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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Yes, Texas,” the reporter responded.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rumors of infidelity had followed Paxton in the past.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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A Florida man celebrated his birthday on July 4 by stealing a tourist train in Key West, picking up passengers, and having a meth pipe in his possession, according to police.

Citing the arrest report, WPLG-TV said police received a call just before 11:30 a.m. Friday that a man had stolen the Conch Tour Train.

The arrest report states Winslow picked up ‘two random passengers’ while driving the trolley.

Police officers responded to the Conch Tour Train Depot, where they were informed that one of the trackless trolley trains had been hijacked.

According to the arrest report, police said Jonathan Patrick Winslow of Big Torch Key — who indeed was celebrating his 57th birthday — left his Kia vehicle in the train depot’s parking lot while it was still running “with rock music playing on the radio.”

A train depot employee told police that Winslow claimed to have worked at the tourism business years ago and wanted to take a tour of the train, WPLG said, citing the arrest report.

However, the worker reportedly told officers that Winslow got into the trolley and drove away.

The employee was “confused” but allegedly told investigators that perhaps Winslow had received permission to drive the train. As you might imagine, that wasn’t the case.

Tour company employees reportedly told police that GPS could track the train — and it turns out that it was on the move in downtown Key West.

The arrest report states Winslow picked up “two random passengers” while driving the trolley.

Police said officers were able to track down the stolen Conch Tour Train at the massively popular Southernmost Point Buoy tourist attraction and stop it before anything tragic occurred during the wild ride.

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The arrest report states that Winslow “exhibited rapid speech and appeared excited” while officers informed him that he would be arrested.

Police allegedly claimed Winslow told them that he merely “borrowed” the train. WPLG reported that Winslow told officers that he previously worked at the Conch Tour Train Depot; police said he stressed that “today is his birthday.”

Winslow was arrested and transported to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Key West jail facility.

Authorities said a methamphetamine pipe was discovered in Winslow’s pocket when a corrections deputy searched him at the jail, according to the arrest report.

Winslow allegedly asserted, “It’s a weed pipe.” However, investigators disagreed.

Winslow was charged with burglary, grand theft auto, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Jail records show Winslow was being detained on a $60,000 bond.

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Former President Joe Biden’s White House doctor pled the Fifth to every question asked by House Oversight Committee experts Wednesday. He doesn’t want to cooperate, but more, he is worried that he’s in real legal jeopardy. He should be worried, and Republicans should play hardball but also keep one thing in mind: Dr. Kevin O’Connor is just a mob doctor — and they’re after the bosses.

The scope of O’Connor’s evasiveness in video released by the committee is wild to watch. Citing his lawyers, he begins by asserting his right not to self-incriminate under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to questions as basic as whether he understands the rules of how questioning will work, a request that he speak clearly and respond to questions verbally, instructions for him to ask for clarity if he doesn’t understand a question, and a warning that if he lies or conceals the whole truth, he can be charged with perjury.

Who knew about all this? Who told Biden’s doctor what, and when did they do so? Those people matter more than the doctor, but he could prove useful in getting to them.

Then they got to the meat of it, asking whether there’s “any reason” he would not be truthful in his answers, whether he had ever been asked to lie about the president’s health, and whether he ever believed the president was unfit to “exercise his duties.” Fifth, Fifth, Fifth. Oh, and his lawyers finished up with a statement citing his duty to protect the privacy of the patient-doctor relationship.

Except that wasn’t his only duty. The White House doctor is a military officer charged with legitimately private matters, such as if the president is suffering from some embarrassing discomfort, but also his fitness for exercising the constitutional duties of his office. If the doctor believes the president is unable to serve, he’s required to report this to the Cabinet and potentially answer to Congress. O’Connor clearly felt differently.

“On the advice of counsel, I must respectfully decline to answer in reliance on my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution,” he repeated, verbatim, to every question asked. “I am not a lawyer and must follow my lawyers’ advice on this matter.”

