Federal Funding STOPPED! Why I LOVE This!

OK This makes me very happy to read friends as it's now coming in that all Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be "permanently expelled" or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter. First victim in the wake of this news "Columbia University just had it's funds canceled and it's about $400 Million. 

IF You don't like it here go back to your country. WE Don't need more freeloading American hating dorks here. The Trump administration moved Friday to cancel $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University, citing "the school's continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students."

"Since October 7, Jewish students have faced relentless violence, intimidation, and antisemitic harassment on their campuses only to be ignored by those who are supposed to protect them," Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said. "Universities must comply with all federal anti discrimination laws if they are going to receive federal funding. For too long, Columbia has abandoned that obligation to Jewish students studying on its campus. Today, we demonstrate to Columbia and other universities that we will not tolerate their appalling inaction any longer."

"We are reviewing the announcement from the federal agencies and pledge to work with the federal government to restore Columbia's federal funding. We take Columbia's legal obligations seriously and understand how serious this announcement is and are committed to combating antisemitism and ensuring the safety and well being of our students, faculty, and staff," a Columbia University spokesperson said. Columbia students reacted to the news. "If those are the necessary steps needed to incentivize the school to make a positive step for Jewish students, that's what needs to be done," student Maya Cukieman said.

"Can these students stand up for what they believe in without compromising their future? Not really," student Wesley Epps said. "President Armstrong and the Columbia Board of Trustees must understand that their continued inaction on support for terror and antisemitism on campus have serious consequences. While initial steps have been taken to address these issues, they are broadly insufficient. 

This move by the federal government hurts all of us, including numerous Jewish graduate students and workers at Columbia who are supported by federal funding. We hope that Columbia responds accordingly in order to prevent further cuts," student group Columbia Jewish & Israeli Students said in a statement.

"This move is the latest escalation by the Trump administration to coerce colleges and universities into censoring student speech and advocacy that isn't MAGA-approved, like criticizing Israel or supporting Palestinian rights. It is unconstitutional and unprecedented, but it is entirely consistent with Trump's long-held desire to silence views with which he disagrees and clamp down on protest," 

New York Civil Liberties Union executive director Donna Lieberman said. "Protected political speech should not be a basis of punishment, and Title VI must be applied consistently with the First Amendment. With little regard for the Constitution and case law, it is no surprise that the Trump administration prefers to see what it can get away with."

"Withdrawing millions of dollars in grants, often funding medical research, to essentially punish free speech is unconstitutional, and i think ineffective way to achieve the important goal of stopping antisemitsm," said First Amendment attorney Ian Rosenberg. Earlier this week, President Trump threatened to pull funding from schools that allowed what he called "illegal protests."

"All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests," Mr. Trump posted on social media Tuesday morning. "Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS!"

Mr. Trump's statement on Tuesday came on the heels of the Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. General Services Administration announcing a comprehensive review of Columbia's federal contracts. 

The administration cited potential violations to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Columbia has more than $5 billion in federal grant commitments. "This is only the beginning," said Leo Terrell, head of the DOJ Task Force to Combat Antisemitism. "Cancelling these taxpayer funds is our strongest signal yet that the federal government is not going to be party to an educational institution like Columbia that does not protect Jewish students and staff." Mr. Trump's statement also raised questions about what constitutes an illegal protest.

AL GREEN CENSURED for Outburst at Trump Speech!

Time this moron is removed from all politics as AL Green is one of the worst people on Congress. This guy looks filthy, and acts like how he looks. Like he's been rolling around in cow shit. Now this was bipartisan by both sides of lawmakers who voted to censure Representative Al Green following his outburst during President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress.

A rare rebuke, censuring does not remove a member from office but serves as a formal statement of disapproval with potential political consequences. Green, a Democrat from Texas, was disciplined for shouting at Trump during his speech and was asked to be removed from the chamber by House Speaker Mike Johnson. Green has been a longtime critic of Trump, having filed multiple impeachment resolutions against the president, including one after his outburst. Following the vote, Green defended his actions, saying he "was making it clear to the president that he has no mandate to cut Medicaid." 

Censure is a formal and public reprimand issued by a legislative body to express disapproval of a member's actions. Unlike expulsion, it does not remove the individual from office but serves as a condemnation that can impact their influence and reputation in the House. Green's actions have sparked debate about the boundaries of political protest within Congress, particularly during high-profile addresses by the president. His supporters argue that his protest was justified, while critics including members of his party viewed it as an inappropriate breach of protocol.

Approximately 10 House Democrats voted with several Republicans for Green's reprimand. 

Those who voted in favor included:

1. Ed Case of Hawaii
2. Tom Suozzi of New York
3. Jim Costa of California
4. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington
5. Jared Moskowitz of Florida
6. Ami Bera of California
7. Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania
8. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio
9. Laura Gillen of New York
10. Jim Himes of Connecticut

Some of these representatives hail from swing districts or moderate-leaning constituencies, which went red for Trump in the 2024 election.

Green is not the first lawmaker to disrupt a president during a congressional address. In 2009, Representative Joe Wilson, a South Carolina Republican, shouted "You lie!" at then-President Barack Obama during a speech on health care reform. The House later reprimanded Wilson. More recently, in 2024 and 2023, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, interrupted then-President Joe Biden during his State of the Union address. She did not face formal censure.

Which Other Politicians Have Been Censured?

Historically, only a handful of lawmakers have faced this formal rebuke. One of the most recent cases before Green was Republican Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona, who was censured in 2021 after posting an animated video that depicted violence against Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat.

The move to censure Gosar was supported mainly by Democrats, with only two Republicans voting in favor. In 2023, Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan was censured for her remarks regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict. The resolution accused her of promoting rhetoric that was deemed antisemitic by critics. Another prominent censure occurred in 2010, when Democratic Representative Charles Rangel of New York was censured for 11 ethics violations related to tax evasion and improper use of congressional resources. The House overwhelmingly voted to censure Rangel.

What's Next for Al Green?

Green has vowed to continue speaking out against Trump and his policies. However, the censure could impact his standing within the Democratic Party and among key House committees. Historically, censured lawmakers have faced challenges securing leadership positions and committee assignments. Meanwhile, the broader conversation about decorum in Congress is likely to continue.

This is what life is all about... LOVE.

President Trump Makes a 13-Year-Old Child With Cancer dream come true, and makes him an Honorary Secret Service Agent. And of course the left didn't even bother to give this kid a round of applause. 

This young man is a national hero, and instead of honoring this young treasure and his family who have been through so much the left didn't bother to even show emotions during a moment where most of America were in tears while watching. President Donald Trump turned the nation's attention to Devarjaye "DJ" Daniel, a 13-year-old who aspired to become a police officer but was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2018, and made him an honorary member of the U.S. Secret Service.

