The Florida 20-year-old accused of giving birth in a toilet, watching her newborn drown, and then burying the baby in her back yard has bonded out of jail.

Anne Mae Demegillo was granted a $250,000 bond and must follow conditions such as turning over her passport, wearing a GPS monitoring device, and having no contact with any minors, WESH-TV reported.

‘It baffles me, to be completely honest. Sometimes you can’t explain everything.’

The station noted that during the bond hearing, Flagler County Sheriff’s Detective Shannon Smith testified that “I did ask her, if knowing what she knew now during our interview, if she could go back 48 hours and change how she handled the outcome of this, if she would change it, she said she doesn’t believe that she would.”

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said Demegillo admitted to watching the baby drown and cleaning up the blood after giving birth in her bathroom, WFTV-TV reported: “She did tell us that she was hoping that the baby would hurry up and die.”

WESH said the state argued for no bond, citing Demegillo as a threat to the community and a potential risk for destroying evidence.

But Demegillo’s attorney, Michael Politis — who acknowledged that “there is something obviously that is off” regarding his client — argued that “there’s no diagnosable mental condition … but I think as far as the community and the danger to the community, I don’t think this is. This is an isolated episode,” WESH reported.

Records show Demegillo bonded out Thursday afternoon, and WESH cameras caught her quickly walking — and then running — away from the jail and ignoring reporters’ questions.

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Demegillo last week claimed she thought the infant was deceased, so she hid the infant in a duffel bag in her closet and went about her normal daily routine, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said.

When Demegillo returned home last Thursday night from a theater performance in New Smyrna Beach, she buried the deceased infant in a shallow grave in her back yard, officials said, adding that at no point did Demegillo contact emergency services for assistance.

Chief Deputy Joe Barile of the sheriff’s office noted to WESH in a previous story that “it baffles me, to be completely honest. Sometimes you can’t explain everything.”

The newborn girl weighed three pounds, six ounces, and measured 18 inches long, WESH reported added.

Demegillo faces aggravated manslaughter charges, WESH said. But the station noted that the state attorney’s office said it expects to file more charges against her, including tampering with evidence.

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As many lawmakers in Washington debate election rules and as tensions rise overseas, Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck says several headlines that appear unrelated are actually telling the same story about the state of American institutions.

“I want to connect a few stories that on the surface look completely unrelated, but they’re actually not. They’re all telling you the same thing about how power is working in America right now,” he says.

Glenn begins by pointing to the Senate’s expected vote on the SAVE Act, a proposal that would require proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections.

“This is a complete sham,” he says. “Now, this is just a bill that says you have to prove you’re a citizen to vote in American elections. Think about that for just a second. Just this basic idea. If you’re voting in the United States, you should be an American citizen.”

Senate procedure, Glenn explains, allows lawmakers to avoid publicly defending their positions.

“Originally, if you wanted to block a bill, all you had to do is stand on the floor and talk hour after hour, day after day. … But today, you don’t have to do that anymore, because it’s hard. You just threaten a filibuster and then walk away. And you need a 60-person vote to bring it back to the floor,” Glenn says.

He argues the result is a process that lacks transparency and accountability.

“No speeches, no fight, no accountability, OK? No courage, just a zombie filibuster,” Glenn comments.

Lawmakers, he says, could force a more visible debate if they chose to.

“They could keep the Senate in continuous session for day after day after day, and if Democrats want to block voter citizenship requirements, then let them stand there for 24 hours a day explaining why. Make them hold the floor. Make them say it out loud,” Glenn says.

He then points out that the election debate is happening while larger global developments unfold.

“See, that’s the disconnect here,” he says. “The world is playing geopolitical chess for the whole game, and Washington is arguing whether the players are even allowed to sit at the board.”

For Glenn, the larger issue is what these headlines reveal about the condition of American institutions.

“The institutions that are supposed to protect trust, elections, law enforcement, government spending, the media are all under strain at the same time. They’re not broken beyond repair, but they are deeply strained,” he says.

