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Monday, May 4, 2026

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Rudy Giuliani in Critical Condition at Florida Hospital

Rudy Giuliani, 81, in Critical Condition After Feeling 'Under the Weather'

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is in critical condition at a hospital in West Palm Beach, according to his spokesman.

Giuliani was admitted to the emergency room over the weekend and is currently being treated in the intensive care unit.

Earlier Sunday, he was placed on a ventilator after experiencing severe respiratory distress, according to a source close to the mayor. His condition is said to be stable.

Giuliani’s spokesman Ted Goodman issued the following statement Sunday evening on X: “Mayor Rudy Giuliani is currently in the hospital, where he remains in critical but stable condition.

"Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he's fighting with that same level of strength as we speak. We do ask that you join us in prayer for America’s Mayor Rudy Giuliani.”

Giuliani’s health complications may be linked to chronic lung issues and are believed to stem from exposure during the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

As mayor at the time, Giuliani was frequently present at ground zero, where first responders and recovery workers were exposed to toxic dust and debris.

The long-term health impact of those exposures has been well documented.

 

Thousands of firefighters, police officers, construction workers, and volunteers later developed respiratory illnesses, cancers, and other chronic conditions attributed to inhalation of hazardous materials in the days, weeks, and months following the attacks.

Giuliani, 81, has remained a prominent political figure in recent years.

He has been staunch supporter of Donald Trump and served as one of Trump’s personal attorneys during his 45th presidency.

In that role, Giuliani became a central figure in efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election, acting as a leading public voice in legal strategies aimed at contesting the outcome.

Trump reacted to the news in a social media post.

"Our fabulous Rudy Giuliani, a True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR, has been hospitalized, and is in critical condition. What a tragedy that he was treated so badly by the Radical Left Lunatics, Democrats ALL — AND HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!" said in a post on Truth Social. 

He added, "They cheated on the Elections, fabricated hundreds of stories, did anything possible to destroy our Nation, and now, look at Rudy. So sad!"

Following the election, Giuliani faced a wave of legal challenges, including lawsuits and professional disciplinary actions tied to his election-related work.

Despite those challenges, Giuliani continued to maintain a presence in political and media circles.

Giuliani has been a long-time contributor to Newsmax and his popular podcast show airs weekly on Newsmax2, the network’s streaming channel.

His son, Andrew Giuliani, 

 

has also been active in politics and heads the Trump administration’s planning for the World Cup set for this summer.

“Rudy Giuliani has been one of the strongest people I ever met,” Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy said. “We are hopeful and praying he makes a comeback as he has so often in the past.”

© 2026 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

 

Woke University of Oregon Treats ICE Agents Like Active Shooters in Emergency Alerts

The University of Oregon is weaponizing its official emergency alert system against federal law enforcement by adding “ICE presence” notifications to the same UO Alert platform used for active shooters, fires, and/or other imminent life-threatening dangers. 

Sanctuary campus radicalism on steroids, folks.

 

Beginning on May 5th, according to the "Daily Emerald," a student-run news organization at the University of Oregon, students and employees will receive urgent emails and texts whenever immigration enforcement activity is confirmed on campus.

The newspaper obtained a university-wide email from Associate Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students Jimmy Howard, 

Meet Jimmy Howard, UO's New Interim Dean of Students - Daily ... 

stating that reports of ICE's presence on campus will be confirmed "within minutes."

They are treating the presence of federal law enforcement like any other risk, as "an imminent threat to health and/or safety to the campus community.”

In a sane world, the alert system would be used to confirm the presence of illegal aliens on campus, individuals using university resources meant for Americans or legal immigrants, as opposed to targeting law enforcement.

These clowns are effectively treating Border Patrol and ICE officers as they do their jobs, effectively protecting students and staff from criminal illegal aliens, as a threat on par with mass violence. They prioritize illegal immigration over public safety.


READ MORE: Brown University Custodian Warned Security Multiple Times That Suspicious Shooter Was Casing His Target

Watch: DHS Secretary Mullin Annihilates ‘Lying Scumbag’ Schumer Over His ICE Hatred


Here's a news bulletin for the students who go to the University of Oregon and the parents who send their kids there: Twisted priorities get people killed.

