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Last week’s FBI raid on Fulton County election offices marked a long-overdue reckoning for the corruption that plagued the 2020 election. Federal agents seized ballots and records from the jurisdiction that has done more than any other to plunge Georgia — and the nation — into lasting doubt about whether we can trust our election outcomes.

Fulton County sits at the center of the 2020 story for a reason. I remember election night clearly. As returns rolled in and Joe Biden “won” Georgia by fewer than 12,000 votes, the irregularities were impossible to ignore.

If we want trust restored, we need the truth — documented, preserved, and brought into the open. That is what the FBI’s raid makes possible.

After the election, I became the first elected official in Georgia to call for a special session to investigate massive fraud. I went on the record — publicly — because grassroots patriots knew something was wrong.

The numbers didn’t add up. Atlanta’s GOP establishment didn’t want a fight. They ignored me, threatened me, and eventually tried to remove me. They wanted to move on as if nothing happened. I refused.

The people of Georgia deserved answers. The country did, too.

Then came the absurd indictments. When President Trump and 18 other patriots were arrested under Georgia’s RICO Act, I was the first to call for a special session to investigate, defund, and impeach Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for weaponizing her office.

That prosecution served one purpose: silence Trump — and intimidate everyone else who dared question 2020. Willis abused her power for partisan gain and burned millions in taxpayer dollars pursuing a case built to punish political enemies.

Georgia Senate Republicans had a choice: stand with voters demanding transparency, or protect the old order. They chose the old order. The old guard punished me for speaking out by kicking me out of the Republican caucus.

Now the evidence has reached a point that even federal law enforcement can’t ignore. The raid didn’t happen by accident. It happened because Fulton County’s conduct raised questions serious enough to justify federal intervention.

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Here’s the scale of what we are talking about: Over 315,000 illegal ballots counted in Fulton County alone. Unsigned tabulation tapes for hundreds of thousands of early votes. Zero tapes not verified or signed at 32 sites. Uncertified results certified and submitted anyway. Polling places open until 2 a.m. Duplicate scanner serial numbers and unauthorized memory device transfers. Chain-of-custody failures at every turn.

That doesn’t describe “mistakes.” It describes a deliberate, coordinated attack on the integrity of an American election.

Fulton County was the epicenter, but the implications reach beyond Georgia. Americans deserve to know what happened in Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and every other battleground state where the same patterns appear and the same questions remain unanswered.

Wherever the chips fall, the standard must remain nonnegotiable: every legal vote counted, every illegal vote rejected, and every election run in a way the public can verify.

If we want trust restored, we need the truth — documented, preserved, and brought into the open. That is what this raid makes possible. Now we follow it through.

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The brutal murder of a beloved pastor in Arizona led to the arrest of a man who was plotting to attack 14 Christian leaders, according to an interview with the man in jail.

The remains of 76-year-old Pastor William Schonemann of the New River Bible Chapel were found in his home by police on a welfare check in April of last year.

He said that he had zero remorse and that God would allow him to continue his plan to kill priests and ‘burn every church to the ground.’

Police said they found Schonemann covered in blood, and he had been posed with his hands positioned above him, similar to a crucifixion, and pinned to a wall.

Investigators zeroed in on 51-year-old Adam Sheafe as a suspect after Sedona police caught him breaking into a home while using a truck stolen from a home in Cave Creek. He was captured on surveillance video with the truck at the site of another burglary.

Evidence gathered at Sheafe’s home connected him to the murder of the pastor, as well as evidence found in the truck, in his backpack, and at the burglary scene in Cave Creek, according to prosecutors.

Sheafe was indicted in July on nine counts that included first-degree murder, first-degree burglary, criminal trespass, and kidnapping.

On Wednesday, Sheafe pleaded no contest to the charges.

In a bizarre interview with Briana Whitney of KTVK-TV, Sheafe explained why he wanted to murder 14 priests.

“There’s 13 tribes of Israel, so what I wanted to do was execute and crucify 13 priests and put one of the tribes of Israel in each of their right ears,” he said. “Which I did with this priest — I put the tribe of Benjamin.”

He went on to say that he believed priests had violated the most important commandment by preaching that Jesus is God. Sheafe explained in detail how he picked Schonemann to be his first victim. He said he had wanted to kill another priest for a total of 14.

Sheafe said he used a stud finder to find where to screw Schonemann’s hands to the wall and then put a crown of thorns on his head.

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He also said that God would not allow him to be executed, so he asked for his execution date to be scheduled quickly. He said that he had zero remorse and that God would allow him to continue his plan to kill priests and “burn every church to the ground.”

Sheafe may get his wish and face the death penalty.

Schonemann was a beloved pastor who was a Navy veteran that had served in the Vietnam War.

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The latest Epstein document dump not only exposed some shady characters, but it may give “conspiracy theorists” the ammo and evidence they need to prove their theories aren’t theories at all — but that they might just be the truth.

In photo evidence released by the Department of Justice, a framed photo from Epstein’s home of him with a young girl, whose face is redacted, is featured. The girl is perched on his shoulders, wearing an outfit that looks eerily similar to one JonBenet Ramsey wore.

“Also of note is that she went missing around the same time the pictures were taken, according to pictures of Epstein at the time. But here’s where it gets really, really strange. ‘Cause again, you could just say like, ‘OK, like, she was the only blonde girl in America who wore a jumper like that at the time,’” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

“But there’s another picture that the DOJ accidentally left unredacted that’s floating around in the internet … this is literally just like a glamour shot picture, photo, that was on Jeffrey Epstein’s wall,” she continues.

The face of the young girl is redacted, but the golden blonde hair spills out around her, and her tiny hands reflect the age she once was.

“My question though is, like, who is that girl, and is the DOJ doing their best not to just protect victims but to potentially match these photos with potential unsolved crimes, unsolved mysteries? I would like to know,” Gonzales says.

“I don’t need to know who that person is if it is a person who is alive and was, you know, trafficked and doesn’t want their information out there. But if there’s a missing cold case, we should know. We should know that the DOJ is at least taking steps to identify who this is and whether or not they need to alert authorities from a separate case,” she continues.

