The Obama Death Star is out of hope

Is there enough public interest in visiting the monument to the greatness of Barack to keep it afloat?

I've always thought Barack Obama was a race-hustling, egomaniacal, anti-American Communist and Islamist, and his actions and history have vindicated that belief. The media lauded him as the greatest orator in history, yet by the standards I taught my speech and debate students, he was mediocre at best. No Obama speech is remotely in the same league as those of Martin Luther King or Abraham Lincoln. He just didn’t have it in him, largely because he was entirely self-centered.


Obama was expert at self-promotion and self-aggrandizement, so much so that he was given a Nobel Peace Prize almost immediately after being elected for being Barack Obama. At least one member of the Nobel Committee that awarded that prize later admitted it was a stupid thing to do. As President of the Harvard Law Review, he did almost nothing, and only a single, 1990, unsigned article on abortion has been attributed to him. He obviously liked the title and prestige, but not the work. He could never explain to even his friends what he did as a “community organizer” in Chicago.

With that non-management background, it’s hardly surprising things have already taken a nosedive at his presidential library that isn’t.


Barack Obama is facing a fresh humiliation at his 'eyesore' presidential center with workers slamming the project's bosses and moving to unionize just months after it opened.

In a letter to colleagues this week, staff at the Chicago library said they were organizing a union due to the institute's 'increasing workloads' and benefit rollbacks.


Workers have grown frustrated with leadership at Obama's foundation after their concerns were met with 'vague responses,' according to the letter, first shared by the Chicago Sun-Times.

Issues with workloads and benefits have led to a 'high turnover rate' among employees, with many more 'continuing to leave (and) taking with them their institutional knowledge and expertise,' the letter claimed.


Workers say they were recently told that their healthcare costs would increase, promotions were suspended, and paid time off was reduced, despite also learning they would get no pay increases this winter.

Luke Gilday, an Obama Foundation employee and member of the union organizing committee, told the Sun-Times that workers decided to unionize because they 'don't even have a seat at the table.'


'What we’re hoping for, and really the reason why we’re forming our union, is just because we believe we should have a say in the decisions that are being made that impact all of our lives,' Gilday said.

Should anyone be surprised that the man who lied about Obamacare and so much else is stiffing the employees he’s depending upon to man his bizarre legacy? In building it, he operated like a standard Democrat:


The Obama center cost upwards of $850 million, far beyond its initial budget of $300 million. But just days before its grand opening in June, contractors alleged that they had not been paid for work on the building.

Several subcontractors claimed they were owed millions in past-due invoices, and African American Contractors Association president Omar Shareef said several workers told him they 'wished they had never done (the project).'

Here’s irony:


In the organizing committee's open letter, the group quoted directly from a letter Obama circulated during the 2016 presidential election, which called on workers to join unions across the nation.

'If I were looking for a good job that lets me build some security for my family, I’d join a union. If I saw a problem in my workplace, I’d organize my coworkers to do something about it,' the quote read.

That sounds like a community that needs organizing. And here’s more irony from The New York Post:


“Mr. and Mrs. Obama’s legacy is one of hope,” Gilday said. “It’s one of fairness, and it’s one of transparency … by forming our union, all we’re doing is living out that legacy.”

Obama seems to be fresh out of hope. An Obama Foundation spokesman stuck to the Party line:

“We are deeply committed to the fundamental right of workers to organize and make their voices heard,” a spokesperson told the Sun Times.

“As members of our staff explore union representation, we approach this process with immense gratitude for their contributions, deep respect for unions, and a sincere commitment to working collaboratively with our partners in labor,” they added.

What’s most likely happening is that after funding a $550 million cost overrun on the building, donors aren’t interested in ponying up another dime. What money is left is being siphoned off by Obama cronies, leaving barely enough to keep the doors open, breaking promises made to the staff foolish enough to believe in The Light Bringer.

Is there enough public interest in visiting the monument to the greatness of Barack to keep it afloat? Did I even need to ask that question?

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/10/the-obama-death-star-is-out-of-hope/

Hollywood Star Left Bloodied As Two Men Rob Him At Gunpoint and Knifepoint In Far-Left California

A Hollywood actor was left bloodied after two masked men ambushed him outside an upscale grocery store in deep-blue West Hollywood.

The attackers had a handgun and a knife. They demanded his jewelry, struck him in the head with the gun and escaped with his watch.

The victim was Keegan Allen, the 37-year-old actor best known for playing Toby Cavanaugh on Pretty Little Liars.

Allen shared video from the immediate aftermath of the Thursday night attack, along with surveillance footage that appeared to show the robbery unfolding beside his vehicle.

His face and neck were streaked with blood as he asked someone nearby to call police and tried to explain what had just happened.

