Election Time

@ElectionTime_

🚨BREAKING: Republicans' odds to flipping the Michigan US Senate seat JUMP OVERNIGHT.

Michigan - 2026 US Senate

🟥Mike Rogers 44.3% (+3.7)

🟦Abdul El-Sayed 40.6%

Polling average via http://Pollsmax.com.

Abdul El-Sayed has become the Democratic frontrunner, and compared to his primary opponents—Mallory McMorrow and Haley Stevens—he performs by far the worst against Mike Rogers.

If El-Sayed ends up being the nominee, Republicans will be the heavy favorites to flip Michigan's US Senate seat later this year.

https://x.com/ElectionTime_/status/2051009020501127247

Nick Sortor

@nicksortor

🚨 JUST IN: A United Airlines Boeing 767 just hit a DELIVERY TRUCK on the highway while attempting to land at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey

This is INSANE video.

Flight 169, inbound from Italy, landed safely, thank God 🙏🏻

https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2051054466804089010

Alec Lace

@AlecLace

🚨 The Newark Liberty Airport incident today is NOT SURPRISING at all.

Just look at how insanely low planes fly when they cross right over the NJ Turnpike on final approach to EWR.

This is what it looks like every single day 👇

https://x.com/AlecLace/status/2051064528142492120

Fugees rapper reports to prison to begin 14 year sentence for funneling foreign cash to Obama campaign

Michel was sentenced in November 2025 after a federal jury convicted him on 10 counts of money laundering and illegal lobbying in April 2023.

Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, founding member of the Fugees alongside Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean, turned himself in Thursday to the Federal Correctional Institution in Safford, Arizona to begin serving a 14-year prison sentence.

As TheGrio previously reported, Michel was formally sentenced in November 2025 after a federal jury convicted him on 10 counts of money laundering and illegal lobbying in April 2023, and he filed an appeal in December seeking to have the conviction overturned. Entertainment Weekly reported that his surrender had been pushed back multiple times before Thursday’s reporting date.

“Today is a painful day for Pras, for his family, and for everyone who believes in a fair system of justice,” spokesperson Erica Dumas said in a statement. “Pras honors the legal process as he reports to begin his sentence. The FARA-related charges that led to his conviction are being vigorously contested on appeal, and his legal team believes the record will show that his rights were violated and the truth was obscured. This chapter is difficult but it is not his final one.”

The prison sentence stems from a case in which prosecutors accused him of funneling money from fugitive Malaysian financier Jho Low through straw donors to Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. He was also accused of working to derail a U.S. investigation into Low’s multibillion-dollar money laundering scheme and attempting to influence the extradition of a Chinese dissident. The high-profile trial included testimony from actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who had ties to Low through financing on the 2013 film “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

After his conviction, Michel sought a new trial on the grounds that his former attorney had used AI to draft a closing statement that bungled key elements of the case. A judge denied the request.

In the weeks before surrendering, the 53-year-old spent time with family and traveled to Los Angeles to watch Hill perform with Kanye West on April 3. He also dropped a lawsuit he had filed against Hill over the cancellation of their reunion tour.

The Fugees formed in 1990, with Michel and Jean drawing the group’s name from “refugees” as a nod to their Haitian heritage. Their 1996 album “The Score” sold an estimated 22 million copies worldwide.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/fugees-rapper-pras-michel-reports-164027281.html

Blue Lives Matter

@bluelivesmtr

Chicago Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) President John Catanzara LOST IT after a Chicago police officer was executed by a career criminal.

“We are f*cking sacrificial lambs for the politicians in this city and state, and it NEEDS to stop.”

“When is enough?… One [cop killed] is too many.”

“Even after hearing the despicable acts that this piece of sh*t did.”

“It’s the reason the death penalty should still be in Illinois.”

REPOST and amplify his voice!

https://x.com/bluelivesmtr/status/2050727643754954851

A Pennsylvania Democrat senate candidate Raymond Chandler has been arrested after leaving multiple voicemails threatening to kill Senator John Fetterman’s 13 year old daughter and President Trump.

This is who they are.

https://x.com/Rightanglenews/status/2050944902628851893

LA Mayor Karen Bass slammed for ‘despicable’ attack on Palisades Fire victim Spencer Pratt

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass sparked outrage after accusing Palisades Fire victim Spencer Pratt of “exploiting the grief” of wildfire victims in his campaign to unseat her.

