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When 18-year-old student Henry Nowak was fatally stabbed by Vickrum Digwa, a British Sikh, a horrific local crime quickly escalated to international headlines due to a catastrophic law enforcement failure.

Spurred by Digwa’s false accusation of racism, responding officers immediately handcuffed the mortally wounded teenager, even as he told them nine times that he could not breathe and four times that he had been stabbed. That Nowak was arrested and treated as a criminal while taking his final breaths has shocked and appalled the United Kingdom.

British institutions have traded the safety of their citizens for wokeness.

Bodycam footage of his harrowing final minutes also caught the attention of the U.S. government. The State Department warned on X that “ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline that must be rejected across the West.”

Two-tier policing refers to the public perception that British law enforcement operates under a double standard — treating suspects, victims, and protesters differently based on race, religion, or political ideology.

The roots of this bias lie in the policies established by the College of Policing (the official national body that sets training standards) and the National Police Chiefs’ Council, which coordinates operational policy across all 44 U.K. police forces. These two bodies introduced the highly controversial and censorious “Non-Crime Hate Incidents,” which legally requires British officers to log and investigate citizens for lawful speech if anyone perceives it as motivated by hostility — even when no actual crime has been committed.

In May 2022, in the aftermath of the global George Floyd protests, the College of Policing and the NPCC launched the Race Action Plan, explicitly designed to embed anti-racist training across the entire justice system. The plan’s 2025 update codified an even more racialized doctrine.

Official guidance now states that a commitment to racial equity “does not mean treating everyone ‘the same’ or being ‘colour blind.’” By abandoning equality before the law, the policy instructs British police to treat individuals differently based on their race in an attempt to engineer equal outcomes. With law enforcement having absorbed this radical ideology, officers have become selective enforcers of justice, failing to intervene for fear of being labeled racist.

This is not a fringe theory. A new survey by the research group More in Common found that one-third of Britons now believe police actively favor ethnic minorities over white people. The chronic mishandling of the Nowak case provides further evidence of a system that despises the majority of its own citizens.

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Governed by an anti-racism doctrine, British institutions have traded the safety of their citizens for wokeness. The fatal cost of this ideological capture was laid bare in 2023 when Valdo Calocane slaughtered three people in Nottingham. He should not have been free.

Psychiatric professionals had repeatedly refused to section the psychotically violent Calocane, citing concerns about the “disproportionate overrepresentation of young black males in detention.” Captive to the progressive view that any statistical disparity constitutes systemic racism, authorities left a violent, psychotic man on the streets rather than risk accusations of racism.

Tragically, this stigma also contributed to the Manchester Arena terrorist attack in 2017 following a concert by Ariana Grande. Kyle Lawler, an on-duty security guard, witnessed the bomber, Salman Abedi, acting suspiciously with a heavy backpack. But Lawler failed to intervene or raise the alarm for fear of being branded a racist. Abedi detonated the device minutes later, killing 22 people — predominantly children and teenagers — and injuring over 1,000.

The Nowak case illustrates the same dynamic. Public criticism from Washington, combined with mounting protests on British streets, prompted pushback from Downing Street. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and senior Labour politicians vehemently rejected the two-tier accusation, stating categorically that they did not recognize the State Department’s characterization of the British justice system, a sentiment echoed by Justice Secretary David Lammy.

Starmer condemned the U.S. critiques, and even accused Elon Musk of overstepping diplomatic boundaries and attempting to stoke division on U.K. streets.

But in 2020, Starmer had no such reservations about commenting on American internal affairs following the death of George Floyd. He publicly urged then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson to address systemic racism directly with Donald Trump, openly criticized Trump’s response to Floyd’s death, and famously took a knee in a highly publicized display of solidarity with Black Lives Matter.

Labour’s attempt at containment was exposed when Vice President JD Vance took to X. Echoing his powerful Munich Security Conference speech, Vance argued:

Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. … He would still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.

Vance’s warning came days after a Sudanese asylum seeker was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following a savage knife attack in Belfast, Northern Ireland — reported by the Telegraph as an attempted beheading. The victim, a man in his 40s, remains in serious condition after suffering significant injuries to his eyes, face, and back. Police stated the suspect is believed to have entered the U.K. by traveling from Dublin into Northern Ireland, where he had been granted leave to remain under a five-year visa.

The refusal to stem illegal immigration is a direct result of the policies of both main political parties. During the last six years of Conservative government, 128,000 undocumented migrants entered the country via the English Channel. Since Labour took power in July 2024, more than 70,000 illegal migrants have crossed into the U.K. on small boats.

Among those Britain is importing are individuals who despise the West and seek to harm its citizens. In the final week of January 2026, a Sudanese illegal migrant was sentenced to life imprisonment for the brutal murder of Rhiannon Skye Whyte, a hotel worker whom he stabbed 23 times at a railway station. Less than a fortnight later, an Iranian migrant pleaded guilty to sexual assault. In March, an Afghan asylum seeker received a 15-year sentence for the abduction and rape of a 12-year-old girl in a park.

For decades, uncontrolled immigration has been imposed upon the British public under the guise of multiculturalism, driven by successive governments in thrall to the liberal notion that diversity is a strength. This result has been social upheaval, rapid demographic change, and a society fractured into segregated cultural enclaves.

Expanding hate speech laws has effectively criminalized questions and complaints, leaving a nation paralyzed by fear and fueled by anger. JD Vance is correct to call this the politics of self-hatred.

Editor’s note: This article appeared originally at the American Mind.

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The lion’s share of Nvidia’s business is built around high-end GPUs — first for gamers, then for cryptominers, and now for AI data centers. This year, however, the company is branching out into an even bigger consumer computing category with its shiny new RTX Spark chip series destined to make Windows devices faster, more efficient, and more powerful than ever before.

A new ‘Spark’ of innovation

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at Computex in Taipei to unveil the first generation of RTX Spark hardware.

First came the chips themselves. The N1X, built in partnership with Mediatek, is a brand-new system on a chip) by Nvidia designed on an ARM architecture intended for Windows machines. It’s meant to compete directly with Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chips for Windows on ARM and Apple Silicon for Mac.

Windows ARM laptops have yet to reach mainstream appeal. Nvidia hopes to change that.

Although the N1X is the most powerful option on the table, a lower-end N1 chip will also be available.

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For the spec nerds out there, NX1 features a Blackwell RTX GPU with 6144 CUDA Cores and 1 petaFLOP for AI computing, a 20-core Grace CPU, 128 GB of LPDDR5X unified memory, 70 billion transistors, and a Windows agent platform built alongside Microsoft. It looks impressive on paper.

Next came the devices. Nvidia is working with a number of OEM partners — including Microsoft Surface, Dell, HP, and many more — to launch and release the first RTX Spark-powered laptops, desktops, and workstations later this year. Laptops are expected to achieve all-day battery life on a single charge, while workstations can run local AI agents from the comfort of your home 24/7.

