The woke intelligentsia has identified yet another seemingly innocuous instrument of white supremacist oppression that literally emanates from your fingertips.

A bizarre article published by the BBC claims that a trending practice in which women’s nails are left unpainted is actually a racist plot against minorities.

‘When I do get a manicure now, it’s no polish. Why? Because I’m old and tired. Not because I joined the KKK.’

The article cites Kristina Rodulfo, a beauty journalist, who links the bare-nail trend to racism.

“That trend really promotes blankness and this kind of sameness and erasure of culture and identity that is so important to black and brown communities,” she said.

“They are often called elegant or tasteful, and these are often usually euphemisms that perpetuate white supremacist standards of beauty,” Rodulfo added.

The article goes on to enumerate far less extremist reasons for the trend.

“It’s just really chic. And I love less is more, I love minimalism … less consumerism and just self-care things that you could probably do at home,” said one woman who chose the unpolished look.

Critics latched onto the white supremacist comment to mock the BBC and the author.

“This is the most absurd story ever and it demeans the BBC to be reporting as ‘news’ that going without nail varnish is (apparently) classist and racist,” said arts writer Alexandra Wilson.

“I got manicures for short to mid length red nails, every two weeks for decades. Decades!” responded one woman. “I simply got tired of doing it. And that is why I have bare nails. When I do get a manicure now, it’s no polish. Why? Because I’m old and tired. Not because I joined the KKK.”

“So if you actually can’t keep a manicure bc you spend your days doing laundry and dishes, or can’t afford one, or are too busy working and taking care of kids to do your own, you are a white supremacist. Yes, that totally makes sense,” said another sarcastically.

“I cant believe my bare nails are a political statement. I dont get em done because I dont want to sit in a badly ventilated chop shop full of carcinogens every 4 weeks risking blood and skin infections due to poor hygiene,” replied another critic.

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“According to BBC breathing is racist, eating is racist, sleeping is racist, not polishing your nails is racist,” read another response.

The national broadcaster is reportedly in financial straits and has been forced to cut shows, lay off workers, and threaten cutting off services.

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A South Carolina mother apparently said she was hallucinating when she was arrested on Saturday for allegedly stabbing her two young children.

Officers were called to a residence on Bud Arthur Bridge Road for a welfare check when the children were found, according to the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office.

‘Some of the lacerations were so deep they cut to the bone.’

The children, ages 3 and 6 years old, had dozens of injuries, according to police.

“Between the two children, we’re estimating that there were approximately 50 stab wounds,” said Lt. Graham McLellan of the sheriff’s office.

“Some of the lacerations were so deep they cut to the bone,” said the solicitor’s office.

Police arrested the children’s 35-year-old mother, Taylor Gosnell, after she arrived at the home. She was acting erratically and was sent for a mental evaluation.

The home was also described as covered in blood and with broken debris and shattered glass throughout the home. Televisions and mirrors were found destroyed inside.

The children were transported to the Spartanburg Regional Medical Center for treatment and are said to be in stable condition. But the injuries to the 6-year-old are disturbing.

“He’s currently facing the possibility of amputation of fingers and possibly an arm due to the severity of the injury sustained,” said the solicitor’s office.

McLellan also said the deputies were disturbed by what they experienced.

“There is no preparation that our deputies can have to see something like that,” he added.

“We’re going to do our job,” McLellan continued. “Our deputies are going to go out there and do what they have to do to make sure that there’s justice delivered for these children.”

Gosnell was charged with two counts of attempted murder.

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The suspect has previous charges pending of child endangerment from 2024, according to the sheriff’s office.

She’s being held without bond.

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In most countries, getting a life-saving organ transplant depends on tragedy, timing, and luck.

But according to the author of “Killed to Order,” Jan Jekielek, China operates under a very different system.

“In a normal ethical transplantation regime like here, if I need a new heart, right, someone has to have a catastrophic accident and that heart needs to match me, blood type and tissue type, so my body doesn’t reject it,” Jekielek tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck.

“We end up with a situation where there’s very, very few available hearts for transplant. There has to be this catastrophic accident. In China, it’s the exact reverse,” he continues.

Jekielek explains that one of the original whistleblowers was a transplant surgeon who noticed that a patient was able to get an organ to order in just two weeks’ time.

“Which means that that catastrophic accident was being arranged,” he tells Glenn.

And to be able to arrange this kind of sale, China has a very specific recipe.

“They have this long history in communist China of creating class enemies. OK, one of the first was land owners. They wanted to seize people’s land,” Jekielek explains.

“So they push this mass dehumanizing propaganda into the system, demonizing the land owners, convincing everybody that these are bad people, that they’re evil, that they’re dangerous, and basically conditioning the population to hate these people,” he continues.

After a successful dehumanization campaign, these people are incarcerated.

