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A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security berated Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota for pushing a “vile lie” about immigration enforcement tactics.

Omar was responding to a report from the family of a Guatemalan man who was being sought Tuesday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. They claimed that ICE agents held the autistic 5-year-old daughter of Edwards Hip Mejia as bait to try to coax him out of his home.

‘This is a vile lie. [Ilhan Omar’s] habitual lies and demonization of our law enforcement is what’s cruel.’

“This is vile and beyond cruel. Abolish ICE,” Omar replied on social media Tuesday.

However, the social media post she included was deleted by NBC News.

Dept. of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin fired off a statement excoriating Omar for pushing the story and offering additional information to undermine the story.

“This is a vile lie. [Ilhan Omar’s] habitual lies and demonization of our law enforcement is what’s cruel,” McLaughlin wrote.

“ICE agents NEVER used a 5-year-old girl as ‘bait.’ The criminal illegal alien target — with previous arrests for domestic abuse and strangulation, among other charges — ABANDONED his own child in a car,” she added.

She went on to say that Mejia had ignored law enforcement emergency lights and instead drove to his home.

“He fled from the car, gave officers the double middle finger, and darted inside his house. He abandoned his 5-year-old daughter in the car. Officers helped rescue the child and called local police to report the abandonment.”

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Leominster police arrived at the home and returned the girl to the family. The family said that federal officers returned to the home two days later on the mother’s birthday and arrested Mejia.

He is reportedly being held at an ICE detention center in Plymouth. His wife said that he had been in the U.S. for about 25 years.

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Keith Olbermann appeared to make a public threat against Scott Jennings on social media, and the CNN commentator responded by tagging the social media account of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

‘You’re next, motherf**ker,” Olbermann wrote on Monday to Jennings. “But keep mugging for the camera.”

‘I should’ve acknowledged the deletion and apologized yesterday. I’m sorry I delayed.’

The post was immediately criticized by many as going too far after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Olbermann eventually deleted the divisive missive.

Jennings responded by tagging the account for FBI Director Kash Patel with a screenshot of the deleted threat.

Olbermann tried to walk it back with an explanation offering a less violent explanation of his message. He appeared to say that he was referring to the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show from ABC stations.

“Now we get the fascists off real tv. That’d mean your career is next, Jennings. Send a tape to Real America’s Voice,” Olbermann replied. “But keep mugging to camera, amateur.”

He later offered a far more apologetic explanation on Tuesday.

“I apologize without reservation to @ScottJenningsKY. Yesterday I wrote and immediately deleted 2 responses to him about Kimmel because they could be misinterpreted as a threat to anything besides his career. I immediately replaced them with ones specifying what I actually meant,” Olbermann wrote.

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“I oppose and condemn political violence, and the threat of it,” he added. “All times are the wrong time to leave even an inadvertent impression of it — but this time is especially wrong. I should’ve acknowledged the deletion and apologized yesterday. I’m sorry I delayed.”

Olbermann made a career as a sports commentator for ESPN but later pivoted into politics. He has since become a constant critic against Republicans, with extremely foul-mouthed observations.

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Republicans of the House Judiciary Committee are declaring victory after an investigation into political censorship under the Biden administration led to important admissions from Google.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, posted a letter from Google acknowledging that it had been asked to violate free speech rights by the Biden administration. The new policies affect Google as well as YouTube, which is owned by Google.

‘No more telling Americans what to believe and not believe.’

“Due to our oversight efforts, GOOGLE commits to offer ALL creators previously kicked off YouTube due to political speech violations to return to the platform,” Jordan wrote.

“During the Biden-Harris years, under White House pressure, YouTube changed its policies to censor political debate on COVID and elections. TODAY, YouTube admits that the censorship pressure from Biden Admin was ‘unacceptable and wrong,'” he added.

He said YouTube agreed to roll back censorship against certain topics that included the coronavirus pandemic and elections. The video platform also promised to never use “fact-checkers” in order to censor speech and will use the community note system instead.

“No more telling Americans what to believe and not believe,” he added.

The letter also had a warning that censorship policies emanating from European nations could shut down lawful speech in the U.S.

“That’s right. Europe wants to censor your online speech even if you aren’t in Europe!” Jordan wrote.

RELATED: Liberal nonprofits are panicking over threats from Trump after Kirk killing

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression released a statement criticizing Google for taking so long to admit the company’s bad behavior.

“Google should not have waited to acknowledge it was pressured by the Biden administration to block content on its platforms,” the FIRE statement reads.

“Google condemns jawboning now, but it failed to stand up for the rights of its users when it mattered,” the group added. “FIRE will continue to call on private institutions to stand up for their rights — no matter who is in office.”

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Erika Kirk shocked the country when after her husband’s atrocious murder, she took the stage at his memorial and said, “That man, that young man, I forgive him.”

And while many have questioned whether or not she should be forgiving the alleged murderer of her husband, BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales believes it was the right thing to do.

“There’s been a lot of talk over, ‘What would you do if you were in that position? Could you stand on a stage and say you forgave the man who just assassinated your husband?’” Gonzales says.

But Erika was simply living true to what she and Charlie practiced.

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget,” Charlie wrote in a tweet in 2015.

“I want you to just marinate in that for a while, because as many of the things that Charlie said, it was quite eloquently written and so very true,” Gonzales says, who believes that the loss of Charlie has brought about what can only be seen as a revival.

“It very much was a revival. Like I don’t know what is happening in this country other than what God always does, right? He takes something terrible and turns it into something that is good,” she explains.

One of the ways God is showing up is in spreading Charlie’s message to those who had never heard of him until now.

“They’re binge-watching Charlie Kirk videos. They’re binge-watching Charlie Kirk speeches. They’re binge-watching his ‘prove me wrong,’ his debates with all of these college students,” Gonzales says.

“And when you watch enough of his commentary and you listen enough to what he has to say, it doesn’t just end at limited government, at small government. It doesn’t just end at conservatism and voting Republican. That’s just like the tip of the iceberg,” she continues.

What this inevitably leads to is the realization that “our rights don’t come from government; they come from God.”

“And that’s been the experience that I’ve been reading of a lot of people, a lot of people who are like, ‘I watched this, and I cried, and I don’t know why I cried because I don’t believe in God. But my reaction, the visceral reaction that I had in my body, in my physical body, that I can’t understand has led me to go read about God,’” Gonzales explains.

“I’ve been seeing it everywhere,” she says, adding, “Everywhere.”

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Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck and BlazeTV hosts Allie Beth Stuckey and Alex Stein are among the conservatives who have agreed to step into the breach and complete Charlie Kirk’s fall campus tour in the wake of the Turning Point USA founder’s assassination earlier this month.

Turning Point USA, now under the tutelage of Erika Kirk, announced on Monday that the tour would resume, starting with a stop at the University of Minnesota.

The widowed mother of two evidently meant it when she told the nation, “If you thought that my husband’s mission was powerful before, you have no idea. You have no idea what you just have unleashed across this entire country.”

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“Nobody can match the energy and hard work and drive that Charlie had — I mean, literally nobody,” the eponymous host of “Prime Time with Alex Stein” told Blaze News. “So it’s going to be up to a team of people to continue Charlie’s mission of defending the First Amendment as well as the entire Constitution.”

