Transgender sex offender accused of trying to kidnap boy at elementary school gets good news from DA
On April 19, 2024, families of students at Black Forest Hills Elementary School in Aurora, Colorado, got a message from the school saying, "This afternoon during fifth grade recess, an unidentified adult male entered the field, approached a group of students, engaged them briefly, and then exited property," KDVR-TV reported.
Police said it "appeared that this person attempted to grab a young boy" and then left the school grounds before officers arrived, the station said.
Galligan had been in and out of jail for 12 years, and previous charges against him included assault, burglary, and sex crimes, his family told KUSA-TV last year.
In a follow-up story, KDVR said an 11-year-old boy called for help when the suspect grabbed him and approached three other students.
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"They are the ones who fought off this guy, ran away from him, called stranger danger. And if they had not done that, I wouldn't have my son with me in my own home," the 11-year-old's mother, Miranda Ayala, added to the station.
Later, cops found someone nearby who matched the suspect's description, KDVR said: 33-year-old Solomon Galligan, who was arrested that same day on one count of attempted kidnapping. Police also said Galligan was a sex offender.
Indeed, Galligan was convicted of nonconsensual sexual contact in 2011, KMGH-TV noted. In addition, KCNC-TV reported after his arrest last year that Galligan claimed to identify as a woman and had been in the process of transitioning for several years.
Galligan had been in and out of jail for 12 years, and previous charges against him included assault, burglary, and sex crimes, his family told KUSA-TV last year.
But after all that, a doctor last month found Galligan incompetent to stand trial in the 2024 attempted kidnapping case, Eric Ross — a spokesman for the DA's office — told KUSA in a new story. Therefore, "by state statute, we are required to dismiss charges in the case," Ross added to KUSA.
However, the DA's office said Galligan won't be back on the streets when the charges are dropped, KMGH reported.
Ross told KMGH that "the defendant will be civilly committed for mental health treatment. Contrary to what has been reported, the defendant is not being released out in the public."
State court records indicate Galligan has had four criminal cases dismissed — and in every case, the issue of competency was raised, KMGH reported, adding that a hearing for Galligan is expected to be scheduled for later in July.
'When a defendant is found incompetent to proceed, we are legally obligated to dismiss charges. Our hands are tied based on the findings of competency.'
In response, Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky told the New York Post that an "effort" to "recall" Democrat DA Amy Padden "is well under way and will begin this week."
"The conduct of the 18th DA over the past six months is beyond deplorable," Jurinsky, a Republican, added to the Post. "This is simply the icing on the cake."
Jurinsky also told the paper that "the progressive attitude will not be tolerated. While certain state laws highlight deeper issues in the state of Colorado, Amy Padden will be recalled for her part in not upholding the laws and punishing criminals."
The DA's office on Tuesday didn't immediately respond to Blaze News' request for comment regarding Jurinsky's words to the Post about Padden.
Jurinsky last week made no secret of her desire to oust the DA after Padden offered a plea deal to an illegal alien teenager who fatally struck a 24-year-old woman while driving 90 miles per hour, the Denver Gazette said. Indeed, the offer of only probation and community service for the unlicensed teen elicited outrage. Kaitlyn Weaver was taken off life support two days after last July's collision.
Padden said Jurinsky's statements about the Weaver case "misrepresented" the 18th Judicial District's work, according to the Gazette.
As for the Galligan case, the Post added that the DA's office said in a statement, "We have not yet filed the formal motion to dismiss. We have until the end of the month to do so. The defendant is being civilly committed into mental health treatment. ... When a defendant is found incompetent to proceed, we are legally obligated to dismiss charges. Our hands are tied based on the findings of competency. However, they are not being released to the public."
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TikTok trauma queens are scaring off decent men for good
Let’s stop pretending we don’t know why men are done with marriage. They’re not “afraid of commitment.” They’re not “toxic.” And they’re certainly not “intimidated by strong women.” No, men have just finally figured out what the rest of us should’ve admitted years ago: It’s a terrible deal. Not for women — oh no, we’ve gamed it beautifully. For men.
And now, they know it.
Any man who walks away from marriage isn’t afraid of commitment. He’s just smart enough not to sign up for a state-sanctioned mugging disguised as romance.
