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Let’s face it: In today’s culture, being a traditional, Christian, Proverbs 31 woman is seen as outdated at best — and oppressive at worst. Feminism, goddess worship, and self-idolatry have replaced biblical womanhood, pushing a false idea that true power comes from rebellion, not obedience.

We see it everywhere.

As we face the growing pagan threat in America, we must raise up more Erika Kirks.

In 2018, San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral hosted a “Beyoncé Mass,” calling it a “womanist worship service” that praised Beyoncé as a goddess. Social media echoed the sentiment: “God is a woman and her name is Beyoncé.” Not long after, Taylor Swift’s fans held a Taylor Swift-themed “worship” experience in a 600-year-old church. Swift’s own performances have leaned into witchcraft-inspired visuals, while other pop icons like Ariana Grande (whose song is literally titled “God Is a Woman”), Nicki Minaj, Vanessa Hudgens, and Lady Gaga flaunt occult imagery and sexual empowerment wrapped in faux liberation.

This cultural shift is not new. It’s rooted in a long-standing rejection of Christian orthodoxy. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in her 1875 work “The Woman’s Bible,” sought to rewrite scripture, even calling for the “emancipation of the woman” and the “exoneration of the snake.” Feminism’s earliest architects viewed biblical womanhood as the enemy to be dismantled.

The fight wasn’t for equality — it was for dominance.

Today, that legacy lives on. Women are praised not for motherhood, humility, or holiness, but for independence, sexual expression, and self-glorification. We now live in a culture where being a godly woman is seen as laughable, something to be mocked, dismissed, or feared.

But then came Erika Kirk.

Gospel power

On Sept. 21, just 11 days after her husband, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated allegedly by one of the very people he dedicated his life to reaching, Erika stood before the world — with tears in her eyes — and said these words: “That man, that young man: I forgive him.”

There were no calls for vengeance. No bitterness. No rage. Just grace. And a power that only the gospel can provide.

More than 100 million people were watching the broadcast when she said it.

RELATED: How Erika Kirk answered the hardest question of all

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Charlie was shot in the neck while answering student questions on a university campus — microphone in hand, actively engaging with those who disagreed with him. In one violent moment, Erika lost her husband and their two young children lost their father.

And yet, days later, she stood next to the empty chair where Charlie had hosted “The Charlie Kirk Show,” and declared: “The movement my husband built will not die. It won’t. I refuse to let that happen. … My husband’s mission will not end, not even for a moment.”

Sharp contrast

Since then, Erika has become one of the most talked-about women in the world. Her Instagram following has skyrocketed from a few hundred thousand to over 7 million. But she didn’t seek the spotlight — she stepped into it because her faith and the moment demanded it.

Before Charlie’s death, Erika was largely known within Christian and conservative circles. She ran a clothing brand, Proclaim Streetwear, led BIBLEin365, and hosted the “Midweek Rise Up” podcast, all while raising their children and supporting Charlie in his work at Turning Point USA.

“I was Charlie’s confidante. I was his vault, his closest and most trusted adviser, his best friend,” she said at his memorial. “I poured into him and loved him so deeply, empowered him, because his love for me drove me to be a better wife.”

Compare that to the culture’s role models: women who flaunt their bodies, reject motherhood, and redefine empowerment as self-worship. At the Grammy Awards this year, Bianca Censori wore nothing but a sheer dress that fully exposed her body — a display heralded by the media as “bold,” but more accurately described as a humiliation paraded as liberation.

How far have we fallen, when being a godly wife and mother is seen as weakness, while degrading yourself publicly is considered power?

Spiritual war

This is the spiritual battle we are facing. The pagan threat is real — and Erika Kirk stands as a holy contradiction to it.

She is not just a grieving widow. She is a modern-day Deborah. A Proverbs 31 woman. A warrior in the fire.

At a Turning Point USA event earlier this year, Erika issued a challenge:

After you leave here, please go confuse the culture. Confuse the crap out of it. … Do not conform to it. Let them stare at you. Let them write the meanest Instagram comments. Let them wonder. Let them whisper. … Because that’s just noise. Build your family. Go raise a family. Go build a life of holy defiance. Go love your husband. Go love your babies. Go teach your children how to blaze a trail of glory. Go lead in truth, and go be the light.

This is exactly what we need — holy defiance. A new generation of women who aren’t afraid to embrace their God-given roles. Women who don’t need the culture’s validation because they have God’s calling.

And Erika wasn’t done. At Charlie’s memorial, she challenged both women and men with a call to biblical courage.

“Women, I have a challenge for you too: Be virtuous. Our strength is found in God’s design for our role. We are the guardians. We are the encouragers. We are the preservers,” she said. “Guard your heart; everything you do flows from it. And if you’re a mother, please recognize that is the single most important ministry you have.

“To all the men watching around the world — accept Charlie’s challenge and embrace true manhood. Be strong and courageous for your families. Love your wives and lead them. Love your children and protect them. Be the spiritual head of your home, but please be a leader worth following,” she said. “Your wife is not your servant. Your wife is not your employee. Your wife is not your slave. She is your helper. You are not rivals; you are one flesh working together for the glory of God.”

This is the antidote to cultural decay: biblical men and women who refuse to bow to the false gods of modernity and recognize that our design is divine. That submission to God is not weakness but strength. That humility is not shameful but honorable. That motherhood is not bondage but ministry.

Holy defiance

As we face the growing pagan threat in America, we must raise up more Erika Kirks — women of fire-tested faith, uncompromising in truth, fearless in love, and grounded in scripture.

The culture is watching. And in Erika, people are seeing something they can’t explain: a woman standing in the ashes of atrocity, radiant with hope. A woman of grace. A woman of gospel power.

A woman the culture tried to erase — but couldn’t.

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The horrifying case of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska — in which the young woman was brutally stabbed to death by a career criminal on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina — is unfortunately just one of many.

“I’d like to tell you about another woman who I don’t think got the same coverage, but should have — Logan Federico. She was brutally murdered, shot to death back in May in South Carolina,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales reports.

“This was a repeat offender who allegedly broke into the house that she was in, dragged her out of bed, and murdered her in cold blood,” she adds.

“We’re talking about a guy, Alexander Dickey, who was arrested 39 times, okay, in 10 years. You know, 25 felonies. And I keep saying this. I mean, he was committing more crimes on average a year than most people do in a lifetime,” Stephen Federico, Logan’s father, tells Gonzales.

“But for him to only spend a little over 600 days in prison in 10 years — he’s only 30 years old. He started his crime spree when he was 15,” he explains.