Restoring confidence, he argues, will require “principles, transparency, and courage.”

“Transparency means letting Americans actually see the fight, whether it’s a Senate filibuster or an FBI investigation. Courage means you have to be willing to stand there and defend your position in the light and let the chips fall where they may,” he explains.

In the end, Glenn says the truth will eventually surface.

To hear more, watch the video above.

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A federal judge minced no words in his dissenting opinion regarding the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ refusal on Thursday to rehear the case of a Christian-owned women’s spa forced by Washington state into admitting men.

Judge Lawrence VanDyke, an appointee of President Donald Trump, wrote, “This is a case about swinging d**ks.”

”Sometimes, it feels like the supposed adults in the room have collectively lost their minds.’

“The Christian owners of Olympus Spa — a traditional Korean, women-only, nude spa — understandably don’t want them in their spa,” VanDyke continued. “Their female employees and female clients don’t want them in their spa either. But Washington State insists on them. And now so does the Ninth Circuit.”

The family-owned spa was accused of discrimination in 2020 for refusing access to a trans-identifying male whose penis was intact, and has been fighting an uphill legal battle ever since. In May, a three-judge Ninth Circuit panel ruled against the spa, holding that the First Amendment rights of its owners had not been violated by the state.

The spa subsequently petitioned the Ninth Circuit for a panel rehearing and/or a full-court rehearing of the case. Those were denied, prompting VanDyke to go nuclear:

Sometimes, it feels like the supposed adults in the room have collectively lost their minds. Woke regulators and complicit judges seem entirely willing, even eager, to ignore the consequences that their Frankenstein social experiments impose on real women and young girls. Yet if harmful and unfortunate consequences were all this case was about, we’d have to shrug and say: “That’s what comes with living in a democracy.” Unless the Constitution is implicated, we get what we voted for “good and hard.”

But some fundamental rights, like the right to the free exercise of religion, are constitutionally protected precisely to avoid majoritarian infringement. Unfortunately, in this case the panel majority has allowed Washington State bureaucrats to trample on such rights long secured by the Constitution.

VanDyke tore apart his colleagues’ reasoning, stating that:

“[Washington Law Against Discrimination] is not generally applicable because it treats comparable secular activity more favorably than Olympus Spa’s religiously motivated activity”;”WLAD’s application is not neutral because it facially differentiates among religions based on theological choices by granting an exemption to only a small set of favored religious activities”; and”WLAD’s woke redefinition of ‘sex’ undermines the hard-fought legal protections granted to women as a class and undercuts established criminal laws against voyeurism and indecent exposure.”

Some of the Trump judge’s colleagues couldn’t handle his criticism and frank language.

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Mary Margaret McKeown, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton who previously ruled against the spa, said in a statement that was joined by over 25 other Ninth Circuit judges that the American legal system is “not a place for vulgar barroom talk” or a “place to suggest that fellow judges have ‘collectively lost their minds,’ or that they are ‘woke judges’ ‘complicit’ in a scheme to harm ordinary Americans.”

McKeown claimed that VanDyke’s language — not her decisions — “undermines public trust in the courts.”

VanDyke said in response to his colleagues’ pearl-clutching:

My distressed colleagues appear to have the fastidious sensibilities of a Victorian nun when it comes to mere unpleasant words in my opinion, yet exhibit the scruples of our dearly departed colleague Judge Reinhardt when it comes to the government trampling on religious liberties and exposing women and girls to male genitalia. That kind of selective outrage speaks for itself. The public deserves a court that is actually trustworthy. We should be earning that trust, not demanding it like petty tyrants.

“Sometimes ‘dignified and civil’ words are employed to mask a legal abomination. … Sometimes coarse and ugly words bear the truth,” VanDyke added.

Go deeper

The spa, owned by a theologically conservative Christian family, is modeled on jjimjilbang, sex-segregated bathhouses in Korea, and requires that guests be nude inside the pool area.

