Nearly two dozen Minnesota day-care centers and other locations were raided Tuesday in a federal investigation into alleged fraud by members of the Somali community.

Dozens of people have already been arrested in the fraud investigations prior to the raids, and some officials estimate the scale of the illegal schemes to be in the billions.

‘We are pleased to see the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and our federal partners taking strong action based on information we have shared with them.’

Among those raided was the infamous “Quality Learing Center” on Nicollet Avenue, which was mocked online for misspelling “learning” in its business sign. Also raided were five centers for the treatment of autism.

“Today the FBI with federal, state, and local law enforcement is involved in court-authorized law enforcement activity as part of an ongoing fraud investigation,” read a statement from Homeland Security Investigations.

Other places raided included the Fahiye Child Care Center on Jackson Street, Baby Halimo Child Care Inc. on Cedar Avenue, and A Plus Universal Child Care and Learning Center on Shakopee Town Square.

Some of the scams involved the Feeding Our Future nonprofit that swallowed up millions of dollars in pandemic emergency relief funding but lied about supplying meals to hungry families and children. Sixty-five people have already been convicted in the FOF scam.

The Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families, which is responsible for licensing day-care centers, applauded the raids in a statement.

“We are pleased to see the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and our federal partners taking strong action based on information we have shared with them,” the organization said. “We will continue sharing information with law enforcement to ensure they are able to conduct thorough criminal investigations.”

RELATED: Founder of Minneapolis autism center admits to kickbacks to Somali families in $6M scam

The fraud scandal has already severely damaged the political career of Minnesota Democrat Gov. Tim Walz, who was accused of obstructing fraud investigations. Walz denied the allegations but dropped his campaign for re-election to a third term.

“Every minute I spend defending my own political interests would be a minute I can’t spend defending the people of Minnesota against the criminals who prey on our generosity and the cynics who prey on our differences,” Walz said in early January. “So I’ve decided to step out of the race and let others worry about the election while I focus on the work.”

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Pope Leo XIV has recognized the martyrdom of scores of Spanish Christians murdered by leftists in the 1930s, setting the stage for their possible canonization.

Spain was ravaged in the first half of the 20th century by a bloody civil war that saw a motley crew of Soviet-backed leftists — a coalition strained by infighting between anarchists and communists, to the great chagrin of George Orwell — pitted against an alliance of conservatives, nationalists, and monarchists who were alternatively reinforced by German and Italian forces.

In the years leading up to the war, the Catholic Church and its supporters in Spain became increasingly popular targets for deadly leftist attacks and political persecution by the Republican government.

That oppression paled, however, in comparison to the anti-Catholic campaign executed during the “Red Terror” — the leftist counterinsurgency described by the late Austrian-American polymath Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn as “an orgy of rape, sadism, and unspeakable obscenities.”

According to the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation:

Republican partisans desecrated, burned, and looted churches and shrines all across Spain. Relics and statues were paraded through the streets in mock celebrations; the bodies of saints and clergy were dug up and abused. Priests and religious were hunted and massacred: around 6,800 Catholic clergy, including 13 bishops, were tortured and executed by left-wing forces. Nor were these killings a reaction to clerical abuses. According to historian José Sanchez, “Priests of all types were killed: strict, loose, moral, immoral, libertines and ascetics,” including “some priests who were social activists and had actively opposed the uprisings.” Indeed, murder of the local priest became de rigueur for loyal partisans: “Cassock we see, cassock we kill.”

On Monday, Pope Leo authorized the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to recognize the martyrdom of Brother Estanislao Ortega García and 48 of his companions from the Montfort Brothers of St. Gabriel along with diocesan priest Emanuele Berenguer Clusella, who were “killed between the months of July and November 1936 in hatred of the faith, in various parts of Catalonia, Spain, in the context of the same persecution.”

Vatican News noted that the recognition of the clerics’ martyrdom “marks a step forward in the respective causes for canonization.”

