The owners of a brewery in North Carolina shut down a drag show intended to raise funds for illegal aliens after allegedly receiving death threats.

Teri Lippy said they contacted law enforcement but could not determine whether the threats were credible, so they decided to stop the event to protect their employees.

‘They posted it everywhere, and people started harassing both us and the venue.’

The “Drag Brunch for a Cause” program had been scheduled for Sunday at Eleven Lakes Brewing in Cornelius until critics campaigned to stop the event.

The drag show was described as a family-friendly fundraiser for the Carolina Migrant Network, a nonprofit group that provides legal services to illegal aliens for free.

About 100 tickets had been sold for the event before it was posted to social media by the popular account “Libs of TikTok.”

“Eleven Lakes Brewing, a business in North Carolina, is hosting an ‘all-ages’ drag queen show to raise money for illegal aliens,” the account wrote on the X platform. “Yes, this is real. They want to groom your children while donating money to fund foreign criminal invaders. Would be a shame if they went viral!”

Melissa Easley, who works with the event’s lead sponsor, implied that the threats were tied to the Libs of TikTok post.

“They started advertising it as a children’s drag event,” Easley said about the campaign. “They posted it everywhere, and people started harassing both us and the venue.”

Lippy claimed that critics had twisted the meaning of the event and said that parents could bring in children without paying for an extra ticket.

“Nice brewery. Looks like it would burn down easy,” was one threat she says they received via email.

“All of a sudden, physical and death threats started coming to both the venue and us,” Easley added.

RELATED: Drag queen defends shows for children, says drag shows teach kids ‘there are no boundaries’

Easley remains defiant, however.

“They may have won this battle, but we’re not going away,” she said. “We are regrouping, and this event will happen.”

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Michigan Democrats are finding themselves in a bit of an uncomfortable spot after Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s ties to far-left activist and streamer Hasan Piker are becoming a growing issue in the general election campaign.

At a recent campaign event for El-Sayed, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) pleaded with reporters to stop focusing on Piker and instead discuss El-Sayed’s candidacy, insisting Republicans were using the controversy to divide Democrats.

“I’m done,” Dingell said. “This election is about what’s going to happen when we elect Abdul to the United States Senate.”

“So don’t any reporter ask me again about Hasan Piker; it’s not what November is about,” she continued.

“Republicans are trying to make it, they’re trying to divide us, and we got to stop letting them try to divide us. I don’t agree with Hasan Piker on a lot of stuff, and I really don’t agree with him on some of the woman things he said,” she added.

“Nice try,” executive producer Keith Malinak says on “Pat Gray Unleashed.” “No, he’s yours. Own him.”

“He got El-Sayed through the primary, and now they want to disown him for the general. No,” Malinak continues, “No, he’s yours.”

“Also, you got in bed with the DSA,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray chimes in. “You got in bed with Hasan Piker. I’m sorry. We’re not the ones dividing you. You did this to yourself.”

“This is the best thing that’s ever happened to Republicans,” he adds.

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New York City police gunned down a woman who had attacked random strangers with a knife in Times Square on Monday.

Cellphone video captured the moment that police surrounded the woman, who lunged at them while armed with two knives.

Police were able to recover two knives at the scene.

Police said the 49-year-old woman began the “unprovoked and random” knife attack on strangers near 41st Street and Seventh Avenue.

She allegedly stabbed a 68-year-old man in his abdomen as the victim walked out of the subway with his wife. He was hospitalized for treatment of his injuries.

A second victim was identified as 32-year-old Erin Piacenti of Chester, New Jersey, who died of her injuries.

Witnesses flagged down officers who confronted the woman for about four minutes.

The officers “gave her numerous commands to drop the knife,” said NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.

“During the encounter, she told the officers, ‘I’m not dropping anything. I would rather kill both of you.’ She repeated, ‘I will kill you,'” Tisch added.

Officers deployed Tasers, and other officers shot at the woman, which can be viewed on the graphic cellphone video.

She was hospitalized and later declared dead, Tisch said.

The woman was later identified as Pamela Cisneros of Queens, who had a documented history of mental illness, according to Tisch. She added that police were able to recover two knives at the scene.

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Piacenti worked as a vice president at Bank of America.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) thanked police at the media briefing.

“I want to thank the NYPD officers who stepped in and prevented a horrific attack from becoming even worse,” the mayor said. “This is what the men and women of this department do every single day to keep our city safe.”

He added that body-camera footage from police would be released after an investigation.

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Activist actor Mark Ruffalo is going to live by the petition and die by the petition.

The 58-year-old has been more entrenched in politics than filmmaking in recent history, and now he is merging his two worlds together by taking direct shots at a Hollywood studio.

‘There is nothing anti-Semitic about recognizing that fact.’

Hulk accuse

Ruffalo is vehemently against the $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery by Paramount Skydance, and he attempted to take the latter’s executives to task recently the best way he knows how: the open letter.

The actor started with Oracle, the company owned by Larry Ellison, who also has a controlling stake in Paramount Skydance. Ruffalo posted a video of Oracle Executive Vice Chair Safra Catz talking about helping the Israeli military in its war against Palestine. According to Variety, Ruffalo then said the executive “revels in what we now have come to see as a genocide, which was built on an apartheid system of oppression powered by Oracle.”

