An Antifa anarchist who led an ambush at a Texas Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center last year will spend a century behind bars. Prosecutors claimed former Marine Corps Reservist Benjamin Hanil Song shot an officer during the July 4, 2025, attack before running and hiding from authorities for a week. On Tuesday, he received the maximum sentence, 100 years, for his crimes, which took place at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, according to KXAN. Seven other Antifa members also received sentences alongside Song, ranging from 30 to 70 years, the outlet reported. In total, the shooters fired roughly 20 to 30 rounds at law enforcement, according to court documents. During the attack, the leftist anarchists clad in military-style gear hurled fireworks at the building to lure officers outside before opening fire. Prosecutors said Song shot a local police officer in the neck. The officer has since made a full recovery, Alvarado Police Chief Teddy May said. The group allegedly possessed flyers reading “FIGHT ICE TERROR WITH CLASS WAR!” and “FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS,” as well as a flag stating, “RESIST FASCISM — FIGHT OLIGARCHY.” They also spray-painted the words “ICE Pig” on a nearby vehicle and “F*ck you pigs” on a guard shack. For his part, Song was accused of firing two AR-15-style rifles at three ICE officers during the shooting. He recruited his co-conspirators for the attack and distributed firearms. Prosecutors alleged that Song yelled for the group to “get to the rifles” and opened fire before shooting the police officer, KXAN reported. He was convicted in March of attempted murder of the Alvarado police officer. The Antifa cell communicated on encrypted messaging apps and used Faraday bags to prevent law enforcement from tracking their locations through phone signals, according to court documents. During Tuesday’s sentencing, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor called the attack “an assault on democracy.” “The need to deter this type of conduct is high,” O’Connor said. After sentencing, Song’s attorney, Phillip Hayes, denied that the group had any extremist ties, according to KXAN. “This is a bunch of kids and young adults who really have a really big heart and really wanted their voice to be heard,” Hayes said. “It was never intended that anybody get hurt. It was never intended that any shots would be fired.” The trial marked the first federal domestic terrorism case against Antifa members after the Trump administration designated the anarchist group as a terrorist organization last fall.

A fragile ceasefire in Lebanon is buckling as Israeli strikes in Nabatiyeh spark rival claims, rising civilian deaths, and fresh calls to expose Hezbollah’s tactics. Story Snapshot Israeli military says it hit Hezbollah weapons sites and infrastructure in Nabatiyeh amid ongoing cross-border fire [3][6]. Lebanese outlets report civilian deaths and damage, fueling claims of ceasefire breaches and demands for accountability [11][12]. Rights groups question target choices and urge investigations into strikes on civilian-linked sites [7][23]. Evidence gaps remain about the exact Nabatiyeh facility, leaving room for spin on both sides [3]. Israeli Military Says Strikes Aimed at Hezbollah Targets Israeli officials said air crews struck several Hezbollah facilities around Nabatiyeh. They listed weapons storage sites, military structures, and infrastructure tied to the group. They framed the action as a response to more than 50 projectiles launched from Lebanon during the ceasefire window. They added that operations targeted dozens of sites associated with Hezbollah across Lebanon. These statements stress military aims, not civilian areas, and cite continuing cross-border attacks to justify the strikes [3][6]. Reports from Israeli sources describe a broad target set. The set includes logistics hubs that support rockets, drones, and command work. Officials argue Hezbollah embeds in dense towns to shield military assets. That tactic raises risks for civilians when fighting resumes. Israeli leaders say the goal is to blunt current fire and stop future rearmament. They also say the strikes are part of a pattern in south Lebanon, the Bekaa Valley, and near Beirut where Hezbollah operates [6]. Lebanese Reports Highlight Civilian Deaths and Ceasefire Strain Lebanese state media and civil defense reports say strikes in the Nabatiyeh area killed multiple civilians and injured others. One Associated Press account said part of a building collapsed, killing members of a single family, including a child. Those reports fueled claims that the strikes broke the truce and hit non-military sites. Lebanese leaders and media voices urged retaliation or international pressure, adding heat to a ceasefire already under stress [11][12]. Conflicting claims deepen public confusion. Israeli officials describe military targets and frames of self-defense. Lebanese accounts point to homes, rescue workers, and public infrastructure hit in south Lebanon. Each side faults the other for breaking the truce. The gap between battlefield statements and on-the-ground harm shapes global reaction. It also raises hard questions about how to verify what was hit, why it was chosen, and whether steps to prevent civilian deaths worked as claimed [11]. Rights Groups Challenge Target Choices and Demand Proof