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The 2026 World Cup was initially about soccer for Scottish travelers, but it very quickly became about beer.

During the historic tournament, the Scots used Boston as their home base, where they became known for showing up at different events in droves, singing and drinking.

‘Do they ever sleep? Do they ever get tired?’

Whether it was Fenway Park or the local pub, the Scottish fans drank multiple establishments dry. One example was the Black Rose, where a local fan remarked that the bar had never gone dry in its 50-year history. With the Scottish travelers around, however, the venue ran out of drinks “including water” for the first time.

Scotland played two out of its three World Cup games at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts: a 1-0 win against Haiti and a 1-0 loss to Morocco.

During that time, the fans known as the Tartan Army — which refers to the tartan pattern, aka plaid — fell in love with one particular American staple native to the area: Samuel Adams.

In particular, the Scots loved Samuel Adams Boston Lager so much that the brewery pub ran out.

The company told ABC News in June that its flagship taproom went dry after the Tartan Army drank four times what is typically sold, all during Scotland’s first game.

“Do they ever sleep? Do they ever get tired?” one employee asked. This spawned an “emergency order” to prepare for the next game, and the rest is history.

Now, the new favorite is officially available in Scotland for fans to (responsibly) pound on their home turf.

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Plaid-ing out

U.K.-based online craft beer retailer Beerhunter is now officially carrying Samuel Adams Boston Lager on its website.

As an import, it’s obviously going to cost a few quid, currently listed on sale for £49.46 (~$56) for a 12-pack, down from its usual price of £54.95 (~$62).

“Samuel Adams Boston Lager became part of Scotland’s World Cup story this summer,” Ryan Smith, director of Beerhunter, told Scottish outlet the Herald.

“We saw incredible interest after the Tartan Army made headlines in Boston, and we’ve had customers asking us ever since when it would be available in the U.K. again,” Smith continued.

Smith said he was delighted to bring the beer back to Scotland while praising its tradition. The beer had become scarce in Scotland somewhere between 2023 and 2024.

“It’s an iconic American lager with a fantastic brewing heritage, and we think Scottish fans will enjoy raising another glass to some unforgettable memories.”

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A hoppy revolution

Of course, it cannot be glossed over how Samuel Adams himself was a British citizen who fell in love with the idea of the United States.

According to his biography, Adams often cited the Magna Carta of 1215 as a reason to protest British rule over Massachusetts. Barons in England had faced resistance for their taxation, and Adams found Boston’s struggles against taxes “all too familiar.”

Adams founded the Sons of Liberty, a paramilitary political organization that coined the phrase “No taxation without representation.”

While Adams and taxation may have been part of what separated the British and the Americans at one time, the beer that bears Adams’ name is seemingly what has brought them back together — at least the Scottish portion of them.

Beerhunter also lists Samuel Adams American Cherry Wheat Beer, Summer Ale, and the Beers of Summer variety pack on its website.

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The fall of the angel Lucifer is a story that oftentimes doesn’t get a lot of attention, as many Christians tend to focus on how the devil plagues humanity today.

But how did Lucifer become the devil? What did that devolution look like, and when did sin really begin?

On this episode of “Strange Encounters,” BlazeTV host Rick Burgess sits down with Pastor Mac Brunson to dive into the origin story of the cosmos’ greatest enemy.

“Somewhere in eternity past before God created the heavens and the earth, He created what we call, or what Scripture calls, angels,” Brunson says, noting the different varieties of angelic beings, including seraphim, cherubim, Michael the archangel, and messenger angels like Gabriel.

Lucifer, he notes, was none of these, however. “Created above all the others,” his name means “light-bearer,” and he was “far more beautiful” than the others.

Rick argues that God, despite being all-knowing, “is not afraid of choices” and allowed the angels to make their own.

“He certainly gave angels intelligence; he gave them personality. They each have a name. … They also have the ability to communicate, not only to communicate with man … [but also] with each other,” Brunson adds, highlighting the individuality and agency of angelic beings.

Lucificer was no different. Free to make his own choices, he rebelled against God.

Brunson, reading from Isaiah 14, recounts Lucifer’s evil desire to “ascend to heaven,” “raise [his] throne above the stars of God,” “sit on the mount of assembly,” “ascend above the heights of the clouds,” and “make [himself] like the Most High.”

“And he makes that choice, and Revelation tells us that a third of the angels went along with him, and, of course, they were cast out of heaven,” he says.

“So sin did not begin on earth; it began in heaven? That’s why Jesus says we’re going to have a new heaven and a new earth?” Rick asks.

“That’s exactly right,” Brunson says, noting that “evil begins with this creature [Lucifer].”

But his power always has and always will pale in comparison to God’s.

“He’s a problem for us, but —” Rick says.

“He’s not a problem for God,” Brunson concludes.

To hear more of the theological deep dive into the origins of heaven and Satan, watch the episode above.

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For decades, a familiar story has shaped Christian family life. It involves Sunday morning in the pews. A week at Bible camp each summer. Wednesday night youth group with pizza and a lesson. Parents pour real love and intention into these routines.

Noble as the effort is, a recent study published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion suggests they are only part of the picture. Researchers analyzed data from more than 16,000 Christians nationwide, comparing childhood religious experiences with adult outcomes. Church attendance mattered. So did stable families. But the strongest predictor of lasting adult faith asked nothing extraordinary of parents.

I walked away from the faith with the kind of cocky certainty God seems to install in everyone between the ages of 13 and 19.

It was simply this: They talked to their children about God.

Homilies at home

That finding immediately took me back to my own childhood.

The first picture that comes to mind isn’t a sanctuary or a stained-glass window, but the front seat of the car on the way home from school. The back yard, where my father pulled weeds like the yard had personally offended him. The living room at 10:30 on a school night, all of us long past bedtime and pretending the clock didn’t exist. My grandmother, with a cup of tea that was always either too hot or somehow already cold, telling me about the importance of the Bible.

Those conversations are the reason I still believe.

My parents were, and still are, very decent people. For many years, they were overworked and underpaid in the way most ordinary families know all too well. Bills on the counter. Shifts that ran long. Sleep that ran short. Children who treated the front seat like contested real estate.

And yet they always found the energy to talk to me about Christianity — not in a recited, hands-folded-in-our-laps sort of way, but as if God were actually in the room.

We talked about how Christianity shaped the West. The fall of Rome. Forgiveness, suffering, and why Christians built the first hospitals while emperors were busy building coliseums to watch people die in. We talked about why the values modern secular society treats as self-evident — human dignity, charity, and mercy toward strangers — didn’t fall from the sky. They grew slowly out of Christian soil, across centuries of tending.

