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Woman known as ‘Baby Jessica’ from 1987 rescue has been arrested for domestic assault
The woman who was rescued as a child from a well decades ago has grown up and was arrested on domestic charges in Texas, according to police.
Jessica McClure Morales, who is now 40 years old and a mother of two, was arrested and charged with assault causing bodily injury involving family violence on Saturday.
After her arrest and release, she posted a cryptic message on social media.
Midland County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a call at her home at about 10 p.m. and arrested her after an investigation. She was released after posting bond at the Midland County Detention Center.
No other details about the accusation were available.
McClure Morales gained worldwide fame when she accidentally fell into a narrow well in Oct. 1987 at her aunt’s home in Midland. She was only 18 months old at the time.
It took 60 hours for rescuers to figure out how to safely rescue her from 22 feet down the 8-inch-wide shaft. They were able to drill a horizontal tunnel through the rocks around the well.
McClure Morales and her family visited then-President George H.W. Bush at the White House to celebrate the rescue that captured the nation’s attention.
After her arrest and release, she posted a cryptic message on social media.
“Note to self: Happiness is letting go of what you assume your life is supposed to be like right now, and sincerely appreciating it for everything that it is,” McClure Morales wrote.
McClure Morales recently experienced a family tragedy when her father’s stepdaughter was brutally murdered in January.
Gracey Adams, 25, was found shot dead in her home in Nashville, and her 29-year-old girlfriend, Sarah Stacey, was charged for her murder.
Her parents said the couple had a tumultuous relationship because of addiction issues.
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The divisive issue that could decide the midterms now has $200 million on the line
A bet on artificial intelligence is driving a nine-figure investment in the political world ahead of the midterms.
With millions of dollars on hand, one super PAC insistent on pushing artificial intelligence is injecting cash into political campaigns across the country.
‘About half of Americans are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life.’
With the help of some generous venture capitalists, super PAC Leading the Future was just announced to have surpassed $140 million in just about a year and a half.
The latest donations have added to the $125 million raised in 2025.
Leading the Future — which says it is focused on “advancing a positive, forward-looking agenda for AI innovation in Washington, D.C.” — has been willing to pump money into candidates from either party and has done so in states like Illinois, New York, and Texas.
Business Insider reports that the PAC generally pushes candidates who show broad support of AI and tech innovation, while keeping regulations light.
This included $1.4 million to Texas Republican candidates across four districts: Tom Sell, Jace Yarbrough, Jessica Steinmann, and Chris Gober.
For Democrats, $1.1 million was reportedly provided to former Rep. Melissa Bean, with $1.4 million going to Jesse Jackson Jr., both in Illinois.
The PAC is also supporting Democrat Alex Bores’ run to replace Rep. Jerry Nadler (D) in New York, according to NOTUS.
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The jury is still out in terms of support from the general public on AI overall, with skepticism and lack of acceptance still floating around 50/50.
Pew polling from 2025 showed that about half of Americans are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life. About half of respondents also said AI will worsen the ability to think creatively and form meaningful relationships.
The data also had Republicans and Democrats split on their concern. Half of respondents from both parties said they were more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI.
About 10% from both parties said they were more excited than concerned.
Favorability floats around 50% in 2026 polling from Data for Progress. It is most favored by black people (61%), those under 45 (61%), and men (57%). At the same time, it is mostly unfavorable with women (51%) and those over 45 (52%).
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Public skepticism may be the biggest hurdle for the super PAC to overcome, but it is also facing opposition money.
Another network called Public First is pledging $50 million to candidates who support regulation, in either party, in 2026.
Public First positions itself as representing American voters who have concerns about “the impacts of AI on kids, workers, consumers, and the American economy.”
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‘Absurd’ perks for Haitian migrants may be extended, thanks to these 6 Republicans
The House has advanced a bill to extend the Temporary Protected Status for Haiti by another three years after six Republicans voted with Democrats.