"Joining us in the gallery tonight is a young man who truly loves our police," Trump said after praising America's law enforcement officers. “The doctors gave him five months at most to live. That was more than six years ago," the president continued. "Since that time, DJ and his dad have been on a quest to make his dream come true.” “And tonight, DJ, we're going to do you the biggest honor of them all. I am asking our new Secret Service director, Sean Curran, to officially make you an agent of the United States.” DJ has been sworn in as an honorary law enforcement officer at police agencies around the country.

DJ reacted with a face of pure shock before his father hoisted him for the crowd to see. DJ proudly raised his new certificate and was met with claps, chants, and cheers.

Disgraced James E. Dennehy ousted from FBI

The shake up at the FBI continue and after the Epstein file showdown this week it was clear to me that this was handled how it was to oust those keeping the information and not working with PAM & KASH and sure enough now we have the first name to drop, and he's the now ex an top agent at the F.B.I. folks. Now the New York field office said in an email Monday that he had been forced out of his job, and so he's done, toast, another swamp creature outed! 

His departure follows clashes with Justice Department officials over Trump administration directives. The veteran agent, James E. Dennehy, was told Friday to retire from his role leading the F.B.I.’s largest field office, delivering another blow to the senior ranks of the bureau. Mr. Dennehy, who had been running the office since September, had angered Trump administration officials by supporting bureau leaders who resisted turning over the names of those who investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Mr. Dennehy had also angered Attorney General Pam Bondi by what she claimed was the New York office’s failure to turn over all the investigative files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the financier charged with sex trafficking who killed himself in prison. Ms. Bondi provided no evidence to back up her assertion. “Late Friday, I was informed that I needed to put my retirement papers in today, which I just did,” Mr. Dennehy wrote Monday in an email to colleagues. “I was not given a reason for this decision. Regardless, I apologize to all of you for not being able to fulfill my commitment to you.” 

Mr. Dennehy’s departure comes after weeks of turmoil at the F.B.I. that saw nearly a dozen executives at headquarters removed unexpectedly, leaving a leadership vacuum and confusion on the seventh floor of the Hoover Building in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Dennehy, who served for seven years as a U.S. Marine officer before joining the bureau in 2002, spent most of his career investigating or supervising counterintelligence cases, which, in essence, involved chasing spies rather than building criminal cases. But FOX Mulder he's not and folks he's one of the bad guys who has been in there doing the work of the wrong people. Before being named to head the agency’s flagship office in New York, he headed its office in Newark for two years. 

But he spent the bulk of his career in New York and at headquarters in Washington, including leading New York’s counterintelligence and cyber division. On Friday, Ms. Bondi said that Mr. Dennehy’s office had deliberately held back information sought by Justice Department headquarters. She wrote in a letter Thursday to the bureau’s new director, Kash Patel, that she had been “repeatedly assured by the F.B.I.” that she had been given a full set of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Mr. Epstein.

Her letter, however, suggested the F.B.I. office in New York had turned over only a small fraction of that paperwork. “When you and I spoke yesterday, you were just as surprised as I was to learn this new information,” her letter to Mr. Patel said. The letter imposed a Feb. 28 deadline for the F.B.I. to “deliver the full and complete Epstein files to my office.” She also ordered “an immediate investigation into why my order to the F.B.I. was not followed.” 

In January, the acting leaders of the F.B.I., Brian Driscoll and Robert Kissane, refused to provide a list of personnel involved in the Jan. 6 cases. Emil Bove, the acting No. 2 in the Justice Department, accused the men of being insubordinate. Ultimately, the F.B.I. turned over the information. In a defiant and eloquent email, Mr. Dennehy came to their defense and urged his staff to “dig in” after the Trump administration targeted officials involved in the investigations into the Jan. 6 attack. He also praised the bureau’s interim leaders for defending its independence.

On Monday, he wrote that among the top qualities he would miss about the bureau was its independence. “We will not bend. We will not falter. We will not sacrifice what is right for anything or anyone,” he wrote.

Trump Admin Pauses Aid to Ukraine

Thank you Mr President! So it looks like there is a pause coming days after a tense exchange between Trump and the Ukrainian president in the Oval Office which has lead to a lot of heated back and forth online. A LOT of Americans feel as I do that should stop feeding them our Money, and Military aid. There comes a time and place where one has to get tough on cases like these if not the war will never end in peace. So when we hear that Impact could be ‘crippling’ so kidding? LMAO But I don't think anyone here is going to lose sleep over it and so President Donald Trump is ordering a pause on shipments of US military aid to Ukraine after his heated and disrespectful action in the Oval Office when he started the argument with President Trump.

The halt in aid, which came after Trump held a series of meetings with top national security officials at the White House, could have dire effect on Ukraine’s war-fighting abilities, officials and analysts said. It will remain in place until Trump determines Zelensky has made a commitment to seeking peace talks, one official said, essentially forcing Ukraine to a negotiating table by threatening further losses on the battlefield. “The president has been clear that he is focused on peace. We need our partners to be committed to that goal as well. We are pausing and reviewing our aid to ensure that it is contributing to a solution,” the White House official said.

After more than a week of open hostility between Washington and Kyiv, Monday’s pause was the most material sign of how far the relationship has deteriorated since Trump took office and refused to keep letting this Ukrainian actor and wannabe President one Zelenskyy take our tax payers for a ride. In recent weeks, Trump has tried to get Russian President Vladimir Putin’s to come to a peaceful end to the war, and we laugh that the left is defending Zelenskyy when saying Trump falsely is claiming Ukraine started the war and accusing Zelensky of being a dictator, but wait he was afterall who said he would not allow Ukraine to have anymore elections and would stay in power. This friends this is a Dictator. He even dresses like Fidel Castro.

Trump based his decision to halt the delivery of military aid in a move that could have real consequences for the balance of the conflict and strengthen Putin’s hand. The pause will apply to all military equipment not yet inside Ukraine, officials said, and amounts to a direct response to what Trump views as Zelensky’s bad behavior last week. Ukraine could likely sustain its current fighting pace for several weeks perhaps until the start of the summer before a US pause would begin to have a major effect, Western officials said in the wake of the decision. The Biden administration rushed shipments of weapons to Ukraine in its waning days, providing the country with large stockpiles of advanced weapons.

It is those sophisticated weapons including the long-range ATACMS missiles that have allowed Ukraine to strike deep into Russian territory, a strategy that could suffer if those weapons remain paused. While European nations may be able to replace US shipments of artillery, supplemented by Ukraine’s own growing defense industry, the most advanced weapons used by Kyiv come from the United States. “The impact is going to be big. I would call it crippling,” said Mark Cancian, a senior adviser with the Center for Strategic and International Studies who has closely followed the war. Cancian estimated that Ukraine would feel the impacts of the pause in aid within two to four months, as aid from European countries helps Kyiv remain in the fight for now. “That’s why they don’t fall off a cliff, but when your supplies get cut in half, eventually that shows up on the front lines,” Cancian said. “Their front lines would continue to buckle and eventually they would break and Ukraine would have to accept an adverse even catastrophic peace settlement.”