Beck, whom Kirk asked to participate in the tour prior to his assassination, told Blaze News, “I begged them not to have me help them complete the college tour because I’m not Charlie Kirk. I can’t do what Charlie Kirk does.”

Nevertheless, the bereaved conservative indicated that he will do his best on Oct. 9, teaching young Americans about their country’s history and honoring his late friend.

RELATED: How Erika Kirk answered the hardest question of all

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Following TPUSA’s announcement regarding the tour, Allie Beth Stuckey noted, “Honored to join Turning Point’s college tour this fall. We’re not going anywhere. For Jesus, for America, for Charlie.”

‘We have to keep Charlie’s mission alive.’

Stuckey, who will be at Louisiana State University on Oct. 27, subsequently revealed that Kirk had asked her to join him on the tour prior to his assassination by a leftist coward and noted that while the date has changed, the directive remains the same.

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The shooting on September 10 serves as a painful reminder of the continued threat posed by the radical left.

Beck underscored to Blaze News that the message sent by the tour’s completion is, “We are not afraid. We will not sit down. We will not comply. We will not hate. We will not respond in kind. We will love you. We will serve you. But we will continue to speak.”

“You have to live fearlessly,” said Stein, who has been attacked on numerous occasions by violent liberals. “You have to live unapologetically.”

Stein, whose next date on the tour is Sept. 24 at the University of Central Florida, suggested further that the refusal to throw in the towel after the bloodletting earlier this month is “going to inspire a lot of people to actually go out there and have difficult conversations.”

Other guests and speakers on the tour include Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson, along with Republicans including: Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, Utah Sen. Mike Lee, and Ohio gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy.

“We have to keep Charlie’s mission alive because that’s what Charlie would have wanted,” Stein said.

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The man convicted of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump caused a scene in the courtroom by trying to harm himself with a pen on Tuesday.

Court officers grabbed Ryan Routh as he tried to jab the pen into his neck just after the jury convicted him on all counts related to the attempted assassination in September 2024.

‘This was an evil man with an evil intention, and they caught him.’

Fox News reported that four U.S. marshals dragged him out of the court, took his coat off, and brought him back with shackles on his ankles and waist.

A courtroom sketch artist depicted the moment the 59-year-old apparently tried to kill himself in the federal courtroom in Fort Pierce, Florida.

Prosecutors said that Routh had been trying to get a clear shot at Trump when he was found hiding in the shrubbery near the sixth hole outside of the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach a year ago.

He was convicted of trying to assassinate a major presidential candidate, assaulting a federal officer, and a number of gun charges. The jury had deliberated for just under three hours.

The president responded to the verdict in a post on Truth Social.

“The trial was meticulously handled, and I would like to thank the Judge and Jury for their time, professionalism, and patience. This was an evil man with an evil intention, and they caught him,” wrote Trump.

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“I would also like to thank the Secret Service, Department of Florida Law Enforcement, and the wonderful person who spotted him running from the site of the crime, and acted by following him, and getting all information on car type and license plate to the Sheriff’s Office, IMMEDIATELY, which led to his arrest and conviction,” Trump continued. “What incredible instinct and foresight this person had — A very big moment for JUSTICE IN AMERICA!”

Routh will be sentenced in December and could face life in prison for the most serious offense.

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President Donald Trump distinguished the United States from other countries in the United Nations, pointing to our willingness to defend Christianity and protect our sovereignty.

During his address to the U.N., Trump highlighted the virtues of America ahead of the 250th anniversary of our country’s independence on July Fourth, 2026. One of the many virtues Trump pointed to was the American principle of religious liberty, which protects Christianity, the “most persecuted religion” in the world.

‘They repaid kindness with crime.’

“In honor of this momentous anniversary, I hope that all countries who find inspiration in our example will join us in renewing our commitment, values, and those values, really, that we hold so dear,” Trump said.

“Together, let us defend free speech and free expression,” Trump added. “Let us protect religious liberty, including for the most persecuted religion on the planet today. It’s called Christianity. And let us safeguard our sovereignty and cherish qualities that have made each of our nations so special, incredible, and extraordinary.”

RELATED: Trump rips into UN, globalists for failing to carry their weight: ‘They weren’t there’

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Trump also noted the success of his immigration policy, in contrast to the mass immigration many other Western countries have embraced.

“When your prisons are filled with so-called asylum-seekers who repaid kindness — and that’s what they did; they repaid kindness with crime — it’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders,” Trump said. “You have to end it now. … I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell.”

RELATED: UN showdown will decide if the Abraham Accords are built to last

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Trump also pointed fingers at the U.N., saying the organization is funding an “assault on Western countries and their borders.”

“In 2024, the U.N. budgeted $372 million in cash assistance to support an estimated 624,000 migrants journeying into the United States,” Trump said.

“The U.N. also provided food, shelter, transportation, and debit cards to illegal aliens … on their way to infiltrate our southern border.

“What took place is totally unacceptable. The U.N. is supposed to stop invasions — not create them and not finance them.”

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President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. caused an uproar among medical establishmentarians and thin-skinned liberals on Monday by formally identifying acetaminophen as one of the alleged drivers behind the rise in American autism.

Acetaminophen, often sold under the brand Tylenol in the United States but known overseas as paracetamol, is the most common over-the-counter pain and fever medication used during pregnancy. Sales of the drug this year have an estimated value of $10.9 billion.

Kennedy indicated that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will notify physicians that acetaminophen use by pregnant women may be associated with a “very increased risk” of neurological conditions like autism and ADHD in children.

The Department of Health and Human Services will also launch a nationwide public information campaign to alert parents and families to the possible risks of taking Tylenol during pregnancy.

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“The Trump administration does not believe popping more pills is always the answer for better health,” said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. “There is mounting evidence finding a connection between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism — and that’s why the administration is courageously issuing this new health guidance.”

Foreign health officials rushed to defend the drug, suggesting that it is safe and effective.

Alison Cave, chief safety officer of the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, said in a statement, “There is no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children.”

RELATED: Trump administration claims link between autism and Tylenol, greenlights remedy

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“Paracetamol remains the recommended pain relief option for pregnant women when used as directed,” added Cave.

The MHRA stressed further that patients should continue taking their pain medicines.

Steffen Thirstrup, the chief medical officer of the European Medicines Agency, also chimed in, stating that acetaminophen is an important option for treating pain or fever in pregnant women and that his agency’s “advice is based on a rigorous assessment of the available scientific data, and we have found no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children.”

‘Exposure of susceptible babies and children to acetaminophen (paracetamol) induces many, if not most, cases of autism spectrum disorder.’

Tarik Jasarevic, a spokesman for the World Health Organization, told reporters on Tuesday that while some studies have suggested an association between prenatal exposure to the drug and autism, “evidence remains inconsistent.”

“If the link between acetaminophen and autism were strong, it would likely have been consistently observed across multiple studies,” added Jasarevic.