What my parents said at home stayed with me longer than any sermon. Ask around, and plenty of people will say the same.

Half-cocked heretic

I was a rebellious teenager, and I rebelled with real enthusiasm. I walked away from the faith with the kind of cocky certainty God seems to install in everyone between the ages of 13 and 19, presumably as a test of parental patience. Christianity struck me as restrictive and embarrassing. I mistook cynicism for intelligence — a standard rookie mistake among precocious teenagers. I got good grades and assumed an A in English qualified me to dismiss theology, philosophy, and 2,000 years of Christian thought.

And yet, even at my wildest and most stubborn, even when I was giving the New Atheists more attention than they ever deserved, something my parents had planted refused to be dug up.

I expected my mother to lose her mind during a particularly insufferable phase of all this. Instead, she sat me down and spoke to me like an adult. No yelling. No guilt-tripping. No dragging me back to church by the collar or, as Irish mothers sometimes prefer, the ear.

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Talking it out

Instead, she calmly walked me through the contradictions in the worldview I had been presenting to my friends. She pointed out, without raising her voice, where ego had been doing my thinking for me. And then, with the patience of a woman who had already won the argument before it started, she explained why atheism was a fool’s errand.

That was the moment I rediscovered the faith. Fifteen years on, I have never looked back.

That is exactly what the new study captures. Faith transmission is relational before it is institutional. Children remember whether their parents actually believed the things they claimed to believe, or whether church was just another Sunday errand sandwiched between a leisurely breakfast and a last-minute homework check.

A kid can sit in a pew every week of childhood and still walk away convinced that religion is little more than an incredibly polite social club. Conversation breaks that spell. Conversation forces engagement. Questions surface. Doubts get aired. Faith becomes something a young person can actually argue with, wrestle against, and eventually own.

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“Have you ever been to the U.S.-Mexico border?”

“No.”

One word. That may have been the most revealing moment of New York City Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s recent interview with the New York Times.

Sanctuary policies are easy to defend from a podium at New York City Hall. They are much harder to defend before communities that have already paid the price.

Mamdani defended his city’s sanctuary policies, which he reinforced after taking office by signing an executive order reaffirming them.

The problem is not so much that Mamdani has never visited the border. It is that he seems unwilling to understand why communities that lived through the border crisis reached a very different conclusion.

That lesson is visible far beyond the Rio Grande.

Consider Goliad County in South Texas. The rural county has about 7,000 residents and sits roughly 160 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.

Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee last year, Sheriff Roy Boyd described how the crisis transformed the community he serves.

Boyd’s office averaged 77 arrests a year during the five years before 2021. From 2021 through 2024, that average jumped to 413. Deputies discovered 16 cartel stash houses, and pursuits involving suspected human smugglers became routine.

Residents began hearing voices and movement on remote properties after dark. Many no longer felt safe alone in their own homes.

Those facts expose what Mamdani’s answer overlooks. The border crisis did not remain at the border. Cartel activity and illegal immigration reached inland communities that lacked the personnel and equipment to confront them. Former Border Patrol agent and Texas Public Policy Foundation senior fellow Ammon Blair calls cartels “hybrid threats.”

As Blair puts it, “Cartels don’t just smuggle. They destabilize.” Boyd has described them as “contractors and subcontractors” in a network moving migrants and drugs from the border into Texas’ largest cities.

That reality changed Texas’ response. In 2021, as illegal crossings surged under President Joe Biden, Goliad became one of the first inland counties to declare a local disaster. Boyd suggested giving local law-enforcement agencies flexible grants for overtime, new officers, patrol vehicles, and other equipment.

Those grants became part of Operation Lone Star.

According to Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s office, Operation Lone Star has produced more than 535,700 apprehensions and referrals, 57,400 criminal arrests, and 47,500 felony charges. Texas law enforcement has also intercepted more than 779 million lethal doses of fentanyl.

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Boyd later launched the Operation Lone Star Task Force, which allows local agencies to share deputies, intelligence, and resources across jurisdictional lines while targeting human smuggling, cartel activity, and organized crime.

New York has felt the downstream effects too. Former Mayor Eric Adams warned that the migrant crisis would “destroy New York City.” Mamdani nevertheless continues to defend sanctuary policies that impede cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

Goliad’s experience carries a national lesson. Criminal organizations do not recognize state boundaries. The same networks that move people across the border traffic drugs, weapons, and money into communities nationwide. They exploit ports of entry, the northern border, and weaknesses far from either frontier.

The farther those networks spread, the more Americans discover that border security is not someone else’s problem.

Mamdani may be proud of New York City’s sanctuary stance.

His one-word answer showed more than where he has never been. It revealed what he refuses to see.

Sanctuary policies are easy to defend from a podium at city hall. They are much harder to defend before communities that have already paid the price.

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Social media’s magicians spent decades perfecting the art of slicing human attention into advertising revenue. Is the next step on the corporate road map farming human tissue for spare parts?

The tech is there, or almost there. The ideas have percolated for decades. All it takes, it seems, is the will.

The concept of individual self-ownership becomes entirely obsolete.

An early pitch deck for R3 Bio, a quiet biotech startup operating out of California, laid out a vision that makes classic horror fiction look rather mild. The company’s leadership, reports suggest, engaged in internal discussions regarding the production of brainless, nonsentient human bodies designed for the explicit purpose of organ harvesting, pharmaceutical testing, and eventual commercial deployment.

They christened these biological monstrosities “organ sacks.”

The terminology speaks volumes to the moral framework seizing imaginations in the contemporary tech executive class. When a team of researchers and engineers looks at the human form and sees an inconveniently conscious container for marketable kidneys, the line between medical innovation and factory farming disappears completely.

Executives at R3 Bio floated plans to reprogram monkey cells, cultivate complete organ systems, and engineer these living biological constructs to be intentionally primitive enough to bypass federal ethical guidelines.

But this isn’t some sudden Silicon Valley obsession. The ambition to redesign human biology has been gathering momentum worldwide for years.

They have a dream

In October 2022, biotech investors gathered in Zurich to debate the commercial viability of synthetic biology, openly celebrating the day human biology would be fully decoupled from traditional ideas of personhood. The attendees viewed the human body as an inefficient piece of legacy software requiring a total architectural overhaul. It was only a matter of time before the idea caught on.

Scientists at R3 Bio defended their research behind the usual wall of righteous PR speak, insisting their work aims to end the chronic shortage of donor organs and cure terminal illnesses. They publicly insist that full-scale human organ fabrication remains outside their current operational scope and that their public website reflects a commitment to safe, traditional cell therapy.

