The former chief of staff to Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York has announced a bid to unseat Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California (D).

Tech entrepreneur Saikat Chakrabarti says that Pelosi, who had been voted speaker of the House twice, just isn’t meeting the demands from the American people for change in their political leadership.

‘She first got elected when I was a 1-year-old baby.’

Chakrabarti was the campaign manager for Ocasio-Cortez when she first won her seat in 2019 and shocked the Democratic Party. The firebrand socialist defeated a 10-term party loyalist who was thought to be next in line to take over for Pelosi.

Now Chakrabarti is aiming to unseat Pelosi, who has won the seat for California for 20 terms.

“She first got elected when I was a 1-year-old baby,” said Chakrabarti to CBS News.

He said that he was motivated to run for the influential Democrat’s seat when he saw her say in an interview that Democrats really hadn’t done anything wrong in the 2024 election that reinstalled President Donald Trump and handed control of the U.S. Congress to Republicans.

“For decades, both parties have been ignoring the biggest problems most people are facing,” he explained.

“For most Americans, their wages have been stagnating or barely creeping up, while the big things you use to make a life — you buy a house, childcare to raise a family, to get a good education, go to a doctor — those things have been skyrocketing,” Chakrabarti added. “And so people just feel stuck, and the result is people have been voting for change.”

He cited both Barack Obama and Donald Trump winning elections as evidence that people were desperate for change.

Chakrabarti also said that Pelosi pushed aside Ocasio-Cortez when she was seeking a greater role in the party.

The interview with Chakrabarti on CBS News can be viewed on its YouTube channel.

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According to the propagandists, the “white supremacists” won the 2024 election. What now? As people think about the next four years and beyond, some are fearful that Trump and his administration will strain race relations even farther. However, others believe that Trump’s victory marks a turning point for facing racial problems in our system today.

On “Zero Hour,” Jeremy Carl, political commentator, senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, and author of the new book “The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart,” sat down with James Poulos to discuss racism, the new Trump administration, and the systemic problems that America faces today.

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On the subject of race in America today, Carl addressed the elephant in the room: DEI policies and discriminatory practices have pushed white people away from many of our institutions. Carl said, “If I want to go to an Ivy League school and I am a white guy without connections, it’s pretty much impossible. That is unfortunately the system we’re in today.”

However, he expressed optimism that the consensus of the 2024 election showed signs that real change could be coming soon: “In some ways, the particularly multiethnic element of this coalition that Trump has put together gives him a unique platform where this multiethnic coalition is saying, ‘No, we’re not going to treat people this way [discriminate on the basis of race].'”

Far from white supremacy, Carl thinks that this “multiethnic coalition” for Trump is a sign that people of other races condemn the mistreatment of whites and want things to change. They gathered in support of Trump, who “was just himself. In the same way that he’s still wearing the suit when he goes to McDonald’s, he didn’t try to put on the work overalls or gold chains like a rapper. He didn’t apologize for being a white Boomer, but he’s like, ‘Hey, I love America, you love America, we can both do our thing here.’”

He added that Trump acted as a lesson for all white people in America today: “He never apologized for who he was.”

To hear more about what Jeremy Carl had to say about racism, the civil rights movement, and the new Trump administration, watch the full episode of “Zero Hour” with James Poulos.

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A New Hampshire police officer — allegedly known as “Officer Sexy” — is facing child porn charges, according to reports.

John Giarrusso — a 48-year-old officer with the Seabrook Police Department — was arrested by cops with the Haverhill Police Department on Monday in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

Giarrusco allegedly claimed he was known as ‘Officer Sexy’ to the ‘girls in town.’

Giarusso was charged with felony counts of possession of child pornography, distributing material of a child in the nude, and disseminating obscene matter to a minor, according to court records reviewed by Boston.com.

Giarrusso was reportedly released after posting $100,000 cash bail.

Giarusso purportedly pleaded not guilty to the charges during his arraignment on Monday.

The Seabrook Police Department placed Giarusso on administrative leave.

