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Florida Rep. Maria Salazar (R) and her some 20 Republican co-sponsors of a massive amnesty bill have put President Trump in a terribly awkward position. In truth, it is more than just awkwardness; it is political malpractice.

The fanfare around the amnesty bill, the Dignity Act, has begun a process of division and distraction going into a crucial midterm cycle.

Merely floating the idea of amnesty results in more illegal immigration to the US border.

The Dignity Act is dominating conversations surrounding the trajectory of immigration enforcement under the Trump administration and forcing the question of whether the administration supports it.

Last week, CBS News peppered border czar Tom Homan with loaded questions about the supposed need for providing legal status for illegal aliens in the United States. After trying to put the question away, Homan responded, “There’s discussions going on. I’m involved with some and not others, but I’m not going to get ahead of the president on this.”

Discussions of amnesty in the Trump administration? The internet exploded, and it’s largely still exploding. Given the low level of deportations conducted to date, some 340,000 in FY2025 according to recent estimates, many political observers are starting to question whether the mass deportation program will be fulfilled at the scale advertised.

This low number, in addition to the lack of explicit opposition to the Dignity Act from the Trump administration, has led many people to reasonably believe that amnesty discussions are on the table. Republicans pushing amnesty is nothing new, after all. Additionally, the co-sponsors of the Dignity Act largely are all endorsed for re-election by President Trump.

What we are witnessing appears to be strategic ambiguity. Salazar and her allies are hitting the media circuits claiming that somehow the Dignity Act is not amnesty. That claim has rightfully been ridiculed, but they remain insistent that a square peg is a circle.

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Meanwhile, the White House has carefully avoided criticizing the bill by name, instead choosing to rule out amnesty of any type. Take another Homan quote, for example: “I said from day one, I’ll say it again … President Trump said amnesty is off the table. I support that. I don’t think amnesty should be on the table.”

Having known Homan for years, I know that he genuinely opposes amnesty. But in this environment, supporters of the president’s promised immigration agenda need to hear that the White House considers the Dignity Act to be amnesty. Without that explicit rejection, the ambiguity will be perceived as tolerance.

Of course, it is not the White House’s job to denounce every last bill that pops up in Congress. But the unfortunate truth is that the Dignity Act is out there and has captured enough attention that it is a subject of an intense debate that, if left untended to, will only dampen midterm turnout.

That’s one reason why what Salazar and her ilk have done is so damaging. Shilling for amnesty will be taken seriously unless explicitly denounced, putting the White House in a position it should not be in.

Salazar’s damage gets worse. Take for example what Homan said during his CBS interview that did not receive any meaningful attention: “I would love Congress to do some things. My concern right now is that a lot of the successes we’ve had, unprecedented success, is based on executive orders, which can certainly be turned around by the next president.”

What Homan was referring to are border security laws to prevent a future Democrat administration from doing the exact same thing that Biden did and demanding amnesty in exchange for turning off another invasion.

How do I know? Well, I worked with Homan to help put together H.R. 2, otherwise known as the Secure the Border Act of 2023, during the Biden years. That bill was purely defensive in nature. It closed loopholes that the Biden administration weaponized to let 10 million plus cross the border.

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While it is true that President Trump didn’t need new laws to secure the border, it is also true that President Newsom, Ocasio-Cortez, or Comey won’t need new laws to open it again. We could find ourselves in the exact same negotiating posture as before: trade border security for amnesty, the very same trick that President Reagan fell for in historic fashion.

Any serious person who has worked in the immigration space knows that merely floating the idea of amnesty results in more illegal immigration to the U.S. border. During the Obama years, illegal aliens were flowing across with smiles on their faces and bragging about the “permisos” they had to cross due to Obama. As Biden readied to enter the White House, illegal aliens flooded the border for the same reason.

With news emerging that the U.S. border may not be as completely zipped tight as we hoped, Salazar’s advertising for amnesty can predictably result in more illegal aliens deciding to roll the dice and head north.

For all these reasons and more, the wise thing for both political and national sovereignty reasons is for the Trump administration to respond to Salazar’s push with an explicit and unmistakable denunciation.

A skeptical base needs to see strength on the immigration issue. Clearing up any confusion on this matter would go a long way toward restoring trust and keeping the president’s strongest base of supporters together going into the midterm elections.

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Seattle residents are asking why a career criminal with 28 arrests and 13 convictions was allowed to walk the streets before allegedly kidnapping and raping a 15-year-old girl.

Joshua V. Kowalczewski, 36, allegedly lured the girl from a school bus stop in the Northgate neighborhood and dragged her into nearby woods, where he sexually assaulted her.

Kowalczewski was allowed to enter Seattle’s ‘Drug Prosecution Alternative’ diversion program just one week before he allegedly raped the teenage girl.

He was later captured when firefighters saw him defecating on the sidewalk after he burned clothing that was connected to the attack, according to police.

The man was charged with first-degree rape and second-degree kidnapping.

A judge set Kowalczewski’s bail at $1 million after prosecutors argued he was a threat to public safety given his criminal past. That criminal past included convictions for the following:

DUI;Theft;Assault;Drug possession;Criminal trespassing;Violating protection orders; andPossessing burglary tools.

Prosecutors said that Kowalczewski was allowed to enter Seattle’s “Drug Prosecution Alternative” diversion program just one week before he allegedly raped the teenage girl.

The suspect initially denied ever talking to the girl, according to detectives, but then later admitted that he approached the girl because he thought she was “hot.” He also allegedly admitted asking her to go the woods but denied assaulting her.

The girl was treated at the Seattle Children’s Hospital and given a sexual assault examination.

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The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said it pursued rape charges instead of child rape charges because under Washington law, rape charges carry harsher penalties.

The office also explained that it was difficult under state law to hold a suspect based on misdemeanor charges.

“Prosecutors are bound by the sentencing guidelines from state lawmakers; that’s what judges go off of when they make determinations,” communications director Casey McNerthney said. “It’s pretty difficult to hold somebody on a misdemeanor in some instances.”

