@ginamilan_ Listened halfway through the video and so far only heardthe CNN activist cut off, interrupt, and speak over the man he is asking a question. Supposedly he wanted an answer, but since he didn’t like the (beginnings of) the answer he was hearing, wouldn’t let the rest of us hear it
BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL WITH ICE: If there is one video you want to watch today, it’s this one by my @FoxNews Digital investigative reporter colleague @M_Dorgan as he documents the laborious way @DHSgov@ICEgov establish “pattern of life” to arrest suspects.
Love or hate ICE, everyone will learn a lot from this film.
Michael employs a reporting and writing strategy that I call “Breaking the Fourth Wall,” inspired by the comic book genius character Deadpool. I’m a boy mom and watched and read my share of Deadpool.
In this strategy, reporters widen their lens away from the microphone, stage or street scene to share with the reader and viewer how the unfolding scene happened. We break the fourth wall to bring you into the scene. That’s how we can best follow the money, establish infrastructure and show logistical operations.
It’s what Michael, @MizellPreston and I have been able to successfully do with our protest industry coverage, so the public is better informed in a spirit of transparency, and I’m fascinated to now watch an ICE operation similarly unpacked.
Michael breaks the fourth wall masterfully with the written word too in his full story, which I encourage you to read: https://t.co/dlD1IFhngi
I certainly believe Elon counts the Twitter purchase as his greatest endeavor because it preserved freedom of speech. He personally spent $44 billion. That cost is equivalent to $60,000 a day, everyday, since Christ was born. Who has ever paid more to support the 1st Amendment? Only Americans that paid with their lives and blood on a battlefield.
Beyond the U.S. election results, there's something else you should care about:
My friend Joshua Wong has been sentenced to another 10 years in prison for his peaceful advocacy of democracy in Hong Kong.
He's been behind bars for over 2,100 days. When the police knocked on his door, Biden had just been elected, the iPhone 12 was brand new, and OpenAI had only recently launched the GPT-3 API for developers. He has not walked free since November 2020.
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In 2016, I was elected as the youngest member of the legislature in Hong Kong. Joshua led the election campaign and worked 18 hours a day. I promised Joshua that we'd form a caucus together in the next term, in 2020, when he'd be old enough to run.
It turned out to be the last time Hong Kong held a Legislative Council election in which a genuine political opposition could compete (though only around half the seats were electable). Beijing later imposed an election reform to make Hong Kong's election more like Iran's.
Since 2020, the Chinese regime has dismantled Hong Kong's civil society and cracked down on political dissent. Nearly two thousand people have been imprisoned on political grounds. Many others have left the city to seek refuge elsewhere. I fled and was granted asylum in the UK.
Joshua is expected to leave prison at 40, after 16 years in jail. Some say he’s naive or reckless; I fiercely disagree. He's one of the most strategic, persistent and risk-taking people I know. He might well have become an amazing entrepreneur if he'd been born elsewhere.
He’s brave enough to do something most wouldn’t: risking his freedom to stand up for what’s true and right. I am so humbled by his dedication, and proud to call him my dear friend.
When I left Hong Kong, I had no idea that we wouldn't be able to speak for nearly six years. Now, plus ten. When you're young, and work is so intense and busy, you never think to take time to chat. When you're young, and work is so intense and busy, you don't always think to make time just to get together. When people asked me what I regretted most, I often said I hadn't spent enough time simply hanging out with the brilliant people around me. I still feel that loss deeply.
I wish I could see him as soon as possible. Joshua should be released immediately.
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If you don’t know who Joshua is, I suggest you turn on Netflix and search for his name. No matter how long the authoritarian Chinese regime keeps him imprisoned, his name has already been written into history as one of the bravest activists to stand up against one of the world's most powerful autocracies. Even behind bars, he continues to demonstrate extraordinary courage.
My wife has taught high school in Tokyo for twenty years.
Every year, a few of her students spend a year living with a family in America. When they come home, she asks each of them one question.
"What do you miss?"
She expects hamburgers.
She almost never gets hamburgers.
And these aren't old stories. Most of these kids came home in the last two years.
