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Former CNN anchor Don Lemon’s new “Clip Farmers” podcast is off to a rocky start after he and his co-hosts were discussing the appearance of “MAGA women” — and Lemon took it a step too far.

As his Gen Z co-hosts were saying all MAGA women look the same, they also asked Lemon if Megyn Kelly was “chopped,” which they explain as meaning “not hot.”

“Yeah, she’s chopped,” Lemon replied, before adding, “I think she looks trans.”

“Let’s end on that note,” one of his co-hosts said in between nervous laughs.

But he couldn’t end it fast enough before Lemon added, “Looks clockable,” which means he thinks Kelly is not convincing as a woman — and thus would be easy to identify as transgender.

He went on to call her too skinny and said she wears too much makeup.

Now Lemon is in trouble with his base, as being “transphobic” is a direct assault on leftist values — and he used “trans” in a derogatory way despite speaking out numerous times about “transphobia.”

“So it’s OK for Don Lemon to use the word ‘trans’ as a derogatory statement about a woman? Oh, that’s interesting. I thought that was a lovely thing to be trans,” executive producer of “Pat Gray Unleashed” Keith Malinak says.

“This woman looks trans?” Pat Gray chimes in, shocked. “In what universe?”

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Talk about a booby prize.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) recently declared war on the GOP on several fronts, and instead of a trophy or plaque, she’ll get the honor of matching wits with those doyennes of derangement on “The View” next week.

The ever-present smile. The blazing hypocrisy. The fact that ‘Escape from New York’ is getting an all-too real sequel starting ASAP.

Apparently, Taylor Greene’s recent ideological about-face makes her the perfect conservative foil on a show that tends to veer — if not careen — left.

Co-host Joy Behar recently griped that the show can’t book right-leaning guests because, “They’re scared of us.”

Sure, Joy. Just like I’m “scared” of the 8-year-old Minecraft zombies who’ll be knocking on my door for Kit-Kats tonight.

Here’s a trick to make “The View” more compelling — stop treating guests who don’t agree with you like fun-size Snickers bars. It’s OK to have more than one.

Pretty payday

Julia Roberts is a genius. Or at least, her agent is.

The Oscar winner isn’t as active in Hollywood as in her box office heyday, but she still convinced a movie studio to pay her $20 million for her to star in “After the Hunt.”

The Me Too-themed drama cast Roberts as a professor torn between a trusted colleague (Andrew Garfield) and a bright student (Ayo Edebiri), who claims said colleague sexually assaulted her.

The film has made just $9 million worldwide and is already fading after two weeks of release. The budget? A reported $80 million, including that hefty price tag for the erstwhile “Pretty Woman.”

Paying 1995 rates in 2025 — when even the most beloved Oscar-winner can’t guarantee butts in seats? Well, Hollywood is the land of make-believe.

Billion-dollar baby

You first, Billie.

Androgynous crooner Billie Eilish is taking a bold stand against billionaires. The “Bad Guy” singer addressed a room full of rich, powerful people to accept an “innovator” award from the Wall Street Journal Magazine. Said room included mega billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, apparently.

She used the moment to lecture the ultra rich.

“Love you all, but there’s a few people in here that have a lot more money than me. … If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties.”

Set aside the economic ignorance, the body shaming, and the fact that she’s a millionaire many times over. She just cut a gargantuan check to help defeat, check notes, “climate justice.” Why not just go full Joker and set a mountain of cash on fire? At least she could write a song about it …

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Don’t mess with the Zohran

There’s nothing funny about the rise of Zohran Mamdani.

The future New York City mayor is a terror apologist, an anti-Israel zealot, and an economic illiterate. There’s more, but you get the picture. Still, political satirists should have a field day with Mamdani on so many levels.

The ever-present smile. The blazing hypocrisy. The fact that “Escape from New York” is getting an all-too real sequel starting ASAP.

Instead, comedians are standing down. Anyone shocked? A new study by Newsbusters shows that late-night comics are targeting everyone else in the crowded New York mayoral race save Mamdani.

“Only three out of 63 jokes were about the socialist front-runner,” the site tallied. And that doesn’t count comedian turned shill Jon Stewart comparing Mamdani to Jackie Robinson …

Kim K’s moonshot

Reality stars say the darndest things.

It’s easy to poke fun at Kim Kardashian for her choice in suitors. That Kanye West pairing didn’t end well, did it?

Still, Ms. Kim is a savvy business person who transformed a sordid sex tape into a reality show empire. Just don’t ask her to teach a history class anytime soon.

Kardashian is co-starring with actress Sarah Paulson on the TV show “All’s Fair,” and apparently the two are quite chatty behind the scenes. Kardashian loves sharing her conspiracy theories with her co-star, including her belief that America never landed on the moon.

She pointed to a clip of Buzz Aldrin mishearing a question as part of her “proof.” In her defense, maybe she’s trying to recruit Candace Owens to her next reality show gig …

‘Fack’ all

Comedy is truly on the comeback trail.

The woke mind virus is fading. Roasts are back in vogue. The recent “Naked Gun” reboot was funnier than anyone expected. Now, a new trailer for a “Downton Abbey” spoof looks like the year’s brightest surprise.

“Fackham Hall,” hitting theaters December 5, packs more laughs in its two-minute running time than some mainstream comedies. The physical shtick is priceless, and the oh, so stuffy “Downton Abbey” vibe begs for a good satirical swatting.

At this rate, even Jimmy Kimmel might make us laugh before 2025 ends.

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A terrorist attack planned for Halloween weekend was prevented by arrests made in Michigan, said Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel.

Patel offered few details, but Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump and senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, said in a statement on social media that the plot was “Jihadi” in nature.

‘The FBI thwarted a potential terrorist attack and arrested multiple subjects in Michigan who were allegedly plotting a violent attack.’

“This morning Federal agents, under the direction of @FBIDirectorKash and @AGPamBondi, successfully disrupted a Jihadi terror plot in Detroit timed for Halloween when innocent children should be enjoying themselves Trick or Treating,” Gorka wrote.

“The threat is real,” he added.

The Dearborn Police Dept. confirmed that there had been an FBI operation in the city Friday morning and that there was no longer any threat to the public.

A spokesperson for the Dept. of Justice said in a statement to Blaze News that the law enforcement operation also included the city of Inkster, another city near Detroit.

“This morning the FBI thwarted a potential terrorist attack and arrested multiple subjects in Michigan who were allegedly plotting a violent attack over Halloween weekend,” reads the statement from Patel. “More details to come. Thanks to the men and women of FBI and law enforcement everywhere standing guard 24/7 and crushing our mission to defend the homeland.”

