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Kash Patel has dropped a bombshell that, if true, would prove a lot of Americans who questioned the results of the 2020 election right.

The FBI director turned over an intelligence report to Congress that exposes an alleged Chinese campaign to mess with the election results through the creation of thousands of fake U.S. driver’s licenses.

A confidential source alleged those driver’s licenses were to be used by the Chinese for thousands of mail-in votes to sway the election in Biden’s direction.

Of course, the mainstream media is largely ignoring the development.

“We were called domestic terrorists, by the way, when we questioned the 2020 election,” BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler comments. “So they cannot in good faith now report anything associated with any kind of meddling that happened in the 2020 election, or else it makes them domestic terrorists per their own definition.”

According to Just the News, the “newly declassified intelligence reports from August 2020 were not corroborated or fully investigated and instead were recalled from intelligence agencies at about the time that then-FBI Director Christopher Wray testified that there were no known plots of foreign interference ahead of the 2020 election.”

“We have an intelligence report, meaning a report put together by intelligence officials, and this was before the 2020 election, that said that China was producing driver’s licenses in order to take votes, and yet, this was not fully investigated,” Wheeler comments.

“What the heck? Why was this not fully investigated?” she asks, adding, “Probably, the reason is ideology, right? The people inside the intel community didn’t want to investigate this because they were in the tank for Joe Biden.”

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The Department of Health and Human Services, currently led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wants California to stop teaching children that some men are “born with female anatomy” and some women are “born with male anatomy.”

The Administration for Children and Families under HHS sent a letter to the state of California requiring the state to remove gender ideology references from curricula, program material, and teacher advisories under the Personal Responsibility Education Program.

‘It’s a all a lie and can lead to irreversible medical harm against children.’

In its letter, the ACF pointed to specific, disturbing references intended for California middle school and high school students.

One of the lessons targeted for removal included the following words, “We’ve been talking during class about messages people get on how they should act as boys and girls — but as many of you know, there are also people who don’t identify as boys or girls, but rather as transgender or gender queer.”

Another entry in a teacher’s guide, cited by HHS, stated, “An adjective used to describe a person whose gender identity is congruent (or ‘matches’) the biological sex they were assigned at birth is ‘cisgender.’ Other gender identities may include non-binary, agender, bigender, genderfluid, and genderqueer.”

The guidance did not stop there and arguably got worse when it was meant for teens.

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In the lesson titled “Teen Talk High School,” teachers are told to “remind students that some men are born with female anatomy, some women are born with male anatomy.”

The letter also states that gender identity is “essentially a social status defined by a community’s expectations for behavior.”

It additionally advises on the terms “genderqueer, gender non-conforming, and gender expansive” as being terms used to describe the “experience of being non-binary.”

The ACF claimed that the educational materials promote gender ideology and stated it must be removed because it has “nothing to do with” PREP’s prescribed purview.

January Littlejohn, a senior fellow at child advocacy group Do No Harm, told Blaze News that these lesson plans are the standard “gender pseudoscience” that has been taught to children for years without parents being aware.

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“It’s a all a lie and can lead to irreversible medical harm against children,” Littlejohn told Blaze News.

She continued, “This move by HHS is a critical step to getting this out of our school systems, which are ground zero. Telling children they can be born in the wrong body destabilizes their identity and risks having them become lifelong medical patients.”

Alleigh Marre, executive director of the American Parents Coalition, said in a statement to Blaze News that gender ideology should “never [have] had a place” in school curriculum at all.

“Education should be focused on real-world challenges, academic learning, and developing interpersonal skills. Anything outside of that is a distraction,” Marre added.

California has been ordered to remove all gender ideology references from its PREP materials within 60 days and return a copy to the ACF for its approval.

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More than six years after a Jewish American was killed in a politically motivated attack in the West Bank, the Supreme Court has finally opened up a pathway for his family to seek justice in the U.S.

On Friday, the Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision that upheld a 2019 law meant to combat terrorism and to allow victims to take legal action against two Palestinian groups, the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, according to the Wall Street Journal.

‘Congress and the President made a considered judgment to subject the PLO and PA to liability in U.S. courts as part of a comprehensive legal response to “halt, deter, and disrupt” acts of international terrorism that threaten the life and limb of American citizens.’

This law, the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act, “deems the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority — if they engage in specified conduct — to have consented to personal jurisdiction in civil suits brought in the United States under the Antiterrorism Act,” the opinion stated.

The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that this act does not violate the Due Process clause of the Fifth Amendment for these groups. To state this positively, the case rules that these Palestinian organizations do consent to personal jurisdiction in civil suits brought in the United States.

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Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, emphasized that the intent of the law is aligned with the government’s broader foreign policy agenda to combat terrorism and to protect American citizens: “In respectively passing and signing the PSJVTA into law, Congress and the President made a considered judgment to subject the PLO and PA to liability in U.S. courts as part of a comprehensive legal response to ‘halt, deter, and disrupt’ acts of international terrorism that threaten the life and limb of American citizens.”

The decision overturns the 2022 opinion of a lower court by U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan, who previously deemed the PSJVTA to be unconstitutional and dismissed the case brought on behalf of Ari Fuld, according to a 2022 article by Reuters.

This prior case was brought against the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority by members of Ari Fuld’s family. Fuld was fatally stabbed in 2018 in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. While Furman described the case for justice for Ari Fuld as “morally compelling,” he nevertheless dismissed the case on the grounds that the 2019 law was unconstitutional.

This most recent decision is a major step forward for these families to hold these organizations accountable for American victims of terror in the Middle East.

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The Trump administration was dealt a defeat in court Friday after a federal judge ordered the release of anti-Israel Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.

Khalil’s presence in the U.S. had been determined to have an “adverse foreign policy consequence” by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, based on his links to violent protests at Columbia University against Israel and Jewish students attending the school.

He had led activities ‘aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization,’ and his deportation was ‘in support of President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism.’

U.S. District Court Judge Michael Farbiarz for New Jersey had previously disagreed with that assessment, and in Friday’s decision, he said Khalil needed to be released from detention at a Louisiana jail.

Khalil’s attorneys and defenders have accused the Trump administration of improperly cracking down on free speech in their actions against the pro-Palestinian protester.

A memo from Rubio said that Khalil should be deported because of his “antisemitic protests and disruptive activities,” which had fostered a “hostile environment for Jewish students in the United States.”

The Trump administration has also argued that Khalil lied in his application for a green card, but he has denied those allegations.

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Attorneys for Khalil argued that he faced torture and even death if he were deported from the U.S.

After Khalil’s detention in March, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said that he had led activities “aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization,” and his deportation was “in support of President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism.”

Farbiarz was nominated to the court by former President Joe Biden in 2023.

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The effect of artificial intelligence language models on the brain was studied by MIT by comparing the brain waves of different participants in an essay-writing contest. For those that relied on AI to write their content, the effects on their brains were devastating.

The study, led by Nataliya Kosmyna, separated 54 volunteers (ages 18-39) into three groups: a group that used ChatGPT to write the essays, a second group that relied on Google Search, and a third group that wrote the essays with no digital tools or search engine at all.

Brain activity was tracked for all groups, showcasing mortifying results for those who had to rely on the AI model in order to complete their task.

‘Made the use of AI in the writing process rather obvious.’

For starters, the ChatGPT users displayed the lowest level of brain stimulation of the groups and, as noted by tech writer Alex Vacca, brain scans revealed that neural connections dropped from 79 to just 42.

