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The Trump administration has gotten the last laugh against an illegal alien gangster who infamously refused to hold his tongue when he was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Just two days after President Donald Trump retook office in January 2025, Boston ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations picked up Wisteguens Jean Quely Charles, a native Haitian and convicted criminal who was then 25 years old.

‘He went viral for praising Biden as he was getting arrested, because he knew that the Biden administration’s open borders turned America into a paradise for criminals like him.’

During his arrest, a defiant Charles cursed Trump and insisted he was “not going back to Haiti.”

“F**k Trump! You feel me?” he continued. “Yo, Biden forever, bro. Thank Obama for everything that he did for me, bro.”

Despite the verbal bluster, the case for deporting Charles was strong. For one thing, he is a career criminal, with convictions for assault and battery on a public employee, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, various drug and weapons offenses, resisting arrest, and even trespassing.

Moreover, Charles is a known member of the Back Block Money Gang, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

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Screenshot of DHS press release

Charles was granted Temporary Protected Status by President Barack Obama in February 2013, and he was admitted into the U.S. a few months later, the DHS said. His TPS status was then terminated in 2022, under President Joe Biden, and a federal judge issued a final deportation order for him last November.

On Thursday, that order was carried out, and Charles was deported back to Haiti.

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said of Charles:

This illegal alien gang member from Haiti had quite the rap sheet, with convictions for assault and battery on a public employee, resisting arrest, and drug trafficking, among other heinous crimes.

He went viral for praising Biden as he was getting arrested, because he knew that the Biden administration’s open borders turned America into a paradise for criminals like him. The Trump administration has finally done what both the Obama and Biden administrations failed to do and deported this criminal back where he belongs.

The White House took a victory lap on Tuesday, sharing a video of Charles with the caption “Home sweet Haiti” and two waving emojis. The voice of a real or virtual female flight attendant concludes the video saying, “You have arrived at your destination.”

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Demographics in Texas are changing, but apparently Texans aren’t allowed to notice.

“Many people, not just myself, have seen the rapid and dramatic shift in our communities with, you know, people who by and large when you live here, you’re allowed to look around you, because you have eyeballs, and you notice things,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

“And so Bo French, who is my friend and also the Republican nominee for railroad commissioner here in Texas, noticed something,” she adds.

French had pulled a still from a University of Texas at Austin football game, where the crowd in one section was made up entirely of Indians wearing UT football jerseys.

“I heard UT graduation this year looked like this. I didn’t believe it. The problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined,” French wrote in a post on X.

“It’s an observation that he made. An observation that I think I will be able to prove to you is not racist, but just true. But be that as I may, you’re not allowed to say things like this according to the libs and the RINOs who I actually would just categorize as all one,” Gonzales says.

“You’re not allowed to have eyeballs. You’re not allowed to look at the community, at the demographics around you changing, you’re not allowed to, I don’t know, want Texas to just look like Texas,” she continues.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) responded to French’s post, writing, “This is the Republican nominee for statewide office. Are other Republican elected officials going to condemn the intolerance and racism, or look the other way while it becomes normalized. This is how great political parties self-destruct. Sad.”

“Get out of here, John,” Gonzales says.

But it gets worse.

Texas Senate Democrat candidate James Talarico then chimed in, reposting Cornyn’s tweet and writing, “Thank you @JohnCornyn for your leadership. Racism has no place in Texas. @KenPaxtonTX: will you condemn this blatant racism or will you cower to extremists?”

Paxton responded, “I condemn racism in all its forms, including James Talarico saying white men are America’s top terror threat and that he prays to overcome his own ‘whiteness,’ whatever that means. Only one person in this race has a history of dividing Texans by race, and it’s James Talarico. I will continue to focus on uniting our State and bringing together the broadest possible coalition to fight for Texas, our values, and our families.”

“Truly,” Gonzales comments, “a mic-drop moment from my friend Ken Paxton.”

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A 21-year-old man was arrested in Pennsylvania as he was preparing for an alleged mission for a mass shooting just after the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Jonathan Hunter Kramer of Valencia had been on their radar since 2023, according to a Justice Dept. press release.

‘His apparent ISIS inspiration and escalation toward violence show how close this country came to a devastating attack. This arrest prevented what could have been a horrific tragedy.’

FBI agents claimed they watched Kramer purchase ammunition and magazines at a sporting goods store before they searched his hotel room.

Kramer was allegedly found to be in possession of five boxes of rifle ammunition and three 30-round capacity rifle magazines, and in the room agents allegedly found a semiautomatic rifle and ammunition.

Prosecutors allege that Kramer was plotting an attack in support of the ISIS terror group.

“Kramer was taken into custody just as he appeared to be preparing for a mass shooting that could have taken many lives, having already secured a rifle and approximately 190 rounds of ammunition for what he called his ‘mission,'” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg.

“His apparent ISIS inspiration and escalation toward violence show how close this country came to a devastating attack. This arrest prevented what could have been a horrific tragedy.”

Kramer had been previously arrested as a minor when he was found in possession of child pornography while also helping plot a mass shooting attack, according to the DOJ press release.

He was subsequently released from a Pennsylvania juvenile detention facility, but an anonymous March 2026 tip warned officials about his alleged dangerous behavior.

The tipster claimed Kramer had received “mysterious packages” and had been talking to friends he made prior to his juvenile adjudication.

Investigators said they uncovered his online persona, “Hamza Al Rashid,” which claimed to have pledged allegiance to ISIS.

On Saturday, Kramer booked a room in cash at a hotel in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, before going to the sporting goods store, according to agents watching him.

Police also reportedly found a prayer rug, pepper spray, and approximately 30 knives when they searched his hotel room.

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And they claimed to have found a note with a cryptic message:

“DoNt look For me[.] IDK what I did buT I cant live In constant Fear,” the note allegedly read.

Kramer was charged with “receiving a firearm and ammunition knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the firearm and ammunition would be used to commit a felony or a federal crime of terrorism, including providing, attempting to provide, and conspiring to provide material support or resources to a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.”

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Ed Sheeran invited Macklemore to open for him in front of tens of thousands of fans.

Macklemore returned the favor by giving him an unsolicited lesson in the political obligations of pop stardom.

‘Free all people in America living in fear over this terrorist organization ICE.’

Tour bore

After being dropped from Sheeran’s stadium tour over his pro-Palestinian remarks, the rapper — real name Benjamin Haggerty — published a lengthy statement that managed to praise his friend of 13 years, reveal details of their private conversations, and suggest that Sheeran’s long-standing refusal to turn his concerts into political rallies was a moral failing.

“Ed was in a f**ked up position,” Macklemore wrote. “He knew it. His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before.”

Macklemore says he hopes their friendship survives. But first, apparently, Sheeran has some things to learn.

Macklemore was scheduled to open eight of the remaining 10 U.S. dates on Sheeran’s Loop Tour.

