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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Ilhan Omar attack suspect identified after furious man launched at congresswoman and sprayed her with liquid from syringe when she called for Noem to resign during Minnesota town hall
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Omar faced off with the angry protester after calling for Kristi Noem to resign while speaking about the recent Border Patrol shooting of Alex Pretti during a North Minneapolis town hall.

'DHS Secretary Kristi Noem must resign or face impeachment,' Omar says in footage of the incident.

The protester - later identified as 55-year-old Anthony J. Kazmierczak - ran toward Omar and sprayed a mystery substance at her from a syringe.

He then told Omar to resign and claimed she's 'tearing Minnesota apart' before being dragged away by security guards.

There was a strong, vinegarlike smell after Kazmierczak pushed on the syringe, according to an Associated Press journalist who was there. Forensic scientists responded to the scene.

Photos of the device, which fell to the ground when he was tackled, showed what appeared to be a light-brown liquid inside. There was no immediate word from officials on what it was.

Kazmierczak has an image of President Trump on his Facebook page along with another of Trump embracing Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.

He was immediately at the county jail for third-degree assault, spokesperson Trevor Folke said. He is being held without bail.

The United States Capitol Police confirmed he had been detained when reached by The Daily Mail.

A distraction?:

Posted by: Skidmark || 01/28/2026 01:19 || Comments || Link || [1804 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


#2  Gee, I hope it was nothing viral.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/28/2026 2:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Strange that one of those type of protesters stumbled into MAGA world. You just don’t see a lot of people crying out for a Subway worker to spritz Omar with a syringe full of oil for The Italian.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/28/2026 5:42 Comments || Top||

#4 
Unlike 46-year-old Ashley Wasielewski of GA.
Having just left a Christmas Church gathering, she was attacked in a public park. Her still unknown attacker, was wearing all dark clothing, poured very caustic acid on her.

Note: No general or racial description provided was provided or mentions by the law enforcement or the MSM.

The acid caused immediate 3rd degree burns covering half her body and even quickly ate up her clothing.

BTW: the FBI & SLED has not released the name of the acid.
Likely to avoid copycats.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/28/2026 6:39 Comments || Top||

#5  Rumor is it was bacon grease.

Snark O'The Day
Posted by: Silentbrick || 01/28/2026 7:47 Comments || Top||

#6  Well thank the gods it wasn't water. The witch would have melted.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/28/2026 10:00 Comments || Top||

#7  First of all, that isn't a syringe, that is more like a baster, or something one uses to measure an oral medicine.

So I don't believe any of this is genuine.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/28/2026 10:42 Comments || Top||

#8  Odd that she didn't immediately seek medical checkup (even though her folks asked her to), or that they didn't check the other folks in the room for 'spillover'.

Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/28/2026 11:29 Comments || Top||

#9  I would be getting checked out right away if someone squirted something weird on my face or body, but that's me I guess.

Maybe being Somali, they're used to living with 'weird liquids'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/28/2026 11:33 Comments || Top||

#10 

Given all the lack of follow-up attention after having been spray, and to the others around her ...

Has some wondering IF it was staged?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/28/2026 11:33 Comments || Top||

#11  How about someone with 'Ultra MAGA' all over their social, allegedly, not being vetted for a up front seating ticket?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/28/2026 11:50 Comments || Top||

#12  Maybe being Somali occasionally being sprayed by strangers is expected.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/28/2026 12:00 Comments || Top||

#13  Has some wondering IF it was staged?

That's what I was wondering. It's the kind of thing Democrats do.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/28/2026 12:02 Comments || Top||

#14  Smells like it, doesn't it?
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/28/2026 12:22 Comments || Top||

#15  ^Yep. First thought occurring.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 01/28/2026 13:05 Comments || Top||

#16  Townhall discovered Mr. Kazmierczak has two genderqueer offspring and the sprayed substance proved upon testing to be apple coder vinegar.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/28/2026 14:09 Comments || Top||

#17  It is a good time to remember that a number of there local political primaries were lgbt vs. somali islam clashes.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/28/2026 14:11 Comments || Top||

#18  #16 "cider"?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 01/28/2026 15:53 Comments || Top||

#19  Precisely, Grom.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/28/2026 16:19 Comments || Top||

#20  😎
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 01/28/2026 16:22 Comments || Top||


Britain
UK's Chagos case judge is ChiCom immigrant who backed Russia Invading Ukraine
[X: Telegraph]


Posted by: 3dc || 01/28/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1761 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Caribbean-Latin America
What? Columbian Prez claims he is a beast in bed. Also all women love it.
[X] All? He must be spending a solid five seconds with each one. Whutathrill.
Posted by: 3dc || 01/28/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1810 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  "🇨🇴🚨 | IS PETRO DRUNK? He went from sabotaging the meeting with Donald Trump to saying that he “does very good things in bed”.

