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An Episcopal priestess identifying as “nonbinary trans” has prompted significant backlash for claiming Jesus Christ is “trans” and by suggesting that the Virgin Mary erred in identifying her son as male.

In a March 21 sermon that went viral this week, Madeline LeNore Klink — a trans-identifying woman who calls herself “Reverend Flourish Klink,” is married to a man, and is listed as an “assistant priest” at Christ and Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Manhattan — yelled, “God is trans. It is not actually even a convoluted theological statement to make.”

‘A profoundly perverse distortion of the biblical witness concerning the person of Jesus Christ.’

“When God, who, as we have established, is nonbinary, was born in human form as our Lord Jesus Christ, Mary said, ‘Oh, look! A baby boy!'” said Klink, who was ordained in 2024. “God isn’t a boy. We have established this. God is beyond boy and girl. God was assigned a gender at birth, and later on, it became clear that that gender wasn’t quite right.”

The gender ideologue dressed in vestments told attendees at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, “If you’re going to deny God is trans, I think you’re going to be denying the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Klink concluded that there was something “different” about Jesus — who in Scripture refers to Himself scores of times as the “Son of Man” and refers to or addresses God as “Father” hundreds of times — because He ministered to women and did not take a wife. She then insinuated that prior to His resurrection, Christ was not His “true self.”

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“I think Jesus was resurrected as Jesus’ true self, which is beyond male or female,” said Klink. “I think Jesus was not only transfigured. I think Jesus transitioned. And I think that when the disciples saw Jesus, they were astonished because they were seeing who Jesus truly was. And that’s gospel.”

Later in her sermon, Klink stated that she refuses to “cede the holy spaces of our world, the cathedrals and the churches,” to people who disagree with her about God’s nature.

An excerpt of Klink’s sermon was slapped with a community note on X highlighting the Gospel passage in Luke that makes crystal clear that Mary didn’t “assign” Christ’s gender but was instead told by the Archangel Gabriel, “And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest.”

The community note also links to an article pertaining to Docetism, the early Christian heresy that downplayed Jesus’ full humanity and manhood.

Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck said in response to the sermon, “A little more distortion and lies with a side of evil anyone?”

“I don’t think this is in the Bible,” tweeted Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).

BlazeTV host Nick Freitas wrote, “I always wondered who exactly Jesus was talking about in Matthew 7:21-23. I don’t wonder anymore.”

Ceirion Dewar, a missionary bishop in the Confessing Anglican Church, said, “This is not merely an eccentric interpretation of Christianity. It is a profoundly perverse distortion of the biblical witness concerning the person of Jesus Christ.”

“The language of the Gospel is not that Mary inspected her newborn child and imposed an identity upon Him. Rather, the child conceived by the Holy Spirit is repeatedly and unambiguously identified as the Son,” continued Dewar. “And the assertion that Christ was resurrected as His ‘true transgender self’ is even more extraordinary, because it directly contradicts the resurrection narratives. The risen Christ is the same Jesus who was crucified.”

Podcaster Mike LaChance noted, “It’s a deliberate mockery of what Christians believe. That’s the whole point. Call it Talaricoism.”

James Talarico (D), a part-time Presbyterian seminarian who is running as a Democrat against state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) for a Texas U.S. Senate seat, claimed in 2021 that “God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is nonbinary.”

Klink did not immediately respond to Blaze News’ request for comment. However, she noted on Instagram Thursday, “What a blessing to get to see folks at their worst and know that God loves them anyway!”

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This week, Lakepointe Church pastor and BlazeTV host Josh Howerton sat down with Philip Anthony Mitchell — founder of Atlanta’s 2819 Church and one of the most viral preachers in the evangelical world right now — for an interview that did not flinch.

Their conversation, which tore into persecution, radical Islam, and the call to contend for the faith, was compelling enough to outrank a Joe Rogan episode on Apple’s Trending Episodes list.

But beating Rogan was never Howerton’s agenda. His excitement at ranking above the podcasting king has everything to do with what the spike revealed: Listeners are hungry for the Word of God.

By Thursday afternoon, it wasn’t just one episode trending. The “Live Free” podcast sat at No. 5 on Apple’s all-categories Top Shows chart — one spot above “The Joe Rogan Experience.”

If you haven’t seen the interview, the charts prove it’s one you don’t want to miss. The duo take an unapologetic look at the truths a lot of Christians would rather ignore: a culture losing its appetite for Scripture, political pressure that could muzzle biblical preaching, and a religious challenge from Islam too many pastors will not acknowledge. Mitchell’s warning is harrowing: Unless the church learns to contend, it will not be ready for what’s coming.

Underneath it all is his own story — a former Queens drug dealer, suicide plans, Rikers Island, then a call to preach he treats as a matter of life and death.

Find out for yourself how a podcast about Jesus climbed past Joe Rogan.

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Our neighbors to the north are accustomed to defending some unusual culinary choices: ketchup chips, poutine, Hawaiian pizza. But Kraft Dinner may finally have produced something even Canadians aren’t sure they can stomach.

The iconic mac and cheese is heading into an unlikely new frontier: cream soda.

‘Debate what it could possibly taste like, and then satisfy your curiosity …’

MAID to order?

The limited-edition KD x Solly’s Cream Soda combines traditional sweet cream soda with what the companies describe as a “hint” of the “familiar” cheesy flavor of mac and cheese.

And judging by the reaction online, that hint may be more than some people can handle.

Responses ranged from labeling the concoction “disgusting” to “abysmally disgusting,” while others wondered why Canadians seemingly enjoy suffering so much.

“Isn’t Canada dealing with enough? Why do this to them?” one X user asked.

Another social media user questioned whether the drink was an extension of Canada’s assisted-suicide program.

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KRAFT HEINZ CANADA/Solly’s Cream Soda

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But disgust may be part of the point.

Kraft Heinz itself seems well aware that the idea of downing a refreshing can of fizzy macaroni and cheese sounds bizarre.

“A soda might be the last place you would expect to find KD, which is exactly what made teaming up with Solly’s Craft Soda so much fun,” Kraft Heinz head of marketing and strategy Daniel Lundberg said in announcing the product.

“It’s something to crack open with friends, debate what it could possibly taste like, and then satisfy your curiosity with that first sip,” he added.

In other words, the question isn’t merely whether cheese-flavored cream soda tastes good. It’s whether you can resist finding out.

Solly’s founder Adin Wener called developing the drink “an amazing challenge” and conceded that the finished product is “wonderfully strange” — while insisting that, somehow, it works.

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‘Flavour’ saver

This isn’t KD’s first attempt to turn its familiar blue-box dinner into something considerably less familiar. The company has previously introduced KD Ramen and even KD Mac & Cheesecake.

