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Lifelong Democrat and popular talk show host Bill Maher has long been known to be one of the few voices of reason speaking out on the left, but one recent monologue of his might take the cake for the most reasonable in “Real Time with Bill Maher” history.

Maher went after the left for refusing to disapprove of those among them who are clearly “insane,” explaining that “their cowardice in not marginalizing their own crazies has been their downfall.”

“I couldn’t get Neil deGrasse Tyson — a genius, scientist, and pre-eminent scientific voice in the media — to agree that it was ridiculous for Scientific American and the Atlantic to be claiming that separating sports by sex doesn’t make sense. Yes, it does,” he said. “Actually it makes perfect sense.”

Conservatives, on the other hand, see that it makes sense to separate sports by sex and refuse to “pointlessly” reinvent society.

“They see gender as only a construct and sex is assigned at birth. And they say, ‘We’re not doing that.’ Transing kids by self-diagnosis with no age limit, no parental notification, and no acknowledgment of social contagion. Not doing it,” he explained.

And Maher didn’t stop at the transgender issue — he went after a myriad of left-wing hot-button issues.

“Asylum now covers any reason for anyone to come to America. Not doing it. Homelessness is a lifestyle. Natural immunity doesn’t count anymore. Whiteness is toxic. Penises in women’s prisons. Welcoming the intifada. We’re not doing it,” he said.

“Stop coming up with radically new and often terrible ideas and then in the next breath insist there be no debate about any of it. That if you don’t see it right away and go along, you’re bad, stupid, and deplorable. As if you were saying, ‘Duh, 2 plus 2 equals 5. Isn’t that obvious?’ Yeah, it’s obvious you can’t add,” he continued.

“You can’t just say s**t: Math is racist; queers for Palestine; looting is cool; healthy at any weight; if the men’s football team played the women’s team, it would be a tie. You can’t just say s**t,” he added.

BlazeTV host Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” believes Maher isn’t far from saying, “I didn’t leave the Democrat Party; the Democrat Party left me.”

“Everything he just said in that rant has been said on this show for years and years and years,” executive producer Keith Malinak chimes in. “Welcome, Bill.”

“As he’s saying, it’s just common sense,” Gray says. “It’s not even left versus right. It’s just common sense.”

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CBS News Chicago released a report in early October claiming that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the Broadview detention center had repeatedly dialed 911 with fabricated emergencies.

The report stated that, according to Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills, the police department had received “several questionable 911 calls … from the ICE facility recently,” emphasis added. However, the October 2 article mentioned only one alleged instance and failed to note that the event actually occurred months earlier.

‘Our brave ICE law enforcement should be thanked for risking their lives every day to arrest murderers, pedophiles, rapists, gang members, and terrorists instead of vilified by sanctuary politicians.’

In the report, CBS shared bodycam footage of police responding to a 911 call that someone had reportedly tampered with the gate at the detention center. When police arrived at the scene, they found two individuals with the CBS News crew.

Mills told the news outlet that he believed ICE’s call was bogus. One police officer told CBS that it did not appear anyone had been tampering with the gate.

“The chief said that was just one of several questionable 911 calls his police department has received from the ICE facility recently,” CBS reported.

However, while the CBS News Chicago broadcast showed the incident report and bodycam footage of the alleged false call, revealing that it occurred on June 15, 2025, the article published on the CBS News website made no mention of the June date. CBS News Chicago also failed to cite any other incidents.

Blaze News contacted CBS News, CBS News Chicago, and Mills to inquire whether they could provide any details about other alleged false calls made by ICE agents.

RELATED: When did my local TV news become leftist propaganda?

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The police report obtained by Blaze News confirmed that the gate-tampering call occurred on June 15, over three months before CBS News’ reporting.

“[The responding officer] made contact with the two individuals who identified themselves as members of a CBS News crew. They stated that they had been in the area for approximately 10 minutes and denied witnessing or participating in any criminal activity, including tampering with the gate,” the report reads.

It notes that an ICE agent at the detention center “approached the news crew and advised them that the property was private and that they were not permitted to enter.”

“The news crew acknowledged the warning and, though initially hesitant, complied with the directive,” the report continues.

RELATED: Trump urges SCOTUS to unleash National Guard in Chicago amid protests, increase in violence against ICE

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The Department of Homeland Security rejected claims that ICE agents at the facility were making false emergency calls to the local police department.

“After a terrorist attack at an ICE facility in Dallas, Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills is choosing to smear our brave ICE law enforcement,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Blaze News. “Our ICE officers are facing a more than 1,000% increase in assaults [including] sniper attacks, cars being used as weapons, and assaults from rioters.”

“Our brave ICE law enforcement should be thanked for risking their lives every day to arrest murderers, pedophiles, rapists, gang members, and terrorists instead of vilified by sanctuary politicians,” McLaughlin continued. “[It’s] disheartening that even after the terrorist attack and arrests of rioters with guns outside the Broadview ICE facility these sanctuary politicians chose [to] engage in political theatre to inflame hatred of ICE.”

The CBS article was amplified by those on the left, including California Governor Gavin Newsom’s communications director, Izzy Gardon.

“WOAH. CBS News reports ICE has been making bogus calls to 911 and filing false police reports in Chicago,” he wrote in a post on X on October 6, providing a link to the article in the comments.

Bari Weiss, a journalist and the founder of the Free Press, was named editor in chief of CBS News just days after this article was released. She has vowed to make CBS “the most trusted news organization in America and the world.” To guide the outlet’s changes, she outlined 10 “core journalistic values,” including to “[report] on the world as it actually is;” “tell the truth plainly — wherever it leads;” and “endeavor to present the public with the facts, first and foremost.”

CBS News, CBS News Chicago, Mills, and Gardon did not respond to a request for comment.

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A man who was found dead on the sidewalk outside of an Albuquerque Dollar Tree was killed by a man riding a tricycle, according to New Mexico police.

The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office said agents were called to the discount store on Goff Blvd. on Sept. 29 at about 7:15 in the morning over a report of a man found unresponsive.

