When a 30-year-old man from St. Paul posts a photo of the U.S. attorney general with a sniper dot on her forehead and promises $45,000 to anyone who delivers her dead, it demands more than a shrug. Tyler Maxon Avalos did just that on TikTok in early October, his screen name flaunting an anarchy symbol and linking to an anarchist manifesto.
The FBI, tipped off by a user in Detroit, traced it to his Samsung Galaxy in a Hyacinth Avenue apartment. He was arrested Oct. 16, charged with interstate transmission of a threat to injure, and released last week on a personal recognizance bond, complete with a GPS tracker and orders to keep up his mental health treatment.
Avalos's rap sheet offers no surprises. A 2022 felony stalking conviction in Dakota County, Minnesota; a 2016 misdemeanor domestic assault there; and a felony third-degree domestic battery out of Polk County, Florida, the same year. This is not the work of a prankster or a satirist pushing buttons.
Threat on Pam Bondi’s life. The left continues its deadly violence and the elected Democrats continue their vile political propaganda.https://t.co/ryDlq8gByX
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) October 28, 2025
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It is the echo of a man whose online trail reeks of resentment, the kind that festers in echo chambers where "wanted dead or alive" reads as clever protest. Consider the timing: Bondi has spent recent weeks under siege.
President Trump leaned on her publicly in September to turn the Justice Department against his political adversaries, a move that drew predictable howls from Democrats. By Oct. 7, she faced a Senate Judiciary Committee grilling, her every word dissected for signs of overreach. In a capital where threats against officials spike amid polarization, Avalos's post lands like a lit match in dry grass.
The FBI affidavit calls it a "deliberate threat of violence," not some ironic meme. Prosecutors argue it crosses into murder-for-hire territory, and they have the digital forensics to prove the IP trails and email ties. What gnaws here is not just one fool's outburst, but the soil it grows in.
Social media platforms like TikTok, with their algorithms tuned for outrage, amplify the unstable. Anarchist screeds pinned to profiles? They thrive unchecked until a bounty on a cabinet secretary goes viral. Bondi, no stranger to scrutiny from her Florida days as a prosecutor, embodies the rule of law that Avalos and his ilk despise.
BREAKING:🛑 ASSASSINATION PLOT EXPOSED — TARGET: PAM BONDI
— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) October 28, 2025
A 29-year-old was arrested after a $45,000 murder-for-hire bounty appeared online—complete with a sniper’s red-dot over Pam Bondi’s face and the words “preferably dead.”
FBI moved fast. Suspect in custody. Anarchist… pic.twitter.com/qgBlCTcULS
Yet threats like this erode it for everyone. They turn public service into a gauntlet, forcing leaders to glance over their shoulders while the rest of us pretend it's normal discourse. The response must be swift and unyielding. Avalos faces up to five years if convicted, a fitting deterrent for those who mistake keyboards for weapons.
But Congress should press tech giants harder on threat detection, mandating faster takedowns and better tracing tools. Free speech has limits when it veers into incitement, and courts have long upheld that line.
Bondi's office, meanwhile, could use this as a teachable moment: Double down on prosecuting digital terror, not just reacting to it. In the end, Avalos's stunt reveals the fragility of our civic compact. One man's "cough cough" rebellion with his post's cryptic tag about the government not serving "us" underscores a deeper rot.
When anarchy masquerades as activism, it invites chaos that spares no one. Bondi will carry on, as she must. The question is whether the rest of us will demand a platform that does not reward the unraveling.
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