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At a time when conservatives are calling to divest from the Middle East and confront crises at home, Gaza is the last place America should pour time, treasure, or troops. What national interest do we have in defending a territory run by the most violent Islamists on earth?

Thanks to a coordinated online propaganda campaign — part cyber-jihad, part influencer echo chamber — some on the right have begun parroting communist and Islamist talking points about a “Gaza genocide.” Voices like Tucker Carlson now argue that Israel’s defense partnerships no longer justify U.S. involvement. From an America First perspective, that sounds reasonable: fewer entangling alliances, less foreign aid. But if Israel supposedly offers us nothing, what on earth does Gaza offer?

If we’re serious about an America First foreign policy, we should begin disentangling from the Middle East altogether.

On October 13, the entire communist world — and its pseudo-right allies — got what it wanted. Israel withdrew from Gaza’s populated areas and exchanged 2,000 terrorists for 20 hostages, trusting Hamas to disarm.

Peace in our time, right? More like no Jews, no news.

Hamas immediately reneged, of course, refusing to return most hostage remains and launching a campaign of public executions. The largest slaughter of Muslims in the Arab world wasn’t committed by Jews, but by other Muslims. Remove the Jews, and Gaza doesn’t grow peaceful — it turns on itself. Yet without Jews in the headlines, global media suddenly loses interest in reporting on “genocide.”

Once the internal purges were done, Hamas returned to its favorite target: infidels. On Sunday, terrorists emerged from tunnels in Rafah and attacked Israeli forces, killing two IDF soldiers. Snipers fired on Israeli positions near Jabalia. At the same time, Hamas used Gaza’s hospitals — Al-Shifa, Al-Ahli, Al-Aqsa, and Nasser — as makeshift detention and interrogation centers, confirming what Israel long claimed: Those “civilian” sites serve as terror bases.

Israeli troops now sit exposed, ordered to hold positions but forbidden to act pre-emptively. They’re surrounded by tunnels and terrorists, trapped in another international “ceasefire” that only empowers killers.

Gaza’s terminal disease

The “Free Palestine” lie has collapsed under its own weight. Rebuilding Gaza under Arab control isn’t just naïve — it’s suicidal. No society so steeped in religious violence can sustain peace or self-government. Hamas is not an aberration; it’s a symptom of a deeper rot in Islamic political culture.

So why is President Trump involving America in this mess through the so-called 20-point plan? For a movement that claims to oppose endless wars and foreign aid, the right’s silence on this scheme is baffling. The Pentagon has already confirmed plans to send 200 U.S. soldiers to the Gaza border. If Israel defending itself against Iran supposedly meant “Americans dying for Israel,” what exactly do we call Americans dying to protect Hamas from Israel?

RELATED: Trump receives roaring applause for historic peace deal after all remaining hostages are freed

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The British blueprint

This entire plan was crafted by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair — the same man who recently declared Britain must become “a nation of global citizens.” No wonder it leads to deeper entanglement, not withdrawal. Once again, globalist bureaucrats are trying to pull America into Middle Eastern “peacekeeping,” which always means nation-building with American blood and money.

If we’re serious about an America First foreign policy, we should begin disentangling from the region altogether — starting by weaning Israel off U.S. weapons systems so it can act freely without American political interference. But under no circumstances should we send troops or tax dollars to Gaza. Peacekeeping there isn’t in our interest. In that part of the world, “peace” means paralysis, and paralysis means death.

The wolf and the lamb

President Trump’s desire to see the “wolf dwell with the lamb” is noble, even biblical. But Isaiah’s prophecy won’t be fulfilled through U.N. peacekeepers or Pentagon deployments. It won’t come through Islam, whose theology demands submission, not reconciliation.

Let Gaza be the Arab world’s problem. Let Israel defend itself without our restraint. And let America finally wake up to the rising threat of political Islam — in our own communities, not 6,000 miles away.

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New York City is on the cusp of voting in Zohran Mamdani, a young democratic socialist and New York State Assembly member, as its next mayor. As of now, he is the clear front-runner. Recent polls show him leading with about 45% support, far ahead of rivals like independent Andrew Cuomo at 25%.

The promise of “free” everything has blinded many struggling New Yorkers into pledging their support for the Muslim communist, but Sara Gonzales, BlazeTV host of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered,” warns that this is bound to end in a far bigger disaster than most of us realize.

Last Thursday, Mamdani participated in his first mayoral debate. Not only did he admit his plans to make everything free by taxing the living daylights out of people, but he also let slip his true intentions: Turn New York City into a lawless Muslim city.

Sara plays a clip from the debate, during which Mamdani criticized Cuomo for his lack of mosque attendance.

“It took Andrew Cuomo being beaten by a Muslim candidate in the Democratic primary for him to set foot in a mosque. He had more than 10 years, and he couldn’t name a single mosque at the last debate we had that he visited. And what Muslims want in this city is what every community wants and deserves. They want equality, and they want respect,” Mamdani said.

Sara is disgusted: “I would love to know, how many synagogues have you been to and not planted explosives? How many Christian churches have you been to, buddy?”

Blaze Media digital strategist Logan Hall adds, “If you told someone, one of the first responders after 9/11, that, ‘Hey, you know, 20 years from now, we’re going to be importing hundreds of thousands of Muslims, bringing them directly to this city, and the guy who has a very likely chance to be the next mayor is demanding that other candidates go visit mosques as a qualification for elected office,’ I don’t know … if they would have voted for that.”

On top of prioritizing Muslims, Mamdani contradicted his previous statements about supporting New York City police.

“I am looking to work with police officers, not to defund the NYPD, looking to ensure that officers can actually do one job when they’re signing up to join that department,” he said during the debate.

“That’s perfect, except he doesn’t actually believe that,” says Sara, who has a long list of receipts.

She plays old video footage showing Mamdani boldly admitting, “I am in favor of defunding the police.” His X account is also rife with similar statements: “Defund the Haram Police”; “Defund the police and build a socialist New York”; “What we need is to #DefundTheNYPD”; and “Queer liberation means defund the police,” among several others.

“And this guy now conveniently wants to tell New York City that he totally supports NYPD. The problem is, Zohran, that the internet is a thing and these screenshots are forever,” Sara says.

“I think this is a pretty clean-cut case of importing the third world,” Logan says.

“[Progressives’] entire criminal justice policy is to side with criminals and to make sure more crime happens. … They want more crime to happen because communists thrive on chaos and dysfunction. It allows them to grab more power and break down the barriers that would naturally restrain the state,” he continues. “So, they’re always going to side with the illegals. They’re always going to side with the criminals. They’re always going to side with the freaks that are terrorizing normal people and terrorizing your society.”

