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NBA head coach Doc Rivers took offense at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally causing him to urge non-white citizens to vote against the former president.

The Milwaukee Bucks coach spoke to reporters at a press conference and was mostly lost for words when referring to the massive rally at MSG.

“If you saw Madison Square Garden … to me, it’s just, it’s so important to vote. I’ll keep it as close to that as possible,” Rivers began.

However, the coach quickly got into remarks about Trump, strangely citing the popular vote from the 2020 presidential election.

“What I tell people, ‘If the guy was so great, why did 80 million people vote against him the last time he ran?'” the veteran coach said.

President Joe Biden tallied approximately 81 million votes in 2020 while Trump was around 74 million.

‘They hit everybody, and it was awful.’

“I don’t know, I don’t get it, we gotta do something about it,” Rivers continued.

The NBA champion added that the rally was “atrocious” and then urged voters of different races and backgrounds to vote.

“If you’re a black man or a woman, or brown, Latino, or Puerto Rican … they hit everybody, and it was awful,” he concluded.

The 63-year-old was likely referring to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who offended media members over his jokes about Puerto Rico while mocking the press for their characterization of the Trump gathering as a Nazi rally.

“These people have no sense of humor … I love Puerto Rico and vacation there. I made fun of everyone … watch the whole set,” Hinchcliffe said after the rally.

Rivers’ comments were posted by Sports Illustrated’s Chris Mannix, who turned off comments after the overwhelming majority of responses spoke against Milwaukee’s coach.

“Brother u ain’t that good at coaching u think we taking advice on voting from you,” one fan wrote.

Another reader pointed out that Trump never actually made any offensive remarks during the rally, while also noting to the diversity of the audience:

“Apparently Doc didn’t watch the rally otherwise he’d know that DJT didn’t disparage one single minority. That rally was attended by just about every race living in the U.S.. For those calling it a Nazi rally, I saw an awful lot of Jewish flags and people in the audience.”

Another viewer made reference to the apparent anti-Trump sentiment among NBA coaches.

“They literally live in a virtual world. Nothing they say makes sense,” the fan wrote.

Just days earlier, San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich called Trump a “racist” and a “bully” in a tirade that lasted almost 15 minutes.

“He’s pathetic, he’s small, you wouldn’t have him babysit your kids. If you had a small business, you wouldn’t hire him — do you want that man in your business?! There’s no way! But you’re going to vote for him for president?!” Popovich said.

As well, Golden State Warrior’s coach Steve Kerr has been an open Trump critic (and a critic of Republicans as a whole) while simultaneously endorsing Kamala Harris.

Despite his often heated rhetoric surrounding GOP legislation and gun laws, Kerr has still expressed concern over the attempted assassination of Trump in July.

“It’s such a demoralizing day for our country,” Kerr said regarding the shooting. “Thank God Trump wasn’t hit, but it’s just so demoralizing in every which way,” he added.

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Donald Trump was not messing around when he picked JD Vance to be his vice president — and Americans all over the country are starting to see why.

Vance is not only incredibly smart and extremely likeable, but he’s the farthest thing from “weird,” as the Democrats attempted to paint him. And his latest interview with comedian Theo Von is testament to that.

When Theo joked about cocaine, telling Vance that “you can’t even do cocaine in this country any more” because of the fentanyl crisis, Vance broke out in laughter. “Don’t say that, but I said it. But don’t say that any more,” Theo added, while Vance kept laughing.

“Dude, I was in an AA meeting, some guy had a fishhook stuck in his freaking cheek, dude,” Theo said in another joke, adding, “But he had two weeks clean.”

“He either had a really bad night or a really good night,” Vance shot back, before Theo, also laughing, took the joke even farther.

“Catch and release. He probably tried to come across the border,” he joked, while again, Vance laughed.

The back-and-forth joking between the two was peppered over some serious moments in the podcast, and Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” believes it was an excellent peek into the kind of man Vance really is.

“You can see, JD, even with his white T-shirt and his light blue jeans, he’s kind of a dork. But he can joke around and it’s humanizing and real, and that’s just in such contrast to what we’ve seen of Tim Walz trying to shoot a gun and all of just everything they’ve done with Kamala to try to make her look real,” Rubin says.

While the humanizing aspect of the interview was great, Vance did bring up issues very near and dear to his heart and expertly explained the obesity and fentanyl crises in their entirety to Theo.

“It contrasts just like the silly stuff and then a command of the issue,” Rubin comments. “China has declared war on us; we know what they’re doing. JD just laid it out there.”

“And he’s not calling on our troops; he goes out of his way to say, ‘We shouldn’t be sending troops into Mexico, but how about we just close the damn wall, close the damn border,’” Rubin continues, noting that from the literal health of America to the strength of our borders, the “level of competency” we’d see in a Trump administration is unmatched.

“I just thought that was a nice moment of the silly and the serious at once, and that is, again, in stark contrast to what we’re seeing on the other side,” Rubin adds.

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A motorist with a long criminal history allegedly tried to run over a father and son Saturday in Florida — but authorities said the father fatally shot the motorist.

Marcus Blicker, 47, followed two vehicles driven by a neighbor’s son and his friend and aggressively swerved toward them in traffic, deputies from the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office told the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

Blicker was found dead in the driver’s seat of his pickup.

The neighbor’s son called his father and told him he was being followed, the News-Journal said.

When the son and his friend got to the father’s home on Jackson Lane in Port Orange, deputies told the paper that Blicker arrived there as well and started yelling and threatening the son and his friend. Port Orange is about 15 minutes south of Daytona Beach.

The homeowner fired warning shots, asking Blicker to leave, the News-Journal reported.

However, the paper said Blicker around 7:40 p.m. tried to ram them with his truck and was shot.

When deputies arrived at the scene, Blicker was found dead in the driver’s seat of his pickup, the sheriff’s office told the News-Journal.

The incident was captured on video and audio recordings that support the accounts of the shooter and witnesses, deputies told the paper.

No criminal charges have been filed against the homeowner who shot Blicker, the News-Journal reported. The sheriff’s office added to the paper that the shooting remains under investigation.

The News-Journal also noted that a Rottweiler in Blicker’s truck was injured during the shooting, after which Volusia County Animal Services responded and took the dog for veterinary care. The dog is expected to recover, the paper said.

The News-Journal, citing court records, said Blicker has a long criminal history. He was arrested in 2020 for aggravated stalking, for which he served 12 months’ probation, the paper said, adding that in 2012 he was sentenced to 12 months’ probation for battery after punching a woman in the cheek at the Flagler Tavern in New Smyrna Beach.

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The Commonwealth of Virginia has played what might be its last card against the Biden-Harris Department of Justice, betting the U.S. Supreme Court might allow election officials to resume taking noncitizens off the state’s voter rolls.

Like other red states, Virginia has worked diligently to remove foreign nationals from its voter rolls in an effort to ensure that only American citizens are casting ballots in this election. These efforts, ramped up by Gov. Glenn Youngkin via
executive order on Aug. 7, drew the ire of the DOJ, which sued earlier this month to foil the election integrity initiative — just as it had sued Alabama weeks earlier.

A Biden-nominated district judge obliged the DOJ Friday,
ruling that Virginia — where the latest Quantus Insights poll shows Kamala Harris leading President Donald Trump by only one percentage point — must restore the voter registrations of thousands of individuals who allegedly identified as foreign nationals.

Virginia asked the 4th Circuit to put a hold on Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles’ order, but a pair of Obama-appointed judges and another Biden appointee denied the request Sunday.

‘About 1,000 presented noncitizen residency documents to DMV and were then positively identified as noncitizens.’

Left with one more option, Republican state officials turned to the U.S. Supreme Court, filing late Sunday night for an emergency stay of Giles’ injunction, which is scheduled to go into effect on Wednesday.

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares
stated upon filing, “Americans citizens — and no one else — should determine American elections.”

Youngkin
responded, “It’s commonsense: noncitizens shouldn’t be on our voter rolls.”

According to the commonwealth’s emergency application, the injunction sought by the Biden-Harris DOJ will “irreparably injure Virginia’s sovereignty, confuse her voters, overload her election machinery and administrators, and likely lead noncitizens to think they are permitted to vote, a criminal offense that will cancel the franchise of eligible voters.”

