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On December 14, two gunmen — a father and son radicalized by Islamic State ideology — opened fire on a crowded Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, killing 15 people, including children and elderly victims, and injuring over 40 others in what authorities declared a targeted anti-Semitic terrorist attack.

While it was certainly the deadliest, this wasn’t the only anti-Semitic violence that happened last weekend. In Amsterdam, pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted Hanukkah concerts at the Concertgebouw concert hall by throwing smoke bombs, chanting anti-Semitic slogans, and attempting to storm the venue. In Los Angeles, a drive-by attack targeted a Jewish family’s home, which was decorated for Hanukkah. An unidentified person fired shots while yelling anti-Semitic slurs.

Glenn Beck says these targeted attacks on Jewish people reveal an uncomfortable truth most don’t want to admit: Once again, we find ourselves on the same fertile ground that cultivated Hitler’s crusade.

“Jewish people carry history, not as abstraction, but as inheritance,” Glenn says. “And it lives in names that are whispered at dinner tables and photographs rescued from ash in stories that begin with, ‘And we thought it would never happen here.”’

He comments that before WWII, “polite society everywhere” ignorantly believed that lie — that genocide could never happen on their civilized turf. But then it did, ushering in incomprehensible war and death.

Glenn warns that today, we’re making the same mistake. We’re primed for another Holocaust, and we can’t even see it.

But the signs are everywhere.

“Shadows that all of us hoped were buried forever — hatred with organization, ideology, hatred with teeth, violence, justification — they’re no longer whispers,” he says. “They’re shouting it now in our streets. They’re shouting it in the streets of Australia. They’re shouting it in the streets of Germany and England and France and Norway.”

“They’re burning flags. They’re firing guns. They’re chanting not only, ‘Death to the Jew,’ but, ‘Death to the West,’ ‘Death to Canada,’ ‘Death to the U.S.,’ ‘Death to Europe.”’

But the West, brainwashed by progressive dogma that repackages self-sabotage as inclusivity, is “tolerating it.”

For years, Australia’s Jewish community warned authorities that anti-Semitism was “metastasizing into something ideological and organized and deadly,” but they were dismissed and told to “calm down.” They were told that “multicultural harmony would manage itself.”

“But it didn’t, because it doesn’t. Ideology doesn’t dissolve when it’s ignored. It consolidates. It grows,” Glenn says.

And grown it has — all across the West from Europe to America to Australia.

As a result, today, “Jewish schools [are] guarded like fortresses” and “Jewish families [wonder] whether visibility itself is now a liability,” Glenn laments. “And yet all across the West, officials hesitate to name the problem clearly. So let me do it precisely, truthfully.”

“Islamism is a political ideology. It’s not about faith. It is about power. It’s the belief that society has to be governed by religious law — Sharia law — that freedom of conscience is illegitimate, that women are subordinate, that dissent is heresy, and that the world and everybody in it has to submit,” he lays bare.

This isn’t myth or exaggeration either. It’s their doctrine — documented in writing and preached to the masses.

“Any culture built on individual liberty, freedom of speech, equality before the law — it can’t survive alongside an ideology that views all of those principles as sins or as an affront to Allah,” Glenn says.

Western nations ignorantly “assume that everybody ultimately wants to live and to compromise and live side by side. We assume violence is accidental. We assume that it’s a lone wolf. We assume that words like ‘tolerance’ and ‘dialogue’ mean the same thing to everybody. But they don’t,” he continues.

We have to stop treating Islamism as anything other than what it is: a worldview incompatible with Western ideology.

“I ask you to think about what it feels like to be Jewish today because of the Jewish people, but also because you’re next,” Glenn warns. “Jewish communities always pay the price first. They always do. And believe me, you are on the list — you, your faith, your freedom, your children are on the list.”

“History shows this with brutal consistency. When a society begins to rot from ideological cowardice, the Jews are always the early warning system. They’re the canary in the coal mine,” he analogizes.

The question is: Will we first wake up and see it? And then will we have the courage to do something about it?

“If we refuse to do that work now, our children are going to have to do it later under far worse conditions,” Glenn says.

“[We’re] running out of time.”

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About six years ago, I started a simple experiment. Each evening, instead of relying on a single news source, I watched both sides of the political spectrum — MSNBC and CNN on the left, Fox on the right. The goal was not balance for its own sake. It was triangulation: getting closer to the truth than any one outlet seemed capable of providing.

The pattern emerged quickly. The full story almost never lives on a single channel. It lives in the gaps — in what one side omits, what the other exaggerates, and what only becomes visible when competing narratives collide. Stepping outside a single media ecosystem sharpened my understanding of events and exposed how much emotional steering hides behind what passes for “objective” news.

If a Hollywood actor immersed for decades in elite cultural assumptions can break free simply by pressing ‘channel up,’ that should give the rest of us pause.

I was reminded of this after reading Megyn Kelly’s interview with actor Charlie Sheen.

Pick up the remote

For years, Sheen embodied Hollywood’s loud, theatrical hostility toward Donald Trump. He embodied Trump derangement syndrome. Then he startled people by admitting that he had begun to change his views. Not because of a grand ideological awakening, but because of something mundane.

“I’m going to change the channel,” he told Kelly. “I’m gonna do my own research, like I’ve done with everything my entire life. I’m gonna listen to other voices. I’m gonna explore just hearing both sides of the g**d**n story.”

Sheen described realizing that he had been “hypnotized” — his word — by the media he trusted. What once felt authoritative and neutral began to look curated, repetitive, and manipulative.

“What I was so hypnotized by,” he said, “in some ways can be described as state-run media. … Legacy media is very much like that.”

How narrative replaces reporting

That charge matters, because it is not rooted in party loyalty. It is rooted in recognition. More Americans sense that the information they consume does not simply inform them — it conditions them. It trains emotional responses, assigns villains, and narrows acceptable conclusions.

As Sheen flipped channels, he discovered how incomplete his worldview had been. Then came his most striking admission: “I felt really stupid. I don’t have a fancier way to describe it. … Some of the stuff I’d bought into … some of the people I was hating because I was told I was supposed to hate them.”

That kind of honesty is rare. In today’s culture, changing one’s mind is treated as treason rather than growth. Sheen’s shift is not primarily about moving from left to right. It is about reclaiming agency — refusing to let a single narrative dictate who deserves trust or contempt.

For years, Americans have been sorted into hardened political tribes by outlets that no longer report so much as reinforce. Each network offers a prepackaged worldview with designated heroes, enemies, and emotional cues. The longer someone consumes only one of them, the more certain — and less informed — he becomes.

This is how democracies fracture. Not because citizens lack reason, but because they are denied the full range of facts required to reason well.

Regret isn’t the point

Sheen even expressed regret over his 2024 vote for Kamala Harris, a decision he now believes was made inside an echo chamber he did not recognize at the time. The regret itself is not the point. The awakening is.

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If a Hollywood actor immersed for decades in elite cultural assumptions can break free simply by pressing “channel up,” that should give the rest of us pause.

