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Graham Platner, the Maine-based oyster farmer running as a Democrat to challenge Republican Sen. Susan Collins, has lost a great deal more in recent days than his sizeable lead over Gov. Janet Mills in the polls.

Just days after former state Rep. Genevieve McDonald resigned as political director of Platner’s campaign, the Democratic candidate’s longtime friend Kevin Brown indicated he too was jumping ship, leaving the role of campaign manager open.

‘Graham deserves someone who is 100% in on his race.’

Earlier this month, numerous damning posts previously made by Platner on Reddit came to light — including posts where he apparently identified as a communist, branded rural white Americans as racists, suggested service members worried about being raped should buy “Kevlar underwear,” joked about homosexuals, promoted political violence, and smeared all police officers as “bastards.”

McDonald promptly resigned as the political director of Platner’s campaign over the posts, noting, “These statements were not known to me when I agreed to join the campaign, and they are not words or values I can stand behind in a candidate for the United States Senate.”

Shortly after Platner apologized for his past remarks on Reddit, footage went viral revealing that he had an apparent “totenkopf” tattoo on his chest — a skull image popularized by Adolf Hitler’s SS elite guard and adopted as the symbol of the SS-Totenkopfverbande, the branch that guarded the concentration camps.

While Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and — according to a recent poll — the majority of young Democrats recently indicated that they will stick with Platner despite his incendiary posts and apparent Nazi tattoo, Brown, a Democratic operative who worked on Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s failed presidential campaign, has revealed he is jumping ship.

Brown indicated that the move, first reported by Axios, was the result of new familial demands on his time.

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Brown said in a statement obtained by WGME-TV, “Graham is a dear friend. I started this campaign Tuesday but found out Friday we have a baby on the way.”

“Graham deserves someone who is 100% in on his race, and we want to lean into this new experience as a family, so it was best we step back sooner than later so Graham can get the manager he deserves,” Brown added.

Brown’s departure comes just after the Platner campaign reportedly began sending nondisclosure agreements to staffers.

McDonald told Politico that the campaign offered her $15,000 to sign an NDA, but the campaign suggested this amount was a severance payment.

A spokesperson for the campaign indicated that the consulting firm Spruce Street was recently hired to “take over campaign compliance to institute standard practices that had yet to be put into place. Some of those standards had to be instituted retroactively, but as a matter of course we do not require anyone previously involved in the campaign to do so,” apparently referring to signing an NDA.

Blaze News has reached out to Platner’s campaign for comment.

A SoCal Strategies Maine poll of 500 likely Democratic primary voters conducted October 21-25 found that Mills, who officially jumped into the race on Oct. 14, holds a 5-point lead over Platner, 41%-36%.

Prior to the news of Platner’s alleged Nazi tattoo — which the Mainer recently had inked over with supposed Celtic imagery — a University of New Hampshire Survey Center poll indicated that among those who plan to vote in the 2026 state Democratic primary, 58% of respondents said they would support him, and only 24% said they would support Mills.

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China has developed multiple ways to avoid using a global positioning system — if it needs to — in the event it launches an attack on the West’s systems.

Using a combination of Cold War-era technology and advanced GPS methodology, China — in conjunction with other American adversaries — has insulated itself from attacks on its systems in order to achieve an operational edge for its most crucial technologies.

‘The United States and a lot of our Western allies are kind of uniquely vulnerable right now.’

GPS provides the required background for telecommunications networks, electric grids, banking systems, and also mass transport. In addition, it guides precision munitions and military equipment, while providing conventional navigation for the average person in their car or smartphone.

Aiden Buzzetti, president of the pro-America nonprofit Bull Moose Project, told Return in an exclusive interview that the United States is out in the open in terms of a potential GPS-related attack.

“We know that the Russians jam GPS … in the Baltics, the commercial flights in Sweden and Finland, and that general region will run into issues because of GPS interference by the Russians,” Buzzetti told Return. “The North Koreans do it, too. Basically all of the the main adversaries of the United States in some way or another practice GPS jamming. Whether it’s Iran going after bases … it’s a pretty consistent theme across the board.”

Because of this ongoing threat, China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have all built a layer of protection surrounding their use of GPS.

“The United States and a lot of our Western allies are kind of uniquely vulnerable right now,” Buzzetti explained. “We rely a lot on the satellite signals, but in their own countries, they’ve been using some older technologies, some Cold War-era technologies and then newer terrestrial technologies to make sure that they’re not vulnerable to the same kind of attacks that we are.”

The technology Buzzetti is referring to ranges from unique and seemingly outdated to complex and futuristic.

RELATED: America doesn’t need to copy the Chinese. We need to beat them.

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In a report about securing the U.S. 5G network and GPS infrastructure, Bull Moose wrote that enemies of the state have been hard at work “future-proofing” their positioning, navigation, and timing capabilities.

The same countries have engaged in “navigation warfare,” the document alleges, but have continuously implemented the following systems to give themselves a decisive strategic edge in electronic warfare:

Loran-C radio navigation network

This radio navigation system, first implemented in the 1950s, uses a receiver to determine its position by listening to low-frequency radio signals transmitted by radio beacons.

Operating at 100 kHz, China has continued its ongoing usage and integrated its systems with South Korea’s and Russia’s to create the regional Far East Radio Navigation Service, established in 1989.

Simply put, Loran-C is an old radio system that ships and planes use to calculate distance through the help of signals from radio towers.

Inertial navigation systems/quantum positioning

These systems use motion sensor and a computer to continuously calculate position based off a previously determined fixed point. In quantum positioning for example, gyroscopes and accelerometers are used to determine velocity and orientation without the use of external signals, unlike a GPS.

Gyroscopes measure angular velocity, while an accelerator measures the proper acceleration of an object, meaning how fast an object is speeding up or slowing down.

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LEO satellites

In addition to these methods, China has significantly increased its use of low-Earth orbit satellites, launching dozens at a time as recently as this summer, along with launches dating back to 2024.

The result is now a network of LEO satellites that provides faster communication (internet), surveillance capabilities, and support for GPS systems that are much harder to jam than medium Earth orbit GPS signals.

Essentially, they could be considered China’s version of Starlink.

“China is ensuring that no single point of failure can knock out its navigation capabilities,” Buzzetti said, adding that if the United States does not work to shore up its systems, it could be vulnerable to attacks that take down entire categories of essential infrastructure. Because China has been diligent in ensuring it does not rely on GPS, he suggested, the United States should re-examine the companies that lobby and work within the United States on communications projects and, where necessary, abandon them.

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Mass shootings at and near a pair of historically black colleges and universities over their homecoming weekends Friday and Saturday left one dead and at least 11 wounded, authorities said.

The violence was an eerie repeat of tragedies that took place last fall at two HBCUs — also during their homecoming festivities — and some observers are concerned about a possible trend.

‘This is becoming an every-year occurrence at a lot of schools.’

1 dead, 6 wounded at Lincoln University

At Lincoln University in Chester County, Pennsylvania — about an hour and 15 minutes west of Philadelphia — one person was killed and at least six people were wounded after a shooting Saturday evening, WHP-TV reported.

