Category: blaze media

Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee is leading the effort to make sure our taxpayer dollars are actually working for the American people.

Blackburn introduced the United Nations Voting Accountability Act on Thursday, which would prohibit taxpayer funding or aid from going toward “foreign countries that oppose the position of the United States in the United Nations,” Blaze News has exclusively learned.

‘It is unacceptable for US aid recipients to use international platforms to undermine America and protect adversaries like Iran.’

Notably, America spends tens of billions of dollars on foreign aid, contributing more to the United Nations than any other country. Blackburn and many other Americans are insisting that we should not owe money to countries that oppose our interests.

“No more should American taxpayers have to question the value of foreign assistance to countries that oppose our values and interests,” Blackburn told Blaze News. “The United States must be a good steward of taxpayer dollars, ensuring every dollar that we send to foreign nations drives global stability and advances American interests.”

RELATED: Republican senator makes a stunning admission: ‘I can’t be somebody that I’m not’

Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images

“The United Nations Voting Accountability Act would ensure that taxpayers are not forced to fund countries that undermine and vote against the U.S. in the United Nations,” Blackburn added.

The bill does allow the secretary of state, in this case Marco Rubio, to exempt countries if they make a “fundamental change” to the leadership and policies to the extent that they no longer oppose the position of the United States in the U.N.

RELATED: DOD reveals stunning new details following Trump’s attack on Iran

Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Following American airstrikes in Iran, adversarial countries like Russia, China, and Pakistan began circulating a resolution in the U.N. calling for a ceasefire, which “ignores Iran’s support for terrorism” and “shields the Iranian regime from accountability,” according to a press release from Blackburn’s office obtained by Blaze News.

“While the resolution does not name the U.S. or Israel, its intent is obvious,” the press release reads. “It is unacceptable for U.S. aid recipients to use international platforms to undermine America and protect adversaries like Iran.”

This bill is also being sponsored in the House by Republican Rep. Warren Davidson of Ohio, who introduced the legislation in February.

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

​Marsha blackburn, Senate, Senate republicans, America first, United nations, Iran, Israel, Iran strike, United nations voting accountability act, Marco rubio, Secretary of state, Foreign aid, Pete hegseth, Secretary of defense, Donald trump, Trump administration, Politics 

An investigation by the Oversight Project linked visitors of left-wing activist group headquarters to the Chinese government and Iran.

The Oversight Project is a right-wing advocacy group that has contributed to lawsuits against former President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, among others.

In data dump on X, the organization placed visitors of two activist groups in San Francisco to multiple locations in Iran and a Chinese consulate stateside.

‘The only solution to the deepening crisis of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society.’

The Oversight Project sifted through ad data from devices belonging to visitors of the headquarters of two groups: the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, aka ANSWER.

Data from visitors of the San Francisco headquarters, which the Oversight Project alleged hosts both groups, included one device that visited the activists’ location twice in a year and a half — while having also visited Iran, with a whopping 213 data points across the country.

The right-wing group said the data “strongly supports that the device was in Iran” and not faking its location, which could be accomplished through the use of a VPN, for example.

The Oversight Project also found connecting data from the left-wing headquarters to the nearby Chinese consulate.

RELATED: Pete Hegseth obliterates media over leaked assessment of US strike on Iran

“Another device had data points at the ANSWER/PSL location and at a building next door” and “also had 58 data points in the San Francisco consulate of the People’s Republic of China,” the Oversight Project wrote on X.

The Oversight Project described the activist groups as “central to street resistance,” while claiming they are “allegedly funded by a CCP propagandist.”

On their About page, the Party for Socialism and Liberation says it believes “the only solution to the deepening crisis of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society.”

The group also includes guidance for those who are facing deportation at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, part of a campaign called “Don’t Open for ICE.”

“One of the most important things to remember is to refuse to open the door unless ICE has a signed warrant from a judge,” the organization says.

At the same time, ANSWER boasts a near 25-year history of organizing protests and says it fights against “racist and religious profiling,” advocates “immigrant and workers’ rights,” and supports “economic and social justice for all.”

RELATED: China’s greatest export isn’t steel — it’s industrial theft

The Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in San Francisco, California, on July 23, 2020. Photo by PHILIP PACHECO/AFP via Getty Images

The Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China, located at 1450 Laguna Street in San Francisco, is about a 20-minute drive from ANSWER’s publicly listed headquarters in the city at 2969 Mission Street. It is not clear, however, that ANSWER and PSL officially operate out of the same location, as the Oversight Project claimed.

Blaze News reached out to both ANSWER and the PSL and asked if they have received any monetary support from Iranian or Chinese entities, or if they have had contact with officials from other countries in any capacity. Neither answered.

This article will be updated with any applicable replies.

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

​Return, China, Iran, Protests, Answer, Left wing protest, Tech 

Former New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman argued that racism was the cause for higher chronic disease among black Americans, and many on social media reacted with mockery and ridicule.

Bowman, who was voted out of the U.S. House in 2024, angrily argued that blacks in America were having health problems because of stress from having been called the N-word by bigots. He made the comments while a guest on a panel on CNN.

‘Can I blame my overweightness on hearing that I have white privilege?’

The subject arose after Republican Marc Short argued that politicians on the left and right were “performative artists” but that much of the political violence came from the left. Bowman disagreed and countered with numerous examples of political violence from the right.

“This is America! And the problem is, we are not dealing with America‘s original sin and its disease of hate and racism towards black and brown people, and sexism towards women and anti-LGBTQ sentiment. We are not dealing with that!” Bowman added.

“You can’t be calm about this! I’m a black man in America! The reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of the stress we carry from having to deal with being called the N-word directly or indirectly every day,” he said.

He went on to blame Republicans for not listening to claims about racism.

“If your colleagues would listen and try to learn and engage and grow and stop being so hateful, we could have a better country. But unfortunately, we’re still here,” he added.

Video of the debate went viral, with millions of views on social media, but many online did not find his argument persuasive.

“One might laugh but Mr. Bowman is repeating a standard argument which has long been run by the communist racialists,” responded Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch.

“Can I blame my overweightness on hearing that I have white privilege?” asked one user.

“That’s just not how health or science works, man. There are real causes for those issues; blaming racism isn’t serious,” said another detractor.

“I was called ‘cracker’ on the subway once — was so overcome with stress, I contracted dengue fever,” joked another user.

RELATED: Leftist US Reps. AOC, Jamaal Bowman get ridiculed for imitating angry rappers on Bronx rally stage ahead of primary election

“So rappers are causing cancer & obesity? That’s weird,” read one response.

Bowman was a representative for a district in New York and was mercilessly mocked in 2023 when surveillance video captured him pulling a fire alarm in the U.S. Capitol building. He claimed he did so accidentally because he was rushing to get to a vote in Congress.

Bowman later agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and pay a $1,000 fine for pulling the alarm.

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

​Jamaal bowman, Bowman obesity and diabetes, Black health problems, N-word debate, Politics 

A radical Democrat congresswoman who staunchly advocates for so-called “abortion rights” may have accidentally undermined them when she attempted to run interference for a recently deported immigrant accused of heinous crimes.

There seems to be no form of abortion Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) doesn’t like. She has called abortion “health care” and a “human right,” vowed “to protect and expand” so-called “reproductive care” under Trump’s second term, and even admitted that she has had at least one abortion herself.

‘Interesting that it’s a baby when you want to dunk on ICE but it’s just a clump of cells when you want to kill it.’

Because of her long-standing history of defending abortion, Jayapal surprised many when she lamented the recent loss of another woman’s unborn “baby.”

“A pregnant woman lost her baby after ICE refused to give her prenatal care,” Jayapal wrote on social media on Tuesday, perhaps not realizing that babies are persons who cannot legally be killed.

“If true, this is very sad. Tragic even. And the fact that it’s sad is clear evidence that your position on abortion is both inhumane and barbaric,” Not the Bee shot back in the comments.

“Interesting that it’s a baby when you want to dunk on ICE but it’s just a clump of cells when you want to kill it,” added Kangmin Lee, a popular Christian influencer with nearly 160,000 followers.

“Baby. Thanks for admitting it,” quipped LifeNews.com.

RELATED: Rep. Pramila Jayapal slammed with backlash after politicizing devastating wildfires in California

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

In her social media post, Jayapal also shared an article from the Nashville Banner about the apparent stillborn child and his mother, Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus, a native of Guatemala who reportedly stole into the U.S. in 2018.

In the article, Monterroso-Lemus painted such a harrowing tale of her experiences in ICE custody that independent journalist Andy Ngo characterized her allegations as “cinematic.”

Monterroso-Lemus claimed she was:

forced to sleep on the floor in an Alabama facility;offered food infested with cockroaches;repeatedly denied medical care after she expressed concerns about her unborn child and instead had only her blood pressure and urine sample tested; andignored for three days after the child died in her womb.

“I had him inside here for three days, in this Louisiana facility, my baby dead in my stomach, inside my stomach for three days, dead,” she said, according to the Banner.

“I told them to just send me back to Guatemala because I was pregnant and wasn’t getting the medical attention I needed,” she added.

“There’s so much pressure in jail. I started suffering from insomnia, from anxiety. Then I felt like I was having a stroke, and they still didn’t give me a medical exam,” she continued.

Monterroso-Lemus also claimed that overly vigilant guards kept her “shackled” to a bed while she delivered the stillborn baby boy. “When I was delivering my baby, they didn’t even give me a little privacy,” she said. “One time, they even shackled my feet because they thought I might escape. Like I was some kind of criminal. I told them, ‘What you’re doing to me isn’t right.'”

According to the report, Monterroso-Lemus gave birth at Ochsner LSU Health – Monroe Medical Center in Louisiana on April 29. She was then deported back to Guatemala on May 9.

