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CHICAGO, Ill. — The timing of when President Donald Trump will deploy the National Guard into the city was top of mind at the event hosted by Chicago Flips Red at Trump Tower. The Trump-supporting group has been part of the vocal locals who want the president to help Chicago reduce the crime rate.

It is still unknown when troops will be sent in. There are reports about preparations being made to house federal immigration agents at Naval Station Great Lakes, located about an hour north of downtown. Trump mulled the possibility of sending troops to New Orleans, Louisiana, first. Whenever the deployment happens, the event’s attendees say they are ready.

‘Chicago will continue to have a “violence problem” as long as Red states continue to have a gun problem.’

“My position changed over the past week. I’ve been debating people for years that Chicago’s not that dangerous,” criminal defense lawyer Jason Epstein admitted to Blaze News. “What I did not know is that Chicago’s overall crime is [down], but murder jumped up.”

Per capita, Chicago’s homicide rate is number seven at 28.7 per 100,000 people.

Epstein used to campaign for Democrats like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former President Barack Obama, but he voted for Trump in 2024, in part due to the Biden-Harris border crisis and lack of public safety in major cities.

“The fact that [Trump] did such an excellent job in D.C., it is a huge affront to any claims that it’s a military takeover. It is a huge affront to any politician trying to tell you that ‘we don’t need it.’ … [Trump] is looking to do good, which is why I’m here now,” he continued.

CFR attendees later broke out into a “We want the National Guard!” chant.

RELATED: Mayor Johnson remains defiant on Trump’s pending National Guard deployment amid violent weekend

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CFR member Danielle Carter Walters previously blasted Governor JB Pritzker (D) and Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) for continually rejecting Trump’s offer to help the city.

“Let’s ask President Trump, when are we going to make treason great again? Because these people need to go to prison for treason. We need to make treason great again. … These people have no clue of what’s going on — well, they do, but they don’t care,” Walters said.

In response to the more than 50 people shot over Labor Day weekend, Johnson blamed the violence in his city on Republican states having greater gun rights.

“Chicago will continue to have a ‘violence problem’ as long as Red states continue to have a gun problem,” Johnson posted on X. “The endless flow of illegal guns into Chicago can be traced to Red states like Mississippi, Indiana, and Louisiana. It is up to the federal government to step up and stop interstate gun trafficking networks.”

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An Eastern Michigan city is sparking controversy for having the first American police force with Arabic writing on its patch.

Less than a week after the Western Michigan University football team caused a stir by having one of its players take the field with his name written in Arabic on his jersey, a city just west of Detroit and close to the Canadian border announced its police force will also feature the foreign language.

‘This new design is another way we continue to celebrate the rich cultures that make our city unique.’

Police in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, boasted in a Facebook post on Wednesday that they have unveiled a new Arabic/English patch for their officers.

“The Dearborn Heights Police Department is proud to share a new 𝙤𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 patch that our officers may wear as part of their uniform,” the department wrote.

The patch displays the Michigan seal in the center with “Dearborn Heights Police” written around it in both English and Arabic.

“This patch was created by Officer Emily Murdoch, who designed it to reflect and honor the diversity of our community — especially the many residents of Arabic descent who call Dearborn Heights home,” the post continued.

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The police department claimed that including the Arabic script was a sign of “unity, respect,” and a “shared commitment to service.”

“We are proud of Officer Murdoch’s creativity and dedication in helping our department better represent the people we serve,” the post added. “This new design is another way we continue to celebrate the rich cultures that make our city unique.”

Fox 2 Detroit was able to confirm with the department that the patch was indeed optional for officers.

Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) shared an image of the new patch on X and said it was “their goal” to “bring sharia law to America.”

“You should’ve believed them. Pray for Michigan,” he wrote.

None of the Republican congressmen from Michigan appeared to make a public statement about the patch.

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Hundreds of residents of Dearborn, Michigan, gather outside of the Dearborn police department on May 15, 2021. Photo by SETH HERALD/AFP via Getty Images

Dearborn Heights has a Middle Eastern and North African population of 39% as of 2023, Fox 2 Detroit reported. Dearborn, Michigan, its neighbor to the east, reportedly has a similar population, representing about 55%.

The region has long been considered to be a hub for Arabs, with Dearborn Police showing off a Community Policing Center that featured Arabic writing in November 2001, just two months after the September 11th attacks.

Also in 2001, Michigan State Police called the area “a major financial support center for many Mideast terrorist groups.”

“Southeast Michigan is known as a lucrative recruiting area and potential support base for international terrorist groups. It is also conceivable that ‘sleeper cells’ may be located in that area of the state,” a police report said, according to NBC News.

As well, a 2001 report by the New York Times cited Detroit as having around 300,000 Arabs in the metropolitan area. This included: Palestinians, Iraqis, Yeminis, Syrians, and Lebanese.

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I never thought I would be running for political office. I had a wonderful career in music, first making jingles for household items like Flintstones Vitamins before getting into video games. It was there that I experienced amazing success with Halo.

I was happy with my career and excited to spend time with my grandkids. But when I saw my congresswoman, Rep. Susie Lee (D-Nev.), stand in the way of President Donald Trump’s agenda at every turn, I decided I needed to step up and run.

Newsom is still the slimiest politician imaginable, and unfortunately for Californians, he was able to get out of San Francisco. We can’t let him get out of California.

But still, the thought of being an elected official grossed me out, and that stemmed from meeting a sleazy politician 20 years ago.

In 2005, Halo was presented a star on San Francisco’s Walk of Game. I was honored to be asked to attend the ceremony and accept the award on behalf of our team. It was especially exciting to do so while other iconic games and characters like Mario, Link from Zelda, and Sonic the Hedgehog were being honored with stars, too.

Later that night, I attended a reception to celebrate the inductees, where I met the mayor of San Francisco. As we chatted a while, I couldn’t help but notice his ludicrously white, straight teeth and slicked-back black hair held together with a ridiculous amount of hair gel.

We weren’t talking long until I was shocked by his shallow thoughts and disingenuous attitude. His responses felt robotic and scripted, and he wouldn’t make eye contact. Instead, he scanned the room as if he were looking for someone more important to engage with.

It quickly became clear he was there solely for the purpose of being photographed and basking in the limelight of popular games that were dominating American culture at the time — despite having never played the games himself.

When I got home, I told my wife I had met the slimiest politician imaginable.

“Thank God he’ll never get out of San Francisco,” I said to her.

That mayor? Gavin Newsom.

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Yep, I met Newsom long before he was chasing cameras to talk about Donald Trump and turning the “California Dream” into the “California Nightmare.”

Under Newsom’s leadership as governor, California has become dangerous and outrageously expensive as he toys with every experimental socialist policy possible. His dismal governorship resulted in the historic mass exodus of Californians to lower-taxed, lower-crime havens — while making the Golden State a national punchline.

