What has Sean 'Diddy' Combs been convicted of you ask?

The trial of American king of the freak off parties and once mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, who was accused of running a sprawling sex trafficking operation, has ended with two guilty verdicts and an acquittal on three others. The rapper was convicted on two counts of transportation for prostitution of his ex-girlfriend, singer Cassie Ventura, and another woman known as "Jane" who had testified in the trial. He was found not guilty of the most serious charge of racketeering conspiracy, as well as two charges of sex trafficking in relation to Ms Ventura and "Jane".

Sean Combs also known as "The Diddler", 55, had pleaded not guilty and denied all allegations against him. But I mean to quote "Joe Biden" "Come on man!" Here is a breakdown of the charges faced by the rapper and how the jury came to its decision. Racketeering conspiracy, or directing an illegal enterprise under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (Rico), is the formal name for the charge. The law was created to take on mob bosses, but it has since been used in other trials, including for sex trafficking such as in the case against disgraced R&B singer R Kelly. It is also sometimes used against a group of defendants. To me this was the hardest of the charges for the prosecution to prove without more people charged.

The Diddler has also gone by the names Puffy, Puff Daddy, P Diddy, Love, and Brother Love emerged in the hip-hop scene in the 1990s. His early music career success included helping launch the careers of Mary J Blige and Christopher Wallace aka Biggie Smalls, or The Notorious B.I.G. His music label Bad Boy Records became one of the most important labels in rap and expanded to include Faith Evans, Ma$e, 112, Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez. Combs also had a prolific business career outside of music, including a deal with British drinks company Diageo to promote the French vodka brand Cîroc. In 2023, he released his fifth record The Love Album: Off The Grid and earned his first solo nomination at the Grammy awards. He also was named a Global Icon at the MTV Awards.

To convict Combs on this charge, prosecutors had to prove that he used his loyal network of associates to run a criminal enterprise to commit crimes including sex trafficking, kidnapping, drugging and obstruction of justice. In this case, that network would include his employees, who prosecutors argued played a part in setting up the "freak-offs" at the center of the case. These were prolonged sexual encounters at which the prosecution's key witnesses said they were coerced to have sex with male escorts while Combs watched. In a raid on his Los Angeles mansion, police found supplies that they said were intended for use in freak-offs, including drugs and more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil. Combs' acquittal on the most serious charge of racketeering will likely be seen as a big win by his legal team. His lawyers had sought to undermine the allegation by asking witnesses whether Combs' employees ever witnessed the freak-offs. Cassie Ventura, the star witness for the prosecution, said she did not think they were present.

Defence lawyers argued that the case cannot be considered to be racketeering if members of Combs' staff were not knowingly complicit. "Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?" said defence attorney Marc Agnifilo. "Did any witness get on that witness stand and say 'yes, I was part of a racketeering enterprise, I engaged in racketeering'?" Robert Mintz, a criminal defence lawyer and former federal prosecutor, told the BBC that the racketeering charge was always going to be the most challenging one for prosecutors to prove to a jury. To gain a conviction, lawyers needed to prove that Combs established a co-ordinated plan between himself and at least one other person to commit at least two crimes over a span of several years, Mr Mintz said. "It's a very complicated charge, used typically in the past in organized crime prosecution," Mr Mintz said, adding it is unsurprising that this charge gave the jury the most difficulty.

Combs was convicted of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution relating to Ms Ventura and an anonymous victim known as "Jane". In simple terms, it means the jury found Combs guilty of transporting the two women to places where they would participate in sex acts and prostitution. The felony dates back to the Mann Act, which was enacted in 1910.

The Mann Act is a US federal law that was passed to combat human trafficking and sexual exploitation of women. Initially referred to as the "White-Slave Traffic Act", the more than 100-year-old law prohibits the transportation of individuals across state lines for illegal sex acts or prostitution. Both Ms Ventura and "Jane", who had dated the rapper, separately testified about "freak-offs" or "hotel nights". They described these as sexual encounters in which the couple would hire male escorts to have sex with the female partner while Combs watched, at times recording or directing them. In its early days, the Mann Act was used by federal prosecutors as a way to criminalize some forms of consensual activity, including interracial relationships. Combs' lawyers referenced that history in an unsuccessful attempt to get one of the charges against the rapper dismissed, arguing that he was being unfairly persecuted because of his race.

Transportation for purposes of prostitution the charge that Combs was convicted of carries a maximum sentence of 10 years. And Combs was convicted on two counts. After the verdict, his lawyer Marc Agnifilo immediately asked for his client to be released from federal detention until his sentencing hearing, and suggested a $1m bail. But a judge denied that request and said the hip-hop mogul will remain in jail until he is sentenced.

Prosecutor Maurene Comey has said she will push for the full 20 years - a decade for each conviction. "It is clear that the defendant does pose a danger," she said. Combs has been held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, since his arrest on 16 September 2024. Critics describe the prison as overcrowded and understaffed, with a culture of violence. His lawyers argued for his release in 2024, citing the jail’s “horrific” conditions, but a New York federal judge denied the bail request, describing Combs as a “serious flight risk”.

Judge Arun Subramanian proposed 3 October as a sentencing date for Combs, but the defence asked for an expedited schedule. The lawyers will meet again on 8 July to further discuss the schedule. The judge said Combs would get 10 months credit for time served. While the rapper faces a maximum sentence of 10 years on each count, it will be up to the judge to decide the length of time he will ultimately serve.

Separately, Combs faces a number of lawsuits accusing him of rape and assault. Tony Buzbee, a Texas lawyer handling some of these cases, said that more than 100 women and men from across the US had either filed lawsuits against the rap mogul or intended to do so. In December 2023, a woman known in court papers as Jane Doe alleged that she was "gang raped" by Combs and others in 2003, when she was 17. She said she was given "copious amounts of drugs and alcohol" before the attack. Combs's legal team dismissed the flurry of lawsuits as "clear attempts to garner publicity".

Diddy's current legal issues began in late 2023 when he was sued by Ms Ventura, also known as Cassie, for violent abuse and rape. That lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed amount a day after it was filed, with Combs maintaining his innocence. Since then, dozens of other people have filed lawsuits accusing Combs of sexual assault, with accusations dating back to 1991. He denies all the claims. His controversial history with Ms Ventura resurfaced in 2024, when CNN published leaked CCTV footage from 2016 showing Combs kicking his ex-girlfriend as she lay on a hotel hallway floor. He apologised for his behaviour, saying: "I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. I was disgusted then when I did it. I'm disgusted now."

How were the New York jurors selected? Dozens of potential jurors were vetted by the court. The process included potential jurors looking through a long list of places and people that could be mentioned during trial, with names like Kanye West and Kid Cudi. Potential jurors also had to fill out questionnaires that asked whether they had "views about hip hop artists" or "feelings concerning violence, sexual assault". The judge reminded the court several times of the importance of choosing a fair and impartial jury.

Tim Kaine shutdown trying to stop President Trump from using further military force against Iran

So the loser who ran with Hillary Clinton for VP the first time we have a "TIM WALZ" type on the VP ticket.. As both Tim's are idiots who should just retire. These guys are useless but he's some how still a Senator! But Tim Kaine’s (D-VA) tried to stop the war powers of Trump with a resolution, which would have required Congress to debate and vote on whether the president could declare war or strike Iran, was struck down in the upper chamber. The Senate Friday voted down an effort to block President Trump from using further military force against Iran, as Democratic anger festers over the lack of details about the recent strikes on the country's nuclear facilities.

The measure failed in a 47-53 vote, with Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky voting with most Democrats in favor of the resolution, and Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania voting with most Republicans against it. Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia introduced the war powers resolution days before the U.S. bombed three locations central to Iran's nuclear program, seeking to force the president to get congressional authorization before entering the conflict between Israel and Iran. "The events of this week have demonstrated that war is too big to be consigned to the decisions of any one person," Kaine said on the Senate floor ahead of the vote.

