Category: blaze media

The controversial immigration detention facility known colloquially as “Alligator Alcatraz” has reportedly received some news about its future.

The facility is shutting down permanently, according to sources that confirmed vendors have been told to demobilize.

‘Clearly from a security perspective, if someone escapes, there’s a lot of alligators you’re going to have to contend [with].’

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hinted in recent months that the facility might be shut down when he said it has already served its purpose by cycling about 22,000 migrants.

CBS News reported that four sources confirmed the facility vendors were told that the “demobilization” clause in their contracts had been triggered, meaning they would be paid for shutting down.

“All vendors got the notice,” said one source.

The facility has been plagued by legal challenges that prevented federal funding from reimbursing Florida for the reported $1.2 billion price tag that ballooned from the initial $450 million annual estimate.

On Wednesday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Lauren Bis said that all of the detainees at the facility had been moved to other locations, but she claimed it was a response to hurricane season.

The facility opened up in July 2025 on an 11,000 foot abandoned airport runway in the Florida Everglades.

Critics have claimed the facility puts migrants in dangerous and cruel conditions including lack of bathroom facilities, rotten food, and little to no access to the outside world, including their immigration attorneys.

“The state and federal government must permanently close this facility and commit to never detaining people there again,” said Amy Godshall of the American Civil Liberties Union, which has sued the facility.

WFOR-TV reported in its news video that there was no sign yet that the facility was being dismantled.

RELATED: Dem. congressman claims he forced ICE to back off from arresting man outside courtroom

The facility was designed to hold about 3,000 detainees to ease the housing burden on immigration officials.

“Clearly from a security perspective, if someone escapes, there’s a lot of alligators you’re going to have to contend [with],” DeSantis said about the facility in July 2025. “No one is going anywhere once you do that. It’s as safe and secure as you can be.”

He also stressed at the time that the facility was temporary.

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

​Alligator alcatraz, Department of homeland security, Ice, Politics 

The horrifying details from Britain’s grooming gang scandal have been revealed through the “Rape Gang Inquiry Report” — and BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler finds it all almost impossible to comprehend.

“My mind has been spinning for hours because I can’t read the account of this sexual torture of young children,” Wheeler begins.

“What was done to these girls in Britain, these young white girls, 250,000 of them, is actually beyond the scope of human imagination,” she says.

“How did this happen?”

And Wheeler believes there’s only one answer to that question.

“The scope of the crimes that were committed is so widespread and so extreme that the only explanation is that it was allowed to happen,” she says.

The girls were as young as 11 years old and were “systemically raped and trafficked by Muslim men in Britain.”

“We know this because of the ones who have been charged, 87% of these perpetrators who have been convicted were Muslim,” she explains.

“This is not a generalization. This is not a negative stereotype. This is not bigotry or Islamophobia or whatever the left is going to accuse us of engaging in for simply acknowledging what is happening here,” she continues.

According to the report, these men worked through “organized networks of perpetrators” who “built coordinated operations that transported victims between locations, supplied them with drugs and alcohol, recorded abuse for distribution and blackmail, and passed girls between multiple adult men.”

The report also explains that “police forces ignored repeated reports, criminalized victims instead of perpetrators, destroyed evidence, and allowed known rapists to walk free on bail.”

Social care services even placed children “in trafficking hubs,” “closed cases despite clear indicators of exploitation, and retaliated against whistleblowers.”

Meanwhile, the National Health Service recorded genital injuries, STIs in children as young as 13, pregnancies from rape, suicide attempts — but still discharged these children back to their abusers.

And when politicians were asked about the abuse, they did nothing but reverse the blame.

“The mayor, Sadiq Khan, London mayor … when he was asked publicly about these allegations, said that it was fake, that they were false allegations. And he turned it around, and he blamed the victims and … falsely accused them of being politically motivated,” Wheeler explains.

However, a Daily Express report revealed that Khan had access to documents from the police detailing the crimes.

“It’s almost beyond comprehension to understand how someone could see this happening and not turn their life upside down to try to stop it,” Wheeler says.

Want more from Liz Wheeler?

To enjoy more of Liz’s based commentary, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

​Islamophobia, Keir starmer, Liz wheeler, National health service, Sadiq khan, Victims, Rape gang inquiry, Islam, Muslim, Britain, The liz wheeler show 

An 85-year-old man was arrested recently for allegedly driving 110 miles per hour while engaged in a street race against the driver of a red Corvette in Florida, WKMG-TV reported.

William Bosworth’s reply to the Lake County Sheriff’s deputy who pulled him over?

‘I was born at night — but not last night.’

“I am out just having a little ride in my favorite car,” the 85-year-old said while chomping on a stogie, according to body-camera video.

But Bosworth faces charges of driving in a vehicle race and dangerous excessive speeding, WKMG reported.

More from the station:

A Lake County Sheriff’s Office deputy spotted two vehicles appearing to be street racing on U.S. Highway 27 and County Road 33 in Leesburg around 11:40 p.m., June 12. A radar showed a red Corvette traveling at 125 miles per hour and a gray sports car traveling at 110 miles per hour — both in a 45 miles per hour zone.

After activating his emergency lights, the deputy pulled over Bosworth — the driver of the gray sports car — an arrest affidavit said.

When the deputy spoke to Bosworth about his alleged street racing, Bosworth responded, “No, that guy, he swerved at me,” and added that he was driving 110 miles per hour “only because he swerved at me. I wanted to get away from him before we caused a problem,” WKMG reported.

The deputy was heard saying on bodycam video, “I was born at night — but not last night. I know street racing when I see it.”

After Bosworth exited his car, he was placed in handcuffs, WKMG reported.

RELATED: 85-year-old hockey scout compliments female reporter — so team gets fined $5,000

The Corvette driver — 57-year-old Phillip Signorino of Titusville — was arrested on the same charges, WPEC-TV reported.

While bodycam video showed Signorino vehemently denying driving 125 miles per hour, WKMG’s video report indicates Signorino referred to himself as the driver of “the one that won — the Corvette” after arriving at jail.

Both Bosworth and Signorino denied being engaged in street racing and later posted bond, WPEC reported, citing jail records.

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

​Florida, 85-year-old suspect, Excessive speeding, Lake county sheriff’s office, William bosworth, Arrest, Street racing, Crime 

Reactions have come pouring in from defenders and detractors alike after Tucker Carlson made a shocking pronouncement that may well serve as a bellwether for the future of the Republican Party.

On a recent podcast appearance, Carlson, who has been vocal about his misgivings about the current direction of the GOP, drew a hard line in the sand when asked about his ongoing support for the Republicans.

‘And if I’m out, then I think a lot of other people are out.’

Asked about the war in Iran, which became a wedge issue among Republicans long before the end of February, Carlson argued that supporting the current conduct of the Trump administration has become untenable because Israel’s undue influence: “How could I or any American voter support a political party that’s not loyal to the United States? That puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens?”

“I voted Republican my entire life. I worked at Fox News, CNN, MSNBC. I’ve been a consistent defender … of the Republican Party — I mean, very consistent defender,” Carlson explained. “But there’s no defending this because it’s immoral, and it’s exactly the opposite of what a political party in a democracy is charged with doing, which is representing its own voters, its own citizens, its own nation. And they’re not doing that. So no, I’m out.”

RELATED: Newly revealed documents back Tucker Carlson, Roger Stone’s take that Nixon was undone by a ‘coup’

“And if I’m out, then I think a lot of other people are out,” he added.