And while there’s no getting his daughter back, Federico does believe there’s a way to prevent more murders like hers.

“I think you kind of have to reboot. I think you have to reboot the DA, the solicitor process altogether, and who’s cutting deals, who’s qualified to cut the deals. That includes judges. I think we need to reboot it and start from scratch,” he says.

“I’m sure there’s some really good magistrate judges out there. I’m sure there really are. But I think we have to start from the beginning,” he adds.

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Pennsylvania police said a 61-year-old man shot and killed a woman and her husband because she wouldn’t leave her husband for him. He then allegedly killed their 1-year-old son as well.

Police said the remains of 32-year-old Junior Cabrera-Colon were found in a wooded area near basketball courts on River Road in the town of Reading on Sept. 13. They determined that he was killed in a fight with Jose Rodriguez of Leesport.

Police said the car stayed at the spot for about 35 minutes before going to a nearby muddy marsh.

When police reached out to the man’s family, they indicated that they had not heard from his wife, 31-year-old Geraldina Peguero-Mancebo, since Sept. 12 at about 8:30 p.m.

Using cellphone data gained through a search warrant, police were able to determine that the phone had been in a remote industrial location 7 miles from her home and had not moved since Sept. 12 at about 9:42 p.m.

On Sept. 19, police found her decomposed body on an access road off East Huller Lane.

Police said they found a child’s pacifier near the body but could not locate her child, Jeydon Junior Peguero.

Surveillance video obtained by police showed the woman and her child getting into a car registered to Rodriguez at 8:26 p.m. on Sept. 12. Rodriguez initially admitted to picking her up but claimed to have dropped them off safely.

Cellphone records, however, showed that he had driven to Reading, then to a wholesale club. Video surveillance showed the car turning at about 9 p.m. onto the access road where the woman’s body was found. Police said the car stayed at the spot for about 35 minutes before going to a nearby muddy marsh.

That’s where they found the body of the child.

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Rodriguez then allegedly confessed to killing the woman and said that he had done so because she did not want to leave her husband for him.

“This infuriated the defendant,” police explained in the affidavit. Rodriguez said she was constantly taking his money and that he had helped her pay for her apartment.

He also admitted to tossing the 1-year-old in a “lake.” Police said the child was found face down in the marsh, and an autopsy determined he drowned in the mud.

“The defendant confirmed that Jeydon was alive when he threw him face down into the muddy water,” District Attorney John Adams said.

Rodriguez showed police where he hid her purse and cell phone, and also led them to where he stashed the murder weapon.

He was denied bail and is being detained at the Berks County Prison. He is charged with three counts of first-degree murder as well as abuse of a corpse.

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On Friday, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer stood at the podium at the Global Progressive Action Conference in London and made an announcement that should send a chill down the spine of anyone who loves liberty. By the end of this Parliament, he promised, every worker in the U.K. will be required to hold a “free-of-charge” digital ID. Without it, Britons will not be able to work.

No digital ID, no job.

The government is introducing a system that punishes law-abiding citizens by tying their right to work to a government-issued pass.

Starmer framed this as a commonsense response to poverty, climate change, and illegal immigration. He claimed Britain cannot solve these problems without “looking upstream” and tackling root causes. But behind the rhetoric lies a policy that shifts power away from individuals and places it squarely in the hands of government.

Solving the problem they created

This is progressivism in action. Leaders open their borders, invite in mass illegal immigration, and refuse to enforce their own laws. Then, when public frustration boils over, they unveil a prepackaged “solution” — in this case, digital identity — that entrenches government control.

Britain isn’t the first to embrace this system. Switzerland recently approved a digital ID system. Australia already has one. The World Economic Forum has openly pitched digital IDs as the key to accessing everything from health care to bank accounts to travel. And once the infrastructure is in place, digital currency will follow soon after, giving governments the power to track every purchase, approve or block transactions, and dictate where and how you spend your money.

All of your data — your medical history, insurance, banking, food purchases, travel, social media engagement, tax information — would be funneled into a centralized database under government oversight.

The fiction of enforcement

Starmer says this is about cracking down on illegal work. The BBC even pressed him on the point, asking why a mandatory digital ID would stop human traffickers and rogue employers who already ignore national insurance cards. He had no answer.

Bad actors will still break the law. Bosses who pay sweatshop wages under the table will not suddenly check digital IDs. Criminals will not line up to comply. This isn’t about stopping illegal immigration. If it were, the U.K. would simply enforce existing laws, close the loopholes, and deport those working illegally.

Instead, the government is introducing a system that punishes law-abiding citizens by tying their right to work to a government-issued pass.

Control masked as compassion

This is part of an old playbook. Politicians claim their hands are tied and promise that only sweeping new powers will solve the crisis. They selectively enforce laws to maintain the problem, then use the problem to justify expanding control.

RELATED: Europe pushes for digital ID to help ‘crack down’ on completely unrelated problems

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If Britain truly wanted to curb illegal immigration, it could. It is an island. The Channel Tunnel has clear entry points. Enforcement is not impossible. But a digital ID allows for something far more valuable to bureaucrats than border security: total oversight of their own citizens.

The American warning

Think digital ID can’t happen here? Think again. The same arguments are already echoing in Washington, D.C. Illegal immigration is out of control. Progressives know voters are angry. When the digital ID pitch arrives, it will be wrapped in patriotic language about fairness, security, and compassion.

But the goal isn’t compassion. It’s control — of your movement, your money, your speech, your future.

We don’t need digital IDs to enforce immigration law. We need leaders with the courage to enforce existing law. Until then, digital ID schemes will keep spreading, sold as a cure for the very problems they helped create.

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League after many criticized the ADL for listing Turning Point USA as a hate group.

The ADL shut down a “Glossary of Extremism” over the backlash on Tuesday in response to heavy criticism on social media after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

‘That era is OVER. This FBI won’t partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs.’

FBI Director Kash Patel referenced an address from former FBI Director James Comey to the Anti-Defamation League National Leadership Summit in 2017, where he literally expressed his love for the organization.

“James Comey wrote ‘love letters’ to the ADL and embedded FBI agents with them — a group that ran disgraceful ops spying on Americans,” he wrote on social media. “That era is OVER. This FBI won’t partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs.”

He added in a statement to Fox News Digital, “That was not law enforcement; it was activism dressed up as counterterrorism, and it put Americans in danger.”

The ADL told Reuters that it had taken note of Patel’s statement and added that the organization “has deep respect” for the FBI.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk entered the fray and criticized the ADL.

