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Austin law enforcement says that a mass overdose incident is to blame for nine deaths and nearly 80 suspected overdoses over the last week in downtown Austin.

The Austin Police Department said that officers and the Austin-Travis County EMS began to respond to numerous reports of overdoses on Monday. The wave subsided after several days but ended up taking the lives of nine people and leading to dozens overdosing.

Law enforcement officials and non-profit organizations tried to battle the mass overdose incident by distributing Narcan and informing at-risk residents of the bad batch of drugs.

Emergency responders said they attended to 36 suspected overdoses on Monday and 27 on Tuesday, with 7 more on Wednesday.

Christa Stedman, the public information officer for Austin-Travis County EMS, said in a media briefing that the distribution of Narcan had unquestionably saved lives.

“We’ve seen in just a couple of days the numbers dramatically decline, that’s a great thing, and I think that speaks to the incredible work that both our community help paramedic team and our partners have done in essentially flooding the city with Narcan.”

Lily Hughs of the Texas Harm Reduction Alliance said that her team of volunteers had been out in the community trying to get the word out about the bad batch of drugs so that users could avoid the threat.

Hughes said they also offered training for drug users who wanted to learn how to use Narcan.

“We took extra time to do training and talk them through, and made sure every single person we talked to knew what was going on,” she said.

EMS said they had handed out about 400 doses of Narcan while the THRA said they had handed out about 100 doses.

Austin police later said that they had detained two persons of interest related to the overdoses. One of those suspects was identified as 55-year-old Johnny Lee Wright, who was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.

A second person who was unidentified was arrested on a charge of possession of a controlled substance.

Investigators said they identified Wright and another person through the use of high resolution cameras that recorded Wright allegedly handing off narcotics to users after having received them from the unidentified suspect.

Police said that Wright and the second person were “known by officers who regularly worked the downtown area as narcotics dealers.”

Here’s a news report about the incident:

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President Joe Biden honored multiple figures with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony on Friday, including Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, who previously served as speaker of the House and was the first and only woman ever to serve in that role.

Biden predicted that Pelosi will go down in history as the greatest House speaker.

“It is with great appreciation that I accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom from our great and patriotic President of the United States Joe Biden,” Pelosi said in a statement. “Freedom was the vision of our founders, has been the goal of our men and women in uniform, and is our promise to our children. It is with reverence for freedom and respect for all who have received it that I am deeply honored and forever grateful. Thank you, President Biden.”

Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California congratulated Pelosi in a tweet, calling the award “a fitting honor for the greatest Speaker of all time.”

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Former Vice President Al Gore, who is known for promoting climate alarmism ideology, also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Friday. Gore, a Democrat, lost the 2000 presidential election to Republican candidate George W. Bush.

John Kerry, who has previously served as special presidential envoy for climate under Biden, secretary of state under Barack Obama, and as a U.S. senator, also received the medal. Kerry, a Democrat, lost the 2004 presidential election to Bush.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was also one of the award recipients.

In all, there were 19 people honored with the award on Friday, though the medal was being posthumously awarded in some cases.

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The family of an elderly woman with dementia released video of her sexual assault in order to help police identify the suspect and arrest him.

The horrendous abuse unfolded on Monday at about 6:45 p.m. at the woman’s apartment in Pacoima in southern California.

The video shows the man entering the home of the 81-year-old woman after she answered the door, according to the family. He then went and checked the other rooms before returning and assaulting the woman, and making her perform sex acts on him.

The victim’s son-in-law spoke to KABC-TV about the execrable incident but wanted his face blurred to protect his identity and that of the victim.

“The video catches him doing things that I wouldn’t wish on anyone,” said the victim’s relative. “There’s a lot of elderly people in the community. This guy needs to be off the streets. It’s probably not the first time and it won’t be the last time he’s done this, or will do this.”

He said that the family had set up the camera so that no one could see it.

“The camera in the living room is pretty hidden and we hid it from her,” the son-in-law explained. “To avoid her from trying to turn it off. And he never saw that camera in the living room.”

On Friday afternoon, Los Angeles Police detectives told KABC they were able to identify and arrest a suspect. They said he was still in the area near the apartment complex where the woman lived.

The son-in-law told KTTV-TV that the woman had been diagnosed with early onset dementia.

“We think it’s pretty much progressed to Alzheimer’s already,” he added.

The son-in-law said they were alerted to the incident when his wife noticed her mother was up later than usual. When they rewound the recording, they were stunned by seeing the assault.

The son-in-law told KTTV that he had a suspicion about who the attacker was.

“He’s known to be a lurker. He lurks around the area,” he said.

He added that without the recording, they would have never known what happened because the woman doesn’t remember the incident due to her medical illness.

Police said that they are investigating the incident as attempted rape.

Here’s the report of the assault:

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Actor Mark Hamill of “Star Wars” fame, who has been an outspoken supporter of President Joe Biden, met with the president on Friday before appearing at the White House press briefing.

Hamill said that he called Biden “Mr. President,” but Biden said Hamill could call him Joe. Hamill said he asked if he could call the president “Joebi-Wan Kenobi.”

Hamill has previously posted the eyebrow-raising claim on social media that “Joe Biden is the best president we’ve ever had.”

But while he has high praise for Biden, he has called it the “understatement of the century,” to describe Donald Trump as the nation’s worst president ever.

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“May The First Not Quench Your Thirst For Biden’s Re-election!” Hamill tweeted on Wednesday, May 1, adding the hashtag “#BidenHarris2024.”

