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Shock and Loss at Pawtucket Rink: Fatal Shooting During Youth Hockey Match
The sanctity of a high school Senior Night was violated on Monday, February 16, 2026, when a targeted execution at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, left three dead and three others fighting for their lives. Authorities have identified the assailant as a 56-year-old parent with a documented history of radicalization and domestic instability, characterizing the massacre as a premeditated “familicide.” At The Modern Memo, we analyze the perpetrator’s digital trail of extremism, the civilian intervention that curtailed the carnage, and the systemic failures that allowed a known “ticking time bomb” into a community sanctuary. The Breach: A Premeditated Assault on Senior Night The assault commenced at approximately 2:30 PM during a match between the Coventry/Johnston and Blackstone Valley co-op teams. As families celebrated their student-athletes, the shooter—positioned in the stands—opened fire in a systematic attack aimed directly at family members. The Execution: Eyewitnesses described a burst of approximately 11 to 13 rounds. Live-streamed footage captured the harrowing transition from cheers to screams as players dived for cover and parents scrambled for exits, fleeing into the sub-freezing exterior. The “Good Samaritan”: Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves confirmed that a “Good Samaritan”—a father from a visiting family—tackled and subdued the gunman mid-assault. Despite the perpetrator being armed with a backup weapon, the civilian’s tactical intervention is credited with preventing a much higher casualty count. The Toll: The assailant died at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot. Two direct targets—the assailant’s adult son and elderly mother—were killed. Three others, including an ex-wife and two children, remain in critical condition under 24-hour guard at Rhode Island Hospital. The Perpetrator: Robert Dorgan (Roberta Esposito) The gunman has been identified as Robert K. Dorgan, 56, of North Providence. Dorgan, who utilized the alias Roberta Esposito, was the parent of a senior athlete on the North Providence roster. A Descent into Instability: Judicial records detail a decade-long decay of the family unit, punctuated by a 2020 divorce involving allegations of “severe personality disorders.” Dorgan had previously self-reported undergoing gender-reassignment surgery to police in 2020, claiming his transition had fueled a familial conspiracy to exclude him from his children’s lives. Radicalized Rhetoric: Dorgan’s digital footprint revealed a cocktail of extremist ideologies. Just hours before the shooting, Dorgan posted on X: “keep bashing us. but do not wonder why we Go BERSERK.” His social media history was a erratic blend of pro-trans activism, antisemitism, and anti-state rhetoric—the profile of a mind fractured by personal grievance and ideological fringe-theory. The Mental Health Warning: Dorgan’s own daughter described him to media outlets as “very sick” with long-term mental health issues, pleading: “If you have a loved one who you think is sick, trust your gut.” Strategic Security Shift: Hardening the Perimeter In response to this atrocity—the second high-profile mass shooting in Rhode Island in two months following the Brown University tragedy—officials have moved to a state of total suspension for high school sports. Systemic Overhaul: The Rhode Island Interscholastic League (RIIL) has canceled all athletic contests to implement new “Hardened Venue” standards. Armed Deterrence: When play resumes, local and state police will be permanently stationed at all regional sporting venues. National Oversight: FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed that federal agents are assisting local law enforcement to determine how a domestic dispute escalated into a public massacre. Final Word Analyzing the Pawtucket massacre isn’t merely about documenting a tragedy—it plays a powerful role in your understanding of the lethal intersection of radicalization and public vulnerability. When you look past the media sensationalism and focus on the data of the “Good Samaritan” intervention and the perpetrator’s documented judicial history, you gain a clearer picture of how systemic failures in mental health monitoring can lead to catastrophic public breaches. Factual information replaces the noise of partisan blame with the clarity of police transcripts and forensic timelines. It allows you to see this event as a critical call for heightened situational awareness and more robust intervention in volatile domestic disputes. By choosing to follow the hard evidence of the investigation rather than the inflammatory theories online, you align your perspective with the realities of modern public safety and support a more informed, resilient citizenry. 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California Volleyball Clash Over Transgender Athletes
