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Mark Levin exposes the ugly truth behind ‘pro-Palestinian’ protests
The left’s latest lie is among their worst — that is, that violent, hateful mobs are simply “pro-Palestinian protesters.”
“It’s not a pro-Palestinian movement. It’s a pro-terrorism movement. Whether they call themselves Palestinians or Hamas or Islamic Jihad or the Muslim Brotherhood or Qatar or whatever they call themselves,” BlazeTV host Mark Levin says on “LevinTV,” “it is a mission.”
And while there are leftists claiming that the right is attempting to stop pro-Palestinian protesters from exercising their right to free speech, Levin says that couldn’t be further from the truth.
“Nobody is stopping pro-Palestinian protesters from protesting. What people are objecting to is the bullhorns, the spitting, the physical violence preventing other people from speaking, preventing students from going to class, preventing certain faculty from teaching their class, intimidation, threats, and violence,” Levin explains.
“If you want to go on the corner and scream at the top of your lungs that you love Palestine and the Palestinians,” he continues, “you’re free to do it, and nobody’s going to stop you. They’ll look at you stupid because you are stupid. But you’re free to be stupid.”
The left has also claimed that you’re not allowed to criticize Israel in America, which is, of course, not true.
“Yeah, there’s no criticizing Israel in this country,” Levin mocks. “No, no, never happens. There’s no criticizing America in this country. No, no, it never happens.”
Levin notes that these detractors intentionally blur the lines between “peaceful speech” and “intimidation; violence; not protests, riotous protests; the destruction of private property; the prevention of students from going to class, some of them running for their lives.”
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US Supreme Court unanimously shoots down Mexico in lawsuit alleging gun smuggling to cartels
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling Thursday against the claims in a lawsuit from the Mexican government alleging that gun manufacturers were complicit in arms smuggling.
The Mexican government says that gun manufacturers in the U.S. were looking the other way as their guns illegally ended up crossing the border and getting in the hands of dangerous drug cartels.
‘We have little doubt that, as the complaint asserts, some such sales take place — and that the manufacturers know they do. But still, Mexico has not adequately pleaded what it needs to.’
Mexico’s attorneys pointed out that guns were severely restricted there, but the country was still awash in guns.
“You can’t hide behind the middleman and pretend like you don’t know what’s happening,” said Jonathan Lowy, the president of Global Action on Gun Violence and co-counsel for Mexico.
National Shooting Sports Foundation attorney Lawrence Keane offered a clever analogy to dismantle the accusation from the Mexican government. He said that if a “lawful distribution system that’s approved under federal law” was the evidence for aiding and abetting gun smuggling, then that principle would apply to alcohol sales as well.
“If that was all that was required, Budweiser would be responsible for drunk driving accidents all across the United States, and apparently including Mexico,” said Keane.
The Supreme Court unanimously agreed and shot down Mexico’s lawsuit.
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“Mexico’s complaint does not plausibly allege that the defendant manufacturers aided and abetted gun dealers’ unlawful sales of firearms to Mexican traffickers,” wrote Justice Elena Kagan.
“We have little doubt that, as the complaint asserts, some such sales take place — and that the manufacturers know they do,” she added. “But still, Mexico has not adequately pleaded what it needs to.”
The lawsuit was originally filed in 2021 against Smith & Wesson, Colt, Glock, and other manufacturers. Mexico was seeking $10 billion in damages.
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Firebombing terror suspect recorded himself declaring jihad is greater than Zionists before heinous attack: Report
The suspect arrested in the horrific firebombing attack on pro-Israel demonstrators reportedly recorded a video before the incident praising jihad and making other extremist statements.
The video was unearthed by the Middle East Media Research Institute and shows Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a 45-year-old man from Egypt, talking about his love of Islam and saying that he loved jihad more than his mother and his children.
‘Allah, his messenger, and jihad for Allah’s sake are more beloved to me than you and the whole world are.’
“Allah is greater than anything. Allah is greater than the Zionists. Allah is greater than America and its weapons. Allah is greater than the F-35 planes. Allah is greater than everything else,” he said, according to an English translation from MEMRI. “So why do we fear those who are inferior to Allah rather than fear Allah himself?”
The use of the word “Zionists” fit with a statement that Soliman allegedly made to investigators after he was arrested.
“If I told my wife and son every day to do something, but they didn’t do it, I would be angry. Maybe I would divorce my wife. Maybe I would kick my son out of home. Then what about Allah, who says to us every day dozens of times: ‘Allahu Akbar’? Do not forget: Allahu Akbar,” he continued.
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“Do not forget that Allah is greater than everything,” Soliman continued. “Not the Zionists, America, Britain, France, or Germany — only Allah has the right to be feared. I say to my mother, my wife, my children, my brothers, my people: I attest before Allah and before you that Allah, his messenger, and jihad for Allah’s sake are more beloved to me than you and the whole world are.”
Soliman was arrested after he allegedly firebombed pro-Israel demonstrators with Molotov cocktails after plotting the attack for a year. Officials said 15 people were injured, as well as one dog.
Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem said that Soliman’s wife and his five children were detained on Tuesday and fast-tracked for deportation.
“We are investigating to what extent his family knew about this heinous attack, if they had knowledge of it, or if they provided support to it,” she added.
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Speech foes face heat: Trump’s FTC probes Media Matters, left-wing groups for possible antitrust violations
President Donald Trump’s Federal Trade Commission has reportedly taken aim at leftist advertising cartels that allegedly coordinated a boycott to starve conservative media outlets and squash free speech online.
According to several reports, the FTC launched investigations into approximately a dozen media and advertising groups for potentially violating antitrust laws.
‘These so-called “ratings outfits” are the left’s latest attempt to silence conservatives.’
The agency’s new chairman, Andrew Ferguson, previously expressed concerns about advertisers coordinating to ban certain ideas.
During an April antitrust conference, he said, “I am deeply concerned … if advertisers either get in a room together and say, ‘We’re not going to do advertising next to this idea,’ or they say, ‘We’re going to agree that this third party decides which ideas get advertisement and which don’t.'”
“Drying up the advertising will dry up the idea. So the risk of an advertiser boycott is a pretty serious risk to the free exchange of ideas,” he declared.
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Ferguson’s concerns stem from an ongoing dispute between Media Matters and Elon Musk’s X.
In 2023, X sued Media Matters for defamation, claiming the site released a report that misrepresented the user experience to push advertisers to boycott the social media platform. The report warned advertisers that their content would appear next to white supremacist hashtags, causing many to pull their ads from X.
The FTC’s investigation, as reported by the New York Times, seeks to determine whether the media and advertising groups, including Media Matters and Ad Fontes Media, coordinated to prompt an advertiser boycott.
Alliance Defending Freedom legal counsel Logan Spena told Blaze News, “Antitrust laws are important tools for countering coordinated censorship. Individual businesses can decide what to say or what not to say — the First Amendment protects them too. But it does not protect coordinated conduct in restraint of trade, including trade that involves speech.”
“As the Supreme Court said back in 1945, ‘Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the Constitution, but freedom to combine to keep others from publishing is not,'” Spena continued. “We hope the FTC will ensure that antitrust laws are vigorously enforced to the fullest extent consistent with the Constitution.”
Dan Schneider, the vice president of the Media Research Center’s Free Speech America, told Blaze News that he is hopeful Ferguson’s appointment will lead to positive change.
“These so-called ‘ratings outfits’ are the left’s latest attempt to silence conservatives,” Schneider stated. “They collude with and conspire against advertisers, media outlets, and advertising firms to eliminate conservative media. It’s not just wrong and un-American; it is illegal. Fortunately, we finally have an FTC chairman who believes in the rule of law and is prepared to stop colluders.”
The FTC declined a request for comment from the NYT.
