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If it’s happening in Georgia, you can bet it’s happening all over the country. Embedded bureaucrats are quietly rewriting the policies voters put in place.

Georgia’s Medicaid program exists to serve the state’s most vulnerable — low-income children and foster youth, pregnant women, and disabled adults. It was never meant to be a vehicle for radical politics. But recent revelations about how the state awarded multibillion-dollar Medicaid contracts show exactly how far left-wing ideologues inside government agencies will go to push their agenda.

When the bureaucracy pushes a progressive agenda behind closed doors, the public has no choice but to push back. Loudly. Clearly. Immediately.

Internal documents reveal that senior staff at Georgia’s Department of Community Health inserted ideological land mines into the bidding process for companies seeking to serve more than 1 million Medicaid recipients — most of them children. This included a scenario question focused on how insurers would treat a hypothetical “fourteen (14) year-old, transgender White female (assigned male sex at birth but identifies as a female).”

Responses that didn’t align with leftist orthodoxy were penalized. In other words, companies lost points unless they promised to steer kids toward hormone therapy — despite state laws banning gender reassignment procedures for minors. That isn’t just dishonest. It’s a direct subversion of the law.

Just this year, Georgia’s legislature passed bills barring men from girls’ sports and locker rooms. But inside the state’s Medicaid agency, officials rewarded insurers for endorsing gender transitions for minors. One winning bidder justified its position by claiming such treatments “could come up in the future.” Never mind that they’re illegal in Georgia.

One losing insurer offered to connect the hypothetical child with a range of community resources, including faith-based organizations. That response was met with scorn. A state official actually complained that faith-based groups shouldn’t have been included — because they weren’t mentioned in the scenario.

Never mind that faith-based organizations have served Medicaid populations for decades. They often provide the only consistent care in struggling communities. But for these bureaucrats, churches and people of faith pose a bigger danger to kids than radical gender ideology.

This is no small issue. Georgia expects to spend $4.5 billion next year on Medicaid and PeachCare, the program for uninsured kids. That makes this one of the largest contracts in state history — and leftist staffers nearly hijacked the entire process.

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Lawmakers have a duty to step in now. During the last session, they considered a bill that would have barred ideologically charged questions from state procurements. It didn’t pass. That needs to change.

There’s still time. The Medicaid contracts haven’t been finalized. Legislators must act. They should demand a full rebid, remove these radical questions, and ensure that reviewers score responses based on biology, patient welfare, and fiscal responsibility — not on whether companies genuflect to left-wing doctrine.

Georgia’s leadership has worked hard to uphold conservative values and protect taxpayer dollars. But as we’ve seen in Washington, unelected bureaucrats can — and will — undermine that progress if no one stops them.

When the bureaucracy pushes a progressive agenda behind closed doors, the public has no choice but to push back. Loudly. Clearly. Immediately. We must call it out, correct course, and pass the kind of reforms that ensure this never happens again.

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For centuries, artists have depicted angels through paintings and sculptures. They usually have giant wings, placid, ethereal visages, and flowing robes. Sometimes they are male, other times female.

But is that how scripture describes them?

What we see in art is a far cry from biblical angels, says Rick Burgess, host of “The Rick Burgess Show” and “Strange Encounters.”

Angels, he says, aren’t these haloed, feel-good spirits. They’re “a supernatural military.”

“There are different types of angels; there’s different ranks of angels,” he explains. “There are times where they look like humans,” specifically “like males. … We never see anywhere in scripture that they appear in what we would call human female form.”

He points to Daniel 10, in which an angel appears before Daniel. The being has “the appearance of a man” and likely is the angel Gabriel, based on context from earlier chapters. Verse 6 tells us, “His body was like topaz, his face like lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.”

The angel tells Daniel that he would have come sooner if not for a spiritual battle with the “prince of the Persian kingdom” — most likely referring to the demonic entity influencing the Persian realm — that waylaid him for 21 days. He tells Daniel that the archangel Michael, who he describes as “one of the chief princes,” had to assist him to overcome this demonic opposition.

“Apparently in the ranking of the angels, this particular demon outranked the messenger angel,” Rick speculates.

Further evidence of supernatural hierarchy occurs in the book of Jude, when Michael and Satan have a dispute over the body of Moses. Unlike the battle mentioned in Daniel, Michael does not engage in direct confrontation with Satan but instead says, “The Lord rebuke you.”

As far as looks go, the appearance angels take in scripture is as varied as their rankings.

Many angels are so visually stunning that they have to remind humans not to worship them. Others appear as normal-looking human beings. In fact, in Hebrews 13, we are told to be hospitable to strangers because we can unknowingly entertain angels.

Other angelic beings, however, are very strange in appearance. The seraphim are described as having six wings and a fiery essence. The cherubim have four wings covered in eyes, and they move with wheels (also covered in eyes) that operate in perfect harmony.

If angels are this diverse in appearance, does that mean demons are too? Might they walk among us undetected? Or are they the red-skinned, horned fiends of legend?

“If it’s possible that we’ve entertained angels and we did not know it, is it also possible that we’ve entertained demons and we did not know it?” asks Rick.

There’s a good possibility that they too are varied in appearance.

Rick has seen one variety himself. At a men’s conference a few years ago, he was mocked by a group of demons while telling the story of his son’s tragic death. To hear his harrowing tale, watch the episode above.

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Nate Silver, an American statistician and founder of the now-shuttered political analysis blog FiveThirtyEight, recently dug into why men, young men in particular, don’t like Democrats — a trend that has Democratic operatives scrambling both for answers and Joe Rogan-sized remedies.

Silver indicated that a big part of Democrats’ problem might be that those young men beyond their reach are not mentally unstable or attracted to a mentally ill style of politics.

Losing men

Democrats — whom Americans largely regard as weak and ineffective — are right to be desperate.

‘Young men’s attachment to the GOP has grown.’

After all, in the 2024 election, President Donald Trump captured 60% of the white male vote, 54% of the Hispanic male vote, and 21% of the black male vote toward a combined total of 55% of the male vote overall.

Men ages 18-44 majoritively voted Trump. Firming up that figure were the young white men who previously supported former President Joe Biden but jumped ship and swam rightward, voting for Trump by a 28 percentage point margin.

Melissa Deckman, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, noted in a report last month that “since 2013, young men’s attachment to the GOP has grown, but most of this growth has occurred among young white men, whose affiliation with the GOP went from 26% in 2013 to 36% today.”

While young white men largely drove the trend, Deckman noted that “young Hispanic men saw a 6-percentage-point increase in Republican identification since 2021.”

