Soros-Funded Prosecutor Won’t Jail Man Who Set Students on Fire

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Soros-Funded Prosecutor Won’t Jail Man Who Set Students on Fire

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) A man reportedly found guilty on various charges in connection with setting several University of California Berkeley students on fire has been spared jail time or even probation.

Instead, a plea deal between the office of a woke, George Soros-funded prosecutor and the public defender is sending the man to a so-called diversion program.

As set forth in a report published late last week in the Berkeley Scanner, a website that chronicles crime in the area, the subject walked into a local tea shop and “sprayed two [students] with WD-40 and used a lighter to ignite the gas, creating a massive fireball, witnesses said. The students managed to pat out the flames and escape injury.”

The website added that “In late April, according to records reviewed by The Berkeley Scanner, Brandon McGlone was convicted of multiple felonies in connection with the boba shop attack as well as felony assault and gun charges from a separate domestic violence case.”

In the September 2020 incident, McGlone was subdued by bystanders until police arrived to take him into custody.

Before officers got there, “according to testimony, McGlone first pulled out a knife and then pulled out a hatchet” when fighting with students, the outlet asserted.

Cops allegedly also found four Molotov cocktails in his possession. Earlier that same day, he allegedly tried to set two other men on fire. McGlone, 49, is a U.S. Air Force veteran.

If he completes the treatment protocol as specified by the county’s Veterans Treatment Court, charges will officially be dismissed.

The plea deal stipulates that if he is unable to complete the treatment program, however, he could face up to eight years behind bars.

According to the tribunal website, “This court accepts veterans with misdemeanors or felonies, pre- or post-plea. Veterans in this program are dealing with PTSD, alcoholism, military sexual trauma and other issues This program helps veterans change their lives and gain legal relief.”

In legal papers, his lawyer in the public defender’s office wrote that “McGlone’s service resulted in PTSD and substance abuse, for which he has sought and participated in treatment.”

McGlone is due in the veteran’s court on June 2 for a status hearing.

Social justice advocate Pamala Price was elected district attorney of California’s Alameda County in November 2022.

Describing her as “a devout progressive acolyte,” the Capital Research Center think tank explained that “Price first ran for Alameda County DA back in 2018 and lost despite nearly $700,000 in support from Soros’s California Justice and Public Safety PAC. During that time, Price’s own PAC raised just $326,000. Price tried again and won in 2022, though it is unclear whether Soros directly aided her the second time around.”

At least two longtime prosecutors have quit Price’s Oakland-based office because of her soft-on-crime policies.

According to the New York Post, “Price emphatically vowed to ‘disrupt’ the office’s prosecutorial conventions and rely on probation for most crimes, including felonies. But a growing number of critics have accused the Yale and U.C. Berkeley Law School graduate of blurring the line between victim and criminal.”

In the court of public opinion, prosecution-averse Democrat Soros D.A.s are deemed responsible for a crime wave in the jurisdictions over which they preside.

Reports: Biden-Backed Neo-Nazis Attack Russia with U.S. Vehicles

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Reports: Biden-Backed Neo-Nazis Attack Russia with U.S. Vehicles

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Financial Times reported Tuesday that neo-Nazi terrorists used U.S. armored vehicles to attack Russia’s Belgorod region on Monday.

Denis Nikitin, leader of the Russian Volunteer Corps—a neo-Nazi militia that, contrary to its name, is anti-Russia—reportedly said his fighters who attacked Belgorod were in possession of U.S. armored vehicles and several Humvees.

Ukrainian intelligence officials have reportedly acknowledged that they cooperate with the Russian Volunteer Corps and another group that launched the assault, the Freedom of Russia Legion.

“Of course, we communicate with them. Of course, we share some information,” Andriy Chernyak, a Ukrainian military intelligence official, told Financial Times. “And, one might say, we even cooperate.”

The neo-Nazi assault was reportedly still ongoing as of Wednesday.

“On Tuesday afternoon, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said it had pushed the fighters back over the border, but people who claim to represent the groups maintained that they were continuing attacks in Russia,” the New York Times reported Tuesday.

This latest attack from Nikitin and the Russian Volunteer Corps follows another attack they launched on Bryansk, Russia in March.

The attacks have fueled questions about the extent to which the Biden administration is backing Nazis in Ukraine. While Democrat-friendly media outlets dismiss these claims as Russian propaganda, the role neo-Nazis play in Ukrainian politics is well documented.

Even the Biden administration’s own Homeland Security Department warned last May that white supremacists in the U.S. were joining the neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine.

