<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is back in the news this week — but he probably wishes he wasn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>The New York Democrat on Sunday posted a photo of himself leaning against a park bench in Brooklyn, with the caption: “Home Sweet Home.&#8221;</p>
<p>The problem: the photo was obviously edited, as evidenced by the fact that the area around Jeffries&#8217;s legs was warped, as was the bench behind him.</p>
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<p>His followers quickly commented on how bad the photoshopping job was, speculating on whether he was trying to make himself look slimmer, or taller.</p>
<p>Soon, less friendly <a href="https://x.com/hollandcourtney/status/1942267253178917068" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X users</a> began wondering the same thing.</p>
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<p>Congressman Hakeem Jeffries Photoshopped himself so hard he bent the bench. <a href="https://t.co/WBifTUhp8y" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/WBifTUhp8y</a></p>
<p>— Courtney Holland 🇺🇸 (@hollandcourtney) <a href="https://twitter.com/hollandcourtney/status/1942267253178917068?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 7, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Hakeem Jeffries slimming himself in Photoshop is the most transparency we’ve seen from Democrats in years <a href="https://t.co/OFOiOm65OC" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/OFOiOm65OC</a></p>
<p>— Erin Maguire (@ErinMMaguire) <a href="https://twitter.com/ErinMMaguire/status/1942258860493766753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 7, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Hakeem Jeffries is such a charisma black hole that it’s warping the fabric of spacetime <a href="https://t.co/X8se04ZiC8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/X8se04ZiC8</a></p>
<p>— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) <a href="https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1942256344414683624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 7, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Jeffries posted the picture upon his return home from his <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/03/congress/hakeem-jeffries-longest-house-speech-00438933" target="_blank" rel="noopener">record-breaking</a> 8-hour and 45-minute speech in the House on Thursday, in which he attempted to delay the vote on the Big Beautiful Bill. The House passed the bill shortly after Jeffries finished speaking, and President Donald Trump signed the bill into law on July 4th.</p>
<p>Jeffries’ social media team seems to be defective when it comes to photoshoots. On Thursday, he posted a photo of him in his office with the caption “Protecting your healthcare is as American as baseball, motherhood, and apple pie.” In the photo, Jeffries is unsmiling, and stiffly holding a baseball bat.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Duck Dynasty” star Willie Robertson shared an emotional Instagram post about his late father Phil Robertson, who died on Sunday at the age of 79. Willie’s post included a photo montage of his father and him, and revealed the last thing Phil said to Willie before his death.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I remember Phil’s many prayers on Memorial Day and all the times with my dad. I don’t have enough words to tell of all of it, perhaps it will take months or years of remembering,” the post began.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Looking back at pics I noticed he was always looking at me funny, prolly trying to figure out, ‘How did this boy turn out like this?’ I remember in 8th grade bringing my boombox in the living room and doing a break dance routine for him as he sat on his recliner. He just looked strangely at me and said, ‘Well, I’ve never seen anything quite like that!’ I took it as a compliment,” the post continued.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Willie next recalled dancing again in front of his dad “at he very end of his life” saying, “Maybe I figured it was the last thing he would think I would do, so I just did it.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The “Duck Dynasty” alum next reflected on his father’s faith and legacy.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“He taught me many things in life and most without ever saying a word. I watched him, and knew he had figured out so many things. Most importantly, he taught me the value of sharing my faith with others. He was the Real Deal, the same on Sundays as Fridays. Most of our conversations were not about hunting or business, but about sharing the Gospel,” the Instagram post continued.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The last words he said to me as I leaned down over his weakened body was ‘You’re my brother.’ It made total sense to me. He always told me we were coworkers in the Kingdom of God. Maybe that’s why I always just called him Phil. Not sure if he is up in Heaven now doing his own dance moves for our Father,” Willie wrote.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He concluded with words of thanks for his late father. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The reality star wrote, “Thank you for raising me the right way and teaching me the most important lesson to prepare me for the day you passed on. Not sure how people deal with loss without the Lord. We may be wrong about all this….but I doubt it! Sleep well Dad, can’t wait to see you.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Family patriarch Phil died just months after receiving an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, as The Daily Wire previously </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/duck-dynasty-patriarch-and-devout-christian-phil-robertson-dies-at-79?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98Duck+Dynasty%E2%80%99+Patriarch+And+Devout+Christian+Phil+Robertson+Dies+At+79"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Phil was an avid outdoorsman who invented his first duck call in 1972. Decades later, Duck Commander became a multi-million-dollar business and was featured in the show “Duck Dynasty,” which aired for 11 seasons between 2012 and 2017. It became one of the most-watched reality shows on TV.</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Imagine your teenage son goes upstairs to do homework — and just hours later, you discover he has taken his own life. For </span><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/02/25/teenage-boys-mental-health-suicide-sextortion-scams/78258882007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">too many families</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, this nightmare is a grim reality, the result of a rapidly growing and devastating crime known as sextortion. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sextortion is a powerful form of exploitation where predators trick and coerce victims, often young boys, into sending explicit images online. The exploiters often pose as teen girls and reach out with flirtatious messages. This is no haphazard operation, research has found that thousands of Instagram accounts perpetrating sextortion were linked to </span><a href="https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/meta-takes-down-63k-instagram-accounts-5700-facebook-groups-1300-facebook-accounts-linked-1725744" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">only 20-25 individuals</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> — in other words, this is often an organized criminal activity, something no teenager is prepared to go up against. They are trained and skilled at building trust quickly, shifting the conversation to sexual topics and eventually sending pictures or videos and requesting some in return.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In mere minutes, the blackmail begins. Predators threaten to expose the victim’s nude photos to their contacts or social media connections unless they pay a demanded sum — fueling fear, shame, and deterring them from seeking help. To heighten the pressure, some blackmailers may falsely accuse teens of criminal activity, warning that they could end up on sex offender registries.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For some, the shame and fear of being exposed are so overwhelming that they see no way out, leading to tragic actions like suicide within mere hours of being targeted.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sextortion has been connected to dozens of deaths of teen boys by suicide in </span><a href="https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/sacramento/news/sextortion-a-growing-threat-preying-upon-our-nations-teens#:~:text=The%20sextortion%20involved%20at%20least,the%20activity%20to%20law%20enforcement." target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">recent</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> years. Tragically, these numbers are likely underreported as family members may not know the circumstance that led to a loved one’s death by suicide.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are an average of 812 reports of sextortion </span><a href="https://www.thorn.org/research/library/financial-sextortion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">per week</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This crisis demands immediate attention and action.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For too long, online platforms have failed to prioritize safety. Take Snapchat, for example. New Mexico’s attorney general recently brought a lawsuit against Snapchat. According to a report from </span><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/new-mexico-attorney-general-says-internal-snap-documents-show-company-rcna173486" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NBC News</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, documents from the lawsuit reveal “‘Snap employees were discussing 10,000 user reports of sextortion each month,’ which is most likely ‘a small fraction of this abuse.’”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“In addition, the suit alleges internal documents show that reports of grooming and sextortion made about specific users largely went unanswered or unaddressed,” according to NBC NEWS.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meta’s Instagram appears to be the </span><a href="https://info.thorn.org/hubfs/Research/Thorn_TrendsInFinancialSextortion_June2024.pdf?sm_guid=NzcxOTIyfDc4MzA5NjAxfC0xfGNlc2VAbmNvc2UuY29tfDcyMDIwMTJ8fDB8MHwyMjU0MzA0NTd8MTEzMnwwfDB8fDc2NjM5Nnww0" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">#1 platform for sextortion</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. One key reason is the availability of follower lists, which predators can leverage against victims. While the platform has </span><a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2024/04/new-tools-to-help-protect-against-sextortion-and-intimate-image-abuse/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">taken steps</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to identify and protect kids from sextortion, there’s still more they can do to prioritize the safety of minors.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to </span><a href="https://www.thorn.org/research/library/financial-sextortion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">a report</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> from Thorn titled “Trends in Financial Sextortion,” online payments are another avenue for exploitation. “The most common payment methods were Cash App and gift cards, followed by other easy-use payment apps such as PayPal and Venmo. The dominance of gift cards and Cash App has slightly increased over time relative to other payment services.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With Cash App ranking as the </span><a href="https://info.thorn.org/hubfs/Research/Thorn_TrendsInFinancialSextortion_June2024.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">#1 payment method</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for financial sextortion, there is valid concern over many of their default features like public profiles and limited identity verification. These vulnerabilities could expose younger users to predatory behavior.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is time to require a higher standard of care from online platforms.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One vital step to combat sextortion and image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) is the “Take It Down Act,” a bipartisan bill sponsored by Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN). This legislation has already gained significant momentum, passing unanimously in the Senate. Now, it is time for the House to act and make this bill law.