The state is on fire, literally, as we saw with the tragic Palisades and Eaton Fires earlier this year. While people who lost their homes are in regulatory purgatory and unable to rebuild, Newsom is scanning the room, looking for other things to engage with that are far more important for his personal ambitions.

He’s fighting the Trump administration’s efforts to deport violent illegal immigrants and trying to rig the state’s congressional maps to dilute the voices of his own constituents.

RELATED: ‘The system is rigged’: Congressional candidate Marty O’Donnell calls for cuts to ‘bloated’ federal government

As a conservative, I can’t think of a better leader for the Democrats than Gavin Newsom. Running against his failed policies should lead to years of electoral victories for the Republican Party.

But I am sad to see what has happened to what was once a beautiful state. And as an American, I am terrified by what Newsom and his ilk want to do to our country.

Gavin Newsom is still the slimiest politician imaginable, and unfortunately for Californians, he was able to get out of San Francisco. We can’t let him get out of California. Our country cannot afford it.

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President Donald Trump doubled down on the Epstein attacks, once again pointing the finger at the Democratic Party.

The outrage surrounding the administration’s handling of the Epstein files subsided in recent weeks while Congress was out of session. Now that the Hill is back, lawmakers have reignited interest in the Epstein scandal, which Trump insists is a “Democrat hoax.”

‘The Dems don’t care about the victims.’

“The confused and badly failing Democrat Party did nothing about Jeffrey Epstein while he was alive except befriend him, socialize with him, travel to his Island, and take his money!” Trump said in a Truth Social post Friday.

“They knew everything there was to know about Epstein, but now, years after his death, they, out of nowhere, are seeming to show such love and heartfelt concern for his victims,” Trump added. “Does anybody really believe that?”

RELATED: White House slams Massie’s Epstein bill as a ‘very hostile act’ — some Republicans sign on anyway

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Trump insisted Democrats don’t actually care about Epstein’s victims, saying if they did, they would have taken action in years prior. Instead, Trump argued that Democrats have resurrected the scandal because of their low approval ratings.

“The now dying (after the DOJ gave thousands of pages of documents in full compliance with a very comprehensive and exacting Subpoena from Congress!) Epstein case was only brought back to life by the Radical Left Democrats because they are doing so poorly, with the lowest poll numbers in the history of the Party (16%), while the Republicans are doing so well, among the highest approval numbers the Party has ever had!” Trump said. “The Dems don’t care about the victims, as proven by the fact that they never did before.”

“This is merely another Democrat HOAX, just like Russia, Russia, Russia, and all of the others, in order to deflect and distract from the great success of a Republican President, and the record setting failure of the previous Administration, and the Democrat Party,” Trump added.

RELATED: Thomas Massie leads pressure campaign, forcing Congress to address Epstein

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Although Trump has repeatedly framed the Epstein scandal as a Democratic talking point, there has consistently been bipartisan support for transparency.

The moment Congress came back in session on Monday, Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky filed a discharge petition, which would force a vote on the House floor to release the Epstein files. In order to force the vote, Massie would need signatures from at least 218 members of Congress.

As of Thursday, the petition has secured 215 signatures, including four from Republicans: Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Nancy Mace of South Carolina, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, and Massie. Rep. Eric Swalwell of California is the only Democrat who has not yet signed but intends to, meaning signatures from at least two more Republicans are needed to force the vote.

Notably, the White House slammed Massie’s petition, calling it a “very hostile act” to deter other Republicans from signing on.

RELATED: FBI, DOJ Epstein memo sparks right-wing outrage: ‘Nobody is believing this’

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“Helping Thomas Massie and liberal Democrats with their attention-seeking, while the DOJ is fully supporting a more comprehensive file release effort from the Oversight Committee, would be viewed as a very hostile act to the administration,” one White House official said in an email to NBC.

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Ring camera video caught the moment a Texas homeowner opened fire on what police are calling a pair of “Camaro crooks” who recently tried to hot-wire the homeowner’s car in the middle of the night.

Fort Worth Police Officer Buddy Calzada spoke with KDFW-TV and explained what happened amid the aggravated robbery in a “quiet neighborhood” around 1:50 a.m. Aug. 15.

‘The homeowner is aware of what’s taking place, comes outside to protect his property, and a gunfight ensues.’

“You see a white Camaro sitting in the street with black stripes over it,” Calzada told the station. “We know they are driving that vehicle, and they’re getting out to steal a Camaro.”

Video shows two individuals — at least one of them holding a gun — wearing dark hoodies and dark clothing approaching a car parked in a driveway. Calzada told KDFW that “they’ve got a computer device” they’re using to try to “hot-wire” the car.

Video then shows one of the individuals removing the car’s driver-side window and placing it on the ground — but the Ring camera notifies the homeowner “that something’s going on out there,” Calzada added to the station.

“The homeowner is aware of what’s taking place, comes outside to protect his property, and a gunfight ensues,” the officer told the station.

“They’re firing back and forth, you can actually hear it as well,” Calzada added to KDFW. “Fortunately, nobody was hurt or hit in this situation.” Video shows the two crooks speeding away from the scene in the white Camaro.

Calzada told the station that police want those who have information about the would-be car thieves to step up and help “stop these Camaro crooks.”

Calzada added to KDFW that the white Camaro they used is “a sporty-looking Chevy Camaro with racing stripes on the hood, on the top, and down the back.”

“Somebody knows these individuals in that vehicle who are committing these crimes,” the officer noted to the station.

Those with information can call Det. Brian Raynsford at 817-392-4469, KDFW said.

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Can a romantic comedy rip the band-aid off the political divisions infecting our personal relationships?

“The Elephant In the Room,” a new rom-com directed by Erik Bork and released last month, dares to ask that question.

Leah and Vincent are fictional, but their predicament is painfully real: We are told to filter people through a political litmus test before we ever share a meal or a laugh.

As Bork describes the film: “A lonely female progressive [Leah, played by Alyssa Limperis] in December 2020 meets a guy [Vincent, played by Sean Kleier] she might want to date. But he voted for President Trump twice, and that’s a deal-breaker. Or is it?”

Mixed marriage

Bork didn’t write “The Elephant In the Room” to change anyone’s political views. As he says, “I’m not an activist; I’m a comedy guy.” Whatever your politics, the film is very funny and well worth seeing.

But great art reflects what’s in the culture, and Bork’s film has its sights set squarely on one of the biggest divisions of our time. More and more of us are unwilling to even consider dating across party lines. According to a 2020 poll, 38% of Democrats and 38% of Republicans would feel “very upset” or “somewhat upset” at the prospect of their child marrying someone from the opposing political party.

And it’s not just parents; 60% of young Americans (ages 18-29) say it’s important to find a partner who shares their political views.

This prejudice is especially pronounced among college-educated single women, fully three-quarters of whom report that they would be less interested in dating someone who voted for Trump.

These numbers dwarf the opposition that we feel for dating across racial, ethnic, or religious lines. Politics is the last prejudice that most of us cling to.

The perception gap

One reason for these numbers is what More in Common — a nonprofit research group attempting to understand and address the root causes of political polarization — calls the “perception gap.”

