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Earlier this week John Solomon, founder of Just the News, reported a story alleging that a Democratic whistleblower, a career intelligence officer who worked for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, informed the FBI that then-Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) approved leaking classified information to smear and indict President Donald Trump during the Russiagate controversy.

The documents, described as “unethical,” “illegal,” and “treasonous,” claim the whistleblower attended a meeting where Schiff greenlit the leaks. Although the whistleblower reportedly relayed these concerns to the FBI multiple times between 2017 and 2023, the Justice Department declined to prosecute, citing Schiff’s protection under the Constitution’s speech and debate clause.

Glenn Beck calls Schiff a “dirt bag” for exploiting this clause, which protects members of Congress from being sued or prosecuted for things they say or do on the floor of the House or Senate as part of their official duties.

“He is leaking this information, but he’s leaking it on the floor of the House, and that way he can say, ‘I’m covered by the Constitution,’’’ criticizes Glenn.

The report also revealed that “some of the DOJ officials who declined to prosecute a rash of classified leaks during the Russiagate affair remain employed and in positions of power.”

“This thing is so deep and so nasty,” says Glenn, warning that if Schiff and other Russiagate accomplices aren’t prosecuted, a dangerous precedent will be set.

He warns that even Democrats who revel in attacks on President Trump should consider what could happen to one of their people if Republicans see the lack of accountability and say, “Oh, well, you’re going to play that way? Well, we can do that, too.”

“The left is now moving towards no rule of law,” says Glenn Beck, citing Beto O’Rourke’s recent remark, “F**k the rules, we’re gonna win whatever it takes,” about Texas Democrats who fled to block a GOP redistricting plan.

“That’s [Democrats’] message to people. That’s not good,” he says.

To hear more of Glenn’s commentary, watch the video above.

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A Rhode Island man indicted for allegedly threatening to assassinate President Donald J. Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller remains free on a GPS ankle monitor after two Democrat-affiliated federal judges refused the U.S. Department of Justice’s motions to jail him pending trial.

Carl D. Montague, 37, of Providence, was charged in an August 13 indictment with threats against the president, interstate threats, and threatening to assault, kidnap, or murder a United States official. All are felony charges that carry possible prison terms from five to 20 years.

‘The defendant’s threats … were egregiously violent and unambiguous in his intent to kill all three individuals.’

Montague was originally arrested July 9, and despite four assault convictions since 2014, a magistrate judge refused to jail him on a motion from the DOJ. A President Joe Biden-appointed U.S. district judge later refused another DOJ motion to detain Montague and ordered that he wear a GPS monitoring device instead.

President Trump faced two assassination attempts in 2024, the first by Thomas Crooks in Butler, Pa., on July 13 and the second on Sept. 15 in West Palm Beach, Fla., allegedly by Ryan Wesley Routh.

According to the FBI’s probable-cause statement, Montague posted a profanity-laced tirade on Truth Social on June 27:

It’s a shame you won’t get to see the end of your f****** term, because I’m gonna make sure I put a bullet rate [sic] between your f****** head you piece of s***, you Pam Bondi. Stephen f****** miller, all you b******, are gonna get a f****** bullet to the head every single f****** one of you.”

That same day, Truth Social reported the threat to the U.S. Secret Service. On June 28, the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center received an electronic tip about the threat.

After submitting emergency disclosure requests to Google, Verizon Wireless, and PayPal, the FBI identified Montague as a suspect. Agents went looking for him June 29 at a Providence housing unit associated with Open Doors, a nonprofit that helps formerly incarcerated individuals re-enter society.

On June 30, agents visited the apartment of a known associate of Montague in the same complex. The man told them he had not seen Montague “in a few days,” the FBI said. Another resident told agents he was sure Montague was in the apartment they had just visited. When agents returned to that unit, they found Montague hiding in the bathtub, the FBI said.

“Montague began confessing to making threats before agents were able to introduce themselves or explained why they were there,” the FBI statement said.

Montague was shown the Truth Social post, and he “confirmed it was the post he submitted,” the FBI said.

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Montague told agents “he was smoking a lot of marijuana when he posted the threat” and claims “he deleted his Truth Social account after sending the message.” He said he didn’t know why he included Bondi and Miller in his posting, except he “observed their names in prior threads and posts.”

Montague was arrested by the FBI on July 9 and named in a criminal complaint. He was released on a $10,000 appearance bond by U.S. Magistrate Judge Amy Moses, despite the DOJ’s motion to detain him.

Judge Moses was a law clerk for U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell Jr., an appointee of President Barack Obama, and previously served as deputy counsel for Democrat Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo.

‘The defendant’s recent violent threats are the latest in a long history of violent and threatening behavior.’

Less than a week after Moses released Montague, the DOJ filed another motion with a district judge to revoke the release and detain Montague pending trial. The DOJ said that “his release endangers the safety of the persons to whom he directed his threats and the community.”

On July 25, U.S. District Judge Melissa R. DuBose denied the motion to detain Montague and instead ordered a GPS ankle monitor and an 8 p.m.-7 a.m. curfew.

Judge DuBose was appointed to the bench in January 2025 by President Biden. She is the first openly lesbian and black female jurist to serve on the federal bench in the Rhode Island district.

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According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Dulce Donovan, Montague’s threats “were egregiously violent and unambiguous in his intent to kill all three individuals. His posting on June 27, 2025, left nothing to the imagination.”

Montague has “multiple convictions for violent assaults,” Donovan said, including in 2014, 2015, 2018, and 2022.

“Further, the defendant committed the first three of these offenses while on probation and after having been court ordered to undergo mental health treatment and/or substance abuse counseling. Put simply, the defendant’s recent violent threats are the latest in a long history of violent and threatening behavior,” Donovan said.

After his initial appearance in federal court July 9, Montague “lashed out in a profanity-laden outburst at reporters who were waiting outside the courthouse,” Donovan said.

“The defendant’s inability to control his behavior immediately following his initial court appearance on charges of threatening to kill the President suggest a person who currently is incapable of adhering to the court’s expectations and live within the bounds of the law,” Donovan wrote in the DOJ motion to detain. “Instead, the defendant has significant mental health and substance abuse issues and lacks the ability to control his aggression.”

An arraignment date for Montague has not been set.

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The left’s “long march through the institutions” was a great success. Since the time that slogan was coined in the late 1960s, numerous businesses, churches, law enforcement agencies, schools, and other organizations have been transformed into incubators for radical activists and amplifiers for anti-Western campaigns.

The marchers have, however, been stopped in their tracks by President Donald Trump, who has supercharged conservatives’ reconquest of American institutions and normalcy advocates’ corresponding war on DEI, critical race theory, gender ideology, and anti-Semitism.

Liberals — including CNN’s chief media analyst, Brian Stelter — appear concerned that the president might successfully liberate the Smithsonian in time for America’s 250th birthday as part of this broader campaign.

How it started

The president issued an executive order on March 27 titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”

“Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth,” Trump wrote.

‘Museums in our Nation’s capital should be places where individuals go to learn — not to be subjected to ideological indoctrination.’

“This revisionist movement seeks to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light,” continued the president. “Under this historical revision, our Nation’s unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, and human happiness is reconstructed as inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed.”

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Trump blasted his predecessor’s administration for advancing “this corrosive ideology” and identified several examples of the Smithsonian-housed anti-American propaganda at issue, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s assertions that the nuclear family, rugged individualism, self-reliance, prioritization of work over play, emphasis on rational, linear thinking, punctuality, decisiveness, and a future-oriented outlook are “aspects and assumptions of whiteness and white culture in the United States.”

“Museums in our Nation’s capital should be places where individuals go to learn — not to be subjected to ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives that distort our shared history,” wrote Trump.