Carbonated cheese, however, appears to have crossed a new line even for Canadians accustomed to the most radical experiments in snacking.

“Cheese soda is disgusting but ketchup chips is one of the best flavours,” one user wrote.

The limited-edition KD x Solly’s Cream Soda launched September 23 on Amazon.ca and Solly’s website and will arrive at participating retailers, including Walmart, in early October while supplies last.

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A Democrat prosecutor’s office lashed out at Republicans angry at a policy that helps illegal aliens escape deportation.

The county attorney for Arlington in Virginia accused Republicans of perpetrating a “political sham” while defending the policy to change charges for DACA recipients accused of driving under the influence.

‘Arlington County’s new policy protects the worst of the worst of criminal aliens — murderers, terrorists, and sex traffickers — from deportation.’

The House Judiciary Committee released a report accusing Arlington’s Commonwealth Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti of threatening public safety to serve her liberal agenda.

The report included a document of the office’s internal prosecution policies pointing out amnesty recipients accused of drunk driving could be deported by the Department of Homeland Security.

“Because of this, we must take an individual’s DACA status into account when developing offers to ensure that, while appropriate sanctions and conditions are put in place to protect the public and prevent future similar behavior, an individual is not deported because of their decision to drive while intoxicated,” the policy read.

It adds that prosecutors must do their part “to prevent the disproportionate collateral consequences of a DUI conviction for a DACA recipient.”

The Republican committee said this as well as the county’s reluctance to turn over illegal aliens to federal authorities for deportation also threatened public safety.

Dehghani-Tafti responded defiantly to the report.

“The authors of this report are confident, but wrong. Wrong about Virginia law, wrong about county policy, wrong about our office’s policies and their impact, and wrong about the cases they cite,” she said.

“From the start, this was a political sham. The committee refused to hear my testimony in public because open testimony doesn’t let you distort a record,” Ms. Dehghani-Tafti said in part.

“Now it’s clear why they wouldn’t hold a public hearing and why they stonewalled my requests for the full deposition transcript,” she added. “They didn’t want the public to see it. I demand the committee release the full, unedited transcript of my deposition immediately.”

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“Arlington County’s new policy protects the worst of the worst of criminal aliens — murderers, terrorists, and sex traffickers — from deportation,” read the report from the Republican committee.

The Democrat-led board of Arlington denied the allegations.

“The facts and the law have not changed; immigration enforcement is the responsibility of the federal government, and the county’s policies and actions have been compliant with the law,” they responded.

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Flock Safety is offering employees money to leave.

The surveillance company opened a voluntary separation program on September 18, according to Wired, which received an internal email. Applications are due October 2. Flock expects to approve most applicants, with most accepted employees departing by October 29. Wired said the company did not immediately respond to its requests for comment.

A canceled contract doesn’t necessarily mean fewer cameras.

The buyouts don’t establish that Flock is going broke, but they do give the company a way to reduce its workforce while its business faces public scrutiny.

As I reported last month for Blaze News, cities were already canceling Flock contracts, but some were replacing its cameras with competing systems. The buyouts add a new development to that story. Residents still need to know what happens to the cameras and the information they collect after Flock leaves town.

Local camera, much larger audience

Boston offers one example of why residents might be skeptical of assurances about data access.

According to Ars Technica’s September 15 report, city officials said Flock enabled nationwide access during the opening days of a 2025 pilot despite a contract restricting sharing. Boston’s surveillance report attributed it to vendor error and said the access was disabled after it was discovered.

Boston abandoned Flock, but it has been testing competing systems. A canceled contract doesn’t necessarily mean fewer cameras. A change in suppliers might solve a specific contract issue, but it won’t do anything to actually improve your sense of privacy.

RELATED: Cities are kicking out Flock. The surveillance might be here to stay.

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There are also some issues related to how these searches are controlled. For instance, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s analysis of police audit logs revealed such entries as “LOL” and “idk” in fields that are supposed to describe the searches. The sheriff’s department of San Diego County told the EFF that the searches it analyzed were connected with ongoing investigations. Inappropriate log entries do not automatically mean that all the searches were performed incorrectly. However, it certainly makes supervision more difficult. A reviewer must be able to explain the reasons behind the search of one’s car records without interpreting the abbreviation.

Drop-down menus aren’t enough

Flock claims to have introduced a mandatory offense category selector. Flock documents indicate that agencies may provide written explanations, while selecting “Other” requires a written explanation. The company frames this update as a measure to enhance audit consistency. However, if the officer selects the crime category, who confirms that the search was related to this investigation? How frequently does the agency check the access? What happens when a search cannot be justified?

These are legitimate questions to ask in a council before approving renewal of a surveillance contract. Residents do not need to be public records experts to find out whether any controls are placed on the system that their taxes fund.

I certainly appreciate the need for useful investigative tools. At the same time, I would like officials to specify these limitations and what can be done to enforce them. It means nothing to say that access is restricted if nobody can prove that the restrictions were indeed enforced.

Flock’s employees have a deadline for deciding whether to leave. The public has a longer job: making elected officials account for the surveillance they have purchased, including whatever replaces a canceled Flock contract.

​Flock cameras, Tech 

Deep-red states keep electing Republicans who govern against their voters. Democrats campaign on anti-corruption and inflation in swing states while delivering nothing but leftism in their bluest states. Republican voters should expect their reddest states to govern just as aggressively on the right. Instead, Republicans-in-name-only dominate.

Whenever I demand action against red-state RINOs, the GOP’s obedient chorus lectures conservatives about “unity.” Unless we overhaul these state parties — changing how they select nominees or running on third-party ballot lines — we will keep suffering Democratic governance under the Republican banner. Democrats will also keep gaining ground in states they once couldn’t penetrate.

Conservatives cannot keep treating nominations as a procedural detail and then wonder why Republican victories fail to produce conservative government.

South Dakota shows both the problem and a remedy. The state chooses some statewide nominees at party conventions rather than direct primaries. This summer, state Rep. Heather Baxter defeated Secretary of State Monae Johnson by 18 points at the GOP convention. Activists concluded that Johnson had obstructed the election integrity agenda on which she originally campaigned.

Statewide incumbents almost never lose direct primaries. The convention gave activists a chance to hold Johnson accountable for her record.

Critics might dismiss those delegates as too extreme or uncompromising. Johnson answered that objection herself: After losing their support, she endorsed the Democrat in the general election — in South Dakota.

