How should America execute a convicted terrorist who turned his weapon on his fellow soldiers?

Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck says that while it should be about more than carrying out a sentence, the execution of the Fort Hood shooter should not be televised.

“We live in a society that already diminishes death so much. I don’t want it on TikTok,” Glenn says, explaining that exposing the public to an execution will “rot our souls.”

“It needs to be dignified. … And it needs to send a very strong message. Just killing him will not send the message. Killing him at Fort Hood is a very good thing. Sends a message that America is serious,” he explains.

“This was a guy who betrayed his country and went into his own company, went in at Fort Hood and shot up people in Fort Hood, including his own people that served in uniform with him. That needs to be seen by Americans, and we need to know that we do not tolerate it,” he adds.

However, the most important message that needs to be sent is to the Muslim world, which Glenn believes needs to see that “we don’t buy in to your false god.”

“It’s a false god if you think that you’re going to get virgins for killing innocents. So we don’t buy in to your false god, and we are not afraid of your false god, and we are not afraid of you,” he says.

“We’re not playing your game,” he continues. “We’re not going to be called Islamophobic.”

Glenn points out that an all-female firing squad would send an even stronger message: “If you actually believe that you’re not going to get your virgins because you’ve been killed by a woman, then I will insult you every day by killing those monsters … with a woman firing squad.”

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An ambulance rushed Sean Combs, the infamous rap icon, away from federal prison after he suffered a head injury, according to a TMZ report.

Combs was sentenced to 50 months in federal prison after he was convicted a year ago of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution related to “freak-offs” at hotels and his home.

‘Pretty much the day he arrived, the party started …’

The hip-hop music mogul injured his head at the Fort Dix prison in New Jersey and was taken from the prison by ambulance around 1 a.m. Saturday, TMZ said, citing prison sources.

The outlet said it could not confirm whether Combs was taken to a hospital.

He was conscious and speaking when returned to prison hours later, TMZ added, citing officials; it’s unclear how he was injured.

Combs was punished at the prison after getting into a fight with another inmate in July, the outlet said, adding that more recently officials discovered he was breaking prison rules to obtain banned amenities.

Four men who spent time in the same unit as Combs told NBC News that he received Chinese massages and allegedly a contraband phone while others cooked and cleaned for him.

“This is not some normal s**t you see in jail. This is some rich s**t,” one man said. “It looks crazy, but again, it’s Diddy.”

One of the men said he drank Hennessy with Combs. Guards reportedly smuggled the stash of liquor into the prison.

“Hell yeah, I drank with him,” the man said.

Combs allegedly is spending thousands of dollars to level up his living conditions in prison.

“Pretty much the day he arrived, the party started,” said one of the sources.

A spokesperson for Combs called it normal prison life.

“The continued scrutiny of every mundane detail of Sean Combs’ life in prison has reached the point where the media characterizes ordinary prison life as news,” the spokesperson said. “The only real news is that Sean continues to serve his sentence while awaiting the court’s decision on his appeal.”

RELATED: White House vehemently denies TMZ report about Trump possibly setting Sean Combs free

A Bureau of Prisons spokesperson said the agency would not comment on any specific prisoner’s conditions.

“Like all correctional agencies, contraband, particularly cell phones, narcotics, and weapons, remains a constant challenge, and we continue to tackle the problem of contraband being introduced into our facilities,” the spokesperson said.

Combs originally was scheduled for release in January 2028, but the release date has been pushed back to March 2028.

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State exams are meant to test students’ aptitude and gauge their understanding of the curriculum. But what happens when the grading system fails? Texas found out the hard way when an AI-powered grading system led to rampant grading errors and a huge recount.

AI makes mistakes. This disclaimer is stamped on almost every query when you interact with the top frontier chatbots on the market. Yet society continues to trust AI with increasingly more important tasks. This time, Texas put it in charge of grading students on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exams, and the results went as you might expect.

As people become increasingly more distrustful of AI, they’re more likely to question the results of anything that AI touches.

The AI-powered grading system initially made headlines in 2024 when Texas announced that the state would save $15 million by replacing human graders with a “technology similar to ChatGPT” on some portions of the state exams. The system adopted a hybrid approach, relying on humans to score the multiple choice questions while AI graded the larger open-ended written section.

