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Vice President JD Vance spoke at length Monday with Ross Douthat of the New York Times about the successes and setbacks that the Trump administration has faced so far in its counteroffensive against the nation’s longstanding “invasion” by foreign nationals.

Vance justified the use of the Alien Enemies Act, raised concerns about the judicial activism getting in the way of immigration enforcement, spoke to the ruinous impact of the “invasion” overseen by the previous administration, and detailed what success looks like on this issue.

The vice president underscored that the administration is not impelled to deport illegal aliens by hatred but rather by a commitment to the common good and an understanding that rapid immigration, particularly of the unlawful variety, strikes at national unity and “social solidarity.”

He noted further that while the country has been confronted with an unsustainable “invasion,” the administration has remedies available and the willpower to pursue them.

Alien Enemies Act

President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on March 15 invoking the Alien Enemies Act and declaring that Tren de Aragua is “a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization” aligned with the Venezuelan Maduro regime that “is perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States.”

“I proclaim that all Venezuelan citizens 14 years of age or older who are members of TdA, are within the United States, and are not actually naturalized or lawful permanent residents of the United States are liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as Alien Enemies,” added Trump.

The administration ousted 137 Venezuelan aliens under the law on the day of the proclamation but was promptly barred from executing additional removals under the AEA by a federal judge who deemed Trump’s invocation of the AEA through the proclamation “unlawful.”

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Numerous federal judges have issued additional prohibitions against removals under the AEA in the months since, including U.S. District Judge Clay Land, who ruled Wednesday that while the president “should be afforded substantial deference in the execution of his duties under Article II of the Constitution,” the administration could not send a Venezuelan national packing.

When pressed about the AEA, Vance suggested Monday that the courts “should be extremely deferential to these questions of political judgment made by the people’s elected president of the United States.”

Seizing upon Douthat’s remark that there aren’t five million people waging war, Vance said, “OK, but are there thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people? And then when you take their extended family, their networks, is it much larger than that? Who are quite dangerous people who I think very intentionally came to the United States to cause violence, or to at least profit from violence, and they’re fine if violence is an incidental effect of it? Yeah. I do, man.”

The vice president added that “people under-appreciate the level of public safety threat that we’re under.”

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The vice president bemoaned the media’s apparent lack of intellectual curiosity about the “level of chaos, the level of violence” in migrant communities with large populations of illegal aliens, where “truly premodern brutality” has apparently become the norm.

Finding the normalization of such brutality in the U.S. intolerable, Vance suggested that the AEA “vests us with the power to take very serious action against this” and indicated that the administration has a responsibility to do so, adding, “It’s bad. It’s worse than people appreciate.”

Vance minced no words regarding the impact of the judicial activism that has so far stood in the way of taking such “serious action,” stating, “You cannot have a country where the American people keep on electing immigration enforcement and the courts tell the American people they’re not allowed to have what they voted for.”

The vice president appeared optimistic, however, stating that “we’re very early innings here on what the court is going to interpret the law to mean.”

Democrats’ favorite MS-13 associate

Douthat likened the approach taken by the administration to the cartels and their foot soldiers to that taken by previous administrations to “anyone associated with Islamic terrorism and so on in the aftermath of September 11,” suggesting that the legal process has, in some cases, been sidestepped, that the system in place is “ripe for war-on-terror-style abuses” and that injustices may be inevitable.

While Vance entertained Douthat’s concerns — which were couched in a broader conversation about Vance’s simultaneous fidelity to American law and to Catholic moral teaching — he intimated the parallel may be weaker than some in the media might want to admit, alluding to the case of MS-13 affiliate Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his portrayal as a man traduced whose civil rights were violated.

“I haven’t asked every question about every case, but the ones where I have asked questions and I try to get to the bottom of what’s going on, I feel quite comfortable with what’s happened,” said Vance. “And the one that I’ve spent the most time understanding is the one of the Maryland father.”

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Democratic lawmakers and the liberal media did their apparent best to leave the American public with the impression that Abrego Garcia was an “innocent father” betrayed by his adoptive government.

It turns out that the Salvadoran national who was returned to his homeland by the Trump administration was an illegal alien linked to a terrorist gang, identified by two immigration courts as a danger to the community, and accused of both domestic abuse and human trafficking.

Vance discussed the controversy over Abrego Garcia’s deportation — a decision that has been kicked all the way to the Supreme Court — and noted, “I understand there may be disagreements about the judgments that we made here, but there’s just something that it’s hard to take serious when so many of the people who are saying we made a terrible error here are the same people who made no protests about how this guy got into the country in the first place or what Joe Biden did for four years to the American southern border.”

The vice president noted further that if the media alternatively framed the situation as the president “considering sending the very worst violent gang members in America to a foreign prison — so long as that is a legal thing to do” — then there would likely not be so much “passionate resistance.”

Success

While the vice president indicated he would like to see “the gross majority” of illegal aliens who entered the country under the previous administration deported — he suggested the number was around 20 million — Vance said “that is actually a secondary metric of success.”

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“Success to me is not so much a number, “said Vance. “Success to me is that we have established a set of rules and principles that the courts are comfortable with and that we have the infrastructure that allows us to deport large numbers of illegal aliens when large numbers of illegal aliens come into the country.”

The path to success so-defined, he continued, is reliant not only on the administration’s efforts but on the courts as well.

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While hardworking Americans continue to pay into the Medicaid system, intended to help those in need, oversight failures have left it vulnerable to scammers.

On Tuesday, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced 22 new indictments relating to a sober living home fraud case.

‘This invites fraudsters and criminals to take bigger and bigger chunks out of an ever-expanding pie.’

The AG’s investigation accused Happy House Behavioral Health LLC of receiving taxpayer funds for services it either never provided or only partially delivered. Additionally, the company allegedly billed for services for clients who were deceased and incarcerated.

According to the indictment, Happy House Behavioral Health received more than $60 million from the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System. The company allegedly violated state law by using the funds to pay directly for sober living homes for clients.

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Happy House Behavioral Health faces multiple charges, including conspiracy, fraudulent schemes and artifices, client referral fraud, money laundering, theft, and forgery.

A church and 20 individuals are also facing felony charges related to the alleged scam.

In July 2023, Happy House Behavioral Health allegedly paid $5 million to Hope of Life International Church. The house of worship was accused of later wiring $2 million to an entity based in Rwanda.

The charges are part of a larger investigative effort to address a $2.8 billion fraud scheme that exploited the state’s Medicaid system as part of a broader “sober living crisis.” More than 100 individuals have been indicted in connection to the scam.

The Associated Press reported that the massive scam has disproportionately impacted Arizona’s Native American population, resulting in an unknown number falling victim to fraudulent sober living homes and becoming homeless after funding was pulled from the unlicensed facilities.

Hayden Dublois, a data and analytics director with the Foundation for Government Accountability, told Blaze News, “Waste, fraud, and abuse are rampant in the Medicaid program, and this latest case is a classic example of the types of coordinated, criminal efforts to defraud states and federal taxpayers.”

Hope of Life International Church denied the accusations in a statement to the AP. It claimed that it accepted donations from a licensed sober living facility that was a tenant of the church. The AP reported that the church further contended that it did not control the facility’s operations, financial practices, or management decisions.

“The church’s only relationship was that of a landlord and, later, as a recipient of a donation — a donation accepted in good faith, consistent with its mission and longstanding practice,” the church stated.

Happy House Behavioral Health did not respond to a request for comment from the AP.

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Dublois told Blaze News, “This case is shocking enough, but the scale of the problem is even more alarming: The Medicaid program is on track to surpass $2 trillion in improper payments over the next decade.”

“This $2 trillion problem, much of which is fraud by design, encourages state and federal bureaucrats to check less, approve more, and grow the programs as fast as possible,” Dublois continued. “This invites fraudsters and criminals to take bigger and bigger chunks out of an ever-expanding pie. More frequent eligibility checks, work requirements, and repealing bad Biden-era policies would go a long way toward reducing the rampant fraud we know is still occurring.”

Dublois noted that Congress plans to address some of these issues in the one “big, beautiful bill.”

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There’s a mental health crisis among children in the United States, and according to psychiatrist and founder of Amen Clinics, Dr. Daniel Amen, it has a lot to do with the food our children are eating and the amount of content they’re consuming.

“Toxic food increases the risk of ADD, toxic products you put on children’s bodies increase the risk of ADD,” Amen tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey, noting that screen time also plays a big role.

