Absolute clown show from South Carolina Alex Murdaugh’s defense team. At the June 29, 2026 status conference before Judge Debra McCaslin, they rolled out two of the most shameless, time-wasting motions imaginable, and the state (led by Creighton Waters in the Attorney General’s office) correctly torched both of them.
First, the DNA “retesting” demand. They want to ship the fingernail scraping from under Maggie Murdaugh’s nails, already tested by SLED, containing her DNA plus one uselessly partial, incomplete male profile, off to some private lab like Othram Inc. for fancy genetic genealogy. Why? Because “technology has advanced.” Give me a break. There were no defensive wounds. Maggie Murdaugh had her nails professionally done the same day she was murdered.
Touch DNA under fingernails is meaningless garbage in this context and everyone in that courtroom knows it.
Creighton Waters called it exactly what it is, an “unnecessary boondoggle” cooked up for public relations, not evidence.
This isn’t about finding the truth. It’s about manufacturing doubt and dragging this case out for another year while Murdaugh sits in McCormick Correctional Institution.
Then there’s the laptop request, the one that actually made me laugh out loud. A disbarred, convicted financial predator who already got caught misusing his prison tablet, stealing another inmate’s PIN, and smuggling contraband during his original trial now wants his own secure laptop in his cell so he can “review discovery.”
The South Carolina Department of Corrections said exactly what any rational person would say. NO.
This man is a documented schemer and fraudster. Handing him a device loaded with crime scene photos and sealed materials is a security nightmare.
Judge McCaslin had the good sense to side with the prison on in-cell use. The alternatives she offered (supervised review in a conference room or limited tablet access) are more than generous.
These motions aren’t serious legal work. They’re desperate stalling tactics from a team that knows their client is guilty as hell and is terrified of the April 5, 2027 retrial date.
The Supreme Court gave them a do-over because of Becky Hill’s misconduct, not because the evidence was weak.
Now they’re trying to turn that second chance into an endless circus of PR stunts and security headaches.
The state is doing its job. Murdaugh’s defense team is doing everything except prepare for the facts.
🚨#BREAKING: A man in North Carolina has been arrested after he showed up to a small-town church full of worshippers with TWO FLAMETHROWERS, crossbows, 500 rounds of ammo...
...and a notebook listing the addresses of churches and schools
A church member saw him, sitting in his truck in FULL BODY ARMOR and camouflage and called 911.
An OFF-DUTY police officer, working security at that church, walked straight up to that truck and confronted him.
He told officers he was "law enforcement" there to enforce a smoking violation... but he was NOT law enforcement.
Police say what he actually had in that truck was an arsenal: two flamethrowers, two crossbows, a launcher made to look like a handgun, over 500 rounds of ammunition, knives, duct tape, and police scanners.
They disarmed him without a shot fired.
Every single church needs to have SERIOUS SECURITY, this could have been a complete massacre.
I haven't seen this story reported in any mainstream media, but it looks like this man was about to massacre hundreds of Christians in a church in North Carolina.
You are not gonna believe this…
Ayanle Siad Barre, the son of former Somali genocidal dictator, Mohamed Siad Barre, operates a taxpayer-funded home healthcare company in Columbus, Ohio
He was his father’s national security advisor.
It just never ends
Hold up…
Gary Siders Sr., Gary Siders Jr., Christina Siders, and Elizabeth Siders in Vinton County, Ohio, were just granted bond by Judge Laina Fetherolf Rogers after 16 felony child endangerment charges.
What the hell???
The AG said 16 kids (18 months to 18 years old) were rescued from absolute hell—severely malnourished, some life-flighted to trauma centers, others in ICU. It is one of the worst child abuse scenes Ohio officials have ever seen.
These monsters allegedly tortured those children for years… and now they can walk on $300K bond each with GPS and no-contact orders?
This is straight-up infuriating. The courts are protecting the abusers instead of the kids.
What a disgrace.