Some leaders attacked Carlson’s statements, accusing him of hating America. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), for example, wrote: “This has been obvious for some time. @TuckerCarlson HATES: Trump[,] Republicans[,] Israel[,] Christian Zionists[,] YOU[.] Tucker loves: Qatar[,] The Ayatollah[,] Antisemite crackpots[,] Shirtless Putin[,] Sharia law.”

It isn’t clear how Carlson’s disagreements with the conduct of the Republican Party make him a lover of “Shirtless Putin.”

However, Carlson’s message seemed to resonate with others.

“Sadly the GOP will lose hundreds of thousands of voters in the mid-term election because of the total betrayals that have occurred[.] Turn out will drop significantly[.] @TuckerCarlson aligned voters like myself & millions of others are disappointed by the America Last foreign policy & massive amounts of foreign ‘legal’ labor coming in still,” Lake County Commissioner Anthony Sabatini wrote.

Marjorie Taylor Greene joined the fray, adding that millions of people like Tucker Carlson are tired of the “America LAST” politics in the party today:

Tucker is not the only one who is done supporting the Republican Party. There is A LOT of us that are absolutely fed up and will not support a party that betrays its voters and country. That does not mean we are turning into Democrats either. But we are DONE with the America LAST Republican Party.

Michael Knowles, on the other hand, made an attempt to get people to look past the “infighting”: “I’m just pointing out: while the Right does all this infighting, the Left is waiting for the Right to destroy itself so they can bring back transing kids, racial politics, government suppression.”

“I am imploring the American Right: please keep some perspective,” Knowles added.

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

​Israel, Maga, Marjorie taylor greene, Republican party, Tucker carlson, Politics, Trump, Iran 

Disneyland is facing a strict deadline set by a powerful California environmental regulatory agency to axe current gas-powered engines at a popular automobile-themed ride inside the amusement park, according to multiple reports. If Disneyland fails to overhaul the ride, the amusement park faces the risk of the iconic attraction being shut down.

The California Air Resources Board — the state’s clean-air regulator – ordered the amusement park to retire the current gas‑powered engines used at the long-standing Autopia ride, which has been entertaining park guests for over 70 years.

‘As the industry moves toward alternative fuel sources, we have developed a road map to electrify this attraction and are evaluating technology that will enable us to convert from gas engines in the next few years.’

According to the official Disneyland website, thrill-seekers can “cruise the scenic winding roads of this classic attraction in a souped-up coupe” on the Autopia ride.

“Featuring a working gas pedal and steering wheel, each classy chassis seats 2 adults or 3 children and navigates curves and inclines just like the real thing,” the site stated.

Disney noted, “Autopia is the only existing Tomorrowland attraction dating back to Disneyland Park’s opening day in 1955. When the cars first took to the road, they captured America’s fascination with the latest transportation innovation, the ‘freeway.'”

Despite the iconic attraction being based on traditional combustion engines, Disneyland is being compelled to swap them out for an all-electric fleet.

The California Air Resources Board is the state’s regulatory agency with legal authority to set emissions rules.

The Orange County Register reported that Disneyland disclosed to the California Air Resources Board that the gas-powered engines “had been modified in a way that violated state regulations for small off-road engines.”

In April 2024, Disneyland initially announced plans to convert Autopia’s gas-powered engines to electric by fall 2026, according to the Orange County Register.

Disneyland also agreed to a settlement with the California Air Resources Board.

The California Air Resources Board released a statement regarding a $56,250 settlement with Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S. in August 2024 that read:

To settle the case, Disney agreed to the penalty of $450 per unit of noncompliant SORE equipment for a total penalty of $56,250. Disney elected to provide $28,125 to a Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP) entitled Cleaner Air Greener Schools. The funds will be used to install indoor air quality sensors, air purifiers, and outdoor air quality sensors in 10 schools in Southern California.

The civil penalty amount of $28,125 will be deposited into CARB’s Air Pollution Control Fund, which provides funding for projects and research to improve California’s air quality. Disney fully cooperated with CARB to resolve this matter and agrees to comply with all regulatory requirements.

The engines in the go-karts are built by Honda, which has sponsored the Autopia ride since 2016.

A corporate compliance plan from the California Air Resources Board stated that Honda “failed to certify the Disneyland-specific modified engines” because of an “administrative error,” KTLA-TV reported.

RELATED: New EV battery factory requires so much energy a coal power plant will be expanded and its closure delayed by years

Michael Montfort/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

Climate-Colored Glasses, a climate Substack, reported that the Autopia attraction must be in compliance by Feb. 1, 2027, or be shut down.

Disneyland spokesperson Jessica Good told the Los Angeles Times in April 2024:

Since opening with Disneyland park in 1955, Autopia has remained a guest favorite, most popular with young kids experiencing driving for the first time. As the industry moves toward alternative fuel sources, we have developed a road map to electrify this attraction and are evaluating technology that will enable us to convert from gas engines in the next few years.

This May, a spokesperson provided an update to People that the Autopia ride would retire combustion engines by early 2027.

“Work is under way on the design, engineering, and testing of a fully electric vehicle prototype, and we look forward to sharing more details soon,” the spokesperson said.

Disney fan website MousePlanet reported that Honda’s corporate sponsorship of Autopia is slated to end at the end of 2026.

D23, the self-described website for “daily home of the ultimate Disney fan,” noted that Chevron was the sponsor before Honda between 2000 and 2012. The now-defunct Richfield Oil Corporation was Autopia’s sponsor from 1955 until 1970, according to D23.

According to Disney fan site WDW News Today, there are similar versions of the Autopia car ride at Florida’s Magic Kingdom and Disneyland Paris.

Disneyland did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

​Disneyland, Climate change, Autopia, Electric vehicles, Disney, Politics 

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Tuesday that border officials do not need “clear and convincing evidence” that a lawful permanent resident committed a disqualifying crime before treating that person as an applicant for admission rather than someone already admitted to the United States.

The decision was split along ideological lines.

‘Border officers did not have the burden to establish by clear and convincing evidence that Lau had committed a crime involving moral turpitude.’

The case involved Muk Choi Lau, a Chinese national and green card holder who was charged in 2012 with selling counterfeit clothing. After briefly traveling to China while the charge was pending, Lau was paroled into the U.S. rather than admitted when he returned. He later pleaded guilty to trademark counterfeiting.

During oral arguments in April, the government argued that the Immigration and Nationality Act does not require immigration officers at the border to possess clear and convincing evidence that a lawful permanent resident committed a crime involving moral turpitude — an act driven by dishonesty or immorality. Instead, government attorney Sopan Joshi argued that any burden is satisfied later during the individual’s removal hearings.

Writing for the majority, Justice Clarence Thomas agreed. The court held that the INA allows the government to regard a lawful permanent resident as seeking admission if he has committed a qualifying offense and that nothing in the statute imposes a requirement of clear and convincing evidence on border officers making “quick judgments on the spot.”

“Border officers did not have the burden to establish by clear and convincing evidence that Lau had committed a crime involving moral turpitude,” Thomas wrote.

The ruling reverses the Second Circuit’s decision, which had sided with Lau and held that immigration officials needed clear and convincing evidence that he had actually committed the crime before treating him as an applicant for entry rather than a person already admitted.

