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The Caitlin Clark effect is the term used to describe the skyrocketing ticket sales, viewership, game attendance, and economic impact the Iowa native has had on women’s basketball. It started in college when Clark played for the Iowa Hawkeyes, and now it’s followed her to the WNBA. With the touch of what seems like a magic wand, the league, having been inconsequential for years, is now widely popular.

Since Clark was drafted by the Indiana Fever, attendance across the WNBA has shot up 50% and ESPN ratings doubled since last year.

One would think that the WNBA would show gratitude toward Clark, who has drawn the public eye toward the league as a whole, but no – the legend responsible for viralizing women’s basketball is demonized by the very players, coaches, and commentators who should be thanking her.

“They get a gift sent to them called Caitlin Clark. She is sprinkling magic all around the WNBA, making a sport that no one likes likeable and watchable, and instead of showing any gratitude towards Caitlin Clark, they have sat out to destroy Caitlin Clark,” says Jason Whitlock.

Why the ingratitude?

For starters, “she’s not black and she’s not lesbian,” so she doesn’t “fit the demographics” the woke league wants to elevate.

Clark has “played this brilliantly,” though, says Jason. “She has said nothing; she hasn’t been aggressive with any of these people; she hasn’t done anything.”

Having nothing to pin against her, Clark’s critics and adversaries have opted to “complain about her fans” instead.

Clark has brought in a demographic that Jason says has long been uninterested in women’s basketball – heterosexual people.

“What they’re really saying is we don’t want heterosexual men and women and their children coming to our sex cult,” says Jason. “They don’t want the demographics inside the arena to change.”

“So rather than have this league turn a profit and … begin the process of being able to stand on its own two feet, the alphabet mafia is throwing a riot and a temper tantrum, and it’s being very hostile towards Caitlin Clark because they’d like to break her and ruin her and destroy her so that they [can] install … preferably a black lesbian woman as the face of this league,” Jason predicts.

“In their delusional minds,” Caitlin Clark is undeserving of the notoriety and attention because “black lesbian women built [the WNBA]” and should therefore be the ones on the pedestal.

To hear more of Jason’s commentary, watch the clip above.

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In a wild police video out of Georgia last week, cops are seen ramming a car that was driven by a female armed robbery suspect — and she actually tried to run away after the jaw-dropping crash on an interstate.

Atlanta police
said the department’s Auto Crimes Enforcement Unit on Wednesday assisted the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office in locating a vehicle and an armed robbery suspect accused of stealing an elderly woman’s cell phone.

The suspect quickly gets out of the vehicle and makes a run for it, hopping over the freeway divider.

Atlanta police said officers found the vehicle and the suspect. Video shows them catching up to the suspect in a car wash:

Image source: Atlanta police video screenshot

And an officer is even seen drawing his gun as police tell her “hands up!” and “don’t drive away!”

Image source: Atlanta police video screenshot

But the suspect backed out of the car wash bay and fled from police, after which a pursuit ensued.

WAGA-TV said the pursuit continued on Interstate 285. Atlanta police said officers utilized a PIT maneuver to end the pursuit. Indeed, video shows a patrol vehicle hitting the left bumper of the suspect’s car, which spins out and travels backward along the left shoulder and freeway divider until it comes to a stop.

Image source: Atlanta police video screenshot

The suspect quickly gets out of the vehicle and makes a run for it, hopping over the freeway divider.

Image source: Atlanta police video screenshot

But police do the same and quickly surround and take the suspect into custody.

Image source: Atlanta police video screenshot

Image source: Atlanta police video screenshot

Police said the suspect was identified as 36-year-old Jenee Johnson.

Image source: Atlanta police video screenshot

Police said the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office was the arresting agency and charged Johnson with armed robbery, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, theft by receiving stolen property, and fleeing or attempting to elude police. She also was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon or first-offender probationer.

You can view police dashcam and bodycam video of the chase and arrest below. (Content warning: Strong language.)

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Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris was caught plagiarizing again, according to a report from the Washington Free Beacon.

Harris was accused of plagiarizing sections of a book she published in 2009 with a co-author, and the campaign denied those claims. Now, a new report showed evidence that she may have plagiarized large sections of her testimony before Congress in 2007.

‘The report said that a shocking 80% of the testimony Harris submitted for the John R. Justice Act was lifted.’

Harris was the district attorney of San Francisco at the time.

Virtually her entire testimony about the bill was taken from that of another district attorney, Paul Logli of Winnebago County, Illinois, who had testified in support of the legislation two months earlier before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Both statements cite the same surveys, use the same language, and make the same points in the same order, with a paragraph added here or there. They even contain the same typos, such as missing punctuation or mistaken plurals. One error—a “who” that should have been a “whom”—was corrected in Harris’s transposition.

Logli made his testimony before the Senate while Harris submitted hers to the House, and Logli is a Republican.

The report said that a shocking 80% of the testimony Harris submitted for the John R. Justice Act was lifted from that of Logli made two months earlier.

In addition, the Washington Free Beacon documented how Harris allegedly misrepresented a fictionalized story about a sex-trafficking victim and made it appear as though it were a true story while switching the location of the tale to San Francisco.

The Washington Free Beacon caught several other examples of apparent plagiarism that had been previously unreported.

The Harris-Walz campaign did not respond to a request for a comment from the Beacon but had dismissed the earlier accusations of plagiarism.

“Rightwing operatives are getting desperate as they see the bipartisan coalition of support Vice President Harris is building to win this election, as Trump retreats to a conservative echo chamber refusing to face questions about his lies,” said James Singer, a spokesman for the campaign.

“This is a book that’s been out for 15 years, and the Vice President clearly cited sources and statistics in footnotes and endnotes throughout,” he added.

Harris was also accused of stealing a story about her childhood from the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.

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For the first time in 57 years of existence, I voted.

Yes, Friday I participated in America’s political process. I cast ballots for presidential candidate Donald Trump and incumbent U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.).

It took less than 10 minutes. I’m glad I did.

For years, I’ve taken great satisfaction in not sullying my reputation by choosing a side in a corrupt political game. I didn’t have much respect for Democrats or Republicans. I still don’t. The political parties strike me as pro wrestling opponents, pitted against each other by a handful of nameless and faceless Vince McMahon-type puppet masters.

Barack Obama struck me as indistinguishable from George W. Bush, the same as Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush.

I viewed voting as an admission that another man controlled some aspect of my fate. I couldn’t do that. I didn’t do it.

Democrats love to say that ‘democracy’ is on the ballot. I say freedom is on the ballot.

Even in 2016, when Donald Trump and the MAGA movement captured my imagination, I abstained. I liked my “brand” as an objective, non-voting journalist. In 2020, I sat out for similar reasons. I didn’t want to attach any part of my identity to politics. I want to be judged as a Christian, not as a conservative or Republican.

So what changed? January 6, 2021.

The coordinated effort by legacy media to frame the unarmed protesters at the Capitol as “insurrectionists” infuriated me. I knew instantly that the framing was an intentional ploy to justify the incarceration of President Trump’s most passionate supporters.

I didn’t know on that day that I would be voting in the next presidential election cycle, but I knew that I would have to take action to alleviate the suffering of the brave men and women who traveled to Washington, D.C., to express a level of frustration that I shared.

I voted last week because I want President Trump to pardon those political prisoners. The desire to see those men and women set free helped me understand the consequences of this election cycle.

Democrats love to say that “democracy” is on the ballot. I say freedom is on the ballot. Common sense is on the ballot. The U.S. Constitution is on the ballot. Merit is on the ballot. The nuclear family is on the ballot.