It suggests intellectual independence remains possible. It suggests curiosity can overpower conditioning. And it suggests Americans are far more capable of balanced judgment than our media landscape assumes.

The most patriotic habit left

The lesson is not complicated. If you want to understand what is really happening in this country, do not limit yourself to the channel you already agree with. Change it. Listen to the other side. Sit with the discomfort.

The clarity that follows may surprise you. It may challenge your assumptions. It may even change your mind.

In today’s America, that may be one of the most constructive — and patriotic — acts left to us.

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President Donald Trump announced the escalation of U.S. efforts against the regime in Venezuela after a series of military strikes on alleged narco-terrorist drug boats.

The president said he was designating the regime a foreign terrorist organization and ordered a blockade against oil tankers.

‘I am ordering A TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS going into, and out of, Venezuela.’

“Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America,” he wrote on social media. “It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us.”

He went on to accuse the regime of using stolen oil funds to support murder, drug terrorism, kidnapping, and human trafficking.

“For the theft of our Assets, and many other reasons, including Terrorism, Drug Smuggling, and Human Trafficking, the Venezuelan Regime has been designated a FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION,” he added. “Therefore, today, I am ordering A TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS going into, and out of, Venezuela.”

On Wednesday, the president announced that the military had seized an oil tanker outside of Venezuela. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi released a video of the operation and said the tanker had been warned about transporting sanctioned oil from Iran.

“We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela,” Trump said to reporters. “Large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized actually.”

Democrats have accused the administration of acting improperly in the actions against Venezuela. Other critics have accused the president trying to distract Americans from the controversy over the release of the Epstein files.

RELATED: Trump crushes ‘obnoxious’ reporter at media briefing: ‘It’s always the same thing with you!’

Earlier in the month, the president said he had given an ultimatum to Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro to step down from power or face further escalation. Maduro reportedly offered to resign from political office but demanded that he be allowed to retain control of the military. No deal was reached.

The administration has also placed a $50 million bounty on Maduro’s head.

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The police chief of Minneapolis cited his Catholic faith when advocating on behalf of illegal aliens against the deportation policies of the Trump administration.

Police Chief Brian O’Hara told residents that they should call 911 if they saw anyone “kidnapping” illegal aliens, whether it be federal law enforcement agents or others pretending to be them.

‘The Minneapolis Police Department does not participate in immigration enforcement. We do not care and do not ask people about immigration status.’

He also said that illegal aliens in the U.S. are similar to Joseph, Mary, and Jesus being sought by officials in the biblical account of the birth of Jesus.

“It’s especially personal to me, having been raised a Catholic, to be in a Christian church this morning as we are approaching Christmas,” O’Hara said.

“And I cannot help but think of what is happening in our city today and how that echoes with how outsiders have been treated for thousands of years. How Mary and Joseph themselves were considered outsiders and forced to stay in a barn!” he added.

“That’s what we’re getting ready to commemorate as Christians around the world while all of this fear is happening right here in our town,” O’Hara said.

O’Hara was criticizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement over a vehicle stop that led to the arrest of two U.S. citizens on Monday. ICE officers were swarmed by protesters who threw snow and other objects, and some suffered cuts and other injuries, according to ICE.

He said that some officers were sent to assist ICE over the attack but that they “disengaged from the scene” after the scene was safe.

RELATED: Ocasio-Cortez claims ICE is targeting 6-year-olds in her district during crazed speech on immigration

O’Hara went on to reassure illegal aliens that they could safely call 911 for help because his police force would not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

“The Minneapolis Police Department is committed to honoring the human dignity of every person in our community,” O’Hara said.

“The Minneapolis Police Department does not participate in immigration enforcement,” he added. “We do not care and do not ask people about immigration status. People in our community need to know that they can feel confident that when they need help, they can call 911, and we will show up for everyone.”

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Prosecutors said Nick Reiner will be charged with murder in the killing of his parents, famed moviemaker Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Reiner, the New York Times reported.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman announced the charges Tuesday, the Times said, adding that the Reiners were found stabbed to death Sunday afternoon in their Brentwood, California, home.

When hotel staff entered Nick Reiner’s room later on Sunday morning, they found the shower ‘full of blood’ and blood on the bed.

Hochman said his office will file two counts of first-degree murder with a special circumstance alleging multiple murders, NBC News reported.

The charges carry a maximum sentence of the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole, the Times said, adding that Hochman said no decision has been made with respect to the death penalty.

Hochman added that Nick Reiner used a knife to kill his parents, the paper said, but the district attorney wouldn’t provide any details about the murder weapon, including if and where it had been recovered.

“That will actually be evidence we’ll present in court,” Hochman said, according to the Times.

More from the paper:

Nick Reiner, 32, did not appear in court on Tuesday because he had not been medically cleared to be transferred to the courthouse from the jail, his lawyer, Alan Jackson, told reporters at the courthouse. The screening is a requirement to ensure that detainees do not need medical treatment, and Nick Reiner, once medically cleared, will be brought to court for arraignment, Mr. Hochman said. At that time, Nick Reiner will enter a plea.

RELATED: Blood allegedly found in hotel room Nick Reiner checked into hours after arguing with father Rob Reiner

Blood allegedly was found in a hotel room Nick Reiner checked into hours after arguing with his famed moviemaker father at Conan O’Brien’s Christmas party, which took place Saturday.

Nick Reiner’s behavior alarmed guests at the party, the New York Times reported, citing two attendees who asked not to be named in order to maintain relationships.

More from the Times:

Rob and Nick Reiner got into a shouting match at the party in West Los Angeles, said one of the attendees, who recalled Rob Reiner telling his son that his behavior was inappropriate. The attendee, who did not speak to the Reiners at the party, said that people seemed to be very aware of Nick Reiner’s history with drug abuse, which the family has discussed publicly.

Another attendee said that he did not witness the dispute, but he recognized Rob Reiner in the crowd and noticed the younger Reiner hovering at the fringes of the informal gathering. The guest said that he and other attendees were worried and that several people commented to him on Nick Reiner’s behavior, saying he looked anxious and uncomfortable in a way that deeply unsettled them.

The Reiners were upset and embarrassed about their son’s behavior at the party and expressed worries about his health, NBC News reported, citing another person.

What’s more, Nick Reiner was alleged to have interrupted a conversation involving comedian Bill Hader, NBC News added. When Hader told Nick Reiner that the conversation was private, the source told the news network that Nick Reiner appeared to pause and stare before “storming off.” Hader did not return a request for comment, NBC News also said.

Nick Reiner hours later used his credit card to check into the Pierside Santa Monica hotel around 4 a.m. Sunday, TMZ reported, citing sources with direct knowledge.

Eyewitnesses who saw Nick Reiner check into the hotel told TMZ he seemed “tweaked out,” but there were no visible signs that he had been in a violent confrontation, and there were no bloodstains or cuts on his body.

TMZ added that Nick Reiner’s reservation was for one day, but he never formally checked out.

When hotel staff entered Nick Reiner’s room later on Sunday morning, they found the shower “full of blood” and blood on the bed, TMZ reported, adding that the room’s window was covered by bedsheets.

