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New York City’s democratic socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, announced a free child care program for city workers after previously claiming the city faces a $12 billion budget deficit. His goal is to provide universal child care to all New York City residents, and the program is being implemented in phases.

Mamdani held a press conference on Monday to unveil NYC’s first free, on-site child care pilot program, which will serve year-round approximately 40 children ages 6 weeks to 3 years.

‘When we took office, we inherited a historic budget gap.’

The program will begin in the fall after the city completes its $10 million renovation at the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building to create a 4,000-square-foot child care facility. The building currently houses over 2,000 employees.

The mayor’s office claims the program will put “upwards of $20,000 a year back in the pockets of working families.”

“Change begins at home. As we deliver universal child care to New Yorkers, that work must include the public servants who keep this city running,” Mamdani stated. “We are bringing year-round, no-cost child care right here to Lower Manhattan — not just saving families money, but giving them back hours of their time. No parent should have to spend hours commuting just to ensure their child is safe and cared for.”

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Mamdani’s campaign has estimated that the mayor’s universal child care program will cost $6 billion annually.

Shortly after being inaugurated early this year, Mamdani claimed that New York City was “facing a serious fiscal crisis.”

“There is a massive fiscal deficit in our city’s budget to the tune of at least $12 billion,” he stated in January.

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Mamdani blamed former New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) for the city’s alleged budget crisis. Adams has consistently denied leaving a deficit in the city’s budget, insisting instead that he left over $8 billion in reserves.

Mamdani provided an update on the city’s budget in February, stating, “When we took office, we inherited a historic budget gap. Our aggressive savings plan, daily incorporation of updated revenue and bonus estimates, and our deployment of in-year reserves in tandem with more than a billion dollars in additional aid from Governor [Kathy] Hochul, have lowered that deficit from an initial $12 billion to $5.4 billion. While considerably less, it is still a significant chasm.”

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President Donald Trump’s administration has recruited Scott Brady, a lead prosecutor from the Hunter Biden investigation, to aid Vice President JD Vance’s task force to eliminate fraud.

Brady served as the lead prosecutor against Hunter Biden as well as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania during Trump’s first term, where he focused on prosecuting health care and COVID-era fraud schemes. Brady currently serves as special counsel for the Department of Health and Human Services aiding the crackdown on grant fraud and will now serve as the executive director of the task force.

‘Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.’

Brady was also handpicked to investigate Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” where prosecutors looked into corruption charges against former President Joe Biden’s son.

“In my investigation of Hunter, despite not having a grand jury, we were the only investigation which found an actual smoking gun detailing bribes to Hunter and then-VP Biden, in the Smirnov FD-1023, which detailed Burisma Chairman Zlochevsky’s $10M bribe to Hunter and Joe Biden,” a online biography of Brady reviewed by the Daily Wire reads.

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“I am proud to have served under President Trump in his first term, and I am excited to see an unapologetically muscular strategy being executed in the second term,” the bio continues. ”As President Reagan presciently said, ‘Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. It has to be fought for and defended by each generation.’”

The task force was first convened last week with Vice President JD Vance at the helm. During the meeting, Vance commended Trump’s numerous “anti-fraud protections” implemented during his second term, pointing the finger at the Biden administration.

“This is not just theft of the American people’s money,” Vance said of the uptick in fraud under Biden. “This is also the theft of critical services that American people rely on.”

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Brady’s appointment to the role was made official on Thursday, according to the Daily Wire, and he attended the task force’s first meeting on Friday.

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The Chicago Bulls have dumped 24-year-old guard Jaden Ivey after he made comments in support of God and against Pride Month.

Ivey’s stint with the Bulls is over after just four games, following a trade from the Detroit Pistons in early February.

‘God did not make a man to be with a man.’

The Bulls waived Ivey on Monday — which means his contract can be picked up by another team — after the guard criticized gay pride and the NBA on his Instagram page.

“The world can proclaim LGBTQ, they proclaim Pride Month, and the NBA, they proclaim it,” Ivey said from inside a vehicle.

“God did not make a man to be with a man. God did not make a girl to be with a girl. God made a man for the purpose of procreation to have another child,” Ivey added.

It did not take long for the Bulls to catch wind of the young player’s comments, and the organization announced at 6 p.m. that he was being let go.

“The Chicago Bulls announced today that the team has waived guard Jaden Ivey due to conduct detrimental to the team,” the Bulls said in a statement shared to social media.

Before their game on Monday evening, Bulls head coach Billy Donovan told the media that the organization expects certain standards to be upheld.

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“We’ve got people from all different backgrounds, you know, inside the organization,” Donovan said after a reporter claimed Ivey was spiraling.

“We’re all going to basically take care of each other. We’re going to accept each other. And I think we’re going to be hardworking, we’re going to be accountable, and we’re going to be respectful, and we’re going to be professional,” the coach continued.

Donovan concluded, “I think, organizationally, there’s certain standards I think we want to have as an organization and try to live up to those each and every day.”

Ivey was quick to jump back on social media on Monday night and call the Bulls’ reasoning into question.

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“Why didn’t they just say, ‘We don’t agree with his stance on LGBTQ?'” Ivey asked.

“How? Because I believe in the truth because I know Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life?”

He added, “This is not about me. This is about the kingdom of God. This is about the truth, the truth of the Bible, because I spoke what the truth is. I called these things out because that’s what it is. The word of God will be preached to all nations, and then the end will come.”

Ivey is on the final year of his rookie contract, a four-year deal worth almost $33 million.

If he is not signed by another team within the league’s 48-hour window, the Bulls will have to pay the remainder of his contract, and he will become a free agent.

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Ten years ago on his radio show, Glenn Beck gave “three possibilities” of what America’s future would look like in a decade’s time.

Possibility #1: “Slow Decay” — “Corruption would become routine. Violence will become background noise. Currency … buys less and less year after year until you just have to adjust your expectations downward. The border will blur. Drugs will flood in. Institutions will continue to weaken, but they won’t break. They just stop working the way they once did.”

Possibility #2: “Control” — “A moment will come when the system decides dissent is a real threat, when the people who warned, protested, resisted are no longer just wrong but dangerous. And the label will change from opponent to enemy.”