The president directed Vice President JD Vance, a member of the Smithsonian Board of Regents, to work with Lindsey Halligan, special assistant to the president, and Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought to see to the removal of “improper ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution, its 21 museums and 14 education and research centers, and the National Zoo.

How it’s going

The White House is presently whipping the Smithsonian into shape.

Halligan, Vought, and Vince Haley, director of the Domestic Policy Council, sent a letter to Smithsonian Institution secretary Lonnie Bunch III on Tuesday, noting that they will “be leading a comprehensive internal review of selected Smithsonian museums and exhibitions.”

‘It really is a colonoscopy of the Smithsonian.’

The first phase of this review concerns eight museums, including the National Museums of American History, Natural History, African American History and Culture, and the American Indian. Other Smithsonian museums will be assessed in the second phase of the review.

In their review, Trump’s team will:

“assess tone, historical framing, and alignment with American ideals” when it comes to public-facing content; interview curators and senior staff to “better understand the selection process, exhibition approval workflows, and any frameworks currently guiding exhibition content”;review current and future exhibitions, especially those planned for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence; andlook to the development of consistent curatorial guidelines.

Halligan, Haley, and Vought also requested that the Smithsonian cough up an index of all permanent holdings as well as documents relevant to its 250th anniversary programming, current exhibition content, internal guidelines, governance, educational materials, external partnerships, grant data, and digital presence.

While the reviewers want some of these documents submitted within the next 30 days, the remainder need to be turned in by the end of October.

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By Dec. 10, the White House team wants the museums to begin “implementing content corrections where necessary, replacing divisive or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate, and constructive descriptions across placards, wall didactics, digital displays, and other public-facing materials.”

The letter indicated that the purpose of this review is to “ensure alignment with the President’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive or partisan narratives, and restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions.”

Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told Blaze News that “it really is a colonoscopy of the Smithsonian.”

Gonzalez noted that in addition to glossing over or ignoring key aspects of what makes America exceptional, such as its recognition of natural rights, the Smithsonian continues to push leftist propaganda, engage in lies of omission, and glorify radicals such as Angela Davis.

Davis is a former Black Panther and recipient of the Soviet Union’s Lenin Peace Prize who was once accused of supplying weapons to a black supremacist who went on to murder Superior Court Judge Harold Haley and two inmates.

“She’s an awful person, but she gets four exhibits and Justice [Clarence] Thomas gets nothing,” said Gonzalez.

PEN America, a liberal organization that has fought parents’ efforts to keep LGBT propaganda out of the classroom, condemned the White House initiative.

“Telling the story of the United States must extend to the full and complex history of its past and present, including an honest assessment of wrongs and injustices, and a recognition of the never-ending project of creating a more perfect union,” stated Hadar Harris, managing director of PEN America’s office in Washington, D.C. “The administration’s efforts to rewrite history are a betrayal of our democratic traditions and a deeply concerning effort to strip truth from the institutions that tell our national story, from the Smithsonian to our national parks.”

Brian Stelter asked CNN’s remaining viewers this week, “Do you want Trump White House political appointees, political aides vetting the tone and the content and the framing of museum exhibits? That is the question on the table here.”

Stelter suggested that some say the White House’s initiative “sounds like a Stalinist purge — sounds like something out of history books about regimes trying to control information.”

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller stated on Thursday, “The Trump Administration will proudly and diligently restore the patriotic glory of America and ensure the Smithsonian is a place that once more inspires love and devotion to this nation, especially among our youngest citizens.”

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A deep-state agent exposed as an imposter by Blaze News just had her security clearance revoked.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released newly declassified documents last month exposing how the Obama administration appeared to manufacture the Russia hoax — a well-coordinated and deceptive effort that the DNI has characterized as a “treasonous conspiracy.”

Elements of the deep state quickly went into damage control.

While ex-CIA Director John Brennan played the victim on cable news and former DNI James Clapper lawyered up, Susan Miller, an ex-spy who was with the CIA for nearly 40 years, went on a media tour to frame Gabbard as a liar and to deny the new evidence.

‘Susan Miller was not an author of the 2017 ICA.’

Miller, a good friend of former Obama official and Democrat megadonor Caroline Kennedy, told NBC News, for instance, that “the director of national intelligence and the White House are lying, again.”

Miller’s Russia hoax-centered attacks and refutations were taken seriously by the liberal media on the basis of the claim that she was an author of the the now-infamous 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment and had critical insights into its development.

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CNN identified Miller as “an author of the agency’s 2017 intelligence report on Russian election meddling.” NBC News claimed she “helped oversee the 2017 intelligence assessment on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.” A Mustang News puff piece said that “she authored the initial report proving the Russians interfered in the 2016 election in an attempt to sway the presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor.”

Miller was more than happy to present as an integral part of the team behind the ICA, telling the “SpyTalk” podcast that she “headed up the report team” that compiled the assessment.

Blaze News revealed, however, that much like the Russia collusion narrative, Miller’s leadership role in the 2017 ICA was a deep-state fiction.

A source familiar with the assessment told Blaze News that “Susan Miller was not an author of the 2017 ICA.”

A senior intelligence official also confirmed to investigative journalist Matt Taibbi’s Racket News, “Not an author. Not involved.”

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Another person familiar with the investigation noted, “She’s not the author of the ICA … she wasn’t leading this effort. So it’s just totally bizarre that she claims the opposite.”

Miller’s attempt to lay claim to the ICA is particularly strange given the mounting evidence to suggest that it was patchwork of lies.

‘That’s not even a non-denial denial.’

The CIA’s June review of the ICA found that there were “multiple procedural anomalies” in the production of the Obama-ordered January 2017 assessment, including “a highly compressed production timeline, stringent compartmentation, and excessive involvement of agency heads.”

The newly declassified House Intelligence Committee majority staff report released by Gabbard last month further indicated that the ICA was a Brennan-masterminded fiction comprising misquotes, unreliable reports, lies of omission, and straight-out falsehoods.

Top-secret emails released by Gabbard this week show not only the apparent level of coordination by top Obama officials on the ICA but their apparent willingness to “compromise” on “normal modalities.”

When pressed about her actual role on the ICA, Miller told Blaze News, “My team and I at CIA wrote a CIA analysis about Russian influence on the election.”

“This was a CIA report, briefed to Trump by our then-director, and by me to the Senate and congressional intelligence committees. The DNI used that report as the basis for the ICA,” continued Miller. “I indeed did not write the ICA, but the ODNI used my report as the basis for theirs.”

Taibbi said of Miller’s response, “That’s not even a non-denial denial. It’s an oops.”

Miller has lost a great deal more than credibility.

Two Trump administration officials said to be familiar with the matter told the Federalist that Miller’s security clearance has been terminated, the outlet reported Thursday.

A senior administration official told the Federalist, “Russian hoaxers sought to undermine President Trump’s entire first term in office. A woman involved in the Russia hoax cannot be trusted with a security clearance. Therefore, it has been revoked.”

Miller previously boasted about having “full clearance” on her LinkedIn page. The page was recently deleted.

“This woman totally shouldn’t hold a high-level security clearance after pushing the Russia hoax. All she did was lie to the American people to hurt Trump,” a senior Pentagon official told the Federalist.

Despite her recent efforts to deceive the American public, the International Spy Museum is apparently still set to give Miller its Hidden Hero Award in November.

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President Donald Trump’s latest push to clean up the streets of Washington, D.C., reached new heights after law enforcement arrested and charged a man for allegedly hurling a Subway sandwich at a federal officer.

A police complaint identified the man as Sean Charles Dunn, a 37-year-old D.C. resident who was captured shouting obscenities at police before apparently chucking the footlong at law enforcement Tuesday night. Dunn is now facing a felony charge for assaulting a federal officer, according to the FBI.