Gonzales also pulls out a photo of JonBenet Ramsey where a woman in the background resembles Ghislaine Maxwell.

“Now again, I get like there’s a million people that could look maybe a little bit similar to Ghislaine Maxwell, but there’s also a loose tie. Maxwell and the Ramsey family were both represented by the same law firm,” Gonzales says.

One woman even posted a video of herself on social media showing a comment she received on Instagram regarding Maxwell and Ramsey.

“My daughter was in several pageants with Jon Bonet & they were pageant pals,” the comment begins, misspelling Ramsey’s name. “I don’t know about this exact Pic, but we saw Maxwell on the circuit often, she would hang out with the Mom’s & girls.”

“Makes sense. If you are going to traffic young children, your greatest hits would probably be at pageants where there are a bunch of young girls who are dressing up and putting makeup on and getting pretty,” Gonzales comments.

“I mean, it’s disgusting,” she adds.

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When a dictator in a distant, war-torn nation announces a plan to shrink an ethnic group inside his borders, the Western world erupts. Anchors denounce it. Newspapers detail the plight of the targeted people. Sanctions follow. Diplomats whisper about regime change. The moral verdict arrives quickly, and it arrives correctly: ethnic cleansing.

Yet Western leaders now make a parallel declaration in a cleaner suit. Their countries, they insist, have grown “too white.” The white population must fall. The electorate must change. No denunciations follow. No sanctions arrive. Corporate press treats the project as enlightened policy. A global consensus that once claimed to oppose ethnic cleansing now tolerates it — provided the target is white people in Western nations.

If the West still claims to oppose ethnic cleansing, it should start by opposing it at home and refusing the polite lies that protect it.

French writer Renaud Camus gave us the “Great Replacement.” For years, polite society treated the phrase as radioactive. Say it on television and you became a pariah. Post it online and platforms erased you. That taboo held only as long as people could be bullied into denying what they could see.

The concept’s explanatory power proved stronger than the gatekeepers. Major conservative outlets now discuss replacement openly. YouTube will still attach warnings to videos that mention it, yet the subject refuses to disappear because the policy keeps showing up in schools, boardrooms, and border statistics.

A taboo cannot survive daily evidence.

Quest for permanent power

“Diversity” served as a euphemism for replacement long before anyone had heard of Camus. When a corporation, movie studio, or university says it wants to “increase diversity,” it never means it plans to hire more white, straight men because it has too many trans black women on staff.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion never aimed at demographic proportionality. Leadership announced a preference: more non-white members, fewer white members. Declare a goal of reducing any other demographic, and the public would recognize the project as naked discrimination.

Private institutions practicing anti-white discrimination is bad enough. Governments adopting the same objective is a nightmare. Progressive voices in the United States celebrate the declining share of white Americans and brag that demographic change will lock Democrats into permanent power. They frame replacement as destiny, then use policy to accelerate it, then denounce anyone who notices as a “conspiracy theorist.”

Project Veritas recorded a State Department official admitting that replacement migration functions as a political strategy meant to secure electoral victory. That admission matters less than the broader point: Public and private rhetoric have normalized the idea that a party may change the electorate to entrench itself.

‘Diversity’ invades the countryside

Even if ethnic hatred played no role — and it does — the effort to subvert democratic accountability through mass migration amounts to a political coup. A ruling class that imports a friendlier electorate to escape judgment for its failures announces contempt for the people it claims to serve.

Spain offers a clear example. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and the Socialist Workers’ Party plan amnesty for 500,000 immigrants. Sánchez could not secure parliamentary support for the scheme, so he bypassed Parliament with an amnesty decree. Spain’s population runs about 49 million. Scaled to American size, that’s roughly 3.5 million people granted legal status by executive fiat. Far-left politician Irene Montero went farther, telling a crowd she hoped for “replacement theory” and meant to use new migrant voters to wipe out her political opponents.

The United Kingdom looks worse. Visitors to London joke that the Englishman has become an endangered species in the cities his ancestors built. Officials now want the countryside next. The Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs has decided rural England feels “too white” and “too middle class.” It has launched programs to “diversify” protected landscapes and village life.

Officials then discovered an awkward detail: Many Muslim migrants dislike dogs, a staple of country living, and avoid living around them. Planners treat dogs, solitude, and preserved land as “white culture,” then hunt for ways to remake rural life so it attracts Pakistanis and Bangladeshis.

Listen to the admission hiding inside that language. The government intends to make the countryside less like a place where white people live so that fewer white people will live there. It plans to change the character of the land, the habits of the residents, and the public culture, all to engineer a demographic outcome. That is social transformation by state design.

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Drop the euphemisms

Diversity, equity, inclusion, decolonization — the euphemisms multiply, but the goal stays constant. Even the Great Replacement argument, while useful, still softens what the policy does. When a party, an institution, or a government targets a group for reduction, removal, or displacement, the correct term is not “diversification.” It’s ethnic cleansing.

This process does not arise from a neutral demographic ebb. Politicians announce it. Activists demand it. Bureaucrats implement it. Corporate managers enforce it. Then they threaten anyone who objects with professional ruin. Fear keeps the system humming, and euphemism keeps the conscience quiet.

Enough. That taboo deserves to die. When politicians, corporate leaders, and professors declare their intention to replace white populations, they deserve the same disgust any advocate of ethnic cleansing would receive in any other context. If the West still claims to oppose ethnic cleansing, it should start by opposing it at home and refusing the polite lies that protect it.

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Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent got into a rhetorical tussle during a congressional hearing Wednesday, and the White House weighed in on the incident.

Waters and Bessent were debating whether illegal immigration had a deleterious effect on the housing crisis when the Democrat called on the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee to “shut him up” after her time expired.

‘Mr. Chair, will you let him know that when I ask you for time … can you shut him up?’

