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At a time when the church needs conviction, Fuller Theological Seminary has chosen compromise.

For over a year, Fuller Theological Seminary deliberated its views on sexuality. The school, one of the largest evangelical seminaries in the U.S., has long affirmed the historical Christian, biblical position on sex and marriage: that marriage is a covenantal union between one man and one woman, that sex is reserved for that one-flesh union, and that sex outside marriage is sin.

Rejecting God’s design for sex and marriage ultimately is a rejection of God.

But as school leaders deliberated updating their policy, the Associated Press revealed one proposal that would have opened the door to affirming LGBTQ ideology.

“There are thoughtful Christians and churches that have different interpretations [of allowable sexual activity],” the proposal read. “Therefore, we expect all members of this global, evangelical, and ecumenical seminary student and learner community to live with integrity consistent to the Christian communities to which they belong.”

A year after that proposal went public, Fuller Theological Seminary announced that school leaders had decided to reaffirm its traditional, orthodox position.

Good news, right? Well, not so fast.

In a statement, school president David Goatley said the board of trustees had discovered a solution that avoids “ideological polarities.” He called it the “Fuller way.”

Goatley said:

After several years of consultation, feedback, and dialogue, the Board of Trustees reconfirmed the institution’s commitment to its historic theological understanding of marriage and human sexuality — a union between a man and a woman and sexual intimacy within the context of that union. At the same time, we acknowledge that faithful Christians — through prayerful study, spiritual discernment, and lived experience — have come to affirm other covenantal forms of relationship.

Other covenantal forms of relationship.

In other words, Fuller leaders chose to reaffirm the school’s traditional position while extending institutional legitimacy to those who reject the historic Christian position on sexuality and marriage.

Compromise in disguise

Fuller’s new position is not grounded in theological or ecumenical generosity. Rather, it’s institutional doublespeak.

Fuller wants to affirm biblical truth under its letterhead while virtue-signaling “inclusion” to those who deny the truth. It is a subtle yet dangerous compromise. The new policy views the historic Christian position on sex and marriage as a matter of opinion or community preference — not obedience to God’s commands.

The message Fuller sends is clear and alarming.

If Christians can disagree on something as theologically significant as God’s design and purpose for marriage, sex, and the human body, then these issues are peripheral, disputable, and secondary to Christianity.

But the Bible does not treat sexual ethics as a negotiable matter. Any assertion otherwise is a lie, one that liberals use as a cudgel to suppress biblical truth.

From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible affirms that God created humanity with two sexes — man and woman — that marriage is a one-flesh covenant between one man and one woman, and that any sexual activity outside that covenant is sin. To depart from God’s vision for human flourishing with regard to sex and marriage is not just a matter of hermeneutical differences — it’s rebellion against God.

This isn’t just about theology, morality, and ethics, but about anthropology and teleology, too.

For what purpose did God create humans? And how can humanity experience the flourishing that God intends for us?

Rejecting God’s design for sex and marriage ultimately is a rejection of God. Just ask the apostle Paul, who identifies disordered sexuality as evidence of humanity’s rejection of God (Romans 1).

The stakes are high

In our cultural moment, the liberal LGBTQ lobby is catechizing an entire generation with its liturgy of “inclusion.” This agenda, cloaked in compassion, demands affirmation of anti-God ideologies.

That’s why Fuller’s “third way” — to be neither outright condemning nor outright affirming — ultimately fails the smell test. It’s soft equivocation that implies the “acceptance” the LGBTQ lobby demands and ends with full-scale capitulation.

Jesus was full of grace and truth — not half measures. Jesus, in fact, famously proclaimed, “Whoever is not with me is against me” (Luke 11:23).

To be with Jesus, therefore, requires total commitment. Complete allegiance. Undying fidelity.

Fuller, on the other hand, is leading Christians down a different path. The school’s position — “we believe this is true, but it’s perfectly acceptable if you believe something else” — doesn’t catechize “faithful Christians.” Rather, it forms relativists empowered to elevate themselves to the position of God. Relativists define good and evil in their own eyes and seize for themselves what they deem to be good. They certainly do not lay down their lives and take up a cross.

The historical Christian, biblical teaching on sex and marriage is not arbitrary, and, according to the apostle Paul, it stands at the heart of the gospel. We cannot, therefore, capitulate to a culture that seeks to erase not only our teachings but, ultimately, God.

No middle ground

If Christians compromise, liberals and progressives win. Not only on matters of sexuality and marriage, but liberals will not stop until they have eroded every historical Christian teaching.

Preventing their godless victory requires a commitment not to compromise on biblical truth. Christians reverse the liberal takeover when we combat liberal lies with our truth — and make no apologies for it.

Either marriage is a God-ordained covenant between one man and one woman, or it is not. Either same-sex relationships — any sexual activity outside the marriage union, for that matter — are a departure from God’s design, or they are not. Either scripture and the church’s historical teaching are our authority, or they are not.

Now is the time to display the courage and boldness of Christ. To speak truth with clarity is not unkind. It is essential. Anything less is a disservice to the church and the world.

There is no virtue in ambiguity. Liberals are evangelizing our culture with “Pride.” Christians must respond with biblical truth — not the “Fuller way.”

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The rule of law seems to be collapsing in the city of Los Angeles after protesters against ICE raids turned to violence and vandalism to try to stop immigration enforcement.

Videos on social media have captured numerous incidents of anti-ICE rioters throwing rocks at ICE vehicles and violently attacking federal agents. Local officials said law enforcement would not cooperate with ICE operations, but eventually local officers came to ICE agents’ aid after they appeared to be overwhelmed.

‘While the LAPD will continue to have a visible presence in all our communities to ensure public safety, we will not assist or participate in any sort of mass deportations.’

As the protesting began to ramp up on Friday evening, Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDowell released a statement to reassure immigrants that the LAPD would not assist in any federal deportation operation.

“Today the LAPD became aware that federal law enforcement agencies conducted activities in the City of Los Angeles. I’m aware that these actions cause anxiety for many Angelenos, so I want to make it clear: the LAPD is not involved in civil immigration enforcement,” the statement read.

“While the LAPD will continue to have a visible presence in all our communities to ensure public safety, we will not assist or participate in any sort of mass deportations nor will the LAPD try to determine an individual’s immigration status,” he added.

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“Since 1979, our policy has barred officers from initiating police action solely to determine a person’s immigration status,” he continued. “The Department remains focused on critical issues like crime reduction, enhancing public safety and improving the quality of life for all Angelenos. I want everyone, including our immigrant community, to feel safe calling the police in their time of need and know that the LAPD will be there for you without regard to one’s immigration status.”

On Saturday, President Donald Trump ordered the National Guard to assist the federal agents under siege.

“The Trump Administration has a zero tolerance policy for criminal behavior and violence, especially when that violence is aimed at law enforcement officers trying to do their jobs,” said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he opposed the decision.

“That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions,” Newsom said. “The Guard has been admirably serving LA throughout recovery. This is the wrong mission and will erode public trust.”

Here’s a live feed from the ICE rioting:

This is a developing story and additional information may be added.

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Democrats lost the White House and the U.S. Senate in November and were unable to make sufficient headway in the House to make their hysterical opposition to Republican initiatives insurmountable. In the months since, they have continued losing in various ways, especially in the way of public confidence.

The disapproval rating for the party as a whole was 58.3% as of May 25, according to polling by the Economist and YouGov. A new CNN survey conducted by SSRS and published June 1 revealed that only 16% of Americans figure the party’s leaders as strong and only 19% of respondents indicated the party was capable of getting things done.

The Democratic Party has apparently lost a lot more than face and confidence — it no longer has a stranglehold on the middle class, a critical demographic that accounts for roughly half the electoral pie.

CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten built up to this revelation on Monday, noting first that when it comes to the economy, Americans just trust Republicans more.