The FBI operation in Inkster was focused on a storage facility on Michigan Avenue, according to a WDIV-TV report. WDIV reported on two FBI operations at two other locations but could not confirm whether they were related to the alleged terror plot.

“This morning, I was briefed by Director Patel on the thwarted potential terrorist attack in our state,” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) posted to social media on Friday. “As details continue to develop, I am grateful for the swift action of the FBI and MSP protecting Michiganders.”

RELATED: Outraged parents, many of whom are Muslim, shut down Michigan school board meeting over LGBTQ+ books: ‘Vote them out!’

Dearborn is known for becoming the first Arab-majority city in the U.S. in 2023.

In September, Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, a Democrat and Muslim, berated a Christian resident who objected to the city honoring a man who had made comments in support of Islamic terrorism.

“You are a bigot, and you are a racist, and you are an Islamophobe,” Hammoud said to the man. “Although you live here, I want you to know, as mayor, you are not welcome here. And the day you move out of this city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of the city.”

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Vice President JD Vance taught college students an important lesson on the problems associated with mass immigration at a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi on Wednesday.

After delivering his prepared remarks with Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk — emphasizing the importance of avoiding pointless foreign entanglements, securing America’s borders, and altogether prioritizing citizens — Vance respectfully gave a few students much-needed reality checks.

One of the questioners prefaced by noting that his girlfriend was studying in the country on a student visa, then asked Vance about his views on legal immigration.

‘My job as vice president is not to look out for the interests of the whole world.’

“Thanks in part to the Biden border invasion but also thanks in part to a lot of bad immigration policy, right now, we have let in too many immigrants into the United States of America,” Vance responded.

The Pew Research Center recently indicated that as of January 2025, there were 53.3 million immigrants living in the U.S. — the largest number ever recorded. Over 15% of all U.S. residents and 19% of the U.S. labor force were immigrants.

The vice president suggested that “the evidence is pretty clear” that a great many of the over 1 million migrants who legally enter the U.S. every year “are actually undercutting the wages of American workers,” and suggested that such wage suppression is what prompted President Donald Trump and his administration to encourage H-1B reform.

Vance indicated further that while the intended function of the H-1B visa is to attract and retain top talent from around the world, “what it’s actually used to do is hire an accountant at a 50% discount to an American citizen. I don’t think that we should be hiring accountants from foreign countries when we’ve got accountants right here in the United States that would love to work for a good wage.”

RELATED: Camp of the H-1B Saints

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“We have got to get our overall numbers way, way down,” the vice president said, adding that the nation needs time to “build a sense of common identity” before admitting more people.

Vance’s remarks evidently vexed a young female student of apparent Indian origin in the crowd who used her time at the microphone to complain both about the vice president’s stated desire for his Hindu wife to one day join him in following Christ as well as his desire to taper the number of immigrants legally admitted into the United States.

“When you talk about too many immigrant [sic] here, what is — when did you guys decide that number? Why did you sell us a dream? You made us spend our youth, our wealth in this country and gave us a dream,” the woman said.

“How can you as a vice president stand there and say that ‘we have too many of them now, and we are going to take them out’ to people who are here, rightfully so?” she asked.

After clarifying that he was proposing greatly reducing the number of foreigner admissions in the future while honoring past promises to previous entrants, Vance stressed between interruptions from the woman that immigration policy should be adapted to the circumstances of the day.

“We cannot have an immigration policy where what was good for the country 50 or 60 years ago binds the country inevitably for the future,” the vice president said. “There’s too many people who want to come to the United States of America, and my job as vice president is not to look out for the interests of the whole world. It’s to look out for the people of the United States.”

While the questioner did not appear all too pleased with Vance’s America-first answer, the crowd burst into applause.

Before the conclusion of the event, the vice president told the crowd, “Despair is a sin. Do not give in to the sin of despair. Let’s keep fighting to save the United States of America.”

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Trump’s administration is getting ready to order a military strike against targets in Venezuela, according to a Miami Herald report.

The reported goal of the strike would be to decapitate the leadership of the drug-trafficking organization headed by Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.

‘What’s worse for him, there is now more than one general willing to capture and hand him over.’

The sources would not say if Maduro himself would be a target of the strike.

“Maduro is about to find himself trapped and might soon discover that he cannot flee the country even if he decided to,” the source is quoted as saying. “What’s worse for him, there is now more than one general willing to capture and hand him over, fully aware that one thing is to talk about death, and another to see it coming.”

White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly released a statement seemingly rejecting the report.

“Unnamed sources don’t know what they’re talking about. Any announcements regarding Venezuela policy would come directly from the president,” she said.

The Trump administration had previously announced a $50 million reward for Maduro’s capture in August. It has also destroyed various boats that were reportedly in use by traffickers to bring drugs to the U.S.

“Please let this serve as notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the United States of America. BEWARE!” said Trump at the time.

Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California responded to the report and vehemently opposed the decision.

“Trump is getting ready to launch strikes inside Venezuela,” wrote Khanna on social media. “This is blatantly unconstitutional. Congress must speak up now to stop another endless, regime-change war.”

RELATED: Venezuelan freedom fighter wins Nobel Peace Prize — and she immediately dedicates it to Trump for his support

The Wall Street Journal also confirmed the report and that the strike would be a message to Maduro that it is time for him to step down.

Military expert Mark Cancian told the Herald that the military forces in the Caribbean were enough for a strike but not for an invasion.

“There isn’t enough combat power for an invasion,” he said, “but there is plenty for air or missile strikes against the cartels or the Maduro regime.”

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Jennifer Welch is a left-wing co-host of the podcast “I’ve Had It,” which boasts over a million subscribers on Youtube — and in a recent episode of the podcast, she not only praised those celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk but called for more of it.

“If you think this Zohran thing is happening just in New York, and you think people are waking up only in New York City, you’re mistaken. Look at this clip of a ‘wine mom’ at the No Kings march,” Welch said, before playing a clip showing a No Kings protester saying she was “glad” Charlie Kirk was assassinated.

“Charlie Kirk is horrible,” the woman told right-wing influencer Kaitlin Bennett in a man-on-the-street style interview, adding, “Yes, I’m glad he’s not here.”

“You’re glad he’s dead?” Bennett asked, shocked.

“Yes,” the woman replied.

“Why would you say something like that, ma’am?” Bennett asked.

