The head of the City Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) in St. Louis has been suspended pending an investigation into into why tornado sirens did not sound before an EF-3 tornado hit parts of Central West End and North City last week.  A physical button must be pushed by officials at the CEMA office in order to activate warning sirens; this was never done. Five people died when the storm struck.

Sarah Russell, (a biological woman) who identifies as transgender and goes by they/them pronouns, was promoted to the CEMA leadership position in 2022 in the midst of the widespread DEI hiring blitz within Democrat run cities across the US.  CEMA is a local partner organization to FEMA.    

CEMA staff, including Russell, were at a workshop on Market Street and not at the CEMA office located on Olive, where the siren activation button is located. The Mayor’s office said Russell contacted the fire department, apparently at the time the tornado was approaching the city.  City officials say there was then a breakdown in communication, with the directive to activate the sirens being vague. 

Why didn’t Russel go to the office to set off the alarm herself?  This is not known but the two locations are approximately four blocks away – A very short distance.

In April of 2024, Russell’s office received a $3.9 million grant to improve the siren system in St. Louis which she said needed to be updated.  This included adding multiple languages to alarm PSAs, such as Spanish, Vietnamese, Hindi, Swahili, Bosnian and Dari/Patscho.  However, no amount of siren improvements will matter if no one is there to push the button.

St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer has placed Sarah Russell on leave, stating at a press conference:

“Let me be clear: CEMA exists to alert the community when severe weather is coming. This office failed to do that in the most horrific and deadly storm that our city has experienced in my lifetime…”

The investigation will look into why the CEMA staff, including Russell, were not in the office when the storms were anticipated.  CEMA will be temporarily led by St. Louis Fire Department Capt. John Walk until a permanent replacement is found.

The event strikes up yet another debate on the dangers of DEI hiring and the promotion of people based on identity instead of merit and intelligence.  As witnessed in cities like LA during the Palisades fires, DEI employees are like time bombs waiting to go off in communities across the country.  Everything is fine as long as nothing goes wrong, but one crisis event exposes an avalanche of incompetence among DEI managers.    

By Noi Mahoney of FreightWaves

Federal authorities on Tuesday arrested 13 alleged members of rival Armenian crime organizations locked in an apparent power struggle in Los Angeles County.

The charges include attempted murder, kidnapping, illegal firearm possession, bank and wire fraud, and cargo theft totaling more than $80 million, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release.

Among the defendants are Ara Artuni, 41, of Los Angeles, who is charged with attempted murder in aid of racketeering, and Robert Amiryan, 46, of Hollywood, who is charged with kidnapping.

Authorities say both men were leaders of rival Armenian organized crime syndicates, referred to as “avtoritet,” which is Russian for “authority,” and that they have been engaged in a violent feud to maintain control of the San Fernando Valley since 2022.

Artuni is charged with ordering the attempted murder of Amiryan during the summer of 2023. In retaliation, Amiryan allegedly conspired with members of his own criminal organization to kidnap and torture one of Artuni’s associates in June 2023.

In addition to attempted murder, authorities say Artuni and his criminal enterprise committed bank fraud, wire fraud and cargo theft.

Artuni and his organization allegedly targeted e-commerce giant Amazon by enrolling as carriers for the online retailer. Artuni and his men would contract trucking routes with Amazon, and while transporting the goods, diverge from the route and steal all or part of the shipments. 

The Artuni enterprise allegedly stole more than $83 million from Amazon, according to estimates provided by the company. 

“This transnational criminal organization operated with the structure and brutality of an international cartel, inflicting significant harm on public safety and causing substantial damage to legitimate commerce and supply chains,” Dwayne Angebrandts, Homeland Security Investigation’s Los Angeles acting deputy special agent in charge, said in a statement. 

Artuni’s organization also reportedly ran a “credit card bust-out” scheme in which it charged credit cards to a fake business and then “drained the business account” before credit card companies could collect the disputed funds.

Several other arrests were made in the Los Angeles area and two more in Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood, Florida. Authorities continue to look for one defendant.

Federal agents seized more than $100,000 in cash, 14 firearms and three armored vehicles in the May 20 operation, which included assistance from the Los Angles and Burbank police departments.

If convicted of all charges, the defendants could face maximum sentences ranging from 10 years to life in prison.

