Socialism is no longer knocking at the door of American politics — it’s winning elections.

And New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is leading the charge.

“We raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers instead of taking more from those with the least. Throughout this process, I have been reminded of the words of the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek: ‘If socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialists,’” he said in a recent speech.

“If these past months have shown us anything, it is that socialists not only understand economics just as well as the capitalists who came before, but that we can solve their years of mismanagement through an embrace of our principles,” he added.

Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck can’t believe how far their movement has come, pointing out that while “every single socialist experiment fails,” democratic socialists like Melat Kiros — who just won the primary in Colorado — continue to gain ground.

“She says, ‘We’re taking our system back, and we’re taking our country back,’” he says. “What do you mean you’re taking your country back?”

“When you’re talking about getting rid of capitalism, you’re not taking it back,” he continues. “So, the question is, is this just the edges of the party, or … is this a death knell for the next election?”

And while those who want to shrink the government’s power over American citizens are the ones being called extremists, democratic socialists want to expand it.

“And here’s something else that nobody seems to notice,” Glenn says. “Every successful socialist movement in history claimed to represent the workers. … Where are the workers today? Where are they?”

“Today’s movement represents the graduates. Look where all the energy comes from. The elite universities, the prestigious media, the nonprofits, the government bureaucracy, the professional advocates, the activists, the commanding height of culture,” he continues.

“Karl Marx predicted the revolution would come from the factory floor. Instead, it seems to be coming from the faculty lounge,” he adds.

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The socialist movement that is making inroads into the Democratic Party will reportedly release far-left extremist goals that would completely remake the federal government.

The Democratic Socialists of America has been behind the success of extremists like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), other members of “the Squad” in Congress, and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D).

The once-fringe group has gained prominence in recent weeks after several DSA-endorsed candidates defeated centrist establishment Democrats.

The DSA is working on updating its platform to reportedly include the elimination of the U.S. Senate as well as the Department of Defense, according to a Fox News report.

Even further, the new platform would advocate for Congress to choose a new executive branch and judiciary that would be subordinate to Congress.

The new platform would also call for full amnesty for all illegal aliens in the U.S. The current DSA platform calls for all deportations to end, for zero restrictions on travel between countries, and full voting rights for noncitizens.

The once-fringe group has gained prominence in recent weeks after several DSA-endorsed candidates defeated establishment Democrats in elections in New York City and other locations.

Darializa Avila Chevalier is running for New York’s 13th Congressional District after advocating for the abolition of borders, police, and prisons. She also posted, “F**k Kamala Harris” and expressed her deep disdain for the Democratic Party leadership. Chevalier has since said she has “grown considerably” since those posts on social media.

Claire Valdez won the primary for New York’s 7th Congressional District and ran on demilitarizing the border, amnesty for illegal aliens, and ramping up the “Green New Deal” of global warming regulations.

Melat Kiros is running for Colorado’s 1st Congressional District and has said she wants to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and also expressed anti-Israel sentiments.

RELATED: ‘They’re animals’: Trump UNLOADS on ‘godless Communists’ taking over the Democratic Party

Despite recent victories by the DSA, some centrist Democrats have formed an alliance to push back and empower the faction of the party that is not socialist and defends the free market.

The DSA has since revoked its endorsement for Ocasio-Cortez because she has not been virulently anti-Israel enough for its tastes.

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LifeWise Academy is a nonprofit Christian organization founded in 2018 that provides off-site, Bible-based religious instruction to public school students during the regular school day. The program is fully compliant with the three criteria of released time laws (affirmed by the 1952 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Zorach v. Clauson): classes are held off school property, it’s privately funded, and participation is voluntary with parental consent.

But LifeWise is nonetheless being attacked at some schools — often by those who welcome progressive initiatives, like Pride Month, in the classroom.

On a recent episode of “Relatable,” Allie Beth Stuckey sat down with LifeWise Academy founder and CEO Joel Penton to discuss the program and its ongoing battles with progressive schools.

