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Six Democrats urge military members to ‘refuse illegal orders’ in viral video; Hegseth responds
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A group of Democrat lawmakers with military and intelligence backgrounds released a video Tuesday urging service members to «refuse illegal orders,» a message conservatives blasted as a call to defy President Donald Trump and his Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
The one-minute video, posted by Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., and viewed more than 1.6 million times, features six lawmakers invoking their prior service while telling members of the military and intelligence community that «the threats to our Constitution are coming from right here at home.»
Slotkin and her colleagues have spent recent weeks introducing legislation to limit President Trump’s ability to deploy National Guard members domestically or launch military action against narcoterrorists without congressional approval.
None of that context appears in the video, titled «Don’t Give Up the Ship,» which instead frames the appeal as a warning to military members to «stand up for our laws» and «refuse unlawful orders.»
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Slotkin called for troops to defy «illegal orders» in a viral video posted on Tuesday alongside fellow Democrat veteran members of Congress. (Paul Sancya – Pool/Getty Images)
Conservative accounts countered the viral clip, citing military law and interpreting the call to action as an alleged appeal to commit treason against the United States.
«Elected Democrats just released a video encouraging members of the military to commit treason and defy orders from Trump and Hegseth,» wrote the conservative account Libs of TikTok.
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., added: «At the end of the day, they’re mad the American people chose Trump and now they’re calling on the Military and Intelligence Community to intervene. Sounds a little ‘subversive to democracy’-ish.»
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War Secretary Pete Hegseth countered the viral video from the Democrat lawmakers with the comment, «Stage 4 TDS.» (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
The Department of War directed Fox News Digital to Hegseth’s response, which simply read, «Stage 4 TDS,» referring to «Trump Derangement Syndrome.»
Slotkin’s «No Troops in Our Streets Act,» detailed in a Nov. 13 release, would give Congress the power to block National Guard deployments inside American cities. President Trump has expanded National Guard operations to Los Angeles, Portland and Chicago amid violent crime.
Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., simultaneously introduced a War Powers Continuing Resolution on Tuesday to block the president from ordering strikes on drug traffickers in the Caribbean—actions Crow described in a release as «unauthorized and illegal.»
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Senator Mark Kelly, a former Navy Captain, urged troops to refuse «illegal orders» in the viral video. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg)
Both Democrats argue their bills are about asserting congressional authority, not politics. The viral video shared Tuesday, set to triumphant music, does not explicitly mention either piece of legislation.
Lawmakers appearing in the video include Slotkin, Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.; Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Pa.; Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H.; Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa.; and Rep. Jason Crow. Several recite a version of the line: «You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders.»
The branches and agencies represented among the lawmakers include the Army, Navy, Air Force and Central Intelligence Agency.
«Some in the administration and media are actively working to distort that message into something dark or divisive,» Houlahan said in a statement to Fox News Digital. «Let me be absolutely clear: there is nothing more patriotic, nothing more stabilizing and nothing more true to the rule of law than reminding our military of their constitutional obligations and reassuring them that, if they are ever given an unlawful order, they do not have to carry it out.»
«‘Don’t Give Up the Ship’ is not a slogan of rebellion—it is a historic naval motto that has always stood for steadfastness, duty and loyalty to country. That is the backbone of American civil-military tradition,» she added.
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The video follows a 43-day government shutdown during which American troops continued receiving pay under the Trump administration.
The White House, Slotkin, Kelly, Deluzio, Goodlander and Crow did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.
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La clave biológica que convierte a los loros en los grandes imitadores del reino animal
Los loros sorprenden por su habilidad para imitar el habla humana, un fenómeno que intriga tanto a aficionados como a expertos. Un equipo internacional de científicos, liderado por la Universidad de Duke y citado por National Geographic, identificó la base cerebral que explica esta destreza y detalla cómo su estructura cerebral los diferencia de otras especies animales.
La comunicación animal abarca una gran variedad de sonidos —desde ladridos hasta cantos—, pero la reproducción espontánea de palabras y frases completas es extremadamente rara. Solo los humanos y muy pocas especies, como los loros, demuestran un dominio notable de la imitación del habla. Estas aves no solo copian sonidos, sino que pueden incorporar fragmentos completos de lenguas humanas a su repertorio.
El comportamiento espontáneo de los loros incluye la imitación de sonidos ambientales y vocalizaciones humanas. Como ejemplo, se observó periquitos Finsch en Costa Rica intercambiando “saludos” audibles. Este fenómeno captó la atención de la ciencia, que busca descifrar por qué estas aves muestran tanta afinidad por la imitación.
La investigación publicada en la revista Plos One y reseñada por National Geographic revela que la clave reside en características particulares del cerebro de los loros. A diferencia de pájaros cantores y colibríes, estas aves presentan una estructura denominada caparazón, exclusiva de su morfología cerebral.
La presencia del caparazón significa que los loros cuentan con áreas cerebrales adicionales que potencian la recogida y el procesamiento de información sonora. Esta estructura agrega complejidad, permitiendo un grado superior de reconocimiento, decodificación y reproducción de sonidos. Dichas diferencias, según el equipo de la Universidad de Duke, explican la capacidad única de estas aves para imitar tanto palabras como patrones melódicos complejos, algo que excede las habilidades de otras especies.