Court documents state the spa required that entrants “physically present in the nude as … female,” further noting, “Biological women are welcome.” Under the rules, female-identifying males were welcome just so long as they had “gone through post-operative sex confirmation surgery.” In other words, penises weren’t permitted.

In 2020, Caleb Richmond — a trans-identifying male who was once married to a woman and now goes by Haven Wilvich — attempted to use the Washington Law Against Discrimination to gain access to the spa. The spa reportedly denied the man access, prompting him to file a complaint with the Washington State Human Rights Commission.

When the WSHRC notified the spa that it had received a discrimination complaint, the spa asserted that its “biological women”-only policy was in keeping with state law and “essential for the safety, legal protection, and well-being of our customers and employees,” court documents said.

‘Washington has perversely distorted a law that was enacted to safeguard women’s rights to strip women of protections.’

Although initially defiant, the spa signed a pre-finding settlement agreement requiring compliance with WLAD while reserving the right to mount a constitutional challenge.

Richmond reportedly boasted online that he had successfully found a way to legally invade the women’s sanctuary. He wrote, “I did it,” adding he got “the main naked lady spa in the area to change their policies and allow all self-identified women access regardless of surgery and genitals.”

Richmond further suggested that he was “more woman” than any of his female critics because he is “an intentional woman whereas they are only incidental.”

Myoon Woon Lee, the owner of the spa, sued the WSHRC, claiming that the WLAD, as enforced, impinged upon his “traditional, theologically conservative” Christian values and put his female clientele at risk.

A Washington District Court judge dismissed the case with prejudice in 2023, but Lee appealed to the Ninth Circuit.

A three-judge panel ruled in May 2025 that the spa cannot sue the WSHRC on First Amendment grounds. The majority held that the enforcement of WLAD “did not impermissibly burden the Spa’s free speech,” that the spa is “not an expressive association,” and that “eliminating discrimination on the basis of sex and transgender status is a legitimate government purpose.”

Judge McKeown stated in her May opinion for the majority, “The HRC’s enforcement action against Olympus Spa was a straightforward application of Washington’s statutory scheme.”

Judge Kenneth Lee, a Trump appointee, said in his dissenting opinion, “Washington has perversely distorted a law that was enacted to safeguard women’s rights to strip women of protections. The women and girls of Washington state deserve better.”

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Timothée Chalamet is in trouble for saying that opera and ballet are dying art forms. The 30-year-old Oscar-nominated actor, whose parents chose the most complicated way to spell “Timothy,” told fellow movie star Matthew McConaughey, “I don’t want to be working in ballet, or opera, or things where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about this any more.’”

Realizing he may have made a PR boo-boo with his honesty, Chalamet added, “All respect to the ballet and opera people out there. I just lost 14 cents in viewership.”

Yes, my wife is a dancer. Spoiler: She’s not a stripper. Strippers make money. Dancers don’t.

No matter how much Chalamet may have upset the ladies of “The View,” he’s right. Opera and ballet are dying arts. And the 14 cents he may have lost in viewership will not be spent instead on the opera or ballet.

Tickets, please

I find it rather telling that so many of the people defending the honor of opera and ballet aren’t showing their receipts. Look at all the people who love these fine arts with a passion — and yet can’t produce a ticket to prove they have ever been patrons.

It reminds me of New Yorkers who mourn the closing down of local restaurants and bars they never went to. “How can something like this happen?”

Easily. It’s your fault. You’re not supporting the ballet. You’re not supporting opera.

Now, I play a role in this. I have never been to an opera. So when the murder of opera eventually goes to trial, I’ll be convicted — not of first-degree murder or manslaughter, but at most of negligent homicide. When the fat lady sings from the witness stand, she’ll be pointing her finger at me — and you too.

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Betrayed by ballet

I’m sure lots of you are saying, “But I go to musicals all the time!” Well, so do I. Musicals ain’t operas. Let’s not pretend seeing “Kinky Boots” on Broadway counts.