He matched the description of a man caught on surveillance video riding up to the victim on a tricycle and beating him with a rock.

They found that the man was dead, with injuries to his head and face. Police opened a homicide investigation.

On Monday, police arrested Dominic Gabriel Andrade and said he matched the description of a man caught on surveillance video riding up to the victim on a tricycle and beating him with a rock, according to court documents.

The man also appeared to stab the victim in the video.

Andrade had been spotted by U.S. marshals and brought in for questioning. When they searched him, they found a knife in his right pocket. They also found a large cane and a neon green hoodie on his tricycle, both of which matched the surveillance video from the murder scene, according to prosecutors.

The suspect admitted that he had gotten into an argument with the victim on the night that he died, but he claimed that the argument never “got physical,” according to police.

RELATED: 19-year-old student allegedly stabs and kills homeless man who was breaking into cars near USC

A report from KRQE-TV said that the victim was named Michael Chavez and that the video showed him lying down to go to sleep after speaking with Andrade. Then Andrade hit Chavez with a rock multiple times.

KRQE said the video showed Chavez dying later on the sidewalk.

The 48-year-old suspect was charged with tampering with evidence as well as first-degree murder.

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What really happens at these so-called peaceful No Kings rallies? BlazeTV host Alex Stein went inside a Dallas, Texas, protest to find out — and the footage was anything but peaceful.

In a clip of Stein walking through the protest, he’s swarmed by screaming leftists, calmly talking to the camera, before one protester steals his hat in an attempt to shut him down.

“Someone who was truly anti-fascist would want as much speech as possible, wouldn’t they? Wouldn’t they? I mean, after all, fascism always involves suppression of dissent and censorship of unwanted speech. Those are, like, two key components of fascism. Tyranny always shuts dissenting speech down,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says, disturbed by Stein’s experience.

“Isn’t that so crazy how the same people who are screaming about tyranny and fascism and how they’re so oppressed are the same people who literally cannot even handle, they cannot handle anyone verbally, peacefully disagreeing with their point without assaulting them,” she continues.

In another video posted to X, a man wearing a Make America Great Again hat attending the rally was asked by a protester to “come closer.”

As he stepped near the woman, she said, “I will pepper-spray you,” and then sprayed him in the face.

“That’s okay, that’s okay,” the man said after realizing he was pepper-sprayed. “Because God bless Israel, God bless Israel.”

“They’re very, very angry. They’re very, very violent. They’re very mentally unstable,” Gonzales says, adding, “and we cannot allow these people leading the direction of our state.”

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced new sanctions against the Russian Federation and called for an “immediate ceasefire” in its war against Ukraine.

The war in Ukraine has been raging for more than three years, but negotiations between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin appear to have come to an impasse on Wednesday.

‘Given President Putin’s refusal to end this senseless war, Treasury is sanctioning Russia’s two largest oil companies that fund the Kremlin’s war machine.’

Bessent posted a statement on social media about the sanctions.

“Now is the time to stop the killing and for an immediate ceasefire. Given President Putin’s refusal to end this senseless war, Treasury is sanctioning Russia’s two largest oil companies that fund the Kremlin’s war machine,” he wrote.

“Treasury is prepared to take further action if necessary to support President Trump’s effort to end yet another war,” he added. “We encourage our allies to join us in and adhere to these sanctions.”

Earlier in the day, Bessent told the Fox Business channel that the sanctions were a response to Putin’s dishonesty in the negotiations.

“President Putin has not come to the table in an honest and forthright manner, as we’d hoped,” Bessent said to host Larry Kudlow.

“There were talks in Alaska. President Trump walked away when he realized that things were not moving forward. There have been behind-the-scenes talk, but I believe that the president is disappointed at where we are in these talks,” he added.

“We are going to be announcing a substantial increase in Russia sanctions,” Bessent concluded. “I’m not gonna give you the exact sanctions, but I can tell you that this will be one of the largest sanctions that we have done against the Russian Federation.”

Also on Wednesday, the president denied a report in the Wall Street Journal claiming that the U.S. had agreed to lift a restriction on Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles against Russia.

“The Wall Street Journal story on the U.S.A.’s approval of Ukraine being allowed to use long range missiles deep into Russia is FAKE NEWS!” he wrote on social media. “The U.S. has nothing to do with those missiles, wherever they may come from, or what Ukraine does with them!”

RELATED: ‘Audacious’ Ukrainian drone attack on Russian bombers stuns ahead of peace talks in Istanbul

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told Fox News that Russia’s economy was suffering and building pressure on Putin to come to the negotiation table on a peace deal.

First lady Melania Trump has been using her platform to secure concessions from Putin on returning Ukrainian children who were taken from the war front. Ukrainians have accused Russia of kidnapping children and trying to indoctrinate them to support Russia.

Some military experts believe Russia has lost between 165,000 and 235,000 service members since the invasion began in Feb. 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last reported casualties of 43,000 Ukrainian military deaths, but that may be an underestimate, according to a BBC report.

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency, while under the leadership of the Biden administration, was accused of skipping homes that displayed campaign signs supporting President Donald Trump in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton.

A whistleblower report surfaced in late 2024 that FEMA relief workers had been ordered not to provide aid to people displaying Trump signs on their property, eventually prompting several firings at the agency.

‘They deliberately avoided houses displaying support for President Trump and the Second Amendment, illegally collected and stored information about survivors’ political beliefs, and failed to report their malicious behavior.’

Then-FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell told Congress that it was an isolated incident, blaming the misstep on a since-terminated employee.

However, a Department of Homeland Security report released Tuesday revealed that the “abuses were widespread, systematic, and occurred during multiple disasters dating back to Hurricane Ida in 2021.”

Further, the probe claimed that the workers also violated the Privacy Act of 1974 by collecting information about the political beliefs of disaster survivors.

The DHS report listed some examples of observed political signs and flags that FEMA relief workers documented.

RELATED: FEMA fires 3 more supervisors tied to home-skipping scandal impacting Trump supporters

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“Trump sign, no contact per leadership,” a FEMA worker wrote in 2024 about a Florida home, according to the report.