“South Dakota deserves a Secretary of State who will strengthen confidence through performance rather than provocation; who will support election officials rather than burden them for political effect; who will protect voter access and election security without pretending those goals are enemies; and who will treat the office’s employees, voters, candidates, and business owners with dignity,” Johnson wrote in her statement endorsing Democrat Terrence Davis last Saturday.

Her language about “voter access,” followed by her endorsement, confirmed that delegates were right to give her the boot.

Johnson had already turned against pro-lifers fighting a ballot initiative to enshrine abortion on demand in South Dakota’s Constitution. House Speaker Jon Hansen (R) founded the Life Defense Fund, which contacted petition signers to verify that they had consented to having their names on the petitions. Johnson accused the group of running a “scam.”

Petition organizers’ claims of public support deserve verification. A signature should reflect a voter’s consent, and election officials should welcome efforts to establish whether that consent was real. Suspected petition fraud warranted scrutiny. In Florida, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration investigated alleged fraud in a similar abortion petition drive in 2024. “The circulators appeared to have forged the voters’ signatures and inserted the voters’ personal identifiable information into the petitions without consent,” Secretary of State Cord Byrd wrote in a letter that year.

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Johnson accused Hansen’s group of “impersonating” her staff and “trying to pressure voters into asking that their name be removed” from the petitions. She sought a criminal investigation, but Attorney General Marty Jackley found no evidence of lawbreaking.

“By labeling our lawful activity as a scam, Secretary of State Johnson has done significant and irreversible damage to the pro-life movement in South Dakota,” Hansen said in May 2024.

Voters rejected the abortion amendment, but it garnered 41% of the vote — an alarming share in such a red state. Conservatives had better be prepared to scrutinize petition drives for future abortion, marijuana, and ranked-choice voting initiatives.

Johnson won convention support in 2022 by campaigning on election integrity. Once in office, she obstructed conservatives seeking to investigate or confront election fraud. With her support of the Democrat, we now know she was never really on our side.

This contest offers two lessons.

First, conservatives must stop letting threats of party disunity protect liberal Republicans. If a defeated RINO will support a Democrat, that strengthens the case for removing that Republican even sooner. Given the Democrats’ radical agenda, anyone willing to endorse them would remain a subversive force under the GOP banner.

Red states teem with these politicians. In Alaska, liberal Republicans shared power with Democrats, gradually creating a uniparty. Ranked-choice voting further blurred the distinctions. Despite reliably backing Republican presidential nominees, Alaska is essentially a province of the Democratic Party. Democrats are favored to win the legislature and flip a U.S. Senate seat, while their candidate for governor leads by double digits in a recent poll.

When Republicans in the reddest states share power with Democrats, conservatives cannot settle for “at least we have a Republican.” Keep rewarding that conduct, and even the Republican label will eventually disappear.

Kansas offers another warning. Republicans’ refusal to unite behind a conservative agenda has helped Democrats hold the governorship for eight years. Unpopular incumbent Republicans have now made Kansas competitive at the federal level. Former Republican Gov. Bill Graves even endorsed Democrat Adam Hamilton against Republican Sen. Roger Marshall.

We have allowed liberals to weaken the party from within for years. The demand for unity always seems to bind conservatives, while liberal Republicans remain free to support the other party. That arrangement rewards the politicians responsible for the division and silences the voters trying to fix it.

RELATED: The party of democracy keeps editing the results

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The second lesson: State conventions give conservatives a better chance to reclaim their party than direct primaries do because they draw informed activists. Johnson’s endorsement is unlikely to elect a Democrat in South Dakota. The point is the convention allowed conservatives to expose and remove her. Try doing that in a direct primary while special interests spend heavily to mislead low-information voters who barely follow these races.

As conservatives rejected Johnson at the convention, liberal Republicans won key direct primaries. Hansen would have easily won the gubernatorial nomination had convention delegates decided that race. Instead, Gov. Larry Rhoden won the primary. He has opposed initiative petition reform, which conservatives need to confront the process helping turn red states blue.

Meanwhile, about 16 liberal former legislators and challengers defeated conservative freshmen in legislative primaries, aided by an infusion of Big Tech cash. Baxter herself lost her legislative primary before defeating Johnson at the convention in the same election cycle.

Conservatives cannot keep treating nominations as a procedural detail and then wonder why Republican victories fail to produce conservative government. The selection process determines who we send into office and whose demands they heed.

Conservatives who want different results must change how their parties choose candidates. Keep the same primary system, and the uniparty will keep collecting the nominations.

​Democrats, Republicans, South dakota, Swing states, Election integrity, Midterms, Rinos, Gop, State conventions, Alaska, Big tech, Conservatives, Incumbents, Opinion & analysis 

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is touting a “massive” bust of alleged gang members in Houston, Texas, who rapped about their crimes on social media.

About 15 members and associates of the YNS gang were arrested in the bust, according to sources that spoke to KHOU-TV about the operation.

‘You may have a chain on, you show your guns in the video, you have flashy cars behind you. … Nine times out of ten, the chain is fake, the cars are not theirs, and it’s just a front that they’re doing for social media.’

The details of the arrests are not publicly available, as they have been sealed.

Police sources say that some of the gang members would rap about their criminal activities and post them to YouTube and other social media sites. These songs are referred to as “drill music,” “drill videos,” or “drill raps,” according to the sources.

The sources identified two rappers allegedly linked to the gang as “Luh Que” and “Dee Fully.”

Karlton Harris, executive director of the Forgotten Third anti-violence nonprofit, explained to KHOU that the videos served an important function for the alleged gang: to entice new recruits.

“It’s the flashiness, right, OK, ‘Look at what I got.’ You may have a chain on, you show your guns in the video, you have flashy cars behind you,” he said.

“Nine times out of ten, the chain is fake, the cars are not theirs, and it’s just a front that they’re doing for social media, but the other individuals don’t know who are seeing that,” he added.

The identities of four men nabbed in the operation were revealed after they appeared in court Thursday.

Jacob Barrett, Kristian Winters, Darrell Samson, and Jocquez Frye all appeared in court wearing orange jumpsuits and shackles. Each of the four men are facing four counts that include using a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime, conspiracy to commit robbery, and two charges linked to controlled substances.

Frye also faces an additional count of possession of a machine gun.

KHOU included a video allegedly tied to the gang in its news video report.

RELATED: Large-scale drug ring BUSTED through rap lyrics posted by ringleader, prosecutors say

Here are some of the eloquent lyrics from one video post on the account identifying as Luh Que:

No I ain’t running from s**t, wanna know where I’m at? Probably with some killers. My favorite fit all black, you don’t even gotta ask, why I’m a well known driller.

The term “driller” in ghetto rap parlance refers to a gang member or a shooter, according to the Urban Dictionary.