Democrats set a powerful and recent precedent when they charged former White House officials Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro with contempt of Congress and sent both men to prison with thousands of dollars in fines. There are consequences for defying Congress, and the example is fresh in Washington’s minds.

Republicans should take this precedent seriously, and by all signs, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is taking it seriously. Prison should be on the docket, and the committee should loudly and publicly make this clear. But putting the doctor in prison should not be the actual goal.

O’Connor is just the equivalent of a mob doctor, and you don’t put mob doctors in prison when you can get more out of them than that. If he needs to plead the Fifth at all, there’s good reason to believe his lawyers know he’s in deep trouble. When he has to plead the Fifth to questions about being asked to lie, it’s a very strong indication that the president’s mental decline was more broadly known — and potentially illegally hidden — from lawful oversight.

We know a neurologist who specializes in Parkinson’s disease visited the Biden White House at least eight times, and we know the White House spokeswoman refused to answer why. So what was the reason?

Who knew about all this? Who told Biden’s doctor what, and when did they do so? Those people matter more than the doctor, but he could prove useful in getting to them. So while Republicans should publicly (and seriously) threaten prison time, in private, they should offer Dr. O’Connor immunity.

There are different types of immunity they can offer, too. There’s transaction immunity, or blanket immunity, from prosecution in exchange for useful evidence that helps the committee move up the totem pole.

Then there’s use immunity, which would protect O’Connor from being prosecuted over things he reveals in his testimony or evidence derived from that testimony. That way, if he fails to disclose important details that investigators uncover independently, he can be prosecuted for those — and thus has reason to be entirely and totally truthful and helpful.

There’s even limited-use immunity, which would promise a legal shield over violating certain laws within certain periods of time.

The doctor’s got a lot on his hands here. More, he’s friends with the Biden family, not just a randomly selected military attaché. That bodes poorly for him, but don’t let that distract from the goal of unraveling the plot to the highest levels possible.

The available tools here are extensive. Congress just has to use them.

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Juliette Bryant is an alleged survivor of Jeffrey Epstein who was lured into his orbit under the pretense that Jean-Luc Brunel’s modeling agency would skyrocket her modeling career.

“I was at a bar restaurant with a friend of mine, and then I was approached by a woman called Naja Hill, who apparently worked for Fox News years later. She approached me, and she said that her friend was here,” Bryant tells BlazeTV host Alex Stein on “Prime Time with Alex Stein.”

Hill allegedly called her friend the “king of America” and told her he was there with Bill Clinton, owned his own island, and his friend owned Victoria’s Secret before asking her if she’d like to meet him.

“It would be good for obviously my modeling career, you know, I was young,” she tells Stein, “it sounded like the most amazing opportunity.”

Bryant then tells Stein that she went to a restaurant where Epstein, Clinton, and Kevin Spacey, along with a few others, were waiting, before they all met and shook hands.

“Bill Clinton actually held onto my hand for a very long time. It was very weird,” she says.

The next day, Hill called Bryant to tell her that Epstein “really liked” her, thought she’d “be great for Victoria’s Secret,” and that she should bring her modeling portfolio to the Cape Grace Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa, where they were staying.

While there, she saw Clinton give a speech at the Western Cape Peninsula Technikon, which she describes as a lower income university in the Western Cape.

“I obviously wanted to go watch the speech, and I did, and what I did notice was Kevin Spacey was filming all the students in the hall. I don’t know why,” she tells Stein. “After the speech, we went back to the hotel, and then they looked at my modeling portfolio, and the girls were sitting there, and Bill Clinton walked past and witnessed the whole modeling casting.”

“Then, Epstein looked at my modeling portfolio and said he thought I’d be perfect for Victoria’s Secret, and he wanted to bring me over,” she explains. “After that, his office started phoning, and Leslie Graff arranged to get me a visa, and get me to New York, and I was there within three weeks.”