‘I did it. I threw a sandwich.’

Dunn initially approached law enforcement and got within inches of an officer’s face, yelling, “F**k you! You f**king fascists!” according to the complaint. Dunn later crossed the street while continuing to yell obscenities before returning to throw the sandwich and striking a federal officer in the chest, video of the incident indicated.

Dunn quickly attempted to flee on foot following the confrontation, but he was swiftly apprehended, video showed.

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While Dunn was being processed, he admitted to the police that he was the culprit, according to the complaint.

“I did it. I threw a sandwich.”

U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro said she was going to “back the police to the hilt” after charging Dunn with a felony.

“Assault a law enforcement officer, and you’ll be prosecuted,” Pirro said in a statement on X. “This guy thought it was funny — well, he doesn’t think it’s funny today, because we charged him with a felony.”

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“We’re going to back the police to the hilt,” Pirro added. “So there! Stick your Subway sandwich somewhere else.”

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It may feel like election season is over, but it’s just beginning, as the midterms are right around the corner.

And with President Donald Trump doing such a phenomenal job on issues like the border and immigration, BlazeTV host Steve Deace is curious as to how Republicans will be able to mobilize the same voters who came out in 2024.

“As hard as it was to assemble the coalition that it took to win the last election, I think it’s going to be harder to keep it together, because these are not groups of people that are used to necessarily being aligned on an issue-by-issue basis and the traditional Venn diagram of our politics,” Deace explains.

“And I have a little experience with this as one of the OG COVID scamdemic narrative dissenters. I found myself aligned with people like RFK Jr. and Naomi Wolf and Joe Rogan that I was not aligned with on a myriad of other issues, but we had one thing in common,” he continues.

“And that was we smelled a rat and we were seeking out truth,” he adds.

Which is why Deace believes that “the issues that are trending are going to be very important in telling the tale in what kind of voter comes out to vote in November of ‘26.”

“I’m actually writing a book on a topic very similar to this right now, and it goes to the base of what I believe actually drives all issue vote choice and others. Academic research backs this up. And that is voters’ emotions,” pollster Brent Buchanan agrees.

“If you use the 2024 election as a case study, the turnout among men was the highest as a percentage that it’s been in at least my lifetime in being in politics. Why? Because a huge swath of men were absolutely ticked off, angered, upset, frustrated, you know, kind of all within that anger bucket of emotions,” Buchanan says.

“And that is the number-one driver of turnout in elections,” he says. “Anxiety is the number-one driver of people digging into what they believe or looking up and trying to figure out where else can I go to make my anxiety go away.”

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The name sounds like something dreamed up on the set of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” A crude joke scrawled on a napkin during a particularly degenerate brainstorming session.

The man known as Hoe_Math admits as much. He chose the moniker before exploding across social media platforms. Before accumulating hundreds of thousands of followers, desperate for dating guidance. Before becoming the most brutally honest voice in relationship advice.

Modern dating is a rigged game with a broken scoreboard. Apps have turned romance into a dopamine casino, where the house always wins and the average guy always loses.

The origin is hazy. One story goes that a commenter once wrote, “It’s too early in the morning for ho math.” He liked it, branded it, and went with it. Sometimes, the clearest insights come disguised as barroom nonsense.

(Note: I reached out to Hoe_Math to confirm the origin, but received no reply by time of publication.)

Scientific precision

The name belies the wisdom contained within. Hoe_Math’s content represents some of the most researched, thoughtfully presented dating advice available online. Every video dissects male-female dynamics with scientific precision, testifying to his alleged background in developmental psychology. Charts and graphs replace empty platitudes. Data replaces wishful thinking.

The approach is refreshingly mathematical. Hence the name. Dating becomes a series of equations to solve, variables to optimize, probabilities to calculate. Young men struggling with modern romance finally get concrete frameworks instead of vague encouragement. The advice works because it acknowledges uncomfortable realities that other creators ignore.

Most dating influencers peddle fantasy. They promise easy solutions to complex problems. Hoe_Math serves brutal truths with a sugarcoating of humor — laugh, wince, learn. His videos explain why certain strategies fail, why conventional wisdom leads to disappointment, why the dating market operates according to rules nobody wants to acknowledge.

No sex wars

His content speaks directly to young men lost in the wreckage of modern dating. But women gain just as much. His breakdowns of male psychology are tools for seeing through the fog of emotional misfires, mixed signals, and cultural confusion.

Unlike so many other individuals in the space, Hoe_Math doesn’t stoke the sex wars. He dissects them. He cuts past the noise and lays bare the primal instincts, the evolutionary wiring, the brutal incentives that shape modern dating. It’s not about blame. It’s about clarity. And in a landscape this dysfunctional, clarity is power.

What sets Hoe_Math apart is his humility. He doesn’t present himself as a guru. He doesn’t promise miraculous transformations. He’s genuinely happy about his success and believes in his analysis of intersexual dynamics. But he maintains painful self-awareness about his limitations.

In fact, he considers himself too old to take advantage of his hard-won wisdom. In a viral post on X earlier this year, he wrote:

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His brutal honesty struck a nerve — and even landed on the radar of “Red Scare,” the acid-tongued cultural podcast hosted by Anna Khachiyan and Dasha Nekrasova.

Bruised wisdom

The self-deprecation isn’t for show. He built his theories from personal failures — years of rejection, missteps, and romantic ruin. He isn’t preaching from a pedestal. He’s reporting from the rubble. That’s what makes it stick. There’s no hustle, no branding play. Just bruised wisdom, receipts of rejection, and data-backed despair.

The timing explains his explosive growth. Modern dating is a rigged game with a broken scoreboard. Apps have turned romance into a dopamine casino, where the house always wins and the average guy always loses.

Social media warps standards beyond recognition. Filters, thirst traps, and algorithm-fueled illusions have created a marketplace where attention, not character, is currency. The average man in his 20s or 30s now has a better chance of getting struck by lightning, hit by a falling air conditioner, or mauled by a gender studies major on Adderall than of finding the woman of his dreams on a dating app.

Starved for meaning

Amid this chaos, young people are starved for meaning. They need more than motivational fluff or red-pill rage. They need frameworks, truths they can actually apply. That’s what he offers.

His charts and diagrams make abstract concepts concrete. The “Sexual Market Value” discussions feel clinical rather than offensive. He maps how attractiveness, resources, and social status interact in modern dating. The framework explains why certain people succeed while others struggle.

Hoe_Math’s SMV analysis reveals dramatic shifts since the 1990s. Back then, dating pools were geographically limited. Your competition was local. Social media didn’t exist to showcase everyone else’s highlights. Dating apps hadn’t gamified romance into a brutal efficiency contest.

In the 1990s, a reasonably attractive person in a small town had genuine dating prospects. Today, that same person competes against algorithmically curated profiles from hundreds of miles away. The dating pool expanded infinitely. But so did the competition. Everyone’s standards inflated accordingly.

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Starved for truth

Hoe_Math’s charts illustrate this mathematical reality. Women on dating apps receive massive attention from desperate men. This attention distorts their perception of their own market value. They start believing they deserve partners far above their actual attractiveness level. The result is widespread dissatisfaction as expectations clash with reality.

Men face the opposite problem. Dating apps favor the top 10% of male profiles. Average men become invisible. Their market value crashes in digital spaces despite being perfectly viable partners in real-world contexts. The apps create artificial scarcity that benefits neither sex in the long term.