“The ADL hates Christians, therefore it is … a hate group,” he posted on the X platform Sunday.

“The @ADL has become a far left hate propaganda machine,” he added.

RELATED: Jewish groups call out TV host Nick Cannon for defending Louis Farrakhan and spreading anti-Semitic conspiracies

In January, the ADL defended Musk from accusations that he had made a Nazi salute gesture during a rally for the second inauguration of President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. The group was criticized by Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York over its statement of support for Musk.

Musk previously accused the ADL of costing X ad revenue by demanding social media accounts be suspended for language it deemed offensive or extremist.

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If anyone who questioned the official narrative during the pandemic recalls feeling as if the truth was being rewritten and as if the thoughts they shared via social media on any pressing matters were being throttled by a force greater than just the social media platform — then they’d be right.

In a relentless pursuit of the truth, Matt Kibbe and Matt Taibbi have uncovered blatant collusion between former president Biden’s government and Big Tech during the COVID-19 pandemic to censor the accounts of Americans, including Charlie Kirk, Libs of TikTok, and Dan Bongino, among others.

“The revelation that the FBI and other security agencies were putting direct pressure on social media sites to censor speech was a bombshell. This wasn’t just cowardly CEOs acting on their own,” Kibbe says on “Muckraker,” episode 5 of “The Coverup.” “This was the government clamping down to enforce a narrative in flagrant violation of the First Amendment.”

“And it’s something that’s been going on for years,” he explains, before revealing email proof of the FBI setting up a meeting with Twitter in 2020.

In one email from the FBI, the agency acknowledges the importance of free speech, before asking the social media platform to share any information “indicating malign foreign actors pivoting to any messaging discussing these current events on your platforms.”

“So, they’re basically saying, ‘Yeah, we know speech about the George Floyd stuff is constitutionally protected, but if you think any of it might be, like, Russian influenced or whatever, can you just let us know?’” Taibbi explains.

Taibbi points out that the Global Engagement Center, which was founded via an executive order in Obama’s last year as president, was a counterterrorism organization that initially went after “Arab language tweets” and ISIS recruits.

“After Trump got elected, they started getting interested in all kinds of other topics, and then very soon, they were interested in domestic speech. They’ll deny that. But that’s what they were doing,” Taibbi says.

Taibbi, who published the “Twitter Files,” found that in addition to voices like Charlie Kirk, even Stanford epidemiologist Jay Bhattacharya — who is now the NIH Director — was among those blacklisted and shadow banned.

Taibbi discovered through working alongside a Twitter executive who was ordered by Elon Musk to cooperate with him that Bhattacharya was on a “trends blacklist,” which was visible to some of those who worked for Twitter but not the users themselves.

“It’s sort of like when you’re in Twitter and you want to see a quick summarized readout of what’s going on with an individual customer. Well, they had a thing where you could see the name, and then there would be a bunch of color-coded things on the page,” Taibbi explains.

On Bhattacharya’s page, he recalls that there was a “big box that says, ‘Trends Blacklist.’”

On Kirk’s page, it read, “Do Not Amplify.”

“That was how we discovered that there was indeed shadow banning. What a ‘trends blacklist’ meant was that this account could never trend on Twitter. And it was one of hundreds of things that they could do to your account to deamplify it,” he says.

“The health bureaucracies were involved in content moderation in a pretty intimate way,” he adds.

Tune in to episode 5 of “The CoverUp,” as Kibbe and Taibbi unravel the pandemic industrial complex, exposing how federal health agencies and Big Tech prolonged lockdowns, fueled fear, and hid the government’s role in the creation of the virus.

To watch episode 5 of “The Coverup” or binge the whole series, go to FauciCoverup.com.

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Democrats including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York have constantly claimed that the government shutdown has nothing to do with health care provided to illegal aliens, but one finally admitted the truth.

Republicans have used the accusations to hammer Democrats in the media, but Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California said during an interview that the issue was indeed part of the disagreement.

‘The state of California, colluding with insurance companies who cover Medicaid beneficiaries, has created … a money-laundering scheme that results in California obtaining more than $19 billion in federal money.’

“The amount of money that actually is going towards people that are undocumented is such a small portion of the Medicaid cuts or the Affordable Care Act, if at all,” Khanna said in an interview on Fox News.

“And so we can argue that point, but the reality that even the vice president would acknowledge, that anyone who looks at the numbers will acknowledge, is 90 to 95% of the funding we’re talking about is talking about funding for American citizens,” he added.

Video of the interview was widely circulated on social media.

Schumer claimed that illegal aliens could not receive Obamacare benefits at all by law.

“Let me be perfectly clear: Undocumented people CANNOT AND WILL NOT receive ACA premium tax credits BY LAW. PERIOD,” Schumer wrote on social media. “This is a LIE from Republicans to divert attention from their shutdown. Republicans are refusing to lower healthcare costs for the American people.”

One assessment estimated that as much as $23.1 billion of federal taxpayer money went toward providing health care to illegal aliens in the U.S.

RELATED: FACT-CHECK: Yes, US taxpayers fund health care for illegal aliens

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Another report said that California was exploiting a loophole in the medical system to have the federal government reimburse billions of dollars to be paid for Medicare for illegal aliens.

“The state of California, colluding with insurance companies who cover Medicaid beneficiaries, has created one of the most outrageous ones yet,” reads the report from the Economic Policy Innovation Center, “a money-laundering scheme that results in California obtaining more than $19 billion in federal money without any state contribution over the period from April 2023 through December 2026.”

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A Trump administration official said in a call to Republicans that the mass firings of federal employees would begin “in a day or two” of the government shutdown.

Russ Vought, the chief of the Office of Management and Budget, made the comments in a private call, according to four sources who were on the call and spoke to Politico anonymously.

‘We believe that layoffs are imminent. They are unfortunately a consequence of this government shutdown.’

Vought reportedly said that if the shutdown continued, pay for active members of the military would be threatened, as well as money for WIC, a nutrition program for low-income moms and children. He added that billions of dollars for infrastructure spending for New York are being reviewed.

“He was surprisingly vague on everything,” one of the sources said.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also said during Wednesday’s media briefing that the layoffs were imminent.

“Unfortunately, because the Democrats shut down the government, the president has directed his cabinet, and the Office of Management and Budget is working with agencies across the board to identify where cuts can me made,” Leavitt said. “And we believe that layoffs are imminent. They are unfortunately a consequence of this government shutdown.”