“Video games, smart phones, iPads, they were unleashed on our society for profit with no neuroscience study ahead of time,” he continues, adding, “We know social media is damaging to children’s mental health.”

Luckily, the Trump administration is well aware of the dangers, as it’s announced its intention to phase out synthetic dyes often used to enhance color in candy and cereals — and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is leading the charge.

“We are going to get rid of the dyes and then one by one, we’re going to get rid of every ingredient and additive in food that we can legally address,” RFK Jr. said in a recent press conference.

“When you see some of the new public policy coming out of this administration over the past few months in relation to these possible environmental causes, what are your thoughts?” Stuckey asks Amen.

“I’m a huge fan,” Amen replies. “I try to be apolitical because I want to help everybody, but if the current administration stayed the one before, absolutely nothing was going to change in our health.”

“We’re going to have big discussions, have discussions on fluoride, you know, places where there’s fluoride in the water, children have lower IQs,” he continues, explaining that in addition, his research on artificial dyes and sweeteners have been damning.

“It’s got the most views of anything I’ve published over the last decade, a scan of a child off and on red dye number 40,” he explains. “The parents brought him to me because it’s like, whenever he gets anything red, he goes into a rage, and he’s completely not himself.”

“I’m like, ‘Well, let’s scan him off and then on red dyes,’ and it flamed his brain in a very bad way. I mean, it clearly changed his brain,” he continues, adding, “So if we don’t have to use these things, and clearly we don’t have to use them. They’re banned in places like Canada and Europe, why would we allow them unless we’re just bowing down to the food industry?”

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Imagine a legendary car brand, known for its sleek design and British elegance, deciding to reinvent itself with a daring new image.

Exciting, right? For Jaguar Land Rover, that bold move turned into a spectacular misfire.

Jaguar’s ad, with its pink boulders and ‘delete ordinary’ tagline, felt like a betrayal to fans expecting a roaring cat, not an avant-garde dreamscape.

The company’s 2024 rebrand, intended to launch an electric future, crashed hard, igniting a backlash so intense that it has now forced the company to overhaul its advertising strategy.

I’m diving into this gripping tale — how Jaguar’s “woke” rebrand backfired and tanked sales and what it means for the brand’s road ahead. Buckle up, because this story is a lesson in listening to your customers, and Jaguar is finally hearing you loud and clear.

‘Delete ordinary’

Let’s set the scene. In November 2024, Jaguar unveiled what it called “the biggest change in Jaguar’s history — a complete reinvention for the brand.”

Gone were the iconic leaping-cat logo, the “growler” badge, and even the cars from their main ad campaign. In their place? A surreal pink moonscape, eclectic models in garishly colored outfits, and a slogan: “Delete ordinary.”

The ad, crafted by Accenture Song and JLR’s in-house agency, Spark44, aimed to reposition Jaguar as an electric-only luxury brand by 2026, targeting a younger, global audience.

Declawed

But instead of cheers, Jaguar faced a torrent of criticism, with fans, commentators like Nigel Farage, and even Elon Musk slamming the campaign as “woke” and out of touch.

Why did this rebrand flop so spectacularly? It alienated Jaguar’s core audience. Loyal customers, who revered the brand’s nearly century-long legacy of elegant saloons and thrilling sports cars, felt betrayed.

The ad’s focus on abstract visuals and diverse models — without a single car — left fans bewildered. Jaguar’s ad looks like a perfume commercial, not a car brand.

Ditching the iconic “growler” for a curved geometric “J” badge only fueled the outrage online. Online platforms lit up with fans mocking the rebrand as a desperate bid to chase trends rather than honor Jaguar’s heritage of luxury and performance.

Plummeting sales

The backlash wasn’t just vocal — it hit Jaguar’s bottom line hard. Sales plummeted from 61,661 cars in 2022 to 33,320 in 2024, a nearly 50% drop in two years. While some argue the decline started earlier, the controversial November 2024 campaign poured fuel on the fire.

Jaguar’s U.K. sales plummeted in 2024, even as Range Rover and Defender models thrived. The contrast is telling: Land Rover embraced rugged luxury, while Jaguar pivoted to a lineup of electric vehicles only that intentionally pushed away its base. Nigel Farage warned the rebrand could bankrupt the company, and Elon Musk echoed the sentiment, criticizing the move as a misstep.

Changing lanes

Jaguar’s leadership initially stood firm.

Managing Director Rawdon Glover said criticism was “hatred and intolerance,” insisting the ad wasn’t “woke” but a courageous step to redefine the brand. He touted the upcoming Type 00 electric car with a 430-mile range.

But the numbers didn’t lie. By May 2025, Jaguar Land Rover announced a global creative account review to replace Accenture Song, whose contract runs until mid-2026, as reported by the Daily Mail. This move marks a clear retreat from the rebrand disaster, signaling Jaguar’s readiness to course-correct.

This isn’t the first time a brand has stumbled by prioritizing trends over authenticity. Think Bud Light’s 2023 Dylan Mulvaney campaign, Pepsi’s Kendall Jenner “protest” commercial, or Coca-Cola’s “New Coke.” These brands faced boycotts and sales drops for straying from their roots.

Jaguar’s misstep follows suit: chasing a “woke” aesthetic over what customers crave — cars that embody power, style, and heritage. As I’ve noted before, whether discussing undervalued classics or today’s market, buyers value substance over flash. Jaguar’s ad, with its pink boulders and “delete ordinary” tagline, felt like a betrayal to fans expecting a roaring cat, not an avant-garde dreamscape.

External pressures

External pressures compounded Jaguar’s troubles. The 25% tariffs on foreign cars, imposed by President Trump in 2025, forced JLR to halt U.S. shipments briefly, adding £9,500 to the price of a Range Rover Evoque. Though exports resumed, the tariffs squeezed Jaguar’s already struggling sales, particularly as the company shifts to pricier electric models.

With used car prices climbing — wholesale prices hit a high in April 2025, per Cox Automotive — the classic car market is surging, making Jaguar’s heritage more valuable than ever. Yet the rebrand ignored this, alienating collectors who might have coveted a classic XJS or E-Type.

Regaining trust

What’s next for Jaguar? The agency review is a promising start, but it’s no quick fix.

JLR aims to position Jaguar as an upmarket electric brand, rivaling Tesla and Lucid. The Type 00, spotted testing in February 2025, boasts a 430-mile range and a striking unique design, but it’s a gamble if the brand can’t regain trust.

Social media reflects the skepticism, with users like Peter Thompson calling the rebrand “utterly terrible” and Andy Wigmore demanding that Jaguar’s leadership step down. The takeaway is clear: Authenticity beats trend-chasing. Jaguar’s legacy — sleek, powerful, unmistakably British — resonates more than fleeting cultural gestures.

For Jaguar fans, there’s light at the end of the tunnel. The decision to part ways with Accenture Song shows the company is listening — finally.

A new agency could refocus on what makes Jaguar iconic: stunning design, exhilarating performance, and that signature growl. Picture a campaign blending the Type 00’s hybrid power with a nod to the E-Type’s timeless curves — that’s the Jaguar we love.

We have no confirmation that a hybrid power train is likely, but pivoting to what works can turn things around. Jaguar needs to harness that energy, merging its future with its storied past.

My advice for Jaguar enthusiasts? Keep your classic gems; they are rising in value. For now, Jaguar has heard you loud and clear, and this agency shake-up is proof. The road ahead is changing, but it must roar with the soul of a cat. Keep watching for more automotive insights, and let’s see if Jaguar can claw its way back to greatness.

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A sampling of South Africans said that their country does not persecute white farmers after President Trump forced South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to watch evidence of the contrary at the White House.

Trump had his team turn down the lights and play a video that showed the gravesites of white South African farmers, known as Afrikaners, and other evidence of anti-white sentiments while the South African president looked on for more than four minutes.

‘We don’t have no separation in this country.’

The media was quick to play damage control over the fact that 10% of the South African government is occupied by the Economic Freedom Fighters, politicians who have explicitly called for the murder of whites.

A Reuters report spoke to South African residents in Johannesburg and promptly showcased individuals who rejected the claims of violence in response to Trump.

“I don’t think we need to explain ourselves to USA,” a 40-year-old trade union member said. “We know there’s no white genocide. So for me, it was pointless exercise.”

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Another man told the outlet that violent crime “in its entirety” needed to be looked at in South Africa but noted the statements surrounding “white genocide claims” have all been “taken out of a context.”

“I don’t think [it] should be the focus,” the man added.

One local pointed to South Africa’s multiculturalism as evidence that no racial divide exists.