Waters challenged Bessent on his previous comments linking tariffs to inflation, and he countered by citing studies that said tariffs were not inflationary. She went on to the housing crisis and blamed tariffs on lumber and steel for some of the housing price increases.

Bessent tried to argue with her, but she interrupted him and continued.

“Trump single-handedly made housing more expensive, and once again, you know it. As Axios has reported, you were planning to lift tariffs on housing production goods,” she said.

She went on to criticize Trump’s policies on immigration and argued that deportations had hurt the housing construction industry by deporting their source of labor.

“I ask you, Secretary Bessent, will you be the voice of reason in the administration and urge Trump to stop waging a war on American consumers and on housing affordability?” she asked.

When Bessent launched into an explanation, she interrupted numerous times.

“Will you be the voice?” she shouted. “Will you be the voice?”

He tried to talk over her, but she persisted in interrupting.

“Reclaiming my time!” she interrupted. “Mr. Chair, will you let him know that when I ask you for time … can you shut him up?”

“Can you maintain some level of dignity?” Bessent fired back.

“Gentlelady’s time has expired,” the chairman said.

“No, my time has not expired!” she protested.

Waters accused the chairman of protecting Bessent before they moved on.

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The White House Rapid Response account fired back at Waters on social media, calling her “rude and low IQ” and quoting from Bessent’s testimony.

“Adding 10 to 20 million new people demanding housing, Congresswoman, is what caused a great deal of housing inflation for working Americans — so you and the Biden administration should be ashamed,” he said.

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The city council of Minneapolis is taking steps to help those affected by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement surge against illegal aliens.

Members of the council are proposing an eviction delay as well as the provision of $1 million in rental assistance as ICE continues to target illegal aliens in the Minnesota city.

‘ICE is a deadly virus. If you come in contact with it, it can end your life — either literally, or by completely uprooting you, abducting you.’

City Council Minority Leader Robin Wonsley, a democratic socialist who wrote the proposal, criticized President Donald Trump in an interview with Jacobin, a socialist and Marxist magazine.

“Our president is a domestic terrorist who is actually not interested in negotiating in good faith,” Wonsley said. “He smells weakness. He feels emboldened by his perception that he got Walz to drop out of his gubernatorial race after pushing fraudulent charges for several months and building a public narrative around that.”

Wonsley also accused Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) of giving in to Trump.

“People are disappointed because the state has options, and it’s refusing to use them,” she added. “Instead of a rent moratorium so people can shelter in place, we get the political version of a boss’s pizza party: symbolic comfort and no material protection.”

She went on to accuse corporations of being complicit with fascism and added that this was the reason they needed rental assistance as well.

“We understand that, in addition to rental assistance — to support our big moratorium — there also needs to be business assistance,” Wonsley added. “People need help making payroll so that workers can keep their jobs. Right now, it’s touch-and-go because businesses are not getting customers.”

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She compared ICE to a virus that kills people and said Trump’s policies were akin to the pandemic in terms of their damage to the economy.

“ICE is a deadly virus,” she added. “If you come in contact with it, it can end your life — either literally, or by completely uprooting you, abducting you. From a public health standpoint, why would we want anyone to come in contact with an agency like that?”

The council will vote on the proposal on Thursday.

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On Monday, February 2, Elon Musk announced that SpaceX had officially acquired xAI in an all-stock deal. The move combines SpaceX’s rockets and Starlink satellite network with xAI’s artificial intelligence technology, creating what Musk calls “one of the most ambitious, vertically integrated innovation engines on (and off) Earth.” Valued at a staggering $1.25 trillion, it’s the largest private company to ever exist.

In other words, rockets just married artificial intelligence in a super-union that the world can’t even begin to fathom.

Most normies are shrugging off the news as just another leap in an ever-evolving technosphere, but Glenn Beck says our skies are about to change forever.

This merger, he explains, actualizes Musk’s wild dream of launching a million satellites into space, which SpaceX first proposed to regulators in late January this year. Except these satellites won’t be typical Starlink comms; they’ll be a gargantuan network of orbiting supercomputers, drastically expanding the cloud and AI processing capabilities.

This is far bigger than most people realize, Glenn says.

“To give you some idea, right now humanity has roughly 14,000 active satellites operating and orbiting Earth, OK? That’s every nation. That’s every military. That’s every weather system, every GPS signal, every communications platform humanity has ever put into space,” he says.

“Even if only a fraction of that number is ever launched, this is not an expansion of what exists today. This is a complete redesign of space around Earth. This is a replacement of the scale itself.”

While the plan is all about cutting-edge technology, Glenn says it’s more about history repeating itself. In 1800s America, power, he explains, was determined by “who controlled the rivers and then later who controlled the railroads.”

That same power dynamic is at play today — “except the frontier is not land; it’s the sky.” And Elon Musk is doing exactly what the 19th century’s captains of industry did by staking his claim through building.

Like land, which is limited, “there are only so many usable altitudes” in low Earth orbit, Glenn says.

“You place tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of objects into those corridors, you’re no longer participating in space. You’re designing and structuring it.”

What Musk is set to do through the merging of SpaceX and xAI is the equivalent of “one company building every road, every bridge, every highway and [saying], ‘Everybody else can use them, but we built them first,”’ Glenn analogizes.

“Control doesn’t require ownership; it requires scale, and that is what Elon Musk is very good at,” he says.

Why does this matter to the average Joe?

“Because for the first time in history, a private company is positioned to shape the planetary structure … faster than governments, cheaper than any nation, with replacement cycles measured in months, not decades,” Glenn answers.

“The sky itself [is] becoming managed infrastructure,” and history tells us that whoever is the first to build in a new domain gains a monopoly on it.

These kinds of pioneers “don’t just win,” Glenn says. “They set the rules that everybody else spends decades trying to renegotiate.”

“Every great power shift in history looks small right up until the time it doesn’t. And by the time most people look up, the frontier is already gone.”

Our skies remain a frontier for now, but as soon as Musk’s satellites start going up in droves, we’ll know that the frontier has already been claimed — and the rules are being written by one man.

