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I know this guy, Richard. He’s friends with a couple of different friends of mine. He’s in his late 40s. He’s had a successful microbrewery business going for many years.

Last year, I heard that his business was in trouble. And then, more recently, his wife filed for divorce. He is apparently having problems seeing his kids.

Maybe this is our new male initiation ritual. Getting crushed by family court. Losing your business to far-left politics. Being abandoned in your moment of need.

I saw him recently at a large gathering. He was in pretty bad shape. He was getting screwed at family court. He was blaming Trump for his business problems.

His blaming Trump was no surprise. Many otherwise intelligent people do that automatically here in Portland. Everything is Trump’s fault. I don’t really hold it against them. The propaganda is so thick here. And if you own a public-facing business, you probably have to go with the flow.

More likely, the true cause of his business problems is the economics of Portland. Taxes are up. Insurance is skyrocketing. Homeless people have invaded your neighborhood. Drug addicts are lighting your dumpster on fire.

Hitting bottom

So I was at this event, and I ended up in a small group with Richard and a couple of other guys. I could see that he was upset. He looked terrible.

I could relate to his situation. I had gone through a similar compound disaster when my father died, right in the middle of my own divorce.

So I had felt that pain. But I didn’t have kids. Which probably makes Richard’s situation much worse.

Eventually, the other guys wandered off, and I found myself giving Richard a little pep talk. I told him what happened to me and explained how at the time, I tried to think of it as a test.

I thought to myself: How often in life will I have to face two life-changing crises, coming from two different directions, at the same time?

I tried to think of my situation as a challenge, a rare opportunity to test my mettle, as I faced a mountain of emotional stressors and practical problems.

I couldn’t tell if he was buying it. And I didn’t know him that well. So I left it at that.

The soft life

But in the days after, I thought more about Richard’s situation.

He was a solidly upper-middle-class guy. His parents were well off. He went to a good college. He was a successful businessman and a respected member of the local microbrew scene. His brewery had prospered for years, before Portland took its current downturn.

He had really had an easy time of it, all things considered. So really, my idea that this was a “rare opportunity” was not far off. His current problems were easily the worst thing that ever happened to him. And they were all happening at once!

This also might have been a good time to try to red-pill him on local politics. Bro, Trump isn’t the reason you can’t run a business in Portland. But he wasn’t going to change on that.

But the “test” thing. That was still a valid point. Richard had never been hit this hard. And like a lot of men, he wasn’t ready for it. He had lived a relatively soft life.

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Into the wilderness

People have been saying for years that part of the problem with American men is they don’t have any form of initiation ritual.

There’s no rigorous coming-of-age process. We have no “rites of passage.”

You can live your whole life and never have to endure any true hardship or serious deprivation.

Other cultures make a point of creating those “rites of passage.” Growing up in the West, I heard about young Native American men going on “vision quests.” They ventured into the wilderness by themselves, with no food and no protection from the elements or predatory animals.

In this way, they proved themselves worthy of their people, both physically and mentally. They were pushed to the limits of their endurance.

This was not only a physical ordeal, but a chance for spiritual growth as well. Becoming a man was not just about strength and skill; it was about humility and understanding your responsibilities within your tribe.

Once you had experienced the difficulties of fending for yourself, you would forever appreciate the security of life within a stable and healthy community.

The new vision quest

I thought about Richard’s predicament, which is now fairly common in America. What was happening to him was happening to men all the time.

Maybe this is our new male initiation ritual. Getting crushed by family court. Losing your business to far-left politics. Being abandoned in your moment of need by your own social class, because they’re progressive Democrats as well.

That’s how I would think of it if I were him. What else are you going to do? Cry to your lawyer? Complain about Trump? Whine to your Kamala-voting buddies?

Or are you going to grieve your losses, accept your situation, and then respond with a new resolve, a new clarity of mind, and perhaps a stiffer spine?

I mean, I feel for the guy. He’s going through hell. But these kinds of men have got to stop crying and focus on what is really going on around them.

Think of your present difficulties as the rite of passage you should have experienced when you were 14. Think of them as your overdue vision quest. You’re in the wilderness now. You have only yourself to depend on.

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A Missouri woman complaining about police at a city council meeting was recognized by the police as being wanted for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend.

Berkeley Police Major Steve Runge told KTVI-TV that Jameicia Moore was spotted as she spoke to the Berkeley City Council on Jan. 12.

‘You’re lucky I didn’t stab you in the f**king chest.’

“Are you kidding me? Was my reaction,” Runge said. “Because we were trying to get her to come talk to us and she just refused.”

Video from the city council meeting shows the moment Runge, who is sitting in the background, recognizes Moore and texts his officers to apprehend her.

“Then, not only that, [she] complained about the police. And I’m like, lady, you’re wanted by the police!” he added.

Runge said he told his officers to arrest her in the hallway in order to avoid disrupting the meeting. He said they had been seeking to talk to Moore for about two months, but she had refused.

Moore was being sought on charges of domestic assault and armed criminal action over an alleged stabbing attack against her boyfriend from Oct. 2025. Police said she stabbed him with a butcher knife in his left arm after becoming enraged when he mentioned another woman.

The woman was allegedly captured in a recording saying to the victim, “You’re lucky I didn’t stab you in the f**king chest.”

Three weeks later, there was another domestic incident that involved Moore wielding a baseball bat.

St. Louis County Prosecutor Melissa Price Smith said she had never quite seen anything like Moore’s arrest.

“Shout-out to the Berkeley Police Department, who were really on top of their game — very aware,” Smith said.

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“She had refused to go to the police department to speak with them,” she added. “It’s actually quite surprising, though, that she then appeared at the Berkeley City Council meeting two months later on a completely different matter.”