“I think Donald Trump, he thinks he is leader of the whole world. … We don’t have no separation in this country.”

The man continued, “We believe [this] as South Africans. That’s why we call ourselves the ‘rainbow nation.'”

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Afrikaners have faced issues regarding the confiscation of their land for some time, culminating in a new law that allows compulsory acquisition of private property by government for public purposes or that which is in the public interest.

This is coupled with the government’s national development plan that allows for “rapid transfer of agricultural land to black beneficiaries.”

These policies, drawn down racial lines, fly in the face of the idea that there is not a national threat facing the farmers.

With the South African president telling Trump that anti-white sentiments represented just a small segment of his population, it seemingly depends on what one’s definition of small is.

Trump showed footage of a South African political party singing a song called “Shoot the Boer,” or “Dubul’ ibhunu,” to a stadium full of supporters. The overall support of the EFF, the party pushing the sentiments of land seizure and outright murder, represents about 10% of the government and popular vote.

The EFF holds 39 seats in South Africa’s 400-seat parliament and had 9.5% of the popular vote in 2024, becoming one of the fastest-growing parties in the country. It is currently the fourth-largest party in the nation, and the party symbol includes a black-power fist.

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Some social media users on X and Instagram are celebrating the killings of two Israeli embassy staffers, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, who were shot outside of the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night.

On Lischinsky’s X account, multiple users have replied to his pinned post, elated at the news he was gunned down while walking with his girlfriend in D.C.’s downtown in what appears to be a targeted attack.

Rodriguez has a long history of being involved with far-left groups and causes over the years.

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Similarly, on a video of a press conference about the shooting that was posted to Instagram, the comment section was flooded with people saying, “Free, free Palestine,” and wishes of eternal suffering on the couple.

A friend of Lischinsky revealed he was a “devout Christian” who “loved America. He was excited about the future, about finally visiting Texas, and about the life he and his beloved fiancée were building together. I was supposed to meet her today.”

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The suspected gunman is 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez, from Chicago, Illinois. Witnesses say after the shooting, Rodriguez ran into the Jewish event Lischinsky and Milgrim were leaving from and asked for water. Rodriguez was then caught on video with a red keffiyeh and shouting, “Free, free Palestine!” while being taken into custody by responding police.

Rodriguez has a long history of being involved with far-left groups and causes over the years, including at one point being a part of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. The PSL has been one of the many organizations that has assembled anti-U.S. and anti-Israel protests across the country in the aftermath of Hamas’ terrorist attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023. Sometimes, those protests become violent or disruptive, requiring police to intervene.

“We reject any attempt to associate the PSL with the DC shooting. Elias Rodriguez is not a member of the PSL. He had a brief association with one branch of the PSL that ended in 2017. We know of no contact with him in over 7 years. We have nothing to do with this shooting and do not support it,” PSL said in a statement.

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Just as they used COVID-19 to drag Joe Biden across the finish line in the 2020 election, the Democrat-media complex is now exploiting Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis in a naked attempt to deflect attention from the very people who rigged the last game.

The same political operatives, government lifers, and corporate media hacks who pushed lockdowns, censored dissent, and rewrote election rules are at it again — weaponizing illness for power. Of course, everything they touch is diseased. It always has been — and not just biologically.

Everything Democrats have sold us since Super Tuesday in 2020 has been a demonic lie in a battle for the soul of our country.

The dark strongholds and principalities that have guided and defined the entirety of the Biden-era plague are simply not from the mortal world. As human beings, we are not capable of the level of plotting and scheming that defines modern-day Democrats and their media minions.

Back in early 2020, just before Super Tuesday, we watched the Democrat-media complex take the lifeless Biden campaign, dead and buried — and resurrect it in less than 48 hours, blowing the front-running commie, Bernie Sanders, completely out of the water. Suddenly, the same Biden who had zero wins before that moment — especially when compared to Sanders and Mayor Pete Buttigieg — was winning states by large margins, even though he had never even visited them or could not even name them on a map between bites of pudding.

And then, about two weeks later, the world shut down because of the “scamdemic.” The resurrected dead guy got to run for the most powerful office in the world from his basement, culminating in an election where the Democrats won by razor-thin margins in the most decisive states through unprecedented mail-in balloting.

Somehow, the rejection rate of mail-in ballots dropped in those places — despite the record volume flooding the polls. This is the first government system in all of human history that became more efficient with increased volume — and it happened in places completely run by Democrats.

Signs of decline

Remember the shock in 2016 when Donald Trump won four decisive states by fewer than 80,000 votes? That narrow victory sparked years of breathless media coverage, congressional investigations, and discredited conspiracy theories about Russian collusion.

Now contrast that with 2020.

When Joe Biden “won” six key states by a combined margin of fewer than 40,000 votes, anyone who questioned the outcome faced cancellation — or even criminal prosecution. If you raised doubts while sitting in Nancy Pelosi’s chair dressed like the Minnesota Vikings mascot, you risked years in prison.

Even before the COVID shutdown and the orchestrated 2020 campaign from the basement began, Biden’s decline was obvious. My show had front-row access to the Iowa caucuses, and I saw more of the Democratic field up close than most national reporters.

At the time, it wasn’t easy to say out loud what many could already see: Biden showed clear signs of cognitive decline. But looking back, a lot of things that seemed strange in the moment now make perfect — and very dark — sense.

RELATED: Megyn Kelly forces Jake Tapper to face brutal facts about his complicity in Biden health debacle

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How about calling a lid at noon most days in order to go back to Delaware after becoming president? Well, if you were undergoing some form of cancer treatment or chemo, it was probably a lot simpler to keep that a secret as opposed to whatever’s going on inside the White House. Then again, they once claimed they couldn’t identify the source of a bag of cocaine found in the West Wing — at the same time Hunter Biden was visiting.

Or how about the man who gets the best health care on earth not knowing until four months ago that he had one of the most detectable forms of cancer — and he only found out when it was already in its most aggressive stage? Moreover, the news dropped ahead of the imminent release of special counsel Robert Hur’s audio recordings during his 2023 interview with Biden over his alleged mishandling of classified government documents. Is that a coincidence?

They gaslit us

The verdict is in. They gaslit the public for years about President Biden’s obvious mental decline. Now they expect us to shut up and feel sorry for him — because he has cancer.

It’s a distraction campaign, plain and simple. They’re using a sympathy diagnosis to bury the real question: Who has been running the White House while Biden signed off on policy with an autopen?

It started with craven media operatives like Jake Tapper. CNN ran headlines mocking conservatives for raising concerns about Biden’s mental acuity, just one day before the Biden-Trump debate last summer. Then 65 million Americans watched the dementia presidency unravel in real time, and suddenly CNN had no choice but to admit that he couldn’t run again.

Within 24 hours, the same network that dismissed “conspiracy theories” conceded the obvious. And just like that, the Democratic establishment and its media enablers staged a political coup. They ousted Biden without a single vote cast in a primary — by the same people who spent years lecturing America about “sacred democracy.”

Now Tapper is trying to sell a book, claiming it was a big misunderstanding and the media was duped like everyone else.

The truth is, everything that Democrats have sold us since Super Tuesday 2020 has been a demonic lie in a battle for the soul of our country — the last bastion of Christendom and Western civilization remaining on the planet.

Like the Greatest Generation facing down fascism nearly a century ago, we now face an enemy that wears a smile, holds a press pass, and calls itself your savior. But the agenda is dark, and the stakes are eternal.

How else do you explain a Biden shadow presidency that looks like something out of the rejected final season of “House of Cards”? But that was our reality, and now we must make someone pay for it.

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Rumors have been swirling about Stephen A. Smith setting his sights on the presidency in 2028 — but a recent New York Times article attempts to put those rumors to rest.

The article, titled, “Stephen A. Smith is running to be Joe Rogan,” claims that Smith isn’t planning on running for president, but is instead trying to emulate Joe Rogan.

BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” is not only unimpressed with the article, but doesn’t think Smith is cut out for either position — and simply believes that he’s a “plant.”

“I apologize, but it reads like ChatGPT wrote it, that AI wrote this story, that Mark Shapiro and Ari Emanuel and WME said, ‘Hey, we need the New York Times to write a story promoting Stephen A. Smith; we’ve had ChatGPT write the gist of it. Can we put someone’s name on this?’” Whitlock says.

There’s no mention in the article of Rogan’s own disdain for Smith, which Whitlock recalls as Rogan “trashing” Smith over his fighting skills — or lack thereof — and Smith’s inability to properly commentate on UFC fights.

