This is 40-year-old Thomas Jacob Sanford, the suspected shooter who killed two people and injured eight others at a [Mormon] church in Grand Blanc, Michigan. He is deceased.
The deranged madman who killed at least four people and maimed eight others at a Michigan Latter-day Saints [Mormon] church is a 40-year-old Iraq War veteran who served in the US Marines, The Post can confirm.
Thomas Jacob Sanford rammed his Chevy Silverado truck into the building before opening fire on worshipers at a Sunday service of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan.
The vehicle had two large American flags behind the cab and a set of deer antlers attached to the bumper.
He also set the church ablaze, causing the entire structure to burn down. Authorities fear there may be more victims in the fire.
A Facebook post by Sanford’s mother says the gunman — who died at the scene in a shootout with cops — served in Iraq from 2004 to 2008.
He was killed minutes after the first 911 call came in. A Department of Natural Resources officer and a local township cop responded to the scene in about 30 seconds, authorities said.
Authorities later confirmed that Sanford, from nearby Burton, Michigan, is the lone suspect.
The source of the blaze was not immediately known, but sources told The Post that authorities found improvised bombs on church property, which a bomb squad was investigating.
A bomb squad was also searching Sanford’s house.
Cops said there were hundreds of worshippers inside the church when the attack began, with aerial footage showing an enormous plume of choking black smoke rising up from the structure as it burned.
Social media accounts believed to be connected to Sanford show he’s a family man, with a wife and young son.
A dormant GoFundMe page from 2015 raised more than $3,000 for the couple’s now-10-year-old son who was born with congenital hyperinsulinism, or CHI, a rare, genetic condition where the pancreas releases too much insulin.
The Grand Blanc Township Police Department has confirmed two additional deaths in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints shooting and fire on Sunday, bringing the total to 4 victims and 8 injured.
Grand Blanc Township Police Chief William Renye reports that two additional victims were found inside the remains of the church. Officials were unable to search the church immediately following the shooting due to the fire, and are still searching for other victims.
Sanford served in the Marines from June 2004 through June 2008, working as an automotive mechanic and vehicle recovery operator, according to military records obtained by The Detroit News. He was deployed to Iraq from August 2007 through March 2008 and had the rank of sergeant.
More about Southport, NC mass shooter Nigel Edge
[NYPost] The madman who "targeted" a crowded dockside restaurant in a "highly premeditated" mass shooting in North Carolina is a Purple Heart recipient and heavily decorated Marine who served in Iraq before changing his name and filing a slew of conspiracy-laden lawsuits, according to authorities and records.
Nigel Edge — who changed his name from Sean DeBevoise in 2023
…it’s very different from his birth name, to be sure…
— was arrested Saturday night for launching his deadly assault on the American Fish Company restaurant in Southport Yacht Basin, about 30 miles south of Wilmington, when he suddenly sprayed bullets into the crowd of unsuspecting diners, officials said. Wonder who was in the crowd?
Three people were killed and eight were maimed, authorities said.
One of the maimed victims is still "clinging to life," officials told news hounds Sunday, adding that many who were at the restaurant last night were from out of state.
Edge, 39, was armed with a short-barreled AR rifle, equipped with a suppressor, with a folding stock and scope, court documents charge.
The suspect, described as a "lone wolf’’ by authorities, faces three counts of first-degree murder, five counts of attempted first-degree murder and five counts of assault with a deadly weapon.
The wild claims in the lawsuits echo those detailed in a book written by Edge when he went by Sean DeBevoise, "Headshot: Betrayal of a Nation," where he claims that he was shot four times, including in the head, by friendly fire over an international conspiracy.
He claims he served in the Marine Corps and was deployed to Haiti and then served two tours in Iraq, when he found himself in the middle of the conspiracy ring.
The Marine said he was maimed in two separate IED attacks during a 2006 tour in Iraq, along with a bullet wound that left shrapnel lodged in his head.
A US military spokesperson confirmed that Edge served in the Marines from 2003 to 2009 and deployed to Iraq in 2005 and again in 2006.
He received a number of prestigious awards during his service, including a Purple Heart. He was also awarded the Marine Corps Good Conduct medal, Combat Action ribbon, Sea Service Deployment ribbon, Iraq Campaign Medal with two bronze stars, Humanitarian Service medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service medal, and National Defense Service medal.
North Carolina authorities also identified Edge as a combat veteran allegedly suffering from PTSD.
He was previously seen on the red carpet accompanying "American Idol" star Kellie Pickler to the Country Music Awards in 2012.
Following the mass shooting, police said the gunman quickly took off on the Intracoastal Waterway and was spotted at around 10 p.m. trying to load a vessel along the marina on Oak Island.
