Build the Ballroom Now: Fetterman Slams
TDS Post-WHCA Chaos
Posted By: earlybird, 4/26/2026 8:41:26 PM
In the wake of another attempt on the life of President Trump (and any other administration officials that the would-be assassin could have gotten a bead on) the calls to get the secure White House ballroom finished are coming fast and furious. There's a great argument to be made that this kind of attempt would be orders of magnitude harder to pull off in the completed White House ballroom; as President Trump has himself recently observed, the White House is on some of the most secure real estate on the planet.(snip)Now, the one person who may be America's last sane Democrat has weighed in, that being Senator John Fetterman (D-PA),
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In the wake of another attempt on the life of President Trump (and any other administration officials that the would-be assassin could have gotten a bead on) the calls to get the secure White House ballroom finished are coming fast and furious. There's a great argument to be made that this kind of attempt would be orders of magnitude harder to pull off in the completed White House ballroom; as President Trump has himself recently observed, the White House is on some of the most secure real estate on the planet.(snip)Now, the one person who may be America's last sane Democrat has weighed in, that being Senator John Fetterman (D-PA),
Unearthed video reveals Cole Allen as
quiet inventor years before alleged bid
to assassinate Trump 7 replies
quiet inventor years before alleged bid
to assassinate Trump 7 replies
In 2017, at an "Aging into the Future" conference in Los Angeles, ABC7 LA interviewed Cole Allen, then a mechanical engineering student at the California Institute of Technology, about a new safety feature he developed for wheelchairs. (KABC))snip)That year, Allen earned a mechanical engineering degree. While in college, he completed a competitive summer research fellowship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, contributing to astrophysics work, according to his LInkedIn profileHe also developed technical projects, including a physics-based role-playing shooter game called "First Law," as well as robotic systems and later another game, "Bohrdom," released on the Steam platform.
The man suspected of discharging firearms during the White House Correspondents' Dinner has been identified Cole Tomas Allen, 31, from Torrance, California.(snip)A LinkedIn profile bearing Allen's name and image describes him as a “mechanical engineer and computer scientist by degree, independent game developer by experience, teacher by birth.”
He earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 2017 from the California Institute of Technology, followed by a master's degree in computer science in 2025 from California State University at Dominguez Hills, (snip)
he is employed as a part-time educator at C2 Education, a private company specializing in test preparation and tutoring, while also working as a self-employed game developer.
Fox News and New York Post columnist, Karol Markowicz, on Saturday identified the White House Correspondents Dinner shooting suspect as Cole Tomas Allen. She shared first details on X, platform formerly known as Twitter, noting that the individual is from Torrance, California and is in custody.
“The attempted shooter at the White House Correspondent's Dinner is 31 year old Cole Tomas Allen from Torrance, California and he is in custody,” she tweeted.
A shooting at a Chicago hospital on Saturday morning has left a police officer dead and another critically injured, according to NBC 5 Chicago.
The suspect, who has not been publicly identified, is in custody, according to Andre Vasquez, alderperson for the city’s 40th ward.
The individual had already been in police custody when they were transported to Endeavor Health Swedish hospital’s emergency department for treatment, the hospital said in a social media post.
“In accordance with Endeavor Health public safety weapon detection protocols, this individual was wanded upon arrival,” the hospital wrote.
The suspect opened fire on officers before exiting the building. He was later apprehended, according to the hospital.
John Brennan being withdrawn, and what does that mean. I intentionally did not write about it at the time because I wanted to look closely at the fact pattern.
The DOJ is still planning to send requests for voluntary interviews and grand jury testimony according to media reports.
From my perspective, this is a good sign. Potentially a very good sign.
The issues around the CIA targeting President Trump are extensive, attached to numerous individuals and entities, and generally complex. Normally, an investigation of this scope would begin with questions to the outer perimeter individuals who were carrying out
LUKLA, Nepal — Anxiety is growing at Everest Base Camp, more than 5,300 meters above sea level.
Hundreds of climbers and sherpas have gathered, eager to summit the world's most famous mountain as the annual spring climbing season kicks off – but there's one problem.
A massive serac, or a block of glacial ice, is hindering the route and keeping alpinists in limbo as they wait for it to gradually collapse and clear the way.Specialized high-altitude workers known as "icefall doctors" have been on site for weeks already, working to map the serac and its position in the notorious Khumbu Icefall
The U.S. Small Business Administration referred 562,000 suspected fraudulent loans totaling over $22.2 billion to the U.S. Department of Treasury for collections.