When asked which political party’s views were closer to their own on the economy, 38% of respondents said the Republican Party in a CNN survey. Thirty-one percent said the Democrats’ views were representative.

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“How is that possible, Democrats? How is that possible after all the recession fears? After the stock markets been doing all of this?” said an exasperated Enten, simulating market ups and downs with his hand. “After all the tariffs that Americans are against? And Republicans still hold an eight-point lead on the economy — are you kidding me?”

CNN talking head Kate Bolduan appeared keen for Enten to paint a silver lining on this bad news for Democrats, but he was unable to deliver. Instead, Enten noted that other polling data similarly suggests Americans regard the GOP as the party with the better economic plan.

‘Donald Trump and the Republican Party have taken that mantle away.’

“The Republicans still hold an advantage on the all-important key issue of the day,” said Enten. “And that is the reason why, even if Donald Trump’s approval ratings are a little bit lower than they used to be, Republicans are not out of the ballgame because they still have a clear advantage on the economy.”

Enten was not finished burdening Bolduan with bad news for Democrats.

He suggested that Democrats have for decades — since at least 1989 — held a significant, double-digit advantage over Republicans with the middle class. Enten noted, however, that the Democratic Party’s advantage had slipped in recent years to a negligible lead, “well within the margin of error.”

“Now, in our latest CNN poll, among registered voters, ‘which is the party of the middle class?’ It is tied,” said Enten. “This, I think, speaks to Democratic ills more than anything else. They have traditionally been the party of the middle class. No more. Donald Trump and the Republican Party have taken that mantle away.”

‘A key advantage for Democrats historically has gone Adios amigos.’

According to a 2024 Gallup poll, 54% of Americans identify as part of the middle class.

There are numerous factors at play here besides former President Joe Biden’s disastrous time in the White House, a few of which were highlighted by the New York Times earlier this year.

RELATED: Democrats are just noticing a long, deep-running problem

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The Times noted that while Democrats rushed to pin their estrangement from the working and middle classes on the party’s embrace of gender ideology and woke policies, Democratic leaders’ prioritization of consumers over workers; promotion of job-killing climate and globalist initiatives; and shift away from unions hurt the relationship.

When asked which was the party of the middle class, 34% of respondents in the CNN survey said the Democratic Party, 32% said the Republican Party, and 33% said neither party.

“A key advantage for Democrats historically has gone adios amigos,” said Enten. “And now there is no party that is the party of the middle class. Republicans have completely closed the gap.”

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Less grievance. More gratitude.

That was the motto guiding film scholar and talk show host Michael Medved as he wrote “The American Miracle,” his 2016 tome exploring the providential moments that helped create the freest country in human history. The subject proved so vast that the author penned a companion book, “God’s Hand on America: Divine Providence in the Modern Era.”

‘One of the very few things they agreed on completely … was divine providence, the invisible hand. Washington used that phrase in the first inaugural address.’

Almost a decade later, we’re drowning in grievance, while gratitude remains in short supply. A perfect time for Medved’s book to reach the big screen.

No accident

“The American Miracle” hits theaters June 9-11, courtesy of Fathom Entertainment. The docudrama features recognizable names like Kevin Sorbo and Pat Boone, but the true stars are Washington, Lincoln, and Franklin.

The movie, subtitled, “Our Nation Is No Accident,” argues that God’s hand worked in mysterious ways to boost the country’s creation.

“I’ve been living with this idea of divine providence,” Medved tells Align, recalling pre-recorded history segments on his long-running radio program. “The most popular episode, ‘God’s Hand on America,’ gave rise to the book.”

Years later, it seemed like the right moment to bring its message to theaters nationwide.

The movie shares amazing stories tied to the country’s birth, including the many near-death experiences George Washington survived before becoming the nation’s first president.

Early in Washington’s life, he fought alongside the British and was the only horseback officer to survive a harrowing battle. “His hat was shot through with bullets, and two horses were shot out from under him. He was unscathed,” Medved shared.

No sugarcoating

The film doesn’t sugarcoat the Founding Fathers but puts them in spiritual context.

“At no point do we suggest the people you meet in the film are perfect human beings. … They were a remarkable group of human beings,” he says. “One of the very few things they agreed on completely … was divine providence, the invisible hand. Washington used that phrase in the first inaugural address.”

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Medved recalls a sermon from Presbyterian Minister Samuel Davies that echoed that sentiment.

“I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved [him] in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.”

“The American Miracle” blends re-enactments with historical experts to buttress Medved’s arguments.

“Some of the leading historians in the country take the idea of divine providence very seriously,” he says.

Avoiding polarization

Medved’s conservative thinking is part of his brand, along with an extensive career as a film critic. He worked alongside fellow critic Jeffrey Lyons on the 1980s PBS show “Sneak Previews,” taking over for original hosts Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert.

His personal politics aside, Medved still didn’t want “The American Miracle” to embrace a partisan ethos. The film’s array of experts, including Robert P. George, Joseph Ellis, and Jana Novak, offer some ideological diversity. That includes contributions from Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss.

The Hollywood icon is no rock-ribbed conservative. He’s left-leaning but a patriot who promotes a better understanding of the country’s founding principles via his Dreyfuss Civics Initiative.

“We tried to avoid some of the polarization that has been poisoning our politics,” Medved says of the film. “[Dreyfuss] has been a friend of mine for many years, since high school. He has made a passionate cause of civics and teaching civics.”

Part of “The American Miracle” explores the role black soldiers played in the American Revolution, fighting on behalf of the patriots. It’s hardly the kind of material one expects in a 21st-century film. Hollywood narratives wouldn’t allow it, but the historical facts remain.

Medved called their contributions “indispensable.”

Spotlight on the founding

Medved’s decades-long media career allowed him to watch the pop-culture transformation up close. He hails the new wave of choice in media circles, be it podcasts or new media platforms offering something different from what legacy media outlets provide.

“Today, depending on what your own obsession or interest is, there’s something there for you. Generally, we all spend too much time on mass media,” he says. “However, the advantage today is that there is a great deal of choice.”

That also holds for the pop-culture realm. Medved brings up the crush of stories tied to the American Civil War, from feature films to the celebrated “Civil War” docuseries from PBS mainstay Ken Burns.

What’s missing? More cinematic takes on the country’s Revolutionary War and astounding origins. That’s where “The American Miracle” comes in.

“It hasn’t gotten the same kind of attention. There’s no equivalent of ‘Birth of a Nation’ or ‘Gone with the Wind’ or ‘Glory,’” he says.

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I recently wrote about how Mark Zuckerberg was building a new surveillance state — one powered by AI, emotion-reading smartglasses, and frictionless data capture. But while the cameras watch your eyes, something even more dangerous is quietly tightening its grip around your wallet.

Zuckerberg is moving back into crypto. And this time, Zuck might actually pull it off.

Once Meta controls the rails, it doesn’t need to censor. It just needs to interrupt the flow. No bans. No headlines. Just stealthy throttling.

Meta reportedly wants to bring stablecoins into Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. In simple terms, stablecoins are digital currencies linked to something steady (like the U.S. dollar). Unlike Bitcoin, they don’t fluctuate wildly in value. As the name suggests, stablecoins are designed to remain stable. This might seem dull, even boring, but that’s the point. Stablecoins don’t sound revolutionary. They sound responsible. Professional. But when Meta adopts them, they stop being boring. They become a silent engine for dominance — a digital financial infrastructure controlled by one man, backed by 3 billion users.

And it’s not his first attempt.

Zuckerberg’s previous crypto project, Libra (later renamed Diem), was slapped down by global regulators. The concern? That one company could create a private global financial system, bypassing central banks, dodging oversight, and pressuring national currencies. The backlash was swift. Congress intervened. The EU objected. Even the Bank of England said no.

But Zuckerberg doesn’t give up. He pivots. This time, he’s not launching his own coin. He’s slipping through the back door by partnering with existing stablecoin providers. No new coin. No major announcement. Just seamless integrations, one contract at a time.

