The fact is, the global ruling class likes pedophilia.

Pedophilia is the aftershock of an earthquake that no one wants to name. That earthquake is the sexual revolution.

The purveyors of the sexual revolution use the best of modern scientific advertising and marketing knowledge to package their ideology.

Why can’t we seem to get to the bottom of the pedophilia problem?

I’m going to give you three factors that prevent us from stopping the pedophilia crisis.

Then I’m going to give you four very specific action steps you can take — steps that will help protect children from being harmed and help heal the children who have already been harmed.

Let’s look at these three contributing factors to the ongoing childhood sexual abuse crisis.

1. Ideas that groom

You’ve heard the term grooming, haven’t you?

Grooming is the preparation stage of sexual abuse. You could call it the pre-touch phase. Without ever committing a criminal act — without ever touching a victim — the grooming process prepares the child’s mind for submitting to a predator.

Children are not just being abused by billionaires on tropical islands. Epstein Island is just the tip of the pedophilia iceberg. Churches, public schools, and even the United Nations have been implicated in sex crimes against children. What I’m about to explain applies to all of these situations.

Let’s start with public schools.

According to educational researcher Carol Shakeshaft’s 2024 book, “Organizational Betrayal: How Schools Enable Sexual Misconduct and How to Stop It,” a staggering 17% of children in public schools suffer sexual misconduct by teachers, school administrators, and other personnel.

That’s a lot of kids being traumatized.

Now consider the United Nations. Not only do UN agencies promote “sexual rights” for minors, there have been repeated reports of peacekeeping troops sexually exploiting children in refugee camps. As author Jennifer Ells writes:

To cite only a few of many heinous incidents, a series of “food-for-sex” scandals erupted in the early 2000s when UN peacekeepers in Liberia were accused of selling food for sex to girls as young as 8. In Haiti, at least 134 UN peacekeepers from Sri Lanka were accused of sexually abusing children in a sex ring from 2004 to 2007. One boy reported having sex with more than 100 peacekeepers, averaging about four a day over the course of three years beginning when the boy was 15.

Ideas that groom are part of the problem in each of these cases.

One of the intellectual roots of this problem is Wilhelm Reich, the Austrian psychiatrist who wrote “The Sexual Revolution.” He promoted the idea that children are sexual beings from birth and need sexual expression for proper development.

Here is how that argument was framed in the section called “Sexual Abstinence During Puberty,” on page 106. “Abstinence is dangerous and absolutely deleterious to health. To recommend abstinence to youth means to set the stage for neurosis.”

Reich also held that teenagers needed to have their own private spaces where they could have sex without parental knowledge or interference. Check out the section called “Sexual Intercourse Among Adolescents,” starting on page 116.

You might think that was a long time ago, and it has nothing to do with us today. But you would be mistaken.

These ideas persist, often under different language. For example, within the United Nations, the concept of “reproductive health” has been defined as a right to a “satisfying and safe sex life,” along with the freedom to decide when and how often to engage in it.

That raises an obvious question: If a satisfying sex life is a right, who exactly is responsible for providing it?

At the same time, many schools in the United States teach children that sexual activity is natural for them, that they are entitled to it, and that their parents need not know about it.

Parents are beginning to push back.

These curricula present too much information too soon — information that normalizes sexual activity, even for very young kids: books that normalize sexual activity; information that may very well scramble the child’s normal developmental process.

We can also name many other examples of the sexualization of children in advertising, marketing, and entertainment media. The purveyors of the sexual revolution use the best of modern scientific advertising and marketing knowledge to package their ideology. It’s glamorous. It’s cool. It’s sexy. You’ll be popular. You’ll be one of the gang.

All of this contributes to the grooming atmosphere.

And what I mean by the grooming atmosphere is that you’re setting kids up for the creep who comes along — who doesn’t sound or look creepy, but who flatters them, who’s kind to them, who tells them how special they are.

So this is my first key takeaway: Ideas that groom children for sex are a major contributing factor to their vulnerability to predation.

2. Tribes before truth

The second contributing factor to the pedophilia crisis is something that makes it harder for justice to prevail. I call this tribes before truth.

Sexual misconduct generally takes place in secret. Sexual assault is generally underreported. Sexual crimes against children are even more likely to go unreported.