Amnesty International urged probes into Israeli strikes on a financial network tied to Hezbollah, arguing such branches serve civilians and are not lawful military targets. The group said Israel itself described those sites by their funding role, not by direct combat use. Earlier research reviewed broad destruction of civilian structures since late 2024 and documented ongoing harm after the ceasefire date. These findings fuel calls to release target files, imagery, and legal reviews for public scrutiny [7][23]. Numerous Israeli airstrikes killed many people in Lebanon despite an agreed ceasefire, with the Lebanese civil defence authorities saying they had recovered 16 bodies in the southern city of Nabatiyeh alonehttps://t.co/Pm15bySYLR — dpa news agency (@dpa_intl) June 20, 2026 Key gaps remain around Nabatiyeh. The record names categories like weapons stores and military structures but does not show the exact facility struck. There are no coordinates, chain-of-custody images, or public battle damage proof in the provided material. That leaves citizens sorting through claims and counterclaims, while images of rubble drive the narrative. Independent evidence, if released, could show whether the site was a lawful military objective or a civilian building misidentified in the fog of war [3]. Why This Matters for American Readers Hezbollah is an Iran-backed force that fires rockets at Israel and hides among civilians. That mix turns towns into battle zones. It also gives media and activists room to paint every strike as an attack on civilians. Americans care because our allies face terror groups tied to Iran, and truth gets lost when facts are thin. Clear proof on targets, and honest reporting on Hezbollah tactics, help avoid propaganda wins for Tehran’s proxies [6]. Accountability should cut both ways. Israel should back claims with verifiable evidence about Nabatiyeh targets. Lebanon should press Hezbollah to stop using civilian areas to stage attacks and store weapons. Ceasefires only hold if parties stop firing and stop hiding behind families and clinics. Transparency, not slogans, can protect innocent people and reveal who is breaking the rules. Until then, expect more strikes, more grief, and more spin from both camps [6][23]. Bottom Line for Conservatives This fight is part of a wider struggle against Iran’s network. Hezbollah fires rockets and dares Israel to respond near homes and schools. Israel says it hit military sites in Nabatiyeh, but has not released proof the public can vet. Lebanese reports show civilians paid a price. Demand facts. Demand evidence. And do not let terror groups hide in plain sight, then weaponize the fallout for political gain [3][11][23]. Sources: [3] Web – Air strikes hit Nabatieh in southern Lebanon on Saturday … – … [6] Web – sraeli strikes on Nabatieh in south Lebanon have killed at least 16 … [7] Web – Israel’s military says it’s striking Hezbollah sites as Netanyahu vows … [11] Web – First responders inspect the sites of Israeli strikes on the southern … [12] Web – Israeli airstrikes kill 10 civilians in Lebanon, state media reports … [23] YouTube – Israeli strikes target multiple Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon

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News Forgotten Island You Won’t Forget the Latest Forgotten Island Trailer You might even be reminded of Dunkaroos once you meet Raww. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on June 23, 2026 Screenshot: DreamWorks Animation Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: DreamWorks Animation We have a new trailer for DreamWorks Animation’s Forgotten Island, which introduces us to more of the magical world two best friends stumble into and the entity there who steals people’s memories. We’re also introduced to a weredog named Raww (voiced by Dave Franco) who, for whatever reason, reminds me of the kangaroo mascot for the delicious 1990s snack, Dunkaroos. Dunkaroo nostalgia aside, the film’s animation looks fantastic, with a compelling story based on Philippine mythology. Here’s the full synopsis: While celebrating their last night together, Jo and Raissa stumble upon a mysterious portal that transports them to the fantastical island of Nakali, packed with magical and mythological creatures they grew up hearing stories about from their Filipino families.Some of these figures will become friends, some foes. Joined by well-meaning-but-hapless weredog Raww (Dave Franco) and a small-but-mighty pack of pals, Jo and Raissa must face The Dreaded Manananggal (Lea Salonga), the most feared creature on the island. When they discover that the memories of their entire friendship are the price for returning home, Jo and Raissa will race to find a way to leave the island before they forget each other forever. In addition to Franco and Salonga, the movie features the voices of Jenny Slate (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On), Manny Jacinto (The Good Place, Top Gun: Maverick), Dolly de Leon (Triangle of Sadness), Jo Koy (Haunted Mansion), and Ronny Chieng (M3GAN). It’s written and directed by Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado, who also brought us Puss and Boots: The Last Wish. Forgotten Island premieres in theaters on September 25, 2026. Check out the trailer below. [end-mark] The post You Won’t Forget the Latest <i>Forgotten Island</i> Trailer appeared first on Reactor.

The mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania, has been campaigning with former officials from President Barack Obama’s administration to champion green tax policies. Earlier this month, Paige Cognetti, the congressional candidate for Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District, was seen alongside Jon Carson, a former Obama administration official involved in the federal Chesapeake Bay cleanup effort. Carson served as chief of staff to the White House Council on Environmental Quality from 2009 to 2010, when the administration was implementing its Chesapeake Bay restoration strategy—commonly described by the Environmental Protection Agency as a regional “pollution diet” designed to reduce nutrient and sediment levels across multiple states. Carson is associated with what Scranton residents call the “rain tax,” a city-imposed fee on homeowners as a penalty for using fertilizers, which run off into streams when it rains. Opponents of the fee say it is ineffective, hurts homeowners, and should not be pushed at the national level. In an interview with the Daily Signal, Dwayne McDavitt, a resident of Scranton and retired law enforcement officer, said that Cognetti’s actions as mayor are exactly the type of thing Washington, D.C., needs less of. “We should not be sending more people to Washington who champion this agenda. On paper, the tax is supposed to be for a storm water fee,” McDavitt told the Daily Signal. “But this tax only applies to homeowners in Cognetti’s town. They told us this fee was to clean the Chesapeake Bay and prevent certain wildlife from dying, but they’re actually thriving.” McDavitt added that the tax is ineffective because fertilizer use is the same as before. “This is an excuse for the government to raise more money,” he said. “Since the tax was enacted, housing prices in Scranton shot up, and the government had to seize those that went into foreclosure. The government pays for the housing,” McDavitt said. “She [Cognetti] would rather force people to be dependent on government rather than on themselves.” Cognetti’s campaign appearances with Carson come as stormwater policy remains a contentious issue in northeastern Pennsylvania. Critics argue that the federal policies developed during the Obama era contributed to mandates that ultimately resulted in higher costs, including stormwater fees on homeowners and businesses. McDavitt said Cognetti’s associations reveal her political leanings. “She’s campaigning with them because that’s the only way she thinks she can get elected—by campaigning with the people that ran the Biden administration. She’s a far-Left Biden supporter,” he said. Cognetti’s campaign did not respond to the Daily Signal’s request for comment.

Surprise, surprise: There really is no such thing as a free bus. One of New York City’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s key campaign promises was that he would provide free bus services to everyone in the city. Not only is that goal seemingly not even in the medium-term plans for the mayor, but one of the programs he pointed to as a successful model has gone belly up. Bloomberg News reported Tuesday that Kansas City, Missouri, ended its experiment to provide free bus services to people in the city. It will now begin charging riders for the service. “Kansas City reinstated bus fares this month after six years, unwinding a closely watched experiment that inspired zero-fare transit campaigns across the U.S., including New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s,” Bloomberg reported. Kansas City’s free bus was sold as a cost-saving measure that would make ridership more “equitable.” The city created the program with a major federal cash influx during the COVID-19 lockdowns. But it became financially untenable as the initial funds ran out in 2023 and the cost of operations reportedly climbed to $15 million a year, nearly double the initial projections. Part of the problem is endemic to other “free” transportation services in big cities. Without the small amount of buy-in from customers and given the tendency of blue cities to tolerate mass homelessness and recidivism, these services naturally become more dangerous and more expensive. In his advocacy for the free bus program, Mamdani claimed that it would make the system safer. That claim seems doubtful at best. In making this claim he relied on crime reports showing that free buses lead to decreased assaults on bus drivers. Given that drivers don’t have to ask for tickets, there are possibly fewer reasons for a violent confrontation. But the report, as City Journal noted, was based on a very small sample from an already existing New York program. And in most cases assaults on passengers have typically gone up. The New York Post reported in August that drivers and riders complained that Kansas City buses had become “unreliable, filthy, rolling homeless shelters.” Free Press additionally reported that the Kansas City bus system became plagued by “loop riders,” which are “passengers who, when offered a free ride, would occupy bus seats for hours, sometimes all day, as they refused to get off at the end of a given route.” Many of these loop riders made life worse for other bus passengers. An increase in assaults and vandalism on the buses meant that the city had to increase security and spend additional millions of dollars to keep passengers safe. Some cities have learned this lesson and have dramatically improved their transportation systems by putting up stronger barriers to fare evaders. The Bay Area Rapid Transit system, which has been struggling for years, dramatically reduced costs and boosted ridership by installing new, more secure fare gates. A rare moment of sanity for the San Francisco Bay Area. New York City would likely have even more extreme problems with rider safety and slower bus routes than other cities. Overall crime is down in the city compared to a year ago, but random assaults and murders on the subway are up dramatically. You can be sure that the small number of people who cause the most mayhem on the subway will find a free bus just as appealing, if not more so. And that additional dysfunction eats into the overall cost of the free bus, which wouldn’t actually be free at all. The Washington Examiner’s Daniel Idfresne recently reported that the New York City Independent Budget Office estimated the yearly cost to operate this free fare system would be $1.1 billion. This is reportedly a “roughly $450 million annual markup” from the estimate Mamdani cited on the campaign trail. That’s a lot of money that the city simply doesn’t have. Budgetary gimmicks and delayed payments can’t continue forever. Like with the mayor’s government-run grocery store plan, the free bus proposal likely comes with a massive, unsustainable price tag and a dubious path to success. So, will that reality and the Kansas City bus failure deter Mamdani from going ahead with his plan? Probably not. Socialists have a particular knack for ignoring history, even very recent history. The only limiting factor here may be that the bus program is run by a state-level agency and the folks in the state capital might not be so keen on losing out on a whole lot of revenue while gaining more than a few more headaches to appease the mayor.