He was arrested by the US Coast Guard.
Edge was being held at the Brunswick County Detention Center without bond, according to court records.
He is due to appear in court Monday for an initial hearing.
[NYPOST] A former Texas special education teacher and ex-clown accused of fatally shooting his wife downed drugs and dropped dead in court moments before receiving a decades-long prison sentence for murder.
James Paul Anderson, 39, suffered a medical emergency on Friday shortly after arriving at Criminal Justice Center in Houston ...a city in Texas, named after Sam Houston, who would drop deader than he is now if he could see how it turned out... , where he was going to be slapped with a 35-year stretch behind bars for killing 34-year-old Victoria Anderson in 2023, according to the Harris County District Attorney's Office.
''Preliminary info is that a defendant ingested drugs while awaiting sentencing at the criminal courthouse and was rushed away in ambulance,'' Harris County Precinct 1 Constable Alan Rosen posted on X.
A bailiff administered naloxone, a fast-acting drug that reverses opioid overdoses, before Anderson was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! at 11:05 am., officials said.
As authorities probed the fatal episode, sources told KHOU that the accused murderer's attorney found a brown bag with a crystal-like substance, believed to be meth, in a nearby trash can.
The judge immediately shut down the courtroom and declared it a possible scene of the crime.
Witnesses said the former clown — reportedly known as Mister Jazzz — spoke briefly with his defense lawyer upon arriving to court, then asked for a few moments alone before spitting something into the garbage can, the outlet reported.
Minutes later, Anderson started vomiting.
An autopsy is underway to determine the cause of death.
Anderson, a former Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone, ...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich... Independent School District educator, was arrested on Sept. 24, 2023, after an hours-long standoff with police, who had responded to his Kingwood home when his wife alerted 911 that her husband was threatening to shoot her.
The emergency dispatcher then heard the sound of gunfire, police said at the time.
Anderson let the couple's three-year-old son leave the home when police arrived, then barricaded himself inside with his slain wife's body before surrendering about five hours later.
Authorities reportedly said there had been prior reports of domestic issues at the home, and that the victim had filed for divorce roughly a month before she was ruthlessly bumped off.
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Hopefully, the 3 year old ends up with some decent grandparents.
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An off-label use for Naloxone in tiny doses is to treat minor brain inflammation. It may one day be used to prevent the inflammation that now appears to lead to Alzheimer’s dementia.
[LegalInsurrection] “Today we honor the life and legacy of a revolutionary fighter, a fierce writer, a revered elder of Black liberation, and a leader of freedom whose spirit continues to live in our struggle.”
The Chicago Teachers Union is being blasted after paying tribute to convicted cop killer Assata Shakur, a fugitive from justice who passed away on Thursday, September 25th, at the age of 78, according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
Cuban officials on Friday said that Joanne Chesimard, who was convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper, has died in Havana decades after breaking out of prison and escaping to the communist island.
Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Chesimard, who was born JoAnne Deborah Byron and was also known as Assata Olugbala Shakur, passed away after living there for years under asylum granted by the Cuban government.
“On September 25, 2025, American citizen Joanne Deborah Byron, ‘Assata Shakur,’ passed away in Havana, Cuba, due to health conditions and advanced age,” the ministry’s statement said.
Despite her conviction and overall violent history, or perhaps because of it – and her escape to the leftist version of Utopia to live out the remainder of her years – Shakur, who was the godmother of murdered rapper Tupac Shakur, has long been on the list of cop killers whom far-left radicals, including leftists in academia, have embraced as revolutionary icons and heroes for The Cause.
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[Regnum] The most powerful solar flare in three months has occurred, with a possible firestorm afterward. This was reported on September 28 on the Telegram channel of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"An impulsive flare of class M6.4 was recorded at the eastern edge of the Sun around noon Moscow time today. The peak energy release occurred at 11:43 Moscow time. This event is the largest since June 19 of this year, more than three months. All activity surges observed since that date have been at a lower level," the statement reads.
It is also clarified that although large volumes of plasma were ejected into space, their speeds are initially insufficient to overcome the Sun's gravity. They will likely be unable to escape into interplanetary space and will, after some time, fall back onto the Sun as a fiery rain. Furthermore, the event is significantly offset from the Sun-Earth line, significantly reducing the associated risks.
On September 27, the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported that solar flare activity would increase significantly, with the potential for further growth. However, scientists noted that the geomagnetic environment on Earth remains calm and stable. Flare activity was also high in the previous 24 hours, but without any specific risks to the planet.
"Almost all wars, if you look at them, they don't necessarily start with a big bang," one senior State Department official told Fox News Digital. "They start with an escalation, and then somebody feels they need to respond to this, and then you just get in a toxic spiral."