Beyond the J6 prisoners, I voted for Trump because I want America to move away from the ideology of diversity, equity, and inclusion. DEI is the enemy of merit. DEI is the leftist plot to replace fathers and families with symbols.

Democrats believe symbols are more important than fathers. Their worldview believes that kids need to see black people, brown people, gay people, and women in high-profile positions and that will inspire the next generation to greatness. That’s why a so-called black woman who grew up in Canada was picked to be the next iteration of Barack Obama, a half-black man who spent part of his childhood in Indonesia.

Kamala Harris is a symbol. She’s not a leader. The Democrats believe breaking a “glass ceiling” develops and inspires young people. I believe fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, uncles and aunts inspire and develop kids.

We don’t need symbols. We need fathers. We don’t need more black NFL head coaches. We don’t need more black White House press secretaries. We don’t need more gay secretaries of transportation. We don’t need more Rachel Levines, the man pretending to be a woman and serving as U.S. assistant secretary of health. We don’t need more men playing women’s sports.

We need more fathers, more intact nuclear families.

We need to end DEI. We need to reject the notion that installing symbols to meet DEI quotas is some form of progress. It’s not. It’s a gimmick to normalize a handful of elites installing their unqualified puppets in positions of influence.

Black Americans desperately need the restoration of the nuclear family and the patriarchy. Democrats and their puppet Kamala Harris promote the idea that single black women and gay black women can develop and nurture kids without a father. They point to Barack Obama or NFL quarterback Lamar Jackson as symbols of what the matriarchy can produce. Meanwhile, prisons and OnlyFans accounts are overcrowded with young men and women with unreconciled daddy issues.

I voted because I want the Trump administration to free the January 6 prisoners and end DEI.

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Joe Rogan was invited into a McLaren team garage before the 2024 United States Grand Prix race Sunday in Austin, Texas — and woke Formula 1 fans accused McLaren of supporting a “conspiracy theorist” who spreads “misinformation.”

The podcasting legend and UFC commentator — who attended the event with his wife, Jessica Ditzel — appeared in one of McLaren’s social media videos.

‘Let’s see how much misinformation he can spread in 30 seconds.’

“Welcome to the McLaren garage, Joe Rogan,” the racing team wrote on Instagram.

A known car enthusiast, Rogan seemed ecstatic as he smiled ear to ear while speaking to the camera: “Hi, I’m Joe Rogan, and I’m here in Austin at the Formula 1 race in the McLaren garage. Pretty amazing.”

He added, “We’re very excited to be here. Super psyched for Formula 1. Let’s go!”

Of course, Rogan’s very existence was enough to trigger leftist race fans, who quickly jumped into the comments to criticize his appearance.

“Why on earth are you supporting a conspiracy theorist fascist supporting blowhard?” one viewer wrote.

“Wtf, might as well invite Alex Jones,” another said.

Joe Rogan hugs celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay.Photo by Peter Fox – Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images

Several users claimed that hosting Rogan was an endorsement of “misinformation,” likely due to his frequent discussions focusing on politics and controversial topics such as the COVID-19 vaccine.

“Let’s see how much misinformation he can spread in 30 seconds,” a social media user wrote.

“First Trump and now this?! McLaren is a shoe-in for the misinformation championship. Unfollowed,” another replied.

The latter comment presumably refers to former President Donald Trump making an appearance at Formula 1’s Miami Grand Prix in May.

At the time, controversy swirled after Miami Grand Prix officials reportedly sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Trump supporter. The race fan reportedly wanted to sell tickets to his suite at the event for $250,000 and put the proceeds toward Trump’s presidential campaign.

In 2023, Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton sparked headlines when he criticized Florida during the Miami Grand Prix over “anti-LGBTQ measures.”

“I stand by those within the community here,” Hamilton said. “I hope they continue to stand firm and push back. I’ll have the rainbow on my helmet. It’s no different to when we were in Saudi [Arabia].”

On Sunday, McLaren cars driven by Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri finished fourth and fifth, respectively. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz finished one-two while Red Bull Racing Honda’s Max Verstappen rounded off the podium in third.

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New Birth Missionary Baptist Church senior pastor Jamal Bryant compared Vice President Kamala Harris to Queen Esther after Harris spoke at the church on Sunday.

Esther, a Jewish woman who became queen of Persia, courageously rescued her kinsmen, the Jewish people, from destruction in the Persian Empire. The story is retold in a book of the Bible bearing her Persian name, “Esther.”

‘If God has anointed us to flip the state once, we can do it again, because if God be for us, who can be against? This is an idea that cannot be stopped.’

Harris, according to Bryant, is exactly like the Jewish heroine.

During his speech, Bryant preached from Esther 4:14, which says:

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?

But in his retelling of the Esther story, Bryant not only equated Harris with Esther, but he appeared to equate President Joe Biden with Mordecai, the legal guardian of Esther who refused to bow down to Haman, a high-ranking Persian official, setting off Haman’s plot to exterminate the Jewish people. Oh, and that genocidal plan? Bryant equated it with opposition to the leftist, progressive agenda.

In other words, whatever Bryant thinks is the opposite of the leftist agenda, he equates it to Haman’s genocidal plan.

“In ancient scripture, we find an occasion where they were plotting to destroy all the minorities because they wouldn’t break,” Bryant said. “They came up with a strategy on how it is that they could destroy minorities, and they crafted an agenda called 0025. And in Project 0025, here’s what it is that we find in scriptures that they wanted to fire every person who did not agree with dictatorship. They wanted to end the independence of the Departments of Justice. They wanted to dismantle the Department of Education.

“In this diabolical plot to destroy your community, they wanted to rob women of the right to make decisions over their own bodies,” he continued. “They wanted to change tax codes so that businesses could do better than families. They wanted to dismantle Medicare and Medicaid and wanted to stop Social Security, and they wanted to stop the cancellation of student loans.”

Regarding “Mordecai,” Bryant said, “Mordecai understood that in order for the nation to be changed, a woman had to do it.”

After denouncing men who do not support female leaders, Bryant turned his attention to Harris and suggested that she, like Esther, has been anointed by God to carry out a divine mission.

“Can I just preach to the vice president? Who knew that 60 years ago today, you were born to be president? You were born to lead a nation. You were born to change the trajectory of democracy. Who knows? But you were born for such a time as this,” he declared.

Later in his speech, Bryant vaguely accused election officials of disenfranchising voters while suggesting that a Democratic victory in the Peach State has been divinely ordered.

“If God has anointed us to flip the state once, we can do it again because if God be for us, who can be against us? This is an idea that cannot be stopped,” he said.

Throughout his speech, Bryant did not return to the Bible. He did, however, quote John Maxwell, Victor Hugo, and William Shakespeare.

At the end of his speech, Bryant urged his congregants to lift their hands to God as he prayed for Harris, requesting that God assign 100,000 angels to protect her. Later, he instructed his congregation that, immediately upon leaving church, they go vote.

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A Texas teacher has been arrested after allegedly having a sexual relationship with an underage boy over the summer.

Angela Dawn Barnes, 45, was arrested without incident Monday and booked into Keller Regional Jail.

The school district said it is cooperating with police and Child Protective Services in the investigation.

Barnes was charged with sexual assault of a child and improper relationship between an educator and student.

Barnes is a teacher at Carroll Middle School in Southlake, which is about 25 miles northwest of Dallas.

The Keller Police Department said it received a tip in September that Barnes was “having an inappropriate relationship with an underage boy who was a former student.”