Since the measure was introduced, Mr. Trump announced a ceasefire between the adversaries and declared that Iran's nuclear sites were "obliterated" during the 12-day war. On Friday, Mr. Trump said he would "without question" consider bombing Iran again if Tehran was enriching uranium to a level that concerned the U.S. But anger from Democrats, including those who have said that Iran should never be able to obtain a nuclear weapon, has simmered as they say they have been left in the dark about U.S. military actions. It's led some Democrats to question whether the Trump administration is misleading the public about the strikes, especially after an initial classified assessment found that they set back Tehran's nuclear program by a matter of months. Mr. Trump, meanwhile, has said the nuclear program was set back "basically decades."

Top intelligence officials said Wednesday that new intelligence showed the nuclear program had been "severely damaged" and its facilities "destroyed." It would take the Iranians "years" to rebuild the facilities, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth called it "an historically successful attack" in a contentious press briefing Thursday. Classified briefings for the Senate and House were originally scheduled for Tuesday, the same day the initial assessment was leaked. Officials briefed senators on Thursday afternoon and House members on Friday.

A White House official said Tuesday the Senate briefing was postponed because of "evolved circumstances as a result of recent positive developments in the Middle East." After the briefings, some Democrats cast doubt on the administration's characterization of the strikes and questioned assertions regarding how much Iran's nuclear program has been hindered. "I walk away from that briefing still under the belief that we have not obliterated the program," Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, told reporters. "The president was deliberately misleading the public when he said the program was obliterated. It is certain that there is still significant capability, significant equipment that remain."

Rep. Jason Crow, a Colorado Democrat who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, said the information disclosed in the briefing was "massively different than what has been told to Congress over the last year, up until a month ago, about both Iranian capabilities and Iranian intent." Crow said he was "not convinced of that whatsoever" when asked whether Iranian nuclear facilities had been obliterated. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, has railed against a lack of transparency and said earlier this week the administration had not presented Congress with any evidence that Iran posed an imminent threat requiring immediate military action.

But Jeffries did not go as far as supporting a resolution to impeach Mr. Trump over the bombings. He and more than 120 Democrats voted with all Republicans to kill the measure, which was introduced by Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas, on Tuesday. Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, also questioned the timing of the strikes.

"It's pretty clear that there was no imminent threat to the United States," Himes said. "There's always an Iranian threat to the world. But ... I have not seen anything to suggest that the threat from the Iranians was radically different last Saturday than it was two Saturdays ago." Kaine's resolution was one of a handful of similar efforts seeking to curtail further U.S. involvement in Iran, though it's unclear whether any will be successful in a Congress controlled narrowly by Republicans. Some Republicans who were initially supportive of the resolutions, like Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, appear to be backing away from forcing a vote as long as the ceasefire holds and the U.S. does not conduct any further bombings. And House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, called the efforts irrelevant because Iran and Israel agreed to stop the fighting. "It's kind of a moot point now, isn't it?" Johnson said Monday. "It seems rather silly at this point and I hope they'll acknowledge it as such and put it to bed because it has zero chance of passing anyway."

Senate Majority Leader John Thune told The Wall Street Journal this week he believes Mr. Trump acted "perfectly within his authority" by striking Iran. "I don't think there's any question the president has the authority legally and constitutionally to do what he did," the South Dakota Republican said. "There are always questions around these things, but past presidents and both political parties have similarly acted in circumstances where there've been airstrikes at various places around the world where our national security interests dictated it."

The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, and most major military conflicts in recent history have been launched under an authorization for the use of military force passed by Congress. But presidents have periodically acted without explicit permission from lawmakers, including during President Bill Clinton's 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia and President Barack Obama's 2011 airstrikes on Libya, the Congressional Research Service notes. In announcing his support for Kaine's resolution, Paul said Congress was abdicating its constitutional responsibility by allowing a president to act unilaterally and warned that last week's strikes could have unintended consequences. "Despite the tactical success of our strikes, they may end up proving to be a strategic failure.

It is unclear if this intervention will fully curtail Iran's nuclear aspirations, or, in fact, whether the Iranians may well conclude to double down on their efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon," Paul said. Those opposed to the resolution argued that Mr. Trump acted within his constitutional authority and that the measure would constrain the president's ability to respond quickly to a threat. In an interview last week with CBS News' Major Garrett, Kaine acknowledged that his resolution could fail but said he wanted his colleagues to be on the record about U.S. involvement in another war. "Everyone in the Senate should agree that this is a matter of such gravity and importance that we shouldn't allow war to begin without Congress having a debate in full view of the American public and members of the Senate and House having to go on the record about it," he said.

Republicans are calling to revoke Mamdani’s citizenship and deport him

Republicans are calling on President Donald Trump’s administration to revoke Zohran Mamdani’s citizenship and deport him from the country as the likely Democratic nominee for New York City’s next mayor endures a torrent of Islamophobic bigotry. The 33-year-old democratic socialist declared victory in the primary after former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo conceded the race on Tuesday evening. The New York Young Republican Club reacted to the primary results with a “call to action” on X. “The radical Zohran Mamdani cannot be allowed to destroy our beloved city of New York,” the group wrote. The group urged the president to invoke the Red Scare-era Communist Control Act to yank Mamdani’s citizenship and “promptly deport him.”

The club called on White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and Trump border czar Tom Homan to take action. “The time for action is now,” the group wrote. “New York is counting on you.” Following Mamdani’s victory, Miller claimed New York City is the “clearest warning yet of what happens to a society when it fails to control migration.” “The entire Democrat party is lining up behind the diehard socialist who wants to end all immigration enforcement and abolish the prison system entirely,” he added. Republican Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee referred to Mamdani as “little Muhammad” and said he’s “an antisemitic, socialist, communist who will destroy the great City of New York.”

“He needs to be DEPORTED. Which is why I am calling for him to be subject to denaturalization proceedings,” he added. Mamdani, who could become the city’s first Muslim and Indian-American mayor, won one of the first major Democratic primaries since the start of Trump’s second stint in the White House. His platform has largely focused on a growing affordability crisis, with plans for universal childcare, free buses, and a freeze on rent increases in rent-controlled units.

The administration claims Mamdani’s victory is the result of uncontrolled immigration as it pushes a mass deportation agenda. The NYYRC, founded in 1911, is a political and social club for New York Republicans between the ages of 18 and 40. Mamdani, born in Uganda in 1991, moved to New York along with his family at the age of seven in 1998 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen two decades later in 2018. The Communist Control Act was signed into law by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1954 during the Cold War. The legislation outlawed, in theory, the Communist Party in the United States and prohibited communists from attaining certain positions. But it was rarely enforced and faced a litany of legal challenges as a relic of the McCarthyism era.

Mamdani’s victory had some prominent Republicans cheering on the return of Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s Un-American Activities Committee. “New York City is on the verge of electing a socialist for mayor,” Sen. Mike Collins wrote. “Might be time to bring back the committee.” Trump also slammed Mamdani on Truth Social on Wednesday, calling him a “Communist Lunatic.” Incumbent New York Mayor Eric Adams is set to run as an independent in November’s general election after he faced corruption charges, which the Department of Justice subsequently dropped. Adams, who has rejected all allegations of wrongdoing, has faced accusations from Democrats of a quid pro quo with the Trump administration to facilitate its immigration agenda.

The group Republicans for Renewal responded to NYYRC’s “call to action,” saying that “communist radical Zohran Mamdani should be remigrated as soon as possible.” Republican New York councilwoman Vickie Paladini wrote on June 2 that it would be “insane” for voters to elect someone who hasn’t been a citizen for more than 10 years, “much less a radical leftist who actually hates everything about the country and is here specifically to undermine everything we've ever been about. “Deport,” she said.