Possibility #3: “Wake up” — “Citizens would wake up, that grassroots movements (imperfect but loud) … would remind the country who it was supposed to be. And people will look back and say, ‘Wow, that was the moment that it really turned around.”’

“I think a little bit of all of those things happened,” says Glenn.

The first predication, he says, was spot on — “Corruption is routine? Absolutely. Violence, a background noise? Absolutely. Currency hasn’t died, just buys less year after year. We have to adjust our expectations downward. The border has absolutely blurred. The drugs are flooding in (still are). The institutions haven’t broken but they weakened, and things aren’t working the way they used to,” he says, confirming his old hypothesis.

The second prediction about mitigating chaos via control, he argues, also came true, specifically “during the Biden administration, where the system decided dissent was a real threat, and they started to silence people.”

The third and most hopeful possibility — a nationwide grassroots movement to restore order and morality — has also partially come to fruition.

“I think all three paths happened at the same time — bits and pieces. Here’s what hasn’t happened: We haven’t decided which one,” says Glenn.

But we have to choose, he urges, because the next ten years won’t afford us the same wiggle room.

“In ten years from now, what does the world look like? Well, it’s not going to be a combination of all three,” he says bluntly.

“We’re out of runway,” Glenn warns. “You have to choose: Do we slam on the brakes with this plane right now, or do we pull on the yoke and start to fly?”

To hear more, watch the video above.

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On any given Tuesday afternoon, there are thousands of parents rushing out the door in a panic, corralling their kids into the car, frantically battling their way through traffic, picking up something cheap to eat because there’s no time for anything else, nearly crashing as they try to shave a few minutes off because you can’t be late, for God’s sake, and then finally dropping their kid off at the sports center for travel soccer practice.

On the weekends, they are driving four hours for tournaments, staying in hotels every Saturday night, and spending thousands of dollars every year devoting their lives to the wide and ever-expanding world of travel sports.

What does it do to your family if you aren’t ever eating dinner together?

Have you noticed any of this? Have you heard of any of this? Well, I hope you haven’t, but you probably have. Travel sports are a big thing these days, and they seem to get bigger every year. Soccer, baseball, hockey, volleyball: Whatever the game, the phenomenon is the same.

Soccer monster

When I was young, travel sports weren’t such a big thing. I know they existed somewhere, but I don’t think I knew anyone personally who did them. My wife knew someone who did travel hockey, but that was it. Back in those days, travel sports were rare, and it seemed that the only people who did them were people who were extraordinarily “into” sports. Now travel sports are everywhere, more kids are in them, and they are more consuming than ever before.

I know a woman who admits that the only reason she works is to fund her son’s travel soccer habit. She’s joking a little, but only a little. Every week she is buying new gear, shopping for more accoutrements, booking hotels for the whole weekend, exploring other travel leagues that might be better, and generally devoting a large portion of her life to travel sports.

The travel soccer her son is in runs all year and costs around $10,000. That doesn’t include any of the travel expenses or hotels. At the end of any given year, their travel soccer bill could easily be a tidy $25,000. She says they almost never eat at home, which makes sense. On the weekdays she is carting her son to travel soccer; on the weekends they are staying in hotels.

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Fare play

Sure, it’s not for everybody, but what’s the big deal about spending a couple of hours on the freeway every weekend? That’s what I used to think. Then I learned that it’s not uncommon for parents to fly with their kids to various tournaments around the country. That’s how deep the travel sports addiction can get. I was shocked.

It would be one thing, I suppose, if only the truly exceptional young athletes were caught up in this — the 0.000000001% destined to become pros or compete in the Olympics. But these are average kids we’re talking about, kids who will most likely never play their chosen sport beyond high school.

I’m not a sports hater. Sports are good for kids. I grew up doing sports in the summer and after school in the spring and fall. My kids do baseball, soccer, and tennis. But they aren’t traveling anywhere to play these sports, nor will they be. And we have more important things to spend money on than a $25,000 travel soccer bill.

The problem with travel sports isn’t the sports. It’s the travel. And it’s the travel that’s such a problem because it’s that which results in life being completely subsumed by practices, tournaments, and all things travel sports. And the problem with all things being subsumed by travel sports is that you don’t have time for anything else, and you lose track of what actually matters.

Time out

What does it do to your family if you aren’t ever eating dinner together? What does it do to your kid — their sense of purpose and their perception of their role as a child — if all you do is cart them around like a dutiful chauffeur? And what about their spiritual development? If you are traveling every weekend for travel sports, you certainly won’t be attending synagogue on Saturday or church on Sunday. How do you teach your kids about values or faith if you never make time for them? Well, you can’t.

Lastly, what about culture? What do travel sports say about the state of our society and what we value? Sure, without question, travel sports are a lot better than smoking weed, being a general menace, or sitting on your butt all day doing nothing. But are those really the only options?

They can’t be.

How do families remain families — close families — in an era of over-scheduled kids, over-worked parents, and in a world that seems intent on drawing us apart and off into things that don’t really matter? It’s a big question, and each family has their own answer. But whatever the answer is for whoever you are, travel sports are probably not it.

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America is entering an era when the threats to our nation are evolving faster than our public conversation about them. Yet one of the most important national security initiatives of this decade — Golden Dome — remains largely unknown to the very people whose support will determine whether it succeeds.

Most citizens have no idea what Golden Dome is, what threats it addresses, or why it is stabilizing rather than escalatory.

Congress is asking pointed questions, industry is unsure what to build, and the public has barely heard the name. If we don’t close this information gap now, we risk letting confusion, speculation, and adversarial narratives define a program designed to protect the nation.

Golden Dome is not a mystery. It is a modernization effort aimed at defending the United States against advanced 21st‑century threats — those that move faster, fly farther, and strike with greater precision than anything we faced in the past.

Its architecture integrates sensing, tracking, command and control, and layered defensive capabilities across multiple domains. In plain terms, it is a shield: a system designed to strengthen deterrence, reduce vulnerability, and give national leaders more time and options in a crisis.

But even the strongest shield is only as durable as the public trust behind it. And right now, that trust is at risk.