RELATED: ‘Shall not be infringed’ — even if you’re high, Supreme Court rules

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, dissented, arguing that the government must determine whether an exception applies under the INA before stripping a green card holder of admitted status. She warned that the majority’s approach gives the government broad authority to parole lawful permanent residents and justify the decision later.

“But today the Court allows the Government to deem an LPR to be ‘seeking an admission’ first and justify the applicability of an exception later — undermining the statutory scheme as well as the benefits and security that come with having a green card,” Jackson asserted.

The court did not decide whether Lau’s trademark counterfeiting conviction qualifies as a crime involving moral turpitude, sending the case back to the Second Circuit for further proceedings.

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

​Politics, Supreme court, Immigration 

When Prime Minister Mark Carney recently accepted a civic scroll from the Mayo County Council in Ireland, he softened up the crowd with an anecdote about getting a gift from “another great leader.”

The impression that followed was accurate enough that he never needed to utter the leader’s name — Donald Trump — to score big laughs.

‘It’s a cap,’ Carney told Trump. ‘A hard line. I thought you’d actually like that.’

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. This lighthearted aside underscored a broader reality confronting the Canadian prime minister: Campaigning against Donald Trump is one thing; governing alongside him is another.

That tension has become a recurring theme of Carney’s first year in office.

Canada strong

During the 2025 federal election, Carney embraced an “elbows up” message that portrayed resistance to Trump as both a political necessity and a point of national pride. In one speech, he argued that “many of our former strengths, based on our close ties to America, have become our weaknesses.”

More recently, however, Carney struck a markedly different tone before the Economic Club of New York, declaring that “Canada Strong will help Make America Great Again” and emphasizing the importance of North American cooperation in energy, critical minerals, manufacturing, and artificial intelligence.

The shift has not gone unnoticed by the opposition. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre recently posted the two statements side by side on social media under the caption: “Elbows Up Carney or MAGA Carney? Which one will we get next?”

The comparison makes for an effective political attack, but it may also reflect the realities of governing.

RELATED: ‘AMERICAN INVASION’: Flailing Canada PM Mark Carney invokes historical grudge in latest lob at Trump

George Rose/Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Get along to go along

Canada sends roughly three-quarters of its exports to the United States, and the future of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement remains critical to the country’s economy. Whatever slogans may have resonated on the campaign trail, any Canadian prime minister ultimately has strong incentives to maintain a productive working relationship with Washington.

Carney has had to face this reality often since assuming office.

Seven months after taking office, Carney visited the White House and described Trump as “a transformative president.” At the G7 summit, a hot microphone captured the two leaders discussing Canada’s cap on Chinese electric vehicle imports in what appeared to be a friendly exchange.

“It’s a cap,” Carney told Trump. “A hard line. … I thought you’d actually like that.”

“That’s good,” Trump replied. “I like it.”

‘Worth it’

Carney’s response to the Iran conflict followed a similar pattern. While expressing concern that the initial military action appeared inconsistent with international law and noting that Canada had not been consulted, he later welcomed the resulting peace agreement and argued that preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon was “worth it.”

Yet Carney’s more conciliatory approach has not always produced visible diplomatic dividends. At the G7 summit, he departed without securing a formal bilateral meeting with Trump, a notable omission given the stakes surrounding trade negotiations and the future of USMCA. Carney brushed aside suggestions that he had been snubbed, emphasizing that the two leaders had spoken several times during the gathering.

Trump has also continued to revive his suggestion that Canada should become America’s “51st state” while maintaining pressure on trade and other bilateral issues.

The Ireland impression, then, is less significant than the political evolution it symbolizes. Carney campaigned as Trump’s foil, but governing has required him to cultivate a functional relationship with the American president.

Whether Canadians view that evolution as prudent statesmanship or an abandonment of the posture that helped elect him is ultimately a political judgment. But it illustrates a lesson many leaders discover after taking office: Running against a neighboring superpower is easier than running a country that depends on it.

​G7, Mark carney, Donald trump, Lifestyle, Culture, Ireland, Politics, Letter from canada 

The left has exposed just how out of touch it truly is with Americans after putting on a completely unhinged musical protest called the Rise Up, Sing Out concert, featuring Hollywood elites like Bette Midler.

Midler took the stage to sing an off-key anthem about Trump, rewriting the World War II-era song “All You Fascists.” The original song was released in 1940 as a protest of the poll tax and Jim Crow.

Now, Midler’s 2026 revamp targets Trump policies and features lyrics like, “We’ll battle ICE together / Until they cut and run / Just like in Minneapolis / And when the midterms come,” and “You’re bound to lose / You fascists, bound to lose.”

“Trying to distract us from the Epstein files / You gas and beat and murder us, protecting pedophiles / Let’s turn the screws / You pervs are bound to lose,” another lyric reads.

“What?” BlazeTV host Pat Gray says in disbelief.

“How do they show themselves in public after that?” he asks. “So embarrassing.”

While leftists are revealing that they’re out of touch with most of America, Gray points out that at least they’re allowed to be out of touch.

“We allow that … because of free speech,” Gray says, adding, “You can sing really stupid songs in a really nasty, hideous, off-key way, and we don’t put you in jail for it.”

Want more from Pat Gray?

To enjoy more of Pat’s biting analysis and signature wit as he restores common sense to a senseless world, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

​Americans, Bette midler, Donald trump, Epstein files, Free speech, Jim crow, Minneapolis, Pat gray, Pedophiles, Rise up concert, Pat gray unleashed 

Liberals hold the reins of the Democratic Party, but their grasp is slipping — and it appears that those radical leftists who’ve long been jockeying for control of the party may soon be in the coachman’s seat.

Earlier this year, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani took control of America’s biggest city. Earlier this month, Democratic Socialists of America member Nithya Raman advanced in the Los Angeles mayoral race to a November runoff against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass. Last week, DSA candidate Janeese Lewis George won the Democratic nomination for mayor of Washington, D.C.

‘Capitalism has absolutely fallen through the floor.’

On the heels of these and other signs of democratic socialists’ ascendancy within the broader Democratic camp, CNN’s chief data analyst, Harry Enten, noted, “The democratic socialists seem to be doing considerably better than they used to be — and they have the chance to knock off, in fact, Democratic incumbents in Congress.”

Enten suggested that part of what is driving the socialists’ success is their growing favorability among Democrats.

“Net favorability among Dems, Democratic Socialists of America — look at that, a plus-17-point net favorability rating among Democrats,” said Enten.

“That is better than how congressional Democrats are viewed by Democrats. It just lost four points. So no wonder that democratic socialists have such a good chance, because simply put, they are a better brand at this point than Democrats in Congress.”

According to a national Marquette Law School poll conducted in April, 41% of Democrats have a favorable opinion of the DSA. Among those Democrats who view the DSA favorably, 43% described themselves as “very liberal” and 25% referred to themselves as “moderate.”

RELATED: Montreal shooter’s alleged manifesto calls for far-left communist totalitarianism, ‘revolutionary terror’

Democratic Socialists of America-hosted rally in the Bronx. Jason Alpert-Wisnia/Hans Lucas/AFP/Getty Images.

Enten highlighted that democratic socialism’s rise within the Democratic Party comes amid declining support for capitalism.

Gallup polling showed in September that 54% of Americans had a positive image of capitalism, down from 61% in 2010. Thirty-nine percent of respondents said that they had a positive image of socialism, up from 36% in 2010.