A spokesperson for the councilwoman subsequently added that she “stands by this statement” and accused the state assemblyman of being eligible for removal from the country “due to his involvement in multiple antisemitic and far-left organizations in college,” according to Newsweek. Mamdani has repeatedly rejected allegations of antisemitism against him and has denounced rising acts of antisemitic abuse. He struck back at Paladino, writing that like nearly 40 percent of New Yorkers, “I wasn’t born in this country.” “I moved here at age 7. It's my home. And I’m proud to be a citizen, which means standing up for our Constitution,” he added. “Councilmember Paladino might consider reading it.”

GE Appliances moves some production from China to Kentucky with $490M investment

Well looks like things are working well in the tariffs area as "GE" Appliances announced a nearly half-billion-dollar project. They said that it will create 800 new jobs and shift production of clothes washers from China to its massive manufacturing complex in Kentucky. The $490 million investment positions the Kentucky home appliances company to rank as the biggest U.S. manufacturer of washing machines, it said. “We are bringing laundry production to our global headquarters in Louisville because manufacturing in the U.S. is fundamental to our ‘zero-distance’ business strategy to make appliances as close as possible to our customers and consumers,” CEO Kevin Nolan said. “This decision is our most recent product re-shoring and aligns with the current economic and policy environment.”

The announcement comes as President Donald Trump attempts to lure factories back to the United States by imposing import taxes tariffs on foreign goods. He has slapped 10% tariffs on imports from most countries and put 30% levies on Chinese goods. GE Appliances says nearly all the steel used in its U.S. manufacturing for its appliances comes from American steelmakers. GE Appliances said the project will move production of a combo washer/dryer and a lineup of front load washers from China to the Bluegrass State. In all, production of more than 15 models of front load washers will shift to the company's sprawling Louisville production complex known as Appliance Park, it said. Once the added production is in place, the total area devoted to clothes care production at the Louisville complex will equal 33 football fields, it said.

Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, who has criticized Trump's tariffs, hailed the company's deepening commitment to the state. “Today's announcement brings more appliance manufacturing back to the United States and solidifies Kentucky and Louisville as the global headquarters of GE Appliances,” the governor said. The redesigned factory will become its most advanced manufacturing plant for clothes washing production, the company said, featuring the latest in automation, robotics and material-handling technologies including automated guided vehicles and autonomous mobile robots.

The new manufacturing lines will open in 2027, the company said. Next door at the complex's Building 1, the company produces top load washers and front load dryers. GE Appliances handles product design and engineering work at its Louisville headquarters but lacks overall production capacity to make all of its products at its U.S. plants. So it contracts with other manufacturers, including in China, for some of its production. The company said its core business strategy is to base production in the United States, and the investment announced Thursday is another step toward achieving that goal.

“Manufacturing in Louisville puts production closer to our designers, engineers and consumers so that together we can create our most innovative laundry platforms,” said Lee Lagomarcino, vice president of clothes care at GE Appliances. The $490 million infusion into Appliance Park is the latest round of investments in recent years as part of the company’s growth strategy. It builds on the company's previous investments of $3.5 billion in U.S. manufacturing in the past decade, with more than one-third of the amount going to Appliance Park.

Appliance Park in Louisville employs about 8,000 workers and is home to five plants that produce washers, dryers, dishwashers and refrigerators as well as parts and components. GE Appliances also has manufacturing plants in South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Connecticut.

GE Appliances is a subsidiary of the China-based Haier company. This is also something we should look into as they still have ties to CHINA and it could always be seen as a potential issue. So I'd go a step further I'd make them sell the company to AMERICAN investors before letting them do anymore bussiness in THE USA.

President Trump issues warning to Fraud Squad head AOC after impeachment push

Ok so our President Donald Trump called out the village idiot Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to try impeaching him, and said the democratic socialist should be more focused on keeping hold of her seat instead. Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, had said Trump's ordering of strikes on Iran without congressional approval was grounds for his impeachment. She forgets that well Trump is not the only President to do this but the's an complete fail so she needed to be reminded that "She better start worrying about her own Primary, before she thinks about beating our Great Palestinian Senator, Cryin' Chuck Schumer, whose career is definitely on very thin ice!" Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

"She and her Democrat friends have just hit the Lowest Poll Numbers in Congressional History, so go ahead and try Impeaching me, again, MAKE MY DAY!" Trump told our favorite big booty Latina! And AOC fired back at Trump on X, on Tuesday afternoon saying, "Mr. President, don't take your anger out on me I'm just a silly girl. Take it out on whoever convinced you to betray the American people and our Constitution by illegally bombing Iran and dragging us into war. It only took you 5 months to break almost every promise you made." See this is how these con-women in congress do! They talk trash, lie, and talk bad about TRUMP ALL DAY! The moment that he says anything they're on "Victim" mode and act like he's the badguy. LOL They think we still fall for this con.

But anyway Saturday, the president announced strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan in response to the escalating conflict between Iran and Israel, a U.S. ally. On June 13, Israel struck Tehran, Iran's capital, and other cities to disrupt its nuclear capabilities, and Iran retaliated with strikes of its own, the majority of which were intercepted by Israeli defense systems. Just in the past 24 hours, a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Iran was announced by President Trump, following a 12-day conflict marked by U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites and Iranian missile attacks on Israel and a U.S. base in Qatar. Despite the ceasefire, both nations have accused each other of violations, with continued missile exchanges and airstrikes casting doubt on the truce's stability.

The U.S. House voted decisively Tuesday to halt an attempt to impeach President Trump on a single charge of abuse of power, stemming from his decision to launch military strikes on Iran without prior congressional approval. The unexpected move, initiated by caveman look alike and moron Rep. Al Green of Texas, a Democrat, who is mindless, and looks like he hasn't showered in months! But somehow he sparked minimal debate but revealed divisions within his party which is good as not many even on his side think this will work. While most Democrats sided with Republicans to table the resolution, dozens supported Green's push. The final vote was 344-79.

Democrats have been split on Trump's response since Saturday's strikes. AOC said this weekend's attack was "disastrous," writing on X, that it was "a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers." LOL Yeah "Disastrous" to IRAN Nuke plans! So AOC pipe down please your low IQ is just mind blowing at how you got in that seat you take up... Someone has to answer how much they paid to get you there because it wasn't due to how smart you are. This idiot said on X, "The President's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers. He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment." 

Yeah no it's not AOC and you didn't say a thing when Biden did it or Obama did it. Well you might have still been a Bar Tender and Stripper when Obama did it. But Khanna, along with Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, introduced a bipartisan War Powers Resolution last Tuesday in a bid to curb Trump's ability to escalate tensions with Iran.

Representative Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, also ripped Trump on X, writing that he "struck Iran without any authorization of Congress. We need to immediately return to DC and vote on @RepThomasMassie and my War Powers Resolution to prevent America from being dragged into another endless Middle East war." Massie, a longtime thorn in the president's side, and Trump continue to trade barbs on social media over his use of military action. Senator John Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat, came to Trump's side and wrote on X, "As I've long maintained, this was the correct move by @POTUS. Iran is the world's leading sponsor of terrorism and cannot have nuclear capabilities. I'm grateful for and salute the finest military in the world." 

This is not shocking as John Fetterman has been a strong supporter of Israel amid the ongoing war in Gaza and has recently called for the U.S. to provide the country with weaponry, intelligence and military assistance to strike Iran. What People Are Saying Green said ahead of Tuesday's vote, "I take no delight in what I'm doing. I do this because no one person should have the power to take over 300 million people to walk without consulting with the Congress of the United States of America. I do this because I understand that the Constitution is going to be meaningful or it's going to be meaningless."