Runge added, “You can run, but you can’t hide.”

Moore was given a $100K bond.

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On January 27, during a town hall meeting in Minneapolis, a man sitting in the front row suddenly charged at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and sprayed her with an unknown liquid using a syringe-like device. The alleged suspect, 55-year-old Anthony Kazmierczak, was immediately arrested on suspicion of assault, and Omar, unharmed, was able to continue her event. He faces charges of third-degree assault and is currently detained at the Hennepin County jail.

Some people, however, are convinced this assault was a hoax. They argue that certain details in the video footage indicate Omar staged the attack against herself, perhaps to deflect attention from controversies she’s involved in.

On this episode of “The Liz Wheeler Show,” Liz delivers a frame-by-frame analysis of the attack, dissecting seven details she argues might confirm the growing suspicion that the entire ordeal was manufactured.

Reason 1: Security dropped the ball — or did they?

The first suspicious detail, Liz says, is that Omar’s attacker was “visibly a weirdo.”

“Look at this guy. He is clearly under the influence of something,” she says, rolling video footage from the town hall meeting that captures the up-close profile of the attacker prior to the incident.

At a “town hall event for a sitting member of the U.S. Congress — if there’s a weirdo seated in the front row, the security moves the weirdo. That’s standard procedure,” she adds.

Reason 2: Timing a little too perfect?

“It’s interesting to note that he jumped up right after Ilhan Omar said that Kristi Noem must resign,” Liz says.

“It was as if that was his cue.”

Liz says the timing of the attack makes her wonder: “Is this some kind of stage/hoax/hate crime in order to protect Ilhan Omar from any kind of enforcement of her questionable immigration activities?”

Reason 3: Suspicious head nod?

“There’s also a moment where it appears that Ilhan Omar gives him the head nod, like, ‘Go ahead,”’ Liz says, playing another video clip that captures Omar’s face immediately prior to the attack.

While Liz wants to give her “the benefit of the doubt,” when she closely analyzes the footage, she sees a definitive nod.

“She gave him a nod as if to give him his cue,” she declares.

Reason 4: Zero panic?

“Then, of course, when he does lunge at her and squirts this foul-smelling unknown substance on her, she barely flinches,” Liz notes.

She explains that if Omar was truly unaware of the attack, then surely she would’ve shown concern about the substance — perhaps a “poison chemical agent” — that was just squirted on her. Or perhaps she would involuntarily flinch, assuming that the attacker was wielding a firearm.

“And yet, she barely reacts,” Liz says.

Reason 5: Omar charges toward the danger?

Liz also finds it suspicious that Omar’s initial reaction to being sprayed was to move toward the perpetrator. Video footage captures her immediately storming away from the podium, where she was speaking in his direction.

“Instead of the kind of self-preservation move-away, she lurches towards him,” she scoffs.

Reason 6: Why spare the face?

“It’s also strange, by the way, that he didn’t aim this substance at her face. He aimed it at her sweater,” Liz observes.

If he was a genuine attacker, he likely would’ve aimed to cause true damage and thus wouldn’t have projected the liquid in a “harmless” place, she suggests.

Reason 7: No medical checkup?

The most convincing evidence that Omar staged this attack, however, is that she refused any medical testing, hazmat evaluation, or decontamination at the scene. On the contrary, she demanded to be allowed to finish her speech before examination.

“To decline to even test what this substance is or to go to the hospital and to continue speaking — these are the reasons why … so many people are asking: Is this an authentic attack, or was this a staged attack?” Liz says.

“Well, my answer to that would be this: It’s a good thing that he was arrested because if it was a real attack, he deserves to be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and if it’s a fake attack, if this was some kind of hoax hate crime, then he deserves to be investigated, prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

To hear more of Liz’s frame-by-frame breakdown, watch the full episode above.

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Last Friday during the annual March for Life, President Trump delivered a pledge to the nation: His administration stands for the “infinite worth and God-given dignity of every human life.” Vice President JD Vance’s remarks at the rally were just as clear: We must “build up that culture of life” and “cannot be neutral. Our country cannot be indifferent about whether its next generations live or die.”

Vance and Trump were primarily talking about the unborn. But their principles clearly include providing the right to life — as well as health and safety — for all citizens, especially the most vulnerable among us.

We have entire policies at the FDA dedicated to making it more difficult for children inside and outside the womb to live the lives they deserve.

Unfortunately, these principles have been undermined by a few key officials at the Food and Drug Administration, and not just for unborn children. Thousands of kids with rare diseases have seen valuable treatments slowed or even halted since last summer, thanks to FDA Commissioner Marty Makary and Chief Medical Officer Vinay Prasad.

As one of the oldest living Americans with spina bifida (I celebrate my 60th birthday this year), I understand the value of providing children with rare and fatal diseases the ability to improve or even extend their lives from a personal, policy, and political perspective. I took that knowledge into the first Trump administration as the commissioner of the Administration on Disability at the Department of Health & Human Services. Today, I’m deeply concerned by what Makary, Prasad, and — at times — Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have done to reduce children’s ability to live the full length of their God-given lives.

Those concerns were why I raised the alarm when RFK Jr. was going through his Senate hearings a year ago. He had been openly supportive of abortion on the presidential campaign trail, but I and other concerned pro-life advocates were told that he would have plenty of pro-lifers around him and that people would become policy. They were right: People did become policy, but not the way we had hoped. Now, we have entire policies at the FDA dedicated to making it more difficult for children inside and outside the womb to live the lives they deserve.

Last October, the FDA outraged pro-life warriors across the country by approving a cheaper version of mifepristone, one of the most prevalent and notorious abortion drugs on the market. Women can have these drugs dropped off in their mailboxes and have abortions in the “comfort” of their own homes. The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute estimates there were over 640,000 chemical abortions in 2023 — 63% of the total abortions that year.

