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Until Jesus comes back, churches should anticipate the persistence of crime, tragedy, and death and arm themselves accordingly.Until Jesus comes back, churches should anticipate the persistence of crime, tragedy, and death and arm themselves accordingly.DHS warns of attacks stateside after Iran bombings, years of open borders
The Department of Homeland Security issued a national terrorism advisory bulletin on Sunday warning that Iran-linked extremists might seek to execute retaliatory attacks on American soil in the wake of the U.S. B-2 bombings of Iranian nuclear sites.
The previous U.S. administration's failure to secure the southern border, its cover-up of the rise in terrorism-linked migrants, and its release of hundreds of Iranian nationals into the homeland altogether appear to have helped create the environment in which such threats are viable.
Masoud Pezeshkian, the president of Iran, told French President Emmanuel Macron in a call on Sunday, "The U.S. has attacked us; what would you do in such a situation? Naturally, they must receive a response to their aggression."
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The Iranian regime apparently intends to respond to the American bombings of the nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan in part by closing the Strait of Hormuz, which would disrupt global oil and gas supplies. According to Iranian state media, the Shiite nation's parliament agreed on Sunday to take this consequential step, but the final decision rests with Iran's national security council.
The Trump administration indicated that the decision to close down the shipping lane, which roughly 20% of the world's oil and gas transits, would be a "suicidal move."
The Iranian regime, designated by the U.S. as a state sponsor of terrorism 40 years ago, might entertain other suicidal forms of retaliation.
The DHS suggested that Iran may rely upon diasporic radicals to follow through on its promised revenge, noting that "low-level cyber attacks" against American networks by pro-Iranian hacktivists and by Tehran-backed actors are likely.
In terms of kinetic attacks, the terrorism advisory noted that "the likelihood of violent extremists in the Homeland independently mobilizing to violence in response to the conflict would likely increase if Iranian leadership issued a religious ruling calling for retaliatory violence against targets in the Homeland."
"The ongoing Iran conflict is causing a heightened threat environment in the United States," added the DHS bulletin. "Iran also has a long-standing commitment to target U.S. government officials it views as responsible for the death of an Iranian military commander killed in January 2020."
It wouldn't be the first time in recent years Iran hatched violent plots targeting individuals on American soil.
For example, a Pakistani radical traveled from Iran to the U.S. in 2024 to allegedly avenge the death of Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian terrorist and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander who was snuffed out by an American airstrike at Iraq's Baghdad airport on Jan. 2, 2020. Asif Raza Merchant was arrested on July 12 for allegedly plotting to assassinate Trump and other public officials.
Years earlier, Iranian intelligence officials and assets targeted a New York-based critic of the regime. One of the men involved in the plot was Niloufar Bahadorifar, an American citizen living in California.
'We have zero information?'
"Since the start of the conflict, we have seen media releases by foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) — including Hamas, Lebanese Hizballah, the Houthis, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, among others — some of which have called for violence against U.S. assets and personnel in the Middle East because of Israel’s attack," said the DHS bulletin. "The conflict could also motivate violent extremists and hate crime perpetrators seeking to attack targets perceived to be Jewish, pro-Israel, or linked to the U.S. government or military in the homeland."
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Retired San Diego Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent Aaron Heitke told members of the House Homeland Security Committee in September that the Biden-Harris administration concealed from the American public information about illegal aliens with terrorism ties as part of its effort to "quiet the border-wide crisis."
Heitke delivered the following bombshell:
In San Diego, we had an exponential increase in [Special] Interest Aliens (SIAs). These are aliens with significant ties to terrorism. Prior to this administration, the San Diego sector averaged 10-15 SIAs per year. Once word was out that the border was far easier to cross, San Diego went to over 100 SIAs in 2022, way over 100 SIAs in 2023, and more than that this year. These are only the ones we caught. At the time, I was told I could not release any information on this increase in SIAs or mention any of the arrests. The administration was trying to convince the public that there was no threat at the border.
Former Republican Rep. Anthony D'Esposito (N.Y.) asked Heitke what was known about the gotaways who had entered the U.S.
When Heitke responded, "None," D'Esposito said, "Zero information of millions of people — some of which have been found to be on the terror watch list — we have zero information?"
"Correct," said Heitke.
Citing data recently provided by a Border Patrol agent, the Center Square reported that over 700 Iranian nationals who illegally stole into the U.S. were ultimately released into the homeland by the Biden administration.