Officials identified one suspect as 21-year-old Zecqueous Morgan-Thompson, the station said, adding that court documents indicated he was charged with carrying a firearm without a license and was being held in Chester County Prison on $25,000 bail.

Officials said they believe the suspects did not attend homecoming with the intent to commit a mass shooting, WHP reported.

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A 25-year-old male from Wilmington, Delaware, was identified as the deceased victim, the station said, adding that he reportedly was shot in the head. The six wounded victims are expected to survive and are in the same age range — between 20 and 25 years old, WHP said.

Lincoln University’s president in a Sunday statement said classes are canceled Monday in order to have a day of “healing and reflection,” the station said.

More from WHP:

Authorities have not released the names of any victims. The DA said they were in the process of speaking with victims to learn more about what happened during the shooting.

Lincoln University’s police chief said the shots were fired in the parking lot of the International Cultural Center on campus. He said at the time there was a tailgate ceremony taking place following the college’s homecoming football game. He said tents and other tables were set up throughout the lot.

5 wounded near Howard University

Five people were shot near Howard University — a historically black college and university in Washington, D.C. — on Friday night during its homecoming weekend, WRC-TV reported.

D.C. police said the victims — four adults and a teenager — were taken to hospitals and were expected to survive after the shooting at Georgia Avenue and Howard Place, the station said.

Witnesses told WRC that dozens of people ran down Georgia Avenue from the shooting scene to a McDonald’s after shots were fired.

RELATED: President Biden warns Howard University graduates: ‘The most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy’

According to a statement from Howard University, a fight or confrontation between two suspects occurred before shots were fired, WRC reported, adding that police said none of the shooting victims are Howard students.

The university added in a Saturday statement that nobody from Howard was involved in the shooting, the station reported.

WRC said the university’s Homecoming Kick-Off Alumni & Friends Welcome Reception and the Greek Step Show were being held Friday night.

‘Something’s going on’

The Root, in its report about the pair of shootings, quoted a TikTok user as remarking, “First Howard, now Lincoln, something’s going on.”

The outlet added, “Among the jokes and quippy TikToks is something darker … Black Americans are feeling unsafe.”

The Root said another TikTok user recalled shootings last year at HBCUs and wondered if this represents a trend. Another user said, “This is becoming an every-year occurrence at a lot of schools, smh,” according to the outlet.

Last fall, two shootings occurred at two HBCUs — also during their homecoming weekends.

A dozen people were shot — one of them fatally — at Tuskegee University in Alabama last November. The deceased individual, an 18-year-old, reportedly died at the scene. One man reportedly was charged with possession of a machine gun in connection with the shooting. A month prior, five people were shot — one fatally — in a crowded area near a campus concert at Albany State University in Georgia.

Following the 2024 HBCU shootings, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter penned an op-ed stating that there is a “growing and disturbing trend of gun violence that is threatening to change the nature of Black colleges’ most sacred institution — homecoming.”

The AJC reporter, Ernie Suggs, added:

In 2022, four people, including three students, were wounded near Clark Atlanta University after a drive-by shooting during a homecoming celebration.

In 2023, five people, including four students, were shot at Morgan State University. It was the third consecutive year that homecoming festivities at the Baltimore school were marred by gunfire.

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Under President Donald Trump and Secretary Brooke Rollins, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is not messing around. The department recently updated its website to include a text banner excoriating Senate Democrats for refusing to end the government shutdown, which will trigger a cutoff of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits on Nov. 1.

‘They can continue to hold out for health care for illegal aliens and gender mutilation procedures or reopen the government.’

The USDA website gets right to the point: “Senate Democrats have now voted 12 times to not fund the food stamp program. … Bottom line, the well has run dry. At this time, there will be no benefits issued November 01.”

SNAP runs through USDA and is funded through the Farm Bill, which is renewed every five years. The bill was last renewed in 2018, expiring in 2023. Congress has voted to extend it twice, with the last extension lasting through September 2025.

USDA managed to use leftover funds to keep SNAP funded through October, but now those funds are running out.

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USDA did not mince words in placing the blame for the SNAP cutoff: “We are approaching an inflection point for Senate Democrats. They can continue to hold out for health care for illegal aliens and gender mutilation procedures or reopen the government so mothers, babies, and the most vulnerable among us can receive critical nutrition.”

Senate Democrats have been holding out in hopes of extending Affordable Care Act benefits past the end of 2025 and reducing cuts made by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The SNAP program costs the federal government around $10.5 billion per month. About 42 million people in the United States receive SNAP benefits.

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Authorities have identified two of the three victims in a fatal crash in California last week involving an illegal alien truck driver.

‘If California had complied with the Secretary’s emergency rule, … he would have never been able to get behind his big rig.’

Clarence Nelson, a 76-year-old Pomona high school basketball coach, and his wife, Lisa Nelson, 69, were killed after a semitruck plowed into several vehicles on the I-10 freeway in Ontario on Tuesday, Fox News Digital reported. Four others were injured.

“This week, our community was deeply saddened by the tragic incident in the City of Ontario,” state Senator Susan Rubio (D) said. “It’s heartbreaking to learn that two of the lives lost were from my district — Pomona High School basketball coach Clarence Nelson and his wife, Lisa.”

“As a teacher, I know how a loss like this ripples through an entire school community,” she stated. “My heart goes out to their families, the Pomona Unified School District, and everyone mourning this tremendous loss.”

The driver of the truck, Jashanpreet Singh, is a 21-year-old Indian national in the United States illegally. He was suspected of speeding while being under the influence of drugs at the time of the crash.

The California Highway Patrol arrested Singh, and he is facing charges of driving under the influence of drugs and causing bodily injury and gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.

Singh pleaded not guilty on Friday. His next court appearance is scheduled for November 4. Singh requires an interpreter for his upcoming hearing, ABC News reported, citing court filings.

RELATED: The shocking details behind another fatal illegal alien truck crash

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement placed an arrest detainer against Singh. According to ICE, he crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in 2022 and was released into the country by the Biden administration.

The Department of Transportation accused California of violating federal law by issuing Singh a commercial driver’s license.

In September, DOT Secretary Sean Duffy announced the results of a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration audit that found “systemic non-compliance” among driver’s licensing agencies in several states, including California. Duffy ordered a pause of California’s issuance of non-domiciled CDLs, requiring the state to identify all unexpired licenses that fail to comply with regulations.

In mid-October, the DOT stated it was withholding roughly $40 million in federal funds from the state over its failure to comply with English language proficiency standards for commercial drivers.

“If California had complied with the Secretary’s emergency rule and prevented the upgrade of this individual’s driving privileges earlier this month, he would have never been able to get behind his big rig,” the DOT stated about the deadly crash involving Singh.

The department claimed that California initially issued Singh a non-domiciled CDL in June. However, it noted that because Singh was 20 years old at the time, his license included a “K restriction” that limited his driving to intrastate operations.

On October 15, when Singh turned 21, California removed the K restriction without applying the stricter standards DOT announced in its September final rule.

