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PETA Savaged Kristi Noem. For Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, It Found Excuses.

PETA knows how to find a villain.

When Kristi Noem, then South Dakota governor and later a member of the Trump administration, revealed in 2024 that she had shot her 14-month-old dog Cricket, PETA went straight for her throat.

Most Americans love their dogs, and we suspect that they’ll consider Gov. Noem a psychotic loony for letting this rambunctious puppy loose on chickens and then punishing her by deciding to personally blow her brains out rather than attempting to train her or find a more responsible guardian who could provide her with a proper home. Noem obviously fails to understand the vital political concepts of education, cooperation, compromise, and compassion.

The group said Americans would consider Noem a “psychotic loony.” It later sold a Halloween costume depicting Noem as a “Puppy Killer.“

Nobody had to search for PETA’s position. Subtlety had left the building.

Then came Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, Michigan’s Democrat nominee for the Senate.

El-Sayed oversaw Detroit Animal Control for about 16 months while serving as Detroit health director. He was reported to have had more than 4,000 dogs and cats euthanized during his tenure, although the number during his actual period of oversight appears to have been closer to 1,900.

Euthanasia also declined during his tenure, and he brought in new leadership and expanded transfers to rescue groups.

Facts are facts, even when they complicate a good political punch.

But PETA’s response remains fascinating.

When questioned about El-Sayed, PETA blamed the larger problem on breeders, retailers, people who buy instead of adopt, and owners who don’t spay or neuter their pets.

From our sister site, Townhall:

A report from the Daily Mail found that El-Sayed was the subject of whistleblower complaints after he ascended to the post of health director in Detroit. Under his watch nearly 4,700 cats and dogs were euthanized, and an untold number died from malnutrition and lack of medical care, all while being subject to unsanitary conditions.

The problem grew so bad that one former employee called the Department of Animal Control under El-Sayed’s reign a “dog slaughterhouse.”

“I was almost embarrassed with myself to be part of a team that played a role of the death of so many dogs in their cages,” Detroit Animal Control whistleblower Brittany Roberts told the Daily Mail regarding the neglect. “Every morning, we’d just walk around and see who was alive before we could even feed.”

When asked for comment regarding El-Sayed’s shocking actions, PETA told Townhall that the blame shouldn’t be laid at the candidate’s feet.

The group did say allegations involving animals being denied veterinary treatment or allowed to suffer should receive an independent investigation.

Then came the remarkable part: PETA told people angry about shelter euthanasia to place the blame “firmly” on practically everyone surrounding the system.

Where was that philosophical restraint when Noem was involved?

PETA could’ve discussed difficult choices, circumstances, responsibility, or context in her case. Instead, it called her crazy and turned her into a Halloween monster. With El-Sayed, suddenly there were systems to consider, social causes to ponder, and blame to spread around.

PETA hasn’t endorsed Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed. Its response, nevertheless, handed a Democrat Senate nominee something politically valuable: cover.

The timing makes the gentleness even more noticeable because voters are learning plenty about Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed. He’s repeatedly dragged Second Lady Usha Vance into attacks on Vice President JD Vance, including remarks about her pregnancy, marriage, sex life, and their “brown kids.” 

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Californians Are Prepared To Run Their State Into The Ground

According to recent polling, the California Voter ID initiative is in danger of losing this November, even though a supermajority of Americans across the political spectrum support Voter ID. Meanwhile, a 5% billionaire tax looks likely to win, even though the evidence against such proposals could not be clearer: higher taxes mean more rich people will flee to low-tax states, thus further depleting California’s already dwindling coffers.

What’s the matter with California voters? Why are they so addicted to failure? Why do they celebrate the continued demise of their once-great state?

The state of California remains the land of fruits and nuts, and all common-sense reforms are failing. This is a hard pill for many to swallow on the right in general, among Republicans in particular, and for the rest of the world watching, but Democrats don’t care. Power is the game, and the rest is chicken feed.

They dominate the voter rolls two-to-one.

They control every level of government.

They run the unions.

They have forced a hostile political takeover of big business, too. Chevron, pharmaceutical companies, and major financial firms are all trying to get a seat at the table to protect themselves.

Meanwhile, every major identity politics special interest runs riot in the state. From LGBT to Black Liberation, to everything in between, the left-wing smorgasbord of “give me money” hunkers down on Democratic lawmakers, demanding their piece of the increasingly receding budget.

The Democratic Socialists of America have been on a tear across California, taking over major city councils and pushing out weak Democratic lawmakers for the last ten years. The 2024 election witnessed a particular bloodbath for the party’s more establishment wing.