LAPD Robbery-Homicide detectives went to the hotel Monday to gather evidence and interview employees, TMZ said, adding that Nick Reiner was located and arrested about 20 miles away in Exposition Park, near downtown Los Angeles.

Reiner was arrested around 9:15 p.m. Sunday night; authorities were called for medical aid to the Reiner home around 3:30 p.m. Sunday, where the bodies of his parents were found.

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After two Islamic terrorists attacked a Hanukkah festival at Bondi Beach in Australia — where 15 lives were taken — BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is pointing out what should have been obvious to those championing Australia’s gun laws before.

That when you disarm the citizenry, only the criminals will jump through the hoops required to own weapons.

“How did the terrorists end up being the ones to get the guns? It’s extremely hard. There are very few ways that you can get it. In fact, semi-automatic rifles and handguns, semi-automatic handguns, are extremely regulated in Australia. High-capacity shotguns are extremely regulated in Australia. You can get a bolt-action rifle … but you have to have a reason to own any gun,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales explains.

“You have to get the permission slip signed. You have to specify a reason. The reason isn’t, ‘Because I f**king want one,’ like it is here in America,” she continues.

The permissible reasons to own a weapon under the rule of the Australian government include sport and target shooting, recreational hunting and vermin control, vertebrate pest animal control, business or employment, rural occupation, animal welfare, and firearms collection.

“By the way, lacking from that list: self-defense,” Gonzales comments.

“If someone comes up and tries to cause harm to my family, I want to be able to shoot them dead. By the way, I’m aiming to kill,” she adds.

While no one around the two attackers appeared to have any weapons, the father of the father-son terrorist duo owned six weapons.

“All six firearms were at the scene. It turns out, when you make it very difficult for law-abiding citizens to get guns, do you know what happens?” Gonzales asks. “It’s just the bad guys who end up going through the long and difficult process in order to obtain them. And that’s how you end up with the bloodbath that you ended up with in Australia.”

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Former first lady Michelle Obama revealed that she and her husband were scheduled to have dinner with Rob Reiner and his wife on the day they were found stabbed to death.

Obama made the revelation while a guest on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show on Monday evening. The Obamas had been longtime friends of the Reiners.

‘They were the kind of people who were ready to put their actions behind what they cared about, and they cared about their family, and they cared about this country.’

Reiner, a famed director and actor, was found dead next to his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, at their home in Los Angeles. Police said they have arrested their son, Nick Reiner, who reportedly has had struggles with mental illness and drug addiction.

“We were supposed to be seeing them that night, last night, and we got the news,” Obama said to Kimmel.

She said they had known the Reiners for several years and described the as “some of the most decent, courageous people you ever want to know.”

She also appeared to take a swipe at the statement made by President Donald Trump criticizing Reiner after his death.

“They are not deranged or crazed. … They were the kind of people who were ready to put their actions behind what they cared about, and they cared about their family, and they cared about this country, and they cared about fairness and equity, and that is the truth,” she added.

Nick Reiner had also reportedly gotten into an alarming fight with his parents during a party at the home of Conan O’Brien the evening before their deaths.

RELATED: Hollywood icon Rob Reiner, wife found dead in their home; police are calling it a homicide

Carl Reiner was best known for his part in producing and directing classic movies that include “A Few Good Men,” “When Harry Met Sally …,” and “The Princess Bride.”

Nick Reiner will be charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Blood was reportedly found at a hotel he was staying at after the fight with his parents.

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Over the weekend, an armed father and son duo are accused of carrying out a devastating Hanukkah massacre motivated by Islamic State ideology on Bondi Beach in Australia.

For the most part, Americans have had a united response, as even the New York Times published an opinion piece titled “Bondi Beach Is What ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Looks Like” — though the response from their usual readership was not ideal.

“Only the @nytimes would print a headline this twisted. Bondi Beach has nothing to do with the Palestinian struggle, and to say it does is journalistic malpractice,” Linda Mamoun wrote in a post on X.

“Well, first of all, it’s an opinion piece,” Burguiere comments. “But secondly, in addition to that little minor fact, would be that it has everything to do with it. The Palestinian struggle around the world is associated very closely with the movement of globalizing the intifada, which means removing Jews and killing Jews all over the place. That’s what it means,” he explains.

Others, of course, are looking at the attack as an opening for them to discuss gun control — but there are no longer any guns to control in Australia.

In a clip of Hillary Clinton from 2015, she praises Australia’s move to ban automatic weapons.

“The Australian government, as part of trying to clamp down on the availability of automatic weapons, offered a good price for buying hundreds of thousands of guns. And then they basically clamped down, going forward, in terms of having, you know, more of a background-check approach, more of a permitting approach,” Clinton explained.

“That’s not what that was,” Burguiere interjects, before letting Clinton finish.

“But they believed, and I think the evidence supports them, that by offering to buy back those guns, they were able to, you know, curtail the supply and to set a different standard for gun purchases in the future. I don’t know enough details to how we would do it or how it would work, but certainly the Australian example is worth looking at,” she added.

“She has no idea what she’s talking about,” Burguiere comments.

Obama has echoed Clinton’s sentiment, saying in a 2023 interview on CBS News that Australia had “one mass shooting 50 years ago and they said, ‘Nope, we’re not doing that anymore.’”

“That is normally how you would expect a society to respond,” he added.

“No, it isn’t,” Burguiere comments. “Are you even hearing yourself? First of all, it wasn’t 50 years ago, it was 30 years ago. But beyond that, are you even listening to the words coming out of your mouth? You think the big demonstration of how we should affect legally our entire country, how we should go and do these things is to say, ‘Well, one thing happened, therefore, we should pass massive legislation.’”

“It’s like making major life decisions about your marriage when you have a fight and you’re hammered afterward. It’s not a good idea,” he adds.

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The United States’ fentanyl crisis is being mocked on the other side of the planet.

Videos with millions of views show Japanese content creators mimicking a bizarre and all-too-common sight in cities like San Francisco and New York: half-conscious drug addicts bent over sharply at the waist but somehow still standing.

‘Japanese social media influencers are going viral for mocking America’s fentanyl addicts.’

Typically from the effects of heroin or fentanyl, this telltale folded posture has become known as the “fenty fold.”

“Japanese social media influencers are going viral for mocking America’s fentanyl addicts who are often seen hunched over and flailing on the streets,” one user wrote on X. An attached video that showed a young woman in Okinawa, Japan, hunched over has received more than 2.5 million views.

RELATED: How to win the opioid fight

Know when to fold ’em

On TikTok, similar videos have captions like “Bringing American culture to Japan” and show participants folding over in locations typical of American drug addicts, like a subway station. One such video has garnered over 1.2 million views.

Other videos take place in parking garages, city centers, and public parking lots. Most of the viral content uses a Japanese song labeled “Anime Girl,” although the song is actually a combination of the songs titled “Don’t Forget Me” by Schinya and “Sparkle” by Radwimps.