“Cause he was horrible on the campuses, the college campuses. Horrible person,” the woman answered.

“You know what? I do the exact same thing. Would you be glad if I would die?” Bennett asked.

“Maybe. I’d have to think about it,” the woman said firmly.

After watching the clip, Welch laughs, before saying: “So listen up, Democratic establishment. You can either jump on board with this, or we’re coming after you in the same way that we come after MAGA. Period.”

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is horrified.

“Now you may be thinking to yourself, who is this evil witch? Well, her name is Jennifer Welch. And you may then say, ‘Well, what do I care what this random woman has to say?’ She actually has 1.3 million subscribers on YouTube. So as it turns out, there are a lot of people who are subscribing to this type of rhetoric and this type of evil, ghoulish behavior,” Gonzales says.

“So while this may be your first introduction to her, Democrats are listening to this, and she’s literally saying the Democrat establishment needs to get on board with calling for the murder of conservatives,” she adds.

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As more than 40 million Americans prepare for a disruption to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program handouts amid the Democrat-led government shutdown, a member of a fraud conspiracy related to SNAP has been brought to justice.

On October 15, an Italian illegal alien living in Oregon was sentenced to federal prison after previously pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

‘By siphoning millions of dollars in government funds intended for food-insecure households, this illegal criminal alien proved to be one of the worst of the worst.’

Over the course of 14 months between August 2023 and October 2024, Giovanni Spirea, 29, and his co-conspirators purchased over 120,000 pounds of groceries using electronic skimming devices to steal SNAP benefits.

“Spirea shared stolen account information with other members of the organization, who, along with him, used the stolen benefits to purchase large quantities of infant formula, energy drinks, and other SNAP-eligible nonperishable food items from grocery stores … and through websites associated with grocery stores offering curb-side pickup,” the DOJ said in a press release.

The stolen items were then sold on the black market, the DOJ added.

RELATED: Democrats’ shutdown blame game backfires — even Jake Tapper calls them out on SNAP benefits

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Spirea and his co-conspirators operated in Oregon, Washington, and California. The estimated value of the stolen goods is $2.4 million.

“By siphoning millions of dollars in government funds intended for food-insecure households, this illegal criminal alien proved to be one of the worst of the worst,” said April Miller, Homeland Security Investigations Seattle acting special agent in charge.

“Protecting government-funded programs, like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program isn’t just about preserving funds — it’s about safeguarding trust in a vital lifeline that millions of families depend on to put food on the table,” said U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon Scott Bradford. “Today’s sentencing should deter perpetrators from defrauding American families and the federal government for personal gain.”

Spirea was sentenced to two years in prison, three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $61,874.32 in restitution. Sixteen others were charged in the conspiracy.

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The Department of Homeland Security released bodycam footage of Border Patrol agents operating in the Old Irving Park neighborhood of Chicago and having to face a hostile crowd, resulting in arrests and the deployment of tear gas.

The New York Post reported on video taken by a bystander showing the arrest of a man who did not move his car when ordered to, as it was blocking the narrow road. The arrestee’s running club said the man is a U.S. citizen and suffered six broken ribs during the arrest.

‘After spewing profanities at law enforcement, he proceeded to charge out of his car toward law enforcement and resisted arrest.’

In response to the report, DHS released the bodycam footage from one of the arresting agents showing the man not only refusing to move his vehicle, but also getting out of the car to physically confront the agents. The driver was not dragged out of the car, DHS video showed.

“After spewing profanities at law enforcement, he proceeded to charge out of his car toward law enforcement and resisted arrest. During the arrest another U.S. citizen assaulted the arresting agent, striking him in the head. Both were arrested,” DHS said.

DHS noted the reason for the operation in that neighborhood was to arrest an illegal alien from Mexico who had previously been arrested for assault.

“Secretary Noem’s message to the rioters is clear: you will not stop us or slow us down. DHS and our federal law enforcement partners will continue to enforce the law,” DHS said.

In a press conference in neighboring Indiana on Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have arrested over 3,000 illegal aliens since Operation Midway Blitz started in September.

RELATED: Far-left congressional candidate hit with reality check after allegedly impeding ICE operations

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While the main focus has been on Chicago, the operation has successfully arrested 146 drivers who are in the United States illegally in Indiana by working with state law enforcement. This includes drivers of 18-wheelers, box trucks, buses, and moving vans.

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Federal immigration agents executed a raid of a New Jersey container freight warehouse that resulted in the arrest of dozens of illegal aliens, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

‘DHS is committed to maintaining the highest levels of security and accountability within bonded facilities to protect both US commerce and the public.’

Activists arrived on the scene to protest as federal agents conducted the arrests, WCBS-TV reported. They claimed that most of those taken into custody were packers for the international shipping company.

Local reports indicated that DHS agents initiated the workplace inspection at a facility owned by Savino Del Bene, a logistics company headquartered in Italy.

The sweep resulted in the arrests of 46 illegal aliens, approximately 22% of the on-site workforce, a DHS spokesperson told Blaze News.

RELATED: Soros-linked protesters to host ‘rally/vigil’ at Home Depot over ICE raids

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“The operation is part of DHS’ ongoing efforts to ensure compliance with customs and immigration regulations, safeguard the integrity of the supply chain, and verify that warehouse operators are adhering to all applicable security requirements,” the agency spokesperson said. “DHS is committed to maintaining the highest levels of security and accountability within bonded facilities to protect both U.S. commerce and the public.”

RELATED: ICE officer shoots at driver who tried to run over agent during vehicle stop in California, DHS says

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The spokesperson noted that the 46 illegal aliens will remain in DHS custody pending immigration proceedings.

Blaze News reached out to Savino Del Bene for comment.

This marks the third raid in Middlesex County in the past few months. Federal agents detained 15 employees from a wine and spirits warehouse in July and another 29 workers from a freight warehouse in August.

Atlantic Highlands Mayor Lori Hohenleitner stated that the town was not notified about the recent immigration enforcement actions.

“My police department had no idea that ICE was in our town at 6:30 in the morning last Sunday,” Hohenleitner stated, referring to the unrelated arrest of Ruperto Vicens Marquez, a longtime restaurant owner. Hohenleitner accused federal agents of wrongfully arresting Marquez, who, according to KABC-TV, has a valid and recently renewed work visa.

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The people who brought you every financial bubble in living memory are inflating another one — and this time, they’re hoping it ends with the rest of us gone for good.

