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‘Outraged’ Mamdani demands release of Venezuelan working for NY City Council — but DHS says he’s a ‘criminal illegal alien’
Socialist Democrat Mayor Zohran Mamdani called for the immediate release of an illegal alien who was detained by federal immigration officials while he was trying to complete a routine immigration appointment.
Fifty-three-year-old Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez is originally from Venezuela but was working as a data analyst at New York City Hall before he was detained.
‘This is an assault on our democracy, on our city, and our values. I am calling for his immediate release and will continue to monitor the situation.’
“I am outraged to hear a New York City Council employee was detained in Nassau County by federal immigration officials at a routine immigration appointment,” the mayor wrote on social media Tuesday.
“This is an assault on our democracy, on our city, and our values,” he added. “I am calling for his immediate release and will continue to monitor the situation.”
Bohorquez is being held at a detention center in Manhattan.
In a statement at a media briefing, New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin said Bohorquez had been detained despite “doing everything right.”
“DHS confirmed that this employee had gone in for a routine court appointment and was nevertheless detained. They provided no other basis for his detainment,” Menin said. “On the contrary, he was a City Council employee who is doing everything right. He went to the court when he was asked.”
She went on to say the man was a victim of “egregious government overreach.”
Authorities claim that Bohorquez had a previous arrest for assault, according to WABC-TV, and Department of Homeland Security said he did not have work authorization to stay in the U.S.
New York City Council contradicted the claims from DHS.
“Contrary to claims by DHS, the City Council employee provided documentation showing he was authorized to remain and work in the country,” they said to Newsweek. “He fully cleared all background checks. Any suggestion to the contrary is false.”
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DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said that he had entered “on a B2 tourist visa in 2017 that required him to depart the U.S. by October 22, 2017” and called him a “criminal illegal alien.”
“He had no legal right to be in the United States,” she added.
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Man arrested for driving U-Haul into Iran protesters in Los Angeles was released on $0 bail
The man who was arrested for ramming protesters against the Islamic regime in Los Angeles was given a $0 bail and was released on his own recognizance.
Iranian dissidents have organized one of the largest political demonstrations against the ruling regime and have been met with brutal state violence in response. Hundreds have been killed in the clashes, with some estimates reaching over 1,000 dead.
‘The demonstrators tore the signs off the truck and attacked the driver, who then drove toward a group of LAPD officers.’
Supporters of the dissidents have protested in cities across the globe, but one group in Westwood was violently attacked by a man driving a U-Haul truck.
Video showed protesters attacking the man as police dragged him away from the scene. He was later identified as 48-year-old Calor Madanescht. Only minor injuries were reported from the incident.
The truck had signs on it indicating that Madanescht was opposed to the demonstration. One side read, “No Shah,” which refers to the ruling leader before the Islamic regime overthrew the Western-backed Shah.
However, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force is trying to determine whether he intentionally rammed the protesters or was reacting to being boxed in by the protest.
He was only charged with a misdemeanor count of reckless driving.
“Officers stopped the truck and directed the driver to turn around,” reads a statement from the Los Angeles Police Dept. on Monday. “The demonstrators tore the signs off the truck and attacked the driver, who then drove toward a group of LAPD officers.”
Investigators said nothing significant was found inside the truck after it was impounded and searched.
Madanescht was booked into the Los Angeles County Jail but was released on $0 bail. The Los Angeles City Attorney will review the case.
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Iranian and Middle East studies professor Ciruce Movahedi-Lankarani at USC told KABC-TV the man appeared to be opposed to both the Islamic regime as well as the previous Shah.
He went on to say that the regime’s actions to cloud reporting on the demonstrations had made it difficult to ascertain how many people had been killed.
“It’s difficult to know the scale and the size because the communications have been cut off, and that’s by design, right?” Movahedi-Lankarani said. “The government doesn’t want the news to be easily spread about what is happening there.”
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump issued a statement of support for the anti-regime protesters and said that help was on the way.
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‘A true American original’: Trump, Vance, Musk, and others pay tribute to the late Scott Adams amid leftist attacks
Following the heartbreaking news of Scott Adams’ death on Tuesday, the leftist media wasted no time before slinging mud at the ardent conservative cartoonist and author. However many conservative political figures and commentators came to the “Dilbert” creator’s defense just as quickly.
President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, for instance, came to Adams’ defense, praised his work, and thanked him for standing up for conservative values, even when it wasn’t easy.
‘Instead he chose courage and died surrounded by the love of tens of millions.’