Kids can’t easily make police reports — especially against somebody they know, perhaps love, or depend upon. Victims can be crippled by shame. Little kids sometimes blame themselves in their own minds.

This is why reporting lag is a very real problem.

In our Ruth Institute study in 2018, we studied Catholic clergy sexual abuse. We found that, on average, victims first reported the crime 28 and a half years after it was committed.

So when somebody does come forward, the public doesn’t have complete information. We hear the complaint on one hand and the denials on the other. Understanding what really happened can be very difficult.

Law enforcement and the judicial system have the resources — and the responsibility — to discover the whole truth. But ordinary people like you and me almost always have an incomplete picture.

And in the face of incomplete information, here’s the pattern I’ve noticed.

If the alleged perpetrator is a member of what I consider to be my tribe, I believe he is innocent. I say: Don’t rush to judgment. Let the legal process take its course.

If that fails, people shift their attention to the victim:

They’re lying.Why didn’t they come forward sooner?They’re doing this for the money.They weren’t really victimized.They actually consented.This is a setup of a good man.

By contrast, if the alleged perpetrator is a member of what I consider to be the enemy tribe, I believe absolutely every word the victim says.

“Surely they wouldn’t make up something like that. I knew all along this guy was a creep.”

We tend to judge not on the facts, but on our relationship to the alleged perpetrator and victim.

My tribe is always innocent — therefore I harass and hound the victim.
The enemy is always guilty — therefore I support the victim.

Do you see the problem?

Actual victims need real support. Being called a liar is one of the most traumatizing aspects of being victimized and then finally coming forward.

Think about it from the victim’s perspective. A person pulls himself or herself together enough to make a complaint — and then has to run the gauntlet of public shaming and embarrassment.

Does that make it more likely people will come forward in a timely manner — or less likely?

I think you can figure that out.

So my second key takeaway is this: Our natural tendency to favor tribes over truth is a real problem.

We all have a natural instinct to favor our friends over our opponents. You can see this in general. But as soon as a real situation arises, we let our emotions run away with us.

At the very moment we most need to be objective, we are least likely to be.

3. It’s too ‘icky’ to face

This brings me to the third contributing factor.

Pedophilia is icky.

The sexual abuse of children is too nasty for any normal person to face. We would all prefer to be doing anything else rather than admit that this is going on in our society.

Rather than admit that someone you love and respect could be the perpetrator.

“I can’t believe it” often means “I don’t want to believe it.”

I trusted this person. I admired him. I supported him. I feel betrayed. I feel foolish.

Stop thinking about him. Stop thinking about yourself and your feelings. Start thinking about the child.

As John Manly, an attorney who has filed numerous lawsuits against public school teachers in California, puts it:

When this happens to a child, it’s emotional murder. They’re never the same.
Every person should have the right to pick and choose their first sexual experience. And when that’s stolen from them — whether in third grade or in high school — it has a profoundly damaging effect.

So here is my third and final takeaway: Our revulsion about even thinking about pedophilia hampers our ability to address it — to prosecute it and to prevent it.

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What you can do

If you’ve read this far, thank you. You’re the kind of person who wants to get something done.

I’ve given you three contributing factors. Now here are your marching orders — in reverse order.

1. Face your revulsion

Being disgusted by pedophilia is a wholesome and natural instinct. But that doesn’t mean you should avert your eyes. Look at that feeling objectively now, so you’ll have the courage to face it when someone you love needs you to.

2. Face the tribes-before-truth problem

Identify your own tendency to excuse some while rushing to judge others. Don’t let yourself off the hook. Most of us won’t have to make legal judgments — but your ability to face the truth will matter in what comes next.

3. Do your part to stop the ideas that groom

Here’s John Manly again:

“No one was mandated by law to go to Epstein Island. But you are required to send your children to school. Parents in many cases have no choice. And if you get the wrong teacher, that’s just too bad.”

Get your kids out of public schools. Make a stink at your local school board. Write letters to advertisers. Complain at your local library.

Once you start looking, you will see endless opportunities. The propaganda of the sexual revolution is everywhere. That means there are unlimited opportunities for you to do something constructive about this grooming atmosphere.

4. Reach out to victims

Anyone can do this.

If you know someone who has been sexually victimized, reach out. Ask how you can help. If you dismissed or shunned someone in the past, reach out and apologize.

It’s a matter of justice. It’s a matter of kindness. And it’s simple common sense.

