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The Sept. 10 assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk failed to scare the conservative group off college campuses. The fact that students across the country have stood their ground and continue to hold events has evidently enraged leftists.

On Friday, a 27-year-old teaching assistant at Illinois State University allegedly attacked a TPUSA booth where students were advertising their group as well as their Oct. 20 event featuring BlazeTV host Alex Stein.

‘The left has no impulse control.’

Footage of the incident seems to show the man-bunned teaching assistant Derek Lopez of El Paso, Illinois, confront student members of the conservative group — one of whom appears to have been smashed in the face with a pie — and motion toward their table stating, “Jesus did it. So you know I gotta do it, right?”

A pinned tweet on an X page that appears to belong to Lopez states, “A reminder to students who see TPUSA chapters on their campus: those are Nazis.”

Lopez can be seen in the footage apparently yanking the table, then turning it over, then later yanking down flyers for the event. Lopez apparently admitted to flipping over the table in an Instagram post.

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Hours after the incident, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon noted, “This is outrageous anti-speech conduct by a state employee. What’s up @IllinoisStateU?!”

The following day, the university told Dhillon that the institution “recognizes the diverse perspectives represented on our campus,” and indicated that Lopez, confirmed to be a graduate student and teaching assistant at the university, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property.

Chief Aaron Woodruff of the Illinois State University Police Department said in a statement, “We are committed to protecting the First Amendment rights as well as [the] safety of everyone in our campus community. We encourage all members of our community to learn more about free speech rights and responsibilities at Illinois State University, including constructive ways to respond when encountering speech they may disagree with.”

According to campus police, Lopez could face additional charges and university disciplinary action over the incident.

Blaze News has reached out to Lopez for comment.

Alex Stein, who was himself viciously attacked over the weekend by unhinged liberals at a No Kings protest, told Blaze News, “It’s sad that it’s not even surprising anymore when something like this happens.”

“Radical leftists have made sure to infiltrate the education system so they can try and radicalize more students, and then want to get violent/physical when they see something they don’t agree with,” continued Stein. “It’s obvious at this point the left has no impulse control. I’m looking forward to my event tonight at Illinois State and am proud of the students who stood their ground against the student teacher.”

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The president answered with important details on Monday about the possibility of U.S. troops on the ground to “eradicate” the Hamas terror group if it continues to threaten the peace deal negotiated with Israel.

President Donald Trump took questions from the press while seated next to the prime minister of Australia at the White House.

‘They have to be good, and if they’re not good, they will be eradicated.’

The president gave a fierce warning to the Hamas terror group for continuing attacks on Israelis.

“They’re going to behave. They’re going to be nice. And if they’re not, we’re going to go and we’re going to eradicate them if we have to. They’ll be eradicated. And they know that,” said Trump.

“They got very rambunctious, and they did things that they shouldn’t be doing,” he added. “And if they keep doing it, then we’re going to go in and straighten it out. And it’ll happen very quickly and pretty violently, unfortunately.”

Rebeka Zeljko of Blaze News asked him to clarify whether that action might include the U.S. military.

“When you say, ‘We are going to eradicate Hamas,’ who is ‘we’?” Zeljko asked. “Does that include American boots on the ground?”

“No. It won’t be on the ground at all,” Trump replied unequivocally.

“We don’t need to because we have many countries, as you know, signed on to this deal. The way I view it, 59 countries … that four months ago didn’t like each other and now they’re all aligned together,” he added.

“I mean, we’ve had countries calling me when they saw some of the killing with Hamas, saying, ‘We’d love to go in and take care of the situation ourselves,'” Trump continued. “In addition you have Israel would go in in two minutes if I asked them to go in. I could tell them, ‘Go in and take care of it.’ But right now we haven’t said that. We’re gonna give it a little chance, and hopefully there will be a little less violence, but right now, you know, they’re violent people. Hamas has been very violent.”

He went on to point out that Hamas had lost the backing of Iran and anyone else.

“They have to be good, and if they’re not good, they will be eradicated,” he added.

RELATED: Trump praises Blaze News reporting during Antifa roundtable at White House — and slaps down MSNBC, CNN

The peace deal negotiated by Trump has already led to the release of the remaining hostages and the remains of hostages to Israel from the terror group.

Critics of the U.S. backing Israel in the conflict have strenuously objected to the possibility of U.S. military troops being sent to help the U.S. ally in the fight against Hamas.

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An ex-Pennsylvania state police trooper — who is white — is suing his former agency for firing him after his viral arrest of a black Philadelphia LGBTQ leader.

Andrew Zaborowski arrested Celena McLean — then Celena Morrison — and McLean’s husband in a March 2024 traffic stop on the Schuylkill Expressway, WPVI-TV reported.

‘It’s cause I’m black.’

Zaborowski claims in his lawsuit that state police fired him because of his skin color and that he was falsely accused of racial profiling, the station said.

At the time of the traffic stop and arrest, McLean was Philadelphia’s executive director of the Office of LGBT Affairs, WPVI reported.

The station said it reached out to state police for comment but did not hear back.

RELATED: 9 arrested after transgender activists clash with police at ‘Let Women Speak’ event in NYC

As Blaze News previously reported, the March 2 incident — some of which was caught on video — took place on Interstate 76 near the downtown part of the city.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, citing state police, at the time reported that the trooper pulled over Celena Morrison for driving with an expired and suspended registration, driving without headlights activated in the rain, illegally tinted windows, and driving too close to another car.

After the traffic stop, Celena Morrison’s husband, Darius McLean, pulled up behind them, the paper said, adding that state police said McLean “became verbally combative” and “refused multiple lawful orders” after the trooper approached him.

The trooper attempted to arrest McLean, and Morrison tried to intervene, the Inquirer said, adding that Morrison also was arrested.

In Morrison’s video of the arrest, Morrison was heard yelling, “I work for the mayor! I work for the mayor!” as McLean was laying on the shoulder of the freeway, the paper said.

“Please, just stop. No! It’s cause I’m black,” McLean was heard saying, according to WPVI-TV.

“It’s not ’cause you’re black,” the trooper replied, according to the station.

The trooper then told Morrison to “turn around” and “give me your hands, or you are getting tased,” WPVI reported. At one point, Morrison was heard saying, “He just punched me,” the Inquirer said.

More from the station:

“This was a simple traffic stop cause you didn’t have your lights on. You’re tailgating,” the officer explains to the couple. “Then, I don’t know who you are. I don’t need somebody rolling up on me.”

“There was no need at all,” one person is heard saying.

“You were about to tase me. You pulled your gun on me,” another voice says.

“You were fighting with me,” says a third voice.

“No, I wasn’t fighting you,” someone responds.

RELATED: The Zizians’ violent spiral: A trans group tied to killings across America

State police placed the trooper on restricted duty after the incident, the Inquirer reported.

In addition, while state police charged the couple with resisting arrest, obstruction of justice, disorderly conduct, and summary traffic citations, the paper said the office of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner declined the charges, and Celena Morrison and Darius McLean were released from custody on the evening of March 2.

Blaze News reported in January 2020 that then-Mayor Jim Kenney appointed Celena Morrison to run his Office of LGBT Affairs — and that Morrison was the first-ever trans-identifying individual of color to head up the agency.

“While Philadelphia is known as a progressive, LGBTQ-friendly city, we still have work to do,” the far-left Kenney said in a statement. “I look forward to working with Celena to build a more inclusive city for our residents.”

Morrison added to KYW-AM that being transgender and black will be an asset when it comes to the job’s demands of dealing with issues of race and gender.

“Trans folks are not being accepted,” Morrison told KYW. “They are not accepted within the LGBT community. They are also not accepted within the black community. That double marginalization calls for a different type of support.”

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An ex-Pennsylvania state police trooper — who is white — is suing his former agency for firing him after his viral arrest of a black Philadelphia LGBTQ leader.

Andrew Zaborowski arrested Celena McLean — then Celena Morrison — and McLean’s husband in a March 2024 traffic stop on the Schuylkill Expressway, WPVI-TV reported.

‘It’s cause I’m black.’

