BlazeTV host Christopher Rufo apparently lives rent-free in the head of John Oliver, the English agitpropist who long played second fiddle to the eponymous host of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”

Oliver melted down in 2022, for instance, not only over Rufo’s campaign against radical gender ideology but over his successful efforts to rid American schools of critical race theory.

‘Say what you will about — here it comes — the Nazis, but stick with me, credit where it’s due.’

On Monday, the liberal commentator — whose transvestite–produced HBO show had a defamation suit dropped earlier this month by an Obama judge — targeted Rufo again, this time over the role he has played in New College of Florida’s conservative renaissance.

Florida under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has managed to break the radical left’s stranglehold over the education system, pushing back against critical race theory, LGBT propaganda, and historical revisionism in the classroom; nuking university DEI programs; keeping men out of girls’ sports; and eliminating discrimination based on race, color, sex, or national origin in public institutions.

DeSantis’ strategic appointments — particularly those he made to New College of Florida’s 13-member board of trustees in early 2023 — have been a critical piece of this institutional reconquest, the significance of which is clearly not lost on Oliver.

Oliver excitedly caught his audience up, stating that DeSantis “appointed six new board members who are political allies including Chris Rufo, the conservative activist who then tweeted, ‘We are now over the walls and ready to transform higher education from within.'”

After characterizing Rufo as a “cartoon supervillain” and randomly joking about masturbation, Oliver stated, “Rufo is constantly sounding the alarm over the woke indoctrination of young people, but being appointed as a trustee at New College actually represented something new for him: a chance to put his ideas into practice. And as he explained at the time, his goal was nothing less than to offer a blueprint for what conservatives could then do for education nationwide.”

“John Oliver just can’t get enough,” Rufo responded on X. “This is his third story calling me a ‘supervillain.’ I take it as a compliment.”

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In addition to bemoaning New College’s transformation into an exemplar for other institutions aspiring to break free from their woke encumbrances, Oliver also complained on Monday that the liberal arts college axed its gender studies program.

The liberal host made a note of “Rufo bragging they’d gotten rid of a ‘massive’ and ‘radical’ department that indoctrinates students.”

Rufo motioned at an August 2023 board meeting to begin to dissolve the program, stating online, “We are the first public university in America to begin rolling back the encroachment of queer theory and gender pseudoscience into academic life.”

After the board voted 7-3 in favor, the college’s only full-time gender studies professor — a woman who identifies as a man — subsequently submitted a resignation letter, thereby evidencing her political bias and ideological capture.

In a letter dated August 2023, the radical professor wrote, “Eliminating Gender Studies is a reactionary attempt to prevent cultural shifts that scare you. Gender has changed before, and it is changing again. You can’t keep your kids from being gay or trans.”

In addition to whining about the demise of the school’s gender indoctrination program, Oliver melted down on Monday over the college’s 2024 disposal of propaganda — some of it apparently damaged by Tropical Storm Debby — from the defunct Gender and Diversity Center’s library, likening it to Nazi book-burnings.

Oliver highlighted an Aug. 16, 2024, tweet in which Rufo wrote, “We abolished the gender studies program. Now we’re throwing out the trash.”

The British propagandist said in response on his show, “Say what you will about — here it comes — the Nazis, but stick with me, credit where it’s due, I know when the Nazis went after books, they went big.”

“Ideologues capturing something that they hate, claiming that they want to fix it, and then destroying it instead,” Oliver said later in his tirade. “But seldom has that move been more blatant than watching people talk about great debates and classical education, only to then drive away faculty, refer to books as trash, and assemble a veritable Avengers of D-list conservatives, celebrities, creeps, and weirdos.”

New College officials such as David Rohrbacher, provost and vice president of academic affairs, wholly rejected Oliver’s framing.

“What I’m proud about over the last three years is that in addition to many, many new ideas, new projects, new policies, new educational strategies,” Rohrbacher told the Free Press, “New College remains the college it was in terms of that model of experimental learning and experiential learning.”

Multiple professors told the FP that while the college now has fewer radical course offerings, the new leadership does not police what they teach.