“This is absolutely disgusting and we should all be outraged,” Jayapal fumed in her social media post on Tuesday.

Monterroso-Lemus ‘has been arrested multiple times for child abuse and is wanted on an active warrant for homicide.’

Because Jayapal’s tweet drew such attention to Monterroso-Lemus’ case, the Department of Homeland Security issued a press release directly disputing most, if not all, of Monterroso-Lemus’ claims.

According to DHS, Monterroso-Lemus:

“had a bed in her cell” and was never forced to sleep on the floor;received “appropriate dietician cleared menus” every day in keeping with the standards of all ICE detainees in New Orleans;received extensive prenatal and other medical care, including a fetal doppler ultrasound, an “OB-GYN visit, dental care, and medication.” She was also taken to a hospital and seen by “multiple nurses”; andwas given “immediate medical assistance” on April 29, when she reported distress and was taken to the hospital.

DHS also insists it has no record that Monterroso-Lemus ever filed a grievance about alleged “mistreatment and mocking from guards.”

In a statement to Blaze News, Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin claimed: “This reporting is absolutely FALSE. Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus had FULL medical, prenatal care. We have documentation to show it.”

RELATED: Rep. Pramila Jayapal brazenly admits her hypocrisy on Senate rules after Trump election ‘trifecta’

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

What’s more, Monterroso-Lemus has been accused of mistreating others — severely.

In her statement to Blaze News, McLaughlin claimed that “Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus, 37, is a citizen of Guatemala who has been arrested multiple times for child abuse and is wanted on an active warrant for homicide.”

The DHS press release clarified that Monterroso-Lemus was “arrested twice for child abuse/neglect with the Loudon County Sheriff’s Office” and that she is wanted for homicide in Guatemala.

“FACT CHECK: ICE Provided Full Medical Care to Guatemalan Illegal Alien with History of Child Abuse and Wanted for Homicide,” the press release headline reiterated.

Monterroso-Lemus has six other children.

The father of her stillborn child, Gary Bivens, still appears to stand by his fiancée. He has pledged to relocate to Guatemala and initiated a GoFundMe account to help with “funds for medical treatment and transportation expenses.”

“It’s unbelievable. It’s disgusting. I’m beside myself, I really am,” he said, according to the Banner. “I’m ashamed to even call myself an American citizen. With what is going on in these facilities? … It’s costing people’s lives. It’s breaking families apart. It’s so inhumane. … It’s un-American.”

“I’ll sell the house and everything I got, and I’m coming down to Guatemala,” Bivens added. “That’s my intention … because I don’t even want to be here anymore. … I lost all respect for every bit and piece of this country.”

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

​Abortion, Unborn baby, Pramila jayapal, Illegal alien, Guatemala, Andy ngo, Dhs, Politics 

Former MSNBC host Joy Reid defended Iran seeking nuclear weapons in a debate on CNN that devolved into a shouting match.

Iran struck U.S. bases in the Middle East with what was described as a “symbolic” and limited barrage meant to save face after the U.S. dropped a bunker-buster bomb in a daring mission that devastated Iran’s nuclear enrichment capabilities.

‘The reason they’re trying to get nukes … is because an expansionist power in their region keeps threatening them.’

On Tuesday, Reid defended Iran’s actions and went so far as to say Israel was at fault for the terrorist-supporting state’s attempts to obtain nuclear weapons. She made the comments while on a CNN panel.

“The bottom line here is, the way that we know that Iran does not have nuclear weapons is that if they had nuclear weapons, Israel would not attack them,” said Reid.

“The reason they’re trying to get nukes, and probably Saudi Arabia is trying to get them, is because an expansionist power in their region keeps threatening them and actually bomb them,” she added.

The panel erupted into a loud yelling match.

“And actually bomb them! I don’t think it’s OK that Israel has nukes, either!” Reid added. “And so the bottom line is Israel doesn’t even subject its nuclear weapons to the IAEA. And so my question is should anyone in the region have nukes?”

“But Joy, this is not just about nukes,” replied CNN host Abby Phillip. “It’s also about Iran being a state sponsor of terrorism and chaos and violence and death around the world. There’s that, too!”

RELATED: Rubio warns Iran against ‘suicidal’ closing of Strait of Hormuz; Vance says retaliation will be met with ‘overwhelming force’

Criminal defense attorney Arthur Aidala then yelled at Reid that the issue also involved the U.S. helping a democratic ally in Israel.

“Their democracy is not like the United States of America,” Reid objected. “I’m sorry. In the United States, LGBTQ people can’t even serve in the military under the president you prefer.”

Aidala and Reid then entered into their own shouting match.

“The United States is not exactly a beacon of human rights for gay people!” Reid scoffed.

Reid’s low-rated show on MSNBC was canceled in February after the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Reid posted a tearful goodbye where she lamented the end of her show. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow assailed her own network for the firing and suggested it was motivated by racism.

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

​Joy reid defends iran, Israel vs iran, Joy reid debate, Joy reid hates israel, Politics 

The Trump administration has allowed 54 South African immigrants into America after claims that white farmers are allegedly being killed in the country — and one man is very unhappy about it.

“The New York Times is saying that President Trump is saying to white Afrikaners from South Africa, ‘I’ll give you refugee status.’ So we’re bringing in white Afrikaners who we don’t know if they’re criminals, we don’t know what they went through in the legal process in South Africa,” Al Sharpton said on MSNBC.

“But people right here in Newark, we’re going to assume they’re all criminal,” he continued. “It is as blatantly double standard as one can get.”

“I don’t understand how 54 people have caused this big of a dustup when we’ve watched hundreds of thousands walk over our border for four straight years. This whole situation, it’s baffling to me. But it’s not baffling in terms of there’s so much stirred up racial division, and anything that appears to benefit white Christians in any way can be spun into, ‘Well, this is racism,’” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock says on “Jason Whitlock Harmony.”

“They are looking, as you said, solely based on race,” T.J. Moe agrees. “We have rigged up this society to believe that white people cannot possibly be victims, so if we allow these white victims into America, now that destroys our narrative.”

“I think that’s what they’re looking at here. They can’t possibly demonstrate any sort of empathy. These are white people. Doesn’t matter that they’re only 7% of the population over there and that they’re being murdered and that President Trump calls it a genocide, none of that matters. It only matters that they’re white,” he continues.

“These South African farmers,” he adds, “there’s only 7%, but I think they own something like 75%, 80% of all the farmland in South Africa and produce like 95% of the goods. They’re incredibly productive people, and so these are refugees that you would want here.”

Want more from Jason Whitlock?

To enjoy more fearless conversations at the crossroads of culture, faith, sports, and comedy with Jason Whitlock, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

​Camera phone, Video phone, Sharing, Upload, Free, Video, Youtube.com, Jason whitlock harmony, Jason whitlock, Jason whitlock fearless, Fearless with jason whitlock, The blaze, Blazetv, Blaze news, Blaze podcasts, Blaze podcast network, Al sharpton, President trump, South african genocide, Farmer genocide, South african farmers 

President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security warned that Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations are being thwarted by anti-ICE activists, allowing a child-rapist to remain at large.

A Wednesday press release from the DHS announced that it is searching for Jose Reyes Leon-Deras, a convicted child-rapist who was apparently able to evade ICE with alleged assistance from the Colorado Rapid Response Network.

‘Anyone responsible should be charged with interfering with a federal investigation.’

The agency stated that the group is “known for protesting with bullhorns to warn illegal aliens and shouting profanities at ICE law enforcement officers attempting to arrest dangerous criminal illegal aliens.”

ICE attempted to arrest Leon-Deras on June 20. However, CORRN allegedly alerted the suspect about the agency’s presence, effectively “facilitat[ing] his escape.”

RELATED: Trump’s ICE busts 11 illegal Iranian nationals: Terror suspect, ex-sniper, and another with Hezbollah ties

Photographer: Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The DHS described Leon-Deras as a “safety threat,” warning the public not to approach him but to report sightings to law enforcement.

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin stated, “The Colorado Rapid Response Network and its 760 members disrupt ICE operations targeting dangerous criminal illegal aliens. In this case, they helped Jose Reyes Leon-Deras, an international fugitive and convicted child-rapist, flee law enforcement. This dangerous monster is on the loose on American streets and could harm more innocent children.”

The DHS press release linked to a June 20 Facebook post from CORRN celebrating that ICE was unsuccessful in its arrest attempt.

The post read, “June 20 7:30am CONFIRMED AND ONGOING ICE presence near Longs Peak Venue and Martin St LONGMONT. The same agents that were shown in our video on Tuesday. Besides these two also a grey Malibu. We will update with a photo. Our volunteers are on site and assisting the people targeted.”

“No one detained,” a later update to the post stated, “Volunteers confronted the ICE agents and used a bullhorn to to [sic] share their rights, ICE called the police to try and intimidate our volunteers.”

The post included photographs of several alleged ICE vehicles, including their license plate numbers.

RELATED: Illegal aliens bust out of Colorado detention center — local authorities ‘declined to assist’ manhunt: ICE

Anti-ICE protestors demonstrate outside the ICE Processing Center on June 9, 2025, in Aurora, Colorado. Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images

According to CORRN’s website, the group is “committed to responding to raids, deportation, and any Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity happening across the state in our communities.”

“This statewide network is intended to immediately respond to reported situations by confirming the existence of a raid or the presence of ICE, documenting the case — including using legal observers, and slowing down and controlling the public narrative of these events as we fight to keep our families together,” the website reads.

CORRN runs a 24/7 hotline where residents can report ICE sightings. The group responds by sending “trained volunteers to the scene” where they “record the event, identify the agents on the scene, and inform the people involved of their constitutional rights.”

