Houston gang members allegedly rapped about their violent crimes on social media — until 'massive' FBI arrest

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is touting a "massive" bust of alleged gang members in Houston, Texas, who rapped about their crimes on social media.

About 15 members and associates of the YNS gang were arrested in the bust, according to sources that spoke to KHOU-TV about the operation.

'You may have a chain on, you show your guns in the video, you have flashy cars behind you. ... Nine times out of ten, the chain is fake, the cars are not theirs, and it’s just a front that they're doing for social media.'

The details of the arrests are not publicly available, as they have been sealed.

Police sources say that some of the gang members would rap about their criminal activities and post them to YouTube and other social media sites. These songs are referred to as "drill music," "drill videos," or "drill raps," according to the sources.

The sources identified two rappers allegedly linked to the gang as "Luh Que" and "Dee Fully."

Karlton Harris, executive director of the Forgotten Third anti-violence nonprofit, explained to KHOU that the videos served an important function for the alleged gang: to entice new recruits.

"It’s the flashiness, right, OK, ‘Look at what I got.’ You may have a chain on, you show your guns in the video, you have flashy cars behind you," he said.

"Nine times out of ten, the chain is fake, the cars are not theirs, and it’s just a front that they're doing for social media, but the other individuals don’t know who are seeing that," he added.

The identities of four men nabbed in the operation were revealed after they appeared in court Thursday.

Jacob Barrett, Kristian Winters, Darrell Samson, and Jocquez Frye all appeared in court wearing orange jumpsuits and shackles. Each of the four men are facing four counts that include using a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime, conspiracy to commit robbery, and two charges linked to controlled substances.

Frye also faces an additional count of possession of a machine gun.

KHOU included a video allegedly tied to the gang in its news video report.

Here are some of the eloquent lyrics from one video post on the account identifying as Luh Que:

No I ain't running from s**t, wanna know where I'm at? Probably with some killers. My favorite fit all black, you don't even gotta ask, why I'm a well known driller.

The term "driller" in ghetto rap parlance refers to a gang member or a shooter, according to the Urban Dictionary.

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Allie Beth Stuckey just deleted her X app because of this sickening mommy trend

BlazeTV’s Allie Beth Stuckey has had it up to here with toxic mommy culture — that corner of social media where moms treat their own kids as punchlines and burdens through public complaints, name-calling, “wine-to-cope” jokes, and content that frames children as the thing ruining a mother’s life rather than the gift she’s called to love.

On this episode of “Relatable,” Allie argues that being saturated in this grievance-driven strain of mom content explains why so many women are using postpartum conditions to excuse their own sinful behavior and Lindsay Clancy’s.

“This term postpartum rage or mom rage or overstimulated or ‘touched out,’ all of these terms ... are used to describe this kind of heightened aggravation that moms feel due to domestic demands and demands of life in general,” says Allie.

“And the question is for all of these words specifically: Are they real diagnoses? Are these genuine, understandable, physiological responses to motherhood? Or are they, like so many other terms in our therapy-laden culture, pathological excuses for sin?” she asks.

To answer these questions, she looks at how motherhood and children are being talked about in the modern age. A peek at social media reveals a disturbing reality: Toxic mom content is abundant.

There’s the “Same, Lindsay” trend, where women, often rocking babies or caring for kids, express solidarity with the woman who admitted to strangling her three young children. Then there’s the content that seeks likes and clicks by embarrassing or humiliating children, like the viral egg-cracking trend where moms stun their young toddlers by cracking eggs using their heads.

Another fad Allie brings up involves posting videos expressing annoyance at basic motherhood functions, like giving children affection or meeting basic needs. In one video she plays, a mother, while feeding her infant, says, “Do not have children. ... They are a parasite, and that means that they will not only suck every f*****g thing of your energy, but they will also suck every ounce of your soul from your body.”

“Never before have kids been publicly exploited in this way for clicks. Like no other generation has had to deal with this form of a public humiliation ritual that kids are having to endure from the very people that they were created to trust and to rely on for their care,” says Allie.

But the effects of these disturbing cultural trends don’t just affect the kids; they affect moms too.

“It's this kind of culture that desensitizes us to true child abuse, that desensitizes us to the degradation and the objectification of children, that makes us bitter about motherhood as some kind of burden rather than a blessing,” Allie explains.

“And I even think it infects some well-meaning moms, some Christian moms, who have adopted some of these terms that I see on social media like postpartum rage.”

While Allie acknowledges that postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety are “real” diagnoses that affect some women, she believes a lot of mothers claim those terms — or the fake diagnosis of “postpartum rage” — when they’re experiencing common exhaustion and overwhelm.

