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Iran’s streets continue to erupt in one of the most intense nationwide uprisings since the 1979 revolution. Thousands have been killed, tens of thousands arrested, and a brutal regime crackdown with live fire, mass detentions, and a near-total internet blackout has largely smothered visible protests for now. And yet whispers of regime fragility grow louder.

But there’s more to this story than meets the eye. Iran’s real vulnerability, says Glenn Beck, lies not in its inability to squash a protest movement but in its oil-dependent economy, propped up by shadowy deals that could unravel overnight.

Glenn breaks it down brilliantly with a simple, chilling apple farmer analogy that exposes how global banks and China’s “teapot” refineries have kept the regime afloat through sanction-skirting barter schemes … until the buyer suddenly says “no more.”

Glenn’s story begins with an apple farmer named Mo and an apple buyer named Ming.

“[Mo] starts out small. He has a few trees, a few crates. He works hard and everything, and he reinvests all the time. He plants more trees. He buys more land. He takes out loans for trucks and storage and refrigeration,” Glenn begins.

His business keeps growing and then “one day something incredible happens. A massive single grocery chain [run by Ming] picks up Mo’s apples — not a few apples, all of the apples. Which is good because what I didn’t tell you about Mo is he thinks he’s a good guy, but he’s pissed every other apple store off in the world,” he continues.

Ming tells Mo his plans to “refine” the apples into “apple cider and apple juice.” Mo, thrilled that now “demand is guaranteed,” expands even more.

“The trucks are financed. The warehouses are leased. The future looks locked in,” says Glenn.

But then one day, everything comes to a screeching halt. Suddenly “Ming says, ‘Yeah, we can’t take any more apples. We’re at capacity.”’

This news wrecks Mo’s world – without Ming, there’s nothing to keep his business empire afloat.

Almost immediately, apples begin to pile up, and the trucks loaded with supplies are parked. Then “the police are like, ‘Why are all these trucks on the sides of the roads?’ … Then they realize, ‘Wait a minute, you don’t have a license to ship apples. In fact, you don’t have a license on this truck,”’ Glenn continues.

It turns out Mo hasn’t been making any money from his apple farm because Ming has been paying him in equipment and infrastructure the entire time. Mo’s business collapses immediately because he never actually owned anything.

“The banks did,” says Glenn — not because they trusted Mo but because they trusted Ming, who took out the insurance policies.

“Ming is actually the refinery in China, and Mo is the oil in Iran,” he finally reveals.

The banks and insurance companies knew that China couldn’t legally purchase Iranian oil because there’s an embargo on it. But they were perfectly fine with a barter system — where China provided goods, services, and infrastructure in exchange for oil. As long as there was “no money changing hands,” the banks would sign.

This prospect is already enough to give Glenn “a brain aneurysm,” but sadly the story takes an even darker turn.

“The farmer Mo — he has sons, and each one ran a different part of his farm,” he says, returning to his analogy.

Ming’s sudden decision to bail stirs up tension in Mo’s family.

“One son says, ‘Sell the land while it’s worth something.’ Another says, ‘No, hold on — the store might come back.’ Another one says, ‘No, you know what? I’m not with either of you’ and starts moving equipment out of the barn in the middle of the night, and he’s just going to get onto a plane and disappear at some point,” says Glenn.

“This is when countries go down because each son stops asking how do we save the farm, and they start asking how do I get out before it collapses. The farm doesn’t change hands in a ceremony. It just empties out.”

It starts with Mo’s sons, then the farm workers, and then the security team. Protests erupt outside Mo’s gates, and he is forced to cope with the fact that his apple farm has rotted from the inside out.

“This is what’s happening in Iran,” says Glenn.

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

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A witness to a sexual assault of an 8-year-old boy at the Houston Texans stadium led to the arrest of a 21-year-old employee, according to Houston police.

The boy’s mother said that her son was washing his hands when he was directed into the bathroom stall by the worker, who then followed him into the stall.

‘I keep thinking about that Good Samaritan. I’m almost begging for the chance to shake that man’s hand and thank him.’

The suspect was identified by police as Ushay Marquise Nixon, who worked for Aramark as a restroom attendant at the time. The family said that Nixon acted inappropriately toward the child, who realized something was wrong and ran out of the stall.

A bystander saw some of the interaction and sought out the boy’s parents to let them know something happened to him.

“He had such concern in his voice. You could tell,” said the mother of the boy. “He kept saying, ‘I don’t know, it didn’t look right. I don’t know if you’re OK with that type of thing, I’m not.’ He just kept repeating himself. So you could sense the concern in his voice.”

When the boy said that a worker pulled his pants down in the bathroom, his father jumped into action and took the boy back to the restroom area, where he pointed out Nixon.

Nixon tried to hide in a supply closet, but police were able to detain the man after being called by the father.

Police said Nixon was charged with indecency with a child and posted surveillance video from the incident on their social media account. Prosecutors said in court that he had been accused in two similar cases but that those were dismissed after family members refused to press forward.

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The boy’s father wants to thank the witness who stepped in.

“I wasn’t able to protect him that day, but he protected himself,” the father said. “And I keep thinking about that Good Samaritan. I’m almost begging for the chance to shake that man’s hand and thank him.”

“We would love to thank him,” the boy’s mother said.

Aramark said in a statement that Nixon was no longer with the company and that the company was cooperating fully with police.

The family has also sued Aramark for hiring an accused pedophile as a restroom attendant.

Police are looking for witnesses to the incident, including the Good Samaritan, to step forward to aid their investigation.

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What should have been a peaceful Sunday service at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, turned into a political ambush. Roughly 30 anti-ICE protesters pushed into the sanctuary mid-worship, chanting slogans and confronting church leaders as families tried to pray.

