Hello everybody!

So I may have given a lot of people a surprise today. Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whose trust I abused.

I apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview without specifying it was for “Most Wanted.”

I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency (by the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly DO need to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status.)

I apologize to all of the people I traveled next to, all the workers who handled my luggage, and all the other non-targeted people at the hotel who I put in danger simply by being near.

I apologize to everyone who was abused and/or murdered before this, to all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this, to all who may still suffer after, regardless of my success or failure.

I don’t expect forgiveness, but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies.

On to why I did any of this:

I am a citizen of the United States of America.

What my representatives do reflects on me.

And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile,removed, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.

(Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I’ve had to do something about it.)

While I’m discussing this, I’ll also go over my expected rules of engagement (probably in a terrible format, but I’m not military so too bad.)

Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest

Secret Service: they are targets only if necessary, and to be incapacitated non-lethally if possible (aka, I hope they’re wearing body armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who aren’t

Hotel Security: not targets if at all possible (aka unless they shoot at me)

Capitol Police: same as Hotel Security

National Guard: same as Hotel Security

Hotel Employees: not targets at all

Guests: not targets at all

In order to minimize casualties I will also be using buckshot rather than slugs (less penetration through walls)

I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people chose to attend a speech by a pedophile,removed, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn’t come to that.

Rebuttals to objections:

Objection 1: As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.

Rebuttal: Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the personremovedd in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial. I’m not a schoolkid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration.

Turning the other cheek when someone else is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.

Objection 2: This is not a convenient time for you to do this.

Rebuttal: I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple minutes and realize that the world isn’t about them. Do you think that when I see someoneremovedd or murdered or abused, I should walk on by because it would be “inconvenient” for people who aren’t the victim?

This was the best timing and chance of success I could come up with.

Objection 3: You didn’t get them all.

Rebuttal: Gotta start somewhere.

Objection 4: As a half-black, half-white person, you shouldn’t be the one doing this.

Rebuttal: I don’t see anyone else picking up the slack

Objection 5: Yield unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.

Rebuttal: The United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.

I would also like to extend my appreciation to a great many people since I will not be likely to be able to talk with them again (unless the Secret Service is astoundingly incompetent.)

Thank you to my family, both personal and church, for your love over these 31 years.

Thank you to my friends, for your companionship over many years.

Thank you to my colleagues over many jobs, for your positivity and professionalism.

Thank you to my students for your enthusiasm and love of learning.

Thank you to the many acquaintances I’ve met, in person and online, for short interactions and long-term relationships, for your perspectives and inspiration.

Thank you all for everything.

Sincerely,

Cole “coldForce” “Friendly Federal Assassin” Allen

PS: Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone.

Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.

What I got (who knows, maybe they’re pranking me!) is nothing.

No damn security.

Not in transport.

Not in the hotel.

Not in the event.

Like, the one thing that I immediately noticed walking into the hotel is the sense of arrogance.

I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.

The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before.

Like, this level of incompetence is insane, and I very sincerely hope it’s corrected by the time this country gets actually competent leadership again.

Like, if I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed shit.

Actually insane.

Oh and if anyone is curious is how doing something like feels: it’s awful. I want to throw up; I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust this betrays; I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.

Can’t really recommend it! Stay in school, kids.

Vatican City, April 26 (Prensa Latina) Pope Leo XIV warned today about the danger posed to humanity and the world by those who, like thieves, plunder the earth’s resources and wage bloody wars.

During the Regina Caeli prayer, delivered at noon this Sunday from the window of his study in the Vatican Apostolic Palace, before thousands of people gathered in St. Peter’s Square, the pontiff referred to those thieves who “can take many forms” and “stifle our freedom or do not respect our dignity.”

The Bishop of Rome asserted that “there are many thieves, sometimes obvious, sometimes subtle, who enter the fold of the human heart to steal, kill and destroy” and “they deceive us by robbing us of joy and freedom,” with “superficial or consumerist lifestyles, which empty us inwardly.”

The leader of the Catholic Church reiterated the ideas he expressed on April 16 at the Peace Meeting held in Bamenda, Cameroon, when he said that “those who plunder the earth’s resources often invest a large part of the profits in weapons, in a spiral of destabilization and endless death.”

During that event, one of the most important included in the agenda of the 11-day apostolic journey that from the 13th to the 23rd of this month also took him to Algeria, Angola and Equatorial Guinea, Leo XIV condemned those who “subjugate religions and the very name of God to their own military, economic and political interests.”

