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Former SPLC Exec Arrested: Accused Of Funneling Donor Money To KKK, Neo-Nazi Informants

Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) executive Heidi Beirich was arrested in California on Wednesday under a superseding indictment in the Justice Department’s ongoing case against the organization, according to a CNN report confirmed by federal officials.
Heidi Beirich. What even…

Beirich, who directed the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project until 2019, faces three counts: conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to conceal money laundering. She was expected to make an initial appearance in Riverside later Wednesday.

“I believe she was part of the effort to open bank accounts in completely fictitious companies’ names and make payments to individuals for reasons that were not accurate as described,” Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters Wednesday. “This is exactly what we said would happen in a case like this.”

At the center of the allegations is an SPLC program that paid informants embedded in extremist organizations the nonprofit publicly monitored and campaigned against. Prosecutors allege Beirich helped oversee those payments and shared a bank account with one of the informants receiving them.

That informant, identified in charging documents as F-9, allegedly infiltrated the neo-Nazi National Alliance. Prosecutors further allege that Beirich was living with him and romantically involved with him while the payments were being made.

Reporting on the June superseding indictment said roughly $140,000 in donor funds moved from the SPLC’s operating account into joint accounts held by Beirich and F-9 between 2015 and 2021. The organization is also alleged to have paid the informant more than $1 million since 2007.

Other payments under the same program allegedly went to separate recipients. The indictment, for example, describes funds reaching an Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America – a different individual from the informant with whom Beirich allegedly had a relationship.

According to prosecutors, F-9 also broke into the headquarters of a white supremacist organization and removed approximately 25 boxes of documents. Those materials allegedly became the basis for a 2015 Hatewatch article written by Beirich titled “Chaos at the Compound.” A second informant was allegedly paid about $6,000 to take responsibility for the burglary and conceal the identity of the original source.

An attorney for Beirich denied wrongdoing, calling the case meritless and politically motivated and saying she looks forward to presenting her side in court. An SPLC spokesperson had no immediate comment.

The SPLC has contested the government’s case from the beginning, arguing that prosecutors are mischaracterizing a long-running intelligence-gathering program designed to monitor violent extremists. Its attorneys have also emphasized that law-enforcement agencies made use of information generated by SPLC informants.

Initial Indictment

A federal grand jury in Montgomery indicted the SPLC on April 21 on 11 counts: six of wire fraud, four of bank fraud, and one of money laundering.

Prosecutors allege the organization funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to at least eight informants associated with groups including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, the National Alliance, and the National Socialist Party of America between 2014 and 2023.

According to the indictment, some of those payments were routed through bank accounts opened in the names of fictitious entities such as Rare Books Warehouse and Tech Writers Group.

“The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence,” Blanche said when the original charges were announced.

The SPLC pleaded not guilty in July and moved to dismiss the indictment, arguing that the prosecution was vindictive and that the administration was retaliating against the organization for identifying and criticizing extremist groups.

On Aug. 7, U.S. District Judge Emily Marks rejected that motion, finding that the SPLC had not demonstrated prosecutorial animus. We covered that ruling here, as well as the unusual timing of an Atlantic story targeting FBI Director Kash Patel three days before the original indictment here.

The FBI severed its relationship with the SPLC in October 2025. In its most recent available filing, the organization reported gross receipts of $339.3 million and assets totaling $822.2 million.

At a June 9 House Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Manufacturing Hate, Part II,” witnesses testified that the SPLC’s “hate group” designations had been used as screening criteria by payment processors, donor-advised funds, corporate-giving platforms, and web-hosting companies.

WATCH: “The SPLC is little more than a highly profitable scam.”
ADF’s @ryanlbangert delivers his opening statement to @JudiciaryGOP on @splcenter pic.twitter.com/nbxBBhN63a
— Alliance Defending Freedom (@ADFLegal) June 9, 2026
In practice, witnesses argued, the SPLC’s privately maintained list could carry consequences resembling those of an official government designation, despite there being no formal due-process mechanism for organizations placed on it.

One witness told the committee that his organization lost access to charitable-giving platforms, web hosting, and nonprofit software pricing after appearing on the SPLC’s hate map.

Those claims remain witness characterizations rather than judicial findings. But they are now part of the congressional record, and the fact that federal law-enforcement agencies previously relied on intelligence produced by the SPLC is not in dispute.