Trump posted a photo of Adams and himself in the Oval Office. He wrote, “Sadly, the Great Influencer, Scott Adams, has passed away. He was a fantastic guy, who liked and respected me when it wasn’t fashionable to do so. He bravely fought a long battle against a terrible disease. My condolences go out to his family, and all of his many friends and listeners. He will be truly missed. God bless you Scott!”
Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire delivered a poignant message to Adams’ detractors.
“To have monsters celebrate your death is not a bad thing. In fact it is a tribute. But to die and have no one either mourn or celebrate, to die and be forgotten, to have left no impact of any kind on the world, to have your existence add up to nothing in the end — that is the greatest horror. And it’s the fate of basically every leftist who gloated over Charlie, and gloats now over Scott. Gloat all you want, you pathetic nothings. We will not return the favor when you die, because we won’t know or care.”
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Vance paid his respects to Adams on social media: “Scott Adams was a true American original, and a great ally to the President of the United States and the entire administration. My prayers go to Scott and all of you who loved him.”
“We lost one of the good ones but we’ll never forget him,” Vance added.
“Rest in glorious peace, @ScottAdamsSays — you changed more lives and made the world infinitely better. God bless you and thank you for everything you did for me. We will always love you,” Fox News comedian and host Greg Gutfeld said.
Mike Cernovich chimed in, “Scott Adams could have kept his mouth shut in 2015, kept those lavish corporate speaking gigs where he’d earn 50-100K per talk, and have died with an extra zero or two in his bank account. Instead he chose courage and died surrounded by the love of tens of millions.”
Quote-tweeting Adams’ final message, Elon Musk commented, “Even though I knew his death was coming, as he told us it would, I still can’t believe he has died. Rest in peace, good and great man, rest in peace.”
Adams’ X account posted a two-page “Final Message” mid-morning Tuesday. The statement offers a reflection on his life and work and, significantly, shined a light on his apparent last-minute conversion to Christianity.
“I’m not a believer, but I have to admit the risk-reward calculation for doing so looks attractive. So, here I go,” the statement reads in part. “I accept Jesus Christ as my lord and savior, and I look forward to spending an eternity with him. The part about me not being a believer should be quickly resolved if I wake up in heaven. I won’t need any more convincing than that. And I hope I am still qualified for entry.”
Adams died after a prolonged battle with metastatic prostate cancer. He announced his diagnosis last May and suggested in early January that his days were numbered following serious complications, including lower-body paralysis.
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LA Times gets obliterated online for scolding people wanting to leave high-tax California
A Los Angeles Times columnist is getting ridiculed online for trying to guilt Californians into maintaining their residence despite a new tax proposal by Democrats.
The main proponent of the new tax on high-earners is the SEIU, which says the tax is needed to help fund more social programs. But some wealthy Californians have indicated that they would simply move out of the state and take their tax revenue with them.
‘The nerve of the goon who wrote this slop.’
According to news and culture critic Lorraine Ali, those wealthy Californians owe their success to the state.
“California helped make them among the richest people in the world. Now they’re fleeing because California wants a little something back,” she wrote for the Times.
Ali argues that the new tax is necessary to offset the losses to the state treasury from the tax relief signed into law by President Donald Trump.
Arguments aside, it’s disturbing to think that some of the richest people in the nation would rather pick up and move than put a small fraction of their vast California-made — or in the case of the burger chain, inherited — fortunes toward helping others who need a financial boost.
The article was excoriated by many who found the argument disturbingly statist in nature.
“California didn’t make them rich — their ideas and hard work made them rich. California limited them — they could have done more,” U.S. special envoy Richard Grenell responded. “[Lorraine Ali] is a TV critic and wacky left wing activist. She doesn’t know finance or math.”
“I want to thank the @latimes,” Duke economist Michael Munger replied. “People often ask for examples, believing that the MSM cannot be as asinine as I claim. This is very helpful. Unbelievably dumb, but helpful.”
“The nerve of the goon who wrote this slop,” comedian Kirk Wilcox responded. “California already has a progressive income tax system, meaning that the rich pay higher rates. And the writer talks as if they don’t pay anything!”
“This is one of the most predictable disasters in recent memory,” Billy Binion of Reason replied. “Wealth taxes never work. People just … move their money elsewhere. These people made the state rich — not the other way around. Economically-illiterate nonsense.”
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“If California can just magically make an arbitrary person rich, why doesn’t it just make some other people rich and fleece them instead?” another critic suggested.
