Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,

Migrants continue to treat Britain’s streets, parks, and waterways like a personal hunting ground, with fresh footage exposing the grim reality of unchecked mass immigration.

A disturbing new video circulating on X shows a woman – widely identified in comments as a migrant – seemingly actively hunting birds.

She uses a sheet to capture a seagull perched on a gate or property edge. After securing the bird, she looks around for more prey, scanning the area as if on a deliberate hunt.

I DONT WANT PEOPLE LIKE THIS IN MY COUNTRY pic.twitter.com/HZCiZ8mBiI

— WeGotitBack ??????????? (@NotFarLeftAtAll) July 9, 2026

When locals spot her and begin filming while questioning what she is doing with the bird, she gestures dismissively – as if to say “what’s your problem?” and implying this is totally normal behaviour and none of their business.

The clip has sparked widespread outrage, with many slamming the trespass and illegal taking of wildlife.

This is sick. We don’t want this barbaric and cruel shit in our country!

— Nicola Beaumont. ? (@PsychBeaulogy) July 8, 2026

ALL gulls (commonly called seagulls) are fully protected in Britain by the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, making it illegal to kill, injure, or handle them, or to destroy their active nests and eggs.
This woman needs locking up…FOLLOW OUR LAWS OR BOG OFF ???? @BBCNews…

— Nix Randall (@Nixterr1) July 9, 2026

They’re eating the birds. They’re eating the cats.

They actually are. Libtards will defend it.

— GMghostmode (@GallowsMemes) July 9, 2026

There have been further suggestions that the woman was actually “rescuing” the bird, but many are not buying that explanation.

? WOMAN WAS RESCUING SEAGULL, NOT STEALING IT

A video I shared yesterday of a woman catching a seagull in a blanket, was Not what it looked like, the woman in question was actually concerned for the small seagull after it has fell off the roof previously, as you can see in… https://t.co/X4ae0MxvCR pic.twitter.com/36ONNaUHu6

— Active Patriot (@ActivePatriotUK) July 9, 2026

I’ve never seen someone rescue a bird by snapping it’s wings and stuffing it into a bed sheet.

— NickyP (@Nickypwastaken) July 9, 2026

This does not align with the original video which shows a bird with an adult size wingspan, not a fledging who is unable to fly. The bird the woman was wrestling into the sack/blanket would have been able to fly. What this means now I cannot say, but something is amiss here.

— Tez Locke (@TezLocke) July 9, 2026

Fair play, but a juvenile gull that size does not need ‘rescuing’. You can see in the original video that it tries to fly away from her. It was already fledged. pic.twitter.com/Hp2xzuaVYt

— MJ Simpson (@mjsimpsonfilms) July 9, 2026

As if that’s the same woman aint even the same house.

— ????????? ??? (@CerebrAiX) July 9, 2026

You have to be an idiot to see that first video even with the idea in your head that she is trying to help it, and still think she is trying to help it.

— Monty (@MontyDean1A4) July 9, 2026

I see nothing in this video that refutes the first one. The woman is not present in this one, & it’s a different gull. As a wildlife biologist, I can say that she did NOT handle the gull like someone w/ its welfare in mind. Have you been threatened into issuing this statement?

— Missy Lee (@RecoveringWLW) July 9, 2026

This one was rescued from the road ? pic.twitter.com/RK6wiXoo9S

— Harry Lines??????? (@HarryLines7) July 9, 2026

This latest incident fits a clear pattern. Migrants have been repeatedly filmed hunting pigeons, with their bare hands in UK streets, and even using fishing rods to try and catch them.

Similar scenes have played out with protected swans and ducks across the UK and Ireland, where migrants set traps and butcher birds in public spaces.

The depravity doesn’t stop at birds. On the continent, a Nigerian migrant was caught cooking a cat in a public park next to a children’s playground, drawing fury from locals.

These cases echo reports from Springfield, Ohio, where Haitian migrants faced accusations of snatching and consuming local wildlife, including ducks and geese in parks.

Residents described scenes of animals being grabbed by the neck, decapitated, and taken for food – claims that amplified national debate over mass migration’s impact on communities and norms.