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, also criticized Ocasio-Cortez, writing on X on Saturday: "Shut up you pathetic little hypocrite. YOU fully supported our military and IC running the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. And you VOTED to fund the Ukraine war under your President with dementia. You don't get to play anti-war and moral outrage anymore." To which here we say THIS YOU MTG! We needed someone to call AOC that way and House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said Tuesday: "Many respected constitutional experts argue that the War Powers Act is itself unconstitutional. I'm persuaded by that argument. They think it's a violation of the Article 2 powers of the commander in chief. I think that's right."

Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota reposted a video of Johnson's remarks on X, and said, "Imagine being in Congress and arguing against Congressional authority. They're ready to throw away their own war powers just so Trump can bomb whoever he wants with zero oversight. We've truly lost the plot." What we think is someone needs to stick a WMD up her tight asshole. 

This moron can't be deported? Why?

Vance Boelter told the FBI TIM WALZ asked him to k*II Sen. Amy Klobuchar

BOMBSHELL!! HOLY SMOKE FOLKS! This is for sure just broke and my gosh this info has a lot to unpack but it looks like Vance Boelter told the FBI in a written letter that "TIM WALZ" yes now ex VP Candidate! Mr Tampon Timmy himself asked him to MURDER, DEATH, kill Sen. Amy Klobuchar so that Walz could take her seat...

In a twist to the political shootings in Minnesota, a letter allegedly written by Vance Boelter, 57, has surfaced, claiming that Gov. Tim Walz ordered him to ass*ssinate U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar to clear the way for Walz’s Senate ambitions, sources familiar with the document revealed.

The letter is over one-and-a-half pages, and offers a glimpse into Boelter’s mindset following the deadly attacks last week.

According to two individuals who have seen the letter, Boelter, the prime suspect in the murder of state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and the shooting of state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, made claims about being secretly trained by the U.S. military “off the books.” He also alleged that Walz personally instructed him to target Klobuchar and other prominent figures, including a vague reference to U.S. Sen. Tina Smith.

The letter, left in a Buick abandoned near Boelter’s home in Green Isle, Minn., reportedly doubles as a confession to the shootings, federal prosecutors say.

Hennepin County Attorney’s Office spokesperson Daniel Borgertpoepping declined to discuss the letter’s specifics, citing the active investigation.

Sen. Klobuchar, in a statement, described Boelter as “a very dangerous man” and expressed relief that authorities captured him before he could harm others. “This was a terrifying ordeal, and I’m grateful for the bravery of law enforcement,” she said.

The letter’s emergence adds a chilling layer to an already grim case. Boelter, arrested on Sunday after a massive two-day manhunt, faces state and federal charges, including two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder for the attacks on Hortman and Hoffman.

Authorities allege he impersonated a police officer, using a fake police SUV and a realistic uniform to gain access to his victims’ homes.

A list of up to 70 potential targets, including lawmakers was found in his vehicle, raising fears of a broader plot.

Social media has erupted with speculation about the letter, with some influencers pointing out Boelter’s writings link him to Walz.
.Boelter remains in custody, with a federal court appearance scheduled for June 27. The FBI and local law enforcement continue to investigate whether Boelter acted alone or had accomplices.

Florida Panthers WIN STANLEY CUP AGAIN! BACK 2 BACK!

After decades of not smelling the finals, and being sort of looked at as being mismanaged the Florida Panthers have become South Florida's best ran franchise and it's the teams second Stanley Cup win and this is back to back folks. The Panthers have topped the Oilers to win the Stanley Cup for a second straight year.

Florida Panthers win second straight Stanley Cup in a 5-1 romp, led by Sam Reinhart's four goals. Aleksander Barkov accepts the Stanley Cup and that group picture looks fantastic! Now if you don't follow the sport and you're from Florida it shouldn't matter just enjoy the victory and let it be a way to learn the sport, and become a fan as the sport is great, and this is an ownership that cares. Thank you guys for doing what you have done to bring these two finals wins together. 

Yes not just did they win it back to back but both times against the Oilers (Sorry Neroke 5) and how sweet and bizarre it is that a team in Florida can rise up and beat a Canadian team. This isn't the first team to win two champion ships since the 90's as the Florida Marlins did it also before re branding into the Miami Marlins. This took place when the new Stadium build. Long story.

But they did it in 97/03 and not back to back like this and not with this sort of dominance. This team is ready for a possible run as a real Dynasty. 

Over his 28 years and 10 pro teams, A.J. Greer had never seen anything like it. Flash back to Oct. 5, Quebec City: The fourth-line journeyman and one of the latest Florida Panthers reclamation projects assumed the reigning Stanley Cup champions would sleep their way through the final pre-season game. Save the good stuff for later. Hey, that’s what his previous teams would do. “Play some soccer, have a coffee, get on the ice,” Greer recalls.

But, nah, that’s not how these Cats roll. “There were 22 guys working out full workouts before the game. It’s like we didn’t even have a game. Guys were doing power lifting. Lower body, upper body, bike sprints before the game, and I’m thinking to myself: They’re dialed in here,” Greer continues. “It did surprise me at first, and I thought to myself: OK, maybe this will just be a one-month thing, and we might have a drop-off. There was no drop-off. That’s the culture I’m talking about. There’s no drop-off. “They won the Cup, and they were just as hungry this year to win another one.”

Hope they don't break this core up and let them continue to destroy the NHL. So once again congrats to them and the owner for this historic win.

New York City mayoral candidate Brad Lander released after arrest by immigration

More wacky crap from the city that loves to make it's citizens take dirt naps so they could build back with illegals and build a Utopia to Idiocracy the movie. Now in New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was released from federal custody hours after being arrested by officers at immigration court in Manhattan after Brad tried to escort a migrant whom officers were attempting to arrest. His arrest is the latest involving a Democratic politician in an immigration-related incident. 

IN What we now call the FAFO era Brad here well he FO, and for someone who is running in a crowded Democratic mayoral primary set to take place next week, had been monitoring immigration court activity in the past few days, walking alongside migrants as they exited their court appointments in response to reports that the migrants were being taken into custody by federal agents following court appearances.

The arrest was seen in several videos recorded in the courthouse. “Anyone can see from the video that I posed no danger to anyone,” Lander told CNN’s Laura Coates, following his Tuesday release. Lander, an elected government official in New York City for more than a decade walked out of Federal Plaza, where the New York ICE field office is located, nearly four hours after his arrest accompanied by his wife. The state so called Gov. Kathy Hochul, joined a supporters including several of the other mayoral candidates gathered outside the complex as news of his arrest spread.

“I’m gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe with my family,” Lander said to reporters and a crowd of supporters. “I’m grateful to hear that the charges are not being brought, but if they are, I’ve got a lawyer. I don’t have to worry about my due process rights.” Lander’s arrest is the latest example of the national political unrest over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Last month, the Department of Justice charged Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver with assaulting federal law enforcement during a chaotic melee that erupted outside an ICE detention facility in New Jersey. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested but prosecutors dropped a federal trespassing charge.

Following his release, Lander said he wanted to bring attention to the dozens of migrants in New York City who are showing up to court proceedings only to be taken into custody by federal agents after their cases are dismissed. Hochul, who was inside the federal court building while Lander remained in custody initially responded to news of his arrest, calling it “bullsh*t.” “We’re a far better country than what we’re experiencing,” Hochul told reporters. “This is New York. This is New York, land of immigrants. We’re proud of them.”

In the lead up to his arrest, multiple videos show Lander standing next to a man locking arms with him as officers approached. After the officers asked Lander to step aside to arrest the man a scuffle broke out between the officers, Lander and other bystanders who tried to block the arrest. “You don’t have a judicial warrant,” Lander can be heard saying to the officers. The videos show Lander holding on to the man as officers struggled and ultimately moved in to arrest him. At one point, an officer puts his arm up to Lander’s neck, shoving him against a wall and placing him in handcuffs. 