Disgraced former CNN anchor Don Lemon was there, too, livestreaming the chaos.

If activists can storm a church mid-service, scream at families, and then hide behind the First Amendment, the standard becomes simple: The loudest mob sets the rules.

The Department of Justice has opened a formal investigation and signaled that federal protections for houses of worship may apply. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon noted on the “Glenn Beck Program” that the activists’ conduct could implicate the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which bars intimidation, obstruction, and interference with the free exercise of religion in places of worship. The protesters may have also violated the Ku Klux Klan Act, a post-Civil War law that makes it illegal to terrorize and violate the civil rights of citizens.

According to multiple reports, the demonstrators were tied to the Racial Justice Network and aimed their protest at a church leader they accused of working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The protest followed rising tensions in Minnesota after the fatal shooting of anti-ICE activist Renee Nicole Good during a confrontation with federal agents.

Lemon framed the entire spectacle as civic virtue. He insisted he was “not an activist, but a journalist” and argued that protest inside a church remains constitutionally protected speech.

The footage tells a messier story.

Video released after the incident shows Lemon interacting with the group beforehand, appearing familiar with organizers and the plan. One outlet described the operation as “Operation Pull-Up.” That undercuts the narrative Lemon later pushed — that he simply arrived to document an event that unexpectedly “spilled” into a worship service.

Intent matters. So does outcome. The outcome looked like this: a sanctuary overrun, a service derailed, congregants shaken, and children crying while activists shouted and gestured at the pews.

That is far from “peaceful assembly.” It is targeted disruption.

The First Amendment protects speech. It does not grant a roaming license to invade private spaces and commandeer them for political theater. Rights have edges because other people have rights too. Worshippers do not lose their liberty because activists feel righteous.

That basic distinction keeps a free society from collapsing into a contest of intimidation.

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This case matters because it tests whether the country still draws that line. If activists can storm a church mid-service, scream at families, and then hide behind the First Amendment, the standard becomes simple: The loudest mob sets the rules. Next week it will be another church. Then a synagogue. Then any gathering that activists decide deserves punishment.

The Justice Department is right to examine the FACE Act here. Congress passed it to stop coercion dressed up as protest — the use of obstruction and intimidation to prevent Americans from exercising basic freedoms. That principle doesn’t change because the target shifts from an abortion clinic to a church sanctuary.

The press corps’ selective outrage makes the problem worse. Cultural elites demand “safety” and “inclusion” in every other arena, but many of them treat Christian worship as an acceptable target. They police speech in classrooms and boardrooms, then shrug when activists shout down prayer.

That double standard signals something deeper than hypocrisy. It signals permission.

Lemon’s defense captured the rot in one sentence: Making people uncomfortable, he said, is “what protests are about.” Fine. Protest often makes people uncomfortable. But discomfort does not justify trespass. It does not excuse intimidation. It does not cancel someone else’s right to worship in peace.

A society that cannot protect sacred spaces will not protect much else for long. If the law refuses to punish conduct like this, the lesson will spread fast: Invade, disrupt, harass — then claim virtue and dare anyone to stop you.

America does not need a new normal where mobs treat churches like political stages. It needs consequences.

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Minnesota state Senator Omar Fateh called for the governor to issue an eviction moratorium to help his “neighbors” who are having a tough time making ends meet under the threat of deportation.

The Trump administration has increased immigration enforcement efforts in Minnesota after more and more evidence of government welfare and relief fraud in the Somali community.

‘Our neighbors are terrified to leave their homes, go to work and many are now struggling to make ends meet.’

Fateh said in a statement on social media Monday that Democratic Gov. Tim Walz should place restrictions on evictions to help those affected by the crackdown.

“Minnesota is in an emergency. Our neighbors are terrified to leave their homes, go to work and many are now struggling to make ends meet,” he posted.

“Minnesotans are already stepping up to help their neighbors in need — it is time for the governor to enact an eviction moratorium,” he added.

Many on social media reacted with scorn to the suggestion.

“Go to work? You mean scam and fraud? That is not real work,” one critic responded.

“If they are terrified, they are illegal or commiting fraud[.] Sane law abiding citizens aren’t terrified,” another replied.

“Another scam in the works!” another detractor said.

A similar moratorium was demanded by unions in Los Angeles to protect illegal immigrants from evictions over their inability to continue to work while being hunted by federal immigration enforcement agents.

Fateh, a son of Somali immigrants to Minnesota, is best known for his failed campaign for Minneapolis mayor. Democratic-Farmer-Labor Mayor Jacob Frey took the office with nearly a 6% margin over Fateh in November.

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Walz has also been accused of obstructing investigations into the Somali fraud in Minnesota, though he has denied the allegations and claimed to have ordered criminal probes into the schemes.

Republicans in Minnesota have already drawn up articles of impeachment against Walz.

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Police in Redlands, California, said officers responded to a call of shots fired shortly before midnight Thursday at a home in the 1500 block of Church Street. Redlands is about 15 minutes southeast of San Bernardino.

Police said the homeowner arrived at his residence and armed himself with a handgun before checking his house — after which he confronted an intruder, who pointed a shotgun at the homeowner.

‘Mr. Carrion should have been IN Church, not ON Church Street.’

The homeowner won the gun battle.

Police said the homeowner shot the intruder and then immediately exited the residence to call 911.

Arriving officers cleared the home and followed a blood trail that led to the back yard, where they found the suspect suffering from a single gunshot wound, police said.

What’s more, the suspect had property from the home on his person, police said.

Police also recovered the shotgun, which the suspect found inside the home in question, authorities added.