Two masked attackers were caught on video ambushing “Pretty Little Liars” star Keegan Allen outside an upscale WeHo grocery store Thursday night, leaving him bloodied after hitting him on the head with a gun. https://t.co/cIW03eoIWF pic.twitter.com/COxR505EwI

— California Post (@californiapost) October 9, 2026

According to NBC Los Angeles, sheriff’s deputies responded shortly after 9 p.m. to the 8400 block of Santa Monica Boulevard, outside Laurel Supply. Allen had been loading groceries into his vehicle along one of West Hollywood’s busiest commercial corridors.

Allen told investigators that one suspect pointed a silver handgun while the other displayed a knife. The pair demanded his watch and bracelet before the gunman struck him in the head.

The blow opened a cut on Allen’s forehead. First responders treated him at the scene, and investigators began collecting the video that captured the confrontation.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said the suspects fled in an unknown vehicle. The agency’s Major Crimes Division is handling the investigation because of the violence involved.

Investigators had not publicly identified the getaway car or the direction it traveled. That left the surveillance footage and nearby camera network as potentially critical evidence.

Allen’s own account was blunt. He said the masked men threatened to kill him over his watch and declared that West Hollywood was no longer safe.

FOX 11 Los Angeles reported that Allen suffered a head injury and publicly questioned whether local leaders and the city’s network of license-plate cameras would help identify the men who attacked him.

What are your thoughts?

The West Hollywood robbery is not being brushed off as an isolated inconvenience. The sheriff’s department announced that it was increasing patrols in the Rainbow District and across the city after recent robberies rattled residents and visitors.

Authorities said the attack does not appear connected to an October 2 robbery in which another victim was shot.

Allen later wrote in an Instagram comment that he was at a hospital and believed he had suffered a concussion. He also told followers he would be okay.

That was Allen’s own description of his condition. No doctor has publicly released a diagnosis.

The footage is difficult to watch. Allen appears to be complying as the men close in, yet one of them still swings the handgun into his head.

That detail matters. This was far more serious than a celebrity losing a luxury item and complaining about it afterward.

Two armed men allegedly threatened a man’s life, injured him and ran before deputies arrived. As of Sunday, the search for the suspects remained active and no arrest had been announced.

The question now is whether the cameras Allen called out can give detectives the break they need—and whether the added patrols arrive before somebody else is left bleeding on a West Hollywood sidewalk.

https://wltreport.com/2026/10/11/armed-attack-hollywood-star-deep-blue-city-crime-cameras/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=armed-attack-hollywood-star-deep-blue-city-crime-cameras

Former UFC Star Tim Kennedy Shot Three Times as Deadly Congo Ambush Leaves Roughly 20 Casualties

Former UFC star and retired Green Beret Tim Kennedy is recovering in the United States after he was shot three times during a deadly ambush in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The Sept. 17 attack in South Kivu reportedly left roughly 20 people dead or wounded.

Kennedy survived with three gunshot wounds to his leg.

That is the kind of sentence that sounds like a movie pitch until you remember who Kennedy is—and where this mission took him.

Kennedy, 47, spent years in U.S. Army Special Forces before and during a professional fighting career that included runs in the UFC and Strikeforce. He is now receiving treatment at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington.

Reuters reporting carried by CNN Brasil identified Kennedy as part of a group connected to Vectus Global, the private security company founded by Blackwater founder Erik Prince, and said the account drew on at least 10 people with direct knowledge of the attack or who had been briefed on it.

The team was reportedly involved in an operation to protect mining revenue, fight smuggling and collect taxes for the Congolese government. What began as a financial-security mission turned into a brutal firefight in one of the most unstable regions on Earth.

At least seven Congolese were among those killed, according to the report. Justin Conaglen, a former member of New Zealand’s elite Special Air Service, was also killed.

Another foreign contractor was wounded.

Sources said local villagers may also have been among the casualties. The attack marked the first known losses suffered by Vectus Global during its Congo operations.

The company had expanded from advising on mineral-revenue collection into security work supporting Congolese forces in the country’s violent eastern provinces.

Kennedy was evacuated through Burundi and Johannesburg before being flown back to the United States. Reports describe his condition as stable.

The exact chain of events is still contested. Sources working with the Congolese government reportedly said forces supporting the M23 rebel movement may have tracked a surveillance drone back to the team’s position.

Two sources blamed the Rwandan military directly, while another said the sophistication of the ambush pointed in that direction. Rwanda has denied backing M23, although the United Nations and Western governments have accused Kigali of supporting the rebel group.

That dispute matters. Eastern Congo has endured years of armed conflict tied to territory, political power and control of mineral wealth—including gold, lithium and tantalum.

Stars and Stripes reported that Kennedy had been part of a three-man element and that the Sept. 17 attack had not been officially confirmed when details first began emerging, citing the New Zealand Herald and comments from former Delta Force operator Brent Tucker.

