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A Massachusetts teenager used ChatGPT for “ideas” and “fantasies” about “killing his family” — and now the 17-year-old is charged with murdering his mother and brother, the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office said.

Arjun Aravind of Acton has been charged with two counts of murder, two counts of assault and battery on a household or family member, two counts of assault and battery, use of a vehicle without authority, and theft of a motor vehicle in connection with the deaths of his 14-year-old brother, Siddharth Aravind, and his 45-year-old mother, Sudha Venkatesan, according to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Acton Police Chief Douglas Sturniolo.

‘At this time, based on the evidence that was found at the scene, it was apparent that blunt force trauma was used in some fashion on both individuals.’

Acton Police received a call shortly after 6:30 p.m. Tuesday from the suspect’s father, who had been unable to reach his family members and said a tutor who was expected at the family home on Martha Lane was unable to make contact with the residents upon arrival, officials said.

The father last had contact with his wife early Tuesday morning before he left for work, officials said, and his son, Siddharth, was last seen around noon.

Upon entering the home, police found two victims dead, officials said, adding that Siddharth was found on the first floor, and Sudha was found in the finished basement.

Police determined that Arjun was not in the home and that he allegedly fled using his mother’s vehicle, a 2014 Green Honda Accord, officials said.

Investigators attempted to locate Arjun but were not immediately successful and notified law enforcement and members of the public to be on the lookout., officials said.

Early Wednesday morning, police in Wayland found the suspect vehicle with Arjun inside, officials said. Wayland is about 20 minutes south of Acton.

Police took Arjun into custody without incident, officials said.

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“The subsequent investigation indicates that Arjun had recently been demonstrating concerning behavior including using the internet and ChatGPT to make searches including for theoretical ideas or fantasies regarding killing his family,” the district attorney’s office added.

The suspect also asked ChatGPT to help create “Gothic novel-kind of stories” and characters, DA Marian Ryan told Boston.com.

Officials said it is alleged that Arjun fatally assaulted his mother and brother inside their home Tuesday before fleeing the scene.

Both victims were “suffering from obvious trauma” but “the exact cause and manner is still pending from the chief medical examiner,” officials said, adding that “what weapon or weapons were used is still actively under investigation.”

Arjun Aravind was wearing handcuffs Thursday morning at his arraignment in Concord District Court when a not-guilty plea to murder and other charges was entered on his behalf, WBZ-TV reported, adding that he is being held without bail.

The station, citing court documents, said Aravind’s father recently became worried about his son’s behavior and internet activity and had started hiding the knives in the house.

“At this time, based on the evidence that was found at the scene, it was apparent that blunt force trauma was used in some fashion on both individuals,” Prosecutor Susan Wiseman said Thursday, according to WBZ, adding that it was a “physical and violent struggle.”

The station reported that Wiseman also indicated that when police found Arjun at 3:40 a.m. in his mother’s car, “a number of items were found in that car that correspond to the murder scene.”

WBZ added that after the arraignment, Arjun’s defense attorney Debra DeWitt told reporters that when her client “left the house he did not realize they were dead, so he is, in my words, in somewhat of a shock situation.”

“The father just wants help for his son,” DeWitt said, according to the station, adding that Arjun has not spoken with his father since the murders.

The suspect is due back in court for a probable cause hearing on Sept. 11, WBZ reported.

Editor’s note: This article has been corrected after publication to note that Wayland is 20 minutes, not 20 miles, south of Acton.

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Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Maura Healey, a lesbian who claims to be Catholic, signed legislation this week liberalizing abortion while surrounded by progressive women celebrating the right to murder their healthy babies up till birth. To conservatives who rightly regard late-term abortion as the killing of a viable child, the scene was grotesque.

It also illustrated a political asymmetry conservatives rarely discuss.

A civilization where men and women are constantly at odds with each other is doomed.

Endless ink has been spilled and countless podcasts recorded about the radicalization of young men on the right. Almost nobody in conservative media wants to address the equally serious radicalization of young women toward the progressive left.

There has been plenty of controversy in conservative circles about young men embracing nihilistic or extremist politics online. Rod Dreher, among others, has warned about young conservative men drifting toward figures such as Nick Fuentes and adopting a politics of resentment and despair.

That’s fine as far as it goes, but it does not answer the larger question. Even if Dreher is right about one cohort of men, it does not follow that young men are uniquely radicalized, or even that they represent the larger political problem. Conservatives should be capable of noticing more than one trend at a time. And the trend among women is impossible to ignore.

Kamala Harris received 53% of the female vote in 2024, while Joe Biden received 54% in 2020. Women are substantially more supportive than men of legal abortion. They are also more likely to regard changing one’s gender as morally acceptable and more likely to say society has not done enough to accommodate transgender people.

The same divide appears on immigration. Women are more likely to support amnesty, oppose ICE deportations, and favor extending legal protections to illegal immigrants.

The divide extends beyond electoral politics. Young women are less likely than young men to say they want children and less likely to prioritize family over professional goals. They are also less likely to express a positive view of capitalism.

None of this means women are a political monolith. Marriage changes voting behavior dramatically. Married women are far more likely to vote Republican and hold traditional views on family and gender.

Race also plays a part.

Ripping on liberal white women is practically a conservative pastime, partly because “white” makes them culturally safe targets. But the voting data complicate the caricature. A majority of white women voted for Trump in 2024, while much smaller shares of Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, and black women did so.

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White women are hardly a uniformly conservative bloc. But they are not the most progressive female constituency either.

Despite the mountain of evidence that females are far more left wing, there will be no books about the dangerous trend of radicalization among young women. There will be plenty of cable-news segments about how social media is poisoning young men. There will be endless concern about podcasts, gaming culture, online masculinity, and the political temptations facing disaffected boys.

Much less energy will be spent asking what TikTok, universities, activist institutions, and elite media have done to the minds of young women.

The reason is simple: Young men are a safe target.

Anyone can denounce them with little institutional risk. A broad criticism of female political behavior, by contrast, can quickly become a career problem. That taboo exists on the right almost as surely as it does on a college campus.

It must be said that this is not an exercise in blanket condemnation of women. The conservative movement is filled with passionate, caring, godly mothers, wives, daughters, and single women who genuinely support the fight for the future of the United States.