The ‘Powering Up America’ theme has primarily focused on the surge of AI data centers being plugged into the nation’s electric grid to fuel chatbots and the digital economy. But what’s often overlooked are other major electrification trends, like on-shoring massive aluminum smelters, that will soon compete with AI data centers for power on strained grids. 

Emirates Global Aluminium plans to break ground next year on a $4 billion smelter in Oklahoma with an annual capacity of 600,000 tons. The project, expected to take four years to complete, would mark the first new aluminum smelter built in the U.S. in 45 years—aligning with President Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda to re-shore critical mineral supply chains.

On-shoring and increasing production capacity for critical mineral supply chains are wonderful, especially aluminum, which is used in everything from consumer products to defense weapons. Yet aluminum smelters are among the most energy-intensive industrial plants in the world. 

According to the U.S. Aluminum Association, producing one metric ton of aluminum takes nearly 15,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity. A modern smelter with a capacity of 750,000 tons, or about the size of the new Oklahoma smelter that will be online at the end of the decade, consumes more electricity than Boston. 

Today, we announced the progression of plans to develop the first new primary aluminium production plant in the United States of America since 1980. Construction of EGA’s American primary aluminium plant is expected to begin after a feasibility study and by the end of 2026, with… pic.twitter.com/HEMRpyYgyM

— Emirates Global Aluminium (@egaofficial) May 16, 2025

Reuters spoke with Matt Aboud, Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Century Aluminum, who explained that the problem for new smelters is locking in long-term competitive power contracts. 

Last week, Aboud told attendees at the CRU Aluminium Conference in London that new smelters must secure long-term power contracts to lock in profitability and recoup billions of dollars in construction costs. 

Estimates from the Aluminum Association indicate that a new U.S. smelter brought online this decade would need a 20-year power contract with prices locked in around $40 per MWh for the business to be viable. 

The push to build new aluminum smelters aligns with broader on-shoring trends and the electrification of American industry. But it’s now colliding with the explosive growth of AI data centers (see: ‘The Next AI Trade’), intensifying the battle for power demand on the nation’s strained grid.

“Any smelter project is in a race with Big Tech, which is on the same hunt for energy to power its next-generation artificial intelligence data centres,” Reuters noted. 

Aluminum Association said that Microsoft paid around $115 per MWh to lock in a long-term power deal with Constellation Energy to restart Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear plant. 

The group added that even reactivating shuttered aluminum lines in the four U.S. states hosting smelters would raise power prices to north of $70 per MWh. 

Emirates Global has said the smelter’s construction is contingent on securing a favorable long-term power deal with a local utility in the state. 

What’s colliding on the grid—whether from new smelters or AI data centers—is the battle for affordable, reliable power. And that’s why Trump just did this…

By College Fix

The president of Whitman College late last month presided over the marriage between a senior at the school and her Whitman alum “wusband.”

President Sarah Bolton officiated the nuptials of Lita Bacus and “nonbinary lesbian” Fi Black at which “I do’s” and “dyke” rings were exchanged at Whitman’s Olin Hall, the Whitman Wire reports.

“Wusband,” according to UrbanDictionary.com, is “the ‘husband’ in a lesbian marriage who does all the ‘manly’ chores and helps to raise & discipline the kids rather than be the pregnant one.”

Bacus sent out emails inviting all of Walla Walla, Washington (the town in which the small, private Whitman is located) to her “Big Gay Wedding,” which she described as a “performance, a protest and a celebration.”

The wedding dress code was “dyke decadence,” and instead of gifts Bacus and Black asked for “donations to LGBTQIA+ causes.” Many in the local “young punk and queer scene” were in attendance.

In addition, “dykes are sacred,” “dyke love is holy,” and “sapphic saints” were written across a pair of pews in the hall, and the bridesmaids “sprinkled” dental dams in lieu of flower petals.

The invite reads in part

Because joy is resistance. Because marriage is a performance a state-sanctioned contract, a ritual, a public declaration-and here, it becomes a protest, a necessity, a survival strategy in the face of systemic oppression …

This piece is a response to the real and immediate dangers posed by anti-queer legislation. By bringing this act into the gallery space, the audience is forced to confront its material, legal, and emotional stakes. It is a protest, yes, but it is also a wedding. It is art because it is life, performed. It is art because levity belongs in protest. Because beauty can be defiant. Because queer love, in a world that fights to erase it, is art.