The goal isn’t cryptocurrency innovation or financial empowerment. It’s control. Meta doesn’t just want to host transactions. It wants to be the rails, the protocol, the silent layer under every payment, tip, and subscription. If he pulls this off, Meta won’t just know what you watch; it will know what you buy, what you send, who you support, and what causes you can’t fund. That’s right, can’t. This is where it gets dangerous.

Once Meta controls the rails, it doesn’t need to censor. It just needs to interrupt the flow. No bans. No headlines. Just stealthy throttling. A creator doesn’t get paid. A fundraiser gets flagged. A dissident sees his transactions “delayed for review.”

RELATED: Trump’s Bitcoin masterstroke puts America ahead in digital assets

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If this sounds far-fetched, please remember that this is already happening. Just look at PayPal, GoFundMe, and Patreon — all have denied payouts over politics. Now imagine that same enforcement mechanism baked into the world’s largest social network. This won’t happen overnight. It’ll look like a feature. It starts with convenience. Send money to friends, tip a podcast host, buy merch in one click, etc. Then it expands: in-app loans, subscriptions, and gig worker payouts. Then it tightens: flagged transactions, ranked trust scores, and real-time financial nudging. Before long, you’re not just using Meta — you’re living inside it. A walled garden with its own currency, rules, and enforcement.

And the really humorous part is that it will be sold as freedom. You’ll hear about “empowering creators.” “Serving the underbanked.” “Financial inclusion.” These are the same buzzwords that Big Tech always uses when it’s selling control in disguise. But let me be clear: When one unelected billionaire sets the rules for global money flow, that’s not inclusion. That’s risk. That’s regulatory arbitrage masquerading as progress.

Imagine the 2028 U.S. election. A political candidate is frozen out of ad payments because Meta deems him “high-risk.” A protest group can’t receive donations. A journalist’s subscription platform loses its payout privileges. Again, this isn’t far-fetched; this isn’t hypothetical. Meta already scans private messages for flagged links. It already limits what content is shown based on opaque “community guidelines.” Crypto integration just tightens the noose. Very soon, it won’t be just speech on the line. It will be livelihoods. The digital public square is merging with the digital bank. And Zuckerberg will be both mayor and treasurer.

Stablecoins weren’t supposed to look like this. They were meant to reduce fees, streamline cross-border payments, and offer an alternative to bloated legacy finance. But in the wrong hands, they become something else. Not just a faster dollar, but a programmable one. One that can be paused, tracked, and controlled.

And here’s the final scenario no one wants to admit: Once Meta has stablecoin rails in place, what’s stopping it from launching its own currency again? Except this time, it won’t be called Libra. It won’t be regulated like a bank. It will already be everywhere. A default setting. An opt-out that you didn’t even know was enabled. That’s the real endgame. Zuckerberg failed the first time because he moved too fast and too loudly. This time, he’s moving quietly. And that should scare the hell out of you.

Because if he succeeds, it won’t just be a coin. It’ll be the operating system of your financial life. And once Meta’s inside your wallet, there’s no logging out.

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Documentary filmmaker and content creator Patrick James has garnered millions of views on his YouTube channel exploring conspiracy theories, ancient mysteries, and unexplained phenomena. The popularity of his podcast, “So Weird with Patrick James,” is a testament to humanity’s intrinsic proclivity for mystery and the supernatural. From secret government projects to Egypt’s many conundrums, James takes a broad, multidisciplinary approach, blending compelling storytelling with open-minded inquiry as he dives into the unknown.

On a recent episode of “Back to the People,” James joined Nicole Shanahan to discuss the chief of all conspiracy theories: UFOs.

Nicole’s theory about UFOs is that they are “government contractors that are flying drones around our airspace,” likely paid for by the “$2 trillion in unaccounted spending” revealed by the Department of Defense’s 2023 audit.

James then brings up the mystery of the Phoenix Lights — a series of unidentified lights observed in a triangular formation over Phoenix, Arizona, on March 13, 1997, by thousands of eyewitnesses. Months after the sightings, the U.S. military dismissed the lights as flares dropped during a training exercise, but this response failed to address several aspects of sightings, including the miles-wide craft that were seen passing silently over the city. In his documentary, James dug “as far as [he] was comfortable going” into the controversy.

“What makes you uncomfortable?” asks Nicole.

“What makes me uncomfortable is that this story itself has been gate kept for at least 25 years, and the gatekeepers are the people who are collecting and filtering all the information coming from the witnesses and the people who were collecting the photo and video evidence,” he says.

One of the people he interviewed for the documentary was image processing pioneer and UFO researcher Jim Dilettoso, the founder of Village Labs in Tempe, Arizona, where the Phoenix Lights evidence was stored. Jim played a significant role in analyzing the video and photographic evidence.

After their interview, Dilettoso “called [James] every day” for weeks, pleading with him to not pursue the story deeper, especially as it related to a story about “men in black” confiscating video evidence from Richard Curtis, an eyewitness.

“I caught Jim contradicting himself multiple times,” says James, noting that Dilettoso was clearly uneasy any time he “started touching the stove around the men in black or this Richard Curtis character,” who mysteriously “disappeared” without a trace after he claimed in a FOX10 News interview that men in black had confiscated his footage. He claimed men in black were not real, even though a phone call from 1997 records him claiming he was personally visited by three of them at Village Labs.

James believes Dilettoso is clearly hiding something.

As for the numerous impossibly large aircraft spotted on that strange night in Phoenix, he says, all evidence considered, “I don’t think this was man-made.”

From a ship with “bright orange … lava lamp” bubbles and “rainbow mists” that supposedly inspired “love and gratitude” to black hole theories, James and Nicole’s conversation leads to many strange and fascinating places.

To hear it in full, watch the episode above.

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President Donald Trump’s approval rating made strides in May when compared to the same poll from the month prior, widening the gap between Americans who are for and against him.

At the end of April, a joint national survey by InsiderAdvantage and Trafalgar Group showed that among likely voters, the president held a 2-point advantage in approval versus disapproval. The 1,200-person survey gave a 46% approval rating to Trump, while 44% of respondents disapproved, and 10% were undecided. However, the numbers seemed to only go up from there.

‘Americans are relieved they’re no longer being treated as second class citizens by their government.’

Fast-forward to Trafalgar’s end of May/early June survey, and numbers in support of the president had significantly jumped among likely voters.

A whopping 54% of respondents either approved or strongly approved of Trump’s job as president, while 46% disapproved or strongly disapproved.

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Moreover, slightly more Democrat voters participated in the 1,098-person survey than Republicans did.

Looking at Rasmussen’s presidential approval tracker, Trump sat at 53% on June 2, just 3% shy of his inauguration week numbers. That week, Rasmussen reported Trump had hit record highs in net approval ratings, beating out numbers from his first term.

“President Trump’s approval rating rising suggests growing public support for his policy agenda,” MRCTV host Justine Brooke Murray told Blaze News.

Murray added, “As more Americans reject the blatant bias of taxpayer-subsidized media, which is essentially compelled speech, efforts to rein in spending and enforce accountability may be resonating more broadly.”

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Mass deportations of gang members and terrorists are also likely contributing to the approval rating, Murray noted, concluding, “Americans are relieved they’re no longer being treated as second-class citizens by their government, which had previously sacrificed our citizens to our nation’s own enemies.”

Approval ratings across the board have certainly shown increased support for the president since his last term.

At the end of January, YouGov reported 62% of U.S. citizens thought Trump’s inauguration speech was outstanding or above average, up from 49% in 2017.

As well, 43% viewed him as a very strong leader in 2025, with that number being at just 32% in 2017.

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The USS Titanic — our ship of state — is headed straight for a fiscal iceberg. And Americans are still rearranging the deck chairs.

Complacency has become our gravest threat. We cling to a false sense of invincibility, comforted by the size and legacy of the U.S. economy. After all, we’re the United States of America. What could possibly go wrong?