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Adweek confirmed the Times’ reporting, stating that the FTC sent the groups Civil Investigative Demand letters requiring them to turn over documents and respond to inquiries.
Ad Fontes Media CEO Vanessa Otero told the outlet, “They’re requesting pretty much anything pertinent to our business since we started.”
She claimed the FTC’s demands were “excessive” and “overzealous.”
“Businesses have rights to not advertise next to stuff they find crappy,” Otero continued. “And no one is colluding with anybody about this.”
Otero stated that Ad Fontes Media will comply with the agency’s requests.
Media Matters confirmed to Adweek that it is currently under investigation.
Media Matters President Angelo Carusone stated, “The Trump administration has been defined by naming right-wing media figures to key posts and abusing the power of the federal government to bully political opponents and silence critics.”
“It’s clear that’s exactly what’s happening here, given Media Matters’ history of holding those same figures to account. These threats won’t work; we remain steadfast to our mission,” Carusone added.
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Alan Dershowitz warns: Trends show SCOTUS may favor security over free speech amid anti-Semitic violence
Brutal attacks on innocent Jews by radicalized pro-Palestinian activists are becoming more common. Last weekend, Molotov cocktails were thrown at a Jewish group, causing several injuries, in Boulder, Colorado. In late May, two Israeli embassy staff members were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. In February, two Jewish men were shot as they exited separate synagogues.
The list goes on.
Famed attorney and legal scholar Alan Dershowitz is fearful that as the chaos grows, the Supreme Court might move in the direction of prioritizing security over free speech. On a recent episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” he said that this prediction is based on his “analysis of trends.”
“This is not a trend I approve of, but it’s a trend I see coming.”
Dershowitz points to emerging trends in defamation and incitement laws, suggesting the Brandenburg v. Ohio decision (1969), which protects speech unless it incites imminent lawless action, may be reconsidered due to recent violent incidents.
“‘Globalize the Intifada’ and ‘Palestine will be free from the river to the sea’ — those are calls for violence, and under the current Brandenburg case, they’re protected speech,” he says, noting that while these chants express abhorrent sentiments, “they should still be protected speech.”
His prediction, however, is that “when the next case comes up to the Supreme Court, this Supreme Court … may take a more security-oriented point of view and say, ‘Wait a minute, the incitement doesn’t have to be so direct; it could be a little bit more indirect’ and let the jury decide that issue.”
In his new book, “The Preventive State: The Challenge of Preventing Serious Harms While Preserving Essential Liberties,” Dershowitz explains “how free speech can sometimes cause violence but that it’s not proper to deny free speech in order to prevent violence,” arguing that there are “better ways” to curb it that don’t involve “constraining free speech.”
Dershowitz holds these beliefs despite possibly being in some danger himself. On the same day Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, the two Israeli embassy staffers, were shot outside the Capital Jewish Museum in D.C., Dershowitz was “getting an honorary degree at a college in Florida.”
“The security people from the college came up to me and said, ‘We’re terrified that there might be a copycat attempt to kill you because you’re a prominent spokesman for pro-Israel points of view,’ and so they created a whole security thing around me where they created an escape plan; they had policemen with machine guns and with bulletproof glass to protect me,” he tells Glenn.
“I think we’re going to see more copycat crimes. I think that Hamas wants to see violence in the United States. That’s their goal — to get more people to kill Jews, Christians, and others,” Dershowitz continues. “They’re probably going to succeed unless there are some preventive steps that are taken now.” However, any “preventive” measure “should not include diminutions of legitimate free speech under the Constitution.”
Glenn shares Dershowitz’s views. “I am really really concerned if there is another big event, like a 9/11, I fear Americans are just going to run to that kind of [censorship] stuff, and then we’re in a trap that I don’t think we get out of.”
To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.
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Supreme Court rules unanimously against ‘reverse discrimination’ standard in heterosexual woman’s lawsuit
Marlean Ames says that her employer discriminated against her because she is a straight woman, and she took her case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
On Thursday, the court’s unanimous ruling found that a lower court’s standard against the possibility of “reverse discrimination” was wrong. Ames can now argue her case with the new standard of discrimination at the lower court.
‘Congress left no room for courts to impose special requirements on majority-group plaintiffs alone.’
Ames filed a lawsuit accusing her employer, Department of Youth Services of Ohio, when a gay supervisor passed her over for a promotion and gave the job to a gay woman instead. She also claimed to have been demoted with a pay cut in favor of a gay man. She had worked for the department for over 20 years.
The Supreme Court ruling invalidates a standard set by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that nonminorities must provide more evidence of discrimination than a member of a minority group.
“Congress left no room for courts to impose special requirements on majority-group plaintiffs alone,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in the majority ruling. “The standard for proving disparate treatment under Title VII does not vary based on whether or not the plaintiff is a member of a majority group.”
America First Legal praised the ruling as a victory for true equality before the law.
“Nothing in Title VII’s text supported the discriminatory ‘background circumstances’ requirement. It was a judicial fabrication, completely untethered to any statutory language,” said AFL senior counsel Nick Barry.
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“The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision correcting this, along with Justice Thomas’ concurrence questioning ‘atextual legal rules and frameworks,’ should serve as a clear call for conservative litigators to continue to press for the rule of law,” he added. “As we often say at America First Legal: read the statute.”
“We are overjoyed that the court saw the case our way,” said Ames’ attorney Edward Gilbert.
A spokesperson for the Ohio Attorney General’s Office said it will continue to fight in court that the department did not discriminate against Ames.
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Former Biden aides unload on Karine Jean-Pierre after she leaves Democratic Party: ‘As breathtaking as it is desperate’
The “scorched-earth” reaction to a shocking announcement from a former Biden White House press secretary is confirming many of the criticisms of her from the right during her tenure.
Karine Jean-Pierre was lauded by many on the left for being the first black, female LGBTQ member to work as press secretary, but she has since turned her back on the Democratic Party and said she will become an independent.
‘She had meltdowns after any interview that asked about a topic not sent over by producers.’
Jean-Pierre made the announcement while also revealing that she will be publishing a book detailing how the Democratic Party betrayed former President Joe Biden.
Many former aides and staffers in the Biden administration spoke to Axios and revealed their distaste for Jean-Pierre and her attempt to cash in on her time at the White House.
Jean-Pierre was described as “one of the most ineffectual and unprepared people I’ve ever worked with,” according to one former staffer. “She had meltdowns after any interview that asked about a topic not sent over by producers.”
A former communications official for Biden was even more descriptive.
“The hubris of thinking you can position yourself as an outsider when you not only have enjoyed the perks of extreme proximity to power — which … bestows the name recognition needed to sell books off your name — but have actively wielded it from the biggest pulpit there is is as breathtaking as it is desperate,” the official said.
“It’s difficult to see how this is anything but a bizarre cash-grab,” the person added.
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“The amount of time that was spent coddling [Jean-Pierre] and appeasing her was astronomical compared to our attention on actual matters of substance,” said a person described as a former senior spokesperson under Biden.
“It’s hard to believe someone could look at the past year and genuinely think, ‘The party left Joe Biden — that’s why I’m leaving the Democratic Party,'” said another official.
“Today Karine lost the only constituency that ever supported her — party-line Democrats,” said another communications official.
Axios said that Jean-Pierre did not respond to a request for a comment.
The former Biden spokeswoman had been criticized greatly for her performance at the White House podium, but she was often defended by those in the mainstream media who accused critics of racism and bigotry against gay people.
“I’m hypersensitive to disrespect toward black women, because I know what that feels like and smells like,” said journalist April Ryan in Feb. 2024.
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NASCAR tried to hide its Pride Month promotion, but fans found it anyway
NASCAR seemingly ditched gay Pride celebrations for 2025, but internet sleuths were quick to notice that they were trying to pull a fast one on racing fans.