The outlet said neither the full circumstances of the ambush nor the extent of Kennedy’s injuries had been independently established at that point.

The military newspaper also noted Kennedy’s Special Forces deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan and reported that he was still serving part-time in a Maryland National Guard special operations detachment as of 2025.

Conaglen had taken unpaid leave from New Zealand’s military in March and formally left the service in August, according to the same reporting.

The later Reuters account added multiple sources familiar with the attack and placed Kennedy at Walter Reed after the evacuation.

Vectus Global declined to comment publicly on the attack. Kennedy also had not issued a detailed public account as of Sunday.

He fought some of the toughest men in mixed martial arts, served in Iraq and Afghanistan and built a reputation around surviving punishing situations. None of that makes three bullets in a Congo ambush routine.

Kennedy made it home alive. Conaglen and several Congolese did not.

And behind the headline sits a much larger story: an American military celebrity, a private security force tied to Erik Prince and a mineral-rich battlefield where the line between security contract and war can disappear in seconds.

https://100percentfedup.com/former-ufc-star-tim-kennedy-shot-three-times/

Grandpa ID’d as crazed killer who shot 9 — including his own kids, grandkids — in shocking Pa. murder-suicide: relatives

 The crazed killer in a mass murder-suicide in Pennsylvania was a grandfather who slaughtered nine of his own loved ones, including his young grandchildren and a daughter days away from giving birth again, according to horrified relatives.

The 45-year-old suspect, who has yet to be fully identified, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot in the family home in Erie late Friday, with the murder weapon beside him, officials told Erie News Now.

After a shooting spree inside the house, he had stepped outside to gun down two women, ages 51 and 37, who rushed to the scene, before going back inside and killing himself, according to cops.

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Pregnant woman Angelina Stone was killed by her father in a mass murder-suicide in Eerie, Pa. on Oct. 10, 2026.

The dead included Angelina Stone, the killer’s pregnant daughter who was days away from giving birth to a third child, Kryie, who was added to the death toll, taking it to 10. Her two other kids — son Isiah, 5, and daughter Amari’anna, almost 2 — were also killed.

“Angelina’s father killed Angelina and her children in a murder-suicide, and now our family is facing the painful task of laying them to rest,” said an online fundraiser that had collected almost $24,000 by Sunday.

The fundraiser did not otherwise identify the killer dad, who has also not yet been identified by authorities. All of the dead were relatives, save for one who was a family friend.

The father of one of Angelina’s slain children also told Erie News Now that the killer was his one-time partner’s dad.

“It was my baby, bro, and he just took her,” Ezekiel said. “Her name was Amari’anna. She’s the most beautiful baby God could have created.”

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Juicesiyah Alexander Ezekiel says his daughter Amari’anna’s grandfather was the mass shooter who killed the toddler, and her brother and pregnant mother alongside three other family members and a family friend in Erie, Pa. Friday.

Stone had already named her unborn child Kyrie, and was due to deliver him on Wednesday.

“She was pregnant, about to have a baby in a couple of days and she had a daughter that was almost two, and her son Isaiah, who I believe was four or five,” Ezekiel’s sister Lisa Simmers told the outlet.

“They are all just beautiful children and definitely did not deserve what happened to them.”

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Ezekiel is pictured with Amari’anna, 22 months, who relatives say was slain by her unidentified grandfather.

Erie cops have yet to suggest a motive, and said Sunday that identifications were being held because “surviving family members are still being notified.”

Another fundraising website had been set up for Lora Roberts, who organizers said was among those murdered.

Roberts was remembered as “a loving mother of five, a devoted fiancée, a cherished daughter, family member, and friend to so many,” by organizers Kellie Eggleston and Christine Tombaugh.

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Police were reviewing cellphone records of the victims in an attempt to understand what had led to the shooting and establish a motive. Officials have said mental health issues “may be a factor” in the horrific familicide.

The mass shooting unfolded shortly before 5 p.m. on Friday in a home on the 700 block of Perry Road on the East Side of the lakeside city of 91,000 between New York and Ohio.

Investigators uncovered video and audio evidence that showed gunshots were fired in the home before two “distressed” woman began pounding on the door of the house, police said.

The 45-year-old family patriarch came outside and shot them dead before going back into the house, according to authorities.

When cops arrived, they found the bodies of the women, ages 37 and 51, outside. After deploying a drone and a robot during a non-violent standoff, they entered the house to find the bodies of a 5-year-old boy and 1-year-old girl on the first floor. Two women and two men were found dead in a stairwell and the body of the shooter was found upstairs, police said.

“It was horrific. It was the worst scene I have ever experienced,” Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah said at a press conference.