Pundits love to say we’ve carried debt for decades without a crisis. That logic belongs in a casino, not a government.

Everything — if history’s any guide. Ask the Romans. Ask the British. Every great power that believed it was immune to long-term mismanagement eventually ran aground.

Let’s stop pretending. The federal government sits on a collision course with economic disaster. And unless we act, we’ll suffer the same fate as the Titanic — not too big to fail, but too big to save when the water starts pouring in.

In November 2023, Fitch Ratings downgraded America’s credit rating — joining Standard & Poor’s, which did the same in 2011. Moody’s followed suit. These weren’t partisan potshots. They were alarms backed by math.

The national debt has passed $37 trillion — 125% of gross domestic product. That ratio continues climbing and could exceed 200% within a few decades, if not sooner. At current trajectory, the federal government will owe more than $70 trillion by 2035.

This isn’t theory. It’s arithmetic.

Yes, the United States carried significant debt after World War II. But back then, we had a plan. The federal government remained lean. Policymakers promoted growth through low taxes, fewer regulations, and real fiscal restraint. Debt-to-GDP dropped below 40% within a generation.

Today, Washington does the opposite. More spending. Higher taxes. Heavier regulation. All while the clock ticks louder.

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And that’s just the official debt. Add unfunded liabilities from Social Security and Medicare, and the real figure shoots above $130 trillion. That’s not a typo — it’s a debt bomb that dwarfs anything in our history.

Pundits love to say we’ve carried debt for decades without a crisis. That logic belongs in a casino, not a government. As Hemingway put it: Bankruptcy happens “gradually, then suddenly.”

The economy may look calm on the surface. But underneath, the pressure builds. Interest payments on the debt already surpass defense spending. Every dollar wasted on interest is a dollar unavailable for education, infrastructure, emergency relief — or even national security.

While the debt swells, politicians on both sides make it worse. Congress lurches from one bloated proposal to another, piling on $3-$5 trillion more in new borrowing under the guise of stimulus, “investments,” or political horse-trading.

Printing money doesn’t create prosperity. Borrowing to fund political promises is economic malpractice.

Washington’s not just borrowing dollars. It’s borrowing time, trust, and prosperity from future Americans.

What kind of legacy will we leave our children?

A nation once defined by opportunity, self-reliance, and innovation now leads the world in debt and dysfunction. That’s not just policy failure — it’s moral failure. It’s a betrayal of the American promise.

Why does this keep happening? Because politicians chase the next election, not the next generation. And voters let them.

We reward short-term handouts over long-term discipline. We elect people who promise benefits without explaining the bill. And we pretend this can go on forever.

It can’t.

Americans must reclaim their role as stewards of the republic. That means asking tough questions, demanding truth from politicians, and supporting leaders who offer hard choices over easy lies.

We still have time. But not much.

Fiscal reform doesn’t require slashing everything or dismantling safety nets. It requires honesty, cooperation, and courage. We need to restructure entitlements, simplify the tax code, and eliminate programs that waste billions.

A leaner government, closer to what the Founders envisioned, would grow the economy and lift all incomes. That path still exists — if we’re brave enough to take it.

The alternative? A debt crisis that makes the Great Depression look tame. And no one will be able to say they weren’t warned.

The iceberg looms. The hull leaks. The music still plays — for now.

But the moment for change won’t last. The wheel is still in our hands.

Turn it.

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We all remember how during the Summer of Rage we were told that the riots literally burning cities to the ground were “mostly peaceful protests.”

Five years later, we’re now learning that phrases like that might have come directly from a secret government agency called the Community Relations Service, which manipulates racial tensions and media narratives under Title 10 of the Civil Rights Act.

To dive down the rabbit hole, Jill Savage and Blaze Media editor in chief Matthew Peterson, hosts of “Blaze News | The Mandate,” invite BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre to the show.

“Title 10 of the Civil Rights Act required there to be a community relations service, which went around and tried to smooth out problems between the different communities in the United States,” says MacIntyre.

While “in theory that sounds great,” the reality is “what this service actually ended up doing was managing the expectations of different communities when it came to violence, especially when it came to violence between black communities and white communities.”

“Anytime that a white person might receive some level of violence from a minority, these people were deployed to control the story, to control the situation,” says MacIntyre.

This control went to great extents, involving “[putting] lots of pressure on local media,” “[coordinating] with law enforcement,” and “writing prepared statements, in some cases, for the victim’s families.”

“It’s manipulating everything people know about race relations in the United States from top to bottom,” says MacIntyre.

He references the racially charged brawl between Somali and Congolese immigrants and a group of white men that led to the death of Donald Giusti, a white male, in Lewiston, Maine, in 2018.

The CRS was quickly “deployed to make sure that, again, there was no backlash over this [and] that the victims’ families were kept under control,” he explains.

MacIntyre explains that the CRS responded quickly to this incident in Lewiston, Maine, because they were already present in the city, having been involved in resettling the Somali community. Anticipating tensions and potential violence, they were prepared to manage any backlash against the Somali population when the predicted violence occurred.

“They already had the narrative ready. … They were there to make sure that there was no backlash against the Somali community,” says MacIntyre, noting that the CRS has been “doing this for decades.”

But the operations of the CRS get even more disturbing.

CRS “continues to train leftist activists to this day; it would threaten to pull the FCC licenses of TV stations that did not hire black newscasters in an affirmative-action style. They worked with different black militant radicals in the ’60s, some of whom were students of Saul Alinsky, in order to coordinate different riots,” MacIntyre says.

“The people who ran the organization admitted that the purpose of the organization was explicitly to prevent white America from having any backlash against any minority groups that might do violence against them,” he explains, adding that CRS controls everything “so that there isn’t an awareness of the severity of many of these crimes.”

To make matters worse, CRS is permitted to “refuse most FOIA requests” and has “special privileges where they can avoid testimony in front of Congress and in courts.” “Even the notes that they take are destroyed and not entered into the public record.”

The agency has been able to fly “under the radar for so long” likely because it essentially has “an FBI level of confidentiality,” says MacIntyre.

“This is extremely troubling — beyond even the wildest dreams of what many people thought was possible for the federal government,” says Peterson. “What is their real goal?”

To hear MacIntyre’s answer, watch the video above.

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Social media erupted this week when President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to their respective accounts on Truth Social and X, clashing over their views on the “one big, beautiful bill” in Congress. The arguments escalated and took some very surprising turns that left the world agape.

While debates have been ongoing throughout the week, the feud between Trump and Musk truly began at 1:31 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday when Musk posted: “I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”

On Wednesday at 1:59 p.m., Trump reposted Musk’s post from May 28: “As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President @realDonaldTrump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending. The @DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government.”

RELATED: Elon Musk takes jab at ‘big, beautiful bill’: ‘I was disappointed’

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Thursday morning, Trump gave his reaction to the growing feud: “I’m very disappointed, because Elon knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here. He had no problem with it. All of a sudden he had a problem, and he only developed a problem when he found out that we’re gonna have to cut the EV mandate.”

Trump went on to say in his statement, “He hasn’t said anything bad about me, but I’m sure that will be next. I’m very disappointed in Elon. I’ve helped Elon a lot.” He also suggested that many people, and perhaps including Musk, develop a case of “Trump derangement syndrome” when they leave his administration: “Some of them embrace it, and some of them actually become hostile.”

Thursday, 12:25 p.m.: Musk replied to a post with more footage of Trump’s statement and directly refuted Trump’s claim that he knew the “inner workings” of the bill. “False, this bill was never shown to me even once and was passed in the dead of night so fast that almost no one in Congress could even read it!”

Piers Morgan took to X when Musk posted this claim: “BREAKING: Elon calls President Trump a liar. Wow.”

Thursday, 12:46 p.m.: Musk also responded to Trump’s claim in his news release that he would have won regardless of Musk’s involvement: “Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.”