But Cancian warned the Trump administration has more forms of aid to Ukraine that can be paused or canceled altogether, including intelligence sharing and the training of Ukrainian forces. “There might be a way out of this, but it’s going to be extremely humiliating for Zelensky,” Cancian said.

According to several officials, Trump and his senior aides are seeking an acknowledgement from Zelensky potentially in the form of a public apology before moving ahead with a deal on Ukraine’s rare earth minerals, which had been close to agreement before Friday’s meeting, or a discussion on continuing foreign aid. The decision to halt the aid was made later on Monday, one person said, and is part of a pressure strategy on Ukraine.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio publicly called for Zelensky to apologize for Friday in an interview on CNN. The halt puts Trump even more clearly at odds with the United States’ traditional European allies like Britain and France, who made clear their support for Zelensky at a summit in London on Sunday. “There is a capability gap that Europe cannot fill alone,” one US official said. A European official called the Trump administration’s decision to pause military aid to Ukraine “petty and wrong.” The official said it will immediately deepen distrust in the US government among the Ukrainian people. The official also predicted it will cause unnecessary civilian casualties, as Ukraine will not be able to defend against Russian air attacks after they run out of air defense missiles.

Since the start of the war, the Biden administration announced 74 separate packages of military aid pulled directly from US inventories, allowing the critical munitions and supplies to flow quickly to Ukraine. The largest of these packages was nearly $3 billion, though most were far smaller. Zelensky has repeatedly thanked the US for the weapons on social media, as well as in calls and meetings with American officials. The pause comes one day after a defense official told CNN that military aid to Ukraine announced by the Biden administration was still flowing. Those shipments included critical munitions such as anti-tank weapons, thousands of artillery rounds, and rockets. Those shipments were expected to continue for several weeks, but the decision from the Trump administration freezes the aid that was en route. “DoD is also providing other capabilities, such as armored vehicles, as soon as required repairs are completed,” the defense official said on Sunday. The US had set up facilities in Poland to repair Western equipment damaged on the battlefield before sending it back to the Ukrainian military.

There are also multiple longer-term contracts between arms manufacturers and the US to send weapons systems and air defense systems to Ukraine. “This is a critical time for Ukraine. And I managed the Ukraine supplemental last year that provided additional help to Ukraine, and I do not think we should be pausing our efforts. It’s the Ukrainians who are shedding blood,” the Maine Republican said. Collins acknowledged that Congress may not be able to do anything to ensure Ukraine continues to receive aid from the US. “A lot of it is linked to the president’s draw down authority,” she noted, pointing to accusations during former President Joe Biden’s term that he had “slow walked” aid. “Unfortunately, we’ve seen this movie before, and I remain convinced that it’s not only in Ukraine’s interest but our interest to back Ukraine because Putin is not going to stop there,” she said.

House Foreign Affairs Chair Republican Rep. Brian Mast told CNN he “knew it was an option” for the Trump administration to pause all US military aid to Ukraine. “I think people can assume that everything is on the table with Ukraine right now,” he said.

Skype gone AFTER May 5th?

For many like myself who depend on Skype for our podcast this will be a bit of a set back but there are other outlets like Telegram so I think while I'll be ok it's just now I need to train people on how to use that instead of Skype. But this is the news that just came out and again this is sad news but these are the times we're in and now it's all about "TEAMS" and so we lose the things we have had and move on to new things as the world keeps evolving so does our tech.

"Skype is closing down. Microsoft, which acquired the messaging and calling app 14 years ago, said it will be retiring it from active duty on May 5 to double down on Teams. Skype users have 10 weeks to decide what they want to do with their account.' Like I said It sucks but we will live. Now they continued with saying "It’s not clear how many people are impacted. The most recent numbers that Microsoft had shared were in 2023, when it said it had more than 36 million users a long way from Skype’s peak of 300 million users."

That went from 300 Million to just 36 Million which is still a lot but it also becomes clear that people have found the system flawed long ago and have begun to move on. Skype while it features A LOT of cool stuff like the RECORDING features and stuff the system is full of bugs and always has been in one way or another. Either way I'm going to be sad to have to move on as it's been what I've used from day 1 when I started my shows some 15 years ago.

The news will come as little surprise to those who have followed Skype in recent years, and in many ways, the writing has been on the wall since 2016, when Microsoft debuted Teams. While Microsoft had launched a specific Skype for Business product in 2015, Teams’ arrival signaled a new direction for Microsoft in the cloud communications space. Many likened Teams to a Slack clone, but the bigger ambition was to build a platform that would give space for collaboration and communication across a wide range of Microsoft and other apps, and that included video and text chatting a direct overlap with Skype. Microsoft then revealed plans to phase out Skype for Business in 2017, concluding those efforts four years later, in 2021. That same year, Microsoft selected Teams as the integrated communications app of choice on Windows 11, relegating Skype to the sidelines. But I wonder if this just means no more updates but the Skype we got now installed on a Windows system and not browser based will still be able to let us use it?

Microsoft is encouraging users to move over to Teams Free. This offers some additional features not available in Skype, such as calendar integrations, but Teams Free lacks other key features that were hallmarks of Skype specifically, phone-call functionality that allowed users to call mobile and landline numbers, as well as receive phone calls with a Skype phone number.

Tiffany Henyard Voted out in Landslide

In some good news Tiffany Henyard HUMILIATED in Defeat! Voters are mad and well the northeastern Illinois politician and self-proclaimed “Super Mayor” was defeated by a landslide in Tuesday's democratic primaries. Tiffany Henyard (D), the scandal-plagued mayor of the village of Dolton, ran against Jason House (D). Henyard lost with 536 votes, while House reeled in 3,896, or 87.91% of the votes Tuesday, according to the Cook County Clerk's Office.

While campaigning to stay in office as Dolton mayor on Tuesday, Henyard reminded residents of the repaved streets, alleys and sidewalks she brought to fruition, as well as a $1.5 million grant for infrastructure and a $3 million grant to rebuild Dolton. Henyard went live on Facebook Tuesday night encouraging residents to vote for her. “We’re almost to the finish line,” she said. “One hour left before we make history once again in the village of Dolton and take this by a landslide.”

According to television station WGN-TV, Henyard said she has accepted the election outcome. “The people have spoken,” Henyard told the station. “God must have a different plan.” Her opponent, House, told CBS Chicago that he is “ecstatic” about the outcome. Seemingly commenting on Henyard’s past behavior, he said “this does not represent Dolton.” 

Let's see how he does but he continued by saying “We had one rogue individual,” he said. “I’m sure Dolton is proud, and we are happy that we are ready to change the narrative.” When asked how he felt about Henyard failing to get 1,000 votes, he said he is proud of the residents of Dolton. “For the last four years, she was taking us in the wrong direction,” House said. “The board saw that … Anybody that goes off in the wrong direction needs to be corrected.”