“They blood-typed, tissue-typed, and organ-scanned them across a database of a million or maybe 2 million people,” he tells Glenn.

“If I’m a rich person, I’ve got that 200 grand. I drop the money. That transaction is made, and I can get that new heart in two weeks,” he continues.

“Someone the regime has pushed dehumanizing propaganda against to be used against their will as my donor kills to order. That is what they do over there,” he adds.

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The Trump administration has shut down an extension of special protections for certain LGBTQ+ members imposed under former President Joe Biden, and Democrats are imploding.

In 2024, Biden included sexual orientation and gender identity under the categories that would be protected under Title IX in the policies at the Department of Education.

‘Trump is once again attacking the civil rights protections that help make our country great.’

According to the Department of Education, “The Biden administration’s Office for Civil Rights pushed schools across the country to illegally allow males to intrude into women’s sports and intimate facilities, and it investigated school staff for using incorrect pronouns or failing to ask students to declare a preferred gender.

The Trump administration has now ended those policies and “returned to enforcing the first Trump administration’s 2020 Title IX rule,” the Education Department press release said.

“Thanks to today’s action, the published Title IX regulations faithfully reflect[] court orders and congressional intent — reducing confusion for parents, students, and educational institutions,” said a statement from Linda McMahon, the secretary of education.

The Human Rights Campaign issued a statement implying that the change would result in more sexual violence in schools.

“The Trump administration is erasing protections for LGBTQ+ kids and survivors of sexual assault in school settings without an opportunity for public comment,” the organization said. “Trump’s Department of Education has abandoned its duty to protect students from sex discrimination and sexual violence in schools.”

Others pounced on the announcement to attack the president.

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“Every day, this administration continues to target LGBTQIA+ kids,” said Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington. “It’s incredibly harmful and does the exact opposite of what our shared goal should be: protecting kids. The LGBTQIA+ community and all our students deserve better.”

“While the administration is unlawfully eroding protections for trans students under the guise of ‘protecting women and girls,’ they are systematically weakening the very laws that keep students safe and schools accountable,” responded National Women’s Law Center director Shiwali Patel in a statement to Politico.

“Trump is once again attacking the civil rights protections that help make our country great. Illinois will remain a safe state for ALL students to pursue their dreams,” replied Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D).

Republicans applauded the return to former policies.

“The Biden Administration’s rewrite of Title IX did immeasurable harm to women and girls by replacing biological sex with gender identity,” replied Republican Rep. Mark Harris of North Carolina.

“Biological males do not belong in women’s locker rooms, on women’s teams, or competing in women’s sports. This action restores common sense and makes clear that schools must protect the safety, privacy, and opportunities of female students.”

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A possible 2028 presidential contender has been forced to respond to a poll showing how few Americans believe Democrats actually care about them.

Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona was being interviewed on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday when host Martha Raddatz pressed him about a poll saying only 34% of Americans believe Democrats care about people like them.

Kelly tried to distract from the unpopularity of the Democratic Party by criticizing the president.

“What does that tell you, what do you do about it if people just aren’t feeling it from the Democrats, if you’re sort of a default or people stay away from the race?” Raddatz asked.

“Well, I’ll tell you what I’m doing about it. I’ve been traveling across the country basically nonstop for the last six months,” said Kelly.

He went on to list the states he’s been visiting, including New Hampshire and South Carolina, and added that he’d been to a Navajo parade in Arizona.

“Just talking to people and trying to understand their challenges in their homes, in their schools, in their communities,” he added. “We have to deliver, there’s no question about that.”

After refusing to answer the question, Kelly pivoted to attacking President Donald Trump over the conflict in Iran.

The nonresponse fit into an earlier exchange from the same show where Kelly tried to distract from the unpopularity of the Democratic Party by criticizing the president.

Video of Kelly’s nonresponse was posted to social media by the official account of the Republican National Committee.

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While Kelly’s trips to the Navajo parade may not ease Democrats’ polling woes, the president’s popularity has also taken a dive owing to high gas prices and the conflict in Iran.

Democrats are hoping to seize control of at least the U.S. House of Representatives in order to thwart Trump’s legislative goals for the latter part of his second term.

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Americans are often told that Canada’s health care system is proof that universal coverage works. Nick Freitas wants to know: at what cost?

And the filmmakers behind “Broken Country” have the answer.

“What do we tell our barista at Starbucks when they tell us that we just don’t understand how wonderful it could be if we had a Canadian-style system, that all of a sudden you would get free health care and whether or not you live or die would no longer be determined based off of how much money you made because up there they really care about everybody,” Freitas asks Mira Metter and Mike Werry.

“The first sort of misconception is that it is free. It comes out of taxation, right? It comes primarily out of personal income tax. And to the average Canadian family of four, it’s roughly $18,000 a year for just health care out of taxes,” Metter tells Freitas.

