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I went to a restaurant run by feminists, and it was terrible.

You probably have a lot of questions. I would too if I were the one reading that sentence rather than the one writing it.

These people — the people most obsessed with ‘acceptance’ as a political virtue — are generally miserable to be around.

How exactly do I know it was run by rabid feminists? Why exactly was it terrible because it was run by such feminists? I will explain.

My wife, children, and I were on vacation. We were off in the deep north of the Middle West. After driving for a few hours, we were ready for a bite to eat. There aren’t too many options that far out in the northern wilderness.

We were thankful to find a place — any place! — about 15 minutes away, right on a lake. A small restaurant on a lake up north, that’s got to be an easy-going, relaxing place to have lunch, right?

Wrong.

Service with a sneer

The atmosphere was rank from the moment we opened the door. The woman at the front greeted my wife with a cold and sour, “May I help you?” We sat down and things descended farther. They didn’t have a children’s menu. Who doesn’t have a children’s menu? They didn’t have booster seats. Who doesn’t have booster seats?

Often, when we go out with our kids, we order a side salad for them to split. Basically every restaurant has one or will make one.

But not this one.

My wife politely asked, “Could we get a side salad for the kids to share?”

Our frigid, tight-lipped waitress curtly answered, “No.”

They had a tiny menu, obviously excluding simple fare to signal some kind of “finer taste.” Remember, this is in the middle of nowhere, no cellphone service. Who are they kidding?

Whine list

There was a small bar with a single bartender. She was the type of gender-confused leftist who dyes her hair black, then chops it off into some kind of faux mullet.

Adorned with doodle tattoos, no makeup, and tasteless piercings, she stood behind the bar seething. Her default facial setting was one of bubbling rage. It looked like she wanted to kill. It may sound like I am exaggerating, and maybe I am, but only barely. This is how she looked, this is how she acted, and this is how it felt.

The general vibe was more reminiscent of a hostage situation than a dining establishment. The tables were full, but barely anyone spoke. It felt like everyone was afraid to say anything. They were scared for their lives.

There was a tense hum of silence over the tables. An older couple came in to ask if they could get a table, and the woman at the front made it seem like they were asking if she could split the atom for them. It was bizarre.

Malice’s Restaurant

Different places have different feelings. It doesn’t come down to just one element. It’s the sum of the parts. The way people speak to you, the way they look at you, the way the decor is arranged, the music, the signs on the wall, the kind of people working. Some places are warm, inviting, and comfortable. Others are not, and this place was not.

Everyone working was a woman. At the front, behind the bar, waiting the tables.

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It’s hard to describe why, but I got the sense that they were all owners, like they all pitched in together. They weren’t just workers with paychecks. There was something else there. They weren’t moms, young college students, or anyone else you might expect to be working at a restaurant. Something was off.

They all looked, and acted like, a different archetype of unhappy, unfulfilled feminist. They all had the same kind of unpleasant, tightly wound, ready to snap, judgmental demeanor. They all looked down on my wife and kids with a patronizing and adversarial predisposition.

Of course, they weren’t exactly friendly to me either.

Appetite for destruction

There is a certain way bitter feminists, angry lesbians, and gender destroyers look at me, my wife, and kids. My wife is beautiful; she wears dresses every day. My daughter too. I dress in a classic American style, and so does my son.

For these types of people, our family is an aesthetic refutation of their broken and disordered ideology. They don’t like us (or people like us), and it’s very obvious.

And that’s why their restaurant is so miserable. These kinds of people are not happy people, they are not welcoming people, they are not warm people. They don’t like kids, they don’t like families, they don’t like happy men or beautiful women. They only like bitter, broken, and disordered individuals.

They might make fine food — and the food was just fine — but their obvious disdain for us left a bad taste all the same.

Signal du jour

There were signals of their political orientation on the walls. There were two restrooms. Both had signs that read “All Gender Restroom” in the middle of the door.

These signs, if you haven’t seen them, include three figures. A man, a woman in a dress, and then a figure that is half-man and half-woman. Half pants, half dress. A perfect example of the laziest, most pathetic kind of leftist virtue-signaling.

Again, this restaurant is in the middle of nowhere. The restroom signs are a political act, an intentional provocation, and an obvious indication of who they are.

It was the type of place that hangs a sign in the window that reads “ALL ARE WELCOME” in a variety of colors, despite the actual atmosphere inside being one that is completely acidic and 0% welcoming.

Check, please!

It’s a fascinating thing. You see this a lot. Crunchy grocery stores, vegan restaurants, and other lefty-type places. These people — the people most obsessed with “acceptance” as a political virtue — are generally miserable to be around. They are devoted to acceptance on paper, but their aura is like that of an electric fence.

Women are warm, welcoming, and kind. It’s their nature. That’s why they are called the fairer sex. God made them best with kids and things more sensitive.

Extreme feminists of 2025 are none of those things and possess none of those wonderful attributes. They have, in general, made their identity into one based on opposing any natural female traits, virtues, or sensibilities.

They have instead set their sights on trying, and failing, to be men. They have decided to resist, reject, and make war on all the wonderful things of women. That’s why they are so unhappy, and that’s why their restaurant was so miserable. It was clean, the food was fine, the location was great, but the women were dreadful, dour, sad, and bitter.

Walking out of the restaurant, our kids stumbling over each other, our family gleefully disturbing the morgue-like pall of the dining room, we laughed to one another. Thankful we are who we are and aren’t who we aren’t. It must be a miserable life being an angry feminist.

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The autopen scandal saga continues, as Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the White House physician during former President Joe Biden’s tenure, has refused to answer congressional questions regarding his time under the Biden administration.

O’Connor pleaded the Fifth when asked two questions, which BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says, “should raise your eyebrows a little.”

The first question was, “Were you ever told to lie about the president’s health?” And the second was, “Did you ever believe President Biden was unfit to execute his duties?”

While the silence was deafening to those who noticed a clear decline in president Biden’s health and mental state, O’Connor’s attorney is claiming that physician-patient privilege is the reason for his silence.

“This committee has indicated to Dr. O’Connor and his attorneys that it does not intend to honor one of the most well-known privileges in our law — the physician-patient privilege,” O’Connor’s attorney said.

“Revealing confidential patient information would violate the most fundamental ethical duty of a physician, could result in revocation of Dr. O’Connor’s medical license, and would subject Dr. O’Connor to potential civil liability. Dr. O’Connor will not violate his oath of confidentiality to any of his patients, including President Biden,” the attorney added.

“But how are you violating any sort of physician-patient privilege by answering if you were ever told to lie about the president’s health?” Gonzales asks. “That’s not giving any sort of medical information. That doesn’t violate HIPAA law.”

“I don’t think that constitutes any sort of physician-patient privilege. I think that is their entire lie unraveling and them trying to figure out how they can continue this charade until something else big maybe happens,” she continues.

“This is one of the biggest scandals in American history, and we have to get to the bottom of it eventually, despite Joe Biden’s doctor pleading the Fifth,” she adds.

