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Texas DA known for naked stunts faces five years in prison after posting video of herself smoking weed in her garden

Best known for a viral video in which she straddled an oil pumping jack while topless and bottomless, a Texas elected official now faces jail time after smoking a joint on TikTok.

District Attorney Sarah Stogner, 41, could be incarceration after she posted a social media video of herself smoking weed in protest of a state ban on THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. 

The Republican made headlines in 2022 when she posted the viral clip of her riding the oil pump jack at the time she was running to be the state’s railroad commissioner.

Stogner, now the DA of Texas’s 143rd judicial district near Pecos, hopes her latest stunt might shame Texas into legalizing weed – especially if she is arrested and made a martyr for the cause. 

‘I did this to raise attention,’ she told Newsweek. 

‘Its silly that our elected officials want to completely ban THC when that’s not what our constituents want.’

Medical marijuana is legal in Texas, but recreational use of the drug is not. 

And in recent weeks, Lone Star State lawmakers passed a bill banning any products containing any ‘detectable amount of any cannabinoid.’

If signed into law, the bill would outlaw the majority of hemp products, including those that are legal under the federal definition in Texas. 

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DOJ Drops Charges Against Man Who Brought Bionic Face Shields to Los Angeles Riots

The Justice Department on Tuesday dropped the charges against the man who brought bionic face shields to the Los Angeles riots last month.

A federal grand jury indicted the man who went viral for delivering face shields to protestors during the Los Angeles riots last month.

The man driving the truck full of supplies and bionic shields, identified as Alejandro Orellana, was indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with Conspiracy to aid and abet.

On Tuesday, US Attorney Bill Essayli moved to dismiss the indictment without prejudice.

As TGP’s Kristinn Taylor reported, last month a man driving a pickup truck loaded with supplies pulled up to a crowd of anti-ICE rioters.

Fox 11 LA reporter Elex Michaelson posted about what he witnessed, “#BREAKING We just saw people arrive in Downtown L.A. with truck loads of Bionic Face Shields that demonstrators quickly grabbed. It certainly seems like gear you’d wear if you’re preparing for conflict with police. Who is funding this?”

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SEE the Videos and Images CENSORED by the UK Government As They Implement The Draconian Online Safety Act

Footage is being censored in the UK featuring the heavy-handed police crackdown on citizens showing up to hotels to protest the illegal migrant invasion, as many grow fed up after a 38-year-old Ethiopian migrant sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl.

The videos are being censored under the controversial new “Online Safety Act,” which was promoted as a way to prevent children from being exposed to graphic content on the internet… but now it’s being used to hide the tyranny of the state, the massive public uproar, and the ongoing invasion.

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Two-Tier Policing: More Videos Show Officers Escorting Far-Left Activists To Migration Protests

New footage has emerged showing UK police officers escorting masked far-left activists past local protesters at a migrant hotel in Aldershot, Hampshire, fueling further claims of biased policing amid ongoing tensions over illegal immigration.

The video, posted by Turning Point UK, depicts Hampshire Constabulary officers leading a group of individuals—described as “masked ANTIFA thugs”—through a grassy area near the protest site.

The group, many wearing face coverings, is guided by police in high-visibility vests, with one officer directing them forward. A voice in the footage can be heard shouting, “Take your masks off,” and later mocking the group as “little boys” possibly affiliated with Antifa. The post accuses the police of using this tactic to “antagonise the locals to justify police brutality,” calling for an end to “two-tier policing.”

The police escorted the masked leftists to one side of the road and the locals to the other, where a shouting match inevitably ensued.

This incident echoes similar events in Epping, Essex, where police were caught on camera bussing pro-migrant activists from the group Stand Up to Racism to and from The Bell Hotel, a site housing asylum seekers that became a flashpoint after reports of a sexual assault on a young girl by one of its occupants.

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Brits Rage as Government Piles Hundreds of ‘Migrants’ Into 4-Star London Hotel

New protests have broken out in response to the latest outrage perpetrated against British citizens as the government moves hundreds of migrants into a four-star hotel in London.

Amid ongoing demonstrations in Essex following the alleged sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl by an African male staying at a ‘migrant hotel’ there, U.K. authorities quietly took over the Britannia International Hotel in the posh financial district of Canary Wharf in order to pack it full of ‘asylum seekers.’

