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The Trump administration is threatening action against a Maryland county after parents alleged their child was transitioned behind their backs.

Parents sued Anne Arundel County Public Schools on July 8, alleging that unidentified high school staff secretly “socially transitioned” their child.

‘The school was secretly helping their daughter pretend to be male.’

The Departments of Justice and Education issued a joint statement — entitled “Trump Administration Cracks Down on School Districts Secretly ‘Transitioning’ Students and Hiding it from Parents” — accusing the school district of violating parental rights.

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act gives parents the right to review their children’s educational records. FERPA also empowers parents to request amendments to those records and control how they’re disclosed.

The DOJ and Education Department allege the Maryland school denied parents records access relevant to their child’s supposed social transition.

“When the parents approached school administrators about the matter, the principal declined to provide details about the student’s ‘gender transition,’ and the assistant principal refused to turn over the child’s relevant records,” according to the joint statement. “These policies and practices unlawfully impeded the parents’ ability to exercise their FERPA rights when it mattered most.”

America First Legal and Consovoy McCarthy PLLC are representing the anonymous parents in Maryland’s U.S. District Court.

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Identified as the Does, the parents discovered that “the school was secretly helping their daughter pretend to be male” after they received an email referring to their daughter by male pronouns, according to the joint statement. They previously educated their daughter “according to their religious beliefs that God creates each person as male or female, that sex is based on biology rather than internal self-perception, and that sex cannot be altered,” the parents’ lawsuit states.

“When confronted by the Does about this conduct, AACPS personnel first tried to lie and then, when that didn’t work, insisted that their actions complied with AACPS policy,” the lawsuit states.

“AACPS wrongly believes that it has greater authority than parents to control and direct the upbringing of students. AFL is eager and willing to correct this notion,” senior counsel at America First Legal Ian Prior told Blaze News. “Parents have a fundamental right to know what is happening with their children at school, and they have every right to stop government officials from pushing radical gender ideology on their children.”

“AFL is proud to stand with the Does as they fight to protect their daughter and vindicate their constitutional rights.”

AACPS did not respond to a request for comment. The Department of Education referred Blaze News to the DOJ.

AACPS policy, linked to the district website as of Tuesday afternoon, holds that information about a student’s gender identity can be considered “confidential medical information” and encourages staff to address students by their preferred pronouns.

“Let this serve as notice to every school district in the country: FERPA is not optional,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon told Blaze News. “The Department of Justice will enforce it to the maximum extent of the law, and any district that hides a child’s sensitive information from their own parents should expect immediate federal action.”

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In 2016, I got a call from my editor at Simon & Schuster in New York. The company was putting out a new edition of my first novel, “Girl” (1994), and redoing the cover and interior design, in preparation for its re-release.

A new edition is usually a happy occasion for a writer. If your book is still relevant after 20+ years, that’s an accomplishment.

Books have a moral authority that TV, TikTok and YouTube lack. And we all know how leftists crave moral authority.

On the phone, my editor told me that besides a new cover, the company had some young editors look at the text as well.

At first, I didn’t understand. Why would they review the text after 20 years?

She explained that these editors were recent college graduates who had studied racism, sexism, and the latest critical theory. Their job was to ensure that Simon & Schuster didn’t accidentally publish something inappropriate or hurtful to unrepresented minorities or aggrieved groups.

Sense and sensitivity

This definitely sounded unusual to me. But I wasn’t worried. “Girl” had been considered “edgy” in its time, but it had sold well and been made into a movie. It had been translated into several languages.

I assumed whatever controversy it had generated was now deemed to be within the bounds of acceptability.

So I was surprised and alarmed when she told me these new editors had some issues with “Girl.”

In this way, I was introduced to the possibility that progressive activists — “sensitivity readers” — could literally edit your book.

Because “Girl” was 20 years old, I was given the option of declining any major changes. Therefore, no real damage was done.

But it was a scary omen for the future. If they were scrutinizing older books in this way, what would they do to books that hadn’t been published yet?

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10 years on

Recently, I came across a new nonfiction work that addresses this trend in publishing: “That Book Is Dangerous! How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing.”

In this compelling book, young literary scholar Adam Szetela goes into great detail about the arrival of “sensitivity readers” and the other forms of Orwellian madness that descended on the publishing industry shortly after Trump took office.

It is quite entertaining to read and gives countless examples of how ridiculous and convoluted leftist ideology has become in the book business.

During this period, writers, editors, fans, and bloggers accused each other of racism, sexism, white supremacy, homophobia, and every other imaginable transgression. Careers were destroyed, people were fired, first-time authors saw their dreams dissolve before their eyes. And this over things like, “Is a white writer allowed to describe a black character?”

It was the ultimate purity spiral. It was a circular firing squad!

The left eats itself

When I first heard about “This Book Is Dangerous,” I assumed young Szetela was a conservative. Who else would write such a book?

But no: He has a Ph.D. in English literature from an Ivy League university (Cornell). Which means he’s required to be left of center.

So he’s not writing from the point of view of “look at these crazy cultural Marxists trying to destroy our culture.”

No, he’s trying to reel in his leftist peers because he can see how much damage they are doing to their own (and his) cause!

It’s satisfying to read books where leftists tell on themselves, where by some fluke they stumble onto the truth, then are forced to denounce that truth, and then realize they are attacking themselves!

It’s like watching a dog chase its tail. “Hey Fido, that tail you’re biting? That’s you.”

Influencing the youth

Another thing we learn from “That Book Is Dangerous!” is how much of this cultural warfare was waged inside the young adult and children’s genres.

Surprise, surprise, it turns out that socialist/progressive/DSA types really want to control what young people are exposed to.

And one way they do that is through books. Especially books that get read to them by their parents or recommended by their teachers at school.

Books have a moral authority that TV, TikTok and YouTube lack. And we all know how leftists crave moral authority. Even when they have to denounce each other to get it.

Politicized Publishing Inc.

So yeah, I recommend “That Book Is Dangerous!” It’s a good read and a vindicating experience for anyone who has dealt with the now fully politicized publishing industry.

My own relationship with that industry quickly deteriorated in the years that followed this situation. Not that I had any say in the matter. Once Trump was elected, heterosexual white guys were mostly unwelcome in mainstream publishing.

This was the publishing industry’s petty revenge on American men for daring to vote for Trump.

As for myself, I felt lost without my mainstream writing career. But eventually I found new writing opportunities, where I feel much more at home and in sync with my colleagues.

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The case of Shiloh Hendrix has become one of the most polarizing free-speech controversies in the country after Hendrix, a Minnesota woman, went viral after using the N-word during a confrontation at a Rochester playground.

Now, Hendrix has been found guilty on one count of disorderly conduct related to her interaction with the man who recorded the incident.

While BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock doesn’t condone Hendrix’s actions, he doesn’t like what this means for free speech — and he doesn’t believe that a woman should be charged for using a word that the black community uses all the time.

“A woman in Minnesota got into a screaming argument with a grown man in a public park. She said an ugly, sinful word, and yesterday the state of Minnesota made her a criminal for it,” Whitlock explains, adding, “I’m about to tell you why she is not the one you should be afraid of. The government is.”