“That’s a 47% reduction in brain connectivity,” Vacca wrote on X.

The Financial Express pointed out that toward the end of the task, several participants had resorted to simply copying and pasting what they got from ChatGPT, making barely any changes.

The use of ChatGPT appeared to drastically lower the memory recall of participants as well.

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Over 83% of the ChatGPT users “struggled to quote anything from their essays,” while for the other groups, that number was about 11%.

According to the study, English teachers who reviewed the essays found the AI-backed writing “soulless,” lacking “uniqueness,” and easy to identify.

“These, often lengthy, essays included standard ideas, reoccurring typical formulations and statements, which made the use of AI in the writing process rather obvious,” the study said.

The group that received no assistance in research or writing exhibited the highest reported levels of mental activity, particularly in the part of the brain associated with creativity.

Google Search users were better off than the ChatGPT group, as the search for the information was far more stimulating to the brain than it was to simply ask ChatGPT a question.

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Blaze Media’s James Poulos said that while some producers and consumers of AI considered it a good thing to increase human dependency on machines for everyday thinking, “the core problem most Americans face is the same default toward convenience and ease that leads us to seek ‘easy’ or ‘convenient’ substitutes in all areas of life for our own initiative, hard work, and discipline.”

Ironically, Poulos explained, this can quickly lead to overcomplicating our lives where they ought to be straightforward by default.

“The bizarre temptation is getting stronger to build Rube Goldberg machines to perform simple tasks,” Poulos added. “We’re pressured to think enabling our laziness is the only way we can create value and economic growth in the digital age. But one day, we wake up to find that helplessness doesn’t feel so luxurious anymore.”

In summary, the “brain‑only group” exhibited the strongest, widest‑ranging neural networks of the three sets of volunteers.

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The Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, ruled that several key provisions in the “big, beautiful bill” violate the Byrd Rule, potentially setting the stage for the provisions to be removed altogether.

In order to avoid a filibuster and pass the bill under a simple majority, the legislation needs to be compliant with the Byrd Rule, which prevents “extraneous” provisions from being included in reconciliation. The “extraneous” provisions MacDonough ruled against include key climate and financial provisions.

Although these rulings can be contentious, they are not set in stone.

One provision the parliamentarian ruled against came from the Senate Banking Committee’s reconciliation text, which would have cut $6.4 billion in funding from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She also ruled against cutting $1.4 billion by reducing the wages for Federal Reserve staff, cutting $293 million from the Office of Financial Research, and cutting $771 million by abolishing the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

MacDonough also ruled against a provision that would repeal green energy subsidies authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act, as well as certain tailpipe emission standards put forth by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Although these rulings can be contentious, they are not set in stone. James Wallner, vice president of policy at the Foundation for American Innovation, told Blaze News that the parliamentarian’s rulings are based on precedent and provide an advisory role subject to the chair.

“There’s how it works on paper, and then how it works in practice,” Wallner said. “The parliamentarian is just a staffer. So we have a parliamentarian because you have all these different procedural authorities and Senate rules. The Senate rules, though, are very vague, and they are many pages long.”

“So you have all these rules, but oftentimes what happens is the rule isn’t very explicit, and there are ambiguities,” Wallner added. “So when there are ambiguities, the parliamentarian will advise the Senate. At least in theory.”

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Wallner said the parliamentarian works alongside both majority and minority committee staff to identify provisions that violate the Byrd Rule. Once the parliamentarian issues a ruling, a senator has to raise a point of order on the floor about the Byrd violations. The parliamentarian then advises the chair, who ultimately makes the final decision as to whether the provision in question is a violation.

Although MacDonough ultimately serves in an advisory capacity, Wallner told Blaze News that senators often like to point the finger at the parliamentarian.

“Senators talk about her as if she’s the only one who decides,” Wallner said. “But it’s a very convenient way for them to kind of pass the buck and act like they’re not in charge. The parliamentarian has no power to actually issue it authoritatively.”

“It can be adversarial, but it’s through that adversarial process that you really get a robust discussion of these provisions,” Wallner added.

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Republican Rep. Max Miller of Ohio described on social media an alleged death threat against him and his family that he claimed was made by a man waving a Palestinian flag.

Miller, who is Jewish as well as a U.S. Marine veteran, posted a video describing the incident where an anti-Israel man tried to get his attention as he was driving and then ran him off the road.

‘Some unhinged, deranged man decided to lay on his horn and run me off the road when he couldn’t get my attention to show me a Palestinian flag.’

“Let’s make something abundantly clear to anyone who needs to see this, which apparently, is a lot of people,” said Miller.

“If you have an issue with a legislator, your city councilman, your mayor, anyone like that, the appropriate thing to do is to reach out to them for a phone call to set up a meeting at one of our district offices. What is not OK is to assault anyone, whether you’re a member of Congress or anybody else within our district, while you are driving to work,” he added.

“This morning as I was driving to work, some unhinged, deranged man decided to lay on his horn and run me off the road when he couldn’t get my attention to show me a Palestinian flag,” Miller said, “not to mention, ‘Death to Israel,’ death to me, that he wanted to kill me and my family!”

He went on to thank God that no one else was in the vehicle to experience the incident, including his daughter.

“We know exactly who you are. I have gone about my day. I have carried on my meetings. And we will not hide, and I will continue to fight against anti-Semitism, islamophobia, and all other forms of hate,” Miller added.

In the post, he said that he had filed a report with the U.S. Capitol Police as well as local law enforcement.

“We know who this person is and he will face justice,” he wrote.

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The leadership of House Democrats issued a joint statement to condemn the alleged attack.

“We condemn in the strongest possible terms the attack on Congressman Max Miller and his family and are thankful they are safe,” the statement read. “The rise in political violence in this country is unacceptable. This is a moment of crisis that requires Congress to act decisively in order to ensure the safety of every single member who serves in the People’s House.”

The reported incident is especially concerning only a week after two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses were brutally attacked at their homes by a man dressed up like a police officer. One lawmaker and his wife were killed, while the other couple narrowly survived.

The suspect has since been captured, and much of the evidence in the case points to a political motivation for the attacks.

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to make inroads with the food industry, meeting up with Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol earlier this week.

On Wednesday, Kennedy hosted Niccol in D.C., where the two men discussed the options at Starbucks. According to Kennedy, Niccol pledged “to further MAHA its menu.”

‘Our diverse menu of high-quality foods and beverages empower[s] customers to make informed nutritional decisions.’

Kennedy also congratulated the coffee giant for offering so many items featuring natural ingredients. “I was pleased to learn that Starbucks’ food and beverages already avoid artificial dyes, artificial flavors, high-fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, and other additives,” he said in an X post on Wednesday.

A representative from Starbucks confirmed to several outlets that Niccol and Kennedy had a productive meeting.

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“Our diverse menu of high-quality foods and beverages empower[s] customers to make informed nutritional decisions, with transparency on ingredients, calories, and more. Plus, we keep it real — no high-fructose corn syrup, artificial dyes, flavors, or artificial trans fats,” the company said in a statement, according to Fox Business.

Kennedy has been on a tear lately, railing against the harmful effects of artificial food and beverage additives, especially artificial colorings. In April, his department and the Food and Drug Administration revealed a plan to phase out all petroleum-based synthetic dyes from America’s food supply.

Starbucks has also announced several health-related changes in the last year. In November, the company decided to end the practice of charging extra for non-dairy milk. Then two months later, it began permitting customers to adjust the sweetness level in their matcha beverages.