We often have a caricature of people of the opposite party in our minds, and this caricature rarely reflects reality. For example, in polls, Democrats assume that only 51% of Republicans think racism is still a problem. In reality, 79% of Republicans think it’s a problem — a perception gap of 28 points.

“The Elephant in the Room” gets at this perception gap early. When Leah finds out that Vincent voted for Trump, she argues that white supremacists and homophobes would certainly have voted for Trump. Vincent rejoins, correctly, that not all Trump supporters are the same. Leah had a neo-Nazi in mind, but the reality was very different: Vincent is a down-to-earth line cook who supports gay marriage and doesn’t like Trump personally, but who voted for Trump because he opposes open borders.

RELATED: Can true love ‘Trump’ our political divide? Writer/director Erik Bork is optimistic.

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The division industrial complex

Another reason that we’re so divided is the division industrial complex: the powerful forces that profit from keeping us scared of and angry at our fellow Americans.

The division industrial complex is the political elites who rant for the cameras about how their opponents are destroying America while chumming it up in private; the fundraising groups that screech that the other team will fleece seniors and tear our country apart unless you’re willing to donate $5 today; the media companies that post misleading and fear-inducing headlines to try to attract the clicks and eyeballs that keep the lights on.

When we listen to the division industrial complex, we lose sight of reality. We start to see partisans on the other side not as fellow Americans who see the world differently than we do, but as enemies out to destroy everything we hold dear.

Chumming the waters

The dirty secret about the division industrial complex is that a lot of the biggest players don’t believe the fear and anger they’re selling. Politicians like Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) might call their opponents fascists or communists when the cameras are rolling, but they’re warm and civil to each other behind closed doors.

This is even true of inter-party dating. Political insiders might get airtime by urging us to cut our friends and family across the aisle out of our lives, but many of them are happy to marry across the aisle. Famed political consultants James Carville (Democrat) and Mary Matalin (Republican) both practice trench warfare politics, but they make their cross-party marriage work despite that. If they think it’s all right to marry across the aisle, maybe there’s something the rest of us are missing.

Writing our own script

When we let the division industrial complex dictate who our political opponents are, we miss out on genuine friendships, meaningful relationships, and even peace of mind.

That is why a story like “The Elephant in the Room” matters. Leah and Vincent are fictional, but their predicament is painfully real: We are told to filter people through a political litmus test before we ever share a meal or a laugh. The film reminds us that we can write a different script.

Political differences will always create tension, and sometimes they will be deal-breakers. But let’s not allow the fear peddled by political elites to dominate our personal lives — we can stop letting the division industrial complex set the scene and instead take our cues from the people right in front of us.

When we choose conversation over dehumanization, the ending might surprise us, on screen and off.

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Rep. Jerry Nadler (N.Y.), one of the Democrats who has managed in recent months to secure the disapproval of the super-majority of American voters, announced on Tuesday that he will not seek re-election next year.

Nadler, who has a popularity rating of 17% according to YouGov and faced numerous viable challengers in next year’s congressional race, said that his decision to step down after 32 years in Congress “has not been easy” but “is the right one.”

‘It will be a great day for the USA when Nadler, a pathetic lightweight, is out of office.’

There has been an outpouring of support from Nadler’s fellow leftists, including Texas Rep. Greg Casar, who stated, “Congressman Nadler’s remarkable career reflects his record as a progressive hero on too many issues to count, from supporting workers rights — including leading the passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act — to LGBTQ rights, where he spearheaded the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act.”

President Donald Trump, whom Nadler repeatedly tried to remove from office, was not interested in similarly pretending that the 78-year-old Manhattan Democrat had a positive impact in office over the past three decades.

“Jerry Nadler, one of the most disgusting Congressmen in USA History is, at long last, calling it ‘quits,'” the president noted in a Friday post on Truth Social.

“He’s finally leaving Congress! I’ve been beating this bum for 40 years, first as a New York City developer, where he opposed me, for no reason, at every corner, but could NEVER stop me from getting the job done, and then, as your President, where this psychopathic nut job, together with Crazy Nancy Pelosi, Impeached me twice, AND LOST, wasting Millions of Dollars in time and taxpayer money,” continued Trump.

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The president’s reference to battling Nadler as a real restate developer hearkens back to Trump’s 1985 purchase of a former railroad yard on Manhattan’s east side. The Washington Post indicated that Trump proposed to transform the parcel into a major residential and retail development with 7,600 apartments in six 75-story towers that would have been hemmed in by TV stations, a shopping mall, and a 150-story skyscraper.

Nadler, apparently keen to boost his profile and deny the city thousands of housing units, spent years fighting the project and helped ensure that the area would never reach its full potential.

Of course, Nadler resumed his opposition to Trump decades later when his old nemesis successfully ran for president. Nadler not only proved to be a big proponent of the Russian collusion hoax, liberally spreading falsehoods on-theme and gaslighting about the FBI’s infiltration of the Trump campaign, but played a leading role in impeaching Trump.

Trump added, “It will be a great day for the U.S.A. when Nadler, a pathetic lightweight, is out of office and leaves our beautiful, and NOW VERY SAFE, Washington, D.C.”

Nalder suggested to the New York Times in a recent interview that while he initially wanted to hold onto power, former President Joe Biden’s public degeneration changed his mind.

“Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that,” said Nadler.

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MIAMI, Fla. — The target, who agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were looking for, was no stranger to them. The Mexican national had been previously convicted of aggravated battery on a pregnant woman and was deported earlier this year.

Apparently managing to be one of the few gotaways at the southern border, the man was once again back in Florida. Blaze News was embedded with the ICE team that was sent to arrest him so he could face federal charges for allegedly illegally re-entering after being deported. After giving the pre-dawn morning briefing, agents staged themselves outside of the home, waiting for the man to be picked up for work by a white pickup truck.

The agents were in disbelief that he would willingly show them an allegedly fake green card since presenting it to them is a felony.

The lead agent said it was possible to encounter other illegal aliens in the pickup. Surveillance conducted at the residence showed the man would leave the house anywhere from 6:15 a.m. to 6:50 a.m. So the team waited.

Close to 6:50 a.m., the target was confirmed and intercepted down the road. The man was apprehended without incident.

There were two other men in the truck, one from Mexico and another from the Dominican Republic. The other Mexican quickly admitted he was not in the U.S. legally and was taken into custody. The Dominican, however, insisted to agents he had a permanent resident card, also known as a green card, but did not have it on him.

The Dominican offered to take the agents back to his house to show them the card that was in his passport. The agents agreed and went to look at the card. After entering the residence and locating the card, it was quickly determined to be a fake, so the man was officially taken into custody. The agents were in disbelief that he would willingly show them an allegedly fake green card since presenting it to them is a felony.

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At the processing center in Miramar, it was then discovered after fingerprints were taken that the Dominican had a criminal history in the U.S. beyond just being here illegally.