Gene Hackman & wife Betsy Arakawa dead - RIP

Another sad loss in the world of films but as this is something of a shock even given his age you normally don't see someone known like an actor and his or her life partner die also in a non accident along with the house pet. So finding out that both Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa & dog are dead are deemed 'suspicious' by investigators? Well no duh!? Front door open, pills scattered, no obvious indication of gas leak, police say as the bodies of the two-time Oscar winner and his classical pianist wife were found on Feb. 26.

The deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife of over 30 years, Betsy Arakawa, are “suspicious,” according to investigators, but there are no obvious signs of foul play? So they both die and not just the bodies of the couple but as well as their dog? (no witness left behind even the dog!? Holy shit!) Wait what? The couple and the Dog were discovered in their Hyde Park, N.M., home on Wednesday at approximately 1:45 p.m., the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to Yahoo Entertainment. 

While “foul play is not currently suspected as a factor,” the public information officer said early Thursday morning, a search warrant affidavit from a detective on the case detailed the “suspicious” findings at the scene. At a press conference later on Thursday, Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said that while there are no obvious signs of foul play, they’re not ruling it out, according to KOB4 Eyewitness News Albuquerque.

The warrant, obtained by media outlets including ABC News, stated that the deaths of Hackman, 95, and Arakawa, 63, were “suspicious enough in nature to require a thorough search and investigation.” Gene Hackman was supposed to be on the list of the first witness to the Epstein names and ill get more on that in a minute but if this was the case this would lead anyone to think this might be a hit job to keep people from talking. 

Now again let's look at the optics here. The front door of the couple’s home was “unsecured and opened,” according to the warrant. There were two healthy dogs found on the property, one “running loose” outside and another inside by Arakawa’s body, which was located in a bathroom. The deceased dog was in a closet of the bathroom approximately 10 to 15 feet from Arakawa, a classical pianist. 

Nothing makes sense here at all!!!

As several social media users baseless linking of the Oscar-winning actor's death to the release of the infamous Jeffrey Epstein files, far-right commentator Alex Jones busted the theory. The 95-year-old 'Superman' star and his pianist wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead at their New Mexico home along with their dog, the Santa Fe County Sheriff's office confirmed early on Thursday. While officials did not confirm their cause of death, a detective reportedly called their passing as 'suspicious'. 

According to TMZ, the detective wrote in an affidavit that he believed the deaths needed to be thoroughly investigated. The media outlet added that the couple's front door was open and unsecured, and a pill bottle was found near Arakawa’s body.

“As of now, there are no signs or evidence indicating there were any problems associated to the pipes in and around the residence,” the gas company said. But yes again there was an open prescription bottle and “pills scattered” on a counter top near Arakawa, who was found positioned on her side. Near her head, there was also a space heater, which the deputy suspected could have fallen when she did. The body of Hackman, who starred in The French Connection, Superman and Unforgiven, was located in a separate room of the residence, the mud room, the warrant noted. 

It appeared to authorities that he fell suddenly. A pair of sunglasses were at his side. Hackman’s daughter, Elizabeth Jean Hackman, told TMZ that the family suspected carbon monoxide poisoning. However the warrant noted there were “no obvious signs of a gas leak,” and that the front door was open and could have vented out possible fumes.

The warrant said the Santa Fe Fire Department found no signs of a possible carbon monoxide leak nor did the New Mexico Gas Company. A maintenance worker reportedly called authorities after responding to the home and finding the door open, according to the warrant. There was no sign of forced entry nor were their belongings rummaged through. The two maintenance workers authorities spoke with hadn’t heard from Hackman and Arakawa in about two weeks. The bodies of Hackman and Arakawa, who married in 1991, “showed obvious signs of death” the warrant said. 

Her body showed signs of decomposition, including mummification of her hands and feet. Mendoza told the New York Times that there were no signs of trauma to the bodies. There was no note found. The Office of the Medical Investigator will conduct autopsies to determine the causes of death. 

The public information officer told Yahoo that a press release is expected later on Thursday with additional information.

Rest in Peace Michelle Trachtenberg

10/11/1985 - 02/26/2025

WOW This is shocking and sad... Over my life I've become a big fan of comedies and one of my all time favorites is one she was in called 'Euro Trip' which is a very underrated comedy and she is absolutely delightful in it. She is also well known as a child star of 'Harriet the Spy', 'Gossip Girl' and as "Dawn" in the 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer series' respectively. Michelle Trachtenberg has sadly passed away at the age of 39. So young, and a life so troubled as many who grow up in the world of Hollyweird often end up in bad shape once they get older. She was a real talent, and a gorgeous lady.

Don't know exactly what went wrong in her life as I didn't follow her but other than she's now another sad statistic on what happens to young people in the liberal driven world of Hollyweird, and has become yet another tale which I'm sure we will find out more, and more as to what lead to this tragic ending.

The New York Police Department responded to a 911 call around 8 a.m. in Manhattan Wednesday morning. "Upon arrival, officers observed a 39-year-old female unconscious and unresponsive," and emergency medical services subsequently pronounced her deceased, police told NPR in a statement. The woman was identified as Trachtenberg. "Criminality is not suspected. The Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death. The investigation remains ongoing." A former child actress whose earliest credits again as I said earlier included stints on soap opera and crime procedurals, Trachtenberg broke out at age 10 acting as the star of the 1996 movie Harriet the Spy. "Miss Trachtenberg, who makes her screen debut as Harriet, gives a performance that is as endearing as it is devoid of self-conscious cuteness," wrote New York Times critic Stephen Holden in his review. "Her Harriet is high-spirited and stubborn, but never unlikable."

Trachtenberg brought similar buoyant qualities to her role as Dawn Summers, younger sister to Sarah Michelle Gellar's Buffy in Buffy The Vampire Slayer. She joined the hit show in its fifth season, in 2000. In recent years, after cast members accused showrunner Joss Whedon of sexual impropriety and toxic bullying, she posted a statement on social media in support, saying that she had not been allowed to be in a room alone with him. (Whedon told New York Magazine that he had no idea about this rule.)

After Buffy ended in 2003, Trachtenberg worked steadily, with arcs on such television shows as Mercy and Weeds. In the peak Disney princess era, she starred in its 2005 film Ice Princess. But it was on Gossip Girl that Trachtenberg made the greatest impact on popular culture. She joined the CW show in 2008 as the devious Georgina Sparks. She was a fan favorite.

