Politics
SEND IN THE TROOPS! At Least 5 Dead, 10 Wounded So Far in Chicago Weekend Shootings
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (left), Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (right)
Another wave of violence and murder swept through Chicago this weekend, with at least five dead by Sunday afternoon.
At least five murders and ten shooting-related injuries had been reported as of 2:08 pm ET.
Several teens as young as 15 years old were injured. One 19-year-old and one 16-year-old were transported to the hospital in critical condition.
Per CBS News:
At least five people have been killed and 10 others have been wounded in weekend shootings across Chicago.
The ages of the victims range from 15 to 44.
In the first shooting of the weekend, a 32-year-old employee of a business in the South Loop got into an argument with a 31-year-old man in the 1300 block of South Michigan Avenue around 9:30 p.m. on Friday.
This included at least two shooting incidents on Friday, starting at 9:30 pm local time, seven on Saturday, starting at approximately 1 am, and five on Sunday, starting shortly after midnight.
In nearly all cases, nobody was taken into custody.
This comes after 58 people were shot in Chicago last weekend, leaving eight dead.
The weekend before, at least six people were killed and 27 were injured, with victims as young as five years old, in shootings.
The Trump Administration has been planning federal law enforcement operations and potential National Guard deployment in the Windy City, citing the violent crime crisis.
It was recently revealed that 200 or more Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials would be deployed in the sanctuary city of Chicago to carry out deportations. The National Guard may also be deployed as a deterrent to rioters and criminals.
President Trump pointed to the data from the last two weekends and shredded a reporter at the White House earlier, when asked why he was targeting Chicago with law enforcement actions.
WATCH: Trump Slams Leftist Reporter for Failing to Acknowledge Murders in Chicago – “You Know how Many People were Killed in Chicago Last Weekend?”
"Excuse me, do you know how many people were killed in Chicago last weekend? Eight. You know how many people were killed in Chicago the week before? Seven," he said. "You know how many people were wounded? 74 people were wounded. You think there’s worse than that? I don’t think so."
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Business
Watch: Student Calmly Dismantles Two Abortion Supporters’ Entire Argument with One Simple Question

The radicalization of hysterical-sounding young leftist women alone justifies the dismantling of the American education system.
Conversely, the rightward shift among Gen Z men offers hope for the future.
In a short video posted across social media, a backpack-wearing young man, surrounded by other backpack-wearing young men, calmly explained to two young female abortion supporters why their bodily autonomy argument cannot hold water.
“I’m against you guys telling women what to do with their bodies,” one young woman said.
“We can’t have a moral opinion?” one of the men asked.
“Not on my body,” the woman replied.
Then, a very calm and rational young man interjected.
“Wait, I just have a question for you,” he said. “So, the Holocaust. Was the Holocaust wrong?”
Warning: This video contains vulgar language and profanity that may be offensive to some viewers.
You proved his point pic.twitter.com/OvZ35z9CrC
— Abolitionists Rising
(@AbolitionRising) April 17, 2026
At that point, a second young woman grew animated and acted as if the young man had asked something unreasonable.
“The Holocaust was f***ing wrong, yeah, okay,” she replied.
“Yeah, exactly,” the young man said. “You’re condemning Nazis for killing Jews when you’re not a Nazi or a Jew. It’s something that doesn’t involve you. How can you have a moral opinion on something that doesn’t involve you and then tell me — ?”
The first young woman, now louder and more agitated, interrupted and threw the young man’s question back at him.
“How can you have a moral opinion on something that doesn’t involve you?” she shot back. “You are a man. So just f***ing keep your d*** in your pants until you’re married.”
The young man, to his credit, ignored the vulgar outburst.
“You just proved my point,” he replied.
“What is your point?” the first woman asked, hand on her hip in a dismissive posture.
“I’m saying that you can have a moral opinion on things that don’t directly involve you. You’re saying that the Holocaust is wrong; it’s because murder is wrong. Me saying that abortion is wrong is also saying that murder is wrong.”
The exchange was part of a street outreach from Abolitionists Rising. One of the men with the Christian anti-abortion group wore a shirt that read, “Stop Ignoring Child Sacrifice.”
In sum, one could scarcely imagine a clip that more thoroughly encapsulates the modern abortion debate.
On one side, we see hysterical and brainwashed young women ranting about bodily autonomy. On the other side, we see a young man calmly explaining why he has a right to insist that they not murder their babies.
Moreover, in tone and substance, the young man sounded like slain conservative Christian icon Charlie Kirk. The apparent college setting accentuated the comparison.
If this clip is any indication, then Kirk left America’s young men in a very good place.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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Politics
Victor Reacts: The Democrat Party Is Like A Dog With A Taste for Red Meat (VIDEO)