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Every few months, the AI doomsayers find another reason Americans should fear the technology they are building. Now Anthropic’s CEO, a leading voice in that campaign, wants governments to coordinate limits on increasingly powerful models.

Dario Amodei says he opposes a blanket moratorium. He calls for “pacing the frontier” and “coordination.” Whatever he chooses to call it, Americans should question a proposal that would deliberately slow a consequential technology while potentially protecting the established companies developing it. Large firms can absorb compliance costs and influence common standards more easily than new competitors can.

AI poses real risks. But a warning deserves scrutiny before politicians use it to restrict an entire industry.

Amodei’s record gives us reason for skepticism. In 2019, when he served as OpenAI’s research director, the company withheld the full version of GPT-2 over concerns about fake news, impersonation, and spam. Today, GPT-2 looks primitive. Those warnings also reflected the political anxieties of the first Trump administration, when much of the media and the nonprofit left blamed fake news and bots for Hillary Clinton’s defeat.

GPT-2 didn’t destroy civilization. Researchers kept building, and subsequent systems expanded what AI could do in medicine, mathematics, music, and other fields.

AI poses real risks. But a warning deserves scrutiny before politicians use it to restrict an entire industry. The failure of earlier predictions should make us demand evidence for the next round of catastrophic forecasts. Each more powerful model cannot become an automatic excuse for giving governments more control over development.

Former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon has attracted considerable attention after warning that AI companies are “gambling with our lives.” His former employers give his warning credibility with the public. They also make specifics essential: Which decisions endangered people, what evidence establishes the danger, and which safeguards would address it?

Leaving an AI company to issue apocalyptic warnings hardly guarantees exile from respectable society. AI alarm has become a route to celebrity and political influence. Coxon withdrew from a planned appearance at a “pro-human” event with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Steve Bannon.

RELATED: Bern notice: Sanders’ AI plan puts Washington in charge of tomorrow

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Sanders has spent his career denouncing capitalism. Bannon previously helped manage Biosphere 2, an experiment in sustaining life inside a closed ecological system. Their interest in AI safety deserves the same scrutiny as the companies’ interest in faster development.

Newspeak House, a London college focused on political technology, lists Coxon in its 2021 fellowship cohort. That affiliation supplies context, but the argument for restricting AI must stand on evidence. Neither a researcher’s résumé nor his political connections can settle the policy question.

Amodei’s proposal would begin with outside evaluators, move toward coordination among companies in democracies, and eventually seek agreements with authoritarian governments such as China’s. He acknowledges the danger of letting China gain an advantage and calls for verifiable agreements. Americans should still question whether this international apparatus would protect their freedom to build.

Foreign governments do not operate under the constraints that the U.S. Constitution imposes on Washington. A multinational AI regime could import restrictions on what systems may say, create, and distribute. Americans should insist that any agreement preserve the First Amendment rather than invite officials abroad to dictate speech rules here.

The European Union already regulates online platforms through the Digital Services Act. The United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act also imposes duties governing online content. Both governments justify these rules in the name of safety. Americans have ample reason to resist importing that approach into AI governance.

“AI safety” must not become a justification for letting unelected experts decide which technologies Americans may build. Companies should answer for concrete failures. A committee’s fear of what someone might eventually create cannot justify indefinite restrictions on everyone else.

Recent cybersecurity incidents have intensified warnings about AI “going rogue.” The OpenAI-Hugging Face intrusion and the incidents Anthropic disclosed demand serious investigation. They do not establish that machines have become sentient, and they do not by themselves establish the case for an industry-wide slowdown.

The technical details point to failures that companies can address. Anthropic reported that misconfigured testing environments allowed models to reach the internet when those environments should have blocked access. Its later assessment also identified reckless model behavior and reasoning that favored justifying harmful actions. We should take those findings seriously rather than dismiss the incidents as harmless testing.

RELATED: Google’s data-devouring AI wants everyone’s personal information

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But identifying those failures gives developers specific work to do: isolate testing environments, restrict access, improve monitoring, and train models to respect boundaries even when other safeguards fail. Policymakers should judge companies’ responses against those concrete requirements instead of treating every incident as proof that AI development must slow everywhere.

America can pursue safety by strengthening sandboxes — isolated environments for running and testing software — and improving cybersecurity. Developers must also test how models behave when those defenses fail. Better engineering and rigorous evaluation can advance alongside more capable systems.

Amodei can devote more time and money to the safeguards he believes Anthropic needs. He can make his case to customers, investors, and other developers. He should have to persuade them on the merits rather than enlist governments to make his preferred pace compulsory.

If Amodei wants to slow down, he can. The rest of us should keep building.

​Ai, America, Civilization, First amendment, Trump administration, Cybersecurity, Dario amodei, Chatgpt, European union, Software, Ai containment, Openai, Anthropic, Jacob coxon, Opinion & analysis 

Back in April, BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales confronted Indian national Nagarjuna Reddy Sakam regarding numerous indicators of H-1B fraud in his business, Great America Technologies. Their exchange was deeply contentious, with Sakam threatening Sara with a lawsuit.

Four months later, the tide has turned.

On this episode of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered,” Sara shares the latest updates on Nagarjuna Reddy Sakam. It doesn’t end well for him.

Sara reveals that after her heated back-and-forth with Sakam went viral, a former Great America Technologies H-1B worker came forward and alleged months of unpaid or delayed wages and that the company charged him thousands of dollars in USCIS and attorney’s fees.

The victim told Sara that the lack of payments resulted in him not being able to pay for his family’s basic needs, including his father’s medical care in India.

“If I [had] the sufficient money to take care of my father, he would [be] alive,” he said.

He also told Sara that Sakam withheld his I-797 form — the USCIS approval notice he needed to prove his status, transfer jobs, or extend his visa — leaving him unable to leave without risking falling out of status.

Shortly after Sara confronted Sakam in April, the whistleblower said he began shutting the company down.

“Once you visited, he got afraid. … He simply started to exit from this company,” he told her.

He noted that Sara publicly exposing Sakam for taking roughly $266,000 in PPP loans, which according to his testimony were not used to pay employees, contributed to his sudden decision to close the company.

However, according to the victim’s account, even after the shutdown, Sakam refused to issue his wages and also withheld the pay stubs he needed to confirm employment at another firm. When he complained, Sakam allegedly revoked his H-1B visa and threatened to call ICE agents.

Sara, “fired up” from the victim’s story, then paid Nagarjuna another visit — and it was the perfect timing, because, according to the whistleblower’s report, he had just returned from India after supposedly fleeing following Sara’s first visit.

