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With Sundance gone, Utah bets on AI film festival as a force for ‘social change’
From render farm to red carpet?
No sooner had the lights come up on Utah’s final year hosting the Sundance Film Festival than state officials announced a very different cinematic bet: artificial intelligence.
‘Nuovo has presented a forward-thinking approach.’
According to Variety, Utah has approved a $2 million grant for a new initiative called the Nuovo Film Festival, described by the state as a “film ecosystem” built around AI-driven production. Plans reportedly include a filmmaking lab, an AI-powered soundstage, and expanded incentive programs aimed at attracting filmmakers to the state.
Founded in 1981 by Robert Redford, Sundance grew into one of the premier cultural and commercial forces in American film, launching independent directors, shaping awards seasons, and helping define modern indie cinema. As its contract expired and Boulder offered both financial incentives and a cultural climate seen as more aligned with the festival’s direction, Sundance chose to leave Utah after more than four decades.
Nuovo organizers outlined five “pillars” in presentation materials cited by Variety.
The first proposes a lab to “teach new filmmakers how to tell their story using technology and AI.” The second centers on incentive programs. The third focuses on constructing an AI soundstage — one that may require its own dedicated power source.
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The cost-saving claims are ambitious. Organizers suggested a $200 million film that traditionally takes three years to complete could be produced in nine months for roughly $10 million using AI-assisted workflows. Those figures remain projections, not proven results.
The fourth pillar involves collaboration with Harbor Fund, a Utah-based nonprofit. Founded in 2018, Harbor Fund describes its mission as pairing filmmakers with philanthropic capital to support “films that matter.” It’s website prominently features a quote from movie critic Roger Ebert: “The movies are like a machine that generates empathy.”
In effect, Utah’s proposed AI film hub would not only streamline production but also align itself with what organizers describe as “impact-driven filmmaking.”
The fifth pillar calls for certificate programs at high schools and colleges to train students in makeup, set design, sound, staging, and editing — building a workforce tailored to AI-enabled production.
“Utah would have the dedicated and trained workforce to allow filmmakers to come here and use the local workforce instead of bringing them here,” the presentation reportedly stated.
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Lance Soffe, director of targeted industries for the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development, framed the move as forward-looking.
“Traditional festivals are not generating the same impact they once did,” Soffe said. “Instead of trying to recreate an aging model, Nuovo has presented a forward-thinking approach that builds on Utah’s legacy while embracing where the industry is going.”
The new Utah festival will be led by a board comprised of former MGM Television chief Mark Burnett, advertising moguls, and venture capitalists.The announcement comes as the broader film industry remains unsettled over AI.
On the same day the Utah investment drew attention, AMC Theatres faced backlash over reports it would screen an AI-generated short film before previews. The short “Thanksgiving Day” won the Frame Forward AI Film Festival and was reportedly slated for wide theatrical exposure. After criticism mounted, AMC said its locations would not participate.
While policymakers and investors see efficiency and reduced costs, audiences appear less certain about replacing human-driven filmmaking with algorithmic production.
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14-year-old car thieves slam stolen vehicle into Baltimore cop who opens fire as he’s hit — and the crooks get away
A trio of 14-year-old car thieves slammed a stolen vehicle into a Baltimore police officer who opened fire as he was hit — and while the teens managed to get away from the scene, police said they arrested them days later.
Officer William Cole responded around 12:05 a.m. Sunday to an attempted break-in call, WBAL-TV reported.
‘I need a medic!’
Police released Cole’s body-worn camera video, which showed the officer arriving at the location on West Lombard Street; he soon encountered multiple people in a Kia sedan that backed up and struck a parked vehicle, the station said.
When Cole ordered the driver to stop, the driver backed up again and struck the officer, WBAL said, citing the video.
Police said Cole fired his gun once at the car as he fell, the station said, adding that the driver fled the scene and hit another vehicle as well as the officer’s patrol car in the process.
Video then shows an injured man approaching the officer from across the street and collapsing.
The officer is heard saying on the bodycam video, “I need a medic! You good, bro? I got you. What’s wrong, bro, you OK?”
Police said the officer rendered aid to the 21-year-old injured man who was assaulted by multiple people before the officer’s arrival at the scene, WBAL reported; the victim wasn’t taken to a hospital.
However, the officer at the scene injured his ankle and was treated and released from a hospital, the station said.
Police told WBAL that officers found the Kia in question abandoned on South Arlington Avenue and that the vehicle was reported stolen Saturday from East Chase Street.
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Police said detectives were able to identify two of the Kia’s occupants as two 14-year-old boys who have prior charges of robbery and auto theft and were on electronic monitoring as a result. Detectives arrested the boys Monday on aggravated assault and auto theft charges. They remain detained at Juvenile Booking.
Police said detectives later identified the driver of the Kia as a 14-year-old girl. During her arrest on Tuesday, police said officers learned the girl had been treated at a hospital on Sunday for a wound to her right wrist. The girl’s mother told detectives that the injury may be a gunshot graze wound; police said further investigation is needed to determine the cause of the injury. The girl was taken to Juvenile Booking, where she was charged with aggravated assault and stolen auto. She was later released on electronic monitoring.
Teen crime in Baltimore despite electronic monitoring is not a new phenomenon. Last summer, a 13-year-old with a GPS ankle monitor who had been arrested 18 times for felonies was charged in connection with a violent city crime spree.
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Team USA’s amazing gold-medal gesture you may have missed
Before a call from President Donald Trump and a few drinks with FBI Director Kash Patel, Team USA men’s hockey made a heartfelt tribute to one of their compatriots.
After the players received their gold medals for a stunning 2-1 win over Team Canada on Sunday, viewers may have noticed a couple of youngsters on the ice posing for the team picture, along with a loose hockey jersey.
‘When we got the call to come out, it felt like maybe he did make the team.’
No, those were not captain Auston Matthews’ children. Nor were they superstar goalie Connor Hellebuyck’s children. They were Noa and Johnny Jr., children of the late Johnny Gaudreau.
In 2023, Gaudreau, 31, and his younger brother Matthew, 29, were tragically killed by a drunk driver while riding bicycles in Oldmans Township, New Jersey. Gaudreau was one of the star players for the NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets, while Matthew was a former professional hockey player who last played in the ECHL.
In yet another wonderful gesture, Team USA invited Johnny Gaudreau’s widow, Meredith, to join the team in Italy on Saturday, along with the Gaudreau brothers’ parents, Guy and Jane. The whole family was in the audience for the gold-medal game.
“To be able to get it done like that, to win, to have his jersey out there in the team photo, have his kids come out and be with us, we’re obviously thinking of him,” Auston Matthews said, per ESPN. “Just felt like the impact that he’s had on so many guys in this room is special. He was with us in spirit the whole tournament,” Matthews added.
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“It’s fun to be a part of this,” Meredith said before the game.
“When we got the call to come out, it felt like maybe he did make the team. So it’s fun. Here to represent him and support everyone that’s honoring him, as well.”
Meredith revealed to a reporter that she only had two days’ notice before making the trip overseas to join the squad, but she said it was something she simply could not pass up.
“Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the kids. So that was the main reason that drove me out here,” the mother continued, before delivering some truly heartbreaking remarks.
“I feel like I have two roles in life now: It’s honor John, my husband, and make sure these kids know how special their dad is and give them some special opportunities.”
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USA forward Dylan Larkin firmly stated that “Johnny and Matty should be here.”
“That is the biggest loss that all of us at USA Hockey, their family, our family, has gone through,” Larkin continued. “And to have Johnny Jr. and Noa out there, it just felt right.”
Larkin added that he thought the Gaudreau brothers may have had a hand in stopping some pucks from going into the USA net.
“And I think part of those, the puck not going in our net, was somehow him standing there doing something, laughing with Matty. Just somehow they put a spell around our net where that puck didn’t go in.”
Larkin then joked around, reportedly smiling while saying, “Ironic, on the defensive side; he would’ve never been back there,” he said about Johnny.
These comments nearly mirrored what was said about the late brothers by their sister, Katie.
Katie jokingly told Fox News that while her brothers were “never quite defensive,” she thought a couple of saves had some assistance from above.
“Up there, they were definitely helping out.”
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Mamdani goes full ‘Batman villain’ and holds New York City hostage
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has unveiled his new budget — and it’s every bit as ridiculous as BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales anticipated.
“On another episode of ‘I told you so,’ it took less than two months for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to turn, I think, into a Batman villain,” Gonzales jokes.
“You guys are going to be shocked to hear this. You’re going to be shocked to hear all of these promises of free everything, free child schools, free child care, free schools, free buses, all the free s**t, doesn’t have enough money to pay for all of the free,” she explains.
