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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has long been known for her defense of Somalian immigrants and intense hatred of the Trump administration — but that’s all about to change, as BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere has crowned her with a new title.

“When you think of who the dumbest congressman in America is, or congresslady, you come up with a bunch of different names. I think AOC would be sort of near the top of that list for a lot of people,” Stu tells co-host Dave Landau on “Stu and Dave Do America.”

“Another one you might put in that list is Ilhan Omar,” Stu says, noting that conservatives mostly take issue with her ideology, but not necessarily her stupidity.

However, that was before a clip of Omar discussing World War II resurfaced.

“The last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked, it was used to detain and deport German, Japanese, Italian immigrants during World War 11,” Omar said in the clip, using the number “eleven” instead of “two.”

“How can that be real?” Stu asks, shocked.

“I think most people often think that there are more world wars than ‘Police Academy’ movies,” Landau jokes, adding, “She could just be thinking of ‘The Fast and the Furious.’”

Landau also points out that as a congresswoman, she should know that there were two world wars, but she doesn’t because “she doesn’t care enough about America to actually know that.”

“No one makes that mistake. A child wouldn’t make that mistake,” he adds.

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Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts said that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth might have the same fate as some Nazis who were executed for their war crimes in World War II.

Moulton claimed that strikes ordered on narco-terrorist boats near Venezuela could be prosecuted as war crimes and lead to the secretary’s execution.

‘Back in World War II, the Allies tried Nazi submarine captains for doing this exact same thing.’

The Democrat was being interviewed by Erin Burnett on CNN on Wednesday when he made the bizarre threat against Hegseth.

“He’s clearly behind the operation to shoot all these boats in the Caribbean when it’s very unclear that we actually have any confirmation that these so-called narco-terrorists, a term the administration invented to justify this action, are even on the boats,” he said.

Moulton went on to cite some reports claiming that the sailors killed were just fishermen who were trying to feed their families and “clearly not war criminals,” as claimed by the Trump administration.

“And on top of that, we then have the strike where they came back and hit it again, a double tap just purely to kill these survivors who were clinging to wreckage,” Moulton said.

“You know, it’s interesting, Erin, another historical analogy: Back in World War II, the Allies tried Nazi submarine captains for doing this exact same thing,” he added. “And guess what the conclusion was? They got executed! Listen to that, Mr. Secretary!”

The strikes on drug boats near Venezuela were a precursor to the military operation that led to the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, who is now awaiting trial.

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“Hegseth may want to read up on the Geneva Conventions,” Moulton said on social media with video of his interview with Burnett.

Moulton is a former U.S. Marine Corps captain who served four tours in the Iraq War, while Hegseth is a former Army National Guard infantry officer with combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Thomas “Neeza” Powers, born Thomas Ryan Powers, is a social media influencer and former transgender-identifying athlete who lived as a woman named Nicole for over a decade before publicly detransitioning in mid-2025.

He gained a massive social media following by sharing his story of identifying as a lesbian, then transitioning, competing in women’s sports, and later experiencing a dramatic Christian conversion that led him to embrace his biological sex, advocate against men in women’s spaces, and pursue Catholicism.

However, just a few days ago, Thomas announced that he is re-transitioning.

In his Instagram statement, he said: “The self-loathing I’ve had for the last eight months has been excruciating. I know you’re thinking that’s just your sin talking, but it’s not … I believe in the holy Scriptures. I believe in the Lord Jesus. My heart is better to serve Him without hating myself. My heart is better as a partner to Charlotte without hating my existence, enforcing an identity on myself. And my heart is better to serve my community this way.”

BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey has a strong suspicion that Powers’ primary motivation has less to do with “authenticity” than it does attention.

On this episode of “Relatable,” Allie dives into Powers’ complicated history and makes the case that his entire public persona and story — from the original transition through the detransition and back — was likely a stunt to build a massive following and monetize attention.

Allie’s first red flag is that Thomas’ “re-transitioning” announcement was initially posted as an Instagram “trial reel,” which is a feature that allows creators to test their content’s popularity with non-followers.

“He did not announce to his followers, at least at the time, that he was ‘re-transitioning’ so-called. So that to me tells me that he is putting out two different narratives,” says Allie.

But that’s just the beginning of Thomas’ suspicious inconsistencies.

“People started noticing some inconsistencies in his story, like his transitioning timeline, his relationship with his girlfriend, even his age,” says Allie, pointing to many internet sleuths who have dug up old photos of Powers that appear to contradict many of the claims he’s made about himself.

Further, Christian news outlet Protestia published a detailed exposé back in February, presenting evidence that Powers had fabricated or significantly misrepresented major parts of his story, including: his age (claiming to be in his 20s when public records show he was born in 1989, making him 36), his transition timeline (claiming he started puberty blockers at 16 and transitioned as a teen, but photo evidence pointed to him transitioning much later, closer to age 30), and key details of his relationship with his partner, Charlotte.

“I don’t even know if this person really thinks that he is a woman or what he’s trying to do. I think that obviously something is going on there that’s wrong and it’s evil and perhaps unstable,” says Allie. “To me the bigger issue seems to be that he is a pathological liar and that he has created a character to gain a following.”

“Now that does not decrease my compassion for this person because lost is lost. You’re lost whether you’re a man who thinks that you’re a woman; you are lost if you are a person that is basically a scam artist … and so the response is the same: that we pray for him.”

To hear Allie’s full deep dive into Powers’ questionable history, watch the episode above.

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A CNN polling analysis is likely to give Democrats indigestion, since it seems that President Donald Trump has made surprising gains with black voters.

While Democrats have hammered away at the Trump administration with accusations of racism, the president has actually increased his gains among black voters.

‘President Trump and the Republican Party are chipping away at the long-term advantage that Democrats have had with black voters.’

CNN data chief Harry Enten pointed to polls that showed more black Americans say they support Trump in his second term than in his first term.

“I think what we’re seeing right now in the numbers is President Trump and the Republican Party are chipping away at the long-term advantage that Democrats have had with black voters, with African-Americans,” Enten said during the Thursday segment.

“You can see it right here. Look, Trump’s approval among African-Americans at this point in term one: He was at 12%,” he added. “You know, he’s been losing ground with a lot of groups. He’s gaining — he’s gaining ground with African-Americans. He’s up to 16% at this point.”

When CNN host Kate Bolduan asked if there was a broader trend, Enten had an emphatic response.

“Donald Trump’s Republican Party is absolutely gaining ground, not just him gaining in terms of his approval rating,” he added.

“This, to me, was absolutely stunning,” Enten continued. “Look at this party ID margin among African-Americans at this point in Trump term number one: Democrats had a 63-point advantage. That is absolutely fallen. Look at where it is now: a double-digit shift away.”

Black voters identifying as Democrats dropped to 51%, a decrease of 12 percentage points from the president’s first term. That lead was the smallest party ID advantage Democrats had among black voters since 2006 through 2021, according to Enten.