Dan Bongino NEW FBI deputy director

Oh wow this is awesome news friends! Just got word that Ex-Secret Service agent and conservative media personality Dan Bongino has been officially picked as FBI deputy director under Kash Patel. Dan who has penned best-selling books, ran unsuccessfully for office and gained fame as a conservative pundit with TV shows and a popular podcast both on YouTube and later both there and Rumble where he has some ownership in. This was ordered by the man himself President Donald Trump as he announced the appointment Sunday night in a post on his Truth Social platform, praising Bongino as “a man of incredible love and passion for our Country.” He called the announcement “great news for Law Enforcement and American Justice.”

The selection places two staunch Trump allies atop the nation’s premier federal law enforcement agency at a time when Democrats are concerned that the president could seek to target his adversaries. Bongino would serve under Kash Patel, who was sworn in as FBI director at the White House on Friday and who has signaled his intent to reshape the bureau, including by relocating hundreds of employees from its Washington headquarters and placing greater emphasis on the FBI’s traditional crime-fighting duties.

The deputy director serves as the FBI’s second-in-command and is traditionally a career agent responsible for the bureau’s day-to-day law enforcement operations. Bongino, like Patel, has never served in the FBI, raising questions about their experience level when the U.S. is facing escalating national security threats. The two are inheriting an FBI gripped by turmoil as the Justice Department over the past month has forced out a group of senior bureau officials and made a highly unusual demand for the names of thousands of agents who participated in investigations related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Bongino served on the presidential details for then-Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, before becoming a popular right-wing figure. He became one of the leading personalities in the Make America Great Again political movement to spread false information about the 2020 election, which Trump and allies have continued to maintain was marred by widespread false even though such claims have been widely rejected as false by judges and former Trump attorney general William Barr.

For a few years following Rush Limbaugh’s death in 2021, he was chosen for a radio show on the same time slot of the famous commentator. Bongino worked for the New York Police Department for several years in the 1990s before joining the Secret Service. He began doing commentary on Fox News more than a decade ago, and had a Saturday night show with the network from 2021 to 2023. He is now a host of The Dan Bongino Show, one of the most popular podcasts, according to Spotify. Bongino ran for a U.S. Senate seat in Maryland in 2012 and for congressional seats in 2014 and 2016 in Maryland and Florida, after moving in 2015. He lost the three races. During an interview last fall, Bongino asked Trump to commit to forming a commission to reform the Secret Service, calling it a “failed” agency and criticizing it for the two assassination attempts last year.

“That guy should have been nowhere near you,” Bongino said about the man who authorities say camped outside Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, before he was spotted with a rifle. During the same interview, Trump praised the Secret Service agent who saw the rifle’s barrel coming out of a bush. Patel and Bongino will succeed the two acting FBI leaders, Brian Driscoll and Robert Kissane, who have led the bureau since the departure in January of former Director Christopher Wray, who was appointed by Trump in 2017 and held the job for the next seven years before resigning at the end of the Biden administration to make way for his chosen success.

MSNBC Kicks Joy Reid OUT!

Conservatives say 'good riddance' to Joy Reid's MSNBC show as liberals slam network shake-up! LMAO! Her ratings had a lot to do with it as she was just not pulling in ratings and who would want to watch a liar on tv who is not just lying but is clearly a racist, and is unhinged. The thing she did was not journalism. This was a disgraceful idiot on TV for way too long.

Reid’s 7 p.m. ET program will be replaced by a show featuring Symone Sanders-Townsend, a former spokesperson to Vice President Kamala Harris, Alicia Menendez and RNC Chair turned MSNBC host Michael Steele, according to a source familiar with the plans. Former FCC chairman Ajit Pai quipped, "An unfortunate development for Joy Reid's viewer, considering the host's insightful analysis on political topics." Pai included a clip of Reid praising former Vice President Kamala Harris' "flawlessly run campaign," despite losing to Trump.

Actor Michael Rapaport also reacted to the news, with the hashtag, #joyless.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Good, and not cause I wanna see anyone lose a job good because you had an opportunity & pissed it away with short sighted racially weaponized 1/4 truth garbage
And they did it on a SUNDAY morning,
double HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA#joyless #joyreid pic.twitter.com/WGQJThOWUz

— MichaelRapaport (@MichaelRapaport) February 23, 2025

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., shared the news on X, saying, "The ad execs and the board finally figured out that racism, lies, and Trump derangement syndrome will put them out of business."

Good morning!!

MSNBC just canceled Joy Reid’s show.

The ad execs and the board finally figured out that racism, lies, and Trump derangement syndrome will put them out of business.

pic.twitter.com/OUYXRuXBYp

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) February 23, 2025

Joy Reid was one of the most toxic people in the media; good riddance https://t.co/giFFcuTASw

— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) February 23, 2025

Some liberal commentators slammed the network on the social media platform, Bluesky. Keith Olbermann, a former MSNBC host, said the network didn't have a "Joy Reid problem," but rather a "Joe Scarborough problem," pointing to the network's "Morning Joe" co-host. "Until he is fired, MSNBC will not recover. Shuffling tepid shows in and out does nothing," he continued. Olbermann also made the argument that a panel show, which is what will be replacing Reid's program, wouldn't be successful. "Also: panel shows with multiple meh hosts don't work in primetime in cable news. 

They didn't work in 2003, which is about the last time MSNBC tried one - even those executives understood the need for strong solo anchors (though they seldom could identify them)," he wrote. "She's a blunt Black woman, so of course her show is canceled. Not lost on any of us," Wajahat Ali, a liberal commentator and writer, reacted. 

Dean Obeidallah, a radio show host who has written for CNN and MSNBC, also pointed to the "Morning Joe" hosts  specifically their meeting with Trump, which prompted a lot of backlash at the network  in a post on Bluesky. Danielle Moodie, the host of the Daily Beast's "The New Abnormal" podcast, slammed MSNBC for canceling Reid's show, saying "Everytime MSNBC has a "shakeup" the black woman solo led show is ALWAYS the first to go." Others, including NewsNation's Kurt Bardella, praised Reid's career at MSNBC. "The 1st person at MSNBC to give me a regular place on a show was Joy Reid. I would not have a career in cable news without her. She has elevated so many diverse voices and paved a way for so many. Whatever she does next will be equally impact-full," said Bardella.

🕊️ Rest in Peace 🕊️ Voletta Wallace... Notorious BIG MOM...

The mother of Notorious BIG has passed away... RIP to one Ms Voletta Wallace (02/03/1953 - 02/21/2025) and like Tupac Mother Afeni Shakur now both these ladies are gone. They didn't get to live to see full justice in the death of their son but at least Ms Wallace was able to see the law catching up to Sean "Diddy" Combs. 

She can rest knowing that the law will finally put Diddler where he belongs for good.. ON DEATH ROW. And I don't mean the record label. But yeah looks bad for Diddy as he's been denied 50 Million for bail remember. But to be honest this news is still sad as Voletta like Afeni were strong women who had to live with the tragic passing of their kids over hate by demons in the music industry who were directly tied to street gangs which did the dirty work for these monsters in the record industry.