In 2024, the stock racing company happily posted pro-Pride graphics across their social media, including a flag that promotes transgender ideology.
“NASCAR is proud to support the LGBTQ+ community,” the company wrote on its Instagram page last year. For 2025 however, NASCAR’s support seemed absent, until someone found where it was hiding.
‘Truth is, this sneaky acknowledgement of Pride Month showcases what most of us already knew … these leagues don’t care.’
Blaze News could not find any sexuality- or gender-based content on NASCAR’s X, Instagram, or Facebook pages over the past week, but one X user noticed the sports league tried to fly under the radar by posting in an inconspicuous location.
‘Hey @NASCAR is there a reason you’ll post this on LinkedIn but not any other social media platform?” a user wrote, showcasing a picture from the company’s page.
PORTLAND, OREGON – JUNE 03: A detail view of a ‘NASCAR “LOVE WINS’ Pride button during qualifying for the NASCAR Xfinity Series Pacific Office Automation 147 at Portland International Raceway on June 3, 2023, in Portland, Oregon. (Photo by James Gilbert/Getty Images)
In a post to its more than 87,000 LinkedIn followers, NASCAR displayed a graphic with “Pride Month” in big, bold letters.
“We celebrate the LGBTQ+ community during Pride Month and beyond,” it said.
While the post had abysmal engagement, the top reply came from a physician’s assistant in California; it read:
“Very strange that you’d post this to LinkedIn but not any other social media platform. You want to hire gays but don’t want to support them elsewhere?”
The next reply was a post in support of veterans, but at the time of this publication, there were fewer than 10 comments on the post.
RELATED: Here are all the NFL teams that haven’t virtue-signaled for Pride Month
LEBANON, TENNESSEE – MAY 30: Toni Breidinger, driver of the #5 818 Tequila Toyota, waits backstage during pre-race ceremonies prior to the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Rackley Roofing 200 at Nashville Superspeedway on May 30, 2025 in Lebanon, Tennessee. (Photo by James Gilbert/Getty Images)
“It’s truly strange that NASCAR would choose to post pro-Pride images on its LinkedIn page to garner a whopping seven comments,” OutKick’s Alejandro Avila told Blaze News.
Avila continued, “Truth is, this sneaky acknowledgement of Pride Month showcases what most of us already knew … these leagues don’t care. If they have to ‘wear the ribbon’ then I guess pinning it to your a** (LinkedIn) counts. Way to go, NASCAR,” he laughed.
NASCAR’s television viewership is down in 2025, which makes the move even more peculiar.
After 17 races, total viewership is down almost more than 5.4% compared to 2024. This equates to a decrease in average viewership of almost 175,000 viewers per event, according to numbers from Daily Down Force.
Last year, NASCAR increased viewership by 1.2% over 2023, but those numbers will be erased if business does not pick up.
Recent additions of female drivers (Katherine Legge in NASCAR Cup Series, Toni Breidinger in the Craftsman Truck Series) and even former television star Frankie Muniz have garnered outside coverage, but the latest news seems to have angered fans on both sides.
One fan pointed out that while the company has chosen to hide its public support, the fan was disappointed that NASCAR is still willing to sell T-shirts with rainbow checker flags that display phrases like “Yaaascar” or “Slaytona.”
“I wish they would at least pretend to care because what this tells me is that these are all cash grabs which once again not surprising but still sad,” the fan wrote.
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The Innocence Project’s not so innocent: Criminals, anti-justice billionaires, and politicians
The Innocence Project has long been lauded by activists for helping those who were wrongfully convicted find their freedom again — but after a closer look, the project appears to have a habit of undermining true justice in the interest of social justice.
“A man who was released from prison because of the efforts of the Innocence Project has now been arrested for the possession of child sex abuse material,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey begins. “This is just the most recent example of criminals who have been advocated for by the Innocence Project who have gone on to reoffend.”
“And actually, the Innocence Project has a very long history of defending those who beyond a reasonable doubt have committed heinous crimes, including the rape and the murder of children,” she continues.
The case of Robert Roberson, another one that’s been taken on by the Innocence Project, features an autistic man who was convicted for the death of his 2-year-old daughter in 2002.
His daughter, Nikki, had been sick, and she was alleged to have fallen from her bed and later become unresponsive.
While the Innocence Project claims Roberson wasn’t responsible, he not only was reported by the hospital to be unemotional about his child’s injuries but also became very angry with his girlfriend, Teddie, when she asked Roberson to watch Nikki, since she was in the hospital.
It was the first time Roberson was ever left alone with his daughter.
“The next morning, Teddie … was discharged from the hospital, and she called Robert to ask for a ride from the hospital. He responded, reportedly, that he probably needed to come to the hospital anyway, because their daughter, Nikki, wasn’t breathing,” Stuckey explains.
“Teddie testified that Roberson wasn’t upset at all about the situation. He didn’t seem flustered. He didn’t seem like he was in a hurry. He didn’t even pull up to the front door of the hospital. Instead, he took the time to find a parking spot,” she continues.
Medical exams following Nikki’s death painted the picture that her “brain swelling was so severe that her brain had shifted from the right to the left” and that the injuries had to be “intentionally inflicted.”
And for some reason, it appears there are very powerful people who want Americans fighting these convictions.
“The Innocence Project is also backed by the usual left-wing billionaires and left-wing political donors. They receive millions, no surprise, from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation and radical leftist philanthropist MacKenzie Scott,” Stuckey explains.
“If there were any doubt about the Innocence Project’s ideological bent, they’re not just some apolitical organization that’s trying to exonerate innocent people,” she continues. “It’s about partisanship. It’s about undermining law and order, rewriting history, changing the facts, advancing a radical leftist — often racialized — agenda under the guise of compassion and empathy and justice.”
“They turn criminals into victims and the justice system into the oppressor. They distort reality and erode the very foundation of accountability and lawfulness in America,” she adds.
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School board tells teachers ‘family’ is a white supremacist term
A school board distributed the teachings of a faculty member who was hired through a race-based initiative to tell staff that families are a product of white supremacy.
The faculty member, Dr. Laura Mae Lindo, focuses her research on “addressing social justice” and was hired at a local university through what is known as a “black hiring cluster.” The “equity-based” hiring initiative was for black and “Indigenous” people only, with Lindo being one of 10 ethnicity-based hires.
Given Dr. Lindo’s past discourses on “race in comedy” and the “whiteness” of philosophy, her teachings on families should come as no surprise.
‘The erasure of the family structure has objectively been a net negative for society.’
Internal training documents obtained by True North reporter Melanie Bennet showed that not only were staff at the Waterloo Region District School Board in Ontario, Canada, given materials that said “family” is a white supremacist term but also that ideas like “objectivity” and a “sense of urgency” are part of a white supremacist culture, as well.
The Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation distributed slides to district employees containing Lindo’s curious wisdom, which said:
“Biases are the socialized teachings of the white culture,” and “we use key words and phrases to promote the dominant culture.”
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The word “family” puts males in an authority position, the document said, while a “nuclear family structure” is not the same for everyone, and therefore the term should not be used.
According to the report, another slide asserts that if one is to ask for evidence for claims of racism, this is simply a “characteristic of whiteness” that must be dismantled, as is acknowledging that racism against white people exists.
A slide titled “unpacking whiteness” listed a series of terms as “characteristics of white supremacy culture.”
Those terms included: individualism, the right to comfort, worship of the written word, defensiveness, paternalism, and the fear of open conflict.
The source who provided the indoctrination materials chose to remain anonymous but provided a quote to Juno News about the staff’s reaction.
“Teachers just want to get on with their job of teaching,” the source said. “Ideology — if you will — is just something many teachers acknowledge as being present. They just want to get on with their jobs.”
