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President Donald Trump announced that he reached an agreement with Israel to accept a ceasefire deal for 60 days, and he offered a warning to Hamas terrorists to take the deal.

The president posted the announcement on Truth Social on Tuesday just as the White House prepares to receive a visit from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.

‘I hope, for the good of the Middle East, that Hamas takes this Deal, because it will not get better — IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE.’

“My Representatives had a long and productive meeting with the Israelis today on Gaza. Israel has agreed to the necessary conditions to finalize the 60 Day CEASEFIRE, during which time we will work with all parties to end the War,” the president wrote.

Trump had previously announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran after a military strike took out much of Iran’s nuclear weapon development capabilities. That ceasefire is in question since both combatants continued their military operations after the deadline passed.

“The Qataris and Egyptians, who have worked very hard to help bring Peace, will deliver this final proposal. I hope, for the good of the Middle East, that Hamas takes this Deal, because it will not get better — IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE,” he added.

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It’s believed that Hamas still has about 50 hostages they seized during a horrendous attack on southern Israel in Oct. 2023. About half of the hostages are believed to be alive.

Earlier on Tuesday, the president expressed hope in ceasefire negotiations while answering questions from the press.

“We hope it’s going to happen, and we’re looking for it to happen sometime next week,” said Trump.

“We want to get our hostages back. We want to get the hostages back,” he repeated.

Gaza’s Health Ministry has said that more than 65,000 Palestinians have died in the attacks from Israeli forces, though they do not distinguish between combatants and civilians.

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President Donald Trump has just toured the site of a new immigration detention center in South Florida known as “Alligator Alcatraz” for the surrounding dangerous wildlife.

President Trump even joked that “we’re going to teach them how to run away from an alligator if they escape prison.”

The detention facility — which has liberals across the nation up in arms — is located at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in the Florida Everglades. And as Trump toured the facility, he called it “so professional and so well done.”

Even the Department of Homeland Security is getting in on the jokes, posting a meme of alligators wearing ICE hats.

“Just when you thought the Trump administration couldn’t get any more awesome, they found a way to raise the bar,” BlazeTV host Jill Savage says on “Blaze News: The Mandate.” “And I just have to say, is this what you voted for?”

“This is absolutely what I voted for. I would have voted for this two or three times if I had the chance. I love that people also are getting upset on X about anything that the administration puts out there,” Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson comments.

Peterson and Savage aren’t alone, as Trump supporters are thrilled with the new facility as well.

“And that’s why I posted on X today, ‘Alligator Alcatraz! How would you enhance maximum security prisons? What additions would make the biggest impact?’” Savage says, before reading some seriously funny replies.

Among the replies were “Sharks with lasers attached to their heads” and “Minefield and automated mini-guns on the perimeter.”

“Surround the prison with angry ex-wives. They’ll volunteer to go back inside” was a crowd favorite, and Savage admits it’s “one of the funnier replies I think that we have ever had at this part of the show.”

“Funny, but also terrifying,” Peterson agrees.

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The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to a slew of concessions to the Trump administration in relation to transgender athletes in the latest victory of the culture war.

President Donald Trump has made it a focus of his second term to oppose the movement equating transgender athletes to all other athletes, and the university caved to the pressure Tuesday.

‘Today is a great victory for women and girls not only at the University of Pennsylvania, but all across our nation.’

The Department of Education announced that it had reached an agreement with the university that included stripping swimming titles from Lia (William) Thomas, a famous transgender athlete.

The university also agreed to ban biologically male athletes from female competitions, to restore all titles that female swimmers lost to Thomas, and to send a personalized apology letter to all swimmers.

“Today is a great victory for women and girls not only at the University of Pennsylvania, but all across our nation,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said. “The Department commends UPenn for rectifying its past harms against women and girls, and we will continue to fight relentlessly to restore Title IX’s proper application and enforce it to the fullest extent of the law.”

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Thomas won the national college title in 2022 in the 500-yard freestyle swimming event. The former swimmer said in April that he continued to support transgender athletes choosing to compete against the gender they chose.

“It has to be the athletes deciding for themselves where they feel most affirmed and most comfortable,” he said. “Having routes that are safe and nondiscriminatory, that allow them access to that.”

“Our commitment to ensuring a respectful and welcoming environment for all of our students is unwavering,” reads a statement from university president J. Larry Jameson.

“At the same time, we must comply with federal requirements, including executive orders and NCAA eligibility rules, so our teams and student-athletes may engage in competitive intercollegiate sports,” he added.

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Amid his shock and grief, Gabe Eckert — president of the Coeur d’Alene Firefighters’ union — recalled his final memory of John Morrison, battalion chief of the Coeur d’Alene Fire Department.

Eckert told USA Today that he and Morrison recently were on a backyard patio smoking cigars and discussing how they both could keep advancing forward in crucial aspects of life.

‘How devastating for these men to go to work and not come home over something so senseless.’

“We talked about being better fathers, we talked about being better leaders, and we talked about being better firefighters,” Eckert recounted to the paper. “I’m so incredibly grateful that that gets to be my last memory with him.”

Morrison and Frank Harwood — battalion chief of Kootenai County Fire and Rescue — have been identified as the two firefighters who were fatally shot in an ambush Sunday in the woods on Canfield Mountain near Coeur d’Alene.

Wounded in the attack was firefighter Dave Tysdal of the Coeur d’Alene Fire Department, USA Today said, adding that the department’s chief, Tom Greif, said Tysdal was recovering after two surgeries.

Greif and Chief Christopher Way of Kootenai County Fire and Rescue announced in a joint news release the “return home to Coeur d’Alene” for Morrison and Harwood on Tuesday morning in a “procession of emergency vehicles” coming from nearby Spokane County in Washington state. “Our agencies want to thank the community for their overwhelming support during this difficult time,” the release said.

“This community lost two dedicated public servants,” Eckert noted at a news conference, according to USA Today. “These men were dedicated firefighters; they were dedicated to their community. These guys were hard workers who loved their families.”

Harwood, 42, had been with Kootenai County Fire and Rescue for 17 years, Way told the paper, adding that he was married with two children.

“He did an amazing job,” Way noted to USA Today. “This loss is felt by so many.”

Morrison, 52, had been with the Coeur d’Alene Fire Department since 1996, Greif added to the paper.

Edward A. Kelly, general president of the International Association of Fire Fighters, said in a statement that the “ambush killing of two firefighters … is nothing short of horrific” and that “in no civilized nation should first responders be targets for violence.”

One longtime Idaho resident told Blaze News, “I feel for their families. How devastating for these men to go to work and not come home over something so senseless. We are flying flags at half-staff until after the funerals.”

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Around 1:21 p.m. Sunday, firefighters were dispatched after receiving a call about a brush fire; about 40 minutes later, first responders reported coming under gunfire.

First responders made urgent calls for help on their radios, the Associated Press reported: “Everybody’s shot up here … send law enforcement now.”

“This was a total ambush,” Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris said. “These firefighters did not have a chance.”

Investigators used cell phone data to locate a signal that hadn’t moved since about 3:16 p.m., USA Today said, adding that authorities just after 7:40 p.m. announced that they had discovered the suspect’s body. A weapon reportedly was near the body.

“It appears that he shot himself,” Norris told journalists, according to BBC News.

Authorities believe the gunman intentionally set the fire to lure firefighters to the scene.

The shooting suspect was identified as Wess Roley, the Associated Press reported Monday, citing a law enforcement official. The AP added that the official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the official wasn’t authorized to discuss the investigation.

Norris told BBC News that Roley, 20, was homeless and attacked fire crews after they asked him to move his vehicle, in which he had been living.

“There was an interaction with the firefighters,” Norris added, according to BBC News. “It has something to do with his vehicle being parked where it was.”

Norris told BBC News that authorities believed the gunman used a high-powered rifle to fire rapidly at first responders; the outlet added that a shotgun was recovered along with several bullets or fragments, possibly from a rifle. Officials noted to BBC News that more guns may be hidden on the mountain.

A man who said he roomed with Roley for a short time told KING-TV he noticed a change in Roley’s demeanor toward the end of his six-month stay.