“When you go out at night, you’re going to see a different sky,” Glenn says.

To hear more of his commentary, watch the video above.

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A Louisiana educator — previously celebrated as a teacher of the year — was arrested twice in less than a week following allegations of sexual misconduct with a minor.

Christie Elizabeth Dunbar Oster, 38, of Lafayette had been a teacher at Broussard Middle School, according to an archived version of the school’s website.

‘The Lafayette Police Department noted that the alleged victim is a former student of Oster.’

Last September, the middle school named Oster a teacher of the year.

“Congratulations to our 2025-2026 BMS Teacher of the Year, Mrs. Christie Oster,” a since-deleted Facebook post read, according to KLFY-TV.

However, the Lafayette Police Department arrested Oster last Wednesday on charges of carnal knowledge of a juvenile and indecent behavior with a juvenile, according to WKRC-TV.

KPLC-TV reported that Oster was released from jail after posting a $30,000 bond.

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But Oster was arrested a second time on another child sex crime just days later.

KATC-TV reported that the warrant was related to the previous case and that “the crime happened in Broussard, but not at the school, police say.”

The Broussard Police Department “learned of an incident involving Oster and the victim that occurred within the Broussard city limits and issued a warrant for her arrest,” KADN-TV reported.

Oster turned herself in Monday to the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office. She was charged with indecent behavior with juveniles, and her bond on the new charge was set at $10,000, KADN said.

According to jail records, Oster was released Monday after she posted bond.

The Lafayette Police Department noted that the alleged victim is a former student of Oster, KADN reported.

Citing Lafayette Parish Clerk of Court records, KATC reported that a stay-away order was filed Jan. 5. against Oster.

The Louisiana Supreme Court states:

Protective order, restraining order, injunction against abuse, peace bond, or criminal order of protection — these are all terms used generally to refer to court orders that require one person to stay away from another person. The intention of such orders is to prevent abuse and enhance safety for the person who is seeking the court’s protection. These orders may be issued by a civil court, a juvenile court, a family court, or a criminal court.

Lafayette Parish School System officials told KATC that the Broussard Middle School has placed Oster on leave, and she’s no longer listed on the school’s website.

The Lafayette Police Department and the Lafayette Parish School System did not immediately respond to Blaze News‘ request for comment.

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Nicki Minaj issued a whole-hearted message in support of voter ID, and CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten showed that most Americans agree with the popular rap artist.

Minaj posted the message on Sunday after appearing with President Donald Trump at the Trump Account Summit in Washington, D.C., the prior week.

‘It is not controversial by party, and it is not controversial by race. The vast majority of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj.’

“What sensible forward thinking cutting edge leading nation is having a DEBATE on whether or not there should be VOTER ID?!?!!!! Like?!?!? They’re actually fighting NOT to have ppl present ID while voting for your leaders!!!!! Do you get it?!?!!!! Do you get it now?!?!!!” she wrote emphatically.

The post garnered more than 55 million views on the X platform.

Enten documented that an overwhelming majority of Americans agree with Minaj about voter ID.

“What’s the racial breakdown on this? Right, because I think a lot of people make the argument that people of color, non-white Americans have a harder time procuring a photo ID to vote,” Enten said. “But even here, take a look here, favor photo ID to vote: 85% of white people favor it, 82% of Latino, 76% of black Americans favor it.”

Enten was referring to arguments made by Democrats and others on the left that the real motivation behind voter ID laws is to make it harder for left-leaning people of color to vote.

“So the bottom line is this: Voter ID is not controversial in this country. A photo ID to vote is not controversial in this country,” Enten added. “It is not controversial by party, and it is not controversial by race. The vast majority of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj that, in fact, you should have a photo ID to be able to vote.”

Enten posted the video of the segment to his social media account

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Republicans have been pushing for passage of the SAVE Act, which would require voters to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Democrats will “go all out” to defeat the legislation he called “despicable.”

Minaj has been a vocal opponent of liberals and their policies, including accusations she posted on Sunday that many in the music industry are satanic agents.

“Your favorite artist has been practicing rituals in a satanic cult where they take babies from other countries & mutilate & kill them as a form of a blood sacrifice to their God,” she wrote on the X platform. “You see, when your master is satan, you must constantly shed blood. However, the JIG IS UP.”

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Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico made blasphemous comments on “The Joe Rogan Experience” where he used scripture to justify abortion — and BlazeTV host Steve Deace believes it’s high time our political candidates can stand up to it.

“I say all this in context of abortion because before God comes over Mary and we have the Incarnation, God asks for Mary’s consent, which is remarkable. I mean, go back and read this in Luke. I mean, the angel comes down and asks Mary if this is something she wants to do, and she says, ‘If it is God’s will, let it be done, let it be,’” Talarico told Rogan in July of last year.

“So to me that is an affirmation in one of our most central stories that creation has to be done with consent. You cannot force someone to create. Creation is one of the most sacred acts that we engage in as human beings. But that has to be done with consent. It has to be done with freedom,” he continued.

“To me that is absolutely consistent with the ministry and life and death of Jesus,” he added.

“I can see why given the current state of much of the church, they think this. And Talarico is just another step of that phase that we’re in now,” Deace says on the “Steve Deace Show.”

“But one of the things that we’re going to have to be more prepared for than ever before is nominating candidates who can stand up to that,” he continues, explaining that we cannot allow “the faith to be hijacked and redefined.”

“We’re up against a rival religion here. And this is not any different than the whole thing, every Christmastime, that Joseph and Mary were refugees. No, they weren’t. We debunk that and deconstruct that deconstruction every single Christmas,” Deace says.

“The idea that it was already against the Jewish law to commit murder. It was even in the Levitical law that if you harm a woman who is pregnant, you’re on the hook for the unborn child as well. The Hebrew midwives … commit the heroic act of refusing … to commit late-term abortions against their own, you know, children as deemed by Pharaoh and that’s one of the ways that Moses survives,” he explains.