Bass, who has been losing ground to Pratt in the lead-up to the mayoral election, made the extraordinary claim during an interview with MeidasTouch.

“Well, honestly, before this, I had never heard of Spencer Pratt,” she said of the former reality TV star.

“But the thing I am concerned about is that I feel like he’s exploiting the grief of people in the Palisades. And I think that’s reprehensible. He is about his own celebrity.”

Critics immediately seized on the mayor’s comments, calling her out for attacking a wildfire victim.

“Exploiting grief? HE LOST EVERYTHING ALONG WITH FAMILY,” one commenter wrote on X.

“The fire burned 36,000 acres in Los Angeles County, destroyed or damaged more than 10,000 buildings, displaced tens of thousands of residents and claimed at least 10 lives. But she’s bent out of shape about Pratt drawing attention to it because they ran out of water,” another added.

“My whole f—ing neighborhood burned down. There was a fire hydrant across the street from our house. Exploit away, Spencer. This fool has no business in government,” a third said.

Even Trump administration official Richard Grenell chimed in.

“Career politician is offended that someone new is running. She’s incredibly condescending. She thinks she is owed reelection,” he wrote on X.

Others thought Bass should not concern herself with Pratt when she was overseeing during the disaster.

“Just the opposite, it’s because you handled our fires so miserably that Pratt came forward to right your wrongs,” one X user commented.

“Girl you were in Ghana during the Palisades fire go back to bed,” another added.

“What’s hilarious is that when she insults or gaslights him, she’s basically doing the same to every victim of the Palisades fires,” a third wrote. “And her claim that she had no idea who he was is wild…he was one of the most outspoken victims. It just makes her seem out of touch and indifferent.”

Pratt responded to Bass’ putdowns on Saturday morning, saying he would better serve LA as mayor.

Pratt responded to Bass’ putdowns on Saturday morning, saying he would better serve LA as mayor.

“Karen always likes to talk about HER experience and never YOUR experience in her city…stepping over homeless drug addicts having your, business tagged up every night, no street lights,” he wrote on X.

“If she is so experienced with governance, why is she so bad at governance? What does that say about all of her illustrious experience? I actually care more about YOUR daily experience in LA. I have all the experience that I need. I have experienced the consequences of Karen Bass’ failed leadership. All of us have. She needs to step aside.”

Bass has been widely criticized for her response to January 2025 wildfires, which caused billions in damage and killed several people. Pratt lost his home in the fire and lives in Airstream trailer on the burned-out lot — something he highlighted in a recent viral campaign ad.

“This is where Mayor Bass lives. You notice something?” Pratt says in the 30-second clip, gesturing towards the Getty House, Bass’ bucolic Tudor-style residence in Windsor Square, which is mayor’s official residence.

“They let my home burn down. I know the consequences of failed leadership,” he added, promising to usher in a new “Golden Age” in LA.

In February, Bass brought a group of Palisades survivors to Sacramento for a meeting with legislators, later giving herself credit for bringing “the right people to the table to get results.”

“We’re going to stay united with Palisades until everybody is back home,” she said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/la-mayor-karen-bass-slammed-162922176.html

Half of all convenience stores and vape retailers 'are linked to criminal gangs': Map reveals UK's 'corridors of crime' where highest number of shops act as fronts for illegal activity

Up to half of convenience stores and vape retailers in some areas of Britain are believed to have links with organised crime, Trading Standards revealed today.

Inspectors estimate that a third of American candy stores and one in four fast food takeaways in specific areas are suspected of being a front for criminal activity.

A hotspot map in the group's Hidden In Plain Sight report found where organised crime on the high street is widespread and identified two 'corridors of crime'.

One stretches from Liverpool on the west coast to Hull and Grimsby on the east coast; and the other covers south coast towns across Dorset, Hampshire and Sussex.

Testimony shared with BBC News found one female officer was threatened with rape, while another was forced to watch pornography and a third was 'poked in the breast'.

A third officer told how a suspect in a shop shouted 'I kill you, I kill you', while others recounted finding weapons in shops such as axes, bats, blades and hammers.