“The warlords pretend not to know that it only takes an instant to destroy. They feign ignorance of the fact that billions of dollars are needed to kill and devastate, and that the necessary resources to heal, educate, and rebuild are not available,” he asserted, and urged “responses that arise from a culture of peace, not from hatred and division.”

Last Thursday, speaking to reporters on the plane that took him back to Rome after his visit to those African nations, the Pope referred to the war against Iran, launched on February 28 by the United States and Israel, which “has created this chaotic, critical situation” in the world.

In this regard, he stated that “I would like to encourage the continuation of the dialogue for peace, that the parties make every effort to promote peace, eliminate the threat of war, and respect international law,” because “it is essential to protect the innocent.”

This Sunday, Pope Leo XIV referred again to these concepts, stating that we cannot forget “those thieves who, by plundering the resources of the earth, waging bloody wars, or feeding evil in any of its forms, do nothing but rob us of the possibility of a future of peace and serenity.”

Bogotá, April 26 (Prensa Latina) The presidential candidate for the progressive movement Historical Pact, Iván Cepeda, remains in the lead in voting intentions in Colombia with 44.3 percent in the first round, according to a poll released today.

According to the Invamer poll, which measured support for the 13 candidates, the far-right Abelardo De la Espriella would obtain 21.5 percent and the Democratic Center party’s candidate, Paloma Valencia, would get 19.8 percent.

The remaining candidates would each obtain less than five percent of the total, and blank votes would account for 4.5 percent.

In a possible second round, which would take place on June 21, Cepeda would lead De la Espriella with 54.6 percent to 42.6 percent and would also beat Valencia with 51.2 percent to 46.6 percent.

According to the survey, 56.5 percent of those surveyed said they would definitely go to the polls on May 31.

The poll also revealed that 47.3 percent of those interviewed approve of the current president, Gustavo Petro’s, administration.

The sample data reveals that 3,800 surveys were applied in 149 municipalities (24 capitals and 125 non-capitals) between April 15 and 24, 2026.

Lima, April 26 (Prensa Latina) A preliminary poll on preferences for the second round of the Peruvian elections indicates that the winner of the first round, Keiko Fujimori, lacks majority support, 45 days before the runoff election on June 5.

Fujimori reached first place in the elections of April 12, with a precarious majority, 17 percent - due to the large number of candidates (36) and the consequent fragmentation of the electorate - and now awaits the slow and tense vote count between the candidates Roberto Sánchez and Rafael López Aliaga.

The Ipsos-Peru poll showed that, if the runoff election were held immediately, the neoliberal Fujimori, of the Fuerza Popular (FP) party, would tie with 38 percent of the votes with the leftist Roberto Sánchez, of Juntos por el Perú (JP).

According to the polling firm, 17 percent responded that, faced with the dilemma, they would vote blank or spoil their ballot, and seven percent abstained from answering.

If the final were contested between Fujimori and the far-right López Aliaga, the latter would win with just 34 percent and Fujimori would only achieve 31 percent and suffer her fourth failure in the endeavor to govern Peru for five years, which her father did, with an iron fist that she now evokes, for ten years.

Meanwhile, López Aliaga, after the National Elections Board (JNE) rejected his demand for supplementary elections so that those who could not vote on April 12 could vote due to irregularities in the supply of electoral material in 13 polling centers in Lima, which he attributes to an alleged fraud against him, without evidence.

The efforts of the extreme right-winger are not shared by Fujimori, who prefers to remain on the sidelines so as not to affect his campaign, who did close ranks with him to prevent, also with a campaign that invoked a never proven fraud against the rural teacher Pedro Castillo.

Meanwhile, press reports indicate that the president of the JNE, Roberto Burneo, may insist to the other members of the electoral court, who rejected his proposal to heed López Aliaga’s request to call for targeted supplementary elections.

The rejection was based on the lack of time to complete the vote count for the first round and prepare for the runoff election on June 7, among other problems.

López Aliaga has strong media support, but experts and electoral analysts, as well as most parties, criticize the cited errors - for which the head of the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONP), Piero Corvetto, resigned - but rule out fraud.

The media outlets that support him, on the other hand, are developing a McCarthyist campaign like the one in 2021, which could not prevent Castillo’s victory with the support of the left, who was later imprisoned and dismissed for trying to dissolve the parliament that had in turn tried to oust him.

On the other hand, candidate Sánchez declared that he feels confident, like almost all the analysts of the figures, that his access to the runoff is certain and, in addition to traveling to various regions, he has representatives who are in dialogue with social and political organizations for the purpose of reaching an agreement with a view to the second round.

