California taxpayers are funding gender transition services for homeless illegal aliens: Report



An investigative report found that California taxpayers are footing the bill for transition services to be provided for homeless transgender-identifying illegal aliens.

The report from Christopher Rufo at the City Journal included firsthand accounts from Honduran immigrants at St. Vincent De Paul's MSC-South facility in San Francisco and Mexican immigrants at the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center.

'You have to have a process, the hormones ... go through therapy. Es un proceso.'

Rufo said the City Journal was tipped off by a whistleblower in March.

A transgender-identifying person called Jacqueline from Mexico claimed to be a lawful U.S. resident but added that illegal aliens were being given the procedures.

"Even though you're undocumented, you can get them," Jacqueline said.

Rufo reported that the man received breast implants from the state Medi-Cal program as well as transgender hormone treatments.

"You have to have a process, the hormones ... go through therapy. Es un proceso," Jacqueline added.

He added that he's waiting for "bottom surgery."

At a third homeless government-funded shelter called the Taimon Booton Navigation Center, a group of transgender-identifying illegal aliens told Rufo that they were seeking transgender medical treatment.

An employee at the MSC-South facility told the City Journal that there were transgender-identifying people from Honduras at the center. Rufo spoke to two of them who confirmed they received shelter and food from the government.

Officials at the centers did not comment on the report.

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"Apparently, word has traveled down the continent to the transgender communities in Mexico, Honduras, and elsewhere: If you make it all the way to California, the government will pay for your shelter, hormones, and surgeries — no questions asked," Rufo wrote.

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VIDEO: Heroic high school principal saves the day, stops shooter in his tracks



On April 7, a heroic principal prevented a tragedy at an Oklahoma school by stepping in to disarm a gunman who entered the school near his office.

Blaze News previously reported that Pauls Valley Principal Kirk Moore stopped an armed assailant from shooting up the school, risking his life for his students and taking a bullet to the leg in the process.

Blaze News acquired surveillance video from the school showing the scene unfold.

The video shows the suspect entering the building and pulling out a gun. Moore can be seen jumping into action without hesitation after he enters the hallway and identifies the threat.

Moore was shot in the leg during the struggle.

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Video shows Moore managing to restrain the suspect and pinning the hand with the gun, preventing the suspect from using it, before another man intervenes and removes the firearm from the situation.

No students or other faculty were harmed during the incident.

A GoFundMe page was set up to support Principal Moore as a "token of appreciation for a man who gave everything for others."

The page reads, "Principal Moore has spent his life protecting and guiding students. In a moment of crisis, he proved just how far he's willing to go for them."

The fund has raised more than $10,000 at the time of writing.

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'DISGUSTING': Megyn Kelly rips into 'Euphoria' clip with Sydney Sweeney



A clip from the newest season of "Euphoria" sent commentator Megyn Kelly into fits after seeing actress Sydney Sweeney pose sexually while wearing an infantile costume.

Sweeney portrays a woman who decides to open an OnlyFans account to fund her wedding but ends up dressing like a baby to satisfy some client's bizarre desires.

'Most normal people are going to recoil ... in response to what’s essentially the sexualization of a child.'

Kelly said she was shocked by the scene as well as the reaction to it.

"She’s dressed as a baby! She’s in a baby’s outfit. She’s sucking on a binky pacifier, and her legs are completely spread,” she said on her show.

"You can have a laugh, of course, because I was shocked, but the truth is, this is sexualizing infancy. That's what it is," Kelly added. "And some of the write-ups on this are like, 'It's a pretty common kink.' What? Getting turned on by a baby, like what?!"

"It seems to be wanting to bring down your defenses on the most disgusting crime imaginable on earth."

Video of the scene was posted to social media.

"I can’t believe she agreed to this frankly and was in this," said Kelly of Sweeney.

"I think this is another example of Hollywood not understanding at all where the line is," the commentator added. "And how most normal people are going to recoil ... in response to what’s essentially the sexualization of a child, of a baby."

Kelly went on to criticize Sam Levinson, the show's creator, for other needless scenes of nudity.

"He constantly wants women to take their clothes off for scenes that don’t require them to be nude at all," Kelly said.

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"All these women want to be stars, and few say no, but those that do, somehow it leaks because they’re clearly trying to tell us that this guy is, at a minimum, a jerk, and, more than likely, a problem," she added.

Sweeney became a favorite for many on the right when her presence in an American Eagle jeans advertisement made leftist woke-scolds on TikTok implode with fury. The company was accused of pushing fascist and racist propaganda, but both the actress and American Eagle have laughed off the claims.

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'Absurd' perks for Haitian migrants may be extended, thanks to these 6 Republicans



The House has advanced a bill to extend the Temporary Protected Status for Haiti by another three years after six Republicans voted with Democrats.