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Norris also ruled out a suggestion seen on social media that Roley was connected with “Islamic jihad,” BBC News noted — and believe it or not, Norris said at a news conference that Roley once aspired to be a firefighter.

Indeed, Dale Roley — the suspect’s grandfather — told the New York Times that his grandson had an interest in becoming a forest firefighter. The elder Roley added to BBC News that his grandson “had been in contact to get a job with a fire department” and “wanted to be part of a team that he sort of idolized.”

USA Today characterized Wess Roley as a transient with a history of “minor” run-ins with police, mostly about trespassing suspicions, authorities said.

Norris told the paper that Roley came from an “arborist family” and appeared to have fired from up a tree.

A social media post from his mother indicated that Roley moved from Arizona to Idaho in 2023 to work for his father’s tree-trimming company, BBC News said, adding that she wrote in October 2024 that Roley was “doing great living in Idaho.”

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There’s a major cultural shift going on right now in America, and BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” believes WNBA star Caitlin Clark and country music star Morgan Wallen are leading the way.

“Caitlin Clark and Morgan Wallen are leading a cultural shift that is piggybacking and taking advantage of a cultural fatigue that everyone is tired of,” Whitlock says.

“What is driving Caitlin Clark’s popularity and her dominance of the sports world is we finally have someone who’s a girl next door. Who shows up at your house or you take her home to meet your mom or your dad or both, and they’re like, ‘Oh man, that looks like a nice girl,’” he continues.

“And there’s an opportunity for a male athlete to hop into that boy-next-door role,” he adds, noting that Patrick Mahomes could be a good candidate as he’s been leaning into his faith and detaching himself from Black Lives Matter.

“All this caping up for George Floyd and Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin. People have had it,” Whitlock says.

Mahomes also joined Travis Kelce and Morgan Wallen for a pre-concert walk out at one of Wallen’s shows — who most recently had Brett Favre walk out with him. So not only is country music making a comeback, but it’s venturing into the world of sports with the help of Morgan Wallen.

This is all while hip-hop, Whitlock says, is dying in front of our eyes.

“Obviously, Morgan Wallen likes to drink, and he’s a party boy, and you know, he’s not a typical music star. But if you listen to his music, if you go to his concerts, you go to his shows, if you just look at his appearance, he looks like the kind of guy that would show up at your parents’ house, and your parents would be like, ‘Oh, I can deal with this,’” he explains.

“Listen to his music. It’s not profane. It’s not degenerate. It’s fun. It’s rebellious. It’s kind of boy next door. It’s the kind of music that people of my generation used to listen to,” he continues.

Unlike the rap that has famously been associated with the NFL and NBA, country music has “soul in it.”

“When I listen to Riley Green, I can hear the soul. When I listen to Chris Stapleton, I can hear the soul. This is like the music I grew up with, this country music,” Whitlock says.

“There’s a longing for a culture that doesn’t totally violate people’s biblical worldview and traditional values, and Caitlin Clark and Morgan Wallen are benefiting from that,” he adds.

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Accused Minnesota assassin Vance Luther Boelter will likely find it much more difficult to complain about lack of sleep due to alleged poor jail conditions when he faces a federal magistrate judge for a rescheduled preliminary hearing July 3.

Boelter was granted a six-day continuance on June 27 after he complained about alleged deplorable jail conditions and an inability to sleep for nearly two weeks.

‘He was resting peacefully, with his eyes closed.’

The sheriff of the jail where Boelter is being held fired back at the facility’s most infamous resident, saying security video showed Boelter with his eyes closed “resting peacefully” for more than seven hours the night before his last court hearing.

“He is not in a hotel. He’s in jail, where a person belongs when they commit the heinous crimes he is accused of committing,” said Sherburne County Sheriff Joel Brott. “Lights are on 24-7 and need to be so correctional officers doing welfare checks can see that the inmates are OK.”

Sherburne County operates a 732-bed jail in Elk River, Minn., about 40 miles from the Warren E. Burger Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in St. Paul.

The jail houses federal pretrial detainees under a contract with the U.S. Marshals Service. The facility holds an average of 500 federal detainees and inmates per day for the marshals, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and other agencies.

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The public filed past the caskets of murdered Democratic House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, her husband, Mark Hortman, and an urn with the remains of their slain dog at the Minnesota state Capitol June 27, 2025.Photo by Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images

At the hearing, Boelter complained that the lights were on day and night. The loud sound of clanking doors and the smell of feces from a nearby cell made it difficult to sleep, he said. There was only a mat to sleep on with no pillow, he told the judge.

“His cell is spotless clean and so is his mattress, which has a pillow sewn into it,” Brott said. “Every day he is offered access to the phone and the shower. He has not missed a meal since his arrival.”

Boelter waived his right to have a preliminary hearing within 14 days of his June 16 initial appearance. The July 3 hearing will serve as a preliminary hearing and a detention hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Douglas Micko.

Brott said after Boelter returned to the jail from his June 27 hearing, “jail personnel checked live security camera footage of the alleged assassin’s cell and he was resting peacefully, with his eyes closed.”

Boelter’s complaints about jail conditions and alleged insomnia came on the same day that the couple he is accused of murdering were lying in state a mile away at the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul.

‘All three of us were lined up at gunpoint.’

Thousands of Minnesotans filed past the caskets of Democratic House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, and the urn with the remains of their beloved golden retriever, Gilbert.

Brott said it was “offensive and disgusting” that Boelter stood before a judge complaining about jail conditions while long lines of people waited to pay their respects to his alleged victims at the Capitol.

The Hortmans were laid to rest after a June 28 funeral Mass attended by more than 1,500 people at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis.

Boelter is charged in federal court with the stalking and assassination of the Hortmans at around 3:30 a.m. June 14 at the couple’s home in Brooklyn Park, Minn.

Boelter was dressed as a police officer, driving a Ford SUV painted like a police vehicle with emergency lights flashing, the FBI said. Boelter visited the homes of four Democratic lawmakers that night “with the intent to kill them,” acting U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said.

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Boelter is also charged with the attempted killing of state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette Hoffman, who were shot repeatedly at the front door of their home in Champlin, Minn., about 90 minutes earlier.

The Hoffmans, who watched the Hortman funeral on livestream, expressed their “profound sadness” over the deaths.

“We all watched the service; it was heartbreakingly beautiful,” the Hoffmans said in a statement. “Our hearts are with the Hortman family in this time of immense grief.”

The Hoffmans were shot a total of 17 times as they tried to push the suspect out of the front door of their home. Their adult daughter, Hope, managed to shut and lock the door on him and call 911 after her parents were shot.

“All three of us were lined up at gunpoint,” the Hoffmans’ statement said. “We’re continuing to recover from physical injuries and emotional trauma from this senseless act of violence. All of us are now in stable condition but face a long road ahead.

“Hope’s bruises from the attack continue to heal,” the statement said. “We’re so grateful she happened to be at our house that night. There’s no doubt her call to 911 saved the lives of others.”

After allegedly shooting the Hoffmans, Boelter visited the home of state Rep. Kristin Bahner (DFL-Maple Grove), but she and her family were not home, the FBI said.

Mourners embrace after the funeral Mass of slain Democratic House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis June 28, 2025.Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images

Boelter then parked his vehicle down the block from the home of state Sen. Ann Rest (DFL-New Hope), but was apparently scared off after a New Hope police squad briefly pulled up next to his vehicle before that officer drove away to check on the senator, police said.

Officers from the Brooklyn Park Police Department who pulled up to the Hortman home reportedly spotted Boelter on the front porch. When the officers exited their vehicle, Boelter apparently opened fire on them. The officers returned fire, Thompson said.

Boelter “rushed into the house through the front door, firing into it,” Thompson said. “He repeatedly fired into the house and when he entered, he murdered Representative Hortman and her husband, Mark.”

Police say they found a “hit list” in Boelter’s vehicle with the names of more than 50 Democratic public officials from Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Texas.

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Following President Donald Trump’s strike on Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities, CNN hastily seized an opportunity to criticize the administration by reporting a leaked early assessment, leaning on several anonymous sources who incorrectly claimed the attack caused minimal damage. Subsequent findings of widespread destruction revealed CNN’s misstep and further highlighted legacy media’s over-reliance on shaky insiders, desperate to downplay conservative wins.

