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The global fertility rate is crashing. Today, more than half the world’s people live in countries below replacement fertility.

Many factors are playing into this predicament, but “managerial liberalism” — institutions like HR, academia, NGOs, agencies, and media pushing liberal social rules — is the main culprit according to BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre.

It’s what rewards women for delaying marriage and motherhood in favor of careers and independence. It’s what treats children as a lifestyle accessory instead of the point of a people. And it’s what sells immigration as the substitute for babies.

To dive into this subject, MacIntyre speaks with his friend Kevin Dolan, founder of the EXIT Group and host of the Natal Conference.

MacIntyre begins by highlighting Dolan’s recent article, “Mom Is working for Moloch,” which argues that babies are being sacrificed — not at temples, but to a “Moloch” machine that runs on women’s long years of school and career.

“The strongest correlation between fertility and any other sort of social science variable is educating and employing women,” says Dolan.

A lot of people on the political right, he argues, view this problem “unseriously” — throwing shade at girlbosses when the problem isn’t women getting PhDs and being C-suite executives.

The correlation between declining birth rates and educating/employing women, Dolan says, begins long before higher education or career ladders come into the picture. “This correlation exists at the level of like being taught to read and escaping subsistence agriculture,” he tells MacIntyre.

But the only countries where this lifestyle of illiteracy and rugged farm life is the reality for women are “places where none of us want to live,” he adds.

The right often tries quick-fix solutions, like cash incentives for having kids and cheaper day care, but they’re just “polishing-the-brass-on-the-Titanic-type solutions,” Dolan argues.

“The sacrifice that you’re asking of people to have these kids is enormous, and the kind of person who would have a kid for 1,000 bucks is not necessarily the person that you want raising kids,” he adds.

The reality is people aren’t going to have families, regardless of government incentive, “unless they can do it in this deeply high-trust, relational, contextual frame,” says Dolan, “and if you try to make them do it as a transaction, they will just not do it.”

The problem, however, is that managerial liberalism is designed to dissolve that world.

“We’ve created a world that humans don’t want to raise families in. Like, that’s just a fundamental, like a spiritual indictment of the world that we live in,” says Dolan. “We got to fix that.”

To hear Dolan and MacIntyre on what they think has to give if families are going to form again, watch the full episode above.

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Google recently reported that a China-linked hacking group ran artificial intelligence tools inside compromised networks. The technique let the hackers use victims’ computing resources and credentials while reducing the traffic that might expose them. The group also targeted North American academic, medical, military, and technology-research institutions. That is a serious warning.

The disclosure followed a Justice Department and FBI operation against QScan and QTRouter, two platforms allegedly used by a Chinese state-sponsored group known as QTFY. Prosecutors say the group, employed by Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology, sold hacking services to customers that included China’s Ministry of State Security and People’s Liberation Army.

Chinese cyberattacks are only going to get more capable. We need a concerted plan to protect our infrastructure and private information before it’s too late.

Court records identify NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Departments of Energy, Justice, and Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Senate among the targets. They also list hospitals, telecommunications providers, power companies, financial institutions, and defense contractors. The public evidence does not show that every listed network was breached. Still, it’s a major concern.

The operation illustrates how Beijing can combine government direction, private contractors, compromised devices, and commercial infrastructure in a sustained espionage campaign. Diplomatic engagement with Chinese leaders does not eliminate that threat, and cybersecurity policy must account for it regardless of the state of bilateral relations.

On Aug. 26, the same day officials announced the QScan and QTRouter seizures, the White House declared a national emergency involving foreign-produced bulk-power equipment. The order lets the government restrict transactions involving equipment that poses an unacceptable security risk as well as identify, isolate, monitor, or replace vulnerable components.

The risk is substantial. Grid operators increasingly depend on networked sensors, controllers, and other devices associated with the “internet of things.” Connectivity can improve efficiency and monitoring, but it also expands the attack surface. The fear is less that China will shut off the lights tomorrow than that it will slowly gain the ability to cause blackouts and spread panic — a security advantage it can leverage.

The administration’s Cyber Strategy for America calls for hardening critical infrastructure and its supply chains, including the energy grid, data centers, water utilities, hospitals, and telecommunications systems. The recent cases show why that work must extend beyond power plants to vendors, contractors, and the devices that connect essential services.

Cyber defense is only part of the problem. Washington must also decide how to evaluate Chinese companies whose technology enters sensitive American systems.

Nanjing Xinjiuwei is a useful example: The government alleges that the company employed QTFY and received payments from China’s Ministry of State Security. No surprise that plenty of other Chinese companies have also engaged in espionage.

The Pentagon this summer added Alibaba and BYD to its list of entities it identifies as Chinese military companies operating in the United States, effectively banning them from securing defense contracts. What took so long?

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Huawei presents a more dangerous case. The Justice Department has accused Huawei and several subsidiaries of racketeering, trade-secret theft, and concealing business in countries subject to sanctions. Separately, federal law restricts agencies and contractors from using specified Huawei telecommunications equipment, and regulators have designated the company’s equipment a national-security risk.

The company’s U.S. research affiliate, Futurewei, also drew congressional scrutiny after lawmakers said it shared a California office complex with Nvidia for years. Nvidia has said its operations remained separate. Huawei’s past relationships with American universities likewise prompted several institutions to review or end research funding arrangements.

The American economic system is open by nature, and this risks allowing easy access to malefactors like Huawei.

Successive administrations have maintained or expanded restrictions on Huawei while encouraging alternatives in the global telecommunications market. National-security officials also cited competition with Huawei when supporting the Hewlett Packard Enterprise acquisition of Juniper Networks. That case illustrates how industrial policy can overlap with security interests.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies has catalogued 224 reported instances of Chinese espionage directed at the United States since 2000. Its survey excludes espionage against U.S. allies and more than 1,200 intellectual-property lawsuits brought by American companies against Chinese entities.

The policy challenge is broader than any single breach or company. The United States must secure critical networks, investigate firms on the evidence, enforce procurement and export-control rules consistently, and work with allies on interoperable alternatives.

Chinese cyberattacks are only going to get more capable. We need a concerted plan to protect our infrastructure and private information before it’s too late.

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Shortly after September 11, the U.S. government passed the ingeniously titled Patriot Act. Are you a decent, self-respecting soul who loves America and hates those who hate you? Most Americans nodded vigorously and responded with a resounding yes. Citizens accepted federal wiretaps and financial monitoring as reasonable trade-offs for national security.

Over the next two decades, local police departments began using license-plate readers. Private companies cashed in on the madness, covering suburban front porches with internet-connected video doorbells. Flock cameras now turn ordinary commutes into one giant, searchable tracking database. And that guy sitting across from you on the subway? He might be wearing a creepy pair of Meta glasses, filming you without your permission, and preparing to do God-only-knows-what with the footage.

If it can happen in Texas, it can happen anywhere in America.

