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Every time a president so much as changes the color of the White House drapes, the press clutches its pearls. Unless the name on the stationery is Barack Obama’s, even routine restoration becomes a national outrage.

President Donald Trump’s decision to privately fund upgrades to the White House — including a new state ballroom — has been met with the usual chorus of gasps and sneers. You’d think he bulldozed Monticello.

If a Republican preserves beauty, it’s vandalism. If a Democrat does the same, it’s ‘visionary.’

The irony is that presidents have altered and expanded the White House for more than a century. President Franklin D. Roosevelt added the East and West Wings in the middle of the Great Depression. Newspapers accused him of building a palace while Americans stood in breadlines. History now calls it “vision.”

First lady Nancy Reagan faced the same hysteria. Headlines accused her of spending taxpayer money on new china “while Americans starved.” In truth, she raised private funds after learning that the White House didn’t have enough matching plates for state dinners. She took the ridicule and refused to pass blame.

“I’m a big girl,” she told her staff. “This comes with the job.” That was dignity — something the press no longer recognizes.

A restoration, not a renovation

Trump’s project is different in every way that should matter. It costs taxpayers nothing. Not a cent. The president and a few friends privately fund the work. There’s no private pool or tennis court, no personal perks. The additions won’t even be completed until after he leaves office.

What’s being built is not indulgence — it’s stewardship. A restoration of aging rooms, worn fixtures, and century-old bathrooms that no longer function properly in the people’s house. Trump has paid for cast brass doorknobs engraved with the presidential seal, restored the carpets and moldings, and ensured that the architecture remains faithful to history.

The media’s response was mockery and accusations of vanity. They call it “grotesque excess,” while celebrating billion-dollar “climate art” projects and funneling hundreds of millions into activist causes like the No Kings movement. They lecture America on restraint while living off the largesse of billionaires.

The selective guardians of history

Where was this sudden reverence for history when rioters torched St. John’s Church — the same church where every president since James Madison has worshipped? The press called it an “expression of grief.”

Where was that reverence when mobs toppled statues of Washington, Jefferson, and Grant? Or when first lady Melania Trump replaced the Rose Garden’s lawn with a patio but otherwise followed Jackie Kennedy’s original 1962 plans in the garden’s restoration? They called that “desecration.”

If a Republican preserves beauty, it’s vandalism. If a Democrat does the same, it’s “visionary.”

The real desecration

The people shrieking about “historic preservation” care nothing for history. They hate the idea that something lasting and beautiful might be built by hands they despise. They mock craftsmanship because it exposes their own cultural decay.

The White House ballroom is not a scandal — it’s a mirror. And what it reflects is the media’s own pettiness. The ruling class that ridicules restoration is the same class that cheered as America’s monuments fell. Its members sneer at permanence because permanence condemns them.

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Trump’s improvements are an act of faith — in the nation’s symbols, its endurance, and its worth. The outrage over a privately funded renovation says less about him than it does about the journalists who mistake destruction for progress.

The real desecration isn’t happening in the East Wing. It’s happening in the newsrooms that long ago tore up their own foundation — truth — and never bothered to rebuild it.

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President Donald Trump’s plan to build a grand new White House ballroom is underway, and the media and celebrity class have melted down into unhinged hysterics, per usual.

In a segment on “The View,” former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre resurfaced to join the madness, telling the always-rational panel that “the people’s house is basically being sold to the highest bidder.”

“It is corruption at its core. And I heard someone say this when I was backstage. It could not be, there’s no greater metaphor right now than what’s happening right now in this country than watching Donald Trump take a wrecking ball to the White House,” she added.

“But why do they let him get away with it? He has all of these people who just let him get away with whatever he wants to do,” Joy Behar chimed in.

“That’s what he’s been doing for the nine, ten months, like the powers that are in the D.C. are not standing up. They’re acting as if they’re powerless … like no, you all have power. You all have power. Do something with it,” Jean-Pierre added.

“I will note,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere says on “Stu Does America,” “for a woman who constantly read every single answer she gave while she was in the White House and was the press secretary, you have to love her saying that she heard her point that she made on ‘The View’ from someone backstage, proving she’s never had an original thought in her entire life.”

Maria Shriver also weighed in on Trump’s renovation, writing in a post on X: “This breaks my heart and it infuriates me. Hundreds of millions of dollars to build a new ballroom. Good god.”

“Someone who just knows frugality,” Burguiere jokes.

However, the bill for the renovations is not being laid at the taxpayers feet, rather, it’s all privately donated — which is why the construction has continued despite the government shutdown.

“All the reporters that normally would be complaining about the shutdown because Republicans were responsible for it now have nothing to do because they can’t complain about the Democratic shutdown. So they’re just going to take pictures of the White House and complain about that,” Stu says.

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According to the DHS Privacy Office report, the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Biden administration did not just mishandle a few cases — they secretly blacklisted conservatives and lowered their priority when it came to assistance.

“They tracked Americans, their political and religious beliefs, during disasters — not in theory, in black and white,” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck says on “The Glenn Beck Program.”

“When these people were flooded, they were homeless, they were desperate, and asked for help from the same government that preaches compassion and equity, they got something entirely different. They got silence, delay, and sometimes nothing at all,” he continues.

According to the DHS report, “FEMA violated the Privacy Act of 1974 by collecting and storing data tied to protected speech.”

“They were checking bumper stickers and writing you down in a book. They logged gun signage 72 times, Trump 15 times, firearms 5 times, Biden twice,” Glenn says.

“Now it has been proven. FEMA workers skipped homes if you had a MAGA flag or a yard sign. And then they left notes,” he continues, quoting one of the workers’ notes: “‘There was a political flyer … so I didn’t leave a FEMA brochure.’”

Another quote from their notes reads: “‘We don’t recommend anyone visit this location.’”

“That’s not a clerical error here. That’s a blacklist. This is the same agency that airlifts people off of rooftops after hurricanes, that distributes food and shelter when nothing else works. And they were told to avoid Americans because of who they voted for. Not terrorists, not criminals, citizens,” Glenn says.