Democrats unanimously voted Wednesday to advance Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s legislation that would give special protections to Haitian migrants. The bill ultimately advanced in a 219-209 vote with the help of six Republicans and one independent, Rep. Kevin Kiley of California, who previously served as a member of the GOP.
‘If you import the Third World, you become the Third World.’
The six Republicans are: Reps. Don Bacon of Nebraska, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Carlos Gimenez of Florida, Mike Lawler of New York, Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida, and Nicole Malliotakis of New York. Notably, Salazar is also leading the charge for the bipartisan bill dubbed the Dignity Act, which critics have said is just another push for mass amnesty.
Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas called the vote to extend TPS for Haitians “absurd,” echoing the concerns shared by many Americans.
RELATED: ‘Terrible betrayal’: Republican’s ‘compassionate’ immigration bill sparks intraparty clash
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Earlier in April, President Donald Trump and his administration sounded the alarm after an immigrant from Haiti allegedly murdered an American woman at a gas station by bludgeoning her with a hammer. This migrant came to the United States during former President Joe Biden’s administration and benefited from the same Temporary Protected Status the House is on track to extend.
“This animal was allowed to stay here because the Biden Administration granted him, and all Haitians, ‘Temporary Protective Status,’ a massively abused and fraudulent program which my Administration is working to terminate, but Deranged Liberal District Court Judges are standing in our way,” Trump said in a Truth Social Post.
“As I’ve said all along, if you import the Third World, you become the Third World, and that is what happened over the four years of Democrat Control,” he added.
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‘DISGUSTING’: Megyn Kelly rips into ‘Euphoria’ clip with Sydney Sweeney
A clip from the newest season of “Euphoria” sent commentator Megyn Kelly into fits after seeing actress Sydney Sweeney pose sexually while wearing an infantile costume.
Sweeney portrays a woman who decides to open an OnlyFans account to fund her wedding but ends up dressing like a baby to satisfy some client’s bizarre desires.
‘Most normal people are going to recoil … in response to what’s essentially the sexualization of a child.’
Kelly said she was shocked by the scene as well as the reaction to it.
“She’s dressed as a baby! She’s in a baby’s outfit. She’s sucking on a binky pacifier, and her legs are completely spread,” she said on her show.
“You can have a laugh, of course, because I was shocked, but the truth is, this is sexualizing infancy. That’s what it is,” Kelly added. “And some of the write-ups on this are like, ‘It’s a pretty common kink.’ What? Getting turned on by a baby, like what?!”
“It seems to be wanting to bring down your defenses on the most disgusting crime imaginable on earth.”
Video of the scene was posted to social media.
“I can’t believe she agreed to this frankly and was in this,” said Kelly of Sweeney.
“I think this is another example of Hollywood not understanding at all where the line is,” the commentator added. “And how most normal people are going to recoil … in response to what’s essentially the sexualization of a child, of a baby.”
Kelly went on to criticize Sam Levinson, the show’s creator, for other needless scenes of nudity.
“He constantly wants women to take their clothes off for scenes that don’t require them to be nude at all,” Kelly said.
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“All these women want to be stars, and few say no, but those that do, somehow it leaks because they’re clearly trying to tell us that this guy is, at a minimum, a jerk, and, more than likely, a problem,” she added.
Sweeney became a favorite for many on the right when her presence in an American Eagle jeans advertisement made leftist woke-scolds on TikTok implode with fury. The company was accused of pushing fascist and racist propaganda, but both the actress and American Eagle have laughed off the claims.
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VIDEO: Heroic high school principal saves the day, stops shooter in his tracks
On April 7, a heroic principal prevented a tragedy at an Oklahoma school by stepping in to disarm a gunman who entered the school near his office.
Blaze News previously reported that Pauls Valley Principal Kirk Moore stopped an armed assailant from shooting up the school, risking his life for his students and taking a bullet to the leg in the process.
Blaze News acquired surveillance video from the school showing the scene unfold.
The video shows the suspect entering the building and pulling out a gun. Moore can be seen jumping into action without hesitation after he enters the hallway and identifies the threat.