British wildlife laws under the Wildlife and Countryside Act strictly protect many of these species. Yet enforcement seems inconsistent when it involves certain arrivals who show little regard for local customs, laws, or basic animal welfare.

Locals filming these confrontations repeatedly highlight the same point: these individuals have housing, clothing, and food provided, yet they hunt urban birds as if in a survival scenario from their countries of origin.

The cultural clash is undeniable. Britain, long a nation of animal lovers with strong traditions of protecting wildlife, now contends with behaviors that treat public spaces as open butcheries. Pigeons and seagulls in cities scavenge in polluted environments, raising health risks from diseases, but that hasn’t deterred the hunters.

This is a visible symptom of failed open-border policies that prioritize globalist ideals over national cohesion and rule of law. While politicians lecture about tolerance, everyday Brits watch their parks and streets transformed, and communities on edge.

Mass immigration without assimilation imports incompatible practices that erode Britain’s way of life. Strong borders, enforced laws, and putting citizens first aren’t radical – they’re essential to preserving what remains of civilized society.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has responded to ongoing Israeli and Greek objections to the possible US sale of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey by mocking the Turkish enemies and rivals.

Opposition to the potential stealth fighter transfer raised by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Greece’s Kyriakos Mitsotakis “has no place in my world,” Erdogan said in his characteristically bellicose manner.

“Hopefully, when the F-35s are delivered to Turkey, the whole world will say America kept its promise,” Erdogan said at a Wednesday closing news conference for the NATO summit hosted in Ankara. 

Netanyahu told Fox News on Monday that “Turkey is a great country, but it’s governed by a man who calls openly for the annihilation of Israel” – in reference to Erdogan. “He occupies half of Cyprus, a NATO country. He’s threatening Greece, another NATO country, and he talks openly about conquering Jerusalem.”

The Israeli leader also said that giving Ankara F-35s or fighter jet engines would “upset the power balance in the Middle East, which is ultimately guaranteed by Israeli air superiority and also by, I think, by America’s posture in the Middle East.” He’s been urgently requestion that the White House reign in Erdogan and his provocative rhetoric.

However, Israeli pressure did nothing to sway Trump while the US President was in Turkey. Trump strongly signaled he’s ready to go through with the sale of F-35s, saying of Erdogan, “We are great friends”.

What’s more is that Trump declared – to the surprise of US Congress (who will want a word on this) that he’ll be removing US sanctions which were imposed on Turkey during his own prior administration: 

In response to that purchase, Washington in 2020 imposed sanctions on a major Turkish defense company and removed Turkey from the F-35 stealth fighter jet program, where Ankara was also a production partner.

“We’re going to be taking the sanctions off,” Trump told reporters just before his meeting with Erdogan during a visit to Turkey for a NATO summit. He added that his secretary of state and Treasury secretary were working on the issue.

In the moment, Secretary of State Marco Rubio looked a bit surprised, while President Erdogan beamed with a sense of victory…

Erdogan gives a thumbs-up as Trump lifts sanctions in real-time. Rubio has a WTF?!? look that can’t be denied. pic.twitter.com/XnGIkvyIOs

— Christopher Leonard (@ChrisLeonardATL) July 8, 2026

Later, Erdogan voiced that in reality the United States is “not enforcing any sanctions against us” and that “by and large, those measures have already been lifted.”

He said of his top national security officials, “They have all witnessed firsthand that these sanctions are not being applied to Türkiye. So, we have no such problem. And whenever an issue does arise, Mr. Trump, thankfully, returns our call within 24 hours whenever we reach out to him. Within that same 24-hour period, we receive the response we need.”

The Turkish foreign ministry has also hit back at recent Israeli statements, saying, “The baseless allegations recently circulated by Israeli officials in a coordinated manner and with calculated timing are part of a disinformation campaign.” The statement added: “Netanyahu and his partners in crime deliberately distort any criticism directed at them and seek to divert attention through a systematic propaganda effort.”

Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker,

The time has come for Europeans to declare their independence from ruling-class tyranny.

We made it to our two-hundred-fiftieth birthday, America.  What’s next?  Let’s get back to work, so that our descendants can celebrate one thousand.

Making sure the American Experiment endures is work, after all.  Protecting American ideals from our ideological enemies is never easy.

