It's Spring and Nancy Mace is playing in the snow.
My prediction is that this South Carolina lawmaker will have an encounter with the police. She will return from an event and she will be under the influence. She will try to use her privilege as a Congress member to escape a driving under the influence charge. She will also claim that if the junk food media gets a hold of the body or dash camera footage, it is an attempt by the left to smear a "innocent woman".
Influence doesn't mean alcohol.
Inside in Ulta Beauty store, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said fuck you to a constituent as he confronted her on her refusal to hold town halls.
Mace has single handedly become the most insufferable House member this year alone. Once a pragmatic conservative, Mace turned into this whining Karen.
A total drunk. A cocaine snorting bitch.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) are alcoholics who do cocaine as well.
Prove me wrong.
Mace had rude encounters with Madea Benjamin of Code Pink.
Benjamin asked her why she continues to support Israel, the lawmaker shot back saying she loves Israel and called the woman a supporter of terrorism.
Mace also voted against the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. She took credit for the law giving her district allocated funds for projects.
Mace shared footage of an expletive-laden confrontation between her and an “unhinged lunatic” voter over the weekend.
“Some unhinged lunatic, wearing daisy dukes, at a makeup store, got in my face today. Dems are nuts. So I went off – and I won’t be backing down,” Mace wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter, Saturday alongside a clip of the incident.
She added in her caption: “I hold the line 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Try me.”
In the clip, things spiral out of control after the man questions if she would be holding more town hall meetings this year while she was out shopping over the weekend.
“I do them every year. Do you want to keep going? Do you want to keep going, keep harassing me?” the conservative lawmaker said, telling the unidentified man in the video that he “could have gone to a dozen town halls last year.”
The man responded, “I asked if you were doing any more this year. It was one simple question,” prompting Mace to then imply that he was gay despite him never mentioning his sexuality during their heated exchange.
I just wanted some face wash on my afternoon off lol
“And by the way, I voted for gay marriage twice,” she said, to which he replied, “What does that have to do with me?”
Mace’s derogatory words came after she previously claimed to be pro-LGBT, telling the Washington Examiner in March 2021 that she “strongly supports LGBTQ rights and equality.”
The dispute between Mace and the man further ignited after the politician accused him of being “absolutely fucking crazy.”
“You people on the left are crazy, you’re absolutely fucking crazy. You are and get out of my face, goodbye. Fuck you,” she fired back after he began to walk away.
Her biting words drew him right back into the clash, with him swiveling back to tell Mace she’s “a disgrace to this state,” a “nasty bitch” and is “going to be voted out so fast this year.”
The clip of them going at each other’s throats ended with Mace replying, “Get the fuck out of my face now. Fuck you. You couldn’t take me on, baby.”
In a separate video shared on Bluesky by a social media user, the man seemingly kicked off the conversation by asking Mace if she is going to host a “a real town hall for the people” this year.
“Did you miss the 15 I had last year?” she asked as he shot back, “the town hall you hosted this year was not a town hall, let’s be real.”
In a follow-up post, Mace poked fun at the spicy war of words, writing, “I just wanted some face wash on my afternoon off lol.”
Reps for Mace didn’t immediately respond to HuffPost for comment.
Last month, Mace was criticized for not attending a town hall organized by the Lowcountry Accountability Alliance, alleging that it was being “driven by left-wing extremists and paid agitators with a clear agenda” and wasn’t “safe.”
“We’re staying away because it’s not safe, and we refuse to be bullied by individuals who are threatening me, my employees, and my family,” she wrote on X.
This is the same woman who threatens Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
This bitch is off her rocker. No wonder her fiancé left her. She is fucking crazy.
Pope Francis' final duties were his Easter message.
Just a day after he delivered his Good Friday and Easter message, Pope Francis has passed away. The pontiff is dead at 88 years old.
The world leaders will react.
The Vice President, JD Vance had the last image of him with the Pope. The Pope kicked off his message to a representative days before his passing. He told Vance to have some humanity.
President Donald J. Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Congress, former presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton will react to this.
Former vice presidents Kamala Harris, Mike Pence, Dick Cheney, Al Gore and Dan Quayle will react to this.
Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change, died Monday. He was 88.
Bells tolled in church towers across Rome after the announcement, which was read out by Cardinal Kevin Farrell from the chapel of the Domus Santa Marta, where Francis lived.
“At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the home of the Father. His entire life was dedicated to the service of the Lord and of his Church,” said Farrell, the Vatican camerlengo, who takes charge after a pontiff’s death.
Francis, who suffered from chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a young man, was admitted to Gemelli hospital on Feb. 14, 2025, for a respiratory crisis that developed into double pneumonia. He spent 38 days there, the longest hospitalization of his 12-year papacy.
He made his last public appearance on Easter Sunday — a day before his death — to bless thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square, drawing wild cheers and applause. Beforehand, he met briefly with Vance.
Francis performed the blessing from the same loggia where he was introduced to the world on March 13, 2013 as the 266th pope.
From his first greeting that night — a remarkably normal “Buonasera” (“Good evening”) — to his embrace of refugees and the downtrodden, Francis signaled a very different tone for the papacy, stressing humility over hubris for a Catholic Church beset by scandal and accusations of indifference.
After that rainy night, the Argentine-born Jorge Mario Bergoglio brought a breath of fresh air into a 2,000-year-old institution that had seen its influence wane during the troubled tenure of Pope Benedict XVI, whose surprise resignation led to Francis’ election.
But Francis soon invited troubles of his own, and conservatives grew increasingly upset with his progressive bent, outreach to LGBTQ+ Catholics and crackdown on traditionalists. His greatest test came in 2018 when he botched a notorious case of clergy sexual abuse in Chile, and the scandal that festered under his predecessors erupted anew on his watch.
And then Francis, the crowd-loving, globe-trotting pope of the peripheries, navigated the unprecedented reality of leading a universal religion through the coronavirus pandemic from a locked-down Vatican City.