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Enten showed that the gains Republicans made among black voters could help the party maintain its control over Congress in the midterm elections.

“All of a sudden, there are a number of African-Americans who are walking away from the Democratic Party and a number of them who are walking into the Republican tent,” he added.

The analyst posted video of the segment to social media.

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Former FBI Director James Comey is reportedly facing another legal hurdle from President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice.

Comey is potentially facing his third indictment under the Trump administration as acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s DOJ pursues additional charges against the disgraced former director. This time, the DOJ is looking to indict Comey for allegedly leaking classified information, an accusation that Trump has frequently hurled at the former FBI head.

‘James Comey, who is a Dirty Cop, one of the worst, knows this full well!’

This effort comes after the DOJ brought a second indictment against Comey for his infamous Instagram post in May 2025 with the numbers “86 47” displayed in a formation of seashells. The post was later deleted.

Just days after Trump was targeted in the third assassination attempt on Saturday, the DOJ argued that Comey’s post was just another call for violence against the president.

“Threatening the life of the president of the United States will never be tolerated by the Department of Justice,” Blanche said at a press conference Tuesday.

RELATED: James Comey INDICTED amid assassination attempt against Trump over apparently threatening social media post

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The phrase “86” in slang typically refers to getting rid of something, and Trump is the 47th president. Some argue that “86 47” was a call to remove Trump from office or to defeat him politically. At the same time, Trump and his allies have maintained that “86 47” meant “kill the president.”

“’86’ is a mob term for ‘kill him,'” Trump said. “They say 86 him! 86 47 means ‘kill President Trump.’ James Comey, who is a Dirty Cop, one of the worst, knows this full well! EIGHT MILES OUT, SIX FEET DOWN! Didn’t he also lie to the FBl about this??? I think so!”

Comey was also indicted in September for allegedly making false statements to Congress and for obstruction of a congressional proceeding, but the case was later dismissed.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson said congressional approval is not necessary for the conflict between the United States and Iran, disputing claims that the military operation is a war.

Over two months into the conflict, Johnson has maintained that the operation is “not a war,” arguing that the 60-day deadline enforced by the War Powers Resolution would not apply to this scenario.

‘There’s nothing Congress can do.’

Without congressional approval within the 60 days, the resolution would mandate the president to withdraw military forces from the war.

“I don’t think we have an active, kinetic military bombing, firing, anything like that. Right now, we are trying to broker a peace,” Johnson said Thursday. “I would be very reluctant to get in front of the administration in the midst of these very sensitive negotiations, so we’ll have to see how that plays out.”

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“We’re policing the Strait of Hormuz and trying to get a peace,” Johnson added. “The president and the administration are moving as aggressively as possible. There’s nothing Congress can do to move that along any further, so we’ll see how it plays out.”

Although Johnson and other Republican allies have refrained from calling the conflict a war, President Donald Trump has frequently referred to the operation as a war.

“The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties,” Trump said on February 28, the day the United States first began striking Iran. “That often happens in war.”

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Fans of the NFL’s Cleveland Browns are caught inside a media whirlwind of what is being called misogynistic commentary along with allegations of spreading fake news.

The controversy centers on the battle for the starting quarterback position between second-year player Shedeur Sanders and veteran Deshaun Watson.

‘To know that you can go out there and do a good job in a man’s world.’

As if Cleveland fans don’t have enough problems — their team has made the playoffs just three times in the last 30 years — a report from beat writer Mary Kay Cabot has fans up in arms. Cabot said on Wednesday that Watson, who hasn’t played in almost two years due to injury, “has taken the lead over Sanders” in the race for the starting role, despite Sanders playing the last eight games of the 2025 season.

This caused an eruption from fans and analysts and even Sanders’ older brother Shilo. The elder Sanders last played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2025.

In response to a video in which Cabot said Watson should be named the starting QB, Shilo wrote:

“Go make a sandwich Mary.”

The comment has since been deleted.

TMZ described the commentary as “sexist” and “misogynistic,” and in response, Cabot described herself as an “inspiration” to young women in sports media.

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“I really do believe that I have been an inspiration for lots of women and young girls,” Cabot told Cleveland radio station 92.3 The Fan.

“To know that you can go out there and do a good job in a man’s world and take on all of that that comes with that, and I know that there are so many women who have joined the football world especially because of some of the things that I’ve been able to do over the years, I’m happy about that,” she added.

Since Cabot’s report, fans have called her QB1 reporting baseless, chiefly due to Browns General Manager Andrew Berry telling media members that he expects Sanders to “have more command of the offense.”

“I don’t know if Deshaun has an advantage over him,” he noted.

ESPN NFL analyst Mike Tannenbaum even described Cabot’s claims as “the most improbable” scenario due to Watson’s recent Achilles injuries.

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The controversy seemingly never stops in Cleveland; when Sanders was drafted, he reportedly sank from a first-round shoo-in to a fifth-round player because of a poor attitude during interviews with potential teams.

Watson, on the other hand, was suspended 11 games and fined $5 million before he played a single game for the Browns in 2022. He was accused of sexual misconduct by more than 20 women during alleged massage sessions.

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South Africa’s communications minister says that human oversight is sorely needed in the age of artificial intelligence.

The reason stems from a draft of the country’s new AI policy, which leaders hoped would address concerns about ethics and regulations related to the technology.

‘There will be consequence management for those responsible.’

The country’s Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Mmoba Solomon Malatsi, made a shocking admission that he would be withdrawing the national AI framework after its integrity had been “compromised.”

Malatsi took to his X page on Sunday to explain that an internal review confirmed the policy included fake citations, likely generated by AI.

“The Draft … contains various fictitious sources in its reference list,” the minister wrote.

The draft had been made available to allow for public comment, but scrutiny over the fake sources sparked a review after just three weeks.

“This failure is not a mere technical issue but has compromised the integrity and credibility of the draft policy,” the politician continued. “The most plausible explanation is that AI-generated citations were included without proper verification. This should not have happened.”

The 40-year-old said the incident proves why “vigilant human oversight over the use of artificial intelligence is critical.”

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The policy draft outlined a new National AI Commission, ethics board, and regulatory authority around AI that would coordinate to enforce new policies and ethical standards, Reuters reported.

It also set out framework for compensation related to any harm caused by the use of artificial intelligence.

The South Africans added emphasis on building their digital infrastructure in terms of cloud computing and computer farms, while calling for a reduction in reliance on hardware from China and the United States .

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Malatsi seemingly took his lumps in his post, calling the ordeal “a lesson we take with humility.”

“I want to reassure the country that we are treating this matter with the gravity it deserves. There will be consequence management for those responsible for drafting and quality assurance,” he added.

Malatsi is a member of South Africa’s Democrat Alliance party, which holds the second-most seats in the National Assembly. His position as minister is in South Africa’s Government of National Unity, which occurs when there is no party that wins an outright majority.

