All It Took for Democrats to Cave on DHS Funding Was Four Terrorist Attacks

Two days ago, Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz, a Democrat, said his party was "serene" amid the current government shutdown. That was despite TSA agents not getting paid and hours-long lines at airports that made travel hell for Americans. Democrats did all that because they want to defund the Department of Homeland Security and abolish ICE so they can put illegal aliens — including violent criminals — ahead of the safety and security of Americans.

It wasn't the first time Democrats used Americans' suffering for political gain, of course. During the shutdown last fall, multiple Democrats said they planned to use the pain caused by the Schumer Shutdown as leverage to get their way. It shows us all exactly how Democrats feel about us.

But that was before the two terrorist attacks that took place yesterday. In Virginia, Mohamed Jalloh opened fire at Old Dominion University, killing Lt. Col. Brandon Shah, a professor and decorated veteran, and wounding two others in the school's ROTC program. Those ROTC cadets ended up subduing Jalloh and ending his life protecting one another. It turns out Jalloh, a naturalized citizen from Sierra Leone, was arrested in 2017 and sentenced to 11 years in prison for providing support to the terror group ISIL, including traveling overseas several times to join them. Jalloh was released in 2024 for some reason and wasn't immediately denaturalized and deported.

Shortly after that terror attack, another Islamic terrorist named Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a Lebanese national who lived in Dearborn, Michigan, drove his car into Temple Israel Synagogue and school in West Bloomfield, a suburb of Detroit. Ghazali was confronted by armed security and killed. The vehicle also caught fire, burning Ghazali. One security guard was injured, but no students or staff were hurt as none were present on campus. Like Jalloh, Ghazali was a naturalized citizen.

Those two attacks were the third and fourth terror attacks on American soil in less than two weeks. On March 1, Ndiaga Diagne, a 53-year-old naturalized citizen from Senegal (noticing a pattern here?) opened fire at a bar in Austin, Texas, killing two and wounding several others. Diagne was wearing an Iranian flag t-shirt underneath a hoodie that had "Property of Allah" printed on the front. Last weekend, Ibrahim Kayumi and Emir Balat threw a homemade IED into a crowd of anti-Islam protesters in New York City, hoping to kill more people than the Boston Marathon terrorists did in 2013. That device, thankfully, didn't detonate.

Despite these terror attacks, and just minutes after Ghazali tried to kill Jewish children, both of Michigan's Democrat Senators — Elissa Slotkin and Gary Peters — voted down a bill that would have funded the Department of Homeland Security.

Democrats are keeping DHS shut down because, as we mentioned, they want to defund the agency and abolish ICE so illegal immigrants and terrorists like Jalloh and Ghazali can enter our country, vote in our elections, and keep Democrats in power.

But allowing terrorist attacks to happen on American soil doesn't sit well with voters, which is why Elissa Slotkin is now caving on funding DHS. The admission came during a press conference about the Temple Israel terror attack.

"A ton of DHS folks, CBP, so they are on the call and they are doing their jobs. Certainly, we need to fund the Department of Homeland Security, and we need, in my view, to cut away all the conversation on ICE, which is its own conversation, from all the core missions of the Department of Homeland Security," Slotkin said.

Guy Benson slammed Slotkin on Fox News over it.

"ICE is already funded for the next three years, so that conversation should have been stripped away already. For her to say that certainly we need to fund Homeland Security, I agree. But I'm not the one who voted to keep it closed yesterday. Which is what she did," Benson said. "There was a vote on this yesterday, which finished, by the way, after the attack in Michigan, in her state. She reacted on social media to that terrorist attack in her state before the vote ended. That kept the Democrat filibuster alive, meaning that the DHS department remains closed. She made that choice to vote to maintain the shuttering, the temporary closing, of our Homeland Security agency."

"And then she comes on the cameras today and says, 'Oh well, certainly we need to fund it.' She had the chance to do so yesterday and she chose not to," Benson continued. "This was after by the way, there are 47 Democrats in the Senate, 46 of them voted to maintain their filibuster to keep DHS closed. This is after four apparent jihadist attacks on the homeland in the last two weeks. Four homeland attacks in two weeks, and nearly every single Democrat in the Senate voted to keep Homeland Security closed. It's astonishing."