He implored the world to use COVID-19 as an opportunity to rethink the economic and political framework that he said had turned rich against poor.
“We have realized that we are on the same boat, all of us fragile and disoriented,” Francis told an empty St. Peter’s Square in March 2020. But he also stressed the pandemic showed the need for “all of us to row together, each of us in need of comforting the other.”
Flags flew at half-staff Monday in overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Italy, and tourists and the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square, where bells tolled in mourning.
Johann Xavier, who traveled from Australia, hoped to see the pope during his visit. “But then we heard about it when we came in here. It pretty much devastated all of us,’’ he said.
Francis’ death sets off a weekslong process of allowing the faithful to pay their final respects, first for Vatican officials in the Santa Marta chapel and then in St. Peter’s for the general public, followed by a funeral and a conclave to elect a new pope.
Vice President JD Vance meets Pope Francis for the first and last time.
Reforming the Vatican
Francis was elected on a mandate to reform the Vatican bureaucracy and finances but went further in shaking up the church without changing its core doctrine. “Who am I to judge?” he replied when asked about a purportedly gay priest.
The comment sent a message of welcome to the LGBTQ+ community and those who felt shunned by a church that had stressed sexual propriety over unconditional love. “Being homosexual is not a crime,” he told The Associated Press in 2023, urging an end to civil laws that criminalize it.
Stressing mercy, Francis changed the church’s position on the death penalty, calling it inadmissible in all circumstances. He also declared the possession of nuclear weapons, not just their use, was “immoral.”
In other firsts, he approved an agreement with China over bishop nominations that had vexed the Vatican for decades, met the Russian patriarch and charted new relations with the Muslim world by visiting the Arabian Peninsula and Iraq.
He reaffirmed the all-male, celibate priesthood and upheld the church’s opposition to abortion, equating it to “hiring a hit man to solve a problem.”
Donald J. Trump with Francis in his first term.
Roles for women
But he added women to important decision-making roles and allowed them to serve as lectors and acolytes in parishes. He let women vote alongside bishops in periodic Vatican meetings, following long-standing complaints that women do much of the church’s work but are barred from power.
Sister Nathalie Becquart, whom Francis named to one of the highest Vatican jobs, said his legacy was a vision of a church where men and women existed in a relationship of reciprocity and respect.
“It was about shifting a pattern of domination — from human being to the creation, from men to women — to a pattern of cooperation,” said Becquart, the first woman to hold a voting position in a Vatican synod.
Still, a note of criticism came from the Women’s Ordination Conference, which had been frustrated by Francis’ unwillingness to push for the ordination of women.
“His repeated ‘closed door’ policy on women’s ordination was painfully incongruous with his otherwise pastoral nature, and for many, a betrayal of the synodal, listening church he championed. This made him a complicated, frustrating, and sometimes heart-breaking figure for many women,” the statement said.
Francis with Joe Biden.
The church as refuge
While Francis did not allow women to be ordained, the voting reform was part of a revolutionary change in emphasizing what the church should be: a refuge for everyone — “todos, todos, todos” (“everyone, everyone, everyone”). Migrants, the poor, prisoners and outcasts were invited to his table far more than presidents or powerful CEOs.
“For Pope Francis, (the goal) was always to extend the arms of the church to embrace all people, not to exclude anyone,” said Farrell, the camerlengo.
Francis demanded his bishops apply mercy and charity to their flocks, pressed the world to protect God’s creation from climate disaster, and challenged countries to welcome those fleeing war, poverty and oppression.
After visiting Mexico in 2016, Francis said of then-U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump that anyone building a wall to keep migrants out “is not Christian.”
While progressives were thrilled with Francis’ radical focus on Jesus’ message of mercy and inclusion, it troubled conservatives who feared he watered down Catholic teaching and threatened the very Christian identity of the West. Some even called him a heretic.
A few cardinals openly challenged him. Francis usually responded with his typical answer to conflict: silence.
He made it easier for married Catholics to get an annulment, allowed priests to absolve women who had had abortions and decreed that priests could bless same-sex couples. He opened debate on issues like homosexuality and divorce, giving pastors wiggle room to discern how to accompany their flocks, rather than handing them strict rules to apply.
St. Francis of Assisi as a model
Francis lived in the Vatican hotel instead of the Apostolic Palace, wore his old orthotic shoes and not the red loafers of the papacy, and rode in compact cars. It wasn’t a gimmick.
“I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful,” he told a Jesuit journal in 2013. “I see the church as a field hospital after battle.”
If becoming the first Latin American and first Jesuit pope wasn’t enough, Francis was also the first to name himself after St. Francis of Assisi, the 13th century friar known for personal simplicity and care for nature and society’s outcasts.
Francis went to society’s fringes to minister with mercy: caressing the deformed head of a man in St. Peter’s Square, kissing the tattoo of a Holocaust survivor, or inviting Argentina’s garbage scavengers to join him onstage in Rio de Janeiro. He formally apologized to Indigenous peoples for the crimes of the church from colonial times onward.
“We have always been marginalized, but Pope Francis always helped us,” said Coqui Vargas, a transgender woman whose Roman community forged a unique relationship with Francis during the pandemic.
His first trip as pope was to the island of Lampedusa, then the epicenter of Europe’s migration crisis. He consistently chose to visit poor countries where Christians were often persecuted minorities, rather than the centers of global Catholicism.
Friend and fellow Argentine, Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, said his concern for the poor and disenfranchised was based on the Beatitudes — the eight blessings Jesus delivered in the Sermon on the Mount for the meek, the merciful, the poor in spirit and others.
“Why are the Beatitudes the program of this pontificate? Because they were the basis of Jesus Christ’s own program,” Sánchez said.
Francis with Barack Obama.
Missteps on sexual abuse scandal
But more than a year passed before Francis met with survivors of priestly sexual abuse, and victims’ groups initially questioned whether he really understood the scope of the problem.
Francis did create a sex abuse commission to advise the church on best practices, but it lost influence after a few years and its recommendation of a tribunal to judge bishops who covered up for predator priests went nowhere.