"Every time I left the house, my host mom said, 'Text me when you get there.' In Japan, nobody needs to know where I am. In Ohio, somebody always did." (Mina, 17, Ohio)
"If you walk toward a door, an American will hold it open. Even if you are very far away. So you have to run. I ran to so many doors." (Itsuki, 16, Georgia)
"My host brother screamed on the floor of a grocery store. A stranger walked by and said to my host mom, 'You're doing great, Mama.' She almost cried. I didn't know strangers were allowed to say that." (Aoi, 17, Texas)
"We went away for the weekend and left our trash can at the curb. When we got back, it was by the garage. Nobody said who. My host dad said if it had been there one more day, the neighbor would have knocked." (Haruto, 16, Minnesota)
"A car got stuck in the snow in front of our house. Four men came out of four houses. Nobody called them. They pushed, the car drove away, and they went back inside without saying their names." (Ren, 17, Michigan)
"Every American has jumper cables. Maybe half of them know which clip goes where. The other half help anyway." (Shin, 16, Montana)
"In July, my host family put a cooler on the porch. Cold water, snacks, and a sign: 'For our delivery drivers. Thank you!' I asked if they knew the drivers. They said no." (Nanami, 16, Arizona)
"Downtown, there are banners on the lampposts. Photos of soldiers from the town. Some old, some very young. My host grandpa walked me down the street and told me every name." (Yuna, 16, Iowa)
"I got a C-plus on my first test. My host dad said, 'I'm proud of you,' and put it on the fridge. In Japan, nobody is proud of a C-plus." (Takeru, 17, Pennsylvania)
Then the quietest girl in the class raised her hand.
Sora. Seventeen. Missouri.
"Nobody asks me 'home safe?' anymore," she said.
She was wrong.
In September, there was a typhoon warning for Tokyo. At 2 a.m., Sora's phone lit up.
It was her host mom. In Missouri. Watching the weather in a country she had never been to.
"Saw the storm. You home safe?"
Sora told my wife she cried for a long time. Then she typed the answer she had typed a hundred times, from football games and friends' driveways.
"Home safe."
Her host mom wrote back one line.
"Good. That's all I needed."
My wife has asked that question for twenty years. Not one kid has ever said they missed how big America is.
They miss how America says goodbye. And how it checks that you got home.
So, America. You think you've lost something.
You haven't. It's on a porch in Arizona. It's pushing a car in Michigan. It's awake at 2 a.m. in Missouri, watching our weather.
You don't remember doing any of it.
A kid in Tokyo will never forget.
I have been waiting 24 years for my neighbor David Westerfield to be executed for the kidnapping and murder of my 7-year-old neighbor, Danielle van Dam. And now thanks to @GavinNewsom, it looks like it will never happen.
I was 13 when he abducted her from her bedroom in the middle of the night in 2002. I would never equate what I experienced with what her family suffered, but Danielle's murder devastated our whole neighborhood, and me personally. I was a sensitive kid and it was a major contributor to my mental health decline in adolescence.
In the 20 days between her disappearance and his arrest, I developed insomnia and spent those nights walking around the house checking the locks on the doors and windows. I followed the trial closely. As we learned the horrific details, I couldn't stop thinking about what she endured during the 3 days he had her.
Her body was found dumped off the side of a road 25 days after she went missing. It was too decomposed to test for sexual assault, but we all knew that's why he took her. He was also convicted of possessing child sexual abuse material found on his computer.
There was never any doubt about Westerfield's guilt. There was an abundance of forensic evidence, including her blood on his clothing and in his motorhome. In 2019, the California Supreme Court unanimously upheld his conviction and death sentence. Shortly afterward, Newsom imposed his moratorium. And now he does THIS.
California voters rejected abolishing the death penalty in both 2012 and 2016, and even voted to expedite executions. All these years, I've held on to the hope that someone would eventually take office who respected the will of California voters and would allow these sentences to be carried out.
It's especially insulting to hear Newsom go on about morality, as if he is morally superior to those of us whose lives were affected by these heinous crimes and who want to see the perpetrators brought to justice. I'm hoping the California Supreme Court can stop Westerfield's commutation.
In 2008 the media covered the election of Barack Obama as if it was the single greatest achievement in American history.
Now that Byron Donalds is about to become the first black governor of Florida the media is silent because he is a Republican.
🚨🇺🇸 Both WNBA Finals teams agree that the national anthem isn’t worth 90 seconds of their time... for the 5th straight game.
Game 5, same routine, with the Dream and Valkyries vanishing into the tunnel before the first note and popping back out once it’s over.
The league that BEGS America to tune in keeps letting its two best teams hide in the locker room while the country’s song plays... and then wonders why people are changing the channel.
Source: Fox / Writer: Daniel
Some people hear phonics and imagine joyless, robotic instruction.
Watch this.
Structure and personality aren't opposites. Neither are deliberate practice and engaging teaching.
🚨🇺🇸 CHICAGO FLIPS RED | CFR NEWS
90 DAYS IN THE TRENCHES: DANIELLE CARTER-WALTERS TAKES HER GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGN TO THE CHICAGO BOARD OF ELECTIONS!
October 26, 2026 | Chicago, Illinois
CHICAGO — After 90 days of grassroots campaigning, Danielle Carter-Walters, candidate for mayor of Chicago in 2027 and vice president of Chicago Flips Red (CFR), reached a major milestone Monday with the scheduled filing of her mayoral nomination petitions.
Unlike campaigns backed by large political organizations, Carter-Walters built her petition drive around a small but MIGHTY group of Chicago-born-and-raised volunteers who spent months reaching residents across the city.
🇺🇸 FROM THE NORTH SIDE TO THE SOUTH SIDE!