If at any time, AI displayed a “low confidence” message about the score it gave to a student, the responses were to be flagged so that a human could review them. However, if AI is confident in its response — as chatbots often are when they hallucinate or outright lie — no such notification would reach the humans at the top.

During a limited trial test in December 2023, educators noticed that their students received a “drastic increase” in failing scores. If students or parents wanted to request a rescore, it would cost them $50 out of pocket, unless the new score was higher than the original — then the fee would be removed.

At first, the state of Texas only received 2,758 rescore requests by spring of 2024 — a sizeable number, considering that rescore requests were a rare phenomenon at the time. However, this number continued to climb, jumping to a staggering 21,620 rescore requests by 2025. By 2026, the number reached 64,489 rescore requests — that’s up to $3 million in out-of-pocket costs from parents looking to get better scores for their children.

Estimated costs of future rescoring currently sit at $15-$20 million.

After human graders reviewed the tests, the number of corrections doubled year over year and 13,300 scores — or approximately 20% — improved overall. At the same time, none of the scores were lowered.

RELATED: The AI backlash is going viral. Here’s how Trump wants to fix that.

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While this appears to be a clear failure of the AI-powered grading system, further review shows a discrepancy for both machine and man. Out of the recorded errors, 58% came from AI, while 42% came from human mistakes. This essentially means that even if AI was removed from the grading system, grading errors would possibly improve, but they wouldn’t go away entirely.

This story, though, does lead to an interesting thought experiment: Even though AI and human errors were both present, the fact that AI was employed to grade the larger written portions of the exams made students and parents too leery to trust their final scores, thus leading to the jump in requests. As the people become increasingly more distrustful of AI, they’re more likely to question the results of anything that AI touches. Until hallucinations are a thing of the past, this is simply a side effect of an AI-powered world.

As for the Texas school system, one must wonder if the extra money it set out to save is worth the trouble, distrust, and future rescore requests that are almost certain to plague the state for years to come. So far, Texas has no plans to suspend automated AI grading at this time.

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A 35-year-old male accused in the ambush killing of a Philadelphia police officer over the weekend was arraigned Sunday morning on 76 charges and ordered held without bail, Fox News reported, citing court records.

Eric Lewis faces charges including murder, homicide of a law enforcement officer, attempted murder, 10 counts of attempted homicide of a law enforcement officer, aggravated assault, terroristic threats, and other offenses, the cable news network said, adding that Lewis’ next court date is scheduled for Oct. 26.

Pennsylvania state Rep. Amen Brown (D), who lives near the shooting scene, told KYW Lewis allegedly said during his arrest that he wished he had killed more officers.

Lewis is accused of shooting two police officers, killing one and wounding the other, early Saturday morning in the 100 block of North 52nd Street in West Philadelphia, KYW-TV reported, citing District Attorney Larry Krasner.

Philadelphia Police Officer Shane Seiber was killed, Fox News said, adding that the 40-year-old was a father of two and an Air Force veteran who served 10 years with the Philadelphia Police Department. Seiber is survived by his wife, 7-year-old son, and 3-year-old daughter, the cable news network added.

“He fought valiantly, but he lost his life today,” Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said at a Saturday news conference, Fox News noted. “His wife was able to be by his side before he passed, as well as his family.”

The wounded officer, a 33-year-old father of five, was shot 12 times and initially listed in critical condition, Fox News said, adding that his condition has since been upgraded to stable.

The shooting unfolded around 12:20 a.m. when the two officers responded to a report of a man with a gun, the cable news network said, adding that police said the officers located an armed man on a porch.

The officers then came under “significant gunfire” after reaching the porch, police told Fox News, adding that other officers and a SWAT team arrived soon after and found both officers on the porch suffering from gunshot wounds.

The cable news network said more gunfire followed, after which authorities declared a barricade situation before Lewis was taken into custody.

Pennsylvania state Rep. Amen Brown (D), who lives near the shooting scene, told KYW Lewis allegedly said during his arrest that he wished he had killed more officers.

Police told Fox News that Lewis was in possession of two handguns and a shotgun; one of the handguns belonged to an officer wounded in the attack.

