Fetterman shared an article on X in which Ocasio–Cortez blasted the Biden administration for providing “unrestrained” military aid to Israel as it combats Hamas and Hezbollah.
“The horrors unfolding in northern Gaza are the result of a completely unrestrained Netanyahu gov, fully armed by the Biden admin while food aid is blocked and patients are bombed in hospitals,” Ocasio–Cortez said.
Fetterman responded in a post of his own, arguing that the only people responsible for the destruction in Gaza were the Hamas terrorists Israel is fighting.
“The tragedy in Gaza is 100% on Hamas. Stop using civilians and hospitals as shields, surrender, and release all remaining hostages—and this ends,” Fetterman said.
Ocasio–Cortez hit back, arguing that she simply cares “about little kids dying” in Gaza.
“I dunno man. … I care about human rights,” she said.
“I care that billions of US tax dollars’ worth of weapons are carrying out unspeakable atrocities,” she continued. “I care enough for us to do better. Hope this bleak dunk attempt gets you whatever it is you’re going for.”
She did not bother to address whether Hamas should release its hostages.
I dunno man. I care about little kids dying. I care about human rights. I care that billions of US tax dollars’ worth of weapons are carrying out unspeakable atrocities.
I care enough for us to do better.
Hope this bleak dunk attempt gets you whatever it is you’re going for. https://t.co/aGSDfSdrUI
Fetterman and Ocasio–Cortez have clashed at least once before, earlier this year, after Fetterman mocked her “catfight” with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., during a committee hearing.
In response, Ocasio-Cortez suggested that Fetterman, once considered to be a fellow progressive member of the fringe Left, was a “bully.”
Fetterman dismissed her insult as “absurd.”
“If everyone on the committee was proud of what they‘ve produced, they are entitled to their opinion,” he explained. “Or if they feel that this is the kind of [behavior] that you want to send to a classroom of 8th grade civics kind of students across America, that’s their choice.”
Gangs have taken control of several of our properties in Aurora, Colorado.
In an attempt to discredit this fact for political purposes and avoid governmental accountability, some have spread false information about our situation. Let’s set the record straight…🧵 pic.twitter.com/Df9XMkwNtX
CBZ Management Shifts, which is based in New York, posted a lengthy thread last week to “set the record straight” on how Tren de Aragua members have been operating in Aurora.
The post came on the same day that former President Donald Trump visited the city, and it directly contradicted false claims from Democrat officials—including Colorado Gov. Jared Polis—and mainstream media outlets like the Associated Press that, ironically, deceptively accused Trump of spreading disinformation while they attempted to downplay the severity of the issue.
The management company said it had acquired the apartment complexes in 2019 and renovated nearly every unit.
“Everything was progressing smoothly: property values were rising, and vacancy rates were dropping,” CBZ said.
This past year, however, TdA gang members “arrived” in the area, along with a rise “in crime and tenant complaints.”
When CBZ took its concerns to the City Council, it found that “none were willing to take meaningful action.”
CBZ revealed the gang members have become increasingly violent. The company shared an image of a company representative who was brutally beaten after being sent to check the apartment buildings.
After some time, we noticed a rise in crime and tenant complaints. The most alarming moment occurred when our local CBZ representative was attacked at the end of 2023.
He had gone to inspect a recently vacated three-bedroom apartment (a rare occurrence for such a large unit)… pic.twitter.com/VkzMwmlixA
“He had gone to inspect a recently vacated three-bedroom apartment (a rare occurrence for such a large unit) only to find a group of men already inside,” CBZ wrote. “When he refused their $500 bribe to overlook the situation, they brutally attacked him.”
The FBI finally became involved and confirmed to CBZ that the people “controlling our buildings were part of the notorious Tren de Aragua gang from Venezuela.”
Shortly after CBZ’s meeting with FBI officials, gang members confronted their on-site manager, “asserting control over all three properties. They offered an ultimatum: share rental income 50/50 or lose the buildings permanently. They also threatened to harm him and his family,” CBZ said.
