Friday, May 02, 2025

Deli Ham! 🍖

President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance walk with Ohio State University football coach Ryan Day during the honorary visit to the White House.

So here we go again!

FREE PALESTINE🇵🇸!

I want President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance to fail. I want Israel to fail. And fail they shall.

And I am not ashamed to say it.

Of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, the jobs report details how many jobs were spread across the United States. Some areas seen job growth while others saw job losses.

The U.S. added 177,000 jobs in April, the Labor Department reported Friday, above the gain of 133,000 jobs economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had expected to see.

The unemployment rate, which is based on a separate survey from the jobs figures, held steady at 4.2%.

Trump’s tariffs on China and major industries from steel to automobiles have unnerved the corporate sector and pushed companies to rethink entire business strategies. Though Trump has paused many of his tariffs, economists warn that the White House’s plans will squeeze many companies, forcing them to not only slash costs but also workers later in the year.

Layoff activity has been muted and even companies that aren’t laying off workers could simply put hiring on hold.

“There’s a long lead time between making a decision on hiring or pulling jobs, then actually seeing that come through,” said James Knightley, an economist at ING Financial Markets. “But as we move through the year, we are going to have to brace for much weaker job numbers with the threat that hiring slows significantly.”

The Trump administration’s federal-government layoffs have already tempered government payrolls. However, some economists say the impact of the new Department of Government Efficiency, and its effort to trim thousands of federal jobs, won’t be fully reflected in monthly jobs data until the fall. Lawsuits and court orders have slowed the layoffs, while workers on paid leave or receiving ongoing severance are typically counted as employed.

April was an especially tumultuous month. Trump imposed sweeping tariffs at the start of the month, then paused many of them. He implied that he would fire the Federal Reserve chair, then said he had “no intention” of doing so. He has also recently mulled slashing his steep tariffs on China and softening levies for the auto industry, The Wall Street Journal has previously reported. 

Trump cuts funding to PBS and NPR.

Though hard data on the economy has held up well, businesses and individuals are telling surveys that they are worried. Consumer sentiment in April hit one of its lowest levels on record, according to the University of Michigan. More Americans said they expect weaker income growth for themselves in the year ahead.

Another factor that could slow the jobs market in the months ahead is the sharp decline in immigration stemming from Trump’s border policies. Fewer foreign-born workers means a tighter labor pool, especially in sectors such as construction, agriculture, hospitality and healthcare. That could paradoxically bring the unemployment rate down even as hiring slows.

For now, the uncertainty of Trump’s policies has made it challenging for businesses to forecast demand and plan ahead.

This week, General Motors shelved earlier profit guidance, citing lack of clarity about Trump’s tariffs. JetBlue said it wouldn’t reaffirm its prior full-year guidance due to the uncertain macroeconomic environment.

Some things that happened.

Mass shootings so far: 110 shootings.

Police killing civilians so far: 370 people killed.
  • Protests are held at Tesla dealerships across the United States, Canada, and Europe to protest against DOGE chief and Tesla CEO Elon Musk's role in the second Trump administration.
  • A SOCATA TBM-700 crashes into an unoccupied house in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, killing everyone on board.
  • A bus driver shoots and kills two passengers on a Miami-Dade Transit bus in Miami Gardens, Florida.
  • 2025 MLB season: The Athletics begin their temporary relocation to West Sacramento, California, which is planned to last until 2028, as part of their ongoing relocation to Las Vegas.
  • Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) gives a 25 hour speech criticizing Trump's policies. Booker made no mention of the genocide committed by Israel. He ducks questions whenever he is questioned about it. He and Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) were called out for taking money from AIPAC.
  • The United States announces sanctions on six Chinese and Hong Kong officials, including head of the national security office Dong Jingwei, accusing them of "transnational oppression and undermining Hong Kong autonomy".
  • The 2025 United States federal government grant pause: The Trump administration drafts a memorandum to Congress outlining a plan to halt all funding to public media programs, including PBS and NPR.
  • The federal government announces the freezing of more than $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard University, after the institution said it would defy the Trump administration's demands to limit activism on campus.
  • April 16
  • California Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta file a lawsuit against the Trump administration over his tariffs, making California the first U.S. state to do so.
  • A massive power outage causes the entire island of Puerto Rico to lose electricity.
  • The 2025 Florida State University shooting: At least two people are killed and six others are hospitalized in a mass shooting at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. The suspect is arrested by local police.
  • Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia: U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador to push for his release. The move comes hours after being previously denied a meeting with him.
  • At least three people are killed when a small plane crashes into the Platte River in Omaha, Nebraska.
  • Four people are killed when a Cessna 180 Skywagon aircraft clips powerlines and crashes into a field southwest of Coles County Memorial Airport in Trilla, Illinois.
  • Two people are killed and three others are rescued after two vehicles are swept off a road during flooding in southeast Moore, Oklahoma.
  • 2025 Tesla vandalism: The Department of Justice charges a student at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, Massachusetts, with unlawful possession of a destructive device and malicious damage by fire after the student is arrested for setting fire to two Tesla Cybertrucks and damaging charging stations in Kansas City, Missouri.
  • Federal authorities arrest a man in Colorado Springs for his "Declaration of War" threatening Elon Musk, Tesla owners, and members of Donald Trump's cabinet. The declaration, sent to various media outlets, detailed specific attack methods and aimed at Musk's elimination.
  • Three people are killed and ten others are injured, including one critically and four firefighters, in a large house fire in Jamaica Estates, Queens, New York.
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College v. Department of Health and Human Services: Harvard University files a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the administration's move to cut $2.3 billion in funding in contracts and grants to the university after accusing the school of alleged "civil rights violations".
  • 2025 Boston Marathon: Kenyan athletes John Korir and Sharon Lokedi win, both with times of 2:04:45.
  • Roche announces plans to invest $50 billion in the United States over the next five years, creating 12,000 jobs.
  • Harvey Weinstein's rape retrial begins after the original verdict was overturned.
  • A group of twelve states file a lawsuit against the Trump administration, alleging that the national trade policy is subjected to Trump's will instead of the law. The states are Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, New Mexico, New York, and Vermont.
  • 2025 NFL draft: The NFL draft is held at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin, with the Tennessee Titans selected quarterback Cam Ward from the Miami Hurricanes as the first overall pick.
  • United States Attorney for the District Court of Connecticut sentences former New York Congressman George Santos to a maximum sentence of 87 months in federal prison for several charges of wire fraud and identity theft, and orders Santos to pay nearly $374,000 in restitution.
  • Eleven people are injured in a shooting during an altercation in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The suspect is shot and killed by responding police officers.
  • More than 100 people suspected of entering the United States illegally are detained in a raid by the DEA and ICE at a nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, which had been investigated for drug trafficking and prostitution.
  • One person is killed and six others, including three students, are wounded in a school shooting during a university event at the historically black Elizabeth City State University in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
  • IBM announces a $150 billion investment in US manufacturing and research over the next five years.
  • The United States Air Force launches airstrikes on a migrant detention center in the city of Saada, Yemen killing at least 68 detained African migrants. All of this at the behest of Israel.
  • The Ukraine–United States Mineral Resources Agreement is signed, providing an economic incentive for the US to continue to invest in Ukraine's defence and reconstruction, in exchange for access to the war-torn country's energy and mineral resources.
  • Trump blames former president Joe Biden for the U.S. economy contracting by 0.3% during the first quarter of 2025, and says he will blame Biden again for a second quarter drop in GDP.
  • Trump fired Mike Waltz as his National Security Adviser. He will be nominated as the UN Ambassador after Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) was rejected. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will serve as interim National Security Advisor.
  • The Republican-majority House of Representatives cites the Congressional Review Act and votes to block California from implementing a law that would phase out the sale of new natural gas vehicles by 2035.
  • Sean "Puffy" Combs (aka Diddy) is scheduled to be put on trial for sex trafficking crimes.
  • Trump once again skipped The White House Correspondent Dinner. This time it wasn’t as popular as the previous ones. Former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden attended them.
Israel is having some problems. Instability, wildfires, protests and soliders losing trust in their government. We are seeing the collapse coming.

