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While major corporations like Apple have shocked the world by refraining from changing their entire brands to rainbow colors during Pride Month, the Alphabet Mafia still seems to have the NFL in a chokehold.

Out of the 32 teams, only nine remained silent as we entered June.

However, people like former Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant are not keeping silent either.

In a post on X, Bryant reacted to an NFL promo that makes claims like “football is gay,” “football is lesbian,” and “football is transgender.”

“These are wild statements to make.. excuse my silliness,” Bryant wrote, adding, “I’m going to proudly tell my boys football is none of these things. I have nothing against Gays but this is far from right.”

BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock believes he knows why — despite the increase in voices speaking out against the NFL’s obsession with LGBTQ issues — the league still refuses to back down from throwing its own Pride parade.

“We’re living in the era and the age of blackmail, and maybe we’ve always lived in the era and age of blackmail, but now everyone, and even institutions, are being blackmailed,” Whitlock explains.

“The NFL has been blackmailed by the concussion controversy. The manufactured concussion controversy has Roger Goodell and the National Football League and their ownership group on their knees,” he continues.

“The mainstream legacy media drove this concussion narrative and focused all this attention on head injuries in the National Football League as a way of pressuring the NFL, which is the leader of all American sports, which is the tastemaker for all of American sports,” he adds.

Whitlock believes that this is how the NFL was pressured to “adopt all the woke leftist Marxist agenda and messaging.”

“How can we get the NFL on board with Black Lives Matter? How can we get the NFL on board with the LGBTQIA+ silent P Alphabet Mafia?” Whitlock mimics. “We keep distorting and focusing on concussions in the media, and then we offer them, ‘Hey, we’ll back off the concussion conversation. We know we’ve created and manufactured this whole deal. We’ll back off of it if you’ll hop on board with the BLM LGBTQIA+ silent P Alphabet Mafia.’”

“And that’s what has happened,” he adds.

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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) drew on his own past in a discussion with BlazeTV’s Glenn Beck about legal and illegal immigration, while making some bold assertions about America’s immigration system.

During an interview on “The Glenn Beck Podcast,” the congressman said citizens should use a view of American exceptionalism as a basis for common ground while recognizing immigrants who share that belief benefit the country. However, it was Beck’s questions to the congressman about deportations that caught viewers’ eyes.

‘I think the problem is not on the numbers. It’s the process.’

“So, do you know who the president was that deported more people than any other president?” Beck asked Khanna.

The congressman chuckled, “Barack Obama? I don’t know. I know he had high deportations.”

Beck then informed Khanna, who had boasted about his knowledge of American history during the interview, that it was President Bill Clinton who topped the list for deportations.

“Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton was way beyond anybody else. Then it becomes — I believe number two is Barack Obama. Donald Trump is, you know, in last place. Why is there a problem now?”

Khanna quickly pivoted to avoid discussion of the actual deportation numbers and instead attempted to attack the point from a procedural angle.

RELATED: Progressive Democrat sits down with Glenn Beck despite disagreements: ‘We’re all Team America’

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“I think the problem is not on the numbers. It’s the process,” Khanna said, repeating the Democratic Party line that has activists spinning their wheels.

“It’s [Vice President JD] Vance coming out there explicitly saying, … ‘We don’t need to have due process at the same standard because the previous president let in all these people who were undocumented.’ And you can’t say, ‘Okay, now that they’ve been let in, you don’t have due process,'” he continued.

Khanna was quick to invoke the Constitution to defend criminal aliens who are evading federal agents after breaking into the country, and compared them to U.S. citizens who might be deemed an “unsympathetic character.”

“In America, you get justice and you get a process. And I really think that this is what’s eroding some of the trust because my party had no trust, very little trust, on immigration.”

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Khanna not only advocated for protections for illegal immigrants in his interview with Beck but also made strong statements about legal immigrants as well.

The “common ground” the Democrat spoke of was inspired by his own childhood, learning American history after being born in Pennsylvania to immigrant parents. Khanna used his upbringing as a shining example of why accepting immigrants who have a deep love for America is necessary.

“I understand what it’s like for people in other parts of the world, how people would give anything to come to the United States of America. That’s gotta be our common ground.”

BlazeTV viewers were quick to point out Khanna’s past comments on topics like transgenderism, particularly comments in support of “trans kids.”

In 2023, Khanna gave an interview to the Advocate where he compared not letting boys into girls’ sports to suppressing discussion around AIDS in the 1980s and the acceptance of gays in the 1970s.

“So we need to stand for conviction, and that means speaking out clearly against a ban on trans kids playing sports and other attacks on the community,” Khanna said.

On top of downplaying any athletic advantage boys have over girls, Khanna added, “We have to focus on trans issues from the lens of justice and the principle of what the Democratic Party believes in.”

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Assaults against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have skyrocketed 413% since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, a Department of Homeland Security official told Blaze News.

The anti-ICE and “abolish the police” movement among leftist groups continues to grow exponentially as the new administration ramps up on-the-ground efforts to detain illegal immigrants, particularly from sanctuary jurisdictions.

A clash in Minnesota on Tuesday reflected this disturbing nationwide trend.

The left’s anti-ICE sentiment boiled over when Minneapolis locals assumed that federal agents were there for an immigration enforcement raid, ultimately leading to violence.

The operation centered around a Mexican restaurant near Bloomington Avenue and Lake Street.

As federal authorities arrived at the location, an angry mob of protesters gathered to thwart their enforcement efforts. The tense encounter quickly devolved into mayhem that took over several blocks.

Videos shared on social media by independent journalist Nick Shirley showed masked protesters shouting expletives and hurling objects at officers and their enforcement vehicles. Groups locked arms to block the agents, while others taunted and shoved authorities.

Protesters also appeared to tag law enforcement vehicles with various messages. One vehicle read, “Don’t come back,” and another, “Bitch Nazi.”

Amid the melee, Shirley noted that Tuesday’s violent clash between officers and protesters occurred in the same Minneapolis area where mobs rioted in 2020 over George Floyd’s death.

RELATED: Minneapolis police explain why they still do the job despite challenges after BLM riots

Riot on May 28, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during a protest over the death of George Floyd. Photo by KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images

After federal authorities left and most of the crowd dispersed, a police officer at the scene told Shirley that from his observations, the operation was not just an ICE raid. He noted the presence of multiple federal agencies, including the DEA and FBI.

“I know a lot of owners here are involved in shady stuff,” the officer said.

He speculated that the raid may have concerned drug trafficking or money laundering.

Mayor Jacob Frey (D) claimed the operation was not related to immigration enforcement.

“While we are still gathering details, this incident was related to a criminal search warrant for drugs and money laundering and was not related to immigration enforcement. No arrests were made,” Frey stated. “The Minneapolis Police Department’s only role was helping with crowd control and keeping the community safe as a large number of residents and bystanders had gathered at the scene.”

The Minneapolis Police Department also stated that the operation was “a federal criminal search warrant for drugs and money laundering” and that “there were no arrests at the scene by federal law enforcement.”

The police department insisted it did not participate in immigration enforcement.

RELATED: Hakeem Jeffries makes worrying threat against ICE agents as protesters interfere with operations

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ICE also released a statement about the operation, confirming that its agents were a part of the effort.

A comment from Jamie Holt, special agent in charge for ICE Homeland Security Investigations St. Paul, provided to Blaze News read, “Federal investigators conducted a groundbreaking criminal operation today — Minnesota’s first under the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) umbrella, marking a new chapter in how we confront complex, multidimensional threats. From drug smuggling to criminal labor trafficking, this operation showcases the breadth of our collective missions and the strength of a united front.”

