Daniel Penny makes astounding statement about his actions on subway after jury acquittal



Marine veteran Daniel Penny said that he could not have lived with himself if he had avoided taking action on the subway after Jordan Neely threatened passengers.

Penny made the comments on Fox News after he was acquitted in the controversial case from New York City. Some black activists have accused him of racism, but others have praised him for stepping in when Neely, a homeless schizophrenic man, screamed that he wanted to kill people.

'I’ll take a million court appearances just to keep one of those people from getting hurt or killed.'

Penny addressed the attention he has received and then added that he would have done it again to protect people.

"I'm not a confrontational person; I don't really extend myself. This type of thing is really uncomfortable. All of this attention in my mind is very uncomfortable. And I would prefer without it, I didn't want any type of attention or praise. And I still don't," he said.

“The guilt I would have felt if someone did get hurt, if he did do what he was threatening to do, I would never be able to live with myself," Penny added. "I’ll take a million court appearances just to keep one of those people from getting hurt or killed.”

Penny had been charged with manslaughter as well as criminally negligent homicide, but a jury said its members were deadlocked on the first charge and then issued a verdict of not guilty on the second charge.

Neely had also taken synthetic marijuana before threatening to kill people on the subway.

Here's a video of Penny's comments:

Daniel Penny: “The guilt I would have felt if someone did get hurt, if he did do what he was threatening to do, I would never be able to live with myself. I’ll take a million court appearances just to keep one of those people from getting hurt or kiIIed.” pic.twitter.com/nqY0f2QJAZ
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) December 10, 2024

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Mental health and religion: Why men need God now more than ever



American men have been suffering in silence through an unprecedented mental health and suicide crisis — while women’s rights have taken center stage.

Carrie Sheffield, senior policy analyst for Independent Women’s Voice, believes it’s high time this changes.

“Nationwide, we are experiencing the highest suicide rate, the highest depression rate, ever in recorded American history. And unfortunately, men are hit hardest when it comes to suicide,” Sheffield tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight,” adding that 80% of suicides are committed by men.

“More than 90% of occupational deaths on the job are men. We don’t talk about this. The life span on average of men is far shorter than for women, and so we don’t talk about men. All the left loves to do is to demonize men,” she explains.

However, Sheffield believes there’s an answer for the men suffering in silence.


“Coming to faith, being in faith practice, religious community, religion. This is extremely tied with strong mental health, lower suicide, low substance abuse, and so it was an encouragement to men because men are far more likely to be atheist and agnostic,” Sheffield explains.

“Why aren’t people talking about what men would need in terms of mental health?” Peterson asks.

“In general, I think our culture has become divorced from truth,” Sheffield says. “Postmodern society is truth is whatever the wind is telling us. Whatever is trendy, whatever is hot, whatever is buzzy, and when our society falls away from that, it’s no wonder that then you fall into this situation.”

“I’ve experienced it myself as a recovered agnostic, where if you don’t believe in an eternal truth or purpose, then your mental health suffers. And so, I think for a lot of men, as the quote-unquote ‘feminist movement’ demonized men and tried to sever them from their purpose, which is to serve God, to serve people,” she continues.

“Part of that is this idea that a man could be a provider or a protector or create a family,” she says. “The feminist movement was trying to undermine all of that.”

However, there’s some good news.

“I looked at a headline that came out, I think, last week, and Bible sales are actually up 22% in America,” Savage comments.

“The Bible sales, the 22% increase, which is phenomenal, that you mentioned, this is being driven by first-time Bible-buyers,” Sheffield says. “They’re discovering it by themselves, they’re being, in some ways, pioneers in their own family. And it’s being led by young men.”

“And so that’s a glimmer of hope,” she adds.

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6 Guatemalans arrested over deaths of more than 50 immigrants: 'Ruthless, callous, and dangerous'



U.S. law enforcement officials announced the arrest of six Guatemalan nationals allegedly involved in the deaths of more than 50 immigrants in an accident related to human smuggling in Mexico.

According to an indictment unsealed Monday, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Guatemalan police arrested four of the suspects in Guatemala. Another suspect was arrested at his home in Cleveland, Texas, and Guatemalan officials noted a sixth arrest.

'Human smugglers should heed these charges and arrests as a warning: you will be held accountable for your deadly crimes.'

The indictments were announced on the third anniversary of a horrendous semi-trailer truck crash in the Mexican state of Chiapas, during which more than 50 immigrants were killed, including children. Officials believe the truck was carrying at least 160 immigrants when it rolled over and crashed into a pedestrian bridge in Tuxtla Gutierrez. Another 100 immigrants were injured in the mass casualty event.

