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Parking lots may be a no-go zone for fans in World Cup host cities in the U.S. this summer.

The FIFA 2026 World Cup will see 11 U.S. cities host games, utilizing the plethora of professional-tier stadiums across the country. Several of these stadiums, however, will have a ban on the American tradition of tailgating.

‘Site-specific restrictions may be imposed.’

Of the 11 cities, four are reportedly banning the pregame festivities that often enhance the fan experience ahead of events. Boston’s host city committee has announced a ban at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, and a ban at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium was confirmed by local outlets.

Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field and Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, will enforce bans, too, according to Bleacher Report and the Big Lead.

In response to the bans, a FIFA spokesman told Blaze News that the soccer organization has no formal prohibition on tailgating.

“FIFA does not have a formal policy that restricts tailgating (eating and drinking around parked cars in stadium areas),” the spokesman said.

“However, site-specific restrictions may be imposed in alignment with host city public safety authorities in certain venues based on local regulations,” he added. “Additional fan information for all FIFA World Cup 2026 matches will be communicated in advance of the tournament.”

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With seven other U.S. venues up in the air, FIFA did not respond to requests for an exhaustive list of which stadiums are enforcing a tailgate ban.

At the same time, the White House provided the following response when asked about the bans on the American tradition:

“The FIFA 2026 World Cup will no doubt be one of the greatest and most spectacular events in the history of mankind, attracting millions of fans from around the world to 11 host cities across America,” White House spokesman Davis Ingle told Blaze News.

“This will be a monumental event that requires close coordination between the Trump administration, FIFA, and all of our great federal, state, and local partners. President Trump is focused on ensuring that this is not only an incredible experience for all fans and visitors, but also the safest and most secure in history.”

Parking restrictions

Not only has tailgating been banned at Gillette Stadium, dubbed “Boston Stadium” for the purpose of the tournament, but parking will be severely limited. Radio station WRKO reported that stadium parking will be reduced to just 25% capacity at 5,000, while WBZ radio noted that round-trip train tickets to Foxborough will be $80, four times the typical $20 for NFL games.

The story is the same for MetLife Stadium, where the New Jersey hosting committee says parking will be prohibited. According to NJ.com, nearby parking is already sold out at $225 per space.

Understanding the parking restrictions appears to be a case of reading between the lines.

When asked about tailgating and parking enforcement around BC Place in Vancouver, Canada — one of two Canadian World Cup venues — a committee spokesman revealed that typical stadium parking will be taken up by FIFA.

“Many parking lots immediately adjacent to BC Place Vancouver will be occupied by FIFA for stadium-specific activities for the duration of the tournament,” communications manager David Harrison told Blaze News.

Similarly, a New Jersey host committee spokeswoman told NJ.com that parking would be limited at MetLife because the lots will be in use for other functions, like enhanced security and portions “dedicated to fan engagement.”

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Tailgating policy remains up in the air for the following U.S. venues: Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta; AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas; NRG Stadium in Houston; SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles; Hard Rock Stadium in Miami; Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California; and Lumen Field in Seattle.

Vancouver police told Blaze News that tailgating is not typical for their stadium, as it exists in their downtown area, but there is no designated place for fans to do so either.

Estadio Azteca, a host venue in Mexico City, did not respond to requests for comment.

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Apple can’t catch a break. With another week comes another major exploit capable of infecting millions of iPhones worldwide.

The latest threat, dubbed DarkSword, leverages “multiple zero-day vulnerabilities to fully compromise devices,” according to the Google Threat Intelligence Group. Here’s how to know if your iPhone is at risk.

Cyber threats are becoming quite common within Apple’s walled garden — a major shift from iOS’ “unhackable” reputation of yesteryear.

Approximately 244 million iPhones are vulnerable right now to targeted hacking campaigns through DarkSword.

The thing that makes this latest exploit so dangerous is that the code behind the vulnerability was leaked on GitHub, one of the largest developer social media websites on the planet.

On one hand, having the code available to the public will make it easier for Apple to pinpoint the flaws in its software, leading to a faster solution. On the other hand, DarkSword is now broadly accessible to hackers and cybercriminals both foreign and domestic, giving bad actors the tools they need to hack into any iPhone that fits the criteria.

Through GitHub, hackers essentially have a shortcut to attack iPhone users at scale.

How does DarkSword work?

DarkSword functions similarly to the Coruna exploit we covered last month in that it strings multiple zero-day vulnerabilities together into one exploit chain that can be used to breach the security of a targeted device. Based on findings from the Google Threat Intelligence Group, DarkSword has already been used on phones in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Malaysia, and Ukraine as early as November 2025.

Now that the code is available on GitHub, however, the exploit chain could be picked up and executed on devices anywhere in the world, including the United States.

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Is your iPhone at risk?

The good news is that DarkSword can only breach a very specific subset of iOS-powered devices, namely iPhones on iOS 18.4 through 18.7. You are safe from this particular threat if you have already installed iOS 26 on your phone or if you run a version prior to iOS 18.

The bad news is that 16.09% of active iPhones in the market still run on iOS 18. That means approximately 244 million iPhones are vulnerable right now to targeted hacking campaigns through DarkSword.

Many millions still run their iPhones on vulnerable operating systems.Chart via iOS 18 Marketshare 2026/TelemetryDECK

How to protect your devices from DarkSword

There are two ways to protect your phone from the DarkSword exploit:

Update your phone to iOS 26 immediately. This will mitigate any threats from DarkSword. If your phone is still on iOS 18, Apple released an update on April 1 that effectively fixed the vulnerability. Download and install iOS 18.7.7 as soon as possible.

Although DarkSword poses the biggest threat to iPhone users, iPads on iPadOS 18 are also at risk. Follow these same steps to patch the software on your iPad, as well.

Due to the widespread nature of this threat, it’s a good idea to share this information with your family and friends. Let the people in your life know that their iPhone (or iPad) may be vulnerable to attacks unless they update accordingly.

Add an extra layer of protection to your iPhone

DarkSword is part of a growing string of threats plaguing iPhone lately, including Coruna and CVE-2026-20700. As someone who has followed Apple closely since the dawn of iPhone, the state of iOS security is uncharacteristically fragile these days, with new vulnerabilities popping up practically every month. We’ll continue to watch this space for new developments leading into the summer season when Apple shows off the next generation of iOS. In the meantime, you can keep your devices safe by updating to the latest version of iOS the moment it’s available.

Screenshots by Zach Laidlaw/iOS 26.4.1 on iPhone 17 Pro Max

In addition to major operating system releases, Apple has started to issue smaller “Background Security Improvements” for its major mobile platforms. These updates are meant to provide faster solutions to potential threats between larger software versions. To ensure that your device receives Background Security Improvements, open the “Settings” app, tap “Privacy & Security,” select “Background Security Improvements” at the bottom, and check the toggle beside “Automatically Install.”

But note: Background Security Improvements are only available for devices on iOS 26.1 or higher. If you’re still on iOS 18 or lower, you cannot take advantage of this extra security feature.

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A female slashed the face of a 3-year-old boy she kidnapped at a Walmart in Omaha, Nebraska, on Tuesday morning — and officers opened fire on her, police said.

Officers responded to the Walmart in the 1600 block of South 72nd Street after receiving 911 calls — one caller indicated a woman was armed with a “large kitchen knife” and was with a young child, police said.

‘The responding officers acted with professionalism and direct action to intervene and save a child’s life.’

A two-officer patrol unit arrived at the location where officers approached the armed woman — later identified as 31-year-old Noemi Guzman — who was standing by a shopping cart with a 3-year-old boy in the cart, police said.

Guzman was making multiple threats with the knife, police said, and officers gave multiple verbal commands for Guzman to drop the knife.

