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One father said the violent crime on the streets had gotten so bad that a bullet was fired into the bedroom of his weeks-old infant, just a few feet from where the child slept.

That’s just one of the many stories that led to residents in Seattle expressing their frustration with sex trafficking and crime by marching and demanding change from city officials.

Residents said they believed the increase in gunfire was from pimps fighting over prostitutes and their turf.

Residents told KOMO-TV that their vehicles and homes had been hit by gunfire, and many believed the growing problem with sex trafficking on Aurora Avenue was to blame.

“We’re really out here demanding action — it’s as simple as that,” said a homeowner named Aaron who reported numerous shootings in his neighborhood this year. “From King County to the city of Seattle and the state at this point, because it’s really scary.”

Some local officials met with the protesters, but many of the residents noted that Mayor Katie Wilson was notably absent.

“I think it’s unfortunate that she’s not able to be here, but I think the message needs to be to her office that we’re ready to see a concrete action plan,” another woman said.

“North Aurora belongs to people of Greenwood, North Park, Licton Springs, Phinney Ridge, Bitter Lake, and Haller Lake. Not the … johns, not the … pimps,” a man named Andrew Steelsmith said.

Other residents said they believed the increase in gunfire was from pimps fighting over prostitutes and their turf.

Some in the neighborhood resorted to setting up their own metal planter blockades to stop some traffic and prevent the shootings. The city took them down and installed staggered concrete barriers.

RELATED: VIDEO: Female No Kings protester wearing phallic costume tossed to the ground by cop — and faces a slew of charges

KOMO reported that the mayor’s office eventually got around to releasing a statement about the anti-crime protests.

“Every neighborhood should be a place where people feel safe, supported, and able to go about their daily lives without fear. We are actively working with Aurora-area residents, Seattle Police, and the Seattle Department of Transportation to address community concerns,” the statement reads.

“SPD continues to conduct emphasis patrols and re-task members of the Gun Violence Reduction Unit to focus on the area and, in about a week, SDOT will have completed its analysis of roads in the area for future safety improvements,” the statement continues. “The Deputy Mayor, public safety staff, and our community liaisons have met with area residents, and we will continue to find ways to support neighbors.”

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Critics have long argued that the NFL gets an unfair pass under antitrust law. The Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 allows the league to do things that would normally raise legal red flags, including pooling all 32 teams’ television rights and negotiating media deals as one entity. That kind of coordinated behavior is exactly what the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was designed to scrutinize.

But measured by what matters most under modern antitrust law — consumer welfare — the NFL’s exemption looks far less like a sweetheart deal for billionaires and much more like a good deal for fans.

The irony of stripping the NFL’s exemption in the name of protecting fans is that fans would likely end up worse off.

Antitrust law generally asks a simple question: Does the challenged conduct hurt consumers? By that standard, the NFL’s model holds up well. Fans have more access to games at lower real prices, even as league costs have risen sharply, including large inflation-adjusted gains in player salaries.

Hometown fans can watch every one of their local team’s games free over the air each season. The typical fan can access more than 100 games a year without paying for cable or a streaming bundle. Even the avid fan who wants every regular-season game can, according to research by LightShed Partners, watch all 272 games in 2026 for less than $600.

That comes to less than $3 per game.

Compare that with 2006, when full coverage required paying roughly $60 a month for DirecTV plus $290 for Sunday Ticket. Adjusted for inflation, that is more than $1,600 in today’s dollars. In other words, the real cost of watching the full NFL season has fallen by more than 60% over the past two decades.

That is not what consumer harm usually looks like.

Some critics argue that if the NFL lost its exemption, individual teams would cut their own media deals and fans would benefit from more competition. In practice, that would likely mean 32 teams signing separate deals with different streaming services, regional networks, cable channels, and digital platforms. Fans who wanted to follow the whole season would have to assemble a patchwork of subscriptions, apps, logins, blackout rules, and geographic restrictions.

That would not help fans. It would make watching football more expensive and more frustrating.

European soccer offers a warning. Leagues there have spent years fighting over collective television licensing, and fragmented rights have often made the product harder for ordinary fans to follow while enriching a handful of powerful clubs. The irony of stripping the NFL’s exemption in the name of protecting fans is that fans would likely end up worse off.

The NFL also differs from ordinary industries in a deeper way. In most markets, antitrust law assumes independent competitors produce better outcomes than coordinated actors. A dominant firm may seek to squeeze out rivals, raise prices, and control the market. But professional sports do not work like normal markets.

The NFL’s “product” requires competition among many teams. A single team cannot produce a season. Fans do not merely want great franchises; they want close, unpredictable games. If the same teams win every year and the outcome seems predetermined, people stop watching.

RELATED: Sports broadcasting blackouts are killing American culture

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That is why the NFL needs coordination in a way most industries do not. Revenue sharing, pooled media rights, and coordinated scheduling are not tricks to suppress competition. They help preserve competitive balance. When money flows from richer franchises to smaller-market teams, the league prevents a handful of clubs from dominating year after year.

Few industries operate by having winners subsidize losers. In most markets, that would look suspicious. In professional football, it helps create the product fans want.

Antitrust law usually assumes cooperation among competitors harms consumers. In the NFL, cooperation among competitors helps produce better competition on the field.

The Sports Broadcasting Act is not a dusty relic or a lobbyist favor from another era. It reflects a real difference between sports leagues and ordinary industries. Coordination can benefit consumers when the product itself depends on balanced competition, shared scheduling, broad access, and national distribution.

The data supports that conclusion. Fans are paying less in real terms for more access than ever, despite rising league costs. Blow up the current system in the name of a simplistic demand for “more competition,” and the likely result would be higher prices, fragmented access, and a worse viewing experience.