James Cusack, the autistic chief executive of Autistica, a London-based autism research charity, told Nature, “There is no definitive evidence to suggest that paracetamol use in mothers is a cause of autism, and when you see any associations, they are very, very small.”

Meanwhile, numerous liberals and other critics of the administration proved memers prophetic by downing fistfuls of acetaminophen as a form of protest.

While some of the pill-popping videos appear to have been recorded in jest, others are accompanied with humorless critiques of the administration’s efforts to identify and tackle the root causes of autism.

Ahead of Trump’s announcement on Monday, a spokesperson for Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol whose stock price took a nose dive on Monday, told Blaze News, “We believe independent, sound science clearly shows that taking acetaminophen does not cause autism. We strongly disagree with any suggestion otherwise and are deeply concerned with the health risk this poses for expecting mothers.”

When pressed about what the “sound science clearly shows,” Dr. William Parker, CEO of WPLab and visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told Blaze News:

The science tells us several things. Among the most important are: (a) Exposure of susceptible babies and children to acetaminophen (paracetamol) induces many, if not most, cases of autism spectrum disorder. b) Specific, invalid assumptions made when analyzing epidemiologic data have impeded recognition of the role of acetaminophen in the induction of autism.

Dr. Parker also cited his 2023 scientific review published in the Swiss peer-reviewed journal Children that concluded that “the very early postpartum period poses the greatest risk for acetaminophen-induced ASD, and that nearly ubiquitous use of acetaminophen during early development could conceivably be responsible for the induction in the vast majority, perhaps 90% or more, of all cases of ASD.”

RELATED: How MAHA can really save American lives

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Dr. Yuelong Ji, an assistant professor at Peking University, told Blaze News, “Officials should indeed advise caution regarding the unnecessary use of acetaminophen during pregnancy.”

Ji was among the researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who collected umbilical cord blood from 996 births and measured the amount of acetaminophen and two of its byproducts in each sample.

According to the resultant National Institutes of Health-funded 2019 study published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, “Cord biomarkers of fetal exposure to acetaminophen were associated with significantly increased risk of childhood ADHD and ASD in a dose-response fashion.”

“These results highlight the need for careful consideration of its use during this critical period of brain development,” Ji told Blaze News. “The potential mechanisms by which acetaminophen may affect the developing brain should be thoroughly investigated. Until this mechanism is better understood, it is prudent for health officials to adopt a cautious approach when advising pregnant individuals on acetaminophen use.”

The White House’s fact sheet concerning the president’s Tylenol-autism claims and the FDA’s relabeling of acetaminophen cites Parker’s and Ji’s studies as well as a recent NIH-supported systematic review that found positive associations of prenatal acetaminophen use with ADHD, ASD, or NDDs in offspring across dozens of high-quality studies.

It also cites the 2021 international consensus statement that recommends pregnant women “minimize exposure” to acetaminophen “by using the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time.”

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Ahmed al-Sharaa, the Islamic radical who was previously designated a terrorist by the State Department and who founded the al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front and now serves as Syria’s president, received a warm welcome on Monday in New York City, just five miles away from where his comrades killed 2,753 people on 9/11.

While al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani or Muhammad al-Jawlani, was in town for the United Nations General Assembly, he also took part in a “fireside discussion” with ex-CIA Director David Petraeus on the sidelines of the general assembly at the 2025 Concordia Annual Summit.

‘Sometimes in a person’s journey, there are some mistakes.’

Ahead of the discussion, Baihas Baghdadi of Baghdadi Capital provided the terrorist with a glowing introduction, painting him not only as a liberator — a characterization that some Syrian Christians and other religious minorities might find questionable — but as “the hero, the man that brought freedom back to Syria.”

Before it was taken down, the State Department’s Rewards for Justice $10 million bounty page for al-Sharaa stated:

Under al-Jawlani’s leadership, ANF has carried out multiple terrorist attacks throughout Syria, often targeting civilians. In April 2015, ANF reportedly kidnapped, and later released, approximately 300 Kurdish civilians from a checkpoint in Syria. In June 2015, ANF claimed responsibility for the massacre of 20 residents in the Druze village of Qalb Lawzeh in Idlib province, Syria.

Al-Sharaa’s terrorist group claimed responsibility for multitudes of other terror attacks throughout Syria, including 600 attacks in its first year of operation, and worked in concert with ISIS.

In 2017, al-Sharaa merged al-Nusra with other Islamic extremist groups to form Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a group that was linked in its formative years to the late leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and was recognized by the U.S. as a foreign terrorist organization until July.

RELATED: Syria’s terrorist regime just killed an American citizen — more Christians, Druze are next

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After HTS-led forces overthrew the Assad regime, al-Sharaa took power in Damascus.

“Together, we acknowledge all the sacrifices you have made to return Syria to all Syrians,” Baghdadi said on Monday of the murderous terrorist. “It is our time to ask ourselves what we can do for Syria now that you, Mr. President, brought back Syria to all of us.”

Although Petraeus, the former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan whose extramarital affair blew up his CIA directorship, admitted at the outset of the discussion that he and the terrorist were on different sides during the American surge in Iraq, the retired general similarly characterized al-Sharaa as a liberator.

Al-Sharaa told Petraeus, “We cannot judge the past based on the rules of today, and we cannot judge today based on the rules of the past.”

The terrorist suggested further that his intent has long been to protect and defend people and human rights and to combat “injustice.”

“Perhaps there was some mistakes,” the terrorist said. “Sometimes in a person’s journey, there are some mistakes, but what’s important is to focus on defending people from the threats that they face.”

RELATED: How did a terrorist in a tailored suit get Trump’s stamp of approval?

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In addition to reportedly committing scores of massacres since taking power, the supposed humanitarian’s regime has supported some of those Sunni radicals who have in recent months engaged in massacres, bombings, rapes, and kidnappings, including those who executed an American citizen, Hosam Saraya, in July.

Petraeus — who, while CIA director, proposed a covert program of arming radicals like al-Sharaa in Syria in a regime-change operation that became known as Timber Sycamore — said that he felt validated by the terrorist’s rise to power and claimed both that al-Sharaa’s “vision is powerful and clear” and that his success “is our success.”

Al-Sharaa appeared interested in more than just a PR makeover. He impressed upon Petraeus and the audience his desire to see the Trump administration lift America’s remaining sanctions on Syria, namely those under the 2019 Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act.

“Just lift the sanctions, and you will see the results,” al-Sharaa said.

President Donald Trump signed the Caesar Act into law on Dec. 20, 2019. The act imposes sanctions on those who provide various goods or services to Syria, such as aircraft for its military, items on the U.S. Munitions List, and items Trump believed were being used to commit human rights abuses against the Syrian people.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio noted after meeting with al-Sharaa on Monday that they “discussed implementing President Trump’s historic announcement on sanctions relief and the importance of Israel-Syria relations.”

When pressed for comment about the sanction talks with Syria, a State Department spokesperson told Blaze News that as a general matter, they do not comment on private diplomatic discussions.

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Jimmy Kimmel returns to the air Tuesday night, six days and four shows after production was “indefinitely” suspended — and without a single problem actually solved.