Zaborowski claims in his lawsuit that state police fired him because of his skin color and that he was falsely accused of racial profiling, the station said.

At the time of the traffic stop and arrest, McLean was Philadelphia’s executive director of the Office of LGBT Affairs, WPVI reported.

The station said it reached out to state police for comment but did not hear back.

RELATED: 9 arrested after transgender activists clash with police at ‘Let Women Speak’ event in NYC

As Blaze News previously reported, the March 2 incident — some of which was caught on video — took place on Interstate 76 near the downtown part of the city.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, citing state police, at the time reported that the trooper pulled over Celena Morrison for driving with an expired and suspended registration, driving without headlights activated in the rain, illegally tinted windows, and driving too close to another car.

After the traffic stop, Celena Morrison’s husband, Darius McLean, pulled up behind them, the paper said, adding that state police said McLean “became verbally combative” and “refused multiple lawful orders” after the trooper approached him.

The trooper attempted to arrest McLean, and Morrison tried to intervene, the Inquirer said, adding that Morrison also was arrested.

In Morrison’s video of the arrest, Morrison was heard yelling, “I work for the mayor! I work for the mayor!” as McLean was laying on the shoulder of the freeway, the paper said.

“Please, just stop. No! It’s cause I’m black,” McLean was heard saying, according to WPVI-TV.

“It’s not ’cause you’re black,” the trooper replied, according to the station.

The trooper then told Morrison to “turn around” and “give me your hands, or you are getting tased,” WPVI reported. At one point, Morrison was heard saying, “He just punched me,” the Inquirer said.

More from the station:

“This was a simple traffic stop cause you didn’t have your lights on. You’re tailgating,” the officer explains to the couple. “Then, I don’t know who you are. I don’t need somebody rolling up on me.”

“There was no need at all,” one person is heard saying.

“You were about to tase me. You pulled your gun on me,” another voice says.

“You were fighting with me,” says a third voice.

“No, I wasn’t fighting you,” someone responds.

RELATED: The Zizians’ violent spiral: A trans group tied to killings across America

State police placed the trooper on restricted duty after the incident, the Inquirer reported.

In addition, while state police charged the couple with resisting arrest, obstruction of justice, disorderly conduct, and summary traffic citations, the paper said the office of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner declined the charges, and Celena Morrison and Darius McLean were released from custody on the evening of March 2.

Blaze News reported in January 2020 that then-Mayor Jim Kenney appointed Celena Morrison to run his Office of LGBT Affairs — and that Morrison was the first-ever trans-identifying individual of color to head up the agency.

“While Philadelphia is known as a progressive, LGBTQ-friendly city, we still have work to do,” the far-left Kenney said in a statement. “I look forward to working with Celena to build a more inclusive city for our residents.”

Morrison added to KYW-AM that being transgender and black will be an asset when it comes to the job’s demands of dealing with issues of race and gender.

“Trans folks are not being accepted,” Morrison told KYW. “They are not accepted within the LGBT community. They are also not accepted within the black community. That double marginalization calls for a different type of support.”

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An outage on Amazon’s web hosting service caused a sweep of app outages after the company faced issues at an east-coast operations center.

AWS hosts about 6.3% of all websites, but some of the biggest brands’ communications platforms also rely on the service.

‘I don’t trust Signal anymore.’

When reports started rolling in around 3 a.m. Eastern Time, Amazon said it was dealing with an “operational issue” that was affecting 14 services at its northern Virginia center.

Snapchat, McDonald’s, and even Ring doorbell cameras were among some of the applications affected. Even gaming platforms like Roblox and Fortnite were affected, as were messaging and communications programs like Zoom and Signal.

According to NBC News, about 6.5 million reports piled up that said over 1,000 sites and services had gone offline.

After 6:30 a.m., AWS said it had “fully mitigated” the issues; that was until 10:14 a.m., when it confirmed “significant API errors and connectivity issues across multiple services in the US-EAST-1 Region.”

The widespread outage sparked conversations about the fragility and dependency of major companies and even institutions, as the blackout affected the U.K. government’s HM Revenue and Customs department, which handles tax services.

With Signal affected, purporting to be an encrypted chat, X owner Elon Musk jumped on the opportunity to cast doubt on the app and direct readers to his own version, X chat.

RELATED: Amazon invests $500M in mini nuclear reactors to power AI operations

“I don’t trust Signal anymore,” Musk wrote on X, responding to a user alarmed that Signal was not working.

Just over 20 minutes later, Musk started promoting his own messenger: “The messages are fully encrypted with no advertising hooks or strange ‘AWS dependencies’ such that I can’t read your messages even if someone put a gun to my head.”

This is a contrast from May 2024, when Musk openly praised AWS for developing generative AI that helps write website code.

“Impressive. My hat is off to what Amazon has accomplished with AWS,” Musk wrote at the time.

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This is not the first time Signal has been accused of being insecure. In a 2023 interview with the popular online influencer group Nelk Boys, conservative host Tucker Carlson claimed the NSA had hacked his Signal account around the time he was attempting to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Carlson said he got a call from someone in Washington, D.C., who sat down with him and had knowledge of his conversations about planning an interview with Putin because the NSA had allegedly read Carlson’s messages.

An NGO called Article 19, which describes itself as a group “defending freedom of expression and information around the world,” told NBC News that the organization felt the disruptions were “democratic failures.”

“When a single provider goes dark, critical services go offline with it — media outlets become inaccessible, secure communication apps like Signal stop functioning, and the infrastructure that serves our digital society crumbles.”

According to Wojciech Gawroński, who runs the website AWS Maniac, Amazon has suffered one to two major outages per year between 2011 and 2021.

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An outage on Amazon’s web hosting service caused a sweep of app outages after the company faced issues at an east-coast operations center.

AWS hosts about 6.3% of all websites, but some of the biggest brands’ communications platforms also rely on the service.

‘I don’t trust Signal anymore.’

When reports started rolling in around 3 a.m. Eastern Time, Amazon said it was dealing with an “operational issue” that was affecting 14 services at its northern Virginia center.

Snapchat, McDonald’s, and even Ring doorbell cameras were among some of the applications affected. Even gaming platforms like Roblox and Fortnite were affected, as were messaging and communications programs like Zoom and Signal.

According to NBC News, about 6.5 million reports piled up that said over 1,000 sites and services had gone offline.

After 6:30 a.m., AWS said it had “fully mitigated” the issues; that was until 10:14 a.m., when it confirmed “significant API errors and connectivity issues across multiple services in the US-EAST-1 Region.”

The widespread outage sparked conversations about the fragility and dependency of major companies and even institutions, as the blackout affected the U.K. government’s HM Revenue and Customs department, which handles tax services.

With Signal affected, purporting to be an encrypted chat, X owner Elon Musk jumped on the opportunity to cast doubt on the app and direct readers to his own version, X chat.

RELATED: Amazon invests $500M in mini nuclear reactors to power AI operations

“I don’t trust Signal anymore,” Musk wrote on X, responding to a user alarmed that Signal was not working.

Just over 20 minutes later, Musk started promoting his own messenger: “The messages are fully encrypted with no advertising hooks or strange ‘AWS dependencies’ such that I can’t read your messages even if someone put a gun to my head.”

This is a contrast from May 2024, when Musk openly praised AWS for developing generative AI that helps write website code.

“Impressive. My hat is off to what Amazon has accomplished with AWS,” Musk wrote at the time.

RELATED: AI isn’t feeding you

— (@)

This is not the first time Signal has been accused of being insecure. In a 2023 interview with the popular online influencer group Nelk Boys, conservative host Tucker Carlson claimed the NSA had hacked his Signal account around the time he was attempting to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Carlson said he got a call from someone in Washington, D.C., who sat down with him and had knowledge of his conversations about planning an interview with Putin because the NSA had allegedly read Carlson’s messages.

An NGO called Article 19, which describes itself as a group “defending freedom of expression and information around the world,” told NBC News that the organization felt the disruptions were “democratic failures.”

“When a single provider goes dark, critical services go offline with it — media outlets become inaccessible, secure communication apps like Signal stop functioning, and the infrastructure that serves our digital society crumbles.”