“The second one is that you might not pay at the front desk with the nurse when you go to receive any level of care, but you pay with how long you’re waiting for that care and the impacts along the way,” she continues.

Metter had her own experience in the Canadian ER when her doctor sent her there to get same-day blood tests. She was there for 14 hours and recalls being “absolutely horrified watching senior citizens dying in gurneys in the hall.”

“People coming in from all walks with all sorts of levels of severity just sitting around waiting, bleeding, you know, in agony for hours and hours and hours on end, and that in itself has major implications,” she explains.

“So when you look at a health care system and think it’s so ideal, is it ideal because you’re not paying for it at point of purchase, or is it ideal because you don’t see that payment but you’re paying with prolonged issues due to wait times?” she adds.

In their film, she recalls interviewing a man who slipped and fell on ice and had to wait 18 hours in the hospital to be seen.

“It became a permanent disability that caused severe pain. And that costs so much more than whatever sort of paid insurance plan would actually be,” she says.

“Is this really descriptive of the system?” Freitas asks.

“It’s universal,” Werry answers, adding, “Average wait times at hospitals in Canada are about 16 hours.”

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Democratic lawmakers and officials around the country are so desperate to disarm law-abiding Americans, they are now going after some toy guns.

With the backing of the March for Our Lives Foundation and the eponymous gun-grabber activist group of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), Democratic Rep. Kevin Mullin (Calif.) introduced legislation last week targeting certain air guns.

‘They are literally coming for your Red Ryder.’

Federal law currently defines the term “firearm” as “(A) any weapon (including a starter gun) which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive; (B) the frame or receiver of any such weapon; (C) any firearm muffler or firearm silencer; or (D) any destructive device.”

Whereas a firearm utilizes burning gunpowder to launch projectiles, air guns — as the name suggests — use compressed gas to send projectiles down the barrel.

Although air guns are categorically not firearms, Mullin’s bill would classify them as such if they launch .177 pellets, .22 caliber pellets, and .25 caliber pellets at an initial velocity of at least 800 feet, 500 feet, and 450 feet per second, respectively. Any air gun firing a metallic pellet above .25 caliber would also be designated as a firearm.

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If enacted, this bill would require that air gun purchasers undergo a background check.

The legislation would also require that the attorney general “publish … guidance to assist manufacturers of lethal air guns in becoming federal firearms licensees, including assistance with the application process and on compliance with requirements for licensees, including serialization and record keeping requirements” within a year of enactment.

Mullin said that he introduced his so-called “Garrett’s Law” after Garrett Edwards — a constituent who, though barred from possessing a firearm, committed suicide using an air gun.

Ann Edwards said in a statement that her deceased son experienced “late onset psychosis” and was “able to access a lethal airgun through Amazon.”

‘The attempted Australia-ification of the US continues.’

Since one mentally compromised constituent abused his freedom, Mullin evidently wants to restrict that freedom for all Americans.

“If a weapon is powerful enough to kill, it should be subject to the same commonsense safety standards as any other gun,” stated Mullin. “It makes no sense that someone prohibited by law from purchasing a firearm can still walk into a store or go online and legally obtain an airgun capable of killing. This bill closes that gap and, hopefully, helps prevent another family from facing this kind of unimaginable loss.”

“Lethal weapons should be treated like lethal weapons,” said March for Our Lives Foundation co-founder Jaclyn Corin.

Daisy, the over-century-old American company behind the famous Red Ryder lever-action BB gun, noted on X that Mullin’s bill would impact toy air guns like the Daisy 880.

“Their goal is to eventually include all airguns,” said the company. “If passed it will treat airguns guns producing ‘high velocity’ as firearms.”

“It bears watching very closely,” added the company.

Utah Sen. Mike Lee (R) blasted Mullin’s legislative initiative, stating, “The gun control lobby targeting BB and pellet guns is fundamentally unserious.”

“Putting dangerous criminals behind bars and keeping them there is the #1 way to reduce violent crime, but leftists have convinced themselves that law-abiding gun owners are villains,” added Lee.

“If you want to know how far gun-grabbers will go, they are now trying to reclassify BB guns as ‘firearms,'” tweeted Young Americans for Liberty. “They are literally coming for your Red Ryder.”

The National Association for Gun Rights suggested that this kind of legislation was a long time in coming.

“The attempted Australia-ification of the US continues,” said the association. “Giffords and David Hogg’s former gun control group are backing a bill to regulate air guns the same as firearms. This isn’t a shock. We’ve said for years they’ll never stop at firearms.”

“They constantly point to places like the UK, Germany, and Australia as the model we should follow. Places that regulate knives with a point and make you register airsoft guns with the government,” added the association.

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A Mexican national remains in custody in Northern Michigan after he was identified as the suspect in a sexual assault on Mackinac Island earlier this month.

