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As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, Americans are rightly reflecting on the enduring genius of the Constitution. For two and a half centuries, separated powers, federalism, and institutional checks have protected liberty against the concentration of power.

That system has survived civil war, depressions, and foreign totalitarian threats. Yet as the nation celebrates this milestone, a radical faction at home has published a manifesto aimed at dismantling the constitutional structure that made those achievements possible.

The platform calls for the ‘public ownership and democratic control’ of major corporations, energy grids, and transportation infrastructure.

The Democratic Socialists of America just released a national platform titled “Workers Deserve More.” The populist title conceals an agenda far more radical than another increase in the minimum wage or an expansion of organized labor’s influence.

This is not a conventional progressive wish list. It is a blueprint for remaking the American republic and weakening the constitutional limits that stand between citizens and concentrated political power.

The platform begins by demanding the abolition of the United States Senate. The DSA would replace the bicameral Congress with a single legislative chamber, concentrating federal lawmaking power in a radically expanded House of Representatives.

That proposal attacks one of the central compromises of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The Senate protects smaller states from domination by a handful of heavily populated metropolitan regions and forces national majorities to build broader coalitions.

A single chamber based solely on proportional representation would move the country toward unchecked majority rule — precisely the danger James Madison warned against in Federalist 62.

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The assault does not stop with Congress. The DSA platform also calls for severe restrictions on judicial review, placing the Supreme Court under congressional control and preventing it from striking down unconstitutional laws enacted by the proposed single chamber.

The platform would also replace the independently elected presidency with a centralized “premier” chosen by the legislature.

Consider the structure as a whole: one dominant legislative chamber, a premier answerable to that chamber, and a Supreme Court stripped of its ability to enforce constitutional limits.

That is not democratic reform. It is the consolidation of federal power in a single political institution, with few meaningful safeguards for individual liberty or dissenting minorities.

The economic program is equally sweeping. “Workers Deserve More” calls for the “public ownership” and “democratic control” of major corporations, energy systems, and transportation infrastructure. In plain English, it proposes state control of large sectors of the private economy.

History offers no shortage of warnings about such nationalization. From Eastern Europe to Venezuela, government seizure of private industry has produced shortages, economic decay, corruption, and diminished personal freedom.

The DSA pairs this centralization of political and economic power with a direct assault on national sovereignty. Its platform treats borders and citizenship not as foundations of self-government but as obstacles to be removed.

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Its immigration plank demands unrestricted “freedom of movement,” abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an end to deportations, and federal voting rights for noncitizens.

Combined with proposals to eliminate cash bail, demilitarize law enforcement, and dismantle the carceral system, the agenda would weaken the government’s ability to protect law-abiding citizens while expanding its control over nearly every other part of life.

The timing is supremely ironic. This summer, as Americans celebrate 250 years under a system designed to limit government power, the DSA is offering a system designed to maximize it.

The organization claims to speak for workers. Its platform would instead make ordinary Americans increasingly dependent on a centralized state that controls political institutions, major industries, public safety, and access to citizenship itself.

The country should call this platform what it is: an anti-constitutional program dressed in democratic language. America’s strength lies in the limits placed on government, not in the power surrendered to it.

The DSA platform is a reminder that the struggle to preserve the republic did not end with its founding. On America’s 250th anniversary, citizens should defend the constitutional guardrails that have kept power divided and Americans free.

​Opinion & analysis, Constitution, Senate, Democratic socialists of america, James madison, Capitalism, America 250 

A Missouri motorist was caught on police dashcam video exiting his car on a bridge amid a police chase last weekend — and actually diving over the side of the bridge. But that’s only part of the wild turn of events.

The Stone County Sheriff’s Office said deputies tried to stop a car on the north end of Kimberling City around 1:50 a.m. last Saturday, KYTV-TV reported. Kimberling City is a little over half an hour west of Branson.

‘Contact water patrol. He just jumped over the bridge!’

The driver then fled going south, the station said, adding that deputies noted the car was going 75 miles per hour in a 45-mile-per-hour zone.

The pursuit led deputies to the Kimberling City Bridge, where the driver — later identified as Gavin Thor Lundgren — exited the car and jumped off the east side of the bridge, landing in Rock Lake, the station said.

An annoyed deputy can be heard on dashcam video remarking, “Contact water patrol. He just jumped over the bridge!”

According to Better Branson, the Kimberling City Bridge’s “vertical clearance above deck” is 15.8 feet. But Sheriff Doug Rader said in KYTV’s video report that it’s about a 40-foot drop to the water.

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Deputies said they stopped Lundgren’s car as it was still in drive and was continuing to roll forward, KYTV noted.

Southern Stone County firefighters on a boat assisted in locating Lundgren while other units remained on shore, the station said, adding that a deputy on scene later found Lundgren.

“This was definitely a first, and luckily he survived the fall,” Rader said.

Besides his outlandish stunt, Lundgren also is accused of injuring three deputies while he was being taken into custody; KYTV said Lundgren head-butted two of the deputies.

Deputies eventually brought Lundgren to the Stone County Jail, the station said, citing the probable cause statement.

Jail records indicate that Lundgren, 26, is charged with resisting arrest by fleeing, careless driving, three counts of third-degree assault, and resisting/interfering with arrest for a felony. He remained behind bars Friday.

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Shane Gillis put on a night that his fans will never forget last week in Philadelphia, and it wasn’t an anomaly, it was the new normal.

Gillis broke two Guinness World Records at a sold-out Lincoln Financial Field that night, a venue that typically hosts NFL games.

‘I put all of your lives at risk.’

Gillis not only set a new mark for the largest audience for a comedian with 73,946 attendees, but he also sold the most tickets for a comedy show ever for a single billing with 77,047 tickets.

Moreover, what Gillis was able to do with nearly a city-sized group of fans sitting all around him was culminate almost 15 years of hard work into a cultural moment. Gillis brought with him everything he loves, a protest in its own right given how he was treated by the media for simply being a regular guy.

The Gillis tribute opened with a flyover followed by Millennials’ favorite rambunctious skateboarder Bam Margera, a Pennsylvania native, announcing a new season of Gillis’ Netflix comedy “Tires.”

A festival for the rest of us

Gillis tapped two of his friends and fellow comedians from the area to open for him, Matt McCusker and Jay Oakerson. While they were the only other comedy acts on the card, a series of unannounced appearances followed, each more surprising than the last.