Ruffalo then went on to criticize Ellison and the merger, saying it could cost Hollywood between 4,500 and 14,500 jobs.

A spokesperson for Paramount fired back, saying the company is “troubled when anti-Semitic tropes are invoked in purported service of a business dispute.”

“Words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’t just wrong — they’re a bridge too far, and they cheapen the very real suffering those words are meant to describe,” the letter added.

Ruffalo, an artist scorned, responded with another strongly worded diatribe, telling over 31 million readers on X that he has “deep love and respect” for Jews.

“Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life,” he declared.

RELATED: HULK HYPOCRITE: $35 million man Ruffalo stumps for socialism

Another fight, another letter

More than 170 “Jewish figures” signed a letter of support for Ruffalo, backing him in the face of “false and dangerous weaponization of charges of anti-Semitism.”

The letter went on to say that others like Ruffalo are simply being “brave enough to point out the obvious: that the assault on the Palestinian people and the assault on our liberties at home are deeply interconnected, and there is nothing anti-Semitic about recognizing that fact.”

Whether Ruffalo battles pro-Israel forces or corporate mergers, he seems to always have time for an online-letter battle. In fact, he is fresh off a different letter-based foray with federal immigration authorities.

RELATED: Celebrities demand ICE send illegal immigrants back … to your neighborhood

Oracle CEO Safra Catz, September 2025. Alex Wong/Getty Images.

Million-dollar baby

In April, Ruffalo signed yet another letter that urged the federal government to shut down one of it’s immigration detention centers in Texas.

The letter demanded children be released and illegal immigrants be allowed to roam about the United States until trial. This of course would have sent its illegal immigrant detainees back into American neighborhoods, but the letter nonetheless proved fruitless and the Dilley ICE detention center remains open.

Ruffalo’s politics have him spinning in so many directions that he is supporting socialists and battling capitalists while starring in new movies.

While the actor may be signing declarations left and right, his latest role in “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” which had one of the biggest openings of all time, paid him a reported $8 to $12 million.

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Few series have a tighter grip on young female readers than Sarah J. Maas’ romantasy juggernaut “A Court of Thorns and Roses.”

The wildly popular series follows Feyre Archeron — a human huntress pulled from a starving village into the faerie courts of Prythian, where she is drawn into immortal politics, ancient magic, and a romance that remakes her.

But Allie Beth Stuckey has concerns about this BookTok obsession that has so many women, including Christian women, in a chokehold. On this episode of “Relatable,” the BlazeTV host dives into the viral series and the romantasy genre and explains why they’re delivering far more than just entertainment.

“Despite what Maas says … about her hypersexual novels being quote ‘more than smut,’ the picture that she paints of relationships, of morality, of sexuality, and the world [is] not neutral … and it’s certainly not biblical,” says Allie.

“These kinds of romantasy novels are having an effect on how women, even Christian women, view men and view marriage, which then has an impact on children, has an impact on society,” she continues.

While Allie is a fan of reading fiction, she believes Christians need to stay away from all of Maas’ series and other authors who write similar novels not only because many are “pornographic” and thus contradict Philippians 4:8’s call to entertain only wholesome thoughts but also because they erode the reader’s “perception of reality” — especially when it comes to relationships.

Allie plays a clip of Maas telling “Call Her Daddy” host Alex Cooper that she’s proud that her books help women leave their abusive husbands.

“Obviously we believe that if you have an abusive husband that you and your children should go and be protected … but there is a question of what Sarah J. Maas considers abusive,” says Allie.

“I think we’ve expanded the definition of abusive to include things that were never before seen as abusive, so when she’s talking about women leaving their husbands, I’m like, well, is it really because of abuse, or is it because their husband could not live up to this fantastical depiction of what love should look like or what a romantic partner should look like?” she asks.

To illustrate her point, Allie recounts a TikTok post from a fan of the books, explaining that the series motivated her to get a divorce.

“She said that reading the novels helped her realize that she deserved an explosive, passionate, adventurous life in love,” Allie recaps.

In a Reddit post, a Maas fan wrote, “Rereading [‘A Court of Mist and Fury’] and realising it’s ruined my perception of love because I don’t think I could ever meet a man who would be as devoted and loving towards me as Rhys was to Feyre.”

“You’re right, because he’s not real,” says Allie bluntly.

These examples capture one of her biggest issues with Maas’ books and the romantasy genre in general: They set readers up to have unrealistic expectations about romantic relationships.

“Comparing real-life people — fallible human people who deal with sin and get tired and get distracted and have their own things going on in life … to a mystical creature, and you’re mad that your boyfriends haven’t stacked up to that? That is very disturbing,” says Allie.

“We are seeking, it seems like as a culture, a frictionless life with frictionless relationships — no inconvenience, no discomfort, no sanctification, no working hard, no getting through things, but just ‘I deserve, I deserve, I deserve sunshine,”’ she continues.

The irony, of course, is that these readers can’t offer the same perfection they seek.

