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The new “Karate Kid” movie has a surprising twist: older men teaching younger men to work hard, honor tradition, and develop a virtuous character. “Karate Kid: Legends” is exactly what you think it’s going to be — and thank God for that.

If, like me, you grew up trying to perfect the crane kick in the living room after watching the original “Karate Kid,” then this movie will hit all the right beats. It follows the classic formula: an underdog with raw talent, a wise mentor with quiet gravitas, a villain who cheats, and the enduring truth that virtue matters more than victory.

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You might ask, “So … it’s not a great movie?” No. It is just what you expect, and that’s what makes it great. It doesn’t pretend to be something else. It’s not trying to be edgy, subversive, or “reimagine the genre.” It isn’t the millionth movie in the “Sixth-Sense-twist-at-the-end” series of hackneyed films we’re all bored with. It’s just a good old-fashioned “Karate Kid” movie. And in an age when every studio seems bent on turning childhood memories into political lectures, this is a welcome roundhouse to the face.

The tradition here is simple and good: older men teaching younger men how to face suffering with courage and to live lives of virtue.

No woke sermon, no rainbow flag cameo character delivering predictable lines about systemic injustice, no Marxist backstory about how dojo hierarchies are tools of capitalist oppression — this isn’t a Disney film, and you can tell.

Instead, it asks a dangerous question, one so controversial it might get you fired from an English department faculty meeting: Do hard work, discipline, tradition, and honor still matter?

In the woke world, of course, the answer is no. Disney movies now teach that tradition is oppressive, virtue is repressive, and hard work is a tool of colonialist mind control. Your feelings are your truth — and your truth is sacred. If you feel like turning your back on your family to pursue LGBTQ+ sex, then you’re the greatest hero in human history. But “Karate Kid: Legends” doesn’t go there. It doesn’t need to.

It’s not a message movie. But it has a message. And it’s one even a child can understand: Be honorable. Do the right thing. Grievance and self-pity don’t lead to victory. And if they do, it’s a hollow one.

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The film also manages to affirm tradition without being heavy-handed about mystical Eastern spiritualism or ancestral ghost sequences. Disney spews New Age spirituality in cartoons for kids at every opportunity.

The “tradition” here is simple and good: older men teaching younger men how to face suffering with courage and to live lives of virtue. That includes working through loss — deep loss, the kind that could break a person. But instead of turning to rage or self-indulgence, our young hero learns to endure, to persevere, to get back up — and maybe, just maybe, deliver that final clean kick.

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Of course, there’s a villain who cheats. You’ve got to have that. And yes, he’s detestable. That’s kind of the point. As the smug leftist professor at your local state university might say, “So it’s about childish morality?” Yes, professor — it’s about what even a child can know: Doing the right thing and building character matters. Wallowing in the self-pity of grievance culture will never get you there.

Somehow, this simple truth has become controversial. In a world where adults cry on TikTok about microaggressions and activist professors turn every syllabus into a therapy session about their own victimhood, it’s refreshing to see a film that reminds us that life is hard. But that doesn’t mean we give up. It means we get better. Stronger. Kinder. More honorable.

And that’s what “Legends” delivers — without apology, without postmodern irony, and without the cultural sludge we’ve come to expect from Hollywood.

No Oscar? No problem.

It’s clean. It’s earnest. It’s nostalgic without being desperate. And it shows us a vision of manhood and mentorship we desperately need: older men guiding the next generation, not with snark or shame, but with honor, wisdom, and love.

So if you want a movie that will entertain your kids without corrupting them — and hopefully inspire them to build a virtuous character — go see “Karate Kid: Legends.” It may not win an Oscar (which already tells you it’s good), but it might just help restore your faith in simple, straightforward storytelling. And that’s worth more than a golden statue.

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard struck back at the mainstream media after President Donald Trump said she was wrong about how close Iran is to developing nuclear weapons.

The president flatly rejected the notion that Iran was not seeking nuclear weapons or was not close to developing them when he took questions from reporters on Friday.

‘The dishonest media is intentionally taking my testimony out of context and spreading fake news as a way to manufacture division.’

“What intelligence do you have that Iran is building a nuclear weapon?” asked a reporter. “Your intelligence community has said that they have no evidence that they are at this point.”

“Well, then my intelligence community is wrong,” he responded. “Who in the intelligence community said that?”

“Your director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard,” he answered.

“She’s wrong,” Trump said.

Hours later, Gabbard blamed the media for the rift and posted video of her testimony to back her claim that her comments were mischaracterized.

“The dishonest media is intentionally taking my testimony out of context and spreading fake news as a way to manufacture division,” she wrote on social media.

“America has intelligence that Iran is at the point that it can produce a nuclear weapon within weeks to months, if they decide to finalize the assembly,” she added. “President Trump has been clear that can’t happen, and I agree.”

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However, the testimony she posted included the following statement:

“The [intelligence community] continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.”

This is not the first time Trump cast doubt on Gabbard’s assessment when asked by the media. On Tuesday, he was asked the same question about her testimony while he talked to reporters on Air Force One.

“I don’t care what she said,” Trump responded. “I think they were very close to having a weapon.”

Trump had announced on Thursday that he would decide whether to strike at Iran within two weeks in order to allow the Iranian regime more time to come to an agreement on a nuke deal.

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A 22-year-old woman — who’s a now-former New York state school district employee — is accused of sending nude photos of herself to a 14-year-old boy.

The Chemung County Sheriff’s Office said Anamaria Milazzo from the town of Elmira was arrested on charges of disseminating indecent material to minors in the second degree — a class E felony — and endangering the welfare of a child, which is a class A misdemeanor.

Susan Rider-Ulacco — chief assistant district attorney for the Chemung County District Attorney’s Office — on Friday afternoon told Blaze News that Milazzo wasn’t jailed, despite the felony charge against her, because of New York state’s bail reform law.

A school resource officer assigned to the Greater Southern Tier Board of Cooperative Educational Services received a complaint June 9 alleging Milazzo sent indecent material to a minor, the sheriff’s office said.