“This HSI-led investigation wouldn’t have been possible without the extraordinary collaboration of our state partners and federal HSTF partners, including the U.S. Attorney’s Office, FBI, [IRS Criminal Investigation], DEA, [Enforcement and Removal Operations], ATF, [U.S. Marshals Service], [Diplomatic Security Service], U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Coast Guard, TSA, and local law enforcement,” the statement continued. “Together, we are safeguarding communities, protecting national security, and setting a new standard of joint enforcement efforts.”

ICE did not respond to any specific questions regarding the operation’s purpose, whether any arrests were made, or whether any protesters would face charges for assaulting officers.

Border czar Tom Homan confirmed last week that assaults on ICE officers remain “high.”

“The assaults are up, but it won’t be tolerated,” Homan told reporters. “You put hands on an ICE officer, you can be prosecuted to the highest extent of the law.”

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Following two phone calls between U.S. President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Nikkei Asia has reported that Japan is “exploring support” for the United States’ proposed “Golden Dome” project in the coming years. This potential cooperation comes in light of the global tariffs imposed by President Trump as well as a mutual ongoing commitment to promote a U.S.-Japan “golden age,” according to a White House press briefing.

The White House briefing reported that Japan and the U.S. have been in talks since February in an effort to reaffirm “bilateral security and defense” commitments between the two countries. At the end of last month, Trump and Ishiba discussed their views on the tariffs, “economic security cooperation,” and “diplomatic and security challenges,” per a report from Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Some, including the original Nikkei report, have speculated that Japan may use its involvement in the project as a “bargaining chip” in economic negotiations. Prime Minister Ishiba has since noted in a press conference that Japan has “consistently advocated for an ‘investment rather than tariffs’” approach in cooperation.

RELATED: Trump says Canada is considering his offer to become the 51st US state after he made one key concession

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The Golden Dome, modeled after Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, is set to cost an estimated $175 billion, with some long-term estimates, according to the Congressional Budget Office, reaching as high as $831 billion.

Trump has tapped U.S. Space Force General Michael Guetlein to oversee this project, which he hopes to complete by the end of his term in 2029. The state-of-the-art Golden Dome will be a “network of satellites, sensors, and interceptors to prevent aerial attacks on the U.S. mainland,” Time magazine reports. Proponents have insisted that the system is intended only as a deterrent.

Critics have expressed concerns that this project may push adversaries and even aligned nations into what Carnegie Politika called a “new arms race” against the U.S. in the space and defense industries. The building of the Golden Dome system may be taken as a threat by nations like China, Russia, and North Korea. Japan’s involvement in the project may raise concerns in the region.

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The Democratic deputy speaker of the Connecticut House silenced a Republican colleague during debate over the state budget on Monday, thereby proving her point: Some of the content in the Constitution State’s public schools is far too obscene to be read even before a crowd of adults.

While important, Republican state Rep. Anne Dauphinais’ concerns about pornographic content in elementary school libraries would normally be irrelevant to a state budget.

However, in an apparent effort to limit public scrutiny, Democratic lawmakers Trojan-horsed legislation into the Connecticut budget that would greatly restrict concerned parents’ ability to have sexually graphic content, LGBT propaganda, and other inappropriate materials removed from school libraries.

‘Parents are going to really have to pay attention to their own school libraries.’

In addition to painting resident “school library media specialists” as the experts on what content American children should consume, the
legislation:

prohibits the removal, exclusion, or censoring of any book on the basis that “a person with a vested interest finds such book offensive”;
prohibits the removal of content or the cancellation of library programs on the basis of “the origin, background or viewpoints expressed” therein;
demands that library materials and programs be excluded only for “pedagogical purposes or for professionally accepted standards of collection maintenance practices”;
bars challengers of offensive content from favoring or disfavoring “any group based on protected characteristics”;
requires challengers to file their grievances with a school principal and provide their name, address, and telephone number;
requires a review committee, weighed heavy with educational personnel, including a librarian and a teacher, to make the determination; and
requires the offensive material to remain available in the school library until a final decision is made.

In the wake of the controversial budget’s passage on party-line votes and Gov. Ned Lamont’s (D) subsequent
indication that he plans to sign it, Dauphinais told Blaze News that “if it should pass, parents are going to really have to pay attention to their own school libraries.”

RELATED: Texas bans explicit content in schools — and Democrats are not happy

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D). Photographer: Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Some of the books at issue made an appearance during a February
press conference where Dauphinais, state Sen. Henri Martin, and other Connecticut Republicans underscored the need for greater parental control. Among the books cited for their sexually graphic content were “Let’s Talk About It: The Teen’s Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human (A Graphic Novel)” by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, and Cory Silverberg’s “You Know, Sex: Bodies, Gender, Puberty and Other Things.”

‘Let’s try to keep some decorum.’

During the budget debate in the state House, Dauphinais, the ranking member of the Children’s Committee, provided a better sense of the kinds of obscenities to which state schools are exposing Connecticut children.

After warning onlookers with children to remove them, Dauphinais
read an excerpt from Lauren Myracle’s book “l8r, g8r,” saying, “Have you ever given Logan a blow job? No blow job for you, missy? What about plain old sex?”

The material appeared to make some of Dauphinais’ colleagues across the aisle uneasy, even though they were effectively fighting to protect kids’ access to it.

Dauphinais, among the Republican lawmakers who stressed that parents should have a say in whether obscene content remains in school libraries, also read from the book, “Me and Early and the Dying Girl,”
quoting a character as saying, “‘Are you gonna eat her p***y?’ ‘Yeah, Earl, I’m going to eat her p***y.'”

Democratic Deputy Speaker Juan Candelaria interrupted the conservative Republican, banging his gavel and saying, “Madam, I would ask that if we not try to use that type of language in the chamber. Let’s try to keep some decorum.”

Candelaria asked Dauphinais to refrain from uttering such words out of respect for children and for “others that might get offended.”

Dauphinais, who previously suggested that an adult reading such books to kids outside of school would justifiably be accused of “grooming,” responded to Candelaria, “This is in elementary school libraries, approved by the very individuals that are supposed to be the experts.”

The CT Mirror
reported that Democratic state Rep. Larry Butler expressed outrage — not with the fact that such books are in Connecticut school libraries but that Dauphinais read from them.

‘It’s a game and a gimmick to get what [Democrats] want in there.’

“I will tell you that in my 18 years here, I have never seen the demonstration of such vulgarity tonight, reaching the lowest level that I’ve ever seen in this chamber,” said Butler. “When we’re talking about books in libraries, that’s one thing. You could just mention a book.”

State House Majority Leader Jason Rojas said, “I think it just threw people off quite a bit to hear that kind of language being used on the floor.”

RELATED: Parents fight evil in schools — and seek justice at the Supreme Court

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Republican state Sen. Rob Sampson told Blaze News, “If Democrats thought this policy was defensible, they wouldn’t have buried it in a 700-page budget. They’re shielding graphic, sexually explicit content in school libraries — and they know parents wouldn’t stand for it if they saw it in the light of day.”

“The irony?” continued Sampson. “When my colleague read a passage from one of these books aloud, they ruled it out of order. If it’s too obscene for the House floor, it’s too obscene for a school. This isn’t about banning books — it’s about protecting kids.”