Guest Chad Prather, host of “The Chad Prather Show,” foretells New York City’s dismal future: “To be a citizen in New York City in the future is a death sentence. It is literally a dystopian nightmare. It is an apocalyptic movie. It is the end of the world. It is Armageddon. … It will be a death sentence if you live there. It will be murderous. It will be rapey. It will be a rampage of violence. There will be no justice. There will be no sense of bail. There will be no prison system. There will be nothing that punishes crime.”

“If this guy gets power, I’m telling you, within 10 years, it is the end of the state of New York.”

To hear more of the panel’s conversation, watch the clip above.

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Last week, Politico exposed thousands of leaked messages from a private Telegram chat group of Young Republicans leaders across states like New York, Kansas, Arizona, and Vermont. The chats, spanning seven months earlier this year, revealed racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, and violent jokes, including rape quips, praise for Hitler, gas chamber gags, and slurs against black, gay, Latino, and Asian people.

The messages were egregious, to say the least.

Peter Giunta, former chair of the New York State Young Republicans, wrote things like, “I love Hitler”; “Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber”; “I’d go to the zoo if I wanted to watch monkey play ball”; and “I’m going to create some of the greatest psychological torture methods known to man. We only want true believers.”

Joe Maligno, general counsel of the New York State Young Republicans, wrote, “Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic.”

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans, referred to rape as “epic.”

Annie Kaykaty, a national committee member in New York, wrote, “I’m ready to watch people burn now.”

In its exposé, Politico drew the following conclusion: “The chat offers an unfiltered look at how a new generation of GOP activists talk when they think no one is listening.”

Mainstream media echoed this, framing the Young Republicans Telegram scandal as proof of rampant racism, anti-Semitism, and violent rhetoric among Gen Z Republicans, portraying them as a toxic, far-right group shaped by Trump-era extremism.

Not so fast, Mark Levin cautions.

“I’m not willing to accept this total smear of an entire generation of Republicans,” he says.

“I’m willing to accept without equivocation that these people are sleazy, and what they said is outrageous. It’s bigoted. It’s racist. It’s anti-Semitic,” he says, noting that all involved deserve to lose their positions.

But these grotesque messages certainly are not indicative of the views of all young conservatives. What the media is attempting to do, he says, is use a scandal involving a handful of hateful individuals to smear Donald Trump.

In the Politico article, authors Emily Ngo and Jason Beeferman wrote, “The 2,900 pages of chats, shared among a dozen Millennial and Gen Z Republicans between early January and mid-August, chronicle their campaign to seize control of the national Young Republican organization on a hardline pro-Donald Trump platform.”

But the facts, Levin says, don’t support this narrative.

“Donald Trump [is] the greatest supporter of Israel and greatest active opponent of anti-Semitism in the history of the presidency,” he says.

To hear more of his analysis and commentary, watch the clip above.

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A panel of judges on an appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump can legally send National Guard troops to Portland in order to secure the area around a besieged federal facility.

Far-left anti-deportation activists have been protesting against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the city’s South Waterfront district, oftentimes with violence. The president has argued that military troops are necessary to quell the attacks and secure the facility.

‘The law, US Constitution, and supremacy clause back the President’s action to protect the public and law enforcement, and today this ruling has vindicated us.’

On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the president was justified in the Oregon National Guard troop deployment.

On Thursday, the three-judge panel heard arguments from the Department of Justice to allow the deployment and also from Oregon officials against the order.

Local and state officials have argued that the troops are unnecessary and that the administration is exaggerating the violence at the facility.

Some lawmakers have gone so far as to accuse the administration of faking the violence out of political motivation.

“This is the first time I know of, at least in my lifetime, that the federal government has faked a riot in order to try to justify the Insurrection Act being invoked,” said Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon in a statement to CNN.

“Having illegitimately attempted to federalize the Oregon National Guard and being blocked because there is no ‘invasion’ or ‘rebellion’ in Portland, Trump continues to try to incite riots and violence,” he added in a Facebook post.

Others on the left have accused the president of using the troop mobilization in order to seize control of the streets and intimidate his political opponents.

This isn’t about public safety; it’s about power,” said Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California to the New York Times. “The commander in chief is using the U.S. military as a political weapon against American citizens. We will take this fight to court, but the public cannot stay silent in the face of such reckless and authoritarian conduct by the president of the United States.”

Two of the judges on the panel were appointed by Trump, while the third was appointed by President Bill Clinton.

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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem applauded the ruling in a post on social media.

“Another VICTORY for President Trump and the safety and security of the American people,” she wrote.

“The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that @POTUS is rightfully using his Constitutional authority to direct the National Guard to protect federal assets, personnel and public safety in Portland, Oregon,” Noem added. “The law, U.S. Constitution, and supremacy clause back the President’s action to protect the public and law enforcement, and today this ruling has vindicated us.”

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As the government shutdown barrels toward a fourth week, Republicans and Democrats are pointing at each other, but a CNN analyst says one side has a clear advantage.

CNN analyst Harry Enten says that President Donald Trump is taking less blame for the current shutdown than a previous shutdown during Trump’s first term.

‘There’s no real reason Donald Trump might say, at least when it comes to popular support, “I want to get out of this shutdown.”‘

“This shutdown is a different world for Trump than the 2018-19 shutdown. He’s in a much better spot,” Enten wrote on social media.

“His net approval is up slightly during this shutdown vs. dropping during 2018-19. Why?” he added. “The [percentage] who blame him a great deal for the shutdown is down significantly now vs. 2018-19.”

Enten posted a video of his polling analysis from CNN, which showed that the approval rating for Trump dropped during the first shutdown by about 3 points after 20 days of the shutdown. This time around, his approval is actually up by 1% after 20 days of the shutdown.

“The bottom line is this: The first shutdown during Trump’s first term, 2018-2019, was hurting Donald Trump. This one is not hurting him at all,” he said during the segment. “There’s no real reason Donald Trump might say, at least when it comes to popular support, ‘I want to get out of this shutdown.'”

When it comes down to how many people blame Trump for the shutdown, far fewer do so than they did in the past shutdown.

RELATED: CNN analyst says Americans do not trust Democrats on crime: It’s ‘one of Trump’s best issues’

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Seven years ago, 61% of those polled blamed Trump a great deal for the government shutdown, while only 48% said the same of the current shutdown.

“It’s a different world. … It’s no real wonder that Donald Trump at this point, looking at the shutdown, says, ‘You know what? It’s not actually harming me politically,” in large part because he’s getting less of the blame,” Enten said.

Enten also pointed out that Trump bypassed the legislative paralysis in Congress to push his agenda by signing far more executive orders than in his previous term. So far, he has signed 210 executive orders in his first year, the most signed by any president going back to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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The Islamic Center of Mason has a charter school that requires students to memorize the Koran, and its organizers have plans for a large expansion for a mosque.

A WCPO-TV report included interviews from a student and a mother who co-founded the Learning Center in Ohio as well as an imam from the mosque next door to the school.

‘The hardest part is actually retaining what you memorized.’

“I did not want to do it at all,” said Aadam Zindani.