Vice President JD Vance joined the media briefing and excoriated Democrats.

“If they’re so worried about the effect this is having on the American people, and they should be, what they should do is reopen the government,” Vance said. “Not complain about how we respond to the fact that Chuck Schumer and the Democrats have shut down the government in the first place.”

RELATED: Vance makes Jeffries a hilarious promise if Democrats end the shutdown

The government shut down at midnight on the morning of October 1 after Congress was unable to agree on a budget resolution.

Democrats have tried to place the blame of the government shutdown on Republicans.

“It’s October 1st, and it’s the first day of Donald Trump’s government shutdown,” Schumer wrote on social media. “Donald Trump and Republicans have barreled us into a shutdown because they refused to protect Americans healthcare.”

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On Tuesday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edlow announced the results of Operation Twin Shield. The operation — a targeted immigration and citizenship enforcement effort in Minneapolis and St. Paul — found that nearly 50% of cases involved immigration fraud.

Fraud cases included marriage fraud, H-1B visa abuses, forged documents, and “people claiming to work at businesses that can’t be found.” The operation, which ran September 19-28, included over 1,000 site visits across the metroplex. Edlow said the operation uncovered systemic issues with various immigration programs.

‘What we found should shock all of America.’

One notable example was the Uniting for Ukraine program, an initiative created by the Biden administration to “welcome 100,000 Ukrainian citizens and others forced to flee their homes in Ukraine.” The program allowed “U.S.-based individuals and entities” to sponsor Ukrainians for entry. According to Edlow, ICE and its partners uncovered “troubling patterns with the program that should have raised serious concerns.”

Issues with the Uniting for Ukraine program included one individual filing to sponsor over 100 people and companies filing to sponsor hundreds. Under a Biden administration directive, people brought into the country under this program were eligible to stay in the U.S. for up to two years and could apply to stay longer. They were also automatically authorized to work while in the U.S.

REALATED: ‘War from within’: ICE agents descend from helicopters to nab suspected TDA gangsters in Chicago apartment

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In addressing the fraud and other systemic issues uncovered by Operation Twin Shield, Edlow emphasized the magnitude of the issue: “What we found should shock all of America. … Every case of fraud we uncover damages our national security.” He went on to say that systemic issues and abuses like those uncovered by the operation degrade the integrity of the immigration system as a whole.

Minneapolis has been at the center of the immigration debate in recent years, following a surge in immigration — particularly from Somalia — under President Joe Biden and Democrat Governor Tim Walz. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D), whose district encompasses most of Minneapolis, is a Somali immigrant. Allegations of potential immigration fraud have put her in the spotlight in recent months.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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Pete Hegseth’s new title is “secretary of war,” and BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales doesn’t think the name could be more fitting for the administration’s departure from woke nonsense and focus on masculinity in the military, calling it “totally badass.”

And after he laid out the administration’s plans for the military, Hegseth proved that he — and Trump’s military — fit the new title perfectly.

“This administration has done a great deal from day one to remove the social justice, politically correct, and toxic ideological garbage that had infected our department, to rip out the politics. No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship. No more division, distraction, or gender delusions. No more debris,” Hegseth said.

But Hegseth didn’t stop there, also addressing the health of men and women in the military.

“This is not about preventing women from serving. We very much value the impact of female troops.

“But when it comes to any job that requires physical power to perform in combat, those physical standards must be high and gender-neutral. If women can make it, excellent. If not, it is what it is,” he said.

“It will also mean that weak men won’t qualify, because we’re not playing games. This is combat. This is life or death,” he added.

Gonzales couldn’t be happier with the Trump administration’s stance on the military, saying that anyone who “feels like this is controversial” deserves to “be laughed off the face of the planet.”

“This should not be controversial. It is not personal. It is just business. The military has one job: to be really strong and really good at protecting our country. That’s it. There’s no time for personal debate or upset feelings about it,” Gonzales says.

“It’s despicable what the Biden regime turned our military into,” she adds.

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Vice President JD Vance made House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) a hilarious offer on Wednesday with the hopes of incentivizing Democrats to reopen the government.

Vance made a surprise appearance alongside press secretary Karoline Leavitt during Wednesday’s briefing on the first day of the government shutdown. Because Democrats refused to pass the Republicans’ clean, nonpartisan funding bill, the federal government officially shut down at midnight on October 1 for the first time in six years.

‘You can negotiate in good faith while also poking a little bit of fun.’

The shutdown has left reporters with many questions and millions of Americans with uncertainty. In an effort to facilitate a good-faith negotiation with Democrats, Vance made a humorous offer to Jeffries to encourage Democrats to reopen the government.

“I’ll tell Hakeem Jeffries right now — I make this solemn promise to you, that if you help us reopen the government, the sombrero memes will stop,” Vance quipped during the briefing.

RELATED: Government grinds to a halt after Democrats force first shutdown in 6 years

The briefing room erupted with laughter at Vance’s reference to a series of memes posted by President Donald Trump mocking Jeffries. The memes feature Jeffries with a photoshopped sombrero and an exaggerated mustache accompanied by mariachi music in the background.

Although most view these posts as the humorous memes that they are, Jeffries immediately claimed that Trump’s intent was malicious.

RELATED: Supreme Court denies Trump emergency motion to fire Lisa Cook from the Fed — for now

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“It’s a disgusting video, and we’re going to continue to make clear: Bigotry will get you nowhere,” Jeffries said in response to the first meme.

Notably, Trump then posted the clip of Jeffries’ response, once again photoshopped with the same sombrero, mustache, and mariachi music. As an added bonus, Trump included edited graphics of himself as the mariachi band accompanying Jeffries.

“I think it’s funny, the president is joking, and we’re having a good time,” Vance said during the briefing. “You can negotiate in good faith while also poking a little bit of fun.”

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A U.S. judge ruled against the actions taken by the Trump administration against pro-Palestinian student protesters from foreign countries.

U.S. District Judge William Young of Boston said in the scathing ruling that President Donald Trump violated the free-speech rights of student protesters when he sought to revoke their visas and send them back to their home countries.

‘Studying in the United States is a privilege that the Trump administration will not allow to foreign nationals who endanger America’s national security or imperil campus safety.’

Young accused officials of the U.S. Departments of State and Homeland Security of targeting noncitizen students for deportation “primarily on account of their First Amendment protected political speech” used to protest against Israel.

“They did so in order to strike fear into similarly situated non-citizen pro-Palestinian individuals, pro-actively (and effectively) curbing lawful pro-Palestinian speech and intentionally denying such individuals (including the plaintiffs here) the freedom of speech that is their right,” he wrote in the 161-page ruling.

