A Genesee County judge is trying a new form of ex-spongement—sentencing Walmart shoplifters to wash cars in the parking lot this spring. In an effort to deter theft at the Grand Blanc Township store and reward law-abiding shoppers, Judge Jeffrey Clothier began ordering “Walmart wash” sentences this week for misdemeanor shoplifting, The Associated Press reports.
The store in Grand Blanc Township is 50 miles north of Detroit. Clothier hopes some sponge equity in the form of hand-washing cars—as well as facing fellow customers and community members—will discourage people from stealing from Walmart. “I think it will be humiliating to be out there washing cars if you see someone you know,” Clothier said.
Clothier, who was recently elected to Genesee County District Court, has been dismayed over the cases of retail thefts. He joined the bench in January and said that offenders were from all over Michigan and outside the state. “It’s just crazy,” he told the AP, noting he had 48 such cases on his docket one day. Clothier estimates 75 to 100 people eventually will be ordered to wash cars at weekend events at that location in March and April. Walmart is “on board” and will provide water and supplies.
Clothier also plans to join the shoplifters he has sentenced and wash cars alongside them. “Sometimes people are just down on their luck,” Clothier told the AP. “But there’s going to be consequences when you break the law.”
Oh, what a difference a change of administration makes. Until a few weeks ago, we had to listen to three years of this from the White House press room:
JUST IN – Press Sec Karine Jean-Pierre abruptly ends press briefing after getting upset with the reporter asking question pic.twitter.com/s3nIh8INNd
That’s President Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre. You’d be hard pressed to find a presidential spokeswoman who answered fewer direct questions, or who threw more tantrums or scolded more reporters when she didn’t like being questioned on a sensitive topic.
And what was a sensitive topic? Anything connected to reality. Jean-Pierre would get exasperated and snippy at any reporter who asked about Biden’s obvious senility, or about the legality of his attempts to make American taxpayers pay off the student loan debts of individual students. Or about anything.
Like the rest of the pathological narcissists in the Democrat party, Jean-Pierre thought very highly of herself. She made sure to point out that she was “making history” by being the first black lesbian to hold her job when she was new at it. Then, on her way out, she waxed self-lovingly about how she contemplates the many little girls “looking at me,” and how she hopes she’s “an inspiration” to them.
The page has turned. President Donald Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt is just 27 years old, but she has a direct and commanding no-nonsense communication style that would leave seasoned public speakers envious.
Here she is explaining-telling, not asking-that the administration is putting tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China, for their part in the fentanyl epidemic that “has killed tens of millions of Americans.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (27) just delivered her second press briefing. After winning over MAGA with her impressive debut, she didn’t disappoint—giving the media yet another dose of reality.
Want more? Leavitt’s got you covered. In the same press briefing, she told the plain truth about the probable origins of Covid-19. But more importantly, she pointed out that Trump and Republicans were smeared as “conspiracy theorists” when they talked about the lab-leak hypothesis that even the CIA is now saying is likely where the disease came from.
In a moment of glory, Leavitt reminded a room full of smug White House reporters that President Trump’s so-called “conspiracy theory” about the COVID lab leak turned out to be true, as confirmed by the CIA’s recent assessment favoring the lab leak theory as the most likely origin… pic.twitter.com/JcHGHmo8nZ
Then, Leavitt heats it up with an unequivocal declaration that no one can expect to get a job in government anymore by trading on their skin color, sexuality, or any other “protected” characteristic. Competence, she said, will be the deciding factor in hiring decisions:
Leavitt also made it crystal clear to reporters that the federal government will hire based on competence, merit, and skill—not DEI.
“People should not be hired based on their disabilities, based on their skin color, their gender, their race.
And for dessert, just watch her demolish a reporter trying to impugn Trump’s character by kibbitzing about the fact that he sometimes uses profanity:
As the press briefing neared its end, Leavitt landed another unexpected blow, flipping the script on a reporter’s attempt to frame Trump’s speaking style as a character flaw.
REPORTER: “If you can shed any light for us on how the president perceives his use of public profanity,… pic.twitter.com/sJ2khGyXoj
Federal investigators have linked the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent near the Canadian border to a radical militant group accused of multiple killings across the country.