A civilization where men and women are constantly at odds with each other is doomed. Breaking men and women out of loving families and turning them into political blocs to be catered to is disastrous for the health of the nation.

South Korea provides a warning about where gender war can lead. Its political divide between young men and women has grown exceptionally wide, with the sexes increasingly supporting very different parties and organizing around competing political identities.

South Korea also has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world. That does not prove the political gender divide caused the fertility collapse; housing costs, work culture, marriage patterns, and other factors have played a role. But a society in which men and women increasingly regard one another as political adversaries will have a harder time persuading them to marry, form families, and raise children together.

North Korea, despite being totalitarian and impoverished, has a higher fertility rate than the South. No sane person would therefore prefer living under a communist mad man. The comparison simply shows that prosperity alone cannot guarantee family formation. A wealthy society can still undermine itself if men and women cease to see one another as partners in a common project.

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The basic building block of society is not the individual but the family. In a democracy, when you separate men and women into different constituencies, you fundamentally undermine family formation and create a dangerous antagonism between the sexes.

This is not a call for further politicization. It is a call to recognize the dynamics already playing out in the conservative sphere.

Young men are easy targets, and they should be corrected when they embrace nihilism or extremism. But young women have also shifted sharply left with virtually no comparable attention from the conservative commentariat.

The asymmetry is especially strange because conservatives insist that adults are moral agents responsible for their choices. That principle cannot suddenly disappear when the subject is young women. If progressive politics encourages destructive beliefs about abortion, sex, marriage, family, borders, or economics, conservatives should be willing to say so plainly rather than treating female voters as a protected class.

If conservatives want to be honest about the cultural problems facing the country, they cannot provide moral correction and guidance only to their sons. Their daughters need it too.

We must end the gender wars and encourage unity and family formation in the United States. But doing that will require conservatives to tell some women a phrase they very rarely hear: No.

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The original trio of “Matrix” movies are considered some of the greatest of all time, but one of the creators is having trouble with Hollywood accepting his latest idea.

Andy Wachowski, who now goes by Lilly Wachowski, explained that he has been shopping around what he considers to be a great script, but Tinseltown isn’t biting.

‘It’s not the thing that I had imagined it was going to be.’

Gender bender

Wachowski and his brother Larry — who is also transgender and now goes by Lana — were once revered by movie fans for their intense and philosophical plots. Over the years, however, Wachowski has become intrenched in progressive dogma, and the fourth “Matrix” movie that came 18 years after the last barely moved the needle.

During a recent podcast interview, Wachowski revealed that his latest project, “The Hunted,” is having trouble getting off the ground in terms of financing, despite having a very modest projected budget of $10 million.

“People like it, but they really don’t want to make it,” Wachowski told KCRW’s “The Business,” per Variety.

The director then revealed what the obvious reason was: “because it’s [got a] wall-to-wall trans cast.”

Wachowski has remained so confident in his script that he hosted a live reading last week to showcase its worthiness. Described by Deadline as a biting political thriller similar to his “V for Vendetta,” “The Hunted” is set in a dystopian America where “trans people are brutalized and erased to the margins of society.”

Deadline further wrote that it focuses on two “trans women” who search for the perpetrator of a heinous crime who ends up being in the highest offices of government.

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L-R: Andy ‘Lilly’ Wachowski and Larry ‘Lana’ Wachowski, 2013. JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images

Rage dump

Wachowski has tapped gay activist/actress Natasha Lyonne as producer and explained that the reading is part of the process of getting more eyeballs on the project.

“I have to get creative and figure out different ways that I can get this in front of people,” he continued. “This is a script that was extremely important for me to write.”

Wachowski then described the project as a “response to what is happening in the world for trans people,” revealing it has been a “hugely cathartic receptacle to dump all of my anger and rage and frustration into.”

The project, co-written with his romantic partner, Mickey Ray Mahoney, is likely what Wachowski was referring to when he said his “trans rage” has been fueling his work.

This was coupled with a mantra of: “I’m just going to go out and I’m going to grab that trans joy with all of my friends,” Wachowski said.

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Margin call

Adding to his thought process, Wachowski remarked, “It’s not the thing that I had imagined it was going to be, but the end result is the same.”

The recent podcast also included discussion of the filmmaker’s juggling of productions during a gender transition and his nonprofit studio called Anarchists United, which is designed to “showcase marginalized talent.”

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In a recent interview on ABC, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was asked about the positions democratic socialists like herself took years ago — and BlazeTV host John Doyle didn’t love her answer.

“Woke 1 was crazy,” she laughed.

AOC went on to point out that while the policy discussions around the beginning of the pandemic were “fruitful,” the “rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.”

“Of course, the rhetoric meaning the messaging, the communication style,” Doyle says, “not the policies, not the intentions, just the rhetoric, because they understand that maybe it was a little off-putting to normal Americans and so they want to scale that back.”

“And people, because they’re illiterate, hear that and think that means, ‘Oh, we’re going to stop calling for this kind of stuff,’” he says, pointing out that this was “staged” as AOC has her eye on a much larger office.

“Ocasio-Cortez is widely viewed to be a possible contender in the 2028 presidential primaries for the Democrats. You’ve had DSA-aligned candidates winning primaries left and right,” he explains.

“So the leading face of this progressive left coalition, AOC, is now going to choose to treat peak woke as a kind of closed chapter,” he adds.

But Woke 2 is well underway.

“It’s just going to speak a little bit more softly, but the big stick is very much still present. So what we’re trying to do now is not alienate the public. We’re not trying to shock the public into submission. We’re going to win power first and then implement the same priorities, but we’re going to just put a nice packaging on it,” Doyle says.

“So you know, AOC laughing at ‘Woke 1’ is essentially a PR strategy,” he continues, explaining that this rejection of ‘Woke 1’ is an attempt to give “permission to keep voting for the insanity.”

That insanity still includes defunding the police, feminism, diversity, equity, and inclusion, the mutilation of children, and gender identity madness.

“It’s trying to be less obvious, less obnoxious, but still it is going to advance the same long-term project it has been advancing since the 1960s,” he adds.