And then came the greatest crisis of his papacy, when he discredited Chilean abuse victims in 2018 and stood by a controversial bishop linked to their abuser. Realizing his error, Francis invited the victims to the Vatican for a personal mea culpa and summoned the leadership of the Chilean church to resign en masse.
As that crisis concluded, a new one erupted over ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the retired archbishop of Washington and a counselor to three popes.
Francis had actually moved swiftly to sideline McCarrick amid an accusation he had molested a teenage altar boy in the 1970s. But Francis nevertheless was accused by the Vatican’s one-time U.S. ambassador of having rehabilitated McCarrick early in his papacy.
Francis eventually defrocked McCarrick after a Vatican investigation determined he sexually abused adults as well as minors. He changed church law to remove the pontifical secret surrounding abuse cases and enacted procedures to investigate bishops who abused or covered for their pedophile priests, seeking to end impunity for the hierarchy.
“He sincerely wanted to do something and he transmitted that,” said Juan Carlos Cruz, a Chilean abuse survivor Francis discredited who later developed a close friendship with the pontiff.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla with Francis.
A change from Benedict
The road to Francis’ 2013 election was paved by Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to resign and retire — the first in 600 years.
Francis didn’t shy from Benedict’s potentially uncomfortable shadow. Francis embraced him as an elder statesman and adviser, coaxing him out of his cloistered retirement to participate in the public life of the church until Benedict’s death on Dec. 31, 2022.
“It’s like having your grandfather in the house, a wise grandfather,” Francis said.
Francis’ looser liturgical style and pastoral priorities made clear he and the German-born theologian came from very different religious traditions, and Francis directly overturned several decisions of his predecessor.
He made sure Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero, a hero to the liberation theology movement in Latin America, was canonized after his case languished under Benedict over concerns about the credo’s Marxist bent.
Francis reimposed restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass that Benedict had relaxed, arguing the spread of the Tridentine Rite was divisive. The move riled Francis’ traditionalist critics and opened sustained conflict between right-wing Catholics, particularly in the U.S., and the Argentine pope.
Mike Pence with Francis.
Conservatives oppose Francis
By then, conservatives had already turned away from Francis, betrayed after he opened debate on allowing remarried Catholics to receive the sacraments if they didn’t get an annulment — a church ruling that their first marriage was invalid.
“We don’t like this pope,” headlined Italy’s conservative daily Il Foglio a few months into the papacy, reflecting the unease of the small but vocal traditionalist Catholic movement.
Those same critics amplified their complaints after Francis’ approved church blessings for same-sex couples, and a controversial accord with China over nominating bishops.
Its details were never released, but conservative critics bashed it as a sellout to communist China, while the Vatican defended it as the best deal it could get with Beijing.
U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke, a figurehead in the anti-Francis opposition, said the church had become “like a ship without a rudder.”
Russian Federation president Vladimir Putin with Francis.
Burke waged his opposition campaign for years, starting when Francis fired him as the Vatican’s supreme court justice and culminating with his vocal opposition to Francis’ 2023 synod on the church’s future.
Twice, he joined other conservative cardinals in formally asking Francis to explain himself on doctrine issues reflecting a more progressive bent, including on the possibility of same-sex blessings and his outreach to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics.
Francis eventually sanctioned Burke financially, accusing him of sowing “disunity.”
Francis insisted his bishops and cardinals imbue themselves with the “odor of their flock” and minister to the faithful, voicing displeasure when they didn’t.
His 2014 Christmas address to the Vatican Curia was one of the greatest public papal reprimands ever: Standing in the marbled Apostolic Palace, Francis ticked off 15 ailments that he said can afflict his closest collaborators, including “spiritual Alzheimer’s,” lusting for power and the “terrorism of gossip.”
Trying to eliminate corruption, Francis oversaw the reform of the scandal-marred Vatican bank and sought to wrestle Vatican bureaucrats into financial line, limiting their compensation and ability to receive gifts or award public contracts.
He authorized Vatican police to raid his own secretariat of state and the Vatican’s financial watchdog agency amid suspicions about a 350 million euro investment in a London real estate venture. After a 2 1/2-year trial, the Vatican tribunal convicted a once-powerful cardinal, Angelo Becciu, of embezzlement and returned mixed verdicts to nine others, acquitting one.
The trial, though, proved to be a reputational boomerang for the Holy See, showing deficiencies in the Vatican’s legal system, unseemly turf battles among monsignors, and how the pope had intervened on behalf of prosecutors.
While earning praise for trying to turn the Vatican’s finances around, Francis angered U.S. conservatives for his frequent excoriation of the global financial market.
Economic justice was an important themes of his papacy, and he didn’t hide it in his first meeting with journalists when he said he wanted a “poor church that is for the poor.”
In his first major teaching document, “The Joy of the Gospel,” Francis denounced trickle-down economic theories as unproven and naive, based on a mentality “where the powerful feed upon the powerless” with no regard for ethics, the environment or even God.
“Money must serve, not rule!” he said in urging political reforms.
Some U.S. conservatives branded Francis a Marxist. He jabbed back by saying he had many friends who were Marxists.
John Boehner, the House Speaker infamously weeped during Pope Francis invite to theJoint Session of Congress. Boehner resigned days later.
Soccer, opera and prayer
Born Dec. 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the eldest of five children of Italian immigrants.
He credited his devout grandmother Rosa with teaching him how to pray. Weekends were spent listening to opera on the radio, going to Mass and attending matches of the family’s beloved San Lorenzo soccer club. As pope, his love of soccer brought him a huge collection of jerseys from visitors.
He said he received his religious calling at 17 while going to confession, recounting in a 2010 biography that, “I don’t know what it was, but it changed my life. ... I realized that they were waiting for me.”
He entered the diocesan seminary but switched to the Jesuit order in 1958, attracted to its missionary tradition and militancy.
Around this time, he suffered from pneumonia, which led to the removal of the upper part of his right lung. His frail health prevented him from becoming a missionary, and his less-than-robust lung capacity was perhaps responsible for his whisper of a voice and reluctance to sing at Mass.