Well before our nation declared independence from Great Britain, the American system repudiated the whole “ruling class” hierarchy that — to this day! — still oozes from the infected abscesses of the United Kingdom and much of continental Europe.  After we fought two world wars in the twentieth century to save Europe from itself, we spent the Cold War period in a bit of a kumbaya stupor during which Americans often equated the beliefs of Western nobles with those who founded and built the United States.

But Europe and America have never been the same.  The people who built America left Europe behind for good reasons.  They rejected Europe’s aristocratic allegiances, its feudal social structures, and its false pretension that blue-blooded “elites” are divinely and innately empowered to rule over everyone else.  The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution are not merely documents establishing America’s political separation from Britain and the legal foundations for its new government.  They are revolutionary statements of America’s intent to remove itself from the generational enslavement upon which monarchies, ruling classes, and feudal systems depend.

Taken together, the Declaration and Constitution assert fundamental truths that governments throughout human history have tried to obscure from their peoples.  Those truths include the recognition that all of us are equal before God; so-called noble aristocrats are not divinely given or entitled to receive more power or privilege than the common man.  Furthermore, our rights come from God, not the government.  Aristocrats, government officials, elected representatives, and bureaucrats cannot give us what only God provides for our well-being and happiness.  Additionally, because governments are artificial creations constructed by imperfect human beings, they are legitimate only when the people who live under those governments consent to their structure.  Governments that exercise power in defiance of the will of the people are unjust governments utilizing illegitimate powers.  Finally, when governments deny the people their God-given rights, fail to keep the public safe, undermine their citizens’ happiness, usurp powers belonging to the people, abuse the public, or threaten the lives and liberties of citizens, the people have a right — nay, a duty! — to overthrow those governments and replace them with new governments more likely to protect the people’s lives, liberties, and God-given rights.

These assertions didn’t just repudiate the British Crown.  They repudiated the legitimacy of governments throughout the world.  Princes justified their powers over common people as expressions of God’s will.  Claiming to be God’s direct emissaries on Earth, noble aristocrats considered themselves the arbiters of what rights and liberties common people might enjoy.  The American Revolution rejected these premises as outright lies.  Princes are endowed with the same rights as commoners.  Rights and liberties come from God, not ruling class elites!

In other words, America’s War for Independence was also a war that threatened systems of power throughout the world.  If legitimate government powers come directly from the people, then the whole feudal hierarchy is inverted.  Rather than a pyramid with a king or queen on top who allocates certain powers to a small royal court of lords who allocate a few powers to vassals who allocate a tiny portion of those powers to peasants who remain in indentured servitude, the Declaration of Independence asserts that power arises from the base of the pyramid with the people and that government authorities merely borrow the people’s power as temporary custodians obligated to secure and advance the public’s will.  Nothing at the top of the pyramid is legitimate unless the bottom of the pyramid consents.  Two-hundred-fifty years ago, America turned the world upside down.

Do any of these American convictions describe Europe today?  Does the unelected European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen behave as someone who derives her power from the consent of those Europeans she insists upon governing?  Do the digital censorship laws that prevent citizens of the United Kingdom and the European Union from freely communicating with each other protect their God-given rights and liberties?  Do the growing swarms of European bureaucrats writing endless rules and regulations inside unaccountable government institutions appear to respect the people’s inherent powers?  Do Europe’s open borders policies provide European citizens with security, safety, and happiness?  If the answer to these questions is “no,” then don’t common Europeans have the right and duty to overthrow their governments and form new institutions committed to their protection and the preservation of their freedoms?  Otherwise, aren’t most of the bureaucracies and government institutions of Europe wholly illegitimate?

It is easy to see why governments around the world don’t spend much time teaching young students about the Declaration of Independence or the American Revolution.  If they did, most citizens would immediately recognize their own forms of government as oppressive, harmful, unjust, and resentful of God’s authority.

This is why European political “leaders” refuse to talk about rights and freedoms and instead drone on about “democracy.”  It is difficult to explain how rights and freedoms can be inalienable when governments insist on defining, redefining, or abridging them whenever those in power find it necessary or convenient to do so.  “Democracy,” on the other hand, stands for nothing other than the dangerous proposition that fifty-one cannibals can vote to eat forty-nine of their neighbors.  “Democracy” can even be twisted to mean that a couple dozen European Commissioners are entitled to choose a European Commission president who is somehow entitled to write laws for all of Europe.  Such an arrangement undermines all safeguards for Europeans’ inalienable rights and liberties.  Describing fascism, socialism, or monarchy as “democratic” does not lend legitimacy to despotic forms of government.

