Month: April 2026

Michigan Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has called for abolishing ICE and blamed “white people” and “Islamophobia” for his difficulties playing lacrosse in college.

During a debate on Friday hosted by the Council of Baptist Pastors leaders in Detroit, El-Sayed declared that Democrats must “stand up to the SAVE America Act” and work to abolish ICE.

“We think about ICE as immigration because that’s what they told us ICE was about. Let’s be clear. ICE is not about immigration. That has nothing to do with the southern border,” El-Sayed said.

El-Sayed continued to claim that ICE is actually about “normalizing putting thugs on our streets to intimidate us from voting. That’s what it’s all about.”

“We’ve got to abolish ICE,” he continued.

WATCH:

Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed says Democrats must stand up to the SAVE America Act and abolish ICE.

Democrats only care about protecting illegals, not Americans. pic.twitter.com/DJRkBPXfCp

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 24, 2026

In an interview with far-left streamer Hasan Piker, El-Sayed complained that traveling for lacrosse games was “tough” because of supposed anti-Muslim bias from “white people.”

Piker said, “white people were the most Islamophobic,” which El-Sayed agreed with.

WATCH:

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed says he struggled to play lacrosse in college because of “white” people:

PIKER: “You were playing Lacrosse while…the white people were the most Islamophobic…”

EL-SAYED: “Traveling was tough, let’s just put it that way.” pic.twitter.com/CcLp6F3f7N

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 24, 2026

El-Sayed, 40, is a physician, former director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services under Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, and a far-left activist.

Before running for Senate, El-Sayed ran unsuccessfully for Michigan governor in 2018.

El-Sayed has a long record of pushing far-left policies on immigration, health care, and identity politics. He is now a leading contender for the open seat in 2026.

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Communist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is moving to implement one of the most controversial promises of his campaign: raising taxes on wealthy residents.

In a recent appearance on MSNOW, Mamdani outlined a plan targeting second homes owned by high-income individuals—a proposal framed as a way to make the “rich pay their fair share.”

The pitch is politically effective. It is also economically reckless.

During the interview, Mamdani leaned into a familiar progressive narrative: wealth concentration is the root of urban inequality, and taxation is the tool to fix it. The proposal specifically focuses on taxing second homes in New York City, a move designed to signal that the burden will fall on those who can “afford it.” 

On the surface, that framing is appealing. In practice, it ignores how cities like New York actually function.

Over the past several years, data has consistently shown an outflow of wealthy individuals from high-tax states like New York to lower-tax states such as Florida and Texas. That trend accelerated during and after the pandemic, when remote work made relocation even easier. 

Policies that further increase the cost of living for top earners do not simply redistribute wealth—they risk accelerating that outmigration.

Mamdani’s proposal also misunderstands how real estate markets respond to targeted taxation. 

Even if a second home is not occupied year-round or serves as a non-primary residence, once a new tax is implemented, it can make the property no longer worth keeping. Homes function as assets. If the cost of holding that asset—through taxes—outweighs its value, it becomes a financial drain rather than an investment. In that case, many owners will choose not to keep it.

Because Mamdani’s proposal targets a relatively small group of taxpayers, the total revenue generated would likely be limited. 

Even by Mamdani’s own estimates—which are relatively optimistic and do not fully account for behavioral or economic changes—the plan would raise at most around $500 million annually. 

While that may appear substantial, it is modest in the context of New York City’s fiscal challenges. With a budget deficit of roughly $4 billion, this proposal would address only a small fraction of the gap and would not come close to resolving the broader imbalance.

At the same time, the potential downside is significant. A targeted tax on high-income individuals risks altering incentives in ways that reduce economic activity. If those affected perceive New York as increasingly punitive, they may choose to relocate, limit investment, or scale back business operations within the city. 

That response would not only reduce the expected revenue from the tax itself but could also weaken the broader tax base. In that sense, the policy carries a high degree of risk relative to its limited fiscal upside.

In each scenario, the policy creates distortions rather than stable revenue. What begins as a tax on the wealthy often translates into broader market pressure affecting middle-income residents.