While activists and even the attorney general of Minnesota wanted to charge Hendrix with a hate crime, Whitlock points out they couldn’t get a hate crime.

“Because in the United States, there is no criminal law against hateful speech,” he says, noting that instead, they went for disorderly conduct.

“The only count they convicted her on was the argument with the grown man who filmed her. Sentence, 90 days, suspended, a fine, community service, no cell, no bars. They didn’t punish her for what she said to a boy. They punished her for arguing with a man,” he explains.

“They didn’t need to jail her. They needed to label her. They needed a word in an argument between two adults to become a crime,” he adds.

However, the word she’s being punished for using is a word that’s repeated all the time in the black community.

“Here’s the lie the rappers and mainstream media sell you,” Whitlock says. “That the word changes based on who’s holding it. That in a bigot’s mouth, it’s a weapon, but in a rapper’s mouth, it’s culture. That the color of a man’s skin launders that word clean.”

“I have never believed that. Not once. It’s a lie. The word is the word. It’s poison coming out of a racist in a park. And it’s the same poison coming out of a stage in front of 20,000 kids who chant it all the way home,” he continues.

“Melanin does not sanctify it. A beat behind it does not baptize it. If it’s a sin, and it is, then it’s a sin in every mouth,” he adds.

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Despite Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) posting another photograph of himself, the governor of his state is demanding more evidence of McConnell’s well-being.

Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said in a letter dated Monday that McConnell should resign if he’s unable to prove that he can continue to serve.

‘Provide proof of your capacity to serve, or resign.’

“President [Donald] Trump is stuck in a war of his own making and has greatly strengthened the very country he claims is a threat,” Beshear wrote.

“Prices continue to rise, crushing Americans who are working hard but not getting ahead. Americans’ voting rights are being eliminated by the Supreme Court and threatened by congressional action. All while you are absent and refuse to communicate clearly and directly to the people you serve,” he added.

“As Governor of the state you serve, I am calling on you to directly and verbally address the people of Kentucky and provide proof of your capacity to serve, or resign,” Beshear concluded.

McConnell’s office did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

The 84-year-old senator was hospitalized on June 14 after a fall that left him briefly unconscious and has also had a bout with pneumonia, according to his office. His absence from the Senate and public life has led many to speculate that his condition is far more grave than his office is admitting.

A month after he entered the hospital, McConnell’s office released a photograph depicting the senator and his wife, Elaine Chao, on his hospital bed. On Monday, he released a second photograph and said he was recovering at a rehabilitation center.

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Beshear also reportedly sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), asking him to begin the process of removing McConnell unless McConnell provides evidence that he is healthy enough to continue in office.

If McConnell is forced to resign, his seat stays empty until a special election can determine his successor. The governor, who is a Democrat, is not legally allowed to temporarily fill the seat, as is the case in some other states. However, some have argued the governor might contest the law in court.

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Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of “The Odyssey” isn’t just drawing criticism for his choice in actors.

“Christopher Nolan is proving himself to be kind of just a bad filmmaker,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says, pointing out that it’s not just his “woke” casting choices — which include the transgender “Elliot” Page — in a film about ancient Greece.

“I think what’s even worse than all of that is the fact that when you look at how he chose to shoot this movie, it turns out he decided, he was like, ‘Which is the most retarded way to shoot this movie? Ah, I know, that’s the one I’m going to use,’” she says.

“Fifty-year-old IMAX techniques because he’s so pretentious. He’s so snooty. He’s so self-important. He’s like, ‘Ah, you know, just go see the movie. But you need to go see it in IMAX,’” she continues.

“Despite this huge campaign to force people to go pay extra, I assume, to go watch in IMAX, there are actually very few theaters in the country who can show it in this format,” she adds, pointing out that there are only 25 theaters in the country “equipped to project ‘The Odyssey’ in true IMAX 70mm film.”

Even the CEO of IMAX, Richard Gelfond, was confused by Nolan’s decision.

“The problem is they haven’t made new IMAX film projectors in about 50 years,” Gelfond told Variety in an interview.

“We build new projectors every day. But film projectors using this film, it’s not practical,” he added.

“That is so embarrassing to have the IMAX CEO call you out like that,” Gonzales says.

“He seems to be just a pretentious snob who doesn’t want to conform to, you know, normal ways. He just wants to make life more difficult so that he can consider himself artsy,” she adds.

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A 911 dispatcher heard a social media influencer “screaming and crying” before police found her and her estranged husband dead in her Oklahoma home Thursday. Less than two weeks before her death, the influencer posted a viral video accusing her estranged husband of being a pedophile.

Police said dispatchers noted that they received an emergency call in which a screaming woman and an apparent gunshot was heard.

‘Preparing for when Netflix drops a documentary about my soon-to-be ex-husband who I just found out is a pedophile.’

According to 911 audio People magazine obtained, the dispatcher said, “I’m trying to reach him back, but I could hear a female in the background screaming and crying. Some sort of loud bang in the background.”

Police said the dispatcher received a second 911 call from a child; the dispatcher indicated that the child said “his stepfather had shot his mother.”

NBC News reported that a boy called 911 from a neighbor’s home just moments after the first emergency call.

KTUL-TV reported that officers with the Owasso Police Department responded to a report of domestic violence at a home in Collinsville just after 11 p.m. Thursday.

Police said when officers arrived at the crime scene, they discovered two people dead with gunshot wounds to the head.

Police identified the deceased as 43-year-old Sara Gilson and her 48-year-old estranged husband, Jeremiah Shawn Duffey.

Police said the incident is being investigated as a murder-suicide.

According to Fox News, Duffey allegedly broke into the home, killed Gilson — and then himself.

NBC News reported that Gilson secured an emergency protective order against Duffey on June 10 — one day after police informed her that Duffey had been accused of molesting a minor.

The estranged husband was ordered to stay 100 yards away from Gilson and her home at all times, according to county court records.

The Oklahoman reported that Gilson received a protective order after informing a judge that her estranged husband “proceeded to threaten suicide and went on the run” after being confronted about the allegations.

On June 10, a woman filed a protective order against Duffey on behalf of her minor daughter, according to court records People magazine obtained.

The Oklahoman reported that Duffey was spotted kissing and fondling the woman’s 15-year-old daughter, a player on a youth basketball team Duffey coached. The protective order said another coach caught Duffey alone with the girl.

“Similar conduct by this coach toward this particular juvenile player was reported to have occurred over an extended period of time, in multiple law enforcement jurisdictions, across multiple states prior to this incident,” police said, according to Newsweek.

“This incident was witnessed by another team coach who immediately intervened and reported it to the juvenile’s parent, and they in turn came to the Owasso Police Department once the parent arrived to collect the juvenile from the event,” police said. “The suspect in this incident fled the scene and had not been seen by Owasso Police since.”

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NBC News reported that Duffey had been a member of the Osage Nation tribe and the alleged incident at the school happened on tribal land.