“Democrats claim these books are fine for kids in schools, but too explicit for adults in the House Chamber,” said Dauphinais. “They’re choosing pornography over parents — and then call us crazy for speaking out. I am appalled but not surprised.”

When asked whether this is the end of the story now that the budget has passed, Sampson told Blaze News, “There’s still a chance to strip this garbage out of the budget, but it’ll take a spine from the governor and a spotlight from the press.”

Dauphinais told Blaze News that there is presently uncertainty over whether Lamont can veto the legislation as it is not a budget item.

“It’s a game and a gimmick to get what [Democrats] want in there,” said the Republican. “The maneuver was putting it in a budget where it didn’t belong.”

“Because it doesn’t have dollars attached to it, we’re told that that’s not something that he’s able to veto,” added Dauphinais.

To undo the legislation, a new bill may be needed.

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Back in January this year, former CIA intelligence analyst and targeter Sarah Adams joined Liz Wheeler on “The Liz Wheeler Show” and warned that we would see Islamist terror attacks across the United States in the coming days.

Last weekend, when Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian national who was in the U.S. illegally, allegedly attacked a peaceful Jewish group in Boulder, Colorado, using Molotov cocktails and a makeshift flamethrower, Adams was proven right.

On the latest episode of “The Liz Wheeler Show,” Adams joined Liz again to share what she believes is coming next.

“What we saw in Boulder is kind of this radicalization around the pro-Hamas propaganda, and that’s concerning in its own way,” says Adams.

However, as she warned back in January, these lone-wolf attacks are designed to seem like isolated events, but in reality, they are part of a bigger Al-Qaeda strategy to distract both the public and law enforcement from a much larger and more sinister plot.

“We call it kind of like law enforcement cannon fodder. It’s to get law enforcement to go down rabbit holes and waste their time on low-hanging fruit so they don’t get, like, the big 9/11-style attack coming,” she says.

Liz then brings up how “these terror groups in the Middle East are changing their strategy from trying to radicalize people who are “already in the United States” to “actually sending individuals to training camps in the Middle East and then infiltrating them into the United States.”

Adams says that’s correct: “There has been a standardized training structure for these external operatives.” Soliman, she says, was clearly “lacking some of the key training” that is typical in “Al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorists,” which leads her to believe that he was not formally trained in the Middle East but rather just “inspired by the events around Israel.”

Liz asks Adams about Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s recent announcement that the National Counterterrorism Center identified 600 people with ties to Islamist terrorist groups. “Where are these people? Do we have any idea?”

“Those 600 it sounds like came in through an ISIS pipeline,” but that’s “only one pipeline,” meaning 600 is a very low estimate, says Adams. “According to ISIS, they have 2,500 terrorists in the United States on an illegal status … meaning they have over 3,000 in the United States.”

“Joe Kent when he testified said there’s another 1,400 on top of that 600 they have identified who are Afghan with links to terrorism,” she adds.

“What are they waiting for? … Are they planning on committing another 9/11-style attack?” asks Liz, pointing out that border czar Tom Homan, when asked about the potential of another 9/11, responded with a harrowing, “It’s coming.”

Adams confirms Homan’s warning. “The IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] plot against Donald Trump,” specifically “his assassination,” is “a piece of the plot.” A second piece is “an assault mostly on Washington, D.C.” and an “assault on the aviation industry.”

“They’re going to drop airliners with suicide vests,” she warns. “They’ve even moved the suicide vests over the U.S. border already.” Even more disturbing is the fact that “there’s been no increase in airport security because TSA’s intel division has decided the vests aren’t real.”

Further, the trained operatives who have been sent here, Adams says, are “well-trained,” “patient” people, “who can operate in the West, who speak fluent English, who can live in our communities just fine and not raise alarm.”

“This is terrifying,” says Liz.

To hear more of Adam’s intel, watch the episode above.

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A Gallup poll published on May 29 reveals that Republican support for same-sex marriage has hit a historic 30-year low — despite the global push to normalize and celebrate homosexuality.

Gallup began tracking this sentiment 29 years ago, and the data is suggesting that Republican acceptance after the initial court ruling may have been short-lived, as many conservatives have reverted to a traditional, biblical view of marriage.

According to the poll, only 41% of Republicans back same-sex marriage, which is down from 55% in 2021 to 2022. Meanwhile, 88% of Democrats believe gay marriage deserves the same validity as a marriage between a man and a woman.

When asked about moral acceptability, the divide between Democrats and Republicans is similar, with 86% of Democrats viewing same-sex relations as morally acceptable and 38% of Republicans who agree.

Two-thirds of regular church-goers reject same-sex marriage, showing that a majority of professing Christians continue to hold the biblical view that marriage is between a man and a woman.

“It makes so much sense why Republicans have moved the way that we have,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey says on “Relatable.” “It doesn’t make sense why Democrats have moved the way that they have, because over the past few years there has been a movement to simply reveal the kind of indoctrination that is going on in schools.”

“We have seen the grossness and depravity of something like drag queen story hour, we have seen the propaganda books in school libraries that not only encourages kids to start thinking about their sexuality at a young age, but to start questioning if they are born in the right body,” she continues.

While the media attempted to portray homosexuality as two people of the same sex who simply wanted to get married to start a family and be able to be in the hospital when their loved one was sick — what we were sold and what we’ve gotten couldn’t be more different.

“We have watched it go from that depiction to men dressed in push-up bras and fishnet tights reading stories to children on the taxpayer dime,” Stuckey says, “and parents getting their children taken out of their custody so the state can allow the child to mutilate their genitals in the name of gender affirming care.”

“That happened really fast, so as we’ve seen the quickness and the destructiveness of the sexual revolution that has its crosshairs on children’s bodies and minds, of course people have started to say, ‘Huh, OK, maybe this whole sexual revolution wasn’t really about what they said it was about,’” she continues.

“So people have started to work their way backwards and see that when we decided that husbands and wives were interchangeable, that led to the idea that boys and girls are interchangeable, and it’s caused all of this confusion,” she adds.

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) made clear he believes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, along with all other federal immigration officers participating in raids, need to be “identified” — even as those same agents are facing doxxing and death threats.

The tension is starting to reach a boiling point as recent ICE operations undertaken across the country have involved members of the public getting confrontational with the agents, who have had to use pepper spray and flash-bangs to disperse the agitated crowds. To protect their identities, agents often wear face coverings during operations, furthering angering Democrats.

“Every single ICE agent who is engaged in this aggressive overreach, and are trying to hide their identities from the American people, will be unsuccessful in doing that. This is America. This is not the Soviet Union. We’re not behind the Iron Curtain. This is not the 1930s. And every single one of them, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, will, of course, be identified,” Jeffries said during a press conference.

RELATED: ‘Gestapo-like behavior’: Another Democrat compares ICE to Nazis who ‘terrorize people’ in the night

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On Monday, acting ICE Director Todd Lyons spoke about the growing threats federal law enforcement officers are facing for operations aimed at removing illegal aliens, often with lengthy criminal records, from the United States.

“People are out there taking photos of the names, their faces, and posting them online with death threats to their family and themselves. So I’m sorry if people are offended by them wearing masks, but I’m not going to let my officers and agents go out there and put their lives on the line, and their family on the line, because people don’t like what immigration enforcement is,” Lyons explained.

RELATED: Exclusive photos: ICE raids club owned by suspected terrorist — captures scores of illegal aliens, including alleged killer

Exclusive: ICE cracks down on club owned by suspected terrorist — captures scores of illegal aliens plus a wanted killer

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At a federal operation in Minneapolis on Tuesday, crowds quickly formed to get in the way of the agents, with members of Minneapolis city leadership part of the mob as well. While not part of the operation, Minneapolis police officers and Hennepin County sheriff’s deputies had to help with crowd control.