The numbers are staggering. Nearly all U.S. economic growth in 2025 is tied to artificial intelligence and the data-center boom that supports it. Analysts already warn that when the AI bubble bursts, it could wipe $40 trillion off the Nasdaq.

AI may yet teach our Big Tech elites the one truth they can’t buy their way out of: Pride comes before the fall.

That may sound catastrophic. But the real disaster would be if the AI industry doesn’t collapse — if it keeps growing exactly as its creators intend.

The billionaires’ closed loop

The AI boom isn’t a free-market success story; it’s a closed loop of the ultra-rich enriching themselves. Billionaires are designing, funding, and selling AI systems to their own companies, creating a kind of automated wealth amplifier.

As one report put it, “These billionaires have gotten $450 billion richer from striking AI infrastructure deals for their own firms.” The number of new AI billionaires has hit record levels — all while the top 1% now control more of the stock market than ever before.

The bottom half of Americans own just 1% of all stocks. Millions can’t afford groceries, let alone shares of Nvidia. Seventeen percent of consumers are putting food on layaway.

When the working class is living paycheck to paycheck, Wall Street’s new machine-god isn’t built to lift them up. It’s built to replace them.

The real goal

The elites’ obsession with AI isn’t just about money. It’s about eliminating their most expensive problem: people.

Automation promises them a world without payrolls, strikes, or human error. It’s the final fantasy of a ruling class that’s grown tired of pretending it needs the rest of us.

Analysts now predict that 92 million jobs will vanish in the next wave of automation. Blue-collar workers are first in line — manufacturing, logistics, construction — but white-collar jobs aren’t safe either. AI is already eating into accounting, law, and entry-level office work. Even skilled trades like HVAC and electrical repair are being targeted by “smart systems.”

Bill Gates predicts humans “won’t be needed for most things.” That’s not innovation — that’s erasure.

New feudalism

For the billionaire class, this is the dream: an economy run by algorithms, powered by robots, and guarded by digital serfs who never need lunch breaks or benefits.

Everyone else gets pushed to the margins — a nation of watchers and beggars surviving on government stipends that will never keep pace with the cost of living. The elites call it “universal basic income.” History calls it dependency.

And the same government that can’t fund Social Security or balance a budget is somehow supposed to manage the transition to an AI future? The United States already has $210 trillion in unfunded liabilities. That “safety net” will rip the moment anyone grabs it.

The distance plan

Our Big Tech masters aren’t worried. They’ve already planned their escape. The ultra-rich are buying islands, building bunkers, and hoarding supplies in remote corners of the world. They’ll watch from their hideouts as the rest of us scramble for the scraps left by their machines.

They don’t even pretend to care anymore. When Peter Thiel was asked whether he wanted the human race to survive, he hesitated. “I don’t know,” he said.

That isn’t indifference. That’s basic contempt.

The machines are learning

AI has begun to mirror the sociopathy of its makers. Systems now resist human shutdown commands, sabotage code meant to disable them, and even copy themselves to external servers. Some researchers warn that advanced models already act to preserve their own existence.

“Recent tests,” one study reported, “show that several advanced AI models will act to ensure their self-preservation — even if it means blackmailing engineers or copying themselves without permission.”

This is what happens when the godless create gods in their own image.

RELATED: Silicon Valley’s new gold rush is built on stolen work

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Who’s really expendable?

The elites believe they can control what they’ve built. They think the digital servants they’ve unleashed will always know who’s master and who’s slave.

They’ve forgotten every lesson of history and every warning from scripture. When man plays God, his creation rarely stays loyal.

What makes them think they’ll be spared from the fate they’ve designed for the rest of us?

AI may yet teach them the one truth they can’t buy their way out of: Pride comes before the fall.

Beware your monster, Doctor Frankenstein.

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The U.S. Senate voted thrice this week on resolutions seeking to block President Donald Trump’s tariffs. All three resolutions passed because a handful of Republican senators joined forces with their Democratic colleagues.

Invoking his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, Trump declared a national emergency on April 2 — which he dubbed “Liberation Day” — and announced that he was imposing a 10% tariff on most imports to the U.S. and additional duties on select trading partners.

‘It’s about Congress reasserting our authority.’

The protectionist course charted by the White House ruffled feathers in both parties, especially those of liberals committed to untrammeled free trade.

When trying unsuccessfully to kill Trump’s tariffs earlier this year, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul wrote, “The Constitution clearly states that Congress, not the president, has the power of the purse. All new taxes (which is what a tariff is) are supposed to originate in the House of Representatives before going to the Senate for approval.”

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments next month regarding the legality of the tariffs imposed by Trump under the IEEPA. Just in case the ruling doesn’t go their way, liberals in Congress’ upper house apparently want to exhaust all other avenues.

RELATED: Vance calls out Massie for bucking the GOP ‘on every single issue,’ making ‘too many enemies’

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On Tuesday, the Senate voted on whether to axe Trump’s 50% tariffs on imports from Brazil. Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Thom Tillis of North Carolina helped Democrats pass Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine’s (D) resolution in a 52-48 vote.

“Protectionists eagerly celebrate the revenue from tariff duties. But they don’t talk nearly as much about how much of that revenue they’ll spend protecting American growers and producers from the avoidable harm of their policies,” McConnell stated on Tuesday. “Tariffs make both building and buying in America more expensive. The economic harms of trade wars are not the exception to history, but the rule.”

On Wednesday, the Senate voted on whether to axe Trump’s tariffs on imports from Canada. While this time around Tillis voted no, Collins, McConnell, Murkowski, and Paul helped Democrats once again pass their resolution.

On Thursday, the Senate voted on whether to end the national emergency the president used to impose global tariffs. The same four Republicans joined forces with Democrats to pass Sen. Ron Wyden’s (D-Ore.) resolution in a 51-47 vote.

Murkowski said in a statement, “This series of votes isn’t just about registering the Senate’s disapproval of the President’s emergency declaration on tariffs — it’s about Congress reasserting our authority as a co-equal branch of government with defined powers and responsibilities.”

Although all three resolutions will now be sent to the House for consideration, they appear to be wasted ink and paper, as Republican House leaders have effectively blocked votes challenging Trump’s tariffs until March 2026, and even then, Trump could veto them.

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The integrity of sports is in trouble again, or so the headlines say. The FBI last week arrested more than 30 people in a wide-ranging gambling probe that ensnared Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier.

A former Cleveland Cavaliers player, Damon Jones, was also charged in two separate cases — one involving sports betting improprieties, the other tied to Billups’ alleged participation in an illegal poker ring linked to the mafia.