For a comedian who was unilaterally labeled a bigot, racist, and homophobe just seven years ago, Gillis had no shortage of celebrities willing to appear under his banner.

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Making appearances from the sports world were two Philadelphia Eagles players: offensive tackle Jordan Mailata and defensive back Cooper DeJean.

Former Eagles center Jason Kelce — brother of Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift’s husband — was also in the mix, coming on stage and screaming into the microphone to hype up the crowd.

The night also featured performances from rappers Meek Mill and Three 6 Mafia, and although Kanye West was rumored to make an appearance (he did not), in the end the biggest cameo came after Gillis’ 30-minute set.

Unexpected improv

Like a boxer on his way to the ring, Dave Chappelle walked down the aisle to screaming fans and joined Gillis for 20 minutes of off-the-cuff banter.

Chappelle immediately became that friend who brings up politics when he came to the stage and commented on what he described as an Air Force flyover.

“Y’all n*****s should be at the Straight of Hormuz, opening that s**t up. But I’m glad you could make it here for Shane’s show.”

Gillis quickly corrected Chappelle, laughing that they were actually World War II planes he needed to get insurance for.

“I put all of your lives at risk,” Gillis joked. “I was not worried about you guys, I was worried about how much money I would have to pay if a World War II Mustang crashed into you guys.”

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You’ll buy a ticket and you’ll be happy

Even Guinness World Records adjudicator Andy Glass praised Gillis’ ability to put on an unforgettable night.

“Tonight’s event was a powerful reminder that record-breaking achievements continue to capture people’s imagination around the world,” Glass said, per CBS News.

Gillis’ football field extravaganza is indeed the new normal for what was so recently portrayed as fringe entertainment for far-right audiences. Not only is he following in the footsteps of Tony Hinchcliffe’s frequent Madison Square Garden appearances, he is elevating the scene to new heights never imagined before.

Touring arenas and doing the occasional stadium is not new for comedians, but for ones who were universally excommunicated by the entertainment industry, it certainly is.

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America remains deeply divided over whether the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump. Millions believe the system failed them, while the media, intelligence bureaucracy, and the left have treated their doubts as something to suppress rather than investigate.

The documents released this week by the Trump administration do not close the case. They reopen it — and make the “nothing to see here” narrative indefensible.

Start with communist China.

The released intelligence reports that approximately 220 million American voter records are in Chinese hands. Tens of millions of records across 18 states were bought, stolen, or hacked and included names, addresses, phone numbers, party preferences, and other sensitive information.

A sovereign nation must know that the people selecting its government are its citizens.

That does not prove China changed a single ballot, but it does prove Beijing possessed a political targeting asset. When a strategic rival aggregates enormous datasets and applies modern analytics, it gains the ability to identify, target, and influence American voters at industrial scale.

The most disturbing disclosure involves the President’s Daily Brief — the president’s most sensitive and consequential intelligence product. In one released email, an official wrote: “We have deliberately massaged our one pending PDB to avoid any direct links to the election.”

In a separate internal chat, a counterintelligence official boasted: “I’m basically running a shadow government across the FBI at this point.”

The left has spent years ridiculing concerns about a “deep state” as conspiracy theory. These revelations make that ridicule look increasingly like camouflage.

Then comes the voting-system reveal.

A Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency report included in the administration’s document release identifies weak access controls, outdated operating systems, flat networks, inadequate monitoring, and legacy remote-access pathways across state and local election environments. During multiple penetration tests and red-team exercises, CISA assessors gained full control of election-office networks within hours or days.

Separately, the report cites research involving one ballot-marking system showing that barcode-encoded votes could be altered without changing the human-readable selections displayed to the voter.

The release also includes intelligence concerning methods allegedly developed by Venezuela’s Maduro regime to manipulate electronic totals while concealing the changes.

Precision matters. A Venezuelan capability is not proof of an American operation. A demonstrated vulnerability is not proof it was exploited. The documents do not establish that American vote totals were secretly changed in 2020.

But they demolish the claim that election technology is immune from manipulation. These are computer systems with software, databases, vendors, administrators, updates, and attack surfaces. Compromise must be anticipated and independently detectable.

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A limited Department of Homeland Security review raises another alarm. The White House says it identified approximately 278,000 potential noncitizen registrations. DHS’ public follow-up described more than 250,000 preliminary potential matches in California, New Jersey, Nevada, and Pennsylvania — only four states.

No serious person should dismiss numbers of this magnitude. Biden’s certified Georgia margin in 2020 was 11,779 votes. In 2016, Trump carried Michigan and Wisconsin by a combined 33,452 votes — and Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania by just 77,744.

The media formula — “the documents do not prove vote totals changed; therefore they prove nothing” — is analytical malpractice. Absence of final proof is not proof of institutional innocence.

The proper question is whether this new information raises the probability that foreign influence, intelligence suppression, ineligible registrations, or exploitable technology played a larger role in the 2020 election environment than Americans were told — and whether future elections remain at risk.

The answer to both questions is yes.

That is why Congress must pass the SAVE America Act before November. The House-passed legislation requires documentary proof of citizenship for federal voter registration and photo identification for federal voting.

These are basic risk controls. Pew found that 83% of Americans — including 71% of Democrats and 95% of Republicans — support government-issued photo identification.

A sovereign nation must know that the people selecting its government are its citizens. A constitutional republic must demonstrate — not merely assert — that its elections are accurate.

Congress should stop stalling and pass the SAVE America Act. As the president likes to say: Let’s go.

This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.

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Pennsylvania police say they discovered a house of horrors after investigating a report of an emaciated dog that was too weak to stand up.

Sandra Alvarado, 40, of White Oak Borough called police on July 18 to report that she had found an extremely emaciated Doberman dog abandoned in a ditch on the side of the road.

They found more evidence that the dog belonged to her, and then found far worse.

When police responded, they found a dog so “beyond reasonable treatment” that it could only be euthanized, according to court documents.

Police reported the dog had fleas, infections, ulcers, and open wounds that included exposed tendons.

Alvarado told police she brought the dog into her home, but police grew suspicious. They said the home smelled of urine and was filled with flies.

Her story fell apart after police found the dog dry to the touch and with no signs of being outside after it had been storming during that day.

On Tuesday, officers obtained animal clinic records showing Alvarado owned a Doberman named Anubis. They then interviewed people in the neighborhood who indicated that Alvarado was the owner of the dog and they had seen him several times after he ran away from the home.