Earlier this month, Starbucks revealed that a protein cold foam was undergoing testing and could soon be available. Niccol claimed he was inspired with the idea after watching Starbucks patrons adding protein powder to their purchases.

“I’m like, well, wait a second, we can make this experience better for them,” he recalled, according to Axios.

Niccol told the outlet that the protein cold foam is not “years away” but “months away.”

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The “one big, beautiful bill” received a draft proposal last week from the Republican Utah Senator Mike Lee-led Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which would mandate the sale of between 2.2 million and 3.3 million acres of public land owned by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service in the American West.

While Lee has framed the proposal as a means to increase affordable housing, critics claim it would do little to aid in the housing crisis and instead would just bar the public from beautiful land they now still can enjoy.

Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck doesn’t share their critique.

“What we mean by ‘affordable housing’ is if you take a look at the percentage of land that is owned in some of these states, you can’t live in a house in some of these states, close to anything, for less than a million dollars. Because there’s no land,” Glenn explains on “The Glenn Beck Program.”

“Can we just look at the perspective here? The federal government owns 640 million acres. That is nearly 28% of all land in America. How much land do we have? Well, that’s about the size of France, Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom combined,” he continues.

“They own and hold pristine land that is more than the size of those countries combined, and most of that is west of the Mississippi, where the federal control smothers the states, shuts down opportunity, and turns local citizens into tenants of the federal estate,” he adds.

With less land available for citizens, there are higher prices and less state taxes paid on land.

“We’re not talking about selling Yellowstone or paving over Yosemite or anything like that. We’re talking about less than one-half of one percent of federal land that is remote, hard to access, or mismanaged,” Glenn says.

“This is really important,” he continues. “The federal government is, what, $35 trillion in debt, or are we $45 trillion now? I’m not sure. Our entitlement programs are all strained, infrastructure crumbling, and yet we’re still clinging to millions of acres of land that the federal government can’t maintain.”

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A Marquette Law School poll published late last month revealed that 63% of Americans hold an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party. Polling by the Economist and YouGov indicated that the disapproval rating for the party as a whole was 58.3% as of May 25.

Democratic lawmakers evidenced their commitment to driving up these numbers and alienating the majority of normal Americans with their hysterical response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Wednesday 6-3 ruling in United States v. Skrmetti, which upheld Tennessee’s ban on sex-change genital mutilations and sterilizing puberty blockers for minors.

Not only is Tennessee’s Senate Bill 1 lawful, as confirmed by the high court, but such laws reflect the sensibilities of the vast majority of Americans.

A Washington Post-KFF poll found in 2023 that 57% of Americans say gender is biologically determined; 68% oppose the use of puberty blockers by children; and 58% oppose hormonal treatments for teens.

Polling conducted ahead of the 2024 election by NORC at the University of Chicago for the Los Angeles Times found that 54% of Americans favor laws to prevent minors from receiving sex-change drugs or surgeries.

A Center Square Voter’s Choice Poll revealed last month that only 29% of voters think doctors should be allowed to prescribe puberty blockers to kids with parental consent. Forty-seven percent of respondents said puberty blockers should not be prescribed to minors under any circumstances.

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Democrats appear to be fully aware of the American public’s majoritive revulsion over the mutilation and sterilization of confused children.

In the immediate aftermath of the 2024 election and just prior to stepping down as Texas Democratic Party chairman, Gilberto Hinojosa emphasized to Democrats that their messaging was not resonating with everyday Americans.

‘Hate won.’

“You have a choice as a party,” said Hinojosa. “You can support transgender rights up and down all the categories where the issue comes up, or you can understand that there’s certain things that we just go too far on, that a big bulk of our population does not support.”

An American Principles Project poll looking at the impact of campaign ads on various transvestite-related issues in the 2024 election found that 52% of voters who were made aware of failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ support for sex changes for minors were more likely to vote for President Donald Trump.

APP president Terry Schilling concluded, “There should be no question now that Democrats’ gender insanity is a massive political vulnerability for them that Republicans should continue to exploit.”

Schilling then urged Republicans “not to forget the main lesson from the election and to keep the pressure on Democrats for as long as they continue to defend their extreme agenda.”

Despite the unpopularity of gender ideology, the collapse of its core narratives, and the growing list of victims now speaking out about their mutilation, Democrats are leaning into their support for gender ideology, particularly for child sex-change mutilations.

“Hate won,” complained Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), one of the Democrats who begged the Supreme Court in an amicus brief last year to strike the Tennessee law. “The far-right justices of the Supreme Court endorsed hate and discrimination by delivering a win for Republicans who have relentlessly and cruelly attacked transgender Americans for years.”

‘The fight isn’t over.’

Other Democrats followed a similar script.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), whose approval rating according to a recent Harvard-Harris poll was 26%, said in response to the high court’s ruling in Skrmetti, “Republicans’ cruel crusade against trans kids is all an attempt to divert attention from ripping healthcare away from millions of Americans. We’ll keep fighting and we’ll keep marching on.”

“Today the Supreme Court chose to cast transgender children in the shadows, deciding they are not entitled to the protections of the Equal Protection Clause,” wrote Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.). “By upholding Tennessee’s ban on medical care for transgender children the Court has legitimized discriminatory treatment of children.”

Booker suggested further that the protection of children in over 24 states from irreversible sex-change procedures is not only a “violation of the constitutional protections every child is entitled to” but puts kids “in danger.”

Rep. Sarah McBride (Del.), the cross-dressing Democrat formerly known as Tim McBride, claimed that the ruling in Skrmetti “undermines doctors in delivering care to some of the most vulnerable patients in our country.”

“As the proud grandma of a young trans man, I know that gender-affirming care can help trans youth live openly and authentically,” wrote Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.). “The fight isn’t over.”

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Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, one of the Democratic lawmakers who has received a fortune in donations from the pharmaceutical industry, stated, “Trans kids suffer when they don’t get medically-necessary care. This is a brazen political decision by the Supreme Court.”

Contrary to Warren’s suggestion, so-called “gender-affirming care” does not ameliorate confused kids’ suffering. Rather, it makes matters a whole lot worse.

‘Protecting children from making permanent, life-altering decisions about their bodies should be a bipartisan issue.’

Britain’s National Health Service in 2020 appointed Dr. Hilary Cass, a British medical doctor who previously served as president of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, to lead an independent investigation into the efficacy of sex-change procedures on minors.

Blaze News previously reported that Cass’ 388-page multi-year report revealed that:

the “systematic review showed no clear evidence that social transition in childhood has any positive or negative mental health outcomes, and relatively weak evidence for any effect in adolescence”; puberty blockers compromise bone density and have no apparent impact on “gender dysphoria or body satisfaction”; there is “insufficient and/or inconsistent evidence about the effects of puberty suppression on gender dysphoria, mental and psychosocial health, cognitive development, cardio-metabolic risk, and fertility”;there is “a lack of high-quality research assessing the outcomes of hormones for masculinisation or feminisation in adolescents with gender dysphoria or incongruence and few studies that undertake long-term follow-up”; and so-called gender-affirming care is “an area of remarkably weak evidence.”

Prior to the release of the Cass Review, a peer-reviewed study in the esteemed quarterly journal BMJ Mental Health revealed that “medical gender reassignment does not have an impact on suicide risk.”

Journalist Mia Hughes revealed in a report published last year by Michael Shellenberger’s think tank, Environmental Progress, that prominent members of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health — the organization that literally wrote the book on “transgender” care — have themselves raised issues with the drugs and procedures that Markey, Schumer, Booker, McBride, Schakowsky, Warren, and other Democrats are desperate to protect.