The criminal investigations division of the sheriff’s office assisted with the investigation and learned that over a three-month period, Milazzo sent nude photographs of herself to a 14-year-old male, the sheriff’s office said.

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The Daily Voice said Milazzo was arrested June 16 and that she had worked as a teaching assistant since December 2024.

Milazzo was issued an appearance ticket to appear in the Wellsburg Village Court at a later date, the sheriff’s office said.

Susan Rider-Ulacco — chief assistant district attorney for the Chemung County District Attorney’s Office — on Friday afternoon told Blaze News that Milazzo wasn’t jailed, despite the felony charge against her, because of New York state’s bail reform law.

RELATED: Florida middle school teacher sent nude photo, engaged in ‘lewd conduct’ with 14-year-old student: Police

The Greater Southern Tier BOCES on Tuesday confirmed that Milazzo was a former employee at a BOCES facility in Chemung County, WETM-TV reported, adding that while Milazzo had been terminated, BOCES couldn’t comment on when she was terminated or her role at the district.

The New York Post said the 14-year-old boy was not identified, and it’s not clear if he was a student at the same BOCES school where Milazzo worked.

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is setting his sights on pharmaceutical companies yet again by attempting to hinder them from making commercials and advertisements for their products.

His plan is to require drugmakers to be completely transparent about the side effects of their products, because including all the side effects will increase the run time and drive up the cost of production exponentially.

And BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales couldn’t be happier, as she believes a lot of their commercials are not only ridiculous but are selling a magic pill rather than inspiring potential clients to take control of their health naturally.

One commercial for Jardiance from 2023 features an overweight cast dancing and singing a catchy tune about lowering their A1C.

“You look at that commercial, and that’s just a perfect representation of why RFK is doing this. They’ve got this high production value, they’ve got musical theater. Now, I don’t think it’s appealing, but clearly the point is to appeal to people by using this cutesy little song,” Gonzales says on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

“It masks the really brief mention of all of these dangerous side effects. You don’t hear that, you just hear the music,” she adds.

“Your skin’s going to melt off by day 90,” BlazeTV contributor Jaco Booyens jokes, adding, “You know the average price spend is close to $3 million per commercial.”

And Gonzales personally knows that the pills they’re spending so much to advertise aren’t the be-all and end-all for those struggling to get healthy.

“I used to be 100 pounds heavier. I lost the weight naturally, you can, too. And so I take personal offense to this, like, just take a pill, here. Just take a pill. Like, all of those women were obese, and they need to consider lifestyle changes rather than taking a pill just to get rid of their diabetes,” she says.

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A visa specialist who worked for the U.S. State Department is out of a job after getting caught on undercover video admitting that he was helping migrants find legal loopholes to stay in the country.

The video shows a man named Arslan Akhtar spilling his guts in a restaurant to a woman who works with the O’Keefe Media Group.

‘I would prefer him to be dragged out of the building with his hair plugs … and lynched on the street. We need a public justice, I think. That’s really what we need. We need a healthy dose of public justice.’

Akhtar also expressed thoughts and beliefs described as “virulent antisemitic, anti-American, and anti-Israel views” by the undercover group.

“I do say it to cab drivers that are from, like, Hispanic descent. I’m like, ‘Don’t talk to the police.’ Don’t admit the truth. … If you want a loophole, keep your mouth shut,” said Akhtar at one point.

“That’s the best advice I could possibly give to those guys, because the good people get taken advantage of. Our immigration system can be really cruel,” he added.

He said that he worked with a lot of Jewish people, and he called them “terrible” as well as “garbage people.”

In another embarrassing moment, the man says that he hates Yemeni people because they are so deceptive on the visa application process and identifies other groups he has animosity against.

“I hate [Yemenis] with a passion. They’re such awful people in the application process. They are the most conniving group of folks, next to Indians,” he said. “Oh, Bangladeshi people, they’re awful.”

He also advocated for shocking violence against billionaire Elon Musk.

“I would prefer him to be dragged out of the building with his hair plugs … and lynched on the street,” Akhtar said. “We need a public justice, I think. That’s really what we need. We need a healthy dose of public justice.”

RELATED: Illegal alien activist group demands Phoenix end ‘racist’ police stops on broken taillights and tinted windows

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At one point, the man joked that he didn’t want the woman to become a journalist after hearing his comments and “run with the story.”

The report said that Akhtar denied that any of his views led to bias in the performance of his job.

OMG obtained a statement from the State Department about the video.

“The contractor is no longer employed by the U.S. State Department,” the statement reads. “Upholding the rule of law and protecting the integrity of our immigration system is essential, which is why the Department will launch a new contractor screening and vetting process.”

The undercover video can be viewed on OMG’s YouTube channel.

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In a letter to the FBI, suspected political assassin Vance Luther Boelter blamed Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for the June 14 shooting rampage that killed a key Democratic House member and her husband and seriously wounded a Democratic state senator and his wife.

Liz Collin of Alpha News broke the story Friday, citing “multiple sources with direct knowledge of the investigation.”

Gov. Tim Walz said Democrats should ‘bully the s**t out of’ President Trump.

The story said that a confession letter that Boelter left in a Buick sedan he abandoned June 15 during his flight from police places the blame for the massacre on the governor. The letter was addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel, Alpha News wrote. The story does not elaborate further on the letter contents.

Boelter was charged in federal court June 16 with the stalking and assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman (DFL-Brooklyn Park) and her husband, Mark Hortman. They were gunned down inside the front door of their home that backs up to Edinburgh Golf Course in Brooklyn Park. Boelter is charged with two additional felony counts for use of a firearm in furtherance of the murders. He could face the death penalty.

Boelter is also charged with a firearms offense for allegedly pumping 17 bullets into state Sen. John Hoffman (DFL-Champlin) and his wife, Yvonne Hoffman, just inside the entry to their home about five miles from the Hortman residence. They are recovering from the wounds. A GoFundMe account was set up to aid them in their lengthy recovery.

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According to charging documents filed in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, after Boelter allegedly shot the Hoffmans, he went to the homes of two other Democratic lawmakers, state Rep. Kristin Bahner (DFL-Maple Grove) and state Sen. Ann Rest (DFL-New Hope). Bahner was not home. New Hope police rushing to check on Sen. Rest scared off Boelter, who was sitting in his parked SUV a block away.