The Seabrook Police Department said in a statement, “While the Seabrook Police Department adheres to the principle that those accused of crimes are innocent until proven guilty, given the nature of the accused crimes, the Department immediately placed Ofc. Giarrusso on administrative leave.”

“The Seabrook Police Department strives to uphold the highest standards of conduct in our staff both on and off duty,” the police department stated. “Allegations of criminal conduct against a law enforcement officer are taken seriously and will be dealt with swiftly and appropriately. We will continue to cooperate with Haverhill Police investigators and monitor this case as it moves forward.”

The Seabrook Police Department declined to offer more details on the case.

WCVB-TV reported that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a tip regarding a potential crime.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reportedly determined that the IP address and social media accounts were linked to Giarrusso.

Citing the criminal complaint, WCVB-TV reported that Giarusso allegedly uploaded “several videos to the messaging app Kik that show children being molested and raped by adults.”

The news outlet added that Giarusso’s “IP address and social media accounts linked to his name and date of birth were used in sending and receiving graphic messages about having sex with children as young as 6, according to the ICAC’s investigation outlined in a criminal complaint.”

WCVB-TV also alleged that Giarrusso “engaged in graphic conversations with other Kik users about arranging to have sex with their wives, young daughters, and stepdaughters,” ICAC said.

ICAC said its investigation revealed that during his role as a police officer, Giarrusso participated in fundraising for “child-focused facilities that help abused children heal by coordinating the investigation and treatment of child sexual abuse.”

Citing the Seabrook Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, People magazine reported that Giarrusco allegedly claimed he was known as “Officer Sexy” to the “girls in town.”

Giarrusso’s wife reportedly declined to give a comment on the situation.

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Colorado police said that a chance call led to the recovery of a boy who had been missing for eight years after his mother ran off with him from Georgia in 2017.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s office said they were called to investigate a possible burglary at a home in Highlands Ranch in January and found two adults with children in a van.

‘For whatever reason, maybe by the grace of God, I happen to look at my camera.’

The home had been for sale and was vacant but it was being monitored via security video by the owner, Kyle Crone, who spoke to KUSA-TV. He said he got an alert on his phone and saw strangers snooping around the house.

“For whatever reason, maybe by the grace of God, I happen to look at my camera this time,” Crone said.

He called police, and they arrived just as Rabia Khalid and Elliot Blake Bourgeois were exiting the home. The two gave contradicting accounts and police grew suspicious so they decided to investigate further, according to Douglas County Sheriff Darren Weekly.

They determined that Khalid was wanted for kidnapping and one of the children had been missing for eight years. The mother had been in a contentious divorce with the boy’s father but ran off with the boy when she lost custody.

Khalid was charged with nine counts including conspiracy to commit kidnapping, attempt to include a public servant, ID theft, violation of custody, criminal impersonation, and trespassing.

Bourgeois was charged with 14 counts including second-degree kidnapping, ID theft, attempt to influence a public servant, violation of custody, and multiple counts of forgery.

Both suspects were held on a bond of $1 million and are scheduled to appear in court on March 27.

Crone commented about the chance nature of the call that led to the child’s rescue.

“It’s always interesting how it’s always the smallest thing that can, you know, completely change the outcome or the lives of someone, and I’m just glad that they’re safe,” he said.

The surveillance videos and images from the incident can be viewed on the news report from KUSA on YouTube.

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Democrats may be telling themselves that President Trump’s first address to Congress was a disaster, but that’s not what the polls are saying.

According to a CBS/YouGov poll, a whopping 76% of viewers approved of Trump’s speech.

“Speaking of the president, he just passed me a note while I’m standing here. He wanted me to hold this up. This is the poll that I cited, the CBS/YouGov poll that shows that 76% of those who watched the president’s speech last night approved of his speech,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said triumphantly.

“So it goes to my earlier point that I made in my monologue about how incredibly sad it is that we have a modern-day Democrat Party who is so severely out of touch with the American public,” Leavitt added.

The same poll revealed that 63% of viewers felt Trump spent a lot of time on issues they cared about, and 68% said the speech made them feel “hopeful.” Only 20% of overall respondents said that the speech made them feel “angry” or “worried.”