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Exhumed Catholic bodies put on display in a Barcelona street by Republicans during the Spanish Civil War. STF/AFP/Getty Images

InfoVaticana reported that the Archdiocese of Barcelona initially got the ball rolling on these martyrs’ beatification decades ago, collecting testimonies and documentation regarding the circumstances of their deaths.

‘They are models of consistency with the truth they professed.’

This is hardly the first time that Pope Leo or his predecessors have recognized the heroic faith of Christians murdered by Spanish leftists in the 1930s.

Last year, for instance, Pope Leo recognized as martyrs 109 diocesan priests, one religious sister, and 14 lay Catholics killed during the conflict along with 50 French Catholics who died in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

In 2013, Pope Leo’s predecessor, Pope Francis, enraged leftists by announcing the beatification of over 520 martyrs, mainly clergymen, killed for their faith during the Spanish Civil War. This beatification further advanced the cause of their potential recognition by the Catholic Church as saints.

The process for canonization, or official recognition of sainthood, is as follows: First, a candidate who “lived a heroically virtuous life or offered their life” is recognized by the pope as “venerable.” The second stage is beatification, which requires a finding of “one miracle acquired through the candidate’s intercession.” Finally, for canonization, a second miracle is required.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops notes on its website that “all Christians are called to be saints. Saints are persons in heaven (officially canonized or not), who lived heroically virtuous lives, offered their life for others, or were martyred for the faith, and who are worthy of imitation.”

In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI beatified 498 martyrs “who poured out their blood for the faith during the religious persecution in Spain in 1934, 1936 and 1937” and whose ages ranged from 16 to 78.

In 2001, Pope John Paul II beatified 233 martyrs killed during the Spanish Civil War, including Maria Teresa Ferragud, an 83-year-old woman who was savagely murdered on the feast of Christ the King in 1936 along with her four daughters, all of whom were nuns.

“The Church wishes to recognize these men and women as examples of courage and constancy in faith, helped by God’s grace,” Pope John Paul II, who was canonized in 2014, said at the time. “For us they are models of consistency with the truth they professed, while at the same time they honor the noble Spanish people and the Church.”

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The Dept. of Justice announced Tuesday the indictment of a former top aide to Anthony Fauci, who headed up the government’s pandemic response.

Seventy-eight-year-old David Morens allegedly violated records protocols in order to hide pandemic information from Freedom of Information Act requests, according to a DOJ press release.

‘The conspiracy was Tony Fauci and his assistants doing Xi Jinping’s dirty work and lying about COVID’s origins.’

Morens was a senior adviser at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 2006 through 2022.

He allegedly agreed with a co-conspirator “in writing to intentionally hide from public view their communications by corresponding using Morens’s personal Gmail account, rather than his official NIH email account.”

Morens allegedly received wine in exchange for his “shenanigans” and was allegedly offered other gifts, including meals at Michelin-starred restaurants in Paris, New York, and Washington, D.C.

In one alleged email to Fauci, Morens appeared to admit to his efforts to hide the communications.

“I can either send stuff to Tony on his private gmail, or hand it to him at work or at his house. He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble,” the email allegedly read.

Fauci has denied any knowledge about the emails and claimed Morens was not his top adviser.

“These allegations represent a profound abuse of trust at a time when the American people needed it most — during the height of a global pandemic,” read a statement from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

“As alleged in the indictment, Dr. Morens and his co-conspirators deliberately concealed information and falsified records in an effort to suppress alternative theories regarding the origins of COVID-19,” he added. “Government officials have a solemn duty to provide honest, well-grounded facts and advice in service of the public interest — not to advance their own personal or ideological agendas.”

Morens is charged with conspiracy against the United States, according to the DOJ, as well as destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations; concealment, removal, or mutilation of records; and aiding and abetting.

“In March of 2020, I made clear the virus almost certainly came from the Wuhan lab,” said former Trump State Secretary Mike Pompeo. “A massive campaign to undermine what we knew was undertaken. To call this an abuse of public trust is an understatement.”

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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) thanked the feds for holding “fraudsters” accountable.