Krasner at a Saturday news conference declined to say if Lewis fired the officer’s handgun or how he obtained the other firearms, the cable news network said.

Krasner added to Fox News that nothing in Lewis’ criminal background would have prevented him from obtaining a firearm.

RELATED: Two Chicago police officers shot in ‘ambush’ attack; suspect in custody

Lewis is an employee of the Philadelphia Water Department and has a criminal history dating to 2012, the cable news network said, citing Pennsylvania court records it reviewed.

Court records show Lewis was convicted of theft and receiving stolen property in 2012 and convicted of gun-related offenses and simple assault in 2013, Fox News said, adding that he received probation in both cases.

Lewis pleaded guilty in 2018 to disorderly conduct involving fighting and again was sentenced to probation, the cable news network reported.

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The Trump administration recently targeted Microsoft over its use of foreign-worker visas, accusing the tech giant of laying off thousands of American employees while continuing to recruit overseas. It is a confrontation long overdue.

Firing thousands of citizens via HR emails while simultaneously begging the government for new workers from overseas is a shameless business model. Microsoft axed 6,000 domestic workers last year. During that same period, the company snagged 6,300 H-1B visas and secured nearly 3,000 green cards. The corporate PR department insists that these filings were mostly routine extensions for current staff, but that claim deserves plenty of scrutiny. A company liquidating its domestic workforce should be forced to stand in the light and explain why its foreign hiring machinery runs at full speed. Corporate entities love to wrap themselves in the American flag when asking for tax credits, then toss it in the trash the moment cheap foreign labor offers a marginally better quarterly margin.

A cruel joke played on middle-class taxpayers.

Washington let giant technology conglomerates dictate national labor policy for decades. Keith Sonderling at the Department of Labor noted that the handful of tech companies under scrutiny have requested nearly 3 million foreign workers since 2009. That figure represents a massive structural exploit rather than a temporary patch for specialized talent shortages. Successive presidential administrations treated Silicon Valley’s hiring wish lists like Holy Scripture. Bureaucrats took corporate claims of talent scarcity at face value and ignored the economic incentives driving the requests. Executive suites realized long ago that importing a workforce is far more profitable than paying local market rates. Washington finally stopped treating corporate convenience as a national strategy, and the current administration deserves genuine credit for that.

The psychological mechanics of the H-1B system offer a rather sobering look at corporate control. JD Vance ruffled feathers by calling visa holders indentured servants. The language may be slightly hyperbolic, but the overall thesis is sound. When an H-1B worker loses his job, a 60-day countdown to deportation begins immediately. That legal sword of Damocles hanging over an employee’s neck instantly changes the workplace dynamic. A worker bound to his employer by immigration status rarely complains about mandatory overtime. He doesn’t challenge executive decisions. He doesn’t demand aggressive pay raises. Tech giants proudly parade their progressive credentials, yet they actively cultivate a workforce rendered docile by the threat of exile.

RELATED: Vance unveils huge crackdown on replacing American workers with foreigners

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American graduates spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on computer science degrees, only to find the door to entry locked. Families take on crippling debt. Students live on cheap noodles for four years, and young engineers enter the market ready to build software. Tech giants bypass those local graduates entirely, claiming that the domestic talent pool is inadequate. Some hyper-specialized roles genuinely require rare global experts, but the vast majority of visa requests cover standard engineering roles that local graduates can easily perform. Corporate recruiters simply prefer candidates who can’t easily quit for a competitor down the street. Expecting American citizens to fund higher education while big tech imports entry-level labor is a cruel joke played on middle-class taxpayers.

Silicon Valley insists on enjoying every benefit of American society while rejecting every basic duty to American workers. Microsoft relies on government-funded basic research and capital markets protected by American law. The moment public officials ask Microsoft to prioritize domestic hiring, executives cry foul and lecture the public on global competitiveness. It’s all very rich and incredibly infuriating.

Global corporations want American security without American allegiance. A company is entirely free to operate in foreign markets. It is not entitled to use the federal government as a low-cost staffing agency.