In 2026, there will be even more.

That number, troubling enough on its own, understates the problem because it doesn’t account for the injuries these drugs inflict on the women who take them. One devastating fact I have learned in my advocacy for people with disabilities is the particular hazard the abortion pill presents for women who use wheelchairs or otherwise live with limited mobility. Any drug that causes blood clots — and abortion drugs definitely do — will be a deadly danger to people who have limited mobility.

FDA Chief Medical Officer Vinay Prasad is similarly problematic for those who support protecting life. He not only supports legalized abortion, but since his appointment in mid-2025, Prasad has held up the production of drugs and treatments that would make real differences in the lives of kids who suffer from rare diseases like Sanfilippo syndrome and Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

In 2018, Prasad opposed the Trump “right to try” doctrine, through which hundreds of patients have seen amazing results from drugs still in their experimental stages or through off-label usage. That number could be higher if Prasad’s red tape weren’t keeping effective drugs in “pre-approval” limbo.

RELATED: No, President Trump: The sanctity of life is not ‘flexible’

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At HHS, the buck stops with RFK Jr. But ultimately in our government, the buck stops at the Oval Office. Trump and Vance recommitted to supporting life on Friday, and that commitment must be consistent throughout the administration. The FDA’s actions against the unborn and children with disabilities and rare diseases threaten to undermine what should be a slam dunk for Trump’s pro-life legacy.

In short, HHS and FDA appointees should be defending life, not quietly undermining it. Vance and Trump can make that happen.

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One Border Patrol agent and one Customs and Border Protection officer were placed on leave for their involvement in the lethal shooting of anti-ICE activist Alex Pretti, according to ABC News.

Also on Wednesday, Pretti’s family retained attorneys who had helped prosecute an officer in the death of George Floyd.

‘It’s just amateurish. It’s terrible; it’s making the president look bad on policy.’

The developments come after President Donald Trump and local Democratic leaders worked together to ease the tension from the incident Saturday.

A Department of Homeland Security notification to Congress obtained by ABC News indicated that both of the officers discharged their firearms during the incident.

Sources said that putting the two on leave was “standard protocol” for an officer-involved shooting.

Steve Schleicher is representing Michael and Susan Pretti, the activist’s parents, pro bono according to a statement from the family. Schleicher is a partner at the Minneapolis-based firm Maslon and worked as special prosecutor under Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison in the trial against Derek Chauvin.

Micayla Pretti, the activist’s younger sister, hired her own attorney, Anthony Cotton of Kuchler & Cotton in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Democrats pounced on the death of the 37-year-old ICU nurse by resuming and amplifying their calls for the Trump administration to end all ICE operations and disband the agency. Others have called for Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem to resign from the office.

RELATED: Ilhan Omar accuses Trump of ulterior motive for ICE raids — and JD Vance shuts her down

“What she’s done in Minnesota should be disqualifying. She should be out of a job,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said. “It’s just amateurish. It’s terrible; it’s making the president look bad on policy.”

On Tuesday, it was revealed that Pretti had gotten into a separate confrontation with federal agents about a week before his death. He had been tackled in that interaction and reportedly broke a rib when one agent leaned his knee on him. Pretti was released in that incident.

“That day, he thought he was going to die,” said a source who had spoken to Pretti.

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The Ben of the famous Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company is calling for resistance against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and warned that the agency will kill anyone who doesn’t submit.

Ben Cohen cited two lethal shooting incidents involving federal immigration agents in a video message he posted to the X platform on Wednesday.

‘Submit or be murdered, video them and be murdered, protest and be murdered.’

Cohen said he was going to announce a special ice cream to memorialize the life of Renee Good but that the killing of Alex Pretti made him change his mind.

“We all live in Minneapolis now, because Minneapolis is only the beginning of what they have in mind. They’re coming for anyone, anywhere, who doesn’t submit,” Cohen said in the video.

“A brazen, arrogant, masked, militarized force loyal only to Trump and immune from prosecution. Submit or be murdered, video them and be murdered, protest and be murdered, or at least be placed on a list of domestic terrorists and investigated.”

“This is not freedom. … This is not America. This is sheer cruelty. This is the beginning of the end of the land of the free unless we make it the home of the brave,” he continued.

He went on to call for ICE to be defunded and disbanded, and closed by quoting the Bible and also Christian Marxist Cornel West.

Ben & Jerry’s has been vocal about supporting liberal causes for many years and used their ice cream platform for advocacy.

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In 2024, the company called for Americans to recognize that the “US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it” for the Fourth of July.

In 2021, the company said it would refuse to sell its ice cream in the “Occupied Palestinian Territory.”

In September, co-founder Jerry Greenfield stepped down from Ben & Jerry’s after accusing its parent company of stifling his left-wing speech.

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The left has declared war on ICE, and the citizens of Minnesota appear to be taking this call to arms very seriously.

“This is a weird thing that’s been happening … all across Minnesota where anybody who’s driving an SUV or staying in an Extended Suites America or Spring Hill Suites is just suspected of being an ICE member,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere explains.

“Like, if you have short hair and you’re white, you’re definitely an ICE to these people. And so, they’re going to come out and harass you. And I keep thinking there’s these families that are coming across the country like ‘Where can we stop? Well, stop at the Spring Hill Suites. It’s an hour ahead. We’ll get a good start on the drive tomorrow,’” he continues.

“They’re trying to get some sleep, and there’s idiots outside with their stupid whistles yelling at ICE members that probably left the state 48 hours before, but that’s just where we are at this point,” he adds.

There are even apps some Minnesotans are using in order to track who they believe might be ICE agents — which they are often wrong about.