The unusual gathering also comes as the Pentagon is crafting a new National Defense Strategy to prioritize the US homeland.
So possibly it’s just that Secretary Hegseth doesn’t trust Zoom security for a major strategy meeting rather than that half of them would leave the room retired or resigned. In the meantime, as the Germans say, Abwarten und Tee trinken.
[Breitbart] Houston Police Department’s Lt. Kham noted that the District Attorney declined charges against the homeowner, noting that “he was protecting his property.”
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Don't have to "assume" anything.
It Texas it is legal to use deadly force in defense of property after dark.
And shooting doesn't deter thieves, because they're stupid. If they weren't stupid, they weren't be thieves. It's a shitty job that doesn't really pay that well.
They all get welfare anyway, how poor can they be?
By giving them what they demand, they make the Moslem colonists less able to compete in Darwin’s race. But the English never played fair when there was a chance to weight the scales on their side, and so they gained an empire.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The NHS has been accused of 'taking the knee' to political correctness by advocating the benefits of marriages between cousins – despite it carrying an increased risk of birth defects and being used as a way to oppress women.
The guidance – which incredibly points out that it has been allowed in Britain since Henry VIII passed a law enabling him to marry Anne Boleyn's cousin Catherine Howard – says that cousin marriage offers benefits such as 'stronger extended family support systems'.
The practice, which is common in the British Pakistani community, has been linked to a greater prevalence of disorders such as cystic fibrosis or sickle cell disease.
Figures show that up to 20 per cent of the children treated for congenital problems in cities such as Sheffield, Glasgow and Birmingham are of Pakistani descent, compared with 4 per cent or lower in the wider population – and treating these problems costs the NHS billions.
The guidance, released by NHS England's Genomics Education Programme, argues that 'although first-cousin marriage is linked to an increased likelihood of a child having a genetic condition or a congenital anomaly, there are many other factors that also increase this chance (such as parental age, smoking, alcohol use and assisted reproductive technologies), none of which are banned in the UK'.
It claims inter-marriage offers benefits which include 'stronger extended family support systems and economic advantages (resources, property and inheritance can be consolidated rather than diluted across households),' and that as banning the practice would 'stigmatise certain communities and cultural traditions', the authorities should instead offer 'genetic counselling, awareness-raising initiatives and public health campaigns'.
And it says 'although children of first cousins have an increased chance of being born with a genetic condition, that increase is a small one: in the general population, a child's chance of being born with a genetic condition is around 2-3 per cent; this increases to 4-6 per cent in children of first cousins. Hence, most children of first cousins are healthy'.
This assumes that the harmful mutations are uniformly recessive, leading to one in four births being mutation-free, one in four showing the mutation, and two being carriers, with each a generation completely independent of history. But in real life after a series of generations of close-cousin marriage, each carrying parent will likely have several mutations, some recessive (25% of offspring displaying, 25% free of that particular mutation, and 50% carriers) and some dominant (75% of offspring displaying the mutation to a greater or lesser extent, 25% free of that mutation — think sickle cell anemia). And each additional mutation will increase the cost of caring for that child and decrease its ability to compete as an adult.
Responding to the guidance, Tory MP Richard Holden said that the Conservatives would legislate to ban marriage between first cousins on the grounds that it 'destroys integration, women's rights and the health of those involved'.
True as that is, Mr. Shadow Secretary, don’t make promises you won’t have the MPs to keep. I’m afraid Edith May and Boris Johnson are not shining examples of how to win at politics, British style.
Mr Holden told The Mail on Sunday: 'Our NHS should stop taking the knee to damaging and oppressive cultural practices. The Conservatives want to see an end to cousin marriage as a back door to immigration too, but Labour are deaf to these sensible demands. Sir Keir Starmer should stop running scared of the misogynistic community controllers and their quislings who appear in the form of cultural relativist obsessed sociology professors, and ban a practice the overwhelming majority, from every community in Britain, want to see ended for good.'
Dr Patrick Nash, an expert on religious law and director of the Pharos Foundation social science research group in Oxford, said it was 'truly dismaying to see NHS England publishing official 'educational' material that promotes the supposed social benefits of cousin marriage without even mentioning its proven links to honour violence, gender discrimination, multifarious forms of clan corruption, and the immense cost to the taxpayer'.
Dr Nash added: 'Cousin marriage is incest, plain and simple, and needs to be banned with the utmost urgency – there is no 'balance' to be struck between this cultural lifestyle choice and the severe public health implications it incurs.
'This official article is deeply misleading and should be retracted with an apology so that the public is not misled by omission and half-truths.'
A YouGov poll earlier this year found that three quarters of Britons support a ban, with only 9 per cent thinking the law should remain as it is.