A strategic initiative without a public narrative

Golden Dome fits squarely within the nation’s core strategic frameworks. It supports the National Security Strategy’s mandate to protect the homeland and strengthen deterrence. It advances the National Defense Strategy’s focus on countering advanced adversary capabilities. And it complements U.S. nuclear policy by reinforcing the stability and resilience of the strategic environment — without altering nuclear doctrine.

Yet alignment with strategy is not enough. Congress, industry, allies, and the American people all need to understand what Golden Dome is and why it matters. Without that clarity, the initiative risks becoming a target for political friction, budgetary skepticism, and misinterpretation abroad.

Congress has already begun signaling frustration. Members in both chambers want clearer information about Golden Dome’s architecture, cost, schedule, and oversight mechanisms.

Industry, meanwhile, is being asked to innovate at speed without knowing the full scope of what the government needs.

Golden Dome requires rapid prototyping, open architectures, and competition. But companies cannot position themselves effectively without clear guidance. The result is hesitation at a moment when urgency is essential.

And then there is the American public.

Most citizens have no idea what Golden Dome is, what threats it addresses, or why it is stabilizing rather than escalatory. In an age of disinformation, that vacuum is dangerous. If the people do not understand the purpose of a major national security initiative, adversaries will happily define it for them.

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Golden Dome is not just a domestic issue. Allies and partners want reassurance that the United States is strengthening — not retreating from — collective defense commitments. They need to know that Golden Dome complements existing security architectures rather than replacing them or shifting burdens. Adversaries, too, are watching closely. Clear, consistent messaging is essential to avoid misinterpretation and to reinforce deterrence. Ambiguity invites miscalculations.

Private speeches aren’t enough

To date, Golden Dome has been discussed primarily at defense and military conferences. Those speeches were necessary and well received — but they only reached specialized audiences. They do not shape public understanding. They do not provide Congress with a bipartisan narrative. They do not give industry the clarity it needs. And they do not reassure allies or counter adversarial messaging. A national initiative requires a national conversation.

The solution is straightforward: a deliberate, public‑facing communications campaign anchored by a major national speech. Armed Forces Day — May 16, 2026 — offers the ideal moment. A speech delivered at the American Legion Mall in Indianapolis would reach veterans, military families, policymakers, and civic leaders. It would also signal that Golden Dome is not a niche technical program but a national commitment to America’s protection.

A full rollout should include:

a clear, plain‑language narrative explaining what Golden Dome is and what it is not.pre‑briefings for Congress and industry to ensure alignment and reduce uncertainty.coordinated messaging with allies and partners to reinforce collective security.calibrated communication to adversaries to strengthen deterrence without escalating tensions.

This approach builds bipartisan confidence, provides industry with direction, reassures the American people, and strengthens allied cohesion. Most importantly, it ensures that Golden Dome is defined by its strategic purpose — not by speculation or misinformation.

A moment we cannot miss

Golden Dome is a prudent, stabilizing investment in America’s security. But even the best ideas can falter without public understanding. The United States has reached a point where silence is no longer strategic. The stakes are too high, the threats too real, and the consequences of miscommunication too severe.

A national security initiative of this scale deserves a national conversation. Golden Dome must be explained, not whispered about. It must be understood, not assumed. And it must be introduced to the American people with the clarity, confidence, and transparency that the moment demands.

Armed Forces Day is approaching. The country is ready to listen. Now is the time to speak, General Guetlein, Secretary Hegseth, and President Trump.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published by RealClearDefense and made available via RealClearWire.

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Video footage captured a bizarre attack by a woman who ended up naked while pushing a dog in a baby stroller at a Pennsylvania grocery store, according to a criminal complaint.

The White Oak Police Department said it responded to a call about an “irate woman” tossing items at a Giant Eagle supermarket in White Oak, a suburb of Pittsburgh.

‘Officers also observed numerous children in the store whose parents were trying to shield their eyes from Canut, who was nude.’

Police said the store surveillance video showed shoppers trying to get out of the way of 53-year-old Tammy Canut of North Huntingdon after she started angrily throwing items in the store.

They reported seeing her with blood coming from her face.

At one point in the video, a store employee tries to calm Canut down, but she kicks him in the groin, leading to gasps from the onlookers. She also allegedly performed sexually explicit acts before grabbing the worker’s face.

“You better knock it off!” one shopper yells to the woman.

When a customer intervenes, Canut ends up stripping naked. She then allegedly attacked a female customer on her way out and bit her hand hard enough to leave a puncture wound.

“Officers could observe a store display in disarray and damaged and items scattered about the store,” police wrote in the criminal complaint. “Officers also observed numerous children in the store whose parents were trying to shield their eyes from Canut, who was nude.”

No other victims came forward, but police believe she may have hit others.

KDKA-TV obtained the videos and published them in its YouTube report.

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The dog in Canut’s stroller was identified as a Westie breed and is said to be in good condition at the Sable Kennel, a dog rescue. The rescue is seeking a relative of Canut to take possession of the dog.

Canut was booked into the Allegheny County Jail and faces charges of assault, indecent exposure, open lewdness, harassment, and disorderly conduct.

Customers of the grocery store said they were shocked by the incident.

“I hope she gets the help that she needs. You just can’t get involved when those things happen,” Mary Sutton said.

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HBO’s new “Harry Potter” series has released an official trailer — and one character in particular has fans in an uproar.

That character is Snape, who is remembered by fans as a deathly pale older white man played by the late Alan Rickman — whose long, jet-black hair and dark, broody eyes only accentuated his spooky skin tone.

“It was being advertised as being wholly faithful to the original source material. You know, it was meant to show audiences that everything the movies were not able to communicate, now we are going to communicate that through the show,” BlazeTV host John Doyle comments.

“And then rumors began to kind of circulate around that one of the most essential characters to the story, Professor Snape, played by the late, great Alan Rickman — fantastic English actor in the original films — he would actually be getting race-swapped and portrayed by British actor named Paapa Essiedu,” he continues.

And after watching the trailer himself, Doyle calls it “disgusting.”