Because honestly — do you really expect the most powerful people on earth to come clean if you and I won’t do our part?

Note: This article was adapted from the Ruth Institute’s video “The Real Causes of Pedophilia.” For more information on the Ruth Institute and its work, click here.

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NASA’s Artemis II pilot found time to speak about Christ and Christianity before circumnavigating the moon on Monday.

Before Victor Glover and his fellow crew members traversed the dark side of the moon, losing radio signal as they went out of Earth’s line of sight, Glover said he wanted to remind Earth-dwellers about one of the “most important mysteries” in the world.

‘We love you from the moon.’

In a message to NASA’s mission control, with the radio transmission broadcasted live, Glover revealed he was talking about “love.”

“Christ said in response to ‘what was the greatest command’ that it was to love God with all that you are. And he, also being a great teacher, said the second is equal to it, and that is to love your neighbor as yourself,” Glover stated.

He concluded the transmission, marked at 6:44 p.m. ET, by saying, “And so as we prepare to go out of radio communication, we’re still going to feel your love from Earth. And to all of you down there on Earth and around Earth: We love you from the moon.”

After a pause, mission control responded: “Houston copies. We’ll see you on the other side.”

“We will see you on the other side,” Glover affirmed.

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According to NASA’s log, the crew had just witnessed an “Earthset” three minutes earlier, the moment Earth drops below the lunar horizon.

This marked the beginning of about 40 minutes of darkness as the astronauts traveled behind the moon, which blocks the radio signals from NASA’s network.

The Artemis II crew reached 252,756 miles beyond our planet 18 minutes later, at 7:02 p.m., at a new human record for the maximum distance attained from Earth.

By 8:35 p.m., the crew entered a solar eclipse that lasted about an hour, before beginning their trip back home.

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Glover has been full of memorable and insightful quotes throughout the mission, including the remarks he made before Easter. Glover spoke on video alongside his crew members about “the beauty of creation” over the weekend, saying that from his perspective, he could see Earth as one whole, and it reminded him of Scripture.

“When I read the Bible and I look at all of the amazing things that were done for us who were created … you have this amazing place — this spaceship. You guys are talking to us because we’re in a spaceship really far from Earth. But you’re on a spaceship called Earth that was created to give us a place to live in the universe — in the cosmos,” Glover explained.

Astonishingly, without having prepared remarks, Glover delivered an extemporaneous motivational speech to all those listening.

“Maybe the distance we are from you makes you think what we’re doing is special, but we’re the same distance from you. And I’m trying to tell you — just trust me: You are special. In all of this emptiness — this is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the universe — you have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together.”

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Between sky-high taxes, radical left-wing policies, and staggering levels of fraud, California has turned into such a nightmare that droves of people are leaving every year.

But one man believes he can save the Golden State from its downward trajectory: Steve Hilton.

The British-born conservative commentator is the former senior adviser to U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, an ex-Fox News host of “The Next Revolution,” a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and a Republican candidate for California governor in 2026. Recently endorsed by President Trump, Hilton is leading several polls against a crowded field, including Democrats and fellow Republican Chad Bianco.

On a recent episode of “Rufo and Lomez,” he joined BlazeTV host Christopher Rufo to expose the depth of California’s depravity and share his plan for a statewide overhaul.

“California today is what you get when the Democrats get everything they want,” says Hilton.

The results of 16 years of unchallenged Democrat rule speak for themselves:

“We have now today in California the highest poverty rate in the country (tied with Louisiana), the highest unemployment rate of all 50 states, the highest cost of living. Everything is the most expensive here: gas, electric, groceries, housing costs — everything,” he lists.

“U.S. News and World Report ranked California 50th out of 50 states for opportunity; WalletHub ranked us as 50th out of 50 for affordability. Chief Executive Magazine [ranked] California 50th out of 50 states for business climate,” Hilton continues, noting that this is “not the end of the list.”

After years of paying “the highest taxes for the worst results,” a “real revolution” is beginning to catch fire, he says. Even though the thought of California — one of the deepest blue states on the map — being run by a Republican governor feels like a pipe dream to many, Hilton believes the state government’s failures are so catastrophic at this point that a red victory is now feasible.

“I really think that this year we could get a major upset and you’ll see a Republican governor elected in November,” he says.