Young characterized the president’s actions as a threat to free speech.

“The President’s palpable misunderstanding that the government simply cannot seek retribution for speech he disdains poses a great threat to Americans’ freedom of speech,” he wrote. “I fear President Trump believes the American people are so divided that today they will not stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own personal interests are not affected.”

Young also compared the wearing of masks by federal agents to the KKK.

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan,” he wrote. “In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

White House spokesperson Liz Huston said the administration would appeal the ruling.

“Studying in the United States is a privilege that the Trump administration will not allow to foreign nationals who endanger America’s national security or imperil campus safety,” Huston added.

RELATED: Mahmoud Khalil calls Trump administration ‘fascist’ after immigration judge orders his deportation

Huston described the ruling as “an outrageous ruling that hampers the safety and security of our nation.”

Young was appointed to the court by President Ronald Reagan and is 85 years old.

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The Supreme Court appears to have temporarily settled the fight between the Federal Reserve and the Trump administration until next year.

President Donald Trump appealed to the Supreme Court to allow him to fire Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve governor, over allegations of mortgage fraud that she has denied. On Wednesday the court denied the emergency appeal and said it would fully consider the case in January.

‘I tried being nice to the guy. It doesn’t help. He’s a knucklehead. Stupid guy.’

The court did not explain the rationale behind the decision, nor did it document any dissents.

“President Trump lawfully removed Lisa Cook for cause from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors,” said Kush Desai, a spokesperson for the White House. “We look forward to ultimate victory after presenting our oral arguments before the Supreme Court in January.”

Cook has been accused of lying in applications for mortgages on homes she owns in Michigan and Georgia. She has not been legally charged in connection with the claims.

“When someone commits mortgage fraud, they undermine the faith and integrity of our System. It does not matter who you are — no one is above the law,” said Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte in August. “We have sent a Criminal Referral to the Department of Justice with regard to the allegations against Ms. Cook, and the DOJ should go wherever the facts may lead them.”

The president has the power to fire Fed governors for cause, but no president has done so in the 112-year history of the institution.

RELATED: ‘Biden’s economy was a disaster’: Trump says latest massive jobs revision blows up Democrat narrative

Trump has been hammering away at Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for not lowering the interest rate, which would likely lower mortgage interest rates. Critics of the president say the accusations against Cook are being pursued only to install a Trump-friendly governor in her place to do his will.

“I tried being nice to the guy. It doesn’t help. He’s a knucklehead. Stupid guy. He really is,” said Trump about Powell in July.

The feud between Powell and Trump may have eased after the Fed voted to lower interest rates by 25 basis points and signaled that more cuts were coming. Cook is the first black woman to become a Federal Reserve governor.

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UFC President Dana White defended his company, masculinity, and free speech in an interview on “60 Minutes.”

CBS’ Jon Wertheim asked White about everything from his relationship with President Donald Trump to the company’s financial history, but it was the fight promoter’s defense of his audience that served as a popular clip that circulated online.

‘How can somebody be too masculine? Is that a possibility?’

The host referred to White describing the ongoing “wussification of America,” which White quickly corrected.

“I think I said ‘p***ification,’ but yeah,” White clarified.

This transitioned into Wertheim citing an apparent “cultural movement” dominated by males.

“It’s a lot of guys. I mean, they call it ‘the manosphere,’ you’re one of the leaders,” he told White.

The UFC president retorted, saying that his audience was definitely male-dominated and masculine, too: “Eighteen- to 34-year-old males and growing,” White stated. “We’re global. We are definitely, unapologetically masculine.”

Wertheim, though, questioned White with the liberal trope that successful male environments and activities are in danger of becoming too masculine. “Can this bubble over to too much? When you hear toxic masculinity?” Wertheim asked.

“Haha, what’s that mean?” White asked back.

The host had no answer. “You tell me,” Wertheim replied.

Flabbergasted, White continued, “You just said it! What’s the definition of toxic? How can somebody be too masculine? Is that a possibility? Can you be too masculine? … No.”

“The answer is hell no,” White said.

RELATED: Trump’s surprise specialist for UFC-White House event is not who you’d expect

White’s positions on many topics — and the 13-minute segment as a whole — were seemingly presented as an anomaly; an obscure, niche subset of sports that “60 Minutes” viewers may be blissfully unaware of. Among these topics was White’s view of free speech, which he unapologetically defended.

In response to being asked if there were any scenario where a fighter’s speech would get them into trouble with the company, White replied, “I’m a big believer in free speech, and unfortunately, probably the most important speech to protect is hate speech.”

“I hate it,” White said about cancel culture. “I don’t like trying to destroy people’s lives over doing something dumb.”

RELATED: One company may just have killed pay-per-view forever

(L-R) Canelo Alvarez, Dana White, and Terence Crawford on stage during Fanatics Fest NYC 2025 at Javits Center on June 22, 2025, in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

In July, the UFC agreed to host an event at the White House in 2026, which was just one of the connecting points in Wertheim’s presentation of White’s relationship with President Trump.

The two talked about the early days of the UFC and its struggles when Trump was the only person who was willing to host an event at his venue, the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

“It was so bad at one point,” White said about the company’s finances. He said UFC owners Frank Fertitta III and Lorenzo Fertitta had even called him to say they could not keep the company going under the circumstances. However, White revealed he got a call the very next day that said, “F**k it, let’s keep going.”

Regarding his conversations with Trump, White said they are fairly simple.

“We don’t talk politics … we talk about goofy guy stuff that all guys talk about,” White explained. “We talk about ‘Rocky’ movies, we talk about fights that have happened.”

While much of the segment presented White and the sport as alien, some 20 years after its success boomed, CBS will soon have to come to terms with its popularity. In July, parent company Paramount acquired the rights to UFC broadcasts for $7.7 billion over seven years, per CNBC.

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The Trump administration has been facing increased pressure to fix the fraud and abuse of work visas in the midst of a multifaceted battle against the immigration problem. To that end, the Department of Labor’s new Project Firewall promises to maximize measures for holding companies accountable if they are in violation of the law.

According to a press release detailing the plan for Project Firewall, the DOL and its relevant partners will increase accountability measures for H-1B-sponsor employers.

‘By rooting out fraud and abuse, the Department of Labor and our federal partners will ensure that highly skilled jobs go to Americans first.’

Companies found to be in violation of the H-1B program rules may face “collection of back wages owed to affected workers, the assessment of civil money penalties, and/or debarment from future use of the H-1B program for a prescribed period of time,” per the press release.