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The U.S. Army’s about to get a massive fit check — and not the kind where you show off the latest fashions in camouflage.

Effective this month, soldiers will be expected to pass a new, more rigorous Combat Field Test, one Secretary of the Army Hon. Dan Driscoll says will make sure those in the most physically demanding roles to “have the specific fitness required to dominate on the modern battlefield.”

‘We’re asking more of our combat arms Soldiers.’

The new requirements directly affect those designated under combat military occupational specialties, such as infantrymen or combat engineers.

Boot and rally

The annual test must be completed in 30 minutes while wearing the Army Combat Uniform, combat boots, and a brown T-shirt. It consists of the following:

A 1-mile run;30 dead-stop push-ups, which entail coming into direct contact with the ground, briefly lifting the hands, and then pushing up again;A 100-meter sprint;16 lifts of a 40-pound sandbag onto a 65-inch platform — to simulate throwing a sandbag into a vehicle;A 50-meter carry of two 5-gallon (40 lbs. each) Army water cans (jerricans); andA 50-meter drill consisting of a “25-meter high crawl” and a “25-meter 3-5 second rush” — movements meant to simulate both crawling prone with a rifle as well as sprinting and dropping to the ground to avoid gunfire.

The test concludes with another 1-mile run.

If a soldier can complete this test, they are fit for a combat role in the U.S. Army. However, that is not the only fitness test they’ll have to go through.

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Planks for the memories

Those enlisted in combat arms will also have to complete the current annual Army Fitness Test, which is a requirement of all active duty and reserve soldiers.

That test consists of the following:Three deadlifts with the maximum weight possible;As many hand-release push-ups as possible in two minutes — this involves the soldier extending both arms out to their sides when hitting the ground;A “sprint-drag-carry” circuit, in which soldiers drag a sled (or weights) and then carry two 40-pound kettlebells;Holding a plank position until failure; andA 2-mile run.

“This isn’t just about passing a test; it’s a direct measure of our commitment to readiness and ensuring our warfighters can dominate in any environment,” Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Weimer said. “We’re asking more of our combat arms soldiers, and this test validates their ability to meet that high standard.”

For Pete’s sake

Since assuming the office last year, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has made raising military fitness standards a priority.

“It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the secretary of war can do regular, hard PT, so can every member of our joint force,” Hegseth said in a speech last October.

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The Army notes that if it is determined that a soldier cannot meet the physical standards, they may request a voluntary reclassification to a non-combat role, in order for the Army to retain personnel.

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Just a few months after BlazeTV’s Sara Gonzales began exposing potential H-1B fraud in North Texas, the Office of the Attorney General has come out with a major announcement as a result of her investigations.

On Thursday morning, Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) announced that he is escalating his ongoing investigation into dozens of businesses in North Texas suspected of H-1B visa fraud.

‘I want to thank Sara Gonzales for her efforts in exposing H-1B fraud across the state.’

Paxton announced that he has issued civil investigative demands into nearly 30 businesses as part of the investigation.

Among these companies, according to the press release, are Tekpro IT LLC, Fame PBX LLC, 1st Ranking Technologies LLC, Qubitz Tech Systems LLC, Blooming Clouds LLC, Virat Solutions Inc., Oak Technologies Inc., Techpath Inc., and Techquency LLC.

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These companies were added to the investigation into suspected fraudulent practices, including the maintenance of “so-called ‘ghost offices’ as a scheme in which businesses falsely represent active operations in order to sponsor foreign workers.”

“I will not allow the H-1B program to be abused by bad actors seeking to use it as a loophole for allowing foreign nationals to invade Texas,” said Paxton. “My office will continue working to uncover and put an end to fraud within the H-1B program.”

Paxton has demanded financial statements, documents identifying all employees working for these companies, records detailing the specific products or services provided, and communications related to company operations, according to the press release.

On X, Paxton gave Gonzales a shoutout for her work: “I’m taking legal action as part of my investigation into nearly 30 North Texas businesses suspected of H-1B visa fraud. I want to thank @SaraGonzalesTX for her efforts in exposing H-1B fraud across the state.”

“Thank YOU for taking action!” Gonzales replied.

Gonzales celebrated the announcement on social media: “AMAZING NEWS! Ken Paxton is taking action on my H-1B investigations!”

The host of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” reminded her viewers that Qubitz Tech Systems LLC was featured in her first series. She added that she and her team had come across the other companies in the course of their investigation and handed the information over.

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A movie about fashion models that joked about not eating to stay thin has completely reversed course for its sequel.

“The Devil Wears Prada 2” is the follow-up to the fangirl favorite from 2006, starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. This time around, however, Hathaway did not want the reality of the fashion industry to deter anyone from seeing her film.

‘I just know that this movie is for everyone.’

Skeleton crew

The controversy started when Streep told fashion rag Harper’s Bazaar that the models she saw in Milan during production were not only “beautiful and young,” but also “alarmingly thin.”

“I thought that all had been addressed years ago,” Streep told the outlet. She added that Hathaway made the producers promise then and there that the models in the new movie would not be so thin.

“She made a beeline to the producers about it, securing promises that the models in the show that we were putting together for our film would not be so skeletal!”

“She’s a stand-up girl,” Streep stated.

Body doubled

This put the onus on Hathaway to explain herself to fawning activists during subsequent interviews. At the premiere in New York City, Hathaway told Variety that she had noticed “beautiful models on set,” but “a lot of them were more traditionally model-sized.”

“I thought the scene would be so much more enjoyable for the audience if we had just a wider range of bodies on display, because all different shapes are beautiful,” Hathaway claimed.

The 43-year-old explained that she asked her producers if they thought the scene would be “stronger” if it had “a more inclusive approach to sizing.”

At her behest, the producers allegedly made the changes within an hour.

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Diet rights

In an interview with “Good Morning America” on Monday, Hathaway continued her campaign by saying she wanted to correct any “misinformation” about getting thin models fired “because of the size inclusivity.”

“That just didn’t happen. Nobody lost their jobs. In fact, it created more jobs,” she claimed. “It was just about making sure that so many different body types saw themselves in a moment in the script.”

Amid the hosts’ gushing over her progressivism, Hathaway asked, “Isn’t it better when you see so many different types of bodies up there with that?”

Original thin

“The Devil Wears Prada” had a $27.5 million opening in June 2006, eventually totaling over $326 million against a $35 million budget. The sequel seems football fields away from its original tone, however, which poked fun at the absurdity of models starving themselves.

One memorable scene included Emily Blunt’s character telling Hathaway’s about her lack of eating in order to stay thin.

“You look so thin,” Hathaway’s character says at an event.

“It’s for Paris. I’m on this new diet,” Blunt replies. “It’s very effective. Well, I don’t eat anything, and when I feel like I’m about to faint, I eat a cube of cheese. … I’m just one stomach flu away from my goal weight.”