“It’s disgusting just because they used to recycle franchises like 50 years later. Like, they would make a movie called ‘The Smurfs’ 50 years after ‘The Smurfs’ stop being relevant. … You would see kind of like the resurgence of these old IPs, as they’re called, well after the franchise had expired,” he explains.

“I just think it’s disgusting because of what it says about what we are able to produce creatively as a society where nobody can do anything. And so, what we have to do is basically drag these old IPs out, put a new coat of paint on them, and present them to the public with a modern cast, which is to say a diverse cast,” he continues.

Doyle also notes that this isn’t only happening in movies.

“If you look at public opinion polling on how, like, diverse Americans believe their country is, the average American — this is a fact — the average American believes that the country is 50% black. The reason for that is because every time they turn on the television, all they see are black people,” Doyle explains.

“All they see in movies, commercials are black people. … And so, as a result, yeah, Professor Snape is a black guy,” he says, pointing out that Snape is described as “pale” with “stringy black hair, long black hair.”

“I don’t have an issue with it in the sense that, you know, the West has fallen because ‘Harry Potter’ is not the way I want it to be. ‘Harry Potter’ is not the way I want it to be because the West has fallen,” he adds.

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During a dinner at the annual gathering of the Ciceronian Society on March 19, a glance at my phone profoundly changed the rest of the evening. It had been an intellectually stimulating day with fellow Christian thinkers, for which my wife and I were grateful to be part of. Something familiar caught my eye: the photo of a man I instantly recognized, Brandon Shah.

We were part of the same staff group section within the larger U.S. Army Command and General Staff College class of 2019. Brandon never used X, so I was immediately curious why he was showing up so prominently on my feed. Immediately, the following words accosted me: “The victim of the terrorist attack at Old Dominion has been identified as Lt. Col. Brandon Shah.”

Our founders did not sacrifice their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to give safe harbor to Islamic crusaders.

My pulse raced, followed moments later by sudden rage. My anger over how the political class has betrayed veterans of the so-called Global War on Terrorism rekindled. My wife could tell something was bothering me. “Are you OK?” she asked. I wasn’t. My focus on the planned presentation I was to deliver later broke, my mind hijacked by a kind of mourning I had avoided throughout 20 years in the military due to learning that a man I served with died in combat on home soil.

For decades, I’ve observed our politicians signaling support for the troops, thanking us for keeping the nation secure. “I’m making the future safer for my descendants” is the bargain I believed and accepted in exchange for missing significant portions of my sons’ young lives. Then they imported the very threat they sent us to neutralize. We veterans of the war on terror did our part.

But the government failed to uphold its end of the agreement, an egregious betrayal for which no amount of hollow “thanks for your service” incantations can cover.

For decades, policymakers and commanders full of utopian dreams and desperate to cement their legacy engaged in open-ended missions to rebalance the scales of power overseas rather than defend our own homeland.

As my colleagues and I were sent to foreign fields under arms, we were denied the ability to carry arms on home soil for personal defense. Firearms are restricted on military installations, and in most civilian settings where service members labor. Due to military regulations and local laws, troops are denied many of the Second Amendment protections they fight to uphold.

America for Americans

Brandon died at the hands of the terrorist Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a man who immigrated to the U.S. from Sierra Leone. He was arrested in 2016 for attempting to offer material support to ISIS, gather weapons for a terrorist attack, and provide funds for people hoping to join ISIS. He pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 11 years in prison, and was released early in 2024 for completing a substance abuse training program.

Had his original sentence been carried out, Jalloh would have remained incarcerated through 2029. Details on his immigration or past life events are hard to come by, as they often are when the murderer isn’t a white man, or one classified as such by the mainstream press.

Brandon’s death is not the first instance of the U.S. homeland being turned into a combat zone. On November 26, 2025, an unvetted Afghan national, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, attacked a National Guard patrol in Washington, D.C., killing Army National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and severely wounding Air National Guard Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe. President Trump rightly awarded the Purple Heart to both.

What they faced that day was engagement with an enemy combatant on U.S. soil. On September 8, 2021, Lakanwal was imported via the Operation Allies Welcome program, which allowed Afghans who wouldn’t fight for their own country to resettle here. Chaos and empathy prove a deadly combination.

We’re all aware of the deluge of illegal immigrants that flooded the nation because of the Biden administration, which welcomed them with all but celebratory parades. Ending illegal immigration is a righteous priority. But left largely ignored, even by conservatives, is the legal means of immigration that imports threat actors.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is well-known for his take that “legal, good; illegal, bad.” But that’s incorrect. Jalloh was in America legally. Both he and Lakanwal seem to pass the Cruz test. But neither belongs here.

Fighting them here

My generation of veterans served under the Bush Doctrine, which stated: “We will fight them over there so we do not have to face them in the United States of America.” Yet, while we were sent overseas for the past two decades and counting, the U.S. political class accelerated immigration from Islamic countries, where the populace holds hostile views toward the Christian values upon which America was founded.

Worse yet, those who demonstrate open loyalty to groups that want to destroy us are allowed to remain. Even John Walker Lindh, dubbed the “American Taliban,” was released early from prison despite retaining his Islamist beliefs.

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The day of Brandon’s death, Norfolk Commonwealth’s Attorney Ramin Fatehi blamed Shah’s death on a love of guns that constitutes a “national sickness.” In reality, the national sickness is a critical theory-infused brand of empathy that manipulates Americans toward disordered love, where a foreigner is given priority over familial and regional bonds.

Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin called this social doctrine the “Cultural Marxist Paideia” in their New York Times bestseller, “Battle for the American Mind.” The terms “Islamophobia,” “racism,” and “hatred” are used to intimidate and silence patriots by those who have rushed the Trojan horse through American streets.

Joe Rigney’s argument that the West has a deadly obsession with empathy, the practice of trying to immerse oneself in the suffering of another, proves increasingly sound. This contrasts with sympathy, the righteous feeling of sincere concern for a fellow human being experiencing pain or difficulty. The former attempts to spread suffering. The latter aids in healing it.

In our case, critical empathy makes magistrates subservient to malevolent actors. That framework presents predators as victims who must be yielded to, flipping social contract theory on its head. But our founders did not sacrifice their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to give safe harbor to Islamic crusaders.