Boelter was dressed in a police uniform and tactical vest with body armor, the FBI said. He wore a “hyper-realistic” silicone mask that covered his entire head and carried a tactical flashlight. Boelter drove a black Ford SUV painted and detailed to look like a police vehicle, including a flashing emergency light bar on the roof.

He allegedly parked the fake police vehicle in the Hortmans’ driveway with the emergency lights engaged about 3:30 a.m. June 14. He was on the front porch as cars from the Brooklyn Park Police Department pulled up to do a welfare check on the Hortmans. Boelter allegedly opened fire on the officers, then forced his way into the home and shot the couple and their golden retriever, Gilbert, the FBI said. The couple and their dog died from bullet wounds.

After allegedly shooting the Hortmans, Boelter escaped out the rear of the home and went on the lam. He was seen on security video less than three hours later in the alley behind a North Minneapolis home where he sublets a room. There was a second black Ford SUV parked near the home’s garage. Boelter is shown on video smashing the front passenger window with a blunt object before leaving the area.

Boelter convinced a man at a nearby bus stop to sell him an e-bike. He rode the bus to the man’s house and paid him $900 for the bike and a used Buick sedan. Boelter then evaded police until 9:15 p.m. the next day, when a woman in her driveway spotted him in a field in Green Isle, some 60 miles from the North Minneapolis house. Police closed in and arrested him without incident.

Boelter had earlier abandoned the Buick along Highway 25 in Belle Plaine, Minn. Police found a letter inside addressed to the FBI, along with Boelter’s cowboy hat. In the letter Boelter said he was the one police were searching for in the shooting case, court records revealed.

Gov. Walz appointed Boelter to a state workforce development commission for a term that ended in 2023. Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton appointed Boelter to a similar commission in 2016 for a two-year term.

Walz was heavily criticized on the right for remarks about President Trump he made May 31 in which he suggested Democrats “be a little more fierce” and “bully the s*** out of him.” He referred to the president as an “existential threat.”

Boelter is being held without bail in federal custody. He is scheduled to be in court in St. Paul on June 27.

Blaze News reached out to Governor Walz’s office, the U.S. attorney in Minneapolis, and the FBI in Brooklyn Center, Minn. None of the parties responded before publication.

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An illegal alien advocacy group called on the city of Phoenix to amplify its efforts to oppose deportation operations from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but was soundly rejected.

In a vote of 8 to 1, the Phoenix City Council voted against adopting the suggested policy changes to law enforcement from a social justice nonprofit organization called Poder in Action.

‘These racist stops feed people directly to incarceration and immigrant detention; our communities are done with police violence and racial profiling.’

Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, a Democrat, said she voted against the demand because activists had been lying about police actions.

“I’ll be voting against this petition because of the redundancies, misconceptions, and misinformation,” she said, according to KSAZ-TV. “And frankly, I’m concerned that approving this petition would result in an increase in crime.”

Gallego was personally criticized by Miros Mejia of Poder in Action for not living up to a promise to keep law enforcement from aiding in mass deportation efforts from the Trump administration.

“Unfortunately, that’s not what we’re seeing,” said Mejia, according to the news station.

Activists accused Phoenix law enforcement of allowing ICE agents into jails to target minor, nonviolent offenders.

“These are members of the community that have been here for a very long time, and when they are stopped and detained by police and handed over to ICE, unfortunately, it comes to the point where families are being separated,” Mejia added.

In a post on the group’s Facebook page, they said they had the following four non-negotiable demands:

BAN pretextual traffic stops for broken taillights and window tinting,END arrest quotas that criminalize our communities,STOP police harassment of unhoused people for sleeping at bus stops, andREQUIRE citations instead of arrests for nonviolent offenses.

“These racist stops feed people directly to incarceration and immigrant detention; our communities are done with police violence and racial profiling,” the group added.

The City of Phoenix apparently disagreed and released a statement opposing the adoption of the demands.

“The citizen petition … recommends sweeping policy changes that differ from recent city council direction, creates potential conflicts with state law, and requires extensive research and vetting regarding the potential implications of such changes,” reads their statement, according to KSAZ.

The group encouraged people to voice their opposition to ICE at the city council meeting.

“We’re being treated like we’re nothing,” said one woman, according to KTVK-TV.

“I want Phoenix to be a thriving, safe, and sustainable place for my family to stay for generations to come,” said another person.

“If you don’t support this resolution, we will know that while you’re on your vacation with your happy families relaxing, our families will continue to be ripped apart and traumatized by your city,” said another.

RELATED: Illegal alien activist patrol group claims to have disrupted and prevented ICE raids

One woman did speak out against the resolution.

“This petition perpetuates the violence we’re seeing against police, and I don’t appreciate that we’re continuing to talk about federal and state law when this has nothing to do with what the city can actually do,” she said.

Activists said the fight was not over.

“We’ll be back with more folks, and we’re going to make sure that we do protect our community in spite of the mayor and City Council,” said one man to KTVK.

The group’s mission statement said their goal was to “disrupt and dismantle systems of oppression” to help people of color and working-class communities.

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Kash Patel has dropped a bombshell that, if true, would prove a lot of Americans who questioned the results of the 2020 election right.

The FBI director turned over an intelligence report to Congress that exposes an alleged Chinese campaign to mess with the election results through the creation of thousands of fake U.S. driver’s licenses.

A confidential source alleged those driver’s licenses were to be used by the Chinese for thousands of mail-in votes to sway the election in Biden’s direction.

Of course, the mainstream media is largely ignoring the development.

“We were called domestic terrorists, by the way, when we questioned the 2020 election,” BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler comments. “So they cannot in good faith now report anything associated with any kind of meddling that happened in the 2020 election, or else it makes them domestic terrorists per their own definition.”

According to Just the News, the “newly declassified intelligence reports from August 2020 were not corroborated or fully investigated and instead were recalled from intelligence agencies at about the time that then-FBI Director Christopher Wray testified that there were no known plots of foreign interference ahead of the 2020 election.”