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Size queens

In another red-carpet interview with Etalk, Hathaway again remarked that she relished the ability to utilize “a more inclusive approach to beauty standards” in the new film, repeating the term “traditionally sized.”

The actress was met by yet another journalist eager to speak about the issue, revealing that she has been a “size inclusivity advocate for 15 years.”

Hathaway boasted to the reporter that she “had seen that there were a lot of traditionally sized models in our movie, and I just know that this movie is for everyone.”

Hathaway even spoke on behalf of her producers, saying they were “so embarrassed” when they realized there was a serious lack of body diversity on the movie set. Now moving the timeline to two hours, she said the producers quickly brought in more girls for the scene.

In what seemed like a borderline-forced happy-go-lucky attitude, the actress concluded that everyone feels “happier” when everybody feels “included.”

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Former President Barack Obama is among the many liberals who had conniptions Wednesday over the U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of an unconstitutional racial gerrymander in Louisiana.

While such critics have largely spun the ruling as a setback for racial minority representation in American politics, it appears they are chiefly concerned with how the ruling might affect Democrats politically in the the midterm elections and beyond.

How it started

Louisiana adopted a new congressional map in the wake of the 2020 consensus, which then-House Speaker Pro Tempore Tanner Magee (R) claimed honored “traditional boundaries.”

‘This is one of the most consequential and devastating rulings issued by the Supreme Court in the 21st century.’

Dissatisfied that only one of the Bayou State’s six congressional districts had a black majority, a group of black voters sued the state, alleging that the new 2022 congressional map diluted black voting strength in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

A federal judge appointed by Democrat former President Barack Obama ruled that the map likely violated the VRA and ordered the Louisiana legislature to add a second majority-black district.

Pursuant to this ruling, which was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Louisiana created a map with a second majority-black district — this time prompting a legal challenge by “non-African American” voters who recognized the new map both as a racial gerrymander and a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

Their case, Louisiana v. Callais, ultimately made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled on Wednesday that “because the Voting Rights Act did not require Louisiana to create an additional majority-minority district, no compelling interest justified the State’s use of race in creating SB8, and that map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.”

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Beyond striking down the racial gerrymander in its 6-3 decision, the court provided some much-needed clarity on “whether compliance with the Voting Rights Act can indeed provide a compelling reason for race-based districting.”

Justice Samuel Alito noted in the opinion for the court, for example, that “interpreting §2 of the Voting Rights Act to outlaw a map solely because it fails to provide a sufficient number of majority-minority districts would create a right that the Amendment does not protect. And such an interpretation would run headlong into the Act’s express disclaimer against racial proportionality.”

Alito noted further that “§2 imposes liability only when the evidence supports a strong inference that the State intentionally drew its districts to afford minority voters less opportunity because of their race.”

Although the court’s clarifications appear aimed at providing states with guidance on how to comply with Section 2 of the VRA without unduly discriminating on the basis of race and violating the U.S. Constitution, Justice Elena Kagan alerted fellow travelers in her dissent — which was joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson — that the ruling will supposedly impact “racial equality in electoral opportunity.”

“The consequences are likely to be far-reaching and grave. Today’s decision renders Section 2 all but a dead letter,” wrote Kagan.

“If other States follow Louisiana’s lead, the minority citizens residing there will no longer have an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. And minority representation in government institutions will sharply decline.”

Alito found Kagan’s dissent to be “unabashedly at war with key precedents.”

How it’s going

Obama, a champion of Virginia’s recent legally dubious gerrymander whose appointee’s decision in 2022 unwittingly set the stage for the SCOTUS ruling, complained on social media, “Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities — so long as they do it under the guise of ‘partisanship’ rather than explicit ‘racial bias.'”

Obama accused the Supreme Court’s conservative majority of “abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach” and hinted that the decision could affect the upcoming midterms.

He added that “such setbacks can be overcome” but only if “citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers.”

Twice-failed Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris similarly bemoaned the Supreme Court’s ruling, calling it “an outrage” that “turns back the clock on the foundational promise of equality and fairness in our election systems” and that is “part of an agenda that conservatives set in place decades ago to steal power from everyday people.”

‘This will embolden lawmakers in former slave-holding states.’

Like Obama, Harris expressed concern about the midterm elections and the possibility that red states will “rush to redraw districts” before voting begins.

Democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City also threw a fit online, calling the decision a “direct assault on the promise of the Voting Rights Act” that threatens to disenfranchise “millions of Americans along racial lines.”

Rep. Yvette Clarke of New York, a Democrat who said in 2021 that her district needs to bring in migrants to increase the population in time for redistricting, claimed in a joint statement with other members of the Congressional Black Caucus that “with the stroke of a pen, this rogue, unaccountable Court has effectively signed the death certificate of the Voting Rights Act, undoing decades of Black progress.”

“Not since Jim Crow have we seen this level of systematic disenfranchisement of Black voters,” said the joint statement.

Failed Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams — the founder of a voter turnout group slapped last year with what the Georgia State Ethics commission said was the largest fine it has ever imposed — said in an alarmist op-ed for MS NOW that the ruling was a “direct hit” to the “fragile promise that every American’s vote should carry equal weight.”

“This is one of the most consequential and devastating rulings issued by the Supreme Court in the 21st century,” whined NAACP general counsel Kristen Clarke.

“This will embolden lawmakers in former slave-holding states to target and eradicate districts that have provided Black Americans a fair opportunity to elect candidates of choice, and they will do so with the blessing of this Court.”

Alanah Odoms, executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana, characterized the 6-3 decision as “cruel” and a “significant setback for our multiracial democracy.”

Rep. Cleo Fields, a Louisiana Democrat who benefited from the Bayou State’s racially gerrymandered map struck down by the Supreme Court, condemned the ruling and suggested that while Louisiana now has the authority to adopt a new map, “redrawing maps at this stage would not be prudent.”

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“Family Guy” does a spoof of “Return of the Jedi” that always makes me laugh. The characters travel the universe to meet with Rebel Alliance leader Mon Mothma, who they are surprised to discover is female.

“Hey, check it out,” says Han Solo. “Another chick! The only other chick in the galaxy!”

Princess Leia looks her over, folds her arms, and says, “I don’t like her.”

Feminism promised freedom; instead, it has left many woman imprisoned by their own high expectations and simmering resentment.

It’s a throwaway gag, but it nails a fundamental truth that rarely makes it into polite conversation: Feel-good female solidarity is often just a cover for fierce intra-sexual competition.

Frenemies forever

A few weeks ago, I was sitting in a pub with a friend when a group of young women came in to celebrate one of them landing her dream job.

As soon as the newly employed girl went to the bathroom, the “friends” morphed into mean girls, and the gossiping began.

Understanding Gen Z colloquialisms is hard at the best of times, let alone in a noisy pub, but they were loud enough that we came to understand much about the young woman’s lack of fashion sense as well as her proclivity to sleep her way into job opportunities.