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Nearly a year after the assassination attempt against President Donald Trump at the infamous campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, six U.S. Secret Service agents have been suspended. However, some are saying that the real story is who in the Secret Service didn’t face any consequences over the fatal fiasco.

Matt Quinn, the deputy director of the Secret Service, told CBS News that six agents had been suspended without pay. The suspensions range from 10 to 42 days as punishment for the egregious failures during the assassination attempt against Trump on July 13, 2024.

‘We were all sitting ducks that day. Our blood is all over their hands. I am angry.’

The news outlet noted that the Secret Service employees would be placed on restricted duty or roles with less operational responsibility when they return to work.

“We are laser-focused on fixing the root cause of the problem,” Quinn stated on Wednesday.

Quinn defended the decision not to terminate any of the agents by saying, “We aren’t going to fire our way out of this. We’re going to focus on the root cause and fix the deficiencies that put us in that situation.”

“Secret Service is totally accountable for Butler,” Quinn confessed. “Butler was an operational failure, and we are focused today on ensuring that it never happens again.”

The Secret Service has faced significant criticism for allowing gunman Thomas Crooks to open fire on the stage of the rally from a rooftop a short distance away.

A Secret Service sniper killed Crooks, but not before he was able to fire multiple rounds toward the rally stage, where Trump was speaking.

One of the bullets grazed Trump’s ear, which caused blood to stream down his face. Corey Comperatore — a 50-year-old firefighter, father, and devoted husband — was fatally shot while attending the Trump rally. Two other rallygoers were wounded during the deadly shooting.

Helen Comperatore, the widow of Corey Comperatore, told Fox News in an interview that aired on Thursday, “We were all sitting ducks that day. Our blood is all over their hands. I am angry. I lost the love of my life. They screwed up.”

The widow continued by listing several security lapses by the Secret Service, “Why Butler? Why was that such a failure? Why weren’t they paying attention? Why did they think that that roof didn’t need to be covered? I want to sit down and talk to them. I have the right to. They need to listen to me.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said of the suspensions, “Given the shocking security failures that day, this is the absolute bare minimum.”

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Susan Crabtree, a national political correspondent for RealClearPolitics, revealed the identities of the six agents who were suspended without pay. Crabtree also noted two Secret Service supervisors who played significant roles at the Butler rally and later received promotions.

Citing multiple sources in the Secret Service community, Crabtree reported that the agents who were suspended are:

Myosoty Perez, an “inexperienced” site agent.Dana DuBrey, a mid-level agent and Perez’s local counterpart agent.Meredith Bank, the “lead advance agent charged with coordinating security” with local aw enforcement, according to RCP.Tim Burke, the Secret Service’s special agent in charge of the Pittsburgh Field Office.Brian Pardini, second in charge of the Pittsburgh Field Office. John Marciniak, the agency’s lead counter-sniper at the Butler rally.

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However, some are pointing out that the higher-ups responsible for the Butler rally’s security not only dodged consequences — they got promoted.

Crabtree wrote on the X social media platform that there is a “big contingent in the Secret Service that believes the Pittsburgh office is unfairly taking the fall” for the Trump rally debacle.

Crabtree reported that two key Secret Service supervisors who “signed off on the Butler security plan and two who were on the final walkthroughs before the J13 rally” were never disciplined, yet did receive “big promotions.”

Crabtree noted, “One of those supervisors on the final walkthroughs, Nick Menster, was assigned this year as the No. 2 in charge of the Lara and Eric Trump protective detail.”

Crabtree continued, “The other, Nick Olszewski, ironically, became the chief (special agent in charge) of the Inspection Division, which is responsible for ensuring the accountability and integrity of the agency’s personnel and operations.”

Larry Berger, an attorney for several of the suspended Secret Service agents, hinted that legal action could be taken against the agency.

“We avoided more severe sanctions, and now we’re assessing the next steps,” Berger told Crabtree.

Two weeks after the assassination attempt against President Trump, then-Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned following bipartisan pressure. Cheatle was replaced after Trump’s inauguration by Sean Curran, who was on stage with Trump during the attempt on his life.

Blaze News reached out to the Secret Service for comment, and the agency did not confirm or deny the identities of the agents who were suspended.

On Thursday, the Secret Service announced new organizational reforms for the agency following the conclusion of investigations into the failures during the attempted assassination of President Trump.

The Secret Service noted that it has implemented 21 recommendations made by congressional oversight bodies and that 16 more are in the process of being enacted.

Curran said in a statement on Thursday, “Since President Trump appointed me as director of the United States Secret Service, I have kept my experience on July 13 top of mind, and the agency has taken many steps to ensure such an event can never be repeated in the future. Nothing is more important to the Secret Service than the safety and security of our protectees. As director, I am committed to ensuring our agency is fully equipped, resourced, and aligned to carry out our important mission each and every day.”

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What’s happening with Donald Trump and Pam Bondi’s mishandling of the Jeffrey Epstein files is a textbook example of the rake-stepping that tripped up the president’s first term. The timing is worse this time, too — because it stands in sharp contrast to the mostly smooth, high-functioning operation of Trump’s second term so far.

Something’s clearly going on behind the scenes — something so sensitive that it’s backing this administration into corners that no number of Ben Shapiro explainers can easily talk us out of. I won’t speculate here on what exactly that “something” is. You’ve earned the right to connect your own dots in this post-COVID, post-trans-the-kids world.

We are in a civil war — spiritual, political, cultural. And the last thing we can afford right now is to split our ranks over a human toilet like Jeffrey Epstein.

But the politics of this mess? That’s what I want to talk about.

A movement that’s moved on

As someone who came of age politically reading Buckley, Kirk, Friedman, and Reagan — before I ever knew the gospel — I’ve often found myself at odds with parts of the MAGA movement. My political DNA was shaped by ideas. MAGA has shifted into something else entirely, something rawer, more primal. Less interested in debating the “oughts” and more obsessed with exposing the corruption and rot.

In that sense, DeSantis vs. Trump wasn’t just a primary — it was a proxy war. And MAGA told people like me, flat out: We’re not ready for your high-minded conversation. First, we’ve got to name names and slash some tires.

One of those names, from the very beginning, was Epstein — and anyone who set foot on his infamous island.

Trump himself promised to release the Epstein list more than once on the 2024 campaign trail. So did members of his inner circle. That pledge became a symbol — a MAGA line in the sand. Break it, and you break trust. Think Bush 41’s “read my lips” betrayal, but this time with the stakes multiplied by a base that’s already been burned too many times.

The movement wants its perp walk. And until it gets it, as the prophets Hetfield and Ulrich once said, nothing else matters.

The fracture under way

Still think this is just internet drama? Then explain why George Conway is reposting Glenn Beck. Did you have that on your 2025 bingo card?

Or why Jake Tapper — yes, that Jake Tapper — thinks this is his comeback moment. He’s calling for the release of the Epstein list and the tapes, not because he cares about justice, but because he knows exactly how deep the wound could go. He sees the opportunity to turn a hairline fracture in Trump’s base into a compound break.

