Wondering why beef is so expensive? https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/us-cattle-herd-set-shrink-1951-lows-beef-crisis-deepens (works out to around .24 cow per person if the current population is 350 million, and each cow was processed today to distribute to every person)

Governor Hochul’s plan to station officers on subways overnight is a positive step toward improving public safety. However, officers can’t combat crime alone. They need the support of politicians and legislators— not to be vilified and blamed by the media.

Enough with the empty rhetoric—action is needed now more than ever.

DEVELOPING! Firefighters battling fire at refinery in Martinez, California.

Crews from the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District rushed to the Martinez Refining Company about 1:40 p.m., spokesperson Fire Prevention Capt. Ted Leach said. He added that it was unclear what they were facing, because crews initially struggled to make entry to the refinery.

The refining company in a statement confirmed the evacuations and said they had accounted for all of their employees. The company said it reported the incident as a Level 2 notification — which include a hazardous materials release or potential release that is expected to have off-site consequences and possibly adverse health consequences. Children and elderly individuals were advised to go inside.

🔵 Live: https://www.youtube.com/live/dQImjEhTe_k?feature=shared

City of Martinez Alert: UPDATE Level 2 Incident at the refinery road closures: Marina Vista from 680 to Court St, Shell from Marina Vista to Pacheco.

Please avoid the area. We will share updates as we get them.

For the most recent update go to cwsalerts.com

Martinez Police Department (Facebook)

Ryan Michael "Reily" English, 24, a Massachusetts man armed with knives and Molotov cocktails, was intercepted by Capitol police officers and arrested on Monday near the Capitol Building when he told an officer that he intended to kill several leading Republican officials.

Read more: https://lawenforcementtoday.com/would-be-assassin-arrested-with-knives-molotov-cocktails-at-capitol-targeted-speaker-johnson-secdef-hegseth-treasury-secretary-bessent-heritage-foundation

Deputy First Class Jeffrey Brathwaite has retired the Chesterfield County Sheriff’s Office, Virginia, after 20 years of service. Well done Brother!

*NEWS INTERRUPTION*

The Lakeland Police Department, Florida, sadly announced the death of retired K9 Scotty.

K9 Scotty was the loyal parter of Officer Virgil Cardin and served the Lakeland Community from early 2015 until September 2020, when the duo retired.

Prayers for Scotty’s partner, their family and the agency. 🙏🏻

This is how we do it in California.


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Happening Now: Another anti-ICE protest in Time Square, NYC. 🥱

Lt. S. Washington has retired from the Fayetteville Police Department, North Carolina, with over 25 years of service. Well done Sister.

ICYMI: Anti-ICE protests across California, earlier this week.

BREAKING! Mexico has announced retaliatory tariffs against the United States.

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo
@Claudiashein
Presidenta Constitucional de los Estados Unidos
Mexicanos.

TRANSLATION:

We categorically reject the White House's slander against the Mexican government of having alliances with criminal organizations, as well as any intention of intervention in our territory.

If such an alliance exists anywhere, it is in the United States armories that sell high-powered weapons to these criminal groups, as demonstrated by the United States Department of Justice itself in January of this year.

In four months, our government has seized more than 40 tons of drugs, including 20 million doses of fentanyl. It has also arrested more than ten thousand people linked to these groups.

If the United States government and its agencies wanted to address the serious consumption of fentanyl in their country, they could, for example, combat the sale of narcotics on the streets of their main cities, which they do not do, and the money laundering generated by this illegal activity that has done so much harm to their population.

They could also start a massive campaign to prevent the consumption of these drugs and take care of their young people, as we have done in Mexico. Drug consumption and distribution is in their country and that is a public health problem that they have not addressed. In addition, the synthetic opioid epidemic in the United States has its origin in the indiscriminate prescription of drugs of this type, authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as demonstrated by the lawsuit against a pharmaceutical company.

Mexico does not want confrontation. We start from collaboration between neighboring countries. Mexico not only does not want fentanyl to reach the United States, but anywhere. Therefore, if the United States wants to combat criminal groups that traffic drugs and generate violence, we must work together in an integrated manner, but always under the principles of shared responsibility, mutual trust, collaboration and, above all, respect for sovereignty, which is not negotiable. Coordination, yes; subordination, no.

To this end, I propose to President Trump that we establish a working group with our best public health and security teams.

Problems are not resolved by imposing tariffs, but by talking and dialoguing, as we did in recent weeks with your State Department to address the phenomenon of migration; in our case, with respect for human rights.

The graph that President Trump has been posting on social media about the decline in migration was created by my team, which has been in constant communication with his.

I instruct the Secretary of Economy to implement Plan B that we have been working on, which includes tariff and non-tariff measures in defense of Mexico's interests.

Nothing by force; everything by reason and right."

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo
Presidenta Constitucional de los Estados Unidos
Mexicanos.

ICE should visit Oxnard, California.

ICYMI: Migrants burn an American flag while waving foreign flags during a protest against the deportations in Oxnard, California.

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Make burning the flag a criminal act now!

When a migrant illegal or not burns the countries flag, it should be grounds for immediate removal