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Terrifying Video Shows Firefighting Helicopters Collide in Greece as Wildfires Devour Europe [WATCH]
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Terrifying Video Shows Firefighting Helicopters Collide in Greece as Wildfires Devour Europe [WATCH]

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A terrifying scene unfolded over Greece on Sunday as two firefighting helicopters collided in midair while crews battled a fierce wildfire west of Athens.

The frightening crash was captured on video obtained by Kefalonia Press, showing the kind of split second disaster that turns an already dangerous emergency into a nightmare in the sky.

In the footage, one helicopter appears to clip the rotor of another aircraft. Moments later, flames erupt and one of the helicopters plunges toward the ground.

The helicopters had been leased by the local fire department to fight a blaze in Psatha, a coastal area west of the Greek capital, BBC News reported.

Officials said both helicopters had two people on board at the time of the collision.

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The cause of the crash remains under investigation, and authorities have not yet said whether visibility, wind, equipment trouble, or another factor played a role.

The crash came as Greece and several other European countries continued to battle wildfires fueled by weeks of scorching temperatures.

Europe did not need another reminder that nature does not pause for government paperwork.

Firefighting aircraft are often pushed into dangerous conditions when flames move quickly and ground crews cannot reach threatened areas fast enough.

In that environment, tight maneuvering, heavy smoke, and shifting winds can make every pass a serious gamble.

On the Greek island of Crete, wildfires have burned thousands of acres and forced more than 8,000 people to evacuate temporarily.

The evacuations added another layer of chaos to a summer already defined by smoke, heat, and strained emergency crews.

Another blaze in central Greece forced roughly 500 people, many of them tourists, to be moved out of danger on Friday.

For vacationers expecting beaches and sunshine, the sudden scramble away from flames delivered a brutal dose of reality.

Fires have also broken out on the islands of Paros, Andros, and Kalymnos.

That spread has left Greek authorities trying to contain multiple fronts while residents and visitors watch the skies for aircraft and the hills for smoke.

The collision over Psatha highlights the enormous risk carried by pilots who fly directly into disaster zones to protect communities below.

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These crews operate in the kind of conditions most people would flee without needing to be told twice.

Video of the crash shows just how quickly one mistake, one gust, or one unlucky movement can turn a rescue mission into a tragedy.

The aircraft were there to save homes, land, and lives, but the danger in that work is never theoretical.

Local fire officials have not yet released a full account of what happened before the collision.

Investigators will now have to examine flight paths, communication, weather conditions, and the final movements of both helicopters.

The broader wildfire crisis has stretched resources across the region as dry conditions and extreme heat create prime conditions for fast moving flames.

Once fires take hold in rugged terrain or near island communities, response options can narrow quickly.

For residents in affected areas, the sound of helicopters overhead is usually a sign that help has arrived.

On Sunday, that sound gave way to a horrifying impact and a fresh wave of uncertainty.

Search and rescue crews remained focused on the people aboard the aircraft as the investigation moved forward.

Until officials release more details, families, firefighters, and local communities are left waiting for answers.

The disaster is a grim reminder that wildfire response depends not just on courage, but on coordination under intense pressure.

When crews are fighting flames from the air and the ground at the same time, the margin for error can vanish in an instant.

Authorities are expected to provide more information as the developing situation becomes clearer.

For now, Greece is still battling flames on multiple fronts while confronting the aftermath of a shocking crash in the middle of an already punishing wildfire fight.

Dana Bash Panics as RFK Jr. Exposes Media’s COVID Failures Straight to Her Face [WATCH]
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Dana Bash Panics as RFK Jr. Exposes Media’s COVID Failures Straight to Her Face [WATCH]

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. walked straight into CNN territory Sunday and gave viewers a rare sight on legacy television, a Biden era media narrative getting challenged in real time.

The Health and Human Services Secretary appeared on State of the Union with Dana Bash, where a discussion about the COVID response quickly turned into a heated clash over vaccines, censorship, and the media’s role in terrifying Americans.

Before the segment descended into shouting, Kennedy argued that the first duty in any future pandemic must be to protect the rights of citizens, not trample them in the name of bureaucratic panic.

“That is the number one priority. We protect the Constitution,” he said, while accusing Bash of being “part of the problem” and committing “absolute press malpractice.”