Police said she refused to drop the weapon and cut the boy.

With that, the patrol officers fired their service weapons striking Guzman.

The child’s guardian, along with a bystander, immediately removed the child from the cart and rendered aid to him, police said.

Officers began lifesaving measures on Guzman, but police said she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Omaha Fire Department medics took the boy to Children’s Hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

The child’s parents identified the boy as Cyler Hillman, KETV-TV reported. Deputy Police Chief Scott Gray added to the station that Cyler suffered a cut on the left side of his face and on his hand.

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Investigators later determined through store surveillance video that Guzman had shoplifted the knife from inside the store, police said. She then approached the child and guardian in a shopping aisle, brandished the knife, and forced the guardian to walk ahead of the cart while the child remained inside, police said.

Gray told KETV that Guzman kidnapped the child.

Guzman then directed them through the store and into the parking lot, and soon officers intervened, police said.

“The responding officers acted with professionalism and direct action to intervene and save a child’s life,” Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said.

Police told KETV that Guzman and the child’s caretaker did not know each other.

The investigation remains ongoing, police said.

Various aspects of this incident were captured on officers’ body-worn cameras and other available surveillance, police said.

The involved officers have been placed on paid critical incident leave, per department policy, police said, adding that they will be interviewed at a later date.

Police said they’re asking witnesses who may have observed or recorded Guzman’s actions during the incident to contact the department at 402-444-4877 and reference report number AA31063.

Police said Guzman in 2024 was accused of dousing her father with a flammable liquid and stabbing him — and then breaking into St. Francis Cabrini Church in Omaha and destroying property in the rectory.

According to a separate KETV story, Guzman was later found not responsible by reason of insanity.

The above KETV news video indicates that a judge ordered Guzman to undergo evaluation but in an outpatient capacity. A month later, a court ruling indicated Guzman was suffering from mental illness, including schizophrenia, the station said.

The court ruling stated that Guzman “remains a danger to herself or others, and should remain under the jurisdiction of the court” and that she can “continue to reside in the community with family support unless otherwise recommended by her community treatment team,” KETV said in the video. A one-year review was scheduled to take place less than a month prior to Tuesday’s incident, the station said.

Douglas County Sheriff Aaron Hanson told KETV in 2024 that the state lacks the infrastructure to help patients like Guzman.

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A Long Island mayor is standing firm despite calls for his resignation after he ridiculed a local activist online.

The Sag Harbor Board of Trustees voted unanimously on Tuesday to formally request that Tom Gardella resign as mayor of his Long Island village. Gardella said he would participate in social media and anti-harassment training but that he wouldn’t think of resigning.

‘Church man. He’s a Christian.’

“I will not resign from the office of mayor,” said Gardella, reported the Sag Harbor Express. “That is not going to happen. You have me confused with somebody else. I’m not the guy that runs from a crisis. I’m the guy that runs into it.”

While the board members provided other justifications for Gardella’s ouster, their ire centers on a comment the mayor left on an Instagram post last month.

Animal rights activist Rebecca Chavez shared a video on March 6 in which she grooves to a song with a dog in her lap while her masculine lesbian lover dances in the background.

Gardella — a Sag Harbor resident for over 30 years who runs a plumbing company, served as chief of the local fire department, and served in military intelligence during the Cold War — reportedly commented, “What’s that thing in the background? A guy? A girl? Some creature?”

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Chavez wasted no time tracking down Gardella and making a stink, noting in a video, “Church man. He’s a Christian. And a mayor?!”

Chavez’s characterization of Gardella as a “church man” may be the result of her superficial reading of an event posting advertising a talk the mayor gave at “The Church,” a creative center on Long Island.

The Texas-based lesbian, committed to giving a “Master Class in pettiness and accountability,” stated, “I would expect an elected official and Christian man like yourself to behave better.”

Chavez then directed her followers to “send him a few emails to remind him that his behavior is unbecoming of a public servant.”

Deputy Mayor Edward Haye noted during a village board meeting last month, “We were made aware on March 9, yesterday, of a social media comment attributed to Mayor Gardella that disparaged members of the LGBT community.”

“Sag Harbor has long prided itself being a welcoming and a tolerant village, and those values deeply matter to us both as members of the village board and as residents,” continued Haye. “While the comment appears to have been made on a personal social media account, it has understandably caused concern and hurt within our community.”

Gardella apologized, but that evidently wasn’t enough for the activist.

“They always make an apology after the fact. So for me, his apology is not genuine,” Chavez told News 12 Westchester, revealing an apparent confusion about how apologies work.

The mayor’s thin-skinned peers had the village launch an investigation into his comment.

The investigation culminated in a report that accused the mayor of violating the village government’s social media policy and anti-harassment policy and claimed that his 12-word comment was “disruptive to operations, negatively impacted members of the community, and created the false impression that village leadership does not support or tolerate diversity,” reported the Express.

On the basis of the report, the board voted to censure the mayor.

“I’m not going to resign as mayor of this village,” Gardella, who was first elected in 2023, reiterated on Tuesday. “I would also say that I never sought to be mayor of this village. The residents of this village came to me and asked me to lead them. And I hope I can lead us out of this mess and at some point be able to work together with the board.”

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The former chair of the Oklahoma Democratic Party has now dropped his re-election campaign after a misstep involving an AI-generated kissing image. Yet for some members of his party, he still has not done enough.

On Monday, Oklahoma state Rep. John Waldron, 57, confirmed that he will no longer seek another term even though he just filed for re-election earlier this month. In a Facebook post, Waldron called the decision “the right thing to do” for his constituents and his efforts “to be a better person.”

‘I absolutely think Rep. Waldron should resign, and I am disappointed he has not done it already.’

The Facebook post also made vague references to having done “something which was wrong and hurt someone” and that “shouldn’t have happened.” The post did not divulge the details of the incident, but Waldron has admitted that his resignation as state party chair in December related to a fake image of him kissing a woman.

According to NonDoc, Waldron met with a female prospective political candidate last fall and then had AI generate a GIF of the two of them “making out.” Between Waldron’s statements and details from someone who has seen the GIF, NonDoc, which has not seen the GIF, believes that “an AI tool morphed multiple selfies into a video of Waldron and the woman kissing, replete with smooching and sighing sound effects.”

Waldron then sent the GIF to the woman, whose identity has not been revealed.

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“I was under enormous personal stress. I made a mistake, which I instantly regretted. I’ve accepted every consequence that was asked of me, and I’ve done a lot of personal work. I’m still deeply regretful for making that decision,” Waldron said Thursday, when his re-election campaign was still alive.

Waldron repeated those expressions of remorse in his Facebook post. “In an instant, I sacrificed my integrity,” he wrote. “… I full-heartedly respect and understand what I did was wrong.”

“Some have said it was because I was caught, but it sincerely is because I know what I did was wrong and I have let many of you down.”

Waldron also stated multiple times that he has sought professional help to improve himself. “I have been going and will continue to go to counseling and therapy sessions, and I am implementing the lessons I glean from every session into my life every day to become a better person,” he said.

“Stepping aside is the right thing to do for the people of District 77 and for me to continue my personal therapy to be a better person.”

Despite the extensive apologies, many female members of the Oklahoma Democratic Party are still not satisfied. In fact, state Reps. Amanda Clinton, Michelle McCane, Cyndi Munson, and Suzanne Schreiber have all demanded that he resign his seat immediately.

“I absolutely think Rep. Waldron should resign, and I am disappointed he has not done it already,” Schreiber said Monday.

“While I appreciate him ending his campaign, I still believe he should resign, as not sexually harassing someone should be the bare minimum we can expect from our elected officials,” said McCane.