One notable characteristic of the plan, launched on September 19, is U.S. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer will “personally certify the initiation of investigations for the first time in the department’s history.”

RELATED: American jobs first: Hefty new H-1B visa fee will likely curb legal immigration, especially from India

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“The Trump administration is standing by our commitment to end practices that leave Americans in the dust. As we re-establish economic dominance, we must protect our most valuable resource: the American worker. Launching Project Firewall will help us ensure no employers are abusing H-1B visas at the expense of our workforce,” said Chavez-DeRemer in a press release.

“By rooting out fraud and abuse, the Department of Labor and our federal partners will ensure that highly skilled jobs go to Americans first,” she continued.

On X, the Department of Labor’s account noted that Project Firewall “protects Americans and ensures they are prioritized in the hiring process.”

The plan also involves a greater level of coordination among governmental agencies, including the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

While these increased measures of accountability will be met with some enthusiasm, others have expressed concerns about the Trump administration’s handling of H-1B fraud, especially after the administration’s partial walk-back of the $100,000 application fee it announced recently.

Data shows that each year the government receives hundreds of thousands of H-1B visa applications, almost all of which are certified. These jobs often break the six-figure salary threshold, which some people point out is not fair to American workers, many of whom are struggling to find a job in today’s market.

The plan will presumably resume after the government returns from the shutdown caused by Democrats.

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Last Monday night, the liberal New York elite gathered at the storied Gramercy Theater for a benefit billed coyly as a “A Night of Music and Peace.”

Presumably on hand to represent the peace was Avraham “Miko” Peled, the Israeli-American founder and president of Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Dar Alhurriya (Palestine House of Freedom). As for the music, that was left to guitar legend Eric Clapton, 80 years old but still with impressive enough chops to justify the invitation-only event’s average ticket price of $2,500.

‘I’m walking the halls of Congress with people who have no regard for human life!’ said Omar, seemingly oblivious to the irony.

Inside, the crowd of around 150 — mostly older white folks, many accessorized with solidarity-signaling keffiyehs — were invited to purchase Clapton concert tees and signed copies of Peled’s autobiography, “The General’s Son,” as staff herded them toward the clump of folding chairs that constituted the floor seating.

White Room

As Peled took the stage, the audience erupted in chants of “Miko! Miko! Miko!” — a response that was at once curiously rehearsed-sounding and off-puttingly frenzied, like a gaggle of preschoolers greeting the appearance of Elmo on “Sesame Street.”

After a few thank-yous, Peled wasted no time before introducing the night’s star attraction. Clapton, who much earlier in his career urged his countrymen to “keep Britain white” by expelling the “w*gs” and “c**ns” turning it into a “black colony,” now aimed his guitar — a Fender Stratocaster painted to look like Palestine’s flag — at colonizers of a lighter hue.

Looking uncannily like an aged Andy Dick, the octogenarian guitarist expertly belted out early Cream classics like “White Room,” “Sunshine of Your Love,” and a rendition of “Hoochie Coochie Man” that had second-generation pundit Max Blumenthal singing along and pumping his fist in the air, gyrating next to a man sporting a Hawaiian shirt and fedora bearing the slogan “End Wars!”

Blues hammered

Blumenthal wasn’t the only politico celeb accounted for. His Grayzone colleague Aaron Maté had also made it out to celebrate the global intifada, along with his father, superstar addiction expert Gabor.

In the middle of “Tears in Heaven,” a semi-famous comedian and former mayoral candidate — now four IPAs in — turned to your correspondent to mention what a close friendship he enjoyed with Roger Waters, who he claimed was also in attendance.

“Blues, blues, blues, blues!” he later yelled out after Clapton and Co. had wrapped up what was indeed an exemplary specimen of the genre (their fourth in a row), before turning to the bartender to screech about how unfair it was that rich people paid less in taxes.

Tepid Waters

Much to this writer’s surprise, his name-dropping proved credible a little bit later when none other than the Pink Floyd co-founder himself materialized on stage, dressed in his usual all-black ensemble of cigarette skinny jeans and potbelly-constraining T-shirt.

To thunderous applause, Waters essayed some pre-song banter about “this horrible thing called Zionism,” only to resort, seconds later, to the activist’s version of lip-syncing. Apparently not prepared to speak from the heart, Roger produced his iPhone and played a video of himself speaking at a recent college protest. “I’m so proud of all the young people in all the universities,” said the tiny onscreen Waters. “Zionism is over, and criticism of Israel and its genocidal policies has never been anti-Semitic.”

Putting his phone away, the IRL Waters then treated the audience to a rendition of his little-known 2024 single, “Under the Rubble.”

RELATED: The genocide that isn’t: How Hamas turned lies into global outrage

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As the band left the stage, the crowd clamored for more, chanting “Free, free Palestine.”

Instead of an encore performance of “Wish You Were Here,” it was rewarded with something almost as invigorating: the spectacle of Ilhan Omar — draped in her usual liberating headscarf — strutting onstage to accept a miniature wrestling championship belt from event organizers.

“I’m walking the halls of Congress with people who have no regard for human life!” said Omar, seemingly oblivious to the irony of making such an accusation given the left’s ongoing celebration of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. She lifted the belt and walked off stage; the audience cheered.

The evening was over. Eric Clapton waved, sporting a smile that said “please don’t cancel me again.” Intoxicated by overpriced well drinks and the spirit of revolution, the departing crowd raised defiant fists to the night sky, only tucking them away discreetly when it was time to saunter across the street and into the trendy boutique hotel for the afterparty.

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The abrupt assassination of a young husband and father — who joyfully invited strangers from all walks of life to debate him in public forums — was a barbaric assault on all Americans and our shared foundational values, free speech, and religious liberty.

I was deeply disturbed by the deranged sickness of morally bankrupt Americans rejoicing at Charlie Kirk’s reprehensible murder. I’ve unceasingly prayed and wept for his family and friends as though they were my own.

It’s time to get the Bible back into schools to revitalize the true meaning of liberty and respect for your neighbor.

Yet as a mom and a Christian, I know I must not despair. The Bible likens despair to a refusal of hope, justice, and goodness.

At Kirk’s historic memorial, President Donald Trump mentioned a renewed urgency to including the holy Bible in public life. Erika Kirk modeled positive, convicted fortitude through motherhood — with grit, grace, and gospel — that I have never before witnessed in a publicly broadcasted forum. “Be an Erika Kirk in a Kardashian world” commentaries flood my social media feeds.