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Daniel Torres Carrion, 52, of Redlands was arrested for attempted robbery, burglary, and assault with a deadly weapon and transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

Carrion later was discharged from the hospital and booked at West Valley Detention Center, where he was being held in lieu of $300,000 bail, police said.

Those with information about the incident or other suspicious activity are asked to contact Redlands Police Dispatch at 909-798-7681, ext. 1, KTLA-TV reported.

Nearly 400 comments have hit the police department’s Facebook page in regard to the shooting as of Monday night. The following are a few highlights:

“Give the homeowner a cigar!” one commenter exclaimed. “Fantastic, I’ll be glad to help buy another box of shells.””It’s why I carry,” another user acknowledged. “I don’t have to go find my gun in the house; it’s on my hip.””Mr. Carrion should have been IN Church, not ON Church Street,” another commenter quipped.”Wonder how long before the burglar’s family is in the news complaining that the homeowner should have just let him rob the place?” another user wondered. “That he had no right to shoot him.””Stand your ground! Protect your person and property!” another commenter declared.

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When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. flipped the food pyramid upside down, he exposed a decades-old government lie — and “Culture Apothecary” host Alex Clark tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck that the government hid the truth for a reason.

“When I was growing up, the food pyramid, it just came out in the ’90s. This was in every single textbook in public schools. And it really wasn’t designed for health, like we all thought. Come to find out, it was all designed for profit,” Clark tells Glenn.

“It was not just bad science. It was completely rigged. So the dietary guidelines were written by these committees that were riddled with conflicts of interest. They were people that were tied financially to grain producers, the sugar interest groups, ultra-processed food companies,” she continues.

At the base of the food pyramid, Americans were told they needed to be consuming 11 servings of grains per day.

“They were shelf-stable and they were really profitable. So that had nothing to do with health,” Clark says.

“We were also told that fat was the enemy. So I’m sure you remember, Glenn, like everyone was saying low-fat,” she adds.

“Yeah, and we got fat once everybody started going low-fat,” Glenn chimes in.

“Yes! So we were told butter was bad, eggs were the enemy, beef, you know, red meat was bad for you, they’re all dangerous,” Clark responds.

“It all kind of ends up leading to higher rates of heart attacks and heart disease, and the group eating less fat had more heart attacks. And they buried this data for 16 years. We knew that this was happening,” she explains.

“This is why the new dietary guidelines matter so much. … For the first time maybe ever, Glenn, the government is telling parents the truth, at least about this,” she adds.

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An Oklahoma man who tried to commit suicide in jail after being accused of monstrous sexual abuse of his 12-year-old stepson is brain-dead, according to police.

George Franklin Cole Jr., 43, and Kimberly Cole, 33, were arrested after their son went missing for nine days from their Chickasha home on Jan. 11.

The state was likely to take him off of life support and declare him dead.

When volunteers found the boy at the family’s farm, he told investigators that he had run away to escape after years of torment at the hands of his mother and his stepfather.

The stepfather had stabbed and tased the boy after binding him with zip-ties and handcuffs, according to the boy. He had also beaten the boy with a nightstick and abused him with a cattle probe.

He was charged with 14 felonies that included eight counts of child abuse, one count of child sexual abuse, three counts of child neglect, and conspiracy.

The mother was charged with similar charges, including crimes against nature related to bestiality.

Caddo County district attorney Jason Hicks said the stepfather tried to commit suicide by hanging after he returned to his cell on Jan. 12 from his first court appearance.

On Friday, the county confirmed to KFOR-TV that the man had been pronounced brain-dead.

A motion to modify bail for the man said that he had been in critical condition since the suicide attempt and had been on life support. The state was likely to take him off of life support and declare him dead.

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If he dies, the charges will die with him. If he is able to survive, then the charges can be revived against him.

The mother will face her own charges related to the alleged abuse of her child. The boy’s biological father is trying to regain custody of his son.

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The Nobel Foundation said that its Peace Prize was not transferrable after a Venezuelan activist said she offered her prize to President Donald Trump.

The president acknowledged the offer in a post on Thursday and said that he had accepted the award from María Corina Machado after meeting with her at the White House.

‘A laureate is free to keep, give away, sell, or donate these items.’

“It was my Great Honor to meet María Corina Machado, of Venezuela, today,” he wrote on Truth Social.

“She is a wonderful woman who has been through so much,” he added. “María presented me with her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I have done. Such a wonderful gesture of mutual respect.”

The Nobel Foundation released a rare statement Monday saying the prize cannot be passed on to someone else.

“A Nobel Peace Prize laureate receives two central symbols of the prize: a gold medal and a diploma. In addition, the prize money is awarded separately. Regardless of what may happen to the medal, the diploma, or the prize money, it is and remains the original laureate who is recorded in history as the recipient of the prize. Even if the medal or diploma later comes into someone else’s possession, this does not alter who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,” the committee said.

“A laureate cannot share the prize with others, nor transfer it once it has been announced,” they added. “A Nobel Peace Prize can also never be revoked. The decision is final and applies for all time.”

However, the committee also went on to say there was no restriction on a recipient giving away the award.

“The Committee does not comment on laureates’ subsequent statements, decisions, or actions. Any ongoing assessments or choices made by laureates must be understood as their own responsibility,” the committee said. “There are no restrictions in the statutes of the Nobel Foundation on what a laureate may do with the medal, the diploma, or the prize money. This means that a laureate is free to keep, give away, sell, or donate these items.”

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

Machado had presented the award to president for his efforts in helping the people of Venezuela resist the totalitarian Maduro regime.

“It was a very emotional moment. I decided to present the Nobel Peace Prize medal on behalf of the people of Venezuela,” she told Fox News later.

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Critics of President Donald Trump’s administration accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers of dragging an American citizen with no criminal history from his home over the weekend.

