For three decades, William Allen lived as “Maggie,” believing that transitioning was the answer to feelings that had followed him since childhood. He also believed that while he was pretending to be a woman, he was a Christian.

Today, however, the author of “Not Man Enough to Be a Woman” tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey that he began to change his mind when he realized how dramatically the transgender movement was changing.

“Back in the day, it was called gender identity disorder. There were transvestites and transsexuals. Transvestites just were men who dressed up as women for sexual gratification. They didn’t want to be a woman,” Allen tells Stuckey.

“Transsexuals actually either felt they were a woman or wanted to be a woman,” he continues, noting that all transsexuals wanted to do “was transition and blend into society and get on with our lives.”

“The last thing we wanted was attention, very unlike what we see today,” he says. “I mean, we took care in our presentation. I mean, I had my beard removed with electrolysis. I went to a voice coach. I was able to retrain my voice.”

“And my gosh, today it’s just so in your face. The movement, they’re militant. They’re demanding. They’re coercive. It’s just gotten so out of hand,” he says.

And years ago, when Allen was still living as “Maggie,” he heard about drag queen story hours and looked into it.

“I saw a news report or something, and it talked about drag queens reading books to children. I thought, ‘Oh, that can’t be right. That’s not happening.’ But I kept hearing about it. Sure enough, it was happening. Of course, people would deny it,” he tells Stuckey.

“And that same thing keeps happening. It went from drag queen story hour to bringing these books into the classrooms and into school libraries, elementary school kids, and then indoctrination and now a whole bunch of teachers. Teachers who are trans and gay now are influencing children,” he adds.

And when Allen went to a support group meeting for transsexuals, what he saw was “horrifying.”

“I went on in, and everybody in there — probably 20, 30 people — they’re all dressed just like the people you see in all the Antifa riots and the BLM riots. They’re all tatted and pierced and multicolored hair and stuff,” he explains.

“I walked in there as Miss Maggie, and … it came around to me. And I just said, ‘My name’s Maggie,’ and I started talking, and they all screamed at me, ‘Pronouns!’ And this was my first exposure to this pronoun hysteria,” he says.

“It had taken such a turn,” he adds.

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A former National Basketball Association center has announced his eligibility to play in the Women’s National Basketball Association.

Enes Kanter Freedom posted a video of himself Friday dressed in a WNBA hoodie and saying he was not intending to mock anyone’s personal choices with his announcement.

‘I’m simply asking that the current rules be applied equally to everyone — the rules that represent the very values many WNBA players and coaches have publicly advocated for.’

“After careful consideration and reviewing the current eligibility guidelines, I’m officially declaring myself a @WNBA prospect,” wrote Freedom in a statement on social media.

“If simply declaring who you are is all that’s required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA,” he added. “My team and I have carefully examined the WNBA’s eligibility criteria and governing framework surrounding self-identification and inclusion. Based on the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring my eligibility for the upcoming WNBA draft in April 2027.”

Freedom is a human rights activist and has spoken out against the regime in Turkey, his home country, as well as the communist government of China. In 2021, he changed his name to add “Freedom” after gaining his U.S. citizenship in order to cement his commitment against despotism.

“I know my presence on the court will stir up strong opinions. I am definitely not here to mock, make fun of, or disrespect any community or personal choices,” he continued. “I’m simply asking that the current rules be applied equally to everyone — the rules that represent the very values many WNBA players and coaches have publicly advocated for.”

Freedom did not mention transgender-identifying athletes in his statement and did not declare himself transgender. The 34-year-old former NBA center stands 6’10”, according to Basketball Reference.

Freedom’s announcement follows statements from players such as Gabby Williams, who has worn a shirt reading “Black Trans Lives Matter,” according to a Thursday X post.

Williams in May said she would welcome a transgender-identifying person on her team.

RELATED: Former NBA player Enes Freedom quips about donning a wig and competing in the WNBA

Freedom previously stated his opposition to men pretending to be women and playing in the WNBA. He called out feminists and women’s rights activists on their silence about the issue.