“A lot of explicit political flags, posters, etc. ‘F**k Joe Biden’ ‘MAGA 2024’ ‘Joe Biden Sucks’ ‘TRUMP 2024,'” another worker allegedly noted in 2021 about a Pennsylvania residence. “We do not recommend anyone visiting this location.”

“Homeowner had sign stated … this is Trump country,” a third reportedly wrote about a Louisiana property in 2021.

RELATED: FEMA investigating stunning report that hurricane relief workers were ordered to skip houses with pro-Trump signs

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“The federal government was withholding aid against Americans in crisis based on their political beliefs — this should horrify every American, regardless of political persuasion,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stated.

“For years, FEMA employees under the Biden administration intentionally delayed much-needed aid to Americans suffering from natural disasters on purely political grounds,” Noem continued. “They deliberately avoided houses displaying support for President Trump and the Second Amendment, illegally collected and stored information about survivors’ political beliefs, and failed to report their malicious behavior. We will not let this stand.”

The DHS referred the case to the Department of Justice for potential prosecution.

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Left-wing Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas said she is “strongly” looking to run for U.S. Senate after completing only one term in the lower house of Congress.

The controversial politician made the comments while appearing on “The Lurie Daniel Favors Show” on SiriusXM. She said that efforts to run her out of office made her believe that “karma” might help her win an even higher seat to stymie her opponents.

‘The question will be whether or not we believe that we’ve got enough juice to expand the electorate.’

“Every other day, there’s a poll that comes out that makes it clear that I can win the primary for the U.S. Senate race in Texas,” Crockett said.

“And I am looking. Because if you want to take my seat of 766,000 away, I feel like there has to be some karma in that to where I take your seat that is for 30 million away,” she added. “So we are, you know, the primary is the primary. That’s cool, but you got to win the general. So we are doing some testing here shortly to see if I can expand the electorate.”

Republicans in Texas are pushing to redistrict the state in an effort to convert more seats in the U.S. House from Democratic control to the Republican side.

“And I think the key to winning Texas isn’t about looking at the current electorate. It’s about expanding the electorate. So the question will be whether or not we believe that we’ve got enough juice to expand the electorate and looking at those cross tabs and looking at which demographics are more inclined to come out who normally do not vote,” she continued.

“If we can expand the electorate, then I will strongly be considering hopping into the Senate race,” Crockett concluded.

RELATED: ‘This is a terrible nightmare!’ Jasmine Crockett responds to Trump: ‘Somebody slap me and wake me the f**k up!’

Crockett has become a popular figure on the left for her vitriolic attacks on President Donald Trump, which have also made her a target for her opponents on the right.

“What is happening? Like, this is not America! This is a terrible nightmare! Somebody slap me and wake me the f**k up, ‘cuz I’m ready to get on with it!” she said of the president in March.

The 44-year-old is in her second term after easily defeating a libertarian candidate in 2024.

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Not months ago, Snoop Dogg took aim at the LGBTQ+ messaging littering children’s television and movies — but in an embarrassing show of defeat, he’s now doing a complete 180.

The rapper has now partnered with LGBTQ+ nonprofit GLAAD to create a new song for his animated children’s show “Doggyland” titled “Love Is Love.”

The song features animated dog families, which include same-sex couples and single and elder dogs as parents, with lyrics like, “Our parents are different, no two are the same, but the one thing that’s for certain is the love won’t change.”

“‘Love Is Love’ is a record that my kids’ program ‘Doggyland’ presented me, where it’s the song where it’s teaching love is love. It’s teaching parenthood, it’s teaching the situations that kids and the world is going through right now in a beautiful way through song, dance, melody, and just trying to get more understanding, clarity on how we live and the way we live,” the rapper told Jeremy Beloate — who makes a cameo in the new song — in an interview.

“And I felt like this music is a beautiful, you know, bridge to bringing understanding. This is a program that we’ve been doing for years where we involve kids, and these are things that kids have questions about. So now hopefully we can help answer these questions and, you know, help them to live a happy life and understand that love is love,” he continued.

“When we spoke about this a month ago, we said that he would not stand 10 toes down,” BlazeTV contributor Shemeka Michelle tells BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock on “Jason Whitlock Harmony.”

“Snoop is just showing that he goes wherever the check is. He has no morals. He has no values, and he’s not a gangster. He’s a fake gangster because gangsters stand on their business and they stand 10 toes down. Snoop doesn’t do that. Never has and never will,” she adds.

“These gangsters can bully women and talk crazy with women, but when it comes to the LGBTQ, it’s a Deion Sanders like backpedal, and the next thing you know, you’re coming out with a song ‘Love Is Love,’” Whitlock agrees.

“It’s one of the most demonic songs that’s ever been written,” he adds.

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The commissioner of the National Football League addressed the public outrage over the decision to have Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny perform during the halftime show at the Super Bowl.

Many football fans were furious when the NFL made the announcement, especially after some anti-Trump comments of his resurfaced on social media.

‘He understands the platform that he’s on, and I think it’s going to be exciting and a united moment.’

Commissioner Goodell defended the decision while speaking to reporters on Wednesday after the annual Fall League Meeting.

“It’s carefully thought through,” Goodell said. “I’m not sure we’ve ever selected an artist where we didn’t have some blowback or criticism. It’s pretty hard to do when you have literally hundreds of millions of people that are watching.”

The 31-year-old rapper was born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio and has refused to perform on the mainland of the U.S. out of fear of the mass deportation policies of President Donald Trump. He has instead performed his shows in Puerto Rico, a territory of the U.S.

Many were further antagonized when Ocasio responded to the outrage by joking that anyone who wanted to understand his performance would have to learn Spanish.

“We’re confident it’s going to be a great show,” Goodell continued. “He understands the platform that he’s on, and I think it’s going to be exciting and a united moment.”

He also pointed to Bad Bunny’s popularity as the rationale for the decision.

“He’s one of the leading and most popular entertainers in the world,” Goodell said. “That’s what we try to achieve. It’s an important stage for us. It’s an important element to the entertainment value.”