California is once again in the spotlight, and not for the right reasons. The state’s policies on transgender athletes are creating conflict after conflict, and this time, volleyball is at the center of the storm. Families, students, and coaches are speaking out, saying the rules don’t prioritize fairness or safety. A High School Girl Forced Out of the Game At Jurupa Valley High School, senior Hadeel Hazameh walked away from volleyball. Why? Because she says she spent three years sharing a locker room with a biological male. For her, that wasn’t just uncomfortable—it violated her faith and her rights. She filed a lawsuit, joined by teammate Alyssa McPherson, who is Catholic and says she faced the same struggle. Both of these brave young women argue that girls shouldn’t have to compromise their beliefs, their privacy, or their safety just to play sports. Their lawsuit names the school district, the California Interscholastic Federation, and the Department of Education. They’re asking for what should be common sense: fairness and respect for girls. A Muslim American girl in California is standing up against the state’s trans athletes policies after spending three years sharing a locker room with a transgender volleyball teammate – a violation of her religion. She is also calling out Gavin Newsom for doing nothing to help… pic.twitter.com/I4qQhF4UKx — Jackson Thompson (@JackThompsonFOX) September 17, 2025 College Teams Caught in the Same Fight This isn’t only happening in high school gyms. At Santa Rosa Junior College, players filed a Title IX complaint after a transgender athlete joined the women’s volleyball team. One player says she got a concussion after taking a spike to the head. Another says she was injured, too, according to Fox News. These aren’t small scrapes—these are serious safety concerns. Two junior college women’s volleyball players in California allege they witnessed a transgender teammate give a concussion to a female player with a spike to the head, and one of them took one of the athlete’s spikes to the face herself. pic.twitter.com/tgksH60i7u — Jackson Thompson (@JackThompsonFOX) September 9, 2025 At San Jose State University, teammates say a biological male played on the women’s team for three years. They claim nobody told them the truth. In a lawsuit, player Brooke Slusser alleges that she was never told that her teammate, later identified as Blaire Fleming, is a biological male. For example: She says she moved into an apartment (with teammates including Fleming) and shared a room without knowing this. The lawsuit claims she only learned the truth toward the end of a season after overhearing non-team members referring to Fleming as “a dude.” Slusser also claims that Fleming asked to room with her, and that school officials assigned them to share rooms (on road trips), without disclosing Fleming’s birth sex. The case has now triggered a federal Title IX investigation. That’s how big this problem has become. (MORE NEWS: Skipping Coverage: The New Trend Among Young Adults) Why Girls Are Pushing Back The issue comes down to three simple points: fairness, safety, and faith. Girls are tired of being told to “just deal with it” when they’re asked to compete against transgender biological males. They know the physical differences aren’t erased by changing paperwork. Volleyball is a fast and powerful game, and the risk of injury is a real concern. Then there’s the matter of faith and privacy. Hazameh and McPherson both say their beliefs demand modesty. They shouldn’t be forced into locker rooms with males to keep their spot on the team. That’s not equality—it’s coercion. What Leaders Are (and Aren’t) Doing Governor Gavin Newsom admits it’s unfair for males to compete in female sports. Yet, when it comes time to act, he punts. His office says the policy was passed years ago under Jerry Brown and that the athletic federation and education department run independently. That excuse doesn’t fly with parents and students who want action now. Hazameh spoke out on Newsom’s lack of action: “If our governor himself says that it’s unfair, then he’s the one who should act on it… he should be the one to stand up, it shouldn’t have to be girls like me and Alyssa who have to forfeit in order to make a stand that this isn’t right… If you’re not going to do anything, then what are you here to do if you’re not here to make America better?” Saying the policy is wrong while leaving it untouched is like acknowledging the house is on fire and refusing to pick up a hose. Lawmakers Take a Pass Earlier this year, lawmakers had a chance to fix this. Two bills were introduced that would have stopped males from competing in girls’ sports. Both failed. Every Democrat voted them down. Some even compared the effort to historic oppression—ignoring the real oppression of girls losing their teams, their safety, and their voices. The message to families was clear: politics came before protecting daughters. And people are taking note. (MORE NEWS: Rising Socialism Exposes the Democratic Party’s Identity Crisis) Title IX: A Law Turned Upside Down Title IX was written to protect opportunities for women. It opened doors, built teams, and gave generations of girls the chance to compete. Now, that law is being twisted into something unrecognizable. Instead of protecting female athletes, it’s being used to justify rules that put them at a disadvantage. That’s why so many families are filing lawsuits. They’re asking the courts to restore the original intent of Title IX—to protect women, not erase them. What’s Next California is heading toward a reckoning. Lawsuits regarding transgender athletes are piling up. Federal investigations are underway. Parents are demanding change. And girls are speaking out louder than ever. The pressure is building, and leaders won’t be able to dodge the issue forever. The question is simple: will California protect the rights of girls, or will it continue to sacrifice them on the altar of ideology? Families know what’s at stake—privacy, safety, and the basic fairness that sports are supposed to be built…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren Is Furious That Children Are Now Protected From The Medical Castration; Chloe Cole Joins Joe Pags For Exclusive On Her De-Transition Journey