According to research from the Marriage Foundation, between 70% to 80% of divorces are initiated by women. Among college-educated women, that number jumps to 90%. Translation: The more educated she is, the faster she realizes she can exit stage left with the house, the kids, the 401(k), and a monthly check. All she has to do is say, “I’m not happy,” and a judge will handle the rest.
And what a show it is! He loses his kids, his paycheck, and often his sanity, trying to keep up with court-mandated payments while living in a sad little apartment, granted visitation rights so limited he needs a calendar app and a court order just to see his own kids. Meanwhile, she’s posting #SingleMomStrong like the children are accessories she won in the divorce. How exactly is this empowering for anyone?
Women’s emotional garbage cans
It’s not just the divorce itself — it’s what leads up to it. Modern women have traded femininity for feral instinct, egged on by a culture that rewards emotional instability and calls it “empowerment.”
Think I’m exaggerating? Just spend five minutes on TikTok. You’ll find women screaming into their phones about “healing energy” and “divine feminine rage,” sipping boxed wine in a bathtub surrounded by crystals and court summonses. These women don’t want to love a man — they want to fix their daddy issues with a living, breathing human wallet.
They call it love, but what they really mean is trauma alchemy: “If you loved me, you’d fix me.” No, sweetie. You fix you. Then maybe, just maybe, you’ll attract a man who doesn’t have to call his therapist after every date.
This epidemic of emotional dysfunction isn’t accidental. Many of these women were raised in homes where masculinity was vilified, fathers were absent, and mothers were so bitter they could curdle milk with a glance.
These girls were handed generational rage and told it was feminism. They didn’t heal; they weaponized their pain and waited for the first man dumb enough to step into range. And if he’s not dumb? He’s the enemy. Because how dare he not offer himself up as a sacrifice on the altar of her unprocessed trauma.
Courts eat men alive
Family courts, of course, are the handmaids of this dysfunction. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that less than 20% of custodial parents are fathers, despite all evidence that children need both parents. But try telling that to a judge who thinks “fatherhood” is a weekend hobby and “child support” is a government-backed extortion racket.
Many states rake in billions through Title IV-D incentives, meaning the more money the state extracts from fathers, the more it receives from the federal government. It’s not justice — it’s a racket. It's a taxpayer-funded kickback scheme that rewards broken families and punishes paternal love.
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Worse, child support is often calculated not on what a man actually earns but on what the court believes he should earn. That’s called “imputed income” — and it’s how you turn a plumber into a felon because he couldn’t pay child support based on the fantasy that he’s a brain surgeon. If he misses a payment, he goes to jail. If she violates a custody order, she might get a warning. Maybe.
This isn’t equality. This is Turner v. Rogers in action. The Supreme Court ruled in 2011 that authorities can lock a man up for not paying child support without providing him a lawyer. Land of the free, indeed.
Here’s what’s wild: Women still don’t get it. Men aren’t angry at women — they’re done with them. Like this woman said, men are done negotiating with feral energy. They’re not trying to win an argument anymore. They’re exiting the game. Quietly. Permanently. And still, the same women who created the chaos stand around wondering, “Where did all the good men go?”
Honey, they’re over there — dodging alimony, living in peace, and thanking God they never married you.
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Here’s the kicker: We’re not even ashamed of it. We brag about it. We meme about it. Divorce glow-up. Trauma bonding. “Soft girl era.” Meanwhile, the men are just trying to stay out of court and off antidepressants. Feminism? Please. This is narcissism with a publicist.
Men want peace. They want loyalty, partnership, and respect. They want what their grandfathers had — a woman who had their back, not a woman who records their fights for social media clout.
But those women are rarer than ever. We’ve traded homemaking for hot-girl summer, traded character for chaos, and traded companionship for control. And then we expect men to marry us?
Newsflash: Men don’t marry liabilities.
We told them they weren’t necessary. We told them masculinity was toxic. We told them they owed us emotional labor, financial support, and full-time access to their phones. And when they refused, we called them weak. Now, they’re gone. And we still have the audacity to act confused.
Maybe it’s time we stop blaming men for not wanting us and start asking if we’re actually worth wanting. Until we clean up the emotional landmines, stop weaponizing the courts, and remember what being a woman actually means, we’re not a risk worth taking.
And any man who walks away from this mess isn’t afraid of commitment. He’s just smart enough not to sign up for a state-sanctioned mugging disguised as romance.
Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass to California: 'Look what you made us do!'
You’ve probably been watching the riots in Los Angeles.