The indictment accused the suspects of conspiring to smuggle the immigrants through Mexico to the U.S. for payment and being responsible for the crash.

Among the charges against them are conspiracy, placing life in jeopardy, and causing serious bodily injury. Guatemalan officials said the U.S. is seeking extradition of four suspects arrested in Gautemala. They also said the smugglers were a part of a criminal organization called Los Quino.

“The tragedy that occurred three years ago today in Chiapas is further proof that human smugglers are ruthless, callous, and dangerous,” said U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. "DHS will continue to disrupt and dismantle illegal human smuggling operations and help bring those who perpetrate such horror to justice.”

"Human smugglers should heed these charges and arrests as a warning: you will be held accountable for your deadly crimes,” said U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.

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Trump announces big plan to juice the economy: 'GET READY TO ROCK!'



President-elect Donald Trump announced a plan to encourage business investment in the U.S. for his second term in the White House.

Polling after the astounding results of the election found that many Americans voted on the basis that Republicans could be trusted to manage the economy far better than Democrats. Among the economic concerns was the high inflation that hit American budgets during the Biden administration.

Wall Street titans, including bankers and investors, expect that Trump's policies will be a boon for big business.

Trump said that he would incentivize business investment by cutting regulations.

"Any person or company investing ONE BILLION DOLLARS, OR MORE, in the United States of America, will receive fully expedited approvals and permits, including, but in no way limited to, all Environmental approvals," wrote Trump on social media.

"GET READY TO ROCK!!!" he added all in caps.

Trump's second term will likely be very friendly to business interests and expanding the economy. After he was declared the winner in November, the stock market soared to historic highs on the hope that profits might increase under his policies.

A poll in 2023 found that 54% of respondents trust Republicans on the economy while only 45% said they trust Democrats on the economy. 51% of respondents said that they believe the economy was in a slump.

A New York Times report published Tuesday found that Wall Street titans, including bankers and investors, expect that Trump's policies will be a boon for big business.

Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase said that his industry was "dancing in the street" over Republican victories in the Oval Office, the Senate, and the House of Representatives.

Trump has also announced a plan to impose heavy tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China in order to pressure them to increase efforts to stop illegal immigration as well as the flow of illicit drugs from their countries into the U.S. Some free-market proponents have warned that Trump's love of tariffs could push the U.S. into trade wars with other nations that would likely lead to job losses and higher prices on imported goods.

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New York AG Letitia James refuses to drop nearly half-billion dollar judgment against Trump despite his presidential victory



New York Attorney General Letitia James is refusing to drop a nearly half-billion dollar judgment against President-elect Donald Trump despite his victory, NBC News reported.

Not coincidentally, James campaigned for her office on the promise she'd go after Trump — then gave a bizarre, cryptic speech the day after Trump's election win last month vowing to "fight back" against him.

'I dare you to try to continue your lawfare against President Trump in his second term.'

In the end, she rejected Trump's request to drop her $486 million civil fraud judgment against him, NBC News noted.

"This Office will not stipulate to vacate the final judgment" against Trump and his company "or otherwise seek to dismiss the action," a lawyer for James' office said in a letter to Trump attorney John Sauer, the news network reported.

Sauer last month asked James' office to voluntarily dismiss the case, saying it could interfere with Trump's duties as president and that she should drop it in order to promote "unity," NBC News said, adding that Sauer didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

Judith Vale, New York's deputy solicitor general, told Sauer in the letter made public Tuesday that there's "no merit to your claim that the pendency of defendants’ own appeal will impede Mr. Trump’s official duties as President," the news network said.

Vale also eschewed Sauer's assertion that James should mimic special counsel Jack Smith, who dropped his two federal cases against Trump, and the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who agreed to indefinitely postpone, but not drop, Trump's sentencing on state felony charges, NBC News added.

However, some judges in a New York appeals court in September seemed receptive to reversing or reducing the civil fraud judgment against Trump, the Associated Press reported. The outlet said the court either could uphold the original verdict, reduce or modify the penalty, or overturn the verdict; a majority of the five appellate judges must agree on a judgment alteration.

Odd speech

The day after Trump decisively beat Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, James turned quite a few heads with a bizarre and cryptic speech vowing to "fight back" against the president-elect.

James spoke somberly with whispered endings to phrases, frequent dramatic pauses, and clipped, halting pronunciations of key words that seemed to reflect anger, shock, and sadness over Trump's victory.

"We did not expect this result, but we are prepared to respond to this result," James went on to say. "And my office has been preparing for several months because we've been here before. We faced this challenge before, and we used the rule of law to fight back. And we are prepared to fight back once again, because as the attorney general of this great state, it is my job to protect and defend the rights of New Yorkers and the rule of law. And I will not shrink from that responsibility."