On June 25, CNN published an “exclusive” article from correspondent Natasha Bertrand and two other network reporters questioning Trump’s claims that the strike “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s sites, citing “seven people briefed” on a top-secret early Defense Intelligence Agency assessment.

‘Why did you hire someone so patently averse to the facts, considering she claimed Hunter Biden’s laptop is Russian disinformation?’

One source told CNN, “So the (DIA) assessment is that the U.S. set them back maybe a few months, tops.”

Two unnamed individuals told the news outlet that the strike did not destroy Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile, one claimed that the centrifuges were still “largely ‘intact,'” and another alleged that the uranium was moved before the attack.

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN that the initial assessment was “flat-out wrong” and torched “an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community” for leaking the top-secret report to the network.

Still, after later assessments confirmed the administration’s claims that the facilities were significantly damaged, CNN clung to its initial narrative and defended its journalists.

“We stand 100% behind Natasha Bertrand’s journalism and specifically her and her colleagues’ reporting of the early intelligence assessment of the U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities,” CNN stated. “CNN’s reporting made clear that this was an initial finding that could change with additional intelligence. We have extensively covered President Trump’s own deep skepticism about it.”

“However, we do not believe it is reasonable to criticize CNN reporters for accurately reporting the existence of the assessment and accurately characterizing its findings, which are in the public interest,” CNN’s statement added.

Conservative media critics slammed CNN’s strike coverage, blasting the network and other legacy media outlets for their pattern of leaning on dubious, left-leaning sources who consistently miss the mark, as seen during the COVID-era alarmism, the suppression of Hunter Biden’s laptop story, and the downplaying of former President Joe Biden’s obvious cognitive decline.

‘They should be prosecuted!’

Curtis Houck, managing editor of Media Research Center’s NewsBusters, responded to CNN’s statement.

“Why did you hire someone so patently averse to the facts, considering she claimed Hunter Biden’s laptop is Russian disinformation?” Houck wrote, referring to Bertrand. “Or perhaps it’s because you know she’s a partisan who will take whatever the Deep State hands her and run with it?”

Chad Prather, host of “The Chad Prather Show,” asked CNN, “How bout all the other things you’ve lied about?”

Conservative commentator Vince Dao wrote, “Firstly, you blatantly misrepresented what that report even said. Secondly, [you’re] literally spreading Pentagon propaganda to justify a war. How does it feel to abandon everything the ‘free press’ stood for 20 years ago? Pathetic.”

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As recently as Monday, CNN was still trying to push the narrative that the Trump administration’s attack on Iran was largely unsuccessful.

The outlet published a report stating that Rafael Grossi, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog chief, claimed it would take Iran only “a matter of months” to restart enriching uranium.

The article reads, “Rafael Grossi’s comments appear to support an early assessment from the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency, first reported on by CNN, which suggests the United States’ strikes on key Iranian nuclear sites last week did not destroy the core components of its nuclear program, and likely only set it back by months.”

The article cited Grossi’s comments to CBS’ “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” during which he explained that the strikes caused “severe” but “not total damage.”

“They can have, you know, in a matter of months, I would say, a few cascades of centrifuges spinning and producing enriched uranium, or less than that. But as I said, frankly speaking, one cannot claim that everything has disappeared and there is nothing there,” Grossi said.

On Friday, a CNN spokesperson told the New York Post that the outlet had received a letter from Alejandro Brito, Trump’s attorney, accusing it of defamation and demanding a retraction. CNN defended its reporting.

Trump called for those who leaked the assessment to be prosecuted.

Last week, in a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “The Democrats are the ones who leaked the information on the PERFECT FLIGHT to the Nuclear Sites in Iran. They should be prosecuted!”

A CNN spokesperson confirmed to Blaze News that the outlet received a letter from Trump’s lawyer, responded to it, and rejected the claims made.

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While writing for the National Review in 2018, David French refused to use the name Chelsea for former army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, arguing that to do so did not align with his Christian beliefs.

However, times have changed, and French unfortunately appears to have fallen, as the mighty often do. This was hinted at when French publicly referred to Brian Riedl, a Manhattan Institute fellow who claims to have a “female brain,” as Jessica.

In a social media post on X, French congratulated “Jessica” for his new position at the Dispatch, writing, “This is great news for the Dispatch. Nobody is better on fiscal policy than Jessica.”

While French did not use Riedl’s preferred pronouns in the tweet — which BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” believes he did to avoid conflict — he did use Riedl’s preferred pronouns in an article for the New York Times.

“Jessica might be one of the nation’s foremost experts about the federal budget and about America’s fiscal realities, and she has taught me an enormous amount about those issues,” he wrote.

“Now, you could say the New York Times would never allow him to use male pronouns for someone who identifies as a woman, but if you are so principled and you are so on the side of truth and reality, David French, would you really allow an editorial team at the New York Times or anywhere to compel you to lie? Because that’s what you have done,” Stuckey comments.

When French argued against using preferred pronouns in 2018, he wrote in an article titled “The transgender debate: Conservatives cannot compromise truth” that “the transgender debate is not about tolerance, it’s about truth.”

“Conservatives cannot, must not, compromise on the biological reality of sex, and they cannot pretend that surgically or chemically altering the body somehow changes that reality,” he continued, adding, “To use female pronouns is to endorse fiction.”

French also wrote that the push to mandate preferred pronoun usage is “a direct assault on free speech and religious liberty.”

“It’s not just a social norm, it’s tyranny,” he added.

“The irony is, in all of this, David French has been arguing for years that evangelicals have accepted a tyrant in Trump because he has promised to give us some of the things that we want,” Stuckey says.

“And yet, here he is, submitting to what he has called tyranny by calling a man ‘she,’” she adds.

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Hollywood star Jason Bateman criticized supporters of President Donald Trump and faced a lot of immediate backlash on social media.

Bateman said that many of the president’s supporters would face the brunt of the negative effects from Trump’s policies, but he said that he understood why many were so dissatisfied with the system.

‘The people who are least equipped to bear what the Trump administration is going to yield are a lot of the folks that voted for him. And that’s really frickin’ sad.’

“I don’t want to ignore it. We are all neighbors; we all share this country together. I want to understand it,” Bateman said in an interview with MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace. “And I know that there’s genuine dissatisfaction with their standing in life or the system and whatnot. And so that’s legit. I’m sensitive to that, and I respect that.”

He went on to claim that many on the right are insulated from reality by the news sources they choose.

“It is ubiquitous. You have to make a real effort to stay insulated from the facts and common sense. It’s everywhere, except on Fox, or Breitbart, or whatever the hell the spots are,” he added.

“Whatever section there is that is kind of doing it just to ‘stick it to the libs,’ it’s not schadenfreude. But I am curious to see what they’re going to do when eggs keep going up and gas keeps going up. Again, I’m not wishing harm on anyone, but it’s tragic,” Bateman said elsewhere in the interview.

“I think the people who are least equipped to bear what the Trump administration is going to yield are a lot of the folks that voted for him,” Bateman said. “And that’s really frickin’ sad, ya know?”

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Many on social media did not appreciate the criticism from the actor, and some said they would avoid his films and shows.

“Yet another actor is added to my ‘never again will I watch you in any show, movie or event’ list. Jason Bateman said GOP has no facts or common sense. Like these self-serving elites have any clue about anything. … They live enriched lives w/little or no connection to every day real people,” read one popular response.

“I enjoyed Jason Bateman movies before he trashed Trump and supporters. Going forward, I, family and friends, will never pay for his productions again. Pass it along,” said another user on social media.

“The irony that Jason Bateman is talking down about Trump supporters to one of the biggest liars/frauds on MSNBC is not lost on me. My God,” read another reply.

Bateman had called on former President Joe Biden to use the emergency broadcast system to alert Americans to vote in the 2024 election in a bizarre rant in November.

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President Donald Trump’s administration arrested two more Chinese nationals on Friday as part of its efforts to crack down on the espionage activities of the Chinese Communist Party.