For about a week now, angry foreign nationals (mostly Mexican), angry legal residents originally from Mexico, and lunatic leftist white American Democrats have been blocking highways, hurtling bricks at police from overpasses, shooting off fireworks into crowds, and setting cars on fire.
Your eyes are lying to you. You don’t see that man waving a Mexican flag while he fires off a bottle rocket into a group of cops.
Why? Because they’re very angry that laws against illegal immigration are being enforced. And they're doing more than "protesting" this — they're actively targeting the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers charged with carrying this out.
That’s the purpose of posting the known locations and identities of ICE officers on social media. They want them hurt or even killed.
Agitator Jack Quillin, who was arrested for posting the location of ICE raids live online, is pretending now that he’s sorry, undoubtedly in hopes that his punishment will be light. But you would be a fool if you believed people like this don’t hope to see cops and right-wingers dead.
Nothing to see here
I’ve been watching it all too, but it’s the response of California officials that has me fascinated.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) tells the press that there’s no violence that needs a police response. Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D) claims there’s no violence or lawlessness in Los Angeles. Governor Gavin Newsom (D) says that the president sending in the National Guard is what caused the violence.
It all feels so familiar, and the reason why is because I grew up in a home that runs on the same deranged rules that modern American left-wing politics run on. For most of my life, I was under the spell of an important person in my life who behaved the way Gavin Newsom, Maxine Waters, and Karen Bass are behaving.
That person was my mother.
Mental derangement
My mother behaved that way because she had a mental derangement called a Cluster B personality disorder. You know this colloquially as clinical narcissism and clinical levels of emotional reactivity that comes out in screaming outbursts, lies, and blaming other people for what you yourself have done.
My weekly commentary show, "Disaffected," has a thesis: Abuse that starts in the home between spouses, or from parent to child, grows and expands into our public politics.
The narcissistic, deranged mind of my mother (that’s the Cluster B personality) is the same kind of mind that we find in the political and cultural left. Yes, I’m saying that I believe many of these politicians, and their voters, are truly diagnose-ably personality disordered. Yes, I’m saying that this is just “child abuse” and “spousal abuse” scaled up to the public stage.
It’s not that it’s “like” domestic abuse; it is the very same thing.
The real 'gaslighters'
Cause and effect are reversed. Your eyes are lying to you. You don’t see that man waving a Mexican flag while he fires off a bottle rocket into a group of cops. You’re not watching people throw bricks off highway overpasses. Do you understand? You’re crazy if you think you see that, and if it’s happening, people like you made the protesters get violent.
The proper term for these kinds of lies is “gaslighting.”
I know that you’re probably tired of hearing that, and you probably associate it with left-wing complaints. That’s a mistake. Gaslighting is real, and it is effective. It has worked on you many times in your life, I guarantee it.
The left simply reverses the truth — leftists hurt others, then claim to be victims. They lie and distort reality to make other people think that they are crazy, then the leftist accuses the person she bamboozled of “gaslighting” her!
'Mommie Dearest'
I learned about it at home. If you’ve seen the movie "Mommie Dearest," you have a good idea of what kind of childhood I had. We were poor, not rich, and we weren’t famous. But everything else was much the same.
Think back to the scene where Joan Crawford finds her 8-year-old daughter, Christina, playing make-believe in front of Joan’s mirror. Christina imitates her mother at press conferences, addressing her “wonderful fans.”
Joan’s ego is so bruised she starts screaming at her daughter and hacking her hair off. Joan yells, “You vain, spoiled child, trying to find ways to make people look at you. Why are you always looking at yourself in the mirror? Why are you doing that? Tell me!”
'Look what you're making me do'
Joan was projecting her own traits onto her daughter. My mother did the same. When she became frenzied with frustration, she would push me down onto my knees on the dining room floor, commanding me to “humble myself” while she hit me on the face and about the head. As her anger got to a peak of red-faced fury, she would shake me until my head bobbled and scream, “WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME?”
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A longtime babysitter named Theresa was similarly afflicted. Theresa lived down the block, and a bunch of us kids went to her apartment after school to be watched until our parents got home from work. Theresa had a love-hate relationship with children. She liked them enough to babysit and provide us with hundreds of comic books to keep us entertained, but she would lose control when we got too loud.