Blaze News previously reported that Giles claimed the removals were a “clear violation” of the National Voter Registration Act’s quiet period provision, which requires states to complete programs intended to systematically remove the names of ineligible voters from registration lists by no later than 90 days prior to a primary election or general election for federal office.

Virginia’s emergency application stressed that contrary to Giles’ understanding and the DOJ’s claim, the commonwealth’s process is not systematic — which would run afoul of the NVRA — but is instead individualized. Moreover, the state indicated the lesser court’s injunction was based on a provision of the NVRA that “does not even apply to the removal of noncitizens and other voter registrations that are void ab initio.”

The state told the high court that of the over 1,600 suspected noncitizens whom the Biden judge ordered back onto the voter rolls, “About 600 of these individuals personally informed Virginia’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) that they are not citizens, and about 1,000 presented noncitizen residency documents to DMV and were then positively identified as noncitizens through the United States’ own Systematic Alerian Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database.”

Chief Justice John Roberts requested that the opponents of Virginia’s election integrity initiative respond to the state’s emergency appeal by Tuesday afternoon, CNN indicated, a signal that the high court will act swiftly.

Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, recently
told the Daily Caller that the Biden-Harris DOJ’s lawsuits against Virginia and Alabama are the “exact opposite of what DOJ should be doing, it is a criminal violation … — in fact, it’s a felony for an alien to register to vote.”

“And so what the DOJ ought to be doing is going to Virginia and saying, ‘Can you please give me the files of each of these voters so we can investigate and potentially prosecute them?’ And no, instead, they’re saying, ‘No, you have to keep on the voter rolls aliens who are breaking federal law,'” continued von Spakovsky.

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With Election Day just eight days away, Americans are holding their breath anxiously awaiting the verdict of what has been an incredibly contentious election season. But it’s almost over. Soon, we will know who our next commander in chief will be.

And according to Tucker Carlson, it’s going to be Donald Trump.

“Blaze News’ Tonight’s” Jill Savage, Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson, and Blaze News senior editor for politics Christopher Bedford discuss whether or not Carlson’s optimism is misguided.

“This is the end of a redemption arc,” said Carlson, speaking at a Turning Point Action rally in Duluth, Georgia, on Oct. 23.

“I’ve really never seen anybody treated like Donald Trump was treated – ever,” he said, pointing to the way the left attacked, defamed, indicted, and arrested him and even “let him get shot in the face.”

“And he’s gonna win anyway!” he declared to a roaring crowd.

“Do you think that the Republicans can actually be this optimistic right now?” Jill asks Bedford.

Even though Bedford has been searching for anything that would suggest Carlson’s optimism is misplaced, he’s come up empty-handed.

“There’s no positive echo chamber for the Democratic Party right now,” he says.

“Democrats have tried to make Republicans, populists, conservatives, MAGA people feel like they are an awful minority, feel like they are alone out there, that they are radicals, and it’s not true. People who listen to Donald Trump and say, ‘This has got a point, something’s got to change, the Democrats and the Mitch McConnells are rotten’ – you’re the majority of people right now,” says Bedford.

“Don’t let yourself be told by these folks that you’re the weirdo. Democrats have abandoned the working class. … They basically abandoned American voters,” specifically “men,” he explains. “They are actually kind of the party of weirdos.”

More people than we know have realized that “maybe MAGA is normal. Maybe it’s a populist rebellion that is grounded in American principles, and maybe it’s actually a testament to just how generous and kind and gentle the American people are that we’ve put up with this sick expert rule for as long as we have,” he adds.

“Tucker’s point is there’s a very, very powerful story here that is unfolding and that everyone can be part of if he gets back in after everything that has been done to him,” says Matthew. “They’ve thrown everything at the guy, and they’re failing.”

“You can feel the tottering in the sort of the spirit or the soul of the regime right now because after all that, if he wins, it’s sort of the emperor wears no clothes at that point,” he says.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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A Republican Party official was arrested at a polling station in Pennsylvania on Monday after she repeatedly encouraged voters to stay in line despite the lengthy wait.

On Monday, a video of the arrest of a woman at a polling station in Delaware County went viral. “Do not get out of line,” the woman insists as several officers place her in handcuffs. They then escort her out of the area where many people were standing in line.

“Wow!” the man filming the arrest repeatedly states. “You locked her up? That is insane, man!”

“That’s crazy.”

The woman arrested on the video was later identified as Val Biancaniello, a Pennsylvania Republican Party state committeewoman.

‘President Trump’s supporters should not be intimidated at the polls.’

Following the incident, Biancaniello claimed on X that an official with the Delaware County Bureau of Elections had told people gathered at the polling station that they “should only be in this line if [they] have a pressing reason to vote.”

Biancaniello called such a directive “VOTER SUPPRESSION.” “No one requires a ‘pressing need’ to vote by mail,” her X comment continued, “that is why it is called ‘no excuse mail in voting.'”

Biancaniello also alleged that an elections worker warned voters that the lines could be hours long, ostensibly in an effort to dissuade them from staying. “Can you imagine if we said this to a long line of Democrat voters?” she asked rhetorically.

Biancaniello claimed she was marched out of the area, handcuffed to a bench, and later released with a citation for disorderly conduct.

“I will fight that. I broke NO laws. I encouraged people to stay in line and vote. There are plenty of witnesses who know the truth,” her X comment added.

A woman standing in line alleged in the video of the arrest that Biancaniello had been “influencing people,” but the man filming the video denied that accusation. “She is not influencing people,” he immediately replied. “She is not at all.”

Pennsylvania law forbids voter intimidation.

RNC co-chair Michael Whatley shared the video on X, claiming that it showed the left engaging in “voter suppression.”

“A supporter of President Trump’s was arrested today for encouraging people to stay in the early voting line and cast their ballots freely in Pennsylvania,” he wrote. “This follows reports from across the commonwealth that voters are being turned away in conservative areas. This is voter suppression from the left. Do not let them turn you away. GO VOTE!”

The Trump campaign likewise released a statement calling the incident an example of “voter suppression.”

“Election officials in Pennsylvania must immediately secure a fair and transparent election for Pennsylvania voters,” the statement said in part. “President Trump’s supporters should not be intimidated at the polls.”

Neither Biancaniello nor the Delaware County Bureau of Elections responded to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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Popular podcast host Joe Rogan revealed earlier this week Vice President Kamala Harris has not officially said no to being interviewed on his show, but the sticking points to scheduling the interview have been some of her campaign’s conditions for doing it.

Rogan posted the full episode of his interview with former President Donald Trump on his X account late Monday night. He did so after some reportedly had difficulty finding it on YouTube on Monday, even when searching very specific keywords on the platform. Searching for it on Tuesday now brings the correct episode.

Trump and Vance have done a wide range of podcast interviews with popular hosts such as Theo Von, Tucker Carlson, and the Nelk Boys.

After posting the video, Rogan addressed rumors about possibly interviewing Harris as well. According to Rogan, Harris’ campaign said he could interview her on Tuesday but that “I would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do an hour.” Trump’s interview with Rogan lasted for nearly three hours, which is a common episode length.

“I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin. My sincere wish is to just have a nice conversation and get to know her as a human being. I really hope we can make it happen,” Rogan concluded.

It was then reported Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, will go on Rogan’s podcast sometime this week. The episode will be released before Election Day.

Trump and Vance, while still doing traditional media interviews, have done a wide range of podcast interviews with popular hosts such as Theo Von, Tucker Carlson, and the Nelk Boys. The strategy is to showcase the candidates in an unfiltered and unedited format, which has been a weakness for Harris as she seemingly wants to have highly produced and scripted appearances on the campaign trail.

The shows are also popular with males, a critical voting bloc that supports Trump but that may be less likely to vote. His campaign hopes these appearances will motivate those male supporters to go to the polls.

Rogan’s interview with Trump has received over 37 million views on YouTube. Harris’ interview with Charlamagne tha God almost two weeks ago has under 600,000 views.

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump released a poignant campaign advertisement on Monday afternoon that illustrates the heartbreaking consequences of the Biden-Harris administration’s open-border policies.