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WPATH members quoted in Hughes’ report discussed the inability of minors to comprehend the long-term consequences of sex-change procedures, the debilitating side effects of such procedures, and problems with obtaining informed consent.

RELATED: ‘Neither scientific nor medical’: Leaked WPATH files shed light on the horror show that is ‘gender-affirming care’

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Alleigh Marre, executive director of the American Parents Coalition, said in a statement obtained by Blaze News, “Sadly, many on the left have been captured by radical gender activists and appear determined to allow children to be the subject of irreversible and experimental gender interventions.”

“Protecting children from making permanent, life-altering decisions about their bodies should be a bipartisan issue,” continued Marre. “This ruling establishes important precedent in states seeking to end or regulate gender practices for minors, which have unfortunately become increasingly easy to obtain.”

“Democratic leaders would do well to recognize that the Skrmetti decision is not a judgment against any group, but a vital affirmation of common sense, parental rights, and biological reality,” Kelsey Reinhardt, president of CatholicVote, told Blaze News. “These are principles that the American people have consistently supported.”

The Republican National Committee noted on X, “Democrats want taxpayers to fund sex changes for MINORS! SICK!”

Attorney General Pam Bondi applauded the SCOTUS decision, encouraging “other states to follow Tennessee’s lead and enact similar legislation to protect our kids.” Tennessee is one of the 25 Republican states that have laws on the books protecting children from sex-change procedures.

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The New York City Police Department’s hate crimes unit is having a tough time investigating threats against Zohran Mamdani, a candidate for mayor in New York City.

According to Mamdani’s office, he has received four voicemails in the last few months that have hurled threats of violence including against his family and home.

Most recently, Mamdani’s office told the New York Post he had received a car-bomb threat, but it turns out the candidate does not even own a car.

‘We can condemn threats without ignoring the harm his words have caused.’

“You’re a terrorist piece of s**t, and you’re not welcome in New York or in America, neither is your f**king family so they should get the f**k out,” the voicemail said, according to the Post. “Go start your car and see what happens. I’d keep an eye on your house and family. Watch your f**king back every f**king second until you get the f**k out of America.”

At the same time, Mamdani’s campaign told the Post, “While Zohran does not own a car, the violent and specific language of what appears to be a repeat caller is alarming, and we are taking every precaution.”

While he did not post the latest message online, Mamdani has posted other voicemails on his X page in the past, which included threats to varying degrees.

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In an X post in March, Mamdani blamed the right wing for a threatening message he received where the caller said he was going to have the candidate “wash his European feet.”

The caller also called Mamdani a “terrorist” and a “pedophile.”

Also on X, Mamdani posted a voicemail in November 2023 that called for the death of “all Muslim men, women, children, hamsters, birds, dogs, [and] cats.”

The June threats came just a day after Mamdani struggled to answer questions about criticism he received from Jews — including the U.S. Holocaust Museum — about supporting the phrase “globalize the intifada.”

Mamdani took questions from reporters on Thursday and stumbled through a response for about 20 seconds before saying he would do his best as mayor to eliminate anti-Semitism in New York City.

“As mayor, I will protect Jewish New Yorkers,” Mamdani said.

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New York reporter Oren Levy told Blaze News that while it is “absolutely unacceptable” for anyone to threaten violence against any politicians, including Mamdani, the candidate does not get a pass on his remarks.

“This doesn’t excuse the fact that Mamdani has used language that is deeply offensive to the Jewish community. Instead of owning up to it, he’s twisting the truth and playing the victim. We can condemn threats without ignoring the harm his words have caused,” the reporter said.

Police told the New York Post that the threatening calls were made from untraceable numbers and that “no arrests” have happened. An investigation by the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force is on going, however.

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The United States invented GPS. But under Joe Biden, we ceded our leadership in critical technologies to China — and opened the door to disaster. With President Trump back in charge, we have a chance to correct course and secure the future of our economy and national defense.

GPS powers everything. From military operations to farmers in the field, from ATMs to Amazon delivery, satellite-based positioning underpins modern life. But the system has one glaring weakness: no backup. One solar flare, one jammed signal, one cyberattack could knock it out — and take everything with it. Microseconds of disruption could halt supply chains, stall air traffic, and put American lives at risk.

In his first term, Trump leapfrogged China in 5G development. Now we must do it again — with GPS.

The Chinese Communist Party knows it.

While Washington slept, China built a terrestrial backup to GPS — an old-school solution using low-frequency signals and bulky infrastructure, rooted in World War II-era tech. It’s not flashy. But it’s functional. And today, it gives Beijing an edge.

America now faces a choice: Copy China’s playbook — or leap ahead.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr (R) laid out the stakes in a recent Fox News interview with Maria Bartiromo. “During the Biden years, we fell deeply behind China,” Carr said. “The good news is we have the playbook. President Trump came in his first term and said we must lead the world in 5G. We did exactly that. … This Trump administration is going to step up again.”

Carr is right. We’ve seen this before. In his first term, Trump leapfrogged China in 5G development. Now we must do it again — with GPS.

That starts with backing a 5G-based backup for GPS. Unlike China’s clunky eLoran system, a 5G-based solution reflects American innovation. It uses ground-based infrastructure and existing networks to deliver a wide-scale, secure, and reliable alternative to GPS — without costing taxpayers a dime. Private industry could roll it out before the end of Trump’s term.

In other words: It’s shovel-ready, future-proof, and 100% Made in America.

Not everyone wants that. Some voices in the policy debate are pushing China’s model instead. And they’re not just misguided — they’re compromised.

As Breitbart recently reported, a coalition of anti-Trump interests and China-linked entities has tried to stall U.S. progress on GPS backup technology. One group, the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation, consistently attacks 5G solutions. Unsurprisingly, the group’s founding members include UrsaNav — the very firm that helped build China and Russia’s eLoran networks.

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These aren’t just competing policy proposals. They’re coordinated efforts to keep America vulnerable.

We didn’t win the Cold War by patching up the telegraph. We invented the internet. We didn’t defend our skies with rebuilt biplanes. We created stealth bombers and drones. The same principle applies here. This isn’t about replicating China’s last move. It’s about defining what comes next.

And we’ve already started.

Carr and the FCC have launched a formal proceeding to explore “positioning, navigation, and timing” alternatives. That builds on President Trump’s first-term legacy, when he signed bipartisan legislation to strengthen GPS resilience. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) called it “crucial to the national and economic security of the United States.”

That leadership set the standard. Now we must finish the job.

We face a clear choice. One path copies the Chinese Communist Party and locks us into outdated infrastructure. The other unleashes American ingenuity and secures our future through private-sector innovation and Trump-era vision.

Let’s not backtrack. Let’s build forward. Let’s lead again.

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The left’s radical Marxist pursuit of centralized power has manifested itself in many ways, but BlazeTV host Mark Levin of “LevinTV” believes that its latest appearance was at the Los Angeles riots, where Americans waved the flags of another country and lit their own city on fire.

“You see, the Democrat Party operatives, the Democrat Party, has more in common with the Marxists than they do with the founders. Hence, their people tearing down the symbols of America, hence their people attacking the principles of America,” Levin says.

And it’s not just Marxism but rather a combination of Marxism, Hegelianism, and Rousseau’s collectivism that have been combined over the course of history.

“They’ve taken these, the intellectuals have, and they’ve sort of re-imaged them and have Americanized them,” Levin explains. “This goes to an issue related to the word, the principle, the term ‘power.’”