RELATED: Democrats are just noticing a long, deep-running problem
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Reporter Natasha Biase, who lives near the region where the materials were distributed, called it “mind boggling” that educators are pushing such detrimental materials on children.
Biase told Blaze News, “The erasure of the family structure has objectively been a net negative for society, and we haven’t even seen its full impact yet. Parents need to step in and stand up for their children by pushing back against this nonsense.”
According to the insider who provided the documents, staff members have to “be careful” about who they share their training information with. They also said it was unclear how many staff members agreed or disagreed with the material.
“Whether [anyone within the administration] believes it or not is anyone’s guess,” the source added.
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‘Insane’: GOP condemns Gov. Hobbs for killing bill that would prevent Chinese communists from owning land near military bases
The Arizona Senate passed legislation in a 17-11 party-line vote last month that would prohibit the communist Chinese regime or one of the enterprises under its direct control from purchasing, owning, or acquiring an ownership interest of 30% or more of property in the state, including property of strategic significance around U.S. military sites.
Lawmakers stressed within the text of the bill that it was necessary to “halt or reverse the influence operation of the Chinese Communist Party that poses a risk to the national security of the United States”; “to protect the critical infrastructure of this state”; and to protect Arizona’s “military, commercial and agricultural assets from foreign espionage and sabotage” in order to “place this state in a significantly stronger position to withstand national security threats.”
‘Governor Katie Hobbs continues to violate her oath of office.’
Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs evidently disagreed — and that disagreement has earned her more disgust from Arizona Republicans.
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Luke Air Force Base, Arizona. Photo by DIRK WAEM/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images
Hobbs vetoed the bill sponsored by Arizona Senate Majority Leader Janae Shamp, claiming it was “ineffective at counter-espionage and does not directly protect our military assets.”
The governor added that the bill “lacks clear implementation criteria and opens the door to arbitrary enforcement.”
Shamp lashed out at Hobbs over her decision, noting that “with every politically motivated veto of public safety legislation put on her desk by Republicans, Governor Katie Hobbs continues to violate her oath of office she swore to uphold by endangering the lives and livelihoods of all Arizonans.”
“SB 1109 was a commonsense security measure to ensure enemies of the United States would not have easy access to our military bases and critical infrastructure to carry out harm,” Shamp continued.
“It is utterly insane that Arizona’s top elected official would rather be an obstructionist against safeguarding our citizens from threats than to sign legislation giving our state a fighting chance at proactively preventing attacks,” she added.
Beijing has provided America with plenty of cause in recent years to suspect ill will and continued sabotage.
China has, for instance, sent spy craft over the U.S. mainland; operated illegal police stations on American soil; threatened diplomats; dispatched agents to execute espionage and political destabilization missions; reportedly provided terrorist cartels with illicit fentanyl precursor chemicals and pill press equipment; admitted to orchestrating significant cyberattacks on American institutions and critical infrastructure; engaged in numerous military provocations; and watched with interest as party members gobble up American properties.
According to the Annual Threat Assessment report released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in March, “China stands out as the actor most capable of threatening U.S. interests globally.”
The America First Policy Institute noted last year that the communist Chinese regime’s acquisition of American land is accelerating, and Arizona might be a prime target on account of the military installations it is home to, including Barry M. Goldwater Range, Davis-Monthan, and Luke Air Force bases.
‘Governor Hobbs’ veto of SB 1109 hangs an “Open for the CCP” sign on Arizona’s front door.’
“Hobbs is a total disgrace,” added Shamp.
A statement posted to the X account of U.S. Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-Ariz.) similarly suggested that Hobbs’ “latest insane veto leaves Arizona’s critical infrastructure, including Luke Air Force Base, vulnerable to espionage and surveillance risks from nearby foreign-owned farmland.” The statement suggested that state Republicans’ goal could alternatively be realized at the federal level.
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Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) introduced the No American Land for Communist China Act in February. The bill, which presently appears to be inert, would prohibit any agent of the Chinese regime and any business under its control from purchasing real estate located adjacent to covered federal lands.
Various other bills have been introduced in recent years that would prevent elements of the Chinese regime from acquiring land, in most cases farmland or land near military sites.
Karrin Taylor Robson, a Republican attorney who is running to unseat Hobbs in next year’s gubernatorial election, vowed to prevent the Chinese Communist Party from getting “a single acre” if elected governor.
Michael Lucci, the founder and CEO of State Armor, a foreign policy outfit that helps states combat the influence of the CCP, said in a statement to Fox News, “Governor Hobbs’ veto of SB 1109 hangs an ‘Open for the CCP’ sign on Arizona’s front door, allowing Communist China to buy up American land near critical assets like Luke Air Force Base, Palo Verde nuclear power plant, and Taiwan Semiconductor’s growing fabrication footprint.”
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Trump vows to EXPOSE shadow government with probe of alleged Biden autopen power-grab
American voters feared that a bureaucrat shadow government had seized control of the White House during Biden’s administration.
Such concerns were initially sparked by former President Joe Biden’s very public mental decline that even seemingly prompted the Democratic Party to push him out of the running for a second term. Concerns grew that Biden’s unelected aides were potentially controlling the White House after reports of autopen abuses surfaced.
‘Politically, this should end the Democratic Party as a major political entity in the United States.’
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that his administration opened an investigation into Biden’s aides to determine who was in charge of the nation the last four years.
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A White House memorandum read, “In recent months, it has become increasingly apparent that former President Biden’s aides abused the power of Presidential signatures through the use of an autopen to conceal Biden’s cognitive decline and assert Article II authority.”
“This conspiracy marks one of the most dangerous and concerning scandals in American history,” the memo continued. “The American public was purposefully shielded from discovering who wielded the executive power, all while Biden’s signature was deployed across thousands of documents to effect radical policy shifts.”
Trump argued that despite Biden’s “serious cognitive decline,” the administration “issued over 1,200 Presidential documents, appointed 235 judges to the Federal bench, and issued more pardons and commutations than any administration in United States history.” Just one month before leaving office, the Biden administration commuted the sentences of 37 criminals facing death row, he noted.
Trump questioned whether Biden was aware of any of those actions taken by his administration. He directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate “whether certain individuals conspired to deceive the public about Biden’s mental state and unconstitutionally exercise the authorities and responsibilities of the President.”
RELATED: DOGE subcommittee reveals how Biden autopen may have funneled money to leftist NGOs
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The Oversight Project previously launched its own investigation into the Biden administration’s use of autopen and the former president’s mental decline.
Mike Howell, the president of the Oversight Project, told Blaze News, “Actions taken on behalf of an incapacitated Biden should have no legal effect. Those who abused the situation have potentially committed a series of crimes, mostly related to impersonation, fraud, and civil rights abuses. Those who were aware of this happening also have legal liability.
“Politically, this should end the Democratic Party as a major political entity in the United States. The entire apparatus was in on this. There should be no coming back from it,” Howell added.
Biden responded to Trump’s investigation announcement, claiming he was aware of all the actions taken under his presidency.
“Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false,” Biden said.
He accused Trump of attempting to distract the public from the controversy surrounding his “big, beautiful bill.”
“This is nothing more than a distraction by Donald Trump and congressional Republicans who are working to push disastrous legislation that would cut essential programs like Medicaid and raise costs on American families, all to pay for tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and big corporations,” Biden stated.
Mike Howell is a contributor to Blaze News.
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Democrats, dudes, and data: Why men are leaving
Instead of learning good old-fashioned self-awareness — which is free — Democrats are planning to spend $20 million in a futile attempt to understand why they’re failing to attract male voters.
BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere doesn’t need to look much farther than a video posted to social media during the Biden era of the four gay men from “Queer Eye” visiting the White House and talking to former Vice President Kamala Harris while wearing beards and dresses.
