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twice. Then at 03:15 local time on New Year's Day, Jabbar drove a pick-up truck through crowds gathered on Bourbon Street. Jabbar, wearing a ballistic vest and helmet, which as of now we can’t figure out how he got his gear, got out and engaged in a shootout with the police where he later died.

There are no reports on how quickly the authorities responded, but clearly not fast enough because 14 people had been killed and at least 35 more had been injured. FBI operatives believe Jabbar acted alone but is in association with ISIS, a terrorist group.

Hours before these people were victims, he placed Improvised Explosive Devices, but the IEDs didn't go off since Jabbar was not in possession of the detonation device at the time of the attack. Bomb-making supplies were also found in his Airbnb in Houston, and he tried to burn down the Airbnb by setting the hallway on fire. Unfortunately for him, he had not succeeded at burning down the place.

Now at the end of all of this, there is a community outrage at the police for being unable to protect the people of New Orleans from a terrorist attack.

Jabbar was born and raised in Beaumont, Texas. He served in the army as a human resource specialist and information technology specialist from 2007 until 2015. He was deployed to Afghanistan from February 2009 to January 2010. According to court documents reviewed by CBS, one of Jabbar’s ex-wives accused him of “excessive cash withdrawals”, “unnecessary and unreasonable spending” and the “accumulation of debt”, as well as giving gifts to romantic partners. Which could have been the reason for this

Victims include Tiger Bech, 27, Nikyra Cheyenne Dedeaux, 18, Reggie Hunter, 37, Nicole Perez, 27, Matthew Tenedorio, 25, Kareem Badawi, Hubert Gauthreaux, 21, Drew Dauphin, 26, Brandon Taylor, 43, Elliot Wilkinson, 40, Terrence Kennedy, 63, LaTasha Polk, 47,  and Edward Pettifer, 31.

Effects of Renaming

After the renaming, Mexican President Claudia Sheinumba responded to Trump by requesting google to change it, or else Mexico will file a lawsuit. Even though Trump renamed the gulf in the United States, he can’t make other countries call it that. A study from the University of Florida found that 58% of people discourage the name change and 31% support it. This study shows that most people in Florida don’t support the name change, and want the name back.

Mount Denali

On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed executive order 14172 which renamed Mt Denali to Mt McKinley. A study shown by Juneau Empire says 54% of Alaskans oppose the name change, 26% support it, 20% have no opinion. Even though 44th American president Barack Obama changed the mountain's name to Mt. Denali in 2015, he changed the name to represent the Alaskan Native tribes part of the Athabascan groups, but Trump renamed it to represent 25th President William McKinley.

Washington Dulles International Airport

On January 24, 2025, Congressman Addison McDowell introduced a bill to change the Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia to the Donald J. Trump International Airport. A report from house.gov shows that, McDowell said, “We have entered the golden age of America largely thanks to President Trump's leadership,” and, “It is only right that the two airports servicing our nation's capital are duly honored and respected by two of the best presidents to have the honor of serving our great nation.” 

The wall will affect many people starting with Mexicans, specifically the people that have to leave the country because they are struggling. They will have nowhere to go as their one main place will now be walled off. People that already live in America will have trouble leaving via road because of all the security. Trump doesn’t want the people in America to feel endangered by the bad people coming illegally, but he ignores all of the struggling people. Unfortunately Trump groups them all together, assuming they are coming to cause trouble.

During Trump’s first presidency, he wanted to set up a wall on the border between Mexico and the U.S. BBC said “President Trump has argued that this should be regarded as new wall, because it's replacing what he called ‘old and worthless barriers.’” He wanted to prevent immigrants from coming into America even calling them “Rabbits.” The wall caused the amount of immigrants detained to double from 2016.

In the 2020 election, Trump lost to Joe Biden. Biden did not continue to build the wall, and immigrants weren’t detained as much. He was selling parts of the wall, and the Texas Attorney General states, “Recent reports suggested the Biden Administration may be auctioning off up to half a mile per day of border wall sections for a mere fraction of the original purchase cost. In some cases, the government is allegedly listing entire wall panel sections for sale at a starting bid of just $5.”  It looked like Joe Biden single-handedly ruined Trump’s plans. 

Until the 2024 election where Trump, despite being a convicted felon, won the election against the former Vice President Kamala Harris. Lucky for Trump, CNN says, “President-elect Donald Trump will face no legal penalties for his conviction in the hush money case.” He started his presidency stating everything he wanted to do such as renaming the Gulf Of Mexico and most importantly rebuilding the border wall.

Popular streamers, renowned cartoonists, and top pop artists are all finding their own ways to help those wounded by the recent tragedy in Los Angeles. 