RELATED: Truckers push back on driver-shortage ‘myth’ that has led to flood of foreigners in long-haul industry

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“If California had complied with the Secretary’s emergency rule and prevented the upgrade of Singh’s driving privileges, Singh would have been required to return to the DMV (on or after October 15) to have the ‘K’ restriction removed and upgrade his CDL,” the DOT stated. “At that time, Singh would have been subject to the emergency rule and found ineligible to retain the non-domiciled CDL due to Singh’s status as an asylum seeker.”

The California DMV told Blaze News that the federal government approved Singh’s employment authorization, which it claimed was valid through August 2030. The DMV stated that it verified Singh’s documents using the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system, also known as SAVE. It also acknowledged that on September 26, the DOT issued an interim final rule that changed eligibility requirements.

“MISINFORMATION ALERT: The state does not determine commercial driver’s license eligibility,” the California State Transportation Agency wrote in a post on social media. “The FEDERAL government approves and renews all FEDERAL employment authorization documents that allows individuals to work and obtain commercial driver’s licenses.”

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The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has rolled out a new citizenship test that is now being criticized as too difficult for immigrants to pass — with some saying the difficulty may deter those looking for legal citizenship.

Applicants will be asked 20 questions out of a pool of 128 questions and must get 12 correct to pass.

The Washington Post compiled a 10-question quiz based on the newly revamped test, and Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck decided to test it out.

“Who wrote the Declaration of Independence,” the first question reads, with a multiple choice set of potential answers including “A) Benjamin Franklin, B) John Adams, C) Thomas Jefferson,” and “D) George Washington.”

“It’s multiple choice?” Glenn asks, shocked, before answering firmly, “Thomas Jefferson.”

The second question is “Name a power that is only for the federal government,” which Glenn again gets right. The answers provided were “A) Print paper money, B) Declare war, C) Make treaties, or D) All of the above.” The answer was D).

The third question is “What amendment says all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are U.S. citizens,” which Glenn also gets correct as the 14th Amendment.

The rest of the questions — “The American Revolution had many important events, name one”; “Why were ‘The Federalist Papers’ important?”; “James Madison is famous for many things, name one”; “When did all women get the right to vote?”; “Why did the United States enter the Persian Gulf War?”; “Name one example of an American innovation”; and “What is Memorial Day?” — were fairly simple, though a couple of them had Glenn and BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere slightly stumped.

“When did all women get the right to vote” had two answers in the multiple choice that Stu admits he had to guess on, as their right to vote was voted on in 1919 but wasn’t passed until 1920.

“This is a trick question,” Glenn says. “Cause I think the vote happened in 1919 or at least it started … but I think it finalized in 1920.”

“I would’ve guessed 1920, but I will be honest with you, total guess,” Stu agrees, guessing right.

“This is the type of thing, like what does this have to do with citizenship?” he asks.

“Why are the dates the important thing? It’s the story. It’s what’s behind the story. The range of dates in a 12-year period to me makes no difference,” he adds.

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The maker of Tylenol is fighting back against proposed changes to its label.

Kenvue, the American company behind Tylenol, says changes proposed by a recent petition would be “improper.”

‘Fight like hell not to take it.’

After the Trump administration linked the use of Tylenol during pregnancy to autism, the Informed Consent Action Network urged the FDA to “change the labels” for Tylenol and provide “crucial warnings for pregnant women and their care providers.”

No evidence for risk?

Kenvue responded directly to the petition in its own document and said that changing the labeling to its over-the-counter acetaminophen products in such a manner would be “unsupported by the scientific evidence and legally and procedurally improper.”

Requesting that the consumer-facing warning addresses a risk between “acetaminophen use and neurodevelopmental disorders” would allegedly go against the “overwhelming weight of the evidence contradicts the existence of any such risk,” Kenvue claimed.

The manufacturer called acetaminophen one of the “most studied medicines in history,” with evidence regarding its use during pregnancy being “continuously evaluated by the FDA for more than a decade.”

It further claimed that available evidence does not support “a causal association between acetaminophen use in pregnancy and neurodevelopmental disorders, including ASD and ADHD.”

RELATED: Tylenol’s concerns about possible autism risk date back more than a decade, documents reportedly show

Billion-dollar brand

CNN reported that Tylenol generates about $1 billion annually for Kenvue and is considered to be its top-selling brand.

If the FDA agrees with ICAN’s demand, Tylenol labels would need to be updated from its current instructions that say, “If pregnant or breast-feeding, ask a health professional before use.”

President Trump had previously said during a press conference in September that if used during pregnancy, Tylenol was linked to a “very increased risk of autism.”

“Fight like hell not to take it,” Trump added.

RELATED: ‘TrumpRx’ website to offer discounted drugs as part of landmark Big Pharma deal

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New autism drug

At the same time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had begun its process to approve a treatment for autism-related symptoms.

The FDA announced in late September that it had approved leucovorin calcium tablets for patients with “cerebral folate deficiency.”

The neurological condition affects folate transfer into the brain, the FDA said, adding that “individuals with cerebral folate deficiency have been observed to have developmental delays with autistic features.”

“We have witnessed a tragic four-fold increase in autism over two decades,” said FDA Commissioner Marty Makary. “Children are suffering and deserve access to potential treatments that have shown promise. We are using gold standard science and common sense to deliver for the American people.”

According to the Mayo Clinic, leucovorin has a few side effects, all of which are listed as rare. These include skin rash, hives or itching, and wheezing. “Convulsions (seizures)” are also listed.

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris has teased another presidential run despite her historic 2024 loss and widespread unpopularity.

Even after her brutal electoral loss in November, Harris said in a recent interview that her political career was “not done” and that serving in public office was “in [her] bones.”

‘They put you as an outsider, even behind Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson.’

“I am not done,” Harris said. “I have lived my entire career a life of service, and it’s in my bones, and there are many ways to serve.”

“I have not decided yet what I will do in the future beyond what I am doing right now.”

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Although Harris teased the idea of being the first female president, the interviewer gave her a blunt reality check. The BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg pushed back, pointing out that she’s simply not popular enough to be a politically viable candidate.

“But when you look at the bookies’ odds, they put you as an outsider, even behind Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson,” Kuenssberg said. “I mean, is that underestimating you?”

“I think there are all kinds of polls that will tell you a variety of things,” Harris said. “I’ve never listened to polls. If I listened to polls, I would have not run for my first office or my second office. And I certainly wouldn’t be sitting here in this interview.”

Losing to Trump in all seven swing states and in the popular vote indicated a resounding rejection from the American people. Even still, Harris seems to remain hopeful of the presidency, which critics attribute to simple self-delusion.

“Kamala came across as a whiny, delusional, angry and bitter woman who cannot accept that she was a terrible candidate who got the shellacking she deserved at the ballot box,” Piers Morgan said in a post on X. “No chance she ever gets another go at it.”

RELATED: Democrats feign outrage as Trump administration shutdown layoffs hit: ‘They seem to be enjoying it’

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Although Harris made clear that preliminary polls won’t deter her from weighing her options, the failed candidate may have some stiff competition.