The ad features Alexis Nungaray, the mother of 12-year-old Jocelyn, who was allegedly brutally murdered by two illegal aliens from Venezuela. The men were initially captured by Border Patrol and released into the interior of the country just weeks before the murder in Houston, Texas.

‘I truly believe this all could have been prevented.’

The suspects, Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel, 22, and Franklin Jose Peña Ramos, 26, are being investigated for potential ties to the vicious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which has increased its presence in the U.S. under the current administration’s leadership.

On June 17, 2024, the men allegedly lured Jocelyn under a bridge as she was walking back home from a nearby convenience store. The suspects were accused of stripping her, binding her hands and ankles, sexually assaulting her for hours, and ultimately strangling her to death.

In Trump’s latest campaign ad, Jocelyn’s mother details the horrific murder and reaffirms her support of more robust border policies.

Alexis Nungaray said she woke up that morning to find her daughter was not home. She noticed her phone’s location was pinging a couple of minutes from their home.

“I start driving to the direction the phone was being pinged at, and I see a couple cop cars with lights on. I see yellow tape. And immediately my heart drops and sinks to the bottom of my stomach,” Nungaray stated.

“Kamala Harris was in charge of immigration and our borders,” she continued. “If we had better border policies and not open border and not these catch-and-release policies, I truly believe this all could have been prevented.”

“Under her being vice president of this country, my daughter’s life was ripped away from her,” Nungaray added. “She had her entire life ahead of her. My daughter is six feet in the ground based off of policies that she allowed to keep. Kamala Harris did have one job, and she not only failed, not me, she failed my daughter.”

Nungaray explained that Trump reached out to her after Jocelyn’s murder and gave her “his sincerest condolences as not a former president, but just as a father — someone who cares.”

She stated that with Trump back in office, “I can at least know that my next child will be safe in this country.”

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Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, staunchly defended the newspaper’s leadership decision to cease political endorsements, citing the public’s pervasive distrust of corporate media outlets.

On Monday evening, Bezos released an opinion piece responding to reports that the Post would not back a presidential candidate in the upcoming election, as it did during previous election cycles.

‘I sighed when I found out.’

According to NPR, the paper faced significant criticism for the decision and reportedly lost more than 200,000 subscribers and counting — roughly 8% of its base. Other media outlets, including The Hill, the New Republic, and the Atlantic, torched Bezos for refusing to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris.

Bezos’ op-ed explained the reason behind the decision, stating that the news media “is now the least trusted of all,” according to an annual public survey about trust and reputation.

“We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased,” Bezos stated. “It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.”

Bezos argued that political endorsements from newspapers do not have a measurable impact on election results.

“No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, ‘I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.’ None. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence,” Bezos continued.

He called ending the paper’s endorsements “a principled decision,” adding that it is “a meaningful step in the right direction.”

The Post was accused of making the decision not to endorse a candidate after an executive with one of Bezos’ companies met with former President Donald Trump. Bezos insisted that he was unaware of the meeting and that there was “no quid pro quo of any kind.” He noted that the decision was made internally and that neither presidential candidate was consulted.

“Dave Limp, the chief executive of one of my companies, Blue Origin, met with former president Donald Trump on the day of our announcement. I sighed when I found out, because I knew it would provide ammunition to those who would like to frame this as anything other than a principled decision,” Bezos explained.

He remarked, “But the fact is, I didn’t know about the meeting beforehand. Even Limp didn’t know about it in advance; the meeting was scheduled quickly that morning. There is no connection between it and our decision on presidential endorsements, and any suggestion otherwise is false.”

Bezo stated that he is “not an ideal owner” of the newspaper “when it comes to the appearance of conflict.”

“Every day, somewhere, some Amazon executive or Blue Origin executive or someone from the other philanthropies and companies I own or invest in is meeting with government officials. I once wrote that The Post is a ‘complexifier’ for me. It is, but it turns out I’m also a complexifier for The Post,” Bezos declared.

“You can see my wealth and business interests as a bulwark against intimidation, or you can see them as a web of conflicting interests. Only my own principles can tip the balance from one to the other,” he added.

Because of general distrust of the corporate media, the public has turned to “off-the-cuff podcasts, inaccurate social media posts and other unverified news sources, which can quickly spread misinformation and deepen division,” Bezos noted.

The business magnate pledged not to use the Post to push his own interests and stated that he would do everything in his ability to revive the newspaper’s credibility.

“To win this fight, we will have to exercise new muscles. Some changes will be a return to the past, and some will be new inventions. Criticism will be part and parcel of anything new, of course,” Bezos said.

Last week, a New York Times source revealed that Bezos has requested that the paper hire more conservative op-ed writers to expand its audience, Blaze News previously reported.

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Beloved author J.K. Rowling criticized transgender athletes who compete in women’s sports by saying they are stealing medals from women.

Rowling was responding to a report from the United Nations that detailed the shocking amount of medals women had lost in sporting events across the globe up to March 2024.

The eye-opening study revealed that more than 600 female athletes had lost medals in 29 sporting categories, totaling almost 900 medals going to men who identify as women in over 400 competitions.

“Over 890 medals, across 29 sports, stolen from women by men,” Rowling wrote on X.

— (@)

‘We’re not supposed to feel empathy for those women and girls.’

Readers soon chimed in on Rowling’s thread, with one pointing to the amount of effort and training female athletes are putting in only for them to lose out to a biological male.

Rowling responded directly to the remark with the ironic statement, “We’re not supposed to feel empathy for those women and girls.”

“The only people we should coddle are the mediocre men who decided they’d enjoy medals without the hassle of competing in the correct category.”

— (@)

Sadly, Rowling’s statement has rung true in recent instances of men playing against women.

NCAA volleyball player Sia Liilii said that her Nevada team was told by school officials they “weren’t educated enough” and “didn’t understand the science” when they refused to play against a team with a male athlete.

Similarly, San Jose State University’s Brooke Slusser said that when her school had meetings about a male athlete on her team, administrators predominantly focused on the well-being of the transgender individual and not the girls.

“We’ve had meetings, and it’s a lot of just checking in on [the male athlete]. … We were like ‘what about us?'” Slusser recalled. “Everyone above you is telling you you shouldn’t be talking for [the male], you need to make sure the other person is okay,” she explained.

During the 2024 Olympics, Rowling was highly critical of controversial boxer Imane Khelif, who won a gold medal in women’s boxing. Although the Olympics do not conduct gender tests, both the International Boxing Association and the World Boxing Organization claimed Khelif is a man.

Rowling shared an image of Khelif and opponent Angela Carini at the time, saying Khelif had “the smirk of a male [who] knows he’s protected by a misogynist sporting establishment enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head.”

Khelif ended up naming Rowling in a criminal hate speech complaint in France. The complaint was made to Paris’ online hate speech office and claimed Khelif was a victim of cyber harassment.

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With less than two weeks to go before Election Day, Donald Trump’s campaign just keeps looking better.

And shockingly, New York City just turned out big-time for the former president.

Not only did the mayor, Eric Adams, tell his party to tone down the divisive and harmful rhetoric regarding Trump, but a rally Trump held at Madison Square Garden completely sold out — and the crowd outside was even bigger.

“That place was packed,” Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” comments. “What does it seat, 20,000?”

The NYPD released the official count of those in attendance, with Madison Square Garden at 19,500 people and 75,000 people outside the arena rallying in support of Trump’s campaign.

“And it’s a Nazi rally, because in 1939, Nazis held a rally at Madison Square Garden,” Gray comments, poking fun at the Democrats who have compared the two.

“So what I just heard you say is Billy Joel is a Nazi,” Keith Malinak comments, as Billy Joel has also sold out Madison Square Garden many times. “If you go to Madison Square Garden and a big crowd shows up, you must be a Nazi.”

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1776 Project PAC founder Ryan Girdusky’s conservatism frequently puts him at odds with leftist panelists on CNN, although for the most part, past engagements have been relatively civil. Things took a turn on Monday’s “NewsNight with Abby Phillip” when the titular host of MSNBC’s canceled “The Mehdi Hasan Show” insinuated that Girdusky, President Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and others with whom he disagreed on matters of policy are Nazis.