In direct response to Jeffries’ threat, border czar Tom Homan warned that with the rhetoric coming from Democrats, “It’s only a matter of time before there’s an incident where an ICE agent is going to have to take a life or going to lose a life.”

Homan’s concerns are also based on how assaults on immigration agents have risen over 400% so far this year, according to the Department of Homeland Security. A bystander video that the DHS recently posted on X showed the man filming threatening to “put a bullet in y’all f**king head!”

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Aviation’s marriage to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives has been coupled with equal parts mockery and life-threatening incidents, seemingly coming to a head in 2025.

Tone-deaf diversity programs may have finally reached their pinnacle, though, with a new video from Canada’s biggest airline titled “Air Canada: With pride in every role.”

‘We would like to point out this watershed moment in Canadian history.’

On June 2, Air Canada achieved peak wokeness by celebrating gay pride and telling customers it had deployed an entire flight crew based on sexuality; but not every employee could put together the latest acronym the company chose to use for its promotional video.

“We are doing the first ever — now let me get that one straight because a few letters have been added to this one — 2SLGBTQIA+ flight ever in Canada,” a pilot said from his cockpit.

The video panned through different crew members wearing transgender pride flags and making announcements about their understanding of the importance of the flight.

“To celebrate inclusion and diversity, we are proud to announce that today’s flight features our very first all 2SLGBTQIA+ crew,” one employee said in an announcement.

“We would like to point out this watershed moment in Canadian history,” another employee said in French.

RELATED: Boeing escapes prosecution for deadly 737 MAX crashes

Air Canada’s social media posts were met with so much disagreement that it disabled comments on X but not before a flurry of backlash came in.

“Please explain how sexual preference affects plane flights, I would like to know why an airline is obsessed with something that has nothing to do with flying planes,” one viewer wrote.

Another upset X user said, “This is absolutely ridiculous — all we need and care about is competent employees, regardless of what they’re doing in their bedrooms. Get a grip.”

Air Canada could not escape ridicule on its YouTube channel either, where comments remained.

“Do your job, and prioritize that. People don’t care who you want to have sex with,” the top comment read.

“If you’re trying to distract people from your s**t service, you just made it worse,” another YouTube user declared.

That last commenter likely has a point; Air Canada was ranked the ninth-worst airline in North America by Cirium in 2024, the worst in Canada.

Compare the Market ranked the airline the 10th worst in the entire world in 2023. Reaching back a few years, Air Canada was also considered the worst airline in North America in terms of satisfaction in 2017 by Kelowna Now.

RELATED: Delta passengers hold up collapsing ceiling mid-flight for more than 30 minutes

TORONTO, ONTARIO – JUNE 30: Air Canada participates in the 43rd annual Toronto Pride Parade on June 30, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Harold Feng/Getty Images)

“This is a corporate-backed attempt to normalize these disordered lifestyles,” Fandom Pulse editor John F. Trent told Blaze News.

Trent explained that while in recent years, programs like Air Canada’s could be considered virtue-signaling, at this point it should be considered a blatant ideological push.

“It has become abundantly clear they want these behaviors normalized, and they want more and more people living as depraved as possible. This is evil and must be opposed.”

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Iowa Democrats and the liberal media appear desperate to undermine Sen. Joni Ernst (R) and paint her as uncompassionate as she prepares to fight for re-election next year.

Ernst fielded questions from a boisterous crowd during a town hall meeting in Parkersburg, Iowa, on Friday, including a question about changes to Medicaid in the reconciliation bill.

The senator explained that the proposed changes would correct over-payments and ensure that ineligible persons, including millions of illegal aliens, could not continue receiving payments. Ernst underscored that eligible and vulnerable Americans would continue to be protected.

Midway through her response, a woman in the audience — later revealed to be India May, a radical Democrat who plans to run for the Iowa House — shouted, “People will die.”

Ernst broke from her detailed answer to address the heckler’s claim — a claim that Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought later called “astroturf” and that other Democrats, including Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), have recycled — with a memento mori: “Well, we all are going to die so, for heaven’s sakes.”

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The media framed the senator’s remarks, which have gone viral on social media, as a callous response to “Medicaid cuts” in general, which President Donald Trump assured Americans Monday are not in the “one, big, beautiful bill.”

The Associated Press, for instance, captioned an excerpt of the senator’s answer, “Sen. Joni Ernst defends Medicaid cuts, says ‘well, we all are going to die.'” Vanity Fair ran a piece titled, “Joni Ernst Not Sure How Else to Explain She Doesn’t Give a F–k About Your Medicaid.” The New Republic published an article adopting the same framing, titled, “Joni Ernst Stoops to Shocking Low When Told Medicaid Cuts Will Kill.”

Iowa News Now ran footage of “Iowans” reacting poorly to the senator’s comment without noting that one of the featured commenters — identified in the reporting as a “father of two adults on Medicaid” — is actually the president of the local American Federation of Government Employees union and an activist who routinely criticizes Republicans.

CNN talking head Dana Bash repeatedly made reference to Ernst’s remark on her show Sunday, providing Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) with ample airtime to attack the Republican.

‘There’s only two certainties in life: death and taxes.’

“I think everybody in that audience knows that they’re going to die. They would just rather die in old age at 85 or 90, instead of dying at 40,” said Murphy. “I wish Joni and others saw the immorality of what they’re doing.”

As if coordinated with the media pile-on, Democratic Iowa state Rep. J.D. Scholten seized on Ernst’s bad press to announce that he was entering the U.S. Senate race to challenge her.

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Scholten, a pitcher for the Sioux City Explorers of the American Association of Baseball, told ABC News, one of the outfits that amplified the callous-comment narrative, that Ernst’s remarks “really hit home with me.”

“We need better leadership than that,” added Scholten.

As critics and opportunists began feigning offense, Ernst posted a sarcastic apology video, noting, “I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely apologize for a statement that I made yesterday at my town hall. See, I was in the process of answering a question that had been made by an audience member when a woman who was extremely distraught screamed out from the back corner of the auditorium, ‘People are going to die.'”

“I made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium understood that, yes, we are all going to perish from this earth,” continued Ernst. “So I apologize. And I’m really, really glad that I did not have to bring up the subject of the Tooth Fairy as well.”

Despite Democrats and liberal publications’ apparent effort to batter Ernst over the remarks, she remains action-oriented.

“While Democrats fearmonger against strengthening the integrity of Medicaid, Senator Ernst is focused on improving the lives of all Iowans,” a spokeswoman for Ernst told Blaze News. “There’s only two certainties in life: death and taxes, and she’s working to ease the burden of both by fighting to keep more of Iowans’ hard-earned tax dollars in their own pockets and ensuring their benefits are protected from waste, fraud, and abuse.”

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Dogs. They’re everywhere.

Stores, cars, restaurants, coffee shops, bakeries, airports, and airplanes. Our world has been taken over by the K9s.

Banning dogs from certain places is now seen as ‘exclusionary.’ According pets human status — behavior once limited to the eccentric rich — is now everybody’s prerogative.

Places previously reserved only for those who walk on two feet and upright are now open to all species. No beast is barred from the dairy aisle, no hound is left out in the cold.

I know it’s hard to believe, but it wasn’t like this until very recently.