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California also hinted at a presidential bid in a recent interview with CBS, saying he would be lying if he didn’t acknowledge the possibility.

“Who the hell knows?” Newsom said. “I’m looking forward to who presents themselves in 2028 and who meets that moment. That’s the question for the American people.”

When pressed about whether he would consider running after the 2026 midterms, Newsom admitted that it was a real possibility.

“Yeah, I’d be lying otherwise,” Newsom replied.

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The Department of Homeland Security fired back at former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) after she and other California Democrats laid out plans for the arrest of federal immigration agents for supposed violations of state laws.

Brooke Jenkins, the San Francisco district attorney, said her office already has plans to arrest federal agents should they use force in her city as they did during violent protests and riots in Los Angeles and Chicago. Jenkins explained the San Francisco Police Department is on board with the idea in cases of “clear, excessive use of force.”

‘If politicians and activists don’t like the law, they should try to change it instead of demonizing our brave men and women in uniform.’

DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin called the plans “gross” in a statement to Blaze News, adding, “America’s brave ICE and Border Patrol agents put their lives on the line every day to enforce U.S. law and arrest the worst of the worst — including gang members, rapists, and murderers.”

RELATED: House Democrats’ ICE ‘tracker’ will ‘put our lives in danger’: DHS agent

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“From comparisons to the modern-day Nazi gestapo to glorifying rioters, the vilification of ICE must stop. Nancy Pelosi’s rhetoric is putting a target on the backs of federal law enforcement officers who are already facing a 1,000% increase in assaults against them. Our law enforcement is ENFORCING federal law — if politicians and activists don’t like the law, they should try to change it instead of demonizing our brave men and women in uniform,” McLaughlin added.

The Department of Justice sent a letter to Pelosi and Jenkins warning them that their plans violate federal law and that there will be consequences should any state or local police arrest federal agents while lawfully carrying out their duties.

The heightened threat level DHS personnel are facing was realized in the San Francisco Bay last week after a driver apparently attempted to ram a U-Haul truck into a checkpoint at Coast Guard Island Alameda. Coast Guard security personnel shot at the suspect after he did not listen to verbal commands to stop.

“The truck driver was wounded in the stomach and is being held for mental health evaluation. A bystander was struck by a fragment, treated at a local hospital, and released,” DHS said about the shooting.

Anti-ICE attackers have increasingly used vehicles to allegedly ram federal agents’ vehicles or block their path on the road during operations. Attacks in that fashion have taken place in cities such as Chicago and Los Angeles.

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Imagine dawn breaking over Nevada’s badlands. A herd of wild horses charges across the sagebrush, manes whipping in the wind — living emblems of American freedom, the soul of the West. Then the silence breaks. Helicopter blades thunder overhead, driving the animals into traps. Foals stumble. Mares collapse. Families scatter in terror.

This isn’t a scene from frontier history. It’s happening now — a government-funded assault on one of the most enduring symbols of the American spirit. The Bureau of Land Management’s wild horse roundups have become routine cruelty disguised as “management.” And with the agency preparing its most aggressive operations yet, the time to act is now.

No more federal helicopters terrorizing symbols of liberty while criminals flood our markets with cheap ‘beef.’

Congress once recognized the value of these animals. The 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act promised protection and stewardship, not slaughter and imprisonment. But decades of mismanagement have turned that promise into a taxpayer-funded nightmare.

The Bureau’s Wild Horse and Burro Program devours $142 million a year to chase, capture, and confine herds that should roam free. The agency calls it conservation. It looks more like erasure — the slow extermination of the very wildness that once defined the West.

From Nevada into your ground beef

More than 64,000 wild horses and burros now languish in government holding pens — taxpayer-funded cages that solve nothing. The Bureau of Land Management calls it “management,” but it’s warehousing life. Meanwhile, the agency ignores real issues like overgrazing, water misallocation, and habitat loss.

In Nevada, the carnage is especially stark. Last fiscal year, federal contractors ripped 2,196 horses from the Triple B Complex. Twenty-seven died on-site, collapsing under the stress of helicopter chases. The rest face grim odds in confinement, where mortality rates hover around 12%. Videos from inside these facilities show workers kicking panicked horses — proof that “humane management” has devolved into cruelty.

The story doesn’t end in captivity. Many of these captured horses end up in the slaughter pipeline. Sold at auction for as little as $5 to $25 a head, they cross borders into Mexico and Canada, where their meat re-enters U.S. markets illegally — blended into ground beef at a time of soaring prices.

This scandal isn’t just about animal welfare; it’s about corruption and public health. The same pipeline that traffics horse meat often intersects with drug and human smuggling networks, all subsidized by American taxpayers.

Actress and horse rescuer Dawn Olivieri, known for her roles in “Yellowstone” and “Homestead,” has called out the hypocrisy: With beef prices at record highs, why is the government allowing wild horse meat to undercut the market — and endanger consumers?

Call for accountability

The federal response has been a blueprint for more misery. The fiscal year 2026 presidential budget proposal guts the program by over 25%, slashing funding from $142 million to $100 million, all while dangling lethal options like euthanasia for healthy herds.

Nevada’s herds are ground zero. The Bureau of Land Management’s latest bombshell is a plan to yank nearly 5,000 wild horses from the Callaghan Complex using those same inhumane helicopter drives, ignoring fresh data and science on fertility controls or habitat restoration.

This isn’t land management. It’s a war on wildlife, propping up special interests while ranchers and communities bear the brunt of unbalanced ecosystems and federal overreach.

Demand action now

Fixing this problem requires more than outrage — it demands bold, commonsense conservatism. Cut the waste, restore the range, and honor the law’s original intent.

Start by releasing healthy captives into the designated herd areas envisioned by Congress in 1971. Doing so would ease the $142 million burden now falling on taxpayers and return the animals to the land they’re meant to roam.

Replace helicopter roundups with proven, humane population control. PZP vaccines work. They prevent overbreeding without cruelty and cost a fraction of constant captures.

Then empower local communities. Offer tax credits to ranchers who adopt sustainable grazing practices. Build revenue through eco-tourism — guided mustang trails, for instance — and expand adoption programs that put horses to work without the whip.

Finally, shut down the slaughter pipeline for good. Enforce the Save America’s Forgotten Equines Act to ban horse meat exports nationwide and close the kill-buyer loopholes that make butchery profitable.

RELATED: ASPCA, Humane Society live large on your donations, warns watchdog

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This battle echoes larger fights against government bloat. Just as we decry asset forfeiture abuses that seize property without due process, we must end the Bureau of Land Management’s unchecked grabs of Nevada’s heritage. Fiscal hawks know the math: $142 million squandered yearly could fund tax relief for veterans or bolster border security.

No more federal helicopters terrorizing living symbols of liberty while criminals flood our markets with cheap “beef.”

The establishment thrives on apathy, but Nevadans, from ranchers to rescuers, aren’t buying it. Nevada’s wild horses aren’t Washington’s playthings — they’re our legacy. Let’s reclaim the range before the dust settles for good.