“May The Second Biden Administration Be As Productive and Successful As The 1st,” he wrote on Thursday May 2.

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On Friday, May 3rd, Hamill tweeted, “May The Third Be Absurd That The Guy Who Tried To Steal A Fair Election Is Allowed To Run Again.”

Earlier this year, on March 5, he tweeted, “I voted for four more years of an orange-free Oval Office.”

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In an apparent play on Hamill’s Friday White House visit and press briefing appearance, the Babylon Bee, a satire site, posted a piece titled, “Mark Hamill Joins Death Star Press Conference To Say What A Good Job He Thinks The Emperor Is Doing.”

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A 13-year-old girl says she was attacked by adults related to a bull at a Texas school, but the district decided to suspend the victim after she fought back.

The girl, who didn’t want to be identified, told KTVT-TV that she had heard rumors that a new girl at Bettye Myers Middle School in Denton wanted to fight with her.

She said she went to school officials, including a counselor and an assistant principal. She said they told her that they had spoken to the other girl, but it didn’t help the situation.

She says that when she got on the school bus to go home, the girl attacked her. Then she realized the girl’s mother had also joined the fight when she called her “mom” during the fight.

“I was scared,” she said to KTVT with tears in her eyes.

Video shows the assault on the school bus with other students standing around recording the incident and not intervening at all.

“I guess one of the women came and put me in a choke hold on the bus,” she added.

She says that the women followed the bus to her stop and attacked her again. Video from the second altercation shows her being knocked to the ground and beaten.

The girl says she was able to call her mother during the attack.

“I heard my baby scream out,” said her mother to KTVT. “And no one did anything.”

She’s upset at the actions of the bus driver, who appeared to do nothing to prevent the fight and drove away while the girl was being attacked the second time.

“Had he locked the door, called for help, waited for the police to arrive. Those grown adults wouldn’t have been able to get on a bus, assault my child, and they wouldn’t been able to follow the bus and continue assaulting her,” she said.

The girl says she is traumatized because of the attacks.

“I can’t walk to the store anymore. I have to look and watch every time when I see a white car,” she said. “And I have to be on watch everywhere I go. Because of you.”

She also says that school officials suspended her for three days for her response, but she says she was simply defending herself.

A spokesperson for the Denton police told KTVT that they are taking the incident seriously and expect an update about the case soon.

The victim and her mother said that they are leaning on their faith to deal with the aftermath of the violence.

“I had to sit up at night crying about it, asking God why. But I also pray for them cause my mom taught me, just because they did you wrong, it’s all for a reason. It’s all for purpose,” said the 13-year-old girl.

“The other night when she said, ‘Mom, let’s pray.’ And she grabbed my hand and began to pray for them, I’m like, ‘Okay, you know… she’s going to be all right,'” said the mother.

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Wealthy business magnate Elon Musk is sounding the alarm about America’s massive national debt, warning that unless action is taken to tackle the problem, the U.S. dollar will become worthless.

“We need to do something about our national debt or the dollar will be worth nothing,” Musk tweeted.

The country’s national debt is more than $34 trillion, according to fiscaldata.treasury.gov.

Responding to Musk, Ed Krassenstein wrote, “The problem is that no administration wants to take on the National Debt issue because the longterm fix is likely a short term detriment to the economy.”

“Well, something’s gotta give. We should at least slow down the debt growth,” Musk replied.

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GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has suggested that the national debt is “greatest threat” to America’s national security and warned that “we are threatening the very existence of our currency, and perhaps our country, by this crazy profligate spending.”

“The national debt is the greatest threat our country faces — and we are rapidly approaching the crisis point,” Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, GOP Rep. Bill Huizenga of Michigan, and Democratic Rep. Scott Peters of California declared in a joint opinion piece posted on The Hill. “It is time for Congress to put the interests of the country ahead of political expediency and get us on sound fiscal footing before it is too late.”

Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming has also expressed the view that “our debt is the greatest threat our country faces today.”

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Investors and clients of HIMS online pharmaceuticals began a boycott of the company after its CEO offered his enthusiastic support of the college students protesting against Israel in its war on Hamas terrorists.

HIMS CEO Andrew Dudum posted Wednesday on social media that his company would hire students who were protesting against Israel.

“Moral courage > College degree,” he wrote in a missive on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

“If you’re currently protesting against the genocide of the Palestinian people & for your university’s divestment from Israel, keep going. It’s working,” he added. “There are plenty of companies & CEOs eager to hire you, regardless of university discipline.”

Dudum, who identifies as Palestinian-American, posted a link to jobs available at his company for those who were protesting against Israel.

He also previously retweeted a post of an article about Democrat Sen. Liz Warren of Massachusetts opining that Israel was committing genocide in the Gaza Strip.

Investors rushed to say on social media that they were dropping their stock holdings because of the CEO’s statement.

“Just sold all my HIMS @AndrewDudum. Wearing the Israel or Palestine jersey is not relevant to me but a CEO hiring protestors and wearing a particular jersey is a tone deaf loss of focus. There is no need for a moral position – that’s not what the board or shareholders hired you for,” responded one stock analyst.

“Good luck. I plan to liquidate my position in $HIMS. When a CEO shows the amazingly poor judgement to post something like this, I don’t trust him to act in the best interest of the company. This is a breach of your fiduciary duty to your shareholders,” read one popular response.

Others said they were canceling their subscription to the service.

“And after 10 year using Hims, I have happily canceled today,” responded entrepreneur Brendan Kaminsky.