“Not that it would be OK if they got the person right, but it just also shows, not only are they evil and just being a-holes about this, but they’re also wrong constantly. So, that’s just one of those things that goes along with it,” Stu says.

One woman recorded herself strategizing how to incapacitate ICE officers so they aren’t able to deport any illegal immigrants.

“Here is one crazy lady … just openly strategizing on social media about how to commit massive crimes,” Stu comments, before playing a clip of the woman.

“The single ladies where these ICE guys are going have a chance to do something, you know, not without risk, but could help the cause, for sure. Get on Tinder, get on Hinge, find these guys. They’re around. They’re an ICE agent? Bring some Ex-Lax and put it in their drinks. Get them sick. You know, nobody’s going to die. Just enough to incapacitate them, get them off the street for the next day,” she said in a video posted to TikTok.

In another video, the same woman called for medical providers to grab syringes to inject the ICE agents with.

“There you go. What could possibly go wrong with scenarios like that?” Stu asks. “Just bring some needles, inject them with stuff.”

“These are psychotic people. My favorite part of that clip is how incredibly proud she is of thinking of these ideas,” he adds.

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Rap sensation Nicki Minaj appeared alongside President Donald Trump in the nation’s capital to praise the administration, while delivering scathing remarks about California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Minaj attended the Trump Account Summit in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, personally pledging hundreds of thousands of dollars to child savings accounts spearheaded by the administration. These new accounts are a feature of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, where the government and private donors fund investment accounts for every child born between 2025 and 2028.

‘Newscum only wants to be seen. He doesn’t want to do anything credible.’

In addition to her monetary contribution, Minaj praised Trump while ripping into Newsom.

“I am probably the president’s number-one fan,” Minaj said. “And that’s not going to change. And the hate or what people have to say — it does not affect me at all. It actually motivates me to support him more, and it’s going to motivate all of us to support him more. We’re not going to let them get away with bullying him.”

“He has a lot of force behind him, and God is protecting him.”

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Minaj contrasted Trump with Newsom, most notably praising the president’s authenticity, which she says is unique for world leaders.

“This is a different human being,” Minaj said. “This is a different president. This is a different kind of leader. This is a businessman and an authentic human being. So when he says that he wants to contribute something long-term, way after he’s in office, that’s what he means.”

“He doesn’t want to make a change,” Minaj said of Newsom. “Absolutely not. Newscum only wants to be seen. He does not want to do anything credible with his time or life.”

RELATED: Nicki Minaj stuns crowd in surprise appearance at TPUSA conference, praises Trump and Vance

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Minaj went on to say that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was her new “hero” for his brutal takedown of the California governor in Davos, Switzerland, last week.

“The way he so calmly and confidently obliterated Newscum,” Minaj laughed.

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Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is getting fierce backlash after he made a threat to “hunt down” Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in a speech outside city hall.

Krasner, who was propelled into office with the financial aid of left-wing billionaire George Soros, compared the federal agents to Nazis before making his threat.

‘The behavior of a psychopath with a badge.’

“This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis. That’s what they are,” Krasner said to a cheering crowd. “In a country of 350 million, we outnumber them.”

He said that he and other prosecutors were backing efforts to prosecute federal agents involved in two lethal shootings in Minnesota and another shooting in Arizona.

“If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities,” he added. “We will find you. We will achieve justice, and we will do so under the Constitution and the laws of the United States.”

Krasner was at the rally to support proposed legislation that would ban ICE from utilizing property owned by the city and implement other restrictions on federal operations without a judicial warrant.

The White House responded to Krasner and called him a “seriously deranged individual” in a post on social media Wednesday. Others responded on social media to a video that cut out Krasner’s appeal to the Constitution.

“Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, vowing to ‘hunt down’ ICE agents, is the behavior of a psychopath with a badge,” responded Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Penn.) in part. “Year after year, he fails to prosecute the criminals who continue to plague the City of Brotherly Love.”

“Will the media ask Dems to condemn?” replied White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Krasner previously threatened ICE agents with prosecution in Philadelphia after the lethal shooting of Renee Good.

“Oh no! Anyway,” reads a mocking response from the Department of Homeland Security.

RELATED: Soros-backed DA will not file charges against college student who lethally stabbed homeless man caught robbing cars

Krasner’s campaign for DA got a boost in 2017 totaling $1.7 million from Soros, who supports prosecutors with left-leaning criminal prosecuting policies.

Despite facing spirited criticism against his soft-on-crime policies, Krasner easily won re-election in November with support of 72.6% of the voters against a Republican opponent.

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Movie star and father of five Hugh Grant says he’s fed up with seeing his children glued to screens — and insists he’s speaking not as a celebrity activist but as “just another angry parent.”

Grant has campaigned on digital privacy issues since accusing journalists at the now-defunct News of the World of hacking his phone in 2011, later securing settlements with publishers, including Mirror Group Newspapers and News Group Newspapers (the Sun), most recently in 2024.

‘And you think, “What is this? What happened with you and Google Classroom or whatever it might be?”‘

But a recently resurfaced clip shows the “Bridget Jones” star venting about something far more familiar to parents: schools pushing screens, Chromebooks, and app-based learning on children who already spend much of their lives online.

Screen idol

In the clip — recorded last June during a panel discussion on rolling back “phone-based childhood and screen-based school days” — Grant complained of an “eternal, exhausting, and depressing battle” with children who only want to be on screens.

RELATED: Here’s how to opt out of Google gobbling your iPhone data

“And the final straw was when the schools started saying, with some smugness, ‘We give every child a Chromebook, and they do a lot of lessons on their Chromebook, and they do all their homework on their Chromebook,’” Grant said. “And you just thought, that is the last f**king thing they need — and the last thing we need.”