When broken down by party affiliation, the pollsters found that Republicans’ perception of capitalism had improved — from 71% in 2010 to 74% last year. For Democrats, the positive perception of capitalism declined from 51% in 2010 to 42% in 2025.

While only 14% of Republicans said they viewed socialism in a positive light last year, 66% of Democrats signaled a positive perception of the ruinous economic and political philosophy — up from 50% in 2010.

“Capitalism has absolutely fallen through the floor,” Enten said in reference to this data.

“Socialism, on the other hand, up like a rocket.”

Enten said of the Democratic Party’s embrace of socialism, “This to me is one of the more stunning trends … that I have seen in covering politics over the last 15, 16 years. And if you believe the prediction markets, it’s not going to just stop suddenly.”

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board has similarly highlighted the DSA’s ascendancy, concluding that regardless of whether socialist candidates succeed in New York’s Democratic congressional primary on Tuesday, “the DSA agenda is gaining among Democrats.”

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

​Mamdani, Socialism, Democratic party, Elections, New york, Nithya raman, Radicalism, Harry enten, Poll, Cnn, Dsa, Politics 

Major League Baseball says it was wrong to issue warnings to San Francisco Giants players who wrote Bible verses on their caps.

Specifically, Giants pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker, and Ryan Walker were threatened with discipline after writing different forms of Genesis 9:12-16 on team caps that support transgenderism and other sexualities, with the league citing violations of its uniform policy.

‘The players were neither fined nor disciplined, nor will they ever be.’

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) had sent a letter to the MLB on June 16 calling out the league for promoting Black Lives Matter in 2020 and becoming a “billboard” for political messaging, yet still issuing a warning to the Giants pitchers last week.

MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred responded to Hawley on Monday, who posted the letter online for all to see. In the text, Manfred revealed that the Giants’ communication with players was “inadequate and not clear” regarding their option to wear Pride hats. He claimed that some players did not understand they had the option to wear the normal Giants cap instead.

The commissioner’s office said “unfortunately” it issued a “routine oral warning” before it became aware of the Giants’ “lapse in communication.”

Players “should not be compelled to participate in a celebratory event … if such participation would violate their sincere religious beliefs or values,” Manfred told Hawley.

The MLB boss later confirmed, “The players were neither fined nor disciplined, nor will they ever be.”

RELATED: SF Giants commentator compares gays to black people as ‘oppressed’ minority following Christian protest

In the same letter, Manfred revealed that only two teams are permitted to wear special gay-themed hats in games: the Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Despite the league saying in 2023 that it would not permit clubs to utilize unauthorized hats, the clubs submitted special requests to have their Pride hats grandfathered in, and their requests were granted.

These “Pride Night” hats were justified by Manfred, who claimed it was because the cities have “some of the largest LGBTQ communities in the United States.”

However, players are not required to wear them, as he previously stated.

RELATED: ‘He’s my idol’: Texas Rangers Father’s Day celebration will bring you to tears

Andy Kuno/San Francisco Giants/Getty Images

The commissioner cited other “faith/religious-related games” and nights that “celebrate different ethnicities or nationalities” at MLB ballparks and said that the league “does not regulate these events, but also does not permit Clubs or players to utilize special uniforms/equipment for such games, or alter the uniform or equipment.”

However, for 12 league-wide events, MLB teams are mandated by the head office to alter their uniforms. Those days are:

Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Armed Forces Weekend, Play Ball Weekend, Memorial Day, Lou Gehrig Day, Independence Day, Hall of Fame Weekend, Childhood Cancer Awareness Day, September 11th, Jackie Robinson Day, and Roberto Clemente Day.

Manfred said the league has had “no significant complaints from fans or players for those days.”

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

​Fearless, News, Mlb, Pride night, Bible, San francisco giants, Sports 

Every year on Father’s Day, I’m reminded of how grateful I am for my family. I’m also reminded of what helps me to remain grateful: that little oasis of tranquility just down the basement stairs — my home office.

I love my office. I also need it.

I try to get my wife to take advantage of the office. I tell her she can use it whenever she likes, but she never takes me up on it.

It’s very simple. If I can’t get my work done, I go crazy. I can’t get any work done without an office. Therefore, in order to remain sane, I need an office.

Mobile threat

I tried not having one about six years ago when it was just my wife, my son, and me in a little ranch we rented one block over. I had my desk set up in the corner of the living room. I had two computer displays, which, kind of I guess, created a little barrier or faux-wall separating myself from the couch and the television on the other side of the room. It worked, barely, but it was better than nothing.

Then, our firstborn starting walking. And talking.

Fortunately, we moved around the same time. The first thing I did in the new house was to make an office.

RELATED: Greetings from my favorite vacation spot; it’s closer and cheaper than you may think

H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images

Notes from underground

The new house is small too, with the same layout as the old one: three bedrooms and one bath on one floor. But the new house also has a basement that is about 50% finished. On the east end of this basement, there is a separate room, complete with its own bathroom and a solid door you can actually close.

The floor had been painted red probably 25 years ago. When we moved in, it was chipping and ugly. The walls were covered with equally old wallpaper that ended halfway to the ceiling. People did that in the ’80s and ’90s a lot. I remember because my mom did it with one of our walls when we were growing up. The bathroom was just as bad. Same red paint, same flowery wallpaper, same ’80s horror vibe. But the walls were drywall, and there was a ceiling too — drop in the bathroom, drywall in the main room.

As soon as we finished moving the last box into our new place, I got to work rehabilitating the ’80s horror show downstairs.

I ripped the wallpaper down over the course of a few days. I repaired the holes with putty. I painted the walls and ceiling bright white and the floor dark gray. I hung a big mirror in the bathroom, bought a shower curtain, and set two imitation stained glass pieces of plastic film over the small windows. These fake stained glass inlays are pretty cheeseball and not ideal, but it’s better than looking at the weeds through the window up near the ceiling.

I laid a big rug down in the main room and smaller ornate ones around on the still-exposed concrete. I installed a dimmer on the light switch, replaced the old door knobs with new ones, moved in my desk, tables, bookshelves, lamps with warm bulbs, stereo and speakers, microphones, cameras, and everything else that I use for work.

Hole for one

That was six years ago, and since then, I have spent too many hours to count down in my little subterranean sanctuary. Every year, I make it a little nicer. I hang some more photos, organize a little better, buy some more lamps, and try to keep my desk cleaner.

My most recent improvement came in the form of some Oasis lamps, which are advertised as providing warm ambient light. I’ve got four in my office set on “candle mode,” and I can confirm the light is both ambient and warm. It feels nice and light in here despite it being in the corner of a cold basement.

I try to get my wife to take advantage of the office. I tell her she can use it whenever she likes, but she never takes me up on it. I don’t think she likes the basement that much. I understand. The rest of it is kind of a hellhole. The kids play down there a lot, and more often than not, I find myself stumbling over toys and puzzles on my way to my hallowed little haunt of soft lighting and soft music.

A quiet place

We’ve got a small house and three homeschooled kids who use their imaginations instead of iPads. It’s a chaotic environment to say the least. I hear the yells outside the bathroom window, which is near the deck, and I hear the running across the floor of the living room from my desk directly below.

I think what gets to us as parents is the slow grinding down of our patience over the course of the day. It’s also that our stuff is always going missing or something is always being broken. It’s the constant questions and it’s the feeling like we have no space to ourselves anymore.