“Memorizing it is the easy part,” he added. “The hardest part is actually retaining what you memorized.”

Zindani said that memorizing the 600 pages took him about three years.

“It takes years. For some people, it takes decades,” said imam Fawzan Hansbhai.

Aadam’s mother, Anila Zindani, told WCPO that she helped found the school in Mason because she couldn’t find a place in the area to help teach her son the Koran. She began memorizing the Koran in a trailer in downtown Mason.

The learning center’s website says the school has classes from kindergarten to the second grade and that it is a non-public charter school. The center is affiliated with the Department of Education with the state of Ohio.

“The best among you are those who learn the Qu’ran and teach it,” the website reads.

The school organizers are also raising money to build a community center that includes a $12 million mosque, a prayer hall, and classrooms for the learning center.

“It was a huge dream,” said Anila Zindani of the school. “And when I see those students, and when I see those teachers, it’s like a dream come true.”

RELATED: Florida teen murdered 13-year-old for mocking Islam — family is suing the grocery store that sold him the knife

The school’s website says it has 38 students for the current season.

“Save yourself before it’s too late,” read a post from the learning center on its official social media account. It added a verse from the Koran: “Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day should speak good or remain silent.”

Video of WCPO’s visit to the Islamic Center was disabled to play on other websites by the owner, but it can be viewed on the station’s channel on YouTube.

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A yet-unnamed male reportedly broke the glass front door of a Baltimore jewelry store with a brick in the middle of the night last week — and it proved to be a fateful choice, as the store owner was inside at the time.

A friend of the store owner shared the following account of Thursday’s incident with WJZ-TV on his behalf. The station said:

The store owner was watching a movie around 2 a.m.The store owner said someone broke through his glass front door with a brick, so he fired a warning shot and said, “Freeze!” The intruder ducked, then popped back up, and the store owner shot him.

Baltimore police described it as a commercial burglary at the intersection of Fleet and Madeira Streets that resulted in the fatal shooting of a 39-year-old man, WJZ said.

‘There are very much viable defenses for someone in the business owner’s — the jewelry store owner’s — shoes right now.’

The station added that the shooting was caught on video and shared with a WJZ reporter. While the camera owner declined to allow WJZ to publish the images, the camera owner did share them with police. The station said the silent video shows a man at the store’s entrance who appears to enter the business — and seconds later, he falls to the pavement.

WJZ noted in its Friday story that “bullet holes remained in two windows at the store” and that the broken glass in the store’s front door “has since been covered.” The station added that the store’s owner reportedly lived above his shop.

RELATED: Video: Armed thugs who rush into jewelry store have fast change of heart when worker with gun sends them some smoke

In a follow-up story, WJZ reported that the shooting has raised questions regarding when — and where — lethal force is allowed when you believe you are in danger.

The station said the standards differ in Maryland depending on if you are in your home or in public. WJZ said the law gives you more latitude to use deadly force if you’re at home and have a “reasonable” fear that your life is in danger — a.k.a. the Castle Doctrine.

But the station said if you are in public, you have a “duty to retreat” and only can use deadly force as a last resort — and the force should be proportional to the threat.

Attorney Warren Alperstein — who is not affiliated with the jewelry store case — noted to WJZ that “if you’re in an alley up against a brick wall at a dead end, and there’s no way to get out … there’s no way to retreat — that would be an exception to the requirement.”

RELATED: Smash-and-grab robbers turn tail and run when jewelry store employee pulls out gun, starts shooting

The station said in the case of Thursday’s fatal shooting at the jewelry store, the store owner lived in the same building as his business. Alperstein added to WJZ that “if it’s determined it was in his home, then he does not have to first prove that he retreated before he used the deadly force.”

The attorney also told the station that “there are very much viable defenses for someone in the business owner’s — the jewelry store owner’s — shoes right now.”

WJZ said Baltimore police and the state’s attorney’s office declined interview requests.

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Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Blake Treinen is putting his Christianity front and center yet again.

Treinen is part of a pitching staff that, along with star Clayton Kershaw, has stood up for religious freedoms in the face of disturbing times in California.

‘Every single one of us have been given a gift …’

When a transgender-promoting, anti-Christian activist group was invited to Dodger Stadium in 2023, Treinen accused the group of “mocking the religious habits of nuns” and “mocking what [Catholics] hold most deeply.”

Now, ahead of the Dodgers’ second straight trip to the World Series, Treinen made it clear how important his Christian faith is in his life.

“I think my family’s name is great in the eyes of God, but in the eyes of the world, nobody really knew the Treinens,” the pitcher told CBN Sports.

“I don’t really care if they do,” he continued. “I want them to see Christ’s greatness and what he’s accomplished in my career.”

Treinen said he wanted to see everyone go to heaven while also expressing care for others, saying, “I don’t want to see any of my teammates or anybody in the stands or anybody in this world face the alternative.”

“How do we make heaven crowded?” Treinen asked. “That’s really my goal.”

“Every single one of us have been given a gift, and our way of repaying it to the Lord is how do we honor Him with that gift?” he concluded. “When I am welcomed into the gates of heaven, I want to hear ‘job well done, good and faithful servant.'”

RELATED: Christian LA Dodgers pitcher defies Pride Night with subtle in-game protest

Teammate Kershaw, meanwhile, stood out for his own religious fervor earlier this season when the Dodgers celebrated gay Pride Night.

While Kershaw took issue with the same event as Treinen in 2023, on Pride Night this June, the pitcher participated in wearing his team’s rainbow-themed cap — but added a caveat.

“Gen 9:12-16,” Kershaw’s hat read. The player had written a Bible passage next to the Pride logo.

In the King James Bible, the passage states the following:

And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

The Dodgers have been mired in controversy all year as the team seemingly battles the ethics of a far-left California setting with its generally conservative baseball fan base.

Also in June, an activist singer purposely sang the national anthem in Spanish at a Dodgers game to protest against the deportation of illegal immigrants who are Hispanic.

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There were also reports in June of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using Dodgers property as a staging area; the team and ICE gave conflicting reports on the matter.

Furthermore, in July, the Dodgers were hit with an anti-discrimination lawsuit over alleged diversity hiring initiatives.

Lastly, a Make-A-Wish foundation executive resigned in October after being caught on camera threatening to call ICE on a Dodgers fan at a playoff game against the Milwaukee Brewers.

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The Sept. 10 assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk failed to scare the conservative group off college campuses. The fact that students across the country have stood their ground and continue to hold events has evidently enraged leftists.

On Friday, a 27-year-old teaching assistant at Illinois State University allegedly attacked a TPUSA booth where students were advertising their group as well as their Oct. 20 event featuring BlazeTV host Alex Stein.

‘The left has no impulse control.’

Footage of the incident seems to show the man-bunned teaching assistant Derek Lopez of El Paso, Illinois, confront student members of the conservative group — one of whom appears to have been smashed in the face with a pie — and motion toward their table stating, “Jesus did it. So you know I gotta do it, right?”