An outpouring of grief and support was seen at a candlelight vigil in front of the home Saturday night as community members lit candles, left balloons, and placed stuffed animals at the active scene.

“My son heard the first shot go off and then we heard the screaming, and then we heard the next three that went off as well. So it was quite frightening for us to experience,” neighbor Candice Delange said at the growing memorial, according to WTAE-TV.

“We were here. We heard the shots. We heard everything go down, step by step. We were here while we couldn’t run into the house and help the babies,” Lisa Simmers, a family member, reportedly asked.

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Neighbors setting up a memorial for the victims of the murder-suicide in Erie on Oct. 11, 2026 outside of the house where the massacre took place.

“How do you go home and tell your kids like, hey, your mom, your siblings, your uncles and everybody else just got murdered by your grandpa?”

Gov. Josh Shapiro spoke at a Saturday campaign event about the mass shooting and the deadly ambush of two Philadelphia police officers.

“Today has been a dark day across this commonwealth,” the Democrat said.

https://nypost.com/2026/10/11/us-news/grandfather-behind-trigger-of-pennsylvania-massacre/

Terror Encounters at Border Are Up 21,600 Percent Since Trump Restored Order - The Reason Is So Chilling

Terrorism-related encounters at Southwest border ports of entry are up about 21,600 percent from fiscal 2024 to fiscal 2026, and the jump tracks a change in who counts as terrorism-related.

Customs and Border Protection’s enforcement statistics list 52 terrorism-related encounters at Southwest ports in fiscal 2024. Through August of fiscal year 2026, the same Terrorist Screening Dataset table lists 11,283.

The Center for Immigration Studies, in an analysis published Monday, put the fiscal year 2026 port total at more than 11,250 for the first 11 months, and used the 11,283 figure for Office of Field Operations encounters at those ports.

Just the News reported the Center for Immigration Studies figures against just over 3,700 in fiscal 2025 and 103 in fiscal 2021.

Andrew Arthur, the Center for Immigration Studies fellow who wrote the report, said the rise is partly a border security metric. With illegal entries at historic lows, people with terrorism-related records are more likely to try the ports, where officers are posted to stop them.

The same report said encounters between the ports did not move with the port numbers. Border Patrol recorded 105 terrorism-related encounters on the Southwest border between ports of entry so far in fiscal 2026, a pace the Center for Immigration Studies put near 115, against 172 in fiscal 2023, 106 in fiscal 2024, and 98 in fiscal 2022.

Border Patrol is on pace for about 98,000 Southwest border apprehensions in fiscal 2026, Just the News reported, down about 95 percent from the 2.045 million recorded in fiscal 2023.

Arthur also pointed to a definition change. On Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the designation of cartels and other entities as foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated global terrorists.

On Feb. 20, 2025, the State Department designated eight groups under both labels: Tren de Aragua, MS-13, the Sinaloa cartel, Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, Cártel del Noreste, La Nueva Familia Michoacana, the Gulf cartel, and Cárteles Unidos.

The Center for Immigration Studies wrote that many of the 11,283 port encounters may be known or suspected members or associates of those eight groups, and that port officers may have been stopping people in those organizations for years without recording them in this category.

That is the gap between the older number and the newer one.

A fiscal year 2024 count of 52 measured encounters that met the watchlist rules then in use. It did not measure entries from cartel and gang suspects who fell outside that definition and were not logged as related to terrorism at all.

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Customs and Border Protection says the records “may include” hits from the Terrorist Screening Dataset, the watchlist kept by the FBI-led Terrorist Screening Center. Not every person on that list is a known or suspected terrorist, and Customs and Border Protection does not publish a final disposition for each encounter, the Center for Immigration Studies noted.

Between the ports, the newer labels did not produce a matching surge. Gang-affiliated apprehensions by Border Patrol on the Southwest border were 435 so far in fiscal 2026, on pace for about 475, below the 751, 639, and 523 recorded in fiscal 2022, 2023, and 2024.

Arthur’s report treated that split as evidence that tighter control between the ports pushed more of the traffic to the gates. He quoted former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott’s 2021 Senate testimony that plaza bosses working for transnational criminal organizations had used gaps in coverage to move criminals and potential terrorists through.

The fiscal 2026 port figure is a count of people stopped and identified under the post-designation rules. It is not a count of how many people with the same affiliations crossed in earlier years without a terrorism-related record being opened.

Fiscal year 2024’s 52 and fiscal year 2026’s 11,283 are both published Customs and Border Protection encounter totals. The percentage between them is an arithmetic result of those two cells. The change in who is classified as terrorism-related is the policy difference the Center for Immigration Studies attached to the increase.

https://www.westernjournal.com/terror-encounters-border-21600-percent-since-trump-restored-order-reason-chilling/