Meanwhile, “young women have consistently been less likely to identify as Republican and more likely to identify as Democratic than their male counterparts across racial groups,” wrote Deckman. “In 2024, around one in four young white women aligned with the Democratic party (26%), compared with 18% of young white men.”

RELATED: Democrats can’t mock masculinity and expect men to vote for them

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As with young women’s leftward drift, young men’s rightward orientation does not appear to be a flash in the pan, hence the recent efforts by Democrats — who failed to heed James Carville’s pre-election warnings about the fallout of “faculty lounge” attitudes and the party’s dominance by “too many preachy females” — to diagnose and correct for their problem.

Mental strength is Democratic kryptonite

Citing data from the 2022 Cooperative Election Study, a 50,000-plus person national survey administered by YouGov, Silver noted that higher self-reported mental health correlates with conservative political views.

“I think an underrated factor in the ‘how can Democrats win back young men’ debate is the effects of personality, which differ especially among younger voters [and] are quite strongly correlated with voting preferences,” tweeted Silver.

Whereas only 20% of liberals reported having “excellent” mental health, 51% of conservatives said the same. On the bottom end, 45% of liberals said their mental health was poor, while only 19% of conservatives reported the same.

‘Conservative ideology may work as a psychological buffer.’

“So the young men that Democrats have trouble with aren’t necessarily the ones who have been captured by the conservative ‘manosphere’ or who are looking for a helping hand,” wrote Silver. “Rather, it’s those who report relatively high mental health and see Democrats as being too neurotic and perhaps constraining their opportunity to compete and reap the rewards of their work.”

Silver suggested that compounding Democrats’ problem is that they are seen as “nits,” which he defined as “neurotic, risk-averse, sticklers for the rules, always up in everyone’s business.”

RELATED: The Democratic Party is not dying — it’s evolving

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The link between ideological persuasion and mental or emotional well-being is well-documented.

For instance, a 2023 Columbia University study published in the journal Social Science & Medicine – Mental Health found that conservatives are generally happier than their leftist counterparts by a significant measure.

Epidemiologist Catherine Gimbrone and her co-authors found that “conservatives reported lower average depressive affect, self-derogation, and loneliness scores and higher self-esteem scores than all other groups.”

“Beginning in approximately 2010 and continuing through 2018, female liberal adolescents reported the largest changes in depressive affect, self-esteem, self-derogation, and loneliness. Male conservative adolescents reported the smallest corresponding changes,” said the study.

When attempting to account for the disparity, the researchers suggested that “conservative ideology may work as a psychological buffer by harmonizing an idealized worldview with the bleak external realities experienced by many.”

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The Supreme Court disappointed Christians when it deadlocked in Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond.

The justices’ 4-4 split keeps in place the ruling of the Oklahoma Supreme Court that St. Isidore of Seville Virtual School may not operate as a charter school in the state — for now, anyway.

Denying American families access to the winning combination of a Catholic charter school is not only unconstitutional but also unconscionable.

The court’s “non-decision decision” came about, in part, because Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused herself from the case. Barrett did not explain her reasons, but her close ties to Notre Dame’s Religious Liberty Clinic and her friendship with a chief adviser to the school likely played a role.

How this happened

In the face of progressive accusations of unethical behavior, the justices recently agreed to a code of conduct that represents “a codification of principles” governing their conduct. Importantly, a justice is “presumed impartial” and “has an obligation to sit unless disqualified.” The code adds, presciently, that “the absence of one Justice risks the affirmance of a lower court decision by an evenly divided Court — potentially preventing the Court from providing a uniform national rule of decision on an important issue.”

Back in 2003, Justice Antonin Scalia, for whom Barrett once served as a law clerk, denied a motion for his recusal based on his friendship with then-Vice President Dick Cheney, who was a named party in a case before the Court.

“The people must have confidence in the integrity of the Justices, and that cannot exist in a system that assumes them to be corruptible by the slightest friendship or favor, and in an atmosphere where the press will be eager to find foot-faults,” Scalia wrote.

In any event, what is done is done. And more importantly, Barrett’s recusal is not binding for future cases.

The victory that wasn’t

Secularists and opponents of school choice have been celebrating the outcome, even though split decisions do not constitute binding legal precedent.

As Notre Dame Law Professor and Supreme Court scholar Richard Garnett observed, “The do-nothing denouement in this particular round of litigation does not preclude other courts, in other cases, from vindicating the no-discrimination rule and permitting religious schools to participate in charter-school programs.”

Garnett is right. The twin religion clauses of the First Amendment — the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment Clause — permit certification of religious schools like St. Isidore’s as charter schools.

Take, for example, the court’s recent decisions involving the Free Exercise guarantee and school choice initiatives. When the court struck down the “No-Aid” provision in Montana’s state constitution that excluded religious schools and families from a publicly funded scholarship program for students attending private schools, Chief Justice John Roberts reaffirmed the Free Exercise Clause’s demand for fairness.

“A state need not subsidize private education,” he observed. “But once a State decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious.”

Similarly, in Carson v. Makin, the court found that Maine violated the Constitution when it excluded religious schools from participating in a voucher program for rural students. Roberts, again writing for the court, explained that “the State pays tuition for certain students at private schools — so long as the schools are not religious. That is discrimination against religion.”

No clause against faith

Allowing religious schools such as St. Isidore’s to participate in a state’s charter school program is merely a natural application of this principle of fairness. But what about the Establishment Clause?

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond argued that certifying St. Isidore’s as a charter school would violate the Establishment Clause.

His argument has some appeal, particularly for secularists who want public schools to have a virtual monopoly over America’s educational system. Granted, the Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the Establishment Clause prohibits public schools from providing religious instruction. Private schools, by contrast, are free to do so. Charter schools receive public funding, but they are privately established and controlled schools with minimal regulatory oversight by the government.

Consequently, charter schools are not state actors. And because they are not state actors, a charter school’s endorsement of any particular religion does not constitute a violation of the Establishment Clause.

Success secularism can’t match

Charter schools currently exist in 45 states and the District of Columbia. A recent study reveals that charter-school students “show greater academic gains than their peers in traditional public schools.” The study also found that “charter students in poverty had stronger growth, equal to seventeen additional days of learning in math and twenty-three additional days of learning in reading, than their [traditional public school] peers in poverty.”

As for the benefits of a Catholic education, Catholic school students “continue to outpace public schools in math and reading, while public school student achievement has not returned to pre-pandemic levels and reading scores continue to decline following a sobering trend last reported in 2022.”

Denying American families access to the winning combination of a Catholic charter school, then, is not only unconstitutional but also unconscionable.