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Just weeks after Democrats swapped Graham Platner for Troy Jackson as their U.S. Senate nominee in Maine, a newly unearthed 1988 police report has raised questions about violence in Jackson’s past.

Obtained exclusively by Bangor Daily News in collaboration with the Maine Monitor, the report states that Jackson was involved in an assault at a home in Fort Kent, Maine, in the early morning of March 12, 1988.

‘I have never been violent with my partner Lana, or any other woman.’

Lana Pelletier, Jackson’s girlfriend of roughly 40 years, told the responding officer at the time that Jackson “pushed her around” and that she planned to seek “cease harassment papers,” the report said, according to BDN. If such papers were ever filed, there is no record of them.

The report refers to Pelletier as Jackson’s ex-girlfriend, BDN reported.

Jackson also kicked the door in after being asked to leave, then grabbed a man’s throat and punched him, the report said, according to BDN. The blow allegedly broke the man’s glasses and cut his face.

Jackson paid a $50 fine to resolve a subsequent misdemeanor charge and does not dispute the fight with the man.

Jackson and Pelletier both deny that he was violent toward her.

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“Nearly forty years ago, when I was 19 years old, I got into a fight with another man. I took responsibility for it then, and I take responsibility for it now,” Jackson said in a statement. “But let me be clear: I have never been violent with my partner Lana, or any other woman. This happened nearly four decades ago, and I assure Mainers this incident in no way reflects the man I am today or the life I’ve led in the years since.”

“I do not remember making the statements attributed to me and they are not accurate. This is the first time I have seen this report from 40 years ago,” Pelletier said in a statement. “Troy and I have built a life and family together and I know the person he has been through the decades since, both as a caring partner and father.”

Jackson and Pelletier, who are apparently second cousins, according to the Maine Wire, have two sons together but do not appear to be legally married.

“I understand Maine voters want to learn about Troy as he seeks to represent them, but personal attacks on my family are unacceptable,” Pelletier said. “In the 40 years since he made a mistake as a 19-year-old kid, Troy has grown to be a passionate advocate for Mainers and dedicated his life to making things better for our state while Susan Collins has been in Washington enriching herself at our expense.”

Jackson secured the Democratic nomination in late July after a rapid process to replace Platner, whose campaign collapsed following a litany of scandals that included allegations of violence and ended with a former girlfriend accusing him of sexually assaulting her in 2021. Platner denied the allegation.

Democrats harshly condemned Platner following the allegations.

“The allegations reported today are incredibly disturbing — violence, abuse, and sexual assault are absolutely unacceptable,” Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said regarding Platner in a July press release.

“The assault allegations against Graham Platner are disqualifying and he should be replaced as the nominee,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said in an X post at the time.

“As Democrats, we have an obligation to run candidates whose moral character matches the values we stand for. Maine deserves a nominee who can defeat Susan Collins and serve with honor and dignity … [we are] redirecting resources away from the Maine Senate race in light of the latest allegations,” Democrats’ Senate Majority PAC spokesperson Lauren French said in a July X post.

The Maine Democratic Party did not respond to a request for comment.

Jackson and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) will clash head-to-head at the ballot box in November.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection has reported busting a smuggling operation at a port of entry at the United States-Mexico border.

CBP told Blaze News that officers at the cargo facility at the Pharr International Bridge had seized $634,000 worth of cocaine on Friday.

‘The Department of Homeland Security and CBP have delivered the most secure border in history, stopping illicit narcotics and dangerous criminal aliens from entering our communities.’

The alleged contraband was found hidden in a commercial tractor-trailer coming from Reynosa, Mexico, and heading into the U.S., CBP said.

CBP said the vehicle was referred to secondary inspection and that officers detected anomalies using a nonintrusive inspection device. Officers then physically inspected the vehicle and discovered 47.48 pounds of alleged cocaine concealed in 18 packages.

Special agents of Homeland Security Investigations initiated an investigation, and the Office of Field Operations at CBP seized both the vehicle and the alleged narcotics, CBP said.

“Our CBP officers continue to successfully use their skills and expertise to intercept another load of hard narcotics,” said Carlos Rodriguez, the port director at the Hidalgo/Pharr/Anzalduas port of entry.

The massive port of entry has often been the site of smuggling operations thwarted by customs officials. In 2024, CBP reported seizing $5.4 million in methamphetamine hidden in a shipment of papayas.

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“Fulfilling President Donald J. Trump’s mandate, the Department of Homeland Security and CBP have delivered the most secure border in history, stopping illicit narcotics and dangerous criminal aliens from entering our communities, which will keep America safe for generations to come,” read the press release from CBP given to Blaze News.

Luis Bazan, the director of the Pharr International Bridge, said in 2024 that an estimated $50 billion worth of trade flows through the enormous international industrial corridor.

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A female athlete who knows firsthand what it’s like to compete against a male is confused by the WNBA’s lack of a female-only policy.

To date, the WNBA has consistently punted on the idea of banning males from its league despite the topic being a focal point in press conferences, interviews, and even during games.

‘The WNBA [is] proving every day how unserious the league is.’

Coaches and ownership have been clear: The WNBA is a progressive and inclusive league, even if women have a problem with it.

Payton McNabb is one of those women.

The North Carolina native gained notoriety during her senior year of high school as a volleyball player when she was on the receiving end of a male athlete’s brutal spike that caused ongoing concussion symptoms and neck injury.

“It was very clear that we were not up against another high school girl,” McNabb told Blaze News.

McNabb has subsequently become a vocal opponent of male inclusion in women’s sports, even speaking before the House Oversight Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency in May 2025.

Nearly four years after her high school injury, McNabb remains flabbergasted as to how a league made for women is still unable to admit obvious differences between the sexes.

“Something so simple as that has turned into this insane explosion of just the WNBA proving every day how unserious the league is,” McNabb declared. “It’s just been crazy to watch.”

At the same time, McNabb praised Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham, the first player in the league to outright state that men should not be allowed to play with women and that boys should not share locker rooms with girls.

“I think the way she’s handled it has been so admirable,” McNabb, who also played basketball, explained. “I really appreciate her not backing down from it, and doubling down on it, and standing up for women and girls in the next generation.”