ICE Denver stated, “Groups like this interfere with ICE’s ability to keep communities safe.”

Rep. Jeff Crank (R-Colo.) called CORRN “a disgrace.”

“Anyone responsible should be charged with interfering with a federal investigation,” he remarked.

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

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

​News, Immigration crisis, Illegal immigration crisis, Immigration, Illegal immigration, Colorado, Immigration and customs enforcement, Ice, Department of homeland security, Dhs, Donald trump, Trump, Trump administration, Trump admin, Politics 

FBI Director Kash Patel announced earlier this month that the bureau located an intelligence report from August 2020 that detailed “alarming allegations” regarding an apparent Chinese communist plot to interfere in the presidential election for the benefit of then-candidate Joe Biden.

Such allegations, if brought to light at the time, would have vindicated the concerns about voter fraud and foreign election interference then expressed by President Donald Trump and former Attorney General Bill Barr, which were written off by election officials, Democrats, and the liberal media as “unfounded” and “preposterous.”

Instead, elements of the intelligence community apparently covered up the alleged foreign election interference campaign.

“Former FBI leadership withheld the facts and misled the public on China’s 2020 election interference,” Patel stated on Thursday. “And they did so for political gain.”

Patel noted in a separate message, “We’re restoring trust — through transparency, not politics.”

Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, sent a criminal referral for former FBI Director Christopher Wray to the Department of Justice on Thursday, seeking accountability not only for Wray’s alleged role in the apparent cover-up but for his alleged false or misleading statements to Congress regarding the infamous FBI memo targeting traditional Catholics.

Election interference cover-up

The referral obtained by Blaze News, which was also sent to Director Patel’s office on Thursday, alleges that Wray violated federal law by giving false and misleading testimony to Congress on the topic of known voter fraud efforts.

On Sept. 24, 2020, Wray told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that the FBI had “not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it’s by mail or otherwise.”

On March 2, 2021, Wray suggested to the Senate Judiciary Committee that the FBI was “not aware of any widespread evidence of voter fraud, much less that would have affected the outcome of the presidential election.”

RELATED: Vindicated? Patel’s FBI uncovers apparent Chinese communist plot to rig 2020 mail-in vote for Biden

Photo by LEAH MILLIS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

The trouble with both statements is that they fly in the face of what the FBI apparently knew about the alleged Chinese communist attempt to swing the election for Biden.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced on July 27, 2020, that between Jan. 1 and June 30 of that election year, CBP officers at the International Mail Facility at Chicago O’Hare International Airport had seized 1,513 shipments containing fraudulent documents, including 19,888 counterfeit U.S. driver’s licenses.

“The majority of these shipments were arriving from China and Hong Kong, with other seized shipments arriving from Great Britain and South Korea,” noted CBP.

Blaze News previously reported that the bulk of the licenses were intended for college-age students across numerous states and in many cases had functional barcodes.

The August 2020 FBI intelligence report helped make sense of this sudden glut of fake IDs, suggesting that the Chinese communist regime was mass-producing fake American driver’s licenses in order to create voter identities for Chinese nationals so that they could vote with fake mail-in ballots.

‘Accountability for the bad actors in government would be practically a case of first impression.’

Patel told Just the News that while substantiated, the allegations in the intelligence report “were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public.”

The Oversight Project made abundantly clear in its referral that it was highly unlikely Wray was unaware of this report and the allegations therein when he testified before Congress in 2020 and 2021.

After all, Wray apparently received routine briefings about threats to the integrity of the 2020 election from Nikki Floris, the FBI deputy assistant director for counterterrorism at the time, who had raised the alarm in October 2019 about China “aggressively pursuing foreign influence operations.”

RELATED: 1,004 days of betrayal for suspended FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Weaponization against Catholics

The House Judiciary Committee and its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government indicated in a December 2023 report that the FBI:

“abused its counterterrorism tools to target Catholic Americans as potential domestic terrorists”; “relied on at least one undercover agent to develop its assessment”; “proposed developing sources among the Catholic clergy and church leadership”; and would likely still be “violating the religious liberties of millions of Catholic Americans” were it not for former FBI special agent Kyle Seraphin’s disclosure.

Congressional investigators began looking closely at the bureau’s anti-Catholic animus after a memo from the bureau’s Richmond field office was leaked earlier that year, tying adherents of the Catholic faith to violent extremist views.

RELATED: The FBI was completely correct to keep an eye on Catholics

Nes/Getty Images

While Wray previously testified to Congress that the Richmond field office produced only a “single product,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has demonstrated that not to have been the case.

Grassley revealed earlier this month both that the memo was distributed to over 1,000 FBI employees across the country and that the FBI produced “at least 13 additional documents and five attachments that used anti-Catholic terminology and relied on information from the radical far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).”

— (@)

The Oversight Project’s criminal referral alleges that Wray repeatedly gave false testimony about the Richmond anti-Catholic memo, noting that his “testimony was inaccurate not only because it failed to reveal the scope of the memo’s production and dissemination, but also because it failed to reveal the existence of a second draft product on the same topic intended for external distribution to the whole FBI.”

“Furthermore, a query of Sentinel (the FBI’s case management system) identified 13 documents and 5 attachments that included the term, ‘radical traditionalist catholic’ or ‘Radical-Traditionalist Catholic’ in the FBI systems,” said the watchdog’s criminal referral. “The Intelligence Memo itself states on page 24 of the PDF — ‘(U) Prepared by the Richmond Division and the Domestic Terrorism Operations Unit; coordinated with FBI Milwaukee and FBI Portland Divisions.'”

Between his statements to Congress about election interference and his statements about the FBI’s anti-Catholic memorandum, the Oversight Project figures that Wray committed several criminal violations, including obstruction of proceedings before Congress; corrupt conduct; and making false statements.

When asked to comment on whether he expects Wray to be held accountable for his alleged violations, Howell told Blaze News, “I don’t expect accountability, but we certainly deserve accountability.”

“Accountability for the bad actors in government would be practically a case of first impression,” continued Howell. “To expect it would be unrealistic optimism, but it should and could happen, and that’s why the Oversight Project is making the case publicly and doing everything we can to make it more likely to happen.”

Mike Howell is a contributor to Blaze News.

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

​False statements, Christopher wray, Fbi, Bureau, Wray, Coverup, Cover up, Federal bureau of investigation, Patel, Oversight project, Mike howell, Criminal referral, Crime, Criminal, Donald trump, Trump, Joe biden, Politics 

When PETA representative Brittany Peet saw the conditions Netflix’s famous “Tiger King” tigers were living in, she was not pleased.

“I was at Joe’s Roadside Zoo multiple times, and I smelled the overwhelming stench of urine in that facility because the tigers were confined in such cramped quarters, they could barely take a few steps in any direction,” Peet tells BlazeTV host Alex Stein on “Prime Time with Alex Stein.”

“These are animals who run and jump and swim in the wild, and they were locked in prison cells, just like that one Joe is locked up in today,” she continues, adding, “He and his staff would hit animals, hit tigers with the blunt end of guns, they would spray them with fire extinguishers.”

Peet’s accusations are horrific, but Stein is giving Joe Exotic the chance to defend himself from his jail cell.

“OK, all right, look. My zoo was next to a horse farm that had 200 horses pissing and pooping in their field. OK, I didn’t change their litter, what are you talking about?” Exotic says. “They didn’t have litter boxes, they had two acre cages, some of them.”

“All I got to say is she needs to find God and tell the truth, because in October of 2017, when Travis died, I called her for help. And she helped me move most of my animals off that zoo, so I could close that zoo and leave, and I left Jeff Lowe in charge of everything else, and she knows that, and she’s the one who sued Jeff Lowe for violating the Endangered Species Act,” Exotic continues.

“Why didn’t Jeff Lowe go to jail? He was doing bad stuff, too,” he adds.

“That’s something that Joe and I agree on. I fully agree that Jeff Lowe should be sitting in prison right next to Joe. He is just as guilty, he has done things that are just as horrible to animals,” Peet says.

“Brittany, how many animals do you kill a month?” Exotic asks.

“The figures are available online, but the reality of that is PETA is a shelter of last resort. PETA offers euthanasia services to people who can’t afford to euthanize their sick dogs and cats, so that’s why the euthanasia numbers are so low, and PETA is open about that,” Peet responds.

“I don’t feel guilty that a well-documented animal abuser is in prison for the crimes of animal abuse that he committed against animals,” she adds.

Want more from Alex Stein?

To enjoy more of Alex’s culture jamming, comedic monologues, skits, and street segments, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

​Video, Free, Camera phone, Video phone, Upload, Sharing, Youtube.com, Prime time alex stein, Alex stein, The blaze, Blazetv, Blaze news, Blaze podcasts, Blaze podcast network, Blaze media, Blaze online, Blaze originals, Joe exotic, Tiger king, Peta, Prime time with alex stein 

Founder of Primally Pure Bethany McDaniel has made it her mission to create efficient skincare products that do no harm in a market oversaturated with chemical poisons that do more harm than good.

Primally Pure sunscreen boasts all of the protection needed from the sun without the toxic chemicals and doesn’t rely on fearmongering about the sun as the main source of messaging, like most sunscreens do.

“The sun isn’t poison, but your sunscreen is,” reads one Primally Pure billboard.

However, that statement upset a lot of people and has now become the center of serious debate.

“The intention with it was to make a bold statement, get people’s attention,” McDaniel tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.” “There have been so many bold statements for decades from the side of ‘slather sunscreen all over your body every second of the day so that you won’t get skin cancer and die.’”