Police were able to obtain a search warrant for the home and forced their way inside on Thursday.

They found more evidence that the dog belonged to her, and then found far worse.

Police said she had several dog crates with feces and stagnant urine. In the rest of the home, they found “deplorable conditions” that included “overwhelming” flies, fleas, spoiled food, soiled litter boxes, and numerous bags of trash.

They also found two firearms that were easily accessible to children. A 16-year-old teen was found to be living in the home.

The residence was deemed uninhabitable by White Oak Code Enforcement Officer John Snelson.

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Alvarado faces numerous charges, including five counts of aggravated cruelty to animals, three counts of neglect of animals, cruelty to animals, false reports to law enforcement, as well as endangering the welfare of children.

She is being held at the Allegheny County Jail on a $10,000 bond and will appear for a hearing on Aug. 3.

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Parents accepted cameras on school buses for a simple reason: catching drivers who illegally pass a stopped bus and endanger children.

What they weren’t told is that the same technology could eventually become something much bigger: a nationwide surveillance network.

Cities have explored mounting AI-powered cameras on garbage trucks to identify property-code violations.

Spy school

According to leaked internal documents obtained by 404 Media, BusPatrol — the nation’s largest provider of school bus stop-arm camera systems — plans to transform those buses into a nationwide network of Automatic License Plate Readers. Instead of activating only when a stop-arm violation occurs, the cameras would reportedly record the license plate, location, date, and time of every vehicle they encounter before sharing that information with law enforcement databases.

If fully deployed, the system would operate on more than 40,000 school buses across 24 states, creating what could become the largest mobile license-plate reader network in the United States — a system capable of documenting the daily movements of millions of law-abiding drivers.

School buses are an obvious platform for expanding surveillance. They already travel nearly every neighborhood twice a day, five days a week. Building that kind of street-level network from scratch would cost billions and almost certainly provoke public opposition. But here, the buses, cameras, and routes already exist; only the mission changes.

Safety dance

The leaked documents also describe a data-sharing partnership between BusPatrol and Axon, the law enforcement technology company known for body cameras and digital evidence systems. Under the proposal, information collected by school buses could become part of a broader investigative network used by police agencies. Privacy advocates argue that transforms a child-safety program into a system capable of tracking the routine movements of people who aren’t suspected of any crime.

Those concerns aren’t hypothetical.

The Institute for Justice has documented multiple cases in which law enforcement officers allegedly misused license-plate reader databases for personal reasons. In Milwaukee, an officer reportedly searched the movements of a woman he was dating and her former partner nearly 180 times while claiming the searches were part of official investigations.

In Idaho, a sheriff searched his wife’s vehicle more than 700 times in three months, describing the searches as “tests.” In Georgia, a police chief was arrested after allegedly using ALPR systems to stalk private citizens. None of those incidents were automatically flagged by the systems themselves.

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Usual suspects

School buses also appear to be only one piece of a broader trend. Cities have explored mounting AI-powered cameras on garbage trucks to identify property-code violations because sanitation vehicles, like school buses, already drive every neighborhood on regular routes. Cape Coral, Florida, abandoned its proposal after public opposition, but similar ideas continue to surface elsewhere.

Private companies are expanding these networks as well.

Flock Safety has built a nationwide system of AI-powered cameras that identify license plates along with vehicle make, model, color, decals, and bumper stickers. According to Forbes, companies including FedEx, Lowe’s, Simon Property Group, and Kaiser Permanente have participated in information-sharing arrangements involving Flock’s network. Civil liberties advocates argue those partnerships expand vehicle tracking while operating outside many of the transparency rules that apply to government agencies.

Each program is introduced as a narrow solution to a specific problem — protecting schoolchildren, solving crimes, enforcing property codes, or improving security. Over time, however, they begin to overlap. School buses, garbage trucks, private security cameras, and commercial fleets become pieces of a much larger network that records where Americans travel and stores that information for future use.

Protecting children should never be controversial, and neither should giving police the tools they need to investigate legitimate crimes.

But turning 40,000 school buses into rolling surveillance platforms is a very different question.

Before that happens, Americans deserve an honest debate about where the line between public safety and routine government tracking should be drawn.

​School buses, Privacy, Security, Surveillance, Automotive 

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Bryan Johnson made his millions by founding the payments processing company Braintree (which acquired Venmo), before selling the firm to PayPal in 2013.

In the years since, Johnson has become widely known for his extreme, highly public anti-aging “Don’t Die” protocol, which involves a strict diet, a rigid sleep schedule, daily exercise, dozens of supplements, continuous biomarker testing, and occasional experimental treatments.

His stated goal is to slow or reverse biological aging across every organ system. The endeavor costs him roughly $2 million a year.

But that’s just the beginning of Johnson’s strange goals. According to a July 21 post, he has now supposedly “cloned” himself.

Glenn Beck sets the record straight on the reality of Johnson’s “cloning” experiment.

“He didn’t clone himself. What he actually did is he took a sample of his own blood, pulled out some cells, chemically rewound them back to a blank, a baby state — you know, the kind of cell that can grow into almost any body part,” he explains, noting that this making of stem cells has been going on since 2006.

“His plan is to eventually grow fresh tissue from these cells to repair his own aging organs. That’s it. There’s no baby, no second Bryan, no clone of any real sense. Just a dish with his own cells reset to act young,” Glenn continues.

The medical implications of this science — regrowing organs, restoring eyesight, reversing disease — are “really exciting,” he acknowledges.

But Glenn has seen too much to ignore the inevitable dark side of such a technology.

“I swear to you, every day I get up, every technological breakthrough now feels like we’re speed-running through the plot of every movie that terrified me as a child,” he says.

“’Frankenstein,’ written over 200 years ago, was basically one long warning that maybe, just maybe, we should spend as much time asking ‘should we?’ as we spend asking ‘can we?’” he continues.

The saddest part is that “technology genuinely could save millions of lives — Parkinson’s, blindness, heart disease, kidney failure, cancer” — but it’s what else it could do in the hands of the wrong people that troubles Glenn.

“I’m not scared of the science. I’m kind of scared by the scientists,” he admits.

“I just can’t shake the feeling that humanity is collectively walking through the opening scenes of every sci-fi movie ever made, smiling confidently while the audience is yelling at the screen, ‘Please stop!’”

To hear more, watch the video above.