After Epstein’s arrest and alleged suicide, some of the celebrities Bryant saw with Epstein denied being affiliated with him — including Kevin Spacey, who claimed in an interview that he didn’t know who Epstein was when he was flying on Epstein’s airplane.

“I don’t understand how someone can fly on someone’s airplane and sit at dinner with them and not know who they are. I mean, that’s an ultimate lie,” Bryant says. “It’s very strange that he’s gone out and done this interview, because it makes you wonder why. It’s like, is he about to be exposed further? What about his accusers that were found dead?”

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The Department of Homeland Security forcefully denied an article from CNN claiming that DHS Sec. Kristi Noem delayed deployment of search and rescue teams to the devastating flooding in Texas.

The CNN story said that search and rescue teams are usually deployed in anticipation of a disaster, but in the case of the Texas floods, they were delayed by several days after the flooding event. The report blamed a new cost-saving measure implemented by Noem that required a personal sign-off for any spending above $100,000.

‘Display of activist journalism and distracts from the robust, coordinated federal response led by Secretary Noem that has saved over 900+ lives.’

The report depended on four sources from the Federal Emergency Management Agency who spoke to the outlet anonymously. They said the $100,000 sign-off requirement would significantly hamstring their efforts.

DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin told CNN that other search and rescue assets were used before the need for FEMA resources rose to the point that Noem signed off on the expenditure.

“FEMA is shifting from bloated, DC-centric deadweight to a lean, deployable disaster force that empowers state actors to provide relief for their citizens,” read a statement from McLaughlin. “The old processes are being replaced because they failed Americans in real emergencies for decades.”

CNN also claimed that by Monday, only 86 FEMA staffers had been deployed to the disaster, which was “a fraction” of the response typically ordered for such an operation. That number increased to 311 staffers by Tuesday evening.

On Wednesday the official account for DHS responded on social media.

“This is a FAKE NEWS LIE from CNN. This reporting is an unapparelled [sic] display of activist journalism and distracts from the robust, coordinated federal response led by Secretary Noem that has saved over 900+ lives,” read the statement.

“While these ‘journalists’ slept comfortably in D.C., Secretary Noem deployed to Texas, working day and night to approve every possible need that search and rescue workers had,” the agency added. “Within moments of the flooding in Texas, DHS assets, including the U.S. Coast Guard, tactical Border Patrol units and FEMA personnel surged into unprecedented action alongside Texas first responders. The U.S. Coast Guard alone rescued over 230 Americans.”

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The statement went on to tout Noem’s “breakthrough” management of the emergency response that focused on sending funding support immediately to the states to jump-start local response efforts.

“President Trump approved a Major Disaster Declaration, hours after Governor Greg Abbott’s request. By Tuesday, FEMA had deployed 311 staffers, providing support and shelter for hundreds of people,” the statement added. “Under President Trump and Secretary Noem’s leadership, DHS is reforming FEMA to prioritize state-led, locally executed disaster response, as Texas has exemplified.”

Blaze News reached out to CNN for comment about the response from the DHS, and a CNN spokesperson responded with the following statement: “We stand by our reporting.”

At least 119 people are confirmed dead from the flooding.

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An appeals court on Wednesday overturned the felony conviction of a pro-Trump social media influencer who was facing prison time for posting satirical memes on Twitter.

Douglass Mackey, also previously known online as Ricky Vaughn, joined “The Glenn Beck Program” on Thursday to share his reaction to the recent decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

‘Unfortunately, it’s not part of the sweeping constitutional ruling that we wanted, but nevertheless, it’s a great victory.’

After battling the charges for four and a half years and facing a seven-month prison sentence, Mackey told Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck, “Only faith can get you through it.”

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During the 2016 election, Mackey posted memes on his Twitter account, which he told Beck had about 10,000 followers. He noted that he previously had an account with over 60,000 followers, but it was suspended before he made the posts referenced in the Biden Department of Justice’s case against him.

“Save time,” the posts read. “Avoid the line.”