Beirich left the SPLC in 2019 amid the upheaval that followed the firing of co-founder Morris Dees and the departure of much of the organization’s senior leadership. She later co-founded the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, where she continued working as an extremism researcher.

Tyler Durden
Wed, 08/12/2026 – 16:40

Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s miserable experience playing an alien on “Star Trek: Enterprise” nearly convinced him to quit acting for good.Long before his breakout roles on “Supernatural” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” Morgan appeared as a Xindi alien named Damron on the sci-fi series — a job that required extensive prosthetics and left the actor struggling with claustrophobia.”I hated it so much,” Morgan recalled during an appearance on Josh Horowitz’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast. “I was like, ‘That’s it. I’ve got to do something else.'”WILLIAM SHATNER SAYS HE’S ‘TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS’ AT 95: ‘THE LEAST OF ALL I WANT DO IS DIE’Morgan said he sometimes spent 14 hours a day in the prosthetics and had difficulty eating while wearing them.”I remember I was so claustrophobic,” he said. “It just was an experience that I want to forget, and I still wake up sweating about it.”CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTERThe experience came during an already tricky period in Morgan’s career.By his mid-30s, he had spent years bouncing between guest appearances, pilots and smaller movies while taking side jobs to pay his bills.”I was always, always side hustling,” Morgan said, recalling that he would build fences and take other jobs that “usually involved hammers.”NICKI MINAJ, ANNA NICOLE SMITH AND MORE STARS WHO GOT THEIR START WAITING TABLES AT RED LOBSTERWalking away from Hollywood, however, presented its own problem.”I was like, done, but at the same time I was like, ‘What am I going to do?'” Morgan said. “I don’t know anything else.”LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSMorgan said he had reached his mid-30s without an education or an obvious backup career and had begun to believe acting simply wasn’t going to work out.His longtime manager then dropped him, telling him, “You’ve aged out, bro.”But Morgan’s fortunes soon changed dramatically. Around age 38, he landed roles on “Supernatural,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Weeds” within roughly the same period — finally getting his breakthrough after years of struggling to stay in the business.These days, Morgan is still going strong. He currently stars as Negan opposite Lauren Cohan’s Maggie in the third season of AMC’s “The Walking Dead: Dead City,” which premiered July 26. Morgan is also an executive producer on the series.

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed recently escalated his feud with Republican nominee Mike Rogers, who is more than twenty years his senior, challenging the former FBI agent to a bout of tackle football after accusing Rogers of being “too afraid” to debate him.”Since you’re too afraid to debate me, how about you ‘hold me accountable’ on a football field instead,” El-Sayed posted to X on Wednesday. “Tackle, no pads like we used to play when we were kids. I’d be happy to show you [how] much I love football.”Rogers is 63 while El-Sayed is 41.The unusual challenge comes as Rogers seeks to turn El-Sayed’s past criticism of football culture into a campaign liability, while El-Sayed has increasingly leaned into sports, fitness and a defense of masculinity as he courts male voters. The exchange quickly became personal, with Rogers’ campaign mocking El-Sayed’s height rather than accepting the challenge.MICHIGAN DEM SENATE NOMINEE COMES UNDER FIRE OVER RESURFACED BLOG POST LINKING FOOTBALL TO ‘TOXIC MASCULINITY’El-Sayed’s X post was in response to a clip of Rogers criticizing him for past comments he made on topics such as football and the 4th of July.”This guy spent hours hating on what most Michiganders would enjoy in their pastimes, and he should be held to account for that,” Rogers said on Fox News. “These are views that he held, that he was pretty strong about, but he knew that he had to delete them all … if people really knew who he was, they wouldn’t vote for him.”In an October 2021 essay, El-Sayed wrote that “the toxic masculinity at the heart of America’s most popular sport — and men’s sports culture more generally — is way deeper than a few emails or a Jay-Z turnaround.”EL-SAYED’S THREAT AGAINST GOP RIVAL BACKFIRES AS CONSERVATIVES BRING RECEIPTS: ‘IS DUBAI IN FLORIDA?’Though some have argued that this is evidence of El-Sayed hating football, the Democratic Senate hopeful played football growing up and was the captain of his high school team. He called sports his “lifeline.”While El-Sayed has sharply criticized toxic elements of male sports culture, he has also defended masculinity and chided Democrats for talking down to men, often posting fitness-related content as part of his strategy to appeal to male voters.Rogers’ campaign fired back at El-Sayed’s post by mocking his height.”That’s an awfully tall threat coming from down there,” the Mike Rogers War Room X account posted.‘DOCTOR’ EL-SAYED’S BIZARRE HEALTH HUSTLE RAISES CAMPAIGN HEADACHE: ‘MOON JUICE BRAIN DUST’Rogers’ official campaign account posted a GIF of Will Ferrell saying “he’s an angry elf” in response to El-Sayed’s challenge.El-Sayed was listed at 5 feet 9 inches during his University of Michigan lacrosse career. A 2008 news clipping, however, listed him at 5 feet 8 inches.The El-Sayed campaign did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Wednesday.