Bacus said “recent rhetoric” against gay marriage played a part in deciding to make the wedding a “protest.” The invite cites anti-gay marriage comments by three conservative U.S. representatives and SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas.

The Wire claims the country “has become increasingly hostile” towards the LGBTQ+ community in President Trump’s second term, using “anti-queer policy to exacerbate” the American culture wars. A Whitman student who attended the wedding said the ceremony seemed like a “giant fuck you to [the] Trump admin.”

Bacus noted she and Black met at a sculpture studio when Black “was making their giant beetles for their own art thesis.” The couple since has created DykeMint, a “slow sustainable anime inspired [sic] fashion brand that pushes the boundaries of creativity with its chaotic maximalist collage compositional pieces and unboxable aesthetic.”

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday took an unusual step to distance the Federal Reserve from broader legal challenges to the firing protections of independent federal agencies, offering a measure of reassurance to investors and policymakers concerned about political interference with the central bank.

In a brief, unsigned order, the Court allowed the Trump administration’s removal of two officials – from the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board – to stand while litigation proceeds. But it pointedly rejected the plaintiffs’ assertion that the outcome of their case would implicate the Federal Reserve or its top officials.

“The Federal Reserve is a uniquely structured, quasi-private entity that follows in the distinct historical tradition of the First and Second Banks of the United States,” the Court wrote, seeking to draw a clear line between the central bank and other government agencies targeted in the litigation.

Though the case could eventually return to the Court on its merits, the justices’ decision to preemptively shield the Fed from the implications of their order sends a strong signal: the legal basis for “for-cause” removal protections for members of the Fed’s Board of Governors and the Federal Open Market Committee remains intact – for now.

Fed’s Independence at Stake

The decision comes as the legal foundation of the 1935 precedent Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, which protects independent agency officials from at-will removal by the president, faces renewed scrutiny. Former acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris said earlier this year that the Justice Department would push to overturn that decision.

The concern is not academic. President Donald Trump’s public frustration with Fed Chair Jerome Powell – whom he nominated – sparked fears that a second Trump term could bring efforts to reshape the Fed through firings or intimidation. In April, Trump’s former top economic adviser Kevin Hassett said the president would “continue to study” whether Powell could be removed before his term ends in 2026.

Although Trump later walked back any suggestion of firing Powell, calling him “Mr. Too Late” and a “major loser” for resisting rate cuts, the ongoing legal wrangling over firing protections has kept markets on edge.

The Federal Reserve has held interest rates steady between 4.25% and 4.5% as it evaluates the effects of Trump-era tariffs on inflation and the labor market.

Market Implications

Goldman Sachs analysts said Thursday’s order offers meaningful reassurance that statutory changes to the Fed’s independence are unlikely in the near term.

“The Court’s decision to preemptively signal that it views the Federal Reserve differently than other government agencies strongly suggests that it is unlikely to grant the President permission to replace governors without ‘cause’,” the investment bank wrote in a Thursday note.

According to Goldman, that lowers the risk of politically motivated changes to monetary policy, which could otherwise trigger inflation, weaken the dollar, and unsettle equity markets. While analysts still see potential for political rhetoric to erode public trust in the Fed, they say the legal foundation appears more secure following the Court’s signal.

Dissenting Voices

Not everyone is convinced the Fed is immune from political reshuffling. Lev Menand, a Columbia Law School professor and former Treasury official, told the Financial Times that the Court’s carve-out for the central bank doesn’t hold water.

“While the regional Federal Reserve Banks are quasi-private, the Board in D.C. is a public agency – there’s nothing private about it,” he said. “Nor is it unique. It’s a multi-member board just like the NLRB.”

Daniel Tarullo, a former Fed governor now at Harvard Law School, sees the Court’s language as a stabilizing force. “The Court went out of its way to rebut the argument that its probable broad rollback of Humphrey’s Executor will endanger the Fed’s monetary policy independence,” he said. “That certainly augurs well for the Fed.”

Via The Libertarian Institute

The former top US diplomat in Ukraine said that any deal to end the Russian invasion must also deter China, arguing that engaging in peace talks with Moscow is a mistake.

Bridget Brink, who served as ambassador to Ukraine until late April, told Face The Nation, “The real question is, how are we going to help to end this war? And to do that, it can’t be peace at any price.” She continued, “It has to be a peace that does things that advance our own interests. And those are really simple. It’s how to keep Ukraine free, how to deter Russia, and how to send the right signal to China.”