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The “Take It Down Act” is a bold step toward creating meaningful protections for sextortion victims and victims of nonconsensually-shared explicit content. It addresses the crisis in two key ways, first, by mandating quick removal of harmful content, and then by criminalizing image-based abuse. Under the &#8220;Take It Down Act,&#8221; social media platforms and websites would be legally required to remove explicit images within 48 hours of a survivor’s request. These platforms must also make efforts to prevent the images&#8217; reappearance, reducing the cycle of trauma for victims. This bill also makes it a federal crime to publish explicit images of a person without their consent, including AI-generated or “deepfake” content. This brings critical accountability to perpetrators who weaponize private imagery.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By passing this legislation, Congress can empower victims to regain control while ensuring that perpetrators face appropriate consequences for their actions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For young boys targeted by sextortion, the bill’s immediate removal mandate could mean the difference between life and death, offering assurance that exposure is not inevitable and their situation is not hopeless.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you are a parent or guardian, use this article as a reason to talk with your kids now about this threat online — before they ever find themselves in a dangerous situation. It’s natural to react with fear or anger if a child makes an unsafe choice, but we never know what difference maintaining an open dialogue can make.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sextortion is a profoundly isolating crime — but no victim or family needs to face it alone. If explicit images have already been shared, resources are available. &#8220;Take It Down,&#8221; a free service from the National Center for Missing &amp; Exploited Children, helps remove nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit images taken before the age of 18. Visit </span><a href="https://takeitdown.ncmec.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">takeitdown.ncmec.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for more information. The Cyber Civil Rights Initiative also offers critical support and resources for those affected.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Congress can and must pass the “Take it Down Act,” helping to give every child the safety they deserve and ensuring no life is stolen by this devastating fraud.</span></p>
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<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Haley McNamara is the Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Programs at the </span><a href="http://www.endsexualexploitation.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">National Center on Sexual Exploitation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the leading national non-partisan organization exposing the links between all forms of sexual exploitation such as child sexual abuse, prostitution, sex trafficking and the public health harms of pornography. On X: @NCOSE</span></em></p>
<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</em></p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Taking a page out of X’s book, Meta <a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2025/03/testing-begins-community-notes-facebook-instagram-threads/">announced</a> on Thursday that it would start testing Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in the United States on March 18.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Meta offered implied criticism of “third-party” fact checkers, on whom it had heretofore relied, writing, “We expect Community Notes to be less biased than the third party fact checking program it replaces because it allows more people with more perspectives to add context to posts.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Meta <a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2025/01/meta-more-speech-fewer-mistakes/">announced</a> in January it would move to a community notes-based approach, stating, “Starting in the US, we are ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to a Community Notes model. We will allow more speech by lifting restrictions on some topics that are part of mainstream discourse and focusing our enforcement on illegal and high-severity violations. We will take a more personalized approach to political content, so that people who want to see more of it in their feeds can.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Notes won’t initially appear on content,” Meta warned. “We will start by gradually and randomly admitting people off of the waitlist, and will take time to test the writing and rating system before any notes are published publicly.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Meta acknowledged its debt to X, explaining, “Many of you will be familiar with X’s Community Notes system, in which users add context to posts. That’s the broad approach we are adopting. &#8230; Initially we will use X’s open source algorithm as the basis of our rating system. This will allow us to build on what X has created and improve it for our own platforms over time.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Meta stated it would guard against bias in the notes by ensuring the notes would not be published unless “contributors with a range of viewpoints broadly agree on them. This isn’t majority rules. No matter how many contributors agree on a note, it won’t be published unless people who normally disagree decide that it provides helpful context.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The notes are limited to 500 characters and require a link to support them. Contributors must be over 18 with an “account that’s more than 6 months old and in good standing, and either have a verified phone number or be enrolled in two-factor authentication.”</p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last summer, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I went undercover in the West Bank</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, sneaking in with a Muslim film crew while hiding my Jewish identity to ask Palestinians the kinds of questions no other journalist had dared to since the war broke out. And that’s the real scandal — because before October 7, I wasn’t exactly a journalist. I was a comedian. The fact that it took a comic to go in there and do their jobs for them is outrageous. The mainstream press, with all its resources, all its foreign correspondents, all its Middle East &#8220;experts,&#8221; refused to ask the most basic questions. Arguably the most viral report of the war — what the Palestinian people actually think — wasn’t broken by a major network. It was broken by me.