Kennedy then turned the spotlight back on the press, which spent years treating dissent like a public health threat and government talking points like gospel.

“Your job is a fierce skepticism toward authority, and you weren’t doing that. You were beating up on people who were dissenting,” he said, as Bash tried to push back.

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The exchange intensified when Kennedy pressed Bash on one of the most politically protected claims of the pandemic era.

“Do you think the COVID vaccine protected children?” Kennedy asked, putting the CNN host in the uncomfortable position of having to defend the narrative with actual evidence.

Bash responded by saying she had “talked to scientists and doctors,” which is usually Washington shorthand for trusting the same credentialed class that got plenty wrong and paid no real price for it.

Kennedy kept pressing, asking, “Can you show me one study that shows children were protected by the COVID vaccine?”

He continued the challenge, saying, “That vaccine did more good than harm to children. Can you show me one study that shows that?”

Bash then pivoted to the familiar media script about “vaccine disinformation,” claiming that vast numbers of Americans could have been saved if more people had accepted the shot.

“I can tell you that when it comes to the vaccine, there have been studies that show that because of vaccine disinformation, disinformation, there could have been 100 to 200,000 lives in the U.S. saved. But because people didn’t get the vaccine,” Bash said, before Kennedy interrupted and she snapped, “Let me finish!”

Kennedy was not buying the lecture, especially from a network that spent the pandemic blasting fear driven graphics across the screen while treating government claims as settled truth.

“You are saying nonsense. You are saying something that you cannot show me a single study,” Kennedy said.

“I am not saying nonsense,” Bash replied, while Kennedy added, “You are talking what somebody told you… cite me the study. What study?”

At that point, Bash grew visibly frustrated and shouted back, “What studies are you talking about? You’re talking about studies that actually don’t exist.”

That was a bold move from a host who was making sweeping claims of her own while resisting Kennedy’s demand for specific evidence.

“This is not productive. I am not here to defend all of the practices,” Bash said, and Kennedy answered, “You want to talk about assertions that you can’t support? I’ll get there in a second. Let me just say, for the record, that I am not saying that the entire way that the COVID reaction was accurate. It was a scary time, and people made mistakes. Absolutely,” Bash stammered.

Kennedy cut through the media fog with a blunt charge about what CNN did during those long months of lockdowns, mandates, and social pressure.

“You were scaring people,” he said, as Bash lost control of the exchange.

“Because that was the job of CNN to put the chyrons up about how many people are dying.”

Bash fired back, “We were trying to be. We were listening to the leaders. in this country, including the president who had a daily press conference explaining what was going on and trying to listen.”

Kennedy then asked the question that many Americans wish had been asked by major media outlets years ago.

“Were you reading the science yourself?” he said, as Bash tried to move away from the subject.

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The moment captured exactly why trust in corporate media has collapsed.

Americans watched officials, anchors, and approved experts demand obedience, silence critics, and label dissent dangerous.

Now, when someone asks them to show their work, the same crowd suddenly wants to change the subject.

For CNN, it was another reminder that lectures about misinformation land differently when the public remembers who spent years amplifying fear, defending censorship, and sneering at anyone who dared to ask questions.

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Talarico Claims the Bible Commands Washington to Run Your Health Care [WATCH]
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Talarico Claims the Bible Commands Washington to Run Your Health Care [WATCH]

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Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico is now making the case that Scripture does not merely encourage Christians to care for the sick, but demands that government guarantee health coverage.

That was the pitch he delivered to a Texas church crowd, where the Austin Democrat wrapped a public insurance plan in New Testament language.

Talarico made the remarks during a July 20 town hall at a church in DeSoto.

His campaign later posted footage of the event on Saturday under the title “James Talarico Unveils Plan For Black Voters.”

The candidate told the audience that America should “finish the work of President Obama” by passing a public option.

Then he moved from Democrat policy shop talk into the pulpit, arguing that the Gospels point straight toward government backed health insurance.

“Because health care is a human right. It is not a privilege,” Talarico said.

For Talarico, the argument was not only political. He told the crowd he wanted to speak from Scripture because of the church setting, then presented the healing ministry of Jesus as a policy blueprint for Washington and Austin.

“If you read our scriptures, if you read the New Testament, what does Jesus spend most of his time doing? It’s not preaching, it’s not teaching, it is healing. Healing the sick,” Talarico said.