Videos circulated on social media of a raid in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday, appearing to show federal agents escorting an elderly man from his home, through the snow, and into a federal vehicle. The handcuffed man was wearing only shorts and Crocs, with a blanket draped over his shoulders.

‘Both of these sexual predators remain AT LARGE in St. Paul.’

Reuters reported that his family requested a Hmong interpreter.

“Marching half-naked elderly people out into the snow, your tax dollars at work,” columnist Jill Filipovic wrote.

Political commentator Ed Krassenstein called the Trump administration “disgusting,” adding that the man detained by federal agents was a “U.S. citizen with no criminal record.”

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“Armed ICE agents broke down the door without presenting a valid warrant, entered with guns drawn, and handcuffed him in front of his 5-year-old grandson, who was left crying and traumatized,” Krassenstein said.

“ICE then drove him around for nearly an hour, questioned and fingerprinted him, confirmed he was a citizen and not the person they were looking for… and dropped him back at home. No apology. No explanation. No accountability.”

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin described Krassenstein’s post as “fear mongering,” explaining that ICE was attempting to arrest two convicted sex offenders.

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“One of the criminal targets had convictions for sex with a minor and sexual assault. The other target had convictions for sex assault with penetration in the first degree, domestic violence, and violating a protective order. Both also have convictions for failure to register as sex offenders. They both have final orders of removal from an immigration judge,” McLaughlin wrote.

“The US citizen,” McLaughlin continued, presumably referring to the man detained in the video, “lives with these two convicted sex offenders at the site of the operation.”

“The individual refused to be fingerprinted or facially ID’d. He matched the description of the targets. As with any law enforcement agency, it is standard protocol to hold all individuals in a house of an operation for safety of the public and law enforcement,” McLaughlin added. “Both of these sexual predators remain AT LARGE in St. Paul. We will be providing the public with photos and descriptors to help us locate and apprehend these public safety threats.”

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When it comes to his role in Indiana’s unlikely rise to the top of college football, Hoosier quarterback Fernando Mendoza knows just who to thank: “the man upstairs.”

“I really give a lot that I have accomplished this season in my life to the Lord and really give thanks to God. … Give all the glory to God,” Mendoza told reporters ahead of tonight’s 2026 National Championship against the University of Miami.

‘I really give a lot that I have accomplished this season in my life to the Lord.’

Team effort

At the press conference Saturday, the recent Indiana University transfer stressed that his success was a team effort — a team that includes the priests at his Catholic parish in Bloomington.

“I’m a Catholic man,” Mendonza told reporters. “And they’ve done so much to help me, whether it’s confession or just [being] able to talk or just Mass every Sunday.”

This is not the first time Mendoza has credited the men of the St. Paul Catholic Center.

Christmas gift

On Christmas Eve, the 22-year-old brought them his 2025 Heisman Trophy. Mendoza won the award — which honors the nation’s top college football player — on December 15, thanks in part to the 41 touchdown passes he threw for the Hoosiers this season.

Recalling the moment, Mendoza said, “I think it was really important to take it over [to] those guys, especially those guys who have been great religious mentors to myself.”

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Chasing a dream

In his Heisman acceptance speech, Mendoza thanked God for giving him “the opportunity to chase a dream that once felt the world away” and vowed to live up to the honor.

Mendoza, who attends Mass weekly and says he prays before every game, also thanked his younger brother Alberto, currently Indiana’s backup quarterback. Calling Alberto his “lifelong teammate,” Mendoza described him as the one person he could trust to “get through a tough day, tough play, [or] tough game.”

“I love you, bro. I love you and thank you for always giving it to me straight no matter the circumstance.”

The NCAA national football championship airs from Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, at 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN.

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BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales has been sounding the alarm on the Islamification of the United States — the deliberate plan to replace traditional American culture, laws, and national identity with Islamic values, cultural practices, and Sharia-influenced demands — but she fears people aren’t taking the threat seriously enough.

On this episode of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered,” Sara shares three personal experiences that make it clear just how far the plan to Islamify America is already underway.

#1: Meta banned Sara’s anti-Sharia ad

Sara is the vice president of Texas Family Project, a conservative advocacy organization dedicated to strengthening the state of Texas by prioritizing parental rights, protecting the innocence of children, and reforming how the state government and its institutions view families.

When TFP recently tried to purchase an ad from Meta (Facebook and Instagram), it was denied.

The ad simply stated: “Sharia has no place in Texas.”

“[Sharia law] is incompatible with this country … the Constitution … the laws in the state of Texas,” says Sara. “That should be something very simple and noncontroversial. We’re not saying ‘get out if you’re brown. Get out if you’re Islamic. Get out if you’re Muslim.”’

Even still, Meta rejected TFP’s ad request with a message stating, “Your ad contains content that is not allowed on Meta’s advertising platforms.”

“You’re not allowed now to say on Facebook, on Meta, that Sharia law has no place in this country, in the state of Texas. That’s how far we’re in with this whole Islam thing,” says Sara.

#2: Dallas suburbs turning into foreign enclaves

“The Texas Muslim population is approximately half a million people. By the way, these are conservative estimates … but just know I believe it’s far larger, far larger,” says Sara.

“I walk around in the DFW suburbs — Plano, Richardson, Irving, Carrollton. I don’t see anyone like me,” she adds.

“I don’t want that to sound like, ‘Oh, if they have a different color skin, they can’t be here.’ No — it’s just like they’re speaking different languages; they’re wearing clothing that we don’t wear here in America.”

On top of these huge cultural differences, Sara’s experience with these foreign-born Texans hasn’t exactly been up to the Lone Star State’s hospitality standards.

“They have no intention of speaking to me or becoming friendly with me. That is very clear,” she says.