Mackinac Island is a picturesque tourist destination located in Lake Huron between the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan. Some say going to Mackinac Island is almost like taking a “step back in time” with its breathtaking views, Victorian architecture, and strict prohibition of motor vehicles.

MIPD described Jaimez in the press release as ‘a 30-year-old male from Mexico.’

According to a press release from the Mackinac Island Police Department, a woman was walking alone on Main Street, just east of Hoban Street, around 2:15 a.m. on September 16. At that point, a man forced her to the ground, sexually assaulted her, and then fled the scene on foot.

The woman was taken to the Mackinac Island Medical Center for treatment, the press release said.

Later that day, Carlos Adrian Fernandez De Lara Jaimez was identified as the suspect. Jaimez was arrested and booked into Mackinac County Jail in St. Ignace in the Upper Peninsula.

He is identified in his county booking photo as “Carlos Fernandez,” though court records list Jaimez as his last name. A deputy confirmed to Blaze News that he remains in custody as of Monday afternoon.

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MIPD described Jaimez in the press release as “a 30-year-old male from Mexico.” The county deputy could not confirm Jaimez’s legal status but did note that surrendering his passport was one of the conditions of Jaimez’s bond.

Jaimez has been charged with second-degree criminal sexual conduct with personal injury, a felony. He was arraigned on September 18, when Judge Beth Gibson assessed him a $100,000 cash or surety bond, court records show.

Jaimez had a probable cause conference on Monday, though court records listed only “miscellaneous action” under the event description. He has a preliminary examination hearing scheduled for next Monday.

Jaimez’s attorney and the Department of Homeland Security did not respond to requests for comment from Blaze News.

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After more than a decade of jokes, false promises, and disappointments, Apple’s Siri is finally worth the hype. The latest version brings a bunch of new capabilities to iPhone, thanks to Apple Intelligence. Here’s what it can do and how you can enable it on your device — if you meet the requirements.

The new Siri isn’t just marketing fluff or corporate spin. It’s real. I’ve used it for more than a week, and I’ve come away impressed. Granted, Siri isn’t perfect. It makes mistakes, just like any other AI chatbot from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. But compared to the old Siri that sometimes struggled with basic facts, the new version is light-years ahead. It’s even good enough to replace some interactions you might have with bots from the competition.

This is a huge leap forward.

The new Siri is included with iOS 27 on supported devices. The catch, though, is that it’s not enabled by default. In fact, if you want to use the new Siri, you’ll have to sign up and spend time on a digital waiting list.

I signed up during the public beta, and I only had to wait about 10 minutes. Now that iOS 27 is out for everyone, though, wait times can stretch out to several days to several weeks. So for those interested in the new Siri, you’ll want to sign up as soon as possible.

Getting on the list is simple. Open the Settings app, tap “Siri,” then select “Try Siri AI (Beta),” and you’re in the queue. That’s it.

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Once approved, the Siri Settings page will have a new interface with new voice options that are fully customizable to build the ideal-sounding digital assistant for fielding questions and queries.

You’ll also find a new Siri app on your home screen. It functions similarly to other AI chatbot apps that you may have used in the past. There’s an option to type questions to Siri or review past conversations for reference or posterity.

Finally, you can access Siri by writing queries in Spotlight (the search bar that pops out when you swipe down from the middle of Home Screen) or using voice commands by holding the power button on the side. You can even ask Siri about something on your screen, it will analyze the data, and give you more information in real time.

Perhaps the most impressive part, though, is that Siri is actually useful now. It knows facts, draws on current events, and understands complex data, all powered by Apple Foundation Models, which are essentially custom Google Gemini models with revised training data running on Apple Silicon.

Confusing, I know.

Of course, none of Siri’s new capabilities are all that new for Android users who have had Gemini for the last couple of years, but on iPhone, this is a huge leap forward for a previously addled Siri. There’s also something Siri can do that no other chatbot can — maintain your privacy.

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The new Siri combines local data processing with Private Cloud Compute, a system that anonymizes queries by removing customer metadata and IP address information to mask users’ identities. The entire process is complex, but ultimately, all queries that can’t be conducted on-device are encrypted and sent to a Private Cloud Compute.

They’re used only to complete a specific task as requested by the user, and then they are promptly deleted from the system. Queries aren’t gathered and saved as training data, and Apple claims that no one — not even an Apple employee — can access them.

Here’s the bad news for anyone interested in trying out the new Siri on iPhone. The new models require cutting-edge hardware. That means you need an iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max and up, an iPad mini with an A17 Pro chip and up, an iPad with an M1 series chip and up, or a Mac with an Apple Silicon M1 chip and up.

Even more devices can download the latest iOS 27 update, but only a select few can use Apple Intelligence and the new Siri to its fullest extent.

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