He finished his statement by calling on the WNBA to live up to its stated principles of inclusion.

“See you at training camp,” he concluded.

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An underwater videographer may have a new job as a pirate after he discovered a sunken treasure off the coast of England.

While exploring a shipwreck near Dover, England, a Belgian named Stefan Panis found what appeared to be a piece of cargo that has been overlooked for more than 160 years.

‘There might be more cases.’

Beer goggles

In the depths of the wreck of an English ship called the Mindora, Panis found a treasure that is likely to please historians and beer drinkers alike: bottles of Guinness from 1864.

The Irish Times reported that Panis found up to 20 bottles of the stout in 2025, but only recently connected the bottles to the ship wreckage via a cargo report.

Panis told the BBC that the beer is now with scientists who are studying to see if it is still drinkable, with the photographer citing that the same team previously tested a bottle of champagne that is just as old and was still OK to consume.

It depends on whether or not “sea water has come into the bottle through the corks,” Panis said.

At the same time though, the 162-year-old beer is also the focus of a different project for Panis and his Polish cohort Paweł Truszynski, which they are calling “Project Jurassic Beer.”

The duo is having the contents of the Guinness bottles analyzed to see if they can recreate the original recipe.

RELATED: God save the English pub

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Bottoms up

With the help of a microbiologist from Brussels, the group wants to recreate exactly how the beer would have tasted in 1864.

Professor Kevin Verstrepen said this comes down to the yeast cells in the bottle; the group will try to retrieve living cells, but if they can’t, they will take a “modern sibling” to get as close to the original as possible.

Diageo, parent company of Guinness, told the Irish Times that the Guinness Archive team “has been in communication with the divers to gather more information and evaluate the find.”

“Discoveries like this provide a fascinating window into our past and help build a deeper understanding of our heritage,” the spokesperson added.

As for the case of beer, Panis believes the bottles “definitely” came from a case of 24.

“But there might be more cases,” he claimed.

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Secret stash

The diver said that the Mindora has been searched throughout the last decade, but the beer somehow went undetected. He theorized this was likely due to sand covering his discoveries, which also reportedly included items like pickled vegetables.

The Mindora set sail from London to Vancouver, Canada, in November 1864, and traveled for approximately a week before it allegedly collided with another vessel off the coast of Dover on November 27.

Not much of the recent discovery is verified, as Panis’ team did not make their dive in cooperation with official authorities.

“The story of the shipwreck is never-ending,” Panis said, adding that pieces of history “appear one year and disappear the next year.”

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An appeals court ruled against the Trump administration and blocked the construction of the White House ballroom on the basis that it was not properly approved.

President Donald Trump has urged the speedy construction of the ballroom after the alleged attempt on his life at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in April.

‘The bold assertion that the Executive can act with utter lawlessness, destroying treasured national landmarks and harming the interests of individuals, and that no court can stop it flouts our constitutional order.’

On Friday, an appeals court ruled in a 2-1 decision that the president had acted “lawlessly” by demolishing the East Wing of the White House in order to build the ballroom without congressional approval.

“Executive actions that take control of that property out of the hands of the people’s representatives while irreparably harming the historical and visual architecture of perhaps the most prominent public building in the United States seriously intrude on the public interest,” two judges wrote in the joint majority opinion.

However, the administration has two weeks to seek relief from the U.S. Supreme Court.

If the court does not intervene, above-ground construction at the White House would need to stop.

RELATED: Liz Warren launches investigation into Trump’s White House ballroom — the backlash is hilarious

The president has argued that security concerns necessitated the construction of the ballroom with increased law enforcement features. The appeals court found that these concerns could have been addressed without ignoring federal statutes on project funding.

“The bold assertion that the Executive can act with utter lawlessness, destroying treasured national landmarks and harming the interests of individuals, and that no court can stop it flouts our constitutional order,” the two judges said.