There is also a structural issue with relying on a narrow tax base. Cities that disproportionately depend on high earners for revenue become vulnerable when those individuals leave. 

New York already collects a significant portion of its tax revenue from a small percentage of top-income households. Increasing that dependency creates fiscal instability, not sustainability. When policymakers treat high earners as an unlimited revenue source, they ignore the behavioral response that follows.

The broader issue is not whether wealthy individuals should pay taxes—they already do, and in New York’s case, at some of the highest rates in the country. The question is whether continually increasing those burdens produces long-term economic stability. 

Evidence suggests the opposite. Cities that maintain competitive tax environments tend to retain both residents and investment, while those that escalate targeted taxes often see their tax bases decline over time.

Stanton’s comments may resonate within certain media circles, but they do not align with the electorate’s direction. The youth vote is no longer predictable, and pretending otherwise does not change the numbers.

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The 24-year-old illegal alien from India who attempted to eat a toddler’s face during a heinous random attack in a Texas park on Saturday was reported to ICE under the Biden administration for felony assault but allowed to remain in the country because federal officials decided the crime was not “egregious” enough to warrant visa revocation.

On Saturday, as The Gateway Pundit previously reported, while high on “wax,” the illegal alien, Atharva Vyas, carried out a savage, unprovoked attack on a mother and her three-year-old daughter in a San Antonio park, biting the toddler’s face, ripping out her front teeth, and jamming his thumbs into her eyes in what witnesses described as a scene straight out of a horror movie.

According to a report from the New York Post, Vyas was allegedly under the influence of “wax,” a highly concentrated form of cannabis with one dose equivalent to smoking 15-20 joints.

The toddler, little Amelia Perez; her father, Xavier Estrada; her mother, Gabriella Perez; and her grandfather, Richard Ariaza, were at the park, spending time together as a family and fishing when the attack took place.

Vyas emerged from the woods and charged at Gabriella Perez, grabbing her hair and punching her in the jaw. He then lunged at her three-year-old daughter, Amelia, pinning the toddler to the ground.

Witnesses said he bit the child’s face and mouth, tried to “eat” her face, gouged at her eyes with his thumbs, and ripped out her two front teeth.

Gabriella fought desperately to save her daughter.

“That brute was ravaging my baby!” Gabriella Perez told The Post. “She’s terrified to sleep. She’s lashing out, angry. She doesn’t understand evil like this f–king man. She’ll never be the same again.”

The New York Post reports:

Horrified witnesses surged forward, dragging the attacker off Amelia while Perez screamed for Xavier until he finally heard the commotion and raced to the scene.

Someone called 911.

Two men pulled out guns.

“I was screaming ‘Shoot him! Shoot him,’” remembered Gabriella.

The crowd finally overwhelmed the maniac, beating him until he collapsed, she said.

The sicko attempted to get up, but each time, the crowd subdued him again until San Antonio police officers arrived to find him drifting in and out of consciousness.

Vyas was arrested and booked into the Bexar County Detention Center on charges including injury to a child with intent to cause bodily injury, assault causing bodily injury, and illegal entry from a foreign nation.

“In the emergency room, the adults were all going crazy while Amelia was suffering shock. She sat eerie calm, like a statue, while the nurses and doctors worked on her poor face,” said the mother. “She didn’t make a peep, even though she was in a great deal of pain. It hadn’t hit her yet, what happened.”

WATCH:

BREAKING: Crazed Illegal Alien—Atharva Vyas—arrested in San Antonio TX for an unprovoked attack, punching a mother in the face, then ripping her 3-year-old daughter out of her arms, biting & then eating the child’s face.

This attack is straight out of a horror movie. pic.twitter.com/Thu4YZBo1A

— Dapper Detective (@Dapper_Det) April 23, 2026

The cannibal illegal alien entered the United States from India in August 2023 on an F-1 student visa.

Just three months later, in November 2023, he was arrested for felony assault on the University of Texas campus. The university contacted ICE, but the Biden administration took no action to deport him or revoke his visa, determining the offense did not meet the threshold of “egregious.”

The Trump administration finally revoked Vyas’s F-1 visa in April of last year.