Things are bad, but as my grandmother used to say, when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, always remember that hell has a basement.

She was right.

In Dallas, the city government recently partnered with a tech firm called City Detect to put AI cameras on ordinary garbage trucks. As the trucks roll through residential neighborhoods, high-resolution cameras photograph homes, driveways, and front yards. Algorithms then scan the images for potential violations, from overgrown lawns and peeling paint to structural disrepair and discarded junk. China gives citizens a social credit score. Dallas now has something that sounds eerily familiar: a “blight score.” To be clear, Dallasites aren’t being rated on political loyalty or on whether they should be allowed to purchase a plane ticket. But the underlying idea is unsettlingly similar. Technology collects information about ordinary people, then analyzes it and turns what a camera sees into a data point that can trigger authorities’ attention.

And this is where the legal defense of public surveillance comes in. The traditional argument is simple. If something can be seen from a public road, you have little or no expectation of privacy in it. A police officer or code inspector standing on a public sidewalk can look at your front yard for hours without obtaining a warrant. City Detect relies on precisely this principle. The company says its software automatically blurs human faces and vehicle license plates before storing the imagery. In other words, you may not be personally identifiable in the database, but your house, driveway, lawn, and property can still be photographed, analyzed and flagged.

That distinction may satisfy the lawyers, but it doesn’t necessarily satisfy the citizen, nor should it.

Surveillance creep

Applying continuous, AI-driven surveillance across an entire city fundamentally changes how local government operates.

This dynamic flips the traditional relationship between citizens and law enforcement. Throughout American history, government investigation required either initial suspicion or a formal complaint before it resorted to observation. Automated garbage truck cameras reverse that sequence by subjecting every property owner to preemptive, systematic photography. An algorithm evaluates the physical condition of a private residence first, and the city issues a notification second. Dallas residents now receive automated courtesy notices regarding their property conditions without a human inspector ever stepping foot on their pavement.

The immediate result is the industrialization of minor administrative oversight. Local governments purchase turnkey surveillance systems from private vendors because automated enforcement generates predictable revenue while reducing payroll costs. Cities may introduce these systems as simple administrative tools, but once the technology exists to continuously scan an entire city, its uses can easily expand beyond the original purpose.

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And if it can happen in Texas, supposedly a conservative state that prides itself on individual liberty, it can happen anywhere in America.

City Detect insists that its databases remain separate from law enforcement networks and that private companies retain ownership of the operating algorithms. No one of sound mind should be reassured by these promises. Public records requests and corporate partnerships regularly bridge the gap between municipal records and law enforcement access. Once a high-definition image of a private driveway is stored on a cloud server, the legal barriers that restrict access by law enforcement, tax assessors, or civil litigants can quickly disappear.

Future shock

The primary danger of localized algorithmic monitoring lies in its future capabilities. Big Brother is a lot like the national debt; it never gets smaller, only bigger.

The software deployed on garbage trucks today identifies tall weeds, discarded mattresses, and stray trash. Upgraded models could easily detect subtle physical changes over time. The idea that your driveway parking patterns and home additions could be recorded in the not-so-distant future may sound absurd, but it shouldn’t.

Today, the surveillance state no longer requires specialized federal agents or hidden listening posts to monitor everyday life. You live in a country where every commute and porch delivery feeds an all-knowing database. That is troubling and infuriating. But perhaps the most worrying aspect is how difficult it will be to put the genie back in the bottle. Once those in charge learn they can watch everything, why would they ever choose to watch less?

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Democrats increasingly treat their voters’ choices as provisional because party activists and much of the political press allow it. From Joe Biden’s replacement in 2024 to current attacks on Senator John Fetterman (D-Penn.), the party establishment respects election results only until those results become inconvenient. That habit damages the party’s credibility on election integrity and may eventually damage the establishment itself.

Two years ago, Democrats already had their presidential nominee. Joe Biden had won every Democratic presidential contest except American Samoa and faced no serious challenge (unlike Jimmy Carter in 1980). He had also won the 2020 nomination and occupied the White House.

Democratic leaders keep courting the left’s energy while blocking some of its candidates from power. That arrangement cannot last forever.

After Biden’s disastrous debate performance, however, Democrat officials and donors spent weeks demanding that he withdraw. Their pressure campaign set aside months of primaries in which roughly 14 million Democrats had supported him. No presumptive major-party nominee in the modern primary era had withdrawn so late.

Democrats did use a formal replacement process. Biden’s withdrawal unbound nearly all of his delegates, Harris qualified for the ballot, and during a virtual roll-call vote, 99% of participating delegates voted for her. But primary voters never chose Harris for president in 2024, and party leaders never held an open convention in which competing candidates could make their case. By the convention, Harris and Tim Walz were already the ticket.

That was the first do-over: Primary voters chose Biden, and delegates later chose Harris after party leaders drove Biden from the race.

Maine supplied a clearer example this year. Voters nominated Graham Platner for Senate with more than 156,000 votes. After a woman accused Platner of rape — an allegation he denied — he withdrew on the last day Maine law allowed Democrats to replace him on the ballot.

Party delegates then selected Troy Jackson, who had not competed in the Senate primary and had finished third in the gubernatorial primary, by a 566-5 vote. The party followed Maine law, but primary voters had no say in their replacement nominee.

Wisconsin shows another kind of intervention. After the establishment favorite left the governor’s race amid campaign-finance trouble, David Crowley re-entered with Gov. Tony Evers’ backing and narrowly defeated democratic socialist Francesca Hong. Voters made the final choice, so Wisconsin was no do-over. It does show how quickly party leaders mobilize when the left threatens to capture a nomination.

Pennsylvania now shows another variation of the fix. Democrats nominated Fetterman for Senate in 2022 and stood by him after a serious stroke.

They called Fetterman a fighter and a maverick, just what the Senate needed. When he won, Senate Democrats rallied around him and even loosened the dress code for him. Then he broke with progressives over Israel, arguing that it had a right to defend itself after Hamas’ terrorist attack.

A recent Wall Street Journal report said Fetterman had neglected many Senate duties, citing accounts from former staffers. Some Democrat lawmakers and activists immediately attacked him; one Democratic National Committee vice chairman said “2028 can’t come soon enough.” Depart from party orthodoxy, and you’re through.

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This pattern succeeds because party voters rarely punish it and much of the political press treats each episode as an isolated event. Voters whose choices party leaders set aside receive little sustained attention. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Repeatedly overriding primary outcomes also weakens Democrats’ claims to defend election integrity. If they don’t care about their own members’ votes, they don’t care about yours. No wonder they oppose election oversight when they want to overlook their own primaries.

The establishment’s short-term victories may carry long-term costs. In 2016, DNC officials favored Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders. Yet Sanders and his faction now exert more influence over the party than Clinton does.

The Democratic left has grown stronger even as establishment figures try to contain it. Each intervention deepens resentment among activists who believe party leaders accept their votes only when they approve the result.