Pwning parents

Grant also criticized the defensive posture schools and politicians adopt when parents raise concerns about classroom technology.

“Suddenly you get letters in a kind of semi-legalese,” he said. “And you think, ‘What is this? What happened with you and Google Classroom or whatever it might be?’”

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The actor said his skepticism has been shaped by years of experience confronting powerful institutions. Grant is a board member of Hacked Off, the media-reform group founded after the phone-hacking scandal to campaign against illegal surveillance and press abuses.

Game over

While Hacked Off does not focus on school technology, Grant suggested the same instinct to close ranks now appears when parents question the role of screens in education.

“I don’t think politicians ever do anything because it’s the right thing to do,” Grant said. “Even if it’s the right thing to do to protect children. They’ll only do what gets them votes.”

According to Grant, meaningful change will come only when enough parents push back — not just against smartphones but against what he sees as the normalization of screens throughout childhood.

“I think that once you get a critical mass of parents who are outraged by ed-tech as well as all the other issues — the phones, etcetera — that is when politicians listen,” he said.

“And it’s when schools start to listen because they’re scared of people leaving their schools and losing business.”

Grant is the father of five children between the ages of 7 and 14.

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The Somali government admitted fault after it was accused of destroying a United States-funded warehouse and seizing 76 metric tons of food aid intended for Somali nationals.

In early January, the State Department halted “all ongoing” aid to Somalia, citing concerning reports that its government had destroyed a World Food Programme warehouse and seized donor-funded food.

‘The Federal Government takes full responsibility for addressing this unfortunate situation and expresses its regret that it occurred.’

“Any resumption of assistance will be dependent upon the Somali Federal Government taking accountability for its unacceptable actions and taking appropriate remedial steps,” the State Department’s Office of Foreign Assistance wrote.

Somalia previously denied the allegations, asserting that the expansion work at the Mogadishu port, where the U.S.-funded warehouse is located, did not impact the food aid. The government further insisted that the aid was “under the custody and control of the World Food Programme, including assistance provided by the United States.”

However, on Monday, the Federal Republic of Somalia Ministry of Foreign Affairs & International Cooperation issued a press release that seemed to reverse its position.

“The Federal Government of Somalia confirms that the commodities removed from the warehouse affected by port expansion activities, as referenced in recent reports, have been fully returned to the World Food Program (WFP). The Federal Government takes full responsibility for addressing this unfortunate situation and expresses its regret that it occurred,” the statement reads.

RELATED: Homan heads to Minnesota: ICE to continue making arrests amid ‘violent organized protests,’ $20B fraud, Trump says

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Somalia has provided WFP “with a larger and more suitable warehouse within the Mogadishu Port area, supporting improved storage capacity and efficient distribution,” the statement continues.

The Somali government pledged to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident and take steps to prevent future issues.

“The Federal Government of Somalia remains fully committed to humanitarian principles, transparency, and accountability, and values its close partnership with the World Food Program, the United States, and the broader international donor community,” the statement reads. “The Government considers this clarification an important step toward resolving the matter and ensuring continued cooperation in support of the Somali people.”

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The U.S. is the largest contributor to the WFP, providing approximately $2 billion in 2025, which constitutes nearly one-third of the organization’s total funding.

The State Department and the WFP did not respond to a request for comment.

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The H-1B visa program is being sold as a “skills shortage solution,” but it is really just one of the largest ways that people are taking advantage of our immigration system.

“We’ve got to figure out how to get this under control. We’ve got to figure out how to … stop being taken advantage of. And it needs to stop,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says on “Come and Take it.”

“The fact of the matter is that we need to stop immigration. We need to put a moratorium on immigration, on H-1B visas, for as long as it takes in order to get our country back. That’s all there is to it. I’m not beholden to people across the world. I don’t need to make sure that they feel good about it,” she continues.

“They are taking American jobs, and they are changing our communities,” she says. “At the crux of that problem is obviously the H-1B visa.”

And the H-1B visa might seem like a drop in the bucket compared to illegal immigration, but it is a much bigger deal than Americans are led to believe.

“It is hundreds of thousands of people — if not in the millions at this point — that we have allowed into our state, into our country, on this H-1B visa,” Gonzales says, pointing out that we are supposed to only be allowing the brightest minds — the most specialized workers — into our country on this visa.

“Unfortunately, people are now … using the H-1B visa, coming over, taking American jobs, taking away American labor, taking away American salaries, sometimes exporting those salaries across wherever they came from — across the world — in remittances,” Gonzales explains.

“That money that they’re being paid isn’t actually being put back into the American economy, which is a problem. And they’re taking American housing, which is of course driving up the price of housing for Americans — for actual Americans, for actual Texans,” she continues, noting that Texas is at the top for states accepting all these visas.

And after digging a little deeper, the situation in Texas is worse than one might think.

“I literally just picked at random several different cities in the state of Texas, and I went through some of the employers, and I found some of these jobs and how much these people are being paid to take a job away from a Texan,” Gonzales says.

“Let me give you this one,” she continues. “Dallas ISD — that means taxpayer money. Dallas taxpayer money is being used to pay these H-1B visa jobs. You tell me if this could never be filled by a Texan. It could never be filled by an American. We only need the super-duper smart immigrants to come and take these jobs that no Texan could ever do.”

The H-1B job listing is for a middle-school math teacher and advertises a salary of $62,000 a year.

“A high-school science teacher, $70,000 a year. H-1B visa. They took your job. A regular average American could qualify for that job with a certification,” Gonzales says, adding, “They took it from you.”

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What once cost Amazon over $13 billion is now turning into a big headache for the tech company.