According to Wojciech Gawroński, who runs the website AWS Maniac, Amazon has suffered one to two major outages per year between 2011 and 2021.

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Liberals and others keen to signal their adherence to post-colonial theory for years started their meetings and conferences in Canada with land acknowledgments, thanking the descendants of those warring semi-nomadic, Stone Age peoples present at the time of European civilization’s exportation to North America “for allowing us to meet and learn together on their territory.”

Owing to a consequential court ruling on Aug. 7, some Canadians in Richmond, British Columbia, might ultimately have to acknowledge that their land is no longer legally their own — and get packing.

‘The judge doesn’t seem to have fully considered the panic her judgment would cause.’

Members of the Cowichan Tribes, an Indian band in B.C. comprising around 5,500 souls, brought a legal action several years ago against the Canadian federal government, the Province of British Columbia, the City of Richmond, and other parties, seeking a declaration of aboriginal title to 1,846 acres of land in Richmond.

After a 513-day trial with hearings spanning over 11 years, Justice Barbara Young of the B.C. Supreme Court ruled that:

the Cowichan have aboriginal title to the land in question; the Crown grants of basic property ownership in the area, “and the Crown vesting of the soil and freehold interest in certain highway lands in the Cowichan Title Lands, unjustifiably infringe the Cowichan’s Aboriginal title”;”Canada and Richmond’s fee simple titles and interests in the Cowichan Title Lands are defective and invalid”; andmembers of the Indian band have a right to fish the south arm of the Fraser River for food.

While the judge did not order restitution, she tasked the federal and provincial governments with negotiating “in good faith towards reconciliation of Canada’s fee simple interests in the area with Cowichan Aboriginal title.”

This decision — which has been appealed by the province, the City of Richmond, and a pair of other Indian bands — could have major implications for those landowners in the area as well as for similar land disputes across the country.

RELATED: Ashes and accountability in the aftermath of Canada’s unmarked Indian graves sham

BC Premier David Eby. Photographer: David Kawai/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Dwight Newman, a professor of law at the University of Saskatchewan and author behind the Law for Breakfast Substack, told Blaze News that the full implications are “not yet certain.”

“The ‘Supreme Court’ in B.C. is a confusingly named trial-level court, and the decision is being appealed. If appellate courts maintained the same thing, it would directly mean that some City of Richmond land and some federal land in the city would be owned by the Cowichan,” said Newman. “Indirectly, though, the decision implied that private property within aboriginal title areas was also vulnerable. That has widespread implications in areas where treaties have not resolved land claims, which differs in different parts of Canada.”

While the Cowichan plaintiffs successfully sought a declaration that the land ownership titles held by Canada, the city, and the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority were invalid, they did not seek the same declaration with respect to privately owned lands.

The Times Colonist reported that the court did, however, indicate that the Crown’s granting of private property ownership rights needs to be resolved through negotiation, litigation, or purchase.

Newman told Blaze News that while the plaintiffs in the case have “tried to give the impression” that they would not evict residents from the disputed territory, “if the law from this decision were maintained, it would be possible for them to pursue a claim against private residents too. Private residents might have some different defenses, but we don’t know how that plays out.”

When asked what could change for non-Indian homeowners on the affected parcel of land, Newman said, “The fact I can’t give you an answer with any certainty is maybe the most concerning part. This could all play out in various ways.”

“That’s an uncomfortable situation for non-indigenous homeowners,” continued Newman. “The judge doesn’t seem to have fully considered the panic her judgment would cause.”

Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie noted in a recent letter to homeowners in the area that the decision “could negatively affect the title” of their properties — echoing the judge’s statement that “a declaration of Aboriginal title may give rise to some uncertainty for the fee simple title holders and it may have consequences for their interests in land.”

Referring to the map contained within the B.C. court’s ruling highlighting the Indian band’s territorial claim, Brodie wrote, “For those whose property is in the area outlined in black, the Court has declared aboriginal title to your property which may compromise the status and validity of your ownership — this was mandated without any prior notice to the landowners. The entire area outlined in green is claimed on appeal by the Cowichan First Nations.”

“I believe it is one of the most consequential rulings in the history of the country,” the mayor told CTV News on Sunday, adding that it potentially “undermines the entire land system that we have in this province, and for much of the country itself.”

Brodie noted further that the homeowners in the area are “just starting to wake up to what is going on.”

Blaze News has reached out to the Cowichan Tribes and to Brodie’s office for comment.

John Rustad, leader of the Conservative Party of B.C., asked the province’s leftist premier, David Eby, in an Oct. 19 letter to “immediately pause all negotiations between the Province of British Columbia and First Nations until the Supreme Court of Canada has provided clarity.”

Rustad emphasized that continuing negotiations, especially in the absence of clarity about the property rights of landowners in the affected area, “risks compounding the harm and further deepening public division.”

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Liberals and others keen to signal their adherence to post-colonial theory for years started their meetings and conferences in Canada with land acknowledgments, thanking the descendants of those warring semi-nomadic, Stone Age peoples present at the time of European civilization’s exportation to North America “for allowing us to meet and learn together on their territory.”

Owing to a consequential court ruling on Aug. 7, some Canadians in Richmond, British Columbia, might ultimately have to acknowledge that their land is no longer legally their own — and get packing.

‘The judge doesn’t seem to have fully considered the panic her judgment would cause.’

Members of the Cowichan Tribes, an Indian band in B.C. comprising around 5,500 souls, brought a legal action several years ago against the Canadian federal government, the Province of British Columbia, the City of Richmond, and other parties, seeking a declaration of aboriginal title to 1,846 acres of land in Richmond.

After a 513-day trial with hearings spanning over 11 years, Justice Barbara Young of the B.C. Supreme Court ruled that:

the Cowichan have aboriginal title to the land in question; the Crown grants of basic property ownership in the area, “and the Crown vesting of the soil and freehold interest in certain highway lands in the Cowichan Title Lands, unjustifiably infringe the Cowichan’s Aboriginal title”;”Canada and Richmond’s fee simple titles and interests in the Cowichan Title Lands are defective and invalid”; andmembers of the Indian band have a right to fish the south arm of the Fraser River for food.

While the judge did not order restitution, she tasked the federal and provincial governments with negotiating “in good faith towards reconciliation of Canada’s fee simple interests in the area with Cowichan Aboriginal title.”

This decision — which has been appealed by the province, the City of Richmond, and a pair of other Indian bands — could have major implications for those landowners in the area as well as for similar land disputes across the country.

RELATED: Ashes and accountability in the aftermath of Canada’s unmarked Indian graves sham

BC Premier David Eby. Photographer: David Kawai/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Dwight Newman, a professor of law at the University of Saskatchewan and author behind the Law for Breakfast Substack, told Blaze News that the full implications are “not yet certain.”

“The ‘Supreme Court’ in B.C. is a confusingly named trial-level court, and the decision is being appealed. If appellate courts maintained the same thing, it would directly mean that some City of Richmond land and some federal land in the city would be owned by the Cowichan,” said Newman. “Indirectly, though, the decision implied that private property within aboriginal title areas was also vulnerable. That has widespread implications in areas where treaties have not resolved land claims, which differs in different parts of Canada.”

While the Cowichan plaintiffs successfully sought a declaration that the land ownership titles held by Canada, the city, and the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority were invalid, they did not seek the same declaration with respect to privately owned lands.

The Times Colonist reported that the court did, however, indicate that the Crown’s granting of private property ownership rights needs to be resolved through negotiation, litigation, or purchase.

Newman told Blaze News that while the plaintiffs in the case have “tried to give the impression” that they would not evict residents from the disputed territory, “if the law from this decision were maintained, it would be possible for them to pursue a claim against private residents too. Private residents might have some different defenses, but we don’t know how that plays out.”

When asked what could change for non-Indian homeowners on the affected parcel of land, Newman said, “The fact I can’t give you an answer with any certainty is maybe the most concerning part. This could all play out in various ways.”

“That’s an uncomfortable situation for non-indigenous homeowners,” continued Newman. “The judge doesn’t seem to have fully considered the panic her judgment would cause.”

Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie noted in a recent letter to homeowners in the area that the decision “could negatively affect the title” of their properties — echoing the judge’s statement that “a declaration of Aboriginal title may give rise to some uncertainty for the fee simple title holders and it may have consequences for their interests in land.”

Referring to the map contained within the B.C. court’s ruling highlighting the Indian band’s territorial claim, Brodie wrote, “For those whose property is in the area outlined in black, the Court has declared aboriginal title to your property which may compromise the status and validity of your ownership — this was mandated without any prior notice to the landowners. The entire area outlined in green is claimed on appeal by the Cowichan First Nations.”

“I believe it is one of the most consequential rulings in the history of the country,” the mayor told CTV News on Sunday, adding that it potentially “undermines the entire land system that we have in this province, and for much of the country itself.”

Brodie noted further that the homeowners in the area are “just starting to wake up to what is going on.”

Blaze News has reached out to the Cowichan Tribes and to Brodie’s office for comment.

John Rustad, leader of the Conservative Party of B.C., asked the province’s leftist premier, David Eby, in an Oct. 19 letter to “immediately pause all negotiations between the Province of British Columbia and First Nations until the Supreme Court of Canada has provided clarity.”

Rustad emphasized that continuing negotiations, especially in the absence of clarity about the property rights of landowners in the affected area, “risks compounding the harm and further deepening public division.”

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The No Kings protest in Los Angeles on Saturday turned chaotic outside the federal building downtown after the Los Angeles Police Department prevented anti-ICE protesters from reaching the facility’s driveway.

Frustrated with being unable to target federal agents and interfere with immigration operations, the crowd turned their ire toward LAPD officers. During one confrontation, one person stood in front of a police SUV while waving an upside-down American flag. The officer saw an opening to drive around the protester, and the protester briefly walked back into the SUV’s way before jumping back and falling to the ground as if injured, according to video.

The moment was captured by independent journalist Anthony Cabassa while livestreaming on TikTok. Cabassa posted the video after several other clips were circulating online showing the aftermath of the incident, but not the incident itself.

Cabassa was replying to an X account that claimed the protester had been “ran over.”

‘I saw him shortly after return to the protest appearing unharmed and continued to protest into the night.’

Cabassa’s video shows other protesters carrying the “injured” man to a car and claiming to want to take him to a hospital. Whether he ever arrived at a hospital is unclear, but if he did, according to Cabassa, he must not have been there long.

“Although the young man who claimed to be struck was seen in video being put into a vehicle and presumably headed to the hospital, I saw him shortly after return to the protest appearing unharmed and continued to protest into the night despite the protest being called unlawful,” Cabassa told Blaze News.

Later that night, LAPD used mounted patrol to clear the crowd away from the federal building.

RELATED: ICE agents fear for their safety after security fence removed at Chicago-area facility amid sometimes violent protests

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Due to video of the incident being shared widely, it was discovered that the agitator has made headlines before during protests in Portland, Oregon.

The man has been identified as Joseph Sanchez, and he was arrested by federal agents outside the besieged U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building earlier this month. Fox News reporter Bill Melugin reported that Sanchez was visibly shaking while he was being processed during his arrest on October 1 even though he previously allegedly shouted at agents, “Don’t f**king touch me, b**ch. Who the f**k do you think you are?”

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As the government shutdown closes in on its third week, some members of the Trump administration believe that Democrats may soon be willing to come to the table.

Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council, suggested that the end could be in sight for the government shutdown.

‘I think the Schumer shutdown is likely to end some time this week.’

In a CNBC interview, Hassett said, “A lot of our friends in the Senate have said that it was just bad optics for Democrats to open the government before the No Kings rally, and that now there’s a shot that this week things will come together and very quickly the moderate Democrats will move forward and get us an open government.”

The No Kings rallies, a series of feeble nationwide protests against the Trump administration, took place on Saturday. With this event in the rearview mirror, Hassett argued, Democrats may be ready to come to the table.

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“There are sort of cracks in the Schumer armor. I think the Schumer shutdown is likely to end some time this week,” Hassett said.

Democrats have similarly expressed hopes to reopen the government, but the entrenchment is far from over.

According to CBS News, Senator Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) said on Sunday during an interview on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” “We should be able to wrap this up this week if they will sit down and have a negotiation with us.”

However, it is unclear whether this prediction will be substantiated this week. Democrat holdouts have not publicly indicated any change in their demands, though some moderates have already sided with Republicans on a clean continuing resolution to reopen the government.

“Director Hassett is one of tens of millions of everyday Americans who are all hoping that Senate Democrats will do the right thing by ending their government shutdown. The American people deserve better than being left in the lurch because Democrats want to die on the hill of giving free health care to illegal immigrants,” White House spokesperson Kush Desai told Blaze News.

Editor’s note: This article has been edited after publication to include a comment from the White House.

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While most eyes have been directed either overseas or toward other domestic scandals, President Trump has continued to crack down on drug cartels and their supporters in the Western Hemisphere.

The latest crackdown focuses on Colombia’s president and his alleged connection with drug smugglers and producers.

‘The purpose of this drug production is the sale of massive amounts of product into the United States, causing death, destruction, and havoc.’

In a Sunday Truth Social post, Trump delivered a harsh message about far-left Colombian President Gustavo Petro.

“President Gustavo Petro, of Colombia, is an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Colombia. It has become the biggest business in Colombia, by far, and Petro does nothing to stop it, despite large scale payments and subsidies from the USA that are nothing more than a long term rip off of America,” the post reads.

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Trump went on to announce the end of subsidies to the country: “AS OF TODAY, THESE PAYMENTS, OR ANY OTHER FORM OF PAYMENT, OR SUBSIDIES, WILL NO LONGER BE MADE TO COLOMBIA. The purpose of this drug production is the sale of massive amounts of product into the United States, causing death, destruction, and havoc.

“Petro, a low rated and very unpopular leader, with a fresh mouth toward America, better close up these killing fields immediately, or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely,” Trump’s post concluded.

This announcement comes days after the administration’s most recent announcement of a strike against another alleged cartel vessel. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth posted the video of the strike, saying that “these cartels are the Al Qaeda of the Western Hemisphere.”

The Friday strike, according to Secretary Hegseth, was a “lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with Ejército de Liberación Nacional.”

Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) signaled his support for Trump’s message in a social media post: “As the representative of the largest population of Colombian-Americans in the USA, we support the end of aid to the Gustavo Petro regime and we will continue to work closely with all the opposition leaders who will soon rescue the country with A FIRM HAND AND A BIG HEART!”

Gimenez, a Cuban-American, called out the “pathetic pacts” between Colombia and the “narcoterrorists and the dictatorships” in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.

Likewise, Sen. Ashley Moody (R-Fla.) showed her support for the announcement on X.

Thanking President Trump, she continued: “The USA cannot continue to be the lifeblood of these criminal cartels at the expense of the wellbeing of our people.”

Blaze News reached out to the White House for comment.

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A social media algorithm is an incredibly powerful tool. With a slight tweak in coding, Big Tech executives can control what content the public sees or doesn’t see. China via TikTok has had enormous success pumping specific ideologies — most of them harmful — into American culture (not to mention harvesting American data).

During the Biden regime, Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter, and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, colluded with the government to squash certain stories, like Hunter Biden’s laptop and the Russiagate scandal, and censor Americans who questioned COVID vaccines and mandates.

In this way, the algorithm has the immense power to shape public perception around every single topic.

Our heavily digital society ought to be extremely cautious about this. If we want to protect ourselves, not to mention our children, from indoctrination, radicalization, and addiction, we must be vigilant.

But what does that look like?

Nicole Shanahan, BlazeTV host of “Back to the People,” invited digital media innovator and co-founder of Black Rifle Coffee Company Richard Ryan to the show to discuss this question.

Ryan’s new book, “The Warrior’s Garden,” is a deep dive into the implications and dangers of social media algorithms and a step-by-step guide on how we protect ourselves against harm.

An algorithm fails to be effective in shaping perception if people aren’t spending large quantities of time on the platform. In other words, its power lies in its ability to addict. But creating millions of zombie-like addicts is not just about what content is being circulated; it’s about how it’s being served.