“This is one example, maybe not relating to guys too closely, OK?” Stu says. “This is the type of stuff that reaches people too, right? Like, as much as I know everyone loves my breakdowns of trade tariff tables, maybe a guy with a full beard, dressed in a dress, meeting the vice president of the United States hits their social media feed a little bit more.”
But still, Democrats can’t seem to put their finger on what the issue is and are now looking into recruiting male voters at the gym.
“Do you even vote, bro?” Stu mocks. “Yes, look for new voters in the one place that no one ever wants to talk. No one wants to. No one wants to be approached at the gym. ‘Hey, who are you going to vote for in the next election? Shouldn’t it be a guy in a dress?’”
While Stu feels he has the experience to back up his advice, the women of “The View,” particularly Joy Behar, feel they know men a little better.
Behar claimed that rather than spending $20 million on attempting to attract male voters, the Democrats could instead “reclaim men” and “just teach them not to be such sexists.”
“Again, totally going to work,” Stu scoffs.
And it’s not just their failure to attract men that’s concerning for the Democrat Party, but their failure to attract people who aren’t mentally ill.
A recent article written by Nate Silver illustrates this point well, as he points out that one of the biggest differences between liberal and conservative voters is that 20% of liberals reported having “excellent” mental health, but 51% of conservatives reported “excellent” mental health. 45% of liberals said their mental health was poor, while only 19% of conservatives said their mental health was “poor.”
“If you think about the way that the left looks at the world, that everybody’s an oppressor,” Stu explains, “that’s a dark world. It’s a depressing world at some level.”
“Seeing the world that way, well, I’m not surprised that maybe you have a negative relationship with mental health,” he adds.
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Capitol Police name permanent chief hours after union slams controversial interim pick
Michael G. Sullivan, who shepherded two large urban police departments through U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigations, has been named chief of U.S. Capitol Police to succeed the recently retired J. Thomas Manger.
Barely two days after naming USCP Assistant Chief Sean P. Gallagher as acting chief, the U.S. Capitol Police Board announced the hiring of Sullivan, who served as interim chief of the Phoenix Police Department from September 2022 until mid-April 2025. Sullivan has more than 30 years of law enforcement experience in Phoenix, Baltimore, and Louisville.
‘Chief Sullivan has succumbed to the pressure of bureaucrats and biased media.’
The announcement from the Capitol Police Board came late on June 4 amid outcry over the elevation of Gallagher as acting chief. The USCP Labor Committee on June 3 registered fierce opposition to Gallagher, who was ensnared in a 2010 overtime fraud investigation and later panned for alleged inaction from the Command Center as massive crowds descended on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
“With over 30 years of law enforcement experience across three major U.S. cities, Michael Sullivan has focused on increasing transparency, improving departmental efficiency, and fostering strong relationships between officers, elected officials, and the community,” the Capitol Police Board said in a statement.
Sullivan will be sworn in June 30 as the eighth Capitol Police chief since the turn of the century. The department was founded in 1828. It is not clear whether Gallagher will remain acting chief in the nearly four weeks until Sullivan’s arrival.
Incoming U.S. Capitol Police Chief Michael Sullivan inherits a department still rebuilding from the chaos of Jan. 6, 2021.Photo by Bobby Powell
Sullivan resigned as interim chief of the Phoenix Police Department after withdrawing his name from consideration for the permanent chief position on April 8. He said at the time that it was best for the department and the city that the search for a chief be restarted without him.
During his nearly three years at the helm in Phoenix, Sullivan’s role was to guide the department through the DOJ pattern and practice investigation. The city submitted its “Road to Reform” plan to the DOJ in January 2024. During the latter part of his tenure in Baltimore, Sullivan was “responsible for implementing the broad set of reforms mandated by the consent decree entered into by the City of Baltimore and the DOJ in 2017,” according to the Road to Reform document.
“When I accepted this role, the department was under a Department of Justice (DOJ) Pattern and Practice investigation and facing significant challenges,” Sullivan said at the time. “Throughout my tenure, I’ve worked diligently to navigate that process while focusing on crime reduction, strengthening community trust, and building a culture of continuous improvement.”
Sullivan came to Phoenix in September 2022 to a department under deep scrutiny by the DOJ. A federal civil rights probe that ended in June 2024 said the Phoenix Police Department often used excessive and deadly force, discriminated against people of color, and violated the civil rights of “people engaged in protected speech and expression.”
‘Our officers and Phoenix residents deserve better.’
“In the years leading up to our investigation, PhxPD officers shot and killed people at one of the highest rates in the country,” said the DOJ report released June 13, 2024. “Some city officials blamed a ‘more violent population’ for the number of shootings, rather than police conduct. But we found a significant number of the shootings did not meet constitutional standards.”
The DOJ report cited “pervasive failings” in policies, training, supervision, and accountability systems “that have disguised and perpetuated these violations for years.”
“PhxPD relies on dangerous tactics that lead to force that is unnecessary and unreasonable,” the DOJ report said. “PhxPD has taught officers a misguided notion of de-escalation. Rather than teaching that de-escalation strategies are designed to eliminate or reduce the need to use force, PhxPD has misappropriated the concept and teaches officers that all force — even deadly force — is de-escalation.”
The Phoenix Police Department employs nearly 2,600 sworn officers.
Sullivan told Phoenix news media that opposition to his reforms and lack of support from the police union were not factors in his decision to resign.
“Sullivan also played a critical role in guiding PPD through a Department of Justice (DOJ) ‘pattern-and-practice’ investigation, ensuring that necessary reforms were made in a meaningful and sustainable manner,” the Capitol Police Board statement said. “Additionally, he overhauled PPD’s use-of-force policies, ensuring officers receive updated training on best practices, and restructured the Organizational Integrity Bureau to reinforce accountability within the department.”
RELATED: Capitol Police union raps appointment of controversial acting chief with checkered history
The U.S. Capitol Police union accuses department leadership of failing officers during the protests and rioting on Jan. 6, 2021.
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In February 2025, a Phoenix Law Enforcement Association survey found that union members felt Sullivan was leading the police department in the wrong direction. Darrell Kriplean, president of the officers’ union, rapped Sullivan for an alleged lack of support.
“Rather than defending our officers when they acted properly and within department policy, Chief Sullivan has succumbed to the pressure of bureaucrats and biased media,” Kriplean said, according to the Arizona Republic. “Our officers and Phoenix residents deserve better.”
Sullivan came to Phoenix after three years as deputy commissioner with the Baltimore Police Department, which underwent a federal civil rights probe that ended in 2016. Sullivan led the Patrol Operations Division, Criminal Investigations Division, and the Data Driven Strategies Division. The Baltimore Police Department has more than 2,500 sworn officers and professional staff.
The DOJ said that Baltimore Police Department “engages in a pattern or practice of conduct that violates the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution as well as federal anti-discrimination laws.”
“Our investigation found that Baltimore is a city where the bonds of trust have been broken, and that the Baltimore Police Department engaged in a pattern or practice of unlawful and unconstitutional conduct, ranging from the use of excessive force to unjustified stops, seizures, and arrests,” said then-U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
Prior to the Baltimore assignment, Sullivan spent 24 years with the Louisville Police Department, rising to the rank of deputy chief in 2015.
Sullivan’s experience on paper seems a solid match for the U.S. Capitol Police, a department rebuilding after the civil unrest on Jan. 6 with a long-standing problem of internal corruption and alleged favoritism in officer discipline cases.
“I’m pleased that the Capitol Police Board went outside of the current USCP leadership to bring in someone who can hopefully reform the Capitol Police command structure,” said U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), whose Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight conducted extensive investigation of the department during the 118th Congress.