There were also attacks to officers' cars and property as trackers were put on their vehicles and they were apparently followed at work.

One officer said a Kurdish crime gang selling illegal cigarettes and nitrous oxide canisters across the UK threatened to kill her and burn her house down.

Trading Standards has published a map of high streets across the UK for so-called dodgy shops, along with the ten towns and cities perceived by its officers to be hot spots for OCGs, with Birmingham, Liverpool and London filling the top three spots.

It said the budgets of Local Authority Trading Standards (LATS) services had been cut by up to 50 per cent over the last decade, with staffing stripped to minimum levels.

Trading Standards warned that this – coupled with resource 'challenges' for other key enforcement agencies including police – had coincided with the rapid spread of dodgy shops across the UK, as well as complex criminal networks that underpinned them.

Dodgy shops had a 'profound impact' on the safety of the public and the viability of the legitimate businesses around them, while putting the health of consumers, including children, at risk.

These shops often brought with them associated criminality including anti-social behaviour, theft and violent crime, drug supply, modern slavery, and child sexual exploitation.

The report outlined a ten-point plan to 'reclaim the UK's high streets', including investing in Trading Standards, making the sale of illegal goods a trigger for licence review, and an additional £20million to bolster Trading Standards resources for ports and borders.

John Herriman, chief executive of the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI), said: 'It is clear from this research that serious and organised crime is endemic across the UK, and the threat posed by illegitimate high street businesses is having a significant impact on the work of Trading Standards, and our ability to protect consumers and maintain the level playing field for legitimate business.

'Local Authority Trading Standards services have faced damaging funding cuts of up to 50 per cent over the past decade, with key enforcement partners experiencing similar resourcing challenges.

'We recognise that the Government is focussed on this issue, but it must urgently bring together and properly invest in enforcement agencies – including Local Authority Trading Standards – to give us the powers and resources needed to tackle what is a widespread and growing national problem.'

Association of Convenience Stores chief executive Ed Woodall said: 'Responsible convenience retailers are extremely frustrated with rogue traders operating with impunity in their local area.

'85 per cent of retailers asked in our 2026 Crime Survey said that illicit trading has increased in their local area – this cannot be allowed to continue.

'We have consistently called for Trading Standards to be given the resources they need to tackle the dangerous and growing illicit market blighting communities across the UK.

'Tens of millions of pounds need to be invested in local enforcement capacity to shut down these rogue traders and support the responsible retailers that are suffering as a result.'

Independent British Vape Trade Association chief executive Gillian Golden said: 'We commend CTSI and the ACG for putting together this report and fully endorse their 10-point plan.

'The media often conflate organised criminal networks with law-abiding vape businesses, when in fact these criminals just see illicit vapes as a commodity in the same way as illicit tobacco or counterfeit goods. That has damaged the public's understanding of our sector.

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15778485/Convenience-stores-vape-retailers-organised-crime.html

Eric Daugherty

@EricLDaugh

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. DOJ report just dropped a bombshell: The Biden DOJ aggressively targeted and harassed Christians, privately called them "CULTISTS" and sought out HARSH prison sentences for peaceful protests

Even worse: They used the SPLC to do it!

This is outright Christian persecution, right on American soil!

LOCK UP everyone who carried this out.

"That went beyond disagreement and moved to punishing Christians who held conservative religious beliefs in conflict with the administration's pro-choice gender ideology agenda."

"The report found the Biden DOJ brought multiple cases against pro-life activists, many of them Christians, under the FACE Act, the freedom of access to clinic entrances."

"Email correspondence shows prosecutors privately mocked Christian pro-life views as culty and pursued more severe charges and harsher sentences for peaceful protests or pro-life defendants."

"In contrast, following the Dobbs decision in 2022 that overturned Roe v. Wade, there was a wave of vandalism and arson targeting churches and pregnancy resource centers. But the Biden DOJ pursued comparatively few prosecutions under the same FACE Act."

"Christian colleges and institutions were scrutinized and penalized for holding traditional views on gender, accusing them of Title IX violations and threatening school funding and accreditation."

"The report also cited the infamous FBI memo out of the Richmond Field Office that warned of radical traditionalist Catholics as extremists."