 
Last night in the Wisconsin Democrat primary, David Crowley defeated Francesca Hong by a little more than 3,200 votes.  This was after late-night drama unfolded in Milwaukee County just before midnight, as reported by The Gateway Pundit.
According to a post from Urban Milwaukee co-founder, Jeramey Jannene on X:
“5 of 9 USB drives had audit logs, not actual results, copied to them.  Bipartisan commission will go back to election warehouse, redownload, drive back again.  15k ballots believe to be impacted.  One hour delay.  “Human error” says Paulina Guiterrez.
Wisconsin’s WISN 12 covered the press conference and the remarks from Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director, Paulina Guiterrez.
“As part of the download process, there are two things: there’s the audit log and the results.  What we uncovered was that five of the sticks had the audit log downloaded and not the results.  It’s a human error.  These things can happen.
So basically what we need to do is go back to the operations center and we’re going to download, out of those five machines, the results and make sure that its not the audit log.
We have the reports printed from the first download.  We’re going to reprint and start the process so that we can compare those results.  We invite you to come join us.  Milwaukee Police Department will come with us too.
We’ll re-download those results and then send them back here to be uploaded.
When asked if it was five machines that were an issue, Guiterrez clarified that it was the “sticks” that had the audit logs downloaded, not the results, on 5 out of 9 “sticks.”
This explanation and attribution to “human error” is bizarre—so much so, even NBC’s Steve Kornacki was speechless:

NBC’s reaction to finding out 5 USB sticks in Milwaukee were MISSING RESULTS of the Election at midnight is priceless.
Steve Kornacki was speechless… pic.twitter.com/Laix1S2CBF
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 12, 2026

A few moments later, Kornacki, seemingly flabbergasted,  was about to end the election-night coverage on NBC News’ Kornacki Cam because they seemed to be “indefinitely waiting.”

AWKWARD — NBC ended its live coverage of the Wisconsin Democratic primary as Milwaukee County officials announced a “tabulation error” in the election data.
Five of nine USB sticks with the absentee ballot results contained only audit logs rather than the actual vote… pic.twitter.com/cWjh3uTYSG
— The Patriot Oasis (@ThePatriotOasis) August 12, 2026

Was it “Human Error”?
Milwaukee County uses ES&S voting systems, and according to VerifiedVoting.org, they use the DS950, DS450, and DS850 for their mail-ballot/absentee equipment.  All three of them are similar platforms and vary mainly by scanning capacity and accuracy, with the DS950 only accepting “certified and approved USB flash drives.”
The process for exporting results is straightforward.  According to the DS850 user manual, when exporting data from the system, the user is prompted with several options.  The first option is “Export For Results.”  “Export for Audit Log,” as was allegedly done in Milwaukee, is the third option on the list.

According to the manual, when exporting results, the user is prompted to enter the Election Code before uploading the results.
Then the user is prompted with a “Confirm exporting of results” window, which they must “Confirm.”

Finally, the user is shown a final pop-up window that says “The results were successfully exported.”  They must click “Done” to proceed.

The process is the same for the Audit Log, except it says “Audit Log” rather than “Results” at each of the steps in the process.

It is very difficult to believe that there were five separate occasions where a trained election worker chose “Export Audit Log” and confirmed it several times throughout the process without realizing that they didn’t select “Export for Results.”
According to reporting from Jeramey Jannene on X, “Of the five tabulators, three cover the northwest side dominated by Crowley.  One covers Bay View and another goes further south.  Riverwest and East Side, dominated by Hong, weren’t impacted.”
Inquiries have been made to the Milwaukee Elections Office.  The Gateway Pundit will update the story as more information about the situation in Milwaukee is obtained.  