“Ukrainian nationalist groups including the Azov Movement are actively recruiting racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist-white supremacists to join various neo-Nazi volunteer battalions in the war against Russia,” the DHS bulletin said.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has introduced legislation that would investigate whether U.S. tax dollars are funding Ukrainian neo-Nazi terrorists.

Greene’s proposed “Resolution of Inquiry into Taxpayer Dollars Spent in Ukraine” would audit exactly where the $113 billion in U.S. aid has gone.

Co-sponsors of this bill include Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.; Matt Rosendale, R-Mt.; Clay Higgins, R-La.; Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.; Chip Roy, R-Texas; Tim Burchett, R-Tenn.; Mary Miller, R-Ill.,; and Paul Gosar, R-Ariz.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Jordan Hammers Far-Left Rep. for Gaslighting on Open Border, Honors MS-13 Victim

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Jordan Hammers Far-Left Rep. for Gaslighting on Open Border, Honors MS-13 Victim

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, called out fellow Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing, after she claimed Republicans launched an “assault” on illegal immigrants.

“After passing their extreme, cruel and unworkable border bill…Republicans have spent the last few weeks fear mongering about the border,” Jayapal said, adding Republicans “claim the border is open.”

According to the Daily Caller, Jordan responded by calling Jayapal out for her mischaracterization of the situation.

“I think the ranking member started her statement by saying the border is ‘secure.’ Really?” Jordan said. “More than five-and-a-half million illegal aliens along the Southwest border have been encountered since Joe Biden took office, two million of these illegal aliens have been released into American communities and more than one-and-a-half million known illegal ‘gotaways’ have successfully crossed the Southwest border undetected.”

Jordan continued, bringing up the many security concerns that have erupted since the Biden administration took power.

“These [gotaways] include criminal gang members, drug dealers and individuals on the terrorist watch list,” he said. “That is not a secure border. That is not a closed border.”

Jayapal attempted to respond, saying she never claimed the border was “secure” and that she was attempting to “correct the record because [Jordan] stated something that was not true.”

The head of the meeting admonished Jayapal for breaking the rules, as she cut Jordan off mid-sentence. Jordan continued his statement, listing the many changes the Democrats made to border policy since they took power.

“Day one of [the Biden] administration they stopped construction of the wall, they ended Remain in Mexico and they put back in place catch and release,” he said. “Day one. That is why we have the situation we do.”

The representative went on to honor Kayla Hamilton, who was murdered by a recently released MS-13 gang member and illegal immigrant in Aberdeen, Maryland.

“The Committee’s and Subcommittee’s oversight has revealed that the Biden Administration insufficiently vetted Kayla’s murderer and allowed him to enter the country,” Jordan and Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement Chairman Tom McClintock, R-Calif., wrote in a report on the situation.

The Aberdeen Police Department discovered the suspect’s gang affiliations by calling law enforcement in El Salvador. The federally-run Department of Homeland Security or the Department of Health and Human Services did not perform such extensive vetting when allowing the suspect to enter the country.

Calif. Bans Skittles Due to Health Concerns, Still Allows Child Sex Changes

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Calif. Bans Skittles Due to Health Concerns, Still Allows Child Sex Changes

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The California State Assembly passed a bill banning several different types of candy due to chemical ingredients discovered to cause health issues.

Assembly Bill 418 banned the manufacture, sale and distribution of all products with titanium dioxide, potassium bromate, red dye No. 3, brominated vegetable oil or propyl paraben—all of which have been linked to cancer, reproductive issues and developmental complications.

According to the Post Millennial, no one present at the assembly noted the irony of the banning of harmful chemicals in a state that recently proclaimed itself to be a “sanctuary state” for those seeking sex reassignment surgery.

As part of the reason for this move, state officials cited the European Union’s banning of the chemicals—found in candies such as Skittles and Hot Tamales, as well as medicines, pizza, drinks, coffee creamers and flour.

“It’s unacceptable that the U.S. is so far behind the rest of the world when it comes to banning these dangerous additives,” said Rep. Jesse Gabriel, D-Woodland Hills, in a statement.

“We don’t love our children any less than they do in Europe, and it’s not too much to ask food and beverage manufacturers to switch to the safer alternative ingredients that they already use in Europe and so many other nations around the globe,” Gabriel added.

Puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and other surgical methods of attempting to change one’s sex also have a bevvy of harmful side effects, including cancer, reproductive issues and developmental complications.

SB 107, passed in the state last year, prevents officials outside of California from taking legal action against institutions that provide “gender affirming care” and prescribe cross-sex hormones to “refugees” from states that banned the practice.