The woman returned from the toilets in tears; had she somehow sensed she was being discussed? No, it turned out another “friend” had posted something nasty about her in a private group chat. Comforting words quickly ensued.

Anyone who witnessed such dynamics in the wild would not be surprised by recent findings from the British think tank Demos that half of all “misogynistic” X posts are authored by the fairer sex.

Mad about you

But this isn’t just about women being catty in bars or nasty on social media. There’s a deeper, more corrosive issue at play: a generation of women who have been indoctrinated to be angry toward everyone — especially men.

This cultural shift was recently brought to light by the left-wing New Statesman in its April cover story, “Meet the Angry Young Women.” The investigation, for which the magazine commissioned the polling firm Merlin Strategy, explores an emergent counterpart to the much-discussed manosphere: the “femosphere,” in which hostility toward men is not just accepted, but encouraged.

According to the Gallup World Poll, women have been getting steadily angrier for a decade, with the gap between the sexes widening every year. But this isn’t just about righteous fury against a glass ceiling — it’s about a generation of women who have been sold a feminist dream, only to find themselves in a nightmare of their own making.

Chromosomal cartel

This transformation is clearly reflected in the latest data from King’s College London and Ipsos. The research highlights a staggering generational divide: Gen Z women are now significantly more likely to identify as feminists than any previous generation. In America, this divide is particularly acute, with 53% of Gen Z women identifying as feminists, compared to just 32% of their male counterparts. This 21-point gap — the largest of any generation in America — indicates a fundamental breakdown in the ability to find peace with the opposite sex.

We are witnessing the birth of two distinct tribes that no longer speak the same language. While young men are retreating into digital enclaves, young women have secured the high ground in the institutional capture of culture. A major study of the American publishing industry found that women hold 74% of editorial roles, 78% of literary agent positions, and 71% of publishing jobs overall, with women occupying six in 10 jobs at the executive level.

This chromosomal cartel has fostered a monoculture, leaving young male writers increasingly sidelined in an industry that often demonizes masculinity. The result? A literary and cultural landscape dominated by an embittered female perspective.

The Merlin Strategy data shows that only 35% of women under 25 have a positive opinion of men. For the youngest cohort — those under 25 — this figure drops to just 11%. Let that sink in: Nine out of 10 young women view half the population with suspicion or outright disdain.

RELATED: Did feminism create wokeness?

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Dating disaster

Feminism’s reach is now so pervasive that relationships are routinely sacrificed on the altar of political purity. According to the Merlin data, 74% of Gen Z women say they would find it difficult to date someone who did not share their views on social justice. By turning politics into a prerequisite for romance, women are effectively shrinking their dating pool to a puddle. They self-select for loneliness, then wonder why the good men have vanished into the ether.

Meanwhile, young men are reacting to this hostility by checking out entirely. The KCL data supports this: 57% of Gen Z men believe efforts to promote women’s equality have gone so far that they now discriminate against men. This isn’t incel rhetoric, it’s a rational response to a culture that treats their very existence as a problem — something to be either avoided or mocked and ridiculed into obsolescence. Additionally, the data shows a shift back to traditionalism, with 31% of these young men now agreeing that a “wife should always obey her husband.”

While the media wrings its hands over this supposed “right-wing” turn, it misses the reality: This is a counterreaction. If progressive women offer only self-righteous lectures and open hostility toward men, is it any wonder men are seeking the stability of traditional social contracts?

Man down

Or even opting out of the market entirely. “Men, Where Have You Gone?” asked a middle-aged woman lamenting her paltry dating life in the New York Times last year. For many men, the essay suggested another rhetorical question in response: Why attempt to woo someone who sees you as a born oppressor?

The irony is painful. Feminism promised freedom; instead, it has left many woman imprisoned by their own high expectations and simmering resentment. Told that their anger is a source of power, they are coming to realize it can also be a force of destruction.

If it’s a truism that men need women as a civilizing influence, we spend far less time acknowledging the cruelty that can run unchecked in all-female spaces. Men and women need each other. They are natural allies — and the further apart they drift, the more disordered things become.

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Beloved ’90s comedy “Friends” may have been one big lovefest on screen — but behind the scenes, it was a toxic stew of verbal abuse and sexual harassment.

At least, this is according to one of the stars of the blockbuster ensemble sitcom, which ran on NBC from 1994 to 2004.

‘We know that back in the room the guys would be up late discussing their sexual fantasies.’

Gag orders

Apparently, the same writers who came up with now-iconic lines like, “We were on a break” and “How you doin’?” had brutally high standards for how their work was performed — and weren’t afraid to say so in profanity-laden tirades.

“Don’t forget we were recording in front of a live audience of 400, and if you messed up one of these writers’ lines or it didn’t get the perfect response, they could be like, ‘Can’t the b***h f**king read? She’s not even trying. She f**ked up my line,'” actress Lisa Kudrow told the Times.

Kudrow also claimed that the male writers openly leered over her comely co-stars.

Central perks

“We know that back in the room the guys would be up late discussing their sexual fantasies about Jennifer [Aniston] and Courteney [Cox]. It was intense,” she stated.

Kudrow added that the dozen or so writers making up the staff were “mostly men.”

“Oh, it could be brutal, but these guys — and it was mostly men in there — were sitting up until 3 a.m. trying to write the show, so my attitude was, ‘Say what you like about me behind my back because then it doesn’t matter.'”

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Don’t call it a ‘Comeback’

Kudrow made the comments while promoting the third season of her HBO series “The Comeback,” which depicts the humiliating misadventures of a washed-up sitcom actress trying to reignite her career.

Kudrow said that when it debuted in 2005, HBO worried that viewers would reject its unsparing depiction of its desperate protagonist — and the pathetic lengths to which she’d go for a shot at success.

“That was news to me, because I thought women could be just as ambitious as men. But a producer on another show said it’s like making jokes about disabled people. Obviously you don’t do it, and at that time, women were seen as victims.”

“The Comeback” was canceled after one season but returned for another in 2014.

MeToo soon?

The current season may surprise viewers with scenes mocking “gender-inclusive” language and a reference to making “illegal” jokes, but Kudrow explicitly denied that the show was hitting back at “woke” comedy or the MeToo movement.

RELATED: ‘Against the Machine’ offers playbook for battling leftist lies

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“No, because the MeToo movement was great,” she said, although she did allow that “there came a point where you couldn’t joke about anything. It felt like comedy was dying.”

Kudrow may not always have enjoyed making “Friends,” but the massive residuals she earns would put a smile on anyone’s face.

The Times reported Kudrow and her castmates each still earn approximately $20 million per year.

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On April 23, just two days before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Jimmy Kimmel released a skit parodying the event, during which he joked that Melania Trump had “a glow like an expectant widow.”

Of course, at the actual WHCD, President Trump and others in the administration were victims of yet another assassination attempt.