Moore was shot in the leg during the struggle.
RELATED: Heroic Oklahoma principal praised for thwarting alleged ‘Columbine’-inspired attack
Video shows Moore managing to restrain the suspect and pinning the hand with the gun, preventing the suspect from using it, before another man intervenes and removes the firearm from the situation.
No students or other faculty were harmed during the incident.
A GoFundMe page was set up to support Principal Moore as a “token of appreciation for a man who gave everything for others.”
The page reads, “Principal Moore has spent his life protecting and guiding students. In a moment of crisis, he proved just how far he’s willing to go for them.”
The fund has raised more than $10,000 at the time of writing.
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‘No amount of fraud is too big or too small’: Vance’s anti-fraud task force targets every crook stealing from taxpayers
Vice President JD Vance, who chairs the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, declared that “no amount of fraud is too big or too small” and stated that the task force plans to target bad actors regardless of the amount of money they have stolen from taxpayers.
During a Turning Point USA event at the University of Georgia on Tuesday, Vance highlighted the task force’s early victories.
‘If you’re defrauding the taxpayer, you ought to go to prison, and anybody who’s helping you ought to go to prison too.’
President Donald Trump established the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud by executive order in mid-March. Since then, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has worked with the task force to close hundreds of allegedly fraudulent health care providers.
On Tuesday, Vance discussed the issue of widespread fraud in the Minneapolis area, stating that the task force had turned off a government assistance program for autistic children that was being widely exploited.
“We’ve completely stopped the funding to that program. And we basically told the state of Minnesota, ‘You don’t get any more of our money unless you’ve verified that you’re taking fraud seriously,’” he stated, and the crowd responded with applause.
The federal government announced in February that it was withholding $259.5 million in Medicaid funding from Minnesota.
RELATED: Vance’s task force shutters 221 hospices in ‘fraud king’ Gavin Newsom’s California
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During Tuesday’s event, Vance commended CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz for his work on eliminating fraud.
“We had our weekly fraud check-in call two weeks ago, and Dr. Oz called in, but he’s like, ‘Hey, I got to go because I’m about to hop on the bus, and we’re going to go arrest a bunch of fraudsters in Los Angeles.’ And I was like, ‘That’s exactly what I want you to do. By all means, get off the phone.’ So we’re doing a lot of that stuff.”
Vance explained that under the Biden administration, the federal government overlooked fraudsters who stole smaller amounts of money from taxpayers. He stated that this approach has changed under the Trump administration.
“No amount of fraud is too big or too small. If you’re defrauding the taxpayer, you ought to go to prison, and anybody who’s helping you ought to go to prison too,” Vance remarked.
RELATED: How a California crook committed $178 million worth of health care fraud — in just one year
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As of Wednesday, the task force has suspended 447 hospices and 23 home health agencies in Los Angeles, with an estimated fraud total exceeding $600 million.
“With @VP’s leadership, we’re crushing fraud faster than ever,” Oz stated.
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WATCH: Glenn Beck’s savage open letter torches Swalwell’s hypocrisy after sexual misconduct scandal forces campaign suspension
Last Sunday, Eric Swalwell suspended his California gubernatorial campaign after reports by the San Francisco Chronicle and CNN detailed multiple allegations of sexual assault and misconduct, which he denies. He resigned from Congress the next day amid lost endorsements and staff departures.
Now Glenn Beck reads the open letter he wrote to Swalwell to illustrate the timeless law of reciprocity.
Glenn begins by rehashing Swalwell’s public opposition to Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 2018. Tweeting #BelieveSurvivors, Swalwell argued that multiple accusers meant the allegations were likely true (or Kavanaugh was the “unluckiest person in the world”) and said victims “deserve to be heard” and their allegations investigated.
“Congressman, do you feel the same way today?” Glenn asks. “Because now you have 50 women — 50 — from your office claiming the same thing. … Should we bring them all in? Should we question them publicly, or is this time different?”