Rufo is thrilled at the prospect of a Republican governor in California for many reasons but especially when it comes to the shocking amount of fraud that’s been exposed under current Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom.

“Depending on how you calculate the numbers [and] which programs you include, at the very low end, we had something like $180 billion lost to fraud under Newsom. At the very high end, I think you had something like $400 billion lost under Newsom,” he says, referencing his recent City Journal reporting.

“The scale of these numbers is almost difficult to comprehend. Can you walk us through what you found and what you think the true extent of the fraud is now?” he asks.

Hilton, who launched the investigative initiative CAL DOGE (intentionally modeled after Elon Musk’s federal department), says that what his team has uncovered using just public records, audits, and whistleblower tips is already shocking.

He gives two examples.

“When cannabis was legalized in California through Proposition 64, they said the taxes will go towards substance abuse prevention. Well, we tracked the money down — $370 million of that parceled out in tiny grants to 500+ nonprofits,” says Hilton.

“And when you look at what they do by checking their websites and their annual reports, what do they do? Democrat political activity — registering voters, organizing in the community, all that kind of stuff.”

Hilton’s second example comes from California’s “climate fund.”

Since 2015, the state has allocated $100 million per year to installing solar panels on low-income apartment buildings. However, CAL DOGE found that the program’s own official reports show that only $72 million was actually spent on installing solar panels.

“$928 million, again, goes to all these Democrat political organizations,” says Hilton.

“They take money from the taxpayer and say it’s going for some nice purpose that you think is going to be good, and then it all gets parceled up going to this network of nonprofits that then do things that help the Democrat political machine … and the scale of it is massive,” he adds, noting that CAL DOGE’s range for state fraud is between “$312 billion” and “$425 billion over five years.”

“How can we break that system?” Rufo asks.

To hear Hilton’s answer, watch the video above.

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A licensed concealed carrier opened fire on an intruder who broke into his Chicago home after midnight Monday and charged at him, CWB Chicago reported.

The 33-year-old victim called 911 at 1:24 a.m. and said he shot an intruder inside his home in the 2200 block of East 103rd Street — and had started CPR on him, the outlet said.

‘Homeowner clearly was in fear of being killed! That’s a justification!’

The intruder was shot in the chest, the outlet said.

His victim’s home is across the street from the South Chicago (4th) District police station, the outlet added.

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Arriving officers took over lifesaving measures, but the intruder was pronounced dead at 1:43 a.m., the outlet said.

The intruder remained a “John Doe” as of Monday evening, CWB Chicago noted, adding that detectives are investigating the shooting.

The homeowner said he did not know the intruder, WBBM-TV reported.

The residence where the shooting took place is in the Far South Side’s Deering neighborhood, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Most of the commenters under WLS-TV’s Facebook post about the shooting seemed squarely in the homeowner’s corner:

“Homeowner clearly was in fear of being killed!” one commenter exclaimed. “That’s a justification!””Finally, a story with a happy ending,” another user noted.”Would get the same breaking into our house,” another commenter promised.”Don’t break in someone’s house,” another user suggested. “The guy was protecting his home.””Great job homeowner!!!” another commenter declared.”People need to think [about] the consequences of their actions,” another user offered.“One thug at a time,” another commenter concluded.”Case closed, next story,” another user wrote.

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Two of our kids went to visit my parents a couple days ago, so my wife and I are home with just our youngest for a few nights. It’s strange. It kind of feels like it felt when we only had our first. It’s so quiet, so insanely quiet.

In fact, I’m laughing as I write this thinking about just how quiet it is compared to normal (read as: insane) daily life. Babies cry and all, but the truth is once you have older ones, you realize that those little cries and protests are really just cute and kind of pitiful, even if they seem furious.

There is something vital in us that seeks out friction and new horizons, physical and mental.

But of course, they don’t feel like that at the time when you are new to everything with your first kid.

Cry babies

I remember one time, probably two or three days after we left the hospital with our son, we called the 24-hour nurse line because we were concerned he might hurt himself from crying so much. She very kindly assured us that everything was fine and that we shouldn’t worry about him hurting himself due to crying.

My wife and I think about that story probably every six months or so. We laugh so hard about how little we knew, how nervous we were, and how loud those weak, little screams from a 5-day-old mouth must have felt to our uninitiated ears. We weren’t used to crying, we weren’t used to holding a little human screaming his hardest. We genuinely thought he might blow a blood vessel or something.