This is why dads have notoriously taken so long in the restroom and probably why moms take so long when they go to the grocery store by themselves. They are just trying to get some peace and quiet.

That is why I need an office. And while my workspace in the basement isn’t much, it has come a long way since 2020, and it’s more than enough. It’s a little peace and quiet.

​Family, Fathers day, Home, Office, Peace, Sanctuary, Space, Work, Lifestyle, The root of the matter 

Despite notable criticism from European media and politicians regarding the United States’ hosting much of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, one German fan is cutting through the noise.

An X account by the name of Freddy has racked up millions of likes and views for posting his route through the U.S., enthusiastically praising friendly locals, American culture, and everyday spots like Waffle House, Buc-ee’s, Taco Bell, and Bass Pro Shops, among others.

Freddy’s posts have been wildly popular because they debunk the left-wing narrative that America is an unwelcoming, culturally empty place that is unsafe for foreign fans due to immigration enforcement.

On a recent episode of the “Steve Deace Show,” Deace and the team speak with conservative commentator and friend of the show Jill Savage about how the joy of one European fan is uniting America.

“Freddy is the feel-good story of the summer,” says Jill.

“I am obsessed with Freddy. He is bringing people together left and right. The war is over. We have Freddy traveling America. … He’s the joy of the summer,” she laughs, noting that she feels this way despite having zero interest in soccer or the World Cup.

What Freddy has accidentally done, she explains, is silence the narrative that “America sucks; [Americans] are the terrible people; [America] should be more like Europe.”

In return for his infectious enthusiasm, Americans are showering Freddy with love. From shout-outs by celebrities like J.J. Watt and an invitation to tour the White House to emergency flight help from American Airlines to get him to games on time, an invite from country star Ella Langley to attend her show and meet her backstage, and countless other gestures of hospitality, Freddy has quickly become America’s new hero.

“Jill just admitted live on air that the sport of soccer and a German national are bringing the country together more than college football and baseball,” says co-host Todd Erzen.

“Listen, we thought we were going to have white-boy summer. It’s Euro summer,” Deace quips.

To hear more, watch the episode above.

Want more from Steve Deace?

To enjoy more of Steve’s take on national politics, Christian worldview, and principled conservatism with a snarky twist, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

​Steve deace show, Steve deace, World cup 

A police officer and a civilian are dead after a long-haired gunman opened fire in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood around 11:30 a.m. ET on Monday.

Some liberal media outfits have narrowly characterized the ideology espoused within the manifesto allegedly left behind by the gunman as “incel” — involuntary celibate — in nature.

‘The essential political conditions of a society in which capitalism/liberalism, and thereby, hypergamy itself, are not part of the established order of things, have mostly already been laid out by Marx, Engels, and others.’

The document is brimming with resentment over perceived dynamics between the sexes in contemporary society and for so-called “hypergamy,” or women partnering with men of greater perceived mating value. However, it is unmistakably leftist in nature — offering a Marxist rationalization of women’s disinterest in undesirable men coupled with a defense of communism and a demand for a violent uprising against the capitalist West.

Despite the defense of and calls for leftist “revolutionary terror” in the document, authorities told reporters that Monday’s attack did not constitute an act of terrorism.

The shooting

Footage of the monstrous attack shows fatally wounded Constable Mohamed Lamine Benredouane crawl behind a white Porsche to cover while a female officer crouches behind a cement planter and exchanges fire with the suspect.

Moments later, a civilian, Michael Mizrahi, can be seen falling as gunshots ring out.

It’s unclear — and authorities have yet to clarify — whether Mizrahi was fatally shot by the female officer or the gunman. The Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes, or BEI, Quebec’s police watchdog, has launched an investigation into the events that took place during the police intervention.

RELATED: Illegal alien terrorist crashes car during ICE arrest after taking his wife hostage, feds claim

Andrej Ivanov/Getty Images

The gunman, who was dressed in “military-type attire” and armed with an apparent semi-automatic rifle, can be seen charging the position of the female officer where he is ultimately neutralized.

While Constable Benredouane succumbed to his wounds, the second officer, though seriously injured, is in stable condition.

When asked about whether the shooting was an ambush targeting police, Montreal Police Chief Fady Dagher indicated that police received a 911 call from an individual telling them that somebody was “shooting from a specific place” — a higher floor — but when police arrived, the gunman was at the street level.

Dagher expressed uncertainty whether the shooter belonged to a larger network but indicated that no other suspect was being sought in relation to the Côte-des-Neiges shooting.

Ian Lafrenière, Quebec’s minister of domestic security, told reporters that the shooting “was not considered as a possible terrorism attack but everything has been put in place to make sure it was not linked to something else,” reported state media.

The determination that the shooting was not a terror attack reportedly came after Quebec authorities consulted with multiple agencies including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

The manifesto

Radio-Canada confirmed that the shooter left behind a “violent incel manifesto targeting women.”

State media acknowledged that the manifesto called for a violent revolution, but it — like other media outfits — neglected to note the leftist orientation of the proposed revolution.

The alleged 104-page manifesto published by Rebel News certainly espouses an incel ideology; however, it identifies a totalitarian communist state as the ultimate remedy for all of the West’s perceived social and moral ills.

The document:

draws heavily from the writings of Karl Marx, noting that “the essential political conditions of a society in which capitalism/liberalism, and thereby, hypergamy itself, are not part of the established order of things, have mostly already been laid out by Marx, Engels, and others in works such as The Communist Manifesto”;repeatedly criticizes capitalism and its supporters; calls for the abolition of private property, the centralization of credit in the hands of the state, and the establishment of state control over the means of communication and transportation;characterizes the freedoms now enjoyed by men and women in the West as “mass-enslavement”;identifies, applying a Marxist critique, “dispossessed proletarian males of all ethnicities collectively” as “the most voiceless, exploited, marginalized, forgotten, despised, abandoned, and oppressed group within western society”;defends “revolutionary terror” as both moral and effective;calls for the “total liquidation of the hypergamy state, down to its most hidden foundations”;notes that “women, though their behavior can be very hurtful, are generally not at fault for things” nor are “favored male[s],” and that powerful and influential people should instead be targeted;describes optimal ways to assassinate elite bankers, powerful CEOs, billionaires, influential politicians — liberal and conservatives alike — and “the most crucial employees of the more virulent and filthy facets of the capitalist economy”;identifies the “headquarters of all corporations with ties to Zionism,” the CEOs of private health insurance companies in the U.S., pornographic industry conferences, porn stars, advocates of pornography, real estate brokerage headquarters, cryptocurrency conferences, and leading military officials as “fair game” for terrorist attacks; and concludes with “KILL THEM ALL!”

Canadian authorities have urged the public not to speculate on a motive.

Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette wrote, “As the police operation and investigation are still ongoing, it is important to let the authorities do their work and to avoid any speculation.”

Quebec Domestic Security Minister Ian Lafrenière said that the suspect’s motives are under investigation by the BEI.

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

​Terrorism, Shooting, Leftism, Marx, Marxism, Gunman, Manifesto, Revolution, Canada, Politics 

Motherhood begins the second that test comes back positive. And so does motherhood anxiety. It’s wild how two little lines on a thin strip of paper are powerful enough to instantly catapult a woman into a realm of new questions, uncertainties, hopes, and fears — a beautiful and grueling realm from which she will never completely return.