I’m pleased to see Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) introduce the Naturalization Accountability Act, which would denaturalize immigrants convicted of felonies or who support terrorist groups. If you want to live here, don’t sympathize and cooperate with those who call for the murder of Americans and chant, “Death to America.”

Joining the Taliban or offering any support to terrorist groups such as ISIS, Hamas, Boko Haram, Hezbollah, etc., should be an immediate disqualifier for the benefits of American citizenship — and such people should be deported with haste. The stigma rightly belongs to those who endorse evil.

But in the wake of the tragedy involving Bradon Shah, ROTC and Junior ROTC students at schools around the nation have been directed not to wear their uniforms out of concerns for their safety. The shame is placed upon the virtuous instead. This should not be.

Two days after receiving the shocking news of Brandon’s death, I shared the reflections that grew into this essay instead of my planned presentation at the Ciceronian Society conference. Through a choked voice, I looked at the group picture of Staff Group 2D, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College class of 2019, and concluded by remembering a time when we could gather as military officers to study without fear that Islamic terrorists and battlefield combatants would transform our classroom into a zone of combat.

Brandon and I were not close and did not maintain contact after graduating. But he was a fellow veteran, a man I spent most days of a year with, through both good and frustrating times. He should still be alive, a husband to his wife, a father to his child, and a mentor to his students. His death is a betrayal.

Though the terrorist who killed him rightly faced immediate justice at the hands of bold cadets that day, there are many policymakers and enforcers whose hands are stained by their actions.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in The American Mind.

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Sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein kept a brazenly detailed and jam-packed Google Calendar, recording flight plans and visits with notable figures.

The database comes in the form of a new website, from the same web designers who created Jmail.world, a clone of Epstein’s Gmail inbox.

‘I suggest inviting Al Gore on Sept 23 to Nantucket.’

The detailed schedule, organized on a Gmail Calendar app, is suitably named JCal.

In a typical entry, Epstein listed a “meeting with Scott Stackman and Ghislaine Maxwell” for May 31, 2016. Stackman was Epstein’s alleged financial adviser, while Maxwell was his alleged confidante and procurer.

The calendar is full of meetings with elites from the entertainment industry and banking; Epstein even penciled in his attendance at movie screenings, along with a constant stream of flight details.

There are, for instance, several meetings and visits with Ariane de Rothschild, now CEO of Edmond de Rothschild Group in Switzerland, who married banker Benjamin de Rothschild in 1999. Benjamin died in 2021 at 57 years old of a heart attack.

“A production company in LA is doing a documentary film on Deepak Chopra’s new book. He will film part of it as a lecture,” Epstein reportedly wrote for September 23, 2016. “Al Gore ‘Inconvenient Truth’ style in Nantucket.” He went on: “I should wait to discuss until Sept 18th unless I suggest inviting Al Gore on Sept 23 to Nantucket.”

A screening of a Woody Allen movie is written in for December 16, 2016, with Allen himself listed as an attendee.

RELATED: Log into this Gmail clone to read all the Jeffrey Epstein emails as if you were Epstein himself

Other noteworthy meetings included those with Noam and Valeria Chomsky, and an Arianna Huffington event at the Madison Square location of membership club NeueHouse, which abruptly shuttered last year following the death of founder Joshua Abram after a long fight against multiple myeloma.

The online world has taken particular interest in making a mockery of Epstein through quick-turnaround projects Five Nights at Epstein’s, a viral video game modeled after Five Nights at Freddy’s, the popular online game and media franchise.

Five Nights at Epstein’s has players monitor security cameras in Epstein’s compound with the hope of avoiding encounters with various characters. In this game, players are on the receiving end of jump scares of clip art of President Trump, Stephen Hawking, and Epstein himself.

RELATED: Epstein files were allegedly compromised by foreign hacker in 2023; FBI admits ‘cyber incident’

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While Jmail was created by web designer Riley Walz and programmer Luke Igel, Newsweek reported Swedish that software engineer Matheus Mendes is behind JCal. To build the stunt, Mendes reportedly used Reducto, described as an AI document parsing and extraction software.

Walz has a history of making obscure humorous websites and programs, including a fast-food price comparison index and a random video viewer that shuffles iPhone videos uploaded to YouTube between 2009 and 2012.

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Former New York City mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa is getting lambasted by Republicans and other critics over a cutesy video he made with socialist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Sliwa hammered away at Mamdani during debates before the election, but since the socialist defeated him for the mayor’s office, Sliwa appears to have warmed up to the leftist.

‘You can tell when people are true to the party, and I thought it was reprehensible.’

In the video produced for the Inner Circle show, Sliwa pretends to be a doctor and gives the mayor an allergy shot so he can live with a cat in the official mayor’s residence. The event raises money for charity.

“I thought it was great because it was promoting rescuing animals,” Sliwa explained to the New York Post.

Others didn’t think it was so great.

“Betrayed his family. Betrayed the Republican Party. Betrayed everyone,” said a GOP operative to the Post under the condition of anonymity.

The Post reported that others said they wanted their political contributions to his campaign returned after seeing the video.

“When you don’t have a bed to sleep in, you have to find anyone who will take you,” replied former New York Gov. David Paterson, a Democrat. “You can tell when people are true to the party, and I thought it was reprehensible.”

Sliwa fired back at the Republicans criticizing him by pointing out they had not criticized President Donald Trump for cozying up to Mamdani several times.

“If people are upset at that, why aren’t you mad at the president, Donald Trump, who has welcomed him into the White House twice?” he said.

He also claimed that the sketch was the first time he had spoken to Mamdani since the election.

Sliwa is planning to run for the Republican nomination for the mayor’s office again in 2029.

RELATED: Mamdani made big promises to cut the budget — here’s the embarrassing result so far

Paterson was still angry at Sliwa for staying in the election and possibly playing spoiler for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. He went on to mock Sliwa’s performance in the mayoral election by comparing it to that of the New York Jets.

“[Curtis] was never going to win,” Paterson said. “He got 7 percentage points, seven — even the Jets get seven when they play.”