Maybe we screamed too much playing tag; maybe our feet stepped into the flower bed. Theresa would call us into the living room. She did her hair like Alice the maid from "The Brady Bunch" and wore horn-rimmed glasses with double-knit polyester shorts.
Theresa would have us children sit on the floor before her as she perched on the couch. Looking us in the eye, she’d take the palm of her hands and slap her inner thighs until they turned black and blue.
“You’re working my nerves and making me do this!” she’d yell, slamming her own thighs. “LOOK WHAT YOU’RE MAKING ME DO!”
That’s what Gavin Newsom is doing.
Narcissistic reversal
“Thanks to our law enforcement officers and the majority of Angelenos who protested peacefully, this situation was winding down and was concentrated in just a few square blocks downtown,” Newsom said in a video posted on X. “But that’s not what Donald Trump wanted. He again chose escalation; he chose more force.”
Translation: WHY IS DONALD TRUMP MAKING THE RIOTERS BE VIOLENT?
That’s what they’re all doing, the Democrats and city leaders blaming Trump, the police, the National Guard, or ICE, for the criminal violence of street thugs.
This is called a “narcissistic reversal.” It’s what my mother did when she blamed me for “hurting” her while she was beating me. It’s what Theresa did when she told 7-year-olds they were forcing her to beat her legs black and blue. It’s what Newsom is doing when he claims that Trump enforcing the law is what’s making illegal aliens and Americans break the law.
The Bible knows this devilish trick. Isaiah 5:20 says, "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.”
A taste of home
These denials, these reversals of blame, are familiar to me because I was raised from birth in just the kind of environment you see out on the streets and in politicians’ podiums this week. Yes, I am saying that politicians on the left are, in my view, behaving exactly as you would expect from patients with borderline or narcissistic personality disorders (and antisocial PD/sociopathy, too).
It’s all out in the open now. Turn on your TV, open social media, and it’s like watching a screening of "Mommie Dearest" or "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest," but it’s all presented to you as if it were perfectly normal.
If you have felt for years that something is really psychologically off about the left, you were right. Maybe this essay has given you a framework that can help you understand what specifically that thing is that’s so “off.” I believe it’s Cluster B psychopathology. Domestic abuse has gone public and feral.
Disney adults: Harmless hobby or serious pathology?
If you grew up in America, chances are your parents have taken you on the trip of your childhood dreams, where you ate junk food, marveled at life-size Disney characters, and dizzily hopped from roller coaster to roller coaster for days on end.
That trip was to a Walt Disney theme park, and chances are your dreams changed as you got older.
But some stay mysteriously captivated and trapped by their Disney dreams. And with the advent of social media platforms like TikTok, we now have a brief glimpse into the existence of these Americans, who are aptly called “Disney adults.”
“I know this may be a weird turnoff for a lot of people, and they don’t understand why I do what I do, but that’s OK,” one self-proclaimed Disney adult said in a post on TikTok. “I’m no stranger to feeling sad for days at a time and barely being able to make it out of bed or feeling so anxious and overstimulated just by going outside that I feel nauseous.”
In the video, the woman wears Minnie Mouse ears and holds a plastic baby as she wanders around the park.
“It’s grown to be a very comforting space for me, and sometimes all I want when I’m having a bad set of days is to go to this safe space that reminds me so much of my childhood,” the woman continued. “Every day is a challenge, and we’re all just trying to get through it as much as we can. This is just how I cope.”
“So I sometimes get really sad when people make fun of me for it. So, with that, happy World Mental Health Day. Here’s a reminder to try and be as kind as much as you are able and that you are so loved,” she added.
BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey is a little shocked.
“I’m not making fun. This is publicly put out in the world,” Stuckey says on “Relatable.” “It’s not like we’re peering into this person’s diary. This person wants to publicize this, and so it’s totally justified for us to comment on it, but I have questions.”
Stuckey is especially concerned as the woman is carrying around a fake baby as if it’s a real one.
“There is something seriously dark going on here,” Stuckey says. “I think that there is a problem with being like a pathological Disney adult. This is a theme park that can be fun for parents for sure, can be fun for adults, but to have this kind of identity wrapped around Disney, a company that makes entertainment and rides for children — there is something going on there.”
“But to pretend to have a child that you’re bringing to the park that is not a real child — there is something very deeply disturbing going on there, and I will not accept this as this is just an outlet for this person to feel happy,” she continues.
“Life isn’t about being happy at whatever cost,” she says.