RELATED: Entire staff at Deadspin fired months after they smeared 9-year-old Chiefs fan as a racist

President Donald Trump weighed in on the decision and said he had never even heard of the rapper.

“I don’t know who he is,” Trump said. “I don’t know why they’re doing it. It’s, like, crazy. And then they blame it on some promoter that they hired to pick up entertainment. I think it’s absolutely ridiculous.”

Goodell also faced criticism in February when he said the NFL would continue supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion policies despite so many companies abandoning them after Trump’s election victory.

The Super Bowl will be held on February 8, 2026, at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

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The former singer of the Welsh rock band Lostprophets, Ian Watkins, recently was attacked and killed in prison, according to authorities. Watkins was serving a sentence for multiple pedophilia-related offenses, including attempting to rape a baby.

Police in England said Watkins was murdered at His Majesty’s Prison Wakefield in Great Britain on the morning of Oct. 11.

‘Extensive inquiries remain ongoing in relation to the murder of Ian Watkins, and these arrests form part of that.’

Watkins, 48, was pronounced dead at HMP Wakefield despite being given medical treatment for injuries suffered during a “serious assault.”

Last week, British authorities announced the arrest of two men — 25-year-old Rashid Gedel and 43-year-old Samuel Dodsworth. Both suspects were charged with murder in connection with Watkins’ death.

The West Yorkshire Police Department said in a statement Tuesday that two other men — ages 23 and 39 — also were arrested in connection with Watkins’ death and charged with suspicion of conspiracy to murder. Police did not name the two new suspects.

The senior investigating officer in the alleged murder said the investigation is ongoing.

Detective Chief Inspector James Entwistle of the Homicide and Major Enquiry Team with the West Yorkshire Police Department stated, “Extensive inquiries remain ongoing in relation to the murder of Ian Watkins, and these arrests form part of that.”

“Ian Watkins’ family are being updated as the investigation progresses,” Entwistle said. “However, we do not anticipate any immediate developments at this stage.”

A spokesperson for the His Majesty’s Prison Service told the BBC that it was aware of an incident at the prison but was “unable to comment further while the police investigate.”

The West Yorkshire Police Department and HMP Wakefield did not immediately respond to Blaze News‘ request for comment.

RELATED: Pair of convicted pedophiles — one who raped, murdered 3-year-old girl — die on same night in same prison

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The Mirror noted that HMP Wakefield is known as “Monster Mansion,” which “houses some of the U.K.’s most infamous and dangerous criminals, ranging from serial killers to terrorists and habitual rapists.”

Watkins appeared in court in 2019 after a mobile phone reportedly was discovered in his prison cell. Watkins told magistrates that he was imprisoned among “murderers, mass murderers, rapists, pedophiles, serial killers — the worst of the worst,” according to the Guardian.

Previously, Watkins was stabbed in prison while serving time for his child sex crimes.

As Blaze News reported in August 2023, Watkins was held hostage by three fellow HMP Wakefield prisoners for several hours and stabbed.

The Mirror previously reported, “The prison had to wait until a ‘Tornado Crew’ could be assembled — specialist officers trained in hostage situations. The three prisoners kept Watkins hostage for almost six hours — it is believed the attack took place on B wing, where 70 percent of the prisoners are serving life and 20 percent serving 10 years or more. So serious were his injuries, it is understood that he received emergency treatment from paramedics in an ambulance on the prison estate.”

Watkins was arrested in December 2012 and hit with several child sex crime charges.

“During trial, it was revealed that the password to encrypted files on Watkins’ computer was ‘I F*K KIDZ,'” Rolling Stone previously reported.

In December 2013, Watkins pleaded guilty to 13 charges, including conspiring to rape a child, three counts of sexual assault of children, seven counts involving making or possessing indecent images of children, and one count of possessing an extreme pornographic image involving a sex act on an animal.

The judge during the sentencing hearing described Watkins’ crimes as “plumbing new depths of depravity,” according to the Guardian.

The disgraced singer was sentenced to 29 years in prison.

Watkins’ former band, Lostprophets, was founded in 1997 and topped the U.K. charts in 2006 after the release of its third album, “Liberation Transmission.” Lostprophets broke up in 2013 when Watkins was sentenced to prison.

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President Donald Trump has announced initiatives to expand access to in vitro fertilization and reduce associated costs — as each round of IVF can cost $12,000 to $25,000 — and one round is often not all it takes.

“In the Trump administration, we want to make it easier for all couples to have babies, raise children,” Trump said at the White House on October 16.

“That’s why today I’m pleased to announce that after extensive negotiations, EMD Serrano, the largest fertility drug manufacturer in the world, has agreed to provide massive discounts to all fertility drugs they sell in the United States, including the most popular drug of all, the IVF drug,” he continued.

While many Republicans have cheered Trump’s announcement, BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey is not on the same page.

“Trump says that, you know, he’s unaware of conservative religious objections to IVF, but IVF is inherently pro-life. And I’ll just say it doesn’t surprise me at all that Trump has this position. IVF is extremely popular, even among Republicans, and he represents the position that a lot of people have,” Stuckey says.

“But let me just explain something,” she continues. “The pro-life position is not just ‘more babies.’ We want more babies that are conceived in loving marriages between a man and a woman. Being pro-life doesn’t mean that we are pro every form of conception. Obviously, we can agree, right, that not every form of conception is moral and ethical.”

“There is a cost to IVF. In fact, most babies, most embryos that are made via IVF, the vast majority of those embryos will never be transferred and will never make it to a live birth. In fact, the IVF industry kills more babies every year than the abortion industry does,” she explains.

“If we really believe in our pro-life ethics, that a life is a life no matter how small, that human life starts at conception, then how we treat those embryos that are created in a lab that are frozen indefinitely, that are very often eugenically discarded because they’re the wrong gender or they have Down syndrome or they have some other kind of disability or they were just that unlucky extra guy that was created and their parents don’t want them anymore,” she says.

“All of that really matters. It’s not only about not killing a baby inside the womb. It’s about not discarding and mistreating life that has been created,” she adds.