ABC’s suspension kicked off when the network’s late-night host claimed conservative organizer Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin was “anything other than” a conservative MAGA supporter, prompting broad outrage and cable channel owners Sinclair and Nexstar to refuse to air his program on their combined 71 ABC affiliates before further discussions.

A smug, unfunny show losing millions while alienating Christians, Republicans, and affiliates simply isn’t a good business model.

The only thing that’s changed here is ABC’s (and parent company Disney’s) decision. There have reportedly been no talks with either Sinclair or Nexstar, and the two companies have said they will continue to pre-empt the show until some satisfaction has been reached.

Further, there’s no indication that Kimmel is prepared to apologize. Early talks convinced his executives that rather than backtrack or apologize, he would double down in his attacks on conservatives mourning the public murder of a young champion. This stubbornness reportedly played into their decision to yank him from the air for a time.

But why would they expect much different? A Newsbusters study released Friday found that since 2023, 92% of the host’s jokes have beat on conservative Americans and a whopping 97% of his political guests were liberals.

The study found he went at President Donald Trump more than 10 times the amount he teased the brain-addled Joe Biden. The next runners-up were the admittedly hysterical former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), followed by Elon Musk, Mike Lindell, Melania Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Trump supporters, Eric Trump, and then, more broadly, Republicans. He mocked Republicans at a rate more than 17 times that of Democrats, conservatives more than 10 times as much as he mocked liberals, and Fox News and Newsmax more than 25 times CNN (with no jokes about MSNBC).

He made fun of Vice President JD Vance at nearly five times the rate he made fun of Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) and former Vice President Kamala Harris combined, despite their clownish run for president, and targeted Republican Speakers of the House Mike Johnson (La.) and Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) at nearly 28 times the rate he made fun of former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Democrat Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.).

The list goes on and on, but people like Kimmel (and a whole lot of his executives) don’t have to face pushback because they simply do not hang out with people who disagree with them. Walk into the average Manhattan studio, and you’ll find plenty of men and women, black, white, Asian and Hispanic, gay, straight, and trans, but good luck finding someone who so much as voted for even Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for president (forget about Trump), or who goes to church on Sunday.

Sinclair and Nexstar are different. They serve their communities and answer to them. Sinclair owns affiliates in markets like Birmingham, Ala.; Little Rock, Ark.; Eureka, Calif.; Tallahassee, Fla.; Decatur, Ill.; North Platte, Neb.; Tulsa, Okla.; Amarillo, Texas; and Virginia Beach, Va. The Dallas-based Nexstar’s ABC affiliates air in markets like Midland, Texas; Dayton, Ohio; Springfield, Mo.; Wichita, Kan.; and Fort Wayne, Ind.

New York-based executives reportedly didn’t reach out to these companies or answer any of their concerns. Instead, they got screamed at by the liberals in Hollywood and the legacy press, got a bunch of threatening messages (and even bullets fired) by Democrat radicals, and caved. They’ll get a big night tonight with all the interest tuned up for their host’s tired bit, but the reality of Kimmel’s out-of-touch and spiteful set won’t change.

More, Disney hasn’t fixed the problem that the show is losing millions a year. While threats and boycotts can be scary to any corporate suite, a smug, unfunny show losing millions while alienating Christians, Republicans, and affiliates simply isn’t a good business model.

That’s good news, because it’s toxic TV. Kimmel plans to host Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom as his first guest tonight. Washington, D.C., bars had to cancel their watch parties, however — Sinclair owns the local affiliate. Ya hate to see it, folks.

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The trial against the Florida man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump ended with a guilty verdict on all counts.

Ryan Wesley Routh was found guilty of trying to assassinate a major presidential candidate, assaulting a federal officer, and various firearm offenses. The 59-year-old had been a resident of Hawaii and was arrested on Sept. 15, 2024, just ahead of the 2024 election.

‘It is not every case where the defendant writes his intent down on a piece of paper.’

The jury deliberated for just under three hours before delivering the verdict on Tuesday at the federal trial in Fort Pierce, Florida.

Routh had chosen to represent himself and called two character witnesses to testify on his behalf. He chose not to testify in his defense.

The man was caught outside the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach on the day in question. Prosecutors alleged that he was hiding in the shrubbery near the sixth hole in anticipation of getting a clear shot of the president.

In his closing statement, prosecutor Christopher Browne cited a note reportedly found in Routh’s car that outright proclaimed his intention to kill Trump.

“It is not every case where the defendant writes his intent down on a piece of paper,” Browne said. “This is not a whodunit.”

Prosecutors also presented other evidence from burner phones and a plan to escape after the assassination.

RELATED: Judge allows alleged would-be assassin’s sniper expert to testify at trial over DOJ objections

The golf club incident was the second assassination attempt after Trump was wounded in the ear during a shooting at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. One Trump supporter was shot and killed, while two others were injured.

Routh faces life in prison for the most serious charge.

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Despite the atrocious circumstances surrounding the Charlie Kirk memorial service that drew thousands of Americans together over the weekend, BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey couldn’t help but feel inspired.

“The Holy Spirit is at work, y’all,” Stuckey says on “Relatable.” “And it was tangible. It was thick in that room.”

“Huge stadium, tens of thousands of people there, but there were people camped out. There were people in long lines. … We were behind all of the presidential Cabinet, which was pretty surreal to see these people who are leading our government sit here in honor of Charlie Kirk and to worship alongside them and to hear the name of Jesus proclaimed alongside them,” she recalls.

While critics of Charlie Kirk and the Trump administration may call the memorial a “white nationalist rally,” that didn’t stop Christian artists from performing and attending despite any fear of ostracization.

“I just want to give a shout-out to all of those Christian artists, because there are Christian artists out there who are scared. They’re scared to be perceived as political. They’re scared to be perceived as divisive or controversial. And so they could have easily said no. They don’t need the money; they don’t need the fame,” she explains.

“And they decided that it was worth sharing those arrows. And it was worth taking the heat for that. And I just respect — respect to those artists, and thank you to those artists,” she adds.

Stuckey, who was sitting next to the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh and his wife, recalls feeling an incredible sense of “camaraderie in there.”

“I see all of these different commentators that I only typically get to see on the internet. And I’m like, ‘This is so special. This is amazing.’ And then it just hits me why I’m there. Like why I’m there is this awful, tragic, terrible reason. And as that’s kind of like dawning on me, I’m looking around,” she says.

“All of these people spontaneously start lifting up their Charlie signs, because everyone has these signs, white and red. And the white signs say ‘Isaiah 6:8 … Here I am, Lord. Send me.’ And then the red signs have, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant,’” she continues.

“And I mean, I lost it. I lost it because it just hit me. Why? I can’t believe that is why we’re here. Obviously, God is accomplishing something good. And I looked back at the stage and I could see Brandon Lake was crying, and it was such a powerful moment,” she says, adding, “What a privilege it was to be there.”

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The U.S. Secret Service claims to have discovered and dismantled a massive telecommunications network in the New York tristate area. Investigators warned the network posed a serious potential threat to New York City’s telecommunications and was a possible disturbance to the United Nations General Assembly meetings this week.

The concerning devices were concentrated within 35 miles of the United Nations General Assembly, which is currently under way in New York City. The Secret Service said the location of the devices had “potential for significant disruption to New York telecommunications.”