During his performances at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium earlier this month, however, Macklemore used some of that time to deliver a series of political messages.

“Free Palestine,” he told the crowd. “I want those words to be loud and clear so the people from Gaza all the way to the occupied West Bank know that we have not forgotten them.”

He went on to call for a “free” Lebanon, Cuba, Congo, and Sudan before turning his attention to the United States.

“Free all people in America living in fear over this terrorist organization ICE.”

Macklemore also praised the “bravery” of Columbia University students who participated in pro-Palestinian encampments.

‘The stage becomes resistance’

The “Thrift Store” rapper has made similar statements for years. But in his response to being dropped from the tour, Macklemore acknowledged what made these performances different: He was making them from somebody else’s much larger stage.

“What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years,” he wrote. “So why is it an issue now?”

“Because now I’m sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America.”

And Macklemore appears to have understood Sheeran’s continued willingness to share that stage with him as an implicit political endorsement.

“If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next?” he wrote.

“The stage becomes resistance.”

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Nose for controversy

According to Macklemore, the arrangement became untenable after New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft got involved. The Kraft Group owns Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, where Sheeran is scheduled to perform September 25 and 26.

Macklemore said Sheeran told him that Kraft had called and made clear that the rapper would not be permitted to perform there. The Seattle rapper further claimed that Kraft had rallied other stadium owners and effectively presented the tour with an ultimatum: Drop Macklemore or lose the venues.

Tour promoter Messina Touring Group confirmed that multiple venues refused to host the concerts with Macklemore on the bill. Kraft confirmed his own decision to bar Macklemore from Gillette Stadium, although Macklemore’s claim that Kraft personally rallied the other owners remains his account.

The Patriots owner, who founded the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism in 2019, said Macklemore’s recent performances reflected what he described as “a broader history of anti-Semitic rhetoric and imagery that we believe has been deeply offensive and hurtful to the Jewish community.”

“We determined that his participation in the September 25 and 26 concerts at Gillette Stadium would cross that line,” Kraft said.

Kraft also stressed that the decision was not intended to dismiss Palestinian suffering and said he would be willing to sit down with Macklemore.

Macklemore rejected Kraft’s characterization of his statements.

“Antisemitism is real,” he wrote, before arguing that accusations of anti-Semitism are being “weaponized” to silence criticism of Israel.

This was not the first time Macklemore has faced accusations of anti-Semitism. In 2014, he performed in Seattle wearing a black wig, beard, and large hooked prosthetic nose — an outfit critics said resembled an anti-Semitic caricature.

Macklemore apologized, saying the resemblance was unintentional and that he had assembled the disguise randomly. “I acknowledge how the costume could, within a context of stereotyping, be ascribed to a Jewish caricature,” he wrote at the time. “It was absolutely not my intention.”

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Rap session

After stressing that he wasn’t trying to “tear down [Sheeran’s] character,” Macklemore proceeded to give his “brother” a public dressing-down for his refusal to politicize his tour.

He described a private conversation in which Sheeran told him that “Free Palestine” and the image of a Palestinian flag had been hurtful to some of the people Sheeran had spoken with.

Macklemore wasn’t persuaded. “I told him if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect.”

“But he couldn’t get past his public facing, ‘I don’t take sides,’” Macklemore wrote.

“Taking a side can cost you,” Macklemore wrote, citing money, sponsorships, festivals, relationships, and access. He then offered a crash course in social justice for his fellow multimillionaire pop star:

“There is no neutral position between the oppressor and the oppressed. When one side has the bombs and bottomless financial and military support from America, refusing to take a side doesn’t leave you in the middle.”

Paging Pink

Sheeran wasn’t the only artist Macklemore took to task. After Pink reposted criticism of his MetLife remarks from the group StopAntisemitism, he invoked her as another example of a successful artist with little excuse, in his view, for remaining on the sidelines.

“Sheeran is not a victim, Pink is not a victim,” Macklemore wrote. “We have careers, money, opportunities, safety, and audiences around the world.”

Pink later objected to the assumptions being made about her own views.

“I was born a Jew. I didn’t pick it, and I’ve never hidden it,” she wrote. “And this week a whole lot of people decided what I believe without asking me, without checking a single thing I’ve ever said or done, because a repost and the word ‘Jew’ were apparently enough to fill in the rest.”

She added that she doesn’t speak for Israel and that “Hamas is a terrorist organization.”

In Macklemore’s telling, however, celebrity and financial security appear to create an obligation to speak: Using a stadium concert to advocate for Palestine isn’t an intrusion of politics into entertainment but part of an artist’s responsibility.

“I didn’t need 10 shows from Ed. I needed 2,” Macklemore wrote. “Two chances to stand in front of 90,000 people and say the words that somehow became too dangerous to say.”

Sheeran: Fans first

On Tuesday, Sheeran issued a lengthy response of his own. He confirmed that venues threatened to cancel upcoming shows if Macklemore remained on the tour and said he spent the week speaking with venues, promoters, and activists in an effort to find a compromise.

But he disputed the suggestion that he personally fired Macklemore. “Macklemore coming off the tour was the promoter’s decision, it was not mine,” Sheeran wrote.

And he pushed back more directly against Macklemore’s suggestion that staying publicly neutral amounts to complicity. “I am not complicit,” Sheeran wrote.

Sheeran said he has his own views on the Israel-Gaza war and cares deeply about the suffering it has caused. But he does not believe that obligates him to turn his professional platform into a political one. Furthermore, his fans “do not expect a political forum” when they come to see him perform.

Instead, Sheeran said he wants his music to provide “a place of safety and sanctuary” and argued that “there is room for multiple approaches” toward the same goal of peace.

Sheeran’s attempt to keep the tour out of the political fight hasn’t exactly succeeded. All of his remaining scheduled opening acts — Finneas, Aaron Rowe, and Lukas Graham — have now pulled out, while his touring band Beoga has quit as well.

School of rock

After publicly recounting their disagreement and some of Sheeran’s private remarks, Macklemore insisted he bears his old friend no ill will.

“I hope this isn’t the end of my relationship with Ed,” he wrote. “Thirteen years of friendship doesn’t disappear because of one painful disagreement.”

He then offered his erstwhile tour-mate a homework assignment of sorts.

“I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this.”

Macklemore himself doesn’t appear to have much wrestling left to do.

“Free Palestine,” he concluded, adding that “if those words cost me the stage, while turning the conversation back to Palestine, then it was the most successful tour I’ve ever been on.”

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Your Wi-Fi router has one job — to deliver wireless internet throughout your house for all of your smart devices, and that’s about it, right? Well, think again. Some Xfinity routers come with an extremely intrusive upgrade that turns your Wi-Fi into a motion-detecting spy network within the privacy of your own home, and police can access the data.

