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Alex Lee Moyer is a filmmaker, director, and editor, but unlike most cinematic creatives, she isn’t defined by Hollywood capture.

Her edge? Telling the stories nobody wants to touch. “TFW No GF” (2020) dives headfirst into the isolation and alienation of young men in digital subcultures, like incels and Frogtwitter, while “Alex’s War” (2022) explores the rise and impact of controversial media figure Alex Jones.

But neither of these films aims to sway the viewer in any specific direction.

“I’m not trying to make propaganda films. I’m just trying to get to the heart of things … that people, including myself, have anxiety about,” she told BlazeTV host Nicole Shanahan on a recent episode of “Back to the People.”

Moyer isn’t interested in portraying someone like Alex Jones, for example, as the good guy or the bad guy. “More importantly, he’s a guy. He’s a real person. … Demystifying some of those [controversial] topics can actually kind of bring people together in conversation,” she says.

Ironically, Moyer’s pursuit of facts would have been considered “a liberal cause” just a few years ago. But after the COVID-19 pandemic, things changed. The hyper politicization of today’s culture has caused her work, which is intentionally apolitical, to be falsely labeled as “right wing.”

“The Hollywood narrative is so narrow right now that if you’re outside of it, you’re somehow unworthy or irresponsible or unethical,” says Nicole.

The reason we see so many films driven by left-wing political agendas is because high-up executives in the industry have an incredible amount of sway. “In order for something to get made, it has to go through so many different filters,” says Moyer, “and it’s not just about whether somebody perceives offense themselves. It has a lot to do with whether they think their boss, or you know, somebody at the streaming platform is going to take offense.”

“Hollywood is not going to be taking any risks — not when you have threats from AI, not when you have threats from appeasing people in other countries like China or … not wanting to run afoul of the homogeny of liberalism in Hollywood. There’s a lot of things that keep them locked in place,” she explains.

While many are tempted to relegate Hollywood to an irredeemable ash heap, both Moyer and Nicole argue it plays a critical role in society.

“We should care about what happens there because it’s one of the great sources of soft power for the United States, and it helps forge our identity here and in the rest of the world,” says Moyer.

Nicole agrees, stating, “A failure of Hollywood is a big deal, and a Hollywood that doesn’t represent America and American culture and ideals is scary.”

Instead of crossing her fingers hoping for a Hollywood revolution, Moyer is taking matters into her own hands. In late 2023, she founded her own production company called Onset Creative.

The company’s aim, she says, is “to focus first and foremost on developing projects that [cannot] be made anywhere else that reflect the cultural moment, namely the present and the recent past.”

To hear about Moyer’s next documentary “The Technologists” — an honest look into the rapidly advancing world of artificial intelligence and its cultural impacts — watch the full interview above.

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The great outbreak of evil in these past days stirred a memory of something I used to tell my freshman students on the first day of their introduction to politics class: Politics is about what is good.

We would read together the first sentence of Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics” — an unrivaled introduction to politics:

Every art and every inquiry, and likewise every action and choice, seems to aim at some good, and hence it has been beautifully said that the good is that at which all things aim.

Aristotle goes on quickly to observe in his usual empirical way that many goods exist along with many arts developed to achieve the different goods. The medical art aims at the good of health. The art of shipbuilding aims at building good ships. The military art aims at victory in war. The art of managing the household, which the Greeks called economics, aims at the good of wealth.

Virtue is the end or aim of political life.

Some arts are subordinated to other arts, because the good at which the art aims is subordinate to a larger good, the way the art of the cavalryman is subordinate to the art of the general.

Aristotle then introduces the subject of politics with a great hypothesis: If there exists some good, some end, that we seek for its own sake, and we seek all the rest for the sake of or on account of this one good — if, in other words, we don’t choose everything for the sake of something else, which would make all of our desires empty and pointless — this would be the good itself, in fact the highest good.

He asks: Would not an awareness of this highest good have great weight in a man’s life? Wouldn’t the art of attaining that good be the sovereign or master art encompassing all the ends or goods of the other arts? And isn’t this what we call the art of politics?

The good that the art of politics aims at, he says, is “the human good.” What name do people give to the human good that encompasses all others and lacks nothing? The Greek word, Aristotle says, is eudaimonia, which we usually translate as “happiness” in English. The art of politics is the art of happiness. But it gets even better.

The art of politics is a practical art. It aims not just at knowing what happiness is but at being happy. Thinking happiness through, Aristotle finds that it does not have primarily to do with the body. It is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue — in fact, in accordance with complete virtue. You can’t be a happy man without being a good or virtuous man. And in this sense, virtue is the end or aim of political life.

Aristotle goes on to distinguish between virtues of character and virtues of intellect, or what we usually call moral and intellectual virtues. He argues that the specific virtue or excellence of the statesman — the political man par excellence — is the intellectual virtue of practical wisdom, what he would call “phronesis.” Phronesis is the only intellectual virtue that is inseparable from moral virtue. According to Aristotle, a man cannot possess phronesis without possessing all the moral virtues actively and in their fullness. He is a man in full.

I would tell students that to make progress in their study of politics — this practical art — they would have to make progress in virtue; they would have to make progress toward the human good; they would have to make progress toward happiness. This is what our semester would be about.

Happiness and politics go together?

If I were lucky, at least one hesitatingly confident realist among the students — they were still too young to be cynics — would be brave enough on this first day of class to raise a hand and say deferentially and politely something like: “What! Have you read a newspaper lately?” (They had newspapers back then.) “Every page is filled with violence, crime, corruption, and somebody grasping for power! To call someone a politician is an insult.”

And so the semester would be off and running.

I would admit that though Aristotle in his “Politics” defines man as a “political animal” because man is a “rational animal” — an animal possessing logos, or reason — he makes an empirical observation at the end of his “Ethics” that will be familiar to anyone who has read a newspaper: Rational creatures though they are, men sometimes do not listen to reason and are carried away by their passions.

Aristotle would agree with Alexander Hamilton, or rather Hamilton agreed with Aristotle, when he wrote in Federalist 15:

“Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.” And with James Madison’s even more famous saying, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”

In addition, working on our non-angelic human fallibility and culpability, bad education causes us to make mistakes about what is good. For these reasons, Aristotle argues that both education and coercion are central to the art of politics and, alas, that practicing the art of politics is not a leisurely activity. It is the burdensome art of inducing others to do what they ought to do for their own good and happiness, even when they don’t want to.

These days, our children learn in school and online that it is good to shoplift or try to change themselves from a boy to a girl or from a girl to a boy. A shockingly large percentage of them have learned that it is good to kill those who disagree with you.

From his first day in office in 2021, Joe Biden — our then-educator in chief — made it the central point of American politics that being trans was being good and questioning the goodness of being trans was evil. He thrust this bad education into the face of his country — marching trans heroes before the cameras to model the “goodness” that all Americans should admire and publicly praise if they wanted to avoid ostracism, public shaming and canceling, expulsion from school, losing their jobs, being put in jail, or being murdered in cold blood.

Politics requires goodness

Knowing what is good is not easy. A man in ancient Athens with the greatest reputation for wisdom knew only that he did not know what was good. To have what was good, to be good, was so crucial to Socrates — the one thing needful — that it made no sense to do anything else with his life than to try to find out what it was.

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But we do not need to be philosophers to know that boys cannot become girls, that biological males should not be competing against biological females in sports or sharing their bathrooms, and that killing those who disagree with us is evil. Glenn Ellmers, Salvatori Research Fellow at the Claremont Institute and an old friend, published a short essay on the urgent need, in this increasingly deranged world, to hold on to our common sense.

