No Kash it wasn’t you, it was Jochbed, in Ohio
What must not be buried in all of this is the human fact at the center of the story. The FBI did not uncover this plot. A mother did. She saw changes in her son. She acted on what she saw. The FBI learned of the threat on June 10, four days before the event, and Director Kash Patel said the attacks were “stopped cold.” Cold, yes. But the freeze began not in a field office. It began in a home, with a parent who loved her child enough to make the hardest phone call of her life.
For those who may know, the order was to kill all baby boys, Jochbed put baby Moses in a reed basket, Pharaoh’s daughter discovered the baby, Jochbed became his nurturer.
Think in terms of, as kid, you were over a friends house or they were at yours, who was there ma, how my ma talked “get outside don’t kill yourself or anyone else”. point being she mom watching out for the young under her watchful eye.
UFC Freedom 250 was over. The fireworks had faded. President Trump had celebrated his 80th birthday with Dana White and ten thousand cheering fans on the South Lawn. What most Americans did not know, what the FBI was only beginning to unseal, was how close the evening had come to becoming something else entirely.
The person who prevented it was not an intelligence analyst. She was not a tip-line algorithm or a platform moderator. She was a mother in Knox County, Ohio, who picked up the phone.
On June 10, she contacted local law enforcement. She was worried about her son, his firearms purchases, his online communications, the people he had been talking to. She did not know the full picture. She knew enough. And because she made that call, the FBI had four days to act.
When agents moved on Tycen Proper, 19, they found the details of a meticulously structured plot: explosive-laden drones would detonate on the north side of the arena, panicking the crowd and pushing high-value targets southward, directly into the sightlines of shooters positioned with long guns. The plan was to herd people toward their deaths.
Five men have now been charged: Tycen Proper of Ohio, Daniel Eskridge of Missouri, Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez of Nebraska, and Bryan Omar Roa and Michael Alan Thomas of California. All are men. All are American citizens. Investigators say they do not believe there is a foreign connection. This was homegrown. But the five charged are not the whole picture. The primary Signal chat involved approximately 19 individuals, with smaller breakout groups organized by assigned roles, including shooters and shooting locations. The investigation is ongoing. Not everyone in that chat is yet in custody.
The group called itself “Vanguard of the Old.” It began on TikTok in March, where members expressed that people connected to Jeffrey Epstein should not be in government. From TikTok, communications moved to Signal, where the group organized itself into tiers: those willing to put themselves in harm’s way, getaway drivers, drone operators. Among the priority targets listed in planning chats: President Trump, Vice President Vance, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, and Elon Musk, as well as several Republican senators and House members. Netanyahu was not at the event. His name appeared because online rumors had placed him there.
The group expressed ultra-religious sentiments alongside grievances about government corruption and the Epstein files. Proper told investigators the attack was designed to “jumpstart” a revolution in the United States.
We live in an age that outsources vigilance to institutions, platforms, and surveillance systems. This case is a reminder that the most irreplaceable early-warning system is still a person who knows someone, pays attention, and refuses to look away.
You know moms like Kash, mom like flowers Kash
It was 45 degrees this am, don’t care, I got stuff to do