Another elite campus recently learned the hard way what happens when universities treat actual public safety as an afterthought. At Brown University, a custodian repeatedly warned security about a suspicious man (a legal permanent resident through the Diversity Immigrant Visa program) casing an engineering building for weeks. Red flags everywhere. But those warnings were ignored, and the result was a deadly active shooter attack that killed two students and injured others.

How does this compare? Brown University was accused of disabling security cameras as a means to protect illegal immigrants and/or pro-Palestinian agitators on campus, making it challenging to identify a suspect and prolonging the case. That incompetence also allowed the shooter to murder MIT professor Nuno Loureiro at his home two days later.

This is what sanctuary campus radicalism looks like in practice: universities that freak out over federal law enforcement while turning a completely blind eye to the real threats.

This isn't exclusively a U of Oregon issue. It's a blue-state issue.

Oregon’s new Safeguarding Students and Families Act (House Bill 4079) forces every public school and university in the state to create an official alert system for ICE activity on campus.

The law, signed by Lesbian Governor Tina Kotek (D) 

 

on March 31, is set to take full effect on September 30. But schools can roll out the notifications even sooner if they choose. The University of Oregon jumped all over that option.

 

Iran Responds to Trump’s Strait Move - He Finishes Them With One Reply

The Iranian regime has misjudged President Donald Trump, and they've miscalculated what they can get away with. 

But they're beginning to understand they're not dealing with Barack Obama or Joe Biden. 

Trump is blockading them into oblivion, and they'd like out. They may have made some movement in their last offer to Trump, but it doesn't fully address his topline concern about the nuclear weapons before anything else. And he does not appear to be budging on that. 

Meanwhile, Iran, being Iran, appeared to back away from any claims that they talked about the nuclear question.

“I once again emphasize that Iran’s 14-point proposal is focused exclusively on ending the war,” foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei told state television.

“Therefore, none of the issues addressed by some media have any place in our proposal,” he added.

“In the current circumstances, we do not have nuclear negotiations,” he said.

But now Trump may be moving to take away the final play they had left — obstructing things in the Strait. Trump announced the U.S. would be helping the ships Iran had been blocking through the Strait as a "humanitarian" gesture. 


READ MORE: Trump’s New Strait Plan Kicks Off Monday - With a Clear Message Attached


An Iranian official said they would interpret that as a violation of the ceasefire.

A member of Iranian parliament's national security committee says any US intervention in Hormuz shipping would violate the ceasefire. “The Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf are not a place for rhetoric,” Ebrahim Azizi posted on X after President Trump's escort plan.

He posted a short time later: 

The Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf would not be managed by Trump's delusional posts! No one would believe Blame Game scenarios!

How is it a violation?  It's explicitly a "humanitarian action." Trump is helping get out the ships that have been stuck in the Persian Gulf since the start of the military action. 

 

If they fire on anyone, they're the ones who are breaking the ceasefire, and they're restarting hostilities. 

I'd also note that Azizi may not know what the actual folks in charge of the regime are thinking or have said to Trump. 

Their options are drying up for Iran if Trump manages to help clear shipping through the area. Trump doesn't actually say we will be escorting the ships that have been trapped; he said we will be "doing our best to help them get out." So I take that to mean we will not necessarily be providing any big targets for them to shoot at, but will be using our capabilities to guide/protect the ships. 

What Iran is likely to do is run a lot of small boats at a ship all at the same time, as they have done in the past. If they do that, the U.S. might take them out from the air just like they do with the narco-boats. If Iran starts firing missiles at the ships of other countries, that would not go well for them, and that would prompt more countries against them. 

Meanwhile, the blockade and Operation Economic Fury continue to choke them. So they can throw all the tantrums they want, but they still have that crushing them, big time. 

Oh, and Trump posted shortly after Azizi did. The response was simple. Click on for the full picture. 

Editor's Note: For decades, former presidents have been all talk and no action. Now, Donald Trump is eliminating the threat from Iran once and for all. 

 

Why Anti-ICE Leftists Are Freaking Out. It's Actually Hilarious.

Why Anti-ICE Leftists Are Freaking Out. It's Actually Hilarious.