“I will tell you,” he continues, “I have been in disaster after disaster. … I have shown up at the hurricanes and the floods and the tornadoes with help. And not once did it even occur to me to ask you, ‘What’s your political affiliation?'”

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Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul praised a settlement reached to fine apartment building owners $55,000 after they hung a poster calling on tenants to report immigrants to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Officials said a building superintendent tried to intimidate potential witnesses with immigration raids at an apartment building with mostly immigrant residents in Jamaica, Queens.

‘We will continue our work to call out all forms of hate, bias, and discrimination across our state.’

The original complaint about the poster was made in 2017 to the New York State Division of Human Rights, but the settlement was reached eight years later in February.

The state office accused the building owner, a management company, and others associated with the building of illegally discriminating against people based on their national origin.

The defendants agreed to pay the fine and also accepted three years of oversight to ensure compliance.

“Let us be clear: New York remains committed to protecting anyone who is discriminated against or harassed because of their national origin, citizenship, or immigration status,” Human Rights Commissioner Denise M. Miranda said in a statement Wednesday.

“It is unacceptable, unconscionable, and illegal for housing providers to discriminate against their tenants simply because of where they are from,” she added. “We will continue our work to call out all forms of hate, bias, and discrimination across our state.”

An attorney representing the management company in a separate lawsuit said they settled in order to avoid litigation costs, according to the New York Times.

RELATED: Activists blame Trump for bounty hunter ‘kidnapping’ of mom of 3 for deportation — feds say it was a hoax for cash

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Hochul praised the settlement on social media.

“Threatening to ’round up tenants’ or call ICE because of someone’s national origin is blatant discrimination. And in New York, it’s illegal. Any company engaging in it will be fined,” she posted.

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The race for the lieutenant governor’s office in Alabama will now include a former NFL quarterback thanks to the influence of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

A.J. McCarron cited Kirk in his video announcement Thursday more than a year after his last stint as the quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals football team.

‘It’s time for political newcomers and outsider candidates like me to lead the battle.’

“Today, Alabama’s conservative and cultural values are under attack from every direction. That’s why Charlie Kirk’s assassination affected so many of us so deeply,” McCarron said in the video.

He is running as a Republican and hearkened back to his endorsement of then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016.

“The Montgomery insiders and career politicians have had their chance. It’s time for political newcomers and outsider candidates like me to lead the battle,” he added.

Also running for the office is Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen, pastor Dean Odle, and Alabama Agriculture Commissioner Rick Pate.

“Alabama is my home — it’s made me who I am, and I feel led from above to give back to the state that has given me so much,” McCarron continued in the video.

“So, if you’re ready for a new voice, a fresh perspective, and want Alabama to remain the nation’s conservative and moral leader, just remember one simple phrase — A.J. for L.G.,” he added.

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The Alabama primaries are scheduled for May 19, 2026.

McCarron played in college for the University of Alabama Crimson Tide before getting drafted by the Bengals in 2014. He played for various other teams, including the Houston Texans and the Atlanta Falcons.

He led the Alabama team to back-to-back national championship titles.

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Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones faces more pressure to drop out of the race after reports surfaced that he is under investigation concerning a prior reckless driving conviction.

Jones’ campaign was already battling a scandal when leaked text messages from 2022 revealed that he had wished death upon a Republican lawmaker and his children.

In the texts, Jones stated that, in a hypothetical situation where he had only “two bullets” and had to choose between shooting then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert (R), Adolf Hitler, and Pol Pot, he would shoot Gilbert twice. He also claimed that Gilbert and his wife were “breeding little fascists,” referring to their children, and wished harm on them. None of Jones’ fellow Democrats called on him to exit the race over the texts.

‘From murderous text messages to reckless driving at 116 mph to defrauding a court of law, Jay Jones belongs behind bars, if convicted of fraud, not as a member of the state bar — let alone as Virginia’s attorney general.’

Several local reports on Wednesday indicated that Jones’ campaign was facing yet another scandal, this time involving a 2022 reckless driving conviction for driving 116 mph.

A court previously ordered Jones, a Democratic former Virginia delegate, to pay a fine and serve 1,000 hours of community service. According to reports, Jones completed 500 hours with the NAACP and another 500 hours at Meet Our Moment. However, he allegedly did not make it clear to the court that the latter was his own political action committee.

New Kent County Commonwealth’s attorney Scott Renick was assigned to investigate questions surrounding Jones’ community service. Yet, Renick felt “it would be improper for him to act in the matter … due to a potential conflict,” according to court records obtained by Blaze News. He recommended the court assign special prosecutor Nathan Green.

Renick’s office declined to provide any additional comments on the matter.

WAVY-TV reported that Green had also refused to accept the appointment. Green provided an order to Blaze News confirming that he had recused himself from the case. The order claimed that “it would be improper for him to act in the matter.” Green did not provide any further explanation.

RELATED: Democrat Jay Jones tries to pivot debate away from vile texts wishing death on a rival’s kids — but Virginia AG won’t let him

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Jason Miyares, the current Virginia attorney general and Jones’ Republican opponent, called on Jones to withdraw from the race “for the sake of public trust and common decency.”

“Virginians deserve an Attorney General whose integrity is beyond question,” Miyares stated. “Jay Jones had already disqualified himself with his violent text messages against political opponents and their children.”

“It is not possible for Jay Jones to fulfill the duties of that office while under an open criminal investigation,” Miyares continued. “If Jay Jones stays in the race, it shows a contempt for voters never seen in modern Virginia political history. Jay Jones has not taken accountability for his words or actions.”

RELATED: Nancy Pelosi has unbelievable response to Democrat candidate who issued death wish against Republican

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The Republican Attorneys General Association previously called for Jones to drop out of the race following the unearthed text messages and heightened those calls Thursday because of the ongoing investigation.