“At the time, you even pushed back on applying strict legal standards in public judgment, noting, ‘The testimony of a single witness can prove any fact,’” he continues.
“So perhaps we just bring in one woman out of the 50 and let her speak publicly and believe her because she, as you pointed out, is a survivor.”
Glenn accuses Swalwell of showing “little to no patience for caution,” putting “little emphasis on presumption of innocence,” and lending “little concern for due process in the court of public opinion” in Kavanaugh’s 2018 hearings.
“And what’s truly sad is, at the time — unlike today — you were not alone. But boy, I bet you feel alone today,” he sneers.
“Isn’t it weird and a bitter symmetry that is happening here?” he asks. “You once argued that accusations carried its own moral force, that patterns of claims pointed towards truth no matter what, and that the accused should open themselves fully to prove their innocence.”
But now, Swalwell asks for “time,” “fairness, and “restraint.”
“The very principles you minimalized are the ones you now invoke,” Glenn says.
Calling him a “destructive, dishonest, selfish, slimy … force” who “never seemed to care about anything other than [his] own personal agenda,” Glenn grants Swalwell what he was unwilling to grant to others: “The allegations against you, however serious, however numerous, remain allegations.”
However, Glenn isn’t the least bit sorry that Swalwell’s career, ambitions, and reputation have been destroyed.
“There’s no one who deserves to feel that pain more than you,” he says.
He then points out the irony of the progressive Marxist apparatus Swalwell has been instrumental in.
“You were destroying the progressive enemies, and so they protected you. And in that, your arrogance grew. … You were untouchable. You were invincible — until you become an inconvenience,” he says. “And then Marxists and progressives do what they always do. Ends justify the means. You are expendable.”
The rise and fall of Swalwell, Glenn says, is a perfect example of God’s eternal law: “As you judge, so shall you be judged.”
To hear more of Glenn’s savage open letter to Eric Swalwell, watch the video above.
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Fake Florida nurse who treated nearly 4,500 patients gets sweetheart deal; judge reportedly asserts she ‘excelled at her job’
A Florida woman who fraudulently posed as a nurse and treated nearly 4,500 patients without a license escaped going to jail, according to multiple reports.
Autumn Bardisa of Palm Coast was arrested by the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office in August 2025 for posing as a nurse and treating over 4,400 patients without a license.
‘This is one of the most disturbing cases of medical fraud we’ve ever investigated.’
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the 29-year-old pleaded no contest last week to unlicensed practice of health care and fraudulent use of identification.
A seven-month investigation originally led to 14 charges against Bardisa: seven counts of unlicensed health care practice and seven counts of fraudulent use of personal identification.
However, Bardisa will not face jail time.
The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported that Bardisa was sentenced to 60 months of probation, which can be terminated after 30 months.
Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols withheld adjudication, which means Bardisa will not be a convicted felon unless she violates the terms of her probation, according to the News-Journal.
Bardisa also was sentenced to 50 hours of community service.
WTVJ-TV reported that Bardisa is prohibited from practicing medicine during her probation.
Bardisa is required to send an apology letter to the nurse whose license number she stole.
“Incredibly poor judgment. Her actions were wrong,” Judge Nichols said, according to the News-Journal. “She will pay for those actions severely.”
The victim of the identity theft said during the hearing that Bardisa “chose to put countless lives on the line.”
However, the judge interrupted the victim and ordered her to “stop the personal attacks.”
Judge Nichols proclaimed, “There is absolutely zero evidence that countless lives were on the line. Zero evidence. As a matter of fact, the information that has been presented is that she was excellent in her job, and she excelled at her job.”
The News-Journal reported that Josh Davis, Bardisa’s defense attorney, said he was able to convince prosecutors to waive the one-year minimum mandatory sentence for practicing nursing without a license.
Davis argued, “The reason that we are in the courthouse is because she was really good at her job, and she makes people jealous.”
“Some co-workers go back and do the digging, and that’s the reason we are here,” Davis claimed.