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McNabb accused other WNBA players and coaches of “pulling up the ladder” and putting young girls in a position where there may be no women’s basketball league for them to aspire to.

“I can’t think of any other explanation as to why you would want men to infiltrate the very league you made to get away from men. It makes no sense,” she said. “You can’t complain on one hand that you want more media attention and more opportunities and just as much as the men, and then the next argument be that you would open-arms accept them on your team and, you know, encourage that to happen.”

Now a college student, McNabb touched on the WNBA personnel who have performed stunts in response to Cunningham’s “completely normal” comments.

Specifically referring to Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve wearing a “Trans Kids Belong” shirt and Seattle Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton accosting two young female fans, McNabb said she believes there is some sort of ongoing effort to get “media relevancy.”

“There’s no other reason why anyone would be talking about the WNBA,” she stressed.

McNabb asserted that the league’s constant involvement in these controversies distracts from the actual sport: “It’s just taking away from basketball. I mean, no one’s even talking about basketball.”

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Now in her 20s, McNabb recognizes how difficult it must have been for Cunningham to risk her rise to stardom by speaking out.

“She didn’t wait until it was easy,” McNabb said of Cunningham. “She really said it when her career was taking off and, you know, when she has so many eyes on her.”

“I know it means a lot to me, but I just know how much it means to a bunch of young girls, young athletes across the country who look up to her so much,” she added.

McNabb revealed that the whole conversation around protecting women’s sports has resulted in her being called a “TERF, bigoted, transphobic loser,” when, in her opinion, all women are asking for is “the bare minimum.”

A women-only locker room and an even playing field don’t seem like too much to ask, the college student said, adding that even her most fervent detractors are putting forth “a losing argument.”

“It’s just real life, and it’s okay to think that. And the people that disagree with you, I think they, deep down, they’ve got to know.”

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Liberal celebrity Rosie O’Donnell says she continues to struggle using her teenage daughter’s chosen pronouns.

The 64-year-old admitted she took a drastic measure to remember to call her daughter “them” and thought the teenager would find it touching, but the girl didn’t care at all.

‘I thought she’d be very touched, and she didn’t give two s**ts. She could not care less.’

O’Donnell related the story during an interview with Amy Poehler on her “Good Hang” podcast released Tuesday. O’Donnell told Poehler that her daughter would hold up a sign with the word “they” to remind her.

“I love, I love that you’re constantly correcting in real time like we all do. It’s, it’s really beautiful,” said Poehler.

“And it really matters to them, and I know it matters to them. And so when I would — they first told me that it was ‘they/them,’ I tried my best, but I kept saying ‘she,'” O’Donnell said.

“And so they wrote on a cardboard paper ‘they,’ and then they would hold it up above their head every time I said ‘she,'” O’Donnell laughed, “like John Cusack in ‘Say Anything’ with the boom box, just staring at me, you know.”

O’Donnell said she eventually got the “they” tattooed in her daughter’s handwriting.

“I had it tattooed on my wrist so that I would never forget, that it would remind me,” she added. “And I thought she’d be very touched, and she didn’t give two s**ts. She could not care less.”

O’Donnell then “misgenders” her daughter in the course of telling the story.

“And I just said ‘she.’ I just did it again in the ‘they’ story,” she added. “I messed it up.”

O’Donnell’s 13-year-old daughter was named Dakota but changed her name to Clay when she began identifying as “nonbinary” in 2024. O’Donnell came out as gay in 2002 and was legally married for two years to Michelle Rounds.

O’Donnell and Rounds adopted Dakota and later fought over custody until Rounds committed suicide in 2017.

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O’Donnell moved from the U.S. to Ireland in 2025 and claimed that she would return once all Americans had “equal rights.”

The entire podcast episode with O’Donnell can be viewed on the show’s YouTube channel.

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When Democratic Socialists of America co-chair Megan Romer was asked to explain key positions of her own movement, the results were incredibly revealing.

In an interview with David Remnick of the New Yorker, Romer struggled to define what “taxing the hell out of millionaires” would actually mean in practice and defended positions on Israel that would effectively eliminate the Jewish state.

“We do believe in taxing the hell out of millionaires,” Romer told Remnick.

“Well, what is taxing the hell out of them?” he asked.

“I don’t have like a solid —”

“But shouldn’t you?” he interrupted.

“I mean, if you’re the co-chair of the DSA, shouldn’t you be more specific than just taxing the hell out of something?” he asked. “What exactly do you mean?”

“So, again, it’s democracy, right?” she said. “And we have to look at what we need to spend and what we need. We don’t want to depend on the existence of millionaires, because that means people are still getting exploited. So yeah, we need to look at what we need to pay for in the interim, what sort of tax base we need for that to happen, and then build from there.”

“So even these psychos don’t have an answer for that,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray comments on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”

Romer went on to explain that she’s been a “Jon Stewart” Democrat and believes that there should be “no defense or economic support for Israel.”

“Our position is a free Palestine with the capital in Jerusalem,” she said.

“She favors a one-state solution,” Gray says. “And that state is not Israel. She doesn’t believe Israel has a right to exist.”

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The police chief of Gainesville agreed to rescind a policy about transgender-identifying suspects after the Florida attorney general publicly challenged the rule.

The policy said that if an officer could not determine the gender of a suspect who was going to be searched, that the officer should ask the suspect to choose the gender of the officer to perform the search.

Two days before the deadline, Uthmeier reported that the police department complied.

Attorney General James Uthmeier said the rule fan afoul of the Florida Civil Rights Act.

“This policy serves no legitimate law enforcement purpose, endangers officers and detainees, and violates Florida law,” wrote Uthmeier in a letter to city officials at the end of July.

He also accused the police department of prioritizing “gender ideology over officer and detainee safety.”

Uthmeier said the policy was an unsafe and illogical requirement for female police officers.

“This is not a neutral accommodation; it imposes asymmetric burdens on females based on a mental state-gender identity-that has nothing todo with the biological considerations that must be addressed when officers search detainees,” he added. “A search policy that subordinates biology to ideology jeopardizes the safety and wellbeing of officers and detainees.”

