A group of credentialed female journalists showed up at hearing in New York City today for alleged killer Luigi Mangione and made it quite clear that they are fans of the young alleged assassin.

One of the more sickening developments of the last two years has been watching the left turn Mangione into some sort of folk hero.

Watching these female journalists talk is like going back in history to the days of the Manson Girls, who showed up at the trials of Charles Manson to show their support for him.

The New York Post reports:

Bloodthirsty Luigi Mangione fangirls unapologetically celebrate CEO’s assassination: ‘F—k Brian Thompson,’ ‘His children are better off without him’

A trio of bloodthirsty fans of accused assassin Luigi Mangione — who were granted press passes by City Hall — spouted vile hate and unapologetic calls for political violence from a Manhattan courthouse steps Monday.

Self-proclaimed “Mangionistas” Abril Rios, Ashley Rojas and Lena Weissbrot proudly showed off the passes they received from Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration, apparently for their online content documenting Mangione’s upcoming trial for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

But the credentialed “reporters” chillingly made no bones about supporting Mangione’s alleged vendetta to strike fear into the hearts of healthcare executives such as Thompson.

Weissbrot, clad in a garish neon green, pink and purple striped ensemble, chimed in with an even more reprehensible response.

“His children are better off without him,” she said about the victim. “They need to learn to not be like their dad. And enjoy the blood money, kids.

“He’s responsible for more deaths than Osama bin Laden, and I remember Americans celebrating when Osama bin Laden was killed. It’s not like we don’t understand heroic violence, or, like, when violence is good.”

See the videos below:

The future of journalism? Credentialed members of the NYC press corps came to Luigi Mangione’s hearing today to support the defendant they’re purportedly reporting on and to promote jury nullification “to the most cucked and submissive population in all of human history” pic.twitter.com/hmt7YOc2FX

— Molly Crane-Newman (@molcranenewman) May 18, 2026

“I’m saying fuck Brian Thompson. I don’t give a flying fuck he died,” says Ashley Rojas, wearing her press badge provided by @NYCMayorsOffice. Lena Weissbrot adds that Thompson’s teenage sons “are better off without him” and should “enjoy the blood money.” pic.twitter.com/uQnHIHoC0x

— Molly Crane-Newman (@molcranenewman) May 18, 2026

These are the type of people who would call conservatives Nazis, yet they’re standing around justifying a horrible and senseless murder over politics.

How are some people this dead inside?

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A federal jury in Oakland, California, went against Elon Musk Monday in a case he brought against OpenAI, alleging the company’s leadership “stole a charity” when they converted it into a for-profit entity.

Through his lawsuit, Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015, sought the removal of Sam Altman as CEO and company president Greg Brockman from their leadership roles, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Musk also wanted an “unwinding of the company’s recent conversion to a more traditional governance structure and damages worth more than $180 billion to be paid into an OpenAI foundation,” the news outlet added.

The jury found all of Musk’s claims fell outside the statute of limitations.

Fox Business reported that Musk left OpenAI in 2018 when he was unable to persuade the company’s leadership to merge with Tesla. OpenAI is the company behind ChatGPT.

“In his lawsuit, Musk accused OpenAI of violating its founding mission as a nonprofit to develop AI for the benefit of humanity when the startup created a for-profit entity in 2019,” Fox Business said.

A jury rejected Elon Musk’s claims that OpenAI under Sam Altman’s leadership betrayed its mission to benefit the public by morphing into a for-profit business, finding that he waited too long to bring his claims against the company pic.twitter.com/LuLUljsOPa

— PiQ (@PiQSuite) May 18, 2026

During closing arguments Thursday, Musk’s lawyer, Steven Molo, said of OpenAI’s Altman, “Five witnesses in this trial called him a liar under oath,” according to the Wall Street Journal.

“To succeed in AI, it turns out, all Mr. Musk can do is come to court,” OpenAI attorney William Savitt countered.

The Journal reported that Musk is “racing to hold a public offering for SpaceX, his rocket company, which merged with his struggling AI startup.”

Musk’s xAI is the company behind Grok, which is featured on the X social media platform.

The Journal said, “OpenAI is also seeking a public listing and is trying to regain momentum as rival Anthropic has emerged as a presumptive front-runner.”

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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In March 2026, Sen. Dan Sullivan said Alaska is undergoing its largest military buildup since World War II, driven by increasingly frequent and sophisticated joint Russian-Chinese operations near Alaska’s coastline.

Sullivan noted that a Russian incursion into the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) occurred just ten days before his Senate field hearing in Anchorage. Since 2019, his data shows more than 100 Russian aircraft incursions, four Chinese vessel incursions, and more than a dozen joint Sino-Russian operations inside the ADIZ.

NORAD commander Gen. Gregory Guillot confirmed the activity has become more frequent and coordinated. Russia and China are conducting joint patrols along Russia’s northern coast, north of Alaska, and near Canada.