According to the News-Journal, Bardisa maintained that there is “a lot more to the story” but did not offer further specifics.
“I’m just glad it ended up the way it did,” Bardisa stated. “And my daughter wasn’t harmed at all or didn’t have to face any of the backlash.”
Bardisa added, “I think a mistake shouldn’t ruin someone’s life.”
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said in an August statement that Bardisa was hired July 3, 2023, as an advanced nurse tech at AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway and was working under the supervision of a registered nurse.
Investigators said Bardisa applied for the position as an “education first” registered nurse — a designation for those who have completed their nursing program but have not yet passed the national licensing exam.
Police stated, “During the hiring process, Bardisa then informed the hospital that she had passed the exam and provided a license number matching an individual with her first name, Autumn, but with a different last name.”
Bardisa initially brushed off the discrepancy by claiming a recent name change due to marriage.
However, investigators said Bardisa never provided a marriage license to AdventHealth.
In January 2025, Bardisa was offered a promotion.
During the promotion process, a fellow employee checked the status of Bardisa’s license and discovered that she had an expired certified nursing assistant license, which was then reported to health care administrators, according to police.
Authorities said AdventHealth administrators launched an internal investigation, which revealed Bardisa never verified her identity or her supposed name change.
On January 22, 2025, AdventHealth terminated Bardisa after she failed to confirm her identity, the press release said.
Following her firing, AdventHealth alerted the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.
FCSO detectives, as well as investigators with the Florida Department of Health and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “reviewed documents and conducted interviews with AdventHealth employees” and determined that Bardisa stole the identity of another nurse, police said.
“The investigation determined that Bardisa shared a first name with the other nurse, who was employed by AdventHealth, but at a different hospital, and had attended school with her,” the sheriff’s office declared.
Police said Bardisa participated in medical services administered to 4,486 people from June 2024 to January 2025, despite never possessing the required nursing license.
Bardisa was arrested on August 5, 2025.
Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly proclaimed, “This is one of the most disturbing cases of medical fraud we’ve ever investigated.”
“This woman potentially put thousands of lives at risk by pretending to be someone she was not and violating the trust of patients, their families, AdventHealth, and an entire medical community,” Staly said.
Sheriff Staly added, “Nursing is a noble profession about caring for those in need, but there is a right way and wrong way to go about it, and she chose the wrong way by using a real nurse’s license.”
“Because she chose to circumvent the rules, she ruined her career, and she potentially endangered patients,” Staly said.
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Billionaire Tom Steyer admits embarrassing ‘mistake’ after saying ICE should be ‘abolished’ in California governor’s race
Billionaire Tom Steyer was sitting pretty after one of his main competitors in the California gubernatorial race dropped out — and then Steyer was caught in an embarrassing “mistake.”
Steyer has told Californians that Immigration and Customs Enforcement “should be abolished,” but it turns out that a hedge fund he founded invests in detention centers.
‘It was also a big wake-up call that I was in the wrong place, that I was in a business that was taking me to places I absolutely didn’t want to go.’
“We never had anything to do with running the company,” said Steyer about the revelation. “But it was a mistake to think that that was a place where it was decent to make money.”
Farallon Capital Management was founded by the billionaire in 1986 and went on to invest up to $89.1 million in CoreCivic, a company that runs the largest detention center in California.
Two of the five centers run by CoreCivic house federal immigration detainees in Kern County and San Diego.
Steyer sold off his stake in CoreCivic in 2012.
At a town hall event in March, he said that the incident taught him to get out of the hedge fund business.
“It was also a big wake-up call that I was in the wrong place, that I was in a business that was taking me to places I absolutely didn’t want to go,” he said. “And there’s a reason I walked away from that business and walked away from a ton of money.”
Steyer has surged into the lead in the California governor’s race as the top Democrat, with 21% support in one poll after Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) abandoned his gubernatorial campaign and then resigned from Congress over sexual harassment and assault claims.