Back in 2017, Amazon acquired Whole Foods for a price tag of $13.7 billion with the intention of making its own brick-and-mortar grocery stores under the brands Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go.

‘Fresh groceries now make up nine of the top 10 most-ordered items.’

Amazon Go was meant to be the future: a cashierless and seamless Amazon experience where shoppers simply scan on their way out. In fact, the stores mirror a mid-2000s IBM commercial about online commerce.

By 2023, expansion had been slowed, with some locations closing, CoStar reported at the time, and Amazon taking out a $720 million impairment charge.

On Tuesday, Amazon announced it is fully closing all Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go locations. Although some will be retrofitted to become Whole Foods Market stores, Amazon is making a big shift toward grocery delivery.

RELATED: Cattle rancher battles Amazon data center accused of poisoning water supply, causing miscarriages

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Amazon said in its press release that it already offers grocery deliveries in 5,000 cities and towns, with several thousand receiving same-day deliveries. Same-day service seems to be the company’s core expansion project for 2026.

The shift appeared to be a profit-driven move after sales through same-day deliveries increased by 40x since January 2025.

“Fresh groceries now make up nine of the top 10 most-ordered items in areas where perishable groceries are available for Same-Day Delivery,” Amazon explained.

RELATED: Amazon now offering even faster delivery in some cities, making 2-day delivery seem like a snail’s pace

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At the same, Amazon says it will be “taking convenience even further” with the introduction of an “ultra-fast” delivery option that brings thousands of “essential items,” including fresh food, to customers in 30 minutes or less. The offer is essentially a mobile convenience store experience.

While Fresh and Go may have not been the shining stars Amazon hoped they would be, its investment in Whole Foods Market has certainly paid off. The company boasted 40% sales growth since 2017, year-over-year increases in customer traffic, and expansion from around 460 locations in 2017 to over 550 currently.

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TikTok will no longer be on trial when it comes to a lawsuit that claims Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube have platforms that are addicting and harmful to children.

The lawsuit, which involves a 19-year-old plaintiff going only by KGM, says the social networks caused her to become addicted to the apps and led to depression and suicidal thoughts.

‘New families every day … are speaking out and bringing Big Tech to court for its deliberately harmful products.’

TikTok has reportedly decided to settle and agreed in principle just hours before jury selection started in Los Angeles this week. Bloomberg Law reported that along with TikTok, Snap Inc. — owner of Snapchat — also reached a confidential settlement with the woman on January 20.

“Plaintiff KGM and defendant TikTok have reached an agreement in principle to settle her case,” Joseph VanZandt, the woman’s attorney, reportedly said in a statement.

The trial, which will continue with the other social media companies later this year, is just one of many that claim the sites are harmful, addictive, and otherwise have failed to protect children.

RELATED: Google’s new motto: Don’t be Christian

While this is the first case to go to trial, there are thousands of complaints from users and families that have sparked other lawsuits in Santa Fe, New Mexico, New York City, and the Northern District of California.

For example, in the Northern District of California, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube were accused of “relentlessly” pursuing growth and “recklessly” ignoring the impacts their products have on children’s mental health.

In that case, Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being testified that Meta had a “17x” strike policy toward those who reportedly engaged in “trafficking of humans for sex.”

“You could incur 16 violations for prostitution and sexual solicitation, and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended,” the former employee claimed, citing internal documents.

Meta strongly denied the claims, stating, “We strongly disagree with these allegations, which rely on cherry-picked quotes and misinformed opinions in an attempt to present a deliberately misleading picture.”

“The full record will show that for over a decade, we have listened to parents, researched issues that matter most, and made real changes to protect teens,” Meta went on.

RELATED: Matt Damon: Netflix dumbs down movies for attention-impaired phone addicts

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The settlement between TikTok and KGM should come as no surprise, said Sacha Haworth, executive director of the Tech Oversight Project.

“This was only the first case — there are hundreds of parents and school districts in the social media addiction trials that [have started], and sadly, new families every day who are speaking out and bringing Big Tech to court for its deliberately harmful products,” she said in a statement provided to Blaze News.

If social media apps are found guilty in these trials, it could set a huge precedent for high-value settlements and possibly lead to sweeping regulation for how the sites handle youth accounts.

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed that agents served a search warrant at the elections office in Fulton County on Wednesday, and sources say the action relates to the 2020 election.

The Georgia county that includes Atlanta is at the center of claims from President Donald Trump that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

‘People will soon be prosecuted for what they did. … It was a rigged election. Can’t have rigged elections.’

Court filings indicated that the Justice Department is seeking ballots, ballots stubs, and absentee ballot signature envelopes from the election.

The president referred to the claims in his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and said the people responsible would be prosecuted soon.

“It was a rigged election. Everybody now knows that. They found out,” said the president. “People will soon be prosecuted for what they did. It’s probably breaking news, but it should be. It was a rigged election. Can’t have rigged elections.”

The bureau would confirm only a “court-authorized law enforcement activity” at the Fulton County Election Hub but offered no other details.

State Senator Josh McLaurin, a Democrat, excoriated the action in a statement to reporters.

“Famously, Donald Trump has made Fulton County the object of his ire,” said McLaurin. “Throughout the country it’s made Fulton County national news for all the wrong reasons because he has pushed these baseless conspiracy theories that the election was somehow, quote, ‘stolen’ and that Georgia was the epicenter of this.”

RELATED: Georgia judge drops 3 charges in Trump election interference case

The search warrant was signed by a Fulton County judge, according to WAGA-TV, which also confirmed that the search was related to the 2020 election.

McLaurin went on to say that election officials had been threatened because of the president’s claims.

“This is extremely alarming,” he added.

This is a developing story.

