their endless war of attrition.

Flash back to August 1, 2014, in the sweltering hell of Rafah. 

Goldin, part of an elite engineering unit, was knee-deep in dismantling one of those infernal terror tunnels when two Hamas goons popped out like jack-in-the-box demons and snatched him. At first, the horror was that he might still be breathing in captivity. Days later, the IDF's gut-wrenching verdict: He was killed in the chaos, his body the prize they dragged back anyway. Sick scumcrumpets.

The Military Rabbinate, sifting through the shards of certainty in an uncertain war, green-lit a funeral anyway, partial remains laid to rest in a ceremony that drew thousands, a nation mourning a son it couldn't fully bury. It's the kind of half-measure that sticks in your craw, a reminder that Hamas doesn't just fight dirty; they fight eternal and extremely dirty.

If these turns out to be Goldin's, it'll be a long-overdue gut punch to the terrorists' strategy of using the dead to bleed Israel dry. But until the lab lights confirm it, we're all just holding our collective breath. One more round in this marathon of memory and resolve. 

Stay tuned, and pray it's him.

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