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Good morning, Wake Up Right fam! The stars have aligned, and this year, we get to celebrate Cinco De Mayo on Taco Tuesday.
I know what President Trump will be eating for lunch.
🇲🇽 Happy Cinco De Mayo
✅ Trump shifted 6.5K FBI agents to immigration
🏀 Most valuable WNBA team: Golden State Valkyries, $78 million
🧑🚀 On this day in 1961: Alan Shepard is 1st American in space
Palisades arsonist was the typical liberal
Federal prosecutors revealed that Jonathan Rinderknecht – the 30-year-old charged with sparking the Palisades Fire in January 2025 – was an anti-capitalist fixated on UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione and torched the hillside out of "resentment of the rich."
Back up: The Palisades fires killed 12 people and destroyed nearly 7,000 structures.
The details: A new trial memo from federal prosecutors lays out a chilling portrait of Rinderknecht's mindset in the weeks before he allegedly ignited the fires on New Year's Day 2025.
Rinderknecht said his actions were out of resentment for the rich "enjoying their money as 'we're basically being enslaved by them.”
He seemed fixated on Luigi Mangione and likened arson to the CEO killer’s actions.
The lead-up: Rinderknecht was an Uber driver, and his passengers from December 31 and January 1 described him as "angry, intense, driving erratically," and ranting about Mangione, capitalism, and vigilantism.
His digital footprint: His search history included the terms:
"free Luigi Mangione"
"lets take down all the billionaires”
"reddit lets kill all the billionaires."
Robo-homo: Months earlier, he used ChatGPT to generate images of a "burning forest" with people fleeing and confided to the chatbot that he had burned a Bible and found it "liberating."
Zoom out: Mangione has become a folk hero for the online left, with supporters funneling roughly $40,000 into his prison commissary account.
What happens next? Rinderknecht faces 40+ years in prison and has pleaded not guilty.
Real talk from G: Transgender school shooters, political assassinations, arson – this is the modern left – radicalized by the media, then handed a hit list by politicians and talking heads who villainize their opponents. Then they act shocked when the violence comes.
[Source: The National Pulse, Daily Wire]
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Radical judge apologizes to Trump’s would-be-assassin
A federal magistrate judge looked at the man who tried to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD) – and apologized to him in court on Monday.
The details: Judge Zia Faruqui hauled D.C. Department of Corrections officials into an emergency hearing to grill them over the treatment of Cole Allen, the man who stormed the WHCD with a shotgun, handgun, and knives, and shot a Secret Service agent before being subdued.
The judge said, "Mr. Allen, I'm sorry that things have not been the way they are supposed to," adding that he was "fascinated and disturbed" by his confinement.
Allen had been on suicide watch – a 24-hour lockdown in a padded "safe cell.”
His own lawyers had already withdrawn their motion after he was taken off suicide status. Faruqui forced the hearing anyway.
Fact-checking the radical judge: Faruqui – who has overseen January 6 cases – claimed Allen was being treated worse than Capitol riot defendants.
Zoom out: This isn't Faruqui's first clash with the Trump DOJ. Seven months ago, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro torched him publicly, saying: "Judge Faruqui has never really met someone with an illegal gun that he hasn't felt some compassion for” due to his soft-on-crime record.
What's next: Faruqui ordered jail officials to report back this morning on moving Allen to less restrictive housing. Allen's preliminary hearing is set for May 11. He faces life in prison if convicted.
The last word goes back to Attorney Pirro, who wrote on X: “Welcome to Washington, DC, where U.S. Magistrate Judge Faruqui believes a defendant armed to the teeth and attempting to assassinate the president is entitled to preferential treatment in his confinement compared to every other defendant.”
[Source: The Post Millennial, Fox News]
😎 The Secret Service shot an armed man near the White House on Monday as President Trump took the stage in the East Room for a Small Business Summit – prompting a temporary lockdown. Read more.
🗳 Four immigrants in New Jersey were charged with allegedly voting illegally by falsely claiming U.S. citizenship, strengthening the case for the SAVE America Act. Read more.
🚼 Justice Samuel Alito temporarily restored broad access to Mifepristone, allowing abortion pills by mail or pharmacy while the Supreme Court reviews challenges to restrictions that could reshape national abortion access. Read more.
🏃♂ A “trans” biological male high school freshman in California won a prestigious track and field championship, defeating his own sister for the top slot in the 400-meter race. Read more.
🥩 Amsterdam has banned public ads for meat and fossil fuels. Read more.
🛳 Almost 150 people, including 17 Americans, are stranded on a cruise ship off the coast of West Africa, after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on the vessel killed at least three people and left several others ill. Read more.
⚾ John Sterling, the longtime New York Yankees play-by-play man, died at 87-years-old. Read more. Sterling’s voice takes me back to car rides with my grandfather as a kid in the 90s.
✈ Delta Airlines will stop offering free snacks or drinks to passengers on flights under 350 miles. Read more.
🏳⚧️ A historic all-women's college is being investigated by the Trump administration for admitting "transgender" biological men. Read more.
🇮🇷 The U.S. military dismissed an Iranian claim that it hit an American warship with two missiles on Monday morning. Read more.
🎮 GameStop has puzzled the market with its ambitious bid to reinvent its business by acquiring eBay for $55.5 billion. Read more.
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🎥 Insane footage captures the moment an airplane hits a bakery truck while landing at Newark Airport. Watch.
🎥 Animal attacks a defenseless nun in Jerusalem. Watch.
🎥 Faith in humanity restored: Police officer convinces teenager not to jump off bridge. Watch.
🎥 Meet Seattle's new socialist mayor. Watch. Good luck, Seattle.
🎥 Trump trolls the media. Watch.
🎥 Bill Maher lays into his own audience for supporting a Trump assassination. Watch.
🎥 It gets AWKWARD when a CNBC host presses the GameStop CEO on how he plans to buy EBay since he doesn't have enough money to do it. Watch. Is this guy on drugs?
🎥 LOL, Babylon Bee asked AI to show America without Republicans. Watch.
🎥 Jesse Kelly is right: Trump can’t snap his fingers and give us every policy we want. America First victories take time, patience, and more presidents. But he has fundamentally changed the GOP and politics forever for the better. Watch.