Federal immigration policy exists to protect the host country, not to maximize the net profit of a software monopoly. For decades, the system placed the entire burden of proof on the domestic worker. The American engineer had to prove he was worthy of employment while tech firms enjoyed automatic access to foreign talent pools. Reversing that burden forces corporations to prove actual domestic labor shortages before printing more visas. Federal policy must serve the public interest, not act as a perpetual subsidy for corporate HR departments.

America simply cannot beat economic rivals like China by treating domestic talent development as a low-priority chore. Building AI models requires long-term investment in local universities. It demands apprenticeships and specialized training programs. Relying on foreign labor indefinitely removes any incentive for tech companies to invest in domestic talent. Corporations treat American workers as disposable assets to be cut during lean quarters and ignored during rapid expansions. The country can’t maintain a technological edge when its primary economic powerhouses treat their own citizens as financial liabilities.

The ongoing showdown between federal regulators and Microsoft signals a necessary break from too many years of corporate welfare masquerading as immigration policy. The federal government finally called Silicon Valley’s bluff, forcing executives to justify why they handed thousands of pink slips to local workers while international recruitment desks stayed open around the clock. American labor laws should benefit the people living under them, not the balance sheets of multinational corporations. It turns out corporations can survive without unlimited access to cheap imported labor, and watching them scramble to justify their hiring practices should satisfy anyone who believes American workers must always come first.

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A 45-year-old male fatally shot seven of his relatives and one family friend in an Erie, Pennsylvania, home, on Friday, police told the Associated Press.

The gunman took his own life, the AP said, adding that authorities have not released his name. One of the victims was eight months pregnant, police said in a news conference video.

‘They were a lovely family. Who would have thought this would ever happen?’

Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah said the gunman was related to seven of the victims, while the eighth victim was a friend of the pregnant woman, the outlet added. Police have not made the names of the victims public, the AP noted.

A man whose 1-year-old daughter Amarianna was among the shooting victims told the outlet Sunday that the gunman was a grandfather who never seemed distressed.

“I think that was a front for him,” Julius Windham told the AP while standing at a memorial to shooting victims, who also included a 5-year-old boy.

“Him every day, him smiling and being just — you would think … nothing like that would happen,” Windham added to the outlet.

Mourners on Sunday placed candles, flowers, and stuffed animals outside the home where the man opened fire shortly before 5 p.m. Friday, the AP said, adding that Windham wore a T-shirt with pictures of the women and children and the words, “Forever In My Heart.”

“Words can’t even explain what I’m going through right now,” Windham added to the outlet. “But I gotta be strong for my community, you know what I’m saying? My family, my daughters, my sons, everybody.”

Chief Lorah said video and audio evidence investigators recovered included muffled gunshot sounds coming from inside the home just before two “distressed” women arrived and began pounding on the door, according to the AP, which added that the gunman came out of the house, shot them as they ran toward him, and then returned inside the house.

RELATED: Male, 25, accused of shooting to death his mother, father, brother, and brother’s girlfriend

Responding officers found the two women dead outside, the outlet said.

Police deployed a drone and robot, the AP said, adding that officers then went inside the home and found the bodies of the 5-year-old boy and 1-year-old girl on the first floor; two more women and two young men in a stairwell; and the shooter on the second floor.

“Out of respect for the victims and the families, I will not discuss the details of what our officers encountered inside that home,” the chief said at a news conference, according to the outlet.

Lorah declined to discuss a motive for the shooting but suggested mental health could be a factor, the AP said, adding that the chief noted that investigators would talk to relatives and examine the cell phones of the women who were killed outside the home.

“They knew something was going on at that house,” Lorah also said, according to the outlet. “We have to figure out what that is.”

Nicole and Debra Eller, whose best friend was among the victims, told the AP they have known the family for more than 30 years. Nicole Eller added to the outlet that the shooter “was a good guy, and then he started going downhill with everything.”

“They were a lovely family. Who would have thought this would ever happen?” Debra Eller added to the AP. “Oh my gosh, this is so upsetting. This should have never happened to her or the kids or anybody. His grandchildren, his kids, how can you do that?”

The outlet added that Erie Mayor Daria Devlin (D) at a Saturday news conference told the victims’ families she was “so deeply sorry. What happened to you was horrific, and there is nothing that any of us can say today that will make this any easier. … Our entire community is with you; we’re grieving with you. And we are here to support you.”

