‘Abolish ICE’ Wins Chicago Snowplow Naming Contest After Being Endorsed by Far-Left Mayor Brandon Johnson
February 24, 2026
Chicago’s annual snowplow naming contest has selected “Abolish ICE” as one of its top winners.
Chicago’s Streets and Sanitation Department announced the top six names chosen from public submissions and voting.
Alongside “Abolish ICE” are other entries like “Stephen Coldbert” (a nod to the anti-Trump late-night host Stephen Colbert), “Pope Frio XIV,” “The Blizzard of Oz,” “Svencoolie,” and “Caleb Chilliams” (referencing Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams).
Each of these names will be assigned to a snowplow in one of the city’s six snow districts.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a Democrat with a history of extreme progressive stances, openly endorsed “Abolish ICE” back in December during an interview on MSNBC’s Politics Nation with Rev. Al Sharpton.
Johnson called ICE a "privatized force to enact terror" that causes "a great deal of harm against people." He proudly declared the name had his "full and complete endorsement."
The endorsement was just one small part of Johnson’s pattern of aggressive anti-ICE rhetoric and actions, which prioritizes illegal aliens over American citizens and law enforcement.
Since taking office, Johnson has repeatedly clashed with federal authorities, framing ICE operations as threats to Chicago’s communities.
The fourth annual "You Name a Snowplow" contest was meant to be a fun, lighthearted tradition for residents.
Past winners included clever, non-political names like "Mrs. O’Leary’s Plow," "Sears Plower," and "Ernie Snowbanks." But this year's results show how even innocuous city events are being hijacked for political activism.
Social media buzz from leftists flooded platforms like X with calls to vote for "Abolish ICE," turning a community contest into a platform for anti-border rhetoric.
WATCH LIVE: President Trump Delivers the 2026 State of the Union as Democrats Plan to Protest – 9 PM ET
February 24, 2026
President Trump Delivers Address to Joint Session of Congress on March 4, 2025 – via: White House
President Trump will deliver the 2026 State of the Union Address, his first of his second term, to a Joint Session of Congress tonight, where he is expected to deliver a message focused on the economy.
Fox News reports that Trump’s remarks will focus on the working class and affordability, and he is expected to make new economic policy announcements.
The 2026 address will be forward-looking but rooted in what the White House described as measurable progress on cost-of-living pressures, with Trump expected to list off statistics and data on the economy following the sky-high inflation rates of the Biden administration, while showcasing everyday Americans who have benefited from Trump policies, Fox News Digital learned.
“President Trump’s State of the Union Address will celebrate 250 glorious years of our nation’s independence and excellence, highlighting incredible stories of American heroes throughout the speech,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital ahead of the speech.
“In one year, President Trump has turned our country around from the brink of disaster, and he will rightly declare the State of Our Union is strong, prosperous and respected,” she continued. “The president will proudly tout his administration’s many record-breaking accomplishments, and also layout an ambitious agenda to continue bringing the American Dream back for working people.”
Touting Trump Accounts, tax cuts in the “big, beautiful bill,” lowering drug prices and working to ease the ability of American families to purchase a home are among Trump’s top orders of business, Fox News Digital learned. The president also is expected to make undisclosed economic policy announcements during the speech.
Tonight’s speech also comes in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling, which invalidated his tariffs on foreign countries under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). Trump responded to the ruling last week, announcing the continuation of existing tariffs and the imposition of new tariffs under various laws, including Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, which allows him to impose tariffs of up to 15% for 150 days with few limitations.
Trump signed an executive order on Friday imposing a 10% global tariff on every country importing goods into the United States, The Gateway Pundit reported.
Trump later upped the ante, announcing that he would increase the tariffs from 10% to 15%, while slamming the "extraordinarily anti-American" Supreme Court in a statement. “During the next short number of months, the Trump Administration will determine and issue the new and legally permissible Tariffs, which will continue our extraordinarily successful process of Making America Great Again – GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE!!!” Trump said.
Trump is expected to address the tariff controversy during his remarks, which many Democratic lawmakers plan to protest once again. Per CBS, dozens of Democrats plan to attend counterprogramming events to the President's speech or attend the speech "with silent defiance," as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries suggested during a recent news conference.
It can be recalled that Trump's most recent address to a Joint Session in March 2025 descended into chaos when Democratic lawmakers became disruptive and hateful, refusing to even stand for the mothers of Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray, who were savagely murdered by illegal alien criminals, or a 13-year-old brain cancer survivor who was being honored by the President.
Instead, they all held up signs with various attacks on the President.
As the Gateway Pundit reported, it was so chaotic that far-left Democrat Rep. Al Green (TX) was forcibly removed from the Capitol for repeatedly disrupting and screaming at President Trump.
WATCH:
Trump is scheduled to begin his State of the Union Address at 9:00 pm ET.
Radical Socialists AOC and Zohran Mamdani Team Up to Promote FREE DAYCARE for Illegal Aliens in All-Spanish Video — ‘America Last’ Agenda on Full Display!