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El-Sayed in the hot seat after ‘sickening’ animal control record goes viral on social media

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is facing renewed scrutiny over his tenure as Detroit health director, during which Detroit’s animal control department was beset by allegations of animal mistreatment and reportedly branded a “dog slaughterhouse” by a former employee.

Detroit Animal Care and Control’s (DACC) live-release rate was roughly 20% to 26% when El-Sayed inherited the operation in late 2015 but climbed to about 61% to 62% by late 2016 — an improvement his campaign points to in arguing that the raw number of animals euthanized during his tenure obscures a turnaround from the dire conditions and euthanasia rates he inherited. The Daily Mail reported that records covering the period surrounding El-Sayed’s tenure showed 4,680 dogs and cats were euthanized, with 1,056 dogs and 29 cats getting euthanized in the first full calendar year DACC was under El-Sayed’s Health Department.

After winning a bruising primary against Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., El-Sayed is asking Michigan voters to send him to the U.S. Senate, but his record running Detroit’s Health Department and the troubled animal-control operation under its authority has generated renewed scrutiny.

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Ro-lling in Dough: Khanna’s Personal Money Machine Kicked Into Overdrive in 2025, Trading $165 Million at Breakneck Pace, New Disclosures Show

Centimillionaire Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) seized on a banner year for the U.S. stock market in 2025, with the trusts owned by his wife and children trading at a breakneck pace all year. All told, Khanna, who estimated he was worth no more than $78 million when he entered Congress in 2017, now estimates he’s worth as much as $167 million.

Khanna and his family could actually be worth far more. He reported the value of 11 of his family’s assets as being worth more than $1 million with no disclosed ceiling, exemplifying how America’s ultra-rich families manage their money in such a way that congressional reporting requirements often fail to pierce the veil.

The left-wing California congressman—who posted a video on Wednesday saying “people are upset about the cost of living”—filed his 2025 financial disclosure late last week showing his family’s trusts made a staggering 5,402 trades during 244 of the 251 active trading days in 2025, a year in which the S&P 500 notched an above-average 17.9 percent return. In total, Khanna reported a total stock trading volume of up to $165.4 million, which included sales of upward of $70.6 million in stocks, options, ETFs, and hedge funds. It’s a substantial increase from his trading activity in 2024, when he logged 4,665 trades for a total trading volume of $137.2 million, including just shy of $50 million in securities sales.

Khanna filed the disclosure as he crisscrosses the nation advocating for “taxing the billionaires,” as he put it in his Wednesday video. In California—where Khanna represents the country’s wealthiest congressional district—the congressman is backing a statewide ballot initiative to impose a 5 percent wealth tax on billionaires.

Data compiled by the website Rokhanna.Money, which recently digitized the nearly 150 analogue financial disclosure filings Khanna has filed since taking office, lay out the staggering increases in the nine years since Khanna entered Congress on a salary of $174,000. That year, Khanna’s reported net worth ranged between $29 million and $78 million. By the end of 2025, that figure was eclipsed, reaching somewhere between $69 million and $167 million.

Almost all of Khanna’s wealth comes from his in-laws in Ohio who made a fortune in auto parts. The Khanna fortune sits in trusts controlled by Khanna’s father-in-law, Monte Ahuja, that benefit his wife and two children. The trusts include some so-called irrevocable trusts that could shield them from future inheritance taxes.

Khanna insists he has “zero say” and “zero knowledge” of the trades made in his family’s trusts, which he said were set up by Ahuja and are professionally managed. Khanna has criticized members of Congress who trade stocks while in office, claiming they are causing a “crisis of confidence right now in our democracy.”

Members of Congress report their assets in wide valuation ranges, making it impossible to determine Khanna’s exact net worth. At first glance, the numbers suggest Khanna’s net worth dropped in 2025. He reported that the value of his assets ranged from $99 million to $315 million in 2024, whereas in 2025 his assets clocked in at somewhere between $69 million and $167 million.

But 2025 marked another year of exemplary growth in the U.S. stock market, and the wide range of Khanna’s reported assets in both 2024 and 2025 leaves open the likely possibility that his family’s professionally managed fortune grew substantially during the year.

Khanna’s salary has been frozen at $174,000 for years (the House has not given its members a raise since 2008) and his wife, Ritu Ahuja Khanna, is not believed to have had a job beyond board memberships and volunteering for many years. But the Khannas earned up to $10.8 million in dividends and business distributions from their investments in 2025, according to the congressman’s latest disclosure. It’s a staggering amount of purely passive income, suggesting that the Khannas enjoy generational wealth.