A pinned tweet on an X page that appears to belong to Lopez states, “A reminder to students who see TPUSA chapters on their campus: those are Nazis.”

Lopez can be seen in the footage apparently yanking the table, then turning it over, then later yanking down flyers for the event. Lopez apparently admitted to flipping over the table in an Instagram post.

RELATED: ‘Grandpa was Antifa’ may be the dumbest meme of the decade

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Hours after the incident, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon noted, “This is outrageous anti-speech conduct by a state employee. What’s up @IllinoisStateU?!”

The following day, the university told Dhillon that the institution “recognizes the diverse perspectives represented on our campus,” and indicated that Lopez, confirmed to be a graduate student and teaching assistant at the university, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property.

Chief Aaron Woodruff of the Illinois State University Police Department said in a statement, “We are committed to protecting the First Amendment rights as well as [the] safety of everyone in our campus community. We encourage all members of our community to learn more about free speech rights and responsibilities at Illinois State University, including constructive ways to respond when encountering speech they may disagree with.”

According to campus police, Lopez could face additional charges and university disciplinary action over the incident.

Blaze News has reached out to Lopez for comment.

Alex Stein, who was himself viciously attacked over the weekend by unhinged liberals at a No Kings protest, told Blaze News, “It’s sad that it’s not even surprising anymore when something like this happens.”

“Radical leftists have made sure to infiltrate the education system so they can try and radicalize more students, and then want to get violent/physical when they see something they don’t agree with,” continued Stein. “It’s obvious at this point the left has no impulse control. I’m looking forward to my event tonight at Illinois State and am proud of the students who stood their ground against the student teacher.”

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The president answered with important details on Monday about the possibility of U.S. troops on the ground to “eradicate” the Hamas terror group if it continues to threaten the peace deal negotiated with Israel.

President Donald Trump took questions from the press while seated next to the prime minister of Australia at the White House.

‘They have to be good, and if they’re not good, they will be eradicated.’

The president gave a fierce warning to the Hamas terror group for continuing attacks on Israelis.

“They’re going to behave. They’re going to be nice. And if they’re not, we’re going to go and we’re going to eradicate them if we have to. They’ll be eradicated. And they know that,” said Trump.

“They got very rambunctious, and they did things that they shouldn’t be doing,” he added. “And if they keep doing it, then we’re going to go in and straighten it out. And it’ll happen very quickly and pretty violently, unfortunately.”

Rebeka Zeljko of Blaze News asked him to clarify whether that action might include the U.S. military.

“When you say, ‘We are going to eradicate Hamas,’ who is ‘we’?” Zeljko asked. “Does that include American boots on the ground?”

“No. It won’t be on the ground at all,” Trump replied unequivocally.

“We don’t need to because we have many countries, as you know, signed on to this deal. The way I view it, 59 countries … that four months ago didn’t like each other and now they’re all aligned together,” he added.

“I mean, we’ve had countries calling me when they saw some of the killing with Hamas, saying, ‘We’d love to go in and take care of the situation ourselves,'” Trump continued. “In addition you have Israel would go in in two minutes if I asked them to go in. I could tell them, ‘Go in and take care of it.’ But right now we haven’t said that. We’re gonna give it a little chance, and hopefully there will be a little less violence, but right now, you know, they’re violent people. Hamas has been very violent.”

He went on to point out that Hamas had lost the backing of Iran and anyone else.

“They have to be good, and if they’re not good, they will be eradicated,” he added.

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The peace deal negotiated by Trump has already led to the release of the remaining hostages and the remains of hostages to Israel from the terror group.

Critics of the U.S. backing Israel in the conflict have strenuously objected to the possibility of U.S. military troops being sent to help the U.S. ally in the fight against Hamas.

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An ex-Pennsylvania state police trooper — who is white — is suing his former agency for firing him after his viral arrest of a black Philadelphia LGBTQ leader.

Andrew Zaborowski arrested Celena McLean — then Celena Morrison — and McLean’s husband in a March 2024 traffic stop on the Schuylkill Expressway, WPVI-TV reported.

‘It’s cause I’m black.’

Zaborowski claims in his lawsuit that state police fired him because of his skin color and that he was falsely accused of racial profiling, the station said.

At the time of the traffic stop and arrest, McLean was Philadelphia’s executive director of the Office of LGBT Affairs, WPVI reported.

The station said it reached out to state police for comment but did not hear back.

RELATED: 9 arrested after transgender activists clash with police at ‘Let Women Speak’ event in NYC

As Blaze News previously reported, the March 2 incident — some of which was caught on video — took place on Interstate 76 near the downtown part of the city.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, citing state police, at the time reported that the trooper pulled over Celena Morrison for driving with an expired and suspended registration, driving without headlights activated in the rain, illegally tinted windows, and driving too close to another car.

After the traffic stop, Celena Morrison’s husband, Darius McLean, pulled up behind them, the paper said, adding that state police said McLean “became verbally combative” and “refused multiple lawful orders” after the trooper approached him.

The trooper attempted to arrest McLean, and Morrison tried to intervene, the Inquirer said, adding that Morrison also was arrested.

In Morrison’s video of the arrest, Morrison was heard yelling, “I work for the mayor! I work for the mayor!” as McLean was laying on the shoulder of the freeway, the paper said.

“Please, just stop. No! It’s cause I’m black,” McLean was heard saying, according to WPVI-TV.

“It’s not ’cause you’re black,” the trooper replied, according to the station.

The trooper then told Morrison to “turn around” and “give me your hands, or you are getting tased,” WPVI reported. At one point, Morrison was heard saying, “He just punched me,” the Inquirer said.

More from the station:

“This was a simple traffic stop cause you didn’t have your lights on. You’re tailgating,” the officer explains to the couple. “Then, I don’t know who you are. I don’t need somebody rolling up on me.”

“There was no need at all,” one person is heard saying.

“You were about to tase me. You pulled your gun on me,” another voice says.

“You were fighting with me,” says a third voice.

“No, I wasn’t fighting you,” someone responds.

RELATED: The Zizians’ violent spiral: A trans group tied to killings across America

State police placed the trooper on restricted duty after the incident, the Inquirer reported.

In addition, while state police charged the couple with resisting arrest, obstruction of justice, disorderly conduct, and summary traffic citations, the paper said the office of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner declined the charges, and Celena Morrison and Darius McLean were released from custody on the evening of March 2.

Blaze News reported in January 2020 that then-Mayor Jim Kenney appointed Celena Morrison to run his Office of LGBT Affairs — and that Morrison was the first-ever trans-identifying individual of color to head up the agency.

“While Philadelphia is known as a progressive, LGBTQ-friendly city, we still have work to do,” the far-left Kenney said in a statement. “I look forward to working with Celena to build a more inclusive city for our residents.”