Carter-Walters didn’t just send volunteers into neighborhoods. She went herself!
From Chicago’s Upper North Side to the South Side, including stops in Little Village to speak directly with business owners, Carter-Walters worked to introduce herself to voters and collect signatures.
CFR member Gerardo Negrete assisted with Spanish translation, helping facilitate conversations with residents and business owners.
For 90 days, the campaign focused on direct voter engagement, neighborhood outreach, and collecting the signatures needed to seek a place on the February 2027 mayoral ballot.
🗳️ A SMALL BUT MIGHTY GRASSROOTS OPERATION!
CFR founder Zoe Leigh praised the volunteers who dedicated their time to the campaign.
“She went out and got her own signatures with her small but MIGHTY team of Chicago-born-and-raised volunteers who have become my family.”
The campaign’s work demonstrates that political participation does not have to begin with wealthy donors, established political organizations, or City Hall insiders.
It can begin with everyday Chicagoans willing to put in the work.
⚖️ ELECTION INTEGRITY: CFR PREPARED FOR PETITION CHALLENGES!
Filing nomination petitions is an important step, but it does not automatically guarantee placement on the ballot.
Candidates may face objections to their petitions, including challenges involving voter eligibility, signature validity, and compliance with election requirements.
Chicago Flips Red says it is prepared to respond to any challenges involving Carter-Walters’ petitions while maintaining the same standards for other candidates.
“If the challenges come, please understand that I’ll challenge each candidate. Nothing personal. It’s about INTEGRITY!” — Zoe Leigh, CFR Founder
CFR maintains that election laws should be applied fairly and consistently, regardless of political affiliation, campaign funding, or name recognition.
🇺🇸 WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Carter-Walters’ campaign scheduled its petition submission for Monday, October 26, 2026, at 3 PM.
Following submission, the petitions remain subject to the applicable review and objection procedures.
The next phase of the campaign will focus on ballot qualification and preparations for Chicago’s February 23, 2027, municipal election.
🇺🇸 A MESSAGE FROM CHICAGO FLIPS RED
To the REAL CHICAGOANS who opened their doors, stopped to talk, signed petitions, translated conversations, volunteered their time, and understood the mission:
THANK YOU!
Ninety days of grassroots work brought this campaign to an important milestone.
The work is not over.
ALL HANDS ON DECK!
CHICAGO FLIPS RED | FOLLOW THE MONEY. DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY. PROTECT ELECTION INTEGRITY.
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#ChicagoFlipsRed #DanielleCarterWalters #ChicagoMayor2027 #CFRInvestigates #GrassrootsCampaign #ElectionIntegrity
UPDATE ON THE OSTROUSHKO CASE: The Ostroushko family, who violently assaulted me back in April, tried to file a “motion to dismiss” their criminal case stating that THEY are experiencing “vindictive and selective prosecution”.
They’re framing their federal charges as “prosecution and harassment” by the Trump administration, for “protesting ICE abuses”, while conveniently leaving out how the whole family took turns attacking me.
They made sure to call me a “right wing provocateur and “troll” and characterized their attack on me as a “scuffle” in which Christopher Ostroushko “shoved me in the back”.
(Reminder, that their attack was so unprovoked and brutal, that even left wing streamers who were on the ground that day were defending me).
The DOJ has responded asking for this motion to be DENIED, stating that the prosecutors on this case have been neutral in prosecuting cases involving both Democrats and Republicans.
Chris, Deyanna and Paige Ostroushko, who took turns attacking me outside of the Whipple ICE facility, have filed restraining orders against me in an attempt to silence my reporting (all of which have since been dismissed), have gone on multiple news shows to slander me and have repeatedly lied in legal documents in an attempt to make public scrutiny of their actions go away.
Luckily for me, everything was caught on camera, including Chris instructing his daughter to attack me, Chris himself slamming me to the ground and Deyanna laughing about how she “tackled me” and then ran.
Their next hearing is in TWO days and will determine if we go to trial or not.
Update to come…
The world No. 1 in women's tennis, Aryna Sabalenka, unleashes a devastating and unfiltered statement: "It's vital to protect fairness. Biologically, men are much stronger than women. It's not fair. It's not equality. It's not women's sports if we let biological men compete against us." She sides with Sophie Cunningham and sends a clear message: women are not going to keep staying silent while they steal our titles, podiums, and opportunities from us.
Exclusive.
I just infiltrated and recorded a call hosted by the Chicago Teachers Union in the United States with leftist students activists and the teachers helping them in France.
The teachers in the USA are actively coordinating with the unions in France.
And they're calling explicitly for the fall of the United States government.
This is the full, unedited recording of the call, so no one can accuse me of taking things out of context. I will release clips separately.
These are the things @RealAlexJones will never show you, because they didn't mention working with Muslims (they actually made fun of that idea a few times).
The truth matters. Here are the primary source receipts.