Israel and its allies overplayed the use of antisemitism. From now on, as long as there is no violence towards anyone practicing Christianity, Judaism or Islam, I will not hold my tongue. You can freely criticize Israel, Jews, Trump, Vance, Biden, Harris, Benjamin Netanyahu, AIPAC, the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, Zionism, colonialism, imperialism, slavery, racism, Christian nationalism and white supremacy.

Racism unfortunately is protected speech.

Antisemitism is protected speech.

Being a bigot is a choice which allows some people to "other" those who do not agree with the status quo of how America is ran. 

Trump is against DEI. The president supports banning DEI when it supports people of color, those in LGBTQ community and immigrants. Every other religion that isn't Christian, Catholic or Jewish is DEI and it has to go.

The U.S. violated the USMCA by imposing tariffs on its trading partners. Mexico and Canada have vowed to impose their series of tariffs. BRICS is courting Mexico to join the organization.

The world is losing patience with the U.S. and Israel. Many countries are moving away from the U.S. dollar.

Israelis are being banned from entry in several Global South countries.

Countries that deny entry to Israeli passport holders: Algeria, Bangladesh, Brunei, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, The United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. 

More countries are considering to ban Israelis. The only country that wants to keep Israelis coming in without any problems is the United States.

Michael Waltz fired as NSA advisor. But he will be nominated as UN Ambassador.

Trump despite winning the election is still telling Americans that if he doesn't win, there will be all out war. He has already sparked global tension with threats of tariffs on our trading partners.

Republicans can't govern in the House of Representatives and Senate. They are pushing authoritarianism in states they have control of. They are banning swatting, honing and regulations on testing. But when it comes to people being killed by firearms, they refuse to do something.

Republicans are using dog whistles when talking about Blacks, immigrants, transgender Americans, Israel, crime, protesters and gun violence.

1. Hamas are terrorists to Israel and the United States. Those who support Hamas or defend their actions are labeled terrorist sympathizers, antisemitic, traitors, unpatriotic, radicals or whatever they conjure up.

2. Gun violence is the No. 1 threat to children and adults. When gun violence happen in Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Atlanta, Washington, DC, Detroit and Baltimore, a Republican lawmaker wants to blame gun violence on Democratic mayors instead of the Congress. Over 60 mass shootings this year alone.

3. Immigration is right now at record lows. The world views the U.S. as a hostile country and migrants from the Global South are beginning to ban American influence. They fear Trump's presidency could cause instability. Republicans are pushing for border closures, border/segregation walls, mass deportations, elimination of birthright citizenship, end of legal rights to Americans married to immigrants and push for English only. They also want to ban immigrants or student visas. They want to jail or deport any immigrant who protest Israel or Trump.

4. Crime is at record lows. But property theft is up. Shoplifting, the Kia/Hyundai challenge, gun violence, white collar crimes and cybertheft have occurred. But again its racial dog whistles. Many corporations are getting away with greed and theft of wages. Many Americans are tired of paying more for less product. Kia and Hyundai are still facing criticism over this Kia Boyz nonsense. Walgreens, Rite Aid, CVS, Wexman are on their last legs. Walmart, Target and Kroger are closing stores in predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods. Republicans are pushing for more mandatory sentences for theft. Democrats want to push for regulations on shrinkflation and theft of wages. Republicans oppose overtime and regulations to keep corporations from raising product prices.

The FSU mass shooter was made into an AI doll.

Republicans want political revenge. Trump wants to jail his rivals. He may get that wish now that he has returned to power. This is not a joke. 

Do not assume that every place has jobs. Companies are closing up shop. The tech industry, retail, trucking and press are laying off workers. The service industry is continuing to suffer due to stagnant wages, lack of achievements and work overload.

Also, housing is still down. More Americans can't afford rent or car payments.

AIPAC has poured money into many of these primaries. It openly bragged that its choices which were Democrats and Republicans beating their challengers.