LA has been hit with a swarm of devastating wildfires due to the extreme conditions, and the state and its citizens have been in need of funding for the many casualties. Luckily, there’s no shortage of kind members in the fine arts community who are ready to use their platform to crowd fund everything they can for the means of restoration.

The Streaming Side

Despite the gaming community’s toxicity, it’s no surprise that there were more than a few influencers who contributed to the cause. XqC is no different.

Recently, the man decided to host a charity stream where played his usual shooter games and collected donations. He modestly aimed for a goal of $10,000. Suddenly, an absurdly high donor’s name popped up in the upper right corner. A generous viewer with the user of “Black Cat Green Eye” had given up $8,888 to the association. With that, the goal was easily met and the rest of the broadcast was held for extra funding.

Alex Hirsch, Kristen Schaal, Jason Ritter, Joe Pitt, and Matt Braly all reunited 12 years after the ending of Gravity Falls to host a large Draw-A-Thon!

Though Kristen and Jason aren’t the artists types, the entire crew volunteered to illustrate whatever the chat requested for a chosen amount of currency sent to the GoFundMe. To fill time, the actors of the group even had fun karaoke sessions in the voices of their characters whilst the professionals drew.

The final amount raised racked up to more than 250,000 dollars, and to leave it off, Alex himself left a kind message on the GoFundMe the fundraiser was using, addressing his team and all the donors included in the stream and auction-- more on that later --.”A massive THANK YOU to everyone who joined and donated during our BIG CHARITY DRAW-A-THON.. we raised a mind-blowing $266.5k in total… Most importantly, your support will bring relief to wildfire victims in urgent need. You proved that sometimes the silliest ideas create the biggest impact—thank you again!”

Auctioning

Since the animation community was not yet satisfied with their efforts, numerous cartoonists worked to hold a large auction for the cause. 

Dana Terrace with The Owl House, Patrick McHale with Over the Garden Wall, Rebecca Sugars with Steven Universe, and many other successful children’s illustrators put the limited edition merch from their respective shows on sale in hopes of alleviating the cost of restoration. Original storyboards and autographed memorabilia were all up for grabs on the website for the remainder of the month, leaving superfans, with cash to spare, ecstatic.

Closing on January 21st, the shop ended up contributing to the total of the previous Draw-A-Thon stream with 162k.

Concerts by the Greats

Setting up a fundraiser more music-related, artists such as Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers performed with classic hits and new songs written just for the victims. FireAid gathered the revered singers and bands to play and donate a portion of the funds. On January 30th, all performances were broadcasted live on large U.S. streaming services and select theaters. 

Although the auction has long been closed, Alex Hirsch’s GoFundMe is still open for anyone who has the time to donate. Even if you’d rather not contribute through that outlet specifically, many other charities for the fires are just a browser search away. If you have the time and money, don’t be afraid to aid.

Economy

Mass Deportation can cause many changes to the economy like the change of employment or increased prices. For example, deporting 8.3 million undocumented immigrants would lower the employment rate by 7%. By 2028, this overall could hurt the economy. Deportation could also lead to increased prices because mass deportation would push up the prices by 9.1% by 2028, making everyday goods more expensive.

Deporting a lot of people would also lead to a big reduction of the U.S. GDP and labor force. Mass deportation would reduce the U.S. GDP (Gross Domestic Product) by 7.4% by 2028. And the U.S. economy would experience a reduction in the labor force because of mass deportation. It would affect mostly the agriculture and construction industries. These industries include 225,000 workers in agriculture and 1.5 million in construction. This would reduce productivity and increase labor costs.

Mental Health and Trauma

Many children live with undocumented family members, making it likely for them to experience many things like mental health disorders and trauma. As of 2018, 6.1 million U.S. citizen children were living with an undocumented family member. This is a large amount of population that could experience the trauma of deportation. Because of deportation, a study showed that many children have behavioral changes. 

There are many changes in behavior and mental health disorders that children can suffer from because of the trauma of deportation. For example, some are increased crying or fear, changes in eating and sleeping habits, increased anxiety, withdrawal, and clinginess, and heightened anger or aggression. The stress and trauma from the separation of a child and their family members could cause developmental challenges like their emotional and social development. Studies have also shown that children who experience deportation often have PTSD symptoms like difficulty sleeping, frequent crying, heightened fear, and emotional instability. And these children could also sadly develop mental health problems like depression, anxiety, and severe emotional distress.

As you can see these are some effects that deportation has in the U.S. sadly. Deportation is the cause of all these effects like children having trauma or mental health problems in their life. Or the problems it has caused in the economy like the prices increasing, the employment rate, and the reduction of the U.S. GDP.