“So he’s announced that he’s basically taking the entire city hostage, and if the state government doesn’t give into his demands and implement his billionaire tax, he’s going to make you pay,” she continues.
“For those who have watched budget after budget, it is tempting to assume that we are engaging in the same dance as our predecessors. Let me assure you, nothing about this is typical. That’s why our solutions won’t be either. There are two paths to bridge this gap. The first is the most sustainable and the fairest path,” Mamdani explained at New York City Hall.
“This is the path of ending the drain on our city and raising taxes on the richest New Yorkers and the most profitable corporations. The onus for resolving this crisis should not be placed on the backs of working and middle-class New Yorkers. If we do not fix this structural imbalance and do not heed the calls of New Yorkers to raise taxes on the wealthy, this crisis will not disappear,” he continued.
“It will simply return year after year, forcing harder and harsher choices each time. And if we do not go down the first path, the city will be forced down a second, more harmful path. Faced with no other choice, the city would have to exercise the only revenue lever fully within our own control. We would have to raise property taxes,” he added.
“Oh, wow. I for one am super shocked,” Gonzales says. “Like, who could have ever predicted that a Muslim commie would go on TV and lay out a list of terroristic demands?”
“Where’s the money going to come from?” she asks, before answering herself, “I know. We’re just going to tax hardworking Americans more.”
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‘Start driving north’: US tourists stranded in Mexico after slaying of top cartel boss ‘El Mencho’ sparks chaos
The U.S. State Department issued an advisory on Sunday instructing Americans in Jalisco State as well as in several other Mexican states to “shelter in place until further notice” following the elimination of Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, Mexico’s most-wanted cartel boss.
With firefights breaking out across the country, radicals blocking key roads, and flights being canceled, many tourists really had no other option than to hunker down.
Mexican Army special forces, aided by the nation’s air force and national guard, launched a military operation on Sunday aimed at capturing Oseguera Cervantes in Tapalpa, Jalisco.
‘The United States will ensure narcoterrorists sending deadly drugs to our homeland are forced to face the wrath of justice.’
Under Oseguera Cervantes, 59, the Jalisco New Generation cartel became one of the most formidable criminal enterprises south of the border.
The State Department noted that the CJNG, which the Trump administration designated a terrorist organization last February, “has been assessed to have the highest cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine trafficking capacity in Mexico, and over the past few years, includes the trafficking of fentanyl into the United States.”
In addition to trafficking deadly drugs, the savage and allegedly cannibalistic CJNG developed a reputation for murdering Mexican police and rival drug traffickers. The cartel was also allegedly involved in several assassination attempts against Mexican government officials.
Mexican National Guard outside Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime on Feb. 22. Photo by Daniel Cardenas/Anadolu/Getty Images
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt indicated that the U.S. provided intelligence support to ensure the success of Sunday’s operation. Mexican officials confirmed that “complementary information was provided by U.S. authorities within the framework of bilateral coordination and cooperation with the United States.”
“‘El Mencho’ was a was a top target for the Mexican and United States government [sic] as one of the top traffickers of fentanyl into our homeland. Last year, President Trump rightfully designated the Jalisco New Generation Cartel as a Foreign Terrorist Organization — because that’s exactly what it is,” Leavitt said in a statement.
“President Trump has been very clear — the United States will ensure narcoterrorists sending deadly drugs to our homeland are forced to face the wrath of justice they have long deserved,” added Leavitt.
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Mexico’s Secretariat of National Defense indicated that while attacked during the operation, Mexican military personnel “repelled the aggression,” resulting in “four members of the ‘CJNG’ criminal group dying at the scene and three others being severely wounded, who lost their lives during their airlift to Mexico City.”
Oseguera Cervantes was among those wounded in the operation who apparently perished in transit.
Although Mexican and U.S. officials reported that Oseguera Cervantes was eliminated during the operation, the Mexican Secretariat of National Defense said that a forensic evaluation will nevertheless be undertaken to confirm that the cartel terrorist is dead.
In the wake of the operation, in which officials seized numerous armored cartel vehicles and rocket launchers, Mexican Army and National Guard troops mobilized to Jalisco and neighboring states to maintain a modicum of order.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum — whose party has numerous members accused of being in bed with the cartels — underscored that “we must remain informed and calm.”
‘The good guys are stronger than the bad guys.’
Authorities in Jalisco, Michoacan, and Guanajuato indicated that seven Mexican National Guard troops were killed on Sunday along with seven others, reported the Associated Press.
Just before midnight on Sunday, the U.S. Dept. of State Bureau of Consular Affairs reiterated the need for American citizens to shelter in place, noting that “while no airports have been closed, roadblocks have impacted airline operations — most domestic & int’l flights are cancelled in Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta.”
Consular Affairs noted further that all rideshares are suspended in Puerto Vallarta and toll roads in various parts of the country are temporarily suspended.
One tourist claiming to be in Puerto Vallarta captured footage of thick columns of smoke billowing up on either side of his resort. Footage reportedly taken by a Canadian tourist stranded in Puerto Vallarta shows smoke-filled streets caused in one instance by a flaming bus.
David Miranda, a Chicagoan whose vacation in Puerto Vallarta has evidently gone off the rails, told WSB-TV, “There’s blockages, there’s cars on fires, there’s buses blocking the roads. So nobody can take an Uber, can take a taxi, can take a bus. Everything is blocked.”
“We don’t know how we’re going to get food, because it’s Airbnbs,” said Miranda. “So everything is closed, the corner stores — everything is closed.”
Lefty Karkazis of San Francisco also found himself trapped in Puerto Vallarta.
“We were supposed to fly out of here at 2 p.m. So local time, at approximately 10 o’clock, we came downstairs, trying to get a taxi to go to the airport,” Karkazis told KPIX-TV. “And [the hotel staff] told us that nothing is moving, all the roads are blocked because there’s apparently a cartel operation that is affecting all the flights in and out.”
His United Airlines flight was reportedly canceled.
“The next flight out for San Francisco from United is on Thursday. So we might end up staying until Thursday. I don’t know,” continued Karkazis. “We’re just going to go from there. And the worst-case scenario, like I told my wife, we’re just going to rent a car and start driving north.”
The Trump administration commended the Mexican military on a job well done.
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said that the slaying of “one of the bloodiest and most ruthless drug kingpins” is a “great development for Mexico, the US, Latin America, and the world.”
“The good guys are stronger than the bad guys,” added Landau.
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MAHA allies rage over Trump’s support for controversial weed-killing chemical
The Trump administration has delivered numerous wins on the “Make America Health Again” front. For example, it took steps to remove damaging fluoride drug products for children from the market; canceled mRNA vaccine development contracts; and took meaningful steps toward eliminating harmful synthetic dyes and other additives from the food supply.
Some of those in the MAHA movement accustomed to winning were shocked to learn this week that President Donald Trump is pushing for an increase in the production of controversial glyphosate-based herbicides.
Trump suggested in an executive order on Wednesday that “glyphosate-based herbicides are a cornerstone of this Nation’s agricultural productivity and rural economy” and that diminished access to such weed-killers would “result in economic losses for growers and make it untenable for them to meet growing food and feed demands.”
‘The Chemical Lobby is controlling Washington.’
Characterizing production of glyphosate-based herbicides as “central to American economic and national security,” Trump invoked the Defense Production Act of 1950 and tasked Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins with “ensuring a continued and adequate supply.”
The president’s order also provides legal immunity to those American manufacturers ordered to produce glyphosate-related herbicides.
Glyphosate, first registered for use in America in 1974, is one of the most widely used pesticides in the country. Like various other official bodies, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency claims that “there are no risks of concern to human health when glyphosate is used in accordance with its current label” and that it “is unlikely to be a human carcinogen.”
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Many remain skeptical of the ubiquitous herbicide and its impact on human health, not least because of its classification by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as “probably carcinogenic to humans.”
The report released in May by Trump’s MAHA Commission noted that “a selection of research studies on a herbicide (glyphosate) have noted a range of possible health effects, ranging from reproductive and developmental disorders as well as [sic] cancers, live inflammation and metabolic disturbances.”
A 2023 study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, which was referenced in the MAHA report, suggested that childhood exposure to glyphosate and its degradation product, aminomethylphosphonic acid, “may increase risk of liver and cardiometabolic disorders in early adulthood, which could lead to more serious diseases later in life.”