“Canceling $HIMS and the customer service queue is 42 people. Guessing it’s a big line out the door. The CEO wants to hire the same college protestors who appear hellbent on destroying America,” replied entrepreneur Eytan Elbaz.

“If you support Israel, cancel your @wearehims subscriptions immediately. You can get similar products elsewhere for cheaper anyway,” posted editor Ben Domenech.

On Friday, the HIMS stock dropped a whopping 8%, though it was unclear whether it was connected to the outrage over the CEO’s comments.

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A Democratic state representative in Michigan has “voluntarily” returned thousands of dollars she received as part of the relief funds issued after the government-imposed COVID lockdowns.

The case relates to Kristian Grant, a first-term Democratic state representative from Grand Rapids. As a small business owner, Grant submitted multiple applications for funds from the Kent County Small Business Recovery, which sprung from the federal CARES Act following the COVID lockdowns. Grant was ultimately granted $15,000.

However, a subsequent review of her applications revealed discrepancies among the documents. In one tax filing, Grant reported that her Game Plan Lifestyle Planner business had generated nearly $4,300 in sales in 2019. In another filing, she indicated that the 2019 sales revenue for that business was a paltry $205.

Grant initially blamed the mistake on confusion created because some orders placed in 2019 were not delivered until 2020.

County officials told her she could keep all the money, so long as she submitted updated tax returns. And according to Kent County Administrator Al Vanderberg, she claimed to have filed the amended returns last May.

But a subsequent review of those materials conducted earlier this month revealed that, in fact, no such amended returns were ever filed.

Grant then decided to return $5,000 of the COVID-related funds, indicating in a statement that she just wanted to put the issue behind her. “Despite no findings of fraud or wrongdoing on my part, I made the decision to voluntarily return the $5,000 grant awarded to Game Plan Lifestyle Planner through the Kent County Small Business Recovery Fund,” she said.

“While I did rely on a professional to assist in preparing my tax return, I take full responsibility for the oversight and believe returning the funds is the right thing to do,” she continued. She now considers the matter to be “fully resolved.”

In her statement, she also made reference to “an individual with ulterior motives” who seems to carry a grudge against her. This individual “stoked” county officials into reviewing her applications, she claimed.

County Administrator Al Vanderberg said that his office was just doing its due diligence in Grant’s case. “As stewards of taxpayer dollars, we take our responsibility seriously,” he said in a statement. “We have thoroughly addressed the issues brought to our attention regarding Rep. Grant’s applications and subsequent funding. We remain steadfast in upholding the highest standards of accountability and transparency.”

Vanderberg confirmed that Grant has returned the funds. He also added that his office, which rejected about 30% of its COVID-related applications, believes that all other grantees are legitimate.

“We have received no additional challenges and have no reason to believe there were problems with other applications.”

State Rep. Kristian Grant returns $5,000 in COVID funds

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Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has criticized Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) bid to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from the speakership, describing it as “silly” and “seriously counterproductive” while calling Johnson “a strong conservative.”

Cruz said that Greene’s ouster effort “increases the chances of chaos” and of giving control over to Democrats. “And there is zero chance a more conservative speaker will result,” he asserted during an interview on the “RealClearPolitics” radio show on SiriusXM, noting, “I think what she’s doing is really unhelpful to the country.”

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.), and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) have pledged to vote to table Greene’s motion to vacate, saying in a statement earlier this week, “If she invokes the motion, it will not succeed.”

Greene, who filed the motion to vacate in March, has noted that she plans to pull the trigger next week.

“I’m calling the motion to vacate Speaker Mike Johnson next week after weeks of warning Mike Johnson to stop giving Democrats everything they want,” Greene said in a post on X. “The vote on the motion to table will essentially reveal the Uniparty in full. Vote YES to table the motion to vacate = Uniparty member,” she averred. “Vote against tabling the motion to vacate = not Uniparty member.”

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Axios reported that Johnson said, “I’m the most conservative member who has ever held the gavel as speaker, but the reality of our numbers is our challenge.”

Greene responded in a tweet by posting six rolling on the floor laughing emojis and writing, “Most conservative except when you… fund the invasion of our country,” “fund full-term abortion,” “fund the trans agenda,” “fund endless war,” “break the tie for warrantless spying,” “criminalize the New Testament,” “are endorsed by Democrat leadership,” and “spend more than Nancy Pelosi.”

GOP Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Paul Gosar of Arizona are both cosponsoring the motion to vacate.

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When Obama made it a priority to import immigrants into the United States from Muslim countries, there was a massive jump in the number of refugees and immigrants who came into the United States.

The list of issues that have followed is long, but as anti-Semitism and Marxist indoctrination on college campuses reach all-time highs, Mark Levin can’t help but focus on this one.

“People who come into the country with their own culture are not assimilated into our culture because our culture is being attacked from our educational institutions — that is public schools, colleges, and universities — through our media and our entertainment,” Levin says.

“It’s why CRT, DEI, ESG, and all the rest of the Marxist alphabet soup is so damaging to the country,” he adds.

This is why Levin believes that anti-Semitism is rising on college campuses.

“When you have the importation of individuals from countries or cultures that have almost nothing in common with our country, and from places that hate our country, this is the consequence,” he says.

“When you have Marxist ideologues as tenured faculty members, and elsewhere, pushing their Marxist agenda on American citizen children, this is what you get. A fusion of Marxism and Islamism, and they all are involved in anti-Americanism,” he adds.

And it’s all by design.