“Such ingratitude,” he added.

Thursday, 1:57 p.m.: Musk posted a poll in which he asked: “Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle?” The poll received over 2.4 million votes in the first five hours and topped 5.3 million votes on Friday morning.

Thursday, 2:37 p.m.: Trump posted on his Truth Social account: “Elon was ‘wearing thin,’ I asked him to leave, I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY!”

At the same time, Trump posted: “The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!”

Thursday, 2:48 p.m.: Elon responded to an account that posted a screenshot of Trump’s post roughly 10 minutes later: “Such an obvious lie. So sad.”

RELATED: GOP’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill Act’ lets Big Tech and Big Pharma run wild

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Thursday, 3:10 p.m.: Elon Musk made the most incendiary comment of the feud: “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”

“Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out,” Musk added.

Musk’s original statement about the Epstein files took the internet by storm. At 3:31 p.m., BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre responded, saying, “Only two real options here. 1) This is true and Elon knowingly covered for a man he is accusing of being a pedophile 2) This is a lie and Elon is committing serious libel while cheapening the serious nature [of] trafficking minors. Neither are great.”

Blaze News senior politics editor Christopher Bedford took a different approach: “No shot. We know Epstein had Trump’s phone number; White House 47 released that publicly too. If there was any more to it, Biden and the Democrat DOJ would have 1000% released it.”

Thursday, 4:06 p.m.: Trump posted: “I don’t mind Elon turning against me, but he should have done so months ago. This is one of the Greatest Bills ever presented to Congress. It’s a Record Cut in Expenses, $1.6 Trillion Dollars, and the Biggest Tax Cut ever given. If this Bill doesn’t pass, there will be a 68% Tax Increase, and things far worse than that. I didn’t create this mess, I’m just here to FIX IT. This puts our Country on a Path of Greatness. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Thursday, 4:11 p.m.: Musk also seemingly signaled his agreement with one user on X who said, “Trump should be impeached and JD Vance should replace him.”

In response to one of Trump’s statements posted as a screenshot on X, Musk announced: “In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately.” The post appears to have been taken down.

Thursday, 4:24 p.m.: Blaze Media editor in chief Matthew Peterson summed up the confusion of the day: “It was ***inevitable*** Trump and Elon would clash, of course — but this is dumb shite all around and I am almost sure that this level of blow up could have been avoided. … Whatever is really going on — whatever really led to…this…is what people want to know now.”

Thursday, 4:26 p.m.: Musk later posted, “The Trump tariffs will cause a recession in the second half of this year.”

Thursday, 4:43 p.m.: Musk reposted one user’s post of a video with the caption: “In 1992 Trump partied with Jeffrey Epstein. Just gonna leave this here.” The video features Trump at his mansion in Mar-a-Lago, throwing a party. It also captures Jeffrey Epstein’s arrival at the party and a conversation between them.

Thursday, 4:48 p.m.: Following Musk’s declaration about the Dragon spacecraft, NASA press secretary Bethany Stevens commented on X: “NASA will continue to execute upon the President’s vision for the future of space. We will continue to work with our industry partners to ensure the President’s objectives in space are met.”

RELATED: Elon Musk issues fiery statement against Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ — and the White House responds immediately

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Thursday, 5:30 p.m.: Bill Ackman posted a message on X: “I support @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk and they should make peace for the benefit of our great country. We are much stronger together than apart.”

Thursday, 8:04 p.m.: JD Vance posted a picture of himself with comedian Theo Von with the caption, “Slow news day, what are we even going to talk about? @TheoVon.”

Thursday, 9:20 p.m.: Musk walked back his statement about decommissioning the Dragon spacecraft.

Thursday, 9:27 p.m.: Elon Musk replied “you’re not wrong” to Bill Ackman’s call for peace, signaling the possibility of a reconciliation between the two men in the future.

Friday, 7:42 a.m.: An ABC News reporter broke the news about a phone conversation he had had with President Trump: “In a phone conversation this morning, @realDonaldTrump told me @elonmusk is ‘the man who has lost his mind.’ Trump did not, however, seem angry or even concerned about the feud. As for reports that there is going to be a Trump/Musk call scheduled for today, Trump told me he is ‘not particularly’ interested in talking to Musk although he says Musk wants to talk to him.”

Friday, 9:41 a.m.: The New York Post reported Trump plans to get rid of the Tesla he bought in support of Musk. The Tesla Model S will either be “given away” or “sold off,” according to Peter Doocy on Fox News. Doocy went on to report that Musk had been “wearing thin” on Trump for “about a month.” The public feud that exploded on Thursday was a small part of a longer period of disagreement.

On Friday morning, Fox News reported that Trump said that “Elon’s totally lost it” and that he is not interested in speaking with him at this time. Trump is also reportedly “not worried” about Elon’s suggestion of forming a new political party.

Friday, 1:57 p.m.: Musk’s poll closed just before 2:00 p.m. Eastern time on Friday with 5,630,775 votes, with 80.4% responding “Yes” and 19.6% responding “No.”

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The president of one of the largest unions in California was detained in an ICE raid, and the union says that he was injured as well.

A statement from SEIU California said that their president, David Huerta, was detained and was getting medical care but did not offer any other details. They demanded his release, as reports claimed that numerous raids were being performed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Los Angeles.

‘These tactics sow terror in our communities and disrupt basic principles of safety in our city. … We will not stand for this.’

Ilse Escobar told the Los Angeles Times that she witnessed a scuffle between protesters and ICE officers before Huerta was thrown to the ground.

“I told him, ‘You just arrested a labor union president,'” said Escobar, a political organizer.

The union claimed that Huerta was expressing his First Amendment right to “observe and document” law enforcement activity.

“We are proud of President Huerta’s righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement: standing up to injustice, regardless of personal risk or the power of those perpetrating it,” said Tia Orr, the union’s executive director.

“We call for an end to the cruel, destructive, and indiscriminate ICE raids that are tearing apart our communities, disrupting our economy, and hurting all working people,” she added. “Immigrant workers are essential to our society: feeding our nation, caring for our elders, cleaning our workplaces, and building our homes.”

Democrat Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass issued a statement decrying the ICE raids in general.

“This morning, we received reports of federal immigration enforcement actions in multiple locations in Los Angeles. As Mayor of a proud city of immigrants, who contribute to our city in so many ways, I am deeply angered by what has taken place,” she wrote.

RELATED: Huge ICE sweep busts 100+ illegal aliens at Florida worksites

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“These tactics sow terror in our communities and disrupt basic principles of safety in our city,” she continued. “My Office is in close coordination with immigrant rights community organizations. We will not stand for this.”

An illegal alien activist told the Times they were inundated with reports of the raids.

“There were ICE agents at a Home Depot in Cypress, there’s ICE agents at Wilshire Boulevard and Union Avenue, a construction site in North Hollywood and in South L.A.,” said Ron Gochez of Unión del Barrio. “They’re everywhere.”

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American actress Sydney Sweeney, who’s known for her roles in television series like “Euphoria” and “The White Lotus,” recently partnered with popular soap company Dr. Squatch to release a limited-edition soap bar dubbed “Sydney’s Bathwater Bliss,” which is supposedly infused with Sweeney’s used bathwater.

After her viral 2024 appearance in a Dr. Squatch ad, in which she addressed “dirty little boys” while sitting in a bathtub, fans flooded social media with playful and bizarre comments about wanting Sweeney’s bathwater.

The “Madame Web” actress apparently saw the requests as a fun way to engage with her fans. A partnership with the natural grooming brand was quickly struck, and in late May, her soap bar, which is also infused with pine, moss, and fir scents to reflect Sweeney’s Pacific Northwest roots, dropped.

Dave Landau, ¼ Black Garrett, and Angela Boggs, hosts of “Normal World,” find the collaboration hilarious and incredibly odd.

“It’s like perverts wrote you letters,” laughs Dave.