Oklahoma Democratic Party Chairwoman Erin Brewer called Waldron’s behavior “unforgivable.”

According to NonDoc, Waldron’s withdrawal means that in November, Democrat candidate Kristina Gabriel will almost assuredly win the District 77 seat representing parts of Tulsa. Waldron, a former high school history teacher, has held the seat since 2018.

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The prime minister of Spain, Pedro Sanchez, has announced that the country will legalize 500,000 migrants, creating a massive political and demographic shake-up inside the country. Spain fought the Reconquista for hundreds of years to recapture its lands from North African Muslims. In the 20th century, the country fought a civil war and was ruled by Francisco Franco for decades to ward off communism. Despite all these efforts, Spain is ultimately racing toward the progressive open-borders suicide that so many other Western nations have pursued.

So the question everyone is left asking is: If liberalism ultimately makes nations fragile, how did it come to dominate the most powerful countries in the Western world?

Most people are lazy, selfish, and impulsive. Successful civilizations are created by accumulating low-time-preference behaviors that collectively enable them to overcome the negative aspects of human nature. Those lessons are costly to relearn with each generation, so these prosocial behaviors are encoded in the traditions, folkways, and institutions of civilization. The systems that allow society to function work their way into language, religion, literature, song, and art until they are almost invisible to the people who live inside them. The people could not imagine living any other way.

This thick network of embedded folkways and traditions does a great job of cultivating virtue in the citizenry and perpetuating the society that gave birth to them, but it makes cooperation with other nations difficult. In many cases, even the inhabitants of the society cannot really articulate what the behaviors are or what makes them work because they have become second nature. The very thing that makes them work for the host nation makes them very difficult to explain or implement in other cultural contexts.

As civilizations shifted their priorities, they started to lose the traditions, folkways, and even religions that defined them.

A small, tight-knit society is great for a time, but eventually it gets outcompeted by larger civilizations. The advantages of scale are too great, and to compete, the small, successful nation must learn to expand through cooperation. The civilization with more troops, more crops, more trading partners, and more allies will eventually crush smaller societies, no matter how virtuous those societies might be. This is where liberalism enters the equation.

Liberalism, in the classical sense, not the modern Democratic Party, was a project that allowed civilizations to scale. Specifics of religion, custom, tradition, and even financial transactions had been too deeply territorialized in particular civilizations to allow cooperation or commerce between different peoples. In many cases, the differences were so severe as to spark wars. To enable cooperation and scale, the scaffolding that allowed cooperation at the local level needed to be removed from these divisive, conflicting cultural contexts and reterritorialized into a neutral space where different peoples could access it.

By identifying and extracting the behaviors that enabled social cooperation from their cultural contexts, liberalism created a framework that enabled different nations to engage in commerce and other forms of exchange. A minimum viable morality was reached among nations, allowing them to sign business contracts, diplomatic treaties, and trade agreements that each side understood and could adhere to. Rather than go to war, people with very different ways of life could buy, sell, and even ally with each other productively. Capitalism was born, and with it came vast gains in wealth and standard of living.

The benefits of this explosion in cooperation are obvious, but in life, there are no solutions — only trade-offs. Eventually, the costs of liberalism began to rear their heads. As nations began to liberalize and scale, they still maintained deeply rooted cultural identities and ways of life while experiencing an influx of wealth. The ruling class would need to manage these new relationships of trade and diplomacy, so they increasingly interacted with the ruling classes of other nations within the new liberal framework rather than through their own native cultural networks.

The ability to operate in the liberal global framework brought wealth and status, and soon societies were selecting for this ability rather than focusing on the territorialized traditions and virtues that had previously defined them. The incentives in these societies began to shift away from maintaining their own cultures and toward profitably engaging with the liberal world order.

As civilizations shifted their priorities, they started to lose the traditions, folkways, and even religions that defined them. They were vastly superior, both militarily and economically, to nations that had not learned to cooperate at this scale, but they were trading away something crucial with this advantage. The minimum viable morality may have been sufficient to trade tea or silk, but it was not sufficient for maintaining the social cohesion of particular societies. It turns out that the bare-bones morality extracted from their cultural and religious contexts is not enough for humans to survive in the long term.

This loss of identity and social duty started to have serious consequences. Ruling elites no longer saw the citizens of their country as family to which a duty is owed but as interchangeable economic units that could be rearranged to maximize productivity and profit. One warm body that generated labor and consumed goods was just as valuable as the next and could be swapped out at will. That is why Spain and many other Western nations have adopted this suicidal policy toward immigration — no human is Spanish; they all exist under the same liberal globalist moral architecture.

Liberalism seemed like a miracle when it allowed for scale and the massive advantages in wealth and productivity that come with it. But as the old identities and traditions fell away, the same force that allowed civilizations to grow beyond their wildest expectations also made them fragile and vulnerable. The trends we are watching play out across the Western liberal order are the slow but inevitable consequences of the radical shift we embraced in human organization, and they will not be corrected without paying a cost.

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Life is not only unfair in the new “Malcolm in the Middle,” but it is also very oppressive.

The beloved 2000s series that went for seven seasons received a four-episode reboot on Disney+ recently, aptly titled “Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair.”

However, it was likely the viewer who felt most mistreated.

‘I was like, 5, when I started feeling wrong.’

The series went live April 10 with all four episodes available simultaneously. It was the finale though that got the most traction, but for the wrong reasons.

‘They’ live

In this iteration of the show, Frankie Muniz — now a race car driver — returns as adult Malcolm and has since become a father to a teenage girl. Unfortunately, the mother abandoned her family just three days after the child’s birth, according to the show’s Wiki page. The mother’s name is Dreamer.

Nonetheless, Malcolm has a new girlfriend, Tristan, who accompanies him through a reconciliation with his family and eventually to the 40th anniversary party of his parents, Hal and Lois. This is where the real woke magic happens.

The finale takes viewers on a whirlwind tour of progressive gender and sexuality obsessions. What garnered the most attention online was a speech by the family’s sixth child (still in utero at the time the original series ended), Kelly, a new “nonbinary” character referred to as “they.”

Ok, Boomer

Played by actress Vaughan Murrae — who purports to be nonbinary herself — Kelly is included in a video tribute to Hal where each sibling says what they love about their father. Kelly’s portion instead explains her gender epiphany, saying, “I was like, 5, when I started feeling wrong. I thought I was great at hiding it, because you guys never said anything.”

“I knew that he knew and had always known,” she said about Hal, lovingly pointing out his acceptance.

Executive producer Tracy Katsky revealed in an interview with Deadline that the character was very much intentional in its messaging.

“It’s a really important thing to us. Three out of four of our kids are queer,” Katsky claimed. Her husband, Linwood Boomer, is the creator of the show. “Without making it a thing and without making an issue, I think it’s really nice to have a character that, that’s just a facet of their personality as opposed to the entire story. So we’re really happy.”

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Didn’t ask, don’t tell

Several other characters in the show are inexplicably gay as well. For example, Stevie, Malcolm’s best friend with one lung, is now gay and has since adopted a baby with his husband, Glen.

Malcolm’s trio of nerdy, male friends have a child together made possible by some sort of scientific experiment, but the show fails to provide specifics. When Malcolm asks if it happened through surrogacy, the men trail off. They do take a shot at the Department of Defense though, saying they got contracts before they graduated college and are doing a lot of “crazy s**t.”

The child later makes an appearance as his three fathers are dancing (embarrassingly so), and one asks the boy to come dance with “dada, dada, and dada,” referring to all three fathers.

To add in a creepiness factor, Malcolm’s daughter, Leah, purported to be around 14 or 15 years old, sends a photo of herself from the event to her crush. She then gets a response that reads, “Show me your boobs.”

The teen tells the camera, “What a creep! My first crush is a creep.”