Serving tens of thousands of students across hundreds of schools in over 30 states, LifeWise Academy Bible lessons are designed to take students through the entire Bible in just five years.

“So a child will start Genesis 1 in first grade, and by the time they finish elementary school and fifth grade, they’ve been through the entire Bible,” says Penton, noting that lessons have a three-part focus: head (knowing the Scripture), heart (gospel connection), and hands (living it out).

The result is not only that kids from Christian homes become more educated on Scripture, but children who do not come from Christian homes hear and accept the gospel.

Penton tells a sweet story of a young girl who joined LifeWise Academy and brought the gospel home to her entire family.

“[She] came home, and she said, ‘Why aren’t we talking about God here?’ And so they started going to church, and by the end of the story, there’s a family of nine that have all been baptized, and they’re members of the church,” he says.

The heartwarming stories of how LifeWise classes impact children and their families roll in every single day, Penton tells Allie.

And yet some schools are resistant to allowing LifeWise to impact their school community.

While 90% of schools say yes to LifeWise programs, there is “a very vocal minority,” says Penton, that go to great lengths to prevent campus startups.

These people “do not like the Bible; they see it as regressive … and they don’t want anybody to have access,” he explains, “and even though it’s optional, and they don’t have to sign their own child up, they don’t like that anyone can sign their child up.”

These community members protest LifeWise programs at school board meetings and engage in hashtag activism, but most of the time, Penton says, they end up unintentionally helping the cause.

He gives the example of a school district in Ohio ending its LifeWise program after two years, which sparked such intense backlash, Gov. Mike DeWine (R) signed House Bill 8, requiring all public school districts to adopt a religious released-time policy. This led to roughly 80 additional school districts starting LifeWise programs.

But in deep-blue places like the state of Washington, the resistance is intense.

Allie plays a clip of Charles Adkins, a member of the Everett Public Schools Board of Directors in Washington state. At a board meeting, he said, “I want to make it very, extremely, abundantly clear that yes, I do in fact hold animus towards LifeWise Academy.”

Everett Public Schools, says Penton, have policies that are “transparently discriminatory and aimed at LifeWise Academy.” Compared to other secular programs, which require a one-time parent permission slip, parents of students in LifeWise Academy must “walk in a permission slip each and every week.”

“They’re just trying to create more obstacles to make it more difficult,” says Allie.

But weekly permission slips aren’t the only barriers facing LifeWise students.

“If we give a child a worksheet, maybe they colored a picture of Moses or something … when they go back to school, it has to be in a sealed envelope,” says Penton, noting that other programs do not have this requirement.

When LifeWise attempted to resolve the district’s policies internally with the school board, they reportedly received no response. First Liberty Institute then filed a federal lawsuit against Everett Public Schools on behalf of LifeWise Academy and families, alleging unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination and hostile treatment of the religious released-time program.

“What’s wild is that the letter we sent said, ‘We believe you hold animus,’ which, you know, they’re supposed to say, ‘No, we don’t.’ And then [Adkins] said at a school board meeting into a microphone that he does hold animus,” says Penton, joking that First Liberty “really appreciated” his convenient candor.

While the lawsuit is still ongoing, Penton notes all he wants is for “policies to go back to normal” and for LifeWise Academy “to be treated as anybody else would.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the full episode above.

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State Sec. Marco Rubio said that the horrific pedophile pardoned by Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will no longer threaten U.S. citizens after he took action.

Tou Lue Vang of Laos admitted to committing horrible and disgusting sexual abuse of a 10-year-old in 2005 and accepted a sentence of 30 years probation to avoid prison time, as previously reported by Blaze News.

‘Americans must never be forced by their elected leaders to live alongside foreign sex criminals who have no right to begin with to reside in our country.’

Vang was allowed to finish probation early, and then a commission that included Walz voted to pardon him in June. That would have possibly allowed Vang to stay in the country, until Rubio stepped in.

“Just days before this foreign sex offender was scheduled to be deported, Tim Walz the governor issued him a pardon, setting him free to once again endanger the children of America,” said Rubio in a video on social media.