As much as birth is a rite of passage, so is the angst that awakens the moment a woman discovers there is precious life growing inside her and lasts as long as her heart continues to beat.

Many mothers feel more lost than ever.

But as much as motherhood is one of the most trodden paths in human existence, as much as a “mother’s intuition” is a very real and powerful thing, mothers need guidance.

This is perhaps most true at the dawn of their journey — from pregnancy through birth and into that first postpartum year.

For most of human history, women learned about pregnancy, birth, and caring for newborns from other women in their village. It was beautiful for its simplicity, yet often treacherous due to limited medical knowledge. Today, the terrain is far safer — death in childbirth is rare thanks to modern medical interventions — yet many mothers feel more lost than ever.

We still seek anecdotal wisdom from other women, but we’re drinking through a fire hose because most of that information (much of which may be wrong) comes from Instagram, TikTok, and the dumpster fire of opinions that is Reddit. Add to that the often conflicting advice we receive from our ob-gyns, doulas, and midwives, and the result is many women feeling paralyzed, unable to advocate for themselves, and immensely underprepared for the journey that awaits them.

Hope for the modern mother

Thankfully, hope has come, and its name is “I Am Motherhood.”

Bella McIntire is the creator of this all-encompassing resource for mothers in the stages of all three trimesters, labor and delivery, and the postpartum period.

“I Am Motherhood” is a free downloadable app that not only guides mothers through an ocean of information but equips them with the practical tools they need for a successful journey through pregnancy, birth, and the subsequent year.

Screenshots by Hailee Boyd/I Am Motherhood

A nurse and mother’s mission

As a labor and delivery and postpartum nurse and the mother of two young children, Bella is a wealth of knowledge and experience. “I Am Motherhood” is her endeavor to share the resources she has spent years accumulating with a generation of women who feel they are blindly navigating the early stages of the most important role they will ever inhabit.

After years of advising friends and watching patients enter the birth process confused and underprepared, Bella decided to meet this growing need herself.

“What really was the impetus for ‘I Am Motherhood’ was I decided to quit my job after my daughter was born in 2024, and as soon as I quit, I realized how much I missed it, and so I started just jotting down all the advice I had given friends and patients,” she told me.

What began as a humble Google document developed into six — yes, six! — books, all of which are available for purchase and download on the “I Am Motherhood” app. Each book covers a different part of the motherhood journey: the first trimester, second trimester, third trimester, labor and delivery, the first month of postpartum, and the remaining 11 months of the postpartum year. These books are for anyone who wants a deeper dive into the various stages of early motherhood.

The app, however, provides quick tips and information on a wide range of topics, including, but by no means limited to: nutrition, exercises, choosing a provider, planning for birth, symptom management, navigating doctors’ appointments, after-birth care for mom and baby, miscarriage loss, breastfeeding, postpartum depression, birth trauma, etc. Whatever the topic, Bella offers encouraging, practical advice informed by both her professional training and her experience as a mother.

Bridging medical care and holistic wisdom

While many women wrestle with the tension between modern medical guidance, the resurgence of holistic birth practices, and their own God-given intuition, Bella believes these three can work together in harmony.

“I am a mom who’s more on the holistic side and a nurse who deeply appreciates medical interventions, and that’s the philosophy that undergirds my books and the ‘I Am Motherhood app,’” she said. “I’m not telling you to have a free birth in your back yard, but I’m also not telling you to get every medical intervention available.”

The books and the app, she explained, are really a presentation of options informed by evidence-based research and her own varied experiences that empowers readers to “choose their own adventure.”

RELATED: What if the solution to American prosperity is hiding in plain sight?

Vintage Images/Getty Images

But guidance and knowledge are just the beginning. “I Am Motherhood” also includes multiple tools soon-to-be and new mothers need.

All your tools in one place

Talk to any woman who has been through it, and she will tell you how overwhelming the tracking process is. Leading up to birth, there is the due date calculator, the baby development tracker, the kick counter, and the contraction timer. After birth, mothers — bleeding and exhausted — then must immediately shift to meticulously tracking their baby’s feeding, sleep, and diapers.

Because each of these tracking tools is usually its own separate system, it is not uncommon for women to lose important information amid the chaos. I keenly recall scribbling down feeding times on a napkin at the hospital after the birth of my son. It was thrown away by cleaning staff while I was sleeping, and when the nurse later came to collect my information, I had nothing to tell her. Here I was a mother for all of six hours, and I was already failing.

The “I Am Motherhood” app, however, solves this problem by combining all these tools into one convenient place. Using the Baby Development Tracker, a pregnant mother can read all about her baby’s growth during each week of pregnancy; then she can click over to the Symptom Guide and get advice on how to manage her exact symptoms for the specific trimester she is in.

As birth nears, she can count her baby’s kicks and time her contractions. After her child is born, the feeding, sleep, and diaper trackers help her stay organized and calm. For the modern mother, “I Am Motherhood’s” tool feature is the remedy for the overwhelming chaos of trying to track it all on her own.

Knowledge is power

In an era defined by social media debates, widely circulating misinformation, and the heightening tension between modern and holistic medicine, so many women’s journeys into motherhood are defined by self-doubt, paralysis, and poor decisions.

This was me. Overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information out there and unsure of how to even begin navigating through it, I was the girl who showed up at the hospital with nothing more than an overnight bag and a timid countenance. No birth plan, no technical knowledge, no ability to advocate for myself — just a prayer that it would all work out one way or the other.

And it did, but not without serious complications. As I was exploring the “I Am Motherhood” app, all I could think was, man, how different things would have been for me if I had had this!

“Knowledge is power,” Bella said. “And this app is about empowering women with information that allows them to be active participants in their journeys into motherhood. It’s about teaching women how to personalize their experiences so that they can be present instead of anxious.”

In a world flooded with noise, conflicting advice, and self-doubt, “I Am Motherhood” offers something truly valuable: clear, compassionate guidance that honors both medical wisdom and a mother’s intuition. Whether you’re newly pregnant or deep in the trenches of postpartum life, this app serves as a steady companion, helping you move from overwhelmed to empowered.

Disclaimer: The “I Am Motherhood” app is designed to educate and support, but it is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Always consult your health care provider for personalized medical guidance. Bella McIntire is the wife of BlazeTV’s “Steve Deace Show” producer Aaron McIntire.

​Tech 

Password management apps are trusted to keep and defend users’ most precious login information that leads to their email addresses, bank accounts, social media profiles, and more. These apps protects their entire digital life, so when a password manager fails, the consequences could be dire. Unfortunately, popular password app Dashlane suffered a brute-force attack last month that left some users open to information theft.

The attack

According to an announcement published by Dashlane, a targeted group of accounts were infiltrated by a hacker through a brute-force attack. A brute-force attack is a type of cybersecurity assault carried out through simple trial and error. It’s basically a digital version of guessing the code on a combination lock by turning it in random sequences until it clicks open. This type of attack can be extremely time-consuming but effective if luck is on the hacker’s side.

The goal was to exploit two-factor authentication — a feature that usually protects accounts by requesting verification from multiple devices before allowing the user to log in — by adding additional compromised devices to the accounts to gain access. The attacks were delivered at such a high volume that Dashlane’s systems flagged the attempts and temporarily locked the targeted accounts, but not before the hacker successfully downloaded the encrypted password vaults of those it breached.

Luckily, there are some things you can do to shore up security on your account.