KOTV reported that because police determined the alleged offense occurred in Indian Country, and Duffey was a member of the Osage Nation, the investigation was referred to the U.S. Attorney’s Office under the Federal Major Crimes Act, which ended the Owasso Police Department’s jurisdiction over the reported molestation case.

Police noted that they submitted the case for a charge of lewd molestation of a minor to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for review, according to NBC News.

Gilson — who had been a social media influencer and now has over 94,000 followers on TikTok — posted a video accusing Duffey of being a pedophile less than two weeks before her death.

Gilson on July 11 posted a video on TikTok during which she is seen fidgeting and visibly upset as she sits down on a chair.

The following text appears at the top of the video: “Preparing for when Netflix drops a documentary about my soon-to-be ex-husband who I just found out is a pedophile.”

The video is captioned, “I wish I was joking. #plottwist #netflix #documentary.”

The video has been liked nearly two million times and is shot in the style of a viral online trend in which users pretend to sit down for a Netflix documentary interview.

NBC News reported that Gilson’s son was taken into protective custody and later released to a parent who wasn’t involved in the incident.

Neither the Owasso Police Department nor the U.S. Attorney’s Office immediately responded to Blaze News‘ requests for comment.

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Anthony Fauci’s newly released diary contains a perfect little monument to bureaucratic vanity.

On April 24, 2021, Fauci noted that BlazeTV host Steve Deace and Todd Erzen had published “Faucian Bargain,” which dubbed him “the most powerful and dangerous bureaucrat in American history.”

This is how institutions manufacture ignorance. They don’t always bury the evidence. More often than not, they simply declare the people seeking it disreputable.

Fauci had a devastating rebuttal. He did not read it.

“It is a cheap paperback of 179 pages which I will not even read,” Fauci wrote, before announcing that it contained “the same sort of nonsense that the other conspiracy theorists have been saying about me.”

Splendid! “Science” had spoken!

No evidence needed review. No argument required an answer. Fauci glanced at the title, identified the authors, and reached a conclusion with the serene confidence of a man accustomed to having cable news anchors treat his opinions as tablets from Sinai.

Two months later, Fauci explained the theology to NBC’s Chuck Todd.

“Attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science,” he said.

The arrogance of this guy!

Louis XIV supposedly declared, “I am the state.” Fauci updated the formula for the administrative age: I am science. Question my judgment and you have attacked knowledge itself. Ask about my agency’s grants and you have declared war on reason itself. Publish a critical paperback and the scientific method goes into cardiac arrest.

My friend Lloyd Billingsley has a term for this: “white-coat supremacy.”

It describes the belief that credentials confer not merely expertise but authority — political, moral, and sometimes almost priestly authority. The white coat becomes a vestment. The bureaucrat wearing it may issue commands, avoid scrutiny, and treat dissent as heresy. Citizens are not expected to weigh his arguments. They are expected to comply.

Sadly, millions did.

Fauci’s diary reads like the private scripture of white-coat supremacy.

Presidents praise him. Governors seek his counsel. Famous people call at all hours. Diners applaud when he picks up hamburgers. Fauci records each ovation with the dutiful embarrassment of a man cursed to remember every compliment.

Critics receive less delicate treatment. They are “crazy,” “far-right,” “preposterous,” “dishonest,” or simply beneath his notice. Deace and Erzen wrote a book criticizing the scope and consequences of Fauci’s power. Fauci refused to read it and then waved it off as irrational. Their standing settled the argument before the argument began.

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The same method governed Fauci’s use of “conspiracy theory.” Some claims aimed at him were a bit out there: that he was Hillary Clinton’s “mole,” that he and Bill Gates put microchips in vaccines, or that he personally created the coronavirus and carried it into the United States.

But Fauci placed fantasies alongside legitimate questions about a Wuhan lab leak, NIH money reaching the Wuhan Institute of Virology, gain-of-function research, deficient oversight, his testimony before Congress, and government pressure on social media companies.

Those claims do not belong in the same category.

A microchip in a syringe might be a fantasy, but NIH funding reaching Wuhan is a fact. A deliberate bioweapon release remains unsupported. A laboratory accident remains unresolved but perfectly plausible. Even the FBI favored a laboratory origin. Federal investigators found serious lapses in monitoring the EcoHealth Alliance grant.

Fauci knew — or should have known — the distinctions.

His diary records that on January 31, 2020, serious scientists discussed unusual features of SARS-CoV-2, possible deliberate insertion, and accidental laboratory release. He distinguished that conversation from a flimsy paper claiming HIV sequences had been inserted into the virus.

At first, the categories remained intact. One claim was crazy but the other warranted investigation.

But once the political stakes became obvious, the categories fell to pieces.

Soon, congressional oversight became evidence-free conspiracy theorizing. FOIA requests came from cranks and conspiracy theorists. Scientists who challenged the approved account became ideologues, attention-seekers, or villains subject to censorship. The FBI, which favored the lab-leak hypothesis, supposedly had “no idea” what it was talking about.

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And Steve Deace wrote a book Fauci refused to read.

That little detail gives away the game. “Conspiracy theory” did not describe the evidence. It determined whose evidence could be considered. Once Fauci assigned you to the crank file, documents became “disinformation,” questions became “harassment,” and investigation became an “attack” on “science” — meaning an attack on St. Anthony Fauci himself.

This is how institutions manufacture ignorance. They don’t always bury the evidence. More often than not, they simply declare the people seeking it disreputable, then point to the lack of approved inquiry as proof that no evidence exists. Neat trick. It worked, too.

Deace and Erzen argued that Fauci had become dangerously powerful and utterly unaccountable. Fauci answered by dismissing them unread, classifying them as irrational, and announcing that criticism of the man was criticism of science.

I hate to spoil a 179-page paperback, but that sounds an awful lot like confirmation.

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has released more than 1,100 pages of “Tony’s Diary” — Dr. Anthony Fauci’s personal record from the COVID era — ahead of Fauci’s testimony Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Amid entries on virus origins, case counts, and infighting with the Trump White House, the name of one particular “pretty woman” recurs with striking regularity: Julia Roberts.

‘She … said that every time she sees me her throat gets dry and she gets nervous.’

Fauci wrote her name at least seven times across the released pages.

On May 13, 2020, Fauci wrote up an Instagram Live arranged by the ONE Campaign. Roberts, he said, put her hands over her mouth when he appeared on screen and gasped, “Oh my God. It’s Dr. Fauci; he is here,” before telling him he was her personal hero.

A clip of their conversation shows Roberts describing Fauci as “maybe the coolest man on the planet” and a “true north, I think, for a lot of people.”

He was a little starstruck himself. “She was absolutely fabulous,” Fauci wrote of Roberts.

The two went on to discuss COVID-19’s toll on the developing world. He described her as “totally down to earth” and closed the entry with, “Great experience!!”

RELATED: Diaries expose Fauci obsessing over his own fame during height of COVID as millions died

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In an entry dated October 14, 2020, that otherwise concerns a case surge across 30-plus states and a dispute with Dr. Scott Atlas over herd immunity, Fauci wedged in: “A FEW DAYS AGO, Julia Roberts sent me [a] beautiful flower arrangement. I emailed her my thanks.”