New College President Richard Corcoran emphasized that “the great liberal-arts schools that are not indoctrinating, that have great [test] scores and get great students — yeah, that would be who we’d like to be.”

Corcoran noted further that most of the “ideological warriors have left” and the people the school has been hiring are “a who’s who of faculty in the history of the college.”

Oliver’s panicked episode aired in the wake of a deal reached late last month by state lawmakers, which, if finalized, will transfer control of the University of South Florida’s Sarasota-Manatee campus to New College.

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A U.S. congresswoman says new evidence released by the national intelligence director should void one of the two impeachments of President Donald Trump.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said the allegations that Trump was guilty of colluding with the Russian government were false.

‘It was a terrible lie that tore this country apart, and was plotted by a weaponized intelligence agency under Obama.’

Trump was impeached in 2019 over alleged abuse of power and obstruction of Congress related to his campaign to pressure the Ukrainian government to investigate corruption allegations in a supposed attempt to damage the Biden family ahead of the 2020 election.

Luna said new evidence contradicted the claims that underpinned the impeachment.

“I will be putting forward a resolution to void the fraudulent impeachment of President Trump during his first term in office. Russia collusion never happened,” Luna wrote in a statement on social media.

According to the report from DNI Tulsi Gabbard, the investigation into the president’s call had been spun out of “politicized, manufactured narratives” created by Trump’s political opponents.

“It was a terrible lie that tore this country apart, and was plotted by a weaponized intelligence agency under [former President Barack] Obama. There is no monetary value that can be assigned to the damage this lie caused. It destroyed families’ relationships with one another, our country’s comradery [sic], and our relationship with another nuclear super power (Russia) that could have resulted in war,” Luna added.

“Thank goodness the admin has started to restore that relationship, but HISTORY should reflect what actually transpired,” she added.

Gabbard has since announced that she is stepping down from the DNI office. The former Hawaii congresswoman said that her husband was diagnosed with an “extremely rare form of bone cancer” and was facing difficult treatment challenges.

The president wants to replace Gabbard with Jay Clayton, the former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Trump was impeached by the House in 2019, but the Senate refused to convict him. A second impeachment over Jan. 6 was also successful in the House in 2021, but he was ultimately acquitted again in the Senate for the second impeachment.

The president called impeachment a “dirty, filthy, disgusting word” as well as a form of “giant presidential harassment” in 2019.

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While BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock admits Victor Wembanyama is the San Antonio Spurs’ “biggest star,” he isn’t impressed with the NBA player’s attitude toward the country that’s signing his paychecks.

This is because before the beginning of Game 3, Wembanyama made it a point not to be on the court for the national anthem.

“I do not like Victor Wembanyama, and I didn’t like him before Game 3, and what transpired in Game 3 really made me dislike him,” Whitlock says.

“He did not take the court for the national anthem before Game 3. Victor Wembanyama, I believe, stood in the tunnel, in the locker room during the national anthem before Game 3, and no one talked about it,” he explains.

“This isn’t a coincidence that a Gregg Popovich-run organization has an anti-American Frenchman who can’t come out and respect the national anthem in a country that’s paying him millions upon millions of dollars, a country that’s making him the face of professional basketball,” he continues.

“This guy is the most coddled and pampered athlete perhaps in NBA history, maybe in sports history,” he says. “He’s getting the Colin Kaepernick treatment.”

Whitlock calls the NBA star a “punk” who’s being tolerated purely because “the NBA is a global basketball league, and the NBA is a propaganda arm of the Marxist, socialist, communist agenda.”

“And so, America’s the bad guy, and Victor Wembanyama, the guy the NBA is trying to make the face of the league, can’t even come out and participate in the national anthem,” he adds.

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A deadly shooting unfolded in Midland, Texas, Friday morning before a standoff with police that reportedly left the suspected gunman dead.

Midland Police responded to an active shooting incident in the 4600 block of West Wall Street, officials said.

‘We see the drones, and then we see the Texas Rangers and the undercover cars with lights on. … Had to be, seems like, 50 police officers, like a small army.’