“And in Matthew 25, scripture says that’s how we will be judged and how we will be saved. By healing the sick, by feeding the hungry, by welcoming the stranger, by visiting the prisoner.”

That is quite a leap, even by the normal standards of campaign season theology.

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Jesus healed the sick through divine power and personal mercy, while Democrats keep insisting the same moral category includes another government program, another entitlement, and another layer of bureaucrats between patients and doctors.

Talarico’s campaign platform calls for letting every American buy into Medicare through a public option, regardless of age.

It also includes drug price negotiation and caps on out of pocket costs, the familiar progressive checklist dressed up with church language for a receptive crowd.

The Democrat also pointed to his work with Republicans in the Texas state House to cap insulin copays at 25 dollars per prescription.

Still, he argued that Texas has the largest number of uninsured residents in the country and used that statistic to press for a larger government role.

“So this is an emergency across the state of Texas,” Talarico said.

Conservative Christians have not exactly been lining up to applaud the sermon.

Critics on the religious right have accused the seminary trained Democrat of twisting the faith into a campaign brochure and turning salvation language into a sales pitch for progressive policy.

Some writers have called his politics “blasphemous” and described his message as a “works-based” gospel that rewrites the core meaning of Christian salvation.

Other outlets, friendlier to his approach, have noted that his campaign platform can read like the New Testament, which tells voters plenty about the branding effort underway.

The backlash is not difficult to understand.

Christians have long believed that caring for the sick, feeding the hungry, and helping prisoners are personal and church obligations rooted in faith, charity, and obedience to God.

Talarico is taking that spiritual duty and trying to convert it into a mandate for government health coverage.

In other words, the Good Samaritan apparently needed a federal benefits office, a public option, and a campaign consultant.

The political stakes are not small.

Talarico is running close against Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton in a Senate race that could help decide control of the chamber.

His campaign has also pledged 25 million dollars toward black voter outreach.

The DeSoto event, packaged as a plan for black voters, fits neatly into that larger push.

The church health care remarks also fit a broader pattern from Talarico, who has repeatedly used religiously charged language to attack conservatives.

He has described laws restricting gender affirming procedures for minors and Texas abortion restrictions as products of a “Christofascism movement.”

That kind of rhetoric makes his latest appeal to Scripture even more pointed.

When the Bible is useful to sell a Democrat program, Talarico quotes the Gospels, but when Christians defend unborn children or parental rights, he reaches for inflammatory labels.

“Health care is truly a human right for every single person in this state,” Talarico said.

Voters in Texas will now decide whether they see Talarico’s message as sincere faith in action or just another progressive policy agenda wearing a Sunday morning suit.

Either way, the race is becoming a high profile test of whether religious language can make bigger government sound like a biblical command.

RFK Jr. Says Fauci’s Diary Leaves Americans With Serious Questions [WATCH]
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RFK Jr. Says Fauci’s Diary Leaves Americans With Serious Questions [WATCH]

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said newly released diary entries attributed to former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci reveal a significant gap between Fauci’s private discussions and his public statements during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kennedy made the remarks while discussing recent congressional proceedings involving Fauci and the publication of diary entries that Kennedy argued raise new questions about the government’s handling of the pandemic’s origins.

According to Kennedy, the most significant issue is not simply what was written in the diaries, but what he described as a contradiction between Fauci’s private conclusions and his public messaging.

“Yeah, I mean the most disturbing thing about that hearing was, and about the release of his diaries, was the huge delta between what he was saying privately and what he was telling us publicly,” Kennedy said.

He argued that the differences between Fauci’s private writings and his public comments deserve closer examination because they involve one of the central questions surrounding the pandemic’s origin.

Kennedy pointed to an entry he said was written in January 2020.

“And you know, one of the one of the clear examples, sorry, clear examples of that is that in January of 2020, he says in his diaries that he just met with the 16 scientists and that they all agreed this could not have come from the wet market.”

According to Kennedy, Fauci’s public comments changed immediately afterward.

“Yet the very next day he was telling Americans that it came from the wet market, and that’s the story he continued to spin for the next two years.”

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Kennedy argued that the example illustrates what he believes is a broader pattern reflected throughout the diary entries.

“There’s so many examples of that in his diary,” he said.