Evidently tired of the worn-out liberal smear, Girdusky turned the tables — which was particularly easy given Hasan’s reputation for “anti-Israel agitprop” — and made a dark joke about the former Al Jazeera presenter perhaps being a terrorist.

After landing a rhetorical punch that left Hasan repeating himself and the other panelists melting down, Girdusky was kicked off the set and banned from the show.

“You can stay on CNN if you falsely call every Republican a Nazi and have taken money from Qatar-funded media,” Girdusky
noted afterward on X. “Apparently you can’t go on CNN if you make a joke. I’m glad America gets to see what CNN stands for.”

Background

Trump held a
high-energy campaign event Sunday at Madison Square Garden. The venue was at capacity, and the rally went swimmingly despite the best efforts of Harris supporters to cancel and spoil the event.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal likened the event to a Nazi rally at the Garden in 1939, as opposed to the Democratic Party’s national conventions at the Garden in 1976, 1980, and 1992.

MSNBC, Time magazine, and various other liberal publications soon dutifully
regurgitated the Democrats’ suggestion that Trump’s campaign event was essentially the Nazi rally of the day — meaning that all those present, including 94-year-old Holocaust survivor Jerry Wartski, were themselves Nazis or Nazi sympathizers.

Counterstrike

On Monday, CNN host Abby Phillip and Girdusky
debated whether the media had just defamed Trump or all those in attendance at the Garden rally.

Hasan, an
exponent of the false narrative about the Hunter Biden laptop story, chimed in to defend the media’s characterization.

According to Hasan, there were even more examples from the rally that were reminiscent of the exterminationists of yesteryear.

There was still Tucker Carlson doing replacement. Don Jr. did replacement. And then Trump himself turned up and talked about invading and occupying our country, which is the language of the far right. He talked about enemy of the people, which is Joseph Goebbels. He talked about the enemy within, which is literally Hitler. I mean, these are the — my problem is — I get it, which [is] nobody wants to be called Nazis. It’s very inflammatory.

“If you don’t want to be called Nazis, stop doing, stop saying —” said Hasan, at which point Girdusky leaned forward to point out that the Israel critic was casting stones from a glass house.

“You’re called an anti-Semite more than anyone in this table,” said Girdusky.

‘It is fine to call anyone on the political right a Nazi.’

“I’m a supporter of the Palestinians,” said Hasan. “I’m used to it.”

“Yes. Well, I hope your beeper doesn’t go off,” responded Girdusky.

Israel
hid explosives inside pagers used by Hezbollah terrorists and triggered them in September, killing at least 11 individuals and injuring over 4,000 others in Lebanon and parts of Syria.

Hasan did his best to misconstrue Girdusky’s dark humor into a death wish.

“Did you just say I should die?” said Hasan. “Did you just say I should be killed?”

Girdusky apologized, indicating that was not his meaning and that he thought Hasan had signaled support for Hamas. Phillip attempted to intervene, but there was no consoling Hasan.

“You just said I should get killed on live TV,” said Hasan. “You said you hope my beeper shouldn’t go off.”

Former Biden-Harris campaign staffer Ashley Allison fed on Hasan’s rage and berated Girdusky, weaving criticism of the conservative into yet another attack on Trump.

After more hand-wringing, the show went to break.

Banned

Phillip began the next segment — from which Girdusky was noticeably absent — with an apology, not to the conservative for the Nazi smear, but to Hasan for the beeper joke.

“I want to apologize to Mehdi Hasan for what was said at this table. It was completely unacceptable. When we get this discussion started, you’ll see that Ryan is not at the table. There is a line that was crossed there, and it’s not acceptable to me,” said Phillip. “It’s not acceptable to us at this network. We want discussion. We want people who disagree with each other to talk to each other. But when you cross the line of a complete lack of civility, that is not going to happen here on this show.”

CNN confirmed to Blaze News that Girdusky “will not be welcomed back at our network.”

In response to questions about whether Nazi and terrorist accusations were weighted differently and whether Hasan might also face repercussions, CNN stated, “There is zero room for racism or bigotry at CNN or on our air. We aim to foster thoughtful conversations and debate including between people who profoundly disagree with each other in order to explore important issues and promote mutual understanding. But we will not allow guests to be demeaned or for the line of civility to be crossed.”

Phillip
revealed late Monday night that CNN has asked Hasan back, portraying the leftist who previously suggested that non-Muslims are subhuman and that all homosexuals are pedophiles as a victim.

“We really hope that he will join us again soon,” said Phillip.

Blaze News reached out to Girdusky for comment but did not receive a response by deadline.

“It is fine to call anyone on the political right a Nazi,”
tweeted Max Abrahms, associate professor of political science at Northeastern University. “It is not okay to call an antisemitic Qatar agent who runs PR for terrorists a terrorist.”

Sean Davis, co-founder of the Federalist,
said of the comment that got Girdusky ousted, “Absolutely legendary comeback, and a clinic on the only way to handle garbage corporate media.

Jack Posobiec, senior editor at Human Events,
noted, “Understand what just happened[.] Mehdi Hasan called Ryan Girdusky, a Polish-American, a Nazi[.] Ryan responded with a quip about beepers[.] Ryan was kicked off, and CNN apologized to Hasan for his comments[.] That’s how it works at CNN.”

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A resident of a rural Illinois home fatally shot an intruder early Friday morning, Shelby County Sheriff Brian McReynolds told the Effingham Daily News.

“At 5:25 a.m., the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office received a call of a home invasion in progress at a rural Herrick address within Shelby County,” McReynolds said in a press release, the paper said. “The suspect was identified as Wade M. Barnes, 19 years old, of Cowden. Barnes was known by the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office due to prior involvements, including a current criminal case.”

It seems Barnes was in trouble with the law earlier this month. He was charged Oct. 9 with aggravated fleeing from a police officer, possessing a firearm without a state Firearm Owner’s Identification Card, transporting liquor by a driver under 21, damage to property greater than $300, and operating an uninsured vehicle.

Barnes was threatening the home’s occupants, the Daily News said, and McReynolds noted that an occupant retrieved a gun and verbally warned Barnes to stop.

“Barnes continued into the residence, ignoring the warning,” McReynolds said, according to the paper. “Shots were fired in the direction of Barnes, striking him. EMS was dispatched. EMS transported to Good Shepherd Hospital, in Shelbyville, where he succumbed to his injuries, and was pronounced deceased at 7:16 a.m.”

The Daily News said the sheriff’s office is investigating the incident, and state police, the Shelby County Coroner, and the Shelby County State’s Attorney have been contacted to assist with the investigation.

What else do we know about the suspect?

It seems Barnes was in trouble with the law earlier this month. He was charged Oct. 9 with aggravated fleeing from a police officer, possessing a firearm without a state Firearm Owner’s Identification Card, transporting liquor by a driver under 21, damage to property greater than $300, and operating an uninsured vehicle, according to the paper, which cited online court records. Barnes’ next court appearance was scheduled for Nov. 20, the Daily News said.

Barnes also was charged on May 18, 2023, with aggravated fleeing and speeding 35 miles per hour over the speed limit, the paper said, adding that the fleeing charge was dismissed. Barnes paid a fine and was ordered to driver education and community service, the Daily News noted.

How are observers reacting?

Commenters under WICS-TV’s Facebook post about the incident were decidedly behind the individual who ended the break-in threat. Here are a handful of those reactions:

“It’s about time people start defending themselves again!!! Great job!!!” one commenter wrote.”If you are going to engage in criminal activity, you accept the consequences,” another user added. “I did not get shot recently; probably because I don’t do crimes. Hmmmmm.””The criminals’ anthem… another one bites the dust!” another commenter stated.”Justice is served,” another user declared.

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Once, not that long ago, televisions were beloved devices that brought families together for regular rituals of laughter, drama, and storytelling. But today, as we settle in for a night of streaming on our sleek smart TVs, that warmth feels increasingly distant. These modern monstrosities offer endless options and voice-activated convenience, but this comes at a steep price. While we put our feet up and enjoy our favorite shows, we’re also inviting a level of surveillance into our homes that would have been unthinkable a few decades ago.