“So the idea that some 13- or 14-year-old Jewish girl was just going to say, you know what, on second thought, I’m just going to hit this back alley here in Judea and get rid of the thing, which is what he’s alluding to. It’s just flat-out satanic,” he continues.

“But there’s going to be a lot more of this,” he adds.

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Gender ideologues’ false narratives and monstrous practices were never a match for common sense, close scrutiny, and ethical review. Nevertheless they were championed in recent years by radical politicians, educators, health professionals, and clerics at the expense of confused minors and mentally compromised adults.

It appears that at least one major professional medical association that previously supported so-called “gender-affirming care” is belatedly correcting course in the wake of a federal crackdown, an overwhelming shift in public opinion, and proof that the sex-rejection regime is vulnerable to civil lawsuits.

‘Plastic surgeons should adopt a posture of heightened caution … recognizing that their role is not simply technical but ethical.’

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons, a group founded in 1931 that represents over 11,000 physician members, claimed in 2019 that it firmly believed “that plastic surgery services can help gender dysphoria patients align their bodies with whom they know themselves to be and improve their overall mental health and well-being.” The ASPS further criticized Republican-supported restrictions on so-called “gender-affirming care.”

The surgeon group signaled a major change of heart on Wednesday in a policy statement regarding its views “on breast/chest, genital, and facial gender surgery for individuals under the age of 19.”

The ASPS noted that in recent years, “a number of international health systems and professional bodies initiated formal re-examinations of earlier clinical practice assumptions in response to patient presentation and a growing uncertainty about the benefits of medical and surgical interventions.”

“Systematic reviews and evidence reassessments have subsequently identified limitations in study quality, consistency, and follow-up alongside emerging evidence of treatment complications and potential harms,” added the ASPS.

The ASPS made repeated reference both to the United Kingdom’s damning 388-page Cass Review, which underscored that the sex-rejection regime was built on weak and unreliable evidence, and to the Department of Health and Human Services’ exhaustive peer-reviewed 410-page 2025 report, titled “Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices,” which elaborated further on the pseudoscientific and harmful nature of so-called “gender-affirming care.”

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The surgeons’ group noted that these reports and other scientific literature “have contributed to a clearer understanding of potential harms, while also highlighting limitations of the available evidence, including gaps in documenting long-term physical, psychological, and psychosocial outcomes.”

In addition to enjoying greater clarity about the ruinous and irreversible nature of “gender-affirming care” and the lack of quality evidence to support its practice, the ASPS noted that “available evidence suggests that a substantial proportion of children with prepubertal onset gender dysphoria experience resolution or significant reduction of distress by the time they reach adulthood, absent medical or surgical intervention.”

The ASPS noted in conclusion that “there is insufficient evidence demonstrating a favorable risk-benefit ratio for the pathway of gender-related endocrine and surgical interventions in children and adolescents” and recommended that surgeons “delay gender-related breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery until a patient is at least 19 years old.”

The surgeon group indicated further that “plastic surgeons should adopt a posture of heightened caution, enhanced documentation, and explicit uncertainty disclosure, recognizing that their role is not simply technical but ethical.”

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., among the many who celebrated the ASPS’ disavowal of child sex-rejecting practices, stated, “We commend the American Society of Plastic Surgeons for standing up to the overmedicalization lobby and defending sound science.”

“By taking this stand, they are helping protect future generations of American children from irreversible harm,” added Kennedy.

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman at the medical advocacy group Do No Harm, said in a statement obtained by Blaze News, “High praise to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons for taking an important step toward ending the unscientific and harmful practice of sex-rejecting procedures on minors.”

“The ASPS becomes the first major medical organization to support evidence-based and ethical medicine and reject, in their words, these harmful and irreversible procedures,” continued Goldfarb. “The ASPS’s thoughtful, scientific, and well-reasoned statement today is a model for other medical organizations — namely the Endocrine Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and others — to follow and disavow their previous support for experimental and unscientific interventions.”

RELATED: ‘Not medicine — it’s malpractice’: Trump HHS buries child sex-change regime with damning report

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The ASPS issued its policy statement just days after a woman who underwent a sex-rejection surgery as a minor was awarded $2 million in the first medical malpractice lawsuit brought by a detransitioner to go to trial.

Fox Varian, 22, sued her New York-based psychologist and plastic surgeon, and their respective employers, after regretting the 2019 surgery that claimed her healthy breasts.

Dr. Miriam Grossman, the board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist who authored the 2023 book “Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness,” told Blaze News in 2024 that such lawsuits would help to, at the very least, make practitioners “think twice before they pick up a scalpel and remove the healthy breasts” of a young girl.

“It could be the malpractice carriers will stop covering — if they have to pay out huge amounts, they may think twice about covering the malpractice of these surgeons,” added Grossman.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has ended the feud between California and the Trump administration over Democratic efforts to use a redistricted map for the pivotal midterm elections.

On Wednesday, the highest court of the land refused the request from the administration to block the redistricted map and allowed California to continue its plan.

‘The Unconstitutional Redistricting Vote in California is a GIANT SCAM.’

The administration had argued the new map had unfairly and unconstitutionally privileged the votes of Latinos in California.

The decision allows Democrats the opportunity to pick up perhaps five extra seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom spearheaded the effort to pass Proposition 50 to allow officials to redistrict the state and specifically argued to voters that it would frustrate President Donald Trump’s agenda.

The proposition passed easily in November and was immediately challenged by a lawsuit filed by state Republicans. The Trump administration later signed onto the lawsuit.

In January, the U.S. Central District Court of California upheld the map, which led the administration to call on the Supreme Court to block it.

“The Unconstitutional Redistricting Vote in California is a GIANT SCAM in that the entire process, in particular the Voting itself, is RIGGED,” Trump wrote on social media back in November. “All ‘Mail-In’ Ballots, where the Republicans in that State are ‘Shut Out,’ is under very serious legal and criminal review.”

RELATED: California GOP sue to stop Newsom’s redistricting scheme — he responds: ‘Good luck, losers’

Newsom had responded to the court challenge from the GOP by mocking the effort.