“Joe Rogan trashed Stephen A. Smith, and the whole thing went viral. It’s the biggest connection between Joe Rogan and Stephen A. Smith, and any reporter that did an ounce of research would have contacted Joe Rogan and/or just mentioned in the article,” Whitlock explains.

“The only thing, only real interaction, only thing interesting that’s ever happened between Joe Rogan and Stephen A. Smith is that Stephen A. Smith went on a UFC podcast, Joe Rogan took a dump on him, and Stephen A. hasn’t been involved with UFC fighting ever since,” he continues.

“This is the selling the protection of Stephen A. Smith,” Whitlock charges. “‘We’re not going to mention that Joe Rogan trashed him and basically ran him out of UFC fight coverage.’ This guy doesn’t want to be Joe Rogan; he wants to be Joe Biden.”

“And that’s how the media is treating Stephen A. Smith — like he’s Joe Biden. There’s a protection racket ahead, because he’s a puppet willing to be put on puppet strings, and so, there’s a level of protection that goes along with that,” he adds.

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I was skimming through Substack the other day looking for something of interest to read when I came across an article titled “Where Is Today’s Michelangelo?”

It was a thought-provoking piece about the depleted state of modern society’s artistic soil thanks to the eradication of ideals and objective truth, the rise of mass consumerism, and the decline of humanism.

David’s story is one worthy of the blessed hands of Michelangelo, a story worthy of a legacy that lasts all of human history.

The author argued that we’ve yet to see Michelangelo’s equivalent not because he or she doesn’t exist, but rather because our culture no longer knows how to nurture artists capable of reaching such heights.

To give an analogy, the world’s fastest man might be hiding in a village right now, but if that village is plagued with famine and he cannot eat properly, his muscles will not thicken, his bones will not harden, and his potential will die entirely untapped.

The same principle applies to the Michelangelo-level artist, who requires certain specific nourishment to develop his talent fully.

Contrapposto counterfeit

The article got me thinking about a work of art recently unveiled smack in the middle of Times Square to great acclaim — at least from some circles. Perhaps you’ve heard of it.

Titled “Grounded in the Stars,” this 12-foot bronze sculpture portrays an overweight, average-looking black woman in casual clothing, standing with hands on hips. The artist, Thomas J. Price, sculpted her in contrapposto as a nod to the Renaissance king’s “David” — arguably the most beloved sculpture to ever exist.

A glance at the two works side by side, and it’s easy to see that “Grounded in the Stars” is indeed inspired by “David” — the poses, the intense visages, the prowess both aim to convey.

Yet “Grounded in the Stars” will never — could never — dwell in the same divine orbit as “David.” And nobody with an inkling of sense would ever claim otherwise.

My question, and I think it’s an important one, is why? Why would nobody dare argue that Price’s bronze woman could ever ascend the same Olympian heights as Michelangelo’s “David”?

Sculpture on easy mode

Is the answer purely technical?

It’s true that “David” is more anatomically detailed, with his veined hands and subtly tensed muscles, than “Grounded in the Stars,” which employs a smoother, more stylized surface.

And the technical mastery displayed by “David” is all the more impressive considering the rudimentary tools Michelangelo had at his disposal. He painstakingly hewed his statue by hand from a single block of marble (and a flawed one at that).

Michelangelo had zero room for error. Price, by contrast, may have relied on digital modeling and other modern tools that allowed him to fix mistakes and refine details before casting.

Are these disparities in craftsmanship what creates the gap between these two works?

It doesn’t take an artist or an art critic to know that’s only a fraction of the answer. “David” is hallowed — immortalized in the artistic canon — for reasons that go beyond its objective beauty and precise craftsmanship.

But while the vast majority of people instinctively know “David” is the superior of the two sculptures, I think many, if asked, would struggle to articulate what precisely makes it so. They would likely stutter through generalities — he’s an important part of biblical history; he was created by the great Michelangelo; he’s seen millions of visitors for hundreds of years.

All true, yet shallow and incomplete.

I think as a society we’ve forgotten the elements of greatness. We recognize objectively great art when we see it, but our understanding hardly reaches beyond physical sight. It’s like looking at water but not knowing that hydrogen and oxygen are what make it up.

We know “David” is an emblem of artistic excellence to the highest degree and that “Grounded in the Stars” is not, but do we know the deepest reasons this is true?

If we did, perhaps then we’d be erecting something far better in Times Square today. For that to be a possibility, though, modern culture has to relearn the chemical makeup of greatness.

Comparing these two statues is as good a place as any to start.

Virtue in stone

The Renaissance, the period in which Michelangelo sculpted “David,” was a revival of classical antiquity — specifically the art, literature, philosophy, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome.

This culture came with certain ideas about artistic legacy and permanence, ideas that drove Greece’s Parthenon sculptors as much as the artists of Augustus’ Rome.

Just as you and I tend to measure the impact of digital content by its virality (how widely it spreads), Renaissance artists understood that their works, if they achieved excellence, would endure in human history. Generations of people would come and go, ages would wax and wane, empires would rise and fall, and yet their art would survive it all — save natural disasters and angry mobs.

And so when Michelangelo took on the herculean task of “liberating” David from the 18-foot block of Carrara marble that had already been deemed unworkable by two other sculptors, he knew the weight of his task.

He wasn’t just creating a stone replica of a historical figure. He was making history himself. He understood that “David” would transcend the moment of his creation; like all great religious art of the Renaissance, “David” was intended to guide the consciousnesses of spectators for centuries to come.

And the sculpture has done exactly that. It’s been 521 years since the completion of “David,” and the figure still receives several thousand visitors per day. But why? What is it that makes it worthy of such a legacy? “David” is inarguably beautiful; in fact, Michelangelo carved him to represent the ideal male form — a concept rooted in Renaissance humanism.

But this is not solely what gives “David” his longevity.

There’s a reason beauty and truth always seem to go hand in hand. It is, of course, the virtues “David” represents that immortalize him. “David” is marble courage, heroism, and moral resolve. His narrative is one of civic virtue, triumph over tyranny, and unwavering faith in God.

He originates and exemplifies the victorious underdog — a concept we are still cheering millennia later. We do this because we are all underdogs in some capacity. Goliath looms in our homes, our workplaces, even our own hearts; Philistine armies are always rising up and casting shadows. Each of us has been a shepherd caught up in a war we didn’t ask for.

David’s courage to say I will go imbues us (even those of us who reject the God from whom David’s courage came) with fortitude to face our own giants.

In this way, David’s story is all of our stories. And as long as there are giants and people with the will to challenge them, it will live on.

Tokenism in bronze

Whose story does “Grounded in the Stars” tell? The title certainly connotes beauty, strength, and legacy.

But no — this is no one’s story. The artist has told us so himself.

“The work is a composite fictional character, unfixed and boundless, allowing us to imagine what it would be like to inhabit space neutrally without preconceived ideas and misrepresentation,” Price said of his sculpture.

So not only is this a statue of nobody with no story to tell, that is precisely the point. Price urges us to reject excellence and instead celebrate mediocrity — to cheer not because someone is virtuous, heroic, saintly, or accomplished, but because she is supposedly marginalized.

What a hopeless message.

The art of victimhood

For the truly marginalized, the statue doesn’t speak to their sense of strength or resilience; it doesn’t encourage them to rise above circumstance, carry their burdens with courage, or to even hope for better days.

It says the opposite — sit in your victimhood; let it crystalize into bitterness. Wear it like a badge of honor; wield it as a weapon.

Such a message robs marginalized people of the very tools needed to emerge from the station they want to escape. It’s tokenism packaged as empowerment, keeping them down but convincing them they’ve risen.

And to those who would be considered privileged, the statue is a condemning lecture — a “shame on you,” finger-wagging political rant in the form of a looming bronze woman that looks and feels like a modernized idol from ancient days.

If the goal is to help the fortunate see the plight of the downtrodden, this does the opposite, sowing more divisiveness and resentment. No one ever comes to see the light through shame.

An example for the ages

And here’s my biggest question: Which statue better honors the marginalized? Before he was king, David was a shepherd — one of the lowliest groups in biblical history, barely above beggars and outcasts. Remote field work kept shepherds on the literal fringes of society, far removed from urban centers. Their status as humble laborers ensured that they lacked power and influence. They were poor, uneducated, and dirty from working with animals.

On top of that, David was young at a time when a man’s age was indicative of his worth, especially as a warrior. From every angle, he was unfit to face Goliath.