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Recent reports from “60 Minutes” have pulled back the digital curtain on a sobering truth. China is no longer just stealing data; it is mapping America’s weaknesses— its grids, its ground, its very geography. Retired General Tim Haugh, former head of both the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, revealed that Chinese hackers have infiltrated American computer networks to an astonishing degree. They have targeted everything from utilities and pipelines to phone systems and local water plants. Even Littleton, Massachusetts, a town of barely 10,000, was hacked. The FBI found Beijing’s fingerprints deep inside its water and electric control systems.

It’s often said that wars are fought for territory. What’s new is that the territory no longer needs to be conquered; it can be connected.

If “they’re willing to go after that small provider that doesn’t have a national security connection,” Haugh said, “that means every target is on the list.” He’s right. In the cyber age, you don’t need to drop bombs to cripple a nation. You only need to flip the right digital switch.

Beijing could trigger chaos — blackouts, water contamination, grid failures — forcing Washington to fight panic while fighting a war.

The threat has moved beyond networks and into the soil itself. Chinese state-linked companies have quietly bought hundreds of thousands of acres of American farmland, often near military bases, data centers, and missile silos. It’s not agriculture but access.

Former national security official David Feith, who has served in both Trump administrations, warned that China’s land purchases could become launchpads for espionage or even sabotage. With today’s technology, a few shipping containers, drones, or concealed transmitters on “farmland” could paralyze a base or poison a water supply. “It’s an entirely new way of war,” Feith told “60 Minutes.”

Consider the precedent. In Ukraine, drones smuggled across borders struck Russian bombers. What’s near can strike what’s vital. The same principle applies here, where the developing pattern is unmistakable. From hacking Littleton’s utilities to purchasing property beside Air Force bases in North Dakota and Wyoming, Beijing’s strategy is not a flurry but a campaign measured in decades.

China doesn’t improvise; it incubates. Twenty-five-year plans are routine. Its slow, subterranean siege against American security marries patience with precision. Even crypto mines have become camouflage. So-called “data centers” owned by Chinese-backed firms are colossal power drains, often located near military facilities. Feith warns that they can be used to spy on communications or overload local grids.

Why does China do this? Not for trade or treasure, but for leverage in crisis. General Haugh calls it pre-positioning: If conflict erupts in the Indo-Pacific, Beijing could trigger chaos at home — blackouts, water contamination, grid failures — forcing Washington to fight panic while fighting a war.

There’s a dark brilliance to it. Attack the ordinary to paralyze the exceptional.

The battlefield is now your back yard. Across the United States, cyber leadership posts sit vacant and agencies remain demoralized. General Haugh himself was dismissed after Laura Loomer accused him of disloyalty for having served under Biden. It was political theater when what was needed was practical strength. You can loathe Biden and still love the republic; the two are not mutually exclusive. But partisanship has become a kind of paralysis, blinding so many to the broader threat.

RELATED: Chinese SIM farms are radicalizing Americans and destabilizing society, intel experts say

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So what should the Trump administration do?

First, secure the land before it secures you. Close the loopholes that let adversaries buy acreage near sensitive sites. Twenty-nine states already restrict foreign land ownership; make it 50. Ownership of soil is sovereignty. Selling it to a strategic foe is suicide by acreage.

Second, treat cyber defense like civil defense. Rebuild the firewall of faith in government competence. Incentivize companies to modernize their systems and share intelligence. For too long, agencies have hoarded information like monks guarding manuscripts. They should be arming every county, every company, every citizen with the tools to repel an attack.

Third, punish corporate complicity. Any American firm fronting for Chinese capital should face criminal penalties. Beijing doesn’t buy farmland to grow corn. It buys it to grow control.

Fourth, revive deterrence through dominance. China respects strength and exploits hesitation. The administration must make it clear that interference with its utilities or infrastructure will meet a proportional — or greater—response. The Great Firewall cuts both ways.

Finally, restore competence at the top. Reinstating seasoned experts like Haugh or empowering a new cyber czar with wartime authority would signal that the era of political purges in defense agencies is over. A nation that cannot trust its guardians will soon be guarded by its enemies.

Still, the challenge isn’t only technical. It is one of will and vigilance. Americans have grown used to comfort, assuming safety is permanent. But as these reports show, peace without preparation is just permission to be plundered.

And yet there’s a faint humor in our hubris. We let Chinese-backed crypto farms bloom beside missile bases and then wonder why the lights flicker. We ban plastic straws to “save” the planet, but sell farmland to the very regime paving it over.

Faith teaches that temptation often comes disguised as opportunity. The same is true in geopolitics. The common assumption is that China invades. Wrong. It integrates. And by the time we notice, it’s already inside the gate, serving sweet-and-sour sovereignty with a side of spyware.

America must wake up. The next Pearl Harbor won’t come by sea or sky. It will come through dead screens, dry taps, darkened cities, and finally dead bodies.

The tools to prevent that silence exist. The question is whether we have the discipline to use them. Because the greatest danger isn’t what China can take. It’s what America might give away, one password, one acre, one act of indifference at a time.

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The Council on American-Islamic Relations is up in arms over the imminent deportation of Sami Hamdi, a radical Islamic agitator from the United Kingdom who allegedly suggested the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attacks on Israel were worth celebrating.

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, confirmed in a statement to Blaze News that as the result of work undertaken by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, “this individual’s visa was revoked and he is in ICE custody pending removal.”

As of Monday morning, the online Immigration and Customs Enforcement database does not presently have a Sami Hamdi from the U.K. listed as being in custody.

‘How many of you felt the euphoria, Allahu akbar?’

“Under President Trump, those who support terrorism and undermine American national security will not be allowed to work or visit this country,” continued McLaughlin. “It’s commonsense.”

The State Department said in a statement, “We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who support terrorism and actively undermine the safety of Americans.”

Hamdi’s detention came just days after the RAIR Foundation USA published a damning report concerning the British national’s history of radical remarks and associations, stating, “Every appearance Hamdi makes in America is not merely a speech — it operates effectively as a deployment node in an organized influence and mobilization program serving a foreign militant Islamic cause on U.S. soil. His talks are not educational but tactical.”

During an October 2023 panel discussion at a British mosque, Hamdi suggested that rather than pitying the Palestinians, Muslims should “celebrate the victory,” apparently referencing the Hamas terror attacks that claimed the lives of over 1,200 people in Israel including 46 Americans.

“Allah has shown the world that no normalization can erase the Palestinian cause,” said Hamdi. “When everybody thought it was finished, it’s roaring. How many of you feel it in your hearts when you got the news that it happened? How many of you felt the euphoria, Allahu akbar? How many of you felt it? Why did you feel it? Because the despair vanished.”

RELATED: Nigerian Christians are being murdered by Islamic radicals. This congressman has had enough.

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Hamdi also suggested that the reports of rapes by Hamas terrorists were lies.

Although Hamdi has suggested that his remarks were misrepresented and has denied that he celebrated the events of Oct. 7, he has since characterized the Hamas terror attacks as a “natural consequence of the oppression that was being put on the Palestinians.”

Blaze News has reached out to Hamdi for comment.

