Eight people were tragically killed after a boat capsized on Lake Tahoe amid a freak thunderstorm on Saturday.

A thunderstorm that popped up over the lake created gusty winds and massive waves as family and friends celebrated a tech executive’s mother’s 71st birthday aboard a boat.

The 8-foot waves capsized the boat, sending the 10 people on board into the dangerous waters.

Eight people died, and two miraculously survived.

One of the victims was identified as DoorDash executive Joshua Pickles. He is survived by his wife, Jordan Sugar-Caarslgad, and his 7-month-old daughter.

Gut wrenching. @DoorDash exec Joshua Pickles among 8 people who died when boat capsized on Lake Tahoe. Wife (@Airbnb EA Jordan Sugar-Caarslgard) stayed on shore w/ their 7-month old daughter. Pickles’ parents, uncle and friends also died. Full story: https://t.co/Sap3Q64JjM pic.twitter.com/NPvIG25wJg

— Raj Mathai (@rajmathai) June 24, 2025

SFGATE reported:

Eight people died in a tragic boat accident on Lake Tahoe during a sudden, harrowing storm on Saturday afternoon. Four were family members who lived in Northern California. They were joined by friends, some of whom had traveled across the country, to celebrate a birthday when their boat capsized near D.L. Bliss State Park on Tahoe’s West Shore. Of the 10 people on board, two survived.

The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office has now released the identities of the victims who died Saturday. Paula Bozinovich, from Redwood City, was celebrating her 71st birthday with her husband, Terry Pickles, 73, and their son, Joshua Antony Pickles, 37, a tech executive from San Francisco. Joshua’s uncle, Peter Bayes, 72, from Lincoln, was also on board. Friends of the family who died Saturday were Timothy O’Leary, 71, from Auburn, Theresa Giullari, 66, and James Guck, 69, both of Honeoye, New York, and Stephen Lindsay, 63, from Springwater, New York.

The two survivors were taken to a local hospital. As of Tuesday afternoon, Sgt. Kyle Parker, spokesperson for the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office, did not have an update on the condition of the survivors.

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By Wayne Allyn Root

I was born and raised a Jewish New Yorker. I graduated from New York’s Columbia University. I spent my 20’s in Manhattan. I loved New York.

But now the unthinkable has happened. A politician with a combination that I’d never thought possible is in position to run America’s biggest city. Here’s the unthinkable combination…

A radical communist AND radical Muslim, pro Hamas, Jew-hater has won the Democrat primary for Mayor of New York.

Zohan Mamdani.

There is still hope. He hasn’t won yet. He still needs to win the general election. There are two decent candidates for NYC Mayor in the general- Mayor Eric Adams running as an independent, and former founder of the Guardian Angels, Curtis Sliwa running as a Republican. Remember, New York City is the place where both Guliani and Bloomberg were elected multiple times as Republican Mayors of New York.

So, I’d like to think “lightening in a bottle can strike again.”

But this time is much harder. This isn’t your father’s Democrat Party. Nor is this your father’s New York City.

First, there are very few reasonable Democrat voters left- certainly not in NYC. Today’s breed of Democrat is a mix of radical, extreme, unAmerican, communist traitor…mixed with pro-Hamas, Jew-hating, modern day Nazis. There is no coming back from this brand of Democrat.

Secondly, the New York City that I grew up in and around no longer exists. Because of open borders and unchecked illegal immigration, New York City is now like a foreign nation.

Nowadays an American-born citizen on the streets of NYC is just a rumor!

And many of today’s New Yorkers are radical Muslims who hate Jews, and preach ‘”global intifada”- which means the destruction of America and Israel, and Islamic world domination- which includes replacing our U.S. Constitution with Sharia Law. You know, people like Zohran Mamdani.

Thirdly, Democrats rig and steal elections nowadays. Between mail-in ballots, and no Voter ID, and illegal aliens given drivers licenses and automatically registered at DMV, elections in New York are now won with voter fraud and non-citizen votes.

Lastly, if Eric Adams and Curtis Sliwa both stay in the race, they will split the vote of normal people and elect Mamdani.

So, the odds are stacked against us.

Our best hope is Andrew Cuomo dropping out of the race (he’s on an independent ballot) and President Trump giving a major government job to either Adams or Sliwa, thereby leaving only one normal, non-insane candidate to beat Mamdani, so the vote isn’t split.

Other than that, the odds are very high that “The Big Apple” will soon be rotten to the core- literally infested with worms and fungus.