According to a new report by the Center for Digital Democracy, smart TVs have become yet another cog in a massive, data-driven machine. Specifically, this machine is an ecosystem that harvests viewer data with military-like precision, prioritizing profits over privacy, individual autonomy, and, arguably, our collective well-being.

Big Brother isn’t just in your living room — he knows what you’re watching, what you’re thinking, what you’re buying, and even where you’re going.

A Trojan horse in disguise

As the report details, these devices function as sophisticated surveillance tools, tracking viewers’ every move across platforms. From Tubi to Netflix to Disney+, streaming services rely heavily on various data collection mechanisms to fuel a relentless advertising engine. These companies boast about their ability to collect “billions of rows of data” on their viewers, using machine learning algorithms to personalize the entire experience — from what shows are recommended to the ads viewers are served.

Tools like Automatic Content Recognition — built into TVs by companies such as LG, Samsung, and Roku — track and analyze everything you watch. ACR collects data frame by frame, creating detailed viewer profiles that are then used for targeted advertising. These profiles can include information about the devices in your home and the content you purchase, all feeding into a continuous feedback loop for advertisers. The more you watch, the more the system learns about you — and the greater its ability to shape your choices. The “non-skippable” ads, personalized to reflect intimate knowledge about viewers’ behaviors and vulnerabilities, are particularly disturbing. They are engineered to be as compelling and intrusive as possible.

Smart TVs are living up to their names. They know everything about you. And I mean absolutely everything.

Data-driven manipulation

The streaming industry has rapidly grown into one of the most lucrative advertising sectors, with streaming platforms like Disney+, Netflix, and Amazon Prime attracting billions in ad revenue. As the report warns, these platforms now use advanced generative AI and machine learning to produce thousands of hyper-targeted ads in seconds — ads for Mom, ads for Dad, and ads for the little ones. By employing tools like identity graphs, which compile data from across an individual’s digital footprint, streaming services can track and target viewers on their televisions and throughout their entire digital lives. That’s right. Smart TVs seamlessly interact with other smart devices, basically “talking” to each other and sharing valuable gossip.

This data collection goes far beyond tracking viewing habits. The report reveals that companies like Experian and TransUnion have developed identifiers that encompass deeply personal details, such as health information, financial status, and political views. Who will you vote for in November? You already know — and so does your TV.

Crooked capitalism

At its core, capitalism has been a driving force of innovation, progress, and prosperity. Its brilliance lies in its ability to harness human creativity and ambition, rewarding those who bring value to the market. In its purest form, capitalism is entirely meritocratic. Capitalism has lifted millions out of poverty through competition and the pursuit of profit. Capitalism helped make America the greatest nation known to man.

However, we see today a gross distortion of capitalism’s core principles. Surveillance capitalism has taken the place of pure capitalism. Instead of fostering innovation, this monstrous model feeds off personal data, often without our knowledge or consent. It preys particularly on vulnerable groups like children, exploiting their behaviors and emotions to turn a profit. The same system that once championed freedom now thrives on violating privacy, reducing human experiences to commodities.

Smart TVs and surveillance capitalism go hand in hand.

This raises an urgent question: What can we do about it? While it’s tempting to grab a sledgehammer and smash your nosy device into a million pieces, more practical solutions exist.

Start by diving into your TV’s settings and disabling data tracking features such as ACR. You can also refuse to sign up for accounts or services that require extensive data sharing. For those willing to pay a bit more, opting for ad-free services can limit the data collected on your viewing habits, though it’s not a foolproof solution.

Additionally, advocating for stronger regulations on data privacy and transparency in advertising technologies is crucial. As consumers, we need to push policymakers to implement stricter laws that hold companies accountable for the data they collect and how they use it. Organizations like the Center for Digital Democracy, which authored this important report, are already fighting for these changes. This is a matter of critical importance. Close to 80% of homes in the U.S. have a smart TV.

Big Brother isn’t just in your living room — he knows what you’re watching, what you’re thinking, what you’re buying, and even where you’re going. Not for the sledgehammer, I hope.

​Surveillance state, Smart tvs are spying, Corporations, Surveillance capitalism, Surveillance, Big brother, Tech 

The Treasury Department has released the receipts for federal spending in fiscal year 2024, revealing staggering numbers. While the $1.8 trillion deficit may seem less alarming than a $2.3 trillion shortfall, the Treasury accounted for an extra $500 billion in deficits in the opening days of fiscal year 2025 to achieve that figure. Regardless, neither the Federal Reserve nor the Treasury Department can escape the impact of these numbers. We have now reached a point where permanent stagflation seems unavoidable.

The Treasury Department’s final tab for fiscal 2024 shows a $1.83 trillion deficit, setting a near record aside from the unusual pandemic years of 2020-2021. This means the government borrowed $5 billion per day — the equivalent of the FBI’s entire annual budget a generation ago. In the third quarter of this calendar year (the final quarter of fiscal 2024), the deficit equaled 6.3% of GDP, a level only surpassed during World War II and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Republicans have failed to convey to the public that the government spending they rely on comes at a painful cost.

Despite relatively low unemployment and the absence of a world war, the government took in a record $4.918 trillion in revenue but still amassed a mammoth deficit. This gap is poised to grow in the new fiscal year, meaning that when a recession officially hits, the deficit could become colossal. Although the government collected $479 billion more in revenue than last year, it increased the deficit by spending an additional $617 billion. Imagine what the deficit might look like if revenue starts to decline.

In the past, we shrugged off such news, dismissing it as mere red ink on a spreadsheet. But that was when annual interest on the debt cost only $200 billion. Now, we’re on track to spend a record $1.133 trillion — or nearly a quarter of our tax revenue — just on interest. Debt interest is now more costly than every government expense except Social Security, contributing to the crippling inflation consumers face. We’re no longer mortgaging our grandchildren’s future; we’re destroying our own.

To cover this interest, the government must sell a record number of treasury bonds each month. With countries reducing their holdings of U.S. Treasuries and buying gold instead, treasury yields are rising unnaturally. Despite a drop in the federal funds rate, rising spending and the resulting debt service push yields higher. This shift has caused gold and treasury yields to surge simultaneously — a rare occurrence, as they typically move inversely. It’s also why the 30-year fixed mortgage rate has climbed nearly a full percent since the Federal Reserve cut rates by 50 basis points. T. Rowe Price forecasts that the 10-year Treasury yield could hit 5% over the next six months, approaching levels seen in late 2007 on the eve of the Great Recession.

When yields go up, debt servicing costs increase further, and the Fed has to print even more money to cover both the rollover debt and rapidly accumulating new debt — rising faster this year than last. Under this baseline scenario, inflation is bound to worsen. The global money supply now stands at $89.7 trillion, up by $22 trillion since COVID. After shrinking in 2022-2023, M2 is now expanding rapidly and is currently 38% higher than pre-COVID levels. Consumers are already struggling with high prices, and every market indicator signals a new round of even higher costs.

Consumers have exhausted their resources ahead of an impending financial collapse, spending $2.3 trillion in excess savings over the past three years to cope with the cost of living. Currently, cumulative excess savings are negative $216 billion, with U.S. credit card debt and interest rates at record highs.

Even without the threat of hyperinflation, these economic indicators always precede a crash. The unprecedented rallies in gold and silver are clear warnings, signaling grave danger. They indicate that the Federal Reserve, in its attempts to curb recession and inflation while printing money recklessly, has lost control, leaving us to face the consequences of both.

Republicans have failed to convey to the public that the government spending they rely on comes at a painful cost. It’s not just the $103,700 in debt that each American is responsible for in some distant future. It’s the additional tens of thousands they will pay each year to maintain their parents’ standard of living for the rest of their lives — and that’s assuming things don’t get worse.

​Debt, Spending, Treasury, Deficit, Inflation crisis, Republicans, Interest rates, Opinion & analysis 

Don’t for a minute believe that leftists are all part of one big happy family. Plenty of factors would seem to prevent such broad acceptance.

For starters, you might not sit far enough left on the left-wing sociopolitical scale for some radicals — in which case, you’re on the outs. Like one tidbit below describing Joe Biden supporters who thought they’d escape the wrath of Black Lives Matter protesters on the night of the 2020 election. They quickly thought again.