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The U.S. Department of Justice has announced another round of alleged election crimes, including one case involving an illegal alien.

A DOJ press release on Monday documented the details of the charges that involved people from Pakistan, Portugal, France, Peru, Jamaica, and Cuba, among others.

‘Criminals who disrupt the integrity of America’s elections will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.’

68-year-old Forrest Scott Woody of Hendersonville, North Carolina, was charged for allegedly voting twice in the 2024 election, once in North Carolina and once in Alabama, according to a press release from the DOJ.

78-year-old permanent legal resident Silvia Delgado Phelps from Peru was charged for allegedly voting in multiple elections in Baldwin County, Alabama, despite not being a U.S. citizen.

48-year-old Hacina Saadi, described by the DOJ as an illegal alien from France, was charged “by information with voting by an alien during the 2024 election.”

Two lawful permanent residents from Pakistan and another lawful permanent resident from Portugal were similarly charged.

42-year-old Staciann Pollion Davis, a lawful permanent resident from Jamaica, was charged for allegedly voting in the general election in Clarke County, Alabama, despite Davis not being a U.S. citizen.

64-year-old Andre’s Garcia, a lawful permanent resident from Cuba, allegedly voted in at least 15 elections, including at least 13 federal elections, over the last 20 years.

59-year-old Cary Ann Patterson, a lawful permanent resident from Britain, allegedly voted in at least 10 elections as an alien, based on records from the Gallia County Board of Elections in Ohio.

RELATED: 3 people arrested for election FRAUD ring targeting homeless people in Los Angeles, says FBI

A 69-year-old from Pakistan was arrested for allegedly voting in at least six elections, while a 63-year-old from the Philippines was arrested for allegedly illegally voting. Both were charged in the Northern District of Ohio.

“Under President Trump, criminals who disrupt the integrity of America’s elections will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” read a White House post about the announcement.

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Police in Lansing, Michigan, are investigating whether the deaths of five men along the Lansing River Trail over roughly the past year may be connected. They have not ruled out the possibility of a serial killer.

All victims were white homeless males between the ages of 22 and 70 who died within the same mile stretch of the 20-mile trail. Four of the five cases involved apparent blunt-force trauma to the face or head, with no weapon recovered. Several of the victims were found under or near bridges, and police believe the attacks likely happened overnight or in the early morning while the men were lying down or sleeping.

BlazeTV hosts Stu Burguiere and Dave Landau discussed Lansing’s predicament on a recent episode of “Stu and Dave Do America.”

Dave views the situation through his dark comedic lens. “It’s very suspicious because the deaths are not related to diabetes, alcoholism, or just generalized despair, so it’s a very good chance.”

“I mean, those are the three very far leading causes of death in Michigan,” Stu jokes.

Dave points out that the reporting on the Lansing deaths uses the word “unhoused” instead of homeless to describe the five victims.

“[White liberals] prefer the term unhoused because somehow that means that it’s the exact same word,” he says.

“I will say the one thing that’s different about it is homeless is like, ‘hey, I want to have a home and I don’t have one.’ Unhoused is ‘we’re supposed to house you and we’ve forgotten to,”’ says Stu.

The duo then play a video from Lansing police Chief Rob Backus, who told reporters: “One question that we are being asked is, ‘Do we have a serial killer in Lansing?’ What we need the public to know is that we are investigating all of these cases. They are all active investigations, and we are looking at the idea or the possibility that these may be related cases.”

“Probably a good idea when it’s the same mechanism,” says Stu sarcastically.

“I don’t feel like the serial killer thing is happening that much any more, though,” he adds.

“It was the bees’ knees in the ’70s and ’80s,” laughs Dave.

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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A program identified by the Trump administration as a potential significant source of fraud may be getting a major overhaul.

Last Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security announced a proposed rule that could change a major “pipeline” for nonimmigrant students to get jobs in the United States.

‘A $70,000 university-paid fee could dramatically shrink it and potentially make OPT unworkable for a large number of international graduates.’

The DHS has proposed a new rule regarding the Optional Practical Training, a contingent program often used by nonimmigrant students with F-1 visas to find temporary employment within the United States.