Democrat leaders keep courting the left’s energy while blocking some of its candidates from power. That arrangement cannot last forever.

Eventually, procedural trickery will no longer protect the Democrat establishment from the faction it has encouraged but repeatedly tried to keep off the ballot.

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Most people blame the nation’s treacherous climb to AI domination and the dystopian push for human enhancement on Silicon Valley.

But Glenn Beck says the true genesis of the transhumanist project traces back to a man who lived nearly a century before Silicon Valley was even a concept. Nikolai Fyodorov, a Moscow librarian and nearly forgotten 19th-century thinker, penned his vision for humanity in the 1880s, and it had all the makings of the chilling blueprint we are watching rapidly come to fruition today.

Fyodorov, Glenn explains, believed and taught anyone who would listen that “every religion and every philosophy had gotten the assignment wrong.”

“He thought death was not a fact of nature to be made peace with. He said death was the enemy, and the entire human race needed to be united using science. And they had one job: stop death,” he recounts.

This “common task” of stopping death led Fyodorov to suggest that all the “scattered atoms of every human being who had ever died” be gathered in order to “resurrect all generations.”

His plan to create space for the risen dead was to “colonize space.”

While Fyodorov has largely been forgotten in the modern age, he had the ear of many writers we still revere today.

“Tolstoy sat at this man’s feet. Dostoevsky read him; wrote back that he agreed essentially with everything he said,” says Glenn.

But perhaps most notably, Fyodorov took in and mentored Konstantin Tsiolkovsky — a deaf, rejected boy who would eventually write the “rocket equation” and become “the father of Soviet rocketry.”

“Every Soviet cosmonaut, Sputnik, the space race that put us on the moon — all of that traces back through that kid and to the old man in the library whose reason for wanting rockets was that he needed somewhere to put all the resurrected dead,” says Glenn.

Roughly 40 years after Fyodorov’s 1880s lectures, his dark vision got a scientific vocabulary thanks to a Jesuit paleontologist named Teilhard de Chardin and a Russian geochemist named Vladimir Vernadsky. Together, they coined the term “noosphere” — “a layer of thought that wrapped the planet” that would be “the next stage of human evolution,” Glenn explains.

“Teilhard took it the furthest. He said all human consciousness needed to converge into one, and he called this the point of omega,” he adds, noting that his book on this subject was published only following his death because the Catholic Church “thought he was out of his mind.”

About five years later, when the book was translated into English, it was none other than Julian Huxley — brother of “Brave New World” author Aldous Huxley, president of the British Eugenics Society, and first director-general of UNESCO — who wrote the introduction.

“Julian Huxley gave the movement its name. His phrase was: man remaining man but transcending himself,” says Glenn.

While UNESCO refused to adopt Huxley’s pamphlet “UNESCO: Its Purpose and Its Philosophy,” forcing him to “publish it under his own name,” it still embraced him as its chief leader.

“So nobody can say the United Nations was founded as a transhumanist project, but they can’t say that the man who wrote it down wasn’t running their agency for two years [and] wasn’t the founding guy,” says Glenn.

Pieced together, this story blows his mind.

“The chain is a Moscow librarian who said, ‘Nobody should die. We should resurrect everybody. We have to beat death.’ And he passed it on to a kid who became the rocket scientist for the Soviet space program. … The whole program was given a scientific vocabulary in Paris by a priest and walked into the permanent architecture of the postwar world by a eugenist who had a famous last name,” Glenn summarizes.

The lesson here is that today’s tech lords are fighting over a project older than they are.

“These guys didn’t all meet in a smoke-filled room. There’s no conspiracy here. It’s just books, students, and time,” says Glenn.

“Why am I telling you this story? Because you can’t understand the men currently shaping our life until you understand what they are fighting over as an inheritance.”

To hear more, watch the video above.

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Blaze News reported last year about a concealed-carrying garbage truck driver who turned the tables on a pair of would-be robbers in Chicago, fatally shooting one of them and wounding the other.

Chicago police told WLS-TV the incident occurred around 5:15 a.m. Jan. 31, 2025, just steps away from a high school in the Homan Square neighborhood on the city’s West Side.

‘The garbage collector disposing of more than just regular trash.’

The station, citing police, said a 28-year-old man garbage truck driver was outside in the 900 block of South Homan Avenue when two males approached him, showed a gun, and announced a robbery.

CWB Chicago reported that Aaron White and Kenneth Elliott approached the garbage truck driver near the back of his truck in an alley next to DRW College Prep — and the outlet said it obtained surveillance video showing what went down.

Elliott, 42, confronted the sanitation worker while White approached with a gun, CWB Chicago said, citing prosecutors and the video. The victim in the video appears to push White’s gun away with his forearm while struggling with Elliott, the outlet said.

The pair most definitely picked the wrong victim.

Police told WLS the victim had a valid Firearm Owner’s Identification card and Concealed Carry License — and put it to use.

Because when White extended the gun again, the victim fired at least three shots, striking White, who fell to the ground, CWB Chicago reported, adding that Elliott continued fighting the victim and wrapping his arms around him.

But the victim fired additional shots until Elliott fell to the ground as well, the outlet said, adding that the video ends with the victim leaving the scene.

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Chicago police officers found White lying near the school with a gunshot wound to his neck, CWB Chicago said, adding that his arrest report indicated that he was still conscious and told officers he was lying on a gun. An officer rolled White over and secured the gun, the outlet noted.

WLS said the 42-year-old suspect — whom CWB Chicago identified as Elliott — was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene.

CWB Chicago added that according to court records, White pleaded guilty Monday to attempted armed robbery with a firearm — and Judge Domenica Stephenson sentenced him to eight years in prison.

“The garbage collector disposing of more than just regular trash,” one commenter on the above news video stated. “Helping rid us of the two-legged garbage.”

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Advocates sell sanctuary policies as a public-safety boon. Keep local police out of immigration enforcement, they argue, and immigrant communities will trust cops, report crime, and make everyone safer. But New York, Fairfax County, Virginia, and Chicago tell a different story.

When local authorities refuse to transfer removable criminal aliens already in jail, they do not neutralize danger. They return it to the streets, where law-abiding residents become prey.

Order requires one standard in the jail and courthouse, not a local veto over federal custody. Sanctuary policies reverse those priorities.

New York is making a strong bid to become America’s leading sanctuary snake pit. In May, Governor Kathy Hochul (D) signed the “Local Cops, Local Crimes Act,” which bans 287(g) agreements and contracts to house civil immigration detainees. These jail partnerships do not authorize “street raids.” They let local officials screen people already booked on local charges and transfer removable offenders to ICE in a secure setting.

The law also established an Orwellian “Office of Immigrant Trust” in Attorney General Letitia James’ office to enforce compliance. James warned the 12 law enforcement agencies that still had 287(g) agreements and sued the Rensselaer County sheriff after his office refused to terminate its agreement. Fifteen elected sheriffs, represented by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, filed a federal lawsuit, while Hochul dared opponents to “bring it on.”

