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A reporter trying to scare voters on the SAVE America Act got a crushing response from Vice President JD Vance at a stop in Auburn Hills, Michigan, Thursday.

Craig Mauger of the Detroit News asked Vance to respond to comments made by President Donald Trump that he might order the federal takeover of elections to ensure voter integrity.

Vance joked that they had no plans to send Secretary of State Marco Rubio to count ballots in Michigan.

“There’s a lot of concern and talk in Michigan right now ahead of this pivotal midterm election that the federal government might somehow intervene in the administration of the election here in this state,” said Mauger.

“Do you have any promises that you would make that the federal government will not intervene in any way in this election, or what would you tell people in Michigan who are concerned about that?” he asked.

Vance said it was the first time he had heard about possible federal intervention in elections and asked him to clarify the question.

“I believe the president has talked about nationalizing elections in recent months himself,” Mauger responded.

“If what you mean by ‘intervening in the election’ is that we want everybody to have a voter ID before voting in this country, yes, we should be doing that, to be clear,” Vance responded.

He received great applause and USA chants from the event audience.

Vance joked that they had no plans to send Secretary of State Marco Rubio to count ballots in Michigan and added that they had no intention to intervene in elections.

“I don’t think so. I haven’t talked to the president or Marco about it, but look, there’s a lot of scare tactics,” Vance responded.

“If you believe, as I do, that the American people are sovereign in their own country, then you have to believe that their vote should be protected, and the only way to fully protect their vote is to prevent fraudsters from coming and voting in American elections,” he added.

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Mauger appeared to be referring to comments made by Trump in February, when he said that “the federal government should get involved” in elections by sending “agents of the federal government to count the votes” in cities that included Detroit.

“A state is an agent for the federal government in elections. I don’t know why the federal government doesn’t do them anyway,” Trump said to reporters. “But when you see some of these states about how horribly they run their elections, what a disgrace it is.”

Video of the interaction was widely circulated on social media where it garnered hundreds of thousands of views.

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Watching the real-time updates from Operation Epic Fury, one lesson kept flashing like a warning light: Don’t chase the rockets. Find the launcher.

For years, militaries have built sophisticated defenses. Rockets fly, interceptors rise, lives get saved. That matters. But every soldier knows intercepting rockets never counts as the long-term solution. Defense buys time. Strategy ends the threat.

Recall the maxim that the best defense is a good offense. Intercepting rockets protects you today. Disabling the launcher protects you tomorrow.

You trace the attack back to its source. You stop the launcher, and you stop the rockets that follow.

That principle applies to our culture.

Take the Oscars. Every year, a celebrity steps to the microphone and scolds half the country. Commentators repeat it the next morning. Clips hit social media within minutes. None of this happens by accident. The provocation is the point. The speech aims to trigger a predictable response, and for years it worked. Every clip pulled more people into the outrage cycle. Rocket after rocket.

But something changed. People have built defenses.

Many Americans now recognize the pattern. The provocation arrives. The clip goes viral. The outrage machine revs. And more people shrug. The rockets still fly. They just don’t land the way they once did.

I saw that recently in a clip of Ben Stiller promoting his new soda brand in a grocery store. For years, Stiller fired political rockets on social media at Donald Trump and his supporters. But there he was in the beverage aisle, hawking soda while shoppers pushed carts past him.

The moment felt revealing.

At some point, the rockets stopped landing.

That shouldn’t surprise anyone who remembers what Michael Jordan once said when asked why he stayed out of politics: “Republicans buy sneakers too.” Jordan understood something fundamental about celebrity influence. Star power works only if the audience still wants to watch.

Attention may be the currency of choice for some. But actual currency still runs the world.

Rebuking a president may generate applause and headlines. Selling soda still requires receipts. Filling theaters still requires paying customers. You can see it in the numbers: Award show ratings have fallen, and box office success increasingly depends on audiences tired of being lectured.

The rockets are still flying, but they’re losing range.

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Which raises the real question: Why do we keep arguing about the explosions instead of the launchers?

Most cultural flashpoints don’t originate on a stage or in a viral clip. They are symptoms of deeper forces already at work — ideas formed in classrooms, reinforced by institutions, and absorbed by the next generation.

Those are the launchers.

Some leaders figured this out and adjusted their strategy. Instead of reacting to every viral moment, they went to the places where the ideas get produced and packaged. That’s a big part of what made Charlie Kirk effective with young audiences. He didn’t spend his life chasing rockets. He went to campuses and challenged the ideas being launched there.

Recall the maxim that the best defense is a good offense. Intercepting rockets protects you today. Disabling the launcher protects you tomorrow. Once the launcher is gone, there’s far less you need to defend against.

That takes patience. Discipline. And the wisdom to ignore the latest explosion overhead.

Playing defense keeps you alive. Playing offense wins.

And there’s one more thing worth noticing.

God never plays defense. Throughout scripture, truth advances. Light pushes back darkness. The gates of hell aren’t advancing against the church. They are the ones being stormed.

The lesson is simple: Stop chasing rockets. Find the launchers.

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Republican Rep. August Pfluger of Texas is leading a bipartisan charge to combat the rise of nitazenes, a class of illicit drugs that could be deadlier than fentanyl, Blaze News has learned.

Pfluger introduced the House version of the DETECT Nitazenes Act Thursday alongside Democratic Rep. Eugene Vindman of Virginia. The bipartisan and bicameral legislation would direct resources from the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate and the Drug Enforcement Administration to enhance technologies to detect illicit drugs like nitazenes at extremely low concentrations, according to bill text obtained exclusively by Blaze News.

‘These deadly drugs are taking American lives.’

“Nitazenes are an emerging class of illicit drugs that pose a serious threat to Americans’ health and safety, yet today, these deadly drugs have not received the level of attention necessary to combat them,” Pfluger told Blaze News. “The DETECT Nitazenes Act will close critical gaps in detection capabilities, support law enforcement efforts, and improve public safety outcomes by enabling faster and more accurate identification of these deadly substances.”

“As the risk from synthetic drugs continues to evolve, this legislation ensures that we remain prepared to respond to the next generation of deadly narcotics and protect our communities,” he continued.

RELATED: Exclusive: SAVE Act hangs in the balance as Republican Study Committee pushes for Senate passage

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Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri, who is leading the companion bill in the Senate, demonstrated just how destructive nitazenes can be, urging Congress to take swift action.

“Nitazenes are powerful synthetic opioids that are stronger than fentanyl, cheaper to produce, and devastatingly lethal,” Schmitt told Blaze News. “These deadly drugs are taking American lives, and we must get smart on them before they devastate communities across Missouri and the nation.”

RELATED: Exclusive: GOP lawmaker leads push to counter CCP influence in global telecommunications

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Schmitt added, “I was proud to introduce the DETECT Nitazenes Act in the Senate and am encouraged to see my colleagues introduce it in the House. I urge both the House and the Senate to take up this critical bill to help tackle this crisis before nitazenes get out of control.”