Antitrust law exists to protect consumers, not to punish cooperation for its own sake. In the NFL’s case, coordination lowers prices and improves the product by giving fans more football, broader access, and closer games. It’s the opposite of what it does in many other industries where antitrust concerns are relevant.

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Police said a teen takeover intended to take place at a Florida beach was thwarted after cops turned the tables on the organizers — and used social media against them.

Authorities in St. Johns County told Fox News they squashed the planned event after finding social media posts encouraging youths to gather at St. Augustine Beach for what officials said was shaping up to be a chaotic and violent gathering.

‘You don’t know if it’s going to be 10 people, 100 people, or 1,000 people … showing up, so it’s extremely taxing on our resources, especially being a small police department like we are.’

“This wasn’t an invite for a teen party or a beach gathering. This was an invitation to come take over our beach and create chaos and possibly leading to violence,” St. Augustine Beach Police Chief Daniel Carswell told Fox News on Monday.

Authorities pre-emptively canceled the planned takeover in the interest of public safety — and to send a signal to those planning to participate, the news network noted.

“[We did this] to put everybody on alert that if they come, if they’re going to respond to this invitation, there’s going to be zero tolerance here in St. Augustine Beach,” Carswell added to Fox News.

St. Johns County Sheriff Robert Hardwick said targeting suspicious social media chatter began with analyzing community reports and monitoring organizers’ attempts to act behind the scenes, the news network said: “The organizers started moving it around, basically on posters, trying to be strategically behind the scenes, trying to get people to bite into the actual event itself. And again, we just don’t tolerate this garbage in St. Johns County.”

Carswell added to Fox News that he couldn’t recall any prior attempts to stage such an event in St. Johns County but highlighted other instances across the country, including some in Florida.

“These things are spread … via TikTok and social media,” he noted to the news network.

“You don’t know if it’s going to be 10 people, 100 people, or 1,000 people … showing up, so it’s extremely taxing on our resources, especially being a small police department like we are,” he continued.

RELATED: Yet another violent Florida ‘teen takeover’ leads to arrests of suspects as young as 12, officials say

Police posted on Facebook their response to one teen takeover announcement, noting the following “PSA”:

The planned event is not permitted and has been canceled by the St. Augustine Beach Police Department. While we welcome and encourage everyone to enjoy our community and beaches, any unlawful gathering, criminal activity, or disturbance of the peace will be met with immediate enforcement action. To ensure the safety of our residents and visitors, there will be a substantial law enforcement presence at and around the St. Augustine Beach Pier tomorrow afternoon. We appreciate the public’s cooperation in helping maintain a safe and enjoyable environment for all.

A violent teen takeover in Florida last month led to the arrests of suspects as young as 12, officials said, adding that Tampa Police officers arrested 22 people in connection with the incident in the area of Curtis Hixon Park, which police said resulted in “significant disruptions, fights, and other issues.”

In April, fights erupted and sheriff’s deputies were hurt after more than 1,000 teenagers descended upon ICON Park in Orlando as part of a planned takeover.

Tampa Police added that with summer approaching, the growing “takeover” trend has become a concern for communities across the country — not just in Tampa.

Indeed, a massive brawl broke out in a Washington, D.C., Chipotle restaurant last month — with chairs being thrown and used as weapons — just one day after U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced she would prosecute parents of youths taking part in teen takeovers, WJLA-TV reported.

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In April this year, the DOJ indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on federal fraud, false statements, and money laundering charges for allegedly secretly funneling over $3 million in donor funds from 2014 to 2023 to paid informants and leaders tied to white supremacist and extremist groups like the KKK, Aryan Nations, National Alliance, and National Socialist Movement — while still soliciting donations by claiming to be the ones dismantling the groups.

While much of conservative America is busy rightly raging over the SPLC’s alleged manufacturing of the very extremism it purports to oppose, comedian and BlazeTV host Dave Landau is doing what he does best: turning the whole ridiculous scandal into comedy gold.

In true Landau fashion, he resurrects the SPLC’s cheesy 1-800-FIGHT-HATE ad format — only this time it’s a deadpan Sarah McLachlan-style plea where Dave, decked out in full Klan robes, plays a sobbing, helpless white supremacist begging for donations while “suffering” through everyday life.

Making matters even funnier, X user James Harris asked Grok if the video was a real SPLC ad, and it answered in the affirmative.

Since the SPLC won’t expose its own grift, comedy will do it with a smile. Check out Dave’s hilarious skit above.

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The Justice Department announced a settlement with the Cleveland Clinic to end “gender-affirming care” at the clinic for two decades, according to a press release.

The clinic also agreed to pay a fine of $308,000 after it was accused of misrepresenting the gender-transitioning care in order to secure insurance coverage.

The hospital called the criticism inaccurate and false and claimed that it did not perform gender-affirming surgeries for patients under 18 years old.

The clinic will also put up $2 million worth of restorative care for people wanting to detransition.

“The Department of Justice is steadfastly committed to protecting America’s children. … Today’s resolution with Cleveland Clinic furthers that commitment and puts these providers on notice that this Department will vigorously enforce federal law where children are put at risk,” Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said.

The DOJ compared the settlement to one previously reached with the Texas Children’s Hospital. The hospital agreed to end sex-rejecting procedures to minors and pay a $10 million penalty.

“These historic commitments pair the cessation of these dangerous practices masquerading as medical treatment with substantial investments in remediating the destruction they cause and restoring the health of the victims,” the DOJ said in its press release.

The Cleveland Clinic was bashed by Consumers’ Research in 2025 for being one of the most woke hospitals in the U.S. The hospital called the criticism inaccurate and false and claimed that it did not perform gender-affirming surgeries for patients under 18 years old.