The Keller Police Department said in a statement, “Detectives began investigating the case immediately and discovered that Barnes was engaged in a sexual relationship with an underage boy throughout the months of June and July 2024 and that the relationship had since ended.”

Investigators said there was no evidence that there were any additional victims.

Authorities did not indicate the age of the alleged victim. Carroll Middle School consists of grades 7 and 8; middle school students in those grades are typically between the ages of 12 and 14.

WFAA reported that Carroll Independent School District officials said the teacher was placed on administrative leave after police notified them about the accusations. The school district said it is cooperating with police and Child Protective Services in the investigation.

“Carroll ISD immediately placed this staff member on administrative leave and reported to the proper authorities,” Carroll Independent School District said in a statement. “The district was made aware the alleged offense took place off-campus over the summer within the jurisdiction of the Keller Police Department.”

The statement added that “based on the information we have received, no incidents occurred on CISD campuses. The CISD is working in collaboration with Keller Police and Child Protective Services as they investigate the allegations.”

The district’s statement also said “the safety and security of all students is always our top priority and any allegations of adult misconduct are addressed promptly and reported immediately to the proper authorities.”

Barnes was not listed Tuesday on the staff directory of the middle school’s website.

The Keller Police Department urged anyone with information in this case to contact Detective William Brockmoller at wbrockmoller@cityofkeller.com.

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Democratic “blue wall” Senate candidates have turned away from Vice President Kamala Harris in an attempt to regain their footing amid their dwindling polling advantages.

Most recently, Democratic incumbent Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania released an ad campaign Friday distancing himself from his own party and aligning himself with former President Donald Trump. The ad paints Casey as an “independent” who has “bucked” President Joe Biden and “sided with Trump.” The ad notably omits his Democratic Party affiliation and his lockstep voting record.

The tonal shift in Casey’s campaign comes as his Republican challenger, Dave McCormick, narrows the incumbent Democrat’s lead. Casey currently holds just a 1.9-point average lead, a far cry from his 7.7-point advantage in August. With just two weeks until the election, Cook Political Report shifted the race on Monday from “lean Democrat” to “toss up.”

“We knew this race was a toss-up when Bob Casey started running ads claiming he was President Trump’s best friend even though he voted to impeach him twice,” Philip Letsou, a spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said in a statement Monday. “Bob Casey is desperately trying to throw Kamala Harris under the bus to save his own political career — it won’t work.”

Democratic incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin has similarly avoided tethering herself to Biden and Harris. During her Friday-night debate against Republican candidate Eric Hovde, Baldwin focused on issue areas while her challenger hammered her as an extension of the Biden-Harris administration.

A recent ad from Baldwin’s campaign also focused on her bipartisan policy achievements, saying she “got President Trump to sign her Made in America bill” as well as getting “President Biden to make it permanent.” Baldwin’s reliably blue voting record, however, disputes her attempts to appeal to key moderate and independent voters she will need to secure her re-election.

“These Senate Democrats all voted to impeach President Trump twice, so it is surprising that they are now running ads praising his work as President,” Mike Berg, communications director for the NRSC, told The Hill.

‘Disingenuousness aside, these are the type of ads you run if you think your nominee for president is going to lose.’

Baldwin’s poll numbers may have been what sounded the alarm, with Hovde trailing the incumbent by just two points compared to his 6.7-point deficit in August. The Wisconsin Senate race also went from “lean Democrat” to “toss up” in early October, according to Cook Political Report.

Democratic candidate Elissa Slotkin, who is wrapping up her third consecutive term in the House, is also competing for the Michigan Senate seat against Republican candidate Mike Rogers. Although she has campaigned alongside Harris, Slotkin has also tried to moderate her positions and appeal to independents.

While Slotkin has turned her attention to her bipartisan accomplishments, her voting record regarding electric vehicle mandates specifically may come back to haunt her. EV mandates, which would require manufacturers to boost production and uphold EV quotas, are particularly unpopular among Michiganders. Despite distancing herself from EV mandates, Slotkin has repeatedly voted to support them.

“Autoworkers are the backbone of Michigan’s economy, but now their jobs are at risk because Elissa Slotkin refuses to stand up to Harris-Biden EV mandates that will devastate Michigan’s auto industry,” Maggie Abboud, spokeswoman for the NRSC, said in a statement. “Michigan autoworkers deserve a senator who will stand up for them.”

Like Casey and Baldwin, Slotkin’s change in tone comes after concerning poll numbers show the Democrats’ advantage is slipping. Slotkin is currently an average of 2.1 points ahead of Rogers, which is less than half of her 5.4-point advantage in September. The Michigan Senate race is also rated as a “toss up,” according to Cook Political Report.

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A Florida woman allegedly sicced a 103-pound Rottweiler on her boyfriend’s 9-year-old daughter. The vicious dog attack was fatal. Now, prosecutors are calling for the death penalty against the suspect.

Tyshael Elise Martin, 34, was arrested in August in connection with the death of the girl, Jamaria Sessions. Martin was charged with first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, and child neglect, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.

‘I’m fixing to kill her.’

The young girl was found dead June 17 at a home in Montverde — about 25 miles west of Orlando.

Shortly before 5 a.m., officials answered a call regarding an unresponsive child and found Jamaria naked with “a significant number of abrasions, small punctures, burns, possible bite marks, and bruising covering her body, all in various stages of healing,” according to the probable cause arrest affidavit.

According to the sheriff’s office, the girl’s injuries were “consistent with physical abuse.”

The girl had suffered “superficial lacerations indicative of being pinched with significant force, her face was swollen, some of her teeth were broken, she had blood in her left ear along with a penetration wound behind her ear, and contusions all over her body,” the affidavit stated.

The document also said “the medical examiner noted the number of superficial injuries covering the majority of her body, and advised it appeared to be torture inflicted by fingernails and injuries consistent with being struck by something, possibly wire.”

Sheriff’s detectives obtained more than 2,800 surveillance videos from inside and outside the home. Six videos from the night of June 15 show a large dog attacking the girl.

The affidavit stated, “Jamaria Sessions being viciously attacked by the family pet, a 103-pound male Rottweiler as Jamaria was just out of frame, however, Tyshael Martin could be seen holding the leash of the dog and is heard encouraging the dog to bite Jamaria Sessions as Jamaria laid on the floor, ending with Jamaria Sessions attempting to stand up in the doorway coming into frame.”

Authorities said the video shows the dog biting Jamaria’s head “at the command of Tyshael Martin.”

Martin allegedly ordered the “staggering, nude, and disheveled” Sessions to stand in the room with her arms up.

“This prompted Tyshael Martin to deliver a kick to the rear of the child causing her to collapse to the floor,” according to the arrest affidavit. “The child lay motionless, moaning in pain, as Tyshael Martin continued to kick her hip and eventually her stomach area at full force.”

Martin reportedly grabbed Sessions by her hair and dragged her across the floor and continued to command Jamaria to stand up, but the girl “physically could not comply.”

The affidavit said, “The next video clip begins with Tyshael Martin stating what sounds like, ‘I’m fixing to kill her.’”

Sheriff’s detectives said the girl had previously been hit with objects, kicked, punched, and pinched.

According to Law & Crime, state attorneys in Florida’s Fifth Judicial Circuit filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty against Tyshael Martin.

Jamaria’s father – 27-year-old LoJuan Sessions – also was arrested in August and has been charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child.