The company said it was forced to give up the fight and withdraw its management personnel “for safety reasons.”
CBZ went on to blast Democrats and the media for “deny[ing] the reality of the situation” and “sometimes using us as scapegoats.”
(Headline USA) Vice President Kamala Harris defended her “scripted” talking points and ramped up her attacks on “fascist” former President Donald Trump during a wide-ranging interview with radio host Charlamagne tha God this week, CNN reported.
The Democratic nominee joined “The Breakfast Club” host for a live townhall featuring listener questions as new polls show her losing support among key demographics, including black men.
At one point, Charlamagne tha God (né Lenard McKelvey) pointed out that Harris comes across as “very scripted,” repeating the same few one-liners in every answer.
“That would be called discipline,” Harris responded, arguing that “there are certain things that must be repeated to ensure that I have everyone know what I stand for.”
Harris also agreed with the host that voters needed to be warned about Trump “taking us backward.”
McKelvey claimed voters face two choices: The first would “[take] us forward and progress and investing in the American people, investing in their ambitions, dealing with their challenges.” The second choice, represented by Trump, was “fascism,” he argued.
“Why can’t we just say that?” he added.
Harris replied, “Yes, we can say that … He is running full-time on a campaign that is about instilling fear, not about hope, not about optimism, not about the future, but about fear.”
But it seemeds unlikely Harris’s own fearmongering would move the needle in her favor.
Her own senior adviser, David Plouffe, admitted on his “Pod Save America” podcast that Democrats were “nervous” about Harris’s prospects and that they no longer saw an “easy” path to victory for her, the Daily Caller reported.
“I think the freakout is because there were a bunch of polls—I’d say in the last month—that showed a lead for Kamala Harris that was not real,” Plouffe admitted.
Harris is losing to Trump in the betting markets by more than 10 points nationally, according to online betting platform Polymarket.
JUST IN: Donald Trump cracks 58% for the first time against Harris on political betting platform Polymarket.
The surge comes as the left has launched a coordinated smear campaign to make Trump look "unfit" for office.
The campaign told The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that the plan is open to all races.
This shameless walk-back came less than 48 hours after Harris had marketed her plan—including $20,000 taxpayer-funded forgivable loans and the legalization of recreational marijuana—as an initiative specifically for black men.
“When we invest in Black men—their dreams, aspirations, and ambitions—we are stronger,” Harris declared in the agenda’s announcement on X. Since then, Harris and her campaign have repeatedly promoted the plan as a unique “opportunity agenda for Black men.”
My parents met while protesting for civil rights. When I was a child, they would take me to marches in a stroller.
Those were my first memories of seeing people fighting for the freedoms and the promise of America that had long been kept from them.
In remarks to the WSJ, the Harris campaign admitted that the benefits would apply to all Americans, not just black men.
The campaign also conceded the plan’s initial rollout was a publicity stunt aimed at shoring up support from black men ahead of the November election.
A campaign handout claimed that Harris wants “to make Black men feel valued and like they have a government that cares about them and their dreams.”
As reported by WSJ, the Harris team appeared aware that any attempt to create a federal program benefiting one specific racial group would not survive for long.
In 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that race-based initiatives are discriminatory, shutting down affirmative action in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College.
“Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote. “In other words, the student must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual—not on the basis of race.”
Harris’s announcement came just days after former President Barack Obama publicly scolded black men for their lack of support for the vice president, accusing them of harboring sexist views.
Obama, who provided no evidence to back his baffling claims, came under fire from his allies, who called his comments antagonizing and patronizing.
Former President Barack Obama has a “tough talk” at the Black voters for Harris event in East Liberty. He addressed that Black men have not been as enthused about Harris as during his first run, and he sought to encourage them to join Harris’ movement pic.twitter.com/gDFZhsdLxC
(Stephen Horn, This Week in the Triangle) A Wake County middle school’s “inclusive” environment has been cited in denying a class transfer request for a female seventh-grade student feeling unsafe with her male English teacher, who has been photographed at the school in a skirt and reportedly discusses his homosexual “love life” with his students.