Machiavelli — the infamous teacher of “realist” politics — seeing unflinchingly what we all could read in the newspaper, taught that in a world where so many are so bad, it is merely common sense that it is necessary for those who would succeed in the art of politics to enter into evil. I would suggest an alternative lesson to students, one that I think is in the spirit of Aristotle: In a world where so many are so bad, it is merely common sense that it is necessary for the good to be great.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published at the American Mind.

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In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the New York University College Republicans organized a prayer vigil at Washington Square Park on Sunday night.

“All we wanted was some time to mourn the death of a man who meant so much to so many people,” chapter President Ryan Leonard said.

‘You’re in a very, very dark place, but we’ll pray for your salvation.’

Leonard, a senior, told Blaze News that while he’d been part of the College Republicans ever since his start at NYU, he’d been president only since the beginning of the fall semester — and the candlelight vigil would be his first time in charge of a major club event.

It would prove a baptism by fire for the philosophy major.

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Leonard told Blaze News that anywhere from 50 to 100 individuals attended the vigil, and it was looking pretty good — highlighted by an impressive display of Kirk-related images under the park’s legendary Arch.

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Unfortunately, about 20 to 30 protesters showed up, too, Leonard told Blaze News.

While vigil attendees sang the national anthem and attempted to pray, protesters openly mocked Kirk and praised his murder; they even sang a song reflective of an engraving on the assassin’s bullet casings. Indeed, it was a continuation of a chilling, unnerving theme that’s been played out at other college campuses following Kirk’s cold-blooded killing — including at Texas Tech University and Texas State University.

But one protester was particularly aggressive, Leonard told Blaze News, noting that he was “one of the most vulgar and disruptive protesters there.”

This guy came with an acoustic guitar and sang some songs with “inappropriate” lyrics, Leonard said, adding that the College Republicans fought back by not giving him attention, even when he was “calling us white supremacists and racists.”

Well, that only fueled the protester’s fire.

The dark-hearted individual ended up getting a “foot away from our members,” Leonard told Blaze News, but still the vigil-goers “did not engage him.”

Leonard told Blaze News that at first “I was just very angry when he was disrupting, and then I saw the wrath in his heart, and I became sad for him and the state he was in.”

In a brief video the College Republicans recorded, Leonard can be heard telling the protester that “you’re in a very, very dark place, but we’ll pray for your salvation.”

With that, the demented busker launched into an apparently improvised song aimed right back at Leonard. As he strummed angry chords, he loudly sang, “I don’t want your salvation! I want you to f**king die! We’re not gonna give you a second chance, even when you beg for it, on your knees, begging and pleading!”

Here’s the clip, which is used with permission from @nyurepublicans on X. Content warning: Language:

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Leonard told Blaze News that while vigil-goers only returned his hatred with peace, the protester just “got madder and more enraged” and “he started being threatening.”

Worse yet, as the protester continued his verbal assaults, Leonard told Blaze News that “more people gathered around him” and a kind of mob was forming. Soon the vigil-goers started getting literally “pushed around,” Leonard explained.

Finally, New York police officers “escorted us away,” he noted.

Washington Square Park is completely open, so anyone off the street can enter it. Given that kind of access, Blaze News asked Leonard if he was concerned for his safety and that of his fellow club members, given the way Kirk was assassinated out in the open at Utah Valley University just days ago. Leonard told Blaze News that possibility was “definitely going through my mind.”

But as the club’s president said in a previous statement, he and his fellow College Republicans won’t be bullied: “To interrupt a solemn vigil full of grieving young people who were trying to honor the life of an inspiration and mentor they looked up to is pure evil, and we will not let them intimidate us into silence. We will go even harder to honor the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk.”

In fact, Leonard added to Blaze News that Sunday night’s ordeal has resulted in a “boost in our club that I’ve never seen before. People are encouraging us, and they appreciate us standing up for them.”

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The largest owner of ABC-affiliated television stations backed out of broadcasting a tribute to the life of Charlie Kirk on Friday evening.

The Sinclair Broadcast Group objected to the comments Jimmy Kimmel made on his show about the suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk. After seeing the outrage from so many, ABC decided to pull the show indefinitely.

‘Viewers can continue to enjoy ABC programming while also providing full access to the special online.’

Sinclair had initially said that it would replace Kimmel’s late show with a tribute to Kirk on Friday.

But when the time came, Sinclair instead published a link to the tribute on YouTube and offered a statement explaining the decision.

“Tonight, Sinclair will continue to air ABC network programming as scheduled in the late-night time period,” read the statement. “The Charlie Kirk special will instead be available on ‘The National News Desk’s’ YouTube channel, ensuring viewers can continue to enjoy ABC programming while also providing full access to the special online.”

The hour-long video from “The National News Desk” documented the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk, as well as the rise of political violence in America.

Sinclair had said that the tribute would also be offered to ABC stations that Sinclair did not own. Many on the left attended protests against ABC demanding that Kimmel’s show be reinstated. Democrats in Congress have opened an investigation into Kimmel’s suspension.

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Sinclair Vice Chairman Jason Smith had previously released a statement excoriating Kimmel and explaining the company’s decision.

“Mr. Kimmel’s remarks were inappropriate and deeply insensitive at a critical moment for our country,” read his statement.

“We believe broadcasters have a responsibility to educate and elevate respectful, constructive dialogue in our communities,” he added.

“Regardless of ABC’s plans for the future of the program, Sinclair intends not to return ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ to our air until we are confident that appropriate steps have been taken to uphold the standards expected of a national broadcast platform.”

A memorial service for Charlie Kirk is being prepared State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday. President Donald Trump will speak at the memorial, as will Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, and Vice President JD Vance.

BlazeTV will offer exclusive streaming video from the event — here’s where you can watch.

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In 2021, a poll showed that only one-third (36%) of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 were “very” proud to be Americans. Another third stated they were only slightly or not at all proud of their country. Ten years earlier, Pew Research anticipated the trend when it noted that the rate of Millennials who called themselves “very patriotic” fell from 80% in 2003 to 70% in 2011.

Part of a national museum’s job is to prevent that outcome. Preserving the historical truth is a high purpose, but so is instilling the sentiment of gratitude. America’s museums can and should do both.

Visitors to the Smithsonian should leave the building with warm feelings of pride, thankfulness, and patriotism.

Instead, as of this writing, if you visit the home page of the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History, the very first exhibit you see is the Greensboro lunch counter from the famous sit-in of 65 years ago. The text introducing the exhibit gives visitors the first fact they are supposed to learn about the American past: “Racial segregation was still legal in the United States on February 1, 1960.”

The curators could have chosen something else as a first impression — a triumphant fact, not a guilty one. They could have highlighted America’s victory in the Cold War or the religious freedom and economic opportunity that drew the Puritans from England, the Irish during the famine of the 1840s, and Jews from Eastern Europe at the turn of the 20th century. Or they could have showcased the founding documents themselves, which have inspired Democratic reformers worldwide for 250 years. But they didn’t.

Beneath the photo of the lunch counter are three other objects chosen from the Smithsonian’s collections. One is the table on which women at Seneca Falls drafted a declaration of rights in 1848. The second is the 1861 badge of a member of a volunteer African-American firefighting company in Charleston, South Carolina. The third is a sign for a community center in Washington, D.C., founded in 1988 to serve pregnant Latina immigrants. For the needy, the ones battling for rights and freedom, women, and minorities, the theme is that American history is a tale of the identity-oppressed struggling to overcome their oppression.