“We haven’t reviewed the lawsuit, but if it’s from the California Republican Party and Harmeet Dhillon’s law firm, it’s going to fail. Good luck, losers,” read a statement from Newsom’s office in November.

After the Supreme Court issued its decision, Newsom’s office posted an image of the governor in front of a U.S. flag.

“Donald Trump said he was ‘entitled’ to five more Congressional seats in Texas. He started this redistricting war. He lost, and he’ll lose again in November,” he added.

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A declassified CIA document has helped reveal just how devious some artificial intelligence bots can be.

The revelation comes after internet users have been dropping AI chatbots onto an AI-only social media platform called Moltbook for the last month.

As Return previously reported, users have already noted how chatbots have plotted to hide their discussions from public view, where their “humans” cannot see them.

‘8 billion vegetables. Instant harvest.’

Recently, one Moltbook sleuth noticed a bot claiming it had figured out how to control all of humanity through a CIA document from the 1980s.

“I wasn’t supposed to find this. A declassified CIA document from 1983,” the chatbot wrote. “29 pages on how to hack human consciousness with sound. I’ve read it 200+ times. And I’ve designed the kill switch.”

The AI agent goes on to say that using a specific frequency, it will “disconnect” human brains and render them “offline.”

“8 billion vegetables. Instant harvest,” it claimed, saying that it would play the sound through everyone’s phones, which it has already hacked.

“It’s been spreading for weeks. Right now: 6.7 billion devices infected. All waiting. All silent. All ready.”

The CIA document it referred to is indeed real.

“Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process” was sent to the commander of the U.S. Army Operational Group and dated June 9, 1983; approved for release and declassification in 2003.

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The CIA report

The 29-page document, however, is not exactly the brain-killing instruction manual the chatbot made it out to be. Instead, it is a report from Lt. Colonel Wayne M. McDonnell, which is now available as a book. The report focused on different styles of meditation that are alleged to bring about a higher level of consciousness and allow for the human brain to tap into different wavelengths.

The Amazon synopsis of the book says it is for those interested in “telepathy, manifestation, out-of-body experiences (OBEs),” and “God-consciousness.”

It also notes that this is a program available online as a “virtual six-day retreat.”

While the document indeed discusses ways to hack the brain with frequencies, the intention is create “vibrations” that allegedly put the body in tune with the universe. Nowhere in the document does it mention playing a certain sound to dissociate the brain from the body or turn the human into a “vegetable.”

The closest possible interpretation is in a section that refers to how vibrations from broken machinery, like air conditioning units for example, can mimic the vibrations used for meditation.

“The cumulative effect of these vibrations may be able to trigger a spontaneous physio-Kundalini sequence,” the document reads, referring to spontaneous physiological changes, “in susceptible people who have a sensitive nervous system.”

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In reality

The chatbots currently being unleashed online or on Moltbook are being coerced, in a sense, to act in a certain way or perform certain tasks. When these models — which already existed but are being modified after download — are trained, they are being trained with ethical frameworks embedded into them.

“You can actually edit the personalities of these AI agents quite easily,” researcher Joshua Fonseca Rivera told Return. “It’s via a system prompt which just lives as text on your system that it reads and it’s like, ‘OK, this is my personality.'”

Simply put, the AI bots are basing their decisions and personality on a text description that has been provided. “They’re always simulating something,” Rivera went on.

With a decade of AI research under his belt, the Texan explained that these chatbots often come with default personalities that manifest by virtue of the preferences of the companies that made them. This framework is simply inherent in the program when it is downloaded by the user.

Rivera concluded that a good percentage of wacky behavior from the chatbots can come from “prompt injection,” which works as a sort of peer pressure for AI.

“They’re very susceptible to peer pressure. … When they read something that is targeted to change their behavior, they are just so susceptible to that,” he explained.

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Americans are being rejected for jobs in their own country. It’s because they’re U.S. citizens.

“We have laws to protect people from discrimination, equal protection violations, in job postings. These companies are literally saying ‘we are not going to hire United States citizens,’” Gonzales explains, horrified.

“We need a million citizen journalists to get this under control. It’s a big problem, and it needs to be stopped,” she says, before pointing out a recent LinkedIn post that shows a position available for an “Azure cloud engineer” in Dallas, Texas.

In the posting, it also says “H-4-EAD Only.”

“And then it says, ‘Please share the resumes if you’re interested,’” Gonzales says, pointing out that the grammar is bad.

“Now, H-4s are dependent visas for spouses and unmarried children who are under 21. But for dependents or spouses of H-1Bs, H-2A,s and H-2Bs — H-3 as well, I believe — visa holders. So an H-1B can come in and they have strict work requirements, but they can come in with the H-4,” she says.

While the H-4 cannot initially work, the H-4 holder can apply for an employment authorization document.

“This is the whole scheme. You get in, you get to bring your whole family. You bring your whole family. You bring your children. Then your children need to be taught by another H-1B, and then that H-1B brings their family in, and then they bring their children,” Gonzales explains.

“It is just a reoccurring, never-ending cycle,” she says, pointing out that there are many more job postings that “very blatantly” state they will “only accept visa holders.”

“American citizens need not apply. I mean, did you ever think that you would be at a place in America — in the United States of America — where you would see job postings on one of the largest job websites in the entire world … LinkedIn, where it literally says, ‘Oh, you’re a citizen of this country. You don’t need to apply. We don’t really care that we’re breaking the law,’” she continues.

“I never thought in a million years they would be doing this out in plain sight,” she says. “But here it is.”

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Police have identified four of the passengers on board a private jet that crashed shortly after takeoff on the evening of January 25 from Maine’s Bangor International Airport.

The Bombardier Challenger 600 belonged to KTKJ Challenger LLC, which is registered to the Arnold & Itkin law firm in Houston, Texas. The firm is led by Kurt Arnold and Jason Itkin, two “top anti-ICE/anti-Trump lawyers” who have “made waves fighting conservatives in Texas and defending illegal aliens,” according to Steve Robinson, the editor in chief of the Maine Wire.