“I think putting the word 'postpartum' before any difficult emotion or any difficulty that we experience almost justifies all of our feelings. It justifies the bitterness and anger and the malice and the resentment that we are told to put away by the Word of God, and suddenly it's excused because it's just 'postpartum,'” she says.

“That's not to say that those [negative] feelings don't come from a real place or don't have a real source. But don't pathologize them to excuse sin,” she adds.

But many women, she argues, do exactly that — and that’s where the widespread support for not only Lindsay Clancy but other women who have killed or abused their children is coming from.

“This toxic mommy culture is not without its victims. It's not without its very real consequences. Yes, we see Lindsay Clancy, the online reaction to that. But then you have these copycat stories,” she says, citing cases of women, some of whom were supposedly following the Clancy case, who have killed their own children.

Between these horror stories and the toxic social media mom-trends, Allie had to “delete [her] X app” from her phone.

“After talking about the Lindsay Clancy case and reading about it so much, that was my entire timeline of women complaining about motherhood, complaining about their kids, mistreating their kids online,” she sighs.

“Let it not be so for Christian women. Let it not be so for us. Let us not contribute to this toxic mommy culture even one bit.”

To hear more, watch the full episode above.

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Anti-white linguistics professor MOCKS threats to report posts to university — then has to face the consequences

Carnegie Mellon University has been forced to take action against a Nigerian-born professor after yet another anti-white post she made on social media went viral.

Linguistics professor Dr. Uju Anya posted a message about dancing over the deaths of white males before online sleuths started reposting other previous anti-white missives. She also mocked critics who threatened to report her to the university.

'I meant every word I said in my tweets responding to white men. ... May they all eat s**t.'

"Die first, white man, then ask yourself why I'm dancing," she allegedly wrote on the X platform on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. The message was in response to a critic who had asked her why she only celebrated the deaths of white men.

Screenshots of the post quickly went viral, and Anya ridiculed her detractors, who included tech billionaire Elon Musk.

"Carnegie Mellon University knows exactly who they have. They poached me from my previous job, aggressively recruiting me with a massive salary and stellar benefits. So baby, run tell them they f**ked up, and see if they pick up your call," she reportedly wrote.

"Keep crying, loser. My department chair just texted me saying they’re throwing all of your emails in the trash," she reportedly added with three laughing emojis.

Then the university responded hours later.

"Dr. Uju Anya is currently on voluntary professional leave from the university and is not teaching courses on our campus this academic year. We are deeply concerned by recent hostile and threatening social media posts by Dr. Anya and are reviewing this matter closely," read the statement from the university.

"To be clear: These posts incorrectly imply our university's endorsement and are contrary to our community standards and values as well as our commitment to fostering a safe, respectful and welcoming campus community," they added in a second post.

Anya's X account also does not exist any more.

Anya first made headlines in 2022 after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, when the academic posted an insidious message wishing that the queen had suffered greatly.

"I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying," she wrote. "May her pain be excruciating."

She deleted that post, which was against Twitter policies at the time. Anya also later claimed that the British government had "massacred and displaced" half of her family.

Anya had also reportedly responded, "May he rot in piss," to the one-year anniversary of Charlie Kirk's death.

In a post on Instagram, she reportedly claimed to have been "doxxed" after "fascist white supremacist MAGA trolls" incited threats against her on social media.

"I meant every word I said in my tweets responding to white men and all others insulting and maligning me. I do not retract or apologize. May they all eat s**t," she apparently added.

In 2024 Anya said black men doubting an activist's claims of assault were using "white supremacist tactics" to "dehumanize" her. That story collapsed after a police investigation that included surveillance video that contradicted the activist's claims.

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Zohran Mamdani Humiliated as His Secret Signal Chat Is Exposed

Charlie Kirk kept asking America to argue back

I knew Charlie Kirk. He was my friend, and that friendship changed my life. When he was assassinated on September 10, 2025, I did what you do when your own words fail. I went back to his.

“Charlie Kirk, in His Own Words” is the result. It gathers his social media posts, curated one by one from 2011 to the day he died, and weaves in never-before-seen photographs and testimonials from the people who loved him.

Charlie Kirk understood that when speech is controlled, power concentrates and people learn to keep their real thoughts to themselves.

I am not making a dollar from this book. All proceeds go to Carry the Torch, the nonprofit I founded in his honor. This book is a gift, my thank-you to a man who spent his life telling young people the truth.

The selections are Charlie unfiltered, saying exactly what he believed and inviting anyone who disagreed to come and say so to his face.