The phenomenon speaks to something deeper: a cultural starvation for truth. People are done listening to influencers pushing sanitized advice approved by HR departments. Hoe_Math breaks that mold. He isn’t pitching a brand or selling a fantasy. He’s a man who’s been crushed by the machine and lived to diagram it. The honesty cuts. His failures are functional. They forged the frameworks. In a world drowning in performative wellness and fake confidence, failure becomes a mark of authenticity. If he had started out successful, no one would care. The fact that he didn’t is the entire point.

Whether his ideas have staying power is almost irrelevant. Dating norms shift, trends mutate, platforms rise and fall. But right now, he offers structure in the chaos. He gives young men language for what they’re living through and women a mirror for what men silently endure.

That’s valuable. That’s rare. Hoe_Math might be anonymous. His name might be ridiculous. But the impact is real. His charts make sense of nonsense. His pain translates into structure. And in this era of swipe-fueled psychosis, that makes him a prophet worth listening to.

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The Trump administration’s National Institutes of Health is still funding some medical researchers who suppressed debate about the possibility of a lab leak as the origin of COVID-19.

Following the outbreak, then-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci and then-NIH Director Francis Collins strongly condemned allegations that the virus was the result of a lab leak, primarily citing a March 2020 peer-reviewed article from National Medicine titled “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2.”

‘How do you put all this together, whether you believe in this series of coincidences, what you know of the lab in Wuhan, how much could be in nature — accidental release or natural event?’

However, released emails revealed that the scientists involved in drafting the Proximal Origin initially had concerns that the virus had leaked from a lab.

Kristian G. Andersen, who would go on to be listed as the primary author of the article, wrote in an email to Fauci on January 31, “The unusual features of the virus make up a really small part of the genome (<0.1%) so one has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially) look engineered.”

Andersen further noted that he, Edward Holmes, Robert Garry, and Michael Farzan “all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory.”

“But we have to look at this much more closely and there are still further analyses to be done, so those opinions could still change,” he added.

Holmes and Garry also helped draft the Proximal Origin.

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In an email to Fauci and Collins on February 2, 2020, Farzan was quoted as saying, “Nothing seems to specifically suggest whether this virus was most likely to be ‘adapted,’ ‘evolved,’ or maybe even ‘engineered.’ So I think it becomes a question of how do you put all this together, whether you believe in this series of coincidences, what you know of the lab in Wuhan, how much could be in nature — accidental release or natural event?”

“I am 70:30 or 60:40,” he concluded. Farzan later backtracked, claiming those numbers were “inverted.”

A House subcommittee found that the report was created after Fauci and Collins held a conference call in February with roughly a dozen scientists, four of whom drafted the paper days later. That draft was reportedly sent to Fauci and Collins “for editing and approval” before it was published.

During a 2023 congressional hearing, Andersen denied allegations that Fauci prompted researchers to write the Proximal Origin report and rejected claims that grants were used to persuade scientists to dismiss the lab-leak theory.

Despite early suspicions about the virus’ origins, the final published version of the paper stated that the scientists’ “analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.”

The report sparked allegations that the once-skeptical authors were now complicit in the cover-up of the virus’ origins.

Yet grant records show that Andersen, Garry, and Ian Lipkin are still receiving taxpayer-funded grants, several of which are being used to conduct COVID-related research.

Andersen is receiving a few grants from the NIAID: one worth over $2.5 million, another for $319,000, and a third for $602,000.

The first grant provides funding to the Center for Viral Systems Biology. Andersen is the director and principal investigator of CViSB, while Garry is the co-director.

The project’s summary states, “The COVID-19 pandemic is a stark reminder of the threat posed by infectious diseases, but other priority pathogens, such as Lassa and Ebola viruses, continue to pose significant challenges in endemic areas.”

“Our central hypothesis remains that complex networks of viral and human factors, including distinct clinical, immunological, genetic, virological, and physiological attributes play key roles in determining the outcome and spread of Lassa, Ebola, and COVID-19,” it continues. “Our overall goal is to identify these molecular networks and provide a deep system-level understanding of the virus, host, and environmental drivers of disease severity and spread to discover predictive markers of human disease.”

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The second grant provides funding for the CViSB’s Administrative Core, led by Andersen, which includes support for all of the center’s research projects to ensure its goals are successfully met.

The third grant funds “Project 2,” which aims to “investigate the complex interplay of virus genetics and host immunity in determining epidemiology and outcome of infection with Lassa virus, Ebola virus, and SARS-CoV-2.”

Garry was listed as the project leader on a separate grant for “Project 1,” totaling nearly $515,000. The project’s goal is “to generate an integrated, systems-level dataset that will enable development of models that predict disease severity or long-term sequelae in individuals infected with Lassa virus, Ebola virus or SARS-CoV-2, and protective responses to vaccines.”

Another separate grant, totaling over $1.9 million, went to Columbia University’s Center for Infection and Immunity for a project to study “gene-environment interactions between the immune system and infectious agents.” The project lead and investigator was listed as Ian W. Lipkin, another co-author of the Proximal Origin.

Lipkin informed Blaze News that he is not pursuing SARS-CoV-2 research.

“Unless new data are uncovered that unequivocally demonstrate a point source, I don’t see how there will be resolution of this contentious and destructive debate,” Lipkin said. “What is unequivocal is that wild animal markets and unregulated research with known or potential pandemic pathogens pose unacceptable risks to public health.”

According to the NIH RePORTER, Holmes and Andrew Rambaut, also a Proximal Origin co-author, do not appear to have any active projects that are receiving grants at this time.

Dr. Richard H. Ebright of Rutgers University told Blaze News that there is “compelling evidence” that the authors of the Proximal Origin knew the paper’s conclusions were “invalid at the time it was submitted for publication, at the time it was accepted for publication, and at the time it was published.”

He accused the authors of committing “science fraud by publishing conclusions they knew to be invalid” and then “compound[ing] that science fraud by publishing patently unsound follow-up papers purporting to support the invalid conclusions.”

Ebright called for the NIH Office of Research Integrity and the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate and “pursue retraction of their fraudulent paper and unsound follow-up papers, termination and clawback of their federal funding, and debarment from eligibility for future federal funding.”

An NIH spokesperson told Blaze News, “NIH does not discuss grants compliance reviews on specific funded awards, recipient institutions, or supported investigators, whether or not such reviews occurred or are under way.”

Andersen and Garry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Have you ever lain in bed wondering how to (hypothetically) evade capture by federal agents?

No? Well, that probably just means you’re normal. However, if you were to engage in this hypothetical, you might have considered Faraday bags. These bags, which are just small, flexible containers that block electromagnetic fields, have a number of potential uses.

You can, as I’ve written previously, use them as low-tech screen timers. However, their advertised use is a bit more ambitious. Need to survive an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, attack; avoid data harvesting by the NSA; or go on the run from the FBI? These bags, according to their sellers, have you covered.

In today’s world, true privacy is impossible for most people without either a massive financial investment or a complete lifestyle and location change.

All joking aside, it’s worth taking a look at the specifics of what these bags are advertised for, the degree to which they actually live up to that advertising, and whether or not the advantages they provide are even all that useful.

Let’s talk about EMPs for a second. Faraday bags, since they are EMF-blocking, protect anything inside them from being harmed by some sort of EMP. Although never put to the ultimate test, hypothetically, in the event of some massive EMP attack, Faraday bags would protect your electronics from harm.

However, given the fact that an EMP attack would disable all the cell towers, it probably wouldn’t be much help. There is a chance that, if you were on T-Mobile’s new satellite cell coverage plan, you might still have service. (At the time of publication, T-Mobile has not responded to inquiries about potential coverage under such circumstances. So we’ll have to leave that idea in the realm of speculation.)

A more useful practice, if you wanted to venture into prepper territory, would be taking a device like a phone or tablet, downloading all sorts of useful instructions and information on it, and storing it in a Faraday bag. That way, when the EMP goes off, you’ll still have access to whatever you stored on there. This example is emblematic of Faraday bag usage more generally. They are most useful for specific needs and circumstances rather than being relied upon to preserve your way of life.