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Five teenage basketball players from the Washington, D.C., area are accused of stealing from a Florida 7-Eleven — and their coach lied to protect some of them, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said.

The accused teens — all between 16 and 17 years old and hailing from Maryland and Washington, D.C. — are members of Run It Up, a travel basketball program affiliated with the Amateur Athletic Union, officials said.

The sheriff’s office added that the coach works for the Department of Juvenile Services at the Cheltenham Youth Detention Center in Maryland, ‘where his responsibilities include assisting and empowering youth.’

Their team was in the area to participate in the Puma NXTPro basketball tournament, and they were staying at a Solterra Resort vacation rental, which is less than a mile from the convenience store in the 3100 block of Ronald Reagan Parkway in Davenport, officials said.

Officials said the theft occurred Thursday around 4:10 a.m. and that the suspects concealed merchandise such as Doritos, gummies, Starburst Minis, a Big Mama sausage, lemonade, and grape and orange Slurpees — with a total value of $37.60.

A clerk confronted the suspects about the thefts, and they fled the store, officials said.

Sheriff’s deputies responded to the area and located three of the suspects near the entrance of the Solterra Resort vacation rental after they placed the stolen goods into a backpack and hid it in bushes, officials said.

A detective made contact with the team’s coach, Malik Abdul Harvey, 27, of Maryland, and asked if he could identify the remaining two suspects from a security video, officials said.

Later in the morning, the remaining two suspects were located, and they admitted Harvey was their coach, officials said.

Harvey then confessed to lying about not knowing the other two suspects in order to protect them, officials said.

The five theft suspects each were charged with two felonies — conspiracy to commit retail theft and tampering with evidence — as well as two misdemeanors, petit theft, and violation of the county curfew ordinance for juveniles, officials said.

Harvey was charged with felony child neglect as well as three misdemeanors: contributing to the delinquency of a minor, accessory after the fact, and resisting without violence, officials said.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd spoke at length about Harvey:

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Image source: Polk County (Fla.) Sheriff’s Office video screenshot

The sheriff’s office added that the coach works for the Department of Juvenile Services at the Cheltenham Youth Detention Center in Maryland “where his responsibilities include assisting and empowering youth.”

The basketball trip was not associated with his employment duties, officials said.

Jail records indicate Harvey remained behind bars Friday afternoon; his total bail amount is $10,000.

Believe it or not, the sheriff’s office in late June arrested a dozen adults and three juveniles who they said were stealing food and drinks from a Wawa in Davenport — and the total value of the items was about $40.

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USA Today tried once again to smear Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark on Friday, and the outlet was humiliated once again.

The news outlet published an opinion piece suggesting that Clark’s insistence on calling for a foul when she was assaulted on the court was placing lesbian black players in danger of getting lynched by white supremacists.

‘What in the actual HELL? You utter, total, spite-filled brainless JERKS.’

An uproar followed, and the writer locked down her account and issued a bizarre statement admitting she had erred somewhat.

A day later, the outlet suggested that Clark had ignored a WNBA event for spurious and petty reasons.

“Caitlin Clark skipped the WNBA Orange Carpet on Thursday, opting to get her hair done in her hometown of Des Moines,” the outlet’s post on social media reads.

A community note on the X platform undermined the attempt to mischaracterize Clark’s decision.

“Caitlin was hosting a charity dinner in her hometown,” the note said.

The outlet was immediately excoriated by many on social media.

“How in the world is USA TODAY still existing with SEXIST headlines like this only aimed at Caitlin Clark?! They just keep doubling down on their ignorance and stupidity!” sportscaster Linda Cohn responded.

“For the love of god. What is the matter with you people. Maybe she needs the support of her family after all your bullying,” Amy Siskind replied.

“What in the actual HELL? You utter, total, spite-filled brainless JERKS,” another critic said.

The outlet issued a “clarification” about seven hours later.

RELATED: Caitlin Clark puts black lesbians at risk of death, USA Today writer suggests — and cites Emmett Till lynching

“Caitlin Clark was attending an event for the Caitlin Clark Foundation, which is why she missed the WNBA All-Star Weekend Orange Carpet,” the outlet posted.

Some did not think the correction was enough.

“Wait, so the day after you publish a column claiming her actions evoke Emmitt [sic] Till and will get people lynched, you rush and post an unverified slanderous headline that turns out to be a lie? Do you wonder why you’re a joke?” one detractor responded.

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Tony Romo was arrested in Wisconsin after performing poorly on field sobriety tests, according to the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office.

Romo was driving traveling southbound on Interstate 43 Thursday when he was stopped at about 6 p.m. according to an arrest-detention report obtained by WISN-TV.

In 2017 he was hired as the lead game analyst for CBS football.

The former Dallas Cowboys quarterback was taken into custody, booked on a charge of operating while intoxicated, and then released.

A first-time charge of OWI is a civil offense in Wisconsin and typically carries a fine between $150 and $300, according to WISN.

Romo is very familiar with the area, as he was born in Burlington and graduated from Burlington High School. He visited in 2020 to attend the dedication of the “Tony Romo Field” by the Burlington Area School District for the school’s homecoming game.

The 46-year-old is married and has three children.

It appears to be his first arrest.

Romo played in Dallas for the entirety of his career in the National Football League, from 2003 until 2016. In 2017 he was hired as the lead game analyst for CBS football.

He still holds the Cowboys franchise record for total passing touchdowns at 248.

TMZ noted that he appeared to be smiling in his booking photo.

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KSTP-TV reported that CBS had no comment about the arrest.

Romo is due in court for the OWI charge on Sept. 21.

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The massive fraud scam in Minnesota’s Feeding Our Future nonprofit continues to grow after one convicted fraudster has been sentenced to an additional decade in prison for bribing a juror.

Abdiaziz Shafii Farah pleaded guilty to participating in the attempted scheme to bribe a juror with $120,000 in order to secure an acquittal.

‘Farah and his co-defendants participated in an unprecedented attack on the justice system.’

Four others were implicated in the bribery scheme that was revealed in June 2024.

A woman appearing to be Somali dropped off the money bag with a family member of the juror, as previously reported by Blaze News.

“This is for juror 52,” an alleged note on the bag read. “Tell her there will be another bag for her if she votes to acquit.”

The juror called the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the investigation led to seven defendants being arrested and jailed for the duration of their trial after they had been allowed to appear on their own recognizance. That juror was dismissed, and the others were questioned about whether they had been approached for bribery.