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A recent set of man-on-the-street-style interviews conducted by conservative Kaitlin Bennett in Tampa, Florida, yielded alarming results — as many of them shared that they would feel more comfortable standing next to someone shouting “Allahu Akbar” than someone in a MAGA hat.

“The good news is that we were actually filming for three hours, but we still managed to get 30 minutes of liberals saying Donald Trump and Trump supporters of MAGA were worse,” Bennett tells BlazeTV host Pat Gray on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”

“I have 30 minutes of this on my YouTube channel, Liberty Hangout. And a woman literally goes, ‘I’m a Democrat, so I definitely feel I, you know, can relate more to radical Islamists.’ … She said it out loud. That’s their entire thing right now,” she explains.

Bennett took to the streets of Tampa while the city was celebrating St. Patrick’s day, which worked in her favor.

“I’ve always found the best way to engage with people on a topic like this is to go up with them and say something completely unrelated,” she says, noting that asking everyone where St. Patrick was from helped to break the ice before the questions got more political.

“Then they answer, and I get them hooked,” she explains.

“Most people just walked away. Most people, actually, when they see a camera, they do have a little bit of awareness of, like, ‘Don’t open your mouth,’” she says, though she notes that the woman who related more to radical Islamists justified her position with the fact that “she’s gay.”

“For a lesbian to say that she has more in common with radical Islam than MAGA supporters, when they would literally kill her, it’s so ignorant. It’s just sheer, unadulterated ignorance,” Gray says, shocked.

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The CEO of Air Canada airlines announced his resignation after getting backlash over an English-only statement about the death of two pilots in a U.S. crash.

Michael Rousseau, 68, told the board of the company that he would leave by the end of the third quarter, according to the announcement Monday.

‘The Air Canada board of directors will have to ensure that the next CEO speaks French.’

Two pilots were killed when their Air Canada plane with 72 passengers collided with a fire truck on the runway at LaGuardia Airport. Dozens were also injured in the March 22 incident.

Rousseau released a statement offering his condolences about the accident but was immediately criticized because it was in English but not in French. Canada is officially a dual-language country, and Air Canada is based in a French-majority province.

The issue was so contentious that even Prime Minister Mark Carney weighed in to call the resignation “appropriate.”

He added, “It is essential that the next CEO of Air Canada is bilingual.”

Quebec Premier François Legault agreed.

“I salute the decision of Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau to step down from his position. The Air Canada board of directors will have to ensure that the next CEO speaks French,” Legault said.

Legault also pointed out that Rousseau had promised to learn French when he was elevated to the CEO position in 2021.

RELATED: Investigator of LaGuardia plane crash suggests ‘multiple failures’ caused the collision; survivors respond

The Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages said it received hundreds of complaints about Rousseau’s statement.

On Tuesday, National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy said on Fox News that the investigation into the crash was ongoing but that she believed there were “multiple failures” that led to the lethal accident.

“We have found in all of our investigations that it is not a single error that led to a terrible tragedy. … So we’re going to look very comprehensively,” she said.

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Actor, comedian, rapper, and TV host Nick Cannon can now add another title to his resume: unabashed Trump fan.

The “Masked Singer” host made his remarks on a recent episode of his podcast “Nick Cannon’s Big Drive,” which appears to have been removed from YouTube.

‘People don’t know that the Republicans are the party that freed the slaves.’

Speaking to Amber Rose, a model who spoke at the Republican National Convention in 2024, Cannon asked her if she supported the GOP as a result of her wealth and enterprise.

“Is that because the bag has got so intense and so heavy that you … up there with the elite now?”

“Not even close,” Rose replied. “Democrats don’t care about black people, and they don’t care about people of color, and the Republicans do. And that’s the misconception.”

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Cannon’s response was blunt: “You know what? I agree with you 100%. People don’t know that the Democrats is the party of the KKK. People don’t know that the Republicans are the party that freed the slaves.”

While Cannon allowed that he wasn’t as “outspoken” about his conservative views as Rose, he did confess to admiring the current president.

“I f**k with Trump,” Cannon added after laughing about him “cleaning house” and “charging a $5 million bottle service fee to get in the country.”

RELATED: Squires: Nick Cannon, COVID, and CRT prove a biblical approach to family produces superior results than the whims of culture

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That’s Trumpist

Cannon was also quick to defend Trump from any charges of racism, noting that he never faced such accusations before he got involved in politics.

“He would be at all the events with like, Russell Simmons, all the black parties. … But when he got political, that’s when, you know, people start putting the racist jacket on.”

Cannon then came up with a word for what Trump actually is:

“I honestly don’t think he’s racist. I think he’s Trumpist.”

RELATED: Judges on ‘The Masked Singer’ walked off the show in protest when a contestant was revealed to be Rudy Giuliani

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Cali crisis

While the host shared a mutual admiration for California with Rose, he admitted the state has floundered in recent years. Rose pointed out “potholes everywhere” as the two drove through Los Angeles.

“Look at these roads. … It’s disgusting. We pay too much taxes in California to be living like this.”

Agreeing, Cannon commented on a “great exodus” of the state, but with both entertainers being parents, they said they did not want to uproot their kids or take them away from their respective spouses.

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Cannon is not one to shy away from controversial statements. In 2020, he was fired by ViacomCBS for claiming that Jews have “the bloodlines that control everything, even outside of America” and that black people are the “true Hebrews.”

In 2017, Cannon had called Trump a “bully” and said he needed to be a better leader. He also criticized the president for wanting to send the National Guard into Chicago.

“Darkness does not get rid of darkness, you’ve got to bring some light to this community! Bring that to Chicago!”

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National Basketball League Hall of Fame star Charles Barkley called the treatment of some immigrants a “travesty and a disgrace” during a sports broadcast Sunday.

Barkley appeared to oppose some of the actions from the Trump administration to fulfill the president’s order for mass deportations.

‘Some of the stuff that’s happening to immigrants in our country right now is really unfortunate and is really unfair.’

The March Madness pregame show on CBS was praising a University of Connecticut basketball player named Alex Karaban, who is the son of immigrants from Belarus, when Barkley used the case as a springboard.

