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Since the COVID-19 pandemic, a growing network of nongovernmental organizations, politicians, and corporations have pushed for sweeping global health initiatives. They lobby for massive funding, insisting it will prevent the next international health crisis.

Groups such as the World Health Organization, the Gates Foundation, and the U.S. government have saturated the media with calls for “equity” and “preparedness.” Together, they established the Pandemic Fund — a financial pool designed to channel money into their shared vision of global health management.

It takes little imagination to see how a fund directed by Gates-linked institutions could steer money — intentionally or not — toward companies in which he holds a stake.

According to its website, the Pandemic Fund “finances critical investments to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response capacities at national, regional, and global levels, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries.” In practice, it serves as a central clearinghouse for governments, NGOs, and business coalitions to move money under the banner of “health security.”

The funds flow to “implementing entities” such as the World Bank; the WHO; Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; and UNICEF. These organizations, in turn, decide how the investments are distributed — and to whom. Each claims to act on behalf of public health, but their reach and influence often extend far beyond medicine into politics, surveillance, and control.

Convenient ambiguity

Who actually gets paid to implement these objectives? What do “surveillance” and “prevention” mean in practice? How is “preparedness” measured? Which corporations manage the process, and whose services are contracted for the lab upgrades? None of these questions has a straight answer. The fund’s language reads like a bureaucratic fog — dense, opaque, and unaccountable.

What the Pandemic Fund does provide is a clear list of donors: the United States, the Gates Foundation, and several European governments. It also highlights 47 active projects spanning 75 countries.

What it doesn’t provide is equally telling. The site omits the names of officials who manage the money in each country, the ownership of the laboratories, and the companies installing the surveillance systems. Even the identities of those delivering “medical support” remain concealed behind the veil of “global cooperation.”

Conflicts of interest

Beyond its opacity, the Pandemic Fund is riddled with conflicts of interest. The Gates Foundation ranks among its largest institutional donors, while Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, acts as an “implementing entity” responsible for distributing those same funds.

Gavi’s own website acknowledges that the Gates Foundation was both a founding partner and a seed donor, contributing $750 million at its launch in 2000. That relationship alone should raise questions. Gavi now helps allocate the Pandemic Fund’s grants, meaning one of its original funders plays a direct role in deciding where new money goes.

The potential conflicts run deeper. Bill Gates has invested heavily in Moderna and BioNTech, two of the world’s leading mRNA vaccine manufacturers. The Gates Foundation funded Moderna’s early mRNA work, and public records show that Gates himself owns more than 1 million shares of BioNTech, which partnered with Pfizer to produce the COVID-19 vaccine.

It takes little imagination to see how a fund directed by Gates-linked institutions could steer money — intentionally or not — toward companies in which he holds a stake.

The web of influence extends into policy enforcement. The World Health Organization’s director-general oversees the International Health Regulations, a global framework that allows governments to impose quarantine, testing, or vaccination requirements during declared health emergencies. The United States accepted the IHR in 2005 but rejected the most recent amendments adopted in 2024, formally withdrawing from those obligations in July of this year.

Even so, the structure remains in place. If Washington — or any other government — adopted tighter compliance measures, it could channel money from the Pandemic Fund to purchase vaccines and “countermeasures.” Pharmaceutical companies would profit handsomely from policies that treat mass vaccination as the first and only line of defense. The more the world relies on vaccines as a universal solution, the more secure the profits for investors like Gates.

The Gates Foundation’s influence doesn’t stop at funding or investment. It appears on the WHO’s list of official “non-state actors,” a category that allows direct collaboration on projects and participation in committee meetings. In other words, the foundation helps set global health standards and then funds the programs that enforce them.

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American taxpayers foot the bill

At the end of the chain, American taxpayers pay for it all. Washington’s seemingly benevolent $700 million “donation” to the Pandemic Fund comes straight from the U.S. Treasury. Every dollar funneled into this global health consortium began as someone’s paycheck.

In practice, the fund operates less like a charity and more like a taxpayer-financed slush fund for international health bureaucrats and private interests. The U.S. government collects money from citizens, passes it through the fund, and watches as the Gates Foundation, the WHO, and their network of NGOs redirect it to vaccine manufacturers, foreign governments, and organizations with which they maintain deep financial and institutional ties.

This system of influence moves wealth in one direction — up and out. Money leaves the hands of American workers and flows to a global health elite that hides behind the language of “pandemic prevention.” The slogans of safety and preparedness disguise a network that rewards insiders and deepens the dependence it claims to end.

Congress and federal auditors need to dig into where this money actually goes and who profits from it. Americans deserve to know whether their taxes support genuine public health or line the pockets of the same institutions that cashed in during the last pandemic.

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Is there anything more off-putting than a tech founder who concern-trolls himself — warning with deep seriousness that the things he’s doing are actually quite troubling and we all need to get serious about passing laws that will mitigate their consequences before disaster strikes?

I don’t know — I don’t want to know! — but one related instance currently going viral highlights why it’s worse than a mere turnoff. In a heartfelt cry for help, Jack Clark, a co-founder of Anthropic, one of the leading AI companies, posted a long warning about how dangerous his frontier technology really is and how it’s our responsibility to take action to remedy that.

“Make no mistake: what we are dealing with is a real and mysterious creature, not a simple and predictable machine,” he writes.

“In fact, some people are even spending tremendous amounts of money to convince you of this — that’s not an artificial intelligence about to go into a hard takeoff, it’s just a tool. … It’s just a machine, and machines are things we master.” To the contrary, he insists that “what we are dealing with is a real and mysterious creature, not a simple and predictable machine,” one that, despite his optimism about AI’s benefits, leaves him “deeply afraid.”

There’s only one thing that can justify human existence over and above that of the most powerful tools we can build.

Now, it is notable that Anthropic has a certain reputation. David Sacks, the White House AI and crypto chief, posted in response that the company “is running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering. It is principally responsible for the state regulatory frenzy that is damaging the startup ecosystem.”

In fact, as the New York Post recently reported, Anthropic is on a “collision” course with the Trump administration due to its deep, elite connections with the left-wing political machine, ranging from previous administrations to the Ford Foundation, one of the so-called “nongovernmental organizations” the White House has blamed in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination for fomenting and funding political violence.

But worse, in a sense, are Anthropic’s links to effective altruism, a cultlike Silicon Valley movement whose brushes with large-scale fraud (in the FTX scandal starring Sam Bankman-Fried) and polyamory have led even eccentric and controversial figures like Sam Altman to raise red flags. As former FTC chief technologist and Abundance Institute AI policy head Neil Chilson has explained, today EA figures are best known for pushing extraordinary crackdowns on AI development, ranging from “authoritarian” policy responses to literally calling in the airstrikes on AI data centers, an approach driven by their insistence that runaway AI is an apocalyptic development sure to wipe out humanity unless we collectively act first.

To be clear, Anthropic’s founders have distanced themselves from EA in public remarks, and Clark’s recommendations do not include anything like nuking AI from orbit just to be sure. In fact, he should be commended for his call to listen more to “labor groups, social groups, and religious leaders” on the subject of our future relationship with our most powerful technologies.

But there is no escaping the fact that the ultimate goal behind the alarm raised by Anthropic’s leadership and the EA network sharing its orbit is to take coordinated global legal action to pervasively restrict and dictate the course of technological development from the very highest level on down. This is something many Americans instinctively reject, whatever their fears or concerns about AI might be. It is easy to see how such an approach would disregard the Constitution right out of the box. But the appeal being made is to higher-scale principles and powers than the Constitution’s or the American people’s. And ultimately, in this context, weaving in the “voices” of “stakeholders” across various “communities” is merely a means to that end, a diversitarian stamp of moral legitimacy that, as a core part of DEI’s use as an algorithm to create a new global governance regime, has already worn out its welcome.