Yes, it is astonishing. Democrats have made it very clear they will put their pro-illegal immigration agenda before the safety and security of Americans, and now at least three people are dead and more wounded at the hands of jihadists who carried out four attacks in the last two weeks. Remember this in the midterms, and realize what Democrats can and will do if they regain power. They're not hiding it, after all.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/03/13/the-democrats-are-caving-on-funding-dhs-n2672793

‘They Wanted to Call the Shots:’ Pentagon’s Emil Michael Explains the AI Fight with Anthropic on Alex Marlow Show

Pentagon Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael joined The Alex Marlow Show to explain the fall from grace of Anthropic, once the Pentagon’s only approved AI partner. According to Michael, Anthropic was a “chosen winner” of the Biden administration who “wanted to get in between the command structure and the warfighter.”

During Wednesday’s episode of The Alex Marlow Show, the Breitbart News editor-in-chief noted that the Pentagon had “become very dependent on Anthropic” before the company was blacklisted by President Donald Trump, who labeled it a “radical left, woke company.” Marlow then asked Michael to describe how dependent the Pentagon was on its single provider, and how the Department of War plans to address potential risks.

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Michael explained that the Biden administration had an executive order that “was designed to create a small number of winners who are more tightly under the government’s control, and prevent, or at least make it difficult, for new startups to build AI companies.”

“Anthropic was one of those chosen winners because of their political philosophy,” Michael said.

The U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering elaborated:When I got here, and I got a hold of the contracts that were signed during that period, I had a ‘holy cow’ moment. The contracts basically prevented the Department of War from doing Department of War stuff — like doing weapons design, whether you’re doing physics or material science or aerospace dynamics — and I had to say, ‘Holy cow, we have to do something about this.’

So I went to all these companies, model companies, and said, ‘Number one, we can’t be dependent on one provider,’ and it’s not everywhere in the DoW, it’s just in a few sensitive areas. And number two, the terms have to let us do the things we do. If you’re a software provider, why sell to the Department of War if you can’t do Department of War things?

So I set out to just make that equivalent, like what we were buying and what they were selling was useful to us.

“Every other AI company, Grok, Google, even OpenAI, it took one or two weeks to come to terms,” Michael said. “I spent three months with Anthropic, trying to come to terms.”

“Ultimately, it was clear that they just wanted to get in between the command structure and the war fighter,” the Pentagon chief technology officer added. “They wanted to call the shots.”

“So they could basically be the de facto commander-in-chief of the military?” Marlow asked, adding, “That seems like the most egregious, over-the-top thing I’ve ever heard of, where a company could just dictate to the government how they would behave.”

Michael agreed, calling the scenario “Orwellian,” adding that “the 25 pages of terms and conditions” gave the AI company “the right” to “turn off the software in the middle of a battle” if the U.S. government is to be deemed having “tripped over one of those 25 pages, which had 50 different prohibitions.”

“So they could decide the battle’s over,” the Pentagon chief technology officer said.

Michael went on to offer an example:

They could decide that you were using this tool to plan a Maduro raid in Venezuela and they didn’t like that. And the software guardrails could have automatically clicked in without even any human intervention, because the model kind of senses what you’re trying to do.

Whether it was a human or a software guardrail — the model, that they say is almost sentient, could sense it because, remember, Anthropic has its own constitution. Not corporate values, its own constitution. Its own soul. And if you trip over them, the software could shut off at the critical moment.

“If you’re an investor, how does this change things for Anthropic now that you guys have designated it as a supply chain risk?” Marlow asked.

Michael replied, “It’s pretty logical. We at the Department of War have to transition off of Anthropic, and we have to have more than one provider going forward. That’s the simple part.”

The Pentagon technology officer added that when it comes to the supply chain risk, the Trump administration doesn’t want companies that are selling critical components to the Department of War “using Anthropic to design the stuff that they provide us.”

“Because there’s an insider threat risk,” Michael said. “There’s what we call ‘model poisoning’ — you’re going to hear a lot about this in the coming year — where a model’s poisoned to act a certain way by an individual or by the way they teach the model to do certain things.”