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And here’s the thing: He might succeed.

Unless someone at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue or the Justice Department decides it’s worth risking serious chaos in the GOP, this issue won’t just fester. It’ll metastasize.

If this controversy had erupted while Trump was pushing votes for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act or preparing to bomb Iran, would the base have stood firm? Maybe not. Because this hits differently. This feels moral. Existential. A test of whether Trump’s still serious — or if power has tamed him as it tamed so many before.

The clock is ticking

And what happens in 2026?

Republican turnout in the low 90s won’t cut it — not with a deflated, demoralized base that sees Epstein accountability as a promise on par with Trump’s other major blunders. COVID. Fauci. The shots. Pile on Elon Musk’s third-party siren song, and that’s maybe just enough to peel off five points, and you’ve got a perfect storm of apathy, betrayal, and collapse.

This is the math no one wants to run — but it’s already penciled in.

The Trump team’s answers are getting the red-pen treatment in real time. The political class can pretend this is a sideshow. It isn’t. It’s the main stage, and the spotlight’s burning hot.

We are in a civil war — spiritual, political, cultural. And the last thing we can afford right now is to split our ranks over a human toilet like Jeffrey Epstein.

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A Marquette Law School poll published in May revealed that 63% of Americans hold an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party. Polling by the Economist and YouGov indicated that the disapproval rating for the party as a whole was 58.3% as of May 25.

It’s clear that whatever Democrats tried last month didn’t improve their public image.

An NBC News Decision Desk Poll released in mid-June revealed that 57% of voters held an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party. The party’s radical messaging on illegal aliens and deportations certainly didn’t help its cause, given the majority of Americans support President Donald Trump’s handling of immigration and border security.

According to a new poll conducted by the Democratic super PAC Unite the Country and obtained by The Hill, enthusiasm within the party continues to fade — and disenchantment is spreading.

The poll, conducted in 21 battleground counties across 10 battleground states, found that Democrats’ emphasis on fighting for democracy — empty signaling that clearly did not help them in November — is not doing the trick, and their ruinous immigration policies are further alienating voters.

Voters reportedly regard the Democratic Party as “out of touch,” “woke,” and “weak.”

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“This is the reality of the perception of us as a party, and until we accept that, it’s going to be hard to move forward,” Democratic strategist Rodell Mollineau, senior adviser at the PAC, told The Hill. “There’s a perception out there, outside of Democratic elites, and it’s taken hold in not just the MAGA crowd but people that should be with us.”

Mollineau added, “It’s not about abandoning who we are. It’s not about leaving people behind. We are a big tent party. But it is about prioritizing the messages and starting where the majority of the people are.”

‘The majority of Americans believe that the Republican Party best represents the interests of the working class and the poor.’

Rather than defending anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement rioters, flying to foreign nations to sip cocktails with MS-13 associates, and championing genital mutilations for children, Democrats may want to focus on matters that Americans actually care about.

“We do better when we first meet voters where they are and then bring them along on other issues,” said Mollineau. “And nine times out of 10, what they really care about is whether or not they’re going to be able to afford health care, whether or not their kids are going to be able to go to a good school … housing, living paycheck to paycheck.”

Mollineau suggested that the party should start with “good economic appeal.”

Months before he became the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Ken Martin acknowledged in a New York Times interview last year that “the majority of Americans believe that the Republican Party best represents the interests of the working class and the poor. And that the Democratic Party represents the interests of the wealthy and the elite.”

The party’s continued focus on pet progressive issues that only the wealthy can afford to care about does not appear to have moved the needle on this perception.

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In addition to desiring a fresh perspective and different priorities, the Democratic super PAC found that voters simply want to see different leaders running the party.

A national Cygnal poll revealed last month that only 30% of voters held a favorable view of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.). While abysmal, that’s still better than Sen. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), whose favorability rating was 26%, according to a June 11-12 Harvard-Harris poll.

A Quinnipiac University survey released in June indicated that just 21% of all voters approved of the way Democrats in Congress were handling their jobs, and 70% signaled disapproval. When it came to Democratic voters in particular, 53% gave their party’s congressional members a bad review.

An NPR/PBS News/Marist poll released last week similarly indicated Democrats’ congressional approval ratings were under water with 27% approving and 58% disapproving of the jobs they are doing.

Steve Schale, CEO of Unite the Country, told The Hill, “They want us to have different leaders.”

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Over the Fourth of July weekend, billionaire inventor and political provocateur Elon Musk posted the following poll on X:

The survey followed a public clash between Musk and Trump, ignited by Musk’s sharp criticism of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which he slammed as a shield for bureaucratic excess.

The poll’s strong support spurred Musk to then declare the creation of a new political party. On July 5, he unveiled the “America Party,” vowing it would “give you back your freedom” and challenge the entrenched “one-party system.”

Conservatives, even those who share Musk’s frustrations, are concerned, however, that the formation of a new party might actually backfire and end up benefiting Democrats by splitting the conservative vote.

To get clarity on whether or not Musk’s new party can legitimately hurt Republicans, “Blaze News: The Mandate’s” Jill Savage asked Blaze News senior politics editor Christopher Bedford to unpack the possibilities.

“It definitely hurts. … Third parties are like wasps. They can sting once, but then they die. That sting can be painful,” says Bedford, referring to a famous line by historian Richard Hofstadter.

And the damage it causes will likely be for naught. Musk’s “biggest mistake,” he says, is “his assumption that in the most polarized time of the last 100 years … that there’s some broad 80% coalition looking to get behind libertarianism.”

“Twitter polls are not real, actual reads of what people will vote on and what people are upset about,” he says.

While Bedford doubts Musk will pursue this at the presidential level, he is concerned about his party targeting Senate races, where third parties can sway outcomes by a small margin (like Michigan, where a third-party candidate’s 1.8% vote share tipped a race). This could hurt Republicans by splitting their votes, he warns.

More than likely, though, Musk is risking hurting himself more than anyone else. If there’s still potential for him to be a key figure in the Republican party — and Bedford thinks there is, especially if JD Vance succeeds Trump — Musk is risking blowing that opportunity by continuing to show “how quickly he can turn.”

He’s “somebody [who] goes from a savior … ‘we’re best friends forever’ to ‘I hate you, you’re a pedophile, and I’m going to do everything I can to undermine you,’” says Bedford.

This mercurial quality Elon has is also the very thing that makes him the mad genius he is, says Jill. “Elon is a disruptor at heart. This is what he does. He can’t just come in and play by the rules that are laid out in front of him.”

Blaze Media editor in chief Matthew Peterson agrees.

Unless he “backs off” of this idea, which is a possibility, “it’s just going to cause a lot of harm to things that he himself is supposedly for,” says Peterson, adding that while some believe Musk’s party will cause “normie Democrats” to split from the “radicalized progressive party,” which would benefit Republicans, more than likely “this is a huge waste of time and resources.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the video above.