“We have an intelligence report, meaning a report put together by intelligence officials, and this was before the 2020 election, that said that China was producing driver’s licenses in order to take votes, and yet, this was not fully investigated,” Wheeler comments.

“What the heck? Why was this not fully investigated?” she asks, adding, “Probably, the reason is ideology, right? The people inside the intel community didn’t want to investigate this because they were in the tank for Joe Biden.”

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The Department of Health and Human Services, currently led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wants California to stop teaching children that some men are “born with female anatomy” and some women are “born with male anatomy.”

The Administration for Children and Families under HHS sent a letter to the state of California requiring the state to remove gender ideology references from curricula, program material, and teacher advisories under the Personal Responsibility Education Program.

‘It’s a all a lie and can lead to irreversible medical harm against children.’

In its letter, the ACF pointed to specific, disturbing references intended for California middle school and high school students.

One of the lessons targeted for removal included the following words, “We’ve been talking during class about messages people get on how they should act as boys and girls — but as many of you know, there are also people who don’t identify as boys or girls, but rather as transgender or gender queer.”

Another entry in a teacher’s guide, cited by HHS, stated, “An adjective used to describe a person whose gender identity is congruent (or ‘matches’) the biological sex they were assigned at birth is ‘cisgender.’ Other gender identities may include non-binary, agender, bigender, genderfluid, and genderqueer.”

The guidance did not stop there and arguably got worse when it was meant for teens.

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In the lesson titled “Teen Talk High School,” teachers are told to “remind students that some men are born with female anatomy, some women are born with male anatomy.”

The letter also states that gender identity is “essentially a social status defined by a community’s expectations for behavior.”

It additionally advises on the terms “genderqueer, gender non-conforming, and gender expansive” as being terms used to describe the “experience of being non-binary.”

The ACF claimed that the educational materials promote gender ideology and stated it must be removed because it has “nothing to do with” PREP’s prescribed purview.

January Littlejohn, a senior fellow at child advocacy group Do No Harm, told Blaze News that these lesson plans are the standard “gender pseudoscience” that has been taught to children for years without parents being aware.

RELATED: Matt Walsh’s crusade pays off: SCOTUS protects Tennessee kids from gender mutilation

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“It’s a all a lie and can lead to irreversible medical harm against children,” Littlejohn told Blaze News.

She continued, “This move by HHS is a critical step to getting this out of our school systems, which are ground zero. Telling children they can be born in the wrong body destabilizes their identity and risks having them become lifelong medical patients.”

Alleigh Marre, executive director of the American Parents Coalition, said in a statement to Blaze News that gender ideology should “never [have] had a place” in school curriculum at all.

“Education should be focused on real-world challenges, academic learning, and developing interpersonal skills. Anything outside of that is a distraction,” Marre added.

California has been ordered to remove all gender ideology references from its PREP materials within 60 days and return a copy to the ACF for its approval.

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More than six years after a Jewish American was killed in a politically motivated attack in the West Bank, the Supreme Court has finally opened up a pathway for his family to seek justice in the U.S.

On Friday, the Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision that upheld a 2019 law meant to combat terrorism and to allow victims to take legal action against two Palestinian groups, the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, according to the Wall Street Journal.

‘Congress and the President made a considered judgment to subject the PLO and PA to liability in U.S. courts as part of a comprehensive legal response to “halt, deter, and disrupt” acts of international terrorism that threaten the life and limb of American citizens.’

This law, the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act, “deems the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority — if they engage in specified conduct — to have consented to personal jurisdiction in civil suits brought in the United States under the Antiterrorism Act,” the opinion stated.

The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that this act does not violate the Due Process clause of the Fifth Amendment for these groups. To state this positively, the case rules that these Palestinian organizations do consent to personal jurisdiction in civil suits brought in the United States.

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Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, emphasized that the intent of the law is aligned with the government’s broader foreign policy agenda to combat terrorism and to protect American citizens: “In respectively passing and signing the PSJVTA into law, Congress and the President made a considered judgment to subject the PLO and PA to liability in U.S. courts as part of a comprehensive legal response to ‘halt, deter, and disrupt’ acts of international terrorism that threaten the life and limb of American citizens.”

The decision overturns the 2022 opinion of a lower court by U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan, who previously deemed the PSJVTA to be unconstitutional and dismissed the case brought on behalf of Ari Fuld, according to a 2022 article by Reuters.

This prior case was brought against the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority by members of Ari Fuld’s family. Fuld was fatally stabbed in 2018 in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. While Furman described the case for justice for Ari Fuld as “morally compelling,” he nevertheless dismissed the case on the grounds that the 2019 law was unconstitutional.

This most recent decision is a major step forward for these families to hold these organizations accountable for American victims of terror in the Middle East.

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The Trump administration was dealt a defeat in court Friday after a federal judge ordered the release of anti-Israel Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.

Khalil’s presence in the U.S. had been determined to have an “adverse foreign policy consequence” by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, based on his links to violent protests at Columbia University against Israel and Jewish students attending the school.

He had led activities ‘aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization,’ and his deportation was ‘in support of President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism.’

U.S. District Court Judge Michael Farbiarz for New Jersey had previously disagreed with that assessment, and in Friday’s decision, he said Khalil needed to be released from detention at a Louisiana jail.

Khalil’s attorneys and defenders have accused the Trump administration of improperly cracking down on free speech in their actions against the pro-Palestinian protester.

A memo from Rubio said that Khalil should be deported because of his “antisemitic protests and disruptive activities,” which had fostered a “hostile environment for Jewish students in the United States.”

The Trump administration has also argued that Khalil lied in his application for a green card, but he has denied those allegations.

RELATED: Piers Morgan issues devastating argument on detention of pro-Hamas migrant Mahmoud Khalil

Attorneys for Khalil argued that he faced torture and even death if he were deported from the U.S.

After Khalil’s detention in March, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said that he had led activities “aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization,” and his deportation was “in support of President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism.”

Farbiarz was nominated to the court by former President Joe Biden in 2023.