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The comments come as debate over the origins of COVID-19 and the federal government’s response to the pandemic continues years after the initial outbreak.

Congressional investigations, document releases, and testimony from current and former government officials have continued to draw attention to decisions made during the earliest stages of the pandemic.

Kennedy said that restoring public confidence in government institutions requires officials to present consistent information to the public and to be transparent when communicating about issues affecting public health.

Rather than focusing solely on scientific disagreements, Kennedy argued that public trust ultimately depends on whether government officials communicate honestly and consistently.

He said the discrepancies he believes are reflected in Fauci’s diary entries have made that task more difficult.

Kennedy concluded by arguing that rebuilding confidence in public institutions requires credibility from those leading them.

“We need to restore trust,” Kennedy said. “And the way you do that is by being trustworthy.”

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Peter Navarro Says Hydroxychloroquine Was Ready; Fauci Slammed the Brakes Despite Diary Confession [WATCH]
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Peter Navarro Says Hydroxychloroquine Was Ready; Fauci Slammed the Brakes Despite Diary Confession [WATCH]

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White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said he believes hydroxychloroquine was an effective early COVID-19 treatment and accused former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci of helping prevent its widespread distribution during the pandemic.

Navarro made the remarks while reflecting on disagreements he said he had with Fauci during the Trump administration’s response to COVID-19.

He began by acknowledging that many people remain skeptical of the medication.

“Is hydroxychloroquine? I would guess, not knowing your views on this, that you think hydroxychloroquine is is a quack medicine.”

Navarro then explained why he disagrees with that assessment.

“But let me tell you this: this is one of the many fights I had with Tony Fauci.”

According to Navarro, later research has reinforced his view of the drug’s safety and usefulness.

“Hydroxychloroquine, we now know going forward with all the studies, is number one, it’s a very safe medicine.”

He also argued that the medication has value as a preventive treatment.

“Number two, it’s particularly effective for prophylaxis, which which helps first responders.”

Navarro added that he believes the drug can provide benefits when administered early in the course of an infection.

“And number three, it has a it has a decent benefit in the first seven days of an infection.”

Navarro said the Trump administration had already acquired a large supply of the medication that he intended to distribute nationwide.

“So, I had a million tablets of hydroxy sitting in warehouses, ready to be dispensed to the American people.”

He argued that the medication could have saved many lives if distribution had moved forward.

“And I take this to the bank peers. If I had been able to do that, 1000’s of Americans would be alive.”

Navarro then explained why he believes the medication was never broadly distributed.

“Now, where does Fauci come into this?” And this is where the blame is.”

According to Navarro, Fauci initially supported the use of hydroxychloroquine during the early weeks of the pandemic.

“In March of 2020, Fauci, in his diary, several diary entries is on record saying that hydroxychloroquine is very very safe.”

Navarro said Fauci initially favored making the drug widely available.

“He wanted it distributed immediately.”

Navarro contrasted that with Fauci’s position on remdesivir.

“He wanted remdesivir to be to go through trials, not the other way around. And he was all for it.”

Navarro argued that Fauci’s position changed after President Donald Trump publicly endorsed hydroxychloroquine.

“The politics changed radically when President Trump said, ‘Hey, let’s try hydroxychloroquine.’ There was like a this just mass insanity in the left wing media.”

Navarro said Fauci changed his position as public debate intensified.

“Fauci flipped with that.”

He also alleged Fauci influenced federal regulators to prevent broader distribution of the medication.

“And he was part of the pressure on the FDA to prevent this administration and me specifically from able being able to do what I did.”

Navarro said he continues to hold Fauci responsible for what he believes was a missed opportunity during the pandemic.

“So when you ask me, do I give any slack to Tony Fauci? I say, absolutely not.”

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Florida vs. the Swamp: AG Uthmeier Battles Biden Judge Who Shut Down Citizenship Voting Checks [WATCH]
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Florida vs. the Swamp: AG Uthmeier Battles Biden Judge Who Shut Down Citizenship Voting Checks [WATCH]

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said the state is continuing its legal fight to preserve access to a federal citizenship verification database that he argues is essential for protecting election integrity and prosecuting voter fraud.

Uthmeier made the remarks while discussing a case involving allegations of illegal voting by a non-citizen and the state’s ongoing efforts to maintain access to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database.