Cleaning up

Drug seizures have increased under the Trump administration, resulting in a slight increase from FY2024 versus FY2025.

However, if FY2026 continues on trend, there will be a significant jump in the amount of annual drugs seized (measured in pounds), according to CBP statistics.

RELATED: Mexico has cartel armies. Blue America has cartel politics.

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For example, in October 2025, approximately 51,500 pounds of drugs were seized by the federal government. In October 2024, that number was 40,700 and just 37,400 in October 2023 under President Biden.

Overdoses down

Fentanyl, however, represents one of the least confiscated drug types in terms of weight, likely due to its potency. Marijuana, methamphetamines, and cocaine are the most seized by weight, in that order.

At the same time, overdose deaths have significantly dropped in the United States between April 2024 and April 2025. There was a 24.5% decrease during that time period, the CDC reported. The number of overdoses peaked around August 2023 but have since been declining.

Some of the biggest decreases in overdoses have come in states like Louisiana, New Hampshire, New York, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

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Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York argued against the political rhetoric on immigration from the Trump administration in an alarmist speech in Congress.

The congresswoman accused the administration of betraying the campaign promise to focus on deporting illegal aliens with criminal records in the speech Tuesday. She also claimed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement targeted 6-year-olds in her district.

‘That myth, that ideology, is that our immigrant neighbors are our enemies and more dangerous than us.’

“President Trump ran on a promise to the American people that ICE would go after the worst of the worst. … What we have seen is that ICE is not overwhelmingly going after criminals,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

“In fact, over 70% of people currently detained in detention facilities do not have a criminal record,” she added. “So, who are they going after? They are going after 6-year-olds in my district. They are going after students and permanent residents for their political views. They are going after Americans born and raised in the United States. And time and time again Trump has floated taking away citizenship from U.S. citizens based on their ethnicity.”

Ocasio-Cortez might have been referring to an incident where a 6-year-old was reportedly picked up by ICE in Queens along with her mother and deported to Ecuador.

AOC went on to attack the immigration “myth” she accused the administration of advocating.

“That myth, that ideology, is that our immigrant neighbors are our enemies and more dangerous than us,” she continued. “And they sustain that myth because if everybody believes it, they can get away with robbing all of us.”

She then accused Republicans of taking funding from food assistance, health care, and other social services in order to funnel it to ICE, which she called a “secret police program.”

While immigration activists have demanded that all enforcement efforts end, some Democrats have settled on the messaging that President Donald Trump’s deportation policies are too extreme.

RELATED: Ocasio-Cortez gets hammered over embarrassing mistake she made at CNN town hall

Ocasio-Cortez is believed by some to be positioning herself to run for even higher office, and some are calling for her to run for president in 2028.

If she decided to run for the U.S. Senate, she could challenge Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who is up for re-election in 2028.

Her ambitions have been criticized by many on the far left who accuse her of abandoning her extremist base in order to widen her appeal to moderates and centrists of the party.

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Jacob Savage, a Los Angeles-based writer, looked at the phenomenon of the “vanishing white male writer” earlier this year in an eye-opening piece for Compact magazine.

He noted, for instance, that whereas the New York Times’ “Notable Fiction” list included seven white American men under the age of 43 in 2012, not a single white male Millennial made the list in either 2021 or 2022. In each of the subsequent two years, only one individual from that particular demographic made the list.

‘The phenomenon of white male dispossession strikes at the core of what’s been going on over the last decade.’

Savage stressed that the Times’ list was hardly exceptional in its exclusion of white Millennial men. Last year, nobody from that particular demographic was apparently featured in the year-end fiction lists for Vanity Fair, the Atlantic, and Vulture. Of the 53 Millennial fiction writers featured in Esquire magazine’s year-end book lists since 2020, only one was a white American man.

Savage — who concluded in March that “white male Millennials are still unable to speak directly to their own condition” and that “in some ways that inability is their condition” — is back with another damning piece about the “lost generation” and the fallout of the DEI war on meritocracy.

In response to the viral article, which was published on Monday, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chairwoman Andrea Lucas stated, “This is a story chock full of unlawful discrimination. There’s no DEI exception to the bar on race and sex discrimination. We need courageous employees/applicants to speak up to help attack and remedy this misconduct.”

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon echoed Lucas’ post and wrote, “Step up!”

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At the outset of the article, Savage provided several indications that the world of literary fiction was not the only place where the institutionalization of DEI proved to be bad news for white men.

He noted, for instance, that white men represented 48% of lower-level TV writers in 2011 but only 11.9% last year. At Harvard, members of the same cohort held 39% of tenure-track positions in the humanities in 2014 but only 18% in 2023.

“In industry after industry, gatekeepers promised extra consideration to anyone who wasn’t a white man — and then provided just that,” wrote Savage.

While some older white men, specifically those in the Boomer and Gen X camps, may have mistakenly concluded that DEI is a relatively benign practice — especially since the “mandates to diversify” apparently tended to impact their younger fellows — Savage suggested that for white male Millennials, “DEI wasn’t a gentle rebalancing — it was a profound shift in how power and prestige were distributed.”

A man identified only as Andrew who experienced this shift firsthand in a new media environment told Savage, “With all the declarations these newsrooms had been making, the imperatives — ‘enough white guys already’ — seemed to me to be the mantra.”

An unnamed senior hiring editor at a major media outlet told Savage that “the hope was always that you were going to hire a diverse candidate,” adding that a competent black woman “would get accelerated to the New York Times or the Washington Post in short order.”

While most major media outfits such as the Times and the Post had by 2019 gone out of their way to make sure their offices were majority female, Savage noted that “in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, newsrooms tripped over themselves to stage a ‘reckoning.'”

‘It was jarring how we would talk about excluding white guys.’

Savage highlighted an apparent aversion beginning in 2020 at various companies to hiring men and whites from an American population that U.S. Census Bureau data indicated was 49.1% male and 57% non-Hispanic white.

For example, women reportedly made up 75% of the new hires in 2022 at Condé Nast — a mass media company that set a goal in 2020 to have 50% of the candidates on its hiring slates to hail from a “wide range of backgrounds and schools” — and only 49% of new hires identified as white. The following year, men and whites made up 34% and 50% of new hires at the company, respectively.

The Atlantic, another operating theater in the campaign against meritocracy, boasted in its 2024 DEI report that roughly 46% of the individuals the magazine hired between July 2023 and June 2024 were non-white and that 71% were women.

Savage indicated further that at the Los Angeles Times, only 7.7% of interns have been white men since 2020; that between 2018 and 2024, “just two or three” of the roughly 30 summer interns each year at the Washington Post have been white men; and that only 10% of the nearly 220 fellows who have participated in the New York Times’ yearlong fellowship since the program replaced the paper’s summer internship in 2018 were white men.

Various other publications including Indy Week have no white men left on their editorial staff to displace or replace.

“For a typical job we’d get a couple hundred applications, probably at least 80 from white guys,” one hiring editor told Savage in reference to this so-called racial “reckoning” championed by academics, activists, and others bad actors. “It was a given that we weren’t gonna hire the best person. … It was jarring how we would talk about excluding white guys.”