On Dec. 13, 1969, he was ordained a priest, and immediately began teaching. In 1973, he was named head of the Jesuits in Argentina, an appointment he later acknowledged was “crazy” given he was only 36. “My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative,” he admitted in his Civilta Cattolica interview.
Life under Argentina’s dictatorship
His six-year tenure as the head of the order in Argentina coincided with the country’s murderous 1976-83 dictatorship, when the military launched a campaign against left-wing guerrillas and other regime opponents.
Bergoglio didn’t publicly confront the junta and was accused of effectively allowing two slum priests to be kidnapped and tortured by not publicly endorsing their work.
Pope Francis.
He refused for decades to counter that version of events. Only in a 2010 authorized biography did he finally recount the behind-the-scenes lengths he used to save them, persuading the family priest of feared dictator Jorge Videla to call in sick so he could celebrate Mass instead. Once in the junta leader’s home, Bergoglio privately appealed for mercy. Both priests were eventually released, among the few to have survived prison.
As pope, accounts began to emerge of the many people — priests, seminarians and political dissidents —whom Bergoglio actually saved during the “dirty war,” letting them stay incognito at the seminary or helping them escape the country.
Bergoglio went to Germany in 1986 to research a never-finished thesis. Returning to Argentina, he was stationed in Cordoba during a period he described as a time of “great interior crisis.” Out of favor with more progressive Jesuit leaders, he was eventually rescued from obscurity in 1992 by St. John Paul II, who named him an auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires. He became archbishop six years later, and was made a cardinal in 2001.
He came close to becoming pope in 2005 when Benedict was elected, gaining the second-most votes in several rounds of balloting before bowing out.
Former U.S. Representative Barbara Lee won the special election and will become the mayor-elect of Oakland, California. Sheng Thao, the former mayor was indicted on federal corruption charges and was recalled in 2024.
Oakland has experienced major setbacks. The Raiders and A's left the city for Las Vegas. The A's play in Sacramento for the time being.
The Golden State Warriors moved also to San Francisco.
AIPAC wanted Loren Taylor to win. They pour some significant funds into this race.
Lee's win assures that Oakland continues to endorse Palestinians and the possible ending of Oakland Police being trained by Israelis.
During her tenure as mayor, Thao pledged to focus on crime, homelessness, and affordable housing. Thao's administration faced a series of challenges, including public safety, business departures and budget deficits. In June 2024, the FBI raided the home Thao shares with her partner Andre Jones and their two children as part of an ongoing investigation. On August 6, 2024, Oakland's police union called on Thao to resign. In January 2025, Thao was criminally indicted by a grand jury on federal bribery charges.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Lee who ran for U.S. Senator was defeated in a jungle primary by fellow Democratic lawmaker Adam Schiff, who later became the senator. Schiff is backed by AIPAC and is a stuanch Zionist.
Lee declared victory Saturday as the new mayor of troubled Oakland, a San Francisco Bay Area city reeling from economic stagnation, crime and homelessness.
Thank our elected leaders for pouring billions into endless wars, tax cuts for billionaires and constant culture wars. Israel gets billions of taxpayer dollars and cities like Oakland continue to suffer.
Lee issued a statement Saturday as mayor-elect, saying that her chief opponent, Loren Taylor, had called to concede the April 15 race.
“While I believe strongly in respecting the democratic voting process and ballots will continue to be counted ... the results are clear that the people of Oakland have elected me as your next Mayor,” she said. “Thank you, Oakland!”
AIPAC backed Loren Taylor wanted to tie Lee to Thao.
Lee, 78, is a Black female trailblazer who represented the city in Congress for over two decades before retiring last year after running unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate.
“Oakland is a deeply divided City,” she said, adding that she “answered the call to run” so the community could work together to solve its problems.
Lee was endorsed by former Gov. Jerry Brown and other previous Oakland mayors who said she was the seasoned, uniting presence the city needed after a divisive recall of former Mayor Sheng Thao in November. Thao was indicted on federal bribery, fraud and conspiracy charges in January.
Oakland has about 400,000 residents and is deeply liberal and multicultural, the birthplace of the Black Panther Party and claimed by former Vice President Kamala Harris as her hometown.
But Oakland also is reeling from homeless tents, public drug use, illegal sideshows, gun violence and brazen robberies that prompted In-N-Out Burger to close its first location ever last year.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has sent California Highway Patrol officers to help combat what he called an alarming and unacceptable rise in crime. And the city doesn’t have enough money to pay for public services.
Despite her high name recognition, the race was surprisingly heated with Taylor, 47, a former Oakland city council member who pledged to bolster police, reduce crime and revitalize the city’s economy.
Taylor said in a statement that “while the outcome was not what we worked for and hoped for,” he was proud of the campaign and the bold ideas he introduced.
On the campaign trail, Lee emphasized the need for more community services as well as more police. Economic development, job creation and ensuring core city services like fire hydrants work properly are among her priorities.
She will finish out the remainder of Thao’s term and would be up for reelection in November 2026.
Lee was first elected to the U.S. House in 1998 and became best known nationally as the only lawmaker to vote against the 2001 authorization for the use of military force in response to the Sept. 11 attacks.
Don't worry, we still deporting them. The Supreme Court doesn't matter.
It will be a constitutional crisis.
The Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act. In a 7-2 decision with Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissenting, the Court said that Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Border Czar Tom Homan and Attorney General Pam Bondi overstepped their actions.
They failed at using due process when they used the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to arrest civilians off the street.
The suit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Democracy Forward on March 15, 2025. The same day, Trump announced that the Venezuelan criminal gang Tren de Aragua was conducting "irregular warfare" against the United States and that members in the United States would be deported under the AEA. The Trump administration quickly began the process of deporting Venezuelans allegedly affiliated with this gang on flights to El Salvador.