And that 3/4 won’t indulge, increasing their children’s odds of avoiding problems.
The NHS guidance also argues that 'marriage between first cousins, known as consanguineous marriage, has been practised for centuries across many cultures'.
And the problems that result are well known. Ponder the known mutations of the closely entwined royals of England and Europe, where Queen Elizabeth II had to send to Greece to find in Prince Phillip a man only her second cousin on one side and third cousin once removed on the other, and lucky indeed that none of the Windsors thereafter are bleeders or worse.
It states that 'UK laws allowing first-cousin marriage date back to the reign of Henry VIII in the 16th century: having broken with Rome in order to marry Anne Boleyn, Henry passed a new law that enabled him to marry her cousin, Catherine Howard'.
The NHS Genomics Education Programme did not respond to a request for comment.
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And highest of all is Pakistan. From the BMJ, the same site that produced NN2N1’s graph:
Consanguineous marriages in Pakistan fell from 67.9% in 2006-07 to 63.6% in 2018, with more educated and financially independent women and men able to marry for love rather than family obligation. One 2022 study reported that women with higher education were much less likely to be in cousin marriages than women with no formal education.3 And women residing in urban areas were 33% less likely to be in cousin marriages than their rural counterparts.
[GEO.TV] Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Saturday dismissed the US decision to revoke his visa and accused Washington of violating international law over his criticism of Israel's war in Gaza.
The US said on Friday it would revoke Petro's visa after he took to New York's streets on Friday to join a pro-Palestinian demonstration and urged US soldiers to disobey President Donald Trump's orders.
"I no longer have a visa to travel to the United States. I don't care. I don't need a visa ... because I'm not only a Colombian citizen but a European citizen, and I truly consider myself a free person in the world," Petro said on social media.
And so you are, Your Excellency. Free to go anywhere except the U.S.
"Revoking it for denouncing genocide shows the US no longer respects international law," he added on a post on X.
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Petro’s doesn’t care. We know that because he tells us that in a very non-caring fashion.
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All countries are sovereign and can choose who to let in or not. Even your Columbia can deny the US president if it chooses.
We choose not to have your commie ass polluting the United States. 'nuff said.
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Non Sequitur Fallacy: Petro was PNG'ed (persona non grata) because he was being an annoying public nuisance not because of his comments on Gaza. He could have held snide and insulting press conferences and the administration would have only yawned.
[ZeroHedge] President Trump announced plans last week to use tariff revenue as a financial cushion for struggling American farmers as China shuns U.S. agricultural goods. Beijing's pivot to Brazilian ag suppliers has left Midwest farmers in the nation's top ag belts fearing a spiral into financial hardship.
At the White House on Thursday, President Trump told reporters, "We're going to take some of that tariff money that we've made, we're going to give it to our farmers, who are - for a little while - going to be hurt until it kicks in, the tariffs kick in to their benefit."
Trump later told reporters that he has not decided on a final version of the plan and would consult with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on the matter.
China's abrupt pivot to Brazil, after decades of purchasing more than half of the U.S.'s soybeans annually, highlights elevated trade tensions this year as both superpowers attempt to find common ground on a new deal.
Financial Times noted, "For decades, more than half of all U.S. soybeans went to China, the world's biggest buyer. But this year, as trade talks between Washington and Beijing stall, not a single American soybean has headed east, leaving farmers struggling to stay afloat as bins fill and prices sag while China turns to record supplies from Brazil."
U.S. farmers across the Midwest's ag belts largely voted for Trump in 2024 and in other previous elections. The problem for the administration is that export markets for some crops are quickly drying up amid this year's trade war with China and other countries. This has created a potential political vulnerability for the "America First" party ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, prompting the administration to consider using tariff revenue to mitigate the financial impact on U.S. farmers.
Rollins recently announced a $10 billion, four-year commitment from Taiwan to offset some of the losses incurred from China. She called this a "game-changer for our farmers & ranchers. America's producers are BACK on offense & leading the world again!"
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So if Brazil is sending their soybeans to China, where are their previous customers getting their soybeans now? Rotting in American fields?
Historically, the United States was the world’s largest soybean exporter. In 2013, Brazil surpassed the United States in soybean shipments for the first time. Since then, Brazil’s share of the global soybean trade has grown steadily, with Brazilian soybean exports reaching a record 3,744 million bushels for the 2023 calendar year, according to the Foreign Trade Secretariat (Secex). At the same time, American soybean exports were reduced to 1,789 million bushels, half the Brazilian soybean export volume, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (see Figure 1).Link
Sounds like the U.S. decline started several years ago, long before tariffs.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...a city in Texas, named after Sam Houston, who would drop deader than he is now if he could see how it turned out...