So what do we do?

I would hardly characterize myself as a “religious leader,” but the fact is that very few Christians have spent recent years working seriously across the interrelated fields of tech theory and practice, and in that capacity I do want to offer a perspective that can prove useful to cutting through the increasingly intractable and fruitless debates between “nones” who love (or even worship) AI and “nones” who hate (or even want to destroy) it.

The overarching problem posed by the Anthropic controversy is that people who do not believe that our given human being is sacred really can’t be trusted with legal control over the technology they think is going to obliterate our humanity — because they fail to understand that no law can ever save us from destroying ourselves regardless of how much technology has advanced in any particular direction, and they fail to grasp that we will continuously destroy ourselves in ever more feverish ways the more we reject God’s own message that He created us in an act of love so great that our relationship to Him is familial, calling us to reciprocate that love and act toward one another accordingly.

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There’s only one thing that can justify human existence over and above that of the most powerful tools we can build. Only one thing that can justify our authority and control over those tools. Nature, reason, philosophy, myth, story, legend, ethics, ideology, rights, might … none of these suffice any more.

The only thing that will do is faithful belief in the truth of the Christian anthropology: that our given human form, including its visible and invisible parts, is sacred in the highest — for we were given that form, as the consummation and microcosm of all creation, because of how unfathomably the immeasurably supreme God loved and loves us, individually and together, even unto the degree that we can and must call Him not just Lord or Master, but Father, so that we can freely return His complete and total love with our own.

Nothing else will hold the line against occultism, obscurantism, destitution, servitude, profanation, disenchantment, and despair in the realm of AI or any other technology capable, if pushed, of simulating the human person and the human soul to the point of complete deception and delusion.

It just so happens that “we” have pushed technology to a degree that this uncomfortable truth about what justifies our existence (as it always has) is coming ever more starkly and inarguably out into the open.

Of course, a lot of people really don’t want this to be true, for all the endless reasons and rationales we are all extremely familiar with. You would think that the revelation of “this one weird trick” would cause waves of relief to spread joyously across the world, but no. The most prominent reactions are from those who would rather flee into the underground catacombs or dive into the black hole of the Borg.

These foolish attempts at a hasty solution will not just fail you as a person; they will fail the many, many millions desperately thirsting to be trustably, authoritatively led into the more strenuous and tension-filled but more peaceful and beautiful middle way between the two great negational temptations.

Abandoning the people and the devil take the hindmost 300 million-plus is a poor way of loving one’s fellow creatures so beloved by God that in them He commands us to see His very self. Obey the commandments (Matthew 22:37-40) with discernment, patience, discipline, humility, loving-kindness, and long-suffering, and we can have “nice things” like technological advancement and flourishing communities and so forth. Seek ye first the kingdom, and the rest will follow.

Seek ye other stuff — such as a simulation so powerful that there, all experience and memory of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are obliterated, and the rest will follow from that.

Start in your heart

This is emphatically NOT about attacking or debunking or destroying other faiths, doctrines, ideologies, wishes, passions, agendas, or anything else. The time has come to deny pride of place to blaming the other instead of the self, to fixating on what the other says or does instead of what lurks within and issues forth from one’s own heart (Matthew 15:18-20).

This is about the urgency of taking up the calm and quiet invitation to pursue an active, affirmative path that unlocks the kind of future so many thirst for and even say they want. It’s so simple. It doesn’t require anything of us that can’t be done by just about any person, regardless of place or time. I like to “joke” that “Interstellar” is a movie about how men will literally shoot themselves into a black hole instead of going to church. It’s not a joke, of course. That temptation, right to the very limit of sanity and imagination, is always there somewhere, lurking in our hearts, ever since the Fall.

Drawing near to your fellow man, drawing near to God, is often painful, scary, “destabilizing,” unpredictable, laborious, costly, and hard to explain or even understand in hindsight. Yet it is essential — it is of the very essence of who we are.

No attempt to escape or replace this experience, no matter how grandiose, all-consuming, or incomprehensible, can lead us to any solution to our deeply human problems, especially in a golden age, where some such problems not only persist but grow acute: monstrous, menacing, overwhelming, to the point where we must realize, as we must realize now, that where we are going there are no solutions, only salvation — not by any merely human creation, but by our all-good, holy, and life-giving Creator.

​Tech, Culture, Faith 

The three major candidates for New York City’s mayor’s office debated each other on Thursday in a heated exchange that lasted two hours and covered many of the most important issues plaguing the Big Apple.

Former Democrat New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent, hammered away at Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdami as an extremist who is unprepared and inexperienced, while Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa came at both from the right and tried to claw away more time and attention.

‘I try to avoid yellow cabs; as you know, I was shot in the back of a yellow cab in 1992 by the Gottis and Gambinos. But I find my way around. If I have to, I Uber.’

President Donald Trump became a pivotal figure in the debate that differentiated the positions of the three candidates. When asked how they would deal with the president’s threats to pull funding from the city, Sliwa said he would negotiate with Trump, while Cuomo said he would oppose Trump and Mamdani accused him of not fighting enough.

Sliwa, who gained fame as the head of the Guardian Angels, ripped into both of his opponents for going easy on crime and had one anecdote that stunned debate-watchers. When the candidates were asked which form of transportation they chose apart from the subway, Mamdani said a bicycle, Cuomo responded that he called a taxi, and Sliwa said he was shot by the mafia.

“I try to avoid yellow cabs; as you know, I was shot in the back of a yellow cab in 1992 by the Gottis and Gambinos,” he said. “But I find my way around. If I have to, I Uber, if i can’t get there by mass transit.”

Mamdani advocated for free bus fare on the basis that it would reduce attacks on bus drivers.

Crime was a big issue in the debate, and Sliwa made it clear that he was endorsing pro-law-enforcement policies, in contrast to Cuomo and Mamdani. Cuomo accused Mamdani of endorsing police-defunding policies and calling cops “racist,” while Mamdani distanced himself from his old statements and instead took a shot at Cuomo, claiming he sent “seniors to their death in nursing homes” as governor in 2020.

Mamdani advocated for mental health workers to respond to mental illness calls rather than police, to which Sliwa objected vehemently.

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Mamdani tried to position himself as a solution to the broken system in New York City politics.

“I have the experience of having served in the New York State Assembly for five years and watching a broken political system,” he said, “the experience of seeing a governor in Andrew Cuomo who would rather have served his billionaire donors than the working-class New Yorkers who voted for him.”

Cuomo accused Mamdani of wanting to legalize prostitution, which Mamdani denied, after which Sliwa accused both of trying to decriminalize prostitution.

Sliwa was clearly frustrated that the moderators were far more interested in giving time to Mamdani and Cuomo, and he interrupted to get more time in the limelight.

He also proposed the cessation of taxes for older Americans under a certain income level as a part of his “improve, not move” policy solutions.

On immigration, Sliwa took a moderate position that claimed that America needs hard workers while also saying that illegal aliens need to be deported. Mamdani was predictably angry about federal immigration operations and said he would oppose them.

When the question came to the economy, Cuomo hammered away at Mamdani’s socialist policies and tried to make himself appear as friendly to capitalism as possible. Sliwa said that toothpaste shouldn’t be locked up, but that criminals should be locked up.

Ultimately, each candidate was disciplined enough to do what he needed to do — Cuomo attacked Mamdani’s extremism, Mamdani tried to appear as reasonable as possible, and Sliwa tried to get as much attention as possible.

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The entire debate can be viewed on the YouTube channel of WNBC-TV.

Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani posted his endorsement after the debate on social media.

“Curtis Sliwa is a New Yorker through and through. He knows this city — and its neighborhoods — better than almost anyone alive. If New Yorkers pay attention and wake up, they’ll elect this good man as their next mayor. He has my total and complete endorsement,” he wrote.