Republican candidate Steve Hilton comes in second place with 18% of the vote. The top two vote-earners in the June 2 primary, regardless of party, will advance to the general election in November.
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Steyer’s opponents are trying to damage his campaign by emphasizing the hypocritical business investments.
“Those investments were 20 years ago, and I left my firm over a decade ago and pledged most of my earnings to charity,” the billionaire has fired back.
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YouTuber ‘Johnny Somali’ learns his fate after trolling South Korea
An American livestreamer who angered the nation of South Korea for his disrespectful and disruptive actions in the country has finally learned his fate in court.
Ramsey Khalid Ismael, better known online as Johnny Somali, was sentenced to six months in prison by a Seoul court on Wednesday.
‘The defendant repeatedly committed crimes against unspecified members of the public to generate profit via YouTube.’
Johnny Somali sparked widespread outrage after livestreaming a series of provocative stunts, including kissing and dancing on a statue honoring victims of World War II sexual slavery.
The Independent reported that Ismael later apologized for the video of him dancing on the Statue of Peace and subsequently removed the clip.
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“I want to apologize to the Korean people. I was not aware of the significance of the statue,” he said at the time.
He was found guilty on eight charges on Wednesday, including obstruction of business and distributing fabricated sexually explicit content, CBS News reported.
“The defendant repeatedly committed crimes against unspecified members of the public to generate profit via YouTube and distributed the content in disregard of Korean law,” the court said, according to the Independent.
The Associated Press reported that Ismael was barred from leaving the country while the proceedings were pending.
Ismael faced additional accusations of disturbing the peace during his livestreamed stunts.
He was accused of harassing people at an amusement park, playing loud music and upending noodles onto a table at a convenience store, and causing similar scenes on a bus.
The court said he demonstrated a “severe” disrespect for South Korean law, and prosecutors sought a three-year sentence for his crimes.
However, the judges handed down the lighter sentence due to the “absence of severe harm to victims.”
Ismael was found guilty on all eight charges and handcuffed in court after the verdict came down.
Many commentators like Atozy and even Tim Pool, who have covered the ongoing story as it unfolded, appeared glad to see Johnny Somali finally get the “sweet, juicy justice” he deserved. Tim Pool called him a “smug, nuisance lunatic” in his reaction video.
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Sara Gonzales exposes CAIR’s latest ploy to turn Texas students into ‘little soldiers’ for Islam
BlazeTV host and investigative journalist Sara Gonzales has been extensively reporting on what she describes as the “Islamification of Texas” — the deliberate spread of Islamic influence in the state through mosques, schools distributing Qurans, hijabs, and other Sharia materials, taxpayer-funded Islamic institutions, “Sharia compounds,” halal practices, and cultural accommodations at the expense of traditional Texas and American values.
On this episode of “Come and Take It,” Sara exposes the Council on American-Islamic Relations — which Texas has designated as a foreign terrorist organization — for pushing whitewashed lessons about Islam to be included in Texas curriculum.
“Islamists have come to conquer. They can’t conquer without brainwashing the youth. … When you do that, you can indoctrinate little soldiers one generation at a time,” says Sara.
One way they accomplish this, she explains, is by changing the curriculum so that Islam is presented as “beautiful and flowery and tolerant and diverse,” while “the beatings, the honor killings, the terror, the Islamic slave trade … the third-world mentality” are intentionally omitted.
Last week, the Texas State Board of Education held its key April 2026 meeting for first reading/approval of the new social studies and reading curriculum changes set to take place in 2030.
CAIR representatives made an unexpected appearance and testified, urging the board to reject what they called “biased” revisions to the social studies TEKS that they argued unfairly link Islam to terrorism and downplay Muslim contributions to history.
According to Texas-based news outlet Texas Scorecard, “One of [CAIR’s] arguments was that the standards ‘lack a definition of terrorism and falsely associate it with one religion by using the controversial phrase ‘radical Islam.'”