A Mamdani victory will be the death of New York City in so many ways…

Forget that NYC with Mamdani as Mayor will become the magnet for every illegal alien in America. Millions will come.

Forget that NYC will become a third world craphole just like Gaza.

Forget that the city will become a “NO GO ZONE” like those Muslim neighborhoods seen throughout Europe- so dangerous that even police won’t dare go in.

Forget that the healthcare system will be overwhelmed and destroyed.

Forget that Mamdani wants to defund the police.

Forget that Mamdani wants to spend taxpayer money on Soviet-style government grocery stores and transgender surgeries for young boys and girls.

But the really big question is, who will be left to pay all the bills?

What happens to New York City’s tax base when every decent person with a family, and job, and assets, decides to leave.

What happens to New York City’s tax base when every business leaves.

What happens to New York City’s tax base when Wall Street relocates to Florida and Texas. It’s already happening. It will explode if Mamdani is elected.

And here’s the big one- what happens when every Jew leaves?

New York City has the largest Jewish population of any place in the world besides Israel. There are more Jews in New York City than Tel Aviv and Jerusalem combined. And they’re all going to run for their lives.

What do they do? They’re lawyers, doctors, accountants, stockbrokers, financial executives and business owners. If they leave, they take New York’s tax base with them.

And leaving NYC is easy to do. They’re not leaving a country. They’re not crossing a border. It’s easy to relocate to a new state. I did it. I left New York for Las Vegas. It’s the best decision I ever made.

It’s easy to escape New York for Florida. Jews have been doing it for 50 years!

Jews won’t just leave New York…

This will be a repeat of the EXODUS out of Egypt.

They will take billions in income and assets with them. So, who will pay the bills? There will be no one left to pay the police, fire, teachers, welfare, the huge bills for illegal aliens, or the huge hospital bills for the uninsured. Heck without Jews, there won’t be many doctors left in NYC.

Without tax money to run the NYC government, and to pay for all the freebies Mamdani has promised to give out…

NYC will look like a cross between Gaza and “Mad Max.”

And places like Miami, Palm Beach, Naples, Dallas, Houston, Austin, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Nashville, Atlanta, and Charlotte will gain billions of dollars in income and assets.

Also, understand the tourists from red America will never come back. Billions more in sales taxes and hotel taxes will be gone.

If Mamdani wins in November, God help New York City. Get ready for a third world, Gaza-like “No Go Zone” inside America.

Boy have New Yorkers forgotten the lessons of 9-11.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, businessman, best-selling author, and national conservative TV and radio host, who has interviewed President Trump 16 times. Watch Wayne’s TV show “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Real America’s Voice TV Saturdays at Noon ET and his video podcast “Raw & Unfiltered” at UntamedNation.com and Rumble.com daily from 6 PM to 8 PM ET. His website is ROOTforAmerica.com. Read Wayne’s latest fun book, “How Democrats Have Made America Great.” It’s 140 blank pages. The joke is on Democrats!

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Democrat Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ) dodged repeatedly questions about the 2022 machine failures and other election anomolies in Maricopa County.

These people are so corrupt that they won’t even acknowledge that there were serious issues and so-called malfunctions that undoubtedly impacted the results of the race.

Instead of answering the questions, Stanton repeatedly tried to avoid the questions and repeat the same tired line that RINO former Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer and RINO former County Supervisor Bill Gates are great people who ran a great election.

Both of these officials despise Kari Lake, and self-described Anti-MAGA Stephen Richer, who sued Lake for defamation in 2023 because she criticized the election he oversaw, has even stated that his life’s mission is to “make life hell for Kari Lake.” He also founded and operated the Pro-Democracy Republicans PAC to campaign against candidates like Kari Lake.

Bill Gates, who oversaw the election day failures in Lake’s race, later described the election as “run extremely well” during the post-election canvass. He, too, was openly rooting against Trump-endorsed candidates leading up to the 2022 election.

Stanton was defending these guys after a hearing in the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, where now-United States Agency for Global Media Special Advisor Kari Lake testified on the rot and corruption within her agency.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Stanton launched a completely unhinged attack against Lake for more than five straight minutes over the 2022 election for Arizona Governor, calling her a “liar” and a “loser” for calling out the fraud and irregularities that cost her the race.

While Stanton was questioning Lake, he said, “You lied about signatures on mail-in ballots not matching those on file. Proven wrong. You lied about ballots being intentionally misprinted and then rejected in Republican areas. Total BS. You lied and said hundreds of thousands of ballots were mishandled. Zero evidence. You claim fake ballots were snuck in batches before they were counted.”