“Pointing out that COVID leaked from a lab in Communist China was never a conspiracy, it was common sense,” he said in a post on social media. “The conspiracy was Tony Fauci and his assistants doing Xi Jinping’s dirty work and lying about COVID’s origins.”

If convicted, Morens could face up to 20 years in prison for each count of destruction of records and possibly more for the other counts.

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Back in January, BlazeTV’s Sara Gonzales released a bombshell report on an investigation into H-1B scams in Texas.

On Tuesday, Gonzales released another video of her investigation into an alleged H-1B farm posing as a day care and autism center — despite appearing to be non-operational when she visited.

‘If you are not leave, I will call the police!’

And her investigation took some unexpected turns after she stumbled upon a whistleblower who was able to blow the lid off the whole operation and confronted the owner outside the buildings.

Gonzales started the video outside Allen Infant Care Center, which used to be called Golden Acorn Academy, according to her investigation. The day cares, Gonzales explained, are owned by a holdings company called Golden Qi Holdings LLC, which is also allegedly affiliated with DFW ABA Center, reportedly an autism behavioral therapy center.

RELATED: ‘H-1B workers ONLY’: DOJ punishes company Sara Gonzales exposed for illegal hiring practices

She showed that the complex was almost entirely empty and, notably, apparently devoid of children. The playground appeared to require maintenance and to be overtaken with tall grass and weeds.

Gonzales alleged that, on top of having an associated day care and autism center, they have sponsored “37 H-1Bs” and “they have filled out 55 Labor Condition Applications,” citing USCIS data.

“The thing that is so curious about this [case] when you go digging in the data and the LCAs is that you wouldn’t think that a day care center would need, you know, ‘market research analysts’ or ‘supply chain analysts,'” Gonzales remarked.

“And yet, this company actually told the United States government that they needed foreign workers to fill those jobs,” she further alleged.

While this investigation may have looked like it would take a normal course at the outset, Gonzales ran into a whistleblower at the premises who claimed to be familiar with the operation and who explained “just how bad this one gets.”

The whistleblower alleged that the H-1B visa workers do not work on-site and that the immigration enforcement officials “know all about his H-1B visas,” claiming that the owner has been investigated three or four times in the last three years.

She also alleged that the owner sells visas and then underpays the holders of those visas when they get to the United States. She described the company as a “foothold” in an immigration scheme.

Gonzales also confronted a man who appeared to be the owner of the companies she was investigating.

The man spoke with her in broken English, attempting to get her to simply talk to his lawyers on the phone instead. However, Gonzales kept pushing him to explain his alleged “pay-to-play” visa operation.

After some questioning, the man retreated to what Gonzales described as a “metallic rose gold BMW” with butterfly doors.

“Hey, is your dad a member of the CCP?” Gonzales asked as he slammed the door of his car.

The man drove down the road, turned around, then yelled out the window of his BMW, “If you are not leave, I will call the police!”

“I’ll call the police on you for scamming my system!” Gonzales shouted after him as he sped away.

After the investigation on-site, Gonzales said that she and her team still have a lot of questions and will be referring their findings to USCIS and the Department of Labor.

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Former FBI Director James Comey has once again been indicted by the Department of Justice, this time for an infamous social media post that appeared to threaten President Donald Trump.

Comey posted a photo to his Instagram last May showing seashells on a beach writing the numbers “8647,” with the now-deleted post captioned, “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.” The phrase “86” in slang commonly refers to getting rid of something, and the number “47” is assumed to be a reference to Trump, who is the 47th president of the United States.

‘This indictment comes just days after a crazed gunman attempted to assassinate Trump.’

The basis of this second indictment is that the post could be considered a threat to kill Trump, a threat that Comey has repeatedly denied.

“It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down,” Comey said after deleting the post.

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This indictment comes just days after a crazed gunman attempted to assassinate Trump, rushing through a security checkpoint in the lobby of the Washington Hilton, where the president, several Cabinet members, and hundreds of attendees were seated at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The suspect, later identified as 31-year-old Cole Allen, allegedly opened fire and struck a Secret Serviceman wearing a bulletproof vest before being quickly subdued and apprehended.