You can view video of her relevant remarks here starting at the 9:20 mark.

'Let me just say this to Big Tish James'

One prominent Trump legal ally was having none of James' tough talk — and gave it right back to her.

Attorney Mike Davis — founder of the Article III Project, which "defends constitutionalist judges and the rule of law" — blasted James during an appearance on "The Benny Show" podcast Thursday.

"Let me just say this to Big Tish James, the New York attorney general," Davis said. "I dare you to try to continue your lawfare against President Trump in his second term. Because listen here, sweetheart: We’re not messing around this time. And we will put your fat ass in prison for conspiracy against rights, and I promise you that."

Davis also warned James to "think long and hard before you want to violate President Trump’s constitutional rights or any other American’s constitutional rights. ... It’s not gonna happen again."

Fox News said it reached out to James' office seeking a response to Davis' comments.

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Border Patrol braces for gunfire after Mexican cartel reportedly puts out hit against agents



The United States Border Patrol issued a warning to its officers to prepare for potential gunfire following reports that a Mexican cartel had issued a hit against agents.

A Border Patrol memo from Thursday, obtained by NewsNation, stated that the San Diego Sector Intelligence Unit received an alert on December 4 "regarding a possible threat" to agents stationed at the Imperial Beach and Chula Vista Border Patrol Stations.

'They fear no one anymore, especially the US law enforcement.'

"Information received indicated top cartel leaders ordered the shooting towards agents in response and retaliation for an incident that occurred," it read.

The memo referred to a November 27 incident in which a Border Patrol officer struck an illegal immigrant with a patrol vehicle. According to the agency, the individual was a cartel member.

Video footage of the incident showed a group of men attempting to scale the border wall. NewsNation reported that these men were aiding another person in unlawfully crossing the border when a Border Patrol agent, responding to the breach, struck the alleged cartel member.

The agency stated that the driver was fixated on two other individuals who were actively scaling the wall when he hit the man.

"Therefore, cartel leaders are angered, claiming the incident occurred without cause or remorse," the Border Patrol's memo stated. "The information received indicated the shooting could possibly occur over the next few days."

The agency advised agents to remain vigilant.

NewsNation's Ali Bradley reported that activists have called for the Border Patrol agent who struck the suspected cartel member to be fired. The incident is still under investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office and Customs and Border Protection's Office of Professional Responsibility.

"Sources within border patrol leadership tell me that anytime the cartel threatens to shoot an agent it should be taken seriously and the san diego Sector should be on high alert," Bradley wrote in a post on X.

The man who was struck "got up and ran back to Mexico," according to Bradley.

CBP confirmed that two of the men were arrested in connection with the "human smuggling incident." It is unclear if the man who was hit by the patrol vehicle was one of those detained.

The Sinaloa Cartel previously issued an order for its members to shoot at Border Patrol agents in Texas after its co-founder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada was arrested.

Victor Avila, a former Department of Homeland Security agent, told NewsNation, "This is the difference of the evolution of the cartels. They fear no one anymore, especially the U.S. law enforcement."

"We know that they have no regard, and they do whatever they want in Mexico, and they're running a parallel government over there," he stated. "In fact they do have the resources, and in fact they do have the capabilities and will use them against us."

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Outgoing Rep. Jamaal Bowman says schizophrenic Jordan Neely was not a threat in bizarre letter to white people



Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York penned a bizarre message for white people, claiming that Jordan Neely was not a threat to subway riders when he yelled that he was going to kill them.

Bowman, who lost his re-election bid and was part of the infamous left-wing congressional "Squad," explained the trauma he felt about the Daniel Penny case in a long thread on social media. A jury was deadlocked over a manslaughter charge that was then dropped, and they later found Penny not guilty of a lesser charge.

'Whenever you feel discomfort from your whiteness, Black people are harmed or killed. And there is never accountability or justice.'

"Dear White People, I don’t know why I feel the need to keep talking to you. I don’t know why part of me still has hope for you and for us. Some of you are too far gone. But maybe enough of you aren’t and will join us in fighting to end white supremacy," he wrote.

He went on to list controversial cases of black people being killed and assaulted, starting with Rodney King and also including George Floyd and Trayvon Martin. Then he landed on Neely, who died after being put in a chokehold by Penny, a U.S. Marine veteran.

"Jordan Neely is the latest. He was sick. He was not a threat. He was subdued. Still not a threat. Daniel Penny choked him for 6 minutes. And killed him. We all watched it on camera, and he was still acquitted," Bowman claimed.