“Life in part is about cultivating and making the world around you better. Not just serving yourself with unlimited hits of dopamine.”
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The Biden years increasingly resemble a desperate effort to avoid invoking the 25th Amendment — no matter the cost.
That’s why the Oversight Project’s autopen investigation has captured the attention of the public, Congress, and, most importantly, the Trump administration’s Department of Justice.
President Trump didn’t hesitate: “THE AUTOPEN IS THE BIGGEST POLITICAL SCANDAL IN AMERICAN HISTORY!!!” he declared on Truth Social. He offered one caveat — the 2020 election still ranks first. I agree, even with my own involvement in uncovering the autopen scandal.
Americans knew something was wrong with Joe Biden. Whether they admitted it or not, nearly everyone sensed it. Some underestimated the severity. Others preferred denial, choosing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
But beneath that uneasy consensus lay a deeper question: Who was actually running the country?
Our early disclosures from the still-ongoing autopen investigation began to answer that. When we revealed that President Biden wasn’t personally signing documents that require a sitting president’s signature, the public understood the implications immediately.
'Who was president the last four years?' isn’t just a political talking point. It’s a matter of constitutional legitimacy.
This wasn’t just about procedural shortcuts. It revealed a White House operating without a fully functional commander in chief.
The damage done during the Biden years goes far beyond bad policy. His presidency humiliated the United States on the world stage — not just as a geopolitical power, but as a constitutional republic.
We portray ourselves as the world’s most advanced democracy. We’ve even invaded other countries in the name of exporting that model. But what credibility do we have if we refuse to follow the most basic rule written into our own Constitution — namely, that we are governed by a single functioning individual known as the president?
Democrats warned that Donald Trump was an existential threat to democracy. In reality, the greater threat came from an incapacitated president being steered by unelected, unaccountable staffers behind the scenes.
After President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, Congress responded with common sense. Lawmakers recognized the need for a clear constitutional process to handle death or incapacity in the executive branch. This wasn’t theoretical — America had already seen four assassinated presidents in less than a century. The system had failed under Garfield, who lingered for months after being shot, and under Wilson, who suffered a debilitating stroke while in office.
The result was the 25th Amendment, ratified in 1967. It created a legal framework for what to do when a president dies, resigns, is removed, or becomes unable to perform the duties of the office. In the case of incapacity, the process requires the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to send Congress a written declaration stating that the president can no longer discharge the powers and duties of the office.
What the drafters likely didn’t imagine was that the vice president and Cabinet might choose to ignore that duty — out of cowardice, political calculation, or worse.
Why did Vice President Kamala Harris and Biden’s Cabinet spend four years sidestepping the exact constitutional process meant for this scenario? That question demands an answer.
Biden was so isolated that according to credible reports, even the secretary of the treasury couldn’t get access to him. How does a Cabinet secretary accept being blocked from seeing the president without sounding the alarm?
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The first step to answering those questions is to ask them.
As investigations by Ed Martin, the House, and the Senate ramp up, they must put Kamala Harris and Biden’s Cabinet under oath. Those people need to explain, clearly and publicly, why they refused to invoke the 25th Amendment.
Congress has not only the authority but the duty to demand those answers. Its oversight power reaches its peak when the subject directly informs legislative action. And no legislation ranks higher than a constitutional amendment. If the 25th Amendment failed to prevent a four-year constitutional charade, then it needs to be amended. The drafters can’t be blamed for failing to imagine a real-life “Weekend at Bernie’s.” Sometimes the Constitution needs a second draft.
“Who was president the last four years?” isn’t just a political talking point. It’s a matter of constitutional legitimacy. That question now echoes across the world. It exposes a critical vulnerability in our system — and it demands accountability.
The only path forward involves full transparency. Absent a last-minute confession from those responsible, only the Trump administration, backed by Congress, can deliver that reckoning.
When the federal government functions for years in open defiance of its founding charter, it doesn’t just cause scandal. It destroys trust. And that erosion of trust rests atop an already collapsing foundation — widespread doubts about election integrity, mass illegal immigration encouraged by the state to engineer political and demographic outcomes, and a legal system increasingly unmoored from equal protection, openly experimenting with race- and sex-based favoritism in the name of “equity.”
All of that adds up to a constitutional crisis. And unless we confront it head-on, the result won’t just be distrust. It will be disaster.
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