The attempted lesson at phone decorum still comes across as unnecessary, given that an adult wrote the scene.

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Reboot rebut

For good measure, the show also takes a gratuitous swipe at Christianity: Francis, the eldest brother, finds out during the anniversary party that his nitwit friends accidentally sawed off the head of a Jesus statue outside of a church. They are later arrested.

TV critic Christian Toto told Blaze News he felt “the reboot was either written several years ago or comes from a creative team eager to relive the woke era.”

“Fans crave reboots for the nostalgia factor. The original show’s edge came from its humor and singular take on family, not for any culture war broadsides,” he continued.

The writer added, “The new ‘changes’ reflect a modern viewpoint that doesn’t align with anything legitimately subversive or fresh. If anything, it’s the most predictable way to take a reboot.”

While some critics welcomed the reboot’s manic energy, most noticed an emptiness beneath its progressive “updates” — even if they didn’t name them as such.

Screenrant said the show “underwhelms by wasting too much time to fully bring the family back together.”

The New York Times said the reboot “never has a chance to develop.”

The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and New York Magazine all scored the show a 4/10, while the Telegraph provided possibly the most simple yet accurate takeaway:

“It is, sadly, a disappointing reunion.”

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On March 18, abortion law in the United Kingdom underwent a profound — and, to some, deeply troubling — change. At the center of the controversy is Clause 208 of the Crime and Policing Bill.

Introduced by Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi, the clause passed in the House of Commons on June 17, 2025 and was supported by the House of Lords on March 18 of this year.

India — the largest country of origin for migrants to the United Kingdom — accounts for roughly half of the world’s ‘missing females’ at birth.

While presented as a compassionate update to Victorian-era laws, the clause effectively creates a legal disparity that anyone concerned with the sanctity of life may find objectionable.

Exempting women

To understand the scale of the change, American readers need context. The Abortion Act of 1967 did not legalize abortion outright. Instead, it established exemptions. Termination was permitted only if two doctors agreed that the pregnancy posed a risk to the physical or mental health of the mother or her existing children. Outside those conditions, abortion remained a criminal offense under the Offences Against the Person Act of 1861. Today, the general legal limit for abortion in the U.K. is 24 weeks.

Clause 208 fundamentally alters that framework. It removes women entirely from the scope of the 1861 Act. In practical terms, a woman can no longer be prosecuted for ending her own pregnancy at any stage — including up to birth. Medical professionals, however, remain bound by the 1967 Act. A doctor who performs an abortion past the 24-week limit without specific medical justification still faces potential prosecution, including life imprisonment.

The result is an asymmetry: The individual is exempt from criminal liability, while the practitioner is not. By removing legal risk from the woman — particularly in an era of pills by post and self-managed abortion — the law effectively permits abortion on request, even if formal restrictions on providers remain.

Unprecedented levels

This comes at a time when abortion rates have reached unprecedented levels. In January, the government released the 2023 abortion figures for England and Wales. The numbers showed there were 277,970 abortions — the highest recorded since the 1967 Act was introduced. If current trends continue, the U.K. is projected to surpass 300,000 annual terminations when the next figures are released.

Nearly one-third of pregnancies in England and Wales now end in abortion. In 2023, approximately 32% of all conceptions resulted in termination. Much of this increase is attributed to the “pills by post” scheme introduced during COVID-19 and made permanent in 2022. By allowing women to access abortifacients without an in-person consultation, the policy has lowered practical barriers to abortion and accelerated its normalization.

Critics of Clause 208 also point to the absence of a clear public mandate. Despite the scope of the change — effectively eliminating the prospect of prosecution for late-term self-abortion — there was no referendum or broad public consultation.

Polling from Savanta ComRes suggests that while most Britons support access to abortion, only a small minority — around 1% — support access up to birth. The same polling found that 70% of women believe the current 24-week limit should be reduced. On this reading, the law moves in the opposite direction of public sentiment.

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Sex-selective abortion

Concerns extend beyond process to potential consequences. Baroness Rosa Monckton, a life peer in the U.K.’s House of Lords, warned that the removal of legal liability could encourage sex-selective abortion. The NHS typically discloses fetal sex at the 20-week scan. Without legal deterrence, critics argue, there is little to prevent termination based on sex.

Globally, sex-selective abortion has been documented for decades, particularly in countries such as India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, where cultural and economic pressures — especially the dowry system — have historically incentivized a preference for sons. India — the largest country of origin for migrants to the United Kingdom — accounts for roughly half of the world’s “missing females” at birth.

Inevitably, some long-standing cultural traditions have persisted within these communities.

Some institutions dispute that risk. The British Pregnancy Advisory Service has described sex-selective abortion as a myth, and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has stated that statistical evidence remains inconclusive.

Imported misogyny

Yet recent data challenges these claims. Analysis from the Department of Health and Social Care found that while sex ratios among first and second births to women of Indian origin align with the national average, third births show a marked imbalance — 118 boys for every 100 girls.

The same analysis estimates that approximately 400 sex-selective abortions of female fetuses of Indian heritage occurred between 2017 and 2021, describing this as the first measurable evidence of the phenomenon in official statistics.

This raises a broader concern that legal changes intended to expand autonomy may also make it easier for society and the state to overlook grave issues such as infanticide, coercion, or sex-selective abortion. In prioritizing rights and compassion for the mother, the law now raises serious questions about the status and protection of the most vulnerable.

Liberal shibboleths

The rise of sex-selective abortion in the U.K. results from the convergence of several misguided liberal shibboleths: that “multiculturalism” permits minority groups to practice antiquated cultural customs in Britain without scrutiny; that rights of citizenship do not require corresponding responsibilities; and that any restrictions on the actions of adult women are automatically sexist and patriarchal.

The implications extend beyond individual cases. At a time when Britain faces rapid demographic change and fewer young people are choosing to start families, abortion is increasingly becoming a question of national survival. If the 300,000 pregnancies ended by abortion each year had gone to term, the U.K. population could have grown by nearly a million over just three years. Instead we rely on immigration to support our aging population, all in service of the “economic growth” idolized by elites.

Britain now faces a choice. Clause 208 is not merely a technical adjustment to outdated law. It marks a turning point — one that forces the country to confront fundamental questions about life, responsibility, and the limits of autonomy.

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President Donald Trump implored GOP lawmakers on Tuesday to “UNIFY” in support of an 18-month extension of a particular spying power that, while ostensibly limited to foreigners, has already been weaponized against American citizens — including Trump.

The warrantless surveillance authority of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was both used to spy on Trump’s 2016 campaign and exploited in recent years by the FBI hundreds of thousands of times to spy on U.S. citizens. However, Trump has now determined that it is presently “right for our Country” and needed by the military.

Background

Section 702 is a provision of FISA enacted by Congress in 2008 that enables the state to spy on foreign nationals located outside the U.S. with the compelled aid of electronic communication service providers. The surveillance is authorized programmatically such that the government doesn’t have to bother seeking a court-authorized warrant for every person it targets.

‘Do what is right for our Country.’

Although individuals targeted under 702 are supposed to be foreign nationals believed to be outside the U.S., the FBI has acknowledged that “such targets may send an email or have a phone call with a U.S. person,” resulting in the warrantless surveillance of American citizens.

Numerous Republicans, including Sens. Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Mike Lee (Utah), were especially critical of Section 702 after the FBI admitted there had been 278,000 “unintentional” backdoor search queries of the 702 database for the private communications of Americans between 2020 and 2021 alone.

Jan. 6 protesters, donors to a congressional campaign, and BLM protesters were among the American citizens subjected to the warrantless searches.