While McDaniel wanted to point out that there’s much more nuance to the topic of sun exposure and sunscreen than we’ve previously been told, when their ad was released, people didn’t see it that way.

Rather, they saw her ad as “fearmongering,” despite the sunscreen industry using skin cancer as a reason to avoid the sun.

“There’s a lot of misinterpretation of the campaign itself, a lot of anger, like some crazy people are saying some crazy things on social media. There was one post that I reposted of a very unhinged woman telling me to go to hell for saying this,” she tells Stuckey.

“How have we gotten to a point where that is such a controversial thing to say? Like we have demonized the sun and demonized creation so much,” she continues. “I know I’ve been accused of fearmongering, but I would argue that people have fearmongered the sun for so long.”

Since the negative impact of spending time in the sun has been discussed endlessly, very few people seem to be aware of how incredible the benefits are.

“It gives us Vitamin D, it helps with our moods. We all feel it when we’re outside in the sun — we feel better. It regulates our circadian rhythms so that we’re more awake during the day and that our bodies are ready to sleep when the sun falls at night,” McDaniel explains.

“There’s so much to living in tune with the sun. I think that’s how we’re designed to live, but I also think there are risks to uninhibited sun exposure,” she continues.

Which is why McDaniel created her own sunscreen that uses a formula with 25% zinc oxide and nontoxic natural ingredients.

“In my opinion, zinc oxide is the safest option for sun protection. There are a lot of chemical filters out there, but the FDA now does not recognize any of them as being safe. The EPA also just came out with a study and found that only 25% of sunscreens on the market are both safe and effective,” she explains.

“So these chemical filters — there’s a lot of issues with them. They absorb, and then they are in the bloodstream at much higher limits than is considered safe. A lot of them are known to be hormone-disrupting and carcinogenic, or cancer-causing. They actually create a chemical reaction in the skin when the sun hits it,” she continues.

“The fearmongering thing really gets me, because this is just sharing information,” she adds.

Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?

To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

​Video, Free, Camera phone, Video phone, Upload, Sharing, Youtube.com, Relatable, Allie beth stuckey, The blaze, Blazetv, Blaze news, Blaze podcasts, Blaze podcast network, Blaze media, Blaze online, Blaze originals, Bethany mcdaniel, Primally pure, Primal pastures, Sunscreen toxic, Toxic skincare, Toxic sunscreen, Zinc oxide sunscreen, Relatable with allie beth stuckey 

The way suspended FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle sees it, he has lived through 1,004 betrayals — and counting.

O’Boyle was rewarded for his whistleblower disclosures to Congress with a loss of pay and benefits, attempted character assassination, and what he said is a malicious FBI effort to destroy him and his family.

‘I thought he was going to do the right thing.’

“If the FBI is trying to make you do something that is wrong or illegal or against policy or against rule, you’re supposed to be able to push back and be protected for doing so,” O’Boyle told Blaze News. “But then look what happens. You get suspended for a thousand days with no paycheck.”

What hurts as much as, if not more than, what was dished out by the Christopher Wray-led FBI is knowing the new FBI director, his friend Kash Patel, seems to have done nothing to repair the breach or bring justice to the case.

O’Boyle was suspended in September 2022 based on a provably false allegation that he leaked materials to Project Veritas.

O’Boyle well remembers that Patel and his foundation helped him financially in December 2022 so that the O’Boyle children could have a nice Christmas.

He recalls with clarity how Patel promised to fix the unjust suspension after he was nominated as FBI director in November 2024. O’Boyle said he was told he would be brought back to the FBI, have his security clearance restored, and be provided more than 140 weeks of back pay.

RELATED: Kash Patel’s surprising appointment of a top J6 inquisitor to head DC FBI office

Suspended FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle says he trusted that new FBI Director Kash Patel would end his prolonged whistleblower nightmare.Photo by Chris Duzynski for Blaze News

As recently as March 2025, O’Boyle said, he was in communication with Patel, who had been relying on several FBI whistleblowers for advice and feedback as he got himself established as the ninth director of the FBI.

But now the silence from the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., is deafening.

No solution. No decisions. No communication. And most recently, word through a third party from Patel: There would be no job restoration for O’Boyle.

“Initially we were still corresponding,” O’Boyle said in an interview. “I even had a few people who would send me information that they thought he should know, and I passed some of that on to him. The bit of communication I [last] got was just a thumbs-up emoji.”

As O’Boyle’s suspension flew past the 1,000-day mark on June 22, it appears that thumbs-up emoji might as well feature a different finger.

“I thought he was going to do the right thing,” O’Boyle said. “I’ve known him for almost three years now, and he told me — he told all of us — that he was going to bring us back. Now it’s the end of June. The last I heard was that that’s not going to be happening.”

‘There’s something in your file that is preventing him from bringing you back.’

O’Boyle said he has heard that Patel and podcaster turned Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino have been stung by sharp criticism of them on social media. They have been blasted for allegedly not doing enough to clean house of agents who took part in the weaponized abuses of the Jan. 6 investigation.

Patel once famously said if he were ever FBI director, on day one he would shut down the Hoover Building and turn it into a deep state museum.

O’Boyle said he has been restrained on social media when it comes to Patel and Bongino. He teams up with former Agent Steve Friend on a thrice-weekly show, “The American Radicals Podcast.” He is a founding member of “The Suspendables,” a tight-knit group of former whistleblowers.

‘Just trust me, bro’

Others have taken a more in-your-face approach, including former FBI Special Agent Kyle Seraphin in his daily podcast, “The Kyle Seraphin Show.” Seraphin doesn’t hold his fire when criticizing the FBI. He mockingly refers to the two top leaders as “Dash Pongino.” He has ridiculed their reason for delays in reforming the FBI and says their attitude is one of, “Just trust me, bro.”

O’Boyle said it’s ironic that of the suspended FBI employees who testified before Congress in May 2023, one, Marcus Allen, was given his job back by the Biden administration. Now, with Donald J. Trump in the White House and an ostensible friendly running the FBI, it appears there is no plan to make O’Boyle and his family whole.

“You can argue the point that Joe Biden and Christopher Wray did more for FBI whistleblowers than Donald Trump and Kash Patel,” O’Boyle said.

O’Boyle’s whistleblower disclosures were a litany of alleged FBI wrongdoing, including COVID testing requirements and vaccine policies with no basic exemptions for religious objections. He said the FBI was targeting employees who refused to take the experimental, gene-modifying COVID shots. In all, O’Boyle reported 19 disclosures alleging that the FBI’s COVID policies violated the law.

In May 2022, O’Boyle disclosed that the FBI was using the public leak of the Supreme Court decision in the landmark abortion case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization as a pretext to target pro-life individuals, who were tagged as potential risks for abortion-clinic bombings.

O’Boyle said an official who has spoken to Patel told him he will not get his job back. Word has leaked out of the FBI that there are suddenly “character issues,” not just with O’Boyle but with former special agents like Steve Friend, who was driven out of the FBI for making whistleblower disclosures about Jan. 6 and other issues.

RELATED: Faith continues to drive long-suspended FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle as he waits for justice

Suspended FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle tells the House Judiciary Committee on May 18, 2023: “The FBI will crush you. This government will crush you and your family.”Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images

“There’s something in your file that is preventing him from bringing you back,” O’Boyle said he was told.

If that’s true, O’Boyle said, that “something” must have been added to his personnel file recently. O’Boyle said earlier this year that he obtained the full contents of his FBI file as part of his appeal. Nothing was flagged as a “character issue,” nor was that term used by the FBI in falsely accusing him of leaking to the media, he said.

“There weren’t any character issues when we got hired,” he said. “There were no character issues when I was getting awards for cases I was working on or the highest annual rating an employee can get. Or when getting selected for specialty units like a SWAT team or the surveillance unit I was headed to.

“Suddenly, once Kash Patel and Dan Bongino get there, there are character issues,” O’Boyle said. “That doesn’t make sense or add up. It tells me that either Kash or Dan or both have decided for whatever reason to not make things right.”

‘You’re accusing me of leaking those to the media, which I didn’t do.’

Back in summer 2022, O’Boyle was looking forward to moving his family from Kansas to Virginia to take a new FBI job on a special surveillance team. He and his wife, Heidi, had found their dream house, sold their old home, and were packed up and ready to go.

When O’Boyle showed up for the new job in Manassas, Va., instead of taking part in a new-job orientation, he had his badge, credentials, and service weapon taken. Two agents asked him about Project Veritas and a May 2022 broadcast featuring James O’Keefe interviewing an FBI agent hidden in shadow with his voice disguised. It wasn’t O’Boyle who did the Veritas interview but rather Kyle Seraphin.

“I just was basically telling them, ‘Look, I was whistleblowing to Congress about these things.’ And they’re like, ‘Well, that’s separate.’ And I’m like, ‘Pretty sure it’s not, because you’re accusing me of leaking things that I took to Congress. You’re accusing me of leaking those to the media, which I didn’t do.’”

Within an hour of showing up for his new job, O’Boyle was back out in the parking lot. His security clearance was suspended — and so was he.

RELATED: Going rogue? FBI agent gathered information from private citizens questioning Rep. Cory Mills’ record

Kash Patel, director of the FBI, attends the funeral of former New York Police Department Commissioner Bernard Kerik at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on June 6, 2025, in New York City.Photo by NDZ/Star Max/GC Images

O’Boyle has since learned that the FBI knew it wasn’t him on the Project Veritas video. Yet officials allowed him to get far into a move halfway across the country, only to suspend him. Worse yet, according to whistleblower disclosures given to Empower Oversight, it was done on purpose.