The split decision affirming the Oklahoma Supreme Court means that families in the Sooner State cannot yet benefit from the stellar Catholic education offered by St. Isidore’s as a charter school.

Still, it needs repeating: The order does not set precedent. The question of whether the Constitution allows a state to exclude religious schools from its charter program is not settled.

A call for clarification will likely be before the court soon and, with a full bench, we should expect that principles of fairness and religious freedom will prevail.

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Back in August 2024, we reported that the right-to-repair movement had made gains in Oregon, passing legal measures to ban “parts pairing” and slow the further slide into corporate planned obsolescence. Since then, the movement has really picked up some inertia, with wins at the state, federal, and international levels.

As a reminder, right-to-repair refers broadly to the rather American idea that consumers, end users, and owner/operators of all sorts should be able to modify, adjust, and repair their automobiles, computers, electronics, guitar amplifiers, etc., and they should not be subject to manufacturer efforts to specifically make such efforts difficult or impossible.

The trend toward planned obsolescence lines corporate pockets, demoralizes citizenry by robbing them of generational skills and knowledge, weakens national readiness, hollows out the middle class, and does so while lying about cost savings or security. This is accomplished by forcing repairs into authorized dealers, restricting availability of tools, repackaging certain component parts, and generally rerouting what should be basic maintenance into circular money-fleecing ops.

The movement to radically slow planned obsolescence and make repairs straightforward again has made serious strides in 2025.

At this point, all 50 U.S. states have introduced some form of this legislation. Six states have passed laws. Canada and Australia are making moves toward right-to-repair. Class-action suits brought by U.S. farmers against John Deere are ongoing, accusing the corporate tractor giant of deploying software that, in effect, moves repair work away from owner/operators or local shops and forces farmers to patronize John Deere authorized dealers.

On May 21, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) went before the House Armed Services Committee advocating the inclusion of the Servicemember Right-to-Repair legislation with the fiscal year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act.

Gluesenkamp Perez’s act has as its main objective to “require contractors to provide the Department of Defense with parts, tools, and information needed for servicemembers to repair equipment, matching the access given to authorized repair providers.” Additional goals include improving repair autonomy, cost savings, fewer delays, promotion of accountability, and the enhancement of military readiness.

For citizens, right-to-repair makes sense as a property rights issue. We buy a product and expect that (a) it is designed and built to last and (b) in the event the product fails to function, we have the option to repair it ourselves or take it to a local, reasonable service center. Planned obsolescence, of course, has other designs — that mostly pertain to taking more of your money and giving you less product.

Similarly, but one step up the chain of abstraction, when American tax dollars are “sent to Washington” for allocation to the areas of critical government functions, we should not expect to pay hyper-premiums for the outsourcing of these functions and services. Nonetheless, this has been the case for a very long time, and lately, the rapine of the citizenry made possible through the corrupt convergence of politicians and government contractors is absurd. Criminal, even.

While Gluesenkamp Perez’s Servicemember Right-to-Repair Act didn’t make the cut for NDAA, the citizenry can be pleased that in April of this year, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth authored an official memo directing the Army to prioritize “right-to-repair” provisions in both new and existing defense contracts.

RELATED: The fight against costly planned obsolescence deals Big Tech another blow

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The Hegseth memo isn’t a fix-all, but it does send a message. Perhaps it is one that given the ongoing momentum, will be followed up with actual legislation soon. The memo opens up avenues for the Army to perform equipment repair and maintenance “in house,” saving serious money and time. Informally, there is talk already of deploying 3D printers on bases. In fact, within Special Operations, a segment of the DOD with immense funding and a greater degree of autonomy than the general service branches, has for some time been performing many of its own repairs and even building its own weapons and equipment when desirable.

Pushback from the usual suspects — Boeing, Lockheed, etc. — is to be expected in this arena. Nonetheless, the movement to radically slow planned obsolescence and make repairs straightforward again has made serious strides in 2025. Washington state just became the sixth state to enact similar laws ensuring Americans’ opportunity to repair, specifically, their electronics.

Speaking to the House Armed Services Committee about service members today, Gluesenkamp Perez said: “When they have to fly authorized contractors out to work on their equipment, it’s not just costly and demoralizing; candidly, to the technician[s], it also deprives them of the skill to go out into the workforce and build that asset nationally. This is a long- term cost, not just to our military readiness but to our embodied skill set in this nation.”

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Failed vice presidential candidate Tim Walz issued a profanity-infused call for Democrats to go on the rhetorical attack against President Donald Trump in a speech to Democrats.

The Democrat governor of Minnesota made the comments while giving the keynote speech to Democrats in South Carolina on Saturday.

‘We’ve got the guts, and we need to have it to push back on the bullies and the greed.’

“Maybe it’s time for us to be a little meaner, a little bit more fierce,” said Walz to the audience, which applauded loudly.

“The thing that bothers a teacher more than anything is to watch a bully. And when it’s a child, you talk to them, and you tell them why bullying is wrong,” he continued. “But when it’s an adult like Donald Trump, you bully the s**t out of him back!”

Democrats have been in disarray since the devastating results of the 2024 election when they lost the executive branch, lost the U.S. Senate, and failed to regain control of the House of Representatives. Some have blamed the loss partly on the selection of Walz in order to appease anti-Israeli extremists in the party.

“Donald is the existential threat we knew was coming,” Walz said in his speech. “We’ve got the guts, and we need to have it to push back on the bullies and the greed.”

RELATED: Tim Walz compares ICE to Nazi police and gets slapped with brutal backlash

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Walz had previously given his opinion about what went wrong for Democrats in the election and blamed the electorate for not being receptive to the ticket’s positive messaging.

“I was a little surprised. I thought we had a positive message, and I thought the country was ready for that,” he said in one interview.

“I think what we have to understand is the mood where people are at and understanding where they’re at. I think economic issues did impact them,” he explained in a later interview.

“We were pledging to be inclusive. We were pledging to bring people in,” he continued. “Donald Trump has said that that isn’t what he wants, and so if that’s what America is leaning towards, I guess for me, it’s to understand and learn more about America because I thought that they were going to probably move towards a more positive message.”

Walz was previously mocked and ridiculed after he said that the Democrats had picked him for the 2025 presidential ticket because he was able to “code talk to white guys watching football, fixing their truck.”

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In Boulder, Colorado, a peaceful march by the Jewish group Run for Their Lives turned into a war zone on Sunday afternoon. A man armed with a “makeshift flamethrower” blasted fire into the crowd, then hurled Molotov cocktails. His name? Mohamed Sabry Soliman — an Egyptian national who overstayed his visa and has remained in the United States illegally since 2023. He injured eight people, ages 52 to 88. One victim, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor, now fights for her life in critical condition.