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If you’ve endured a university humanities class in the past decade, you’ve probably encountered something closer to a revival for secular dogma than a center of learning. The professors preach cultural Marxism in cap and gown. Saints include Che Guevara. Sinners: white, heteronormative males. Sacred rites: pronoun rituals and land acknowledgments.

At the heart of this faith lies one central mantra: “The rich must pay their fair share.” The chant rings through classrooms and protests alike, uttered with all the subtlety of a Gregorian monk — though with far less harmony and far more self-righteousness.

Let the endowment taxes roll. Let the lawsuits fly. And may the gates of our so-called higher learning institutions be broken open to the higher truths they’ve long tried to suppress.

Let’s be fair. If everyone pays the same tax rate, the rich still pay more in absolute dollars. But that kind of equality doesn’t satisfy the high priests of redistribution. They demand “equity,” which in this context means punishing the successful with steeper percentages. Anything less is deemed injustice. Anything less is oppression. Anything less confirms you didn’t graduate with a gender studies degree and an enduring grudge.

I don’t bring this up just to trigger memories of a feminist philosophy professor scolding you for your privilege. I mention it because, at long last, I agree with them. Yes, the rich should pay a higher rate. And I know exactly where to start: with the universities themselves.

Here’s the irony — a brand of justice so rich even a tenured literature professor could see it. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act delivers on the universities’ own demands. The new graduated endowment tax will slap elite schools like Harvard and Yale with a levy of up to 8% on their investment income.

That’s not chump change. That’s enough to make a development officer cry into his ethically sourced, carbon-neutral latte.

These institutions — which idolize Alfred Kinsey, stack 95% of their faculties with leftists, and teach students to hate America — are finally getting a taste of the redistributionist medicine they’ve long prescribed to others. After decades of turning our culture into a grievance-riddled mess, they’re now paying the price. Literally.

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Call it poetic justice. Better yet, call it providential irony. Let these institutions finance the repair of the very foundations they’ve spent years undermining.

But don’t stop there.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon should give students a clear legal path to demand refunds for failed educations. If a business promises a product and fails to deliver, customers deserve their money back. Why not apply the same principle to overpriced degrees in grievance studies?

And Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. should open the floodgates to lawsuits against professors who, without any medical training, diagnosed gender dysphoria and pushed irreversible surgeries as cures for teenage angst. These people couldn’t diagnose a flat tire, but they felt confident calling your daughter a boy and your son a pansexual moon sprite.

Only when faced with real consequences — financial and legal — might these institutions begin to take their responsibilities seriously again. Only then might they stop operating as what John Calvin once called “idol factories” — churning out false gods and vain imaginations at record speed.

Let the endowment taxes roll. Let the lawsuits fly. And may the gates of our so-called higher learning institutions be broken open to the higher truths they’ve long tried to suppress.

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A violent clash between federal immigration agents and protesters resulted in one protester apparently shooting at agents, according to video captured in California.

The video was taken by a local news station helicopter covering the attacks of protesters on officers at the farm on Laguna Road in Camarillo, according to KABC-TV.

‘What is happening is that there are hundreds of people on site, potentially undocumented individuals who are being questioned and interrogated.’

KABC reported that the man appeared to shoot a few rounds and that no injuries had been documented yet from the apparent shooting.

Witnesses said agents were detaining workers at the farm, and law enforcement had to resort to the use of tear gas to disperse protesters who were attacking officers.

Other videos showed protesters throwing large rocks at officers’ vehicles.

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One demonstrator complained to KABC about the actions of the officers.

“We were speaking our mind like we can as U.S. citizens. We got tear-gassed. … I got hit with a paintball. This is not OK,” said the protester. “This is what we need to be doing as people — coming together against them, the tyranny. They are evil.”

Ventura County District 5 Supervisor Vianey Lopez opposed the raids in a statement to KTLA-TV.

“What is happening is that there are hundreds of people on site, potentially undocumented individuals who are being questioned and interrogated,” said Lopez. “At this point, we don’t know how many people have been detained.”

She said that witnesses reported dozens of migrants being loaded onto buses.

“It is an ongoing situation that is very concerning for the safety of those showing up with anger and disappointment at what is happening to hardworking people in our community.”

California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom released a statement condemning the Trump administration over the raids.

“There’s a real cost to these inhumane immigration actions on hardworking families and communities, including farmworker communities, across America. Instead of supporting the businesses and workers that drive our economy and way of life, Stephen Miller’s tactics evoke chaos, fear, and terror within our communities at every turn,” he said, referring to Trump’s White House deputy chief of staff.

“At Miller’s direction, Trump’s agents continue to detain U.S. citizens and racially profile Americans, ripping families apart and disappearing parents and workers into cruel federal detention centers to meet their self-imposed arrest quotas,” he added.

Camarillo is a city of about 70,000 residents north of Los Angeles.

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“Trump’s IRS hands churches more tax-free political power. What’s next? Watch Handmaid’s Tale!”“Religion and state and military have now merged. It is the end.”“The supreme court has been compromised. We are in free fall.”“The takeover of Christian fascism is now complete.”“This is full on Christo-Fascism. There is no pretense anymore. Capitalism and Christianity have joined forces once more to do unimaginable harm to EVERYBODY. This is fascism, add Western Chauvinism and you have got the trifecta of EVIL that WILL DESTROY HUMANITY IF WE CANNOT DEFEAT THEM!”“Full-blown Christian theocracy!”

So what finally turned us into Gilead? A new ruling allowing churches to endorse political candidates without losing their tax-exempt status.

But the church itself would do well to avoid endorsing any humans, for a myriad of reasons.

Technically, prior to Monday’s ruling, churches could not make endorsements due to the Johnson Amendment, which took effect in 1954 and barred tax-exempt nonprofit organizations from political speech.

I say technically, because left-leaning churches have never let that stop them, as journalist Megan Basham noted in response to a tweet decrying the new rule.

Quite a few on the left are also making evidence-free accusations that “right-wing” churches have been endorsing candidates for years. That’s definitely the pot calling the kettle black, since even Pew Research showed where the politicizing of church is happening. And this is all without fear of the IRS cracking down, apparently.

That’s why this rule, practically speaking, isn’t really changing much.

While conservative-leaning churches did speak out in 2024 about the evils being advanced by the Democrat ticket, in general, they are not nearly as likely to be involved in electioneering as liberal churches. So Megan Basham is likely on point in diagnosing leftist outrage as all about the newly leveled playing field.

What church is supposed to be

Having spent plenty of decades attending Bible-following Christian churches that were likely pretty Republican, I can personally attest that I’ve never heard a sermon that endorsed a candidate or even endorsed a particular political viewpoint.

I have heard sermons that addressed issues in the context of the biblical passage being preached, as they should.

If your pastor is teaching from Psalm 139, for example, and gets to verses 13-16, he better point out that this passage helps us understand how to think about abortion. (Here’s the passage if you’re not familiar.)