Planet of the fur babies

Dog culture as we know it today was virtually unheard of when I was a kid. Traditionally, the only people who exemplified any kind of behavior resembling the “fur baby parent” of today were old, frail ladies who developed inordinately strong attachments to those little rat dogs with curly hair and an annoying yapping bark.

That archetype was goofy. That’s the other thing to remember. The old dog lady archetype was viewed as kind of silly. She wasn’t valorized, she was kind of made fun of, she was seen as odd.

Up until just a few years ago, dogs were never in stores. You didn’t see them inside the market, gas station, department store, or Home Depot. It simply didn’t exist.

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Blind item

The only exception was a seeing eye dog accompanying a blind person, but even that was so rare that when it did happen, it was kind of cool.

I remember sort of standing back and watching, stupefied, feeling like I shouldn’t make any noises so as not to distract the dog. It was serious business. The dog was there for a purpose, and its purpose was to serve its master. That was, of course, the traditional purpose of dogs.

Dogs in restaurants were also, obviously, not a thing. Go back to the year 2000 and tell someone that in 25 years they will be sitting down to lunch in a cafe, eating a Caesar salad with a labradoodle to their left and a golden retriever to their right. Tell them that people will increasingly bring their dogs on airplanes, claiming they “need” them for “emotional support.”

This sweet, naive soul from Y2K might develop serious questions about the future and what went wrong.

Dog years

It’s important to remember what things were like. If we can’t remember what things were like, we are unable to accurately understand what it is that we are living in now. If we retcon the past, wiping our memories so we can live in a state or pure present where nothing ever gets better or worse, we are unable to grasp any broader trajectories of life, society, or culture.

But people don’t like to be reminded of the fact that things were not always this way. They will resist admitting it. They will lash out if you remind them of it. They will find absurd edge-case exceptions to the truth in an attempt to convince themselves that things have always been this way.

It’s a fascinating phenomenon and a root cause of the inability to understand our culture and society. If you are convinced everything has always been this way, then any critique of the current reality feels like a critique of all reality, and instead of being anything insightful worthy of consideration, any critique can simply be dismissed as being overly negative.

Survival of the dimmest

Part of the reason people don’t want to be reminded of the fact that things were not always this way is because if they do realize things have changed, and are able to accurately judge the development of culture, they are more likely to correctly assess the negative developments and more likely to end up depressed about the current situation.

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Are they somehow anticipating this without realizing they are doing it? Is there some kind of purpose to not being able to remember the past? Is there some preternatural in-born resistance? Maybe most can’t handle the possibility that things are getting worse so there is something in us that basically tells us not to think about it too much. Maybe it is some strange ignorance, a bliss survival instinct.

In dog we trust?

Perhaps, it’s because dog culture is part of the new religion of our time, and the thing about religions is they are supposed to be eternally true, so if we can remember a time when none of this dog stuff was a thing, it casts some kind of doubt on the validity of this new secular religion.

Or even worse, if people can remember a time when they specifically weren’t into the dog stuff, or maybe even made fun of the dog stuff, they will do everything in their power to forget all about it and pretend they and everyone else were always the way they are right now.

People may also just be ashamed of the fact that our society has morphed into a society of frail, old, kooky dog ladies. If they have any sense of shame, they might just be embarrassed about this fact, and they might just try to forget how bad it is. Deflect, ignore, deny.

Whatever the reason may be, many people do not like to be reminded of the fact that things were not always this way.

An unhealthy trajectory

Is dog culture the worst thing in the world? No. But it isn’t a sign of a healthy trajectory. It’s a sign that something is off.

Banning dogs from certain places is now seen as “exclusionary.” According pets human status — behavior once limited to the eccentric rich — is now everybody’s prerogative.

That’s the new religion.

Our society no longer believes in the old hierarchy of man and animals. The beasts are now elevated to the place of man. That’s actually what’s happening beneath the surface, and it’s disordered. Somewhere, deep inside, people feel that, and they don’t want to be reminded of it because they know it’s wrong. At the very bottom, that’s why people don’t like to remember it wasn’t always like this.

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When the COVID-19 pandemic began, Dr. Drew was among those who decided to trust the experts — but his initial reaction did not last long.

“At first, I was trying to get everybody to calm down. I could see the panic, the delusionality,” he tells BlazeTV host Alex Stein on “Prime Time with Alex Stein.”

“The part I really got wrong, I said, ‘Just listen to the CDC, listen to Dr. Fauci, I know these guys, let Fauci be your north star, he’ll get us through this,’” Drew explains. “I said that every single time, and that’s the thing I got the most wrong.”

“I was very active in the AIDs pandemic, I treated hundreds, maybe thousands of AIDs patients,” he continues. “He was extremely helpful for me as a practitioner working on AIDs patients. He was a good north star 35 years ago. Now, didn’t work out that way.”

Stein’s own faith in the medical community was rocked when his mother fell ill with COVID, and rather than saving her, the hospital put her on remdesivir against his wishes. She passed away just seven days later.

“I am not a conspiracy theorist when I say this. They wanted more people to die from this because it would make their narrative more true, that this was a deadly thing and that there wasn’t a 99% survival rate,” Stein tells Drew.

“My mom died in my arms. She went from talking to me, and then five days later, she can’t even breathe,” he continues.

“I’m very, very sure you should have lost faith. Public health proved itself to be a catastrophe,” Drew responds. “I can’t even believe the lack of caretaking, the fact that they all responded to centralized authority rather than their ultimate sacred responsibility of just taking care of the person in front of them.”

“It just didn’t seem like they even wanted to save my mom. And I’m not saying that they killed my mom, even though that’s how I personally feel,” Stein says, adding, “This is going to happen again, Dr. Drew.”

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It’s Pride Month. Or at least, that’s what the calendar says.

In reality, it’s felt like Pride Millennium for a while now — years of rainbow flags, queer-coded marketing, and Hollywood scripts that seem less concerned with story than with sexuality.

Even Walton Goggins showed up with a look that screamed, ‘I’m not gay, but I want the approval of people who are.’

Everywhere you look, it’s not just representation. It’s omnipresence. From cereal boxes to superhero films, we’re living in a cultural moment when the answer to every creative prompt appears to be: “Gayer, please.”

Which brings us to “American Psycho,” one of the most shocking and original movies ever made.

There’s no need for a second adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ controversial 1991 novel, but try telling that to Luca Guadagnino. The “Call Me by Your Name” director recently revealed he’s working on a new interpretation of Mary Harron’s shrewd 2000 satire. Which raises the question: Are we finally going to get a “queer” Patrick Bateman?

Playing gay

Not that anyone’s been asking for one; it’s just that Guadagnino movies tend to be a showcase for nominally heterosexual actors seeking a some fashionable same-sex street cred.

The latest thespian to do so is Daniel Craig, starring in Guadagnino’s recent William S. Burroughs adaptation, “Queer.” Craig gamely inhabits the title role, which calls for the former 007 to be both shaken and stirred.

Guadagnino is hardly the only Hollywood player bent on departing from the straight and narrow, however. Frankly, everything seems to be gay today.

Metrosexual Zeus

Recently, Netflix canceled “Kaos” after just one season. For the uninitiated, this dark comedy starred Jeff Goldblum as a metrosexual Zeus in eyeliner. Campy, mythic, and unmistakably queer-coded.

I watched it out of curiosity. I left feeling confused — not necessarily offended, just immensely fatigued.

Let me be clear. I’m no homophobe. But when every cultural artifact, from prestige TV to shampoo commercials, feels like it needs a rainbow sticker slapped on top, I start to ask: What are we doing?