According to a November 2022 ResumeBuilder.com survey, one in six hiring managers across the United States indicated they were told to deprioritize hiring white men; 48% said they were asked to prioritize “diversity over qualifications”; and 53% said they believed their jobs were in danger if they didn’t hire enough “diverse employees.”

Andrew — who was apparently teased for months with the promise of a senior reporter position at a well-known publication only to later learn the job went to a non-white homosexual 10 years younger — said, “If you’re a white man, you gotta be the superstar.”

Savage underscored that this anti-white misandry is alive and well in the entertainment, medical, and tech industries but also in the academy, where the severity of the problem is partly hidden by the continued employment of elderly white male faculty members behind whom the doors to entry were closed.

“White men may still be 55% of Harvard’s Arts & Sciences faculty (down from 63% a decade ago), but this is a legacy of Boomer and Gen X employment patterns,” wrote Savage. “For tenure-track positions — the pipeline for future faculty — white men have gone from 49% in 2014 to 27% in 2024 (in the humanities, they’ve gone from 39% to 21%).”

The situation is similarly bleak for the cohort at other institutions, including Brown University, which has hired only three white American men as tenure-track professors in the humanities and social sciences since 2022.

“For a decade, it kept going, faster and faster. Without any actual quotas to achieve — only the constant exhortation to ‘do better’ — the diversity complex became self-radicalizing, a strange confluence of top-down and bottom-up pressure,” wrote Savage. “No one ever said what the right number of white men would be, but it was always fewer than you currently had.”

BlazeTV host Lomez said of the incredible response online to Savage’s article, “6 million views on a political article is insane. The phenomenon of white male dispossession strikes at the core of what’s been going on over the last decade. Any politician, anyone with any ambition to influence, must take on this fight. The time is now.”

Gene Hamilton, the president of America First Legal who previously served as Trump White House deputy counsel, noted, “If you are a person who believes in merit and wants to restore merit to hiring/firing/admissions/etc, you must understand that it is not enough to sit quietly and hope things get better. If you know someone who has been harmed, encourage that person to take legal action now.”

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President Donald Trump’s Transportation Security Administration is partnering with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to ramp up immigration enforcement.

While the two agencies are under the Department of Homeland Security, a New York Times report last week stated that “ICE has historically avoided interfering with domestic travel.”

‘The message to those in the country illegally is clear: The only reason you should be flying is to self-deport home.’

However, beginning in March, the TSA reportedly quietly expanded its data sharing with ICE.

According to the NYT, the TSA has been providing lists of travelers’ names to ICE ahead of their scheduled flights. ICE then cross-checks that information against its own database of those subject to deportation, the outlet wrote. Agents are then dispatched to apprehend those individuals at the airport.

The report noted that it is unclear how many arrests have resulted from this data-sharing effort. It claimed there was at least one such arrest by immigration officials at Boston Logan Airport on November 20. That individual was deported.

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“The administration has turned routine travel into a force multiplier for removals, potentially identifying thousands who thought they could evade the law simply by boarding a plane,” Scott Mechkowski, the former deputy head of ICE’s New York office, told the NYT.

“This isn’t about fear; it’s about restoring order and ensuring every American knows their government enforces its laws without apology,” he added.

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A DHS spokesperson told Blaze News that the program was “nothing new,” adding that in February, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem “reversed the horrendous Biden-era policy that allowed aliens in our country illegally to jet around our country and do so without identification.”

“Under President Trump, TSA and DHS will no longer tolerate this. This administration is working diligently to ensure that aliens in our country illegally can no longer fly unless it is out of our country to self-deport,” DHS added.

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President Donald Trump this week took additional action to end the nation’s drug crisis.

During a Mexican Border Defense Medal presentation on Monday, Trump announced that he was issuing an executive order designating fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction.

‘No bomb does what this is doing.’

“We took the worst border in the history of our country, and in a period of two months, we turned it into the strongest border in the history of our country,” Trump stated. “During this time, we’ve also achieved a 50% drop in the amount of fentanyl coming across the border, and China’s working with us very closely in bringing down the number and the amount of fentanyl that’s being shipped.”

The administration previously announced that it reached a deal with China to stop the pipeline of fentanyl precursors.

The president noted that in May, the administration executed the nation’s largest fentanyl bust, seizing 3 million pills. Authorities seized another 1.7 million fentanyl pills in November.

“There’s no doubt that America’s adversaries are trafficking fentanyl into the United States, in part because they want to kill Americans. If this were a war, it would be one of the worst wars,” Trump said.

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Fentanyl overdose is the leading cause of death in Americans 18 to 45 years old, according to a DEA resource. In 2024, synthetic opioids accounted for 60% of overdose deaths — approximately 48,000 people.

“Today, I’m taking one more step to protect Americans from the scourge of deadly fentanyl flooding into our country,” Trump continued. “With this historic executive order I will sign today, [I] will formally classify fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, which is what it is. No bomb does what this is doing.”

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The executive order argued that the synthetic drug is “closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic,” noting that just two milligrams can be a lethal dose.

It also noted that two cartels are predominantly responsible for the trafficking of fentanyl, adding that they have engaged “in armed conflict over territory and to protect their operations, resulting in large-scale violence and death that go beyond the immediate threat of fentanyl itself.”

“Further, the potential for fentanyl to be weaponized for concentrated, large-scale terror attacks by organized adversaries is a serious threat to the United States,” the order read.

The order instructs the attorney general to promptly initiate investigations and prosecutions related to fentanyl trafficking. The secretary of state and secretary of the treasury are directed to take appropriate actions against relevant assets and financial institutions involved in trafficking activities. The homeland security secretary is tasked with identifying any threat networks associated with these activities. The order also instructs the secretary of war and the attorney general to assess whether the threat of fentanyl justifies allocating resources from the Department of War to the Department of Justice.

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On a recent episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” — which is hosted by the New York Times — California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) praised trans kids and fervently claimed that he’s signed more pro-transgender bills into law than any other governor.

“I want to see trans kids,” Newsom said. “I have a trans godson. There’s no governor who has signed more pro-trans legislation than I have, and no one has been a stronger advocate for the LGBTQ community.”

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is disgusted.

“Democrats … they just continue pushing this trans propaganda, and they’re very proud of that,” Gonzales comments, pointing out that Newsom is going to push that propaganda even more considering he likely has 2028 presidential aspirations.

“Obviously, he is the front-runner. He’s angling for that. I think he would have been very happy if he was the candidate this last go-around instead of Kamala. But he is bragging that he is the most pro-trans governor in the country,” she says.

Newsom also dove into the topic of his previous stance on transgenders in women’s sports, telling Klein, “We didn’t get into trans sports.”

“That’s an issue no one wants to hear about because 80% of the people listening disagree with my position on this. But it comes from my heart, not just my head. It wasn’t a political evolution,” he added.

“It’s in his heart,” Gonzales mocks. “He just wants more trans kids. He just wants more kids being sterilized. He wants more kids being mutilated. He loves that truly, in his heart, in his heart of hearts.”