Something like this, Michael said, “could cause a miscalculation on purpose that invades the software and then ends up in a war fighter’s hands.”

“And I can’t take that risk,” the Pentagon technology officer asserted. “We can’t take that risk.”

“If Boeing wants to use Anthropic for their commercial jets, that’s fine,” he added. “If they want to use it for fighter jets, they can’t. Because I’m buying those at the Department of War, and I don’t want anything corrupted in that supply chain.”

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/03/12/they-wanted-to-call-the-shots-pentagons-emil-michael-explains-the-anthropic-ai-war-on-alex-marlow-show/

Far-left podcaster Jennifer Welch says Joe Biden 'f---ed us so hard' after failing to charge Trump

'I've Had It' podcast host blamed Biden and Merrick Garland for delayed DOJ investigation she says enabled Trump's 2024 victory

Far-left podcaster Jennifer Welch said former President Joe Biden "f---ed" the country after he and former Attorney General Merrick Garland failed to prosecute President Donald Trump.

The "I've Had It" host voiced her frustrations with the Trump administration on "Choice Words with Samantha Bee" on Thursday but admitted that her anger also extended to the former Democratic president for failing to stop him.

"And then my brain goes to "g--d---" it, Joe Biden f---ed us," Welch said. "He f---ed us so hard. Oh my God. Because Merrick Garland should have prosecuted him, right?"

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Far-left podcast star Jennifer Welch attacked former President Joe Biden for not prosecuting President Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. 

She called it "unfathomable" that Trump was re-elected after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and his subsequent legal battles.

"[T]hat's where I go, Joe Biden f---ed us," Welch said. "You f---ed us so hard. You f---ed us. And I like Joe Biden. I was so excited when he won. But he had one important appointment, who you appointed to be attorney general. You should have said, 'Look, you're going to be independent, but if you're not interested in putting the people who paid for this in jail.'" 

Welch then called out the Department of Justice's (DOJ) failure to hold any of the "funders" and "planners" for Jan. 6 accountable.

"And so like after that, the fact that the DOJ didn't take that seriously, that Biden didn't tell Garland full tilt, follow the law, follow the facts, but Jack Smith wasn't appointed for two years," she said. "That's where ... did he do the CHIPS Act? Did he do the Infrastructure Act? Did he do all of those things? Yes. And all of those are great. But the biggest threat now is that we had fascism at the door."

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Other Democrats have blamed Biden's failure to prosecute Trump as the reason behind Trump's election victory.

Fox News Digital reached out to Biden's office for comment but did not immediately hear back.

Garland announced in 2022 that he was tapping special counsel Jack Smith to investigate alleged attempts by Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results. Although Garland said his decision at the time was based on Trump announcing his bid for the presidency, some Democrats have said the Jan. 6 committee findings should have been more than enough to launch an investigation. 

They have since blamed the slow prosecution for Trump's victory in 2024.

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Biden was reportedly also frustrated with former Attorney General Merrick Garland over moving too slowly with a case against Trump. 

Though Welch primarily supports Democratic candidates, she has called out party leaders like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for failing to stop Trump's agenda.

Last month, she claimed Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., was committing "political suicide" by calling on the Democratic Party to be more "culturally normal."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/far-left-podcaster-joe-biden-f-ed-us-so-hard-after-failing-charge-trump-jennifer-welch-exclaims

Old Dominion terrorist Mohamed Bailor Jalloh was released from prison early — despite admitting to helping plot attack against US

 Old Dominion terrorist Mohamed Bailor Jalloh had been previously serving time in federal prison for helping to plot a heinous attack against the US — but he ended up being cut loose early, records show.

The 36-year-old ISIS-linked maniac — who was killed when he opened fire at the Virginia university Thursday — was sprung from federal custody Dec. 23, 2024, after serving roughly eight years of his 11-year sentence.

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Old Dominion University terrorist Mohamed Bailor Jalloh had been serving time in a federal prison for helping plot an attack against the US — but ended up being released early, according to records.

Jalloh, who was a former member of the Virginia National Guard, was originally sentenced in 2017 after confessing to providing material support to the Islamic State.

His guilty plea came after a three-month sting operation in which Jalloh, then 26, made his plans known to a federal informant, the Justice Department said at the time of his plea deal.