But the problem runs deeper than what R3 Bio says it is or isn’t doing today. It’s what history tells us can happen when scientific ambition outruns consent, oversight, and basic human dignity.

The playbook never changes. In 1951, researchers extracted cancer cells from Henrietta Lacks without her knowledge or consent, creating the HeLa cell line that generated billions in profit for pharmaceutical giants while her family struggled to pay medical bills. The medical establishment transformed a living human being into a self-sustaining corporate product, establishing a precedent that today’s biotech firms are eager to scale up to the entire human torso. There is an enormous amount of money to be made. And where the fevered dreams of high-tech immortality are concerned, human morality has a troubling habit of turning negotiable.

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A society grounded in the belief that human life possesses inherent dignity treats the human body as an inherently sacred structure rather than a machine assembled from interchangeable parts. The secular technocracy reigning in Northern California views the human body as a collection of meat components that can be optimized, monetized, and swapped out.

Death of the self

The transition from healing the sick to manufacturing customized human vessels happened while everyone was distracted by social media algorithms. Engineers want to replace a failing heart, grow an artificial liver in a vat, construct a brainless body to house the spares, and call the whole process market efficiency. The language of human medicine was completely swallowed by the inhumane jargon of auto repair.

This mechanistic worldview demands that every biological boundary be erased in the name of efficiency and infinite growth. If a brainless body exists as a legal product, the entity owning the patent exercises total property rights over a human biological shell. If a corporation can copyright the genetic sequence of a custom-grown torso, the concept of individual self-ownership becomes entirely obsolete.

Tech elites frequently talk about death as a minor coding error awaiting a software upgrade. They invest billions in longevity protocols, upload schemes, and cellular rejuvenation, completely convinced that their wealth entitles them to bypass mortality itself. They view the average citizen as a temporary user of biological material that will eventually be recycled into the supply chain.

When a society permits a handful of unaccountable individuals to determine what constitutes a real human being, we have entered troubling territory. Will the directors sitting on biotech boards inevitably declare themselves the rightful managers of the human species, reserving complete bodies for themselves while the rest of the population functions as the raw resource pool?

That may sound absurd. So did the idea that machines would one day run businesses, create music, and think well enough to replace the people who created them. Now, the same people who gave us artificial intelligence want to start redesigning natural intelligence.

The men running these laboratories will continue pushing the boundaries of biological desecration until explicit, uncompromising legal barriers stop them. They operate with the supreme confidence of individuals who believe they are God’s gifts to science, entirely blind to the horrifying reality of what they are creating.

Who asked America’s biotech heavyweights to play God? Not the average American, that’s for sure.

Nobody held a referendum on whether human beings should be redesigned, disassembled, and rebuilt by private companies with billions of dollars and almost no public accountability. But they’re not waiting for permission.

​Biotech danger, Tech 

Many Christians avoid reading texts like the Quran or the Book of Mormon altogether, fearing they could be led astray.

However, BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey argues that understanding what other religions actually teach can be valuable — if it’s done carefully.

“I don’t think it’s wrong to read the Quran or the Book of Mormon as a Christian to try to really understand like a primary source for what these people believe,” Stuckey explains, though she notes that she “wouldn’t do it alone” and “wouldn’t do it without your Bible.”

“I wouldn’t do it without supplemental resources from Christians who really have studied and understood these texts because I think it would be easy in the Book of Mormon to be like, ‘Oh yeah, well, you know, that kind of makes sense,’ but … we have to be comparing it to the word of God to make sure that everything totally aligns,” she says.

Looking into scholars who have “done a lot of work, understand the historical context,” and “have cross-referenced these texts” would be essential for anyone determined to understand other religious texts.

“So, I don’t know necessarily that you have to go to the primary source to understand their perspective,” she says.

Rather, “do so in community, do so with the leadership and mentorship of other mature Christians.”

“Do so alongside your Bible. I think if you do all of those things prayerfully, then it can be OK,” she continues.

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As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, Americans are rightly reflecting on the enduring genius of the Constitution. For two and a half centuries, separated powers, federalism, and institutional checks have protected liberty against the concentration of power.

That system has survived civil war, depressions, and foreign totalitarian threats. Yet as the nation celebrates this milestone, a radical faction at home has published a manifesto aimed at dismantling the constitutional structure that made those achievements possible.

The platform calls for the ‘public ownership and democratic control’ of major corporations, energy grids, and transportation infrastructure.

The Democratic Socialists of America just released a national platform titled “Workers Deserve More.” The populist title conceals an agenda far more radical than another increase in the minimum wage or an expansion of organized labor’s influence.

This is not a conventional progressive wish list. It is a blueprint for remaking the American republic and weakening the constitutional limits that stand between citizens and concentrated political power.

The platform begins by demanding the abolition of the United States Senate. The DSA would replace the bicameral Congress with a single legislative chamber, concentrating federal lawmaking power in a radically expanded House of Representatives.

That proposal attacks one of the central compromises of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The Senate protects smaller states from domination by a handful of heavily populated metropolitan regions and forces national majorities to build broader coalitions.

A single chamber based solely on proportional representation would move the country toward unchecked majority rule — precisely the danger James Madison warned against in Federalist 62.

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The assault does not stop with Congress. The DSA platform also calls for severe restrictions on judicial review, placing the Supreme Court under congressional control and preventing it from striking down unconstitutional laws enacted by the proposed single chamber.

The platform would also replace the independently elected presidency with a centralized “premier” chosen by the legislature.

Consider the structure as a whole: one dominant legislative chamber, a premier answerable to that chamber, and a Supreme Court stripped of its ability to enforce constitutional limits.

That is not democratic reform. It is the consolidation of federal power in a single political institution, with few meaningful safeguards for individual liberty or dissenting minorities.

The economic program is equally sweeping. “Workers Deserve More” calls for the “public ownership” and “democratic control” of major corporations, energy systems, and transportation infrastructure. In plain English, it proposes state control of large sectors of the private economy.

History offers no shortage of warnings about such nationalization. From Eastern Europe to Venezuela, government seizure of private industry has produced shortages, economic decay, corruption, and diminished personal freedom.

The DSA pairs this centralization of political and economic power with a direct assault on national sovereignty. Its platform treats borders and citizenship not as foundations of self-government but as obstacles to be removed.

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Its immigration plank demands unrestricted “freedom of movement,” abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an end to deportations, and federal voting rights for noncitizens.