RELATED: Boston Children’s Hospital scrubs videos touting ‘gender-affirming hysterectomies’ for young girls after online criticism

“I am grateful that institutions like Cleveland Clinic and Texas Children’s have decided to be part of the solution, not part of the problem,” said Brett Shumate, assistant attorney general for the Civil Division.

“Cleveland Clinic’s commitment to providing millions of dollars towards care for detransitioners is emblematic of just that,” Shumate added. “I am grateful for this resolution with Cleveland Clinic, but our work is far from over, and our division will continue to work tirelessly to protect America’s children and hold accountable those that have preyed on vulnerable children, whether they be pharmaceutical companies or medical providers.”

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To celebrate the United States’ 250th birthday, numerous professional sports leagues have featured a USA 250 patch on the game jerseys of major competitions.

In the Super Bowl, the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots had the design embroidered on their jerseys. Currently, the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs are wearing the patch in the NBA Finals.

‘250 years ago we would have been breeders or in the fields working all day.’

However, when it comes to the upcoming WNBA All-Star Game in late July, Las Vegas Aces forward Brianna Turner blasted the idea on her X account, calling out “the irony of all the USA 250 stuff.”

“Whoever called for the WNBA all star uniforms to have the USA 250 patch should have thought that through considering no WNBA players would have been free 250 years ago. The majority wouldn’t even have their freedom 100 years ago,” Turner posted.

Sportico originally reported that the red, white, and blue patches would make an appearance on the WNBA All-Star jerseys, but after massive backlash on social media, a spokeswoman for the league told USA Today in a statement: “Like other major sports leagues, we are exploring how best to commemorate the country’s 250th anniversary. Nothing has been finalized at this time.”

The plan for the patch was revealed back in January by Fanatics in an agreement with President Trump and America250 — the organization established by Congress to head the celebration of the country’s 250th birthday. In that announcement, the MLB, MLS, NASCAR, NBA, NFL, NHL, UFC, and WWE were all highlighted as part of the agreement. Notably, the WNBA was not listed.

RELATED: The NBA is finally going with a pro-America stance: ‘We’re proud’

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In 2025, approximately 64% of WNBA players identified as black. Turner followed up her post on X with another comment focusing on that statistic: “250 years ago we would have been breeders or in the fields working all day.”

Trump has received much criticism from WNBA players throughout his political career. In 2024, several New York Liberty players wore Kamala Harris shirts in support of her bid for president.

Two-time MVP Breanna Stewart held up a sign that read, “Abolish ICE,” before the start of a January game. The act of protest came in the aftermath of the Alex Pretti killing.

“Yesss I know this was probably a financial decision at the end of the day but still,” Turner said.

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An 18-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly pantsed a transgender-identifying person at an amusement park in Ohio.

Marquez Williams was banned for life from all Six Flags parks over the incident on May 26 at the Cedar Point park in Sandusky.

The victim told police that he believed Williams targeted him ‘strictly’ because he identified as transgender.

Sandusky Police said Williams walked up behind the person and pulled down his skirt and underwear, exposing him to various bystanders, including some children. Some witnesses said Williams recorded the incident and laughed as he ran away.

A friend of the victim chased after Williams, who ran into the parking lot.

Police said Williams defied orders and was eventually arrested after being subdued with the use of a stun gun and other “reasonable force.”

The victim told police that he believed Williams targeted him “strictly” because he identified as transgender.

The teen was treated at a hospital for injuries sustained during the arrest.

Williams was initially charged with four misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest, public indecency, persistent disorderly conduct, and obstructing official business. Officials later dropped the indecency charge but added a theft charge.

The teen posted 10% of his $8,000 bond and was released that evening, according to the Erie County Sheriff’s Office.

He later pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The judge ordered Williams to stay away from the victim as well as all Six Flags properties.

WKYC-TV reported that Williams graduated from high school only a week after being released from custody.

RELATED: VIDEO: Trans-identifying teen and alleged accomplice make ‘sociopathic’ jokes after arrest for attempted murder

Fremont City Schools Superintendent Denice Hirt confirmed that Williams had participated in graduation but offered no other comment.

A spokesperson for Cedar Point park released a statement about the incident.

“Cedar Point is a family-friendly environment, and we do not tolerate disruptive or inappropriate behavior,” the park spokesperson said. “Guests who violate our Code of Conduct are not welcome in our parks, and this guest has been banned from all Six Flags parks for life.”

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One of the most effective LGBTQ propaganda campaigns wasn’t designed to change minds — it was designed to make dissent socially unacceptable.

BlazeTV host John Doyle argues that Hollywood and the media spent years convincing Americans that opposition to homosexuality was itself evidence of hidden same-sex attraction, creating a powerful social stigma around criticism.

“To be homophobic, too, meant that you’re actually secretly gay yourself. There was media depicting this — most famously, I think, ‘American Beauty’ with Kevin Spacey,” Doyle explains.

In the film “American Beauty,” a very masculine character who is blatantly intolerant of gay men reveals himself to be secretly gay at the end of the film.

“Now, that’s a master class in psychology, because they’re literally using the fact that people found this disgusting to then take that and turn it against them, where they would now be more reluctant to actually speak out against gay people because of this propaganda,” he says.

“What it boils down to is that they wanted to shore up and build up institutions and power for themselves and those on their side and then shut down and make their enemies appear to be evil, ridiculous, secretly on their side, but too cowardly to admit it,” he adds.

Once Americans were convinced that they were not allowed to disagree for fear of being labeled gay themselves, the gay community won the right to get married. Shortly after, they much more obviously began pushing their sexual preferences on children and called it progress.

Doyle calls this “growth for the sake of growth,” which he likens to the “ideology of a tumor.”

“It’s why, you know, only after getting legal protections completely enshrined in the law did they then start to push transgender transitions for children, drag shows for children, child drag queens. Again, why are they so focused on children?” Doyle asks.