The “Local Cops, Local Crimes Act” will not deliver the community safety its backers claim to seek. Ending 287(g) does not keep “local cops focused on local crimes.” If ICE later arrests the same person, agents must find and arrest him at large, using more officers and accepting more uncertainty and danger than a transfer from custody would require. Albany’s law forbids the orderly custody transfers that these agreements facilitate. It has also pushed veteran sheriffs into federal court to defend tools they use to protect their communities.

Fairfax County, Virginia, shows what happens when the sanctuary slogan becomes operating procedure. Sheriff Stacey Kincaid refuses to hold an inmate past a local release date based solely on an administrative ICE detainer. Her office requires a judicial warrant before it will extend local custody, though ICE issues detainers as administrative requests. Records from the sheriff’s office show that Fairfax declined 615 transfers over 16 months — 448 in 2025 and 167 in the first four months of 2026 — while transferring only 11 people to ICE.

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The Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation into Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano’s plea-bargaining, charging, and sentencing policy, which directs prosecutors to consider immigration consequences. The department is investigating whether that policy discriminates against U.S. citizens. It has not reached a conclusion.

A House subcommittee later questioned Descano and Kincaid under oath. The record includes people whom Fairfax released despite ICE detainers and whom authorities later charged with new crimes, including murder. Fairfax and ICE dispute responsibility for at least one such release.

Defenders respond that Fairfax is not “harboring” anyone because ICE can still make street arrests. But jail transfers give agents the safest opportunity to assume custody; street arrests expose officers, suspects, and bystanders to more risk. When a county rejects hundreds of detainers, it does not prove illegal aliens commit less crime. It releases people federal officers have identified as removable and leaves ICE to find them elsewhere.

Prosecutors compound the problem when they shape charging or plea decisions to avoid deportation. A justice system that treats otherwise comparable cases differently based on immigration consequences creates a two-track courthouse. The Justice Department is investigating whether Descano’s office gave noncitizen defendants preferential treatment that citizens did not receive; it has not yet answered that question.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) has used executive orders and litigation to limit police cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

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During the migrant surge that defined his early term, Chicago spent $639.6 million to house and serve 46,282 arrivals; 42%, about $269 million, came from the city’s corporate fund. Chicago now faces an $882.4 million budget gap for 2027, although city officials cite several drivers unrelated to migrant spending.

Chicago already has plenty of homegrown problems. What did residents gain from spending $639.6 million on a crisis that strained police stations and city services? Johnson offers platitudes and accusations of racism to anyone who asks.

Communities are safer when jailers transfer a removable offender from local custody instead of releasing him and forcing federal agents to hunt him later. Cities protect their budgets when they put lifelong residents ahead of noncitizens.

Order requires one standard in the jail and courthouse, not a local veto over federal custody. Sanctuary policies reverse those priorities. Lawmakers and voters must remove this pox from America.

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A day-care business is facing a million-dollar lawsuit after surveillance allegedly caught an employee running a toddler fight club.

Heather and Richard Harris filed the lawsuit in Tarrant County District Court against Arka Risinger Educators LLC in Fort Worth, Texas.

‘Their trust was violated when the safe environment they were promised turned into a child fight club.’

The Harrises allege that a substitute teacher had children assault their 4-year-old child after other teachers had left at the end of the day in April 2026.

The child’s mother noticed that he was crying uncontrollably and had injuries when she picked him up from the day care.

The staff told her he had gotten into a fight, but the mother demanded to see the video of the incident.

The lawsuit said the child suffered bruising and scratches to his arms and post-traumatic headaches. He also suffers from lasting emotional anxiety.

A state investigation by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission’s Child-Care Licensing Division cited the Arka Montessori day care for multiple violations.

“Their trust was violated when the safe environment they were promised turned into a child fight club,” read the lawsuit.

The family is suing for $1 million for negligence, gross negligence, and premises liability.

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No criminal charges were filed in the case.

The substitute teacher is no longer employed at the day care, according to the owners.

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If you drive an EV, you have probably heard one argument over and over: Whatever you pay for the car, you’ll save money charging it.

That can certainly be true if you charge at home, particularly if you have access to inexpensive off-peak electricity. But once you depend on public fast chargers, the math can look very different.

Put $40 or $50 worth of gasoline into an efficient RAV4, and you’re buying hundreds of miles of driving range

On a recent episode of “The Drive,” my co-host Karl Brauer told me about charging a Hyundai Ioniq 5 N at a Level 3 charger. It cost him about $50.

Within 24 hours, Karl filled up his 2023 Dodge Demon 170 with E85. The bill was $47.

Yes, you read that correctly. It cost him more to charge the Hyundai than to fill a 1,025-horsepower Dodge Demon.

Power fail

That’s just one experience, and charging prices vary enormously. But it illustrates something EV buyers need to understand: Electricity isn’t free, and public fast charging can be surprisingly expensive.

One Chevrolet Bolt owner recently learned that lesson in spectacular fashion.

He plugged into a public charger at a Hyundai dealership and ended up with a bill for $414. The explanation, according to the report Karl and I discussed, was an extraordinary pricing structure for drivers outside the dealership’s charging program: $5 per minute and $5 per kilowatt-hour.

After the driver complained, the charging company intervened and reduced the bill to about $14. So no, $414 isn’t a normal price to charge a Chevrolet Bolt. But the episode demonstrates why drivers need to pay attention to what a charger costs before plugging in.

Buzzkill

Even at ordinary public fast-charging rates, the comparison with gasoline isn’t always what EV advocates would have you believe.

Karl looked up public fast-charging prices before the show and found rates generally running around 40 to 55 cents per kilowatt-hour. Industry data bears out his informal survey. Paren, which tracks the U.S. fast-charging network, put the average price of public DC fast charging at 53.8 cents per kilowatt-hour in the second quarter of 2026.

Now compare that with an efficient gasoline vehicle. Karl used the Toyota RAV4 as an example. Put $40 or $50 worth of gasoline into an efficient RAV4 and you’re buying hundreds of miles of driving range — while filling the tank takes minutes rather than waiting for a battery to charge.

A hybrid can make the comparison even more interesting.

Run the numbers by the mile. An EV getting around three miles per kilowatt-hour would cost roughly $18 to drive 100 miles at that average fast-charging rate. A 2026 RAV4 Hybrid rated at 43 mpg combined would cost about $7 to travel the same distance with gasoline at $3 a gallon — and about $9.30 even at $4 a gallon.

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Private plug

This doesn’t mean an EV is always more expensive to operate. If you own a home, plug your vehicle in overnight, and have inexpensive electricity, the economics can be very favorable. Some utilities also offer substantially cheaper off-peak rates.

But that’s not everybody’s situation.