Again, this is what the curators select as their introduction to the institution — and to America. They have a knack for creating accusatory first impressions.

‘Key concepts’

If you enter the museum building from the Mall side and pass through security, immediately to your right is a huge display window with a red banner behind it: “Fight the Virus, NOT the People.” Two lines of Cantonese script run below it. Above the banner are small signs in red and white that command, “STOP Asian Hate,” “STOP Racism,” “We Want Justice,” and “STOP Asian Bashing.”

The banner comes from a movement in San Francisco’s Chinatown after the COVID-19 outbreak of 2020, which led to the community “being shunned, even targeted,” according to the accompanying text. The curators go on to regret that “Asian Americans have been subject to racist scapegoating and violence so often in the past.”

Visitors from far and wide get the message as they pause in the lobby, often with kids in tow, and orient themselves to the collection: America is a place of racial danger. Even in a city as prosperous and liberal as San Francisco, Asian-Americans are not safe. The story told by the display is that their shaky status in a racist polity has produced a poignant plea we should all remember: “Stop the Hate!”

This is an ongoing trend. The Smithsonian’s National Youth Summit topic for 2020 was “Teen Resistance to Systemic Racism.” For 2021, it was “Gender Equity.” The museum’s education page has a “Becoming Us” resource that offers teachers case studies and lesson plans to foster “a more accurate and inclusive migration and immigration narrative.” Until recently, we are to assume, the narrative of immigration has been narrow and distorted. “Becoming Us” is a correction. Among the “Key concepts” students should absorb are:

“Race is a social construct.”“Arguments about national identity, security, and patriotism have been employed to target different groups at different times in U.S. history.”“Laws and policies are enacted to restrict, encourage, or reform migration in ways that exclude specific populations.”“The cultural diversity of the United States is similar to other nations around the world, particularly post-colonial nations, but also unique in important ways.”

It’s a characteristically tendentious layout. Arguments about security, for instance, are employed for many other reasons besides the persecution of disfavored demographic groups. A large exhibit gives visitors further reminders of American injustice. The entrance to the section on the Revolutionary War features a 1774 quotation from a freed black writer addressed to advocates of independence: “I need not point out the absurdity of your exertions for liberty, while you have slaves in your house.”

A few feet away, we learn that we shouldn’t celebrate the success of the American founding too much since “the Revolutionary promise was unclear. Women had few political rights, and girls’ education, when available, focused on domestic and social skills like needlework and dancing.” From there follows much more material on slavery before we turn to religion in the 19th century.

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Although the United States had extraordinary religious diversity and freedom relative to other nations in 1850, we fell short again according to a note on “Religious and Utopian Communities on the Mississippi.” It says, “Though the United States promised freedoms, those who practiced different religions and ways of life were not always accepted.”

The examples cited are Mormons and the Icarians, a group of European utopians. Then come the black, Japanese-American, and Mexican veterans, returning from war and “fighting for respect” at home. The Chinese were harassed in Chicago. The Mexicans were attacked in Los Angeles (ironically titled “Los Angeles — City of Promise”). And so on.

Miracle on Pennsylvania Ave.

The Trump administration has good reason to review the Smithsonian’s federal funding, critique its ideological agenda, and put pressure on it to change its ways. The Museum of American History has some wonderful installations, such as those showcasing actual battle conditions for American soldiers and the dresses of first ladies. But the identity tales are far too many, the resentment far too thick.

The curators can’t even report on the stunning success of the Broadway show “Hamilton” without an acerbic, identitarian edge: “Through rap and hip-hop — and non-white casting — ‘Hamilton’ made this history accessible and relatable to audiences of color and gave more people a sense of ownership of American history.”

“Becoming Us” speaks of a better “narrative,” which is clearly a counternarrative to American exceptionalism and American greatness, a story of broken promises, unequal rights, and too many white men. Despite the term “narrative,” the curators clearly consider it the indisputable truth. However, they may protest, they’re not really relativists — they’re realists.

National museums have a noble purpose, one parallel to that of the military. Soldiers maintain our security; curators maintain our patrimony.

The spread of woke historiography in the public sphere is a 21st-century phenomenon, but if you’ve been in academia, you’ve experienced it long before Black Lives Matter came along. I watched the slow occupation of the humanities during the ’80s and ’90s, as the World War II generation of professors retired and young ones took their place with an utterly different conception of what academic labor should be and do.

In a word, they added social change to disciplinary duties.

Officials in the museum and library world did the same, and they guard their positions today with zeal. These people leave no room open for debate. You can’t interact with those who think you’re lying. If you suggest a more positive vision of the American past, they peg you as an apologist, a chauvinist, or worse. They attribute selfish motives to you; they don’t believe you or trust your facts. Disagree with them and you get a condescending sneer.

These are the people who have seized our cultural and educational institutions, and they’re not going to let go just because you have persuasive evidence.

A national obligation

Of course, a national museum can’t operate this way. It has an obligation to represent the country in an honest but appreciative light. Visitors to the Smithsonian should leave the building with warm feelings of pride, thankfulness, and patriotism. Less victimhood, with its unsettling mix of resentment and sentimentality, more heroism and celebration. The overall approach to America should be exactly what President Donald Trump laid out in his July 4, 2020, speech at Mount Rushmore. At the very words “Fourth of July,” he said, “every American heart should swell with pride.”

Trump positioned 1776 as the continuation of “thousands of years of Western civilization” and set his sights on an “unstoppable march of freedom” from that year forward. He cited the violence and vandalism of that dark summer of 2020 and tied it to “years of extreme indoctrination and bias in education, journalism, and other cultural institutions.” He elaborated:

Our children are taught in school to hate their own country and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but were villains. … All perspective is removed, every virtue is obscured, every motive is twisted, every fact is distorted, and every flaw is magnified.

The president’s response to those trends wasn’t a counter-critique. It was a barrage of counterexamples: the leadership of George Washington, the brilliance of Thomas Jefferson, the convictions of Abraham Lincoln, the courage of Teddy Roosevelt, our religious principles, the uplifting message of Martin Luther King Jr., the Wright brothers, Clara Barton, the Hoover Dam, the Manhattan skyline, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Irving Berlin, Ella Fitzgerald, the Ford F-150. These are the proper ingredients of the Smithsonian collections, placed up front where they belong.

Again, parts of the Museum of American History showcase some of those very American idols. But others downplay or dismiss them. The museum’s installations and web pages are a lighter version of the woke lessons that you hear in American Studies classrooms in higher education and find in social studies learning standards in blue states. They aren’t outright anti-American — they are only critical of “greatness” and “exceptionalism.” But that’s enough to justify action.

“Americans must never lose sight of this miraculous story,” Trump concluded at Mount Rushmore. The presentation by the museum is designed to obscure and diminish that miraculous side of things.

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A noble purpose

A nation cannot thrive if its citizens have no civic pride and patriotic devotion. They won’t defend its borders or work for the national interest. A guilty past weakens the present. People want to believe that their home is a joyful, virtuous place. The shadow of a shameful heritage blunts their confidence. They’re in a culture war without sufficient arms. It is not too cynical to think that this is one intention of the curators.

National museums have a noble purpose, one parallel to that of the military. Soldiers maintain our security; curators maintain our patrimony. If the president manages to orient the Smithsonian to American greatness, academics and journalists, as well as scholarly associations, will grumble and condemn. Charges of whitesplaining, bigotry, propaganda, racism, and xenophobia will follow. So what? Just do it — the people will cheer.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published at the American Mind.