It included instructions on how to “vote from home” for then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton via text message.

The posts received only about 100 likes, according to Mackey.

Beck stated, “You have to be a nincompoop to believe this [meme is real].”

RELATED: Appeals court tosses out Biden-era conviction of social media troll for election interference

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Despite what some would argue was a clear satirical post, Mackey was convicted in 2023 of conspiracy against rights for attempting to interfere with Americans’ right to vote in the 2016 election.

Mackey shared the details of his arrest with Beck.

“Four FBI agents knocked on my door at 7 a.m., and that was seven days after Joe Biden was inaugurated,” he said. “They said, ‘Are you Douglass Mackey? We have a warrant for your arrest.’ The first words out of my mouth were, ‘For what?'”

“At the time, I wasn’t even on Twitter. But back in the 2016 election cycle, I tweeted thousands of times. So I had no idea. But I did know that once they make you an enemy that it’s like, ‘Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime,'” Mackey continued. “I was very curious to see what they had cooked up.”

Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston, one of the three judges on the appeals court panel, found that prosecutors’ evidence was “inadequate to show his knowing participation in a conspiracy.”

While prosecutors claimed that 4,900 unique phone numbers texted the number provided in Mackey’s meme, 98% received an automated reply informing them that Clinton’s campaign was not affiliated with the post, Livingston noted.

“The government presented no evidence at trial that Mackey’s tweets tricked anyone into failing properly to vote,” the judge wrote.

RELATED: Critics ask whether DOJ will give Jimmy Kimmel the Douglass Mackey treatment for ‘election interference’

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Mackey called the case “a total humiliation” for the Biden DOJ.

He expressed some disappointment that the appeals court’s decision was not a “sweeping” constitutional victory.

“These appellate courts, once they come to a conclusion on, let’s say, one of the grounds, they don’t rule on all the other grounds,” Mackey explained. “Unfortunately, it’s not part of the sweeping constitutional ruling that we wanted, but nevertheless, it’s a great victory.”

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In his latest crusade to rein in spending, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought has set his sights on the Federal Reserve.

Vought called out Chairman Jerome Powell for greenlighting luxury renovations to the Fed’s Washington, D.C., headquarters that exceeded the original budget by roughly $700 million, totaling roughly $2.5 billion. The renovations include a rooftop terrace with gardens, VIP dining rooms and elevators, “premium” marble, and water features.

“The president is extremely troubled by your management of the Federal Reserve System,” Vought said in a statement. “Instead of attempting to right the Fed’s fiscal ship, you have plowed ahead with an ostentatious overhaul of your Washington, D.C., headquarters.”

“The cost per square foot is $1,923 — double the cost for renovating an ordinary historic federal building,” Vought added. “The Palace of Versailles would have cost $3 billion in today’s dollars!”

‘Chairman Jerome Powell has grossly mismanaged the Fed.’

RELATED: Russ Vought gives Glenn Beck hint about where things stand between Trump and Musk

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Vought also pointed to Powell’s congressional testimony in June, where he denied that the lavish renovations were taking place. Vought said Powell’s testimony “raises serious questions” about the renovation’s compliance with the National Capital Planning Act, which would require the project to be approved by the National Capital Planning Commission.

“Although minor deviations from approved plans may be inevitable, your testimony appears to reveal that the project is out of compliance with the approved plan with regard to the major design elements,” Vought said. “This would bring the project outside of the NCPC’s approval and thus in violation of the NCPA, and require the Fed to immediately halt construction and obtain a new approval from the NCPC before proceeding any further.”

RELATED: Exclusive: Trump 2026 budget to slash funds for migrant programs

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The renovations were originally approved by the NCPC in September 2021 and featured plans to include the luxurious water features, terrace gardens, VIP elevators, and private dining rooms.

During the hearing, however, Powell insisted that these renovations were not taking place despite no changes being made to the original project.