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Lastly, Nvidia is investing heavily in the longevity of RTX Spark devices with next-generation N2X and N3X chips already in the works for future releases.

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Why RTX Spark is important

RTX Spark is a significant departure from Nvidia’s usual business strategy. Historically, the company has only built dedicated GPUs for Windows machines that run alongside the CPUs and integrated graphics from companies like Intel or AMD. NX1 marks the first time it has released a complete solution that combines CPU, GPU, and memory into a single Nvidia-branded package for computers.

Now that Nvidia can control the entire chip experience within a Windows device, Huang claims that 100% of Nvidia’s software stack runs locally, from coding to generative AI, AI agents, and graphics. He further promises that every app ever made to work on an Nvidia GPU and every app made to run on Windows is compatible with RTX Spark, including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, and even AAA video games.

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This is a huge promise, considering that RTX Spark chips are built on an ARM architecture instead of the legacy x86 platform that powered Windows for the last 40 years. To drop an analogy, Huang is saying that his team has figured out how to put diesel in a gasoline-powered engine and make it run perfectly.

Disrupting Windows’ status quo

The RTX Spark series aren’t the first ARM-based chips for Windows. Qualcomm launched its own Snapdragon X Elite SOCs back in 2023. However, due to incomplete x86 legacy software compatibility and limited game support, Windows ARM laptops have yet to reach mainstream appeal. Nvidia hopes to change that, and if Huang’s claims are true, it might actually succeed.

To prove it, Huang touted the new Forza Horizon 6 and 007 First Light playing on two laptops in his hands as he stood on stage. Although the machines appeared to be showing videos of each game instead of running the games natively, Huang’s implication was clear that RTX Spark laptops could actually play both titles at up to 100 fps at 1440p.

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Our take on RTX Spark

I’m a huge fan of ARM laptops. As a Mac user, I was an early adopter of Apple Silicon with the M1 series in my 2020 MacBook Pro. At the time, there was nothing else like this chip — it was impressively fast, it sipped battery life to the point that I could use it for an entire workday and then some without a recharge, and it rarely heated up enough to kick on the fans. Apple Silicon is the ultimate companion for a remote writer like myself.

The story hasn’t quite been the same on Windows. While the Snapdragon X Elite offers a glimpse of the benefits I have grown to love in Apple Silicon Macs, inconsistent software compatibility, variable battery life, and poor performance have left Microsoft’s ARM-based OS looking rather inferior. I’m hopeful that RTX Spark will finally give Windows a competitive edge to push the chip category forward without losing any of the legacy support that made Windows great in the first place. Only time will tell.

RTX Spark devices are expected to be available this fall. Unfortunately, prices haven’t been released yet, and given the latest RAM shortages and inflated electronics prices, they’re sure to be expensive.

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For generations, Democrats have portrayed themselves as the party of ordinary Americans — factory workers, waitresses, truck drivers, police officers, construction workers, and middle-class families trying to get ahead. Yet one of the most striking features of modern American politics is how often Democratic leaders, activists, and media allies seem genuinely baffled by the very people they claim to represent.

The latest example comes from Washington Post columnist Monica Hesse, whose reaction to President Trump’s appearance at a packed UFC event on the White House lawn last weekend revealed a familiar pattern among America’s cultural elites.

Time and again, Democrat leaders appeared surprised that Americans cared more about grocery prices and border security than about the priorities emphasized by elite institutions.

To tens of millions of Americans, UFC is simply entertainment. It is competitive, exciting, patriotic, and increasingly mainstream. To Hesse and myriad other journalists and political commentators, however, its popularity seems to require explanation — as though they are studying the customs of a distant tribe.

That reaction says far more about elite America than it does about UFC fans, and few institutions better embody elite opinion than the modern Democratic Party.

The inability to understand ordinary Americans has become a recurring problem for Democrats. Consider one of the most famous campaign images in modern history. In 1988, Democrat presidential nominee Michael Dukakis climbed into a tank in an effort to project foreign policy credibility. Though the campaign intended the image to demonstrate Dukakis’ strength and command in order to reassure wary voters, the photograph instead became a political disaster.

To many Americans, Dukakis did not look like a commander in chief — he looked like Alfred E. Neuman from Mad magazine, wearing an oversize helmet and generally appearing out of his element. The embarrassing image became iconic because it captured something larger than a single campaign mistake: a cohort of American elites — consultants, strategists, and media professionals — who apparently thought the photo was a good idea.

The same kind of blindness occasionally appears among establishment Republicans as well. George H.W. Bush’s comments upon seeing a new and improved grocery store scanner became a symbol — fairly or unfairly — of a politician disconnected from everyday life. But while both parties have produced elite figures detached from ordinary concerns, the problem is far more pronounced today on the left.

Indeed, many of the institutions that now shape Democratic politics are populated almost exclusively by people who live, work, and socialize within a remarkably narrow slice of America. They attend the same universities, read the same publications, and live in the same metropolitan areas. They follow the same social media accounts. Their children attend the same schools, and their friends share the same political and cultural assumptions.

And increasingly, they seem unable to comprehend how other Americans think.

When Hillary Clinton dismissed millions of voters as a “basket of deplorables,” many Americans viewed the comment not as a gaffe but as a rare moment of honesty. It reflected a prevailing attitude among Democrats, and elites more broadly, that disagreement could be explained only by ignorance, prejudice, or moral deficiency.

President Biden repeatedly displayed a similar tendency. During the 2024 campaign (before he was ousted), he and his allies often portrayed concerns about illegal immigration, inflation, crime, and cultural change as either exaggerated or illegitimate, even as polling showed those issues dominating voters’ concerns.

Time and again, Democrat leaders appeared surprised that Americans cared more about grocery prices and border security than about the priorities emphasized by elite institutions.

Vice President Kamala Harris often suffered from the same disconnect. Her public appearances frequently projected the impression that she was speaking to an audience of policy experts rather than to working Americans — when she was not donning fake accents, that is. Her campaign’s struggles were not merely ideological; they were cultural. Many voters simply concluded that she did not understand their lives.

The pattern extends well beyond politicians.

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Millions of Americans attend NASCAR races, pack country music concerts, and watch UFC fights. Elite commentators scoff and express bewilderment in response. Millions more display American flags, fill church pews, and worry about rising crime and open borders. Too often, the response from elite circles is not curiosity but contempt.

The Democratic Party once excelled at connecting with ordinary Americans precisely because it better understood their views. Franklin Roosevelt, known as a “traitor to his class,” spoke the language of workers because he wanted them to be part of the Democrats’ coalition for generations. Harry Truman connected with voters because he shared many of their instincts. Even Bill Clinton possessed an intuitive feel for middle-class anxieties and aspirations.