Uthmeier gave the police chief until Aug. 15 to rescind the policy or face possible legal action from the attorney general’s office.

Two days before the deadline, Uthmeier reported that the police department complied.

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“The City of Gainesville confirmed today that the unlawful policy has been rescinded,” he wrote in a post on social media Thursday.

He included a copy of the curt message from the city attorney he received.

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A year into the National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C., the Trump administration points to falling crime numbers as proof its “Safe and Beautiful” mission is working to reduce violent crime.

But the Center for American Progress, an openly progressive think tank, says the timeline tells a different story.

‘Another Radical Left SCAM.’

The CAP’s analysis found violent crime and murder rates were already falling sharply — 14% and 22% — across the 11 targeted cities before the first deployment. Its statistical model found no significant change tied to the deployment in Los Angeles or D.C., with the lone exception being Memphis, where an initial drop reversed within two months.

The CAP flags one caveat: The deployments overlapped with other federal and immigration enforcement surges, so the model can’t isolate the Guard’s effect from the others. The CAP says this fact makes the “no effect” finding more conservative, not less.

Chandler Hall, who authored the research, put it plainly on C-SPAN: “Both things can be true. Violent crime and homicides in the district absolutely are going down. … That being said … what our research meant to show was whether or not the deployments and the tactics the president is using to drive down crime have evidence to support their effectiveness. We find none.”

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If there’s anything about the Guard deployment that’s actually working, Hall told NBC Washington, it’s this: The visible presence may have deterred opportunistic, low-level street theft — phones, purses, crimes of convenience that a uniformed presence on a corner can spook someone out of attempting.

That’s hard to square against the numbers the U.S. Marshals Service touted Monday: more than 16,000 arrests in the deployment’s first year, including 35 homicide suspects, over 100 known gang members, and more than 3,200 narcotics arrests, plus nearly 2,000 firearms seized and 25 missing children recovered.

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro says prosecutions are up 67% since she took the D.C. post.

The CAP’s report — published under the “Advancing Racial Equity and Justice” section — calls on policymakers to “reject out of hand” the administration’s public safety claims and argues the deployments’ “primary goal was never to stop crime.”

Trump responded to Hall by calling the CAP’s research “another Radical Left SCAM,” accusing its funders — including George Soros, Bill and Melinda Gates, Google, Apple, and several major banks and corporations — of bankrolling “this gaggle of Lunatics” and saying he intends to sue and go after some of the group’s contributors.

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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) has previously acknowledged that Trump’s takeover helped reduce crime — even signing an executive order encouraging cooperation with federal officials.

But marking one year since the surge began, Bowser last week called the continued Guard presence and immigration enforcement “problematic,” crediting D.C.’s own Emergency Operations Center for the crime drop.

The D.C. deployment has been extended through 2029, and the administration’s FY2027 budget request asks for $3 billion to “[Combat] Violent Crime in the Nation’s Cities” — explicitly citing D.C. and Memphis as the model to expand nationwide.

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On Saturday, August 8, the local government in Suisun City, California, completely froze. Hackers broke into the city’s computers, locked down the system, and forced officials to call an emergency. Workers couldn’t access basic files, run local offices, or keep normal operations moving.

Two days later, on Monday, August 10, Governor Gavin Newsom (D) announced a brand-new “AI Cyber Defense Program.” Newsom’s press team went into overdrive, boasting about this “first-in-the-nation” initiative. But being first is no guarantee of being good, and this plan is very bad.

Instead of sending immediate money or technical experts to fix broken local computers, Newsom’s big fix is to hire more bosses. He is telling state agencies to name an “AI cybersecurity officer” for every department and set up another state-level office. Small towns are getting hit by real ransomware today, and Sacramento’s answers are inflated job titles and publicity campaigns.

Hostile foreign governments view California’s weak systems as prime targets.

This predictable act of layering yet more bureaucracy on top of California’s morass is especially dangerous. Hostile foreign governments are actively targeting American infrastructure.

A tidal wave of danger

State-sponsored hackers from Russia, China, and Iran are scanning for weak spots in real time. These foreign adversaries are targeting the basic services that millions of Americans rely on every day.

Federal investigators recently uncovered Iranian-backed hackers targeting more than 30 water utilities across Minnesota. These terrorists would love nothing more than to bring America’s largest state to its knees. Imagine turning on the tap in your California kitchen and finding out the treatment plant was shut down by hackers operating out of Tehran or Beijing. Imagine a Russian cyber unit turning off the electricity grid during a 105-degree heat wave or freezing local 911 dispatch software so that emergency calls go unanswered. That is the real danger facing regular families.

Governor Newsom’s response to this massive crisis is filled with fancy-sounding distraction programs designed to look good on paper while accomplishing virtually nothing. He boasts about a consumer web tool named DROP, which lets residents ask data brokers to delete their personal info; a worker study project called Engaged California; and an “Innovation Council” accelerator stacked with tech executives and academics.

None of these projects stop a hostile missile site or a foreign military cyber unit from locking down your neighborhood’s water main. A small town trying to fix its emergency systems gets zero help from state-sponsored talking shops that focus on “listening at scale” while real-world servers burn.

When a city network gets locked, administrators need real-world backup teams, emergency funding, and simple hardware upgrades. They need basic password protections, isolated off-site backups, and physical network engineers, not empty political pledges about “responsible AI innovation.” Telling an underfunded county government to hire an advisory officer is like handing a firefighter a pamphlet on fire safety while the building burns down around him.

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It shifts the burden to local workers who lack the cash to fix the problem, while Sacramento pats itself on the back for creating another layer of red tape. It’s cruel, and it’s reckless.

Sitting ducks

The state government collects hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars every year, yet leaves everyday infrastructure running on decade-old, unprotected software. California is home to the richest technology companies in the world, but your local city hall relies on systems that can be breached by a savvy teenager using off-the-shelf software. Hostile foreign governments from Moscow to Tehran know this, and they view California’s weak local systems as prime targets to paralyze American life.

Imagine the chaos and the carnage. What happened in Suisun City, home to 29,000 people, was wake-up call enough. Now, imagine a blackout like that striking San Francisco, a city of over 810,000 residents on which America’s tech security depends, or Los Angeles, a crucial logistics hub with a massive population approaching 3.9 million.