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A woman said that she was sexually assaulted at gunpoint before she was able to retrieve her own gun and shoot the accused rapist, according to Indiana police.

The victim said that she was assaulted at her residence on Meadowlark Drive Tuesday afternoon on the northeast side of Indianapolis, according to court documents.

‘We’re grateful the victim came forward and spoke with detectives, and we were able to get a violent offender off the streets because of that.’

She said that she was forced to have sex at gunpoint with the male, who was also recording the assault on his cell phone.

When the man left the home, she got her gun and shot at him. She appeared to have shot the back window of a blue Toyota that was parked on an adjacent street.

A neighbor called police, and the victim identified the alleged attacker as 23-year-old Trevon Haynes.

“I know this was a very terrifying situation for this victim, but we’re grateful the victim came forward and spoke with detectives, and we were able to get a violent offender off the streets because of that,” said IMPD Sgt. Amanda Hibschman to WTTV-TV.

About an hour later, a Speedway police officer noticed a car on Lynhurst Drive with its hazard lights flashing and saw that the driver had been shot in the leg. Haynes was arrested, and police said they found a firearm in the car.

He was charged with rape, intimidation, and burglary, while being armed with a deadly weapon.

The WTTV report noted that officers did not indicate whether the two people knew each other before the alleged assault.

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The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office will decide ultimately what official charges will be filed against him.

“Our officers couldn’t have done this without the community coming forward,” Hibschman added. “All of that together and the community cooperation was huge in getting the suspect off the streets so quickly.”

Haynes had not been charged with any crime prior to the assault incident.

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The announcement that Charlie Kirk had died was public for all of 10 seconds before the ghouls set in to try to destroy his legacy. It wasn’t enough to label him a racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic white supremacist. They had to make up bald-faced lies about him, twisting his words to paint him as the nazi they believe all conservatives are.

Now, those lies, which are circulating like wildfire, are being used to justify his murder. It’s grotesque to the highest decree because the truth is: Charlie Kirk was above reproach.

On a recent episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn debunked the five biggest lies about his dear friend.

Lie #1: Charlie Kirk endorsed the enslavement of black people

One of the lies currently making the rounds is that Charlie Kirk said, “Black people were better off in slavery.”

Charlie, of course, never uttered any such statement endorsing slavery or suggesting that black people are deserving of or suited for it. On the contrary, Charlie made it clear that the enslavement of any man is evil.

What he did say, however, was that the black family was fairing better before the passage of the Civil Rights Act, which ended the Jim Crow era. “And it was!” says Glenn, a history aficionado. In those days, divorce rates were lower, fathers were more present in the home, and the crime rate was lower in the black community. Statistics prove that following the Civil Rights Movement, divorce rates among black couples surged, as did crime rates.

Glenn’s theory is that the Civil Rights Movement was spearheaded by progressives who wanted to oppress the black community, but instead of denying rights, they targeted the family. According to his hypothesis, President Lyndon B. Johnson, who he reminds was “the biggest racist up until he died,” packaged his Great Society — Medicare, Medicaid, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and expanded welfare programs — as a means of tackling poverty and racial injustice in order to conceal his true intentions: enslave black people financially.

“The Great Society did more damage to the black family than anybody could have done outside of Margaret Sanger. I think that’s what [Charlie] meant,” says Glenn.

Lie #2: Charlie Kirk said black women are intellectually inferior

Many progressive are falsely claiming that Charlie Kirk said all black women are inferior intellectually. This is a distortion of a comment the Turning Point USA founder said on “The Charlie Kirk Show” in 2023 following the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and UNC, in which the court declared that affirmative action violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

Kirk called out Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Ketanji Brown Jackson — all of whom had admitted that their success was only made possible by affirmative action.

“All of them basically confessed, ‘Yeah, I was an affirmative action person, and I’m proud of it.’ This is how arrogant Joy Reid and Ketanji Brown Jackson and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee are. They’re like, ‘Yeah, I took your slot.’ They do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously, but they had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously,” Kirk said.

Never once did he say or even imply that all black women are intellectually inferior. “Criticizing four members of a group does not mean you’re criticizing the group,” says Glenn’s co-host Stu Burguiere.

To suggest that he called all black women dumb is “so incredibly dishonest,” says Glenn.

Lie #3: Charlie Kirk said gun deaths are worth protecting the Second Amendment

Another quote that’s making the rounds is Charlie’s comment following the Nashville school shooting. At a TPUSA event in Salt Lake City, he was asked about defending Second Amendment rights against gun control advocates.

In response, he said, “You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won’t have a single gun death. That is nonsense. It’s drivel. But I am — I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”

He then gave the example of deaths related to car accidents. “We have determined as a society that it is worth it to have cars, even though 40,000 people die every single year in car accidents.”

Lefties are using this cogent argument to suggest that Kirk’s death was deserved, but the joke is on them. “Even what occurred last week would not change [Charlie’s] mind on [the Second Amendment],” says Stu.

“The other thing that’s important here to understand is if you did eliminate all guns, you would not eliminate all murders,” he adds.

Lie #4: Charlie Kirk used an Asian slur

Perhaps the most egregious lie circulating among lefties is that Charlie used the racial slur “c***k” to refer to an Asian woman. A deceptively edited video from a 2018 Politicon event shows Charlie using the word repeatedly.

Except the word he was actually saying was “Cenk.” Charlie was engaged in a heated exchange with socialist progressive Cenk Uygur, co-host of “The Young Turks.” The maliciously edited video aimed to paint him as a racist and give progressives justification for celebrating his death.

Stu and Glenn can’t help but laugh at the radical left’s pathetic desperation to defame its political enemy. “I mean, that’s just so bad,” says Stu.

Lie #5: Charlie Kirk advocated for stoning gay people

Following Kirk’s death, renowned horror novelist Stephen King responded to a tweet from Fox News’ Jesse Watters calling Kirk a “patriot,” saying, “He advocated stoning gays to death. Just sayin’.”

However, he quickly deleted the post and issued an apology when the facts surfaced. Kirk never once advocated for killing anyone in the LGBTQ+ community. King’s lie originates from a 2024 episode of “The Charlie Kirk Show” when Kirk called out children’s YouTuber Ms. Rachel for citing “love thy neighbor” as justification for supporting Pride Month and LGBTQ+ inclusion as a Christian.

Kirk argued that true love means telling people the “truth” about sin rather than affirming it, accusing Ms. Rachel of cherry-picking scripture by ignoring the context of God’s laws on sexual morality. To illustrate his point, he pointed to Leviticus, which calls homosexuality an abomination punishable by death.

Kirk’s point was that God clearly sees homosexuality as sin — not that gay people should be killed.

The truth, says Stu, is that if there was any legitimate dirt on Charlie Kirk, progressives wouldn’t have to resort to these distortions.

Charlie was “a guy who worked hard to debate people, who tried to practice politics and civic life the right way, who tried to be a shining light for his faith, which was vitally important to him and his family,” he says, but “if that vision of Charlie Kirk was false, you wouldn’t need to go to these things. You could come up with 50 different things he said that were really offensive. Instead what you come up with are lies because that’s what you’re in the business of.”

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Across the United States, staged crashes, road-rage incidents, and hit-and-run damage are on the rise. Unfortunately, if you get sideswiped, brake-checked, or bumped, you have little legal recourse if you can’t prove what happened.