While the deportation flights were en route, James Boasberg, chief judge of the US District Court for the District of Columbia was assigned to the case. He issued an order certifying Venezuelan migrants in the US as members of a class and temporarily enjoining their removal from the US. Although Boasberg specifically ordered that any planes in the air carrying those covered by his order be turned back and those individuals returned to the US, the Trump administration allowed the flights to proceed, potentially violating the court order. Over 260 men were flown to El Salvador, where the migrants were taken into custody and sent to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT). The Trump administration subsequently argued in court that the order did not apply because the flights were over international waters. Critics of the government alleged it was improperly using wartime authority to carry out its immigration policies without due process. The Trump administration appealed the temporary restraining order to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and after that court denied the appeal, the administration filed an emergency appeal with the US Supreme Court, which vacated Boasberg's temporary restraining order, but said intended deportees must be notified in time that they can petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
On March 24, Judge Boasberg ruled that the government cannot deport anyone under the AEA without a hearing. As of April 3, he was considering initiating contempt of court proceedings against the Trump administration.
Trump is defying the Supreme Court as we speak. He will continue to push for deporting immigrants who he alleges are gang members, critics of American policies, antisemitic and from countries hostile to the U.S. and Israel.
The guy who claimed the Biden administration hid records in regards to Hunter Biden’s tax records was appointed as the acting IRS Comissioner by the Trump administration. He only lasted less than 96 hours.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told President Donald J. Trump that he thought Gary Shapley was a problem and the president ordered his firing.
Bessent told the president that White House adviser/Department of Government Efficiency Secretary Elon Musk went behind Bessent’s back to get Shapley installed. The IRS commissioner reports to the Treasury secretary.
Deputy Treasury Secretary Michael Faulkender has been named as the replacement and is the fifth commissioner the agency has had since Jan. 20. Trump has nominated former Missouri Republican lawmaker Billy Long as commissioner, but the Senate Finance Committee has yet to hold a hearing on the nomination.
Long is another Zionist who will oversee our taxes. So if you decide to donate to Palestinians, Long could insulate that you are providing material support to terrorist and have you arrested.
Shapley’s tenure as acting commissioner last just four days, which is less than half the famously short tenure of Anthony Scaramucci, who was White House communications director for 10 days in 2017 before he was fired.
Shapley, a 16-year veteran of the IRS, briefly came to prominence in 2023 as a “whistleblower” touted by Republicans in their investigation into Hunter Biden.
“When I took control of this particular investigation, I immediately saw it was way outside the norm of what I’ve experienced in the past,” Shapley said at the time. “There was multiple steps that were slow-walked at the direction of the Department of Justice.”
Bessent and Musk have clashed behind the scenes, but on Thursday night, Musk amplified an attack on the Treasury secretary. In a social media post, conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer accused Bessent of colluding with a “Trump hater” who leads a nonprofit organization called Operation HOPE.
“Troubling,” Musk responded to Loomer’s post.
Trump named Shapley as the acting commissioner of internal revenue to succeed Melanie Krause, who resigned after administration officials sought to enjoin the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)'s data with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That day, Trump had asked the IRS to revoke Harvard University's tax exemption. On April 18, Trump replaced Shapley with Michael Faulkender, the deputy secretary of the treasury, amid a struggle between secretary of the treasury Scott Bessent and Elon Musk. According to The New York Times, Bessent was unaware that Shapley was named acting commissioner.
Shapley publicly alleged that the Department of Justice had "slow-walked" the investigation into the younger Biden in an interview with CBS News in May 2023. Michael Batdorf, the director of field operations at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), claimed that he removed Shapley and his team from the Biden case in December 2022 after David C. Weiss, who oversaw the Biden investigation at the Department of Justice, believed that Shapley could not "remain objective in the investigation"; handwritten notes from Shapley released by Politico in September revealed that he had concerns over Weiss beginning in October 2022. Biden sued the IRS, him, and Ziegler that month over alleged violations of privacy. He testified before the House Committee on Ways and Means about the investigation into Biden in June. His testimony was used by Republicans to critique Weiss's claim that he had independence in his special counsel investigation. Shapley testified before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform the following month alongside Joseph Ziegler, alleging political bias in Weiss's investigation. He and Ziegler spoke with the Committee on Ways and Means in December, after the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden began.
The suspect in the deadly Florida State University mass shooting is thes stepson of a Leon County Sheriff’s deputy. The shooter is a registered Republican who has deep ties to white nationalist Charlie Kirk and his TurningPoint USA organization.
Well I guess the biggest threat to Americans is not illegal immigrants, Hamas, Muslims, transgender women, Black teens or a liberal.... it's the firearms.
Our 45th/47th President of the United States is an old geezer. He is so easily swayed by the most dumbest bunch of idiots. With gun violence being the top threat in the United States, President Donald J. Trump pivots to immigrants, Muslims and transgender women as the biggest threat.
This suspect was inspired by the noise of the far right.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
The gunman killed two employees and injured six other people. The suspect was shot by police and taken into custody.
Twitter or X is really a sick place. I just witnessed the majority of people on this app focus on a (supposed) black girl walking past an injured victim with a Starbucks drink more than the actual Florida State University white shooter. This app is sick pic.twitter.com/mHwFs7ceJ3
The university issued an alert at 12:01 p.m. EDT (UTC−4) warning of a shooting at the Student Union area. The Tallahassee Police Department has confirmed that they detained one male subject in connection with the shooting, and later confirmed that he was among the injured. A search was made for any additional shooters, and some local TV stations across Florida reported that two suspects were involved. The Tallahassee Police Department announced that the campus has been secured, and only one suspect in custody.
The suspect arrived at a Florida State University parking garage at approximately 11:00 a.m. before leaving at 11:51 a.m. Gunshots were reported inside the Student Union Building around lunchtime at 11:56 a.m. The shooter walked in and out of buildings and green spaces firing a handgun. According to the university's alert system, the first active shooter alert was issued after 12:00 p.m., and the second was issued at 12:19 p.m. After 15 minutes, all students inside were escorted out of the building by police.