House members passed a bill to define antisemitism in attempt to suppress freedom of speech. The insufferable House of Representatives in a bipartisan moment are trying to criminalize thought and dissent.

They are now trying to outlaw any criticism of Israel as hate speech which could be punishable by sanctions, divestment or allowing companies to terminate employment of anyone who dares criticizes Israel.

Let me get this straight: You are more upset over words than actions. You are upset someone using their freedom of speech to criticize a foreign country engaged in a propaganda campaign to shield itself from war crimes and impunity. You are upset over people using their voices, their wallets and their time to protest an injustice. Well, get upset over your taxpayer money aiding foreign nations. Get upset over foreign nations killing Americans in a war funded by our taxpayer money. Get upset over the deaths of thousands in Haiti, Chad, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria, Venezuela, Myanmar, Mexico, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Ukraine and Palestine. Get upset at your president, your senator, your representative, your governor, your state leader, your mayor and your local junk food media for bowing to the evil regime of Israel.

The Congress has less work than most Americans. It is infuriating that the average worker works more 50 hours a week while 157 House members and 36 senators work on average of 25 hours a week.

Republicans see the only path to victory is basically obstruct and complain about the media, Democrats and former Republicans. They won't offer solutions or policies. All they care about is trying to keep folks angry with culture wars and distractions.

To make this clear, it doesn't matter anymore who the fucking president is. 

The status quo continues with political charades, support of Israel and endless culture war grievances.

Trump will be inheriting a stable economy but a very divided country.

I will hold Trump accountable for his actions.

I. Am. Calling. Him. Out. 

What pisses me off is our lawmakers are calling protesters "Hamas supporters" to paint peaceful protests as an act of "terrorism." Their reactionary response to anger over America's support of Israel will lead to our standing with the world. 

With billions of dollars of aid going to Israel, you would think that American lawmakers would have our taxpayer money spent on more useful things!

With measles spreading, Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will turn a blind eye to the deadly disease. 

The lawmakers will spend more taxpayer money to fix our crumbling infrastructure. Hell we still have the aftermaths of Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton. Over 1,500 people have died from those horrible hurricanes.
Many of these Republicans who vote against funding the government and assistance for some of America's less fortunate are willing to give billions to a foreign nation engaged in an illegal act of genocide. Same with Democrats. They claim they want to protect democracy but endorse a fascist government sworn to being an ethnostate on our taxpayer dime.

President Donald J. Trump's headaches:

  1. Joe Biden
  2. Kamala Harris 
  3. Elon Musk
  4. Pete Hegseth 
  5. TikTok
  6. The Democrats and Republicans stalling his nominees and agenda.
  7. Bad poll numbers.
  8. The media asking him about Russia, Israel and his latest controversies.
  9. The Supreme Court making controversial decisions that impact the country.
  10. Inflation and shrinkflation.
  11. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT).
  12. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Rep. Al Green (D-TX), Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Rep. Daniel Golden (D-NY), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA).
  13. Democratic governors Gavin Newsom, Katie Hobbs, J.B. Pritzker, Gretchen Whitmer, Kathy Hochul and Washington, DC mayor Muriel Bowser.
  14. Federal Judges and Supreme Court Justice Kentaji Brown Jackson who were appointed by Biden.
  15. The junk food media and their never ending dramatizing of world events.
  16. DEI (diversity equality and inclusion)
  17. Lawmakers and activists who call for his third impeachment.
  18. Entertainers who boycott him and MAGA.
  19. MSNBC, CNN, ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, The Drudge Report, The Bulwerk, HuffPost, NPR, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Meidas Touch Media, The Los Angeles Times and The Lincoln Project. 
  20. Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, Don Lemon, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver, Claudia Conway, Rosie O'Donnell, Stormy Daniels, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, Anthony Fauci, Anderson Cooper, George Stephanopoulos, Keith Olbermann, Sean "Softball" Hannity, Candace Owens, Nicolle Wallace, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Chuck Todd, Don Lemon, Jim Acosta, John Kasich, Michael Steele, Joe Walsh, Hunter Biden, Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Jim Carrey, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger and Andrea Mitchell.
  21. The lack of civility towards fellow Americans
  22. The junk food media's obsession with his age
  23. Mark Carney
  24. Doug Ford
  25. Karim A.A. Khan
  26. Claudia Sheinbaum
  27. Keir Starmer
  28. Xi Jinping
  29. Anthony Albanese
  30. António Guterres
  31. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
  32. Volodymyr Zelenskyy
  33. Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud
  34. Mark Cuban
  35. George Conway
  36. The Lincoln Project 
  37. Alec Baldwin
Monthly reminders: 

A deadly disease doesn't care about your age, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, politics, economic or social standings. It doesn't care about your business, your performances, your personal finances and travel. It doesn't care about the funerals, the birthday parties, the weddings, the vacations, the events and your graduations.

An active shooter doesn't care about the politics, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, your finances, your family, your plans that day, your successes, your failures, and most importantly, your life.

You're not safe in the school, the concert, the hospital, the church, the casino, the bus station, the subway, the light rail train, the buses, the malls, the local big box store, the political rally, the protest rally, the women's center for reproductive surgeries, the mosque, the synagogue, the state buildings, the workplace, the gas station, the family picnic, the food truck rally, the funerals, the birthday parties, the graduations, the wedding, the televised events, the sporting events and many more events that have some terrorist with a firearm. Domestic violence, suicide, racism, culture war inspired, politically motivated and international operative inspired are types of gun violence.

Food prices, energy prices, rent, city services and college education have risen. Companies are struggling to find workers. They are now trying to push incentives to get workers in. However, there is always a catch to working entry level jobs that make over $20 an hour. Folks must work hours that do not accommodate home and social life, it may only be part time work or temporary. Some jobs may force overtime or refuse to pay for work rendered. With unions being weaken by states, it may be an at-will company. So if you are on social media, protesting injustices, supporting controversial issues or making threats to local officials; you could lose your job.

Real Reasons To Why Unemployment Rate Stays The Way It Is! The main reasons why some are not working.

