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Newsom’s fiery claim DOJ has ‘no business’ monitoring CA election blasted by Trump official: ‘Calm down bro’
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California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s rebuke of the Justice Department’s move to monitor the November election in his state is getting strong pushback, including from a DOJ official who noted the move is not out of the ordinary.
«Donald Trump’s puppet DOJ has no business screwing around with next month’s election,» Newsom posted on Friday in response to news the DOJ plans to send federal election watchers to California and New Jersey for their closely watched elections next month.
«Sending the feds into California polling places is a deliberate attempt to scare off voters and undermine a fair election. We will not back down. Californians decide our future — no one else.»
Many on social media, including DOJ Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, quickly pointed out that the Justice Department has a long history of sending election monitoring resources to areas that have a history of issues in order to ensure election laws are being followed.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom looks on during a bill signing event related to redrawing the state’s congressional maps on August 21, 2025. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
«Lol calm down bro,» Dhillon posted on X. «The @TheJusticeDept under Democrat administrations has sent in federal election observers for decades, and not once did we hear that this was voter intimidation from states such as California. Do you really want to go there? Isn’t transparency a good thing?»
Dr. Houman Hemmati posted on X, «Hey @GavinNewsom WHY would any legitimate voter be «scared off» by having federal election observers? Most people think legitimate voters would be more likely to vote because they’d trust the process.
«But clearly you’re afraid of something. I wonder what that is…»
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican candidate for governor in California to replace the term-limited Newsom, wrote on X, «Gavin sure seems worried about people seeing how he’s handling elections.»
The Republican parties in both California and New Jersey requested the federal observers as California votes on a ballot measure aimed at redrawing the state’s congressional map in favor of Democrats to counter states like Texas that have redrawn its map favoring Republicans and New Jersey votes in a highly watched gubernatorial election.
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Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon arrives for a news conference at the Justice Department on September 29, 2025 in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The Department of Justice sent election monitors to California twice during the Biden administration, during the 2022 general election and the 2024 general election.
«This is not a federal election,» Newsom’s press office posted on X. «The US DOJ has no business or basis to interfere with this election. This is solely about whether California amends our state constitution.
«This administration has made no secret of its goal to undermine free and fair elections. Deploying these federal forces appears to be an intimidation tactic meant for one thing: suppress the vote.»
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Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks in San Francisco, Calif., on Aug. 7, 2025. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The Biden Justice Department sent election resources to several non-federal elections as well, including Alaska municipal elections in October 2023, a New Jersey off-year general election in 2023, and a Mississippi off-year general in 2023.
Fox News Digital reached out to Newsom’s office for comment.
«In recent elections, we have received reports of irregularities in these counties that we fear will undermine either the willingness of voters to participate in the election or their confidence in the announced results of the election,» California GOP Chairwoman Corrin Rankin wrote in a letter to Dhillon on Monday.
The New Jersey GOP sent a similar letter about Passaic County, which is heavily Latino and once favored Democrats, but voted Trump in 2024.
The state GOP alleged a «long and sordid history» of vote-by-mail fraud.
Democrats in both states have pushed back against the decision.
New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin called the move «highly inappropriate» and said the DOJ «has not even attempted to identify a legitimate basis for its actions.»
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Voters make selections at their voting booths inside an early voting site (Melissa Sue Gerrits)
Los Angeles County Clerk Dean Logan said election observers are standard practice across the country and that the county, with 5.8 million registered voters, is continuously updating and verifying its voter records.
«Voters can have confidence their ballot is handled securely and counted accurately,» he said.
During the 2024 election, multiple Republican-led states pushed back on the Biden administration’s efforts to send federal resources to monitor elections, arguing the state measures in place were satisfactory.
Election monitors are lawyers who work for the Justice Department, including in the civil rights division and U.S. attorney’s offices across the country. They are not law enforcement officers or federal agents.
For decades, the Justice Department’s civil rights division has sent attorneys and staff members to monitor polling places across the country in both federal and non-federal elections. The monitors are tasked with ensuring compliance with federal voting rights laws.
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division enforces a number of statutes protecting the right to vote. That includes the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits intimidation and threats against those who are casting ballots or counting votes. And it includes the Americans with Disabilities Act, which mandates that election officials ensure people with disabilities have the full and equal opportunity to vote.
Fox News Digital’s Brie Stimson and The Associated Press contributed to this report
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What Jay Jones’ victory means for Democrats and the ‘new era of violent rhetoric,’ according to experts
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Democrats in Virginia elected an attorney general who privately fantasized about murdering his political opponents, raising questions from experts who spoke to Fox News Digital about whether the Democratic Party is serious about condemning political violence.