Thus began an open-ended suspension without pay. The family’s belongings were in storage in Virginia. The FBI initially would not allow O’Boyle to access them, he said. Then the bureau stuck him with the $30,000 cost of the move to Virginia. The mortgage loan on the new house was canceled. Before long, the O’Boyle family members were back in their home state of Wisconsin, living in an RV.

During the 1,004 days since the suspension began, O’Boyle was not allowed to look for work even though he had no income. The family’s FBI-paid health insurance was canceled. A short time after that, Heidi had a miscarriage. The O’Boyles said they believe the stress from being persecuted by the FBI was a factor in losing their fifth child.

Unbeknownst to the O’Boyles at the time, the FBI had gotten a grand jury subpoena for Heidi’s iPhone. That gave the bureau access to texts, photos, and call logs. For what? They never found out.

If all of this were not bad enough, O’Boyle later learned that he was targeted by his own government for this treatment. On purpose.

The head of the West Coast office that reviews security clearances “bragged to at least one other FBI employee that he was going to really ‘screw’ O’Boyle,” according to an FBI whistleblower disclosure made to Empower Oversight. O’Boyle said he has it “on strong authority” that clearance review agent actually said, “We’re going to f**k the motherf**ker.”

“They didn’t do it because they thought it would hurt me,” O’Boyle said. “They did it because they knew it would. That was their intent.”

Congress does little

Although O’Boyle testified before a subcommittee of the House Committee on the Judiciary in 2023, nothing ever came of it. Aside from a letter or two, no lawmaker intervened to help. And for all of the difficult days since, O’Boyle has been left to twist in the wind.

Empower Oversight investigated O’Boyle’s suspension and prepared a detailed 22-page letter refuting every point made by the FBI to suspend and later revoke O’Boyle’s security clearance. That document was sent to the FBI in March 2025. Nothing has happened since.

The chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), pressed Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi for action on the whistleblower cases.

“The Biden administration’s political weaponization of the Justice Department and FBI has caused significant damage to these institutions and its employees, but you’re in the position to right the ship,” Grassley wrote in a March 2025 letter to Bondi and Patel.

It all has been enough to make O’Boyle question whether he should ever have spoken up and made whistleblower disclosures to Congress.

‘Is there going to be an end?’

“For the longest time, I used to say I did the right thing,” he said. “I still think I did the right thing. But to have no conclusion at this point, no restoration of anything: position, back pay, health care, you name it.”

O’Boyle said he initially heard that even with Patel in charge at the FBI, his case would take some time.

“He [Patel] did say that it’s going to take a couple months or it’s going to take a few months,” O’Boyle said. “And I suppose looking back on that, I should have known then that it wasn’t going to happen.

“It really shouldn’t take a couple months. Why would it? Anybody who is familiar with the intimate details of my case, they know that the FBI did this intentionally.”

RELATED: Blaze News original: FBI agents: True servants of justice — or bullies ‘just following orders’?

Former FBI Special Agent Steve Friend and suspended Special Agent Garret O’Boyle host “The American Radicals Podcast.”Screenshot/Rumble via Garret O’Boyle

O’Boyle questioned why the FBI doesn’t just fire him.

“I’m still technically an employee, so fire me then,” O’Boyle said. “If you’re not going to reinstate me, then the only other option is for you to fire me. So why hasn’t that happened either? I don’t know what they’re waiting for. I don’t know what they’re trying to determine.”

O’Boyle does not believe he can get a similar job in law enforcement because of the beating his reputation has taken at the hands of the FBI. He recently interviewed for a police officer position at a smaller department. He was honest about his situation and explained the FBI suspension and whistleblower disclosures.

“They called me back a couple days later, and they led with — and I recorded it; I have the call recorded — they led with, ‘Hey Garret, it’s got nothing to do with what you got going on with the FBI, but we’re going to be moving in a different direction.’

“I’m a whistleblower, so no city or state or federal entity is going to hire me again.”

Garret and Heidi O’Boyle have leaned heavily on their faith to get through the 1,004 days.

“As the months have ticked by, it’s like, what do we do? Lean into our faith and trust in that,” he said. “But even that has become a monumental task because we just are like, ‘Hey, Lord, when is this going to end? Is there going to be an end?’

“We just feel like we’ve been forgotten. We don’t know what to do,” he said. “We don’t know how to take care of our family. And we’re crying out, ‘Lord, when is enough enough?’”

Blaze News reached out to the FBI for comment but did not receive a response by publication time.

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

​Politics 

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers “breached his constitutional boundaries” when he partially vetoed and modified substantive portions of a bill in a literacy package last year.

Evers clearly did not appreciate being put in his place.

In the wake of the ruling, Evers claimed that the majority-liberal court’s decision was “unconscionable.”

Republicans, meanwhile, celebrated the ruling, in one instance throwing leftists’ NoKings hashtag back at them.

State Sen. Julian Bradley (R) noted that the governor’s “ridiculous and unlawful veto that held up money to teach kids to read has been UNANIMOUSLY ruled unconstitutional,” adding that “even the far left-wing justices couldn’t find a way to justify @GovEvers’ actions. #NoKings.”

Shot

Wisconsin’s Republican-led legislature sued Evers in April 2024 over his partial veto of a bill intended to help fund literacy programs in the Badger State.

RELATED: Democrat governor brutally mocked on social media for posting video of himself trying to throw a football

Daniel Steinle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Senate Bill 971 empowered the GOP-controlled state Joint Committee on Finance to direct $50 million set aside in the biennial budget to specific Department of Public Instruction programs created after the budget bill passed, including the literacy coaching program, the DPI’s Office of Literacy, and grants for early literacy curriculum.

While Evers approved SB 971, he improperly exercised partial-veto power to strike certain sections of the legislation in part and others in full that he claimed overly complicated “the allocation of funding related to literacy programs in Wisconsin by creating multiple appropriations for what could be accomplished with one.”

‘Wisconsin families are the real winners here.’

The Democratic governor suggested further that his actions would ensure greater flexibility in meeting the “investment needs for coaches, grants, and professional development alike.”

While Evers may partially veto an appropriation bill under Article V, Section 10(1)(b) of the Wisconsin Constitution, this was not an appropriations bill.

The Republican legislators’ complaint noted that if the governor mistakenly believed SB 971 was an appropriations bill, “he should have requested the legislature recall the bill in order to pass both houses of the legislature with the proper vote.” After all, any bill that appropriates funds must pass both chambers with a roll-call vote — something that had not taken place in this case.

The complaint noted further that the unconstitutional partial veto of SB 971 left the legislature in a dilemma: While the JCF wanted to fund the appropriate literacy programs, “any money directed under the partially vetoed version of [SB 971] might (but should not) be treated by DPI as money that can be used by the Office of Literacy for any nondescript ‘literacy program’ of DPI’s invention.”

Chaser

The Wisconsin Supreme Court sided with the Republican legislature against Evers Wednesday and torpedoed his narrative concerning the JCF, which he suggested had been wrong to withhold funds.

The court noted that the Wisconsin Constitution “does not authorize the governor to partially veto a non-appropriation bill, which the governor may veto only in its entirety.”

“We hold the governor breached his constitutional boundaries because the bill he partially vetoed was not an appropriation bill,” said the ruling. “We also hold JCF did not improperly withhold funds the legislature appropriated to JCF.”

RELATED: ‘Inseminated person’: Wisconsin Gov. Evers tries to erase mothers with gender-neutral language overhaul

Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images

As a result of the court’s decision, SB 971 as passed by the state legislature — without Evers’ changes — is the law.

The Associated Press suggested that the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s ruling might also result in the legislature pushing budget and other spending bills in a similar manner to get around Evers’ future partial vetoes, thereby securing greater control over spending.

State Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu (R) and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) said in a joint statement that the ruling “is a rebuke of the Governor’s attempt to break apart a bipartisan literacy-funding bill and JCF’s constitutional authority to give supplemental funding to agencies.”

“While the governor wanted to play politics with money earmarked for kids’ reading programs, it is encouraging to see the court put an end to this game. Wisconsin families are the real winners here,” they added.

Evers did his best to spin his efforts and pin the holdup of funds on Republicans, writing, “I will never apologize for fighting for our kids and our schools. Not today, not ever.”

“Twelve lawmakers should not be able to obstruct resources that were already approved by the full legislature and the governor to help get our kids up to speed and ensure they have the skills they need to be successful,” continued Evers. “It is unconscionable that the Wisconsin Supreme Court is allowing the legislature’s indefinite obstruction to go unchecked.”

The Democratic governor urged the JCF to immediately release the $50 million before the money goes back into the state’s general fund next week.

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

​Tony evers, Wisconsin, Wisconsin supreme court, Veto, Republican, Democrat, Evers, Badger state, Education, Funding, Politics 

The Supreme Court upheld South Carolina’s decision to bar Planned Parenthood from accessing federal Medicaid funding for non-abortion-related services on Thursday.

The court voted 6-3 with Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor dissenting.

The decision allows other states to implement similar policies that would prevent reimbursements for services not related to abortions, such as screenings or acquiring contraceptives.

As NPR reported, federal law has prohibited using federal Medicaid for abortion services for decades, except in the cases of rape, incest, and life-threatening complications.

As reported by Detroit News, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) had said that no taxpayer money should go to Planned Parenthood, with the new budget bill, coined the “big, beautiful bill” by President Donald Trump, looking to cut federal Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood all together.

RELATED: Republicans to watch when Trump’s $9.4 billion cut comes to the Senate

— (@)

Planned Parenthood said that this would have “catastrophic consequences” on it since one-third of its revenue is funded by the government, according to an X post from law professor Jonathan Turley.

Detroit News noted that this could result in a close of about 200 locations for the abortion provider, most in states where abortions are legal.

This is a developing story.