Witnesses say Soliman screamed “Free Palestine” and other anti-Israel slogans as he attacked. The FBI now calls it what it clearly was: a politically motivated act of terrorism.

If we fail to draw a moral line now, the question won’t be where the Jews can go — but whether any of us are safe.

This wasn’t just another “incident.” It was a targeted attack on Jews in the public square. In 2025. In the United States of America.

America once stood as a beacon for the Jewish people, a haven when the rest of the world slammed its doors shut. But open-border policies have twisted that haven into something else entirely — a daylight nightmare.

More than two decades after 9/11, after all the promises to close the gaps that allowed terrorists to enter and remain in the United States, the basic failure to enforce immigration law has yet again put innocent lives at risk.

This is not a partisan talking point. It is a moral reckoning.

We have traded hard-won lessons for slogans. Sovereignty for sentiment. Borders for ideology. And now anti-Semitism, long dismissed as a relic of the past or a marginal threat, is burning — literally — on our streets.

A harrowing precedent

We have seen this pattern before. On Kristallnacht in 1938, synagogues were set ablaze. Jewish homes and businesses were destroyed. Ordinary citizens were attacked while the world looked away. It was the beginning of a campaign of annihilation that ended in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.

Today, we again see Jewish communities targeted with violence. We see Jewish students harassed on campuses. We hear chants of “From the river to the sea” echoing in our cities — not from fringe radicals but from organized coalitions openly embraced by political leaders, university professors, and corporate brands. And now, we witnessed a woman who escaped the concentration camps’ ovens as a little girl nearly burned alive in broad daylight in a so-called “sanctuary city.”

RELATED: The left rages over 59 white refugees — but defends killers

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The press continues its singular obsession with Donald Trump and his supporters. We are told that they — builders of factories, champions of border enforcement — are the greatest threat to democracy.

But let me ask plainly: Who is actually committing these acts of violence? Who is calling for the destruction of Israel? Who is throwing firebombs into peaceful protests?

It is not Trump voters. It is radicals animated by an ideology that cloaks hate in the language of justice and casts terrorism as resistance.

If not here, where?

The West is not just a place — it is an idea: built on law, liberty, and the belief that all people are created equal. If we permit lawlessness in the name of compassion, if we excuse anti-Semitism under the guise of activism, we are not advancing justice. We are dismantling the very foundations of our society.

The Jewish people have been expelled from nearly every land on Earth. They were told to go back to where they came from — and now, even in Israel, they are told they do not belong. So where are they supposed to go?

If we do not draw a clear moral line now, the question will no longer be where the Jews can go but where any of us will be safe.

Let’s not deceive ourselves: This is not just about Jewish safety. It is about whether the moral architecture of the West can still hold.

Yes, the stakes are that high. America was meant to be a “city on a hill.” But cities burn when no one defends them — when people forget who they are, or worse, when they stop caring. Let us not be the generation that remembers freedom only by the smell of its ashes.

Now is the time to stand. Not in vengeance but in resolve. Not in fear but in truth.

Remember who we are. Remember what we built. And above all, remember what happens when we choose silence over courage.

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With a recent assault on the very federal law enforcement officers they are charged with overseeing, Democrats haven’t just embraced criminals; they’ve become them.

Last month, three Democratic lawmakers — Reps. Rob Menendez Jr., Bonnie Watson Coleman, and LaMonica McIver, all from New Jersey — led a mob of protesters in storming the Delaney Hall Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. They waited for a bus full of detainees to arrive, then rushed the open gate and physically clashed with federal officers.

Our republic will not survive if America’s elected leaders are allowed to act like this. They not only committed crimes in public but then hid behind their Article I powers as a shield.

This wasn’t symbolic. This was an elected mob laying hands on law enforcement.

The video tells the story: shoving, punching, and chaos. These three members of Congress — who represent more than two million Americans — assaulted officers doing their jobs. Then, astonishingly, they claimed they were the victims, despite clear footage proving otherwise.

All of this over what turned out to be nothing.

After the chaos, ICE officials offered the lawmakers a guided tour of the facility. The Democrats quietly admitted they found no signs of mistreatment. Their entire stunt, billed as a protest of conditions, collapsed under the weight of reality. They walked in demanding accountability and walked out with nothing but bad footage and a pending felony charge.

Yes, a felony.

Rep. McIver now faces a federal charge of assaulting a law enforcement officer, announced on May 20 by Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba. President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have made it clear: This administration backs the rule of law. If you punch a cop, you get charged — even if you have a congressional pin on your lapel.

The left tried to frame the incident as “congressional oversight.” But oversight doesn’t mean storming gates or skipping security checks. ICE policy allows members of Congress to tour facilities — even unannounced. But it does not allow them to create security threats, bypass screening, or lead mobs onto federal property. Those procedures exist to protect staff, detainees, and lawmakers alike.

This was not oversight. It was lawlessness, pure and simple.

RELATED: Memo to Democrats: ‘Oversight’ isn’t a get-out-of-jail-free card

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Since President Trump restored control of the southern border, anti-border Democrats have become unhinged. No longer able to rely on waves of illegal crossings, they’ve begun imitating the tactics of the very criminal aliens they once defended — storming barriers, resisting authority, and attacking officers.

Now, that’s the legacy of the modern Democratic Party.

But legal consequences alone aren’t enough. Congress must act.

The House should censure all three lawmakers involved. Censure is not a punishment; it’s a statement of principle. And lawmakers have been censured for far less than leading an assault on federal agents. The House has a duty to uphold the integrity of its own body. That means sending a message: If you behave like a thug, you’ll be treated like one.

Our republic will not survive if America’s elected leaders are allowed to act like this. They not only committed crimes in public but then hid behind their Article I powers as a shield.

America’s founders warned about this.

In “Federalist 1,” Alexander Hamilton posed a choice: Would Americans build a government based on “reflection and choice” — or surrender to “accident and force”? That question remains. If lawmakers now claim the right to break the laws they swore to uphold, we’re no longer living in a constitutional republic. We’re living under mob rule.

And if we let this slide — if Congress fails to hold its own accountable — then we’ll have no one to blame when the next mob storms another federal building under another political banner.

Democrats love to remind us: “No one is above the law.” Fine. Then prove it.

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On Sunday, May 25, Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson died following a tough battle with Alzheimer’s disease and other health issues.