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The White House released the document in November 2025, a season of sharp light and long shadows, when Washington typically settles into the low-grade fever of budget reconciliations and holiday receptions. The document was an executive order bearing a title that seemed designed to bypass the usual bureaucratic boilerplate and aim directly for the theological: The Genesis Mission.

The name is striking. It is not the “National AI Research Initiative” or the “Federal Science Acceleration Program.” It is Genesis, the beginning, the act of creation. The administration was announcing our place in the cosmos. In the flat, confident language of the Federal Register, the administration told us we stand on the precipice of a new golden era, a time when the messy, human business of scientific discovery would be handed over, in no small part, to the machines.

The animating spirit is the specter of geopolitical decline.

The ambition is American in its scale. The Genesis Mission is explicitly compared to the Manhattan Project and the Apollo program, those two totems of American effectual will that we invoke to convince ourselves that we can still do big things. But where Manhattan was about a bomb and Apollo was about a rock, Genesis is about everything. The goal is to “double the productivity and impact of U.S. science and engineering within a decade.” The proposition suggests that the rate of human epiphany is a variable that can be adjusted, a dial that can be turned up if only we have enough compute power.

The mechanism for this miracle will be something called the “American Science and Security Platform,” which is a “mega laboratory in the cloud,” a “closed-loop system.” The idea is to link the Department of Energy’s supercomputers, the fastest in the world, with vast troves of data from decades of federal research.

A promised new golden age of human flourishing will dawn, but the flourishing seems to be based on a certain obsolescence of the human element. The work will be undertaken by “self-driving labs,” facilities where autonomous agents formulate hypotheses, design experiments, and execute them with robotic arms, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The scientist will no longer be the lonely figure in the lab coat waiting for the results of the experiment. Instead, he will be the pilot, the overseer who feeds the prompt into the machine and waits for the answer to be delivered.

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This effort is motivated by the unhappy “innovation paradox.” Each year, we spend more money on science, yet the breakthroughs seem to grow scarcer. New drugs are harder to find. Materials are harder to invent. Economists call it “Eroom’s law,” Moore’s law in reverse. The Genesis Mission is the administration’s bet that this stagnation is a failure of processing power, a bet that the answers are already there, hidden in the noise of the data, waiting for an intelligence fast enough to see them.

Reading through the directives, the 60-day deadline to identify “national challenges,” the 90-day deadline to build the data core, the 270-day deadline to prove it all works, one is struck by the urgency of elites who feel something gaining on them. The executive order speaks of “security” as much as “science.” It speaks of a global race to be won. We are trying to “secure American technological leadership” before someone else does. The animating spirit is the specter of geopolitical decline.

The man charged with orchestrating this creation is Dr. Darío Gil, the new mission director. He speaks of the platform as “a scientific instrument for the ages,” a phrase that carries a heavy burden of expectation. He is tasked with unifying the disparate, often territorial fiefdoms of the national laboratories into a single, humming engine of discovery. The task requires a profound faith in the system, a belief that if you connect enough processors, if you feed them enough data, if you remove enough friction, the truth will emerge.

There is something attractive about this vision. Who wouldn’t want to see the cure for Alzheimer’s emerge from a server farm in Oak Ridge instead of waiting another 30 years for serendipity? The promise of Genesis is that we can engineer our way out of our own limitations. It offers a clean, efficient future in which the messiness of trial and error is replaced by certainty.

One wonders what is lost in the translation. Science has always been a deeply human endeavor, driven as much by intuition and accident as by logic, by the mistake that turns out to be the answer, the anomaly that breaks the theory. The Genesis Mission proposes a science that is smoother, faster, and more predictable. It proposes a world where the “eureka” moment is a scheduled deliverable.

The Genesis Mission reflects a belief about control, a belief that we can tame the complexity of the world if we just build big enough computers, that we can maintain our dominance, our prosperity, and our health by digitizing the very process of learning.

As the winter settles over Washington, the work begins. The lists are being drawn up, the datasets tagged. The supercomputers are beginning to hum in their air-conditioned vaults, waiting to be fed. We have launched our new Genesis, and we must now wait to see what we have created. Whether we have built a new engine for human flourishing, or merely a very fast, very expensive mirror that reflects our own desperate need for answers, remains to be seen. The only certainty is that the machine is on, and it is hungry.

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The mother of Andrew Wolfe said that he is making a “miraculous” recovery weeks after getting shot in the head in an alleged terror attack in Washington, D.C.

Wolfe and Sarah Beckstrom were patrolling D.C. as West Virginia National Guard members on Nov. 26 when an armed man attacked them. Beckstrom died from her injuries, and Wolfe was grievously injured.

‘Everyone has said his recovery is miraculous and we all know why God is so good!’

Wolfe was airlifted to MedStar Washington Hospital Center for treatment. On Saturday, MedStar neurosurgeon Dr. Jeffrey Mai released a statement about Wolfe’s progress.

“He is now breathing on his own and can stand with assistance — important milestones that reflect his strength and determination,” Mai said. “Based on these improvements, he is now ready to transition from acute care to inpatient rehabilitation as the next step in his recovery journey.”

His mother, Melody Wolfe, also released an update on his recovery progress.

“Andy is continuing to make HUGE improvements. He was sitting in a chair today for a few hours and was moving more of his right side. I asked if I could kiss him on his cheek, and he pulled me in close and let me give him a kiss, and then held me close with his arm around my neck,” the statement reads.

“It was the most precious gift he could give me,” she added.

“Then this evening he decided he was going to set the bar higher, and he started to smile and chuckle a little when his friends … were there talking with him! They were sharing pictures of Andy and his silliness, and he smiled and would even shake his head a little. So many people were able to witness this tonight!”

She went on to say that his communication abilities have greatly increased, although he is not able to communicate verbally yet.

“Everyone has said his recovery is miraculous, and we all know why God is so good!” she added. “He has worked through the hands of the knowledgeable and caring staff at the hospital, he has given our son the strength needed to heal, and he’s made sure Andy has been surrounded by so much positivity and love!”

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Wolfe’s family thanked everyone for their prayers on his behalf.

“We know he will continue to improve at a rapid pace and know your prayers are making the difference,” the family said. “Please continue as God heals Andrew and gives him the strength to return to work, the West Virginia National Guard, and his new mission of being a light into this world. The support we’ve received from Andy’s military family, his hometown community, and people across the nation has been extraordinary.”

The suspect in the attack was arrested and identified as 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghani who had fought in missions for the CIA and fled to the U.S. after the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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Following some significant delays due to the Democrat-imposed government shutdown, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has finally released its long-anticipated jobs report for November and October.

On Tuesday, the November jobs report, including partial data from October, was released, showing an unemployment rate at 4.6%, up 0.2 percentage points since September 2025 and up 0.4 percentage points since November of last year.

‘The report on December’s employment data, released in early January ahead of the next meeting, will likely be a much more meaningful indicator for the Fed when it comes to deciding the near-term trajectory.’