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you follow my three-part series, you’ll see that </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAYxi4WpYJ4/?igsh=MXVsdXBob2Y3Y2hlMQ==" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I almost died</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">just for asking simple questions. That’s how deeply ingrained the hatred is. That’s how dangerous it is to expose the truth.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">My raw, unfiltered interviews — conducted randomly on the streets of Ramallah — exposed the depths of Jew-hatred and propaganda in Palestinian society. But the most chilling encounter came when my Muslim producer arranged a private, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9xWl1ZJshF/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==">one-on-one interview</a> with a man who had been freed from Israeli prison not once, not twice, but four times — an alleged terrorist.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When I released the interview this January, after the first wave of prisoner releases, it went viral for its shocking revelations. In our conversation, Arafat Mudar Mohamed displayed just how deeply the Palestinian people have been indoctrinated. He claimed — with absolute certainty — that Hamas is incapable of killing women and children for &#8220;religious reasons,” that Israel never actually left Gaza in 2005, that no Israel civilians died on October 7, and, perhaps most disturbingly, that the hostages in Hamas captivity were actually enjoying their time there.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To prove this last claim, he pulled up photos from Hamas’s staged propaganda during the 2023 ceasefire — a grotesque spectacle in which hostages were forced to smile as they were paraded before cameras, surrounded by armed terrorists. But we now know that freed hostages have revealed the full extent of this deception: not only were they forced to smile, but they were drugged beforehand to appear happier and more cooperative.</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">This moment from the interview is what I believe the world must grasp most urgently. Propaganda doesn’t just work on the privileged Ivy League liberals bending over backward to reinforce their absurdly black-and-white principles of DEI — it is most effective on the Palestinian people themselves. DEI has conditioned the West to see the world in terms of the oppressed versus the oppressors, the weak versus the powerful, the dark-skinned versus the white. And this is precisely where Hamas’s propaganda succeeds.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The narrative they are selling to the world is simple: they are David, the small, brown-skinned, slingshot-wielding underdog, standing against the monstrous Goliath of Israel. But in reality, Israel is David. A tiny Jewish state — just the size of New Jersey — surrounded by 54 Muslim and Arab nations, many of whom openly call for its destruction. The real Goliath is the Islamic world, which seeks to erase the one Jewish country from existence, create a caliphate across the Middle East, North Africa, and ultimately extend its rule across the entire world. This is not just a regional conflict — it is a global mission for domination, and Israel is the only thing standing in its way to go after the rest of The West.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The irony, of course, is that Israel is just as brown-skinned as Gaza. While the media works tirelessly to paint Israelis as &#8220;white colonizers,&#8221; in truth, over half of Israel’s Jewish population are Mizrahim — Jews kicked out of Arab and North African countries who look just like their Palestinian neighbors. Many Israelis are darker-skinned than the very Hamas leaders orchestrating these terror attacks. Yet because it doesn’t fit the pre-packaged DEI narrative, the media ignores this truth entirely.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And while Gaza has suffered a year and a half of destruction as Israel tried to find its hostages and destroy terror tunnels and rockets, Hamas’s propaganda machine is somehow bigger and more sophisticated than ever. The cruder, shaky videos of a year ago have now evolved into Hollywood-style productions with drones, stedicams, and professionally built sets with fancy laminated backdrops. They’re not just spreading disinformation — they’re refining it, making it more convincing, more visually compelling, more impossible to argue against. Instead of using their resources to rebuild Gaza, Hamas is pouring money into selling their war narrative to the world, but even worse to convince the Palestinian people that they are winning a war which they are by all measures losing. All Hamas has left is PR.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And with the latest hostage releases playing out like a scene from “The Hunger Games” — a dystopian horror show in which Jewish captives are thrown to the mobs like meat to a pack of hyenas — it’s clear that this continued indoctrination will only fuel the next generation of so-called “martyrs” in Gaza and the West Bank.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The mainstream media refuses to confront the reality behind these disturbing images: innocent women and elderly men, tortured for months, swarmed by thousands of Palestinians clamoring to spit on them, kick them, and take selfies — while their terrorist captors force them to smile and wave like puppets in a twisted performance. The media also won’t show you the child abuse Hamas broadcasts proudly: Palestinian children, dressed in headbands and military gear, brandishing machine guns and chanting “Death to the Jews.” This is clearly not a genocide, but a continued call for genocide from the Palestinian people against the Jewish people.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And one of the biggest reasons the mainstream media won’t show you this? Because it doesn’t fit their narrative — the lie that Palestinians are simply innocent bystanders to Hamas’s crimes. In reality, after years of indoctrination, much of Palestinian society has become Hamas itself. This is not just a war against a terror group but against an ideology that has consumed an entire generation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Arafat Mudar Mohamed said it himself in our interview: &#8220;The Palestinian people like Hamas.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is what the media refuses to acknowledge. Since they won’t show you this Nazi-level brainwashing, I will. My interview with this freed Palestinian terrorist offers a chilling look inside the mind of a man who fits the pattern we’ve seen time and time again: every time he was released, he went back to terrorism. And with thousands more just like him now walking free, we can be certain — this cycle of terror is far from over.</span></p>