On February 10, 2021, Fauci wrote about Roberts presenting him amfAR’s Award of Courage virtually from her California breakfast room. “When my image came up on the screen she gasped and said that every time she sees me her throat gets dry and she gets nervous and excused herself to go into the kitchen and get a glass of water,” he wrote.

He also called her “charming, natural, fun, and amazingly beautiful.”

RELATED: Fauci diary bombshells: Glenn Beck dives into wildest lines from his just-released entries

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The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee obtained Fauci’s diary as part of its ongoing investigation into COVID-19 and federally funded gain-of-function research. Fauci declined to testify voluntarily this time, so the committee subpoenaed him for the Wednesday hearing.

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Earlier this month, San Francisco’s Hamilton Society held a debate on a question that would have sounded absurd not long ago: Does America need a Caesar?

Older Americans may scoff. Younger politically engaged Americans are less likely to. Many came of age after 9/11 amid corruption, institutional drift, and visible decline. Even a presidency that has slowed the Biden-era collapse has not repaired the deeper sense that the system no longer works.

America needs a path out of cybernetic collapse that does not end in machine rule or technologically enhanced autocracy.

From that premise, the temptation follows: If everything is broken, perhaps history’s oldest emergency remedy deserves a second look.

But one does not simply “have a Caesar.” Critics who dismiss the whole discussion as live-action role-playing or strongman wish-casting have a point. A generation trained to think and talk rather than act will naturally produce elaborate theories of action it has never practiced.

The Hamilton Society debate captured that tension. The motion that America needs a Caesar failed, 56% to 44%, though the pro-Caesar side gained five points after the arguments. I had agreed to argue against the motion before a scheduling conflict kept me away.

Nervous breakdown

That case is easy enough to make today. America does not need a Caesar right now. The disturbing question is whether conditions could change until it does.

The danger lies in those two little words: right now.

Right now, America is entering a period of radical uncertainty, driven in part by artificial intelligence. My feed is filling with nervous remarks from people working at the edge of the AI industry. Their concern confirms two things: Our near-term future remains unwritten, and our capacity to make plans is beginning to break down.

The threat is not only a race toward recursively self-improving intelligence. It is also the recursive destruction of our ability to understand what is happening while our political order comes apart.

RELATED: The path to America-first AI

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The federal government faces a brutal dilemma. Its legitimacy depends partly on maintaining American strategic dominance. As AI advances, can Washington preserve that dominance without claiming the most powerful systems for itself and using them at its discretion?

Maintaining such an edge would not mean controlling only today’s strongest models. It would mean controlling tomorrow’s, then the next day’s, forever. The ultimate AI weapon is not one machine. It is the power to weaponize anything at any scale, from the planetary to the personal.

The technocratic answer is more cybernetics: tighter governance through self-improving systems of monitoring, prediction, and control. But we should be preparing for cybernetics itself to fail under the pressure of the moment.

Diminishing options

When a system can no longer govern itself, societies reach for familiar exits.

One is withdrawal: Head for the hills, build resilient communities, and live beyond the failing machinery. Some people should do exactly that. But if escape becomes a mass impulse, it stops being resilience and becomes flight. Poorly prepared internal refugees would remain trapped inside the same collapsing country.

A second option is spiritual authority. In periods of corruption, societies often turn to their holiest figures. America, however, is ill-equipped for that solution. Our churches are divided, many religious leaders suffer their own crisis of trust, and our constitutional order does not provide for theocracy.

That leaves the third option: one man entrusted with enough power to impose order on the people and, now, their machines. A ruler believed strong enough to bear the burden of writing a new law for a broken society.

In other words: Caesar.

What would have to happen before Americans not only wanted such a figure but believed they needed him? A broad majority would have to conclude that without one, the country would collapse and Americans would cease to be recognizably American.

RELATED: The question of the AI age: How much humanism is too much?

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The failure of the American experiment would leave us unable to agree on what regime should replace it. We might not even know what sort of people we had become. Under those conditions, an all-powerful AI could offer to decide for us.

If the choice appeared to be submission to the machine or submission to a man who promised to preserve both our humanity and our national identity, Caesar would suddenly look pretty attractive.

A civilization, if we can keep it

Here is the catch: Every historical Caesar has been pagan or Christian, and Christian Caesars ruled empires. America has imperial features, but it is not the kind of civilization likely to produce a Christian emperor. The Christian model for the ruler of one nation is the king, not the Caesar who governs many peoples.

That leaves the more plausible American outcome: a pagan Caesar.

Few Americans worship the classical gods. Politically, however, pagan gods were the gods of the regime — powers embodied by the city, the state, and ultimately the ruler. Caesar did not merely govern beneath them. He could become one of them.

Artificial intelligence now offers a lone ruler something no ancient emperor possessed: the prospect of near-divine control over information, movement, behavior, and even human cognition. AI could restore the oldest pagan political dream — the “gods of the city” made operational.

That is the point of departure for “Pagan.ai,” my essay in the new issue of Frontier.

America needs a path out of cybernetic collapse that does not end in civil anarchy or cyber theocracy. If we don’t like the Caesar we may someday believe we need, we should begin now to repair the conditions that would make him possible.

The best way to avoid Caesar is not to mock the question. It is to build a country that never has to ask it.

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Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy was absent from the team’s practice Monday after his son was arrested for allegedly shooting his mother at their Virginia home.

Police responded to reports of a shooting at an Ashburn residence just after 7:30 p.m. Sunday when they found 57-year-old Mia Bieniemy shot several times, according to the Loudon County Sheriff’s Office.

‘We have to go through an entire investigation to determine where everybody was, what they did, what prompted it, and how it all transpired.’

Elijah Zion Bieniemy, 27, was arrested in connection with the shooting and charged with malicious wounding, use of a firearm in commission of a felony, and discharge of a firearm inside a dwelling, CBS News reported. He was being held without bond at the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center, the news network added.

The victim was transported to a hospital for treatment of serious injuries.

The sheriff’s office confirmed to CBS News that Mia Bieniemy called 911 to report the shooting.

“I’ll just say she was shot multiple times, and we have to go through an entire investigation to determine where everybody was, what they did, what prompted it, and how it all transpired,” Loudoun County Sheriff Mike Chapman told WJLA-TV. “We’re conducting that investigation right now.”

Chiefs head coach Andy Reid addressed the incident with reporters after practice Monday.

“Our hearts go out to Eric Bieniemy and his family, thoughts and prayers are with them,” he said.

“I can’t get into details on it, but things happen sometimes, and Eric will work through it. He’s got a great support group here as a family, as needed. And then we’ll just let time take care of it from there,” Reid added. “Mia is stable, which is a plus, and so is Eric Junior, and that’s all important.”

Reid went on to call Mia Bieniemy a “saint” and a “special person.”

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Eric Bieniemy served as Kansas City’s offensive coordinator from 2018 to 2022. He spent the 2023 season as the assistant head coach and offensive coordinator for the Washington Commanders, the 2024 season as the assistant head coach and offensive coordinator for the UCLA Bruins, and the 2025 season as the running backs coach for the Chicago Bears, CBS News said.