Say you and your girlfriend have that lamentable iPhone feature where you can see one another’s locations, and you need to scope out a proposal spot without giving the game away. (This is not a personal anecdote — I remain a loyal Motorola customer.) By slipping your phone into a Faraday bag, you can location-scout to your heart’s content and still be able to call 911 if you get a little too close to that scenic cliff.

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Say you work somewhere in the intricate world of the conservative movement, you’re meeting in a back room with some associates, and you would rather not have the contents of your conversation leaked to the New York Times. Having everyone put their phones in their bags for the meeting is a quick way to ensure your privacy. (Assuming, of course, that the curtains are drawn to prevent anyone from shooting a laser at the glass and analyzing the vibrations to figure out what you’re saying — yes, that’s a real thing.)

Now, if you really are some sort of Jason Bourne character on the run from your country’s intelligence agencies, a Faraday bag will absolutely come in handy. However, those sorts of characters have particular sets of skills which allow them to disappear and outwit the combined forces of whatever agency or country is trying to find or capture them. Unlike Ethan Hunt or Mitch Rapp, the average person does not have years of counterintelligence training and access to a global network of shadowy underworld experts. “Disappearing” is a lot harder than the movies make it look. Most people have regular jobs and live in regular houses. (Well, these days it’s probably a regular apartment if you’re under 40 and don’t make six figures.) This normal life means that, in the event of some situation where the FBI becomes intent on hunting you down, the means to your demise are already out there.

A friend of mine recently had to give his Social Security number just to get hot water in his house. That’s just one example, but it shows just how much about you and your habits is already in some federal database. Have you flown on an airline recently? Well, TSA has a scan of your face now. Oh, you declined the scan? Yeah, that’s cute. Does your car have a license plate? You’re going to need to ditch that, which is illegal, which means the police can pull you over, run your name (because you need to hand over that photo ID or you’ll be arrested), and immediately call it in to whatever sinister agency is hunting you down.

Say you evade the cops after a high-speed chase, so they don’t know who you are (assuming one of the many toll centers or other camera systems around our roadways didn’t scan your VIN and send it to law enforcement.) You’ll need food and shelter. Unless you’re dumb enough to use a credit card, you’ll have to bring all your cash along with you. Unless you’re sleeping in the woods, you’ll need a hotel (unless you plan to get your friends or family arrested for sheltering you). Hotels almost always require DOB, name, and address — and they probably won’t take cash. If you are hiding out in the woods, remember not to light a fire. Actually, go ahead. The thermal drone they’re using will pick up your body heat either way.

These are only a few of the ways in which normal people can be tracked and apprehended. The point of this digression is not to blackpill you or even to rail against post-Patriot Act America. It’s simply a reminder to have realistic expectations when purchasing or using tech such as Faraday bags. They aren’t going to turn your life around and make you into a covert operative, but they can make certain situations a little less stressful. They are one small part of a much larger apparatus and game plan in the event that you actually need to drop off the grid.

In today’s world, true privacy is impossible for most people without either a massive financial investment or a complete lifestyle and location change. If you have the ability to do either of those things, good for you. If not, my advice would be to focus on using the means you have at your disposal to protect specific, manageable areas. Sometimes it’s using Signal or Telegram instead of SMS, or taking notes in a physical notebook instead of an app. Sometimes it’s using a Faraday bag to keep a conversation private or protect your favorite iPhone game from an EMP. At the end of the day, the choices you make are going to have a far greater impact on your privacy than the tech you use.

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President Trump is right: It’s a disgrace that violent criminals and gangs roam freely through the nation’s capital — even in neighborhoods housing top government officials. Federalizing control over D.C. law enforcement and deploying the National Guard makes sense. But the deeper rot isn’t a lack of police presence. It’s the collapse of deterrence through weak sentencing and a revolving door for repeat offenders, especially juveniles.

If Trump truly wants to make Washington safe — and follow El Salvador’s tough-on-crime model — he must break from the “criminal justice reform” movement he once embraced. Those same policies have turned D.C. into a carjacker’s paradise.

The bipartisan experiment with leniency has failed. The bipartisan demand for safety is loud and clear.

No cherry-picked statistics can hide the reality: Lawmakers, staffers, and high-ranking officials fear walking around parts of the city, including Capitol Hill, even during the day. The recent attack on DOGE official Edward Coristine by a pack of 10 juveniles attempting to steal a woman’s car says everything. In 2023, D.C.’s carjacking rate hit 142.8 per 100,000 people, up 565% since 2019. Juveniles committed 63% of those crimes, with guns involved in more than three-quarters of cases.

The crime wave wasn’t random. In 2018, the D.C. Council passed the Youth Rehabilitation Act Amendment, allowing most offenders under 25 to get reduced sentences and sealed records. Repeat armed carjackers face little risk of long-term prison time. Even FBI agents have been victims. Mayor Muriel Bowser admitted some juvenile carjackers have six or seven priors — and still walk free.

Other “reform” laws stacked the deck. The Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act allowed resentencing for crimes committed before age 18. The Second Look Amendment of 2020 expanded that leniency to criminals sentenced before the age of 25 — prime time for violent crime. These measures all but erased the deterrent effect of sentencing.

And this isn’t just a problem for left-wing dystopian cities and states. Republican lawmakers in red states have pushed softer juvenile laws, too. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) had to veto several leniency bills. He remains one of the few willing to confront the bipartisan jailbreak agenda.

Over the past decade, leaders in both parties have embraced the “decarceration” canard. They’ve reduced sentences, ignored parole violations, and wiped criminal records — all in the name of shrinking prison populations.

The result? Predictable chaos.

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President Reagan’s Task Force on Victims of Crime saw it coming four decades ago: “Juveniles too often are not held accountable for their conduct, and the system perpetuates this lack of accountability.”

Trump himself backed the First Step Act, which released dangerous offenders early. One of them — Glynn Neal, with a long record of violent crime — walked free just one day before stabbing a staffer for Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky).

Troops on the street can help. But this is more than a policing problem — it’s a policy problem. Trump’s second term should reject the leniency consensus and restore deterrence, starting with nullifying D.C.’s soft-on-crime laws.

If he wants to win the public’s trust on crime, he must trade “criminal justice reform” for criminal justice enforcement. The bipartisan experiment with leniency has failed. The bipartisan demand for safety is loud and clear.

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California police arrested a couple after finding a man with serious injuries and transporting him to a hospital for treatment on Monday.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said the harrowing incident began at about 1:23 p.m. on Tussing Ranch Road in the city of Apple Valley.

‘The victim was struck and run over several times by the vehicle and became pinned beneath a tire.’

Police said the victim was walking near the home of the couple, who were identified as 36-year-old David Schaar and 38-year-old Jacqueline Chapman.

“The suspects chased the victim in a pickup truck,” reads a press release from the sheriff’s department. “The victim was struck and run over several times by the vehicle and became pinned beneath a tire.”

Police said the couple exited the vehicle and sprayed pepper spray in the man’s face while he was still wedged underneath the wheel.

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Schaar and Chapman were arrested a short time later and taken to High Desert Detention Center in Adelanto.

Chapman was booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and also on auto theft from a different incident. Her bail was set at $40,000. Schaar was booked on suspicion of unlawful use of tear gas, and his bail was set at $30,000.

Police did not release any information about the possible motive for the attack, nor did they release the status of the victim.

Apple Valley is a town of about 76,000 residents located between San Bernardino and Barstow.

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The race to the moon has kicked off again, as the Trump administration is accelerating plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon in order to power a base for humans.