The anti-ICE Left faced a tough weekend: one of their websites, which had tens of thousands of sign-ups, had its data exposed. It was part of an effort to mobilize a response force regarding operations that enforce federal immigration law. You’ve seen what these people do when activated; they’re irrational. And some of these people, like Renee Good, have been shot in the face because they’ve tried to harm federal immigration officers. Good tried to run over an ICE agent in Minneapolis. 

The site, GTFO ICE, was created by an anti-Trump commentator and former DHS official, Miles Taylor, 

 

and pretty much everyone’s information got exposed. Here’s some background on the site (via Newsweek):

A new tool to "crowd cancel" Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities before they open was launched by a former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official this week. 

Miles Taylor, who was chief of staff at DHS during the first Trump administration and authored an anonymous 2018 op-ed that was sharply critical of the president, has launched GTFOICE.org—which stands for Get the Facilities Out, ICE—to help Americans find out about and protest proposed facilities amid DHS's expansion of detention centers to house immigrants.

"We want to make sure that the moment that ICE decides to open up a new prison camp, that local communities immediately have the chance to weigh in and to stop it," Taylor told Newsweek. 

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The GTFO ICE tool, a collaboration between Taylor's nonprofit Defiance.org, the Save America Movement and Project Salt Box, allows people to sign up to join the network.

They will receive alerts if a facility is being planned in or near their community and be provided with organizing resources, legal guidance and other support.

The website includes a tracker from Project Salt Box, an ICE watchdog that has been gathering information about planned ICE facilities.

 

‘Data Republican’ posted a lengthy thread revealing the inner workings of this organization, while also joking about how Taylor, who oversaw election security, couldn’t create a secure sign-up form:

Miles Taylor: "Anonymous," former DHS Chief of Staff, Google security executive launched a website called GTFO ICE that collects your full name, email, phone number, and zip code to join an anti-ICE "rapid response network." And publishes the user infromation via a public API. 

17,662 people have signed up.

The sign-up data is exposed on a public REST API. No true authentication. No rate limiting. Full records: names, emails, phone numbers, zip codes, timestamps.

The man who ran the third-largest federal department (250,000 employees, $60 billion budget) who oversaw election security architecture and led counterterrorism operations, then served as Google's Head of National Security Policy...

...can't secure a sign-up form. But he does milk hundreds of thousands of NGO dollars on these credentials. While freeloading off his fame as the person who wrote the infamous NYT article "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration."

There’s been a total meltdown on Bluesky over this breach:

— Grummz (@Grummz) May 2, 2026

Yeah. They have a whole bunch of legal obligations to fulfill in the wake of such an exposure. They aren’t having a good weekend.

What they did wasn’t just unsecured; they actively went of their way to build a tool to expose PII information. That puts it on an order of…

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) May 3, 2026

Brutal past couple of days for these people. Oh well...

 

The Latest TikTok Trend Is Sickening...and It Involves Charlie Kirk

The Latest TikTok Trend Is Sickening...and It Involves Charlie Kirk

It’s the Internet, so it's expected to see disturbing things. I wish I could say I’m shocked, but I’m not. The latest TikTok trend is still incredibly upsetting: it uses the audio from the Charlie Kirk assassination. Gen Z weirdos are using the last words Kirk said during his Q&A at Utah Valley University last year to do outfit transformations or whatever. Of course, TPUSA was aghast and incensed, as they should be (via Fox News):

A TikTok trend using audio that references the assassination of Charlie Kirk in outfit transition videos is drawing backlash from Turning Point USA and commentators across the political spectrum.

Turning Point USA issued a statement on Saturday condemning the trend and calling for the audio to be removed from the platform.

"Turning Point USA condemns in the strongest terms the TikTok audio trend that uses or references the assassination of our founder, Charlie Kirk, for entertainment," Turning Point USA shared in the statement.

 

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"The audio of Charlie Kirk getting shot is now a trending transition sound on TikTok for outfit changes. Let that sink in," Reverend Jordan Wells said in a post on X. "A man’s final moments—gunshot and screams—turned into dance video filler for likes. Sick people. Our culture is completely broken."

Yeah, this is just gross. 

Kirk was assassinated on September 10, 2025. Tyler Robinson has been charged with the murder. The trial is ongoing. Kirk was at the university doing his hallmark Q&A sessions, part of his 'Great American Comeback' tour.  

Also, Robinson is not a conservative. That fake news narrative is bound to be resurrected. 