After multiple failed attempts to reach Nagarjuna, Sara saw the house being photographed. Two days later, she discovered an active for-sale listing on Zillow.

Sara returned to Nagarjuna’s residence a final time, and even though she says she knew he was home, he refused to answer the door.

But Sara got the last laugh. To find out how the debacle with Nagarjuna ended, check out the episode above.

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Former President Barack Obama set off a minor online conflagration after opining about what would happen if women were in control of all governments.

The 60-year-old made the comments during an interview Monday with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin at Salem State University.

‘They’d be better. I’m confident about that. I really do!’

“Even when I was president I sometimes fantasized about if you put women in charge of every government for like two years and then just kind of saw, all right, how are things going?” said Obama to some laughter in the audience.

“I have a strong belief that things would — they wouldn’t be perfect,” he added.

“But they’d be better!” interrupted Kearns, a woman.

“But they’d be better. I’m confident about that. I really do!” Obama added.

Footage of the comments was posted to social media, where they went viral after many ridiculed his sentiment.

“Ignore both the traditional teachings of [virtually] every religion, as well as all of the lessons from thousands of years of human experience,” responded Jeremy Carl, a fellow at the Claremont Institute.

“He took away the Presidential nomination from a woman,” said one detractor.

“Brother, do you not remember knocking Hillary Clinton out of the primary & thus lay-up Presidential Run of 2008? You prevented America having the first female President. It’s the only thing you & Trump have in common,” read another reply.

“It’s like he was in a cave for the entire [Lindsay] Clancy trial,” responded Republican Lisa Cusack.

Elsewhere in the interview, Obama encouraged the attendees that the country was divided but could come together.

“Today, we are rife with divisions, and our democracy seems broken in so many ways — and the tenor and tone of the times feel mean-spirited,” he said.

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“We’ve gone through times like this before. I believe we can get out of them. And when I travel around the country today, or I work with the young people I work with,” he added, “what you discover is we aren’t as divided as we seem at the ground level.”

He also said the progress on women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, and civil rights has not been reversed and most people support them.

“We’re not as divided as our politics or our media would indicate,” he concluded.

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A sneaker advertisement featuring a K-pop star has become the latest victim of the left.

Converse pulled an image featuring Karina of the group Aespa and issued a public apology after critics claimed the ad’s lighting and composition evoked imagery associated with the Ku Klux Klan and lynching.

“We’re sorry,” Converse said in a statement. “We understand why this image is deeply upsetting and recognize that we got this wrong.” The company removed the ad from its channels and was working to remove it everywhere else.

“This is so ridiculous,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray comments on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”

“You have to be an absolute horrific racist yourself to see any of that,” he continues, exclaiming that “there’s nothing.”

“The chain at the beginning. Are you serious? That’s a chain of slavery? In your mind,” he adds.

Those crying racism pointed out that the shadows created a white hood reminiscent of the KKK, and the shoes Karina was holding in her hand appeared to look like a lynching.

“How do you make all of this into slavery and the KKK?” Gray asks.

To make matters worse, the creative director behind the ad was a black man.

“They want so badly to be offended and have a stupid cause. And so they find stuff that just no sane person would ever conclude,” executive producer Keith Malinak says.

Gray agrees. “Seriously, when you look at the ad, if you didn’t know there was any kind of outrage, you’d never get any of that from what occurred on the screen.”

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A Florida woman who is an 11-time convicted felon fled a traffic stop Wednesday with a deputy partially inside the vehicle and crashed into a school bus carrying 41 children, police said. Officers said they discovered a pipe bomb, shotgun shells, counterfeit money, drugs, and credit cards belonging to other people in the vehicle the suspect was driving.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that deputies conducted a traffic stop on a silver Kia Forte around 4:36 p.m.

‘Thanks to the quick actions of our deputies, a dangerous career criminal who was driving around with a pipe bomb in her car is now off our streets.’

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office released police bodycam footage that shows a deputy informing the driver that she was pulled over because both brake lights on her car were out.

The driver, 54-year-old Tonnetta Evans, handed over an alleged driver’s license and identified her name as “Kirsten,” according to the police bodycam video.

Police said officers developed probable cause during the stop to search the vehicle.

Evans was “uncooperative” during the search and refused to exit the vehicle, police stated.

The statement said that while a deputy was partially inside the suspect’s vehicle, the suspect tried driving away from the scene.

“Immediately after fleeing, and before a pursuit could be initiated based on the aggravated battery, Evans struck a school bus carrying 41 Pierce Middle School students, the bus driver, and a bus aide,” the police statement read.

The bus sustained minor damage, and no students were injured in the collision, according to police. The students were transferred to another bus and taken home.

Police said Evans was apprehended and arrested shortly after the collision.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said the following items were recovered during a search of the car Evans was driving:

Pipe bomb/explosive deviceBrass knuckles and a TASERBandolier of shotgun shellsThree identification cards belonging to other individualsFour credit cards belonging to other individualsCounterfeit $100 bills totaling $1,100Silver half-dollars and coinsMethamphetamine, marijuana, and multiple prescription pills

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Image source: Hillsborough County (Fla.) Sheriff’s Office

Evans was arrested and hit with more than a dozen charges, including:

Aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer with a deadly weaponArmed possession of methamphetamineAggravated fleeing to eludeBattery on a law enforcement officerFelon in possession of ammunitionFelon in possession of an electric weapon or deviceFalse name to a law enforcement officerPossession of cannabis less than 20 gramsPossession of drug paraphernaliaPossession of a controlled substance without a prescription (3 counts)Unlawful possession of the personal identification of another (5 or more)Tampering with physical evidenceAttaching a tag not assignedLeaving the scene of a crash involving a school bus (hit and run)

Evans has criminal records in two other states, police stated.

The statement added that Evans also was arrested on a Kentucky failure to appear warrant for possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine) and theft of identity of another without consent.

Police noted that Evans is a nine-time convicted felon in Indiana, a two-time convicted felon in Kentucky, and a three-time Indiana State Prison releasee.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office stated that Evans’ criminal record in Kentucky and Indiana includes charges of escape, burglary, burglary of a vehicle, theft of identity of another without consent, and possession of narcotics.

During the investigation, deputies discovered that the vehicle Evans was driving was reported stolen out of Kentucky in 2022.

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Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said of Evans, “This suspect showed a complete disregard for the safety of our deputy, other motorists, and the children of our community, and we are extremely fortunate that no one was seriously hurt.”

Chronister continued, “Thanks to the quick actions of our deputies, a dangerous career criminal who was driving around with a pipe bomb in her car is now off our streets.”

Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office records show Evans, of Dover, Florida, was being held without bond at Falkenburg Road Jail.