But no matter. Faith and courage rooted in God would be his wings.

And they were, from the moment he slung the fatal stone to the moment of his crowning as the king of Israel.

There is no better story of a marginalized person rising to greatness than David’s. It’s a story worthy of the blessed hands of Michelangelo, a story worthy of a legacy that lasts all of human history.

Price’s nameless bronze woman, by contrast, is rooted in the fleeting values of modern DEI and identity politics, unlikely to outlast her creator.

Planned obsolescence

Come June, the statue will be removed from its temporary post in Times Square and whisked away to some private gallery or worse — to storage. There, it will meet the same sad fate as the majority of contemporary art. Its impact will be but a ripple in a pond that quickly fades and is forgotten.

But I don’t necessarily place the blame on Price. To quote the article I mentioned above, “a culture starved of deep convictions is shallow soil, unconducive to the growth of great artists.”

If we want to produce great art again, we have to cultivate values that strengthen the human spirit, calling us out of darkness and into light — whether we are marginalized or privileged.

Only then will we create art that is truly grounded in the stars.

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What does it mean to eat dinner together as a family?

Why do we do it? Or rather, why did we do it? It seems the number of families who eat dinner together every night is shrinking.

I remember that if the phone rang during that time, my parents would look at one another shocked. ‘Who would be calling during dinner?’

It feels like every year it becomes more rare. The image of a mother, father, and a couple kids sitting around a table, full plates in front of them and a few serving dishes in the middle, is becoming an old-fashioned image in our day and age.

Today, families are too busy to have dinner together. Too much work, too many obligations, too many schedules.

Dad has meetings, mom has to go to the gym, the kids have practice, dinner will have to wait.

Grab and go

A house today is more a place for atomized individuals to rest their heads at night before heading out and on their way every morning. It’s more a hostel and less a home. Breakfast out the door, lunch on the go, dinner on your own.

What kind of family life is this?

In the preindustrial world, families saw a lot of one another. Life wasn’t a fairy tale back then, times were tough, I am not sure people were always so chipper or joyful, but families did spend a lot of time together. That’s just how it was.

Life in the modern world, on the other hand, is hectic. Today, families are pulled apart by the chaos of modern life: the activities that never stop, the nagging sense that we might be able to “have it all.”

An antidote to atomization

For a while in the 20th century, families coped with the fracturing chaos of modern life by eating dinner together every night. It was a standard thing. All across American society, families ate dinner together.

Not just on Sunday or Saturday. Every night. Practices, classes, and rehearsals were scheduled around dinner. People weren’t forced to choose between dinner and some prescheduled activity or obligation.

Even deep into the ’90s, there was a sense that you shouldn’t call anyone between 6:30 and 8:30 in the evening. That was when people ate dinner. There was an assumption everyone was eating with their families. I remember that if the phone rang during that time, my parents would look at one another shocked.

“Who would be calling during dinner?”

Dinner was the final sacred realm. The last untouched territory. Everyone might be out on their own all day, but at 6:00, everyone came back together as a family again.

Kids would tell one another, “I’ve got to go, I have to be back for dinner.” The street was quieter at those times. The world slowed for a couple hours. For the sanctity of dinner, the sanctity of family.

This is gone today. That societal detente has been eroded. Dinner is no longer respected.

Making dinner matter again

Now, parents eat separately because it’s easier. Kids eat on the bus on the way back from the volleyball tournament. Families go out to eat, and they all sit around the table scrolling their iPhones not saying a single word to one another. Today, for most, dinner doesn’t matter.

But it can. Even though society tries to fracture the family in 100 ways, we don’t have to go along with it. We still have free will. We can choose a different way. We can still come together as a family for dinner every single night.

That’s what we do in our family. We don’t watch TV during dinner, we don’t look at our phones during dinner, we don’t have separate dinners for mom and dad. We all sit down together every night.

The freedom of obligation

It’s not always easy. It’s hard with little kids. Every parent knows that. The messes, the cajoling, trying to teach manners while eating at the same time. Often, it’s not exactly a relaxing vibe.

It would be so much easier to throw something together for the kids, sit them at the table, then go in the other room and scroll the timeline on my phone. It would be so much easier to not block off that time every night. I would have more freedom if we didn’t eat dinner together. But I would be missing something important. I would be missing dinner together.

Our culture is what we do. Eating dinner together is a part of our culture. Eating dinner every night with no other distractions is good. Even when it’s bad, it’s good.

It’s not about grand meals or perfectly prepared dishes. It’s about something deeper. Eating dinner together is about coming back together at the end of the day, sitting around the table, and looking at each other in the eye — remembering that we are a family, thanking God for the food in front of us and also for those around us.

That’s what eating dinner as a family is about.

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The director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement flatly denied the idea that refugees from South Africa were being welcomed to the United States because of their race.

Director Tom Homan spoke to BlazeTV host Glenn Beck on Wednesday, the same day that President Donald Trump welcomed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to the White House.

‘There’s no color to refugees.’

Trump pressed the South African leader about the mistreatment, and sometimes murder, of white Afrikaner farmers in his country. Trump even showed Ramaphosa a horrifying video that featured gravesites and a stadium full of South Africans singing about shooting white people.

Beck asked Homan if he had any comment about the “debacle” in the media where left-wing outlets criticized the Trump administration’s decision to bring 59 white South Africans to the U.S.

“There’s no color to refugees,” Homan plainly stated. “We don’t base refugee status on color. We base it on the law. … It’s not based on color. I know, I read a lot of media stories, and a lot of the media is basically, you know, ‘because they’re white.’ Refugee status isn’t based on color.”

RELATED: Tom Homan to Glenn Beck: Tim Walz ‘disgusting’ for comparing ICE to ‘Gestapo’ — Eric Swalwell not ‘above the law’

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Homan added that refugee status in relation to race is “not the way the law is written” and assured Beck, “That’s not the way we’re doing things.”

When it came to illegal immigration, Beck and Homan also discussed the CBP Home app, a program designed to help illegal immigrants self-deport back to their home country.

“It’s been good,” Homan explained. “I mean, several thousand signed up. We just did our first flight where we hosted that flight and sent them home.”

Homan was likely referring to a flight of 65 illegal immigrants who accepted a free plane ticket to their home country on the condition they would receive $1,000 upon landing.

The director revealed that there had been around 4,500 additional sign-ups, and when a group of illegal migrants at a detention center had been presented with the option recently, about 50% of them volunteered.

“‘You want to go home? We’ll make arrangements. Go home, and you get $1,000 for going.’ And just about half of the population raised their hands,” Homan said.

RELATED: ‘Self-deport’ flights begin as some illegal migrants take advantage of Trump’s tempting offer: Report

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Homan’s conversation with Beck also included responses to politicians like Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D), both of whom made strong statements about the Trump administration and Homan’s department.

Walz had referred to ICE agents as a “modern-day Gestapo” that is “scooping folks up off the streets,” while Swalwell had claimed that the Trump administration had been prosecuting its political enemies.

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All eyes are on the new American pope, Leo XIV, but Catholicism’s impact on American society today goes far beyond the vicar of Christ.

Catholics were key voices in the fight against slavery and the Civil Rights Movement, and they continue to advocate for the unborn in a post-Roe era. It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that Catholics are stepping up as leaders in the latest civil rights struggle in America: the defense of religious freedom.

Parents like Grace Morrison aren’t willing to let go of their role as primary educators of their children — and the Constitution is on their side.

Just consider the protagonists of the three religious liberty cases under Supreme Court review this term.

1. Mahmoud v. Taylor

Grace Morrison is a Catholic mother of seven from Montgomery County, Maryland, and member of the board of directors of Kids First, an association of parents and teachers advocating for notice and opt-outs in Montgomery County Schools.

Grace’s youngest daughter has Down syndrome and other learning differences. She was enrolled in Montgomery County Public Schools until Grace was told she could not opt her child out of LGBTQ+ indoctrination in the classroom. Forcing the young girl to learn using sexually explicit storybooks woven into the pre-K to 6th grade English curriculum in their school district, according to Grace, directly interferes with her free exercise rights under the First Amendment.

Grace and other families representing a range of faith traditions have brought their case all the way to the Supreme Court.

Predictably, two staunch progressives on the court think nothing of indoctrination in the classroom. Justice Sonia Sotomayor asserted during oral argument that there is nothing “coercive” in the mandatory reading of a book celebrating a same-sex wedding. Her colleague Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson suggested that objecting parents can always opt to send their children to private schools or homeschool.