The FBI arrested Yuance Chen, an Oregon resident, and Liren Lai, who traveled to Texas on a tourist visa in April, the Department of Justice announced.

‘The individuals charged were acting on behalf of a hostile foreign intelligence service — part of the Chinese Communist Party’s broader effort to infiltrate and undermine our institutions.’

According to the DOJ, the two allegedly acted as agents for the CCP’s Ministry of State Security by collecting intelligence about U.S. Navy military members and bases.

Attorney General Pamela Bondi stated, “This case underscores the Chinese government’s sustained and aggressive effort to infiltrate our military and undermine our national security from within.”

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“The Justice Department will not stand by while hostile nations embed spies in our country — we will expose foreign operatives, hold their agents to account, and protect the American people from covert threats to our national security,” she added.

The two men are also accused of attempting to recruit service members to carry out similar covert tasks for the MSS, having allegedly visited naval installations in Washington and California in 2022 and 2023. The DOJ claimed that during those visits, Chen took photographs of a bulletin board that contained the names and programs of recruits, most of whom identified their hometown as China. That photo was allegedly sent to an MSS intelligence officer.

Chen and Lai allegedly facilitated a $10,000 “dead drop” payment on behalf of the MSS. The men were accused of coordinating with others in the U.S. to leave a backpack with the cash at a locker in Livermore, California.

A criminal complaint stated that Lai recruited Chen to work for the Chinese intelligence organization in 2021.

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service assisted with the FBI’s Friday arrest of Chen and Lai.

The men face up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

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FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News Digital, “Today’s arrests reflect the FBI’s unwavering commitment to protecting our national security and safeguarding the integrity of our military.”

“The individuals charged were acting on behalf of a hostile foreign intelligence service — part of the Chinese Communist Party’s broader effort to infiltrate and undermine our institutions,” Patel continued. “Thanks to outstanding coordination with our partners, including NCIS, we disrupted those efforts and sent a clear message: The United States will not tolerate espionage on American soil. Our counterintelligence operations remain focused, vigilant, and relentless.”

In May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the Trump administration would begin aggressively revoking student visas for Chinese nationals with connections to the CCP or those “studying in critical fields” to clamp down on unchecked espionage.

Since Rubio’s announcement, several Chinese nationals have been arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle biomaterial into the U.S.

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Liberal wokeness appears to have no bounds in Minnesota, the home of radicals like Rep. Ilhan Omar, a male state representative who pretends to be a woman, and, of course, 2024 failed vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz.

Now, an exclusive report from Alpha News has revealed that a foreign national who overstayed his visa became a director at the Minnesota Department of Education after he served a sentence for felony sexual assault.

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A criminal legal alien

Wilson Nduri Tindi, a 42-year-old native of Kenya, began working for the state of Minnesota as a principal auditor in 2018, according to his LinkedIn profile, and eventually rose through the ranks to become the director of the Internal Audit and Advisory Services division of the Minnesota Department of Education. He also previously worked as the chief audit officer at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, according to an archived version of his MDE bio.

In November 2015, just three years prior to beginning his job with the state, Tindi submitted a petition to plead guilty to felony fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct in connection with a disturbing incident.

‘You like this.’

On November 23, 2014, Tindi broke into the residence of a woman living below him in his Minneapolis apartment complex, court records claim. He then proceeded to assault another woman who happened to be sleeping over that night.

The victim awoke to Tindi touching her genitals and buttocks over her underwear before attempting to remove her underwear, court records indicated. A latent fingerprint from the scene matched Tindi’s prints, which were on file.

When questioned, Tindi insisted he had been in his apartment all night. He “could not provide any explanation for why his fingerprint would be inside the other unit,” court documents said.

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Tindi agreed to plead guilty to criminal sexual conduct in exchange for prosecutors dropping a first-degree burglary charge. He was given a two-year sentence, which was stayed for five years, and was ordered to register as a predatory offender, Alpha News reported. It appears he served 210 days at Hennepin County Adult Corrections Facility.

Court documents from that incident also suggest he had committed a similar assault in 2012. In that case, a woman awoke to find Tindi allegedly on top of her and penetrating her “with his finger and his mouth,” the documents said. When she begged him to stop, he allegedly retorted, “You like this.”

Tindi was never charged in connection with the 2012 case, though prosecutors introduced it in the 2014 case as Spreigl evidence meant to demonstrate a pattern of behavior.

And while these incidents are more than a decade old, they are not Tindi’s only run-ins with the law. Just last month, Tindi was arrested after allegedly driving under the influence and then refusing a field sobriety test. He was assessed a bail of $12,000.

Jail records indicate he posted bond and was released from custody on June 10, three days after the arrest. He has been charged with three misdemeanors.

Tindi fights deportation — and wins

Tindi’s immigration history indicates that he also tried to exploit the American court system and its attending appeals processes to stay in the country even after violating its laws.

According to documents related to a habeas corpus petition Tindi filed in 2018, Tindi entered the U.S. in 2005 on a B-2 visitor visa that allowed him to remain in the country legally for six months. When the six months expired, Tindi did not leave and instead applied for permanent residency. That application was denied in 2007.

‘The government has provided no evidence that he is a flight risk or a danger to the community.’

ICE began processing him for removal the following year, and an immigration judge ordered him to be removed in 2009. However, an immigration judge then reversed the removal order in 2011, and Tindi became a lawful permanent resident in April 2014, just six months before he assaulted the sleeping woman.

RELATED: Tim Walz grilled for comparing ICE agents to ‘Nazi Gestapo’

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Because of his aggravated felony conviction, removal orders were once again initiated for Tindi, and he was transferred from jail to ICE custody in August 2016. Though Tindi appealed, the Board of Immigration Appeals later upheld his removal, and a final order of removal was issued in May 2017.

Tindi then filed yet another appeal, this time for his conviction, arguing that he would never have pleaded guilty if he had known the conviction would jeopardize his ability to remain in the U.S. Federal courts later stayed his removal while the appeals process continued, and a magistrate judge recommended that Tindi’s habeas corpus petition be granted.

In February 2018, Judge David Doty agreed with the magistrate judge and granted the habeas corpus petition. In his decision, Doty claimed, “The government has provided no evidence that he is a flight risk or a danger to the community,” even though the decision likewise noted the 2014 burglary charge and the subsequent assault conviction.

Blaze News reached out to Judge Doty for comment.

Blaze News also reached out to the Department of Homeland Security to see whether it is looking into Tindi’s case once again.

Silence from the state

It is unclear whether officials at the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency were aware of Tindi’s violent history when they hired him.

Tindi’s LinkedIn profile indicates he began working for the state in September 2018, nearly four years after the sexual assault, and was named chief audit officer in December 2023. The profile makes no specific mention of the state education department or the pollution regulation agency.

His bio also claimed he is ‘passionate about … building trust through transparency.’

Blaze News reached out to the MPCA, the office of Education Commissioner Willie Jett, as well as to Lee Her — the director of public engagement at MDE — for answers about what they knew about Tindi and when they knew it. We did not receive a response by deadline.

According to an archived version of his MDE bio, Tindi was responsible for “establishing and overseeing an independent internal audit function focused on evaluating risk management, governance, and compliance across the agency.” His bio also claimed he is “passionate about … building trust through transparency, collaboration, and a strong focus on adding value across the organization” (emphasis added).

His online bio appears to have been removed shortly after the Alpha News report broke. The Wayback Machine screenshot of his erstwhile profile provided by Alpha News is dated June 17, 2025.

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On June 17, Tindi’s profile was still listed among the list of directors with the MDE commissioner’s office. As of Tuesday, Tindi is no longer listed there.

Blaze News reached out to Tindi’s MDE email address and received an automatic reply, stating, “Wilson Tindi is no longer with MDE.” Blaze News also reached out to an email address Tindi provided on a previous court document but did not receive a response.

As MDE remains under the general purview of the governor and some senior positions at state agencies are filled by appointment or with recommendations from influential individuals, Blaze News reached out to Democratic Gov. Tim Walz for comment.

Walz’s office did not respond.

H/T: Dustin Grage

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A damning report says that Pixar executives drastically changed the lead character in their newest animated film offering because audiences said in pre-release testing that they would not go watch the film.