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested several criminal illegal aliens, including those with convictions for murder and child sexual abuse.

A Department of Homeland Security press release obtained by Blaze News highlighted five arrests made by ICE on Wednesday.

‘President Trump has been clear: If you break the law, you will face the consequences.’

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announces the arrest of more criminal illegal aliens convicted for heinous crimes, including murder, lewd acts with a child, forcible sexual abuse, and possession and intent to distribute methamphetamine,” the press release stated.

The DHS noted that nearly 70% of the immigration agency’s arrests are of illegal aliens with prior charges or convictions in the United States.

The agency highlighted the capture of Santos Cornelio Ramos Vasquez, an illegal alien from Guatemala. Ramos Vasquez is a registered sex offender who was convicted on two counts of lewd or lascivious acts with a minor child under 14 years old in Los Angeles, California.

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Santos Cornelio Ramos Vasquez. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

Cesar Verduzco-Rojas, an illegal alien from Mexico, was also arrested by ICE officers. He was previously convicted of murder in Perris, California. According to the San Bernardino Sun, Verduzco-Rojas was accused of killing a 24-year-old Mead Valley man in 2021. The victim was found behind the wheel of his vehicle, deceased from gunshot wounds.

Cesar Verduzco-Rojas. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

Federal immigration agents nabbed Jermaine Dalton Crosley, an illegal alien from Jamaica who was previously convicted of third-degree murder in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Court records revealed that Dalton Crosley was accused of fatally shooting a man who had allowed him to live on his property. A physical altercation ensued after the man demanded Dalton Crosley vacate.

Jermaine Dalton Crosley. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

Alber Eleazar Blanco, an illegal alien from Venezuela, was nabbed by immigration agents. He has a prior conviction in Provo, Utah, for forcible sexual abuse. Based on sex offender registry data, Blanco is 33 years old and lives in Spanish Fork, Utah.

Alber Eleazar Blanco. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

The final arrest noted by the DHS was Jose Manuel Ruiz Preciado, an illegal alien from Mexico. He was convicted in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas of possession and intent to distribute methamphetamine.

RELATED: Georgia city cuts water to planned ICE detention center

Jose Manuel Ruiz Preciado. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

“The media and sanctuary politicians continuously ignore the criminal illegal aliens ICE law enforcement is arresting from American neighborhoods,” DHS acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis stated.

“Yesterday alone, ICE arrested multiple murderers, pedophiles, and drug traffickers. President Trump has been clear: If you break the law, you will face the consequences,” Bis continued. “Criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the U.S.”

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President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Homeland Security advanced through committee Thursday thanks to one Democrat senator.

Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s nomination advanced through the Senate Homeland Security Committee after Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania crossed party lines and voted in favor of the nominee. Mullin’s confirmation was previously in jeopardy after the committee’s chairman, Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, vowed to vote against the nominee, citing concerns about his “temperament.”

‘Seems like you fight Republicans more than you work with us.’

“They’ve had to have known for weeks that I couldn’t be real happy about a guy that won’t apologize and thinks that my assault was perfectly understandable,” Paul said.

Without Paul’s support, Mullin was on the brink of failing the simple majority vote needed to pass through the committee. However, Fetterman joined seven Republicans on the committee to advance Mullin’s nomination to the Senate floor.

RELATED: ‘Freaking snake’: Trump’s new DHS pick faces major roadblock from lone Republican

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Paul and Mullin sparred in Wednesday’s confirmation hearing after the chairman confronted the nominee over past comments he made about a violent assault Paul survived.

“You have never had the courage to look me in the eye and tell me that the assault was justified,” Paul said of Mullin’s comments following the 2017 assault that left him with broken ribs. Paul also claimed Mullin referred to him as a “freaking snake.”

Mullin pushed back on Paul’s claims in his opening statement, saying they addressed their differences when the Oklahoma senator was still in the House.

“I’m very blunt and direct to the point,” Mullin said. “And if I have something to say, I’ll say it directly to your face.”

“Seems like you fight Republicans more than you work with us,” Mullin added.

RELATED: Noem is OUT — and Trump has named her replacement

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Mullin’s nomination is now headed to the floor, where the Republican-controlled Senate is expected to confirm him with a simple majority.

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The midterms are shaping up to be a rough outing for Republicans, according to CNN analyst Harry Enten.

On Thursday, Enten pointed to Americans’ attitudes on the cost of living and a massive drop in satisfaction from just before the election in 2024 until March 2026.

‘You can’t win when you’re 41 points below water on the cost of living.’

While President Donald Trump enjoyed a three-point net positive on the issue of cost of living in October 2024, he now has a negative 41-point rating on the same issue. The rating is the worst recorded, said the analyst.

“I would say that this is the most troublesome sign that I have seen for the president of the United States and the Republican Party so far,” said Enten.

“You can’t win when you’re 41 points below water on the cost of living.”

Among independent voters, which many consider to be a bellwether for elections, the drop is even steeper. The president had a net positive rating of 11 points in 2024, but that has fallen by 71 points to a net negative rating of 60 points among independents for the cost-of-living question.

“This, my dear friends, is just a political nightmare waiting to happen for the Republican Party come the midterm election,” Enten added.

Voters also rate cost of living as their top issue, and that concern has grown slightly for the next election.

Thirty-eight percent of voters cited cost of living as their top concern in 2024, and 39% now say it’s their top concern.

“Simply put, I am saying this loud and proud: You cannot win an election when you are the incumbent party and the top issue is the cost of living,” he added.

“And your net approval rating on it is 41 points underwater? I mean, you’re with Greg Louganis at this point!”

Louganis is an American diver who won multiple Olympic gold medals in the 1980s.

RELATED: Congressional Democrats have horrendous approval ratings — even among Democratic voters

Enten posted video of the segment to his official X social media account.

“You cannot win. If you’re the president and you’re the Republican Party and you’re not addressing this issue: Wave adios, amigos, goodbye, see you later to your House majority and may very well be your Senate majority as well.”

Enten also pointed out that prediction markets pointed to a strong possibility that inflation would be higher when reported for the month of March over the last year, which would likely worsen conditions for Republicans.

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A bevy of European countries and Japan issued a joint statement to condemn Iran and pledge to defend the Strait of Hormuz from the belligerent regime’s military threat.

Iran has shut down the strait and sent oil prices spiraling after the U.S. and Israel began military strikes about three weeks ago.

‘Everybody agrees. The strait cannot stay closed. It has to open up again as soon as possible. This is crucial for the world economy.’

European countries initially refused to join the effort to defend the strait, but on Thursday, they relented and issued a statement condemning Iran.

“We express our deep concern about the escalating conflict. We call on Iran to cease immediately its threats, laying of mines, drone and missile attacks, and other attempts to block the Strait to commercial shipping,” said the global leaders in their proclamation.