But Lake didn’t take it lying down and absolutely obliterated him with her response.

FIREWORKS! Arizona Democrat Rep. Bitterly Attacks Kari Lake Over Stolen Election, Calls Her an “Adjudicated Liar” – Demands She Admits She Lost in 2022 and Dares Her to Run Again – Lake Responds with Absolute Fire! (MUST SEE VIDEO)

It can be recalled that 60% of the voting machines did, in fact, fail on election day after the machines were reprogrammed in the days leading up to the election, hundreds of thousands of ballots were mishandled and injected into the final count, and mail-in ballot signatures did not match those of the voter.

Additionally, new allegations of fraud and mishandling recently surfaced from Rep. Abe Hamadeh's office. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Hamadeh demanded that the DOJ investigate claims that voted mail-in ballots were comingled with blank ballots at the Runbeck Election Services warehouses in several states during the 2024 election in Maricopa County and likely in the elections prior. Hamadeh also had his 2022 race for attorney general stolen in Maricopa County —by just 280 votes statewide!

Following Kari Lake's hearing, this reporter asked Stanton about the comingling of ballots, voting machine failures, and fraudulent signatures we discovered on 2022 mail-in ballots.

However, Stanton refused to answer any of the questions, repeating the same rehearsed narrative that the election officials are among the "best in the country," and falsely claimed that Lake admitted to defamation. Richer was accused of destroying evidence in his lawsuit against Lake, where she entered a default judgment to avoid the cost and time-waste of his lawfare. Lake never admitted guilt, previously stating, "by participating in this lawsuit–it would only serve to legitimize this perversion of our legal system and interfere in our elections. So I won’t be taking part." Court documents also state that the no contest plea was "intentional" and "strategic."

Watch Stanton squirm as he defends Maricopa County's rigged election below:

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Dmitry Medvedev is the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, having also served as President and Prime Minister of Russia.

Medvedev is one of the greatest social media trolls in the planet, second only to the likes of Donald J. Trump and Elon Musk.

The veteran politician is also the voice of Russian maximalism, with a no-holds-barred approach that we have reported on in ‘THINK TWICE, NAZI!’: Russia’s Medvedev Torches Germany’s Merz After Incoming Chancellor Vows To Send Long-Distance Taurus Missiles to Ukraine, and POINT OF NO RETURN: Zelensky Rejects Victory Day Truce, Doubles Down on Threats to Moscow’s Parade Packed With Foreign Dignitaries – Russia’s Medvedev Hints at Nuclear Retaliation.

Recently, Medvedev fell on the bad side of Trump, that torched him on: “I Guess that’s Why Putin’s THE BOSS” — Trump Blasts Russian Security Council Deputy Over Threat to Arm Iran with Nuclear Weapons.

Reuters reported:

“Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that the European Union had evolved into an enemy of Russia that posed a direct threat to its security, and Moscow was now opposed to Ukraine joining the bloc.

Russia has long been opposed to Ukraine joining the NATO Western military alliance, […} but it has in the past been more relaxed about the prospect of Kyiv becoming a member of the EU. President Vladimir Putin said in June 2022 that Russia had ‘nothing against’ that, and the Kremlin said as recently as February that joining the bloc was Ukraine’s sovereign right.

However, Medvedev, who is now deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said that the EU had shifted from being an economic bloc dedicated to preventing war into what he called a politicized anti-Russian organization that was slowly turning into a military bloc.”

Complete text of Medvedev on why Ukraine should not become a member of the EU, as reported by Slavyangrad:

“Just 15-20 years ago, no one in our country particularly objected to Kiev’s plans to join the European Union. Like, if you want to, go ahead and enjoy. Only that later you will you bite your elbows when you lose the EAEU market.

It seemed, what fundamental threat could such economic cooperation from Kiev pose to our country? Especially since its chances of joining the EU were almost zero.

Our principled position was to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO: its expansion to our borders was and remains a direct threat to Russia’s national security.

But today the old European Union, which was once created on the basis of the European Coal and Steel Community, essentially no longer exists.

It is a politicized globalist and, for some time now, rabidly Russophobic organization. An organization that dreams of revenge against Russia. The idiotic European politicians of recent years have made every effort to achieve this. They have completely destroyed the idea of ​​the EU as an economic giant that does not want wars and discord between European powers.

Now its main ideology is bestial Russophobia, generated by the imaginary “Russian threat” that they themselves pumped up to solve their petty problems. Slowly but surely, the European Union is turning into a self-sufficient military bloc, which should gradually begin to compete with NATO, especially in the period of Trumpism.