Combined with proposals to eliminate cash bail, demilitarize law enforcement, and dismantle the carceral system, the agenda would weaken the government’s ability to protect law-abiding citizens while expanding its control over nearly every other part of life.

The timing is supremely ironic. This summer, as Americans celebrate 250 years under a system designed to limit government power, the DSA is offering a system designed to maximize it.

The organization claims to speak for workers. Its platform would instead make ordinary Americans increasingly dependent on a centralized state that controls political institutions, major industries, public safety, and access to citizenship itself.

The country should call this platform what it is: an anti-constitutional program dressed in democratic language. America’s strength lies in the limits placed on government, not in the power surrendered to it.

The DSA platform is a reminder that the struggle to preserve the republic did not end with its founding. On America’s 250th anniversary, citizens should defend the constitutional guardrails that have kept power divided and Americans free.

​Opinion & analysis, Constitution, Senate, Democratic socialists of america, James madison, Capitalism, America 250 

A Missouri motorist was caught on police dashcam video exiting his car on a bridge amid a police chase last weekend — and actually diving over the side of the bridge. But that’s only part of the wild turn of events.

The Stone County Sheriff’s Office said deputies tried to stop a car on the north end of Kimberling City around 1:50 a.m. last Saturday, KYTV-TV reported. Kimberling City is a little over half an hour west of Branson.

‘Contact water patrol. He just jumped over the bridge!’

The driver then fled going south, the station said, adding that deputies noted the car was going 75 miles per hour in a 45-mile-per-hour zone.

The pursuit led deputies to the Kimberling City Bridge, where the driver — later identified as Gavin Thor Lundgren — exited the car and jumped off the east side of the bridge, landing in Rock Lake, the station said.

An annoyed deputy can be heard on dashcam video remarking, “Contact water patrol. He just jumped over the bridge!”

According to Better Branson, the Kimberling City Bridge’s “vertical clearance above deck” is 15.8 feet. But Sheriff Doug Rader said in KYTV’s video report that it’s about a 40-foot drop to the water.

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Deputies said they stopped Lundgren’s car as it was still in drive and was continuing to roll forward, KYTV noted.

Southern Stone County firefighters on a boat assisted in locating Lundgren while other units remained on shore, the station said, adding that a deputy on scene later found Lundgren.

“This was definitely a first, and luckily he survived the fall,” Rader said.

Besides his outlandish stunt, Lundgren also is accused of injuring three deputies while he was being taken into custody; KYTV said Lundgren head-butted two of the deputies.

Deputies eventually brought Lundgren to the Stone County Jail, the station said, citing the probable cause statement.

Jail records indicate that Lundgren, 26, is charged with resisting arrest by fleeing, careless driving, three counts of third-degree assault, and resisting/interfering with arrest for a felony. He remained behind bars Friday.

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Shane Gillis put on a night that his fans will never forget last week in Philadelphia, and it wasn’t an anomaly, it was the new normal.

Gillis broke two Guinness World Records at a sold-out Lincoln Financial Field that night, a venue that typically hosts NFL games.

‘I put all of your lives at risk.’

Gillis not only set a new mark for the largest audience for a comedian with 73,946 attendees, but he also sold the most tickets for a comedy show ever for a single billing with 77,047 tickets.

Moreover, what Gillis was able to do with nearly a city-sized group of fans sitting all around him was culminate almost 15 years of hard work into a cultural moment. Gillis brought with him everything he loves, a protest in its own right given how he was treated by the media for simply being a regular guy.

The Gillis tribute opened with a flyover followed by Millennials’ favorite rambunctious skateboarder Bam Margera, a Pennsylvania native, announcing a new season of Gillis’ Netflix comedy “Tires.”

A festival for the rest of us

Gillis tapped two of his friends and fellow comedians from the area to open for him, Matt McCusker and Jay Oakerson. While they were the only other comedy acts on the card, a series of unannounced appearances followed, each more surprising than the last.

For a comedian who was unilaterally labeled a bigot, racist, and homophobe just seven years ago, Gillis had no shortage of celebrities willing to appear under his banner.

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Making appearances from the sports world were two Philadelphia Eagles players: offensive tackle Jordan Mailata and defensive back Cooper DeJean.

Former Eagles center Jason Kelce — brother of Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift’s husband — was also in the mix, coming on stage and screaming into the microphone to hype up the crowd.

The night also featured performances from rappers Meek Mill and Three 6 Mafia, and although Kanye West was rumored to make an appearance (he did not), in the end the biggest cameo came after Gillis’ 30-minute set.

Unexpected improv

Like a boxer on his way to the ring, Dave Chappelle walked down the aisle to screaming fans and joined Gillis for 20 minutes of off-the-cuff banter.

Chappelle immediately became that friend who brings up politics when he came to the stage and commented on what he described as an Air Force flyover.

“Y’all n*****s should be at the Straight of Hormuz, opening that s**t up. But I’m glad you could make it here for Shane’s show.”

Gillis quickly corrected Chappelle, laughing that they were actually World War II planes he needed to get insurance for.

“I put all of your lives at risk,” Gillis joked. “I was not worried about you guys, I was worried about how much money I would have to pay if a World War II Mustang crashed into you guys.”

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You’ll buy a ticket and you’ll be happy

Even Guinness World Records adjudicator Andy Glass praised Gillis’ ability to put on an unforgettable night.

“Tonight’s event was a powerful reminder that record-breaking achievements continue to capture people’s imagination around the world,” Glass said, per CBS News.

Gillis’ football field extravaganza is indeed the new normal for what was so recently portrayed as fringe entertainment for far-right audiences. Not only is he following in the footsteps of Tony Hinchcliffe’s frequent Madison Square Garden appearances, he is elevating the scene to new heights never imagined before.

Touring arenas and doing the occasional stadium is not new for comedians, but for ones who were universally excommunicated by the entertainment industry, it certainly is.

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America remains deeply divided over whether the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump. Millions believe the system failed them, while the media, intelligence bureaucracy, and the left have treated their doubts as something to suppress rather than investigate.

The documents released this week by the Trump administration do not close the case. They reopen it — and make the “nothing to see here” narrative indefensible.

Start with communist China.

The released intelligence reports that approximately 220 million American voter records are in Chinese hands. Tens of millions of records across 18 states were bought, stolen, or hacked and included names, addresses, phone numbers, party preferences, and other sensitive information.

A sovereign nation must know that the people selecting its government are its citizens.

That does not prove China changed a single ballot, but it does prove Beijing possessed a political targeting asset. When a strategic rival aggregates enormous datasets and applies modern analytics, it gains the ability to identify, target, and influence American voters at industrial scale.