According to Uthmeier, the individual in the case “faces two thirds degree felonies, voting by a non-citizen elector, and false affirmation, and up to 10 years in prison.”

He said the investigation relied on the federal database used to verify citizenship status.

“Building this case was possible because of the Save database, which allows states to look up citizenship data and ensure only Americans vote in our elections.”

Uthmeier noted that Florida reached an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security last year that expanded the state’s access to the database.

“Last year, Florida signed a landmark agreement with the Department of Homeland Security that requires free access to the Save database with improved search capabilities.”

He added that the agreement was intended to provide long-term certainty for the state’s election officials.

“That agreement is judicially enforceable for 20 years.”

“Future administrations cannot walk away from it.”

Uthmeier then criticized a recent court ruling that he said interrupted the state’s ability to use the database.

“Yet Biden-appointed Judge Sparkle Spookanan overstepped her authority and blocked access to the Save database.”

According to Uthmeier, the ruling has made it more difficult for Florida to verify voter eligibility.

“Her activist ruling makes it harder to verify citizenship and slows our ability to hold aliens accountable for stealing votes in Florida elections.”

He said the state is challenging the order in court.

“But no, we will not back down, and we are currently fighting her unlawful order in court to protect the integrity of every American ballot.”

Uthmeier argued that verifying citizenship is a key part of maintaining confidence in the election system and enforcing Florida’s election laws.

He said the state intends to continue pursuing cases involving alleged election fraud and will seek to hold offenders accountable under existing law.

Uthmeier emphasized that Florida’s legal challenge is focused on restoring access to the SAVE database and preserving what he described as an important tool for election officials and law enforcement.

He concluded by reiterating the state’s position on election-related offenses.

“Here in Florida, we do and will always take election fraud seriously, and we will hold violators accountable.”

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Useful Idiot Liberal Professor Recoils as Mamdani Tax Machine Comes for His Property [WATCH]
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Useful Idiot Liberal Professor Recoils as Mamdani Tax Machine Comes for His Property [WATCH]

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Scott Galloway, the left wing commentator and NYU professor who has made a comfortable brand out of blasting President Trump and nodding along with big government politics, is suddenly discovering something conservatives have warned about for years.

The government machine does not stay aimed only at the people you dislike.

Galloway is now objecting after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration published a searchable database tied to a proposed pied à terre tax, aimed at owners of valuable second residences in the city.

The irony is thick enough to pave Fifth Avenue.

According to the report, the database was released by the city’s Department of Finance and allows users to search properties while viewing the names and addresses of owners whose non primary residences could fall under the proposed tax.

A department spokesperson reportedly said the publication of the property roll was required by state law, which is the usual bureaucratic shrug when government decides ordinary privacy is optional.

Galloway, who apparently had no problem with aggressive left-wing taxation in theory, sounded a little less enchanted once his own name landed in the government spotlight.

“I’ve been doxed,” the liberal professor announced on the podcast.

He continued, “I don’t know if you’ve heard, but Mayor Mamdani has decided to release a list of the 950,000 residences with addresses and names that might be eligible for his pied à terre tax.”

That is the thing about class warfare politics, it sounds bold and righteous at cocktail parties until the mob starts reading from a list that includes your address.

Co host Kara Swisher, not exactly a voice from the conservative wilderness, also seemed uncomfortable with the move.

“I don’t love this,” Swisher said.

“I can’t say I love this. It feels a little bit like doxing. Just tax them and get on with it is my feeling.”

That comment captures the mindset perfectly.

The problem, in her view, is apparently not the punitive tax grab itself, but the messy public naming part that makes the ruling class feel a little exposed.

For years, the left has sold tax hikes as moral theater, where successful people are cast as villains and politicians ride in as heroes with spreadsheets.

Now Mamdani’s administration appears to have added a public shaming component, and some of the same people who cheered big government are noticing that bureaucrats are not famous for restraint.

Galloway was especially sharp in describing the city’s approach.

“He’s taken a legitimate source of tax revenue, and he’s turning it into a wanted poster,” he said of Mamdani’s tax list.

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Galloway also questioned the point of putting names and addresses in front of the public, especially in a political climate where anger can move quickly from online outrage to real world danger.