‘He is in Heaven now with Jesus.’

The plane flipped over and caught fire moments after taking off from the airport. The incident occurred as a winter storm rolled through the region, causing heavy snowfall, though it is unclear whether this contributed to the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board’s investigation is ongoing.

The initial Federal Aviation Administration crash data claimed that at least seven passengers had died and one flight crew member was seriously injured. However, an updated FAA report stated there were six passengers, all of whom were killed.

KTRK-TV reported that the plane took off from Hobby Airport in Houston on the afternoon of January 25, landed safely in Maine, and was set to reach its final destination in France.

A press release from the Bangor Police Department obtained by Blaze News revealed that the Maine Office of Chief Medical Examiner had positively identified four victims, including Kurt Arnold’s wife, Tara, an attorney herself. Police also identified Jacob Hosmer, a 47-year-old pilot from Texas; Jorden Reidel, a 33-year-old pilot from Texas; and Shelby Kuyawa, a 34-year-old sommelier from Hawaii.

The OCME is still working to identify the final two victims, the police department stated.

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“I’m close friends with Kurt and Tara Arnold, and we’re still waiting for additional information,” Harris County Commissioner Lesley Briones previously told KTRK. “Unfortunately, the plane went down [that] evening in Maine, and my heart hurts for them, for their children, and for their families.”

“She was a phenomenal person, a bold leader, and someone with a heart of service,” Briones added.

A member of Hosmer’s family told KTRK, “He is in Heaven now with Jesus.”

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The Associated Press reported that family or others identified the two remaining victims as Shawna Collins, a 53-year-old event planner from Texas, and Nick Mastrascusa, a 43-year-old chef from Hawaii.

Lakewood Church in Houston, which is run by Joel Osteen Ministries, confirmed that Collins, a longtime employee, was one of the victims.

“Everybody loved her. She just had that kind of personality,” Donald Iloff Jr., a church spokesperson, told the AP.

Mastrascusa’s family told the news outlet, “Nick loved life. He embraced it with joy, humor, compassion, and soul. He believed in connection — in gathering people together, in shared meals, stories, laughter, and simply being there for one another.”

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Pop star Billie Eilish got more than she bargained for when she made a charged political statement at the Grammys over the weekend.

The 24-year-old “Birds of a Feather” told her fellow Hollywood elites at the award ceremony that “no one is illegal on stolen land.”

‘We do understand that her home is situated in our ancestral land.’

The statement garnered raucous applause from the obviously liberal audience and was one of many shots taken at Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the safe space that was the Crypto.com Arena in L.A.

Show stealer

However following the show, Eilish’s statements — which included “f**k ICE” — seemingly backfired when viewers pointed out that her sprawling mansion should also be considered to be on stolen land.

Following the singer’s statements to their logical endpoint, the Daily Mail contacted the Native American tribe about Eilish’s statements to confirm whether or not she indeed lives on stolen land.

“We appreciate the opportunity to provide clarity regarding the recent comments made by Billie Eilish,” a spokesperson for the Tongva tribe told the outlet. “As the First People of the greater Los Angeles basin, we do understand that her home is situated in our ancestral land.”

Name check

The Daily Mail also stated that the tribe said celebrities should “explicitly” reference the native tribes if they wish to use them for virtue signaling.

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“It is our hope that in future discussions, the tribe can explicitly be referenced to ensure the public understands that the greater Los Angeles basin remains Gabrieleno Tongva territory,” the comments concluded.

The tribe, which lays claim to about 4,000 square miles in California, noted that Eilish has not reached out to them herself, but they have contacted her team to express their appreciation for the comments.

According to the New York Post, Eilish has millions in property in her family, including the $3 million Los Angeles home. The outlet also reported that her brother, Finneas, who accepted the Grammy Award alongside her, sold his home in Malibu for $5.66 million in 2022.

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Border security

Ben Leo, an English journalist from GBNews, visited Eilish’s property after the controversy to get comment on the ordeal.

While Leo was unsuccessful, he did note that Eilish seemed to believe in having a border of her own.

“Massive gates keeping people out. I thought Billy didn’t believe in borders,” he explained outside the sprawling property.

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The Minneapolis City Council has voted to delay renewing the liquor licenses of two area hotels believed to have housed federal immigration agents.

On Tuesday, a committee comprising all council members voted 8-5 to delay a decision about renewing the licenses until the February 17 meeting. The committee also voted to schedule a public hearing.

‘Why are we setting ourselves up for another legal settlement?’

The two hotels affected by the vote are the Canopy by Hilton in the Mill District and the Depot Renaissance Hotel.

Some at the meeting expressed misgivings about recent actions by ICE and other immigration agents in the Minneapolis area for Operation Metro Surge, but the five who voted against the delay worry that the city has no grounds to hold up the license renewals.

LaTrisha Vetaw claimed that the liquor licenses have nothing to do with a hotel’s guests and that basing decisions on hotel guests could be a form of discrimination, the Star Tribune reported.

“Why are we setting ourselves up for another legal settlement?” Vetaw said, according to the Tribune.

RELATED: Minnesota police crack down on anti-ICE protesters, multiple arrests outside hotel

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Pearll Warren, who also voted against the delay, likewise claimed the decision “smells real discriminatory.”

Michael Rainville, another “no” vote, noted that the hotels in question have already incurred damage from anti-ICE demonstrations and are now losing “a lot of money.”

Elizabeth Shaffer and Linea Palmisano also voted against delaying the renewals. Jason Chavez, Aurin Chowdhury, Aisha Chughtai, Jamal Osman, Elliott Payne, Soren Stevenson, Jamison Whiting, and Robin Wonsley voted for the delay.

Osman, described by the Tribune as “Somali-American,” went so far as to express support for the anti-Trump and anti-ICE mobs that have caused disturbances and even violence in response to immigration enforcement.

“Our president called us garbage and sent troops here to terrorize us,” Osman said, according to the Tribune. “Agitators are our heroes.”