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FBI Director Kash Patel dropped a major bombshell on X this week when he posted that Arcadia, California, Mayor Eileen Wang has been charged with acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China in the United States.

“Mayor Wang admitted to acting as a foreign agent from at least 2020 through 2022 — promoting PRC propaganda in the U.S. and acting at PRC’s direction to promote their interests. She has agreed to resign from office and plead guilty,” Patel explained.

“FBI and our federal partners continue to move aggressively to root out this kind of influence in American institutions all over the country,” he added.

Between 2020 and 2022, Wang and her then-fiancé, Yaoning “Mike” Sun, ran a Chinese propaganda website called U.S. News Center, which aimed to publish pro-Beijing content and punish dissidents.

BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere jokes that the situation is “suboptimal” for a mayor.

“You kind of want them to be an agent for your city,” he says.

“It actually says on her website, she’s the daughter of proud immigrants who came to California seeking the American dream,” co-host Dave Landau points out.

“I will say, part of the American dream is making money in illicit fashion. So she’s checked that box off,” Stu says.

“That is the Somalian-American dream,” Dave jokes.

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An infamous serial murderer and rapist said that taxpayer-funded digital tablets allowed him to watch pornography and receive a topless photo from a 22-year-old German psychology student.

That’s just one account in a City Journal investigation into a “digital equity” program pushed by Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom to ensure prisoners had access to the Bible. And also porn.

Amador told the Journal that he alternates between watching short clips of his ‘family at the beach’ and pornography delivered in 30-second clips.

Officials told the Journal that the tablets were “tightly controlled education tools” to provide inmates “access to the Bible, education, and re-entry resources that actually reduce crime.”

The investigation found dozens of death-row inmates who said the tablets allowed them access to pornography as well as sexually explicit conversations.

The program under the Newsom administration tossed $189 million of taxpayer funds to ensure criminals had free access to porn and the Bible online.

Robert Maury, an infamous rapist and serial murderer from the 1980s, did not mention the Bible but told the Journal that a German student sent him topless photos in the hope that he would share his story with her for a psychology class project.

Maury was known as the “tipster killer” because he would call a crime tip line and give law enforcement authorities tips about his crimes before he was captured.

Another serial killer named Samuel Amador told the Journal that he alternates between watching short clips of his “family at the beach” and pornography delivered in 30-second clips.

He said guards try to stop sexually explicit texts when they see them but that inmates figure out how to “get around their bulls**t.”

One inmate named Nathaniel Ray Diaz allegedly used a tablet to talk with a girl for hours and sexually exploit her. Diaz is facing new charges related to the alleged child exploitation and was already in Avenal State Prison for sex crimes against a 12-year-old girl.

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Douglas Eckenrod, a former California parole operations director, told the Journal the Diaz case was just the tip of the iceberg.

“I would bet my pension that there’s a vast amount of childhood pornography on the tablets,” Eckenrod said. “There are probably several thousand [children] that are currently being groomed.”

He went on to say that California is simply empowering criminals to groom more victims through the tablets.

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Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt saw his support surge in the first polling since his impressive performance in the contest’s first debate.

Support for Pratt has more than doubled, according to the Emerson College Polling/Inside California Politics poll, as compared to March.

The gains made by the top 3 candidates appeared to be from voters who had been undecided, previously at 51% in March.

The former reality TV star had his support jump to 22% after previously garnering only 10%. The 12-percentage-point jump is the highest among all candidates in the poll.

Incumbent Mayor Karen Bass still holds on to the top spot with 30% and saw her support grow from 20% in March. Socialist-aligned Democrat Nithya Raman also made big gains, with 19% support after getting only 9% in March.

The gains made by the top three candidates appeared to be from voters who had been undecided, previously at 51% in March. In the most recent poll, only 16% said they remained undecided.

Pratt pummeled both the incumbent mayor and Raman during the debate last week and mocked their claims that homelessness had decreased because of their liberal programs.

“The reality is, no matter how many beds you give these people, they are on super meth. They are on fentanyl. The DEA statistic says 93% of this is a drug addiction problem,” Pratt said during the debate.

“I will go below the Harbor Freeway tomorrow with [Raman], and we can find some of these people she’s going to offer treatment for,” he added. “She’s going to get stabbed in the neck!”

Raman, a city councilwoman, appeared unprepared for some of the questions and stumbled in her attempt to differentiate herself from Bass, her former ally.

RELATED: LA Times gets scorched for trying to disqualify Pratt for mayor — because his home burned down in Palisades fire

Pratt has also been able to score a fundraising victory by beating all other candidates in donations thus far in the campaign.

Prediction market Kalshi recently had Raman’s chances to win the mayoral rate plummeting from a high of 64% all the way down to 14%.

The race is technically nonpartisan, and the primary election will be held on June 2. If any candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, that candidate will be declared the next mayor. However, if no candidate earns more than 50% of the vote in the primary, the top two vote-getters will advance to the general election in November.

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After platforming James Talarico, “The View” is facing an investigation by the FCC for potentially breaking the “equal time” political rule that requires non-news shows to give equal time to opposing political views.

While Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck isn’t a fan of “The View,” he’s not sure that Trump’s FCC’s investigation will prove “The View” broke any rules.

“If you are a news show, you don’t have to have both sides on, because it’s news. It’s breaking every day. It’s changing every day. We have a hard enough time booking guests for a subject. Imagine having to book a guest that has the opposite view of everything you just are covering,” Glenn explains on “The Glenn Beck Program.”

“So that’s the rule. Now, ABC claims that ‘The View’ is a news show,” he says.

“I don’t watch ‘The View.’ I never have watched ‘The View.’ I have only watched the clips of ‘The View,’ because, for the love of everything that is good and sacred, little baby Jesus cannot save my soul from darkness if I watch that thing every day,” he continues.

“So I don’t know for sure, but from the clips that I have seen over the years, I would say that’s a news show,” he adds.

Glenn notes that he’s not “supporting ABC,” but he is “supporting the truth” as he understands it.