But instead of apologizing for his comment, which Melania called “hateful and violent rhetoric” and cause for his firing, Kimmel doubled down.

“[It] obviously was a joke about their age difference and the look of joy we see on her face every time they’re together. It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am,” the late-night host said. “It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination, and they know that.”

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales isn’t buying Kimmel’s excuses. This time, she argues, he may have pushed his luck too far.

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“Jimmy Kimmel: His time might finally be up,” says Sara, pointing to Kimmel’s history of making deliberately inflammatory comments.

In September 2025, immediately following the murder of Charlie Kirk, Kimmel made a comment many viewed as insensitive or politicizing the killing, sparking massive backlash, threats from the FCC chairman, affiliate stations pulling his show, and ABC temporarily suspending “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

“After everything had happened and after all of the blowback that he had had, has he learned anything?” asks Sara. “The answer is no. They never do.”

She highlights the left’s glaring double standard when it comes to humor.

“They are outraged any time President Trump ever tells [a joke]. … In fact, nobody on the right can ever tell a joke without them being just horrified, without them clutching their pearls,” she rails.

Sara also makes fun of the left’s obsession with cancel culture, only to turn around and whine about it when it affects one of their own.

“The left has never engaged in cancel culture and called for people to be fired. They only created the damn game,” she scoffs, pointing to recent headlines from CBS News, People, and Poynter defending Kimmel against calls from President Trump and Melania for his firing.

But despite mainstream media coming to his rescue, Sara is hopeful that Kimmel will actually be canned this time.

“There is a new sheriff in town at Disney,” she says, referring to Josh D’Amaro, who replaced Bob Iger as CEO of Disney in March this year.

D’Amaro, she says, may do things differently to avoid the scandals that pushed Iger out the door.

“This is going to be his first test of going head-to-head with President Trump, and the same sort of drama took down a former Disney CEO, so … you would imagine he’s going to want to stay on President Trump’s good side,” she speculates.

But on top of playing nice with Trump, there’s also the issue of Kimmel’s unpopularity.

“I mean, when you look at his ratings, he doesn’t seem to be worth saving,” says Sara, displaying a chart of Kimmel’s cataclysmic fall from peak popularity in 2015 to all-time lows in 2026.

“I’m just trying to will [Kimmel’s firing] into existence. … Can you blame me?” she asks. “I just want these people to … have a taste of their own medicine.”

To hear more and watch the Kimmel clips, check out the video above.

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“Dances with Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse — once hailed as a spiritual healer — learned his fate after he was found guilty of sexually abusing girls and women for years.

Nevada 8th Judicial District Court Judge Jessica Peterson on Monday sentenced Chasing Horse to life in prison, the Associated Press reported, adding that he’ll be eligible for parole after 37 years.

‘He took away my sense of safety, even within my own mind.’

Chasing Horse’s defense attorney argued for the statutory minimum of 25 years to life, according to USA Today.

Craig A. Mueller, Chasing Horse’s lawyer, told TMZ he plans to appeal.

The 49-year-old actor maintained his innocence during the sentencing hearing: “I did not do these things. This is a miscarriage of justice.”

But Judge Peterson told Chasing Horse, “You preyed on these women’s trusts and their spirituality, and you manipulated them for your own personal gratification,” the AP reported.

As Blaze News previously reported, a Nevada grand jury indicted Chasing Horse in February 2023.

The actor — best known for playing the “Smiles a Lot” character in the Oscar-winning Kevin Costner film “Dances with Wolves” — pleaded not guilty to all of the 21 charges against him.

However, a jury in January 2026 convicted him of 13 charges related to sexual assaults.

KTNV-TV reported that Chasing Horse was found guilty of 10 counts of sexual assault of a minor under 16, one count of open/gross lewdness, one count of sexual assault, and one count of possession of visual presentation depicting sexual conduct of a child.

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Deputy District Attorney Bianca Pucci told the jury that Chasing Horse “spun a web of abuse” for nearly 20 years, according to PBS.

Pucci told the courtroom that Chasing Horse previously manipulated a 14-year-old girl named Corena Leone-LaCroix by weaponizing his status as a purported Lakota medicine man with spiritual influence.

Pucci alleged that Chasing Horse told the girl the spirits wanted her to give up her virginity to him in order to save her mother who had been diagnosed with cancer.

Pucci said Chasing Horse sexually assaulted her and told her that if she told anyone, her mother would die, according to PBS.

The Las Vegas Sun reported that Leone-LaCroix recalled Chasing Horse telling her, “A life for a life.”

“That is the promise he made me make all those years ago when I didn’t understand the extent of what he was asking me. I think it’s only fitting that you ask the same of him here today,” Leone-LaCroix told the judge.

“There is no way to get back the youth, the childhood loss, my first time, my first kiss, the graduation I never got to have,” Leone-LaCroix said, according to PBS. “The life that little girl could have lived has been taken from me forever.”

The survivor’s mother, Melissa Leone, called Chasing Horse “the Epstein of Indian Country.”

The mom told Judge Peterson, “The crimes he has been convicted of, like Epstein, are not even the tip of the iceberg.”

Siera Begaye, another victim of Chasing Horse, told the jury she suffered from trauma caused by his “psychological control,” according to USA Today.

“He took away my sense of safety, even within my own mind. I believe I didn’t have privacy in my own thoughts,” Begaye stated. “Living with that kind of psychological control has had lasting effects on my ability to trust others and to fully express myself.”

Begaye added, “The trauma delayed important parts of my life.”

Chief Deputy District Attorney William Rowles and Pucci told KSNV-TV:

We think it was very important to ensure that each victim was represented separate and distinct in the sentence. We are very happy the judge agreed with the assessment as each victim survived their own trauma. The defendant should be held accountable for each victim separately. We want to thank Judge Peterson for her professionalism throughout the trial, particularly in the way she conducted herself in balancing the rights of a defendant and the privacy rights of sexual assault survivors.

The Press Democrat reported that Chasing Horse also has been charged in Canada, and prosecutors in British Columbia said once he has exhausted all of his appeals in the United States, they will move forward with assessing next steps for a 2018 sexual assault charge in Keremeos — a village about four hours east of Vancouver.

Chasing Horse has six acting credits to his name, and his last acting appearance was in the 2007 HBO film “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” which won six Emmys.

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Discussing America’s obesity epidemic feels as fresh as a gas-station sushi roll. We’ve had the headlines, the task forces, the Michelle Obama gardens, the lurid rise and fall of Jared-from-Subway. Every few years, medicine rediscovers the problem like a dog finding the same buried bone and acting stunned.

But researchers in Europe recently dug up something new. They studied hundreds of patients and found that obesity doesn’t affect men and women the same way. It may be the same condition, but it runs on a different operating system and has a different damage report.

In short, men carry the problem where a tape measure finds it. Women carry it where only a lab result does.

