A 29-year-old Florida female and her children’s 15-year-old male babysitter are accused of shooting at a woman’s car after a Facebook dispute earlier this week.

The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday night’s shooting outside a Deltona home stemmed from a dispute between the female suspect — Ines Jonjic — and the victim, WESH-TV reported.

‘Are you guys sure he’s a babysitter?’

The station, citing the arrest report, said the victim became “highly upset” after Jonjic “took an image of [the victim’s] infant from her Facebook page, added malicious comments, and sent it to [the victim].”

Deputies said the victim then decided “she wanted to have a face-to-face conversation with Jonjic” and drove to Jonjic’s home on Hemingway Drive, WESH reported.

However, deputies said Jonjic and a 15-year-old boy — whom they later discovered was the babysitter for Jonjic’s children — pointed guns at the victim and fired several shots at her vehicle, the station said.

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The victim drove away and noticed she had a flat tire. However, according to the arrest report, “instead of immediately notifying law enforcement, she called roadside assistance, had her tire repaired, and drove home.” Deputies eventually met with the victim and discovered bullet holes in several of her car windows.

Investigators said it took about five hours for Jonjic and the teen to exit the home after deputies arrived. Once inside, deputies said they found marijuana and cocaine throughout the residence.

Detectives located .380-caliber and 9-millimeter shell casings in the garage. Jonjic admitted to shooting at the victim’s vehicle, according to the arrest report.

Jonjic was charged with shooting into an occupied vehicle, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a specified area, possession of a Schedule II controlled substance, possession of a Schedule IV controlled substance, two counts of possession of a new legend drug without a prescription, and possession of narcotics paraphernalia, the station said.

Jail records indicate that Jonjic was still behind bars as of Friday afternoon.

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The 15-year-old babysitter denied firing a gun at the victim, WESH reported.

However, the station said he was charged with shooting into an occupied vehicle, possession of a firearm by a delinquent, trafficking in cocaine, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a specified area, and violation of probation.

WESH added that he already was on probation for an unrelated drug possession charge.

The Facebook post from the sheriff’s office about the incident has attracted more than 1,000 comments, and the commenters haven’t held back — particularly in regard to the teenage male’s stated job.

“Babysitter sure lol,” one commenter said.”That ain’t a ‘babysitter’…” another user declared.”Are you guys sure he’s a babysitter?” another commenter wondered.”Who has a 15-year-old male with priors babysitting at their house at 5:30 a.m.?” another user asked. “Sounds like she’s missing a few charges.””A 15-year-old babysitter @ 5 a.m. while she is home?” another commenter queried.

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Adults who never want to grow up emotionally have created a generation of children who, like Cypher in the movie “The Matrix,” want to — or sometimes are even forced to — perpetually escape into technology as a means of finding their bliss.

According to a recent study, these kids are desperately overprotected from honestly engaging with the real world while simultaneously allowed to wander aimlessly in a technological fantasy land from a very early age.

They don’t mind if their kids are afraid and distant all the time, as long as they are afraid and distant just like them.

While 30% of 7-year-olds and 60% of 11-year-olds have a smartphone, the data also shows that about 60% of 17-year-olds aren’t allowed to leave their neighborhood without supervision.

This madness is born of modern adults’ addiction to being comfortable and distracted at all costs as they perpetually coddle the scared children living inside them, rather than accept their God-ordered duties to raise their actual children into future adults. Remember, self-medication doesn’t always have to come in drug form.

But this isn’t just somebody else’s problem. It is also present within many Christian families today, where the explicit narrow road of the rugged cross is always buried under the never-ending pursuit of flat-earth feel-goodisms. It doesn’t take much for children, after watching such obvious fraud and emptiness persist year after year, to gladly latch on to false gods of their own.

We are plagued by adults who, more than anything else, just want whatever they want whenever they want it. Instead of doing the hard work of preserving a world that can be passed down, they let their own social media and technology flags fly while other traditionally fundamental social structures and relationships die.

The cycle works like this: The schools fall apart because the adults are too selfish to be involved. Then the parents overprotect their children from the screwed-up society those broken schools helped create.

This, in turn, leaves the kids to desperately reach out for meaning and adventure using social media — even though it is every bit as dangerous as the real world. The parents, however, are too busy pleasuring themselves to prevent that pitfall because of the very emotional addictions, distractions, and comforts that caused this whole cycle in the first place.

No, you don’t just love your kids and want them to be safe from a scary world. You just love yourself too much to fight for them. Your emotions became your worldview, and your children an actual human sacrifice.