On the day of the latest attack, ICE had already lodged a detainer with San Antonio police requesting he be turned over after facing local charges.

The Department of Homeland Security issued a blistering statement Friday, calling the attack “completely preventable.”

“This barbaric assault against this woman and her 3-year-old child in a park was completely preventable,” said Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis. “The Biden administration NEVER should have released this animal following his arrest for assault.”

Amelia was hospitalized with deep scratches, bite wounds, missing teeth, and severe emotional trauma. Her mother said the little girl is terrified to sleep, lashes out in anger, and clings to her constantly. The family has set up a GoFundMe to cover medical bills, dental work, therapy, and lost wages.

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A survey released this month shows that a “distressing number” of young people living in Boston are likely to move out of the metro area within the next five years.

The poll commissioned by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce found that 26 percent of 20 to 30-year-olds see themselves moving from Beantown in the next five years.

That figure is up from 25 percent in 2023, so not the direction local leaders would like to see.

The main factors respondents listed as “total important” in their decision to move are job availability (79 percent), safety (79 percent), cost of rent (78 percent), and ability to buy a home (72 percent).

A “distressing number” of young people are looking to leave the Greater Boston area, a new survey shows. Here’s why. https://t.co/PFPUi9CwWo

— NBC10 Boston (@NBC10Boston) April 23, 2026

The poll also highlighted a “concerning decline” in the day-to-day life satisfaction of young people living in Boston, now at 79 percent, down 10 percent from 2023’s finding of 89 percent.

Of those planning to leave, over half look to move to states in the Southwest (23 percent) or the Southeast (23 percent).

However, 45 percent of those planning to leave Boston would want to end up within Massachusetts.

Boston.com reported in February that a net of more than 30,000 residents left Massachusetts for other states in 2025.

“When Massachusetts loses residents, it loses competitiveness,” Christopher Anderson, co-organizer at the business advocacy group Mass Opportunity Alliance, said in a statement.

He continued, “Businesses follow talent, and persistent out-migration makes it harder to attract investment and grow jobs. This new data confirms what residents and employers alike are experiencing: high costs and an uncompetitive tax structure are pushing people out of the state.

Florida was the biggest beneficiary of the out-migration from Massachusetts, with nearly 22,000 moving to the Sunshine State. Further, 15,720 went to California, 11,600 to Connecticut, 4,900 to Georgia, 1,800 to Alaska, 1,500 to Alabama, and 1,100 to Arizona, to name some of the destinations.

NBC Boston affiliate WBTS-CD reported, “A controversial ballot proposal, backed by several business groups and opposed by top State House Democrats, would drop the state’s income tax from 5% to 4% over three years — a change supporters say will help bring people into Massachusetts and convince others not to leave, but that opponents say will slash the state’s revenue and force cuts across programs.”

Massachusetts currently ranks 8th among the highest income tax rates in the country (with a flat 5 percent, but a 4 percent surcharge for higher income earners), behind California at No. 1, with a top rate of 13.3 percent, according to Turbotax.

Some of the states with the lowest income tax rates are Arizona, with a 2.5 percent flat rate, and Indiana at 3 percent flat rate. South Carolina has a progressive rate starting at 3 percent up to 6 percent.

States with no personal income tax include Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming.

Forbes reported in January 2024 that the three states gaining the most population were Florida, Texas, and South Carolina. Among those losing the most were the high-tax states of California, Illinois, and New York.

The Boston Chamber of Commerce survey polled 600 people ages 20 to 30 years between Feb. 27 and March 20. The margin of error was +/- 4.12 percent.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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If you or someone you love had COVID-19 – or received a COVID-19 vaccine – and has since experienced unexplained headaches, memory problems, brain fog, or cognitive decline, this may be the most important thing you read today.

A growing body of medical research is now drawing a direct connection between SARS-CoV-2 spike protein exposure and a serious neurological condition called Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy – or CAA.

And most doctors aren’t talking about it.

What Is Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy? 

Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy is a condition in which abnormal protein deposits – amyloid – accumulate in the walls of the brain’s blood vessels.

When those deposits build up, the vessels become fragile. Brittle. Prone to leaking or rupturing entirely.