Case in point was a man who stood on his porch and hollered at the protesters, ‘There’s my Biden sign! Don’t destroy anything! Be peaceful!’

Or the anarchists you also can read about below who spray-painted walls with ‘F*** Biden,’ ‘No Presidents’ messages and busted windows at a Democrat headquarters after Biden won the 2020 election. What do we need to do to keep them happy?

You can’t even be a 60-year-old “gay progressive” state senator and walk George Floyd riots without getting beaten up by violent, radical leftists. That tale is below as well.

No one will soon forget when left-wing high priestess Maxine Waters risked inciting violence when she publicly told her radical left disciples to “create a crowd” and “push back on” their political enemies and tell them “they’re not welcome any more, anywhere!” Well, check out in the forthcoming vignettes when Maxine admitted she doesn’t like it when such leftist tactics are used on her. She even brought race into it.

And can you imagine a majority white Black Lives Matter group getting caught on video actually preventing a black woman from driving past their blockade? Imagine no more.

One big happy family? Not on your life.

Leftist protesters beat up 60-year-old ‘gay progressive’ state senator — after which victim says, ‘Sad thing I’m on their side’

Protesters outside the Wisconsin Capitol in Madison smashed windows at the statehouse, tore down statues, and beat up Democratic state Sen. Tim Carpenter, who was observing them overnight June 23, 2020, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

Carpenter, 60, told the Washington Post the violence “has got to stop before someone gets killed. Sad thing I’m on their side for peaceful demonstrations — am a Gay Progressive Dem Senator served 36 years in the legislature.”

He also posted video showing protesters charging at him — after which WKOW-TV staffer Lance Vesser added a post noting that Carpenter said he was assaulted and then collapsed.

Carpenter said video he was recording “got me assaulted & beat up. Punched/kicked in the head, neck, ribs. Maybe concussion, socked in left eye is little blurry, sore neck & ribs. 8-10 people attacked me. Innocent people are going to get killed. Capitol locked — stuck in office. Stop violence now Plz!”

The caption from another social media photo noted that Carpenter “was just punched in the face by Madison protesters because he was filming. Several people attacked him.”

The Journal Sentinel’s Lawrence Andrea reported that protesters said Carpenter “provoked them.”

Biden supporters on election night assume they’ll escape the wrath of Black Lives Matter violence. Think again, kids.

Video posted by conservative journalist Andy Ngo revealed some cognitively dissonant moments on the night of the 2020 election when hundreds of protesters shut down the streets of southeast Portland and confronted residents — even if they supported Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

Case in point was a man who stood on his porch and hollered at the protesters, “There’s my Biden sign! Don’t destroy anything! Be peaceful!”

But the guy’s supposed sociopolitical teammates weren’t having any of it.

“No one cares about your white-ass opinion!” one woman began yelling back at him. “Who do you think you are telling black people how to protest? You f***ing white-ass privilege old man!”

Another leftist female hollered, “Asking for people to be peaceful is white supremacy!”

It didn’t get any better when the man left the relative safety of his porch and spoke to the protesters up close and personal.

But one leftist told him, “You just came out to instigate violence!”

Then a woman got in the man’s face and told him, “At this point you’re distracting the movement, so go the f*** home!”

In a separate scene, another man made the mistake of yelling at protesters, “Dude, I’m on your f***ing side!” Because with that, a woman screamed back at him, “No, you’re not! No, you’re f***ing not!”

Check out the mind-bending video here.

Remember when leftist Maxine Waters urged fellow radicals to harass those who disagree with them politically and get in their faces? Well, she’s not too happy when tables are turned on her.

Who can forget U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) getting captured on video urging fellow radicals to harass and get in the faces of those who disagree politically with them?

“Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up, and if you see anybody from [President Donald Trump’s] Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome any more, anywhere!” she infamously howled in public.

Well, a video excerpt of an undated interview with Waters shows her indicating that such harassment is unacceptable if directed her way. She complained about an instance during which someone confronted her in a restaurant — and Waters said that showed a “racist attitude.”

“They don’t say racist things, but what they say is they don’t like something I said. They don’t like a position that I took,” she said, adding that “if you were not black, you would not be approached that way.”

Multitudes of commentators mocked Waters’ remarks online, many quoting back her apparent incitements to violence, which were not limited to the Democrat’s 2018 remarks.

Anarchists spray-paint walls with ‘F*** Biden,’ ‘No Presidents’ messages, bust windows at Democrat HQ after Biden wins election

Just hours after most mainstream media outlets declared Democratic nominee Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 election over President Donald Trump on Nov. 7, Biden’s supposed leftist comrades in Portland, Oregon, weren’t celebrating victory.

Instead they busted windows at the Multnomah County Democrats’ building and spray-painted messages such as “F*** Biden” and “No Presidents” — along with the universal symbol of anarchists.

Police arrested three suspects in the aftermath of the vandalism, KATU-TV reported:

Maximillian Jennings, 22, was booked on first-degree criminal mischief;
Thomas Mollrocek, 33, was booked on second-degree criminal mischief and third-degree escape;
James Walker Prettyman, 24, was booked on second-degree criminal mischief, the station said.

All three were booked into jail, KATU reported.

Police said demonstrators gathered outside the building and reportedly started tagging it and shattering windows, the station reported, adding that officers moved in and made targeted arrests of those who allegedly were part of the vandalism. You can check out a clip here showing the aftermath.

The anti-Biden sentiment among leftists was evident in Washington, D.C., as well, as black-clad demonstrators marched toward Black Lives Matter Plaza and chanted, “What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now! If we don’t get it — Burn it down! BURN. IT. DOWN!” along with, “F*** Trump! F*** Biden! No more presidents!”

In Detroit, one leftist group wasn’t too thrilled with Biden, either, and chanted, “F*** Donald Trump! F*** Biden too! Both of them don’t give a f*** about you!”

Far-left actor Michael Rapaport’s support for Israel prompts Antifa to violently protest his comedy shows

In January, dozens of far-left, violent Antifa agitators shouted expletives and fired off explosives outside a comedy club in Portland, Oregon, to express their outrage that the establishment dared to allow far-left actor Michael Rapaport — who supports Israel — onstage.

On the night of Jan. 12, with temperatures well below freezing, Antifa protesters gathered outside Helium Comedy Club, where Rapaport was scheduled to perform five shows over two days.

According to videos shared by Andy Ngo, a journalist who has been covering Antifa’s violent antics for years, a line of police officers protected the club’s perimeter as protesters attempted to intimidate those trying to get inside, even going so far as to hurl fireworks at the building to make their outrage felt.

While firing off explosives and harassing club-goers, the leftist protesters also shouted various anti-Semitic chants, such as “[From the river to the sea,] Palestine will be free.” They also yelled, “F*** Michael Rapaport” and warned him to get “out of Portland.” Despite the threats, Helium hosted all of Rapaport’s shows as scheduled.

While Rapaport’s history of unhinged social media tirades against former President Donald Trump would seem to put him in the far left’s good graces, his unfettered support for Israel since the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, has instead made him persona non grata for many in Portland.

Tyrone Collins, co-founder of the NW Black Comedy Festival, was one of many “local comedians” and other “activists” who recently called for Helium to cancel Rapaport’s shows, according to the Portland Mercury.

“Some of the things he’s posted on his social media — it’s been hateful. For some reason, Helium just tells us it’s OK to back this man and the hateful things he’s spewing,” Collins said. “They have no idea what he’s gonna get up there and say, you know, and they’re willing to take that chance. It’s just — it’s not a good look.”

Reese Hendrik of local comedy blog LaughsPDX chimed in as well. “Given recent commentary from Mr. Rapaport about the ongoing violence in Gaza, we do not support the platform being provided for him,” wrote Hendrink, who is Jewish. “While it is not our place to police the scene or individual clubs, we find it necessary to voice our stance and solidarity with the Palestinian people.”

White BLM protesters actually block black woman from driving through street. It gets ugly fast.

A video recorded on Sept. 7, 2020, shows a group of white BLM protesters defiantly standing in front of a truck in — where else? — Portland, Oregon. Not an unfamiliar scene by any stretch. But this time, the Black Lives Matter militants were blocking a black woman.