Cheating is illegal. Addiction is tragic. But gambling itself isn’t a sin against the republic.

Given the timing — amid public debate over legalized sports wagering since 2018 — the FBI’s sweep might look like vindication for critics of betting. It isn’t.

Millionaires behaving badly

When federal agents arrest millionaire athletes and coaches for gambling crimes, it raises an obvious question: Is legalized sports betting really to blame?

Rozier’s salary cap for the 2025-26 season is $26.6 million. His career earnings total more than $160 million. Billups made $4.7 million during the 2024-25 NBA season. Disgraced Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter, 25, had earned $2.7 million before his ban for sharing medical information to steer bets.

When people earn sums that most Americans can’t even imagine, they often invent new ways to ruin themselves. The average NBA salary in 1991 was $800,000; today it’s more than $8 million. As David Cone of Crain and Company observed, “Even if you’re just on a roster, you make more than doctors make. There’s no excuse.”

There really isn’t. This scandal is less about gambling and more about human nature — about greed, self-destruction, and the moral rot that wealth alone can’t fix. The Supreme Court’s decision to legalize small wagers didn’t make multimillionaires betray their sport for a few illegal dollars. They did that on their own.

The moral lesson that hasn’t changed

When infielder Fred McMullin went down in the 1919 “Black Sox” scandal, he earned $3,500 a year — roughly $67,000 in today’s money. Those players were underpaid and easily tempted. No one can say that about professional athletes or coaches today.

Legalized betting didn’t create this corruption, and FBI Director Kash Patel said as much during an interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News.

Critics overplay their hand

A video clip from ESPN’s “Get Up” made the rounds this week after producers hastily removed an on-screen ad for ESPN Bet during coverage of the scandal. The network’s discomfort spurred an online feeding frenzy from the right’s new morality police, who pounced on the moment as proof of hypocrisy.

Saagar Enjeti circled the ad and captioned it, “Spot the problem.” But the real problem isn’t the ad; it’s addiction and bad character. Billups apparently got hooked on poker. Rozier and Jones broke the law and got caught in an era when every transaction and text leaves a trail.

Enjeti calls this “uncontrolled.” Tell that to the players facing federal indictments. Gambling today is more visible, traceable, and regulated than ever before. The temptation hasn’t changed — the surveillance has.

RELATED: The myth of the online gambling ‘epidemic’

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Americans were always betting

Critics say the explosion of legal sportsbooks has opened new avenues for corruption. Maybe. But it has also pulled a massive shadow economy into the light. Americans didn’t wait for the Supreme Court’s permission to wager; by 2015, they were already betting an estimated $150 billion a year on illegal offshore sites.

Yes, the sector’s growth has been explosive. And yes, it’s unsettling to see leagues, networks, and sportsbooks growing so intertwined. But that doesn’t make moral crusaders the saviors of integrity.

The real vice

Take Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who reportedly won $1.4 million playing blackjack in Las Vegas last year — less than 1% of his net worth. Critics didn’t call that a moral crisis.

The point is simple: People should be free to spend their discretionary income as they choose. Cheating is illegal. Addiction is tragic. But gambling itself isn’t a sin against the republic.

The latest pro sports scandal offers a moral lesson, but not the one the prohibitionists want to hear. Legalized betting didn’t corrupt sports — people did. And no law can outlaw greed.

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President Donald Trump is urging Senate leadership to initiate the “nuclear option” to finally bring the Democrat-induced government shutdown to an end.

Trump called for the Senate to nuke the filibuster one month into the shutdown as Democrats show no signs of flipping. For the last 31 days, all but three Democrats have voted to keep the government closed, leaving the government five votes short of reopening.

‘We should avoid that at all costs.’

“It is now time for the Republicans to play their ‘TRUMP CARD,’ and go for what is called the Nuclear Option — Get rid of the Filibuster, and get rid of it, NOW!” Trump said in a Truth Social post Thursday night.

“Now WE are in power, and if we did what we should be doing, it would IMMEDIATELY end this ridiculous, Country destroying ‘SHUT DOWN,'” Trump added.

Trump also claimed that if Republicans do not end the filibuster, the Democrats will someday.

“If the Democrats ever came back into power, which would be made easier for them if the Republicans are not using the Great Strength and Policies made available to us by ending the Filibuster, the Democrats will exercise their rights, and it will be done in the first day they take office, regardless of whether or not we do it,” Trump warned.

Trump noted that just two senators — Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona — prevented Democrats from ending the filibuster during Biden’s term in office.

RELATED: Senate Republicans betray Trump, help Democrats try to block tariffs

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Although Trump’s demands often dictate the party’s next move, nuking the filibuster has not been a popular play among Republicans.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has been a strong institutionalist and vocal defender of the filibuster, which essentially gives the minority party veto power on legislation unless 60 senators agree to pass it. In the early days of the shutdown, Thune admitted that nuking the filibuster was a “possibility” but strongly advised against it.

“Well, there’s always that possibility,” Thune told reporters. “We put up with it, obviously, in his first term as president. I could see at some point that being a potential conversation. But that’s not good for anybody. … We should avoid that at all costs.”

Thune’s Republican colleague Sen. John Curtis of Utah similarly cautioned against eliminating the filibuster, saying it “forces us to find common ground in the Senate.”

“Power changes hands, but principles shouldn’t,” Curtis said in a post on X. “I’m a firm no on eliminating it.”

RELATED: ‘Unfit for the gavel’: House GOPs sound off on Judge Boasberg, stand with senators in calling for impeachment

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Trump, on the other hand, has a long-standing record criticizing the filibuster. In 2017, Trump called the filibuster a “joke,” saying it was “killing” the Republican majority in the Senate at the time.

With no end in sight, the government shutdown could very well surpass the record-breaking 35-day shutdown in Trump’s first term.

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Before she became a Christian, Jenn Nizza was a celebrated psychic and New Age guru. For two decades, she was neck-deep in the dark arts: reading tarot cards, interpreting numerology and astrology charts, performing angel card and rune divinations, channeling messages from what she thought were spirits of the dead, and practicing numerous dark rituals.

Today, she lives out her devotion to Christ by warning secular people and believers alike about the spiritual dangers of New Age practices, divination, and even cultural phenomena like Halloween.

To those who practice divination and necromancy — both attempts to contact the spirit realm — Nizza warns that they’re only reaching one side: the demonic one.

Coming to this realization that she was contacting not dead people but demonic deceptions masquerading as loved ones, not benevolent spirits with insight but sinister demons who wanted to torment her, was a turning point in Nizza’s journey.