February 24, 2026
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Outrageous! Just when you thought the radical left couldn’t spit in the face of hard-working American citizens any harder, they find a new way to prioritize lawbreakers over taxpayers.
Radical socialists Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani have teamed up to push free daycare for illegal aliens, using American taxpayer dollars.
The duo released a video entirely in Spanish, with English subtitles, shamelessly instructing illegal immigrants on how to enroll their kids in NYC’s 3-K and Pre-K programs, regardless of immigration status.
The video, posted by the NYC Mayor’s Office, features Mamdani admitting his Spanish “isn’t the best” before handing off to AOC to deliver the sales pitch.
With American and NYC flags in the background, as if to mock our sovereignty, they emphasize that “any parent in New York City, regardless of occupation, income, or immigration status, is eligible to register their children.”
Mamdani goes on to highlight how families have been ‘suffering deep financial ruin’ from childcare costs up to $26,000 per year, but conveniently forgets that these programs are bankrolled by citizens who follow the law.
Mamdani: This is the last week for parents to sign up their kids for the 2026–2027 school year, so to make one last push, I decided to bring in a friend.
My Spanish is a little rusty.
AOC: Don’t worry, Mayor. If your child is turning three or age four in 2026, you can enroll them in free 3-K or Pre-K in New York City, but you must apply by February 27, which is the deadline. In New York City, parents—regardless of occupation, income, or immigration status—are eligible to sign their child up.
Mamdani: For too long, New York City families have been crushed by the cost of childcare, paying as much as $26,000 per child every single year. That is not sustainable. It is not fair, and it is not inevitable.
AOC: We’ve made the application process easy, no matter who you are. There are three ways you can sign up. First, you can apply online at the website on the screen.
Second, you can call 718-935-2009 and receive translation in more than 200 languages, because no family should be shut out from our programs just because of the language they speak.
Third, you can visit one of our Family Welcome Centers across the five boroughs, where staff are ready to support you.
Mamdani: We have the power to do something different. When you apply before the February 27 deadline, your child will be guaranteed a 3-K or Pre-K placement.
AOC: Because free childcare is one of the most important ways we can make our city more affordable for everyone.
JUST IN: Judge Rejects DOJ’s Request to Search Washington Post Reporter’s Electronic Devices in Leak Investigation
February 24, 2026
A judge on Tuesday denied the Justice Department’s request to search a Washington Post reporter’s electronics for sensitive documents as part of its investigation into national security leaks.
As previously reported, the FBI raided the home of a Washington Post reporter who obtained classified and illegally leaked information from a Pentagon contractor.
Feds executed a search warrant at the Alexandria, Virginia, home of WaPo reporter Hannah Natanson last month as part of an investigation into a Maryland system administrator who has a top security clearance.
The contractor who stashed the classified documents at his home, Aurelio Perez-Lugones, is currently in jail.
FBI agents reportedly found classified intelligence reports in Perez-Lugones’ lunchbox and basement.
Rubio said the Pentagon contractor leaked the Maduro capture plans.
The US Army’s Delta Force captured Maduro last month. The leaked plans could have put the special operators in harm’s way.
On Tuesday, a federal magistrate judge rejected the Justice Department’s request to search Natanson’s electronics.
“Accordingly, the Court rejects the government’s request to conduct an unsupervised, wholesale search of all Movants’ seized data using a government filter team. To gather the information the government needs to prosecute its criminal case without authorizing an unrestrained search and violating Movants’ First Amendment and attorney-client privileges, the Court will conduct the review itself,” judge William Porter wrote.
“No easy remedy exists here. Movants’ First Amendment rights have been restrained. The government seized all of Ms. Natanson’s work product, documentary material, and devices, terminating her access to the confidential sources she developed and to all the tools she needs as a working journalist. The government’s proposed remedy—that she simply buy a new phone and laptop, set up new accounts, and start from scratch—is unjust and unreasonable,” the judge wrote.
A federal judge in Virginia rejected the Justice Department’s request to search through a Washington Post reporter’s electronic devices as part of a national security leak investigation, ruling that the court would instead be responsible for conducting the search.
The Tuesday ruling suggested that Magistrate Judge William Porter did not trust the government to conduct a narrow search of the devices and feared that such an examination could risk exposing more than 1,000 of the reporter’s government sources to the Justice Department.
“Given the documented reporting on government leak investigations and the government’s well chronicled efforts to stop them, allowing the government’s filter team to search a reporter’s work product — most of which consists of unrelated information from confidential sources — is the equivalent of leaving the government’s fox in charge of the Washington Post’s henhouse,” Porter wrote.
Porter also sharply criticized prosecutors for not briefing him in their search warrant application on a federal law that protects reporters against searches in many situations: the Privacy Protection Act of 1980. Their failure to inform him about the law before he approved the warrant in the case “has seriously undermined the Court’s confidence in the government’s disclosures in this proceeding,” he wrote.
Breaking news: A judge rejected the Justice Department’s request to search through a Post reporter’s electronic devices as part of a national security leak investigation, ruling that the court would instead be responsible for conducting the search. https://t.co/isL1gzwvkG
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