According to a directive by acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy, the reactor would launch to the moon by 2030. China and Russia are also aiming to use nuclear power on the moon by the end of the decade, which according to Duffy is necessary to sustain life there.

“There’s a certain part of the moon that everyone knows is the best. We have ice there. We have sunlight there. We wanna get there first and claim that for America,” Duffy said.

“The plan involves us to return astronauts to the moon and be a leader in space exploration, because right now, on this whole going back to the moon thing, we’re behind Russia and China because they’re really serious about it, and they’ve been serious about it,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray comments on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”

However, the news that NASA will be developing reactors for the moon is coming at a challenging time for the agency, as at least 20% of NASA’s workforce has opted to leave the agency through the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program.

The current administration has also proposed decreasing NASA’s budget.

“How much faith do we have in our government doing all this considering they don’t even have the technology to get us back to the moon to begin with?” producer Keith Malinak asks.

“I’ve got almost none,” Gray says. “Especially by 2030.”

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Political courage is rare, and common sense now gets dismissed as a conspiracy theory. This week, however, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took a step that should have been taken decades ago. He told Big Soda: “Not on the taxpayer’s dime.”

“If you want to buy a sugary soda, the U.S. taxpayer should not pay for it,” Kennedy said, in remarks that rattled the food-industrial complex. “The U.S. taxpayer should not be paying to feed kids, the poorest kids in the country, that will give them diabetes.”

Banning soda and candy from SNAP removes the government’s role as the sugar daddy of the sugar industry.

The sugar lobby, soda executives, and professional grievance-mongers will no doubt howl, accusing Kennedy of “food policing” or “waging war on the poor.” But defending Pepsi purchases with food stamps as a civil rights cause doesn’t just miss the point — it reveals how far detached these elites are from reality.

State-subsidized sickness

“We are spending $405 million a day on” the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Kennedy said. “About 10% is going to sugary drinks. If you add candies to that, it’s about 13% to 17%.” That’s roughly $60 million a day funneled into sugar water and junk food — paid for by you, the taxpayer.

This is state-subsidized sickness. America’s diabetes epidemic didn’t happen by chance — it’s the inevitable result of a system that promotes poor nutrition, rewards ultra-processed junk, and ignores the long-term damage.

More than 11% of Americans now live with diabetes. It’s not just a blood sugar problem — it’s a direct path to amputations, blindness, kidney failure, and premature death.

The American Diabetes Association puts the total economic cost of diagnosed diabetes at $412 billion annually. That’s a national crisis, not a mere lifestyle choice. And the bitter irony? The same government programs paying for treatment are also funding the sugar that drives the disease.

Stop footing the bill

Kennedy’s move isn’t cruel. It’s compassionate. It’s “making America healthy again.”

The opposition is already lining up. The usual suspects will cry “nanny state,” as if forcing taxpayers to underwrite Mountain Dew is some sacred constitutional principle.

Others will insist people have the right to choose what they eat — and they do. But choosing to guzzle liquid diabetes is not the same as expecting everyone else to pick up the tab.

No one’s banning soda. Buy it. Swim in it, if you like. Just don’t expect SNAP funds — meant to keep vulnerable families from going hungry — to cover your 64-ounce daily dose of high-fructose heartbreak.

Kennedy’s proposal isn’t radical. The Women, Infants, and Children program already limits purchases to nutritionally approved foods, prioritizing health over indulgence. SNAP should follow the same logic.

Our national health model is failing. As Tim Keller, founder of U.S. Diabetes Care and a fierce critic of reactive medicine, puts it: “Western medicine is broken. Doctors treat a symptom, not a patient.”

A broken health paradigm

Keller is right. We’ve built an entire health care system on the back of symptom suppression — pills for blood pressure, injections for insulin, meds for cholesterol — while ignoring the root causes.

Instead of handing patients more prescriptions, approaches like Keller’s emphasize science-backed lifestyle changes that reverse diabetes altogether. These tools don’t just manage symptoms; they seek to reverse diabetes altogether using modern tools like diabetes management apps, empowering patients with real-time data, meal tracking, and coaching.

The result is a digital frontline in the war against chronic disease. “Diabetes is not a life sentence — we’re here to prove it,” says Keller.

But all the apps, education, and healthy lifestyle coaching in the world mean nothing if we keep dumping sugar down the throats of the nation’s poorest citizens with federal blessing. You can’t cure diabetes while simultaneously funding it.

Drawing a red line

MAHA needs to draw a firm line. It can’t posture as the party of platitudes while taxpayer billions bankroll chronic disease.

The United States spends more on health care than any nation on Earth, yet it trails most developed countries on nearly every health measure. That’s no accident. It’s the inevitable result of subsidizing failure and calling it “freedom.”

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Removing soda and candy from SNAP is a simple, necessary first step to reversing this decline. It preserves personal choice while ending the federal government’s role as sugar daddy to the sugar industry.

MAHA’s moment

Conservatives should seize this moment. If we’re serious about cutting waste, improving public health, and restoring dignity to our social safety net, we should champion reforms like this — not shy away from them.

Nothing is “pro poor” about enabling chronic disease. Nothing is “compassionate” about funding metabolic illness. And nothing is “American” about trapping people in a system that feeds them into the health care meat grinder.

Let’s Make America Healthy Again. Let’s end the era of federally funded junk food. And let’s prove that health, like liberty, starts with responsibility.

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First lady Melania Trump has threatened legal action against Hunter Biden, the son of the former president, over comments he made about her and pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.

The first lady’s attorney fired off the threat against Biden in a letter accusing him of making “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements” about her, according to Fox News Digital.

‘These false, disparaging, defamatory, and inflammatory statements are extremely salacious and have been widely disseminated throughout various digital mediums.’

The letter demanded Biden retract the claims from a YouTube video titled “Hunter Biden Returns,” as well as release an apology.

Biden is quoted as making the claim that Epstein first introduced Donald Trump to Melania, which the letter says is a false claim and defamatory per se.

“These false, disparaging, defamatory, and inflammatory statements are extremely salacious and have been widely disseminated throughout various digital mediums,” the letter reads. “Indeed, the video has since been re-published by various media outlets, journalists, and political commentators with millions of social media followers that have disseminated the false and defamatory statements therein to tens of millions of people worldwide.”

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The letter offered a deadline of Aug. 7 for Biden to comply with the request, or they would file a lawsuit asking for more than $1 billion in damages.

Fox News Digital reported that a source close to the matter said Biden did not comply with the request by the deadline.

Neither Biden nor his attorney responded to a request for comment from FND.

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Two months after the first election victory of President Donald Trump in 2016, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper wrote an email about the investigation into Russian collusion that would remain top secret until Wednesday.

The email was released by current DNI Tulsi Gabbard, who has been uncovering the origins of the Russiagate scandal and building a case against Obama administration officials who orchestrated it.

‘The decision to compromise standards and violate protocols in the creation of the 2017 manufactured intelligence assessment was deliberate and came from the very top.’

The declassified document is an email from Clapper to former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey, among others.

“Newly declassified Top Secret emails sent on December 22, 2016 complying with President Obama’s order to create the manufactured January 2017 ICA about Russia expose how DNI James Clapper demanded the IC fall in line behind the Russia Hoax,” Gabbard explained.

She quotes Clapper saying that the effort was a “team sport” and that they needed to “compromise” on their “normal modalities.”

The email was a response to Mike Rogers, who was the director of the National Security Agency at the time. Rogers was expressing concern that the NSA did not have “sufficient access” to the underlying intelligence and that his personnel weren’t “fully comfortable saying that they have had enough time to review all of the intelligence to be absolutely confident in their assessments.”

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“The leading figures in the Russia hoax have spent years deceiving the American public by presenting their manufactured and politicized assessments as credible intelligence,” Gabbard added in a press release.