Sara agrees that “radical Islam” is a controversial phrase but not for the same reason CAIR thinks it is. “It is a little redundant to say radical Islam because the entirety of Islam is inherently radical,” she says.
During the meeting, CAIR-Austin Operations Manager Shaimaa Zayan argued, “When terrorism is not clearly defined and used only in association with Muslims, we ignite hate and prejudice against the Texas Muslim community. Definitions and labels matter, and our students deserve standards that help them objectively and critically evaluate both historical and current events.”
But Sara says it doesn’t ignite hate and prejudice but rather rightful “fear and trepidation” based on Islam’s long history of terrorism.
“Your entire ideology essentially calls for terrorism, and you guys have your [feelings] hurt because we give you credit for that?” she counters. “It’s in your books. It’s in your teachings. If you don’t like it, I don’t know … go consult Allah or whatever.”
To hear more, watch the video above.
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The EPA just proved it can lower gas prices overnight — so why wait for a crisis?
Washington finally did something that actually helps drivers at the pump — but only halfway.
The Environmental Protection Agency issued a temporary waiver allowing broader sales of E15 gasoline and suspending summer-blend fuel requirements.
The contradiction is hard to ignore: Rules designed to manage emissions are now being suspended to manage affordability.
The move is meant to offset rising gas prices tied to global instability, including tensions involving Iran — but it also exposes our own role in keeping gas prices high.
Summertime blues
For years, drivers have been paying more at the pump because of a patchwork of seasonal fuel mandates that make gasoline more expensive to produce and harder to distribute. Every spring, refiners switch to “summer blend” gasoline, designed to reduce evaporative emissions in warmer weather.
That switch isn’t free — it tightens supply, raises refining costs, and, like clockwork, pushes prices higher just as summer driving season begins.
Now, with prices climbing again, the same government that created the problem is stepping in with a temporary waiver to ease it. This has been happening for decades.
The 20-day waiver, which begins May 1, allows broader sales of E15 — gasoline with 15% ethanol — bypassing restrictions that normally block it in the summer months. The goal is simple: Increase supply, give consumers more flexibility, and bring prices down.
Even modest estimates suggest savings of a few cents per gallon, with some projections reaching as high as 40 cents in certain markets. That raises an obvious question: If removing these restrictions lowers prices now, why are they in place at all?
Fuelish games
Summer blends are tied to EPA regulations around fuel volatility — specifically Reid Vapor Pressure — intended to reduce smog during hotter months. The goal sounds reasonable, but the real-world trade-offs are harder to ignore.
Today’s engines run cleaner than ever, yet the fuel system has become more fragmented. Different regions require different blends, limiting how gasoline can be transported and sold. When supply tightens, that lack of flexibility drives prices higher.
Instead of a national fuel market that can respond efficiently, we have a regulatory maze that raises costs before fuel even reaches your tank. Then, when global disruptions hit — whether it’s instability in the Middle East or supply shocks — the system becomes strained faster than it should.
So regulators waive the rules again.
This has become routine: temporary fixes replacing long-term solutions, while drivers pay the price in the meantime.
End the blend
Industry groups like the Renewable Fuels Association and the American Petroleum Institute support expanding E15 access, and they’re right to push for consistency — but even that debate misses the larger issue.
The real solution is simpler: Eliminate seasonal blend mandates altogether.
If removing the summer blend lowers prices during a crisis, it will lower prices when there isn’t one. It would streamline production, stabilize supply, and eliminate one of the most predictable annual price spikes — because fewer constraints mean more efficiency, and more efficiency means lower costs.
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Pain at the pump
There’s also another lever Washington could pull: the federal gas tax.
Suspending or reducing it — even temporarily — would provide immediate, visible relief at the pump. It’s direct, measurable, and doesn’t depend on regulatory work-arounds.
States are unlikely to follow. Fuel taxes are a major source of revenue, and few are willing to give that up, which puts the pressure squarely on the federal government.