Border Patrol agent David Maland was shot and killed on January 20 during a routine traffic stop in Coventry, Vermont.
The suspects, identified as German national Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt and University of Washington student Teresa “Milo” Consuelo Youngblut, were traveling in a Toyota Prius when they were stopped.
Authorities say Youngblut opened fire on Maland, killing him, before border agents returned fire, killing Bauckholt. Youngblut was taken into custody.
Court documents reveal that federal law enforcement had been monitoring Bauckholt and Youngblut in the days leading up to the shooting. Staff at a Lyndonville, Vermont, motel had reported seeing the pair with firearms and black tactical clothing.
When law enforcement questioned them, they claimed to be scouting property in the area before checking out of the motel on January 14.
Authorities now say that the weapons used in the attack were linked to a larger investigation involving a shadowy extremist group known as the “Zizians.” This group, led by Jack LaSota—also known by the alias “Ziz”—has been connected to at least four homicides.
REPORT: The k*ller in the Vermont Border Patrol slaying on Inauguration Day is allegedly linked to a radical leftist transgender militant cult known as the "Zizians"
The Zizians are a radical "computer-savvy" cult with a "vegan Sith" ideology & follow "Rationalism"
Bauckholt, a biological male identifying as transgender, had an extensive background in mathematics and finance.
Originally from Freiburg, Germany, he graduated from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, before working as a quantitative trader at Tower Research Capital in New York. Investigators believe he was in the U.S. on an H-1B visa.
Youngblut, a biological female identifying as transgender, was a computer science student at the University of Washington.
Social media records show Youngblut followed multiple far-left, Antifa-aligned accounts and had been reported missing by family members in May 2024. The family told police they believed she was in a controlling relationship and had cut off contact.
The case took another turn last week when authorities arrested Maximilian Bentley Snyder, a Seattle resident and former classmate of Youngblut. Snyder was charged with the murder of 82-year-old Curtis Lind, an elderly man who was set to testify in an upcoming attempted murder trial involving alleged members of the “Ziz” group. Prosecutors say Snyder killed Lind to prevent his testimony.
Lind was the sole witness in a case against two alleged members of the Ziz group—Suri Dao and Alexander “Somni” Leatham—who are accused of attempting to murder him in 2022.
During that attack, Lind was stabbed multiple times and lost an eye but managed to shoot and kill one of his assailants, Amir “Emma” Borhanian. Authorities have also identified bioinformatics researcher Michelle Jacqueline Zajko as a person of interest.
Zajko, a transgender nonbinary individual, was previously linked to the Ziz group and is believed to have supplied firearms to Bauckholt and Youngblut. Zajko has not been charged with a crime but remains under investigation for a double homicide in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Following the border shooting, investigators searched Bauckholt and Youngblut’s vehicle and discovered a cache of weapons and tactical gear, including:
Two pistols and multiple magazines
Night-vision goggles
Two full-face respirators
A ballistic helmet
48 rounds of hollow-point ammunition
Interstate lodging records
Two-way radios
Multiple electronic devices wrapped in foil
Authorities also searched their prior residence in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where they had been living in an Airbnb with other members of the Ziz group. The property owner reported that Youngblut had parked a large box truck on the premises, where group members frequently gathered.
Federal prosecutors have cited Youngblut’s connections to other violent individuals as a reason to deny bail.
In a January 27 court motion, prosecutor Matthew Lasher wrote, “Her associations with other individuals suspected of violent acts also warrants caution.” Meanwhile, online supporters of the Ziz group have attempted to pressure people not to cooperate with authorities.
Following the murder of witness Curtis Lind, one social media account linked to the group posted, “Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.”
As federal agencies continue to investigate the extent of the Ziz group’s operations, questions remain about their broader network and future threats.
Law enforcement officials have not ruled out additional arrests as they work to uncover more connections between the group’s members and recent violent incidents across multiple states.
A Democratic elected official in New Jersey who was stopped by a police officer during a traffic stop suffered a total meltdown after being pulled over.