Hamdi, the managing director of a group that purportedly “advises on political environments across the globe,” spoke on Saturday at the Sacramento Valley chapter of CAIR’s annual banquet and was scheduled to speak to CAIR Florida on Sunday.

Federal immigration officials detained Hamdi Sunday morning at San Francisco International Airport, cutting short his speaking tour.

CAIR, whose co-founder said in a speech that the Hamas terror attacks on unarmed women and children made him “happy,” condemned Hamdi’s detention and called for his release.

The organization — which the Justice Department named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism financing case — stated that “abducting a prominent British Muslim journalist and political commentator on a speaking tour in the United States because he dared to criticize the Israeli government’s genocide is a blatant affront to free speech.”

“Our attorneys and partners are working to address this injustice. We call on ICE to immediately account for and release Mr. Hamdi, whose only ‘crime’ is criticizing a foreign government that committed genocide,” continued the Washington, D.C.-based group. “Our nation must stop abducting critics of the Israeli government at the behest of unhinged Israel First bigots. This is an Israel First policy, not an America First policy, and it must end.”

The Muslim Council of Britain has signaled common cause with CAIR and called for the U.K. government to “take urgent diplomatic action” to ensure “Hamdi’s rights are protected.”

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Since taking office in December 2023, Argentina’s self-proclaimed “anarcho-capitalist” President Javier Milei has successfully taken a “chainsaw” to his leftist predecessors’ ruinous policies and rescued his nation from an economic death spiral.

Despite delivering significant results, the fate of the Argentine president’s libertarian agenda and his nation’s continued support from the U.S. were conditional on the success of Milei’s Freedom Advances party in Sunday’s midterm elections.

Fortunately for Milei and his anti-left alliance with the United States, the Freedom Advances party prevailed over its leftist rivals in almost every district in the country, securing nearly 41% of the national vote — far and above the result reportedly expected by the Milei government.

Milei’s party picked up 64 seats in the lower house of the Argentine National Congress and 12 seats in the Senate. The ruling party exceeded the threshold necessary to sustain Milei’s presidential vetoes.

President Donald Trump congratulated Milei “on his Landslide Victory” early Monday morning, noting, “Our confidence in him was justified by the People of Argentina.”

“He’s making us all look good. Congratulations Javier!” added Trump.

RELATED: Trump’s Caribbean ‘drug wars’ are forging a new Monroe Doctrine

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“The [Argentine] president is fighting 100 years of bad economic history and policy,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at an Oct. 14 Cabinet meeting where Milei was present. “There’s a midterm election coming up. We think he’s going to do quite well and then continue his reform agenda.”

Bessent indicated that whereas the Obama administration “wasted” an opportunity to support Latin American governments when they moved center-right politically, the Trump administration is forming economic bridges with like-minded nations that “want to do the right thing.”

‘The entire country confirmed its will to irreversibly change the destiny of our homeland.’

In the case of Argentina, whose stability Bessent indicated was “in the strategic interest of the United States,” American support recently came in the form of a $20 billion currency swap — a lifeline bypassing the International Monetary Fund that is aimed at economically stabilizing the country — and the possibility of $20 billion more in private credit.

Trump underscored the importance of the election and noted that if Milei and his party didn’t win, the U.S. would “not be generous with Argentina.”

“Our approvals are somewhat subject to who wins the election because if a socialist or — in the case of New York City — a communist wins, you feel a lot differently about making an investment,” said Trump, suggesting further that the U.S. wouldn’t waste money supporting a government kneecapped by or captive to a leftist philosophy.

Milei noted in his victory speech that when the new lawmakers take their congressional seats in December, Argentina “will have the most reformist Congress in Argentina,” and his party will work to make Argentina “the most free country in the world,” reported the Buenos Aires Herald.

“Today, the entire country confirmed its will to irreversibly change the destiny of our homeland,” added Milei.

Florida Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R) stated on Sunday, “Milei is the moral reference for the hemisphere, the exact opposite of Maduro. He’s proving that freedom, capitalism, and democracy still work. President Trump recognizes that, and together we can help Latin America prosper with those same values.”

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A star chef from the show “Top Chef” tried to raise outrage over the demolition for President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom renovation, but he was mocked and ridiculed instead.

Tom Colicchio posted a photograph he said was from the East Room of the White House, which is being renovated to make way for a large ballroom.

Colicchio’s tweet was also slapped with a community note clarifying the problem with his assertion.

“My wife and I in the East Wing. I can’t believe it is gone,” he posted on his official social media account.

However, as many quickly noted, the photograph was not from the East Room at all, but actually from the Diplomatic Reception Room at the main White House residence.

“You’re in luck! That’s not the East Wing,” responded Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah.)

“I’m thrilled to be able to tell you that that room is not in the East Wing and not gone,” replied Mollie Hemingway of the Federalist.

“Imagine being so stupid you think the East and West Wings are party of the actual White House and not additional offices connected by hallways so you don’t have to go outside to get to them,” responded podcaster Derek Hunter.

Colicchio’s tweet was also slapped with a community note clarifying the problem with his assertion.

“This is clearly the Diplomatic Reception Room, which can be found in the main White House building, NOT the East Wing. A picture featuring the painting, fireplace, and bits of the wallpaper can be found here,” the note read, with a link to the White House.

The embarrassing episode also led to some posting sarcastic versions of the tweet with photos from movies or photoshops. A particularly humorous one posted an AI image of a man and a woman having a picnic on the wing of a plane.

“My wife and I on the east wing. I can’t believe it’s gone,” the tweet reads.

RELATED: Liz Warren launches investigation into Trump’s White House ballroom — and the backlash is hilarious

Democrats and others have accused the president of possibly accepting donations from corporations for the fund to build the ballroom as a way of gaining favor with his administration.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Democrats have opened an investigation into the donors for the ballroom in order to assess whether any corruption is involved.

Colicchio and the other chef judges made headlines in 2018 when they wore pins supporting Planned Parenthood during one episode of the show.

Blaze News has reached out to Colicchio for a comment about the community note.

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A former teacher was arrested in Florida for alleged child sex crimes committed in another state.

Jordan Kacie Hawk, 26, was arrested Tuesday.

‘The incidents took place earlier this year when Ms. Hawk was teaching at a local school and involved a juvenile student.’

WPLG-TV reported that Hawk was “wanted by police in the Charlotte suburb of Kannapolis, North Carolina.”

The arrest report said Hawk had an active warrant from the Kannapolis Police Department since Oct. 17.

Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation records show Hawk is being detained for a fugitive warrant and awaiting extradition out of state.

The Kannapolis Police Department in North Carolina told Blaze News that Hawk was charged with four counts of taking indecent liberties with a minor.

“The incidents took place earlier this year when Ms. Hawk was teaching at a local school and involved a juvenile student,” police in North Carolina stated.

N.C. police said Hawk is “expected to be extradited to North Carolina and taken into custody by the Kannapolis Police Department.”

WPLG reported that Hawk “indicated that she wanted to waive extradition proceedings to North Carolina” during a court appearance Wednesday.

RELATED: Female ex-teacher, cheerleading coach indicted, accused of sexual misconduct with student

Hawk reportedly lost her job at a Florida elementary school.