Of the five tabulators, three cover the northwest side dominated by Crowley. One covers Bay View and another goes further south.
Riverwest and East Side, dominated by Hong, weren’t impacted.
Still hard to say exactly what absentees will reveal, but looks positive for Crowley
— Jeramey Jannene (@compujeramey) August 12, 2026

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Democrats, activist groups, and medical associations have long cited the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s Standards of Care as the ultimate authority on a scientific “consensus” for sex-rejecting procedures, but WPATH just made an admission in court that threatens to undermine that exalted authority.
The Federal Trade Commission and four state attorneys general sued WPATH in June, alleging that the association engaged in deceptive practices by promoting “gender-affirming care” that causes harm to patients, particularly minors who cannot provide informed consent. Late last month, WPATH urged the court to dismiss the lawsuit, claiming that the government was retaliating because it disagreed with the association’s protected speech.
The association defended its Standards of Care as “opinion” protected by the First Amendment on subjects considering “medical and scientific uncertainty” in a debate with more than one reasonable position. The group also cited a Supreme Court ruling that upheld state laws forbidding “gender-affirming care“—a decision WPATH itself has loudly condemned in the past.
Admitting WPATH’s ‘Opinion’
In its case against WPATH, the Federal Trade Commission presented “core deceptive statements” based on the eighth edition of WPATH’s Standards of Care, claiming that these statements mislead consumers into self-harm. The association claims that those statements “are non-actionable opinions about subjects on which there is ‘medical and scientific uncertainty.’”
The association claims that the statements are not the kind of claims that the FTC is designed to regulate. The motion cites appellate precedent stating that “a challenged statement must make a specific and measurable claim, capable of being proved false or of being reasonably interpreted as a statement of objective fact.”
Yet, if the newest edition of the standards of care is not “reasonably interpreted as a statement of objective fact,” that should undercut the medical groups—such as the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association—that treat the standards as gospel when it comes to transgender “care.”
‘Medical and Scientific Uncertainty’
Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that states had the right to ban sex-rejecting procedures for minors in the case U.S. v. Skrmetti. WPATH loudly condemned the decision, calling it “a dangerous setback for transgender health and human rights in the United States.”
Yet WPATH repeatedly cited the Skrmetti decision in its motion to dismiss the FTC complaint.
“The Supreme Court has recently addressed the ‘medical and scientific uncertainty’ regarding transgender health care for minors and concluded that it ‘underscore[s] the need’ for states to have ‘legislative flexibility,’” the motion states, citing Skrmetti. “The FTC cannot erase that ‘flexibility’ by declaring deceptive certain statements about care that states not only permit but deem necessary.”
WPATH opposed state restrictions on sex-rejecting procedures when Republican legislatures enacted them. Now, citing Skrmetti, it is arguing that states do have the right to make their own laws on these procedures. Whatever the legal merits of this argument, it marks a significant rhetorical shift.
Acknowledging the Other Side
The transgender movement has been notorious for demonizing its opposition. Groups like the Human Rights Campaign have suggested that disagreement with transgender ideology contributes to suicide, and social media companies have silenced critics for similar reasons.
Now, the transgender movement’s sainted authority on medical issues is effectively admitting that there is more than one position on the issue—and telling a court that preserving open debate on transgender “health care” is a public good.
The FTC and state attorneys general “acknowledge that there are parties on both sides of this medical debate,” WPATH wrote in the filing. “WPATH is on one side of that debate and provides guidelines on how to best provide transgender health care. Others, such as Dr. Hilary Cass, fall on the other side of the debate and disagree with how to, or if one should, provide transgender health care to adolescents.”
The government agencies are “now improperly attempting to insert themselves into the middle of this medical debate and silence those with whom they disagree,” the association stated.
WPATH even begrudgingly admits the validity of the Department of Health and Human Services’ 400-page peer-reviewed report finding “extremely weak evidence” of any benefit for “gender-affirming care” for minors. “The federal government has thus already alerted doctors and the public to what it views as the problems with WPATH’s speech,” the association wrote. “That is the exact remedy the First Amendment envisions: ‘the free marketplace of ideas as the best means for discovering truth.’”
Ramifications for WPATH
WPATH has presented cogent arguments here, but it remains to be seen whether the court will dismiss the case. Regardless, the transgender group may have significantly weakened its credibility.
Its argument may help it defeat the FTC lawsuit. Yet, in making that argument, the organization has weakened one of its most powerful rhetorical claims: that its Standards of Care represent an unquestionable scientific consensus.
[Editor’s note: This story originally was published by The Daily Signal.]