"From Day One, the Trump SBA has worked tirelessly to crack down on billions in pandemic-era fraud that the Biden Administration forgave or ignored," SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler told Fox News Digital in a statement.
"After extensive review, and with the strong support of the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force, we are taking our most decisive action yet to end a Biden-era scheme that protected over 560,000 borrowers tied to more than $22 billion in suspected pandemic-era fraud," Loeffler added.
The Department of Justice has ended its criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
Jeanine Pirro, the top federal prosecutor in the District of Columbia, said in an April 24 post on X that she has directed her office to close its investigation.
“This morning the Inspector General for the Federal Reserve has been asked to scrutinize the building costs overruns – in the billions of dollars – that have been borne by taxpayers,” Pirro said.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, the frontrunner in the 2026 governor’s race, has both personal and institutional ties to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The far-left organization announced in a video statement Tuesday that it is the subject of a U.S. Department of Justice criminal investigation that centers on its use of informants who infiltrate extremist groups.
Interim President and CEO Bryan Fair acknowledged, “The focus appears to be on the SPLC’s prior use of paid confidential informants to gather credible intelligence on extremely violent groups,” adding that the program was kept quiet to protect informant safety.
Following direct remarks from both Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, a triggered Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says the U.S. will not be permitted to dictate terms of the USMCA renegotiation, now scheduled for formal talks with Mexico only beginning May 25th.According to the Canadian leadership they do not need the United States in order to maintain their economy. The unfortunate people of Canada are very close to finding out exactly what that level of arrogance delivers.
Smoke has filled the air across parts of the Peach State this week as wildfires continue to burn out of control in southern Georgia, forcing evacuations and destroying homes.
According to the Georgia Forestry Commission, crews responded to 34 new wildfires Wednesday that burned about 75 acres statewide. But officials say the biggest concern remains two large, active fires that have already scorched tens of thousands of acres.
The Pineland Road Fire in Clinch County has grown to nearly 29,606 acres and is about 10% contained. In Brantley County, the Highway 82 Fire has burned more than 4,400 acres and is roughly 15% contained, according to the latest update.
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Accused White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman Cole Allen sent a sprawling, crazed manifesto to family members 10 minutes before Saturday’s attack, sources told The Post.
In the 1,052-word missive obtained by The Post Sunday morning — signed Cole ‘coldForce’ ‘Friendly Federal Assassin’ Allen” — and outlined his “rules of engagement” for the shooting and stated he believed it was his righteous duty to target administration officials.
Cole Allen’s manifesto in full:
Hello everybody!
So I may have given a lot of people a surprise today. Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whose trust I abused.
I apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview without specifying it was
Saturday, following reports of an apparent assassination attempt on President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, CNN’s Van Jones raised the possibility of the suspect being made into “some sort of hero.”
The left-leaning Jones cited efforts to lionize Luigi Mangione, and he urged all to condemn political violence.
Jones said, “I’m starting to worry about something, though, which is that the shooter survived, which means on Monday he’s going to court, which means there is a danger that people try to make him some sort of hero. You watch what happened with Luigi [Mangione], who shot a CEO to death and somehow became a hero.
Suspected WHCD Shooter Boosted Bluesky
Posts Saying Trump Should Be 'Tried For
High Crimes' 19 replies
Posts Saying Trump Should Be 'Tried For
High Crimes' 19 replies
The suspected White House Correspondents' Association Dinner shooter, Cole Tomas Allen, signal boosted posts on the left-wing social media platform Bluesky arguing that President Donald Trump should be "immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes" and criticizing a "Freedom of the Press" pocket square that many journalists donned at last night’s dinner as "a white flag that no one can read unless you pull it out and wave it in defeat," a Washington Free Beacon review found, suggesting he thought a stronger message of opposition to the president was called for.
"the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of
TORRANCE, California — The FBI raided the home of suspected White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman Cole Allen late Saturday after swarming the property in the quiet Los Angeles suburbs.
Allen, a 31-year-old CalTech mechanical engineering grad, was subdued after he rushed a security checkpoint and opened fire with a shotgun inside the Washington Hilton during the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday evening, according to law enforcement sources.