Power grids going dead for hours, cell towers dropping, and panicking residents realizing they are completely unable to contact 911 dispatch. Traffic lights instantly go dark, emergency response grinds to a total halt, and municipal services go offline overnight. Widespread looting, mass panic, and violent crime would spill across city streets within hours.

The movie “The Purge” was written as Hollywood fiction, but an automated, state-sponsored cyber strike on California’s crumbling public infrastructure could turn that apocalyptic nightmare into an immediate reality.

Sacramento should treat serious national security threats as existential threats. Instead, it reduces them to paperwork and procedure. When the next city’s power or emergency lines freeze, Newsom will likely sign another executive order and announce another committee. California families deserve working water taps, reliable power lines, and real defenses against foreign enemies. They deserve a governor who takes their safety seriously and does everything in his power to ensure the state is prepared for the worst.

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The Orange County Sheriff’s Office released a video of a 44-year-old Florida man being led into a police cruiser after he was arrested for first-degree murder.

Jose L. Proano allegedly killed his elderly stepfather and dismembered his remains, which were found in suitcases near the man’s home.

The arrest report said someone was recorded on surveillance video stuffing human remains into suitcases.

Jorge Vazquez-Escutia was reported to be missing from his home on Hal Court on Aug. 4.

An arrest report said that someone told police Proano had been threatening Vasquez-Escutia and had been diagnosed with schizophrenia.

The report also said someone claiming to be Proano’s friend had left a voicemail sent to the wife of Vasquez-Escutia claiming that Proano had killed him.

Deputies then canvassed the area near the missing man’s home on foot and were able to find suitcases with multiple human remains.

The arrest report said someone was recorded on surveillance video stuffing human remains into suitcases.

“There are no outstanding suspects, and there is no threat to the community,” said the sheriff’s office.

The victim’s neighbor Patrick Washington told WESH-TV that Vasquez-Escutia was known to be kind and helpful to others in the neighborhood.

“To hear that he’s been found unalive, that’s really close to home, because he was that neighborhood guy, we’re talking about close to 20 years,” Washington said.

“Gonna be touched to hear that one. Gonna be hurt,” he added.

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In the video posted by the sheriff’s office on Facebook, Proano stared at the camera for a second before the officer slammed the door shut on the police cruiser.

“Our thoughts are with Mr. Vazquez-Escutia’s loved ones as they navigate this unimaginable loss,” said the Sheriff’s Dept.

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Two former NBA players are making a point at the WNBA’s expense. Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White have said they intend to enter the 2027 WNBA Draft. Their point is obvious: They are men, and the WNBA exists as a women’s league. Yet a culture that struggles to say what a woman is has made even an obvious distinction strangely difficult to state.

There is a stage in childhood development often described as “magical thinking.” A child has not yet learned to distinguish consistently between what he wishes, imagines, or says and what exists independently of his mind.

Children eventually learn that saying, ‘I’m a pirate,’ does not make them pirates. A healthy civilization would do well to remember the same lesson.

The child announces, “I’m a pirate!” and for the next hour he is Captain Blackbeard. Later, he is a knight. By dinner, perhaps he is George Washington.

This is charming in a 3-year-old. It becomes considerably less charming when adults and institutions adopt a similar theory of reality. If an adult insists that he is Napoleon despite all evidence to the contrary, we do not ordinarily conclude that his conviction has transformed reality.

Consider one of the central claims of transgender ideology: A person can be a woman because he identifies as a woman. The identification is treated not merely as a desire, preference, or psychological state but as establishing what the person actually is.

Notice the philosophical claim being made.

Ordinarily, thinking something does not make it so. If I believe I am 6’5”, my belief does not add inches to my height. If I announce that I am 25 years old, the state does not alter my birth certificate. If I sincerely identify as the king of England, Buckingham Palace is under no obligation to prepare my bedroom.

Reality stubbornly refuses to conform itself to my thoughts.

Yet transgender ideology asks others to treat a declaration of gender identity as authoritative. Pronouns change. Bathrooms change. Athletic categories change. Institutional policies change. Increasingly, disagreement with the underlying claim is treated not as a philosophical dispute but as a moral offense.

When medical intervention enters the picture, the same assumption is extended to the body itself: Healthy tissue may be altered so that the body more closely conforms to the asserted identity, and the alteration is presented as affirming the person’s true self.

The remarkable thing is that the identification can itself be fluid. Someone might identify as male at one time, female at another, or neither. The surrounding society is nevertheless expected to reorganize itself around each successive declaration. That is the absurdity White and Freedom are trying to expose by invoking the WNBA.

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Imagine our 3-year-old announcing, “I’m a pirate,” and the entire neighborhood immediately converting itself into a Caribbean port. When he announces an hour later that he is a knight, everyone rushes outside to build a castle.

We would recognize the problem immediately. The world does not become whatever someone currently imagines it to be.

This raises a much older philosophical question: What does it mean for one thing actually to become another?

Change is real. An acorn becomes an oak tree. A boy becomes a man. Water can become ice or vapor or, under carefully controlled conditions, all three at once. But not every imaginable change is possible. A giraffe cannot become a lizard. A whale cannot become a cow. Saying otherwise does not expand the possibilities of nature.

The biblical account of creation provides a foundation for understanding why. God creates things with definite natures. Genesis repeatedly describes living things reproducing “according to their kinds.” Creation contains enormous variation, but variation does not abolish nature.

Human beings likewise have a nature. “Male and female he created them,” Genesis 1:27 tells us. Men and women share a common human nature and are equally made in the image of God, but they are not interchangeable sexes.

Men vary enormously from one another. Women vary enormously from one another. A man may be tall or short, masculine or effeminate, athletic or bookish. A woman may possess any combination of personality traits, interests, abilities, and appearances. None of those variations turns one sex into the other.

This is where our culture has confused identity with reality.

Historically, truth has meant bringing our minds into conformity with what is. If I believe something false, reality is not required to change. I am required to change my belief. That’s how we distinguish what is real from what is merely asserted.

The contemporary revolution reverses the direction. Instead of requiring my mind to conform to reality, reality — and everyone around me — must conform to my mind.

