The alleged “ringleader” of the explosive drone attack plot against the UFC event at the White House is an illegal immigrant from Mexico who was granted Dreamer status by the Obama administration and allowed to stay in the country, Homeland Security said Thursday.
Abraham Alvarez, 31, came to the US as a child and failed to leave the country when his B2 visa expired in 2001, but was granted deportation relief under the Obama administration through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
He was arrested in an old church in the small town of Western, Nebraska, on June 14, which he intended to use as a “safe zone” for himself and his alleged co-conspirators […]
The plotters, who were arrested in Ohio, Missouri and California, allegedly wanted to attack the UFC Freedom 250 event with explosive-laden drones and then pick off fleeing members of the crowd with a team of snipers.
Authorities said Alvarez was responsible for planning, organizing and directing the coordinated attack, which was thwarted by the FBI and local authorities.
War On Fun
Washington — The FBI said Tuesday that it disrupted an attempt to attack Sunday’s UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House. Court records detail an alleged plot to use small drones carrying explosives and snipers to target senior government officials and wealthy attendees.Five people have been charged for their alleged roles in the scheme: Tycen Proper of Ohio, Daniel Eskridge of Missouri, Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez of Nebraska, and Bryan Omar Roa and Michael Alan Thomas of California.
Each has been arrested and is being detained pending additional proceedings.
Affidavits filed across the four criminal cases detailed the alleged plot to target the UFC event at the White House on Sunday, with varying levels of involvement from the five defendants. The filings detail numerous grievances against the government and federal officials, including U.S. support for Israel, the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and data centers.
Muslim Values Are Canadian Values
Sam Cooper has more background: Slain officer Marc Pinizzotto was executing search warrants tied to the consulate shooting that a New York federal complaint links to Hizballah commander Mohammad Al-Saadi.
Also valued: “In British Columbia he’d be considered gold, not garbage.”
Say It Isn’t So, Joe!
The House Judiciary Committee said that it has uncovered new funding links between the Biden administration and left-wing groups that oppose the Israeli government, as well as groups with ties to terrorist organizations
A May 29 committee memorandum, which JNS obtained exclusively and which was addressed to committee members from the Republican-led committee staff, addresses “new information about the Biden-Harris administration helping to fund protests against the Netanyahu government.”
It alleges that U.S.-based organizations, including the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Tides Network, “provided over $5 million to groups that funded radical anti-Israel protests in the U.S. and Israel, and supported multiple terrorist-linked NGOs.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the committee, told JNS that the funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the State Department and other federal agencies raised questions about the misuse of federal dollars.
“You’re taking taxpayer money, you’re supposed to be doing good work,” the congressman said. “Why in the heck is it going to groups that are pro-Hamas?”
To oust Netanyahu and restore Hamas’ control of Gaza, that’s why Jim.
In one example, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) “received millions of dollars in grants from the Biden-Harris Administration’s USAID, State Department and Department of Defense,” the committee memo says.
RPA then donated $557,000 to its “affiliate and partner,” the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF), per the memo.
RBF, in turn, has “donated $190,000 to Defense for Children International Palestine, an Israel-designated terrorist organization with ties to the U.S.-designated terrorist organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine,” according to the memo.
RBF has also made donations to Jewish Voice for Peace, one of the main organizers of anti-Israel demonstrations in the United States, and to Alliance for Global Justice, a U.S.-based non-profit that the committee alleges has provided funding to the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.
The Biden administration designated Samidoun as a front for the PFLP in 2024.
And that’s called money-laundering, Jim. You might all do something about that.
Those Moderate Muslims
Youth at Toronto Muslim convention express desire for ‘Jew free’ community
Today In Canada’s Vote Rich Rapey-Beheader Community
It’s absurd for Prime Minister Mark Carney and his cabinet ministers to claim the need for confidentiality prevents them from explaining how a former intelligence commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was granted a temporary resident visa by Canada.
Mehdi Taj, president of the Iranian Football Federation, was turned away by the Canada Border Services Agency — the country’s last line of defence — upon arriving in Toronto last month on his way to a FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) meeting in Vancouver.
But the Carney government has failed to explain how he was granted a visa in the first place. […]
CSIS has identified credible death threats by Iran against Canadians, including a failed attempt to assassinate former Canadian justice minister Irwin Cotler.
No one affiliated with the IRGC is supposed to be allowed into Canada and if they’re here they’re supposed to be deported.
The inexplicable granting of a visa to a former IRGC intelligence commander raises the issue of the failure of the federal government to deport what may be hundreds of agents of the Iranian regime living illegally in Canada.