If finalized, the new rule would place a significant financial burden on universities if and when they decide to recommend a student for OPT.

“Optional Practical Training was never meant to be a back door into the American workforce, a subsidy for cheap labor, or a prize for those who game the system,” a DHS spokesperson said in a press release.

“DHS is upskilling OPT to require foreign students to justify their worth to employers. American workers should not have to compete against a program that has been turned into a pipeline for cheap foreign labor.”

RELATED: JD Vance announces MASSIVE crackdown on companies and universities replacing Americans with foreigners

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The higher barrier would, the administration argues, potentially decrease the amount of fraud within the program, which has reportedly suffered issues such as “problematic worksites and ‘pay-to-stay’ visa schemes.”

The new rule would also add an extra $30,000 fee for additional OPT windows, meaning a student who is granted OPT, for example, during their program and again after the completion of their program would need to have the university recommend him or her both times and pay the base $70,000 plus the additional $30,000 fee.

The rule and the press release emphasize that the fees would be connected not to the employers to which these students are sent, but to the universities who are recommending them.

According to the proposal, the fees collected will be deposited in the Treasury of the United States.

Many have called for an overhaul of the OPT program for a significant amount of time, not least among them Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.).

In November 2025, Sen. Schmitt highlighted the “severe problems” with the OPT program, and his request to re-evaluate the program gained some traction within the Trump administration.

Schmitt called the OPT program, which was established through DHS regulations rather than a statute, a “back door into the U.S. job market for foreign workers,” adding that it “incentivizes colleges to become ‘visa mills.'”

Then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem replied to Sen. Schmitt at the beginning of this year, writing that DHS was re-evaluating the program.

Rahul Reddy, an immigration lawyer at Reddy Neumann Brown PC, stressed that this was an “extraordinary” change that could possibly go into effect around graduation season next year.

“In practical terms, the proposal does not formally abolish OPT,” Reddy wrote. “But a $70,000 university-paid fee could dramatically shrink it and potentially make OPT unworkable for a large number of international graduates.”

The DHS will accept public comments before the rule is made final. Members of the public can view the proposed rule on the Federal Register website and submit comments until November 9.

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Popular comedian Shane Gillis outraged many on the left during his monologue on “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend, and a high-profile actor is leading the charge.

Gillis touched upon many subjects in his monologue, but one story especially triggered leftists: when he criticized women for dressing like “whores” at gyms.

‘They are not objects. They are superior human beings to men, OK? And I’m sorry if this gets me in trouble with the internet, but f**k!’

“I haven’t been to the gym in so long, I didn’t know women just dress like whores now,” said Gillis.

“Look, I’m sorry, there’s no other way to describe [it]. Have you seen it? I’ve seen it. The shorts. Have you seen the shorts? There’s neon … they’re like artificial bait-colored [shorts], and the wrinkles go around the cheeks and all combine at the butthole. And don’t look! You’re not allowed to look.”

“For real, don’t look because they are filming. I’m in the background of like 10 TikToks right now,” Gillis joked.

While his joke got a large laugh from the audience, leftists had a different reaction: outrage.

“Women wearing short shorts at the gym does not make them whores. It makes the men calling them whores misogynists. There’s a difference there. By the way, I’ve seen more men’s nipples at the gym than I’ve ever seen women showing their bodies off,” actor Dan Levy of “Schitt’s Creek” fame said in a video on Instagram.

“But I’m speechless that something like that can exist on live national television. And to be perfectly honest, more men need to be standing up in opposition to it, because it’s complacency that has created the environment in which women are sexually assaulted, and it’s a ‘conversation’ as opposed to a ‘crime,'” he added.

He went on to say that men would treat women as objects because of speech like that from Gillis.

“They are not objects. They are superior human beings to men, OK? And I’m sorry if this gets me in trouble with the internet, but f**k!” Levy concluded.

RELATED: Liberals are trying to CANCEL funnyman Nate Bargatze for what he did on Sunday

Gillis has a history of being canceled by “Saturday Night Live.” He was hired on as a cast member in 2019 and then abruptly fired after the woke mob unearthed clips from his podcast they said were homophobic and racist.