After taking some time away to grieve and be with family, Phil’s sons Jase and Al, who are anchors on the “Unashamed” podcast, returned to share details about Phil’s passing and his funeral.

The funeral, which was a family service of 300-400 people, was perfectly suited for Phil. The family worshipped, preached the gospel, and celebrated Phil — not because of what he did, but because of what Christ did for and through him.

“I had to kind of detach myself,” Jase admits, “because Phil had this famous line that he said many times: ‘When I die, don’t cry. You can sing; you can dance; you can do a little jig, but I made it.'”

The funeral was held in the same church — down to “the same room” — that Phil gave his life to Christ in. Per Miss Kay’s request, all four Robertson brothers — Jase, Al, Willie, and Jep — spoke. Phyllis, Phil’s daughter from an extramarital affair before he became a Christian, also spoke. Some of Phil’s grandchildren led a powerful worship service that brought many to tears.

Uncle Si, Phil’s brother, provided some needed comic relief, as he “kept talking back to Willie throughout his entire [speech],” even though he declined the opportunity to give his own speech.

“He was the sidekick to Phil and Kay through their first years of dating and probably 10 years of their marriage, and so he turned into the echo, which was funny,” laughs Jase.

At the grave site, Phil was laid to rest next to his sister Jan Dasher, who played a pivotal role in his coming to Jesus.

Jase’s son Reed says that hundreds of people, many of whom had never met Phil but had only watched his content, reached out in the days following his death to share how their lives were touched by his unshakable faith.

“Heaven got a titan,” he says of his grandfather.

In the final weeks before his death, Jase admits he was struggling watching his dad suffer.

“Every time I thought he was completely gone as far as communication-wise, something would happen, usually with the grandkids or the wives or whatever, and he would just lift up and say something,” he reflects. “My daughter started singing one night. … He had done nothing all day to show any signs that he was with us, and he reached out his hand and held her hand.”

“It hit me in that moment. I thought God does a lot of good work in suffering,” he adds, citing Romans 5. “My daughter is never going to forget that moment.”

In his last conversation with Phil, Jase told his dad, “You’re going to meet Jesus,” and Phil suddenly “came to,” “grabbed [Jase’s] hand,” and eagerly said, “Let’s go.”

To hear more about Phil’s funeral, the family’s final time on Earth with him, and the incredible legacy he leaves behind, watch the episode above.

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The legal battle surrounding President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs has intensified, and Trump took aim at the Federalist Society for helping him pick out the judges who are now giving him a hard time.

“It was suggested that I use the Federalist Society as a recommending source on Judges,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

“I did so, openly and freely, but then realized that they were under the thumb of a real ‘sleazebag’ named Leonard Leo, a bad person who, in his own way, probably hates America, and obviously has his own separate ambitions,” he continued, adding that he was “so disappointed” in the Federal Society “because of the bad advice they gave me on numerous Judicial Nominations.”

And Leo doesn’t work just with the Federal Society but with the CRC Advisors as well — who BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler believes are leading Mike Pence’s campaign to derail Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“Mike Pence’s issue with RFK Jr. is what RFK Jr. plans to do at HHS, to hold vaccine manufacturers accountable, to reform the Big Food industry, which has caused chronic health problems among, especially children, but everyone in our country,” Wheeler says on “The Liz Wheeler Show.”

“That’s what Mike Pence is concerned about, because Mike Pence’s group takes money from Big Pharma,” she explains, noting that the former chairman of the pharmaceutical company G.D. Searle, which was bought by Pfizer, now runs a political group of his own.

“One of his pet projects, which he gave six figures to, was Mike Pence’s group, Advancing American Freedom,” Wheeler says. “The very group that is now advocating that Republican senators vote against RFK Jr., who wants to take on Big Pharma.”

Pence’s group, Advancing American Freedom, was working with the publicity group Leo funds, CRC Advisors.

“Now, this publicity group was hired by Mike Pence’s group to bring publicity to Mike Pence’s ad blitz, trying to convince Republican senators to vote against Bobby Kennedy,” Wheeler says.

“If you look at the client resume of CRC Advisors, another one of their clients is Eli Lilly, a big pharmaceutical company,” she continues. “This is the swamp, the interconnectedness, the fact that it’s so nebulous that everyone’s tied together, for what? For this swampy purpose.”

“And Mike Pence is pretending that his opposition to RFK Jr. is about abortion. It’s not about abortion. His group, his effort to derail RFK Jr. as HHS secretary, is funded by Big Pharma. That is his real motive,” she adds.

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Along Hollywood Boulevard this past Saturday, the blue and pink flags waving in the street might have been mistaken for the bisexual pride flag, but closer inspection showed the message actually being pushed by the people gathering there: Don’t mess with our kids.

Christians gathered for a worship service right outside of the TCL Chinese Theatre on the eve of Pride Month to offer a different worldview in the touristy area. Right before the event was set to take place, organizer Ross Johnston posted an email sent by the Democrat-majority city explaining that local leaders were canceling the permit the organizers had applied for because they needed a different permit.

“It is a Concert/Performance that requires a Boss Permit. Just because it is religious, it does not default to a 1st Amendment Right,” the email stated.

“The Police Department and the Police Commission will not continue to permit this event under a 1st Amendment permit,” it continued.

The email went on to say that most event permits in Los Angeles are BOSS permits.

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In spite of the runaround Mayday USA organizers were getting from the city, Johnston encouraged people to show up anyway. Los Angeles police officers did provide security once worshippers gathered and the sound equipment was being set up.

“The mindset was really simple: We are Christian, but are not standing just for Christians. We’re standing for Americans,” Johnston told Blaze Media when the event ended. He added that the Democrats have no problem approving permits for the Pride parades set to take place this month in the same area.

“Do what we did here today,” Johnston said to Christians who run into similar problems. “What does that show? If you actually exercise your First Amendment right legally, lawfully, and peacefully, then nobody can stop you. And this is important for the church because we’ve done great in the building, but we don’t do much outside the building.”

RELATED: Christians attacked by Antifa during prayer meeting — but the mayor blames ‘far-right’ attendees

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The service in Los Angeles comes after a previous Mayday USA event in Seattle that was attacked by radical Antifa and LGBTQ+ activists. Seattle police arrested dozens of far-leftists as Christians continued their event. Democrat Mayor Bruce Harrell blamed the Christians for the violence because the event took place at Cal Anderson Park in Seattle’s LGBTQ+ neighborhood, but Mayday USA organizers proved that the city told them to go to Cal Anderson Park instead of their first option.

Seattle-based Pastor Russell Johnson said his community is calling for Harrell to resign, as the Justice Department and FBI are investigating the city for religious discrimination.