A 2019 study published in the peer-reviewed medical journal BMJ found an association between the risk of autism spectrum disorder and prenatal exposure to glyphosate. The researchers noted that their findings “suggest that an offspring’s risk of autism spectrum disorder increases following prenatal exposure to ambient pesticides within 2000 m of their mother’s residence during pregnancy, compared with offspring of women from the same agricultural region without such exposure.”
A long-term study published last year in the journal Environmental Health found that low doses of the herbicide caused various kinds of cancers in rats. The researchers noted that their findings not only “support the IARC conclusion that there is ‘sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity [of glyphosate] in experimental animals,” but are “consistent also with the epidemiological evidence showing increases in incidence of multiple malignancies in humans exposed to glyphosate and GBHs.”
Zen Honeycutt, a MAHA activist who serves as executive director of Moms Across America, told the Defender, “The implications of this executive order are irreversible.”
“Not only has Trump gone back on his word to go after pesticides, destroying the delicate trust that was being built by the MAHA movement with the government, but he paved the path for glyphosate to continue destroying farmland, fertility, and our families’ health for generations to come,” added Honeycutt.
Toxicologist Alexandra Munoz tweeted, “The executive branch has just endorsed a carcinogen and enshrined it. This is outrageous and unacceptable.”
Vani Hari, a critic of the food industry who founded Food Babe, wrote, “EVERY PRESIDENT since glyphosate was invented has increased the amount of glyphosate being sprayed on our farm land. The Chemical Lobby is controlling Washington, no matter who is in charge & this is why I hate politics.”
Trump’s executive order was issued the day after Bayer, the company that acquired the glyphosate-carrying product Roundup from Monsanto, announced a proposed $7.25 billion settlement to resolve thousands of American lawsuits alleging that the agrochemical giant neglected to warn people that Roundup could cause cancer.
Bayer noted that “the settlement agreements do not contain any admission of liability or wrongdoing.”
Bill Anderson, CEO of Bayer, added in a statement: “The proposed class settlement agreement, together with the Supreme Court case, provides an essential path out of the litigation uncertainty and enables us to devote our full attention to furthering the innovations that lie at the core of our mission: Health for all, Hunger for none.”
Bayer gave $1 million to Trump’s 2025 inauguration committee fund.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended Trump’s glyphosate initiative, telling CNBC in a statement on Thursday, “Donald Trump’s executive order puts America first where it matters most — our defense readiness and our food supply.”
“We must safeguard America’s national security first, because all of our priorities depend on it,” continued Kennedy. “When hostile actors control critical inputs, they weaken our security. By expanding domestic production, we close that gap and protect American families.”
Kennedy previously called glyphosate a “poison.” He also helped Dewayne Johnson, a former school groundskeeper, in his legal battle against Monsanto. A jury found that Roundup caused Johnson’s cancer and that Monsanto neglected to properly warn the public about the risks in its marketing.
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A blasphemy-light bill arrives in Virginia — and the ACLU clams up
Zohran Mamdani has wasted no time turning religious language into shocking political branding. This month, he invoked Muhammad while defending Democrats’ mass-migration posture. He also became the first New York City mayor to skip the installation of a Catholic archbishop.
Public officials can practice any faith. They can speak openly about it. The line gets crossed when government starts treating one religion as a protected political category — especially through the criminal code.
To overthrow liberal democracy, the far left needs Islam’s numbers, while Islam needs the far left’s organization.
That line is about to be obliterated in Virginia.
A Bangladesh-born Democrat state senator, Saddam Azlan Salim, introduced SB624, a bill aimed at writing a formal definition of “Islamophobia” into Virginia’s assault and battery laws. The bill would single out Islam for special treatment. No other religion would receive the same statutory carve-out.
The bill defines Islamophobia as “malicious prejudice or hatred directed toward Islam or Muslims.” The definition applies “regardless of whether the victim is actually a practitioner of Islam, provided that the perpetrator targeted such victim based on a perceived adherence to such faith.”
Is it Islamophobic to walk a dog or eat bacon or spread the gospel in the presence of a devout Muslim? If not, why not? And do we really want to test it?
People use Islamophobia as a cudgel to silence legitimate criticism of doctrine, immigration policy, and jihadism at home and abroad. A vague, politically loaded term does not belong in criminal law. It invites selective enforcement. It chills speech. It hands politicians a ready-made pretext to jail dissenters.
Call it what it is: one more step toward a blasphemy-style speech regime, enforced by the state.
In a world in which leftists — and even some conservatives — believe “hate speech isn’t free speech,” Salim’s bill should set off alarm bells for any civil liberties group that claims to defend the freedom of speech and the free exercise of religion.
And yet the American Civil Liberties Union has remained resolutely silent.
The ACLU’s “Religious Liberty” page claims it exists “to safeguard the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty by ensuring that laws and governmental practices neither promote religion nor interfere with its free exercise.”
Given that Islam commands the erasure any kind of secular and sectarian division, you’d think the ACLU’s rabid dogs would be on guard against its encroachment.
Instead, the ACLU maintains a page dedicated to opposing “anti-Muslim discrimination,” while boasting of its opposition to a Jewish charter school in Oklahoma.
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The “red-green alliance” between domestic communists and Muslim invaders is the greatest threat currently facing Western countries today.
In a talk at Oxford University’s Student Union, Peter Thiel laid out the stark choice between the West continuing to flounder under the illusion that clean energy policies would drive global prosperity and the Islamic worldview, which prioritizes domination.
To overthrow liberal democracy, the far left needs Islam’s numbers, while Islam needs the far left’s organization. They have a common enemy — conservatives defending the countries their ancestors built for them — but without that enemy, these groups should actually despise each other.
The same day Mamdani invoked the name of the warlord Muhammad in the cause of open borders, the ACLU’s Instagram page shared a post about how hard it is to be “a queer teen in Idaho!” (Strangely enough, no mention about how hard it is to be a queer teen in any of the more than 50 countries that have been enslaved by Islam.)
This year we will mark the 10th anniversary of the Pulse Night Club shooting, when Omar Mateen — a Muslim Democrat — murdered 49 gay people and wounded 50 more. But in the ACLU’s response, the organization refused to mention Mateen’s name and indeed warned that his massacre of sexual minorities fit a “more politically convenient narrative fed by anti-Muslim fear and hate.”
What a reassuring thing to say to all the affected families in Orlando!
The ACLU is not an organization that subscribes to any kind of moral code. At best, it is a drive-by lawsuit factory. At worst, it is a legal arm of terrorists that openly welcomes foreign donations, which undermines American sovereignty. All the ACLU cares about is power — which, come to think of it, is something the group truly has in common with jihadists.
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‘Looksmaxxing’ king Clavicular: Charles Atlas for the TikTok era?
I remember, as a boy, seeing strange, old-fashioned advertisements in the backs of comic books. These were the same ones that were printed on the little comic strips you found inside Bazooka bubble gum.
The advertisement was a three-panel cartoon: 1) A muscle-bound bully kicks sand on a skinny guy and his girl at the beach. 2) The humiliated skinny guy goes home and kicks a chair. 3) The skinny guy buys an exercise device, gets muscles, and then beats up the bully.
Like Charles Atlas before him, 20-year-old Clavicular has become a worldwide brand by embodying a new approach to male physical attractiveness.
That’s a popular story. So popular it never goes away. You see it in movies to this day. Man starts out weak. Gets humiliated. Isolates himself and works to improve. And ultimately returns and prevails over his enemies.
It’s a male fantasy. It’s the daydream of every 12-year-old boy. It’s the ultimate form of street justice.
And it almost never happens in real life. Even as a child, I understood that. But it was still a satisfying story. So much so that you could sell stuff with it. Especially to gullible boys.
In this way, Charles Atlas, the inventor of these cartoons and the seller of various body-building regimens, became a rich man.
But even with my child mind, I could tell it was a trick. Because 1) you’re pretty much stuck with the muscles you have. And 2) normal people don’t really care that much about muscles.
Gimme Shelter
By the time I was a teenager, the Charles Atlas era was over. By the late 1970s, male role models were people like Mick Jagger. Or movie stars like Jack Nicholson. These guys weren’t weighed down with muscles.
Even tough guys like Robert De Niro and Al Pacino were much stronger mentally than they were physically. These guys weren’t going to manhandle you with sheer strength. They were going to outsmart you.
The only interesting celebrity of my generation who was somewhat muscular might be Henry Rollins. Though he never had the steroid-infused definition of a true bodybuilder. Besides which, Rollins’ persona was never about being a strongman. It was more of a Nietzschean mental toughness. He was a “Whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger” kind of guy.