His popularity has exploded since then, and his return five years later to host “SNL” enraged the critics who wanted him permanently canceled.

Saturday’s show was his third time hosting.

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The “ongoing criminal investigation” into Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) seems to have escalated Monday morning, as Homeland Security Investigations agents raided her residence in Washington, D.C., Fox News has reported.

Fox News reported that agents raided Omar’s residence in connection with the immigration paperwork Omar’s late father filled out on her behalf when she was a child.

‘This enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation.’

Omar was born in Somalia in October 1982, according to her congressional biography. She claimed in a 2018 interview that she became a naturalized U.S. citizen before she turned 18.

Rumors have swirled for nearly a decade that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is Omar’s biological brother and that she married him to help him remain in the U.S.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin even seemed to confirm those rumors during the Republican midterm convention last month.

“We know that she married her brother to try to bring him to the United States,” Mullin told podcaster Benny Johnson September 10. “We know he lives now in London.”

Mullin confirmed an “investigation” into Omar and that “something’s gonna happen.”

RELATED: DHS secretary: Ilhan Omar married her brother, and consequences are coming

A few days after Mullin’s comments to Johnson, border czar Tom Homan confirmed the “ongoing criminal investigation” into Omar.

“If someone committed immigration violation, if someone committed marriage fraud or anything like that, regardless if they’re a congressman or not, no one’s above the law,” Homan said September 13.

According to Fox News, multiple people wearing HSI jackets were seen outside Omar’s D.C. residence Monday morning at around 6 a.m. The DHS and the DOJ are both involved in the investigation, Fox said.

“Today in the Washington, D.C., area, Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice. This enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal investigation,” a DOJ spokesperson told the outlet in a statement.

A TV broadcast of the report had a slightly different statement: “This enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation.”

Fox could not confirm whether Omar was at the residence at the time of the raid.

Multiple attempts to reach Omar’s office were unsuccessful. Omar’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

This is a breaking story.

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Despite refusing to work with Republicans on a bipartisan bill for election integrity, Democrats are sounding the alarm about election integrity.

And Hollywood celebrity Mark Ruffalo is leading the charge.

“Now we need to be on guard for what we may not see coming: Elon,” Ruffalo began.

“That’s the cybersecurity of these elections. And while I’m not an expert, I’ve been talking to experts, and the one thing I’ve heard repeatedly is that there is a vulnerability of the votes when they’re transferred from the polling places to the county headquarters and then to the state,” he continued.

“Now that’s three times those tallies are being transferred over the internet … over our phones. We know that these systems are vulnerable,” he added.

“Oh, I thought it was ludicrous to even bring it up,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray laughs.

“Then when the Republicans are in power, then they flip and then it goes back and then, I mean, stop,” executive producer Keith Malinak says.

“He just made Trump’s point on the voting process,” Gray adds.

“So they should be able to get together and have a bipartisan solution on fixing our voting system,” Malink agrees. “Hey, how’s that Save Act coming?”

But Ruffalo wasn’t done.

“We’ve got to run to January,” he said passionately to the crowd. “We’ve got to make sure our people get seated. They’re going to try and stop them. They’re going to try and stop us. They’re going to try and stop us from taking our country back. And we’re not going to let them.”

“Trump, we’re not letting ya,” he added, before yelling, “Hands off our f**king vote.”

And Ruffalo wasn’t the only one, as Robert De Niro also got behind the podium to make a similar, angry statement.

“When masked and armed ICE thugs stalk our polling places, what do we say to them? Keep your f**king hands off our vote,” DeNiro said. “And when that coward, that piece of s**t, Donald Trump, tries to take our voice and power away, what do we tell him?”

“Hands off our vote,” he yelled.

Gray isn’t having it, calling both Ruffalo and DeNiro, “Despicable buffoons.”

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Your car may know more about you than you realize.

A series of federal lawsuits involving Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen, General Motors, and Ford alleged that vehicle infotainment systems downloaded and permanently stored private text messages and call logs from phones connected to the car.

For some users, GM collected precise location information as often as every three seconds.

The cases were dismissed. But not because a court established that the technology couldn’t do what the plaintiffs claimed.