One student described seeing the alleged shooter firing a rifle in her direction. She reportedly heard 15 rounds fired indiscriminately for approximately 20 to 30 seconds. She also said that the suspect had pulled up in an orange Hummer outside the university and started firing his rifle. He then pulled out a pistol and shot a woman in front of him. Survivor Madison Askins claimed the shooter approached her, reloaded his weapon and calmly said "Keep running". She also added that he stayed where she was before eventually leaving.
People are more upset over a person drinking Starbucks passing over a shooting victim.
Another student who had been in the restroom at the start of the shooting thought the roof was collapsing before other students ran in and alerted her. Four of them held the door shut as it did not lock before being evacuated. Another group recounted being in the student union basement and barricading themselves in a corner behind trash cans and plywood. One student recounted how another student who had survived the Parkland high school shooting sheltered with them and exclaimed; "Man, I never thought this would happen again".
Shortly after 3 p.m. the university alerted students that the lockdown was lifted for the majority of the campus after the suspect was shot four minutes after the first shot was fired at 12:00 p.m. by police for refusing to comply with commands, but that nine buildings were still under lockdown as active crime scenes. Students nearby were advised to remain indoors and to not return to the building to retrieve personal items.
Three firearms were found by police: one on the arrested suspect, one in a car parked nearby, and a shotgun inside the building.[vague] One of the firearms recovered was the former service weapon of the suspect's mother, who was a Leon County Sheriff's deputy.
An eyewitness described the alleged shooter as a "normal college dude" who was wearing an orange T-shirt and khaki shorts. The witness described the alleged suspect as a white male with light hair.
Police confirmed the suspect was 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner (born August 2004) of Tallahassee, a student of the university, a dual American-Norwegian citizen, and the stepson of a school reserve deputy from the Leon County Sheriff's Office, who had been with the department since 2006. Ikner obtained the guns used in the shooting from his step-mother. Ikner graduated from Lincoln High School in May 2022, and later went to Tallahassee State College (TSC) before transferring to FSU.
Ikner was born Christian Gunnar Eriksen, but his name was changed to Phoenix Ikner in 2020. He lived in Tallahassee throughout most of his life, despite being listed in the population register under his Norwegian name as a Norwegian citizen, except in 2015, when his biological mother, who was born in Oslo, Norway, took her then-11-year-old son to the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and the two boarded a Scandinavian Airlines flight to Oslo in March 2015 in violation of the custody agreement she had with her father, after falsely telling his father that she was taking him to South Florida for spring break. After four months, she was arrested on July 27 of that year at the same airport on a kidnapping charge in connection of the abduction, and both Ikner and his biological mother were transferred back to Leon County. His biological mother who had custody rights, though the agreement stipulated that she could not take him from the country without advance notification, said she would return Ikner to the United States on March 27, 2015, but failed to do so, according to a Leon County affidavit.
His father later discovered that his son had been kidnapped when the then-11-year-old told him during a phone call, then quickly became worried and alerted authorities, saying that his son Ikner "has both developmental delays and special needs" which he feared would not be taken care of without access to his regular doctors. The affidavit from the Leon County Sheriff's Office said that Ikner was "on medication for several health and mental issues, to include a growth hormone disorder and ADHD." Several months later, in October 2015, his biological mother filed a lawsuit alleging slander and libel against Ikner's father, stepmother, and two other relatives, and sought $80,000 in damages to use toward Ikner's college fund. On July 14, 2016, his biological mother pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 200 days in prison with credit for 170 days of time served, followed by two years of community control and two more years of probation.
Back in Tallahassee, Ikner was also a member of the sheriff's office's Youth Advisory Council from 2021 to 2022. During his later years, Ikner espoused white supremacist and far-right views causing him to be kicked out of a political group at TSC. He also advocated for Trump's agenda and frequently argued with people over politics. His step-mother, who was the Leon County deputy, was one of two officers that were named "2011 Deputies of the Year" by the Leon County Sheriff's Office's Citizen's Academy banquet in May 2011.
Don't expect anything from these two morons.
Florida State University chief of police Jason Trumbower reported that two people were killed and an additional six injured had been admitted to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, including the suspect. Five of the victims were shot, and the sixth injured while running away from the shooting. ABC News reported eight people were shot, but its unclear if the person with a non-gunshot wound and the perpetrator were among them. The deceased victims were two adult males who were not students at the university. The victims were identified as 57-year-old campus dining director Robert Morales, who was killed during a meeting with other university employees, and 45-year-old employee of a campus vendor Tiru Chabba. Chabba was a regional vice president at Aramark Collegiate Hospitality. Morales was from Miami-Dade County, and Chabba was from Greenville, South Carolina. Morales had founded the popular Cuban restaurant Gordos Cuban Cuisine, and had worked at the university in dining services and as an assistant football coach since 2015. He was a son of intelligence agent Ricardo Morales.
All seven injured victims were reported to be in fair condition on the day of the shooting. One of the injured victims was identified as 23-year-old graduate student Madison Askins who was shot in the buttocks while running away from the shooter. Tallahassee Police Department Chief Lawrence Revell said it appears that there was no connection between the shooter and the victims. On April 18, two were expected to be discharged, three were in good condition, and one remained in fair condition. A surgeon said he expects all of them to make a full recovery. The suspect remains hospitalized with significant injuries.
These murderers don't have mental illness. They are calculated and prepared. It happened to be a moment where they have the opportunity to take out lives.
There's no sickness in the head. Most mass shooters legally obtain their assault rifles without little background checks. They have likely no criminal history and they are willing to use the assault weapon in the only thing it's good for: Killing numerous lives.
I dismiss this ridiculous notion that criminals are the problem, not the guns.
Firearms are often obtained through legal purchases.
Again, having more security, teachers being armed and offering safe rooms are not solving the problem. The problem is lawmakers not willing to stop gun violence.