New circumstances

Trump, who advocated in 2024 for killing FISA, said on Tuesday that he was working with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and other Republicans to “get a clean extension of FISA 702 through the House of Representatives this week.”

RELATED: ‘Clear abuse’: Appellate court thwarts Judge Boasberg’s plan to investigate top Trump officials

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The president noted that he “was a victim of the worst and most illegal abuse of FISA in our Nation’s History, by Radical Left Lunatics, who lied to the FISA Court to spy on my 2016 President Campaign in their attempt to RIG the Election in favor of Crooked Hillary Clinton. Their use of this instrument in the 2020 President was even worse!”

“When the Dirty Cop, James Comey, the failed Head of the FBI, went after me, he was using FISA Title I, the Domestic Collection, not FISA 702, the Foreign Collection, which needs to be extended to,” continued Trump.

The Obama FBI utilized FISA Title I authority to target the 2016 Trump campaign during the bureau’s Crossfire Hurricane frame-up.

The FBI submitted multiple applications to authorize FISA surveillance of Carter Page, a U.S. citizen then serving as an adviser to Trump. The applications that were approved were loaded with “17 significant inaccuracies and omissions,” according to the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General.

Trump acknowledged that FISA authority has been used against him in the past and may be weaponized against him in the future but stressed that he is “willing to risk that as a Citizen in order to do what is right for our Country.”

According to the president, the military “desperately needs FISA 702, and it is one of the reasons we have had such tremendous SUCCESS on the battlefield, both in Venezuela and Iran.”

“The fact is, whether you like FISA or not, it is extremely important to our Military,” continued Trump. “I have spoken to many Generals about this, and they consider it VITAL.”

Trump’s Tuesday message greatly resembles a Truth Social message he shared last month, in which he also said that he wanted “the Critical and Common Sense Reforms that were made in the last Reauthorization of FISA” to “remain intact to protect the American People from abuses.”

The House Rules Committee advanced a clean extension of the surveillance powers on Tuesday, setting the stage for a floor vote on extending Section 702 ahead of the April 20 deadline, reported The Hill.

While some Republican critics of Section 702 have reversed their stances like the president in light of the reforms added to the provision, it remains unclear if Johnson presently has the votes to see it pass. Politico reported that several GOP lawmakers are planning to vote “no.”

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Last Sunday, President Trump posted an AI-generated meme of himself dressed in white and red robes, his hand appearing to hold a glowing orb, while healing a sick person in a hospital bed. Many interpreted the image as Trump depicting himself as Jesus and were deeply offended by what they perceived as religious blasphemy. Others defended the post as an innocent joke.

But Glenn Beck says all of these reactions are missing the bigger issue.

Citing a Washington post article that framed the meme as the cause of rare, strong backlash and blasphemy accusations from Trump’s evangelical and Catholic supporters, Glenn begins by calling out the outlet for politically capitalizing on a tasteless joke in order to rile up and divide Trump’s supporters.

“It’s not like Jesus is Muhammad. You can do whatever you want to Jesus in this country and nobody cares, it seems,” he says. “Since when did the Washington Post care about something that could be looked upon as blasphemy for Christians?”

“They only care because it’s political,” he argues.

Glenn explains that social media has become a powerful tool that enemies — domestic and foreign — use to push propaganda, stir up dissent, and manufacture outrage.

Research has just shown that foreign powers are doing this in America right now.

Glenn cites recent data showing that “60% of the most viral posts on X about Iran in the first weeks of the fighting came from accounts based outside of the US. Foreign accounts generated 155 million views compared to 93 million from real American viewers.”

“That’s not organic outrage, okay? That’s Iran. That’s Russia. That’s China flooding the zone with deepfakes, doctored images of sunken ships, scripted narratives designed to make us fight one another,” he argues.

These foreign powers “don’t care if you love Trump or hate Trump,” Glenn continues.

“They just need everybody at each other’s throats.”

The biggest issue with Trump’s Jesus meme, says Glenn, isn’t what it might or might not have conveyed; the biggest issue is that it served as fuel for the social media outrage machine that keeps us fighting one another, which is exactly what our enemies want.

“[Social media] is a .50-caliber machine gun aimed at your head and this civilization every single day. It’s a nuclear weapon,” he warns.

To hear more, watch the video above.

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A tough pressure campaign from high-profile Democrats has failed to persuade other members of their party in Maryland, where a new congressional map is now off the table.

Democrats enjoy a super-majority in both the Maryland House of Delegates and the Senate, and Democrat Wes Moore has been governor since 2023. Nevertheless, a redistricting proposal that would have threatened the lone Republican congressional seat died in the Maryland Senate when the legislative session ended Monday night.

‘At some point, I am going to have to have a conversation with him if he continues to stand in the way of an up or down vote.’

The Maryland House passed the map overwhelmingly in early February, 99-37.

Gov. Moore pressed hard to pass the map through the state Senate and onto his desk as a way to combat Republican redistricting efforts in Texas and North Carolina, spearheaded by President Donald Trump.

“I think Donald Trump is actively trying to manipulate and change the rules around the November election and beyond because he knows he cannot win on his policies,” Moore told the AP.

Moore also told Rev. Al Sharpton last week: “If the rest of the country is going to have this conversation about mid-decade redistricting, then so should Maryland, and so should every other state. Because until it is done nationally, we have to make sure that this election is not stolen right before our face so this pain is made permanent.”

RELATED: Hakeem Jeffries pressures Maryland Democrat over one Republican-held congressional seat

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Even U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) promised to pressure Democratic Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson to bring the map up for a vote.

“All we are asking Senate President Ferguson to do is allow democracy to prevail. What that means is an up or down vote,” Jeffries said in February. “At some point, I am going to have to have a conversation with him if he continues to stand in the way of an up or down vote. But, hopefully, over the next few days, he will change his mind.”

But Ferguson did not change his mind.

Ferguson has consistently resisted efforts to vote on the map, claiming that passing a new map could jeopardize the current map by prompting judicial review.

“Any redrawing of the current map could reopen the ability for someone to challenge the current map and give the court the opportunity to strike it down, or even worse, redraw the map itself,” Ferguson wrote in a letter back in October.

“That means that Maryland’s potential gain of one seat is immediately eliminated, and, in fact, worsens the national outlook.”

A judge already tossed a Maryland congressional map that passed in 2021, calling it “a product of extreme partisan gerrymandering.” The current map was passed in 2022.

Jeffries’ office did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg was handed a major defeat on Tuesday amid his ongoing jihad against the Trump administration.

Early last year, the Obama appointee ordered a pause to the Trump administration’s planned deportations of Tren de Aragua terrorists under the Alien Enemies Act. Boasberg was not, however, sufficiently quick on the draw.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed that two planes loaded with alleged gangsters were already airborne, one headed to El Salvador and the other to Honduras.

‘These proceedings are a clear abuse.’

Boasberg, who previously helped the Biden FBI spy on Republican lawmakers’ phone records and released a woman accused of repeatedly threatening President Donald Trump’s life, lashed out in response.

Days after the U.S. Supreme Court threw out his temporary restraining order blocking the administration from using the AEA to deport Tren de Aragua gangsters, Boasberg stated in a court motion a year ago that the federal government had demonstrated “a willful disregard” for his ruling, prompting him “to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt.”

RELATED: Liberals increase their stranglehold over Wisconsin Supreme Court — which now has ties to Planned Parenthood

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Boasberg attempted to pursue criminal proceedings against top administration officials, but the Justice Department intervened, asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to ground the activist judge’s “endless fishing expedition.”

In its petition to the appellate court, the DOJ accused the district court of plunging forward “in a doubly unconstitutional manner: by conducting its own criminal investigation (contra the separation of powers) and doing so in a way that appears designed to punish Defendants for their successful mandamus petition (contra the Due Process Clause).”