Today’s Democrat coalition increasingly draws its leadership from elite universities, media organizations, nonprofits, foundations, government bureaucracies, and professional-class enclaves. These institutions exercise enormous cultural influence, but they are not representative of America as a whole.

As a result, Democrats increasingly mistake the views traded in faculty lounges, newsroom editorial meetings, and Washington policy conferences for the views held around kitchen tables. That confusion helps explain their shock at one political surprise after another, especially Trump’s victories in 2016 and 2024.

Democrat strategists express astonishment after yet another batch of election results defies their expectations. Panels of “experts” search for explanations, and reports are circulated that blame political circumstances or voters’ various “isms.” But the possibility that the Democrats have lost touch with ordinary Americans is rarely, if ever, considered.

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A political movement cannot represent people it does not understand. And it cannot understand the views of many Americans whom it increasingly views with a mixture of confusion, suspicion, and disdain. For a party that still considers itself the party of the people, that is a major problem it has yet to reckon with.

And it is also a problem for America as a whole. A healthy republic depends on officeholders who can understand — and respect — the culture and traditions of their fellow citizens, even when they do not share them. When America’s governing and cultural elites lose the ability to see the nation as it actually is, they make poorer decisions, deepen political divisions, and erode the mutual trust on which self-government depends.

A republic cannot long endure if those who wield influence come to view ordinary Americans not as fellow citizens to be understood but as strangers to be belittled and ignored.

Editor’s note: This article appeared originally at The American Mind.

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On May 15, Gen Z director Curry Barker’s “Obsession” hit theaters. The psychological horror film follows a young man whose wish for his longtime crush to love him comes true in far more intense and unsettling ways than he had hoped.

The film was an instant box office phenomenon, grossing over $285 million worldwide despite its humble $750,000 budget. Its popularity is driven largely by Gen Z viewers; audience data shows roughly 75% of ticket buyers are ages 18-34.

Dubbed a “Gen Z Fatal Attraction,” the mainstream take is that the movie resonates because it warns against toxic “nice guy” dynamics. In Zoomer internet culture, “nice guys” are men who believe they deserve romantic interest simply because they’re polite and friendly. When rejected, they grow resentful and angry, convinced they’re entitled to a woman’s affection. Their niceness is viewed as a manipulative tactic rather than an offer of genuine friendship.

In the film, protagonist Bear is hopelessly in love with his longtime friend Nikki. Mainstream critics see him as the classic “nice guy” who turns to manipulation — snapping a “one wish willow” to force her affection, making the story catnip for a generation that loves to call out such behavior.

But BlazeTV host John Doyle argues this surface-level reading misses what is really drawing young people to “Obsession.” On this episode of “The John Doyle Show,” Doyle unpacks the film’s true cultural power.

In the film, Bear asks his friend Ian for advice on confessing his feelings to Nikki.

“He’s immediately told by Ian that he’s just, you know, too real, man. He’s too authentic about all of it. And because he’s so authentic about it, it’s coming off cringey and weird,” says Doyle.

This is exactly what keeps so many young people single and lonely today, he argues.

“We literally will not do anything at all,” Doyle says. “We will just, you know, sit there in the corner with our cool cards until we die.”

Or they’ll resort to “epic [pickup artist] tactics” like “negging” — dishing out backhanded compliments or subtle insults in hopes of making the romantic target seek the negger’s approval. But never authenticity.

This outright refusal to be authentic is portrayed in the film when Nikki point-blank asks Bear if he likes her, to which he replies “as a friend.”

“He failed to be authentic. He was too afraid,” says Doyle, rejecting the mainstream narrative that “Obsession” is about “nice guys trying to exercise control over women.”

“[‘Obsession’] is, I think, just about that inauthenticity, and I think it ultimately is telling you the truth.”

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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There have been numerous studies in recent years highlighting correlations between political affiliation and mental health.

A 2021 study published in the journal SSM-Mental Health, for instance, concluded — on the basis of an analysis of depressive attitudes among conservative and liberal 12th graders from 2005 to 2018 — that “conservatives reported lower average depressive affect, self-derogation, and loneliness scores and higher self-esteem scores than all other groups.”

‘These findings have far-reaching consequences.’

A 2023 study conducted by Gallup on behalf of the Institute for Family Studies found that adolescents with “very conservative parents are 16 to 17 percentage points more likely to be in good or excellent mental health compared to their peers with very liberal parents.”

A 2025 study published in the journal PLOS One found that “even after accounting for a variety of other factors, there is a clear propensity of conservatives to provide more positive assessments of their mental health in comparison to liberals” — although the researchers ultimately attempted to credit this tendency to stigma or survey terminology.

The American left’s mental health issues show no signs of clearing up. In fact, while conservatives continue to enjoy relatively superior mental health, the sickness on the other side appears to be attracting sufferers into a political identity all its own.

In a study strongly recommending “replication and further exploration” that was recently published in the journal Political Behavior, Lauren Van De Hey of Utah State University found that “mental health identity has begun to function as a political identity for some individuals,” particularly among “younger (Gen Z) and more liberal Americans.”

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Utilizing data from the national Cooperative Election Study administered by YouGov in 2022, the Utah researcher determined that a great many people now “categorize themselves as having had a mental illness, the vast majority of whom view mental illness identity and mental illness alienation as important to their sense of self.”

“People who have experienced mental illness feel close to others who have experienced mental illness,” wrote Van De Hey. “They are also likely to self-categorize as having or having had a mental illness, share a sense of group consciousness with others who have or had mental illness, and recognize the need to work together to change laws that are unfair to people with mental illness.”

This obviously has political implications, explained the researcher, as it correlates with “support for increased state spending on health care, education, and welfare.”

The study cited Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) as an example of a political elite for whom mental health appears to have become a “politicized identity.”

Smith has on numerous occasions discussed her past experiences with depression, grouped herself with sufferers, and identified “mental health parity” as a legislative priority.

“Those more likely to categorize as having a mental illness are more likely to have a college degree; be a Democrat, liberal, and white; and have slightly lower family income,” said the study. “For both the [Mental Illness] Identity and [Mental Illness] Alienation scales, the only consequential variable is ideology: Those with higher MI identification or MI Alienation are more likely to be liberal.”

Van De Hey concluded, “These findings have far-reaching consequences for mental health advocacy and the role mental health identity will play in the political sphere — especially as Gen Z matures as a cohort.”

Dealing with a sample of 860 respondents, Van De Hey found that 26% categorized themselves as having had a mental illness in their lifetime, 22% categorized themselves as having had a physical disability, and 168 categorized themselves as having had a serious chronic physical illness.

Of the 220 respondents who said they had mental illness in their lifetime, 70% identified as “liberal” or “very liberal,” 24% identified as “moderate,” and 32% identified as “conservative” or “very conservative.”