“Elio” tells the tale of an 11-year-old boy who is taken into space and accidentally becomes Earth’s ambassador to an interstellar organization of alien communities. The film was not well received and has bombed at the box office.

‘The exodus of talent after that cut was really indicative of how unhappy a lot of people were that they had changed and destroyed this beautiful work.’

In the wake of the film’s failure, staffers are coming out to accuse Pixar executives of messing with the film’s main character to strip him of features meant to portray him as gay, according to a report from the Hollywood Reporter.

The report says that the movie was shown to a test audience in Arizona, and while many said they enjoyed the movie, not one person said they’d see it in the theater, which alarmed studio executives.

Adrian Molina, the film’s original director, is an openly gay man. After a meeting with executives, Molina left the production, and the project was undertaken by co-directors.

Under Molina’s direction, the main character had been written as being a fan of fashion and environmentalism, and there was a scene that implied he had a crush on another male, but execs decided to cut all of that out.

After the film’s devastating box office failures, staffers are coming out to blame executives for cutting out the woke elements of the movie.

“I was deeply saddened and aggrieved by the changes that were made,” said Sarah Ligatich, a former assistant editor at Pixar and a member of PixPRIDE, an internal LGBTQ group at the studio.

“The exodus of talent after that cut was really indicative of how unhappy a lot of people were that they had changed and destroyed this beautiful work,” she added.

Ligatich says that many of the creatives on the film left the project after the decision made by executives, but the studio denied the claim to THR.

RELATED: Disney’s woke ‘Snow White’ is one of its worst box office bombs

Another former Pixar artist commented on the report.

“It was pretty clear through the production of the first version of the film that [studio leaders] were constantly sanding down these moments in the film that alluded to Elio’s sexuality of being queer,” said the source anonymously.

Others said the character was more interesting in the original version but was far more generic after executives meddled with the film.

“Suddenly, you remove this big, key piece, which is all about identity, and Elio just becomes about totally nothing,” said the former Pixar artist.

Another stumbling block in the film was the sudden departure of actress America Ferrera, who was going to portray the voice of the main character’s mother. Pixar says scheduling conflicts led to Ferrera being replaced on the film, but the THR report had another explanation having to do with the director’s exit.

“America was upset that there was no longer Latinx representation in the leadership,” said the former Pixar artist.

The movie was believed to have cost Pixar $150 million to produce, but staffers told THR that they believed it cost far more than that. In its opening weekend, the film garnered slightly less than $21 million, a complete disaster.

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For decades, there has been a significant group of skeptics who claim that ingredients in vaccines have led to increased rates of autism among children. They’ve pointed to past studies as proof. Yet, those in so-called “mainstream science” have said those studies are flawed.

The skeptics have not been deterred, and now one is the secretary of Health and Human Services. In an episode of “The Tucker Carlson Show” podcast released Monday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the eponymous host that he is determined to get answers.

‘We’re going to do real science.’

The discussion around autism and vaccines was just one part of a wide-ranging conversation between the two men. Carlson started off the discussion on vaccines and autism by asking, “One of the first things you did as secretary, I think — tell me if I’m misstating it — was commission a kind of study of autism. Can you tell us what that is? What are you seeking to do with that?”

Kennedy went through the history of studies performed in the past on whether there is a link between early childhood vaccinations and autism. He claimed of studies that were conducted by the Centers for Disease Control, “They all say what the CDC wanted them to say — which is they couldn’t find a link.”

He then claimed that other groups, including the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine, have not completely ruled out the possibility of a link. Kennedy added, “And they were highly critical of the way the CDC was making decisions about the vaccine schedule.”

As the discussion continued, Kennedy laid out why he believed the decision-making process around the vaccination schedule had “essentially been captured by industry.” In other words, the very pharmaceutical companies that make the vaccines were driving the policy on when vaccines should be administered.

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Kennedy explained why he believes that the CDC, led by those with industry ties, eschewed the scientific method, which called for extensive studies and kept approving more vaccines to add to the schedule.

He added, “None of those studies did what you would do if you wanted to find the answer — which is to compare outcomes in a fully vaccinated group to health outcomes in an unvaccinated group.”

Except one.

Kennedy claimed that in 1999, the CDC commissioned a study of children who had received a hepatitis vaccination as compared with those not vaccinated. He then said, “They found an 1,135% elevated risk of autism among the vaccinated children.”

“It shocked them. They kept the study secret and manipulated it through five different iterations to try to bury the link,” the secretary added.

Kennedy went through why he believes the CDC hid the data, noting that many independent scientists have found a “link” between some vaccinations and increased autism.

Kennedy then pledged that under his watch the studies that have been recommended will be done. “We’re going to do real science. And the way we’re going to do that is — we’re going to make the databases public for the first time.”

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He pledged that data from the CDC, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, private HMO data from the Vaccine Safety Datalink, and more will be made available for researchers to peruse.

Kennedy pledged money for grants and to do more “in-house studies ourselves,” all with a goal of having answers within six months from now — or possibly even sooner.

“We should have some answers by September, some initial indicator answers. And then, over the next six months, all these large studies by independent scientists all over the world, we anticipate there will probably be about 15 different major teams who are all trying to answer this question,” said the secretary.

“And within six months, we’ll have definitive answers — after September,” he concluded.

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BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales serves as vice president for an organization called the Texas Family Project, which is dedicated in part to saving children from the grip of leftist indoctrination.

This work often brings them to “all-ages” Pride events held in the great state of Texas.

And as Pride Month ends, the organization was looking forward to getting “a little rest from having to infiltrate all of the disgusting Pride festivals happening across the state” — but it appears that won’t be possible.

This is because Pride Houston 365 claims that “Pride is not just for June anymore.”

“Yes, they say that Pride is actually to take place all year long. So, sorry for your eyeballs, sorry for my eyeballs,” Gonzales comments, disturbed.

Texas Family Project executive director Kaden Lopez ventured to one of Pride Houston 365’s most recent “all-ages” events, and what he encountered was terrifying to say the least.

“Our editors felt the need to censor this — I guess you’re welcome — but that was like full butt crack with a thong going up the rear,” Gonzales says, commenting on video footage Lopez got of the “family-friendly” event.

As kids and baby strollers wander in and out of the shots, barely clothed they/thems pass by and women make out on stage, as music with lyrics like “head down, ass up, that’s the way I like to f**k” blasts from the speakers.

“And there is, of course, the ‘family fun zone’ with all the bubbles for the kids,” Gonzales says, adding, “How far away was that from the free rapid HIV test?”

“It was kind of far from the HIV test, but it was right next to the stage,” Lopez explains, noting that it was the stage where the women were making out, twerking, and singing horribly inappropriate songs.

“It was kids’ zone, little pathway, and then stage,” he adds.

“Some adult perverts in the kids’ zone along with the kids,” Brady Gray, president of Texas Family Project, chimes in.

“This all started with, ‘We just want to get married,’ you know. These Pride festivals started in the ’70s with a few hundred people that’d go have a march, and nobody paid any attention to it. Still, not enough people are paying attention to it, but we’re a far cry from a few hundred people in a march,” he adds.

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Storied British car manufacturer Jaguar has a real history. While the brand has undergone acquisitions and changes, highs and lows over its 90-year history, it has also produced beautiful and iconic race cars and luxury sedans along the way — and served as an ambassador for the British automotive industry.

Decades ago, when my late grandfather met the CEO of British Airways on a tarmac in his Mercedes-Benz, the Englishman didn’t mention the faux pas. After business happily concluded and my grandfather drove him back to his private plane, the old man thanked him, then said, “Do me a favor and buy yourself a Jag. Send me the bill.”

June reports indicated that in April 2025, the once-storied brand sold only 49 cars in Europe.

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My grandfather never took him up on that offer, but such was the pride of England (and the grudge against the Germans). But no more. In November 2024, Jaguar launched a nightmarishly bizarre, gender-bending advertising campaign called “Copy Nothing.” The ad, which was creepier than any 1990s Smashing Pumpkins or Marilyn Manson music video and was years late to the peak of the broader “make everything gay” corporate ad campaigns, promised to “create exuberant, live vivid, delete ordinary, [and] break moulds.”