Brink argued that talks with Russia should not begin until the Kremlin agrees to an unconditional ceasefire.

“So, my strong advice in terms of how to deal with Putin in Russia is not to give a single meeting or concession or legitimacy until Putin agrees to an unconditional ceasefire that’s verifiable and moves forward toward a just and lasting peace,” she explained.

If President Donald Trump adopted Brink’s position, it would effectively bring the talks to an impasse. Moscow has stated that it will not agree to a ceasefire until the two sides are closer to a deal to end the conflict.

Brink went on to assert that Trump’s engagement with President Vladimir Putin would give “legitimacy” to the Russian leader.

During her tenure as ambassador to Ukraine, the former envoy implemented the Joe Biden administration’s policy of attempting to isolate Moscow.

However, while Washington’s sweeping sanctions regime was intended to isolate and cripple the Russian economy, the Kremlin has largely been able to circumvent the penalties. Rather than bringing Moscow’s war machine to a halt, Russia’s military is now stronger than it was at the beginning of the conflict.

Hawks seem to never acknowledge the potential for nuclear conflict as they urge more muscular confrontation with Moscow…

I really think that Ukraine hawks just do not understand what nuclear weapons are.

What people in the West also don’t understand is that we have thousands of nuclear warheads pointed at us right now.

After a full nuclear exchange, fallout would kill nearly all people on earth. pic.twitter.com/axbfZ9ouML

— Primo Radical (@PrimoRadical) November 21, 2024

Brink became the US ambassador to Ukraine in 2022, the year the war began. She held that position until she resigned on April 21.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals was named the winning bidder in the court-supervised sale of 23andMe, granting it eventual access to a gigantic pool of genetic data from an estimated 15 million individuals. The deal has raised alarm bells in Washington, DC, prompting bipartisan lawmakers to introduce a bill that would strengthen protections for genetic data during bankruptcy proceedings. 

Fox News has learned that Republican Senators John Cornyn and Chuck Grassley, along with Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar, are preparing to introduce the Don’t Sell My DNA Act, a bipartisan measure to protect consumers’ sensitive genetic data. The bill comes just days after renewed privacy concerns surrounding 23andMe.  

Prompted by 23andMe’s recent bankruptcy and court-supervised $256 million asset sale to Regeneron, the new bill would:

• Add genetic data to the definition of “personally identifiable information” (PII) in the bankruptcy code.

• Require explicit consumer consent before genetic data can be sold or leased during bankruptcy.

• Mandate prior written notice of any use or sale of such data.

Senate aides provided Fox News with additional details on the bill’s new safeguards: 

Under current law, the bankruptcy code provides protections for personally identifiable information in bankruptcy court proceedings to prevent the possibility of identity theft, harm or other unlawful injury.

The current definition of personally identifiable information includes an individual’s name, address, email, phone number, Social Security number, credit card numbers and other information that could be used for identification purposes.

Those aides said the definition is “outdated” and does not include a reference to genetic information, leaving the information vulnerable.

“This legislation would solve this problem by updating the definition of ‘personally identifiable information’ in the bankruptcy code to include genetic information,” a Senate aide said.

Cornyn stated, “By updating the bankruptcy code, this legislation would safeguard Americans’ sensitive genetic information to ensure it cannot be weaponized against them or made public without their knowledge and consent.” 

The takeaway for consumers is super obvious: think twice before handing over your sensitive genetic data to a company, as there’s always a risk it could be stored, sold, or even weaponized against you in the future. 

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was left humiliated outraged after personally witnessing the botched launch of a new, 5,000-ton destroyer on Thursday — going so far as to call it a “criminal act” and a “political issue directly related to the prestige of the state.” He’s promised accountability and, given his history of executing officials who fail to carry out their responsibilities, heads may be literally rolling in short order. 

Perhaps bowing to the reality that the satellite-observed accident couldn’t be kept secret, North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) was quick to report on the debacle and Kim’s furious reaction. The incident unfolded at the northeastern port city of Chongjin. At what was set up to be a moment of national pride, the launch went terribly wrong when the stern slid down the slipway but the bow stood fast, wrenching the vessel and flipping it on its side. “The stern is seen swung out into the harbour as a result of the wheeled units placed under the frame sliding into the water while the bow remained on the side slipway,” the Center for Strategic and International Studies reported after reviewing satellite imagery. 