“Get out of the way!” the motorist hollers at them. “Because you killed my brother, move!” The clip doesn’t shed light on the claim, but it sure demonstrates her adversaries’ collective ignorance.

Defiant voices shoot right back at her. “You’re gonna go backward!” one barks. “Turn around!” another yells.

She blasts them again: ‘You’re setting fires in the streets? No, that’s violence! That’s violent! Get out of my way!”

“I think you don’t know what you’re talking about!” a male voice can be heard arguing back with her.

Soon the woman challenges the protesters: “Get your ass away from here! … Now they see how ignorant this looks. … You don’t want no race war out here!”

A black man who’s with the leftists moves in and appears to try to calm the situation as the motorist accuses someone in the group of calling her the N-word — which they deny. “Stop pushing us with your car!” one male hollers at her as they place their bodies in front of the truck’s bumper. The furious woman then exits her truck and gives the ignorant leftists a wake-up call: “If I was pushing you with my car, you’d be rammed the f*** over!”

At this point, the black man who’s with the leftists orders his comrades to shut up and move: “We need to get this woman out of here safely!”

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Since the dawn of October, I’ve found myself thinking often about two iconic monsters — the bloodthirsty vampire and the shapeshifting werewolf.

Perhaps it’s the Halloween decorations everywhere, the pop-up costume shops on every corner, or the horror films Netflix keeps recommending to me.

The vampiric spirit of bloodlust is easy enough to see in the widespread demand for unfettered abortion.

It could also be my recent discovery of “Haunted Cosmos” — a podcast for the highly curious that examines myth, legend, and the paranormal through the lens of Christian doctrine.

The creators of the series, Ben Garrett and Brian Sauve, make the case that much of what Christians dismiss as superstition is either true, partially true, or, at bare minimum, inspired by something true.

They take seriously the notion of aliens, dragons, Bigfoot, faeries, monsters, and the like. Using scripture as their decoder, they ask: Does the Bible offer support for the existence of these creatures?

Mask off

Whether or not stories about vampires and werewolves refer to actual creatures in the world (Garrett and Sauve have devoted fantastic episodes to this topic), one thing seems undeniably true to me.

The evil depicted by these legends is real — as real as the ground beneath our feet.

I’ve also been connecting the dots between this primordial evil and two of the most alarming modern issues contributing to the decline of the West. While these concepts may seem worlds apart, I sense a sinister connection between them.

The vampire and werewolf must be regarded in earnest because they pervade history. Every culture across time has some version of these evil entities. And when a thread of thought weaves through time and place, surely it hides a deeper truth. But what?

As a Christian, my answer to that question is that supernatural forces that crave human blood and revel in the idea of shapeshifting exist. They are demonic in nature and very powerful.

The anti-gospel

A vampire is a being who lives by taking the life force (the blood) of others. Is that not the antithesis of the gospel message? The vampire says, “Your blood for my life,” whereas Jesus gave his blood so that we might live.

Vampirism is an anti-gospel. It expresses the rebellion of the original fallen angel — that great foil to Yahweh, Satan. That’s not to say vampires with fangs who sleep in coffins exist but rather that the entity that gave birth to such a myth exists.

The same goes for the spirit or entity that inspired the werewolf archetype. A werewolf is a man who, infected by evil, is forced to reject his nature and become a grotesque version of who he was intended to be. Again, we see an obvious perversion of God’s design. The rejection of our own nature is a rejection of our creator, who made us in his own image. This is also an anti-gospel.

Perhaps it’s a stretch to say that the same demonic entities that inspired vampires and werewolves are currently terrorizing the West, but I don’t think so. Not when I look closely at two of the biggest evils facing us today — evils directly caused by the rejection of our Judeo-Christian heritage.

What are abortion and transgenderism, after all, but the return of those iconic creatures of death, the vampire and the werewolf.

Shout Your Abortion

The vampiric spirit of bloodlust is easy enough to see in the widespread demand for unfettered abortion — especially on the furthest flank of the left, which openly relishes the slaughter of the unborn. One particular attendee at a pro-choice rally comes to mind. On her rotund, third-trimester belly were painted the words “NOT A BABY.” The image still haunts me.

There’s also the Shout Your Abortion organization, which quite literally encourages women to celebrate their abortions and share their “success stories.” SYA’s mission statement outlines its intentions to create a society where “abortion is free, de-stigmatized, and accessible in every community across the country.” In other words, these people really love the idea of boundless bloodshed.

Consider the murderous zeal of Minnesota governor — and Kamala Harris’ running mate — Tim Walz, who signed a statute repealing the law that required babies who survive botched abortions to receive life-saving care. Even those whose lives have been miraculously spared cannot escape doom under the Walz regime.

Father of lies

However, not everyone is so candid about their desire to facilitate a genocide against the unborn. There are vampires who employ seduction to achieve their twisted desires. Like the serpent who used language to ensnare Eve in the garden, these cunning bloodsuckers deceive their victims with poetic discourse.

In Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” the titular count tells his quarry, “Mina, to walk with me you must die to your breathing life and be reborn to mine.” That’s a very polite way of expressing your intentions to gorge on someone’s blood and turn them into a fellow wraith.

Pro-choicers of this kind speak in euphemisms. They make abortion — the bloody disruption of the holy process during which God knits a soul into being — sound practical, moral, even benevolent: Women’s health care, reproductive rights, life-saving interventions.

Having been wooed and deceived, the vampire’s victim walks willingly to her — and it’s almost always a her — death. Similarly, young women are seduced by euphemistic pro-choice language and agree to not their own death but something even worse — the death of their innocent child. We see the common thread: Young women, deceived by language, make a decision that results in a bloody death.

Unleashing the beast within

As for the demonic entity that inspired the shapeshifting werewolf, I see its handiwork primarily in the transgender movement. An ideology that is capable of subverting language, butchering healthy bodies, removing children from loving homes, and obliterating the guardrails that have long protected women is a demonic ideology.

At its root is Satan’s original sin: He thought he was better than God. Transgenderism shares the same core belief — the same pride-filled ideation that we supersede the King of kings.

A man who believes he is a woman and attempts to reshape himself in accordance with this belief sins in three ways: He rejects himself, thereby rejecting the one in whose image he was created; he rejects God, purporting to know better than his own creator; and he imitates the deceiver, who is also a shapeshifter. The same goes for a woman who attempts to shed her God-given form and become a man.

Like the werewolf who is both destroyed and inflicts destruction, so, too, the transgender individual destroys his or her own body and/or psyche and perpetuates a destructive, demonic creed.

The darkness remains

I do not believe that the millions of people foaming at the mouth demanding abortion access for all just have a different perspective than me. I do not think that the doctors sterilizing children and cutting off their healthy body parts merely grew up differently than I did. That’s an oversimplification of the problem at hand.

Of course, we need to speak out and fight back against the organizations pushing these causes, the politicians working to enshrine them in law, the billionaires funding them, and the protesters storming the streets chanting for abortion access and trans rights.

At the same time, however, we need to look beyond these flesh-and-blood adversaries in order to see the true author of these evils. It is not man.

“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” (Ephesians 6:12).

As Halloween approaches, my neighbors are quite literally pulling skeletons out of their closets, adorning their porches and lawns with all varieties of dark paraphernalia.

Two doors down from me, one couple has turned their entire front yard into a haunted graveyard featuring every monstrous creature imaginable, including — you guessed it — a vampire and a werewolf.

Although I find myself averting my eyes when I walk by, their celebration of darkness has set me down a path of considering how society at large celebrates darkness — the abortion and trans issues being just two on the long list of ideologies poisoning the West.

When October passes and the plastic monsters and tombstones are banished to dusty attics until next year, the darkness they represent will remain, and it will continue to erode society.

I wonder if the evil associated with Halloween, which many Christians rightfully avoid, might actually present an opportunity for us to consider how darkness — vampires and bloodlust, werewolves and shapeshifting — doesn’t ever go away. It merely puts on a new mask.

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Aerospace technology is advancing at mind-blowing speed with the advent of advanced artificial intelligence. AI has expanded the possibilities that previously limited the defense industry. Now, the aerospace industry is moving to utilize physics in mind-blowing ways.