The ad was widely and immediately panned. Jaguar Land Rover Managing Director Rawdon Glover defended the move, saying, “We wanted to move away from traditional automotive stereotypes” to “re-establish our brand and at a completely different price point,” and complaining about the “vile hatred and intolerance” that greeted the campaign. It’s worth noting that the ad “re-establishing” the brand didn’t include even a single vehicle.

In the ensuing months, Jaguar has ejected its supply of traditional vehicles in favor of luxury electric vehicles expected to cost more than $100,000 each and debuting later this year. Unsurprisingly, this has hurt sales — but even worse than some might have expected. June reports indicated that in April 2025, the once-storied brand sold only 49 cars in Europe. That’s less than one dealership’s worth and, in view of the 1,961 cars sold in April 2024, is a more than 97% decline.

Compare that to Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Audi, which have also moved toward electric vehicles while not completely rejecting their gasoline inventory, and sold “approximately 50,000 to 75,000 units in April 2025 across Europe.”

You can expect real fluctuations when you rebrand, but barring some magical turnaround when the new electrics are launched, there’s a solid chance Jaguar goes down in history as the greatest major global brand suicide in automotive history — and as a lesson for those who would consider following.

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President Donald Trump responded at length to a challenge from Blaze News national correspondent Julio Rosas asking why former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and other Biden officials have not yet been arrested.

The president made the comments on Tuesday at a media briefing from Ochopee, Florida. Rosas said that the question was the number one inquiry made by many of the people responding to his video of Mayorkas.

‘It’s great to see that the border’s secured, and it’s great to see the state-level cooperation, but I would ask you, why hasn’t he been held accountable or anybody really been held accountable?’

In a confrontation in April, Rosas tried to make Mayorkas answer accusations that he had failed to shut down the border and intentionally allowed millions of illegal aliens into the country. Mayorkas refused to respond to the barrage of questions.

“A couple months ago, I ran into former DHS Secretary Mayorkas, and I asked him a couple questions about his disastrous handling of the border,” Rosas explained to Trump.

“He didn’t like my questions. But the number one question that I heard from people in responding to my video is why was — why hasn’t he been arrested yet?”

“You know, obviously, you guys are clearing up the mess, obviously, that was deliberately made for the past four years, and so people want accountability,” Rosas continued. “It’s great to see that the border’s secured, and it’s great to see the state-level cooperation, but I would ask you, why hasn’t he been held accountable or anybody really been held accountable?”

“Well, you know, the pardons are being given out to many people that should not have been given out to them,” the president responded, “like the unselect committee of political thugs were given a pardon because they destroyed all the information from two years of hearings, and they should be arrested, not given pardons. Was he given a pardon, Mayorkas? Was he not? No?”

“I don’t believe so, sir,” Rosas replied.

“Well, I’d take a look at that because what he did was — it’s beyond incompetence,” the president responded.

“Something had to be done. Now, with that being said, he took orders from other people, and he was really doing the orders, and you could say he was very loyal to them because it must have been very hard for him to stand up and sit up and, you know, talk about what he allowed to happen to this country and be serious about it. So he was given orders,” Trump continued.

He asked an aide to look into the matter.

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“He was impeached? But yeah, it was just a fake impeachment,” Trump added. “I think he was so bad. They were also bad. Look, it was the worst president in the history of our country. We’ve had some bad ones, but he was the worst president. But somebody told Mayorkas to do that, and he followed orders, but that doesn’t necessarily hold him harmless. So take a look at it.”

He added: “Very good question, actually. Thank you!”

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President Donald Trump is getting closer to codifying the first landmark legislation of his second term, but the fight is not over.

After a record-breaking 27-hour voting marathon, the Senate narrowly passed Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” in a 51-50 vote. Vice President JD Vance cast the tiebreaking vote after three Senate Republicans — Susan Collins of Maine, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, and Rand Paul of Kentucky — voted against the legislation.

‘This performative theatre won’t solve the problem.’

The bill is now headed back to the House, where lawmakers will scramble to meet the president’s ambitious July 4 deadline.

This deadline will not be easy to meet. During the drawn-out vote-a-rama, several key provisions failed to make it into the Senate’s final draft, raising concerns among House Republicans.

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Several Republicans were outraged about one provision in particular. The Senate rejected an amendment that would reduce Medicaid funding for states that offer the social program to criminal aliens after the parliamentarian ruled against the provision, increasing the vote threshold from a simple majority to 60 votes.

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“If the Senate won’t do their job, DHS MUST,” Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt of Texas said of the amendment. “Because this performative theatre won’t solve the problem. It’s great messaging, but it does nothing.”

“Illegals should not get Medicaid,” Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida said in a post on X. “This should not have to be said.”

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For years, many have suspected that Harvard, America’s oldest and most revered educational institution, has artificially tampered with the racial and gender makeup of its student body by denying admission to highly qualified white and Asian applicants in favor of members of other racial groups, even those with less impressive skills, test scores, and resumes.

Those suspicions were confirmed in 2023 when the Supreme Court determined that Harvard College and the University of North Carolina had violated the Constitution and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by discriminating against Asian-American applicants in their undergraduate admission processes. The decision effectively ended affirmative action admissions at the college level altogether.

Now it appears that the Harvard Law Review, perhaps the most prestigious legal journal in the country, has likewise repeatedly considered race, gender, and other personal characteristics when evaluating submissions and editorial applicants, according to a series of damning reports from the Washington Free Beacon.

‘A spoils system in which the race of the legal scholar is as, if not more, important than the merit of the submission.’

When President Donald Trump retook office in January, his administration immediately picked up where the courts left off, investigating Harvard for multiple questionable practices, including alleged “race-based discrimination” at Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review.

“Harvard Law Review’s article selection process appears to pick winners and losers on the basis of race, employing a spoils system in which the race of the legal scholar is as, if not more, important than the merit of the submission,” acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor said in a statement.

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A flawed system

The Harvard Law Review is technically an independent nonprofit that is separate from the esteemed college, university, and law school, a point often reiterated in news reports about the federal investigations into alleged discrimination. However, Harvard Law Review trades on the vaunted Harvard reputation and operates in a building located on the Harvard campus.

HLR also hires only second- and third-year Harvard Law students to serve as editors. A student-run editorial staff at a journal like HLR means that some of the most accomplished legal scholars in the world humble themselves by submitting their thoughtful legal analysis and argumentation to amateurs for approval.

Few of them succeed.

Because of its prestige, HLR and other journals like it publish just a tiny fraction of the thousands of submissions they receive. Thus, HLR can — and should — subject these submissions to a rigorous vetting process.

‘The author cited 20 men by name,’ one editor complained, but only ‘9 women and 1 non-binary scholar.’

Unfortunately, HLR student editors appear more concerned with giving members of “underrepresented groups” a platform than with publishing sound scholarship, even though a recently published HLR fact sheet insists “the Review does not consider race, ethnicity, gender, or any other protected characteristic as a basis for recommending or selecting a piece for publication.”

Back on April 25, the Free Beacon revealed that it had read and analyzed internal Harvard Law Review documents that implicated the journal in what reporter Aaron Sibarium described as “pervasive race discrimination.”

Sibarium, as they say, brought the receipts. According to his reports and the documents linked to them, HLR has:

encouraged prospective student editors to provide an expository statement in their applications that “will not be evaluated for quality of writing or editing” but will supposedly provide a “holistic” picture of the ways their personal “attributes or experiences” might enhance their contributions at HLR;passed a resolution in 2021 making “the inclusion of qualified editors from underrepresented groups” its “first priority“;selected minority women almost exclusively since 2018 to write the foreword for its renowned Supreme Court issue; andinvited authors to provide their race and gender when submitting work for consideration — and included “trans”-identifying and “gender nonconforming” options in the drop-down menu.

RELATED: Why Trump’s war with Harvard hits closer to home than you think

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According to a 2023 HLR orientation presentation shared by the Free Beacon — a presentation that lists “diversity, equity, and inclusion” first on a slide about “living our values” — HLR receives about 3,000 submissions, presumably on an annual basis. Articles editors then use what Sibarium called a “race-conscious rubric” to drain that pool of submissions quickly by giving them a basic read and then assigning them a number between 1 and 5, with 1 being the lowest score and 5 being the highest.