He then said he revoked Vang’s legal status.

“As a result, federal agents took him into custody, and as of today, he has been removed from the United States,” Rubio added. “Because of our actions, this foreign criminal will never pose a threat to any American ever again.”

Far-left Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who is also on the board of pardons, attempted to justify the pedophile pardon in a statement to KSTP-TV.

“The Minnesota Board of Pardons made a unanimous decision to grant Tou Vang this pardon after an exhaustive process, which included a statement of support for the pardon from the victim, a recommendation to grant the pardon from the Clemency Review Commission, and a large number of community support letters,” he wrote.

He went on to accuse the Department of Homeland Security of “lying through their teeth” about the pardon shielding Vang from deportation.

The victim in the case did release a statement supporting the pardon.

“What happened to me was wrong, but I have had many years to think about this. I have made my peace with it. I forgive him,” she wrote. “I want his family to stay together here. His children need their father. He and his wife have built a life. I believe that he has learned and grown since the abuse and that the family has suffered enough.”

RELATED: Illegal alien coach who murdered boy committed sex crimes against 2 underage boys: Cops

A New York Times report said that the plea deal was offered because the victim had been pressured against testifying by her family members, according to the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office.

“Americans must never be forced by their elected leaders to live alongside foreign sex criminals who have no right to begin with to reside in our country,” Rubio concluded. “This administration will always stand with the American people and defend them from violent criminals.”

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The preliminary hearing regarding whether to try Tyler Robinson for his alleged assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk drew to close on Friday with state District Judge Tony Graf now in the possession of a wealth of damning evidence.

Over the course of the five-day hearing, the court heard or saw:

surveillance camera footage showing the suspected assassin skulking around campus on the day of the shooting, developing a stiff leg after an apparent costume change, climbing onto a rooftop, running to a “sniper pad” on the rooftop overlooking the site where Kirk was shot, and dropping down from the roof immediately after the shooting, then fleeing the scene with “some kind of object” in his hand;that Robinson ate a Chick-fil-A on campus, where he was not a student, and allegedly interacted with TPUSA staff at the scene;a video of Robinson’s homosexual lover Lance Twiggs’ deposition, where he claimed that the individual seen in the surveillance footage “definitely” looked like Robinson;Twiggs’ testimony that Robinson left their shared apartment unusually early on the day of the shooting, had “started crying a bit” when he came back the morning after, and had told Twiggs “he wishes he hadn’t done it”;Twiggs’ testimony that he lent Robinson a tool to engrave some ammunition, especially relevant because the suspected murder weapon contained ammunition with engravings that included “Hey fascist! Catch” and “If you read this, you are gay, LMAO”;text messages between the gay lovers in which Robinson allegedly referred to one of the engravings on the ammunition, allegedly writing, “If I see ‘uwu notices bulge’ on fox new [sic] I might have a stroke”;text messages between Robinson and Twiggs in which the suspected killer allegedly admitted to killing Kirk, told his boyfriend that he “had enough of [Kirk’s] hatred,” and discussed retrieving his rifle from a “drop point” and leaving behind “no evidence”;testimony from Utah Department of Public Safety Sgt. Jennifer Faumuina indicating that the two sets of male DNA discovered on the towel wrapped around the suspected murder weapon were a match to Twiggs and very likely to Robinson; testimony from David Hull, a former Utah State Bureau of Investigation special agent who led the probe in the assassination, that a male was spotted by a Spanish Forks police officer in a car registered to Robinson near Campus Drive early on Sept. 11, the day after the assassination; andtestimony on Friday from Caitlin Oliver, a forensic biologist at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, that testing on swabs taken from several parts of the suspected murder weapon and the ammunition supports the conclusion that the DNA found was primarily contributed by Robinson.

On Friday, a zoomed-in version of the footage allegedly showing Robinson crawling out to a “sniper’s perch” was also shown in the courtroom.