“Think about yourself for a second,” says Allie. “Is that what you offer to a man? Do you offer perfection? Do you offer unconditional and unwavering sunlight at all times? Is that who you are?”

“No, it’s not who any of us are. It’s not who I am. We’re all imperfect people, and yet I do think that women have become more and more used to, at least online, like, holding men to a standard that you do not hold yourself,” she continues, highlighting the Lindsay Clancy supporters whose “unending compassion” for the woman who killed her three children would likely never extend to mentally ill men guilty of similar crimes.

The idea that “women are always victims no matter what,” she argues, has poisoned many women — and that includes those who leave their husbands or give up on relationships because real-life men can’t compare to fictional ones who are “tall, dark, and handsome” and love and act perfectly.

In the “A Court of Thorns and Roses” series, the male protagonist Rhys, Allie explains, is “described as the most beautiful man imaginable,” “the most powerful man in the world … yet is somehow always emotionally available and vulnerable for Feyre,” is “protective and chivalrous,” and “encourages her independence and helps enable her be able to protect and defend herself.”

“Is that so hard, men? Is that so hard to be the ruler of the world and also emotionally available and accessible at all times?” Allie jokes. “Come on. Women aren’t asking for much.”

To hear more of her analysis, watch the episode above.

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Virginia Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s attempts to disrupt cooperation with federal immigration enforcement efforts have been temporarily blocked by a federal judge.

U.S. District Judge Robert Payne said in his ruling Monday that the federal government would likely succeed in the lawsuit against the restrictions on federal cooperation.

‘My office strongly disagrees with the judge’s order and will urgently file a motion to stay this ruling and appeal.’

Payne, an appointee of President George H.W. Bush, issued a preliminary injunction against the order while the case continues going through the legal process.

The Trump administration argued that the Virginia law violates the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution as well as the Contract Clause.

Spanberger had signed the law, and Attorney General Jay Jones began cracking down on the Greene County sheriff for continuing to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and aiding in 50 arrests.

The order from Payne will allow law enforcement officials and state prisons to cooperate with ICE operations, but not for new agreements to be made.

Jones said he would appeal the order from Payne.

“My office strongly disagrees with the judge’s order and will urgently file a motion to stay this ruling and appeal the temporary injunction,” he wrote in a statement, according to the Virginia Mercury.

Jones argued that the state had the right to order state officials against cooperation.

“The General Assembly was well within its legal authority to pass this law and to put statutory requirements in place to ensure Virginia’s already resource-constrained localities and law enforcement agencies are not devoting critical resources toward carrying out responsibilities that rest solely with the federal government,” he added.

RELATED: Democratic congressman claims he forced ICE to back off from arrest at courtroom

The Department of Homeland Security had vehemently criticized Spanberger after she signed the restrictions on ICE cooperation.

“The heroes of ICE will continue to arrest and remove criminal illegal aliens across the Commonwealth while Governor Spanberger RELEASES them from jails into Virginia communities to commit more crimes and create more victims,” the statement read.

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What if a heart transplant could be scheduled weeks in advance? Not because a donor volunteered, but because a prisoner was selected to die?

Epoch Times senior editor and “Killed to Order” author Jan Jekielek explains that this is happening right now — and it’s happening in China.

“This really is a kind of next level form of organ trafficking, the most extreme example I’m aware of. And the key part is that it happens at scale” Jekielek tells BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler on “The Liz Wheeler Show.”

And it’s nothing like a “normal situation,” where an organ transplant begins with a recipient who needs a transplant and waits for an organ donor to have a catastrophic accident.

“What happens is someone has to have a catastrophic accident, OK? And then that person, we need to believe that they’re not coming back. An ethics team makes that decision,” Jekielek explains, pointing out that the organ donation system in America was decertified in the past year because they “got too easy on making that decision.”

“If you transplant for someone that is coming back, you’re killing that person,” he says.

In America, you also have to find someone whose organ will be compatible with your body so that your body doesn’t reject it.

“In communist China, it works very differently,” he continues, explaining that in his book, he profiles a whistleblower who was a professor of transplant surgery.

“He had a patient who basically told him, this is in 2005, ‘I’m tired of waiting. They’ve organized a heart for me in two weeks, scheduled,’” he says.

“That catastrophic accident is scheduled,” he adds.

That, Jekielek says, is the first “red flag.”

“And the second red flag, how are you getting that perfect match in two weeks, right?” he asks, before explaining that certain groups of citizens were dehumanized and incarcerated in China for refusing to be “re-educated.”

“So they have prisons, black jails, re-education through labor camps, labor camps, all sorts … and this is what sets up the unique situation for this killed-to-order type of organ harvesting, forced organ harvesting,” he says.

“So because you have this dehumanized group, masses of them are incarcerated, and this is how you get the two weeks,” he explains, “because what they do is they start blood typing and tissue typing and organ scanning those people that are in prison.”

“And now when that transplant tourist comes with their 100 or 200 grand to buy that new heart, you see they can get it in two weeks because their so-called donor is actually an innocent prisoner of conscience, and they’ve been pre-matched,” he continues.

“That unique set of combination of variables already exists in the system, and that person can then be shipped and killed to order,” he adds.

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