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

​News, Abortion, Planned parenthood, Medicaid, South carolina, Scotus, Supreme court, Politics 

The New York Post last week chided President Trump for not “getting it right” on deportations. But its real target wasn’t Trump. It was Stephen Miller, the president’s longtime immigration adviser and current White House deputy chief of staff. The Post’s editorial board warned that Miller’s plan to apprehend 3,000 illegal aliens per day is “asking for trouble.”

The Post argued the number is unrealistic. Even if Immigration and Customs Enforcement focuses on “the worst of the worst,” the roundup will still trigger media-fueled hysteria and nationwide riots. Mass arrests, it claimed, carry the “highest risk public-opinion-wise.”

If we concede to street violence, we let the enemy set the terms. That’s not leadership. That’s surrender.

The Post envisioned a wave of anti-ICE demonstrations, media pearl-clutching, and chaos. It feared ICE would be stretched too thin trying to hit its daily targets. Worse still, agents might apprehend illegal immigrants who entered before Biden — or even before Obama — and have “put down some roots.” That, we’re told, would create “economic problems,” particularly for agriculture.

The solution? The Post recommended a “scalpel, not a hammer.” Encourage illegal immigrants to self-deport. Offer incentives. Go soft. Supposedly, a million have already left on their own. And if Trump continues gently urging them out, the paper claims, many more will go peacefully.

The problem? We don’t even know if that number is real. The Department of Homeland Security doesn’t systematically track self-deportations. It’s possible some of the exits happened during the Trump years or even before. Regardless, they’ve hardly made a dent in the 11 million people Homeland Security says are here illegally.

But more troubling than the questionable data is the message Trump would send if he adopted the Post’s approach: that he’s willing to pull back on deportations — not because it’s the right policy, but because it might provoke the left. It would mean ICE can’t arrest even violent felons if it risks upsetting the street mobs funded by Democrats. And because the left treats all illegal immigrants as future voters, that would effectively shut down enforcement altogether.

As a historian, I’ll offer a provocative but fitting comparison: Today’s leftist thugs resemble the Nazi brownshirts of the Weimar era. Back then, many thought the nationalists could harness the street violence for political gain. They were wrong. The brownshirts brought chaos, not order. I see nothing morally or politically superior about the rioters in Los Angeles. They may call themselves anti-fascists. But their behavior — and their impact — is the same.

RELATED: Police union calls on Cudahy vice mayor to resign over video taunting violent street gangs to defend LA from ICE agents

Photo by MARVIN RECINOS/AFP via Getty Images

Those who excuse or encourage this violence, or who blame the government for trying to remove violent criminals, don’t care about law and order. They don’t care about stopping murderers, rapists, or cartel operatives. They care about power.

If some illegal immigrants have lived here for years and become productive members of society, the government can evaluate those cases once the criminals are gone. Prioritizing felons doesn’t mean abandoning discretion. But it does mean enforcing the law — despite the noise.

Trump’s crackdown will also encourage more self-deportation. If illegal immigrants know there’s a new sheriff in town, they’ll think twice about staying. As for the rioters and their wealthy enablers? Perhaps, we could find a way to help them self-deport to Antarctica. At a minimum, they deserve the same accommodations the left gave to January 6 protesters.

Even if Miller’s 3,000-a-day goal can’t be fully met, the effort matters. Laura Ingraham is right: We won’t deport all of the Democrats’ future voters. But that’s no reason not to try. The street violence and intimidation are designed to cow Republicans into submission. They’re a threat — not just to policy but to republican government itself.

If we concede to street violence, we let the enemy set the terms. That’s not leadership. That’s surrender.

No more accommodation. Crush the coup.

​Opinion & analysis, Los angeles, Ice, Immigration and customs enforcement, Riots, Gangs, Antifa, Donald trump, Stephen miller, Protests, Department of homeland security, Dhs, Mob rule, Laura ingraham, Mass deportations, Law and order, Self-deportation 

Republican lawmakers are becoming increasingly frustrated with the Senate as the parliamentarian continues to hack away at key provisions in President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”

The latest ruling from the Senate parliamentarian has sent Republicans into a tailspin. It struck several Medicaid-related reforms that many conservatives fought for. Some of these provisions include limiting federal funds to states that allow illegal aliens to receive Medicaid benefits, prohibiting federal funds for “gender-affirming care,” and preventing non-expansion states from increasing their current provider tax rates.

‘The Senate should know better than to send a bill with this waste of taxpayer money back to the House.’

RELATED: Republican support wanes as Senate overhauls key provisions in ‘big, beautiful bill’

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

“How is it that an unelected swamp bureaucrat, who was appointed by Harry Reid over a decade ago, gets to decide what can and cannot go in President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill? The Senate Parliamentarian is not elected,” Republican Rep. Greg Steube of Florida said in a post on X. “She is not accountable to the American people. Yet she holds veto power over legislation supported by millions of voters.”

“We are trying to undo the America LAST insanity from the Democrats by kicking illegals off of Medicare and Medicaid and stopping taxpayer subsidies from being used for genital mutilation of children!!” Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said in a post on X.

Although the parliamentarian is able to issue advisory rulings over which provisions are in violation of the Byrd Rule, they can be overruled, which is what Republican Rep. Keith Self of Texas is calling for.

“The rogue Senate Parliamentarian should be overruled, just like activist judges.”

RELATED: Republican senator makes a stunning admission: ‘I can’t be somebody that I’m not’

Photo by Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images

It’s not just the Medicaid provisions that have sparked outrage amongs Republican lawmakers. The Senate has hardly rolled back Biden-era green-energy subsidies that were implemented through the Inflation Reduction Act. Many Republicans in the House made it clear that aggressive cuts were nonnegotiable, yet the Senate is extending certain solar and wind subsidies through at least 2030 and in some cases through 2040.

“The American people are sick and tired of their tax dollars funding Chinese solar panels and inefficient wind turbines that are destroying our land,” Republican Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois told Blaze News. “President Trump made it clear he wants no Green New Scam tax credits in the big, beautiful bill. The Senate must follow the House’s lead and get it done — this is our opportunity to protect our farmland, our food supply, and our energy independence.”

RELATED: SALT Republicans left seething after Senate makes major changes to the ‘big, beautiful bill’

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call Inc. via Getty Images

“Congress has a chance to end the left’s Green New Scam for good, but if Senate Republicans swap the House’s firm ‘placed in service’ deadline for the vague ‘construction begins’ standard, we will fail to deliver on President Trump’s promise,” Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin told Blaze News. “This loophole would let wind and solar subsidies drag on for years — long after Trump’s second term — destroying American farmland and threatening our power grid.”

“Americans didn’t elect Republicans to rubber-stamp Joe Biden’s radical Green New Deal scam,” Self said in a post on X. “The Senate’s watered-down ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ wastes billions on climate schemes.”

Republicans maintained that if the Senate punts this “watered-down” bill back to the House, they will likely not have the votes to pass the bill before the July 4 deadline.

“Biden’s Green New Scam offers massive, unchecked subsidies to billion-dollar corporations and Chinese manufacturers, undermining American energy independence and economic freedom,” Republican Rep. Mark Harris of North Carolina told Blaze News. “Yet the Senate is reportedly gutting our hard-fought House measures to stop these tax giveaways. President Trump wants them gone, and so do I. The Senate should know better than to send a bill with this waste of taxpayer money back to the House.”

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

​Donald trump, Big beautiful bill, Reconciliation, Senate republicans, Senate democrats, House republicans, House democrats, House freedom caucus, Senate parliamentarian, Medicaid, Marjorie taylor greene, Greg steube, Keith self, Joe biden, Inflation reduction act, Green energy subsidies, Mary miller, Tom tiffany, Mark harris, Unelected bureaucrats, Politics 

Dean Cain’s father gave his son valuable advice at the dawn of his Hollywood career.

“Don’t tell too much about yourself in interviews. Let them watch you on screen,” Cain recalls his father, veteran director Christopher Cain (“Young Guns,” “Pure Country”), sharing with him at the start of his Hollywood career.

‘My closest friends are teammates from Princeton,’ he says. ‘I know what they’re made of. … You learn so much about people by being teammates with them.’

Dean Cain heeded Dad’s wisdom … to a point.

Cain learned firsthand the inequities of the nation’s divorce laws while fighting for joint custody of his then-young son. Later, he traveled the globe and gained perspective on his home country’s woes.

It’s why he started speaking up on important issues and sharing his right-leaning views. It also explains his pivot to independent film projects over the past decade.

“I’m sure it affected my career,” Cain tells Align of his political views. It’s a risk he was willing to take. “Not speaking up is crazy to me. … If you have something to say, speak the truth and hopefully make the world a better place.”

From Superman to soccer coach

Cain continues to work steadily on film and TV projects, from faith-kissed stories (“God’s Not Dead: In God We Trust”) to his latest feature, an underdog sports story he wrote and directed.

“Little Angels” opened nationwide earlier this month and continues to expand to new theaters — thanks to a feature on its website allowing users to request a screening in their area.

The movie finds Cain playing a disgraced football coach forced to oversee a girls’ soccer team. It’s the ultimate indignity for his character until he sets his mind to turning this ragtag bunch of athletes into winners.

Cain’s fans may find his foray into screenwriting surprising, but he’s been telling stories ever since he was a boy. The “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman” alum recalls his father nudging him to tap his creative side.

A writer at heart

“My dad started me as a writer,” Cain recalls, and he warmed to the task. “We’d go on vacation at our ranch house, and when it was raining, instead of watching TV I’d make up stories about our family.”

He later wrote episodes of “Lois & Clark,” but his bustling acting career took precedence. “The demands on my time were intense,” he recalls.