Ryan gives the example of casinos. The games and the potential of cashing in big aren’t the only things that keep gamblers shelling out their hard-earned money. A casino’s environment wields enormous influence on the duration of a person’s stay, which is why they are intentionally engineered to foster addiction. The lack of clocks and windows, the labyrinthine layout where there’s no straight exits, and the bright lights, flashing colors, and constant sounds create a disassociation bubble, where external realities fade.

Social media platforms are basically personalized digital casinos, except we’re not losing our money; we’re losing our time, quality of life, and our ability to think critically and independently, as algorithms chip away at our brains.

“I think we’ll find that a lot of this will have some type of implications for memory or cognitive decline, definitely emotional atrophy and different neurological processes for sure,” says Ryan.

If cognitive issues weren’t scary enough, our tech addictions are also eating away at our time. This is really terrifying when you think about what time is — “the only currency that we spend that we never know our remaining balance.”

How do we protect ourselves from brain rot and throwing away precious time?

Ryan’s advice is simple:

1. “Figure out where your digital consumption is going.”

2. Ask yourself, “What things do I really value in life?”

3. “Start establishing boundaries.”

For Ryan, this looked like coming to the realization that he didn’t want to “spend 2.8 years of [his] life on TikTok” and instead devote his invaluable hours doing the things he felt were truly life-giving.

He cut back on certain apps, installed a blue-light reducing screen protector, and programmed his phone settings to grayscale. When he got home from work, he started putting his phone by the front door, almost like hanging up a coat jacket.

“I can’t compulsively just scroll on the couch or anything like that. I have to be present with everyone that’s around me,” he says.

He also got rid of most of his streaming services and bought a blue-ray disc player.

“I said to myself, I’m not going to sit on the couch, and even if we want to watch a movie, we’re not going to just … click on something. If we want to watch something, we’re going to agree we’re going to go to the movie theater, or we’re going to order it, and it’ll be here in a day or two,” he tells Nicole.

“Inputs equal outputs because so much of my daily consumption was algorithmically curated to keep me in a fight-or-flight state. Anger, fear, anger, fear — like my inputs were all negative and so by offsetting that with positive inputs, it really had a meaningful impact on my life.”

To hear more of the conversation and learn more about Ryan’s book, watch the full interview above.

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President Donald Trump has worked ardently to bring an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine — a war that has resulted in millions of casualties and transformed much of Eastern Ukraine into drone-netted wasteland.

Fresh off brokering a tenuous ceasefire in Gaza and speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Friday.

‘They should stop where they are. Let both claim Victory, let History decide!’

While Trump suggested on social media that the meeting was “cordial,” there are reports indicating that it descended at times into a “shouting match” reminiscent of Zelenskyy’s disastrous visit to the White House in February.

Zelenskyy evidently saw his trip to the White House as an opportunity to ask Trump for long-range Tomahawk missiles. The Ukrainian president seeks to use such missiles in concert with long-range drones to strike targets deep inside Russia, including military bases, factories, oil infrastructure, and command centers — as well as Moscow — in hopes of turning the tide in the war and improving Kiev’s position in future negotiations.

In exchange for the Tomahawk cruise missiles, Zelenskyy — who spoke earlier in the day with representatives of Raytheon, the manufacturer of Tomahawk missiles — indicated that Kiev could provide the U.S. with some advanced drones.

Trump, who allegedly cursed repeatedly during the meeting, poured cold water on the idea. Rather than hand over weapons that he believes America should retain for its own defense and, in the context of the Russia-Ukraine war, would amount to an escalation, Trump once again impressed on Zelenskyy the need to negotiate an immediate end to the war.

RELATED: Thermal shielding: The latest tactic to survive today’s drone-swarmed battlefields

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Trump echoed this suggestion Friday evening on Truth Social, writing, “I told him, as I likewise strongly suggested to President Putin, that it is time to stop the killing, and make a DEAL! Enough blood has been shed, with property lines being defined by War and Guts.”

“They should stop where they are. Let both claim Victory, let History decide!” continued Trump. “No more shooting, no more Death, no more vast and unsustainable sums of money spent.”

The Financial Times, citing a European official briefed on the meeting, reported that Trump told Zelenskyy that it was imperative that he make a deal to end the war, allegedly noting that “if [Putin] wants it, he will destroy you.”

There are, however, conflicting reports about the contentiousness of Trump’s meeting with Zelenskyy.

One EU diplomat told Politico, for instance, that the meeting was “not as bleak as reported.”

A pair of Republican foreign policy experts with direct knowledge of the meeting suggested Trump had not engaged in any cursing.

One GOP foreign policy expert characterized the meeting as “a dud for the Ukrainians rather than a disaster.” The other suggested that “it wasn’t a bad meeting, just a victim of poor timing and inflated expectations.”

Blaze News has reached out to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for comment.

The European official further told the Times that at one point during the meeting, Trump brushed aside one of Ukraine’s maps of the battlefield, saying the sight of it made him “sick.”

“This red line, I don’t even know where this is,” Trump allegedly said.

Russia presently occupies around 20% of the entire country and most of the Donbas — including all of the Luhansk region, most of the largely Russian-speaking Donetsk region, much of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, and parts of the Sumy and Kharkiv regions.

While Moscow has made gradual territorial gains over the past year, recent analysis by the Institute for the Study of War suggests that Russian forces are several years away from capturing the remainder of the Donetsk region, which “contains territory that is strategically vital for Ukraine’s defense and defense industrial base.”

Two senior officials familiar with Trump’s conversation last week with Putin told the Washington Post that the Russian president has conditioned ending the war on Ukraine’s surrender of Donetsk — a proposal Zelenskyy apparently remains unwilling to accept.

Zelenskyy — whose term officially ended in May 2024 — told reporters after his meeting with the American president that Putin had asked Trump to “withdraw from the Donbas — not the entire east, but specifically the Donbas, that is, completely from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.”

The Ukrainian president suggested further that he “made it clear” to Trump “that Ukraine’s stance in this context remains unchanged.”

“Trump wants a quick victory — an end to the war — and that would be a victory for all reasonable people,” Zelenskyy later told reporters. “Putin, however, wants the total occupation of Ukraine.”

Zelenskyy said in an address on Saturday, “We will give nothing to the aggressor.”

‘Zelenskyy was very negative.’

President Trump said in an interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that aired on Sunday, “[Putin is] going to take something. I mean, they fought, and he has a lot of property. I mean, you know, he’s won certain property.”

Trump told reporters on Sunday, “We think that what they should do is just stop at the lines where they are — the battle lines.”

As for the Donbas region, Trump said, “I think 78% of the land is already taken by Russia. You leave it the way it is right now.”

Although Zelenskyy suggested the needle had been moved where ending the war was concerned, another European official briefed on the Friday meeting told the Financial Times that “Zelenskyy was very negative” after the American president sent him on his way.

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Residents of a Brooklyn apartment building said they smelled a foul odor for several days from one unit before their neighbor’s head and torso were found in the garbage.

Police said the dismembered body parts were found Friday in a bag in the garbage of an apartment building on East 21st Street, WABC-TV reported.

‘You’d be on the other side of the apartment from the entrance, and you would still smell it. It definitely was the body.’

The parts were discarded into the trash around 9:15 a.m., the station said, adding that the building’s superintendent allegedly saw a tenant put the garbage bags into the receptacle.

WABC, citing sources, said that tenant was the roommate and boyfriend of the dismembered man.

The station in a follow-up story said police arrested Christopher Moss, 38, and charged him with concealment of a human corpse.

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Residents told WABC they had smelled the odor for several days.

“As soon as that door opened that whiff would just smack you in the face,” a man who lived next door to the couple told the station. “And we would have the door closed, but like you’d be on the other side of the apartment from the entrance, and you would still smell it. It definitely was the body.”

Other neighbors told WABC they saw the couple smoking outside every day.

Officials said the head and torso were found wrapped in plastic and discarded in a blue trash bin.