With a nightly rate averaging around $600, the 500-room Britannia might easily gross $300,000 per day if filled to capacity, indicating British taxpayers could be on the hook for an astronomical bill.

London-based reporter Jack Hadfield has been covering mounting protests outside the Britannia, where police and masked private security are patrolling a “ring of steel” erected to keep the public at bay.

“You’re seeing more and more normal people not being violent, but angrily protesting,” Hadfield told Border Hawk during an interview on Wednesday.

“It’s more powerful to have a strong, angry protest that doesn’t turn violent, because then it’s so much harder to paint it all as ‘far-right, violent, Nazi, fascist thugs,’ as opposed to angry citizens who are fed up with their government.”

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THE DAY AFTER: Zelensky Arrests Anti-corruption Officials, Signs Law Stripping Agencies of Power – Protesters Flood the Streets, and Ukraine Will Never Be the Same

The ‘defender of democracy’ is now openly challenged by his own citizens.

Many were caught by surprise by yesterday’s protests in Kiev, Lvov, Odessa, and other parts of Ukraine – after all, these are the absolute first since the war began three and a half years ago.

But here at TGP we have been closely following the escalating tensions inside the war-torn country.

Four days ago (19), we reported that Amid Collapsing Morale, Ukrainians ‘Lost Faith’ in Zelensky, With 70% Convinced That Kiev Regime Leaders Are Using the War to Enrich Themselves: REPORT.

The following day (20), there was this thought-provoking development: Pulitzer Prize Winner Seymour Hersh Reports That US May Move to Oust Zelensky, Even by Force – General Zaluzhny Would Be Tasked for Succession.

On Monday (21), we showed Zelensky’s efforts to change the image of his regime: CHARM OFFENSIVE: Zelensky Reshuffles His Government, Aiming to Show a Different Side of Ukraine for the US and the World.

Meanwhile, on the same Monday, Ukraine’s domestic security agency detained two NABU (Anti-corruption agency) officials on ‘suspicion of links to Russia’.

Finally, yesterday, after the Parliament voted to strip the Anti-Corruption agencies of any real power, it was the final straw, and Massive Protests Erupt Against Zelensky in Ukraine.

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Columbia University says it has suspended and expelled students who participated in protests

 Columbia University announced disciplinary action Tuesday against students who participated in a pro-Palestinian demonstration inside the Ivy League school’s main library before final exams in May and an encampment during alumni weekend last year.

A student activist group said nearly 80 students were told they have been suspended for one to three years or expelled. The sanctions issued by a university judicial board also include probation and degree revocations, Columbia said in a statement.

The action comes as the Manhattan university is negotiating with President Donald Trump’s administration to restore $400 million in federal funding it has withheld from the Ivy League school over its handling of student protests against the war in Gaza. The administration pulled the funding, canceling grants and contracts, in March because of what it described as the university’s failure to squelch antisemitism on campus during the Israel-Hamas war that began in October 2023.

Columbia has since agreed to a series of demands laid out by the Republican administration, including overhauling the university’s student disciplinary process and adopting a new definition of antisemitism.

“Our institution must focus on delivering on its academic mission for our community,” the university said Tuesday. “And to create a thriving academic community, there must be respect for each other and the institution’s fundamental work, policies, and rules. Disruptions to academic activities are in violation of University policies and Rules, and such violations will necessarily generate consequences.”

It did not disclose the names of the students who were disciplined.

Columbia in May said it would lay off nearly 180 staffers and scale back research in response to the loss of funding. Those receiving nonrenewal or termination notices represent about 20% of the employees funded in some manner by the terminated federal grants, the university said.

A student activist group said the newly announced disciplinary action exceeds sentencing precedent for prior protests. Suspended students would be required to submit apologies in order to be allowed back on campus or face expulsion, the group said, something some students will refuse to do.

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Gavin Newsom Personally Secured Nonprofit Cash For Anti-Law Enforcement Activists

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom asked nonprofits to donate at least $610,000 to groups that call for defunding or abolishing law enforcement since 2023 before distancing himself from such stances.

Immigrant Defenders Law Center (IDLC) and Immigrant Legal Defense (ILD) received $500,000 in 2023 and $110,000 in 2025, respectively, at Newsom’s request, according to state records first reported by The Washington Free Beacon. IDLC has advocated for defunding the police and worked to free illegal immigrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), while ILD “prioritizes abolishing immigration detention and reimagining the U.S. immigration system entirely,” the group’s website says.