“While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE,” Dora Pekec, Lander’s campaign spokesperson, said in a statement. As he was placed in handcuffs, Lander could be heard telling federal officers: “You don’t have the authority to arrest US citizens, I’m not obstructing. I’m standing right here in the hallway. I asked to see the judicial warrant.”

A spokesperson for the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York said they are investigating. “The safety and security of official proceedings, government officials, law enforcement officers, and all members of the public who participate in them is a core focus of our Office. The Department of Justice will prosecute violations of federal law.” Federal law prohibits assaults on law enforcement and other public officials, destruction of property and obstruction of official proceedings, the spokesperson added. When asked whether he was worried about the investigation, Lander said he was much more concerned about the man he attempted to escort out of the building, who he said is now in ICE detention in an unknown state.

State Attorney General Letitia James, an ally of Lander who has endorsed his mayoral campaign, told CNN Tuesday that Lander did not assault any officers and she believes officers are arresting migrants at courts because they are under pressure to meet arrest quotas. “It wasn’t performative,” James said. “He had no intentions of getting arrested. All that he was doing as he has done in the past, was to escort an individual.” But we all know she doesn't lie. Her and her father husband and all were raised by her fatass mother who did a great job with her grand father uncle.

Brad, who said he was not charged with any crime, said he would “let the case play out,” and denied the arrest was an orchestrated stunt in the last days before the election. “I did not come today expecting to be arrested,” Lander said. This story has been updated with additional details. Nobody knew who this dimwit was before and now they due while he's running for city mayor? No you don't think this was a "STUNT" Brad? This totally was one.

Greta Thunberg’s sister goes viral for bizarre vocals! They CRAZY!

Greta Thunberg’s sister goes viral for bizarre vocals while performing at an LGBTQI+ event. Proving that the entire family there is crazy!!! LMAO I mean seriously her name is Beata Thunberg, who goes by the name Beata Mona Lisa, posted a singing video showing off her bizarre voice on Instagram at the same time her sister, Greta, was being detained in Israel.

Now we all have to ask this! What the hell king of drugs were the parents of these two morons on while they had sex and produced these two just incredibly idiotic women? OMG this is incredibly cringe worthy but it's worth the watch for the cringe laugh if nothing more. Keep in mind she's trying to be serious. To them this is not to be seen as a joke... She thinks she will be some sort of singer I guess? She's nuts! This girl would get laughed off anywhere with this bullshit!

Greta Thunberg’s sister goes viral for bizarre vocals while performing at an LGBTQI+ event.

Beata Thunberg, who goes by the name Beata Mona Lisa, posted a singing video showing off her bizarre voice on Instagram at the same time her sister, Greta, was being detained in Israel. pic.twitter.com/4taOuUWXgG

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) June 13, 2025

Though she was born Beata Thunberg, Bea has chosen to step away from the famous surname, adopting her mother’s maiden name instead. With her bold red lace bodysuits and artistic flair, it’s hard to connect her online presence to that of her activist sibling. Bea’s social media rarely hints at any family ties to Greta, showcasing instead her own rising career as a singer, mode and actress.

Though Greta's activism catapulted the family into the international spotlight, it also came at a personal cost for Bea. The younger sibling here was repeatedly targeted because of her sister's fame. “She is 13 years old and she has been subjected to systematic bullying, threats and harassment," Greta once shared with Swedish media. "The people who write threats and hate to me do it to the whole family, even to her."

Diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Bea has nevertheless grown into a confident young artist with over 10,000 followers on Instagram. Greta, who was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, has previously praised "my super talented sister" on social media. IF she has had such a hard time as they say why is she on stage making a complete joke out herself? Someone take her to therapy and never allow her on any stage again please for the love of anything you consider holy and right.

Lue Elizondo comes up with another UFO/Alien HOAX!?

Four unsettling photos just surfaced via a MUFON Director. Here's what's currently known: The topmost black-and-white image, allegedly smuggled from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, was found in a tranche of documents and then sent to Lue Elizondo.

He responded by sharing two more of his signature "unvetted" pics, claiming a strong resemblance. 

The person who originally sent the images to Elizondo came forward, saying these were bought anonymously in an online auction, with six related photos reported in total. This resulted in another image shown right, and information from the back of three photos, one containing important details. It’s labeled: "Alien hybrid child born to 15-year-old girl, subject of ET genetic experiment." and purportedly took place in Mexico City in 1993. 

Rep. Eric Burlison was invited to a gathering, primarily to be shown these by Elizondo in person, but in the wake of his now-infamous 'Chandelier' picture, which was pushed as a mothership, Elizondo is said to have refused to show him upon arriving.

Added to the pictures are selective blur for sensitivity purposes and because the nature of the images is still unknown. Some things do stand out. There are distinct, extreme skin and skull abnormalities, as well as odd proportions, especially the length of the legs. The skull of the 'hybrid' appears similar to the original sent image and to sightings of the being in the 1996 Varginha, Brazil case. 

If we take everything at face value for a brief moment and consider the possibility of them depicting a human, the above-listed differences are not reconciled with explanations of an unborn or even a harlequin child alone. I think it’s also appropriate to infer the size is more akin to that of a newborn. Does this odd exchange show manipulated images being tossed around at the highest levels, rare unique comorbid conditions, or a true hybrid? 

Maybe a sadistic psyop doubling as an attempt to regain notoriety, or is it just another in a long line of attempts to undermine disclosure? It’s anyone’s guess. But given his track record as a hoaxer and known liar this like anything he says cannot be trusted as he's clearly only doing this for FAME, and MONEY.

He doesn't have any actual proof EVER. He folks is everything wrong in the world of ufology. Check out the video I Posted about another blunder by this man. He needs to be exposed.

College students, agitators among 86 arrested at rowdy NYC anti-ICE protest!

So as the cops cuffed 86 demonstrators at a rowdy anti-ICE rally in Lower Manhattan Tuesday, among the morons was the daughter of a Moroccan actor, a self-proclaimed poet from an upscale college and a coed whose family owns a posh home in the Hampton's. “My sense is, the vast majority of the 2,500 people that were there, were there to protest peacefully,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said on Fox 5 News. “There was a smaller group of a few hundred where we did have to make arrests. Some of them were looking for trouble.” The protest in Foley Square against deportation arrests by federal immigration agents began peacefully but grew increasingly violent shortly after 5 p.m., with the mob hurling bottles at cops and throwing traffic cones into traffic, an NYPD spokesperson said.

Of the 86 who were charged, 52 were issued summonses for disorderly conduct and other minor charges, while 34 were arrested and charged with more serious crimes, including felony assault. Among those busted was Vega Gullette, a 19-year-old student at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers who describes herself as “a Moroccan-American writer, artist, and lover of junk.” The teen, who was charged with attempted assault in the second-degree and obstructing government administration, is the daughter of Sean Gullette, an actor, screenwriter and director whose credits include the Darren Aronofsky films “Requiem for a Dream” and “Pi.”

We also know that Sean Gullette had a group of friends show up to her court hearing Wednesday in a show of support, some of whom draped themselves in keffiyehs, which are associated with pro-Palestine political movements. Also among those charged was Rachel Schreiber, 22, of Brooklyn, who is facing resisting arrest, reckless endangerment and attempted assault charges in the melee. She smiled when she saw the large group of friends, some of whom wore masks, who showed up for her hearing in Manhattan criminal court. “So many,” she said to herself while she walked out of the courtroom. Records show her parents own a $3 million home in West Hampton Beach.