So here’s what should stay the same. Solid Christian churches should teach the Bible. Sunday sermons should work their way through scripture, helping us understand what it tells us about God, what it tells us about how to think about life, what it tells us about ourselves.

If, as in the example above, the scripture in question addresses a political issue, the pastor should absolutely be free to say so.

If, using the same example, there’s actually a current ballot issue for or against abortion, the pastor should absolutely be free to encourage his flock to vote with God’s Word — and the new rule should remove any fear of doing that last part.

I cannot conceive, however, of any instances where the focus of a sermon should move away from God’s Word and into which individuals to endorse.

Even in situations where a church member might be the one running for office, this kind of discussion from the pulpit would take the focus off the One we are there to worship.

I hope no pastors will do that.

There already is nothing preventing groups of church members from discussing who to vote for in a non-worship service setting, of course. Let’s keep doing that.

But the church itself would do well to avoid endorsing any humans, for a myriad of reasons — including the fact that tying the church’s name to a politician is far more likely to end up sullying the church’s name (and God’s) than the politician’s name.

RELATED: Patriotic heresy: 4 examples of tangling faith with the flag

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It’s all about the money, or not

A lot of the left-wing angst over this issue seems to revolve around this idea, expressed by the American Humanist Association (unsurprisingly).

Theoretically a billionaire is limited in how much he/she can donate to a politician, but not to a church. So yeah, someone could give a boatload of money to a church.

But they could have done that before this rule change! And I think it’s highly likely that wealthy leftists have supported the kind of churches where people have been rallied to vote for Democrats. I recall photos of Tyler Perry doing a get-out-the-vote event for Barack Obama in a lovely church with stained glass windows.

So what the left is really afraid of is that conservative billionaires will somehow “buy” influence at conservative churches. Give them enough money, and the pastor will have to endorse Trump (or JD Vance, or whoever).

And there may be a few churches where that would work. It might appeal to the small, pathetic, and power-hungry Christian nationalists (the only “Christians” actually advocating some Gilead-like ideas).

Their goal is to take over America anyway. But they don’t have enough power or influence to draw big money, with their revolting takes on women, Jews, and a host of other issues.

As for most conservative-oriented Christian churches — why would our elusive right-wing billionaire spend money getting them to vote for someone they’ll probably already vote for? And that applies on the left, too, despite the political emphases in left-leaning churches. If a group of people is already in your pocket, you don’t need to buy them.

So I don’t think the humanists have a case for this being any more of a problem than it always was. But that doesn’t mean there’s no room for caution here.

Resist the temptation

Some conservative churches have flown a little too close to the political fire, conflating faith with patriotism. I think those churches might be a bit more at risk of taking their focus off the Lord and succumbing to this new temptation to delve into the political.

But as mentioned, church exists for us to worship God and learn how to follow Him. Anything that takes away from that does not glorify Him. Churches — and perhaps especially pastors — should resist the urge to share opinions that are not relevant to whatever they’re teaching.

Make no mistake — philosophically, this is a free-speech victory. But just because we can — does not mean we should. And pastors/churches should not be endorsing candidates from the pulpit or in an official church capacity.

Our proceeding with restraint in this area might also provide a counter to the left’s call, now, to remove tax-exempt status from churches entirely. I would hate to see this status revoked; I don’t think churches should be taxed at all.

Let’s get real

For the most part, we’ve usually known who our pastor might be voting for, because a church is a family of people who live life together and talk about important things. But if he had endorsed someone from the pulpit or in some official capacity, that would have been bringing things into church that distract from worship of a holy God. And that would be a shame. And a sin.

Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire. – Hebrews 12:28-29

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Charlie Kirk reported this week that President Trump faces growing pressure from GOP donors to cut a bipartisan deal offering amnesty to illegal aliens working in agriculture and hospitality. The donor class has long hated Trump and especially his supporters’ demand for real border security and immigration enforcement.

Big business pushing for cheap labor isn’t surprising. What’s alarming is Trump echoing their rhetoric.

What was effectively Ronald Reagan’s 1986 amnesty doomed California. It transformed a red stronghold into the Democrats’ electoral anchor. Trump can’t afford to make the same mistake.

Donald Trump says a lot of things. Anyone who gets emotionally exasperated at any single statement will start to look like a hysterical journalist. Salena Zito’s sage advice — “Take Trump seriously, not literally” — still applies. He might joke about annexing Canada, but those lines rarely lead to action.

At the same time, Trump takes public opinion seriously. He gauges crowd response and often walks back proposals that don’t land. That makes it important to push back on bad ideas without losing perspective.

Trust the plan — but verify the plan regularly.

Kirk understands this. That’s why he’s mobilized opposition now to any amnesty deal, real or imagined. He wouldn’t act unless he sensed real movement inside the swamp. Corporate America has tolerated immigration enforcement as long as it targeted gang members and drug dealers. But when Immigration and Customs Enforcement started raiding farms and hotels, the donor class panicked.

Suddenly, Trump began repeating talking points from Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins about farmers and hotel owners losing their “best workers.” He promised to help them get the labor they need. His administration quietly issued guidance exempting farms and hotels from immigration raids.

The online backlash came fast — and fierce. The administration reversed course and rescinded the exemptions.

But Trump didn’t quite drop the issue. He kept talking about farmers’ need for labor. In the wake of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which delivered major funding for border security, Beltway insiders started floating a pivot: tack back to the center and strike a deal.

That whisper campaign likely prompted Kirk to sound the alarm.

Special carve-outs for illegal labor would betray MAGA’s core promise. Maybe 10 years ago, building a wall and deporting the worst offenders would have been enough. But after eight million illegal aliens surged across the border under Biden’s illegitimate regime, the situation changed. Democrats intentionally flooded the country to shift its demographics and tilt elections. If we don’t reverse that flood, they win.

RELATED: Where the left gets its rage against borders

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After Kirk’s warning, Rollins re-emerged to promise that mass deportations would continue. The base cheered. But she added that future enforcement would be more “strategic” — a telling hedge. Trump followed up by insisting he opposed amnesty, then immediately floated a new “worker program” to help farmers. That language did not reassure.

The United States already has legal guest worker programs. Farms that ignore them and hire illegal aliens are breaking the law. They don’t deserve special treatment. They deserve prosecution.

The truth is, letting illegal aliens stay and rewarding them with American jobs is amnesty. Redefining the term won’t change that.

Conservatives have heard this pitch before. At this point, it’s almost comical. Every “immigration reform” ends the same way: Illegal aliens stay, and the floodgates reopen. It starts with the workers, then families follow. Chain migration becomes mass migration.

Trump was elected because he promised to break this cycle. He built his legacy on tough immigration policies — mass deportations, the wall, an America First agenda. To flirt with a Reagan-style amnesty now would be an incredible betrayal.

What was effectively Ronald Reagan’s 1986 amnesty doomed California. It transformed a red stronghold into the Democrats’ electoral anchor. Trump can’t afford to make the same mistake.