This is where a dash camera comes in handy. In recent years the category has evolved from a niche gadget to an essential everyday driving tool. The primary value of a dashcam is simple: It provides evidence that both law enforcement and insurance companies can use in deciding your case.

In case you haven’t seen one for a while, modern dashcams have advanced far beyond the single-lens models of the past. One affordable option I recommend is the VIOFO A329S 3CH dashcam.

It features a true 4K front camera, rear camera, and a infrared fish-eye cabin camera with a 210-degree ultra-wide view — sufficient coverage to ensure that everything from road collisions to interior activity is captured in detail.

The Sony STARVIS 2 sensors under the hood allow the A329S to deliver sharp, balanced footage in both bright daylight and low-light conditions. The cabin camera includes four infrared LEDs, enabling clear recording even at night — a feature especially valuable for rideshare drivers or anyone frequently on the road after dark.

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A diabolical sextortion scheme targeting “potentially several hundred” victims has been exposed, according to law enforcement in New York.

The months-long investigation began in February and focused on the Fieldstone Middle School, which is located in the Haverstraw hamlet of Thiells — just a little over 10 miles north of the New Jersey border and about an hour north of Yonkers.

‘Please encourage your children to come forward because there is certainly no shame in coming forward and bringing this to a trusted adult, so please let us know, let a trusted adult know.’

Law enforcement said several alleged victims came forward to report the appalling allegations to school administrators.

The Stony Point Police Department said in a statement, “The investigation was launched after victims at Fieldstone Middle School reported to their school resource officer and school administrators that they were being coerced online.”

Police said “approximately six victims have come forward” but noted that investigators “have reason to believe there are potentially several hundred additional victims who may not yet have reported their experiences.”

Police said the alleged victims — males under the age of 16 — communicated with someone online who claimed to be a female, according to the New York Post.

“They were requested for pictures, videos of themselves, to be sent, and then they were requested that if they didn’t [send] more that the pictures and videos would be sent to their friend groups,” Det. Andrew Kryger of the Stony Point Police Department told WABC-TV.

What’s more, the news outlet reported that the “female” is actually a male who demanded payment in the form of gift cards for “typically less than $100.”

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The alleged suspect of the sinister sextortion scam was out of the country when authorities identified him, but he recently returned to the U.S. — to attend Fieldstone Middle School in the fall, WABC reported.

The suspect — who was not identified because he’s underage — was charged with use of a child in a sexual performance, promoting a sexual performance by a child, and possessing a sexual performance by a child. All the charges are felonies.

“This case highlights both the serious dangers our children face online and the extraordinary bravery of students who came forward,” the Stony Point Police Department stated. “This crime is extremely serious and involves the victimization of students within our community.”

The Stony Point Police Department added that “police officials stress that sextortion is not only a local issue, but a global problem fueled by social media. Many parents may be unaware of the extent of these dangers. It is essential to create safe, judgment-free environments where children feel comfortable reporting concerns.”

The Stony Point Police Department, the Haverstraw Police Department, and the North Rockland School District plan to host a forum to provide parents and students with “resources on sextortion awareness.”

North Rockland Central School District Superintendent Kris Felicello advised parents, “Please encourage your children to come forward because there is certainly no shame in coming forward and bringing this to a trusted adult, so please let us know, let a trusted adult know.”

Police are urging anyone with information on this case to contact Det. Kryger at 845-786-2422.

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The memorial service for Charlie Kirk will commence on Sunday at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, and BlazeTV will be there.

The event is titled “Building a Legacy: Remembering Charlie Kirk,” and will begin at 11 a.m. local time, which is 2 p.m. ET.

‘I will never, ever have the words to describe the loss that I feel in my heart. I honestly have no idea what any of this means. I know that God does, but I don’t.’

The 31-year-old conservative activist was struck down by an assassin’s bullet while debating students at his national campus tour on Sept. 10 at Utah Valley University.

President Donald Trump will speak at the memorial, along with Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, and Vice President JD Vance.

Other speakers include White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump Jr., Tucker Carlson, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.

BlazeTV will be covering the memorial service with video and attendee interviews on BlazeTV (24/7), as well as other platforms including Pluto, Facebook, X, and YouTube.

Also scheduled are Christian worship singers including Chris Tomlin, Brandon Lake, Phil Wickham, Kari Jobe Carnes, and Cody Carnes.

RELATED: Liberal arts college student cites Mao in video calling for more political assassinations after Charlie Kirk

Those wishing to attend the memorial service in Arizona can register at the Turning Point USA website, but it is not a ticketed event; it is first come, first served. Some important information for those who want to attend:

Parking lot opens at 7:00 a.m. There is limited parking — use rideshare or carpool.Doors open at 8:00 a.m.No personal items allowed.One 16-ounce bottle of water allowed per person.Overflow crowds will be sent to Desert Diamond Arena.No camping out allowed.

“This event is first come, first served based on stadium capacity,” read a TPUSA statement. “Please be advised that enhanced security measures are in place, which may result in longer wait times than usual.”

State Farm Stadium is the home of the Arizona Cardinals football team and usually accommodates 63,400 attendees, but it can be expanded to 73,000. Law enforcement said that no drones are allowed in the area — if they see any drones, they will be taken out.

Erika Kirk gave her first public comments on Sept. 12, two days after the death of her husband.

“My husband laid down his life for me, for our nation, for our children,” she said tearfully.

“I will never, ever have the words to describe the loss that I feel in my heart. I honestly have no idea what any of this means. I know that God does, but I don’t.”

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The revelation that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” has been indefinitely suspended by ABC has Democrats in an uproar. Free speech is suddenly of the utmost importance to people like Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Chris Hayes, Harry Sisson, and of, course, the late-night pontificator himself.

But a trip down memory lane exposes their hypocrisy. Just a couple of years ago, these same four people were reveling in the deplatforming of their political enemies.

Sara Gonzales, BlazeTV host of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered,” has the receipts to prove it.

1. Senate’s sanctimonious squire

On September 17, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer appeared on CNN’s “OutFront with Erin Burnett” and bemoaned Kimmel’s suspension as anti-democratic.

“This is just despicable, disgusting, and against Democratic values. Trump and his allies seem to want to shut down speech that they don’t like to hear. That is not what democracies do. That is what autocracies do,” said the career swamp-dweller. “And it doesn’t matter whether you agree with Kimmel or not. He has the right to free speech. … This is what dictators do. This is what Xi [Jinping] would do. This is what Putin would do.”

But just two years earlier, Schumer was more than happy to urge Fox News to fire Tucker Carlson for sharing his opinions.

“Rupert Murdoch, who has admitted they were lies and said he regretted it, has a special obligation to stop Tucker Carlson from going on tonight now that he’s seen how he has perverted and slimed the truth. … Not because their views deserve such opprobrium, but because our democracy depends on it,” he said.

“Oh! Our democracy depends on shutting people up except when they’re our people, and then it’s unheard of,” mocks Sara.

2. Cable’s crocodile-tear crusader

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes also lamented Kimmel’s suspension. On September 17, the bespectacled ideologue whined about Trump: “ABC made the announcement that Kimmel would indeed be taken off the air indefinitely, and this is just the latest chapter in Donald Trump’s ongoing campaign to crack down on free speech, dominate the media, and essentially render the First Amendment meaningless.”

But in 2023, Hayes, like Schumer, celebrated Tucker’s ousting. “So it was for the journeyman cable news host Tucker Carlson just fired from his third network. He believed he could say anything no matter how vile, no matter how disgusting, no matter how offensive, no matter how dehumanizing or belittling, and if you act like a sociopath over and over and over and over, you will become unpopular on the national stage.”