Leaders from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Japan signed the letter, which went on to call Iran’s actions to disrupt global energy supply chains “a threat to international peace and security.”

“We express our readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait,” the letter continued. “We welcome the commitment of nations who are engaging in preparatory planning.”

President Trump had warned that the future of NATO was threatened unless the international community joined the effort to defend the oil tanker route.

“The United States of America has beaten and completely decimated Iran, both Militarily, Economically, and in every other way, but the Countries of the World that receive Oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage, and we will help — A LOT!” he wrote on Saturday.

“This should have always been a team effort, and now it will be — It will bring the World together toward Harmony, Security, and Everlasting Peace!” he added.

Crude oil rose to about $65 in late February and spiked to above $95 by Thursday, an increase of about 50%. Americans are seeing the price surge at the gas pump, leading some to worry that cost-of-living concerns may crush Republicans in the midterm elections.

An Israeli strike on a major oil field in Iran led to retaliatory Irani strikes against oil facilities in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, as well as Kuwait. Trump claimed that he had not been alerted prior to the oil field attack, but an Axios report citing U.S. and Israeli officials said he had been told about the strike.

“Everybody agrees. The strait cannot stay closed. It has to open up again as soon as possible. This is crucial for the world economy,” said NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte Thursday. “I am confident that allies as always, will do everything in support of our shared interest.”

RELATED: The Economist gets crushed over sympathetic portrayal of dead Iranian leader

War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday the strikes on Iran would escalate.

“Again, today will be the largest strike package yet, just like yesterday was. As I’ve said from day one, our capabilities continue to build; Iran’s continue to degrade,” he said in a media briefing. “We’re hunting and striking death and destruction from above.”

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In 1996, the Oscars viewership totaled a whopping 45 million — but now, in 2026, the number has dwindled to a measly 17 million.

“At 17 million, it’s attracting about 5% of the American public,” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock comments, adding that Clay Travis made an interesting point regarding the celebrity awards show.

“Big media take: the only reason broadcast TV networks still exist is the NFL. Go look at ratings, if the NFL isn’t on NBC, CBS and Fox, what are people watching on these channels? Bigger media take: sports is the only reason cable TV still exists. Am I wrong? Debate, discuss,” Travis wrote in a post on X.

The Oscars, like sports, Whitlock comments, “used to be a powerhouse.”

“It was like a big party, a big holiday event, Oscars night. Families would dress up, families would throw parties, people would invite everybody over, people would have wine and beer and drink and food,” he recalls.

“It was like a celebration. It was a mini-Super Bowl. And now it’s nothing. And it’s nothing because it moved away from reality. It’s nothing because the movies are nothing. They are straight trash,” he says, blaming DEI for the quality of films.

“The woke movement has done this. Woke movies, woke television, woke everything, the move away from reality. Movies and TV no longer reflect our reality. And that has made sports the last thing still connected to reality, the last thing that still reflects an American reality. It makes sports more valuable,” he explains.

And sports still reflect an American reality because many of them are attached to patriotism.

“There is an underserved market of people out here that want to see things on television, things in popular culture, that reflect a love for America and are connected to something that’s believable,” Whitlock says.

“This is how I know they have killed capitalism, because there’s this great mass of America that just wants popular culture to serve them up some reality, some masculinity, some moral values loosely connected to Christianity,” he continues.

“They want to celebrate America,” he adds.

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Sources have informed multiple publications that the FBI is investigating combat veteran Joe Kent over an alleged leak of classified information. Four individuals with direct knowledge of the probe told Semafor that it predates Kent’s resignation on Tuesday as director of the National Counterterrorism Center.

A source familiar with the case told Axios that Kent was suspected of leaking information to Tucker Carlson and another conservative podcaster and that the bureau is looking into whether the allegedly leaked information pertained to Israel and Iran.

‘Israelis drove the decision.’

When asked for comment, the White House referred Blaze News to the FBI. The FBI declined to comment. Blaze News reached out to Kent for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

Kent — a retired Green Beret and former CIA officer whom President Donald Trump nominated to be NCTC director in February 2025 and the U.S. Senate confirmed in a 52-44 vote in July — wrote in a post accompanying his resignation letter addressed to Trump and published Tuesday that Iran “posed no imminent threat to our nation” and that “it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”

The ex-intel official said further in the letter:

Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran. This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now, there was a clear path to victory. This was a lie and is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women.

The president told reporters on Tuesday, “I read his statement — and I always thought he was a nice guy — but I always thought he was weak on security, very weak on security.”

RELATED: If Congress can’t oversee the FBI, who can?

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“When I read his statement, I realized that it’s a good thing that he’s out, because he said that Iran was not a threat. Iran was a threat — every country realized what a threat Iran was. The question is whether they wanted to do something about it,” said Trump.

Trump later shared an image of a tweet that Kent posted in January 2020, imploring Trump, then in his first term, to “wipe Iran’s ballistic capability out and get our troops out of Iraq — they are only targets now.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed on Tuesday that Kent’s resignation letter was replete with “false claims” and noted that “the absurd allegation that President Trump made this decision based on the influence of others, even foreign countries, is both insulting and laughable.”

On Wednesday, Kent appeared with Tucker Carlson, who said about the Iran strikes: “Joe Kent was right. Therefore, Joe Kent must be destroyed. And there is, of course, this ongoing effort to do that — to dismiss Joe Kent as a tool of the Islamists or a leaker.”

During the interview, Kent explained to Carlson his reasons for leaving the administration, his misgivings about the conflict with Iran, and his support for the president and Trump’s previous policies.

Referring to remarks made earlier this month by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Kent told Carlson — who was denounced on March 5 by the president following months of criticism — that the “Israelis drove the decision” to attack Iran.

Intelligence showed that Iran was neither on the verge of obtaining a nuclear weapon nor planning “to launch this big sneak attack,” Kent added.

He further claimed that Trump was siloed when it came to the issue of Iran, stating that “a good deal of key decision-makers were not allowed to come express their opinion to the president.”

‘He quit because he’s under investigation.’

Kent also claimed that when it came to Charlie Kirk’s assassination, “we’re not really even allowed to look into that at all.” Kent even intimated that the assassination might have something to do with Kirk’s vocal opposition to a possible regime-change war in Iran.

“One of President Trump’s closest advisers who is vocally advocating for us to not go to war with Iran and for us to rethink, at least, our relationship with the Israelis, and then he’s suddenly publicly assassinated, and we’re not allowed to ask any questions about that — it’s a data point,” said Kent. “It’s a data point that we need to look into.”‘

One of the sources reportedly familiar with the FBI investigation into Kent told Axios, “He left quite an online paper trail and he has been monitored for months.”

“He’s going to try to say this was in retaliation for his resignation,” continued the source, “but it’s the other way around: He quit because he’s under investigation — and he knew it.”