Plenty of people live in apartments or condos where they can’t simply plug in overnight. Others take long trips and have to use public fast chargers along the way. For those drivers, the price displayed at the charging station matters every bit as much as the price displayed at a gas station.

And electricity prices aren’t uniform. They vary by location, utility, time of day, charging network, and sometimes even the particular charger you’re using.

That’s why I don’t buy the blanket claim that an EV is automatically cheaper to fuel than a gasoline car. You have to do the math for your car, your electricity rates, and your driving habits.

Before buying an EV, find out what you actually pay per kilowatt-hour at home. Then look at the public fast-charging networks you’re likely to use and check their prices. Compare those costs with the fuel economy of the gasoline or hybrid vehicle you’re considering.

You may discover that charging at home saves you plenty of money.

But if you’re depending on public fast charging, don’t assume you’re getting a bargain just because there’s no gasoline going into the car.

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Kratom products are advertised everywhere — at gas stations, smoke shops, and vape stores — but comedian and filmmaker Davey Jackson believes the rapidly growing industry deserves far more scrutiny.

In a new documentary, Jackson examines how concentrated kratom extracts and synthetic derivatives have transformed a once-obscure plant into a multibillion-dollar industry.

“There’s basically three categories. There’s natural powder leaf kratom, which a lot of people use and have used successfully for, you know, a lot of years. And then there’s a slightly newer product, and it’s an extract,” Jackson tells BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales.

“So they’re basically extracting and concentrating the kratom into these drinks … which that’s a whole other story. And then they have these synthetic products like 7-OH or MGM-15 or MGM-16 that the DEA is in the process of banning right now,” he explains.

Gonzales points out that “there’s big money in the industry,” referencing the company Feel Free.

“That’s an interesting one. So they got their start giving away their products on college campuses, just handing them out to college students. And again, this is a fairly addictive thing that we’re dealing with here,” Jackson says.

“These Feel Free shots, you know, they’re not as bad as the 7-OH tablets that are getting banned right now, but they’re certainly habit-forming. Much more potent than the actual kratom product,” he explains, noting that the founder of Feel Free is “an ex-con” who “spent time in federal prison for fraud.”

“They’re the number one retail kratom product in America. I want to say they’re doing $250 million a year in sales. They’ve been investigated by the DOJ … and they actually are a big part of the kratom conspiracy that we were investigating,” he continues.

“It just must all come down to money, right? Whoever is making money wants to keep it alive,” Gonzales says.

“Yeah,” Jackson agrees. “So you’ve got companies like Feel Free who absolutely want to keep it alive and have lobbied to keep the kratom industry unregulated to a large extent, but they were also a big part of the push behind the ban for 7-OH because 7-OH was, you know, kind of taking up market share.”

“They’re making $250 million a year already, but obviously they want to make more. And then of course, there’s Big Pharma. You know, people that are taking 7-OH that you can buy at a gas station or a smoke shop,” he continues.

“Granted,” he adds, “I don’t think it’s safe from a regulatory perspective as far as what they’re actually putting in this stuff because I’ve heard multiple times there’s 7-OH that’s been tested that has [fentanyl] in it. I mean, that’s horribly dangerous, right?”

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CNN decried the president banning the cable news network from the White House, and the Trump team responded with a crushing reply.

President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he was banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House, prompting a defiant response from CNN.

‘The public deserves to hear about its government from independent voices, not just its leader’s loyalists and allies.’

“CNN stands fully behind our White House team and their fair and accurate reporting,” read the statement from CNN.

“We have a right under the U.S. Constitution to do that reporting without hindrance or interference from the government,” the network added. “Should the ban which President Trump threatened go ahead, it would be an illegal assault on that fundamental and constitutionally protected right.”

The official White House rapid response team fired right back with a list of hoaxes perpetrated allegedly by the CNN network.

Among those were the Jussie Smollett case, the NASCAR noose hoax, and the Russia collusion hoax.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression objected to the ban in an official statement.

“When the White House opens its doors to the press, it must comply with the First Amendment,” read the statement.

RELATED: LGBTQIA+ activist called for Trump to be assassinated and for harassment of his attorney, feds say

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“The president is as free as any other person to criticize media coverage. But he can’t ban outlets from the White House just because he doesn’t like their reporting or commentary,” they added.

“Press credentials aren’t a reward for loyalty to the government. A free, even adversarial, press is a sign of our country’s strength. The public deserves to hear about its government from independent voices, not just its leader’s loyalists and allies.”

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Activist, journalist, and Unite the Kingdom rally organizer Tommy Robinson chatted with Nick Freitas to warn about the dangers of the Islamic invasion of the West. As the Muslim population pushes out Christian communities, there’s plenty to worry about in the United States and abroad, Robinson believes, but hope lingers on the horizon.

Robinson was born in 1982 in Luton, a small but dense borough in Bedfordshire, England. At the time, Robinson recalled on an episode of “Making the Argument with Nick Freitas” that aired on Friday, only one mosque stood tall in town — a stark contrast to the 45 mosques now in the 17-square-mile region today.

’Muhammad was a war leader. He was a barbarian. He was a rapist. He murdered, beheaded 600 people in one day.’

It’s not just the religious layout of the town that’s changed, though, Robinson claims. It’s the culture.

“White English are now a minority in Luton,” Robinson declared, and he might be right.

Luton census data from 2021 shows that at the time, the white population still held the majority position at 45.2%, with “Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh” coming in second at 37%. However, the data makes no distinction between white English citizens and white non-English citizens.

Even more alarming, census numbers from 2021 and 2011 show a clear trend of the white population decreasing in Luton while all other ethnic categories have made mild to significant gains. Even if the white population isn’t the minority on paper yet, it is clearly on the decline.

Office for National Statistics – 2011 Census and Census 2021/ons.gov.uk

Diversity isn’t necessarily the main problem, Robinson explained to Freitas. After all, he is the son of an Irish newcomer and had school friends from as far away as Italy and Bulgaria.

Instead, he is more concerned about the proliferation of Islam and the Muslim culture over Christianity in his hometown and the Western world at large.

“There’s never been racial tensions in Luton,” Robinson professed. “There’s been religious tensions” with no assimilation.

He went on to highlight an important distinction between the Muslim population and everyone else: “Go into the [Luton] town center and find me any Muslim that’s with a non-Muslim as a friend. You won’t find one.”

According to Robinson, Muslims don’t mingle with non-Muslims in town. Instead, they push other groups out of their communities as they grow from within.

The census data highlights this, as well. In 2021, Christianity fell by 9.5% while the Muslim population grew by 8.3%.

Office for National Statistics – 2011 Census and Census 2021/ons.gov.uk

Robinson views Islam as a primary threat, not just to Luton but to the United States, as well.

“[Islam is] not just another religion. Muhammad wasn’t just another leader. Muhammad was a war leader. He was a barbarian. He was a rapist. He murdered, beheaded 600 people in one day. He’s a very different man. He should not be compared in any sort of way to Jesus Christ.”