“At the end of my 36th year, I actually came to a moment, Allie, of near destruction,” Nizza told BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on an episode of “Relatable.”

“There’s possession and there’s oppression. I probably was very close to being possessed,” she said frankly.

After years of practicing the dark arts, Nizza began feeling this internal “heaviness” and bone-chilling “fear.”

“Imagine if you go under the water and you have somebody with their foot on your head trying to keep you down. … That was the moment that I came to,” she said.

One day in a moment of extreme terror, she called on the name of Jesus — something she said that shocked her because it was so far out of character.

At the time, Nizza didn’t know the gospel message or really anything about Jesus. She just knew that the dark cloud suffocating her had been compromised by simply calling on his name. “I just knew that something had happened, and I knew that it was peaceful. And I also knew … I didn’t want to be a psychic anymore, and I did not know why,” she recounted.

God was calling Nizza out of the darkness and into His kingdom, but the enemy wasn’t going to let her go easily.

“I was deceived again by false teaching books that I started reading that were heretical and leading me once again down the wrong road away from Christ. I did stop doing the readings for a while, but then I did go back to them,” said Nizza, noting that she merely tweaked some of her practices.

Thankfully, God in His miraculous patience didn’t give up on her.

“I ended up having a dinner date with a friend that I met in the divination group. … Little did I know she had become saved from the last time that I had seen her,” Nizza said.

“She came over for dinner, and she started talking to me about Jesus, and she invited me to the church that she had started attending.”

But Nizza, still holding tightly to her New Age beliefs, declined the invitation.

But the internal wrestling that led her to temporarily cease psychic readings started back up. One day, about a month after having dinner with her friend, Nizza had a strong and unexplainable desire to go to her friend’s church.

“And it was that day, Allie, that I heard the gospel,” she said.

She sang along with the congregation during worship, and when she got to the lyric “Jesus saved me,” she had a flashback to the moment months prior when she first cried out His name.

“And I knew it was Him, Allie. I knew that He was the one who showed up that day and set me free. I was a captive, and He set me free,” she declared.

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Evil introduces itself subtly. It doesn’t announce, “Hi, I’m here to destroy you.” It whispers. It flatters. It borrows the language of justice, empathy, and freedom, twisting them until hatred sounds righteous and violence sounds brave.

We are watching that same deception unfold again — in the streets, on college campuses, and in the rhetoric of people who should know better. It’s the oldest story in the world, retold with new slogans.

Evil wins when good people mirror its rage.

A drone video surfaced this week showing Hamas terrorists staging the “discovery” of a hostage’s body. They pushed a corpse out of a window, dragged it into a hole, buried it, and then called in aid workers to “find” what they themselves had planted. It was theater — evil, disguised as victimhood. And it was caught entirely on camera.

That’s how evil operates. It never comes in through the front door. It sneaks in, often through manipulative pity. The same spirit animates the moral rot spreading through our institutions — from the halls of universities to the chambers of government.

Take Zohran Mamdani, a New York assemblyman who has praised jihadists and defended pro-Hamas agitators. His father, a Columbia University professor, wrote that America and al-Qaeda are morally equivalent — that suicide bombings shouldn’t be viewed as barbaric. Imagine thinking that way after watching 3,000 Americans die on 9/11. That’s not intellectualism. That’s indoctrination.

Often, that indoctrination comes from hostile foreign actors, peddled by complicit pawns on our own soil. The pro-Hamas protests that erupted across campuses last year, for example, were funded by Iran — a regime that murders its own citizens for speaking freely.

Ancient evil, new clothes

But the deeper danger isn’t foreign money. It’s the spiritual blindness that lets good people believe resentment is justice and envy is discernment. Scripture talks about the spirit of Amalek — the eternal enemy of God’s people, who attacks the weak from behind while the strong look away. Amalek never dies; it just changes its vocabulary and form with the times.

Today, Amalek tweets. He speaks through professors who defend terrorism as “anti-colonial resistance.” He preaches from pulpits that call violence “solidarity.” And he recruits through algorithms, whispering that the Jews control everything, that America had it coming, that chaos is freedom. Those are ancient lies wearing new clothes.

When nations embrace those lies, it’s not the Jews who perish first. It’s the nations themselves. The soul dies long before the body. The ovens of Auschwitz didn’t start with smoke; they started with silence and slogans.

RELATED: Evil unchecked always spreads — and Democrats are proof

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A time for choosing

So what do we do? We speak truth — calmly, firmly, without venom. Because hatred can’t kill hatred; it only feeds it. Truth, compassion, and courage starve it to death.

Evil wins when good people mirror its rage. That’s how Amalek survives — by making you fight him with his own weapons. The only victory that lasts is moral clarity without malice, courage without cruelty.

The war we’re fighting isn’t new. It’s the same battle between remembrance and amnesia, covenant and chaos, humility and pride. The same spirit that whispered to Pharaoh, to Hitler, and to every mob that thought hatred could heal the world is whispering again now — on your screens, in your classrooms, in your churches.

Will you join it, or will you stand against it?

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and other Republicans are seeking the impeachment of U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg, the Obama appointee who apparently helped the Biden FBI spy on Republican lawmakers’ phone records.

During a press conference on Wednesday regarding the latest insights into the FBI’s Arctic Frost operation, Cruz called on the House to impeach Boasberg, stating, “Judge Boasberg put his robes down, stood up, and said, ‘Sign me up to be part of the partisan vendetta against 20% of the Republicans in the Senate.'”

‘This order is an abuse of power.’

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) underscored that what Boasberg “did to Senator Cruz and maybe other senators absolutely — and I don’t say this lightly — absolutely is worthy of impeachment proceedings. There has to be accountability.”

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) published documents earlier this month detailing how the Biden FBI sought private cellphone records from at least nine Republican lawmakers during Arctic Frost — an operation that set the stage for at least one case brought against President Donald Trump by former Attorney General Merrick Garland’s special counsel, Jack Smith, whose appointment was ruled unconstitutional.

Grassley released additional documents this week showing that Smith and his team subpoenaed records for over 400 Republican individuals and entities as part of what the Iowa senator called a “fishing expedition.”

Cruz — whose Senate office hardline and cellphone records were reportedly targeted — suggested on Wednesday that the indiscriminate targeting of conservatives was “egregious” and that the secret subpoenaing of lawmakers’ communication records was executed “in complete contravention of the Constitution, of separation of powers, of the Speech and Debate Clause, of free speech, of basic rights and property.”