“I want to be very careful with my words right now because this is a really touchy subject for me,” he said. “I love that kid and his family, but the way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace.”

Barkley gave no examples of what he believed was improper treatment of immigrants.

“I think there’s a difference between amazing immigrants and criminal immigrants, and I think what’s going on in our country, what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate, and it’s really sad,” he continued.

“And that’s a great immigrant story. We have a lot of great immigrant stories out there who their stories need to be told,” he added. “But some of the stuff that’s happening to immigrants in our country right now is really unfortunate and is really unfair. But immigrants built this country, and we should admire them and respect them.”

A video of his comments was widely circulated on social media.

Barkley has often weighed in on political topics, most notably when he defended sports players who refused to take a knee in the Black Lives Matter protests. He said they should not be “vilified” for their beliefs.

RELATED: Charles Barkley defends sports players who refuse to kneel, and social media is melting down

Barkley said he considered running for governor in his home state of Alabama, but he has lately soured on both political parties.

“I think most white people and black people are great people. … I really believe that in my heart,” he said in 2021.

“But I think our system is set up where our politicians, whether they are Republicans or Democrats, are designed to make us not like each other, so they can keep their grasp of money and power,” Barkley added. “They divide and conquer.”

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Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California accused President Donald Trump of trying to unfairly derail his gubernatorial campaign over new developments in his Chinese spy scandal.

Swalwell’s 2014 re-election campaign had gotten fundraising help from a woman named Christine Fang, who is believed to have had ties with Chinese intelligence. She also helped place an intern in his office.

‘The reason Trump is so desperately trying to stop me is not because I’m running for Governor of California, but because now I’m the favorite.’

Swalwell has previously denied any wrongdoing and accused Republicans of exaggerating the scandal in order to damage his political career.

On Saturday, both the Washington Post and the New York Times reported that Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel was seeking to release files related to the Fang investigation.

Swalwell responded to the report by reiterating his accusations.

“Through great reporting, we now know the outrageous ends the White House will go to target political opponents. As was Trump’s mortgage case against me, this decade-old story is, of course, nonsense,” Swalwell responded, referring to mortgage fraud accusations that had been dismissed.

“The reason Trump is so desperately trying to stop me is not because I’m running for governor of California, but because now I’m the favorite,” he added. “What Trump wants the most is to have a Western White House. An enabler on the opposite coast. A lot of people have bent the knee to this administration. But I will not. And neither will the people of California.”

A spokesperson for the FBI denied any political motivation in their file releases.

“This FBI, being the most transparent in history, prepares documents for numerous different reasons, including for release to different agencies and departments to further review investigations that may have been opened under previous administrations,” the spokesperson told the Washington Post.

RELATED: Eric Swalwell lawsuit against Trump administration meets embarrassing end

Recent polling indicates that Swalwell has pulled ahead of the other Democratic gubernatorial candidates but is still behind two Republican candidates.

Fang has also been connected to other California Democrats, including Rep. Ro Khanna, Judy Chu, and former Rep. Mike Honda.

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The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation into allegations that transgender-identifying male inmates sexually assaulted women in correctional facilities in California and Maine.

And BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales couldn’t be less surprised.

“Since we have decided that it is safest and it is best to house inmates according to sex, … since we’ve decided that that’s actually a really good idea for everyone’s safety, let’s let the biological men in the women’s jails and then just roll the dice and see how it turns out,” Gonzales comments on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

“Would you come to believe it’s [allegedly] putting women at risk of being sexually assaulted?” she asks.

The investigation follows horrific allegations of rape and harassment at the California Institution for Women in San Bernardino County, the Central California Women’s Facility in Madera County, and the Maine Correctional Center in Windham.

“The probe is going to examine whether the two states have violated constitutional rights of female inmates by placing them alongside male prisoners,” Gonzales explains, before homing in on one alleged rape case involving a California prisoner.

Tremaine Carroll, a convicted criminal who served time at a women’s prison in Chowchilla, California, has been charged with allegedly raping fellow inmates — as the 52-year-old is a biological male who simply identifies as a woman.

“Carroll has been charged with raping three women, one of which was his cellmate, who he allegedly got pregnant,” Gonzales comments.

“Any giant dude can be like, ‘Yeah, I identify as a woman.’ And they’re just like, ‘Oh, well, ma’am, let’s get you over to the all-female prison so you can rape a bunch of women, and we don’t get to say anything because you’ve just told us you identify as a woman,’” she continues.

“This is the state of the left in 2026. This is the state of the left,” she adds.

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Whistleblowers who report financial fraud could receive a significant payout from the Trump administration.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a new program on Monday to pay eligible whistleblowers for providing actionable tips related to fraud, money laundering, sanctions violations, and other national security laws.

‘The scale of this is unbelievable.’

The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network submitted a proposed rule to implement the new program.

Fraud whistleblowers could receive 10% to 30% of the fines imposed on the criminals they report.

This latest announcement is part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on fraud, an issue that has remained in the national spotlight following journalist Nick Shirley’s investigative reporting in Minnesota and California.

“As promised, Treasury will reward whistleblowers who provide timely, actionable information on fraud, sanctions violations, and other significant illicit finance activity,” Bessent stated. “President Trump has been clear that Americans have a right to know that their tax dollars are not being diverted to fund acts of global terror or to fund luxury cars for fraudsters. At Treasury, we follow the money, and we strongly encourage individuals to come forward with credible tips to help safeguard our financial system.”

RELATED: Vance’s fraud task force drops hammer: 70 California hospice and home health providers suspended

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The Treasury Department has already received over 700 leads, according to Bessent.

During an interview with Fox News, Bessent explained that “a lot” of the financial fraud could be attributed to COVID relief.

“Many of the agencies under the Biden administration gutted their fraud departments, their fraud detection, or took down the fraud detection to get the money out quickly for COVID relief. But they never brought back the guardians of our money. So we have to have integrity in these programs,” Bessent told the news outlet.

Bessent estimated that the federal government may be able to recoup hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer funds.

“The scale of this is unbelievable,” Bessent said.