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Anonymity is never promised online, even when using an account that isn’t attached to your real name or personal email address. While it usually takes a lot of time and effort for an investigator to expose someone’s real identity, that’s all about to change. A new study confirms that it’s easier and cheaper than ever to uncover the people behind anonymous social media accounts en masse, and it’s all powered by generative AI.

The study

The study, led by members of Berlin-based independent research group MATS Research and Swiss research university ETH Zurich, claimed in early March that large language models can be used to reveal the real identities behind anonymous social media accounts at a scale never seen before.

There are serious consequences, especially for privacy and free speech.

Using a set of fictional accounts between Hacker News, Reddit, and LinkedIn, the study showed how LLMs can scan a single account and search the internet for potential matches based on semantic embeddings — mathematical vectors that represent the meaning of written text to compare similarities between various bodies of written work. Ultimately, the LLM was able to target an anonymous account on Hacker News or Reddit and connect it to the person’s “real identity” on LinkedIn.

The results showed that LLMs can achieve “up to 68% recall at 90% precision” to deanonymize accounts. In other words, the study correctly identified more than half of anonymous users with up to 90% accuracy.

It’s a terrifying revelation that your writing style — including your word choices, ideas, concepts, and beliefs — could all be turned into mathematical data that reveals exactly who you are, even if you think your social accounts aren’t connected to you at all. Even more sobering, the LLMs don’t need access to your email address, your phone number, your home address, or any other personal information to determine your identity. They only need your public writing.

The stipulations

If there’s any good news, it’s that there are several potential flaws in the study.

For starters, it didn’t use any real accounts. The targeted “users” were all fabricated with their identities already known by the researchers. In a real de-anonymizing scenario, there would be no confirmation on the other end when the LLM gets an identity right or wrong, leaving sleuths to wonder if they linked the correct person.

RELATED: New hack poses biggest iPhone threat in 19 years: What you can do

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Also, to cross-match an anonymous account with a real identity, the targeted person has to have a real online account to compare. If no such account exists, then an anonymous account could theoretically skirt the AI’s search parameters to stay concealed.

The implications

If used effectively, however, there are some serious consequences to wide-scale LLM de-anonymization, especially for privacy and free speech. This tech could easily be used by violent activist groups, corrupt NGOs, and government agencies to track anonymous accounts, uncover identities, and reveal the political beliefs of users who wish to remain unknown.

There is also huge potential for misidentifications. While the LLM in the study was considerably accurate by research standards, it wasn’t perfect. If and when something like this is ever deployed on real-world accounts at scale, it will misidentify some online accounts, possibly causing trouble for people who are wrongly accused of owning certain anonymous profiles.

Lastly, while the study focuses on LLMs digging through social media accounts to link anonymous users to real people, AI can technically do this with any body of written work. For example, all it takes is for Gemini to see the documents in your Google Drive account or for Microsoft Copilot to view your work emails to get enough semantic embedding data to search for your secret alter ego.

In other words, we could be heading into an age of oppressive online police and mass surveillance where online anonymity simply can’t exist.

What can you do?

There isn’t a surefire way to keep your anonymous online presence safe from scouring LLMs, but there are a couple of things that might help.

The first and obvious option is not to have an anonymous account at all. If you plan to be online, you must represent yourself under your own name. That means owning your values, never posting anything you wouldn’t say to a person in public, and standing up for what you believe. The Biden administration actively stomped on the values of conservatives with mass censorship and misinformation campaigns meant to scare us into submission, lest we face the wrath of cancel culture. That era is over. We can’t sit in the shadows any more while the left screams louder into the void. LLM de-anonymization simply won’t allow it.

If you must use an anonymous account, then you should delete any online accounts that do represent your true identity. That means getting rid of your real LinkedIn, Facebook, and any other profile where you’ve written words that provide semantic embedding data about you. Note, however, that even if you delete these accounts, pieces of them still exist in perpetuity on web archival services like Wayback Machine, so if an LLM wanted to dig around to uncover who you are, it still could.

The age of online anonymity is over

This study ultimately boils down to one central idea: “Anonymous” online interactions are a thing of the past. Privacy is merely a facade when an LLM can take everything you’ve ever posted online and track you down with stunning accuracy.

AI programs don’t care if you use a secret email address, install a VPN, or browse in incognito mode. The key to finding your identity is the words you write. That’s all it needs to understand who you are.

This is just the beginning. AI tools like these will only get better with time, making it even easier to unmask anonymous posters around the internet. That means if you do have an anonymous account, you shouldn’t assume your identity is safe. Anyone can find the truth with your own words used against you to destroy your privacy.

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A Haitian fraudster learned the hard way that when it comes to citizenship, the U.S. government can giveth and taketh away.

Joff Stenn Wroy Philossaint, a 35-year-old Haitian national, applied to become an American citizen in early 2020. While his citizenship application was pending, Philossaint participated in an elaborate wire fraud and money laundering scheme in Florida.

‘You will lose what you unlawfully gained.’

Philossaint and his co-conspirators submitted 40 fraudulent applications on behalf of numerous businesses, seeking roughly $3.8 million from COVID-19 relief programs, said the Department of Justice. The applications falsely certified the businesses’ revenue, number of employees, and expenses.

The Haitian later acknowledged that after the conspirator business owners received their paydays, they paid him a fee of approximately 10% of the value of the loans, which amounted to approximately $549,000.

While ripping off his would-be countrymen, Philossaint lied in an interview with a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officer that he had never made false misrepresentations to receive a public benefit in the United States and had never committed a crime for which he had not been arrested — false representations that led to his naturalization as an American citizen.

Philossaint pleaded guilty in 2022 to wire fraud and money laundering charges and was found guilty in February 2023 of illegally obtaining his U.S. citizenship. He was sentenced in June 2023 to 50 months in federal prison.

RELATED: ‘Staged armed robberies’: 11 Indian nationals catch visa fraud charge amid conspiracy allegations

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Of the five defendants charged in the case, Philossaint was the only individual sent to prison, reported the Miami Herald. Although initially charged in connection with the fraud scheme, the Haitian’s former fiancée, Florida lawyer Mariel Tollinchi, was acquitted on all charges in 2024

The DOJ announced on Tuesday that Philossaint has been stripped of his American citizenship per the orders of U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith, an appointee of President Donald Trump.

“United States citizenship is one of the greatest privileges our nation can offer, and it must be earned honestly,” U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones for the Southern District of Florida said in a statement.

“This defendant built his path to citizenship on false statements while stealing millions from programs meant to keep small businesses alive during the pandemic,” continued Reding Quiñones. “The court’s order revoking his citizenship restores accountability and reinforces a simple principle: If you lie to obtain immigration benefits and commit federal crimes, you will lose what you unlawfully gained.”