Thankfully, a majority of the court’s justices didn’t agree that hanging a “Catholics need not enroll” sign in the school front office is totally fine.

Justice Samuel Alito, for example, pressed counsel representing Montgomery County’s school board during oral argument. “What’s the big deal about allowing them to opt out of this?” he asked.

The right to opt out of material that conflicts with sincerely held religious belief is a “big deal” to progressives on the Montgomery County school board because it would allow objecting parents to shield their children from across-the-board indoctrination.

Parents like Grace Morrison aren’t willing to let go of their role as primary educators of their children — and the Constitution is on their side.

2. Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond and St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond

Catholics in Oklahoma are also asking the Supreme Court to recognize religious freedom protections in their state’s charter school program.

When Oklahoma’s charter school program certified St. Isidore of Seville Virtual School — an online school created jointly by the two Catholic dioceses in the state— the state attorney general objected and successfully petitioned the state’s highest court to order the charter school board to withdraw certification.

But the school, along with the charter school board, successfully petitioned the Supreme Court to review the matter.

During oral argument, counsel for St. Isidore’s opened with a simple idea: “The Free Exercise Clause bars a state from inviting private parties to participate in an educational funding program while excluding those who exercise their faith.”

St. Isidore’s isn’t asking for preferential treatment but simply to be treated like any other private school seeking charter school status.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed.

Referring to recent cases where the Court struck down restrictions on public funds going to schools because of their religious character, Kavanaugh remarked that “I think those are some of the most important cases we’ve had, of saying you can’t treat religious people and religious institutions and religious speech as second class in the United States.”

3. Catholic Charities Bureau Inc. v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission

Finally, Catholics serving the needy in Northern Wisconsin advance a capacious definition of religious activity.

Wisconsin permits exemptions from the state’s unemployment-compensation program for an organization operated primarily for a “religious purpose.” Catholic Charities Bureau — a ministry of the Diocese of Superior, Wisconsin — has operated since 1917 to provide “services to the poor and disadvantaged as an expression of the social ministry of the Catholic Church,” and it sought and was denied an exemption because it hires and serves people who are not Catholic and does not proselytize recipients of its services.

The Supreme Court agreed to review the denial.

During oral argument, Justice Neil Gorsuch perfectly summed up the problem with just one rhetorical question: “Isn’t it a fundamental premise of our First Amendment that the state shouldn’t be picking and choosing between religions, between evangelical sects, and Judaism and Catholicism on the other, for example? And doesn’t it entangle the state tremendously when it has to go into a soup kitchen, send an inspector in, to see how much prayer is going on?”

Amen, Justice Gorsuch.

While you don’t have to be Catholic to defend parents’ rights in education and school choice initiatives free from religious discrimination, courageous Catholics have stepped up to vindicate religious freedom.

This Supreme Court is listening.

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The House worked through the night to narrowly pass President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” early Thursday morning after another tumultuous week on Capitol Hill.

The bill passed in a 215-214 vote, with one member, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris (R-Md.), voting present. Republican Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Warren Davidson of Ohio were the lone “no” votes on the bill, and Republican Reps. Andrew Garbarino of New York and David Schweikert of Arizona refrained from voting altogether.

The bill’s passage has proven to be another impressive feat for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who dealt with uncertainty and skepticism within the Republican conference leading up to the vote.

‘Once again, they have been proven wrong.’

RELATED: Spending hawks dig their heels in as White House battles to keep ‘big, beautiful bill’ afloat

“The media and the Democrats have consistently dismissed any possibility of House Republicans succeeding in our mission to enact President Trump’s America First agenda,” Johnson said in a statement. “Once again, they have been proven wrong.”

To the speaker’s point, Johnson spent the last few weeks homing in on a balancing point that would eventually satisfy as many Republicans as he needed to get this bill passed. Fiscal hawks like Harris and Republican Rep. Chip Roy (Texas) fought for meaningful spending cuts, legitimate Medicaid reform, and eliminating IRA subsidies before they signed off on the bill. They even met with the president alongside HFC colleagues on Wednesday after Trump’s Capitol Hill appearance failed to persuade them.

Johnson was also dealing with the SALT Caucus Republicans, who kept refusing overly generous offers to raise the cap on state and local deductions for their blue states. The SALT Caucus eventually accepted Johnson’s offer to raise the cap to $40,000, which quadruples the current $10,000 cap.

RELATED: Senate unanimously codifies Trump’s ‘No Tax on Tips’ policy

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Now that Republicans have successfully passed this bill before their ambitious Memorial Day deadline, it is up to the Senate to take up reconciliation.

“We look forward to the Senate’s timely consideration of this once-in-a-generation legislation and stand ready to continue our work together to deliver the one big, beautiful bill to the president’s desk,” Johnson said in the statement.

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Two Israeli embassy staffers were shot at close range as they left an event Wednesday evening at the Capital Jewish Museum building in Washington, D.C. The suspected gunman, a pro-Palestinian Marxist from Chicago, allegedly shouted, “Free, free Palestine!” after his capture.

According to FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, FBI police officers assigned to the bureau’s Washington Field Office immediately responded and rendered aid after the attack. Despite their efforts and the efforts of members of the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department, the victims both succumbed to their injuries.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry deemed the shooting a “brutal terrorist attack” and identified the victims as Yaron Lischinsky, a research assistant in the embassy’s political department, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, an aide who organized trips to Israel.

“Israeli diplomats and representatives around the world stand on the frontlines of Israel’s diplomatic efforts — defending the country with their very lives,” said the ministry. “We will not be deterred by terror. We will continue our mission across the globe, with unwavering commitment to represent Israel with pride.”

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Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter said that the “couple that was gunned down tonight in the name of ‘free Palestine’ is a young couple about to be engaged. The young man purchased a ring this week with the intention of proposing to his girlfriend next week in Jerusalem. They were a beautiful couple.”

Leiter noted further that Israelis and Americans are resilient peoples who, together, “will overcome moral depravity of people who think that they’re going to achieve political gains through murder.”

‘We are witnessing the terrible price of anti-Semitism and wild incitement against the State of Israel.’

The ambassador indicated that earlier in the evening, Attorney General Pam Bondi handed him a phone and on the other end was President Donald Trump, “who told me that his administration is going to do everything it could possibly do to fight and end anti-Semitism and the hatred that’s being directed — the demonization and delegitimization of the State of Israel.”

Trump, among the many Western leaders and diplomats who expressed sympathy for the victims’ families and solidarity with Israel, noted early Thursday morning, “These horrible D.C. killings, based obviously on antisemitism, must end, NOW! Hatred and Radicalism have no place in the USA.”

“Condolences to the families of the victims,” continued Trump. “So sad that such things as this can happen! God Bless You ALL!”

RELATED: Exclusive: Immigration agency to scour social media to prevent foreign pro-terror anti-Semites from getting benefits

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Trump and Bondi for their “clear stance against anti-Semitism” and suggested that “we are witnessing the terrible price of anti-Semitism and wild incitement against the State of Israel.”

Washington Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith told reporters that prior to the shooting, the suspect was observed pacing back and forth outside the museum. After approaching four individuals, including Lischinsky and Milgrim, the suspect drew a handgun and opened fire.

Smith indicated that after the shooting, the suspect entered the Capital Jewish Museum, where he was detained by event security.

Once in custody, the suspect, Elias Rodriguez of Chicago, indicated where he left the weapon, “implied that he committed the offense,” and shouted pro-Palestinian slogans, said Smith.

‘We have nothing to do with this shooting.’

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino indicated early Thursday morning that the Washington Metropolitan Police Department was interviewing the suspect in conjunction with the bureau’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces team.

Bondi told reporters late Wednesday that the “defendant, if charged, will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

The Jerusalem Post reported that Rodriguez is a graduate from the University of Illinois who donated to Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign.

RELATED: NYPD detains 80 ‘pro-Hamas thugs’ accused of Columbia library takeover as Rubio targets visas

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According to a now-deleted page on the website for the HistoryMakers, a research institution that documents and records black Americans’ stories, Rodriguez served as an “Oral History Researcher,” preparing “outlines and biographies of accomplished leaders in the African American community.”

Rodriguez, who apparently also has a history of anti-white commentary, has been involved with the pro-Palestinian group Party for Socialism and Liberation. The PSL acknowledged that Rodriguez “had a brief association” with one of its branches but claimed his involvement ended in 2017.