“I encourage Chief Sullivan to very quickly look at the department’s OPR [Office of Professional Responsibility] files and then clean up the systemic problems with equitable disciplinary actions,” Loudermilk told Blaze News.
Assistant Chief Gallagher was recommended for termination in the wake of a 2010 overtime fraud scandal, but then-Chief Kim Dine intervened in the case and Gallagher received only a 10-day unpaid suspension.
The Capitol Police department is retooling after an exodus in the wake of Jan. 6 protests and rioting that injured more than 100 officers. During Manger’s nearly four-year tenure, Congress provided massive budget increases to refill the ranks and help the department adjust to an era of rapidly increasing threats against lawmakers.
Fallout from Jan. 6 includes the killing of Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt by Lt. Michael Leroy Byrd that led to an ongoing $30 million wrongful death lawsuit by Judicial Watch Inc. on behalf of Aaron Babbitt and his late wife’s estate.
Lt. Michael L. Byrd, who killed Ashli Babbitt at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has ‘significant’ discipline history including gun incidents, U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) disclosed in November 2024.
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In the months after the fatal shooting outside the Speaker’s Lobby, Capitol Police kept Byrd’s name from the public, spent more than $35,000 to house him in an admiral’s suite at Maryland’s Joint Base Andrews, paid him $37,000 in retention funds, and paid for $21,000 in security upgrades at his Maryland home.
Loudermilk told Manger in a November 2024 letter that he was troubled that the department promoted Byrd to captain despite a nearly quarter-century discipline record that included reckless use and handling of a firearm, firing into a fleeing van near his home while a neighbor was in the line of fire, and abandoning his post in the Speaker’s Office for a cloakroom card game.
Loudermilk told Manger to supply a list of information about the handling of Byrd’s case, but the just-retired chief ignored the letter, sources told Blaze News.
The department is also under the cloud of false testimony given by Officer Harry Dunn and Special Agent David Lazarus against the Oath Keepers in the 2022 seditious conspiracy trial. An investigation by Blaze News found that the story told by Dunn and Lazarus about an alleged confrontation with a group of Oath Keepers could not have happened as described under oath because Lazarus was not even in the Capitol at the time.
Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven A. Sund testified before Congress about political resistance to his requests for National Guard help on Jan. 6, 2021.Photo by Erin Scott/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Congress is also faced with questions about oversight of USCP by the three-person Capitol Police Board. Loudermilk’s committee found that politics played a major role in the denial of National Guard troops to help quell riots at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Former USCP Chief Steven A. Sund has testified that he struggled to get support for Guard presence at the Capitol because the Capitol Police Board was worried about blowback from then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Under regulations in force at the time, Sund could not go directly to the Pentagon to secure help from a D.C. National Guard quick-reaction force. His requests for help were denied for days leading up to Jan. 6 and for 71 minutes after crowds rolled over the outer police barricades on Jan. 6.
Sund said the chief needs authority to quickly get Guard assistance to put down riots at or near the Capitol. For the first time in 119 years, the D.C. National Guard was not allowed to respond to Washington, D.C., riots because Democrats in Congress and politicized generals at the Pentagon reportedly stymied Sund’s calls for aid.
Sund activated the Capital Region mutual aid system, which rushed 1,700 officers from surrounding jurisdictions to retake the Capitol. By the time the first D.C. Guardsmen set foot on Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, officers from the New Jersey State Police had made it to the Capitol to lend aid.
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‘Put them all in an arena and let ’em kill the hell out of each other’: Seething sheriff’s brutal ‘wish’ for teen gangbangers
Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch may have just read the minds of the majority of citizens in his home state of Alabama who’ve had it with teen gang violence.
A 2-year-old boy was shot in the face while he was in bed at St. Stephens Woods Apartments in Prichard around 1 a.m. Wednesday, WKRG-TV reported.
‘And a message to the gang members is, “I dare you to pull a gun on one of my guys. Could be the last thing you do.”‘
Sheriff Burch told the station he believes it was a gang-related drive-by shooting.
“They’re just gutless punks who fired from outside the residence into a bedroom window,” Burch said, according to WKRG. “So you know, there was no forced entry or attempt to enter the apartment.”
Burch also believes the victim’s teenage brother, “who’s involved in gang activity,” may have been the intended target, the station reported.
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What’s more, Burch told WKRG that a shooting took place a few hours later — and it was just “a stone’s throw away.”
“We don’t know if it’s related or not. But you know, I don’t believe in coincidences. So we believe that this shooting was gang-related and was in retaliation for a shooting on Vestavia Street on June 1 with some other gang members, and there’s been some back and forth,” the sheriff told the station. “After the shooting at 1 a.m. this morning, there was a shooting on Vestavia Street around 4 a.m.”
The sheriff threw down at the violent gangbangers, telling WKRG that “this is going to be a priority for our special operations division. And a message to the gang members is, ‘I dare you to pull a gun on one of my guys. Could be the last thing you do.'”
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Burch also expressed a “wish” for them — and one that would “solve” the heartache gangs bring to the county.
“It’s teenagers, it’s gangs,” the sheriff told WKRG. “And frankly, I wish we could put them all in an arena and let ’em kill the hell out of each other ’cause that would solve the problem.”
The 2-year-old boy has had surgery, Burch added to the station, which reported that his condition is unknown, and there have been no arrests thus far.
The sheriff’s office said those with information about the shootings should call 251-574-8633.
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Alleged manifesto of murder suspect Luigi Mangione highlights lessons learned from Unabomber: Court docs
Police caught up with Luigi Mangione, 27, at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, five days after he allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel last December. In addition to allegedly finding a 9mm handgun, a homemade silencer, multiple cartridges, a fake New Jersey ID, a passport, approximately $7,800 in cash, and a written admission of guilt on his person, police reportedly found a notebook detailing plans for the shooting.
Mangione’s defense attorney asked the court overseeing the case to rule the notebook inadmissible, claiming the search of Mangione’s backpack where it was located violated his Fourth Amendment rights. The defense also asked the court to dismiss his indictment altogether.
Prosecutors responded with a damning court filing on Wednesday containing entries from Mangione’s alleged notebook, which they claim reveals “in unambiguous terms [the] defendant’s intent and motive in deliberately assassinating the CEO of the country’s largest health company.”
‘Yet another indirect victim of the long-term lunacy of Ted Kaczynski.’
In an Aug. 15, 2024, entry, Mangione allegedly wrote, “I finally feel confident about what I will do. The details are coming together. And I don’t feel any doubt about whether it’s right/justified. I’m glad — in a way — that I’ve procrastinated bc it allowed me to learn more about UHC. KMD [the initials of another apparent target considered] would’ve been an unjustified catastrophe that would be perceived mostly as sick, but more importantly unhelpful.”
Prosecutors indicated that Mangione traveled to New York the first week of December 2024 to attend UHC’s investor conference, where Thompson was scheduled to speak. Thompson was, however, shot outside the Hilton Hotel in Manhattan hours prior to his presentation.
The entries shared in the court documents indicate that the author initially contemplated killing many more people, possibly by way of bombing; however, he decided against it, citing lessons learned from Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, a domestic terrorist who targeted businessmen, scholars, and random civilians with homemade bombs from 1978 to 1995, injuring 23 victims and ultimately killing three people.
James R. Fitzgerald, a retired supervisory special agent with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit best known for his role in the Unabomber investigation, told Blaze News, “It seems Brian Thompson, after his December ’24 execution-style murder by an unhinged, misguided, and misinformed young zealot, is yet another indirect victim of the long-term lunacy of Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber.”
RELATED: Dear Uncle Ted
Mugshot of domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski. Photo by Bureau of Prisons/Getty Image
On Oct. 22, 2024, Mangione allegedly praised Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, but noted what he apparently got wrong.