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The effect of artificial intelligence language models on the brain was studied by MIT by comparing the brain waves of different participants in an essay-writing contest. For those that relied on AI to write their content, the effects on their brains were devastating.

The study, led by Nataliya Kosmyna, separated 54 volunteers (ages 18-39) into three groups: a group that used ChatGPT to write the essays, a second group that relied on Google Search, and a third group that wrote the essays with no digital tools or search engine at all.

Brain activity was tracked for all groups, showcasing mortifying results for those who had to rely on the AI model in order to complete their task.

‘Made the use of AI in the writing process rather obvious.’

For starters, the ChatGPT users displayed the lowest level of brain stimulation of the groups and, as noted by tech writer Alex Vacca, brain scans revealed that neural connections dropped from 79 to just 42.

“That’s a 47% reduction in brain connectivity,” Vacca wrote on X.

The Financial Express pointed out that toward the end of the task, several participants had resorted to simply copying and pasting what they got from ChatGPT, making barely any changes.

The use of ChatGPT appeared to drastically lower the memory recall of participants as well.

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Over 83% of the ChatGPT users “struggled to quote anything from their essays,” while for the other groups, that number was about 11%.

According to the study, English teachers who reviewed the essays found the AI-backed writing “soulless,” lacking “uniqueness,” and easy to identify.

“These, often lengthy, essays included standard ideas, reoccurring typical formulations and statements, which made the use of AI in the writing process rather obvious,” the study said.

The group that received no assistance in research or writing exhibited the highest reported levels of mental activity, particularly in the part of the brain associated with creativity.

Google Search users were better off than the ChatGPT group, as the search for the information was far more stimulating to the brain than it was to simply ask ChatGPT a question.

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Blaze Media’s James Poulos said that while some producers and consumers of AI considered it a good thing to increase human dependency on machines for everyday thinking, “the core problem most Americans face is the same default toward convenience and ease that leads us to seek ‘easy’ or ‘convenient’ substitutes in all areas of life for our own initiative, hard work, and discipline.”

Ironically, Poulos explained, this can quickly lead to overcomplicating our lives where they ought to be straightforward by default.

“The bizarre temptation is getting stronger to build Rube Goldberg machines to perform simple tasks,” Poulos added. “We’re pressured to think enabling our laziness is the only way we can create value and economic growth in the digital age. But one day, we wake up to find that helplessness doesn’t feel so luxurious anymore.”

In summary, the “brain‑only group” exhibited the strongest, widest‑ranging neural networks of the three sets of volunteers.

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The Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, ruled that several key provisions in the “big, beautiful bill” violate the Byrd Rule, potentially setting the stage for the provisions to be removed altogether.

In order to avoid a filibuster and pass the bill under a simple majority, the legislation needs to be compliant with the Byrd Rule, which prevents “extraneous” provisions from being included in reconciliation. The “extraneous” provisions MacDonough ruled against include key climate and financial provisions.

Although these rulings can be contentious, they are not set in stone.

One provision the parliamentarian ruled against came from the Senate Banking Committee’s reconciliation text, which would have cut $6.4 billion in funding from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She also ruled against cutting $1.4 billion by reducing the wages for Federal Reserve staff, cutting $293 million from the Office of Financial Research, and cutting $771 million by abolishing the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

MacDonough also ruled against a provision that would repeal green energy subsidies authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act, as well as certain tailpipe emission standards put forth by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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

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Although these rulings can be contentious, they are not set in stone. James Wallner, vice president of policy at the Foundation for American Innovation, told Blaze News that the parliamentarian’s rulings are based on precedent and provide an advisory role subject to the chair.

“There’s how it works on paper, and then how it works in practice,” Wallner said. “The parliamentarian is just a staffer. So we have a parliamentarian because you have all these different procedural authorities and Senate rules. The Senate rules, though, are very vague, and they are many pages long.”

“So you have all these rules, but oftentimes what happens is the rule isn’t very explicit, and there are ambiguities,” Wallner added. “So when there are ambiguities, the parliamentarian will advise the Senate. At least in theory.”

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Wallner said the parliamentarian works alongside both majority and minority committee staff to identify provisions that violate the Byrd Rule. Once the parliamentarian issues a ruling, a senator has to raise a point of order on the floor about the Byrd violations. The parliamentarian then advises the chair, who ultimately makes the final decision as to whether the provision in question is a violation.

Although MacDonough ultimately serves in an advisory capacity, Wallner told Blaze News that senators often like to point the finger at the parliamentarian.

“Senators talk about her as if she’s the only one who decides,” Wallner said. “But it’s a very convenient way for them to kind of pass the buck and act like they’re not in charge. The parliamentarian has no power to actually issue it authoritatively.”

“It can be adversarial, but it’s through that adversarial process that you really get a robust discussion of these provisions,” Wallner added.

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Republican Rep. Max Miller of Ohio described on social media an alleged death threat against him and his family that he claimed was made by a man waving a Palestinian flag.

Miller, who is Jewish as well as a U.S. Marine veteran, posted a video describing the incident where an anti-Israel man tried to get his attention as he was driving and then ran him off the road.

‘Some unhinged, deranged man decided to lay on his horn and run me off the road when he couldn’t get my attention to show me a Palestinian flag.’

“Let’s make something abundantly clear to anyone who needs to see this, which apparently, is a lot of people,” said Miller.

“If you have an issue with a legislator, your city councilman, your mayor, anyone like that, the appropriate thing to do is to reach out to them for a phone call to set up a meeting at one of our district offices. What is not OK is to assault anyone, whether you’re a member of Congress or anybody else within our district, while you are driving to work,” he added.

“This morning as I was driving to work, some unhinged, deranged man decided to lay on his horn and run me off the road when he couldn’t get my attention to show me a Palestinian flag,” Miller said, “not to mention, ‘Death to Israel,’ death to me, that he wanted to kill me and my family!”

He went on to thank God that no one else was in the vehicle to experience the incident, including his daughter.

“We know exactly who you are. I have gone about my day. I have carried on my meetings. And we will not hide, and I will continue to fight against anti-Semitism, islamophobia, and all other forms of hate,” Miller added.

In the post, he said that he had filed a report with the U.S. Capitol Police as well as local law enforcement.