"The memo was withdrawn after public backlash, but the DOJ revealed it relied on the now-disgraced Southern Poverty Law Center's list of hate groups."

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2050203312809504781

Pope Leo names illegal alien as bishop in West Virginia who came to U.S. smuggled in trunk of car

Robert Prevost’s last act on social media before he became pope was a retweet.

It was April of last year. Donald Trump had hosted Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office, where the two men laughed about the unlawful deportation of a U.S. resident to El Salvador’s CECOT prison.

Cardinal Prevost saw the post — a Rocco Palmo dispatch citing the words of Washington Auxiliary Bishop Evelio Menjivar — and reposted it to his Twitter following.

“Do you not see the suffering?” Menjivar had asked in the Catholic Standard. “Is your conscience not disturbed? How can you stay quiet?”

Three weeks later, Prevost was Pope Leo XIV. The retweet quietly disappeared from his feed, but the conviction that put it there did not.

On Friday, the pope named Menjivar the lone Catholic bishop of West Virginia — a state that is more than 90 percent white and that voted for Donald Trump by 42 points. The man Prevost had endorsed in his final unguarded act online now leads the only diocese in a state where MAGA sentiment runs deep.

Menjivar is the first United States bishop born in El Salvador. He came here without papers.

As a teenager in Chalatenango, he tried to cross the southern border three times before he succeeded in 1990 — smuggled with his brother in the trunk of a car at the Tijuana–San Diego crossing.

Once in California, he worked construction, janitorial jobs, and as a parish receptionist while learning English at night and earning a high school equivalency. By 2004, he had finished seminary at the Pontifical North American College in Rome and been ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington. Pope Francis named him a bishop in 2023.

His story is the one Donald Trump’s administration would deport — and, today, the first U.S.-born pope has named him a successor of the Apostles.

Menjivar’s appointment came alongside three others. Pope Leo named Father John Gomez, a Colombian-born priest, as the new bishop of Laredo, the border diocese in south Texas.

To the Archdiocese of Washington, he sent two new auxiliaries: Father Gary Studniewski, a Toledo-born former U.S. Army captain who served eighteen years as a military chaplain and now pastors the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in northwest Washington, and Father Robert Boxie III, a 45-year-old Black priest who serves as Catholic chaplain at Howard University and becomes the youngest sitting bishop in the United States.

I have experienced both of Washington’s new auxiliary bishops in recent years. Father Studniewski and Father Boxie are kind-hearted, generous priests — the kind of pastors any local Church would be fortunate to have.

Boxie, a Vanderbilt-educated chemical engineer who graduated from Harvard Law before he entered seminary, has challenged the White House’s race-baiting campaign against diversity. He has been outspoken about it.

“I think at its core, it’s what America is all about,” he said in a recent interview. “We are a diverse nation with people from all over the world. Diversity is a good thing. Diversity is of God.”

“So much of our history has been exclusive, especially when it comes to race,” he added. “And it’s just un-American; it’s un-Christian; it’s anti-Catholic.”

This is the priest the pope has now made a bishop in the nation’s capital — blocks from a White House where Stephen Miller dictates immigration policy and where the words “diversity, equity, and inclusion” have been struck from federal use.

https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leo-xiv-sends-former-undocumented

Yogi

@Houseofyogi

Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren

She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements.

Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service.

JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes.

The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%.

For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%.

Warren said no.

She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024.

Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year.

Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug.

510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December.

14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight.

And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms.

Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back.

40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market.

And the math ain’t mathing.

Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%.

That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.”

So

@SenWarren

tell me how this saves the consumer money?

Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years.

Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do.

Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.”

A win.

14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight.

And she’s taking credit.

This is socialism in 2026.

A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company.

She saved you a billion on imaginary paper.

She cost you ten times that in real life.

She didn’t protect consumers from anything.

14,000+ will go from working to welfare.

She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed.

Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything.

She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.

https://x.com/Houseofyogi/status/2050454874022728106

Libs of TikTok

@libsoftiktok

Ilhan Omar secured MILLIONS of tax dollars for a Minneapolis health clinic that was run by… her sister!

I’m sure there’s nothing to see here!