  1. DEAD
  2. BORN
  3. IN PRISON
  4. IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
  5. IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
  6. IN HIGH SCHOOL
  7. IN COLLEGE FULL TIME
  8. VOLUNTEER
  9. DISABLED
  10. INFLATION
  11. STAY AT HOME PARENT
  12. LACK OF TRANSPORTATION OR BABYSITTING
  13. RETIRED 
  14. QUIT ON THEIR OWN
  15. TERMINATED FROM EMPLOYMENT 
  16. NOT HIRING UNQUALIFIED
  17. NOT HIRING TOO QUALIFIED
  18. ACTIVE MILITARY
  19. NATURAL DISASTERS
  20. MASS SHOOTINGS DISRUPTING DAILY ROUTINE
  21. RACISM
  22. WAGE THEFT
  23. TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE ON JOB POSTING BUT DECEPTION UPON HIRING
  24. BEING LAID OFF DUE TO CLOSING OR STAFF REDUCTION
  25. DESTRUCTION TO FACILITY OR PROPRETY
  26. OUTSOURCING JOBS TO OTHER STATES OR COUNTRIES
  27. BEING UNDOCUMENTED IN FEAR OF I.C.E. OR U.S. AGENCIES
  28. BEING PUBLICLY OUTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA DOING SHAMEFUL ACTS
  29. PARTICIPATING IN UNCIVIL OR VIOLENT PROTESTS
  30. PUBLICLY SUPPORTING OR PROTESTING AGAINST ISRAEL

Companies are cautious about hiring employees. Because of the Trump administration rolling back DEI and arresting undocumented workers, employers are struggling to keep employees. It puts more on the workers, managers and suppliers. 

With the average wages stagnant, many are not looking forward to work at jobs that pays dirt wages. Many who worked in the retail, restaurant and low end service industry are not willing to take a job for less than $10 an hour. Matter of fact, no one can survive on $15 an hour.

The apartheid ethnostate of Israel on trial.

Republicans will never get it. They just won't see the bigger picture itself. Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. They are frustrated with stagnant wages. 

They are tired of low wages for heavy workloads. They are tried of food and consumer products being expensive. 

Republicans rather continue to believe in conspiracies about people using the safety net are lazy and unemployment assistance is way to make people not go back to work.

Give them a liveable wage and maybe things might improve in the job market.

We can't always assume that folks who do not work are lazy. These troupes give Republicans the opportunity to strip away the safety net to offset their endless giveaways to the elite and wealthy.

People are literally dying from being exposed to the coronavirus, monkeypox, measles, bird flu and gun violence.

Most Americans are tired of the status quo of their jobs.

Many single parents are having trouble trying to find quality daycare or family members to watch children. On top of that, some have lost family members due to the pandemic and unforseen circumstances due to Trump’s chaotic policies. A homemaker may have lost their spouse. Some may have no choice but to watch their children or loved ones due to the aftermath of the pandemic.

I tried to warn you. Kamala Harris reacts to Trump’s chaotic 100 days.

Folks are still trying to rebound from medical bills, late rent payments, owing taxes and college loans.

Republicans are white nationalists without a conscience. 

Trump's presidency and Republican controlled governments are incompetent.

Their leadership has killed millions of Americans. 

Holding these lawmakers accountable is not just a pledge, but a promise. You need to learn who represents your community. Your local community member, your school board member, your mayor, your state representative, your state senator, your governor, your U.S. Representative, your U.S. Senator and the president need to be held accountable for their actions. 

We need to put pressure on Republicans and Democrats to do something to improve everyone's lives.

Keep pressure on them with Israel. 

Israel must be held accountable for war crimes and the U.S. must end its aid. 

Our taxpayer money should not help Israel any further.

Republicans have extremely unpopular ideas. They will find out the risk of supporters being turned off by their policies.

Biden, Harris and the Democratic Party failed at understanding what is more important to the country. Republicans have already failed at understanding.

Both parties support of Israel had made some Arab Americans, Muslim and young voters vote against them. They have cost Biden a second term and Harris a historical victory.

The call center to the White House and Congress should still be the same.

The call number to the White House and U.S. Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official White House numbers 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414. This is the Congress official phone number, 202-224-3121. Please be respectful to operators, staff members and elected leaders. Your calls are monitored by the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Capitol Police. 

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 deporting law abiding immigrants seeking refuge is inhumane. Let them know that pulling out of the UN Human Rights Organization, World Health Organization and Paris Climate Accords will put the U.S. in danger when catastrophic event happen. 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 and Ukraine. 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 lawmakers avoid influence from lobbyists.

Thursday, May 01, 2025

Kamala Harris Comes Swinging!

Y'all voted for that man to cause chaos and 100 days here we are.

If Donald J. Trump lost in 2020 only to win in 2024, Kamala Harris could return and win in 2028.

So for those who want former vice president Kamala Harris to fade away, shut the fuck up.

KHIVE ain't done.

Trump was in the spotlight after he lost in 2020 and was the junk food media's talk all throughout Joe Biden’s presidency. So shut the fuck up. We wanted him to fade away, but y'all enjoyed his senile chaotic post presidency.

President Donald J. Trump is back in the news and he is literally pushing for an indefinite stay. He said he will never leave.

If he does crash the economy, he will almost certainly blame Biden. He already claims that former president Joe Biden and former president Barack Obama were responsible for his chaotic presidency failures.

First things first, Democrats must abandon Israel. The primary reason why Harris lost was her support of the apartheid ethnostate committing a fucking genocide. Biden’s refusal to end support for Israel cost him his reelection and her presidential bid.

Second, Democrats need to stop being nice to Republicans. Stop with the statements, the gaslighting, the photo ops, the tears and projection.

Third, Democrats need to vet their candidates. No more Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, John Fetterman, Jared Golden and Jeff Van Drew (now Republican) candidates. Stop nominating candidates that support Republican policies, take AIPAC money and appear on Fox, NewsNation or Newsmax.