In both the U.K. and the United States, the “racist” label, in particular, has become a popular weapon for the left in cases involving Muslims.

“Fear is paralyzing,” Robinson admitted. “And the fear of being branded a racist — these words become so powerful that they paralyze an entire nation of men. The toughest men in the world were scared.”

Britain Is Gone, and America Is Next w/ Tommy Robinson

Today, the West is under attack, Robinson insists. The Islamist threat is already inside the walls of the U.K. in hubs like Luton, and once those are conquered, the United States is next. And if anyone pushes back?

“They’ll go mad,” Robinson issued an ominous warning. “They’ll burn the place. Violence is coming … whether we like it or not.” Luckily, he believes that hope is on the horizon, at least for America.

“If I was Americans, I’d be optimistic, because you’ve got Trump. When you voted for Trump, it wasn’t a vote to save America. It was a vote to save Western civilization. You give us hope.”

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A Washington state high school student made a disturbing mockery of the death of Charlie Kirk, and the school is facing backlash for letting it happen.

A image of the student shows him in a white shirt reading “FREEDOM” but with bloodstains on the left side of the shirt.

‘PASD supports students’ rights to express their views. However, those rights exist alongside our responsibility to maintain safe, respectful learning environments.’

The image led to disgust and outrage against the district, which eventually released a statement stating that celebrating violence was against district policies for students.

“Port Angeles School District is aware of a photo circulating showing a student wearing clothing that did not meet District dress code expectations or the community standards we expect in our schools,” read the statement from the Port Angeles School District.

“We first want to be very clear that clothing that depicts, promotes, or celebrates violence is not permitted or tolerated in our schools,” they added. “We take this issue seriously and have a responsibility to respond thoughtfully, consistently, and with appropriate due process.”

The district went on to say that officials could not comment on the specific actions taken against the student owing to privacy requirements.

“We can share that appropriate corrective action is being taken consistent with district policy on this matter,” the district added. “PASD supports students’ rights to express their views. However, those rights exist alongside our responsibility to maintain safe, respectful learning environments and to enforce District policies.”

RELATED: Vandals leave ‘diabolical’ message on Charlie Kirk statue — only days after unveiling

A Blaze News request for comment from the district superintendent was not returned in time for publishing.

Other far-left activists planned disturbing celebrations of Kirk’s death for the one-year anniversary of the shooting at Utah Valley University.

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After a suspicious three-month absence due to health concerns, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) finally made it back to Capitol Hill — though his team ensured that he was hardly heard or seen at all.

In some short audio from his re-emergence, McConnell is heard saying, “I wasn’t sure how many of you would be here today. I’m glad to see you.”

While some senators claimed that McConnell looked “great” during his return, those watching the scarce footage aren’t so sure.

And now, BlazeTV host Pat Gray is shocked to find that he’s missing again.

“Mitch McConnell didn’t show up for work yesterday,” Gray says.

“Just remember that took a lot out of him,” Jeff Fisher comments.

“Took three months to get that body double to look just right on the C-SPAN camera,” executive producer Keith Malinak jokes.

“Exactly, and they did,” Gray says. “So now, missing in action again.”

And Malinak isn’t having it, adding, “This man is not qualified to be a Walmart greeter.”

“No Walmart store manager would put that guy in the front of their store greeting people when they come in. And yet this man holds one of 100 votes in the United States Senate. Get out of my face. This guy should leave now,” he says.

“We were outraged by Biden,” Pat agrees. “If you’re going to be consistent, you’ve got to be outraged by this as well.”

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The president has announced that he banned three news outlets from the White House after accusing them of peddling fake news.

President Donald Trump issued the proclamation Friday on Truth Social against CNN, MS Now, and Politico.

‘Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States.’

“I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW … and Politico … from the White House as a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!” he wrote.

He mocked MS NOW for rebranding from MSNBC over a lack of credibility and viewership and referred to canceled subscriptions from the federal government for Politico.

“Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States, the Trump Administration, or the United States of America,” he added. “Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow.”

The president had previously banned the Associated Press from the White House after the organization refused his order to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. That ban is being challenged in the courts.

RELATED: Appeals court reinstates Trump ban on Associated Press from White House

The president mocked the AP in comments with other reporters.

“We’re going to keep them out until such time that they agree that it’s the Gulf of America,” the president said to reporters in February 2025.

“I do think that some of the phrases they want to use are ridiculous, and I think, frankly, they’ve become obsolete.”

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The overlap between conservative Christians and the Make America Healthy Again movement — which seeks to reverse America’s chronic-disease epidemic by tackling its root causes — is a natural fit, according to Vice President JD Vance.

“A lot of the most committed MAHA people are Christian conservatives because, I think, Christians, we recognize that our bodies are temples created by God. … We’re supposed to be respectful of God’s creation, and obviously our bodies are the act of God’s creation we have the most direct control over,” he tells Steve Deace.

But there are other “Christians” in this country who support the very policies that spit on the sanctity of the human form and even seek to destroy it.

“You’re kind of seeing frankly theological heretics from church denominations that they’ve basically broken and shattered into a thousand pieces,” says Deace.

Leading the charge in Texas is Democrat Senate candidate and professing Christian James Talarico — a man who treats gender ideology for children, unrestricted abortion, and kids in drag as if they were gospel.

To combat the moral confusion people like Talarico cultivate, Deace believes Republicans need a theologically rooted counter-strategy.

“What it means to be in a country that is governed by God-given rights and what that God demands, expects, and has done for us — I think we have to be way more comfortable in having these sorts of deeper conversations on the campaign trail, given how openly heretical a lot of Democrats are with what they’re espousing these days,” he says.

“If we just return fire with technocratism, people are going to choose a bad theology over no theology,” he adds.

Vance calls Deace’s proposal “exactly right.”

“It’s the churches that aren’t afraid of what the Bible actually says that are actually the most energetic and the most vibrant,” he says, “and I think, frankly, those churches are going to be the foundation for rebuilding the center of the United States of America.”

Talarico, in Vance’s telling, represents the opposite.

“I don’t know what this guy is up to. … He’s well-versed in liberal political theology, but he also has a weird obsession with children in drag,” he says.

“People who are particularly concerned with drag queens and particularly focused on the beauty of 11-year-olds dressed in drag or how wonderful it is that you have a 10-year-old who’s taking puberty blockers, very often you peel back the onion, and those people I think have some pretty sick sexual fetishes.”

While Vance acknowledges that he doesn’t “know that that’s true of James Talarico,” the progressive’s comments and record on children in drag and puberty blockers give him serious pause.

“All I know is that it’s very odd when you have a grown man talking about the beauty of 11-year-olds in drag,” he tells Deace. “I would rather a grown man focus on literally anything else.”

To hear the full interview, which covers upcoming midterm elections, AI and data centers, and economic health, among several additional topics, watch the interview above.