Republicans in California attempted to introduce a bill that would prohibit school teachers and administrators from transitioning children without the parent’s knowledge. Democrat officials blocked the effort.

Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi, D-Torrance, called the GOP bill “bad policy” and claimed it “would potentially provide a forum for increasing hateful rhetoric targeting LGBTQ youth.”

London Mayor Left in Critical Condition after Vax-Linked Heart Attack

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London Mayor Left in Critical Condition after Vax-Linked Heart Attack

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Just days after receiving a COVID booster shot, London Mayor Saqid Khan wrote in his latest book that he suffered a heart attack that left him “barely conscious,” InfoWars reported.

The heart attack occurred, according to Khan, while he was speaking at the 2021 COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

“Out of nowhere, I felt a knot in my chest—a kind of tightening,” he wrote, adding that he had to be “carried off the stage” while “barely conscious.”

He also noted that his shirt was “drenched with sweat” and he felt like “was on fire.”

Medical experts claimed to not know what caused Khan’s heart attack.

“It is not known what caused Mr. Khan to suddenly fall ill in Glasgow on November 10, 2021,” the Evening Standard reported at the time. “But medical experts have confirmed that the symptoms and aftermath were consistent with a minor heart attack.”

At the time, however, Khan encouraged Londoners to get the jab anyway.

“I want to be very clear to all Londoners: This deadly virus has not gone away and this winter we’re facing both flu and Covid,” Khan said. “The worst thing we can do is to lower our guard, be complacent and underestimate the risk these viruses pose to all of us.”

Khan noted that he had to be convinced to go to the hospital because he was dedicated to remaining at the climate conference.

“I wasn’t scared,” he said. “I was annoyed because I’d been prepping my speech for the next day, because it was unnecessary stress about something that shouldn’t be stressful.”

Though experts made no statement regarding the cause of the heart attack, Khan had gotten the booster shot just 12 days prior.

Fetterman Aide Mocks Gun Rights, Mindless Media Shills in O’Keefe Exposé

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Fetterman Aide Mocks Gun Rights, Mindless Media Shills in O’Keefe Exposé

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) In his latest exposé, journalist James O’Keefe published video footage of an aide to Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., admitting that the radical leftist senator would support overturning the Second Amendment altogether.

Fetterman aide Luke Borwegan told an undercover journalist for O’Keefe Media Group that his gun-toting boss would like to ratchet up gun restrictions in America.

When pressed as to what sorts of bans he would support, Borwegan suggested that Fetterman was as radical as they come.

“Red flags, banning automatic rifles, all that sh*t,” he said, noting that Fetterman, however, owns “a lot of guns” himself.

Aside from his own guns, the senator apparently would “prefer that nobody had guns at all.”

More disturbingly, the aide even noted that Fetterman would “be OK overturning the Second Amendment.”

The aide also said that his role is essentially to cover for Fetterman’s incompetence and to hide the mentally impaired senator from hostile media members.

“Everyone wants a f***ing story about John Fetterman,” he said. “And we only give it to certain people.”

Fetterman, who had a stroke last year shortly after the primary but went on to win the general election with help from a complicit media, was rumored to be clinically brain-dead during a lengthy convalescence for what he claimed was a bout of depression.

But despite calls from concerned citizens for proof of life, his staff refused to address questions about the episode.

According to Borwegan, his “job is to be between him [Fetterman] and the rest of the staff,” in order to protect Fetterman’s bumbling from being recorded or covered by the press.

Borwegan also claimed that he sets up a translation iPad for the debilitated Fetterman wherever he goes so that he can read the transcribed text of what people around him are saying.

“Our press operation is like a f***ing work of art,” he noted, adding that they do a remarkable job of only allowing access to journalists who are interested in making Fetterman look good by covering up his incompetence.

O’Keefe’s story comes in the aftermath of Fetterman’s dramatic hospitalization, and the subsequent disappearance of the bizarre lump on the back of his neck.

ACLU Sues Florida to Defend Communist China’s U.S. Land-Grab

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ACLU Sues Florida to Defend Communist China’s U.S. Land-Grab

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) The American Civil Liberties Union has sued the state of Florida on China’s behalf for the state’s decision to stop foreign nationals from buying land in America, Axios reported.

The ACLU and several other left-wing activist groups are behind the suit attempting to stop a new Florida property law, SB 264, from coming into effect on July 1 which will prohibit foreigners from owning land in the southeast state.

According to the text of the bill, the law would disallow “foreign principals from purchasing agricultural land, or having more than a de minimus indirect interest in such land, and certain real property in this state.”