Now it’s different. When our 5-month-old cries, we aren’t particularly disturbed or shocked. It’s just what they do. We know the kinds of cries (my wife better than I), and it’s just not a big deal. They aren’t even loud, or at least not compared to the cries from a 2-year-old in the throes of an illogical tantrum.

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0 to 1

It felt so hard when we only had our son six years ago. That leap from zero to one is a big one. Up until that point, you have basically spent your life being selfish. In your quiet, organized, little apartment where nothing is moved unless you move it, where no one screams for no reason, and where you actually have time to relax, life is very easy. So that leap with your first is big, and the chaos feels like a lot.

But now? This brief return to life as a family of three feels like a vacation. There are no messes unless my wife or I make them. I don’t have to admonish someone every 10 minutes for not doing what they should be doing. I can get so much done, we have so much extra time, and everything is so quiet.

It’s funny how easy that thing that seemed so hard feels now. As we have more kids, we adapt to more chaotic circumstances. We are able to take on more stuff. We are able to manage more people. Our love expands, and so does our bandwidth.

The thing is, we don’t feel it happening when it’s happening. The stress keeps right up, following a straight line so we don’t realize we are becoming more competent, and it isn’t until we are able to visit ourselves in our prior situation for a few days that we are able to really see how far we have come.

Sink or swim

This phenomenon doesn’t only apply to raising a family. It applies to our work, our adventures, and all of everything we do. We adapt to our environment, rise to the occasion, and our capacities expand when needed. If we stop, look back at our lives, and really think about how we have grown, we see that often we’ve grown the most when we have been forced to.

We grow when we take on things we don’t think we can handle. We don’t know how we are going to do it — whatever it is — but we jump in, do it, and two years later, it’s just what we consider to be normal, and we are ready again for a new challenge. There is something vital in us that seeks out friction and new horizons, physical and mental. And so we keep doing that over and over again throughout our lives, and we keep getting stronger and more capable as the years pass, even if we still feel kind of like we don’t know anything at all.

It’s possible to try to avoid struggle and the growth that comes with it. It’s possible to try to take the easy way out. But life finds a way of demanding more of us. Whether we like it or not, we are thrown overboard and told to swim, and more often than not, we find that we can swim quite well.

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As the war in Iran rages on into its sixth week, President Trump has issued yet another threat against Iran — yet this threat seems to include a different target as well.

Early on Tuesday morning, Trump posted a strange warning message that included the Iranian people.

‘We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World.’

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Trump said on Truth Social. “I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?”

Trump went on to suggest that Tuesday night would be a deciding moment for the future of the Iranian people and regime.

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“We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!”

President Trump previously set a hard deadline of 8:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday night for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz. An official told NBC News that the U.S. has struck military assets on Kharg Island, prior to the deadline.

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Artemis II made history on Monday night as it flew around the moon in the farthest manned flight from the Earth.

On Tuesday morning, NASA released some stunning photos from the historic flyby.

‘On the far side of the Moon, 252,756 miles away, Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy have now traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history.’

The White House and NASA posted some of the most stunning photos on social media, including a total eclipse from behind the moon:

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Reminiscent of the famous “Earthrise” photo taken by William Anders on the Apollo 8 mission, NASA also published a photo of “Earthset.” According to NASA, this is the first photo from the far side of the moon ever taken.

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NASA Artemis also posted a photo of the Orientale basin, most of which is not visible from Earth. This perspective will allow new discoveries to be made.

The account describes the photo and the new discovery: “The Artemis II crew captured this image showing the rings of the Orientale basin during their lunar flyby on April 6. At the 10 o’clock position of the Orientale basin, the two smaller craters — which the Artemis II crew has suggested be named Integrity & Carroll — are visible.”

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The flyby of the moon lasted several hours starting Monday afternoon.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman celebrated the historic moment with an exciting update on Monday of the progress of astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen:

Artemis II has reached its maximum distance from Earth. On the far side of the Moon, 252,756 miles away, Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy have now traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history and now begin their journey home. Before they left, they said they hoped this mission would be forgotten, but it will be remembered as the moment people started to believe that America can once again do the near-impossible and change the world. Congratulations to this incredible crew and the entire NASA team, our international and commercial partners, but this mission isn’t over until they’re under safe parachutes, splashing down into the Pacific.

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