Gut feeling

Men tend to pack fat deep in the abdomen. I’m talking about visceral fat, the kind that wraps around your organs like a tenant who stopped paying rent and refuses to leave. That fat is clinically nasty. It hammers the liver and wrecks metabolic function; it lays the groundwork for cardiovascular disease and has been convincingly linked to several cancers.

Women, by contrast, carry less of that abdominal load but show higher cholesterol and elevated inflammatory markers. Essentially, immune signals run hotter than they should and the biochemical alarm system never fully shuts off. The damage is systemic rather than structural. It’s less visible, but no less serious.

In short, men carry the problem where a tape measure finds it. Women carry it where only a lab result does.

If that sounds abstract, just picture your last family reunion. Or, if you want a more vivid case study, picture mine.

Family size

Obesity runs deep on both sides of my family. I mean that genetically, medically, and architecturally. Planning any gathering requires a kind of pre-event logistics that most people reserve for moving furniture or evacuating a small country. I have relatives who have single-handedly retired the booth as a viable seating option.

Virtually every family has the same cast, even if the staging varies. There’s the uncle who describes himself as “big-boned” with the confidence of someone who has never once questioned that assessment. He has a belt buckle working well beyond its original job description and a firm belief that his blood pressure is “probably fine.” There’s the aunt who demolished two bowls of pasta, declared herself “stuffed,” and is now on her third glass of wine, eyeing that slice of cake with the focused intensity of someone who has already decided.

His and hers

Conversations about self-respect and restraint matter. So does the fact that American health culture has failed both sexes spectacularly. We have had decades of treating obesity as a single, uniform problem with a single, uniform fix: Eat less. Move more. Have you considered a run? A juice cleanse? Intermittent fasting? Have you tried being less stressed? Have you tried drinking more water? Have you tried just trying harder?

The endless questions and secondhand advice land with the precision of a motivational poster and the clinical usefulness of a fortune cookie, while ignoring what estrogen and testosterone are actually doing to fat distribution and inflammation.

The European researchers make the obvious point that treatment should probably reflect this — targeted clinical approaches rather than the one-size-fits-all pamphlet model that has served us so poorly for so long. Men may need earlier metabolic intervention. Women may need more attention paid to the signals that get waved off as stress, hormones, or simply the price of admission for being female.

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Heavy going

Today, roughly 43% of American adults are obese. By the end of the decade, that number is expected to climb to nearly half, including close to one in four who will have severe obesity.

The children are worth mentioning. Around one-third of American kids between 6 and 17 are living with obesity or excess weight. Fat children tend to become even fatter adults, and the research on that pipeline is neither new nor ambiguous. These statistics arrive with enormous economic weight. Hundreds of billions in health care costs, lost productivity, and a medical system already struggling to keep pace with demand. This is a genuine crisis, and it deserves a serious response.

The study’s real contribution isn’t discovering that obesity exists, but insisting that obesity has never been one thing. It has always been at least two — running parallel, wearing the same label, causing different problems on different timelines in different bodies.

That distinction matters in the clinic. It matters in the conversation. And it matters every time someone who once lost eight pounds on a juice cleanse corners people at a cookout with personalized nutrition guidance that nobody requested and biology can’t honor. Good intentions and bad information have always made a combustible combination. In this case, they have been making policy for decades.

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An illegal immigrant was able to fool U.S. Border Patrol into thinking he was one of them before they nabbed him for impersonating a federal officer.

Fifty-two-year-old Jaime Ernesto Alvarez-Gonzalez is a Mexican national who overstayed his tourist visa decades ago, but he dressed up to appear like a federal agent and drove a truck that was taken to be the real deal.

He ‘shouted obscenities and demanded agents leave …’ before other cars arrived to chase and harass agents.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California said that on January 8, Alvarez-Gonzalez followed a Border Patrol agent in San Diego, which led to disruption of the mission.

The legitimate BP agent falsely believed the truck behind him was being driven by other federal officers, but Alvarez-Gonzalez was actually driving it.

After Alvarez-Gonzalez was confronted by legitimate officers, he “shouted obscenities and demanded agents leave the community of Linda Vista” before other cars arrived to chase and harass agents, the attorney’s office press release said.

Alvarez-Gonzalez admitted on video what he had done and claimed to have called in his “reinforcements.”

Prosecutors said he had an FBI badge and had outfitted his black F-150 truck with a fake antenna, handcuffs dangling from the rearview mirror, and a Border Patrol sticker in the windshield. The license plate frame also could have tipped off the real officers because it read, “Ferderal Truck.”

A week after the incident, he was arrested over his illegal immigration status and pleaded guilty on Tuesday to numerous charges related to the incident.

He was found to be illegally in possession of two pistols and an AR-style rifle.

Alvarez-Gonzalez pleaded guilty to three charges of illegally possessing firearms and one count of impersonating a federal agent. He faces a fine of up to $500,000 as well as 18 years in prison.

RELATED: Church worker pretended to be ICE agent to extort $500 from massage therapist, police say

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Anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters have been organizing to interrupt federal immigration operations, but in two cases in Minnesota, the ultimate outcomes were lethal.

Alex Pretti and Renee Good were shot and killed by agents in separate incidents when they tried to interfere with immigration operations. The incidents led to an agreement between local officials and the Trump administration to end the federal surge in the state.

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A battle over America’s roads is unfolding in the Supreme Court, where demands for accountability clash with efforts to deregulate the industry, as the national spotlight remains on accidents caused by non-domiciled, non-English-speaking truck drivers.

The court’s ruling could have major implications for the more than 150,000 Americans injured and the over 5,000 killed in large truck accidents each year, by potentially stripping or safeguarding the legal recourse available to victims and their families.

‘Remove any legal accountability for brokers, and you remove the incentive for them to care.’

SCOTUS heard oral arguments on March 4 in the case of Shawn Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, which involves a December 2017 collision between two semi-trucks: one operated by the plaintiff, Shawn Montgomery, and the other by an individual employed by Caribe Transport II, a small motor carrier hired by broker C.H. Robinson Worldwide.

The complaint explains that Montgomery was parked on the shoulder of Interstate Highway 70 in Cumberland County, Illinois, when another truck rear-ended his vehicle at high speed, resulting in severe and permanent injuries, including the amputation of Montgomery’s leg.

Montgomery’s lawsuit was filed against the driver, the carrier, and C.H. Robinson. He accused C.H. Robinson of “negligent hiring,” citing Illinois common law. His case reached the Supreme Court after a lower court moved to dismiss it, arguing that the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act bars state-level negligence suits against brokers — third-party providers that connect shippers with carriers without owning trucks or hauling freight themselves — for their carrier selections.

The ongoing case has caught the attention of those in the trucking industry who are concerned that a SCOTUS ruling in favor of C.H. Robinson would set a precedent that prevents crash victims and their families from seeking legal recourse against brokers.

While President Donald Trump’s administration has been receptive to concerns about reforming the nation’s broken trucking industry, the U.S. position in the Montgomery v. Caribe case indicates a potential shift.