Late last year, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers reportedly apprehended seven Iranian SIAs in Maverick County as well as military-aged men from Afghanistan, Egypt, and Turkey.
"It is our duty to keep the nation safe and informed, especially during times of conflict," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement to Blaze News. "The ongoing Israel-Iran conflict brings the possibility of increased threat to the homeland in the form of possible cyberattacks, acts of violence, and anti-Semitic hate crimes."
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If we can’t speak civilly, we’ll fight brutally
Last weekend in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, protesters gathered for a No Kings rally, holding signs that compared federal immigration officers to Nazis — one reading, “Nazis used trains. ICE uses planes.” These kinds of messages aren’t just offensive, they’re dangerous. And they’re becoming far too common in politics.
The same weekend, halfway across the country, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman (DFL) was shot and killed in a politically motivated attack. While the investigation is ongoing, the timing is chilling — and it reminds us that words and rhetoric can have consequences far beyond the floor of a legislative chamber.
Most people don’t want politics to be a blood sport. They want real solutions.
When public servants are threatened, harassed, or even harmed for doing their jobs, something has gone deeply wrong in our democracy.
It’s time to turn down the temperature — not just in our political speeches, but on our main streets, in school board meetings, and even our protest signs.
Cool the rhetoric
Public service is about problem-solving, not posturing. I’ve always believed in working with my neighbors — even when we disagree — to make our community safer and stronger. But that’s becoming harder when disagreement is met with dehumanization and history is twisted into political theater.
We’ve seen it right here in my community. At a recent public hearing on how to protect children from online predators, a woman disrupted the meeting to shout that our Jewish sheriff, Fred Harran, was a “Nazi.” A week later, during a Bucks County Commissioners meeting about a law enforcement partnership with ICE, Commissioner Bob Harvie warned of “parallels” between modern politics and pre-war Nazi Germany.
I’ve worked hard in the state House to expand Holocaust education in Pennsylvania schools, because I believe history must be remembered — not weaponized. As the daughter of educators, I was raised to know that using Nazi references as political attacks not only dishonors the memory of those who suffered, it poisons the possibility of honest, civil debate.
Civil discourse is critical
None of this is to say we shouldn’t debate serious issues — immigration, public safety, fiscal priorities, and the future of our communities. Or that we shouldn’t take part in peaceful protest rooted in our First Amendment rights. We must. But we must also remember that democracy isn’t about shouting each other down — it’s about listening, questioning, and finding common ground.
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The truth is, most people don’t want politics to be a blood sport. They want real solutions. They want their kids to be safe, their neighborhoods to be strong, and their elected officials to focus on solving problems — not scoring points.
Let’s be better than the signs. Let’s be better than the sound bites. Let’s choose to be neighbors first and partisans second.
Because if we don’t change the tone now, we risk losing more than just elections — we risk losing one another.
Editor’s note: This article was originally published by RealClearPennsylvania and made available via RealClearWire.
Dems Lecture About ‘Political Violence’ After Years Of Leftist Threats, Attacks, And Assassination Attempts
Blue politicians never fail to use the acts of violent radicals, whose roots are assigned by the corporate media to the right, to grandstand about the evils of Republicans.Manhunt under way after illegal aliens riot, escape from Newark ICE facility where Democrat allegedly assaulted federal agent
Illegal aliens held at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in New Jersey where Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver (N.J.) allegedly assaulted an ICE officer last month rioted Thursday evening after their meals were reportedly delayed in coming.
While detainees destroyed property and in some cases escaped, leftist radicals outside descended on the Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark, swarmed federal agents, and tried to block the entrance to prevent additional officers from responding to the riot.
A hunt is now under way for several inmates who escaped during the riot.
Ras Baraka, Newark's radical Democratic mayor who was detained last month for trespassing at the same federal facility, said in a statement, "We are concerned about reports of what has transpired at Delaney Hall this evening, ranging from withholding food and poor treatment, to uprising and escaped detainees."
Rather than criticize the violent foreign nationals for their revolt or his fellow travelers' efforts to impede law enforcement officers outside, Baraka instead railed about "local zoning laws and fundamental constitutional rights."
The detention center, located next to the Essex County Jail, is operated on behalf of ICE by the GEO Group, the largest private prison operator in the United States. The facility, which has over 1,000 beds, was reopened shortly after President Donald Trump retook office.