«The moral rot infecting the Democrat Party is here to stay and voters just proved it,» Mehek Cooke, a GOP political consultant and commentator, told Fox News Digital after Jay Jones won the race for Virginia attorney general.
Jones defeated incumbent Republican Jason Miyares despite a campaign plagued with scandal after it was revealed he fantasized in 2022 text messages about shooting former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert in the head while also suggesting that harm should come to that Republican’s young «fascist» children.
«Jay Jones called for the death of political opponents and their children, yet instead of rejecting that extremism, Democrat voters rewarded it,» Cooke said.
INSIDE JAY JONES AND THE DEMOCRATS’ LATE SURGE TO UPSET WINS ACROSS VIRGINIA, FROM THE SUBURBS TO THE SHORE
Virginia attorney general candidates Jay Jones, left, and Jason Miyares, right. ( Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Maxine Wallace/The Washington Post/Getty Images)
Julian Epstein, a longtime Democratic operative, attorney, and former chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox News Digital the «near unanimous rationalizations» from Democrats is driven by a «moral relativism that is a race to the bottom for any civilization.»
Epstein explained, «The collective shoulder shrug about a candidate who fantasizes about the assassination of his opponents and the death of his opponent’s children is of the same piece with the new era of violent rhetoric from the left and the data showing that nearly half of young progressives think that political violence can be justified. To look the other way on this because of political expedience is to lose the plot as to why one is in the public square in the first place.»
Ultimately, Cooke told Fox News Digital, the election of Jones in Virginia will help Republicans going forward.
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Virginia attorney general candidate Jerrauld «Jay» Jones speaks at an event in Norfolk, Virginia. (Trevor Metcalfe/The Virginian-Pilot/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
«These reckless choices by the Left, including the election of Jay Jones, will only electrify the Republican base heading into the midterms and beyond,» Cooke said.
Kentucky GOP Rep. Andy Barr, running for U.S. Senate next year, echoed the sentiment that Republicans look better to voters overall than Democrats after Tuesday night.
«The Democrat Party just elected a Socialist to run the financial capital of the world and a Leftist Attorney General who wished for Republican leaders and their children to be killed,» Barr said. «Meanwhile, one year after the greatest political comeback in history, President Trump is Making America Great Again. Our golden age will continue as the Democrat Party disgraces itself.»
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Voting booths and voters are seen at a polling location. (Graeme Sloan for The Washington Post/Getty Images)
Fox News Digital reached out to the Jones campaign for comment.
News that Jones had sent the controversial texts, first reported by National Review, sparked a firestorm in early October, with many pundits believing the Jones campaign would be doomed for promoting political violence in a climate still reeling from the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
However, Democrats in Virginia remained behind Jones as gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger and prominent elected Democrats in the state refused to call on him to step down after he apologized for the texts.
«At the end of the day, this election has never been about me or my opponent,» Jones said in his victory speech. «It has always been about every single one of us and the future of Virginia.»
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Detuvieron a un hombre con antecedentes pedófilos que importó una muñeca sexual con apariencia infantil
Un nuevo caso de importación de muñecas sexuales con apariencia infantil sacudió a Francia y encendió las alarmas de las autoridades. El lunes, empleados de un depósito cercano a Marsella detectaron un paquete sospechoso: era voluminoso, pesado y estaba parcialmente abierto. Al revisarlo, encontraron una muñeca de silicona de 1,30 metros, con rasgos de preadolescente.
El envío, que tenía como remitente a la empresa Zech, de origen chino, fue inmediatamente reportado a la policía. El destinatario, un hombre de 56 años que vive en Bouc-Bel-Air y que ya había sido condenado por delitos de agresión sexual, fue identificado y detenido.
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Investigación y allanamiento: la Justicia va tras los compradores
La fiscalía de Aix-en-Provence abrió una causa por “importación, tentativa de adquisición y tentativa de tenencia de imagen de menor con carácter pornográfico”. La policía secuestró la muñeca y realizó un allanamiento en la casa del sospechoso, donde incautó material informático que ahora está siendo analizado.
El hombre, que quedó bajo custodia, “tiene antecedentes penales por agresión sexual y admitió haber encargado la muñeca con fines sexuales», declaró la fiscalía al sitio Actu Marseille.
Shein retiró de la venta las muñecas ante el escándalo. (Foto: gentileza TF1).