“Jay Jones has proven himself time and again to be unfit and unqualified to serve as Virginia’s top prosecutor,” RAGA executive director Adam Piper stated in a press release. “While 51% of Virginians have said Jay Jones should drop out, Democrats continue to put partisan identifiers above principle by allowing Jay Jones to remain on the ballot. He is a threat to the safety of all Virginians.”

“Jay Jones has shown he lacks the character, integrity, and judicial temperament to be attorney general,” Piper said. “From murderous text messages to reckless driving at 116 mph to defrauding a court of law, Jay Jones belongs behind bars, if convicted of fraud, not as a member of the state bar — let alone as Virginia’s attorney general.”

Jones’ campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

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A political advertisement satirically portraying criminals who support the policies of Democratic socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani was pulled by the Cuomo campaign.

The ad was posted by the campaign on Wednesday evening just as the last mayoral debate was ending, but then it was quickly taken down, according to the New York Times.

‘When a woman’s being domestically abused, she finally won’t have to deal with some pesky cop to arrest the abuser but now a social worker to help, you know, kumbaya the situation!’

Rich Azzopardi, a spokesperson for the Cuomo campaign, told the Times that it was posted “in error” and was not “done yet.”

Copies of the two-minute video generated by artificial intelligence have since gone viral on social media. One post with the video garnered more than 2.5 million views.

The video shows criminals happily endorsing Mamdani and expressing support for his policies that go easy on criminals. They include a domestic abuser, a pimp, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver.

Common Cause New York described the ad as “offensive and a shocking attempt at fear-mongering.” The group added that it might be in violation of state election law for failing to identify itself as being generated by AI.

“With plans to decriminalize all drugs, Mamdani will be a job creator for drug dealers!” says one character in the ad.

“Instead of helping us homeless get off the streets and into the mental health facilities we need, he wants to give us safe injection sites to do crack and let us sleep in subway cars!” says a character resembling a homeless man.

“When a woman’s being domestically abused, she finally won’t have to deal with some pesky cop to arrest the abuser but now a social worker to help, you know, kumbaya the situation!” says a heavyset male character in a wifebeater undershirt.

“Who cares if legalizing prostitution statistically leads to an increase for sex trafficking of women and young girls by 70%?” a black pimp character says.

“You can’t have safety without equality!” says a white woman who drunkenly stumbles out of her car after a crash.

“I’m a criminal for Zohran Mamdani!” they proclaim.

RELATED: Cuomo crushes Mamdani on his inexperience in final mayoral debate: ‘You’ve never accomplished anything!’

The ad was widely praised by some on social media, especially from those on the right.

“Probably the most honest political ad of the season,” one response reads.

“Truth in advertising. I love this ad. I could watch it on a loop,” another user said.

“Hahahahaha. This is by far the only good thing to come from @andrewcuomo ever,” another account replied.

On the other hand, others called it “racist and hateful.”

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The popular social media platform TikTok denies allegations from a tech insider that its algorithm is boosting the campaign of socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani while undermining one of his opponents.

Mamdani surprised many when he won the Democratic primary in the mayoral race and defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who came in second. Cuomo is currently running as an independent.

Cuomo attacked Mamdani during two debates for his inexperience and extremism, but polls show Mamdani remains popular among NYC voters.

Dodeles said that within politics, two terms stood out for nonorganic excessive publicity: Mamdani and Cuomo.

On Wednesday, Tel Aviv-based software engineer and tech founder Yehonatan Dodeles posted a report at Medium claiming that TikTok was pushing users to the Mamdani camp.

“TikTok’s algorithm is distorting the playing field in New York City’s mayoral race,” Dodeles wrote. “Our early analysis suggests that content favoring Zohran Mamdani is being amplified, while videos supporting Andrew Cuomo are being suppressed, a pattern that could meaningfully influence public perception and voter behavior.”

The analysis was based on a computer model that compared how many times some content was boosted as compared to the user-engagement levels. Dodeles said that within politics, two terms stood out for nonorganic excessive publicity: Mamdani and Cuomo.

The analysis estimated that anti-Cuomo content received 54% excessive publicity, while that seen as pro-Mamdani received 3% excessive publicity when normalized against the baseline for politics.

Ironically, pro-Cuomo content had exactly the same excessive publicity rating as anti-Mamdani content: -22%

Dodeles went on to say that the analysis took into account the natural popularity that the topics have among the platform users.

TikTok released a statement vehemently denying the report.

“This is nothing more than a deliberate attempt to push a political objective through a bogus study that is not based on any form of reality,” read the statement. “The story falls well short of basic journalistic standards.”

RELATED: Cuomo crushes Mamdani on his inexperience in final mayoral debate: ‘You’ve never accomplished anything!’

TikTok has been previously criticized for allegedly orchestrating its algorithm to damage American society while precluding the same content in China.

Steve Baker, investigative journalist for Blaze News, cited his recent report documenting SIM farms used by China to destabilize U.S. society to provide support for the accusations.

“Our sources tell us that the Chinese control TikTok directly through native onboard bots that cannot be detected whatsoever,” wrote Baker. “Of course the Chinese are brainwashing people to vote for Mamdani. No candidate for NYC mayor would harm America more than Mamdani.”

The platform has also been accused of favoring anti-Israel content while suppressing that which defends the nation amid the conflict with the Hamas terror group.

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Senate Democrats have doubled down on the government shutdown, blocking a bill that would make sure federal workers wouldn’t miss any more paychecks.

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin proposed the bill on the Senate floor that would ensure service members and federal personnel who are currently working would get their paychecks during the Democrat-induced shutdown. Only three Democrats in the entire Senate joined Republicans to pay federal workers.

‘They want to shut down the government.’

The bill ultimately failed, falling six votes short of the 60-vote threshold. Democratic Sens. Jon Ossoff of Georgia, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, and Raphael Warnock of Georgia bucked 45 of their colleagues and joined 51 Republicans in support of the bill.

“We’ve heard Democrats criticize [Johnson’s] bill because it would provide pay only to those working through the shutdown,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune said in a post on X. “They say they want everyone to get paid. Well, I have great news: the clean CR would pay everyone. We just need five more Democrats to support it.”

