{"id":38213,"date":"2026-10-15T11:43:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/?p=38213"},"modified":"2026-10-15T11:43:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:43:05","slug":"aoc-calls-raid-on-ilhan-omars-home-an-attack-on-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/aoc-calls-raid-on-ilhan-omars-home-an-attack-on-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC Calls Raid On Ilhan Omar\u2019s Home An Attack On The Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) condemned the federal raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar\u2019s home Monday as an environmental catastrophe, warning that the Trump administration\u2019s use of toxic chemicals against the Minnesota congresswoman could have devastating consequences for local ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m absolutely horrified that the federal government would use Raid bug spray against a private residence without considering the environmental consequences,&#8221; said AOC, accusing the DOJ of prioritizing political retaliation over the health of the planet. &#8220;Donald Trump and his fascist DOJ sent armed federal operatives to flood Representative Ilhan&#8217;s living room with these toxic chemicals, deliberately poisoning dozens of innocent house spiders, fruit flies, and urban carpet beetles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/15\/aoc-weeps-outside-empty-minnesota-daycare-over-thousands-of-imaginary-somali-children-being-deported\/\">AOC<\/a> said that the incident demonstrated how far the Trump administration was willing to go to intimidate progressive women in Congress, adding that while the government was apparently willing to poison Omar&#8217;s home, it had yet to demonstrate the same level of urgency toward the climate crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone knows what Raid does,&#8221; AOC shouted on the House floor, holding up a can of the insect killer. &#8220;It kills bugs on contact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At press time, AOC was reportedly demanding that the DOJ suspend all future raids until federal agents could guarantee that their operations would be conducted in a completely pesticide-free environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) condemned the federal raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar\u2019s home Monday as an environmental catastrophe, warning that the Trump administration\u2019s use of toxic chemicals against the Minnesota congresswoman could have devastating consequences for local ecosystems. &#8220;I&#8217;m absolutely horrified that the federal government would use Raid bug spray against a private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[889,890,1121,1113],"class_list":["post-38213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-aoc","tag-ilhan-omar","tag-justice-department","tag-rated-g"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}