But again sadly now now they all gone but now in Heaven together so may The lord may keep them all in his glory. RIP

This was the official report...

🕊️ We suffered a tremendous loss today. Our mother, our matriarch, the woman who dedicated herself to uplifting her son, Christopher Wallace, and preserving his legacy has passed. It is with immense sadness that we share this news with you, and ask that you give our family the space and time needed to grieve this monumental loss. Thank you for your continued outpouring of love, prayers and condolences in this difficult time.

Please know that we will reach out in the coming days to share how we can all honor Ms. Wallace. 

Thank you for your extraordinary support and love.

Enrique Tarrio Arrested for Self Defense!

BREAKING: Former Proud Boys Chairman Enrique Tarrio Arrested by Capitol Police for Defending Himself During Attack by Screaming Protester in DC AND yes this Looks Like Another Setup! Enrique was outside the US Capitol, and went to take photos outside the US Capitol earlier today after returning to Washington DC after President Trump commuted his sentence. Tarrio was hosting a press conference with several prominent J6ers, including Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, investigative reporter Ivan Raiklin, Joe Biggs, Ethan Nordean, Zachary Rehl, and Dominic Pezzola. These patriots were attacked during their presser by radical left activists. Then, while he was outside the Capitol building, police swooped in and arrested Enrique Tarrio. WTF?

Screaming protesters were allowed next to the Proud Boys and J6ers during their protest. There was only a few of them. They were blowing whistles and screaming. The police allowed one particularly annoying screaming woman to get up into the faces of the J6ers. At one point Enrique Tarrio defended himself from this screaming leftist. Enrique swiped his hand to get this woman out of his face. That is when the police arrested Enrique.

Today at 1pm I will be hosting a Press conference with Stewart Rhodes, Ivan Raiklin (@IvanRaiklin ), Joe Biggs (@RealJoeBiggs), Ethan Nordean (@ENordean63325), Zach Rehl (@zachrehl), and Dom Pezzola.

It goes without saying that we expect attendees and members of the press to be…

— Enrique Tarrio (@NobleOne) February 21, 2025

It appears this entire event was a set-up. If Capitol Police were doing their job they would have removed these radical screaming protesters from the protest area. Instead, they allowed one woman to scream in people’s faces. Then Enrique swiped his hand to get this nutcase out of his face. That was all the police needed to arrest Enrique.

pic.twitter.com/MaKXYYuLqL

— Enrique Tarrio (@NobleOne) February 21, 2025

Enrique Tarrio arrested pic.twitter.com/fHkqPZt3vj

— Joe Biggs (@RealJoeBiggs) February 21, 2025

Protester successfully provoked Enrique Tarrio into grabbing and throwing the phone she put in his face, then taunted him throughout the arrest by DC Capitol Policepic.twitter.com/CbcaMwXk0u

— MAGA M&M (@MAGAmegaMAGA) February 21, 2025

GAME OVER: Pam Bondi has Epstein list

BREAKING NEWS: This is game over friends as Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Jeffrey Epstein client list is "sitting on my desk right now," and she is reviewing JFK and MLK files as well after President Trump's earlier directives. The game is over Hollywood you're all about to be exposed for the pedophiles and sick sexual deviants you are. Pam Bondi said that there are “a lot of documents” related to Jeffrey Epstein that are sitting “on her desk,” waiting to be reviewed.

The next list I want out is them DIDDY files, and videos! I think America deserves everything to be put out in the open... BOTH lists all videos, and pictures put public and let them Hollywood, and Elitists shake and be exposed. Time to destroy the evil and publicly shame them. NO MORE COVER UP!

Trump kicked him out of Mar-A-Lago as I've been saying on my podcast for years due to reports that Jeffery Epstein tried to get frisky with the underage daughter of one of the people who worked at Mar A Lago and this is what caused Trump to break ties with him and he only had known him a short time but never attended his island or was involved with him on anything. Trump learned of Epstein via Ghislaine Maxwell who had known Trump from a family stand point since a lot of Rich people know each other but they didn't party together or anything and she presented Jeffery to Trump over a building Epstein wanted constructed and Trump did not work on the project. 

The next time they met from my reports were when Jeff tried to have his then underage sex slave come with him to meet Trump to get into a Trump owned Miss USA or Miss Teen USA pageants, and he turned her down because she was too young according to her own words Trump NEVER laid a finger on her.

Jeffery then ran into Trump at a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader event hosted by the NFL team and this video is the one circulating for years which was an innocent thing nothing major went down and all them cheerleaders were legal. But anyway the next meeting was when Trump kicked him out of Mar A Lago. After that it was when Jeffery was being investigated and Trump was asked about how he met him and he told the prosecutor at the time what he knew and the Mar A Lago incident. This is what got them to file charges on Epstein... Now it's all coming full circle why these liberals want to take down Trump. Because he helped take Epstein down.

Attorney General Pam Bondi confirms the Epstein client list has arrived and is now sitting on her desk.

She says the files are being reviewed as directed by President Trump, alongside the JFK files.

Should these files be reviewed first or released immediately? pic.twitter.com/QPAA4AIgxQ

— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) February 21, 2025

"It's sitting on my desk right now to review," Bondi told 'America Reports' host John Roberts on Friday. "That's been a directive by President Trump." Bondi also stated she is "reviewing" the JFK and MLK files, which the president signed an executive order to declassify at the start of his second term. Jeffrey Epstein Files: Trump's Election Could Expose Names On 'Black Book' List "That's all in the process of being reviewed, because that was done at the directive of the president from all of these agencies," Bondi said.

When asked if she had "seen anything," Bondi responded, "Not yet." Trump's return to the Oval Office came with the prospect of the public finally being able to see Epstein's long-awaited "black book" amid inquiries into the deceased financier and sex trafficker. Epstein, a 66-year-old millionaire financier with a private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands and mansions around the country, died in federal custody in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Fbi Uncovers Thousands Of Undisclosed Records Connected To Jfk's Assassination

Bondi herself advocated for the release of the Epstein list in 2024, telling Sean Hannity at the time, "It should have come out a long time ago." Shortly after kicking off his second term, Trump signed an executive order to declassify files on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. Jeffrey Epstein Harvard Sweater Jeffrey Epstein, a 66-year-old millionaire financier with a private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands and mansions around the country, died in federal custody in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

 "Everything will be revealed," Trump told reporters as he signed the order in the Oval Office. Trump had previously promised on the campaign trail to declassify the documents upon entering his second term, saying at the time, "When I return to the White House, I will declassify and unseal all JFK assassination-related documents. It’s been 60 years, time for the American people to know the TRUTH!" Trump Signs Order To Declassify Files On Jfk, Rfk And Mlk Assassinations

Earlier this month, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the attorney general reached their deadline to release their proposed plan for the declassification of the JFK files. The FBI announced shortly thereafter that it had uncovered thousands of records connected to the JFK assassination. 