Officers heard gunfire coming from a building and worked quickly to secure and clear the area, officials said, adding that “armored units were deployed, and partner agencies assisted in the response.”

The shooting left at least one victim dead and 10 others injured, officials told NBC News.

The suspect was seen dead with a drone, Midland Mayor Lori Blong told CBS News.

More from NBC News:

Nine victims were taken to Midland Memorial Hospital, a spokesperson for the hospital said. Three are undergoing surgeries, and one is in recovery. Two others are stable and remain in the emergency department, and three have been discharged.

Another person was taken to Odessa Medical Center Hospital.

A spokesperson for the city could not confirm if all of the victims had been shot.

Video reportedly from the scene captured the startling sounds of the shooting.

Blong added to CBS News there was no indication that any police officers were injured.

Lee Carlisle was at a nearby Super 8 Motel and described to CBS News what he saw and heard.

“We heard several, several gunshots, like 20 gunshots, and then it moved down — the whole situation moved further down,” Carlisle told the news network. “We see the drones, and then we see the Texas Rangers and the undercover cars with lights on. … Had to be, seems like, 50 police officers, like a small army.”

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott released a statement: “Cecilia and I are deeply saddened by the senseless act of violence in Midland. We are praying for the victims, their families, and the entire community,” he wrote on social media.

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“I have been briefed on the matter and commend the swift response from the Midland Police Department, DPS and all assisting law enforcement agencies,” Abbott added.

Midland is located in Western Texas about three hours south of Lubbock.

This is a developing story; updates may be added.

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A dispute over player eligibility now has Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) involved after he entered himself into the fray on Thursday.

The Big 12 Conference finds itself with its hands tied after a court ruling pumped the brakes on the NCAA punishing a Texas Tech player.

‘Any such action would be unlawful and would expose the Conference to substantial liability.’

Quarterback Brendan Sorsby was caught earlier this year gambling on NCAA games, and it turned out he had been betting on his own team for years. Sorsby wagered approximately $90,000 over four years, On3 reported, and he also allegedly used sportsbook accounts registered to his friends and family.

Earlier this week, a Texas judge in Lubbock County, where Texas Tech is located, temporarily prevented the NCAA from enforcing a permanent eligibility ban on Sorsby, meaning the 22-year-old will be able to play this season for the Red Raiders, apart from the first two games.

Then came reports that the Big 12 and other conferences were considering boycotting Texas Tech altogether, with Kansas State athletic director Gene Taylor telling Yahoo Sports that the Big 12 had “serious conversations” about it.

Enter Texas AG Paxton’s office, which sent a letter to the conference saying the state could seek “substantially more than $200 million” if the Big 12 tries to move forward with the boycott.

Reporter Pete Nakos posted the AG’s letter, which said Texas is aware of the attempted sanctioning of Texas Tech for “continuing its support of Mr. Sorsby as a student-athlete.”

“This letter serves to notify the Big 12 that any such action would be unlawful and would expose the Conference to substantial liability,” Paxton’s antitrust chief, Thomas York, wrote.

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The letter continued, describing the possible plan as “a naked horizontal agreement among competitors to disadvantage Texas Tech by cutting off access to the resources it needs to compete.”

The state government argued this would open up the conference and its members to potential damages stemming from Texas Tech’s “lost football revenues, damages to its alumni contributions, and damages to its recruitment, plus attorneys’ fees.”

Paxton’s office also cited a possible breach of contract and “tortious antitrust,” described as “any sanction that disrupts or interferes with Texas Tech’s existing or potential contracts associated with its football team.”

This includes the disruption of potential sponsorships, ticket sales, and other commercial relationships, for example.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond (R) then fired off a letter of his own, calling Paxton’s claims “meritless” and “facially absurd.”

Drummond also expressed support for the Big 12 sanctioning Texas Tech over the Sorsby saga.

Texas Tech “has shirked responsibility by running with a bogus claim to a friendly court. Its leadership has prioritized winning over sport, over honor, and over integrity. If Texas Tech will not do the right thing, the Big 12 should,” he wrote, according to images of the letter shared by ESPN college football reporter Pete Thamel.