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We have a crisis of trashy public “art,” and sculpture is one of the main offenders. More on this below; I have to buffer your reading experience with a reminder of actual beauty before we dive to the bottom of the aesthetic dumpster.

When I was 8 years old, my grandmother gave me a small hardback book of Greek mythology. I can’t remember the title. It was written in the 1940s and probably used as a textbook or primer for college-level courses.

They say that some children have a face only a mother can love, but not even the father of that piece could look at it and see anything but a gargoyle at hell’s check-in kiosk.

It smelled exactly as you’re imagining right now: that scent of a 20th-century quality-bound book from the library stacks. Though only about seven inches by four inches, it had onionskin pages like a Bible, and there must have been 900 of them.

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Set in stone

The book always fell open to the same page because I always looked at that one. There was a black-and-white photograph of Bernini’s bust of Medusa. It fascinated me, and only later did I realize that the figure of Medusa drew me so powerfully, in part, because my mother was a gorgon.

But it wasn’t just that. The detail and life Bernini infused into stone took my breath away. How could a piece of marble be made so like a human face that we try to divine the emotion in the carved eyes?

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Have you seen the statuary of veiled figures? They offer the most incredible illusion of the Virgin behind a gossamer veil of the thinnest translucent silk. To look at a statue like this is to feel a glimmer of the divine. And this example, the Veiled Virgin, was carved in the 19th century. This means that until fairly recently, there were still skilled sculptors who have earned the title “artist.”

So what the hell is this?

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Brucille

I can tell you what it is not: Lucille Ball. It appears to be a bronze casting of Brucille Lall, Lucy’s evil trans-identifying cousin. Who could believe that the figure is offering Vitameatavegamin, when it’s obviously liquid arsenic? “Just like candy” indeed.

The sculptor behind the piece (the late David Poulin), which was installed in the comedy legend’s hometown in 2015 to honor her, gave up his craft after the negative public reaction. He complained to local media that he was tired of being razzed for a statue that was “not one of my best works.”

Well? They say that some children have a face only a mother can love, but not even the father of that piece could look at it and see anything but a gargoyle at hell’s check-in kiosk.

You have to ask: What possessed the city government in Celoron, New York, to pretend that this is normal? Is it the sunk-cost fallacy? Is it embarrassment at wasting money on a figure that has sent local children to long-term therapy?

Hug it out

Whatever motivates this behavior was probably also at work in Boston when it commissioned and placed this atrocity downtown. Called the Embrace, this bronze oversized … whatever … allegedly depicts a hug between Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King.

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Take it in. If it helps, you can let Boston Mayor Michelle Wu explain to you how this piece “differs from the singular, heroic form of many memorials to Dr. King and others, instead emphasizing the power of collective action, the role of women as leaders, and the forging of new bonds of solidarity out of mutual empathy and vulnerability.”

Or, like one local Reddit commenter, you can just trust your own eyes: “Could have been something amazing but instead we get a somewhat pornographic bronze turd.”

This turd, the work of a successful black artist named Hank Willis Thomas, beat out 125 other designs. Thomas says he didn’t want to “oversimplify” MLK’s legacy by proposing something that actually looked like him.

Sure. Or maybe he figured his best chance to win was to submit something so bizarre and off-putting that the judges would have no choice but to mistake it for brilliance. And why not? Liberal white people (like the billionaire entrepreneur who spearheaded the project) love to demonstrate their sophistication by praising provocatively ugly and incompetent art — especially if it allows them to take credit for supporting “diversity.”

Less impressed by the Embrace was a cousin of Coretta Scott King, who simply called it “an atrocity.”

Monumental entitlement

Dismembering your subjects so that only a grotesque pair of floating limbs remains is one way to make a name for yourself as a public artist. Another way is to dispense with the tired notion that only people who have accomplished something should get a statue.

That’s the approach of black British sculptor Thomas J. Price, who specializes in oversized monuments to mean-looking, fat black women who appear to be waiting to speak to the manager.

Here’s Grounded in the Stars, the 12-foot bronze sculpture Price installed in Times Square last spring.

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You see, what Price is doing here is “challeng[ing] historical notions of representation in NYC’s most iconic public space.” Oh. Someone better tell the many black women who find the statue “humiliating” and “insulting.”

Another recent piece by Price is a 13-foot statue of a surly-looking young black woman holding her cell phone out in classic I’m-going-to-treat-this-crowded-bus-like-my-living-room-and-have-this-annoyingly-loud-conversation-on-speaker posture. (Credit where it’s due — that does indeed capture the entitlement of many women today.)

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But is putting it in Florence’s Piazza della Signoria alongside classical and Renaissance sculpture really “a significant conversation with the canons and aesthetic models that have defined the history of Western art for centuries”? Or is it just another big, resentful middle finger to “whiteness” and its oppressive standards of beauty?

Simply the worst

But wait — there’s more! The latest insult to black womanhood is a grotesque tribute to the legendary Tina Turner, who died in 2023. It must be seen to be believed.

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You know this is the work of a black artist because any white person creating such a monstrosity would immediately be charged with a hate crime. Fred Ajanogha (“also known as ‘Ajano’”) is an Atlanta-based “master sculptor” who works in the storied “Benin Bronze” tradition of his native Nigeria.

Making a sculpture with this ancient wax-casting technique does indeed require a certain mastery. What it doesn’t require, apparently, is any sort of reference photo of Ms. Turner.

Do admit — it looks like he gave the legendary singer Down syndrome, as well as hair lifted directly from the McDonaldland Fry Guys.

This Trisomy Tina now graces Turner’s small Tennessee hometown. Fan’s of Turner’s song “Nutbush City Limits” know it as a pleasant community full of proud locals intent on keeping it that way. They make sure it’s clean. They don’t allow motorcycles or liquor.

Most of all, they don’t tolerate any out-of-towners disrupting things with their dumb, big-city ideas. “You have to watch what you’re puttin’ down.” Unfortunately, it looks like times have changed, even in old Nutbush.

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A Texas man was mauled to death by his own dogs despite the help of a neighbor who tried to stab at the dogs with a machete, police said.

The horrific incident unfolded at the home of Jose “Eddie” Padron Castillo on Louisiana Avenue in Bacliff, an unincorporated area near Galveston, according to his neighbor.

‘He was crying, pleading, pleading and crying. … That dog was not letting go.’

Jesus Excontitta told KHOU-TV that he rushed to help the 45-year-old and hacked away at the dogs, but they would not let go of their owner, who was pleading for help.

“It was just a horrific experience, for sure. I’ve never seen anything like that before,” Excontitta said.

“He was crying, pleading, pleading and crying, and I’m just, ‘Sorry, Eddie,’ and stabbing the dog and poking and poking and poking, slicing him, slicing him and poking him, poking him,” Excontitta said. “That dog was not letting go.”

The KHOU report described the dogs as pit bulls.

Neighbors said that Castillo was trying to keep his dogs from attacking passersby on a golf cart when they turned on him in his driveway. Excontitta ran over with a machete to help him but said that the machete broke during the incident. He had to run back and grab a butcher knife.

The Galveston County Sheriff’s Office said the attack did not stop until a deputy responded and shot one of the dogs.

Castillo was rushed to a hospital in Clear Lake but was later pronounced dead.

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The two dogs were euthanized. Other police arrived at the home apparently to try to find a third dog.

“The dogs grew up with him, you know what I mean?” Excontitta added. “They’ve always been fed, fed good, and I don’t know why something like this would happen.”

Neighbors in the area told KHOU that they avoided going near Castillo’s residence because of his dogs.

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The whangdoodles are at it again — raging on X, posting grainy photos of World War II soldiers, and proclaiming, “Grandpa was Antifa!”