The majority of viewers also liked President Trump’s plan for Ukraine, immigration, wasteful spending, and tariffs, and 76% approved of his decision to remove Congressman Al Green of Texas (D) for interrupting the speech.

“A new era for America,” Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight” says. “That’s the vision that President Trump laid out in his historic address to Congress. It was filled with optimism and bold promises, and he painted a picture of a golden age ahead, one of prosperity and strength and renewed American leadership.”

Blaze News politics reporter Rebeka Zeljko couldn’t agree more.

“You saw all of the Republicans really united behind the president and cheering him on. Of course, you also saw the Democrats protesting pretty much every single thing that he possibly had to say, but that aside, the reception across America was extremely positive,” Zeljko tells Savage.

“The viewers that saw the speech last night overwhelmingly had positive things to say about the speech, and so to your point, I mean, it really feels like America is in this golden age,” she adds.

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A woman was found dead with a gunshot to her head in New Mexico just days after she had been accused of heinous child abuse at her home in Farmington.

Fifty-eight-year-old Jammy Jackson and 36-year-old Patricia Madrid were accused by a teenager of locking her up in a chicken coop for about 17 hours a day from the time they woke up until the time they went to sleep.

They recovered text messages between Jackson and Madrid that corroborated the horrible abuse accusations.

The 15-year-old girl told Farmington police she was only allowed to go to the bathroom twice a day and was malnourished. When police investigated, they said they recovered text messages between Jackson and Madrid that corroborated the horrible abuse accusations from the child.

The child said she suffered physical abuse at their hands and was forced to stay out in the cold without proper clothing. She claimed that Jackson had put a gun to her head. The arrest warrant said the girl is autistic and has fetal alcohol syndrome as well as ADHD.

The couple were arrested on Feb. 18, and a week later on Feb. 26, police found Madrid with a gunshot wound to her head. She was transported to a hospital where she later died.

Farmington police said they were looking for a person of interest, who left the scene of Madrid’s shooting on a bike before they arrived.

Both Jackson and Madrid faced seven felony charges each of conspiracy to commit abuse and child abuse.

In 2020, Madrid had been charged with child abuse, but prosecutors later dropped the charges.

The emergency call about Madrid’s death can be heard on the news video report from KOB-TV on YouTube.

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Music legend Kid Rock sat down with Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck this week in a wide-ranging interview that touches on everything from MAGA politics to rodeo clowns, Blaze News can report.

As might be expected, Rock, whose given name is Bob Ritchie, spent much of the time talking about the current political climate in America now that President Donald Trump is back in the Oval Office.

Rock told Beck that he has supported Trump, a well-known “business guy,” from the moment he rode down the escalator to announce his candidacy for president in 2015.

“The America of business has sucked for decades and decades. It’s like, let somebody who knows how to run a business get in there,” Rock recalled thinking at the time. “So I endorsed him.”

‘I’m actually going to try to unite this country, and … at the end of the month, I’m taking Bill Maher to the White House for dinner.’

Rock said he once considered himself socially liberal and fiscally conservative, but the transgenderism issue forced him out of that libertarian mindset. “I was like, these people are just nuts!” Rock said.

“I really don’t care what anybody does,” he reiterated. “I’m like, ‘live and let live,’ to a certain extent — but then it just got too nuts.”

Though Rock views transgenderism as a mental illness, he said he will gladly engage in a political discussion with just about anyone, so long as they remain “reasonable.” In fact, he’s so determined to help Americans on the left and right find “common ground” that he even plans to introduce Trump to Bill Maher, a left-leaning pundit and fierce Trump critic.

“I’m actually going to try to unite this country, and … at the end of the month, I’m taking Bill Maher to the White House for dinner,” Rock told Beck.

“We just gotta start somewhere,” Rock added, indicating that the meeting would be more about bringing people together than resolving political differences.

“We could just break bread, have some laughs, take a picture, and be like, ‘Hey, you know, we don’t agree on everything, but we got along,'” he explained.

As strange as the idea of Trump, Rock, and Maher gathered around the White House dinner table may seem, Rock hinted that Trump may have already agreed to it. According to Rock, Trump said, “Yeah, do it. Let’s do it.”