The labor market reportedly added 64,000 jobs after losing 105,000 jobs in October, according to available data.

Most of the jobs lost came from the federal government as part of DOGE’s buyout program, which went into effect at the end of September. Government employees who opted into the buyout were still listed as employed until their scheduled exit in October.

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CNN explained that federal employment dropped precipitously in October, with 162,000 jobs lost, as a result of the Department of Government Efficiency’s work. DOGE’s “fork in the road” deferred resignation policy reportedly went into effect on September 30, though it was established earlier in the year.

The new report was originally scheduled to be released on December 5, but the release was delayed due to the 43-day government shutdown which affected data collection for both October and November.

Given the delays and fragmented data, experts have suggested that the November 2025 jobs report will not pull much weight in the Federal Reserve’s decision-making.

Kay Haigh, global co-head of fixed income and liquidity solutions at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, told Fox News: “Chair [Jerome] Powell commented last week that the report would likely be affected by shutdown-related distortions, making it a less reliable gauge of the labor market’s health than usual. The report on December’s employment data, released in early January ahead of the next meeting, will likely be a much more meaningful indicator for the Fed when it comes to deciding the near-term trajectory.”

The jobs report for December is set to be published on January 9.

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Blood allegedly was found in a hotel room Nick Reiner checked into hours after arguing with his famed moviemaker father, Rob Reiner, at Conan O’Brien’s Christmas party, TMZ reported.

Nick Reiner, 32, is in custody with no bail after police said he killed Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner.

When hotel staff entered Nick Reiner’s room later on Sunday morning, they found the shower ‘full of blood’ and blood on the bed, TMZ reported.

The night before the Reiners were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood, California, home, Nick Reiner’s behavior alarmed guests at the party, New York Times reported, citing two attendees who asked not to be named in order to maintain relationships.

More from the Times:

Rob and Nick Reiner got into a shouting match at the party in West Los Angeles, said one of the attendees, who recalled Rob Reiner telling his son that his behavior was inappropriate. The attendee, who did not speak to the Reiners at the party, said that people seemed to be very aware of Nick Reiner’s history with drug abuse, which the family has discussed publicly.

Another attendee said that he did not witness the dispute, but he recognized Rob Reiner in the crowd and noticed the younger Reiner hovering at the fringes of the informal gathering. The guest said that he and other attendees were worried and that several people commented to him on Nick Reiner’s behavior, saying he looked anxious and uncomfortable in a way that deeply unsettled them.

Representatives for O’Brien declined to comment Monday, the Times said.

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Nick Reiner used his credit card to check into the Pierside Santa Monica hotel around 4 a.m. Sunday — just hours after his argument with his father — TMZ reported, citing sources with direct knowledge.

Eyewitnesses who saw Nick Reiner check in to the hotel told TMZ he seemed “tweaked out,” but there were no visible signs that he had been in a violent confrontation and there were no bloodstains or cuts on his body.

TMZ added that Nick Reiner’s reservation was for one day, but he never formally checked out.

When hotel staff entered Nick Reiner’s room later on Sunday morning, they found the shower “full of blood” and blood on the bed, TMZ reported, adding that room’s window was covered by bedsheets.

LAPD Robbery-Homicide detectives went to the hotel Monday to gather evidence and interview employees, TMZ said, adding that Nick Reiner was located and arrested about 20 miles away in Exposition Park, near downtown Los Angeles.

Reiner was arrested around 9:15 p.m. Sunday night; authorities were called for medical aid to the Reiner home around 3:30 p.m. Sunday, where the bodies of his parents were found.

Fox News in its video report said Nick Reiner is on suicide watch.

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“Why are you gay?” intoned Tucker Carlson in an African accent. Then the internet exploded. The voices of countless homosexuals and their supportive family members rose in unison to a pitch so shrill it could crack silicon data chips.

They trotted out all the predictable labels. Homophobe. Bigot. Christian nationalist. Carlson was promptly denounced across social media as a homophobe, a bigot, and a purveyor of hateful Christian nationalism — simply for asking the question we are not allowed to ask.

‘I’m not crying because you’re gay,’ she said. ‘I’m crying because I know that life is going to be harder for you.’

It happened on Carlson’s December 4 podcast, which featured an extensive conversation with “Dangerous Faggot” Milo Yiannopoulos. For those who don’t know, Yiannopolous is a right-wing cultural commentator and provocateur with a pronounced histrionic gay affect. Today, he says he has abandoned homosexuality.

Trauma response

Before I go farther, it’s necessary to clear some underbrush. I am interested in the content of what Yiannopolous said, not in what anyone thinks of him as a person. Whether one thinks he’s honest, dishonest, annoying, or charming is irrelevant. What he says is what I’m interested in.

So what did he say?

“In almost every case, and certainly in every male case, [homosexuality] is a trauma response. It is not a sexuality.”

Milo Yiannopolous speaks for me. I endorse what he said and believe it to be true. I believe I became a homosexual because I grew up under a mother with narcissistic personality disorder, a father who left before I could ever meet him, and an attempted murderer and pedophile for a stepfather.

Let me clear away some more underbrush, though it will probably be fruitless.

1. Yes, I believe the large majority of male homosexuals are homosexuals because of childhood circumstances and trauma.

2. Yes, I believe that most of those who claim that they had no childhood trauma are not being candid — including, in some cases, not being candid with themselves. Personal and professional experience leads me to this conclusion.

3. No, I’m not claiming that every single male homosexual had abusive parents. Yes, I recognize that some male homosexuals come from stable, loving families. I have male homosexual friends who fit this description.

What we used to know

We have lived for so long with the culturally enforced mandate to believe in “born this way” that we have to remind society of what it used to know just yesterday. Those of you in middle age will remember that until the past 25 years or so, homosexuality was understood to be the outcome of an abusive or neglectful childhood.

Not only psychiatric researchers, but everyday Americans noticed that most male homosexuals had troubled or nonexistent relationships with their fathers. They noticed that male homosexuals were unusually close to and emotionally enmeshed with their mothers. They noticed that those mothers often had overbearing, domineering, or melodramatic personalities.

If you’re younger than 40 and reading this with shock, I’m telling you the truth. This view was normal, but it was deliberately re-cast as “homophobia” and “ abuse against gays” in the past 25 years by the same activists who brought you “trans kids,” breast removal of healthy teen girls, and cross-sex hormones for teen boys who “are actually girls.”

That’s the set that brought you “born this way.”

‘Science’ fiction

As I write this piece, I’m struggling with how to give readers some citations. The trouble is that on the topic of homosexuality, just like with all things “COVID,” most people think there’s something called “the Science.” Even based right-wingers who rejected the authoritarian commands that tried to compel us to take mRNA “vaccines” and wear masks jump right to “show me THE SCIENCE” when the subject is the origin of homosexuality.

When the topic is this emotional, people stop thinking and start emoting. They start pretending that humans can’t know anything about the world, can’t recognize any patterns, and can’t come to any conclusions unless a Scientist published a Paper in a a Peer-Reviewed Journal.