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There was apparently need for the extra capacity, first because ICE officials reportedly regard New Jersey as a strategic area due to its proximity to major airports and New York City, and second because the existing facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey, had only a few hundred beds.
The Department of Homeland Security indicated last month that the facility currently holds murderers, rapists, suspected terrorists, and gang members.
Among the illegal aliens taken to the facility and unwittingly championed by leftist protesters outside was Hugo Torre-Tomailla, a Peruvian wanted in his home country for the alleged rape of a minor. Jorge Luis Sanchez-Luna, a Mexican national also taken to the facility, was arrested for repeatedly raping his young daughter over the course of several years.
Around 6 p.m. on Thursday, an illegal alien at the ICE facility called a staff member at a hotline run by the outfit Deportation and Immigration Response Equipo, claiming that a gang of illegal aliens had begun to revolt over food conditions, reported the New York Times.
Ellen Whitt, a volunteer who works at the hotline, told the Times, "People were hungry and got very angry and started to react and started to rebel against what was going on in the detention center."
The detainee who called to complain indicated that his fellow inmates were trying to smash windows.
Mustafa Cetin, an immigration lawyer for one of the illegal aliens at the facility, told NJ Advance Media that around 50 detainees conspired to knock down a wall of a dormitory room when their meals did not arrive as quickly as they desired.
"Based on what he told me it was an outer wall, not very strong, and they were able to push it down," said Cetin.
WABC-TV reported that private security personnel attempted to gain control with the assistance of responding ICE agents; however, they lost track of multiple illegal aliens amid the chaos, four of whom could not immediately be accounted for.
A senior DHS official told Blaze News, "DHS has become aware of four detainees at the privately held Delaney Hall Detention Facility escaping. Additional law enforcement partners have been brought in to find these escapees, and a BOLO has been disseminated."
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"We encourage the public to call 911 or the ICE Tip Line: 866-DHS-2-ICE if they have information that may lead to the locating of these individuals," added the official.
When pressed for comment, a spokesman for the GEO Group referred Blaze News to ICE for answers. ICE did not immediately respond to Blaze News' requests for comment.
As the riot raged inside, leftists tried to block ICE agents from entering and exiting the facility. Footage shared to X by the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice shows radicals barricading the gate outside Delaney Hall.
Police can be seen in another video dismantling the barricade and clearing an exit for law enforcement vehicles.
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Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey made abundantly clear to radicals during a press conference on Thursday that Florida handles rioters a whole lot differently than authorities on the West Coast, underscoring that violence will be met with violence, and the odds are not in radicals' favor.
Sheriff Ivey, flanked by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, noted at the outset that Americans are moving to the Sunshine State in record numbers, in part, "because they know their families will be safe here, their businesses will be safe. They won't have to contend with what we're seeing in places like Los Angeles and New York and Chicago."
Ivey indicated that this coveted safety is the result, in part, of Florida law enforcement's approach to crime and the state AG's support for law enforcement.
'We will be notifying one of your family members where to collect your remains.'
Uthmeier announced Thursday that violence and intimidation against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will not be tolerated and indicated he had directed the Florida Highway Patrol to partner with federal law enforcement to ensure that Florida-based federal agents doxxed by radicals have a direct line of communication with local FHP leadership. The Florida AG also instructed FHP to have troopers conduct routine welfare checks on doxxed agents' residences to ensure their safety and the safety of their families.
"Border Patrol and ICE agents enforcing immigration law deserve protection from leftists trying to harm them," Uthmeier said in a statement. "If the left doxxes these agents, we will have their backs. Whether you make the poor choice to riot or publish an agent’s personal information online to bring harm, you are committing a crime in Florida. We will find you and hold you accountable."
Sheriff Ivey noted that peaceful protest is welcome and "part of our democracy" and that peaceful protesters will enjoy the protection of law enforcement.
"If you let it turn violent, hoo," continued Ivey. "You do not want to do that in Brevard County."
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"If you resist lawful orders, you're going to jail. Let me be very clear about that. If you block an intersection or a roadway in Brevard County, you are going to jail. If you flee arrest, you are going to go to jail tired because we are going to run you down," continued the sheriff. "If you try to mob-rule a car in Brevard County — gathering around it, refusing to let the driver leave — in our county, you're most likely going to get run over and dragged across the street. If you spit on us, you are going to the hospital and then jail. If you hit one of us, you are going to the hospital and jail — and most likely, get bitten by one of our big, beautiful dogs."