The footage was not, however, broadcast for public consumption in part because a media cameraman had violated a court order on Thursday, accidentally showing an exhibit that was not allowed to be published — a handwritten note allegedly from Robinson to Twiggs in which the author wrote,

If you are reading this per my text, then I am so sorry. I left the house this morning on a mission, and set an auto text. I am likely dead, or facing a lengthy prison sentence. I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk, and I took it. I don’t know if I will/have succeeded, but I had hoped to make it home to you.

While the evidence was already public, having previously appeared in the search warrant released in March, the defense made a fuss such that the violation dominated the discussion for the early portion of Friday’s hearing.

Robinson chose not to testify during the pretrial hearing and has not entered a plea.

RELATED: Hearing bombshell as gay lover ties Tyler Robinson to damning evidence in Kirk assassination

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Robinson faces charges of aggravated murder, a capital first-degree felony; felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury; committing a violent offense in the presence of a child; two counts of obstruction of justice — a second-degree felony; and two counts of witness tampering for allegedly telling his boyfriend to delete his text messages and to stay quiet if questioned by police.

The hearing will resume on Sept. 1, when both the prosecution and the defense will be afforded one last opportunity to make their final arguments to Graf about whether Robinson should stand trial.

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Yet another violent attack in the U.K. involving a migrant suspect has occurred, this time leaving an American woman dead.

Irish police and emergency services responded on Tuesday to a rented home in the southwestern town of Killarney, where the bloody body of 43-year-old New York native Jamey Carney had been discovered by her 13-year-old daughter.

‘Do not use this to become bigoted or racist or prejudiced in any way.’

Following a postmortem examination by state pathologist Linda Mulligan, police launched a murder investigation into Carney’s death — an investigation aided by the Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Garda National Immigration Bureau.

While Carney suffered a brutal assault and significant head injuries, Mulligan concluded that suffocation was the ultimate cause of death, reported the Irish Times. Carney had moved to Ireland with her daughter in 2021.

Early in their investigation, authorities determined that “a person of interest” had “left the jurisdiction in the early hours of Tuesday 7th July prior to the body of the deceased female being discovered.”

The suspect, who has been identified as 28-year-old Ahmad Al-Saqar, is believed to have successfully boarded a flight at Dublin Airport bound for Istanbul, Turkey, just prior to the discovery of the body.

Irish police are reportedly working with Europol and Interpol in hopes of establishing whether Al-Saqar is still in Turkey or has traveled to another Middle Eastern location.

RELATED: Not again: British cops arrest another white victim of violence rather than minority assailant suspects

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Al-Saqar, who features in Carney’s profile picture on Facebook, is originally from Jordan and apparently has contacts in Syria and Turkey. He reportedly launched an asylum bid in Ireland after arriving there in 2024.

According to Extra.ie, while asylum-seekers must surrender their passports to the International Protection Office at the time of making their applications, Irish authorities gave Al-Saqar his passport back because he had been granted subsidiary protection — status given to someone who doesn’t qualify as a refugee but would supposedly face “serious” harm if sent back to his home country.

A police source told the Irish Times that the suspect was not only known to Carney but regularly stayed at her home. Their apparent 18-month romantic relationship complicates the investigation because if ultimately questioned, he could explain away his DNA on the premises.

According to the Irish Sun, Carney and Al-Saqar are believed to have met at an anti-war protest. Carney had “Free Palestine” and “Fk Ice” in her Facebook bio.

In a recent social media post, Al-Saqar reportedly referred to the American mother as “my bride and my princess.”

Al-Saqar was seen with Carney on Sunday and Monday, reported the Irish Independent.

The U.S. State Department told Newsweek that the agency has provided consular assistance to Carney’s family.

“The Trump administration has no higher priority than the safety and security of Americans,” said a State Department spokesperson. “We offer our sincerest condolences to the family and loved ones on their loss.”

A big concern for the Irish police is presently the possibility of American political figures on the right “stirring tensions in the Republic,” reported the Times.

This concern was echoed by Ryan Fox, a cousin of Carney, who told Irish state media that he didn’t want her death to become “some kind of martyrdom or some kind of political cause.”