Believe it or not, Xfinity is actually offering this “feature” as a selling point on its website. Dubbed WiFi Motion, the company says that some of its routers can use the shifting Wi-Fi signal within a home to sense motion and to deliver a push notification to the owner’s device to let them know when someone — either you, a friend, a family member, or an intruder — is in the house.

Any activity that happens on WiFi Motion’s watch could be brought up and used against you in a court of law.

Xfinity stresses that the system doesn’t use cameras or microphones to record visual or audio data. That would be absurd to let that into your home, right? It just weaponizes your Wi-Fi to watch your every move.

On the bright side, Xfinity’s parent company, Comcast, claims not to track or monitor WiFi Motion activity or push notifications. However, that doesn’t mean you don’t have anything to worry about.

Don’t commit a crime within WiFi Motion’s walls

Although Xfinity claims it can’t see captured motion or push notifications, it apparently knows enough about your whereabouts to comply with law enforcement. According to the website:

Comcast may be required to disclose information generated by WiFi Motion in response to a valid subpoena, court order, search warrant, or other lawful legal process, as required by law. In limited situations permitted by law, information may be disclosed in connection with legal proceedings, dispute resolution, or emergency situations.

In other words, any activity that happens on WiFi Motion’s watch — activity that takes place within the privacy of your own home — could potentially be brought up and used against you in a court of law.

Be careful what you do when your Wi-Fi is enabled.

RELATED: When did we agree to be watched?

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Wi-Fi-based motion tracking isn’t a new idea

To be candid, Wi-Fi-based motion-sensing technology isn’t anything new. Xfinity is just one of a few companies to actively turn it into a customer-facing feature. The truth is that “Wi-Fi sensing” is a potential side effect of any router that has multiple antennas with Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) compatibility.

The only saving grace is that Wi-Fi sensing is inefficient at best. It relies on the strength of the wireless signal in a room to monitor activity. That means if there’s a dead zone within the home — you probably even know which room or space gets a poor signal in your house — the system has a harder time detecting wave shifts, rendering it useless in those areas. It also requires the user to place stationary devices around the home to help detect signal fluctuations.

In other words, it’s not a very reliable spy, but what it does see can still come back to haunt you if the law takes an interest.

Is your Xfinity router a motion-sensing hub?

WiFi Motion is included with Xfinity WiFi Shield and available as an opt-in option in the Xfinity App for iOS or Android. Depending on how you feel about it, you might be happy to know that there are a few other requirements before it will work.

According to the company, you need an Xfinity Internet subscription, a compatible Xfinity WiFi Gateway, the Xfinity app, and your own connected devices to act as signal receivers. To see if your Xfinity WiFi Gateway (i.e., router) is a potential motion-sensing hub, check out the list:

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For those concerned about the privacy implications of WiFi Motion, rest assured that it can’t do much unless you activate it in the Xfinity App. That said, the fact that the feature may be lying dormant in your router could be enough to convince you to change brands. The choice is yours.

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The man who infamously stated that “America deserved 9/11” has trashed the country again, this time on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

On Friday, Hasan Piker interrupted what he called the “forcible reverence” for 9/11 to reiterate his “godd**n God-given and constitutionally protected right” to smear America as an evil and heartless country.

El-Sayed’s attempts to shake his previous associations with Piker have not worked.

“How can you not get angry and resentful about a government that does nothing to treat [its] sickly, to feed its hungry, to feed its starving, to shelter its homeless when we have all the money, we have an abundance of wealth and prosperity, and we just refuse to spread it around? Of course that makes me angry,” he said.

Piker also claimed that those on the left have repeatedly stood by the heroes who participated in the recovery and rebuilding efforts after 9/11, while those on the right have simply exploited them for political gain.

“There’s a long, time-honored tradition of the left trying to do their very best to help 9/11 first responders, 9/11 victims, and the right simply weaponizing their memory in order to wage war, destroy American civil liberties, and then consistently foment hatred towards Muslims all around the world.”

Piker did blame the left for complicity in the Global War on Terror, alleged maltreatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, and other instances of American “fascism.”

Piker acknowledged that he is “currently at the center” of controversy because of his past remarks about America and 9/11, especially claiming in 2019 that “America deserved” the horrific terrorist attacks.

Since those comments resurfaced earlier this summer, Democrats like Abdul El-Sayed, running for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, have scrambled to distance themselves from Piker even after cozying up to him.

El-Sayed brought Piker to Michigan to campaign with him multiple times, including in early August, but now seems to avoid saying Piker’s name, usually referring to him as just a “Twitch streamer in California.”

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However, El-Sayed’s attempts to shake his previous associations with Piker have not worked. The media has continued to ask him about Piker, and El-Sayed has not concealed his exasperation with the Piker questions.

For instance, El-Sayed told Weijia Jiang of CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday: “With all due respect, this is the third time you’ve asked about a Twitch streamer in California.”

Piker admitted on Friday that Republican ads tying El-Sayed to 9/11 and Islamic terrorism have been effective. “To say that this doesn’t have an impact, it would also be silly. Of course it does,” he said.

“There are people who are primed, looking for any opportunity they can get to unload and to make responsible every Muslim American in the country for 9/11,” Piker continued. “… The question is, do we get to win those people back with decency? Do we get to win those people back with good policies?”

Piker indicated that Muslims running for office in America, such as El-Sayed, and those already in office, such as NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whom Piker called “the real president of the United States,” are “victims to the Islamophobic narratives that are running amok” and therefore must be “extra careful.”

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An elderly woman in Texas helped federal authorities nab a scammer connected to a massive international ring that stole allegedly millions and caused one victim to commit suicide.

The woman, who did not want to be publicly identified, said she was taken in by the phone call from a scammer claiming to alert her about fraud targeting her credit card.

The arrest helped authorities in their investigation of the international ring targeting more than 200 senior citizens in Northern Texas and other states.

“He comes on, and he says that he is the head of the fraud division of the Social Security Administration in Washington. And he’s very official, very smart, intelligent,” said the woman from Frisco to KDFW-TV.

The scammer provided documents to her to show that he worked with the U.S. government and that he would keep her money safe.

She gave him $30,000.

Then the scammer told her to take $22,000 out of another account at the bank to hand over to him. When she tried to withdraw the money, a bank manager refused the transaction.

“The manager came out, and thank goodness for her, she said, ‘You’re getting scammed,'” she said.

The victim filed a report with the Frisco police, who then had her turn the tables on her scammer.

Police gave her counterfeit money in a box to give to the courier, who tried to drive away after receiving the box but was arrested by police.

The arrest helped authorities in their investigation of the international ring targeting more than 200 senior citizens in Northern Texas and other states.

One of the alleged organizers of the scam was caught on Sept. 4 when he tried to flee the country through New York, according to the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office.

35-year-old Muzaamil Ahmed had allegedly built shell corporations in order to launder money scammed from senior citizens. He converted the stolen cash and gold into cryptocurrency that was then moved out of the country, according to prosecutors.