“There’s no VIP dining room. There’s no new marble. There are no special elevators,” Powell said during the hearing. “There are no new water features, there’s no beehives, and there’s no roof terrace gardens.”

Powell claimed that the construction plans previously approved in 2021 have since changed. Despite his claim, the Fed would not be able to change these plans without formally submitting the modifications to the NCPC and the Commission of Fine Arts. According to the NCPC’s website, the latest approval for the project was submitted in September 2021, and there have been no new requests filed since then.

Because of these discrepancies, Vought said OMB will be conducting further oversight on the project.

“Chairman Jerome Powell has grossly mismanaged the Fed.”

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The Trump administration’s Department of Education announced a move to prevent American tax dollars from being used by illegal aliens.

‘Under President Trump’s leadership, hardworking American taxpayers will no longer foot the bill for illegal aliens to participate in our career, technical, or adult education programs or activities.’

On Thursday, the Education Department revealed that it rescinded a Clinton-era interpretation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act that allowed illegal immigrants to receive taxpayer subsidies for postsecondary education.

RELATED: America’s largest teachers’ union declares war on the Trump administration, will use kids as foot soldiers

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The department’s new interpretive rule also ensures that unqualified illegal aliens remain ineligible to access programs authorized under the Higher Education Act, including Pell Grants and student loans.

The Clinton administration issued a “Dear Colleague” letter in 1997 that “erroneously exempted career, technical, and adult education programs from being subject to PRWORA,” the department wrote.

In a Federal Register notice that has not yet been published, the Education Department wrote, “On February 19, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14218 (Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders), directing agencies, among other actions, to ensure that federally funded programs are operating in compliance with PRWORA.”

“For the reasons described herein, the Department has concluded that Federal programs administered by the Department that provide postsecondary education and other similar benefits, including adult education and career and technical education programs, are ‘Federal public benefits’ subject to the citizenship and immigration verification requirements of PRWORA,” the department declared.

RELATED: America First in action: Trump’s HHS slams the brakes on illegal aliens draining taxpayer funds

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U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon argued that taxpayer-funded education programs were only meant to be accessed by American citizens.

“Under President Trump’s leadership, hardworking American taxpayers will no longer foot the bill for illegal aliens to participate in our career, technical, or adult education programs or activities. The Department will ensure that taxpayer funds are reserved for citizens and individuals who have entered our country through legal means who meet federal eligibility criteria,” McMahon said.

The Trump administration’s HHS made a similar announcement on Thursday, stating that it rescinded a Clinton-era interpretation that allowed illegal immigrants to receive federal health care benefits.

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day back in office titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.” The order, set to go into effect on July 27, made it U.S. policy not to issue citizenship documents to a person whose mother was unlawfully in the country and whose father was neither an American citizen nor a permanent resident at the time of the person’s birth.

A number of individuals, organizations, and states took the Trump administration to court over the order, obtaining universal injunctions against its implementation. However, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 27 that these injunctions “likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has given to federal courts.”

Liberal litigants, desperate for an alternative, have since pursued universal injunctions under the guise of class-action lawsuits.

Joseph Laplante of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire is among the federal judges who is apparently happy to help torpedo the democratically elected president’s agenda.

On Thursday, Laplante, a George W. Bush appointee, granted class action status to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union challenging the birthright citizenship order, certifying the babies of illegal aliens and temporary migrants as a class.

He then issued a preliminary injunction, temporarily shielding the supposed class from the order’s enforcement.

After the Supreme Court ruling in CASA, immigration activists requested that Laplante certify a class “of all current and future children who are or will be denied United States citizenship by Executive Order No. 14160 … and their parents.”

RELATED: ‘Game of whack-a-mole’: Leftists have new favorite way to block MAGA agenda — without universal injunctions

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Laplante obliged the activists, although he slightly narrowed the certified class, enjoining the Trump administration from implementing the order with regard to:

all current and future persons who are born on or after February 20, 2025, where (1) that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth, or (2) that person’s mother’s presence in the United States was lawful but temporary, and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth.