El caparazón es señalado como el centro que brinda a los loros una versatilidad sobresaliente en la imitación vocal, posicionándolos como los animales no humanos más hábiles para esta tarea.
Según científicos, la imitación en los loros no depende solo de áreas cerebrales especializadas. La interacción entre el sistema auditivo y el sistema motor resulta fundamental. Estas aves logran procesar los sonidos con gran precisión y los integran, mediante movimientos musculares y respiratorios muy coordinados.
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Este mecanismo biológico convierte la información auditiva en acciones vocales concretas. La sintonía entre oído y músculo permite reproducir palabras, melodías y hasta sonidos ambientales con una fidelidad difícil de igualar. Así, la combinación entre un cerebro especializado y un sistema motor adaptado distingue a los loros entre el resto del reino animal.
Pese a la sofisticación interna, los expertos aclaran que no se hallaron adaptaciones anatómicas adicionales, como articulaciones u órganos vocales extra. No hay pruebas de que los loros cuenten con estructuras físicas distintas en su aparato vocal que expliquen su capacidad.
La singularidad de los loros radica exclusivamente en su estructura cerebral compleja y en la eficaz integración de sus sentidos. Su asombroso talento para la imitación del habla sigue siendo, por ahora, una consecuencia directa de su biología interna y no de mecanismos físicos ocultos.
Además, los estudios comparativos entre especies de loros revelan que el tamaño relativo del caparazón varía de acuerdo con la destreza imitativa de cada grupo. Especies conocidas por su gran capacidad para reproducir sonidos humanos, como el loro gris africano y el loro amazónico, presentan un caparazón más desarrollado que otros loros menos hábiles en la imitación. Este hallazgo sugiere una relación directa entre la extensión de esta estructura cerebral y el repertorio vocal disponible para cada ave, aportando nuevas pistas sobre la evolución de la comunicación compleja en el reino animal.
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Dem governor under fire after illegal alien allegedly stabs woman to death at bus stop: ‘Heinous’
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EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security is calling on Virginia’s Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger to ensure local law enforcement cooperates with federal immigration officials by handing over an illegal immigrant with a lengthy criminal record who allegedly killed a woman earlier this week at a Virginia bus stop.
Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, arrested an illegal immigrant from Sierra Leone earlier this week on charges of second-degree murder after he allegedly fatally stabbed a woman, Stephanie Minter, 41, who was found dead at a local bus stop with several wounds to the upper body.
The alleged suspect, Abdul Jalloh, 32, also has a criminal history of more than 30 arrests, according to DHS, including for rape, malicious wounding, assault, identity theft, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, assault and pick-pocketing.
The request from the Trump administration comes after the newly elected Democratic governor of Virginia signed an executive order to end cooperation between federal immigration officials and state and local law enforcement, a move several Democratic Party governors have taken recently amid President Donald Trump’s move to increase deportation operations around the country.
The DHS request asking Virginia officials to cooperate with ICE also comes after an illegal immigrant allegedly murdered someone just days after being released from jail for a separate crime in December.
Abdul Jalloh, 32, and Gov. Abigail Spanberger (Department of Homeland Security/Getty Images)
«We are calling on Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger and Virginia’s sanctuary politicians to commit to not releasing this murderer and violent career criminal from their jail without notifying ICE,» said Deputy Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis.
«This illegal alien’s murder of an innocent, beautiful American woman came less than 24 hours before Governor Spanberger’s demonization of ICE law enforcement. This heinous criminal is a perfect example of why we need cooperation from sanctuary jurisdictions and the importance of third country removals for the safety of the American people.»
Spanberger’s representatives did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Jalloh entered the United States illegally in 2012, according to DHS, and immigration officials lodged an immigration detainer against him in 2020, whereupon he was granted a final order of removal by a judge who said he could be removed to any country other than Sierra Leone.
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DHS indicated that ICE cooperation to ensure Jalloh’s deportation is evident after a case Fox News covered in December when a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador, Marvin Morales-Ortez, 23, allegedly killed a man just a day after Fairfax County jail officials let him go.
The immigrant from El Salvador had been in custody on charges of malicious wounding and brandishing a gun, but police released him after the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, led by George Soros-backed prosecutor Steve Descano, dropped the charges.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Fairfax County Sheriff’s office to inquire about why the man had not been handed over to ICE.
The sheriff’s office said, «ICE was aware of Morales-Ortez’s incarceration and elected not to seek a judicial warrant to ensure he remained in custody.
Marvin Morales-Ortez, who is living in the country illegally, was released from Fairfax County custody and then allegedly committed a murder the next day. (Fairfax County Police Department/Getty Images)
«The Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office follows all local, state and federal laws when determining whether a person is subject to release from the ADC,» the sheriff’s office told Fox News Digital at the time. «Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is automatically notified any time a person is booked into the ADC.»
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The same sheriff’s office did not get back to Fox News Digital’s media inquiry for this story on DHS urging officials to cooperate with federal officials.
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