According to the far right: White shooters are mentally ill. Black shooters are unrepentant thugs and criminals. Gay shooters are active groomers. Muslim shooters are terrorists. Hispanic and Asian shooters are illegal immigrants. According to the far right, almost all white [or non-white] mass shooters are registered Democrats [or some progressive activist] because they have liked or done one thing common to the left. Of course, they often share or post disinformation by using the "Sam Hyde" meme or make bogus social media platforms with the shooter's image as a way to denounce most mass shooters being white or associated with conservative causes. The far right says a white person should "protect" themselves from thugs, terrorists or protesters. They believe the use of firearms are "justified" if they are protesting or even instigating a conflict. The far right believes if a shooter is a police officer, an active military member, a veteran or a citizen who supports conservative causes, they are considered a "heroes" and use of firearms are justified. If the shooters are teens in urban communities, the far right automatically assumes the gunmen are Black.
The Republicans usually amplify white victims. Anytime a person of color kills a white victim, it is often wall-to-wall coverage on Fox, Twitter and they force it into national news. They make the case to blame Black Lives Matter, Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, Democrats, Rev. Al Sharpton and rap music for Black on whatever violence. Republican legislators who do not live in urban neighborhoods often troll social media to talk about gun violence or crime in Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee and New York City while not doing a damn thing to stop it. If a white person shoots a Black person, the shooter is given the benefit of doubt. White shooters are given glowing profiles about their perfect lives and how friends noticed something but refused to do something. When it comes to Black shooters, automatic vilification. They don't see mental illness. They see it as gang violence, allegedly fatherless homes, Democratic policies or the need for more firearms.
The thoughts and prayers governor.
The far right and Republicans exploit gun violence in the Black community for culture wars and racism.
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Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to curb gun violence. Let them know that we are tired of police officers using immunity when committing death of suspects in custody. Let them know that you are tired of private equity firms getting away with destroying small businesses and long established companies. Let them know that you are tired of your taxpayer money going to foreign nations like Israel. You are tired of hearing about "Israel having a right to..." and the bogus claims of being anti-Semitic or in support of terrorism.
We have bigger issues at home and our tax dollars should solve the housing crisis, lowering food prices, fixing roads, bridges, helping reinvest in struggling urban and rural communities. We have hospitals closing, big box retailers leaving communities and television programs dying. There are bigger issues in the country than Israel. You want an immediate ceasefire and accountability for war crimes done by Israel. You want no more foreign influence in American elections. You also want to make sure future presidents and legislators avoid influence from lobbyists.
The one murder suspect the far right ain't talking about.
Another teen stabbed another one. Of course, the far right doesn't seem to care about this situation.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Black MAGAland appears to be breaking away from its alliance with white MAGAland over this.
Several Black conservatives are angered at the far right for villifying Karmelo Anthony to suit their radical extremism.
The incident between Anthony and Austin Metcalf sparked the far right's demands for the teen to be locked up.
According to witnesses, the altercation began after the accused, Karmelo Anthony, a student at Centennial High School in Frisco, entered the Memorial High School team tent. Metcalf asked him to exit. The two began to argue. Anthony said "Touch me and see what happens" while he reached inside his bag. Metcalf then touched Anthony to get him to exit, a black knife was pulled from the bag and Anthony stabbed Metcalf once in the chest and fled.
Anthony's family set up a GiveSendGo to pay for legal defense and raised over $453,000 in donations by April 17.
The case has garnered widespread attention on social media and right-wing news media, becoming a right-wing cause célèbre. Conversely, Anthony has received significant financial support from the Black community.
Black activists are calling it self defense. The far right is calling it cold blooded murder. They are pressing the junk food media to question the motives of Anthony's parents, his attorney and the fundraising.
These are the same people who cheered George Zimmerman, Kyle Rittenhouse, Daniel Penny, Daniel Perry and Darren Wilson.
They are fucking ridiculous.
The slow pokes who can’t tell this is sarcasm irk me. Stfu dummies. Damn.
— 🇭🇹 Erickson Capois La Mort (@rickyson89) April 17, 2025
The family of Karmelo Anthony held a press conference today, & Austin Metcalf’s father showed up to crash it seemingly as a form of public harassment & intimidation. Is this where Austin Metcalf learned how to harass & intimidate ( & allegedly ASSAULT) people?
— Mark Carter, #ChicaGoRed (@ChicagoGoingRed) April 18, 2025
So the white people who got mad at me for saying that the judge in the karmelo Anthony case was actually within the law and what normal judges would do. She actually asked for more money than they do a lot of others. Her is proof! This is why I will never be the flavor of the… pic.twitter.com/EUb2JDdVLy
Bullied the wrong kid now they wanna play victim!! Its unfortunate the kid died but there are consequences to everyone actions. If the black kid would of got stomped to death there would be no out cry of support, hell it may not even made the national news. This is a classic…
I wonder why the mainstream media hid this story, lmao. In Texas, a white student is out on bail after stabbing a Mexican student to death on school grounds and is claiming self-defense. But when Karmelo claims self-defense and makes bail, it’s a problem. pic.twitter.com/6YJkKiMwOR
This y racism and hate will never end in our lifetime it’s just a bunch of adults doing the best to discredit each child in this unfortunate situation. America for u
This is a public official, the information is available online. This judges name is Angela Tucker… a supposed Republican. Call her office at (972) 548-4415 https://t.co/FyKZKW5p1s
You’re turning a tragic event at a school in Texas into brain dead identity politics.
— Steve Labinski 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 ☕️🐘🥧 (@desslocktx) April 16, 2025
I watched the whole thing and it was the most deranged an insulting rant I can remember seeing in a situation like this. The dude is an abuser, and has an IQ of like 90 as was evidenced by his consistent inability to put together coherent sentences.
I gotta admit fam, Black conservatives are truly making me proud re: this story...or i should say REAL Black Conservatives. I love how y'all are calling out these grifting mofos, and the race baiting folks on this issue.