Martin and Sessions are both in Lake County Jail without bond

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After three years of chest-beating, church burnings, historical revisionism, and
national self-flagellation, the exponents of Canada’s mass Indian graves hoax have produced no evidence to support their anti-Christian “blood libel.”

Despite having found no children’s remains nearby former residential schools and certainly no mass graves, Canadian leftists are keen to proceed as though they had. After all, it has proven a helpful way of
extorting Catholic dioceses, extracting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars from Ottawa, and downplaying serial attacks on Christian institutions.

The trouble with this game of make-believe is that not all are willing to play.

The
Wall Street Journal and other publications abroad have repeatedly made a point of noting that the narrative initially advanced by Rosanne Casimir, the chief of the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc Nation, and others in the years since — particularly in state media — was bogus from the start. While Canadian leftists cannot silence American critics, they have designs for silencing those at home who have sought to correct the record, such as C.P. Champion and Tom Flanagan, authors of “Grave Error: How the Media Misled Us (and the Truth About Residential Schools).”

On Sept. 26,
Leah Gazan, a member of parliament whose socialist New Democratic Party supported Justin Trudeau’s unconstitutional use of martial law against peaceful trucker protesters in 2022, introduced a bill that would criminalize “condoning, denying, downplaying or justifying the Indian residential school system in Canada through statements communicated other than in private conversation.”

— (@)

In “The Canadian Manifesto,” British lord and former newspaper publisher Conrad Black
noted:

The federal government for some decades in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was encouraging and subsidizing residential schooling delivered mainly within the private sector, especially the Christian churches. This was designed to enable Indigenous people to compete advantageously in the community of Canada as a whole, not to exterminate their consciousness of their socio-cultural roots. The policy had mixed results and there were certainly a good many instances of cruelty and incompetence, but many people thrived, and these students constituted the great majority of educated natives.

Black noted further that “to tag any previous Canadian government as genocidal [over the residential schools] in any sense was an outrage and a blood libel on the English- and French-Canadian peoples.”

If Gazan successfully amends the Criminal Code, then these statements would likely qualify as criminal.

Accordingly, Black, the
National Post’s Terry Glavin, and others willing to speak forthrightly could face up to two years in prison. Furthermore, the state might attempt to seize whatever means of communication used to advance the offending messages, possibly even the publications in which they appear, “for disposal as the Attorney General may direct.”

‘Denialism is violence.’

The socialist’s bill allows for certain exemptions.

A so-called “denialist” — a term critics have even
applied to select Blaze News writers — could avoid prison if he establishes that “the statements communicated were true” — a requirement not similarly imposed on the proponents of the mass-graves hoax. A “denialist” could also argue to a potentially leftist court that his or her argument hinges upon a belief in a religious text or the statement’s relevance to a subject of public interest.

When introducing her censorship bill, Gazan
said, “The residential school system was a genocide — designed to wipe out Indigenous cultures, languages, families and heritage. To downplay, deny or justify it is cruel, harmful and hateful. This should have no place in Canada.”

Gazan appears to have been echoing Casimir, one of the initial propagators of the hoax.

Casimir
revealed in May that the investigation into supposed unmarked children’s graves in Kamloops was ongoing but top secret.

“Our investigative findings and investigative steps are currently being kept confidential to preserve the integrity of the investigation,” said Casimir.

Casimir
called on others keen to maintain the narrative to “refute the very real harm caused by denialists.”

Kimberly Murray, the Trudeau government’s “Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites,” has similarly kicked around the term,
telling state media that “denialism” is “the last step in genocide.”

“Denialism is violence. Denialism is calculated. Denialism is harmful. Denialism is hate,” said Murray.

While claiming to respect free speech, Gazan
told the National Post “all rights have limitations.”

“There’s a difference between freedom of speech and hate speech,” added the socialist.

The narrative Gazan seeks to insulate against criticism set the stage for scores of church burnings across Canada.

Blaze News
investigated over 18 church burnings earlier this year and reached out to various Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachments to determine whether the attacks were answered with justice. In most instances, the perpetrators were never caught, and the cases were dropped.

While there appears to be little appetite for addressing real crimes, the Canadian government remains focused on digging up empty fields.

Murray suggested earlier this month that the federal government needs to sink more funding into the so-far unsuccessful graves investigation,
reported APTN News.

“I have raised this with the government — both in my interim report and over the last two years — that there has to be sustainable funding for these searches,” said Murray. “At the end of the day, we need to stop treating this search for missing and disappeared children as a program. Canada has a legal obligation to support the findings of these truths.”

Murray was
required to issue a final report to the federal minister of justice in June, but she kicked the can down the road in May, indicating she needed “more time to complete this important work.”

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As the news cycle moves fast as ever, the Trump-Harris ABC News Presidential Debate has all but faded into obscurity.

However, there’s something very important from the debate to remember. That is, when moderator David Muir “fact-checked” Trump when he claimed that crime is on the rise.

Because it turns out the former president — who was made to look like a crazy “conspiracy theorist” for his statement — was right. Freshly added footnotes reveal that the FBI released a massive change to the crime stats that Muir was citing.

“The FBI has screwed with the numbers. The Crime Prevention Research Center reported that the FBI stealthily changed its crime data for 2022,” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” reports. Meanwhile, in 2022, cities like Phoenix, New York City, and Los Angeles failed to submit any crime data.

“Then they said this is a finished report and crime is down. Well, now they say, ‘Well, OK, it didn’t fall by 2.1%, it’s actually up,’” Glenn says, noting that it’s now been updated to include 80,029 more violent crimes, 1,600 more murders, 7,780 more rapes, 33,000 more robberies, and 37,000 more aggravated assaults.

“OK, that sounds like a big miss,” Glenn comments, shocked. “But here’s where it gets insidious. They just put this in the footnotes. They didn’t make a big deal out of it. They continue to mess with the numbers. How many times have they got the unemployment rate wrong, so you get the headlines of ‘we’re good,’ and then a month later you’re like, ‘we’re not so good.’”

With numbers so astronomically different from the truth, Glenn doesn’t believe this was an accident.

“They have given the Democrats a talking point on ‘crime is actually down,’ when we all knew if you believe your own eyes and don’t listen to the media, you know what’s true already,” he says.

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Air Force Academy staffers forced a fan to cover his shirt that read “Keep Women’s Sports Female” at a women’s volleyball game over the weekend that featured a transgender player.

John Kopecky, an Air Force Academy graduate, attended Saturday’s game at the Academy. The match was against Mountain West Conference opponent San Jose State University.

The pair firmly told Kopecky that if he wanted to stay he would have to zip his hoodie ‘all the way up’ so his shirt isn’t visible.

SJSU has had a controversial season due to having a male athlete, Blaire Fleming, on the roster. Several NCAA players, including Fleming’s own teammate, have spoken out against a male playing against females.

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Despite five women’s volleyball teams announcing forfeits against SJSU, presumably over the unfairness of having to play against a male, the Air Force Academy decided to play SJSU as scheduled.

According to reporter Dan Zaksheske, Kopecky was wearing a hooded sweatshirt with a shirt underneath that read, “Keep Women’s Sports Female.”

A video then caught a pointed conversation between Kopecky and two Air Force Academy representatives — a male and a female — who told him his shirt is “political” and that they are “trying to keep it comfortable and safe” at the arena.

“How is it political?” Kopecky asks.

“How is it not?” the male replied.

Kopecky told the pair that he had worn the shirt in question just days prior to an Air Force Academy event, and no one took issue with it. He then asked if it would be OK to wear the shirt to other Academy events.

“Can I wear this to the football game today?”