“Jalloh claimed to know how to shoot guns and praised the gunman who killed five U.S. military members in a terrorist attack in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in July 2015,” federal prosecutors wrote.

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Jalloh was a former member of the Virginia National Guard.

“Jalloh also stated he had been thinking about conducting an attack similar to the terrorist attack at Ft. Hood, Texas, in November 2009, which killed 13 people and wounded 32 others.”

The feds started probing him after Jalloh, a naturalized US citizen from Sierra Leone, made contact with Islamic State members during a six-month stay in Africa in early 2016.

He later told the FBI informant that the Islamic State group had asked if he wanted to participate in an attack.

The terrorist added that he believed it would be better to plan an attack during the month of Ramadan because that was “100 percent the right thing,” the DOJ said. Ramadan this year ends next week.

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Jalloh was shot dead when he opened fire at Old Dominion University on Thursday, killing an ROTC instructor and injuring two others.

When he returned to the US, Jalloh tried and failed to obtain firearms in North Carolina.

He then went to a gun dealership in Virginia, which sold him an assault rifle that had been rendered inoperable before he left with it, thanks to already being on authorities’ radar, the feds said.

Initially, the Justice Department had requested Jalloh serve a 20-year sentence, citing his multiple attempts to join ISIS and his purchase of the weapon, while his lawyers pushed for 6.5 years.

US District Judge Liam O’Grady ended up slapping him with an 11-year sentence.

It wasn’t immediately clear why Jalloh’s prison release was ultimately moved up. Inmates can have time shaved off their sentences for a number of reasons, but it isn’t yet known what happened in his case.

He was still on supervised released at the time of Thursday’s rampage, records show.

News of his prior conviction — and subsequent release — sparked immediate questions as to how a perp with known ties to ISIS was still able to carry out the sickening attack.

“The horrific tragedy that occurred today on ODU’s campus never should have happened,” Rep. Jen Kiggans, who represents the congressional district neighboring the university, said in a statement shortly after the attack.

The Bureau of Prisons did not respond to a Post request for comment Friday.

https://nypost.com/2026/03/13/us-news/old-dominion-terrorist-mohamed-bailor-jalloh-was-released-from-prison-early-despite-admitting-to-helping-plot-attack-against-us/

Palantir CEO Says AI Will Take Power Away From Democratic Voters and Toward Working-Class Men

Alex Karp

Palantir CEO Alex Karp has said that artificial intelligence (AI) could shift economic influence away from highly educated voters who tend to support Democrats and toward vocationally trained, working-class men.

In an interview with CNBC, Karp discussed the broader societal impact of artificial intelligence and how it is expected to transform employment.

“This technology disrupts humanities-trained, largely Democratic voters, and makes their economic power less.”

“And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, uh voters,” Karp said.

“So these disruptions are gonna disrupt every aspect of our society,” he said.

“To make this work, we have to come to an agreement of what it is we’re going to do with the technology; how are we gonna explain to people who are likely gonna have less good, and less interesting jobs.”

The data analytics and artificial intelligence company, which was founded by Trump backer Peter Thiel, builds platforms designed to analyze enormous datasets and is widely used by governments, intelligence agencies, and major corporations.

Palantir first gained prominence for its work with U.S. intelligence and defense agencies, including the CIA, the Department of Defense, and other national security bodies.

Its software has been used for counterterrorism analysis, military planning, and intelligence operations.

In recent years, the company has also expanded into commercial sectors, providing data and artificial intelligence platforms to companies in industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, finance, and energy.

However, Karp insisted that the technology still carries serious risks but that America must win the AI race against adversaries such as China.

“These technologies are dangerous societally,” Karp said.

“The only justification you could possibly have would be that if we don’t do it, our adversaries will do it,” he continued. “And we will be subject to their rule of law.”

“Why is it that we’re absorbing the risk of disrupting the very fabric of our society, including the most powerful parts of our society, if it’s not because it’s about maintaining our ability to be American in the near term and long term?” he said.

Karp has previously suggested America has empathy for everyone except for working-class white males.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/palantir-ceo-says-ai-will-take-power-away/