“All this extremist radicalism is being taught, it’s being embraced, and now, it’s being practiced, and it’s also being funded. It’s being funded by Democrat Party billionaires through dark money contributions laundered through organizations,” he explains.

“Which is why they almost, almost, uniformly line up against Israel and line up against America and line up against Trump. They will do anything for power,” he adds.

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Taking a page from the playbook of University of North Carolina fraternity brothers who captured America’s heart for protecting a U.S. flag on campus this week amid anti-Israel protests, more than 200 students at the University of Mississippi showed up with U.S. flags and red, white, and blue attire to drown out a much smaller group of pro-Palestinian protesters Thursday.

In fact, the pro-Palestinian demonstrators were evacuated from the campus of Ole Miss, the Clarion Ledger reported.

What are the details?

WMC-TV reported that the pro-Palestinian protest was supposed to start at the University Circle but was forced to move after a group of students blocked off the area, saying they were protecting the flag.

“I believe that is just the most important thing for us to do right now is protect everything we stand for,” Ole Miss student Aubrey Grace told the station, adding that “recently with the encampments across the nation, you have seen violence on other school campuses, and that is something that we cannot tolerate, especially as Americans.”

The Ledger said upward of 60 pro-Palestinian protesters gathered on the Quad, and then things heated up when the counter-protesters showed up.

WMC added in its video report that a pro-Palestinian protester threw a water bottle into the crowd of pro-Israel protesters — and then bottles and food were flying in both directions.

Soon, police led the pro-Palestinian protesters into the School of Applied Sciences building, the Ledger said. Jacob Batte, Ole Miss director of media relations, confirmed to the paper that the pro-Palestinian protesters had been safely evacuated from campus on buses.

There reportedly were no arrests or injuries, WHBQ-TV reported.

Pryce Parker — an Ole Miss student who joined the counter protest — told WHBQ in regard to the pro-Palestinian protesters that “you can’t take over our campus like the campuses in the north. This is a southern campus. We believe in God and Jesus, and we don’t stand for that.”

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The New York criminal case against former President Donald Trump continued for the eleventh day on Friday, with one of the prosecution’s so-called key witnesses, Hope Hicks, taking the stand. Hicks was Trump’s former White House communications director and campaign aide.

Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo questioned Hicks. During her testimony, Hicks stated that she “was concerned” when she received an email request for comment from the Washington Post regarding a piece on the “Access Hollywood” tape.

“I was concerned about the contents of the email. I was concerned about the lack of time to respond. I was concerned we had a transcript without a tape. There was a lot at play,” she said.

Hicks told the jury that she had “a good sense this was going to be a massive story,” adding that it was “a damaging development” to the presidential campaign.

“lt was all Trump all the time for the next 36 hours,” Hicks said, referring to the media coverage that followed the release of the tape.

Hicks claimed that former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker told her during a phone call that the deal the tabloid made with former Playboy model Karen McDougal — who alleged she had an affair with Trump — was “for magazine covers and fitness columns and that it was all very legitimate.”

She said that Trump “wanted to hear that from David as well.”

“I believe I have a recollection of us calling and David repeating that to Mr. Trump,” Hicks added.

Hicks claimed that Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney, told her the story about the $130,000 so-called hush money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels was not true and that no payment had ever been made. She noted that it “would be out of character” for Cohen to make the payment himself.

Before Trump’s attorney, Emil Bove, started his cross-examination, Hicks began tearing up on the stand and had to take a short break.

When she returned, she told jurors that Cohen had tried to “insert himself” into Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and go “rogue” by taking actions not approved by the campaign team. She noted that his unauthorized activities frustrated the Trump team.

“He would try to insert himself at certain moments, but he wasn’t supposed to be on the campaign in any official capacity,” she said of Cohen. “There were things he did in a voluntary capacity because of his interest.”

“He liked to call himself a fixer, or Mr. Fix It, and it was only because he first broke it that he was able to then fix it,” she told jurors.

Anything else?

On Friday morning, the prosecution submitted recordings from Cohen’s phone as evidence in the trial.

Bove noted that between 2016 and 2023, “all sorts of things have happened” with Cohen’s phone, which “present questions about the reliability of the evidence.”

Prosecutor Chris Conroy asked witness Douglas Daus, a forensics and technology expert, whether he saw “any evidence of tampering or manipulation on any of the data that you pulled related to the recording that’s in evidence.” Daus replied that he had not.

During Bove’s recross-examination, he asked Daus whether he noticed “gaps in the handling of this data that created risk for such tampering,” to which Daus replied, “Yes.”

House Republicans, led by House Judiciary Chairman Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), recently launched an investigation into Colangelo, a former top Department of Justice official, Blaze News previously reported. In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Jordan argued that New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s decision to recruit Colangelo as a lead prosecutor in the criminal case against Trump gave the “perception” that the DOJ is assisting in the “politicized prosecution” of the former president.

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Actor Daniel Radcliffe said it would have seemed like he was being cowardly if he didn’t make a statement after author J.K. Rowling’s criticisms of the transgender movement in 2020.

That year, Rowling spoke out and said, “If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased,” adding that erasing the concept of sex “removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn’t hate to speak the truth.”

Radcliffe responded in a written piece for the Trevor Project, an organization that provides “crisis intervention and suicide prevention services” to LGBTQ youth.

“Transgender women are women. Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice given by professional health care associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than either Jo or I,” Radcliffe wrote, referring to Rowling by a short form of her first name, Joanne.

In an interview with the Atlantic, Radcliffe explained that anything less than that response would have been cowardly.