Newsom said in a March interview that proposals to defund police after the Black Lives Matter movement gained steam in 2020 were “lunacy.” He also declared in a July 14 interview that he is “happy to advocate for eliminating sanctuary policy,” referring to laws in Democratic-leaning areas that prohibit police from helping ICE catch illegal immigrants. The governor’s recent push toward more moderate rhetoric on major issues has fueled speculation that he plans to run for president in 2028.

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National Anti-Trump “Good Trouble” Protests Fizzle With Little Fanfare

The establishment media has taken on a new role in recent months; rather than reporting on events that already happened progressive outlets are promoting events before they happen.  Specifically, the media has taken on the role of protest organizer in the Trump era in an attempt to rally the public to show up and fill out otherwise dwindling activist attendance. 

The slowdown in leftist protests has “coincidentally” occurred at the same time as the shut down of easy federal funds supplied by agencies like USAID.  The monetary incentives for professional provocateurs is drying up.

This means the political left is now forced to rely on actual grassroots participation, and it’s not working out well for them.  Corporate news platforms have been pivoting into protest organizing as a stopgap, publishing maps and schedules for events with minimal success. 

A recent interview between NewsNation’s Brian Entin and Adam Swart, CEO of an activist group called “Crowds on Demand” revealed that an unnamed organization offered Swart’s company $20 million to recruit demonstrators for upcoming anti-Trump protests on July 18th.  Swart noted:

“We had to reject an offer worth around $20 million for nationwide, large-scale demonstrations across the country. Personally, I don’t think it’s effective. I’m rejecting the contract not because I don’t want the business, but because, frankly, this is going to be ineffective and make us all look bad…”   

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The Protest-Industrial-Complex Isn’t Peaceful, It’s “Civil Terrorism” …

Ilya Shapiro and Jesse Arm of the Manhattan Institute authored an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, unveiling a plan for the federal government to take decisive action against the rogue permanent protest industry—comprising some Marxist groups and professional agitators—waging continuous color revolutions that have brought chaos to American cities. 

“Americans instinctively understand that what happened in Los Angeles wasn’t peaceful organizing or messy democracy. Such unrest invites criminal mayhem and political violence, or what our Manhattan Institute colleague Tal Fortgang has described as “civil terrorism.” It’s often perpetrated by agitators who hide behind masks,” Shapiro and Arm wrote. 

What’s clear is that the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects the right to peaceful protest—it does not shield anonymous social justice warriors and paid demonstrators affiliated with anti-American, Marxist movements, some of whom are funded by dark money NGOs and even entities based in countries deemed foreign adversaries. These bad actors appear to be waging a form of hybrid or irregular warfare aimed at sowing chaos within the U.S. The two authors from the Manhattan Institute argue for “stronger enforcement of existing state antimasking laws and new federal action.”

Shapiro and Arm state the urgent need for modernizing antimasking statutes to criminalize masking while committing crimes or obstructing public order.

Their approach is outlined here:

  • First, the Justice Department should direct federal prosecutors to pursue enhanced sentences for masked criminals. Federal guidelines allow sentencing enhancements for obstruction of justice or premeditated conduct. A masked assault can lead to a two-level sentence increase, making it more likely that violent offenders serve real time.
  • Second, the Homeland Security Department should deploy Federal Protective Service officers to respond to masked protesters on federal property. DHS is already empowered to secure federal buildings and grounds. New regulations prohibit the use of masks to avoid identification while breaking the law on federal property. That authority now needs to be enforced aggressively.
  • Finally, the administration should make prosecution of federal crimes committed by masked offenders a priority. These offenses include assaulting a federalized National Guard member and damaging federal property. They already are federal crimes, but the added presence of a mask should be treated as a red flag and an aggravating factor. Prosecutors should move swiftly and law enforcement should make arrests public.

The two emphasized: “These measures wouldn’t criminalize protest, chill dissent or limit protected speech. They would send a clear signal: If you hide behind a mask to commit a crime or intimidate others, the federal government will hold you accountable.” 

They added: “Americans have every right to protest their government, but not to do so anonymously while terrorizing others and flouting the law.” 

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