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are escalating their criticism of Paramount Skydance’s attempt to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery.

Two Leftist Fantasies That Collide With Reality

Authored by Kathleen Dynan via AmericanThinker.com,

Many want to live with fantasies that contradict facts as their reality.

But facts can’t be ignored, and we are not required to accept their fantasies as our truth and reality.

Here are two such fantasies: that a man can become a woman or vice versa, and that Marxism is good for citizens of the country.

Let us examine biology and medical science facts to disprove the first fantasy.

Sex chromosomes are packages of DNA found inside most of our approximately 30 trillion cells that have a nucleus. There are two different kinds of these chromosomes, X and Y. When an egg is fertilized, the egg itself always contributes an X chromosome, while sperm can contribute either an X or a Y. Sex chromosomes are the genetic elements that define a person’s biological sex. Females have XX and males have XY chromosomes. Chromosomes themselves are made up of proteins and DNA that carry our genetic information from cell to cell. In addition to biological gender and the resulting reproductive systems, they determine other physical traits, e.g., eye color.

The reproductive systems of men and women are distinctly different. The male reproductive system mostly exists outside of the body. The external organs include the penis, scrotum and testicles. Internal organs include the vas deferens, prostate and urethra. The male reproductive system is responsible for sexual function and urination. The female reproductive system is a group of organs that enable reproduction, pregnancy, and childbirth. It also produces female sex hormones, including estrogen and progesterone. The system consists of organs and tissues inside the body and some that are visible outside the body.

Medically, it is not possible to transplant reproductive systems into the opposite sex. Drugs and mutilating surgeries change a person’s appearance, but do not change the biological gender.

To dispel a related fantasy, women are physically weaker than men because of a combination of factors rooted in this biology. Women have: less total muscle mass, different muscle fiber profiles, lower testosterone levels, higher essential body fat, and smaller, lighter bones. These differences are significant. In upper body tasks, women produce roughly 56% of the force men do; in the lower body, that figure rises to about 72%. The average gap is real, measurable, and driven by physiology that diverges sharply at puberty.

So, factual biology shows it is impossible for women to successfully compete against the strength of men in physical tasks and sports.

Now, let us look at history to disprove the second fantasy.

The Democratic Socialists of America is claiming Americans’ lives would be better under Marxism. Both socialism and communism are based on the principles of Marxism. The claim is that both are better for citizens than our form of government, a constitutional republic with an economy based on capitalism. But history shows this false claim is just a desperate attempt to seize control of Americans.

They claim Marxism would provide: a classless society; peace for all; and less labor required, meaning more leisure time. They consider the last the true measure of wealth. Capitalism, not any form of Marxism, delivers leisure time. Below are some results of living that fantasy.

 

Millions more citizens were stripped of all wealth and property, captured, debased and tortured under these governments. If they were able to escape these madmen, citizens fled their homelands.

 

To date, 11 countries have tried socialism. All have failed.

The sole equality for all was the anguish and suffering of citizens. Only the elites running those governments prospered.

The far left is trying to buy control of us by offering the same eight “free programs” they offered in 2019. These include: Universal Child Care; Guaranteed Income; Reparations to Blacks and Illegals; Affordable Housing; Medicare for All; Student Loan Forgiveness; Free Public College; and a Green New Deal. Their desperate attempt to pretend to have programs for all Americans was and is a sick joke. They can’t ever happen.

In 2019, the total world wealth was estimated to be $360.6 trillion; and the United States’ wealth (assets minus liabilities) at about 29% of that total, $106 trillion. The far left was promising to spend an estimated $81.9 trillion for these “freebies.” That was 77% of our wealth on “free stuff.” Common sense and logic said what facts proved, that none of those would materialize. (2019 Credit Suisse Report) Both wealth and costs have increased in the last 7 years, but that total wealth and costs comparison is still viable.

Unlike Marxist governments, American citizens are represented in our government. Do not let that change in the United States. Marxists can’t improve your life, but history shows they will destroy or end it.