“We know who this person is and he will face justice,” he wrote.

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The leadership of House Democrats issued a joint statement to condemn the alleged attack.

“We condemn in the strongest possible terms the attack on Congressman Max Miller and his family and are thankful they are safe,” the statement read. “The rise in political violence in this country is unacceptable. This is a moment of crisis that requires Congress to act decisively in order to ensure the safety of every single member who serves in the People’s House.”

The reported incident is especially concerning only a week after two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses were brutally attacked at their homes by a man dressed up like a police officer. One lawmaker and his wife were killed, while the other couple narrowly survived.

The suspect has since been captured, and much of the evidence in the case points to a political motivation for the attacks.

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to make inroads with the food industry, meeting up with Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol earlier this week.

On Wednesday, Kennedy hosted Niccol in D.C., where the two men discussed the options at Starbucks. According to Kennedy, Niccol pledged “to further MAHA its menu.”

‘Our diverse menu of high-quality foods and beverages empower[s] customers to make informed nutritional decisions.’

Kennedy also congratulated the coffee giant for offering so many items featuring natural ingredients. “I was pleased to learn that Starbucks’ food and beverages already avoid artificial dyes, artificial flavors, high-fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, and other additives,” he said in an X post on Wednesday.

A representative from Starbucks confirmed to several outlets that Niccol and Kennedy had a productive meeting.

RELATED: Kennedy has Big Pharma ads in his sights — and he’s not the only one mulling a crackdown

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“Our diverse menu of high-quality foods and beverages empower[s] customers to make informed nutritional decisions, with transparency on ingredients, calories, and more. Plus, we keep it real — no high-fructose corn syrup, artificial dyes, flavors, or artificial trans fats,” the company said in a statement, according to Fox Business.

Kennedy has been on a tear lately, railing against the harmful effects of artificial food and beverage additives, especially artificial colorings. In April, his department and the Food and Drug Administration revealed a plan to phase out all petroleum-based synthetic dyes from America’s food supply.

Starbucks has also announced several health-related changes in the last year. In November, the company decided to end the practice of charging extra for non-dairy milk. Then two months later, it began permitting customers to adjust the sweetness level in their matcha beverages.

Earlier this month, Starbucks revealed that a protein cold foam was undergoing testing and could soon be available. Niccol claimed he was inspired with the idea after watching Starbucks patrons adding protein powder to their purchases.

“I’m like, well, wait a second, we can make this experience better for them,” he recalled, according to Axios.

Niccol told the outlet that the protein cold foam is not “years away” but “months away.”

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A Marquette Law School poll published late last month revealed that 63% of Americans hold an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party. Polling by the Economist and YouGov indicated that the disapproval rating for the party as a whole was 58.3% as of May 25.

Democratic lawmakers evidenced their commitment to driving up these numbers and alienating the majority of normal Americans with their hysterical response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Wednesday 6-3 ruling in United States v. Skrmetti, which upheld Tennessee’s ban on sex-change genital mutilations and sterilizing puberty blockers for minors.

Not only is Tennessee’s Senate Bill 1 lawful, as confirmed by the high court, but such laws reflect the sensibilities of the vast majority of Americans.

A Washington Post-KFF poll found in 2023 that 57% of Americans say gender is biologically determined; 68% oppose the use of puberty blockers by children; and 58% oppose hormonal treatments for teens.

Polling conducted ahead of the 2024 election by NORC at the University of Chicago for the Los Angeles Times found that 54% of Americans favor laws to prevent minors from receiving sex-change drugs or surgeries.

A Center Square Voter’s Choice Poll revealed last month that only 29% of voters think doctors should be allowed to prescribe puberty blockers to kids with parental consent. Forty-seven percent of respondents said puberty blockers should not be prescribed to minors under any circumstances.

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Democrats appear to be fully aware of the American public’s majoritive revulsion over the mutilation and sterilization of confused children.

In the immediate aftermath of the 2024 election and just prior to stepping down as Texas Democratic Party chairman, Gilberto Hinojosa emphasized to Democrats that their messaging was not resonating with everyday Americans.

‘Hate won.’

“You have a choice as a party,” said Hinojosa. “You can support transgender rights up and down all the categories where the issue comes up, or you can understand that there’s certain things that we just go too far on, that a big bulk of our population does not support.”

An American Principles Project poll looking at the impact of campaign ads on various transvestite-related issues in the 2024 election found that 52% of voters who were made aware of failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ support for sex changes for minors were more likely to vote for President Donald Trump.

APP president Terry Schilling concluded, “There should be no question now that Democrats’ gender insanity is a massive political vulnerability for them that Republicans should continue to exploit.”

Schilling then urged Republicans “not to forget the main lesson from the election and to keep the pressure on Democrats for as long as they continue to defend their extreme agenda.”

Despite the unpopularity of gender ideology, the collapse of its core narratives, and the growing list of victims now speaking out about their mutilation, Democrats are leaning into their support for gender ideology, particularly for child sex-change mutilations.

“Hate won,” complained Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), one of the Democrats who begged the Supreme Court in an amicus brief last year to strike the Tennessee law. “The far-right justices of the Supreme Court endorsed hate and discrimination by delivering a win for Republicans who have relentlessly and cruelly attacked transgender Americans for years.”

‘The fight isn’t over.’

Other Democrats followed a similar script.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), whose approval rating according to a recent Harvard-Harris poll was 26%, said in response to the high court’s ruling in Skrmetti, “Republicans’ cruel crusade against trans kids is all an attempt to divert attention from ripping healthcare away from millions of Americans. We’ll keep fighting and we’ll keep marching on.”

“Today the Supreme Court chose to cast transgender children in the shadows, deciding they are not entitled to the protections of the Equal Protection Clause,” wrote Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.). “By upholding Tennessee’s ban on medical care for transgender children the Court has legitimized discriminatory treatment of children.”

Booker suggested further that the protection of children in over 24 states from irreversible sex-change procedures is not only a “violation of the constitutional protections every child is entitled to” but puts kids “in danger.”