“This ruling is a huge victory and will help protect the citizenship of all children born in the United States, as the Constitution intended,” said Cody Wofsy, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, which argued the case.

This class-wide injunction has the same effect as a nationwide injunction.

‘This needs to end.’

Laplante’s decision comes just a week after the Obama judge overseeing a case concerning Trump’s asylum ban certified all border-jumping asylum-seekers “who are now or will be present in the United States” as a protected class, then barred the administration from expelling members of the class — a ruling the government quickly appealed.

RELATED: Trump fighting ‘unconstitutional power grab’ by Obama judge who reopened the floodgates

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Justice Samuel Alito cautioned district courts against such actions in his concurring opinion in CASA Inc., noting, “Rule 23 may permit the certification of nationwide classes in some discrete scenarios. But district courts should not view today’s decision as an invitation to certify nationwide classes without scrupulous adherence to the rigors of Rule 23. Otherwise, the universal injunction will return from the grave under the guise of ‘nationwide class relief.'”

A senior White House official speaking to Blaze News this week about liberal litigants’ class-action strategy noted, “We’re ready to go immediately. We’re prepared for every outcome.”

Laplante’s ruling has already prompted some outrage among Republicans.

Rep. Mike Collins (Ga.) noted, “No one elected judges to make nationwide policy. This needs to end.”

“This is absurdity and complete madness that has to end,” wrote Sen. Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.). “We cannot allow activist judges to halt the work of a president who is carrying out the work that the American people elected him to do.”

Evidently fed up with the games played by activists on and off the bench, Sen. Tom Cotton (Ark.) indicated he will introduce legislation next week to “end birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants once and for all.”

Laplante’s ruling won’t go into effect for seven days, affording the Trump administration time to appeal to the First Circuit Court of Appeals to stay the relief.

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All eyes are on the New York district represented by Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after a group of violent, illegal alien gang members were arrested by federal authorities.

Eight members of the18th Street gang — a transnational gang started by Mexicans — were pulled off of Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, New York, an area in AOC’s district that is now rife with gang activity and illegal migrants.

The suspects, seven of whom are illegal immigrants, are accused of unleashing terror in Queens through “assaults, extortion,” drug trafficking, and more, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz told Fox News.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, according to locals, who say these gang members are part of a complex network of criminals who have been burrowing into the city for years.

‘Roosevelt Avenue is like a completely different world — fake passports, guns, prostitution, all out in the open.’

A sense of safety is now considered a luxury in Queens, as constant outbreaks of violence and theft have permeated the streets. In a game of “pick your perennial poison” on Roosevelt Avenue, New Yorkers get to experience the third world through a bevy of prostitutes, illegal street vendors, and hotels packed to the brim with illegal immigrants paid for by their own tax dollars.

As they rubberneck their way down their own streets, citizens also need to keep a firm grip on their electronics as cellphone-snatching illegal aliens whisk by on scooters.

“At their peak, migrant gangs in Midtown Manhattan were pulling off 10 to 15 robberies a day,” said investigative reporter and New Yorker Oren Levy.

“The phone-snatching scooter crews alone hit 30 to 40 victims daily, swooping in like vultures to snatch phones and vanish before anyone could blink,” Levy reported.

Not only are taxpayers footing the bill for the migrant hotels, but the hotels themselves have become operation centers for gang members to gather and coordinate their activities.

RELATED: Creep grabs young woman waiting for train and tells her, ‘You’re mine now.’ But men nearby aren’t about to let that happen.

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Highly organized gangs with specialized crews rob anyone from kids to seniors as they pickpocket, shoplift, and run guns all around Gotham City. These crimes involve GPS trackers, Wi-Fi jamming devices, and encrypted phones to stay under the radar as they conduct home invasions and robberies.

This, all under Ocasio-Cortez’s watch, has residents describing the area as the “third world.”

“Roosevelt Avenue is like a completely different world — fake passports, guns, prostitution, all out in the open,” reporter Levy told Blaze News.