Morrison added to KYW-AM that being transgender and black will be an asset when it comes to the job’s demands of dealing with issues of race and gender.

“Trans folks are not being accepted,” Morrison told KYW. “They are not accepted within the LGBT community. They are also not accepted within the black community. That double marginalization calls for a different type of support.”

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An ex-Pennsylvania state police trooper — who is white — is suing his former agency for firing him after his viral arrest of a black Philadelphia LGBTQ leader.

Andrew Zaborowski arrested Celena McLean — then Celena Morrison — and McLean’s husband in a March 2024 traffic stop on the Schuylkill Expressway, WPVI-TV reported.

‘It’s cause I’m black.’

Zaborowski claims in his lawsuit that state police fired him because of his skin color and that he was falsely accused of racial profiling, the station said.

At the time of the traffic stop and arrest, McLean was Philadelphia’s executive director of the Office of LGBT Affairs, WPVI reported.

The station said it reached out to state police for comment but did not hear back.

RELATED: 9 arrested after transgender activists clash with police at ‘Let Women Speak’ event in NYC

As Blaze News previously reported, the March 2 incident — some of which was caught on video — took place on Interstate 76 near the downtown part of the city.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, citing state police, at the time reported that the trooper pulled over Celena Morrison for driving with an expired and suspended registration, driving without headlights activated in the rain, illegally tinted windows, and driving too close to another car.

After the traffic stop, Celena Morrison’s husband, Darius McLean, pulled up behind them, the paper said, adding that state police said McLean “became verbally combative” and “refused multiple lawful orders” after the trooper approached him.

The trooper attempted to arrest McLean, and Morrison tried to intervene, the Inquirer said, adding that Morrison also was arrested.

In Morrison’s video of the arrest, Morrison was heard yelling, “I work for the mayor! I work for the mayor!” as McLean was laying on the shoulder of the freeway, the paper said.

“Please, just stop. No! It’s cause I’m black,” McLean was heard saying, according to WPVI-TV.

“It’s not ’cause you’re black,” the trooper replied, according to the station.

The trooper then told Morrison to “turn around” and “give me your hands, or you are getting tased,” WPVI reported. At one point, Morrison was heard saying, “He just punched me,” the Inquirer said.

More from the station:

“This was a simple traffic stop cause you didn’t have your lights on. You’re tailgating,” the officer explains to the couple. “Then, I don’t know who you are. I don’t need somebody rolling up on me.”

“There was no need at all,” one person is heard saying.

“You were about to tase me. You pulled your gun on me,” another voice says.

“You were fighting with me,” says a third voice.

“No, I wasn’t fighting you,” someone responds.

RELATED: The Zizians’ violent spiral: A trans group tied to killings across America

State police placed the trooper on restricted duty after the incident, the Inquirer reported.

In addition, while state police charged the couple with resisting arrest, obstruction of justice, disorderly conduct, and summary traffic citations, the paper said the office of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner declined the charges, and Celena Morrison and Darius McLean were released from custody on the evening of March 2.

Blaze News reported in January 2020 that then-Mayor Jim Kenney appointed Celena Morrison to run his Office of LGBT Affairs — and that Morrison was the first-ever trans-identifying individual of color to head up the agency.

“While Philadelphia is known as a progressive, LGBTQ-friendly city, we still have work to do,” the far-left Kenney said in a statement. “I look forward to working with Celena to build a more inclusive city for our residents.”

Morrison added to KYW-AM that being transgender and black will be an asset when it comes to the job’s demands of dealing with issues of race and gender.

“Trans folks are not being accepted,” Morrison told KYW. “They are not accepted within the LGBT community. They are also not accepted within the black community. That double marginalization calls for a different type of support.”

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An outage on Amazon’s web hosting service caused a sweep of app outages after the company faced issues at an east-coast operations center.

AWS hosts about 6.3% of all websites, but some of the biggest brands’ communications platforms also rely on the service.

‘I don’t trust Signal anymore.’

When reports started rolling in around 3 a.m. Eastern Time, Amazon said it was dealing with an “operational issue” that was affecting 14 services at its northern Virginia center.

Snapchat, McDonald’s, and even Ring doorbell cameras were among some of the applications affected. Even gaming platforms like Roblox and Fortnite were affected, as were messaging and communications programs like Zoom and Signal.

According to NBC News, about 6.5 million reports piled up that said over 1,000 sites and services had gone offline.

After 6:30 a.m., AWS said it had “fully mitigated” the issues; that was until 10:14 a.m., when it confirmed “significant API errors and connectivity issues across multiple services in the US-EAST-1 Region.”

The widespread outage sparked conversations about the fragility and dependency of major companies and even institutions, as the blackout affected the U.K. government’s HM Revenue and Customs department, which handles tax services.

With Signal affected, purporting to be an encrypted chat, X owner Elon Musk jumped on the opportunity to cast doubt on the app and direct readers to his own version, X chat.

RELATED: Amazon invests $500M in mini nuclear reactors to power AI operations

“I don’t trust Signal anymore,” Musk wrote on X, responding to a user alarmed that Signal was not working.

Just over 20 minutes later, Musk started promoting his own messenger: “The messages are fully encrypted with no advertising hooks or strange ‘AWS dependencies’ such that I can’t read your messages even if someone put a gun to my head.”

This is a contrast from May 2024, when Musk openly praised AWS for developing generative AI that helps write website code.

“Impressive. My hat is off to what Amazon has accomplished with AWS,” Musk wrote at the time.

RELATED: AI isn’t feeding you

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This is not the first time Signal has been accused of being insecure. In a 2023 interview with the popular online influencer group Nelk Boys, conservative host Tucker Carlson claimed the NSA had hacked his Signal account around the time he was attempting to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Carlson said he got a call from someone in Washington, D.C., who sat down with him and had knowledge of his conversations about planning an interview with Putin because the NSA had allegedly read Carlson’s messages.

An NGO called Article 19, which describes itself as a group “defending freedom of expression and information around the world,” told NBC News that the organization felt the disruptions were “democratic failures.”

“When a single provider goes dark, critical services go offline with it — media outlets become inaccessible, secure communication apps like Signal stop functioning, and the infrastructure that serves our digital society crumbles.”

According to Wojciech Gawroński, who runs the website AWS Maniac, Amazon has suffered one to two major outages per year between 2011 and 2021.

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An outage on Amazon’s web hosting service caused a sweep of app outages after the company faced issues at an east-coast operations center.

AWS hosts about 6.3% of all websites, but some of the biggest brands’ communications platforms also rely on the service.

‘I don’t trust Signal anymore.’

When reports started rolling in around 3 a.m. Eastern Time, Amazon said it was dealing with an “operational issue” that was affecting 14 services at its northern Virginia center.

Snapchat, McDonald’s, and even Ring doorbell cameras were among some of the applications affected. Even gaming platforms like Roblox and Fortnite were affected, as were messaging and communications programs like Zoom and Signal.

