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Five Quick Things: Drones From Dreamers?

I’m all out of ado and folderol this week. Let’s just get to it. 1. The UFC Terror Plot Was Apparently Spearheaded by an Illegal Mexican Obama Let Stay in the Country The FBI busted it up before it could come to fruition, and it doesn’t really feel like there was much fruition in the cards for this plot in the first place, but it turns out there was a cabal of angry losers who thought they’d rig up some drones to smack some high explosives into buildings near the White House while last weekend’s UFC fight spectacle was going on on the South Lawn, and when the explosions triggered a stampede they’d pick off a bunch of high-value targets with sniper rifles. As they say near the border, that’s some beeeeeeg talk. And apparently it was being had in a group chat, which may not quite be the top medium for operational security. Especially when the mother of one of these mental defectives got hold of the chat and ratted out her brat to the feds. Initially, we were led to believe these were the “right-wing terrorists” we’d been waiting on ever since 2008. Except this happened… BREAKING: DHS confirms that an alleged ringleader of the UFC/White House terror plot is a Mexican illegal alien who was granted DACA by the Obama administration. DHS says Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez overstayed a B-2 visitor visa and received DACA in 2014. The FBI assessed that… pic.twitter.com/ra2VydcpSo — Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 18, 2026 Oh. Well, that’s a little different, now isn’t it? How do you say Trump Derangement Syndrome in undocumented Mexican? It astounds how deeply covered we are in absolutely useless people. 2. SNAP Enrollment Is Plummeting, and the Democrats Can’t Stand It The Marxist blog site ProPublica has an article up detailing a Republican bill which did precisely what it was supposed to do — namely, getting able-bodied people off welfare and into productive roles so they could sustain themselves without being carried by the U.S. taxpayer — and calling it a catastrophe. But nearly a year after the measure was signed into law, the number of children receiving food assistance has plummeted by at least 776,000, according to a ProPublica analysis. At least 12 states break down program participation by age, and of the 1,670,011 people who are no longer receiving benefits in those states, 776,134, or 46 percent, were children. Another analysis reached the same conclusion: Just last month, the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found there were 700,000 fewer children receiving food assistance. Arizona has seen the nation’s largest percentage decline in SNAP participants; 205,223 children are no longer receiving the benefit since July 2025, a 55 percent drop. Louisiana had the second largest percent decline among children, 22 percent. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees SNAP, hasn’t detailed the impact on children aided by the program, but initial figures show that compared to February 2025, 4.3 million fewer people received SNAP nationwide in February 2026, leaving 37.8 million participants. In response, we sought out the opinion of renowned independent folk singer Oliver Anthony… 3. Blaming the Victim in France I’d like to see President Trump and Secretary Rubio offer political asylum to this woman, because it seems to me that she’s the very definition of an appropriate asylee.