“I’d worked with the Trevor Project for 12 years and it would have seemed like, I don’t know, immense cowardice to me to not say something.”

“I wanted to try and help people that had been negatively affected by the comments,” he continued. “And to say that if those are Jo’s views, then they are not the views of everybody associated with the Potter franchise,” the actor said.

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Radcliffe admitted in the interview that he has had no direct contact with Rowling in the past few years but has had indirect responses.

“It makes me really sad, ultimately,” he told the outlet. “I do look at the person that I met, the times that we met, and the books that she wrote, and the world that she created, and all of that is to me so deeply empathic,” he explained.

The “Harry Potter” star also remarked on the group of then-child actors being lumped together for their echoed sentiments toward transgenderism.

Actress Emma Watson said in 2020 that “trans people are who they say they are” while co-star Rupert Grint also said at the time that “trans women are women. Trans men are men.”

Radcliffe said that in the British press particularly, “There’s a version of ‘Are these three kids ungrateful brats?’ that people have always wanted to write, and they were finally able to. So, good for them, I guess,”

“Obviously Harry Potter would not have happened without [Rowling], so nothing in my life would have probably happened the way it is without that person. But that doesn’t mean that you owe the things you truly believe to someone else for your entire life,” he declared.

In a lengthy thread on X, Rowling stated in April 2024 that “committed ideologues” had doubled down on their transgender rhetoric, despite information released in a study that ultimately led to the U.K.’s health system halting hormone blockers for children.

“These are people who’ve deemed opponents ‘far-right’ for wanting to know there are proper checks and balances in place before autistic, gay and abused kids – groups that are all overrepresented at gender clinics – are left sterilised, inorgasmic, lifelong patients,” she added.

In response, a fan said that he was waiting for “Harry Potter” film stars Radcliffe and Watson to issue an apology to Rowling, adding that he felt “safe in the knowledge” that Rowling would forgive them.

Rowling denied that sentiment.

“Not safe, I’m afraid. Celebs who cosied up to a movement intent on eroding women’s hard-won rights and who used their platforms to cheer on the transitioning of minors can save their apologies for traumatised detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single sex spaces.”

In response to that exchange, Radcliffe told the Atlantic that he would “continue to support the rights of all LGBTQ people” and that he has “no further comment than that.”

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Heather Pressdee of Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania, worked at over 11 rehabilitation clinics between 2018 and 2023. She consistently got fired or had to resign on account of concerns over her abusive behavior toward staff and patients.

Pennsylvania’s Office of the Attorney General conducted an investigation after receiving a referral about a patient under Pressdee’s care in late 2022. It soon became clear that she wasn’t just abusing patients — Pressdee was murdering them.

To avoid the death penalty, Pressdee, 41, has pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and 19 counts of criminal attempt to commit murder. She will, however, die in prison as a Butler County judge sentenced the killer nurse to three life sentences for the three confirmed murders plus 380-760 years of consecutive incarceration for her other murder attempts.

“The defendant used her position of trust as a means to poison patients who depended on her for care,” Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry
said in statement Thursday. “This plea and life sentence will not bring back the lives lost, but it will ensure Heather Pressdee never has another opportunity to inflict further harm. I offer my sincere sympathy to all who have suffered at this defendant’s hands.”

Pressdee’s
victims, who were spread over four counties at five different facilities, include Alice Stewart, Ann Victain, Betty Hutchison, Betty McQueeney, Elmer Allbee, Gerald Shrum Sr., Irene Simons, Purple Heart recipient Jack Rogers, James Bartoe, James Fair, Joseph Campbell, Louise Skinner, Marguerite Laskovich, Marianne Bower, Mary Colwell, Nicholas Cymbol, Norman Hendrickson, Ruth Erikson, Sandra Lincoln, and Sherry Stilitino. Their ages were 43-104.

Victims (Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office)

Blaze News
previously reported that the victims had been at Concordia at Rebecca Residence; Belair Healthcare and Rehabilitation; Quality Life Services Chicora; Premier Armstrong Rehabilitation and Nursing Center; and Sunnyview Rehabilitation and Nursing Center — all locations where Pressdee served as a registered nurse.

Investigators indicated the killer nurse would load her victims up with fatal doses of insulin during overnight shifts when there were few staff members on hand and “often took steps to ensure her victims would expire prior to shift change so that they wouldn’t be sent to the hospital where her scheme could be discovered through medical testing.”

In the event that victims appeared as though they might survive, Pressdee took additional measures to snuff them out.

According to the
criminal complaint, when insulin failed to kill one victim whom Pressdee later told investigators “needed to die,” she administered a syringe full of air into the victim’s catheter to create a lethal air embolism.

Pressdee appears to have developed a taste for killing after dropping out of the nursing program at the Community College of Allegheny County and becoming a veterinary technician. She later told investigators that during her 14 years providing “critical animal care,” her duties included euthanizing animals.

The murderer later finished her nursing degree then went to work treating human beings like lesser animals.

A number of Pressdee’s text messages to her mother that were detailed in the complaint hint at a murderous mentality, such as when she wrote:

“I’m gonna murder already” on June 10, 2022;
“If you get like this you will get pillow therapy,” referencing a patient on June 26, 2022;
“She’s gonna die!!!!” on July 5, 2022;
“I drugged him already and I don’t know how he is awake” on Sept. 6, 2022;
“I’m going to kill this bitch on the phone” on Oct. 17, 2022;
“She could be dead, she hasn’t made a noise since 9 and I’m not checking on her,” adding later on Dec. 7, 2022, “Well she’s alive and she may die now”;
“Whatever I’m gonna stab a bitch today” on Jan. 21, 2023; and
“But I may kill this resident” on May 12, 2023.