“Yeah,” the female replied. “Sir, we know why you’re wearing that … targeted …”

“I’m not targeting anything,” Kopecky reiterated. “I’m coming here to a women’s sports event.”

The pair firmly told Kopecky that if he wanted to stay he would have to zip his hoodie “all the way up” so his shirt isn’t visible.

They then warned him that he may be forced to leave the arena if he unzips the hoodie, at which point Kopecky said if he was removed from the facility, he would halt all his donations and season ticket purchases.

In an interview with OutKick, Kopecky said the Air Force Academy made specific rule changes for this game in particular, including a banner telling fans that no signs are allowed into the venue.

“They brought out a big board with all these rules about fan conduct that may have been there in the past, but I’ve never seen it [displayed] right at the door,” Kopecky told the outlet.

According to OutKick, the school said in a statement that it “takes necessary measures to provide a safe environment at all home athletic events for players, coaches, staff and fans.”

In the end, San Jose State defeated the Air Force Academy 3-1, and OutKick said Fleming led SJSU with 10 kills in the match.

Kopecky also echoed a sentiment that many female volleyball players have revealed after playing against Fleming: “Watching Blaire Fleming play … the jumping ability was just drastically different. It was just like, ‘Wow, there’s something you don’t see every day at a women’s volleyball match.’ … [Fleming was] strikingly more athletic than normal.”

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As the 2024 election draws closer, the hosts of “The View” seem to be breaking down.

“I think it will make a difference because of this division that they’re trying to cause within the black community,” Sunny Hostin told the rest of the show’s panel. “I just think it’s a fallacy that black men are the problem. Black men are not the problem.”

“When you look at the stats, the New York Times just came out with a poll: 80% of African-Americans will be voting for Kamala Harris, and that includes black men,” Hostin added.

“But it was more for Biden, I think that’s the issue, right?” Joy Behar interrupted.

Whoopi Goldberg then began ranting about black men supposedly refusing to listen to black women.

“For me it has never been about black man,” she started. “It’s been about man. You know, there’s this myth out there that black men can’t handle being spoken to and told what to do by black women. Black men come from our bodies. So black men have black mothers. So they’re used to having these conversations with women.”

“The matriarchy is strong with the black community,” she added.

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” can sense their panic.

“This is the perfect ending of identity politics, isn’t it? That they now have to figure out a way to rationalize that for some reason, black men who make decisions on their own, just like white men and Asian men, might have been more into Joe Biden than they are Kamala Harris,” Rubin tells Sage Steele.

“Well, again, what a concept. Black men, black women, are not monolithic. Like, we actually have separate brains and can see things for ourselves and think differently,” Steele agrees.

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The organizers of a Christmas parade in Tennessee angered many on the left after they included a statement of faith in their parade application.

For decades, folks young and old have gathered for the annual Christmas parade in Cookeville, Tennessee, a city of 35,000 residents about an hour and a half east of Nashville. In recent years, the Cookeville-Putnam County Chamber of Commerce, a nonprofit, hosted the event.

However, in 2024, a private group mainly comprising members of local churches took over the event. In keeping with the season honoring the birth of Jesus Christ and this year’s theme of “Celebrating the Light of CHRISTmas,” organizers included in the parade application a statement of faith that recounts basic tenets of Christianity.

The statement of faith affirms belief in Jesus as the second person of the Trinity, the circumstances surrounding His birth, and the primacy of the Bible.

The statement also reiterates Christian teaching on social matters, including gender, marriage, and the dignity of the human person:

“Marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female.”
“God’s plan for human sexuality is to be expressed only within the context of marriage.”
“God instituted monogamous marriage between male and female as the foundation of the family and the basic structure of human society.”
“Human life is sacred from conception to its natural end.”

‘Maybe the church groups involved just didn’t want to catch gay cooties.’

Contrary to reports, those submitting an application to participate in the parade need not personally believe everything listed in the statement of faith. Instead, the application asks only that they initial below the statement to acknowledge that they have read and understood it.

The application further requires all participants in the parade to “act in alignment” with the statement of faith to keep the event family-friendly.

Thus far, Cookeville officials have seemingly washed their hands of the parade and the organizers’ statement of faith.

“The City had nothing to do with the handoff to this group and still has nothing to do with the production or operation of the Christmas parade. The private group simply applied for a temporary street closure for a parade, as any other private group is permitted to do and as any kind of parade-type event requires,” city officials said in a statement posted to Facebook.

“It is extremely unfortunate that something like a Christmas parade has become such a controversial event in this day and time, but the City of Cookeville government is not involved with this event at all. Any requirements by this private group concerning participation in the parade are not enforced by, are not approved by, and should not be attributed to the City of Cookeville.”

A Substack called the Friendly Atheist went farther, describing the statement of faith as a form of “bigotry” and insisting that the parade is “no longer a celebration of the holidays” because of it.

“The event has become even more explicitly Christian,” the atheist writer railed. “Jews are not welcome. Atheists and Muslims and LGBTQ people are not wanted.”

The word holiday, of course, derives from the concept of a “holy day” on the Christian calendar.

Cookeville resident Antonio Pedro is likewise appalled by Christians adopting a Christian statement of faith for a Christian event. He and others, including the owner of a “little witchy shop” in Cookeville, have attempted to organize a more “inclusive” counter-event “to get the Christmas parade to what it once was to where the community comes together as a community and not just a religion.”

One reason they and other leftists are so incensed that Christians control this year’s Christmas parade is that Upper Cumberland Pride — a local group of sexual deviants, according to biblical standards — was denied the privilege of participating in it last year.

“It was stated when asked why that they saw it as ‘a kid/family event’ [and] that we might not be kid/family-friendly,'” UCP told WKRN.

UCP characterized the denial as a capricious act of exclusion, but in fact, even a secular group like the chamber of commerce was right to be wary of UCP’s participation in a Christmas parade meant for children and families.

“Our theme was ‘Don we now our gay apparel.’ We were planning to come out in contour [sic] fashion and voguing,” said Upper Cumberland Pride president Jessica Patterson, according to the Friendly Atheist.

“Oh no! Voguing! It’s the leading cause of death for children if you ignore guns and pools and peanuts!” the Friendly Atheist sneered. “Did they think the voguing would injure someone? … Maybe the church groups involved just didn’t want to catch gay cooties.”

Blaze News reached out to the current parade organizers but did not receive a response.

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Several caravans, thousands-strong, are making their way through Mexico, hoping to cross the United States’ border before a potential administration change with the presidential election just weeks away.

On October 5, a caravan of 600 to 800 individuals left Tapachula, Mexico, according to the Border Report. Last week, another group of 1,000 reportedly departed from the city. On Sunday, a caravan with 2,000 individuals left Mexico’s southern border.

‘They could both close the CBP One appointment and all the services that are helping migrants.’

Luis Garcia Villagran, director of the Tapachula-based Center for Human Dignity, told a local news outlet that he estimates that at least 4,000 people, divided into multiple caravans, are already moving through Mexico and on their way to the U.S.

“As we speak, 40,000 to 45,000 migrants, 30 percent from the Middle East and Africa, are stuck and trying to leave for the United States before the end of the year,” Garcia Villagran said in a statement translated by Border Report.

Joel Zambrano, a Venezuelan national traveling with the caravan that set off over the weekend, told the New York Post that a new administration “makes us fearful.”

Zambrano stated that he is concerned that after January 20, 2025, Customs and Border Protection’s CBP One application will be shut down. Currently, the mobile app allows foreign nationals to schedule an appointment at a port of entry to make an asylum claim. Approximately 1.3 million people over the past two years have been allowed into the U.S. through the Biden-Harris administration’s app and its other so-called “lawful pathways.”