Of the same 220 respondents, about half stated that their identity as a person with a mental health illness was “important” or “very important to them.”

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On June 16, Vice President JD Vance released his new book, “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith.” It’s a memoir detailing his straying from the Christianity of his youth, his journey to atheism, and his return to faith through conversion to Catholicism in 2019.

In a recent exclusive interview with Glenn Beck, Vance opened up about his faith journey.

“Can you talk a little bit about the moment you chose to commit [to faith]?” Glenn begins.

In the summer of 2018, Vance visited a Catholic cathedral. At this time, he was “curious about Christianity” but “wasn’t yet ready to commit.”

“It was completely empty, and I felt this kind of sense of despair. … There was nobody praying. It felt almost lifeless. And then there was just this beautiful sort of ray of light that came through the stained glass windows,” he recounts.

Vance recalls how at that time, the Catholic church was under fire for a massive scandal in Pennsylvania, where a grand jury report exposed credible allegations of child sexual abuse by over 300 priests across six dioceses, harming more than 1,000 victims over decades, along with systematic cover-ups by church officials.

“I felt this sense that, you know, yes, the church is going through a tough spot, but things are going to be OK, and I belong here,” he says.

“And that was sort of the moment that I decided, you know what, for all of my belly aching and back and forth … this is my home, and I’m going to try to make this home as successful as possible and contribute as much as I can, and that’s what I did.”

“That seems like a commitment to the church. Is that the same as the moment to follow Christ? Did that come first and then the commitment to the church or are they the same thing to you?” Glenn asks.

Unlike the moment in the cathedral that led Vance to commit to the Catholic church, the decision to follow Jesus was more “gradual.”

“I was raised in sort of an un-churched but very devout household. My grandmother would take us to church every now and then, but not regularly … and so I became as a teenager, sort of an early 20s kid … an arrogant atheist,” he explains.

“I went about trying to achieve every marker of worldly success. You know, I wanted to go to the best schools, and I wanted to have the best job. I wanted to make the most money. I wanted something prestigious to hang my hat on, and I kind of got to this point where I had won all of these elite competitions,” he continues, highlighting his time at Yale Law School.

But despite the worldly success, an emptiness haunted him.

“I was kind of looking around and saying, you know what, those people that I dismissed as simpletons, they’re much happier and much healthier and much more interesting people than the elite crew that I seem to be joining,” Vance tells Glenn.

He began to wonder if the “character” and “wisdom” they exhibited came from “this Jesus Christ figure that [he’d] kind of discarded.”

“And so [following Christ] was not like a conversion on the road to Damascus. That was me slowly seeing reflections of Christian truth in the way that various Christians lived their lives and the way that they raised their families, and over time, I just started to think, you know what, there’s something real here,” he shares.

Christ, he decided, was not only something he wanted for himself but for his family too.

“I wanted to give my family what I didn’t have as a kid, which is a real formation, like an actual church community,” he says, “and I kind of, you know, experimented with different churches and went to a number of different places and eventually, you know, found a home in a church that we love, and that’s kind of where we are today.”

To hear more, watch the full interview above.

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An LGBTQ+ advocacy group for a small town in central New York says it is canceling a scheduled Pride parade after its founder was arrested on child sex-messaging charges.

New York state police claimed 46-year-old Travis J. Longo of Cazenovia had a pattern of sending the sexually explicit communications to a child under 12 years old.

‘This decision follows serious criminal charges against Travis Longo, the founder of Cazenovia Pride Fest and a longtime figure in our organization.’

Astoundingly, Longo was elected in 2024 to the Cazenovia School District Board of Education and, as of Friday afternoon, continues to be a member of the board.

Longo was charged with four misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of a child. Police have released few details about the alleged communications but are asking the public for any information that might aid their investigation.

The group Longo founded said in a post on Facebook that the parade planned for June 27 has been canceled and the group is dissolving.

“Cazenovia Pride Inc. is canceling this year’s Pride Festival and all associated events, and we are dissolving as an organization,” the post read.

“This decision follows serious criminal charges against Travis Longo, the founder of Cazenovia Pride Fest and a longtime figure in our organization,” the post added. “Travis Longo has no further affiliation with Cazenovia Pride Inc.”

Longo had apparently performed as a drag queen under the name “Anita Buffem.”

An Instagram appearing to belong to Longo as the drag queen persona has dozens of posts. Buffem is also listed as a “hostess” at the first Pride festival in Cazenovia in 2021 that was organized by Pride Cazenovia.

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“We are deeply sorry for the pain and disappointment this causes our community,” concluded the statement from the Pride group. “The years of support, love, and solidarity you have shown us have meant everything. Thank you.”

Cazenovia is a town of about 6,700 residents in Madison County.

Neither Longo nor the board of education responded to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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The American dad has spent the last 40 years serving as the culture’s favorite punching bag.

From the misanthropic, couch-locked Al Bundy in “Married… with Children” to the bumbling, well-meaning hazard-to-himself Phil Dunphy in “Modern Family,” Hollywood conditioned us to view fathers as overgrown teenagers.

The massive domestic imbalance that has inspired a million angry think pieces is virtually nonexistent in the data.

They were the morons who couldn’t find the milk in an open fridge even after moving everything except the milk, the slow-witted domestic saboteurs who would accidentally incinerate the kitchen if left unattended for 20 minutes.

For decades, the consensus was clear: Men were biologically, or perhaps pathologically, unfit for adult responsibility.

Different breed

Then came the modern panic over falling birth rates, and the blame was promptly dumped at the feet of these cinematic man-children. Women, the conventional wisdom claimed, were refusing to breed because men refused to grow up. If only dads would stop playing video games, put on pants, and learn how to operate a vacuum, fertility rates would soar.

It’s a convenient narrative. The only problem is that it happens to be wrong. A recent report from the Institute for Family Studies dismantles it entirely. The myth of the detached, useless dad is officially dead.

Far from dodging domestic duties, modern American fathers are putting in an enormous amount of time at home.

In the mid-1960s, a married father with young children spent fewer than 10 hours per week on household chores and child care combined. Never mind the all the other hours spent earning the money to put a roof overhead and food on the table — the average dad had a reputation for being terminally checked out, loafing through family life behind the sports pages.

That stereotype is now hopelessly out of date. Today, married fathers spend close to 30 hours per week on household chores and child care. In little more than half a century, paternal involvement has tripled.

Quantity time

Meanwhile, appliances evolved. Washing machines, dishwashers, and robot vacuums eliminated the soul-destroying physical labor of the past, reducing the hours required to maintain a home. But instead of using that freed-up time to drink scotch in a recliner, the modern father rolled up his sleeves and absorbed the extra hours.