“While this court accords great weight and deference to invocations of national security and the safety of the President, such arguments are not an automatic get-out-of-law-free card,” they continued.

In her dissenting opinion, Judge Neomi Rao agreed with the administration and said the security concerns outweighed the legal concerns brought up by the plaintiff, the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The group praised the decision in a statement, citing the 250th anniversary of the country.

“This is a great day for our country and for the American people’s right to voice their opinions about the historic places they cherish, including the White House,” the trust said. “From the beginning, our position has been clear and consistent: The law states that only Congress can authorize the construction of a ballroom at the White House.”

While the president has touted the private money being used to construct the ballroom, the contractor has since said the budget has surged to $600 million, according to a Washington Post report. The gap will reportedly be filled in by taxpayer funding.

The two judges who ruled against the ballroom were Patricia Millett, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, and Bradley Garcia, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden.

Judge Neomi Rao is a Trump appointee.

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“The new socialist star” on the far left has emerged, but her reign may be short-lived.

Francesca Hong, a self-described democratic socialist, is running for governor in Wisconsin. However, the people of Wisconsin don’t seem that impressed with her belief system.

“Now, I don’t think people in Wisconsin love socialism,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere tells co-host Dave Landau. “The polling doesn’t say that.”

Pointing to a Marquette Law School poll, Stu reveals that 31% of Wisconsin voters view DSA candidates favorably, while 54% view them unfavorably.

But even worse than Wisconsin voters’ views of socialism, Hong doesn’t even view her own son favorably.

She made this clear in an interview on Listen MKE. In the interview, Hong explained that as a child of immigrants who married a white man, her child has a negative proximity to whiteness.

“I wasn’t always aware of the struggles of other communities of color because for me assimilation always kind of took over. And so I did marry — and proximity to whiteness continues, right? My son is biracial. He’s half white and half Korean,” Hong said in an interview.

“And I think navigating, you know, what his identity is and how people perceive him is always at the back of my mind as well,” she added.

“Can you imagine saying that about your own kid?” Stu asks.

“What I don’t get about these people is they’re always like, ‘We must dismantle this racist system of, you know, white supremacy that disempowers the LGBTQ plus.’ Also, this is my husband, Chad,” Dave says.

“We see that a lot,” Stu agrees.

“The truth of the matter,” Stu continues, “is the way to solve racism is to stop making decisions based on race. That’s the way to solve it … it’s not to say, ‘Well, that group is evil, and we should kill all of them.’ That’s not the way to solve this.”

“That is what the Ibram Kendi’s of the world, and our good friend Hong seem to believe. If we just turn the discrimination and turn the racism and turn the hate toward the right color, everything will be solved,” he adds.

“Exactly,” Dave agrees. “That’s the problem. And do you want to be talking about your own kids’ ethnicity like they have lupus? It’s not a good thing.”

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Owing to their nation’s Temporary Protected Status, hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants have avoided deportation despite greatly adding to the strain on American resources in places such as the blue-collar city of Springfield, Ohio, where they were accused by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump of “eating the pets of the people that live there.”

After a protracted legal battle that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, the activist judge who initially held up the process has finally conceded that the Trump administration can start giving Haitian migrants the boot.

How it started

The Trump administration announced last summer that Haiti’s TPS was, after 16 years, finally coming to an end, having determined that the Caribbean nation no longer meets the conditions for special status, owing largely to significant improvements in domestic safety and stability.

‘You don’t have status inside this country any more.’

The revocation was, however, held up in the courts.

In Washington, D.C., U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes — a foreign-born, Biden-appointed, lesbian judge who previously worked as a lawyer to fight the first Trump administration’s immigration policy and helped the U.N. secure asylum for so-called refugees — gave her fellow immigration activists cause to hope on Feb. 2, blocking the revocation of Haiti’s TPS.

Reyes, originally from Uruguay, claimed that former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem not only violated the Administrative Procedure Act and the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause when terminating the TPS designation for Haiti but had likely done so “because of hostility to non-white immigrants.”