To this day, Europe’s leaders don’t understand America.  Or they understand, but they pretend that America embraces European “values.”  Or they look down upon America as some kind of wild mongrel that makes a good guard dog but remains incapable of appreciating the dignified sensibilities of European “elites.”  The noble gentry who spread their cancerous ideologies from Brussels do their best to groom and domesticate America while expecting us to pee on the rug at any time.  Europe’s entrenched aristocracy prefers for the unruly American dog to stay outside.

Part of the reason we are “unruly,” though, is that our political instincts are foreign and threatening to a European feudal structure that demands total power for the few and no power at all for the many.  Europe’s bureaucrats prefer Karl Marx to Thomas Jefferson.  Europe’s aristocratic “elites” prefer declarations of dependence to America’s Declaration of Independence.

The future is not a battle between the so-called “democratic” West and the authoritarian regimes of the world.  The future is a battle between feudal forms of government and an American system that recognizes governments as legitimate only when they are used to protect each individual’s God-given rights.  Both in Europe and the United States, the war against government tyranny and for human freedom will continue to rage.  European and American “elites” will do everything they can to foster public dependence upon government.  European and American citizens who wish to be free must declare their independence from Big Government.

There are those alive today who believe that Big Government cannot be beaten.  That’s natural.  Two-hundred-fifty years ago, few believed that America’s Declaration of Independence would lead to the British Empire’s defeat.  The war for human freedom never truly ends.  Every generation must fight to secure their God-given rights.  When governments forfeit the people’s consent and undermine the people’s freedoms, they are rendered illegitimate.  There is but one public remedy: revolution.

The global proliferation of low-cost suicide drones is setting off alarm bells across the US military and among national security officials and experts. The race to harden high-value assets in the homeland, from military bases and airports to power substations, crude oil refineries, stadiums, and data centers, is already underway as officials fear the next major threat could come from a cheap drone equipped with a warhead.

The latest warning that Ukrainian-style drones are just south of the US-Mexico border comes from a new report by the Mexican newspaper El Sol de Durango, which states that Mexican federal forces discovered an unjammable fiber-optic kamikaze drone during a raid on a compound.

The raid took place at a compound in the Dolores del Río neighborhood, located deep inside north-central Mexico, about 500 miles from the US border and about 560 miles from Mexico City by road.

The Mexican Army and National Guard secured the perimeter of the compound, while Durango’s regional federal prosecutor’s office and other law enforcement agencies found the fiber-optic suicide drone, guns, ammunition, ATVs, and other vehicles.

From the local outlet:

The operation stemmed from a citizen complaint received by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR ) through the Single Window for Attention (VUA), in which a member of the National Guard (GN) reported potentially criminal activity at the aforementioned address. In response, the Federal Public Prosecutor (MPF) requested and executed a search warrant for the location.

During the operation , supported by agents of the Federal Ministerial Police (PFM) and the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC), authorities seized an explosive device , two magazines and 78 rounds of ammunition of various calibers, a drone, two ATVs, and four vehicles . The perimeter was secured by personnel from the Mexican Army ( Sedena ) and the National Guard (GN).

The importance of this find is that fiber-optic kamikaze drones, once largely confined to major war zones across Eurasia, from the Russia-Ukraine conflict to the Gulf area, now appear to be spreading worldwide.

Even more troubling, this drone was found roughly 500 miles south of the US-Mexico border. The discovery points to one unavoidable conclusion drawn from today’s conflict zones: the US must supercharge the hardening of high-value assets against this drone threat (read here).  

Military bases, airports, power substations, refineries, ports, data centers, and other critical infrastructure are entering a whole new risk environment in which cheap drones can cause outsized damage.

We recently penned a note for readers on how to profit from the “asymmetric warfare boom.” Read the note here.