“I just see a lot of flies,” Danielle, another apartment building resident, told the station. “I don’t know what’s going on. I just see a lot of flies. A lot of flies flying around. It’s crazy.”

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Neighbors said they had heard a violent physical interaction from the unit and afterward saw one of the tenants entering and exiting the unit in a hurry.

“They would start like arguing with each other, and you would just hear boom boom boom … screams,” one neighbor told WABC.

The victim has not yet been identified, and a medical examiner has not yet determined the cause of death.

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Taylor Swift is back with a new record, and with her return come the old accusations.

For years, people have suggested that she hides strange symbols in her songs and videos. Even other pop stars have said the same thing — and they’re not wrong. From the serpent motif that slithered through her “Reputation” era to the witchy forest rituals of “Willow” and the tarot-like imagery of “Midnights,” Swift has long played with the language of mysticism.

What faith once offered in family and devotion, the industry now mimics through sexualization and self-display.

It’s seductive, deliberate, and deeply disturbing.

Rock once wore its rebellion openly. Ozzy Osbourne feasted on bats. Led Zeppelin flirted with the occult. Alice Cooper strutted across stages like the devil in drag. But pop is subtler, sweeter — and far more dangerous. Rock shouted “Hell!” for the shock of it. Pop smiles, takes your hand, and leads you there.

Billie Eilish, the Beetlejuice of pop, floats through a fog of depression, her music drowning in melancholy: songs about mutilation, numbness, and detachment from reality. Lil Nas X, a raving homosexual who seems to revel in depravity, enjoys grinding on Satan. Doja Cat smears herself in blood and calls it expression.

None of this is random. The industry has learned that darkness sells because emptiness is a vacuum that needs to be filled. Rhythm reaches where reason can’t, and belief can be rewritten one beat at a time.

Unfortunately, no audience is more vulnerable than young girls.

They listen on repeat, absorbing lyrics like liturgy. Pop has always known how to reach them. In the 1960s, the Beatles sang of love as liberation. By the 1980s, Madonna turned it into a marketing campaign. Britney Spears wore innocence like a costume, then tore it off — literally and figuratively — knives in hand. There is something unmistakably demonic in her descent, a possession of the spirit that fame so often brings.

The same story repeats itself across the pop pantheon.

Once the cherubic choirboy of global pop, Justin Bieber now fluctuates between repentance and relapse, his body scarred by tattoos and abuse. There’s also Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Katy Perry, and Ariana Grande, each one a pathetic version of their former selves.

The pop idol is no longer a musician but a model for imitation. The results are visible: depression, anxiety, disordered eating, and a generation that sings about love but cannot define it or identify it. Young people are raised on a rotation of heartbreak and hedonism, told to celebrate the very things that destroy them.

Pop today preaches a gospel of transaction. Every desire is for sale. Love is no longer a covenant but a contract. Sex is not intimacy but advertisement. Artists sing about bodies the way brokers talk about stocks — measured in clicks, hype, and fleeting returns.

The message is clear: Everything is currency, even the body.

RELATED: Taylor Swift’s ‘Life of a Showgirl’: The same sad sound and fury

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What began as entertainment has evolved into indoctrination. The language of romance has been replaced by the “logic” of the marketplace. Pleasure is product, people are platforms, and purity is just another brand to discard once it stops selling. The line between pop music and OnlyFans is straighter than most want to admit. Both peddle illusion — connection without commitment, desire without depth.

What faith once offered in family and devotion, the industry now mimics through sexualization and self-display. The result is a culture fluent in indulgence, obsessed with pleasure but ignorant of purity. What once pointed upward now drags us down. The language of heaven has been rewritten in the dialect of hell.

Even the visuals echo it. Neon crosses. Angel wings stitched from latex. Horns hidden beneath halos. The symbolism, evident to anyone with functioning vision, is always dismissed as “art.” But art without virtue stops telling the truth and starts selling the lie. And history reminds us that deception has always been the devil’s favorite instrument.

Pop’s greatest trick is pretending it’s harmless. Rock scared parents into vigilance. Pop lulls them into complacency. It sounds innocent enough, but beneath the cute choruses lies the same poison. When every song preaches self-worship, when every lyric mocks modesty, when every beat celebrates bondage, the playlist becomes a pilgrimage into perdition.

The industry calls it entertainment. But look closer and you’ll see a darker design: music that numbs, not nourishes, and beats that bind, not liberate.

It’s no accident that the idols of this age are called “idols.”

Tens of millions stream them, worship them, and defend them with evangelical ecstasy. They shape the moral mood of the young more than any preacher ever could. And yet while they sell songs about love and light, the world they create grows darker by the day. Broken homes. Hookup culture. Teenage pregnancies. Gender confusion. Isolation and self-harm. Faith mocked. Fatherhood maligned. Motherhood treated as an outdated inconvenience.

The irony is that Swift and several other artists were raised in the church. They know the cadence of a hymn, the thrill of a crowd, the longing for transcendence. They just redirected it. The altar became a stage, and the worship didn’t stop but changed direction.

But here’s the truth: Mocking religion is a poor substitute for meaning. You can dance in devil horns for only so long before realizing there’s nothing on the other side of derision and disdain. No culture that mocks the sacred can remain strong.

The industry calls it entertainment. But look closer and you’ll see a darker design: music that numbs, not nourishes, and beats that bind, not liberate. The melodies are catchy because the message must be smuggled in softly. That’s the genius — and the evil — of pop music.

And so we arrive where we began. Taylor Swift has released another record. Millions have listened. But few have stopped to wonder what’s being worshipped.

Satan no longer hides in the dark. He performs under a spotlight.

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Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Turning Point USA spokesman and executive producer of the “Charlie Kirk Show” Andrew Kolvet revealed new details about the shooting that even doctors are calling a miracle.

According to Kolvet, the surgeon who operated on Kirk claimed that the high-velocity bullet was powerful enough to kill multiple large animals — and “should have gone through” his body.

But for some reason, Kirk’s body was able to stop it.

“I want to address some of the discussion about the lack of an exit wound with Charlie,” Kolvet wrote in a post on X.

“The fact that there wasn’t an exit wound is probably another miracle, and I want people to know,” Kolvet continued, explaining that he had spoken with the surgeon who worked on Charlie in the hospital.

“He said the bullet ‘absolutely should have gone through, which is very very normal for a high powered, high velocity round. I’ve seen wounds from this caliber many times and they always just go through everything. This would have taken a moose or two down, an elk, etc,’” he recalled.

“But it didn’t go through. Charlie’s body stopped it,” he added.

When he mentioned to the doctor that there were “dozens of staff, students, and special guests standing directly behind Charlie” when he was shot, the doctor reportedly replied, “It was an absolute miracle that someone else didn’t get killed.”

“His bone was so healthy and the density was so so impressive that he’s like the man of steel,” Kolvet recalls the doctor saying.

While BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey notes that “some people aren’t buying that,” she says that she doesn’t have a reason not to.

“Of course I believe it’s possible for God to do anything. And he’s saying it’s miraculous. And miraculous means that it goes beyond reason or even the laws of physics,” she says. “And so I have no reason to believe that this is untrue.”

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President Donald Trump is no stranger to dropping jaws and turning heads with his rhetoric, bombastic commentary, and sometimes shocking statements.

While these reactions are typically sparked by the comical names he concocts for his opponents, his hot political takes, and other bold moves, the commander in chief has recently made headlines for some of his more theological proclamations and curiosities.

‘I’m not sure I can make it, but he’s going to make it. He’s there. He’s looking down on us right now.’

Trump was aboard Air Force One when he told reporters last Sunday that he’s unsure if he’ll make it to heaven. He prefaced his words by noting he was being “a little cute,” but proceeded to drop some thoughts about the afterlife.

“I don’t think there’s anything going to get me in heaven,” he said. “I think I’m not maybe heaven-bound. … I’m not sure I’m going to be able to make heaven.”

Just a few days later, while giving the late Charlie Kirk a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor, Trump again brought up heaven.

“In his final moments, Charlie testified to the greatness of America and to the glory of our Savior, with whom he now rests in heaven,” he said. “And he is going to make heaven. I said I’m not sure I can make it, but he’s going to make it. He’s there. He’s looking down on us right now.”