And of course Arnold Schwarzenegger comes to mind. But in his case, he was a funny and talented actor. His muscles got him into the film business, where he really shone. Before that, most people regarded him as a freak. I know I did.
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The muscle-man always rings twice
Now, however, the ghost of Charles Atlas has returned. Young men are thinking about their muscles again. And it’s been going on for a while now.
It started with the “you just gotta lift” movement among young men. HR harassing you at work? Women won’t give you the time of day? Media portrays you as weak and ineffectual. You just gotta lift.
This began back in the 20-teens. Maybe the rise of Trump encouraged it. Guys feeling like they could be guys again. Or maybe in the face of decreasing prospects, guys were trying to hold on to their self-esteem.
Steroids and other medications might have added to the trend. Steroids continue to be popular with young males — both for sports and general appearance.
And then there’s the “going to the gym” trend. Both sexes participate in this. Some go to work out, others to socialize and mingle. It has become a place to make friends and find romance. And naturally, big muscles are big clout at the gym.
Enter the looksmaxxers
Now, after a decade of growing physique consciousness, a new generation has burst onto the scene. They call themselves looksmaxxers. And their point man is an internet streamer named Clavicular.
Like Charles Atlas before him, 20-year-old Clavicular has become a worldwide brand by embodying a new approach to male physical attractiveness.
He uses every means at his disposal: cosmetic, chemical, surgical, whatever it takes. There’s an entire science (or maybe pseudo-science) dedicated to this goal. Some aspects of which — “bonesmashing,” for instance—are quite alarming to contemplate.
Clavicular wasn’t the first to think of this. There is a whole community of looksmaxxers that he studied and learned from.
But like Charles Atlas before him, he has the charisma and business savvy to bring his movement to a larger public. At present, he is literally one of the most popular influencers in the world.
When he visits nightclubs or college campuses, Clavicular is mobbed by admirers and detractors. He believes that being (or appearing to be) tall, handsome, and muscular will literally change your life. Watching people mob him in public, it’s hard to disagree.
The beautiful and the damned
Young male conservatives have embraced Clavicular as their own. He has avoided any direct political alliances, but you can hear in his casual conversation echoes of the manosphere and contemporary conservative youth culture.
There are a lot of theories about the rise of looksmaxxing. Some believe it is the inevitable reaction to women reaching new heights in politics, business, media, and entertainment, while at the same time, men have lost ground.
Clavicular has said as much: In a world where the dating market has become increasingly exclusionary to all but the highest-status men, your average guy has to max out any advantage he has and enhance those advantages by any means necessary.
The great inversion
Like it or not, this is where we are. We’ve inverted traditional gender roles. Women, with their increasing access to status and power, are becoming more like men. And men, seeing their own possibilities diminished, are forced to exaggerate their physical attractiveness, like women.
It’s an interesting social experiment. But will the long-term effects be good for society? I kind of doubt it.
For the moment, Clavicular is affecting culture in ways that go beyond being good-looking or having big muscles. He has become a leader and spokesman for a whole generation of young men. Where he ultimately takes them remains to be seen.
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Illinois Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton releases embarrassing ‘F**k Trump’ campaign ad
Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton (D) released a new Senate campaign ad — and it’s about as vulgar as they come.
The ad features several Prairie State residents saying “F**k Trump; vote Juliana,” before Stratton says, “They said it, not me. I’m Juliana Stratton, and I’m proud to have lived my whole life on the South Side of Chicago. I’m not scared of a wannabe dictator. I’m running for Senate to stand up to Donald Trump. I’ll abolish ICE and hold Trump accountable for the crimes he’s committed.”
Stratton then concludes the ad by saying, “Just like they said, f**k Trump,” which is followed by a chorus of residents continuing to say “f*** Trump”
“This Juliana Stratton, the lieutenant governor for J.B. Pritzker, the lieutenant governor for the state of Illinois — she’s running for the Senate, and her campaign seems to be based on bashing Donald Trump in the most profane way possible,” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock says on “Jason Whitlock Harmony.”
“It just seems bizarre. This woman is 60 years old. She’s got four kids,” he adds.
“I got secondhand embarrassment from looking at this, simply because this is a black woman, you know?” BlazeTV contributor Shemeka Michelle chimes in.
“I don’t think women have elevated the conversation at all, and I don’t think black women have elevated the political conversation. This was silly. What they brought is more delusion into the conversation,” she says.
“How can you be from the South Side of Chicago and make your focus Donald Trump?” she asks, noting that most of the shootings in Chicago take place on the South Side.
“It’s crazy because I see so many people from Chicago excited that ICE is there. Like I saw them complaining that the illegal immigrants had taken over community centers, that their children weren’t allowed to play in community centers any more,” she explains.
“So either she’s not listening to the people going out to vote, or she just doesn’t care. This is about her just trying to elevate her political platform, because your people don’t want illegal immigrants there,” she adds.
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James Talarico’s false gospel of consent
In his 1539 tour de force “The Institutes of the Christian Religion,” John Calvin wrote:
And it becomes us to remember that Satan has his miracles, which, although they are tricks rather than true wonders, are still such as to delude the ignorant and unwary.
That warning feels timely when Scripture is invoked not to illuminate truth, but to sanctify the spirit of the age.
American Christians increasingly encounter Scripture filtered through political frameworks that recast its central doctrines in therapeutic or ideological terms.
Pro-choice Jesus?
Texas Democrat state Rep. James Talarico recently argued on Joe Rogan’s podcast that the Bible affirms a woman’s right to abortion. His reasoning centers on the story of Mary in Luke 1. According to Talarico, before the Incarnation, God sought Mary’s consent. From that, he concludes that “creation has to be done with consent” and that forcing a woman to carry a child is inconsistent with the life and ministry of Jesus.
Specifically, Talarico asserted that the Bible — the inerrant and infallible word of God and the most important moral road map ever given to humanity — supports a woman’s right to kill her unborn child. On Rogan’s show, he grounded that claim in the story of Mary:
Before God comes over Mary, and we have the Incarnation, God asks for Mary’s consent. … The angel comes down and asks Mary if this is something she wants to do, and she says … let it be done. … To me that is an affirmation … that creation has to be done with consent. You cannot force someone to create. … It has to be done with freedom. … And to me that is absolutely consistent with the ministry and life and death of Jesus.
This is a remarkable interpretation, because it is not what Luke says.
Assent vs. consent
In Luke 1:26-38, Gabriel does not ask Mary a question or seek her permission. Across major English translations and historic Christian traditions alike, the text records no request for consent — only a declaration of what God will do. Gabriel announces: “Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus.”
The only question in the entire exchange is Mary’s — after she is told what will happen: “How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?” Gabriel replies by pointing to God’s power: “For with God nothing shall be impossible.” Mary then responds, “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word.”
That is assent — humble submission to God’s revealed will — not consent in the modern, contractual sense. Assent is agreement; consent is permission. Mary was not asked for permission. She freely expressed obedience to what had been declared.
Throughout Scripture, when God acts to fulfill His redemptive purposes, He does not canvass human preferences. In Job 1, when Satan is permitted to test Job’s faith, God does not first consult Job. On the road to Damascus, the risen Christ does not ask Saul whether he is open to a career change. He confronts him, humbles him, and commissions him.
God’s sovereignty is not contingent upon human authorization.
Projecting politics
To read Luke 1 as a divine appeal for permission is to project modern autonomy backward into an ancient text. It is eisegesis dressed up as compassion. It reshapes the Incarnation — the central miracle of Christianity — into an endorsement of procedural self-determination. That move says more about contemporary politics than it does about first-century Judea.
Talarico is right about one thing: The conception of a child is a holy matter. But holiness in Scripture is not synonymous with personal autonomy. Holiness is what belongs to God and reflects His purposes.
Christians have historically distinguished between God’s unique act of creation ex nihilo and human procreation within creation. A child conceived by a man and a woman bears the image of God. That image is not a private possession to be revoked; it is a gift.
To ground abortion rights in the Annunciation is therefore doubly strained. First, because the text does not describe a request for consent. Second, because the child at the center of the story is not an abstraction but the incarnate Son of God — the clearest possible affirmation that life in the womb is not disposable.
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God’s justice, not class warfare
Talarico also invokes Mary’s Magnificat — her song in Luke 1:46-55 — emphasizing its language about scattering the proud and sending the rich away empty. This has long been read in some quarters as evidence that Jesus’ mission was primarily political: a revolutionary program of economic leveling.
Yet the Gospels resist that reduction. Jesus speaks often about wealth, but His warnings concern idolatry of the heart, not the mere possession of resources. In parable after parable, wealthy figures appear without blanket condemnation. The dividing line is not income but allegiance — whether one serves God or mammon.