But those behind the lawsuit wrote that the “racist” bill “imposes especially draconian restrictions on people from China.”

Lawyers also claimed that it is not a problem for foreigners to own real estate in America, arguing that it is a fundamental right for them.

“There’s no evidence that real estate purchases by people from China are causing harm, but there is a long history of similar policies making discrimination and violence against immigrants worse,” they wrote.

The ACLU has been joined by the left-wing legal organization, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, which claimed that such a law would “cast an undue burden of suspicion on anyone seeking to buy property whose name sounds remotely Asian, Russian, Iranian, Cuban, Venezuelan, or Syrian.”

According to an ACLU statement, the remarkable bill will at once violate the constitution and the unconstitutional Fair Housing Act.

Ashley Gorski, senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s National Security Project, said that American laws are meant to give foreigners the same benefits as Americans.

“Florida’s discriminatory property law is unfair, unjustified, and unconstitutional,” she said.

“Everyone in the United States is entitled to equal protection under our laws, including citizens of other countries,” she added. “If SB 264 goes into effect, it will profoundly harm our clients and countless other immigrants in Florida.”

FBI, IRS, DHS and DEA All Spying on Postal Mail

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FBI, IRS, DHS and DEA All Spying on Postal Mail

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A group of bipartisan senators have raised concerns that the U.S. Postal Service is allowing numerous federal agencies to conduct warrantless surveillance of Americans’ mail.

“Each year, the United States Postal Service (USPS) surveils tens of thousands of Americans’ postal communications,” said Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky.; Ron Wyden, D-Ore.; Mike Lee, R-Utah and three others in a May 17 letter to Chief Postal Inspector Gary Barksdale.

The senators noted that most of the surveillance is conducted by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service—the law enforcement branch of the post office. However, the Postal Service also allows other agencies to conduct mail surveillance upon request, they said.

Internal government audits say that the agencies who conduct the most mail surveillance are the FBI, IRS, Homeland Security Department and Drug Enforcement Administration.

The senators are particularly concerned about the surveillance practice known as “mail covers,” where requesting agencies are provided with sender and recipient information for letters and parcels sent to or from a particular target.

“USPIS’ mail covers regulations only require that the agency or postal inspector requesting a mail cover submit the request in writing,” they said. “No court order is required. In contrast, government agencies may only monitor Americans’ metadata associated with electronic communications, such as email or instant messaging, with a court order.”

Even though the surveillance supposedly doesn’t extend into the contents of the mail, the senators said it still violates privacy and puts a chilling effect on free speech.

That’s because law enforcement can glean information about a person’s political leanings, religious beliefs or causes they support simply by looking at where they’re sending letters.

The senators requested that Chief Postal Inspector Barksdale provide them with a “plan of action” detailing the reforms he’ll make to protect Americans’ privacy and liberty.”

They also wanted statistics on the amount of sealed mail that USPIS and USPS were opening or inspecting the contents of.

In a joint statement, the senators said that law enforcement agencies should need warrants to spy on the mail, “except in emergencies.”

 “USPS and USPIS should, except in emergencies, only conduct mail covers when a federal judge has approved this surveillance—a policy that USPIS already has in place for searches of the contents of mail—and it should also notify the targets of surveillance after the fact, unless a judge requires that such notice be delayed,” they said.

The government’s history of spying on the mail dates back to the time of the Founding Fathers.

As the senators noted in their letter, Thomas Jefferson expressed fears about the “infidelities of the post office.”

Jefferson and James Madison went to extreme lengths, using encryption technology that Jefferson himself designed, to protect their letters, which included an early proposal for the Bill of Rights.

Mass surveillance of U.S. mail continued under J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI and Jesus James Angleton’s counterintelligence division of the CIA, as exposed by the Church Commission in the 1970s.

“The Church Committee ultimately recommended that the mail covers program be reformed so that only the Attorney General be able to authorize requests for mail covers, but this reform was never implemented,” the senators lamented.

The senators requested Chief Postal Inspector Barksdale to submit his “plan of action” and answers to their questions by June 16.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

UPDATE: Machete-Wielding Art Prof. Fired by NYC College after Unhinged Rants

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UPDATE: Machete-Wielding Art Prof. Fired by NYC College after Unhinged Rants

(Headline USA) Hunter College confirmed on Tuesday that it had severed its relationship with anti-life art adjunct Shellyne Rodriguez after the Marxist instructor first violently assailed a group of students exercising their free-speech rights and later threatened a New York Post reporter with a machete.