“If what they talk about most of the time is the news of the day, I would consider that a news show,” he says, pointing out that it’s his “understanding that Jimmy Kimmel is also considered a news program.”

“That’s not a news program. I did one search. How many politicians has Jimmy Kimmel had on his show in the last 60 days? And the answer was one. What is the balance of his show? The balance of his guests are Hollywood,” he continues. “It’s an entertainment show, not a news show. That one clearly doesn’t qualify.”

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Vice President JD Vance, who chairs the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, announced on Wednesday the first major steps to compel states to crack down on Medicaid fraud nationwide.

During a press conference Wednesday on anti-fraud initiatives, Vance declared that the Trump administration would be “very aggressively” encouraging states to take fraud concerns more seriously.

‘So these letters are the first step, the first effort to try to force these states to get serious about prosecuting fraud.’

He explained that the U.S. Medicaid system is run like 50 separate systems.

“The federal government pays most of the Medicaid money, but then each of the individual states actually administers the Medicaid program,” Vance stated.

Despite the federal government generously funding Medicaid Fraud Control Units, responsible for detecting and eliminating fraud, some states are not using them, Vance stated. He highlighted his point by providing examples.

Vance stated that Hawaii, a state that has received billions of taxpayers’ dollars through the Medicaid system, had not made a single fraud conviction or indictment “over the last few years.”

“That means that if you’re committing fraud in Medicaid in Hawaii, at least up until now — hopefully now they’re going to take it seriously — you have had effectively free rein from the government of Hawaii to commit as much fraud as you want,” Vance stated. “That is a complete disgrace.”

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Vance explained that New York, which has a $100 billion Medicaid program, has had only nine indictments over the last year.

The vice president compared New York, a Democratic-led state, to Indiana, a Republican-led state. He noted that despite Indiana having only a third of New York’s population, it has pursued more than four times as many indictments during the same period.

Vance stated that the federal government is withholding $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursements to California. He said that the state has “not taken fraud very seriously,” resulting in California and American taxpayers being defrauded.

RELATED: ‘No amount of fraud is too big or too small’: Vance’s anti-fraud task force targets every crook stealing from taxpayers

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Vance announced that 50 state Medicaid programs would be receiving a letter requiring them to demonstrate that they are “effectively and aggressively prosecuting” fraud. If they fail to do so, their anti-fraud units will no longer receive federal funds.

“We encourage people to work with us. We want to help you use technology and other tools to get rid of the fraud, to get to the root of the fraud. We want to help you,” Vance stated. “But we can only help these state programs if those state programs are willing to help themselves. So these letters are the first step, the first effort to try to force these states to get serious about prosecuting fraud.”

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A 33-year-old Chicago male who’s accused of telling a 13-year-old he likes “little boys and girls” before shoving and holding the victim against a wall has been sentenced, CWB Chicago reported.

Devontay Kenny on February 24, 2025, followed the 13-year-old boy down West Division Street in Humboldt Park, the outlet said.

Court records indicate Kenny has several felony convictions for narcotics-related charges as well as a 2017 conviction for aggravated robbery, the outlet said.

Kenny repeatedly tried to get the victim’s attention, saying he likes “little boys and girls,” the outlet added, citing court filings.

But when the boy refused to stop, prosecutors said Kenny grabbed the boy by the sweater with both hands and pushed him against a brick wall to keep him from moving away, the outlet said.

After a struggle, the victim broke free and ran to a nearby convenience store for help, the outlet said.

When witnesses confronted Kenny, officials said he tried to convince them he was the boy’s uncle, the outlet said.

RELATED: Thug carjacks a grandmother as her 6-year-old grandson looks on. But crook soon gets his comeuppance.

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Kenny pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful restraint in connection with the incident, the outlet said, adding that prosecutors dropped child abduction and aggravated battery charges.

On Monday, Judge John Lyke handed down Kenny’s sentence: six years in prison, the outlet said.

As you might imagine, Kenny has had other run-ins with the law.

In fact, just one week before the incident with the 13-year-old boy, Kenny was placed on a nighttime curfew with an electronic monitoring bracelet after police said he was distributing heroin and cocaine, the outlet said, citing court records.

However, prosecutors dropped those drug charges three weeks after Kenny was charged with assaulting the 13-year-old boy, the outlet said.

What’s more, court records indicate Kenny has several felony convictions for narcotics-related charges as well as a 2017 conviction for aggravated robbery, the outlet noted.

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Hundreds of students waving U.S. and Chinese flags greeted President Donald Trump in Beijing as he stepped off Air Force One for his historic visit to China on Wednesday.

Also in attendance to greet the president was Chinese Vice President Han Zheng as well as Foreign Affairs Vice Minister Ma Zhaoxu. Trump will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping at a pivotal time in the ongoing war in Iran.

‘We used to be taken advantage of for years with our previous presidents. And now we’re doing great with China.’

The president arrived with a large entourage that included tech billionaire Elon Musk, who had a falling out with Trump last June before restoring their relationship recently.

The visit to China is a first for a sitting U.S. president in nearly 10 years, when Trump visited last.

“We’re the two superpowers,” Trump said to reporters at the White House before departing on the trip. “We’re the strongest nation on Earth in terms of military. China’s considered second.”

The president went on to say that he didn’t think they would discuss Iran much because the war is “very much under control.”

Along with Musk, the president brought a large group of business leaders that included Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Tim Cook of Apple, Larry Fink of BlackRock, and others from the following companies:

Boeing;Goldman Sachs;Meta;Micron;Qualcomm;Illumina;Mastercard;Visa;Cargill;Citi;Cisco;Coherent; andGE Aerospace.

The trip had been delayed because of the Iran war.

“I have a great relationship with President Xi,” Trump said to reporters in the Oval Office. “We’re doing a lot of business, but it’s smart business. We used to be taken advantage of for years with our previous presidents. And now we’re doing great with China. We make a lot of money with China.”

The president’s trip to China will last until Friday.

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There will be an official welcome ceremony on Thursday with Jinping.