“I’m not giving any reaction,” her mother told The Post Wednesday. “I’m not ready to talk about this with the press.” Some of the pinched protesters are no strangers to Big Apple demonstrations. Robert Mills, 40, who was charged with reckless endangerment and issued a disorderly conduct citation in Tuesday’s scuffle, was charged with obstructing governmental administration in April during an anti-Israeli protest in Brooklyn, the Jewish News Syndicate reported. Tabitha Howell, 40 who was cited for disorderly conduct was among those injured when a crazed Queens woman drove into a Manhattan Black Lives matter protest in 2020.

“It’s one thing to face physical recovery,” Howell, who said she suffered five bulging discs in her back and a traumatic brain injury in the incident, told The Post at the time. “It’s another to try to process what happened mentally and emotionally.” Meanwhile, Tisch and Mayor Eric Adams gave assurances this week that the city will not devolve in to chaos like Los Angeles, where ICE agents sparked outbreaks of violence that required the National Guard to step in to try to restore peace.

“Watching what was going on in California, I spent the weekend on the phone with our federal partners in New York City the head of the FBI in New York, federal protective services, homeland security investigations,” Tisch told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe. 

They shouldn’t have trouble making bail... Of course not since this is all being paid for by people in the shadows who like always pay for the deeds of the evil they want to do. This is planned and NOT organic.

David Hogg, the 25-year-old radical booted by the DNC!

David Hogg, the 25-year-old progressive dweeb radical liar who lied about his role in the Parkland shooting few years back, will not compete in the new Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair elections that were decided today after a majority of members voted for a new election.

“I came into this role to play a positive role in creating the change our party needs,” Hogg told the New York Times on Wednesday. “It is clear that there is a fundamental disagreement about the role of a Vice Chair and it’s OK to have disagreements.”

“What isn’t OK is allowing this to remain our focus when there is so much more we need to be focused on,” the 25-year-old Democratic activist continued. “Ultimately, I have decided to not run in this upcoming election so the party can focus on what really matters.” Hogg’s decision to quit the DNC comes on the same day members voted to remove him and Pennsylvania state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta from their national party posts, citing procedural issues related to their February elections.

Hogg would’ve been able to vie for the post again, but opted not to amid intense criticism from some Democrats over his plans to spend $20 million to take down long-serving Dem House lawmakers in primaries. “I don’t think you intended this, but you essentially destroyed any chance I have to show the leadership that I need to,” DNC Chairman Ken Martin recently vented in a call with Hogg and other Dems that was leaked to Politico this week. “So it’s really frustrating.”

“No one knows who the hell I am, right?” Martin, sounding on the verge of tears, went on. Hogg defended his effort to fund primary challenges against incumbent Democrats after announcing his exit from the DNC in a lengthy X thread. “After seeing a serious lack of vision from Democratic leaders, too many of them asleep at the wheel, and Democrats dying in office that have helped to hand Republicans an expanded majority, it became clear that Leaders We Deserve had to start primarying incumbents and directly challenging the culture of seniority politics that brought our party to this place to help get our party into fighting shape again,” Hogg wrote.

“I need to do this work with Leaders We Deserve, and it is going to remain my number one mission to build the strongest party possible,” he added. Hogg went to thank “everyone who has supported me” during his short-lived tenure at the DNC. “I have nothing but admiration and respect for my fellow officers,” he wrote. “Even though we have disagreements, we all are here to build the strongest party possible.”

David argued that the Democratic Party mustn’t be “defined by not being the less bad of two options in voters’ eyes.” “That change can only come through a full embrace of Democracy not only to defeat Republicans but to elect new Democrats to show voters how we are changing and regain their trust by listening to them, doing all we can to give them the best representation possible. Leaders We Deserve exists to do just that.” As the world laughs at his failed time in the DNC now please David go away and stop trying to become famous! You're a joke.

AOC downplays LA riots as mere 'teens' throwing rocks!

AOC "Squad" Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has not just lied many times in the past but now this moron is downplaying the recent riots in Los Angeles, attributing the chaos to unruly teens not violent anarchists and blaming President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown for the unrest. This Fraud Squad lunatic AOC took to the social media platform Bluesky on Tuesday and said Democrats don’t need to "answer for every teen who throws a rock" and that her party was falling into a Republican trap by trying to explain why parts of the sanctuary city had gone up in flames. 

AOC instead blamed President Trump for the chaotic scenes that have resulted in property being burned and rocks and Molotov cocktails thrown at law enforcement as some agitators waved Mexican flags. The ugly scenes that kicked off on Friday prompted Trump to deploy the National Guard and the U.S. Marines. "It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence," Ocasio-Cortez wrote. 

"They are in charge." Rioters have been seen throwing rocks on police cars and at police, while one violent individual was caught on video pelting several moving law enforcement vehicles in Paramount, California, as they drove past him. He was identified as Elpidio Reyna, and an image of Reyna released by U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli clearly shows he is an adult. He is still at large, and the FBI initially offered a $50,000 cash reward for information leading to his arrest. In a second post, Ocasio-Cortez blamed Trump for the unrest, writing that his decision to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) out to apprehend illegal migrants triggered the response in Los Angeles. 

Trump swept to victory in November, promising to carry out the largest deportation effort in U.S. history, and arrested more than 66,000 people and deported approximately 65,000 in the first 100 days of his second presidency. "Everything was fine until Trump decided to unleash violent raids w/o grounds in elementary schools, shopping areas, & peaceful public spaces. ICE then illegally blocked Members of Congress entry into the facilities they are disappearing people into, escalating the situation," Ocasio-Cortez wrote, referring to members of Congress recently turning up at a New Jersey ICE detention center unannounced. 

"Let’s start there," Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Bluesky, a competitor to X. She did not post her comments to X and instead shared the Bluesky posts to her Instagram stories. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday announced that ICE arrested a previously deported illegal immigrant from Mexico after he allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at law enforcement amid rioting in Los Angeles on Saturday. He has been charged with attempted murder. Rioters have also set off fireworks at police officers and vehicles, vandalized property with graffiti, looted businesses and smashed windows of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) headquarters. 

California Gov. Gavin Newson and LA Mayor Karen Bass have also tried to pin the blame on Trump. The president and his allies, meanwhile, maintain that he acted boldly and that the situation would have escalated further had he not done so. "If our troops didn’t go into Los Angeles, it would be burning to the ground right now, just like so much of their housing burned to the ground," Trump posted to Truth Social on Wednesday morning. 

"The great people of Los Angeles are very lucky that I made the decision to go in and help! The view once again gas lighting the issue, and lying! They have no issues with the rules until it's TRUMP using them if he does it's HITLER all over again. Gov. Gavin Newscum is being mocked online for an “embarrassing" televised address that experienced several technology meltdowns leaving his speech without sound.

These women are con artists, and should all be fired.

Brian Wilson, co-founder of the Beach Boys, has passed away at 82.

The Beach Boys will always be an iconic group in American pop culture, having seem them live twice in my life in the 90's I can tell you they were awesome. I've been a big fan my whole life as the music they made was just fun and nothing offensive. The way music should be right? Now we have the sane news that the visionary lead whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired "Good Vibrations," "California Girls" and other summertime anthems and made him one of the world's most influential recording artists, has left us, his family said in a statement posted to his website and social media accounts. 

Brian Wilson was 82... "We are heartbroken to announce that our beloved father Brian Wilson has passed away," the family said in Wednesday's statement. "We are at a loss for words right now. Please respect our privacy at this time as our family is grieving. We realize that we are sharing our grief with the world." Details weren't immediately available. Since May 2024, Wilson had been under a court conservatorship to oversee his personal and medical affairs, with Wilson's longtime representatives, publicist Jean Sievers and manager LeeAnn Hard, in charge. 

The eldest and last surviving of three musical brothers Brian played bass, Carl lead guitar and Dennis drums he and his fellow Beach Boys rose in the 1960s from local California band to national hitmakers to international ambassadors of surf and sun. Wilson himself was celebrated for his gifts and pitied for his demons. He was one of rock's great Romantics, a tormented man who in his peak years embarked on an ever-steeper path to aural perfection, the one true sound.