Dashlane notes that fewer than 20 user accounts were infiltrated, and all affected users received an email to let them know that their accounts were affected and temporarily locked. That means, if you’re a Dashlane customer and you didn’t receive an email, your account is safe and unaffected.

Although some accounts were breached, the stolen encrypted vaults cannot be opened unless the hacker has access to each master password, once again proving why end-to-end encryption is important for all facets of today’s digital world, whether it’s messaging apps, password managers, or cloud providers.

All suspended accounts have been restored, Dashlane confirms that its internal system wasn’t impacted, and its team is investigating ways to prevent future brute-force hack attempts.

How to protect your Dashlane account from future hackers

Dashlane claims that it has “deployed additional protections at the network level and within the product to further detect and filter out malicious traffic,” seemingly stomping out the pathway that the hacker or hackers used to access the sub-20 accounts in question. However, if you’re a Dashlane user, that probably isn’t enough to make you feel like your passwords are thoroughly protected. Luckily, there are some things you can do to shore up security on your account.

Change your password: Although the hackers didn’t access Dashlane’s internal systems, it’s still a good idea to change your password every six months to a year, just to ensure no new breaches have leaked your information on the web.Make your password complex: Brute-force attacks, like the one suffered by Dashlane, are easier to carry out if your account password is simple or short. To lessen your chances of a breach, make it as long and obscure as possible. Just don’t forget to write it down and keep it somewhere safe.Enable 2FA: Two-factor authentication provides an extra layer of protection between hackers and your account. With this enabled, only you, with your verified device, are able to log in.

How to export your passwords out of Dashlane

If all else fails, you may wish to remove your passwords from your Dashlane account and save them in an alternative password service. The easiest way to get your passwords out of Dashlane’s system is to export them into a CSV file.

RELATED: People still nagging you to get an Apple laptop? This news might silence them once and for all.

SvetaZi/Getty Images

To export your Dashlane passwords, go to Dashlane on the web, open your Vault menu, and select “Settings.” Several lines down, click on “Export data,” followed by “Export to CSV.”

Screenshots by Zach Laidlaw/Dashlane

Once you export your passwords, don’t forget to delete your Dashlane account; otherwise your login information is still accessible on its servers.

WARNING: Before you do anything, open the CSV file and confirm that your passwords are all present and accounted for. Once you delete your Dashlane account, this file is the only record of your passwords.

Screenshot by Zach Laidlaw/Dashlane

To delete your Dashlane vault, navigate to the account deletion page on your computer, enter the email address attached to your Dashlane account, and follow the steps to confirm.

Now that you have your CSV file and your Dashlane account is gone, you’ll need to save your file in a password-protected location or upload it to an alternative password manager. A few good candidates include Proton Pass, 1Password, NordPass, and LastPass. Whichever one you pick is up to you (I recommend Proton Pass for privacy or 1Password for superb security), but whatever you do, do not store them in an unprotected text file on your computer. That’s probably worse than just keeping them in Dashlane in the first place.

​Tech 

As New Yorkers head to the polls Tuesday, incumbent Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat is fighting to retain his party’s nomination against a Mamdani-backed challenger.

The 71-year-old was first elected to Congress in the 2016 election, representing a district that encompasses northern Manhattan and a section of the west Bronx.

‘I forget to get napkins. So I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me.’

“I’m the first undocumented, formerly undocumented member of Congress. I’m the first Dominican American member of Congress in a city that has a million Dominican Americans,” Espaillat said.

Despite his membership in the Congressional Progressive Caucus and classification as one of the most liberal House members, he doesn’t seem to have been adequately radical enough for Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his fellow democratic socialists.

Darializa Avila Chevalier, a community organizer and the daughter of Dominican immigrants, is challenging Espaillat for the seat.

Avila Chevalier is positioning herself as a further-left alternative to Espaillat, claiming on her website that she has received endorsements from Mamdani, the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, and former House “Squad” member Jamaal Bowman.

Espaillat, by contrast, has the support of establishment New York Democrats such as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Gov. Kathy Hochul.

“I am someone who has been organizing for over 14 years in our community, and I have to ask: Have things gotten better in our community under our current leadership?” Avila Chevalier said last week in a primary debate.

In a recent interview, the 32-year-old stood by her belief that “all deportations are wrong,” even for those convicted of violating American criminal law, calling it “double jeopardy.”

Avila Chevalier is also behind a plethora of tweets from a since-deleted X account that featured statements such as: “It means ending policing full stop. Period. No more police at all ever,” “I forget to get napkins. So I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me,” and one calling the Democratic National Committee a “big fraudulent white nasty status quo bitch.”

“I have grown considerably since in the years since these tweets, and I am focused on our community and our community’s future,” she said about the deleted social media account.

Avila Chevalier has narrowed the polls leading up to the election. According to the New York Times, recent polling shows Avila Chevalier with a lead as high as four points and Espaillat with a lead as high as eight points.

Bettors on Polymarket seem to have confidence in Espaillat, placing him at a 66% chance of winning, compared to Avila Chevalier’s 37%.

RELATED: New York Democrats get annihilated with backlash after revealing which World Cup team they’re rooting for

This primary standoff represents just the latest battle between the Democratic “mainstream” and the rising socialist sect of the party. As of 2025, there were 250 democratic socialists in elected office, compared to just 35 in 2017.

These offices are not exclusively low-level either. Janeese Lewis George, who just secured the Democratic nomination for D.C. mayor, is a democratic socialist, both New York City Mayor Mamdani and Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson are democratic socialists, and Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman, who just advanced to the general election for her city’s mayoral race, is a DSA member as well.

Espaillat, as a seasoned politician, has gone after Avila Chevalier for her lack of governmental experience: “This is not a PhD program. This is government. And you need experience.”

Avila Chevalier has focused much of the debate on Israel and American aid to the country. During a debate, she attacked Espaillat for receiving money from AIPAC and “voting to send our tax dollars to a country that is enacting a genocide.”

However, Espaillat has swung back, highlighting Avila Chevalier’s attendance at a controversial pro-Palestinian rally in Times Square on Oct. 8, 2023, one day after the Hamas-led attack on Israel.

“In Congress, she’ll take on corporate greed, bad landlords, and D.C.’s broken political system,” Mamdani said in support of Avila Chevalier’s candidacy.

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

​Congress, Darializa avila chevalier, Democratic socialists, Election day, Midterm elections, Politics 

Dallas police charged a man with murder after finding the remains of his girlfriend in a freezer at an abandoned house where neighbors said drug addicts were often seen.

A neighbor of the house on Georgia Avenue in East Oak Cliff tipped off police on May 10 after hearing from the drug users that there was a body inside, according to an affidavit.

The man claimed that they threatened each other with knives and that three days before the woman’s body was found, he saw her lying on the floor of the closet.

Police found the freezer and the human remains in the master bedroom of the house.

The body had to be thawed out before the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office determined that the victim died from multiple stab wounds, including an injury above her eye that penetrated her brain.

Detectives documented the presence of blood on the walls and carpet of the bedroom. They also found a large military-style knife that was wrapped in a cloth and towel and dropped into a hole in the drywall of the room.

The victim was identified as 27-year-old Maria Murray, and after an investigation, police arrested 51-year-old Kendrick Brown for her alleged murder.

Brown told police he had no knowledge about the room or the freezer, but police were able to find videos on his cell phone indicating he had been in the room many times, according to the affidavit.

The videos also allegedly showed that he had been in a romantic relationship with Murray.