The man was arrested in 1999 for aggravated assault and convicted in 2001. He was sentenced to one year in prison. He was arrested again in 2001 for first-degree arson and harassment and sentenced to one year in prison, with three years of supervised release. He was ordered to be removed by an immigration judge in Baltimore, Maryland, on February 3, 2003, and was deported back to the Dominican Republic on February 5, 2003.

The original target and the Dominican have since been referred to the Department of Justice for federal charges.

With ICE agents being heavily attacked in other parts of the country during operations and some local police departments forbidden to cooperate with them, agents in the Miami Field Office said they appreciate how their mission is supported in Florida. The ICE office in Miami averages around 120 arrests per day. Those numbers do not include arrests made by U.S. Border Patrol or Homeland Security Investigations.

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It’s not uncommon for the great one to get inquiries from his fans asking about how he prepares for his shows.

While Levin doesn’t reveal all the ingredients for his show-planning sauce, he does share one: “Sometimes if I go to our fabulous supermarket called Wegmans, they have all the newspapers there. So I might pick up two donuts and five newspapers.”

On a recent episode of “LevinTV,” he invited his audience to pull up a chair and witness the master at work.

He starts with the Washington Post, which he affectionately dubs “the Washington Compost.”

Holding up the hefty stack of pages, he quips, “All the trees that died for this.”

He flips through, headline by headline, tossing out zingers like “some lib wrote this,” “these guys are morons,” and “who cares?” — each delivered with the precision of a seasoned roast-master.

He doesn’t shy away from the paper’s darker history either, reminding viewers, “This is one of the newspapers that covered up the Holocaust.”

Then, he hits a front-page story titled “‘We’ll do what’s right’: Judge Resolute Amid U.S. pressure,” a glowing piece about Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes, portrayed as a stalwart defender of “democracy” despite U.S. sanctions, tariffs, and criticism from figures like Elon Musk and President Donald Trump.

“Now keep in mind the Washington Compost is thrilled when it’s running stories attacking Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas, of course, Brett Kavanaugh … but this judge [Moraes] is ‘steadfast’ in Brazil. He’s not going to buckle,” Levin mocks. “That judge in Brazil is a left-wing kook hack like many of the writers for this newspaper.”

Levin eventually makes his way to the Post’s style section to an article titled “The Future of Book Reviews Looks Grim.”

“This book ‘On Power’ is a number one New York Times bestseller. I’ve had nine [best sellers] in a row. … Do you know how many book reviews the New York Times has done for this book or any of the nine? Zero,” he says. “Now, I’m supposed to read an article that the future of book reviews looks grim? Well, when it comes to my books, they’re nonexistent.”

For more of Levin’s sharp-witted takedown of “the New York Slimes,” check out the video above. It’s a masterclass in turning newsprint into comedic kindling.

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The Department of Justice has charged a California utility with igniting the Eaton Fire in January near Los Angeles, which resulted in the deaths of 19 people and the destruction of thousands of buildings.

The DOJ filed two lawsuits against Southern California Edison, seeking $40 million in damages for the Eaton Fire and an additional $37 million in damages for the Fairview Fire, which occurred near Hemet in 2022.

‘These lawsuits do not include Edison’s liability for private homes and other private property damage.’

While the results of the official investigation into the Eaton Fire have not yet been announced, it was allegedly sparked by “faulty power infrastructure or by sparks from faulty power infrastructure owned, maintained, and operated” by the California utility, according to the DOJ’s complaint.

“The lawsuits filed today allege a troubling pattern of negligence resulting in death, destruction, and tens of millions of federal taxpayer dollars spent to clean up one utility company’s mistakes,” U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli stated during a news conference on Thursday.

“We believe that the evidence is clear that Edison is at fault, and by their own admissions, no one else is at fault,” Essayli said, referring to a July report in which Edison admitted that it was “not aware of evidence pointing to another possible source of ignition.”

RELATED: Los Angeles mayor fires LAFD chief who blamed officials’ incompetence for disastrous wildfire response

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Essayli stated that his office is “demanding” that the utility and “not its ratepayers” cover the damages.

“Edison must not be allowed to pass along its liability onto hardworking ratepayers,” he wrote in a post on social media. “The United States seeks to recover financial losses from fire suppression and damage to National Forest lands. These lawsuits do not include Edison’s liability for private homes and other private property damage.”

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Jeff Monford, a spokesperson for Edison, told the Associated Press that it is reviewing the lawsuits.

“We continue our work to reduce the likelihood of our equipment starting a wildfire,” Monford said. “Southern California Edison is committed to wildfire mitigation through grid hardening, situational awareness, and enhanced operational practices.”

Los Angeles County also filed a lawsuit against Edison in March.

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Gay marriage was not just a step down the slippery slope toward today’s transgender dystopia. It was the first manifestation of it. Now that a broad reawakening has exposed the harms of gender ideology and the denial of natural law, Republicans must press beyond protecting women’s sports and opposing child castration. They must return to the root of the problem: the redefinition of marriage itself.

Marriage is the foundation of human civilization, not a mere “social construct.” While many forms of loving relationships exist, only the lifelong bond of one man and one woman procreates, raises, and nurtures the next generation. That bond anchors family, faith, and culture. When the Supreme Court decreed that two men or two women living together could constitute a marriage, it blurred the difference between man and woman, mother and father. That was, in essence, the normalization of transgenderism.

To restore truth, Republicans must confront Obergefell and undo the lie that two men or two women can ever stand in for a husband and wife.

The rot spread quickly. Following the 2015 Obergefell decision, courts and legislatures treated same-sex households as identical to mother-father families, even in adoption. Thousands of children were placed into homes where the distinction between mother and father was obliterated. In 2017, the Supreme Court forced states to falsify birth certificates, treating lesbian partners as if one were the biological father.

In Pavan v. Smith, the court required Arkansas to list both lesbian partners as biological parents when one conceived through artificial insemination. The state already recognized same-sex couples under Obergefell and recorded non-biological parents accordingly.

But the plaintiffs demanded more: that their arrangement be treated as biologically identical to a natural family. Justice Neil Gorsuch, in dissent, noted that states had every interest in preserving the integrity of birth records for public health, citizenship, and genetic history. Yet the court pressed forward in defiance of nature, reason, and common sense.

Republicans must not flinch

Despite this, some Republicans now claim we can separate the fight against transgenderism from the fight against gay marriage. They are wrong. Even if one tolerates homosexuality in a secular society, that does not justify redefining marriage and giving gay couples adoption rights. Doing so enshrines the very gender-bending myth conservatives claim to oppose — the idea that man and woman, mother and father, are interchangeable.

The Kim Davis case, potentially headed to the Supreme Court next term, offers an opportunity to revisit this question. Conservatives should prepare the ground now. Republican elected officials must file amicus briefs signaling to wavering justices that this is a political priority. After Dobbs, which affirmed the Glucksberg standard that a right must be “deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and tradition,” Obergefell looks even weaker than Roe v. Wade. The court will need political momentum to act consistently with its own reasoning.