“The email released today reinforces what we already exposed: The decision to compromise standards and violate protocols in the creation of the 2017 manufactured intelligence assessment was deliberate and came from the very top,” she concluded.

Clapper did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

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The crime crisis in Washington, D.C., has sparked a historic federal takeover of the police by President Donald Trump — which has been answered with misinformation by frantic Democrats.

Democrats deny there’s a problem with crime in our nation’s capital, claiming that crime is down from its 2023 highs.

“Wow, what an accomplishment,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere mocks. “You took the worst year on record, and you are slightly down from that. Isn’t that wonderful?”

Democrat lawmakers and legacy media outlets responded to Trump’s complaint about violent crime by reporting that it decreased by 35% in 2024, citing local police data. However, the D.C. police only includes homicide, sex abuse crimes, assault with a dangerous weapon, and robbery in its overall violent crime statistics.

Aggravated assault and felony assault without the use of weapons are left out, despite the fact that according to D.C. law, they are “violent offenses causing bodily injury,” and according to the FBI, aggravated assaults are increasing.

And FBI data does not show violent offenses decreasing by 35% in 2024, but only by 10%.

FBI data also shows that homicides remain higher than pre-pandemic levels in the years since 2020, with the exception of 2021 — a year where apparently D.C. submitted incomplete data.

“So, basically these numbers mean nothing,” Stu says.

Not only are the stats telling a different story than the Democrat’s headlines, but a D.C. police commander is also on leave for allegedly falsifying that specific data. The Metropolitan Police Department suspended Michael Pulliam for allegedly manipulating crime numbers in his report.

“That’s not great,” Stu says. “I doubt he was trying to make them higher.”

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The Florida federal judge overseeing the case against accused would-be presidential assassin Ryan Wesley Routh has denied the government’s motion to exclude Routh’s sniper expert witness, who found that Routh’s weapon jammed twice out of four test shots earlier this year.

Judge Aileen M. Cannon issued an eight-page ruling denying federal prosecutors’ request to prevent testimony from Michael McClay, a former instructor in the U.S. Marine Corps Scout Sniper School.

Judge Cannon, noting that the U.S. Department of Justice plans to call an FBI sniper expert during Routh’s trial, said: “As of [sic] a result of that significant overlap, and mindful of the general principle of equal treatment in the context of expert witnesses, the court is not in a position to declare that McClay’s proposed testimony is wholly irrelevant and warranting full exclusion.”

‘As the bolt went forward to cycle the second round from the magazine, the cartridge misfed and jammed at the throat of the chamber.’

Routh, who faces a Sept. 8 trial on five charges related to the alleged attempted assassination of President Donald J. Trump at his Florida golf resort, earlier sought subpoenas for McClay and two mental health experts expected to testify about Routh’s alleged lack of intent on Sept. 15, 2024.

Routh, 58, of Greensboro, N.C., is charged with the attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate, brandishing a firearm in furtherance of the assassination attempt, intentionally assaulting a Secret Service officer, illegally possessing a firearm as a felon, and possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number. He faces possible life in prison if convicted.

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The FBI said Routh set up a sniper’s nest just outside the fence near the sixth green of the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla. Routh allegedly possessed a “military-grade” SKS rifle with a magazine containing 19 rounds with one in the chamber, ready to fire on President Trump, prosecutors said.

The FBI said Routh traveled from his home in Greensboro to West Palm Beach, Fla., on Aug. 14, 2024, and that on “multiple days and times” between Aug. 18 and Sept. 15, Routh’s cell phone pinged towers near Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and his golf club.

A Secret Service agent riding a golf cart toward the sixth green spotted someone in the brush outside the fence. After seeing a rifle poking through the chain-link fence, the agent fired four shots toward the gunman, who fled on foot and escaped the area by car.

Judge Cannon issued an order in May allowing test-firing of Routh’s rifle, “limited to an examination of its actual or potential operability.”

As the result of the test, McClay is expected to testify that he:

loaded the magazine into the rifle, placed the weapon onto fire (position), and pulled the trigger. The rifle expelled the projectile into the berm and the bolt extracted the spent casing. As the bolt went forward to cycle the second round from the magazine, the cartridge misfed and jammed at the throat of the chamber.

McClay then repeated the firing test “with the same result — a successful fire and then a jam on the second attempt to fire the weapon,” the document said.

Prosecutors sought to bar McClay from testifying at all in the trial.

“According to the United States, McClay’s account of his live-fire test is irrelevant and unhelpful, and the same goes for his opinion that the rifle was not the ‘optimal precision sniper tool,’” the judge wrote. “As for the rest of McClay’s disclosures, the United States says they do not state actual opinions and do not otherwise provide a basis for McClay to testify.”

The court “determines that the current record does not support the United States’ broad request to exclude McClay as a witness. As it stands, McClay proposes to testify as an expert on matters that sufficiently align with the topics identified by the United States’ expert disclosures, albeit with some differences.”

Prosecutors expect to call Erich D. Smith, an FBI firearms/toolmark examiner, who tested and examined the rifle in September 2024, who will testify “that he fired it twice, and that it ‘functioned normally when tested in the Laboratory,’” the judge’s order said.

“Smith’s test fire was primarily for the purpose of conducting a search in the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN),” the document said.

FBI Special Agent Nicholas Schnelle, a special weapons and tactics expert, is expected to testify “regarding, among other things, Defendant’s ‘observation point’ or ‘final firing point,’ as well as ‘why a vantage point is desirable for a particular target.’”

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Judge Cannon reminded the parties that “a conviction for attempt does not require that a defendant actually commit the final act required for conviction for the underlying crime.”

Routh is also seeking to call and offer testimony from Heather Holmes, Psy.D., and Rodolfo Buigas, Ph.D., about his alleged “lack of intent” on Sept. 15, 2024. Reports from both mental health experts have been submitted to Judge Cannon under seal.

On Aug. 1, Judge Cannon granted a DOJ motion to submit certain prosecution evidence under seal by authority of the Classified Information Procedures Act. The judge concluded that if revealed, the evidence “could cause serious damage or exceptionally grave damages to the national security of the United States.”

Routh, who is now representing himself pro se, only has access to public docket entries.

As a pro-se defendant, Ryan Wesley Routh files some handwritten motions with Judge Aileen M. Cannon.U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Judge Cannon on Aug. 4 ordered the DOJ to file under seal the entire contents of the “Dear World” letter alleged to have been written by Routh. The FBI earlier released a redacted version of the letter, in which Routh apologized “for failing to assassinate the 45th president and offering a $150,000 bounty to ‘whomever can complete the job.’”

Judge Cannon ruled the federal jury in Routh’s trial will be partially sequestered, including lunch and dinner breaks. Their names will be kept secret, and U.S. marshals will pick them up and deliver them to a secret safe location each day.

The ruling is meant “to preserve juror anonymity and privacy in light of media coverage, prevent from potential harassment or intimidating contact, and serve the fair administration of justice under the circumstances,” the judge said.

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A man accused of shooting a 68-year-old wheelchair-bound veteran at point-blank range over a “stolen valor” dispute in a shocking video recorded late last month reportedly drove a car into a tent of supporters of President Donald Trump during a 2020 Republican Party voter registration drive.

Around 4:10 p.m. on July 31, a shooting took place near Seattle’s downtown waterfront area.

‘He shot me!’

Citing public charging documents, the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said in a statement, “In this case, the defendant approached the victim who was in a wheelchair on the boardwalk of the waterfront, near Starbucks, and he demanded the victim provide identification to prove his military status.”