Farah had already pleaded guilty to numerous charges related to the multimillion-dollar scam and was sentenced in August to 28 years in prison.

On Wednesday, Farah was sentenced to an additional 10 years for the bribery charge.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Murphy emphasized during sentencing how jury bribery could have a “chilling effect” on jury selection.

“How creepy is it that a defendant in a case was stalking you, both online and in real life?” he asked. “Following you home, coming to your door?”

Prosecutors alleged that the defendants had targeted that juror because she was the youngest juror and a minority. They obtained evidence that showed they wanted her to persuade other jurors to vote for acquittal based on claims of racial bias.

Farah spoke before being sentenced and cried during an apology to the court, the juror, and the prosecutors.

“My biggest regret revolves around the negative impact my conduct has had on my community, our great state, and the judicial system,” he said. “My conduct has cost me more than I ever imagined, and I am responsible for it.”

RELATED: FBI RAIDS ‘Quality Learing Center’ and nearly 2 dozen more in Minnesota FRAUD investigation

He also said the time he has spent in jail has humbled him.

“Farah and his co-defendants participated in an unprecedented attack on the justice system,” Murphy added.

All of the defendants charged in the bribery scheme pleaded guilty. Five of the seven defendants in the original case were convicted, while the other two were acquitted.

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“It’s insanity,” James Lyons told Blaze News about the latest abortion bill making its way through the Massachusetts legislature. Lyons, a former state representative and past chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party, added, “And it has to stop.”

A long-standing line, one that most radical abortion legislation rarely crosses, is viability outside the womb. The rate of survival for a baby born during the 23rd week of pregnancy is 23%-27%, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. At 24 weeks the survival rate jumps dramatically to 42%-59%.

‘The legislation promises that an already ominous shadow will grow even darker over the state.’

Democrats in the Massachusetts House overwhelmingly passed a bill in a 199-33 vote on Wednesday that would greatly expand abortion access past 24 weeks, effectively making it open season on viable human beings.

Advocates for the unborn have emphasized the extreme nature of this legislation and called for the state Senate to kill it outright.

Massachusetts law currently prohibits abortion past 24 weeks unless executed by a doctor who has determined it is necessary to preserve the life of the mother; necessary to preserve the mother’s physical or mental health; warranted because of a lethal fetal anomaly or diagnosis; or warranted “because of a grave fetal diagnosis that indicates that the fetus is incompatible with sustained life outside of the uterus without extraordinary medical interventions.”

The bill recently passed by the House, H. 5595, would scrap these requirements for late-term abortions, enabling an abortion to be committed against a preborn baby past 24 weeks solely “based upon the professional judgment of the physician.”

H. 5595 would also change state law to bar any medical review process from overriding the decision by a doctor and patient to execute a late-term abortion, and would eliminate the requirement that except in an emergency situation, late-term abortions must be performed “in a hospital duly authorized to provide facilities for obstetrical services.”

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Lyons further told Blaze News, “It is absolutely unconscionable what these people are doing in Massachusetts.”

He then noted that this is the latest in a sequence of radical pro-abortion maneuvers, including:

the 2020 Roe Act, which not only codified abortion rights into state law, enabled abortions after 24 weeks with the now-threatened restrictions, and lowered the age at which women can seek abortion without the consent of a parent or judge, but scrapped a provision in state law that required doctors to “take all reasonable steps … to preserve the life and health of the aborted child” if the baby survived the attempted abortion; andGov. Maura Healey’s (D) taxpayer-funded initiative to attack crisis pregnancy centers, which she complained were dissuading women from getting abortions.

“The reason that they’re getting away with it is because the Massachusetts legislature is dominated by radical leftists, and they unfortunately have done everything they can possibly do to silence any opposition,” said Lyons, who changed parties from Democrat to Republican in 1983 in part because of President Ronald Reagan but also because “there was no question about it that the Democratic Party was being taken over … by the radical left.”

Democratic state Rep. Christine Barber, a radical leftist with endorsements by Planned Parenthood and Reproductive Equity Now, told the Boston Globe that the late-term abortion bill is aimed at sparing residents from the inconvenience of having to travel out of state to kill their preborn children.

“Patients have to leave to other states, leave their support network, and pay out of pocket,” Barber said. “You should be able to get care that your doctors are recommending here in Massachusetts.”

‘The fight is not over.’

Barber cited as an example the trip that one resident, Kate Dineen, made to Maryland in 2022 to kill her 33-week-old baby. The boy suffered a stroke in utero and was reportedly given a 50% chance of dying before delivery. Dineen had a Maryland abortionist administer a lethal injection to the boy, whose remains she later delivered in Boston.

Reproductive Equity Now, an organization that has also used the out-of-state execution of Dineen’s baby to promote this legislation, celebrated the passage of H. 5595.

Claire Teylouni, interim co-executive director of the pro-abortion group, stated, “We are thrilled to see the Massachusetts House of Representatives take this crucial step to expand abortion access across the Commonwealth.”

Advocates for the unborn alternatively condemned Democrats’ campaign against the preborn.

Fr. Daniel Pacholec, direct of the Respect Life Office for the Catholic Diocese of Springfield, noted, “Massachusetts already has one of the most progressive abortion laws in the country, and this goes even further. This should make everyone squeamish. This is not a partisan issue. This is about human decency.”

Massachusetts Citizens for Life noted that “the bill passed despite the concerns of thousands of Massachusetts residents who contacted legislators and shared their opposition, and despite the fact that it would allow unborn children who are capable of feeling pain and surviving outside the womb to be killed.”

“Women experiencing unimaginable, heart-wrenching pregnancy complications absolutely deserve all the support they need, but that support is not what this bill provides,” said Myrna Maloney Flynn, president of MCFL, in a statement shared by the diocese. “Instead, this bill ensures increased abortion industry profits and taxpayer-funded late-term procedures. The legislation promises that an already ominous shadow will grow even darker over the state of Massachusetts.”

The MCFL has stressed that “the fight is not over” and urged Bay Staters to urge their state senators to oppose the version before them now, S.1563.

The Massachusetts Family Institute has also condemned the bill, noting that it would “end virtually all abortion restrictions in Massachusetts, allowing abortion at full term with no medical justification or second opinion required — for any reason, or none at all.”