This article was written in-part by Josh Slocum for WokeSpy. Cast your mind back to a time you remember prior to the past decade. Go back to 2000, perhaps. Imagine yourself, and the world, as you were then. Now imagine that a mother told you, in public, that her child had a serious medical need for a dangerous, experimental treatment. That treatment was the only way her child had a chance of surviving. And then imagine you asked what sickness the child had, and the mother told you that her “daughter” had been “born in the wrong body.” That child was really her son, you see, but God made a mistake. In preparation for a “gender confirming surgery” at 13 years old that would cut off the girl’s breasts, mom was prepping her “son” by dressing the child in breast-constricting compression bands, and forcing everyone around her to say that her daughter was actually a boy. (RELATED: ROOKE: Blue State Should Pay The Price For Breaking America’s Greatest Promise) How would you have reacted? You would have been dumbfounded at first, thinking this must be an elaborate prank. Surely no sane person could seriously suggest a sex change for a 13 year old girl? No mother would really consent to a mastectomy on her healthy daughter. And then, you would call the police, and child protective services would remove the girl from her abusive mother’s custody. That’s what would have happened in the normal world of 25 years ago. But today, parents who do not want to have their children poisoned with “puberty blockers”, or mutilated by a surgeon, are in danger of losing custody of those kids. Yes, that is correct. Today, not subjecting your child to mutilating procedures is considered “abuse” so long as the teachers, social workers, and doctors around the family have all decided the child is “really trans.” That’s the world we live in now. And it explains how politicians like Senator Elizabeth Warren feel comfortable saying things in public that would have gotten her investigated for child abuse just a few years ago. The rabidly liberal Democrat from Massachusetts isn’t just known for pretending to be an American Indian in order to be admitted to Harvard is on Twitter acting the part of the witch in Hansel and Gretel. She is furious that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state legislatures have the right to ban the child-mutilation scam called “gender-affirming care.” That’s right. Warren is angry that the court upheld laws that protect children from Frankenstein medical experiments that maim them for life while pretending that it changes their sex. That’s our world in 2025. Take a look. Warren is like a ravening beast, gnashing her teeth in fury that some children might escape the knife. Like all conscience-free narcissists, she grotesquely positions herself as a “protector” of children’s health. Let’s see if Twitter users found this shocking, too. Explain how it is ‘medically necessary’ to stop kids from going through puberty and developing into healthy, functional adults? — Meghan Murphy (@MeghanEMurphy) June 19, 2025 It’s really very simple, @SenWarren. Children can’t transition to the opposite sex, and you cannot transition to Native American. — Chloe Cole ⭐️ (@ChoooCole) June 19, 2025 This is what Elizabeth Warren is advocating for https://t.co/Znvdf6xQRi — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 18, 2025 It’s not actually medically necessary care. I had my breasts removed for no medical reason. They were a physically healthy part of my body. I was also an adult, at least, whereas the minors you refer to cannot consent. — Roxxanne Reed (@rentedocean) June 19, 2025 Chloe Cole on The Joe Pags Show To fully understand how evil the transgender movement in America has become, look no further than the story of Chloe Cole. “In a powerful in-person interview, Chloe Cole opens up to Pags on her journey de-transitioning back to womanhood after receiving so-called “gender affirming care” as a minor. She exposes the lies young people are being told, explains the physical and emotional toll, and calls for urgent protections for children. This raw, emotional conversation cuts through the noise with honesty, facts, and bravery. You won’t hear this story anywhere else.” You can subscribe to Joe Pags on YouTube by clicking here. The Modern Memo will be bringing you as many of Pags’ episodes as humanly possible, but please follow and subscribe to him across all of the following platforms. Check out Joe Pags on X: always the hottest takes and the news you need Joe Pags Official Website Rumble — Joe Pags TMM Analysis There is nothing more disgusting, destructive, or downright evil than harming children. The transgender movement defines this level of evil every time a child is welcomed into its hideous arms. You don’t have to allow this type of mental illness to overrun America and become part of our norm. Choosing politicians who DON’T support the transgender attack on children is one of the most important steps you can take to protect your children, your family, and America’s future. If you care about any of the issues you learned about today, you should consider contacting your locally elected official to voice your concerns. Did you know that if a politician — from your local town Mayor, all the way up through Congress — receives as few as 10 letters on the same issue, they will be forced to take action? 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