Because, you see, Grandpa fought Hitler. Or Hirohito. Or Mussolini. They were fascists, Grandpa was anti-fascist, and since “anti-fascist” shortens to “Antifa,” presto — Grandpa was Antifa.

What these self-styled internet historians are doing is a digital form of stolen valor. … Grandpa would be appalled.

Right.

Before scourging the ignorant cockwombles pounding keyboards across the internet, let’s define what fascism actually meant.

What fascism meant

Beyond the obvious militarism of Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hirohito’s Japan, the fascist regimes of the 20th century shared three defining traits. First, a top-down command economy controlled by a central planning body. Second, an integrated industrial and banking system. Third, a relatively homogeneous population under rigid state control.

Now ask yourself: Does the United States fit that mold? No central economic planning agency, no state-directed industrial-banking complex (ask the Fed and the Securities and Exchange Commission), and certainly no single, homogeneous racial population.

What we do have is an ever-multiplying swarm of willfully obtuse, historically illiterate useful idiots eager to join whatever digital mob happens to be trending this week.

The kind who think “being a furry” is a lifestyle choice worth defending.

You know — morons.

Grandpa fought for the Constitution

Among them are the smug keyboard warriors who post their grandfather’s old war photo without knowing a thing about his unit, his history, or the weapon he lugged across Europe — a Thompson M1A1 submachine gun chambered in .45 ACP.

These same people casually toss Grandpa’s honorable service into the same slime bucket as the modern-day anarcho-communists who call themselves “Antifa.” They hijack his image to dignify an extremist movement that despises everything he swore to defend.

Grandpa honored and fought under the American flag. Antifa burns it. They literally call it a “fascist symbol.”

Grandpa didn’t fight for a slogan. He fought for the Constitution. He raised his right hand and swore an oath — to protect and defend the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. If that meant bombing Tojo’s Japan, invading Hitler’s Germany, or crushing Mussolini’s Italy, so be it.

RELATED: Antifa isn’t ‘anti-fascist’ — it’s anti-freedom and anti-God

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Generations after him have sworn the same oath. Those men fought communism in Korea and Vietnam, and later took the fight to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and, after 9/11, to al-Qaeda and ISIS across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa.

Stolen valor for the hashtag age

What these self-styled internet historians are doing is a digital form of stolen valor. They wrap themselves in the virtue of men who actually faced fire, men who earned their medals the hard way — not with a post and a hashtag.

Grandpa would be appalled at his grandkids’ ignorance.

But give it time. Some nimrod, eager for another viral hit, will post a photo of his dad in Afghanistan with the caption: “Dad was intersectional.”

And the whangdoodles will cheer — none the wiser, and none the braver.

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If the show “The View” isn’t paid for by advertising from pharmaceutical companies, you’d never know, because they defend vaccines with a tenacity that can only be rivaled by the manufacturers themselves.

And in a recent interview with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s wife, Cheryl Hines, the panel could not have fought harder in favor of those pharmaceutical companies — never once grazing the truth despite minutes of speaking over Hines.

“You know, Cheryl, it’s not fair to really put you on the spot about him because you’re his wife. I know that. But when you say that they are pro-vaccine, it seems as though Bobby and Trump are casting doubt on the efficacy of the vaccine, which makes Americans very nervous,” co-host Joy Behar said.

“So, that’s the problem that we’re having,” she added.

“It’s interesting because I don’t know if you saw ‘60 Minutes’ just did a piece about the vaccine injury compensation program. So, people that have had vaccine injuries can be compensated if they can prove it. And they have paid out $5.4 billion for vaccine injuries,” Hines replied.

“So, my question is, can we do better?” she asked.

“Is it all vaccines or just the COVID vaccine?” Whoopi Goldberg interjected, to which Hines replied, “It’s all vaccines.”

“So, the question is — yes to vaccines. Yes, they are important, and they are an important part of our health care. Can we do better? Can we make them safer? Can we listen to parents who say, ‘My child got the vaccine and changed and stopped hitting markers, stopped developing the way they were developing.’ Can we listen to people when they say that instead of saying, ‘You’re crazy?’” Hines continued.

But that wasn’t all the ladies of ‘The View’ went after Hines for.

Sunny Hostin called RFK the “least qualified Department of Health and Human Services head that we’ve had in history,” lamenting that this is “very dangerous.”

Having previously pointed out that Obama’s head of HHS was an economist, Hines responded, “Why is he less qualified than an economist?”

“He has spent his career studying toxins, studying people’s health, fighting for one guy who was using Roundup for his job,” Hines continued.

“He has also spread a lot of misinformation, a lot of chaos, a lot of confusion. And I think it’s just a very dangerous thing,” Hostin continued, adding, “and I say it with the utmost respect.”

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales isn’t shocked by what she’s hearing from the women on ‘The View,’ but she is disgusted.

“‘The utmost respect,’” she mocks. “Like, it’s just so tacky. ‘With all due respect, I actually think your husband is a terrible … person.’ Like, you can’t just say stuff like that. And it’s just so laughable.”

Gonzales points out that Joe Biden’s HHS secretary was Xavier Becerra, who had zero medical background.

“He was also a former politician and a lawyer. And the closest thing that he came to anything health-related was bringing felony charges against the Center for Medical Progress activists who exposed Planned Parenthood for allegedly selling fetal tissue,” Gonzales explains.

Not only that, but Biden’s assistant secretary for health was “Rachel” Levine — a transgender woman.

“That just tells you all you need to know about all of these recent Health and Human Services secretaries who haven’t given a s**t that we have become more sick,” Gonzales says, “We have become sicker than ever before.”

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Fourteen years after Occupy Wall Street and five years after the George Floyd riots, the Democratic Party has embraced the tactics of the mob. Anyone who hoped the party would retreat from extremism was wrong.

The movement calling itself No Kings has returned, proving the point. What began as a slogan of defiance now serves as the organizing banner for a political faction that thrives on confrontation, violence, and plausible deniability.

The republic cannot survive a ruling class that excuses its own mobs.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk could have been a moment of national reflection — a chance for Democrats to reconsider their indulgence in rhetoric that blurs the line between protest and terrorism. Instead, the party apparatus has chosen escalation.

When you tell unstable people that Trump is a “fascist,” that dissent is violence, and that opposition equals Nazism, don’t be shocked when someone acts on it.

The logic of the left

To understand how this happened, you must understand how the modern left thinks. Progressives treat speech as violence and dissent as an existential threat. Anyone who refuses to affirm their ideology becomes, by definition, an oppressor.

From that premise, violence becomes “self-defense.” If Trump is Hitler, then violence against him — or anyone aligned with his cause — is not just justified but virtuous.

The left’s revolutionaries no longer storm palaces. They dominate the streets. On October 18, No Kings protests will erupt again across the country. What was once the fringe tactic of radicals has become the preferred strategy of the Democratic Party: organized street action modeled on unstable regimes abroad.

This backslide into mob politics raises tensions at a time when the nation needs prudence. Instead, Democrats seem eager to test how far their own movement will go.

What lies beneath the No Kings network

After the June 14 protests, our team at the Oversight Project traced the movement’s primary organizing partner, 50501. What we found confirmed the worst suspicions: demonstrable ties to the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Democratic Socialists of America, Antifa, and Students for Justice in Palestine.

These groups have openly supported violent action or defended authoritarian regimes, including China’s Communist Party. Mapping their social media connections revealed links to foreign influence networks tied to Chinese propaganda operations.

Antifa affiliates have also joined the effort, circulating merchandise celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death — shirts reading “Nazi Lives Don’t Matter” and “Normalize Political Violence” printed with a guillotine.

This is the energy behind No Kings. Its rhetoric echoes the Chinese Communist Party’s talking points on Tiananmen Square and defends regimes that crush dissent. Some of its alumni have even celebrated the murder of Israeli diplomats. Others maintain direct connections to Neville Singham and Chinese consulate officials.