He must shut down this talk — shut down Rollins especially — and remember why voters chose him over the establishment in the first place. The donor class got Trump wrong in 2016. If he listens to its members now, they’ll take him — and the country — down with them.

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A teenager is being accused of numerous acts of heinous sexual assault on a 7-year-old while they both were passengers on a school bus for students with special needs in central Indiana.

Prosecutors allege that 15-year-old Landon Doty raped the younger student several times while other students were on the bus.

A juvenile probation officer said Doty’s conduct was the ‘worst he has seen during his 39-year career as a juvenile probation officer.’

The victim is nonverbal and suffers from “moderate to severe autism,” according to police.

Court documents said evidence of at least one incident was caught on video cameras on the bus. That footage is being reviewed by the Jennings County School Corporation.

Doty is hit with a slew of charges, including two counts of rape, two counts of attempted rape, child molestation, attempted child molestation, two counts of sexual battery, two counts of attempted sexual battery, criminal confinement, and public indecency.

Court documents said that Doty’s actions were “calculated” and that there was evidence that he stopped when he thought he might be caught and allegedly continued when he felt that he would not be caught.

He is being held at the Jennings County Jail and was given a surety bond of $250,000.

“The family is devastated. They want answers,” said Laura Swafford, an attorney for the victim’s family. “They have lots of questions still that remain unanswered, and they want to bring awareness to this so that this does not happen to another child, not only in Jennings County, but throughout the state.”

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She went on to blame the school for not protecting the child.

“This nightmare tragedy should never have happened,” Swafford said. “How could both the bus driver and the additional bus monitor aide not notice anything? Like all parents in the community, the boy’s family believed the school would protect their young, vulnerable son. The family entrusted the school to protect their son by monitoring activity on the bus. The school system breached this trust and clearly failed in its responsibility.”

Doty allegedly made an admission after he was being taken into custody and was placed into a police vehicle.

“I’m basically screwed,” the suspect reportedly said.

A juvenile probation officer said Doty’s conduct was the “worst he has seen during his 39-year career as a juvenile probation officer.”

That officer recommended that he be tried as an adult.

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Douglass Mackey was sentenced to seven months in prison by the Biden administration for posting a Hillary Clinton election meme — but thankfully, his conviction has now been overturned.

The meme showed a picture of a black woman holding an “African Americans for President Hillary” sign, with copy over the image that read: “Avoid the line. Vote from home. Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925.”

In smaller letters it read: “Vote for Hillary and be a part of history.”

“I mean, you have to be a nincompoop to believe this, but you know, there’s a lot of nincompoops,” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck says, noting that as soon as Biden was in office, “they decided to throw the book at him” anyway.

“A federal judge overturned this, and he is now free from this, insane, dare I say it, Hitlerian attempt on freedom of speech,” he adds.

“It’s a great day to be an American,” Mackey tells Glenn, happily.

Mackey found out that he was free on the first day of vacation with his wife and son, when his trial attorney sent him a text that just said, “Congrats.”

“It was a great day to be on vacation,” he says, adding, “Four and a half years since four FBI agents knocked on my door at 7 a.m., and that was seven days after Joe Biden was inaugurated.”

“They had you in their sights long before they got into office,” Glenn says, shocked.

“Oh, that’s right,” Mackey says. “They said, you know, ‘Are you Douglass Mackey? We have a warrant for your arrest.’ The first words out of my mouth were, ‘For what?’ And I really had no idea that this meme was going to be the basis for a prosecution, because at the time, I wasn’t even on Twitter.”

“But back in the 2016 election cycle, I tweeted thousands of times, so I had no idea,” he continues, adding, “But I did know that once they make you an enemy that it’s like, ‘Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.’”

Mackey was charged under the Ku Klux Klan Act, which is a federal felony.

“Sometimes people would rather just plea out rather than go through the expense of fighting it, but a federal felony, the KKK Act. Unbelievable,” Mackey tells Glenn. “And let me tell you this, they indicted Donald J. Trump on the same statute.”

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Democratic leaders aren’t inciting attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers out of pure hatred for Donald Trump and his administration. Their motives are strategic. Practical. By undermining immigration enforcement, they protect a pipeline of future Democratic voters — including violent criminals like the “family man from Maryland.”

Once these illegal aliens receive driver’s licenses, they’ll land on voter rolls. They already count in the census, inflating congressional representation in blue states teeming with illegal immigrants. Democrats didn’t bring these “newcomers” here just to deport them.

Republicans imagine that all or at least most Americans are on the same wavelength with them. But that may not be the case.

If activists now ambush and shoot ICE agents, Democratic leaders seem to treat that as a price worth paying to preserve their long-term electoral advantage. And they can count on the corporate left-wing media to help them.

The press operates as an extension of the Democratic Party, not just in the United States but across the Western world. CNN, NBC, and MSNBC broadcast the same spin you’ll hear on CBC, BBC, Deutsche Welle, and France 4. With this media backing, Democrats face little scrutiny — even when they tacitly abet violence against federal agents.

Right now, public support for deportations hovers around 50%, and it might be higher if the media didn’t stage-manage the narrative. Watch a few minutes of network television or skim the New York Times, and you’ll come away thinking border czar Tom Homan’s raids target preschoolers and migrant field hands.

Fox News insists the anti-Trump mobs are just fringe radicals. They’re not. A massive leftist electorate just nominated Zohran Mamdani to be the next mayor of New York City, and if the polls mean anything, he just might win in the fall. Other major cities are led by mayors only slightly less radical — Karen Bass in Los Angeles, Brandon Johnson in Chicago, Michelle Wu in Boston. When it comes to immigration, they’re just as hostile to ICE and just as gushingly sympathetic to illegal aliens as Mamdani.

The “people” voted for these multicultural, America-be-damned leftists. The fantasy that Democratic voters are victims of a hijacked party is infantile nonsense. A growing share of the American electorate has radicalized — including black voters, government employees, and especially college-educated white women, who dominate the culturally leftist bloc in my own Pennsylvania borough.

Despite years of street violence, riots, and inflammatory rhetoric, the Democrats haven’t collapsed. They still hold a slight edge in the generic congressional ballot. RealClearPolitics polling shows the GOP ahead by only seven points. The Democrats may have lost ground — but they’re far from finished.

RELATED: ‘The Suicide Squad’: How Democrats keep blowing themselves up

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Let’s not forget: In the last presidential election, Democrats lost the popular vote by just two million votes, running a hapless candidate against an incumbent with enormous political energy. That’s how effective the Democratic machine remains — even in a lopsided matchup.

No one should mistake this for incompetence or insanity. Yes, the party boasts plenty of scatterbrained motor mouths such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.). But don’t confuse theatrics with disarray. Democratic leaders push grotesque policies — mutilating children with “gender-affirming” surgeries, putting men in women’s sports, promoting race-based discrimination — but voters haven’t punished them for it.