Rep. Sarah McBride (Del.), the cross-dressing Democrat formerly known as Tim McBride, claimed that the ruling in Skrmetti “undermines doctors in delivering care to some of the most vulnerable patients in our country.”

“As the proud grandma of a young trans man, I know that gender-affirming care can help trans youth live openly and authentically,” wrote Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.). “The fight isn’t over.”

RELATED: Sacrificing body parts and informed consent to the sex-change regime

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Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, one of the Democratic lawmakers who has received a fortune in donations from the pharmaceutical industry, stated, “Trans kids suffer when they don’t get medically-necessary care. This is a brazen political decision by the Supreme Court.”

Contrary to Warren’s suggestion, so-called “gender-affirming care” does not ameliorate confused kids’ suffering. Rather, it makes matters a whole lot worse.

‘Protecting children from making permanent, life-altering decisions about their bodies should be a bipartisan issue.’

Britain’s National Health Service in 2020 appointed Dr. Hilary Cass, a British medical doctor who previously served as president of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, to lead an independent investigation into the efficacy of sex-change procedures on minors.

Blaze News previously reported that Cass’ 388-page multi-year report revealed that:

the “systematic review showed no clear evidence that social transition in childhood has any positive or negative mental health outcomes, and relatively weak evidence for any effect in adolescence”; puberty blockers compromise bone density and have no apparent impact on “gender dysphoria or body satisfaction”; there is “insufficient and/or inconsistent evidence about the effects of puberty suppression on gender dysphoria, mental and psychosocial health, cognitive development, cardio-metabolic risk, and fertility”;there is “a lack of high-quality research assessing the outcomes of hormones for masculinisation or feminisation in adolescents with gender dysphoria or incongruence and few studies that undertake long-term follow-up”; and so-called gender-affirming care is “an area of remarkably weak evidence.”

Prior to the release of the Cass Review, a peer-reviewed study in the esteemed quarterly journal BMJ Mental Health revealed that “medical gender reassignment does not have an impact on suicide risk.”

Journalist Mia Hughes revealed in a report published last year by Michael Shellenberger’s think tank, Environmental Progress, that prominent members of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health — the organization that literally wrote the book on “transgender” care — have themselves raised issues with the drugs and procedures that Markey, Schumer, Booker, McBride, Schakowsky, Warren, and other Democrats are desperate to protect.

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WPATH members quoted in Hughes’ report discussed the inability of minors to comprehend the long-term consequences of sex-change procedures, the debilitating side effects of such procedures, and problems with obtaining informed consent.

RELATED: ‘Neither scientific nor medical’: Leaked WPATH files shed light on the horror show that is ‘gender-affirming care’

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Alleigh Marre, executive director of the American Parents Coalition, said in a statement obtained by Blaze News, “Sadly, many on the left have been captured by radical gender activists and appear determined to allow children to be the subject of irreversible and experimental gender interventions.”

“Protecting children from making permanent, life-altering decisions about their bodies should be a bipartisan issue,” continued Marre. “This ruling establishes important precedent in states seeking to end or regulate gender practices for minors, which have unfortunately become increasingly easy to obtain.”

“Democratic leaders would do well to recognize that the Skrmetti decision is not a judgment against any group, but a vital affirmation of common sense, parental rights, and biological reality,” Kelsey Reinhardt, president of CatholicVote, told Blaze News. “These are principles that the American people have consistently supported.”

The Republican National Committee noted on X, “Democrats want taxpayers to fund sex changes for MINORS! SICK!”

Attorney General Pam Bondi applauded the SCOTUS decision, encouraging “other states to follow Tennessee’s lead and enact similar legislation to protect our kids.” Tennessee is one of the 25 Republican states that have laws on the books protecting children from sex-change procedures.

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The “one big, beautiful bill” received a draft proposal last week from the Republican Utah Senator Mike Lee-led Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which would mandate the sale of between 2.2 million and 3.3 million acres of public land owned by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service in the American West.

While Lee has framed the proposal as a means to increase affordable housing, critics claim it would do little to aid in the housing crisis and instead would just bar the public from beautiful land they now still can enjoy.

Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck doesn’t share their critique.

“What we mean by ‘affordable housing’ is if you take a look at the percentage of land that is owned in some of these states, you can’t live in a house in some of these states, close to anything, for less than a million dollars. Because there’s no land,” Glenn explains on “The Glenn Beck Program.”

“Can we just look at the perspective here? The federal government owns 640 million acres. That is nearly 28% of all land in America. How much land do we have? Well, that’s about the size of France, Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom combined,” he continues.

“They own and hold pristine land that is more than the size of those countries combined, and most of that is west of the Mississippi, where the federal control smothers the states, shuts down opportunity, and turns local citizens into tenants of the federal estate,” he adds.

With less land available for citizens, there are higher prices and less state taxes paid on land.

“We’re not talking about selling Yellowstone or paving over Yosemite or anything like that. We’re talking about less than one-half of one percent of federal land that is remote, hard to access, or mismanaged,” Glenn says.

“This is really important,” he continues. “The federal government is, what, $35 trillion in debt, or are we $45 trillion now? I’m not sure. Our entitlement programs are all strained, infrastructure crumbling, and yet we’re still clinging to millions of acres of land that the federal government can’t maintain.”

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The New York City Police Department’s hate crimes unit is having a tough time investigating threats against Zohran Mamdani, a candidate for mayor in New York City.

According to Mamdani’s office, he has received four voicemails in the last few months that have hurled threats of violence including against his family and home.

Most recently, Mamdani’s office told the New York Post he had received a car-bomb threat, but it turns out the candidate does not even own a car.

‘We can condemn threats without ignoring the harm his words have caused.’

“You’re a terrorist piece of s**t, and you’re not welcome in New York or in America, neither is your f**king family so they should get the f**k out,” the voicemail said, according to the Post. “Go start your car and see what happens. I’d keep an eye on your house and family. Watch your f**king back every f**king second until you get the f**k out of America.”

At the same time, Mamdani’s campaign told the Post, “While Zohran does not own a car, the violent and specific language of what appears to be a repeat caller is alarming, and we are taking every precaution.”

While he did not post the latest message online, Mamdani has posted other voicemails on his X page in the past, which included threats to varying degrees.