That concern is not hard to understand, even if it is rich coming from a political universe that routinely treats privacy and due process as inconveniences when the target is on the right.

The Mamdani administration’s database reportedly focuses on owners who may be subject to the proposed tax on valuable second homes.

In practical terms, that means the city is taking a revenue proposal and attaching to it a public list that critics say could invite harassment or worse.

Conservatives have long argued that once government gets addicted to targeting disfavored groups, it rarely stops where its cheerleaders promised.

Today it is wealthy second home owners, tomorrow it can be small landlords, business owners, political donors, or anyone else who becomes useful in the next campaign speech.

There is also a deeper lesson here for blue city voters who keep empowering politicians who see private property as a piggy bank.

When voters hand power to ideologues who believe government should punish success, they should not act shocked when those ideologues start building tools to identify exactly who owns what.

Galloway’s sudden discomfort is revealing because it shows how quickly abstract left wing policy becomes personal when the tax collector turns up at the professor’s own door.

He is not wrong to be alarmed about a government list that can be searched by name and address, but he is late to the party.

The conservative critique has always been simple.

Government power does not become safer just because the person wielding it uses progressive slogans.

Mamdani’s tax push may have been packaged as another hit on the wealthy, but the backlash from Galloway shows that even liberals can recognize a warning flare when it lands on their own lawn.

For New Yorkers already tired of being treated like walking revenue streams, this episode is another reminder that left wing governance always starts with promises of fairness and somehow ends with more taxes, more lists, and less privacy.

Three Dead After Idaho In N Out Bloodbath as Gunman Opens Fire, Armed Citizen Steps In [WATCH]
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A brand new In N Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho, became the scene of a sickening Saturday rampage when a gunman opened fire, killing two people and wounding several others before dying himself.

The shooting erupted around 2 p.m. local time, sending families, employees, and customers scrambling for cover in the kind of chaos no community should have to endure.

Police later said the dead included the shooter, whose motive was still under investigation.

Twin Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks said investigators were still working to confirm the number of people injured.

He also said authorities believed “the threat to the community is over,” a phrase that brought some relief after an afternoon of terror.

Jerome Police Chief Duane Rubink told CNN that early indications pointed to one shooter, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot.

In other words, the coward apparently ended his own life after destroying the lives of innocent people.

Witness Lane Koehn, 34, told the Associated Press he was stopped at a traffic light near the restaurant when he saw the violence unfold.

He described seeing a person carrying what appeared to be an AR style rifle coming from the drive thru area.

Koehn said another man armed with a pistol fired at the suspect.

He also watched an employee rush to help a wounded coworker, dragging the woman across the parking lot after she had reportedly been shot in the chest.

“She was pretty bad off, but I don’t know. I hope she made it,” Koehn told the AP.

He estimated hearing three or four shots and said he could not tell whether the attacker was targeting someone specific.

In N Out President Lynsi Snyder confirmed that one company associate was killed in the attack.

“We lost one of our beautiful Associates tonight,” Snyder said in a statement.

Snyder said the employee had been serving customers when her life was taken by what she called a disgusting person who did not value anyone else’s life or his own.

That is about as plain and accurate as it gets, despite the usual excuse machine always waiting nearby to explain away evil.

Police responded to the restaurant parking lot for what authorities described as an active shooter situation.


Cellphone video from inside a nearby vehicle showed a man in a black T shirt and blue pants standing between two parked Teslas while aiming what looked like a rifle toward a blue vehicle.

Two shots rang out in rapid succession, with muzzle flashes visible on the recording.

The armed man then lowered the weapon, walked away quickly, and broke into a run across the parking lot while still carrying the firearm.

The person recording the video could be heard whispering, “Oh my gosh” just before the shots were fired.

Moments later, as the suspected gunman moved away, the camera dropped as the person appeared to duck, while a panicked voice said, “Get down … I don’t have service.”

Another video taken from a vehicle stopped at a red light on Blue Lakes Boulevard North captured people running across the street as gunfire cracked in the background.

The camera turned toward the In N Out, where a person in dark clothing appeared near a white sedan in the drive thru lane while holding a long firearm.

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“He got more in the back,” one occupant said as the armed person leaned into the sedan and later opened its rear hatch.

A witness then said it looked like “something bigger” as the person removed another long object from the vehicle.