Married fathers now spend roughly 45 hours per week directly in the presence of their kids. In other words, dad isn’t just providing a paycheck any more. This is a man wearing half a dozen hats: chauffeur, soccer coach, homework warden, amateur therapist, technology troubleshooter, and occasional short-order cook. He is expected to be present for every bedtime routine, school recital, and emotional wobble.

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The most shocking revelation from the IFS report comes when you look at the total workload. When researchers tallied up paid employment, unpaid labor, child care, and household obligations, they discovered something remarkable. Today, married mothers and married fathers of young children each average roughly 63 hours per week of combined labor.

The massive domestic imbalance that has inspired a million angry think pieces is virtually nonexistent in the data. Both parents are working long, exhausting hours. Both are making massive personal sacrifices.

This completely flips the fertility debate on its head. If fathers are already maxed out, increasing paternal participation isn’t the magic cure for declining birth rates. More importantly, it tears up the old script that men can’t be trusted with a grocery list, let alone a young child.

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Bubble-wrapped childhood

However, this hyper-involved, positive picture of modern fatherhood does come with an important caveat: the rise of over-parenting. In the past, parents let their children wander the neighborhood until the streetlights came on — partly out of trust and partly because they just wanted them out of their sight.

Today, children are rarely left unsupervised. Teenagers spend less time with friends, neighborhoods are less connected than they once were, and parents increasingly feel obliged to schedule every waking minute of their children’s lives. What used to be an afternoon of “go outside and be home by dinner” now requires a color-coded calendar.

This total elimination of childhood freedom has created a new kind of claustrophobic family dynamic. By bubble-wrapping their offspring, modern dads are inadvertently raising a generation of anxious, hyper-dependent kids who can’t make a decision without a text thread consultation.

Thank a dad

Furthermore, this extreme devotion has exacted a heavy toll on men’s mental health. Time is finite. Every hour spent curating a child’s resume or driving to a travel-team baseball game in another state is an hour stolen from personal maintenance. There are only so many hours in a day. Increasingly, fathers have paid for their expanded responsibilities with their own leisure, hobbies, and friendships. The modern dad has sacrificed his own social survival network on the altar of family responsibility.

Despite the dangers of helicopter parenting, the overarching reality is shifting toward something undeniably positive. American fathers didn’t shy away from changing social expectations. If anything, they adapted with remarkable speed. If the old model of fatherhood was largely financial, the new model demands presence, participation, and constant engagement. And, as the report shows, millions of fathers have embraced it.

So this Father’s Day, if you’re lucky enough to still have one, thank your dad. And if you’ve spent years insisting fathers don’t show up, don’t care, or don’t pull their weight, the evidence suggests you might owe him an apology as well.

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The Department of Justice rejected a judge’s ultimatum on the “anti-weaponization fund” and called it a breach of the separation of powers doctrine.

President Donald Trump agreed to drop a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for the formation of a $1.8 billion fund to compensate the victims of weaponization of government in previous administrations.

‘Judges do not get to insert themselves into the department’s routine settlement authority.’

In response to a lawsuit over the fund, the government argued that the point was moot after Attorney General Todd Blanche testified to Congress that the fund was dead.

“We are not moving forward with the fund. Period,” Blanche said clearly.

However, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema cited statements from the president supporting the fund and Blanche’s reluctance to provide a written guarantee as evidence that the administration still sought to establish it.

Brinkema then gave the government a week to provide declarations under penalty of perjury from Blanche as well as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. She warned that if they failed to do so, she would allow a lawsuit against the government to proceed.

On Friday, the DOJ responded that the statements were unnecessary and constituted a “serious” violation of the separation of powers among the branches of government.

“It is telling that even after the federal court gave them a week, the acting attorney general and other senior administration officials continue to refuse to say under oath that the Slush Fund is dead and won’t operate in the future,” Democracy Forward president and CEO Skye Perryman said.

The organization is representing the plaintiffs, a coalition that includes a former federal prosecutor and two nonprofits.

“Nor have they provided any information under oath about their compliance with the court’s prior directives,” Perryman added.

A spokesperson for the DOJ told the Washington Examiner that the judge was improperly inserting herself into the lawsuit settlement.

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“The DOJ has already twice filed in court that the fund isn’t moving ahead, coupled with Blanche’s repeated testimony before Congress that the fund isn’t moving forward,” the spokesperson said.

“In essence, the judge’s demand for declarations was an attempt to require her to personally sign-off on any and all future settlements, separate and apart from the Fund, that the department may make,” the spokesperson added. “Judges do not get to insert themselves into the department’s routine settlement authority.”

Democrats and some Republicans have voiced opposition to the fund based on the critique that it would be a slush fund to reward the president’s supporters and allies.

Brinkema was nominated to the bench by former President Bill Clinton in 1993.

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a preliminary injunction Friday against a California law that allowed children to hide their transgender status from their parents.

The law required teachers and others to withhold information from parents related to their children identifying as transgender or asking to be called by a different name.

‘The Constitution is clear — parents have the right to know what is happening with their children and make decisions regarding their mental health, and no state law can override that fundamental protection.’

The three-judge panel initially rejected the lawsuit from residents of Huntington Beach but relented after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a similar case on the side of parental rights.

The appeals court recognized that the law would likely violate parents’ First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.

America First Legal, the organization that represents the parents, called the ruling a major victory in a statement on its website.

“California cannot use state law to force schoolteachers and administrators into a conspiracy of silence against parents,” AFL senior counsel Nick Barry said. “California’s law, and similar school policies, use state coercion to intentionally interfere with the parent-child relationship and separate a child from their parent. That is wrong and unlawful.”

AFL added that the state of California “sought to prevent parents from obtaining information about ‘gender transitions’ of their own children without the child’s consent.”

Proponents of these types of laws say they are necessary to protect children who may have feelings that would lead them to identify as transgender from parents who may oppose their wishes. Critics say cutting out parents puts children at risk of grooming and abuse by far-left teachers and other school officials.

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“The Constitution is clear — parents have the right to know what is happening with their children and make decisions regarding their mental health, and no state law can override that fundamental protection,” Barry continued.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has not commented on the ruling yet.

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Tennessee residents of the city of Millersville were shocked to find out that their longtime city commissioner was arrested for numerous child sex allegations over four decades.

The Sumner County Sheriff’s Office said it took 76-year-old David Winston Gregory into custody on Wednesday at his home.

‘These allegations are serious. … There is no place in our society for actions like what is being alleged.’

The indictment claimed Gregory committed the crimes between 1987 and 2026, which included at least three instances of sexual abuse on a child that included three or more children. It further alleged that three of the instances constituted “the offense of aggravated sexual battery.”

He is being held at the Sumner County Jail on a $750,000 bond. Online records list two charges: continuous sexual abuse of a child and aggravated sexual battery.

Other local officials were stunned by the allegations.