“Is it perhaps because this isn’t actually, you know, a born-this-way kind of thing? Maybe it’s more, I don’t know, affecting people when they are in their most psychologically malleable state — their early developmental stages,” he says.

“Maybe,” he adds, “it’s a form of vampirism.”

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There’s a reason it’s Jenny from the block, not Jenny fresh off the boat.

Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio was hopping mad when pop singer and actress Jennifer Lopez dared to define what makes a New Yorker.

‘Everybody wants to claim our city.’

“Everybody wants to claim our city, but you have to be born in New York. You have to be born in one of the five boroughs to be a New Yorker,” Lopez said.

Purity test

Lopez’s offhand comments, which she made while appearing on “SubwayTakes with Kareem Rahma,” prompted the Democrat former mayor, who led the city from 2014 to 2021, to call Lopez’s definition “absolutely outrageous.”

“There is no purity test,” de Blasio claimed — asserting that New York is the “ultimate city of immigrants.”

The 65-year-old continued his vehement defense of immigration by telling the New York Times the city’s culture is actually the inverse of what Lopez was suggesting.

“In fact, it’s been the opposite. We’ve said, ‘Come here and become one of us.'”

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New York state of mind

De Blasio attempted to explain that his self-identification as a New Yorker comes from “how long I’ve lived here and because I raised my family here,” not the fact that he was born in Manhattan in 1961.

“This place gave me everything in life,” the former mayor went on. “Your definition of home is the place that means the most to you. New York City has been my whole world.”

It’s a definition that Lopez would no doubt reject. In her appearance, she stressed that even if a person had lived in NYC for 50 years, he still wasn’t cut from the same cloth as those who were born there.

“I have to say, no, you live in New York. You take on characteristics of New Yorkers. … When you’re born in New York is when you’re really a New Yorker.”

RELATED: Superstar singer debuts trans kid at high school graduation

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Emotional rescue

Lopez finished the short interview by advocating for schools to teach “self love” from elementary school through college, saying that if students couldn’t pass tests based on being a good person, they shouldn’t be allowed in society.

“Because they teach us things intellectually, but an intellectual motherf**ker with no emotional intelligence is dangerous! It’s a dangerous person. Okay?” she remarked.

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The Department of War has updated its faith codes after excluding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the list of Christian churches and causing a bitter theological debate on social media.

Members of the LDS church, colloquially known as Mormons, were angered that their church, while on the list, was not included among the Christian denominations.

‘The Pentagon’s job is not to adjudicate theological debates.’

Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah heavily criticized the list.

I’m a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” he wrote Saturday. “My church membership is inextricably intertwined with my Christianity, as it is for 17 million other Latter-day Saints. Regardless of what the Pentagon thinks.”

Others argued that the theological positions of the LDS church separated it from traditionally defined Christianity.

“In strictly theological terms, Catholics do not consider Mormons (Latter-day Saints) as Christians,” explained Father Ronald Vierling, a priest who listed rejection of the Trinity as one of the differences.

Lee later indicated on Sunday that he has spoken to President Donald Trump about the issue.

“I won’t speak for him, but I’m thrilled about where this is heading,” the senator wrote.

On Monday, the Department of War updated the list and said the omission had been a mistake.

“Last week, a proposed list of simplified faith codes was released to the media. The Pentagon list included redundant and unnecessary labeling, and the mistake has been fixed,” reads the statement from the agency posted on social media.

The agency went on to explain that it was trying to simplify the coding system, which had ballooned to over 200 codes.

RELATED: Are Jesus and Satan brothers? Allie Beth Stuckey challenges LDS podcaster on Mormon theology.

“The Pentagon’s job is not to adjudicate theological debates, but instead to ensure sincerely-held faith is respected and encouraged in our ranks,” the agency added.

Lee thanked War Secretary Pete Hegseth for the change in the policy.

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Former reality TV star Spencer Pratt remains optimistic about his chances in the Los Angeles mayoral race despite losing his 40,000-vote lead and second-place position to far-left L.A. City Councilwoman Nithya Raman.

Critics of California’s delayed vote-counting are raising concerns that the primary election may have been stolen from Pratt, as the process has already dragged on for nearly a week.

‘Raman has conveniently received a WILDLY disproportionate amount of “late mail-in ballots” compared to both Bass and Pratt.’

Pratt’s nearly 10-point advantage over Raman on Election Day slowly shrank in the days following, with Raman eventually taking the lead. As of Monday, Raman is up 3,000 votes, according to the Associated Press.

“Folks, we’re dealing with a fraction of a percentage point difference, there’s still hundreds of thousands of votes outstanding, and LA officials have given us the next 3 weeks to count! Let’s git-r-dun!” Pratt wrote in a post on social media on Monday.

President Donald Trump chimed in on the latest ballot results, calling it “not possible” for Pratt to have lost to Raman “after the big lead he had.”

“3rd World Nation. Rigged Elections!” Trump wrote. “Won’t have results for, possibly, TWO WEEKS, according to officials.”

RELATED: Spencer Pratt’s 40,000-vote lead vanishes in Los Angeles mayor race as California continues counting ballots

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Political commentator Benny Johnson stated that the recent ballot drops heavily favoring Raman were “statistically impossible.”

Conservative activist Robby Starbuck noted that Raman, a third-place candidate, “suddenly” began winning “1st in every new ballot drop.” He shared a graph showing incumbent Karen Bass gaining roughly the same percentage of votes with each new ballot drop while Raman surged.

Journalist Nick Sortor declared the election “absolutely RIGGED” and called for authorities to open an investigation.

“Raman has conveniently received a WILDLY disproportionate amount of ‘late mail-in ballots’ compared to both Bass and Pratt,” Sortor wrote.

RELATED: ‘BIG cheating’: Trump drops bombshell on California for vote-counting delays

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Trump announced last week that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles was investigating California’s vote-counting delay.