‘Early analysis shows the network was used for communication between foreign governments and individuals known to US law enforcement, including members of known organized crime gangs, drug cartels, and human trafficking rings, according to multiple officials briefed on the investigation.’

The U.S. Secret Service said in a statement on Tuesday, “The U.S. Secret Service dismantled a network of electronic devices located throughout the New York tristate area that were used to conduct multiple telecommunications-related threats directed towards senior U.S. government officials, which represented an imminent threat to the agency’s protective operations.”

The Secret Service discovered more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards across multiple sites.

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The Secret Service noted, “In addition to carrying out anonymous telephonic threats, these devices could be used to conduct a wide range of telecommunications attacks. This includes disabling cell phone towers, enabling denial of services attacks, and facilitating anonymous, encrypted communication between potential threat actors and criminal enterprises.”

The devices are undergoing a forensic examination, but investigators’ early analysis indicates “cellular communications between nation-state threat actors and individuals that are known to federal law enforcement.”

Matt McCool — the special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s New York field office — explained in a video released on Tuesday that the investigation began “following multiple telecommunications-related imminent threats directed towards senior U.S. government officials this spring.”

McCool stressed that the devices were “capable of carrying out nefarious telecommunications attacks.”

“These devices allowed anonymous encrypted communications between potential threat actors and criminal enterprises, enabling criminal organizations to operate undetected,” McCool added.

McCool noted, “This network had the potential to disable cellphone towers and essentially shut down the cellular network in New York City.”

McCool stressed that the recovered devices no longer pose any threat to the New York tristate area.

McCool said there have yet to be any arrests in the case.

“We will continue working towards identifying those responsible and their intent, including whether their plan was to disrupt the U.N. General Assembly and communications of government and emergency personnel during the official visit of world leaders in and around New York City,” McCool said.

RELATED: What the UN isn’t telling us: The Luciferian roots of global governance

An anonymous official briefed on the investigation told CBS News that the sophisticated network was “well-organized and well-funded,” and “could text message the entire country within 12 minutes.”

CBS News reported, “Early analysis shows the network was used for communication between foreign governments and individuals known to U.S. law enforcement, including members of known organized crime gangs, drug cartels, and human trafficking rings, according to multiple officials briefed on the investigation.”

“Each SIM basically has the equivalent data of a cell phone,” an official informed CBS News. “So we’re working through every call, every text, every search made on those SIM cards.”

U.S. Secret Service Director Sean Curran stated, “The potential for disruption to our country’s telecommunications posed by this network of devices cannot be overstated. The U.S. Secret Service’s protective mission is all about prevention, and this investigation makes it clear to potential bad actors that imminent threats to our protectees will be immediately investigated, tracked down, and dismantled.”

The investigation was led by the U.S. Secret Service’s Advanced Threat Interdiction Unit, a new unit of the agency with a mission of “disrupting the most significant and imminent threats to our protectees.”

The Secret Service noted that the investigation was aided by the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations, the Department of Justice, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the NYPD, as well as other state and local law enforcement partners.

The Secret Service said the investigation is ongoing.

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New Jersey gubernatorial candidates clashed at the first of two debates on Sunday ahead of the November 4 election. Though left unmentioned by legacy media outlets, Democrat candidate Rep. Mikie Sherrill has yet to answer some serious questions about alleged insider trading.

Sherrill’s opponent, former Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli, and other Republican groups have been sounding the alarm on what appears to be a record of undisclosed stock trades by Sherrill that may have greatly enhanced her net worth.

Sherrill ‘raked in over $7 MILLION from stock trades while in Congress — and broke the law doing it.’

“In the several years that she’s been in Congress, she’s tripled her net worth,” Ciattarelli claimed during Sunday’s debate.

In a clip from Charlamagne tha God’s “The Breakfast Club” podcast posted by the Republican Governors Association, Sherrill was asked if she made $7 million in stock trading. In a stilted answer, Sherrill said, “I, I haven’t … I, I don’t believe I did, but I’d have to go see what, what that was alluding to, again what kinda came from …”

RELATED: New Blaze Originals documentary: ‘Bought and Paid For: How Politicians Get Filthy Rich’

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The official GOP X account echoed this accusation on Monday, saying Sherrill “raked in over $7 MILLION from stock trades while in Congress — and broke the law doing it.”

According to the Washington Free Beacon’s comparison of Sherrill’s 2019 and 2024 financial disclosures, Sherrill reported assets in the range of $733,209 and $4,321,000 in 2019. In 2024, her reported assets grew between the range of $4,840,076 and $13,975,000. The $7 million benchmark is a calculation of the averages of these ranges.

Members of Congress make a yearly salary of $174,000, according to congress.gov. Sherrill was first elected to Congress in 2018.

The Free Beacon noted concerns about Sherrill’s stock portfolio during the pandemic, which has grown immensely in the ensuing years. She was also reportedly fined $400 in December for failing to disclose $350,000 in stocks from her husband’s company, UBS, where he is an executive.

The New York Post reported that Sherrill currently has a commanding lead in the polls except for an internally commissioned poll from Ciattarelli’s campaign, which gives him the lead by a slim margin.

BlazeTV exposed the ugly truth about shady stock trading by members of Congress in the Blaze Originals documentary “Bought and Paid For.” For more such original content, be sure to subscribe here.

RELATED: New Blaze Media doc exposes shady stock-trading from ‘filthy rich’ Democrats and Republicans in Congress

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The Department of Homeland Security announced U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement put a detainer on an illegal alien who is being charged with strangling his baby sister with a charging cord in Northern Virginia.

The DHS explained that Alvaro Mejia-Ayala entered the U.S. as part of a family unit in 2016 and was released into the country by the Obama administration. On October 17, 2024, the Biden-Harris administration dismissed his immigration case, effectively allowing him to indefinitely remain in the U.S. illegally.

The infant was taken to the hospital after enduring ‘an assault’ and was said to be in critical condition.

Mejia-Ayala was previously arrested by local police for reckless driving in 2024, but he was released before ICE could lodge a detainer on him.

“What kind of sick monster strangles a defenseless, innocent baby girl with a charging cord? This barbarism has no place in the U.S.,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement given to Blaze News. “ICE lodged an immigration detainer to ensure this heinous criminal is not released on U.S. streets. President Trump and Secretary Noem have been clear: Criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the United States. We pray for this precious baby.”

RELATED: Democrat candidates part of leftist crowd blocking road outside ICE building

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The Leesburg Police Department reported on September 17 that officers responded after receiving a call about an infant who was not breathing. The infant was taken to the hospital after enduring “an assault” and was said to be in critical condition.

Mejia-Ayala had allegedly already fled the scene by the time officers arrived. He was later taken into custody with the help of the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office.

Based on the timeline and his current age, Mejia-Ayala was a juvenile when he illegally entered the United States. Like the Obama-Biden administration, the Biden-Harris administration allowed family units with small children and unaccompanied minors to be processed into the country. Sometimes men would present themselves as being younger than they actually were to guarantee their release from Border Patrol custody.