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In an X post in March, Mamdani blamed the right wing for a threatening message he received where the caller said he was going to have the candidate “wash his European feet.”

The caller also called Mamdani a “terrorist” and a “pedophile.”

Also on X, Mamdani posted a voicemail in November 2023 that called for the death of “all Muslim men, women, children, hamsters, birds, dogs, [and] cats.”

The June threats came just a day after Mamdani struggled to answer questions about criticism he received from Jews — including the U.S. Holocaust Museum — about supporting the phrase “globalize the intifada.”

Mamdani took questions from reporters on Thursday and stumbled through a response for about 20 seconds before saying he would do his best as mayor to eliminate anti-Semitism in New York City.

“As mayor, I will protect Jewish New Yorkers,” Mamdani said.

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New York reporter Oren Levy told Blaze News that while it is “absolutely unacceptable” for anyone to threaten violence against any politicians, including Mamdani, the candidate does not get a pass on his remarks.

“This doesn’t excuse the fact that Mamdani has used language that is deeply offensive to the Jewish community. Instead of owning up to it, he’s twisting the truth and playing the victim. We can condemn threats without ignoring the harm his words have caused,” the reporter said.

Police told the New York Post that the threatening calls were made from untraceable numbers and that “no arrests” have happened. An investigation by the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force is on going, however.

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The United States invented GPS. But under Joe Biden, we ceded our leadership in critical technologies to China — and opened the door to disaster. With President Trump back in charge, we have a chance to correct course and secure the future of our economy and national defense.

GPS powers everything. From military operations to farmers in the field, from ATMs to Amazon delivery, satellite-based positioning underpins modern life. But the system has one glaring weakness: no backup. One solar flare, one jammed signal, one cyberattack could knock it out — and take everything with it. Microseconds of disruption could halt supply chains, stall air traffic, and put American lives at risk.

In his first term, Trump leapfrogged China in 5G development. Now we must do it again — with GPS.

The Chinese Communist Party knows it.

While Washington slept, China built a terrestrial backup to GPS — an old-school solution using low-frequency signals and bulky infrastructure, rooted in World War II-era tech. It’s not flashy. But it’s functional. And today, it gives Beijing an edge.

America now faces a choice: Copy China’s playbook — or leap ahead.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr (R) laid out the stakes in a recent Fox News interview with Maria Bartiromo. “During the Biden years, we fell deeply behind China,” Carr said. “The good news is we have the playbook. President Trump came in his first term and said we must lead the world in 5G. We did exactly that. … This Trump administration is going to step up again.”

Carr is right. We’ve seen this before. In his first term, Trump leapfrogged China in 5G development. Now we must do it again — with GPS.

That starts with backing a 5G-based backup for GPS. Unlike China’s clunky eLoran system, a 5G-based solution reflects American innovation. It uses ground-based infrastructure and existing networks to deliver a wide-scale, secure, and reliable alternative to GPS — without costing taxpayers a dime. Private industry could roll it out before the end of Trump’s term.

In other words: It’s shovel-ready, future-proof, and 100% Made in America.

Not everyone wants that. Some voices in the policy debate are pushing China’s model instead. And they’re not just misguided — they’re compromised.

As Breitbart recently reported, a coalition of anti-Trump interests and China-linked entities has tried to stall U.S. progress on GPS backup technology. One group, the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation, consistently attacks 5G solutions. Unsurprisingly, the group’s founding members include UrsaNav — the very firm that helped build China and Russia’s eLoran networks.

RELATED: From Wuhan to Michigan: Feds nab ANOTHER Chinese scholar in alleged bio-material smuggling plot

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These aren’t just competing policy proposals. They’re coordinated efforts to keep America vulnerable.

We didn’t win the Cold War by patching up the telegraph. We invented the internet. We didn’t defend our skies with rebuilt biplanes. We created stealth bombers and drones. The same principle applies here. This isn’t about replicating China’s last move. It’s about defining what comes next.

And we’ve already started.

Carr and the FCC have launched a formal proceeding to explore “positioning, navigation, and timing” alternatives. That builds on President Trump’s first-term legacy, when he signed bipartisan legislation to strengthen GPS resilience. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) called it “crucial to the national and economic security of the United States.”

That leadership set the standard. Now we must finish the job.

We face a clear choice. One path copies the Chinese Communist Party and locks us into outdated infrastructure. The other unleashes American ingenuity and secures our future through private-sector innovation and Trump-era vision.

Let’s not backtrack. Let’s build forward. Let’s lead again.

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The left’s radical Marxist pursuit of centralized power has manifested itself in many ways, but BlazeTV host Mark Levin of “LevinTV” believes that its latest appearance was at the Los Angeles riots, where Americans waved the flags of another country and lit their own city on fire.

“You see, the Democrat Party operatives, the Democrat Party, has more in common with the Marxists than they do with the founders. Hence, their people tearing down the symbols of America, hence their people attacking the principles of America,” Levin says.

And it’s not just Marxism but rather a combination of Marxism, Hegelianism, and Rousseau’s collectivism that have been combined over the course of history.

“They’ve taken these, the intellectuals have, and they’ve sort of re-imaged them and have Americanized them,” Levin explains. “This goes to an issue related to the word, the principle, the term ‘power.’”

“Power is about force. Power is about coercion. Power can be used in a positive way, and it can be used in a negative way,” he continues, “I want to now apply this to what’s going on in L.A. All these violent activities taking place, the burning of the American flag, the carrying of other flags and so forth.”

“The point is, if your goal is the centralization of power, if your goal is one party rule, if your goal is to have an iron-fisted control over society, and that is their goal,” he explains, “You don’t care if you change the citizenry. You don’t care if there’s violence for a period of time. You don’t care about any of these things.”

Former President Barack Obama called it a “fundamental transformation of America,” and Levin points out that that’s exactly what’s happening.

“These violent acts, these riotous acts, the attacks on Jews, the burning of the American flag, all of these things together and much more are evidence, right in front of our eyes,” Levin says, adding, “This fundamental transformation that’s taking place with the use of power — the evidence is right in front of us.”

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