Paulsboro Councilman Theodore D. Holloway II reportedly ran a stop sign in Philadelphia earlier this month, according to a public records request from NJ.com.
In the footage, Holloway is seen cursing at the officer from the driver’s seat of his van and repeatedly referencing his political office. “You can’t be serious. I want to know what exactly are you getting behind me for?” Holloway inquired, whilst denying that he had run a stop sign.
Holloway then threatened to call the cop’s boss. “Don’t think I ain’t going to talk to Gary about this,” he said, referring to the chief. The officer shrugged off the threat; Holloway shouted, “I’m the one that hired you!”
When the policeman shrugged off the threat, Holloway shouted, “I’m the one that hired you!”
“You actually pulled over an elected official,” Holloway continued, attempting to call the police chief from his cell phone.
“You’re not pulling over a random. You’re pulling over your boss. I am literally your boss.”
Holloway referred to his elected office when the police officer’s supervisor arrived at the scene.
“You know who I am, right?” Holloway asked.
Paulsboro Mayor John Giovannitti confirmed that government officials for the community had been briefed on the matter, adding that Holloway was spoken to following the incident.
“We’ve spoken to him with our legal team and went over the issues that we had, and I just think it was an unfortunate incident that shouldn’t have happened,” Giovannitti said. “It’s never happened in the past and can’t happen again.”
The official acknowledged that “it’s not the response that an elected official should share with our police,” characterizing Holloway as a dedicated member of the borough council.
Holloway was issued a citation for “driving or parking [an] unregistered motor vehicle.”
Maybe by this time in 2026, writers like me won’t have to write things that don’t make sense. Things like this: Did you know that despite transgender individuals making up only 0.3% of the population, 15 percent of women in U.S. federal prisons are men?
NYT: 15% of federal prisoners in female prisons are "transgender".
It should be exceedingly obvious to anyone that these people are simply men claiming to be women in order to be housed in a women's prison.
We jumped the shark all the way into orbit in about 2014 when Time Magazine declared it the year of the “transgender tipping point.” Using a photograph of the “trans woman” “Laverne” Cox in a waist-cincher, wig, and a coquette pose, Time assured us that transgender rights were “the next civil rights frontier.”
What could it be? Let's have a look. In 2014 the cover of Time magazine heralded the next civil rights movement with The Transgender Tipping Point. I Am Jazz first aired in 2015, as did Louis Theroux's Transgender Kids. The concept of the trans child had now entered the lexicon/3 pic.twitter.com/OPZO7OQo2I
Sympathy for what we all used to correctly call drag queens and transvestites went so high it broke every measurement scale. No longer could we acknowledge that none of these men in “working girl” couture were actually men. It wasn’t permitted to fail to refer to them as “she.” Doing anything–even having the wrong look on your face–that signaled that you didn’t believe they really were women would get you shrieked at by leftist lunatics (mainly actual women) and accused of “transphobia” and “violence.”
Well it’s 10 years later and the seeds we sowed have blossomed into exactly the rotten fruit conservatives told us they would, and that all of us could have seen if we weren’t so busy pretending reality isn’t real. Given the high percentage of “trans women” in prison who are sexual predators, it should come as no surprise that they’re raping their cellmates. This is just one story out of California, and it’s particularly gruesome; after being allegedly raped by a “lady man “trans woman” behind bars, the court is forcing the victim to refer to her alleged rapist as “she” and “her.”
Mainstream media, of course, are attacking Donald Trump for putting the kibosh on the sadistic practice of putting male criminals in women’s prisons. The UK’s Independent bleats that Trump is “gutting” parts of the Prison Rape Elimination Act. How is Trump doing that? By no longer allowing men in women’s prisons.
The media may still be playing opposite day, but users on Twitter/X are having none of it. Former New York Times writer Alex Berenson, who defected from the Gray Lady has the story:
15% of all women in federal prison – 1500 inmates – are transgender?!?
That jaw-dropping stat was buried in an NYT story yesterday.