RELATED: ‘These people are sick’: Trump admin slams top Dem for justifying shutdown suffering

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As Thune and his allies at the White House have pointed out, Democrats are the ones who have consistently voted against passing a clean continuing resolution to keep the government open. At the same time, Democrats are demanding Congress renegotiate Obamacare subsidies that aren’t set to expire until the end of the year and insisting on passing their hyper-partisan $1.5 trillion spending bill.

“I’ll just point out the irony in Democrats holding the government and the American public hostage over a health care system that they created,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said during Thursday’s briefing. “The health care system was called Obamacare. Why? Because Democrats and President Obama implemented it. And Republicans have always said it’s a broken system, yes, but they caused it. And now they want to shut down the government to fix it?

“We need to open the government, and then we can have these very important conversations about health care,” she continued.

RELATED: Democrat senator blocks vote to end shutdown to protest Trump’s ‘authoritarianism’ in drawn-out rant

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Republicans have remained consistent on the shutdown fight. Their resolution is a clean, nonpartisan funding bill that keeps spending at the same rates Democrats voted for over a dozen times in the past. Thune has even indicated he would be willing to give Democrats a vote on the Obamacare subsidies so long as they vote to open the government.

Even still, just three Democrats have mustered up the courage to consistently vote with Republicans to reopen the government.

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Numerous Democrats are foaming at the mouth over the expansion of the White House East Wing with a stunning 90,000 square-foot addition paid for by President Donald Trump and other donors.

In response to the news that construction was under way on Trump’s ballroom, Hillary Clinton — the twice-failed presidential candidate and former first lady who absconded from the White House in 2001 with a small fortune’s worth of furniture and furnishings that weren’t hers to take — said, “It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.”

‘Thank you for your attention to this matter.’

Sen. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), one of the Democrats keeping the government shut down, brought a photo into the Senate on Thursday showing the East Wing’s demolition, suggesting it was not only illustrative of the White House’s “desecration” but symbolic of what the president is “doing to the whole country.”

In an apparent effort to troll these and other apoplectic Democrats, the White House’s website has been revamped such that it now highlights a selection of past administrations’ scandals on the premises.

Besides referencing in its major events timeline Presidents William Howard Taft’s remodeling of the West Wing, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s expansion of it, and Harry Truman’s “total reconstruction” of the White House’s interior, the website now makes mention of Bill Clinton’s sordid sex scandal, noting that the former Democratic president’s affair with Monica Lewinsky set the stage for perjury investigations and, ultimately, his impeachment.

The website also mentions the 2012 meeting between members of the radical Muslim Brotherhood and Obama White House officials, noting that “the Muslim Brotherhood is a designated terrorist organization by nearly a dozen nations.”

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After highlighting how first lady Melania Trump oversaw the privately funded construction of the tasteful neoclassical tennis pavilion on the South Lawn, the White House timeline references how a bag of cocaine was found in the West Wing entrance lobby during Joe Biden’s time in office as well as the degenerate LGBT event Biden hosted at the White House in 2023 where a medical transvestite showed off his fake breasts on the South Lawn.

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The new timeline appears to have already ruffled some feathers.

Sam Stein, managing editor of the anti-Trump Bulwark blog, wrote, “The White House has revamped its website to defend the destruction of the East Wing. And they’ve done it exactly the way you’d expect.”

James Blair, White House deputy chief of staff, said in reply, “Liberal Media has [a] problem with documented historical facts being posted on White House website.”

Deputy assistant to the president Kaelan Dorr got in on the fun, tweeting to Stein, “Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

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Universities across America have become dangerous indoctrination tools helping to push radical ideologies on our nation’s youth, and one radical professor couldn’t be making this clearer.

Stacy Patton teaches media, journalism, film, and communication at Howard University in Washington, D.C. — and she apparently has a deep appreciation for murderers.

“You see the Ph.D. next to her name, as if that means anything any more. In fact, usually, these days, Ph.D. is just a signal that you’re crazy,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says. “So this woman is advocating for white political allies to emulate [a] vigilante mass murderer.”

Patton pointed to militant John Brown in a recent blog post, writing “So when white allies ask, ‘What can I do?’ Here’s the answer: Be like John Brown. Ask yourself, what am I willing to burn so somebody else can breathe?”

Brown was a militant abolitionist before the Civil War, who in 1856 orchestrated the Pottawatomie massacre. Alongside his fellow militants, he dragged five Kansas settlers out of their homes and executed them. In total, he had killed around 10 people directly and was responsible for the deaths of several others through these violent raids.

Later, he was tried for treason and eventually hanged.

“So this is the guy that this woman is glorifying. And by the way, he didn’t sacrifice himself. He slaughtered innocent men to ignite a race war. This is the guy that a college professor is calling for modern white progressives to take up his torch,” Gonzales says.

Now, leftists have been posting flyers all over college campuses urging students to join “The John Brown Club,” using slogans like “Hey, Fascist! Catch,” which was written on one of the bullets loaded into Charlie Kirk’s assassin’s weapon.

Under “Hey, Fascist! Catch,” the flyer reads, “The only political group that celebrates when Nazis die.”

Gonzales explains that “The John Brown Club” is now “just used as a collective group name for Antifa.”

“So we know of other Antifa members who have carried out violence under the banner of ‘The John Brown Gun Club,’” she says, citing the example of an Antifa member who tried to firebomb a Washington state ICE facility in 2019.

“That guy was a member of ‘The John Brown Gun Club,’” Gonzales says.

“So in reality, this woman knows that she is in fact glorifying a man who represents that. A man who represents violence being carried out across the streets in this country. She knows that she has a direct influence over the next generation. She knows that she is of course trying to instigate these people into committing crimes,” she continues.

“These professors are not educating these students any more. They are there to simply radicalize them,” she adds.

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A late-night Amazon Web Services outage earlier this week caused an uncomfortable sleep for those with subscription bed services.