“The problem with most revolutionary acts is that the message is lost on normies,” says the entry. “For example, Ted K makes some good points on the future of humanity, but to make his point he indiscriminately mailbombs innocents. Normies categorize him as an insane serial killer, focus on the act/atrocities themselves, and dismiss his ideas.”
‘There’s an implied sense of superiority in how he critiques Kaczynski’s failure to communicate his message.’
The Unabomber condemned all forms of technology and advocated for cultural primitivism in his 35,000-word manifesto titled “Industrial Society and Its Future,” which he submitted to the Washington Post for publication. Whereas Mangione appears to enjoy standing in the spotlight, Kaczynski was a recluse who evidently preferred to remain planted in his remote Montana cabin.
“Most importantly — by committing indiscriminate atrocities — he becomes a monster, which makes his ideas those of a monster, no matter how true,” continued the entry in the notebook attributed to Mangione. “He crosses the line from revolutionary anarchist to terrorist — the worst thing a person can be.”
Dr. Kimberly Przeszlowski, assistant professor of criminal justice at Quinnipiac University, told Blaze News, “Mangione’s reference to ‘normies’ misunderstanding Kaczynski as merely an insane serial killer reveals more than just admiration — it signals a detachment from mainstream society and a belief that he perceives the world more clearly than others.”
“There’s an implied sense of superiority in how he critiques Kaczynski’s failure to communicate his message, as if he believes he could do it better,” continued Przeszlowski. “His alleged decision to avoid using bombings — unlike Kaczynski — seems deliberate, a way to present himself as a more focused and effective messenger.”
Given the adoration of Mangione by elements of the American left, it appears he has been somewhat successful in this regard.
RELATED: ‘Saint Luigi’? America’s moral compass couldn’t be more broken
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Przeszlowski suggested that the alleged author of the journal entries does not necessarily regard himself “as someone trying to refine an ideology, but as someone capable of packaging and delivering it in a way that gains broader acceptance or resonates with a larger audience.”
Clinical psychologist Franklin Carvajal suggested to Blaze News that Mangione is neither a psychopath nor a serial killer but rather an individual desirous for a “new cultural norm to emerge based on what he sees as his idea of justice.”
“When he says ‘normies’ he means the average person who has been indoctrinated in what he believes is a different cultural framework or perspective,” said Carvajal.
The psychologist noted that Mangione shares in common with Kaczynski and Timothy McVeigh the belief that “the end justifies the means.”
Przeszlowski suggested that “while their tactics and time periods differ, [Mangione and Kaczynski’s] underlying motivations share common threads — anti-modern views, deep distrust of institutions, and the belief that violence can serve as a wake-up call.”
Mangione allegedly noted further in the notebook entry, “This is the problem with most militants that rebel against often-real injustices: They commit an atrocity whose horror either outweighs the impact of their message, or whose distance from their message prevents normies from connecting the dots. Consequently, the revolutionary idea becomes associated with extremism, incoherence or evil — an idea that no reasonable member of society could approve of.”
The entry hints that the author contemplated bombing insurance companies’ headquarters but ultimately determined that “bombs=terrorism” and would read as the “unjustified anger of someone who simply got sick/had bad luck and took their frustration out on the insurance industry.”
Rather than engaging in bombing as Kaczynski had, the author of the entry suggested that one should instead “wack [sic] the CEO at the annual parasitic bean-counter convention,” adding that the message the “greedy bastard … had it coming” would be abundantly clear.
‘These parasites simply had it coming.’
“As I had to constantly remind myself during my time on the UNABOM Task Force in the mid-1990s, while reading and rereading the ‘Manifesto’ day after day, one’s actions greatly supersede one’s words in any supposedly ‘civilized’ society,” said Fitzgerald. “That is, in this context, unprovoked violence ultimately weakens one’s argument. It certainly doesn’t strengthen it. But to the unbalanced, that doesn’t wholly register and/or guide them accordingly.”
‘The Kaczynskis and the Mangiones of the world are poor substitutes for great thinkers or philosophers,” added Fitzgerald. “Their homicidal actions in the long run devalue their words — except to the also unhinged, misguided, and misinformed among us.”
RELATED: Luigi Mangione-based shows to hit American stage, turning murder suspect into ‘accidental folk hero’
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Prosecutors’ Wednesday filing also included the note police reportedly found on Mangione at the time of his arrest, which states, “To the Feds, I’ll keep this short because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly I wasn’t working with anyone. This was fairly trivial, some elementary social engineering, basic [computer-aided design], and a lot of patience.”
“I do apologize for any strife or trauma, but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming,” continued the note.
Mangione, who faces both New York state and federal charges in the murder of Thompson, has pleaded not guilty to murder as an act of terrorism as well as weapons charges.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has impressed upon federal prosecutors the need to seek the death penalty against Mangione, noting in an April 1 release, “Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children — was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America.”
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12 countries won’t cut it: Why Trump’s travel ban ultimately falls short
“We will not let what happened in Europe happen in America,” President Trump declared Wednesday, unveiling a new travel ban targeting 12 nations — mostly Islamic-majority countries from the Middle East and Africa.
It’s a strong first step toward fulfilling the original 2015 promise of a full moratorium on immigration from regions plagued by jihadist ideology. But let’s not pretend Europe’s crisis stemmed from poor vetting of criminal records. The real problem was mass migration from cultures openly hostile to Western values — especially toward Jews and, by extension, Christians.
The United States ranks near the bottom of the list for anti-Semitism. That’s something worth protecting — not surrendering to appease lobbyists or foreign governments.
And the new list leaves troubling gaps.
Trump’s call for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” was the defining issue that launched his political movement. Nine years later, the rationale is even stronger — and now, the president has the power to make it happen.
Consider the context: Egyptian national Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the alleged Boulder attacker who shouted he wanted to “end all Zionists,” entered the United States in 2022 with a wife and five children — admitted from Kuwait.
The only question that matters: How many more share Soliman’s views?
The numbers are staggering. By my calculation, the U.S. admitted 1,453,940 immigrants from roughly 43 majority-Muslim countries between 2014 and 2023. That figure doesn’t include over 100,000 student visas, nor the thousands who’ve overstayed tourist visas and vanished into the interior.
Soliman is not an outlier. He’s a warning. And warnings demand a response.
Trump’s January executive order called for a 60-day review by the secretary of state, the attorney general, the Homeland Security secretary, and the director of national intelligence to identify countries with inadequate screening procedures. Four and a half months later — following the Boulder attack — the administration announced bans on nationals from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.
But Trump didn’t mention anti-American or anti-Jewish sentiment — only logistical concerns like poor criminal record-keeping, high visa overstay rates, and limited government cooperation.
That misses the point entirely.
Jew-hatred — and by extension, hatred of the West — isn’t just a byproduct of chaos in failed states like Somalia or Taliban-run Afghanistan. It runs deep across the Middle East, even in countries with functioning governments. In fact, some of the most repressive regimes, like Egypt and Saudi Arabia, are openly hostile to the Muslim Brotherhood, yet still export radicalized individuals.
And those individuals know precisely where to go: America, where radical Islam finds more tolerance than in many Islamic countries.
Good diplomatic relations don’t mean good immigration policy. Pew’s 2010 global attitudes survey showed over 95% of people in many Middle Eastern countries held unfavorable views of Jews — including those in Egypt and Jordan, U.S. allies.
The Anti-Defamation League’s global index confirms it: The highest levels of support for anti-Semitic stereotypes come from the Middle East. According to the ADL, 93% of Palestinians and upwards of 70% to 80% of residents from other Islamic nations agree with tropes about Jews controlling the world’s wars, banks, and governments.
Source: Anti-Defamation League
Meanwhile, the United States ranks near the bottom of the list for anti-Semitism. That’s something worth protecting — not surrendering to appease lobbyists or foreign governments.