“We have nothing to do with this shooting and do not support it,” added the PSL.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser stated, “We will not tolerate acts of terrorism, and we are going to stand together as a community in the coming says and weeks that we will not tolerate the acts of terrorism that we will not tolerate anti-Semitism.”

According to the Anti-Defamation League’s latest annual audit, there were 9,354 anti-Semitic incidents last year, representing a 5% increase over the previous year, a 344% increase over the past five years, and a 893% increase over the past 10 years. The ADL report, released last month, said that 57% of the incidents last year were related to Israel.

The American advocacy group StopAntisemitism said in a statement to Blaze News, “The murder of two Israeli embassy staffers at an event honoring Jewish lives is the tragic result of 600 days of Jews being targeted on the streets, on campuses, and even with a Jewish governor’s home set ablaze. This is the end result of chaos fueled by calls for intifada and tolerated Jew-hatred. A win for the pro-Palestine movement that seeks to erase Jewish identity from the world.”

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CNN’s Jake Tapper is currently on a book tour following the release of his new bestseller that he co-authored with Axios’ Alex Thompson — “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.”

The book centers on the narrative that Joe Biden’s mental and physical decline was downplayed and kept hidden by his inner circle and parts of the media when he was president.

The glaring irony, of course, is that Tapper was a central part of the media cover-up. This so-called “exposé,” which reveals nothing we couldn’t already see with our own eyes, is a pathetic case of self-incrimination.

“Jake Tapper more than any other so-called journalist knew Joe Biden, knew the people around Joe Biden, grew up near where Joe Biden was senator, was well familiar with him,” says Mark Levin.

“For him to come out with a book now and act like this is a terrible cover-up … like he’s an observer when he was a participant, more than that, when he was a co-conspirator, is so outrageous and unethical,” he condemns.

The mainstream media, Jake Tapper concluded, “undertook the greatest political cover-up and scandal in American history” when they pretended like Biden was sharp as a tack while the rest of us could see “how he was walking, how he was talking, his reactions, his staring into the sky.”

But instead of doing their duty as journalists by finding and reporting the truth, “They fought us every step of the way,” says Levin.

“If that debate had not occurred and made it impossible for the media to continue to cover up the fact that Joe Biden was unqualified to be president of the United States, he would have been their nominee. They would have taken it right to the very end.”

But as soon as the “secret” was out, Tapper, seeing an opportunity to play the victim (and make a lot of money doing it), jumped on writing his fake exposé.

“Jake Tapper dares to try and get you to buy his book when he was part of the problem, involved in the cover-up,” Levin fumes. He’s trying to “rewrite [his] history” and “save [his] profession.”

These mainstream journalists are “not professionals. They’re propagandists; they’re demagogues for the left, for the Democrat Party, for the government bureaucracy, for the rogue judges,” he continues. Jake Tapper “is a complete fraud.”

To hear more of Levin’s epic roast, watch the clip above.

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NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers said most people are encouraged not to care about men invading women’s sports and are told to not do their own research on the subject.

Rodgers made his comments on a recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” while he and Rogan discussed the physical advantages men have over women in sports.

‘You’re not seeing trans men dominating anything; it’s because there’s a biological difference.’

After Rogan said hundreds of biological men have “pretended to be women” and subsequently dominated women’s athletics due to possessing a “giant advantage,” Rodgers flatly stated he believes the pro-transgender movement is explicitly against women.

“The trans woman movement is actually anti-woman,” the four-time NFL MVP stated.

Rogan, who now has about 20 million YouTube subscribers to his podcast, added that women should be “protected” in sports and should only have to compete against other biological women.

“It’s not bigoted to say,” the comedian explained.

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Aaron Rodgers of the New York Jets looks on before a game against the Miami Dolphins at MetLife Stadium, Jan. 5, 2025, in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images)

Rodgers then pointed to the simple reason that transgender ideology has resulted in the destruction of women’s athletics, not men’s.

“You’re not seeing trans men dominating anything; it’s because there’s a biological difference,” he said.

Mocking the absurdity of the whole debate, Rogan simply uttered, “XX and XY,” referring to female and male chromosomes.

“Way too much common sense,” Rodgers sarcastically replied.

The Super Bowl winner explained that he did not have much respect for the transgender movement and used most activists’ inability to define a woman as evidence of their folly: “The people who you’re asking those questions, who are not able to answer whether or not there’s a decided advantage, can’t even define what a woman is.”

Rodgers added that the people in general are pushed “not to care” about the issue and are told, “Don’t do your own research … trust the experts.”

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Despite a lengthy history of speaking out against COVID vaccines, this seemingly was the first time Rodgers had publicly commented about men in women’s sports.

“I’m glad he is finally speaking out, but let’s not pretend this is some bold or risky move in 2025,” Kaitlynn Wheeler, former NCAA swimmer and women’s activist, told Blaze News. “Women have been sounding the alarm on this issue for over three years, and we were called hateful, bigoted, transphobic, and silenced for it. I welcome more voices speaking the truth, but the latecomers shouldn’t expect an applause.”

During their conversation, Rogan also cited a United Nations study claiming that over 600 female athletes had lost medals to male competitors in female sports. Over 900 medals across different women’s competitions had been lost to men, in total, the study said.

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The state of Washington has declared war on the Catholic Church, and it could cost Americans their free exercise of religion — all under the guise of “helping children.”

Washington State Senate Bill 5375, passed earlier this month in that state’s ongoing crusade against what it claims is “abuse,” would force Catholic priests who hear admissions of abuse within the context of the sacrament of confession to break the seal of the sacrament and report those admissions to the state, even though all other recognized privileges — like those between doctor and patient and lawyer and client — are preserved.

What happens to Catholics today may affect many more Americans tomorrow.

The practice of confession isn’t just “therapy for Catholics”: It’s a sacrament where we believe God extends His forgiveness for our sins, which we must lay out to a priest, Christ’s representative on earth. It’s a ritual: You list your sins in conversation with a priest, often anonymously or from behind a screen, and in return, the priest assigns a penance and grants absolution.

It’s also a ritual critical to the spiritual life of Catholics. Without forgiveness and absolution, Catholics who die in a state of sin could go straight to hell, and Catholics who live in a state of mortal sin are barred from communion, which is the heart of our faith.

Our very souls depend on it. It’s not some optional counseling; it’s a critical practice of Catholicism.

Washington is not alone in trying to compel priests to tell law enforcement what’s said in the confessional, but it’s the state that’s gotten the furthest. It’s also certainly the first state to bring the issue of repeating confessions to the public in a way that gives regular Americans a glimpse into how the Catholic religion works.

Even right-leaning media has gotten the issue wrong: Shortly after the bill was passed, Fox News and others announced that the Catholic Church had threatened to excommunicate any priest who complied with the law and spilled secrets to cops, almost as if the battle over the seal of confession was a war between the state and the Church.

In reality, it’s a war on the Catholic Church.

Priests and religious workers, especially those who work around children, are already mandated to report abuse if they can identify it everywhere other than in the confessional, and the Church has taken significant steps to address issues of clergy abuse in its past, including involving law enforcement right from the moment of discovery, rather than handling it through church administration.

The problem, while an embarrassment for the Catholic Church, is also one of the past. Recent reports show that incidents of abuse peaked in the 1970s and 1980s and dropped off significantly after 1989.

The Catholic Church is now on notice and has the data to prove it.

But Washington wants to continue to subject the Catholic Church to punishment for past sins in a way it does not subject any other organization. Washington also wants to intercede in only the penitent privilege. The bill specifically demands clergy report abuse to law enforcement but takes pains to note that no other privileged communication is affected: Lawyers do not need to report crimes confessed in their conference rooms, nor do therapists nor doctors nor members of other occupations where privilege applies.

Nope, in the bill’s own words, “Except for members of the clergy, no one shall be required to report under this section when he or she obtains the information solely as a result of a privileged communication.”

Priests who are found to be uncompliant could face a year in jail or thousands of dollars in fines.

And as the local diocese has already said, in a statement made directly to legislators, it simply won’t comply. And priests who do comply would face excommunication, not because of a threat from the bishops, but because the issue of confessional confidentiality is covered right there in the Church’s own catechism.

Canon 983: The sacramental seal is inviolable; therefore, it is a crime for a confessor in any way to betray a penitent by word or in any other manner or for any reason. Canon 1386: A confessor who directly violates the sacramental seal incurs a latae sententiae [automatic] excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See; he who does so only indirectly is to be punished according to the gravity of the offense.