“As a government official where the alleged events occurred, it would not be appropriate for me to comment on this case,” Millersville Mayor Lincoln Atwood said. “I have full confidence in those investigating these events. I also have full faith in our judicial system. No one is above the law.”

“These allegations are serious. My prayers are with all potential victims,” Vice Mayor Dustin Darnall said.

“I will remain committed to supporting all victims, especially victims of sexual abuse. There is no place in our society for actions like what is being alleged,” he added.

Gregory served as a city commissioner for 14 years. His current term expires in 2026.

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Michael Shaw, a resident of the city, said the allegations were “disgusting” in comments to WKRN-TV.

“We can’t have that kind of stuff,” he said. “We got to have leaders that are actually leaders. We got to have people that don’t get like that.”

Gregory made headlines when he demanded that the town’s assistant police chief, Shawn Taylor, apologize for spreading conspiracy theories alleging that police staged the Covenant School shooting in Nashville.

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The federal government is getting into comedy; whether that will be supported by the taxpayer remains to be seen.

Government-funded educational videos are stepping into the modern era, tapping versatile actor Chris Pratt to head up a new project.

‘Intended to engage international audiences with America’s constitutional values.’

Birthday boy

The combined effort between the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Public Diplomacy and Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs will have the “Guardians of the Galaxy” actor star in a series of comedy shorts for the birthday of the United States.

According to Variety, the America 250 videos will follow Pratt as he hopes to share his passion for American history but realizes he isn’t as knowledgeable as he thought he was.

Pratt will get help from historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Doris Kearns Goodwin, who will keep him on track and correct his historical knowledge.

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Showboat diplomacy

The government project, in its entirety, is intended to “inform and engage foreign publics about America through international media engagement, educational and cultural exchange programs, digital communications, and outreach conducted through U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide,” an announcement stated.

The series was actually designed as a “public diplomacy initiative intended to engage international audiences with America’s constitutional values and history through modern digital storytelling,” the producers reportedly said.

These producers are from digital media company ATTN: — out of Los Angeles — and said they are “always looking for new ways to make important topics accessible to broader audiences.”

ATTN: co-founder and CEO Matthew Segal said America 250 offers a “unique diplomacy opportunity to reintroduce the stories, principles, and people that shaped the nation.”

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‘Unhappy’ coincidence

The series may have a different mission, but it isn’t the only America 250-themed comedy sketch series making noise. “Seinfeld” creator Larry David’s “Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness” is set for release on HBO at the end of June.

The series stars David, along with guest stars like Jerry Seinfeld and Vince Vaughn, in a stream of outlandish bits centered around American history.

Essentially, David acts as his typical misunderstood and outraged self in different historical settings. Fans can look forward to seeing him get annoyed about the first-ever flight or criticizing the photo of a soldier’s wife during trench warfare in WWI.

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Marine Corps. veteran Major James Capers Jr. recently received the Medal of Honor, leaving audiences in awe of his story of perseverance and tragedy.

Capers accepted the award from President Donald Trump on Thursday, but it was his powerful pro-America message on Friday that garnered a thunderous reaction.

‘Lost a lot of good men in battlefields. I fought two wars and suffered 19 bullet holes.’

‘I’ve said enough’

Capers is a combat veteran who participated in 64 long-range reconnaissance patrols and five major campaigns in Vietnam, according to his biography. Missions included POW rescue missions ordered by the president and the recovery of a B-57 that allegedly had a nuclear bomb.

On Friday, Capers was inducted into the Hall of Heroes at the Pentagon by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Upon taking the podium, Capers kept his remarks short but powerful.

“I have no words,” the 89-year-old began. “But your applause reminds me of some dark days, of some brave men who are not here today. So I’ll speak for them.”

“This is the greatest country in the world,” Capers declared. “I fought for that flag; I believed in it.”

“I’ve said enough,” Capers said after just under a minute in front of the room.

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‘Lost a lot of good men’

Capers and President Trump shared some proud moments together at the White House on Thursday, with Trump linking arms with the veteran to help him stand during the ceremony. Trump was also seen holding hands with the South Carolina native as they spoke to each other on stage.

However, on “Fox & Friends” on Friday morning, Major Capers made sure there wasn’t a single dry eye watching his interview with host Ainsley Earhardt.

When asked what was going through his mind when he received the medal, Capers’ remarks did not fall short of remarkable.

“It was difficult time for me because I felt a little guilty, because I didn’t really feel like I deserved it with all of the men and women that served, and I get to do something like this.”

Capers did say it was “a wonderful day” that he was honored to take part in, but that he couldn’t help but think of his fallen friends.

“You always think about that; you never turn that loose. Lost a lot of good men in battlefields. I fought two wars and suffered 19 bullet holes, and along the way, out of the battle zones,” Capers recalled. “My son died in my arms of appendicitis, and my wife of 50 years died of cancer. So I had to survive that, on top of losing wonderful special operation Marines in combat.”

“So there’s no real satisfaction in getting a medal when I’ve lost so much,” he added.

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Honor and gratitude

Earhardt, clearly fighting back emotions, asked how the man got through so much tragedy. Capers responded by saying it was his military duty, and that’s what the “unit” is supposed to do.

“When one falls, somebody else has to replace that person who fell,” Capers explained. “So I feel honored to have the support that I find today. Honored. And I give gratitude to the ones who made this happen. Can’t say I’m happy to be here, because this award belongs to a lot of young men who followed me and died in battlefields around this world for a country that we honor this flag. I appreciate that.”

Capers’ closing words of encouragement were simply to “honor that flag.”

“When one man falls, then another one picks up that rifle and drives toward the enemy, and that enemy must be defeated. That is an old adage that we use, and it has been successful for 250 years.”

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If you only read the headlines, you’d think the American dream is officially out of reach. Starter homes cost more than $1 million. Summer electric bills are approaching $800. Families are struggling to keep up.

But Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck argues that the story being sold to Americans is incomplete.

“As of today, there are 242 cities in this country where the typical starter home, the first rung, the one that’s supposed to be for the beginners, costs a million or more dollars,” Glenn explains.

“By the way, before the pandemic, that number was not 242. It was 80. So in five years, it nearly tripled,” he adds.

California has the most cities with these high-priced “starter” homes, while New York and New Jersey aren’t far behind.

But it’s not just housing costs that are up — utilities are too.

“Americans are projected to spend almost $800 on electricity just getting through this summer, June through September. That’s up more than 10% from last year,” Glenn says.

“Now, the pros at the National Energy Assistance Directors Association will tell you it’s a stack of things all landing at once — hotter summers, more air conditioning, an aging grid that needs hundreds of billions in upgrades, the new AI data centers that everybody loves to point at, and inflation,” he explains.