Republican observers tend to judge the other side by their own standards. They also imagine that all or at least most Americans are on the same wavelength with them. But that may not be the case. Democrats don’t even pretend to feel regret when ICE officers take a bullet or when anarchists torch city blocks. They know their base relishes in the havoc.

This is calculated politics. Democrats want to expand their base through mass migration and lawfare, not persuasion. That’s cold strategy, not insanity.

If Republicans want to win, they need to stop imagining their opponents are self-destructing lunatics. They aren’t. Democrats play to win. The GOP must prepare for a real fight — not fantasyland.

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If owning a farm was a dream of yours, there’s finally some good news. A new action plan announced by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins will prevent foreign countries from buying up U.S. farmland, as well as protect U.S. land from being used in ways that could harm America.

“With this announcement today, we are taking this purpose and our American farmland back. American agriculture is not just about feeding our families but about protecting our nation and standing up to foreign adversaries who are buying our farmland, stealing our research, and creating dangerous vulnerabilities in the very systems that sustain us,” Rollins said.

“Today we announced the USDA’s national farm security action plan. This plan includes seven key action items. The most important, the first of the seven, is securing and protecting American farmland ownership, actively engaging at every level of government to take swift legislative and executive action to ban the purchase of American farmland by Chinese nationals and other foreign adversaries,” she continued.

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales thinks it’s crazy that foreign adversaries were ever allowed to buy any American land in the first place.

“Farmland, houses, developments. I don’t care what it is. I think it’s kind of crazy that we allow that to begin with, but particularly with farmland,” Gonzales says, noting that in the state of Texas, the farmland Chinese nationals were buying were “peculiarly near military bases.”

“And looking at this, the geography of it was very, very scary. Apparently, that’s not just in Texas, that is across the country,” she continues, adding, “Over 227,000 acres of farmland are owned by Chinese investors.”

After several Chinese nationals were caught attempting to smuggle dangerous pathogens that could poison Americans via crops, Gonzales finds it all a little disturbing.

“This is a no-brainer to me. Like, they are owning 227,000 acres of farmland, and they have every intention of bringing in pathogens and bacteria,” she says, adding, “They are always 10 steps ahead of us, and we’re asleep at the wheel. And thankfully, it looks like in this instance, that won’t be happening anymore under the Trump administration.”

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John Kerry made an astounding admission in the ongoing debate on border enforcement, and it is not going to make Democrats happy.

The former climate czar in the Biden administration admitted that Democrats had fumbled border enforcement and said that President Donald Trump had been right. He made the comments in an interview on the “Reflections” podcast on BBC.

‘If you’re going to define your nation, you have to have a border that means something.’

“The first thing any president should say, any president, or anybody in public life, is, without a border protected, you don’t have a nation — I believe that. If you’re going to define your nation, you have to have a border that means something,” Kerry said.

“We have a system,” he added. “I wish President Biden had been heard more often saying, ‘I’m going to enforce the law.'”

When the host said the president was likely to take Kerry’s comments to mean that he was right, Kerry agreed.

“He was right,” Kerry replied. “The problem is, we all should have been right. Everybody should have been right, doing the same thing, all moving in the same direction.”

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He went on to say Democrats should have done more to shut down the border, which was one of Trump’s most repeated campaign promises.

“They just allowed the border to continue to be sieged, under siege,” he said.

The president has been able to virtually shut down the U.S.-Mexico border to illegal crossings, and he has significantly increased the number of deportations, despite pushback by local lawmakers and challenges in court.

Kerry also served as the secretary of state under former President Barack Obama and lost a presidential campaign to former President George W. Bush in 2004. He had been previously lambasted for bemoaning that First Amendment rights prevented the government from squelching disinformation.

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A new poll found that support for President Donald Trump’s mass deportations surged among Hispanic voters between May and July.

Many on the left and some in the media have been trying to persuade Hispanics that the deportations are motivated by racism, but that endeavor appears to have fallen on deaf ears, according to the newest Cygnal poll.

‘There’s little question that among his most attractive qualities is voters’ beliefs that he keeps his promises from the campaign.’

The poll found that support for deportations had surged among Hispanic voters by 7 percentage points over only two months.

Overall, 50% of Hispanic voters supported deportations, while 48% opposed them. There was an 11% rise in support for deportations among Hispanic voters who said they “strongly support” the policy.

The same poll found that black voters had also increased in their support for deportations, but at a smaller margin. White voters had dropped in support by a slight 3% but had much higher rates overall compared to blacks and Hispanics.

According to the poll, 65% of white voters and 53% of black voters support deportation.

Other results from Cygnal were touted by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt for showing that voters saw the president as a politician who keeps his promises.

Half of voters said the president fulfills campaign promises “better than most politicians,” and 38% said he does so “much better than most.”

RELATED: Border Patrol chief has defiant message for Mayor Karen Bass after she claims to have stopped ICE raid in Los Angeles

Cygnal President Brent Buchanan said that fulfilling promises is a “ramrod” for Trump’s agenda.

“Trump was able to not only attract first-time voters in 2024 but also convert some would-be Harris voters, and when you look at this data, there’s little question that among his most attractive qualities is voters’ beliefs that he keeps his promises from the campaign and could care less about what the D.C. establishments thinks about enacting his agenda,” he explained.

The poll had an error margin of 2.51% and included opinions of 1,500 people.

The president’s popularity may be pivotal in the next elections, which will determine whether Democrats can regain control of any part of the government and stand athwart the Trump agenda after the first two years of complete Republican control.

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Co-founder of Wikipedia Larry Sanger found God in an unconventional way.

When he was introduced by a friend to the world of Jeffrey Epstein and the elites, he was forced to reckon with the idea that our culture is ruled by those who will do anything to defend their own immoral horrors.

“A friend of mine was opening my eyes to the existence of various — call them elite pedophile rings. Epstein was not the only one. You can look up the NXIVM case,” Sanger tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.”

“And then there’s, like, ‘Pedowood,’ which is what we call the prevalence of pedophilia in Hollywood. It’s very weird that a lot of the people who are involved, or at least accused of being involved, in such activities have occult beliefs,” he continues.

According to Sanger, his friend knew some of these people personally and confirmed that’s why “they use all of these symbols,” like “the old one-eye.”

“People still notice that, but they used to do that all the time. I think they avoid it now, but generally speaking, a lot of movie posters would show up with this. That’s an occult symbol,” he explains.

Those who partake in these morally bankrupt rituals are willing to put a lot on the line to defend them, which Sanger explains must “at least mean that the spirit world is true” and that “demons exist.”

And because it opened his eyes to evil, he realized that its opposite, good, exists as well.

“Doesn’t that mean that it’s possible that God exists?” he says.

And that’s why, as he found himself digging deeper into the occult, he did not want to “open any portals.”

“I didn’t want to get into it,” he tells Stuckey. “But one thing I learned is that if you look at Masonic symbology, it’s based on a lot of Old Testament, like, temple symbology. What occultists like to do is to invert biblical symbols.”

“So, in other words, pervert them, twist them,” he adds.