At around 3 a.m. Eastern Time on Monday, Amazon said it had an operational issue at one of its northern Virginia centers that was affecting 14 of its services.

While AWS hosts only 6.3% of all websites, many major app providers and online companies are reliant on the service, causing a domino effect when a wide range of its tools went offline.

‘Now, weak and fallible, I sweat.’

Not only were apps for Snapchat, McDonald’s, and even Ring doorbell cameras rendered useless for a short period, but some users of “smart beds” were put in a rather sweaty situation.

As reported by Dexerto, owners of Eight Sleep mattresses found themselves in an awkward situation when they realized their beds could not connect to their servers.

Eight Sleep provides smart mattresses that range from $2,500 to $7,000 and require a monthly subscription. It comes with a hub that powers the whole system and connects to company servers, a temperature-adjusted cover that monitors your sleep, and optional features like temperature-controlled pillow covers and blankets.

When the AWS servers went down, customers reported that some of those features were thrown out of whack.

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“Tonight I learned 8Sleep runs on AWS,” a customer wrote on X. “Now, weak and fallible, I sweat on top of my +9 degree mattress which won’t cool.”

Another comment reported by multiple outlets was from an apparent tech enthusiast saying, “Backend outage means I’m sleeping in a sauna.”

“Eight Sleep confirmed there’s no offline mode yet, but they’re working on it,” the man added.

While more customers complained about heating issues, others cried out that their beds were “stuck in an inclined position.”

Matteo Franceschetti, Eight Sleep’s CEO, was quick to assure customers that a “fix” was incoming. Franceschetti immediately apologized for the AWS dependency and said the company would roll out a correction that would involve “outage-proofing” the smart furniture.

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On Wednesday, the CEO announced Eight Sleep’s new “Backup Mode,” which allows the hub to connect through Bluetooth when “cloud infrastructure or Wi-Fi is unavailable.”

“When an outage is detected, Backup Mode kicks in automatically, allowing you to open the app and access critical functionalities, making sure your experience is not disrupted,” Franceschetti explained.

While the new update seemingly renders online connectivity unnecessary, users were quick to point out the mass amount of data transfer that comes with an annual subscription between $200 and $400.

One X user showed that his app was shockingly transferring over 16 gigabytes’ worth of telemetry data per month.

At the same time, others showed off their own solutions to the outage, such as connecting a fish-tank cooler to a series of tubes and feeding them through a mattress.

“Fish tank cooler does not run on AWS but i do turn it on locally with a $10 homekit plug,” the budding engineer wrote.

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In a bizarre moment on “The View,” co-host Sunny Hostin offered her paranoia about racism from her white neighbors as evidence of racial tension in America.

The hosts were discussing a newly released Netflix documentary titled “The Perfect Neighbor,” about a white woman who shot her black female neighbor in Florida, when Hostin made the comments. They described the documentary as “heart-wrenching” and “powerful.”

‘I know that black boys are not given the presumption of innocence and the presumption of youth.’

Hostin told the story in the context that the black mother who was shot had also gone to defend her child from racist harassment.

“As a mother of black children, I know that black boys are not given the presumption of innocence and the presumption of youth,” Hostin said.

She then offered the story about her son.

“For me, what was interesting was I have had to be in the position where I have gone to my local police department because I know my son is going to be training for the Junior Olympics — running around the neighborhood in an all-white neighborhood — and I have brought him to the police and said, ‘He belongs to me; this is my son. Do not harass him; do not stop him,'” she recalled.

“So she was doing what so many black mothers do,” Hostin added.

Video of the comments was posted to social media, where many users responded with ridicule.

“Ironic. She makes the absolute worst assumptions about her White Neighbors having the absolute worst assumptions about her,” read one response.

“Her accusation isn’t remotely credible. She could easily choose to live in an all-black neighborhood and see how safe for son is then,” responded another user.

“This is the kind of delusional performance that’s made The View a circus instead of a serious show,” read another response. “Sunny Hostin turns every personal anecdote into some grand race narrative like she’s living in a 1950s movie instead of a multimillion-dollar mansion.”

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Others, however, offered their own stories in confirmation of the bias Hostin was describing.

“It happens. I live in a gated community, and I have been there for over 13 years, and they still call the local police on me while I am out walking my dog at least 3 times a month,” responded another user. “It has gotten to the point where I know all the cops by name, and they know mine.”

The entire segment about the documentary can be viewed on the show’s YouTube channel.

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Joe Scarborough just rediscovered the Constitution.

On MSNBC, the “Morning Joe” co-host warned last week of the grave dangers of Donald Trump using government power against political enemies. Nodding journalists agreed. Scarborough cautioned that Trump and his team would face a “wicked cycle” of retaliation and retribution after leaving office if they pursued politically motivated prosecutions.

One problem: Democrats already did exactly that.

After years of weaponizing the law against Trump and his staff, the left now pleads for “restraint.” With Letitia James, James Comey, and John Bolton all facing charges, the same people who cheered every politically driven indictment now claim to fear the abuse of justice. They are suffering from sudden, selective, highly political amnesia.

Faced with the blowback they earned, Democrats are pleading for a truce they don’t intend to honor.

The classic argument against weaponizing state power goes like this: Don’t use the system against your opponents, because one day your opponents will use it against you. It’s a reasonable principle — assuming both sides still share the same rules. But once one side has crossed the line, the warning loses its force. You can’t tell your enemy not to fight back while you’re still swinging.

For decades, liberals held conservatives in check by preaching against escalation. Republicans, as the self-styled party of small government, were inclined to agree. They saw the use of political power itself as dangerous, so the threat of mutual destruction kept them compliant. But that restraint vanished the moment Democrats arrested protesters, jailed administration officials, and prosecuted a president they impeached not once but twice.

Warnings against escalation work only while both sides respect the boundary. Once the first blow lands, the only way to restore order is to make the aggressor regret crossing the line. Like a street fight, it’s not easy to stop mid-swing. The longer it continues, the less likely anyone is to walk away peacefully.