“Power is about force. Power is about coercion. Power can be used in a positive way, and it can be used in a negative way,” he continues, “I want to now apply this to what’s going on in L.A. All these violent activities taking place, the burning of the American flag, the carrying of other flags and so forth.”

“The point is, if your goal is the centralization of power, if your goal is one party rule, if your goal is to have an iron-fisted control over society, and that is their goal,” he explains, “You don’t care if you change the citizenry. You don’t care if there’s violence for a period of time. You don’t care about any of these things.”

Former President Barack Obama called it a “fundamental transformation of America,” and Levin points out that that’s exactly what’s happening.

“These violent acts, these riotous acts, the attacks on Jews, the burning of the American flag, all of these things together and much more are evidence, right in front of our eyes,” Levin says, adding, “This fundamental transformation that’s taking place with the use of power — the evidence is right in front of us.”

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It has been a whirlwind week for the Los Angeles Dodgers, culminating in a battle of words with federal authorities.

Last Friday, Dodgers star pitcher Clayton Kershaw protested the team’s Pride Night by writing a Bible verse on the front of his hat. On Saturday, a singer named Nezza purposely defied the organization’s requests and sang the national anthem in Spanish.

As a consortium of fans have urged the Dodgers to take a stand and support illegal immigrants living in their city, the team seemingly extended an olive branch to those supporters on Thursday.

‘This had nothing to do with the Dodgers.’

The Dodgers were rumored to be planning an announcement on Thursday, finally revealing their support for illegal immigrants and anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protests. At least one reporter told Blaze News the reporter was expecting an announcement on that general topic.

Protesters announced they were ready for mass mobilization in defiance of ICE agents just after 10 a.m. At about 11:30 a.m., DHS agents were spotted near Gate E of Dodger Stadium.

Just after 12 p.m. local time, the Dodgers posted on X, claiming they had denied ICE agents access to their parking lots.

“This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested permission to access the parking lots,” the team wrote. “They were denied entry to the grounds by the organization. Tonight’s game will be played as scheduled.”

However, the DHS said ICE agents were never even there.

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Less than an hour after the team’s post, the DHS sent Blaze News a statement from Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, stating the presence of her department had “nothing to do with the Dodgers.”

“CBP vehicles were in the stadium parking lot very briefly, unrelated to any operation or enforcement,” McLaughlin said, mirroring a post the agency put out on social media.

Just after 1:39 p.m., ICE denied even being at the location. “False. We were never there,” the agency said in response to the Dodgers’ claim.

Not a peep was heard from either side after this. Representatives from the Dodgers did not respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

When pressed for more details, DHS representatives simply linked to their previously mentioned social media posts. The MLB Players Association did not respond to Blaze News’ requests for comment either.

RELATED: Christian LA Dodgers pitcher defies Pride Night with subtle in-game protest

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The Dodgers’ response is unlikely to please either side, but pressure continues to mount from illegal immigration supporters.

As Fox 11 LA reported, at least one nonprofit said it will encourage Latinos to avoid Dodgers games.

“We’re going to hit them in their pockets. And so that’s why we’re asking the Latino and our allies in L.A. not to go to any more Dodger games until the Dodgers invest in our community and our Latino community, immediately, that they take a stand and say something on behalf of the Dodger fans everywhere, for L.A. Latinos,” Raul Claros told Fox 11, representing Latino Coalition L.A.

Los Angeles’ professional soccer team, LAFC, also gave a statement, joining in on the trend of conflating legal and illegal immigration.

“LAFC believes the true strength of our community, our city, is feeling fear and uncertainty. LAFC stands shoulder to shoulder with all members of our community,” the team said, per Fox 11.

Even Dodgers player Kike Hernandez posted a message about the issue on his Instagram page.

Standing in front a sign that said, “Born & Raised,” Hernandez wrote, “I may not be Born & Raised, but this city adopted me as one of their own.”

“I cannot stand to see our community being violated, profiled, abused and ripped apart. ALL people deserve to be treated with respect, dignity and human rights,” Hernandez added.

Strangely, the team has previously embraced the DHS, hosting Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to throw out a first pitch in 2015.

It does seem that the team’s activism is a nonstop roller coaster. Later on Thursday evening, the team hosted a race-based celebrity softball game.

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The media wants you to believe that Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) is trying to bulldoze Yellowstone and turn national parks into strip malls — that he’s calling for a reckless fire sale of America’s natural beauty to line developers’ pockets. That narrative is dishonest. It’s fearmongering, and, by the way, it’s wrong.

Here’s what’s really happening.

Private stewardship works. It’s local. It’s accountable. It’s incentivized.

The federal government currently owns 640 million acres of land — nearly 28% of all land in the United States. To put that into perspective, that’s more territory than France, Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom combined.

Most of this land is west of the Mississippi River. That’s not a coincidence. In the American West, federal ownership isn’t just a bureaucratic technicality — it’s a stranglehold. States are suffocated. Locals are treated as tenants. Opportunities are choked off.

Meanwhile, people living east of the Mississippi — in places like Kentucky, Georgia, or Pennsylvania — might not even realize how little land their own states truly control. But the same policies that are plaguing the West could come for them next.

Lee isn’t proposing to auction off Yellowstone or pave over Yosemite. He’s talking about 3 million acres — that’s less than half of 1% of the federal estate. And this land isn’t your family’s favorite hiking trail. It’s remote, hard to access, and often mismanaged.

Failed management

Why was it mismanaged in the first place? Because the federal government is a terrible landlord.

Consider Yellowstone again. It’s home to the last remaining herd of genetically pure American bison — animals that haven’t been crossbred with cattle. Ranchers, myself included, would love the chance to help restore these majestic creatures on private land. But the federal government won’t allow it.

So what do they do when the herd gets too big?

They kill them. Bulldoze them into mass graves. That’s not conservation. That’s bureaucratic malpractice.

And don’t even get me started on bald eagles — majestic symbols of American freedom and a federally protected endangered species, now regularly slaughtered by wind turbines. I have pictures of piles of dead bald eagles. Where’s the outrage?

Biden’s federal land-grab

Some argue that states can’t afford to manage this land themselves. But if the states can’t afford it, how can Washington? We’re $35 trillion in debt. Entitlements are strained, infrastructure is crumbling, and the Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, and National Park Service are billions of dollars behind in basic maintenance. Roads, firebreaks, and trails are falling apart.

The Biden administration quietly embraced something called the “30 by 30” initiative, a plan to lock up 30% of all U.S. land and water under federal “conservation” by 2030. The real goal is 50% by 2050.

That entails half of the country being taken away from you, controlled not by the people who live there but by technocrats in D.C.

You think that won’t affect your ability to hunt, fish, graze cattle, or cut timber? Think again. It won’t be conservatives who stop you from building a cabin, raising cattle, or teaching your grandkids how to shoot a rifle. It’ll be the same radical environmentalists who treat land as sacred — unless it’s your truck, your deer stand, or your back yard.

Land as collateral

Moreover, the U.S. Treasury is considering putting federally owned land on the national balance sheet, listing your parks, forests, and hunting grounds as collateral.

What happens if America defaults on its debt?

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Do you think our creditors won’t come calling? Imagine explaining to your kids that the lake you used to fish in is now under foreign ownership, that the forest you hunted in belongs to China.

This is not hypothetical. This is the logical conclusion of treating land like a piggy bank.

The American way

There’s a better way — and it’s the American way.