By Noi Mahoney of FreightWaves

Federal immigration agents are now working alongside state troopers at commercial truck weigh stations across the country as the Trump administration intensifies its crackdown on illegal commercial drivers, according to U.S. Border Czar Tom Homan.

Appearing on Fox News on Tuesday, Homan said the Department of Homeland Security is partnering with the U.S. Department of Transportation and state law enforcement agencies to identify commercial drivers who are operating trucks with improperly issued commercial driver’s licenses. 

“We’ve got a lot of people we’re looking for,” Homan said. “Actually, some states we’re actually working weigh stations with the troopers, trying to get these people as they’re coming through.”

Homan said more than 28,000 non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses have been revoked nationwide and acknowledged that obtaining driver records from some states has complicated enforcement efforts.

“We’re working very closely with many states,” Homan said, adding that DHS is coordinating with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy while the Department of Justice pursues legal action against jurisdictions that refuse to share driver information.

Enforcement expands beyond paperwork

The latest announcement builds on a series of recent commercial vehicle enforcement operations by state agencies focused on licensing violations, unsafe equipment, hours-of-service compliance and immigration-related offenses.

Last week, FreightWaves reported that law enforcement agencies in Texas, Arizona and California had expanded commercial vehicle inspections targeting unqualified drivers and unsafe trucks. Those operations resulted in immigration arrests, equipment citations and drivers being placed out of service.

Homan suggested the latest federal effort goes beyond revoking licenses by focusing on locating drivers who remain behind the wheel after their commercial driving privileges have been canceled.

According to Homan, DHS agents are working directly with state troopers at weigh stations to identify those drivers during routine commercial vehicle inspections.

Arizona stop highlights safety concerns

The enforcement push comes as Arizona authorities continue reporting cases involving commercial drivers operating without required credentials.

In a Facebook post, the Arizona Department of Public Safety said on Tuesday a Highway Patrol Commercial Vehicle Enforcement trooper stopped a hotshot truck on June 26 along State Route 202 near Arizona State University after discovering numerous violations.

Investigators said the driver lacked both a commercial driver’s license and a required USDOT medical certificate. Inspectors also found that none of the trailer’s brakes were functioning, meaning only the tow vehicle could stop the fully loaded 14,900-pound trailer. 

Arizona troopers also cited exposed hubcaps and a missing emergency brake cable before placing the driver and vehicle out of service.

Bank of America analysts spoke with Oklahoma State University agricultural economist Derrell Peel, who offered new insight into the US cattle cycle. His key takeaway: the herd-rebuilding phase may not meaningfully begin to turn until near the end of the decade, suggesting elevated beef prices at the supermarket are here to stay.

The most important issue in the beef industry is when the cattle cycle will turn. The US beef cow herd is the smallest since 1961, while the 2025 calf crop is the smallest since 1941. Beef production is expected to decline by 4.5% to 5% in 2026 and continue falling through at least 2027, despite heavier carcass weights partially offsetting lower slaughter volumes.

Peel explained to Sara Senatore, a BofA Securities research analyst covering restaurants, protein processors, and food and beverage, that the beef industry has not yet seen the tightest supplies because meaningful heifer retention has only just begun.

He added that if ranchers begin saving heifer calves in 2026, those animals would be bred in 2027, calve in 2028, and only begin adding to supply in 2029 or 2030.

Peel explained more about when the cattle rebuilding cycle could turn: 

The bottom line is, I don’t think we’re saving very many heifers yet. I don’t think we’re doing more than perhaps slowing the liquidation down, or stabilizing the herd. We’re certainly not going to expand any in 2026. I think the prospects for expansion in 2027 are very limited at this point, because again we know that the supply of heifers that’s already on the ground, that we would need to be breeding this year to enter the herd next year, just isn’t there.

And so if we start saving heifers, which would really be heifer calves in 2026, we breed them in ’27, they would calve in 2028, we’re talking about 2029 into 2030 before those calves would be weaned and fed out and have an impact on beef production. So we’re really looking at the end of the decade before we can change the path here.

And in fact, what it means is that in the meantime we have to save some additional heifers. We haven’t yet seen the tightest supplies of this particular situation. We’ve got tight supplies, the feeder supply continues to decline with these smaller calf crops, but at some point we have to pull additional heifers out of that mix in order to retain them for herd rebuilding. We have not done that yet to any appreciable degree.