The possibility of the leftist candidate was taken so seriously that when it began to look like he could reach the runoff, the promoters of the recent purchase of F-16 fighter jets from the United States rushed the operation in case Sánchez was elected president and vetoed the acquisition.

This was reported by a high-ranking Air Force officer who was not identified by the newspaper La República.

Hochstein was asked by Face the Nation’s Margaret Brennan, “In July 2024 Secretary Blinken claimed Iran was one or two weeks away from having enough fissile material breakout capacity to eventually make a weapon if Iran had decided to do so. There were indirect negotiations that the Biden administration did, but it went nowhere. So when President Trump argues that he did what no other president would, is it just simply that the bill was coming due and it fell on his watch?”

“I do think there’s a certain element to that, and that’s why I was supportive of President Trump joining in in June to take the strikes that we had thought internally in the Biden administration, we may have to take if there was a second term,” Hochstein replied. “We thought that the spring, summer of 2025 was probably, we may have to be there in the same place. And we did, we did war games. We did some practice runs on what it would look like to look into it, because that may have had to happen under our watch as well.”

Hochstein, for the record, is an Israel-born IDF veteran who reportedly played a major role in the Biden administration encouraging Israel’s horrific bombardment of Lebanon in September 2024. And his narrative that an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities “may have had to happen” under a theoretical second Biden term is false.

In March of last year, US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard testified before Congress that the intelligence community “continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and supreme leader Khomeini [sic] has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003,” contradicting both the claims of President Trump and of Antony Blinken the year before.

But even if you accept that Iran was a nuclear risk, there was nothing stopping the Biden administration from simply restarting the nuclear deal that the Obama administration secured with Tehran in 2015. The JCPOA was working fine while it was in place; anyone who says otherwise is a lying warmonger. Trump and his handlers torched the JCPOA in 2018 because it was the primary obstacle preventing them from getting to war with Iran, and the Biden administration refused to reverse this move because they wanted war too.

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Democratic partisans have been pointing to Trump’s war for weeks to chide Hasan Piker and anyone else they blame (read: everyone but themselves) for losing in 2024. But it turns out the Biden admin was planning to attack Iran if they won a 2nd term

The Democrats were beating the drums of war for Iran well ahead of the 2024 election. Here’s an excerpt from the official 2024 Democratic Party platform explicitly attacking Trump for not going to war with Iran in his first term:

“All of this stands in sharp contrast to Trump’s fecklessness and weakness in the face of Iranian aggression during his presidency. In 2018, when Iranian-backed militias repeatedly attacked the U.S. consulate in Basra, Iraq Trump’s only response was to close our diplomatic facility. In June 2019, when Iran shot down a U.S. surveillance aircraft operating in international airspace above the Straits of Hormuz, Trump responded by tweet and then abruptly called off any actual retaliation, causing confusion and concern among his own national security team. In September 2019, when Iranian-backed groups threatened global energy markets by attacking Saudi oil infrastructure, Trump failed to respond against Iran or its proxies. In January 2020, when Iran, for the first and only time in its history, directly launched ballistic missiles against U.S. troops in western Iraq, Trump mocked the resulting Traumatic Brain Injuries suffered by dozens of American servicemembers as mere ‘headaches’ — and again, took no action.”

Kamala Harris, who controversially replaced the dementia-addled Biden as the Democratic candidate late in the race, labeled Iran the number one enemy of the United States. In their 2024 debate, Harris repeatedly slammed Trump for being too soft on America’s enemies and announced that she “will always give Israel the ability to defend itself, in particular as it relates to Iran and any threat that Iran and its proxies pose to Israel.”

I’ve seen a lot of people trying to argue that Trump’s depravity in Iran proves everyone should support Democrats, but it’s clear the Democratic Party is just the more polite-looking face on the same evil power structure.

The war with Iran was always planned. Analysts like Brian Berletic and Richard Medhurst have been laying out solid arguments that this American war is more about attacking the economic and energy interests of Russia and China in a last-ditch effort to retain planetary hegemony than it is about assisting Israel. This places the United States on a dangerous trajectory toward increasingly hostile escalations between nuclear-armed powers.

These moves were planned years in advance, and would have been rolled out regardless of what impotent meat puppet happened to be wheeled into office in January 2025.

You don’t get to vote out an empire. Whether or not the US will continue working to dominate the planet will never be on the ballot. We will continue seeing reckless US wars of immense human consequence until the empire falls, or until the American people bring the revolutionary change to their country that the world so desperately needs.