"It is indeed hard to talk about the influence of Brian Wilson just on music because he is a shaper of American myth and American culture," Joe Levy, a contributor to Rolling Stone and Billboard, told CBS News following the news of Wilson's death. "Our popular ideas about California a land of surf and sun many of them come from Beach Boys songs." The Beach Boys rank among the most popular groups of the rock era, with more than 30 singles in the Top 40 and worldwide sales of more than 100 million. The 1966 album "Pet Sounds" was voted No. 2 in a 2003 Rolling Stone list of the best 500 albums, losing out, as Wilson had done before, to the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." 

The Beach Boys, who also featured Wilson cousin Mike Love and childhood friend Al Jardine, were voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. Wilson feuded with Love over songwriting credits, but peers otherwise adored him beyond envy, from Elton John and Bruce Springsteen to Katy Perry and Carole King. The Who's drummer, Keith Moon, fantasized about joining the Beach Boys. Paul McCartney cited "Pet Sounds" as a direct inspiration on the Beatles and the ballad "God Only Knows" as among his favorite songs, often bringing him to tears.

Wilson moved and fascinated fans and musicians long after he stopped having hits. In his later years, Wilson and a devoted entourage of younger musicians performed "Pet Sounds" and his restored opus, "Smile," before worshipful crowds in concert halls. Meanwhile, The Go-Go's, Lindsey Buckingham, Animal Collective and Janelle Monáe were among a wide range of artists who emulated him, whether as a master of crafting pop music or as a pioneer of pulling it apart. The Beach Boys' music was like an ongoing party, with Wilson as host and wallflower. 

He was a tall, shy man, partially deaf (allegedly because of beatings by his father, Murry Wilson), with a sweet, crooked grin, and he rarely touched a surfboard unless a photographer was around. But out of the lifestyle that he observed and such musical influences as Chuck Berry and the Four Freshmen, he conjured a golden soundscape sweet melodies, shining harmonies, vignettes of beaches, cars and girls that resonated across time and climates.

Decades after its first release, a Beach Boys song can still conjure instant summer the wake-up guitar riff that opens "Surfin' USA"; the melting vocals of "Don't Worry Baby"; the chants of "fun, fun, fun" or "good, good, GOOD, good vibrations"; the behind-the-wheel chorus "'Round, 'round, get around, I get around." Beach Boys songs have endured from turntables and transistor radios to boom boxes and iPhones, or any device that could lay on a beach towel or be placed upright in the sand.

The band's innocent appeal survived the group's increasingly troubled backstory, whether Brian's many personal trials, the feuds and lawsuits among band members or the alcoholism of Dennis Wilson, who drowned in 1983. Brian Wilson's ambition raised the Beach Boys beyond the pleasures of their early hits and into a world transcendent, eccentric and destructive. They seemed to live out every fantasy, and many nightmares, of the California myth they helped create. 

Brian Wilson was born June 20, 1942, two days after McCartney. His musical gifts were soon obvious, and as a boy he was playing piano and teaching his brothers to sing harmony. The Beach Boys started as a neighborhood act, rehearsing in Brian's bedroom and in the garage of their house in suburban Hawthorne, California. Surf music, mostly instrumental in its early years, was catching on locally: Dennis Wilson, the group's only real surfer, suggested they cash in. Brian and Love hastily wrote up their first single, "Surfin,'" a minor hit released in 1961.

They wanted to call themselves the Pendletones, in honor of a popular flannel shirt they wore in early publicity photos. But when they first saw the pressings for "Surfin,'" they discovered the record label had tagged them "The Beach Boys." Other decisions were handled by their father, a musician of some frustration who hired himself as manager and holy terror. By mid-decade, Murry Wilson had been displaced and Brian, who had been running the band's recording sessions almost from the start, was in charge, making the Beach Boys the rare group of the time to work without an outside producer. 

Their breakthrough came in early 1963 with "Surfin' USA," so closely modeled on Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen" that Berry successfully sued to get a songwriting credit. It was their first Top 10 hit and a boast to the nation: "If everybody had an ocean / across the USA / then everybody'd be surfin,' / like Cali-for-nye-ay." From 1963-66, they were rarely off the charts, hitting No. 1 with "I Get Around" and "Help Me, Rhonda" and narrowly missing with "California Girls" and "Fun, Fun, Fun." For television appearances, they wore candy-striped shirts and grinned as they mimed their latest hit, with a hot rod or surfboard nearby.

Their music echoed private differences. Wilson often contrasted his own bright falsetto with Love's nasal, deadpan tenor. The extroverted Love was out front on the fast songs, but when it was time for a slow one, Brian took over. "The Warmth of the Sun" was a song of despair and consolation that Wilson alleged to some skepticism he wrote the morning after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. "Don't Worry Baby," a ballad equally intoxicating and heartbreaking, was a leading man's confession of doubt and dependence, an early sign of Brian's crippling anxieties.

Stress and exhaustion led to a breakdown in 1964 and his retirement from touring, his place soon filled by Bruce Johnston, who remained with the group for decades. Wilson was an admirer of Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" productions and emulated him on Beach Boys tracks, adding sleigh bells to "Dance, Dance, Dance" or arranging a mini-theme park of guitar, horns, percussion and organ as the overture to "California Girls." By the mid-1960s, the Beach Boys were being held up as the country's answer to the Beatles, a friendly game embraced by each group, transporting pop music to the level of "art" and leaving Wilson a broken man. 

The Beatles opened with "Rubber Soul," released in late 1965 and their first studio album made without the distractions of movies or touring. It was immediately praised as a major advance, the lyrics far more personal and the music far more subtle and sophisticated than such earlier hits as "She Loves You" and "A Hard Day's Night." Wilson would recall getting high and listening to the record for the first time, promising himself he would not only keep up with the British band, but top them.

Wilson worked for months on what became "Pet Sounds," and months on the single "Good Vibrations." He hired an outside lyricist, Tony Asher, and used various studios, with dozens of musicians and instruments ranging from violins to bongos to the harpsichord. The air seemed to cool on some tracks and the mood turn reflective, autumnal. From "I Know There's an Answer" to "You Still Believe in Me," many of the songs were ballads, reveries, brushstrokes of melody, culminating in the sonic wonders of "Good Vibrations," a psychedelic montage that at times sounded as if recorded in outer space. 

The results were momentous, yet disappointing. "Good Vibrations" was the group's first million-seller and "Pet Sounds," which included the hits "Sloop John B" and "Wouldn't It Be Nice," awed McCartney, John Lennon and Eric Clapton among others. Widely regarded as a new kind of rock LP, it was more suited to headphones than to the radio, a "concept" album in which individual songs built to a unified experience, so elaborately crafted in the studio that "Pet Sounds" couldn't be replicated live with the technology of the time. Wilson was likened not just to the Beatles, but to Mozart and George Gershwin, whose "Rhapsody in Blue" had inspired him since childhood.

But the album didn't chart as highly as previous Beach Boys releases and was treated indifferently by the U.S. record label, Capitol. The Beatles, meanwhile, were absorbing lessons from the Beach Boys and teaching some in return. "Revolver" and "Sgt. Pepper," the Beatles' next two albums, drew upon the Beach Boys' vocal tapestries and melodic bass lines and even upon the animal sounds from the title track of "Pet Sounds." The Beatles' epic "A Day in the Life" reconfirmed the British band as kings of the pop world and "Sgt. Pepper" as the album to beat.

All eyes turned to Wilson and his intended masterpiece a "teenage symphony to God" he called "Smile." It was a whimsical cycle of songs on nature and American folklore written with lyricist Van Dyke Parks. The production bordered on method acting; for a song about fire, Wilson wore a fire helmet in the studio. The other Beach Boys were confused, and strained to work with him. A shaken Wilson delayed "Smile," then canceled it. 