Let the people who live near the land steward it. Let ranchers, farmers, sportsmen, and local conservationists do what they’ve done for generations.

Did you know that 75% of America’s wetlands are on private land? Or that the most successful wildlife recoveries — whitetail deer, ducks, wild turkeys — didn’t come from Washington but from partnerships between private landowners and groups like Ducks Unlimited?

Private stewardship works. It’s local. It’s accountable. It’s incentivized. When you break it, you fix it. When you profit from the land, you protect it.

This is not about selling out. It’s about buying in — to freedom, to responsibility, to the principle of constitutional self-governance.

So when you hear the pundits cry foul over 3 million acres of federal land, remember: We don’t need Washington to protect our land. We need Washington to get out of the way.

Because this isn’t just about land. It’s about liberty. And once liberty is lost, it doesn’t come back easily.

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Ken Burns has built his career as America’s memory keeper. For decades, he’s positioned himself as the guardian against historical revisionism, the man who rescues truth from the dustbin of academic fashion. His camera doesn’t just record past events — it sanctifies them.

For nearly five decades, Burns has reminded Americans that memory matters and that history shapes how a nation sees itself.

Jefferson’s ‘Nature’s God’ wasn’t a placeholder. It was a real presence. He sliced up the Gospels but still bowed to the idea of eternal moral law.

Which makes his recent performance on Joe Rogan’s podcast all the more stunning in its brazen historical malpractice.

At the 1-hour, 17-minute mark, Burns delivered his verdict on the Founding Fathers with the confidence of a man who’s never been wrong about anything.

They were deists, he declared. Believers in a distant, disinterested God, a cosmic clockmaker who wound up the universe and wandered off to tend other galaxies. Cold, clinical, and entirely absent from human affairs.

It’s a tidy narrative. One small problem: It’s so very wrong.

The irony cuts so deep it draws blood. The man who made his reputation fighting historical revisionism has become its most prominent practitioner. Burns, the supposed guardian of American memory, has developed a curious case of selective amnesia, and Americans are supposed to pretend not to notice.

The deist delusion

Now, some might ask: Who cares? What difference does it make whether Washington believed in an active God or a divine absentee landlord? The answer is everything, and the fact that it’s Burns making this claim makes it infinitely worse.

This isn’t some graduate student getting his dissertation wrong. This is America’s most trusted historical documentarian, the man whose work shapes how millions understand their past. When Burns speaks, the nation listens.

When he gets it wrong, the mistake seeps like an oil spill across the national story, quietly coating textbooks, classrooms, and documentaries for decades.

Burns is often treated as an apolitical narrator of history, but there’s a soft ideological current running through much of his work: reverence for progressive causes, selective moral framing, and a tendency to recast American complexity through a modern liberal lens.

Burns isn’t stupid. One assumes he knows exactly what he’s saying. If he doesn’t — if his remarks on Rogan’s podcast represent genuine ignorance rather than deliberate distortion — then we have serious questions about the depth of his actual knowledge. How does someone spend decades documenting American history while missing something this fundamental?

The truth is that Americans have been lied to about the Founders’ faith for so long that Burns’ deist mythology sounds plausible. The secular academy has been rewriting these men for decades, stripping away their religious convictions, sanding down their theological edges, making them safe for modern consumption. Burns isn’t breaking new ground. He’s perpetuating a familiar falsehood.

Taking a knee

Let’s start with George Washington, the supposed deist in chief. Burns would have us believe the general bowed not to God, but to a kind of cosmic CEO who delegated all earthly duties to middle management. But at least one contemporary account attests that Washington knelt in the snow at Valley Forge — not once, but repeatedly.

He called for the national day of “prayer and thanksgiving” that eventually became the November federal holiday we know today. He invoked divine Providence so frequently you’d think he was writing sermons, not military orders.

His Farewell Address reads more like a theological tract than a retirement speech, warning that “religion and morality are indispensable supports” of political prosperity. Does that sound like a man who thought God had checked out?

John Adams, another Founder often branded a deist, wrote bluntly that “our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.”

Adams saw the American Revolution as the outgrowth of divine intervention. As he wrote to Thomas Jefferson in 1813, “The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were … the general principles of Christianity.”

And what of Jefferson? By far the most heterodox, even he never denied divine order. His “Nature’s God” wasn’t a placeholder. It was a real presence. He sliced up the Gospels but still bowed to the idea of eternal moral law. Whatever his quarrels with organized religion, he did not believe in a silent universe.

Some of these men were, philosophically at least, frustrated Catholics. They couldn’t fully accept Protestantism, but they had no access to the Church’s intellectual infrastructure. The natural law reasoning that permeates their political thought — Jefferson’s “self-evident truths,” Madison’s checks and balances born of man’s fallen nature — comes straight from Aquinas, filtered through Locke, Montesquieu, and centuries of Christian jurisprudence.

The Founders weren’t Enlightenment nihilists. They weren’t secular technocrats. And they certainly weren’t deists. They were men steeped in a moral framework older than the American experiment itself.

Burns, for all his sepia-toned genius, has a blind spot you could drive a colonial wagon through. His documentaries glow with progressive reverence — plenty of civil rights and moral reckoning, but the Almighty gets the silent treatment. God may have guided the Founders, but in Ken’s cut, he barely makes the final edit.

The sacred and the sanitized

I mentioned irony at the start, but it deserves more than a passing nod. That’s because the septuagenarian’s own cinematic legacy contradicts the very theology he now peddles on podcasts.

His brilliant nine-part series “The Civil War” captured the moral agony of a nation tearing itself apart, and it did so in unmistakably religious terms. Here Burns treats Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address — haunted, prophetic, bathed in biblical cadence — with reverence, not revisionism.

The series understood something essential: Americans have always been a biblical people. They see their history not just in terms of dates and treaties, but in terms of sin, sacrifice, and redemption. Sacred story, divine purpose — this was the language of American reckoning.

The Founders weren’t saints, and they weren’t simple. They read Greek, spoke Latin, studied Scripture, and debated philosophy with a seriousness that puts modern politicians to shame. But they weren’t spiritual agnostics, either.

They were men of imperfect but active faith, shaped by the Bible, steeped in Christian moral tradition, and convinced that human rights came not from government but from God.

They didn’t build a republic of personal preference. They built one grounded in enduring truths that predated the Constitution, anchored to the idea that law and liberty meant nothing without a higher law above them.

Burns may deal in memory, but his treatment of religion reveals something else entirely. He doesn’t misremember. He reorders. He filters faith through a modern lens until it becomes unrecognizable.

Memory isn’t just about what’s preserved — it’s about what’s permitted. And when the sacred gets cast aside, what’s left isn’t history. It’s propaganda with better lighting.

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Organizations that helped Vance Luther Boelter become a Christian preacher and hosted him as he gave his faith testimony quickly disavowed him after he was charged in federal court June 16 with the assassination of a top Democratic Minnesota representative and her husband and the serious wounding of a Democratic state senator and his wife.

Boelter, 57, of Green Isle, Minn., studied practical theology and pastoral leadership at the Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas. He earned a diploma in 1990. The institute describes itself as a “Spirit-filled Bible school” that “offers a place to grow in faith, develop your ministry skills, and live out God’s calling in your life.”

‘He would likely have been killed or taken captive.’

Christ for the Nations Institute was quick to distance itself from Boelter and condemn his alleged violent actions in the early morning hours of June 14. The institute placed a prominent “Important Press Release” graphic at the top of its homepage.