As the vehicle sped away, one person shouted out the window, “Hey! Stop shooting! Stop shooting, bitch!”

It was a raw moment of panic, anger, and disbelief in a parking lot that had been packed with ordinary Americans just trying to grab a meal.

Authorities shut down the Perrine Bridge and nearby roads while businesses in a shopping center went into lockdown.

The Magic Valley Mall also locked down, and St. Luke’s Magic Valley urged people not to come to the hospital unless they had an emergency.

The hospital said its emergency department remained open and was working with police and emergency responders while the situation developed.

Investigators were also moving hundreds of witnesses to different locations for interviews, a massive undertaking after a violent attack in a busy public area.

A nearby chicken restaurant closed for the rest of the day out of caution.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little urged residents to “avoid the area and follow directions from law enforcement as they work to keep everyone safe.”

The FBI said it was aware of the shooting and was offering assistance to local law enforcement.

The Twin Falls In N Out had opened only one week earlier, welcoming its first customers on July 25 before this nightmare ripped through the community.

“We are heartbroken,” In N Out COO Denny Warnick said in a statement.

For the victims, their families, and the shaken people of Twin Falls, Saturday will not be remembered as the opening week of a popular restaurant, but as the day a murderous thug turned a normal afternoon into a crime scene.

Dana Perino Corners Francesca Hong Over Radical Police Abolition Record [WATCH]
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Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong ran into a problem Friday that every radical eventually meets.

Her record followed her onto live television, and Fox News host Dana Perino did not let her simply sprint past it.

Hong appeared on America’s Newsroom as her campaign tries to pitch a softer, more voter-friendly message.

The trouble is that her past comments on police, ICE, and even the United States Senate are not exactly small footnotes.

Perino pressed Hong on old statements backing defunding police, abolishing police, eliminating ICE, and taking aim at core American institutions.

For a candidate now trying to look ready for statewide office, that is a lot of socialist baggage to drag into a governor’s race.

Hong is a state representative and a dues paying member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

She confirmed that she has belonged to the Madison chapter since 2020, which is not ancient history no matter how much campaign consultants may wish it were.

When Perino asked why voters should not take her at her own word on abolishing police, Hong tried to pivot to economics.

“As a Democratic Socialist, what that means is I want to put working class people first,” Hong said.

Perino did not let the talking point float away untouched.

“How does defunding the police put working class people first?” Perino asked, cutting straight to the obvious question many Wisconsin families would probably like answered before handing Hong the keys to the governor’s office.

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Hong’s record is not vague.

In a 2020 post first reported by CNN, she wrote that she supported “defunding the police as a first step towards abolishing the police.”

She went even further in 2021 with rhetoric that sounded like it came straight from an activist meeting rather than a serious public safety debate.

“Police exist to uphold white supremacy,” Hong wrote in 2021.

“Defund then abolish. Reform can’t be an option.”

On Friday, Hong tried to inch away from that record without actually repudiating it.

She told Perino she believes “people can evolve,” which is the kind of phrase politicians reach for when the old posts are too toxic to defend but too ideologically precious to disown.

Hong then offered a carefully worded assurance about what she would do as governor.

“The governor cannot defund the police, and I won’t defund the police,” Hong said.

“But I will invest in the things we know prevent crime.”

That answer may sound neat in a studio, but voters are allowed to notice the maneuver.

Saying a governor lacks the power to defund police is not the same as admitting the original idea was reckless, destructive, and insulting to law abiding communities.

Hong also tried to create distance between herself and some of the Democratic Socialists of America’s more sweeping demands.

She rejected the idea of abolishing the United States Senate as impractical for now and declined to endorse eliminating the Supreme Court.

For conservatives, that is hardly comforting.

When the moderation pitch is that abolishing the Senate is not practical at the moment, the bar has been buried somewhere deep under the Capitol lawn.

Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany, the GOP front runner in the governor’s race, has been hammering Hong over the same record.

His campaign argues that Hong is not being newly reasonable, she is simply trying to clean up a paper trail that does not play well outside the activist left.

Hong currently leads recent polling in the crowded Democrat primary, which is scheduled for August 11.

That says plenty about where the party’s energy is right now, and it is not exactly in the neighborhood of law and order.

The police issue is not the only radical marker on her record.