The Magnificat celebrates God’s justice, not class warfare. It announces the reversal of human pride before divine authority. To turn it into a manifesto for contemporary policy debates is to flatten its theological depth.
There is a broader concern here than one legislator or one podcast appearance.
American Christians increasingly encounter Scripture filtered through political frameworks that recast its central doctrines in therapeutic or ideological terms. Words like “justice,” “freedom,” and “consent” are imported into passages that were written to reveal God’s character and His plan of redemption, not to ratify modern slogans.
When believers lack grounding in the text itself, such reinterpretations can sound persuasive. They appeal to familiar moral intuitions and baptize contemporary assumptions with biblical language.
But the authority of Scripture rests not in its adaptability to the spirit of the age, but in its resistance to it. When politics begins rewriting the Annunciation, Christians should recognize the warning signs.
False prophets
Jesus Himself warned of such distortions: “And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not: For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect” (Mark 13:21-22).
The danger is not always open hostility to the faith. It is the subtle refashioning of Christ in our own image.
The Annunciation is not a lesson in personal sovereignty. It is a revelation of divine initiative. God acts; Mary receives. Her greatness lies not in negotiating terms, but in faithful obedience: “Behold the handmaid of the Lord.”
That posture — humility before God’s word — is increasingly countercultural. It does not flatter our sense of autonomy. It does not place human choice at the center of the story.
Yet Christianity has always insisted that salvation begins with surrender, not self-assertion.
To know the Bible
James Talarico may fade from public attention. The temptation to refashion Scripture in the image of prevailing politics will not. The greater danger is not that politicians cite the Bible inaccurately. It is that Christians cease to know it well enough to recognize the difference.
A nation unfamiliar with its founding documents is vulnerable to distortion. A church unfamiliar with its Scriptures is vulnerable to something worse.
The more believers read, wrestle with, and internalize the Bible, the less susceptible they will be to interpretations that trade theological substance for cultural applause.
The Incarnation does not endorse a “gospel of consent.” It proclaims a sovereign God who enters history for the salvation of His people — and a young woman who responds not with negotiation, but with trust.
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‘LOTS OF WINNING!!!’ Trump praises America’s historic hockey victory at Winter Olympics
President Donald Trump showered the United States men’s hockey team with praise Sunday for its historic victory at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games.
The men’s hockey team took home the gold for the first time in 46 years after Jack Hughes scored the winning goal over Canada in overtime. It was the first American gold-medal effort in men’s Olympic hockey since the “Miracle on Ice” squad improbably won it all in 1980. Trump himself hosted that iconic team at the White House in December.
‘I’m so proud to be American.’
“Congratulations to our great U.S.A. Ice Hockey team,” Trump said in a Truth Social Post. “THEY WON THE GOLD. WOW!”
“LOTS OF WINNING!!!” Trump added.
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A teary-eyed Hughes patriotically praised the United States moments after the historic win, saying how proud he is to be an American.
“This is all about our country right now,” Hughes said. “I love the U.S.A. I love my teammates. It’s unbelievable.”
He added that “the U.S.A. hockey brotherhood is so strong, and we had so much support from ex-players. I’m so proud to be American today.”
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“Unreal game by our team,” Hughes also noted. “Just a ballsy, gutsy win. That’s American hockey right there. That’s a great Canadian team, but we’re U.S.A. We’re so proud to be Americans. Tonight was all for the country.”
Hughes’ brother Quinn scored an overtime goal to beat Sweden 2-1 Wednesday, which advanced the U.S. men’s hockey team to the semifinals. Quinn Hughes remarked after the contest, “I love the U.S., and it’s the greatest country in the world. So [I’m] happy to represent it here with these guys.”
Adding to the theatrics, the U.S. women’s hockey team also won Olympic gold, also beating Canada in the finals — and also in overtime — by a 2-1 score Thursday.
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At Trump’s State of the Union, remember the free-market miracle in your pocket
President Trump will deliver the first State of the Union of his second term on Tuesday, an address that lands near the 250th anniversary of a nation built on freedom and enterprise. He will likely highlight ending foreign conflicts, restoring border security, reasserting American strength, and advancing his legislative agenda. He will point to economic gains — growth returning, inflation easing, energy prices falling, tax relief delivered, and markets responding. He will argue that the Trump economy is putting Americans back in charge of their own prosperity.
But one success story may not make the headlines: Under pro-investment, pro-competition policies, America’s wireless market has delivered lower prices, better service, and more choice — without mandates, price controls, or government-run networks.
Wireless shows free markets still work when Washington lets them.
Since Trump took office, wireless prices are down 4%. The White House even lists it as Win No. 132 in “365 Wins in 365 Days.” Backed by Bureau of Labor Statistics data, wireless plans and smartphones cost less in real dollars today than they did decades ago — while delivering hundreds of times faster speeds and vastly more data.
Twenty years ago, wireless networks mostly carried voice calls. Today they power work, school, health care, navigation, banking, entertainment, and small business. A wireless subscription also takes a declining share of the household budget.
That didn’t happen by accident. Competition, private investment, and smart policy drove it.
Better service, more choice, lower cost
Plans now deliver more data, faster speeds, and wider coverage than most people imagined 20 years ago. What once required a wired connection at home now works almost anywhere.
Fixed wireless access has helped drive that shift — home internet delivered over wireless networks. Nearly 15 million households now use wireless service instead of a fixed line, giving families a new, often cheaper alternative.
Americans also benefit from real choice. Most people are covered by three or more national wireless networks, each offering multiple brands, including lower-cost and prepaid options for families, seniors, students, and budget-conscious users. Dozens of smaller carriers and resellers add even more price competition. Companies need to earn customers’ business.
Wireless saves families real money
Wireless doesn’t just connect people — it cuts costs.
Parents save time and fuel by working remotely. Seniors can use telehealth instead of driving long distances. Students can learn from anywhere. Small businesses can reach customers without expensive storefronts or phone systems.
No other essential service — housing, health care, food, or energy — has improved this much while becoming more affordable. Wireless quietly delivers more value every year.
America leads because America invests
None of this works without investment. U.S. wireless companies invest about $30 billion a year to build and upgrade networks. Per person, that’s nearly double what Europe invests.
As a result, the United States leads the world in wireless performance, coverage, and innovation. That leadership didn’t come from government-run networks or price controls. It came from letting companies compete, invest, and take risks.
President Trump’s first-term spectrum auction raised a record $90 billion and helped fuel today’s 5G networks. Now FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is moving quickly toward another auction to free up more airwaves — the raw material wireless networks need to grow.
The spectrum bottleneck is real
Wireless runs on spectrum, and America is running tight.
Large blocks of valuable spectrum remain locked up by federal agencies, even when lightly used. Other countries — China, South Korea, and Japan — have moved faster to free spectrum for commercial use.
More spectrum means better service, more competition, and lower costs. Without it, growth slows and prices rise. That makes unlocking spectrum a national priority.
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The hidden fee on your phone bill
Another problem stays mostly invisible to consumers.
The Universal Service Fund is meant to support rural connectivity and essential communications. But instead of being funded broadly, it gets tacked onto phone bills, often as a separate line item. Seniors and working families pay about $9 a month without ever voting on it.
Meanwhile, the biggest users of America’s networks — massive internet platforms — pay little or nothing into the system. They generate enormous traffic, earn billions, and rely on wireless infrastructure built by others.
President Trump has argued that Big Tech should pay its own way when it comes to energy-hungry AI data centers. The same principle should apply here. If you benefit from the network, you should help pay for it.
The bottom line
Wireless shows free markets still work when Washington lets them. Competition pushed prices down. Private investment built world-leading networks. Smart spectrum policy unlocked innovation.
Now policymakers face a choice: Protect what’s working, or burden it with bureaucracy and political favoritism. Free up more spectrum. Preserve real competition. End Big Tech’s free ride on infrastructure funded by American consumers.
If President Trump wants a model of American strength and market-driven success in his State of the Union, he doesn’t have to look far. It’s already in the hands of nearly every American holding a cell phone.
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The REAL reason Disney Gay Days are fizzling out (it’s not the boycotts everyone thinks)
After 35 years, it appears that Disney Gay Days — the annual LGBTQ+ event where participants, their families, friends, and allies visit the Walt Disney World parks and wear red shirts for visibility — are on their last legs.
The group that organizes the event recently announced that shifting hotel agreements and the loss of key sponsors forced it to cancel the 2026 celebration. Although organizers are encouraging gay fans to visit the parks on the usual dates and wear themed attire, the coordinated celebration appears to be on its way to history’s ash heap.