Multiple drafts of the screening rubric shared by the Free Beacon highlight “diversity” — including “author diversity” and “author experience” — as a “plus” that might help HLR achieve its “goals” for a particular volume. According to these drafts of the rubric, the “diversity” component is either present and the piece therefore merits a 5 or is not and the piece is not assessed a diversity score at all.

“We should consider expediting this piece” to the next round, the explanation on the draft rubric says of those given a 5 for diversity. Diversity is the only criterium listed on the rubric that prompts readers to consider “expediting” the piece to the next level.

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Screenshot of draft of Volume 138 Screening Rubric

In its fact sheet, which may have been published after the initial Free Beacon report, HLR claims it “does not expedite the consideration of articles based on an author’s race, ethnicity, gender, or other protected characteristic.” The fact sheet indicates HLR mainly expedites articles in cases in which “less-established professors” have received “exploding offers” from other journals.

In 2024, just 412 submissions to the Harvard Law Review made it to the second screening phase, meaning the “race-conscious rubric” and its “diversity” criterium helped editors filter out about 86% of the total submissions the journal received, according to the Free Beacon.

Those few hundred pieces are then given closer scrutiny in what is known as the “Rotopool” phase. At this point, the identity of the author is concealed, and a randomly assigned student editor reads the piece and summarizes and assesses it in a document known as a memo.

Each of the 50 or so pieces that advance to the third phase is then given to an articles editor, who then writes a more detailed memo called an M-Read. These pieces have since been unblinded, so articles editors know the identities of the authors as well as their race and gender.

The submissions that survive an M-Read continue on through at least three more rounds of evaluation before publication. Only 12 to 16 pieces of the original 3,000 ever make it to print, the orientation presentation noted.

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In more than 500 HLR documents from 2024 and 2025, including memos from different phases, the Free Beacon discovered the following:

“The author cited 20 men by name,” one editor complained, but only “9 women and 1 non-binary scholar.””Despite occasional references to the ‘cisgendered’ and ‘heterosexual’ power-brokers and power structures that dominate in our contemporary era … the article advances a binaristic conception of gender that does not reflect contemporary understandings of gender diversity,” said another editor about an article described as a “feminist analysis of antitrust law.” “The DEI values advanced by the piece are limited,” the editor also lamented.”This author is not from an underrepresented background,” yet another editor noted in the “negatives” section of an M-Read memo.One editor bemoaned that an author cited mainly “male scholars who do not appear to be from underrepresented groups” but who do represent one of the top 14 law schools in the country, abbreviated throughout the memos as “T14.”A piece by an Asian-American male scholar from Yale that made it all the way to an M-Read was ultimately cut, with one editor suggesting at a meeting about his submission, “We have too many Yale JDs and not enough Black and Latino/Latina authors,” according to the meeting minutes.

While terms referring to whites and males were apparently used often as pejoratives at HLR, other racial and gender identifiers and indicators were considered bonuses in some cases. For instance, one editor made sure to mention that publishing a particular author would provide “the opportunity to elevate a female scholar from a non-T14 school earlier in her career.”

One editor effused that an author cited “predominantly Black singers, rappers, and members of Twitter,” while another editor — whose personal writing style seems to involve the overuse of exclamation points and the word extremely — gushed that a piece referred to “a Kendrick song in the Conclusion!”

Recommendations on a 2024 HLR spreadsheet regarding who should write the foreword for the Supreme Court issue — an especially selective process that includes members of the Women, Nonbinary, and Trans Committee as well as another diversity committee — revealed just how fixated editors were on so-called “underrepresented groups”:

The candidacy of one female scholar was promoted because she would be “the first hijabi, Muslim woman to write the Foreword.”Another candidate would be “one of few Latino professors in this space.”Yet another would be “the first tenured female Asian American law professor in the US.”

The Harvard Law Review did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News. HLR previously indicated that the Free Beacon had “selectively” taken some old internal documents out of context.

Legal journal faces legal fallout

Fallout from the revelations in the Harvard Law Review documents has been widespread. Just three days after the initial Free Beacon report was published on April 25, the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services announced a joint Title VI investigation into the alleged use of “race-based criteria … in lieu of merit-based standards” at both Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review.

The DOJ launched another probe into Harvard for alleged race-based discrimination just a few weeks later. The multifront federal investigations prompted an order for the organizations to retain and preserve their documents.

HLR then apparently retaliated against Daniel Wasserman, a recent HLR editor and Harvard Law School graduate who allegedly leaked the internal documents to the Free Beacon, has since cooperated with the feds in the investigation, and now works in the White House under deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.

The journal reportedly demanded that Wasserman force all parties with whom he allegedly shared the documents to “delete or return” them. Days later, HLR apparently issued Wasserman a “formal reprimand.”

“This Formal Reprimand informs you that your actions violate Law Review policies and do not reflect our community expectations,” the HLR disciplinary committee wrote on May 22, according to the Free Beacon, which reviewed emails about the matter. “Continued violations may give rise to additional disciplinary proceedings.”

Elite institutions like Harvard have been able to get away with ‘objectively un-American and discriminatory behaviors’ for years because those in power have supported certain forms of race-based discrimination — until Trump.

The reprimand was rescinded just five days later, after allegations that HLR had violated federal protections for whistleblowers. HLR claimed it was not aware at the time it was issued that Wasserman was working with the government.

Former DOJ civil rights division official Jason Torchinsky likened HLR’s apparently punitive efforts against Wasserman to witness intimidation.

“What do they call it when a criminal tries to intimidate the witness?” Torchinsky said, according to the Free Beacon. “If you know someone is a witness in a federal investigation, and you try to intimidate them into stopping cooperation with the government, that in itself is its own offense.”

Wasserman declined a request for comment from the New York Times.

In response to a request for comment, the Department of Education directed Blaze News to the press release about the investigation. Health and Human Services did not respond to a request for comment.

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Alexander “Shabbos” Kestenbaum, who graduated from Harvard with a master’s degree in religion in 2024, filed a lawsuit against Harvard in the wake of the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, and the ensuing anti-Semitism that erupted on campus. The plaintiffs claimed the school allowed anti-Semitism to grow and intensify without consequence, resulting in “antisemitic discrimination and abuse.”

Kestenbaum told Blaze News that elite institutions like Harvard have been able to get away with “objectively un-American and discriminatory behaviors” for years because those in power have supported certain forms of race-based discrimination — until Trump.

“Up until President Trump, we never had a government — we certainly never had a White House — who was interested in upholding the law and investigating these universities because in many instances, like with President Biden, they actually agreed with these policies that you should artificially elevate individuals based on their sexual orientation, based on their ethnic makeup, based on their racial identities,” he explained.

This group of the “cultural elite,” Kestenbaum continued, simply does not believe that anti-white, anti-male, or anti-Jewish discrimination is “wrong.”

“They actually believe in what Harvard is doing.”

Kestenbaum and other plaintiffs reached an undisclosed settlement with Harvard just a few weeks ago. The university did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

Others are likewise incensed by the apparent discrimination scandal at HLR.

Scott Yenor, a political science professor at Boise State University and the senior director of state coalitions at the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life, told Blaze News: “The HLR practices violate the current understanding of the law, though they are the almost inevitable conclusion of the disparate-impact regime that the Trump admin and Sec. of Ed. Linda McMahon are seeking to get out of our so-called elite institutions.”

Aaron Sibarium suggested in a statement to Blaze News that racial discrimination is just one problem at HLR and that the journal should reconsider its entire business model.

The documents from the law review don’t just reveal a pattern of race-based decision-making. They illustrate the downsides of a system in which publication decisions are made by students who haven’t even passed the bar.

Whether they submit to the Harvard Law Review or some other journal, legal academics do not have the benefit of a jury of their peers. They are at the mercy of second- and third-year law students — many of them to the left of the average law professor — whose judgments of scholarly merit are saturated with ideological influence.