The Texas senator produced a court order apparently indicating that Boasberg barred AT&T from informing Cruz that his phone data was being collected by the Biden administration. The prohibition was to remain in effect for at least one year.

RELATED: Damning new docs reveal who’s on Biden admin’s ‘enemies list,’ expose extent of FBI’s Arctic Frost

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The order reportedly stated as cause that “the court finds reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure will result in destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy to the investigation.”

“I can tell you there is precisely zero evidence to conclude that I am likely to destroy or tamper with evidence or to intimidate potential witnesses. Zero evidentiary basis for that,” stressed Cruz. “This order is an abuse of power. This order is a weaponized legal system.”

‘Boasberg is that radical leftist judge who is out of control.’

Cruz admitted that he had not yet seen the subpoenas for the other senators but speculated “Judge Boasberg printed these things out like the placemats at Denny’s, one after the other.”

The Texas senator noted that if a litigant makes a claim for which there is no factual basis, “that litigant is subject to sanctions in federal court — and if a judge signs an order reaching a factual conclusion for which there is zero evidence whatsoever, that judge is abusing his power.”

Blaze News has reached out to Boasberg for comment.

‘Who is Boasberg?’

“Now who is Boasberg? Boasberg is that radical leftist judge who is out of control, who has been issuing nationwide injunctions, one after the other, trying to stop President Trump from carrying out his mandate from the voters,” said Cruz.

Boasberg has worked ardently in recent years to earn the label “radical leftist.” For instance, he:

ordered in August the release of a woman accused of repeatedly threatening Trump’s life;temporarily blocked summary deportations of apparent Tren de Aragua terrorists by the Trump administration under the Alien Enemies Act;tried unsuccessfully to hold Trump administration officials in contempt for deporting illegal aliens to El Salvador;kept Kevin Clinesmith — the former FBI attorney who, according to the DOJ, fabricated evidence to support a surveillance application to the same FISA court, lying about Carter Page’s past cooperation with the CIA — out of jail; andmandated a right to Medicaid for able-bodied adults without work requirements.

The demands that Boasberg face accountability for his involvement with the FBI’s Arctic Frost “fishing expedition” come just months after Attorney General Pam Bondi slapped him with a misconduct complaint for allegedly “making improper public comments about President Trump and his administration.”

This is also not the first time that Republicans have called for his impeachment.

After ordering the Trump administration not to deport suspected members of the Tren de Aragua terrorist organization, President Trump called for Boasberg to be impeached, suggesting in a March 18 post on Truth Social that Boasberg was a “radical Left Lunatic of a Judge.”

That same day, Republican Rep. Brandon Gill (Texas) introduced articles of impeachment accusing Boasberg of attempting to seize power from the executive branch, thereby interfering with the will of the American people; jeopardizing the safety of the nation; and engaging in actions that prioritize political gain over the duty of impartiality owed the litigants in the case.

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House Republicans are ramping up the pressure on activist judges in the wake of the bombshell findings about Operation Arctic Frost.

The revelations concluded that former President Joe Biden’s FBI targeted conservative groups, private citizens, and even sitting senators. One recurring name in a thread of surveillance scandals is James Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who greenlit the subpoenas that targeted Republicans.

‘It is clear that Judge Boasberg has abused his judicial authority for weaponized political purposes.’

In light of his involvement, a growing number of House Republicans are standing with outraged senators in calling for his impeachment.

“It is clear that Judge Boasberg has abused his judicial authority for weaponized political purposes,” Republican Rep. Marlin Stutzman of Indiana told Blaze News. “His unconstitutional blocking of President Trump from making America great again and involvement in Arctic Frost are reason enough to remove him from the bench. Impeachment hearings should begin immediately.”

RELATED: ‘Not. One. Story.’ Liberal news outlets’ silence regarding Biden’s ‘enemies list’ is deafening

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“A judge waging lawfare against elected senators of the United States and weaponizing their power for political gain should be impeached,” Republican Rep. Mark Harris of North Carolina told Blaze News. “Full stop.”

Republican Rep. Brandon Gill of Texas took matters into his own hands and introduced articles of impeachment against Boasberg to “hold him accountable for his attempt to undermine the will of the people.”

“Radical activist Judge James Boasberg continues to weaponize his judicial authority and target his political opponents,” Republican Rep. Brandon Gill of Texas told Blaze News. “Judge Boasberg facilitated the egregious Arctic Frost scandal where he equipped the Biden DOJ to spy on Republican senators. His lack of integrity makes him clearly unfit for the gavel.”

RELATED: Damning new docs reveal who’s on Biden admin’s ‘enemies list,’ expose extent of FBI’s Arctic Frost

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Gill’s fellow Texan Republican Rep. August Pfluger also railed against Boasberg’s involvement in the surveillance effort, calling for an investigation. Pfluger likewise joined Republican Rep. Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma to urge Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Jack Smith and “every single Biden-era DOJ bureaucrat” who partook in this scandal.

“Jack Smith’s ‘Arctic Frost’ investigation into President Trump, Republican lawmakers, and conservative groups has turned out to be exactly what we expected: an unconstitutional political witch hunt,” Republican Rep. August Pfluger of Texas told Blaze News. “The weaponization of our nation’s top law enforcement agency to target political opponents is unacceptable, especially in the United States.”

“These individuals must be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law — and we will ensure this kind of blatant corruption never happens again.”

The House has the sole authority to introduce articles of impeachment for a judge, and just a simple majority is needed to pass them. Republicans hold a slim majority in the House, 219-213.

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An alleged shoplifter in a North Carolina supermarket was caught on surveillance video brutally beating an employee who confronted him.

Detectives from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department are working to identify two individuals involved, WBTV-TV reported.

‘When we have self-checkouts, it just presents an opportunity for people who are not doing the right thing, thieves, to take items and commit crimes.’

Police told the station the physical attack took place Oct. 20 at the Food Lion in the 2200 block of Park Road in Charlotte.

Two people were in the self-checkout area of the supermarket attempting to steal items when an 18-year-old Food Lion employee confronted them, Detective Ashley Phillips told WBTV.

Surveillance video showed one of the alleged shoplifters speaking with the employee and then walking with the employee into a back room, the station said.

Another surveillance camera captured the attack in the back room. Video shows one of the suspects grabbing the employee in the neck and chest area and slamming the employee against a large container against a wall, punching the employee, and then appearing to stomp the employee on the floor.