NATO’s European commander said the activity “is not for peaceful purposes,” describing it as bathymetric surveying intended to counter NATO capabilities on and under the sea.

The threat extends across the North American Arctic, including Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. In January 2026, President Trump declared Greenland “imperative for National and World Security,” calling it essential to the planned Golden Dome missile defense system.

In late August 2025, U.S. aircraft intercepted Russian surveillance flights four times in one week. NORAD also acknowledged at least eight separate Russian incursions into the Alaskan ADIZ in 2025.

In February 2026, NORAD and USNORTHCOM conducted Arctic Edge 2026, a major multi-domain exercise across Alaska and Greenland involving U.S., Canadian, and Danish forces. The exercise focused on cruise missile defense against long-range precision weapons approaching via polar routes.

That same month, NATO launched Arctic Sentry, a new enhanced vigilance activity led by Joint Force Command Norfolk that consolidated allied Arctic operations under a single command.

The U.S.-Canada defense relationship underpinning these efforts is also under strain. The Pentagon recently paused the Permanent Joint Board on Defense, the bilateral body overseeing NORAD modernization and Arctic security cooperation, while Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that “the days of our military sending 70 cents of every dollar to the United States are over.”

These events reflect a deteriorating strategic environment that was already alarming in 2024. On July 24 of that year, NORAD detected and intercepted Russian and Chinese aircraft operating in the Alaska ADIZ. In May 2024, NORAD also tracked four Russian military aircraft in the zone. Throughout 2023, multiple incidents involved Chinese warships, aircraft, and surveillance balloons in the region.

The growing frequency of Russian and Chinese military activity around Alaska and the Arctic underscores the region’s importance to the defense of the U.S. homeland, Canada, the Kingdom of Denmark, and NATO. The U.S. Department of War’s 2024 Arctic Strategy seeks to counter Russia and China by expanding defense capabilities across the theater.

The strategy is also driven by environmental changes. Melting Arctic ice is increasing human activity and opening new shipping lanes such as the Northern Sea Route, reducing transit time between Europe and Asia. Control of these routes and resources is increasingly important for global trade and energy security.

“Alaska is the most strategic place on earth,” declared Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell to Congress in 1935. Its position at the Bering Strait chokepoint and along the Great Circle Routes makes Anchorage a key hub for international shipping, and decreased Arctic ice has opened the Northern Sea Route and Northwest Passage. Russia and China now effectively dominate both routes, with over 1,800 ships traveling Arctic polar waterways in 2025, a 40 percent increase from 2013.

The same routes that favor shipping also favor missiles. The Great Circle path is the preferred trajectory for nuclear and conventional weapons targeting North America, making Alaska central to ballistic missile defense. Russia’s Arctic-based capabilities provide a direct approach to the U.S. homeland and threaten America’s ability to project power to Europe and the Indo-Pacific.

The region holds vast natural resources, oil, gas, coal, rare-earth metals, and fisheries, increasingly accessible as ice retreats. Russia, which derives 20 percent of its GDP from Arctic activities, has filed expanded territorial claims with the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf and refurbished military bases to back them.

Russia has also deployed long-range cruise missiles capable of targeting the U.S. and Canada through northern approaches, introduced its first SEVERODVINSK-class nuclear-capable submarine to the Pacific Fleet in 2022, and sent Bear bombers through the G-I-U-K gap while deploying GPS jamming systems across the region.

China, declaring itself a “near-Arctic state,” has rebranded trans-Arctic shipping routes as the Polar Silk Road under the Belt and Road Initiative, using nominally civilian research operations to advance military objectives. In summer 2025, it deployed a five-vessel icebreaker fleet near Alaska, its largest Arctic operation to date. Russia operates 45 icebreakers, including eight nuclear-powered. The U.S. has three, one of which is 50 years old. In 2025, the Coast Guard deployed two simultaneously for the first time in over a decade, but the first new heavy icebreaker, the USCGC Polar Sentinel, is not expected until 2030 and has already ballooned to nearly $2.4 billion in cost.

The Northern Sea Route along Russia’s Arctic coast offers a shorter path between Europe and Asia than the Suez Canal, bypassing the Strait of Malacca entirely. Murmansk, an ice-free port in northwestern Russia, provides year-round access. Both nations see the NSR as a tool for controlling global shipping and expanding geopolitical influence.

Their Arctic partnership is now formalized. In April 2023, China and Russia signed a coast guard cooperation memorandum, with China invited to observe “Arctic Patrol 2023.” The “Arctic Cruise 2023” and “Northern Interaction 2023” exercises followed. Sen. Sullivan has argued that joint bomber flights and naval task force operations now entering U.S. Arctic airspace could not occur without direct authorization from Putin and Xi personally.