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2050250311227396302/photo/1

Convicted former Harvard scientist rebuilds brain computer lab in China

SHENZHEN, April 30 (Reuters) - An American scientist convicted of lying to U.S. authorities about payments from China while he was at Harvard University has rebuilt his research lab in Shenzhen to pursue technology the Chinese government has identified as a national priority: embedding electronics into the human brain.

Charles Lieber, 67, is among the world’s leading researchers in brain-computer interfaces. The technology has shown promise in treating conditions such as ALS and restoring movement in paralyzed patients. But it also has potential military applications: Scientists at China’s People’s Liberation Army have investigated brain interfaces as a way to engineer super soldiers by boosting mental agility and situational awareness, according to the U.S. Defense Department.

Lieber was found guilty by ‌a jury and convicted in December 2021 of making false statements to federal investigators about his ties to a Chinese state program to recruit overseas talent, and tax offenses related to payments he received from a Chinese university. He served two days in prison and six months under house arrest, and was fined $50,000 and ordered to pay $33,600 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. ‌During the case, his defense said he was suffering from an incurable lymphoma, which was in remission, and he was fighting for his life.

Three years after he was sentenced, Reuters has learned that Lieber is now overseeing China’s state-funded i-BRAIN, or the Institute for Brain Research, Advanced Interfaces and Neurotechnologies, with access to dedicated nanofabrication equipment and primate research infrastructure unavailable to him at Harvard. The lab is an arm of the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation, or SMART.

“I arrived on April 28, 2025 with a dream ​and not much more, maybe a couple bags of clothes,” Lieber said of his move to China at a Shenzhen government conference in December. “Personally, my own goals are to make Shenzhen a world leader.”

Lieber, through an assistant, declined an interview request, citing “current commitments.” He didn’t respond to written questions from Reuters.

SMART last year appointed Lieber as an investigator, according to a post on i-BRAIN’s website dated May 1, 2025. That news was covered by some media outlets. The same day, i-BRAIN said Lieber had also been appointed its founding director – an announcement that went unreported at the time.

This story is the most comprehensive account of Lieber’s activities since he moved to China. Reuters is reporting for the first time that his lab has access to dedicated primate research facilities and chip-making equipment; that it sits within a sprawling ecosystem of state-backed institutions bankrolled by billions of dollars in government funding; and that it is housed within an institution that is luring top scientific talent back from the United States.

In 2011, Lieber was named the world’s top chemist of the preceding decade in a set of scientific rankings published by Thomson Reuters, the parent of Reuters news agency. Thomson Reuters, which in 2016 sold the business that compiled the rankings, declined to comment.

Some analysts say Lieber’s ability to reconstitute his laboratory after a federal criminal conviction for lying about his ties to China shows ‌how U.S. safeguards on technology with potential military uses haven’t kept pace with Chinese government efforts to acquire it. That concern is amplified because of ⁠Beijing’s military-civil fusion strategy, whereby civilian scientific resources and research are shared with the military.

“China has weaponized against us our own openness and our own efforts for innovation,” said Glenn Gerstell, a nonresident senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and former general counsel of the U.S. National Security Agency from 2015 to 2020. “They’ve flipped that and turned it around against us, and they’re taking advantage of it.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/convicted-former-harvard-scientist-rebuilds-070250224.html

Tom Elliott

@tomselliott

CBS News Chicago: Chicago to provide buses for students to attend anti-Trump May Day rallies

https://x.com/tomselliott/status/2050231947276730455

Democrats say Soviet Union and Cuba are examples of great societies

‘My View’ Host @LaraLeaTrump reacts.

"Let's call it exactly what it is. It's not really a May Day protest. This was an anti-Trump, pro-socialism, pro-communism protest…This whole thing was a waste of time and resources, but hey, I guess anything to get the kids on the socialist bandwagon early."

https://x.com/foxandfriends/status/2050541221622259914

Libs of TikTok

@libsoftiktok

BREAKING: Former NJ mayoral candidate Henrilynn Ibezim (D) pleaded guilty to forging nearly 1,000 voter registration applications

The thing that never happens happened again!

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2050339831062888663

Tennessee drops ‘pride’ from June and renames its ‘Nuclear Family Month’

Tennessee will now recognize June as "Nuclear Family Month," a move some critics claim is less about family and more about diminishing the LGBTQ community during Pride Month.