According to KCNA, the ship was left with holes torn into its hull, but the outlet didn’t report if there were any human casualties. Kim blamed the incident on “unscientific empiricism” and said it “lowered the dignity and self-respect” of the country. He ominously promised that consequences would be revealed at the ruling Worker’s Party meeting in June, and set what could be a daunting deadline for the vessel to be repaired by that same event. 

“No matter how good the state of the warship is, the fact that the accident is an unpardonable criminal act remains unchanged, and those responsible for it can never evade their responsibility for the crime,” said the Central Military Commission. The manager of the shipyard was immediately summoned by police as they set out to investigate the incident and detain potentially culpable individuals.  

KCNA blamed “inexperienced command and operational carelessness.” The outlet reported that the destroyer’s starboard hull was scratched, and water entered the stern section. KCNA estimated it will take two or three days to put the ship upright, and upwards of 10 days to repair the side. 

While the official line is that the damage was “not serious,” outside observers have major doubts. Given the entrance of water, “The propulsion systems and electronic components are likely beyond repair,” a naval construction expert told South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo. Another expert said the ship’s recovery would be technically demanding to the point Kim may have to ask Russia for help: “They would need to push the vessel fully into the sea and raise it using cranes and a barge—equipment North Korea likely doesn’t possess.”

Kim has put a high priority on upgrading North Korea’s nuclear and conventional arsenal, to include building new warships to phase out aging Soviet-era vessels. Last month, he attended the launch of the largest warship the country has ever produced — a 5,000-ton destroyer that successfully slid down a slipway in the western port city of Nampo. Thursday’s launch featured a second destroyer of the same proportion — but now it’s laying on its side in the water, according to South Korea’s military. 

The country’s navy mainly consists of smaller vessels for coastal defense. The new destroyers were designed to extend the nation’s firepower in the Yellow Sea to the west and in eastern waters leading to Japan. The vessels can launch guided missiles and boast an air defense system that include the Russian Pantsir-M. — Bloomberg

With Kim’s declaration that the failure is a “political issue” that damaged the prestige of the state, capital punishment is surely on the table — and Kim has a rich history of dealing out death to subordinates. Last year, in the wake of vast flooding and landslides that killed some 4,000 people, Kim reportedly ordered the execution of dozens of officials for failing to prevent the calamity — hitting them with charges of corruption and dereliction of duty. “It has been determined that 20 to 30 cadres in the flood-stricken area were executed at the same time late last month,” an unnamed official told South Korea’s TV Chosun. 

While these reports are always difficult to verify, here’s a sampling of other reported executions of officials who’ve disappointed Kim: 

• In 2019, Kim reportedly put five officials in front of a firing squad after a summit with President Trump in Vietnam failed to achieve North Korea’s goals.
• In 2016, there were reports that he put the country’s vice premier for education before a firing squad for slouching at a political meeting.
• In 2014, he reportedly executed his deputy public security minister with a flamethrower
• In 2013, Kim had his own uncle — who was considered the country’s second-most powerful official — dramatically yanked out of a special party meeting and then executed him for “acts of treachery.” 

United States Steel Corp. shares surged to their highest level since April 2011 after President Trump announced on Truth Social his full backing of a partnership between the Pittsburgh-based steelmaker and Japan’s Nippon Steel.

Trump confirmed that U.S. Steel will remain headquartered in Pittsburgh, calling the deal the largest investment in Pennsylvania’s history and a first critical step in revitalizing the nation’s steel industry, aligning with his ‘America First’ agenda of rebuilding critical supply chains. 

“I am proud to announce that, after much consideration and negotiation, US Steel will REMAIN in America, and keep its Headquarters in the Great City of Pittsburgh,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. 

He continued, “For many years, the name, “United States Steel” was synonymous with Greatness, and now, it will be again. This will be a planned partnership between United States Steel and Nippon Steel, which will create at least 70,000 jobs, and add $14 Billion Dollars to the U.S. Economy.” 

The president said much of the investment will unfold over the next 14 months and will be “the largest Investment in the History of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.”

Trump concluded the post by stating: “My tariff policies will ensure that steel will once again be, forever, MADE IN AMERICA. From Pennsylvania to Arkansas, and from Minnesota to Indiana, AMERICAN MADE is BACK. I will see you all at U.S. Steel in Pittsburgh on Friday, May 30, for a BIG rally.”