The suspect is scheduled in court on Aug. 31.

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There is an old Army saying that sometimes the leader is simply the person who “remembers where the jeep is parked.”

Lately, I have wondered whether American journalism remembers at all.

Journalism is not finished when the reporter has sought the truth. It is finished when the public can see the truth clearly enough to act on it.

At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, the nation’s premier access participants gathered for their annual prom. Evening wear is nice, but it does make searching for a parked jeep more difficult.

Watching them, I kept thinking about access: who receives it, why they receive it, and what they owe the people who cannot enter those rooms.

I have spent 40 years in rooms where vague answers could cost someone dearly. Journalists occupy rooms where vague answers can cost a country dearly.

Over those four decades, I have accompanied my wife through scores of surgeries, intensive care units, and more medical conversations than I can count. At times, Gracie was intubated, sedated, and unable to speak for herself.

I was not in those rooms to express my worldview, impress physicians, or cultivate relationships. I was there to communicate her history, understand the plan, and ask the next question.

The physicians knew medicine. I knew Gracie. Good care required both.

Journalists occupy a similar position.

They enter the Oval Office, travel aboard Air Force One, and question people whose decisions affect millions. They are there because ordinary citizens cannot enter those rooms themselves.

That access is borrowed authority.

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Caregiving taught me that access fulfills its purpose only when it produces clarity for everyone affected, both inside and outside the room.

Reporters are not there to advance their careers, protect relationships, reward politicians they admire, or spar with those they dislike. They represent the whole country, including people they may neither understand nor respect.

Let the truth have its say, and let the chips fall where they may.

Caregivers quickly learn that vague language has consequences. I never allowed an important medical conversation to end with, “We will wait and see.”

My response was always, “Wait how long?”

An answer without a timetable is often not an answer.

Journalists should apply the same discipline.

For years, President Joe Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas maintained that the border was secure while insisting that meaningful action required new legislation and more spending.

The question is not whether reporters agreed with them. The question is whether the public received clarity.

What did “secure” mean? What evidence supported the claim? What authority did the administration already possess? What required congressional action? What would success look like, and when would the public know whether it had been achieved?

If the administration were mistaken, the public deserved to know how such a grave error persisted. If officials knew the claim was false, the public deserved to know that too.

Either possibility demanded relentless questioning.

Instead, too many reporters received the statement, recorded it, and moved on.

That is stenography masquerading as accountability.

The same standard must apply in every direction. When Donald Trump filibusters, changes the subject, or wanders away from a question, conservative journalists who like him personally or support his policies should bring him back.

“Mr. President, that did not answer the question.”

Then ask it again.

That isn’t “hostility.” It’s basic stewardship.

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I am friends with many of my wife’s medical providers. Friendship may make a conversation warmer. It never makes the questions less necessary.

Reporters may like the people they cover. They may admire them, agree with them, or enjoy being welcomed into the room. None of that changes the assignment.

The goal is fidelity to the public.

Most journalists would say they sincerely seek the truth. I believe many do. But sincerity is not the final measure. An entire unit may sincerely search for the jeep, but until someone can say where it is, the unit still cannot move.

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is over. The evening wear is back in the closet.

Now tell the country where the jeep is parked.

Journalism is not finished when the reporter has sought the truth. It is finished when the public can see the truth clearly enough to act on it.

Journalists, however, have little incentive to change while audiences reward performance, partisanship, and evasion with their time and attention. Most of us will never enter the Oval Office or travel aboard Air Force One, but we can decide whom we trust to enter those rooms on our behalf.

Access is not a prize. It is borrowed authority. Those entrusted with it owe the public clarity, and the public must demand it.

Otherwise, we will get another porous border, another visibly diminished president eating ice cream, and another roomful of smiling reporters assuring us that there is nothing to see.

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Immigration remains one of the defining questions of American politics because it forces a nation to answer fundamental questions about itself. Who belongs, who may enter, and what obligations do newcomers assume?

America is undeniably a nation shaped by immigrants. Yet acknowledging that history does not require abandoning the principles that made immigration successful in the first place. The United States became a destination because those who came entered a constitutional republic with laws, institutions, and a distinct civic culture.

The first obligation of any immigration system is control of the border. Enforcement cannot depend upon which political party occupies the White House.

A serious immigration policy begins with a simple proposition: Immigration should strengthen the country.

America faces demographic challenges, an aging population, and increasing pressure on entitlement programs. Productive immigrants who enter legally, work, pay taxes, and contribute to economic growth can help ease those burdens.

At the same time, immigration policy exists primarily to benefit American citizens, not employers seeking cheaper labor. Large inflows of low-skill labor can place downward pressure on wages and strain public resources.

America is not simply an economy or a geographic territory. It is a constitutional nation built upon individual liberty, equal justice under law, religious freedom, private property, free speech, and limited government.

Recent elections in several American communities have also highlighted another reality often ignored in immigration debates. Immigration does not merely affect labor markets or public finances. Over time, it reshapes the electorate itself.

RELATED: Mamdani’s one-word border answer said it all

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The growing political influence of Muslim candidates in some local and state elections demonstrates how demographic change eventually becomes political change. In a constitutional republic, every citizen possesses the same right to vote, participate, and seek office regardless of religion. The relevant question is not faith, but whether elected officials support equal rights, constitutional government, and the civic norms that hold a diverse nation together.

The first obligation of any immigration system is control of the border. Enforcement cannot depend upon which political party occupies the White House.

Immigration succeeds when it serves the national interest. America should welcome those who enter legally, contribute productively, respect the Constitution, and seek to become part of the American nation.

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When BlazeTV’s Liz Wheeler isn’t traveling for speaking engagements, writing books, or hosting “The Liz Wheeler Show,” she can usually be found hanging out with her family — which just grew!

On July 27, the glowing mom posted on X that she and her husband were just hours away from welcoming their third child into the world.

“By the time you see this video, I will have given birth to my third child,” she excitedly revealed, displaying her baby bump.

Liz then shared that she is having a third daughter.

“I grew up with sisters — lots of sisters — and I know that it is such a wonderful gift for my girls … to have sisters,” she beamed.

Her husband fully shares her excitement.

“My husband is such a wonderful girl dad. … He teaches them how to garden, how to build fish tanks, how to wrestle, how to read, and he also always has time to play house with them because they’re little girls, and they’re obsessed with baby dolls. And he loves the cards they make him that are covered with pink heart stickers, and he loves to twirl them in their pretty dresses,” Liz gushed.

“Pray for us if you will as we begin life as a family of five.”

To her fans and followers, Liz promised that she has not left them high and dry for the next 12 weeks while she’s on maternity leave.

“I filmed stuff ahead of time for you … and man, we have some good ones. I’ve actually been dying to tell you about some of them,” she laughed.

“The second thing is we are launching a clips channel … I know a lot of you request not just the full-length episodes but the shorter videos, but we can’t do that on our regular channel without getting penalized in the algorithm,” she continued, noting that the new clips channel is already up and running and ready for subscribers.