Although the tax proposal is backed by the service industry union, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom vehemently opposes the policy on the basis that it would be damaging to the state to have high-earners leave.
“The evidence is in. The impacts are very real — not just substantive economic impacts in terms of the revenue, but start-ups, the indirect impacts,” he said about the tax. “I think it will be defeated, because I think people understand what it does versus what it promotes to do.”
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‘Subhuman ghouls’: People, WaPo trash Scott Adams hours after his death
On Tuesday, Scott Adams, the creator of the beloved comic strip “Dilbert,” died after a prolonged battle with metastatic prostate cancer. However, some of his opponents in media wasted no time before criticizing Adams and his accomplishments.
Hours after it was announced that Adams had died, People magazine published an article titled “Scott Adams, Disgraced Dilbert Creator, Dies at 68.”
‘You are the scum of the earth.’
The author then claimed in the very first paragraph that Adams “degraded Black people in a 2023 rant.”
People updated the article at 12:33 p.m. ET, including changing the author of the piece. The updated version says it was written by “People Staff.”
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However, an earlier, archived version of the article timestamped at 10:47 a.m. ET shows that it was written by Victoria Edel, as many X users, including Eric Daugherty, made sure to emphasize.
Several prominent X users did not try to hide their disgust over the tasteless headline.
“Subhuman ghouls,” BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre said in a reply to People’s post.
“You are the scum of the earth,” Raw Egg Nationalist wrote.
People’s original X post promoting the article also appears to have been deleted.
Other news outlets couldn’t resist the opportunity to drag Adams through the mud either.
An archived article originally published from the Washington Post and apparently shared later by the Boston Globe bore the headline, “Scott Adams, ‘Dilbert’ creator who veered into racist, far-right commentary, dies.”
Just like the People article, this article wasted no time attacking Adams’ right-wing views. The first paragraph reads: “Scott Adams, who became a hero to millions of cubicle-dwelling office workers as the creator of the satirical comic strip ‘Dilbert,’ only to rebrand himself as a digital provocateur — at home in the Trump era’s right-wing mediasphere — with inflammatory comments about race, politics and identity, died Jan. 13.”
For evidence, critics point to a February 22, 2023, stream of Adams’ show, “Real Coffee with Scott Adams.” The “rant” that they are referring to involves Adams’ discussion of a Rasmussen poll of black Americans responding to the statement “it’s okay to be white.” Fifty-three percent agreed, 26% disagreed, and 21% were not sure about the statement.
Adams took issue with the fact that nearly half of black Americans did not agree with that statement. He said in part, “If nearly half of all blacks are not okay with white people … that’s a hate group. I don’t want to have anything to do with them. And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people … because there is no fixing this.”
Adams’ critics failed to mention that he went on to encourage his viewers to be “friendly” to everyone and that he was not trying to “start a war” with anyone.
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Beloved ‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams dies at age 68
Scott Adams, creator of the iconic “Dilbert” comic strip and ardent Trump supporter, has passed away at the age of 68.
Adams passed away Tuesday morning after a battle with prostate cancer.
‘You should prepare yourself that January will be probably a month of transition one way or the other.’
Scott Adams announced his cancer diagnosis on his “Coffee with Scott Adams” show last May.
On the January 1 episode of his show, Adams suggested that his health was declining rapidly. His death was preceded by a visit to the hospital with issues like lower-body paralysis.
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“I talked to my radiologist yesterday … and it’s all bad news. So the odds of me recovering are essentially zero. I’ll give you any updates if that changes, but it won’t,” Adams said on Jan. 1. “So there’s no chance I’ll get my feeling back in my legs. And I’ve got some ongoing heart failure, which is making it difficult to breathe sometimes during the day.”
“But at the moment I can breathe, and I’m not in any pain,” he continued. “However, you should prepare yourself that January will be probably a month of transition one way or the other.”
On Monday, Adams was in hospice at his home in Northern California. His first ex-wife, Shelly Miles, told TMZ that Adams began receiving “end-of-life care” last week because his health was declining “rapidly.”
Adams is best known for the cartoon “Dilbert,” which first debuted in 1989.
His death was announced on the Tuesday episode of “Coffee with Scott Adams,” which can be viewed below:
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Virginia Democrats Move To Establish Limitless Abortion, Ban Guns, And Gerrymander Districts
While Democrats are planning day-one action on the amendments, they also have legislative goals — including a ‘right-to-contraception’ bill.