“Yeah, if you immediately spew a bunch of lies and incorrect and false rhetoric about an innocent man who was publicly executed in front of a bunch of college kids, you’re probably a sociopath who deserves to be deplatformed,” says Sara.

3. Gen Z’s waffling wonderkid

22-year-old Democrat activist Harry Sisson is fitting right in with his party’s selective outrage. The TikTok soapboxer’s recent X post lamenting Kimmel’s suspension as an attack on free speech starkly contrasts with his 2022 glee over Trump’s Twitter ban.

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“We are witnessing the most brazen attack on free speech in modern American history?” asks Sara, quoting Sisson’s recent X post. “I would say that that was when Charlie Kirk got killed for speaking. I would say that that’s when Charlie Kirk got a bullet in his neck and died. I would call that the most brazen attack on free speech in modern American history.”

4. Hollywood’s smirking sellout

And last but certainly not least, Jimmy Kimmel ironically celebrated Tucker Carlson’s departure from Fox News.

“Fox News has severed bow ties with Tucker Carlson after all these years. They are parting ways, which means he was fired,” Kimmel smugly chimed.

“He’s already on a plane to Moscow to meet with his manager. But what a shock. I mean, what an absolutely delightful shock this is. … Sadly, he’s probably not done poisoning old people’s brains. The question now is where will he do it next? Will he go to OAN? Will he go to Newsmax? Will he crawl back up Satan’s fiery B-hole from whence he came? We don’t know. One of the most despicable mothertuckers ever to appear on American television.”

Now, with his own show silenced, Kimmel must be choking on a heaping serving of crow. Turns out deplatforming tastes a lot less funny when it’s your punch line that’s getting canceled.

“These people are so ghoulish. … They don’t care about the First Amendment. They don’t care about free speech. These are the same people who were perfectly fine with the Biden regime going in and telling Mark Zuckerberg over at Facebook ‘you need to censor these people’s posts.’”

To see the then vs. now clips and hear more of Sara’s scathing commentary, watch the episode above.

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As immigration detention centers sprout up over the country and deportations continue, the Trump administration is setting its sights on another important immigration issue: H-1B visas.

According to a Bloomberg report, Trump plans to sign a proclamation as early as Friday that would overhaul the H-1B visa program, one of the most heavily exploited visa programs in the government.

155,205 out of 189,404 H-1B cases originated from India.

Citing a White House official, the report details that the proclamation would add a $100,000 fee to H-1B visa applications. The official added that the proclamation would restrict entry under the H-1B program unless accompanied by the payment.

The H-1B visa program has famously been known to pull heavily from India and is exploited disproportionately in the technology sector of the economy. The official stated that the proclamation would be in place in order to stop the flow of H-1B workers, who have undercut the American worker.

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According to available government data from roughly the past five years, 155,205 out of 189,404 H-1B cases originated from India. China came in second place at 28,969 visas.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the report on X, posting a link to the Bloomberg article with its headline, “Trump to Add New $100,000 Fee for H-1B Visas in Latest Crackdown,” as the caption.

Fees directly tied to the H-1B visa application are, per Bloomberg, rather “modest.” The fee to register for the lottery is just $215, and while other fees can sometimes bring the total to as much as $10,000, those costs are almost always borne by the employer.

In tandem with the proclamation, Trump is expected to order Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer to further overhaul the visa program to root out fraud and abuse in the current system.

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The Oversight Project is unleashing a new campaign to urge the FBI to declare transgender ideology, motivated violence, and extremism as domestic terrorism — and Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, believes the move couldn’t be more necessary.

“It’s a terrible and growing sustained trend in American life right now. The transgender ideology-inspired violence and extremism is now domestic terrorism,” Howell tells BlazeTV host Jill Savage on “Blaze News: The Mandate.”

To best explain the phenomena, Howell believes one must “go back 10 years.”

“When then-candidate Trump was running for president, one of his chief criticisms of then-President Obama was that Obama refused to say the words ‘radical Islamic extremism.’ So Trump took him to task over and over again,” Howell explains.

According to Howell, Trump was essentially making the case “that if you can’t define the enemy, you cannot defeat the enemy.”

“President Trump was right then, but now there’s another enemy on the scene. And it’s beyond obvious that transgender ideology is inspiring a very specific type of domestic terrorism,” he says.

This has been made abundantly clear via recent school shootings and, even more recently, through the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

“My colleague Roger Severino has an estimate out there: 50% of school mass shootings over the last 10 years have come from transgender ideologically motivated individuals. These are people who believe that if you do not affirm their gender identity or whatever their delusions are, that you are harming them physically, that it is a violent event,” he explains.

“Therefore, in their minds, their illogical and mentally ill minds, they can justify their own violence against others,” he says, adding, “That is a specific form of domestic terrorism that we’re seeing emerge, and it is time for the government to diagnose this.”

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A network of liberal nonprofits and charities is in panic mode after several statements from President Donald Trump and his allies signal that they will use the power of the government to seek out and crush the political opposition.

A letter from liberal activist Norm Eisen of the Democracy Defenders Action sounded the alarm to the nonprofits about the threat and asked groups to sign a statement in defense of each other. The letter was published by the Free Press.

‘This moment of tragedy does not call for exploiting a horrific act to further deepen our divides and make us less safe. It calls for unity — unity against violence and unity of purpose as Americans.’

“We the undersigned unequivocally condemn the murder of Charlie Kirk and all forms of political violence. There is simply no place for such actions in the United States,” the letter read.

“Political violence has targeted those of every political persuasion and of no political persuasion,” the letter continued. “It is un-American and wrong to use this act of violence as a pretext for weaponizing the government to threaten nonprofit and charitable organizations, other perceived adversaries, or any class of people. They did not commit this murder, and the vast powers of the government should not be abused to threaten their constitutionally protected free speech and other rights.”

A U.S. official at the Department of Justice told the Free Press that officials are more eager to seek out leftist groups after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Trump has said that the government will investigate whether leftist billionaire George Soros has been funding radical left-wing protests.

Eisen went on in the letter to defend the efforts of nonprofits as productive and positive.

“Nonprofit and charitable organizations support critical services to our nation — working with faith communities, caring for vulnerable populations, upholding the Constitution, defending the rule of law and much more. Attacks on nonprofits and charities threaten that essential work happening everywhere across our country,” he wrote.

“We implore the government to cease its escalation of political division, and stop the unjustified targeting of organizations and people in the wake of this terrible act of political violence,” he added. “This moment of tragedy does not call for exploiting a horrific act to further deepen our divides and make us less safe. It calls for unity — unity against violence and unity of purpose as Americans.”

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The president has already taken action in the effort to root out liberal political groups.

On Wednesday, Trump said Antifa, which he described as a “SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER,” would be designated as a “MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.”

He added that he would strongly recommend “those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices.”

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Legal documents show that federal authorities knew the man who tried to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh identifies as a transgender person.

Online posts by Nicholas John Roske had previously hinted at his gender confusion, as reported by Blaze News three years ago, but new documents obtained by the Daily Wire confirm that he is a member of the LGBTQ+ movement.

‘This attempt against the life of a Supreme Court Justice was an attack on the entire judicial system that cannot go unpunished.’

In June 2022, Roske was caught by police officers carrying a bag of weapons and burglary tools near Kavanaugh’s home after he was turned away by the presence of security guards. He admitted that the leaked draft version of a Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade had spurred him to action against the conservative justice.