According to NBC News, about 6.5 million reports piled up that said over 1,000 sites and services had gone offline.

After 6:30 a.m., AWS said it had “fully mitigated” the issues; that was until 10:14 a.m., when it confirmed “significant API errors and connectivity issues across multiple services in the US-EAST-1 Region.”

The widespread outage sparked conversations about the fragility and dependency of major companies and even institutions, as the blackout affected the U.K. government’s HM Revenue and Customs department, which handles tax services.

With Signal affected, purporting to be an encrypted chat, X owner Elon Musk jumped on the opportunity to cast doubt on the app and direct readers to his own version, X chat.

RELATED: Amazon invests $500M in mini nuclear reactors to power AI operations

“I don’t trust Signal anymore,” Musk wrote on X, responding to a user alarmed that Signal was not working.

Just over 20 minutes later, Musk started promoting his own messenger: “The messages are fully encrypted with no advertising hooks or strange ‘AWS dependencies’ such that I can’t read your messages even if someone put a gun to my head.”

This is a contrast from May 2024, when Musk openly praised AWS for developing generative AI that helps write website code.

“Impressive. My hat is off to what Amazon has accomplished with AWS,” Musk wrote at the time.

RELATED: AI isn’t feeding you

— (@)

This is not the first time Signal has been accused of being insecure. In a 2023 interview with the popular online influencer group Nelk Boys, conservative host Tucker Carlson claimed the NSA had hacked his Signal account around the time he was attempting to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Carlson said he got a call from someone in Washington, D.C., who sat down with him and had knowledge of his conversations about planning an interview with Putin because the NSA had allegedly read Carlson’s messages.

An NGO called Article 19, which describes itself as a group “defending freedom of expression and information around the world,” told NBC News that the organization felt the disruptions were “democratic failures.”

“When a single provider goes dark, critical services go offline with it — media outlets become inaccessible, secure communication apps like Signal stop functioning, and the infrastructure that serves our digital society crumbles.”

According to Wojciech Gawroński, who runs the website AWS Maniac, Amazon has suffered one to two major outages per year between 2011 and 2021.

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Liberals and others keen to signal their adherence to post-colonial theory for years started their meetings and conferences in Canada with land acknowledgments, thanking the descendants of those warring semi-nomadic, Stone Age peoples present at the time of European civilization’s exportation to North America “for allowing us to meet and learn together on their territory.”

Owing to a consequential court ruling on Aug. 7, some Canadians in Richmond, British Columbia, might ultimately have to acknowledge that their land is no longer legally their own — and get packing.

‘The judge doesn’t seem to have fully considered the panic her judgment would cause.’

Members of the Cowichan Tribes, an Indian band in B.C. comprising around 5,500 souls, brought a legal action several years ago against the Canadian federal government, the Province of British Columbia, the City of Richmond, and other parties, seeking a declaration of aboriginal title to 1,846 acres of land in Richmond.

After a 513-day trial with hearings spanning over 11 years, Justice Barbara Young of the B.C. Supreme Court ruled that:

the Cowichan have aboriginal title to the land in question; the Crown grants of basic property ownership in the area, “and the Crown vesting of the soil and freehold interest in certain highway lands in the Cowichan Title Lands, unjustifiably infringe the Cowichan’s Aboriginal title”;”Canada and Richmond’s fee simple titles and interests in the Cowichan Title Lands are defective and invalid”; andmembers of the Indian band have a right to fish the south arm of the Fraser River for food.

While the judge did not order restitution, she tasked the federal and provincial governments with negotiating “in good faith towards reconciliation of Canada’s fee simple interests in the area with Cowichan Aboriginal title.”

This decision — which has been appealed by the province, the City of Richmond, and a pair of other Indian bands — could have major implications for those landowners in the area as well as for similar land disputes across the country.

RELATED: Ashes and accountability in the aftermath of Canada’s unmarked Indian graves sham

BC Premier David Eby. Photographer: David Kawai/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Dwight Newman, a professor of law at the University of Saskatchewan and author behind the Law for Breakfast Substack, told Blaze News that the full implications are “not yet certain.”

“The ‘Supreme Court’ in B.C. is a confusingly named trial-level court, and the decision is being appealed. If appellate courts maintained the same thing, it would directly mean that some City of Richmond land and some federal land in the city would be owned by the Cowichan,” said Newman. “Indirectly, though, the decision implied that private property within aboriginal title areas was also vulnerable. That has widespread implications in areas where treaties have not resolved land claims, which differs in different parts of Canada.”

While the Cowichan plaintiffs successfully sought a declaration that the land ownership titles held by Canada, the city, and the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority were invalid, they did not seek the same declaration with respect to privately owned lands.

The Times Colonist reported that the court did, however, indicate that the Crown’s granting of private property ownership rights needs to be resolved through negotiation, litigation, or purchase.

Newman told Blaze News that while the plaintiffs in the case have “tried to give the impression” that they would not evict residents from the disputed territory, “if the law from this decision were maintained, it would be possible for them to pursue a claim against private residents too. Private residents might have some different defenses, but we don’t know how that plays out.”

When asked what could change for non-Indian homeowners on the affected parcel of land, Newman said, “The fact I can’t give you an answer with any certainty is maybe the most concerning part. This could all play out in various ways.”

“That’s an uncomfortable situation for non-indigenous homeowners,” continued Newman. “The judge doesn’t seem to have fully considered the panic her judgment would cause.”

Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie noted in a recent letter to homeowners in the area that the decision “could negatively affect the title” of their properties — echoing the judge’s statement that “a declaration of Aboriginal title may give rise to some uncertainty for the fee simple title holders and it may have consequences for their interests in land.”

Referring to the map contained within the B.C. court’s ruling highlighting the Indian band’s territorial claim, Brodie wrote, “For those whose property is in the area outlined in black, the Court has declared aboriginal title to your property which may compromise the status and validity of your ownership — this was mandated without any prior notice to the landowners. The entire area outlined in green is claimed on appeal by the Cowichan First Nations.”

“I believe it is one of the most consequential rulings in the history of the country,” the mayor told CTV News on Sunday, adding that it potentially “undermines the entire land system that we have in this province, and for much of the country itself.”

Brodie noted further that the homeowners in the area are “just starting to wake up to what is going on.”

Blaze News has reached out to the Cowichan Tribes and to Brodie’s office for comment.

John Rustad, leader of the Conservative Party of B.C., asked the province’s leftist premier, David Eby, in an Oct. 19 letter to “immediately pause all negotiations between the Province of British Columbia and First Nations until the Supreme Court of Canada has provided clarity.”

Rustad emphasized that continuing negotiations, especially in the absence of clarity about the property rights of landowners in the affected area, “risks compounding the harm and further deepening public division.”

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Liberals and others keen to signal their adherence to post-colonial theory for years started their meetings and conferences in Canada with land acknowledgments, thanking the descendants of those warring semi-nomadic, Stone Age peoples present at the time of European civilization’s exportation to North America “for allowing us to meet and learn together on their territory.”