The DOJ argued further that Boasberg’s order was “also incoherent on its own terms,” noting “there was no willful violation as a matter of law because the TRO did not clearly forbid the conduct at issue.”

On Monday, a three-judge panel on the appellate court, comprising two Trump appointees and an Obama appointee, crushed Boasberg’s dreams of raking Trump officials over the coals in criminal contempt proceedings in a 2-1 decision.

“The district court proposes to probe high-level Executive Branch deliberations about matters of national security and diplomacy,” Judge Neomi Rao noted in the opinion for the court. “These proceedings are a clear abuse of discretion, as the district court’s order said nothing about transferring custody of the plaintiffs and therefore lacks the clarity to support criminal contempt based on the transfer of custody.”

Rao said that Boasberg repeatedly “moved the goalposts”; suffered from an incredible lack of clarity, at least in his construction of his restraining order; “assumed an improper jurisdiction antagonistic to the Executive Branch”; and had pursued an “intrusive” and “improper” investigation that would inevitably terminate in a “legal dead end.”

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

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More than 100 police officers responded to a panic alarm allegedly activated by a teacher at about 8:45 a.m. on Thursday at Splendora High School.

The school was already on lockdown when officers arrived, and school officials later sent out a notice to parents that police were investigating a “physical altercation” between a student and a staff member.

‘If it’s going to be a hoax, if you’re going to call in a hoax, we will hold you responsible for it.’

The altercation involved a student and 53-year-old teacher Nicole Truelove, who had been allegedly stabbed with a razor blade.

Students described a panicked and chaotic response to the lockdown as teachers pulled students into their rooms.

After an investigation, police determined that the teacher had stabbed herself and blamed the student.

“During the investigation, it was determined that there was no assault on a teacher that was committed by a student. The injuries sustained to the teacher were self-inflicted,” said Rick Bass, the assistant chief of operations for the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.

“Evidence supports that this was a hoax,” he added.

Truelove was charged with making a false report and tampering with evidence.

Bass went on to defend the large police response as appropriate for the panic alarm.

“This is what’s supposed to happen when we have threats on school campuses,” he added. “And that’s what you see here today. That’s why you see such a large law enforcement community here. We take it very seriously. And if it’s going to be a hoax, if you’re going to call in a hoax, we will hold you responsible for it.”

Superintendent Dr. Dustin Bromley also released a statement about the incident.

“While this is a very unfortunate incident, the safety and security measures that we have implemented worked flawlessly,” he said.

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“We understand that situations like this can be concerning, and we truly appreciate the patience and cooperation of our students, our staff, and of course, our parents and families while our emergency protocols were followed,” Bromley added. “The safety of our students and staff remains at the top of our priority.”

KHOU-TV has since discovered that Truelove sued another school district after alleging that an inmate sexually assaulted her. That lawsuit was settled, and the inmate later filed a lawsuit accusing her of false accusations. He then withdrew that lawsuit.

Truelove had only worked with the Splendora district for one year before the incident.

Splendora is a small Texas town of about 2,000 residents located 37 miles northeast of Houston.

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As the United States Navy moves to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, the world is watching for a show of force. What they will find instead is a fleet hollowed out by a decade of social engineering and administrative sclerosis.

You cannot project American sovereignty abroad with a military that is busy managing its own decline at home. More importantly, this naval escalation risks suffocating the most promising diplomatic opening in decades.

The permanent class of experts would rather risk a catastrophic naval engagement than concede that a regional partner can resolve a crisis.

The current standoff in the Middle East has reached a critical juncture. The Pentagon has confirmed the commencement of a formal naval blockade of Iranian ports. This decision follows a dramatic surge in global oil prices, which have now breached the $104-per-barrel mark.

The current situation in the Strait of Hormuz is a diagnostic test of a failing American foreign policy establishment that seems intent on sabotaging the mediation efforts currently led by Pakistan.

For the past week, Islamabad has served as the epicenter of a historic diplomatic effort. These talks represented the first direct, high-level engagement between Washington and Tehran in nearly 50 years. By facilitating marathon negotiations between American officials and Iranian representatives, Pakistan demonstrated that regional stability is best managed by regional actors.

This diplomatic track offered an off-ramp from a conflict that would likely bankrupt the global economy and further overextend American resources. Even as peace efforts continue, however, the American deep state has pivoted back to a posture of maritime confrontation.

The defense establishment has become a microcosm of the broader bureaucracy plaguing the American government. Procurement cycles for new vessels span decades, and the internal culture has shifted toward ideological compliance rather than mission readiness. Put simply: Institutional rot has degraded the military’s ability to do its job.

Reports indicate that the availability of operational carrier strike groups is significantly lower than projected. Attempting to enforce a blockade with a hollowed-out fleet is a dangerous venture and could undermine the leverage the American delegation sought to build in Islamabad.

From a regional perspective, the sudden shift toward a blockade looks less like a strategic necessity and more like an attempt by the Washington bureaucracy to reclaim control of the narrative.

Critics of the modern bureaucracy have long argued that a nation cannot remain a great power if its governing structures are no longer accountable to the reality of the world. By ignoring the diplomatic progress in Pakistan in favor of a naval show, the administrative state is prioritizing its own relevance over a sustainable peace.

RELATED: The Trump-Vance dynamic is the key to solving the Iran problem

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This bureaucratic reflex reveals a deeper pathology within the American capital. The permanent class of experts would rather risk a catastrophic naval engagement than concede that a regional partner can resolve a crisis. This is the definition of a paper tiger mentality: a desperate projection of power abroad to mask the total lack of accountability and efficiency at home.

The Trump administration has the opportunity to embrace a new model of burden sharing. Real leadership requires the courage to let regional partners take the lead in mediation, rather than allowing the interventionist bureaucracy to launch a new conflict.

Blockading the Strait of Hormuz risks an escalation that the Navy is ill-prepared to handle. Such an escalation would also risk alienating the regional partners who have worked toward peace talks and ceasefire agreements.

The blockade should be viewed as the American administrative state’s refusal to accept a world where it isn’t the sole arbiter of every crisis.

The path forward is clear. American leaders must recognize that the greatest threats to Washington are not just the regimes in Tehran or Beijing, but the internal decay of American institutions.

To secure peace, the United States must support the diplomatic process rather than drowning it in the Persian Gulf.

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Republicans are continuing their uninterrupted streak of woefully underperforming in elections. However, in the first of its kind referendum on Big Tech data centers, voters are showing that a party that embraces land sovereignty over Big Tech dystopian land grabs will win the day.

Sadly, Republicans have chosen to be on the losing side of the issue.

The public is being asked to shoulder a burden to facilitate a supposed technology whose benefits are very unclear and dubious.

In a first of its kind local referendum, voters in Port Washington, Wisconsin, voted by a margin of 2-1 for a referendum that will require all future data center projects in the area to be approved by a vote of the city’s residents.

The referendum was sparked in the wake of Oracle and OpenAI’s Stargate facility setting up shop in the area. The proposed 1.3 gigawatt facility will consume the power equivalent of over one million households.

The referendum does not undo the Stargate project but will prevent any future project worth more than $10 million from getting approval without the public input.

Over 1,000 residents signed the petition that put this measure on the ballot. “We are not against development,” added Michael Baester, founding member of Great Lakes Neighbors United, which spearheaded this campaign. “We are for development that the community understands, supports, and has chosen together. Tonight proves that when citizens organize and engage, their voices can be heard.”

What is so important nationally about this vote is that Port Washington was carried by Trump 52-48 in 2024. It is the quintessential swing city that sways the Wisconsin vote, and by proxy, the entire country’s electorate.

Such an emphatic result from a swing town demonstrates the potency of the data center issue.