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After a gun-toting homeowner in Ontario, Canada, opened fire and wounded an alleged intruder earlier this week, Premier Doug Ford lauded the homeowner and said intruders “need to be shot,” the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported.

“Congratulations for shooting this guy — should have shot him a couple more times as far as I’m concerned,” Ford replied after being asked about the incident during an unrelated news conference Wednesday, according to the CBC.

‘We have seen far too many of these incidents involving individuals who were already known to police and out on release orders, highlighting a deeply broken bail system that is failing our communities.’

Ford also upbraided the Canadian government for “going after legal, law-abiding gun owners” and “weak-kneed judges” for letting suspects walk, the outlet noted.

“They always want to protect the bad guys, the judges always want to protect the Charter rights,” Ford said, according to the CBC. “How about the charter of rights of the people to keep them safe rather than always protecting these criminals. I’m just sick and tired of it.”

Opposition Leader Marit Stiles of the New Democratic Party called Ford’s statement “very irresponsible nonsense” while speaking with reporters Wednesday morning, the outlet said.

“This premier has been premier of this province for eight long years now,” she said, according to the CBC. “If people in Ontario feel less safe today, then that’s on him as the premier of this province.”

Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner also used the term “irresponsible” to describe Ford’s words in a statement to the outlet: “It is irresponsible for the premier to be making comments encouraging violence or celebrating the loss of life. He should focus on investing in measures that will make our province safer and empower first responders to do their jobs to serve and protect our communities.”

This wasn’t the first time Ford has spoken out amid such matters. After a homeowner was charged with aggravated assault for fighting and injuring an armed male who allegedly broke into his Lindsay, Ontario, residence last year, Ford said that “something is broken” in the system when one is punished for self-defense. The CBC last month reported that the homeowner in question no longer will face prosecution.

In regard to this week’s incident, York Regional Police said no charges were being filed against the homeowner who used a “legally owned” and “properly stored” gun.

Police said a middle-aged man and an elderly woman were home at the time of the incident, and no one living at the home was injured, the CBC reported.

A police press release issued Wednesday said officers responded just before 1 a.m. Tuesday to reports of a shooting at a Vaughan home in the area of Carrville Woods Circle and Crimson Forest Drive, near Rutherford Road and Dufferin Street.

Officials said multiple suspects allegedly armed with at least one gun forced their way into the home and that the suspects later were seen getting into a black pickup truck and fleeing the scene.

Police on Tuesday released video of the incident showing masked suspects entering and leaving the home, the CBC said, adding that rapid gunfire can be heard as they run from the residence to the truck.

RELATED: Anger spreads over homeowner charged with assault after fighting alleged intruder; Canadian cops double down: ‘Don’t engage’

The male who was shot had been dropped off at a Toronto-area hospital shortly after the incident, the police press release said.

Police said Trestin Cassanova-Alman, a 24-year-old male with no fixed address, is facing charges of robbery with a firearm and disguise with intent as well with breaching a probation order “as he was on an outstanding probation order for unrelated offenses at the time of the home invasion.”

Cassanova-Alman is in stable condition in the hospital in police custody, the news release said.

At least one politician in the area appears squarely on Ford’s side — the mayor of the city where the shooting took place.

Vaughan Mayor Steven Del Duca in a social media statement posted Wednesday said he’s thankful the homeowner wasn’t charged given that it was an act of self-defense.

“We have seen far too many of these incidents involving individuals who were already known to police and out on release orders, highlighting a deeply broken bail system that is failing our communities,” the mayor said.

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Arizona has filed the first criminal charges against a prediction market website in the United States.

Kalshi is one of two major prediction market websites in the country (along with Polymarket), which allows users to make money off of almost anything.

‘We just can’t allow companies to come in here and override our laws.’

Whether it’s Taylor Swift getting married or the future price of Bitcoin, prediction markets turn real-life events into shares that can be bought and sold depending on their value. The value changes based on which outcome users are putting their money into.

Like financial exchanges, these predictions are regulated federally by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, but Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) is calling that into question.

“We just can’t allow companies to come in here and override our laws or try to bypass our laws against online gaming outside of regulations,” Mayes told Arizona’s CBS 5.

Mayes’ office put out a press release on Tuesday alleging that Kalshi has accepted bets from Arizona residents that violate state law.

The press release included a filing against Kalshi Trading LLC out of Delaware, listing 20 criminal charges related to what Arizona referred to as “proposition bets,” which typically refer to sports bets focused on individual player performances.

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The filing listed 16 “betting and wagering” offenses and four counts of “election wagering.”

This included “bets” on the 2028 presidential race, the 2026 Arizona gubernatorial race, the 2026 Arizona Republican gubernatorial primary, the 2026 Arizona Secretary of State race, and whether the SAVE Act would become law.

The alleged sports bets were on pro and college events, including prop bets on individual performances in those categories.

The state said that Arizona law prohibits operating an “unlicensed wagering business” and separately bans “betting on elections outright.”

A Kalshi spokeswoman told Business Insider that she believes Arizona’s charges are “seriously flawed” and an example of “gamesmanship.”

“These charges are meritless, and we look forward to fighting them in court,” the spokeswoman, Elisabeth Diana, told the outlet.

RELATED: Prediction markets let you ‘bet’ in states where gambling is banned: Here’s how

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“Kalshi may brand itself as a ‘prediction market,’ but what it’s actually doing is running an illegal gambling operation and taking bets on Arizona elections, both of which violate Arizona law,” AG Mayes said in the press release. “No company gets to decide for itself which laws to follow.”

Mayes added, “Arizona will not be bullied into letting any company place itself above state law.”

Kalshi’s front page is currently covered in political predictions, which of course are subject to change. This includes the options to trade on topics like government shutdowns, U.S. tariff rates on China, and the results of the midterm elections.

Prediction markets have become so popular that they have forced major gambling platforms like DraftKings and FanDuel to create their own models, offering services to a national market as opposed to operating on a state-by-state basis.

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Carmaker Jaguar has made an about-face in its advertising formula, now opting for simplicity after a disastrous woke ad campaign seemingly derailed sales just over a year ago.

In late 2024, the company dropped an ad that was widely criticized, mocked, and labeled “woke.”

‘Jaguars need to be beautiful.’

The ad featured a diverse cast of flamboyantly dressed androgynous actors — including a man in a dress — in an attack on the “ordinary.”

“We’re here to delete ordinary. To go bold. To copy nothing,” the tagline read.

Strangely enough, though, the commercial did not include a single image of a car, let alone a Jaguar.

The strange marketing campaign even drew ire from President Trump, who said last August, “Jaguar did a stupid, and seriously WOKE advertisement.”

The ad became infamous over the summer, months after its release, and was coupled with a devastating sales decline.

Now, the company is going in a different direction, drawing on its original Jaguar E-type that launched at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1961.