“If you are participating in this scam, know this: We are dismantling your network,” said District Attorney Phil Sorrells. “You will face justice in Tarrant County.”

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Sorrells said he knew of one case where a victim lost life savings to the scam and committed suicide as a result.

The criminal network was responsible for $250 million in theft from victims, prosecutors said.

Others had been indicted in the scam, including store owners who melted down gold, people who transferred the stolen funds in cryptocurrency, and others who set up bank accounts to aid in the money laundering.

Ahmed was booked into the Tarrant County Jail, and officials are working to extradite two other suspects in the scam.

“Law enforcement will never call you and tell you to buy gold or withdraw cash or purchase things like cryptocurrency for safety. If someone tells you to do that, hang up,” Sorrells warned.

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Socialism 2026 — Haymarket Books’ annual gathering of Marxists, abolitionists, and far-left activists — ran September 4-7.

As you might expect, content centered on abolition — not just of capitalism, but also of police, prisons, borders, the family, and “cisness.” Not to mention plenty of speeches on Marxist theory, Palestine solidarity, anti-ICE organizing, and labor strategy.

Glenn Beck was horrified and amused at the freak-show antics of the four-day conference. On this episode of “The Glenn Beck program,” he revisits the most viral lowlights of the event and warns of the looming 2028 strike plan hiding behind them.

While many of the session titles were predictable, some were truly unhinged. Glenn names a few: “Health Fascism,” “Body Politics,” “The Anti-State State,” “Feminism Against Cisness,” “Abolishing the Family Through Black Feminist Lens,” and “Tarot Cards for Socialists.”

The one about tarot cards, he laughs, was his “favorite.”

“Apparently the godless need some advice and a second opinion as well,” he quips.

Another noteworthy moment, Glenn says, is when Hassan Piker — the celebrity salesman of abolition socialism — gladly received a hat from a Stand with Abortion Now member with the inscription “Satan’s School of Gay Communism.”

He then plays a clip of self-described queer/trans Afropessimist and anarcho-communist Da’Shaun Harrison arguing that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are “fascistic” because they exist in “a world fixated on genociding fat people.”

While Harrison’s anti-GLP-1 argument makes Glenn roll his eyes, it’s the fact that he’s still wearing a mask that really ticks him off.

“For the love of Pete, COVID is way in the past. The mask didn’t work in the first place,” he scoffs, noting that “a lot of the people at this convention were still wearing masks.”

As for Harrison’s fat-genocide grievance, Glenn sees a glaring flaw.

“Why would Americans want to genocide fat people? We’d all be dead. We’d all be dead. Have you been to a mall lately? Have you seen the American public recently?” he asks, baffled.

Sitting next to Harrison on the “Health Fascism” panel was Beatrice Alder Bolton — a disability-justice writer and podcaster.

“The fantasy of being fitter than the fascists — it’s not just that it’s cringe or strategically bad, though it is. I think it’s also politically revealing. Fitness is a measure of relative disposability under capitalism,” she argued.

“Our task is not to become less disposable, to become more useful to the ruling order. What we all need to be doing is rejecting disposability in all of its forms,” she added.

Again, Glenn sees the irony. Bolton, who is wearing a mask to protect herself against sickness, is arguing that being fit and healthy is a capitalist trap.

“We don’t have to worry about being healthy? Then take the mask off, sweetheart,” he snaps.

The problem with this group of radical abolitionists, he says, is not that they have bad ideas. “We all have bad ideas. … Bad ideas happen all the time. What you’re looking at here in Chicago is a room where a bad idea has no place to die,” he says, explaining how dissent is equivalent to treason in such movements.

But the most alarming thing about Socialism 2026, Glenn argues, isn’t found in the viral videos about fat-genocide and fitness-as-fascism. It’s what’s coming in 2028.

“Mayday 2028” is “not a slogan” but a planned and well-organized strike that, if successful, will shut down many workplaces simultaneously.

“The UAW has called for aligning major union contract expirations on May 1, 2028. Other unions have moved their dates to match. DSA passed its resolution at its convention committing to build a mass action,” says Glenn.

“One organizer called [Socialism 2026] a structured test — a rehearsal to count how many people will actually walk out when asked. They are patient. They are funded. They are well scheduled, two and a half years out,” he continues.

So while most people are busy buzzing about viral X clips, “the calendar is the part that matters,” he warns.

To hear more, watch the video above.

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Van Lathan is a popular social and political commentator who recently came out in favor of what he called the “gay agenda.” His reasoning was straightforward: Gay people exist and have relationships, so media companies should intentionally promote same-sex storylines to young viewers.

He is right that media is a powerful tool for shaping norms and values. But like many people who comment on modern family dynamics, Lathan focused on adults’ desires rather than children’s needs. Applied consistently, however, his case for using media to shape culture points toward promoting the relationships that bring more children into the world and bind mothers and fathers to them.

These efforts would help restore a culture of strong families in neighborhoods where some black boys grow up believing that ‘marriage is for white people.’

Nearly 40% of U.S. births in 2024 were to unmarried women. In 2019, almost one-quarter of U.S. children under 18 lived with a single parent and no other adult. The share of married adults has fallen since 1970, while the typical age at first marriage has risen. Marriage is increasingly treated as optional to forming a family. Given the association between family structure and child outcomes, that should concern policymakers, pastors, pundits, and parents alike.

Given his frequent commentary on racial inequality, Van Lathan and other progressives should be the loudest advocates of a “Black Wives Matter” campaign that promotes marriage and strong families.

In 2023, 69.3% of births to non-Hispanic black women occurred outside marriage, a share significantly higher than the 40% national figure. The numbers in some cities were even starker. New York City reported that an estimated 65% of births to non-Hispanic black women were to mothers who were not married. The comparable figures were 77% in Washington, D.C., and 83% in Baltimore.

State-level data was also stark: 71% in Georgia, 79% in Alabama, and about 82% in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana.

Family structure is among the most consequential examples of racial disparity in American social life, yet civil rights organizations and racial justice advocates on the political left largely ignore it. Progressives apply an equity lens to every structure except family structure.

Changing this reality will require black leaders and influencers like Van Lathan to promote and prioritize an agenda that restores marriage as the foundation of family life. My book, “The Vanishing Black Family,” gives them a blueprint for turning words into action and building a social movement to increase the number of black children growing up in a loving home with a married mother and father.

That could mean churches in the Deep South offering marriage counseling to young co-habiting couples; historically black colleges and universities producing new research on attitudes about marriage and family life; and cities running ads about what researchers call the “success sequence”: finish high school, get a full-time job, and marry before having children. Adults who complete those steps have far lower poverty rates; an Institute for Family Studies analysis reports that 97% were not poor in their 30s.