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Worse yet, we are likely going to be mired in this era of systematic epistemological obstruction for a long while. It is the sad but inevitable next step of what postmodernism and moral subjectivism look like if there are no absolute standards other than me, myself, and I.

Since the church decided it was going to take a generational coffee break from doing its job of discipleship and stewardship, the parents and families all thought they had the green light to let their electric boogaloo go to infinity and beyond.

Our smartphones are putting more questionable information in front of us than we’ve ever had in the history of our species, and most of it rhymes with ‘Did God really say?’ from the Garden of Eden. I mean, the original happy couple of the book of Genesis couldn’t even hold back the temptation of a single tree, but I’m sure the modern parent and child alike will find all the meaning and protection they need from the internet!

Imagine the parent who is too worried and distracted to encourage his kid to pursue goods like going on a date, getting a job, or reading the Bible but is just fine with him slurping infinite but obnoxious meaning from tech addictions because that feels just like looking in the mirror. These parents don’t mind if their kids are afraid and distant all the time, as long as they are afraid and distant just like them.

That millstone is heavy enough, though, to pull both parent and child into the abyss at the exact same time.

You weren’t designed by your Creator to be anonymous, alone, inside, and hooked to technology, yet many parents are feeding their kids that life as though they are proudly sending them off to earn a Ph.D. in divinity from Harvard. We must do better.

The way, the truth, and the life is not an iPhone app. It is an adventure that calls us to go forth to all the world, but how are we supposed to do that if parents not only keep their children’s spiritual training wheels on too long but never plan on taking their own off, either?

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The brutal and senseless attack on a 77-year-old man by two males in downtown Seattle in April was captured on surveillance video and released to the public as police sought one of the suspects.

The two men appear to be laughing as one rears back to punch the elderly victim with great force from behind.

The two left the man bleeding on the sidewalk.

The victim drops to the ground, and one of the assailants pretends to kick him before pulling back at the last second, according to an account by prosecuting attorney Ryan D. Turner.

The two left the man bleeding on the sidewalk. Police found him with a head injury, as well as a broken arm and knee.

Tips from eyewitnesses led police to identify one suspect as 29-year-old Ahmed Abdullahi Osman. Osman was released after being charged with second-degree assault but was later the subject of a $200,000 warrant from King County Superior Court.

A second suspect was identified as 27-year-old Jessean Tyrell Elion and arrested on Monday based on tips from the public after the video of the attack was released.

Elion was booked into the King County Jail before a judge set a bail of $100,000 for second-degree assault.

“The allegations of an attack on a stranger is very serious,” a judge said about the incident.

Police said they only learned of the second alleged assailant after reviewing surveillance video. Casey McNerthney with the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office told KING-TV the video was key to arresting the second suspect.

“It’s absolutely helpful, it’s so helpful when you have that because jurors now expect that, and even when you have great witnesses, there’s always the question if you don’t have video or why isn’t there video,” McNerthney said.

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“When you have cameras like that you see higher rates of referrals to prosecutors and often times higher conviction rates,” he added.

The KING report pointed out that Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, a democratic socialist, has criticized the surveillance system that captured the video of the assault. Her office offered no new comments about the incident.

Redmond Police said their Real-Time Information Center aided police in identifying the suspects.

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There’s enforcing the law — and then there’s building a system that treats every driver like a suspect the moment they turn the key. Colorado isn’t flirting with that line anymore. It’s driving straight past it.

For years, speed cameras were a minor annoyance. You knew where they were, your navigation app warned you, and if you were paying attention, you adjusted. It wasn’t perfect, but at least it was transparent. Colorado has now scrapped that model in favor of something far more aggressive — and far less accountable.

Meanwhile, the state continues issuing tickets at scale, backed by a system that never sleeps, never questions itself, and never exercises judgment.

The state’s new Automated Vehicle Identification Systems don’t just clock your speed at a single point. They track your vehicle across multiple cameras, calculate your average speed over distance, and automatically issue a ticket if you’re 10 miles per hour or more over the limit. No warning. No discretion. No human judgment. Just a system quietly watching, calculating, and penalizing.

Let’s call this what it is: not smarter enforcement, but broader surveillance.

Highway robbery

The rollout followed a 2023 change in state law, and what started as warnings has quickly turned into active ticketing. One of the newest stretches under this system is Interstate 25 north of Denver, where drivers moving through construction zones are now monitored continuously. The state says it’s about safety. That’s the headline. But the fine print tells a different story.

The penalty is $75 and carries zero points on your license. That’s not an accident. If this were truly about cracking down on dangerous driving, there would be meaningful consequences tied to your driving record. Instead, this looks like a volume business model — low enough fines to keep people from fighting, high enough frequency to generate serious revenue.