“They say this could change because they could both close the CBP One appointment and all the services that are helping migrants,” Zambrano told the Post.

Trump has vowed that his top priority, should he secure the upcoming presidential election, is to “seal the border and stop the migrant invasion,” according to his campaign’s website. He also pledged to “carry out the largest deportation operation in American history.”

With immigration a top-of-mind concern for most voters, Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris has also attempted to appear tough on the border crisis that the Biden-Harris administration manufactured.

During her first visit to the border, she stated, “I will do more to secure our border, to reduce illegal border crossings.”

“I will take further action to keep the border closed between ports of entry,” she added.

While the details of her border strategy are unclear, the Biden-Harris administration has advocated for the implementation of more so-called “lawful pathways” that have expedited entries, thereby deterring foreign nationals from illegally crossing the border between ports of entry. While these additional pathways have reportedly reduced southern border encounters, they have not reduced the number of foreign nationals entering the country with little to no vetting.

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Mark Levin had the privilege of serving in Ronald Reagan’s administration as a chief of staff, so he knows what he’s talking about when he says that Reagan, who he calls “a genius,” was the brain behind the idea of peace through strength.

“He wanted to bring the most brilliant scientists in the United States together to figure out how to build a missile shield system,” which he called “the Strategic Defense Initiative — SDI,” says Levin, adding that Reagan was “mocked” and “attacked” for these ideas.

The Democrats accused him of “wasting money.” They said “it was an excuse not to reduce nuclear arms.” They called him “a dunce” and “a cowboy” and joked that the program was playing a game of “Star Wars.” They even “made every budgetary movement they possibly could to try and block it.”

One person took Reagan’s SDI program seriously — Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union before it was dismantled.

Even Gorbachev himself admitted that “SDI was a game changer because the Soviets could never keep up with our technological knowhow, our scientific capabilities, and they certainly wouldn’t have the money to build this system,” Levin recounts.

Israel also saw the program’s merit.

It “took the idea” and “refined it” to suit its unique needs — an adoption that has been hugely beneficial for the country.

“Like no other country on the face of the Earth, the Israelis have a strategic defense missile defense system, and thank God they do,” says Levin.

America, on the other hand, is “laying naked,” he warns.

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

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Kamala Harris held a
campaign event Monday in Michigan with the apparent aim of attracting Republican women in the suburbs, having just bungled her attempts to win back male voters and Christians.

The vice president once again leaned on former Jan. 6 committee member Liz Cheney, who proved more than willing to sacrifice her remaining political capital in service of someone she
deemed just four years ago “a radical liberal who wants to raise your taxes, take away your guns and your health insurance, explode the size of our federal government and give it control over every aspect of our lives.”

While the Royal Oak event had all the makings of a town hall where voters might be able to ask the Democratic candidate questions, the host, former California first lady Maria Shriver, made clear early on that this was not the time for spontaneity or openness.

In what appears to have been the only unscripted question, a woman in the crowd
asked, “Are we going to be able to ask a question?”

“You’re not, unfortunately,” replied Shriver. “We have some predetermined questions, and hopefully I’ll be able to ask some of the questions that might be in your head. I hope so.”

‘They’re not even hiding it anymore.’

The apparently clairvoyant host indicated further that she wanted “this to be like a kitchen table — like, just think we’re sitting around the kitchen table and we’re jamming about all kinds of stuff.”

Concerning the scripted nature of the event, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung
said, “HOLY S***! They’re not even hiding it anymore.”

John Daniel Davidson, senior editor at the Federalist, noted, “Even Kamala Harris’s town hall events are more ‘staged’ than Trump’s legendary appearance at McDonald’s.”

‘There’s been a really dangerous embrace of isolationism.’

Harris, spared from having to think on her feet, recycled the script she has attempted to recite in recent interviews, including the lines about former military and intelligence officials’ opposition to President Donald Trump she used in her recent
Bret Baier interview. Nevertheless, she still managed to toss a handful of word salads.

In one instance, she told her muzzled audience:

You know, the nature of a democracy is such that I think there is a duality. On the one hand, there’s an incredible strength when our democracy is intact. An incredible strength in what it does to protect the freedoms and rights of its people. Oh, there’s great strength in that. And it is very fragile. It is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it. So that’s the moment we’re in. And I say, “Do not despair,” because in a democracy, as long as we can keep it, in our democracy, the people — every individual has the power to make a decision about what this will be. And that’s — so let’s not feel powerless.

Cheney chimed in between Harris’ monologues and concern-mongered over the possibility that Trump might not commit to another costly foreign entanglement.

“I think that if you look at where the Republican Party is today, there’s been a really dangerous embrace of isolationism,” said Cheney, who
secured less than 29% of the vote in her last bid to hold on to power. “The reality is that since the end of World War II, America has led and we’ve led, and that has been necessary to defend our freedom.”

The border czar agreed, noting, “Isolationism, which is exactly what Donald Trump is pushing — pull out of NATO, abandon our friends — isolationism is not insulation. It is not insulation. It will not insulate us from harm in terms of our national security.”

Cheney warned further that Congress might not be able to prevent Trump from exiting NATO or from executing other foreign policy decisions the American people would have given him a mandate to tackle.

‘I don’t know if anybody is more conservative than I am.’

The New York Times
noted that in similar events that Cheney attended with Harris Monday in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, the former congresswoman — who had an “A” rating from the group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America at the time she was denied another term by Republican voters — characterized the vice president as an optimal choice for pro-life women.

Cheney suggested that Republican pro-life laws protecting the unborn have gone too far, such that conservative women can back the pro-abortion radical with a clean conscience.

“I think there are many of us around the country who have been pro-life but who have watched what’s going on in our states since the
Dobbs decision and have watched state legislatures put in place laws that are resulting in women not getting the care they need,” said Cheney. “In places like Texas, for example, the attorney general is talking about suing, is suing, to get access to women’s medical records. That’s not sustainable for us as a country, and it has to change.”

Harris has made clear the change she has in mind: eliminate the filibuster in the U.S. Senate in order to codify abortion as a national right.

Neglecting to touch on Harris’ support for taxpayer-funded sex changes for illegal aliens and her
support for sex-change mutilations for minors, Cheney suggested that her supposed conservatism is compatible with a vote for Harris.

“If people are uncertain, if people are thinking, ‘Well, you know, I’m a conservative, I don’t know that I can support Vice President Harris,’ I would say I don’t know if anybody is more conservative than I am,” said Cheney.

Trump mocked the establishment duo’s events,
writing, “Lyin’ Kamala has stooped so low as to pick a woman to campaign with her who lost her Congressional Race by the largest margin, 40%, in history. The record holder is Crazed Warhawk Liz Cheney, whose father, Dick, convinced Bush to go into the Middle East and KILL.”

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Hurricane Helene made landfall as a Category 4 storm in the late evening of September 26, carving a path of destruction through several Southeastern states. Small mountain communities in Western North Carolina were among those hardest hit by the hurricane.

High winds and floodwaters left a wake of toppled trees, downed power lines, massive landslides, and washed-out roads.

Though it has been over two weeks since the natural disaster, the full extent of the hurricane’s damage is still unclear.

North Carolina authorities reported on October 16 that they had confirmed
95 fatalities across 20 counties, including 42 in Buncombe, 11 in Yancey, and seven in Henderson. Even now, many individuals remain either missing or unaccounted for.