While Liz steps away to bond with her newest daughter, her pre-filmed episodes and new clips channel will keep fans covered until she returns.

Here’s to Liz, her husband, and their three precious girls!

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Cambodia under Pol Pot. The Soviet Union under Stalin. Nazi Germany under Hitler.

According to actress Jameela Jamil, none of them compares with the evil that is … Britain.

‘They are Thanos. Britain is Thanos. They owe 43 trillion to India. We colonized the world.’

A statement this stupid could only come from an entitled celebrity on a podcast. Check, and check.

‘Good’ riddance

Jamil recently appeared on something called “Yestergays” (nope, no idea either — sounds thrilling) to humblebrag about her career when she decided to engage in some good old-fashioned Brit-bashing. Discussing her role on the NBC sitcom “The Good Place” — in which she played a shallow British-Pakistani socialite — the London-born actress said that she had to make her character intentionally unlikable because of her home country’s historical record.

Proving that a person can be so dense that light bends around them, Jamil said: “But I just had to make her more of a bitch … because Americans think British people are so sweet, which is crazy because British people are truly the most evil people in history.”

Great — just what I needed, a history lesson from the star of “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.”

Normally I wouldn’t waste the skin on my fingers typing a response. Ill-informed, attention-seeking actors are a dime a dozen. But as a freeborn Englishman — proud to share a heritage with Thomas Paine and John Milton — I was stunned. I had to take time out from my busy schedule of torturing animals and punching children in the face just to gather my thoughts.

Raj-podge

It takes a special kind of dumb to dismantle centuries of British history from the brutal, oppressive trenches of a Los Angeles podcast studio. One can only admire the sacrifices Ms. Jamil makes daily — enduring the tyranny of hot yoga and air-conditioned trailers, bravely fighting the British Raj one iced chai latte at a time.

Because, as we are all meant to believe these days, before the British showed up, the world was a peaceful utopia. The Ottomans specialized in consent-based border expansions, the Kingdom of Dahomey was merely hosting neighborhood barbecues, and India’s Thuggee cult was running a roadside assistance program. History was a serene, harmonious folk festival until a white man in London decided to chart the high seas and ruin it for everyone.

Any serious historian knows that to truly understand the past, you must contend with economics, politics, religion, personalities, geography, and pure chance. Or you can try Jamil’s considerably simpler method of reducing a sprawling, centuries-long empire to an intergalactic purple despot in a Marvel movie:

“They are Thanos. Britain is Thanos. They owe 43 trillion to India. We colonized the world.”

Shrillionaire

$43 trillion? Believe it or not, Jamil didn’t do that back-of-the-envelope calculation herself.

No, she’s parroting a theory revived by Marxist economist Utsa Patnaik. The idea that British rule created a “drain of wealth” from India is more than a century old; Indian nationalists such as Dadabhai Naoroji were making versions of the argument during the Victorian era.

Patnaik’s contribution was to exhume the disputed theory and attach a suitably comic-book-size number to it: $45 trillion.

That figure is not an accounting of money or treasure Britain can be shown to have carried away. Patnaik arrives at it by treating India’s colonial export surpluses as uncompensated transfers and compounding their estimated value at 5% over generations. In other words, the $45 trillion is less an amount found in a ledger than the hypothetical present-day value of money her theory assumes was stolen in the first place.

Economic historians have criticized the drain theory for decades. The argument also assumes that wealth remaining in India would automatically have been invested productively there — something impossible to prove and contradicted by much of the historical record.

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Jamil’s world

In Jamil’s world, centuries of complex history are reduced to an image of Dick Dastardly twirling his mustache and making off with bags marked with dollar signs. No, we did not ransack India. Long before the high tide of empire, England was already a wealthy, highly productive nation. According to historians Stephen Broadberry and Bishnupriya Gupta, as early as the 16th century — long before the East India Company ever set foot in Bengal — England’s GDP per capita was so high that India would not match it until the late 1990s.

And when we were there, we laid thousands of miles of railway track and roadways, constructed deep-water ports in Bombay and Madras, established irrigation systems, and introduced representative governance.

We also helped outlaw barbaric practices like sati (widow burning) and introduced municipal sanitation as the bedrock of a hygienic civilization — not to mention the billions in development capital and financial assistance Britain has pumped into the country since.

We left nearly 80 years ago, and India is now a space-faring global economic superpower — so if people are still defecating in the street, that’s on you, literally. It’s like everything else we left behind: We built the framework, but it’s up to you what you actually do with it.

Passage from India

And while Ms. Jamil treats history as a one-way moral ledger in which Britain holds a monopoly on human suffering, she turns a blind eye to the present. According to the Global Slavery Index, over 11 million people in India today live in modern slavery — trapped in forced labor, debt bondage, and forced child marriage.

Britain is evil? If that’s true, somebody needs to tell the nearly 1 million Indian nationals who migrated to the U.K. between June 2020 and June 2025. Not to mention the roughly 880,000 Indian-born residents already living in Britain before the post-pandemic migration surge.

Of course, it would be wrong to single out poor Jamil. She’s hardly the first celebrity descendant of immigrants to slam the country that allowed her family to flourish. Jamil is simply singing from the hymn sheet of the church of identity politics, doing the bidding of what Deirdre McCloskey terms “the clerisy,” our modern opinion-forming priestly class — worshipping the holy trinity of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Hate the sin, not the sinner. Jamil is merely reciting the liturgy of modern secular religion. Strip away the histrionics, makeup, and logic-free platitudes, and you’re left with a recycled godless version of Calvinist predestination — where systemic racism is original sin and inherited guilt becomes a lifelong sentence with no possibility of atonement.

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Federal law enforcement under the Trump administration is working diligently to keep dangerous foreign elements out of the country and to ensure that dangerous homegrown elements stay off American streets.

Aiding in this effort, which has coincided with a historic drop in border crossings and murders, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Del Rio port of entry earlier this month nabbed a man wanted in Texas in connection with a brutal crime against a child.

‘This arrest highlights the critical role CBP plays in protecting the most vulnerable among us.’

On July 15, CBP officers on the Del Rio International Bridge flagged a vehicle driven by 58-year-old Juan Manuel Gomez, an American citizen, for secondary inspection.

Officers ran Gomez’s biometrics through law enforcement databases and discovered that he had an outstanding felony warrant for aggravated sexual assault of a child, which had been issued by the Val Verde County Sheriff’s Office in Del Rio.

The Del Rio Police Department took custody of the alleged sex offender and sent him on his way to the Val Verde Correctional Facility.

Liliana Flores, port director for Del Rio Port of Entry, said in a statement to Blaze News, “This arrest highlights the critical role CBP plays in protecting the most vulnerable among us.”

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“The apprehension of individuals wanted for heinous crimes, such as the sexual assault of a child, underscores our dedication to public safety and our collaborative efforts with law enforcement partners to protect our communities,” added Flores.

In addition to nabbing suspected citizen criminals like Gomez, CBP has also intercepted over 5,648 criminal noncitizens so far this fiscal year, 75 of whom had previous convictions for sexual offenses.