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Back in April, the longest mischief trial in Canadian history wrapped up against Chris Barber and Tamara Lich, prominent faces of the most successful populist uprising in recent history: Canada’s Freedom Convoy.

In a trial that is estimated to have cost the Canadian taxpayer upwards of $10 million and dragged on for 20 months (as crimes like the September 2023 drive-by mass shooting of an Ottawa wedding remain unsolved), crown attorneys debated the meaning of terms like “hold the line” while they doggedly pursued guilty verdicts for Barber and Lich, downplaying the entirely nonviolent character of the duo’s actions, as well as their full cooperation with police.

The hardworking Barber family represents an archetype in Canada, hardy settlers who tamed a vast wilderness, contending with harsh winters and vast distances few will understand.

Lich and Barber were eventually both found guilty of “mischief,” a property charge under Canadian law that can carry a 10-year prison sentence. Barber was also found guilty on a separate charge of counseling to disobey a court order. The Crown is seeking to put Lich away for seven years, and Barber for eight, sending a clear signal to Canadians: Don’t you dare oppose us ever again.

Enemies of the state

In her finding of guilt, Justice Heather Perkins McVey came to the conclusion that public enjoyment of the streets of Ottawa were of a weightier and more important consideration than Lich and Barber’s rights to protest, even though Lich didn’t park a truck on any street herself, and Barber’s rig was parked in places Ottawa police told him to park it.

Again, for a pair of normal working-class people with no criminal records whom the Canadian government turned into enemies of the state, they were awfully cooperative with cops and the city of Ottawa, contra Justin Trudeau’s state media making them out to be dangerous insurrectionists.

Sentencing on their convictions will take place on October 7. In the meantime, the province of Ontario, lead by Doug Ford (brother of the late, infamous Toronto mayor Rob Ford), is seeking to impose an even more egregious punishment against Barber and his family: seizing his iconic 2003 Kenworth W900L rig, “Big Red,” which has become one of the defining symbols of the Freedom Convoy.

Red notice

As I wrote here back in April:

Barber’s rig had become a symbol of the Freedom Convoy, featured in thousands of pictures, videos, and memes, as it led the Western Canadian Convoy to Ottawa. Barber has owned and operated that truck since 2003 and put 3.4 million kilometers (roughly 2.1 million miles) on it, mostly hauling heavy agricultural equipment across his home province of Saskatchewan and picking up new equipment from factories in America for his customers.

In the 22 years Barber has owned and operated that truck, he has raised his children in it over trips too many to count, and when his dog Buddy was approaching the end of his life, the poor old dog was put down while lying on the passenger seat: Buddy’s favorite place to be.

Under the Emergencies Act, Barber (like many others) had his bank account frozen; the Crown never mentioned anything about seizing Barber’s truck. Perhaps it was a “backup” punishment once a federal court ruled that Trudeau’s invocation of the act was unconstitutional. (Under the administration of Trudeau’s successor, former governor of the Banks of Canada and England Mark Carney, an appeal to that ruling is working its way through the courts.)

Passing the buck

Who initiated this wicked and capricious forfeiture process? We may never know. Testifying at the first day of hearings about seizing Big Red last week — Friday, September 12 — Det. Kari Launen of the OPS Provincial Asset Forfeiture Unit claimed that it was all his idea.

As Lich posted on X:

When asked if he had been directed by the crown to commence this investigation, the detective said he was not. He says he gets requests but it is up to him due to his lengthy career and extensive experience to decide how and when to investigate. He then volunteered that he wasn’t directed by the crown but only commenced the investigation after he’d had some meetings with the crown (in which he was definitely NOT directed by the crown).

The Invisible Man must have telepathically communicated these investigative urges into his psyche. He clarified that he was not directed but “given a task,” again by No One.

It is interesting that Detective Launen claims to have such latitude in deciding what to investigate. Consider the experience of one of his colleagues, Ottawa Police Service Detective Helen Grus. Grus was recently censured for taking it upon herself to investigate a string of nine infant deaths that occurred around Ottawa in the aftermath of the COVID vaccine rollout.

Strange that Grus — part of the Sexual Assault and Child Abuse unit — should be reprimanded for investigating deaths clearly within her purview, while Launen’s interest in the ownership records of a truck from a province on the other side of the country should raise nary an eyebrow.

Still truckin’

Last week I spoke with Barber by phone. He was behind the wheel of Big Red, speaking with me via Bluetooth headset, en route through Saskatchewan while doing what he does best — moving the massive agricultural machinery which helps the Canadian Prairies produce grains which feed the world its daily bread.

“We hired Brendan Miller from Calgary to represent CB Trucking, the company my son and I own 50/50, and my lawyer Diane Magas from Ottawa was there as well,” Barber told me.

“Miller threw a wrench into things; normally Ottawa Court is staid and procedural, but Miller really went deep into case law, and it seemed like he was teaching Justice Perkins-McVey at times. … The Crown got angry when Miller accused them of acting in bad faith.”

RELATED: Canadian feds to seize iconic ‘Big Red’ as Freedom Convoy persecution rolls on

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Family target

The Crown has now also set its sights on Barber’s son Jonathan. Why, they ask, did Barber give Jonathan a 50% stake in the family trucking company — and, by extension, an ownership stake in Big Red — after first facing charges in 2022?

But what the court bizarrely frames as a tacit admission of guilt likely has a much more straightforward explanation. Facing the potential destruction of his business in the wake of these criminal charges as well as a nearly $300 million civil suit brought by a group of citizens in Ottawa (who, it ought be noted, have brought no such such suit against the Hamas enthusiasts who have been harassing the citizens of Ottawa with impunity for nearly two years straight), it only made sense for Barber to try and protect his business assets via a fairly common transfer of partial ownership. Add to that the fact that seizure of Big Red wasn’t even on the table until a few months ago.

None of that is enough to satisfy the Crown, apparently: Both Jonathan and Barber’s parents have been called to testify this Thursday, in these painfully slower and somehow more evil Kafka-esque proceedings which resumed Monday, September 22.

‘A tough kid’

“Jonathan is a tough kid,” Barber told me of his son, who recently survived more or less unscathed a collision that tore his Peterbilt rig apart (an impatient fellow trucker attempted to pass Jonathan as he attempted to negotiate a major turn with the same kind of massive equipment his dad hauls).

“He’s really stepped up to the plate in managing the business while I have been busy with court and lawyers meetings and all the travel to Ottawa,” Barber continued.

Given that Barber and his family live outside the Saskatchewan town of Swift Current, (known by locals and old school truckers as “Speedy Creek”) a little over 1,800 miles from Ottawa, the last two years of trial have involved an incredible amount of travel. Barber’s parents only live three-quarters of a mile away and often stop in to feed and water his horses and dogs while he is in Ottawa or away trucking.

While I spoke with Chris, his daughter Sierra escorted him in a pilot truck, a mandatory requirement for loads the size Barber specializes in.

Canadian archetype

The hardworking Barber family represents an archetype in Canada, hardy settlers who tamed a vast wilderness, contending with harsh winters and vast distances few will understand. These were the vast majority of Freedom Convoy participants, who easily managed the logistics and likewise dealt with the cold Ottawa winter, so it is no surprise that a government that seeks to make people weak and dependent continues to attack them.