Ivey kept working his way down his list of promises, adding, "If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying one of your family members where to collect your remains at because we will kill you, graveyard dead. We're not going to play."
'We must stand for law and order.'
The sheriff expressed disgust over the attacks on law enforcement further afield, especially the attacks on ICE agents in Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's California.
"Go protest all you want. Do it peacefully," said Ivey. "But don't you dare break the law."
There are a handful of "No Kings" uprisings planned for Saturday in Brevard County. The protests, championed by billionaire Walmart heiress Christy Walton and backed by numerous radical groups and NGOs, are billed as a "response to the increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption of the Trump administration."
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in an interview Tuesday that his state has taken a decidedly different approach to illegal aliens and leftist violence than California.
"California under [Newsom's] leadership is the Shangri-la of sanctuary states. They invite illegals in. They pay for their health care. They give them in-state tuition. Obviously, they don't cooperate with ICE, but they're taking it to a whole new level," said DeSantis. "The governor of California and the mayor — part of it's ineptitude, but part of it's by design — are actually siding with the people who are creating the unrest."
"We must stand for law and order," stated DeSantis.
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How The L.A. Riots Demonstrate Democrat-Media Complex’s Loss Of Narrative Control
All of the media narratives shoved down America's throat in 2020 to justify rioting are falling flat this time around — but they're still trying to deceive you.Sending Federal Law Enforcement To Quell California Is Both Legal And Necessary
Deploying the National Guard is not an overreach but a measured response to a crisis that local leaders have failed to address.MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace holds fast to J6 'insurrection' smear — but won't tolerate term's application to LA riots
MSNBC talking head Nicolle Wallace performed, with the aid of a former Jan. 6 committee member, yet another mental gymnastics routine on Monday, framing as ludicrous the suggestion that the targeted violence against federal agents in Los Angeles over the weekend amounted to an insurrection while insisting that the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in Washington, D.C., still qualified.
By way of their acrobatics, Wallace and former Virginia Rep. Denver Riggleman accomplished little more than reveal "insurrection" to be a term used by liberals to differentiate riots on the left from riots on the right.
"Insurrection" is not explicitly defined by federal law. It is, however, prohibited and generally understood to be an organized and violent act of revolt against an established government or civil authority. Although a riot is similarly characterized by violence, it alternatively tends to be more spontaneous and localized.
Elements of the Washington establishment and the liberal media spent years hyperventilating about how the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — not the deadly 2020 Black Lives Matter riots that resulted in billions of dollars in damage, thousands of businesses ruined, and 2,037 police officers assaulted or injured — was somehow an insurrection.
This suggestion was used to great political effect.
For instance, its acceptance enabled the Democrat-appointed justices on Colorado's Supreme Court to rule in 2023 that Coloradans couldn't vote for then-candidate Donald Trump for president — a decision later echoed by a Democratic judge in Illinois but ultimately struck down by the Supreme Court.
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Some of the same personalities who liberally threw around "insurrection" in recent years, when doing so meant maligning peaceful Trump supporters and the unarmed boneheads who stole into the U.S. Capitol in 2021, are now coming out of the woodwork to insist that the term's use to describe the targeted leftist revolt against governmental forces in California is inaccurate.
As always, MSNBC has been one of their go-to platforms, if not their base of operations.
Hosts, contributors, and staff at MSNBC have used the term "insurrection" without reservation when speaking of Jan. 6. MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance dubbed it a "mass insurrection." Former MSNBC talking head Joy Reid routinely referred to the rioters and protesters as "insurrectionists." The team over at "The Rachel Maddow Show" also adopted the term with that specific target.
Wallace continued using it in reference to Jan. 6 on her show Monday but bristled at the mention of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller referring to the L.A. riots as an insurrection and of both Trump and Vice President JD Vance calling some of the rioters who violently attacked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents "insurrectionists."
Wallace said that "insurrection" is an important word, not only because of its relevance regarding the invocation of the Insurrection Act but because "anyone older than 4 years old remembers an actual insurrection and the way Trump spent his first day in office the second time, pardoning all the rioters involved in January 6."
'It's about the target and purpose of it.'
Riggleman warned Wallace that the Trump administration is "trying to take the language of January 6."
A similar game was being played over at CNN, where senior reporter Aaron Blake accused Trump of using a "broad definition of 'insurrection.'"