However, in the aftermath of that devastation, a different kind of story unfolded — one of hope in which the bond of community and collective resilience showcased the unbreakable American spirit.

Neighbors and volunteers from all over the country with varying backgrounds and skills quickly rallied together to provide disaster relief to victims of Hurricane Helene. Veterans and current active-duty military members pooled their resources to execute emergency evacuations for those in critical need of medical assistance, while pilots and tour agencies used their personal and business helicopters to fly vital supplies to those living up in the mountains, cut off from the rest of the world.

Undoubtedly, the massive grassroots volunteer effort from everyday citizens that sprouted up overnight in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene saved many lives. Here are just some of their inspirational stories.

Community heroes rescue neighbors in need

Mercury One, a charity founded by Glenn Beck, and Blaze Media were on the ground in Asheville and Swannanoa, North Carolina, the week after Hurricane Helene barreled through the mountainous region.

The team linked up with an all-volunteer group run by veterans and active-duty military members who had set up a forward operating base in a Harley-Davidson dealership. While the storm had also impacted the property, after the water receded, the dealership owner and volunteers cleared out the mud, set up operations inside, and used a large field out back as an airport for helicopters both bringing supplies and delivering them to those in need.

The operation was led by Adam Smith, a former United States Army Green Beret and the founder of Savage Freedoms. In the first several days following the storm, his team coordinated medevacs and search-and-rescue flights for those needing medical assistance who were left stranded due to completely washed-out roads and downed trees and power lines.

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Aeroluxe Aviation, a helicopter tour agency based in Nashville, Tennessee, was on-site with the Savage Freedoms team.

The company previously told Blaze News, “We flew almost nonstop sunrise to sunset with our three helicopters on missions delivering medical supplies, insulin, other medications, oxygen, perishable foods, and dry goods.”

Back on the ground, the team had an operations manager, Anthony Velasquez, who was “scrubbing social media for people asking for help or looking for loved ones,” Aeroluxe Aviation explained.

“He would direct our resources with supplies or wellness checks to those areas in conjunction with Savage Freedoms.”

Zach Gibson, an active-duty military member and Asheville native, volunteered to join Smith and his team at the Harley-Davidson dealership turned operating base.

“Being from the area, when everything happened, I just felt the need to go there with some of my friends and help out and do what we can,” Gibson told Blaze News.

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Gibson explained that in the time he was there, almost a week, he and some other volunteers went to perform a wellness check on a woman who had recently undergone surgery and was scheduled for a second when it was postponed due to the hurricane.

“She was getting an infection, and we didn’t want it to go septic,” Gibson stated.

A paramedic in the volunteer group made the medical assessment that the woman’s life was at risk and she needed to be medevaced out of the area immediately.

“I sent essentially that medical assessment via a text using Starlink, which was absolutely critical in doing any of this,” Gibson noted.

Back at the Harley-Davidson dealership, air coordinator Johnny Wilson responded to Gibson’s text message, notifying the team that the crew was getting a helicopter ready.

“We were in the middle of the valley in Burnsville,” Gibson continued. “Had I not had Starlink mobile in my truck, that conversation would have never happened, and it could have resulted in the death of that lady.”

He explained that flying the woman out of the area also presented some challenges.

“There was some obstacles, specifically power lines in the area that prevented the bird from landing. So the bird had to land on the other side of the mountain,” Gibson said. “They drove up in a pickup truck to the CASEVAC, casualty evacuation.”

‘A huge collective effort on just ultimate altruism, just wanting to help out people in need.’

He stated that the team’s paramedic “did an excellent handover with the doctor.”

The woman was ultimately medevaced out with the doctor.

“I later received confirmation that that had to happen,” Gibson added.

Gibson told Blaze News about another wellness check he and his team performed for a family of four who could not leave their home.

“Due to all the roads, the traditional routes that had been washed away, it took us about five or six hours to actually get to this home,” he explained. “When we got there, the husband, Rich, wife, Lindsay, and their two kids had been isolated and not trapped inside the home physically, but unable to leave because trees had fallen all around their house.”

Gibson stated that the husband was making trips on foot to a barn a few miles away to grab what limited supplies he could carry back for his family.

After Gibson and his team dropped off some much-needed items, they offered to return in the morning with chainsaws to clear the fallen trees blocking the family’s exit. He noted that the clearing effort took a few hours, but once completed, the family was able to make their own supply runs again.

He told Blaze News that those rescue efforts were made possible by volunteers.

“So many people in my unit, and then just people I know in my church community and everywhere, started donating money to help us get supplies that we needed to get up there,” Gibson added. “It really was a huge collective effort on just ultimate altruism, just wanting to help out people in need.”

Gibson noted that it took the helping hands of everyone involved, including a friend who allowed him to use his truck and Gibson’s cousin Trip, whose work in the medical sales field provided him with prior knowledge of the routes to determine the best ways to navigate to their destinations.

Neighbors forge a path to recovery

Chris Ripley, a North Carolina farmer, told Blaze News about how his small town in Peace Rock came together around the community barn to rally supplies and coordinate deliveries after working to evacuate a 77-year-old man named Peter, a Vietnam veteran, who had sustained critical injuries during the storm.

Gibson, who met up with Ripley and his community, explained that Peter had walked outside to check the damages to his property after he had heard a loud noise. While outside, Peter was struck in the head by flying debris.

An individual who witnessed the incident immediately contacted other locals to arrange urgent medical care for Peter. The flying debris, which neighbors believe could have been a piece of roof from another home, caused Peter to sustain a broken neck and fractured skull.

Ripley stated that two wilderness first responders happened to live in the area and determined that Peter needed urgent care for his injuries and had an estimated eight hours to live without it.

“We’re really blessed with a lot of skilled individuals,” Ripley told Blaze News. “They were critical, along with some other naturopath doctors that stabilized him for the hours when we couldn’t evacuate him.”

Ripley noted that the road was impassable due to floodwaters and the bridge had collapsed. There was no clear path by vehicle, so neighbors spent several hours using chainsaws to clear a route while others carried Peter on a ladder used as a makeshift stretcher.

“We were able to get him out to the hospital just in time to get him stabilized, and he survived and was doing great,” Ripley said.

‘Even when something of this extreme, terrible nature happens, we’re right there for each other.’

After locals successfully saved Peter, they started to use their community barn, which is frequently utilized as a venue for potlucks and movie nights, as a gathering place to check on one another and store supplies.

“We just put a call out to the valley. ‘Hey, we’re going to meet at noon every day.’ And during that first day, when all the community members arrived, we broke off into teams,” Ripley stated.

The locals formed several units to cover all of the community’s immediate needs, including food, medical, communications, and road-clearing. Out of the community barn, they provided neighbors with propane, gasoline generators, lanterns, and other vital supplies. Ripley explained that part of his role has been donating produce from his farm to the community kitchen.

He stated that Neal Foster, a local who had survived Hurricane Katrina, was an integral part of the community team, offering advice based on his previous experience.

One of the “golden threads” Ripley observed was locals’ ability to pool their skills and resources to create a sustainable community center.

“The people that live here have always been self-sufficient, hard workers, and strong individuals. And so having that here makes me very grateful to be living in this community and in this region of the nation,” Ripley said. “Even when something of this extreme, terrible nature happens, we’re right there for each other.”

Ripley told Blaze News that the community hopes to continue to host regular meetings to keep their neighborly connection strong.

Gibson stated that Ripley’s community in Peace Rock is “a microcosm for what’s going on across Western North Carolina.”