For years, Democrats obsessed over alleged Russian meddling in U.S. politics. Yet now they embrace networks steeped in foreign influence to advance their own protest movements. As the Trump administration maps these organizations, many roads will lead overseas. Beijing has long used this method — stoking domestic unrest to weaken rivals from within.

The question isn’t whether the Democrats know this. It’s whether they care.

How the extremists captured the party

So how did a movement this toxic gain institutional cover from the Democratic establishment? Why do party leaders like Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) offer it full-throated support? And why do former Republicans like George Conway, Bill Kristol, and Joe Walsh lend their credibility to the cause?

Because the Democrats have surrendered to their radical base. They’ve stopped trying to lead it and started following it. Rather than condemn political extremism, they seek to normalize and rebrand it.

When Antifa militants show up at Democrat-aligned protests, party leaders feign surprise. When violence erupts, they retreat to the safety of “plausible deniability.” It’s a tired act — and the public no longer buys it.

RELATED: Trump names Antifa. The establishment still pretends it doesn’t exist.

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Why the crackdown terrifies them

This explains why Democrats fight so ferociously against classifying Antifa as a domestic or foreign terrorist organization. Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 directs a whole-of-government response to domestic extremism. Through the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces, federal agencies already possess the tools to investigate, expose, and dismantle these networks.

The real question is whether they will use them.

A serious enforcement effort would strip away the Democrats’ mask of deniability and expose the institutional support behind the violence. It would show that what poses as activism is, in fact, the operational arm of a radicalized political movement.

The choice ahead

Across the world, major parties have flirted with revolutionary tactics when democracy failed to deliver their goals. It’s the oldest temptation in politics. But America is now watching a mainstream party openly indulge in it.

Street action, foreign influence, and mob intimidation are not signs of progress — they are symptoms of decay. If Democrats continue down this path, they will drag the country with them.

The republic cannot survive a ruling class that excuses its own mobs.

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On October 14, President Donald Trump posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the highest civilian honor in the United States — to Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. The star-studded ceremony took place in the White House Rose Garden and coincided with what would have been Kirk’s 32nd birthday.

Declaring the day a “National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk,” President Trump praised the conservative trailblazer as a “fearless warrior for liberty,” a “beloved leader who galvanized the next generation,” and a “a martyr for truth and freedom.”

Glenn Beck, who attended the ceremony, says he “learned a lot” in the span of a few hours. On a recent episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” he shared five things he learned from attending Charlie’s honorary ceremony.

1. President Trump is a force unlike any other.

Even though he was in the Middle East celebrating the peace deal he miraculously facilitated between Israel and Hamas, President Trump cut his trip short in order to be back in time for the Medal of Freedom ceremony, which he insisted happen on Charlie’s birthday.

This required him to go “36 hours” with no sleep, Glenn says, and still he handled it with his usual vigor and showmanship.

“I don’t know how this guy does it. … Nothing non-natural goes into this guy’s body,” he says, alluding to Trump’s commitment to total abstinence from alcohol, drugs, and all forms of stimulants.

2. Marco Rubio is “killing it.”

While Glenn was a fan of Marco Rubio long before he became the Secretary of State, he has noticed an incredible “change” in him since his confirmation.

“He’s killing it,” Glenn says, referencing Rubio’s diplomatic triumphs, hawkish stance on China, and tireless advocacy for American interests abroad.

When he asked Rubio at Charlie’s ceremony what has been the catalyst for his transformation into a total powerhouse, he humbly pointed to President Trump.

3. Erica Kirk is “gaining her voice.”

Even though the widow, mother of two, and new TPUSA CEO is still wrestling with the grief of losing her beloved husband, Erika Kirk is “really gaining her voice,” Glenn says.

During the ceremony, Erika accepted the award on behalf of her late husband and delivered an emotional speech, during which she shared personal anecdotes about Charlie’s faith, relayed a birthday message from their daughter, and pledged to continue his legacy at Turning Point USA.

She closed with: “To live free is the greatest gift, but to die free is the greatest victory.”

“She was very good,” Glenn says.

4. The White House is more secure than ever.

“The security perimeter of the White House is astounding. It’s at least doubled,” Glenn says, adding that he’s heard the plan is to “[move] the security perimeter at least a block around [the White House], all the way around.”

This uptick in security has allowed President Trump to breathe a bit easier. “It was the first time I’ve seen the president in many months outside without bulletproof glass between us,” Glenn says.

Glenn’s biggest takeaway from the ceremony was that President Donald Trump, despite the incessant efforts by political opponents and the mainstream media to smear him, is a remarkable human being.

“The president was so gracious yesterday with everybody. I mean, he is really an amazing man,” he says.

To hear Glenn’s full recount of his time at the White House for Charlie Kirk’s Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony, including a humorous anecdote showing how intensely strategic President Trump is, watch the video above.

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Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York is facing brutal and hilarious ridicule on social media after making an embarrassing mistake during a tirade against Republicans.

The congresswoman was lambasting her opponents Wednesday during a town hall on CNN when she bizarrely accused the Deloitte company of dumping toxic chemicals into waterways.

‘AOC needs to go back to acting school because her little performance was embarrassing.’

Ocasio-Cortez was asked how she was going to respond to President Donald Trump withholding billions of dollars of federal spending on infrastructure in New York during the government shutdown. She made an apparently unrelated point about the Environmental Protection Agency.

“Once again, this administration is making a foolish mistake by saying that they think that investments in housing and in energy are so-called Democrat priorities,” Ocasio-Cortez responded.

“Cutting the EPA as a Democrat priority. You know what this country looked like before the EPA? Rivers in rural areas were on fire because of corporations poisoning the people who lived in those areas — poor, middle-class communities getting poisoned and dumped on by corporations like Deloitte and 3M, pouring chemicals into these places. And they want to call it a Democratic priority,” she added.

“And that’s why they want to eliminate the FDA!” she said, likely meaning EPA instead.

“Well, you know what? You’re damn well right that it’s a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned,” she added, “from identifying dangerous chemicals that are being dumped and causing cancer in people without their knowledge.”

Video of the gaffe was posted to social media, where it quickly went viral with millions of views.

Critics immediately noted that Deloitte is an accounting agency and had nothing to do with any alleged chemical-dumping. Some believe she meant to say DuPont, the chemical company.

“Deloitte is an accounting firm, how are they pouring chemicals into rural areas. @AOC needs to go back to acting school because her little performance was embarrassing at the CNN Townhall,” one popular response reads.

“As a former Deloitte employee, I can guarantee that the only thing you’ll ever see them pour is a glass of wine. Plus, AOC must not know that Deloitte has gone all in on the climate con and the green new scam,” another user responded.

RELATED: Ocasio-Cortez makes embarrassing mistake while trying to dunk on Republicans about the migrant crisis

“Oh boy, Deloitte is going to ask AOC to issue an apology, and they should make it stick. This mistake is not just a slip of the tongue; it misrepresents Deloitte’s business and could damage its reputation,” another reply reads.

Others used the occasion to mock Ocasio-Cortez.

“As a young child, one of my earliest memories are the television stories of Deloitte secretly dumping thousands of old accountants into rivers in my hometown,” one user joked.

“Deloitte does a lot worse than this. If you don’t wish everyone a deloitteful weekend on your last Friday call, they take you out back and break your kneecaps,” reads another jab at Ocasio-Cortez.

A Blaze News request for comment to Deloitte was not immediately answered.

The entire program can be viewed on the congresswoman’s YouTube channel.

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The left has launched a cancellation campaign against members of the Young Republican National Federation after Politico released an article exposing leaked out-of-context messages between members.

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales points out that the left is not angry about the violent text messages sent by Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones, in which he called for the murder of innocent children.