Citing a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office arrest report, WPLG reported that Hawk was listed as a social studies teacher at Miami Lakes K-8 Center.

A spokesperson for Miami-Dade County Public Schools told WTVJ-TV that it was “aware of the arrest of a Miami Lakes K-8 Center employee for an alleged incident that occurred out of state.”

“M-DCPS is cooperating with authorities involved in this matter,” the school district spokesperson added. “The individual’s employment has been terminated and will be prohibited from future employment with this district.”

Authorities in North Carolina have 30 days to pick up Hawk, or else she will be released from jail in Miami, according to WTVJ.

The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Blaze News.

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In a shocking segment on Fox News’ “The Will Cain Show,” host Will Cain points out the divide growing in New York City between not just left versus right — but American-born versus foreign-born.

“A new poll shows Democrat socialist Zohran Mamdani dominating among foreign-born voters, winning 62% of their support. But among American-born New Yorkers, former Governor Andrew Cuomo leads the field by double digits,” Cain explains.

“According to the Census Bureau, 36% of New York’s population has been foreign-born since 2006,” he adds.

“I think that it’s a little naive to not be alarmed by this,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says. “Because when you are importing a lot of people who, it turns out, don’t share your values and have values actually antithetical to this country, it really shouldn’t come as a surprise.”

“I mean, we see the blueprint for this right now in the U.K. You see London, you see how they’ve taken over some of these towns. They have literal no-go zones there. Several decades ago, if a Republican walked around saying, ‘But you realize the end result of this will be no-go zones,’ they were laughed out of the room and called Islamaphobes, but we see this is actually happening,” she explains.

Publisher of Texas Score Card Michael Quinn Sullivan points out that potentially more concerning than those foreign-born New Yorkers supporting Mamdani are the American-born citizens supporting him.

“How have we failed them to the extent that they’re willing to vote for someone who is so antithetical to our principles?” he asks.

Unfortunately, the votes of New Yorkers in particular have very “far-reaching ramifications in the entire country,” Gonzales explains.

“I mean, you’re talking about the financial capital of the world that could potentially elect a mayor who’s palling around with a terrorist. I mean, an actual terrorist. We’re talking about the World Trade Center bombing,” she continues.

“Unfortunately,” she says of the foreign-born citizens voting for Mamdani, “we’re not talking about the immigrants of the past who were ready to assimilate, who came here because they believed in the American dream. We are talking about people with a far different motive and motivation,” she says, adding, “And I think we need to recognize that.”

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The Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a generic version of mifepristone, a drug used in chemical abortions, isn’t just another bureaucratic misstep. It’s a profound betrayal of pro-life Americans and a reckless disregard for public safety.

The agency has now accelerated the mass production of a drug that ends unborn lives and carries serious risks for women. In doing so, the FDA’s bureaucracy has made clear that it serves ideological interests, not the citizens or the administration it is supposed to answer to.

Every life matters — both the woman and the child. Without moral clarity in policy, America risks losing its foundation altogether.

Only days before the approval, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary publicly pledged to conduct a full safety review of mifepristone. That commitment lasted less than a week. By fast-tracking the generic drug, the agency reversed its own position without completing the promised review.

Mifepristone is no ordinary medication. It is designed to be 100% lethal to an unborn child and carries documented risks to the mother, including severe bleeding and infection. The FDA’s reversal isn’t a matter of procedure — it’s a moral failure dressed up as administrative routine.

For millions of Americans who value the sanctity of life, this decision feels like déjà vu: another Washington agency disregarding its duty under the cover of “regulatory process.”

The bureaucracy’s excuse doesn’t hold

Pro-life Americans — one of the largest and most enduring constituencies in the nation — have been ignored by the bureaucratic elite for decades. When confronted, officials claim they’re merely “following the law.” But the FDA has wide discretion to delay or deny authorization for drugs that raise ethical or safety concerns.

Choosing not to use that authority isn’t neutrality. It’s cowardice. It’s the decision to shrug and look away while a drug designed to end life gains wider reach.

This approval darkens what should have been a pro-life administration’s legacy. Mifepristone’s purpose could not be clearer: It ends human life. Authorizing a generic version without exhaustive review prioritizes ideology over science and convenience over conscience.

Between promise and practice

The FDA insists that further studies will follow, but the promise rings hollow. As 17 U.S. senators recently pointed out, the safety study Makary pledged during his confirmation took six months to even be announced — and was done quietly, with little public notice.

RELATED: Trump’s battle for the abortion pill — and why it’s more dangerous than you’ve been told

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That delay reveals the real problem: a deep-state bureaucracy operating with impunity, detached from the leadership and values of the nation it serves. When bureaucrats make decisions that contradict both policy and conscience, accountability becomes nonnegotiable.

A call to accountability and courage

The FDA must immediately identify and remove the officials responsible for this approval. It should also reconsider mifepristone’s production and distribution altogether. A drug designed to end life has no place in a nation that claims to defend the vulnerable.

The stakes could not be higher. Every life matters — both the woman and the child. Without moral clarity in policy, America risks losing its foundation altogether.

This moment demands courage, not compliance. Those who value life must stand firm, demand accountability, and work toward a future where the institutions of government defend life instead of destroying it.

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The Trump administration has made Main Street a central priority — and limiting the reach of the Corporate Transparency Act’s Beneficial Ownership Information rule was one of its best decisions so far. The rule required small businesses to hand over sensitive ownership data to the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, under threat of heavy fines and criminal penalties. Large corporations were mostly exempt.

After small-business owners and pro-business lawmakers protested, the administration moved quickly. In March, it issued an interim rule exempting U.S. small businesses and citizens from the reporting mandate. Treasury then opened a public comment period to shape a final rule. That comment window closed five months ago, and yet the final rule still hasn’t arrived.

The administration must not allow deep-state bureaucrats and bad actors to stall this reform. Small businesses need clarity and relief — now, not after another election cycle.

Small-business owners want the exemption locked in for good — not left vulnerable to reversal by a future administration. Ohio Republican Rep. Warren Davidson’s Repealing Big Brother Overreach Act, with nearly 200 co-sponsors, aims to make that exemption permanent. But some lawmakers say they can’t codify until Treasury finalizes the rule. The delay is holding back certainty for millions of entrepreneurs.

Many of those same business owners also want FinCEN to purge the personal data they already submitted before the exemption took effect. With hacking and misuse always possible, they’re demanding the government delete the information it never should have collected.

FinCEN Director Andrea Gacki acknowledged the concern during a congressional hearing. “Along with the resolution of this rule, we also intend to resolve questions around the data that we have collected and dispose of data that is no longer legally required,” Gacki said.

A purge appears to be on the table — but without urgency from Treasury, the data remains at risk.

Gacki told Congress the rule would be finalized “in the upcoming year.” Whether that means 2025 or 2026 is anyone’s guess. The longer the Treasury Department drags its feet, the closer we get to the midterms — and the less likely Congress is to act in time.