The president also forcefully rejected a peace plan offered by Iranian officials on Monday, calling it “garbage” and “unacceptable.” He went on to assert the ceasefire was “on life support.”

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The fact that marriage in America is on the decline is concerning, but few people understand how deep the problem goes.

Recent data shows the dismal marriage numbers in the United States. The percentage of married couples, average age at which couples are marrying, and number of children are all in catastrophic decline. The numbers represent a dramatic collapse in the institution that serves as a foundation for successful civilizations.

Conservatives will often place the blame on a lack of individual virtue, and there is plenty of truth to that claim, but the most important factors are baked into the structure of our society in a manner that Republicans are terrified to address.

Once birth control and abortion made pregnancy a choice instead of an inevitability, everything shifted.

When a movement refers to itself as “conservative” you would think the preservation of marriage would be its top priority. However, when marriage does receive any attention from conservative pundits and politicians, it is in the form of glib advice directed at young men telling them to get out of their parents’ basement and stop playing video games.

Part of the marriage problem is certainly the lack of initiative on the part of young males, but this is also the easiest and most cowardly attempt to explain away the issue. Our culture encourages placing the blame on young men, who are one of the few groups that can be attacked without consequence. The real answers require taking on far more sacred cows.

When conservatives are feeling a little more adventurous, they will admit that some aspects of our economy are antithetical to family formation.

The fact that the average age of first-time homeowners is pushing past 40 signals how difficult achieving stability for young families has become. College is now required for even the most entry-level jobs, and the cost keeps exploding, consuming the capital that once went into a starter home.

The costs of health care and food continue to skyrocket so that most households require two incomes, forcing mothers to work, while the price of child care also increases rapidly. The economic issues are real and important, but even they do not tell the whole story.

Love, duty, and honor are all factors that hold our social bonds together, but it is dependence that makes them necessary in the first place and continues to undergird them when everything else falls away.

RELATED: Adults are refusing to grow up, and their children are paying the price

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Modern people do not like to hear this fact because they believe that maximizing freedom and independence is the ultimate good, but there is a point at which autonomy rips society apart.

Men are, of course, dependent on many things, but women, due to their biological vulnerability, were always directly dependent on men.

Women are physically weaker, less aggressive, become pregnant, must care for children, and regularly need the direct intervention of others to ensure their safety and security. Women could not work outside the home while pregnant or raising children, so they remained dependent on their husbands’ income.

People will have sex — we are hardwired to pursue it — so the reality was that women and men needed to get married early to secure the safety of mothers and their children. Family formation was part of the rhythm of life. It was largely unavoidable, and this kept marriage rates among young people relatively high.

Once birth control and abortion made pregnancy a choice instead of an inevitability, everything shifted. Single women became a larger part of society, and the state expanded its reach to provide them with broader physical and economic protections.

The newly emancipated woman needed her own stream of income, and corporations were more than happy to provide it. Women doubled the labor pool, driving down wages. In large bureaucratic organizations, where compliance is key, the more agreeable nature of women is considered an asset in a way that it would not be in a more entrepreneurial economy.

Advantages were built into every level of our system to help elevate women due to the perceived biases that existed when mothers were expected to stay home. Universities gave priority to women, who now earn more degrees than men. Corporations gave hiring priority to women, who now make up a majority of their workforce.

Government assistance and scholarship programs were established to ensure that working mothers did not fall through the cracks. It is not that women stopped getting married — every female must be married at some level — they simply became dependent on the men running the government and corporations instead of traditional husbands.

Women do not date men who earn less than they do, even if they think of themselves as independent. Deep down, females know that in the modern world, income signals status and status means protection.

RELATED: Universal basic income is a dangerous delusion

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Even in our hyper-feminist culture, women still know they could become mothers at any time and naturally seek out protection and stability. The push to elevate women in education and hiring meant that the percentage of well-paying jobs going to men shrank. This resulted in men being systematically removed from the pool of attractive marriage prospects.

Dwindling prospects for both education and career have already set young men on the path to downward mobility, but the lack of prospects for marriage was the nail in the coffin. These changes, coupled with the one-sided nature of divorce and child custody law, means that many men no longer see a reason to bother dating.

Women initiate 70% of divorces in the United States. The truth is that women who do not need men do not marry when they are young and are far more likely to divorce if they do.

To be clear, this is not to absolve men of their responsibility. Both sexes made this mess, both sexes are to blame, and both will need to do hard work to fix the problem.

Men must have the drive and vitality to make something of themselves, no matter what situation they find themselves in. But in the rare instances where conservatives are even willing to address the marriage crisis, they save all their criticisms for young men because they are the culturally approved target.

There are no easy answers to the chaos that modernity has visited on the dating and marriage landscape, but the structural issues are real, and telling men to “get it together” does nothing to change that. Until conservatives are willing to be as honest with women as they are with men about our situation, nothing will improve.

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President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Jerome Powell as the chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve was approved by a vote in the U.S. Senate Wednesday.

56-year-old Kevin Warsh, a lawyer and financier, becomes the wealthiest chairman of the Fed after the Republican-controlled Senate voted 54 to 45 to confirm him.

‘He will go down as one of the GREAT Fed Chairmen, maybe the best!’

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) was the only Democrat to vote in favor of Warsh’s confirmation.

Warsh is expected to support the president’s demand to lower interest rates despite his previous opposition to dropping rates. He has justified his change of heart by arguing that artificial intelligence will so drastically increase productivity that it will give the Fed room to lower rates.

“I have known Kevin for a long period of time, and have no doubt that he will go down as one of the GREAT Fed Chairmen, maybe the best,” Trump said on social media in January. “On top of everything else, he is ‘central casting,’ and he will never let you down.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Warsh had “sucked up to Donald Trump to snag his dream job” at the Fed.

“The Senate should not be aiding and abetting Donald Trump’s illegal takeover of the Fed by installing his chosen sock puppet as chair,” she added. “It’s an invitation for corruption and for economic catastrophe. We have the power to stop it, and we should be using that power.”