Owing to a consequential court ruling on Aug. 7, some Canadians in Richmond, British Columbia, might ultimately have to acknowledge that their land is no longer legally their own — and get packing.

‘The judge doesn’t seem to have fully considered the panic her judgment would cause.’

Members of the Cowichan Tribes, an Indian band in B.C. comprising around 5,500 souls, brought a legal action several years ago against the Canadian federal government, the Province of British Columbia, the City of Richmond, and other parties, seeking a declaration of aboriginal title to 1,846 acres of land in Richmond.

After a 513-day trial with hearings spanning over 11 years, Justice Barbara Young of the B.C. Supreme Court ruled that:

the Cowichan have aboriginal title to the land in question; the Crown grants of basic property ownership in the area, “and the Crown vesting of the soil and freehold interest in certain highway lands in the Cowichan Title Lands, unjustifiably infringe the Cowichan’s Aboriginal title”;”Canada and Richmond’s fee simple titles and interests in the Cowichan Title Lands are defective and invalid”; andmembers of the Indian band have a right to fish the south arm of the Fraser River for food.

While the judge did not order restitution, she tasked the federal and provincial governments with negotiating “in good faith towards reconciliation of Canada’s fee simple interests in the area with Cowichan Aboriginal title.”

This decision — which has been appealed by the province, the City of Richmond, and a pair of other Indian bands — could have major implications for those landowners in the area as well as for similar land disputes across the country.

RELATED: Ashes and accountability in the aftermath of Canada’s unmarked Indian graves sham

BC Premier David Eby. Photographer: David Kawai/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Dwight Newman, a professor of law at the University of Saskatchewan and author behind the Law for Breakfast Substack, told Blaze News that the full implications are “not yet certain.”

“The ‘Supreme Court’ in B.C. is a confusingly named trial-level court, and the decision is being appealed. If appellate courts maintained the same thing, it would directly mean that some City of Richmond land and some federal land in the city would be owned by the Cowichan,” said Newman. “Indirectly, though, the decision implied that private property within aboriginal title areas was also vulnerable. That has widespread implications in areas where treaties have not resolved land claims, which differs in different parts of Canada.”

While the Cowichan plaintiffs successfully sought a declaration that the land ownership titles held by Canada, the city, and the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority were invalid, they did not seek the same declaration with respect to privately owned lands.

The Times Colonist reported that the court did, however, indicate that the Crown’s granting of private property ownership rights needs to be resolved through negotiation, litigation, or purchase.

Newman told Blaze News that while the plaintiffs in the case have “tried to give the impression” that they would not evict residents from the disputed territory, “if the law from this decision were maintained, it would be possible for them to pursue a claim against private residents too. Private residents might have some different defenses, but we don’t know how that plays out.”

When asked what could change for non-Indian homeowners on the affected parcel of land, Newman said, “The fact I can’t give you an answer with any certainty is maybe the most concerning part. This could all play out in various ways.”

“That’s an uncomfortable situation for non-indigenous homeowners,” continued Newman. “The judge doesn’t seem to have fully considered the panic her judgment would cause.”

Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie noted in a recent letter to homeowners in the area that the decision “could negatively affect the title” of their properties — echoing the judge’s statement that “a declaration of Aboriginal title may give rise to some uncertainty for the fee simple title holders and it may have consequences for their interests in land.”

Referring to the map contained within the B.C. court’s ruling highlighting the Indian band’s territorial claim, Brodie wrote, “For those whose property is in the area outlined in black, the Court has declared aboriginal title to your property which may compromise the status and validity of your ownership — this was mandated without any prior notice to the landowners. The entire area outlined in green is claimed on appeal by the Cowichan First Nations.”

“I believe it is one of the most consequential rulings in the history of the country,” the mayor told CTV News on Sunday, adding that it potentially “undermines the entire land system that we have in this province, and for much of the country itself.”

Brodie noted further that the homeowners in the area are “just starting to wake up to what is going on.”

Blaze News has reached out to the Cowichan Tribes and to Brodie’s office for comment.

John Rustad, leader of the Conservative Party of B.C., asked the province’s leftist premier, David Eby, in an Oct. 19 letter to “immediately pause all negotiations between the Province of British Columbia and First Nations until the Supreme Court of Canada has provided clarity.”

Rustad emphasized that continuing negotiations, especially in the absence of clarity about the property rights of landowners in the affected area, “risks compounding the harm and further deepening public division.”

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The No Kings protest in Los Angeles on Saturday turned chaotic outside the federal building downtown after the Los Angeles Police Department prevented anti-ICE protesters from reaching the facility’s driveway.

Frustrated with being unable to target federal agents and interfere with immigration operations, the crowd turned their ire toward LAPD officers. During one confrontation, one person stood in front of a police SUV while waving an upside-down American flag. The officer saw an opening to drive around the protester, and the protester briefly walked back into the SUV’s way before jumping back and falling to the ground as if injured, according to video.

The moment was captured by independent journalist Anthony Cabassa while livestreaming on TikTok. Cabassa posted the video after several other clips were circulating online showing the aftermath of the incident, but not the incident itself.

Cabassa was replying to an X account that claimed the protester had been “ran over.”

‘I saw him shortly after return to the protest appearing unharmed and continued to protest into the night.’

Cabassa’s video shows other protesters carrying the “injured” man to a car and claiming to want to take him to a hospital. Whether he ever arrived at a hospital is unclear, but if he did, according to Cabassa, he must not have been there long.

“Although the young man who claimed to be struck was seen in video being put into a vehicle and presumably headed to the hospital, I saw him shortly after return to the protest appearing unharmed and continued to protest into the night despite the protest being called unlawful,” Cabassa told Blaze News.

Later that night, LAPD used mounted patrol to clear the crowd away from the federal building.

RELATED: ICE agents fear for their safety after security fence removed at Chicago-area facility amid sometimes violent protests

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Due to video of the incident being shared widely, it was discovered that the agitator has made headlines before during protests in Portland, Oregon.

The man has been identified as Joseph Sanchez, and he was arrested by federal agents outside the besieged U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building earlier this month. Fox News reporter Bill Melugin reported that Sanchez was visibly shaking while he was being processed during his arrest on October 1 even though he previously allegedly shouted at agents, “Don’t f**king touch me, b**ch. Who the f**k do you think you are?”

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As the government shutdown closes in on its third week, some members of the Trump administration believe that Democrats may soon be willing to come to the table.

Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council, suggested that the end could be in sight for the government shutdown.

‘I think the Schumer shutdown is likely to end some time this week.’

In a CNBC interview, Hassett said, “A lot of our friends in the Senate have said that it was just bad optics for Democrats to open the government before the No Kings rally, and that now there’s a shot that this week things will come together and very quickly the moderate Democrats will move forward and get us an open government.”