Freedom of speech and an invitation to debate

Free speech was one of Charlie’s clearest instincts in public life. He treated the First Amendment as a safeguard for ordinary people — especially those without power, status, or institutional cover.

He understood that when speech is protected, a country can argue, correct itself, and stay honest; when it is controlled, power concentrates and people learn to keep their real thoughts to themselves.

He also understood how censorship spreads: It rarely begins with the average person. It begins with a claimed emergency, a claimed harm, a claimed moral cause — and then the boundaries tighten.

Kirk liked the part of politics where you cannot hide — a microphone, a chair, a crowd, and a clock. Debate forced clarity: it made people define terms, defend claims, and sit with the consequences of their own logic.

Campus debates mattered to him for another reason too — universities were supposed to be places of open dialogue, and he watched that promise shrink under administrators who treated disagreement as harm. But when students still showed up, argued back, and kept listening, he saw proof that the story wasn’t finished.

His respect for debate was not limited to his own side. He wanted arguments in daylight. No censorship. No cowardice. No hiding.

The quotes that follow show what that commitment sounded like in Charlie’s own words — on free speech, censorship, disagreement, and the obligation to make your case rather than silence the other side.

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Free speech as birthright

5 million followers! Thank you all.

And thank you @elonmusk for liberating this critical platform.

After spending three days in England, I truly mean this with renewed importance: May we always protect free speech as one of our most sacred American birthrights.

Government limited by rights

The First Amendment was written precisely to hamstring the government!!

They work for us. They serve us. We the People, the citizens, are the sovereign. Never forget that.

Chapter by chapter

Thank you, President Trump, for acknowledging the amazing work our @TPUSA team is doing on thousands and thousands of college and high school chapters. There is a whole new generation of free speech warriors rising up, with more every passing year.

Platform censorship

Twitter censored and banned the leader of the free world from its platform.

We should never forget just how wildly absurd that really is.

Questioning is essential

When you're not allowed to question something at the risk of being banned, censored, or “cancelled” — it’s not science, it’s propaganda.

A double standard

The Packers and Eagles are scheduled to play this Friday in Brazil, where X has just been banned in a sweeping crackdown on free speech.

So let me get this straight...

The MLB took away the All-Star game from Atlanta because Georgia passed voting integrity laws.

The NCAA boycotted North Carolina because it had a law to keep mentally ill men out of girls’ bathrooms.

Thirty years ago, the NFL took the Super Bowl away from Arizona because voters didn’t vote to make MLK Day a paid holiday.

Why is the NFL bringing its road show to Brazil while the country is at war against free speech?

Young voters moved

Our Prove Me Wrong campus debate clips were seen 2.1 billion times this semester on TikTok, IG, X and YouTube.

The vast majority of those were viewed by 18-29-year-olds, and the Kamala campaign never knew how to counter.

YOUNG PEOPLE SHOWED UP FOR TRUMP

Refused to debate

This election brought the realignment we didn't see coming. It was the Biden Basement Realignment.

Does it make sense now why Democrats hid in basements? Why they refused to debate?

Run on nothing, say nothing, debate nothing, just hide and harvest.

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Nigeria’s future

Daniel Ogoloma (@Dcogoloma) was my debate partner at the Oxford Union, taking a stand against a large majority of the house as we took the negative position on the resolution "Trump Has Gone Too Far."

Offstage, we spoke about the future of Nigeria. He is a very talented young man and Nigeria will be lucky to have him.

Debate over censorship

Today I moderated a debate between Dave Smith and Josh Hammer on Israel. It was very fiery, fun, and mostly peaceful.

Debate is the way forward, not name-calling or censorship. At the end agreement was found between both Dave and Josh on many important things.

A chair caused ‘trauma’

The University of Arizona is offering "mental health services" because I sat in a chair and took questions for 2 hours yesterday on the campus quad.

College administrators are more worried about conservatives expressing their views on campus than they are [about] Hamas supporters who want to kill Jews.

America, circa 2023

Editor’s note: This article is excerpted from “Charlie Kirk, in His Own Words,” compiled by Christy Edwards (Post Hill Press). Reprinted by permission.

Mamdani's taxpayer-funded communist propaganda machine EXPOSED

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration has cultivated a network of social media influencers to amplify his policies online, and BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is warning that it follows a pattern seen in failing socialist movements throughout history.

“I regret to inform you ... that the Muslim commie mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, has been rolling out his next phase of this communist takeover plan. And you now, I’m just going to predict it’s not going to go well,” Gonzales says.

Mamdani has begun implementing his city-run grocery stores, which Gonzales notes will “effectively run real grocery stores out of business.”