“As someone who actually knows the location, I’ll tell you the truth: It’s gangland. The city shows up, cleans it up for a moment, and then it all goes right back to the same mess. Nothing ever really changes in gangland,” Levy reinforced.

RELATED: President Trump goes SCORCHED-EARTH on AOC

In addition to the crime, the “third-world” feeling on Roosevelt is hammered home by the endless columns of illegal street vendors.

“I understand people want to make a living the right way without hurting anyone, but when you walk down Roosevelt Avenue, vendors line the blocks from one end to the other,” Levy explained. “Some of them are completely unsanitary, and at times it looks and feels like a third-world country.”

Even the most sophisticated photography is unable to hide the countless vendors who make the streets even tighter and more unsafe for residents.

But public safety is indeed the top priority, according to Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.). Meng told Fox News that “dangerous criminals who commit violent crimes must be held accountable.”

There are indeed plenty of those criminals to choose from, according to Levy.

“I’ve been on the ground there, breaking story after story,” he said, pointing to brothels being run out of bodegas and random street stabbings.

A person was even reportedly stabbed for not giving a person a cigarette. “That’s the state of Roosevelt,” the reporter sadly admitted.

Representatives for Ocasio-Cortez did not reply to Blaze News’ request for comment.

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Over Fourth of July weekend, Kerrville, Texas, was devastated by catastrophic flooding along the Guadalupe River, which rose 26 feet in just 45 minutes. The floods have claimed more than 100 lives, many of whom were children, but that number is expected to rise, as there are still several missing people.

While Central Texas is known for flooding — sometimes severe flooding — what happened last week is unprecedented in its severity. Many aren’t convinced that this was just a freak act of nature. There are growing theories that the floods were caused by human tampering with weather patterns — specifically cloud seeding, a technique where chemicals are released into clouds to encourage them to produce precipitation.

One person in the crosshairs of this theory is Augustus Doricko, founder and CEO of Rainmaker, a U.S.-based climate technology company specializing in cloud seeding. He’s been directly blamed for the Texas floods after it was discovered that his company seeded clouds in Texas just two days before the torrential rain began.

Yesterday, Glenn Beck invited Doricko on “The Glenn Beck Program” to plead his case.

“So explain what cloud seeding does and how you know you didn’t have anything to do with [the floods],” Glenn says.

While weather modification sounds like a modern practice, Doricko says it’s been going on since the 1940s when it was developed “to increase water supply for farms, for ecosystem conservation, for reservoirs, for residences, and also our industries.”

Cloud seeding “relies on identifying liquid in clouds and then releasing particulates, specifically silver iodide, into those clouds that the water freezes onto into big snowflakes and then become heavy enough to fall as rain,” Doricko explains, noting that the practice is “paid for by farmers and utilities and government entities that want more water for their constituents.”

While cloud seeding is a highly effective practice — it “can produce tens of millions of gallons of precipitation distributed over hundreds of square miles over the course of about an hour or two,” Doricko says — it could not produce the amount of precipitation that fell in Central Texas last weekend. “The remnants of tropical storm Barry that blew in and caused the flooding, that storm dumped trillions of gallons,” he differentiates.

One of the reasons Doricko has been specifically blamed for the deadly Texas floods is because Rainmaker seeded clouds in Texas on July 2 — two days before the rain began.

“We seeded two clouds, two small clouds, with about 70 grams’ worth of silver iodide,” he says, noting that while there was rainfall as a result, the clouds “dissipated about two hours after” and “could not have stayed suspended in the atmosphere by the time that the flooding started happening.”

Further, in accordance with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation’s suspension criteria, Rainmaker stopped its cloud-seeding operations even before the National Weather Service issued flood warnings.

“We at Rainmaker earnestly believe that this is God’s kingdom to steward, and it is our job to do no harm and do as much good as we can,” Doricko tells Glenn, noting that he became a Christian at age 20 and was actually “baptized in Dallas.”