Police were able to find a person who lived at the home, and he told them, through the assistance of an American Sign Language interpreter, that Brown and Murray had numerous physical altercations at the home.

The man claimed that they threatened each other with knives and that three days before the woman’s body was found, he saw her lying on the floor of the closet of the bedroom.

RELATED: Neighbors terrified by gruesome discovery at foreclosed home sold at auction

He added that Brown yelled at him and shut the door, and the witness never saw Murray again.

The house was also reported to be on fire just hours after her body was found, according to a CBS News report.

Brown is being held at the Dallas County jail on a bond of $250,000.

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

​Crime, Stabbing, Murder 

After her decisive loss to President Donald Trump in 2024, Kamala Harris has continued making efforts to remain relevant. Whether she’s speaking at Democratic Party events, making appearances on talk shows, or promoting her new book, Harris’ theme has consistently been “I told you so.”

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales calls it “making the rounds trying to trash the Trump administration.”

She plays numerous clips of Harris bragging that she accurately predicted what is currently happening under President Trump, explicitly using the phrase “I told you so.”

For example, at the Leading Women Defined Summit in 2025, Harris said, “There were many things that we knew would happen. … I’m not here to say, ‘I told you so.’”

In March 2026 at Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Celebration of Life service, Harris told the crowd, “So let me just say, I predicted a lot about what’s happening right now. I’m not here to say ‘I told you so,’ but we did see it coming.”

In fact, Harris has invoked the “I told you so” theme so frequently that several media outlets jokingly dubbed her book tour the ‘I Told You So Tour.’”

However, now that she’s being made fun of for this catchphrase, Harris is attempting to backtrack. Last week at the Austrian World Summit, Harris was asked during a moderated conversation about her use of the phrase “I told you so.”

She responded, “I don’t say, ‘I told you so.’ That’s kind of obnoxious.”

But Sara laughs at Harris’ blatant hypocrisy.

“I’m just wondering, guys, what she has to say ‘I told you so’ about,” she tells guests Davey Jackson and Adam Johnson.

“What actually happened here was, Kamala was using that catchphrase to try to drum up, is this popular or not? They polled it, and they said, ‘This is not polling well.’ So they told her, ‘Stop saying that,”’ Johnson says.

“That’s how politics works. She is bought. She is sold. Just like Biden,” he adds.

Jackson thinks the funniest part about Harris’ public appearances isn’t her hypocrisy but her “code-switching.”

“Listen to her voice at the Jesse Jackson funeral and then how dramatically it changes as soon as she’s in front of Stephen Colbert,” he laughs, highlighting how Harris has repeatedly adjusted her speech, accent, and vocabulary to fit her audience.

“She blows me away. Like, just listening to her cackle and babble is insane,” Jackson says.

To see the clips of Kamala caught in blatant hypocrisy and to hear more of the panel’s conversation, watch the video above.

Want more from Sara Gonzales?

To enjoy more of Sara’s no-holds-barred takes on news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

​Sara gonzales unfiltered, Sara gonzales, Kamala harris 

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from using expanded government databases in its effort to purge voter rolls of foreigners.

U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan said the government “trampled” on the privacy rights of Americans and risked wrongfully purging voter rolls of Americans legally allowed to vote.

‘It’s amazing how hard the Left will fight to stop us from solving problems they insist do not exist.’

“All in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote,” Sooknanan said. “This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens.”

The administration added government data, including Social Security data, to the SAVE federal database, which stands for Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements. SAVE is used to detect ineligible voters.

However, Sooknanan ruled that the expansion of the database violated privacy protections passed by Congress. She said the administration ignored the rules in order to “comply with an executive order aimed at reshaping federal elections, which directed them to create a system for mass voter verification.”

James Percival, the general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, criticized the ruling on social media.

“It’s amazing how hard the Left will fight to stop us from solving problems they insist do not exist,” he wrote. “Judge Sparkle Soknanan’s [sic] latest ruling preventing DHS from addressing alien voting is just the latest example!”

Democracy Forward represented the group that challenged the expanded database.

“As the Trump-Vance administration continues its attack on the right to vote, this is an important victory for the American people and our democracy,” said Skye Perryman, the group’s CEO and president. “The data at the heart of this lawsuit was unlawfully consolidated in violation of privacy laws intended to protect sensitive personal information.”

The group added in a statement on social media: “This protects millions from baseless investigations and unlawful voter roll purges — a critical win for voting rights.”

RELATED: Trump order leads to investigation of 33 potential incidents of noncitizen voting, AG Paxton says

Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York also praised the ruling.

“We got a big win in court today for free and fair elections, blocking Donald Trump’s efforts to set up a massive voter purge database,” he wrote on social media.

“I called this out months ago as one of Trump’s most sinister strategies for subverting our elections this November,” he added. “That’s why Democrats blocked the wretched SAVE Act in the Senate — and we’ll do so again, and again, and again. Democrats won’t stop fighting until all of Trump’s plans to rig the system are defeated.”

Sooknanan was nominated to the bench by former President Joe Biden in Jan. 2025 just ahead of Trump entering his second term.

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

​Voter rolls, Save database, Voter verification, Election fraud, Politics 

Google believes there is a place for artificial intelligence in filmmaking, and it is willing to put its money where its mouth is.

Google’s DeepMind AI unit will partner with an emerging movie studio that will be risking its reputation by inviting such a tech monster into its halls.

‘We think there are better uses.’

A24, the studio behind “Backrooms” — a 2026 horror film that fueled grassroots excitement — has accepted a gigantic $75 million injection from Google’s AI sector.

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the partnership is not to make AI films or generate likeness of actors (as of right now); rather it will make use of AI in a way that is less intrusive on the viewer.

“We think there are better uses that preserve creative control and support risk-taking,” said Scott Belsky, a partner in A24.

Belsky revealed that the studio will lean into AI tools instead, because filmmakers have not been fond of the attempts by developers to push AI use to make movies faster and cheaper.

The new tools “won’t look anything like the prompted generation type of AI that people feel uncomfortable with,” Belsky added.

However, a certain element of artists will likely be on the chopping block as A24 Labs is developing an application for AI-generated storyboards.

RELATED: It only took weeks for AI usage to break the corporate piggy bank

Amanda Edwards/Getty Images

A24 Labs, a team of about 20, is tasked with replacing the roughly-drawn movie scenes that directors use to map out sets and different shoots.

Moreover, Reuters reported that the studio and Google will collaborate on research and development projects that will make new workflows. However, filmmakers are to retain full creative control, and the deal does not include intellectual property or data training.

The terms make sense given the growing disdain for AI animation and film that has been seen when big companies put out projects using the technology.

Coca-Cola and McDonald’s both saw huge blowback from AI-generated Christmas commercials in 2025, and unique artistic perspectives are what have made A24 an emerging favorite for so many.

RELATED: Microsoft says business must pay to use its AI — and eyes cheap Chinese model for lowly consumers

“Backrooms” opened to an astounding $81 million opening in late May, which led to a total of $175 million domestically at the time of this writing.

This came off of just a $10 million budget. Movie lovers created a lot of buzz before the film’s release for its unique take stemming from a simple concept first developed on the anonymous message board 4chan.

Non-recycled, anti-industry films are what people like most about A24, and integrating big AI into its studio is an obvious big risk.

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

​News, Google, Artificial intelligence, Ai, Backrooms, A24, Tech