The results can range from subtle cognitive changes and persistent brain fog to full-blown strokes, seizures, and in the most severe cases, life-altering neurological damage.

CAA has historically been associated with aging and Alzheimer’s disease. It was considered a condition that developed slowly, over decades, in elderly patients.

That understanding is now being rewritten.

The COVID Connection Nobody Is Talking About 

Researchers studying post-COVID neurological complications have identified something deeply alarming:

SARS-CoV-2 spike protein – whether from infection or from vaccination – appears to trigger inflammatory and amyloidogenic processes in the brain’s vasculature.

In plain language: spike protein exposure may be accelerating the exact kind of abnormal protein buildup in brain blood vessels that defines CAA.

Cases of CAA are appearing in patients who are younger than historically expected. Patients with no prior neurological history. Patients whose only known risk factor is a COVID-19 infection or vaccination in the preceding months or years.

The timeline is not subtle. The pattern is not random.

And for millions of Americans still carrying spike protein in their systems – right now, today, years after their initial exposure – the question is urgent:

What is that spike protein doing to your brain?

Dr. McCullough Has Been Warning About This 

Dr. Peter McCullough – one of the most published cardiologists in America, and one of the few physicians willing to speak openly about spike protein pathology – has been raising the alarm about neurological complications from persistent spike protein for years.

In his clinical practice, he sees it regularly:

– Patients with brain fog that won’t lift

– Patients with memory problems that started after COVID

– Patients with headaches, cognitive changes, and neurological symptoms that their other doctors are dismissing, misdiagnosing, or simply unable to explain.

His position is consistent and unambiguous:

Spike protein is not benign. It does not simply disappear. And for a significant number of patients, it is actively driving pathological processes — including, the research now suggests, the vascular amyloid accumulation that defines CAA.

If you are experiencing symptoms consistent with spike protein pathology – including the kind of cognitive and neurological symptoms now associated with CAA – Dr. McCullough’s recommendation is clear.

The Protocol Dr. McCullough Developed For His Own Patients 

For nearly four years, Dr. McCullough has been searching for compounds capable of addressing spike protein accumulation in the body.

The research led him to three molecules with specific, documented mechanisms of action against the biological processes spike protein drives:

Nattokinase – a fibrinolytic enzyme derived from fermented soybeans, shown in research to degrade spike protein directly and support healthy blood flow in vessels where abnormal protein accumulation is a concern.

Bromelain – a proteolytic enzyme from pineapple with demonstrated anti-inflammatory properties and the ability to break down protein aggregates of the kind implicated in vascular amyloid pathology.

Curcumin – the active compound in turmeric, one of the most extensively studied natural anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective agents in the literature, with specific research supporting its role in inhibiting amyloid formation and protecting cerebrovascular integrity.

These are not random supplements. These are molecules selected specifically because their mechanisms of action address the biological processes – protein aggregation, vascular inflammation, amyloid accumulation – that the research is now linking directly to post-COVID neurological complications including CAA.

Dr. McCullough formulated them into a single product: Ultimate Spike Detox, produced by The Wellness Company in the United States.

What Patients Are Reporting 

The research is compelling. But the patient outcomes are what matter most.

“I feel like I have had brain fog for the past 18 months and after taking this supplement noticed the fog finally lifting. I plan to buy more for myself and now for a friend suffering from heart issues.”

Read that again. Eighteen months of brain fog – exactly the kind of persistent cognitive symptom now associated with spike protein-driven neurological pathology – beginning to lift after starting Ultimate Spike Detox.

“I saw Dr. McCullough talk about the product and decided to give it a try. A month and a half later, I feel sooo much better. I also have recommended the product to family members to help them detox from the painful side effects of the vaccine.”

“We ordered your spike protein cleanse for our patients who took a couple of COVID-19 vaccinations. After about two weeks of them taking the supplements, their appetites increased and our mother with diagnosed heart issues claimed she wasn’t getting dizzy anymore.”

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“I am grateful for The Wellness Company and for you coming out with this spike protein supplement. I am a big believer in natural healing and not pharmaceutical drugs. Thank you for doing what is right and for speaking truth in a world that is so dark.”