“We are absolutely aghast and horrified that a CFNI alumnus is the suspect,” the statement read. “This is not who we are. This is not what we teach. This is not what we model. We have been training Christian servant leaders for 55 years and they have been agents of good, not evil.”

Infamous alumnus

While the institute said it educates future leaders for spiritual battle, it condemned the violence of Boelter’s alleged shooting rampage.

“CFNI unequivocally rejects, denounces, and condemns any and all forms of violence and extremism, be it politically, racially, religiously, or otherwise motivated,” the statement continued. “Our organization’s mission is to educate and equip students to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ through compassion, love, prayer, service, worship, and value for human life.

“These core Christian values and principles, which we highly esteem and embrace, are in stark contrast to the hateful beliefs, behavior, and actions now being attributed to Mr. Boelter.”

Boelter was charged in U.S. District Court in St. Paul with two counts of murder, two counts of stalking, and two firearms charges related to stalking. He is accused of the assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, and of shooting state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, a total of 17 times. The Hoffmans survived the brutal attack.

Boelter is being held without bond. He will next be in court June 27.

The FBI said Boelter burst into the Hortman home in Brooklyn Park about 3:30 a.m. June 14 after exchanging gunfire with police. He allegedly shot and killed the Hortmans and seriously wounded their golden retriever, Gilbert, who had to be put down due to his injuries.

About 90 minutes earlier, Boelter, dressed as a police officer and wearing a “hyper-realistic” silicone head mask, allegedly shot the Hoffmans when they opened the front door of their Champlin, Minn., home, police said. Mrs. Hoffman threw herself in front of their daughter to shield her from the gunfire.

RELATED: The stuff of nightmares: Boelter allegedly sought to kill 4 lawmakers

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After leaving the Hoffman residence, Boelter reportedly went to the home of state Rep. Kristin Bahner (DFL-Maple Grove), pounding on the door and demanding to be let in. The family was not at home.

“The past several days have been surrounded by so much grief and fear. This senseless violence came to my door as well, placing me and my family in harm’s way,” Bahner said in a statement. “I do not know why this man was filled with such hatred that he would come to my door; divine intervention led my family to change our plans, keeping us safe.”

Before allegedly driving to the Hortman residence and killing the couple, Boelter traveled to the home of state Sen. Ann Rest (DFL-New Hope), police said. As Boelter allegedly sat in his fake police squad vehicle down the block from Rest’s home, a New Hope police officer pulled alongside and tried to get his attention. He stared straight ahead and didn’t acknowledge the officer, who then continued driving to Rest’s residence.

As more squad cars arrived at Rest’s home, the suspect slipped away without notice and allegedly went on to murder the Hortmans.

Boelter evaded police for nearly 40 hours during the largest manhunt in Minnesota history. He was captured at 9:15 p.m. June 15 about a mile from his Green Isle home and 60 miles from where the murders were committed.

Christian ministry

Boelter founded a nonprofit charity called Revoformation Ministries Inc. in 2007, according to IRS records. The organization filed 13 annual tax returns between 2007 and 2023, each reporting less than $50,000 in donations.

Revoformation Ministries’ website was initially set up to promote a 2006 book by Boelter, “Original Ability.”

“It presents a different paradigm on the nature of man and our relationship with God,” the website said. “Original Ability will be shown in Genesis all the way through to the teachings of Jesus Christ. The author considers the understanding of Original Ability to be the single most important factor in successfully explaining the Gospel, yet most people have never heard of it.”

There is no indication that Boelter ever published the book. The title does not appear in Google Books, on Worldcat, or at Amazon.

Boelter is listed as an author on Worldcat for “The Impact of Training on Performance,” his 2016 master’s thesis from Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee.

According to the Revoformation website, Boelter also did missionary work overseas, including travel to dangerous hot spots.

‘Such reports … strike at the honor of God.’

“Prior to 9-11, Vance had already made several trips to violent areas in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, where suicide bombings were taking place,” the website said. “He sought out militant Islamists in order to share the Gospel and tell them that violence wasn’t the answer.”

Robert Spencer, director of the Jihad Watch website, said Boelter should consider himself fortunate to be alive.

“Islamic law forbids adherents of other religions to proselytize, on pain of death,” Spencer told Blaze News. “If Boelter actually did this, he would likely have been killed or taken captive, unless the ‘militant Islamists’ with which he was conversing realized he was a fool and decided to give him a pass.”

Author of more than 30 books including “The Truth About Muhammad” and the forthcoming “Holy Hell: Islam’s Abuse of Women and the Infidels Who Enable It,” Spencer said approaching jihadis would not be smart.

“Trying to convert Muslims to any other religion, however, is extremely dangerous, as in Muslim countries there is generally no shortage of believers who would be only too happy to implement Islam’s death penalty for proselytizing.”

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Boelter gave several sermons at the Centre Évangélique Francophone La Borne Matadi in far Western Democratic Republic of the Congo. The church’s YouTube channel has videos featuring Boelter from 2021, 2022, and 2023.

In his 2021 talk, Boelter danced in front of the huge gathering.

“When I was 17 and I first got saved, I was excited about Jesus. I’m just as excited about Jesus, right here, right now,” Boelter said. “When I get excited, I want to dance!”

He then virtually flew around the stage with his arms outstretched. “What Jesus did for me! Ho-ho!” he said.

‘These allegations run contrary to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.’

Officials at the Matadi church released a statement in French and English disavowing Boelter after the Minnesota murders. It said Boelter visited the church as part of a group from the Minnesota-based Global Impact Center and had no affiliation with the church.

“It is with deep sorrow and profound sadness that we have learned of the serious allegations involving Mr. Boelter,” the statement read. “We are heartbroken and grieved by such reports, which strike at the honor of God, the integrity of the local church, and the unity of the Body of Christ.”

The Global Impact Center in Columbia Heights, Minn., also released a statement distancing itself from Boelter.

To fulfill the organization’s mission, “we collaborate with church organizations and individual volunteers,” the statement said. “It is within this context that Mr. Vance Boelter has, on occasion, appeared in some of our meetings and ministry platforms, as seen in various media.

“However, we want to clearly state that Mr. Boelter is neither a member of Global Impact Center’s leadership team nor affiliated with any of our local or international church partners.” Boelter’s visits to the Democratic Republic of the Congo were all less than two months, the statement said.

“Like many, we are deeply saddened by the recent developments and the serious allegations involving Mr. Boelter,” the statement continued. “These allegations run contrary to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and undermine the integrity of the church’s calling and mission.”

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overruled a Clinton judge and delivered some bad news to California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) that might wipe the default grin off his face.

How it started

Exercising his constitutional and statutory powers, President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles on June 7, noting that the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement riots constituted “a form of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.”

‘It is likely that the president lawfully exercised his statutory authority under § 12406(3).’

Newsom — among the many Democrats who downplayed the violence and appeared sympathetic to the rioters’ cause — asked a federal district court judge to force Trump to surrender control of the federalized California National Guard.

U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer, a Bill Clinton appointee, sided with Newsom, claiming on June 12 that Trump’s actions “were illegal — both exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating the Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.”

Newsom subsequently told Trump, “You must relinquish your authority of the National Guard back to me and back to California,” then smugly attacked the president in a press conference where he called Trump “weak.”

The governor’s gloating was cut short when the Trump administration appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and secured an emergency ruling to return command of the National Guard to the president.