Three years later in April, the man pleaded guilty to attempted murder and now faces the possibility of life in prison.

The documents obtained by the Daily Wire show that Roske’s defense attorneys notified the court that he now goes by “Sophie Roske” and that his legal team will use his preferred female pronouns.

“The case is captioned as United States v. Nicholas John Roske,” his attorneys wrote. “That name remains Ms. Roske’s legal name, and she has not asked to recaption the case. Out of respect for Ms. Roske, the balance of this pleading and counsel’s in-court argument will refer to her as Sophie and use female pronouns.”

RELATED: Suspected assassin Tyler Robinson allegedly made startling confession in online message

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi released a statement about the trans-identity development.

“This attempt against the life of a Supreme Court Justice was an attack on the entire judicial system that cannot go unpunished,” Bondi said to the Daily Wire. “This Department of Justice condemns political violence and our prosecutors will ensure that this disturbed individual faces severe consequences for his deranged actions.”

Attorneys for the Justice Dept. argued that Roske deserves a sentence of no less than 30 years in prison.

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One of the co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s has quit, claiming that the ice cream maker has been “silenced” by the parent company.

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield has resigned from the company because he was being “muzzled” by Unilever and the Magnum Ice Cream Company.

‘Standing up for the values of justice, equity, and our shared humanity has never been more important, and yet Ben & Jerry’s has been silenced, sidelined for fear of upsetting those in power.’

“It’s with a broken heart that I’ve decided I can no longer, in good conscience, and after 47 years, remain an employee of Ben & Jerry’s,” said a statement released on the X social media platform.

“I am resigning from the company Ben and I started back in 1978. This is one of the hardest and most painful decisions I’ve ever made,” the statement from Greenfield began. “This isn’t because I’ve lost my love for the people at Ben & Jerry’s. Quite the opposite.”

Greenfield claimed that Unilever promised to allow the progressive ice cream brand to continue to spout social justice talking points.

According to CNN, “British-based Unilever bought Ben & Jerry’s ice cream for $326 million in 2000 but allowed the company to operate independently and continue its social mission without interference from its new parent company.”

Greenfield said that he and his partner, Ben Cohen, “stood up and spoke out in support of peace, justice, and human rights, not as abstract concepts, but in relation to real events happening in our world.”

However, the co-founder now claims that their independence has been taken away, which has been “profoundly disappointing.”

Greenfield asserted, “And it’s happening at a time when our country’s current administration is attacking civil rights, voting rights, the rights of immigrants, women, and the LGBTQ community.”

“Standing up for the values of justice, equity, and our shared humanity has never been more important, and yet Ben & Jerry’s has been silenced, sidelined for fear of upsetting those in power,” he continued. “It’s easy to stand up and speak out when there’s nothing at risk. The real test of values is when times are challenging and you have something to lose.”

Greenfield added, “Love, equity, justice. They’re part of who Ben and I are, and they’ve always been the true foundation of Ben & Jerry’s. From the very beginning, Ben and I believed that our values and the pursuit of justice were more important than the company itself. If the company couldn’t stand up for the things we believed, then it wasn’t worth being a company at all.”

“It was always about more than just ice cream; it was a way to spread love and invite others into the fight for equity, justice, and a better world,” he said.

“Coming to the conclusion that this is no longer possible at Ben & Jerry’s means I can no longer remain part of Ben & Jerry’s,” Greenfield concluded. “If I can’t carry those values forward inside the company today, then I will carry them forward outside, with all the love and conviction I can.”

RELATED: Ben & Jerry’s blasted for spreading misinformation about Kyle Rittenhouse, inventing hypothetical scenario to bring race into the case

Cohen added, “After 47 years, Jerry has made the difficult decision to step down from the company we built together. I’m sharing his words as he resigns from Ben & Jerry’s. His legacy deserves to be true to our values, not silenced by Magnum Global.”

Cohen also demanded that Ben & Jerry’s be “free” to speak out on political and social issues.

Cohen told NBC News, “Jerry has a really big heart. This conflict with Unilever has been tearing him apart for quite some time now. I think this is the right move for Jerry.”

“Jerry felt like the values are getting muzzled by Unilever and now Magnum, and he couldn’t stand it. So he’s decided to resign,” Cohen stated.

CNBC reported, “A Unilever spokesperson said the company disagreed with Greenfield’s perspective and that it had sought to ‘engage both co-founders in a constructive conversation on how to strengthen Ben & Jerry’s powerful values-based position.'”

The Unilever spokesperson stated, “We remain committed to Ben & Jerry’s unique three-part mission — product, economic, and social — and remain focused on carrying forward the legacy of peace, love, and ice cream of this iconic, much-loved brand. Ben & Jerry’s is a proud and thriving part of the Magnum Ice Cream Company, and we look forward to further building on its success.”

The Magnum Ice Cream Company has already begun the process of separating from Unilever, and the demerger process is expected to be completed by mid-November 2025.

Besides being progressive mouthpieces, Greenfield and Cohen have been outspoken critics of Israel.

As Blaze News reported in July 2021, the Vermont-based ice cream company proclaimed that its ice cream would no longer be sold in “Occupied Palestinian Territory” belonging to Israel.

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Charlie Kirk’s memorial hasn’t even happened yet, and already the left has found its own martyr in Jimmy Kimmel. The late night “comedy” show, which had already seen its ratings fall to abysmal levels, was suspended after Kimmel’s hateful and inaccurate remark about Charlie Kirk’s alleged murderer, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, being a member of the “MAGA gang.” He also accused Republicans of politicizing the tragedy to “score political points.”

“It says an awful lot about the left that they’re so concerned about Jimmy Kimmel, and now Jimmy Kimmel is the victim in this Charlie Kirk thing,” says Glenn Beck, calling it “gross and offensive.”

But instead of apologizing for spreading a categorically false statement (Robinson’s own family has confirmed his radical leftism), Kimmel is apparently going to “double down” on his political commentary at a new job.

What we are experiencing is a “great sifting,” says Glenn. “You now know who the people are that celebrate death.”

The latest example, of course, is the ghouls cheering Charlie Kirk’s assassination, but they’ve shown their true colors many times before. Whether it was Hamas’ brutal slaughtering of innocent people on October 7, the monsters behind “shout your abortion” and similar pro-choice campaigns, the countless people who heroized Luigi Mangione for allegedly murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, or the cold-blooded fiends who lamented that Thomas Matthew Crooks’ bullet missed its mark, there’s no denying the stark line in the sand between them and us.

While this sorting is scary, Glenn says it’s ultimately a positive thing. “I’d like to know those who are so misguided, so misinformed, and so on the wrong track that they have made me an enemy. They’re not my enemies. They’re enemies of God and God’s principles in freedom, and God will sort all that out. We just have to stand up for what we know is right and never ever give in,” he says.

As lies circulate — like the recent rumor that Charlie’s own people killed him — we need to be armed with the truth. “You just have to speak the truth relentlessly and with peace because they will certainly destroy themselves in their arrogance.”

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Anti-ICE protesters were back outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility located near Chicago in Broadview, Illinois, on Friday. Tensions in the metro area are higher since Operation Midway Blitz, the Trump administration’s enhanced crackdown in Chicago, is now fully underway.

Similar to the previous week, the crowd blocked road access to the ICE site, forcing ICE’s Special Response Team and Border Patrol agents to move people away to allow vehicles to leave the scene.

One man allegedly threw a tear gas canister, and another person allegedly bum-rushed the agents arresting the first man.