An FBI convoy, including armored trucks and agents clad in camouflage tactical gear, descended onto Allen’s home in Torrance, Calif. late Saturday night — hours after The Post arrived on the scene. observed that occupants briefly interacted with federal agents
The DC Metropolitan Police announced during a press conference on Saturday night that the armed gunman who opened fire inside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was a registered guest at the Washington Hilton hotel, the venue hosting the high-profile black-tie event attended by President Donald Trump.
Speaking after the event, interim DC Police Chief Jeffery Carroll confirmed the suspect, 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, California, had checked into the hotel as a guest before the chaos erupted.
Suspected White House Correspondents' Dinner shooter Cole Tomas Allen is facing at least three charges, authorities said.
Allen, 31, is accused of opening fire as the President gathered with senior cabinet members and thousands of journalists for the annual event on Saturday night.
The dinner at the Washington Hilton was barely underway when the Secret Service was forced to leap into action after a series of shots rang out. They managed to apprehend the suspect after he breached a security checkpoint and exchanged gunfire with law enforcement, authorities said.
The alleged shooter has since been identified as Allen, a teacher from Torrance, California.
Federal prosecutors have moved quickly and already
President Donald Trump survived two assassination attempts during the 2024 election, and Saturday night he was whisked away again from another lethal threat when a heavily armed gunman briefly breached a security checkpoint at one of Washington's most famous black-tie galas and exchanged gunfire before being subdued by the Secret Service.
But Trump would not recoil.
First he wanted to return to the White House Correspondents' Dinner before it was canceled, hoping to send a signal to a nation gripped by political vitriol and shaken by recent assassinations — from Charlie Kirk to Minnesota legislators – that “sick people” cannot “change the fabric” of the United States.
Iranian Media Suggests White House Correspondents’
Dinner Shooting Was Staged to Help Trump 16 replies
Dinner Shooting Was Staged to Help Trump 16 replies
In the immediate aftermath following the apparent assassination attempt against President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday evening, Iran’s Tasnim News Agency was quick to question whether the shooting was staged.
Tasnim, which has close ties with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), suggested that the shooting at the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., as the Correspondents Dinner was commencing, may have been a “big show” intended to bolster President Trump’s approval ratings.
The news agency speculated that it could have been staged to improve President Trump’s position ahead of the upcoming mid-term elections or perhaps to “use it against Iran or another country”.
President Donald Trump called on Americans to “recommit” to resolve their differences peacefully after a shooter disrupted the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday evening.
The Secret Service took a gunman into custody after he ran past a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton. The gunman shot a Secret Service agent, but did not wound him, before law enforcement subdued him and took him into custody.
“As you know, this is not the first time in the past couple of years that our republic has been attacked by a would-be assassin who sought to kill,” the president said in a press conference after announcing that law enforcement had apprehended the shooter.
Both President Donald Trump and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass came out of meetings in April expressing optimism that the federal government will come to the aid of the feckless and duplicitous mayor and attempt to help further jumpstart the recovery of the Palisades after the devastating 2025 fire wiped out just about everything.
According to NBC Los Angeles, Bass said “that she feels optimistic that the Trump administration will send more resources the city needs to recover from the 2025 Palisades Fire after meeting with him and his key advisors in the Oval Office.”
The peril of dehumanizing rhetoric
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Prominent voices on the left have been branding their opponents as Nazis, “literally Hitler,” pedophiles, or “a threat to democracy.” This inflammatory language dehumanizes entire groups, paints targets on people’s backs, erodes civil discourse, and creates a climate where violence is viewed as justifiable.
When rhetoric escalates to open calls for harm, the consequences are deadly: attempted assassinations of President Trump, the 2017 shooting of Republican congressmen at baseball practice, the murder of Charlie Kirk, and assaults on pro-life activists. Leftists are normalizing the violence against Republicans.
President Trump attended the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton last evening—
There's a brewery in Wisconsin openly celebrating Saturday night’s assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
That's not hyperbole. That's exactly what happened.
Minocqua Brewing Company, a self-described "progressive" brewery and SuperPAC operation out of Wisconsin, has been running what it calls "Free Beer Day" — a standing promise of free drinks at its taprooms the day Donald Trump dies.
The New York Post profiled the brewery earlier this year:
The company’s owner, Kirk Bangstad, is the founder of the Minocqua Brewing Company SuperPAC, which “aims to remove Republican federal and state elected officials who perpetuated the election lies that caused the Insurrection of January 6, 2021,