#3: Public school sending multi-language ‘holiday’ emails

Sara displays an email about a “holiday party” from a large public school in the DFW metroplex. As you can see in the tweet below, the message is available in multiple languages, including Farsi, Urdu, Arabic, Pashto, and Spanish.

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“They couldn’t call it the ‘Christmas party’ … [and] why do we need that many translations for a school newsletter in America?” scoffs Sara.

“How is this Texas? How is this America?”

While the examples above are personal to Sara, her list of ways Texas is rapidly changing under Islamic influence goes on and on. To hear more about the dangers Texans — and Americans at large — face as the country becomes increasingly inhabited by people whose religious doctrine commands them to kill anyone who refuses to convert, watch the full episode above.

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The Minnesota Nurses Association asked members to join an “economic blackout” and rally to show opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the state.

A statement posted on the MNA website said the organization represents nurses and other health care workers, including “many who are immigrants or have immigrant loved ones directly impacted by ICE enforcement.” They also expressed concern for “mixed-status families” who are patients in the health care system.

‘ICE should be investigated for human and constitutional violations of Americans and our neighbors.’

The statement emphasized, however, that the MNA was not calling for a walkout or work stoppage. An economic blackout means participants cease making purchases in an attempt to force political action through economic pressure.

The Trump administration ordered a surge in federal troops to the Minneapolis-St. Paul region of Minnesota in December after continuing evidence of government relief and welfare fraud in the Somali community.

Many on the left have accused the administration of being motivated by racism by focusing on fraud committed by some in the ethnic group.

The MNA listed the demands of the anti-ICE demonstration that it supports. Organizers called for ICE to leave Minnesota immediately and for the officer who shot and killed activist Renee Good to be “held legally accountable.” They also said no “additional federal funding” should be added to the upcoming congressional budget.

“ICE should be investigated for human and constitutional violations of Americans and our neighbors,” they added.

“As nurses, we cannot be absent when fear is driving people away from care and tearing families apart,” said MNA President Chris Rubesch. “Participation in this day is about standing with our patients, our co-workers, and our communities.”

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President Donald Trump issued his criticism of the Somali community on social media on Thanksgiving Day.

“Hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota,” the president wrote. “Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for ‘prey’ as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone.”

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The administration of the newly inaugurated New York City mayor was rocked by yet another controversy over bigoted posts on social media that were later deleted.

Afua Atta-Mensah ridiculed liberal white women in the posts on the X platform before being named the chief equity officer of the city by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

‘The anti-white racism of Mamdani’s inner circle will be on full display for all New York to see.’

“There is no one I trust more to advance racial equity across our work in City Hall,” Mamdani said about Atta-Mensah when he appointed her to the office.

The social media posts were unearthed by the New York Young Republican Club, according to the New York Post.

In one post, she wrote emphatically, “Tax them to the white meat!” in reference to a show about wealthy people.

In another post from 2020, she reposted a message reading, “There’s NO moderate way to Black liberation,” and added a comment in approval.

She also criticized white liberals and white women in some posts, including one that responded positively to the statement, “we don’t talk about white liberal racism enough.” She replied, “Facts! It would need to be a series of loooooonnnnnnnggggg conversations.”

In another, in response to the question, “Who’s not police but FEELS like police to you?” she wrote, “White women at nonprofit organizations.”

Mamdani named Atta-Mensah to the equity office on Thursday before the NYYR released screenshots of the posts that were apparently deleted soon after her elevation.

“We have the receipts and we are here to win,” reads a statement from the NYYRC. “These tweets by Afua Atta-Mensah are just the tip of the iceberg and New York is not going down without a fight. The anti-white racism of Mamdani’s inner circle will be on full display for all New York to see.”

Although Mamdani has only been in office for less than three weeks, a number of members of his team have been found to have issued extremist statements.

RELATED: Mamdani makes bizarre promise about World Cup tickets — and gets humiliated by community note

Mamdani’s housing czar had issued many statements advocating for the state to take control of housing while calling homeownership a tool of “white supremacy.”

Another aide had advocated for the abolition of police, while yet another said that real terrorism comes from capitalism and their pawns.

The Post said City Hall did not respond to requests for comment about its equity director.

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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) pledged that if he were elected California governor this November, he would revoke the state driver’s licenses of federal immigration agents.

Swalwell attended the Empowerment Congress California Governor Forum on Saturday, during which he gave a speech.

‘Rep. Eric Swalwell’s vowing to strip ICE law enforcement officers of their driver’s licenses for wearing masks is disgusting.’

He vowed to “always be on offense on behalf of Californians,” in part, by taking drastic action against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and agents who wear masks.

“They’re going to lose their immunity. They’re not going to be able to drive. I will take your driver’s license. Good luck walking to work, a**holes,” Swalwell stated, referring to ICE officers. “Also I will direct law enforcement to use every power to prosecute them for battery, false imprisonment, and murder.”

Swalwell shared a clip of his comments on X, writing, “ICE, do I have your attention yet?”

“Rep. Eric Swalwell’s vowing to strip ICE law enforcement officers of their driver’s licenses for wearing masks is disgusting,” Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Our officers wear masks to protect themselves from being doxxed and targeted by known and suspected terrorist sympathizers. Not only is ICE law enforcement facing a more than 1,300% increase in assaults against them, but we’ve also seen thugs launch websites to reveal officers’ identity.”

RELATED: Eric Swalwell sues Trump administration over alleged privacy violations

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While Swalwell promised to pull driver’s licenses from American federal law enforcement agents, the state’s laws allow for illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses. Earlier this month, the Department of Transportation announced that it would withhold $160 million from California for failing to cancel more than 17,000 allegedly illegally issued non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses to foreign nationals.