According to Politico, other communities around the country are set to vote on similar ballot measures.

Imagine if Republicans could get on the right side of the data center issue. What might that do for their failing election efforts?

In Festus, Missouri, a solid conservative jurisdiction, voters ousted four GOP councilmen who recently approved rezoning for a $6 billion data center. Two of them were defeated by margins greater than 2-1.

Thus the grassroots opposition to data centers is just as virulent in red America as it is in swing areas that have already soured on Trump because of the economy.

Oklahoma is a state where Trump carried every county, yet voters there are firmly opposed to data centers.

After Google tried to bribe the locals in Osage County to support a hyperscale data center, the Rock Volunteer Fire Department turned down a $250,000 donation from the company. This is a county Trump won by 41 points.

The opposition is just as stiff in the cities. Last month, the Tulsa City Council voted unanimously to halt construction of new data centers for nine months. All 19 speakers at the meeting voiced support for the moratorium.

Across the state in Oklahoma City, the city council recently voted to rezone over 800 acres of farmland for a Google data center. The council is now facing a recall petition.

Portage County, Ohio, is a prototypical rust belt, blue-collar county that traditionally voted Democrat but migrated to the GOP under Trump. The president carried the county by 15 points in 2024. Last week, the Ravenna City Council moved forward with a 12-month moratorium on the centers after a crowd filled the city council chambers to speak against the proposed projects.

In many respects, the ubiquitous opposition to data centers is a reflection of the sheer pervasiveness and magnitude of these projects, targeting nearly every county in states like Ohio, Indiana, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, Virginia, and Arizona and numerous places in the majority of other states.

According to the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, the grid operator in most of the Midwest, by 2030, the proposed hyperscale data centers in Indiana will use an amount of electricity equivalent to twice that used by the entire state.

None of this makes any sense nor is it sustainable, especially for a product that increasingly fails to produce a degree of profit that could come close to paying for all the capital expenditure and power.

This is why red-state RINOs like those in drought-stricken Texas continue to shower these companies with lavish sales tax breaks.

RELATED: Data centers are a hidden tax on your burger

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We don’t offer 30-year abatements like this to any other industry, but this is what data centers require to remain solvent because their hardware depreciates so quickly. According to the state comptroller, Lone Star voters will subsidize $3.2 billion in tax breaks to the largest companies on the planet over the next two years.

Four of the largest states targeted for data centers — Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, and Georgia — are languishing through a severe and sustained drought.

Industry apologists are trying to gaslight people into believing that their closed-loop systems will somehow not affect the water flow, but it’s inconceivable that it won’t have a short-term effect and also pose health concerns when recycled back into the water table.

An application from Amazon to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management indicates that the sanitary system it is constructing for two of its hyperscales in New Carlisle is designed to use more than 1.6 million gallons per day on hot summer days.

This is “only” the equivalent water use of about 5,000 households, which pales in comparison to some other facilities and to the magnitude of the power use. Keep in mind that the entire population of this town is just under 1,900.

There’s a reason why 65% of voters oppose all data center construction, including a clear majority of all demographics, ideological groups, and income levels, despite all of the lobbying and electioneering by Big Tech.

The public is being asked to shoulder a burden to facilitate a supposed technology whose benefits are very unclear and dubious.

Republicans can continue ignoring this grassroots revolt, but they will do so at their own peril. Nothing motivates voters more than the preservation of their own communities. That is one thing that still unites a divided America.

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The DoorDash delivery app is getting some backlash from those angry about a publicity stunt it had with President Donald Trump at the White House Monday.

The president smiled for the cameras after receiving a package from McDonald’s delivered by a DoorDash worker. He tipped her $100, and she praised his “no taxes on tips” policy for saving her money.

‘Today, I deleted their app. There are other delivery services that don’t pander to a pedophile. F**k DoorDash.’

Almost immediately, liberals and other anti-Trump critics lambasted the company over the promotion.

“I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve spent a good deal of money using door dash. This lame s**t you pulled with trump made it super easy to delete my account. Get f**ked,” one user responded on the X platform.

“I’ve been ordering @DoorDash for years. Years and years. Today, I deleted their app. There are other delivery services that don’t pander to a pedophile. F**k DoorDash and that bulls**t PR scam with Trump,” replied a user identifying as a Canadian.

“Despite yall making it exceedingly difficult to delete accounts, got that s**t done. Absolutely F**k Trump, ICE, MAGA, and doordash,” one response reads.

“Just delete Doordash. F**k Trump,” another user said.

“Just cancelled my DashPass and hopefully many more do the same. I’m not funding Trumpie propaganda,” another detractor replied.

“You f**king clowns use the fake ass driver to f**king promote this f**king bulls**t for a f**king clown show pathetic f**king pathetic,” another critic said.

RELATED: Viral TikTok post leads to boycott of beloved SoCal taco shop chain — just because Latino CEO likes Trump

“Deleting ur app! Been a long term volume customer for years. Recommend you firing the marketing genius who’s gonna cost you millions of dollars for that performance at the White House! You have alienated millions of people,” said another.

“Deleted my app and will never use you again. Trump is a FASCIST, who is killing people and sending children to torture camps to be raped. I’ll be telling everyone I know to never use you again. I hope your company fails,” reads another message to the company.

Despite the outrage from many on the left, the company’s stock price had its best session in eight weeks after the White House promotion.

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Socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has revealed his plans for city-run grocery stores, a key promise he made to get into office.

Mamdani touted a similar experiment in 1936 by then-Mayor Fiero LaGuardia that provided city-run markets for New Yorkers in the throes of the Great Depression.

‘You know, it’s going to be more turmoil than anything else. It’s a great punch line for him and for the socialist movement. But New York is not a socialist city.’

“It cut overhead for pushcart vendors and lowered consumer cost,” Mamdani said during his 100 Days address on Sunday evening.

“LaGuardia said it was ‘an answer to those who said they had been forgotten,'” he added. “The New York Times described it succinctly, ‘City tries experiment.’ New York City, it is time for a grand experiment once again. Just like Laguardia used government to respond to challenges of the Great Depression, we will use government to respond to rising prices and unaffordable groceries.”

The effort will have a massive price tag.

Construction operations just at the first site are expected to run to $30 million.

Critics howled at the estimate, noting that it’s many times more what private industry spends to build a grocery store. And funding still needs to be approved by the city council.

Mamdani also said the stores would offer discounted prices on only certain staple items.

“The city will subsidize a core set of food staples,” the socialist mayor said. “A private operator will run the store but will answer to the standards the city will set. These standards include requirements that at our stores, bread will be cheaper. Eggs will be cheaper. Grocery shopping will no longer be an unsolvable equation. And workers will be treated with dignity.”

City Hall hopes to have the first city-run store running by 2027 and four others by 2029, the end of Mamdani’s term.

Critics are already lambasting the plan, including the spokesperson for a bodega group.

“These stores are going to get jam-packed. There are only four or five in the entire city of 8 million people,” said Fernando Mateo of the United Bodegas of America.

“What do you expect is going to happen? You’re going to have people rushing to these stores early in the morning to late at night, waiting on long lines,” he added. “You know, it’s going to be more turmoil than anything else. It’s a great punch line for him and for the socialist movement. But New York is not a socialist city.”

RELATED: Yet another big socialist promise from Mamdani skids and crashes into reality

Others noted that previous city-run grocery experiments ended with empty shelves and crime.

Mamdani spoke directly to the naysayers of his socialist plot.

“Some will insist that city-owned businesses do not work, that government cannot keep up with corporations,” he said. “My answer to them is simple. I look forward to the competition.”

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The swift resignations of Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) to avoid expulsion votes regarding sexual misconduct allegations may trigger a chain reaction on Capitol Hill to remove other lawmakers accused of wrongdoing.