So why continue importing hundreds of thousands of people from places where hatred of Jews is considered normal? Why welcome migration from countries like Iraq, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia — where assimilation into American civic values is practically impossible?
The answer may lie in the influence nations like Qatar and Saudi Arabia still exert over U.S. foreign policy. But political cowardice is no excuse for policy paralysis.
Twelve countries on the ban list is a good start. But most don’t reflect the true source of radical Islamic immigration into the United States.
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Banning immigration from these regions isn’t about infringing civil liberties. It’s about preventing a civilizational crisis. Unlike Europe, which responded to rising Islamic extremism by criminalizing dissent and speech, America can take the wiser path: protect national security without sacrificing the First Amendment.
We don’t need hate-speech laws. We need sane immigration policy.
Unfortunately, bureaucrats in the administration watered down Trump’s original vision. They framed the bans in terms of “data-sharing” and technocratic concerns. They sought narrow criteria and limited political blowback.
But the law is clear. Trump v. Hawaii affirmed the president’s broad constitutional authority to exclude foreign nationals.
That authority exists for a reason.
President Trump rose to power by sounding the alarm about what unchecked migration could do to the West. That warning was prophetic. And now, he has the mandate — and the obligation — to act on it.
Twelve countries won’t cut it. The question now isn’t whether Trump will act — it’s whether he’ll act in time.
Because if we want to avoid Europe’s fate, we don’t just need a new policy. We need the old Trump — unapologetic, unflinching, and unafraid to speak hard truths.
Let’s hope he finishes what he started.
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Republican turncoat announces Democrat bid for Florida governor’s seat
On Thursday, a former Republican turned Democrat in Florida announced his gubernatorial run for 2026. David Jolly, who represented the Tampa Bay area in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2014 to 2017, is looking to take term-limited Governor Ron DeSantis’ position in the heavily red state of Florida.
Asked about his turn to the Democratic Party in an interview with CBS Miami, Jolly explained that he was an independent until only recently. “I bring a different value set. Even when I was in Congress as a Republican, I supported marriage equality, gun control, climate science, campaign finance reform.”
“I struggled to exercise those values in the Republican Party,” Jolly reportedly said. “The actual registration as a Democrat wasn’t a pivot. It was a kind of formality.”
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Jolly believes that the Democratic Party is the right “vessel” to help him build a coalition in the state of Florida to address his top issue: the “affordability crisis.” According to Fox News, Jolly said in a statement, “We have an affordability crisis in Florida driven by an insurance crisis that continues to worsen in the face of complete neglect by Tallahassee. We have abandoned public education, and we’ve allowed corruption to run rampant. It’s time for a change.”
Jolly’s challenge to the Republican stronghold and President Donald Trump’s home state comes at an uncertain time for the Democratic Party. It has been reported that there are between 1.2 million and 1.3 million more registered Republicans than Democrats in Florida.
As it stands, the Democratic primary is open, with many other potential candidates expressing wariness about the chances of turning the state blue. Trump-endorsed Florida Congressman Byron Donalds currently leads the Republican side. Rumors suggest former Representative Matt Gaetz and Florida first lady Casey DeSantis may also throw their hats in the ring.
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If AI isn’t built for freedom, it will be programmed for control
Once the domain of science fiction, artificial intelligence now shapes the foundations of modern life. It governs how we access information, interact with institutions, and connect with one another. No longer just a tool, AI is becoming infrastructure — an embedded force with the potential to either safeguard our liberty or quietly dismantle it.
In a deeply divided political climate, it is rare to find an issue that unites Americans across ideological lines. But when it comes to AI, something extraordinary is happening: Americans agree that these systems must be designed to protect our most basic rights.
Voters from both parties recognize that AI must be built to reflect the values that make us free.
A new Rasmussen poll reveals that 77% of likely voters, including 80% of Republicans and 77% of Democrats, support laws that would require developers and tech companies to design AI systems to uphold constitutional rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of religious expression. Such a consensus is practically unheard of in today’s political climate.
The same poll found that more than 70% of voters are concerned about the growing role of AI in our economy and society. And that concern isn’t limited to any one party: 74% of Democrats and 70% of Republicans say they are “very” or “somewhat concerned.”
Americans are watching the AI revolution unfold, and they’re sending a clear message: If we’re going to let these systems shape our future, they must be governed by the same principles that have preserved freedom for generations.
Why it matters now
That concern is more than hypothetical. We are already seeing the consequences of AI systems that reflect narrow ideological agendas rather than broad constitutional values.
Google’s Gemini AI made headlines last year when it produced historically inaccurate images of black Founding Fathers and Asian Nazi soldiers. This wasn’t a technical glitch. It was the direct result of ideological programming that prioritized “diversity” over truth.
In China, the DeepSeek AI model was trained to avoid any criticism of the Chinese Communist Party. Ask it about the Tiananmen Square massacre, and it refuses to give you an answer at all. When models are trained to serve power rather than seek truth, they become tools of suppression.
If left unchecked, agenda-driven AI systems in the United States could soon shape what news we see, what content is amplified — or buried — on social media, and what opinions are allowed in public discourse, thereby conforming society to its pre-programmed ideals.
Biased AI systems could even influence public policy debates by skewing public opinion toward “solutions” that optimize for social or environmental justice goals. These constitutionally unaligned AI systems may quietly reshape society with complete disregard for liberty, consent, and due process.
Regulation for freedom’s sake
Some conservatives bristle at the word “regulation,” and rightly so. But what we’re talking about here isn’t micromanagement or bureaucratic control. It’s the same kind of constraint our Founders placed on government power: constitutional guardrails that prevent abuse and preserve freedom.
When AI is unbound by those principles, it doesn’t become neutral — it becomes ideological. It doesn’t protect liberty; it calculates outcomes. And in doing so, it can rationalize censorship, coercion, and discrimination, all in the name of “progress.”
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This is why Americans are right to demand action now. The window for shaping AI’s trajectory is still open, but it won’t remain open forever. As these systems become more advanced and more embedded in our institutions, retrofitting them to respect liberty will become harder, not easier.
Don’t let the opportunity slip away
We are living through a rare moment of political clarity. Voters from both parties recognize that AI must be built to reflect the values that make us free. They want systems to protect speech, not suppress it. They want AI to respect human conscience, not override it. They want AI to serve the people, not manage them.
This is not a partisan issue. It is a moral one. And it’s an opportunity we must seize before the future is decided for us.
AI doesn’t have to be our master. But it must be taught to serve what makes us free.
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Weaponized lies? 2-year-old’s deportation used as anti-Trump propaganda
When it comes to immigration, the mainstream narrative portrays the Trump administration as callously prioritizing enforcement over empathy — and it’s no different when it comes to the case of a 2-year-old U.S. citizen born in Florida.
The 2-year-old, Emanuelly “Manu” Borges Santos, was deported to Brazil in February 2025 alongside her undocumented parents, who were facing a deportation order since December 2022.
“It was her illegal alien mother and father who were deported; they just happened to take their daughter with them,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray says on “Pat Gray Unleashed.” “I guess you don’t deport anybody who has children.”
“I mean, you make a decision to enter the country illegally, then there are going to be consequences that maybe you don’t foresee, and here we are,” Keith Malinak chimes in.
But that hasn’t stopped the liberal media from blasting the Trump administration in support of these illegal immigrants.
“You’ve got the backing of publications like the Washington Post to provide you cover and try to make the American government look like they’re really super mean and just unfeeling and uncaring and evil and oppressive,” Gray says.
The Washington Post has also claimed that the young girl no longer has a country — but the Brazilian government has made “Manu” a temporary citizen until she turns 18.
“It’s a complete lie,” Malinak says.
“It’s just a bash-Trump story; that’s all this is,” Gray adds.
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