 

Latest Trump assassination attempt exposes ‘educated assassins’ moral crisis, university president says

Cornerstone University's new president is under fire. His former colleagues  see a pattern.

The California man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner was highly educated and had worked as a tutor, a profile one university president said raises an unsettling question about the role of education in shaping character.

 

Cole Allen, 31, earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2017 and a master's degree in computer science from California State University, Dominguez Hills last year. That doesn't match the typical resume of a would-be presidential assassin, but a disturbing shift appears to be underway, according to Cornerstone University President Gerson Moreno-Riaño.

"A troubling trend that appears to be emerging is that of the ‘educated assassin,’ individuals who do not fit the typical profile of people who commit such heinous acts," Moreno-Riaño said. "These individuals are often schooled in some of America’s most elite institutions and act out of a perverted philosophical conviction that sees the killing of others not as evil, but as justified."

ALLEGED TRUMP ASSASSINATION PLOT: ANALYSIS SHOWS 1 IN 5 LEFT-WING POSTS CRY HOAX, ADMIN SHREDS ‘MORON’ CLAIMS

Cole Allen graduation gown

A photo of Cole Allen in a graduation gown and cap from 2025. (Cole Allen/LinkedIn)

"My concern has been for many, many years that some of these not just activists, but violent activists, are perhaps some of the most highly educated ones in our country," he said. "When education ceases to educate, when it’s ideological, when it’s brainwashing, when it’s indoctrination, it’s no longer education… It’s something very different."

Prosecutors say Allen, who remains in federal custody, targeted Trump and Cabinet officials in the April 25 incident. He allegedly had authored a damning manifesto and left what authorities described as an extensive digital trail showing weeks of planning.

In addition to his advanced schooling, Allen joined tutoring company C2 Education in March 2020, according to his LinkedIn profile. A Dec. 30, 2024, Facebook post from the company congratulated "Cole Allen of C2 Education Torrence" as a teacher of the month.

Law enforcement personnel detaining Cole Tomas Allen in Washington, D.C.

Law enforcement personnel detain Cole Tomas Allen, a suspect in the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in Washington, D.C., on April 25, 2026. (Donald J Trump via Truth Social/Handout via Reuters)

Secret Service Director Sean Curran told Fox News Thursday that Allen shot an agent in the chest while "charging through security," with the round stopped by the agent’s bulletproof vest.

Curran said the agent returned five shots that missed, adding the agent was the only person other than Allen who discharged a weapon during the incident. Allen is believed to have tripped and fallen, prompting Secret Service agents to surround and subdue him.

Defense attorneys claim prosecutors lack key physical evidence and dispute aspects of how the incident has been characterized. A defense memo described Allen as a "devout Christian," a highly educated man with no criminal history and a "loved and respected teacher."

But Moreno-Riaño warned that credentials and professional roles do not necessarily reflect deeper moral grounding.

"The universities have rejected the centrality of God, a theistic Christian worldview, but nothing has taken its place," he said.

"There is no moral compass for universities and for education today. It just doesn’t exist."

KANSAS PROFESSOR PUT ON LEAVE AFTER CALLING WHITE MEN 'DANGEROUS ANIMALS' IN THE WAKE OF CHARLIE KIRK'S MURDER

A Secret Service agent fires at Cole Allen.

A Secret Service agent fires at Cole Allen, suspected in the assassination attempt of President Donald Trump on Saturday, April 25, 2026. (Obtained by The Washington Post)

He added that parents should take a more active role in understanding what their children are being taught.

"Parents can no longer… simply drop off their student" and assume responsibility ends there, Moreno-Riaño said.

Moreno-Riaño also said people who carry out acts like this can hide their intentions, making them difficult to identify ahead of time.

"Our entire life as a whole, whatever we do in private, whatever we’re doing in secret, does have a significant impact on what we do in public," he said.

Allen’s next hearing is scheduled for May 11.

For Moreno-Riaño, the case points to a moral concern.

"There’s a crisis of morality, a crisis of faith," he said. "Without it, all we’re giving to students is just information then. And that’s not giving them guidance and moral direction."