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Thomas Koch, the mayor of Quincy, Massachusetts, commissioned two 10-foot-tall bronze statues to complement his city’s new public safety headquarters, a 122,000 square-foot facility that will ultimately house both the police department and the fire department’s administration offices.

One of the statues that the city asked renowned sculptor Sergey Eylanbekov to design depicts the winged archangel Michael stepping on the head of a demon. The other statue depicts Florian, a third-century firefighting Roman soldier, dumping water on a burning building.

‘The statues of Michael and Florian honor service — not a creed.’

Despite the broader cultural significance of both figures and their longstanding association with first responders, groups loath to see any public signs of Christianity joined a number of local residents in suing to block the installation of the statues.

While the Norfolk Superior Court granted a preliminary injunction last week blocking the installation of the two statues, the city of Quincy, evidently unwilling to surrender to iconoclastic secularists, has teamed up with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty to file an appeal.

“We respect every citizen’s beliefs, religious or not. But the statues of Michael and Florian honor service — not a creed,” Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch said in a statement to Blaze News. “We’re hopeful that the court will reverse this order and allow our city to pay tribute to the men and women who keep our city safe.”

The lawsuit

The lawsuit filed in May by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Massachusetts, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State, names a number of Quincy residents as plaintiffs including

a Unitarian social justice warrior; a self-identified Catholic who finds the “violent imagery” of good triumphing over evil to be “offensive”; a local synagogue member who suggested the images “may exacerbate the current rise in anti-Semitism”; an Episcopalian who believes that walking past such statues would amount to “submission to religious symbols”;several Catholics turned atheists apparently keen to avoid some of the imagery they grew up with; anda lapsed Catholic who suggested the image of Michael stepping on the head of a demon was “reminiscent of how George Floyd was killed.”

The lawsuit states that “affixing religious icons of one particular faith to a government facility — the City’s public safety building, no less — sends an alarming message that those who do not subscribe to the City’s preferred religious beliefs are second-class residents who should not feel safe, welcomed, or equally respected by their government.”

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The complaint hammers home the significance of Michael in Catholicism, where he is recognized as the patron saint of police, yet neglects to note that Michael also features prominently in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic religious texts and traditions as well as in the Western literary canon and pop culture.

While the suit hints at possible civic or professional accomplishments on the part of Florian that could be recognized with a statue, it again suggested that as the patron saint of firefighters, a statue of the historical figure would similarly “send a predominantly religious message.”

The plaintiffs alleged in their lawsuit that the city violated Article III of the Massachusetts Declaration Rights, and suggested that the installation of the statues “will not serve a predominantly secular purpose,” but rather to “promote, promulgate, and advance one faith, subordinating other faiths as well as non-religious traditions.”

The allegation of a violation of state law as opposed to a violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution appears to have been strategic. After all, the U.S. Supreme Court has made expressly clear that “simply having religious content or promoting a message consistent with a religious doctrine does not run afoul of the establishment clause.”

Mayor Koch rejected the plaintiffs’ thesis, underscoring in a sworn affidavit that he regarded it as “appropriate to erect statues of two internationally recognized symbols of police and fire service, an act which would also serve to inspire the men and women who work in the building.”

“There was nothing religious about this decision,” continued Koch. “The fact that Michael and Florian each happen to be saints venerated in the Catholic Church is ancillary to their significance in the Police and Fire services, respectively.”

The injunction

Quincy suggested in the suit that the plaintiffs lacked standing because they were “simply offended by the planned statues, and, unwilling to confine themselves to the ordinary means for airing ideological disagreements with the government — the political process — have sought to make a lawsuit out of it.”

Norfolk Superior Court Justice William Sullivan, who was put on the court by former Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick, was evidently not persuaded.

On Oct.14, Sullivan denied the city’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit and granted a preliminary injunction against the erection of the statues, noting that the plaintiffs had demonstrated “that they are likely to succeed at proving that the permanent display of the oversized overtly religious-looking statutes have a primary effect of advancing religion.”

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Speaking to Koch’s suggestion that the statues have secular significance and purpose, Sullivan wrote, “To the extent a statue of Saint Michael provides inspiration or conveys a message of truth, justice, or the triumph of good over evil, it does so in his context as a biblical figure — namely, the archangel of God. It is impossible to strip the statue of its religious meaning to contrive a secular purpose.”

Rachel Davidson, a staff attorney at the ACLU of Massachusetts, celebrated the ruling, stating, “We are grateful to the court for acknowledging the immediate harm that the installation of these statues would cause and for ensuring that Quincy residents can continue to make their case for the proper separation of church and state.”

“Massachusetts citizens are free to practice their personal religious views by placing statues of saints or other religious iconography on private property,” said Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. “But such religious iconography emphatically does not belong on government buildings where all must feel welcome.”

The appeal

Becket, a firm focused on protecting religious liberty, announced on Tuesday that it will join the city of Quincy in appealing Sullivan’s decision.

“If allowed to stand, the decision would push cities across the Commonwealth to strip historic symbols from civic life whenever they carry religious associations,” the firm said in a statement. “But the Supreme Court has upheld the use of symbols with religious roots in public life, including a World War I memorial featuring a cross, when they carry historical, cultural, or commemorative significance.”

Using private funding in the 1920s, the American Legion constructed the 40-foot-tall Peace Cross in Bladensburg, Maryland, to honor soldiers who perished in World War I. The sight of the cross evidently enraged iconoclastic secularists, who sought to have it toppled. While the Fourth Circuit proved more than happy to oblige them, the U.S. Supreme Court determined in its 2019 American Legion v. American Humanist Association ruling that the cross did not violate the Establishment Clause.

The court also rejected the relevance of the test articulated by SCOTUS in its 1971 Lemon v. Kurtzman ruling as a way of guiding the court in identifying Establishment Clause violations, noting that the Lemon test presented “particularly daunting problems” in such cases that “involve the use, for ceremonial, celebratory, or commemorative purpose, of words or symbols with religious associations.”