But an exasperating and lingering question remains: “How did America get here?” Guns? Social media? Absent parenting? Ignorant education? A desensitizing news cycle?

A root cause is expelling God from public schools.

Foundation shattered

Charlie Kirk was wrongly labeled as a “hateful extremist” because millions of students have been brainwashed, for decades, to dissociate America’s foundation from God.

Young people have been conditioned to be offended by truth and context and now automatically treat neighbors like garbage and claim that “words are violence” when they disagree.

Historically, educators partnered with parents to reinforce our shared American values as they were rooted in the Bible. Through the 1800s, schools and colleges often included the Bible as a textbook. Our founding fathers stressed the importance of morals and religious knowledge for a functioning republic.

In a 1798 statement, John Adams himself wrote, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

But here’s where we are now:

Most fifth-graders don’t learn that the 13 colonies required a declaration of faith to hold a public office.Very few eighth-graders are taught that our Declaration of Independence mentions God four times — a majority of the 56 signers were Bible-believing Christians.A majority of high-school students have zero knowledge that our Liberty Bell, as well as countless government landmarks, including our Capitol, Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, and more, are inscribed with biblical verses.Non-denominational prayer, Bible stories, the Ten Commandments, and the mere words “one nation under God” are disputed, degraded, and often prohibited from public gatherings at elementary schools through universities.Schools used to teach biblical principles like the Golden Rule to promote good character and conduct, but now secular-driven “restorative discipline” dictates that right, wrong, good, evil, truth, and lies are relative.

Moral education begins at home, but what happens if that falls short?

Chaos reigns

Without reinforcement in schools, we evidently get a generation of morally ignorant citizens unable to function in a republic. Kirk himself once explained that the way our government was set up is no longer compatible with our current, faith-rejecting citizenry and public institutions. I agree.

Absent parents and the exclusion of 3,000-year-old wisdom from our school systems bear the blame.

Now, students are actively taught that God is not and never was part of our nation’s founding, that there is no safety alongside someone who thinks differently from you, and that words are violence. Smartphone worship, disrespect for parents and teachers without consequence, and the abandonment of rules and order have infected our nation.

Notwithstanding our rightful religious differences as Americans, it’s time to get the Bible back into schools — as a historical work that helped establish our nation and laws — to revitalize the true meaning of liberty and respect for your neighbor.

Teaching students to understand our U.S. Constitution gets much easier if students are knowledgeable about the biblical ideals that shaped it. The Bible also provides practical order, like the Golden Rule, that chaotic classrooms can certainly benefit from today.

Myth exposed

But what about Thomas Jefferson’s “separation of church and state”? It’s a stretched fabrication that I’m ashamed to admit I once believed.

Five years ago, I supported keeping biblical mentions out of public schools and forums. As a baptized, lifelong Christian — active in church as a child and now a Sunday School teacher as an adult — even I was brainwashed and miseducated.

RELATED: Why Trump’s religious liberty agenda terrifies the left — but tells the truth

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In 1947, the Supreme Court case of Everson v. Board of Education ruled that neither a state nor the federal government could “pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another.” For the first time in American history, the First Amendment was now not only about the prohibition of establishing a national religion; it was also about not giving any encouragement to any religion. The modern “strict separation” view was born.

The five justices drafted their decision not based on the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution, but on a brief letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802, citing his personal conviction that religious belief should include “building a wall of separation between Church & State.”

In 1962, the Supreme Court further ruled in Engel v. Vitale that a generic school prayer violated the Court’s new definition of the First Amendment. “Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country.”

The prayer was not specific to Christianity or any religion and was reminiscent of the language of the Declaration of Independence. Yet it was still deemed unconstitutional.

Since then, the “separation of church and state” language has been used to remove God and appreciation for our foundational morality from public life and, most tragically, from our schools.

Do we have happier or better-educated student citizens because of this?

Dismal test scores, school shootings, record numbers of mentally ill teens, campus violence, increasingly anti-American curriculum, and depraved TikToks celebrating the public execution of an innocent man exercising peaceful free speech in a public forum prove otherwise.

Bring God back

Is it possible that those Supreme Court decisions were misguided and wrong for our society?

This sickness is destroying each of us — and our country — in real time. This is why we do what we do at PragerU Kids.

Parents and teachers, now is the time to bravely support and include:

the Bible in academic historical discussions.non-denominational prayer at school events.the Ten Commandments as they relate to America’s founding values for freedom.saying God’s name at your child’s school … no matter who may be irrationally triggered.

Don’t let anyone trick you into thinking these things are hateful. The life, liberty, and happiness of our republic literally depend on it.

I’m grateful for the White House’s nationwide “America Prays” initiative, as well as state leaders in Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and more who are taking action to get Bibles and/or the Ten Commandments included in public school classrooms again.

I’m not suggesting a mandated belief in the theology of the Bible, but rather a general and practical K-12 education and inclusion of how the Bible’s rules, order, and tenets were foundational to our nation.

Just as kids should learn that slavery is abhorrent (as the Bible teaches), it’s imperative that young Americans learn how our founders’ vision of limited government, through faith-based values of blind justice and truthful morality, only works when citizens have a mutually respected moral compass. Countless historical writings, works, and landmarks prove that America’s hard-fought liberty is contingent on ethical citizens.

Get God — and the goodness, hope, virtue, and equality taught in the Bible — back into our schools and communities now, because what we’ve been doing for the last 75 years isn’t working. And time’s running out.

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The teenager suspected of brutally beating an elderly worker at a rap concert in Kansas City over a week ago finally has been charged.

The Juvenile Office of the 16th Judicial Circuit in Jackson County on Tuesday filed one felony assault charge and one misdemeanor assault charge against the teen suspect, WDAF-TV reported.

‘Kind of sad things got to this point.’

A viral cellphone video shows a young male knocking down an elderly worker at a Sept. 21 NBA YoungBoy concert at the T-Mobile Center and then delivering well over a dozen blows to the worker’s face and head.

Police confirmed to Blaze News that the suspect is under the age of 16.

WDAF in a previous story said the suspect also assaulted a security guard who ejected him from the venue.

A T-Mobile Center spokesperson told Blaze News that the staff members “sustained serious injuries. After receiving prompt care from on-site first aid personnel, they were later treated at a local hospital for their injuries.”