The most disturbing disclosure involves the President’s Daily Brief — the president’s most sensitive and consequential intelligence product. In one released email, an official wrote: “We have deliberately massaged our one pending PDB to avoid any direct links to the election.”

In a separate internal chat, a counterintelligence official boasted: “I’m basically running a shadow government across the FBI at this point.”

The left has spent years ridiculing concerns about a “deep state” as conspiracy theory. These revelations make that ridicule look increasingly like camouflage.

Then comes the voting-system reveal.

A Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency report included in the administration’s document release identifies weak access controls, outdated operating systems, flat networks, inadequate monitoring, and legacy remote-access pathways across state and local election environments. During multiple penetration tests and red-team exercises, CISA assessors gained full control of election-office networks within hours or days.

Separately, the report cites research involving one ballot-marking system showing that barcode-encoded votes could be altered without changing the human-readable selections displayed to the voter.

The release also includes intelligence concerning methods allegedly developed by Venezuela’s Maduro regime to manipulate electronic totals while concealing the changes.

Precision matters. A Venezuelan capability is not proof of an American operation. A demonstrated vulnerability is not proof it was exploited. The documents do not establish that American vote totals were secretly changed in 2020.

But they demolish the claim that election technology is immune from manipulation. These are computer systems with software, databases, vendors, administrators, updates, and attack surfaces. Compromise must be anticipated and independently detectable.

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A limited Department of Homeland Security review raises another alarm. The White House says it identified approximately 278,000 potential noncitizen registrations. DHS’ public follow-up described more than 250,000 preliminary potential matches in California, New Jersey, Nevada, and Pennsylvania — only four states.

No serious person should dismiss numbers of this magnitude. Biden’s certified Georgia margin in 2020 was 11,779 votes. In 2016, Trump carried Michigan and Wisconsin by a combined 33,452 votes — and Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania by just 77,744.

The media formula — “the documents do not prove vote totals changed; therefore they prove nothing” — is analytical malpractice. Absence of final proof is not proof of institutional innocence.

The proper question is whether this new information raises the probability that foreign influence, intelligence suppression, ineligible registrations, or exploitable technology played a larger role in the 2020 election environment than Americans were told — and whether future elections remain at risk.

The answer to both questions is yes.

That is why Congress must pass the SAVE America Act before November. The House-passed legislation requires documentary proof of citizenship for federal voter registration and photo identification for federal voting.

These are basic risk controls. Pew found that 83% of Americans — including 71% of Democrats and 95% of Republicans — support government-issued photo identification.

A sovereign nation must know that the people selecting its government are its citizens. A constitutional republic must demonstrate — not merely assert — that its elections are accurate.

Congress should stop stalling and pass the SAVE America Act. As the president likes to say: Let’s go.

This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.

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Pennsylvania police say they discovered a house of horrors after investigating a report of an emaciated dog that was too weak to stand up.

Sandra Alvarado, 40, of White Oak Borough called police on July 18 to report that she had found an extremely emaciated Doberman dog abandoned in a ditch on the side of the road.

They found more evidence that the dog belonged to her, and then found far worse.

When police responded, they found a dog so “beyond reasonable treatment” that it could only be euthanized, according to court documents.

Police reported the dog had fleas, infections, ulcers, and open wounds that included exposed tendons.

Alvarado told police she brought the dog into her home, but police grew suspicious. They said the home smelled of urine and was filled with flies.

Her story fell apart after police found the dog dry to the touch and with no signs of being outside after it had been storming during that day.

On Tuesday, officers obtained animal clinic records showing Alvarado owned a Doberman named Anubis. They then interviewed people in the neighborhood who indicated that Alvarado was the owner of the dog and they had seen him several times after he ran away from the home.

Police were able to obtain a search warrant for the home and forced their way inside on Thursday.

They found more evidence that the dog belonged to her, and then found far worse.

Police said she had several dog crates with feces and stagnant urine. In the rest of the home, they found “deplorable conditions” that included “overwhelming” flies, fleas, spoiled food, soiled litter boxes, and numerous bags of trash.

They also found two firearms that were easily accessible to children. A 16-year-old teen was found to be living in the home.

The residence was deemed uninhabitable by White Oak Code Enforcement Officer John Snelson.

RELATED: Mom and boyfriend arrested after two boys escape ‘house of horrors’ and are found naked, bruised and covered with feces and blood

Alvarado faces numerous charges, including five counts of aggravated cruelty to animals, three counts of neglect of animals, cruelty to animals, false reports to law enforcement, as well as endangering the welfare of children.

She is being held at the Allegheny County Jail on a $10,000 bond and will appear for a hearing on Aug. 3.

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Parents accepted cameras on school buses for a simple reason: catching drivers who illegally pass a stopped bus and endanger children.

What they weren’t told is that the same technology could eventually become something much bigger: a nationwide surveillance network.

Cities have explored mounting AI-powered cameras on garbage trucks to identify property-code violations.

Spy school

According to leaked internal documents obtained by 404 Media, BusPatrol — the nation’s largest provider of school bus stop-arm camera systems — plans to transform those buses into a nationwide network of Automatic License Plate Readers. Instead of activating only when a stop-arm violation occurs, the cameras would reportedly record the license plate, location, date, and time of every vehicle they encounter before sharing that information with law enforcement databases.

If fully deployed, the system would operate on more than 40,000 school buses across 24 states, creating what could become the largest mobile license-plate reader network in the United States — a system capable of documenting the daily movements of millions of law-abiding drivers.

School buses are an obvious platform for expanding surveillance. They already travel nearly every neighborhood twice a day, five days a week. Building that kind of street-level network from scratch would cost billions and almost certainly provoke public opposition. But here, the buses, cameras, and routes already exist; only the mission changes.

Safety dance

The leaked documents also describe a data-sharing partnership between BusPatrol and Axon, the law enforcement technology company known for body cameras and digital evidence systems. Under the proposal, information collected by school buses could become part of a broader investigative network used by police agencies. Privacy advocates argue that transforms a child-safety program into a system capable of tracking the routine movements of people who aren’t suspected of any crime.

Those concerns aren’t hypothetical.

The Institute for Justice has documented multiple cases in which law enforcement officers allegedly misused license-plate reader databases for personal reasons. In Milwaukee, an officer reportedly searched the movements of a woman he was dating and her former partner nearly 180 times while claiming the searches were part of official investigations.

In Idaho, a sheriff searched his wife’s vehicle more than 700 times in three months, describing the searches as “tests.” In Georgia, a police chief was arrested after allegedly using ALPR systems to stalk private citizens. None of those incidents were automatically flagged by the systems themselves.