The wealth Khanna has accumulated while in office has enabled him to live the sort of oligarchic lifestyle he denounces on the campaign trail. His two young children, for example, are the beneficiaries of trusts that own large ownership shares in three private golf clubs in Ohio where membership initiation fees run upward of $45,000, the Washington Free Beacon reported. As they have in previous years, those golf courses delivered upward of $2 million in unearned income for Khanna’s children in 2025, according to his financial disclosure. Khanna’s children also own a significant stake in a $65 billion wealth management firm as well as investments in hedge funds that focus on distressed debt, of which Khanna has been critical.

Meanwhile, Khanna is in the process of selling his $6 million, 8,000-square-foot luxury Washington, D.C., home equipped with a four-story elevator and two laundry rooms with marble countertops as his family is set to move into an even larger, more expensive custom-built house a few miles away in Northern Virginia, the Free Beacon reported. Ahuja Khanna purchased a luxury Range Rover SUV in October 2024 for $190,000 (which exceeds Khanna’s entire annual salary). Ahuja Khanna alleged in a lawsuit filed in federal court within a year of purchasing the vehicle that it was a lemon. Court records show she settled with Jaguar Land Rover of North America for an undisclosed sum in October.

As his family prepares for their move to a $9 million house in Virginia, Khanna has been pushing hard for the California billionaires’ tax. Khanna proposed on Saturday that California billionaires who are cash poor should be allowed to pay their California wealth tax by pledging shares of their companies to the state government for a period of 10 years, at the end of which the government seizes control of the shares if the loan isn’t repaid in full.

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IT’S OFFICIAL: California Governor Gavin Newsom Signs “Stop Nick Shirley Act” into Law – Journalists Can Now Be FINED and JAILED for Uncovering Democrat Fraud

The formerly great state of California took a giant step toward becoming a complete leftist dictatorship with a new law that completely destroys the 1st Amendment.

As The New York Post reported, Governor Gavin Newsom officially signed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” into law on Saturday. This comes just days after a leftist operative interrupted an interview the independent journalist was conducting at the State Capitol and launched a disgusting and bizarre personal attack against him.

The legislation, which officially takes effect on October 1, 2027, passed the Senate on Tuesday and cleared the state Assembly on Wednesday.

The “Stop Nick Shirley Act” was introduced by Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, who is married to California’s far-left Attorney General, Rob Bonta. AB 2624 claims to expand California’s “Safe at Home” confidentiality program to safeguard “immigration support service providers” from harassment.

But in reality, this is a disgusting Democrat power grab designed to silence brave conservative citizen journalists like Shirley who expose the rampant fraud bleeding American taxpayers dry in government-funded immigrant service centers.

For example, Shirley has exposed over $110 million in alleged Somali-run daycare fraud in Minnesota — empty “learning centers” billing taxpayers while no children were present.

He then followed up with a shocking exposé on California daycare and hospice fraud schemes. This included ghost operations in Los Angeles tied to massive looting of Medi-Cal and Medicare.

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Democrats and CNN Lose it After Pete Hegseth Utters This So-Called ‘Transphobic Slur’ at the Iowa State Fair

War Secretary Pete Hegseth drove the left insane earlier this week after using a politically incorrect term to describe transgender individuals.

As Iowa Public Radio reported, Hegseth appeared at the Iowa State Fair on Wednesday to defend the Department of War’s $1.5 trillion budget request and to support Rep. Zach Nunn, who is facing a difficult re-election fight.

Hegseth later tried to fire up fairgoers with some colorful language referencing the department’s return to fighting bad guys rather than pushing DEI garbage.

“We’re restoring the warrior ethos inside our department because that matters,” Hegseth told fairgoers.

“At the Department of War, we do training — not trannies,” he added.

Upon hearing this remark, CNN’s Jake Tapper was disgusted.

“Calling transgender people trannies, that’s obviously a slur,” Tapper fumed. “Treat people with dignity.”

U.S Senators Ed Markey (D-MA) and Raphael Warnock (D-GA) also flipped out, with both calling for Hegseth’s termination.

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Massachusetts Sanctuary Politicians Released A Man Charged With Vehicular Homicide Three Times — ICE Finally Got Him

Massachusetts Democrats protected an illegal immigrant three times while one of their constituents lost his life.

Heriton Da Silva Aredes is a deported Brazilian national who came back to the United States and continued to engage in a career of criminality by committing assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, reckless operations of a motor vehicle, and furnishing a false ID among other illegal acts.