RELATED: ANOTHER Democrat in hot water over COVID-linked fraud allegations

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Vice President JD Vance has been tapped to lead the administration’s new Task Force to Eliminate Fraud. Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that it had suspended 70 hospice and home health providers as part of its work with the task force to identify high-risk providers.

“Vice President Vance looks forward to carrying out the president’s war on fraud,” a spokesperson for Vance previously told Blaze News. “The American people deserve better than being ripped off by people who hate this country, and the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud will ensure that essential taxpayer-funded services are used to support the hardworking Americans who rely on them, instead of being used by fraudsters and criminals.”

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Despite the left’s stubborn defense of violence, lawlessness, radical ideologies, and the hollowing out of traditional institutions, Republicans are still projected to get obliterated in this year’s midterm elections.

But it’s not just forecasts pointing to grim midterm results. Blue is already encroaching on red districts.

“We just lost Donald Trump’s home state legislative district. … That’s zapping some of my enjoyment, if not pretty much all,” BlazeTV host Steve Deace says.

On this episode of the “Steve Deace Show,” Deace and his co-hosts Aaron McIntire and Todd Erzen sit down with Blaze News managing editor Rob Eno to discuss these bleak midterm prospects and whether any hope remains for the conservative base.

“I know it’s still seven-plus months until the midterms here, all right, but let’s just go ahead and ask the question that a lot of people are asking: Are we cooked?” Deace asks the panel.

Erzen’s response is a balance of pessimism and hope. “I guess I’ll say no,” he tells Deace.

“The left is so evil and so decadent and so dumb. Improvement has to happen, Steve, in the time frame you’re talking about, but it’s not going to take perhaps as much as we think it will circumstantially. That being said, we might be [cooked],” he explains.

McIntire is less optimistic. “As of this moment, yes,” he says bluntly.

“I just think there are too many warning signs right now and too many signs that there is no even action or intention to action within much of Congress to deliver on President Trump’s what we were told was a mandate,” he adds, arguing that “[the party] is not delivering on that mandate.”

Eno believes Republicans aren’t only cooked in midterm elections — they’re cooked in general.

“We’re going to lose the Senate and the House,” he predicts.

The list of losses for the Trump administration keeps growing, he argues, citing the ongoing war with Iran, skyrocketing gas prices, fertilizer shortages driving up food prices, and poor polling in key Senate races.

“I do not see how we get out of this, and I don’t think seven months is a long period of time. … Unless the economy turns around, I don’t think we win,” Eno says frankly.

Erzen, however, offers a bit more optimism.

Even if the economy “doesn’t turn around” or “even gets a little worse,” he believes “two political miracles” — such as a “major arrest” of an elite tied to Epstein or passing the SAVE Act — could still change the odds in Republicans’ favor.

“People are so off-balance right now as voters. I don’t know what they think they prioritize on any given day,” he says.

But Eno pushes back on the SAVE Act’s potential impact.

“If you’ve lied to the voters, the SAVE Act saving anything has the hubris of imagining that the American people that are citizens are going to vote for this bunch of clowns, and they’re not with what they see,” he says, alluding to the widespread frustration over the administration’s broken promises on the economy, mass deportations, and avoiding new wars.

Deace largely agrees with Eno that Republicans are “cooked” in the midterms if little changes.

“I could list off a handful of things they could do that are all somewhat relatively achievable. … But as we’re sitting here on March 27, if I listed those things off and asked you guys how many of those things you think they’re going to do, you might say one if we’re lucky — and so that’s where the ‘we’re cooked’ sits in,” he says.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.

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The Department of Justice is investigating whether some states are violating women’s constitutional rights by sending transgender-identifying males to women’s prisons.

The DOJ said in a press release that prisons in California and Maine are under investigation for possible constitutional violations.

‘The Civil Rights Division will not allow women incarcerated in jails or prisons to be subject to unconstitutional risks of harm from male inmates.’

“Keeping men out of women’s prisons is not only common sense — it’s a matter of safety and constitutional rights,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi in a statement in the release. “The Trump administration will not stand by if governors are facilitating the abuse of biological women under the guise of inclusion.”

The release said that there had been reports of “sexual assaults, rape, voyeurism, and a pervasive climate of sexual intimidation” in the women’s prison in San Bernardino County in California.

The DOJ said California law allowed male prisoners with intact genitals to request being sent to women’s prison based on their self-identification as transgender.

Female prisoners in Maine also complained of assaults and harassment from a male who was being housed with them after identifying as transgender.

“Under my leadership, the Civil Rights Division will not allow women incarcerated in jails or prisons to be subject to unconstitutional risks of harm from male inmates,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon.

“These investigations will uncover whether the dangerous national trend of housing men in women’s prisons has resulted in violations of women’s constitutional rights,” she added.

A spokesperson for the state legislator who authored the law allowing transgender-identifying males into women’s prisons downplayed the possibility of assaults and said the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations had denied 47 times as many requests as it had approved as of last May.

“The main driver of sexual abuse in prison” is “assault by prison staff,” said spokesperson Erik Mebust to the San Francisco Chronicle in comments from May.

RELATED: Transgender activist indicted on charges of theft — from anti-Trump ‘Women’s March’

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Tish Hyman, a black lesbian and Kamala Harris voter, became a national figure last November after her membership at Gold’s Gym was canceled. Hyman went viral after filming her objection to a biological male using the women’s locker room, citing negative and threatening encounters with the individual. This highly publicized experience led her to campaign for mayor, and she said in an email statement to Blaze News that she takes the issue very seriously.

“Women in custody are among the most vulnerable populations in our society, and they deserve dignity, safety, and protection without compromise. Policies that place biological men in women’s prisons raise legitimate concerns around privacy, safety, and the rights of female inmates, and those concerns should not be dismissed or minimized,” she wrote.

“I will absolutely use my platform both politically and publicly to advocate for policies that prioritize the safety and well being of women in custody,” Hyman added. “That includes pushing for clear, enforceable standards that protect women’s spaces, ensure proper oversight, and hold institutions accountable when those standards are not met.”

California Coalition for Women Prisoners spokeswoman Courtney Hanson accused the Trump administration of a “national attack” in order to “erase and harm transgender people, especially transgender women in prison.”

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