Gonzales stated that he planned to file his retirement from office on Tuesday after admitting to an affair with a former staffer who later committed suicide.

‘Congress has serious moral and ethical problems and these four are the face of it.’

On Sunday, Swalwell decided he would suspend his bid for California governor after a former staffer claimed he had previously sexually assaulted her. Swalwell has denied the allegations.

The House Ethics Committee announced Monday that it would open an investigation into the allegations against Swalwell. That same day, Swalwell stated he would resign from Congress, citing his colleagues’ intent to expel him.

“I am aware of efforts to bring an immediate expulsion vote against me and other members,” Swalwell said. “Expelling anyone in Congress without due process, within days of an allegation being made, is wrong. But it’s also wrong for my constituents to have me distracted from my duties. Therefore, I plan to resign my seat in Congress.”

The recent resignations of Swalwell and Gonzales have renewed bipartisan calls for other scandal-plagued lawmakers to step down. Among those urging immediate action are Reps. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) and Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.), who have publicly called on Reps. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) and Cory Mills (R-Fla.) to resign.

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The House Ethics Committee effectively found Cherfilus-McCormick guilty in March of 25 counts of financial misconduct and campaign-finance violations related to the misuse of federal relief funds. She was accused of stealing $5 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds.

The committee opened an investigation into Mills in November regarding several allegations, including claims that the congressman failed to disclose necessary information to the House, violated campaign finance laws, improperly accepted gifts and special favors, engaged in sexual misconduct, and misused congressional resources.

Blaze News was the first to report the bombshell sextortion accusations against Mills from former Miss United States Lindsey Langston.

Mills has also been accused of stolen valor, with multiple veterans and former colleagues previously telling Blaze News that he fabricated or exaggerated key elements of his military record.

On Monday, Mace declared that it is “time to clean house.”

“We don’t care what party you’re in. Stealing millions in taxpayer dollars, sexually assaulting your staff, lying about your service record, none of it is acceptable and none of it goes unnoticed,” Mace stated. “Congress has serious moral and ethical problems and these four are the face of it. Washington has protected its own for too long. It needs to end now. We’re calling on these four to resign or face expulsion.”

Velázquez made similar comments on Monday, writing in a post on X, “Congress should not tolerate representatives who abuse staff, betray public trust for personal gain, and generally violate their oath of office.”

“Reps. Swalwell, Gonzales, Cherfilus-McCormick, and Mills should resign. If they refuse, they should be expelled,” Velázquez stated.

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Mace, who has been leading the charge to remove Mills, forced a censure vote against Mills in November over “alleged stolen valor, arms deals he’s under investigation for and alleged abuses toward women.” It failed in a 310-103 vote, with 204 Republicans and 106 Democrats supporting Mills.

Mace claimed that a censure against Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands), who was accused of colluding with Jeffrey Epstein during a 2019 congressional hearing, had previously failed because Mills arranged a “backroom deal” to suppress his own censure.

Mills was accused of similar allegations in September when he voted to protect Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from censure. Mills was the deciding vote.

“Another backroom deal so Cory Mills can’t get censored [sic] for Stolen Valor,” Mace stated in a November post on X. “I have the General who ‘recommended’ him for the Bronze Star on record saying he never wrote it, never read it and never personally signed it. This. Is. Washington.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) stated Tuesday that he is “looking into” the House Ethics investigation into Mills.

Mills’ office did not respond to a request for comment.

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A popular Chinese robot is going viral for a video showing it chasing wild boars, but many aren’t sure why that happened.

The robot itself, nicknamed Edward Warchocki, is a Unitree G1 model available for public purchase that popped up in Poland.

‘Older ladies or gentlemen love talking with him.’

The Chinese-made robots go for a whopping $23,809 for the basic model, all the way up to $58,365 for the “ultimate edition.”

Recently, this particular model was seen running through the streets of Warsaw, Poland, chasing wild boars. While hilarious, there is actual serious context behind the content.

Major Polish cities like Krakow have endured a sprawling wild boar issue — even in city centers — for years, resulting in authorities urging their population to resist feeding the somewhat approachable beasts.

Other cities have resorted to planting flowers with vivid colors and sweet scents in order to deter the pigs.

Since at least 2019, there have been warnings of disease allegedly spread by the animals, resulting in calls for culls and elimination of thousands of them that have reportedly carried illnesses like African swine fever and Hepatitis E.

Enter Edward the robot, who was recently seen shooing the animals away from downtown Warsaw.

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As reported by Interesting Engineering, Edward is a Chinese humanoid that operates mostly on its own. It is not controlled remotely and is described as unscripted. Therefore it reacts dynamically to its surroundings and engages in adaptive dialogue in Polish using AI.

Edward is most popular with Polish Boomers, its owners say, as they are excited to interact with a robot for the first time.

Radosław Grzelaczyk and business partner Bartosz Idzik started in cryptocurrency, but they now try to create viral videos with their robo-friend.

“Personally, the sight of this robot chasing boars does not surprise me anymore,” Grzelaczyk told TVP World.

“Older ladies or gentlemen love talking with him,” Grzelaczyk added. “These people are always delighted that they lived to see times in which robots move through the streets.”

RELATED: China debuts ‘scary’ martial arts robots capable of backflips and weapons training

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In China, the robots have been shown to be capable of advanced feats. Last year, they competed in a half-marathon and were showcased in February performing kung-fu, gymnastics, and weapons work.

The focus during China’s annual CCTV Spring Festival gala was innovation in multi-robot coordination and fault recovery, referring to a robot’s ability to get up after tumbling down. China showed the robots in choreographed performances and dancing as well.

Definitive warning signs of spying from Chinese robot manufacturers exist too. Axios reported on two security researchers who reported on Unitree Robotics allegedly pre-installing a backdoor on its Go1 robot dogs that allowed for customer surveillance.

Other research warned about exploits that allowed for remote takeover of the humanoid bots, among other models.

Neither Edward nor his owners responded to Return’s request for comment.

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Liberals are trying to destroy a popular taco shop chain run by a Hispanic family for generations because the CEO is a supporter of President Donald Trump.

Roberto’s Taco Shop began as a tortilla shop in San Diego, California, in the late 1960s by an immigrant family from Mexico. It has grown into a vast franchise with 80 locations in California, Nevada, and Texas.

‘Total rags to riches American story too. They are San Diego legends.’

On Wednesday, a TikTok activist posted evidence showing that chain CEO Reynaldo Robledo has posted statements in support of the president.

That post went viral, and liberals are now calling for customers to avoid all Roberto’s Taco Shops.

“Did this CEO forget that all of his restaurants are based on Mexican dishes, who wouldn’t have made it here without the immigrants that are currently being affected by the current administration that you are supporting?” the TikToker asked.

The message has spread to other platforms, including Facebook.

“Did you know that Reynaldo Robledo, the CEO of Roberto’s Taco Shop is a huge MAGA supporter and supports ICE! Looks like you won’t be getting our business anymore!” reads a post from a group titled “A Strong Nevada.”

Others have posted the video on the X social media platform.

The Nevada part of the chain issued a statement trying to quell the outrage.

“Roberto’s Taco Shop is proud to be a Latino-owned and operated franchise that serves diverse communities across Nevada,” the statement reads. “While our CEO may hold personal political beliefs, it is important to note that each of our 49 franchisees operate their stores independently.”

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Others pointed out that the boycott would harm independent franchise owners who have nothing to do with the political beliefs of the CEO.

Some on the right responded by calling on Trump supporters to combat the boycott by patronizing the taco shops.

“Total rags to riches American story too. They are San Diego legends,” SoCal activist Amy Reichert replied.

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