He went on to say that white people have "never" seen video of a white person killed in "cold blood" on their newsfeed.

"You never have. And whenever you feel discomfort from your whiteness, Black people are harmed or killed. And there is never accountability or justice. This is the evil of white supremacy. It spans across geography and political parties and sickens us all," he continued.

"RIP Jordan Neely. The justice system failed you. Kyle Ritenhouse [sic] and Daniel Penny are free. You’re gone. We must still fight," he concluded.

The congressman apparently did not consider Neely yelling, “I don’t give a damn. I will kill a motherf***er!" a threat, as recalled by a witness who said she was terrified of the man and thanked Penny for intervening. Investigators said Neely was schizophrenic and had used synthetic marijuana prior to the incident.

Bowman lost the Democratic primary election to a candidate backed by Hillary Clinton after making criticism of Israel a central part of his campaign.

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Mitch McConnell receives medical attention after fall



Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell received medical attention after he fell during a GOP staff lunch on Tuesday.

A spokesman for McConnell confirmed that he tripped following the lunch.

“He sustained a minor cut to the face and sprained his wrist," the aide said in a statement. "He has been cleared to resume his schedule."

This is not the first time health concerns have arisen surrounding the 82-year-old senator. McConnell was captured 'freezing' on camera multiple times in 2023.

During a press conference, Senate GOP Leader John Thune confirmed that McConnell, his predecessor, returned to his office.

“He is fine, he’s in his office, and any other questions about Sen. McConnell I’ll refer to staff,” Thune said during the press conference.

This is not the first time health concerns have arisen surrounding the 82-year-old senator. McConnell was captured "freezing" on camera multiple times in 2023.

McConnell was also reportedly treated for a concussion after falling at a hotel in Washington, D.C., in 2023. Additional reports confirmed that he had already fallen multiple times that year.

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Detransitioner sues prominent child sex-change doctor who admitted to hiding results of her own study



Johanna Olson-Kennedy, the medical director of the nation's biggest youth sex-change center at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles and head of a $10 million National Institutes of Health initiative studying youth "gender medicine," recently suppressed the results of a years-long study following 95 children who were given puberty blockers.

Olson-Kennedy, no doubt aware of the damage that Britain's landmark Cass Review had already done to the sex-change regime's credibility, told the New York Times, "I do not want our work to be weaponized."

While she might ultimately prevail in concealing the results of the study, Olson-Kennedy cannot hide the fallout of so-called gender-affirming care in the wild, including the radical procedures she has personally executed.

Clementine Breen, a 20-year-old drama student at the University of California, Los Angeles, filed a medical negligence lawsuit Thursday against Olson-Kennedy, the CHLA, and others involved with her "gender-affirming" mutilation.

According to the complaint, Breen was a vulnerable, mentally compromised girl who had suffered multiple instances of sexual abuse and hailed from a family rife with mental health problems. Rather than subject her to psychotherapy and tests, she was allegedly "fast-tracked onto the conveyor belt of irreversibly damaging puberty blockers (age 12), cross-sex hormones (age 13), and 'gender-affirming' surgery (age 14.)"

The lawsuit claimed that Olson-Kennedy and her team — who allegedly separated Breen from her parents at the first opportunity — "immediately and unquestioningly 'affirmed' Clementine as transgender, and at her very first visit, after mere minutes, Dr. Olson-Kennedy diagnosed Clementine with gender dysphoria and recommended surgical implantation of puberty blockers."

'Even if she could conceive and deliver a child, she would not be able to breastfeed because her health breasts were removed when she was only 14.'

Olson-Kennedy — who has publicly argued against the need for psychological assessments for sex-change mutilations, compared teen girls cutting off their healthy breasts to taking the SATs, reportedly dished out sex-change hormones to kids as young as 12, and referred little girls as young as 13 for double mastectomies — allegedly did not bother with a mental health assessment, with asking Breen relevant questions about her mental health struggles or diagnoses, or with involving other health care professionals in her gender dysphoria diagnosis.

The complaint alleged further that Olson-Kennedy also failed to furnish Breen with the necessary time or information to obtain consent, which appears all but impossible anyway when dealing with prospective minor sex-change patients — a troubling reality even World Professional Association of Transgender Health scientists have apparently admitted in private communications.

Extra to blowing past the matter of informed consent and allegedly obtaining the parents' consent under fraudulent pretenses, the complaint claimed that Olson-Kennedy misrepresented Breen's "gender-identity history" in her letter of support to Breen's surgeon. Citing a full copy of the letter, the Economist reported that Olson-Kennedy wrote that Breen had "endorsed a male gender identity since childhood," which was not the case, according to Olson-Kennedy's own records.