So far they’ve booted out one — saying the process is complicated — but human rights activists and a 2023 investigation by Global News suggest there could be hundreds of agents of the Iranian regime living illegally in Canada.
What is the point of Canada declaring terrorist organizations if no one is deporting the terrorists?
Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter
The U.S. has begun enforcing a naval blockade on Iran, targeting all vessels entering and exiting its ports across the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.
The move is expected to inflict about $435M in total daily losses across Iran’s exports, roughly $13B per month, even as its oil revenues rose 37% during the war to about $139M per day.
The IRGC had been operating a paid “protection corridor,” charging up to $2M per vessel in crypto, but the blockade could halt exports, disrupt imports, trigger food shortages, and accelerate the collapse of the rial.
Plus: vessels entering the Strait of Hormuz without authorization are subject to interception, diversion, and capture by the U.S. military. […] “The blockade will not impede neutral transit passage through the Strait of Hormuz to or from non-Iranian destinations.”
More: The thing about that Persian Gulf stranglehold is that, like the Sword of Damcles, it’s only effective until it’s played.”
I’m on the road this week and mostly out of the news cycle, so drop related links in the comments.
Are We Still A Member Of This Thing?
The first rule of fishing is fish where the fish are;
The chief oversight body responsible for tracking U.S. foreign assistance says United Nations agencies are stonewalling a probe into their ties to Hamas. The agencies have failed to provide investigators with information that could identify their employees as affiliates of the terror group, according to a non-public report transmitted to Congress and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Mad Mullah Money
Maybe bombing the banker was a bad idea;
The arrest of dozens of IRGC-linked money changers in the United Arab Emirates is one of the most serious blows yet to Tehran’s sanctions-evasion network, laying bare how heavily the Islamic Republic has depended on Dubai as an economic lifeline.
Sources familiar with the matter told Iran International that UAE authorities detained dozens of money changers tied to financial entities linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, shut down associated companies and closed their offices.
The crackdown follows days of mounting regional tensions and comes after other measures targeting Iranian nationals, including visa revocations and tighter travel restrictions through Dubai.
For years, Dubai has served as Iran’s main offshore financial artery, where oil proceeds, petrochemical revenues and rial conversions were turned into dollars, dirhams and euros beyond the reach of the country’s battered domestic banking system.
“This is going to be a real problem for Tehran because Dubai was an economic lung for the Iranian regime,” Jason Brodsky of United Against Nuclear Iran told Iran International.
“That is economic pressure and diplomatic isolation in a way that the UAE is able to employ against the Iranian regime, and it will have a very considerable impact.”
h/t Instapundit
Eliminated
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Breaking: According to reports from Iran, Ahmad Vahidi, head of the IRGC and arguably the most powerful operational terrorist in Iran, has just died after being hit by an airstrike in Tehran.Vahidi, the Muslim terrorist wanted for the 1994 massacre of 85…
— Liza Rosen (@LizaRosen0000) March 29, 2026
Update: Oh noes! How will they run their democracy?
Today In The Vote Rich Rapey-Beheader Community
SANCTIONS: The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned the Canadian company Seven Seas for International Trading and Logistics, a Vancouver-based company, over alleged ties to a $100 million Hezbollah financing network led by financier Alaa Hassan Hamieh.
Assets under U.S. jurisdiction are now frozen and American entities are barred from doing business with the firm, as authorities say the network used multiple front companies to move funds supporting Hezbollah operations.
No shit, Muhammad: B.C.’s Ministry of Finance said the province was not alerted to the situation before the U.S. announcement
Related terror funding: FOI documents reveal that “Toronto Palestinian Families” received $99,500 in federal money to conduct these workshops…
Recap of Islamic & Leftist Insanity in NYC
Today In The Vote Rich Rapey-Beheader Community
Toronto’s Death To The Jews Parade will go ahead as planned: Ford waited long enough to put on a show for the Jews, that he knew the courts couldn’t deliver.
Rooftop Romance
Via @jonkay: the president of Canada‘s leading LGBT advocacy group, Egale, has resigned. She says fellow activists, including Egale’s own board of directors apparently, condone antisemitic terror groups such as Hamas “that would clearly put them [i.e. LGBT] to death if given the opportunity”
Today In The Vote Rich Rapey-Beheader Community
The wife of New York City’s new mayor has a thing for jihadis.
But I repeat myself.
Related: Toronto Police Officer Shaho Shahmaleki (Badge #10028) is a member of law enforcement who escorts radical Hamas loyalists to march in Jewish neighborhoods.
Thank You For Your Attention To This Asskicking
New Rules
This Iranian warship thought it was safe in international waters. It wasn't.