This movement will also need a media environment that normalizes loving relationships between men and women, a drastic change from the gender-war content that dominates online discourse today.

RELATED: Family is a terrible investment — unless you want to be human

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These efforts would help restore a culture of strong families in neighborhoods where some black boys grow up believing that “marriage is for white people.” That belief is not simply the product of cartoons and movies. It reflects a steadily declining marriage rate and leaders who have been too busy advancing movements that once openly called for disrupting the nuclear family and prioritizing what adults want over what children need.

The decline of stable, married-parent homes is concerning because family structure has a clear and consistent association with positive child outcomes. On average, children raised by their married biological parents have lower poverty and incarceration rates and higher college completion rates. Family structure is not the only cause of those differences, but it is not incidental either.

Those outcomes in the schoolhouse and courthouse receive most of the attention, but the importance of married parents goes beyond measurable indicators. Family also bears on the deeper questions of identity everyone asks at some point: “Who am I?” and “Whose am I?”

The answers reflect the reality that every child is the living embodiment of the relationship between his or her mother and father. The greatest gift parents can give their children is the safety and security of a loving home where Mom and Dad are committed to each other in marriage. That is the only agenda I am interested in promoting.

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Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner vehemently objected to a federal judge referring him for criminal investigation over his efforts to overturn a conviction.

U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond Jr. said Krasner might have committed obstruction of justice and other crimes in his handling of a post-conviction.

‘I refer the DAO, Mr. Krasner, and [his deputy Matthew] Stiegler to this District’s United States Attorney’s Office for investigation and other appropriate action.’

Krasner has backed a man seeking to overturn his second-degree murder conviction through the DA’s Conviction Integrity Unit. Prosecutors say the case was badly botched.

Diamond said that Krasner may have forced prosecutors to accept a false narrative

“I have thus reluctantly concluded that Philadelphia’s highest law enforcement official and one of his top assistants may have violated the law,” said Judge Diamond in the memo. “In these circumstances, with the issuance of this Memorandum, I refer the DAO, Mr. Krasner, and [his deputy Matthew] Stiegler to this District’s United States Attorney’s Office for investigation and other appropriate action.”

Krasner fired back and said he would appeal the decision.

“I respectfully and vigorously disagree with the court’s findings of fact and conclusions of law,” read a statement from the DA.

“I look forward to appealing to the higher court as soon as the law allows,” he added. “This remains a pending matter, which limits for now my and my office’s ability to respond in the media.”

Krasner was first elected through a massive campaign donation by left-wing millionaire George Soros. He has been heavily criticized for his lax law enforcement policies.

RELATED: Soros-backed DA vows to ‘blow up’ White House ballroom, calls Trump a ‘pain in the a**’

Krasner and Stiegler were ordered off of the case.

NBC reported that a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania did not return a request for comment.

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The president once against lambasted the U.S. Supreme Court after a split ruling against his order on mail-in voting.

President Donald Trump had ordered the U.S. Postal Service in April to help federal authorities prevent election fraud through voting by mail.

‘The damage done to America is incalculable, and they know this, just as everyone else does – It is an irreparable and unrecoverable harm!’

The order involved the creation of a comprehensive list of U.S. citizens who are legally allowed to vote. The USPS would only be allowed to mail ballots to voters on the list.

Two conservative justice dissented in the ruling Monday that upheld a lower court blocking the USPS from implementing certain parts of the president’s order for the midterm elections.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a concurrence explaining that although he believed the USPS had the authority to implement the order, the agency did not “have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule” before the elections.

The president zeroed in on that decision in his polemic on Truth Social.

“Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court, one that the Court System took forever to give,” he wrote, “and then blamed it, in part, on no time left to implement a solution to our totally CORRUPT and out of control Mail-In voting ‘disaster,’ which is a laughing stock all over the World, and where we are the only country that has to endure such a Nation Destroying SCAM.”

He went on to accuse the court of giving Democrats an “open field” to cheat through mail-in voting.

“Justices [Samuel] Alito and [Clarence] Thomas, legends both, strongly disagreed with this horrible, highly political, ruling,” he added. “The Supreme Court has really let our Country down!”

He also blasted the court for other decisions he disagreed with, including the birthright citizenship ruling and the court’s rejection of some of his tariffs.

Critics of the president’s order accused him of trying to unconstitutionally federalize elections.

“This is another desperate, illegal power grab that shows a total lack of respect for the American people and our Constitution,” responded Oregon State Secretary Tobias Read in April.

RELATED: ‘Hardly believable’: Trump RIPS INTO 2 Supreme Court justices he appointed

“The Constitution is clear: states run elections,” Read added. “We don’t need decrees from Washington, D.C. My message to the president: We’ll see you in court.”

The president asserted that the conservative justices had caved in to pressure and threats from left-wing activists.

“The damage done to America is incalculable, and they know this, just as everyone else does – It is an irreparable and unrecoverable harm!” he added. “The Court’s inability and unwillingness to do the right thing for our Country will go down, in a very negative way, in the annals of History.”

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) got a reputation years ago for repeating the same joke over and over.

Now, she’s using her trademark style for a new bit.

‘Time to get out the shirt.’

Though it may seem like a cruel joke at this point, it has come to the internet’s attention — once more — that Klobuchar (or her team) is back to her old tricks.

As reported by Town Hall columnist Dustin Grage, Klobuchar has used the exact same photo to commemorate a Minnesota Vikings game for four years in a row, offering incredibly minimal efforts to make them seem different.

Starting in 2023, the senator said she was “getting ready” to watch the Vikings game in her shirt that says, “Optimistic since 1961.” This is in reference to the team’s inaugural season and the fact they have never won a Super Bowl.

In 2024, the exact same photo was used for an October 20 game against the Detroit Lions.

“Optimistic since 1961,” the caption read.

Then in 2025, after another game against the Lions: “Yes, Vikings!” a post read, with the same photo now partially cropped, followed by, “and we’ve been optimistic since 1961.”

For the 2026 season opener on Sunday, Klobuchar wrote on her personal X account, “Game Day against the Packers. Time to get out the shirt,” with the same cropped image as last year.

Additionally, Klobuchar has an X video wearing the same shirt in January 2023.

RELATED: Dominion settles $1.3 BILLION lawsuit against Mike Lindell over 2020 election allegations

While normally such a situation would be assumed to be a joke, it is hard to tell where the bit starts and the real person stops with Klobuchar.

The senator, who is currently running for governor of Minnesota, was noted as using the same joke repeatedly in the 2020 Democratic primaries, where she continuously referred to a time when President Trump called her “snow woman” on X, then Twitter.

Compilations popped up showing her use the anecdote at speeches and rallies across the country, where Klobuchar would say: “I’d like to see how your hair would fair in a blizzard,” before calling Trump “Mr. Umbrella Man.”