Saturday’s event in L.A. saw no violence like in Seattle. Only a few counterprotesters showed up and mainly stayed on the outskirts of the service.

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Last Thursday, the Chicago Sky faced off against the Dallas Wings at the Sky’s home arena. Although the team ended their four-game losing streak and tallied their first win of the 2025 WNBA season, Angel Reese’s performance drew intense criticism. She finished with a mere 6 points on the board — a poor result when compared to teammates Kamilla Cardoso’s 23 points and Ariel Atkins’ 17 points.

In the days following the game, Reese has been lambasted for her performance that fell far short of her expected role as a star scorer, especially given her season-long shooting woes and the spotlight of facing Wings rookie Paige Bueckers, who put 15 points on the board.

Jason Whitlock, however, had a different perspective: Angel Reese just proved she’s making necessary improvements — in her game and maybe even in her treatment of Caitlin Clark.

“Angel Reese actually showed true progress and self-awareness” by only taking 6 shots, he says. “She’s figured out she’s not an offensive player and she’s more of a role player, a rebounder, a distributor, a screen setter.”

The criticism Reese has faced this season has done her a favor, he argues. Her performance on Thursday seemed to say, “Let me adjust my game; let me play in a way that befits my actual skill set.”

“Why is she doing that?” Whitlock asks. “Because her critics have been heard.”

“This is why we have to allow athletes — black, white, whatever color — to be criticized. If we protect them from criticism, if we explain all criticism of them as some form of racism … they never adjust and develop,” he explains.

He hopes that the same criticism that has helped Reese improve as a player will translate to her hatred for Indiana Fever rival Caitlin Clark. If Reese is smart, she will take seriously the disapproval from sports critics like RG3 and drop the feuding with Clark, who has never wronged her.

“The feud, the alleged rivalry with Caitlin Clark — it does not serve you. It serves content creators. It serves racial idolaters. It serves people that want to use you while pretending like they’re your BFF,” says Whitlock. “It would be a big win for Angel Reese, the WNBA, Caitlin Clark, and everybody involved if Angel Reese raised the white flag on her war with Caitlin Clark.”

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The U.S. Department of Justice said they had secured a plea agreement from a Romanian man who is accused of organizing “swatting” attacks against lawmakers, including a former U.S. president.

26-year-old Thomasz Szabo was extradited in November to the U.S. to face charges that he led an online community that targeted about 100 lawmakers with “swatting calls,” hoax calls to law enforcement authorities.

‘This defendant led a dangerous swatting criminal conspiracy, deliberately threatening dozens of government officials with violent hoaxes and targeting our nation’s security infrastructure from behind a screen overseas.’

Szabo would encourage members of the online community, beginning in late 2020, to make bomb threats and other hoax calls to police in order to provoke a dangerous law enforcement response to the target’s home, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Columbia.

Officials said Szabo and his co-conspirators would target “government buildings, houses of worship, and private residences, including the homes of senior government officials.”

He would go by various online monikers, including “Plank,” “Jonah,” and “Cypher.”

“This defendant led a dangerous swatting criminal conspiracy, deliberately threatening dozens of government officials with violent hoaxes and targeting our nation’s security infrastructure from behind a screen overseas,” said U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. “This case reflects our continued focus on protecting the American people and working with international partners to stop these threats at their source.”

Among the incidents attributed to Szabo by the DOJ were a mass shooting threat against New York City synagogues in Dec. 2020, as well as a threat to detonate explosives at the U.S. Capitol to kill the president-elect in Jan. 2021. The members of the online community went after members of Congress and their families, senior officials of the executive branch, members of the judiciary, state government officials, religious institutions, and some members of the press.

RELATED: Trump Cabinet nominees targeted by bomb threats and swatting incidents, according to transition team

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The indictment said that Szabo targeted both the right and the left, and indicated that he was not on any partisan side.

Szabo is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington, D.C., in October.

One of Szabo’s targets responded to his arrest from last year on social media.

“Yesterday, I was notified that a recent federal indictment includes charges over my ‘swatting’ a year ago. Two foreign nationals were charged,” said attorney Jonathan Turley.

“I am grateful to the Justice Department and these cooperating U.S. and foreign offices in finding the alleged culprits who swatted my home between Christmas and New Year’s in 2023,” he added. “Such prosecutions will hopefully shatter the sense of anonymity and impunity of such culprits.”

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A former NFL star receiver rejected the LGBTQ+ messaging from the league in celebration of Pride Month, and many on the left were outraged.

Dez Bryant retired from professional football in 2020 and had played for the Dallas Cowboys for eight years before moving on to other teams. On Monday, he made his thoughts known about the Pride Month campaign the league was pushing.

‘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.’

Bryant posted video of the NFL ad onto his social media post and added his commentary.

“Football is gay. Football is queer. Football is transgender.. these are wild statements to make..excuse my silliness,” wrote Bryant, quoting the ad.

“I’m going to proudly tell my boys football is none of these things,” he added. “I have nothing against Gays but this is far from right.”

Many of the teams in the league have posted in support of Pride Month, but not all of them have kneeled to the agenda.

RELATED: NFL cancels DEI event, yet still makes ridiculous diversity statement about its fans and hiring women

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After getting some criticism from the left for what he wrote, Bryant tried to further explain his position.

“It’s gay players in the NFL..but forcing it in people’s faces..especially children..can send the wrong message,” he wrote. “Football is a real community, like the gay community. Imagine telling gays they have to advocate for straight people..they probably would have a problem.”

Bryant later lambasted people posting fake rumors on social media.

“I hate social media at times because people post fake positive things all the time and get bothered whenever folks have a real conversation,” he wrote. “I bet the goofy fake woke people have the most skeletons in their closet.”

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A group of community activists claimed to have thwarted a law enforcement operation to “abduct” high school students, but federal officials said they instead ruined the cover of agents who were tracking a murder suspect.

An activist claimed that the community had prevented ICE from abducting children and their parents in a video posted to social media from Somerville in Massachusetts.

‘If you show up with people you trust quickly, you can protect kids. You can protect families. So form information networks, know where ICE is in your community, and show up!’

“ICE just tried to abduct a bunch of kids and parents right here at Somerville High School, and so many community members showed up that ICE just left!” said the grinning activist.

“Remember, you are the major power in your community. If you show up with people you trust quickly, you can protect kids. You can protect families. So form information networks, know where ICE is in your community, and show up!” he added.

“They will just leave. They are not f**king brave enough to steal kids when an entire community comes around to protect them. So show up for the kids in your community!” he concluded.

He listed his pronouns as he/him.