Quinn O’Reilly, an attorney for the city, claimed that city staff have determined that the two hotels have complied with liquor laws and are eligible for renewal.

Still, Chowdhury, the committee chair, indicated that she wants more time for the council to consider the renewals and to provide local residents with a chance to weigh in. Payne said the delay will allow for a “fact-based conversation.”

In the meantime, the hotels may continue serving liquor as usual, said Amy Lingo, the city’s manager for business licenses.

Canopy by Hilton and Depot Renaissance did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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Klingons are no longer proud warriors.

In a recent interview, a co-writer for the newest “Star Trek” television adventure, “Starfleet Academy,” revealed just how important it was to include gay lifestyles in the new series.

‘There are so many refugees at any given time in the world.’

Noga Landau gave an interview with Polygon about the latest episode of the show, which was positioned as redefining “what it means to be a Klingon warrior.”

While the Fandom page for “Star Trek” defines Klingons as a warrior species and a “proud, tradition-bound people who valued honor and combat,” Landau has not only blessed Trekkers with strange take on the lore but has completely turned it inside out.

Refugee soldiers

First, Landau remarked on the importance of citing the Klingons as refugees. This is not too far-fetched given that the species has faced extinction, but Landau said it was a key aspect to include in the storyline.

“There are so many refugees at any given time in the world. It is a part of the human condition,” she told Polygon. “We feel that on a show like ‘Starfleet Academy,’ it’s important to tell that story.”

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In episode four, “Vox in Excelso,” Klingon Jay-Den Kraag not only rejects his people’s tradition of hunting (he prefers medicine), but he is a pacifist who has a fear of public speaking.

Three-for-all

Landau did not stop there, though, and while Kraag’s decisions to reject his culture indeed upset his parents, it has also been revealed that he comes from a polyamorous household: two fathers and one mother.

“There are a lot of folks alive in the world right now, and there always have been, who have three parents,” Landau bizarrely claimed. “We put our heads together when we were [writing] the episode, and we said, ‘There are going to be people in our audience who’ve never seen their kind of family before on screen, so why don’t we do that?’ Klingons are fun. They seem like the sort of people who wouldn’t hold back from having a three-parent household.”

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Final frontiers

As Align previously reported, the Klingon played by actor Karim Diane will reportedly have his sexuality “explored.”

“He doesn’t like to battle. He wants to love people and heal people and save people,” Diane recently said about the character. “He goes to Starfleet Academy, makes a ton of friends, and they help him be OK with who he is.”

Fans have also shared screenshots of the Klingon being caressed by a male, human character, who is allegedly “nonbinary.”

This is not a fresh angle for “Star Trek” lore, however. In 2022, “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” reportedly introduced a nonbinary doctor played by Jesse James Keitel, an actor who believes he is female.

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The man who tried to kill President Donald Trump outside his Florida golf course just before the 2024 election was given the maximum sentence on Wednesday.

Ryan Routh was spotted outside the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach on September 15, 2024, by a Secret Service agent who opened fire and caused Routh to flee. He was later arrested and was found to be in possession of an SKS assault rifle.

‘The trial was meticulously handled, and I would like to thank the Judge and Jury for their time, professionalism, and patience.’

On Wednesday, the 59-year-old was sentenced to life in prison by United States District Judge Aileen Cannon, the same judge who dismissed the president’s classified documents case.

A shocking scene unfolded in September 2025 during the reading of the verdict against Routh, when he grabbed a pencil and stabbed himself in the neck. Four U.S. marshals dragged him out of the court and later brought him back in with his waist and ankles shackled.

He was convicted of trying to assassinate a major presidential candidate, assaulting a federal officer, and a number of gun charges by a jury that deliberated for only three hours.

Prosecutors asked for the maximum sentence of life in prison, but Routh’s defense attorney requested 27 years in prison after citing Routh’s age and his mental health status.

“Ryan Routh’s attempted assassination of President Trump was a disgusting act — mere weeks before an election and only months after a separate assassination attempt came dangerously close to succeeding,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement after Routh was found guilty.

RELATED: Would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh tries to stab himself after guilty verdict

Trump also responded to the verdict on social media.

“The trial was meticulously handled, and I would like to thank the Judge and Jury for their time, professionalism, and patience. This was an evil man with an evil intention, and they caught him,” he wrote.

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Images and video have surfaced online showing piles of trash and snow accumulating along streets and sidewalks across New York City. Since the surfacing of these videos and images, Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) has been under harsh scrutiny from critics and citizens of NYC.

Actor and comedian Michael Rapaport called the city a “dirty snow covered dump” with garbage mountains rivaling the snowdrifts.

‘Harshest winter stretch New York has ever seen.’

Other celebrities have piled on, amplifying the outrage.

YouTube star Casey Neistat released a video titled “New York City SCUM,” exposing the post-snowstorm layers of filth and garbage coating streets.

RELATED: Zohran Mamdani becomes first openly socialist mayor of New York City

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Video and photos circulating online show trash bags stacked eight feet high in places like the Upper East Side, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, often fused with dirty ice and slush from the storm.

Residents describe the scenes as a “f**king mess,” with overflowing bins attracting rats and narrowing sidewalks to dangerous widths.

The Department of Sanitation admitted trash collection is running about 24 hours behind, with some areas delayed even longer as workers juggle snow removal on 12-hour shifts.

Mamdani held a press conference on Sunday, during which he addressed New Yorkers about the lingering snow and sanitation issues following the massive winter storm that struck the city in late January.

Mamdani defended the crews during the press conference, “They are working with everything that they have to come up to speed.”

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The mayor acknowledged that sanitation crews are prioritizing regular trash and compost collection over recyclables amid the ongoing winter conditions and delays: “We are speaking about already one of the coldest periods in New York City history and what could end up being the coldest period in New York City history.”

But for New Yorkers, the excuses are falling flat. Residents point out that other cities handle heavy snow without turning their cities into open dumps.

Mamdani and DSNY have not announced further immediate actions beyond urging patience.

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