Behind this error stands an ancient temptation.

The Greek sophist Protagoras famously declared that “man is the measure of all things.” Taken in its most radical form, that principle places the human knower rather than an objective order at the center of truth.

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The biblical account takes us even further back. In Genesis 3, the serpent tempts Adam and Eve with the promise that they will “be like God,” determining good and evil for themselves.

The temptation is not merely to break a rule. It is to claim an authority that belongs to the Creator: the authority to determine reality and goodness for ourselves.

Some strands of modern critical theory give this temptation a contemporary vocabulary. Categories once understood as features of reality are redescribed as social constructions maintained by power. If human beings constructed the categories, the argument goes, human beings can reconstruct them.

But creation is not ours to reconstruct.

Christianity begins somewhere radically different: God is the measure of all things. God determines what exists because God created what exists. God determines human nature because God created humanity. God determines male and female because “male and female he created them.” And God determines what is good for us because God created our nature.

Our task, therefore, is not to demand that reality conform to our desires. It is to discipline our desires and beliefs according to reality.

That distinction reaches far beyond the transgender debate. A civilization cannot survive indefinitely if it teaches its citizens that sincere belief establishes truth and that everyone else must participate in maintaining the resulting claim.

Children eventually learn that saying, “I’m a pirate,” does not make them pirates.

A healthy civilization would do well to remember the same lesson.

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BlazeTV’s Sara Gonzales has been leading the charge of busting H-1B fraud in her home state of Texas. Because of Sara’s investigative reporting, multiple companies have faced heightened federal scrutiny and lawsuits over alleged visa abuse, Texas lawmakers and officials have pushed for stronger state-level oversight and investigations, and the issue has fueled broader national policy debates and proposed reforms aimed at curbing displacement of American workers.

But for all the success she’s achieved, Sara has no plans to hang up her hat.

On a recent episode of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered,” she teased that things are about to get really bad for people scamming the H-1B system in the state of Texas. It’s not just Attorney General Ken Paxton involved any more — Department of Labor Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito has now joined the fight.

– YouTube

“If you are an H-1B fraudster in this country, it is about to be a bad time for you, because the team-up they hoped would never happen — oh, it happened, and it is happening,” Sara warned.

She explains that she wasn’t in the studio recording episodes as she usually does.

“I was out in Texas in the streets with the inspector general of the Department of Labor, Anthony D’Esposito,” Sara shares.

The duo investigated several “ghost offices” in the Dallas area, one of which D’Esposito told Newsmax had “500 approved H-1B applications” but no signs of any business operations, along with some other questionable companies.

“You may see [D’Esposito] appearing in some of our H-1B investigation specials very soon — like maybe as soon as this weekend,” Sara teases.

“This is a huge one.”

To hear more about Sara and Anthony D’Esposito’s joint investigation and how you can watch the upcoming specials, check out the episode above.

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The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly planning to spend millions to outfit Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents with gloves that can deliver an electric shock to targeted individuals.

The gloves were developed by Compliant Technologies LLC out of Lexington, Kentucky, and have already been deployed by police departments and some jails.

‘If the officer is getting any type of resistance from the person, this is certainly an effective tool.’

A DHS notice published Monday says the agency is seeking to spend $20 million on the shocking gloves.

The devices are named G.L.O.V.E., an acronym for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter. The manufacturer says the gloves function normally until the wearer activates the electrical mode. The globe must be in contact directly with the target’s skin, and the shock typically incapacitates the target in seconds.

John Peters, president of the Institute for the Prevention of In-Custody Deaths, studied the device and described its effects.

“It’s immediate and sharp, and it will distract you. I call it like a bee sting,” said Peters. “If the officer is getting any type of resistance from the person, this is certainly an effective tool.”

He went on to say the device could be misused but that it is unlikely to cause injuries.

“Unfortunately, we are unable to speak on this subject,” said Compliant Technologies founder Jeff Niklaus in an email about the report.

The manufacturer said officers must complete a course on the gloves and be recertified every two years.

“For smaller officers or weaker officers or older officers, I think it has a great advantage” because it can produce faster takedowns and shorten confrontations,” Peters added.

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Jenn Rolnick Borchetta of the American Civil Liberties Union warned that the gloves could be abused.

“ICE spent the last year showing this country they are too quick to use force. Now they will be able to deploy electric shocks with the slight push of a button that maybe nobody else can see them do,” Borchetta said. “Introducing gloves that can so easily be used to deliver terrible pain in encounters is a recipe for harm to the public.”

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Why has election integrity become one of the most divisive issues in American politics? According to BlazeTV host Nick Freitas, the answer is simple: One side doesn’t want it.

“You want to make it so easy that it becomes incredibly easy to cheat,” Freitas says. “And more importantly, it becomes almost impossible to catch or prosecute cheating. That’s what you really want to do.”

“Right now we have a significant problem in the United States with two things,” he explains. “One, we have a very, very disengaged electorate in many sectors that simply just shows up to vote based off of, ‘Well, I thought this one had kind eyes.'”

“But then we have another class of voters that their entire thing is, ‘Who’s going to give me stuff at the expense of other people?’ And so when you are a net beneficiary of the bureaucracy, when you are a net beneficiary of wealth transfers from productive people to nonproductive people, you have a perverse incentive to vote for the people that are going to perpetuate that system,” he continues.

“So I am all about acknowledging that everybody voting is not necessarily a good thing for your country,” he adds.

And Freitas has something important that he wants Democrats to understand.

“When I actually see you guys concerned about the integrity of our elections, when I see you willing to actually put in proper safeguards to make sure that only citizens can vote, that they can only vote once. When I see you actually investigating in the cities that you control, when I see you investigating things that are obviously shady as hell,” he begins.

“When I see you guys looking at stuff like that going, ‘Yeah, that deserves to be investigated and potentially prosecuted,’ then I’ll believe you that all you want is for every eligible citizen to be able to participate in the process,” he continues.

“But I don’t believe that’s what you want,” he adds.

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A Republican congressional candidate says he was disinvited from a California convention in what is yet another episode of cancel culture.