Fourth, elect more people of color. Let the Republicans be the party of white people. They managed to pull in at least 14% of people of color. 

Lastly, trust Black women. They were right all along and never miss. 

Harris returns to San Francisco to blast Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

She address the 100 days and her possible return to politics.

Trump has revoked security clearances for her, Biden, Obama, former president George W. Bush, former president Bill Clinton, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, former secretary of state Antony Blinkin and numerous others.

Mike Waltz Out!

The chaotic Trump Administration fires Mike Waltz.

Singalgate officially cost National Security Advisor Mike Waltz his job.

Israel wants Zionists in every fucking American president's cabinent. The Trump Administration is full of them. President Donald J. Trump is trying not to go to war with Iran. But it is more likely we will engage with Iran soon.

Waltz who served Trump for nearly four months is officially fired out the cannon.

He gave up his Florida congressional seat. Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), a dual citizen of the U.S. and Israel replaced him.

Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, will be leaving their posts in the Trump White House, according to multiple sources familiar with their departure.

They are expected to leave Thursday, sources say. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Journalist Mark Halperin first reported the departures. 

The president's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is having conversations with some of the National Security Council staff today, sources said. 

In March, Waltz came under scrutiny after he put together a Signal chat and mistakenly included The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, disclosing discussions with top national security officials about plans for a military strike on Houthi targets in Yemen. Goldberg published his account, and he initially omitted operational details, but after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe denied any classified information had been shared on the chat, Goldberg published that information, too, which included the timing of the strikes and the weapons packages used.

Alex N. Wong was ousted too. He helped Trump in his first term meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

After Waltz admitted behind closed doors the authenticity of the reporting, White House officials debated whether he should resign, but Waltz never made the offer, and Trump did not ask him to step down at the time. Publicly, President Trump signaled his support for Waltz by calling him "a good man" who "learned a lesson." 

One source familiar with the situation at the National Security Council said the president thinks sufficient time has passed since the Signal incident that Waltz and Wong's departures can be framed as part of a reorganization. The president has been hesitant to oust Waltz over the perception that doing so could be seen as bending to outside pressure. 

Wong served in the first Trump administration as deputy special representative for North Korea and also as deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the State Department. In announcing his appointment, Trump said Wong helped negotiate his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Trump Launches White House Wire To Troll The Drudge Report!

The worst president in modern history has to launch a news website to ignore the reality.

Did you know President Donald J. Trump ran for president in 2000, 2016, 2020 and 2024? 

He is serious about running again in 2028 despite the 22nd Amendment prohibiting this.

The White House launched it propaganda news aggregation site.

George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden didn't need to make a website to brag about accomplishments. They had a free press to hold them accountable.

With Donald J. Trump.... its always fucking projection. Never substance.

He can do so little and claim it was a whole lot.

But in reality, most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. They are skipping fast food restaurants, malls and concerts. They cannot take vacations or sick days because they got massive bills and hungry families.

Why launch this on our taxpayer money?

Y'all give almost $8 billion to fucking Israel and complain about other countries getting handouts. You believe people aren't working. Most Americans are overworked, angry, hateful and tired of getting weak earnings.

Jeff Bezos can fly his fiancée in space and have an extravagant wedding.

Elon Musk can have 20 baby mamas and pay off women who he sexually assaulted.

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan can buy two new mansions.

Tiffany Trump can have an extravagant baby shower with Marla Maples, Ivanka and Jared Kusher.

The president and Vice President JD Vance can get rich while doing absolutely nothing.

Israelis can freely travel into the United States while Canadians and Mexicans are subjected to jailing and banishment.

Matt Drudge created the monster. In 2015, Drudge endorsed Trump's second run. Now the two have a bitter fallout and Drudge continues to anger him. So now Trump wants to consolidate news favorable to his chaotic presidency.

Nancy Pelosi, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace, Jim Jordan, James Comer, Steve Scalise, Chuck Schumer, John Fetterman, Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders and almost 80% of Congress are millionaires.

Tell me what the fuck is going on here?

The projection from Trump and Vance was released.


“The White House has its own wire now. Read what we’re reading,” announced the White House in a social media post, directing followers to a Drudge Report-style page with headlines and links to various news outlets, including Breitbart, Fox News, the Daily Caller, the New York Post, the Washington Times, the Washington Examiner, Newsweek, Axios, The Guardian, and The Hill.

Y'all voted for this.

May 31st is the Midway Wrap-Up. We will cover the final days of Biden and the ongoing years of Trump. We will outline our winners and losers. Continue on with a sense of maintaining sanity.

By the way, The Drudge Report founder Matt Drudge was not pleased with the White House's use of his style.

In a statement to Status News’ Oliver Darcy, Drudge Report founder Matt Drudge said, “I’m considering a $1 trillion lawsuit!”

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Terrence Howard Turned Down Marvin Gaye Bio Movie Because Of Man Kiss!

Repression starring Terrence Howard.

It's 2025.... goddammit! If you kiss a person of the same sex, it's not the end of the fucking world. Gay people are human beings too.

Actor Terrence Howard revealed that he refused to portray Marvin Gaye in a potential film because of the Motown singer's rumored homosexuality, saying he'd cut his lips off if he ever kissed a man.

The former "Empire" star made the comment during a nearly two-hour appearance on Libertarian Zionist Bill Maher's "Club Random" podcast. Howard told Maher he turned town a chance to play Smokey Robinson because he was in talks with director Lee Daniels for a possible biopic of Gaye.

"You know what happened with that? I was over at Quincy Jones' house ... I'm asking Quincy, 'I'm hearing rumors that Marvin was gay,'" Howard said. "And I'm like, 'Was he gay?' And Quincy is like, 'Yes.'"

Daniels, who was an executive producer on "Empire," has not made a film or television series about Gaye's life and it's unclear when Howard had these conversations. Jones, a celebrated music producer, died in November last year.

Gaye was married to two women during his life and was not openly queer.

Howard went on to say that the filmmakers would have wanted to explore Gaye's rumored homosexuality and that he could not kiss a man.