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Liberal pop star Katy Perry lashed out at the White House for using one of her songs in a social media post celebrating the lethality of the U.S. military.

Perry said she did not condone the use of her song in a post on the X platform.

‘My music is for bringing people together, not celebrating warfare.’

“I am deeply appalled and angry to see ‘Firework’ used on the @WhiteHouse TikTok account as a backing track for video footage of military strikes,” she wrote on Saturday.

“I did not approve this, I was not asked, and I absolutely do not condone it. I wrote this song to be an anthem of hope, healing, and inner strength for people going through their darkest personal moments,” she added. “To see a message of self-worth and upliftment weaponized to soundtrack destruction and violence is a complete violation of everything my song stands for.”

The nine-second video appears to show unclassified videos from the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran with Perry’s lyrics in the background.

“Iran has been warned,” the caption on the video reads.

While Perry can object to the use of her songs, she has zero recourse to stop it. Perry sold the rights to her music catalog to Litmus Music in 2023 for a reported sum of $225 million. The “Firework” song was included in that sale.

RELATED: ‘Disgusting and inhumane’: Pop singer furious that her song was used by White House ‘to incite violence’

Perry has been open about her liberal political opinions in the past and has recently acknowledged dating the former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

“My music is for bringing people together, not celebrating warfare,” Perry concluded.

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Kathryn Krick is the head pastor of Five-Fold Church in Los Angeles. As a self-proclaimed apostle, she has built a large social media following through viral videos of her deliverance ministry.

Many clips of Krick’s “deliverances” capture events that are often described as shocking, including people convulsing, screaming, shaking, and falling to the ground. In some cases, demons supposedly speak through the person being delivered, using alternate voices and admitting defeat. Testimonies include claims of instant freedom from mental health struggles, suicidal thoughts, addictions, and eating disorders, among others.

But BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey isn’t convinced Krick’s ministry is as honest as it claims to be. On this episode of “Relatable,” Allie dives into Krick’s complicated background and the “three main distinctives” of her ministry that concern her: Krick’s “self-proclaimed title of apostle,” “her theatrical exorcisms and healings,” and “her guaranteeing spiritual blessings for financial donations.”

Background

After first pursuing careers in acting and electronic dance, Krick was launched into deliverance ministry when she attended a “healing, anointing, and impartation conference in L.A. led by Tanzanian minister [and] self-proclaimed prophet GeorDavie,” who Allie says “built a following around claims of miraculous healings, deliverance from demons, while also cultivating a lavish lifestyle, a very successful business empire, and an extensive media presence in Tanzania.”

Apparently during that conference, GeorDavie “called Krick out from the crowd by name, delivered a personal prophecy to her telling her that she had been chosen to become an apostle of Jesus Christ who would reach the nations and through whom God would perform many miracles,” Allie recounts.

Krick then embarked on her apostolic journey, claiming GeorDavie as “her spiritual father.” Even though the charismatic preacher has been “accused of sexual misconduct, with multiple women alleging that he propositioned them for sex, according to Christian Post,” Krick, Allie says, fiercely defends him, telling anyone who criticizes or questions him, “Get behind me, Satan!”

Even though her ministry started small, viral social media posts of her performing “miracles” has allowed her church to grow into a mega-congregation and her social media following to swell to “2.5 million followers.”

Apostolic calling

Because “the apostles were personally chosen by Christ,” Allie believes the age of the apostles is over. The idea that God has restored the offices of apostle and prophet to lead the current church, however, comes from a movement called the “New Apostolic Reformation.”

“This is the belief that in order to have any sort of revival, in order to be legitimate Christianity … we must have modern-day apostles and prophets that are basically self-appointed [to] lead us into that revival. It must look, according to this loosely associated group of people, like Kathryn Krick,” Allie explains.

She notes that the New Apostolic Reformation treats the “biblical cannon [as] a limitation on what we must be and do,” which is why she rejects it and the ministries that flow from it.

Theatrical ‘deliverances’

While Allie believes that Christ delivers believers from death, Satan, and sin, she is highly skeptical of “deliverance ministries” that promise freedom from demonic spirits, sin strongholds, and other ailments.

“Typically, deliverance ministries are predicated on the idea that it must be convulsion; it must be seizing; it must be this kind of theatrical … performance,” she says.

Allie then plays several viral clips of Krick’s “deliverances.” In the first, a woman supposedly possessed by a demonic spirit convulses and falls to the ground, screaming, “No, she is mine!” as Krick commands the spirit to leave. In the second, Krick, counting down from three, commands all evil spirits to detach from a man, who flops around on the stage, even after the “deliverance” is over. A third clip captures her blowing into a microphone, flailing her arms at a crowd of people who seem to be dramatically blown back as she passes.

“Also, we see the same people being delivered over and over again in her videos. She has actually been exposed for ‘healing’ the same people repeatedly,” Allie adds, citing an article that “compiled these different examples of the same people in different events being exorcised.”

She then plays several Krick videos that seem to feature the same people supposedly being delivered from demons over and over again. “I guess you could say they were exorcised of a demon and then the next night they were, you know, already possessed again. … We don’t see examples of that kind of thing happening in Scripture,” Allie says, speculating that these repeaters are actually people who have been “tapped to continue to come back to these events to make it seem extremely sensational.”

Seed sowing

Another issue Allie takes with Krick’s ministry is her encouragement to “sow seeds of faith” or, in other words, “to give money to her ministry with the expectation that doing so will release God’s blessings.”

“Seed faith teaching is part of the broader prosperity gospel, which teaches that God intends believers to experience health and material wealth in this life, and actually that is a guarantee of having the right kind of faith and sufficient faith in God — even though that is the opposite of what Jesus teaches over and over again, the opposite of the experience of the disciples and the apostles,” Allie explains.

“Krick teaches that while we can pray for deliverance, it may not come unless that financial seed is sown, unless you are donating to her ministry,” she adds.

She then plays a video of Krick giving her seed-sowing spiel.

“If you were delivered today, I encourage you to sow a special seed to seal this deliverance, as it says in Psalms that every covenant there is a sacrifice and when every covenant’s made. So, there’s a new covenant of freedom that God’s made with you today, so sow this seed,” she says in the clip.

In another video, Krick speaks to a mother whose young son is writhing on the ground supposedly due to a demonic attack. Krick tells her, “God is going to free him completely. … Sometimes it’s not just about commanding the demons, but there’s other keys that need to be unlocked, and one of them is to sow seeds.”

When the mother reveals that she’s been tithing 10% of her wages, Krick responds with, “God’s saying more because 10% is what’s God’s, so now we need to sow specifically for his deliverance.”

“And even when God puts on your heart to even sow a seed right now online or something, you know, like, right now, this is what God wants you to do,” she added.

“She needs to give more than 10% of her tithe in order for her son to be healed, and some deliverance is more complicated than the others. Chapter and verse. … Where do you see that?” Allie asks skeptically.