On Sunday, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli stated that California allows residents to register to vote using gym membership cards, employee ID cards, credit and debit cards, insurance cards, and prescription drug labels.

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A very crude joke about LGBTQ+ sex for a social media promotion has put a subscription meal delivery company in hot water.

HelloFresh advertised its Pride Month discount with the code “bottoms up” and added a reference to gay sex.

‘Such a stupid marketing decision. Sale food — get out of the culture wars.’

“We know eating isn’t always a top priority this month. We respect that. But for those of you who are… prepping… we have an extensive lineup of high-fiber recipes available. Happy Pride,” the company said in its advertisement.

The company went viral, with many criticizing the bizarre ad online, which the company still has published as of Monday afternoon.

“Long-term customer account canceled. It’s a shame; we loved the service. This is literally the only reason we canceled our account. Such a stupid marketing decision. Sale [sic] food — get out of the culture wars,” replied Republican Tennessee state Rep. Aron Maberry.

“Interesting choice by @HelloFresh. It wasn’t enough for them to merely celebrate Pride Month, they went the extra mile in associating their food with human a**holes, enemas, and s**t. Bold strategy. Unsubscribed,” responded Wade Miller of the Center for Renewing America.

“I thought there was no way this was real… it had to be parody… so I looked it up myself. It’s real. @HelloFresh are advertising their product as being good for clearing out your rectum in preparation for anal s*x during Pride Month. I’m so done with this timeline,” wrote one critic.

“I’ve used hello fresh many times. Will never again,” said another user.

Even some LGBTQ+ members were upset by the ad.

“As a lesbian, I am so tired of this nonsense. I am tired of corporate Pride and activist Pride,” responded Ani O’Brien.

“The irony is that HelloFresh’s marketing department thinks this is progressive. It’s regressive and distasteful. It takes decades of work by ordinary gay people who want to be seen as neighbours, colleagues, parents, partners and family members and reduces all of it to a crude sexual punchline.”

“As a gay man it’s disgusting that this is all @hellofresh thinks about gay men. This does not honor or respect us. It just paints us as nothing more than rutting animals,” said another critic.

RELATED: Liberals SPEW hatred at DoorDash after marketing stunt with Trump at White House

Others, like LGBTQ+ news outlet Pink News, documented the positive responses from their community.

One person said: “The gays feel seen with this. Bravo.” Drag Race favourite Plasma said: “Girl it’s THEE month for eating.” Others said the post was “true allyship”, and that the company had “clocked the bottoms.”

A Blaze News request for comment to HelloFresh was not immediately answered.

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Republican members of Congress are accusing Minnesota Democrats of knowing about massive fraud in the state and looking the other way.

On Monday, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a report on fraud scams in Minnesota.

The report claims that top Democratic officials knew about the scams as far back as 2019.

“It’s always worse than we thought,” reads a statement from the committee. “Democrat-run Minnesota knew about rampant fraud since 2019. State officials failed to act. $9 billion was stolen from taxpayers.”

The report said billions of dollars were potentially paid out to fraudsters while Minnesota Democrats like Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison did nothing to stop the scams.

“The report includes testimony and documents obtained by the Committee showing that Minnesota state leaders consistently failed to address known fraud concerns and retaliated against state employees who sought to protect taxpayer funds, allowing criminal schemes to flourish and diverting critical resources from vulnerable Americans,” reads the press release announcing the report.

The report claims that top Democratic officials knew about the scams as far back as 2019.

Rather than trying to stop the fraud, Democrats allegedly allowed the scams to continue in order to avoid the possibility of litigation as well as discrimination claims. The report also accused Walz of retaliating against whistleblowers who alerted officials about the fraud.

The committee called on Vice President JD Vance to fully review social services programs in Minnesota. Vance is heading up the president’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud.

RELATED: Tim Walz says Minnesota is ‘at war’ with the federal government after fatal ICE shooting

Blaze News’ requests for comment to the governor’s office and the attorney general’s office were not immediately answered.

House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York was asked by reporters to respond to the accusations, and he refused to address them directly.

“House Republicans are not serious about rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in the United States of America,” he said. “You know why? Because the biggest fraud being perpetrated on the people of this country right now is coming out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”

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An anti-Trump, Democrat-aligned lawfare outfit founded by an ex-Biden prosecutor who cut his teeth trying to lock up Jan. 6 protesters filed a lawsuit on Saturday in the hope of shutting down the UFC fight scheduled for June 14 on the White House South Lawn.

The complaint from the Public Integrity Project claims that the mixed martial arts event planned for the celebration of America’s 250th birthday is unlawful because it supposedly does not “satisfy the Capital Region Regulation’s usual criteria for a special event permit”; the UFC structure erected on the South Lawn lacks congressional authorization; and the estimated cost of repairing the South Lawn after the event is high enough to require a public environmental assessment or impact statement.

‘This is an obstructionist, baseless, and dilatory lawsuit.’

The lawsuit also alleges that the event does not satisfy the requirements for the National Park Service’s temporary rule that exempts America250 events from various regulations.

While the NPS rule applies to America250 events planned, organized, and executed by executive departments, the plaintiffs allege that the UFC is actually in the driver’s seat where planning and organizing the event is concerned and that UFC “will in every material sense execute the festivities on the nights of June 13 and 14.”

The lawsuit alleges further that the plaintiffs — Susan Douglas, a fanatical Democratic activist, and Paul Romano, a retired cop-turned-protester who recently complained to the Atlantic about President Donald Trump’s D.C.-beautification project — are suffering “aesthetic” and procedural harms as a result of the Trump administration’s preparations for the highly anticipated event.