Columbia, South Carolina,💥JAIL OUT OF CONTROL💥James Lipscomb (arrested), 66yr. old Director of Compliance and Safety at Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center, was arrested for obstruction of justice because he allegedly ordered staff to cover up dead inmate Keith Bagley’s April 7, 2026 overdose death from synthetic cannabinoids (K2/Spice).
Director Lipscomb told them NOT to notify the sheriff’s office or coroner, letting a crime scene get destroyed and evidence disappear. That’s not compliance, that’s criminal protection of the rot inside his own jail.
And he’s not alone. This sweeping investigation into 62+ unreported crimes (drugs, assaults, and worse) dating back to December 2025 has now produced charges against over two dozen people connected to the facility.
The seven detention officers arrested include:
➡️Jasmine Outing, 23 - misconduct in office (caught in a closed office with a male inmate)
➡️Diamond Jackson, 36 - misconduct in office and sexual misconduct (contraband involved)
➡️Sakinah Adams, 24 - contraband in the jail
➡️Ashley S. Smith, 27 - contraband in the jail
➡️Joydan Foust, 25 - misconduct in office (using narcotics on shift and taking multiple payments from inmates)
➡️Paul Medlock, 30 - third-degree assault and misconduct in office (excessive force, hid his involvement)
➡️Michael Simmons, 24 - second-degree sexual misconduct with an inmate and third-degree criminal sexual conduct (assaulted an inmate; victim reported it to jail staff but it was buried for 12 days)
Seventeen inmates are now facing new charges, many for assaulting staff (at least 10 since mid-April alone):
Javonte Scott (20)
Michael Hughley (28)
Javeria Sloan (20)
Trevor Harris (21)
Toni Wilson (52)
Robert S. Smith (26)
Deandre Crosby (20)
Mystikal Murray (25)
Trenton Morris (23)
Daquan McCoy (30)
Tia Murrell (29)
John M. Montgomery (32)
Malik Parker (24)
Waddell McGhee (19)
Jerimiah Cole (20)
Carson Martin (34)
Montair Booker (41)
Columbia, South Carolina Sheriff Leon Lott is finally holding some of these people accountable after “good, honest” staff inside the jail helped expose the mess.
But Richland County officials who actually run this nightmare have blood on their hands too, they ignored DOJ warnings, ignored prior deaths and settlements, and let a culture of cover-ups and contraband thrive for years.
Keith Bagley is dead because of this deliberate obstruction and systemic failure.
No more excuses, no more wrist-slaps, no more “we’re working on it.”
Prosecute James Lipscomb, Jasmine Outing, Diamond Jackson, Sakinah Adams, Ashley S. Smith, Joydan Foust, Paul Medlock, Michael Simmons, and every single enabler to the fullest extent of the law.
Fire the rest. Tear this broken system down and start over.
Enough dead inmates. Enough buried crimes. Enough corruption wearing a badge or a uniform.
🚨 HOLY CRAP. In a jaw-dropping betrayal, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and state officials have PARDONED an illegal alien CHILD PREDATOR who is convicted of s*xually assaulting a 10-YEAR-OLD
He called his actions a "cultural thing"
Democrats just condoned p*dophilia!! 🤯
This is their platform!
DHS: "Tou Lue Vang was set to be removed from the country imminently after the pardon was announced. Now, the pardon could thwart his removal from the United States."
"According to court filings, Vang repeatedly s*xually assaulted a girl between 2002 and 2004. On one occasion, he tried to offer his victim $10 to keep quiet about the s*xual assaults."
"While being interviewed by police, he tried to justify his actions by saying that for him “it is a cultural thing...to marry and have s*x with girls as young as 12.” He also claimed that the victim was just as guilty as him and should also be arrested."
“Governor Tim Walz's decision to pardon an illegal alien convicted child r*pist so he can remain in our country is disgusting."
TIM SHOULD RESIGN, TONIGHT!
We need to make it so unpleasant for illegals to be here that it isn’t worth for them to try.
No healthcare.
No schools.
No welfare.
No jobs.
No banking.
No housing.
No insurance.
No driver’s licenses.
Nothing.