At the same time, rumors of Klobuchar’s off-air personality have followed her for years, including claims that she once ate a salad with a comb after her staff forgot to bring utensils on a short flight.

A New York Times report called it “typical” for Klobuchar to berate her aide for such a slipup. After eating the salad with a comb — according to four people — she told the staff member to clean it.

A campaign spokesperson called the allegations surrounding such stories “ridiculous” but did not directly deny them.

RELATED: Tim Walz gets TORCHED over dolls with ‘swappable genitals’ meant for kids as young as 4: Report

Another rumor about Klobuchar was eventually used as a punchline on the show “Veep.”

The rumor claims Klobuchar had a staffer shave her legs, with the joke manifesting into: “I once dry-shaved that woman’s legs under her desk during a Cabinet meeting.”

According to the Washington Examiner, a Klobuchar representative denied the story and characterized it as completely false and “ridiculous.”

Blaze News reached out to Klobuchar’s office to ask if her posting the same image each year was meant as a joke but did not receive an immediate reply.

The Vikings’ record when the senator posts the photo stands at two wins and two losses.

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Police in Orland Park, Illinois, responded to a report of shots fired in the area of 15100 Harlem Avenue around 9 a.m. Tuesday, WFLD-TV reported. Orland Park is a village about an hour southwest of Chicago.

Police told the station a person was pumping gas at a Shell station when someone with a weapon tried to rob the victim.

‘Well done.’

You see, police told WFLD the victim in this case was a concealed carry holder who pulled a gun and shot the suspect during the attempted armed robbery.

The suspect was taken to a hospital for treatment, police told the station, adding that the CCL holder is cooperating with police.

Further details about the incident were not immediately clear, WFLD said, including what kind of weapon the suspect possessed.

RELATED: Knife-wielding male enters BBQ restaurant ‘frightening customers and staff’ — and then concealed-carrying patron steps up

Police added to the station that a heavy law enforcement presence will remain in the area as the investigation continues, and there is no threat to the public.

More than 500 comments poured into WFLD’s Facebook post about the incident, and users were most definitely behind the actions of the concealed carrier.

“Definition of FAFO,” one commenter wrote.”Charles Bronson is back in action!” another user quipped.”Yes, keep them guessing who may be packing,” another commenter reasoned.”Well done,” another user said. “Yet being in IL I’m sure there will be a rally for the suspect shot and some lawyer ready to defend them. ‘They weren’t really going to rob them.'””Exactly WHY you carry,” another commenter declared. “Personal protection.””It’s a story with a happy ending,” another user noted.”And I get asked why do I need to carry all the time,” another commenter observed.”Give him a medal,” another user stated.

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In the emotional aftermath of 9/11, President George W. Bush urged Americans not to blame Islam for the terrorist attacks, instead declaring that “Islam is peace.”

Twenty-five years later, BlazeTV host Nick Freitas is revisiting that message and asking whether the country learned the wrong lessons from its darkest day.

“I don’t know if you guys remember this, but shortly after 9/11, U.S. president visits an Islamic center, and he had this to say,” Freitas says.

“These acts of violence against innocence violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith. That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace,” Bush told the crowd.

“Let’s see if that’s true,” Freitas says, before reading several passages from the Quran.

“Surah 9:5: ‘Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free,” reads one excerpt.

“If you either convert to Islam or you agree to pay additional taxes because you’re not Islamic, then you can be free,” Freitas explains.

“Surah 9:29: ‘Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and his Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of truth (even if they are of the People of the Book), until they pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued,” reads another.

“So again, you’re allowed to survive as a Christian, as a Jew, as somebody else that’s not a Muslim, right, but only if you’re subdued, only if you’re willing to pay additional taxes,” Freitas says.

And in Surah 47:4, Muslims are instructed: “So when you meet those who disbelieve [in battle], strike [their] necks until, when you have inflicted slaughter upon them, then secure their bonds, and either [confer] favor afterwards or ransom [them] until the war lays down its burdens.”

“It’s a religion of peace, man,” Freitas comments. “How do you know it’s a religion of peace? Well, George Bush says so.”

“To say otherwise is to be mean. And we’re not allowed to be mean,” he adds.

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Young Americans may be posting “Never Forget” in light of the 25th anniversary of the most devastating terror attack to hit American soil, but that doesn’t mean they’re not really forgetting.

“Sometimes I feel like people who did not live through it don’t fully appreciate what we’re up against. Like something changes in you when you live through something like that. And I think the younger generation, they just don’t get it,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales tells Xaviaer DuRousseau.

“Unless you went through it, you’re just like, ‘Yeah, whatever. What? Let’s go along to get along. What could possibly go wrong with, you know, bringing in Islam here?’ They just don’t get it ‘cause they didn’t live through it,” she continues.

DuRousseau points out that there was even a “TikTok trend” a couple of years ago where users were siding with Osama bin Laden.

“The fact that they are glorifying this mindset that we are allowing so many people with the jihadi ideology to gain power and influence in our country and they’re very outspoken about it: That’s terrifying to me,” he says.

“And not just in our country, but in New York freaking City. We have the Muslim commie mayor Zohran Mamdani, who they were protesting. They didn’t want him to show up to their 9/11 memorial, but he did,” Gonzales says.

“And he went and shook hands with Rudy Giuliani, who of course was the mayor of New York City during 9/11,” she adds, pointing out that there was “an interesting moment” when Mamdani was caught on camera laughing with AOC.

However, it wasn’t just a random moment — but they were laughing while the names of all those who died on 9/11 were read aloud.

“That’s crazy,” DuRousseau says. “That just shows how unserious this is to them.”

“If you are the mayor of New York City, I expect that you live and breathe and are just like, you know, truly understanding your city and what the people there have gone through and the trauma that they are enduring,” he continues.

“You were supposed to be there amongst the people, and instead you were totally removed and disassociated and just going and having a laugh off with AOC,” he says. “Like, that’s wild.”

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The father of Thomas Crooks has revealed chilling details about his life before he tried to assassinate President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The revelations by Matthew Crooks were reported in FBI interview summaries and other documents exclusively reviewed by the New York Post. They were from the congressional investigation into the shooting.

‘Thomas did not like the welfare state and was against the “woke” ideology but never really espoused the Republican ideology.’

The father said that he never really had any strong father-son bond with Thomas, who was stoic and hard to read.

“When Thomas was born he did not scream, and he was always quiet from that point on,” said the father.

Crooks said his son had a troubled childhood but that he was very intelligent. Thomas damaged school property in elementary school out of boredom, and his parents thought he had ADHD or had fallen in with a bad group of friends in middle school.

His father said he even “pushed” Thomas in hopes of prompting some kind of emotional response, and Thomas did begin to cry.

He became even quieter in high school and had trouble speaking with his teachers, according to Matthew Crooks. His son also started talking to himself, a habit that “became more noticeable over the years.”