The president has intensely criticized Powell for refusing to lower rates.

“We should have the lowest interest rate anywhere in the world. Jerome Powell has done a terrible job. And frankly, I don’t think he could do a worse job. He’s called everything wrong,” Trump said to reporters in July.

He has referred to Powell as a “knucklehead” and a “stupid guy” and has accused him of committing fraud while overseeing a billion-dollar renovation of the Fed’s offices in Washington, D.C.

Powell has denied the allegations and tried to defend the Fed against charges of politicization.

“We’re never going to be influenced by any political pressure,” Powell said in April 2025. “People can say whatever they want. … That’s not a problem, but we will do what we do strictly without consideration of political or any other extraneous factors.”

RELATED: Trump bashes Fed chair after inflation report drops: ‘He’s a knucklehead. Stupid guy.’

Some have argued that Warsh will not be able to significantly change the policy at the Federal Reserve by himself, as the interest rates are determined by a full vote of the Fed governors.

On Tuesday the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that inflation had spiked to 3.8%, likely as a result of increasing oil prices from the war on Iran.

Warsh is married to Jane Lauder, the billionaire heiress to the Estee Lauder fortune.

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Democrat state Rep. Justin Pearson is already back in the news after a video of the Tennessee politician calling a state trooper a “stupid motherf**ker” went viral.

But in the latest video, Pearson appears to be a changed man.

In a video from a graduation ceremony, Pearson thrashes around, dancing on stage in front of a cross, leading BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock to comment that it appears Pearson has “caught the Holy Ghost.”

“I’m almost speechless, Jason, and I speak for a living,” Anthony Walker tells Whitlock, calling Pearson’s actions “performative.”

And Walker does not believe Pearson has “caught the Holy Ghost.”

“Evidence of the Holy Spirit truly in your life and transforming you is going to be a transformed life. Your conversation is going to be different. Your conduct is going to be different. Your whereabouts, where you choose to go, is going to be different. Something will be evident that you used to behave in a sinful manner,” he explains.

“So it’s performance, and you know, unfortunately, we live in a performance-rewarding society,” he adds.

Shemeka Michelle is in agreement.

“It is performative. It is an act. And he failed,” she says, noting that the audience is applauding in the video.

“Most of them are probably women who just don’t have the discernment that’s necessary to be able to sniff out a fraud. He’s a fraud. Plain and simple,” she adds.

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“Come with me if you want to live …”

That line from 1991’s “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” proved ironic in more ways than one.

Author Glenn Reynolds begins his new book, ‘Seductive AI,’ by citing this forgotten thriller.

A T-800 robot (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) tries to protect Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) from the looming AI revolution. They both know humanity’s survival depends on her son living long enough to lead the human resistance.

The “Terminator” franchise remains Hollywood’s biggest red flag against the rise of AI. The all-powerful Skynet future is coming, and humanity may crumble as a result.

Wait … is that on screen or off?

The “Terminator” franchise isn’t the only time Hollywood warned us what could happen if we let AI grow unchecked. The following films offered their own predictions on how computer-generated intelligence could bring society to its knees — or simply leave us so disconnected that we don’t even bother with fellow humans.

Looking back, these disparate films have become scarier than Freddy, Jason, or Art the Clown … combined.

‘Her’ (2013)

– YouTube

Who wouldn’t fall in love with an AI software that sounded like Scarlett Johansson? This sci-fi parable stars Joaquin Phoenix as a lonely soul on the cusp of divorce. He decides to give his computer’s operating system a female voice (Johansson), and the two begin a digital courtship.

Naturally, the main character’s love life suffers as a result. He feels increasingly comfortable confiding in “Samantha,” even though she’s not flesh and blood.

“Her” underwhelmed at the box office, but its prescient look at computer-based romance has taken on an ominous tone given recent headlines.

‘Ex Machina’ (2015)

– YouTube

A computer programmer (Domhnall Gleeson) wins the chance to spend a week with a scientist (Oscar Isaac) who has created a near-perfect AI robot named Ava (Alicia Vikander). The programmer’s task? Determine if he can tell if the robot is real or synthetic by challenging it to the best of his abilities. What neither man realizes is that Ava has a surprise or two in store, using the unsuspecting humans for her own selfish purposes.

Wait, robots can be selfish?

The film’s minimalist effects proved sublime (and Oscar-winning), but the sophisticated storytelling is the main attraction. Once more, artificial humans pose a genuine threat to our species, at least on a small but significant scale. That leaves us vulnerable to our baser instincts.

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‘M3GAN’ (2022)

– YouTube

This slick horror-comedy has the perfect solution for a young girl dealing with the loss of her parents. At least on paper.

Meet M3gan, a sophisticated AI robot designed by Cady’s aunt (Allison Williams). The creepy bot is meant to give Cady support through her pain. M3gan is almost too good to be true, until it starts lashing out at anyone it thinks is trying to hurt the grieving girl.

No computer program can replace a loved one, and the healing process requires more than a few cute AI prompts. That’s the serious side of “M3GAN,” a genre romp with a decidedly nasty sense of humor. The film became an unlikely smash, partly because it hit theaters just as AI’s real potential started to emerge.

The sequel, “M3GAN 2.0,” bombed by betraying the story’s core themes and, perhaps, reminding us how close to reality this franchise became in just three short years.

‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ (1968)

– YouTube

“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

The best science fiction stories transport us years, if not decades, into the future. Director Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece delivered the ultimate AI warning, an avuncular program named HAL designed to do our bidding.

We all know HAL has other plans, turning this space yarn into a cautionary tale like few others.

‘Blade Runner’ (1982)

– YouTube

The line between humans and replicants blurs beyond recognition in this sci-fi stunner that bombed during its initial release. Harrison Ford, tasked with erasing androids who pose a threat to humanity when they go rogue, is torn when he meets Sean Young’s beguiling character.

She’s beautiful, even intoxicating. But is she human? We know Rutger Hauer’s villainous character is all nuts and bolts, but his soulful dialogue suggests an AI creation of consequence.