RELATED: It’s time to make cars beautiful again

With the tagline “Original then. Original now,” Jaguar seems determined to invoke classic car nostalgia with a set of three 30-second ads released earlier this week.

The ads seem like the company is simply extending an olive branch to possible customers, as it is not promoting anything new, but includes its concept car — the Type 00 — which was first announced at the end of 2024.

The first ad, titled “Spirit of Reinvention,” simply shows off its mid-1950s XKSS and 1975 XJ-S.

The second ad, “Bold Expression,” gives a nod to the classic Jaguar SS models, while the third ad, “Shocking the World,” shows a vertically hanging E-type while referencing its original release.

RELATED: ‘Being woke is for losers’: Trump mocks Jaguar CEO amid resignation

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The ads are a stark contrast from the previous campaign, which culminated with Jaguar Land Rover’s longtime CEO stepping down in July.

The resignation came after sales dropped 97% when comparing April 2025 to April 2024. Just 49 Jaguars were registered across Europe in April 2025, a massive decline from 1,961 the previous April.

The shocking downturn came after record profits just a few months before.

It remains unclear what the future holds for Jaguar, as it labels its new concept car as a “non-production vehicle,” but the Type 00 still seems to be the brand’s focus. According to Jaguar’s former designer Ian Callum, several different models were scrapped to make way for the new design.

“They were all taken away,” Callum said. “They were all stopped, and even the current cars were stopped.”

The Type 00 is now the future of the brand and is being used as “a statement,” he said. While Callum admitted the car is “bold” and “handsome,” it is not “beautiful.”

“And Jaguars need to be beautiful,” he added.

Readers should note that Jaguar Land Rover has been owned by Indian manufacturer Tata Motors since 2008.

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Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.) threw gasoline on an already sensitive fire for Democrats and said that his party has no real leadership.

Fetterman is among the few Democrats who support Operation Epic Fury, a joint U.S.-Israeli military operation in Iran that has seen weeks of bombing and conflict.

‘I think the TDS — I think that’s the leader right now.’

During the episode of the “All-In Podcast” released Wednesday, Fetterman was discussing his popularity among Republican voters when he was asked to identify the leader of the modern Democratic Party.

“Oh, we don’t have one,” Fetterman told host David Friedberg.

“I think the TDS — I think that’s the leader right now,” he said, referring to Trump derangement syndrome, which typically refers to an inability to see any positives in what President Trump does.

Fetterman continued, “You know, right now our party is governed by the TDS. And now it’s made it virtually impossible, without being punished as a Democrat, to agree something’s good or [say] ‘I agree with the other side.'”

RELATED: Only one Democrat joins GOP as Senate rejects effort to halt Trump’s Iran strikes

The Pennsylvania senator then directly cited his support for the Iranian operation, saying he thinks it is “entirely appropriate” to hold the now-former Iranian regime “accountable.”

“What’s strange to me [is] that every single Democrat that’s run for president and anyone that I know in Congress says we must never allow them to acquire a nuclear bomb. When that happens, why not celebrate that or acknowledge that? … Like, yeah, you don’t have to agree on every single thing, but when a good thing happens, just because it comes from the different party — that tells me that you’re choosing the demand of the base or the party over country or what’s really, I think, appropriate, in that circumstance.”

Fetterman, 56, said that his party has become so inflexible that “you are not allowed” to show solidarity with Israel but that “it’s not a big deal if you have a Nazi tattoo on your chest.”

The senator was likely referring to Graham Platner, a Democrat Senate candidate from Maine, who allegedly has a Nazi SS tattoo. Platner previously said he did not realize the tattoo resembled a Nazi symbol and that he planned to have it “removed.”

“You have people in my party now who are trying to normalize that or to excuse that. I mean, that’s kind of where we are,” Fetterman added.

RELATED: Will Republicans fight for the SAVE Act — or fold again?

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During the interview, Fetterman said he was not sure whether he is more popular with Republicans than Democrats, but suggested that if he is, it is because he does not label “MAGA” enthusiasts with pejoratives.

“They’re not Nazis. They’re not fascists. They’re not trying to destroy our country.”

According to Psychology Today, the term “Trump derangement syndrome” originates from late psychiatrist turned political commentator Charles Krauthammer, who is cited for coining the phrase “Bush derangement syndrome” in 2003, in reference to President George W. Bush.

Although Krauthammer was reportedly a harsh critic of Trump, he still defined TDS as a Trump-induced “general hysteria” that produces an “inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and signs of psychic pathology” in Trump’s behavior.

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation remains a crime scene.

Recent reporting by John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy adds more evidence that a once-vaunted law enforcement agency was used for overtly political purposes for nearly a decade, starting in 2016. Documents and interviews cited by Just the News describe four consecutive code-named countersurveillance operations that cast a dragnet around President Trump and his supporters.

The time for mean tweets and angry letters is over. If the republic matters, fundamental reform must happen now.

The files for these operations — Crossfire Hurricane, Round River, Plasmic Echo, and Arctic Frost — were reportedly tucked into “prohibited access” files, shielding them from routine disclosure and keeping them under the control of senior FBI leadership and those who knew where to look.

This reporting reopens a question Washington keeps trying to close: What does real FBI reform look like?

We are not dealing with a handful of discreet scandals. We are dealing with a pattern that was enabled by a systemically broken and corrupted agency. A scalpel won’t fix it. Only a sledgehammer will do — followed by a rebuild.

The fork in the road

The road to FBI reform is long, and the last year has been bumpy — with more than a few premature victory laps. This moment offers an opportunity to get the agenda back on track.

The fork in the road is simple: Continue with a piecemeal approach — or revive the demand for total accountability, not only for individuals but for the institution itself.

Yes, good people work there. That’s not the issue. The problem lies in the parts of the bureau most capable of using FBI authorities for political ends — federal public corruption, counterintelligence, and domestic terrorism — where ideological activism too often becomes a job requirement.

A decade-long pattern

Over the last 10 years, the FBI has engaged in an unbroken series of ideologically driven investigations targeting conservatives. That includes scorched-earth investigations of President Trump on the thinnest of pretexts — while, at the same time, the bureau appeared to show far less urgency toward well-documented questions involving the Biden family’s foreign-influence and money-trail allegations, including reports of millions of dollars routed to multiple Biden family members through a network of 20 shell companies.

The bureau also deviated from law, policy, and investigative procedure in ways that protected Hillary Clinton from the full consequences of her misconduct, while applying a very different standard to President Trump and those around him.

Worse, recent reporting suggests a sweeping, coordinated effort — more reminiscent of the old East German Stasi than a constitutional law enforcement agency — to suppress politically damaging evidence under laughable pretexts.

RELATED: The next big Supreme Court shift might not be abortion or guns

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Far beyond a single case

The pattern extends well beyond these investigations.