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Canada isn’t joining the European Union. But Prime Minister Mark Carney has embraced an unprecedented proposal to make Canada the EU’s first “associate member” — and exactly what that means has yet to be decided.

The proposal could draw Canada much more deeply into Europe’s economic and strategic orbit, with closer cooperation on defense, energy, critical minerals, artificial intelligence, digital trade, and even opportunities for Canadians and Europeans to live and work across the Atlantic.

While that’s not an explicit call to adapt European migration policy, it seems fair to ask: How far does Carney ultimately intend that mobility to extend?

And it comes as Canada’s relationship with its overwhelmingly largest trading partner, the United States, remains strained.

Vague ‘ambition’

In a speech Thursday to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Carney publicly welcomed a proposal unveiled a day earlier by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

“Yesterday, President von der Leyen spoke of moving beyond CETA to an alliance for the future — opening the door to Canada becoming the European Union’s first associate member,” Carney said. “Canada welcomes this ambition.”

But “associate member” does not currently describe an established category of EU membership that Canada can simply enter. Carney acknowledged that the two sides would have to determine what the new relationship actually entails.

“An alliance for the future is a unique, positive approach that we will define together, building on our common strengths and based on our shared values,” he said.

That ambiguity raises an obvious question: What exactly would Canada be signing up for?

If “associate membership” ultimately means adopting elements of the EU’s regulatory regime without receiving the voting rights of a member state, Canada could conceivably wind up with some of the obligations of membership but little say in writing the rules.

Migrants welcome?

Immigration is another unanswered question. Carney explicitly called for deeper “people-to-people ties,” including allowing young people “to live, work, and study where they want on either side of the Atlantic.”

While that’s not an explicit call to adapt the EU’s freedom-of-movement rules or to accept European migration policy, it seems fair to ask: How far does Carney ultimately intend that mobility to extend?

The same questions apply to regulation. Would closer integration require Canada to conform to more EU rules on technology, trade, climate, or other areas? Would Canada contribute financially to European programs? Would Ottawa have any formal role in making rules it agreed to follow?

None of those questions has an answer yet. That’s precisely the problem with celebrating “associate membership” before anyone has defined what it means.

RELATED: MEME-FODDER MARK: Carney blew up the trade deal. Now Canada is the punch line.

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Jumping the gun

Carney nevertheless offered a sweeping description of the relationship he wants.

“Canada and Europe should secure our strategic autonomy through deep cooperation in the full range of strategic capabilities, including critical minerals, defense industrial capacity, AI and compute, energy security, space, and payments,” he said.

“We should move towards seamless digital trade in non-agricultural goods and a wide range of services.”

The proposal would build on an economic relationship that already includes the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, as well as Canada’s participation as the first non-European country in the EU’s Security Action for Europe defense initiative.

But there is an enormous economic reality hanging over Carney’s European ambitions: The United States remains by far Canada’s largest export market.

Europe may offer Canada opportunities to diversify. Geography and decades of economic integration, however, aren’t easily wished away.

Tempting tariffs

President Donald Trump has already warned that he could respond with tariffs if he concludes Canada’s closer relationship with the EU is directed against the United States.

When asked about possible Canadian associate membership Wednesday, Trump responded, “If I think it’s at all a hostile act, I will put very serious tariffs” on Canada.

Carney did not name Trump in the passages of his European Parliament speech dealing with Canada’s desire for greater economic independence. But he repeatedly argued that the changing international order requires Canada and Europe to become less vulnerable to pressure from more powerful countries.

“The objective is not self-sufficiency. It is collective resilience,” Carney said.

He argued that Europe offers Canada “market power,” research, advanced manufacturing, and a growing defense industry, while Canada offers Europe energy, critical minerals, and expertise in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, space, and finance.

“Where our strengths differ, they complement,” Carney said. “Where they overlap, they create scale.”

Crucial omission

Carney also invoked Canada’s historic ties with Europe and described the two as natural partners in defending democracy and the rule of law.

“We are not fair-weather allies. We do not pursue zero-sum deals,” he said. “Our commitment to the rule of law, and our unyielding defense of human dignity, individual freedom, and democracy share the same deep roots.”

At one point, Carney credited European resistance movements and European institutions with preserving the continent’s freedom.

“Freedom was won thanks to the heroism of the European resistance during the war,” he said.

That account conspicuously omitted the enormous American contribution to the liberation of Western Europe — not to mention that of Canada itself, Britain, and the other Allies — as well as the postwar American role in European security through NATO and the Marshall Plan.

Carney ultimately framed the proposed partnership as a means of insulating Canada and Europe from coercion by larger powers.

“Canada and Europe are each strong. Europe and Canada are stronger together,” he said.

The goal, he continued, is to ensure that “no one can control our open markets, impair our sovereignty, threaten our territorial integrity, or undermine our freedoms, our democracies, our rule of law.”

Carney sees Europe as Canada’s path toward greater “strategic autonomy.” His critics may wonder whether Canada is reducing its dependence on one enormous neighbor only by binding itself more closely to a distant political and regulatory bloc.

And until Carney and the EU define what “associate membership” actually means, Canadians won’t know what obligations come with the invitation — or what their country would be getting in return.

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The NFL has already expanded to broadcasting on paid services, and when it expands the league, games might be physically out of reach for fans too.

Prior to the Thursday night game between the Buffalo Bills and Detroit Lions on Amazon Prime, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell revealed that the league’s global reach could expand into time zones American fans won’t be happy about.

‘We’re looking at how we continue to grow our media exposure globally.’

Is it the return of NFL Europe? Not exactly, but Goodell said the other side of the ocean is the most likely target for any league expansion that may happen.

“I think if we continue to grow, continue to get the kind of reaction, I do think a franchise will be international at some point in time,” Goodell stated, per Fox News.

“I think Europe is the most likely [place], for a lot of reasons. One, the length of time we’ve been playing there. But also, the scheduling is going to be a lot easier.”

The NFL’s European league existed in different forms from 1991 until 2007 with teams in countries like Germany and Spain.

Now the NFL is playing almost 10 games this season on foreign soil, including a game last week in Melbourne, Australia. However, Goodell did reveal that Australia is likely too far.

“Australia might create a few complications for us,” the commissioner admitted.

Furthermore, adding just one team to the 32-franchise league would likely throw things off — leagues don’t typically like to have odd-numbered teams for ease of conferences or games played — and Goodell said he believed more than one expansion team is possible.

“I also believe we could have more than one team, which I think, ultimately, the support is there,” Goodell said, according to Fox News. “Two more teams.”

RELATED: Travis Kelce duped by Indian illegal immigrant in massive Ponzi scheme

In an interview with CNBC, Goodell said, however, 34 teams is “not first on our list,” and the league hasn’t “really spent any time studying it.”

Do players like it?