"I would cut my lips off," Howard said. "If I kissed a man, I would cut my lips off."

Howard attributed it to him not being able to "fake it" and he could not act a role he did not understand. Maher told Howard he would not want to a kiss a man either, but "I would not do that" in reference to Howard's self-mutilation comment.

"It does not make me homophobic to not want to kiss a man," Maher said, comparing it to gay men who would not be interested in women sexually.

The comment received some backlash online, with some calling Howard "deeply problematic" and others urging people to stop interviewing Howard. One X user questioned how many times Howard was going to tell the world "he is uncomfortable with his masculinity."

"He performs masculinity for the approval and acceptance of cishet men and despises gay men," the user wrote. "We know already."

Marvin Gaye was an iconic performer.

Another brought up Howard's history with domestic abuse following allegations made by two of his former wives. The user wrote, given the allegations, "I'm having a hard time believing he likes women."

The actor admitted in a 2015 Rolling Stone interview that he hit his ex-wife Lori McCommas in 2001.

Michelle Ghent, Howard's second wife, accused him of assaulting her in a lawsuit that she later dropped. Howard told Rolling Stone that Ghent was attempting to pepper-spray him and he was trying to bat her away. 

Marvin Gaye was an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He helped shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo artist with a string of successes, which earned him the nicknames "Prince of Motown" and "Prince of Soul", and is often considered one of the greatest singers of all time.

Gaye intervened in a fight between his parents in the family house in the West Adams neighborhood of Western Heights in Los Angeles. He became involved in a physical altercation with his father, Marvin Gay Sr., who shot Gaye twice, once in the chest, piercing his heart, and then into his shoulder. The shooting took place in Gaye's bedroom at 12:38 p.m. Gaye was pronounced dead at 1:01 p.m. after his body arrived at California Hospital Medical Center.

After Gaye's funeral, his body was cremated at Forest Lawn Memorial Park–Hollywood Hills, and his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean. Gay Sr. was initially charged with first-degree murder, but the charges were reduced to voluntary manslaughter following a diagnosis of a brain tumor. He was given a suspended six-year sentence and probation. He died at a nursing home in 1998.

Marvin was a heavy marijuana user, during the beginning of his tenure as a member of Harvey and the Moonglows, and he would remain a heavy user throughout his life. Marvin was first introduced to cocaine in the early 1960s. At first, Marvin had issues snorting, so he would use it by either rubbing it on his gums or eating it, but by the late 1970s, he had developed a serious dependence and addiction to the drug and would later begin freebasing while in London. The singer was also a user of PCP.

Gaye was briefly sober after having moved to Belgium under the watchful eye of Freddy Cousaert, only to relapse when he returned to the United States from Belgium in October 1982. His addiction led to increasing paranoia and depression. During the promotion of his Sexual Healing Tour, he wore a bullet-proof vest and brought along bodyguards with loaded pistols because he feared for his life, as he was convinced that someone was plotting to kill him. When an autopsy was produced on Marvin, they found minor traces of cocaine in his system. Judge Ronald George believed that PCP, or angel dust, was present in Marvin's system, but this was due to a misreading of the coroner's report. 

Gaye attempted suicide at least three times. The first occurred in 1969 when he was holed up at a Detroit apartment. Gaye, despondent from his failing marriage at the time, sought to shoot himself with a handgun. Berry Gordy's father, "Pops", eventually stopped this attempt. In 1979, while in Maui, Gaye ingested one ounce (28 g) of cocaine in a second suicide attempt. Gaye explained later, "I'd given up. The problems were too big for me. I just wanted to be left alone and blow my brains on high-octane toot. It would be a slow but relatively pleasant death, certainly less messy than a gun."

Four days before his death, according to his sister Jeanne, Marvin again attempted suicide by jumping out of a speeding sports car, only to suffer minor bruises. According to Frankie Gaye, after he found him dying from his gunshot wounds, Gaye explained that he had his father shoot him because he "couldn't do it himself". In an interview a year before his death in 1984, he explained his bouts with depression, stating that during his exile, he was "a manic-depressive. I was at my lowest ebb. I really didn't feel like I was loved. Because I didn't feel love, I felt useless."

Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (Lifeline) at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or 988, or text the Crisis Text Line (text HELLO to 741741). Both services are free and available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The deaf and hard of hearing can contact the Lifeline via TTY at 1-800-799-4889. All calls are confidential. Contact social media outlets directly if you are concerned about a friend's social media updates or dial 911 in an emergency. Learn more on the Lifeline's website or the Crisis Text Line's website.

You can get help if you, loved one or friend are dealing with drug abuse.

SAMHSA’s National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357)

SAMHSA’s National Helpline is a free, confidential, 24/7, 365-day-a-year treatment referral and information service (in English and Spanish) for individuals and families facing mental and/or substance use disorders.

If you are in an abusive relationship, you can call the Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or text "Start" at 88788. Call 911 if you are in danger.

Not Sees In The NOLA!

The rolls on the back of their shaved heads. Butterball extremists protest in New Orleans.

Y'all voted for this.

They are entitled to be hateful.

As long as those people keep their hands to themselves, I am not going to be fazed by these dwellers.

New Orleans had a infestation.

White extremists were down in the French Quarter trying making some trouble.

But they turned tail when the Black experience came out in full force.

Patriot Front is openly coming to towns to troll Black communities and their embracement of MAGAland. They made their presence known when they came to Cincinnati and Orlando.

Saquon Barkley, 50 Cent, Kodak Black, Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, Rick Ross, Waka Flocka Flame, Mario Lopez and Black MAGAland, come and get your boys.

David Horowitz Passed Away!

An angry hateful man is gone.

Terrorism is a colonialist word used by white supremacists to justify hatred of Brown and Black people. It justifies a foreign nation to occupy another through the seizing of land, resources and removal of state actors. Calling people terrorist is a way to silence dissent against the status quo. People tossing around the word are actually the ones who embrace violence and endless wars.

The former Commie Diaper Baby who became a far right Zionist conservative has passed away at the age of 83. The hateful David Horowitz is dead and gone.