A manifesto was later made public detailing Allen’s alleged political motivations to kill Trump and members of his Cabinet. In light of the third serious assassination attempt against Trump, the DOJ has indicted Comey for the second time.

Comey was first indicted in September for making false statements to Congress and for obstruction of a congressional proceeding. The indictment was later dismissed and is no longer active.

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A gang of youths ages 11 to 14 were caught on cellphone video last week mercilessly pummeling a lone victim on a street corner in Towson, Maryland.

Nine juveniles have been identified, and second-degree assault charges are pending against five of them after Baltimore County police officers responded to the incident, WBFF-TV reported.

‘You can see the kids are laughing. … They just don’t care, because no one is going to hold them accountable.’

Police said officers were called around 3:40 p.m. April 20 to the unit block of Lambourne Road for a “physical disturbance,” the station reported.

Police said it’s believed the incident stems from a verbal altercation in school and that the juveniles involved — who range in age from 11 to 14 — know each other, WBFF said.

Two juveniles under the age of 13 will not be charged, police told the station, which added that none of the juveniles are in custody as officers are trying to notify their parents.

The incident drew attention after video recorded outside the Towson Promenade appeared to show a group of juveniles surrounding and beating one victim. You can view unredacted video of the broad-daylight beatdown here, which shows a gang of youths repeatedly punching, kicking, and stomping the victim.

More from WBFF:

A second incident happened Tuesday involving some of the same students inside Dumbarton Middle School during a meeting with the School Resource Officer, police said. During the meeting, a student and their parent left the office and got involved in a physical fight with another student in a hallway. The parent was later trespassed from the school, authorities said.

Police are working with Baltimore County Public Schools, which is conducting its own administrative investigation.

RELATED: 14-year-old thug body-slams, head-stomps girl on Harlem street — reportedly after she wouldn’t give him her phone number

The April 20 incident occurred across the street from Towson Diner, and owner Nick Kourtsounis told WBFF in a separate story he’s frustrated by what he sees as ongoing juvenile violence in the area.

“This looks like nine on one, is what it looks like,” Kourtsounis told the station while viewing video presumably showing the attack. “I don’t see how that’s just middle schoolers being middle schoolers. That is a learned behavior, and I don’t know how you unlearn that, but something has to be done.”

He added to WBFF, “Where’s the accountability? That’s what we want. We want accountability, we want action, and this stuff about, ‘Oh, it’s just kids being kids’ — no, it’s not.”

Baltimore County resident Mary Shanahan told the station, “I’m very fearful for my life because you never know what they have in their backpacks, what they have in their pockets, what they’re going to say to you.”

A retired Baltimore County Police sergeant told WBFF in another story that the youths involved simply don’t care about consequences.

“You can see the kids are laughing. They’re looking at the camera, they’re looking around, but they’re committing the crime,” Mickey Hoppert, who retired from the Baltimore County Police Department after 20 years of service as an officer, told the station. “They just don’t care, because no one is going to hold them accountable. And unfortunately, somebody has to hold them accountable.”

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Yet another disgruntled leftist allegedly resorted to violence over the weekend when he set his sights on President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

It was the third attempt on Trump’s life since his 2024 campaign.

And considering the right has been warning about the left’s obsession with political violence since before the first Trump assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, BlazeTV host John Doyle isn’t surprised.

“Another day, another assassination attempt against President Trump, against conservatives,” Doyle says.

“I don’t like repeating myself. The problem with that is, now we are fresh out of things to say because we covered this during the first Trump assassination attempt, the other 15,000 Trump assassination attempts, the Charlie Kirk assassination, the violence throughout the first Trump administration,” he explains.

And the problem, Doyle warns, is only going to grow.

“If we don’t do something about it, like, yesterday, we’re going to be in a pretty bad position,” he says, especially considering that the left’s path to radicalization is mainstream.

“These people get radicalized by normal media consumption. When right-wing people get radicalized, what does it lead them to do? Get married younger … spending more time in the gym, putting themselves out there, introducing themselves to people in their community. … That is what right-wing radicalization looks like,” he explains.