“No, Democrats are actually pissed about leaked Republican messages where the people were clearly making jokes, which is so crazy ’cause I thought liberals were supposed to love it when people made edgy jokes,” Gonzales says.

“Let’s see those liberals protesting in the streets now for free speech,” she adds.

The group chat messages consisted of what Gonzales considers to be the participants simply “goofing off” and “joking in private where they never thought that anyone publicly would see their messages.”

“Would I choose to joke about these things? No, probably not. But it’s a far cry from the actual serious rhetoric that the Democrats engage in literally every day. And they’re not joking,” Gonzales says.

“Now, you also have the Young Republicans organization, who are now — it’s this big production where ‘we have to cancel everyone’s lives because they were joking in private group chats and never thought that these chats would see that light of day,’” she continues.

“And I have to ask everyone in the organization that is calling on all of these people to resign and trying to get them fired from their jobs and all of these things. I just have to ask: What do your group text messages look like? What do your private text messages look like? What do your private DMs look like?” she asks.

“If I just took your phone right now and just was able to just freely scroll through it and go back as many years as I wanted to, I wouldn’t find anything that you’ve said that might be spicy or inappropriate or off-color or anything? It’s just totally PC? I don’t buy it,” Gonzales continues.

“There is no one alive who doesn’t have something in their text messages that they would be embarrassed if it went public because that’s just how people are,” she adds.

And in the case of these Young Republicans, the jokes were completely taken out of context in the first place.

“The headline example, right there, ‘I love Hitler.’ Right there in the headline. Oh, my gosh. Okay. Well, if you keep reading, they’re talking about a meeting with Michigan’s Young Republicans to score more votes,” Gonzales explains.

“And in the message, he said, ‘My delegates I bring will vote for the most right-wing person.’ And then he was like, ‘Great. I love Hitler.’ It was a joke. It was a joke that was completely taken out of context,” she continues.

“I’m not going to condemn it. I honestly don’t care. … Nobody should care about a group chat with dudes joking around,” she adds.

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A military veteran attending a championship baseball game recorded a woman threatening to call immigration officials on him and sent her to the unemployment line.

Ricardo Fosado said the exchange between him and several Milwaukee Brewers fans began as a friendly rivalry at Game 2 of the National League Championship Series at American Family Field.

‘Call ICE, call ICE. I’m a U.S. citizen, war veteran. … ICE is not gonna do nothing to me, good luck!’

Fosado said it got heated after the Los Angeles Dodgers got a lead late in the game, and he began recording and cheering while mocking Brewers fans. A woman got into his face and called him a “p***y” for drinking a cocktail instead of a beer.

She then joked to a man in front of her, “You know what, let’s call ICE.”

“Call ICE, call ICE. I’m a U.S. citizen, war veteran, baby girl! … ICE is not gonna do nothing to me, good luck!” Fosado responded while laughing.

The woman takes a swipe at his phone, to which he responds with an expletive.

Video of the interaction was posted online, where it went viral.

The woman was identified as Shannon Kobylarczyk, who then resigned as a board member of the Make-A-Wish foundation in Milwaukee. She also lost her job as an attorney at Manpower Group.

“As soon as we became aware of this video, the individual was placed on immediate leave, and we began an investigation,” the company said. “As a result of this process, the employee is no longer with the organization.”

RELATED: LA Dodgers say they blocked ICE agents at stadium after campaign to pressure team to condemn deportations

Fosado, however, also faced some consequences for his behavior at the game.

On Thursday, the Brewers released a statement saying that Fosado had been ejected from the game over the behavior he exhibited in the video, including “disorderly conduct and public intoxication.”

The statement said that both he and Kobylarczyk were notified that they were banned from the park. Kobylarczyk was banned because she “became physical” in her interaction with Fosado.

“The Brewers expect all persons attending games to be respectful of each other, and we do not condone in any way offensive statements fans make to each other about race, gender, or national origin. Our priority is to ensure that all in attendance have a safe and enjoyable experience at the ballpark,” continued the statement from the team.

WISN-TV reported that Kobylarczyk declined to comment on the story.

The Dodgers went on to win the game and go up two games on the Brewers. Whoever wins the series will go to the World Series.

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Harvard has stated that it had an “extraordinarily challenging” fiscal year amid its ongoing feud with the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump withheld over $2 million in federal research funding after he accused Harvard of “repeatedly” failing to confront anti-Semitic harassment on its campuses, arguing that the university was violating federal civil rights law.

‘Even by the standards of our centuries-long history, fiscal year 2025 was extraordinarily challenging, with political and economic disruption affecting many sectors, including higher education.’

Harvard responded to the funding freeze by suing the administration. While most of those awards have been reinstated, according to Harvard, President Donald Trump’s actions against the university appear to have made an impact.

“The reinstatements of those grants do not erase the disruption the terminations sparked, nor do they negate the uncertainty ahead. That means we can’t simply return to ‘business as usual,’” Harvard chief financial officer Ritu Kalra told Bloomberg.

A financial report released Thursday by the Ivy League school showed a $113 million deficit for fiscal year 2025, which ended on September 30. This marks Harvard’s first operating loss since 2020 and its largest deficit since 2011. In contrast, for fiscal year 2024, Harvard reported a $45 million gain.

Harvard’s financial difficulties prompted it to make “difficult but necessary choices,” according to Alan Garber, the university’s president. It reportedly implemented a hiring freeze, initiated layoffs, scaled back projects, and withheld salary increases from exempt employees.

RELATED: Harvard’s hypocrisy hits the courtroom

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“Even by the standards of our centuries-long history, fiscal year 2025 was extraordinarily challenging, with political and economic disruption affecting many sectors, including higher education,” Garber wrote.

He also blamed President Donald Trump’s termination of federal research funding, noting that a federal judge found the move to be unlawful. The administration reportedly has plans to appeal the judge’s decision.

RELATED: Why Trump’s war with Harvard hits closer to home than you think

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“We closed [the fiscal year] confronting the abrupt termination of nearly all of Harvard’s federal research grants, facing potential constraints on the exchange of international scholars, and considering how we will absorb the enactment of a substantial increase to the federal tax on endowment income, scheduled to take effect in fiscal 2027,” the report read.

Despite its reported challenges, Harvard recorded the largest current-use gifts in its history, totaling $629 million — a 19% increase over the previous fiscal year. However, the university’s endowment gifts, which are more restricted in their use, have declined over the last two years. In fiscal year 2023, Harvard collected $561 million in endowment gifts, while the amounts dropped to $368 million in 2024 and $364 million in 2025.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested one of El Salvador’s “most wanted” who stands accused of murder, according to a Department of Homeland Security press release exclusively obtained by Blaze News.

‘These are the types of criminal illegal aliens that sanctuary politicians across Virginia are protecting as they demonize law enforcement.’

On October 2 in Virginia, ICE agents captured Ismael Enrique Mendoza Flores, also known as “El Calaco,” believed to be an MS-13 gang leader.

Mendoza Flores was wanted in El Salvador for aggravated homicide and illicit associations. According to Fairfax County case records, he was arrested in Virginia on August 23 for unauthorized use of a vehicle, a criminal felony. The alleged crime was reportedly committed on July 28. Mendoza Flores made bail and a preliminary hearing was scheduled for October 31.

The DHS reported that ICE arrested Mendoza Flores due to an active warrant for murder. He was listed as part of the Salvadoran National Police’s “Most Wanted Gang Members” Program.

Mendoza Flores told U.S. authorities that he entered the country as a child in 2015.

RELATED: DOJ files first terrorism-related charges against alleged ‘Antifa Cell’ after ICE attack: ‘Get to the rifles’

Ismael Enrique Mendoza Flores, “El Calaco.” Image source: Department of Homeland Security

“Our brave men and women of ICE arrested one of El Salvador’s most wanted fugitives off of the streets of Virginia. This MS-13 gang member was wanted for murder,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.