Brussels cockroaches and narrow-minded leaders of EU countries proclaim their own defense strategy, declaring the entry into the “era of rearmament.”

This ugly metamorphosis of the European Union also has a separate goal: to arm the neo-Nazi Kiev regime to such an extent that it becomes invulnerable to Russia. It is the EU that signed an agreement with the illegitimate leader of a dying Ukraine on long-term commitments to ensure its so-called security. It is the EU that supplies the Bandera freaks with weapons and military equipment, promoting the power of its defense industry, and building defense plants on their territory. It is the EU that sends its instructors to train Ukrainian militants so that they kill our citizens and commit terrorist attacks in our country. And the same EU brazenly finances its disgusting actions at the expense of income from frozen Russian assets.

Brussels today is a real enemy of Russia. In such a distorted form, the European Union represents no less a threat to us than the North Atlantic Alliance.

The EU, packed with weapons, rainbow freaks and Brussels screaming bitches, is a direct threat to Russia. That is exactly how it should be treated.”

Read more:

THE TWO FACES OF RUSSIA: Moscow Between Dialogue With the US and Maximalist Goals in Ukraine

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It looks like the WNBA, the worst sports league in the history of mankind, has finally killed its Golden Goose, Caitlin Clark.

Former Iowa basketball player Caitlin Clark is the all-time greatest scorer in NCAA basketball. Along the way, she also broke most of the NCAA assist records.

Iowa’s Caitlin Clark broke every record imaginable in women’s AND men’s basketball in the 2023-2024 season.

• D-I scoring leader (3,951 pts)
• only D-I player w/ 3,500 pts, 1,000 ast & 850 reb in a career
• most pts in single season in D-I WBB (1,234)
• most 3pt in single season in D-I hist (201)
• most pts (491), ast (152), 3pt (78) in NCAAT in career
• only player w/ 40 pts, 10 ast in NCAAT gm (she has 2)
• only player w/ 30+ pt trip-dbl in NCAAT
• only D-I player to led CBB in pts & ast in single season 2x
• B1G all-time ast leader (1,144)
• only player w/ > 3 career 25+ pt trip-dbl (she has 10)

Caitlin Clark also brought excitement to the game of women’s basketball – something unimaginable before she entered college.

Look at how Caitlin compared to the rest of the women’s NCAA players in her performance.
This is an absolutely amazing chart that shows Caitlin’s excellence.

Look for the green dot in the upper right-hand corner of the chart!
Via Secret Base.

Then Caitlin from Iowa went to play in the WNBA and was met with jealousy, bitterness, outright hatred, and abuse by the players, management, referees, and mainstream media.

Caitlin has become the punching bag for the rest of the league.
This is how they treat their star.

Welcome to the @wnba Caitlin!

This is how the savior of the league is treated @CaitlinClark22 pic.twitter.com/bRqAH9nMTC

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) June 1, 2024

Another vicious attack.

Welcome to the @wnba Caitlin!

This is how the savior of the league is treated @CaitlinClark22 pic.twitter.com/bRqAH9nMTC

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) June 1, 2024

The hits just kept coming – and completely ignored by the WNBA brass.

Caitlin Clark will miss up to four WNBA games after being targeted and injured by players who are jealous of her superior abilities. pic.twitter.com/w9YqGmMv9G

— DK (@1Nicdar) May 29, 2025

They keep beating her.
This was after Caitlin returned to play after suffering an injury recently.

WNBA’s Caitlin Clark was assaulted numerous times yesterday on the court.

Marina Mabrey committed the most egregious of attacks against her.

The fact Mabrey wasn’t ejected is ridiculous.

She should be kicked out of the league, prosecuted, and jailed.pic.twitter.com/awYSPkBf66

— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) June 18, 2025

Caitlin has not been the same since the Connecticut game after returning to active play from the injury list.

Here are Caitlin Clark’s stats from the last five games.

Caitlin, the greatest shooter in women’s basketball history, is now 1 of 23 in 3-point shots in her last three games.
That’s a 4% completion rate! What happened?

She has NEVER suffered such a slump.

Maybe all of the abuse, bad calls, crappy coaching, and vicious assaults have finally taken Caitlin down.

Caitlin looked slow, tired, and uninspired in her last game.

She’s only a young woman out of college. And she had no idea what she was stepping into.

Let’s hope the jealous, hateful ladies of the WNBA feel better now.
Caitlin may be finished.

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