Nevertheless, I’ll try. Surprising though it may be, the psychiatric and psychological literature, starting with Freud in the early 20th century, has long noted the pattern I described above. And most, though not all, male homosexuals were sexually abused as children or as minors. (I am a homosexual, but I was not molested as a child.)

Commentator and “ex-gay” Joseph Sciambra has published several bibliographies that round up much of this literature.

Normally, people don’t demand “the Science” on other subjects. No one demands “the Science” before noticing that most teenage drivers are more erratic and dangerous and therefore it pays to drive defensively around them. Everyone knows this, not because they read “the Science.” They know it because they have eyes, ears, and a brain that detects patterns.

Gay Old Party

Today, even conservatives are invested in the “born this way” gay narrative. While I’m pleased that the right wing came around on unfair laws that penalized homosexuals simply for being homosexuals (not laws that properly punished lewd public behavior), I’m not pleased that the average Republican now treats “born this way” as the end of the conversation.

The gay activist set has conquered the right wing. Those conservatives who find the position taken in this piece hard to bear have been manipulated emotionally by gay activists.

If you’re a conservative who finds this uncomfortable or “mean,” I think I know another reason why. You have homosexuals in your family whom you love (so do I, friends). Some of them are your children. And if they’re your children, you’re hearing an implicit accusation: “He’s saying I’m a terrible mother who made my son gay.”

No. I’m not (necessarily) saying that, even if you “feel” that I’m saying that. I don’t know you, and I don’t know how you raised your children. As a peer support coach, I’ve spoken to many moms and dads with gay children. These are loving moms and dads, but sometimes they made mistakes, or divorce or other trauma came to pass in the family.

Even the most loving parents will make mistakes, and the culture outside the parental home is ravening at your children and pushing them to adopt deviant and hedonistic lifestyles. Even the best parents can’t keep all of that out.

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‘Coming out’ to my mother

Let me tell you the story of a night in 1986 when I “came out” to my mother at age 12. Align readers know from my past columns that my mother was an abusive, deranged woman who veered into psychopathy at times. But there were moments when a real woman with real feelings came through.

I sat on the avocado-green pleather daybed we used as a couch. My mother was in her armchair, the square glass ashtray and a pack of Merit Ultra Light 100s at her side. It was 8 p.m., and my mother had sent the other children to bed because I had something important to tell her. I think she knew what was coming.

I told my mother that I was gay and that I felt duty-bound to tell her the truth about it. Looking back at myself at 12, I shudder that I was already forming myself into a “gay identity” that would trap me in promiscuity, addiction, and emotional disturbance for decades to come. But I didn’t know any better then.

My mother started crying. It wasn’t her usual self-pitying kind of crying, and it wasn’t her angry crying that would escalate to slaps across the face and screamed insults.

“I worried for so long that I would do this to you, that I would make you gay,” she said while she looked down at her hands. “I never gave you a father, and the father figure I brought into your life turned out to be a monster.”

This was one of the few times in our life together that I can remember when my mother seemed genuine and honest and seemed to care about my well-being. I think her sense of responsibility and guilt was real (my mother wasn’t much for feeling normal parental responsibility).

“I’m not crying because you’re gay,” she said. “I’m crying because I know that life is going to be harder for you. I’m terrified that you’ll get a disease and die early. Please be careful.”

Because my mother had already parentified me, turning me into her “surrogate husband” and emotional caretaker (almost universal with personality-disordered mothers and their children), I started comforting her.

“You didn’t do anything to me, Mom. I was born this way,” I said.

And I believed it.

The limits of tolerance

It is true that my mother never sat down one day and said, “How can I derange my son and turn him into a homosexual?”

But what my mother feared did happen. The abuse, the depravation, the disordered emotions in my childhood home did make me a homosexual. How I choose to behave is my responsibility, but I did not “choose” to be sexually disordered this way. I was just a child.

If you’re reading this and you’re a homosexual or the parent of one or a loved one, and you don’t believe this applies to you, then go in peace. But please let those of us for whom this is important — let us have this conversation. Too many emotionally triggered people do everything they can to shut it down.

They accuse homosexuals like me of being “abusive” and of “hurting” them. No such thing is occurring. All the sympathy “allies” claim to have for homosexuals when we are “born this way gays” evaporates the moment we change our minds. They insult us and call us insane, with more vitriol than actual anti-gay bullies who beat us up in high school.

Silence equals death

We are going to have this conversation. We’re not going to be silenced or manipulated into being good, quiet little gay boys to fit someone else’s fantasy of having a “fabulous” best friend or son.

I lived the “fabulous” life, and it nearly killed me through alcoholism and self-destructive promiscuity. The way I lived brought despair. And I am typical. I am not “just an unusual gay.” My life story looks like the life stories of the majority of gay men. Yeah, I know. They tell you that isn’t true.

They’re lying because they’re terrified that something they’ve relied on too heavily to define themselves as human men may have been a lie all along. I know, because I lied this way too.

Yes, I’m still attracted to men and not attracted to women. I don’t believe I have the ability to change those subjective feelings, but I may find otherwise in time. For seven years I’ve been single and celibate, and I plan to remain so.

Others must choose their own path in their own time. Nothing I’ve written here can honestly be construed as an attack, or an assault, on other homosexuals or those who love them. The truth is not an act of hate or abuse.

What’s real and true matters, and it’s well past time to tell the truth about the lie we call “born this way.”

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Vice President JD Vance silenced the mainstream media for supposedly exaggerating the infighting within President Donald Trump’s administration.

A new Vanity Fair article published Tuesday portrayed Trump’s White House as chaotic and tense based on several interviews with chief of staff Susie Wiles, who has since called out the “disingenuously framed hit piece.” In the piece, Wiles appears to be criticizing several members of Trump’s Cabinet, even calling Vance a “conspiracy theorist.”

‘A conspiracy theory is just something that was true six months before the media admitted it.’

“Significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the story,” Wiles said in a post on X. “I assume, after reading it, that this was done to paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the President and our team.”

Vance echoed Wiles’ claims that the piece omitted key context — and even embraced the label “conspiracy theorist.”

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“Sometimes I am a conspiracy theorist, but I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true,” Vance said during a speech on affordability in Pennsylvania Tuesday.

Vance also clarified that Wiles’ comments were likely made in a lighthearted manner, like many other interactions they’ve shared. Even still, Vance embraced the accusation and pointed to several political moments in recent years that were branded as conspiracy theories before later being accepted as reality.

“By the way, Susie and I have joked in private and in public about that for a long time,” Vance said. “For example, I believed in the crazy conspiracy theory back in 2020 that it was stupid to mask 3-year-olds at the height of the COVID pandemic, that we should actually let them develop some language skills. I believed in this crazy conspiracy theory that the media and the government were covering up the fact that Joe Biden was clearly unable to do the job. And I believed in the conspiracy theory that Joe Biden was trying to throw his political opponents in jail rather than win an argument against his political opponents.”

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“At least on some of these conspiracy theories, it turns out that a conspiracy theory is just something that was true six months before the media admitted it.”

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