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A Southern California mother has been released from custody after her child endangerment arrest in connection with a viral video that police said shows her toddler falling from her moving SUV in a Fullerton intersection, KNBC-TV reported. Fullerton is just minutes north of Anaheim.

The video shows a black SUV making an eastbound turn onto West Malvern Avenue from southbound North Euclid Street, police said, adding that as the SUV enters the intersection and completes the turn, the front passenger door opens, and a small child falls to the ground and into the roadway.

‘I felt a mixture of emotions anywhere from anger to worry to shock.’

The SUV immediately stops, nearly causing a traffic collision with the vehicle behind it, police said.

An adult female is then seen running from the driver’s side of the SUV, picking up the child, and returning to the vehicle before the video ends, police said.

The incident occurred Jan. 20, but police said no one reported it until witness Natalie Quintanilla — a mother of four children — reached out to law enforcement over the weekend, KNBC said.

“I felt a mixture of emotions anywhere from anger to worry to shock because it’s something that could have easily been avoidable,” Quintanilla added to the station Tuesday.

Police said a witness came forward Saturday, reported observing the incident, and provided identifying information related to the vehicle involved. Police said officers conducted a follow-up investigation, which led them to a residence in the city of La Habra. Police said officers located the vehicle, the child, and the female involved in the incident seen in the video.

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The 19-month-old child suffered injuries consistent with the fall and was transported to an area hospital for treatment, police said, adding that the child is expected to make a full recovery.

The female — identified as Jacqueline Hernandez, the 35-year-old mother of the child — was placed under arrest and booked at the Fullerton City Jail for felony child abuse, police said.

Hernandez was soon transferred to the Orange County Jail; an Orange County Sheriff’s Office official told Blaze News they aren’t releasing Hernandez’s mugshot “at this time.”

Orange County Jail data Blaze News accessed indicated Hernandez was set for release Tuesday.

Indeed KNBC said Hernandez posted $100,000 bail at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday.

The station, citing police, added that Hernandez’s 19-month-old boy was treated and released from the hospital, but it wasn’t immediately clear if the toddler is back in the care of Hernandez.

A neighbor of Hernandez, who declined to be identified for privacy, defended the mother, telling KNBC that “sometimes we do make mistakes.”

“I can almost guarantee you there’s no way that will happen again with her. No way,” the neighbor noted to the station.

KNBC said the Orange County district attorney’s office hadn’t yet officially charged Hernandez but is reviewing the case.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar, a radical Minnesota Democrat who has in recent years been accused of immigration-related fraud, is facing scrutiny over her finances — with some officials wondering how her net worth apparently surged so much over such a short period of time.

While the liberal media has characterized the government’s recent interest in Omar’s finances as a partisan vendetta, sources familiar with the matter told the New York Times that the Biden Justice Department similarly felt the need to take a look at the Somali-born ethno-nationalist’s finances, campaign spending, and interactions with a foreign citizen.

‘I am not a millionaire.’

One source who spoke on the condition of anonymity told the Times that the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., and the DOJ’s public integrity unit initiated the probe in June 2024. Although that was the year Omar’s net worth skyrocketed, the Biden DOJ’s probe supposedly stalled “for lack of evidence.”

President Donald Trump, who suggested in November that Omar “shouldn’t be a congressman, and we should throw her the hell out of our country,” noted in a Truth Social post on Monday that the Justice Department and Congress are “looking at ‘Congresswoman’ Illhan Omar, who left Somalia with NOTHING, and is now reportedly worth more than 44 Million Dollars.”

Trump added, “Time will tell all.”

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) told the New York Post earlier this month that congressional lawyers are looking into how Omar and her husband, Tim Mynett, went from being virtually broke to having a net worth of around $30 million in just a year.

RELATED: Ilhan Omar accuses Trump of ulterior motive for ICE raids — and JD Vance shuts her down

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“There are a lot of questions as to how her husband accumulated so much wealth over the past two years,” Comer said. “It’s not possible. It’s not. I’m a money guy. It’s not possible.”

A source in federal law enforcement also insinuated that Omar was under investigation.

“We are investigating all politicians potentially connected to any of this [fraud] in Minnesota. You can read between the lines,” the source told the Post.

Within months of flatly stating, “I am not a millionaire,” Omar reported assets — chiefly a winery in California and her husband’s investment firm, Rose Lake Capital — valued between $6 million and $30 million in her 2024 financial disclosure.

This could reportedly represent up to a 3,500% increase in net worth in 2024 compared with 2023, when she reported assets valued between approximately $40,000 and $250,000.

The year before she took office as the U.S. representative for Minnesota’s 5th congressional district, Omar had an estimated net worth of -$45,001, according to Open Secrets. Court filings cited by the Post indicated that Mynett’s investment firm only had $42.44 in its bank account as of 2022.

“There is no way such wealth could have been accumulated, legally, while being paid the salary of a politician,” Trump said last week.

The base compensation for most senators, representatives, and delegates is $174,000.

Omar responded to the renewed interest in her finances by suggesting that “years of ‘investigations’ have found nothing” and that Trump was “panicking.”

She also noted in a recent TikTok video that “the value range listed for the assets reflects the full cost assessment of the businesses, in which my husband is one of several partners, and does not reflect his individual share.”

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Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota was sprayed with a liquid while calling for the impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem.

Omar was speaking at a town hall event on Tuesday evening when a man walked up from the crowd and sprayed her in the chest with the liquid. She appeared stunned for a second before advancing angrily on the man.

‘We will continue. These f**king a**holes are not going to get away with it!’

He was tackled and arrested soon after. The man was later identified as 55-year-old Anthony James Kazmierczak.

“I’m going to finish my remarks. It is important for me to continue,” Omar said after going back to her podium. “We will continue. These f**king a**holes are not going to get away with it!”