These are not people reporting minor improvements. These are people describing the return of cognitive clarity, physical function, and quality of life they had lost – in some cases, for years.

The Window You Cannot Afford To Miss 

Here is what makes the CAA research so urgent:

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy is a progressive condition. Amyloid deposits in blood vessel walls do not resolve on their own. They accumulate. The damage compounds over time.

This is not the moment to wait and see.

What To Do Right Now 

If you have been infected with COVID-19, received a COVID-19 vaccine, or are experiencing cognitive symptoms, brain fog, headaches, memory problems, or any of the neurological signs now associated with post-COVID spike protein pathology – take action.

Order Ultimate Spike Detox from The Wellness Company.

It contains the full McCullough Protocol formulation – nattokinase, bromelain, and curcumin — in the researched combination, at therapeutic concentrations, manufactured in the United States under quality standards you can verify.

It is the only product built directly on the published science of spike protein detoxification.

And it is backed by Dr. McCullough’s own clinical experience, thousands of patient outcomes, and a satisfaction guarantee from a company that has staked its reputation on getting this right.

From The Doctor Who Wouldn’t Back Down 

Dr. McCullough lost colleagues. He lost institutional affiliations. He spent years being attacked by the very medical establishment he had spent his career serving.

He kept talking anyway.

Because the patients sitting in front of him deserved the truth. Because the research was too important to bury. Because the consequences of doing nothing – for the millions of Americans carrying spike protein right now, experiencing symptoms their doctors can’t explain, potentially developing conditions like CAA that nobody warned them about – were simply too serious.

The research on spike protein and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy is still emerging. But the direction it is pointing is not ambiguous.

If you have been exposed to spike protein – through infection, through vaccination, or both – your brain’s blood vessels may be at risk in ways that will not announce themselves loudly until significant damage has already been done.

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President Donald Trump has declared that the entire 2020 presidential election should be “permanently wiped from the books” if the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is ultimately convicted of the sweeping federal fraud charges filed against it earlier this week.

Calling the SPLC “one of the greatest political scams in American history,” Trump linked the organization’s alleged scheme directly to the 2020 race.

In a post to Truth Social on Friday, the president wrote:

The Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the greatest political scams in American History, has been charged with FRAUD. This is another Democrat Hoax, along with Act Blue, and many others. If it is true, the 2020 Presidential Election should be permanently wiped from the books and be of no further force or effect! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT

On Tuesday, a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama, returned an 11-count indictment charging the SPLC with wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

According to the Department of Justice, between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals associated with violent extremist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, National Socialist Movement, United Klans of America, and the National Alliance.

Prosecutors allege the SPLC paid these informants and insiders to generate and stoke the very extremism the organization publicly claimed to be fighting, all to scare donors into giving more money.

The indictment highlights one particularly damning example, in which a leader of the 2017 Unite the Right protest in Charlottesville allegedly received more than $270,000 over eight years through shell organizations funded by the SPLC.

Prosecutors say an SPLC-paid informant helped coordinate transportation for attendees to the rally, which Biden later used as a key campaign point. He repeatedly cited it as the moment that convinced him to run for president, falsely claiming Trump had referred to “neo-Nazis” as “very fine people.”

“The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “Using donor money to allegedly profit off Klansmen cannot go unchecked. This Department of Justice will hold the SPLC and every other fraudulent organization operating with the same deceptive playbook accountable. No entity is above the law.”

The DOJ stated that a conviction “will result in the forfeiture of financial gains from the alleged illegal activities.”

SPLC chief officer Bryan Fair has claimed the organization was being “politically targeted” for its past use of paid confidential informants to gather intelligence on violent groups.

However, the DOJ and FBI Director Kash Patel, who previously severed the bureau’s relationship with the SPLC, calling it a “partisan smear machine,” explained that the charges are about fraud against donors, not political speech.

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By Gary Abernathy

This article originally was published at The Empowerment Alliance and is re-published here with permission via  by Real Clear Wire.

A somewhat under-the-radar decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit earlier this month is, on its surface, focused on the issue of home alcohol distilling. But the appeals court’s reasoning could have a big impact on other businesses and various walks of life, including the energy industry.