This isn’t a matter of the bishops facing down the state of Washington and threatening priests with excommunication if they comply with the law; it’s the bishops letting the state of Washington know: Priests would rather serve jail time than be excommunicated from the Catholic Church.

The left has engaged in this type of intimidation before in the name of “saving” children from sure violence, but it all has the same intent: bullying the religious institutions that keep our community healthy and help individuals and families loosen their reliance on the state and bullying those with sincere and orthodox beliefs at odds with the left’s agenda.

Washington is just one front in a large and aggressive war on the rights of Americans to exercise their freedom of belief.

Luckily, the Trump administration does not appear to be taking Washington’s threat to religious liberty lightly. In a statement issued May 5, it vowed to fight the Washington law on the grounds that it violates the First Amendment’s right to free exercise since it infringes on a core, sincerely held religious dogma.

President Trump has also welcomed several members of the Catholic clergy onto a council that will seek to protect religious liberty — because what happens to Catholics today may affect many more Americans tomorrow.

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A veteran journalist is getting mocked and ridiculed on social media after he continued to suggest that former President Joe Biden had not suffered mental deterioration at the end of his presidency.

The debate over Biden’s mental diminishment was sparked by a new book from Jake Tapper documenting statements from close advisers and staffers who watched his decline firsthand.

‘The poisoned mind of a biased status chasing cretin.’

John Harwood registered his skepticism against those reports on social media in a sarcastic missive.

“Oddly, the declining 81-year-old managed to win major climate, infrastructure, and chip investments, rally allies to defend Ukraine, and hand his successor the world’s strongest post-pandemic economy,” wrote the 68-year-old.

‘Was it because, as the Original Sin authors write, ‘Biden on a day-in, day-out basis could certainly make decisions and assert wisdom and act as President’?” he added, referring to Tapper’s book co-written with Alex Thompson.

Many on social media lambasted Harwood for the bizarre claim.

“The best example of the absolute corruption behind legacy media. The poisoned mind of a biased status chasing cretin,” responded Greg Gutfeld.

“You’re completely missing the point. He was likely not a relevant participant in the process,” replied former DHS official Jonathan Fahey.

“I really hope he’s getting paid well for this self-debasement and isn’t just doing it for the exposure,” joked Noam Blum.

“This is all you need to know about John Harwood. He sounds like a Soviet hack,” said another critic.

“You forgot to mention very high inflation, supply chain shortages, 21 million illegals that taxpayers had to pay for, an embarrassing & disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, war in Ukraine due to incompetence, graft & corruption … almost an endless list of failures and bad policies,” read another post.

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Tapper has not escaped scrutiny over the book, however. Many on the right have harangued him for his part in berating Biden critics at the behest of the White House before Biden dropped out of his re-election campaign.

In a brutal interview with Megyn Kelly, Tapper faced up to much of the criticism and admitted that he fell short.

“I feel humility about my coverage,” said Tapper. “It’s not like I was asking him his favorite movie or his favorite color. We were talking about Putin. We were talking about other issues of national importance. But yeah, of course, I’ve said I look back on my coverage with humility. And I wish — I did cover the issues of age and mental acuity, but I wish I had covered them much more.”

Harwood worked for CNN as White House correspondent until 2022, was the editor at large for CNBC, and was a contributor at the New York Times.

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Democrats spent the entirety of former President Joe Biden’s presidency turning a blind eye to what appeared to be a clear mental and physical decline — but after Biden’s stage four prostate cancer diagnosis, they can no longer pretend the president was in control.

His cancer, which has a Gleason score of nine and bone metastasis, has been purported by experts to have been progressing for years — which would include his presidency.

Now, even the former president’s fiercest supporters are admitting that they were wrong about the president’s health, including Van Jones.

“I don’t care who you are, left, right, or otherwise, anybody who cares about this country and about just the dynamics of power, this is the emperor’s new clothes playing itself out in real time,” Jones told Jake Tapper on CNN.

“Everybody knew, and everyone was afraid to say except for David Axelrod for two years that something was wrong here. And so, you know, I was shocked. I love Joe Biden. I don’t like him, I love him.”

“I was shocked to see his condition when he came out and so was the world. And that wasn’t the first time he was in that condition,” he continued. “There are people who knew and said nothing, and that is a crime against this republic.”

“I think the Democrats are going to pay for a long time for being a part of what is now being revealed to be a massive cover-up,” he added.

Unlike those on the left, BlazeTV host Pat Gray was well aware of the president’s decline before news of his diagnosis went public.

“‘That is a crime against our republic,’” Gray says, mimicking Jones. “Yeah, yes it is. Thank you for noticing,” he adds.

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The word “programming” gets tossed around often when talking about TV — and it carries two meanings. One is obvious. The other is more insidious.

What you and your kids watch is programming. Not just what’s on the screen, but what’s being impressed upon them.

To some people, especially tech giants like Google, the message of the Bible runs counter to much of what they are pushing onto kids today.

The same can be said about the video games children play. And in many cases, it’s worse. Far too many video games marketed to children numb them to violence or undermine traditional values. This isn’t just a game. Kids inured to violence grow into adults inured to violence. Children taught to regard other people as objects — whether as targets in a first-person shooter game or as targets of lascivious attention — tend to grow into morally calloused adults.

These kinds of games, like the smartphones and tablets they’re played on, are everywhere. It seems every kid has either one or both devices, making it difficult for parents to protect them or prevent access to violent, unwholesome material, including interactive online games.

Some of these platforms offer more than just harmful ideas. Predators have been known to use online games to reach unsuspecting children by disguising themselves as other players.

A new solution

But what can parents do?

Parental controls only go so far, and today’s tech-savvy kids often know more about computers and the internet by the time they’re 13 than their parents ever will. Taking away devices is a clumsy — and worse, ineffective — tool. Your kids’ friends almost certainly have devices, and access to them can circumvent any boundaries you try to set at home.

One thing parents can do is provide their kids with an alternative.

Enter TruPlay, a new gaming platform created by Brent Dusing to bring “high-quality, fun, and biblically sound” entertainment to kids.

Dusing, a Harvard graduate and pioneer in Christian gaming through his previous venture, Lightside Games (which reached over 7 million players worldwide), also serves on the board of Promise Keepers — the organization dedicated to “Making Dads Great Again.”

The TruPlay suite of apps includes Bible-based games, such as “King David’s Battles,” which allows kids to role-play biblical characters. The Comics and Videos app illustrates scriptural themes in a graphic novel, similar in theme to “The Dark Knight Rises” but without the darkness. Other games resemble classic hits like the iconic block-building game Tetris — but using stained glass pieces instead.

Counterprogramming vs. censorship

This, too, isn’t a game. It’s counterprogramming.

Dusing says “there’s a lot of awful content” out there and “almost nothing … delivers God’s truth or hope or joy or Jesus Christ to children at all in the gaming space.” In fact, anything that dares to mention Jesus or the Bible, whether in gaming or any other space, without mocking it, is itself mocked. Compare that to the media frenzy around the release of a new first-person shooter. Coverage is wall-to-wall, as if it were the second coming.

But wholesome, family-friendly platforms like TruPlay get crickets — and sometimes worse than crickets.

According to Dusing, Big Tech platforms like Google have blocked or limited the visibility of TruPlay ads, claiming “sensitive interest” as the justification — as if promoting Jesus and biblical values were somehow dangerous.

To some, it is.

To some people, especially tech giants like Google, the message of the Bible runs counter to much of what they are pushing onto kids today — including, in some cases, the explicitly demonic, as opposed to an action game about King David or an adventure game about a little girl who believes in Jesus.

Dusing says TruPlay is being suppressed by Google because “the algorithms themselves view the content we make, encouraging biblically inspired games for children, as a threat.”

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Of course it is — and that’s precisely the point.

“There has been this sea change generationally in America — and really throughout the world — of people playing games as a common part of entertainment and cultural understanding,” Dusing says.

Indeed.

We went from innocent, fun games like “Space Invaders” and “Pac-Man” to hyper-realistic first-person shooter games like “Call of Duty,” designed to realistically convey what it’s like to shoot another human being. Games like “Grand Theft Auto” make sport out of stealing, and games like “Doom” and “Quake” present satanic material as “fun.”

It’s a cultural rip current — pulling kids along while they don’t even realize they’re in the water. And here we are.

“What world do we live in where fun, inspirational games with Christian principles are offensive but sexual content for small children, including sex trafficking, is permitted with no problems on Google?” Dusing asks.

It’s a question that demands answers.

TruPlay’s response is “to transform generations of children in such a profound way that it will shape culture” in a different direction.

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