“He talks about it to all of us,” says the middle schooler, who will not be identified by name in this report. “He’s been like, ‘There’s a hot guy at my local coffee shop.’”
As reported by the News & Observer, the Wake County school district says the photo is from the school’s Spirit Week last year, which included a “Barbenheimer” theme: “wear pink or black OR dress like you are from the ’40s!”.
The Principal’s Response
After meeting with the student’s parents, Martin Magnet Middle School Principal Marla Mondora responded via letter, denying the request to modify the student’s schedule to remove her from Chu’s classroom, which constitutes one of the school’s four core classes.
In the letter, which was provided by the student’s mother, Mondora wrote that Chu’s skirt was “of appropriate length” and did not feature “inappropriate illustrations, advertisements or messages,” finding that “Mr. Chu’s dress complies with policy and does not distract from the work that is done in the classroom and is in accordance with health and safety standards.”
The letter continues with Mondoroa claiming that she “cannot substantiate that an adversarial relationship has been established” between Chu and the student based on the information provided by the parents, noting that the student’s grade in Chu’s class remains “excellent.”
Finally, the letter responds to a characterization of the parents’ concern that “the perception [they] have of [Chu] does not align with [their] family values,” citing that the school “work[s] to create a learning environment that is inclusive of all students and staff.”
#2 Every student is expected to learn, grow, and succeed while we eliminate the ability to predict achievement based on socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity.
#5 The Board of Education, superintendent, and all staff value a diverse school community that is inviting, respectful, inclusive, flexible, and supportive.
In addition, after being hired as superintendent last year, Robert P. Taylor wasted no time in declaring his commitment to a “laser focus” on equity, including by “eliminat[ing] disproportionate discipline referrals and absences,” regardless of the disproportionality of misbehavior.
School Board Activism
The student’s mother, Jessica Lewis, is vice chair of the Wake County chapter of Moms for Liberty, and has previously addressed the Wake County school board on topics such as sexually-explicit material in the schools, the prioritizing of DEI over academic excellence, and the denial of a medical mask exemption to her son, also a student in the Wake County Public School System. (Lewis’s daughter, the subject of this article, has also previously addressed the board in support of protections against biological males in women’s sports.)
In a recent public comment to the Wake County school board earlier this month, before the principal’s findings, Lewis raised the issue of the photograph: “This past weekend…my daughter’s friend sent her a picture of her ELA teacher dressed in a white frilly skirt standing outside his classroom door,” Lewis said.
The image had been widely disseminated in student groupchats without the Spirit Week context indicated it was anomalous with Chu’s normal work outfit.
“As a teacher in an authority figure there’s a level of professionalism that’s expected; his attire is a major red flag,” Lewis continued, questioning the board: “What message is this sending to students? and why is this being allowed?”
In an interview with This Week in the Triangle, Lewis explained that she had no problem with the teacher’s homosexuality, as long as he was teaching English, but she took issue with the fact that he was “talking non-stop about his personal life.”
“I’m not asking for him to be get fired; I have a simple request of asking the school to move [my daughter] to a different English teacher,” Lewis clarified. “She doesn’t feel safe in his class, they should be able to honor that.”
Lewis further addressed the subject during bi-weekly board meeting on Tuesday at the district’s headquarters in Cary.
The board, however, lashed out at the publicity that the matter had received, including Chu’s photo being shared on the popular Libs of TikTok site, and accused Moms for Liberty of being a “hate group.”
.@WCPSS board member Sam Hershey was "really angry" after seeing how y'all responded to @libsoftiktok sharing a photo of a skirt-wearing male middle school teacher
(Chris Cella Jr., Headline USA) While Disney is facing criticism for destroying treasured movie franchises and beloved heroes, Marvel Comics is also making controversial changes to its heroes.
The latest example is Hawkeye—traditionally depicted as a white, heterosexual male, including the Avengers movies, where he is portrayed by actor Jeremy Renner.