Democrats unanimously voted Wednesday to advance Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley's legislation that would give special protections to Haitian migrants. The bill ultimately advanced in a 219-209 vote with the help of six Republicans and one independent, Rep. Kevin Kiley of California, who previously served as a member of the GOP.

'If you import the Third World, you become the Third World.'

The six Republicans are: Reps. Don Bacon of Nebraska, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Carlos Gimenez of Florida, Mike Lawler of New York, Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida, and Nicole Malliotakis of New York. Notably, Salazar is also leading the charge for the bipartisan bill dubbed the Dignity Act, which critics have said is just another push for mass amnesty.

Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas called the vote to extend TPS for Haitians "absurd," echoing the concerns shared by many Americans.

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Earlier in April, President Donald Trump and his administration sounded the alarm after an immigrant from Haiti allegedly murdered an American woman at a gas station by bludgeoning her with a hammer. This migrant came to the United States during former President Joe Biden's administration and benefited from the same Temporary Protected Status the House is on track to extend.

"This animal was allowed to stay here because the Biden Administration granted him, and all Haitians, 'Temporary Protective Status,' a massively abused and fraudulent program which my Administration is working to terminate, but Deranged Liberal District Court Judges are standing in our way," Trump said in a Truth Social Post.

"As I've said all along, if you import the Third World, you become the Third World, and that is what happened over the four years of Democrat Control," he added.

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‘No amount of fraud is too big or too small’: Vance’s anti-fraud task force targets every crook stealing from taxpayers



Vice President JD Vance, who chairs the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, declared that “no amount of fraud is too big or too small” and stated that the task force plans to target bad actors regardless of the amount of money they have stolen from taxpayers.

During a Turning Point USA event at the University of Georgia on Tuesday, Vance highlighted the task force’s early victories.

'If you’re defrauding the taxpayer, you ought to go to prison, and anybody who’s helping you ought to go to prison too.'

President Donald Trump established the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud by executive order in mid-March. Since then, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has worked with the task force to close hundreds of allegedly fraudulent health care providers.

On Tuesday, Vance discussed the issue of widespread fraud in the Minneapolis area, stating that the task force had turned off a government assistance program for autistic children that was being widely exploited.

“We’ve completely stopped the funding to that program. And we basically told the state of Minnesota, ‘You don’t get any more of our money unless you’ve verified that you’re taking fraud seriously,’” he stated, and the crowd responded with applause.

The federal government announced in February that it was withholding $259.5 million in Medicaid funding from Minnesota.

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During Tuesday’s event, Vance commended CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz for his work on eliminating fraud.

“We had our weekly fraud check-in call two weeks ago, and Dr. Oz called in, but he’s like, ‘Hey, I got to go because I’m about to hop on the bus, and we’re going to go arrest a bunch of fraudsters in Los Angeles.’ And I was like, ‘That’s exactly what I want you to do. By all means, get off the phone.’ So we’re doing a lot of that stuff.”

Vance explained that under the Biden administration, the federal government overlooked fraudsters who stole smaller amounts of money from taxpayers. He stated that this approach has changed under the Trump administration.

“No amount of fraud is too big or too small. If you’re defrauding the taxpayer, you ought to go to prison, and anybody who’s helping you ought to go to prison too,” Vance remarked.

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As of Wednesday, the task force has suspended 447 hospices and 23 home health agencies in Los Angeles, with an estimated fraud total exceeding $600 million.

“With @VP’s leadership, we’re crushing fraud faster than ever,” Oz stated.

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YouTuber 'Johnny Somali' learns his fate after trolling South Korea



An American livestreamer who angered the nation of South Korea for his disrespectful and disruptive actions in the country has finally learned his fate in court.

Ramsey Khalid Ismael, better known online as Johnny Somali, was sentenced to six months in prison by a Seoul court on Wednesday.

'The defendant repeatedly committed crimes against unspecified members of the public to generate profit via YouTube.'

Johnny Somali sparked widespread outrage after livestreaming a series of provocative stunts, including kissing and dancing on a statue honoring victims of World War II sexual slavery.

The Independent reported that Ismael later apologized for the video of him dancing on the Statue of Peace and subsequently removed the clip.

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"I want to apologize to the Korean people. I was not aware of the significance of the statue," he said at the time.

He was found guilty on eight charges on Wednesday, including obstruction of business and distributing fabricated sexually explicit content, CBS News reported.

"The defendant repeatedly committed crimes against unspecified members of the public to generate profit via YouTube and distributed the content in disregard of Korean law," the court said, according to the Independent.

The Associated Press reported that Ismael was barred from leaving the country while the proceedings were pending.