Teachers’ unions continue to embrace woke gender ideology and force it on young children.  When a transgender flag flies over a building, make no mistake: That building has been conquered by left-wing extremists.  Today, a rainbow flag flies over the building of the nation’s largest teacher union, the National Education Association, in Washington, D.C. The union is publicly declaring its dedication to gender ideology over and above the importance of improving student achievement.   It is not the only teachers’ union embracing Pride Month. On June 1, the Florida Education Association changed their X profile picture to a trans flag and posted that they were celebrating Pride Month. All this while enrollment in Florida public schools continues to drop as more students flee to Florida’s many private and charter schools, where they are not, as a general rule, bombarded with gender ideology.   The American Federation of Teachers joined in observing Pride Month, posting on the social media platform Bluesky. AFT also posted articles on its website about work advocating for gender ideology. Last June, the organization’s “LGBTQIA+ Task Force” advocated on Capitol Hill for “LGBTQIA+ rights, protections for trans healthcare and immigrant justice.”  Note that these issues have nothing to do with improving the education of American students.   In the classroom, the endorsement of LGBT issues by educators is a distraction. In a Senate hearing on June 3, Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., asked Shannon Minter, legal director for the National Center for LGTBQ Rights and advocate for sex-rejecting procedures, about teachers talking with children about sexuality.   Banks asked Minter if it was appropriate for teachers to talk to 12-year-old children about sexuality. Minter replied, “No.” Yet, when asked by Sen. Banks about pride flags, Minter refused to condemn the placement of pride flags in kindergarten classrooms.   One cannot claim to condemn exposing young kids to radical gender ideology while hanging its banner in their classrooms.  Many teachers understand this reality. Studies have shown that teachers, especially elementary school teachers, understand that gender identity should not have a place in schools. Nevertheless, their unions continue to display a dedication to this radical ideology.   Doing so is a clear indication of unions’ real priorities. Teachers’ unions are advancing a political agenda in classrooms across America. In each classroom where a pride flag is put up—this month or any other—parents should recognize it for what it is: a sign of dedication to political ideology over educational quality. It is a symbol of a radical ideology that has no place in a room full of children.   Parents have taken note. The number of states and families using education choice programs continues to rise. It is time for teachers’ unions to finally listen. Unless they focus on excellent schools providing quality education, parents with options will look elsewhere for their children.   It is time to lower the pride flags waving above teachers’ unions and remove the radical ideologies they push in classrooms. Parents want schools that provide education, not indoctrination. 

Georgia’s first “nonbinary transgender” politician could be sworn into the state’s legislature this upcoming session. Bentley Hudgins, who openly identifies as a nonbinary transgender, was the top vote-getter in last month’s Democrat primary election to represent House District 90, which includes parts of DeKalb County. Previously, Hudgins served as Georgia state director for the Human Rights Campaign. “To me, it shows that the voters are tired of the hate and they just care about somebody’s qualifications,” Hudgins recently said in an interview. “But as a representative, I view the win, historic or not, as a starting point, and it’s up to me to prove to the people of my House district that good government can happen and that we can build a democracy that is worth fighting for.” Hudgins, a Democrat, now heads to the November general election, and could replace outgoing Representative Saira Draper. Hudgins is not the only transgender who has been eyeing a seat in the state’s top legislative body. Democrat candidate for Georgia State House District 51, Aaron Baker, and Democrat candidate for Georgia State Senate District 5, Robin McCoy, came close of obtaining their party’s nomination. Baker, who launched his campaign after boasting on social media that he was “getting his b—s removed,” came within 10% of the nomination. Baker ran against the incumbent, Esther Panitch. In a previous interview, Baker revealed that he ran in order to bring change to a “anti-immigrant, anti-DEI and anti-trans” legislature. “After years of the Georgia Legislature ignoring the real affordability crisis people are facing, they have instead chosen to pass anti-immigrant, anti-DEI, and anti-trans legislation to scapegoat people like me. But we are fighting back,” Baker said. McCoy, similarly to Baker, lost his election by less than 1,000 votes.