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Usual suspects

School buses also appear to be only one piece of a broader trend. Cities have explored mounting AI-powered cameras on garbage trucks to identify property-code violations because sanitation vehicles, like school buses, already drive every neighborhood on regular routes. Cape Coral, Florida, abandoned its proposal after public opposition, but similar ideas continue to surface elsewhere.

Private companies are expanding these networks as well.

Flock Safety has built a nationwide system of AI-powered cameras that identify license plates along with vehicle make, model, color, decals, and bumper stickers. According to Forbes, companies including FedEx, Lowe’s, Simon Property Group, and Kaiser Permanente have participated in information-sharing arrangements involving Flock’s network. Civil liberties advocates argue those partnerships expand vehicle tracking while operating outside many of the transparency rules that apply to government agencies.

Each program is introduced as a narrow solution to a specific problem — protecting schoolchildren, solving crimes, enforcing property codes, or improving security. Over time, however, they begin to overlap. School buses, garbage trucks, private security cameras, and commercial fleets become pieces of a much larger network that records where Americans travel and stores that information for future use.

Protecting children should never be controversial, and neither should giving police the tools they need to investigate legitimate crimes.

But turning 40,000 school buses into rolling surveillance platforms is a very different question.

Before that happens, Americans deserve an honest debate about where the line between public safety and routine government tracking should be drawn.

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Silicon Valley entrepreneur Bryan Johnson made his millions by founding the payments processing company Braintree (which acquired Venmo), before selling the firm to PayPal in 2013.

In the years since, Johnson has become widely known for his extreme, highly public anti-aging “Don’t Die” protocol, which involves a strict diet, a rigid sleep schedule, daily exercise, dozens of supplements, continuous biomarker testing, and occasional experimental treatments.

His stated goal is to slow or reverse biological aging across every organ system. The endeavor costs him roughly $2 million a year.

But that’s just the beginning of Johnson’s strange goals. According to a July 21 post, he has now supposedly “cloned” himself.

Glenn Beck sets the record straight on the reality of Johnson’s “cloning” experiment.

“He didn’t clone himself. What he actually did is he took a sample of his own blood, pulled out some cells, chemically rewound them back to a blank, a baby state — you know, the kind of cell that can grow into almost any body part,” he explains, noting that this making of stem cells has been going on since 2006.

“His plan is to eventually grow fresh tissue from these cells to repair his own aging organs. That’s it. There’s no baby, no second Bryan, no clone of any real sense. Just a dish with his own cells reset to act young,” Glenn continues.

The medical implications of this science — regrowing organs, restoring eyesight, reversing disease — are “really exciting,” he acknowledges.

But Glenn has seen too much to ignore the inevitable dark side of such a technology.

“I swear to you, every day I get up, every technological breakthrough now feels like we’re speed-running through the plot of every movie that terrified me as a child,” he says.

“’Frankenstein,’ written over 200 years ago, was basically one long warning that maybe, just maybe, we should spend as much time asking ‘should we?’ as we spend asking ‘can we?’” he continues.

The saddest part is that “technology genuinely could save millions of lives — Parkinson’s, blindness, heart disease, kidney failure, cancer” — but it’s what else it could do in the hands of the wrong people that troubles Glenn.

“I’m not scared of the science. I’m kind of scared by the scientists,” he admits.

“I just can’t shake the feeling that humanity is collectively walking through the opening scenes of every sci-fi movie ever made, smiling confidently while the audience is yelling at the screen, ‘Please stop!’”

To hear more, watch the video above.

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Five teenage basketball players from the Washington, D.C., area are accused of stealing from a Florida 7-Eleven — and their coach lied to protect some of them, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said.

The accused teens — all between 16 and 17 years old and hailing from Maryland and Washington, D.C. — are members of Run It Up, a travel basketball program affiliated with the Amateur Athletic Union, officials said.

The sheriff’s office added that the coach works for the Department of Juvenile Services at the Cheltenham Youth Detention Center in Maryland, ‘where his responsibilities include assisting and empowering youth.’

Their team was in the area to participate in the Puma NXTPro basketball tournament, and they were staying at a Solterra Resort vacation rental, which is less than a mile from the convenience store in the 3100 block of Ronald Reagan Parkway in Davenport, officials said.

Officials said the theft occurred Thursday around 4:10 a.m. and that the suspects concealed merchandise such as Doritos, gummies, Starburst Minis, a Big Mama sausage, lemonade, and grape and orange Slurpees — with a total value of $37.60.

A clerk confronted the suspects about the thefts, and they fled the store, officials said.

Sheriff’s deputies responded to the area and located three of the suspects near the entrance of the Solterra Resort vacation rental after they placed the stolen goods into a backpack and hid it in bushes, officials said.

A detective made contact with the team’s coach, Malik Abdul Harvey, 27, of Maryland, and asked if he could identify the remaining two suspects from a security video, officials said.

Later in the morning, the remaining two suspects were located, and they admitted Harvey was their coach, officials said.

Harvey then confessed to lying about not knowing the other two suspects in order to protect them, officials said.

The five theft suspects each were charged with two felonies — conspiracy to commit retail theft and tampering with evidence — as well as two misdemeanors, petit theft, and violation of the county curfew ordinance for juveniles, officials said.

Harvey was charged with felony child neglect as well as three misdemeanors: contributing to the delinquency of a minor, accessory after the fact, and resisting without violence, officials said.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd spoke at length about Harvey:

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The sheriff’s office added that the coach works for the Department of Juvenile Services at the Cheltenham Youth Detention Center in Maryland “where his responsibilities include assisting and empowering youth.”

The basketball trip was not associated with his employment duties, officials said.

Jail records indicate Harvey remained behind bars Friday afternoon; his total bail amount is $10,000.

Believe it or not, the sheriff’s office in late June arrested a dozen adults and three juveniles who they said were stealing food and drinks from a Wawa in Davenport — and the total value of the items was about $40.

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USA Today tried once again to smear Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark on Friday, and the outlet was humiliated once again.

The news outlet published an opinion piece suggesting that Clark’s insistence on calling for a foul when she was assaulted on the court was placing lesbian black players in danger of getting lynched by white supremacists.

‘What in the actual HELL? You utter, total, spite-filled brainless JERKS.’

An uproar followed, and the writer locked down her account and issued a bizarre statement admitting she had erred somewhat.

A day later, the outlet suggested that Clark had ignored a WNBA event for spurious and petty reasons.