“I get that she’s pretty and she’s got big boobies and stuff, but like honestly, who is buying this?” asks Angela.

Apparently, a lot of people are. The 5,000 bars of Sweeney’s limited-edition soap sold out in a matter of hours.

To hear the panel’s hilarious banter about this strange celebrity product, watch the episode below.

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Every June for the past decade, Americans have endured the same tedious ritual. Corporations, nonprofits, and federal agencies blanketed the country in rainbow iconography to mark the beginning of Pride Month. Logos were recolored. HR departments rolled out slide decks on inclusion. Public spaces were repurposed into temples of the new state religion.

But this year feels different. Pride Month opened with a whimper. Some of the most vocal corporate evangelists dropped the celebration entirely. The cause? Conservatives finally decided to fight. Culture war became something more than a talking point — and suddenly, a chorus of “respectable” voices began warning about the dangers of winning.

The base has learned that victory is possible. Cultural power can be challenged. Political power can be used. The enemy can be made to retreat.

It’s our duty to ignore them.

The warning signs were obvious decades ago. In 1992, Pat Buchanan told the Republican National Convention that a culture war had already begun. If the right failed to take it seriously, he said, it would lose everything else. The GOP didn’t listen. Instead, the party obsessed over tax cuts and nation-building in the Middle East. The Moral Majority of the 1970s and ’80s was treated as a joke — something dated, embarrassing, and politically toxic. Better to focus on free markets and gun rights.

The culture war, we were told, belonged to church ladies and washed-up televangelists. The future of conservatism lay in fusing neocon economics with a libertarian live-and-let-live approach to social issues.

Pride filled the void

Nature abhors a vacuum. Turns out that if you withdraw all Christian influence from the public square, something else takes its place.

Republicans abandoned the culture war. Progressives never stopped fighting it. With almost no resistance, activist groups captured corporations, school boards, and even the military. Their “American Ramadan” took hold of the civic calendar. At first, they had to push. Over time, they no longer needed to. They’d filled these institutions with graduates trained in the new religion. Pride became doctrine.

Then they pushed too far.

The backlash didn’t start with GOP leadership or conservative media figures. Most of them ran for cover, as usual. It started with parents. LGBTQ+ activists had always targeted children, but usually with plausible deniability. Once transgender ideology reached the classroom and children began mutilating their bodies, the pretense collapsed.

Fathers watched daughters suffer concussions in girls’ sports. Mothers feared losing sons to state-mandated transitions. This wasn’t about marginal tax rates any more. This was a fight for their children’s bodies and souls — exactly the battle Buchanan predicted.

RELATED: Let’s build a statue honoring Pat Buchanan

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Fighting the culture war worked

Eventually, even Republican politicians took notice. Boycotts emerged. Protests followed. For the first time in decades, conservative action had teeth. Corporate boardrooms and school boards felt the pressure.

Some politicians, like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, broke from the usual GOP pattern of complaint without consequence. He used political power to defend voters — passing laws, signing executive orders, reshaping public institutions. Conservative pundits and establishment media scolded him for violating “small government principles.” Voters, however, rewarded him. Other governors followed.

Pride Month 2025 looked nothing like the version Americans had come to expect. Under the Trump administration, federal agencies and the military no longer served as public relations arms for the gender revolution. Major corporations — Target, Starbucks, Disney — sat out the ritual queering of their logos. Not every company pulled back. But the most aggressive push came from professional sports leagues, especially Major League Baseball. Ironically, the industries most reliant on red-state consumers seemed the most desperate to humiliate them.

Still, the contrast was undeniable. Conservatives, for once, applied sustained pressure — and it worked.

Much work to be done

No victory stays secure without follow-through.

Progressive ideology still saturates the commanding heights of American culture. The bureaucracy, the universities, the legal system — all remain firmly in enemy hands. Populist uprisings, however welcome, tend to burn hot and fast. They need structure to last. The moment belongs to the right, but momentum means little without organization.

Buchanan’s most famous lines weren’t just about warning — they were about action.

Greater love than this hath no man than that he lay down his life for his friend. Here were 19-year-old boys ready to lay down their lives to stop a mob from molesting old people they did not even know. And as those boys took back the streets of Los Angeles, block by block, my friends, we must take back our cities, and take back our culture, and take back our country.

That vision threatens the GOP establishment more than any left-wing pressure campaign. Republican elites never liked Trump, and they certainly never liked what he unleashed. Populism made demands. It refused to obey. It reminded the base that political power should be used — not just harvested.

The saboteurs wasted no time. They labeled anyone who fights the culture war with actual authority “the woke right.” The term signals their intent: Neutralize real opposition by redefining it as leftist. Restore the old consensus. Return to safe topics and stale slogans.

But the old consensus is dying.

The base has learned that victory is possible. Cultural power can be challenged. Political power can be used. The enemy can be made to retreat.

Of course, this fight won’t end quickly. No amount of virtue-signaling from corporations can erase the damage already done. Children still face ideological capture. Bureaucrats still push gender ideology behind closed doors. Activists still hold positions of influence across major institutions.

But the wall has cracked.

This moment demands more than nostalgia or outrage. It demands strategy. It demands organization. And above all, it demands courage.

The right doesn’t need to beg for permission or apologize for fighting. It needs to press the advantage. Those who warned that the culture war would cost too much should reckon with how much surrender has already cost us.

We’ve seen what works. Now we need to keep doing it — block by block.

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Theresa Mackas was departing a Chevron station on Franklin Gateway in Marietta, Georgia, on Monday night when a male appeared, asked Mackas for a ride, and then bashed her with part of a metal bed frame, WAGA-TV reported.

Investigators noted to the station that surveillance video and witness statements indicated that the male in question had been pacing near Mackas’ unoccupied Chevrolet Aveo parked at the station — and then he saw his opportunity when she tried to enter her car.

‘It’s what we do — help. We were running through people that were just standing around in a parking lot.’

“I was just, ‘Help! Help!'” Mackas later told the station. “He and I were wrestling, and we fell to the concrete. I was screaming as loud as I could, but nobody around the gas station came.”

After about a minute into the attack, Gary and Anna Edwards and their family were walking out of a Cracker Barrel across the street — heard Mackas’ cries for help, WAGA said.

“And we heard a lady scream bloody murder … and I saw across the road this guy on top of this lady,” Gary recalled to the station.

Gary took off running across the road — as did Anna, WAGA noted.

And Gary — all 66 years of him — flat-out bulldozed the brute, later identified as 32-year-old Rico Riley of Smyrna, the station said.

Mackas likely won’t soon forget Gary’s war cry, telling WAGA that “the next thing I heard was, ‘Get the hell off of her right now!'”

Gary noted to the station that he “knocked him over, and then there was a little tussle on the ground.”

RELATED: Homeless man molested 12-year-old at Georgia park after giving her liquid that made her dizzy, police said

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Police said the suspect ran off to a nearby intersection — and actually tried to carjack another vehicle, according to WAGA.

Worse still, a couple and a 2-year-old child were inside the Toyota RAV4 stopped at an intersection, the station said.

But Anna, Gary’s wife, came to the rescue in a big way.

Gary noted to WAGA that she “met me at the edge of the road, gave me her gun. I rounded the vehicle that he was trying to get into on the passenger side.”

Now armed, Gary ordered the crook to the ground and held him at gunpoint, the station said.

“He’s spread-eagle, put [his] hands down, and was begging and pleading [for me] to let him go,” Gary recalled to WAGA with a smile.

RELATED: Police bodycam video shows woman on heroin passed out in McDonald’s drive-thru with baby in the backseat: ‘Breaks my damn heart, brother’

Anna told the station the she and her husband acted on instinct.

“It’s what we do — help,” she told WAGA. “We were running through people that were just standing around in a parking lot.”

Gary added to the station that “it’s what people should do if somebody’s in danger.”