Hong has called ICE the “enforcers of fascism” and has reportedly floated using the National Guard to arrest federal agents, a position that would make even some hardened leftist strategists reach for the aspirin.

Days before the Fox interview, Hong reportedly dodged repeated questions from a Politico reporter about whether she still supports abolishing police.

Instead, she offered winding answers about building “systems of care,” which sounds lovely until someone calls 911 and needs an officer, not a slogan.

Perino’s interview put the matter in plain view.

Hong wants voters to focus on her polished campaign message, but her own words keep pointing back to a much more radical agenda.

Trans Funeral Director Accused in $2.2M Estate Theft Erupts After Organ Bucket Questions [WATCH]
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Trans Funeral Director Accused in $2.2M Estate Theft Erupts After Organ Bucket Questions [WATCH]

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A Houston funeral home director accused in a staggering estate theft case walked into court Friday facing a pile of felony charges, then walked out acting like the cameras were there for a red carpet premiere.

Unique Mica Green Battle is accused of forging a web of documents to seize control of more than $2.2 million from the estate of Lawrence Gammon, a deceased man whose name is now attached to one of the stranger probate scandals in recent memory.

According to reporting from Fox 26, investigators say the paperwork used in the scheme included a fake will, a falsified death certificate, forged probate records, and fraudulent filings designed to make Green Battle appear to be Gammon’s spouse and successor.

That is not a paperwork error. That is the kind of allegation that turns a funeral business into the center of a major fraud investigation.

The case took an even darker turn in November 2025, when police executed a search warrant at Green Battle’s funeral home after families raised accusations that the business was mishandling bodies and committing fraud.

During that search, investigators reportedly found human organs in a bucket, along with boxes of cremated remains.

Even in an era where the public has learned to expect bureaucratic incompetence and institutional rot, that detail lands like something from a nightmare.

Authorities also say Green Battle had been operating the funeral business without a valid license.

The license reportedly expired in 2021 and was revoked in August 2025, yet the business allegedly continued functioning anyway.

For families already grieving loved ones, the idea that a funeral home was operating under those circumstances is not merely disturbing.

It is a betrayal at the most vulnerable possible moment.

Green Battle, described in court records under both male and female listings dating back years, appeared before a judge Friday.

The judge set bond at $800,000, and Green Battle was released after posting it.

If anyone expected humility outside the courtroom, they got the opposite.

Green Battle met reporters with a performance that was equal parts arrogance, deflection, and tabloid chaos.

“I’m on the news. I’m a celebrity. I don’t have anything to say.”

Reporters pressed forward with questions, including the obvious ones that any sane person would ask after allegations involving forged estate documents, mishandled remains, and organs found in a bucket.

Green Battle then snapped, “Get that out of my face b*tch,” before shouting, “I don’t have nothing to say!”

That was followed by insults about a reporter’s fashion choices, because apparently answering basic questions about a multimillion dollar estate case was too much to ask.

The spectacle did not stop there.

Green Battle declared, “I’m such a celebrity. I’m a celebrity,” then fired back at reporters by saying “your mom forged [documents].”

When one reporter asked where the organs allegedly found by investigators came from, the response was as vile as it was bizarre.

“They were for you to eat for lunch. Stupid b*tch, they were for you to eat.”

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Police had already been digging into the business before Friday’s court appearance.

Initial reporting from November showed Houston police executing warrants at the property and seizing financial records as well as cremated remains.

Houston Police Department Lt. Larry Crowson said the investigation centered on “identity theft involving the identities of the deceased person,” with authorities examining whether information from funeral contracts was used to defraud families.

That allegation is especially chilling because funeral homes are trusted with intensely personal information at a time when families are least prepared to detect fraud.

If the accusations are proven, the setup would be as predatory as it gets.

The political class loves to lecture Americans about trust, credentials, regulation, and compassion, but ordinary citizens keep seeing cases where the systems supposedly protecting them fail spectacularly.

Here, a revoked license, grieving families, forged documents, and human remains all appear in the same story.

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The charges against Green Battle will now proceed through the court system, where prosecutors will have to prove the fraud allegations and the full scope of what happened at the funeral business.

For now, Houston families are left with ugly questions about who had access to their loved ones, what was done with remains, and how a person under this kind of scrutiny could stroll out of court calling himself a celebrity.


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