Patriots Rip Down Somali Flag In American City Square After Officials Cancel July 4 Fireworks

 A Somali flag that Buffalo, New York, city officials raised in Niagara Square earlier this week to celebrate the foreign country’s independence was cut down in the dead of night on Wednesday. The flag robbery took place one day after city officials canceled Buffalo’s Fourth of July fireworks celebration.

Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan said “unknown vandals” removed the Somali flag at some point late on Wednesday night, according to Buffalo-Toronto Public Media. Ryan added that the Buffalo Police Department is investigating the incident. The Somali flag has been raised in Niagara Square for the past four years on July 1 to celebrate Somali Independence Day.

“Buffalo is a proud, diverse city, and our administration remains committed to honoring and celebrating the many cultures that make our community stronger,” Ryan added.

The Somali flag-raising has stirred controversy in the city, especially since it falls so close to the Fourth of July and the celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. As they raised the Somali flag in the city square, Buffalo city officials were also blasted for scrapping the Fourth of July fireworks celebration.

“City Hall canceled its downtown fireworks display, leaving Buffalo as one of the only cities in Western New York without a public Fourth of July celebration, and instead raised the flag of Somalia outside City Hall,” Erie County, New York, GOP Chairman Michael Kracker said. “No one is questioning the contributions of Buffalo’s immigrant communities. But this week belongs to all of us, as Americans.”

Mayor Ryan announced in early June that the city planned to revive its patriotic fireworks display for America’s 250th birthday. Buffalo hasn’t put on a Fourth of July fireworks show in decades as the city focuses on a big New Year’s Eve fireworks display. This week, however, Ryan said the patriotic show wouldn’t take place.

“After exploring potential locations, an appropriate site could not be identified that would provide a safe and widely accessible viewing experience for residents. As a result, the City will not be hosting a downtown fireworks display this year,” he said.

Buffalo isn’t the only American city to raise the Somali flag on government property to celebrate the foreign country. Columbus, Ohio, which is home to the second-largest concentration of Somalis in the United States, also announced that it would hoist the Somali flag on July 1, The Daily Wire previously reported.

The Columbus Parks and Rec Department deleted the post announcing the Somali flag raising moments after The Daily Wire asked about it.

FBI Embedded Wired Informant Inside Newsom’s Admin, Lawyer Says

 A Democratic operative with deep ties to California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration secretly recorded conversations for the FBI as part of a corruption investigation that has since expanded to scrutinize the governor, his wife, and members of his inner circle, The California Post reported on Thursday.

Alexis Podesta, a power broker who has served in senior roles under both Newsom and former California Governor Jerry Brown, wore a wire to record conversations beginning as early as June 2024 while cooperating with federal investigators probing Newsom’s former chief of staff, Dana Williamson, Podesta’s lawyer revealed. Williamson pled guilty in May to conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, filing a false tax return, and lying to the FBI.

“According to court documents, between February 2022 and September 2024, Williamson conspired with Greg Campbell, 52, of Davis, Sean McCluskie, 57, of Davis, and others to steal approximately $225,000 in funds from a dormant political campaign and funnel it to McCluskie for his personal use. Collectively, they funneled the money through various business entities and disguised it as pay to McCluskie’s spouse for what was, in reality, a no-show job,” the DOJ stated.

Podesta, who has not been charged, has been identified by her attorney as the unnamed co-conspirator in Williamson’s case and has cooperated with prosecutors. Court records indicate she and Williamson discussed how to handle a public records request involving state litigation against a major corporate client.

The latest news is part of a broader federal inquiry that has drawn Newsom’s family finances into question. Newsom has publicly framed the expanding investigation as politically motivated retaliation by the Trump administration, saying, “They’re demanding records; they’re abusing the grand jury process, digging through years and years of random documents. Donald Trump isn’t just coming after me because of my mean tweets, he’s coming after me because I’m considering running for president.”

The federal probe into Newsom’s former chief of staff began under the Biden administration.

Financial records reviewed by the Post raise questions about the finances of The Representation Project, the gender-equity nonprofit founded by Siebel Newsom. The leftist project reported $1.24 million in revenue, while adding that it spent $1.75 million in expenses last year, The New York Post noted. The net assets for Siebel Newsom’s project plunged to just $44,853 from $553,081 since the start of the new fiscal year.

Siebel Newsom, meanwhile, raked in a $161,250 salary for the fiscal year ending in March 2025, The Representation Project reported. That salary came despite the nonprofit’s financial struggles and despite several of her films failing to gain traction with critics or audiences.

Separately, earlier reporting by the Post found that Newsom “helped funnel more than $4.4 million from special interests and wealthy individuals to California Partners Project, one of Siebel Newsom’s pet projects.”