Remnants, including the songs "Heroes and Villains" and "Wind Chimes" were re-recorded and issued in September 1967 on "Smiley Smile," dismissed by Carl Wilson as a "bunt instead of a grand slam." The stripped down "Wild Honey," released three months later, became a critical favorite but didn't restore the band's reputation. The Beach Boys soon descended into an oldies act, out of touch with the radical '60s, and Wilson withdrew into seclusion.

Addicted to drugs and psychologically helpless, sometimes idling in a sandbox he had built in his living room, Wilson didn't fully produce another Beach Boys record for years. Their biggest hit of the 1970s was a greatest hits album, "Endless Summer," that also helped reestablish them as popular concert performers. Although well enough in the 21st century to miraculously finish "Smile" and tour and record again, Wilson had been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and baffled interviewers with brief and disjointed answers. Among the stranger episodes of Wilson's life was his relationship with Dr. Eugene Landy, a psychotherapist accused of holding a Svengali-like power over him. 

A 1991 lawsuit from Wilson's family blocked Landy from Wilson's personal and business affairs. His first marriage, to singer Marilyn Rovell, ended in divorce and he became estranged from daughters Carnie and Wendy, who would help form the pop trio Wilson Phillips. His life stabilized in 1995 with his marriage to Melinda Ledbetter, who gave birth to two more daughters, Daria and Delanie. He also reconciled with Carnie and Wendy and they sang together on the 1997 album "The Wilsons." (Melinda Ledbetter died in 2024.)

In 1992, Brian Wilson eventually won a $10 million out-of-court settlement for lost songwriting royalties. But that victory and his 1991 autobiography, "Wouldn't It Be Nice: My Own Story," set off other lawsuits that tore apart the musical family. Carl Wilson and other relatives believed the book was essentially Landy's version of Brian's life and questioned whether Brian had even read it. Their mother, Audree Wilson, unsuccessfully sued publisher HarperCollins because the book said she passively watched as her husband beat Brian as a child. Love successfully sued Brian Wilson, saying he was unfairly deprived of royalties after contributing lyrics to dozens of songs. He would eventually gain ownership of the band's name. The Beach Boys still released an occasional hit single: "Kokomo," made without Wilson, hit No. 1 in 1988. 

Wilson, meanwhile, released such solo albums as "Brian Wilson" and "Gettin' In Over My Head," with cameos by McCartney and Clapton among others. He also completed a pair of albums for the Walt Disney label a collection of Gershwin songs and music from Disney movies. In 2012, surviving members of the Beach Boys reunited for a 50th anniversary album, which quickly hit the Top 10 before the group again bickered and separated.

Wilson won two competitive Grammys, for the solo instrumental "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" and for "The Smile Sessions" box set. Otherwise, his honors ranged from a Grammy lifetime achievement prize to a tribute at the Kennedy Center to induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

In 2018, he returned to his old high school in Hawthorne and witnessed the literal rewriting of his past: The principal erased an "F" he had been given in music and awarded him an "A." Until the next show in Heaven we all wish him safe passage and will always be rocking out to his music. Losing the greats hurts, and this one is no different.

May he rest in eternal peace catching the waves on the other side. Indeed GOOD VIBRATIONS HAD!

National Guard to fight LA anti-ICE protests! This is CIVIL WAR!

Tom Homan President Donald Trump’s border czar, said he plans to send the National Guard to Los Angeles to combat protests against ICE that began this weekend following immigration raids in the city. “We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize guess what? We are already mobilizing. We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight,” Homan told Fox News. The first thing needed is the arrest of Mayor Bass who spent her time in Africa on tax money while LA burned down remember this folks? Well this Liberal lesbian moron is back at it, and well after this why and how is she still free to cause more harm?

Tom made the comments after Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller railed against the protests, calling them an “insurrection” against the United States. In response to a post on X showing footage of the mass demonstrations, Miller wrote "An insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States.” It comes after tense confrontations between police and demonstrators took place in LA on Friday, in response to operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who arrested at least 44 people on immigration violations, before starting again on Saturday at a Home Depot in the Paramount section of the city.

LA Police Chief Jim McDonnell said the force had not been involved in the ICE operations. “While the LAPD will continue to have a visible presence in all our communities to ensure public safety, we will not assist or participate in any sort of mass deportations nor will the LAPD try to determine an individual's immigration status,” McDonnell wrote in a statement.

However, Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of ICE, said that 44 people had been administratively arrested on Friday and another was arrested for obstruction. In another tweet, Miller wrote: “Siding with invaders over citizens. If we don’t fix this, we don’t have a country.” Federal agents executed search warrants at three locations, including a warehouse in the fashion district of L.A., after a judge found there was probable cause the employer was using fictitious documents for some of its workers, according to representatives for Homeland Security Investigations and the U.S. Attorney’s Office. They also need to come to Miami as it's happening here, and it's being done in places like Walmart, Publix and other areas of employment. 

Advocates for immigrant rights say people were detained Friday by immigration authorities outside Home Depot stores and a doughnut shop. The Los Angeles Times reported that multiple chants of “Fuera ICE” (ICE, get out) could be heard and flash-bang grenades were set off, though it was unclear who had set them off. One protester lit an entire bag of trash on fire and left in the street just half a block away from the immigration agents on Saturday in Paramount, which is about 82 percent Latino.

Shopping carts from Home Depot and recycling bins were scattered across the boulevard by Saturday afternoon. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said the activity by ICE was meant to “sow terror” in the nation’s second-largest city. She was later accused of siding with “chaos and lawlessness over law enforcement” by ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons. “Make no mistake, ICE will continue to enforce our nation’s immigration laws and arrest criminal illegal aliens,” Lyons said in a statement.

Despite no arrests being made by the LAPD, FBI deputy director Dan Bongino posted on X that they were reviewing evidence from the protests to ensure that “perpetrators are brought to justice.” "The Right to assemble and protest does not include a license to attack law enforcement officers, or to impede and obstruct our lawful immigration operations,” Bongino said. The Department of Homeland Security claimed in a statement that “1,000 rioters surrounded a federal law enforcement building and assaulted ICE law enforcement officers, slashed tires, defaced buildings, and taxpayer funded property.” The DHS has not provided evidence at this time to verify that claim. The Independent has requested comment from the DHS. DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin issued a statement in response to the protests criticizing Democrats and complaining that ICE agents are being likened to the Nazi gestapo.

“From comparisons to the modern-day Nazi gestapo to glorifying rioters, the violent rhetoric of these sanctuary politicians is beyond the pale. This violence against ICE must end,” she said. Homan also complained about backlash directed at ICE agents during his interview on Fox News. The border czar, when asked about Democrats who have called for ICE agents to work unmasked, said he was looking into what could be done to stop their criticism... “We’re asking the DOJ to look at these statements and see if there is something we can do,” Homan said. The protests come at a challenging time for the Trump administration’s hardline anti-immigration agenda. At least two deported individuals migrants from Venezuela and Maryland Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was back to his home of citizenship El Salvador have been returned to the U.S. after judicial orders demanded their return.

Why are these Judges all Liberal of course putting themselves in this position of ruling in favor of gang banger of MS-13 who are here breaking our laws! This Judge needs to be investigated. ICE officials and a group of detainees are currently stuck in Djibouti after a judge’s order demanded the deportation of the detainees be halted. The ICE agents have reportedly turned a shipping container into a makeshift jail, and both the agents and detainees are reportedly suffering from complications tied to the air quality in the area. The law needs to be enforced and Judges who cross the line need to be sent to prison. Why has this not happened is the question, and when will it happen?

 

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