In a video Barber posted online, he explained what he and his family are up against:

Because [prosecutors] are so vindictive and so hateful and so spiteful, they want more.

Our fear is right now that if the judge … throws the forfeiture out, that allows the Crown to then go back to the province of Saskatchewan at a later date and say, ‘We want that truck, and we want you to help.’ So what we’re trying to do right now is bat that right out of the bloody park, and that’s going to prolong things. We’re talking probably six months of trial. We’re talking possibly Supreme Court.

Barber has already gone through the longest mischief trial in the history of the nation and has been the subject of the most vicious and protracted lawfare the country has ever seen — all for his role in peacefully resisting Canada’s draconian vaccine mandates.

That the government is now so bent on destroying a potent symbol of that resistance reveals something deeply authoritarian about both the Liberal-controlled Canada of the last decade and the managerial regimes of so many other countries that acted in a similar fashion. Americans should take note.

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A new feature in Fortnite has caused chaos for a generation that is not used to speaking anonymously or hearing opposing viewpoints.

Fortnite recently released a new game mode called Delulu, showcasing what they are touting as a new feature called “proximity voice chat.”

‘Thousands banned already this weekend.’

Describing the function as the ability to “talk with squadmates and non-squadmates” that are nearby, Fortnite and parent company Epic Games are also boasting about having banned “thousands” of users for their “voice chat behavior.”

“Remember to report voice chat behavior in-game that violates our community rules. This gives us evidence to quickly take action against rule breakers,” the company wrote on X. “Thousands banned already this weekend,” it added.

Although such a feature has been around for at least 20 years, Fortnite’s approximate million users per day are now at the intersection of freedom and surveillance culture.

RELATED: ‘They want to spy on you’: Military tech CEO explains why AI companies don’t want you going offline

With around a quarter of its user base in the Gen Z age bracket, many gamers are seemingly being exposed to the idea of having to hear the unfiltered thoughts of strangers for the first time.

IGN compiled a series of user experiences, which featured some saying the game has “been terrible” due to the proximity chat feature.

“I’ve been playing solo and there hasn’t been one game where I haven’t been told horrendous things I don’t wish to repeat. I just want to have fun and enjoy the game,” wrote Forever_Winter13.

“For the most part, it’s been completely fine,” wrote Glitter_Fox_. “But there was one group of guys who kept appearing in the same lobbies as me that would purposely hunt down any female voice they heard. They literally would yell ‘equality’ as they shoot you.”

“Every French kid and his mother asks you to call him daddy or they will kill you,” another user called PlayfulBus8433 explained.

One gamer said they had heard “racist slurs thrown around casually,” while another said users were “spamming the N-word.”

These complaints, when made to the publisher, effectively allow Fortnite to spy on its users.

RELATED: Meet the man building the Christian answer to Fortnite

As Fortnite admits, “When voice reporting is on, the last five minutes of voice chat audio are captured on a rolling basis.”

“Voice chat audio is securely captured on your device — for example your gaming console or PC — not the Epic Games servers,” they add.

While complaining about another user’s conduct is not a new phenomenon, the gleeful expression from Epic Games about banning players and having access to use audio certainly is, and these features were only introduced by the company in 2023.

Users could mute their peers or simply not use the game mode that employs the new feature, but instead, when empowered with this choice, it seems a large chunk of users are willing to exchange privacy for temporary comfort.

If there are as many “sweats and bigots” as users report there to be, it is certain these complaints will keep rolling in. Then, the offended parties will have to choose: put down the controller or hear things they don’t like.

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On Sunday, September 21, nearly 100,000 people gathered at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, for the memorial service of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Thousands more gathered in a nearby overflow arena, and according to Charlie’s executive producer, over 100 million people streamed the service online, not counting replays.

The event kicked off with a powerful worship session led by the biggest names in Christian music, including Brandon Lake, Chris Tomlin, Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes, and Phil Wickham.

But even when speeches began, the majority of them given by high-profile conservative media figures, like Tucker Carlson, Jack Posobiec, and Benny Johnson, as well as several Trump administration officials, including Marco Rubio, Tulsi Gabbard, Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, and President Donald Trump, the presence of God remained steady. Every single speaker who took the stage either shared the gospel message, highlighted Charlie’s faith in Jesus Christ, or read directly from scripture.

While there were many powerful addresses, most notably the one given by Charlie’s widow and TPUSA’s new CEO, Erika Kirk, during which she graciously forgave her husband’s alleged murderer, Pastor Rob McCoy perhaps made history with an altar call that reached millions across the globe simultaneously.

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Pastor McCoy, Charlie’s longtime pastor from Godspeak Calvary Chapel in California, began by asking all Christians — those who “profess Christ as their Savior” — to remain seated.

Referring to Jesus’ words in Matthew 10:32-33, he said, “The Bible says if you profess me before man, I’ll profess you before my Father in heaven. It requires an act of faith — you stand. That’s what Charlie did every day on campus with death threats. He stood because he knew in whom he had trusted, and he wants to give you the gift of the why and what he did, and that is his Savior, Jesus.”

“While believers are seated, if there’s any in this room and across the globe that would desire to receive Jesus as their Savior, as Charlie did as a young man and now is in the presence of his Savior, I’m going to ask you to put action to your faith, and I’d ask you to stand right now to receive the Lord. Don’t be ashamed — stand!” Pastor McCoy encouraged.

Video footage shows several people in the stadium standing up at this invitation. The potential thousands of streaming viewers who stood up from their couches is anyone’s guess.

Pastor McCoy told the standing group that angels were rejoicing in heaven over their decision to follow Christ — as was Charlie. “He’s stoked and he’s excited about your commitment to his Savior,” he roared over the cheering crowd.

But the standing wasn’t over.

“For this remaining moment, if you’ve given your heart to the Lord and someone is seated next to you, I want that person who is a believer to stand and pray with you,” McCoy said to the thousands of professing Christians.

As the stadium filled with prayers and embraces, the scene evoked the monumental altar calls of Billy Graham, whose 1973 Seoul crusade drew over 1 million attendees in person, with tens of thousands responding to the gospel.

Yet in the digital age, Pastor McCoy’s invitation — broadcast to over 100 million online viewers — may rival or even surpass those historic moments in sheer global reach, potentially making it the largest altar call since Graham’s satellite-linked events decades ago.

Charlie Kirk’s memorial didn’t just commemorate a life of bold conservatism; it sparked a profound spiritual revival, proving that his greatest legacy was pointing others to the eternal hope found in Christ.

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With respect to the recent designation of Antifa as a terror group, it’s likely that we’re about to watch some serious application of Palantir technologies to the digital and physical domestic battle spaces. Internecine squabbles, foreign agents and actors, a spiraling away from anything like a shared vision at the citizen level — all will exacerbate the confusion as this push goes forward. We humans are going to be forced to get acquainted fast with how AI, politics, and justice get along.