“Do not use this to become bigoted or racist or prejudiced in any way. Bad people are in every group, and it is not the people who look like them who deserve to be blamed,” said Fox.

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Friday is the final day of the preliminary hearing to determine whether there is enough probable cause to bind Tyler Robinson over for trial in the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Thursday, day four, was an absolute bombshell for the prosecution, as Lance Twiggs, Robinson’s trans-identifying gay lover, admitted that the individual seen on surveillance footage did “look like Tyler Robinson.”

Twiggs also told the court that the day after Kirk’s murder, Robinson returned to their apartment, cried, “and said he wishes he hadn’t done it.”

Tune in for Day 5 below:

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Mark Zuckerberg has spent over 20 years building the Facebook brand, but it could all come to an end in one fell swoop.

Parent company Meta used words like “outlandish” and argued there was no historical precedent for its proposed punishment in recent legal filings for a lawsuit that could completely wipe out the company.

‘A sanction of that size has no analog in the history of consumer protection enforcement.’

Twenty-nine states are currently engaged in a lawsuit against Meta that accuses the company of violating child privacy laws that bar the collection of data from underage users.

The online company is facing court battles from almost every cardinal direction, but four particular states are threatening Meta with penalties of $1.4 trillion, which nearly equals its entire valuation; according to Yahoo Finance, Meta’s market cap is $1.48 trillion.

Meta responded to the sum in documents from the case in California, saying the “sheer magnitude” of the demands from the attorneys general “offends constitutional and ethical limits.”

“In just a single one of their ‘Remedy Chart’ calculations, the AGs seek over one trillion dollars in penalties and disgorgement, and they then layer on various other double-counting charts,” Meta wrote.

The massive sum comes from the AGs in California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey, who reportedly came up with the figure by estimating every under-13 user in each state that could have been affected by Meta’s policies.

“Each of these charts applies the maximum statutory penalty to every teen and purported under-13 user and every monthly instance of time spent at certain arbitrarily-selected thresholds,” Meta claimed.

Meta argued, “A sanction of that size has no analog in the history of consumer protection enforcement. Indeed, the Federal Trade Commission recently described a ‘$1 billion penalty’ as ‘the largest ever in a case involving an FTC rule violation.”

RELATED: New Senate bill punishes chilling of online speech — if it passes

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Meta further argued that the demands made were in “gross disproportion” to the alleged violations, and are “unsubstantiated” and “outlandish.”

The defense went on, calling the trillion-dollar figure a “construct of lawyers” that counts the same individuals “many times over.”

The aforementioned jurisdictions are also looking to pin claims of misleading the public on Meta, which they say “prioritized profits over the safety of kids.”

A spokesperson for the California attorney general’s office told the New York Post that Meta helped fuel the mental health crisis that is “impacting a generation of American children.”

“The California Department of Justice looks forward to holding Meta fully accountable at trial in August,” the spokesperson added. The two sides will meet in court on August 18 in Oakland, California.

RELATED: Meta had 17-STRIKE policy for sex traffickers, ex-employee says

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Another parallel claim Meta is battling accuses the company of being aware of the harm its platforms can cause.

A former employee alleged that Meta stopped internal research that would have shown that ceasing use of Facebook saw users become less depressed or anxious. Blaze News reported on this portion of the lawsuit in November, which allegedly included a study called Project Mercury.

Project Mercury was allegedly initiated in 2019 to “explore the impact” of Meta apps and how they can affect “polarization, news consumption, well-being, and daily social interactions.”

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Taylor Sheridan is the undisputed king of modern TV.

“Yellowstone.” “Tulsa King.” “Landman.” “Dutton Ranch.” “The Madison.” “1923.”

What, is Willy gender fluid this time around?

He’s prolific and popular, drawing the biggest names to his shows. Think Billy Bob Thornton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell, and Kevin Costner.

He just can’t buy himself an Emmy. The mega-producer got shut out, again, this week while Stephen Colbert’s canceled “Late Show” earned a record nine nominations. Could it have something to do with Sheridan’s embrace of heartland stories and Colbert’s failed war against a certain president?