I have just finished reading Justice Clarence Thomas's 91-page dissent in the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down Trump’s birthright citizenship order.
It's incredible.
Here's everything you need to know: 🧵
Incompetent South Carolina General Assembly, led by Speaker Murrell Smith and Senate President Thomas Alexander, couldn’t even do the most basic job of government, pass a budget by the July 1 deadline.
These clowns had months. They passed their versions back in the spring. Then they let a conference committee of Rep. Bruce Bannister, Sen. Harvey Peeler, Sen. Tom Davis, and a token Democrat drag it out until the clock ran out over petty fights about earmarks and how much property tax relief to hand out.
Now the entire state gets to operate on autopilot with a continuing resolution while these people play budget chicken.
No new priorities. No real reforms. Just more of the same incompetence, courtesy of a Republican supermajority that apparently can’t negotiate with itself. Congratulations swampland Columbia. You’ve officially turned “do your damn job” into a circus.
Yesterday, California’s State Senate Elections Committee voted on a bill to ban those convicted of child molestation, enticing a child to prostitution, or incest and sodomy with a minor from running for office in the state.
The committee’s chairman and deciding vote, Scott Wiener, voted no and killed the bill because he wanted a specific exception allowing convicted pedophiles to still run for school board.
Yes, school board.
🚨 CORRUPT CHIEF JUSTICE EXPOSED: John Roberts’ wife Jane made $10,323,842.70 in commissions from Big Law firms arguing cases before HIS Supreme Court!
Roberts listed it as “salary” to hide it.
He NEVER recused from 500+ cases when he had a HUGE FINANCIAL & FAMILY CONFLICT OF INTEREST!
A FORMAL disbarment complaint was filed April 2026!
This guy “saved” Obamacare and sold out conservatives for YEARS!
WHY DON'T HOUSE REPUBLICANS IMPEACH JOHN ROBERTS IMMEDIATELY?
@Jim_Jordan
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Somali Minnesota fraudster Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh — arrested in Mogadishu — wasn't JUST involved in one of the largest fraud schemes EVER...
...he was involved in an email referencing Rep. ILHAN OMAR'S OFFICE 🤯
Subpoena now. Expel and deport. DON'T LET HER GET AWAY WITH IT!
Minnesota's Ilhan Omar’s husband runs a “$60 billion” venture capital firm out of a WeWork mailbox in D.C. Independent journalist Angela Rose walked the floors, no office, no signage, no directory listing, nobody had even heard of Rose Lake Capital. It was a glorified P.O. box. The company’s old website bragged about managing $60 BILLION in assets, five former diplomats with experience in 80 countries, 11 free trade agreements, and high-profile advisors.
All of that conveniently vanished once scrutiny hit. No SEC registration. No public investors. No portfolio. Nothing.
Then the magic happened, Omar’s financial disclosures showed her husband’s stake in Rose Lake Capital and their California winery eStCru exploding from roughly $51,000 combined in 2023 to as much as $30 million in 2024.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer launched an investigation in February 2026, demanding audited statements, SEC filings, and travel records to the UAE, Somalia, and Kenya, citing clear concerns about influence peddling.
The winery? An investor had already sued alleging false promises of 200% returns, it was in financial distress and has now been shut down.
Omar’s response? She filed an amended disclosure blaming an “accounting error,” slashed the reported value of these companies to basically nothing (or “none”), and now claims her husband made almost zero income from them.
Businesses that were supposedly worth tens of millions suddenly have no value once Congress starts asking questions. This is the same Ilhan Omar who postures as a champion against corruption and “the rich.”
Her family’s opaque ghost operations, explosive-then-scrubbed valuations, and evasion under investigation tell a very different story. The swamp doesn’t get much swampier than this.
deport deport deport!
🚨 MOTHER OF MURDER VICTIM TO DEMS: "THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE"
Jessica Gorman, mother of Sheridan Gorman, confronts Rep. Pramila Jayapal after Democrats balked at hearing from Angel Families: "I'm thankful my daughter wasn't ra*ped but just shot in the head... Then you want to dismiss angel families! This is unacceptable."