Minneapolis Police Department spokesperson Trevor Folke said that the congresswoman was not hurt.

The incident was captured in video footage from several different angles, as well as close-up photographs.

Police said he used a syringe to spray the liquid. Kazmierczak is being held at the Hennepin County Jail without bond on suspicion of third-degree assault charge.

RELATED: Ilhan Omar mocks Trump and others for praising Charlie Kirk: ‘These people are full of s**t!’

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Many on social media immediately began to question the circumstances surrounding the incident and many suggested that the congresswoman had staged the attack to elicit sympathy.

The president weighed in on the issue and landed strongly on the side accusing Omar of a hoax.

“I don’t think about her. I think she’s a fraud,” Trump said. “She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her.”

An email reviewed by Blaze News showed that the Justice Democrats political action committee had immediately begun a campaign asking for donations on Omar’s behalf. Those donations would be split with the PAC.

RELATED: Ilhan Omar compares Stephen Miller’s immigration rhetoric to Nazism

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The U.S. Capitol Police said they would seek the most serious charges against the man to deter other attacks. A report from Alpha News cited sources that said the liquid had been identified by hazmat officials as apple cider vinegar.

Omar posted a defiant statement on social media.

“I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work,” she wrote. “I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.”

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A delivery nurse was stripped of her ability to practice in Florida after she posted a video online wishing harm on a pregnant Trump administration official.

A video circulated on social media of Lexie Lawler, a then-nurse for Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital, stating that she hopes White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt suffers a painful childbirth that leaves her with permanent injuries.

‘Making statements that wish pain and suffering on anyone, when those statements are directly related to one’s practice, is an ethical red line we should not cross.’

“As a labor and delivery nurse, it gives me great joy to wish Karoline Leavitt a fourth-degree tear. I hope that you f**king rip from bow to stern and never s**t normally again, you c**t,” Lawler stated in the video.

Lawler was fired this week from her position with Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital.

“The comments made in a social media video by a nurse at one of our facilities do not reflect our values or the standards we expect of health care professionals,” a spokesperson for the hospital told the Palm Beach Post. “Following a prompt review, the individual is no longer employed by our health system.”

“While we respect the right to personal opinions, there is no place in health care for language or behavior that calls into question a caregiver’s ability to provide compassionate, unbiased care,” the spokesperson added.

RELATED: ‘Make their lives f**king miserable’: Deranged leftist nurse apparently urges poisoning and drugging ICE agents

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier reacted to the Lawler video, stating, “Being fired isn’t good enough. Any healthcare worker who fails to uphold his or her obligation to provide adequate, safe healthcare should not be licensed in Florida. No excuses!”

Lawler responded to the public pushback in a separate video posted to social media.

“They murdered a man in Minnesota, and you motherf**kers are coming after me because I used bad language?” Lawler said, referring to the death of Alex Pretti. “F**k you. I’m on the right side of this. F**k you.”

RELATED: More than 100 outraged community members denounce elementary school teacher over 2-word post about ICE

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Uthmeier announced on Wednesday that Lawler “is no longer allowed to practice nursing in Florida.”

“Making statements that wish pain and suffering on anyone, when those statements are directly related to one’s practice, is an ethical red line we should not cross. I’m proud of @FLSurgeonGen for taking this decisive action,” he wrote.

Lawler’s husband, Tim, created a GoFundMe requesting $14,000 in donations for his wife’s legal fund. As of Wednesday afternoon, the fund had raised over $10,000.

“Lexie Lawler was fired for political speech,” the GoFundMe post reads. “She is a liberal woman who used her personal social media — on her own time — to sharply criticize a public figure tied to a cruel, harmful administration. Her words were blunt, angry, and unapologetic. They were directed at power, not her workplace. That speech was lawful. The retaliation was real.”

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As Minnesota descends into chaos reminiscent of 2020, one viral post on X has Americans like BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock pondering how Christians should be responding to the world being set on fire, yet again.

“If u can’t clearly & boldly state the craziness of Democrats being unable to define what a woman is & saying men can get pregnant, AND the madness of Republicans defending the murder of Alex Pretti, then you’re following a political party/ideology & not The Lord Jesus Christ,” Fox Sports analyst Chris Broussard wrote in a post on X.

“How should Christians be responding to ICE officials and the killing of Alex Pretti? How should we be responding to this controversy?” Whitlock asks his panel on “Jason Whitlock Harmony.”

“We should always respond prayerfully. We should always respond according to scripture, according to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. That’s with any situation,” BlazeTV contributor Anthony Walker responds.

“It becomes so layered that we actually lose the situation at hand. So that’s why, I again, I underline prayerfully, scripturally, and spiritually,” he adds.

BlazeTV contributor Virgil Walker also believes the proper response should be looking to God.

“Whether it was the death of George Floyd, or the death of anyone, regardless of their ethnicity, regardless of the conditions by which death occurred, we should mourn the loss of an image bearer created in the image of God. Regardless of ideological framework, regardless of all of the camera angles, regardless of any of that,” Walker responds.

He also points out that scripture tells us not to rejoice in the death of the wicked.

“I’m not saying that Alex was wicked, that man who passed away was wicked … I’m simply saying that if we’re not going to rejoice in the death of the wicked, we should not rejoice in anyone’s death,” he explains.

However BlazeTV contributor Shemeka Michelle has a bit of a different take.

“I’ve been frustrated, Jason, over this entire thing … the idea that Christians are just supposed to be, I don’t know, like these weak, perfect people. And I’m really tired of people trying to qualify Christians and tell us how we’re supposed to feel or think about certain social issues that are happening in the country,” Michelle says.

“I feel like my empathy button is broken,” she adds.

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