[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The videos begin like romantic skits, with young men kneeling and clutching imaginary engagement rings or flowers, mimicking a proposal.
Then a caption appears reading: 'Practicing in case she says no.'
Suddenly, the videos take a dark turn, as the men erupt into violent outbursts, 'training' to attack women who reject them.
One video shows a man pulling a kitchen knife from his jacket before repeatedly stabbing at an invisible off-camera woman.
Another shows a man viciously punching a pillow sprawled across the floor as though it were a person.
Others carry out the trend inside gyms, beating dummies and kicking punching bags while apparently imagining a woman turning them down.
In several especially disturbing clips, men mimic pulling out guns and opening fire.
In another viral video, a man performs the trend with a real woman, kicking her in the groin after she pretends to reject him.
The trend, which has spread rapidly across Brazilian TikTok in recent weeks, has horrified women's rights campaigners and prompted intervention from Brazil's Federal Police and from TikTok itself which removed the videos from the platform.
The creators behind it are mostly young Brazilian men, whose attempts at dark humour reflect all too well the grim reality of a country grappling with a surge in femicides.
Brazil recorded 1,470 femicides in 2025, according to data from the Ministry of Justice and Public Security - the highest number since the crime was formally codified into Brazilian law in 2015.
The figure surpassed the previous record set in 2024 and amounts to roughly four women murdered every day.
In many of the country's most horrifying recent attacks, the trigger was not robbery or organised crime, but rejection.
In April, 20-year-old Alana Rosa was stabbed more than 15 times inside her home in São Gonçalo, in Rio de Janeiro's metropolitan region by Luis Felipe Sampaio, a man who had persistently pursued her for months after meeting her at a gym.
According to relatives, he repeatedly sent messages and gifts despite her lack of interest and continued attempting to contact her after she made clear she did not want a relationship.
One day, he broke into her home and launched the frenzied knife attack. Alana miraculously survived after spending nearly a month in hospital.
In Pernambuco, a 22-year-old woman was stabbed and set on fire by a former co-worker who had become obsessed with her after she rejected him romantically.
In Minas Gerais, a 38-year-old woman was fatally stabbed after rejecting a man who allegedly attempted to forcibly kiss her during negotiations over the sale of a mobile phone.
According to police, the suspect later claimed he had 'blanked out' and attacked her after she refused his advances.
And in São Paulo, a man fatally ran over and dragged his former partner, resulting in the amputation of both her legs and ultimately her death.
Under Brazilian law, femicide refers specifically to gender-based killings, particularly those linked to domestic violence, misogyny or contempt towards women.
The legislation recognises that women are often murdered not simply because of interpersonal conflict, but because some men believe they have the right to control or punish women who do not conform to expected behaviour.
Professor Fiona Macaulay, an expert on gender violence in Brazil and Professor of Gender, Peace & Development at Bradford University, told the Daily Mail that the TikTok videos reflect the broader society in which some men increasingly feel entitled to punish women for refusing them.
'The law recognises that there are social norms around what society expects from women,' Macaulay said, 'and that women are often killed by men out of a desire to punish or control them.'
'It's all about hierarchy, and women are positioned as controllable. Whether it's religious or secular nationalism, left or right, women are often placed lower in the hierarchy.
'The idea that women should have equality is treated as somehow threatening.'
She also believes Brazil's own political climate helped intensify these attitudes.
During the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro, the hard-Right former president cultivated an image built around hypermasculinity, or 'machismo', hostility towards progressive politics and contempt for the vulnerable, including women, she said.
Bolsonaro also loosened gun ownership laws, dramatically increasing civilian access to firearms in a country already marked by high levels of violence.
'There has been a kind of permission given for the use of violence that I think didn't exist before,' Macaulay said.
She described Bolsonaro as embodying 'swaggering masculinity' and said the wider movement surrounding him reinforced hierarchical ideas about gender and power.
'There's a creeping climate where some men feel emboldened,' she said. 'Feeling like violence against women is justified because men rule the roost and women shouldn't be saying no to them.'
For decades, Brazilian courts allowed men accused of murdering wives or girlfriends to use what became known as the 'honour defence', arguing they had been driven into uncontrollable rage after discovering infidelity or suffering humiliation.
The legal doctrine effectively framed women themselves as responsible for provoking the violence inflicted upon them.
By the 1970s, women's movements in Brazil were protesting furiously against the defence, arguing that it legitimised femicide and excused male brutality.
Brazil's Supreme Court eventually ruled the defence unconstitutional in 1991.
'But I think vestiges of that thinking still remain,' Macaulay said. 'The idea that women should be punished for perceived misconduct.'
That mentality, she argues, helps explain why rejection itself can become so dangerous.
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[ZERO] Maryland is one of many blue states that have transformed into a failed progressive experiment, where net migration flows are negative as productive, working-class taxpayers flee the state, not just because of high taxes and the power bill crisis, but also because they've had enough of left-wing politicians and their failed criminal justice and social reforms that have fueled a decade of violent crime chaos.
We've extensively covered more than a decade of violent crime, riots, population collapse, and the exodus of taxpayers and businesses from imploding Baltimore City, which has been hit hard by a commercial real estate crisis in parts of the downtown area. But rarely have we focused on Baltimore County, just north of the city, where, yet again, left-wing politicians who masquerade as competent managers but are merely DEI activists have unleashed years of lawlessness through failed policies.