El escándalo de las muñecas sexuales infantiles y la reacción oficial
Este caso se da en un contexto de máxima alerta en Francia, luego de que la brigada antifraude francesa denunciara la venta de muñecas sexuales con apariencia infantil en las plataformas chinas Shein y AliExpress. La polémica llevó a que la empresa fuera citada a declarar en la Asamblea Nacional en los próximos días, en el marco de una investigación sobre el control de productos importados.
La fiscalía de París también abrió varias investigaciones contra estas dos plataformas de venta online por “difundir imágenes o representaciones de menores de carácter pornográfico”.
Leé también: Escándalo internacional: denunciaron a Shein por vender muñecas sexuales con rasgos infantiles
Además, el gobierno de Emmanuel Macron anunció que suspenderá el sitio web de Shein después de detectar la venta de muñecas sexuales con apariencia infantil y de armas prohibidas en su plataforma online.
Según el Ministerio de Finanzas, la suspensión se mantendrá “todo el tiempo que sea necesario” hasta que Shein demuestre que cumple con las leyes francesas. La compañía respondió que prohibirá globalmente la venta de dichas muñecas y que cerrará temporalmente su marketplace en Francia para revisar los controles a los vendedores externos.
El portavoz de Shein en Francia, Quentin Ruffat, aseguró que la compañía colaborará “al 100%” con la Justicia y que entregarán los nombres de los compradores de muñecas si así lo requiere la investigación.
Qué dicen los expertos en pedofilia sobre las muñecas con rasgos infantiles
La Alta Comisionada para la Infancia, Sarah El Haïry, fue contundente: “Ir a buscar a quienes compraron estas muñecas en nuestro territorio es una obligación para proteger y controlar el estado de los niños que están en su entorno cercano”.
Según Véronique Béchu, excomandante de policía y directora del Observatorio contra el Ciberacoso y la Violencia contra Menores, el uso de estas muñecas dista mucho de ser inofensivo, sino que “contribuye directamente a la radicalización de la conducta pedocriminal”, afirmó al sitio FranceInfo.
“No es la muñeca la que ‘crea’ la desviación, pero constituye un indicador y un facilitador en el proceso delictivo”, explicó a franceinfo una fuente especializada en caso de abusos de niños. “Este tipo de objeto no canaliza el impulso: lo alimenta y lo estructura”, afirmó.
“Los pedófilos no operan según un modelo de ‘descarga’, sino mediante un condicionamiento progresivo, con desensibilización moral y una búsqueda de escalada en sus prácticas», agregó. Ciudadanos protestan contra la plataforma china Shein tras el escándalo de las muñecas sexuales. (Foto: AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff).
El uso de estas muñecas, a veces provistas de orificios sexuales, forma parte de una “escalada conductual“, continuó esta fuente policial, especificando que “en los casos judiciales, el uso de objetos sexualizados suele ser parte de un proceso progresivo” que comienza con la visualización de fotos y videos de abusos de niños, se intensifica con el uso de muñecas o juguetes sexuales que representan a un menor y alcanza su punto álgido con “la búsqueda de contacto real” . “Esto es lo que la criminología denomina el ciclo de la exteriorización”, resumió la misma fuente.
Florence Thibaut, profesora de psiquiatría y adicciones en el Hospital Cochin de París, especialista en temas de pedofilia, explicó que “entre las personas que tienen fantasías pedófilas, que las expresan y que las padecen, se estima que una de cada dos actuará según sus impulsos contra un niño”.
Medios galos recordaron asimismo que el excirujano Joël Le Scouarnec, condenado en mayo a veinte años de prisión por la violación y agresión sexual de 299 pacientes, en su mayoría niños, vivía rodeado de decenas de muñecas. Incluso había bautizado a algunas con los nombres de sus víctimas.
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A viral video captured the moment a shark leapt out of the water in New Zealand and landed on a fishing boat, stunning the passengers on board.
The incident happened in Whitianga, New Zealand, in early November 2022, according to Storyful.
In the video, the mako shark bursts from the water and lands on the bow of the boat, flopping around before coming to rest near the front of the vessel.
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A shark was seen leaping out of the water in New Zealand and landing on a fishing boat, stunning the passengers on board. (Churchys Charters NZ via Storyful)
After several moments, the shark managed to wriggle free and return to the ocean unharmed.
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The incident happened in Whitianga, New Zealand, in early November 2022. (Churchys Charters NZ via Storyful)
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The shocked passengers on the boat were also unharmed.
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