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<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zach Sage Fox is a comic, writer, and CEO of Fat Camp Films. An NYC based production company that has made movies and shows for Disney, Hulu, and Amazon, as well as pioneered viral video marketing for big brands and non-profits.</span></em></p>
<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</em></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Actress </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/selena-gomez"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Selena Gomez</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is getting a lot of reactions for posting a video of herself openly weeping over President Trump beginning mass deportations of </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illegal-immigration"><span style="font-weight: 400;">illegal alien criminals</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, keeping a promise he made on the campaign trail.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 32-year-old star, a native of Texas, shared the now-deleted video to her </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/instagram"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram Stories</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on the morning of January 27. “All my people are getting attacked,” she said as tears streamed down her face. “The children,” she cried. “I don’t understand.” The story included the caption, “I’m sorry,” along with a Mexican flag.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I’m so sorry,” Gomez continued in the clip. “I wish I could do something, but I can’t. I don’t know what to do. I’ll try everything, I promise.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The celebrity later deleted the post and added another which said, “Apparently it’s not ok to show empathy for people.”</span></p>
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<div dir="ltr">&#8220;And dangerously uninformed,&#8221; a third person agreed. &#8220;The Trump administration is prioritizing criminals and dangerous threats to our country. She is crying over s*xual predators and potential ter*orists being deported.&#8221;</div>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Border Czar Tom Homan announced on Thursday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and law enforcement officers had already made some 1300 arrests through deportation operations since President Trump’s inauguration, noting how the vast majority of those arrests focused on individuals who had committed additional crimes, such as pedophiles, gang members, and at least one terrorist, as The Daily Wire previously </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/homan-ice-has-made-1300-arrests-including-pedophiles-gang-members-and-at-least-1-terrorist"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Phil McGraw accompanied Homan on one Chicago raid and </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dr-phil-joins-tom-homan-for-chicago-ice-raid-convicted-sex-offender-nabbed"><span style="font-weight: 400;">documented</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the arrest of a convicted child sex offender from Thailand who was flagged for deportation. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This isn’t the first time Gomez discussed immigration topics. In 2019, she produced a Netflix documentary series called “Living Undocumented” which explored the lives of illegal alien families living in the United States. She has also talked about her grandparents being Mexican immigrants.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I feel afraid for my country,” Gomez </span><a href="https://time.com/5690070/selena-gomez-americas-immigration-crisis/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in an op-ed published in TIME the same year her docuseries was released. “I don’t claim to be an expert. I’m not a politician, I’m not a doctor, and I don’t work in the system at all. I understand it’s flawed and that we need rules and regulations, but we also have to remember that our country was formed by people who came here from other countries.”</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meta CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mark-zuckerberg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Zuckerberg</a> announced Tuesday that his company was implementing major changes to its censorship and fact-checking policies across all platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a video posted on Facebook, Zuckerberg said that Meta would no longer work with independent fact-checkers, end restrictions on topics like gender and immigration, and scale back filters that censored people for innocuous posts. Zuckerberg said that Meta would focus on ensuring free expression, saying that the recent election seemed like a “cultural tipping point.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;We’re going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms,&#8221; Zuckerberg said. &#8220;We’re going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with Community Notes similar to X, starting in the U.S.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He added that fact-checkers had become politically biased and untrustworthy. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy,” he said. “We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth. But the fact checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they created, especially in the U.S.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zuckerberg said restrictions on discussions on topics like immigration and gender were “out of touch with mainstream discourse.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with different ideas,” he said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zuckerberg said that Meta would dial back its content filters to focus on illegal content and severe violations. He said this was a “trade off” that would lead to objectionable content being caught less often, but fewer people would be censored. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He said Meta’s Trust and Safe and Content moderation teams would move from California to Texas. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zuckerberg said Meta would allow more political content to be shared and spread across its platforms after implementing policies that filtered political content from social media feeds. He</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> noted that the Biden administration pushed Meta to censor content. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“By going after us and other American companies, it has emboldened other governments to go even further,” he said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zuckerberg said Meta would work with the incoming Trump administration to repel censorship abroad. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We’re going to work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more,” he said. “The U.S. has the strongest constitutional protections for free expression in the world.”</span></p>