The state’s governor, Bill Lee, signed a resolution on April 9, introducing the new holiday just two days after the state's Republican-controlled legislature advanced it through the statehouse. June is also when Pride Month, which celebrates LGBTQ-identifying individuals, is observed.

The resolution’s language includes a definition of the nuclear family as "one husband, one wife, and any biological, adopted, or fostered children," and claims that it is “God’s design for familial structure” and “God’s perfect design for humanity," according to The Advocate.

It also includes several statistics warning about the problems with "fatherless homes.” It also condemns the “humanistic, globalist ideologies of the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and like-minded organizations that fight for population control.”

The governor did not issue a statement when he signed the resolution.

Lee and the state's Republicans wanted to do away with Pride Month last year as well, but it took the legislation a year to clear the statehouse.

GLAAD has criticized the state's decision not to recognize Pride Month.

“Resolutions like this do more to reveal the cluelessness of elected officials whose own families and those of their constituents have various family dynamics and structures,” GLAAD wrote in a statement to The Advocate.

“The strongest families are grounded by love. Lawmakers trying to exclude and intentionally harm some families should be recognized as actively harming all by not focusing their time working for an inclusive Tennessee where all are welcome and can succeed,” the statement said.

The resolution has no enforcement teeth, meaning Tennesseans are free to celebrate Pride Month or not celebrate "Nuclear Family Month" if they choose.

A previous state GOP-led piece of legislation, the "No Pride Flag or Month Act," died in a state Senate committee meeting in March, Nashville Scene reports.

That legislation would have banned the display of Pride flags or other LGBT symbols in government buildings, had it passed.

During deliberations, Democratic state Senator Jeff Yarbro said that the legislation was a blatant attempt to infringe on the freedom of speech afforded to all Americans.

“There is no way to do this without just wildly overreaching on freedom of speech,” he said last month. “I think it's wrong and inappropriate to target this group, but it's wrong and inappropriate to target any group like this.”

The committee voted 3-3 on the legislation, which was not enough for it to advance.

State Representative Gino Bulso, the Republican who introduced the No Pride Flag or Month Act, claims he did so after parents began complaining to him that their children's teachers were displaying Pride flags and other LGBTQ symbols in their classrooms.

Bulso tried to pass a similar measure in 2024, but it also died in the Senate.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/tennessee-pride-nuclear-family-month-b2958328.html

Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings

-Roblox shares tanked on Friday after the company slashed its full-year guidance.

-The gaming company said its new child safety features are weighing on its bookings numbers.

-Roblox is facing over 140 lawsuits in the U.S. Federal Court accusing it of failing to prevent child exploitation.

Roblox

shares plummeted 18% on Friday after the company reported first-quarter earnings as its new child safety measures weighed on bookings.

“Part of what we’re rolling out with age check, we believe, is the real, right long-term way to build this platform,” CEO David Baszucki said Friday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

In a letter to shareholders, the gaming company wrote that its new age-check feature “restricted on-platform communication for non-age checked users, diluted communication for age-checked users, and slowed new user acquisition,” causing greater-than-expected headwinds.

In January, the company restricted its chat feature to users who completed its age-check verification. According to the company, 73% of age-checked daily active users on Roblox were under 18, with 35% under 13 as of Jan. 31.

To account for the slowed growth, Roblox slashed its full-year 2026 guidance.

The company updated its full-year 2026 bookings to fall between $7.33 billion and $7.6 billion. It forecasted 2026 bookings to be almost $1 billion higher last quarter, falling between $8.28 billion and $8.55 billion.

“While our aggressive push to enhance safety lowers our expectations for topline growth in 2026, it makes our platform fundamentally better and amplifies the long-term growth potential of Roblox through more effective content targeting, tailored communication experiences, and improved community sentiment,” the company wrote in its letter to shareholders.

Roblox’s first-quarter results beat Wall Street’s estimates, with a loss of 35 cents per share beating the estimated loss of 41 cents per share. It reported $1.73 billion in revenue for the quarter, narrowly beating analysts’ estimates of $1.72 billion.

Roblox is facing over 140 lawsuits in U.S. Federal Court accusing the company of failing to protect children from sexual exploitation, according to Reuters. Last month, the company reached settlements with Alabama and West Virginia, agreeing to pay out a combined $23.2 million.