What makes this moment different is that drivers are seeing the impact in real time. Prices have surged quickly, pushing toward $4 per gallon nationally — a direct hit to household budgets, small businesses, and anyone who depends on transportation to make a living.
And yet instead of fixing the underlying problem, Washington keeps relying on temporary waivers.
The contradiction is hard to ignore: Rules designed to manage emissions are now being suspended to manage affordability. That alone should prompt a serious reassessment of whether the system is working — not just environmentally, but economically.
Right now, it isn’t.
Drivers don’t need another short-term fix that expires in a few weeks. They need a stable fuel market that doesn’t artificially drive up prices every summer.
Permanent relief
Eliminating seasonal fuel blends would be a strong start. Expanding access to E15 year-round would help. Reducing federal gas taxes would provide immediate relief.
None of these ideas are radical.
What’s radical is continuing to defend a system that clearly isn’t working for consumers.
The EPA has already shown that loosening these rules lowers costs. The question is whether Washington is willing to make that relief permanent — or if drivers will once again be stuck waiting for the next “emergency” to get a break.
Because drivers are tired of the same problem getting a temporary fix every time prices spike.
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‘Monster’ suspected of brutally murdering DHS employee walking her dog is an immigrant naturalized under Biden, DHS says
The suspect in a series of violent attacks that took the life of a woman simply out walking her dog is an immigrant who was naturalized under the Biden administration, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Neighbors of Lauren Bullis were shocked to find their quiet neighborhood violated by the sounds of gunfire early on Monday at about 6:50 a.m.
‘This monster was naturalized by the Biden administration.’
Bullis was out walking her dog when a man shot her and stabbed her to death. Police later identified the suspect as 26-year-old Olaolukitan Adon Abel, who was arrested for her murder.
Police then tied the suspect to the shooting death of a woman outside a Checkers restaurant as well as the shooting of a homeless man outside a Kroger grocery store.
On Wednesday, DHS revealed the violent criminal past of Adon Abel, who immigrated to the U.S. from the United Kingdom and became a naturalized citizen under a previous president.
“This monster was naturalized by the Biden administration,” DHS said. “Adon Abel also possesses a prior criminal record that includes convictions for sexual battery, battery against a police officer, obstruction, and assault with a deadly weapon, vandalism. Our prayers are with the families of the victims during this tragic time.”
Bullis was also revealed to have been an exemplary employee at the DHS Office of Inspector General.
“In every role she held, Lauren exemplified dedication to the OIG mission,” DHS said. “Lauren approached her work with integrity, thoughtfulness, and a commitment to excellence that strengthened our organization and the communities we serve. Beyond her professional accomplishments, Lauren was a bright spot for so many of the DHS community. She brought warmth, kindness, and a genuine sense of care to her colleagues each day.”
One witness indicated that she locked eyes with the assailant after he attacked Bullis and that he was in the act of pulling Bullis’ pants off.
DHS also documented the agency’s efforts to weed out threats from the naturalization process:
In an effort to remove murderers like this from our communities, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the creation of a new vetting center on December 5, 2025, to enhance screening and vetting of immigration applications, with a focus on identifying terrorists, criminal aliens, and other threats to public safety. The center will leverage advanced technologies and work closely with law enforcement and intelligence partners to strengthen national security and uphold the integrity of the U.S. immigration system.
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Who’s to blame for the un-American ban on tailgating at the World Cup?
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.”
RELATED: Unpaid bill has Foxboro refusing to grant license for World Cup games at Gillette Stadium
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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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Catastrophic new iPhone threat leaked to hackers — are you safe?
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.
RELATED: New hack poses biggest iPhone threat in 19 years: What you can do
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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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Female slashes face of 3-year-old boy she kidnapped at Walmart — and officers open fire: Police
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.
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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Mayor stands firm despite backlash after he mocked androgynous lesbian ‘creature’
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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Democrat drops re-election bid after fake kissing photo misstep — but fellow Democrats still want more
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 liberal guide to committing national suicide
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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The ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ reboot is so woke even Hollywood hates it
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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