The film doesn’t reflexively take humanity’s side, leaving us with uncomfortable questions about our tech-centric future.

‘Colossus: The Forbin Project’ (1970)

– YouTube

Author Glenn Reynolds begins his new book, “Seductive AI,” by citing this forgotten thriller. The film features a supercomputer built to prevent nuclear war, a noble mission that soon goes sideways. The bot becomes sentient, reaches out to its Russian counterpart, and decides it knows what’s best regarding the fate of humanity.

The film’s chilling coda must have seemed like pure fantasy at the time. No longer.

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Boomer’s a good boy, locating an old man who had gone missing in Florida.

On Saturday, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office received a report that Ray Cornett, a 96-year-old man described as an “endangered person,” had gone missing near his home in Lutz, about 15 miles north of Tampa.

‘Good boy! Good boy, Boomer!’

The area around Cornett’s home is swampy and covered with trees and other overgrowth, and temperatures in the area were expected to hit almost 90 degrees F. So finding Cornett quickly was of the essence.

Bodycam footage posted to HCSO social media accounts shows that deputies arrived in the area around 6 p.m. on Saturday. By 6:11, a deputy had leashed up K-9 Officer Boomer and introduced him to Cornett’s scent by allowing Boomer to sniff some of Cornett’s belongings.

“Find him!” the handler commanded.

Boomer did not need much prompting. He quickly sprang into action, video showed, and eventually made his way to the woods.

Within 10 minutes, Boomer had found his man. “He’s right here!” the handler exclaimed at 6:21.

“Good boy! Good boy, Boomer! Good boy, Boomer!” he added.

According to the HCSO social media post, Cornett was found about 200 yards or so from his home. He was “returned home safely” and is believed to be unharmed.

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For years, Christian parents have been fighting a digital war with good intentions but ineffective tactics. A dad buys a “safe phone.” A mom installs parental controls. They disable browsers, hide passwords, and pray their 13-year-old outsmarts a trillion-dollar industry that hired neuroscientists specifically to outsmart him.

He learned to swipe before he learned to use a spoon. He finds a work-around in approximately four minutes. A friend has unrestricted internet. A VPN appears. Pornography arrives before puberty. By the time many Christian parents realize what happened, the battle is already inside the home, inside the mind, and, often, inside the soul.

That is why Radiant Mobile matters. For the first time in a long time, somebody in tech seems willing to admit a truth modern America desperately avoids: Children shouldn’t have unlimited access to everything on the internet.

America didn’t accidentally become spiritually exhausted.

That used to be common sense. But common sense, much like leg room in coach, is in short supply. Today, saying a 12-year-old shouldn’t be one click away from OnlyFans is treated like medieval extremism. Meanwhile, the average child today carries more explicit material in his pocket than Caligula could have dreamed up on his worst weekend.

Previous generations hid Playboy magazines under mattresses. Modern kids can access industrial-scale degeneracy between algebra class and soccer practice.

And Christians are supposed to shrug and call this “progress.”

A better approach

Radiant’s approach differs because it addresses the problem at the infrastructure level. A network-level filter, which Radiant offers, works differently from ordinary parental controls. The blocking happens through the mobile network itself, not just on the phone. For some content types, the block can’t be switched off; others are blocked by default. In simple terms, the bad material never even reaches the device. The bouncer turns it away before it gets in line. That is far more effective than playing endless whack-a-mole with apps.

That matters enormously, because most parental controls today are basically digital duct tape. They depend on constant supervision, endless updates, and children voluntarily obeying restrictions in a culture built around rebellion and temptation.

A dumb phone sounds nice in theory until reality kicks in. Modern schools require apps. Sports teams use group chats. Banks require authentication. Employers expect smartphones. Even churches livestream events, organize through apps, and communicate digitally. Telling families to simply “go backward” technologically isn’t realistic for most Americans.

If a father found strangers wandering into his house every night, he wouldn’t hand his kids a pamphlet on personal safety. Any sane, sensible, loving father would lock the door, install a deadbolt, and start pricing shotguns. Modern internet culture has spent years mocking that instinct as controlling or oppressive. But protecting children from predators is the most fundamental job of any parent.

And yes, pornography is predatory.

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The research on this is overwhelming. Pornography rewires the brain, destroys marriages, fuels addiction, damages intimacy, lowers empathy, and increasingly introduces children to violent and degrading content at shockingly young ages. Churches know this firsthand. Pastors counsel marriages shattered by secret addictions. Youth leaders watch teenage boys become numb, isolated, anxious, and detached from reality. The culture keeps offering weak solutions because the culture doesn’t actually want the problem solved.

Big Tech profits from addiction. Social media platforms profit from outrage. Pornography platforms profit from loneliness. The modern digital economy feeds on temptation the same way casinos feed on gambling addiction. America didn’t accidentally become spiritually exhausted. Entire industries make fortunes keeping people distracted, stimulated, angry, lustful, and emotionally dependent on screens. People, sometimes shamefully, carry on.

Christians have every right to push back.

Back to normalcy

Critics will inevitably scream about censorship and freedom. But every family already filters values every single day. Parents decide who their children spend time with, which movies they’re allowed to watch, what music plays in the car, what food goes on the plate, and what time the lights go off at night.

Nobody with more than a few functioning neurons calls that censorship. Nobody calls it tyranny.

Adding the internet to that list is just a matter of consistency. Schools decide what websites students can access. Libraries curate material by age. Television once had standards strict enough that even cartoon characters wore pants. Somehow, civilization survived that horrifying oppression.

Besides, no one is forcing secular Americans to buy this service. Radiant exists because millions of Christian families are exhausted by constantly fighting a culture that increasingly treats moral boundaries as abusive.

There’s no such thing as a perfect parent, and there’s certainly no such thing as a perfect child. But most American parents aren’t chasing perfection. They’re just trying to hold the line long enough for their kids to have a childhood worth remembering, worth cherishing.

That shouldn’t be controversial.