After police arrived and took Riley away, he was booked into the Cobb County Adult Detention Center and charged with attempted armed robbery, attempted robbery by snatching, cruelty to children in the third degree, and possession of cocaine, WAGA reported.

The station said it isn’t known when Riley will appear in court, and police did not release information about the victims.

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The conservative justices of the U.S. Supreme Court handed two big victories on Friday to the Department of Government Efficiency on access to sensitive information and on answering Freedom of Information requests.

Critics on the left have mounted numerous legal challenges in an attempt to shut down the efforts of DOGE, which had been previously led by tech billionaire Elon Musk.

‘A district court has issued sweeping injunctive relief without legal authority to do so, in ways that inflict ongoing, irreparable harm on urgent federal priorities and stymie the Executive Branch’s functions.’

The court found 6-3 that DOGE can have access to records at the Social Security Administration, with Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson saying they would have denied the request.

The court also ruled 6-3 to pause a lower court order making DOGE responsible for answering FOIA requests. However, the case was sent back to the lower court with a narrower discovery order.

In April, an Obama-appointed judge blocked access to SSA records from DOGE.

“This intrusion into the personal affairs of millions of Americans — absent an adequate explanation for the need to do so — is not in the public interest,” said U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander.

Trump’s solicitor general John Sauer argued against the order on the basis that it lacked judicial authority.

“A district court has issued sweeping injunctive relief without legal authority to do so, in ways that inflict ongoing, irreparable harm on urgent federal priorities and stymie the Executive Branch’s functions,” he said.

Sauer added that the government “cannot eliminate waste and fraud if district courts bar the very agency personnel with expertise and the designated mission of curtailing such waste and fraud from performing their jobs.”

A coalition of unions and retiree groups first filed the lawsuit in that case.

RELATED: Jasmine Crockett calls DOGE a ‘scam’ and ‘cover-up’ to help Elon Musk profit

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The other case was in answer to a lawsuit from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, who charged that the “secretive operations” of DOGE should be subject to public review.

Sauer had argued that DOGE was not technically a government agency but was instead a “presidential advisory body” housed within the Executive Office of the President.

“At issue here is a far narrower antecedent question: whether the court of appeals clearly and indisputably erred in refusing to disturb a district court order allowing limited discovery to ascertain DOGE’s agency status,” said an attorney for CREW.

The Supreme Court found in an unsigned order that the “separation of powers concerns counsel judicial deference and restraint” when ordering the executive to turn over information.

Musk has since left DOGE and had a falling-out with the president.

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Minnesota state Rep. Leigh Finke (D) is a transgender state politician who has spoken openly about “gender-affirming care” for kids and even introduced a bill in 2023 to legislate access to surgeries and hormones for children.

Finke, who is part of the Democrat-affiliated Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, recently called sex-based categories in sports a form of discrimination. Following those comments, however, it took less than a day for the politician’s ideas play out in real time in his own state.

‘They’re just kids who want to participate and enjoy the benefits of sports …’

In a statement to OutKick, Finke defended the idea of boys playing in girls’ sports, right down to declaring that males can be female.

“Trans girls are girls,” Finke told the outlet. “They deserve the right to play sports and engage in physical wellness activities, just like every other child growing up in our beloved state. They aren’t doing anything wrong; they’re just kids who want to participate and enjoy the benefits of sports, just like their peers.”

OutKick reported that Finke dismissed concerns about males dominating in female sports and described policies that establish sex-based categories in athletics as “discriminatory.”

“[These policies] also undermine the very purpose of youth sports, which is to encourage participation and personal growth for all children,” Finke claimed.

Finke’s comments were published early on Wednesday morning, and it took less than 12 hours for the state representative’s ideology to prove harmful for young female athletes.

RELATED: Boy who had birth certificate changed to ‘female’ now dominating girls’ softball

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OutKick’s Amber Harding posted video Wednesday evening from the Minnesota state softball semifinals, where a 17-year-old male pitcher was dominating female opponents.

Charlie Rothenberger, who now goes by “Marissa,” pitched a complete game and added two doubles to send Champlin Park High School to the state finals.

As Blaze News reported in May, Rothenberger is six feet tall and had his birth certificate altered just after he turned 9 years old through his mother’s petition.

The child’s sex was changed to “female” and his name changed from “Charlie Dean” to “Marissa.”

On Friday, Harding reported from the state finals, where Rothenberger dominated even more easily. In a 6-0 victory over Bloomington Jefferson, Rothenberger pitched a complete-game shutout and gave up only three hits to win the Minnesota state championship.

Rothernberger was named to the All-Tournament Team.

RELATED: ‘Get a life’: Transgender athlete mocks hecklers after crushing teen girls to win state championship

Viewers were notably upset with the results; “Title IX has been overturned in Minnesota. Gender ideology supersedes women’s rights,” an X user, purporting to be from Minnesota, wrote.

“That boy is really good at girls’ softball,” a female X user said.

A woman added, “A bunch of girls that have been trained to submit to the feelings of males.”

The grim reality of Rothenberg’s participation flies in the face of Finke’s comments to OutKick. The state representative vastly oversimplified the effects of male participation in female sports, falling back on local laws as his justification.

“These young trans athletes are playing sports they love, surrounded by their loved ones, friends, and teammates who support them, in accordance with local law,” Finke said in the statement to OutKick. “They deserve support and celebration, like all of our young people.”

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FBI Director Kash Patel made a scary announcement this week — that a Chinese national has been accused of trying to smuggle a dangerous biological pathogen into the United States.

“I can confirm that the FBI arrested a Chinese national within the United States who allegedly smuggled a dangerous biological pathogen into the country,” Patel wrote in a post on X.

According to Patel, Yunqing Jian “is alleged to have smuggled a dangerous fungus called ‘Fusarium graminearum,’ which is an agroterrorism agent, into the U.S. to research at the University of Michigan, where she works.”

This particular fungus is dangerous, as it can cause a disease called “head blight,” which Patel explained is “a disease of wheat, barley, maize, and rice” that causes “significant health issues in both humans and livestock.”

Patel also reported that there is evidence that Jian “had expressed loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party” and has “received funding from the Chinese government for similar work on this pathogen in China.”

Charlie LeDuff of “No BS Newshour” tells BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales that the University of Michigan is his “alma mater,” and it’s “corrupt.”

“The University of Michigan, which is routinely considered the best or second best, has one of the largest endowments,” LeDuff says on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered,” noting that researchers like Jian “don’t teach classes” and are “funded by the National Science Foundation.”

“The Chinese government gives you a stipend. They might also contribute to the university. Nobody’s vetted, and you’re doing Fusarium fungi that attacks plants so they can’t grow, which leads to starvation,” he continues.

“The University of Michigan is corrupt. They had the biggest DEI program in the country. … I want my university back,’” he adds.

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A federal appeals court ruled in favor of the Trump administration and temporarily overturned a previous ruling from a Trump-appointed judge.

President Donald Trump had banned access to the AP after the news outlet refused to follow his executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. The AP filed a lawsuit for access to be returned, on the basis that the action violated First Amendment free speech rights.

‘We’re going to keep them out until such time that they agree that it’s the Gulf of America.’

“We grant in part the government’s motion for a stay pending appeal. The White House is likely to succeed on the merits because these restricted presidential spaces are not First Amendment fora opened for private speech and discussion,” the ruling read.

“The White House therefore retains discretion to determine, including on the basis of viewpoint, which journalists will be admitted,” the ruling continued. “Moreover, without a stay, the government will suffer irreparable harm because the injunction impinges on the President’s independence and control over his private workspaces.”

The litigation will continue, however.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression issued a statement opposing the decision.

“The D.C. Circuit’s flawed reasoning allows the White House to get away with blatant viewpoint discrimination against media outlets it doesn’t like,” read the statement from FIRE.

“The district court’s initial ruling got it right,” they added. “The White House does not have to grant press access to everyone, but once it opens its doors to some journalists, it cannot exclude others simply because it doesn’t like their views or reporting.”