There have been other similar instances. Trump once pondered whether ending the Ukraine war would help secure his eternal glory. And at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service last month, the president made another headline-grabbing comment. Heralding Kirk’s love for his enemies, Trump painted a disparity between himself and the late Turning Point USA founder.

“[Charlie] did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them,” Trump said. “That’s where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them. I’m sorry.”

Responses to these proclamations have been swift and harsh. They have also rightly raised some questions about “earning” eternal salvation and the biblical command to love enemies. While some of those questions are fair, much is being missed in the mix of commentary and conjecture about Trump’s theology.

RELATED: Christian call to action: Pray for President Trump

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First, it’s often tough to discern when Trump is being facetious or comical, making it almost impossible to know his real intent behind these remarks. Beyond that, the critics lambasting Trump should consider a different approach: prayer.

Anyone can be an armchair critic, but if Trump vociferously continues to bring up heaven, eternal salvation, and other related theological topics, there’s a solid chance it’s something he’s been contemplating personally. This seems incredibly likely in the wake of the attempts against his own life and after Kirk — a staunch friend and ally — was killed so publicly.

Some people seem to have missed the glaring reality that now is the time to move ceaseless critique to the side and double down on prayer for Trump to discern, comprehend, and embrace the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

But there’s another element being missed amid the mix of reactions.

Some people claim that Trump needs better faith advisers, deriding the Christians who have coalesced around him. The assumption is that these leaders aren’t sharing biblical truth with the president.

But I know for a fact that Trump has heard the gospel. The late Phil Robertson of “Duck Dynasty” fame once personally told me how he shared Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection directly with Trump leading up to the 2016 election.

“[I discussed] God becoming flesh … dying for the sins of the world, and, in his case, I said, ‘Dying for your sins, Donald, all of them, I figure there’s a lot — what do you think?’” Robertson told me. “He didn’t disagree with me.”

Robertson also drew an image of “an arrow coming down out of heaven … God becoming flesh, a cross, where Jesus took away the sins of the world.”

The point is: Trump has heard the gospel, and rather than trashing him, we should be doubling down in prayer that he comes to a place of full repentance and understanding.

Still, we must consider the deeper theological issues at the center of Trump’s remarks.

In the New Testament, James makes it clear that “faith without works is dead.” Interestingly, Trump has been talking a lot about peace deals and good deeds, pondering whether those acts can get him to heaven. The Bible has much to say about this topic.

“What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?” James 2:14 reads, with verses 15-17 continuing: “If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace, be warmed and filled,’ without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.”

James’ words are important not because works save us, but because the Holy Spirit, which dwells in us when we accept Christ and live a life for him, sparks in us a quest to live out Jesus’ call to love God and love others.

Simply stated: We do good because we’re guided by the Lord and His heart for others.

This message is boiled down beautifully by Christ himself in John 3. In that chapter, Jesus tells Nicodemus, a religious leader, that “you must be born again” to enter heaven. Nicodemus seems confused, pondering how one could re-enter his mother’s womb after birth.

That’s when Jesus explains that the rebirth in question is a spiritual one — a death to self and a life for the Lord. John 3:16, arguably the Bible’s most famous verse, tackles God sending his son to die for mankind so that people can have eternal life.

But what comes next is often overlooked.

“For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him,” John 3:17 reads, with verse 18 continuing: “Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.”

Ultimately, one must die to self and live for Christ. There’s no action — without this move — that affords anyone eternal life. Trump might be the most powerful person in the world, but he, like all of us, must decide whether he will embrace this reality.

Rather than endlessly lambasting him over his attempts to understand, we should devote ourselves to praying for him while also pondering whether we, too, have fully embraced this truth.

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The United States Secret Service on Thursday discovered a hunting stand near Florida’s Palm Beach International Airport.

According to federal officials, the suspicious stand has a direct line of sight to where President Donald Trump exits Air Force One.

‘Prior to the president’s return to West Palm Beach, USSS discovered what appeared to be an elevated hunting stand within sight line of the Air Force One landing zone.’

Trump landed at the airport, which is located less than three miles from downtown West Palm Beach, on Friday with plans to spend the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago home, the Palm Beach Post reported. Trump spent Saturday morning at the Trump International Golf Club.

FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed on Sunday that the agency has launched an investigation in response to the concerning discovery.

“USSS spotted a suspicious stand near the AF1 zone in Palm Beach,” Patel wrote in a post on social media. “The FBI is investigating.”

It is currently unclear who established the hunting stand or what their intentions were.

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The FBI’s ongoing investigation resulted in a road closure along Southern Avenue over the weekend, according to local reports.

USSS chief of communications Anthony Guglielmi told Fox News Digital that agents discovered the stand while performing “advance security preparations” before Trump’s arrival.

“There was no impact to any movements, and no individuals were present or involved at the location,” Guglielmi stated. “While we are not able to provide details about the specific items or their intent, this incident underscores the importance of our layered security measures.”

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The USSS is “working closely” with the FBI and local law enforcement, Guglielmi noted.

The hunting stand appeared to have been set up “months ago,” a law enforcement source told Fox News Digital.

“Prior to the president’s return to West Palm Beach, USSS discovered what appeared to be an elevated hunting stand within sight line of the Air Force One landing zone,” Patel told the news outlet. “No individuals were located at the scene. The FBI has since taken the investigatory lead, flying in resources to collect all evidence from the scene and deploying our cellphone analytics capabilities.”

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Picture it: 8,000 college students packed into an arena. Not to watch basketball but baptisms. Hundreds stepped into portable tanks while their friends cheered, with 500 professing faith in Christ that night alone.

This scene unfolded recently at the University of Tennessee, a major state university. It wasn’t an isolated incident. The Unite US revival movement, which began at Auburn University two years ago, has now spread to more than 20 college campuses nationwide.

The problem with building your worldview on sand is that eventually people notice that they’re sinking.

Here’s what’s happening: For decades, secular progressives positioned themselves as countercultural rebels against the oppressive Christian tradition. But they overplayed their hand. They became the establishment.

The result? Young people are now rebelling against them by turning to Jesus Christ in record numbers.

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination on Sept. 10, churches report attendance increases of 15% and campus ministries are seeing even higher numbers. Bible sales in 2025 have surged past 10 million copies, already over a million more than last year.

The establishment’s overreach

The secular left didn’t just ask for “tolerance” of its beliefs — leftists demanded total capitulation. Over the past six decades, they captured universities, media, entertainment, corporations, and government agencies, then wielded these institutions like weapons.

They told young men their masculinity was toxic. They told young women that marriage and motherhood were a trap. They flooded schools with gender ideology and characterized objecting parents as “domestic terrorists.” University DEI offices became enforcement arms for ideological conformity. During COVID, they locked down churches while keeping abortion clinics and strip clubs open. They promised liberation and delivered loneliness, anxiety, and existential despair. Then they called Christianity oppressive.

The problem with building your worldview on sand is that eventually people notice that they’re sinking.

Scripture tells us that God has written His law on every human heart (Romans 2:15). You can suppress that truth, but you cannot erase it. When a generation has been fed nothing but lies dressed as progress, the hunger for truth becomes overwhelming.

Why young men are leading

Research from Pew shows that for decades, each age cohort was less Christian than the one before it. But that trend has stopped with Gen Z. Americans born in the 2000s are just as Christian as those born in the 1990s, the first generation in decades not to show further decline.

Even more striking: Gen Z men now attend weekly religious services more often than Millennials and younger Gen Xers. The gender gap in religious participation has closed, with young men flooding back even as some young women leave.

The secular progressive vision has been particularly hostile to biblical masculinity. Men were told that their natural inclinations toward strength, protection, and leadership were “toxic,” that the desire to work hard and keep your feelings private promoted aggression toward women and the vulnerable, that embracing traditional marriage roles reinforced gender power imbalances and made society less safe.

Kirk recognized that men who fear God more than they fear man build the foundations of civilization.