If you don’t build it, they will leave

There’s also something deeper happening here: a crossing of the Rubicon, of sorts — Christians entering technology rather than merely complaining about it. For decades, the church’s posture toward the digital world has been a mix of suspicion, hand-wringing, and the occasional sermon about screen time. Building actual tools is a different posture entirely. If believers refuse to build alternatives, their children will simply inherit systems designed by people who openly despise Christian morality.

The internet that many adults defend so passionately isn’t exactly producing a flourishing civilization. America has record numbers of men over 30 who have never been on a date, fertility rates in free fall, rising depression, fractured families, and children whose attention spans now resemble caffeinated squirrels. Perhaps unrestricted digital access wasn’t the utopian breakthrough we were promised. We opened Pandora’s box and found a sordid collection of deepfakes, men masquerading as women, AI girlfriends, rage-bait, livestreamed breakdowns with sponsorship, and influencers selling anti-aging serum to 10-year-olds.

Christian families don’t need to apologize for wanting guardrails, nor do they need permission from cultural elites to protect their homes. A society that childproofs bleach bottles while handing 12-year-olds unrestricted smartphones is, in many ways, a sick one.

Radiant Mobile won’t save America. And Christ saves people, not phone plans. But building technology designed to protect families, rather than exploit them, is a huge step in the right direction.

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A Texas Democrat seeking re-election in November has been arrested — again.

Early Saturday morning, police in Texas City responded to a report of a car parked in the left lane of Highway 3. Around 1:30 a.m., they discovered Harris County Treasurer Carla Wyatt (D) fast asleep in the driver’s seat of a vehicle parked with the engine running and its hazard lights on, according to reports citing court documents.

‘This arrest is for a subsequent offense/arrest of Driving While Intoxicated.’

Reports claim the officer opened the door and turned off the ignition for safety reasons before waking Wyatt up. When the officer asked her where she was, she claimed both that she was “in heaven” and in Houston, court documents said, even though Houston was more than 40 miles away.

According to court documents, Wyatt also told the officer she was in the area for a conference in Galveston later that morning. She initially claimed she had had one glass of wine at home around 10 p.m. the previous night but later changed her story and said she’d had two glasses of wine.

The cop smelled alcohol and noticed that Wyatt was not steady on her feet, the documents indicated. She also expressed uneasiness about taking a field sobriety test on account of a previous foot injury.

Wyatt was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated, a Class B misdemeanor. She was released on $3,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in court again on June 26.

Neither Wyatt nor her attorney responded to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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A bond addendum signed by the investigator notes that “this arrest is for a subsequent offense/arrest of Driving While Intoxicated.”

Indeed, Wyatt was similarly charged with DWI in December 2023 after reportedly registering an astonishing blood alcohol level of between 0.365% and 0.367%, more than four times the legal limit.

According to the Houston Chronicle, Wyatt allegedly violated the terms of her probation in that case, once in January 2024 and once in March 2024. Nevertheless, the case was dismissed in August after she completed a pretrial diversion program.

Then in December 2025, Wyatt was arrested again, this time for alleged burglary of a vehicle. A grand jury declined to indict her in connection with that case in April.

Wyatt, 56, was first elected to be Harris County treasurer in 2022. She is running for re-election in November and is among the 2026 candidates listed on the Harris County Democratic Party website.

The HCDP did not respond to a request for comment.

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A now-former high school counselor in North Carolina has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a student at the school, according to police.

Asheboro Police Department officers on Friday arrested 39-year-old Amber Elizabeth Walker, according to the arrest warrant WFMY-TV obtained.

‘Asheboro City Schools is aware that a former employee of the district has been taken into custody in connection with alleged inappropriate activity.’

Walker was charged with two felony counts of sex act with a student, the arrest warrant said. Walker faces up to 94 months in prison if convicted on both charges, WFMY reported. During Monday’s hearing, prosecutors petitioned the court to hold Walker without bond.

Walker’s attorney argued that his client isn’t a flight risk because she resides in Guilford County, where her 2-year-old son and her parents live, WXLV-TV reported. Her attorney also noted that Walker poses no risk of reoffending, as the school district no longer employs her.

However, the judge said the charges against Walker are considered violent offenses under Iryna’s Law, which means a defendant cannot be released on an unsecured bond or written promise, WXLV reported. Iryna’s Law was enacted in October 2025 in response to the brutal killing of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte commuter train.

According to the Duke Chronicle, the main provisions of Iryna’s Law are to “enforce stricter pretrial release conditions, mandate mental health evaluations for some defendants, and expedite the process for implementing capital punishment.”

Walker’s secured bond was set at $50,000, and the judge ordered her to have no contact with the victim.

Walker was “crying throughout the hearing,” according to WFMY.

Walker was a counselor and girls’ basketball coach at Asheboro High School, according to WFMY.

Multiple posts on the official Asheboro High School Facebook account from 2019 and 2021 identify Walker as “Coach Walker” while congratulating the girls’ basketball team.

RELATED: ‘Monster’ guidance counselor admits to sexually abusing underage girl; promised to leave husband and kids for victim: Police

Police said they received a tip on Friday accusing Walker of engaging in sexual activity two days before with an underage student at the school, WFMY reported. Police said detectives “quickly developed evidence confirming the allegation” and took Walker into custody within hours of receiving the potentially damning accusations.

WXII-TV reported that the school district hired Walker on Feb. 26, 2018, and Asheboro City Schools fired her Friday. The school district said in a statement that it will “continue to cooperate with appropriate authorities as necessary.”

“Asheboro City Schools is aware that a former employee of the district has been taken into custody in connection with alleged inappropriate activity,” the school district said in a statement WFMY obtained.

The New York Post reported that just two months ago, Asheboro City Schools urged college-aspiring students to contact Walker for scholarship opportunities.

Walker is scheduled to appear in court on May 26. The Asheboro Police Department and the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to Blaze News‘ request for comment.

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California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced a partnership with the nonprofit Baby2Baby with plans to give every newborn delivered in participating hospitals 400 diapers for free — but there’s a catch.