But legal strategy is not enough. Conservatives must also build political support in the states to sustain any reversal. That means pushing back against gay adoptions and re-establishing natural marriage as the baseline. You cannot ridicule transgenderism while placing a child in a household with two men and pretending the child has a mother.

Last year’s Republican National Convention stripped support for natural marriage from the party platform. Now Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has promised a presidential-style GOP convention before the midterms. That convention should be the place where Republicans right the ship, restore clarity, and rally around one of the most self-evident truths in human history.

RELATED: Trans is the natural progression from ‘gay marriage’

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The path forward

The fight against transgender ideology will collapse if conservatives refuse to confront its root: the redefinition of marriage. To pretend the two issues can be separated is to accept the very logic we claim to reject.

Republicans cannot stop at banning surgeries on minors or protecting girls’ sports. Those are necessary but not sufficient. To restore truth, they must confront Obergefell and undo the lie that two men or two women can ever stand in for a husband and wife.

Marriage is not a slogan or a lifestyle choice. It is the union that anchors family, culture, and civilization itself. To defend that truth is to defend reality. To surrender it is to let the entire edifice fall.

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While the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s one-year Medicaid moratorium may deal a significant blow to big abortion providers, it would be a mistake not to point out that Planned Parenthood (i.e., the nation’s largest abortion provider) has been in a steady state of decline for decades. The defund provision could hit the corporation’s finances hard — but Planned Parenthood was digging its own grave long before Congress penned the BBB.

As the One Big Beautiful Bill Act made its way to the House floor in May 2025, Planned Parenthood Federation of America stated that a federal defund would “put 200 health centers at risk of closure.” From May to July, PPFA was on the offensive, lobbying politicians, curating messaging to garner public sympathy, and scrambling to “rush” donations from donors in the face of a possible federal defund.

Planned Parenthood is clearly not the giant it used to be.

To capitalize on the political moment, PPFA closed a Cleveland clinic in late May 2025 as final votes on the President’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act drew nearer to a close. PPFA ambiguously cited severed federal funds as the cause of the clinic’s closure, but the BBB had not been signed into law. The Cleveland clinic was on the rocks, and its closure was politically efficacious.

What better time to solicit donations and beg for public support than in the face of a federal defund?

The Cleveland closure is not an unusual circumstance for Planned Parenthood — the first mark of PPFA’s pre-BBB decline was a consistent annual swath of clinic closures.

From January 2022 to May 2025, 66 Planned Parenthood locations closed in the United States. In February 2025, the New York Times reported that “Planned Parenthood’s health care operation has shrunk from a high of five million patients served across 900 clinics in the 1990s to 2.1 million patients and 600 clinics today.”

Planned Parenthood is clearly not the giant it used to be.

RELATED: Planned Parenthood’s ugly truth finally has consequences

President Trump signs the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ into law. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

The passage of the BBB is a perfect excuse for PPFA to continue closing clinics while pointing fingers. In July alone, PPFA closed 25 clinics — including its Houston mega clinic — despite an ongoing legal battle that has delayed the implementation of the BBB’s Medicaid moratorium.

Second, simple math from PPFA’s own reports tells the story of decline: Planned Parenthood’s abortion numbers are skyrocketing as general services plummet.

Breast exams, cancer screenings, and pap smears are down 70% from 2010; contraception services are down 39%. In 2023-2024, prenatal services made up only 1.6% of total services, miscarriage care 0.9%, and adoption referrals 0.4%. The remaining 97% percent of pregnancy-related services at Planned Parenthood were exclusively abortions.

Simultaneously, Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding has risen by 50% since 2013, making up 39% of total revenue at present ($792.2 million in 2024). By law, Medicaid reimbursements cannot cover abortions — so why is Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding rising year by year as abortions rise and general services fall?

Before the BBB’s passage, PPFA was growing increasingly dependent on taxpayer dollars.

Women do not need Planned Parenthood’s 500 (failing) abortion clinics.

A third marker of PPFA’s decline is its remaining clinics’ shocking health and safety conditions. The New York Times reported in another article that patients and PPFA staff alike are concerned about botched abortions, nerve-damaging IUD insertions, outdated and inadequate clinics, and frequent health code violations.

It appears that Planned Parenthood and its affiliates were a sinking ship well before talk of the BBB’s one-year defund provision. But with the bill’s passage, PPFA was quick to cast blame on the BBB.

PPFA even posted a doomsday message on Instagram: “Know what happens without Planned Parenthood Health Centers? Cancers go undetected. STIs go untreated. Birth Control is harder to get … and our communities lose needed public health safety nets.”

These claims, however, are false. Nineteen thousand federally qualified health centers — already funded by the government and available for Medicaid users — provide the general and sexual health care Planned Parenthood cannot. Women do not need Planned Parenthood’s 500 (failing) abortion clinics.

With abortions high, general services low, and a demonstrated dependency on taxpayer dollars, the BBB’s defund provision could bring large abortion providers like Planned Parenthood one step closer to closure.

For at least the next year, American taxpayers can rest easy knowing that their hard-earned dollars will not float a failing big abortion provider — and if PPFA takes a financial hit, the president’s One Big Beautiful Bill is not to blame for decades of pre-existing corporate decline.

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Two church shootings, a decade apart, received strikingly different treatment from America’s corporate media. The first occurred in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015. The second took place in Minneapolis just last week.

On June 18, 2015, CBS News reported:

A white man opened fire in a historic black church, in Charleston, South Carolina, the night of June 17, 2015, killing nine people, including a pastor, during a prayer meeting. The suspect, Dylann Roof, was arrested in North Carolina and extradited to South Carolina June 18, 2015, for what authorities are calling a hate crime.

On June 28, 2025, CBS News reported:

Two young children were killed and 18 others were injured in a shooting during a Catholic Mass packed with young students in south Minneapolis Wednesday morning. The shooter is also dead.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said the shooting triggered a massive law enforcement response to Annunciation Catholic Church at West 54th Street between Harriet and Garfield avenues around 8:30 a.m. The church is connected to a school building.

The shooter approached from the outside of the building and fired a rifle through the church windows toward children and worshippers. The shooter also used a shotgun and a pistol that he had legally purchased ‘recently,’ O’Hara said.

Both reports were written one day after the massacres. Both shooters were identified by that point. Yet the second account omitted key information about the shooter.

Establishment media needs to look at the facts — and report them. While they do, they should also look in the mirror.

What a shock when Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey used a press conference on the very day of the church massacre to pivot from murdered children to a lecture on transgender rights and gun control.

“I have heard about a whole lot of hate that’s being directed at our trans community,” Frey told reporters at an afternoon briefing.

He went on:

Anybody who is using this … as an opportunity to villainize our trans community, or any other community out there, has lost their sense of common humanity. We should not be operating out of a place of hate for anyone.

In truth, no one should be shocked by Frey’s diversion. This is the same mayor who let Minneapolis burn in 2020, which included the torching of a police station. His record of weakness is already clear.