When asked whether the goal of this and related legislation is to make the Bay State a national abortion destination, Lyons told Blaze News, “It certainly seems that way. And as a matter of fact, the Shield Act that was put in place was a direct result of the pressure that they were seeing outside of Massachusetts to let people know you can come here and we will protect you.”

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The first trailer for “Avengers: Doomsday” has arrived, and it’s raising some serious questions about the future of superhero movies — especially whether or not anyone still cares about them.

And BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere admits that he has never cared less.

“It seems like they took all previous superhero movies and put them in a blender. And then just released whatever came out of that blender. A green sort of brownish mess,” he tells co-host Dave Landau on “Stu and Dave Do America.”

“The actual plot of it is nonsensical,” Dave agrees, adding that it “looks really bad.”

“I am not a fan of superhero movies generally. I don’t like the Marvel universe. I don’t get into this, so I’m not the right person to ask necessarily. To me, a lot of them seem kind of nonsensical,” Stu says.

The film stars Robert Downey Jr. as Dr. Doom, which, Stu points out, seems a little desperate.

“It seems like a desperation move, like when they go on vacation in a dying sitcom, you know, and then they add a brother that you didn’t know existed and you’re just like they’re just reaching for whatever at this point,” Stu says.

“I feel like it hurts the Robert Downey Jr. trajectory, because you go from heroin addict who had all kinds of problems, you know, fell asleep in his neighbor’s race-car bed,” Dave says. “And then he came back and became Iron Man and a superhero … and he’s lived this kind of extraordinary comeback. Why be the villain?”

“I am a fan of his work, but I think it hurts the actual RDJ,” he adds.

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Under the leadership of Anthea Hartig, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is using taxpayer dollars to rewrite history in woke terms — and during a recent hearing, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) called the museum out.

“The many examples of politicization of the museum are well-documented in the comprehensive report the White House Domestic Policy Council recently issued on July 4, the nation’s 250th anniversary,” Burchett began.

“The report makes clear that the museum’s woke exhibits and materials reflect a broader vision held by the museum leadership, particularly its director, Dr. Anthea Hartig,” he continued, noting that she “proudly takes credit for changing the museum’s mission statement.”

The mission statement “no longer uses the term ‘American history’ or refers to the infinite richness of that history.”

Instead, Burchett explained, it is “now guided by an interpretive plan that ensures all topics focus on the core issues of our time.”

“Do we want to guess what they are? Race and identity, gender and sexuality, environmental change, immigration and migrations, and economic inequality top the list. Also, a Center for Restorative Justice at the museum created under Dr. Hartig’s watch hosted a decolonization working group to investigate historical harms that result in ongoing systematic oppression,” he continued.

“To remove any doubt about her intentions, Dr. Hartig in her own words states that she views history as a prime tool of social justice,” he added, before playing a clip of Hartig giving a speech.

“Before we begin, let us pause to acknowledge with gratitude the native peoples on whose land we gather today. These are the ancestral homelands of the Piscataway people, joined by the Nacotchtank and the Pamunkey tribes and, of course, their descendants,” she said.

Hartig went on to give respect and gratitude “to all of them for the opportunity to work and to live in their territories.”

“It’s not their territories anymore,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray says on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”

“The peoples don’t own this land. In fact, their own ideology was that nobody can own land, right? So, it’s not theirs,” he adds.

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Turns out Supergirl is faster than a speeding bullet.

One of the summer’s biggest flops is heading to home video — already.

‘I said it last night, but I’ll say it again. Man I’m so tired of this f**king president.’

“Supergirl,” the latest Hollywood clunker, will be available via VOD platforms starting July 28. The movie earned tepid reviews and gave YouTube channels endless content. The film also recalled Jay Sherman’s signature catchphrase from TV’s “The Critic”: “It stinks.”

The film barely crossed the $70 million mark domestically and will cost Warner Bros. more than $100 million in the final tally.

Star Milly Alcock did her best Rachel Zegler imitation during the publicity for the film. But nothing could save a movie with a lousy script and an unlikely heroine.

Somewhere, original Supergirl Helen Slater is smiling into her mug of Joe.

Jam bland

Dave Matthews wants in on that sweet, sweet Springsteen action. And by “action,” we mean lecturing concert-goers with anti-Trump screeds. The Boss has spent the last few months hectoring fans who paid huge sums to attend the singer’s current tour.

Some blue-collar hero.

Now, it’s Matthews’ turn. He’s using his stage time to tell fans what he thinks about President Donald Trump.

“I said it last night, but I’ll say it again. Man, I’m so tired of this f**king president.”

That’s not the only thing that’s exhausting lately.

RELATED: ‘Supergirl’ has disastrous opening after star declares character ‘doesn’t live inside the binary’

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Party line

Jimmy Fallon makes a mediocre Johnny Carson but a fine useful idiot.

“The Tonight Show” host has a habit of laundering Democrat talking points over the years. He covered up President Joe Biden’s decline, allowed Mike Bloomberg to use his NBC perch as a political ad, and hasn’t said much about the DSA politicians conquering the Democratic Party.

He’s useful to all the wrong people.

This week, he let actor/author John Leguizamo pitch his new children’s book to the masses. Left unsaid? The book extols the virtues of Greta Thunberg and multiple communists, including Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Diego Rivera, and artist Frida Kahlo.

What’s next, a Hugo Chavez pop-up book? Just know Fallon will be first in line to promote it.

Joy ride

Joy Behar doesn’t remotely look her age. She’s 83. She still sounds like an old crank who sees conspiracies wherever she goes.

That may (may?) explain her newest anti-Trump rant. And, to her credit, it’s an original.

A stark raving mad original, to be exact. Behar used her “View” perch (which is totally a news program!) to suggest that the Saudis bought off President Donald Trump to make a nuclear bomb.

And said bomb might go off over Cleveland. What about the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?

“… he’s making a deal with the Saudi Arabians that will allow them to produce a nuclear weapon.”

Uh, no.

“Then we’ll go to war with the 9/11 group. The Saudis were behind 9/11 and — and — are they waiting for him to drop a nuke on Cleveland? … Now I’m scared. See, I grew up hiding under the desk.”

It’s amazing her fellow “View” hosts aren’t hiding somewhere, anywhere, when she starts yapping.

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Still the Captain

William Shatner is a legend. Full stop.

The 95-year-old’s “Star Trek” career sealed that deal. Add the eclectic music, a killer role on “Boston Legal,” and his endlessly joyful Twitter posts, and his legendary status is secure. Did we mention he has a running feud with far-left “Star Trek” alum George Takei?