Take the most recent season of “The White Lotus” — an excellent show. Strong performances. Razor-sharp satire. And then came that storyline — graphic scenes involving two brothers.

The director might call it “bold.” I’d call it gratuitous. And I’m not alone.

Same-sex ‘Seasons’

Or take “The Four Seasons,” a new Netflix series based on Alan Alda’s 1981 film about three married couples navigating friendship and divorce as they weather middle age. Sounds intriguing.

But this is 2025, after all, so naturally they make one of the couples gay. And naturally, that’s all they do with the pair — content to have them sleepwalk through another formulaic subplot involving long, moody stares and romance scenes edited like soft-core opera.

“Representation” is the order of the day — and quantity seems to matter more than quality. Viewers are expected to applaud on cue at the requisite inclusion, no matter how gratuitous or ham-fisted. To raise objections is to risk exile. To even notice the pattern is to be branded backward.

Camp-soaked charade

And this trend didn’t start yesterday. We’ve seen it coming for years. Look back to shows like “Glee,” “Euphoria,” or “Sex Education,” where what began as character development often slid into sexual politics as a sordid spectacle.

Even mainstream talent like Harry Styles — immensely gifted, undeniably straight — started dressing like a backup dancer in a Bowie tribute act: dresses, pearls, puffed sleeves. The vibe was clear: Masculinity needed to be softened, queered, or ridiculed to be palatable.

It’s not just on the small screen. “Gladiator II,” the sequel no one asked for, was hailed in some corners as elevated and modern. However, the people doing the hailing could just as easily be described as delusional.

The original “Gladiator was,” by and large, a masterpiece — gripping, powerful, unforgettable. The sequel, on the other hand, was a camp-soaked charade with no real story to anchor it.

What we got instead was Denzel Washington and Paul Mescal circling each other with simmering homoerotic tension. Less swords and sandals. More silk robes and smoldering glances. Less Rome, more runway.

And then there was this year’s Met Gala, allegedly a celebration of culture and style. In reality, however, it was a couture clown show, a drag ball underwritten by Vogue.

Saturation, not representation

Even Walton Goggins — 53, married (to a woman), manly in the Southern Gothic way — showed up looking like a 2006 queer icon. His look screamed: “I’m not gay, but I want the approval of people who are.”

That’s the thing. It’s not just “representation.” It’s saturation. Every ad. Every movie. Every awards show. It’s in the superhero franchises. In the rom-coms. In the cereal aisle. What started as inclusion has mutated into insistence. You will watch. You will clap. And if you dare say it feels forced, you’re accused of intolerance.

I’m not suggesting removing gay characters entirely. I’m asking why it feels like every cultural product is now filtered through the same aesthetic. Why is every story gay-adjacent, if not gay-immersed?

Let it be

Why are straight men in media now expected to dress like Elton John’s wardrobe exploded? Even sports commentary, car ads, and children’s programming now feel the need to signal their inclusivity with nods that often feel more performative than sincere. There’s a difference between making space and making everything about that space.

We’re not expanding the culture any more. We’re narrowing it, subtly suggesting that the only way to be edgy, artistic, or socially conscious is through this very specific lens.

I want real stories. Real variety. Let gay characters be gay. Let straight ones be straight. Let masculinity exist without being a punch line. Let women be beautiful without apologizing. Let some things just be.

But in today’s cultural algorithm, that kind of balance isn’t brave. It’s sacrilegious. So I ask again: Why is everything gay? Because to challenge it, even slightly, is now the ultimate taboo. And that, more than anything, should give us pause.

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Statistician and journalist Nate Silver caused a stir Monday with
a post comparing mental health levels of Democratic men and women with those of Republicans. The numbers are dire for Democrats but not at all surprising. In fact, it seems like Silver may be the last person with eyes to notice a trend that’s been on clear display for years now.

Why are Democrats talking about it now? That question points back to the polls Silver so often deals in: They’re still losing popularity even in opposition, while President Donald Trump and the Grand Old Party are gaining.

The funny thing is it doesn’t take a statistician to recognize the issue. If you weren’t convinced by years of images of young white women screaming in the faces of black working-class police officers, accusing them of racism, or the insistence on climate doomerism and the obsession with protecting foreign criminals living illegally in the country, you could have just taken young Democrats’ word for it. They post their illnesses in their own bios as bragging rights.

It’s bad news for a party when the most unhinged people in it are the loudest — and seemingly the most in control.

Take Olivia Julianna, a
Democratic Party activist and DNC speaker who claims young men have been left behind by the MAGA movement. She requested to speak to a number of fraternities in Texas, where she’s based, and was reportedly turned down by all of them. This is not a total shock. She self-identifies as a proud “queer, plus-size, disabled Latina.” Or, not exactly a picture of mental health — or an effective spokeswoman for normal young men.

This might not be the opinion of the partisan-corrupted American health profession, but it’s clear enough to daily people. In fact, you basically need a degree in clinical psychology not to recognize that Julianna is just one of millions like her. Only a doctor is over-educated enough to call the parade of gender-bending, X- and Y-identifying, surgically altered activists sashaying through President Joe Biden’s White House mentally well individuals promoted by a healthy and in-touch political party.

Not only do Democrats attract the mentally ill, they actively promote their issues as normal, pass rules, regulations, and laws promoting their particular fetishes and personal disorders — and for years made their most vocal and out-there members the face of their moral and political crusade.

My colleagues and I have spent years writing about this trend over and over again. Tucker Carlson wrote about the disconnect in “
Ship of Fools” and has discussed the trends repeatedly on his show. Peaceful podcasts and fiery riot reporting alike have discussed and exposed the trend. The Democrats’ most-in-touch senator, John Fetterman (Penn.), who also publicly struggles with mental illness, has noted it repeatedly.

Prominent Democrats have self-confessed too, with bizarre rants about Palestinian queer rights or the
apparent moral quandary of having a friendly Trump-supporting neighbor plow your driveway for free. Friendships and familial relations as close as husband and wife have been severed over support for the president.

As I write in a coffee shop near my next meeting, two women are planning to scream, shout, and protest outside their neighbor’s home over his prominent role in the administration, as they did when JD Vance moved into a Northern Virginia neighborhood as a senator. The Ku Klux Karens even mentioned seeing the official’s children outside his house.

It doesn’t take any expertise or special wisdom or statistical knowledge to see this is deeply abnormal, antisocial, and downright unneighborly behavior that also fails to attract any new voters to the cause – yet they persist. As Ben Domenech noted in his Transom newsletter Tuesday, even progressive Democrats like California Gov. Gavin Newsom are powerless to turn against this shift.

Newsom and others in the party, he writes, face:

immediate backlash from the loudest and most active members of its base, the same base that has elevated the likes of New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Texas Representative Jasmine Crockett to the top of the very early presidential polls. They are not in the mood for moderation, ranking their progressive warrior maidens well ahead of more centrist choices such as Governors Wes Moore of Maryland and Andy Beshear of Kentucky.

So why are Democrats willing to continue talking about it? The basic reason lies in those pesky polls. They don’t have to take my word for it: Voters are
clearly grossed out by it all, and they sure seem to favor Trump and the Republicans’ work despite all the screaming and hollering.

It’s bad news for a party when the most unhinged people in it are the loudest — and seemingly the most in control. Recognizing you have a problem is, of course, the first step to recovery. Just don’t hold your breath that they’re ready to do the work quite yet. This crazy train just might not have any brakes.