The sharpshooting archer has now been reimagined as a nonbinary, Two-Spirit Native American character named Charli Ramsi.
In the recently released fifth installment of Marvel’s The Ultimates, Charli takes on the Hawkeye mantle after Clint Barton, the original character, steps aside. Ramsi uses they/them pronouns, as confirmed by series writer Deniz Camp.
Camp celebrated the release on social media, stating, “Issue 5 of Ultimates is out today! First appearance of our Hawkeye; we worked hard to make them cool, different, and yet undeniably ‘Hawkeye.’”
Issue 5 of Ultimates is out today! First appearance of our Hawkeye; we worked hard to make them cool, different, and yet undeniably "Hawkeye".
He later clarified that while Ramsi’s pronouns are they/them, he didn’t want to draw too much attention to it, adding, “I don’t think Charli would make a big deal out of it in that context. But we’ll make this explicit when it’s natural to the narrative.”
On the big screen, Marvel Studios has struggled to replicate the success of previous hits like Avengers: Endgame, with many of its recent high-budget projects underperforming at the box office as parent-company Disney has increasingly embraced what many call a “woke agenda.”
That includes introducing LGBT characters and storylines in various media marketed toward children.
For instance, Disney’s live-action Star Wars series, The Acolyte, which featured a coven of lesbian witches, faced backlash from fans and was not renewed for a second season.
Additionally, Disney recently released Agatha All Along on Disney+, which also includes a coven of lesbian witches and a gay male witch.
Meanwhile, the Marvel antihero Loki was revealed to be bisexual in the Loki Disney+ series, and the film Eternals introduced a gay character to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2021.
Not to be outdone, the top Marvel Comics rival, DC Comics has also pushed storylines featuring a gay Superman and a transgender superhero named Circuit Breaker.
Meet Jules Jourdain (he/they, aka Circuit Breaker
“Can a new hero channel the inexorable Still Force energy to fend off evil?” – Debuting in DC's Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate #1, out on Valentine's Day 💚🌈✨ pic.twitter.com/p39WMoea1m
The second—and final—Joker movie, which turns the classic Batman villain into an antihero, also reportedly featured the main character as the victim of a gay gang rape, drawing criticism from conservatives who saw the first installment as a social commentary on urban decay in Biden’s America.
Although star Joaquin Phoenix won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal, that couldn’t stop the sequel from bombing at the box-office, with worldwide gross (to date) of around $166 million nowhere close to reaching the movie’s $300 million price tag, Zero Hedge reported.
They made the joker get gay gang raped then killed him.
The assault may have been presaged by, however, by a January 2023 comic book that featured a pregnant Joker.
Some are hopeful that after a string of recent box-office bombs, Disney and Marvel may have gotten the message about consumers’ appetite for socially-conscious content.
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Interview transcripts from the Senate Homeland Security Committee indicate that a “suspicious package” was found outside of the AGR building that Thomas Crooks used as a perch to shoot at Donald Trump on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania.
However, the interview transcripts—which the Homeland Security Committee released last month along with its interim report on the Butler Trump shooting—don’t clearly indicate what the package was, who found it, or where.
Information about the suspicious package was apparently included in records obtained by the committee. Senate investigators questioned multiple Secret Service agents who were at Butler about the matter, but those agents professed ignorance.
According to the transcripts, the Senate committee was asking about a screenshot from an app apparently used by law enforcement.
A suspicious package was seemingly found near the AGR building more than an hour after the July 13 Trump shooting. But no one in the Secret Service knows about it. Add this to the list of unanswered questions pic.twitter.com/LBmiJYTeZE
“In the center of the actual picture it looks like it’s the AGR building—you’re right, it looks like a Google Map—and then there’s a square that says, ‘suspicious package.’ So it looks like there’s kind of an overlay,” a Senate investigator said in an interview with an unnamed Secret Service counter assault team advance agent.
The agent told the Senate committee that he never saw the photo that was presented to him, which he said looked like either Google Maps or Apple Maps.
“This could be some type of system maybe the locals were running or maybe a state agency was running, just to maybe to identify things. I have no idea,” the CAT advance agent said.