Meanwhile Swalwell’s eligibility to run for California governor is facing scrutiny.

Journalist and filmmaker Joel Gilbert filed a complaint claiming that Swalwell lives in Washington, D.C., thereby prohibiting him from running for governor in California.

“Public records searches reveal no current ownership or leasehold interest held by Eric Swalwell in California, nor any history of any ownership of leasehold interest based on available public records,” Gilbert’s court complaint read. “Swalwell’s congressional financial [disclosures] from 2011 to 2024 list no California real estate ownership.”

RELATED: Eric Swalwell launches anti-Trump gubernatorial campaign amid criminal referral to DOJ

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Gilbert accused Swalwell of listing the office of his California-based lawyer as his residence in his campaign filing.

“Either he’s guilty of mortgage fraud in Washington, D.C., or he’s ineligible to run for governor of California,” Gilbert told the Daily Mail. “He can’t have it both ways.”

“This made me laugh,” Swalwell replied. “Like all Congressmen from CA, I live in CA & DC.”

Swalwell described Gilbert as a “MAGA idiot,” adding that he plans to “beat him in court.”

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Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon criticized Minnesota’s Democrat leadership for failing to enforce state law and arrest protesters who stormed into a local church over the weekend.

Dhillon joined Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program” on Monday morning to address the incident, in which radicals disrupted a Christian church in the middle of a service.

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‘We will not let this happen to another church in the United States.’

“We don’t want to prejudge, but I think it is fair to say that I saw multiple federal criminal incidents yesterday, and there will be charges,” she told Beck.

Dhillon explained that as soon as she learned about the situation at Cities Church, she immediately activated prosecutors and sent FBI agents to investigate to determine whether the left-wing radicals had violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act or committed any related criminal offenses, including potential conspiracy charges and material support.

“It’s only a question of when we can get a judge to sign off on arrest warrants and exactly what the charges would be,” Dhillon stated, noting that the federal judges have to be in Minnesota. “This isn’t Texas, and we aren’t getting exactly rapid-fire support for charges there on the pace we would love.”

Dhillon criticized local leaders for failing to enforce the state’s laws by refusing to arrest any of the protesters.

RELATED: ‘You are on notice!’ Don Lemon backs anti-ICE radicals who stormed Saint Paul church — but DOJ vows reckoning

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“There could have been arrests yesterday if Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota, enforced his own laws, and Mary Moriarty, the district attorney of Hennepin County, enforced her own laws,” she remarked.

The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party endorsed both Ellison and Moriarty for their respective re-election campaigns in 2022.

Dhillon explained to Beck that the federal government “has to jump through some additional hurdles.”

Beck asked Dhillon whether former CNN journalist Don Lemon violated any laws by following the protesters into the church. Dhillon responded that she would reserve comment on that situation but proposed a hypothetical involving “a podcaster, once a news anchor.”

RELATED: The left’s ‘fascism’ routine is a permission slip for violence

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A privately owned house of worship is not a public forum for protest in the U.S., she stated, adding that charges would likely be imposed in stages.

“We will not let this happen to another church in the United States. It is un-American, unacceptable, and there is a zero-tolerance policy for it at this DOJ,” Dhillon concluded.

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During a Senate hearing titled Protecting Women: Exposing the Dangers of Chemical Abortion Drugs, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Dr. Nisha Verma — where he attempted to “establish a biological reality.”

Verma, a medical doctor, was incapable of doing so.

“I wasn’t sure I understood your answer to Senator Moody a moment ago. Do you think that men can get pregnant?” Hawley asked Verma.

“I hesitated there because I wasn’t sure where the conversation was going or what the goal was. I mean, I do take care of patients with different identities. I take care of many women. I take care of people with different identities. And so that’s where I paused, I think,” she answered.

“Well the goal is the truth. So can men get pregnant?” Hawley pressed further.

“Again the reason I paused there is I’m not really sure what the goal of the question —” she continued, before Hawley interjected, “The goal is just to establish a biological reality.”

The pair went back and forth, with the leftist doctor claiming he was just being “polarizing.”

“I’m not trying to be polarizing. I think it is extraordinary that we are here in a hearing about science and about women, and for the record, it’s women who get pregnant, not men. We are here about the safety of women, and the science that shows that this abortion drug causes adverse health events in 11% of cases,” Hawley responded.

“There’s a difference between biological men and biological women. I just don’t know how we can take you seriously and your claims to be a person of science if you won’t level with this on this basic issue. I thought we were past all of this,” he continued.

“I think it’s extraordinary that you would sit here and advance a political agenda that has been thoroughly discredited and rejected by the American people in this forum. And I’m glad we had this exchange because it is exceptionally clarifying,” he said, adding, “It is also in many ways quite depressing.”

While BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is grateful for Hawley’s common sense, she’s also horrified that a doctor is still refusing to acknowledge such basic biological reality.

“This woman is going into medical school, and she is teaching young people that ‘I am a person of science, and I represent all of the complex realities of my patients, and I don’t want to answer your very simple question,’” Gonzales comments.

“These are the people in charge of your health care. These are the people in charge of setting policies,” she says, adding, “These people are still delusional.”

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Independent conservative journalist Nick Sortor has in recent weeks shone an unflattering light on the thuggery of anti-ICE rioters and imported grifters in Minneapolis.

The efficacy of his reportage — which led on Thursday to at least one arrest — appears to have made him a prime target for radicals who have circulated his image for street-identification purposes, mobbed his vehicle, and attacked another journalist whom they mistook for Sortor.

‘At least Minneapolis Police haven’t erroneously arrested me … yet.’