Like a dog with a taste for red meat.. pic.twitter.com/1em6fKhHr4
— Victor Nieves (@ItsVictorNieves) April 17, 2026
The Democrat party is going to continue to push more and more radical candidates because their base loves it.
They are like a dog with a taste for red meat. They aren’t going to go back to running “normal” candidates.
The latest squad-endorsed radical headed to Congress is Analilia Mejia who said that Jesus Christ was likely a democratic socialist.
She also said that toilets are socialism. There is a joke there somewhere.
The Gateway Pundit reported,
Far-left activist Analilia Mejia has just been elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District, defeating Republican Joe Hathaway in the special election to fill the seat vacated by Mikie Sherrill.
This win narrows the already razor-thin Republican majority in the House and hands a powerful platform to one of the most extreme voices in the Democrat Party.
As The Gateway Pundit reported back in March, Mejia is no moderate. This Squad-endorsed Democratic Socialist has a long history of unhinged statements, including claiming that Jesus Christ was “likely a Democratic Socialist” and bizarrely declaring that public toilets are a form of socialism that critics should stop using if they oppose big government.
Mejia, a former national political director for Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign and co-executive director of the far-left Center for Popular Democracy, ran on a full-blown socialist wishlist that reads like a blueprint for economic destruction:
- Abolish ICE entirely and open the floodgates to illegal immigration.
- Universal healthcare and childcare for all because nothing says “affordability” like making every American taxpayer foot the bill.
- A punishing $25 federal minimum wage that will crush small businesses, spike unemployment, and drive up costs for everyone.
- Massive tax increases on the wealthy and corporations to fund her giveaway schemes.
- Cancel all student loan debt and provide free tuition for college
Democrats are going to continue to run these sorts of candidates because their base now demands it.
Elections have consequences, and the consequence of allowing these people to hold serious power would be the total destruction of our country as we know it.
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Politics
Euro-Globalists Meet in Paris To ‘Discuss’ the Strait of Hormuz, But Iran Has Already Opened the Waterway, and Trump Discards the Participation of the ‘Paper Tigers’

Geopolitical midgets Macron, Merz, and Starmer are again getting trolled by Trump
‘Useless’ allies not needed anymore, says Trump.
Be it in the Russia-Ukraine war – where they want it to continue for as long as possible – or in the US military confrontation with Iran – where they betrayed their main NATO ally – one thing you can always expect from Euro-Globalist failing leaders: meetings – lots of meetings.
British PM Starmer, German Chancellor Merz, and French President Macron are in Paris ahead of a European summit on establishing a naval defensive force to secure shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. pic.twitter.com/2WlVpi6mZo
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) April 17, 2026
Macron, Starmer hold international meet on Strait of Hormuz https://t.co/v0DPzYnKQm
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 17, 2026
The delusional European ‘powers’ make purely symbolic decisions that yield no practical outcome.
The current cast of Globalist leaders shares one thing in common: dismal poll numbers and historic levels of voter rejection.
So, they try to gain some clout by meddling in foreign issues as much as possible.
And that’s how they find themselves ridiculously discussing the opening of Hormuz AFTER it is already opened by Iran.
The Strait of Hormuz is COMPLETELY OPEN AND READY FOR BUSINESS! pic.twitter.com/bnNcLMnI6g
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 17, 2026
The result was inevitable: they got told off by Donald J. Trump yet again, treated as ‘useless’.
The Telegraph reported:
“Mr. Trump has again lashed out at Nato allies after the announcement that the Strait of Hormuz would be reopened.
The US president suggested that European nations and others should ‘stay away’ from the region ‘unless they just want to load up their ships with oil’.”

“He said: ‘Now that the Hormuz Strait situation is over, I received a call from Nato asking if we would need some help. I TOLD THEM TO STAY AWAY, UNLESS THEY JUST WANT TO LOAD UP THEIR SHIPS WITH OIL’.
‘They were useless when needed, a Paper Tiger’.”
LMAO! President Trump says NATO just called him offering to help with the Strait of Hormuz — MINUTES AFTER he and the Iranians announced its full reopening
And President Trump told them to GET LOST
What a USELESS organization
“Now that the Hormuz Strait situation is… pic.twitter.com/79R178pzeT
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 17, 2026
Read more:
NATO Secretary General Rutte Agrees With Trump That Some Allied Countries Were Tested and Failed During the Iran Crisis
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(@AbolitionRising) April 17, 2026
LMAO! President Trump says NATO just called him offering to help with the Strait of Hormuz — MINUTES AFTER he and the Iranians announced its full reopening