And then there’s the part that should concern every driver in America: The ticket goes to the registered owner of the vehicle, not necessarily the person who was driving.

That’s where this stops being about traffic enforcement and starts colliding with the Constitution.

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Blank check

The burden of proof in this country is supposed to be on the state. That’s not optional. That’s foundational. Yet Colorado’s system leans on the assumption that if your name is on the registration, you’re responsible — unless you can prove otherwise. That flips due process on its head.

Colorado Revised Statute 42-4-110.5 does not give the state a blank check to assign liability to vehicle owners in every situation. In fact, it explicitly acknowledges that the owner may not have been the driver. And long-standing legal precedent — at both the federal and state level — makes it clear that the government must prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt.

Relying on a license plate and a database isn’t proof. It’s a shortcut.

And let’s be honest: The system counts on the fact that most people won’t push back. They’ll see the fine, weigh the hassle of fighting it, and just pay up. That’s not justice. That’s compliance by inconvenience.

Legal maze

If you do challenge it, you’re stepping into a legal maze that most drivers aren’t equipped to navigate. Meanwhile, the state continues issuing tickets at scale, backed by a system that never sleeps, never questions itself, and never exercises judgment.

This is what happens when enforcement becomes automated: Accountability disappears.

A police officer can assess a situation. A camera cannot. It doesn’t care if traffic flow made it safer to keep pace. It doesn’t account for conditions. It doesn’t apply discretion. It simply records, calculates, and penalizes. That might be efficient, but it’s not fair — and it’s certainly not nuanced.

Mile-high spies

Then there’s the bigger picture, the one few officials seem eager to talk about.

These systems don’t just measure speed. They track movement. They log where your vehicle enters a zone, where it exits, and how it behaves in between. Expand that across highways, cities, and eventually entire states, and you’re looking at a real-time network that monitors how Americans move.

And if you think it stops at speeding, you haven’t been paying attention to how quickly technology evolves.

Today, it’s average speed enforcement. Tomorrow, it could be automated citations for rolling stops, lane usage, or anything else that can be digitized. Add artificial intelligence into the mix, and the potential scope grows exponentially. This isn’t science fiction — it’s the natural progression of a system that’s already in place.

Colorado isn’t just testing a traffic tool. It’s piloting a framework.

Stealer’s wheel

Supporters will argue this is about protecting construction workers, and that’s a legitimate concern. No one is arguing against safety. But safety cannot become the catch-all justification for systems that erode fundamental legal protections. You don’t preserve public safety by undermining due process.

And let’s not ignore the tone coming from officials who promote these programs. There’s an almost casual acceptance — sometimes even pride — in the idea of constant monitoring. As if a 24/7 enforcement net is something drivers should simply accept as the cost of modern transportation.

That’s not how this is supposed to work.

Government answers to the people, not the other way around. Policies like this deserve scrutiny, debate, and — when necessary — pushback. Because once a system like this is normalized, it doesn’t get scaled back. It expands. Quietly. Incrementally. Permanently.

Colorado may frame this as innovation. But from behind the wheel, it looks a lot more like overreach.

And if other states decide to follow this blueprint — and they will — drivers across the country may soon find themselves in the same position: tracked, ticketed, and told to prove their innocence after the fact.

That’s not better enforcement.

That’s a fundamental shift in how the rules are applied — and who they’re really serving.

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A recent study from UC Irvine psychologists speaks volumes about the state of America today, as over a third of Americans have reported that they have lost relationships with friends, family, romantic partners, and co-workers over political differences.

“That’s really sad,” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck comments.

37% of Americans have reported having a political breakup, and of those, 62% had a falling-out with a friend, 40% with a family member, 29% with a co-worker, and 10% with a romantic partner.

While a whopping 47% of Democrats have experienced political breakups, only 29% of Republicans have, and 66% of Democrats claim to be the ones who ended the relationship. Only 27% of Republicans claimed to do the same.

“I’ve lost familial relationships. I have lost friends. We’ve all gone through this,” Glenn says.

“I love my family for many more reasons than who they voted for. And I don’t know why I am such a horrible person if I support Donald Trump. And if I support the one you like, then I’m a really great person. And I can be a great person overnight. Not by changing anything other than saying, ‘I don’t like Donald Trump,’” he continues.

“And then, all of a sudden, I’m a hero,” he adds.

Glenn also points out that people who think differently are not inherently bad and are actually more interesting to him.

“I like learning things from people who think differently than I do,” he says. “I learn so much, and that’s what we should do.”

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