And this year, he’s locked in a tough re-election fight against Omar Fateh, a bona fide democratic socialist. To survive, Frey is racing leftward, stooping to whatever level he thinks will protect his job.

The real revelation from his comments wasn’t his tired blame-shifting but his admission that the shooter identified as transgender — a fact establishment media has rushed to bury.

The killer, born Robert Westman, legally changed his name to Robin Westman in January 2020 at age 17. The petition states that he “identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification.”

Such details were not hidden for anyone willing to look. Hours before the massacre, Westman posted videos that exposed both his planning and his hatred.

In one, he flipped through pages of a handwritten manifesto laying out why he chose Annunciation — the Catholic church and school he had graduated from in 2017:

I am feeling good about Annunciation. It seems like a good combo of easy attack form and devastating tragedy and I want to do more research. I have concerns about finding a large enough group. I want to avoid any parents, but pre and post school drop off.

In another, Westman showed off his arsenal. His gun magazines bore hand-scrawled taunts, including the chilling phrase: “Where is your God?”

Basic facts become optional

Ten years ago, coverage of Charleston leaned heavily on words like “white” and “white supremacist.” Reporters stressed Dylann Roof’s race from the outset, and his racist motivations were treated as central to the story. That was fair. His ideology mattered, and his identity explained why he targeted a black church.

But why is the same standard not applied today?

RELATED: If ‘words are violence,’ why won’t the left own theirs?

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Westman was transgender. Court filings documented his legal name change to “Robin” and the reasons behind it. His own videos revealed a deeply disturbed mind, with specific plans to attack Annunciation and taunts of his victims scrawled on his weapons. These are facts. They belong in basic reporting. Including them doesn’t equate “transgender” with “deranged” any more than “white” equates to “white supremacist.”

Yet the difference in coverage is glaring. In Charleston, identity was headline news. In Minneapolis, it was buried. Everyone knows why. Westman’s story doesn’t serve the establishment narrative, so the press ignored it.

A reckoning for mainstream media

Journalism once prided itself on covering the unexpected — the classic “man bites dog.” That’s over. News today is about reinforcing narratives, not reporting facts.

Americans see through it. They know why trust in media sits at historic lows. They see newspapers hemorrhaging readers, network news losing viewers, and MSNBC shrinking into a dumb rebrand. The bias is obvious, the omission blatant, and the public is done playing along.

People usually know when they’re being lied to. They also know that half-truths amount to half-lies at best. The press pushed the Russia hoax with glee. They buried Hunter Biden’s laptop. They shielded the public from Joe Biden’s obvious cognitive decline.

The left depends on this cocoon. It shelters them from the clash between their mistaken beliefs and stubborn reality. And the establishment media — blind to their own collapse in credibility — gladly supply the insulation.

In Minneapolis, the slaughter of Catholic schoolchildren should have shattered the narrative. Instead, the media treated it like an inconvenience. They will glance at it briefly before memory-holing what doesn’t fit.

If they have any integrity left, they’ll face the facts — and face themselves. Because the real scandal isn’t just what they cover. It’s what they refuse to see.

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Snoop Dogg came under fire recently for criticizing LGBTQ content in kids’ films, complaining that during a recent trip to see “Lightyear” with his grandson, he had to explain why a child had two mothers.

Now, an apology that claims to be from Snoop Dogg has been going viral across the internet — but some are saying it’s fake.

According to Deadline, “Sources close to the rapper also told Deadline that the comments, which appeared to be made by Snoop’s verified Instagram account, were not written by anyone on his team either. ‘It is fake,’ an anonymous source told the outlet.”

However, BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock isn’t buying it.

“I think he backpedaled,” Whitlock tells BlazeTV contributor Shemeka Michelle. “I think he got blowback for backpedaling, and now he’s pretending like he didn’t do this or anyone on his team did this.”

“I definitely feel like he backpedaled,” Michelle agrees. “And I was expecting it. He backpedaled smoother than Michael Jackson doing the moonwalk. But I’m not surprised because we talked about this when the story first came out about him coming against Buzz Lightyear, that he would not stand ten toes down.”

“They never do. So I think that there was an apology, or he had someone put the story out to say, ‘I have gay people that are friends and family.’ This is what they always do,” she adds.

Whitlock points out that even if the apology was fake, Snoop Dogg is still a hypocrite.

“Snoop Dogg can make music that little kids listen to, know every word to, that grooms them and destroys them just as much as these Disney movies. And again, I’m sure someone pointed that out to him. It’s like, ‘What are you doing here, man? Your music is just as bad, and we can cancel you,’” Whitlock says.

“These fake, wannabe, politically incorrect, fake rebels, they don’t have a set of values that they actually stand on,” he continues. “And so it’s whatever will get them the most money, and Snoop has done what is financially expedient here.”

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I was out to dinner with my wife when my phone rang. The caller ID said “POTUS.” My wife muttered, “Oh, s**t.” President Donald Trump told me he wanted me to take care of three things: secure the border, run a mass deportation operation, and find hundreds of thousands of missing children. Those were his instructions when he offered me the job as his border czar.

As of today, we have the most secure border in the nation’s history. I don’t take credit for that. The credit goes to President Trump for signing the executive orders that ended catch-and-release, reinstated Remain in Mexico, and put into place the agreements and policies that worked. And the greatest credit belongs to the men and women of the United States Border Patrol, the finest I’ve ever met.

Every day I look at the numbers: criminals arrested, terrorists stopped, children rescued. It makes me proud — proud of ICE, proud of Border Patrol, and proud of the president who made it possible.

Under Trump, Border Patrol brought down illegal immigration more than 90% in just seven weeks — even faster than I thought possible. I expected it would take 120 days. That’s what happens when the men and women of Border Patrol are allowed to do their jobs.

A border crisis by design

For the last four years, I’ve been raising hell about the open border intentionally inflicted on this country by the Biden administration. This wasn’t mismanagement or incompetence. It was by design.

I know because I was there under President Barack Obama. Former President Joe Biden was vice president, and former Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas was deputy secretary. We faced a family surge back then. We stopped it by building family residential centers, detaining migrants until they saw a judge, and then deporting the 90% who lost their asylum claims. It worked.

But when Biden and Mayorkas returned to power, they did the opposite of what they knew worked. They refused to detain. They refused to let Immigration and Customs Enforcement do its job. They created chaos by design. Every day the border was open, women were raped, children died, families were trafficked, and terrorists slipped through. A harrowing 31% of women who cross the border through cartels are sexually assaulted. That’s horrendous.

Trump’s policies cut illegal immigration by 96%. That meant fewer rapes, fewer deaths, fewer trafficked children, and less fentanyl poisoning Americans. Trump’s policies saved thousands of lives every week. But you won’t hear that from the media.

Nothing about Biden’s border was humane

The Biden administration called itself humane. That’s a lie. Under Biden, a record number of migrants died — over 4,000. A quarter-million Americans died from fentanyl crossing an open border. Sex trafficking hit all-time highs. Cartels made record profits smuggling people and drugs.