“Without them and all the people just to step up to fill gaps and help people, it wouldn’t be where it’s at so soon after Helene,” he added.

A community cut off but not forgotten

Emily Young, the owner of Happy Hens and Highlands Farm and a Yancey County native, described to Blaze News how, after Hurricane Helene devastated the area, she was able to spread the word on social media to reach volunteers and generous donors who ultimately provided her small community with desperately needed vital supplies.

Young, who has already been without power for a couple of weeks, estimated that it could be another two weeks before it is restored.

“I’m not even that far from a main road,” Young said. “If it’s going to take that long to get power to me, I can’t imagine some of these real remote areas, because there’s not that much damage to the power lines and stuff where I’m at. There’s other places where every single one is snapped, and there’s rockslides and all that.”

Young explained that she did not expect the storm to be nearly as bad as it was, anticipating that she would be able to host scheduled farm visits that same weekend.

“I didn’t stock up on supplies because that stuff doesn’t happen here,” she remarked.

‘Every way out of the town was gone.’

When she woke up on Friday, September 27, she soon noticed that her power was out and her cell phone had stopped receiving a signal. But even then, Young assumed it was a power outage in her immediate area.

“I don’t get that great of service anyway,” she noted. “I decided to walk down the road to my parents’ house. They live just a couple hundred yards from me, and we’re separated by a creek.”

When she stepped outside, she saw that the road near her home had turned into “a raging river.” Young explained that a dam had broken, causing a nearby pond to flood the area and wash out her driveway.

“I was scared to walk, to step into the road, because I was afraid I would get swept away,” Young told Blaze News. “My dad was yelling at me to step back.”

The rush of water was causing the pavement underneath her feet to begin crumbling, she said.

“I could have easily got swept in there, and I just didn’t realize,” Young added.

She noted that it took her hours to eventually find a way to reach her parents’ home, whose driveway was also washed out, and their entire woodshop was swept into the creek.

Image Source: Emily Young

Young and her parents walked down the road to where she had parked her farm truck, hoping to use that vehicle to head into town.

“We still thought things were going to be open. We thought stores would be open. We thought we could just drive to town and grab a few supplies,” she stated.

First, Young and her parents attempted to drive into Burnsville, but they were forced to turn around when they discovered the bridge on the main road, U.S. Route 19E, was under water. They then tried the other direction, hoping to reach Spruce Pine.

Image Source: Emily Young

“Thought we could go to the grocery store, Ingles. We start driving to Ingles, and it’s under water,” she continued. “The water’s up to the marquee.”

Young made a final attempt to drive down another road to Marion but was again unsuccessful, stating that “the whole mountain” was “gone” due to a landslide.

“Every way out of the town was gone,” Young said, noting that that remained the case for about three days.

Image Source: Emily Young

It was not until the water receded that Young was able to make it to her local fire department. During her first visit, she noted that the department had a few bottles of water and a handful of food but not much else in the way of critical supplies for the community.

Back at her farm, Young had a Starlink, which she decided to bring to the fire station to help first responders coordinate supply deliveries.

Young took to her farm’s social media account to request help for her local community. And the response was overwhelming.

A video posted by Young showcased the transformation of the fire department bay. Initially, the warehouse held only a few cases of water and other limited goods, but volunteers and donors soon lined the road outside the department, ready to drop off trucks and trailers brimming with essentials.

‘It was big news for a little while, and then the next thing happened and you forget about these people.’

Scenic Helicopter Tours, a helicopter tour agency, and its pilots volunteered to fly in donations that were dropped off at their location in Tennessee. Within days, the fire department bay exploded with pallets of critically needed items ready to be delivered to residents.

“Y’all are incredible,” Young told her social media followers.

“This morning, I posted how few of supplies they had in their warehouse here at the fire department,” she continued. “Thanks to y’all just sharing, supplies have been rolling in all day.”

Young told Blaze News that her community received the water and food they desperately needed in the first few critical days thanks to locals, volunteers, and those who donated.

“It was just amazing the outpouring of support once I did start showing what was happening in my community,” she said.

Now the “big thing is heat,” Young remarked.

“It’s starting to get really cold now, and so many people are still without power,” she stated, adding that she has also shifted more of her focus to rebuilding efforts.

While the hurricane was “a nightmare,” Young is thankful that the community came together in the aftermath of the devastation to help one another survive. She explained that many individuals moved to the area in recent years, and there has “kind of been a tension” between them and the locals.

“I feel like this, though, has brought everyone together,” Young declared. “It’s been an incredible experience.”

She said her only fear is that people will forget about the devastation that tore through her community.

“With Maui, we’ve forgotten about it by now. All these people there, they lost everything,” Young told Blaze News. “It was big news for a little while, and then the next thing happened and you forget about these people.”

She stated that she and her community are grateful for all of the volunteers who showed up to help with search-and-rescue efforts.

“That part’s incredible, but the rebuilding part — that’s what we’re going to need help with. There’s so, so much damage here. I guess I worry, with the election coming up and all this stuff, this is going to be forgotten about really soon,” Young said.

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An infant was shot to death by a toddler who found a long gun while sitting the back of a car in a parking lot, Texas police say.

Three children were sitting in a silver SUV at the parking lot of the Audie L. Murphy VA Medical Center in San Antonio on Monday afternoon when one of the children found the loaded gun, according to San Antonio Police Chief William McManus. The female adult in the car was waiting for a medical appointment, police said.

‘Police said they had not yet determined the owner of the gun.’

The toddler fired the gun in the backseat, striking the infant who was between 10 and 11 months old, McManus said at a media briefing. Paramedics from the medical center tried to save the child, but they pronounced the infant dead at the scene.

The two other children were aged 2 and 3 years old. Police said they had not yet determined the owner of the gun.

Police initially said the incident was being investigated as a tragic accident, and no charges were being considered, but they later confirmed that they may file criminal negligence charges depending on the outcome of their investigation.

McManus said they had not yet determined the relationship between the female in the car and the three children during the preliminary investigation.

A news video report from KENS-TV showed scenes from the parking lot and can be viewed on YouTube.

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Baltimore police said a suspect in a viral video showing a Ravens’ fan brutally beating two rival fans has turned himself in after an online campaign to bring him to justice.

The video showed a man in a Ravens jersey march up to two men wearing Washington Commanders’ jerseys and assault them in what appeared to be an unprovoked attack.

‘Charging documents said that Callis had been captured on surveillance video assaulting one of the men before the events of the viral video.’

Social media users were outraged by the video and went to work to try to identify the man in order to bring him to justice. Some claimed to have identified his place of work and pressured the insurance company until it announced that it had fired the suspect.

Then, on Friday, Baltimore police said they had issued a warrant for 24-year-old John Callis.

On Monday, Callis surrendered to Baltimore Police’s Southern District station after coming to an agreement with police, according to his attorney.

Charging documents said that Callis had been captured on surveillance video assaulting one of the men before the events of the viral video. He allegedly punched one man, leading the other to defend the victim before being assaulted himself. A third man in a Commanders jersey intervened in the fight, as well as a woman, according to police. When they separated, the woman stayed with Callis while the three victims fled.

The men who were assaulted told police that they had returned to the area in order to look for a lost cell phone when Callis attacked them again, as seen in the viral video.

Police said that one of the men suffered a concussion as well several bodily bruises while the other two suffered only minor injuries.

Callis had previously been arrested for beating up a man in 2021 and was given probation and a fine for that incident.

A news report from WTTG-TV showed Callis in police shackles, which can be viewed on YouTube.

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