Watching the father of 22-year-old Logan Federico screaming at Democrats after his daughter was dragged from bed, forced on her knees, and executed...
...by a man arrested 39 TIMES with 25 FELONIES
Still may be the most powerful and heartbreaking video I've ever watched.
Everyone who let this demon walk free, should be in prison.
Another year, another South Carolina budget deadline blown in Columbia while everyone else is screwed. South Carolina swamp creatures just let the fiscal year end without passing a budget, forcing the state onto a continuing resolution. That means no raises for teachers or state employees, no new funding for critical projects, and business as usual for the politicians who caused the mess.
All because the pigs in the House and Senate couldn’t stop fighting over who gets to shovel more pork into the budget.
The House loaded the bill with hundreds of millions in earmarks and district-specific giveaways, the usual grab bag of favored non-profits, local pet projects, and “community” spending that somehow always seems to benefit the right connected people.
The Senate, for once, pushed back on some of the worst of it, but the damage was already done.
Instead of hammering out a clean, timely budget, they spent weeks posturing and protecting their slush funds.
Bruce Bannister and the House Ways and Means crowd apparently decided their priority was padding the bill with pork rather than getting a deal done. Harvey Peeler and the Senate Finance crew weren’t much better, they let the clock run out while protecting their own priorities and dragging their feet.
Governor Henry McMaster sat back and let it happen too, offering zero real pressure to get it finished on time.
These are the same people who lecture everyone else about fiscal responsibility and “running government like a business.” Yet when it’s their turn to pass a basic budget by the legal deadline, they fail, again, because they’re too busy fighting over who gets to spend your tax dollars on their favorite projects.
South Carolinians deserve better than this amateur-hour circus. Stop the corruption. Pass the damn budget on time or resign.
Shame on North Charleston, South Carolina, the city government was a cesspool of corruption, and they let it fester for years while residents paid the price.
Former Councilman Jerome Heyward, the ringleader, used his seat to shake down nonprofits for kickbacks on gun violence reduction grants. He steered city money to outfits like DEEP SC (run by Michelle Stent-Hilton) and Core4Success (run by Donavan Moten), then took his cut laundered through Rose Emily Lorenzo. Funds meant to actually protect communities from shootings got siphoned off instead. Freakin' disgusting.
Then there's the rezoning scam, Mike A. Brown took cash bribes to vote the "right" way on the old Baker Hospital site. Lobbyist Aaron Charles-Lee Hicks was handing out the bribes, and Hason “Tory” Fields was in on the dirty payments too. Even Sandino Moses knew about the bribery and said nothing, he got off with probation for basically looking the other way.
Three sitting or recent city council members dragged into federal court for bribery, kickbacks, honest services fraud, and money laundering.
This wasn’t one rogue politician, this was a culture of entitlement and theft inside North Charleston government. The same people sworn to serve the public were lining their pockets and betraying the very residents who elected them.
How does something this blatant go on for so long? Where was the oversight?
Where was the accountability from the rest of the council and city leadership before the FBI had to come in and clean house?
North Charleston let these grifters operate like it was their personal ATM.
Jerome Heyward, Mike Brown, Michelle Stent-Hilton, Donavan Moten, and the rest of this sorry crew have been exposed and sentenced (or are about to be). Good. But the real shame is that North Charleston’s government allowed it to happen in the first place. The city deserves far better than this level of rot.
A 37-weeks pregnant woman from Nigeria was reportedly trying to fly from the UK to the United States when a UK border officer named Sarah intervened. The goal was reportedly so the baby could be born on US soil and automatically receive American citizenship under the 14th Amendment (unlike in the UK, where birth alone doesn't grant citizenship unless a parent is British or settled).
Customs officers can deny entry to pregnant foreign nationals if they suspect the trip is solely for birth tourism or if there are concerns about medical costs.
Pray for Venezuela. There is so much heartbreak and suffering. Over 50,000 people are still missing and unaccounted for in the earthquake devastated region. Listen to Javier’s story…