Sortor shared footage taken by fellow journalist Cam Higby on Sunday revealing the latest lengths radicals have gone to stop him: stealing his camera and dragging him down the sidewalk.

“A group of Somali thugs just ROBBED me of my $1,000 camera in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis,” Sortor indicated in a Sunday evening X post. “Then they DRAGGED ME DOWN THE STREET as my hand got trapped in their door handle.”

Footage of the incident shows a black-clad woman wearing a face covering approach Sortor’s vehicle on the driver’s side, grab the journalist’s camera through his open window, and take off running.

RELATED: ‘You are on notice!’ Don Lemon backs anti-ICE radicals who stormed Saint Paul church — but DOJ vows reckoning

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In the video, Sortor — who told Blaze News the “Somali thief reached IN to my vehicle and ripped the camera out of my hand, breaking the wrist strap” — quickly exits the vehicle and chases the woman on foot.

“The Somali mob then ran interference for them as I tried getting it back, giving the thief time to flee,” said Sortor.

Video confirms that while attempting to capture the apparent thief — who climbed into a red Kia — Sortor is obstructed by multiple shrieking onlookers and then nearly tackled to the ground by a black male wearing a mask.

Sortor appears to get his hand stuck in the door handle of the fleeing suspect’s vehicle such that when it accelerates down the sidewalk, the journalist is dragged alongside it for a considerable distance.

After the suspect flees the scene, a shaken up and bloodied Sortor tells his associate, “They just stole my camera.”

Women in face coverings and other apparent critics of Sortor encircle the journalist as he makes his way back to his vehicle, ordering him to leave. One of the women admits on camera that they followed Sortor to the scene.

Footage shows a Minneapolis police officer telling the journalist after the incident that he should leave the area and that individuals were calling the department to accuse Sortor of harassment.

“We don’t need this stuff to keep happening,” says the officer. “This level of hostility, obviously, it’s not going away.”

When asked how his treatment by radicals and police in Minnesota has compared with his treatment in Portland, Sortor told Blaze News, “Much like Portland Police, Minneapolis Police submit to the mob and have been completely neutered by the left-wing government out here. However at least Minneapolis Police haven’t erroneously arrested me … yet.”

Sortor was arrested when covering an anti-ICE demonstration on Oct. 2 in Portland, Oregon. After determining that it couldn’t make a disorderly conduct charge stick, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office declined to pursue the case. Sortor indicated last month that he plans to sue the City of Portland for allegedly violating his civil rights when targeting and arresting him.

Sleuths have alleged that the vehicle in which the suspect fled the scene is registered to an individual whose address is listed as the SpectrumWorks Center in Spring Lake Park, Minnesota. Blaze News was unable to reach the autism support center for comment.

Cam Higby noted that “it’s the owner of the vehicle who’s address is allegedly the autism center. The robber may have hopped in someone else’s vehicle.”

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Around 9 p.m. on New Year’s Day, deputies with the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana responded to a reported medical emergency involving a juvenile at a gas station in Geismar, the sheriff’s office said. Geismar is about 30 minutes southeast of Baton Rouge.

Upon arrival, deputies found 5-year-old Marley Perilloux unresponsive, officials said.

‘People be treating their pets almost better than that.’

Detectives told WAFB-TV the boy’s parents put him in a car and called 911 in search of help, and deputies met them at the gas station off Highway 73.

Deputies immediately began performing CPR on the boy while awaiting emergency services, the sheriff’s office said.

Marley was transported to an area hospital while deputies and other first responders continued life-saving measures, officials said.

Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Col. Donald Capelo told WAFB that medical professionals at the hospital “continued to work on the child for about 40, 45 minutes before the child just passed away.”

Detectives with the juvenile unit of the sheriff’s office opened an investigation following reports of apparent injuries on the juvenile and additional concerns of child neglect, including severe malnourishment, the sheriff’s office said.

During their investigation, detectives executed a search warrant at the home where Marley lived with his parents, 33-year-old Marlon Perilloux and 27-year-old Raynisa Young, officials said.

Detectives reported the home’s interior was in poor condition and barely livable due to Perilloux and Young’s negligence, officials said.

Detectives interviewed Perilloux and Young and learned that both parents failed to ensure proper hygiene, feeding, and medical care for Marley, who weighed about 19 pounds at the time of death, officials said.

Detectives arrested Perilloux and Young for negligent homicide, second-degree cruelty to juveniles, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, and illegal carrying of weapons, the sheriff’s office said.

Both were transported to the Ascension Parish Jail with no bond, officials said, adding that additional or upgraded charges are pending.

RELATED: Dad brings toddler daughter into hot tub with him in middle of night; he falls asleep — and she drowns: Cops

In addition, investigators said Marley was bedridden and apparently never left the house, WAFB reported.

“This is probably the worst case of child neglect I’ve seen in my 34 years of law enforcement,” Capelo told the station. “To put it in perspective, when the coroners come out, there are body bags for adults, and there are body bags for infants. And this child, 5 years old, fit in an infant body bag.”

Cellphone video WAFB obtained shows the Geismar apartment where the family of six lived in squalor, the station said, adding that the unit was filled with trash, debris, and mattresses on the floor.

Neighbors told the station the news stunned them, and they had no idea what was happening inside the home.

“People be treating their pets almost better than that,” neighbor Calvin Lewis told WAFB.

Lewis added to the station that neighbors gladly would have helped if the family had asked.

“We’re a neighborhood where somebody needs something, that we have something going on,” Lewis told WAFB. “You’re more than welcome to come get a plate or, you know, any way we can help out.”

The state removed the three other children from the home, the station said.

The district attorney told WAFB that he will see if any other adults knew about the child’s condition — and if they did, they also could face charges.

An autopsy is pending, the station said, adding that investigators said it’s unclear when the child last ate.