But I have been to the ballet. I might be the only person who has seen more ballet than I’ve seen Timothée Chalamet flicks. Over the past 13 years, I’ve seen a lot of dance. It’s one of the perks of marrying a dancer. Yes, my wife is a dancer. Spoiler: She’s not a stripper. Strippers make money. Dancers don’t. (Although the “stripper index” indicates an industry downturn.)

Most recently, for my birthday, my wife bought us tickets to see the Lyon Opera Ballet at New York City Center. Even though it has “opera” in its name, it is just ballet. And it sucked. I won’t go into details. I’ll just say this: When you go to see a live performance, there’s always the risk that it will suck. I accept that risk. In October of last year, we saw the Paris Opera Ballet at the same venue. (Again, “opera” in name alone.) That show was good … until it wasn’t.

Empty seats

No matter if it’s good or bad, I always make sure to eat at a great restaurant either before or after the show. Drinks help. And if you’re driving into the city, a bad show — when experienced with a person you love — well, there’s nothing like it! It always makes for great car conversation.

Now that I have provided these receipts, please take me at my word: When I attend these shows and look around, either I see lots of empty seats or lots of elderly patrons. It’s just the reality.

If you don’t go to the ballet, then you don’t support the ballet. The same goes for the opera. I know ballet and opera are class-coded, but tickets aren’t really that expensive compared to the more popular performing arts. But talk is cheap. Complaining is free. I say, put your money where your mouth is and go out there and support the arts you want to keep alive. And when you do, share those receipts.

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The “heinous” male accused of shoving an 83-year-old military veteran off a New York City subway station platform and onto the train tracks last weekend was deported four times and has 15 prior charges on his record, the Department of Homeland Security said.

DHS on Thursday added that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has asked New York authorities not to release illegal alien suspect Bairon Posada-Hernandez, whom Deputy Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis called a “heinous” and “serial criminal” who “should never have been able to walk our streets and harm innocent Americans.”

‘I hope he rots in hell.’

Posada-Hernandez was arrested for attempted murder Tuesday in connection with Sunday’s incident, during which he also allegedly pushed a 30-year-old man onto the subway train tracks, the agency said.

DHS said ICE on Tuesday placed a detainer on Posada-Hernandez, a Honduran national. Bis added that “DHS is calling upon New York sanctuary politicians to commit to this ICE detainer.”

More from DHS:

Posada-Hernandez first entered the country on January 2, 2008, and has been deported four different times, most recently in 2020. He entered illegally a fifth time at an unknown date and location.

The suspect has a lengthy criminal history, including 15 prior charges such as simple assault, domestic violence, obstruction of police, possession of a weapon, drug possession, and aggravated assault.

One of the victims of the subway shove, a 30-year-old man, reportedly is in stable condition, while the other, an 83-year-old Air Force veteran, remains in critical condition, the agency said.

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The daughter of elderly victim Richard Williams told the New York Daily News, “He’s unresponsive. He’s on a respirator. No changes. He’s considered critical. We’re praying for a miracle. It’s horrible.”

As for Posada-Hernandez, Williams’ daughter told the Daily News, “I hope he rots in hell.”

“To push one person down and then to push another down? I thank God that young man that was pushed first — that man, I have to give him my thanks. He helped my father out of the tracks, carried him pretty much,” she added to the paper. “The people there that helped, it was amazing what happened.”

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It’s time to find out who runs the Republican Party: Donald Trump or John Thune (RINO-S.D.).

Trump can demand all the “leadership” he wants, but the SAVE America Act remains in limbo. Leadership would mean getting it past the filibuster. What Thune has scheduled for next week — a vote with no talking filibuster — won’t force the fight. It won’t even force the Democrats to own their position in public.

If Republicans can’t pass the SAVE Act in the face of brazen hubris and illegality, nothing else will matter.

Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) goes on camera and all but admits the quiet part: the rolls include millions of noncitizens, and Democrats don’t want ICE clearing them out before the next election. He’s saying it out loud.

