Maine Democrats have their work cut out for them this week after Graham Platner, who was accused of rape on Monday by an ex-girlfriend, took one more step toward exiting the campaign.

On Wednesday night, Platner posted an 11-minute video on social media explaining that he was “suspending campaign operations.”

‘What comes next needs to come from the people.’

While maintaining his innocence, Platner blamed the Democrat establishment for making the continuation of his candidacy untenable.

“This is incredibly difficult, because I know that some will think it’s an admission of guilt, and it most certainly is not,” he said in the video. “We’re not doing it because of the allegations. We’re doing it because of the structures that are being taken away from us by those in power.”

He intimated that he had not filled out the paperwork to officially suspend his campaign at the time of recording the video but suggested that he intends to do so before the deadline.

RELATED: The clock is ticking for Democrats as Platner scandal triggers campaign crisis — here’s what to know

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“What comes next needs to come from the people,” he said.

Platner has asked his supporters to answer a 48-hour survey with two questions.

The message above the questions reads, in part, “We firmly believe that the supporters and volunteers who built this movement deserve to have a real role in any nomination process. If the Democratic Party hopes to harness our movement, and avoid disillusioning the hundred of thousands of supporters who came into the fray because of our movement’s policies, it must consult the feedback and proposals of the people who built and sustained this.”

While some of the details about “what comes next” are still up in the air, party leaders have been preparing a solution to the selection process, though it remains to be seen if it will be sufficiently “from the people,” as Platner called for.

Multiple outlets reported Wednesday that Democrat leaders are preparing to select a new candidate via a roughly 600-person convention.

The Bangor Daily News, citing an account of a party meeting shared with the outlet, reported that the convention will likely include 500 delegates proportionally selected by county committees as well as the roughly 100 members of the state committee.

Confirmation of these and other details are still forthcoming from the party.

Maine Democratic Party Executive Director Devon Murphy-Anderson released a statement on Wednesday accusing Platner of “distracting from the job of defeating Susan Collins” while emphasizing the party’s intent to develop “a representative, transparent, and inclusive process to select a new nominee when he chooses to withdraw from the race.”

“While we may be frustrated with Graham Platner’s continued efforts to manipulate this process, we are so thankful for his supporters and all of their efforts to defeat Susan Collins — they are a vital part of our Party and deserve to participate in an open process to select Platner’s replacement,” Murphy-Anderson added.

Platner will need to officially suspend his candidacy before the Democratic Party can begin planning the convention. The deadline is 5 p.m. ET on Monday.

The party must decide on a candidate and announce the decision to the Maine secretary of state by July 27.

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The corporate entertainment complex is experiencing a collective nervous breakdown. The catalyst for this sudden departure from sanity is “Citizen Vigilante,” a cinematic hand grenade that blows the lid off the establishment’s favorite lies.

Directed by the notoriously uncompromising Uwe Boll, the film takes the documented reality of Europe’s border crisis, pairs it with an industry outcast, and refuses to apologize for the violence that follows.

‘Everybody loved that I knocked out the critics,’ Boll notes dryly. ‘They stepped into the ring and received a much-needed reality check.’

Film reviewers, conditioned by years of ideological conformity, responded with their usual panic-stricken script, hurling accusations of “fascism” like overexcited monkeys slinging feces.

Crying ‘fascist’

When asked why modern film critics seem so threatened by stories that reflect public frustrations instead of establishment-approved narratives, Boll doesn’t hesitate.

“They know that the facts are against them and they have no defense,” Boll states matter-of-factly. “So they label everyone a fascist or a Nazi if they point out that criminals need to be prosecuted and, if possible, deported.”

“The leftist governments in Europe are victims of their own propaganda. They are under immense pressure to ignore grooming scandals, knife stabbings, and all forms of violent random crime.”

The hysterical reaction from the press stems from a deep-seated fear of the obvious. For years, the European establishment maintained control by enforcing a strict code of censorship around the predictable outcomes of open-door migration policies. “Citizen Vigilante” breaks that code with a sledgehammer.

The film acts as a mirror to a continent where citizens are told to accept acts of savagery as a standard feature of daily life. When art reflects the dark reality instead of the utopian fantasy, the gatekeepers reach for the chloroform.

RELATED: ‘Citizen Vigilante’: A cinematic hand grenade lobbed at the cathedral of liberal pieties

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Hammer time

The casting of the lead role provided another opportunity to challenge the industry’s enforced consensus. Beyond his fit for the role, casting Armie Hammer felt like a well-earned middle finger to an entertainment industry obsessed with moral conformity.

“Armie was a major star and would be the perfect James Bond,” Boll says. “Unfortunately, in today’s climate, a one-legged transgender person from Bangladesh has a better chance of getting that part.”

“By the way,” he adds, “that is not a joke against transgender people — that is a joke against the insanity of the woke police running Hollywood. Armie acted irresponsibly years ago, but he committed no crime. He rehabilitated himself and deserves to be a major star again. He was perfect for the role of Sanders, so I hired him.”

Boll is right. Hammer, a genuinely gifted actor, is not a criminal. Whatever one makes of his personal controversies, they are not comparable to the depravities of Harvey Weinstein. On screen, the American’s stoic, unsentimental delivery of justice feels both refreshing and revolutionary.

Hollywood thrives on a system of selective banishment, enforcing a social credit system that demands absolute ideological submission. Hiring Hammer was a calculated rejection of that ecosystem. It demonstrated that a filmmaker with independent backing can bypass the arbitrary tribunals of the cultural elite.

