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The Affogato: America’s New Color Revolution

Plus, Day 9 of Where in the World is John Zmirak?

By John Zmirak Published on June 13, 2025

In case you believed the mainstream media when it said the anti-ICE protests aimed at frustrating the enforcement of just, democratically enacted, bipartisan U.S. immigration laws are spontaneous reactions from local communities to heavy-handed enforcement … well, just don’t.

The protests are centrally coordinated by radical Leftist groups, and are now erupting simultaneously all across the country. That’s what “color revolutions” organized by the U.S. Deep State look like, as whistleblower Mike Benz explains.

Gateway Pundit reports that tomorrow (a manufactured anti-white “holiday” pushed by Black Lives Matter and its allies), a national “uprising” is planned by far-Left groups and Democrat congressmen to push the narrative that President Donald Trump’s lawful actions are creating a national “crisis”:

[E]xtremist groups like the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Indivisible, and the 50501 Movement say they’re organizing over 1,800 demonstrations in all 50 states. These protests, which are expected to become violent, are meant to disrupt law and order, vilify President Trump, and demonize Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for doing its job.

Some groups are getting a head start and organized violent protests on Tuesday. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) was reportedly present at a Washington, D.C. demonstration, where she claimed that ICE raids “are sweeping up innocent people” and that “people exercising the constitutional rights to peacefully use their voices to speak out against this injustice” are “being met with tear gas and rubber bullets.”

Several demonstrations led to violence from protesters and clashes with police, the outlet reports.

In Austin, four police officers were injured, and police used pepper spray balls and tear gas on insurrectionists who vandalized the federal building. Police were pelted by “large rocks” and other objects, according to Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis. At least 12 were arrested.

In Dallas, insurrectionists were observed throwing objects at police, and officers used pepper spray and smoke. At least one arrest was made.

Protests were reported in the following major U.S. cities:

  • Austin, TX
  • Dallas, TX
  • Denver, CO
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • Seattle, WA
  • Santa Ana, CA
  • Boston, MA
  • Washington, D.C.
  • San Francisco, CA
  • New York, NY
  • Chicago, IL

How will the Trump administration respond? Will it panic and pull back National Guard units, for fear of police having no choice but to use deadly force against some protestor and thus creating another fake martyr like George Floyd? Or will it be as resolute as the George H.W. Bush administration, which used the Marines to stop the deadly L.A. riots after the Rodney King beating in 1992?

Where are all the protestors coming from? Doubtless many are illegals, rioting to protect their access to illegal jobs and U.S. government benefits (such as free schooling for their children and free health care at emergency wards). And many are zealots, hoping to tear down the “System” their teachers convinced them is oppressing them. But some of them are simply hirelings, as this TikToker reveals and Elon Musk notices:

You see, there really are blue-collar jobs American citizens will take, so you don’t need to replace them with illegal immigrants. Not so much laying bricks as hurling them at cops.

It isn’t just our Deep State, domestic radicals, and rioters for hire who are assailing public order and lawful sovereignty, though. One neighboring government linked to drug cartels has gotten into the act. Again, Gateway Pundit has the story:

Senator Gerardo Fernández Noroña, the President of the Mexican Senate, responded to mayhem on Monday by promoting La Reconquista, a radical idea supported by individuals who want the American Southwest returned to Mexico. In his remarks to reporters in Mexico City, he revealed that he once told Trump he supported building and paying for a wall if it included the U.S. territories that were once part of Mexico.

“I was at Trump Tower when President-Elect Donald Trump was days away from taking the oath of office for the first time as President,” said Fernández Noroña. “I said ‘yes, we’ll build the wall, yes, we’ll pay for it, but we’ll do it according to the map of Mexico from 1830.”

Fernández Noroña then held up the 1830 map, which shows the states of California, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and more as part of Mexico.

Noroña didn’t mention the fact that the states he mentions had only a few thousand white-skinned descendants of conquistadors lording it over Native Americans at that time — nor that the newly independent, bankrupt and unstable government of Mexico invited Americans into places like Texas to settle the lands it couldn’t control and fight against violent conquering tribes such as the Apaches.

When the Mexican government imposed harsh centralization on the “Texians” led by the likes of Sam Houston, they rebelled and won a war of independence in 1836. Texas joined the U.S. in 1845, which sparked the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). After Mexican forces collapsed and we occupied Mexico City, that war was settled by treaty, with Mexico legally ceding the states it had never settled to the U.S. in return for payments in cash. This was only one of many wars Mexico fought, including long and bloody campaigns waged against Native Americans.

The Ultimate White Privilege: Sneering at Black Citizens

Want to see why the Left deserves to lose — and ultimately will? Check out this footage of well-heeled, woke white New Yorkers sneering at a black American citizen trying to get to work, who’s getting blocked by rioters closing streets on behalf of illegal aliens:

Anti-Christian Demonstrations Across the World — and in the US

Stream columnist Raymond Ibrahim has told our readers the heartbreaking story of the war against Christians in Egypt. That war’s getting waged in Nigeria, China, India, Great Britain, Seattle, and even Texas:

Pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ everywhere across the earth.

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Best Friends Forever

We at The Stream were worried, like millions of other Americans, by the goofball, chest-thumping rift between alpha gorillas Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Now there’s a hint of a possible reconciliation:

Trump responded in a New York Post exclusive saying, “It was very nice that he did that.” He told Miranda Divine’s Pod Force One podcast on Monday that he guesses they could go back to a friendship, “but we have to straighten out the country.”

Given how many enemies we face, we need our friends to stick together. Pray for a fruitful reconciliation between these patriots.

Where in the World Is John Zmirak?

The Affogato summer series game: Where in the World Is John Zmirak?

This city is one of the largest and most beautiful in the country, and its port is among the busiest. The city was built at the innermost point of the Pagasetic Gulf and lies at the foot of Mt. Pelion.

Keep those guesses coming for a chance to get a free gift from us at the end of the month.

Do you think you know where John is? Send your guesses to us at [email protected] or visit our Facebook page.

Along The Stream…

As we head into Father’s Day weekend, David Rives tells us about “The Designer of Fatherhood: How God’s Character Shapes Earthly Dads” at noon today.

Also later this afternoon, Wanda Alger reminds us that “To Be Above Reproach, One Must Rebuild TRUST Before Rebuilding Any MINISTRY.”

 

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.