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Whereas Wallace focused on reminding her viewers that the L.A. riots didn't satisfy her criteria for insurrection, Blake identified other uses of the term that he regards as problematic, such as Stephen Miller characterizing an Obama judge's recent decision to undermine the executive branch and temporarily prevent the Trump administration from revoking status for over 500,000 illegal aliens as a "legal insurrection against democracy and the American people"; and Miller's suggestion that the radicals who marched on the Supreme Court and illegally mounted a pressure campaign at conservative justices' homes around the time of the high court's Dobbs decision were engaged in "an open insurrection."
"An insurrection isn't about the level of violence," wrote Blake. "It's about the target and purpose of it."
So long as the liberal establishment agrees with radicals' target and purpose, it appears it will refrain from calling organized revolts against governmental targets for a political purpose "insurrections."
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Why is Gavin Newsom going full Jefferson Davis?
What triggered the American Civil War were state officials who refused to honor federal law and instead boasted of their open defiance of Washington.
That precedent appears to be the incendiary model for the increasingly erratic behavior of California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).
Has Newsom accepted the polls and decided to end his political career in a blaze of ideological glory?
He now backs the often-violent protesters in Los Angeles resisting federal enforcement of immigration laws. Newsom labeled President Trump’s use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain those here illegally “reckless,” “chaotic,” and “eroding trust.”
Does he imagine that this rhetoric is calming the situation or building public trust? Or is he consciously following the model of Confederate President Jefferson Davis?
Does Newsom also support the defiance of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D), who nearly called for official resistance to federal law, declaring, “We will not stand for this”?
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Bass — who was junketing in Ghana as large swaths of Los Angeles burned in January — used the term “we.” Does she mean the entire city? The LAPD? Will Bass direct city police to block federal officers lawfully enforcing federal immigration statutes?
Does the governor understand that his reckless rhetoric about “states’ rights” empowers violent protesters who torch vehicles, assault civilians, and attack officers?
Consider fellow California Democrat Rep. Norma Torres. She issued a vulgar message to federal immigration officers: “Get the f**k out of L.A.”
Does Torres now believe Los Angeles should become the 21st-century South Carolina, circa 1861, defying the federal government outright?
Is she echoing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who recently boasted he would “identify” endangered ICE agents and publicize their personal information? His words: “Every single one of them, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, will of course be identified.”
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Does Torres view ICE officers — outnumbered, undermanned, and increasingly under siege — as modern-day incarnations of the federal troops cornered at Fort Sumter?
Newsom didn’t stop at siding with street protesters who resist federal authority. He also lashed out again at the Trump administration for warning California that it must comply with federal Title IX executive orders prohibiting biological males from competing in women’s sports.
Trump, in this case, followed the precedent set by the Obama administration, which also threatened to cut off funding from schools to schools that refused to follow its Title IX interpretations.
Here’s how Newsom responded: “Californians pay the bills for the federal government. We pay over $80 BILLION more in taxes than we get back. Maybe it’s time to cut that off.”
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Cut that off?
Has Newsom read the Constitution?
Is he actually calling for Californians to stop paying federal taxes? Does he understand he just implicitly endorsed felony tax evasion under 18 USC Section 2?
States have no legal authority to withhold federal income taxes from their citizens. In 1861, rhetoric like that nearly destroyed the Union.
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And does Newsom really believe that California’s supposed $80 billion “contribution” somehow bankrolls the federal government? That surplus amounts to just 1.5% of the $5.5 trillion in federal revenue this fiscal year. Hardly enough to “pay the bills.”
California taxpayers are American citizens first, Californians second. Newsom, with his history of championing sanctuary cities and nullifying federal law, increasingly resembles a modern-day George Wallace.
But Newsom, Bass, and Torres aren’t just echoing Confederate-style defiance. They’re also swimming against public opinion.
Despite media theatrics and left-wing outrage, even CBS’ own polling found that 54% of Americans support deportation as a legitimate enforcement tool.
Meanwhile, Newsom’s political stock continues to plummet. Just 2% of Democrats in one recent poll want him as their 2028 nominee. In a broader average of 30 polls, only 27% of Americans view him favorably.
So does Newsom think violent lawbreakers — some burning the American flag while waving foreign ones — are winning over the American public?
Does he understand that 97% of Americans in a Pew Research survey said they favor deporting violent criminal aliens like those seen sowing chaos on the streets of Los Angeles?
Or has he accepted the polls — and decided to end his political career in a blaze of ideological glory?
Editor’s note: A version of this article appeared originally on X.
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