He started to come on ICE Boston’s radar in August 2023, after the Massachusetts State Police apprehended him in Middleboro. He was released by the state authorities before immigration agents were able to act. Not long after his release, he was arrested for the same transgressions by the Stoughton Police Department. Once again, ICE was unable to act before he was released.

The situation was the most grave in July 2026 when Aredes was charged with the negligent homicide of a motor vehicle victim. With his posting of bail, the Bristol House of Corrections released him without notifying ICE or honoring the immigration detainer.

It was not until August 6 of 2026 that ICE was able to arrest Aredes in the targeted operations in Taunton, Massachusetts.

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Report — No-Show: Democrat U.S. Senate Candidate Mary Peltola Missed 794 Alaska House Votes

Mary Peltola of Alaska, who is a former representative and current Democrat U.S. Senate nominee, has claimed to work hard for her community, but her voting record reportedly showed otherwise.

Peltola finished ahead of Trump-backed Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) on Tuesday during the primary as both moved toward the general election, Fox News reported Saturday.

Peltola “missed nearly one in five votes in the Alaska House of Representatives and more than a third of Bethel City Council meetings during her time in office, records show,” the outlet said.

She reportedly missed 794 of over 4,000 House votes during her five terms and 22 city council meetings.

“Her attendance record is now raising questions about her commitment to public service as she advances to Alaska’s four-candidate general election, a closely watched race that could affect control of the U.S. Senate,” the article continued.

When announcing her decision to run for the U.S. Senate, Peltola said she was going to “fight for fish, family, and freedom.”

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Radical ‘Maoist’ Faction of the DSA Says AOC is Too ‘Moderate’ to Run for President in 2028

There is apparently a ‘Maoist’ faction of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), called the ‘Liberation Caucus’ and according to them, far left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is too ‘moderate’ to run for president in 2028.

This is going to be news to the millions of Americans who see AOC as a leading figure of the radical left. She is still a member of the DSA chapter in New York City.

If AOC is a moderate, what does that say about the rest of them?

FOX News reports:

AOC blasted as too moderate by Maoist DSA faction as 2028 buzz grows

The Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) Liberation Caucus is rejecting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., as a potential candidate for Democrats in the 2028 presidential election, arguing she is too far removed from the socialist agenda.

“Liberation condemns Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s continued retreat from socialist politics and rejects any effort to present her as the future presidential standard-bearer for DSA, or for the broader socialist movement,” the DSA Liberation Caucus wrote in the statement.

DSA slammed Ocasio-Cortez as an “opportunist” and condemned her vote to defend Israel’s right to exist and for not holding firm as an anti-Zionist.

“In short, it was determined that she had failed to meet conditions concerning Palestine solidarity,” the statement said.

After withdrawing a conditional endorsement of the “Squad” Democrat in 2024, DSA’s National Political Committee “determined” that Ocasio-Cortez hosted a public panel with an alleged Zionist organization — the Jewish Council for Public Affairs.

She was also trashed for joining a group of House Democrats to co-sign a statement — after voting against providing Israel with supplemental weapon funding — that voiced support for Israel’s right to have defensive systems.

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Far Left Florida Democrat Angie Nixon Now Desperately Trying to Distance Herself From the DSA 

Angie Nixon is the far left Democrat who defeated Alex Vindman in the recent Democrat primary. Nixon is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), but is now trying to distance herself from the increasingly toxic organization.

Socialism is not going to fly in Florida and she knows it.

The amazing aspect of this story is how the media is bending over backwards to help her accomplish the feat of separating herself from the DSA.

FOX News reports:

Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon distanced herself from several major planks in the Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) national program Thursday on “Meet the Press NOW,” after host Kristen Welker pressed her to explain why she joined an organization that called for abolishing the office she is seeking.

Nixon said she joined the DSA because it supported public housing, healthcare, helping homeless veterans and removing big money from politics, but rejected incumbent Republican Sen. Ashley Moody’s characterization of her political identity.

“Ashley Moody knows that I’m not a socialist,” Nixon said. “I joined the DSA because I believe in them in regards to fighting for adequate public housing, as well as fighting for quality healthcare, as well as making sure that we are getting our veterans off the street, taking big money out of politics, right?”…

Nixon explicitly rejected abolishing the Senate and drafting a new constitution. She also said she did not support defunding the military, although she called for greater scrutiny of defense spending. Nixon did not directly answer Welker’s question about lifting sanctions on Iran.

“I don’t believe in defunding anything. I think we need to make sure that we are scrutinizing them, and we need to make sure we’re spending money the right way,” Nixon said.

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