In short, McNutt vs. U.S. Department of Justice focused on a federal law that banned – through the government’s taxation power – the private home distillation of alcohol. But the Fifth Circuit ruled that using the power to tax as a reason to ban something is an improper abuse of power. This line of constitutional thinking could have much larger implications.

Why? Because the ruling would erect new guardrails on how the government can use its authority to impose a tax in such a way that does not raise revenue but instead bans otherwise legal activity. When we consider all the ways the government has done this over the years, it’s clear that the energy industry has been a prime target for just such an abuse of power — especially in cases where the government used its taxing authority and “necessary and proper” constitutional reasoning to regulate activities.

As a Liskow law blog summarized it, “The case originated when a group of hobby distillers challenged an 1868 federal law that effectively criminalized the distillation of spirits in or near a private residence, even for personal use. The plaintiffs, including members of the Hobby Distillers Association, argued that the prohibition exceeded Congress’s constitutional powers, particularly where the activity was noncommercial and confined to the home.”

The analysis added, “The case underscores that the federal government’s broad federal taxing authority does have limits, particularly when it intersects with private, noncommercial conduct. As challenges to federal regulatory regimes continue, McNutt may serve as an important reference point in defining the boundary between taxation and regulation.”

For energy development, the McNutt decision provides a new avenue to challenge federal prohibition of development when such prohibition has been primarily based on the government’s taxing authority. In other words, is the ban really about taxation (raising revenue), or is it about using the power of taxation to achieve regulation? The Fifth Circuit determined that the latter avenue as a sole motivator is improper.

Ilya Somin, a law professor at George Mason University writing for Reason.com, called the decision “an important win for constitutional federalism” that affirms that the government’s taxing authority is designed to raise revenue, not to be abused as a backdoor excuse to exert control. Somin points to Fifth Circuit Judge Edith Jones’s reasoning in her opinion for the majority: “The provisions (of the law) operate to reduce revenue instead of raising it. This violates the Supreme Court’s explanation of how the federal power of taxation works…”

Somin tempers his optimism by noting that the law “could pass muster under Congress’ power to regulate interstate commerce, which the Fifth Circuit did not consider, because the government chose not to argue this issue on appeal.” That means “the federal government…could potentially try to continue to enforce this law and — if challenged again — defend it under the Commerce Clause.”

Over time, the hope is that the Supreme Court will expand the decision to rein in the Commerce Clause aspect of such regulations. Either way, the Fifth Circuit’s ruling is a welcome nod to the fact that the federal government cannot take tax laws intended to increase revenue and twist them merely to regulate business activities.

For the energy industry, the good news is that the ruling opens the door to new challenges of regulations that have been tied to taxation, whether in regard to EPA rules, land use restrictions, or mining and drilling bans. From carbon taxes to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) regulations to the questionable use of the Endangered Species Act to stop construction and development, this decision provides reason for optimism for energy entrepreneurs.

What’s also noteworthy is that the Fifth Circuit’s decision, as noted by Professor Somin in his Reason article, saw judges from different ideological backgrounds come together in unanimous agreement, with the conservative Judge Jones Judge Edith Jones and liberal Obama appointee Judge James Graves reaching the same conclusions.

That a pro-federalism legal view is shared in this case by the right and left is encouraging for all who cherish individual freedom over government overreach. The McNutt decision will by necessity give the federal government pause the next time it considers abusing its taxing powers to control behavior it doesn’t like – and that alone is a big win for all freedom-loving people.

Gary Abernathy is a longtime newspaper editor, reporter and columnist. He was a contributing columnist for the Washington Post from 2017-2023 and a frequent guest analyst across numerous media platforms. He is a contributing opinion columnist for The Empowerment Alliance, which advocates for realistic approaches to energy consumption and environmental conservation. 

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A 19-year-old transgender substitute teacher in Loudoun County, Virginia, has been arrested after allegedly posting disturbing threats on Discord about carrying out a “murder spree” at the high school and creating a “kill list” of targets.

Hadyn Dollery, of Chantilly, a biological man who identifies as a transgender “woman,” was taken into custody on Monday at John Champe High School in Stone Ridge.