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is getting ridiculed for arguing that the mainstream media exaggerated “a couple of incidents” of vandalism during anti-ICE protests into full city rioting.

Bass made the comments at a media briefing Thursday, where she was confronted by a reporter who challenged her on the spread of anti-ICE violence. He cited the terror attack on an ICE facility in Texas allegedly planned and executed by heavily armed left-wing activists.

‘The way that it was portrayed nationally, was like the whole city was up in flames, the comparison to 1992, which was completely and 100% inappropriate.’

“Well, let me just say that the quote-unquote ‘riots’ that were reported never happened,” Bass responded.

“We did have a couple of incidents of vandalism and looting,” she continued. “But the way that it was portrayed nationally was like the whole city was up in flames, the comparison to 1992, which was completely and 100% inappropriate.”

She was also dismissive of the alleged terror attack on an ICE facility in Texas and said she didn’t know anything about it.

“And I think the example that you use — I’m sorry, I’m not familiar with it — it was from some other state,” she added.

“Yes, Texas,” the reporter responded.

“I have no idea what happened in Texas. What I do know is what happened in Los Angeles,” she added.

At that point, Bass was whisked away by one of her aides.

The Republican National Committee posted a shortened version of her comments, but the extended version of the video includes her argument that the rioting was exaggerated.

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Many critics online excoriated the mayor for downplaying the violence of the anti-ICE rioting.

“This is false. They rioted for nights on end. The rioters set Waymo vehicles on fire, torched police vehicles, held them captive under a bridge, and assaulted multiple officers,” read one popular response.

“Seriously, that’s just ignoring reality. Leaders should address violence, not act clueless. LA isn’t immune to these issues,” read another response.

“So those weren’t cement block pieces crashing down on police cars from all angles above and keeping police trapped under a freeway overpass?” asked another detractor.

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The viability of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s campaign for a seat in the U.S. Senate came into question when his wife announced Thursday that she is divorcing him on “biblical grounds.”

Paxton is challenging long-time Republican Sen. John Cornyn for the seat in the Senate he has held for 23 years.

‘I move forward with complete confidence that God is always working everything together for the good of those who love Him and who are called according to His purpose.’

The revelation prompted Angela Paxton, who is a Texas state senator, to release a statement on social media.

“I believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation,” she wrote. “But in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to remain in the marriage. I move forward with complete confidence that God is always working everything together for the good of those who love Him and who are called according to His purpose.”

The Texas attorney general also posted on social media about the divorce.

“After facing the pressures of countless political attacks and public scrutiny, Angela and I have decided to start a new chapter in our lives,” he wrote. “I could not be any more proud or grateful for the incredible family that God has blessed us with, and I remain committed to supporting our amazing children and grandchildren. I ask for your prayers and privacy at this time.”

RELATED: Paxton notches key endorsement from Texas congressman in fight to unseat Cornyn

Angela Paxton accused her husband of adultery and said that they no longer lived together as of June 2024, according to the filing obtained by KUT News.

“The marriage has become insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities between Petitioner and Respondent that destroys the legitimate ends of the marriage relationship and prevents any reasonable expectation of reconciliation,” the filing reads.

Rumors of infidelity had followed Paxton in the past.

The couple have been married for 38 years and have four children and five grandchildren.

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Donald Trump’s battle with Harvard University has threatened the school’s deep pockets, with one of the president’s latest moves cutting off its woke foundations at the root.

For months, President Trump has been in a standoff with Harvard over student visas, foreign money, and anti-Semitism. While protests, occupations, and even intimidation of Jews have already led to the loss of certification for the institution, the school’s dedication to diversity and equity means it is now fighting off a dual-pronged attack.

On Wednesday, the Department of Education under Secretary Linda McMahon dropped a bomb on Harvard that could spell huge trouble.

‘When an institution … abandons its mission … it forfeits the legitimacy that accreditation is designed to uphold.’

The tough-to-swallow pill was handed to Harvard through the New England Commission of Higher Education, which was notified by the Trump administration that Harvard is in violation of federal anti-discrimination laws and therefore “may fail to meet the standards for accreditation set by the Commission.”

The Dept. of Education said in a press release that Harvard must adhere to “non-discriminatory policies and practices” in its recruitment, admissions, and employment, among other activities. The Office for Civil Rights additionally found that Harvard is in violation of federal civil rights laws, which could also result in a loss of accreditation for the school.

Referred to as a “death sentence,” a loss of accreditation could have a multitude of devastating outcomes for any school. According to Accredited Schools Online, loss of accreditation results in the loss of federal financial aid, an inability for students to transfer credits, and degrees no longer being recognized by employers or graduate schools.

Students are advised to leave schools that could soon lose their status to ensure their financial aid does not stop and their credits do not go to waste.

That is not all Harvard — and other schools like Columbia that have been similarly warned — have to worry about. An executive order from Trump in April is using a top-down approach to end wokeness in university degree programs.

RELATED: Exposed: Harvard’s elite law journal accused of discriminating against white men

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The executive order, titled “Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education,” directly addresses associations that act as accreditors for the most important fields.

Specifically, the president targeted the American Bar Association’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, as well as the Liaison Committee on Medical Education.

The legal council is the sole federally recognized accreditor and has required law schools to “demonstrate by concrete action a commitment to diversity and inclusion,” including by “commit[ting] to having a student body [and faculty] that is diverse with respect to gender, race, and ethnicity.”

The medical committee, which is the only federally recognized body that accredits doctor of medicine degree programs, requires schools to engage in “ongoing, systematic, and focused recruitment and retention activities, to achieve mission-appropriate diversity outcomes among its students.”

Trump’s executive order looks to cut the snake off at the head by ending these requirements from accreditors.

RELATED: Why Trump’s war with Harvard hits closer to home than you think

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Regarding the moves, Secretary McMahon said the accrediting bodies play a significant role in preserving academic integrity.

“Harvard University has failed in its obligation to students, educators, and American taxpayers. The Department of Education expects the New England Commission of Higher Education to enforce its policies and practices and to keep the Department fully informed of its efforts to ensure that Harvard is in compliance with federal law and accreditor standards.”

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. bluntly warned that schools that fail to properly educate their students risk losing their legitimacy.

“When an institution — no matter how prestigious — abandons its mission and fails to protect its students, it forfeits the legitimacy that accreditation is designed to uphold,” he said.

Kennedy added, “HHS and the Department of Education will actively hold Harvard accountable through sustained oversight until it restores public trust and ensures a campus free of discrimination.”

In a statement to The Hill, a Harvard spokesperson said the school is taking “substantive, proactive steps to address the root causes of antisemitism in its community.”

Harvard also said it “not only shared its comprehensive and retrospective Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias Report,” but also outlined the ways it has “strengthened policies, disciplined those who violate them, encouraged civil discourse, and promoted open, respectful dialogue.”

Harvard went on to say that it will continue to comply with the accreditation commission to maintain its “uninterrupted” status, which it has maintained “since its initial review in 1929.”

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