Bob Grogan

Three illegals arrested for shoplifting 13k in merchandise. Illinois soft on crime policies set them free so one could take the life of a person in Ohio. ​We are jn Naperville, Illinois where police officers completely dismantled an organized retail theft ring operating out of the area after hitting an Ulta Beauty store.What they uncovered wasn’t a casual case of shoplifting—it was a massive, professional operation. ​During the pat-downs, officers watched in disbelief as dozens of high-end skincare and beauty products literally cascaded out of the suspects’ pant legs and clothing onto the asphalt. Between what was hidden on their bodies and the packed trash bags stuffed inside their getaway SUV, officers recovered over $13,000 in stolen product. ​The three suspects arrested at the scene were identified as: ​Yudisleydi Cardoso-Ortega (42, Pittsburgh, PA) ​Camilo Sotolongo-Barreto (38, Youngstown, OH) ​Liesnell Fleitas-Garcia (43, Houston, TX) ​None of these individuals were U.S. citizens, and they were using temporary paper identification cards from new Mexico as cover. Under normal circumstances, a $13,000 multi-jurisdictional retail theft haul by transient suspects with zero ties to the community would make them automatic flight risks. They would be held behind bars. ​But this is Illinois. ​Thanks to the state’s controversial SAFE-T Act—which completely abolished cash bail—and the strict limitations of the Illinois TRUST Act, local law enforcement's hands were completely tied. Despite the massive scale of the theft, the baseline charges of burglary and retail theft were deemed "non-detainable" offenses at their initial hearing. Because prosecutors could only legally tie certain dollar amounts to what was physically stuffed in each individual's pants at the exact moment of detention, the system worked exactly how its architects intended: ​The criminals walked right out of the station on pretrial release. ​The soft-on-crime experiment didn't stay contained within Illinois borders, and the real-world consequences of letting transient felony crews walk free turned deadly almost immediately. ​Just two months later, Camilo Sotolongo-Barreto—the exact same man you see being casually processed in this bodycam footage—was back in Youngstown, Ohio. Free to roam because of Illinois' revolving-door justice system, Sotolongo-Barreto got into a property dispute with his former roommate, 37-year-old Nestor Diaz. ​Sotolongo-Barreto escalated the argument, drew a kn!fe, and took the life of Diaz. ​The illegal fled the state immediately, sparking a multi-state manhunt before U.S. Marshals and local police finally tracked him down in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has since been extradited back to Ohio, where he sits in the Mahoning County Jail on a $1 million bond, officially arraigned on a charge of murder. ​When politicians push "progressive" cashless bail policies, they claim it’s about equity and fairness. This case proves the terrifying reality. Illinois didn't just let an illegal, out-of-state retail theft crew escape accountability—their soft-on-crime pipeline actively enabled a violent criminal to stay on the streets just long enough to take an innocent man's life in a neighboring state. Is cases like this that truly make you sick to your stomach when you see the damage these policies cause.

@Ambar_SIFF_MRA @grok is this real?

The female tech CEO confronted feminist group which was pushing the agenda that women are well suited for tech jobs in STEM fields

@chriswithans @JoshRainerGold I think Goldilocks was white. Just sayin.

@JoshRainerGold The only black students with >30 MCATs who are being rejected by medical schools are those who are suspected of not actually being black There’s no other reason why a school would reject a Goldilocks applicant

Do you have any idea how long it’s going to take to undo the damage of this?

@EricLDaugh @grok is this true?

🚨 HOLY CRAP! The White House just posted proof Ilhan Omar married her brother Tom Homan said the federal government is now investigating She MUST be deported. She committed immigration fraud! "Their story proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Omar married her brother for some fraudulent purpose." - Free Beacon

JB Pritzker: I never called them Nazis Also JB Pritzker: OK, so maybe I called Trump Hitler and Republicans nazis on a dozen occasions…

@anthonywiatrek @TheLegalMindset Generally the prerequisite for forgiveness is they need to repent.

Regarding the Charlie Kirk suspect when caught, people need to remember that Utah not only has the death penalty but it still carries out execution by firing squad.

More evidence that I gave gotten old: went out for dinner with high school friends and when dividing up the check the problem was there was too much money thrown in.

@therabbithole theguardian.com/law/2021/oct/1… I guess if they don’t get interrupted this is the result

KBJ speaks more then all of the male Supreme Court justices combined

@GavinNewsom @SenAlexPadilla Next they will be arresting people for running on a beach or going to outdoor church services…..oh you guys already did that.

If they can handcuff a U.S. Senator for asking a question, imagine what they will do to you.

@JoshWalkos Actually the term predates NATO by like century. You can call Yugoslavia’s division an example, but not the first use.

Social balkanization is the process by which a population is deliberately or organically fragmented into hostile, insular subgroups that no longer share a common narrative, culture, or sense of national identity. It’s not just division, it’s strategic division, where the fractures are deepened along lines of race, class, ideology, religion, gender, or even conspiracy belief systems until cohesion becomes impossible and conflict becomes inevitable. A population so fractured it can’t organize, can’t resist, and can’t agree on anything long enough to demand accountability. Ironically, the term “balkanization” comes from actual Balkan geopolitics, where Western powers repeatedly fractured Yugoslavia, backing different factions like the Croats, Bosniaks and Kosovars to suit NATO’s aims. Today, the battlefield is digital, so how much of our online tribal warfare is truly grassroots, and how much is the algorithmic engineering of domestic balkanization, designed to keep us too divided to unite against those in power?

My son outside of Boston just sent this, a few minutes later they had turned around and headed the opposite direction.

Please join me on 2/28 to do any long delayed purchases. I will reply with my extra purchases, feel free to add yours.

Serious question, particularly for my lawyer friends, but other too may opine: a president can choose not to prosecute despite the law like Obama did with with DACA, but it’s a constitutional crisis when a president chooses not to spend?

@Ronxyz00 @ewarren

If Donald Trump and Elon Musk get to pick and choose who gets funding, they could target your kid’s elementary school. They could stop repairs on the road you take to work. They could zero in on your grandpa’s Social Security check. I won’t stop fighting against their power grab.

@DrNeilStone @dewforpolitics

@AesPolitics1 @dewforpolitics Day three and we are still a democracy

Trump’s America.

Day two, we are still a democracy.

@heart_vs_m1nd @DefiantWorld Didn’t ABC have to pay money for saying that same thing?

Soon 😏

I believe historians will determine Ancel Keys’ theories were responsible for more deaths than Karl Marx’s theories.

For those asking when did we elect @elonmusk, I ask when did we elect whoever is running the @WhiteHouse in @JoeBiden ‘s dotage?