In addition to complaining about other supposed harms caused by the planned event — the road and park closures related to the event have, for instance, allegedly made it physically harder for Douglas to protest this and other Trump initiatives — the complaint concern-mongered that the event will be profitable.

“This is a profoundly corrupt scheme to enrich the president and his friends,” Public Integrity Project founder Brendan Ballou said in a statement. “If this fight is allowed to proceed, it will be only the beginning, and our national monuments will become little more than branding opportunities for the rich and well-connected.”

The activists want to deprive their fellow citizens of this opportunity to celebrate the nation’s birthday and American athletic greatness outside the White House, asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to intervene and prevent organizers of UFC Freedom 250 from utilizing or building structures on the South Lawn.

RELATED: ‘Far less gay’: UFC fighter Sean Strickland posts fake Bud Light ad commemorating Pride Month

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The lead anti-Trump attorney representing the geriatric activists is Samuel Ward-Packard, a former Wisconsin assistant attorney general who previously worked for the Elias Law Group, a Democrat-founded law firm involved with the Steele dossier.

A Trump administration official said in a statement obtained by ESPN, “This is an obstructionist, baseless, and dilatory lawsuit brought simply to prevent President Trump from hosting what will undoubtedly go down as one of the most historic sporting events in our nation’s history during our semiquincentennial celebration.”

“This iconic event is no different than the various other White House-hosted events on the South Lawn and properly permitted events on the Ellipse and National Mall throughout the year,” the official added.

The White House previewed the event in a video shared to social media on Sunday, stating, “Buckle up. It’s about to go DOWN.”

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Veteran investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson knows what really happened inside CBS News with the firing of “60 Minutes” reporter Scott Pelley — and it’s not what the left is making it out to be.

“The story is she [Bari Weiss] just appointed a new producer for ’60 Minutes’ and Scott Pelley, who you know, one of the lead guys there, he said this guy’s going to kill ’60 Minutes’ … there’s a big showdown in the newsroom, and he’s fired, and now Pelley is upset and making a big deal,” Blaze media co-founder Glenn recounts to Attkisson.

“The left is upset about all of this,” he adds, before asking Attkisson if she has any “insight” about his firing.

“I do, I mean, Scott Pelley was not a popular anchor in terms of his skill as an anchor as well as his personality. And I can’t explain why he persisted in the chair for some years anyway, because gosh, quite a while before they removed him, I was told by a level above David Rhodes that they were trying to fix what they called the Scott Pelley problem,” she tells Glenn.

“One of the issues they had with him was, as it was told to me, he takes his managing editor role too seriously. He was interfering with the correspondent stories in a way that was not productive. And the veterans were complaining, and longtime CBS names that you would recognize, were complaining to the high executives about this,” she continues.

While Attkisson was told that the show would be “all about” her investigative reporting under Pelley, she instead was censored by the anchor.

“The very first week, the very first investigative piece, one of the best ones I think I ever did that I offered them, he censored, never aired. And that was the pattern,” she tells Glenn.

This story was on high school students being lured into going on “amazing global trips” as ambassadors — but instead the children were getting injured, and in some cases, they were killed.

“I don’t know if it was people connected at a higher level that didn’t want these stories to air,” Attkisson says.

While Pelley claims that the new editor in chief of CBS, Bari Weiss, is the one “censoring the stories” and that management had instructed him to “inject lies” into his reporting, Attkisson doesn’t believe it.

“I believe that most likely based on my experience, they were trying to make the stories more balanced and fair. And the culture among some at CBS … was not to do so. And I think they don’t understand or came to not understand the very basic tenets of journalism,” she explains.

“Weiss is simply trying to tug CBS News back a little bit closer to the center, but the inmates have been running that asylum for a long time, and they’re going to go down quietly,” she adds.

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Federal officials filed a total of 305 denaturalization cases between 1990 and 2017 — an average of 11 per year. Like the first, the second Trump administration appears keen to make those previous numbers look like child’s play.

The Trump Justice Department announced on Monday that it filed denaturalization actions in a handful of federal courts against 17 individuals accused of various crimes including child sex abuse and fraud.

‘American citizenship is a privilege, and it must be earned honestly.’

Those now facing the possibility of having their U.S. citizenship revoked hail from various nations including China, Colombia, Congo, Cuba, Haiti, India, Jamaica, and Somalia.

“When criminal aliens exploit the naturalization process by breaking the law, there are consequences,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement obtained by Blaze News.

“Criminal aliens are lying about their past crimes, including drug dealers, sexual predators, and fraudsters,” continued Blanche. “Gaining U.S. citizenship is a privilege, and under the steadfast leadership of President Trump, this Department of Justice maintains a zero-tolerance policy for the abuse of this process.”

Among those targeted under this leg of the administration’s denaturalization campaign is 50-year-old Neeraj Sharma, a native of India who ran a staffing company in New Jersey, where he filed 11fraudulent H-1B visa petitions with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Sharma, who became a U.S. citizen in late 2017, has been convicted of fraud and misuse of visas. The DOJ seeks to strip him of his citizenship for having allegedly “procured his naturalization by: (1) failing to disclose unlawful acts; (2) providing false testimony; and (3) concealment of a material fact and willful misrepresentation.”

RELATED: The case for denaturalization

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Foreigners who manage to naturalize can have their citizenship revoked in civil proceedings under Section 1451(a) of Title 8 of the U.S. Code if a court finds that the certificate of naturalization and citizenship order were either “illegally procured or were procured by concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation.”

To establish that an individual illegally procured citizenship, the government must show that “the naturalized citizen must have misrepresented or concealed some fact, the misrepresentation or concealment must have been willful, the fact must have been material, and the naturalized citizen must have procured citizenship as a result of the misrepresentation or concealment,” according to the U.S. Supreme Court.