Thomas was able to score a 1400 on the SAT without studying, according to the father, and then scored a near perfect 1500 on a second try.

Thomas denied being gay many times over the years, as his parents noted that he didn’t seem to have an interest in girls.

Matthew Crooks said his son developed a great interest in guns and asked if he needed to pass a background check to purchase his father’s Glock. He asked if he could have his grandfather’s guns but did not appear to care about hunting as a sport.

Although Thomas Crooks was a terrible marksman at first, his father says his son got far better after several years of practice. He showed off his range targets to his father, explaining that “he wanted to see how far he could shoot with rudimentary sights.”

In fact, Matthew Crooks admitted he handed Thomas a Panther A-15 rifle the morning of the shooting, believing that his son was going to the shooting range, according to the Post, citing federal records.

RELATED: Journalist at Trump assassination attempt says he got PTSD — from Trump supporters

Matthew Crooks said Thomas was registered as a Republican, but the father believed he did so only because of his father’s Republican registration. His son had a general interest in politics but was not terribly passionate about the topic.

“Thomas called himself a Republican. Thomas did not like the welfare state and was against the ‘woke’ ideology but never really espoused the Republican ideology,” Matthew Crooks said.

He said his son was shocked at the events of Jan. 6 and did not think the 2020 election had been rigged. Thomas donated $15 to a progressive Democratic group in 2021.

Thomas Crooks liked rap and country music, said Matthew, who sometimes found his son dancing alone in his room.

Thomas “never showed any signs indicating something was wrong,” Matthew said to investigators.

Thomas did begin buying things on Amazon, including “parts, tools, and items to increase the capacity of his rifle,” eventually adopting the pseudonym “Bob Dole” for his delivery address to thwart potential hackers, his dad said.

The family is “racking” their brains trying to understand why Thomas tried to kill the president.

Trump was shot in the ear on July 13, 2024, and three rally attendees were shot behind him, one of whom died. Crooks was almost immediately shot and killed by a Secret Service sniper.

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Mobile-based contactless payment services are 15 years old, starting with Google Wallet in 2011 (which later became Google Pay), followed by Apple Pay in 2014. Many stores slowly rolled out support over years of foot-dragging, while large chains like Walmart tried to push their own payment solution. However, after nearly two decades of hemming and hawing, the retail giant is finally caving in. Here’s what you need to know before the next time you try to buy something at Walmart with Apple Pay or Google Pay.

While Google was the first to bring contactless payments to mobile, the industry took notice when Apple introduced its own solution to the market. Built around the wildly successful iPhone and Apple Watch, Apple Pay quickly picked up steam. Today, it accounts for 50% of in-store transactions in the United States, while Google Pay only covers 17%. Globally, that makes up a difference of $9.5 trillion spent through Apple’s ecosystem versus $5.2 trillion on Google’s platform.

The rollout has already begun at select locations.

It wasn’t always that way, though. In the earlier days of contactless payments, the market was more like the Wild West with various companies jockeying for control. Some stores even launched their own payment services to compete.

Walmart Pay ruined the party

Walmart released Walmart Pay in 2015 as a direct in-store alternative to Apple and Google. The key selling point, at least for Walmart, was that its payment service worked with a QR code system. That meant any customer could use any phone to scan the code at the register to connect to their Walmart account and submit a payment.

RELATED: A YouTube stunt proved this Apple Pay exploit can drain your bank account in seconds. Here’s the fix.

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Unfortunately, the process was clunkier than Apple Pay and Google Pay, which only required users to hover their devices over payment terminals and authenticate with a fingerprint or FaceID. Walmart Pay also gave the retail giant the power to monitor customers’ purchases and link them to their accounts — a stark difference to Apple Pay and Google Pay that hide identifying customer information and transaction data from merchants.

In other words, Walmart Pay gave the company insight into customers’ shopping habits that it couldn’t get from other platforms … until now.

Contactless payments are coming to Walmart

After all these years of waiting, Walmart announced that it is finally giving customers the choice to use other contactless payment options. As a result, customers will soon be allowed to complete purchases with Apple Pay and Google Pay at the register in Walmart stores and Sam’s Clubs nationwide.

The rollout has already begun at select locations, and all stores will have access to these services by the end of 2026. After that, Walmart and Sam’s Club fuel stations will gain contactless support by mid-2027. This change also means that customers should have the option to use contactless payment credit cards and debit cards with EMV chips, as well.

How to make sure your phone is set up for contactless payments

Now that you can buy things with your phone at Walmart, you’ll want to make sure your device is set up before you walk into the store.

To add a card to Apple Pay, open the Wallet app on iPhone, select the plus symbol in the top right corner, and choose “Debit or Credit Card.” From there, you can place your iPhone against the card to add it automatically through the EMV chip, or type in the card details by hand. Once the card is added, you may have to verify the information with your bank or credit union through the bank’s official app or via a text or phone call. Do this, and you’re all set to use Apple Pay.

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On Android, open the Wallet app and tap the plus button at the bottom. On the next screen, select “Payment card,” then “new credit or debit,” and let the app take a photo of your card to add the details. You can also write them in manually, if you prefer. Verify the information with your bank or credit union, and you’re all set to use Google Pay.

Screenshots by Zach Laidlaw/Google Pay

In the end, contactless payments on iPhone and Android are more convenient and secure than tapping your credit card at the register or trusting an alternative payment solution, like Walmart Pay.

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For decades, the government led a crusade against carbon dioxide, treating the byproduct of human breath as a pollutant causing global warming and climate change. Luckily, cooler heads have finally prevailed as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency aims to pull back carbon emission restrictions for the sake of the American people, power plants, and the economy.

The Clean Air Act has been around since the 1970s. The original version specifically targeted vehicle emissions, namely carbon monoxide, which is harmful to humans in concentrated quantities.

’Even if you got rid of all GHG emissions tomorrow, it would have no meaningful climate impact.’

However, in recent decades, the bill morphed to cover a broader range of “pollutants,” including human breath in the form of carbon dioxide, cow flatulence that produces methane, and other supposed “greenhouse gases.”

Yet one of the more egregious restrictions came directly from the Biden administration, which used the Inflation Reduction Act to attack fossil fuels because of the carbon dioxide emitted during the burning process.

This distinction helped the Biden administration further vilify the fossil fuels industry and secure $369 billion in funding to cut carbon emissions and bankroll clean energy initiatives.

RELATED: New peer-reviewed study points out the obvious: Carbon emissions are feeding plants and greening the planet

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That is all about to change.

On Monday, the EPA officially removed some of the power-plant carbon emissions restrictions put in place by the Biden administration in 2024 and proposed repealing the others.

EPA spokesman Mike Bastasch told Blaze News:

Repealing the costly and ineffective Biden-Harris carbon pollution standards will save Americans up to $310 billion. The power sector will save billions of dollars in compliance costs, and Americans will save billions of dollars more by not having to fund tax credits for CO2 sequestration. The Trump EPA is committed to protecting human health and the environment while also driving economic growth, lowering energy costs, and improving standards of living.