Now, we’re learning he beat back stage-four cancer and helped his adult daughter do the same. The Shatners shared their remarkable story with People magazine.

Live long and prosper, indeed!

Swinging on a star

If you thought swinging from rooftops was hard, wait until you hear what actor Tom Holland must do next.

The “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” star goes from the MCU to classic Hollywood with the upcoming Fred Astaire biopic. And he won’t be using stunt doubles or AI to re-create Astaire’s signature elegance.

“I did my first few rehearsals recently. And it both filled me with excitement and absolute dread because I’ve got so much work to do to try and do Fred proud.”

Good luck, Peter Parker. You’re gonna need it.

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Actor Alan Ritchson unleashed an irrational tirade against people supposedly keeping the Epstein files hidden and even makes accusations against President Donald Trump.

The star of “Reacher” suggested the president and others are hiding damaging information from the Epstein files during an interview on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast released Thursday.

‘Move out of the way. Give me the f**king manila envelope. … I will get you the Epstein files.’

“People, I think, are a little bit afraid of me because they’re like, ‘He’s a loose cannon.’ And I’m not. I’m just saying the s**t that everybody should say if they give a s**t about humanity,” the actor said to Josh Horowitz.

He was especially incensed about the Epstein files.

“The Epstein files. The f**king Epstein files! Goddamn it! Where are they?! It’s a f**king law, bitch! Show it, you f**king pedophiles,” Ritchson ranted.

He went on to say that he shouldn’t drop F-bombs as a believing Christian — and then continued to drop F-bombs.

“I would f**king railroad these f**kers. I would get those Epstein files out in two seconds. Yeah dude, two seconds, f**king move out of the way. … Give me the f***king manila envelope. I will get you the Epstein files,” he added.

He finished up by referring to the president as a “bitch” and seemingly accused him of sexualizing young girls.

“Don’t you want to see what’s in there so that we can hold people accountable?! These f**king rapists! We’re just cool with it?” he added. “That bitch has the keys to the nuclear codes. He’s, like, all up into 13-year-olds. Like, dude, what? Go to jail. Go to jail.”

Video of Ritchson’s comments was circulated on social media. The entire episode can be viewed on YouTube.

RELATED: ‘Trump is a rapist and a con man’: Actor Alan Ritchson insults Trump, calls Christians ‘vitriolic tribe’

He went on to say that he would give a “backhand” to members of Congress who support the low minimum wage for a mother working at Waffle House.

Blaze News reached out to the Dept. of Justice and the White House for comment about the actor’s accusations.

Ritchson was promoting his new movie, “Motor City,” but he should probably not count on MAGA supporters watching after that rant.

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Former first lady Michelle Obama recently told SXSW London that imposter syndrome is something she sees in women, minorities, and people who don’t think they’re supposed to be in positions of power — but not in white men.

And BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock couldn’t disagree more.

“To have sat at every powerful table there is, I have seen it all. Every table. I’ve been at it … it’s not all that. Because there’s so many people like me, like you, women, minorities, folks who aren’t supposed to be at these tables because they are sitting around thinking that they are imposters,” Obama said.

“You know, imposter syndrome. … I haven’t met one [white man] who has felt it,” she added.

“Obama is describing something real. That ache is real. She just got the diagnosis wrong because imposter syndrome is not a white problem, and it is not a black problem. It’s a God problem,” Whitlock says.

He describes imposter syndrome as the “fear men and women carry when they wear their resume as armor rather than the armor of God.”

“The only people who feel like frauds are the people who forgot whose they are,” he explains.

“The world looks at that feeling and prescribes more affirmation, more representation, more DEI. We’ll fix the fear of not belonging by putting more people in the room. And it never works. The ache gets worse,” he adds.

Unlike Obama, Whitlock believes that imposter syndrome isn’t defined by the color of your skin.

“Only imposters have imposter syndrome. And I’m not saying that about black people. I’m saying it about secular people, about every person, any color, who built their identity on a foundation that can’t hold the weight,” he says.

The fear is that someone will recognize that you don’t belong in the seat you’re in, which comes from “believing your seat was given to you for a reason that has nothing to do with you.”

“And here’s where we have to be honest. We have to be honest about DEI and affirmative action because this is the uncomfortable part. When you tell an entire generation you’re here to fill a quota, you’re here because of your skin, you’re here to make the numbers look right, you have manufactured imposter syndrome on an industrial scale,” Whitlock explains.

“Of course they feel like frauds,” he says, adding, “You told them they were.”

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A former teacher of the year from Mississippi has been arrested on charges of child sex crimes, according to authorities.

The Sun Herald reported that Olivia Marie Smith was arrested and charged with sexual battery and enticement of a child to meet for sexual purposes.

‘We want to reassure parents, students, and staff that we are addressing this matter with seriousness and diligence.’

Anyone convicted of sexual battery in Mississippi faces up to 30 years in prison, according to the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network.

Mississippi state law notes that anyone convicted of enticement of a child to meet for sexual purposes faces a minimum prison sentence of two years and a 10-year maximum, plus a fine of up to $10,000.

Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Calvin Taylor set Smith’s bond at $100,000 during a probable cause hearing Thursday

Smith was an assistant principal at the Oak Park Elementary School at the time of her arrest, according to the Sun Herald. But SuperTalk Mississippi Media reported that Smith was a teacher at Ocean Springs Middle School at the time of the alleged child sex crimes. Both schools are part of the same district.

WLOX-TV reported that Smith won teacher of the year in 2022 when she was employed at Ocean Springs Middle School.

The Ocean Springs Police Department said it was alerted June 20 about accusations of a school staffer having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a student.

The Ocean Springs School District issued a statement to WLOX saying, “After being tipped off about potential inappropriate behavior taking place involving an employee, OSSD immediately notified OSPD and Mississippi Child Protective Services.”

The school district also conducted an internal investigation into the accusations.

The Sun Herald reported that police conducted an investigation and accused Smith of engaging in a sexual relationship with a student.

The Ocean Springs School District is fully cooperating with authorities in the investigation, police said.

The district said it fired Smith following an internal investigation.

Smith is not listed on the Oak Park Elementary School website or on the Ocean Springs Middle School site.

RELATED: Former first-grade teacher pleads guilty to sex crimes against teen student after she allegedly admitted affair to husband

The Ocean Springs School District said in the statement, “We are deeply saddened by charges announced today by the Ocean Springs Police Department against one of our former employees.”