Marty O’Donnell running as a Republican for Congress in Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District, but there is way more happening behinds the scenes than the typical congressional run.

‘Propaganda from leftist supporters …’

Tarnished halo

O’Donnell is considered video game royalty after he composed the legendary theme song for the Halo series, which has cumulatively sold more than 80 million copies.

That is why O’Donnell makes appearances at popular conventions, and this was no different for SacAnime, in Sacramento in September.

O’Donnell said online that he was set to make a 25th anniversary appearance at SacAnime to celebrate the game, but was told he is no longer invited due to staff at the event voicing concerns about their safety.

“The promoter for SacAnime has shared that his LGBTQ staff does not feel comfortable if you attend the event,” the message shared by O’Donnell reads. “Based on your recently reported statements of the political campaign, they have to rescinded [sic] their invitation to not cause any further staff upset.”

O’Donnell expressed his disappointment with the move, adding, “If you thought we defeated Cancel Culture in 2024, guess again!”

While it isn’t clear what the event is referring to in particular, the cancellation comes following O’Donnell being put under the spotlight by Democrats last month.

The X account “HQNewsNow,” formerly @KamalaHQ, shared a video of O’Donnell in July that purported to show him saying he “calls for persecuting LGBTQ+ people.”

RELATED: ‘The system is rigged’: Congressional candidate Marty O’Donnell calls for cuts to ‘bloated’ federal government

Left behind

In the clip presented, O’Donnell says the following:

Talk about an existential threat — this is where we are right now. We are on the cliff looking down into the abyss. And the abyss is Marxism; it’s anti-Western philosophy. There’s a weird alliance of all these groups that like to pretend like they’re oppressed. So the LGBTQ+ people, the Islamists, the Marxists, they’re all together now.

The page for Headquarters was actively used to promote Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign. It was described at the time, according to Grok, as the official rapid-response page of Harris’ campaign, posting ads, videos, and endorsements.

O’Donnell told Blaze News that the cancellation was based on “propaganda from leftist supporters of my political opponent.”

“I’m disappointed I can’t support my actor friends,” O’Donnell added. “Folks who want to support me should contribute at MartyforCongress.vote.”

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Cut scene

SacAnime’s most recent post promoting the event is riddled with remarks from O’Donnell supporters, who said, for example, “You guys are absolutely disgusting.”

“Why would you disinvite a gaming industry legend,” a woman asked on X.

“I’m seriously wondering if they even understand who pays them?” said another reply.

Headquarters could not be reached for comment.

SacAnime did not respond to a request for comment or confirmation surrounding O’Donnell’s removal from the event.

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The Justice Department’s criminal lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center has expanded to an indictment against a former official.

Heidi L. Beirich served as director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project from 2012 until 2019, as previously reported by Blaze News, and is accused of overseeing a field agent who “infiltrated” a neo-Nazi group called the National Alliance.

‘This FBI will find anyone who exploits the trust of the American people and our financial system.’

Beirich was also allegedly in a romantic relationship with the field source.

Her attorney, Michael Proctor, confirmed that she was indicted Wednesday and was scheduled to appear in court in Riverside, California, later that day, according to the Associated Press.

Beirich is charged with wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering, according to the DOJ.

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel posted on social media about the superseding indictment.

“As alleged, Heidi Beirich was at the center of our ongoing investigation into SPLC and their previously alleged criminal activity — where SPLC knowingly misled donors, who believed their money was being used to dismantle violent extremist organizations — when in fact, part of those donations were instead being used to pay senior leadership within those extremist groups,” he wrote.

“This is an ongoing investigation. This FBI will find anyone who exploits the trust of the American people and our financial system,” he added.

“A free and fair society does not use the justice system to silence its political opponents,” said Proctor.

The SPLC, based in Alabama, has denied the allegations and accused the Trump administration of weaponizing the federal government against its political enemies.

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After leaving the SPLC in 2020, Beirich co-founded the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism and has testified before Congress about right-wing extremism. She has also appeared on numerous news programs to opine as an expert on political extremism.

A statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama indicated that Beirich lives in Palm Springs, California.

Newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday that more arrests are expected in the case.

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NBC election guru Steve Kornacki had a very long election evening Tuesday that was capped off by a cringe-inducing coverage collapse.

Kornacki is known for his energizing staccato analysis of polling, but Tuesday’s election was especially vexing for the fan-favorite pundit.

‘I want you to know I hate, hate doing this to you, because I know you’re here for the results.’

At one point he debated whether he had time to go to the bathroom before another tranche of data arrived to change a pivotal election.

“I have to … do you know what I’m saying?” he said while gesturing.

“Well, I don’t want anybody to go anywhere. I will run. It’ll take two minutes! It’s just I, you know, you understand, but I don’t want — something just came in!” he said.

“What was it? [Francesca] Hong took the lead! Oh my! I almost went to the bathroom for that! OK!”

Many viewers lifted that moment from the network’s “Kornacki Cam” coverage on YouTube.

The culmination of Kornacki’s election divination shenanigans came when he apologized to the audience for ending his coverage after the results from Wisconsin were delayed by a massive error.

“We’re kind of indefinitely waiting for them to get their act together here and get the sticks and bring them back and go on. And we got folks here who are working real late, and I don’t think we wanna, you know, keep me here to, um, this could go 90 minutes. And it’s 90 minutes of me saying, ‘Have you heard of any other athletes running for Congress?'” he said as the night segued into morning.

“I want you to know I hate, hate doing this to you, because … I know you’re here for results,” Kornacki added.

The blank look on a clearly exasperated Kornacki peppered with cringey broadcast silence was described by one social media user as the “most awkward 3.5 minutes of live air in NBC News history.”

Video of that segment went viral on social media.

RELATED: MSNBC viewers spew hatred at Steve Kornacki for saying Walz wouldn’t help Democrat ticket

In another video from a week ago, Kornacki accidentally spilled his water bottle onto his computer and short-circuited the monitor .

Despite the bizarre moments, or maybe because of them, Kornacki continued to be popular among election watchers.

“I love him. He’s the best. Never not watching Kornacki cam on an election night,” responded one user.

“Kornacki is truly an amazing human being! Love him!’ said another.

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