Forget about it, Taylor. It’s Hollywood town …

‘Moana’ lost at sea

Let’s give Dwayne Johnson credit. He’s no Rachel Zegler (or Milly Alcock, for that matter). Those stars hurt their respective films (“Snow White” and “Supergirl”) with their disastrous press interviews.

Johnson knows better. He’s generally positive, and after he stepped on a banana peel by endorsing Joe Biden, Johnson announced he’s steering clear of politics.

Smart.

Yet his newest Disney venture, a live-action “Moana,” looks like another blockbuster dud. The film could earn as little as $40 million in its opening weekend, a fine haul for most movies but not an expensive Disney romp.

We can smell what the Rock is cooking, and it might be another “Baywatch” …

#OscarsSoWhat?

Are we heading toward #OscarsSoWhite: the sequel? A new report reveals interesting data points regarding “representation” within the industry. Never mind that said diversity measures never include Christians, conservatives, or gasp, Christian conservatives.

We’ll set that on a shelf for now.

Those Emmy nominations indicate diminishing DEI. TheWrap.com reports that “representation for actors of color at the 2026 Emmys continued to decline sharply, with only 18 performers from Asian, black. and Latino communities represented among the 91 nominees.”

That’s down from last year, when 24 of the 92 nominees were “POCs.”

How do we even know this? It’s simple: Entertainment news outlets like far-left TheWrap.com pore over every award nomination list looking for the slightest insinuation of bias.

Kevin Sorbo, canceled by the industry for being a Christian conservative, couldn’t be reached for comment …

RELATED: ‘Landman’: Is Taylor Sheridan’s gritty oil drama the last honest show about America?

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Save the whale

What’s the one word that sets a movie lover’s teeth on edge? “Reimagining.” Yes, it’s happening, again, and the victim this time is a poor, innocent whale.

“Free Willy,” the 1993 charmer, is heading back to captivity. And naturally, the folks behind the project aren’t settling for a mere “remake” … or even “reboot.”

No, they used the other “R” word, or at least the Hollywood Reporter used it twice in the story tied to the new version of the classic, feel-good flick. What, is Willy gender fluid this time around?

Why change what isn’t broken? The original film spawned two sequels and an animated series. Now, this.

Keiko the whale deserves better.

‘Ghostbusters’ helmer gets ‘Detention’

“Bridesmaids” director Paul Feig is directing his first horror movie.

Or second, if you count his “Ghostbusters” reboot. That high-profile flop may have been light on scares — or laughs, for that matter — but it was certainly a nightmare for Sony. As well as for anyone who managed to sit through it.

Should we expect another cinematic atrocity?

His recent action-comedy “Jackpot” would seem to suggest we should. That Prime Video original went bust as one of the worst movies of 2024.

Or any year, really.

But let’s not forget that Feig has fought his way out of director’s jail before — by helming “A Simple Favor” and its 2025 straight-to-video sequel, plus last year’s surprise hit “The Housemaid” with Sydney Sweeney.

Now, Feig is teaming with horror maven Jason Blum to direct “Detention.” Literally nothing is known about the project for now — except that Feig expects to go “darker” than ever before.

Let’s hope that refers to the story — and the mood of innocent moviegoers after wasting two hours …

Sheen settles

We wouldn’t call this “winning.” Not even close.

Troubled actor Charlie Sheen has agreed to pay ex-wife Brooke Mueller $500,000 in back child support. The move means the former couple won’t have to litigate the matter in court. That’s probably wise, but skimping out on child support is terrible, period.

Sheen has seemingly cleaned up his life, apologized for his manic “tiger blood” phase, and opened up via his 2025 autobiography “The Book of Sheen.”

Let’s hope this ends up being one of the last vestiges of his chaotic bad-boy phase.

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Singer Olivia Rodrigo says her upcoming all-female music festival is dedicated to “advancing and advocating for women and girls.”

Strangely, this seems to mostly translate to donating money to pro-abortion and race-based advocacy groups.