Some people, particularly in Christian outlets, are claiming that boycotts are behind the sponsorship losses that led to the 2026 pause of the organized Gay Days events at Disney, but BlazeTV Auron MacIntyre disagrees.
“Evangelical Christians tried to cancel Gay Days with an on-again-off-again boycott for decades. What finally wounded the LGBTQ leviathan wasn’t conservative activism. It was cultural apathy,” he says.
“I remember the first wave of evangelical pushback as Disney began signaling support for homosexual lifestyles in the 1990s,” says Auron.
But it was a “strangely inconsistent boycott,” he says.
“One year, the Southern Baptist Convention urged members to avoid Disney. The next year, churches were showing up to the Night of Joy, Disney’s Christian music festival.”
As a result of this “sloppy, intermittent resistance,” Disney “leaned in harder” to its pro-homosexuality agenda, moving “from park celebrations and employee benefits” to “progressive messaging” in its cinematography.
“’The Little Mermaid’ became black, gay couples were kissing in ‘Star Wars,’ and diverse girlbosses dominated Marvel. As acceptance of gay marriage shifted from taboo to required corporate orthodoxy, Disney replaced entertainment with propaganda,” says Auron.
Thus the fading of Gay Days had nothing to do with either Christian resistance or a rolling back of support from Disney.
Auron says that “apathy” is why Gay Days “suddenly [fell] apart.”
“Apathy doesn’t mean that Americans suddenly disapproved of Disney’s agenda sadly. It just means that normal people stopped granting it the honor of a fight,” he explains.
“Many families quit watching new releases, not as part of a coordinated boycott, but because the product became preachy, weird, and dull. Others kept their subscriptions but tuned out of the messaging and rolled their eyes. Either way, the ritualized drama lost its electricity.”
“Corporate sponsors,” says Auron, “follow attention, and attention follows the next outrage.”
“A movement built on being shocking can’t survive once it becomes background noise.”
So what’s the lesson here?
Citing Machiavelli’s “The Prince,” Auron says, rulers must “leave opponents alone or crush them entirely. A complacent enemy might grumble, but they avoid taking risks; a crushed enemy can’t retaliate. The most dangerous enemy is one that has suffered a minor bloodying. He gains the motivation to fight and keeps the means to harm.”
“Conservatives gave the LGBTQ movement exactly that minor bloodying — outrage finger-wagging, but never any real consequences,” he explains.
The “LGBTQ leviathan” responsible for Disney Gay Days, he argues, “didn’t lose because the right defeated it; it lost because it exhausted its own cultural energy.”
“The lesson here is pretty simple,” says Auron. “If the right fights, it must pick battles carefully and commit fully to winning them. … If you fight, you must crush the enemy’s capacity to operate; otherwise, you invigorate his cause while draining your own. Clumsy half measures feed your foe, and you end up hoping he defeats himself.”
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ZAP: ‘Mind control’ tech seemingly revealed in latest Epstein release
Researchers of all stripes continue to pore through the third tranche of DOJ Epstein files. While fact and fiction will continue to be sorted out, so far we’ve got wholesale sex trafficking, political blackmail, global market manipulation, rape, child rape, treason, and espionage suspicions hitting the public-opinion dial somewhere between certain and strongly presumed.
All that’s left in much doubt for the public seems to involve questions of murder, cannibalism, and genuine devil worship. Incredible times in which we live.
As would be unsurprising for someone at or near the nerve center of the biggest and most villainous plots around world domination, Epstein’s doings indicate an undeniable and critically important pattern of tech-related funding, scheming, conspiracy, and crime. Sorting out good apples from bad in this sensitive and super-powerful area will surely require nerves of steel — perhaps a steel stomach as well.
Many are counter-conspiracy tactics adopted during and after Barack Obama’s second term.
Epstein was visiting Santa Fe Institute, dining with Big Tech CEOS. He was into biotech, Bitcoin, security software, eugenics, embryology. The files suggest he was funding scientific studies related to his personal interests. Surfacing too is a pattern around electronic and pharmaceutical means of mind control.
Nightmare machines
There is no shortage of speculation about what may have gone down on the island and at Zorro Ranch. But the ad hoc online community tracking the DOJ drop and searching for patterns has yet to make any definitive, verifiable links between these mind control technologies and Epstein’s own operations.
The latest tranche of Epstein files does contain extensive documents that highlight, in part, government knowledge of mind-control technologies. One example making the rounds on X concerns DOJ file number EFTA00262811. The post states, “Buried in the Epstein document dump is a massive file detailing ‘directed energy and mind control technology’ used on people without consent.”
These materials are addressed beginning on page 10 of the file, which runs to hundreds of pages. The document, seemingly from a local branch of the federal government in Australia, contains a series of papers describing exchanges, sales material, and technical information related to EMF technologies. These papers make associations with government use on unsuspecting victims in a variety of countries.
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Don’t get carried away
However, an analytical concern arises around the daily emergence of dark fact and darker implication: In our conditions of politically sanctioned cognitive and psychological warfare, institutional corruption, and spiritual combat, what can we make of the disparity between the various sources that compose the millions of files in the Epstein files disclosure?
We know it’s bad. We would do well to bring every aspect to light. We do well also not to conflate overwhelming evidence with certainty. Nor confuse confidential and anonymous tips with those more immediately conclusive pieces of evidence such as financial records.
Among the contents of this third installment of Epstein files, we have call records from confidential informants and snail-mail tips ostensibly but not always obviously related to Epstein’s machinations. These types of materials are found alongside strategically redacted government and corporate correspondence. There are photos, videos, emails from movie stars, CEOs, royalty, top scientists. It’s truly enormous in scale.
However, X, where most of this controversy is being hashed out, is also being flooded with very fake “Epstein” emails, video clips, and photos. Some users deploy the fake artifacts to spin the narrative farther into darkness. Others are probably grabbing clickbait cash. Some portion of the traffic should likely be classified as narrative control, spin, counter-intelligence, obfuscation, narrative well-poisoning. Many are counter-conspiracy tactics adopted during and after Barack Obama’s second term.
As one might expect, former White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs chief and Harvard law scholar Cass Sunstein appears to be prevalent in the Epstein files too. Top Obama lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler is on record with Epstein setting meets between Cass and Jeffrey. Are these emails more real than anonymous tips? Quite a tangled web, indeed. Sunstein’s famous paper suggesting institutional-level “nudging” to secure centralized control of the proverbial narrative was called “Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas.”
You’ve been gamed
The X post questioning the placement of documents detailing devices and practices of EMF-based mind control tech does the narrative of work of associating this epochal Epstein-files reveal with the very technologies we use on a day-to-day basis. The provenance, importance, or utility of the document within the context of the Epstein-verse isn’t at all clear. Nonetheless, it can’t be written off.
At this point, should we be even be surprised? Not really. Consider first what we know about the engineering circa 2008 that went into phone-based social media tech. Studies on blue light, gamification, attention capture, and the revelations of the Vegas casino phenomena were all brought to bear on the telephonic device in your pocket or hand right now.
What we have is more than enough for a sane society to throw many hundreds of tech executives and scientists under investigation immediately. Of course, we find ourselves in both political, judicial, and financial deadlock at the moment, with a new war poised to steal the spotlight. So what, if anything, will actually be done about the Epstein-centered corruption?
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Adults are using American Girl dolls for anti-ICE activism and ‘misplaced mothering’
There’s a strange new infantilizing phenomenon taking over social media, and BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey is disturbed to say the least.
“There are these conferences where these women who treat their dolls as toddlers feed them, change their diaper, take them out,” Stuckey says on “Relatable.”
“It’s true,” she continues, explaining that they put them “in strollers, and they take videos of them going on vacation with them.”
“There is this whole influencer who shows her day-in-the-life where she’s turning on the lights, and she’s like waking up her children, and they’re dolls. It’s very, very, very sad. Very sad. Like, we need better hobbies. We need better ways to spend our time,” she continues.
However, that’s not even the worst of it.
“Now we also have adults using dolls to be progressive activists. And there’s a lot of crossover here between Disney adults, adult doll people, and these left-wing activists. And I think that the through line is actually what we call ‘misplaced mothering,’” Stuckey explains.
Misplaced mothering, Stuckey says, is “when your motherhood instinct is not channeled in the right healthy direction toward a child, whether it’s your child or a child that you’re volunteering to take care of, it manifests itself in really ugly and bitter and weird ways.”
One Instagram user who goes by “backintimeag” has been posing her American Girl dolls in the world, taking photos, and posting them with political messages.