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Who can forget their first summer camp?

The buzz of anticipation among friends as the bus arrives at the campgrounds, the spooky stories around a campfire with s’mores, the corny songs and accompanying hand motions. It’s the quintessential childhood experience etched into our personal stories forever.

When the law ignores truth, kids pay the price.

For some children, summer camp can be a nerve-racking experience — leaving mom and dad for the first time, sharing a communal space with strangers, roughing it without the usual comforts of home. Part of growing up involves being pushed outside your comfort zone, but young boys and girls should never be subjected to situations that compromise their safety and dignity.

Yet, a new Colorado policy does just that, putting a controversial political agenda ahead of kids.

Camp under fire

The Colorado Department of Early Childhood recently updated its regulations for licensed resident summer camps to force camps to allow children to access bathing, dressing, and sleeping facilities of the opposite sex, meaning if a young boy says he’s a girl, camps are forced to place him with girls (and vice versa).

Camp IdRaHaJe in Bailey has served children since 1948.

A Christian summer camp, it derives its name from the classic hymn “I’d Rather Have Jesus” and exists to present the truth of the gospel to the thousands of kids who attend every summer. Camp IdRaHaJe serves children of all beliefs and all backgrounds, but each family knows that the camp houses children only according to their biological sex.

When the camp learned about Colorado’s new policy, it applied for an exemption multiple times — but it was denied each time.

With summer upon us, the camp is in an impossible situation between adhering to its religious beliefs and compromising the safety and privacy of the approximately 2,600 kids who will attend over the summer.

Truth on trial

Colorado’s position on this matter is untenable.

Each passing day reveals more and more truths about gender identity ideology, and the evidence continues to point out what we knew all along: Biological sex matters.

Medical experts around the world are taking a strong stance against rushing kids through processes that negatively alter their bodies and turn them into lifelong medical patients. Individuals who have gone through this process voice their regret and their anger that adults who should have known better are recklessly pumping them with cross-sex hormones and removing otherwise healthy body parts.

But Colorado insists on pushing this disproven, dangerous trend.

The state has laws that prevent licensed counselors from speaking with children about underlying issues that could cause gender dysphoria, a condition that is often resolved as children are allowed to develop naturally through puberty (rather, the state forces counselors to promote its extreme ideology). The state also forces kids to share intimate spaces with members of the opposite sex on overnight school trips, often without parents’ knowledge.

On top of all of this, the state refuses to respect dissenting beliefs. Camp IdRaHaJe holds the commonsense and religious belief that we are created male and female, and nothing can change who we are. Colorado’s policy allows individualized exceptions, but it turned down the camp’s requests for a religious exemption to the policy.

Lawsuit for liberty

Before this policy was enacted, Camp IdRaHaJe met all the department’s requirements to hold a resident camp license — a license the camp has held since 1995.

The department issuing the licenses annually inspects camps, and any reported violation of a regulation could shut the camp down. Since the camp cannot allow children to access spaces of the opposite sex in good conscience, it retained the services of Alliance Defending Freedom (where I serve as legal counsel) to sue the state so that it can retain its license and safe policies that respect human dignity.

Colorado cannot force a Christian summer camp to adopt its extreme policies on gender and sexuality. When the law ignores truth, kids pay the price.

Camp IdRaHaJe has every right to believe that boys are boys and girls are girls. The sooner we get back to that reality, the better our kids are for it.

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Social media users hammered away at the Washington Post over their bizarre insistence that the reasons for a drop in fentanyl seizures at the U.S.-Mexico border were “complex.”

The news outlet appeared to complicate the reasons for the drop in fentanyl seizures in order to avoid crediting a massive drop in illegal alien crossings. President Donald Trump specifically cited the scourge of fentanyl as one of the many reasons to order a lockdown at the border.

‘You close the border and the drugs slow down! Dumbest f**king article ever.’

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt torched the Post during her media briefing on Tuesday.

“How is this mysterious? There is no mystery about why there is a decrease in fentanyl coming into the United States,” said Leavitt. “This administration’s strong border policies are the reason there has been a decrease in fentanyl trafficking.”

She went on to say that the president’s outreach to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum strengthened relations between the two nations to ease the border crisis and lessen drug smuggling.

“This is clearly trying to intentionally manipulate the minds of Americans,” Leavitt continued. “Our office responded to this inquiry and provided a whole host of reasons fentanyl seizures at the southern border have dropped, and the Washington Post refused to run them. That’s despicable.”

She called on the Post to update their headline to reflect the work that Trump had done to address the fentanyl crisis.

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Others pounced to continue the pummeling on the Post.

“The Washington Post is doing everything it can to avoid giving President Trump the credit he deserves. Under his leadership, fentanyl trafficking at the Southern Border decreased by 54%. President Trump’s border policies are working!” replied Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.).

“The Washington Post is reporting a ‘mysterious drop’ in fentanyl seizures at the southern border. Mystery solved! The Trump effect is working,” responded Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin.

“The Washington Post cannot figure out why fentanyl seizures are down at the border for the same reason they could not figure out Biden was senile … they do not want to report the truth. They want to control what you think is true,” read another popular response.

“GTFO with this s**t. You close the border and the drugs slow down! Dumbest f**king article ever,” said another detractor.

“There’s nothing ‘mysterious’ about the drop in fentanyl seizures at the southern border. Strong border security leads to a stronger, safer nation. The numbers prove what WaPo won’t admit. This is what happens when we put the American people before the cartels,” responded Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas).

“It’s a real mystery. Perplexing, baffling, inexplicable even. What could have possibly changed in the last few months to cause such a bewildering drop in fentanyl seizures along our southern border?” joked the account for Heritage Foundation. “The hard-hitting journalists at Wa-Po are on the case!”

In addition to the drop in fentanyl border seizures, U.S. deaths from drug overdoses plummeted 27% from the estimated 110,037 deaths in 2023 to 80,391 deaths in 2024.

Here’s the video of Leavitt’s comments:

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The media’s narrative has done its job. Many Americans now see Donald J. Trump not as a reformer but as a symbol of corruption. That perception is both dishonest and deeply misleading.

The reality? The first 100 days of Trump’s second term leave no doubt about his goal: to reform and remake the federal government.

Reform should mean growing the economy, not growing the bureaucracy.

It’s about time. Too many unelected bureaucrats accountable to no one infest the federal government like roaches, wielding unchecked power over our lives, liberty, and happiness. They treat the mandate for reform as a nuisance. Their mission: obstruct Trump’s appointees and protect the status quo.

Organizations like the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Voice of America have deservedly drawn the president’s attention. But many others deserve the same scrutiny. One that stands out is the Securities and Exchange Commission, which repeatedly overstepped its authority during the Biden years, using vague regulatory powers to impose sweeping social mandates under the guise of financial oversight.

Trump tapped former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins to fix it. As chairman, Atkins can be counted on to take a best-practices approach to administrative responsibilities and to ensure that the SEC conducts its mission as described by the law: “facilitate capital formation; maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets; and protect investors.”

That’s a welcome clarification of responsibility. Gary Gensler, who ran the SEC for Joe Biden, was often accused of having a reach that exceeded legitimate bounds, as when, for example, he tried to regulate the market for precious metals.

Gold and silver are not securities. Neither are individual retirement accounts. Yet the Gensler-era SEC attempted to assert authority over companies offering precious-metals IRAs to individuals and families who wish to own gold and silver.