There are other grounds for denaturalization, including affiliation with an organization that is opposed to organized government or favors totalitarian forms of government; conviction of criminal contempt for refusing to testify before Congress on alleged “subversive activities”; and dishonorable discharge from the military, if naturalization was conditional on service in the military, reported the Congressional Research Service.

Jamaican native Talman Harris is also facing possible denaturalization. Harris was found guilty in 2016 of wire fraud and conspiring to commit securities fraud and wire fraud and sentenced to prison the following year for his role in a penny-stock fraud scheme that resulted in a $39 million loss to investors. This scheme took place over an eight-year period, including during Harris’ naturalization proceedings.

The DOJ alleges that during the period in which Harris was pursuing naturalization, “he was statutorily required to demonstrate good moral character, he committed a crime involving moral turpitude, committed unlawful acts that adversely reflected on his moral character, and falsely testified about his crime.”

Armando Medoza, a 39-year-old originally from Mexico, might also be sent packing for claiming during his naturalization application and interview that he had never committed a crime or offense for which he hadn’t been arrested when in fact he had been receiving sexually explicit images of children for years — a crime to which he pleaded guilty years later.

Another pair of depraved individuals on the DOJ’s denaturalization list are Jean Claude Alfred, a 68-year-old Haitian native convicted in 1996 of sexually abusing his minor daughter at the same time that he was pursuing naturalization, and Tahir Lekaj, a 43-year-old from Yugoslavia who was convicted of sexually abusing a young child the year before he applied to naturalize.

Abdikadir Ali Kadiye’s days as an American citizen may also be numbered. The Somali native admitted to a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent that he had used two identities for admission to the country, according to the DOJ. After he was unable to secure immigration benefits under one name, Kadiye tried again, this time with some success.

“American citizenship is a privilege, and it must be earned honestly. If you come here, break our laws, and lie in your immigration proceedings, you forfeit that privilege,” said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. “DHS will not stand idly by while Americans are harmed by criminals including sex offenders, perpetrators of fraud, and drug traffickers who have exploited our generosity and gamed our immigration system.”

There have been signals in recent months that the Trump administration intends to file far more denaturalization actions in the coming months.

For instance, internal guidance reportedly issued to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices obtained by the New York Times in December asked that they “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month” throughout the remainder of fiscal year 2026.

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At first, Graham Platner was under scrutiny for having a Nazi tattoo — but it has only gone downhill from there for the Democrat candidate.

“This story is a bizarre one,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere comments, explaining that now, Platner has been exposed for sexting other women while married to his wife.

“They’ve only been together for like a year and a half at the point that he gets caught sexting other women,” Stu says.

The wife had “told the campaign about the messages she had found earlier in their marriage in the spring of 2025.”

“She said, ‘Well, he’s been sexting tons of women on these apps,’ and you know, she apparently told this to one of the aides, who then has now kind of come out and made it more public after being fired during a previous controversy about the Nazi tattoo,” Stu says.

“So, again, this all comes back to ‘don’t get a Nazi tattoo,’” he adds.

“Well, correct,” co-host Dave Landau agrees. “They also had a very lovely press conference where he looks at his wife and says, ‘You know, we love each other very much.’ And she looks like he’s holding a gun to her back or that she’s rigged with dynamite ready to explode.”

Platner has also come under fire for controversial posts from his own Reddit account, which included comments playing down sexual assault and crude posts about sex workers and masturbation.

But the controversy doesn’t end there.

His account on Kik was exposed, which is apparently a popular private messaging app among child predators.

“I don’t know that it’s popular among anyone else in the world except child predators, but they essentially have no moderation. So this is where child predators go to message children without moderation,” Stu explains, pointing out that Platner’s profile on the app contained a shirtless mirror selfie with a towel wrapped around his waist.

“But I’m about to tell you the worst part about the story. The worst part about Graham Platner. This is the part that’s going to turn your stomach more than anything else in this story,” he continues, explaining that it’s Platner’s user ID on Kik: phustle0331.

“It makes me have chills that I don’t want to describe,” he adds.

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A star pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers would not bow to gay Pride on Friday night, marking another instance of what has become a consistent occurrence for the organization for the last few years.

The Dodgers’ 2026 Pride Night against the Los Angeles Angels at Dodger Stadium was not without controversy, but the most contentious moment was saved for the end of the game.

‘Blake Treinen is not a team player.’

In a year when MLB teams have significantly toned down home-game promotions of certain sexualities — most teams are simply offering special ticket packages — the Dodgers opted to wear hats that celebrate transgenderism, among other things, for the fifth straight year.

However, the team’s progressive celebrations hit a bump in the road of total compliance when pitcher Blake Treinen entered the game in the ninth inning. “Blake Treinen’s coming in!” the announcer said as Treinen entered the game.

As he jogged out to the mound, it was obvious to all that he was wearing a standard Dodgers cap, devoid of special themes. Viewers were apparently triggered over the idea that the 37-year-old wouldn’t simply comply.

“Imagine hating gay people so much that you refuse to wear a hat with a rainbow on it,” one viewer wrote on X.

RELATED: LA Dodgers pitcher Blake Treinen puts Christian faith front and center ahead of World Series: ‘Make heaven crowded’

Popular baseball account “Not Gaetti” said fans should be horrified that Treinen won’t put the rainbow hat on.

“Whatever your beliefs, it should horrify you that a guy who gets paid $11,000,000 per year can’t be bothered to wear his employer-assigned uniform for the 5 minutes he spends in the ballgame,” the fan wrote. “Blake Treinen is not a team player.”

These comments don’t represent everyone’s views, though, especially not all Dodgers players or fans.

Recently retired Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw was famously outspoken about the Pride Nights and even chose to write a Bible verse on his rainbow hat last season.