Democrats justified their abuse of power with the same excuse they use for everything: Trump is different. He’s a “unique threat,” a proto-dictator, the embodiment of every dark impulse in Middle America. The system, they insisted, had to “make an example” of him to save democracy. Somewhere deep down, they knew they were opening Pandora’s box. They just didn’t think they’d ever have to live with the consequences.

Now they’re living with them.

Progressives can sense the danger but won’t admit it. Having normalized political prosecutions, they’re trying to erase the record. They pretend the last eight years never happened — that Trump wasn’t convicted on a stack of bogus charges, that administration officials weren’t arrested, that meme-makers and protesters weren’t jailed.

“Be careful about jailing your political opponents — they might jail you.”

That warning rings hollow when your political friends and allies have already gone to prison.

Democrats’ gamble seemed safe because they assumed Republicans would never retaliate. They counted on the party’s traditional cowardice. And for years, they were right. The GOP has rarely shown the will to wield power even when it wins elections.

But Donald Trump is not a typical Republican. He doesn’t forgive, he doesn’t forget, and he really doesn’t like to lose. If you give him the chance to settle the score, he will.

Even now, as the political pendulum swings against them, Democrats have learned nothing. They insist that every prosecution of Trump was legitimate and every case against their own is tyranny. Their warnings about “political retribution” sound empty because they are. The reckoning they unleashed was inevitable.

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They disturbed the equilibrium. Now the balance returns.

Deprived of moral credibility and electoral power, the left is turning to the only weapon it has left — violence. Having lost the White House, progressives no longer believe in the system they once claimed to defend. They spent years calling Trump “Hitler,” his voters “Nazis,” and his administration “fascist.” When you’ve already declared your opponents subhuman, how do you climb down from that?

You don’t. You take to the streets.

The rhetoric has reached its natural conclusion. If Trump is Hitler and the country re-elected Hitler, then democracy itself is illegitimate. By that logic, terrorism isn’t a crime — it’s justice. And that’s exactly where the left is headed.

The party that claimed to fear tyranny created the conditions for it. The people who warned of political persecution perfected the art. Now, faced with the blowback they earned, Democrats are pleading for a truce they don’t intend to honor.

They wanted a world without restraint. They got it.

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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department told Blaze News that deputies responded just before 1 p.m. Wednesday to the 900 block of North Sweetzer Avenue in West Hollywood regarding an armed robbery call.

According to the victim, a dark-colored sedan was seen traveling down the street at a high rate of speed before stopping near his location, authorities said.

The driver didn’t need directions.

‘At one point the guy’s arm got dislocated …’

The sheriff’s department told Blaze News that an adult black male wearing a mask exited the vehicle holding a semiautomatic handgun and demanded the victim’s Rolex watch.

But the victim refused to comply, and a physical struggle ensued, authorities said.

Patrick McCloskey told KTLA-TV he was working from home when he heard a woman screaming from the sidewalk: “The chaos was so intense, I didn’t know who jumped who. I ran to the door to see what was happening. At that point, I hear her yell, ‘Get the gun, get the gun!’”

Apparently getting hold of the gun wasn’t too difficult for the victim, as McCloskey explained to the station that the gunman “didn’t know that the guy was a retired wrestler. So he was able to get the gun off the guy and wrestle him down.”

Video of the incident’s aftermath shows the victim — who didn’t want to be identified — telling a deputy that he grabbed the gunman’s wrist and put him on the ground before taking the gun away, KTLA reported.

The victim’s girlfriend then threw the gun over a nearby fence, and he held the suspect down until police arrived, the station said.

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The sheriff’s department told Blaze News that a second adult male suspect exited the vehicle during the struggle but fled the scene in the dark-colored sedan prior to the arrival of deputies.

Responding deputies recovered the gun and took the suspect into custody without further incident, officials said.

“I was told the gun was loaded,” McCloskey noted to KTLA. “The guy who is sort of the hero in all of this, who was able to pin the guy down, told me he saw a bullet in the chamber.”

McCloskey added to the station that the retired wrestler showed no mercy in his struggle with the gunman: “At one point the guy’s arm got dislocated, and he just held him down.”

Video that KTLA obtained from the scene shows deputies arresting the suspect and recovering the gun allegedly used during the incident, the station said.

Anyone who may have witnessed the incident or has information about the investigation is urged to contact LASD’s West Hollywood Station, KTLA added.

Commenters on KTLA’s Facebook post about the ordeal seemed pleased with the outcome:

“FAFO at its best. Way to go!” one commenter said.”This is why California needs to be open carry like Texas!” another user declared.”Need more people like this hero to fight back!” another commenter said.”You never know who you messing with,” another user observed.”News like this [is] soooooo satisfying!” another commenter exclaimed.

Blaze News had asked the sheriff’s department for the name of the suspect as well as his age, charge or charges against him, any past offenses, and his arrest photo, but officials did not provide that information.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the White House on Friday, hoping that he would talk President Donald Trump into giving Kiev some long-range Tomahawk missiles.

The meeting, while allegedly “cordial,” did not go as Zelenskyy had hoped.

Trump, who figures both that America should retain the weapon systems for its own defense and that the provision to Ukraine would not only amount to an intolerable escalation but prove useless in the short term, declined to supply Kiev with Tomahawks.

‘It will be too far out into the future.’

Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, among the European officials apparently prickled by the decision, implored Trump to hand over the missiles, stating, “Putin believes only in power.”

Elements of the liberal media similarly called on Trump to oblige Zelenskyy.

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, for instance, characterized the cruise missiles as a “force for peace,” suggested that “hoarding cruise missiles for another war that may or may not come invites more conflict,” and downplayed the use of the missiles against a nuclear power as escalatory.

The Telegraph suggested that Trump should abandon his role as the “mediator president” and gift Russian President Vladimir Putin “a Christmas punctuated by Tomahawk, Storm Shadow, and Atacms strikes.”

Amid such blather, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte emphasized on Wednesday that the American president was “completely right.”