“And you have to go through several rabbit holes to get there. Left-wing radicalization is just spending too much time watching what is put in front of you, and then you declare war on normal white America in the most disgusting and vile and evil iteration possible every single time,” he continues.

And their war against “normal white America” won’t stop until it no longer exists.

“These people will not stop until we are absent from society. Now, I don’t know what that’s going to look like. I don’t know if that means we all get cut off from our libtard friends, our libtard family members,” Doyle says.

“The thing is, though, as these people feel more and more that they are being backed into a corner, they only get more violent,” he explains.

“And despite the fact that people assure me all the time on the internet that Donald Trump is not doing anything for us, well, I guess these people aren’t quite getting the memo, are they?” he asks. “Because they are only talking about killing us more, they are only killing us more, they are only trying to kill us more.”

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Would you ever spend so much on a house that you had no money left to furnish it?

It sounds absurd to me, as I imagine it does to you. But apparently, it’s fairly common these days. I don’t personally know anyone like this, but I do know enough people who are house poor that the extreme version seems at least plausible.

Financial overextension is, in one sense, a numbers problem. But it’s also something deeper.

Especially since we don’t see inside most homes. We drive by a place with six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, and a five-car garage and assume wealth. We assume comfort. We assume it’s all filled in.

Chairs optional

That assumption is increasingly outdated. A big house doesn’t necessarily mean someone can afford it. It just means they’re willing — or able — to make the monthly payment. Everything else is optional.

That’s not entirely new. Mortgages have been around forever. But the willingness to stretch to the absolute limit — and beyond — does feel more common now than it used to.

You could point to low interest rates or lending practices. That’s part of the story. But I’m less interested in the financial mechanics than the cultural impulse behind it. Why do people feel the need to live this way?

Here comes the neighborhood

The obvious answer is keeping up with the Joneses. But even that has changed. It used to mean keeping pace with your neighbors, the people down the street. And even then, there was only so much of their lives you could see. There were natural limits.

Social media has erased those limits; now we all share one big neighborhood, in which everyone is empowered and encouraged to exaggerate their affluence. And that makes it much harder to remember what normal actually looks like.

Realism isn’t what’s rewarded on Instagram, TikTok, or X. Performative realism, maybe. But not the real thing. Spend enough time scrolling and you start to believe that everyone has the renovated kitchen, the extra cars, the perfect bathrooms. You start to feel like you’re behind.

So people stretch. They buy the house. They take on the payment. They tell themselves they’ll figure out the rest later. And in doing so, they become the next set of Joneses for someone else to chase.

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Empty rooms, empty souls

Once you’re on that treadmill, it’s hard to get off. You work more to afford more. You feel stressed because you’re always one setback away from trouble. You justify new purchases because you’ve “earned” them. And any attempt to scale back feels like failure — like slipping backward.

Keep that up long enough and you can end up in a strange place: the proud owner of a house you can’t really afford, with rooms you can’t afford to fill.

But from the outside, it looks great.

At bottom, this is materialism run wild — an inversion of priorities. Things elevated beyond their proper place. Consumption standing in for meaning. And it’s widespread enough that it’s hard to single anyone out for it.

There’s no simple fix at a societal level. But on a personal level, the starting point is obvious: Take an honest look at what you’re spending, why you’re spending it, and whether it’s actually making your life better — or just making it look better.

That’s not new wisdom. Most of our grandparents understood it.

Financial overextension is, in one sense, a numbers problem. But it’s also something deeper. A sign that our values are out of order. That we’ve lost track of what actually matters.

The empty, oversized house is a fitting image for the culture that produces it.

Big and impressive on the surface. Empty inside.

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“We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it!”

That’s what I was shouting in 1990 at some demonstration or another. I didn’t expect that by the 2010s, normal, straight America not only would have gotten used to it but would have adopted “queerness” right into their hearts and homes.

To be a young homosexual was to be indoctrinated into a myth of victimhood. All normal straight people want you beaten up or imprisoned, I was told.