FOX45 News spoke with Mickey Hoppert, a retired sergeant with the Baltimore County Police Department who has spent more than two decades on the force, warned about the lawlessness of juveniles in the Towson metro area:
I wouldn't say that it's out of control, but it's getting there. Baltimore County is slowly, actually it's not slowly, it's exponentially deteriorating, and there are more and more pockets of bad elements coming into the county and wreaking havoc.
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City problems always end up in the suburbs. Professional workers move away from the center of the chaos. They bring their kids who are indoctrinated into the chaos.
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Maybe juvenile crime has increased in Balt but homicides have decreased
2022 334
2023 262
2024 201
2025 133
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Did the feds arrive to clean up Baltimore in 2025 like they did in a number of other locations after President Trump was sworn in? Somehow nobody seems to mention that project anymore.
[IsraelTimes] While incidents declined across the city, physical attacks on Jews in borough increased from 32 to 50, mostly targeting visibly identifiable Orthodox community members, watchdog says
Antisemitic incidents in New York declined last year, in line with national trends, but Brooklyn saw an increase, including a surge in anti-Jewish assaults, according to an Anti-Defamation League audit released this week.
The ADL’s annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents tracks reported antisemitic incidents around the US. This year’s report, collating data on 2025, found that overall in the US, antisemitic incidents decreased last year, although physical violence increased, hitting a record high.
The number of Manhattan incidents dropped 21% compared to 2024, driven by a decline in campus protests and bomb threats.
In line with national trends, every borough in New York City saw a decrease in antisemitic incidents, except Brooklyn, where there was a 12% increase, including 50 assaults.
The number of assaults in Brooklyn last year marked a 56% jump over the 32 attacks in 2024, and a record since the ADL began its annual audit in 1979.
Visibly identifiable Orthodox Jews were targeted in 37 of the 50 Brooklyn assaults.
“Brooklyn is the epicenter of antisemitic assaults, not only in the city and the region, but across the country,” Tova Rosenfeld, ADL associate regional director for Brooklyn, said during a Friday briefing.
Rosenfeld said antisemitism in the borough had become “more interpersonal,” marked by face-to-face hostility, while less personal incidents like bomb threats had declined.
Some of the physical attacks in the city last year included a man charged with a hate crime for attacking Jews with scissors, a Jewish man who was knifed in the chest and an assault on a Hasidic man on a subway.
The ADL recorded 1,160 antisemitic incidents in New York State, a 19% decrease from 2024. The most common locations were the 410 incidents in public areas, 227 at Jewish institutions and 141 at schools.
Reported antisemitic harassment and vandalism each dropped by about 20% in the state, but assaults increased by 10%, to 90. That total was three times higher than the next state, California, which had 30 assaults.
Of the state total, 860 incidents — around three-quarters — took place in New York City.
Manhattan was the “dominant hotspot” for total incidents, with 465, the ADL said, followed by Brooklyn, with 278.
The number of Manhattan incidents dropped 21% compared to 2024, driven by a decline in campus protests and bomb threats.
In New York State, there was a 64% decline in antisemitic incidents on college campuses, to 105, but a 19% increase at non-Jewish K-12 schools.
Overall, incidents related to Israel or Zionism dropped from 58% in 2024 to 48% last year.
New York State has recorded a 480% increase in antisemitic incidents since 2016, the ADL said.
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In reality, the statistics compiled in areas with activist judges, DA’s and Sherries are totally inaccurate. The overall decline is fake. Soros laundered tax dollars at work.
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Which means what in this case, Super Hose? More physical attacks beyond Brooklyn than reported, more attacks on Jews not dressed in black with side curls? I certainly would bet that quite a few of the attacks were made by a small subset of miscreants who were returned to the streets without punishment, paralleling behaviours by miscreants who aren’t hung up on Jews..
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I am not buying that antisemitic attacks are trending down in NYC or nationally. I think they are occurring across the country in two places: cities run by militant liberals and on militant college campuses. Most colleges are liberal but I don’t expect Jewish students are assaulted at Kent State, Akron U or Baldwin Wallace. I expect that there are assaults at Columbia and Berkeley. I think it happens. Assaults on Jews in NYC are not going to drop under Mandani, but will those assaults be recorded or prosecuted. We know crimes aren’t prosecuted by Soros DAs. We know that crime record keeping was fudged in DC. Those techniques will prove not to have been outliers.
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[YouTube] Coach Bear Bryant's Mother's Day commercial, which aired in 1982, is a cherished piece of Alabama football history. In this ad, Bryant, dressed in a crimson sweater, encourages his players to keep in touch with their families. The commercial's closing line, "Have you called your mama today? I sure wish I could call mine," has become a timeless reminder for many. The ad's popularity is evident, with a YouTube video of the commercial viewed over 300,000 times, highlighting its lasting impact on the holiday. The ad's message of family connection resonates with audiences, making it a perfect fit for Mother's Day celebrations.
[FoxNews] North Korea has updated its constitution to require a retaliatory nuclear strike if leader Kim Jong Un is assassinated, according to a report.
The Telegraph reported the change comes amid heightened global tensions following the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and other officials during a recent conflict.
Khamenei was killed in an Israeli strike in Tehran as part of a coordinated U.S.-Israeli military operation earlier this year, Fox News Digital previously reported.
The constitutional revision was approved during a session of North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly, which opened March 22 in Pyongyang, the outlet said.
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.
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[IsraelTimes] While incidents declined across the city, physical attacks on Jews in borough increased from 32 to 50, mostly targeting visibly identifiable Orthodox community members, watchdog says
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