Either a lot of dudes are gaming the system or transies commit a LOT of crime. Or both. pic.twitter.com/ilNE1XE2az
Will it turn out that the time of the Biden Administration will also be the time in history with the most cases of violent crime ever perpetrated by women?
New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick confirmed that the city had effective anti-vehicle barriers available to be deployed on New Year’s Eve, but says they weren’t because she was unaware of their existence.
Questions remain unanswered surrounding the horrific events in the city which saw a Texas man inspired by Islamic State mow down pedestrians on Bourbon Street, killing at least 14 in the process and wounding dozens more.
The city had removed anti-vehicle bollards due to functional issues and was in the process of replacing them. However, officials opted to use police patrol cars as a barrier instead, which were circumvented when the attacker drove on the sidewalk and onto Bourbon Street.
On Thursday, Superintendent Kirkpatrick confirmed that L-shaped Archer barriers had been installed, and the street was open for business. However, she gave a confusing response to a journalist asking where the anti-vehicle barriers had come from.
“Actually, we have them. I didn’t know about them, but we have them, and so we have been able now to put them out,” she told reporters, adding that it was “not a matter of pointing blame anywhere” given that the attacker was “hell-bent” on destruction. “This man was going to do his best, and if it hadn’t been on Bourbon, he was going to go somewhere else,” she added. “We have this. We’re going to implement it. End of story.”
NEW: New Orleans Police Superintendent says she had no clue that New Orleans had sidewalk barriers to defend against terror attacks, which are now being used today.
What a total embarrassment.
Reporters seemed shocked when Anne Kirkpatrick bizarrely admitted that she was… pic.twitter.com/5prEdJyuj8
The owner of fast-food franchise In-N-Out said the company was forced to close its Oakland restaurant due to a relentless crime wave.
Lynsi Snyder said the “absolutely dangerous” conditions, which saw 300 days of violence in a single year, forced the first permanent closure of an In-N-Out restaurant in the company’s 76-year history. The recessions 1949, 1953, 1958, 1960-61, 1969-70, 1973-75, 1980, 1981-82, early 1990s recession, early 2000s recession, 2008-09 global financial crisis, and COVID lockdowns didn’t kill off a single one of their stores – but liberal policies on crime did.
In an interview with PragerU, Snyder detailed the sheer scale of incidents surrounding the restaurant in the liberal-controlled city.
“There were car burglaries, violence, fights, theft – there was a lot,” Snyder said in the interview. “There was actually gun shots went through the store, stabbings – it was a lot.”
“Gun shots went through the store, stabbings… it was huge.”
“The amount of time it would take for the police to get there was alarming,” she added. “For the safety of our associates, it was just not okay.”
The closure came after police logged 1,335 criminal incidents in its location since 2019 alone.
Watch:
NEW: In-N-Out owner says she was forced to close their Oakland location because there was a crime almost every day, says the closure was the only one in 75 years.
Oakland is a great litmus test for what happens when you let liberals control an entire city for an extended period… pic.twitter.com/tPpydx8zdP
A harrowing Christmas Eve attack at Grand Central Terminal in New York has sparked outrage as bystanders reportedly failed to assist a young woman after she was brutally stabbed – and not a single one called the police.
The victim, 26-year-old Imani-Ciara Pizarro, detailed her traumatic experience in an interview with the New York Post. She was on her way to a night shift at the Roosevelt Hotel when she was struck from behind. The attacker, identified by police as 28-year-old Jason Sargeant, then lunged at Pizarro with a small knife while repeatedly yelling, “What’s your problem?” and slashing her in the next.
Police were reportedly absent in Grand Central, while bystanders simply “just froze” during the attack – provoking memories of an attack the week prior on the city’s metro where a woman was torched to death by an attacker. “No one called 911. No one in Grand Central called 911. It was my neighbor. I called my neighbor. I was on the phone with my neighbor when it happened and she called 911”
In the case of the aforementioned woman burned to death, no one intervened there either, as seems to be the standard when you live among liberals.
The Post reported that witnesses later identified Sargeant to law enforcement officials. He’s charged with assault, reckless endangerment, menacing, criminal possession of a weapon, harassment and disorderly conduct, according to police.