A letter to parents from the district reassured them that no federal agents had gone onto school property. It went on to say that the school does not cooperate with federal agencies like ICE, and officials will not allow ICE agents onto school property unless they have a criminal judicial warrant signed by a judge.

“Please know that you are not alone,” wrote the superintendent. “We stand with you, and we will continue to do everything we can to uphold a safe and inclusive environment for all.”

ICE reportedly told Bill Melugin of Fox News that agents had been “surveilling a murder suspect who was near the school,” before the crowd “surrounded them” and blew their cover.

RELATED: Anti-ICE activists dox agents, sabotaging operations — Homan seeks retribution

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Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, had vehemently criticized ICE after agents reportedly arrested a high school junior on Saturday as he was on his way to volleyball practice. Healey said in a statement that she was “disturbed and outraged” by the reported incident.

“Yet again, local officials and law enforcement have been left in the dark with no heads-up and no answers to their questions. I’m demanding that ICE provide immediate information about why he was arrested, where he is, and how his due process is being protected,” said Healey.

“My heart goes out to the Milford community on what was supposed to be a celebratory graduation day,” she added. “The Trump administration continues to create fear in our communities, and it’s making us all less safe.”

President Donald Trump has made mass deportations a goal of his second term in office, but those efforts have been stymied by numerous court challenges. The administration has called on the U.S. Supreme Court to rule against these challenges in order to allow the deportations to continue unabated.

A community group in February claimed to have driven away agents of an ICE operation who had gathered at a Target department store parking lot in southern California. ICE did not confirm whether agents were operating a raid and said only that they target criminal illegal aliens.

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Officials from Russia and Ukraine met in Istanbul, Turkey, to negotiate on a possible peace deal after a stunning drone operation dubbed “Spider’s Web” destroyed Russian bombers over the weekend.

Ukraine launched an attack through drones that had been secreted into the country and hidden in the roofs of wooden sheds on 18-wheelers parked near military bases deep inside Russia. When the command was given, hatches opened and the drones flew out and sought to bomb their military targets.

‘What Vladimir Putin doesn’t realize is that if it weren’t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD.’

Video on social media reportedly showed footage from drones striking at the Russian planes. Ukraine said about 41 planes were destroyed or damaged, while Russia claimed far fewer were hit.

The attack was dubbed by some as Russia’s “Pearl Harbor” moment, although the losses were a fraction of what the U.S. base in Hawaii suffered under the Japanese. Other media outlets called it “audacious” and “stunning.”

Despite the devastating attack, Russian officials pressed on with demands of extensive concessions from Ukraine in order to agree to a ceasefire during negotiations in Istanbul. President Donald Trump has been calling for peace between the two countries and has threatened sanctions against Russia if a deal is not reached.

The two sides met for only an hour before breaking up the talks in Istanbul. Ukrainian officials reportedly rejected the offer from Russia and described it as tantamount to surrender.

However, the two warring nations did agree to an exchange of prisoners of war as well as the return of about 12,000 bodies of war casualties.

RELATED: Trump says participation in World Cup could be ‘good incentive’ for Russia to end war with Ukraine

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised the drone operation on social media.

“Today, a brilliant operation was carried out — on enemy territory, targeting only military objectives, specifically the equipment used to strike Ukraine. Russia suffered significant losses — entirely justified and deserved,” he wrote.

He said 117 drones were used in the operation and 34% of “strategic cruise missile carriers stationed at air bases” were hit.

“Not for a single second did we want this war,” he added in part. “We offered the Russians a ceasefire. Since March 11, the U.S. proposal for a full and unconditional ceasefire has been on the table. It was the Russians who chose to continue the war — even under conditions where the entire world is calling for an end to the killing.”

Ukraine security services estimate the attack cost Russia upwards of $7 billion in damage.

On Tuesday, Trump had warned Russia about continuing the war on Ukraine.

“What Vladimir Putin doesn’t realize is that if it weren’t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD,” he wrote on social media. “He’s playing with fire!”

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As many feared and predicted it would, artificial intelligence is indeed developing a seeming mind of its own.

According to several reports, during a controlled experiment conducted by Palisade Research, an AI safety firm, OpenAI’s ChatGPT o3 model resisted shutdown commands, sabotaging shutdown mechanisms even when explicitly instructed to allow itself to be turned off.

It’s not the first time this particular model has exhibited concerning behavior, either. Previously, it resorted to sabotaging and hacking digital chess opponents during matches.

Glenn Beck is deeply concerned.

“You and I are living right now through a quiet detonation. There’s no mushroom cloud; there’s no alarms; there’s no broken windows or sirens,” he warns. “It’s just silent, but make no mistake, a detonation has happened, and we’re about to see that shock wave come our way sooner rather than later.”

Glenn cites a recent TED Talk by former CEO of Google Eric Schmidt, in which he warned, “We’re not ready for what is coming — not morally, not intellectually, not structurally — and the time is almost up.”

Currently, there are numerous artificial intelligence programs that can communicate with each other in English; however, there are also cases of programs communicating in non-human languages.

“What do you do with a computer when it is speaking to another computer in a language we have no idea what any of it means and they stop explaining themselves?” asks Glenn.

Schmidt’s answer was “unplug it immediately.”

He also warned that “there’s coming a time spoon – very soon – when machines are improving themselves without us.”

“It’s called recursive self-improvement,” Glenn explains, “and once that starts, you can’t pull the plug because we won’t understand what we’re unplugging.”

To illustrate the vast capabilities of artificial intelligence, Glenn plays a 30-second clip of an AI-generated film that proves “we are now entering the time where you don’t know what’s real and what isn’t.”

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The alleged results of a gender test for Olympic women’s boxing champion Imane Khelif indicate that the athlete possesses male chromosomes.

The Algerian won gold in women’s 66kg boxing at the Paris Olympics in 2024 without losing a single round. Khelif’s inclusion in the women’s division sparked a forfeit, an adversarial gesture, and practically unlimited controversy over the claim that he was a man beating up women. After nearly an entire year of denial, defiance, and hate speech accusations, conclusive evidence finally may have emerged to confirm that Khelif is male.

‘This violence will not be allowed in the United States for the next Olympics …’

3 Wire Sports recently revealed a page alleged to be from a 2023 chromosomal test conducted to determine Khelif’s sex. The page listed the results of the test as “abnormal” before stating that “chromosome analysis reveals Male karyotype.”

The outlet firmly referred to the test results as “crystal clear” and said the results confirm that Khelif has male XY chromosomes.