So I’ll put this plainly. If Republicans can’t pass the SAVE Act in the face of that kind of brazen hubris and illegality, nothing else will matter — not Iran, not an economic rebound, not a shiny jobs report. Midterm obliteration is coming, and that means Trump 2.0 turns into impeachment 2.0.

People can argue about Iran. They can argue about tactics. They can argue about timelines. The SAVE Act hits a deeper fault line inside the GOP base. Few issues still win broad, consistent support — not just among Republicans, but among normies. The border does. The trans issue does. Election integrity absolutely does.

The SAVE Act sits right on that seam: Prove citizenship before voting in federal elections. That’s it.

Social media can make it seem like half of the right is populated with anti-Semites and that the most important argument right now is the war in Iran. Sorry, real voters aren’t living in that feed. I’ve done a handful of events for Adam Steen, the Iowa gubernatorial candidate I’m backing in my home state. Everywhere I go, voters ask about election integrity and voter fraud more than they ask about anything else.

Trump has room to absorb controversy on foreign policy and the economy. He has survived worse. He might even turn both into wins. But if he can’t deliver the SAVE Act — if he lets a feckless swamp rat like Thune outmaneuver him on the most basic promise of self-government — it’s game over.

Midterms already punish the party in power. Low turnout hurts. A sleepy base hurts. But failure here triggers a different kind of turnout: the “why bother?” turnout. People will stop believing civic responsibility matters if Republicans can’t secure elections after years of bitter, sometimes violent controversy.

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Remember the frustration of watching billions flow overseas with no accountability? Now picture South Dakota giving the country a civics lesson in futility because its senator can’t — or won’t — do the one thing that anchors every other fight: protect the vote.

South Dakota’s legislature is more than 90% Republican. Yet Thune looks ready to turn “stolen elections” into the hill the party dies on, thus torpedoing Trump’s second term and setting himself up as the next Mitch McConnell.

South Dakota already had the embarrassing Kristi Noem circus, shooting her dog between teeth-whitening appointments before getting canned from the Department of Homeland Security. But Thune’s folly could end MAGA entirely.

Perception becomes reality fast. If this administration is settling into the idea that mass deportations have limits — fine. But then it needs a second anchor: proof that Democrats can’t use noncitizens to usurp our elections.

Pass the SAVE Act, force Democrats to take a position in daylight, and lock down the rules. Fail and 2026 is doomed.

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An armed man was able to walk into Zwink Elementary School in Klein, Texas, on Tuesday, according to multiple reports.

Kyle Najm Chris, also known as Muhi Mohanad Najm, 39, was charged with possession of a weapon in a prohibited place after allegedly entering the school property after another visitor reportedly failed to properly secure the door.

The suspect has no known affiliation with the school.

One school employee told investigators that Chris was wearing full green military or tactical law enforcement attire, including a load-bearing vest, a taser, and a holstered firearm.

School and district officials explained in a letter to parents why they were not immediately notified of the incident.

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“From the moment the individual left the front office, we were actively working with multiple law enforcement agencies to identify and apprehend this individual,” they wrote, according to KHOU.

“Sending a public notification during that window could have jeopardized those efforts, tipped off the suspect, and delayed the arrest.”

Officials were able to track the suspect through security camera footage, facial recognition, and the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Flock license plate database after he left the premises. The suspect reportedly left the school property, got into a blue Dodge Charger, and was later arrested at his home about a half-mile away, KTRK reported.

The suspect has no known affiliation with the school. He was arrested on Wednesday night and booked into the Harris County Jail.

One neighbor was inclined to think that there was a misunderstanding, describing the suspect as a friend and veteran.

“He watches my kid all the time for me. When I was in California and gone for a couple of months, my son would come home, and he would go to the bus stop and walk him home, put him in the house, let him sit in there, he could go across the street and get the neighbor, you know what I mean,” the man, identified only as Randy, told KTRK.

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