<p>Shortly after the presidential election, Trump met with Zuckerberg at Mar-a-Lago. Stephen Miller, Trump’s incoming deputy chief of staff for policy, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-zuckerberg-have-dinner-together-at-mar-a-lago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> after the meeting that Zuckerberg “has been very clear about his desire to be a supporter of, and a participant in, this change we’re seeing all around America and the world, with this reform movement that Donald Trump is leading.”</p>
<p>Trump campaign advisor Alex B<span class="css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3">ruesewitz <a href="https://x.com/alexbruesewitz/status/1876612074379325458" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Tuesday that he met with Joe Kaplan, head of public policy at Meta, on Monday to discuss the changes.</span></p>
<p>&#8220;We covered these topics as well as the need to reinstate MAGA supporters who were previously wrongly removed from their platforms under questionable circumstances,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I am hopeful that the measures will be implemented to reinstate these accounts.&#8221;</p>


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<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/meghan-markle"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meghan Markle</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> kicked off 2025 with a new </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DEVSsNfymUD/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram account</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and promoted her upcoming lifestyle series on Netflix &#8212; and people had some strong thoughts about her latest attempt to return to the spotlight.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a post on Thursday on her account titled simply @meghan, the Duchess of Sussex posted a clip about her series, titled “With Love, Meghan,&#8221; that debuts on the streaming platform on January 15.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It shows her cooking in her kitchen with fellow actors as she </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">shares “some of her favorite tips and tricks for cooking, gardening, crafting, and more&#8221; and &#8220;reveals how even the most minute details can help add beauty to our lives and, most importantly, help bring people together…” </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">a synopsis from Netflix reads, </span><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14244567/Meghan-Markle-introduces-new-Netflix-series-brand-new-Instagram-account.html?ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490&amp;ito=social-twitter_mailonline"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Mail</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> noted.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She captioned her post, “I</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> have been so excited to share this with you! I hope you love the show as much as I loved making it. Wishing you all a fantastic new year! Thanks to our amazing crew and the team </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">@netflix</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Beyond grateful for the support &#8211; and fun! As ever, Meghan.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While the wife of Prince Harry cut off the ability for people to make comments, there were plenty of thoughts on X about the new series.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“SUPREME CRINGE! Meghan Markle&#8217;s Netflix show is called ‘With Love, Meghan,’” </span><a href="https://x.com/RNN_RoyalNews/status/1874865205764866327?mx=2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">one account</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> read. “Trailer just dropped on her Instagram and it looks horrific! So fake, contrived, pretentious and just absolutely awful. And the name is just so, so AWFUL and narcissistic.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another person </span><a href="https://x.com/StephanieSidley/status/1874869380380872977"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, “Now we know for sure WME &amp; Netflix forced Meghan Markle to start promoting her cooking show on Instagram! All Meghan’s minions are making appearances, the kids + Doria! This is going to be the biggest fail yet! The music, the sets, the lying, the fake laughs!”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It comes one day after she relaunched her social media outreach on a new </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DESeJO5vFSN/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram account</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with a video of her running on the beach and writing the numbers “2025” in the sand. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, even that clip is blocked for comments, with watchers of the clip noticing that it, too, is staged with the duchess running past what appeared to be earlier attempts to write out “2025” in the sand, the </span><a href="https://x.com/nypost/status/1874830839151817072"><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Post</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> noted.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/catturd2/status/1874814376663974064"><span style="font-weight: 400;">One account</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> pointed out that Markle’s latest attempt to revive her public image won’t work. “Not happening. She has ZERO talent and nobody likes her.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another </span><a href="https://x.com/TheFabBookLover/status/1874539873446793372"><span style="font-weight: 400;">added</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, “The never ending narcissism of Meghan Markle.