That’s not to say the peer-review process in other disciplines is apolitical. But it may provide a baseline of maturity and expertise that — if the documents from Harvard are any indication — many law students seem to lack.

Editor’s note: Matthew Peterson, the editor in chief of Blaze News, is a Washington fellow for the Claremont Institute.

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A former teacher in Michigan is accused of having sex with a 16-year-old male student, WDIV-TV reported.

Jocelyn Sanroman, 26, of Pontiac is accused of having a sexual relationship with the teen in 2023 while she taught at Oakside Prep Academy in Waterford Township, WDIV added. Waterford Township is about 40 minutes northwest of Detroit.

‘This defendant is accused of using her position of authority to exploit a minor victim.’

Sanroman confided in a fellow teacher that she was having sex with a student, and that teacher in turn told police, the station said, citing prosecutors.

Sanroman was arraigned Monday on three counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct, WJBK-TV reported.

If convicted, she faces up to 15 years in prison, WDIV said.

The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday told Blaze News that Sanroman turned herself in Monday. Jail records indicate she was booked Monday morning and released Monday afternoon. The sheriff’s office added to Blaze News that while Sanroman didn’t post bond, she’s responsible for a $20,000 personal bond if she doesn’t appear at her July 10 probable cause conference.

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“Any time any member of the school staff, teacher, coach, is trying to develop a relationship with you, it doesn’t matter who initiates it; it’s a crime,” Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald told WJBK in a separate story.

McDonald added to WJBK that while a 16-year-old can consent, it’s different when the other party is a teacher.

The prosecutor noted to WJBK that she also was a teacher when she was the suspect’s age, “but I’m also a parent.”

“School is supposed to be someplace where your kids feel safe,” McDonald added to WJBK.

“This defendant is accused of using her position of authority to exploit a minor victim,” McDonald noted to WDIV. “These allegations represent the ultimate breach of trust placed in educators by parents and the community. As a former teacher myself, I applaud the teacher who contacted police about this situation, protecting other students from further exploitation.”

A news crew from WJBK paid a visit to the former teacher’s home but said no one was there.

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An Oakside Prep Academy spokesperson told WJBK that school officials “acted immediately after learning about these allegations.” The spokesperson added to WJBK that “these are troubling allegations that are unsettling to everyone in our school community” and that students’ “safety and well-being remains our top priority.”

News of this latest teacher-student sex scandal comes on the heels of a headline-grabbing case out of New York state where a 22-year-old now-former school district employee is accused of sending nude photos of herself to a 14-year-old boy.

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Anamaria Milazzo. Image source: Chemung County (N.Y.) Sheriff’s Office

The Chemung County Sheriff’s Office last month said Anamaria Milazzo from the town of Elmira was arrested on charges of disseminating indecent material to minors in the second degree — a class E felony — and endangering the welfare of a child, which is a class A misdemeanor.

The Daily Voice said Milazzo was arrested June 16 and that she had worked as a teaching assistant since December 2024. Milazzo was issued an appearance ticket to appear in the Wellsburg Village Court at a later date, the sheriff’s office said.

The school district in question — the Greater Southern Tier Board of Cooperative Educational Services — noted in a statement provided to WETM-TV last week that Milazzo “was put on leave as soon as we were first made aware of the allegations by law enforcement and has not been present at BOCES since that time. She has resigned and will not be returning to campus.”

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Zohran Mamdani’s surprise victory over Andrew Cuomo in last week’s New York City Democratic mayoral primary catapulted a full-bodied Democratic Socialist program onto the national marquee. In his midnight speech, he claimed, “A life of dignity should not be reserved for a fortunate few.” His win marks Gotham’s sharpest left turn in a generation — and that’s saying something.

The recipients of his promise are slated to receive an economic makeover that treats prices as political failures. His platform freezes rents on more than 1 million apartments, builds 200,000 publicly financed “social housing” units, rolls out city-owned grocery stores, makes buses fare-free, and lifts the minimum wage to $30 by 2030, all bankrolled by roughly $10 billion in new corporate and millionaire taxes.

If Mamdani’s program collapses under its own weight, the case for limited government will write itself in boarded-up windows and outbound moving vans.

A week later, reality is beginning to set in.

Mamdani means what he says. On his watch, public safety would become a piggy bank. During the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, Mamdani posted, “No, we want to defund the police.” He wasn’t being metaphorical. His current blueprint would shift billions from the NYPD into a new “Department of Community Safety” — even as felony assaults on seniors have doubled since 2019.

Mamdani’s program may feel aspirational to affluent progressives, yet to many New Yorkers it lands like an ultimatum.

Forty-two percent of renter households already spend more than 30% of their income on shelter; now they are told higher business taxes and a slimmer police presence are the price of utopia, which helps explain why tens of thousands of households making between $32,000 and $65,000 — the city’s economic backbone — have left for other states in just the past few years.

Picture a deli cashier in the Bronx. She’s not reading City Hall memos, but she feels the squeeze when rent rises and her boss mutters about new taxes. She doesn’t frame her frustration as a debate about “big government” — but she knows when it’s harder to get by and when it’s less safe walking home. The politics of the city aren’t abstract to her. They’re personal.

Adding insult to injury, the job Mamdani wants comes with a salary of roughly $258,750 a year — more than three times the median city household income — plus the chauffeurs, security details, and gilt-edged benefits package that accompany the office. Telling overtaxed commuters that their groceries will now be “public options” while banking a quarter-million dollars in guaranteed pay is the policy equivalent of riding past them in a limousine and rolling down the window just long enough to raise their rent.

Layer onto that record a set of statements many Jewish New Yorkers regard as outright hostility. Mamdani is one of the loudest champions of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement; last year he pushed a bill to bar certain New York charities from sending money to Israeli causes and defended the chant “globalize the intifada,” drawing sharp rebukes from city rabbis. The day after Hamas massacred 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023, he blamed the bloodshed on “apartheid” and “occupation.”

All this lands in a metropolis with the world’s largest Jewish community outside Israel — about 1.4 million residents — whose synagogues, schools, and small businesses have weathered a steady rise in hate crimes. For them, a would-be mayor who treats Israel as a pariah and shrugs at chants of intifada isn’t dabbling in foreign policy; he’s telegraphing contempt for their safety and identity at home.

Republicans see an inadvertent gift. Mamdani’s New York will soon be measured against the lower-tax, police-friendly model many red states — especially my home, Florida — have advertised for years.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Law Enforcement Recruitment Bonus Program has mailed more than 7,800 after-tax checks of $5,000 to officers relocating from 49 states, including hundreds from New York precincts, while Florida touts a 50-year low in index-crime reports and unemployment below the national average. IRS data shows Florida netted 33,019 New York households in the latest year, with average adjusted gross income near $185,000.

Project those trend lines a few years and Mamdani’s New York grows grim: a shrunken police force responding to more 911 calls; fare-free buses draining MTA dollars and stranding riders; municipal groceries undercutting bodegas until subsidies vanish; office-tower vacancies sapping property tax receipts just as social housing bills come due. The skyline still gleams, but plywood fronts and “For Lease” placards scar street level. Meanwhile states that fund cops, respect paychecks, and let entrepreneurs stock the shelves siphon away residents and revenue.

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Republicans running in 2026 scarcely need to draft the attack ads, yet they must pair fiscal sobriety with moral urgency — protecting the vulnerable, rewarding work, and defending faith. Mamdani’s primary victory shows romantic egalitarianism still electrifies young voters; statistics alone won’t counter a pledge of universal child care and rent freezes. This indeed won’t be a case of “promises made, promises kept.”

If his program collapses under its own weight, the case for limited government will write itself in boarded-up windows and outbound moving vans.

Should the city somehow thrive — safer streets, balanced books, real wage gains — progressives will demand that Congress replicate Mamdani’s policies nationwide. That is federalism at its most honest: two competing philosophies running side by side under the same national sky, with citizens free to relocate from one laboratory to the other.

For now, the lab results favor the model that backs the blue, protects the paycheck, and keeps the ladder of opportunity in good repair. Voters — and U-Hauls — are already keeping score. By decade’s end, the scoreboard will show which vision truly loved New York’s working families and which merely loved the sound of its own ideals.

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