Following his meeting on Wednesday with Trump, Rutte told CNN, “Let’s never think that one specific weapon system will change the whole war. If it was that easy, then we would have ended it when the Germans sent Leopards II, when the Dutch and the Danes sent the F-16s.”

“These systems are important,” continued Rutte. “They will absolutely help to bring this war to an end, but in itself, one weapon system will never end it.”

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Zelenskyy, whose term ended in May 2024, seeks to use such missiles — which cost over $2 million a piece and can be fired from a ground-based Typhon launcher that costs around $6.2 million — in concert with long-range drones to strike targets deep inside Russia, including military bases, factories, oil infrastructure, and command centers. Whereas the British-made Storm Shadow missiles in Ukraine’s arsenal have a range of 150 miles, Tomahawk missiles have a range of over 1,000 miles.

Rutte referenced the explanation Trump gave during their meeting and said, “He was completely right here: It takes months for anyone other than American soldiers to be trained on [Tomahawk weapon systems]. So it is not that if you decide today that Ukrainians can use them tomorrow.”

Trump noted earlier that “there is a tremendous learning curve with the Tomahawk.”

“It’s a very powerful weapon, very accurate weapon, and maybe that’s what makes it so complex,” continued the president. “But it will take a year. It takes a year of intense training to learn how to use it, and we know how to use it, and we’re not going to be teaching other people. It will be too far out into the future.”

Trump, keen on brokering an end to war well in advance of that time Tomahawk missiles might have capable pilots on the ground, has instead turned to a more immediate method of applying pressure on Russia to end the war, namely sanctions on Russia, its enablers, and — as of Wednesday — two of Russia’s largest state-owned oil companies.

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Earlier this year, the NBA announced a new halftime series with Peacock streaming services: “MJ: Insights to Excellence,” featuring the one and only Michael Jordan. The news was shocking for the sports world, as Jordan has largely avoided the public spotlight since his retirement. For him to step back in front of NBA audiences again, this time ready to share his wisdom, has had basketball fans sitting on the edge of their seats.

On Tuesday, October 21, the first episode of Jordan’s new series aired during halftime of the Oklahoma City Thunder and Houston Rockets game. The NBA legend revealed that he hasn’t picked up a basketball in years and shared a memory of feeling “the most nervous I’ve been in years” when asked to shoot a free throw in front of kids during a stay at a rental house for the Ryder Cup.

Many were charmed by Jordan’s candor, but Jason Whitlock says his “insights” flopped.

He was expecting basketball analysis, not personal anecdotes.

“This is [Shai Gilgeous-Alexander] and the Oklahoma City Thunder raising a banner, getting championship rings — the future of the NBA versus the past of the NBA in Kevin Durant, and we had time to go hear stories about Michael Jordan shooting a free throw?” he complains.

Jason doesn’t understand why the entirety of sports media is “genuflecting” to Jordan and treating him “as an idol” when all he did was share some personal stories. “Michael Jordan did nothing, and we shouldn’t be celebrating it,” he says, calling himself an “iconoclast” who wants to “tear down icons.”

“Fearless” guest Jay Skapinac, host of “Skap Attack,” agrees: “I was led to believe that this was going to be Michael Jordan kind of as an NBA analyst, not regaling us with stories of what he’s been doing for the last 25, 30 years outside of the NBA.”

His fear is that “MJ: Insights to Excellence” is actually just a long pre-recorded interview that the NBA is going to chop up and slow-release throughout the season.

T.J. Moe, however, completely understands the hype surrounding Jordan’s series. “When people don’t speak very often, people’s ears perk up when that person speaks. The first time we heard Michael Jordan say virtually anything since his retirement was ‘The Last Dance,’ and people were captivated by that. I don’t think we should be surprised that people are somewhat captivated by just seeing inside of a guy’s life that is a total mystery,” he counters.

But Jason’s opinion is set: Jordan’s “insights” are a distraction from the game. “NBC screwed up here.”

To hear more of the debate, watch the episode above.

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A crash on Tuesday in California involving an illegal alien truck driver resulted in three deaths and the hospitalization of several others.

Authorities identified the commercial truck driver allegedly responsible for the deadly collision as Jashanpreet Singh, a 21-year-old Indian national in the United States illegally.

‘It is a terrible tragedy three innocent people lost their lives due to the reckless open border policies that allowed an illegal alien to be released into the US and drive an 18-wheeler on America’s highways.’

The California Highway Patrol arrested Singh, and he is being detained without bail at the West Valley Detention Center in San Bernardino.

The CHP told KCBS-TV that officers are investigating whether Singh has a valid commercial driver’s license to operate the semitruck.

Authorities claim Singh was speeding, and they suspect he was under the influence of drugs at the time of the crash on the 10 Freeway in Ontario that caused three deaths and injuries to four others. All of the victims were adults, the Ontario Fire Department told KCBS.

Rodrigo Jimenez of the CHP told KTLA that one of the vehicles involved in the collision was so badly mangled that investigators still had not identified its make and model.

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“The fact that there are so many commercial vehicles involved in the crash, there’s a lot of weight behind the crash force,” Jimenez told the news outlet. “This is a very complex investigation, and that’s why officers from our multi-disciplinary accident investigation team have taken over.”

“This is a tragic crash because it was very preventable,” he continued. “If somebody had just paid attention, if everyone was driving sober, this tragedy would not have occurred.”

Singh faces charges of driving under the influence of drugs and causing bodily injury and gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.

Dash camera footage from Singh’s cab showed the truck plowing into multiple vehicles without Singh appearing to apply the brakes.

Blaze News has reached out the office of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) for comment.

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The Department of Homeland Security confirmed on Thursday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement placed an arrest detainer against Singh. The department noted that he was released into the country under the Biden administration after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in 2022.

“It is a terrible tragedy three innocent people lost their lives due to the reckless open border policies that allowed an illegal alien to be released into the U.S. and drive an 18-wheeler on America’s highways,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin stated.