“Monthly bills are up 23% since 2019. And right now, 1 in 6 Americans, 1 in 6 households, is behind on the utility bill. Arizona is getting hit the hardest. Then it’s Connecticut, Washington state. North Dakota has it the easiest,” he continues.

However, Glenn points out that these are just headlines — and as per usual, the mainstream media is not telling the whole story.

“If you lose the truth, the next thing you lose is hope. … A lot of Americans have lost both. So, let me give you the truth under the headline because the truth is where you’re going to find hope,” Glenn says.

“Let’s start with a million-dollar house. That number is real. It’s not your number. Because buried in the same report is the figure that nobody put in the story or the headline: The typical starter home in America is worth 198,649,” he continues.

“Now, that is still a lot of money, but it’s not $1 million. It’s under $200,000. Those 242 terrifying cities are all clustered where? On the expensive coastlines,” he adds.

As for the electricity bill, Glenn says, “if you are one of the 1 in 6, the why is not warming or cooling your house. Knowing the AI data centers are only part of the problem doesn’t lower the number on that envelope that you’re avoiding now because you can’t pay it.”

He points out that “every bit of wire” in our electric grid “was built by a past generation.”

“The same generation, one generation, electrified a continent that had been dark since the beginning of time. One generation. Abundance was a choice that we made. … And that means we can make that choice again,” he says.

“You’re not in checkmate. You’re not. You’re being told in stories like this about averages,” he continues, adding, “and you don’t live in an average.”

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President Donald Trump signed the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding on Wednesday evening, immediately opening the Strait of Hormuz to the free flow of oil and setting the stage for a final peace deal with Tehran.

While the markets responded positively, there was a great deal of consternation both in the U.S. and in Israel about the terms of the deal, particularly the provisions requiring money for Iran’s reconstruction and the “immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon.”

‘For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep.’

The fragile peace has been undermined by more than just criticism on the sidelines.

Disregarding the demands for a cessation of hostilities, Hezbollah and Israel engaged in a brutal exchange on Thursday and Friday that has claimed multiple lives and delayed the permanent peace talks. This bloodletting has, however, since been put on pause, owing to a truce reportedly brokered by the United States and regional actors.

The Israel Defense Forces announced late on Thursday that an explosive Hezbollah drone had detonated near Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, injuring four soldiers. Another terrorist drone reportedly detonated several minutes later, injuring another Israeli soldier.

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The Hezbollah strikes turned deadly early Friday morning when a suspected anti-tank missile struck a tank belonging to the 401st Armored Brigade’s 52nd Battalion in Lebanon’s Kfar Tebnit area, killing all four crew members, reported the Times of Israel.

Israel, in turn, launched numerous strikes — over 150 by early Friday — against alleged terrorist targets in Southern and Eastern Lebanon.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he had instructed the IDF to “strike Hezbollah with full force” and reiterated that “Israel will remain in the security zone in Southern Lebanon for as long as required to protect the settlements in the north.”

The Lebanese health ministry claimed that the Israeli strikes killed at least 47 people — at least 18 of whom were reportedly civilians — and wounded nearly 100 others since midnight.

That toll was evidently not nearly enough for Israel National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who stated, “For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn!”

“With all due respect to the Americans, Israel must make it clear to the entire world that the blood of our sons and the security of our citizens are not forfeit. All of Lebanon must burn,” continued Ben-Gvir, one of the most outspoken critics of Trump’s deal with Iran. “In the Middle East, you don’t win with measured responses and restraint — you need to go berserk. To obliterate. To crush the terror..”

Three regional officials told the Associated Press that the U.S., Qatar, and Iran brokered a truce between Lebanon and Israel — a truce that a senior U.S. official told Reuters was set to begin Friday at 4 p.m. local time.

“Hezbollah and Israel have agreed to a ceasefire,” said the American official on background. “We understand that after the exchange of fire ⁠earlier today, Israel and Hezbollah are ⁠now in a ceasefire.”

A Hezbollah leader said in a statement to CNN that while the group’s fighters will respect the ceasefire, the movement and actions of Israeli forces in Lebanon will receive “a suitable response.”

The IDF said that it will continue its operations in Lebanon.

“These attacks by Hezbollah are violations of the ceasefire. They prove that Hezbollah’s goals remain the same: to remain on Israel’s borders and to plan and carry out attacks on our civilians,” said an IDF spokesman. “This is not a reality we can accept, and this is exactly why the IDF continues to operate in Southern Lebanon.”

Earlier this week, Trump bemoaned the loss of life in Lebanon — where the health authority reports that 3,980 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since March 2 — saying that “the Lebanon piece is something we’ll have to work on a little bit.”

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A Wisconsin grant program intended to benefit minority students was struck down by the state’s supreme court as discriminatory on Thursday.

The court relied heavily on a previous U.S. Supreme Court opinion against race-based admission programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.

‘This is also a big win for taxpayers, who can now challenge many other race-based programs in state court.’

The Minority Undergraduate Retention Grant Program targeted black, Hispanic, and Native American students, as well as immigrants from Cambodia, Laos, or Vietnam who migrated to the U.S. since 1975.

Assistant Attorney General Charlotte Gibson argued that the state program was not restricted by the higher court order and met the standards set forth by the court.

The court disagreed.

“The Constitution requires that every person ‘must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual — not on the basis of race,'” the ruling of the court reads.

During the hearing, Chief Justice Jill Karofsky challenged the plaintiff attorney by citing a post from President Donald Trump about former President Barack Obama that many saw as racist.

“Just last week, the president of the United States posted a remarkably and insanely racist video of President and Michelle Obama depicted as apes,” Karofsky said.

“In this state, people of color contribute to the vitality of our state, and they are thanked by facing disparities when it comes to housing, access to medical care, transportation, incarceration, financial stability, and education,” she added. “Do you take issue with anything I just said up to that point?”

Luke Berg, of the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, responded that the worst discrimination is “when the law treats individuals differently based on their race.”

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The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty’s managing vice president, Dan Lennington, praised the ruling.

“This is a major win for students,” he said. “Race cannot be used to dole out scholarships and other financial aid. This is also a big win for taxpayers, who can now challenge many other race-based programs in state court. WILL is proud to stand for equal rights and make that case everywhere we can.”

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A federal appeals court has sided with the Trump administration in the decision to remove display panels about slave history at the President’s House site in Philadelphia.

Activists accused the administration of trying to white out the troubling slave history of the site where Presidents George Washington and John Adams once lived.

‘The decision to do this appears to be made because the President’s House Site memorialized the nine enslaved individuals that were held there against their will by President Washington.’

A lower court had ordered the National Park Service to restore the panels, but a 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals panel found unanimously on Thursday that the order should be overturned.

The appeals court said the lower court had misinterpreted the contract between the NPS and the city of Philadelphia and also found the replacement installation was “full of historical context.”

