On the afternoon of August 30, 2026, 17-year-old Edwin Pulgar was driving down a residential stretch of Woodland Avenue in Austin when 21-year-old Santana Gonzales walked up to the moving car and shot him through the window.
Pulgar crashed into a fence. He was pronounced dead at the scene eight minutes after officers arrived. Gonzales, who police say has Crips gang affiliations, fled on foot. He was arrested ten days later by U.S. Marshals and APD SWAT.
The same gun and his phone location data have been linked to other shootings in July and August, including shots fired into a home after threats over an ex-girlfriend.
Gonzales was already on probation when he pulled the trigger. Court records show a 2023 case that began as three counts of aggravated robbery with a firearm, plus a stolen car and evading police. Prosecutors dropped two of the robbery counts, reduced the third to simple robbery, and dismissed the rest.
He received probation instead of prison. In February a trooper stop produced a fake name, a foot chase, and a loaded Glock that fell from his waistband; the gun charge was declined and the evading charge dismissed.
In March a judge denied a motion to revoke that probation and left him on the street. Multiple earlier cases against him had already been dismissed. He then killed a teenager.
This was the predictable result of a system that repeatedly treats a pattern of armed robbery, flight, and illegal gun possession as something that could be managed with reduced charges and continued supervision.
Had Gonzales been held to account for the 2023 robberies with real prison time, or had the February gun and evading case been used to revoke his probation as the law allowed, he would not have been walking a residential street with a firearm in late August. Edwin Pulgar would still be alive. Instead, a 17-year-old died on the pavement because the people charged with enforcing the law chose leniency over consequences one time too many.
Zohran Mamdani is the only NYC mayor 100,000 families petitioned to stay home, and he showed up anyway and laughed while 9/11 families read the names of loved ones murdered by Islamic thugs.
Wow this should be all over the news. Hasan Piker, who is Abdul El-Sayed’s top political advisor, said Abdul can’t say the truth about 9/11 because he’s running for US Senate.
In other words, Hasan Piker said Abdul agrees with him that America deserved 9/11.
Disqualifying. This is your daily reminder of why Muslims should be banned from holding office in America.
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This is 100 percent confirmation that the female jurors were not only trying to make a statement but were also following the trial on social media. The more these hags run their mouths, the worse it gets.
Der Islam hat Probleme mit Hunden. Mit Frauen. Mit Musik. Mit Schwulen. Mit Juden. Mit Christen. Mit Blut. Mit Schweinefleisch. Mit Alkohol. Mit Glücksspiel. Mit Zinsen.
Aber wenn man ein Problem mit dem Islam hat, ist man ein Rassist. Es gibt Leute, die glauben das wirklich.
“First & most importantly, I wanna thank God. My successes are a gift. The failures are a gift. Being here playing in front of you guys is a gift.”
- Ben Shelton after losing the US Open Final to Sascha Zverev
🚨 This crossed the line : CNN just put it on national television.
A Michigan Senate campaign surrogate looked America in the eye and said:
“America deserved 9/11, dude.”
Nearly 3,000 innocent Americans were murdered. Families were shattered. First responders are still dying.
And Democrats put this guy next to their nominee.
Abdul El-Sayed campaigned with him, posed with him, took the energy — then called it “a dumb statement” and “cancel culture.”
That’s not a slip. That’s the company he chose.
Mike Rogers said it straight: People in Michigan do not think America deserved 9/11.
So why is that voice still tied to the Democratic nominee?
25 years later, this is what they want in the U.S. Senate.
Michigan — this is on the ballot.
If you’re a Republican elected official and your first reaction to Bo French is to disavow and cry racism instead of recognizing that our country has been invaded and your electorate is ready for actual warfare then you do not understand what time it is and you need to leave office.
You are completely out of touch and your continued “service” only benefits the enemies of America.
Let’s talk about the US mail. I wrote a thank you note in late June. Yes. An honest-to-God, handwritten thank you note. Put a stamp on it, put it in the mailbox, put up the little red flag. Next day, little red flag is down, mailbox is empty. I live in North Carolina, the addressee is in Washington, DC.
On Aug 27, I received the following text from the person to whom the thank you note was addressed:
“I just got an envelope addressed to me from you, postmarked June 23, but the envelope was opened and nothing was in it. Do you recall what was in it?”
I said “a thank you note to you for….” I asked if she could send a photo of the envelope. Yup. That is the envelope with my return address…. Addressed to my friend. It took 9 weeks plus two days for a simple first class piece of mail to arrive at its destination from NC to the District of Columbia, and it was missing the contents.
Then today, I saw an email chain on the NextDoor app, which I occasionally peruse. What got my attention was that the starting post was from someone who lives nearby who had paid some bills by writing checks, putting them into the envelope with stamps, placing the envelopes in his mailbox, and subsequently learning that the mail had been stolen, the checks cleared his bank account the next day from a location a few towns away. Bad stuff. But the response from all the replies was totally unsympathetic. All the replies were that “you cannot possibly put a check in the mailbox and be surprised that it is then stolen or mis-delivered”. With all the accompanying stories of similar bad experiences.
And yet, we are all supposed to suspend our brains when the subject turns to voting by mail. @realDonaldTrump is somehow a dictator for trying to make sure that ballots sent / returned by mail are tracked, that the addresses are accurate, the voters are citizens … and the Democrats and some puke GOP Secretaries of State howl about how trying to secure this absurdly insecure system is a terrible, awful thing.
Couple of thoughts:
We MUST reduce the quantity of voting by mail by reestablishing true “absentee” voting. The only people who should be allowed to vote by mail are those who cannot get to the polls to vote in person. That would significantly increase the possibility that the ballots cast by mail might be authentic and timely. The reduction in volume might help with oversight of the process. I emphasize “might”.
But here’s the real question: If you won the lottery….would you put your winning lottery ticket in an envelope, put a stamp on it and put it in the US mail?
I didn’t think so. Neither would I. And my ballot, my vote, is easily as valuable as a lottery ticket.
Join the Election Integrity Network - @EIwatchdogs - and help us restore voting in person, in precincts, and make Election Day great again. Stop the ridiculous reliance and march toward universal vote by mail - a recipe for corrupt elections.
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lost my little brother yesterday
Randomly collapsed on the jobsite
He was just a kid
He was literally in the hospital last week complaining of chest pains and had a swollen leg. They sent him home with anti inflammatories.
RIP Kayne Sumanik
The man who threatened death to the mom behind @ProtectKidsCO, works for Brighter Pathways, run by his mom—a Jared Polis appointee to state chair of higher ed who earned $250,000 “consulting” fees in untraceable funds (🔗in comment) How kind of @LarimerSheriff to stand down.
Lil Oompa Loopa dude - you brought into your campaign goat-smelling buddy @hasanthehun - you can't answer the questions about him and you refuse to distance yourself from him - he's a campaign surrogate... it's a legit question...
Lindsay Clancy juror Paula Devlin, auditioning here for the role of the village idiot, explains how she viewed the trial as a chance to strike out for social justice.
“We knew this would be a turning point…that could change something to make it better for other women.”