This guy is the worst thing that has ever happened to Colombia."
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/28/2026 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Posted by: Secret Master || 01/28/2026 1:03 Comments || Top||

#3  He’s sort of flooding the opposition campaign with material.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/28/2026 5:49 Comments || Top||

#4  He makes Trump look normal and boring.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/28/2026 9:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Rumor in his own mind.

Does he drive a Corvette, too?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/28/2026 11:34 Comments || Top||

#6  a beast in bed

A mouse?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 01/28/2026 17:43 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Impeachment Liar Alexander Vindman Announces Bid for Senate Vowing to Fight Trump – Calls Trump a "Tyrant" and Attacks ICE
[GP] Retired Lt. Col Sausage briefly leaves the buffet line
Posted by: Frank G || 01/28/2026 02:38 || Comments || Link || [1787 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He'll go far.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/28/2026 3:03 Comments || Top||

#2 

When will the DOJ announce sedition and conspiracy charges for those that plotted and conduct LAWFARE against Trump and the Clearly PROVEN 2020 conducted Election Fraud?

Or is it waiting until after Mid-Terms to announce?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/28/2026 5:35 Comments || Top||

#3  It’s Florida. He’s not getting elected to the Senate.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/28/2026 5:36 Comments || Top||

#4  The only tyrants we have are federal judges who sit for life, are unaccountable to the people, and who have a propensity to grant themselves powers and preview not authorized by Congress.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/28/2026 6:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Wasn't he supposed to be Defense Minister for Ukraine? They tried. POS traitor.
Posted by: Frank G || 01/28/2026 10:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Congressional inaction is the key enabler of judicial tyranny. Remember this next November.
Posted by: Glurong Choth2372 || 01/28/2026 11:24 Comments || Top||


Congressmen and senators buying Federal bldgs and renting them back to gov. Trillion $ corruption.
[X]

… “I found out that through government duplication, I've got a chart. It's just the craziest looking thing. And it shows, and my staff has uncovered basically over a trillion dollars of just simple duplication within these departments that nobody is willing to tackle”

“A massive scandal, which are Big federal buildings owned by members of Congress that are leased out to the federal government — private buildings owned by members of Congress leased back to the federal government”


Posted by: 3dc || 01/28/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1775 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Maybe some of the same crew that want to fire Noem?
Posted by: Oregon Dave || 01/28/2026 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Grok3 discovered it. Oregon Dave.
Posted by: 3dc || 01/28/2026 0:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Surely this is not new with the current administration. I also can’t imagine the DOGE crews don’t want to do anything about this — it’s just that they haven’t got to it yet. But since the honourable Congressman’s team has done so much already, that will give them a jumpstart on this line item of the budget.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/28/2026 1:29 Comments || Top||

#4  The Pelosi stock market, Somali daycare centers, Federal building rentals, why should any of this come as a surprise ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2026 5:28 Comments || Top||

#5  It's getting old saying it....

Still Awaiting Indictments and Arrests.

History has shown us.
Failure to prosecute leadership crimes and abuses, leads to greater crimes and abuses.

Which leads to increasing dictatorial rule of its subjects.

NOTE:
Remember, some of the DC SWAMP have already suggested "UPDATING" (rewrite) of the Bill of Rights to fit in with the 21st Century?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/28/2026 6:12 Comments || Top||

#6  The real chutzpah are all the politicians who want to raise taxes given that so much already goes for graft, patronage, and theft.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/28/2026 6:55 Comments || Top||


Gavin Newsom's ballyhooed 'care first' $236 million mental health push helps ONLY 22 people in four years
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] When Gavin Newsom launched CARE Court with great fanfare, he promised help for people with severe mental illness who go back and forth between homelessness, jail, and emergency rooms.