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And a </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">third person </span><a href="https://x.com/hrrysgreysuit/status/1874680725334810843"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, “Meghan Markle criticized for turning comments off first Instagram post. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">She&#8217;s so thin-skinned she can&#8217;t handle criticism of any kind &#8211; Most bullies can&#8217;t. So brave, So strong Meg (wink wink).”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The announcement also comes nearly a year after the former “Suits” actress </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meghan-markle-appears-to-launch-surprise-lifestyle-brand-on-instagram-after-spotify-failure"><span style="font-weight: 400;">first promoted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> her lifestyle brand </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">American Riviera Orchard. It </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">follows the end of her contract with Spotify in 2023 for her “Archetypes” podcast, which had mixed reviews and wasn’t renewed for a second season, as previously </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meghan-markle-appears-to-launch-surprise-lifestyle-brand-on-instagram-after-spotify-failure"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prince-harry-says-he-wont-take-meghan-markle-back-to-u-k" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prince Harry Says He Won’t Take Meghan Markle Back To U.K.</a></strong></p>


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<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kim-kardashian"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kim Kardashian</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is being questioned by fans for a bizarre </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music"><span style="font-weight: 400;">music video</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> she shared on </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/instagram"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> set to a creepy rendition of the song “Santa Baby.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the video, which is shot like an old-fashioned </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment"><span style="font-weight: 400;">home video</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the 44-year-old social media influencer slithers around on the floor wearing a blonde wig, underwear, and pantyhose. On her way through a house that appears to be having a Christmas party, she encounters several different disturbing vignettes. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These include a woman dressed as the Virgin Mary standing next to a donkey, a man dressed as an elf sitting on a kitchen counter eating out of a bowl while another fixes the sink, scantily clad women playing Twister, a person obsessively trimming a Christmas tree until it’s almost bare, a woman swimming in a giant fish tank, and a man getting a haircut. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another theme of the video is money, which shows up all over the floor. In one scene a man sits on a couch counting large bills, and in another, a person vacuums money off the floor. Two people fight about money in another shot.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The video ends with Kardashian finding Santa, who is documenting the party with a handheld camcorder. When the man dressed as Santa moves the camcorder away from his face, it’s revealed that he’s actually “Home Alone” star Macaulay Culkin.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reactions to the music video have been mixed but mostly negative. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“What in the methamphetamine Christmas blasphemy is this,” one popular Instagram comment says.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Another follower agreed, asking, “Am I the only one getting demonic vibes….” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I think I just watched Kim crawl through a crackhouse,” another person wrote. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should…,” another commenter wrote.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This is disturbing. And she claims she is Christian. This is absurd,” echoed another.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kardashian’s cover of the classic Christmas song by Eartha Kitt was produced by her brother-in-law Travis Barker, who is married to Kourtney Kardashian. The reality star also revealed in the caption that the video was directed by Nadia Lee Cohen and Charlie Denis.</span></p>


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‘Demonic Vibes’: Kim Kardashian Blasted For Bizarre ‘Santa Baby’ Music Video

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<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kim-kardashian"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kim Kardashian</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is getting a strong response on social media for an ad she posted on </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/instagram"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 44-year-old reality show star shared a photo of herself dressed in her shapewear brand, SKIMS, to promote a collaboration with luxury brand Dolce &amp; Gabbana. In it, Kardashian is wearing a bra and underwear along with lace shorts.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The caption of her post read in part: &#8220;Dolce&amp;Gabbana and SKIMS unite to reveal curve-enhancing pieces for everyday confidence and unmatched sensuality.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Followers took issue with the fact that the influencer is also wearing rosary beads around her neck.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Why is she always wearing the </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/christianity"><span style="font-weight: 400;">cross</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> when she’s half naked … like wtaf,&#8221; one popular comment said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Wearing a cross while being half naked. [Would you] make a mockery out of other religions too?&#8221; another person agreed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Nothing about you is holy,” a third person echoed. “Take the rosaries off lol.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another said, &#8220;Why don’t you just get naked!!!!! Such hypocrisy stripping while wearing a cross!!!! So bored of your desperation.