While he stressed the need to “be cautious” to “mitigate any potential for any damage,” he also warned against banning the technology outright. Not only would it “prevent farmers from having water,” but it would also put even greater distance between the United States and China, which has an enormous weather modification program.

“The United States a year ago spent $2.4 million on cloud-seeding research,” while “China has an annual budget of $1.4 billion for cloud seeding and weather modification,” says Doricko. “They have 35,000 employees in their weather modification office,” and “they have two universities that offer bachelor’s degrees in weather engineering.”

“If the United States bans this technology wholesale … not only will we be behind China, but we won’t have regulatory statutes or the capability to monitor who is modifying the weather in the United States and otherwise,” he warns.

While Doricko agrees that weather modification sounds scary, cloud seeding is distinct from other more extreme weather modification practices. Cloud seeding encourages precipitation using “existing puffy clouds,” but “geoengineering is a global climatic intervention designed to either cool the planet down or create reflective high-altitude clouds,” he tells Glenn.

But Glenn still has questions. He points to speculation that the devastating double hurricanes — Helene and Milton — that impacted Florida and North Carolina last year were a result of cloud seeding.

“I never believed any of that stuff, but can it be done?” he asks.

“No. It, at this point in time, cannot be done,” Doricko replies.

However, he is a proponent of exploring how we might “mitigate severe weather,” like hurricanes, in the future. “I think that it would be abdicating our responsibility to try to tend to the world that God gave us if we didn’t at least think about it,” he says.

To hear Glenn’s response, watch the clip above.

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A Florida man on the evening of the Fourth of July noticed a rear door of his mother’s home in Osceola County was left open, so he entered the residence, WKMG-TV reported, citing the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office.

RELATED: Armed intruder breaks into home after midnight. But homeowner’s son also has a gun — and permanently takes care of business.

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After reportedly hearing strange noises, the man armed himself with a revolver, the station said. WOFL-TV reported that the noises were coming from the back bedroom.

‘Don’t let the libs hear about this … they’ll be pushing to put the shooter in jail.’

After the man called out to see if anyone else was in the home, an alleged intruder emerged from a hallway and charged toward him, WKMG said, citing the sheriff’s office.

With that, the man fired a single shot into the alleged intruder’s leg, WKMG reported.

Deputies responded around 8:30 p.m. to the home along Deer Run Road where the homeowner’s son was holding the alleged burglar — Mitchell Platt, 37 — at gunpoint, WKMG said.

The man who fired the shot was not injured, investigators added to WKMG.

Platt was hospitalized for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, was released, was then arrested, and was being held on no bond for charges of burglary of an occupied dwelling and possession of burglary tools, WKMG said.

RELATED: Female accused of stabbing pregnant woman 14 times in front of victim’s 5-year-old daughter over $2 pizza delivery tip

Mitchell Platt. Image source: Osceola County (Fla.) Jail

Osceola County court records show Platt “having a number of court cases relating to arrests for drug possession, theft, and burglary,” WESH-TV reported.

Those with information about the incident are asked to call the sheriff’s office’s non-emergency line at 407-348-2222, WKMG noted.

Not all of the observers who left comments under Yahoo News’ republication of WOFL’s story were completely satisfied with the outcome of the incident:

“You, sir, need more time at the gun range!!!” one commenter declared. “Why[?] Because IT lived.””At the leg. Oh, please,” another commenter lamented. “You ought to practice more at the range. Now, your tax [dollars are] … taking care of this dude’s medical bills, etc.””The shooter needs to learn how to shoot — make every shot count — now, he will probably be sued by the [burglar],” another commenter opined.”Don’t let the libs hear about this … they’ll be pushing to put the shooter in jail,” another commenter predicted. “How dare he [shoot] an intruder … right libs?””Correct me if I’m wrong, but a revolver should hold six rounds. Dead men tell no tales. They also commit no more crimes,” another commenter wrote.

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