Brian Reardon, president of the S Corporation Association, put it bluntly: “Intentions are well and good, but we need action. Sixteen million small businesses filed their owners’ personal information under the old rules. The only way to protect that information is to purge the database now.”

RELATED: Europe shows us what happens when bureaucrats win

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The National Federation of Independent Business agrees. NFIB’s Josh McLeod said, “President Trump was right to call BOI egregious, invasive, and an economic menace. Unfortunately, a future administration can simply rewrite this burdensome mandate back into existence. Small businesses urgently need the Trump administration and Congress to repeal the CTA and destroy the data.”

Small businesses remain the backbone of the U.S. economy. Reducing legal uncertainty and lifting needless regulatory burdens should stay at the top of Congress’ agenda. Finalizing the CTA BOI rule — and permanently securing the exemptions for small businesses and citizens — is an easy, commonsense win for Main Street.

The Trump administration must not allow deep-state bureaucrats and bad actors to stall this reform. Small businesses need clarity and relief — now, not after another election cycle.

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Old habits die hard. The Oversight Project filed another lawsuit against the FBI today. During the Biden years, we were in court constantly, suing the bureau more than a dozen times over weaponization and abuse. Many of the cases we fought then connect directly to the scandals now surfacing under the Trump administration. We were over the target back then — and Washington doesn’t do coincidences.

But this case is different.

We’re suing the FBI to force transparency — not for politics, but for accountability. Because if we don’t fix this now, we’ll look back and wish we had.

Monday’s lawsuit strikes at a deeper problem: the FBI’s claim that it has been “reformed” and is now “the most transparent in history.” That phrase is absurd on its face. Compared with the post-COINTELPRO reforms and the Church Committee era, today’s FBI is anything but transparent.

We’re suing because the bureau has built a system designed to violate the Freedom of Information Act. Over time, the FBI has developed a “pattern and practice” of breaking the law to hide information. Reporters across the political spectrum can tell you the same thing. The bureau stonewalls, delays, and hides behind boilerplate responses that make a mockery of the law.

Our case asks the federal judiciary to step in and force the FBI to fix this — to overhaul its FOIA process and follow the law it routinely ignores. This isn’t a step we took lightly. For nearly a year, we tried to resolve these problems through other channels. But the bureau’s “fixes” never came.

Bureaucratic shell game

The FBI has perfected a set of tricks to avoid scrutiny. It uses canned denials for well-defined requests, ignores the public-interest standard written into law, and buries documents under layers of redaction. Even by Washington’s anemic transparency standards, the FBI stands out as the worst offender.

This isn’t theoretical. In practice, the Oversight Project submitted requests naming specific agents — like the infamous Timothy Thibault — and identifying internal systems such as the Lync messaging platform. We asked for communications containing key terms like “Republican” or “Mar-a-Lago.” Those are precisely the requests the bureau continues to battle with gusto.

FBI Director Kash Patel deserves credit for some high-profile disclosures, but we can’t depend on him to keep discovering incriminating documents in “burn bags” or forgotten closets. That’s not transparency — that’s triage. The FBI cannot investigate itself or selectively release information without feeding public cynicism.

The point of FOIA is citizen oversight — not bureaucratic discretion. In a republic, the people are supposed to control government institutions, not the other way around.

A pattern of abuse

If the FBI had obeyed its own transparency standards all along, Americans would already know far more about the scandals that shook their confidence in government: Russiagate, the Mar-a-Lago raid, Operation Arctic Frost, the targeting of Catholic parishes and concerned parents, and the January 6 excesses. Each of these was compounded by secrecy and delay.

RELATED: Video sleuth challenges FBI Jan. 6 pipe-bomb narrative, unearths new evidence

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The bureau’s institutional resistance to disclosure doesn’t just protect bad actors — it perpetuates them. It allows corruption to metastasize under color of national security and procedure.

Time to clean house

At some point, the FBI will no longer be in Kash Patel’s hands. That’s why reform should happen now while the issue is in the public eye. The systems that enable secrecy and abuse must be dismantled before the next crisis hits.

We’re suing the FBI to force transparency — not for politics, but for accountability. Because if we don’t fix this now, we’ll look back and wish we had.

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Texas’ Senate Bill 12 is a no-brainer. Dubbed the “Parents’ Bill of Rights,” the law has four simple principles for public schools:

1. No DEI training: Schools can’t assign DEI duties or allow race-/gender-based training. Critical race theory ideas about racial superiority or guilt are banned.

2. No sex education without parental consent: Schools cannot provide any instruction on human sexuality, including topics like sexual health or reproduction, without explicit written parental consent.

3. No social transitioning help: Staff can’t help students change names, pronouns, or appearance to match a different gender without parents knowing.

4. No gender-/sex-focused clubs: Clubs focused on sexual orientation or gender identity are banned from recognition, funding, and use of school facilities.

Sara Gonzales — BlazeTV host of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” and the vice president of Texas Family Project, a nonprofit organization aiming to protect children from radical ideology — says SB 12 is “a very reasonable law … to anyone who isn’t a total creep.”

And yet, there are people who are adamant on fighting SB 12. One of those people is Texas Tribune reporter Lindsey Byman, who posted this on Wednesday:

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As a parent of two Texas schoolchildren, Sara was much obliged to answer Lindsey’s question. In a lengthy, scathing email, Sara told the Texas Tribune journalist exactly how SB 12 has impacted Texans.

Lindsey,

My name is Sara Gonzales, and I have two school-aged boys in Texas. I am also the vice president of Texas Family Project, a nonprofit organization here in the state that has advocated for SB 12 — and much more — to shield innocent children from the predatory claws of radical ideologues.

You asked to hear how the “new policies limiting the discussion/expression of trans identities at public TX K-12 schools” have affected Texans. As you likely already know — or should if you weren’t so blinded by your obvious agenda — this policy simply protects children from being socially transitioned at school, in secret, without their parents’ knowledge. It also prevents teachers from otherwise having conversations with minor children related to their sexual preferences. Any adult who is not a morally bankrupt, mentally ill degenerate would cheer this as a reasonable measure to protect children from harm.

To be clear, I am absolutely thrilled that public school teachers can no longer sexually indoctrinate children without accountability or consequence. It warms my heart to think that these vile perverts who have been radically indoctrinating Texas children into a cult that makes them more prone to depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation could finally be fired. In a just world, their entire lives would be turned upside down as a result of their ghoulish behavior, and their nightmares would be endless.

In fact, I’ll sleep like a baby tonight just thinking about these predators plagued with real-world consequences of sexually indoctrinating and exploiting children.

Texans are united on this: Our hard-earned tax dollars should fund education, not indoctrination peddled by leftist lunatics. History will brand you and the pathetic left-wing propaganda mill you shill for as the villains you are — enemies of children, truth, and decency. Let’s be honest: Your company is circling the drain. It won’t survive much longer; after all, who in their right mind would continue funding a steaming pile of garbage? Tick-tock, Lindsey. Your irrelevance is calling. You can quote me in full.

Yours in unyielding contempt,
Sara Gonzales

Surprisingly, Lindsey was quick to reply. To see her response, watch the episode above.

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