JUST IN: One of the victims randomly stabbed at Grand Central Terminal on Christmas Eve says no one helped her after she was slashed in the throat
“No one called 911. No one in Grand Central called 911. It was my neighbor. I called my neighbor. I was on the phone with my… pic.twitter.com/LHS3VlAhaw
Others, however, believed that the lack of intervention was due to concerns over a similar scenario to Daniel Penny, who was recently acquitted for the death of a man he restrained on the subway in 2023.
It's the "Penny Effect" – are you happy now AOC? @AOC This is what people should expect in your NYC. Every man for himself, nobody is going to help anyone, you're on your own.
A violent altercation unfolded at a Chipotle restaurant in Brentwood, Washington, DC, on Saturday when a customer allegedly assaulted an employee over a dispute involving her Uber Eats order.
The incident, partially captured on video and widely shared on social media, has left the employee shaken and raised concerns about workplace safety.
The video, initially posted to X (formerly Twitter), shows the customer, carrying an empty bowl, pushing her way behind the counter.
She proceeds to scoop food into her bowl while employees attempt to stop her.
Roberto Hernandez, a Chipotle worker involved in the altercation, tried to retrieve the bowl, but the situation escalated.
As Hernandez reached for the bowl, the customer pulled it away and slapped him in the face, causing food to scatter across the workstation. “I was mad, upset. But I’m a man, you know I can’t hit a female,” Hernandez told WUSA9, explaining why he walked away from the confrontation.
Hernandez said the conflict began when the customer claimed her Uber Eats order was incorrect.
According to her, the burrito bowl she received did not include the double meat she had requested.
She demanded a refund, but Hernandez and his manager explained that refunds for third-party delivery orders must be handled through Uber Eats.
“I checked the receipt, and it showed she didn’t order double meat,” Hernandez stated.
However, the customer, dissatisfied with their response, took matters into her own hands by going behind the counter to assemble a new order.
The situation became more alarming when Hernandez revealed that the customer allegedly threatened staff after the incident. “Yesterday, she was saying, ‘I’m going to come back and stab them and take their life,’” Hernandez told the outlet, adding that the threats left him and his coworkers fearful.
The unidentified customer, however, disputed the claims, alleging that employees had put their hands on her first.
She told WUSA9, “I wasn’t aggressive toward them until I got assaulted. The video was cut short.” She also claimed that she only “threw” the bowl at the worker and not more.
In response, Chipotle filed a police report, and the customer has stated her intent to sue the restaurant chain.
Democrat Rep. Ritchie Torres has been slammed following his response to the horrific killing of a woman who was burned alive on the New York City Subway, allegedly by an illegal alien previously deported under the Trump administration.
Footage of the mortifying clip has spread across social media, with millions, including Torres condemning the heinous attack. We’ve chosen not to share the horrifying video, but it can easily be found with a quick Google search.
“In the F Train at Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue, a demented man lit a sleeping woman on fire with a match, causing the victim to burn alive and die at the scene,” the New York Rep. wrote on Sunday. “In New York, dangerous people are allowed to freely roam the subway. Yet the political establishment insists on gaslighting the public with deceptive headlines: ‘crime is down’ and ‘the subways are safe.’”
Now this is a pretty reasonable statement – but there’s just one obvious problem that attracted widespread criticism.
Many conservatives noted his remark that that “dangerous people are allowed to freely roam the subway” was incredibly hypocritical given his reaction to the Daniel Penny case.
“There was no justification for choking Jordan Neely for 15 minutes — and ultimately choking him to death,” Torres wrote at the time in a tweet that was deleted immediately after people began posting it in response to the condemnation of the “alleged” illegal alien attack to expose his hypocrisy.
In other words, Torres is horrified by dangerous people on the subway – and also the people who stop them.
Neely’s death was highly polarizing, with conservatives hailing Penny as a protector of public safety and ideologically possessed leftists denouncing the killing as unnecessary and inhumane. Torres was among those who criticized Penny’s actions at the time, writing that Penny “should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
What did you say when Daniel Penny was first arrested?
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