Waltz Blasts Iran Envoy: ‘This Is Not Tehran. This Is The United States Of America’

 America’s man at the United Nations unloaded on Iran’s chief diplomat Thursday, delivering a blistering smackdown after Tehran’s envoy tried to shut down an emergency Security Council session on the Gulf crisis — telling him bluntly that intimidation tactics don’t fly on East River soil.

“This is not Tehran,” U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz thundered at Iranian envoy Amir Saeid Iravani after the Iranian diplomat suggested the council shouldn’t even be meeting and accused Waltz and other members of spreading lies. “This is the United States of America. This is the United Nations Security Council. You will not silence this body.”

Waltz — the first Green Beret elected to Congress, who served 27 years in the U.S. Army, including multiple combat tours in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Africa, and received four Bronze Stars, including two for valor — wasn’t done. He continued:

The representative goes on to say that the ambassador from Bahrain, the foreign minister, myself, and other members of this body are full of lies; they were lying. Let me ask you. What here is a lie? Who’s lying here? Is this Arab family in Bahrain in a residential neighborhood whose home was destroyed by an Iranian Shahed drone, are they lying? Crowne Plaza Hotel, full of tourists? Are they lying? First responders whose headquarters were struck deliberately so that they couldn’t put out fires:  Were they lying? Is this hypocrisy? Is this what this council is here to denounce today? I ask the representative, are these lies? Are these photographs, are these lies? I’d say not.

The fireworks capped a brutal day at the U.N., where Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid al-Zayani, laid out a horror-show tally: 808 Iranian missile and drone strikes on his tiny kingdom since late February, killing three civilians and wounding 465 more. Al-Zayani said the barrage — 203 ballistic missiles and more than 600 armed drones — hammered homes, hospitals and infrastructure, and warned that an April strike on an ammonia tank came within a hair of triggering a toxic gas catastrophe.

Waltz, addressing the council earlier, had warned that President Donald Trump’s patience with Tehran was wearing thin, accusing the regime of strangling global trade by choking off the vital Strait of Hormuz — a chokepoint UN economists say threatens 61 developing nations. “Iran cannot, and we cannot allow it to, hold the world’s economy hostage,” Waltz declared, insisting a “transformative” opportunity for ordinary Iranians remains on the table if Tehran changes course.

Iranian envoy Iravani claimed Waltz’s remarks were “lies and disinformation,” insisting Iran’s strikes were purely defensive retaliation against American bases used to launch attacks on Iranian soil. He argued Washington has no business dictating security in the Gulf, insisting only regional nations should call the shots.

Waltz was having no part of it.

Trans-Identifying Man Wins Big At Women’s Poker Championship

 A man won second place and raked in over $100,000 at the World Series of Poker Ladies Championship on Monday.

Aubrey Williams, a 31-year-old professional poker player who identifies as a woman, took home $129,692 for his runner-up finish, his first six-figure win in a tournament. He bested 1,475 other competitors until losing to poker champion Skye Chen after a three-hour match.

Williams is an accomplished poker player. He won the No-Limit Hold’em Monster Stack event in 2022, bringing home $6,604, and defeated Brock Wilson for a $19,219 prize pool at another tournament. He also won Borgata Winter Poker Open $1,000 Hybrid Championship, netting $52,540. 

Nevada gaming regulations authorize players based on legal identification, allowing Williams to play unrestricted in the woman’s category since his license labels him as a female.

Williams was blasted by some people online for “stealing” money from women with his second-place finish.

“Aubrey Williams, a man pretending to be a woman, is currently winning in the World Series of poker LADIES championship,” prominent social media commentator Libs of TikTok posted. “Men are even the best female poker players. What a time to be alive.”

Williams brushed off the criticism he has received online, saying he doesn’t monitor social media and that nobody in the women’s competition was upset they had to play against him. He also denied having any ulterior motives in playing in the tournament.

“I’m a woman, so I play in the women’s event,” Williams told PokerNews. “It’s not like making a statement or anything. I’m just playing a tournament.”

Williams has also claimed that it was women who convinced him to affirm his identity by playing in the women’s competitions.

“And so many women are like ‘You need to play. You need to play.’ And I played one, and it was just like so fun that I kept playing,” Williams said. “They’re actually fun to play.”

Many in the poker community have signaled their support for Williams competing in the women’s division. Global Poker award winner Caitlin Comeskey posted on X, “Anyone who dares to mess with Aubrey in person or online publicly will have to deal with me.” She added, “If you use her for rage bait to help your pathetic online platform, I will come at you with the fire of 10,000 suns.”