RELATED: DOT’s Duffy earns high praise from American truckers for turning industry concerns into real policy wins

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Trump’s Department of Justice submitted an amicus brief supporting C.H. Robinson, arguing that the FAAAA preempts any state law related to the “price, route, or service” of a broker. This, the DOJ claimed, includes how brokers select carriers. Although the rule carves out a safety exception allowing states to enforce such laws, the U.S. government contended that the exception does not apply to this case.

The U.S. argues that brokers are already required to select an authorized motor carrier, which means that the carrier has met the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s “rigorous safety standards.” Allowing such lawsuits against freight brokers would “require brokers to second-guess federal registration decisions and independently evaluate the safety history of the carriers they select.”

“A judgment for petitioner on that claim would thus necessarily impugn Caribe’s overall operations, thereby undermining FMCSA’s determination that Caribe satisfies federal registration requirements, including rigorous safety requirements,” the U.S. amicus brief reads.

American Truckers United, an advocacy group, warned that if SCOTUS agreed with the U.S. government’s argument and ruled in favor of the respondent, it could allow freight brokers to have “blanket immunity” when selecting unsafe and high-risk carriers, leading to a “race to the bottom.”

ATU filed its own amicus brief, urging SCOTUS to side with Montgomery.

“If brokers are immunized from tort liability, they will have an unrestrained incentive to hire the cheapest motor carriers available for every load, regardless of poor safety records, regulatory non-compliance, defective equipment, and other red flags. Low-cost, low-quality carriers will completely displace safe carriers in the market,” ATU wrote.

ATU noted that many carriers maintain only the minimum required liability insurance, which covers just a small portion of the cost for crash victims and their families. The group also pointed out the FMCSA’s lack of resources to keep up with the “chameleon carrier” crisis, explaining that when carriers lose their operating authority due to noncompliance, they “dissolve, reincarnate themselves under new identities, and reenter the market.”

A separate amicus brief filed by the Institute for Safer Trucking on behalf of Montgomery wrote, “The reality of the compliance-review scheme is bleak. FMCSA is apparently unable to conduct compliance reviews of carriers within a reasonable time. More than ninety-four percent of all active interstate freight carriers remain ‘unrated’ as of 2023.”

The FMCSA has previously admitted its limitations. In a 2023 Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, the FMCSA stated that it “has resources to issue safety ratings to only a small percentage of motor carriers each year,” adding that the agency’s rating “does not necessarily reflect the current safety posture of a motor carrier.”

FMCSA officials said that “they do not have the resources to vet all for-hire carriers that apply for new operating authority,” according to a 2012 Government Accountability Office report.

The Truck Safety Coalition, a network of victim and survivor volunteers, also filed an amicus brief supporting Montgomery that referred to freight brokers as “gatekeepers in determining who hauls freight on the roadways and who doesn’t.” The TSC stated that the industry has exploded in recent decades, from just 70 brokers in 1975 to over 28,000 today.

Rena Leizerman, from the Law Firm for Truck Safety and co-counsel for Montgomery, told Blaze News in a statement, “Broker negligence lawsuits aren’t filed in every crash. They get filed when there’s evidence that a broker hired someone with a known, serious safety history and chose to look the other way.”

“C.H. Robinson argued to the court that it should be completely off the hook for negligence. No exceptions. Not even if it knowingly hires a carrier with no insurance. Not even if the carrier isn’t legally registered to operate. Not even if it already knows the carrier has a dangerous record. Zero accountability, no matter what,” Leizerman’s statement continued.

“Brokers make money on the gap between what shippers pay them and what they pay the carrier. The wider the gap, the more profit. So they push carrier rates down, and carriers survive by cutting costs — driver screening, safety training, equipment upkeep, insurance — until the day everything goes wrong.

“Remove any legal accountability for brokers, and you remove the incentive for them to care. Safe carriers, the ones who invest in doing things right, end up getting underbid by carriers who skip basic safety. It’s a race to the bottom, and it’s the rest of us sharing the road who pay the price,” she added.

Dorothy Capers, chief legal officer at C.H. Robinson, also provided a statement to Blaze News.

“A single, uniform federal framework is essential to keeping interstate commerce safe, efficient, and consistent with Congress’ design,” Capers said. “Allowing a patchwork of state tort laws to regulate broker services would undermine that system, increase uncertainty, and disrupt the flow of goods Americans rely on every day.”

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Real-world impact

The stakes of the pending Montgomery case are already playing out in the nation’s courtrooms.

On May 24, 2024, a semi-truck driver allegedly blew through a stop sign on U.S. 84 in Texas, killing 28-year-old Tiana Moore and her mother, Tanya Maria King. Moore’s family sued the driver, the carrier, and the freight broker that had hired the carrier.

When the case was about to go to trial, the broker, citing the ongoing Montgomery case before the Supreme Court, requested and received a stay, leaving the family in limbo.

Moore’s father, David Moore, spoke to Blaze News about the tragic accident. He expressed his goal of raising awareness to inspire policy changes and help the American public understand how regulations affecting the trucking industry impact lives nationwide.

“The impact that it’s really had on our lives, and even this ongoing process, it’s been, obviously, the most difficult thing that I’ve ever had to deal with — and not just me, but my family,” David Moore said.

Ultimately, the Moore case was closed a short time later when the parties reached a confidential settlement. While in this instance the family was able to reach an agreement outside the courtroom, the Supreme Court’s decision in the Montgomery case will determine whether crash victims and their families retain or lose a major avenue for accountability in the future.

SCOTUS is expected to give a decision in the Montgomery case by June.

The Department of Transportation deferred comment to the Department of Justice, which stated it had no further remarks beyond its amicus brief.

Legal counsel for Caribe Transport II did not respond to requests for comment.

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The Senate race in Maine just got a surprise shakeup as election season draws near.

Incumbent Maine Democratic Gov. Janet Mills announced on Thursday that she will be dropping out of the Senate race.

‘I very simply do not have the one thing that political campaigns unfortunately require today: the financial resources.’

Mills announced that she will be suspending her campaign while touting her achievements, which she said have ultimately been frustrated “by a Republican administration that is blind to science, deaf to the cries of those in need of medical care, and ignorant of the needs of regular families.”

In her statement, she continued: “While I have the drive and passion, commitment and experience, and above all else — the fight — to continue on, I very simply do not have the one thing that political campaigns unfortunately require today: the financial resources. That is why today I have made the incredibly difficult decision to suspend my campaign for the United States Senate.”

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Janet Mills is currently 78 years old. Had she been elected, she would have been one of the oldest freshman senators in history.

Despite being a favorite at the beginning of the race, Mills fell behind in the polls and in fundraising compared to her Democratic primary opponent, far-left progressive candidate Graham Platner. The Maine primary election is scheduled for June 9.

Mills stepping away from the race likely sets up Platner to face Republican incumbent Sen. Susan Collins in the general election.

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