 

DOJ Charges Family for Assaulting Reporter at Anti-ICE Protest

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The Department of Justice unsealed a federal grand jury indictment on April 29 charging Christopher Ostroushko, Deyanna Ostroushko, and their daughter Paige 

TPUSA reporter attacked at anti-ICE protest speaks out after three indicted  in assault case 

with assaulting Turning Point USA reporter Savannah Hernandez while she was lawfully reporting on an anti‑ICE protest at the Whipple Federal Building on April 11, 2026. Federal prosecutors also charged Christopher and Paige with willfully injuring and intimidating the journalist, a rare and necessary use of federal authority to protect reporters on federal property.

Video of the confrontation circulated widely online, showing the daughter blowing a whistle near Hernandez before a physical struggle left the reporter shoved to the ground; Hernandez later said her glasses were broken and she suffered a concussion, sore neck and scraped legs. Hernandez also posted on X that protesters were chanting that they were “ANTIFA,” a claim that helps explain the viciousness of the attack and the urgency with which federal agents moved to investigate.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen rightly condemned the incident as politically motivated violence, and the DOJ made clear it will not tolerate attacks aimed at journalists for ideological reasons. Conservatives should applaud a Justice Department that enforces the law evenly and moves swiftly when a reporter is targeted for simply doing her job, because free press protections apply to all Americans regardless of viewpoint.

 

Local authorities have also pursued charges: Hennepin County filed a fifth‑degree assault misdemeanor against Christopher Ostroushko, even as the family’s lawyer promises a vigorous defense and warns videos don’t show the whole picture. That defense is the right of every accused person, but equal justice demands that accusations of mob violence and intimidation be met with thorough prosecution rather than excuses or squishy moralizing from the activist class.

This was not an isolated spat — the Whipple building has become a flashpoint for anti‑ICE demonstrations, and the escalation into physical attacks shows how unchecked radical activism can metastasize into outright lawlessness. Mainstream outlets that reflexively sanitize such behavior as “peaceful protest” have a duty to stop tiptoeing around political violence when conservative voices are the victims.

Americans who value the rule of law should demand the same swift accountability for political violence whether it targets left or right, and should support law enforcement efforts to protect journalists covering contentious but lawful events. Let this indictment be a clear message: mob intimidation of reporters will no longer be tolerated, and those who think they can silence dissent with fists and whistles will face the full weight of the law.

 

Spirit Airlines' Collapse Exposes Flaws in Government Bailouts and Energy Policy

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Hardworking Americans woke up to shocking news on May 2, 2026: Spirit Airlines announced an immediate wind-down of operations, cancelling flights and leaving travelers and employees scrambling for answers. The sudden collapse of a high-profile low-cost carrier isn’t just a business story — it’s a failure with real people’s livelihoods on the line and communities losing dependable air service.

Reports made clear the collapse followed last-ditch negotiations for a government-backed rescue that ultimately fell apart, proving once again that political theater around bailouts too often replaces sound economic policy. The truth is painful: private companies can fail, and when the state’s intervention is inconsistent or politicized, the American people pay the price.

Spirit’s shutdown also highlights how global instability and bad energy policy can batter domestic businesses, with airline executives pointing to soaring jet-fuel costs compounded by the Middle East conflict as a major pressure point in recent months. Conservatives have warned for years that unreliable energy supplies and punitive regulations leave our industries exposed — now families, pilots, and gate workers are bearing the fallout.

Meanwhile, Carnival Cruises suffered a separate but related blow when a Miami federal jury awarded $300,000 to a passenger who said she was overserved before a damaging fall, a verdict that will echo across hospitality and travel sectors. The case of Diana Sanders lays bare the legal risks companies face in our liability-happy system and raises questions about operational standards aboard crowded, all-you-can-drink vacation vessels.

Carnival’s vow to appeal won’t erase the message jurors sent: big corporations must answer for preventable harms, yet we must also be wary of verdicts that set costly precedents and drive up prices for ordinary Americans. Instead of reflexive lawsuits and punitively expansive awards, conservatives argue for clearer rules, better onboard enforcement, and accountability that protects customers without strangling businesses.

Taken together, these stories are a call to action for policymakers who claim to champion working families — stop propping up failing companies selectively, fix our energy and liability policies, and restore market certainty so innovation and jobs can thrive. Americans are proud, resilient, and ready for leadership that defends free enterprise and holds bad actors to account without wrecking entire industries in the process.

 

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