The California Governor boasted that CARE Court would be a 'completely new paradigm' that would compassionately force people's mentally ill loved ones off the streets and into treatment via a judge's order – and estimated that up to 12,000 people could be helped.

A State Assembly analysis said up to 50,000 people might be eligible.

However after spending $236 million in taxpayer dollars on CARE Court since the March 2022 announcement, the Daily Mail can reveal that the program has flopped, with some critics even saying it's fraud.

Only 22 people have been court-ordered into treatment so far.

Out of roughly 3000 petitions filed by October statewide, 706 were approved but of those, 684 were voluntary agreements that were never the intended point of the program.

When the plan was first announced, Ronda Deplazes, 62, and her husband, who had often been prisoners in their home in Concord since their son's schizophrenia diagnosis 20 years ago, CARE Court looked finally to be a solution to her entire family's heartbreak.

Her son developed schizophrenia in his late teens, she said. At first, the family believed his struggles were primarily addiction-related.

Like many families in California, they believed CARE Court would finally allow a judge to order treatment for someone too sick to recognize they needed help.

California's homeless population has hovered between 170,000 and 180,000 in recent years.

Between 30 and 60 percent of them are thought to have serious mental illness and many of those have substance abuse issues, according to both state and federal data.

Celebrity parents like the late Rob and Michele Reiner, allegedly murdered by their long-troubled son Nick, or the parents of former Nickelodeon child star Tylor Chase, who has been living on the streets of Riverside and resisting efforts to help him, faced the same often insurmountable challenges as Deplazes and other families when trying to rescue and aid their children.

For the past 60 years, ever since the passage of the bipartisan Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, which was signed into law by then-Governor Ronald Reagan and led to the end of involuntary confinement in state mental hospitals – lawmakers and mental health advocates have struggled to find solutions for the chronically mentally ill in the state.

But when Deplazes heard Newsom talk about CARE court, she felt he understood what she and other parents of mentally ill offspring go through.

'I've got four kids,' Newsom said at the time. 'I can't imagine how hard this is. It breaks your heart.

'I mean, your life just torn asunder because you're desperately trying to reach someone you love and you watch them suffer and you watch a system that consistently lets you down and lets them down.'

For years, Ronda's now 38-year-old son – who often went off his meds and used street drugs instead – acted out violently, sometimes throwing rocks at his parents' house and frightening the neighbors.

'He never slept. He was destructive in our home, said Deplazes, who asked that her son's first name be kept confidential. 'We had to physically have him removed by police.'

Once homeless, his condition worsened. Deplazes described finding him barefoot and almost naked in freezing temperatures, or screaming through the neighborhood in the middle of the night.

'They left him out on our street picking imagined bugs off his body,' she said. 'It was terrible.'

Deplazes estimates that her son has been jailed roughly 200 times, mostly for misdemeanors.

But after petitioning CARE court, a red tape-filled process that Deplazes was familiar with after years of trying to navigate the state's bloated, multi-billion dollar labyrinth of other programs for the homeless and mentally ill, a judge turned her down.

'He said, "his needs are higher than we provide for", Deplazes recalled.

'He said this even though the CARE court program specifically says if your loved one is jailed all the time, that's a reason to petition. That's a lie.

'They did nothing to help us. There was no direction. No place to go. They wouldn't tell us where to get that higher level of care.'

The emotional toll, she said, was horrific.

'I was devastated. Completely out of hope,' Deplazes said.

'It felt like just another round of hope and defeat.'

Deplazes, who keeps in touch with a network of similarly-stressed mothers of mentally ill children, alleges CARE Court has become a revenue-generating system that keeps cases open without delivering care.

California has spent between $24 and $37 billion on the homelessness problem since Governor Newsom took office in 2019 with dubious results although the governor's office frequently cites recent preliminary stats from 2025 showing a nine percent decrease in what is called unsheltered homelessness.

'There are all these teams, public defenders, administrators, care teams, judges, bailiffs, sitting in court every week,' Deplazes said.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/28/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1833 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The numbers are lower but those 22 must have received some hellaciously good care.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/28/2026 5:51 Comments || Top||

#2  If $236 million went out the door you can bet that a lot more than 22 people were helped.
Posted by: Matt || 01/28/2026 9:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Newsom is the Fraud King.

Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/28/2026 12:10 Comments || Top||



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