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;The Holy Rosary is NOT a fashion accessory,&#8221; someone else agreed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The rosary appears to be a Dolce &amp; Gabbana item currently sold on its website for $525.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The item </span><a href="https://www.dolcegabbana.com/en-us/fashion/women/accessories/bijoux/kim-dolceandgabbana-long-rosary-necklace-silver-WNP4C3W111187655.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">description</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> says, &#8220;Dolce &amp; Gabbana’s signature aesthetic is clear to see in this religious-themed jewelry collection, as it is filled with unique pieces flaunting great creativity. Contemporary and glamorous accessories with original and exclusive details, featuring different plated finishes, will be perfect for finishing off any look with style.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is not the first time Kardashian was photographed wearing a cross and a revealing outfit.</span></p>
<p>Last week, she wore a cross necklace with lingerie in another ad promoting the same collaboration with Dolce &amp; Gabbana.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Internet sensation </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/internet-sensation-peanut-the-squirrel-euthanized-by-new-york-state-government"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Peanut</span></a> the<span style="font-weight: 400;"> squirrel was reportedly marked for euthanasia along with his pal Fred the Raccoon more than a week before he was seized in a raid at his home by New York officials to be “tested for rabies.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chemung County Executive Christopher Moss told the </span><a href="https://nypost.com/2024/11/12/us-news/pnut-the-squirrel-was-marked-for-death-and-decapitation-from-the-start-as-rabies-test-comes-back-negative-in-tragic-twist/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_source=twitter"><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Post</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on Tuesday that the rabies test for both animals came back “negative” after they were seized from their guardian Mark Longo’s home in upstate New York on October 30 by officials with the the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and then euthanized.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">DEC officials initially said they had received numerous calls about the animals living in the house. The department then got a warrant to search the home for the animals in what Longo described as a drug dealer-type raid at his home, as previously </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/internet-sensation-peanut-the-squirrel-euthanized-by-new-york-state-government"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Peanut, the pet squirrel that was seized from its owner in upstate New York and euthanized about two weeks ago, has tested negative for rabies, a county official said Tuesday. <a href="https://t.co/5cpTkzmdw4">https://t.co/5cpTkzmdw4</a></p>
<p>— CBS New York (@CBSNewYork) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNewYork/status/1856507272811143594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the time, the Associated Press </span><a href="https://apnews.com/article/peanut-pet-squirrel-seized-euthanized-45a4cba19e1c49cb0cd58fef0f140f0d"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that the DEC took both animals from the Longos’ home. The agency reportedly said it received complaints that wildlife was potentially at risk and being kept illegally. The Longos told </span><a href="https://www.tmz.com/2024/11/01/peanut-the-squirrel-seized-killed-new-york-owner-rips-state/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">TMZ</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that they have had Peanut for seven years, after rescuing the squirrel when its mother was killed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The DEC also said in a statement that Peanut bit an investigator on the hand while the squirrel was being confiscated, sparking the need to test for rabies and “both animals were euthanized…” according to </span><a href="https://www.mytwintiers.com/chemung-county/peanut-the-squirrel-euthanized-by-dec-to-test-for-rabies/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">WETM</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">In order to test for rabies, decapitation is required so subjects’ heads can be opened and their brains sampled.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, the Post reported that as far back as a week earlier, a timeline for euthanasia doesn’t match up and the animals were advised to be euthanized by state officials before the raid.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“DEC is aware of an individual in Chemung County who is known to illegally possess an adult gray squirrel and at least 4 young raccoons. They may also be in possession of other illegal wildlife species,” the DEC said in a message to the county on October 22. “We would like to know if the Health Department would recommend these animals be tested for rabies as a precaution for human safety.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The State Department of Health letter to the county on October 23 then read,  “Wildlife cannot be confined like domestic animals, and if there was an exposure, the animals would need to be tested for rabies,” </span><a href="https://www.wbng.com/video/2024/11/12/chemung-county-health-department-clarifies-role-peanut-squirrel-euthanization-2/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">WBNG</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> reported.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Days later, officials took steps for their raid &#8212; but the Post noted that the DEC was already coordinating the animals’ euthanasia with Elmira Animal Control.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The guardian of Peanut and Fred told the outlet he was in “utter shock” after seeing the timeline. “I’d like to give you a proper statement, but for now I’ll just say ‘Wow,'&#8221; he added.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On October 30, DEC raided Longo’s home and took the animals, which were both killed that day.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Animal decap requested on: 10/30/24,” read a rabies report for Peanut and Fred, also released by Chemung County, who said an investigation into the matter was ongoing.</span></p>


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