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In February, the president said that he would consider lifting the ban only if the AP agreed to use his renaming of the gulf in their stylebook.

“We’re going to keep them out until such time that they agree that it’s the Gulf of America,” said the president to reporters. “I do think that some of the phrases they want to use are ridiculous, and I think, frankly, they’ve become obsolete.”

The latest ruling appeared to cite a reference from the wildly popular “Hamilton” musical.

“The Associated Press wants to be in the room where it happens,” it read.

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A Brazilian comedian said a judge took issue with his Wikipedia page when she handed down an eight-year prison sentence.

Comedian Leo Lins, whose full name is Leonardo de Lima Borges Lins, was about three years removed from his comedy special when Judge Barbara de Lima Iseppi ruled the comedian made “discriminatory” remarks while on stage.

The comments the judge made during her ruling have been perceived as “power-hungry” by other comedians, who expressed shock at their compatriot’s conviction.

‘This is indicative of what’s coming to America, and it’s happening around the world already.’

Lins’ 2022 special “Disturbing,” or “Perturbador” in Portuguese, was ordered to be taken down from the internet by the Brazilian government in 2023, according to Euro Weekly News. Since then, it has garnered millions of view on uploads by third parties.

According to the outlet, the court found that Lins’ performances have contributed to “the spread of verbal violence in society and promote intolerance.”

Judge Iseppi added, “Freedom of expression cannot be used as an excuse to make hateful, prejudiced, and discriminatory remarks.”

Those remarks, also known as jokes, allegedly contained material about the following groups: “black people, obese individuals, elderly people, those living with HIV, homosexuals, evangelicals, Indigenous communities, people from the impoverished northeast of Brazil, Jews, and people with disabilities.”

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In a video uploaded by Lins on Thursday, the comedian alleged that the judge made several bizarre remarks during the sentencing, including citing Wikipedia as a source for her claims.

“Wikipedia,” Lins bluntly said in the video, called “About My Prison.”

“This is not a joke,” he continued. “Imagine an innocent man accused of murder. The judge says, ‘Did you kill?’ He says, ‘No.’ She goes on Wikipedia [where] people can lie. ‘Yes. Convicted.'”

Lins also claimed the judge said that even though the jokes “happened in a theater,” they became harmful when they “left the theater” and showed up online.

Blaze News reached out to different comedians who have faced cancellations from comedy clubs over the years due to their content, including Leonarda Jonie, who shared the news of Lins’ conviction to her 215,000 X followers.

“This is indicative of what’s coming to America, and it’s happening around the world already,” Jonie told Blaze News.

Jonie, who is Albanian, said that everyone should be concerned with the “imposition on freedom of speech” that is reaching every corner of the globe.

“Notice how you can’t joke about the predetermined protected groups, but you can say whatever you want about white people?” she added.

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Comedian Brendan Blacquier, who goes by the name “Uncle Hack,” said Lins should be celebrated for being “overly inclusive with his jokes.”

“I don’t think there’s a group he didn’t make fun of,” the comedian jokingly told Blaze News. “Also, I was unaware that the country of Brazil appointed a czar of laughter. The only appropriate charges that Leo Lins should face is for being too funny, by the sounds of it.”

The popularity of Lins seems indisputable: A 2020 special on his YouTube channel has over 8.3 million views. Blacquier said that comedians of such a stature, and most comics in general, will never do what Lins did.

“That’s exposing the government for what they truly are. Power-hungry to the point they want to control emotions.
I wish Leo Lins well and hope his spirits remain high,” Uncle Hack added.

According to the Daily Caller, Lins’ legal team plans to appeal the conviction based on a Supreme Court ruling from 2023 that overturned a lower court that criminalized Lins’ words.

Lins was also fined 300,000 Brazilian reals, or about $54,000 USD.

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A believer in “toxic masculinity” challenged Charlie Kirk to defend his position against the “hyper-feminization” of the West, and the challenge led to a thoughtful discussion, even if combative at times.

The Turning Point USA founder took on students of the Cambridge Union in the U.K. on Monday about various topics, but one exchange about toxic masculinity was especially engrossing.

‘We’re actually living under a hyper-feminist West that is toxic. What does that mean? Speech police, feelings first, emotion over reason, community over individualism.’

The unidentified interlocutor first defined Kirk as a supporter of the idea that “there is an active attack on masculinity, that men are being oppressed in a way, [and] that men’s rights need to be advocated for.”

He asked Kirk if he acknowledged other possible reasons for the growing apathy of males in the West.

“Do you see this generation of lost boys as a failure of, say, masculinity, or are there potential other factors — social, economic factors — such as the death of the American dream, increasing costs of living in America, increased cost of education?”

“Yes, I acknowledge all of them, of course,” Kirk responded. “It’s a very good faith question, thank you.”

Kirk agreed that some of the causes of the fall of masculinity were rooted in economic decisions in the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s that led to hardship among the working class.

“A family used to be able to be supported on a single income of 35 weeks of labor a year. Now it takes upwards of 60 weeks of labor a year,” he explained.

“However, given all the economic and social factors, the largest of all of them is the cultural and the educational that has infantilized men and hyper-feminized them in the messaging, in the outreach, and in the treatment.”

When the questioner asked for specific examples of the educational system feminizing males, Kirk pointed to the overmedication of males and the insistence on criticizing “toxic masculinity” in school curricula. They launched into a debate about whether such a thing as toxic femininity exists and why it is not taught in schools.

“Toxic femininity often comes from a reaction to a misogynistic system which fundamentally oppresses and systematically oppresses women,” said the Cambridge man. “And I’m not saying that toxic femininity is a good thing, but I’m saying it’s a much more understood and valid reaction to a system of oppression versus toxic masculinity, which oppresses.”

His explanation garnered enthusiastic applause from the audience.

Then Kirk responded.

RELATED: Charlie Kirk exposes the moral rot at Cambridge in a devastating exchange

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He argued that “toxic masculinity” was the result of a backlash against the total vilification of masculinity in schools and elsewhere in society.

“Young men see this pattern in the West and in our country, from the authors, from our curriculum, from the music, from the movies. And we see in the educational system proper, we have seen the infantilization of the young male,” said Kirk.

“We’re actually living under a hyper-feminist West that is toxic. What does that mean? Speech police, feelings first, emotion over reason, community over individualism. We’re seeing this. And by the way, is it working? Is the West stronger as it’s become more feminine in the last 30 years? No.”

They went on to debate whether the TV series “Adolescence” was an example of society oppressing young males. Kirk described the controversial movie as a “slow-motion humiliation ritual for the boys of Britain” and asked if a similar series about girls was even possible.

“Could you imagine if there was a similar movie criticizing young women?” he asked rhetorically.

Kirk then cited suicide rates in the Anglosphere to support his thesis that the feminization of the West has led to disastrous results for males.

“I guess I would just ask this question in closing: Do you think men would be happier if they are married and providing for a family?” he asked.

“I don’t think marriage or the institution of marriage is the only way that man can be happy,” the interlocutor responded.

“That’s not what I said,” Kirk replied. “I said generally happier. Do you think men will be generally happier if they’re married, providing, and have children?”

RELATED: How US universities morphed from cradles of liberty to cages of conformity

“I don’t think that’s a necessary factor to contribute to happiness,” the man responded.

“Then what is your solution to bring about male happiness in the West? Mine is: Men, get married, have children, and provide. What is yours?” Kirk asked.

“That’s a good question,” he responded. “Um.”

After a moment of consideration he responded: “I think an affirmation of their emotions, their emotional states. I think an openness to allowing men to express themselves in whatever way they want, even if that is in a more effeminate way.”

The man then argued that British males were unhappy because of austerity, the policy of lower government spending.

“You’re scrambling for an excuse to get away from the truth that’s right in front of you!” Kirk challenged. “Maybe men should get married and have children! Because it’s worked for 2,000 years!”

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