Laura Loomer, Valentina Gomez, Sean "Softball" Hannity, Mark Levin, Michelle Malkin, Jesse Watters, Megyn Kelly, Laura Ingraham, Rupert Murdoch, Scott Presler, Tomi Lahren, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage and Chaya Raichik:

LIVE A HEALTHY LIFE. 

When you pass away, I am sure someone will piss on your grave. Just saying.

By the way, the good David Horowitz had passed away in 2019. He was a consumer advocate who fought against a rigged system.

This Horowitz who I am talking about is hateful piece of work.

Horowitz died after a lengthy battle with cancer, the center wrote on X.

"On behalf of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, we are very saddened to announce the passing of the Center’s founder, David Horowitz," the center said.

He was a founder and president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC); editor of the Center's website FrontPage Magazine; and director of Discover the Networks, a website that tracks individuals and groups on the political left. Horowitz also founded the organization Students for Academic Freedom.

Horowitz wrote several books with author Peter Collier, including four on prominent 20th-century American families. He and Collier have collaborated on books about cultural criticism. Horowitz worked as a columnist for Salon.

From 1956 to 1975, Horowitz was an outspoken adherent of the New Left. He later rejected progressive ideas and became a defender of neoconservatism. Horowitz recounted his ideological journey in a series of retrospective books, culminating with his 1996 memoir Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey.

Horowitz was a former Marxist, but was later described as being conservative. During his time in the New Left, Horowitz supported the civil rights movement. In the 1970s, he came to believe that the Black Panthers were involved in the death of his friend, a white bookkeeper named Betty Van Patter. Her death soured the relationship between Horowitz and the Black Panthers.

Horowitz wrote against United States intervention in the Kosovo War, arguing that it was unnecessary and harmful to United States interests, but supported the interventionist foreign policy associated with the Bush Doctrine, including the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He also wrote critically of libertarian anti-war views.

Horowitz opposed Barack Obama, illegal immigration, gun control, and Islam. He endorsed Presidents Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump. He supported attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Horowitz described himself as "a defender of gays and 'alternative lifestyles', a moderate on abortion, and a civil rights activist".

Horowitz was critical of Palestinians, claiming that their goal is to wipe out Jews from the Middle East. “No people have shown themselves as so morally sick as the Palestinians,” he said at Brooklyn College in 2011.

Horowitz published a 2007 piece in the Columbia University student newspaper, saying that, according to public opinion polls, "150 million out of 750 million Muslims support a holy war against Christians, Jews, and other Muslims." Speaking at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in February 2010, Horowitz compared Islamists to Nazis, saying: "Islamists are worse than the Nazis, because even the Nazis did not tell the world that they want to exterminate the Jews."

Horowitz created a campaign for what he called "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" in parody of multicultural awareness activities. He helped arrange for leading critics of radical Islam to speak at more than a hundred college campuses in October 2007. As a speaker, he was repeatedly met with intense hostility.

In 2008, while speaking at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Horowitz criticized Arab culture, saying that it was rife with antisemitism. He referred to the Palestinian keffiyeh, a traditional Arab head covering that became associated with PLO leader Yasser Arafat, as a “symbol of terrorism”. In response, UCSB professor Walid Afifi said that Horowitz was "preaching hate" and smearing Arab culture.

Horowitz used university student publications and lectures at universities as venues for publishing controversial advertisements or lecturing on issues related to Islamic student and other organizations. In April 2008, DHFC advertised in the Daily Nexus, the UCSB school newspaper, saying that the Muslim Students' Association (MSA) had links with the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda, and Hamas. The next month, Horowitz, speaking at UCSB, said that MSA supports "a second Holocaust of the Jews". The MSA responded that they were a peaceful organization and not a political group. The MSA's faculty adviser said the group had "been involved in interfaith activities with Jewish student groups, and they've been involved in charity work for national disaster relief." Horowitz ran the ad in The GW Hatchet, the student newspaper of George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Jake Sherman, the Hatchet's editor-in-chief, said claims the MSA was radical were "ludicrous".

He became an early user of the question "Do you condemn Hamas?" which he directed to a Muslim student at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) on May 11, 2010. The student was a member of UCSD's Muslim Student Association, then holding Justice in Palestine Week, which students said Horowitz had referred to as "Hitler Youth Week." In 2017, Horowitz's Freedom Center targeted pro-Palestinian professors and students.

In a 2011 review of anti-Islamic activists in the US, the Southern Poverty Law Center identified Horowitz as one of ten people in the United States' "Anti-Muslim Inner Circle". He was also described as "the godfather of the anti-Muslim movement", and as "possibly the number one counter-jihad personality", financing many other groups through his organization.

In 2017 Horowitz's center put up posters on university campuses naming students and professors who support Palestinian rights, with the names taken from Canary Mission.

His son, Benjamin Horowitz, a co-founder of the venture capitalist firm Andreessen Horowitz, shared an obituary on social media highlighting his career in media and activism, including several books he wrote and his endorsement of President Donald J. Trump.

When the younger Horowitz met Trump last year, he told the president about his father.

"President Trump’s face immediately lit up and he insisted that Benjamin get David on the phone immediately," the obituary reads. "Hospitalized and weak, David was still delighted to speak with the President."

David Horowitz is survived by his wife April Mullvain, sons Benjamin and Jonathan and daughter Anne. His other daughter, Sarah Rose, died in 2008. Mullvain is his fourth wife.

"In the end, David helped countless people and expended every fiber of his being pushing society towards freedom," the obituary reads. "He may not have saved the world, but he most certainly made it a better place – especially for us. He was our super hero and we will love him forever."

Is The NYPD Gonna Arrest The Mob Of Jewish Extremists Or Claim Its Antisemitic To Arrest Them?

This is America. This is what happens in Israel.

Zionism is not a part of the Jewish faith. It is a political ideology where it was stated that one specific group is entitled by divine grace to occupy the Holy Land.

The Israeli regime is a white supremacist Jewish apartheid ethnostate. Backed by the United States and European Union, Israel has been the center of chaos since its founding in 1948. The country for decades escaped accountability.