In 2026, heterosexuals have taken on the sexual practices and signaling that used to be the exclusive province of gay men. Frequent casual sex (and bragging about it) and trawling apps for “hookups” are now common practices for many young straight people.

Everything is gay

Modern media reflects it. It used to be that you had to hunt for “art movies” if you wanted to see beefcake-on-beefcake action. Now you can’t turn on a sitcom, a drama, or a crime procedural without a gay sex scene or a monologue from a tedious young actress about how she’s not actually a girl.

What “normal” people today will do, including chemically and surgically mutilating their own children to “change their sex,” outstrips even the obscenity of all-night male clubs in New York City in the 1970s. For more than 10 years, young women — girls, really — have been parading down the street dressed and made up like drag-queen prostitutes. Young men boast about their “gooning” sessions (a reference to self-service alone at a computer) with no embarrassment.

America, take in the gayification of everything, everywhere, all the time.

Depravity on parade

The libertinism and sexual narcissism that the heterosexual world indulges in today is something we never used to see outside of the gay ghettos of major cities. And it happened remarkably quickly.

Where did this come from? Why did it happen?

I can tell you where it came from: gay men (and “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” but I repeat myself). As a 51-year-old celibate-by-choice homosexual who has gone conservative, it’s remarkable to watch conventional society adopt the destructive depravity that I now thank God I escaped.

I have seen things that can’t be described in these pages. And now I don’t have to describe them, because activities formerly relegated to dank basement clubs now parade down Main Street USA.

And I do mean parade. Have you been to a major city in June? What used to be called the “gay Pride parade” has been stretched from a few hours once a year into something called “Pride Month.”

And what originally began as modest call for dignity, privacy, and equal treatment has become a public flaunting of behaviors and subcultures that were once understood — even within the gay community — to belong behind closed doors.

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Pride goeth …

Now nothing is off-limits. Even the most disturbing fetishes are displayed in broad daylight, right there on the street you walk down with your kids. Why are parents bringing their kids to these bacchanals?

Pride, in its older sense, is the root of all sin — the elevation of the self beyond its proper bounds until it becomes its own authority. What is striking about modern Pride is how often it takes precisely that form: not “leave us alone,” but “see us, affirm us, celebrate us.”

As a naive 16-year-old from a troubled home, I got into gay rights activism way too early. Like the majority of kids from abusive homes, I went down a path of early alcoholism and promiscuous sex, supplied by gay adults who sit on the sidelines like buzzards waiting for roadkill.

My teen years came at the end of the AIDS crisis. That was a crisis brought on by gay men themselves, although I was too young to see it then. It was more satisfying to rail at President Reagan for not doing enough to save the “gay community” from its own debauchery than it was to put the blame where it belonged.

The trap of ‘acceptance’

To be a young homosexual was to be indoctrinated into a myth of victimhood. All normal straight people want you beaten up or imprisoned, I was told. Gay men “had to” meet each other in brambles and bushes for their assignations because society had “driven us into the shadows.” Gay men were dying of AIDS because the government wouldn’t do enough medical research, not because we were having anonymous, dangerous sex.

None of it was true. Gay men didn’t meet up for sex in park bushes because they couldn’t rent motel rooms, or they didn’t have apartments, or because society “drove us” to. They did it, and still do it, because gay men are inclined to dangerous sex, risk, and public promiscuity.

Having lived the “fabulous” gay lifestyle, I know it for the trap it is. Under the guise of “caring,” adults seduce vulnerable young people — often victims of abuse — into their world of narcissistic sexual self-indulgence and libertinism. Those young people grow up and repeat the cycle — ushering a new generation into this living death.

Widespread public acceptance keeps the cycle going and allows it to expand. Our society used to understand this instinctively and kept such behavior on the margins. But today it is the voice of decorum and restraint that speaks in lowered tones, as if it is the one violating a taboo.

Well, perhaps it’s time for America’s non-“queer” majority to have a liberation movement of its own. To leave the shadows, point to the boundary our country has always maintained between what is publicly acceptable (and encouraged) and what isn’t, and unapologetically proclaim: It’s here. It’s clear. Get used to it.

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