Kershaw had taken issue with the celebrations for years, speaking out against the team inviting the highly controversial and anti-Christian activist group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in 2023. Kershaw said at the time he felt the group was making fun of his faith.

The group’s invitation to Dodger Stadium also spawned a massive protest in response.

RELATED: Justin Bieber confesses Christian faith in candid livestream

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The Dodgers debuted their Pride hats in 2022, and interestingly, although Treinen has played on the team since the tradition began, this was the first time he pitched on a Pride Night. Treinen was injured during the 2022 and 2023 events and simply wasn’t put into the games in 2024 and 2025.

Last year, Treinen made headlines for a different kind of political activism when he wore a message in support of Charlie Kirk after Kirk was assassinated during a campus tour stop in Utah.

Treinen’s hat read “Charlie Kirk” across the side, with a cross on both sides.

Treinen pitched one-third of an inning on Friday. The Dodgers won 1-0 on a walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth.

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In a quiet Washington suburb, a married couple thought they were raising their three children in a safe and supportive community. Instead, they say they found themselves locked in a years-long battle with school officials and state policies over their daughter’s gender identity.

The couple spoke anonymously to Heywire News.

According to the parents, their 10-year-old daughter was assigned one of her elementary school therapists after she reportedly spoke to a classmate about harming herself. Over the next few months, the parents were left in the dark by the school, not receiving any information on their daughter’s progress, they claimed.

‘The school was hiding things from us, the teacher was hiding things from us.’

One day, the therapist finally informed the parents, but it was not what they expected to hear.

“[The therapist] was using male pronouns and a different name to explain to me that our daughter wanted to come out to us as a boy, and she was giving us a few days to process this,” the mother said.

According to Washington state law, all school districts must adopt a policy that prevents employees from disclosing “a student’s transgender or gender nonconforming status to … the student’s parents” unless the student consents.

Traumatized by the news and worried for their daughter’s future, the parents decided on homeschooling. Years later, she returned to school as a high school freshman.

RELATED: Librarian refuses to move LGBTQ+ propaganda away from kids — and seals her fate

The choice to allow the girl to attend public school again would only end up worsening the situation.

“The school was hiding things from us, the teacher was hiding things from us. … There were other students that were working against us,” the mother said.

A staff member in an after-school program even provided the girl with a burner phone and set up a host family so that she could run away from home, the parents claimed.

“They had devised a plan for her to run away. Adults planning with the child to take them from the parents. And hide them and allow the state to control them,” the father exclaimed to Heywire on the brink of tears.

Since Washington state law allows minors seeking gender-related treatment to remain in a licensed youth shelter for up to 90 days without parental permission, the father decided to uproot his family and move across the country to the East Coast in fear of losing control of his daughter.

“The state can house your child, not divulge any details as to their location, physical health, mental health. You’re essentially separated from your child, and the state knows where they are, but the parents don’t. That was the primary concern,” the father explained.

He added, “There’s a lot of kids that we know and families that we know that have been torn apart by this. Not only in our neighborhood, but in the county, in the state. I mean we’re not a one-off here. This has become pervasive.”

Vicki Murray, the director of the Center for Education at the Washington Policy Center, focuses her research on school choice and parental rights in education. In a statement to Blaze News, Murray said, “When there is a real concern about a student’s safety, mandatory reporting and child welfare protocols are the appropriate mechanism — not a blanket policy of withholding information from parents. … Outside of documented safety concerns, the default should be transparency with parents.”

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Six people were hurt in a stabbing at New York City’s Penn Station Sunday evening, the Associated Press reported, as President Donald Trump is set to attend Monday night’s Game 3 NBA Finals matchup between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs at Madison Square Garden — the storied entertainment venue located above Penn Station in the same midtown Manhattan complex.

A suspect was taken into custody after the attack, which took place around 7 p.m., the AP said.

‘Penn Station is not known for being the most safe area, especially in the evening, especially with just how busy it’s been recently with the Knicks game [and] Trump coming.’

Paramedics found one victim with serious injuries, two with moderate injuries, and two with minor injuries, the outlet said, citing the city’s fire department.

The AP said those five victims were taken to Bellevue Hospital, while another individual whose condition was not immediately known was taken to a separate hospital.

In a roped-off area near Tracks 5 and 6, medical gloves, discarded bandages, and traces of blood still marked the floor Sunday night, the AP said.

RELATED: Thug reportedly with 131 prior arrests just got charged with setting homeless man on fire while victim slept

In addition to the huge crowds expected to descend upon Madison Square Garden for the first NBA Finals game there since 1999, Trump said he plans to attend the game as well, the outlet said.

The president’s plans prompted heightened security measures involving the Secret Service, the New York City Police Department, and other agencies around Madison Square Garden and surrounding blocks, the AP said.

However, authorities did not immediately indicate if the stabbing would affect security plans for the game, the outlet noted.

Sources told the New York Post that 51-year-old Hector Deleon “unleashed the unprovoked attack … inside the New Jersey Transit boarding area.”

The Post said sources indicated that Deleon is believed to be homeless and was arrested in May in New Jersey on assault and narcotics charges. The paper said details of that arrest were not immediately available.

Sources added to the Post that the victims of the stabbing attack were all men who range in age from 30 to 60 and were believed to be innocent bystanders.

“Wow, I mean, I guess I’m not surprised, though,” Sanai Rashid, 21, told the paper. “I mean, Penn Station is not known for being the most safe area, especially in the evening, especially with just how busy it’s been recently with the Knicks game [and] Trump coming. It’s been a bit of a messy summer in general. I think crime does go up as well, but I do think there probably should be more security in Penn Station, but that’s devastating.”

The AP called Penn Station one of the nation’s busiest transportation hubs, which serves Amtrak, Long Island Rail Road, NJ Transit, and New York City subway lines and is used by “hundreds of thousands of commuters and travelers each day.”

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