Earlier, a Wall Street Journal report said that Nippon sweetened the deal by “roughly doubling its spending plan and even pledging to build a brand-new mill to win Washington’s blessing for its takeover of U.S. Steel.” 

While Trump initially criticized the deal, he has since warmed to it because it aligns with America First’s policy goals of bolstering domestic supply chains and revitalizing manufacturing. 

The merger agreement between U.S. Steel and Nippon, which values U.S. Steel at $55 per share, expires June 18 unless extended.

Shares of U.S. Steel jumped to the highest level since April 2011 following the president’s Truth Social post. 

Meanwhile, the United Steelworkers union remains strongly opposed, citing Nippon’s history of undercutting U.S. steel markets.

Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness,

The father of the suspected gunman in the murder of two Israeli Embassy staffers at the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday, was the honored guest of a far-left lawmaker at President Trump’s joint address to Congress back in March, the New York Post reported.

Eric Rodriguez is an anti-Trump SEIU member who also spoke at a Democrat press conference ahead of Trump’s address.

His son, accused killer Elias Rodriguez, 30, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder after allegedly gunning down Yaron Lischinsky, 28, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, who were about to become engaged.

“Eric Rodriguez was our guest during the President’s Joint Speech to Congress, but we don’t know his family,” a spokesperson for Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Ill.) told the Post Thursday night.

García in March had described Rodriguez as “an outspoken advocate against attacks on veterans’ services and the rights of unionized federal employees.”

His mention of “attacks on veteran services” appeared to be a reference to the Department of Government Efficiency’s work eliminating of waste fraud and abuse from the system.

“Eric represents the very best of our community — someone who has served his country, continues to serve his fellow veterans and fights every day to protect the dignity of working people,” the congressman said in a statement on March 3. “His presence at the Joint Address is a powerful statement: we will not sit back while veterans and workers are treated as political pawns.”

According to the Post, Rodriguez also appeared in a Service Employees International Union (SEIU) video that same day, speaking as an Iraq War vet and an employee with the Veterans Affairs Department.

The SEIU, one of the largest labor unions in North America, donates millions of dollars to left-wing Democrat politicians who promote government expansion and higher taxes.

“I’ve been with the VA for three years, and the reason why I’m in Washington, DC, is because I’m concerned about what Donald Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE are doing to the VA system,” he said in the SEIU video. 

Rodriguez was also a featured speaker at an emotional Democrat press conference on March 4.

Flanked by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and other Democrat lawmakers, Rodriguez appeared on the verge of tears as he decried the DOGE cuts.

“Right now the Trump administration is trying to cut the VA, frontline workers, and let billionaires steal our healthcare. Veterans, we’re under attack. Last week, 1,400 workers got fired illegally,” he said.

“They’re slashing staff, crushing unions, and selling out the VA—for what? So billionaires can make more money while Veterans sit on a waitlist. Or worse, get no treatment,” Rodriguez added.

That video was shared on social media by the left-wing veterans group “VoteVets.”

His son Elias on Wednesday unleashed nearly two dozen rounds on the young Jewish couple, and shouted  “Free, free Palestine” when he was taken into custody.

[ZH: And while we’re down the rabbit hole – CIA contractor and big data expert Tony Seruga says GPS puts the elder Rodriguez at Barack Obama’s Washington DC residence for 32 minutes back in March]

GPS—put the Israeli capital Jewish Museum shooter’s father at Barack Hussein Obama II’s Washington, D.C. residence (which is a quick 4 minute walk from The Islamic Center of Washington D.C..) back in March for 32 minutes.

And now we find out Democrats invited accused terrorist… pic.twitter.com/H1DKcOQkCC

— Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) May 23, 2025

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Rep. García condemned the murders in a statement posted on social media Thursday.

“I strongly condemn this horrible, senseless act of antisemitism. My heart is with the victims and everyone impacted by the attack,” García posted on X. “We mourn the lives lost and reject the idea that justice can be won through violence.”

And now we find out Democrats invited accused terrorist (Elias) killer’s DAD (Eric Rodriguez) to Trump address just weeks before heinous crime pic.twitter.com/dgGQ6ZX5Af

— Joni Job (@jj_talking) May 23, 2025