This year could be a game changer. 

Incidents where men will hide behind their religion when they are committing violent acts.

Where's the Anti-Defamation League at?

A man in a wheelchair was thrown to the ground.

In the video, the alleged assailant, identified as Levi Kabakov, appeared to push Troy McLeod out of his wheelchair amid a dispute.

“Call 911!” a bystander said. “How can you do that to a man in a wheelchair?!”

McLeod said he was walking his dogs in the Crown Heights neighborhood last month when Kabakov confronted him. The alleged attacker claimed McLeod's dogs were bothering his children and demanded that the man in the wheelchair cross the street. McLeod, however, said his dogs were muzzled, calm, and never interacted with the children.

“My dogs are well trained, and even as he was violating me, you can see they did not involve themselves to hurt him,” McLeod said.

Man pushed out of his wheelchair because of his dogs barking.

As the dispute escalated, Kabakov allegedly grabbed a wooden block from his yard and hit McLeod before pushing him out of his wheelchair.

“I was scared, I was trying to get back up, I was in shock, and thank God someone was there,” McLeod said. “It felt like a vengeful vibe to me because, to the extent of the situation, there was no need for it.”

Kabakov is facing charges of second-degree assault and aggravated menacing. He was arraigned on March 30 and released without bail.

The alleged attacker is scheduled to appear in court in July.

A woman was physically assaulted as she was escorted by a security guard.

A Brooklyn woman said she feared for her life as she was chased, kicked, spit at and pelted with objects by a mob of Orthodox Jewish men who mistook her as a participant in a protest against Israel’s far-right security minister.

The assault, recorded by a bystander, unfolded Thursday near the global headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Crown Heights, where an appearance by Itamar Ben-Gvir set off clashes between pro-Palestinian activists and members of the neighborhood’s large Orthodox Jewish community.

Ben-Gvir is a wanted criminal. The International Criminal Court has warrants issued for Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and individuals who participated in the IDF.

Ben-Gvir is also on the list of criminals. The U.S. continues to allow Israelis in without the draconian rules imposed. President Donald J. Trump has issued executive orders for all foreign nationals (execpt Israelis) to register within 30 days or face arrest and permanent banishment.

The woman, a neighborhood resident in her 30s, told The Associated Press she learned of the protest after hearing police helicopters over her apartment. She walked over to investigate around 10:30 p.m. but by then the protest had mostly dispersed. Not wanting to be filmed, she covered her face with a scarf.

“As soon as I pulled up my scarf, a group of 100 men came over immediately and encircled me,” said the woman, who spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity because she feared for her safety.

‘I had nowhere to go’

“They were shouting at me, threatening to rape me, chanting ‘death to Arabs.’ I thought the police would protect me from the mob, but they did nothing to intervene,” she said.

As the chants grew in intensity, a lone police officer tried to escort her to safety. They were followed for blocks by hundreds of men and boys jeering in Hebrew and English.

Video shows two of the men kicking her in the back, another hurling a traffic cone into her head and a fourth pushing a trash can into her.

“This is America,” one of the men can be heard saying. “We got Israel. We got an Army now.”

America allows war criminals to our country with open arms.

At one point, she and the police officer were nearly cornered against a building, the video shows.

“I felt sheer terror,” the woman recalled. “I realized at that point that I couldn’t lead this mob of men to my home. I had nowhere to go. I didn’t know what to do. I was just terrified.”

After several blocks, the officer hustled the woman into a police vehicle, prompting one man to yell, “Get her!” The crowd erupted in cheers as she was driven away.

The woman, a lifelong New Yorker, said she was left with bruises and mentally shaken by the episode, which she said police should investigate as an act of hate.

“I’m afraid to move around the neighborhood where I’ve lived for a decade,” she told the AP. “It doesn’t seem like anyone in any position of power really cares.”

Police investigating

A police spokesperson said one person was arrested and five others were issued summons following the demonstration, but did not say whether anyone involved in assaulting the woman was charged.

Mayor Eric Adams said Sunday that police were investigating “a series of incidents stemming from clashing protests on Thursday that began when a group of anti-Israel protesters surrounded the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters — a Jewish house of worship — in Brooklyn.”

He said police had spoken to a different woman on the pro-Palestinian side of the protest who suffered injuries after she was harassed by counterprotesters. Photos shared online showed that woman with blood streaming down her face.

Crown Heights, New York is mini Israel.

“Let me be clear: None of this is acceptable, in fact, it is despicable,” Adams added. “New York City will always be a place where people can peacefully protest, but we will not tolerate violence, trespassing, menacing, or threatening.”

The protest was one of several in recent days against Ben-Gvir, an ultranationalist settler leader who is embarking on his first U.S. state visit since joining Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet three years ago.

Previously convicted in Israel of racist incitement and support for a terrorist group, he has called on his supporters to confront Palestinians and assert “Jewish Power.”

The protest against Ben-Gvir’s Brooklyn appearance generated condemnations from some Jewish groups, who accused participants of targeting a religious site.

Chabad-Lubavitch denounces incident

The neighborhood around the Chabad headquarters also was the site of the 1991 Crown Heights riot, in which Black residents outraged by a boy’s death in a crash involving a rabbi’s motorcade attacked Jews, homes and businesses for three days.

A Chabad-Lubavitch spokesman, Rabbi Motti Seligson, denounced both the anti-Ben-Gvir protesters and the mob that chased the woman.

“The violent provocateurs who called for the genocide of Jews in support of terrorists and terrorism — outside a synagogue, in a Jewish neighborhood, where some of the worst antisemitic violence in American history was perpetrated, and where many residents share deep bonds with the victims of Oct. 7 — did so in order to intimidate, provoke, and instill fear,” Seligson said.

“We condemn the crude language and violence of the small breakaway group of young people; such actions are entirely unacceptable and wholly antithetical to the Torah’s values. The fact that a possibly uninvolved bystander got pulled into the melee further underscores the point,” he said.

The suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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