EPA is also proposing to rescind all remaining GHG emissions requirements for power plants, which have imposed unnecessary requirements and drained the power sector’s resources, while producing virtually no benefit. …

The reality is that even if you got rid of all GHG emissions tomorrow, it would have no meaningful climate impact. This fact is confirmed by the same models used by the Obama administration. EPA estimates that the supplemental proposal would save $370 million in costs.

Ultimately, the benefits of the repeal are threefold: Energy companies no longer have to abide by costly climate edicts of past administrations. American citizens save money on taxes. Finally, the people gain much-needed relief from climate change hysteria, thanks to models that suggest continued greenhouse gas remediation would have an insignificant impact on climate trends around the globe.

This move is just one of many that indicate climate change hysteria is coming to an end. Late last year, Bill Gates admitted that climate change wouldn’t end the world after all. The Antarctic has also gained ice while melting in the Arctic has slowed, despite doomer claims that the latter would be “ice-free” by 2020.

Some “experts” have even claimed that reduced emissions are the problem.

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It’s impossible to miss election season. Signs show up in neighbors’ yards, the mountains of fliers pile up in the mail, and your email inbox fills up with political messages asking for donations or a vote. In the past, you could easily file these emails into the spam folder and rarely hear from the sender again, but not this year.

Google’s new verified sender program for Gmail lets politicians skip your spam filter and go straight to your inbox, whether you like it or not. Luckily, there are still ways to get rid of them.

The program ensures you can’t escape political advertisements.

Google recently unveiled its Gmail Verified Sender Program set to launch on September 8. Once it rolls out, verified senders, including politicians, can bypass any previous filters that would’ve sent them to your spam or junk folder. Instead, they’ll go straight into your inbox where they’re most likely to reach you.

Sounds like a nightmare, right?

According to Google, this system “helps eligible, verified political committees in the United States reliably deliver policy-compliant and non-abusive messages to personal Gmail accounts on an ongoing basis.” In reality, the program ensures you can’t escape political advertisements, at least not with the usual methods.

Politicians have to follow the rules

If there’s any saving grace, it’s that Google has some ground rules for any politician who wishes to use the new program. Politicians have to:

Refrain from sending anything that resembles spam, including unsolicited or repetitive emails. Theoretically, if you didn’t sign up for a political mailer, you shouldn’t be subjected to these messages in the first place.Meet all of Google’s mass email guidelines, which include proper domain authentication and message formatting. All emails must also include an “unsubscribe” button for CAN-SPAM compliance.Follow Gmail’s anti-abuse policy, which means they can’t attempt to commit fraud, promote illicit activities, engage in harassment, or other unsavory behaviors.

Furthermore, if more than 0.3% of respondents label an incoming email as spam across any rolling 14-day period, Google may suspend the politician’s email operations for seven days or terminate his or her email program entirely.

RELATED: Google is finally letting you change the most important thing about your Gmail account. Here’s how.

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How to keep political emails out of your inbox

Just because political emails can bypass your spam folder doesn’t mean there aren’t ways to keep them out of your inbox. In fact, Google’s rules alone show that there are still several things you can do to clear out the political clutter. Here are your options:

Hit the unsubscribe button: By law, all commercial emails and advertisements — including political messages — are required to include a simple-to-find unsubscribe button at the bottom of the email. Click on that, confirm your decision on the next page that pops up, and you should be opted out of future email chains.Get creative with Gmail labels: Google gave Gmail a neat little trick that lets you target emails with specific keywords, or that arrive from certain senders, and automatically throw them in the trash. To set up one of these filters, open Gmail in your web browser on a computer, click the Settings cog in the top right corner, then select “See all settings.” From here, go to “Filters and blocked addresses,” and create a new filter. Type in the information you want to target and select “Create filter.” On the checkboxes page, mark “Delete it.” Lastly, click the “Create filter” button, and you’re all set. No more political emails.

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Hit the spam button anyway: When a political email drops into your inbox, you reserve the right to relabel it as spam. While this may not keep the next email from that campaign from hitting your inbox again, your efforts can help suspend the account or even terminate it.Use a different email provider: When all else fails, you can always put your Gmail aside and use a different email provider that will let you block political messages from the start.

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A knife-wielding male stabbed a mother and daughter in a random attack in Northern California, police said — but an arriving sheriff’s deputy put a stop to the threat with his gun.

The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office released a summary video Friday detailing what took place on the morning of July 15.

‘Kudos to the deputy that [saved] the innocent victims’ lives by eliminating the threat.’

The sheriff’s office said its communications center received a call around 6:30 a.m. stating that a transient adult male was causing a disturbance at a Starbucks at Elkhorn Boulevard and Diablo Drive in Sacramento.

Employees said the suspect was behind the store counter and armed with a “kitchen knife,” officials noted, adding that store employees hid in a back room while waiting for law enforcement to arrive.

But when deputies arrived on the scene, the suspect had already fled, officials said.

Minutes later, a deputy saw an individual matching the suspect’s description walking on Diablo Drive, officials said.

The suspect ran into an open garage of a residence in the 5700 block of Diablo Drive, and the suspect stabbed and cut a 63-year-old mother numerous times as she was getting into her vehicle, officials said.

Her 26-year-old daughter heard screams and saw the suspect on top of her mother, officials said, adding that the daughter pushed the suspect off her mother, saving her from further attack.

But the suspect then focused his attack on the daughter, who also was cut and stabbed numerous times, officials said.

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The deputy who initially saw the suspect witnessed the suspect’s attacks in the garage, officials said, adding that the deputy fired his handgun toward the suspect, striking the suspect.

Additional deputies arrived and immediately began administering lifesaving measures to the suspect and both victims, officials said.

Fire personnel responded to the scene and pronounced the suspect dead, officials said.

Both victims were taken to a hospital, where they were listed in serious but stable condition, officials said.

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The suspect has been identified as Faryeshyi Allahdin, officials said, adding that no deputies were injured during the incident.

Officials said investigators believe the attack was random, and the victims had no known connection to the suspect.

Commenters below the sheriff’s office video posted to Facebook had high praise for law enforcement:

“Kudos to the deputy that [saved] the innocent victims’ lives by eliminating the threat,” one commenter wrote.”Nice shot by the deputy & thank you for not hesitating so that the perpetrator could not do any fatal damage,” another user wrote. “This is a happy ending — no trial & further trauma to the victims needed & no revolving door on prison/jail for this guy who’d probably go on to terrorize more victims after being let out too soon.””Thank you for you courageous service, officer,” another commenter said. “And dang that daughter — kudos for jumping in to [help] her mom.””Police officers are heroes… no other way to say it,” another user declared.

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