The charging documents added, “As the victim was taking out his wallet, the defendant removed a military patch from the victim’s belongings. This caused the victim to arm himself with a knife. The defendant continued to demand the victim show him his ID, and the victim pulled out a holstered airsoft gun.”

Jeffrey Sharp — a detective with the Seattle Police Department — noted in the police report obtained by Blaze News that 32-year-old Gregory Timm “accused” Harold James Powell of “stolen valor” and then “demanded Powell provide his identification.”

The charging documents read, “Before the victim could even do anything with it, the defendant pulled out his handgun, pointed it at the victim, and shot him point-blank in the chest.”

The police report noted that the gunman fired on the victim from approximately 12 feet away.

Detective Sharp stated, “I heard Powell state several times, ‘He shot me!'”

Graphic video footage of the shooting can be seen here.

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Police said in a statement that two Fish and Wildlife officers who were near the shooting scene took the suspect into custody, after which Seattle police officers responded to the shooting and arrested the suspect. Law enforcement recovered a gun as evidence from the crime scene.

Powell — a disabled Navy veteran — suffered a gunshot wound on the right side of his chest, according to police.

The Seattle Fire Department administered medical assistance to Powell and transported him to Harborview Medical Center in serious but stable condition.

Sharp wrote in the police report that while driving Timm to King County Jail, the suspect made the following statement in an “excited” manner: “This guy pulled out a gun and said, ‘You’re not gonna run from this.'”

In charging documents obtained by Blaze News, the Superior Court of Washington for King County stated that Timm had “intent to inflict great bodily harm, did assault Harold James Powell with a firearm and force and means likely to produce great bodily harm or death.”

‘The only reason this administration was getting away with these atrocious crimes is because we were rolling over and taking it.’

“This was a completely unnecessary act of violence committed by the defendant to a vulnerable victim who was confined to his wheelchair,” the charging documents read.

The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office told Blaze News that Timm was charged with assault in the first degree. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison under Washington law.

Timm was detained at the King County Jail on $750,000 bail and is scheduled for arraignment at 8:30 a.m. Monday at the King County Courthouse.

Powell was released from the hospital Sunday.

The disabled Navy veteran said he was “more shocked than anything” and believed that he was going to die.

“I seen the slug. I can see the heat of the slug coming at me and then just, ‘Boom!’ Knocked me back,” Powell told KIRO-TV.

He added, “I just got hit really hard right here in the chest where he hit me real close.”

“I just went to, ‘I’m gonna die, so let me call my family.’ Forget everything else. It’s just all I thought. I wasn’t worried about nothing else,” Powell remembered.

Powell said the bullet cracked his ribs but didn’t hit any vital organs.

“[Doctors] didn’t believe it — after all these X-rays, that I can live after being shot like that,” the veteran revealed.

Timm made national headlines in February 2020 after driving a brown Chevrolet van into a Republican Party voter registration drive in Jacksonville, Florida. As Blaze News noted after the incident, Timm reportedly admitted to cops that he purposely ran into the tent because he “does not like President Trump.” There were no injuries.

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“I honestly felt it was almost my duty to say something. The only reason this administration was getting away with these atrocious crimes is because we were rolling over and taking it,” Timm said in court, according to KING-TV.

Afterward Trump said of the incident, “Be careful tough guys who you play with!”

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said Timm was arrested and initially charged with aggravated assault, criminal mischief, and driving with a suspended license.

In 2021, Timm was convicted of second-degree criminal mischief, a misdemeanor, as reported by the New York Post.

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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones revealed to reporters on Tuesday that he had secretly battled a devastating illness for about a decade.

The revelation came after some detective work by a reporter from the Dallas Morning News, who noticed something odd in a recent Cowboys-focused documentary.

The Netflix doc “America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys” contains over 40 hours of interviews with the franchise owner, and in episode five, Jones reportedly dropped a hint that he had been seeing doctors at a special clinic.

‘I was saved by a fabulous treatment.’

According to Brad Townsend’s report, the episode “The Shootout at Valley Ranch” showed Jones explaining that a doctor at MD Anderson had given him advice on how to deal with the tense relationship he had with former Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson.

“You need to do a lot of meditation. Make a list of 10 people who can just boil your blood. Start with the one at the top and wish for them the greatest things you can wish for,” Jones reportedly recalled about the doctor’s advice. “At No. 1, I wrote down the name ‘Jimmy Johnson.'”

In his story, Jones said he returned to see the same doctor a few weeks later. What might not be obvious to most viewers is that MD Anderson is a cancer hospital in Houston, Texas.

The discovery led to the local Dallas reporter asking Jones about a possible diagnosis, causing Jones to drop the bombshell that he been hiding a battle with stage 4 melanoma for almost 15 years.

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“I was saved by a fabulous treatment and great doctors and a real miracle [drug] called PD-1,” Jones told the Dallas Morning News. “I went into trials for that PD-1, and it has been one of the great medicines.”

The American Cancer Society lists melanoma as having a five-year survival rate, or about a third of the amount of time since Jones received his diagnosis in June 2010.

“I now have no tumors,” the 82-year-old revealed.

PD-1 stands Programmed Cell Death Protein 1, an immunotherapy that fights cancer cells and enables T-cells to better recognize and destroy cancer cells.

Jones also noted his treatments over the years included four surgeries: two lung surgeries and two lymph node surgeries. The franchise owner only started the experimental procedures toward the end of the 2010s, but it remains unclear which year that was.

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Despite the success the recent documentary is based on, the Cowboys have struggled throughout the last 25 years and have not come anywhere close to a Super Bowl berth.

The Cowboys are coming off a 31-21 loss to the Los Angeles Rams in the preseason last Saturday and have endured recent public turmoil stemming from contract disputes with defensive star Micah Parsons.

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The case against former FBI Director James Comey got a boost in recently released documents that showed how he allegedly planted narratives to push the Russian collusion story.

Current FBI Director Kash Patel released internal memos from the bureau that revealed interviews with Columbia University law professor Daniel Richman where he admitted to routinely speaking on Comey’s behalf to Michael Schmidt.

‘They tried to steal the election. They tried to obfuscate the election. They did things that nobody’s ever imagined, even in other countries.’

Schmidt is a journalist who worked on Russian collusion stories at the New York Times and was among those who received a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the story.

Richman told the FBI that the goal of communicating with Schmidt was “to correct stories critical of Comey, the FBI, and to shape future press coverage.”

The memos were a part of the FBI’s investigation into leaked classified information.

Richman admitted to having access to classified information from Comey but said he did not believe he passed on any classified information to reporters. However, he said he could only make the denial “with a discount.”

“Richman was pretty sure he did not confirm the Classified Information,” one FBI memo said. “However, Richman told the interviewing agents he was sure ‘with a discount’ that he did not tell Schmidt about the Classified Information.”

Richman was quoted in articles about Russian collusion written by Schmidt, such as the following from an April 2017 Times story: “Jim sees his role as apolitical and independent. The FBI director, even as he reports to the attorney general, often has to stand apart from his boss.”

The FBI later decided against criminal charges against Comey, his associates, or Adam Schiff, who has since become a U.S. senator representing California. Schiff is also accused of leaking classified intelligence to smear Trump.

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The Trump administration has been seeking to uncover the origins of the Russia collusion story, suspecting that the investigation was politically motivated to damage President Donald Trump. Trump even suggested that President Barack Obama was guilty of “treason” for spearheading it.

“It’s there; he’s guilty. This was treason,” Trump said in July.

“They tried to steal the election. They tried to obfuscate the election. They did things that nobody’s ever imagined, even in other countries,” he continued.

Former President Barack Obama responded to the accusations and denied them in a rare statement.

“Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response,” a spokesperson for Obama said. “But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.”

Comey, Schmidt, and Richman did not respond immediately to a request for comment from Just the News.

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