While the Supreme Court has effectively rejected the Lemon test, Justice Sullivan leaned heavily on it in the Quincy case.

“Everyone is free to have their own opinions about public art, but in America, the fact that something may have religious associations is not a legitimate reason to censor it,” said Joseph Davis, senior counsel at Becket.

“Our nation, like many others, has long drawn on historic symbols — including those with religious roots — to honor courage and sacrifice. The court should reject this lawsuit’s attempt to block these symbols of bravery and courage,” added Davis.

Quincy Police Chief Mark Kennedy’s office indicated the police department will have no comment as the issue remains in the hands of the court.

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At a press conference on October 20, Democrat lawmakers announced their intention to create “a master ICE tracker” to track and document immigration enforcement operations by ICE, CBP, and other law enforcement entities.

House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) said the tracker will be located on the Oversight Committee “website,” though whether he meant the Democrats’ site or the general site is unclear.

‘This is a reckless assault on law enforcement that endangers ICE agents and compromises public safety.’

At the press conference, Garcia lashed out against the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown, accusing ICE of “misconduct” and “brutality.” He claimed that ICE has been arresting American citizens “because they look like me, because they are of Latino origin.”

Speaking about the upcoming ICE tracker, Garcia said, “We are going to be tracking every single instance that we can verify, that the community will be able to send us information on.” He said the tracker will launch “over the next couple of weeks.”

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) joined Garcia in expressing outrage over the ongoing immigration crackdown: “What is happening to undocumented immigrants is also happening to U.S. citizens, which means that this can happen to anyone, to all of us, at any time.”

Garcia praised Bass for her commitment “to ensuring that every single moment of terror, of injustice that happens here in Los Angeles, and really across the country, is recorded.”

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Garcia, along with Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), wrote to the Department of Homeland Security to demand detailed information on the “disturbing and increasingly frequent reports of unconstitutional detentions of U.S. citizens.” The letter went on to say that President Trump “has embraced the use of federal immigration agents to terrorize communities nationwide.”

According to CBS Los Angeles, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement, “The Trump administration is fulfilling the president’s promise to deport criminal illegal aliens, and any individuals who attempt to illegally interfere with operations or assault law enforcement officers will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”

In a statement to Blaze News, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the Oversight Committee chairman, said: “Oversight Committee Democrats are completely unhinged. … They’re doubling down with a so-called ‘master’ ICE tracker designed to target and undermine lawful immigration enforcement. Let’s be clear: This is a reckless assault on law enforcement that endangers ICE agents and compromises public safety.”

Garcia’s office had not responded to a request for comment at time of publication.

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Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki got a brutal slap-down from the White House over comments she made about Usha Vance, the wife of the vice president.

The MSNBC host was mocking the vice president during an interview on the “I’ve Had It” podcast when she implied that his wife needed to be rescued from their marriage.

‘A dumbass who has no comprehension of the truth and has to overcompensate for her lack of talent by saying untrue things.’

“The little Manchurian candidate, JD Vance, wants to be president more than anything else,” Psaki said of the vice president.

“I always wonder what’s going on in the mind of his wife. Like, are you OK? Please blink four times. Come over here; we’ll save you!” she added.

“Agreed! Yes!” replied one of the podcast hosts.

“And that he’s willing to do anything to get there,” Psaki continued. “… He’s scarier [than Trump] in certain ways, in some ways. And he’s young and ambitious and agile in the sense that he is a chameleon who makes himself into whatever he thinks the audience wants to hear from him.”

White House director of communications Steven Cheung slammed Psaki in a post on social media that included a video of the podcast exchange.

“Jen Psuki [sic] must be transferring her own personal issues onto others. @jrpsaki is a dumbass who has no comprehension of the truth and has to overcompensate for her lack of talent by saying untrue things,” he wrote.

“Circle back on that, moron,” Cheung added.

Psaki was mocked by many on the right for overusing the phrase “circle back” during media briefings to avoid answering difficult questions for the Biden administration.

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Many from the right criticized Psaki for ridiculing the Vance marriage on social media.

Psaki and the liberal podcast hosts went on to opine that the vice president didn’t have the “rizz” to carry the Trump movement on his own. Rizz is a slang term invented by the youths to refer to attractiveness or charisma.

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On October 11, 6,700 women gathered at the Credit Union of Texas in Allen for Allie Beth Stuckey’s second annual Share the Arrows conference, a day filled with joy, encouragement, and sisterhood.

Worship was led by Grammy-winning Christian artist Francesca Battistelli, who performed a vibrant mix of contemporary worship songs and timeless hymns.

Speakers included Christian apologist and author Alisa Childers, homeschooling mother of 10 Abbie Halberstadt, Mama Bear Apologetics founder Hillary Morgan Ferrer, children’s rights advocate Katy Faust, non-toxic living advocate Shawna Holman, functional medicine nurse practitioner Taylor Dukes, and New York Times bestselling author Jinger Vuolo. Their talks spanned motherhood, health, and confronting cultural challenges with biblical truth.

And the best part is: We’re doing it again! In just under two hours, BlazeTV+ subscribers can join the Share the Arrows watch party. Whether you attended and want to relive the experience or missed it but want to see what the buzz is about, this virtual event is for you.

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Crime is bad. Violent crime is worse. That’s obvious. It’s not a partisan point. Most Democrats — I happen to be one of them — don’t cheer lawlessness. In fact, 68% of us say crime is a major problem in big cities. A few progressives have attacked police, but they sit far outside the mainstream. Most Democratic voters hold a higher opinion of law enforcement than of traditional liberal pillars like organized labor or public schools.

So if everyone agrees crime is bad, the real argument isn’t over morality — it’s over solutions.

We all agree crime is bad. The question is whether we fight it with empty theatrics or serious, sustained policing.

That’s where President Trump’s anti-crime efforts collapse. Talking tough doesn’t make streets safer. His approach wastes money, strains resources, and distracts from the hard work of policing.

The problem with militarizing cities

Trump’s main crime-fighting move has been deploying the National Guard to large cities like Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. Chicago, Portland, and San Francisco are also on the president’s list. The images look dramatic, but they don’t reduce crime.