Neither the surgeon nor Olson-Kennedy responded to the Economist's requests for comment.

After years of being pumped full of potentially sterilizing and bone-compromising drugs then having her healthy breasts removed by surgeons, Breen's mental health unsurprisingly declined.

"It took Dr. Olson-Kennedy and the team at LA Children's a single visit to send Clementine down a life-altering, traumatic, body-disfiguring, and irreversibly damaging path of transgender medicalization," said the complaint.

Although Breen has detransitioned and now identifies with her real sex, the complaint indicated that

as a result of Defendants' so-called "gender-affirming care," Clementine now has deep physical and emotional wounds, severe regrets, and distrust of the medical system. She has suffered physically, socially, neurologically, and psychologically. Her voice has permanently deepened. Her female body did not develop, and she has a very masculine body structure. Her fertility is almost certainly destroyed from the combination of years on puberty blockers and testosterone. And even if she could conceive and deliver a child, she would not be able to breastfeed because her health breasts were removed when she was only 14.

Breen told the Economist that her lawsuit was not just about "personal closure reasons" but making clear that rushed sex-changes on minors are not as rare as activists have suggested.

"People are just brushing exactly what happened to me off as something that doesn't happen," said Breen.

According to the medical advocacy group Do No Harm's Stop the Harm database, Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, has at least 265 sex-change patients; 165 surgery patients; and 103 hormone and puberty blocker patients. The organization reportedly claims that its youngest patients, as young as 3 years old, "receive no medical interventions, just counseling."

The lawsuits against elements of the sex-change regime continue to pile up.

Last year, Chloe Cole filed a suit against the Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, which performed, supervised, and/or advised transgender hormone therapy and surgical intervention on her between the ages of 13 and 16.

The Dhillon Law Group and LiMandri & Jonna LLP similarly filed suit against Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and the Permanente Medical Group last year, alleging malice, oppression and fraud in the case of Layla Jane, a girl who underwent an elective double mastectomy at the age of 13 and hormone therapy.

Luka Hein filed a lawsuit last year against the University of Nebraska Medical Center and numerous UNMC medical practitioners alleging that their "misleading descriptions and false claims" pertaining to sex-change mutilations were in violation of the state's Consumer Protection Act.

Dr. Miriam Grossman, the board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist who authored the 2023 book "Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness," told Blaze News earlier this year that lawsuits will help make practitioners "think twice before they pick up a scalpel and remove the healthy breasts of a 13-year-old girl."

"It could be the malpractice carriers will stop covering — if they have to pay out huge amounts, they may think twice about covering the malpractice of these surgeons," continued Grossman.

Dr. Roy Eappen, an esteemed endocrinologist and senior fellow at Do No Harm, similarly suggested that lawsuits can help "make it expensive for them to continue with this kind of procedure."

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Dem governor to send cash payments to New Yorkers to fight inflation — and the backlash is fierce



Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a plan to send cash checks to state residents, but many ridiculed her for misunderstanding basic economics.

Hochul announced Monday that the state would be sending $300 and $500 checks to lower-income residents in order to help them deal with high inflation.

'You don't have to rely on gimmicks that reek of desperation and incompetence.'

"Costs are high, and New Yorkers are feeling the strain on their wallets," said Hochul on social media. "I want to give families making less than $300,000 an Inflation Refund check for $500. No loopholes. No BS. Just money you can use to pay the bills."

Critics of the Democrat immediately pounced on the announcement to criticize her for the state's high taxes.

"Newsflash for Kathy Hochul. Taking thousands of dollars out of New Yorkers’ left pocket and then putting $500 in their right pocket isn’t a tax cut, it’s an insult. And it’s precisely why millions of New Yorkers have headed for the exits," responded Republican Rep. Mike Lawler for New York.

"If you cut taxes and spending as an actual leader would do, you don't have to rely on gimmicks that reek of desperation and incompetence," replied former state Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, a Republican.

Others mocked her for trying to fight inflation with a "solution" that would likely lead to higher inflation.

"Maybe take a basic Econ 101 class before proposing legislation. What's next? Is your plan to fight obesity to give everyone over 250lbs free donuts?" read one response.

"Giving out more money to people as an 'Inflation Refund' is literally the dumbest and least intelligent solution to inflation ... maybe ever," responded entrepreneur Darin Feinstein.

"This reads like satire to me. Handing out government money in an inflationary environment is exactly how more inflation occurs. It’s adding fuel to the fire," read another response.

Hochul is also facing an uphill battle for re-election to the office. A recent poll showed that 57% of New Yorkers want a different governor, while a paltry 33% said they support her being elected to another term.

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