“This accident follows a disturbing trend of illegal aliens driving 18-wheelers and semitrucks on America’s roads,” she continued. “Earlier this week, DHS highlighted another fatal accident in Indiana caused by an illegal alien driving a semitruck. Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, ICE is working day-in and day-out to make America’s roads safe again.”

Earlier this month, the Department of Transportation announced it would withhold $40 million from California after the state failed to comply with English-language proficiency requirements for CDL holders.

DOT Secretary Sean Duffy called the situation “OUTRAGEOUS,” adding, “This is exactly why I set new restrictions that prohibit ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS from operating trucks.”

He demanded that Newsom “join every other state in the U.S. in enforcing these new actions to prevent any more accidents and deaths.”

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Vice President JD Vance visited the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem with his wife, Usha, on Thursday, attending a private Mass and praying at the site of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion and empty tomb.

Vance, a convert to Catholicism whose wife is a Hindu, visited all of the sites within the sprawling basilica, including Golgotha, the “place of the skull” where Jesus was crucified; the Stone of Anointing, which is believed to be the limestone slab where Jesus’ body was prepared for burial; and the Holy Sepulchre, Joseph of Arimathea’s monument where Christ’s body was interred prior to his resurrection.

‘I think we’re on a very good pathway.’

In addition to thanking the Franciscan monks who celebrated a private Mass for his family and for those Americans working for peace, Vance expressed gratitude to the Catholic, Greek, and Armenian priests who have long cared for the holy place, stating, “What an amazing blessing to have visited the site of Christ’s death and resurrection.”

Following an 4th-century investigation into the whereabouts of the site where Christ was crucified and buried, the Roman emperor Constantine settled on the current location — which had long been venerated by the early Christians — to erect a basilica.

Since Hadrian previously had the location strategically covered with pagan temples, Constantine had the pagan shrines toppled to make room for a basilica where the Church of the Holy Sepulchre — largely an 11th-century crusader reconstruction — now stands despite fires, Muslim attacks, and earthquakes.

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At the Stone of Anointing, a bishop provided Vance on Thursday with a red pillow on which to kneel, and so he did, making the sign of the cross, placing his hand on the limestone slab, and bowing his head in silent prayer, according to a White House press report.

After Vance and his wife headed to the empty tomb, a bishop told the White House press pool that he was lighting two candles from the flame at the Holy Sepulchre to send back to the White House.

At one point during the tour of the church, Vance joked to a bishop, “You guys have been protecting me from bumping my head. You could join the Secret Service.”

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Theophilos III, the patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, was among the Christian clergymen who greeted and accompanied the vice president.

According to the Jerusalem Patriarchate, Theophilos III “conveyed his respectful greetings to President Donald J. Trump and expressed his heartfelt appreciation for the efforts of the United States administration, under President Trump’s leadership, to bring about a ceasefire in Gaza and to alleviate the suffering of the innocent.”

Days prior to his visit to the church, Vance told reporters, “I hope to go to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which Christians believe is the site that Jesus Christ was crucified in. And I know that Christians have many titles for Jesus Christ, and one of them is the Prince of Peace. … I’d ask all people of faith, in particular my fellow Christians, to pray that the Prince of Peace can continue to work a miracle in this region in the world.”

After his visit to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Vance stated, “May the Prince of Peace have mercy on us, and bless our efforts for peace.”

Keen on maintaining the fragile peace brokered by President Donald Trump in Gaza, Vance said on Thursday before leaving Israel that he was “insulted” by the 25-24 vote in the Knesset to annex the West Bank, stressing it was a “political stunt with no practical significance.”

Despite the provocative vote, Vance thanked the Israeli government for hosting him and underscored, “I think we’re on a very good pathway.”

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A university professor is attacking classic literature through the guise of academia.

Specifically targeted are the beloved works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and even William Shakespeare.

‘Diverse populations and Africans lived there.’

Onyeka Nubia is a British historian employed as the assistant professor for the faculty of arts at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.

Hobbitual racism

In a history module called “Decolonising Tolkien et al,” Nubia teaches that “people of colour” are demonized in the “Lord of the Rings” books and targets certain races of creatures and humans for his analysis.

According to the Telegraph, Nubia noted groups called the Easterlings, Southrons, and men from Harad as being particularly deprecated. According to Lord of the Rings Fandom pages, the Harad and Southrons had black skin, while the Easterlings were “sallow or olive.”

Fans of the series know that none of these races are noted as being undesirable based solely on the color of their skin, but Nubia claims that these races are depicted as “the natural enemy of the white man.”

He makes similar claims about orcs, despite the fact that they are literal monsters bred for war. As well, Nubia reportedly declares that the stories showcase “anti-African antipathy,” even though several of the story’s most significant evildoers are light-skinned males, like Grima, Saruman, and Gollum.

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Narnia business

The professor reportedly does not stop at Tolkien, though, and goes after classics like “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.”

The fantasy book is reportedly described as providing unbecoming portrayals of oriental stereotypes when describing the Calormenes. These characters are described as “cruel” people with “long beards” and “orange-coloured turbans.”

A fan page describes them as “tan-skinned” men who are “mostly bearded,” wearing “flowing robes, turbans, and wooden shoes.”

Nubia also provided articles that said medieval England had “diverse populations and Africans lived there,” but “ethnic chauvinism” was apparent in the literature in the region.

Bad Bard

This was also allegedly present in Shakespeare’s work. Nubia’s syllabus reportedly said the author promoted a vision of a “fictional, mono-ethnic English past.”

Calling Shakespeare’s plays problematic, Nubia claims they are “missing direct references to Africans living in England” which creates the “illusion” of racial homogeneity in the country.

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As noted by Geeks and Gamers, prominent voices who cover the medium spoke out against the alleged teachings.

“If you see orcs as black people YOU are the racist,” wrote Nerdrotic, an X account with over 260,000 followers.

The Critical Drinker, who has over 2.3 million YouTube subscribers, wrote on X similarly, “If you look at Orcs and see people of colour, that’s a ‘You’ problem.”

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