The FBI interfered in elections on a scale Americans had never seen.The bureau helped censor First Amendment-protected speech at industrial scale.FBI directors and senior officials routinely misled Congress.The FBI stonewalled congressional oversight demands.The bureau smeared peaceful dissenting groups — including faithful Catholics — as potential domestic extremists, as if disagreement with progressive orthodoxies amounts to a predisposition to violence.The FBI routinely slow-walked or obstructed transparency obligations, including FOIA-driven document production.The bureau benefited from a stable of media stenographers at legacy outlets whose livelihoods depend on illegal leaks and unchallenged talking points that reliably advance the same ideological narratives.The FBI abused its authority in ways that look less like policing and more like intimidation: targeting families, punishing speech, and applying radically different enforcement standards depending on the target’s politics.

The FBI cannot fix itself

The FBI has not meaningfully corrected itself after repeated exposures. In case after case, the bureau offers the same ritual: Mistakes were made; things are not as bad as they look; reforms are under way; no one should worry. Then nothing changes.

One recent example says it all: A deputy assistant director of counterintelligence had the audacity to advise Congress that she had not read — or even been briefed on — the Durham report’s findings. That posture is not reform. It is contempt.

As of today, FBI senior leadership includes people who participated in these abuses or watched them unfold and did nothing. How many are now subverting efforts to expose the truth by slow-walking document production, limiting evidence releases, and dribbling out incomplete records?

The time for mean tweets and angry letters is over. If the republic matters, fundamental reform must happen now.

Start with the sacred cow

The first step is taking on the FBI’s most protected function: counterintelligence.

Israel’s Shin Bet and Britain’s MI5 offer an important contrast. Their governments separate intelligence collection from law enforcement power. Those agencies gather intelligence. They do not carry routine arrest and prosecution authority. That structural separation limits the risk of domestic spying on political dissidents and helps prevent the rise of an unaccountable secret-police state.

The FBI has repeatedly proven itself incapable of maintaining that boundary. It has refused congressional oversight, abused its powers, and used intelligence authorities to subvert a duly elected president. That cannot continue.

Reform means separating intelligence collection from domestic law enforcement. Strip the FBI of its counterintelligence function and reassign it to an intelligence agency that lacks routine police powers and is subject to tighter controls.

RELATED: Trump promised ‘retribution.’ Congress keeps funding the machine.

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Reform that imposes consequences

This step should set the tone for what follows.

There must be prosecutions for civil rights violations committed under color of law. There must be large-scale reassignments for those involved — not only the shot-callers but the enabling middle management that kept the machinery running.

Transparency and oversight need a full overhaul. Selective briefings to a handful of congressional offices have become a substitute for systemic reform. That approach has trained the public to tune out. People can’t absorb yet another “shocking” revelation that produces nothing but hearings and headlines.

Instead, the government should dump documents directly to the public — at scale — so that independent investigators can mine them. What a few gatekeepers do now should be done by many. The oversight and FOIA machinery is broken by design, and bureaucrats use delay as a veto.

One example should alarm every American: the FBI’s cozy relationship with Netflix. If the country’s dominant cultural propaganda machine coordinated with federal law enforcement, the public has a right to know. Those documents should not be trapped in the decaying Hoover Building.

This won’t be easy. It was never supposed to be.

The first year has been rocky. Now comes the test: whether the people in charge will rediscover the courage to destroy what is broken — before it can be turned back against Americans again.

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A six-time convicted felon “with a history of scams” allegedly intimidated and stole cash from an 82-year-old woman amid a home repair swindle last month, CWB Chicago reported.

Sonny Miller, 32, and two other males arrived Feb. 2 at a home in the 5400 block of South Drexel on Chicago’s south side in a white pickup truck, the outlet said, citing a detention filing.

Prosecutors said Miller had more than $2,000 on him when he was arrested, the outlet reported.

Miller allegedly approached the victim’s daughter as she was walking into the home and told her he had performed roofing work on the home a decade earlier and was there to do additional work on the basement, CWB Chicago said.

The daughter walked Miller inside to speak with her mother, who requires a cane to stand and walk, the outlet said.

Miller allegedly told the daughter to boil some water as he would need it to mix concrete, CWB Chicago reported.

Prosecutors said when the daughter left the room, Miller told her elderly mother the basement work would cost $200 — and that if she refused to pay, she would face steep fines, a police visit, and a financial lien placed on her home, the outlet noted.

At that time, the two males who had arrived at the home with Miller were outside applying unnecessary concrete to the basement’s exterior, CWB Chicago said, citing the detention filing.

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When the phony work was done, Miller went to collect payment. The elderly woman grabbed an envelope containing cash, which Miller allegedly snatched from her hand, then ran out the door and fled in the pickup with the other two men. The woman, the filing noted, “was not able to put up much of a resistance.”

The victim and her daughter called Chicago police, estimating that $900 had been taken. Responding officers collected a laminated solicitation flyer Miller had left behind, along with video footage gathered from neighbors, according to prosecutors. One video captured the truck’s license plate and images of the men.

Detectives circulated a bulletin to cops throughout the area, and Skokie police responded with information. Des Plaines police later spotted the truck when it triggered a license plate reader in their jurisdiction. Officers stopped the vehicle and detained its occupants.

CWB Chicago, citing the detention filing, said one of the males in the truck — identified as Miller’s cousin — admitted to performing the fake concrete work outside the victim’s home and allegedly identified Miller as the one who spoke to the elderly woman in her home.

Prosecutors said Miller had more than $2,000 on him when he was arrested, the outlet reported. Miller denied ever being at the woman’s home, CWB Chicago added.

Judge James Murphy III — who described Miller as a six-time convicted felon “with a history of scams” — ordered Miller detained, the outlet said.

Miller is charged with robbery of a victim older than 60, robbery, and aggravated home fraud by deception of a victim older than 60, CWB Chicago said.

Cook County Jail records on Thursday indicate Miller is behind bars on no bond; his next court date is scheduled for May 6.

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Biden administration officials and so-called experts characterized COVID-19 vaccines as “safe and effective” during the pandemic. In the face of an avalanche of tragic evidence to the contrary, the powers that be waged costly and unsuccessful propaganda and censorship campaigns to cure Americans’ skepticism.

Although the Trump administration has alternatively acknowledged the risks and fallout associated with the vaccines — the Food and Drug Administration admitting, for instance, that the vaccines killed numerous children — a coalition of medical organizations is fighting to legally force the government to keep recommending the COVID jabs to healthy kids and pregnant women.

That legal effort appears especially questionable given the finding in a recent study that children spared from the vaccine also appear to have been spared from an unfortunate health complication.

‘I only feel more vindicated I didn’t take the COVID shot.’

The peer-reviewed study — conducted by researchers at the University of Oxford, the University of Bristol, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and published in January in the scientific journal Epidemiology — looked at the safety and effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine in healthy children ages 5-15 following the rollout that began in late 2021.