“Kirsten will be happy when ICE gets the f**k out of Minnesota,” one American Girl doll photo says.
“Kirsten is churning butter. OK? She doesn’t care about ICE. I guarantee you, Kirsten and her parents would have supported deporting illegal immigrants,” Stuckey says.
The user posted another photo of the American Girl doll Josephine, who is supposed to be from Mexico, with the text, “ICE needs to get the f**k out of my country.”
“ICE is not in your country,” Stuckey says.
Another influencer who goes by “AGTV4LIFE” on Instagram posted a video of American Girl dolls all dressed up, complete with signs, to protest Trump and “fascism.”
“She’s got one in a wheelchair that says, ‘Resist fascism’ … she’s creating these little protest signs. They’re at a No Kings protest. You’ve got way too much time on your hands. OK, we need a job, girly. We need a hobby. We need to go to church,” Stuckey comments.
“We also have doll ICE agents. Oh my goodness. It’s too much. … We’re laughing, but think about what has to be going on spiritually for a person to spend their time doing this,” she says.
“So there’s something simultaneously happening here. On the one hand, you’ve got the infantilizing of adults who use dolls and do a bunch of kids’ stuff … I’m not saying going to Disney as an adult is always bad, but the obsession is weird,” she continues.
“There’s this infantilization of adults going on. This extended adolescence that I think arrests the development that you need to actually be a productive and well-developed healthy mentally person,” she adds.
However, something even more insidious is going on than just the infantilization of adults.
“At the same time, there’s an adultification of children stuff. We see that here,” Stuckey says.
“It’s the conflation and the confusion of adolescence and childhood and adulthood that is making this very disturbing combination. OK? And I’m not really sure exactly what the answer is except, I mean, definitely find God,” she adds.
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Secret Service fatally shoots man seen carrying apparent shotgun outside Mar-a-Lago
The United States Secret Service fatally shot a man outside of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort early Sunday morning.
The USSS shot and killed the man, who was in his early 20s, after he unlawfully entered the secure perimeter at the president’s Florida resort around 1:30 a.m., according to the Secret Service.
The man, whose identity is being withheld pending notification of next of kin, was seen carrying what appeared to a shotgun and a fuel can by the north gate of the property, the Secret Service said.
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The Secret Service said its agents and a deputy from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office confronted the man, and shots were fired by law enforcement; neither the agents nor the deputy were injured.
Notably, Trump was not at his resort in West Palm Beach at the time of the incident; he’s in Washington, D.C.
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Florida HS staffer, 49, initially fights female student in self-defense — but soon crosses way over the line, cops say
Police said a 49-year-old staff member at a Florida high school initially acted in self-defense amid a physical fight with a female student on a bus earlier this week — but cops added that the staffer soon took things well over the line.
According to a report from the Palm Beach School District Police, the incident occurred Tuesday at William T. Dwyer High School around 2:50 p.m., which is around dismissal time, WPBF-TV reported.
‘Ms. Smith has been removed from our campus and will not return, pending the outcome of an investigation.’
A school bus driver requested the removal of an unruly student on the bus, the station said.
Shaundra Smith, a school district employee, responded and boarded the bus to speak with the student, the station said.
A short time later, WPBF said Smith asked for additional staff support and two police officers to board the bus to remove the student.
An officer observed Smith and the student throwing punches at each other, the station said, adding that officers and school administrators grabbed the student to separate her from Smith.
WPBF, citing the police report, said Smith got on a bus seat and punched the student in the face as police were restraining the student’s arms.
The station said an officer told Smith to stop, but Smith allegedly punched the student two more times.
WPBF said the officer eventually pulled Smith away from the student.
The police report notes the female student suffered cuts to the inside of her lip and a scrape on her left collarbone, the station said.
More from WPBF:
The police report acknowledged that Smith’s initial actions were in self-defense, but devolved into intentional and unnecessary infliction of physical injury to the student once the student was restrained.
Smith was arrested Tuesday and charged with child abuse without great bodily harm, the station said.
The Palm Beach County School District provided WPBF with a message that school Principal Corey Brooks sent to concerned parties about the incident:
William T. Dwyer High School families and staff,This message is to inform you that Shaundra Smith, a non-instructional staff member, was recently arrested for an incident that occurred on a school bus on campus yesterday during dismissal. Ms. Smith was charged with cruelty toward a child (abuse without great bodily harm).Ms. Smith has been removed from our campus and will not return, pending the outcome of an investigation.The safety and well-being of our students is our absolute highest priority. Any conduct that threatens the safety and well-being of our students is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. The School District holds all employees to the highest standards of conduct and is committed to a safe learning environment for all students. We always expect every staff member to meet the professional and ethical standards necessary to provide the best possible educational experience.Please understand that, as this is an ongoing investigation, I cannot share additional details at this time. If you have any information relevant to this case, please contact School Police at 561-434-8700, attention Lt. Wagner.Thank you for your continued support of William T. Dwyer High School.”
Smith during a court hearing Wednesday was ordered to have no contact with the student, the student’s family, or Palm Beach County School District property, the station said.
Smith was released from the Palm Beach County Jail on $10,000 bond, WPBF added.
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Bidenflation? Trumpflation? Try unipartyflation
Republicans spent the 2024 campaign blaming “Bidenflation” on runaway spending and debt-driven inflation. A year into Trump’s second term, the top-line numbers look uncomfortably familiar. Even the New York Times has noticed: “For Mr. Trump, the result is a set of annual government expenses that do not appear radically different on paper compared with what he inherited in January 2025.” Sadly, yes.
The rallying cry against “Bidenflation” was probably the most prolific indictment of the last Democrat president, at least next to the canard of the “Biden border invasion.” Implicit in that allegation was a recognition that the record-high debt payments fueling a size of government that dwarfed the Obama-era leviathan (which spawned the Tea Party) were responsible for the great unaffordability crisis.
Our policies try to help consumers afford unaffordable prices by fueling more debt — which makes life more unaffordable.
The opening weeks of this administration, roughly this time last year, were dominated by Republican officials heralding Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency. Red states began forming their own DOGE committees, and every Republican clamored to have his name attached to the spending-cutting club. Someone even launched a meme coin named after DOGE.
A year later, nearly the entire debt and spending level of Biden’s final year has been codified by all but the most conservative members of Congress. The body politic barely noticed until the New York Times mentioned it this week. Trump and GOP leaders no longer talk about debt service as a driver of inflation. Worse, some deny inflation even exists.
More disconcerting: No real movement on the right even recognizes the severity of the unaffordability crisis or the record deficits still fueling it. The same way many forget Trump’s COVID spending helped catalyze the worst affordability crisis in modern American life, they have conveniently forgotten their own campaign rallies against Biden and Harris.
Like his first term, the president proposed a budget for FY 2026 that aimed to downsize bureaucracies and agencies Reagan conservatives never believed should exist. Congress writes the budget, but the president still has a veto pen. He also commands the party that controls both houses, however narrow those majorities.
Yet rather than fight for even modest spending cuts, the president worked the phones to pressure conservatives into breaking campaign promises and codifying a budget that enshrined roughly $1.6 trillion in discretionary spending, on top of mandatory spending on interest and entitlements that rises every year.
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Whereas the president’s budget promised to cut the Department of Housing and Urban Development nearly in half, the appropriations bill he ultimately supported increased HUD’s budget by 9%. He also supports a new housing bill that would expand HUD’s “affordable housing” programs further. He promised to trim the departments of Agriculture and Commerce by 23% and 16%, yet wound up increasing their budgets by 2% and 7% respectively. Labor, HHS, and the Small Business Administration were slated for 28%-38% cuts under his proposed budget, yet the FY 2026 bill he lobbied for and signed kept their record budgets roughly the same.
Ironically, every agency his base hates is now flush with cash and fully funded for the remainder of the fiscal year — except the Department of Homeland Security, which faces an indefinite lapse in appropriations.
Gross debt has increased by $2.6 trillion since Trump took office on Jan. 20, 2025. What happened to the concern about debt-driven inflation that the right raised relentlessly when Biden spent at these levels? Does elephant dung taste better than donkey manure? What gives?
On this trajectory, by 2030 at the latest, the public share of our debt will surpass its all-time high of 106%. That level came at the height of World War II, when debt at least aimed at victory and production. Today’s debt is unproductive. The government goes into debt to juice up private debt to produce fake things like data centers — or worse, self-perpetuating dependency. Today’s spending programs, and even the Trump tax cuts (as opposed to his first-term tax bill), do not produce more goods. They induce more demand for the same goods. In the long run, that’s inflationary.