The court added that the replacement installations “highlight the momentous events that took place in the President’s House and the other sites at Independence National Historical Park.”

Workers removed the slavery panels from the site on the corner of 6th and Market Streets in Old City in Jan. 2026.

Paul Steinke of the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia called the removal a “terrible day” for American history.

“The decision to do this appears to be made because the President’s House Site memorialized the nine enslaved individuals that were held there against their will by President Washington and his wife, Martha,” he said to CBS News, “and this is the only federal historic site that commemorates the history of slavery in America.”

The city of Philadelphia sued NPS and argued that it had violated their agreement to seek “communication and consultation” before implementing any changes to the site.

District Judge Cynthia Rufe, who was nominated by former President George W. Bush, opened her ruling against the administration back in February with a quote from George Orwell’s “1984.”

RELATED: Judge orders Trump administration to restore slavery exhibits to presidential home site

An NPS spokesperson mocked the city of Philadelphia after the original ruling.

“We encourage the City of Philadelphia to focus on getting their jobless rates down and ending their reckless cashless bail policy,” the statement reads, “instead of filing frivolous lawsuits in the hopes of demeaning our brave Founding Fathers who set the brilliant road map for the greatest country in the world — the United States of America.”

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Despite telling Mika Brzezinski on “Morning Joe” that “there’s nothing out there that’s actually concerning,” Graham Platner’s leaked text messages have taken a turn for the worse — as they prove the Senate candidate lied about his Nazi tattoo.

In one newly released string of messages, an ex tells a friend that he “makes weird noises,” he has a “Nazi tattoo,” he was “f**king around on his [fiancee],” and that she was glad to be rid of him.

The friend responded, “All fixable except CHEATER,” to which Platner’s ex answered, “idk man I think there’s a lot of that that isn’t fixable.”

In another text exchange, one woman says about his campaign, “Hes got a decent platform,” while the other responds, “Better not take a peek at the Nazi tattoo on his chest.”

“Hard knowing what we know tho,” the first woman fires back.

And in one more leaked message, a woman writes, “It’s crazy cuz I also know he has a very unfortunate tattoo, and he never gave me back my pie dish, so I’m considering selling him out.”

“Again, another person confirming they knew about that tattoo before he ran for office, before supposedly Graham Platner said that he knew about his own tattoo and what the origins of it were. Again, this man is an absolute pathological liar, Dave,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere tells co-host Dave Landau.

“He’s a perfect candidate, though, for Democratic women willing to believe absolutely anything. So he might be your guy,” Dave agrees.

“I get why he’s lying, I’ll say that, because it is very hard to run for office and say, ‘Yeah, I knew it was a Nazi tattoo the whole time,’” he adds.

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JD Vance proved once again that unlike the left, the right is not afraid to step into the lion’s den when he sat down with the panel of “The View” — who of course took the opportunity to claim President Trump was in cahoots with Jeffrey Epstein.

“They were best friends for about a decade,” host Ana Navarro claimed.

“And remember he signed that Transparency Act under duress when some Republican women, congresswomen like Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, did not give in to his pressure of not signing. He brought Lauren Boebert into the Situation Room to pressure her into caving on not voting for that bill,” she continued.

“Let me respond to that,” Vance replied. “So number one is yes, Donald Trump — he said this — he knew Jeffrey Epstein back in the 1980s. He also threw Jeffrey Epstein out of his club when he found out he was a creep and reported him to the police.”

“That’s something that the media often misses when it reports the story. They tell the fact that they knew each other in the ’80s, which the president himself admits. They ignore the fact that he narced on him to the police and led ultimately to Jeffrey Epstein’s downfall,” he calmly explained.

“It all tracks if you’re paying attention,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales comments on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

“‘They were best friends for a time period,’” she mocks, before pulling up a photo of Epstein and Bill Clinton posing together.

“They look thick as thieves here. Oh, oops. That’s the wrong best friend,” she jokes.

“They always forget that relationship,” she adds.

Gonzales also points out that Whoopi Goldberg was silent throughout the exchange.

“Whoopi didn’t have anything to say there, I guess, because remember she was in the Epstein files. She wanted to borrow Jeffrey Epstein’s jet for personal reasons. She needed a plane to get to Monaco,” Gonzales says.

However, while Whoopi was silent, Ana Navarro wasn’t giving up.

“Let’s just be truthful and transparent here,” she argued. “They didn’t just know each other; they were incredibly close friends.”

“He reported him to the police,” Vance responded. “That’s what I’m saying. That is objectively true.”

“‘They didn’t just know each other,’” Gonzales mocks again, joking that they were “to the level” where Trump could ask Epstein to “borrow his private plane.”

“Oh, wait. That’s your co-host sitting next to you,” she adds.

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San Francisco Giants sportscaster Mike Krukow vehemently defended the team’s Pride Night celebration in lengthy remarks after three pitchers wrote Bible verses on their hats.

Pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker, and Ryan Walker wrote differing forms of “Genesis 9:12-16” on their Giants rainbow-themed hats last week, and veteran commentator Krukow says it was a big mistake.

‘The strength of this city is its ethnicity, its culture.’

Krukow’s diatribe came after hosts on radio station KNBR asked him on Tuesday if he had any thoughts on the protest. Krukow did not hold back, directly comparing the “gay community” to black Americans by referring to homosexuals as an oppressed “minority.”

“It’s hard to put it into perspective when you have so much emotion and so much of love for people who have been pinged at and oppressed and there was so much prejudice at you,” Krukow attempted to explain. “The gay community has had to deal with issues, as the black community, as any minority community has had to.”

The announcer championed the Giants organization’s long history of supporting gay people, which he said dated back to 1994 when it raise money for AIDS research. This was just one of the reasons Krukow said it was the duty of Giants players to understand the culture of the city, and thus, to support gay events.

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“It’s your responsibility to know just how sensitive this city is in regards to that cultural freedom and religious freedom and just the way that you live your life. And I think they were in for a rude awakening with the response,” Krukow said.

However, the protests did not prevent Giants fans from showing up at the next two home games. As Blaze News reported, attendance fluctuated in the days following the allegedly bigoted acts, with more fans showing up on the Sunday after Pride Night than they did on Pride Night itself.

The 74-year-old announcer made plenty more partisan comments during his radio appearance, saying the “ethnicity” and “freedom” of San Francisco is what makes the city great.

“The strength of this city is its ethnicity, its culture,” Krukow claimed. “It’s the freedom for people to be able to come to a city and be free. And that’s a powerful thing.”

Though Krukow frequently mentioned “freedom,” he seems to have been referring to sexuality.

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Krukow did mention that he feels it is necessary to respect both sides of the issue.

Krukow said that complaints about the Pride Night protests were not from just “trolls,” but rather “deep thoughts” and “educated opinion[s]” on why it is imperative to support the “gay community.”

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