Cow calf producers are getting market incentives, returns are good. But we’ve been very slow to respond as an industry for, I think, a wide variety of reasons, that includes drought and financial conditions and demographic changes in the herd or in the producer population, and just a variety of things that contribute to that.

The upshot of it all, this is my final analytical slide, is that we think that prices will continue to go even higher. I would expect that heifer retention process to be what would put the peak in this thing. That peak will not happen, in my opinion, at this point in 2026. It will be at least into 2027. And there is a possibility that it gets pushed off even beyond that if we don’t see some indications of heifer retention pretty quickly here in 2026.

So the short answer is the current situation will continue, and I think persist, and actually get a little bit more in terms of higher cattle prices. Now, that’s all predicated on demand continuing as strong as it is. I don’t see that changing at this point. There’s certainly some potential threats out there that we’re watching, but I don’t see demand changing enough to prevent this.

So the short answer is the current situation will continue, and I think persist, and actually get a little bit more in terms of higher cattle prices. Now, that’s all predicated on demand continuing as strong as it is. I don’t see that changing at this point. There’s certainly some potential threats out there that we’re watching, but I don’t see demand changing enough to prevent this.

The warning that the cattle cycle is still several years from a meaningful turn builds on our prior note that there are “no quick fixes” for historically tight supplies.

The structural fix is herd rebuilding, and Peel’s timeline points to meaningful relief in beef production closer to 2029-2030, not anytime soon.

In other words, high supermarket beef prices are not a temporary squeeze. This is a new reality folks must understand: a broken cattle cycle that will take years to repair – and quality might lack… 

That’s why locking in high-quality beef now matters. While the Trump administration searches for ways to bring prices down (see here) and the industry waits years for herds to rebuild, readers can skip the junk at the supermarket and buy directly from our ranchers. 

Buy here. 

If you want a sign of how the left-wing, permanent protest-industrial complex is gearing up for the next wave of street mobilization, look no further than Chad Marlow, a senior policy counsel at the ACLU.

Marlow, whose work focuses on privacy, surveillance, and technology, has circulated guidance for protesters on social media about how to limit digital exposure, avoid government surveillance, and communicate via encrypted messaging platforms while protesting.

“If you’re protesting and not actively using your phone, the best thing you can do to prevent it from sharing information about you and your location is to shut it off entirely. If you want to turn on your phone to take pictures and record video during the day, turn your phone on, enable Airplane Mode, and turn off Bluetooth. That way, your phone won’t be inadvertently sharing your private location and other data while you’re using it,” Marlow said in a video posted on Instagram.

He continued, “If you need to use your phone, turn it on while you’re communicating, then shut it off when you’re done. By the way, it’s always safest to use a fully encrypted app like Signal, which makes it more difficult for the government to intercept your communications.”

After the North Texas Antifa defendants were convicted over the anti-ICE terror shooting attack and the Minnesota Antifa cell suspects were indicted for anti-government violence, leftist groups have been releasing guides on how to hide and destroy digital evidence.

The ACLU is… https://t.co/HfQv37KL0a pic.twitter.com/WRSFSgGxqf

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 8, 2026

The ACLU is listed as a proud partner of the failed No Kings rally, an event that is far from organic; instead, it is a heavily coordinated coalition of far-left socialist groups, NGOs, and unions seeking a socialist revolution by toppling Trump.

Marlow’s educational session on how protesters can limit digital exposure and evade government surveillance is certainly not a good look for a nonprofit that claims to defend all civil liberties. Instead, it has become a legal arm of far-left protesters.

Related:

• Leaked Memo Shows ‘Pro-Cuba’ NGO Network Preparing To Target ICE, US Bases, Federal Buildings

Concerns that the ACLU is no longer merely protecting constitutional rights but is increasingly helping to equip DSA-aligned protesters for their revolution are very troubling, given what socialists say in their own words:

DSA Members: “The most important thing we can do is take America down from within” pic.twitter.com/phicruCxKe

— DSA Watch (@DSA_Watch) July 8, 2026

This blurs the line between civil-liberties advocacy and activist support infrastructure at a time when the broader protest-industrial complex appears to be gearing up for the next round of street chaos.