The rest of the questioning is heavily redacted, making it unclear what was said about the suspicious package.
In a separate interview with a Secret Service counter sniper, lawmakers again asked about the suspicious package.
“Are you aware of a suspicious package located near the AGR building at 7:31 p.m.?” a Senate investigator asked, to which the sniper responded, “No.”
“Are you aware of any suspicious package on July 13th, located near the AGR building?” the Senate investigator asked again. And again, the sniper said he didn’t know.
The sniper further said he never received a message about the suspicious package. He said he recognized the application used to convey the warning—the app that apparently looks like Google Maps—but that he used a slightly different software that was compatible with his iPhone.
“I’m not sure if the Secret Service exclusively uses iPhones, but I did not receive this image,” he said.
The Senate committee conducted one other interview that touched on the suspicious package—this one with the advance agent for the Secret Service’s Trump security division—but that interview didn’t yield answers, either.
That agent—who was responsible for mitigating explosives and chemical weapons threats—told the committee that he was part of a law enforcement sweep of the AGR building once a remote detonator was found on Crooks’s body. But the agent didn’t indicate that a suspicious package was found at the time of that search, which was immediately after Crooks’s shooting at 6:11 p.m.
“No devices were found inside the building, and we worked with Allegheny County to implement a further plan to find said device, because of the remote, and the best way of going about doing it,” the agent said, adding that they then began sweeping a 100-yard radius around the building.
The same agent said the explosives in Crooks’s car were found around midnight.
The Senate committee interviewed at least nine other agents, but the transcripts don’t show any discussions of the suspicious package.
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.
The Dude, Where’s My Car?actress—known to many as the former Mrs. Ben Affleck—posed a rhetorical question to the audience, exclaiming, “God, is there anything sexier than a man who is like, ‘Men for Kamala’? Woo!”
In the final weeks before the election, Democrats enlisted Garner, hoping her star power would enhance Harris’s appeal—admittedly a low bar to clear. “You are the front lines,” Garner told the crowd, highlighting the importance of their participation.
“I mean, I’m looking at all these beautiful faces, these women and these strong men,” added the 52-year-old actress—who last starred in Netflix’s Christmas-themed Freaky Friday knock-off, Family Switch, opposite sex symbol Ed Helms.
She then confessed her own libidinal inclinations toward the Bolshevik beta-bros in the audience.
This video quickly went viral—but not for the reasons Garner might have hoped. One X user quipped, “[laughing emojis] That girl can act! [laughing emojis] Hollyweird is out of control.”
Um, WtF? Did Jennifer Garner say "is there anything sexier than a man who is like men for Harris?" 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 That girl can act! 😂🤣😂🤣😂 Hollyweird is out of control. 😂🤣😂
Oli London, a British detransition advocate, noted that Garner’s bizarre personal life suggested she wasn’t the best authority to whom insecure males should look for validation of their sex-appeal.
“The Hollywood actress who has a non-binary daughter and a daughter who wears a COVID mask full-time has said: ‘Is there anything sexier than a man who is like, men for Kamala. Woo!’”
Jennifer Garner endorses Kamala Harris.
The Hollywood actress who has a non-binary daughter and a daughter who wears a COVID mask full time has said:
“Is there anything sexier than a man who is like, men for Kamala. Woo!”
However, as with many issues, Harris’s campaign now seems to be desperately trying to flip-flop on its messaging, insisting that its male supporters are the very model of modern masculinity.
Thus far, all of the gimmicks have backfired.
After a Washington Post columnist and others in the leftist press attempted to declare Second Gent Doug Emhoff a “sex symbol” the outlandish claim was roundly ridiculed and widely condemned in light of Emhoff’s problematic history of allegations involving the physical and sexual abuse of subordinates.
He has acknowledged that his first marriage ended after he impregnated the children’s nanny, but he has dismissed other #MeToo allegations from victims as “distractions.”