“We understand the gravity of this situation and the concern it may raise in our community,” the school district said.

The statement continued, “We want to reassure parents, students, and staff that we are addressing this matter with seriousness and diligence. The safety of our students and staff members remains our highest priority.”

The school district said it “will not have any further comments on this matter.”

Neither the Ocean Springs Police Department nor the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office immediately responded to Blaze News‘ requests for comment.

Anyone with information about the case is urged to contact the Ocean Springs Police Department at 228-875-2211 or Mississippi Coast Crime Stoppers at 1-877-787-5898.

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Trouble likely awaits a budget resolution tied to the SAVE America Act as it heads to the stubborn upper chamber of Congress.

On Wednesday, the House passed a $95 billion budget resolution, 216-214, carrying with it important incentives for states to pass the SAVE America Act, alongside funding for Iran-related operations and farm aid.

‘It’s like the Senate is a place that you send things when you want them to die.’

The $95 billion package includes $73 billion for defense and intelligence funding, $12 billion for agricultural aid, and $10 billion in election-related funding for states, a key aspect of the SAVE America Act.

The bill itself is five primary issues: voter ID, proof of citizenship to register, an end to universal mail-in ballots, and bans on transgender athletes in women’s sports and transgender surgery for minors.

The SAVE America Act is now sitting with a Republican-controlled Senate that is in apparently no rush to deal with it.

Trump ramped up his pressure campaign against Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) at a Georgia rally Wednesday, urging supporters to flood Thune’s office with calls demanding action on passing the budget bill and, eventually, the SAVE America Act.

RELATED: House narrowly passes SAVE America Act as rider to trillion-dollar spending bill

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He credited Johnson and the House for doing their part, but blamed the Senate for the holdup: “It’s like the Senate is a place that you send things when you want them to die.”

“We’re not going to take this any longer. … I’m trying to be nice; I’m trying to be really nice,” Trump added.

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) also suggested on X that Thune should “step aside” if he won’t act.

Politico’s reporting from inside the GOP conference shows the resistance runs well past the three sitting holdouts — Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.).

A source familiar with the matter told Blaze News that Thune is prioritizing the continuing resolution to avoid another shutdown and that the budget resolution is in reserve.

Asked Wednesday how close he was to 50 votes, Thune said only, “Good question.”

By Thursday, he was blunter: “I can’t count to 50 right now on a budget resolution.”

Per Politico, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told reporters Wednesday he doesn’t expect Thune to take it up at all; Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) isn’t sure the votes exist in the first place; and newly named Budget Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said there has been no formal conversation yet.

Thune himself has asked colleagues, “Is the juice worth the squeeze?”

Reconciliation needs only a simple majority, as opposed to the 60-vote threshold for passing bills into law. Even so, the bill has failed twice — once in April and again in June — with Collins, Murkowski, Tillis, and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) voting no alongside every Democrat both times.

RELATED: New Jersey’s noncitizen voter blame game doesn’t add up — literally

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Earlier this month, Speaker Johnson called the package “our best shot” at 50 votes plus Vice President JD Vance as the tiebreaker. For now, McConnell’s indefinite absence drops the vote count to 99, meaning Republicans need a plain majority. One holdout flipping to yes still passes it outright, while an abstention reopens a possible 49-49 tie, putting Vance’s tiebreaker back in play.

Only if all three hold firm does the package fail.

Asked directly at Tuesday’s weekly Senate GOP leadership press conference whether the House’s reconciliation push is more than an academic exercise, Thune demurred: “We’ll see … what they get done this week and what it all consists of.”

He confirmed the Senate would “hold” any budget resolution the House sends over — but specifically as a fallback to fund the government, not to advance the SAVE America Act.

“I hope that’s not necessary,” he said, noting he’s already having “productive conversations” with Democrats on a separate funding deal to carry the government past the November election.

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President Donald Trump is bullish on American technology and keen to see America dominate the “global race for AI.” He has, accordingly, become a champion of artificial intelligence data centers and has even tasked his administration with using federally owned land and resources to help develop them.

Trump emphasized during an event on Thursday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in the national capital that opposition to the erection of data centers across the country is futile — but that consumers should not fear having to shoulder the burden of supporting such inevitable facilities.

‘You have to go with it.’

In his State of the Union address in February, the president acknowledged that many Americans are “concerned that energy demand from AI data centers could unfairly drive up their electric utility bills.”

Recent polls show that Americans largely oppose data centers. A Gallup poll conducted in March found that 71% of Americans somewhat or strongly oppose the construction of an AI data center in their area. A survey conducted this month by Public First found that 41% of respondents oppose building a data center within three miles of their homes, up from 28% in January, and only 24% of respondents support such an initiative, down from 37% at the beginning of the year.

To assuage such concerns, Trump announced in his SOTU speech that the negotiation of the “Rate Payer Protection Pledge,” which has companies agree to: spare consumers from price hikes by building, bringing, or buying new power supply; paying for new power delivery infrastructure upgrades; paying special rates “whether they use the electricity or not”; and investing local job creation.

Within days of the announcement, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI signed the nonbinding pledge.

On Thursday, Trump revealed that the pledge now has among its signatories 23 governors, various state legislators, numerous electricity providers, and data center developers.

RELATED: The path to America-first AI

The three Republican governors who did not sign the pledge were Phil Scott of Vermont, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, and Ron DeSantis of Florida. DeSantis ratified legislation in May to ensure that “local governments maintain the authority to reject data center development in their communities” and to protect Florida’s water resources from data center consumption.

According to the White House, the pledge “now covers 80% of all power delivered to U.S. homes and businesses and protects 263 million Americans when a data center is built nearby.”

After suggesting that adherence to the pledge and the construction of additional infrastructure to support the incoming data centers would actually drive down utility rates, Trump stressed that “America’s goal must be to dominate the future, and that includes being the number one superpower in artificial intelligence.”

“Whoever wins that race is probably going to win, period,” he added.

Trump suggested that foreign “propaganda” might be partly to blame for those “communists” and others now opposed to having data centers in their back yards. According to the president, communities desirous of data centers “are the smart communities because it means tremendous numbers of jobs, very little actual disruption.”

“You have to convince your community how great these things — you can’t fight it. You have to go with it,” said Trump.

“If you don’t have it, everybody else wants it.”

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