The @DeptofWar is fighting to win. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/4bGMubuSQu
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 4, 2026
Mark Levin interviews Steve Witkoff “where he lays out in detail for nearly 40 minutes, the shocking information and events that occurred during the three meetings with the Iranian regime’s negotiators, and not a single so-called major news outlet reports on it.”
Here is the full interview if you want me to remove it let me know pic.twitter.com/j9a16GMjJ4
— Mark S (@munchymarks) March 4, 2026
Update: Kurdish forces in Iraq have launched a ground military offensive into Iran against the Islamic regime, an Iranian Kurdish official tells @i24NEWS_EN
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Operation Epic Fury
Iran attacks degraded, liberals and media hardest hit.
Iran is running out of weapons and the US is moving in. pic.twitter.com/3QpEeRXdwa
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) March 4, 2026
Operation Epic Fury
Status report from the Institute for the Study of War. (Good X account to follow)
Iranian Retaliation: The rate and scale of Iranian ballistic missile strikes targeting Israel suggest that US and Israeli efforts to degrade Iran’s retaliatory capabilities are succeeding.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) stated that Iran’s retaliation in response to the joint US-Israeli air campaign has not inflicted US casualties or caused meaningful damage to US military installations used to conduct offensive operations against Iran.
Multiple Iranian drone strikes on civilian infrastructure in Gulf countries wounded civilians on February 28.
Several members of Iran’s Axis of Resistance, including Hezbollah and the Houthis, have condemned the US and Israeli strikes in Iran but have not conducted retaliatory attacks as of ISW-CTP’s 04:00 PM ET data cutoff. These Axis of Resistance members could decide at any time to attack the United States or Israel in response to the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, however.
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The combined US-Israeli force killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and it is unclear who is currently ruling Iran. US President Donald Trump confirmed on February 28 that Khamenei was killed. The Iranian constitution stipulates that the President, the Judiciary Chief, and a member of the Guardian Council will take over the responsibilities of the Supreme Leader until Iran’s Assembly of Experts convenes to select a new leader. Khamenei was reportedly making plans prior to the current conflict for who he wanted to rule Iran in the event of his death, however.
The combined force conducted nearly 900 strikes on Iranian targets in the first 12 hours of its campaign, according to an unspecified US official speaking to Fox News. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stated that it struck 500 Iranian targets. The regime’s internet shutdown has almost certainly limited the amount of information about US and Israeli strikes coming out of Iran. ISW-CTP’s strike data, therefore, only reflects a portion of the total amount of US and Israeli strikes.
CENTCOM Update: As of 9:30 am ET, March 1, three U.S. service members have been killed in action and five are seriously wounded as part of Operation Epic Fury. Several others sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions — and are in the process of being returned to duty. Major combat operations continue and our response effort is ongoing.
@DrEliDavid – President Trump announced that the US is converting all Iranian ships into submarines
Operation Epic Fury (Bumped)
New report, via Israel: Khamenei’s body has been found, Netanyahu has viewed the photos.
Iranians celebrated in the streets following news of Khamenei’s death. pic.twitter.com/yVwLzRKzco
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) February 28, 2026
Original post below. Evening developments will be posted to a new thread.
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The hour of your freedom is at hand.
The coordinated attacks, named Operation Epic Fury by the Pentagon and Roaring Lion by Israel, hit Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s residence, parliament, National Security Council headquarters, and radar sites. Trump urged Iran’s military to surrender and civilians to overthrow the government amid unconfirmed reports of top officials killed.
Iran fired back with ballistic missiles at Israel, US assets in Bahrain, and sites in UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, and Jordan, as Gulf states condemned the aggression and the region braced for escalation.
As always, X is your firehose of both information and propaganda/AI fakes, readers are welcome to drop whatever looks legit in the comments.
Official U.S. Department of War X account.
Teenage boys in Iran react.
@WarMonitor3: Iranian air defence appears completely non existent
Eli David is a good account to follow: USS Abraham Lincoln strike group is now attacking Iran’s navy
Fingers crossed: Reports that rescue teams are digging the rubble in Khamenei’s residence. Update: Senior Israel official “Khamenei ‘almost certainly’ eliminated”
Commander of the IRGC has been eliminated.
🚨 🇮🇷 Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi’s reaction to the war in Iran pic.twitter.com/Uy5zOvX3ln
— Tousi TV (@TousiTVOfficial) February 28, 2026
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86 – They did not bomb Iran. They waited for Iran’s entire leadership to sit down in the same room and then they bombed Iran.
Iran disputes reports: “Everything is fine.”
Or not.
Not, if he was here: Damavand headquarters hit with bunker busters.
Iran’s announcement that Khamenei will give a proof of life address “within minutes” expired hours ago.