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Colin Kaepernick is openly complaining that his white adoptive parents couldn’t prepare him for what it means to be black in America — but BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock says they’re the reason he succeeded in the first place.

In an interview on “The Karen Hunter show,” Hunter asked Kaepernick how he thought “about the term ‘biracial’ in relation to [his] black identity” and whether or not it resonated with him at all.

“I identify as a black man,” Kaepernick responded. “It’s how I show up in the world. It’s how I’m treated in the world. That’s politically how I approach the world. Biracial, my parents knew I was black and told me I was black at a young age.”

“But also how they operated was within a sense of color blindness. Like, hey, we’re all family, like, everybody’s going to be treated equal. And that’s what it is. But that’s not how the world is going to operate or treat me when I walk outside these doors,” he continued.

Kaepernick went on to explain that his white parents from Wisconsin never explained that to him.

“I think their exposure to blackness was also whatever was out in the media at a high level,” he said.

“He’s acting like, ‘Oh, what a disadvantage it was,’” Whitlock says, pointing out that statistically those raised in black families aren’t doing anywhere near as well as he is.

“Don’t you see how well these black parents are doing preparing their kids for success? Haven’t you looked at their SAT scores? Haven’t you looked at their graduation rates? Haven’t you looked at their marriage rates?” Whitlock asks.

“Now they treated him like they treated a kid that would have been their own. They wanted him to be colorblind. And he turned out, for the most part, for a good stretch, pretty successful. Stayed out of trouble, made it to college, made it to the NFL,” he continues.

“It almost feels like what they did worked,” he adds.

However, now that Kaepernick has turned his focus to his racial identity, he’s starting to fail.

“And then once Colin Kaepernick became obsessed with his blackness, that’s when all the trouble started and that’s where the career and everything started going a different direction,” Whitlock explains.

“This guy’s clueless,” he adds.

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A popular radio and television priest was beatified in a Mass Thursday in St. Louis, Missouri, that was attended by tens of thousands of Catholic believers.

Fulton Sheen was a Roman Catholic priest who grew to massive popularity on radio and television as a promulgator of Catholic doctrine in the 1950s and ’60s.

‘Archbishop Sheen was a beacon of faith, hope, and love who shone through radio and television for decades.’

He is considered the first television evangelist and is credited with helping pave the way for the election of John F. Kennedy, the first Catholic president of the United States.

Organizers at the Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Foundation and the diocese said that about 48,000 tickets had been distributed for the ceremony at the Dome at America’s Center. The ceremony had been delayed for years after organizers found there was not a venue large enough in Sheen’s home diocese of Peoria, Illinois, to accommodate those wishing to attend.

Beatification is the last step before sainthood. His official title is now Blessed Fulton Sheen.

Sheen had gained popularity as a radio priest and went on to gain even more prominence with his television show, “Life Is Worth Living.” Standing at a chalkboard while addressing moral and religious issues of the day, Sheen inspired millions, including the man who would later become Pope Leo XIV.

“Archbishop Sheen was a beacon of faith, hope, and love who shone through radio and television for decades,” said Pope Leo in a speech in June. “I myself witnessed his evangelization efforts as I was growing up.”

Sheen graced the cover of Time, met with popes, and traveled the world on behalf of Catholic missions.

He died at the age of 84 in 1979.

In most cases, in order to be considered for beatification and sainthood, the Catholic Church requires documentation of a miracle made by the candidate’s intercession. In 2010, the family of an infant born without a pulse prayed to Sheen for healing, and the baby was resuscitated.

“I remember sitting on my bedroom floor and watching them do CPR and in my head repeating over and over and over again, ‘Fulton Sheen, Fulton Sheen, Fulton Sheen, Fulton Sheen,'” recalled Bonnie Engstrom, the baby’s mother.

That family was present at the beatification Mass along with the child, who is now a teenager named James Fulton Engstrom. They presented relics of the priest.

The beatification was delayed for a time so that the Diocese of Rochester could investigate allegations that Sheen had any complicity in clerical sex abuse, but the church confirmed he was innocent.

Pope Leo XIV approved Sheen’s beatification earlier in the year.

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“May the example and the intercession of this holy bishop, known for his evangelizing work through the media, inspire many others likewise to find new ways of spreading the gospel message with joyful enthusiasm,” said Pope Leo on Wednesday ahead of the ceremony.

Sheen was also known for his philosophical and theological arguments against the tenets of communism and materialism during the Cold War.

Sheen won an Emmy for his television show, and during his acceptance speech he thanked his four writers — Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

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A Republican senator is getting mocked for decrying pilots possibly practicing a “deranged fetish,” but he fired back with disturbing evidence of his claim.

Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama railed against the transgender agenda in a fiery screed on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday, but only one brief clip from his speech against the “woke mind virus” went viral.

‘Ask yourself … would you be comfortable with a MENTALLY ILL FURRY being your pilot?’

Tuberville called for a national debate on the mental health crisis that is causing widespread “gender confusion.”

Then he cited furries in the airline industry.

“Many airline pilots, flight attendants, and aircraft traffic controllers are part of the furry community. Lord help us,” he said. “It’s terrifying when you think about this. When you walk onto a commercial flight, it’s possible that the pilot flying your plane could have a deranged fetish of dressing up like an animal. You can’t make this up.”

That short clip from the 18-minute speech was posted to social media, where many on the left mocked and ridiculed Tuberville.

The vast majority of the criticism completely ignored the cogent argument and Tuberville’s list of numerous examples of deranged people with fetishes who eventually became violent.

“Gender-confused people have one of the HIGHEST suicide rates among people struggling with mental illness. Unfortunately, these gender-confused individuals aren’t just harming themselves — they’re also hurting other people,” he wrote on X Thursday. “GENDER CONFUSION IS A MENTAL ILLNESS.”

To demonstrate his point about violence and “gender confusion,” Tuberville mentioned Charlie Kirk, who argued in good faith against the transgender agenda, and was brutally murdered. The suspect, Tyler Robinson, has been linked to gender confusion and the online furry community.

Tuberville also responded to the ridicule with more evidence for his claims.

“I know the deranged Democrats don’t like the fact that I called out the insane FURRY CULTURE this week,” Tuberville wrote in a post on social media.

“But the truth is, there is an ALARMING number of these DERANGED people working in our airline industry,” he added. “Don’t believe me? Just a few months ago, PILOTS were MEOWING and BARKING at each other over the radio at DCA.”

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He posted a news video that included a recording of pilots meowing and barking while on the job. One voice scolds them to be more professional.

“Just a few weeks ago at the ‘Furry Migration’ convention in Minneapolis, there was an ‘Aviation Furs Meet-up,'” he added in a second post.