Capelo urged parents dealing with tough times to seek help, WAFB noted.

“They need to seek help, whether it be through a family member, whether it be through [the Department of Children & Family Services], a division of the state, but you have to seek help,” he told the station. “You have to do whatever you can and whatever means you have to just take care of your children.”

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Washington Capitals players from outside North America may not be as used to Pride Nights as other athletes.

On Saturday night, the Capitals celebrated alternative sexual lifestyles with their “All Caps All Love” night, posting rainbow and transgender flags ahead of their gay-memorabilia auction.

‘We proudly stand with the LGBTQ+ community.’

After the NHL banned themed jerseys in 2023, some fought for the right to use rainbow-colored stick tape, and won. That is how select Capitals players decided to show their gay pride on Saturday night against the reigning champion Florida Panthers, but as the teams took the ice, viewers noticed only eight of the Capitals’ 20 dressed players took part.

John Carlson, Nic Dowd, Brandon Duhaime, Hendrix Lapierre, Connor McMichael, Dylan Strome, Logan Thompson, and Trevor van Riemsdyk were the eight players spotted on video and cited in an article by outlet Russian Machine Never Breaks.

However, missing from the group was captain, and the NHL’s all-time scoring leader, Alexander Ovechkin.

RELATED: Pro-transgender Seattle Kraken jersey enrages NHL fans: ‘Feel some trans joy’

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Interestingly, all of the players that participated were from either the United States or Canada; none of the Capitals players born overseas participated in the stunt.

This included center Aliaksei Protas from Vitebsk, Belarus, left winger Ivan Miroshnichenko from Ussuriysk, Russia, defenseman Martin Fehérváry from Bratislava, Slovakia, and defenseman Rasmus Sandin from Uppsala, Sweden.

Despite their leader and biggest star not participating in their festivities, the Capitals went all out in their support for certain sexual preferences with promotional videos and statements.

“We proudly stand with the LGBTQ+ community, and celebrate the importance of inclusion every day,” Strome, from Mississauga, Canada, said in a team video.

RELATED: Florida Panthers praise Trump during White House visit: ‘Nothing beats this’

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“It was great,” Dowd of Huntsville, Alabama, said in a post-game interview. “Every year we’ve put this on, guys lean into it and support it, and I thought it was another good night. I thought the Caps did a great job of showcasing it.”

The team also hosted the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., on the ice that night, but that was not enough to push them ahead of the Panthers, and the Capitals lost 5-2.

Fans in Seattle were recently outraged and piled plenty of backlash onto their Seattle Kraken team for supporting transgenderism with a themed logo, which inexplicably featured a unicorn drawn by a tattoo artist who said “queerness” inspires her work.

“Being able to be in Seattle surrounded by the queer community and being exposed to the queerness I never got to experience growing up, it inspires my work a lot,” the artist said.

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Canada’s Liberal government has lost its bid to overturn a 2024 Federal Court ruling that found its use of the Emergencies Act during the Freedom Convoy trucker protest was neither justified nor reasonable.

Then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the legislation for the first time on Feb. 14, 2022, authorizing a sweeping police crackdown on protesters in Ottawa who opposed the federal government’s COVID-19 mandates.

‘That was a 200-page document. I don’t know how many people can read 200 pages in 20 minutes.’

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On Tuesday, the Federal Court of Appeal rejected the government’s appeal of a decision by Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley, who concluded that invoking the Emergencies Act was unnecessary and violated protesters’ rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Mosley found that the demonstrations, while disruptive, were peaceful and did not meet the threshold required to trigger emergency powers.

The Trudeau government filed its appeal within minutes of Mosley’s ruling, arguing that the measures were justified on national security grounds. The appeals court rejected that claim.

“There was no evidence that the lives, health or safety of the people living in Ottawa were endangered (as annoying, stressful and concerning as the protests were),” the court wrote.

Surprised by outcome

In an interview with Align, Freedom Convoy organizer Chris Barber — who was later sentenced to one year of house arrest for his role in the protest — said he was surprised by the outcome.

“I’ve seen over the last four years how the Crown’s office or the government can use and up the level of court to find the judges they want to get what they want for a decision,” Barber said. “And today, that didn’t work for them.”

Barber emphasized that Justice Mosley was not sympathetic to the Freedom Convoy but nevertheless ruled against the government on legal grounds.

“He was not favorable to the Freedom Convoy,” Barber said.

“He was very much against us, but still he upheld the rule of law and judged things according to the Charter. And today we won that one in the appeals court.”

Barber also criticized the speed with which the Trudeau government appealed the original ruling.

“The government appealed this decision in 20 minutes,” he said.

“That was a 200-page document. I don’t know how many people can read 200 pages in 20 minutes. … As you can see yet again, the Liberal government of Canada is one of the most spiteful governments we’ve possibly ever had in this country — full of corruption.”

He added that the ruling raises serious questions about accountability within the Liberal government and asked why no officials have resigned over the unlawful use of emergency powers.

RELATED: Aftermath of a slaughter: Universal Ostrich Farms vows to hold Canada accountable

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Barber pointed to what he described as another example of government overreach: the recent seizure of Universal Ostrich Farms, where the Canadian Food Inspection Agency took control of the property and euthanized livestock.

“The mess the CFIA left on the grounds of that property is absolutely disgusting,” Barber said. “That is a government agency that basically walked in, took full, total control of their property, [and] euthanized their animals like a 1930s death squad.”

He praised farm spokeswoman Katie Pasitney for continuing to demand accountability.

“There’s still no accountability for the actions of the CFIA,” Barber said. “And I hope Katie continues to stand her ground and keeps speaking about that — and people wake up to what’s going on in this country.”

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