The Posse Comitatus Act bars the president from using the military as a domestic police force, which makes it unclear whether Guardsmen can legally arrest suspects or patrol neighborhoods. Most Guardsmen don’t want to cross that line — and they aren’t trained to. In Washington, the Guard’s own report lists its activities: clearing trash, spreading mulch, and painting fences. Good work, yes — but not policing.

These deployments also carry a hefty price tag. The Los Angeles mission, involving 4,000 guardsmen and 700 Marines for less than two months, cost about $118 million. Washington’s ongoing deployment could exceed that. Long-term operations in cities like Memphis, Portland, and Chicago would drive the bills even higher.

And those aren’t the only costs. The Guard is already stretched thin. Disaster relief missions during brutal wildfire and hurricane seasons have drained manpower and equipment. Overseas deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan reduced recruitment and retention. If the president keeps sending Guardsmen into American cities, they may not be ready when the country faces a real disaster — or, heaven forbid, a war.

Ignoring what works

Instead of chasing headlines, Trump could invest in what actually reduces crime. His One Big Beautiful Bill Act offered funding only for local agencies that cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. It provided nothing to hire or retain more police or prosecutors — the people who actually solve crimes and clear backlogged cases.

The solution is straightforward: Redirect the hundreds of millions spent on National Guard deployments into state and local law enforcement. Departments nationwide face critical shortages. Chicago alone needs about 1,300 more officers.

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History proves this works. Between the late 1960s and early 1990s, violent crime surged 371%. By 1991, the U.S. murder rate hit a historic peak. Then came the bipartisan 1994 Violent Crime and Law Enforcement Act. The law funded new prisons, domestic violence prevention programs, and — most importantly — about 84,000 additional police officers.

The result? Crime fell sharply. Violent crime has dropped roughly 50% since then. The law had flaws — cutting inmate access to higher education was one — but safer streets remain its chief legacy.

The way to fight crime

If President Trump truly wants to make America safer, he should stop staging photo ops and start funding proven methods. Deploying the National Guard is costly, risky, and legally questionable. Hiring cops, prosecutors, and judges works — and has worked for decades.

We all agree crime is bad. The question is whether we fight it with empty theatrics or serious, sustained policing. The answer should be as clear as the problem itself.

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Internal documents have revealed that Amazon wants to avoid the costly human experience if it can.

A scathing report by the New York Times that compiled interviews, along with what was described as a cache of internal documents, showed that Amazon executives have aspirations of replacing approximately 600,000 U.S. jobs with robots.

‘Leaked documents often paint an incomplete and misleading picture of our plans.’

The corporate decisions would allegedly pass on savings to the customer of upwards of 30 cents per item, while at the same time avoiding the hiring of about 160,000 new employees in the United States that would be needed by 2027.

In the internal documents, Amazon executives told their board members it was their hope to avoid making new hires by ramping up robotic automation, which would negate the need for more than 600,000 human jobs. This would come at the same time that Amazon expected to double its sales by 2033.

The alleged stated goal in the documents was to automate 75% of facility operations, while simultaneously executing good faith initiatives to avoid angering communities that are disparaged by the job losses. This included hosting parades and Toys for Tots programs that built upon an image of Amazon being a “good corporate citizen.”

Disturbingly, the documents reportedly discussed the idea of avoiding words that remind people of robots, an approach that Amazon strictly denied adopting.

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The New York Times reported that Amazon contemplated avoiding terms such as “automation” and “A.I.” in reference to robotics and would have rather used terms like “advanced technology.”

Instead of “robot,” the word “cobot” was discussed being used because it implies collaboration with humans.

Amazon told the NYT, however, that executives are not being told to avoid certain terms when referring to robotics and that its community relations plans had nothing to do with its automation plans. It said the documents were incomplete and did not represent Amazon’s overall hiring strategy.

The Verge, which received a statement, quoted Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel to the effect that “leaked documents often paint an incomplete and misleading picture of our plans, and that’s the case here. In our written narrative culture,” Nantel continued, “thousands of documents circulate throughout the company at any given time, each with varying degrees of accuracy and timeliness. We’re actively hiring at operations facilities across the country and recently announced plans to fill 250,000 positions for the holiday season.”

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Reporter Lewis Brackpool from Restore Britain told Return that while the numbers were troubling, the push for robotics could stand as a solution for the mass import of foreign workers.

“While in a perfect world citizens could thrive in their employment without the worry of being replaced by overseas workers, ditching foreign labor in exchange for robotics seems more preferable than our current situation,” Brackpool theorized.

“A socialist-communist journalist by the name of Aaron Bastani once wrote a book called ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism,'” the commentator continued. “The book outlines a vision of a post-scarcity, post-capitalist society driven by technological advances such as automation, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology. Even that is more preferable than to be replaced by the third world.”

Amazon employs approximately 1.1 million in the United States, representing about 70% of its global workforce, according to Red Stag Fulfillment.

The company peaked at 1.61 million employees in 2021 and has a minimum wage of $18 per hour for all seasonable employees.

Average pay reportedly increases by 15% for those employed for over three years.

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The Department of Homeland Security has provided the names and criminal histories of the illegal aliens who were arrested during an operation on New York City’s infamous Canal Street black market.

Federal agents swept through the area on Tuesday, as it is not uncommon for street sellers to be in the United States illegally. The operation turned chaotic after bystanders formed a mob to chase agents away, demanding they not target illegal aliens.

On Wednesday, DHS said the illegal aliens arrested have “violent rap sheets” that include allegations of robbery, burglary, domestic violence, assaulting law enforcement, counterfeiting, drug trafficking, drug possession, and forgery. Each of the men arrested is from Africa, and at least five of them were released into the United States by the Biden-Harris administration.