How it’s going

Newsom optimistically stated on Tuesday, days ahead of the appellate court’s ruling, “I’m confident in the rule of law. I’m confident in the Constitution of the United States. I’m confident in the reasoned decision issued last week by a very well-respected federal judge. And I’m confident that common sense will prevail here.”

Common sense prevailed — just not in Newsom’s favor.

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On Thursday, a three-judge panel of the appeals court ruled unanimously in the president’s favor, granting a stay of the Clinton judge’s order.

The appeals court concluded that “it is likely that the president lawfully exercised his statutory authority under § 12406(3), which authorizes federalization of the National Guard when ‘the president is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States'” and indicated Hegseth’s transmittal of the order “likely satisfied the statute’s procedural requirement that federalization orders be issued ‘through’ the governor.”

‘The Judges obviously realized that Gavin Newscum is incompetent and ill prepared.’

The court also recognized that Trump had “a colorable basis” for deploying the National Guard, citing evidence that the anti-ICE rioters:

interfered “with the ability of federal officers to execute the laws”; threw objects at ICE vehicles attempting to complete a law enforcement operation; threw Molotov cocktails and vandalized property;”‘pinned down’ several [Federal Protective Service] officers defending federal property by throwing ‘concrete chunks, bottles of liquid, and other objects,’ and used ‘large rolling commercial dumpsters as a battering ram’ in an attempt to breach the parking garage of a federal building.”

To Newsom’s likely chagrin, the court noted further that “the president’s failure to issue the federalization order directly ‘through’ the governor of California does not limit his otherwise lawful authority to call up the National Guard” and that “Newsom had no power to veto or countermand the president’s order.”

Newsom, like Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and other Democrats, suggested that the presence of the National Guard was inflammatory and prompted more unrest.

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California National Guard troops outside a Los Angeles federal building on June 9, 2025. Photo by David McNew/Getty Images

The appellate court was not buying what the governor was selling, noting both that “these concerns are counterbalanced by the undisputed fact that federal property has been damaged and federal employees have been injured” and that such concerns “are too speculative.”

President Trump celebrated the ruling, suggesting the decision affirms his ability to take similar action elsewhere if necessary.

“BIG WIN in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on the President’s core power to call in the National Guard!” the president wrote on Truth Social. “The Judges obviously realized that Gavin Newscum is incompetent and ill prepared, but this is much bigger than Gavin, because all over the United States, if our Cities, and our people, need protection, we are the ones to give it to them should State and Local Police be unable, for whatever reason, to get the job done.”

“This is a Great Decision for our Country, and we will continue to protect and defend Law abiding Americans. Congratulations to the Ninth Circuit, America is proud of you tonight!” added Trump.

Newsom expressed his disappointment, vowing to press forward with his “challenge to President Trump’s authoritarian use of U.S. military soldiers against citizens.”

Judge Breyer is reportedly contemplating whether to slap Trump with another injunction, restricting the president’s use of National Guard troops in Los Angeles.

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Democrats smell blood in the water. From the threat of a new Middle East war to proposed changes to Medicaid and food stamps, they see dozens of opportunities to regain political ground. But their own dysfunction — infighting, petty rivalries, and a stunning lack of talent — is holding them back. No rising star has emerged. No one seems capable of carrying the flag.

America faces the prospect of another foreign war, one that’s deeply unpopular and threatening to split President Donald Trump’s coalition. Polling remains limited, but a quick Washington Post survey found 45% of Americans oppose involvement. Only 25% support it.

Aside from strong polling numbers, the best news for Republicans is that Democrats remain in total disarray.

And the Democrats? Good luck finding a credible opposition voice. Is it Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, who spent her time in a Senate hearing shouting about the L.A. riots before filibustering her own line of questioning? Or maybe it’s Tim Kaine of Virginia — yes, still in the Senate nearly a decade after his dismal turn as Hillary Clinton’s running mate.

Meanwhile, trouble looms for the president’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. When Democrats describe it as a plan to gut Medicaid and food stamps while bankrupting rural hospitals to benefit corporations, support craters. But when Republicans explain the reforms — cutting off benefits to illegal immigrants, purging the deceased from the rolls, and requiring work from able-bodied men who admit to spending most of their time playing video games — voters respond differently. Those policies poll at 82%, 86%, and 72%, respectively.

Assume you’ll never persuade the 14% of Americans who apparently support Medicaid for the dead. That leaves Republicans with near-total lock on public opinion. Proposals like eliminating taxes on tips and overtime also enjoy overwhelming support. So does deporting criminal aliens. And Democrats? Their response has consisted mostly of street theater — getting arrested and setting fires in Los Angeles while waving Mexican flags. Just wait until one of their protests ends with a federal agent injured or killed.

The more serious threat to the GOP comes from inside the tent: the Senate Republican push to scrap the health care provider tax. Barring a major war, we’ll unpack that mess in Monday’s newsletter. The short version: Republicans have every political incentive to avoid this fight — and they’re scrambling to fix it before it blows up.

Republicans fear a political repeat of Obamacare — but in reverse. If Democrats manage to define the GOP’s top legislative achievement more effectively than Republicans can, they’ll seize the advantage. To prevent that, Republicans need to campaign now — and outwork the Democrats from the start. It’s a race to frame the narrative, and GOP super PACs are already buying airtime.

Aside from strong polling numbers, the best news for Republicans is that Democrats remain in total disarray. Even with the usual advantage of being the opposition party, they can’t get out of their own way. The fallout from the L.A. riots continues, and the DNC just forced out activist turned Vice Chair David Hogg in a chaotic leadership shake-up.

Then came the public resignations. Randi Weingarten — the COVID-era school-closer in chief — and Lee Saunders of AFSCME both quit their DNC committee posts, blaming the crying and dithering of Chairman Ken Martin. When union bosses start walking, it’s rarely a sign of strength.

Unless New York Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s latest branding brainstorm — the “We Are All Going to Die Bill” — magically catches fire like “Obamacare” once did, Republicans hold the upper hand.

Even Rahm Emanuel sees it. “We’re in the most serious existential crisis with Donald Trump both at home and abroad — and with the biggest political opportunity in a decade,” the former Obama chief of staff and possible 2028 contender complained this week. “And the DNC has spent six months on a firing squad in the circle and can’t even fire a shot out. And Trump’s world is a target-rich environment.”

Yes, it is. But you still have to take the shot.

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75-year-old Olympic gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner flew to Tel Aviv to be the guest of honor at a Pride parade — but all that came to a screeching halt when Iranian missiles began to pierce the sky.

When Jenner was moved to a bomb shelter instead of the parade, Israeli influencer Regev Gur snapped a photo of himself and the famous transgender athlete, posting it to X with the caption, “What did you do during the alerts? Because I’m drinking wine with Caitlyn.”

Jenner is shown in the photo holding a glass of wine up next to the influencer while in the bunker, but BlazeTV host Dave Landau doesn’t see it as a good thing.

“It’s wine o’clock somewhere, apparently in Tel Aviv while you’re getting bombed,” Landau says, dripping with sarcasm.

“The former Olympian, who’s 76 — you wouldn’t have guessed that,” he continues, “captioned via Instagram Friday with a picture of missiles, adding, ‘There is not a place I’d rather be than with the brave people of Israel. God, please continue to shield and protect us.’”

1/4 Black Garrett finds the timing of the missiles to be suspicious, as it was just as the Pride celebration was set to begin.

“Why would Palestine blow them up at that time?” he asks, alluding to Palestine’s strict laws against homosexuality.

“I’d say this is the most woman thing he’s ever done,” he continues, adding, “making a very bad situation about himself.”

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