RELATED: Viral video: High schooler physically attacks teacher in front of other students — then cop gives kid brutal wake-up call

Officer Alayna Gonzalez of the Kansas City Police Department told Blaze News that the “juvenile male was detained and subsequently released to his guardian pending further investigation.” However, police later told Blaze News that detectives on Friday submitted a case file to juvenile court “for consideration of applicable charges” against the teen suspect.

The victim of the attack caught on video — 66-year-old Thomas Schlange — is seen on the clip trying to push away the teenager who towers over him, but Schlange has no chance. The teen begins delivering a flurry of lefts and rights as Schlange is flat on his back and trapped on the floor between two rows of seats.

Schlange told WDAF in a follow-up story, “I went down and had blows to my head,” and that his priority in those moments was “just getting him off, getting him off of me … because he was so enraged, so we were just, in essence, trying to protect the fans.”

So what allegedly set off the suspect?

Witness and local pastor Robert McDaniel told the station the attack commenced after the suspect was told his ticket didn’t match the seat he was in.

“He was asked to move to another place because his ticket wasn’t where he was sitting, and immediately he just completely lost it,” McDaniel recounted to WDAF.

In the viral video of the attack, a man is pulling the teen off Schlange, who appears dazed, and blood is visible around his mouth.

That man who intervened — the only person who stepped up and stopped the brutal beating — is Antonio Clayter.

He described to WDAF in another story what he saw in that moment, noting that Schlange was “just doing his job” when “the kid … just spazzed out, and he pushed him.” When the teen suspect began pummeling Schlange, Clayter appeared in the camera frame and pulled the attacker off.

“I had to,” Clayter recalled to WDAF. “It wasn’t even a feeling; it was something that had to be done. Like, I have family members that are that age. This isn’t right. … I was raised with morals and values. You can’t act like that, especially to our elders.”

RELATED: Male, 19, accused of hitting girlfriend’s baby in head so hard that little girl had to go on ventilator. Now she’s dead.

Clayter also offered a warning to the teen, the station said: “You can’t grow up with that type of mentality, because you’re not gonna get far in life at all. … I’ve been in trouble, and I know what road that you can go down. … You’re not gonna get anywhere good besides prison or dead that way, bro.”

After the charges against the teen were announced Tuesday, Schlange told WDAF that “accountability is important. But [it’s] actually kind of sad things got to this point. Restraint, cooperation, and respect are important lessons to learn.”

The station said hearings in the case are closed to the public, and Missouri law requires the names of juveniles in the juvenile justice system to be confidential.

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced that the U.K. will force all workers to have a digital ID, which he claimed is a tool to help crack down on out-of-control immigration. But Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck is well aware that’s not the real purpose of the digital ID — and that Americans need to watch out for this kind of government response to similar issues.

“This government will make a new, free-of-charge digital ID mandatory for the right to work by the end of this parliament. Let me spell that out. You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID,” Starmer said, addressing U.K. citizens.

“It’s as simple as that. Because decent, pragmatic, fair-minded people, they want us to tackle the issues that they see around them. And, of course, the truth is we won’t solve our problems if we don’t also take on the root causes,” he continued.

“Looking upstream to tackle poverty, conflict, climate change, issues that aren’t just intolerable for those of us who care about inequality and injustice where it’s found in the world, but which have clear consequences for our own citizens,” he added.

Glenn sees right through Starmer’s attempt to explain the dystopian system away.

“They have a problem in England with people coming across the water and just invading the country. And then they’re taking all the jobs from, you know, decent Brits. And they haven’t stopped them, you know, they’re welcoming them in. They’re not turning them away. They’re not sending them back home or anything,” he says.

Instead of turning immigrants away or sending them back to solve the problem of illegal immigration, they’re implementing the digital ID.

“This is the way progressivism works. They create the idea and then they cause the problem so that they can go back and say, ‘We need to do this to solve this problem.’ OK? So they’ve caused the problem of illegal immigration. They’ve caused the problem of all of these things happening on their streets. But don’t worry, they’ve already designed the answer and it’s a digital ID,” Glenn says.

And what’s more worrisome, Glenn explains, is that the digital ID will “have complete control and oversight of your entire life.”

“They want digital ID to control the population. That’s what all of this is about. Control your every movement, your every thought, your every word. Control it, regulate it, and make sure that you’re kept in line,” he adds.

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Don Lemon and Joy Reid appear to be in a competition for who can sound the least intelligent in front of an audience, and BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock isn’t sure who is winning.

“Men who look like you, men who vote like you, and men who sound like you. White men, something is broken. Something is cracked deep inside when so many of you believe the answer to fear, to loss, to change is violence,” Lemon said on “The Don Lemon Show.”

“Are you listening to me? I hope I’m saying it loud enough for the people in the back,” he added.

“Don Lemon has always been difficult for me to understand. This feels almost intentionally stupid so that he can be mocked and ridiculed by people that disagree with him. So that he can spark a conversation,” Whitlock says on “Jason Whitlock Harmony.”

“Have you looked at the statistics on the violence among black men? Did you look at the violence that happened as a result of George Floyd and Jacob Blake and Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown and Eric Garner and so on and so forth? Are you kidding? Are you kidding me?” he adds.

But Lemon, of course, isn’t alone in his ridiculous statement, as former MSNBC host Joy Reid had to throw some nonsense out into the universe as well.

“If you go back before the 20th century, there were no income taxes. There were no regulations on business. You could earn as much money as you want, leave 100% of it to your children with no taxes. That’s the world they want back. And to get it back, they need society to change. They need people to be less modern. They need people to want fewer things,” Reid said on BET while attempting to equate the Trump administration to fascism.

“When I heard that I was like, ‘Is she talking about heaven?’ No taxes. I get to earn as much as I want. I get to leave it to my family. Man, that sounds awesome. When we say ‘Make America Great Again,’ if that’s what they’re talking about, man, sign me up,” Whitlock says.

When deciding who made the “dumber statement,” Whitlock’s panel is having a hard time — but Wilfred Reilly believes it was Reid.

“It’s a tough competition, but I’d probably have to say Joy Reid. You know, Don Lemon, I mean, I think everyone on the panel knows this, but you know, crime is high across the board in the USA, but if you look at murder, black murder rate — seven times the white murder rate,” Reilly says.

“That’s an absurd, racist thing to say,” he says. “But Joy Reid … she doesn’t know what fascism is. I mean, fascism is, you know, it’s the system, business, and government working together.”

“She went through, ‘You’re not going to pay taxes, the government’s not going to be involved in every aspect of life. You can leave 100% of your money to your son or your little girl,’” he continues.

“I would be very comfortable … going back to that world,” he adds.

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