Axios initially reported that the agency had released 2,400 records tied to the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of Kennedy, which were not provided to the board that reviewed and disclosed the files. It was upon DNI's plan submission to release the files that it reportedly disclosed the records' existence.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a dictator

President Trump is 100% RIGHT, Zelenskyy is a dictator. President Donald Trump Wednesday called Volodymyr Zelenskyy “a dictator” after earlier in the day the Ukrainian president accused him of living in a Russian “disinformation bubble,” as a spat between the two spiraled.

Trump's post on Truth Social included a number of inaccuracies Zelenskyy was elected president, for example and followed the administration's attempt to reset relations with Russia by holding high-level talks on ending the war in Ukraine, among other things.

But he became a dictator when he refused to allow elections to happen as he's now been in control since Trump was elected in 2016. This folks is the facts.

Where is all the $350 Billion money we've given to Ukrainians? Flashback: Traitor Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a new security agreement committing the US to financially support Ukraine for the next 10 years. Flashback: Warmonger dictator Volodymyr Zelenskyy Calls for the Creation of an ‘Army of Europe’ at the Munich Security Conference.

President Trump is 100% RIGHT, Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a dictator.

Where is all the $350 Billion money we've given to Ukrainians?

Flashback: Traitor Joe Biden and Zelensky signed a new security agreement committing the US to financially support Ukraine for the next 10 years.

Flashback:… pic.twitter.com/HOyxc8Ut8G

— AJ Huber (@Huberton) February 19, 2025

The exchange comes at a crucial time for Ukraine, which is struggling to lock in Western support to fight Russian invaders who have occupied 20% of the country and regularly bomb its cities and infrastructure. As now that Biden is gone the gravy train is ending and they will not be getting more US-AID from our hard earned taxes.

Trump also called Zelenskyy a “modestly successful comedian” who “talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the U.S. and ‘TRUMP,’ will never be able to settle."

As far as I'm concerned let Russia have Ukraine I could not give a crap... The whole thing was a fake war for money, and both the Biden crime family and Volodymyr Zelenskyy are in on it and on the take, and took in who knows how much into their own pockets. We need to stop feeding these proxy fake wars for the industrial war machine. Oh and Volodymyr Zelenskyy if you're not a Dictator than allow an open and honest election.

Trump is 100% right, Ukrainian Zelensky is a dictator without elections. No more money for Ukraine!

Do you agree? Every single one of American elected politicians who waving foreign flags are traitor!

TREASON! Especially when the Communist Chinese national anthem is playing...… pic.twitter.com/B3XFAtgriK

— AJ Huber (@Huberton) February 19, 2025

“A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left,” Trump wrote. Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday called Zelenskyy 's comments "disgraceful." "He is attacking the only reason this country exists, publicly, right now," Vance said during an interview with The National Pulse. "And it’s disgraceful. And it’s not something that is going to move the President of the United States. In fact, it’s going to have the opposite effect.” Several Republican senators said Wednesday that they disagreed with Trump's comments about Zelensky, but they stopped short of criticizing the president directly. "I don't agree," Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said when asked for her reaction to Trump's comments.

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said that "to the extent that the White House said that Ukraine started the war, I disagree. I think Vladimir Putin started the war.” Zelenskyy said Wednesday afternoon that he had spoken to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who he said is "constructive and doing a lot to help bring peace closer. It’s all-important that security guarantees remain on the table and that they work for Ukraine, for real and lasting peace." The two appeared on the same panel at the Munich Security Conference last week. Zelenskyy, who was a popular actor and comedian before running for president, earlier referred to U.S. support given to Ukraine so far $67 billion in weapons and $31.5 billion. He added that American demands that Ukraine should hand over more than $500 billion in rare earth minerals was “not a serious conversation” and added that he cannot sell his country.

Zelenskyy's pugnacious comments about not wanting “anyone making decisions behind our backs” came in response to Trump saying that Ukraine was responsible for Russia’s invasion. White House national security adviser Mike Waltz said in an interview on Fox News Wednesday that no one should criticize Trump for trying to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict. "What he said yesterday and today is, why hasn’t President Zelenskyy tried to end this war for the betterment of his country? And we have to ask ourselves, is Ukraine’s position improving or not on the battlefield?" he said. Waltz also added that there's been "bizarre push back and escalation of rhetoric" over the Trump administration's proposal to invest in Ukrainian infrastructure and rare minerals.

In Kyiv, meanwhile, ordinary Ukrainians reiterated their support for Zelenskyy, while keeping an anxious eye on the rapprochement between Trump and Putin. “I don’t like Trump’s flirting with Putin,” said 49-year-old Fedir Logvynenko. “I don’t quite understand whether it’s from great intelligence or from complete incompetence.” He added that he agreed with Zelenskyy’s position of refusing to “accept an agreement on Ukraine without Ukraine,” also reserving criticism for Ukraine’s European allies. Yuliya Antonyuk, a 42-year-old real estate agent, meanwhile, said that Ukrainians “couldn’t cope without American weapons and support.”

“I want people to stop dying every day. I want to sleep calmly,” she said, adding that it would be “impossible” to hold presidential elections in the country given the current conditions “as there is shelling all the time.” On Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks in Saudi Arabia, which alarmed and distressed Ukrainians and European allies who said any decision on ending the war had to include them.

Trump said that the U.S. is “successfully negotiating an end to the War with Russia” and that “Zelenskyy probably wants to keep the ‘gravy train’ going.” Trump earlier claimed that Zelenskyy had approval ratings of just 4%, even thought an opinion poll released Wednesday by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology showed that 57% of Ukrainians trust him. “As we are talking about 4%, we have seen this disinformation, we understand it’s coming from Russia,” Zelenskyy told a news conference in Kyiv on Wednesday. Earlier this month, a Pew Research Center poll showed that 47% of Americans approve of Trump’s job performance to some extent.

Zelenskyy added that any attempts to replace him during the war would fail Trump's questions about Ukrainian elections following Putin’s repeated assertions that Zelenskyy is not Ukraine’s legitimate leader contending that the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians would not support concessions to Russia. Trump also wrote that "MILLIONS have unnecessarily died" in the war. It is not known how many have died since Russia and Ukraine do not release casualty numbers, but reliable estimates put the number of those killed at a fraction of 1 million. Trump echoed criticism from Putin, who has ruled Russia for all but four of the past 25 years via elections widely considered illegitimate, but has repeatedly questioned the legitimacy of Zelenskyy’s continuing leadership.

Ukraine last held a presidential election in 2019 and was due to have one last April, but Zelenskyy has said in the past that it is not possible for Ukrainians to go to the polls in wartime and that view is also backed up by the country’s constitution. Speaking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort late Tuesday, Trump said he believed he had the power to end the war in Ukraine, "but today I heard, ‘Oh, well, we weren’t invited.’ Well, you’ve been there for three years.” “You should have never started it," he added. The reaction in Moscow to the broader change in direction of U.S. foreign policy has been more upbeat. Speaking to Russian lawmakers Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov did not directly address Trump's comments but suggested the Kremlin was pleased with the talks. 