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Our policies try to help consumers afford unaffordable prices by fueling more debt — which makes life more unaffordable.
Remember: We’re at the peak of the debt mountain while still sitting in the valley of an impending unemployment crisis. As the economy worsens, spending on food stamps, Medicaid, and unemployment will compound the cycle of debt, inflation, unaffordability, and dependency.
It gets worse. By reinstating earmarks, Republicans countermanded the one major spending success of the past decade forged by the Tea Party. The full-funding bill for FY 2026 that Trump signed contained $15.5 billion in earmarks.
Earmarks themselves don’t drive inflation, but they create a legislative dynamic where members get bought off to vote for the leviathan spending that does. The omnibus contained 8,471 earmarks for just 535 members. It becomes nearly impossible to muster opposition when personal favors designed to ingratiate lawmakers to local interests ride along in the same bills.
No surprise, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) wound up with nearly $500 million in earmarks, the most of any member. As ranking Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, she helped spearhead this uniparty budget that kept the status quo.
Some GOP apologists will scoff at the idea of dealing with inflation and demand we focus on other issues. They might pretend fiscal conservatism was never real.
Fine. But the next time Democrats take office, shut your mouths about spending and inflation. And don’t campaign on bringing it down.
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We don’t have to live this way
Last year, I lived for nearly five months in an extended-stay hotel across from a major teaching hospital in Aurora, Colorado.
It was my third extended stay there in three years. In total, I have spent more than 10 months in that community during my wife’s hospitalizations.
Disorder becomes permanent when citizens treat it as background noise.
That is long enough to know the difference between an exception and a pattern.
A sign at the city limits reads, “Welcome to Aurora — America’s City.”
At first, it seemed ironic. By the time I left, it read like an indictment.
Near the hospital, everyday life felt needlessly strained.
The grocery store lines were enormous. Entire banks of self-checkout lanes sat dark. Staffed lanes were closed, allegedly because of staffing shortages. This store belongs to one of the largest grocery chains in the country.
Resources were not the issue. Priorities were.
Basic necessities sat locked behind glass: detergent, deodorant, toothpaste. To buy them, I had to find a manager and request access.
Two armed police officers stood near the checkout lanes.
Then I reached for a bag.
Colorado charges for shopping bags. Fine. Charge for them. But none were available. I stood there with paid-for groceries and no way to carry them, scanning for an employee who could authorize the privilege of buying one.
Charge for the bag if you must. But if you charge for it, make it obtainable.
I speak Spanish well and know a few phrases in several other languages. While useful in Aurora, requesting una bolsa did not make one appear any faster.
Outside, carts sat scattered across the parking lot. Trash gathered along the curbs. Panhandlers approached vehicles at the entrance. Customers moved quickly, eyes down.
The hotel where I stayed was a national chain: key-card entry, corporate standards. The staff were decent, hardworking people. They were not hired to enforce the law. Yet I watched them physically confront individuals who slipped into the building and helped themselves to the breakfast buffet without apology and without fear of consequence.
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When behavior is brazen, it signals confidence that no one will stop it.
Walking across the street to the hospital, I passed men and women sprawled on sidewalks, drug paraphernalia near bus stops, people shouting into empty air. While living there, I heard more gunfire than I hear during hunting season where I live in Montana.
Live somewhere for 10 months, and you start to feel the pulse of a place. It is a community living inside lowered expectations.
Standards rarely collapse in a single moment. They erode when enough people decide they are optional. At what point did we accept that this was simply how modern American cities function?
If Aurora is “America’s City,” then we no longer agree on what America means.
Years ago, my wife and I launched a prosthetic limb outreach in Ghana. I have seen clinics there operate with greater cleanliness and clearer systems than the community surrounding one of America’s premier teaching hospitals.
That is not meant to be an insult to Ghana. It is a warning to us.
Compassion and order are not enemies.
A society can care for the vulnerable and still insist on standards. In fact, it must. Compassion without structure becomes chaos, and chaos harms the very people it claims to protect.
Government exists to protect life and property. That is not partisan. It is foundational.
The reflexive answer to visible disorder is often another funding package. But public officials are not spending their own money. They are allocating earnings entrusted to them by citizens who expect order in return. When outcomes deteriorate while budgets expand, the issue is not funding. It is stewardship.
For more than 40 years, I have navigated surgeons, pain specialists, prosthetists, and hospital systems while advocating for someone who cannot afford substandard care. In those settings, standards are measurable, not merely aspirational.
One does not respect what one does not inspect. When professionals know their work will be reviewed, outcomes improve. When oversight weakens, so do results.
When an area becomes known for disorder, the mystery is not the criminals. It is the complying silence surrounding those charged with enforcing law and order. Those entrusted with authority must themselves be examined.
Advocacy is rarely glamorous or lucrative. It is repetitive, exacting, and sometimes unwelcome. But when the advocate steps away, small failures compound, and the vulnerable suffer more.
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A healthy society requires the same vigilance from its citizens.
Unenforced borders invite unlawful crossings. Unenforced laws embolden lawlessness. Unenforced standards always open the door to mediocrity and worse.
This is not complicated. It just requires will.
As I walked past those police officers, groceries in the bags I finally managed to buy, I said plainly, “We don’t have to live this way.”
They shrugged. They did not argue.
A deserter was once brought before Alexander the Great for judgment. Asked his name, the soldier nervously replied, “Alexander.”
The general paused.
“Either change your conduct,” he said, “or change your name.”
Names imply standards. So do cities.
If a city claims to be “America’s City,” its conduct should reflect it.
We should expect more — of ourselves, of our communities, of our elected officials, and of our courts.
America is not a nation of voiceless citizens. If standards are collapsing, enough of us have abdicated oversight and responsibility.
Disorder becomes permanent when citizens treat it as background noise.
The first act of resolve is refusing to call dysfunction normal.
We do not need another commission. We need resolve.
We don’t have to live this way.
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Steve Deace drops FIRE: ‘James Talarico is going to be Legion’ in Satan’s plan to impose his own dark religion
Democratic Texas state Representative and current Senate candidate James Talarico has made a practice of using his “Christian” faith and background as a Presbyterian seminarian to push progressive causes, such as abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, and gun control, among others.
Earlier this week, in an interview with Stephen Colbert on “The Late Show,” Talarico perpetuated an argument he’s presented multiple times, namely that the “religious right” mistakenly hyper-focuses on “abortion and gay marriage” — two issues, he argued, “that aren’t mentioned in the Bible” and “that Jesus never talked about.”
“Jesus gave us two commandments: Love God and love neighbor. And there was no exception to that second commandment. Love thy neighbor regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation or immigration status or religious affiliation. And it’s why I have fought so hard for the separation of church and state,” the Texas Democrat added.
BlazeTV host Steve Deace joins the host of conservative Christian voices denouncing Talarico as a false teacher, but his criticism goes far beyond relegating the progressive Christian to the realm of heretics.
“James Talarico is going to be Legion,” says Deace.
He explains the biblical pattern of Christian revival, which he believes is happening in the United States right now, regardless of whether or not America survives as a free nation.
First comes the sifting, he says, where God separates true believers from fake or lukewarm ones. Next is “the implementation of a new structure,” where God builds fresh ways of doing church outside of old, dead institutions. The final step is “mobilization.” Once His true followers are sifted and organized, God sends them out on mission to spread the gospel and make disciples locally and globally.
This revival process, Deace explains, has been repeating itself since the formation of the early Christian church.
However, the enemy has his own counterfeit pattern: First, shame people into hiding their faith, convincing them that it’s meant to be “private” between them and God. Then, push the lie of “secularization” — the idea that “there’s a neutral space where no one rules and no one is worshiped and no such space exists, ever has existed, or ever will,” says Deace. And finally, “replace” the faith altogether with an evil religion imposed by the state.
“We’re entering into this third stage now,” Deace warns.
James Talarico, whom Deace calls “an object and a vessel of malevolence,” is “not deceived; he’s the deceiver,” he says. “He is who Paul would have said in Acts, ‘You are a son of the devil.’ He knows what he is doing.”
To stay on the straight and narrow and avoid being duped by people like Talarico, Deace gives a piece of advice: “If sin and repentance and redemption are nowhere in their message, it doesn’t matter what else they say. … That is not the gospel. It is not. It’s a husk. Jesus called it a whitewashed tomb. The heart and soul of the gospel, the battle that was waged over your soul, and it is now being waged over your heart and mind, is because of sin, repentance, and redemption.”
“Guess what was completely and totally missing from James Talarico’s message? Sin, repentance, and redemption. So guess what you just heard none of from James Talarico? The gospel.”
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