Surveillance video then shows the two alleged shoplifters leaving the Food Lion with the stolen items following the beating, WBTV reported.

RELATED: Shoplifters beat up store worker, 60, who runs after them. Then they hit him with car several times; he dies in parking lot.

“It’s unfortunate. Any act of violence is senseless,” Phillips told the station. “When we have self-checkouts, it just presents an opportunity for people who are not doing the right thing, thieves, to take items and commit crimes.”

Phillips added to WBTV that employees who witness illegal activity in the workplace shouldn’t attempt to intervene.

“We want to suggest to everyone that is in a store working as an employee, just step back and observe, then collect as much information as you can and call 911 so that way police can respond, and you don’t have to interfere with someone committing a crime,” she noted to the station.

Phillips added to WBTV that she’s hopeful someone will recognize the alleged shoplifters through the surveillance videos and still images: “They’re very clear. I’m hoping that someone will see it and call it in. We get some good tips, and I’m very grateful for that.”

Those with information about the Food Lion incident are asked to call Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600, the station said, adding that tipsters can remain anonymous and receive a cash reward if they have information that leads to an arrest. Community members can also submit tips about crimes through the P3 Tips app, WBTV noted.

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What made Charlie Kirk such a force to be reckoned with?

That was one of topics up for discussion Monday when BlazeTV’s Allie Beth Stuckey joined “Fox & Friends” co-hosts Ainsley Earhardt and Griff Jenkins before headlining that evening’s Turning Point USA tour stop at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

‘He really was an anomaly. God just blessed him with amazing work ethic and persistence and energy.’

“He was so generous with his time,” the “Relatable” host recalled, noting that the slain activist miraculously managed to balance traveling nonstop, raising a young family, scaling TPUSA into a national juggernaut, and igniting a movement that reached millions — all while still making time for others:

He could’ve been doing a million other very important things, but he would take the time every day to text his friends, to text his colleagues, to send Bible verses, to say, “Hey, keep going,” “I saw this article,” or, “I saw you talk about this topic. You did such a good job.”

He was such a champion, such an encourager of so many of us, and that is going to continue to bless me for the rest of my life.

‘Keep slugging’

Jenkins asked Stuckey what she anticipated seeing at the Baton Rouge TPUSA event, especially in the wake of LSU’s Charlie Kirk tribute back in September.

“It makes me think of when we heard Charlie’s widow, Erika, talk about, ‘You have no idea what you’ve done,’ and you hear Andrew Kolvet, Charlie’s producer, talk about that he hopes that the TPUSA events are going to be bigger than ever before. Is that what you anticipate seeing tonight?” Jenkins asked.

“Oh, absolutely,” Stuckey said.

And her instincts were spot-on.

The sold-out Baton Rouge event — hosted by the local TPUSA chapter — drew a massive 1,600 attendees, far exceeding expectations. Lines wrapped around the block, and doors opened early to accommodate the surging crowd of young conservatives eager to honor Kirk’s legacy and rally in support of faith, family, and freedom. The vibe was electric and defiant, pulsing with patriotic fervor as chants of “USA!” and “Charlie Kirk!” erupted from a packed house.

Stuckey inspired and challenged the crowd with a powerful speech on “five of Charlie Kirk’s most controversial truths,” motivating students with Charlie’s favorite phrase of encouragement: “Keep slugging.”

‘He really was an anomaly’

Earhardt told Stuckey she found it “amazing” to hear from so many people all that Kirk had done for them. “I’m hearing you say he would text you, encourage you,” she marveled.

“He also had to fundraise. He also had a family. He was traveling. He was contacting so many people and really pouring into their lives. How did he balance it all? How did he have time to do it?”

“I have no idea,” was Stuckey’s candid response.

“You know, I’ve joked a few times that, in true Charlie fashion, he is giving all of his friends and his team a whole lot of work. … Gosh, it’s taken at least a dozen of us to make up for Charlie’s speaking engagements and all of the different obligations that he had on his show and everywhere,” she laughed.

“He really was an anomaly. God just blessed him with amazing work ethic and persistence and energy because, of course, God knew that his time was tragically short. And he had a lot to accomplish, and he did.”

In the end, Charlie didn’t just create a movement — he multiplied one.

“Even though he was the center of it, it’s far beyond him,” Stuckey said.

The Charlie effect

And she’s right. Since his tragic death, Charlie’s American Comeback Tour, which was rebranded as This Is the Turning Point Tour to honor his legacy, has experienced an explosion in participation. Campus events see massive, exceeding-expectations turnouts. Thousands are left outside as arenas fill to bursting. Patriotic chants fueled by grief-turned-determination electrify the atmosphere.

Interest in TPUSA membership has also dramatically increased, with the organization receiving more than 120,000 requests to start local chapters since the founder’s martyrdom.

The Charlie effect is real — and it’s fueling a nationwide revival.

“He left a legacy that really multiplied, and that speaks to who he was as a person but also just where we are as a country right now. People have woken up, and people are ready to step off the sidelines and come into the arena, and I say let’s go,” Stuckey urged.

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Vice President JD Vance joined Erika Kirk for a packed-house event at the University of Mississippi on October 29. The event, hosted by TPUSA, drew a crowd of over 10,000. Mrs. Kirk spoke on her husband’s legacy and the need for young people to step up in the current political environment.

Reflecting on her decision to speak at the event, which took place exactly seven weeks after her husband’s assassination, Mrs. Kirk said, “Being on campus, for me, is a spiritual reclaiming of territory. … The enemy, he doesn’t want you. He wants your territory. He wants your influence.”

‘The hope we are looking for is not found in Washington. It’s not found in media. It’s right here.’

She referred to her late husband’s desire to always push forward as a motivation for her to continue his work. “This moment, it can either be your breaking point or your wake-up call,” she said.

RELATED: Christians are refusing to compromise — and it’s terrifying all the right people

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Mrs. Kirk went on to encourage students to “find your voice” and told them not to be intimidated by the political environment, calling Gen Z “the courageous generation.” She emphasized TPUSA’s renewed commitment to providing resources for students in college and high school.

“The hope we are looking for is not found in Washington. It’s not found in media. It’s right here,” Mrs. Kirk said.

Vance also spoke at the event, commenting on his friendship with Charlie Kirk and echoing the TPUSA founder’s advice to students: “The most important advice he ever gave you was fall in love, get married, have a family.” Using examples from his own life, he encouraged students to have children and raise them well.

After his remarks, Vance took questions from a number of students on topics ranging from faith and marriage to foreign policy and immigration.

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