During that discussion, Goodell was asked if he thought players enjoyed participating in international games, to which he claimed they do take pride in carrying “the mantle” for the league and becoming ambassadors for the sport.

“[They’re] helping to expand the game on a global basis,” Goodell said, adding that players are expanding their own brands at the same time. “I think they see the opportunity.”

Former NFL coach and Super Bowl winner Jon Gruden recently rained on the expansion parade, telling a fan that he thinks the game should be grown in America first.

In fact, Gruden yelled at the fan who was supportive of international play, saying, “If you want to grow the game, grow it in the United States. We got a lot of kids that aren’t playing football. So let’s play games where we need to grow the game in our country. And let’s start and end with that.”

In a response that was as hilarious as it was passionate, Gruden mocked the idea that it was more difficult to travel and play games across the United States generations ago than it is to play internationally today.

“I didn’t see Red Grange playing in Australia. And I never saw Ray Nitschke play in London! OK?! So take that and stick that in your pipe,” Gruden heckled.

RELATED: NFL makes social justice announcement fans probably aren’t going to like

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In terms of when an expansion might happen, Goodell’s contract ends in 2030, so it is conceivable he would want to see the global expansion by that time.

He told CNBC that it is “very possible” to have an international team “someday,” but he purposely did not put a timeframe on it.

“We’re looking at how we grow the number of games. We’re looking at how we continue to grow our media exposure globally,” he said.

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BlazeTV’s Allie Beth Stuckey has had it up to here with toxic mommy culture — that corner of social media where moms treat their own kids as punchlines and burdens through public complaints, name-calling, “wine-to-cope” jokes, and content that frames children as the thing ruining a mother’s life rather than the gift she’s called to love.

On this episode of “Relatable,” Allie argues that being saturated in this grievance-driven strain of mom content explains why so many women are using postpartum conditions to excuse their own sinful behavior and Lindsay Clancy’s.

“This term postpartum rage or mom rage or overstimulated or ‘touched out,’ all of these terms … are used to describe this kind of heightened aggravation that moms feel due to domestic demands and demands of life in general,” says Allie.

“And the question is for all of these words specifically: Are they real diagnoses? Are these genuine, understandable, physiological responses to motherhood? Or are they, like so many other terms in our therapy-laden culture, pathological excuses for sin?” she asks.

To answer these questions, she looks at how motherhood and children are being talked about in the modern age. A peek at social media reveals a disturbing reality: Toxic mom content is abundant.

There’s the “Same, Lindsay” trend, where women, often rocking babies or caring for kids, express solidarity with the woman who admitted to strangling her three young children. Then there’s the content that seeks likes and clicks by embarrassing or humiliating children, like the viral egg-cracking trend where moms stun their young toddlers by cracking eggs using their heads.

Another fad Allie brings up involves posting videos expressing annoyance at basic motherhood functions, like giving children affection or meeting basic needs. In one video she plays, a mother, while feeding her infant, says, “Do not have children. … They are a parasite, and that means that they will not only suck every f*****g thing of your energy, but they will also suck every ounce of your soul from your body.”

“Never before have kids been publicly exploited in this way for clicks. Like no other generation has had to deal with this form of a public humiliation ritual that kids are having to endure from the very people that they were created to trust and to rely on for their care,” says Allie.

But the effects of these disturbing cultural trends don’t just affect the kids; they affect moms too.

“It’s this kind of culture that desensitizes us to true child abuse, that desensitizes us to the degradation and the objectification of children, that makes us bitter about motherhood as some kind of burden rather than a blessing,” Allie explains.

“And I even think it infects some well-meaning moms, some Christian moms, who have adopted some of these terms that I see on social media like postpartum rage.”

While Allie acknowledges that postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety are “real” diagnoses that affect some women, she believes a lot of mothers claim those terms — or the fake diagnosis of “postpartum rage” — when they’re experiencing common exhaustion and overwhelm.

“I think putting the word ‘postpartum’ before any difficult emotion or any difficulty that we experience almost justifies all of our feelings. It justifies the bitterness and anger and the malice and the resentment that we are told to put away by the Word of God, and suddenly it’s excused because it’s just ‘postpartum,’” she says.

“That’s not to say that those [negative] feelings don’t come from a real place or don’t have a real source. But don’t pathologize them to excuse sin,” she adds.

But many women, she argues, do exactly that — and that’s where the widespread support for not only Lindsay Clancy but other women who have killed or abused their children is coming from.

“This toxic mommy culture is not without its victims. It’s not without its very real consequences. Yes, we see Lindsay Clancy, the online reaction to that. But then you have these copycat stories,” she says, citing cases of women, some of whom were supposedly following the Clancy case, who have killed their own children.

Between these horror stories and the toxic social media mom-trends, Allie had to “delete [her] X app” from her phone.

“After talking about the Lindsay Clancy case and reading about it so much, that was my entire timeline of women complaining about motherhood, complaining about their kids, mistreating their kids online,” she sighs.

“Let it not be so for Christian women. Let it not be so for us. Let us not contribute to this toxic mommy culture even one bit.”

To hear more, watch the full episode above.

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A self-described socialist Democrat has gone viral online after saying she would bring the Mexican fight for independence to the U.S. Congress if elected.

Union organizer and New York Assemblywoman Claire Valdez is running for New York’s 7th District but posted a message of defiance against “empire” and corporations.

‘Viva guacamole, or whatever it is you traitors scream.’

“215 years ago, Mexicans fought an empire that demanded our land and our labor. And we won,” she wrote on social media Wednesday.

“I’ll carry that fight with me to Congress as New York’s first Mexican American representative,” Valdez added. “And I’m strengthened not just by Mexico’s history but its present. Last month I met comrades in Morena who are standing up to the empires and corporations that have always [been] taken from us — and building a government for the working class.”

The sneering nature of her sloganeering was not appreciated by many online.

“American leftists elect people who are open about foreign allegiances and their agenda to serve foreign state interests,” replied journalist Andy Ngo.

“Are you campaigning for Mexico or America?” responded another detractor. “I mean … if you’re that proud of Mexico and its fight, I sincerely think you should head back over there and roll up your sleeves. Viva guacamole, or whatever it is you traitors scream.”

“I’m very proud of my Mexican heritage, and I’ll be the first to say this is unacceptable,” said another user. “If your political identity centers around advocating on behalf of Mexico (or any other foreign nation) & its people then you have no business serving as an elected or appointed official in American politics.”

“Mexico is a colonialist state that crushed and destroyed indigenous people — why are you celebrating this?” added another.

“This is the United States of America. F**k off,” replied the Libs of TikTok account simply.

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No one apparently noted that the nickname for New York is the “Empire State,” and Valdez claims to be running against “empire.” The official nickname derives from a compliment to the state made by George Washington.

The Democratic Socialists of America party has celebrated a string of primary victories against more establishment candidates, leading many to warn that the fringe extreme is gaining influence in the Democratic Party.

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