“These people who are teaching false things, they are betting that you don’t read your own Bible. They are betting upon your ignorance. They are using their supposed apostolic authority to make you ignorant of what the word of God says so that you continue to go to them as your only source of truth and healing.”

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) has faced intense backlash for his repeated calls to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

And the latest person to jump into the debate was someone the mayor likely never saw coming: Milwaukee Bucks forward Kyle Kuzma.

‘People cosplaying as things they don’t have the authority, the talent, or the track record to actually be.’

In a post on X, the 2020 NBA champion weighed in on an address Mamdani delivered last week in which the mayor reaffirmed his belief that Netanyahu should be arrested for serving as “the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people.”

“I agree with the ICC that Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested and tried for his crimes,” Mamdani said in the video.

The mayor had previously pledged on the campaign trail — and reiterated in a recent interview with the New York Times — that he would seek to enforce the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant if Netanyahu were to visit New York City, which the prime minister plans to do when the United Nations General Assembly convenes in September.

Mamdani added, however, that the NYPD lacks the legal authority to execute the ICC’s warrant.

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Responding to the remarks, Kuzma wrote in a Sunday post, “This is 2026. People cosplaying as things they don’t have the authority, the talent, or the track record to actually be. Just for content.”

He continued by calling Mamdani “a mayor playing president.”

“Were [sic] raising a generation that learning the reward isn’t in doing the thing it’s in looking like you did the thing,” Kuzma wrote.

“Don’t fall for distractions,” he concluded.

In a follow-up post, Kuzma acknowledged the wave of personal attacks he received for criticizing Mamdani.

“X is for conversation, and in today’s age, you cannot have a conversation without being attacked if people don’t agree with what you are saying,” he said.

“But somehow, I am a Zionist because I’m pointing out things that are happening in front of everyone’s face,” he added.

In contrast, San Antonio Spurs superstar Victor Wembanyama liked the video posted to the mayor’s official Instagram account.

President Donald Trump also chimed in on Truth Social, dismissing Mamdani’s calls, writing, “Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States.”

The Netherlands-based ICC issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu in 2024, accusing the prime minister of war crimes, including using “starvation as a method of warfare,” as well as “crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.”

The United States has not ratified the Rome Statute, which established the ICC, and is therefore not obligated to enforce its arrest warrants.

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Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is letting Dr. Anthony Fauci speak for himself through a massive collection of “diary” entries during the peak years of the COVID pandemic — and the results have been potentially disastrous for Fauci’s apparently carefully curated public image and for some of his associates.

And those associates, it appears, extend well into the fourth estate.

‘Jake clearly believes that Trump is totally nuts.’

Blaze News previously reported on the damning new documents exposing Fauci as an apparent fame-obsessed megalomaniac.

However, a name from the mainstream media also continued to appear in the more than 1,100 pages of documents: CNN anchor Jake Tapper.

“Had dinner at my home with Jake and Jennifer Tapper. Relaxed, good time. Jake clearly believes that Trump is totally nuts,” reads an entry dated October 23, 2020.

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A review of the documents revealed a disturbing pattern of cooperation between Fauci and Tapper. For example, Fauci wrote a similar entry dated July 1, 2020, in which he explicitly describes their association as a “friendship.”

“Had dinner over Jake Tapper and Jen Tapper’s home in D.C. Terrific couple. Friendship building,” Fauci wrote, according to the documents released by Sen. Paul.

And, of course, as is the nature of many friendships in politics, this friendship apparently served some utility during the pandemic.

In the April 13, 2020, entry, Fauci recorded that he had a phone call with Jake Tapper. He wrote that “Jake wanted to make sure the interview did not cause me any problems.” Fauci had appeared on Jake Tapper’s show, “State of the Union,” the day before.

Almost exactly a month later, on May 14, 2020, Fauci recorded that there was some “confusion” related to vaccines and school closure. With regard to his messaging in the media, Fauci wrote, “Chris Cuomo and Jake Tapper are trying to clarify this in my defense on their shows.”

In another surprising entry, on July 26, 2020, Fauci appears to say that he fed questions to Jake Tapper to correct the narrative about testing as COVID deaths spiked. The entry is worth quoting at some length:

5th Day in a row for 1000 deaths/day. Brett Giroir on Tapper (State of the Union) talking bulls**t about testing with Jake pressing him. I gave Jake some questions to ask him. Mark Meadows on This Week with George Stephanopoulos saying that public health measures are not working and we will have to rely on interventions such as vaccines and therapeutics. This is his way of backing out of a failure and trying to get an “October Surprise.” Heads up for him trying to push an early approval of vaccine or even influencing the decision about convalescent sera, which actually do not look too good right now.

Fauci is scheduled to give testimony before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Wednesday morning.

CNN declined to provide a comment to Blaze News. Representatives for Jake Tapper likewise declined to comment.

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A 30% grocery markdown?

That is the pricing framework that will guide the city’s five government-owned grocery stores, democratic socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced during a press conference Monday.

‘Our five city-run grocery stores will set prices for this core set of goods at 30% below typical retail prices.’

Standing in front of shelves stocked with produce in a Brooklyn warehouse, Mamdani addressed the sharp rise in grocery prices over the past several years, citing a 30% increase since 2019.

To offset that increase, the mayor announced “a collection of essential staples that will be predictably 30% cheaper at all five of our city-run grocery stores.”

The discount will apply to items including fresh produce, meat, seafood, and “20 other essential items like cheese, milk, and bread,” Mamdani said, adding that prices will be set once per month to eliminate week-to-week fluctuations.

“Once a month, our five city-run grocery stores will set prices for this core set of goods at 30% below typical retail prices. No exceptions.”

The mayor has repeatedly pledged — both on the campaign trail and since taking office — to open one of these stores in each of the city’s five boroughs. The first location is expected to open in the Bronx by the end of 2027, with the remaining four stores slated to be operational by the end of his four-year term, including one in East Harlem.

Mamdani also said the city-run grocery stores would not sell cigarettes, alcohol, lottery tickets, or hot food, which are typically among the most profitable products for bodega and convenience store owners. The move is intended to address concerns that the mayor’s initiative could undercut privately owned stores in the surrounding areas.

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“We know that a lot of what drives revenue for these bodegas, grocery stores, those are things that make it possible for them to continue to operate. Those are not things we have any interest in competing for,” Mamdani said.

Former Mayor Eric Adams (D) has been a vocal critic of the initiative, arguing that Mamdani’s plan would “devastate the local bodegas and local stores and the local supermarkets where they employ people,” calling it “not the right thing to do.”

Grocery executive John Catsimatidis, the owner of Gristedes and D’Agostino Supermarkets, has also bashed the proposal. In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Catsimatidis predicted the mayor’s program “would collapse our food supply, kill private industry, and drag us down a path toward the bread lines of the old Soviet Union.”

Under the current proposal, the city would own the property and cover the costs of construction, rent, and property taxes. A private operator would partner with the city to manage the stores’ day-to-day operations, including sourcing products, stocking shelves, and maintaining customer service.

Mamdani is now seeking private operators to run the stores, inviting applicants with grocery management experience to take part in the city’s government-owned retail experiment.

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