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As Blaze News previously reported, members of the Big Ten and the SEC have also discussed refusing to play Texas Tech.

Thamel cited three unnamed Big Ten sources on Monday night who said they planned on discussing the possible sanction, while University of Georgia athletic director Josh Brooks reportedly issued an internal memo to his school’s coaches advising them not to schedule any games against Texas Tech in any sport without conference approval.

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Both Elon Musk and his company SpaceX broke records on Friday, while bringing thousands of uplifting stories along with it.

Not only has SpaceX, founded in 2002, finally gone public with a massive opening on the NASDAQ, but with it, everyday employees’ lives are changed forever.

‘… from engineers to Cafeteria workers.’

SpaceX’s IPO has successfully raised $75 billion, making Musk the world’s first trillionaire, officially. Outlets including Reuters have reported that the company — now trading under SPCX — will boost Musk’s net worth to more than $1.1 trillion due to his controlling shares.

With him will come new millionaires in the thousands. More than 4,000 people will see a huge financial boost from the offering, which has been reported to include even cafeteria workers who have long held on to stock in the company.

Musk shared a post on X that stated the IPO will “create 4,400 new Millionaires, from engineers to cafeteria workers. God bless Capitalism.”

Although the SpaceX owner has already distributed the wealth in that sense, he has made more shares available than is typical of most IPOs; more than 20% of available shares are reserved for retail investors, according to Yahoo.

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SpaceX’s successful round of $75 billion more than doubles the previous highest market debut from 2019, from Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company, that raised $29.4 billion.

The record-setting raise makes SpaceX the largest IPO launch in history with a valuation of $1.77 trillion, per Yahoo Finance.

Musk had been estimated to have a net worth of $782 billion as recently as Thursday, which still had him as the richest person in the world pre-trillionaire status. He has almost three times the wealth of Google co-founder Larry Page.

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Musk told JPMorgan Chase during a livestream last week that SpaceX had been cash-flow positive since around 2015; however, the company reported $18.67 billion in revenue in 2025 but incurred a $4.94 billion net loss.

The entrepreneur added that SpaceX is raising capital for “a significant growth phase” that includes plans to put over 100,000 satellites into orbit and build AI data centers in space.

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Despite multiple controversies coming to light over the past few months, Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner has secured the Democratic nomination in his state — winning a whopping 72% of the vote and defeating state governor Janet Mills.

Among those controversies was an account on an app known for sexual predators; a Nazi tattoo; and abuse and cheating allegations from women he has dated.

But on election night, Platner spun the recent controversies to a crowd of supporters by harping on “love and redemption.”

“Love and redemption. Redemption is not just some simple or easy destination. It’s a journey. I’ve made mistakes in my life. Mistakes that I regret, that I live with. That I continue to learn from. I’m still far from perfect,” Platner said.

“Every day I wake up, and I try to be a little bit better and a little bit kinder than I was the day before. And if you give me the chance, I will be a senator for the people who cannot afford to buy a senator,” he added.

“You called a guy a Nazi for years; then you elected one,” BlazeTV host Dave Landau tells co-host Stu Burguiere on “Stu and Dave Do America.” “It’s just ironic.”

Stu agrees, pointing out that the left even called Charlie Kirk a Nazi.

“So let’s get a guy with a Nazi tattoo,” he says, before recalling an article written by the Free Press on Platner, which he says catches Platner in “another pathological lie.”

Despite uncovered text messages showing that Platner had a romantic relationship with one of his accusers, Platner claimed they didn’t even date.

“Obviously not a casual relationship,” Stu says, explaining that many of the various resurfaced text messages were from 2025 — which was “approximately six weeks before he launched his senatorial campaign.”

“The last message he sent was right before he launched his campaign. Could there be anything more transparent? … It’s like Jeffrey Epstein coming off of his first, you know, arrest, and saying, ‘Well, he’s saying he’s a better guy and there’s not much more going on,’” he continues.

“You don’t run that guy for office,” he says. “There’s something going on, and we’re going to learn more about it, I’m sure.”