‘I’ve had a dream of doing this festival for years.’

Dream theater

Rodrigo made headlines more than two years ago when she partnered with a national abortion network to give out emergency contraceptives — the morning-after pill — to concert attendees on her tour. After the story made the rounds, Rodrigo’s publicity team put a stop to it and asked the group to cease handing out its packages that included two boxes of the pills and promotional codes that linked to an abortion fund.

Now, the 23-year-old has taken things a step further by hosting her own music festival to promote “meaningful change.”

“Truly never felt more excited to share a piece of news with you all,” Rodrigo wrote on X. “I’ve had a dream of doing this festival for years and i am so ecstatic its finally coming true!!”

The singer noted that “100 percent of the net proceeds will go to charities dedicated to advancing and advocating for women and girls.”

These organizations include abortion clinic Planned Parenthood as well as several other abortion advocacy groups.

Other partners featured are the Center for Reproductive Rights and the National Institute for Reproductive Health, which says it is invested in the “fight” to “expand access to abortion and contraception and advance health equity.”

RELATED: Abortion promoters told to stop handing out morning-after pills at Olivia Rodrigo concerts due to the presence of children

Immigrant song

Race-centric advocacy groups are also getting support, including the Black Mamas Matter Alliance and the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health.

Another partner, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, notes that while it supports domestic workers, the women they back are “mostly women of color [and] immigrants” as well as “mothers and low-wage workers.”

The company also has a directive dedicated to “black domestic workers,” with the title “We Dream in Black.”

The upcoming music festival takes place in August in Irvine, California, featuring artists like Doechii, Chappell Roan, and Sarah McLachlan and Stevie Nicks as special guests.

Outlet Young Hollywood described the festival as a way to “bring women together,” while creating a “safe and welcoming space” that will support “queer and female communities by donating profits to charities focused on social justice and helping women.”

RELATED: ‘I’m really excited’: Pop star Olivia Rodrigo gives out morning-after pills at concerts for ‘reproductive health freedom’

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Vaxxin’ and relaxin’

In 2021, Rodrigo visited President Joe Biden at the White House to promote COVID-19 vaccination among American youth, with the president claiming it was of the utmost importance for those ages 16 to 25 to get vaccinated.

At the time, Rodrigo said she was “beyond honored and humbled” to “help spread the message about the importance of youth vaccinations.”

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More than 75 years after Joseph McCarthy delivered one of his most controversial warnings, BlazeTV host Steve Deace believes history is proving him right.

In a 1950 speech, McCarthy drew a distinction between everyday Democratic voters and what he described as a small faction of communist-influenced operatives steering the party from within.

“There are definitely two groups of Democrats as of today,” McCarthy began. “Number one, there are the millions of loyal Americans who have voted the Democrat tickets. Individuals who are just as loyal, who hate communism just as much and love America just as much as the average Republican.”

“On the other hand, there is that small, closely knit group of administration Democrats who are now the complete prisoners and under the complete domination of the bureaucratic communistic Frankenstein, which they themselves have created,” he continued.

“To call them Democrats is an insult to the millions of loyal American Democrats. They shouldn’t be called Democrats.They should be referred to properly as the Commie-crat Party,” he added.

“Joseph McCarthy wasn’t wrong. He was just early,” Deace says after listening to McCarthy’s warning.

“Absolutely, he was right. And essentially what he’s saying in that clip is that not all Democrats are communists, but all communists are Democrats, which is something that for the last 15, 20 years that you’ve been on the air, Steve, you could have said every day that ends in ‘y’ and twice on Sundays,” Aaron McIntire agrees.

“I don’t really know how much clearer it could be at this point, because … not only are they out of the shadows, they are loud and proud about it at this point,” he says, pointing out that they call themselves “socialists” to soften what they stand for.

“They want to call themselves ‘those who stand in solidarity’ like that moron from New York said, ‘Solidarity means abolishing ICE,’” he continues, adding, “They want to cloak themselves in a lot of euphemisms, but at the heart of it, they are communists. So he was right on the money, just ahead of his time.”

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