Compare that to today: Trump’s secure border has reduced crossings from 10,000 to 15,000 a day under Biden to as few as 162 — all arrested, all returned, zero releases. That is a secure border.

Biden’s so-called humane approach killed more Americans and more migrants, and it enriched cartels. There is nothing humane about that.

Enforcing the law saves lives

ICE removals since January are approaching 400,000. About 70% of arrests are of criminals — and yes, DUI counts. Ten thousand Americans die every year from drunk drivers. The other arrests include gang members and even suspected terrorists. ICE is enforcing the laws Congress passed.

But sanctuary cities stand in the way. They release criminal aliens back into neighborhoods instead of handing them over to ICE. They call themselves “welcoming.” In reality, they are sanctuaries for criminals. Victims in immigrant communities don’t want predators back in their neighborhoods. Sanctuary politicians know this, but they put politics above safety.

So we’re flooding the zone. Chicago’s mayor said I wasn’t welcome. I went anyway. In one day, ICE arrested child predators, gang members, drug traffickers, and murderers. Chicago will be made safe again.

Attacks on ICE, silence on missing children

ICE agents are under attack like never before. Assaults against agents are up 1,000%. Their families are being doxxed. Members of Congress call them Nazis and racists, even though all they do is enforce the laws Congress wrote. It’s disgusting.

Trump also tasked me with finding hundreds of thousands of missing migrant children. It’s the hardest job, because kids don’t have digital footprints. We rely on the so-called sponsors who took them in — many with fake addresses. Too often, these children end up in sex trafficking or forced labor.

We’re trying to reunite kids with their parents. We even had agreements to return children safely to Guatemala. But liberal judges blocked us. These same people accuse Trump of family separation. Yet Biden’s failures have led to half a million separations and more than 300,000 missing children. Who are the real masters of family separation?

The stakes

Biden released millions into this country because he wanted to delay their hearings for years. Why? To buy time for amnesty and to gain political power through census reapportionment. That’s not just cynical — it’s selling out America.

Trump’s policies, by contrast, work because they follow the law. If you enter illegally, the law says you shall be detained. That law is saving lives today.

I took a pay cut to come back under Trump because I respect him as much as I respected my father. He’s not perfect — no man is — but when it comes to border security, there’s no one better.

RELATED: ‘I don’t give a s**t what people think about me’: Homan outlines Trump admin’s immigration enforcement wins

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Every day I look at the numbers: criminals arrested, terrorists stopped, children rescued. It makes me proud — proud of ICE, proud of Border Patrol, and proud of the president who made it possible.

To those agents on the front lines: Thank you. You are making this country safer every day.

And to the politicians, judges, and media who attack us: Shame on you. We’re not going anywhere.

Editor’s note: This article has been adapted from remarks delivered on Wednesday, September 3, at the fifth National Conservatism conference (NatCon 5) in Washington, D.C.

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President Donald Trump intends to restore the original name of the Department of Defense.

Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Friday that will designate the Department of War as the DOD’s secondary title, according to a White House fact sheet obtained by Fox News Digital. The change will also name Pete Hegseth the secretary of war.

‘Call the endless WARS what they are. And maybe then, we’ll finally put an end to this cycle.’

Further, the order seeks to make the alteration permanent by instructing Hegseth to propose legislative and executive actions. The Trump administration plans to update public-facing websites and the Pentagon’s office signage, a White House official told Fox News Digital.

The Department of War title was used for the United States’ military agency until 1949.

“We won WWI, and we won WWII, not with the Department of Defense, but with a War Department, with the Department of War,” Hegseth told “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday. “As the president has said, we’re not just defense, we’re offense.”

RELATED: Tim Kaine trying to weasel a ban on Hegseth changing base names into the military budget

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“We’ve re-established at the Department the warrior ethos. We want warriors, folks that understand how to exact lethality on the enemy,” he continued. “We don’t want endless contingencies and just playing defense. We think words and names and titles matter. So we’re working with the White House and the president on it. Stand by.”

Trump told reporters last week that the name change was imminent.

“We’re just going to do it,” Trump declared. “I’m sure Congress will go along if we need that. I don’t think we even need that.”

RELATED: Congress must kill DEI before it kills our military readiness

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Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck reacted to Trump’s plans to change the agency’s name.

“Renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War would remind both the world and OURSELVES what our tax dollars are funding: Bombs will be dropped. Our children will die. I think that’s what Trump is trying to do. Call the endless WARS what they are. And maybe then, we’ll finally put an end to this cycle,” Beck wrote in a post on social media.

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A massive announcement from the surgeon general of Florida, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, is turning the vaccine-obsessed world as Americans know it completely upside down.

That is, that all vaccine mandates will be eliminated in Florida.

“What I’m most excited about is an announcement that we’re going to make, that we’re making now, which is that the Florida Department of Health, in partnership with the governor, is going to be working to end all vaccine mandates in Florida law,” Ladapo announced.

“All of them. All of them,” he repeated to overwhelming cheers. “Every last one of them.”

“Every last one of them,” he emphasized. “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery, okay? Who am I, as a government, or anyone else, to tell you what you should put in your body? Who am I to tell you what your child should put in your body? I don’t have that right. Your body, your body is a gift from God.”

“What you put into your body is because of your relationship with your body and your God. I don’t have that right. Government does not have that right. They want you to believe they have that right. And unfortunately, you know, they’ve been successful,” he added.

BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler is thoroughly impressed.

“Dr. Ladapo, it sounds almost revolutionary to hear a public health official speak like this, because most of them don’t,” she tells Ladapo.

“I mean, tell me what this means. Does this mean even for public schools there will be no vaccine requirements for children to attend?” she asks.

“Society’s gotten people to believe that, ‘Oh, actually, you know, governments do have that right.’ They don’t have that right. They don’t have that right. It’s time to reclaim that right. That’s a right from God who gave us our bodies, these vessels that house our souls. So, yes, public schools, absolutely, everything,” Ladapo answers.

“It’s just an unethical policy inherently,” he adds.

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Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz, a detention center established to expand bed capacity for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has been engaged in a persistent legal battle but achieved a significant victory on Thursday afternoon.

‘It is entirely unclear to us, moreover, how the district court concluded that it could order the proactive dismantling of the Facility by way of a mandatory preliminary injunction.’

Kathleen M. Williams, a federal judge in Miami, ruled last month that no additional detainees could be housed at Alligator Alcatraz and required it to be dismantled within 60 days.

In a 2-1 vote on Thursday, a panel of judges with the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta blocked Williams’ ruling to shut down the facility. The ruling allows the detention center to remain open.

Environmental groups have argued that the facility, which opened in July and is located in the Florida Everglades, should have been subject to federal environmental reviews.

However, Alligator Alcatraz is a state-operated facility, and Florida has not received federal reimbursements for its operation.