It’s going to be messy. It’s already messy. Narrative itself is under scrutiny. The discourse that got the aggregate elements of the right gathered up around the election of Trump is disintegrating under the weight of the rapid merger of technology and humanity. Few understand this. Fewer understand what is about to drive the further dissolution of that discourse.

Highly reliable sources within the special operations forces community have confided to this author the high probability of Antifa access to support, training, and supervision from high-level former SOF personnel.

Meanwhile, something new in the way of counterterrorism ops needs to be accomplished. Network mapping and the building of target folders are standard; the defunding and disruption of thousands of small cells are now under discussion. At present, no one has an iron lock on how deep or wide the networks underwriting Antifa extend. What are Antifa investigations going to reveal, financially, politically, and in corporate and social media?

It would appear at this point that nothing is off the table: enemies foreign and domestic, entities digital and corporeal, corporations and state-sponsored groups practicing fifth-generation warfare — are all up for scrutiny. Months before Antifa’s recent designation as a domestic terrorist group, ICE conducted a physical raid on an Antifa-adjacent suspect allegedly housing illegal migrants in his apartment in downtown Portland, Oregon.

While we can presume this was part of the ICE-Palantir collaboration, the trend is toward total integration of prosecutorial and information resources under, or centralized/coordinated with, Palantir. The emergence of digital technology as the potential cause of, and solution to, America’s violent social decay makes for a strange and emotionally fraught American quagmire.

Is transgenderism a network nexus?

It’s one made all the stranger by the starring role — at the nexus of madness, narrative, identity and digital politics — played by so-called transgenderism and by “trans” individuals.

RELATED: Man who tried to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh identifies as transgender, new docs show

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Charlie Kirk’s alleged murderer is only the latest in a rather extensive run of alleged and convicted murderers to identify, to varying extent, with the transgender identity. What is this phenomenon? Opinions vary. The numbers are stark, however. People, particularly biological men, identifying as transgender are radically prone to suicide. And increasingly, it seems, political violence.

Auron MacIntyre went live on X on Friday, Sept. 19. His monologue included the statement, “If you are almost religiously dedicated to mutilating children as a rite of passage for your political movement, then I can’t really debate your political movement with you any more.”

MacIntyre is correct. There is a fundamental divide. It’s religious in nature, by default of expressed intent. This divide will be sorted out, at least in part, with the help of ostensibly secular AI. The question remains, however: How much of the problem, the identitarian political violence and its ecology, which is about to be prosecuted, actually stems from or relates back to the same digital technology that will used in prosecution?

Some would doubt the legitimacy of this odd central role taken up by, or granted to, the transgender phenomenon. It may be no coincidence. It may be that the phenomenon itself is, in part, related very closely to the designs and aggressive expansion of digital technologies themselves. The relationships between transgenderism and transhumanism — between the cellular hive-like construction of the internet chat spaces and the disembodied solitariness of the online social interactions — are recursive, mutually reinforcing. There are loops between the human and his technological inventions that are not well enough understood.

What links trans, Antifa, and ex-special forces?

As AI steps onto the domestic counterterrorism scene, consider that Antifa has within its ranks several high-level, former special operations actors. Highly reliable sources within the special operations forces community have confided to this author the high probability of Antifa access to support, training, and supervision from high-level former SOF personnel.

Several ex-SOF operators have famously self-identified as transgender either while serving or after separating from the military. Special operations is known to be very plugged in and tech-capable. Whatever the depth or oddity of the coalition, be assured that these actors understand counternarrative, sacrifice, subterfuge, and misdirection, to say nothing of kinetic action. They will allocate human resources as or more ruthlessly than any soulless corporation.

The human mind today (forget about the AI substitute) is so mind-bombed and under so many psyops that it is severely ill equipped to manage holistic environments. Binary circuit construction seems to force binary, computational, linear thinking.

If transgenderism is, in fact, somehow or other, directly tied to the dangerously warping dynamics of technology, what will be the nature of that interaction going forward? We don’t know yet. The emerging scenario is the type of hyper-dynamic environment created in fifth-generation-type multi-actor conflicts.

Likely we will see, by default, an even greater and more explicit dependence on — and a giving over of power to — artificial intelligence. It will be easy to accept such moves as the human responsibility for justice decisions, always contested and imperfect, becomes more easily externalized.

The sheer volume of subdivisions and clique-making available to the cyber-individual, and the multitude of digitally sequestered spaces (chat rooms, forums, comms apps) enabling those moves, has grown so vast as to surpass the powers of human analysis. Investigation without AI would lag years behind the action curve of terrorism, while the unraveling and decoding of financial networks in support of now-designated terror groups is probably only possible with an entity native to those cyber networks.

We’ve entered the era of digital domestic counterterrorism. So has AI — and those who wield it most powerfully.

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An Ohio barista was fired after she wrote a disparaging message on a customer’s cup.

Since Charlie Kirk’s murder, a video of a young woman asking him what he orders at Starbucks has gone viral. Kirk revealed in the video that due to his frequent speaking engagements, he orders “literally just Mint Majesty tea with two honeys” to preserve his speaking voice.

Starbucks called the writing on the cup ‘unacceptable.’

Since then, Americans have honored the late activist by ordering his favorite drink at their local Starbucks. In Middletown, Ohio — the hometown of Vice President JD Vance — a woman said her local Starbucks proved to her exactly why she does not frequent the business.

“The girl at Starbucks thought she was cute,” wrote Autumn Perkins. The customer added that even though she is not a big fan of the company, she decided to support Kirk by ordering his favorite drink.

Attached to Perkins’ Facebook post was a photo of her coffee cup that showed the words “racists fav drink” written on it.

“Thank you Starbucks for proving to me exactly why I prefer to support my small local Christian owned and operated coffee shop,” Perkins added.

However, after revealing she had complained to the store manager, Perkins said she heard back from the location the following morning.

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The Kroger in which the Starbucks is located contacted Perkins to let her know the employee had been fired, she claimed.

“Between last night and this morning I have had several Kroger employees reach out to me and they took this very seriously. As a long time customer of this particular Kroger location I am pleased with the way they quickly reacted and responded,” the customer wrote. “Thank you Kroger for doing what was right.”

A Kroger spokesperson provided comment to the Cincinnati Enquirer and stated the actions of the former employee do not reflect the grocer’s values.

In a comment to Fox News Digital, Starbucks called the writing on the cup “unacceptable.”

“We have clear policies that prohibit negative messages to help preserve a welcoming environment,” Starbucks added. The company also confirmed the employee in question had been fired by Kroger.

Typically, Starbucks baristas write the customer’s name on the drink, and while it is unclear if Perkins requested her own name or Kirk’s, the latter gesture has also become popular enough that Starbucks released a statement about it.

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Starbucks in Athens, Ohio, 2021. Photo by Stephen Zenner/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Videos have circulated showing Starbucks customers not only ordering Kirk’s favorite drink, but asking for his name to be written on their cup.

Starbucks said it had reviewed some incidents of customers claiming rude messages had been written on their cups instead, but in at least one instance, the message was written after the customer received the drink.

Nonetheless, Starbucks has plainly stated that “when a customer wants to use a different name — including the name Charlie Kirk — when ordering their drink in our café, we aim to respect their preference.”

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