If I get punched in the face in the street by a stranger and I have my weapon on me, the weapon is going to get produced
— Anthony Brian Logan (ABL) 🇺🇸 (@ANTHONYBLOGAN) April 16, 2025
They already have a massive home. These aren't poor people. The bulk of this money will be used for a lawyer. They're going to need it after all these nincompoops poisoning the well https://t.co/VUE6w9h4Cw
— Anthony Brian Logan (ABL) 🇺🇸 (@ANTHONYBLOGAN) April 15, 2025
Karmelo Anthony's family had a press conference, tell the public about racist threats that they've received
Jeff Metcalf (father of Austin Metcalf) came to harass the Anthony family
We're seeing patterns of disrespectful, entitled & unhinged behavior from the Metcalf family pic.twitter.com/aj9RHDVirP
Yet, these extremists made the case about race. The same folks who complain about DEI and innocence until proven guilty have already condemned, shamed and demanded Democrats react to this incident.
Conservatives demand Black Lives Matter, Rev. Al Sharpton, former president Barack Obama, former vice president Kamala Harris and the NAACP react to every fucking criminal act done by a Black person.
The teen is accused of murdering another teen after a physical altercation. It is national news and another racial situation the far right is exploiting.
In order to take the country away from President Donald J. Trump's colossal fuck ups, the far right needs to keep their racially angry base riled up going into 2026.
Due process is thrown out when it's a Black teen, a Black man, a Muslim, a Palestinian or a Latino.
If it's a white man, they are assumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
If they're guilty, the far right will deny it. They will claim that the George Soros appointed district attorney was bought and paid for.
This incident was mentioned by Black Twitter and you don't hear a peep from the far right.
Cayser Allison is on trial for a 2022 stabbing of a fellow student in a Belton, Texas high school.
The jury heard from two friends of Jose “Joe” Ramirez on the third day of the state’s presentation of evidence against 21-year-old Caysen Tyler Allison, who is accused of stabbing Ramirez during a fight in a Belton High School bathroom almost three years ago.
The 18-year-old high school student died on May 3, 2022, at a local hospital after allegedly being stabbed by Allison and collapsing in a hallway. Allison’s defense team is presenting a case of self-defense.
Before testimony began Wednesday morning, and outside of the jury’s presence, the judge had another matter to address. Judge Wade Faulkner announced to the nearly-full courtroom that the defense had given him three screenshots of social media postings made by Amanda Rios, Ramirez’s mother.
“Today is a warning,” Faulkner said. “You’ll be excluded from the trial if you post about the case, your knowledge of the case or your possible testimony.”
Any person would normally be able to post or comment on social media, but Rios was among the 14 people who were sworn in as witnesses by Faulkner on Monday morning when the trial began and was not supposed to talk about the case at all.
Because she is the mother of a homicide victim, the judge on Monday excluded her from “the rule” that almost always is invoked by the defense and she has been in the courtroom for the trial. (When “the rule” is in effect, sworn witnesses are not allowed to watch court proceedings because such a scenario could influence their later testimony.)
Right after Rios was admonished, the defense team called for a woman sitting next to her — who also allegedly had been posting to social media — to be sworn in as a possible witness. Unlike Rios, the woman was not allowed to stay and she left the courtroom in tears.
The screenshots were admitted into the record as “court’s exhibit one.”
Belton police said that Allison, 18 years old at the time, admitted to the stabbing and a folding knife was located during a search of his home. He was indicted by a Bell County grand jury on June 8, 2022, on a first-degree felony charge of murder. He has been out of jail since July of 2022 after posting a reduced bond of $175,000.
A jury of seven men and six women, including one alternate juror, was empaneled after a two-day jury selection process on April 2-3. The trial is expected to proceed into next week and more than 30 people have been subpoenaed to testify, court records show.
BOYS IN BATHROOM CONTINUE TESTIMONY
Eleven people have testified over the course of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday: two records custodians; a detective; a teacher and the school nurse; two witnesses who were high school students; and four of Ramirez’s friends who were in the bathroom with him on May 3, 2022.
The five boys arrived first, according to school district surveillance video. A short time later, Allison and his friend, who can be seen with a slight limp because of a boot cast, walk into the bathroom seemingly unconcerned.
On Tuesday, Ramirez’s friends Angel Marillo and Tito Shamel testified about the altercation that occurred shortly afterward. Shamel recorded part of the fight on his phone and the short clip already has been shown in court numerous times. On Wednesday, a third friend, Josh Grymes finished his testimony that began on Tuesday.
Ramirez’s stepbrother, Joshua Rios Jr., then testified that a fist-fight had been planned through a Snapchat group message but that Allison and Ramirez had not yet agreed on the details of time and place.
“(Allison) wanted to go to West Temple Park in the woods to fight (Ramirez),” Rios said. “He sent a screenshot showing where. Joe didn’t want to fight there ... I didn’t think it was actually going to happen.”
Jose Ramirez’s life mattered.
The next plan was for the two to fight after school that day. The incident occurred in the morning, just after the end of first period during class change.
“As soon as Caysen walked in, they started arguing and Joe said if they were going to fight that they should do it here and now,” Rios said.
Ramirez then punched Allison, who can be seen on Shamel’s video rearing backward from the blow and then swinging at Ramirez. At the same time, Rios slugged Allison’s friend who had walked in with him, knocking him to the ground.
The shaky video does not show the stabbing as it occurred.
“I heard my brother scream and saw him run out,” Rios said. “I was trying to process if he’d just stabbed my brother. Caysen looked at me and bolted out of the bathroom. I chased after him.”
During attorneys’ questioning of the boys, both sides tried to clarify the circumstances for the jury.
“Caysen tried to stop the fight, he didn’t want to fight,” said defense attorney Zachary Boyd as he was questioning Grymes earlier in the morning. “He first went to urinate in the stall and then he was confronted by Joe. Joe tried to lock the bathroom door and then slugged Caysen in the face. When Joe moved to fight, none of you stepped in, did you?”
“No, sir,” Grymes said.
“If it were you with a friend in a boot, in a bathroom surrounded by boys who fight for fun, would you wait for a second punch?” Boyd asked. “Would you gamble with your life or end the fight?”