The No Kings rallies, a series of feeble nationwide protests against the Trump administration, took place on Saturday. With this event in the rearview mirror, Hassett argued, Democrats may be ready to come to the table.

RELATED: George Soros foundations fund No Kings protests against Trump

Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images

“There are sort of cracks in the Schumer armor. I think the Schumer shutdown is likely to end some time this week,” Hassett said.

Democrats have similarly expressed hopes to reopen the government, but the entrenchment is far from over.

According to CBS News, Senator Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) said on Sunday during an interview on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” “We should be able to wrap this up this week if they will sit down and have a negotiation with us.”

However, it is unclear whether this prediction will be substantiated this week. Democrat holdouts have not publicly indicated any change in their demands, though some moderates have already sided with Republicans on a clean continuing resolution to reopen the government.

“Director Hassett is one of tens of millions of everyday Americans who are all hoping that Senate Democrats will do the right thing by ending their government shutdown. The American people deserve better than being left in the lurch because Democrats want to die on the hill of giving free health care to illegal immigrants,” White House spokesperson Kush Desai told Blaze News.

Editor’s note: This article has been edited after publication to include a comment from the White House.

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While most eyes have been directed either overseas or toward other domestic scandals, President Trump has continued to crack down on drug cartels and their supporters in the Western Hemisphere.

The latest crackdown focuses on Colombia’s president and his alleged connection with drug smugglers and producers.

‘The purpose of this drug production is the sale of massive amounts of product into the United States, causing death, destruction, and havoc.’

In a Sunday Truth Social post, Trump delivered a harsh message about far-left Colombian President Gustavo Petro.

“President Gustavo Petro, of Colombia, is an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Colombia. It has become the biggest business in Colombia, by far, and Petro does nothing to stop it, despite large scale payments and subsidies from the USA that are nothing more than a long term rip off of America,” the post reads.

RELATED: ‘We will stop you cold’: Trump announces successful strike against ‘narcoterrorist’ vessel

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Trump went on to announce the end of subsidies to the country: “AS OF TODAY, THESE PAYMENTS, OR ANY OTHER FORM OF PAYMENT, OR SUBSIDIES, WILL NO LONGER BE MADE TO COLOMBIA. The purpose of this drug production is the sale of massive amounts of product into the United States, causing death, destruction, and havoc.

“Petro, a low rated and very unpopular leader, with a fresh mouth toward America, better close up these killing fields immediately, or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely,” Trump’s post concluded.

This announcement comes days after the administration’s most recent announcement of a strike against another alleged cartel vessel. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth posted the video of the strike, saying that “these cartels are the Al Qaeda of the Western Hemisphere.”

The Friday strike, according to Secretary Hegseth, was a “lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with Ejército de Liberación Nacional.”

Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) signaled his support for Trump’s message in a social media post: “As the representative of the largest population of Colombian-Americans in the USA, we support the end of aid to the Gustavo Petro regime and we will continue to work closely with all the opposition leaders who will soon rescue the country with A FIRM HAND AND A BIG HEART!”

Gimenez, a Cuban-American, called out the “pathetic pacts” between Colombia and the “narcoterrorists and the dictatorships” in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.

Likewise, Sen. Ashley Moody (R-Fla.) showed her support for the announcement on X.

Thanking President Trump, she continued: “The USA cannot continue to be the lifeblood of these criminal cartels at the expense of the wellbeing of our people.”

Blaze News reached out to the White House for comment.

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A social media algorithm is an incredibly powerful tool. With a slight tweak in coding, Big Tech executives can control what content the public sees or doesn’t see. China via TikTok has had enormous success pumping specific ideologies — most of them harmful — into American culture (not to mention harvesting American data).

During the Biden regime, Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter, and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, colluded with the government to squash certain stories, like Hunter Biden’s laptop and the Russiagate scandal, and censor Americans who questioned COVID vaccines and mandates.

In this way, the algorithm has the immense power to shape public perception around every single topic.

Our heavily digital society ought to be extremely cautious about this. If we want to protect ourselves, not to mention our children, from indoctrination, radicalization, and addiction, we must be vigilant.

But what does that look like?

Nicole Shanahan, BlazeTV host of “Back to the People,” invited digital media innovator and co-founder of Black Rifle Coffee Company Richard Ryan to the show to discuss this question.

Ryan’s new book, “The Warrior’s Garden,” is a deep dive into the implications and dangers of social media algorithms and a step-by-step guide on how we protect ourselves against harm.

An algorithm fails to be effective in shaping perception if people aren’t spending large quantities of time on the platform. In other words, its power lies in its ability to addict. But creating millions of zombie-like addicts is not just about what content is being circulated; it’s about how it’s being served.

Ryan gives the example of casinos. The games and the potential of cashing in big aren’t the only things that keep gamblers shelling out their hard-earned money. A casino’s environment wields enormous influence on the duration of a person’s stay, which is why they are intentionally engineered to foster addiction. The lack of clocks and windows, the labyrinthine layout where there’s no straight exits, and the bright lights, flashing colors, and constant sounds create a disassociation bubble, where external realities fade.

Social media platforms are basically personalized digital casinos, except we’re not losing our money; we’re losing our time, quality of life, and our ability to think critically and independently, as algorithms chip away at our brains.

“I think we’ll find that a lot of this will have some type of implications for memory or cognitive decline, definitely emotional atrophy and different neurological processes for sure,” says Ryan.

If cognitive issues weren’t scary enough, our tech addictions are also eating away at our time. This is really terrifying when you think about what time is — “the only currency that we spend that we never know our remaining balance.”

How do we protect ourselves from brain rot and throwing away precious time?

Ryan’s advice is simple:

1. “Figure out where your digital consumption is going.”

2. Ask yourself, “What things do I really value in life?”

3. “Start establishing boundaries.”

For Ryan, this looked like coming to the realization that he didn’t want to “spend 2.8 years of [his] life on TikTok” and instead devote his invaluable hours doing the things he felt were truly life-giving.

He cut back on certain apps, installed a blue-light reducing screen protector, and programmed his phone settings to grayscale. When he got home from work, he started putting his phone by the front door, almost like hanging up a coat jacket.

“I can’t compulsively just scroll on the couch or anything like that. I have to be present with everyone that’s around me,” he says.

He also got rid of most of his streaming services and bought a blue-ray disc player.

“I said to myself, I’m not going to sit on the couch, and even if we want to watch a movie, we’re not going to just … click on something. If we want to watch something, we’re going to agree we’re going to go to the movie theater, or we’re going to order it, and it’ll be here in a day or two,” he tells Nicole.

“Inputs equal outputs because so much of my daily consumption was algorithmically curated to keep me in a fight-or-flight state. Anger, fear, anger, fear — like my inputs were all negative and so by offsetting that with positive inputs, it really had a meaningful impact on my life.”

To hear more of the conversation and learn more about Ryan’s book, watch the full interview above.

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