In court, Phil DiLucente, Pressdee’s defense attorney, attempted to humanize the murderous nurse,
reported WTAE-TV.

“Let me just say this. There is not all bad in everyone. And you could see at the end, she was remorseful,” said DiLucente. “There was a tear in her eyes, and some folks could see up in the jury box from the press that I handed her a handkerchief to wipe her tears away. So, at the end of the day, we’re all human, and this is a very, very tragic — a tragic case.”

Family members of the victims weren’t fooled by the attorney’s last-ditch effort and the killer’s crocodile tears.

One relative told the judge, “She’s not sick. She’s not insane. She’s evil personified.”

Another victim’s granddaughter told Pressdee, “You are not a nurse, you are a black mark on the nursing profession.”

“She’s pure evil,” Melinda Brown, sister of victim Nicholas Cymbol, told WTAE. “There’s no justice for this. We’ll get justice when she meets her maker.”

Elizabeth Simons Ozella, the daughter of victim Irene Simons said, “I’ll never forgive her for what she did. We’re angry and hurt that she disguised herself as a caring nurse.”

“She took someone from this earth that she had no right to take,” continued Ozella, “and she played God when she didn’t have that right.”

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Country music megastar John Rich experienced a second bold revelation after seeing a bunch of frat boys at the University of North Carolina save Old Glory from “unwashed Marxists” trying to replace it with a Palestinian flag.

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“I wanted to let them know they had my sincere gratitude, so I offered them a free concert at some point to celebrate their efforts and the patriot fire that is now beginning to fire back up across the USA,” Rich told Blaze News Friday morning.

Many patriotic Americans have been inspired by the young men who stood up to the pro-Hamsas protesters at UNC-Chapel Hill. A GoFundMe in support of the boys has hundreds of thousands of dollars pledged. And now a major music star wants to party with the college kids.

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Rich will likely make his new single, “Revelation,” part of his eventual performance in North Carolina, an event he’s calling “FlagStock.” The song will be at the center of Rich’s performance and partnership with BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock at the Roll Call 2.0 men’s summit on June 1 at Rocketown in Nashville. Rich and Whitlock are bringing divided believers together with music, food, and dynamic speakers, including Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck and Pastors Voddie Baucham and E.W. Jackson.

Three months ago, Rich wrote “Revelation,” a provocative warning to sinners about the wrath of Jesus Christ. Rich told Whitlock earlier this year that the song just popped into his head.

“‘Revelation’ is a song about what will happen upon the return of Jesus Christ to the earth,” Rich told Blaze News. “To my knowledge, there has never been a song written and recorded like this one. The song doesn’t reflect my opinion; it is directly derived from Scripture itself. This song should be strength to the saved, conviction to the lost, and fear to the truly wicked.”

Fearless Army Roll Call 2.0 is a gathering, celebration, and encouragement of men to put on the full armor of God to take a stand against the evil forces destroying American culture (Ephesians). It’s being held because it’s important that men not give up meeting together and encouraging one another toward love and good deeds (Hebrews 10:24-25).

To join Rich and Whitlock at Roll Call 2.0 — which is perfectly scheduled on the first day of “Pride Month” — visit FearlessArmyRollCall.com to reserve your spot. While the world celebrates sinful pride, you can listen to music, eat great food, and listen to powerful speakers share biblical wisdom and encouragement.

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According to a new report, internal DHS data has revealed that the Biden administration has flown hundreds of thousands of “inadmissible” migrants into U.S. cities — and the top 15 cities are eye-opening.

The controversial CHNV mass-parole program has used American tax dollars to send migrants who have claimed refugee status all over the country, but the state with the most migrants is, of course, the red state of Florida.

“We’re just flying these people, without knowing who they really are,” Glenn Beck says, disturbed.

“Now, these aren’t the people who came across the border, these are the ones that the United States government went out to and said, ‘Hey, is anybody a refugee? If you’re a refugee, I got free tickets to America,’” he adds.

According to the report, 91,000 migrants were flown in from January through August 2023 to Miami, Florida. Fort Lauderdale, Florida, received 60,000 migrants.

Those were the top two cities of the fifteen, but the third received much less.

Compared to Miami’s 91,000 and Fort Lauderdale’s 60,000 — New York City came in at number three with 14,000.

“Wait a minute, that’s quite a spread there,” Glenn says, shocked.

Houston, Texas, received 8,000, and at number five, Orlando, Florida, received 6,000. Tampa, Florida, was also on the list.

Stu Burguiere is confused by the decision to send so many migrants to red states rather than states with sanctuary cities.

“If you’re the Biden administration, you keep telling everyone that people in the South, in the red states, hate immigrants, they’re racists, they’re xenophobes, they don’t have any programs for them,” Stu says.

“So, why would you continue to keep bringing them to Florida and Texas? Why wouldn’t you bring them to the cities that have all these wonderful programs you’ve passed?”

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A Christian Navy veteran toppled a satanic statue at the Iowa Capitol just before Christmas. A Democratic prosecutor subsequently slapped him with hate crime charges. This week, a judge ensured that the charges would stick.

While the Satanic Temple and the Democratic prosecutor might like to see Michael Cassidy ultimately locked up, his fate will be determined by a jury — a jury likely to contain at least a handful of sympathetic, God-fearing Americans.