Facing low polling numbers with male voters across the board, Harris’s campaign has also attempted to run ads depicting quasi-masculine-looking men who seem confident about their selection of Harris.
However, the men in at least one such ad, which ran last week, were later exposed as professional actors.
(Headline USA) The publisher of Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2009 book on criminal justice reform instructed employees this week not to answer questions about whether the book had been plagiarized.
EXCLUSIVE: Kamala Harris plagiarized at least a dozen sections of her criminal-justice book, Smart on Crime, according to a new investigation. The current vice president even lifted material from Wikipedia.
A follow-up analysis by CNN confirmed that Harris and her co-author, Joan Hamilton, failed to properly attribute their content, with some of the passages having been cribbed directly from the dubiously crowd-sourced and notoriously biased Wikipedia.
A New York Times analysis similarly found that Harris’s book “appeared to have been taken partly from other published work without quotation marks.”
In a memo obtained by Rufo, Lauren Hoffman, Chronicle Books executive director of marketing and publicity, instructed employees to direct all inquiries about the plagiarism allegations to her, arguing the accusations were “very sensitive.”
“Please do not respond or comment on any inquiries regarding SMART ON CRIME, and please continue to forward them directly to me,” the email said.
BREAKING: Kamala Harris's publisher, Chronicle Books, is in damage control mode. The company accidentally sent my team an internal communication indicating that VP Lauren Hoffman is requiring that all inquiries about Harris's plagiarism go through the higher ups. pic.twitter.com/seiF3bu0R2
It was clear that Chronicle Books was “in damage control mode,” Rufo noted in a post on X.
“They know Kamala lied. They know that we know Kamala lied,” he continued. “In America, plagiarism has become a moral pillar of the regime—and they will slander anyone who notices.”
Rufo went on to argue that Chronicle Books, as well as Harris, “should retract the plagiarized passages and issue a correction,” as the publisher would, presumably, with any other author under similar circumstances.
Harris’s campaign dismissed the plagiarism allegations, arguing Harris “clearly cited sources and statistics in footnotes and endnotes throughout” the book.
“Rightwing operatives are getting desperate as they see the bipartisan coalition of support Vice President Harris is building to win this election, as Trump retreats to a conservative echo chamber refusing to face questions about his lies,” campaign spokesperson James Singer claimed in a statement, without citing any specifics.
(Headline USA) Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she was angry with many of her fellow top Democrats for not being more vocal about the need for President Joe Biden to leave the 2024 race, according to a new book being released this month.
Pelosi was the key figure in coercing Biden to drop his reelection bid this summer after his disastrous debate against former President Donald Trump. The two octogenarian lawmakers have reportedly not spoken since then, with their decades-old relationship seemingly fractured for life.
However, Pelosi insisted she was frustrated that her colleagues left the job of bullying Biden out of the race up to her.
“The men were MIA,” one insider told author Jonathan Alter in his new book, American Reckoning: Inside Trump’s Trial—and My Own.
The source added, “She wasn’t happy that the only bloody fingerprints on the knife were hers.”
After Biden’s debate against Trump, Pelosi expected former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton—along with Capitol Hill leadership, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.—to immediately schedule meetings with Biden to advise him to drop out.
But the men were hesitant to broach the subject with Biden, leading Pelosi to take matters into her own hands, Alter said.
She started by speaking to Biden about the state of the race in an “I’m-here-for-you tone, followed by several phone chats,” according to Alter’s book. But as the polls began to worsen for Biden, the former speaker became more aggressive in her efforts “to ease the president of the United States out of power.”
The culmination was a MSNBC Morning Joe interview in which Pelosi issued a thinly veiled threat to Biden that Democrats down-ballot were beginning to worry he would drag them down.
Pelosi confirmed this week that she still has not talked to the lame-duck president since earlier this summer.
“I have the greatest respect for him. I think he’s one of the great consequential presidents of our country,” the former speaker claimed.
“I think his legacy had to be protected,” she continued. “I didn’t see that happening in the course that it was on, [that] the election was on. … But I think he has some unease because we’ve been friends for decades.”