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U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema has told the Trump administration that unless it provides statements denying the establishment of the “anti-weaponization” fund, a lawsuit would continue against the president.

The lawsuit against the fund was filed by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which has argued that the billion-dollar fund was just another mechanism for the president to pay off his friends and allies.

‘This is about seeking accountability for all Americans who were victims of lawfare and weaponization.’

President Donald Trump has touted the need for the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund to compensate Americans who have been unfairly prosecuted by the government, including J6ers.

The fund was created in a settlement after the president dropped his lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax documents.

Administration lawyers argued that the issue was moot, citing testimony from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who told members of the U.S. House that it would not go through. However, he would not provide a written statement saying the same.

“We are not moving forward with the fund. Period,” Blanche said.

Brinkema cited statements from the president to cast doubt on that argument and called on both Blanche and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to provide concrete statements against the fund’s creation. She gave the administration a week to provide her with a declarations under penalty of perjury that the fund would not be established.

Democrats in the Senate also tried to pass a provision against the anti-weaponization fund in an ICE funding bill but were denied by Republicans.

“This is about seeking accountability for all Americans who were victims of lawfare and weaponization: millions of Americans whose online speech was censored at the behest of the government, parents silenced at school boards, Senators whose records were secretly subpoenaed, churchgoers targeted by the FBI, and so on,” reads a description of the fund from the Justice Department.

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The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington excoriated the fund in a statement accusing the president of “brazen” corruption.

“By settling his absurd $10 billion lawsuit against his own administration, Trump and the Justice Department just engaged in the most brazen act of self-dealing in the history of the presidency, and did so quickly in order to avoid the scrutiny of the judicial process, while quite likely violating the Constitution’s Domestic Emoluments Clause in the process,” a CREW statement reads.

“This is one of the single most corrupt acts in American history,” the group concluded.

Brinkema is 81 years old and was nominated to the court by former President Bill Clinton.

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Just over a year after President Donald Trump’s administration instructed the federal government to cancel several media outlet subscriptions, Politico announced that it is sunsetting one of its news brands.

The federal government spent over $8 million in 2024 on Politico-related subscriptions.

‘The government shouldn’t subsidize poor journalism.’

In Feb. 2025, the White House directed the General Services Administration to “pull all contracts” for Politico and its stand-alone energy and environment brand, E&E News. Other government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Veterans Affairs, also canceled their subscriptions to Politico’s services.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced last year that he had terminated over $1 million in annual media subscriptions, including nearly $460,000 for the EPA’s membership to Politico and E&E News.

“Best $458,919 we ever saved on behalf of taxpayers,” an EPA spokesperson told Blaze News. “The government shouldn’t subsidize poor journalism, and it’s a stinging indictment of the previous administration that they wasted so many hard-earned American tax dollars keeping this outlet afloat.”

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Politico pushed back against criticism that the federal government was subsidizing the media through subscriptions. The outlet released a statement in 2025 insisting that it has “never received any government funding” in the form of subsidies, grants, or “handouts.” It noted that “most” of Politico Pro and E&E News subscribers are in the private sector.

Despite insisting that Politico has “no financial dependence on the government,” the outlet laid off 3% of its staff, including E&E News journalists, in Jan. 2026, according to Semafor.

Politico acquired E&E News in Dec. 2020, aiming to “reach a large new audience of subscribers.” Yet, approximately 16 months after the Trump administration began canceling media subscriptions, Politico announced it is closing the stand-alone brand.

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Politico framed the sunsetting of E&E News as a strategic restructuring move that consolidated its U.S. Politico Energy and E&E teams “into a single powerhouse.” The announcement did not mention any revenue pressure, but framed the changes as a “new chapter.”

“Beginning in September, we are modernizing how we deliver our energy and environmental policy journalism and launching a more focused, high-impact portfolio of daily news and intelligence products,” Politico wrote.

“As part of this shift, E&E News will no longer operate as a separate brand. Its journalism and expertise will be fully integrated into POLITICO’s energy and environment portfolio of stories, briefs, analysis, and newsletters,” it continued.

Politico did not respond to a request for comment.

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