Poker streamer Keith Becker also came to the defense of Williams, stating that “trans women are women” and that “hateful voices do NOT speak for everyone in poker,” and WSOP bracelet winner Liv Boeree praised Williams’ “feminine energy” that added to the “vibe” of the women’s poker competition.

Williams has described himself as a “degenerate” and “not good at not being a smart ass, especially when I know I’m right,” which he said has caused him to be fired from multiple other jobs.

Antifa Now Threatening Judges Who Sentenced Terrorists Who Attacked Texas ICE Facility

 

Two alleged members of Antifa were arrested in connection to an attack against an ICE facility near Dallas, Texas, in July 2025. (@MrAndyNgo / X screen shot)

Last week, two Texas judges sentenced a group of terrorists to 30, 50, and even 100 years in federal prison over their attack on a Texas ICE facility that resulted in the shooting of a law enforcement officer.

The media desperately tried to reframe the attack as a protest gone bad, but it didn’t work and the story quietly fell off the radar.

Now, members of Antifa are openly threatening the judges on social media. Do they want to join their friends in prison? 

Andy Ngo reports:

Far-left extremists are making violent death threats against two federal Texas judges after they handed down long prison sentences to convicted members of a North Texas Antifa terror cell.

The threats followed last week’s first batch of sentencing where eight convicts received prison terms ranging from 30 years to 100 years after becoming the first defendants convicted in a federal Antifa terrorism case in U.S. history.

The threats are being directed at U.S. District Judge Mark T. Pittman and Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor.

Many of the threats were responses to updates on social media platform Bluesky from the DFW Support Committee, the far-left group that has been organizing support and cash donations for the defendants.

“So, when are we burning it all down?” asked one user under an alias. “He has an address,” referring to Judge O’Connor.

These people seem to love playing with fire.

 

Ngo reports that another round of sentencing for people from the same group happened this week.

Meet the Poster Child for Why Birthright Citizenship Is Horrible: Rep. Ramirez – Born to an Illegal and Now Trashes America and Supports Terrorists

 Tuesday’s birthright citizenship ruling by the Supreme Court has provided Americans with the answer to an ever-pertinent question — who is an American citizen?

Debates likely won’t cease as the highest court in the land issued a 6-3 ruling on President Donald Trump’s executive order — issued his first day back in office on Jan. 20, 2025 — saying the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution only grants birthright citizenship to persons who have at least one parent that is a permanent resident or citizen.

The court struck down this order, effectively saying that anyone born here under any circumstances whatsoever is a citizen. 

That leads us to Illinois Democratic Rep. Delia Ramirez. The circumstances of her birth are an example as to how this ruling is going to turn out when looking to the next generation of public officials.

In an article on Ramirez from January 2023, CNN noted her mother crossed the Rio Grande River when she was pregnant. Ramirez would be born into a family of Guatemalan immigrants on June 2, 1983, in Chicago, Illinois. In other words, her mother was an illegal alien and had a baby here that became a citizen anyway.

Now serving in Congress, you would imagine Ramirez would take every opportunity to express her patriotism, putting America first, but it’s just the opposite.

In August 2025, Reported that Ramirez attended a Panamerican Congress in Mexico City where she told the audience — in Spanish — that she’s a Guatemalan before an American. Conservative news outlet The Blaze posted the footage to social media platform X. 

A month later, Ramirez took the death of a 21-year-old black student at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, to lecture her followers on the United States’ history on race.

“Demartravion ‘Trey’ Reed was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi. For so many Americans, Trey’s death is a reminder of our country’s legacy of racial terror and racialized violence. We grieve with his family and loved ones and affirm their calls for an investigation,” she wrote.

Reed was found hanging from a tree in the South, so Ramirez decided this must be a lynching and a great reason to insult the country that gave her every opportunity in life.

It was only a day later that ABC News reported Reed’s death was a suicide.

Ramirez also weighed in on Israel’s conflict with Hamas in Palestine, eagerly taking the chance to chastise the former, calling on her colleagues to support her Block the Bombs Act — which restricts certain weapon sales to Israel, something Hamas will surely breathe easy over.

“We have been repeatedly told to ignore what we have seen with our own eyes: Palestinian children under rubble, shot, bombed, starved, sick. The UN echoed what we have been saying all along: Israel is committing a genocide against Palestinians, paid by American taxpayers’ money. We must put an end to the genocide. Every member of Congress that claims to care for children must cosponsor my Block the Bombs Act and demand a vote.”

“We must end US complicity in death, destruction, and displacement.”

Her family exploited birthright citizenship to raise a pathetic excuse for a public official.

She does not put America first.

She will blast our history using erroneous conclusions from the present, and as a bonus, she even fawns over terrorists.

We are only going to get more officials like this after Tuesday.