RELATED: Trump-hating Republican governors conspire with Democrats to smuggle in even more migrants

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After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia declined in March to block Reyes’ ruling and kept Haiti’s special status in place, the government kicked the matter up to the nation’s highest court.

In late June, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered the Trump administration a huge victory, overturning the lower court’s ruling.

In the majority opinion, Justice Samuel Alito rejected the suggestion that race was a motivating factor behind the TPS revocation and emphasized that the “TPS statute plainly bars consideration of respondents’ non-constitutional claims.”

How it’s going

In the wake of the Supreme Court making mincemeat out of her ruling, Reyes issued an order on Wednesday acknowledging the reversal of her judgment and what it necessarily entails.

The foreign-born judge, who previously had a great deal to say about the matter, kept her admission of defeat brief, noting that her stay of termination “is no longer in effect.”

Despite Reyes’ insinuation that the government was waiting on her say-so, James Percival, general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security, noted, “Haiti TPS ended when the Supreme Court mandate issued on July 27. I will give Judge Reyes kudos though for taking the L with grace and not doing something bonkers like many of her colleagues.”

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin issued a message to Haitians with suspended special statuses: “We’re going after them right now. We are giving them an opportunity to either leave on their own, and we’ll help you, or we’ll arrest you and send you back.”

“Either way, you don’t have status inside this country any more,” continued Mullin. “That has been litigated. The courts spoke very clearly. We knew that we were going to win this because in its name itself it says, ‘Temporary Protected Status.'”

Steve Foster, the immigration policy coordinator for the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, told ABC News, “Haitians with TPS, regardless of whether they have a pending asylum claim, have gotten a ‘DHS Call-In Letter’ to appear at ICE offices in person.”

Foster said that some Haitians have reportedly been assigned future court dates and given ankle monitors.

These efforts are reportedly under way in Springfield — an Ohio city that has in recent years heard allegations of Haitians eating pets and wildlife and seen a significant spike in Haitian-caused traffic accidents.

In 2024, Springfield Mayor Rob Rue admitted that the tens of thousands of Haitians who had recently poured into his city — a city that had a population of just over 58,000 in 2020 — “taxed” the “infrastructure of the city, our safety forces, our hospitals, our schools.” According to the city, there were more than 15,000 migrants presently residing in Clark County alone.

Viles Dorsainvil, the head of a Haitian support group in Springfield, confirmed the government’s efforts to get the ball rolling on Haitian migrants’ ouster.

“We are just helping these folks to go to this appointment, and when they get there, they interview them and eventually put [an] ankle monitor on them,” said Dorsainvil.

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Some rockets go up. Some come back down. And some, well, blow up.

At a glance, it’s business as usual for SpaceX, and it comes at a cost: a net loss of $541 million in the second quarter of this year. Market jitters about the company’s enormous AI spend, in a crowded field with deep-pocketed competitors, pushed its stock down around 10%, enough to fuel jeers from Elon Musk’s sizable audience of haters and skeptics.

‘They desperately want to blow themselves into tiny pieces.’

On SpaceX’s Q2 earnings call, however, Musk himself couldn’t hold back a laugh or two.

After all, despite his participation in the ultra-high-spend AI industry, SpaceX is, first and foremost, about space.

“Rocket science is literally our daily business,” he said on the call. “And rocket science is an idiomatic expression for extreme technological difficulty, and there’s a reason for it. Because let me tell you what rockets desperately want to do every flight. They desperately want to blow themselves into tiny pieces. And then the engineering struggle is to convince the rocket not to blow itself into tiny pieces and actually deliver payload to orbit.”

In the chat with investors, Musk went on to accentuate the positive: massive revenues that surpassed expectations. All told, the earnings report noted, revenues were up 92%.

In fact, following its initial public offering in June, SpaceX managed to blast by revenue expectations by nearly one billion dollars. CNBC reported that Q2 2026 revenue expectations were set around $6.93 billion, but SpaceX outpaced estimates and brought in $7.81 billion.