“We believe that the jury will have the opportunity to consider all of the facts in this case, including Mr. Cassidy’s military service and motivation,” Davis Younts, Cassidy’s lawyer, told Blaze News. “He was compelled by his faith to act to protect others.”

‘Enemy of humanity’

The Satanic Temple is an anti-Christian leftist organization that has performed public “unbaptisms”; advocated for mothers to kill their unborn babies by way of its “religious abortion ritual”;
agitated to prevent chaplaincy in Florida schools; disseminated satanic literature to kids; held a demonization ceremony in protest of the canonization of the Catholic Spanish priest Junípero Serra; and pushed the LGBT agenda.

In recent years, the ST has also erected multiple demonic statutes across the country on public property. Ahead of Christmas 2023, the Satanic Temple raised one such statue — a ram-headed Baphomet statue holding a red pentacle — along with a satanic altar on the first floor of the Iowa Capitol.

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There was plenty of impotent rage in the face of the seemingly intentional Christmastime affront to both Christians and Muslims. After all, Blaze News
previously reported that Baphomet possibly originated as a slight against the Muslim faith.

UCLA professor Zrinka Stahuljak
indicated “Baphomet” was originally a French corruption of the name Mohamed. British historian Peter Partner suggested further that the Knights Templar, who reclaimed territory previously occupied by Islamic forces, were accused by inquisitors of worshiping Baphomet as part of what was likely a 14th-century smear.

Gov. Kim Reynolds (R)
called the demonic altar “objectionable” but encouraged critics to engage in prayer at the state Capitol.

State Rep. Jon Dunwell (R), a Christian pastor, outlined why this was the optimal response, noting that the Satanic Temple successfully “petitioned for their display in August and were approved with some modification.”

Lucien Greaves, co-founder of the ST, noted, “I would hope that even people who disagree with the symbolism behind our values, whether they know what those values [are] or not, would at least appreciate that it’s certainly a greater evil to allow the government to pick and choose between forms of religious expression.”

Younts, Cassidy’s lawyer, told Blaze News, “The reality is that the Satanic Temple of Iowa chose a symbol of hatred, lies, death, and destruction in an effort to mock religious displays during the Christmas season. It would have been reasonable and appropriate for the State of Iowa to deny their application, the same way we would hope an application to display obscene material or a statue honoring Adolf Hitler would be denied.”

“The idol was displayed as either a sincere attempt to worship Satan, the enemy of humanity, and promote lies, death, and destruction, or it was placed in an intentional effort to show hatred for and mock the Christian faith and traditional American values,” added Younts.

Baphomet takes a tumble

After liking a
post by Blaze News columnist Auron MacIntyre, which said, “Periodic reminder that the religious right were correct about everything,” Cassidy, of Lauderdale, Mississippi, entered the Iowa Capitol on Dec. 14, 2023, and decapitated the Baphomet statue.

“I saw this blasphemous statue and was outraged. My conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree. And so I acted,” Cassidy, a former F/A-18 Hornet pilot who served on the USS George Washington,
said in an interview with the Sentinel.

“The world may tell Christians to submissively accept the legitimization of Satan, but none of the founders would have considered government sanction of satanic altars inside Capitol buildings as protected by the First Amendment,” Cassidy continued. “Anti-Christian values have steadily been mainstreamed more and more in recent decades, and Christians have largely acted like the proverbial frog in the boiling pot of water.”

Cassidy was originally charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief. However,
Polk County Democratic Attorney Kimberly Graham‘s office enhanced the charge to third-degree criminal mischief on the basis of Cassidy’s statements both to law enforcement and the public indicating he destroyed the property due to its anti-Christian nature — or what prosecutors referred to as “the victim’s religion.”

The Sentinel suggested that Graham, a failed U.S. Senate candidate, might have a bias against conservatives,
highlighting the $300,000 of in-kind campaign support she reportedly received from the George Soros-funded Justice and Public Safety PAC.

Cassidy’s legal team, which similarly suspects the charging decision was the result of anti-conservative bias, recently attempted to axe the hate crime charges. However, on Tuesday, an Iowa judge denied the motion.

Younts told Blaze News, “The judge ruled against our motion to dismiss even though the DA’s office could not produce a single example in Iowa or across the United States where a similar statute had been used to justify charging a hate crime where the ‘victim’ was an organization rather than an individual.”

Jury selection is expected to begin Monday. Cassidy reportedly faces as many as five years in prison.

“Our message is simple — America was founded by men and women whose primary source for the Constitution and our system of government was the Bible and traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs,” said Younts. “Because of the religious beliefs and influences of our founders, America has experienced a profound history of religious freedom and prosperity. Our society will continue to collapse into chaos and tyranny if we abandon those beliefs and biblical principles that made our nation possible.”

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North Carolina authorities are investigating the tragic death of a pastor’s wife.

On April 28, John-Paul Miller, pastor of Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, delivered his Sunday sermon like normal. But when he finished preaching, he announced shocking news to his congregation.

His wife, Mica Miller, was dead.

“I got a call late last night, my wife has passed away,” he said. “It was self-induced, and it was up in North Carolina.”

Pastor Miller told the congregation that he expected them to leave the sanctuary after his “announcement” without talking about the “announcement.” He said there would be a funeral at the church for Mica Miller next Sunday at 3 p.m.

“Y’all knew she wasn’t well mentally, and she needed medicine that was hard to get to her. I’m sure there will be more details to come, but keep her family in your prayers,” Pastor Miller said before leaving the stage.