The company announced new account types for younger age groups last month, as well as expanded parental controls.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/roblox-rblx-stock-child-safety-earnings.html

How An 8-Year-Old Painted This Miraculous Image of Jesus | E314 Lila Rose Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fI-uhWPfU4

Democrat judge releases illegal alien wanted by Interpol for murder

Bill Melugin

@BillMelugin_

NEW: I’m told by federal sources that a Dominican illegal alien with a deportation order & an Interpol Red Notice arrest warrant for murder in his home county was ordered released from ICE custody on Tuesday by Rhode Island federal judge Melissa DuBose (Biden appointee). I’m told that international fugitive Bryan Rafael Gomez was arrested by ICE Boston in Worcester, MA on April 4th, and had been detained in a facility in Rhode Island where he was issued a deportation order on April 28th by an immigration judge.

On Tuesday, I’m told Judge DuBose ordered Gomez be released from ICE custody on the grounds of “continuous unlawful detention”, while ICE argued that Gomez was subject to mandatory detention due to having an international arrest warrant for homicide.

I’m told Gomez was released, is now roaming freely again, and ICE can’t rearrest him due to Judge DuBose’s order. He was caught and released at the southern border by the Biden administration in 2022.

https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/2049961885248745864

Syrian Gets Just Six Months In Jail For Raping 13-Year-Old Girl After Court Cites His Low IQ

A 21-year-old Syrian man convicted of raping a 13-year-old Norwegian girl in a bike shed will serve just six months in prison after a court cited his low IQ, limited development, and a recent change in Norwegian sentencing law.

Abdelmonem Abdelrazak Al-Yousef was found guilty by Nord-Troms and Senja District Court on March 31 in relation to the rape that occurred during the night of Sept. 7, 2024, near the Harbour Terminal in Tromso.

As reported by Norwegian news outlet Document, the teen victim had left her home during the night and gone into the city center. At the Harbour Terminal, she encountered Al-Yousef and another man. The court said there was little conversation because the defendant spoke only Arabic.

The court found that Al-Yousef first assaulted the girl on a bench near the Edge Hotel before the abuse continued in a covered bicycle parking area belonging to the Harbour Terminal. He also attempted vaginal intercourse, but the judgment said he did not succeed because the victim did not want to.

Al-Yousef, who arrived in Norway from Syria in 2023, initially denied ever meeting the girl and denied being the person seen in surveillance images. He later admitted meeting and kissing her, but continued to deny sexual activity or entering the bicycle area.

Police found semen on the asphalt at the scene, and DNA testing linked it to Al-Yousef. The court rejected his defense, noting it was entirely lacking in credibility.

The court also found that Al-Yousef should have understood the girl was underage. The victim had said she was born in 2008, while a witness said she appeared visibly young and childlike. In a police interview, Al-Yousef himself said she looked small and around the same age as his younger sister, who was born in 2010.

However, the sentence was reduced after forensic psychiatric experts found that he had a mild intellectual disability. One assessment estimated his IQ at 41, although a later report put it in the range of 64 to 75.

The court treated his condition as a mitigating factor and said that, despite being 19 years and 8 months old at the time of the offense, his developmental level could be considered comparable to that of the 13-year-old victim.

The judgment, cited by Utenfilter, said, “In mitigation, the court finds that it must be emphasized that the defendant is most likely no further along in development than the victim, and that he appears to have a reduced understanding of reality.”

The case was also affected by a Norwegian legal change that entered into force last July, when the minimum sentence for rape of children under 14 was repealed. Previously, such cases carried a minimum sentence of three years in prison.

The court described the abuse as degrading and clearly exploitative, noting that it took place outdoors in public after the defendant and victim had met only a short time earlier. It nevertheless set a starting point of two years in prison before reducing the effective sentence.

After deductions for Al-Yousef’s low level of development and the age of the case, one year and six months of the sentence was made conditional with a three-year probation period. As a result, he will serve six months in prison.

The victim was awarded 280,000 Norwegian kroner (€25,700) in compensation for damages. The court said that although the girl had reportedly not described the incident as especially burdensome, she was young and such events could affect her later in life.

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