Tyler Durden
Wed, 08/12/2026 – 16:20

The Democrat Party is not in crisis. It’s not fighting a civil war. It’s becoming exactly what it has spent years telling us it is: a big tent where socialism isn’t the fringe anymore. It’s the future.
Socialist candidates are no longer insurgents trying to overthrow the Democrat establishment. Elected Democrats are embracing them. The radicals didn’t hijack the party. The party welcomed them in, handed them a microphone, and called them mainstream.

And Democrats have another massive problem: 2028. When Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, Pete Buttigieg, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are your front-runners for president, you stand no chance of winning. This is the Democrat bench. Four candidates are carrying the same failed ideology that has driven the party further and further left. I’ll explain why each one could be a disaster at the ballot box.
On today’s Stinchfield, the socialist transformation of the Democrat Party is no longer coming.
It’s here.
And the insanity spreading through our institutions is what happens when common sense becomes controversial.

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Thousands of Canadians have signed a petition demanding the government kick the U.S. ambassador to Canada out of the country.

The son of a Florida woman who lost part of her arm in a terrifying alligator attack is blaming tourists and TikTokers for teaching the reptiles to get a little too comfortable around humans.Dina Spann, 58, was attacked Saturday while floating in the Silver River in Marion County. Her son, Zach Guerrina, told the New York Post that he believes people feeding, touching and otherwise getting too close to alligators are causing them to lose their natural fear of humans.CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE FROM OUTKICK”Growing up in Florida, that has never been a thing. I’m in the water all the time and I’ve never had a gator want to approach,” Guerrina said. “We’ve got a lot of tourists down here and a lot of people that’s moved to Florida that’s never seen an alligator before.”There’s literally videos of people petting alligators. When you do that, these things lose fear of humans and if it gets close enough to you, it’s gonna bite you.”Guerrina said he has been visiting the Silver River since childhood and his family has floated there “hundreds of times” without incident. Since his mother’s attack, however, he said he has been made aware of TikTok videos showing visitors getting dangerously close to alligators while kayaking on the river.”It’s going to happen again out there, because if they’re feeding them like that, they’re going to come up to you,” he said.Spann was swimming in a prohibited area when the alligator attacked. The animal grabbed her right arm and pulled her underwater after she attempted to fend it off with a paddle.Nearby boater John Gamache was eating lunch with his father when he heard the commotion and raced toward the swimmers.”I looked just upriver from us a couple hundred feet and saw an alligator head way above the water and going full speed towards the swimmers,” Gamache previously told Fox 35 Orlando.The approaching boat scared the alligator away, but Spann had suffered catastrophic injuries.”It was a terrible injury, bones poking out, blood everywhere. Obviously, the minutes mattered,” Gamache said.Gamache used rope from his boat to tie off Spann’s injured arm while his father helped bring the other swimmers onto the boat. They then rushed the group toward a nearby launch, where first responders took over.BOATER SCARED OFF ALLIGATOR THEN USED ROPE TO STOP BLEEDING AFTER FLORIDA WOMAN LOST ARMSpann survived but ultimately had her right arm amputated below the elbow and also lost at least one finger on her left hand, according to Guerrina.Her son said she has remained in “good spirits” despite the ordeal and described his mother as a “hippie soul” who loves animals and traveling. He said she had recently returned from a trip to Africa before the attack.Guerrina also believes Florida should allow more alligators to be hunted.”There’s too many gators out here,” he told the Post. “We’ve got three people that’s been bit these last weeks –– a kid lost his hand, a girl died and now this.”I’m not saying eradicate gators but if you’re going to put them somewhere, put them in the marsh.”If you’re in spring water, you shouldn’t have to be concerned about an alligator.”The attack comes less than two months after 11-year-old Brodie Terry of Pennsylvania lost his hand when an 8-foot, 7-inch alligator attacked him during a June fishing trip in Marion County.And just one day later, on June 28, another Florida alligator attack turned deadly.Brittany Clark, 31, was hiking with her boyfriend and best friend at Little Big Eco State Forest near Orlando when the group waded into the Econlockhatchee River to cool off.They were kneeling in roughly three feet of water when a massive alligator attacked Clark and bit both of her arms. One arm was severed and the other was nearly torn off as her boyfriend fought to free her from the animal.Clark died before rescue workers could get her to a hospital.Following Spann’s attack, trappers contracted by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission caught and removed a 9-foot, 8-inch alligator from the Silver River on Sunday. The river was then reopened to the public.Love all things wildlife and outdoors? Follow OutKick Outdoors on Instagram and TikTok!