“Caitlin Clark skipped the WNBA Orange Carpet on Thursday, opting to get her hair done in her hometown of Des Moines,” the outlet’s post on social media reads.

A community note on the X platform undermined the attempt to mischaracterize Clark’s decision.

“Caitlin was hosting a charity dinner in her hometown,” the note said.

The outlet was immediately excoriated by many on social media.

“How in the world is USA TODAY still existing with SEXIST headlines like this only aimed at Caitlin Clark?! They just keep doubling down on their ignorance and stupidity!” sportscaster Linda Cohn responded.

“For the love of god. What is the matter with you people. Maybe she needs the support of her family after all your bullying,” Amy Siskind replied.

“What in the actual HELL? You utter, total, spite-filled brainless JERKS,” another critic said.

The outlet issued a “clarification” about seven hours later.

RELATED: Caitlin Clark puts black lesbians at risk of death, USA Today writer suggests — and cites Emmett Till lynching

“Caitlin Clark was attending an event for the Caitlin Clark Foundation, which is why she missed the WNBA All-Star Weekend Orange Carpet,” the outlet posted.

Some did not think the correction was enough.

“Wait, so the day after you publish a column claiming her actions evoke Emmitt [sic] Till and will get people lynched, you rush and post an unverified slanderous headline that turns out to be a lie? Do you wonder why you’re a joke?” one detractor responded.

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Tony Romo was arrested in Wisconsin after performing poorly on field sobriety tests, according to the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office.

Romo was driving traveling southbound on Interstate 43 Thursday when he was stopped at about 6 p.m. according to an arrest-detention report obtained by WISN-TV.

In 2017 he was hired as the lead game analyst for CBS football.

The former Dallas Cowboys quarterback was taken into custody, booked on a charge of operating while intoxicated, and then released.

A first-time charge of OWI is a civil offense in Wisconsin and typically carries a fine between $150 and $300, according to WISN.

Romo is very familiar with the area, as he was born in Burlington and graduated from Burlington High School. He visited in 2020 to attend the dedication of the “Tony Romo Field” by the Burlington Area School District for the school’s homecoming game.

The 46-year-old is married and has three children.

It appears to be his first arrest.

Romo played in Dallas for the entirety of his career in the National Football League, from 2003 until 2016. In 2017 he was hired as the lead game analyst for CBS football.

He still holds the Cowboys franchise record for total passing touchdowns at 248.

TMZ noted that he appeared to be smiling in his booking photo.

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KSTP-TV reported that CBS had no comment about the arrest.

Romo is due in court for the OWI charge on Sept. 21.

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The massive fraud scam in Minnesota’s Feeding Our Future nonprofit continues to grow after one convicted fraudster has been sentenced to an additional decade in prison for bribing a juror.

Abdiaziz Shafii Farah pleaded guilty to participating in the attempted scheme to bribe a juror with $120,000 in order to secure an acquittal.

‘Farah and his co-defendants participated in an unprecedented attack on the justice system.’

Four others were implicated in the bribery scheme that was revealed in June 2024.

A woman appearing to be Somali dropped off the money bag with a family member of the juror, as previously reported by Blaze News.

“This is for juror 52,” an alleged note on the bag read. “Tell her there will be another bag for her if she votes to acquit.”

The juror called the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the investigation led to seven defendants being arrested and jailed for the duration of their trial after they had been allowed to appear on their own recognizance. That juror was dismissed, and the others were questioned about whether they had been approached for bribery.

Farah had already pleaded guilty to numerous charges related to the multimillion-dollar scam and was sentenced in August to 28 years in prison.

On Wednesday, Farah was sentenced to an additional 10 years for the bribery charge.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Murphy emphasized during sentencing how jury bribery could have a “chilling effect” on jury selection.

“How creepy is it that a defendant in a case was stalking you, both online and in real life?” he asked. “Following you home, coming to your door?”

Prosecutors alleged that the defendants had targeted that juror because she was the youngest juror and a minority. They obtained evidence that showed they wanted her to persuade other jurors to vote for acquittal based on claims of racial bias.

Farah spoke before being sentenced and cried during an apology to the court, the juror, and the prosecutors.

“My biggest regret revolves around the negative impact my conduct has had on my community, our great state, and the judicial system,” he said. “My conduct has cost me more than I ever imagined, and I am responsible for it.”

RELATED: FBI RAIDS ‘Quality Learing Center’ and nearly 2 dozen more in Minnesota FRAUD investigation

He also said the time he has spent in jail has humbled him.

“Farah and his co-defendants participated in an unprecedented attack on the justice system,” Murphy added.

All of the defendants charged in the bribery scheme pleaded guilty. Five of the seven defendants in the original case were convicted, while the other two were acquitted.

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“It’s insanity,” James Lyons told Blaze News about the latest abortion bill making its way through the Massachusetts legislature. Lyons, a former state representative and past chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party, added, “And it has to stop.”

A long-standing line, one that most radical abortion legislation rarely crosses, is viability outside the womb. The rate of survival for a baby born during the 23rd week of pregnancy is 23%-27%, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. At 24 weeks the survival rate jumps dramatically to 42%-59%.

‘The legislation promises that an already ominous shadow will grow even darker over the state.’

Democrats in the Massachusetts House overwhelmingly passed a bill in a 199-33 vote on Wednesday that would greatly expand abortion access past 24 weeks, effectively making it open season on viable human beings.

Advocates for the unborn have emphasized the extreme nature of this legislation and called for the state Senate to kill it outright.

Massachusetts law currently prohibits abortion past 24 weeks unless executed by a doctor who has determined it is necessary to preserve the life of the mother; necessary to preserve the mother’s physical or mental health; warranted because of a lethal fetal anomaly or diagnosis; or warranted “because of a grave fetal diagnosis that indicates that the fetus is incompatible with sustained life outside of the uterus without extraordinary medical interventions.”

The bill recently passed by the House, H. 5595, would scrap these requirements for late-term abortions, enabling an abortion to be committed against a preborn baby past 24 weeks solely “based upon the professional judgment of the physician.”

H. 5595 would also change state law to bar any medical review process from overriding the decision by a doctor and patient to execute a late-term abortion, and would eliminate the requirement that except in an emergency situation, late-term abortions must be performed “in a hospital duly authorized to provide facilities for obstetrical services.”

RELATED: ‘Very s***ty’: Gay couple sue surrogate mother who REFUSED to abort baby with minor birth defect: Report

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Lyons further told Blaze News, “It is absolutely unconscionable what these people are doing in Massachusetts.”