“These are the types of criminal illegal aliens that sanctuary politicians across Virginia are protecting as they demonize law enforcement,” McLaughlin continued. “President Trump and Secretary [Kristi] Noem are not going to allow gang members to terrorize American citizens.”

RELATED: ICE accuses LA officials of giving ‘a middle finger to the law’ after county paves way for illegal aliens to receive funding

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The DHS vowed to continue the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown despite the ongoing government shutdown.

The department stated that it “will not let the Democrats’ government shutdown prevent our law enforcement officers from executing the critical mission of securing our nation from the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens.”

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The Trump administration is reporting astounding statistics regarding the crackdown on violent crime through Operation Summer Heat by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

FBI Director Kash Patel posted the stats in a graphic on social media on Wednesday and praised FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and the operation as the “juggernaut that led to all these record breaking arrests.”

‘He drew it up. He put out the mechanics, he went to the field, and he went a hundred percent for these last seven months.’

The operation that began June 24 and ended Sept. 20 included 8,629 arrests as well as 2,281 firearms seized, according to the Department of Justice.

The operation also included 7,757 search operations and 557 “identified children,” according to the FBI. Officers seized 421 kilograms of fentanyl and 44,569 kilograms of cocaine.

The operation resulted in 2,081 criminal indictments, the FBI claimed.

“There’s one man who is responsible for Operation Summer Heat, and the architect is Deputy Director Dan Bongino,” said Patel in an interview with Real America’s Voice.

“He drew it up. He put out the mechanics, he went to the field, and he went a hundred percent for these last seven months,” Patel added. “And the men and women of the FBI executed Deputy Director Bongino’s Summer Heat operation.”

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“Every one of these arrests means that our streets are safer, and that’s because of the work of this administration, of President Trump and Director Patel,” said Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche during a media briefing at the White House on Wednesday.

“Every American deserves to live in a city without fear of being mugged, murdered, raped, or shot,” said Trump at the same briefing. “We’re going to save all of our cities, and we’re going to make them essentially crime-free.”

RELATED: FBI Director Kash Patel sues MSNBC columnist for defamation

Bongino also posted a statement about the operation on social media.

“Thank you for your support and patience during this critical operation targeting the most violent criminals, across the nation. We will continue our push to crush violent crime as our Summer Heat operation wraps up.”

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On Wednesday, a grand jury convened to consider charges against John Bolton, a national security adviser in President Trump’s first term and a longtime Trump critic.

On Thursday afternoon, the grand jury came to a decision.

A Justice Department official previously told the New York Post that the case they had against him was ‘airtight.’

The 76-year-old former Trump adviser was indicted by a grand jury on 18 counts related to mishandling classified information, eight counts of transmission of national defense information, and 10 counts of unlawful retention of NDI, according to a DOJ press release.

“There is one tier of justice for all Americans,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement, according to the press release. “Anyone who abuses a position of power and jeopardizes our national security will be held accountable. No one is above the law.”

RELATED: ‘NO ONE is above the law’: FBI raids former national security adviser John Bolton’s home

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According to a Wednesday New York Post report, the grand jury considered charges against Bolton over his alleged sharing of highly sensitive classified materials on a private email server. A Justice Department official previously told the New York Post that the case they had against him was “airtight.”

Bolton stands accused of sending classified information on a private AOL email account as well as keeping “diary-like notes” during his time in the first administration.

Thursday’s indictment signals a major milestone in a months-long investigation — with potentially dire consequences.

According to the heavily redacted search warrant affidavit, reviewed by AP upon its September release and used by the FBI to justify its August raid of Bolton’s Maryland house, an unredacted section heading reads, “Hack of Bolton AOL Account by Foreign Entity.”

More details on the nature of the hack or the “foreign entity” were unavailable due to redactions.

If convicted, Bolton could face up to 10 years in prison for each count, the press release said.

According to CNBC, Trump said in response to the news of Bolton’s indictment: “You’re telling me for the first time, but I think he’s, you know, a bad person. I think he’s a bad — yeah, he’s a bad guy. It’s too bad. But that’s the way it goes, right? That’s the way it goes.”

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Turning Point USA announced that Vice President JD Vance will headline one of the group’s campus events alongside Charlie Kirk’s widow. Members of the Trump family will also appear at an event.

Erika Kirk has been named the head of TPUSA after the assassination of her husband during a campus event at Utah Valley University in September. The suspect arrested for the killing was identified as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, and he was charged with murder.

‘Nobody can replace Charlie, but if we all sort of take little pieces, we can do as much as we can to ensure that Charlie’s mission continues to survive long after he’s gone.’

Vance will speak at an event at the University of Mississippi on Oct. 29, where between 9,000 and 10,000 attendees are expected, according to TPUSA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet.

“Part of keeping Charlie’s memory alive is keeping the mission alive,” said Vance. “And nobody can replace Charlie, but if we all sort of take little pieces, we can do as much as we can to ensure that Charlie’s mission continues to survive long after he’s gone, and part of that is these campus tours.”

He added, “My plan is to give a little speech, talk a little about the issues of the day, but turn most of it over to just do Q&A with the audience. I want to hear from these kids.”

At a separate TPUSA event at Auburn University on Nov. 5, Eric and Lara Trump will be headlining. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), who is running for governor, will also headline the event.

RELATED: Church vandalized ahead of TPUSA event — graffiti message calls speaker the Antichrist

A source close to Vance and Donald Trump Jr. told Axios that the president’s son is also expected to headline a TPUSA event.

“I would expect to see both of them turn up at TPUSA events over the next several months and long after that,” said the source in September. “They understand that Turning Point is now Charlie’s political legacy, and they both want to help grow it to be bigger and more influential than ever.”

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The British establishment has long sought to put Tommy Robinson away. The independent journalist has, after all, spent decades raising hell about the fallout of mass migration, the detachment of British elites, the failure of multiculturalism in England, the threats posed by radical Islam, and the cover-up of the Pakistani rape-gang scandal.

Once again, Robinson is facing the prospect of prison; however, this time around, the world’s richest man appears to be in his corner.

On July 28, 2024 — a day after organizing a political rally slightly smaller than the historic, 100,000-strong “Unite the Kingdom” march that he led on Sept. 13 of this year — Robinson was detained by Kent police under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act while attempting to travel to Spain, where he now lives.

Robinson was charged with “frustrating” police’s counterterrorism powers by allegedly refusing to give them access to his phone, which police confiscated at the time of his detention, Sky News reported.

Under the Terrorism Act, detainees are required to provide law enforcement with access to their mobile device.

Robinson allegedly told police, “Not a chance, bruv. … You look like a c**t, so you ain’t having it,” adding that his phone contained sensitive “journalist material” regarding “vulnerable girls.”

In a video statement on Monday, Robinson said, “Just imagine that I am facing terrorism charges under terrorism legislation because I didn’t want to give the state my sources of information as a journalist — and not one single journalist has commented on that in the U.K.”

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Mitchell Thorogood, the arresting officer who apparently recognized Robinson ahead of pulling Robinson over, told the Westminster magistrate’s court this week that he stopped Robinson as he attempted to enter the Channel Tunnel in a friend’s car partly because the vehicle was not Robinson’s, the BBC reported.

Thorogood suggested further that he pulled Robinson over because he thought it “unusual” for someone to drive a luxury car alone from Britain to Spain.

‘It’s an attack against me based on my political view, nothing else.’

Sky News indicated that Alisdair Williamson, Robinson’s lawyer, characterized the counterterror stop as a “fishing expedition,” and told the court that Robinson was targeted based to a “significant degree on a protected characteristic,” namely his right-wing political views.