Here are some of the latest aerospace and defense industry developments that have been revealed to the public.

This tech is clearly still in the development or testing phase, but the fact that researchers are seriously discussing a nanotech material that can ‘shape-shift’ is incredible.

Let’s start with one of the most bizarre examples. The Samarai UAV project produced a small UAV
described as “the world’s first controllable robotic samara monocopter.” This aircraft mimics the samara — the tree seed with a “wing” like a helicopter — in its design. The Samarai copter is about 16 inches long and weighs less than a pound. It can take off and land on the ground or be thrown into the air for takeoff. It also has a mounted camera, which revolves at the same speed as the machine’s rotation, allowing for a stable camera view on the controller — which is a tablet.

This design has a lot of promise for the future: “Because its design is so robust and efficient, the Samarai is intended mainly for military surveillance and reconnaissance missions. It is capable of carrying and dropping small payloads, and can be inexpensively fabricated using a 3D printer.”

Another example is Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II, which is at the cutting edge of military stealth fighter jets. Northrop Grumman
describes it as a “stealthy, supersonic, multirole fighter” designed for the modern needs of the military.

Earlier this year, NASA debuted Lockheed Martin’s X-59 Quesst. The “X”
signifies that it is part of the Low Boom Flight Demonstration research. The X-59 Quesst was a project that sought to “quiet the boom,” referring to the sonic boom produced when the aircraft’s speed exceeds the speed of sound. Robert Pearce, NASA’s associate administrator for Aeronautics, said the research “showed us it was possible to design an aircraft that would produce a soft bump instead of a sonic boom.” The result of the research was the X-59, which is the prototype of what could become an industry of supersonic commercial aircraft. This aircraft’s sound is more like that of a car door closing than a typical sonic boom.

NASA is also developing
Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology, which is revolutionizing how traditional helicopters are used. These aircraft are capable of taking off, landing, and hovering in place anywhere they need to be. This project “is working with partners in government, industry, and academia to develop critical technologies that enable revolutionary new air travel options, especially those associated with Advanced Air Mobility such as large cargo-carrying vehicles and passenger-carrying air taxis.”

The RVLT project was historically concerned with “traditional rotary wing vehicles,” but it is also supporting the
Advanced Air Vehicles Program. This is a broader project with diverse focuses on new technologies in aerospace development. While many of these projects are still in the developing stages, they show the great breadth of the directions that the researchers are taking new aerospace technologies.

There are also alleged murmurings of nanotechnology that would drastically change the aerospace field forever. According to a piece of an
interview with some Lockheed Martin researchers, the tech developers discovered some new nanotechnology applications. These same researchers described the Samarai UAV project, as discussed above.

This other technology, however, has some truly mind-bending capabilities. One of the researchers said, “New materials that are on the lab bench right now … they can literally change shape, they can become almost a muscular material.” They also said that the material could take on different functions, like information processing or power storage: “We can do things like embed the nanotubes to make conductive structure, so that information doesn’t flow through a wire next to the structure but literally flows through the structure.”

They went on to discuss the possibilities of these futuristic aircraft, describing the ways in which “swarms” of “adaptive vehicles” could interact with each other to complete different tasks under changing conditions. The idea is that smaller vehicles could learn from each other and interact with larger aircraft. Some may have sensors, while others have other capabilities like payload transport or defense.

This type of UAV fleet would forever change air and space travel and the battlefield. As the researcher says, “As we go forward, we’re going to find new ways of using these unmanned UAVs.” This tech is clearly still in the development or testing phase, but the fact that researchers are seriously discussing a nanotech material that can “shape-shift” is incredible.

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Police were able to use DNA analysis to solve the mystery of a skull found inside the wall of a home in Illinois.

Officials said the skull had been found in 1978 by a homeowner in Batavia who was renovating the house. Police investigated the discovery but were unable to determine who it belonged to, so the skull was sent to the Batavia Depot Museum for storage.

‘I wish my mom was still here so I could tell her. She’d love it.’

Then in March 2021, workers at the museum rediscovered the skull and contacted the Kane County Coroner’s Office. They asked for a DNA profile to be made and were able to identify to whom the skull belonged.

Investigators matched the DNA profile to the genetic material of the great, great grandson of 17-year-old Esther Granger.

Granger had died in childbirth in 1866, and officials believe that grave robbers dug up her body and sold it for medical experimentation. She had been buried in Merrillville, Indiana, alongside her husband.

“There’s this sense of closure,” said 69-year-old Wayne Silvar, the great, great grandson. “I wish my mom was still here so I could tell her. She’d love it.”

Kane County Coroner Rob Russell says that medical experimentation would explain why Granger’s skull ended up about 80 miles away from where she was buried. At the time, doctors would pay for fresh corpses to increase their anatomical knowledge, but the demand only incentivized the unseemly practice of grave robbery.

Officials said the woman’s skull was laid to rest in August at the West Batavia Cemetery.

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Nevada women’s volleyball captain Sia Liilii delivered emotional remarks as her team officially forfeited a game against San Jose State University, which has a male on its women’s team.

Nevada players had announced their intention to forfeit weeks prior to their game against SJSU, which has a 6’1″ male — Blaire Fleming, born Brayden — on its roster.

‘This is what bravery looks like, this is what leadership looks like.’

However, University of Nevada officials rejected the players’ vote and said the game would go on as scheduled in accordance with NCAA rules and state laws surrounding gender inclusion.

Last week, the match was moved from Nevada to SJSU “in the best interest of both programs and the well-being of the student-athletes, coaches, athletic staff and spectators,” a statement read.

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As reported by Outkick, it wasn’t until the day before the match — scheduled for this past Saturday — that Nevada officials finally announced a forfeit.

“Due to not having enough players to compete, the University of Nevada women’s volleyball team will not play its scheduled Mountain West Conference match at San José State,” the school reportedly said in a statement.

Nevada players held a news conference at game time Saturday with the support of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports as well as former NCAA athlete Riley Gaines.

Image source: Independent Council on Women’s Sports video screenshot, used by permission

You can view video of the news conference here. Gaines begins speaking after the 9:30 mark; Liilii begins speaking after the 19-minute mark.

At least nine members of the Nevada team stood on stage during the presser, all wearing shirts that read “BOYcott.”

“This is what bravery looks like, this is what leadership looks like,” Gaines stated before introducing Liilii. “Certainly more bravery and leadership than the people who are supposed to be protecting them have shown.”

Liilii received a standing ovation upon taking the podium, bringing the senior to tears as she prepared to deliver her remarks.

“I never expected to be blindsided … having to compete against a male athlete,” the Hawaiian student began. “When the news broke, I was stunned, as many of my teammates were. This is not what we signed up for.”

‘We were told we weren’t educated enough, and we didn’t understand the science.’

In addition to Nevada, four other schools have forfeited against SJSU, however, none have given specific reasons as to why they were doing so. This, despite Fleming’s own teammate saying, “We all know the reason.”

The Nevada team captain addressed this head on, saying that the “the vague messages” from other schools weren’t “directly addressing the injustice” the women were facing in their sport.

She added that her school even made its decision without consulting its own players, the ones who were directly in danger: “We were not consulted, we were not given a voice, and we did not agree.”

Shockingly, the athlete revealed that when the team spoke to school administrators, the officials refused to even listen to their statements: “We were told we weren’t educated enough, and we didn’t understand the science.” With that, the crowd in attendance loudly booed.

Blaze News on Monday reached out to the school for comment on Liilii’s aforementioned assertion but didn’t immediately hear back.

Liilii explained that she and her teammates did not expect to have to “fight for basic fairness” and that they do indeed understand the difference between a male and a female athlete.

She went on to ask the NCAA an open question: “How many young women will have to be beaten, or see their friends get beaten out of an opportunity by a male, before enough is enough?”

Liilii concluded, “Men do not belong in women’s sports. If you were born a male, you do not belong in women’s sports.”

Nevada on Tuesday is scheduled to play Utah State before returning home to play Boise State on Nov. 2; both Utah State and Boise State teams also forfeited matches against SJSU.

On SJSU’s schedule, the team lists the forfeited matches as “no contest.”

On Nevada’s schedule, however, the loss reads “forfeit.”

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