“Hunter College strongly condemns the unacceptable actions of Shellyne Rodriguez and has taken immediate action,” school spokesman Vince Dimiceli told the Post.

“Rodriguez has been relieved of her duties at Hunter College effective immediately, and will not be returning to teach at the school.”

Original story below:

Pro-Abortion NYC College Prof. Wields Machete at Reporter

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) The college professor who dropped F-bombs in a viral rant against pro-life students on campus reportedly threatened a New York Post reporter with a machete when he attempted to interview her at her home.

Part of the encounter on Tuesday morning was caught on video in which Hunter College adjunct professor Shellyne Rodriguez appears to tell Post scribe Reuven Fenton to “get the f*** away from my door” and holds the machete to his throat.

Another person at the scene in the New York City borough of the Bronx, perhaps the accompanying Post photographer, can be heard on the video saying “let’s get out of here.  You can’t do that.”

According to the Post, the “unhinged” professor moments earlier said, from behind her closed door, “Get the f*** away from my door, or I’m gonna chop you up with this machete!”

In addition, the news outlet reported that Rodriguez — while still allegedly brandishing the blade — followed the reporter and photographer out of the apartment building after they immediately left the premises.

She reportedly continued to shout more expletives at them and “briefly chased The Post’s photographer down the street to his car before coming back to kick the reporter in the shins. She finally retreated into her building just moments later.”

For personal privacy reasons, as a general principle, anyone has the right tell the media to get lost and may have good reason to do so. Wielding a weapon in a threatening manner is, however, next level.

The Post article did not indicate if law enforcement would become involved in the teacher’s full-throated response, as it were.

Manhattan-based Hunter College, which is part of the City University of New York system, is already investigating the art teacher for vandalizing the pro-life information table and cursing out the students who were manning it.

A Hunter College spokesman initially told the Post that the public institution was “outraged” over the new footage and that “We will take swift and appropriate action.”

In an update to the story, the same spokesman informed the Post that “Hunter College strongly condemns the unacceptable actions of Shellyne Rodriguez and has taken immediate action. Rodriguez has been relieved of her duties at Hunter College effective immediately, and will not be returning to teach at the school.”

Rodriguez’s bio said that she is “an artist, educator, writer, and community organizer based in the Bronx. Her practice utilizes text, drawing, painting, collage and sculpture to depict spaces and subjects engaged in strategies of survival against erasure and subjugation.”

Rodriguez is listed as an adjunct assistant professor on the Hunter College Art and Art History Department studio art faculty webpage as of Fall 2022.

Although the particular employment status in this instance may be different, an adjunct in academia usually means a part-time instructor on a semester-to-semester contract.

In analyzing the first incident, influential George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley wrote that “It is obvious that the [pro-life] display is not just triggering for Rodríguez’s students given the professor’s unhinged response. It is all part of an anti-free speech movement that seeks to treat speech as harmful. Once this foundation is laid, any speech can then be curtailed or denied for the protection of others.”

The constitutional scholar and self-described liberal added that “The problem is that, while this conduct may be allowed or even encouraged at private colleges, Hunter College is a public college and it is subject to the First Amendment.”

Farmer from Popular ‘Honest Work’ Meme Dies in Crash

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Farmer from Popular ‘Honest Work’ Meme Dies in Crash

(Headline USA) A prominent Ohio farmer whose image was used in a popular social-media meme touting the value of “hard work” has died after he was injured in a vehicle crash in Illinois.

David Brandt was a nationally known proponent of no-till farming who traveled around the country talking about sustainable agriculture techniques and soil health. But he became well-known for comments he made in 2012 at a Natural Resources Conservation Service event held on his farm.

While discussing his occupation, Brandt said “it ain’t much but its honest work,” a statement that became a symbol of traditional values and work ethic after it was turned into a meme a few years later.

Relatives have said Brandt enjoyed the meme, which showed him clad in overalls and standing in a field, even though he didn’t know what a meme was until he learned he was one from a bank teller who showed the image to him on her phone.

A Marine Corps veteran who served in Vietnam, Brandt and his wife, Kendra, began no-till farming in 1971 as a way to cut costs.

He eventually became a notable proponent of no-till techniques, where crops are grown without disturbing the soil through tillage, which greatly reduces soil erosion and creates many environmental and climate benefits.

Brandt also touted cover crops and other sustainable farming practices, and ran a cover crop seed company and a seed-cleaning business on his 736-acre farm in Carroll, Ohio.

Brandt, 76, was hurt Thursday in a crash in Urbana, Illinois, and died from injuries on Sunday.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

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