By contrast, the church doesn’t tell young men that they’re inherently evil. Instead, it calls them to be servant leaders after the pattern of Christ, to lay down their lives as He laid down His for the Church (Ephesians 5:25), and to be strong and courageous in the face of evil (Joshua 1:9).

Scripture has always offered a vision of masculinity that is both strong and sacrificial. When a generation of young men have been told they’re “toxic” simply for being masculine, the gospel’s call to biblical manhood becomes irresistibly attractive.

Charlie Kirk understood this. He often told young men: “Get married. Have children. Build a legacy. Pass down your values. Pursue the eternal. Seek true joy.”

Kirk recognized that men who fear God more than they fear man build the foundations of civilization.

His assassination, meant to silence a voice calling people back to faith and family, had the opposite effect. As one pastor noted, “Charlie Kirk started a political movement, but he ended it as a Christian movement.”

His memorial, attended by 100,000 and viewed by millions, became a gospel proclamation. Young people decided they wanted what Kirk had found: purpose, meaning, and hope anchored in Jesus Christ.

Expect a backlash

Amid all this good news, Christians should never underestimate the resistance that will come from the cultural elites.

Expect increased persecution on campuses. Institutions that previously celebrated every sexual deviation will now express concern about “cultlike behavior” when students undergo baptism. University administrators, who previously ignored the Black Lives Matter riots, will now seek to restrict Christian gatherings. Media outlets that praised “mostly peaceful protests” will warn about the dangers of “religious fervor.”

That’s because spiritual warfare is afoot, and the enemy knows what’s at stake. When young people turn to Christ, they don’t just become saved, they also become transformed. They get married, have children, and raise the next generation in biblical truth. Civilizational renewal begins with revival.

True revival or cultural moment?

It’s also crucial not to mistake enthusiasm for revival. True revival brings conviction of sin, genuine repentance, hunger for God Himself, and hearts transformed by the gospel, not just increased church attendance.

Time will tell whether these professions of faith endure. Jesus warned that many hear the word with initial enthusiasm but fall away when trials come (Matthew 13:1-23). We must pray that these young believers sink roots deep into scripture and persevere.

But we should also recognize what God may be doing. When thousands pack arenas across multiple campuses to worship Christ, that’s not normal in modern America. As Paul wrote, “What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice” (Philippians 1:18).

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This isn’t just about individual souls, though. It’s about Western civilization itself. Strong families produce stable societies. If this revival takes root, we’ll see the reversal of family collapse, demographic decline, and cultural decay.

The secular left knows this. Leftists built their project on the destruction of the family, the confusion of gender, and the rejection of biblical authority.

Every young person who turns to Christ, gets married, and raises godly children is a defeat for their vision. Every young man who embraces biblical masculinity is a threat to their power. Every young woman who chooses motherhood over careerism is a rebellion against their ideology.

The gospel offers what secular humanism never could: forgiveness through Christ’s sacrifice, transformation through the Holy Spirit, adoption into God’s family, and a purpose that echoes into eternity.

Most importantly, it offers Jesus Himself: the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6). Not a system of self-improvement or a political ideology, but a Savior and friend who loved us enough to die for us and who conquered death and rose again.

What we must do now

At key points, there is always a moment when God’s mercy is clearly apparent. This is one of those moments, and Christians must seize on it and fan the flames.

How? Take the following steps:

Preach the full gospel: Not a therapeutic version that makes Jesus your life coach but the biblical truth that we are sinners under God’s just wrath, that Christ died in our place, that He rose conquering death, and that all who repent and believe in Him will be saved.Live lives that reflect what we proclaim: Young people are watching. If we want this generation to take Christianity seriously, they need to see Christians who love faithfully, raise children in the Lord, and stand for truth — even when it costs them.Disciple intentionally: It’s not enough for young people to make a profession at a revival event. They need scripture, mentorship, and biblical thinking for every area of life. This is the Great Commission: Make disciples, not just converts (Matthew 28:19-20).

Finally, if you’re a student reading this, recognize that your campus could be next for real revival. How can you help advance it? Start a regular prayer meeting. Invite your skeptical friends to church. Be bold when professors mock Christianity. Defend biblical truth.

You’ve been trained for this moment. Now step into it.

The victory is already won

The gates of hell will not prevail against Christ’s church (Matthew 16:18). We don’t fight for victory — we fight from victory.

The secular left’s project was always doomed because it was built on lies — and lies cannot ultimately triumph over truth Himself. The same God who sparked the Great Awakening, who raised up Luther to reform His church, who turned the persecutor Saul into the apostle Paul is still at work today.

The question isn’t whether God will prevail. That’s already settled. The question is whether we’ll have the courage to stand with Him while He does.

If He chooses to use the overreach of secular progressives and the hunger of a desperate generation to turn society back to Him, that’s precisely how God works. He uses the wrath of man to praise Him (Psalm 76:10). He takes what enemies meant for evil and works it for good (Genesis 50:20).

So let the secularists tighten their grip on their failing institutions. Every act of overreach, every attempt to silence the gospel only makes Christianity’s countercultural appeal stronger.

They made rebellion against God the establishment position. Now, young people are rebelling by turning back to Him.

The age of comfortable, culturally acceptable Christianity is over. What’s rising in its place is something far more dangerous to the powers of this world: a generation that has counted the cost and chosen Christ anyway. A generation that knows following Jesus might cost them jobs, friends, and status and has decided He’s worth it.

This is how reformation begins. This is how revival spreads. This is how civilizations are rebuilt from the rubble of failed ideologies.

The question isn’t whether God will prevail. That’s already settled. The question is whether we’ll have the courage to stand with Him while He does.

The revolution has already begun. The only question left is: Which side of history will you be on?

This article is adapted from an essay originally published at Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center.

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Canada continues to slip even farther into a totalitarian, dystopian nightmare. On the global playing field, the nation is the front-runner for euthanasia, which it euphemistically calls medical assistance in dying.

Since legalizing MAID in 2016, Canada has seen the fastest increase in euthanasia deaths worldwide, surpassing even long-established programs in countries like the Netherlands and Belgium. In 2023, one in 20 deaths in Canada was a result of euthanasia.

This disturbing number is due to Canada’s broad criteria when it comes to who qualifies for the MAID program. Unlike most countries that practice euthanasia, Canadians don’t need to have a terminal illness to be eligible. To qualify for MAID, a Canadian citizen must be at least 19 years old, be mentally competent, and have some kind of insufferable condition, which can be psychological.

The intentional subjectivity of the program has allowed many Canadians with long lives ahead of them to die prematurely. There is even an increasing number of cases of citizens who cannot find affordable housing being recommended or approved for the MAID program.

Glenn Beck says this is the dark reality of universal health care. Canada’s medical system is overwhelmed, and euthanasia has become a means of controlling the population.

“These Canadian citizens — they get kicked out of the home. They can’t find a place to live, and they’re getting depressed about it. They go to the doctor and the doctor’s like, ‘Well, we don’t have any beds for you. It’ll be months before we can see you,”’ he says.

Tragically, euthanasia has become the easy fix.

“When you have a government health care system, all it takes is a shortage of any kind, and then you start devaluing life on both ends of the spectrum,” says Glenn.

He unveils the sinister methodology that undergirds “free” health care: “Up until 12 years old, you get very little medicine and care, and over 50, they begin to cut your care. They keep the ones who are actually working hard and making all the money. They keep all of the care there because that’s what’s good for society.”

“This is exactly what’s happening in Canada, and they’re just not saying it,” he says. “They can’t keep up with the system of care that they have up there … and so what they’re trying to do is just reduce the surplus population.”

This is what happens when a society stops valuing life.

“If you don’t prioritize life, at least from a legal standpoint, you put your society on a slippery slope that ends this way every single time,” says co-host Stu Burguiere.

While suicide has always been a sad part of reality, “coming to a societal acceptance of [it] puts you on a road to darkness,” he warns.

Canada is far down that dark path already, says Glenn. Before Canadian patients receive life-ending “medication,” they are given a drug called heparin that preserves their organs.

“And so as soon as the doctors off you, other doctors take you and take out your organs. And now Canada is becoming one of the biggest organ warehouses since Hammond,” he says.

To hear more, watch the clip above.

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