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Mica Miller, just 30 years old, was indeed found dead on April 27 in Lumber River State Park with a fatal gunshot wound to the head.

Officials have not yet released an official cause of death.

However, Major Damien McLean of Robeson County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to WPDE-TV that officers are investigating Miller’s death and are gathering information from people in North Carolina and South Carolina. He added that officials plan to release more information in the coming days.

Meanwhile, Mica’s friends and family are speaking out.

Mica’s mother posted on Facebook three days ago, “My daughter Mica was found Saturday in Lumberton, NC with a fatal gunshot wound. A no contact order and a divorce was filed just days before this tragedy. We are devastated. Prayers appreciated.”

Mica’s sister, Sierra Francis, said, “Please do not listen to false stories being shared about her. Mica was a God-fearing, joyful, loving woman who did not deserve the abuse she endured. … Please respect us in this time and honor her memory with joy that she is no longer suffering.”

Kenn Young, one of Mica’s friends, told WDPE that police need to investigate “deeply.”

“This has to be at least looked into deeply. There’s got to be some accountability here,” he said. “Because yeah, a tragic life was lost, and it’s not just as simple as mental health issues.”

Just weeks before her death, Mica posted on Facebook about “leaving a dangerous situation” and suggested that she had been the victim of “terrible terrible TERRIBLE terrible” things.

Public records show that Mica had filed for divorce last October, and she had filed additional “Separate Support and Maintenance” orders. The most recent order, filed on April 15, had a court hearing date set for June 5.

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Bill Maher and the alpha of the UFC, Dana White, have basically nothing in common — until now.

When White went on Maher’s “Club Random” podcast, this became clear when they started discussing the softening of sports and landed on the topic of Damar Hamlin’s injury.

“By the time night had fallen on this event, it was just the one true opinion that this game could not have been played, because that’s the way America reacts to things. Now, I’m in the opinion that they should have played the game,” Maher told White.

But they didn’t play the game, because they claimed the most important thing was Damar, which Maher called “bad logic.”

“How does that affect playing the game? He’s in the hospital. Unless the doctors are watching the game out of the corner of their eye while they’re operating on him, I don’t think it’s going to affect anything,” Maher continued, noting that the first thing Hamlin said when he woke up was “Did we win?”

“No, because you live in baby land, Damar,” Maher laughed.

“I don’t disagree with you,” White said, adding, “The last thing that I want to see is any more of the p***ification of this country.”

Jason Whitlock is thrilled that this conversation is happening between such big names.

“These types of conversations where Bill Maher’s trying to bring sanity back to the left always please me. And to see Dana White co-signing pleased me as well,” Whitlock says.

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A San Diego-area school district fired its superintendent over claims she harassed high school softball players who didn’t clap loudly enough for her daughter at an awards ceremony.

What are the details?

The Poway Unified School District voted unanimously Tuesday to terminate Superintendent Marian Kim Phelps, KNSD-TV reported.

The station said an independent investigation commenced last year after parents and students accused Phelps of harassing members of Del Norte High School’s softball team.

Students told KNSD Phelps contacted players late at night after the awards ceremony and threatened seniors’ graduation privileges if they failed to apologize for not clapping for her daughter. The station said the allegations first surfaced at a Poway Board meeting, but parents said they alerted the district months earlier.

Image source: KNBC-TV video screenshot

In addition, a Del Norte High softball player filed a lawsuit against Phelps and the district over the alleged bullying, claiming emotional distress, violation of free speech, and harassment, KNSD said.

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It alleges Phelps orchestrated an internal investigation of the plaintiff, whom Phelps accused of bullying her daughter — the two players were both pitchers and competed for playing time. The plaintiff believes the investigation was meant to prevent her from pitching or playing softball altogether, according to the lawsuit. Jane Doe was ultimately barred from all extracurricular activities in the 2023-2024 school year, including sports, school-sponsored social events and graduation commencement.

Phelps has denied all allegations, KNSD reported, noting that she issued the following statement earlier in the process: “I’ve never threatened any student. I never would. I’ve never talked to any student about making threats about them not graduating. All those accusations are completely false and fabricated.”

Attorney Justin Reden represents the Del Norte High School softball player and her family who filed the lawsuit last November, and he told the station that no student should have to go through what his client endured.

Reden added to KNSD: “I think that the district is going to need to dismantle itself at the administrative level and rebuild.”

Parent Melinda Huntoon told the station that “it should not take a year with the knowledge that they had. There was just so much evidence from the start to show that this person should not be in this position of power.”

School board President Michelle O’Connor-Ratcliff said in an email, KNSD reported, that “based on her conduct, as revealed to the board through the investigation, the board has lost all confidence and trust in Dr. Phelps’ ability to continue to serve as superintendent, as well as in her ability to continue to work collaboratively with the board as part of Poway Unified’s governance team.”

O’Connor-Ratcliff also said the “investigation brought to light previously unknown evidence from witnesses with direct first-hand knowledge that contradicted Dr. Phelps’ statements and assertions to the Board, District staff, and the public,” the station reported.

A district spokeswoman added to KNSD that Tuesday would be Phelps’ last day, and she won’t receive a payout for the balance of her contract since she was terminated “for cause.”

The station explained that while the district no longer employs Phelps, she’s still a parent of a student in the district, and there are no restrictions on her parental activities.

KNSD said it tried reaching out to Phelps for comment but didn’t receive a response.

The station said Greg Mizel will continue to serve as interim superintendent during the transition period.

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