The diapers aren’t actually free, and in fact, they’re actually much more expensive.

“Having free diapers for kids sounds wonderful, right?” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere asks.

“It does, but I’m guessing that they cost three times as much as buying them at the store,” co-host Dave Landau comments.

And Dave is almost right.

In a post on X, Peter Basios broke down Newsom’s $20 million dollar plan, arguing that it would be cheaper to give “every low-income new mom $100 cash and [tell] her to go to Costco.”

“100,000 babies × 400 diapers = 40 million diapers,” Basios wrote. “$20,000,000 ÷ 40,000,000 = $0.50 per diaper. Now walk into any Costco in California and you can buy the same quality diapers for .12 to .15 cents each!”

“That’s $48 to $60 for 400 diapers,” he continued. “So the state is paying 8-10x more per diaper than a regular family buying in bulk.”

“He is saving you money by charging you four times for the diaper cost,” Dave jokes.

“We took it out of your taxes, but they’re free,” he adds.

Newsom’s wife is also reportedly linked to the nonprofit.

“You have to just say, from a stance of just being fortunate and things falling in the right place, what a great thing that all of this extra money that’s going to this organization just happens to benefit his wife,” Stu says.

“It’s almost like it’s racketeering,” Dave comments, adding, “in the sense that it is.”

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A Florida teacher is accused of kissing a male student for about six minutes and groping him — then on another occasion unzipping the victim’s pants and performing a sex act on him.

According to an arrest report WPLG-TV obtained Monday, Leroy Wright Jr., 46, of Miami was arrested last week on charges of offenses against students by authority figures, unlawful sexual activity with a minor, and depiction of obscene material involving a minor.

‘He is too educated for that. No. Not my friend.’

Police said someone emailed the principal of Miami Jackson Senior High School on April 28 saying that Wright — a reading teacher at the school — was “having a relationship” with a student, WPLG reported.

The principal on Thursday submitted a “personnel investigative model report” to the Miami-Dade County Public Schools Office of Professional Standards, and the report was subsequently submitted to the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department, the station said.

Police on Thursday interviewed the person who emailed the principal, and that person identified the victim to them, WPLG said.

Police said they interviewed the victim at his home in the presence of his mother, and the student said he first met Wright at the beginning of the school year when Wright asked him to join the Freshman Club, for which Wright was the adult sponsor, the station said. Police said the student joined the club, WPLG added.

The victim claimed the first sexual incident occurred April 29 when he hugged Wright as he was exiting Wright’s classroom, the station said.

Police said the student claimed Wright hugged him back and then kissed him for about six minutes while groping him, WPLG reported.

On May 1, Wright again kissed the student and groped him, the station said, citing authorities.

WTVJ-TV reported that the victim said he was in Wright’s car three days later, and while they were stuck in traffic, Wright unzipped the victim’s pants and performed a sexual act.

Police said Wright was informed prior to his arrest that the victim’s cell phone had been “forensically examined,” WPLG reported.

Wright was booked into jail Friday and remained there Wednesday morning, jail records indicate.

WPLG said Wright will appear before a judge Wednesday.

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One neighbor told WPLG she couldn’t believe the charges against Wright, who holds a PhD: “He is too educated for that. No. Not my friend.”

The school district released a statement over the weekend, WPLG reported, adding that the statement confirmed Wright would be fired.

“The type of behavior this individual is accused of will not be tolerated, as it runs contrary to the professional conduct we expect from all employees,” the statement read, according to WPLG. “The district has initiated employment termination proceedings and will ensure the individual is precluded from seeking future employment with the district. At M-DCPS, the safety and well-being of all students remain our top priority.”

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The eBay board of directors did not seem pleased with GameStop’s CEO on Tuesday, firmly rejecting an offer from last week that was followed by continued online antics.

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen offered $55.5 billion for the online auction site last Sunday, saying that with his expertise, eBay could become a rival to Amazon.

‘We have concluded that your proposal is neither credible nor attractive.’

This was followed by a series of comical posts on X by Cohen, who wrote messages like, “I’m selling stuff on eBay to pay for eBay.”

The CEO was selling memorabilia from video games and even GameStop signs before he was eventually suspended from the online marketplace.

On Tuesday, eBay announced that its board of directors was rejecting GameStop’s “unsolicited, non-binding acquisition proposal.”

“Dear Mr. Cohen,” eBay wrote in a press release. “The board, with the support of its independent advisers, has thoroughly reviewed your proposal and has determined to reject it.”

“We have concluded that your proposal is neither credible nor attractive,” eBay added.

Cohen’s proposal to buy 100% of eBay was valued at $125 per share in a 50/50 deal comprised of cash and GameStop’s own stock.

RELATED: GameStop’s next act? Becoming a ‘legit competitor’ to Amazon. How the company plans to do it is crazy.

The formal offer from Cohen promised to reduce costs at eBay by at least $2 billion within 12 months. He intended on cutting the marketing budget in half while slicing $300 million off of product development and reducing administrative costs by $500 million, among other moves.

In its formal rejection though, eBay went on the defensive, saying it remains a “strong, resilient business that has delivered meaningful results over the past several years.”

“eBay’s board is confident that the company, under its current management team, is well-positioned to continue to drive sustainable growth, execute with discipline, and deliver long-term value for our shareholders,” the company added.

Paul S. Pressler, eBay’s chairman of the board of directors, specified the reasons for their rejection, such as the “uncertainty” of Cohen’s financial proposal, the impact it may have on “long-term growth and profitability,” and how GameStop governs its own C-suite.

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While the degree of animosity shown by eBay seems unusual, it comes after Cohen made several antagonistic posts, like asking eBay to please respond to his customer service inquiries.

“On phone with customer support @eBay. please respond @eBay,” Cohen wrote on X.

Cohen then called stock sales by eBay “insiders” into question, and he mocked the company’s lack of customer service on social media.

“You’d think with 2.4 billion in marketing spend, they could login to X,” he wrote.

At the time of this writing, Cohen had not made any additional public statements regarding eBay’s rejection.

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