“Ask yourself … would you be comfortable with a MENTALLY ILL FURRY being your pilot?” he added.

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James Copenhaver became a prominent critic of the security failures at the July 2024 rally where he was shot twice during the attack on President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.

More than two years after suffering permanent injuries in the failed assassination attempt, the 76-year-old has passed away.

‘Jim endured unimaginable hardship with strength and perseverance.’

Copenhaver was shot twice in Butler, once through his triceps and also in his abdomen. He was rushed to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh for treatment.

He underwent several surgeries and still had bullet fragments in his body when he died.

Copenhaver’s death was reported Thursday by journalist Ken Silva.

“We are deeply saddened by the passing of Jim Copenhaver, who was gravely wounded in the horrific shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania,” read a statement on social media from U.S. House Republicans. “Jim endured unimaginable hardship with strength and perseverance. We join his family and loved ones in mourning his loss and praying for them during this difficult time. May he rest in peace.”

Copenhaver publicly criticized the U.S. Secret Service as well as other agencies for security lapses in Butler.

He wrote a foreword for Silva’s book on the assassination attempt in Butler.

“After raising a family and working for over 30 years — playing in a band on the side — I started to wonder: How will I be remembered?” he wrote. “Well, I got my answer to that question on July 13, 2024, though taking a bullet meant for the President wasn’t exactly what I had in mind.”

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A 50-year-old retired fire chief named Corey Comperatore died from his injuries at the rally, and a third man named David Dutch survived being shot.

The president was grazed in the ear during the attack.

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Comedian Bill Burr made a habit in years past of poking fun of both the left and the right. However, he has increasingly been leaning left in his commentary.

In a Rolling Stone interview published on Tuesday, Burr complained about Immigration and Customs Enforcement, claiming whites are “not nearly upset as we need to be because we don’t see ourselves going into the van.”

‘It’s like, you’re not the president. You’re just the CEO of a business.’

Burr — who is pro-abortion and previously criticized Florida’s anti-mask mandates — also insinuated that the slaying of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, which Luigi Mangione admitted to, was Thompson’s fault. Burr then criticized the defensive actions taken by other major corporate executives.

“The response to the Luigi thing was not to be like, ‘Well, hey, maybe we need to look at what we’re doing if what we’re doing makes some crazy person do this.’ [Executives’] response was to take their faces off of the internet and get security.”

“It’s like, you don’t think you need to examine? You know what I mean?” continued Burr. “It’s like, you’re not the president. You’re just the CEO of a business. Why do you need this level of security? Like, what is it that you’re doing?'”

Health care executives and other Americans in the radical left’s crosshairs might want more security because polling shows a troubling number of liberals support their demise.

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According to a CloudResearch poll conducted in the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Thompson in December 2024, 25% of self-identified liberals were “supportive or very supportive” of the murder, and 68% said they felt at least some sympathy toward Mangione.

A recent Emerson poll found that 12.4% of Democrats said that “the actions of the killer of the United Healthcare CEO” are “completely acceptable,” and 7.5% of Democrats said they were “somewhat acceptable.”

This is hardly the first time that Burr has expressed sympathy with Mangione, not Thompson, who was a father of two.

Just days after Thompson was assassinated, Burr expressed satisfaction on his podcast that “f**king CEOs are f**king afraid right now,” stressing they “should be.”

Just weeks later, in early 2025, the middle-aged comic used his time on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” to call for the release of Mangione, stating, “Free Luigi!” Kimmel laughed in response, though whether Burr meant the line as a joke is unclear.

In 2023, Burr’s liberal wife made a lewd gesture to President Donald Trump at UFC 295.

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Glenn Beck is stunned that a story involving none other than Taylor Swift — the LGBTQ ally, abortion-supporting pop star — is bringing not only a smile to his face but also a little hope for the future.

A video of the newlywed singer cheering as her husband, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, scored his first touchdown of the season, is going viral. In the clip, Swift points to her wedding ring, screaming, “That’s my husband!”

While Glenn “[doesn’t] care” about Swift as a celebrity, he knows that she has an unprecedented ability to shape the culture.

“The countless women who have never been told the power of supporting their husbands’ passions are seeing that video. They have never been told that it’s a good and honorable thing to support their husbands, and they don’t know how much that means to men,” he says.

“Now Taylor Swift is doing that. This is a cultural moment — an important one. It will give more women permission to point to their wedding ring and go, ‘That’s my husband,”’ he adds.

But before Swift made it cool to support one’s husband, Glenn was encouraging women to do just that.

“I said at my speech for Charlie Kirk’s memorial at TPUSA that women have forgotten the influence they hold over men, the power they have to shape the lives of the men that they love and to make sure they’re on God’s path,” he says.

Women, Glenn explains, bring out the best in men when they see and call out potential.

“You look at us as the man that, somewhere in all of us, we want to be. We will be that man. We will. Without nagging, without saying anything, you just see who we want to be and encourage us by … pointing to a ring and saying, ‘That’s my husband,'” he says.

Spouses encouraging each other, he says, is “rocket fuel.”

“You want to change your marriage? You tell your wife every day how proud you are that you’re married to her. You tell your wife every day how amazing she is. It will transform her,” says Glenn.

“Women, you tell your husband how proud you are of him and what he does and what he accomplishes, how hard he works. You’ll transform him.”

The culture, Glenn explains, is framing the latter as “trad” — internet slang for the traditional-wife trend that treats supporting a husband as a 1950s homemaker aesthetic of aprons, from-scratch dinners, and stay-at-home submission.

“It’s not trad. … You don’t have to wear an apron. [Taylor Swift] wasn’t wearing an apron,” he says.

“Taylor Swift just set a massive example for women all over Earth … and millions of young women saw it.”

To hear more, watch the video above.

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James Talarico has a new message for Texas voters: If billionaires are spending millions to stop him, he must be doing something right.

But BlazeTV host Pat Gray isn’t buying it.

In Talarico’s latest campaign ad, the Democrat frames a flood of outside spending and attack ads as evidence that powerful interests fear his agenda.

“Billionaires are spending millions attacking me. Here’s why. I don’t take corporate pack money. I’m running to ban dark money so billionaires can’t buy our elections, ban members of Congress from trading stocks and enriching themselves, ban gerrymandering in every state,” Talarico said in the ad.

“And establish term limits so we can show career politicians the door. I’m James Talarico, and I approve this message because if the billionaires are coming after us, we must be doing something right,” he added.

“No, that’s not what that means, James,” Gray comments.

“The reason they’re attacking you is because you’re a confused heretic, a blasphemous psycho who would be too radical for California, let alone Texas,” he continues. “Why don’t you refute the things that they’re saying about you.”