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Mamadou Ndoye, “a criminal illegal alien from Mali, issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge in 2008, was previously arrested for crimes including assault, recklessly endangering, counterfeiting third degree, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, criminal sale of narcotics, possessing a controlled substance, possession of marijuana for sale, making false reports to law enforcement, and resisting arrest.”Muhammad Ndiaye, “a criminal illegal alien from Senegal, with previous arrests for domestic violence, robbery, receiving stolen property, burglary, fraudulent accosting, forgery, counterfeiting, sale of a controlled substance, obstruction, and disorderly conduct. He entered the U.S. on a B2 tourist visa that required him to depart in 1995.”Aboubakar Diakite, “a criminal illegal alien, with previous arrests for counterfeiting.”Sergigne Diop, “a criminal illegal alien from Senegal who entered the U.S. in April 2024 at the southwest border, was previously released into the U.S. by the Biden administration.”Alioune Sy, “an illegal alien from Senegal, entered the U.S. in May 2023 and failed to depart after his tourist visa expired.”Amadou Diallo, “a criminal illegal alien from Guinea who entered the U.S. November 2021 at the southwest border and was released by the Biden administration into the interior of the country.”Idy Sarr, “a criminal illegal alien from Senegal, issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge in 2010 and previously arrested for obstruction, possession of forged instrument, counterfeiting, failure to disclose origin of recording, drug possession, and criminal possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell.”Bokar Soko, “a criminal illegal alien from Mauritania, previously arrested for counterfeiting second degree THREE times. He entered the U.S. illegally on May 24, 2023, in a caravan of 26 people [and] was released by the Biden administration into the interior of the country.”Modou Mboup, “a criminal illegal alien from Senegal, previously assaulted Mexican law enforcement, and he entered the U.S. in September 2023 in a caravan of 140 people at the southwest border and was released by the Biden administration into the country.”

“Thanks to the New Yorkers who mobilized quickly. #ICEOutOfNYC,” New York City Comptroller Brad Lander said.

“Today [Trump’s] agents used batons and pepper spray on street vendors and bystanders on Canal Street. You don’t make New York safer by attacking New Yorkers,” Governor Kathy Hochul complained on X.

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House Democrats’ second in command provided a jaw-dropping justification for the suffering inflicted on American families during the government shutdown, and the White House is having none of it.

As the government shutdown approaches its fourth week, Americans are bracing themselves to miss paychecks and key government benefits like SNAP. House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) admitted that the Democrat-induced government shutdown has been painful for families across the country but justified it because “it is one of the few leverage times [Democrats] have.”

‘At some point, the Democrats are going to have to take yes for an answer.’

“I mean, shutdowns are terrible,” Clark said in a recent interview. “Of course, there are going to be families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility very seriously.”

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Democrats are holding federal paychecks hostage and using government benefits as leverage to accomplish a policy agenda Americans rejected at the ballot box last November. Rather than voting for the Republicans’ clean, nonpartisan funding bill, which notably keeps spending levels at the same rate Democrats voted for over a dozen times in the past, Democrats are set on ramming through their own policies.

The White House quickly condemned Clark’s comments, calling Democrats “sick” for using the American people as leverage.

“Not only are Democrats refusing to reopen the government and knowingly inflicting pain on the American people, but now they’re bragging about using struggling American families as leverage for their radical left agenda,” White House deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson told Blaze News. “These people are sick.”

The Democrats’ counter funding bill would cost taxpayers $1.5 trillion to effectively reverse every legislative accomplishment Republicans secured through President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Democrats are also demanding that Congress address Obamacare subsidies immediately despite the fact that they expire at the end of the year.

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Although Democrats have remained stubborn, their efforts are ultimately futile. Republicans hold a supermajority, meaning Democrats will never have the support to pass legislation on their own during this Congress. Even though Democrats are trying to force the GOP’s hand, top Republicans have maintained that they are not responsible for the shutdown and that it’s up to their colleagues across the aisle to do the right thing and reopen the government.

“If the Democrats want to talk about subjects unrelated to … getting the government open again, we’re happy to have those conversations,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters Tuesday. “But we’ve repeatedly now gone through this, and at some point, the Democrats are going to have to take yes for an answer.”

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More information has been released regarding Carlitos Ricardo Parias, the man federal authorities say attempted to use his vehicle to ram agents’ cars as they carried out his arrest before having to shoot him in self-defense.

Parias, originally from Mexico, was known to law enforcement prior to Tuesday’s shooting. He had established a social media presence by following U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol operations in the city and live-streaming their actions.

‘Vehicles are deadly weapons.’

Known as “Richard LA,” he was honored by the office of Democratic Los Angeles Councilman Curren Price with a “Certificate of Recognition” for documenting ICE operations on TikTok. Just after news broke of the shooting, Price’s official Instagram account posted a photo of Parias receiving the award, calling Parias a “fearless citizen journalist.”

Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli provided a screenshot of a video from the shooting incident on Tuesday appearing to show a suspect turning the wheels of his car while being boxed in by federal agents. Essayli identified the suspect as Parias.

“Parias rammed a Toyota Camry into the law enforcement vehicles in front of and behind him, spun the Camry’s tires, spewing smoke and debris into the air, causing the car to fishtail and causing agents to worry for their safety. An agent breaking the Camry’s driver’s side window was not enough to subdue Parias,” Essayli wrote.

A witness told Fox LA reporter Matthew Seedorff that agents attempted to arrest Parias for nearly 15 minutes before shots were fired. Sound from the video the witness provided indicated that someone was screeching car tires as Essayli described.

RELATED: DHS: Illegal alien shot after ramming federal vehicle during operation

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Parias and a U.S. marshal were wounded in the shooting. Both are expected to recover from their injuries, Essayli added.

Essayli revealed that Parias, “a 44-year-old illegal alien from Mexico living in South Los Angeles, is now charged in a criminal complaint with assault on a federal officer” and could face up to eight years in prison if convicted.

“Vehicles are deadly weapons,” Essayli continued. “Anyone who uses them against federal agents risks arrest, imprisonment, and life-threatening injuries. We will continue to use every tool in our legal arsenal to protect our agents and enforce immigration laws passed by Congress.”

As previously reported by Blaze News, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin blamed Democrats for creating a dangerous environment for federal agents carrying out lawful operations.

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