Neither the White House nor a representative for Maher responded to Blaze News’ request for comment.

‘There’s something about the West that is American unlike any other place.’

Though Rock said he normally likes to keep his musical performances apolitical, he said he is so committed to Trump and the Trump agenda that he will host a series of concerts this summer that will basically be “MAGA rallies.” He also expressed hope that Vice President JD Vance will succeed Trump in 2028.

However, Rock and Beck did not limit their discussion to politics. In fact, they spent much of their time discussing traditional American culture, especially the mysticism of the American West.

“There’s something about the West that is American unlike any other place,” asserted Beck, who grew up in Washington state.

Rock agreed, claiming that the rugged cowboy is a uniquely American figure. “It’s kind of embedded in our culture, and America owns that, you know, cowboy culture,” Rock replied.

“It’s the greatest movies. It’s the greatest tales, whether it’s campfire sing-alongs or cowboys and Indians, whatever it is, it’s just arguably tough — just the coolest American thing ever.”

Raised in a rural area north of Detroit, Rock has apparently embraced the cowboy image. He has even joined forces with the Professional Bull Riders league to present Kid Rock’s Rock N Rodeo, a “revolutionary new rodeo event during the PBR World Finals.”

Rock and Beck both agreed that the rodeo lifestyle is “badass.”

“It’s one of the toughest sports,” Rock said. “They’re just tough people.”

Beck admitted that he came to appreciate the toughness of rodeo personalities after he made the mistake of blithely likening himself to a rodeo clown:

“I remember I was on CNN, and I used to call myself a rodeo clown: ‘I’m just a rodeo clown’ — until … the president of the Rodeo Clown Association wrote to me and said, ‘Do you know what rodeo clowns do?’ And I’m like, ‘OK, you’re right. You’re right.’ I mean, it is really badass.”

In their nearly hour-long chat, Rock and Beck touched on other subjects, including Cybertrucks, Diddy, problems with Ticketmaster, and the ways that Gen X may save us all from the “pussification of America.” Watch the full episode of “The Glenn Beck Program” podcast featuring Kid Rock by clicking here.

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After President Trump’s congressional address this week, it’s been made clear that parents like mother January Littlejohn are no longer alone in their fight for their children. Littlejohn’s daughter was socially transitioned by her school without parental consent.

“Her 13-year-old daughter was captured by the idea that she was born in the wrong body,” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” explains. “Instead of helping her learn to love who she was, her school decided to affirm her self-hate and said, ‘You know what? You hate being a girl; you’re a boy.’”

The school helped Littlejohn’s daughter change her pronouns, pick a new bathroom to use, and even decide whether or not she wanted to sleep with the boys on overnight trips — all without parental consent.

“It’s evil, it’s predatory, and Mom, January, took them to court to fight it. Until now, moms like her were alone in the fight, and most of us, if you had a problem like this, you didn’t know what to do. Not any more. America is finally coming to her senses,” Glenn says.

Littlejohn, who is a mental health counselor herself, was shocked that those in her profession just blindly adopted transgender ideology.

“I was volunteer of the year at the middle school where they socially transitioned my daughter, and so I had no idea that not only had my field, the school system, the medical field, even our judicial branch, I had no idea had been infiltrated by this radical ideology,” Littlejohn tells Glenn.

Her daughter was identifying as nonbinary, and her identity changed four times over the course of two years.

“These kids, like my daughter, they are confused, and they are looking to the adults in their life to tell them the truth and help make sense of their confusion,” Littlejohn says. “This is a mental health issue, Glenn, that has been normalized, promoted, and even celebrated.”

“My daughter was told she was brave, Glenn, and she wanted to cut her breasts off at age 13. That is unfathomable what they were doing. And to be fair, it was very similar to when I used to treat clients with anorexia. There are so many parallels to the dissociation these girls feel and go through, and the same type of disassociation with an eating disorder. It was heartbreaking,” she explains.

“It felt like we were in the Twilight Zone, because my husband and I were the only ones in our daughter’s life trying to protect her from this irreversible medical pathway that the school put her on,” she adds.

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