According to the criminal complaint obtained by the Loudoun Times-Mirror, Dollery allegedly sent messages on Discord to a friend in which he threatened several people and explicitly discussed committing a mass killing at the high school while claiming to have a “kill list.”

The messages were flagged through the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office Safe2Talk anonymous tip line, prompting an immediate investigation.

Once the arrest became public, social media users quickly began digging into Dollery’s background.

Hadyn aka Sophie Dollery attended John Champe HS at LCPS. John Champe is the same high school that Brayden aka Blaire Fleming attended and played on the girls volleyball. He went on to play collegiate level volleyball on the women’s teams at Coastal Carolina and then San Jose… pic.twitter.com/O8Xhcw5jfD

— The Real Parents of Loudoun County (@RealLOCOParents) April 23, 2026

Multiple X accounts and conservative commentators shared the suspect’s mugshot, employment history as a non-licensed substitute teacher with Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS), and details confirming Dollery had been assigned to John Champe High School, where he previously attended, during the 2025-2026 school year.

Users also noted that Dollery was promptly removed from the district’s substitute teacher roster following the arrest.

The school system reportedly cooperated fully with the sheriff’s office investigation.

Dollery faces a charge of threats of bodily injury and is being held without bond at the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center. He was booked as a male.

The twisted individual appeared thrilled after being arrested, grinning in his mugshot.

Dollery is scheduled to appear in court on May 26, 2026.

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No one should be surprised that radical socialist NY Zohran Mamdani’s first veto in office jettisoned a bipartisan bill aimed at combatting antizemitism.

The bill, Intro 175-B, would have required the NYPD to create and publicize plans for protest-free security perimeters (buffer zones) around schools and educational institutions during protests.

It was part of the New York City Council’s Five-Point Action Plan to Combat Antisemitism, introduced after multiple incidents of antisemitic protests near Jewish schools, yeshivas, and institutions especially following the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks.

In a statement on Friday, Mamdani claimed the bill was too broad, raised First Amendment concerns, and could restrict legitimate protests like the “mostly peaceful”  pro-Palestinian demonstrations that terrorized Jewish students on college campuses in the city.

The blowback for the veto was swift.

One X user noted, “Zohran Mamdani ran for mayor promising New Yorkers free buses. Instead, his first veto shields eco-cultists, anti-American radicals, and jihadist sympathizers harassing kids at school, prioritizing protesters over other students who don’t think like them. If you voted for him and his policies end up making your life more difficult and unsafe, I don’t want to hear what you have to say.”

Zohran Mamdani ran for mayor promising New Yorkers free buses. Instead, his first veto shields eco-cultists, anti-American radicals, and jihadist sympathizers harassing kids at school, prioritizing protesters over other students who don’t think like them.

If you voted for him… pic.twitter.com/do1Ymy77j2

— I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) April 24, 2026

New York’s former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), faced Mamdani in the mayoral race last year as an independent, didn’t hold back.

“Let’s tell it like it is: @nycmayor chose the whims of his radical, extreme-left DSA base over the safety of students and Jewish New Yorkers at a time of rising antisemitism.”

“Instead of governing for all NYers, Mamdani has repealed the very definition of antisemitism from the city’s books, changed how antisemitic crimes are counted and now vetoed these commonsense security measures when they are needed most.”

“I proudly stand shoulder to shoulder with my Jewish brothers and sisters — just as the Cuomos always have, and always will.”

Let’s tell it like it is: @nycmayor chose the whims of his radical, extreme-left DSA base over the safety of students and Jewish New Yorkers at a time of rising antisemitism. Instead of governing for all NYers, Mamdani has repealed the very definition of antisemitism from the… https://t.co/ZrTlB3HVo0

— Andrew Cuomo (@andrewcuomo) April 24, 2026

Introduction 1-B, a companion bill for houses of worship, passed with a veto-proof majority.

Intro 1-B requires the NYPD to create and publicly post plans for security perimeters (buffer zones) around houses of worship (synagogues, churches, mosques, etc.) during protests to prevent obstruction, intimidation, or interference with access.

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