The U.S. president is “the first, and so far, apparently, the only Western leader who has publicly and loudly said that one of the root causes of the Ukrainian situation was the brazen path of the previous administration to draw Ukraine into NATO,” Lavrov said. “No Western leader has ever said this." “This is already a signal that he understands our position,” Lavrov added, in a speech that covered the broader second Trump administration rather than the president’s specific remarks Tuesday.

Israelis shot mistaken for Palestinians

So the internet has been erupting over a shooting in my neck of the woods Miami! Boy I love when we make the headlines for dumb shit but this one takes the cake as a local crazy man shot Israelis mistaking them for Palestinians. Yeah folks this is what we are now doing here? Really guys? OK Well check this out the idiot in question arrested is named Mordechai Brafman who is allegedly been accused of shooting victims 17 times because he thought they were ‘Palestinians’, sparking widespread outrage.

This guy was reportedly hunting Palestinians in now in jail folks and this happened in Miami Beach Florida and after mistaking them for Palestinians, Mordechai Brafman, was detained Saturday night and faces two counts of attempted second-degree murder, according to reports. Citing a local Instagram account that posts about Jewish life, the Miami Herald reported that the victims were an Israeli father and son. The attack started a widespread debate online about growing anti-Arab sentiment in the US, which many social media users believe has been fueled by “anti-Palestinian hate and indoctrination” within pro-Israeli communities in the US. One user said, “If a Muslim shot two people in Miami because he thought they were Israelis, it would be called terrorism and there would be wall-to-wall media coverage,” criticizing the lack of coverage of the incident within mainstream news outlets. A man who was reportedly hunting Palestinians was arrested over the weekend for shooting two Israelis on Miami Beach in Florida after mistaking them for Palestinians, sparking widespread outrage online.

Where was Mordechai Brafman radicalised?

Mordechai Brafman, 28, a staunch pro-Israel extremist, fired 17 shots at a father and son in Miami Beach, wounding both. Under the false impression that he had killed them, he reportedly smiled and told police, “I killed two… pic.twitter.com/GsyfoXfDUW

— Conscious Stranger (@aware_wanderer) February 17, 2025

The man, identified as Mordechai Brafman, was detained on Saturday night and faces two counts of attempted second-degree murder, according to reports. Citing a local Instagram account that posts about Jewish life, the Miami Herald reported that the victims were an Israeli father and son. The attack started a widespread debate online about growing anti-Arab sentiment in the US, which many social media users believe has been fueled by “anti-Palestinian hate and indoctrination” within pro-Israeli communities in the US. One user said, “If a Muslim shot two people in Miami because he thought they were Israelis, it would be called terrorism and there would be wall-to-wall media coverage,” criticizing the lack of coverage of the incident within mainstream news outlets.

According to Brafman’s arrest report, he told police in an interview, "While I was driving my truck, I saw two Palestinians and shot and killed both." Neither of the victims were killed, and the police said they were visitors from Israel. One person argued that Brafman acted with such "impunity" in Miami because they already do these types of crimes in the West Bank and Gaza, referring to Israel's continuing onslaught in Gaza and violence by extremist Israeli settlers against Palestinians. Brafman’s words, saying that he "saw Palestinians and killed them", opened up an online debate about the radicalization of anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab sentiment in the US, with many online asking, “Where was he radicalised?” and asking for the US Congress to address the increasing hate against Palestinians and Arabs.

There has been a marked increase in Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian attacks in the US since Israel’s war on Gaza broke out 16 months ago. In October 2023, a six-year-old Palestinian American was fatally stabbed 26 times and his mother seriously wounded in the state of Illinois, in an attack officials say was linked to the Israel-Palestine war and because they identified as Muslim. Two months later, three Palestinian-American students were speaking Arabic and wearing keffiyehs and were en route to dinner when they were shot by a gunman in Burlington, Vermont.

According to Brafman’s arrest report, he told police in an interview, "While I was driving my truck, I saw two Palestinians and shot and killed both." Neither of the victims were killed, and the police said they were visitors from Israel. One person argued that Brafman acted with such "impunity" in Miami because they already do these types of crimes in the West Bank and Gaza, referring to Israel's continuing onslaught in Gaza and violence by extremist Israeli settlers against Palestinians. Brafman’s words, saying that he "saw Palestinians and killed them", opened up an online debate about the radicalisation of anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab sentiment in the US, with many online asking, “Where was he radicalised?” and asking for the US Congress to address the increasing hate against Palestinians and Arabs.

ISRAELI JEWISH MAN SHOOTS 2 ISRAELIS IN MIAMI THINKING THEY WERE PALESTINIANS

Mordechai Brafman, “I killed two Palestinians.”

Notice the term terrorism wasn’t used for him & right-wing accounts have not posted about it. pic.twitter.com/UgwWCzMLxw

— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) February 17, 2025

There has been a marked increase in Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian attacks in the US since Israel’s war on Gaza broke out 16 months ago. In October 2023, a six-year-old Palestinian American was fatally stabbed 26 times and his mother seriously wounded in the state of Illinois, in an attack officials say was linked to the Israel-Palestine war and because they identified as Muslim. Two months later, three Palestinian-American students were speaking Arabic and wearing keffiyehs and were en route to dinner when they were shot by a gunman in Burlington, Vermont. Several social media users shared screenshots from the Facebook account of one of the victims, in which he claimed that the attack against him and his father was an “anti-semitic” one.

Moments after being shot, the Israeli man who was the victim of the shooting took to social media and wrote, “My father and I went through a murder attempt against anti-semitic background.” He finished his social media post with the words, “Death to Arabs.” The victims reportedly told police they were victims of an antisemitic attack, according to accounts on social media. Many expressed their disbelief with the response from the victim because it was widely reported by the media and noted by the police report that the attack was provoked by anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab sentiments. The Times of Israel reported that there was no altercation between Brafman and the two victims before the shooting, which they described as unprovoked. Social media users criticised the way mainstream media reported the incident, saying that the term “terrorism” has not been uttered by anyone.

After the attack, the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) called for federal hate crime charges to be brought against Brafman. "We urge state and federal law enforcement authorities to bring hate crime charges in this case based on the alleged perpetrator’s statements to police that reportedly indicate an anti-Palestinian motive," Cair's Florida communications director, Wilfredo Amr Ruiz, said. According to a 2024 report by Cair, there has been an unprecedented rise in Islamophobic incidents throughout 2023 and 2024, with Cair receiving 8,061 complaints of anti-Muslim discrimination nationwide in 2024 alone. Cair said that compared to 2023, there was a sixty-nine percent increase in these complaints in 2024.