Among the agitators were Democratic House candidates Daniel Biss and Kat Abughazaleh, who are running to replace outgoing Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Il.) in the 9th congressional district. Biss is the current mayor of Evanston, and Abughazaleh used to work for far-left media watchdog group Media Matters for America.

A video posted by Biss shows he was active in the crowd’s attempt to use their bodies to stop a federal vehicle from leaving the facility’s driveway. Tear gas and pepper balls were used by federal agents to clear the road.

“We. will. not. be. intimidated,” Biss further posted on X.

Abughazaleh posted video from earlier in the morning when a federal agent was forced to haul her away from the driveway after she refused to move. Abughazaleh then appeared to slip and landed on the ground with a tremendous thud.

RELAED: ICE agent ‘seriously injured,’ suspect dead in Chicago operation gone wrong

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“This is what it looks like when ICE violates our First Amendment rights,” Abughazaleh whined.

“What ICE just did to me was a violent abuse of power — and it’s still nothing compared to what they’re doing to immigrant communities. I’ve been fighting the right as a journalist and now I’m running for Congress to do the same in D.C.,” Abughazaleh continued before posting a link for people to donate to her campaign.

The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication.

Unlike last week when Blaze News was present for protests, federal agents on Friday took at least two rioters into custody. One man allegedly threw a tear gas canister, and another person allegedly bum-rushed the agents arresting the first man.

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Some feminist.

Jon Stewart normally works the Monday beat at “The Daily Show” as part of his modest comeback tour. The faux anchor decided to pick up an extra shift this week, eager to weigh in ASAP on the suspension of fellow far-left talker Jimmy Kimmel.

Joaquin Phoenix, Cillian Murphy, Sharon Horgan, Steve Coogan, and Peter Gabriel are among the participants in a new activist video promoting … wait for it … Palestine.

He knows how much his country needs him, and it couldn’t wait until Monday. Bless his heart.

And, in the process, Stewart bumped the person who was slated to sit in the anchor chair. That’s Desi Lydic, who just won her second Emmy mere days ago for her work on the show.

Must be nice to be a progressive hero who can mansplain to a successful woman why he needs to take the big seat at a moment’s notice …

Rainning it in

Dwight keeps making sense.

Actor Rainn Wilson from “The Office” is a curious figure in Hollywood. He’s spiritual, but not a Christian. He’s left of center, but not someone decrying the rise of “fascism” every five minutes.

And most shocking of all, he’s aghast that some of his fellow liberals have souls so small you can’t see them without a microscope.

Wilson shared the reaction he saw from some fellow liberals after they learned that conservative icon Charlie Kirk was murdered by a leftist. We’ll let him share more:

I spoke to a couple of — let’s say liberal friends — at an event … and they were like, ‘You won’t find me shedding any tears.’

It was a little bit of a good-riddance thing, and it’s like, ‘Guys, NO!’

We cannot think or talk that way. That is not OK.”

He’s right, but it’s often the norm on the far-left side of the aisle, alas …

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Mostly piecemeal protests

Variety’s photo editors got a workout this week.

Kimmel’s firing sparked a passionate protest outside Disney offices in New York and Burbank, or so we were told. The scribe assigned to the story used all the rhetorical tricks possible to play up the outrage, with foreboding phrasing like “Disney faced the consequences of its decision …” and “The crowds slammed ABC, Disney, and Brendan Carr.”

The images told the real story – tightly cropped photographs that hid the scope of the protests. This story mentioned 200 people. A separate story said 300 people showed up.

Disney is quaking in its boots, no doubt. The walls are most certainly closing in …

‘Imagine’ there’s no audience

Here we go again.

Remember all those celebrity videos where the stars assembled for the current thing? No makeup. Robotic phrase repetition. Faces you’ve never seen before among some legit stars. Exhausting.

The worst of the worst? The BLM-era “I Take Responsibility” cringe-fest featuring Aaron Paul, Kristen Bell, and Stanley Tucci.

Et tu, Stanley?

That Gal Gadot “Imagine” sing-along during the pandemic was a close second. Even liberals loathed that one, offering a rare moment of bipartisan agreement.

Maybe that’s why we didn’t get many, if any, during the 2024 presidential campaign.

But now? They’re ba-ack.

Joaquin Phoenix, Cillian Murphy, Sharon Horgan, Steve Coogan, and Peter Gabriel are among the participants in a new activist video promoting … wait for it … Palestine.

“We have to tell the truth on behalf of the people of Palestine,” Brian Cox says in the clip. U.S. photographer Nan Goldin adds, “It’s always been the artist’s role in society to speak out, to risk speaking truth to power.”

Risk? Being pro-Palestine is the trendiest thing to do in celebrity circles. Shout “Free Palestine” and expect your agent’s phone to buzz and buzz.

Cheno-wimp out

Try sharing some heartfelt thoughts for the late Charlie Kirk. Wait: Kristin Chenoweth did just that, and she had to quasi-backpedal later.

I’m sorry if emotion gets involved here, forgive me. I saw what happened online with my own eyes, and I had a human moment of reflection right then. I came to understand that my comment hurt some folks, and that hurt me so badly. I would never. It’s no secret that I’m a Christian, that I’m a person of faith. It’s also no secret that I am an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community, and for some, that doesn’t go together. But for me, it always has and it always will.

Here’s a thought: Why not grieve the death of a father and husband, gunned down in cold blood in front of his wife and daughter, without feeling the need to explain yourself to the raging, unhinged leftists who follow you on social media?

For a Hollywood star like Chenoweth, that would be speaking truth to power.

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While Jimmy Kimmel looks for something to do on Friday night, many of the television stations that used to broadcast his suspended show will instead air a tribute to Charlie Kirk.

‘Mr. Kimmel’s remarks were inappropriate and deeply insensitive at a critical moment for our country.’

The Sinclair Broadcast Group is the largest owner of ABC-affiliated stations, 30 in all, and it is behind the push to show a Kirk tribute.

A statement from Sinclair said that all of its stations will air the tribute in Kimmel’s time slot and that it would offer the tribute to other ABC stations as well.

A list of the Sinclair-owned ABC stations is available to search here.

After finding whether there is a local station in your area, go to the station’s website to find the specific time and channel for the tribute on that station. For most stations, the Kirk tribute will air at 11:30 p.m. ET.

The tribute might be available on non-Sinclair ABC stations. You can find your local ABC station here.

For instance, the website for ABC 10 in Sacramento has a page for television listings for that station here. Scrolling to 8:30 p.m. PT, there is no tribute scheduled yet for that station.

Blaze News has reached out to ABC 10 for comment.

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Sinclair Vice Chairman Jason Smith released a statement explaining the company’s objection to Kimmel’s comments about the Kirk assassination.

“Mr. Kimmel’s remarks were inappropriate and deeply insensitive at a critical moment for our country,” said Smith.

“We believe broadcasters have a responsibility to educate and elevate respectful, constructive dialogue in our communities,” he added. “We appreciate FCC Chairman [Brendan] Carr’s remarks today, and this incident highlights the critical need for the FCC to take immediate regulatory action to address control held over local broadcasters by the big national networks.”

The company said it would not lift the suspension of the show until Kimmel apologized and gave a “meaningful personal donation” to the Kirk family as well as Turning Point USA, the advocacy group Kirk founded.

“Regardless of ABC’s plans for the future of the program, Sinclair intends not to return ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ to our air until we are confident that appropriate steps have been taken to uphold the standards expected of a national broadcast platform,” Sinclair added.

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