“Little Angels” allowed him to tap into that skill set, and along the way he leaned on the classic writing maxim.

Write what you know.

Pinnacle Peak Pictures

Team player

Cain was a first-team All-American and two-time first-team All-Ivy for Princeton in the late 1980s and had a brief NFL career with the Buffalo Bills before a knee injury ended his gridiron dreams. He also ran track at Princeton and was its volleyball captain.

He assembled his youthful cast amid pandemic restrictions, forcing him to skip chemistry reads and trust his instincts. The young girls bonded on the set, becoming faux teammates and real friends along the way.

Cain knows the feeling.

“My closest friends are teammates from Princeton,” he says. “I know what they’re made of, what they’re like in stressful situations. I know what their characters are like. You learn so much about people by being teammates with them.”

“It’s akin to what happens in the movie. They learn to stick up for each other,” he adds.

‘Truth, justice, and the American way’

Cain’s “Superman” days remain an indelible part of his legacy, and he remains invested in the character. He’s hoping James Gunn’s “Superman,” opening July 11, captures the Man of Steel he modeled his own performance on — the “aw, shucks” Christopher Reeve version seen in four films.

RELATED: No Donald Trump ever called him ‘Latinx’

Lou Perez

“He’s my Superman,” he says of the late actor, who captured the essence of the DC Comics superhero, a fictional character who means plenty to Cain. “He is truth and justice and the American way. That is really important. Hard work. Dedication. Being honorable. … I know it’s cynical now, but it still plays and resonates with many.”

“Little Angels” marks Cain’s feature-length directorial debut, but he’s been soaking up information from film sets for decades.

“I watched [my dad] go through his process as a director. He’d have to make his movies on a shoestring budget,” he says, adding that family members helped flesh out scenes along the way. He recalls his uncle holding a boom mic to make some scenes possible.

“I’ve always been around it,” he says of the filmmaking craft. Now, he can’t wait to do it again.

“I’m hooked. I want to keep doing it,” he says. “I like the process. It didn’t feel much like work.”

​Dean cain, Culture, Hollywood, Superman, The new adventures of lois and clark, God’s not dead, Little angels, Movie industry, Interview, Align interview 

In 1979, as crowds gathered in the streets of Iran to topple the shah, the New York Times ran an editorial describing Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as an “enigma.” Bernard Lewis was then America’s leading scholar on the Islamic world. He had read Khomeini’s works, many of which had been translated into English and were easily accessible.

Far from an “enigma,” Lewis concluded that Khomeini possessed the virtue of candor (to put it mildly) and that in every respect he was a perfect lunatic. But Lewis had been largely discredited as a “racist,” so his offer to write a piece for the Times fell on deaf ears. An editor at the paper said that Lewis was merely a Zionist agent spreading disinformation.

‘Khomeini’s ambitions extended beyond Shiism. He wanted to be accepted as the leader of the Muslim world, period.’

Among other things, Khomeini had written that girls should be married off before puberty (“Do your best to ensure that your daughters do not see their first blood in your house”). His own father — who was stabbed to death when Khomeini was a baby — married his mother when she was just 9 years old. Khomeini himself took his wife when she was 10 years old and had her pregnant by the age of 11. Khomeini blamed poverty in Iran on foreigners and Jews and argued that the idea of nationalism and nation-states was nothing but a Western plot to weaken Islam.

At the heart of Khomeini’s program was conquest. In the words of Vali Nasr, one of the world’s leading authorities on Shia Islam:

Khomeini’s ambitions extended beyond Shiism. He wanted to be accepted as the leader of the Muslim world, period. At its core, his drive for power was yet another Shia challenge for leadership of the Islamic world. He saw the Islamic Republic of Iran as the base for a global Islamic movement, in much the same way that Lenin and Trotsky had seen Russia as the springboard country of what was meant to be a global communist revolution.

No price was too high to pay in the jihadist drive to create a Shiite caliphate. During the blood-soaked Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, an ayatollah named Mehdi Haeri Yazdi approached Khomeini, his mentor, while he was sitting alone on a rug in his garden facing a pool. The hopeless war was consuming hundreds of thousands of young lives, Yazdi said. Was there no way to stop the slaughter?

Khomeini replied reproachfully, “Do you also criticize God when he sends an earthquake?”

The economic costs of creating a caliphate were a secondary concern for Khomeini as well. He famously cried that “economics is for donkeys” and “the revolution was not about the price of watermelons.”

Khomeini’s ideology lives on

This ideology continued long after Khomeini’s death in 1989. In 2021, a former senior Syrian official named Firas Tlass told an interviewer, “The Iranians have an authoritative plan to take control over the entire region.”

Their strategy was as brilliant as it was simple. They went to any country that had Muslims and a political vacuum. There they set up a school system in which they indoctrinated children with their vision of violent, expansionist, radical Shiite Islam. Twelve short years later, they had legions of young fighters eager to do their bidding. The strategy was implemented in an arc of ruin that extended from Lebanon through the Levant and down to Yemen.

The Iranians even attempted to gain a toehold on the European continent in the 1990s, in Kosovo. Tlass added that in the mid-2000s, former Iranian President Muhammad Khatami predicted, in a private conversation between the two, that in 20 years Iran would be the counterweight to the United States.

This prophecy would be realized almost exactly 20 years later during the Gaza War, when the world got its first taste of the radical Shiite coalition. Tehran mobilized its multi-tenacle proxy army. Though Israel ultimately triumphed, as we have seen, the world got its first taste of the dangers of the would-be Shiite caliphate.

RELATED: Only Trump had the guts to do what every president has promised

Photo by BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty Images

There was unprecedented shelling by Hezbollah, which rendered an entire region of Northern Israel uninhabitable. There was disruption of international shipping by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. And at the very moment that Iraq’s prime minister was in Washington hoping to negotiate a much-needed economic package, a Shiite militia in his country joined Iran’s April 13, 2024, assault that launched hundreds of rockets into Israel. A senior member of Iraq’s security forces named Abdul Aziz al-Mohammedawi made no secret of his allegiance to Iran and its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

A fundamental misunderstanding

In the face of this challenge, American allies in the region, and particularly the Saudis, were dumbfounded by Washington’s foolishness. Under the banner of “human rights,” the Biden administration undermined Saudi Arabia’s war against the Iranian-backed Houthis of Yemen. As a senior Saudi journalist put it, “You wouldn’t let us fight the Houthis, so now you have to.”

Biden administration envoy Amos Hochstein reportedly offered Hezbollah an aid package to rebuild Southern Lebanon after the war, if the terror group agreed to stop firing into Israel. The administration should have slapped punishing sanctions on Lebanon’s battered economy the minute Hezbollah launched its first rocket.

Even over 130 attacks on U.S. troops by Iranian proxies drew little or no response. On January 28, 2024, Iranian-backed militias killed three American troops stationed in Jordan. The Biden administration carried out a measured response in Iraq and Syria but left Iran out of the fray, even lifting sanctions to permit Tehran to raise oil exports from 300,000 barrels a day to 2 million.

And then there was the Iran nuclear deal. Experts still debate how long it would have delayed Iran obtaining a bomb — the deal, by its very terms, only placed restrictions on Iran for 15 years — but all agree that it gave Tehran access to over $100 billion. To this President Obama said, “Our best analysts expect the bulk of this revenue to go into spending that improves the economy and benefits the lives of the Iranian people.” This statement showed a fundamental misunderstanding of Iranian priorities — a mistake the current Trump administration seems determined not to repeat.

Editor’s note: This article has been adapted from Uri Kaufman’s latest book, “American Intifada: Israel, the Gaza War, and the New Antisemitism.”

​Opinion & analysis, Book excerpts, Iran, Donald trump, Jimmy carter, Ronald reagan, George h.w. bush, Bill clinton, George w. bush, Barack obama, Joe biden, Iran nuclear deal, Pallets of cash, Sanctions, Uranium, Fordow, Bunker buster, Air strikes, Israel, Saudi arabia, Yemen, Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Terrorism, Islamism, Fundamentalism 

Beloved member of “the Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has reignited the impeachment discussion that President Donald Trump has been embroiled in since his first term as president for launching a military strike on Iran without congressional authorization.

“The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on social media, charging that Trump “has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

Trump, appearing unscathed, then went scorched-earth on AOC on Truth Social.

“Stupid AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the ‘dumbest’ people in Congress, is now calling for my Impeachment, despite the fact that the Crooked and Corrupt Democrats have already done that twice before. The reason for her ‘rantings’ is all of the Victories that the U.S.A. has had under the Trump Administration,” Trump wrote on the app.

“The Democrats aren’t used to WINNING, and she can’t stand the concept of our Country being successful again. When we examine her Test Scores, we will find out that she is NOT qualified for office but, nevertheless, far more qualified than Crockett, who is a seriously Low IQ individual, or Ilhan Omar, who does nothing but complain about our Country,” he continued.

Trump then took it even farther, adding that “AOC should be forced to take the Cognitive Test that I just completed at Walter Reed Medical Center, as part of my Physical.”

“I think the one thing we’ve learned from Truth Social is that there’s no character limit,” comedian Derek Richards laughs on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

“That is perfection, though,” BlazeTV contributor Matthew Marsden chimes in. “He slammed everyone.”

Want more from Sara Gonzales?

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

​Free, Upload, Video phone, Sharing, Camera phone, Video, Youtube.com, Sara gonzales unfiltered, Sara gonzales, The blaze, Blazetv, Blaze news, Blaze podcasts, Blaze podcast network, Blaze media, Blaze online, Blaze originals, Matthew marsden, Derek richards, Aoc, Ilhan omar, Jasmine crockett, President trump, Alexandria ocasio-cortez 

Some images linger like bad philosophy. One such image: a masked individual standing triumphantly on a vandalized car, waving a giant Mexican flag, at a protest against mass deportations. It’s not a political cartoon. It’s the radical left’s icon. And it perfectly captures the confused moral universe behind the Los Angeles riots and the so-called “indigenous land” movement.