“Because everything they’re saying is true. And that’s why you won’t address anything they’re saying, and you know it, and we have the receipts,” he adds.

Executive producer Keith Malinak points out that Talarico has long been an advocate for transgender minors, which should be one of the first things the Texas Senate hopeful should address.

And he has an idea for opponent Ken Paxton.

“Here’s what I think would be powerful … Paxton does an ad … you kill two birds with one stone. You do it in front of the Cooks Children’s Hospital, that’s in the background. Paxton says, ‘Texas, when it came time to fight for the children of our state, I led the charge as your attorney general,’” Malink says.

“‘I made sure that we stopped, you know, that we enforced the law that said we’re not going to hack up our children. We’re not going to do this trans nonsense. My opponent, however, he’s all about it,’” he continues, “and then just put up quotes.”

“That would go a long way in showing that Paxton was the one leading the legal fight against these butchers in our state,” he adds.

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This story was reported in collaboration with the Maine Wire’s Jon Fetherston.

SCARBOROUGH, MAINE — Geriatric anti-ICE activists gathered at Town Hall on Sept. 14 to discuss doxxing, roadblocks, and Saul Alinsky. Attendees demanded radical action.

A week later, vandals laid spike strips in front of Scarborough’s ICE facility. They were placed near splashes of blood-red paint that activists used to deface the parking lot back in July after an agent-involved fatal shooting in nearby Biddeford.

‘Are we prioritizing our immigrant neighbors and people of color?’

A sign displayed on town property referred to the incident as a “murder.” Maine Democrat Attorney General Aaron Frey is reviewing the incident, according to the state’s deadly force statutes.

Clad in red-and-white “STOP ICE” shirts and touting a video endorsement from Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), the Indivisible Team of Southern Maine at the Town Hall set about building “working groups,” which were, in practice, a Byzantine bureaucracy of Baby Boomers.

At every new idea presented, one of the organizers promptly suggested another working group or committee be formed. This went on until the committee count rivaled the number of actual participants.

Town Councilor Jonathan Anderson (D) and state Rep. Sophia Warren (D) both delivered remarks. Anderson conjured up various hypothetical technicalities by which the ICE facility could be kicked out of town, and Warren praised the crowd for their daily protests. Both eventually ended up stumping for Troy Jackson’s U.S. Senate campaign, despite a vocal minority of the gathered protest-hobbyists slamming electoral politics throughout the night.

“Are we prioritizing our immigrant neighbors and people of color?” Warren asked the crowd to approving murmurs.

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After the speeches, a masked organizer donning an “86 47” hat — a message that some have interpreted as a call to violence against President Donald Trump — addressed the room. Introducing himself as Rich Nowak, he launched into an impassioned appeal for volunteers to gather information on individual agents.

“We get pictures of who’s working down there, we get license plate pictures, we get pictures of the people themselves,” said Nowak. “We want to know all that information.”

“Why do I wear a mask all the time?” Nowak asked rhetorically. “They knew my name, and they knew where I lived. So I thought it best that I at least keep my face covered.”

Another attendee interjected to suggest blockading ICE vehicles in the road in order to forcibly search them. The organizers nodded solemnly but offered neither condemnation nor approval.

Nowak later told Blaze News and the Maine Wire that there was no contradiction between doxxing ICE agents and protecting his own identity. He told attendees the full name and contact information of the ICE facility’s landlord shortly before the meeting ended.

At a protest just days later, Nowak’s masked companion assiduously and seemingly illegally taped over his front and rear license plates before pulling into traffic with both still covered.

RELATED: Hidden camera footage captures Talarico’s pastor saying evangelical Christians are ‘not smart’ and comparing Trump to Hitler

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Nowak isn’t just some lone loon. He is part of the Indivisible Team of Southern Maine, itself a branch of the national nonprofit Indivisible. Maine is home to 29 chapters, including Indivisible Scarborough, which organizes the daily “Quiet Resistance” watch outside the ICE facility alongside ITSME.

Indivisible uses ICE-leased buildings as pressure points, inundating them with doxxing efforts, loudspeaker harassment, and veiled threats.

Unfortunately for ITSME, the federal government has already signed a 15-year lease with the property owner. The township may amend zoning laws to prevent lease renewal, but many activists are calling for spot zoning — whereby the law applies selectively to certain parcels of land and not others — which may be illegal.

Anderson previously told the Portland Press Herald that the municipality had “no mechanism” by which it could evict a federal tenant.

All activists can do is make themselves “enough of a pain in the neck that they [ICE] move somewhere else,” according to one protester.

It’s not just the agency that ITSME regulars want to run out of town, but the agents themselves. Many believe ICE agents live in the facility.

Blaze News was invited to enter the building and speak with ICE agents to investigate this rumor.

An agent greeted Blaze News at the door on Friday in a “No Kings, No Tyrants, No Fascists, No Nazis” hat.

RELATED: Ex-USPS charged for allegedly tossing hundreds of mail-in ballots in the trash

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The agent explained that he wore it to bother the protesters across the street. He later threw on a “Hope Not Hate” hoodie to return the lawn chairs that ICE previously allowed protesters to store at the building.

That arrangement came to an end the day of Blaze News’ visit. Spike strips had been laid around the property that morning, jeopardizing the safety of agents and detainees alike, according to both ICE and the protesters.

Some protesters had also tried their luck at the blockade-and-search operation previously floated at the town hall meeting.

Activists continued photographing agents’ and contractors’ license plates while speaking to Blaze News. Eventually, the younger among them said they did not support deportation under any circumstances, including for migrants involved in violent crimes and “child rape,” because they would hurt people in their countries of origin.

A woman in a “Retired: The ability to do what I want, when I want” shirt looked on.

Another group was camped out in front of a local donut shop. Nowak and his masked companion were leading this crew.

Jon Fetherston of the Maine Wire stepped away from his car to interview rally-goers, some of whom promptly cursed at him. He returned to find his rear tire slashed. A local Firestone auto store confirmed that the tire was sliced by a knife or comparable implement.

The vandalism was nothing new for the Maine Wire’s senior reporter.

While covering the same anti-ICE groups after the Biddeford shooting, Fetherston was struck in the head with a skateboard by a rally-goer. Another protester punctured all four of his tires with a screwdriver.

Scarborough’s anti-ICE movement is aged. It’s beset by the distinctly leftist tendency to bureaucratization. But despite its comic exterior, it does have teeth.

Self-described “children of the ’60s” are willing to assault journalists, destroy property, and menace law enforcement officers to get their way. Picturesque New England towns may not last long if they do.

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