SpaceX is still not yet profitable, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. That $541 million loss is a near half-billion improvement from the $1 billion in the red notched the same quarter last year.

Much of the company’s losses came from research and development in the space sector, where as Grok/xAI and Starlink sectors proved to be far more positive.

None of this prevented Musk from verbalizing everything from bold predictions to astronomical promises.

In discussions about SpaceX’s Starship and its impact “on the future of civilization,” Musk detailed a goal of delivering one million tons of payload to orbit per year, including satellite, hardware, and cargo, eventually increasing that figure to 10 million tons per year.

To put that into perspective, SpaceX’s current annualized run-rate of payload into space is roughly 2,500 metric tons.

RELATED: Mars Needs Cowboys

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Musk urged and encouraged his competitors to copy what his company is doing, an easy stunt to pull given none of them have come close to SpaceX’s achievements. Referring to an internal graph comparing launch volume of similar companies, Musk said that his “next competitor was one pixel high” on the screen.

“I think our competitors are very smart people, but despite being very smart, the rockets still blow up,” Musk laughed.

RELATED: Tech-crazed Chinese are selling — and stealing — human faces. Are we next?

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SpaceX CEO Gwynne Shotwell, also on the call, focused on the growth coming from an increase in subscribers to xAI’s internet company Starlink, which added more than 1.7 million customers in Q2. This represented the company’s biggest increase to date, which now totals 12 million subscribers.

With more than 10,000 satellites in orbit, Musk detailed the sheer computing power being used by the company would be more than two gigawatts by the end of the year and between five and 10 gigawatts by the end of 2027.

By comparison, a single data center used by Meta takes about 2.2 gigawatts of power.

It should come as a surprise to no one that Musk continues to nurse his goals on the grandest scale. He even admitted, “I know this sounds totally nuts,” before later declaring, “We are going to land a lot of tonnage on the moon. We’re going to build the factories on the moon. The robots will be helpful with that.”

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The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said the sentence against Gerald Pitts was intended to show that law enforcement officials take racially motivated violence seriously.

Santos Tejas Gonzalez was trying to get around Pitts on a Los Angeles Metro Bus in March 2023 when Pitts yelled racial slurs at Gonzalez.

‘Gerald Pitts attacked a complete stranger because of his race or perceived race, repeatedly stabbed him, and kept attacking him even after the victim fell from the bus.’

When Gonzalez tried to get off the bus at the next stop to avoid further confrontation, Pitts stabbed him in the face and kicked him in the head after the victim fell off the bus.

At one point before Gonzalez fell to the ground outside the bus, the knife can be seen protruding from his face in a graphic bus surveillance video the district attorney’s office released.

The victim also was stabbed numerous times in the abdomen, arm, and hand.

Pitts was arrested and charged with attempted murder along with additional crimes, including a hate crime designation. In June, a jury found the 67-year-old guilty, and on Thursday Pitts was sentenced to life in state prison plus another seven years.

“A hate crime is more than just a criminal act against one person; it tears at the fibers that hold our community together,” L.A. County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said in a statement.

“These crimes are meant to intimidate entire communities and weaken the trust that holds us together. Gerald Pitts attacked a complete stranger because of his race or perceived race, repeatedly stabbed him, and kept attacking him even after the victim fell from the bus,” Hochman added. “We’re grateful the victim survived and relieved that he is continuing to recover. This kind of violence is exactly what hate crime laws are meant to address.”

The district attorney did not mention Pitts’ race in his press release, and news outlets also neglected to mention it. However, Pitts’ booking record listed him as a black man.

RELATED: Fresno man charged with hate crime over note left at vandalized bakery, police believe he mistook Christian owners for Jews

Hochman tied the attack on Gonzalez to other hate crimes committed in L.A. County, including one on a transgender shopkeeper.

“This office will not tolerate hate incidents and crimes in our communities and will respond with the full force of the law,” Hochman added.

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