RELATED: Florida makes one thing absolutely clear after Obama judge orders teardown of Alligator Alcatraz

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“It is entirely unclear to us, moreover, how the district court concluded that it could order the proactive dismantling of the Facility by way of a mandatory preliminary injunction,” Judge Barbara Lagoa wrote for the majority. “It is wholly unreasonable to conclude from the naked assurances of politicians and lawyers that the Facility is federally funded when not only is the record devoid of credible evidence that a legally binding payment decision has been made, but the record undisputedly contradicts that finding.”

RELATED: Trump admin expands ICE detention space into notorious state prison

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier called the latest ruling “a win for Florida and President Trump’s agenda!”

“The 11th Circuit not only blocked Judge Williams’ order to close Alligator Alcatraz, but they blocked her from proceeding with the case until the appeal is complete,” he wrote in a post on social media.

Governor Ron DeSantis (R) declared that the “mission continues at Alligator Alcatraz” and celebrated the overturned ruling of “leftist judge” Williams.

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The husband of Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat who advocates ensuring corporations “pay their fair share,” previously owned a company that reportedly owed money to the IRS.

Tim Mynett, Omar’s husband, and William R. Hailer, Mynett’s business partner, operated EStreetCo, an advertising, design, and public relations business that dissolved in June 2022, according to a Thursday report from the Washington Free Beacon.

‘The company has no outstanding tax obligations from the COVID era; in fact, we have a balance due to us.’

A document obtained by the news outlet revealed that in 2023, after the company’s dissolution, the IRS filed a lien for nearly $206,000 in unpaid income, Social Security, and Medicare taxes.

Omar announced in February that she introduced an amendment in the House Budget Committee to “make corporations pay their fair share.” The representative has opposed Republicans’ budget resolution, calling it “a blueprint for American decline.”

“Let’s be clear: They want to exploit your labor, take your tax dollars, and gut your earned benefits — all to bankroll tax cuts for their wealthy friends and donors. They want to increase your health care costs — while Elon Musk and his friends hoard even more wealth,” Omar said in February during a speech on the House floor.

RELATED: Here are the top 3 LEAST patriotic members of Congress

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The Free Beacon noted that Omar’s personal wealth is as much as $30 million. In a 2021 financial disclosure, she described EStreetCo as a “creative agency,” claiming that her husband’s share in the firm was worth $1,000 or less.

The news outlet reported that the Sonoma County recorder does not have any record that the IRS released its lien against EStreetCo.

RELATED: Trump derangement final boss: Ilhan Omar claims Somalia is better than America

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However, a spokesperson for EStreetCo told Blaze News, “The company has no outstanding tax obligations from the COVID era; in fact, we have a balance due to us.” Documents provided by the spokesperson showed that the IRS owed the company approximately $3,000 as of September 3, 2025.

A representative for Omar did not respond to a request for comment.

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Police Scotland has charged a man and a woman in connection with the young, axe-wielding Scottish girl who went viral online.

In late August, a 12-year-old Scottish girl was charged with possessing weapons after online rumors swirled that she was fending off a migrant man. She was seen brandishing an axe and a large knife on video.

The following week, both the accused immigrant and an alleged witness spoke out, providing conflicting accounts of the events in St Ann Lane, Dundee, Scotland.

Now, police have laid subsequent charges.

‘They are thankful that everyone now knows the truth.’

In a statement to Blaze News, Police Scotland said, “Following extensive enquiries, a man and a woman have been charged in connection with an incident in St Ann Lane in Dundee, which was reported around 7:40 p.m. on Saturday, 23 August, 2025.”

The statement added, “The circumstances will be reported to the Procurator Fiscal,” otherwise known as Scotland’s public prosecutor.

Police Scotland also said the 12-year-old girl who was previously charged for “being in possession of offensive weapons” will be referred to the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration, a government body that decides whether a child needs legal intervention from the state.

“Members of the public are again urged not to share misinformation about this incident or speculate on the circumstances,” the statement concluded.

The new charges seemingly confirm allegations made in a witness testimony, as well as claims made online by a reporter who claims to have been in communication with the 12-year-old’s family.

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Fatos Ali Dumana, the accused 21-year-old Bulgarian immigrant, had previously told the Daily Mail, “If I did hurt the girl, why didn’t the police arrest me? They have done nothing to me.”

He added, “They saw from the CCTV cameras from Farmfoods that she was stopping me go on my way to the shop.”

Dumana also alleged that another bystander witnessed him being attacked and labeled a “f**king migrant.”

“I did not hit them. I am a human, not an animal,” he added.

At the same time, a TikTok user named Mayah, 13, said in a video testimony that she witnessed the incident personally. Mayah said she was with two sisters, Ruby, 13, and Lola, 12, the latter of whom was allegedly subjected to inappropriate remarks from a strange man.

As the altercation escalated, the alleged witness claimed that the man’s sister attacked Ruby, causing head injuries and sending her to the hospital with a concussion.

“She has a severe concussion and swelling inside of her head,” Mayah said.

It was at that point Lola allegedly brandished the weapons in an effort to protect her sister.

Neither Dumana’s nor Mayah’s testimonies have benefited from any further proof from witnesses, CCTV, or evidence from police, but an independent reporter — who says he has spoken with the family — now says he has concrete evidence to go along with the newly laid charges.

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A reporter going by the online moniker Aesthetica claims to have been in contact with Lola’s family and even to have helped her mother, Elaine Thomson, start a fundraiser.

Aesthetica told Blaze News exclusively that Police Scotland “confirmed to the family” that “Fatos Ali Dumana and his sister were the two people charged.”

Police Scotland said they had “nothing further to add” when asked by Blaze News for the names, ages, and/or nationalities of the two adults who were charged. They also neither confirmed nor denied if Dumana was the man who was charged.

Blaze News also reached out to Dumana for comment about the alleged charges and the claims made by Aesthetica, but did not receive a reply.

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Reporter Aesthetica provided an alleged hospital document to Blaze News, purported to be from Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, Scotland. The document is an attempt to prove that Ruby sought medical aid from injuries stemming from the altercation.

The document is addressed to a person with the alleged last name of Ruby and Lola. It shows treatment was provided for a “diagnosis” of a “head injury — concussion.”

The photo also shows the examination was done to a “female, accompanied by mum,” with a head injury again listed. The document said the patient attended the emergency room at 8:11 p.m. on August 23, 2025. This would be approximately 31 minutes following the incident described by police. The patient was discharged at 9:44 p.m.

“The hospital document was sent to Elaine Thomson, Lola and Ruby’s mother, which was sent to [Mayah’s mother], who sent it to me,” Aesthetica explained to Blaze News.

The family has declined to speak publicly, out of fear of public backlash and for their own safety, according to Aesthetica. However, the reporter told Blaze News that the family is “relieved that their names have finally been cleared.”

He added, “They are thankful that everyone now knows the truth and that they’ve been telling the truth the entire time.”

The fundraiser has garnered approximately $120,000 at the time of this writing.

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