“We say it is obvious,” Williamson said. “He was stopped unlawfully, detained unlawfully for 40 minutes, and asked questions that were something to do with his political beliefs.”

Robinson told reporters outside the courthouse this week that the arresting officer “absolutely did not follow his protocol, did not follow the law. This is a total abuse of the legal system. It’s an attack against me based on my political view, nothing else. There was no suspicion of terrorism, no suspicion of a crime. … I’m now in court for being Tommy Robinson.”

Jo Morris, the prosecutor in the case, claimed that the officer was justified in questioning Robinson on account of his “notoriety for associating with far-right activists.”

If convicted, Robinson — who has pleaded not guilty and is presently in Israel at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s invitation — could face several months in prison and/or receive a $3,355.80 fine. The trial is set to conclude on Nov. 4.

Robinson claimed on Monday that Elon Musk was financially helping with his legal defense.

The beleaguered journalist’s team claimed in a statement earlier this year that Musk was providing support for Robinson in this case as well as for his unsuccessful legal challenge earlier this year over his prolonged solitary confinement in prison.

“Why is Tommy Robinson in a solitary confinement prison for telling the truth? He should be freed and those who covered up this travesty should take his place in that cell,” Musk tweeted on January 1. Four days later, he tweeted, “Once again: FREE TOMMY ROBINSON NOW.”

Blaze News has reached out to Robinson and Musk for comment.

Daisy Cooper, a leftist lawmaker who serves as deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats in parliament, demanded on Wednesday that MI5, the United Kingdom’s domestic counterintelligence and security agency, to investigate Musk, even though the Guardian indicated that Musk has yet to provide them with confirmation that he is in fact covering the bill.

“On Monday, the far-right, racist hate-preacher Tommy Robinson, who is currently on trial for allegedly refusing to comply with counterterror police, claimed that his legal costs are being paid by Elon Musk,” Cooper said. “It is outrageous that a man who has so much control over what people read online every day could be funding someone who stokes far-right extremism on our streets. If this was Putin, the government surely would act.”

“So will the prime minister commission the Security Services to assess the threat that Elon Musk poses to our democracy and recommend measures to this house that we can take to stop it?” Cooper said to Britain’s liberal prime minister, Keir Starmer.

“I can tell her we do look across the board at threats to our democracy and must continue to do so,” Starmer replied, according to the National. “I won’t comment on the particular case given the state of legal proceedings.”

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A recent Wall Street Journal article has exposed the real culprit behind the incessant threatening text messages Americans all over the country have been receiving as of late — which include threats over late toll payments, U.S. postal service fees, and unpaid traffic violations.

According to the Wall Street Journal, these texts are always “poised to get unsuspecting victims to fork over their credit card details,” and those behind it “take advantage of this information to buy iPhones, gift cards, clothing, and cosmetics.”

And behind the messages are criminal organizations operating out of China — who have made more than $1 billion over the past three years off the scam.

“Wow,” BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler comments, shocked. “I think we can all speak to this personally. I know, for me at least, I’m receiving just dozens and dozens of these things — way more than I used to.”

These criminal gangs use “SIM farms” — which are rooms jammed with boxes of networking devices — to flood people with text messages.

“You know, you neglected to pay a toll, and now you better watch out or your credit score is going to get hacked, and you’re going to be thrown in jail, and your car is going to be taken away unless you click this really shady-looking URL and give us your credit card number, and then we’re going to steal from you,” Wheeler says.

At these SIM farms — which have been found in shared offices, crack houses, and auto repair shops — the servers are “stuffed with little white cards,” the Wall Street Journal writes, “that mobile customers put in their new phones to begin making calls or sending texts.”

And Wheeler explains that it’s the Chinese communists behind it.

“The Chinese communists are stealing from us to the tune of $1 billion, just by that particular text message scam alone over the course of the past three years — $1 billion. And this, I am sad to say, is just another example of a crime committed against us by the crafty Chinese communists,” she says.

“They are not merely adversarial trading partners in a globalist economy. The Chinese Communists actively, desperately want to depose the United States and destroy us, and they’re doing so by disrupting our society socially and culturally,” Wheeler continues.

“They are attempting to destroy our economy. They are sowing civil unrest,” she says. “For goodness sake, they created a virus that spiraled us into tyranny.”

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An award-winning nurse in Texas has been fired after she was caught on police bodycam video telling officers she would let them die if they needed medical treatment at the hospital where she worked.

Officers with the Magnolia Police Department pulled over a female driver just after midnight Saturday on suspicion of erratic driving.

‘I’m a f**king nurse, and when you come through my hospital, don’t worry, I’ll let you die.’

Citing the arrest report, KTRK-TV reported that police observed 35-year-old Crystal Tadlock speeding and running a red light. Police said it took Tadlock 40 seconds to pull over and that while doing so, she hit a piece of concrete.

Police noted that Tadlock had “bloodshot, glassy eyes and slurred speech” and added that Tadlock admitted to having two alcoholic beverages — a beer and a wine mixer — at a concert before the traffic stop.

Police also said Tadlock refused to undergo a breathalyzer test at the traffic stop, so officers administered a field sobriety test. According to officers, Tadlock “almost fell over backwards” during the field sobriety test, which she blamed on a recent eye injection.

Police bodycam footage shows Tadlock yelling at officers: “I couldn’t walk straight because I had a f**king eye injection yesterday! Because my perception is permanently off!”

Tadlock was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated.

While being transported to the Montgomery County Jail, police video shows Tadlock appearing to verbally attack an officer over his heritage: “You can’t speak straight because you have an accent from another country,”

Additionally, police footage indicates that an officer attempts to inform Tadlock of her rights, but she interrupts and says, “That’s because ICE hasn’t picked you up yet” — a reference to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Tadlock told the officer she had worked at the Memorial Hermann Greater Heights Hospital for the last seven years, according to police.

Police said in a Facebook statement that “the female, who is a nurse, stated that if any of us came to her hospital, that she would make sure we died.”

“Greater Heights, bitch. Don’t go there,” she is heard saying on video.

“I’m a f**king nurse, and when you come through my hospital, don’t worry, I’ll let you die,” Tadlock also is heard telling the officers on video.

The nurse adds, “All your family members.”

She then asks if she is being recorded.

The officer is heard telling the nurse, “You really just said you don’t want me there ’cause you’re gonna let me die.'”

Tadlock is heard replying, “Well, yeah. I mean, you’re not that great of a person. You think you can just treat me like this?”

Tadlock is heard on police video saying, “You’re going to be so embarrassed. Ha. And I’m white. Yeah.”

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Tadlock has been bonded out of jail.

Police added in the Facebook post, “Unfortunately we couldn’t charge her with not being a very nice person.”

Police said they’re still waiting for the results of a blood draw.

Memorial Hermann Greater Heights Hospital reportedly fired Tadlock, releasing the following statement to KTRK:

Immediately upon learning of this incident on Saturday, we took swift action to suspend the employee, pending investigation. She has subsequently been terminated. The safety and privacy of our patients, visitors, and workforce are our top priority, and we take such matters very seriously.

Tadlock previously won a nursing award.

In 2021, Tadlock was the recipient of the DAISY Award for “Extraordinary Nurses” for being “compassionate” and going “above and beyond” during the coronavirus pandemic.

“Crystal is an exceptional ICU nurse who always goes above and beyond when providing care for patients as well as assisting the healthcare team,” the DAISY Foundation stated. “Crystal always demonstrates a compassionate, caring, positive attitude towards patients, family, colleagues, and all healthcare disciplinary teams.”

The DAISY Foundation has a mission to “meaningfully celebrate extraordinary, compassionate nurses, capturing those moments unique to nursing that make a profound difference in the lives of people around the world.”

Police did not immediately respond to Blaze News‘ request for comment.

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