As the Heritage Foundation’s David Burton told the House Financial Services Committee in March 2024, “The commission is statutorily required to promote efficiency, competition, and capital formation by responsible participants in the capital markets.” Still, under the Biden administration, “it increasingly does the opposite.”

John Gulliver of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation told the same committee that Gensler’s SEC had “an unprecedented rulemaking agenda that will radically redesign the regulation of our securities markets and will have a major impact on the cost of being a public company and investing in our markets.”

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Atkins can and must guide the SEC away from such nonsense. As CEO of Patomak Global Partners, Atkins oversaw the development of best practices for managing digital assets. Congress should follow his lead wherever it may go, solidifying his reforms into law and preventing the agency from trying to regulate financial instruments that are not securities.

The overreach matters. The United States is in a race with China for cryptocurrency dominance. The winner gets to establish the terms under which everyone else must live. It’s no surprise that the SEC’s failure to establish what Burton called “basic rules for responsible actors to follow” undermines America’s ability to take the lead.

“I am not entirely sure whether this irresponsible failure to provide basic rules is a function of the limited understanding of those charged with regulating in this area or their desire to simply have no rules so that the commission can engage in regulation by enforcement,” Burton told the committee.

Regulation by enforcement doesn’t just stifle innovation — it cripples the economy. It may also violate new limits the U.S. Supreme Court just imposed on federal agencies in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, which ended the Chevron deference doctrine.

But Atkins can’t fix the SEC alone. Congress must step in and rewrite the law to bar the commission from using backdoor tactics to seize authority over emerging markets and financial technologies.

If lawmakers fail, they’ll guarantee a future where financial technology innovation gets strangled in red tape while real fraudsters skate by untouched. That’s bad news not just for entrepreneurs, but for America’s investors — roughly half the population — who rely on strong markets to secure their retirements.

Reform should mean growing the economy, not growing the bureaucracy. With Atkins at the helm, the SEC finally has a chance to get back to doing what it was meant to do.

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Seattle police said patrol officers responded last week to reports of gunfire near First Avenue and Union Street.

Police said the initial shooting occurred around 10 p.m. May 28 near the Four Seasons Hotel on Union Street.

A Seattle-area gun range employee on Tuesday afternoon told Blaze News that ‘it sucks’ and ‘it’s wild’ that the incident occurred — but that there’s ‘no real way to prevent it from happening other than by being ready for it.’

Officers arrived and found three people with gunshot wounds, police said.

Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes told KING-TV that three people got into a fight, and one of them took out a gun and shot the other two — and then ran from the scene.

Police said a private citizen who’s licensed to carry a firearm intervened and shot the suspect. KING identified that suspect as a 16-year-old male.

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Seattle fire crews said they treated an 18-year-old male and a 17-year-old male, both of whom were taken to a hospital in serious condition, police told the station.

The 16-year-old male accused of shooting the 18-year-old male and 17-year-old male was taken to a hospital, where he died, police told KING.

The private citizen who shot the suspect cooperated with officers, police said, adding that he was taken to Seattle Police Headquarters, where detectives interviewed him. Police said the citizen has not been arrested, KING reported.

Those with information about the incident are asked to call the Seattle Police Department Violent Crimes Tip Line at 206-233-5000, police said.

A Seattle-area gun range employee on Tuesday afternoon told Blaze News that “it sucks” and “it’s wild” that the incident occurred — but that there’s “no real way to prevent it from happening other than by being ready for it.”

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At the same time, the gun range employee — who spoke to Blaze News on the condition of anonymity — added that politicians are passing laws and “putting up more barriers” that are “making it harder” for everyday citizens to protect themselves with guns.

“I honestly don’t think that’s going to help,” the employee told Blaze News.

Regardless of how last week’s shooting plays out, the gun range employee added to Blaze News that “Seattle is going down the drain.”

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Mark Levin first heard the name Charlie Kirk back when Kirk’s conservative nonprofit organization, Turning Point USA, was a student movement focused on promoting free markets and limited government on college campuses.

Even though he doesn’t agree with Kirk on every issue, he still regards him as “a very courageous gentleman.”

One issue they absolutely agree on, however, is America’s duty to support the nation of Israel.

Charlie “has always been a big supporter of Israel. … His heart is in the right place, and his brain is in the right place too,” says Levin.

In one of his recent Socratic-style public debates, Kirk shut down a pro-Palestine activist with so much acuity, Levin was blown away.

“What religion was Jesus? What did he believe?” Kirk asked his opponent.

“Well, obviously he was a Jew,” his challenger retorted.

“Where was Jesus born?” Kirk asked.

“Why does that matter?”

“Born in Bethlehem, and he was raised in Nazareth, and he walked on the water in Capernaum. What country are those places in right now?” Kirk then inquired.

His opponent, sensing defeat, could do no more than repeat, “What does it matter?”

“It does matter. You know why? Because when I went to Israel, I came in contact with the living God that walked on water and rose Lazarus from the dead. When I went to Israel, I saw the Bible come to life,” Kirk fired back.

“When I went to Israel, I was able to cry where Jesus cried, where he was betrayed by Judas and arrested, where he rose from the dead and gives us eternal life,” he continued, pointing to scripture highlighting the importance of blessing and honoring the Jewish nation.

“There is a diabolical, satanic agenda every single day to try and delegitimize the scriptures, and I will defend the Holy Land — the place that let me see where my Lord and Savior lived — and I will not apologize for that,” Kirk concluded.

“I want to salute Charlie for that,” says Levin.

Kirk is right, he says. “When you go to Israel … you go to the burial site of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob … you see where the tribes of Israel came together and formed the Jewish faith in Shiloh.”

“The Palestinians say that’s our country,” but it’s nothing more than “a propaganda campaign,” he says.

To hear more of Levin’s commentary and see the footage of Kirk’s epic defense of Israel, watch the clip above.

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While many on the left were celebrating the beginning of Pride Month, Defense Department Secretary Pete Hegseth swam against the current and ordered the removal of a gay rights icon’s name from a naval ship.

Harvey Milk is revered by the LGBTQ movement for being one of the first openly gay men elected to public office. He was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977 but was shot and killed about a year later.

‘A shameful, vindictive erasure of those who fought to break down barriers for all to chase the American dream.’

Sean Parnell, the chief spokesperson for the Pentagon, released a statement about the decision and said that renamings will be released after internal reviews are completed.

“Secretary Hegseth is committed to ensuring that the names attached to all DOD installations and assets are reflective of the Commander-in-Chief’s priorities, our nation’s history, and the warrior ethos,” he said.

Milk had served in the Navy for four years before he was outed as gay, and his parents had each served in the Navy during World War I. The ship was christened in his name in 2021.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) released a fiery statement opposing the decision.

“The reported decision by the Trump administration to change the names of the USNS Harvey Milk and other ships in the John Lewis-class is a shameful, vindictive erasure of those who fought to break down barriers for all to chase the American dream,” said the former U.S. House speaker.

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“Our military is the most powerful in the world — but this spiteful move does not strengthen our national security or the ‘warrior’ ethos,” she added. “Instead, it is a surrender of a fundamental American value: to honor the legacy of those who worked to build a better country.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, also cried out about the renaming on social media.

“Stripping his name from a Navy ship won’t erase his legacy as an American icon, but it does reveal Trump’s contempt for the very values our veterans fight to protect,” he wrote.

Critics who are opposed to honoring Milk point out that he appeared to reveal a sexual relationship when he was in his 30s with a male who was a minor at the time. His defenders claim that the age of consent was 16 years old in many states during that time.

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