Ismael faced additional accusations of disturbing the peace during his livestreamed stunts.

He was accused of harassing people at an amusement park, playing loud music and upending noodles onto a table at a convenience store, and causing similar scenes on a bus.

The court said he demonstrated a "severe" disrespect for South Korean law, and prosecutors sought a three-year sentence for his crimes.

However, the judges handed down the lighter sentence due to the "absence of severe harm to victims."

Ismael was found guilty on all eight charges and handcuffed in court after the verdict came down.

Many commentators like Atozy and even Tim Pool, who have covered the ongoing story as it unfolded, appeared glad to see Johnny Somali finally get the "sweet, juicy justice" he deserved. Tim Pool called him a "smug, nuisance lunatic" in his reaction video.

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Billionaire Tom Steyer admits embarrassing 'mistake' after saying ICE should be 'abolished' in California governor's race



Billionaire Tom Steyer was sitting pretty after one of his main competitors in the California gubernatorial race dropped out — and then Steyer was caught in an embarrassing "mistake."

Steyer has told Californians that Immigration and Customs Enforcement "should be abolished," but it turns out that a hedge fund he founded invests in detention centers.

'It was also a big wake-up call that I was in the wrong place, that I was in a business that was taking me to places I absolutely didn’t want to go.'

"We never had anything to do with running the company," said Steyer about the revelation. "But it was a mistake to think that that was a place where it was decent to make money."

Farallon Capital Management was founded by the billionaire in 1986 and went on to invest up to $89.1 million in CoreCivic, a company that runs the largest detention center in California.

Two of the five centers run by CoreCivic house federal immigration detainees in Kern County and San Diego.

Steyer sold off his stake in CoreCivic in 2012.

At a town hall event in March, he said that the incident taught him to get out of the hedge fund business.

"It was also a big wake-up call that I was in the wrong place, that I was in a business that was taking me to places I absolutely didn’t want to go," he said. "And there’s a reason I walked away from that business and walked away from a ton of money."

Steyer has surged into the lead in the California governor's race as the top Democrat, with 21% support in one poll after Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) abandoned his gubernatorial campaign and then resigned from Congress over sexual harassment and assault claims.

Republican candidate Steve Hilton comes in second place with 18% of the vote. The top two vote-earners in the June 2 primary, regardless of party, will advance to the general election in November.

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Steyer's opponents are trying to damage his campaign by emphasizing the hypocritical business investments.

"Those investments were 20 years ago, and I left my firm over a decade ago and pledged most of my earnings to charity," the billionaire has fired back.

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'Monster' suspected of brutally murdering DHS employee walking her dog is an immigrant naturalized under Biden, DHS says



The suspect in a series of violent attacks that took the life of a woman simply out walking her dog is an immigrant who was naturalized under the Biden administration, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Neighbors of Lauren Bullis were shocked to find their quiet neighborhood violated by the sounds of gunfire early on Monday at about 6:50 a.m.

'This monster was naturalized by the Biden administration.'

Bullis was out walking her dog when a man shot her and stabbed her to death. Police later identified the suspect as 26-year-old Olaolukitan Adon Abel, who was arrested for her murder.

Police then tied the suspect to the shooting death of a woman outside a Checkers restaurant as well as the shooting of a homeless man outside a Kroger grocery store.

On Wednesday, DHS revealed the violent criminal past of Adon Abel, who immigrated to the U.S. from the United Kingdom and became a naturalized citizen under a previous president.

"This monster was naturalized by the Biden administration," DHS said. "Adon Abel also possesses a prior criminal record that includes convictions for sexual battery, battery against a police officer, obstruction, and assault with a deadly weapon, vandalism. Our prayers are with the families of the victims during this tragic time."

Bullis was also revealed to have been an exemplary employee at the DHS Office of Inspector General.

"In every role she held, Lauren exemplified dedication to the OIG mission," DHS said. "Lauren approached her work with integrity, thoughtfulness, and a commitment to excellence that strengthened our organization and the communities we serve. Beyond her professional accomplishments, Lauren was a bright spot for so many of the DHS community. She brought warmth, kindness, and a genuine sense of care to her colleagues each day."

One witness indicated that she locked eyes with the assailant after he attacked Bullis and that he was in the act of pulling Bullis' pants off.

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DHS also documented the agency's efforts to weed out threats from the naturalization process:

In an effort to remove murderers like this from our communities, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the creation of a new vetting center on December 5, 2025, to enhance screening and vetting of immigration applications, with a focus on identifying terrorists, criminal aliens, and other threats to public safety. The center will leverage advanced technologies and work closely with law enforcement and intelligence partners to strengthen national security and uphold the integrity of the U.S. immigration system.

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