The U.S. is responding across the full North American Arctic. The DoD 2024 Arctic Strategy targets Alaska, Canada, and the broader theater, with Sweden and Finland’s NATO membership adding allied depth. The U.S. supported Arctic Edge 2024 for cold-weather training, and in July 2024, announced the ICE Pact with Canada and Finland for joint icebreaker production. The Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill allocates $4.3 billion for the Polar Security Cutter series and $3.5 billion for medium icebreakers. The buildup also includes reopening the Navy base at Adak and a $25 billion Coast Guard package with $4.5 billion for a deepwater port in Nome.

The U.S. decision to intensify Arctic defense priorities is necessary to counter growing threats from China and Russia. However, the effort is complicated by the military’s commitments in multiple theaters, including the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East, and Europe, all of which demand significant resources and attention.

Balancing global commitments while maintaining adequate Arctic resources is critical to readiness and response capability. The Commission on the National Defense Strategy recommended that the Department of War and Congress prioritize agility, interoperability, and survivability in military systems while investing in cyber, space, and software capabilities and canceling outdated programs.

Congress should also support multiyear investments in national security innovation, industrial capacity, and workforce development. Increased defense spending and greater resources for national security agencies are necessary, alongside fiscal reforms to manage the deficit.

This is probably the last thing the American public wants to hear while the U.S. is involved in conflict with Iran and conducting ongoing counter-narcotics operations in Central and South America, as well as anti-ISIS strikes in Nigeria, Syria, and elsewhere.

However, the world is large, and the U.S. has foreign policy interests across the globe. The Arctic is crucial to national security because it represents an open back door that China and Russia could exploit. This is particularly important now that Canada is signaling it may no longer fully cooperate with the U.S. on defense.

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The UN is a joke, they don’t even know what a woman IS. pic.twitter.com/nH0u3K2NLc

— Victor Nieves (@ItsVictorNieves) May 18, 2026

The United Nations is a joke, they don’t even know what a woman is.

A recent post on X has brought the ire of the internet after the official UN Women account posted a laundry list of things that women should be able to do. The list includes what may be a thinly veiled mention of abortion.

In response Elon Musk, and many others on X, pointed out that the United Nations doesn’t even know what a woman is.

Please define precisely what is a woman. XX chromosomes?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 18, 2026

Musk is correct. The same United Nations account has dozens of posts celebrating men who are pretending to be women. Example:

#Trans women have the right to recognition of their self-identified gender – but in most countries, this is not available or subject to abusive restrictions.
This makes even everyday tasks difficult & potentially dangerous.

Let’s demand change: https://t.co/9FUJoNVare#AllWomen pic.twitter.com/93dCCCLgEU

— UN Women (@UN_Women) January 10, 2023

In addition, they recently issued a statement, “on the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.”

UN Women affirms that democracies are strongest when they are inclusive, representative, and accountable—upholding the equality, dignity, protection, and full participation of LGBTIQ+ people in all areas of life.

The original UN post seems to be suggesting that women around the world should be allowed to kill their children in abortions given the organizations support for “bodily autonomy” as a supposed justification for abortion.

Why don’t they post about the unborn baby girl’s right to not be murdered in an abortion? They finish their post with “let women live” yet proudly support the very thing which kills millions of women around the world each year.

Maybe, given that they don’t even know what a woman is, they should sit this one out?

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Disgraced former Mueller hitman Andrew Weissmann, the very architect of the debunked Russia collusion hoax that wasted millions of taxpayer dollars and smeared a duly elected president, is now out there wanting to criminalize your speech while promoting a terrifying new book against Trump.

In a chilling new podcast appearance with fellow leftist operative Joyce Vance, Weissmann laid out his terrifying new vision for America: criminalizing what the government deems to be “political lies.”

And guess whose “lies” he’s laser-focused on? President Donald Trump’s claims about the rigged 2020 election, of course.

Because for Weissman, questioning election integrity is the real crime, not the weaponized witch hunts, the two-tiered “justice” system, or the endless hoaxes used to try to destroy a political opponent.

During the segment, Weissmann whines about “rampant political lying,” citing The Washington Post’s infamous (and wildly inflated) tally of 30,000 “lies” during Trump’s first term.

He even chuckled when Sarah Longwell said it seemed “a little low.” But notice what he conveniently forgets: the real big lie was the Russia collusion hoax itself, a fabricated scandal cooked up by Hillary Clinton’s campaign, peddled by the FBI, and weaponized by Weissmann and his cronies in the Mueller team to delegitimize Trump’s 2016 victory.

Andrew Weissmann: “What I’ve started thinking about… is why is it that there are lies in so many ways in this country that we either criminalize or subject to civil penalties, but we don’t do that for politicians who lie or candidates who lie?… The big lie in my book that I use as the example is the 2020 election was stolen… There’s no proof of that.”

WATCH:

Andrew Weissmann, who perpetrated one of the biggest lies in our country’s history, the Russia collusion hoax, wants to criminalize lying.

Andrew is what happens when democrats are never held accountable for anything. At a minimum, he should have been disbarred years ago. pic.twitter.com/CaAelHXWei

— The Researcher (@listen_2learn) May 18, 2026

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