— (@)

As a professor at a secular university, I can assure you this isn’t fringe lunacy. It’s the tip of the philosophical iceberg. Beneath that smoldering car is a massive ideological structure that has been meticulously constructed over decades — paid for, ironically, by federal and state tax dollars.

These rioters don’t actually want to return the land. They want the luxury of moral superiority minus the inconvenience of coherent thought.

If it were possible, I’d love to survey the people flipping cars and heaving concrete blocks at police cruisers. I strongly suspect many of the ringleaders hold degrees in the liberal arts — more specifically, degrees in identity activism. You know the type: gender studies, black studies, Latinx studies, queer theory, or some intersectional combination thereof.

Don’t worry — they went to college

If you visit the department websites of these programs at any given university, you’ll often find “activist” listed as the No. 1 career path. No need to wonder what you can do with a $120,000 degree — you can become the ideological arsonist who trains the next generation to believe the United States is irredeemably Christian, unjust, and colonial — and maybe even get in some looting of the capitalist luxury stores.

So when you see a rioter in Los Angeles shouting on CNN about how the land was “stolen from Mexico,” just know: That’s the university curriculum talking. In one now-viral clip, a young woman (yes, I just assumed her gender) yells at a police officer, “As long as you feel OK with capitalism, racist, imperialist state.” Asked if she even knows what she’s saying, her reply is priceless: “Yes, b***h, I’m in college.”

Exactly.

These students have never been taught about the establishment of land ownership in world history or even the basic historical facts of the American Southwest. They don’t know that Mexico owned it for only 27 years, yet they think it is their ancestral homeland. If anything, Spain should be in the mix, asking for it back from Mexico.

And remember: We’re all paying for that education through state funding — drawn from taxes paid by … wait for it … capitalists. No gratitude. No irony. Just tuition-funded tantrums.

RELATED: The lie that launched a thousand riots

Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

A modest glance at history will remind you that the United States conquered large parts of Mexico in 1848. But here’s the twist: The U.S. didn’t just grab the land and walk away whistling. No, it gave back a substantial portion, paid Mexico $15 million (a princely sum at the time) for the remaining territory — including what is now California — and forgave the Mexican government’s outstanding debts.

But the student activists aren’t interested in political history. And they don’t really want to live in Mexico. Even if they did, Mexico’s immigration laws are strict, its economy is difficult, and it most certainly doesn’t tolerate foreigners burning down public property in the name of “revolution against the government.”

Marxism underwritten by capitalists

These rioters don’t actually want to return the land. They want the luxury of moral superiority minus the inconvenience of coherent thought. They want their air conditioning, DoorDash, TikTok, and virtue signaling … on stolen land. Any one of them could sell the assets they acquired within the capitalist system and donate the proceeds to an indigenous cause. But they want to make other people do this with their money.

At their campus protests and university-sponsored events, they perform ritualized “land acknowledgments,” reciting that their college stands on “unceded indigenous territory,” as if confessing to a metaphysical sin. But the penance never includes selling their house and giving it to a tribe. And why?

Because the first tribes are lost to history — conquered by later tribes, who were themselves conquered, until eventually the Spanish brought law and order to warring tribes. The cycle of conquest is not new; it is one of the oldest stories in human civilization. What’s different now is the selective outrage.

Here lies the real problem: Modern activist ideology seeks to appeal to justice but lacks a standard by which to define it. This is why all of this activist nonsense we are paying gender studies professors to teach is so empty. It appeals to justice without any standard by which to adjudicate the question.

If the land was stolen, then: Who stole it? From whom? And what court now has jurisdiction?

Even if you could answer the first two — and in most cases, you can’t — the third is impossible under their belief system. If you begin playing “we were here firsties,” you have to go all the way back.

Theirs is a godless appeal to justice, and godless justice is just another word for mob rule. It is ultimately just mob rule stirred up by malcontents to motivate masses of discontents — which is why they are simply called Marxists. Not because they’ve read “Das Kapital” but because they’re looking for a framework that legitimizes their rage and offers power without accountability. And in Marx, they find a convenient excuse to tear down everything that came before — especially anything remotely Christian.

All of their disappointment in life is aimed at the outward object called “the United States.” No reflection on their own condition — just rage against the machine.

God has the last word

But for those who believe that God is the final judge, the phrase “Let God judge between us” is not a cliché. It’s a fearful thing. It means a moral order lies beyond human manipulation. It means that even if we don’t see civil justice now, true justice is ontological, everlasting, and inescapable.

Marxist rioters cannot make this appeal. They live in a world of only immanent causes and material grievances. No final judge and no moral standard above power awaits to hold their actions accountable — therefore, no peace. They rage because they must. Their rage is at existence itself. And when they finish one protest, they must invent another. Their revolution has no eschaton — only exhaustion.

So they flip over cars and set fires. Some loot — not just because they’re angry at injustice or need a new pair of shoes, but because they have no vision of the good, only a fixation on the bad. And in seeking a purely material form of justice, they have lost their souls.

They complained about the one who supposedly stole land while forgetting about the one who can cast their soul into hell. The prospect of God’s justice should make all of us repent.

It is time to stop funding this madness. It is time to restore an education grounded in truth — not truth as a tool of power but truth that judges us all.

Until then, don’t be surprised when your car is flipped by someone with a $100,000 degree in “decolonial eco-poetics.” And don’t be shocked when they scream “justice!” without the ability to define what it is.

After all, they went to college.

​Opinion & analysis, Los angeles, Riots, Immigration and customs enforcement, Protests, Ice, Mass deportations, Stolen land, Land acknowledgement, Critical theory, Marxism, Leftists, Mexico, California, Media bias, College, Higher education, Hamas, Mecha 

President Donald Trump’s opponents failed to stop him at the ballot box, so now they are attempting to neutralize his presidency in the courts.

U.S. district court judges have proven more than willing to help out in this regard, slapping the government with more nationwide injunctions in the first 100 days of Trump’s second term than were entered throughout the whole of the 20th century.

As of Wednesday, the New York Times indicated that 199 or more of the court rulings against the president’s executive actions so far this year have at least temporarily halted the Trump administration’s initiatives.

While the U.S. Supreme Court has intervened in a number of cases to reaffirm the president’s Article II powers and his exercise thereof, it’s abundantly clear that the Trump administration is tiring of what White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has repeatedly called a “judicial coup.”

The Department of Justice turned the tables on Wednesday, filing a lawsuit against the U.S. District Court of Maryland and all 16 of its judges — including its 10 authorized judges, all but one of whom were appointed by former Presidents Joe Biden or Barack Obama.

The lawsuit takes aim at an order handed down last month that automatically blocks the deportation of illegal aliens in the state whose detention is challenged by immigration attorneys.

RELATED: Clinton judge blocked workforce cuts — yet Rubio just proved with USAID that where there’s a will, there’s a way

Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

If a petition for writ of habeas corpus is filed on behalf of an illegal alien detainee in or said to be in the District of Maryland, the Trump administration is automatically enjoined and restrained from removing the alien from the country or altering the alien’s legal status for at least two days.

The district court’s Chief Judge George Russell III, an Obama appointee, claimed that the May 28 amended standing order was necessary because the recent flood of illegal alien detention and removal challenges “that have been filed after normal court hours and on weekends and holidays has created scheduling difficulties and resulted in hurried and frustrating hearings.”

Chad Mizelle, DOJ chief of staff, stressed that “this obviously illegal practice cannot stand. To stop it, the Department of Justice has no choice but to sue the Maryland federal district court — and its judges — to ensure that they stop overstepping their authority in this critical area.”

Lawyers for the government noted in the lawsuit that the district court’s automatic injunction does “precisely what the Supreme Court has forbidden: make equitable relief a ‘matter of right’ in the District of Maryland.”

‘This pattern of judicial overreach undermines the democratic process and cannot be allowed to stand.’

“Defendants’ automatic injunction issues whether or not the alien needs or seeks emergency relief, whether or not the court has jurisdiction over the alien’s claims, and no matter how frivolous the alien’s claims may be,” said the lawsuit.

RELATED: Will the Supreme Court rein in rogue judges — or rubber-stamp them?

designer491 via iStock/Getty Images

The complaint notes further that the standing orders:

“violate congressional limits on district courts’ jurisdiction over immigration matters”;”disregard the procedural and substantive requirements for issuing what amounts to a local rule”;”are fundamentally inconsistent with the judicial role to resolve only concrete and discrete ‘cases’ and ‘controversies'”;rob Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations of any opportunity to contest the alien’s assertion of being “located in the District of Maryland” at the time of a habeas filing; and”can also adversely impact the operational planning necessary to coordinate a removal, especially a removal of an alien to a country that is recalcitrant about accepting the alien.”

The DOJ characterized the Maryland District Court’s automatic injunctions as “a particularly egregious example of judicial overreach interfering with Executive Branch prerogatives — and thus undermining the democratic process.”

“President Trump’s executive authority has been undermined since the first hours of his presidency by an endless barrage of injunctions designed to halt his agenda,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. “The American people elected President Trump to carry out his policy agenda: this pattern of judicial overreach undermines the democratic process and cannot be allowed to stand.”

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

​Department of justice, Doj, Justice department, Donald trump, Trump, Pam bondi, Pamela bondi, Maryland, Deportation, Illegal aliens, Illegal alien, Illegal immigration, Immigration, Deport, Border, Politics