He then noted that this is the latest in a sequence of radical pro-abortion maneuvers, including:

the 2020 Roe Act, which not only codified abortion rights into state law, enabled abortions after 24 weeks with the now-threatened restrictions, and lowered the age at which women can seek abortion without the consent of a parent or judge, but scrapped a provision in state law that required doctors to “take all reasonable steps … to preserve the life and health of the aborted child” if the baby survived the attempted abortion; andGov. Maura Healey’s (D) taxpayer-funded initiative to attack crisis pregnancy centers, which she complained were dissuading women from getting abortions.

“The reason that they’re getting away with it is because the Massachusetts legislature is dominated by radical leftists, and they unfortunately have done everything they can possibly do to silence any opposition,” said Lyons, who changed parties from Democrat to Republican in 1983 in part because of President Ronald Reagan but also because “there was no question about it that the Democratic Party was being taken over … by the radical left.”

Democratic state Rep. Christine Barber, a radical leftist with endorsements by Planned Parenthood and Reproductive Equity Now, told the Boston Globe that the late-term abortion bill is aimed at sparing residents from the inconvenience of having to travel out of state to kill their preborn children.

“Patients have to leave to other states, leave their support network, and pay out of pocket,” Barber said. “You should be able to get care that your doctors are recommending here in Massachusetts.”

‘The fight is not over.’

Barber cited as an example the trip that one resident, Kate Dineen, made to Maryland in 2022 to kill her 33-week-old baby. The boy suffered a stroke in utero and was reportedly given a 50% chance of dying before delivery. Dineen had a Maryland abortionist administer a lethal injection to the boy, whose remains she later delivered in Boston.

Reproductive Equity Now, an organization that has also used the out-of-state execution of Dineen’s baby to promote this legislation, celebrated the passage of H. 5595.

Claire Teylouni, interim co-executive director of the pro-abortion group, stated, “We are thrilled to see the Massachusetts House of Representatives take this crucial step to expand abortion access across the Commonwealth.”

Advocates for the unborn alternatively condemned Democrats’ campaign against the preborn.

Fr. Daniel Pacholec, direct of the Respect Life Office for the Catholic Diocese of Springfield, noted, “Massachusetts already has one of the most progressive abortion laws in the country, and this goes even further. This should make everyone squeamish. This is not a partisan issue. This is about human decency.”

Massachusetts Citizens for Life noted that “the bill passed despite the concerns of thousands of Massachusetts residents who contacted legislators and shared their opposition, and despite the fact that it would allow unborn children who are capable of feeling pain and surviving outside the womb to be killed.”

“Women experiencing unimaginable, heart-wrenching pregnancy complications absolutely deserve all the support they need, but that support is not what this bill provides,” said Myrna Maloney Flynn, president of MCFL, in a statement shared by the diocese. “Instead, this bill ensures increased abortion industry profits and taxpayer-funded late-term procedures. The legislation promises that an already ominous shadow will grow even darker over the state of Massachusetts.”

The MCFL has stressed that “the fight is not over” and urged Bay Staters to urge their state senators to oppose the version before them now, S.1563.

The Massachusetts Family Institute has also condemned the bill, noting that it would “end virtually all abortion restrictions in Massachusetts, allowing abortion at full term with no medical justification or second opinion required — for any reason, or none at all.”

When asked whether the goal of this and related legislation is to make the Bay State a national abortion destination, Lyons told Blaze News, “It certainly seems that way. And as a matter of fact, the Shield Act that was put in place was a direct result of the pressure that they were seeing outside of Massachusetts to let people know you can come here and we will protect you.”

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The first trailer for “Avengers: Doomsday” has arrived, and it’s raising some serious questions about the future of superhero movies — especially whether or not anyone still cares about them.

And BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere admits that he has never cared less.

“It seems like they took all previous superhero movies and put them in a blender. And then just released whatever came out of that blender. A green sort of brownish mess,” he tells co-host Dave Landau on “Stu and Dave Do America.”

“The actual plot of it is nonsensical,” Dave agrees, adding that it “looks really bad.”

“I am not a fan of superhero movies generally. I don’t like the Marvel universe. I don’t get into this, so I’m not the right person to ask necessarily. To me, a lot of them seem kind of nonsensical,” Stu says.

The film stars Robert Downey Jr. as Dr. Doom, which, Stu points out, seems a little desperate.

“It seems like a desperation move, like when they go on vacation in a dying sitcom, you know, and then they add a brother that you didn’t know existed and you’re just like they’re just reaching for whatever at this point,” Stu says.

“I feel like it hurts the Robert Downey Jr. trajectory, because you go from heroin addict who had all kinds of problems, you know, fell asleep in his neighbor’s race-car bed,” Dave says. “And then he came back and became Iron Man and a superhero … and he’s lived this kind of extraordinary comeback. Why be the villain?”

“I am a fan of his work, but I think it hurts the actual RDJ,” he adds.

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Under the leadership of Anthea Hartig, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is using taxpayer dollars to rewrite history in woke terms — and during a recent hearing, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) called the museum out.

“The many examples of politicization of the museum are well-documented in the comprehensive report the White House Domestic Policy Council recently issued on July 4, the nation’s 250th anniversary,” Burchett began.

“The report makes clear that the museum’s woke exhibits and materials reflect a broader vision held by the museum leadership, particularly its director, Dr. Anthea Hartig,” he continued, noting that she “proudly takes credit for changing the museum’s mission statement.”

The mission statement “no longer uses the term ‘American history’ or refers to the infinite richness of that history.”

Instead, Burchett explained, it is “now guided by an interpretive plan that ensures all topics focus on the core issues of our time.”

“Do we want to guess what they are? Race and identity, gender and sexuality, environmental change, immigration and migrations, and economic inequality top the list. Also, a Center for Restorative Justice at the museum created under Dr. Hartig’s watch hosted a decolonization working group to investigate historical harms that result in ongoing systematic oppression,” he continued.

“To remove any doubt about her intentions, Dr. Hartig in her own words states that she views history as a prime tool of social justice,” he added, before playing a clip of Hartig giving a speech.

“Before we begin, let us pause to acknowledge with gratitude the native peoples on whose land we gather today. These are the ancestral homelands of the Piscataway people, joined by the Nacotchtank and the Pamunkey tribes and, of course, their descendants,” she said.

Hartig went on to give respect and gratitude “to all of them for the opportunity to work and to live in their territories.”

“It’s not their territories anymore,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray says on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”

“The peoples don’t own this land. In fact, their own ideology was that nobody can own land, right? So, it’s not theirs,” he adds.

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