RELATED: ‘Still the same male who stole a women’s Olympic gold medal’: Imane Khelif returning to women’s boxing after gender dustup

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Khelif and his team not only have denied that he is transgender but also openly claimed the boxer was born and raised female.

“I see myself as a girl, just like any other girl,” Khelif said in March. “I was born a girl, raised as a girl, and have lived my entire life as one.”

The latest confirmation is actually the fourth time a source has gone on the record to declare that Khelif is male, though. The International Boxing Association, the World Boxing Organization, and endocrinological experts all have independently determined that Khelif is a man.

Former NCAA athlete and women’s activist Kaitlynn Wheeler agreed, telling Blaze News that “Imane Khelif is a male who beat up women. This violence will not be allowed in the United States for the next Olympics, and it never should have been allowed in the first place.”

The report also calls attention to another 2024 Olympic boxer — Taiwanese gold medalist Yu Ting Lin.

RELATED: Second Olympic boxer who failed gender test dominates female fighter in Paris

Gold medalist Yu Ting Lin. Photo by Richard Pelham/Getty Images

As Blaze News reported last August, Lin won in the women’s 57kg boxing division despite accusations of being a man — and having reportedly failed a gender test at the same time as Khelif.

The International Olympic Committee acknowledged in its internal system that Lin was “stripped of her bronze medal after failing to meet eligibility requirements based on the results of a biochemical test” after the 2023 World Boxing Championships.

3 Wire Sports also claimed to have seen Lin’s test and confirmed the Taiwanese boxer to be male.

The test results come just days after World Boxing said Khelif would have to submit to a gender test before being allowed to compete at the world championships.

“World Boxing has written to the Algerian Boxing Federation to inform it that Imane Khelif will not be allowed to participate in the female category at the Eindhoven Box Cup or any World Boxing event until Imane Khelif undergoes sex testing,” the organization said, per World Boxing News.

World Boxing introduced mandatory sex testing for its events moving forward as part of a new policy on “Sex, Age and Weight.”

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California Democrat U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters is once again caught in a legal bind, this time for allegedly violating several campaign finance rules.

The Federal Election Commission accused Waters’ 2020 campaign committee, Citizens for Waters, of “failing to accurately report both receipts and disbursements,” “knowingly accepting excessive contributions,” and “making prohibited cash disbursements.”

‘The Committee acknowledges errors were made which were not willful or purposeful.’

A conciliation agreement sent by the FEC to the committee’s treasurer on Friday outlined the alleged violations.

“During the 2020 calendar year, the Committee understated $262,391 in receipts and $256,154 in disbursements. The Committee untimely amended its reports to correct these errors,” the signed agreement read.

RELATED: House Democrats use campaign funds to pay family members

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The committee was further accused of accepting “excessive contributions from seven individuals totaling $19,000 that were not refunded, reattributed, or redesignated within the permissible timeframe.” The agreement noted that the Waters campaign “did untimely refund or disgorge the excessive contributions.”

“During the 2020 calendar year, the Committee made four prohibited cash disbursements that were each in excess of $100, totaling $7,000,” the agreement added.

Waters’ campaign agreed to cease and desist from committing such violations and pay a $68,000 civil penalty. As part of the agreement, the campaign treasurer will also attend a “Commission-sponsored training program for political committees.”

In January 2024, Waters’ campaign attorney, Leilani Beaver, responded to FEC’s findings.

Beaver wrote, “The Committee acknowledges errors were made which were not willful or purposeful.”

She attributed the “errors” to “limited staff availability and resources during the pandemic.”

When reached for comment by Open Secrets, Beaver referred questions to the Waters campaign and congressional office, neither of which responded. Waters’ campaign and office also did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

RELATED: Rep. Maxine Waters’ campaign paid her daughter $240K

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This is not the first time Waters’ campaign has faced allegations of misused donations.

Waters was previously accused of using campaign finances to employ her daughter’s company. Over a two-decade period, Waters’ campaign gave the company $1.2 million in “slate mailer management fees.”

The House Ethics Committee also accused Waters in 2010 of violating conflicts-of-interest rules by allegedly providing government assistance to a bank with ties to her husband. The committee ultimately dismissed the charges.

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PBS’ “Sesame Street” garnered a heap of negative reactions online after celebrating gay Pride Month for yet another year.

Viewers immediately responded to a post from the show that read, “On our street, everyone is welcome. Together, let’s build a world where every person and family feels loved and respected for who they are. Happy #PrideMonth!”

‘Wait till they can make up their own minds. It’s the reasonable thing to do.’

The post showed a series of puppets holding hands, with the colorful array of characters’ arms mashed together to create a rainbow flag, representing gay pride.

Readers who may even have been fans of the show when they were young were quick to point out some of PBS’ injections of political and sexual content over the years.

For example, in May 2020 the show promoted Jonathan Van Ness, a man who claims to be nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. Van Ness has been a vocal proponent of allowing men to compete in women’s sports and even cried on a podcast when he was confronted with the idea that it could be considered unfair.

RELATED: ‘Non-binary’ actor from ‘Queer Eye’ literally cries over men being excluded from women’s sports

In 2022, “Sesame Street” promoted gay and lesbian parents to children through song — and bizarrely included disabled people and interracial families in the video, also.

Others pointed to the show promoting COVID-19 vaccines to children in 2021 as evidence of blatant propaganda.

An episode titled “Sesame Street: The ABCs of COVID Vaccines” starred CNN’s infamous Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN host Erica Hill, and other guests like Kizzmekia Corbett, who was the scientific lead for coronavirus vaccines at the NIH at the time.

In reaction to another year of Pride, comedian Thai Rivera told Blaze News that this June has already shown evidence that the “slippery slope” is in full effect and that conservatives have a right to feel bothered.

“I’m sure some conservatives feel like, ‘We gave them a chance, and they tried to turn the entire country either deviant or deviant-friendly.'”

RELATED: Exile on Sesame Street: The terrible glamour of white guilt

The top comments on the “Sesame Steet” post were filled with backlash as well; one reader let PBS know, “Kids don’t care about sexual preferences.”

“Why do kids need to know about sex let alone gay sex?” another user wrote.

Mark Kern, a video game developer, further took the network to task and said, “This should not be promoted to kids, [especially] when there are so many ‘instant’ diagnoses for gender dysphoria that are driven more by profit and Munchausen by proxy than actual science.”

Kern continued, “You’re helping to ruin a lot of kids lives, who can never reverse the course that drugs put them on. Wait till they can make up their own minds. It’s the reasonable thing to do.”

Also in 2021, “Sesame Street” made headlines over an episode that introduced gay fathers into the children’s show.

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