Using data from the OpenSAFELY-TPP database with the blessing of NHS England, the researchers compared the “effectiveness and safety of: (1) the first vaccine dose versus no vaccination and (2) a second dose versus a single dose only.”

Specifically, they compared 141,711 children ages 5-11 and 410,463 adolescents ages 12-15 who were given a first dose of the vaccine with equal numbers of unvaccinated children from the same age groups.

RELATED: ‘Rogue’ Biden judge blocks critical pieces of RFK Jr.’s vaccine reform

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The researchers found that the vaccination provided some benefits, including an “initial protective effect” that waned by 14 weeks as well as a lower incidence of emergency room visits than recorded among the unvaccinated cohort.

They noted, however, that “myocarditis and pericarditis were documented only in the vaccinated groups, with rates of 27 and 10 cases/million after the first and second doses, respectively.”

As late as January 2023, the U.K. Health Security Agency said that “the reported rate for heart inflammation (myocarditis and pericarditis) was 13 per million first doses and 8 per million second doses of the monovalent Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine” among those under the age of 18.

“That there were no cases of myocarditis or pericarditis in the unvaccinated group does not mean that such events cannot occur without COVID-19 vaccination, only that these events were not observed in the unvaccinated groups in our specific matched analyses,” the study noted.

Pfizer did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

For adolescents, the reduction in risk of COVID-19 hospitalization following vaccination was larger than the corresponding increase in risk of both myocarditis and pericarditis, said the researchers. The same could not, however, be said of younger children.

“The reduction in risk of COVID-19 hospitalization in children (−0.02 for first dose vs. unvaccinated) was lower than the increase in risk of pericarditis (0.22),” said the study.

Sen. Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican who introduced legislation last month that would strip the liability shield from vaccine manufacturers, said in response to the study, “As it stands right now, families are limited as to how they can seek justice due to legal carveouts for COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers.”

“We ought to pass my bill, the End the Vaccine Carveouts Act, to hold pharma accountable properly,” added Paul.

Turning Point USA contributor Riley Gaines said, “As more time passes, I only feel more vindicated I didn’t take the COVID shot. I feel sorry for the people who did.”

Last year, the FDA required Pfizer and Moderna to start noting the estimated unadjusted incidence of heart conditions following administration of the 2023-2024 formula of the BNT162b2 and Spikevax vaccines as well as the longitudinal results of a 2024 study concerning cardiac manifestations and outcomes of vaccine-associated myocarditis in American youths.

H/T Evie Magazine

Editor’s note: This article has been edited after publication to note that Blaze News reached out to Pfizer for comment but did not receive a response.

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Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center under Donald Trump, abruptly resigned and accused both Israeli officials and U.S. media figures of orchestrating a misinformation campaign that led America into war with Iran.

“President Trump, after much reflection, I’ve decided to resign from my position as director of the National Counterterrorism Center effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,” Kent wrote in his resignation letter, which he posted to X.

“This is so damaging,” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck comments. “This is Pentagon Papers stuff. This is as important as the Pentagon Papers. This is going to possibly change the course of America.”

Kent went on to claim that “high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran.”

“This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now, there was a clear path to a swift victory. This was a lie and is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women. We cannot make this mistake again,” he continued.

“This is going to set the world on fire,” Glenn says, disappointed.

“This is a senior official in intelligence saying in real time that the United States has entered a war under false pretenses, that Israel got us into the first war in Iraq and now they duped the American president into fighting this war,” he continues.

“This is going to fracture public trust. This is the worst letter that could be done, that I have ever seen … our allies now are going to be questioning our judgment,” he says, adding, “Our enemies are going to exploit this like crazy.”

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Ever since Marlon Brando sent Sacheen Littlefeather to decline his Oscar in 1973, celebrities have felt free to treat acceptance speeches as a kind of political pulpit.

Over the years, our socially conscious superiors have used the stage to advance a range of causes. Whether it’s Leonardo DiCaprio scolding us about climate change, Patricia Arquette reminding us that “wage inequality” affects even the most overpaid among us, or Joaquin Phoenix shaming milk enjoyers, many stars refuse to bask in the adulation without giving a little something back.

It was, by the standards of modern Hollywood, almost subversive.

Even moments that touch on family have often been refracted through politics. At the 2020 Golden Globes, Michelle Williams credited her success to the children she didn’t have: “I wouldn’t have been able to do this without employing a woman’s right to choose” — while in the same breath celebrating the two kids who presumably didn’t run afoul of her reproductive rights.

But Sunday night, Irish actress Jessie Buckley did something far more unusual: She praised marriage, children, and the ordinary drama of family life.

Accepting Best Actress for her role in “Hamnet” — a film that imagines the marriage of William Shakespeare and Agnes Hathaway and the grief they endure after the death of their young son — Buckley turned not to politics but to her husband and infant daughter, even revealing her daughter’s name publicly for the first time:

Fred, I love you, man. … You’re the most incredible dad. You’re my best friend, and I want to have 20,000 more babies with you. … And Isla, my little girl … I love you, and I love being your mom, and I can’t wait to discover life beside you.

It was, by the standards of modern Hollywood, almost subversive.

She returned to the theme later in the speech, noting that it was her first Mother’s Day in the U.K. and dedicating the award “to the beautiful chaos of a mother’s heart.”

She was even more effusive backstage. Speaking to reporters, Buckley described the moment as a kind of “crazy alchemy,” noting that her Oscar win fell on her first Mother’s Day. Her daughter, she said, had just gotten her first tooth.

I woke up with her lying on my chest, snuggling me … what a gift to get to explore motherhood … and then to become one myself … and then to receive this recognition of the incredible role mothers play in our world on this day is something I will never, ever forget.

Buckley has suggested the role didn’t just portray motherhood — it stirred a longing for it. While filming “Hamnet,” she said she “deeply wanted to become a mother,” an experience she described as “quite intense” before it became real. Soon after, it was.

Some commentators wondered why Buckley didn’t thank her on-screen husband Paul Mescal, the film’s Shakespeare. Was it a calculated move to avoid being overshadowed by a bigger name?

More likely, they’re overthinking it.

Buckley has always seemed as grounded as she is talented. Born and raised in Killarney, County Kerry, one of five children, she comes from a large, close-knit family — a background that makes her ease with motherhood feel less like a rebrand than a continuation. She is married not to a fellow celebrity but to a man the public knows only by his first name. Her speech reflected that life: intimate, unvarnished, and oriented toward something other than careerism.

And that, in today’s Hollywood, is what made it feel radical.

In an industry that often frames family as an obstacle — something to be delayed, outsourced, or quietly regretted — Buckley spoke of it as the central adventure. Not a burden, but a joy. Not a limitation, but a calling.

For decades, Oscar speeches have tried to tell audiences how to remake the world.

Buckley’s suggested something simpler: that the most meaningful work might already be waiting at home.

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