Disappearing data

In the GM case, for example, the district court said the plaintiffs had not alleged sufficient injury under Washington’s privacy law. It also noted that they had not alleged GM itself reviewed, used, or even had the ability to retrieve the data stored in the vehicle.

So the case did not establish that GM was secretly reading drivers’ texts. But neither did the dismissal answer the underlying technological question. The plaintiffs alleged that the infotainment system itself automatically downloaded and stored text messages and call logs from connected phones, and the court did not rule that this collection wasn’t happening.

That uncertainty is part of what makes modern connected cars so difficult for consumers to understand. Your phone talks to your car. Your car talks to manufacturer servers. Companion apps talk to still more companies.

Figuring out exactly what information is moving — and where it ends up — can be surprisingly difficult.

A new study from researchers at Northeastern University and Consumer Reports gives us a better idea.

Researchers tested 21 late-model vehicles and 30 companion smartphone apps. Nineteen of the 21 vehicles contacted at least one outside third party over Wi-Fi. The recipients included some of the biggest technology companies in the world.

The phone apps created even more connections.

Seven of the 30 apps transmitted sensitive identifiers such as VINs, email addresses, phone numbers, or precise location to companies associated with advertising and analytics. Researchers also found that pairing a manufacturer’s app with the vehicle could substantially increase the number of outside companies receiving data.

And then we get to insurance.

Driver’s dossier

General Motors provides one of the clearest documented examples of what can happen once driving data leaves the car.

GM offered a feature called OnStar Smart Driver that let customers monitor their driving habits.

According to the Federal Trade Commission, GM and OnStar were also collecting precise location and driving-behavior information from millions of vehicles and selling that information to third parties, including consumer-reporting agencies.

The data could get remarkably specific.

The FTC said it included hard braking, speeding, and late-night driving. For some users, GM collected precise location information as often as every three seconds.

Consumer-reporting agencies including LexisNexis and Verisk then used GM driving data to compile reports on individual drivers. The FTC says insurance companies used those reports to set rates and, in some cases, deny coverage.

We aren’t talking about targeted ads or some mysterious data broker knowing which coffee shop you visit. We’re talking about directly influencing what you pay for car insurance.

One consumer complained to GM that when he signed up, he understood that OnStar would track him. He had not understood that the information could be passed along to a third party and affect his insurance bill.

GM has since shut down Smart Driver and ended its telematics relationships with LexisNexis and Verisk. The company said it discontinued the program following customer feedback.

The FTC didn’t stop there. In January, it finalized an order requiring GM to obtain affirmative consent before collecting or sharing certain connected-vehicle data and barring the company for five years from sharing covered geolocation and driver-behavior information with consumer-reporting agencies.

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Behind the screens

That’s harder to answer than you might expect.

The Northeastern researchers built a Faraday enclosure at Consumer Reports’ Connecticut test facility to block cellular signals and isolate the Wi-Fi traffic coming from the vehicles. They then watched where the cars and their companion apps tried to connect.

While they could identify many of the companies receiving traffic, they couldn’t always see what was inside it; much of the communication was encrypted.

That is not evidence that every transmission contained sensitive personal information. It does mean even researchers specifically studying the problem sometimes can’t tell exactly what information is moving between a modern car and the companies it contacts.

For the owner, there is even less visibility.

You buy the car. You download the app. You agree to the terms. Maybe you activate remote start, navigation, emergency assistance, or one of the dozens of other connected features now built into new vehicles.

Most people aren’t thinking about the advertising and analytics companies behind the screen.

Why would they be?

Connected works both ways

None of this means connected-car technology is inherently bad.

Emergency assistance needs to know where your vehicle is. Navigation requires location. An app that lets you start the car remotely obviously has to communicate with it.

But there is a big difference between collecting information necessary to provide a feature and allowing that information to begin circulating through an ecosystem the owner barely knows exists.

And consumers shouldn’t have to become privacy lawyers to discover the difference.

Before activating connected services, I would want to know some fairly basic things.

What is the car collecting?

Who gets it?

Can they sell or share it?

Can I turn the collection off?

And could any of this wind up in a consumer report used to make decisions about me?

For years, the connected car was sold as safer, smarter, and more convenient, and maybe it is. Just remember: The connection works both ways.

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