“He’s like, ‘We’re pricing everything lower.’ Real grocery stores can’t do that. It’s only the government. It’s only the government that when they’re playing with someone else’s money, when they’re playing with your money, they can do things like that,” she says.

“And then once you’ve got that, once you’ve got that government control, well, a real communist wants to control the way that people think. And so as we’ve seen time and time again in all these other communist countries, they have to control the airwaves,” she continues.

And Mamdani, Gonzales says, “has done this quite masterfully.”

“He’s turning up the communist propaganda machine,” she explains, noting that the Columbia Journalist Review first exposed Mamdani for recruiting “a bunch of TikTokers and social media influencers to get his message out.”

“They created this Signal group, and the Signal group gets all the talking points from the socialist overlords,” she says.

The group receives talking points and clips they’re instructed to use in their posts.

“America is fighting for its life right now. Meanwhile, New York City is just living in Zohran Mamdani’s Disney Channel movie, 'Mayor of Uncontrollable Joy.' I’m not like jealous or anything though,” one TikTok influencer said in a video.

“Luckily Republicans are freaking out because there are mini-Mamdani’s popping up all over the country,” she said.

“You deserve hope-core everywhere, not just New York,” she added.

“These people are getting paid for it,” Gonzales says.

And according to an expose from the New York Post, it’s getting funded by the taxpayers.

“The taxpayers are paying for good messaging and PR for their mayor. Now, money is always bad to these communists. You hear about all this dark money: 'dark money, evil billionaires, evil trillionaire, Elon Musk.' It’s always bad unless you can use other people's cash to push your communist agenda,” Gonzales says.

“And by the way, this is not like a small amount of money that we’re talking about. Some of these people are getting paid up to $20,000 to do this,” she adds.

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A growing number of women are siding with admitted killers — and the reason is darker than you realize

As thousands of women continue their support of Lindsay Clancy, and after Luigi Mangione’s guilty plea failed to stop female supporters from romanticizing him as a hero, Conservateur editor Bethany Miller has one question: “What is the state of American women today?”

This was the central question that underpinned her recent article “Lindsay Clancy, Luigi Mangione, and the State of American Women.”

On a recent episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Miller joined the Blaze Media co-founder to unpack her theory about what’s causing a growing number of women to support confessed killers.

Miller explains that women’s disturbing advocacy surrounding people who have admitted to killing innocents is multifaceted and long-simmering.

“From the Millennial movement of the #MeToo and the therapeutic culture and ‘my truth is the only truth’ — this has been brewing for some time,” she tells Glenn.

These movements, Miller says, are the result of the divinely fashioned female psyche — with its bend toward empathy and relationality — being “weaponized” by “secular politics.”

“The left is capitalizing on [female instincts], manipulating women's lenses of empathy and of relation and using that to get them to respond empathetically in a weaponized empathy to what's happening with Lindsay Clancy,” she says.

“So instead of going, ‘Hey, what's black and white here? This woman killed her children, therefore justice must be served,’ they're saying, ‘Hey, actually, she struggled with postpartum depression, and she was anxious, and so let's blame the man,’ or, ‘I can see myself in her; therefore me condemning her is condemning myself.”’

Glenn was particularly struck by Miller’s argument in her article that women have been conditioned to allow their instinctual empathy to lead them to dark outcomes. In the piece, she wrote, “I see her becomes I understand her. I understand her becomes I cannot judge her.”

“The blurring of that line, I mean, that's what has ... women holding newborns and posting “Same, Lindsay” or pushing a stroller outside of her trial, chanting that she's innocent,” he sighs.

People must be able to tell the difference between understanding someone’s pain and agreeing with how they handle it, Glenn urges.

“Mental illness is real, and I can understand [Clancy] because my mother went through really bad mental illness ... but that doesn't mean I agree with her,” he says.

“Luigi Mangione — that is terrifying to me that they're practically throwing themselves at this [alleged] murderer because they're like, ‘Yeah, well, he's been abused by the system, and I've been abused by the system.’”

Another factor playing into this issue, says Miller, is women’s obsession with true crime and fantasy.

“This is the type of entertainment and narratives that they inherit and consume on a daily basis and that we've seen ... weaponize the way that they're thinking about these things,” she says.

Add to that social media and the dawning of the AI age, where what’s real is quickly becoming impossible to know, and it’s no wonder, says Miller, so many young people especially are struggling to differentiate between genuine reality and “digital reality.”

“Beyond just the gender wars, discernment is something we're losing as the American public,” she warns.

To hear more, watch the video above.

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