Wake-up call

The performance itself fuels a narrative that focuses directly on the systematic failure of European state institutions. The complete lack of public safety in major European centers is a daily reality on the streets of Berlin, Paris, and London, where the native populations find themselves treated as second-class citizens by their own representatives.

This fact is not lost on Boll.

“Germany is going down the drain, just like the U.K. and France, and we have watched it unfold for at least 15 years,” the filmmaker explains. “Now that more middle-class citizens are feeling the impact, they are starting to wake up and get upset. The general population always reacts too late, usually when the ship is already sinking and they have lost their jobs, their homes, or are simply running out of money for groceries. Then they become resentful and depressed.”

He considers his latest film “a harsh wake-up call designed for shock value to accelerate that awakening. Politicians are elected to bring safety and prosperity to their country. That is not happening.”

In Germany, he adds, “our bridges and schools are literally falling apart, but we are funding bicycle lanes in Peru. That is a documented fact, not a joke.” He’s right. It’s true.

Contract killers

This disconnect forms the emotional center of the film’s protagonist, a man driven to extreme measures by the state’s total abdication of authority. The character’s narrative arc reflects a growing sentiment across the continent. When the social contract is voided by the ruling class, the consequences will be severe.

Michael Sanders goes to some incredibly dark places by the end of the film, leaving fans to wonder if the sequel will bring a deeper escalation of his crusade or a confrontation with the true cost of taking the law into his own hands.

Boll remains coy about the exact plot of the sequel. “Maybe both,” he offers.

Bounty hunter

Obviously, one cannot interview Boll without discussing his decision to stream the film for free on X via Elon Musk’s account. This move bypassed traditional distribution entirely, rendering traditional studios obsolete.

“Thanks to X, the world could watch the film for two days,” Boll says. However, he adds, “you still need theatrical releases, Blu-ray, television, and streaming revenues to generate a profit. If you launch exclusively on social media, you would need an alternative model to get compensated for the work.”

In theory, this alternative model would look like a digital bounty system — direct-to-consumer micro-subscriptions or platform-backed ad-revenue splits driven entirely by viral engagement rather than studio greenlights. It is desperately needed because the current gatekeepers don’t just take a cut of the profit but also a cut of the truth.

The entertainment elite dislikes independent distribution channels because they destroy the monopoly on information. This rebellious streak defines Boll’s career. Twenty years ago, he famously challenged his fiercest critics to actual boxing matches and beat them in the ring, an event that permanently altered his relationship with the film establishment.

“Everybody loved that I knocked out the critics,” Boll notes dryly. “They stepped into the ring and received a much-needed reality check.” With “Citizen Vigilante,” Boll delivers the ultimate right hook, forcing open the eyes of the cultural commissars who would very much like us to ignore reality.

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The White House’s Domestic Policy Council dropped a 162-page report on Independence Day titled “Saving America’s Story” that exposes the radicalism infecting the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History.

The report highlighted various manifestations of “extreme political activism” under Director Anthea Hartig — from the NMAH’s characterization of Mickey Mouse as a vestige of “blackface minstrelsy” to its propagation of a tool kit that characterizes objectivity and individualism as oppressive traits of “whiteness” — and concluded that the museum, under its current leadership, “cannot be trusted to tell America’s story honestly.”

‘US history was taught as the history of white Christian men who conquered a continent.’

The council’s damning assessment has evidently ruffled feathers at the Smithsonian and elsewhere.

Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III sent an institution-wide letter on Tuesday pushing back against the evidence-based critique, claiming that the “report is not a fair characterization of the work and totality of the National Museum of American History.”

In his letter, which was obtained by the Washington Post, Bunch claimed both that “the Smithsonian is the glue that holds the nation together” and that the Smithsonian team’s “work is driven by scholarship, accuracy, and an uncompromising commitment to tell the fullness of America’s story.”

Bunch thanked the activists who operate within his purview and wrote, “Every day, we are honored to tell America’s stories and hold that responsibility with the utmost regard, respect, and fidelity. We remain committed to fulfilling our mission for generations to come.”

RELATED: Russell Kirk’s dire warning: America cannot be taken for granted

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Bunch sent his letter days after a spokesperson for the institution stated, “For more than 180 years, the Smithsonian has served the American public with nonpartisan and independent scholarship, and we remain committed to doing so.”

Bunch and the Smithsonian spokesperson weren’t alone in fretting over the White House’s report.

The Organization of American Historians rejected the report, calling it “another example of executive branch overreach” and an attempt on the part of the Trump White House “to coerce Smithsonian leadership to shape its presentation of U.S. history so that it serves the administration’s political agenda.”

The OAH, which has over 6,000 members at universities and other institutional settings across the country, complained that the report “insists that history itself is essentially, for Americans, a special and providential story of triumph.”

“Make no mistake: The report represents an attempt to turn back the clock to a time when U.S. history was taught as the history of white Christian men who conquered a continent, U.S. military leaders who rarely lost a battle, and U.S. presidents who were single-handedly responsible for national greatness, all under the cover of ‘anti-DEI’ and ‘anti-woke’ crusading,” the OAH continued.

The woke historians fear that orienting focus toward American exceptionalism would mean “women, workers, people of color, people with disabilities, immigrants, LGBTQ+ people and more, will not see themselves represented” at the NMAH and that “America’s rich and diverse history will be reduced to shallow and simple-minded stories and tropes.”

Marc Stein, the San Francisco-based homosexual activist and historian who currently serves as the OAH’s president, told the New York Times, “Released on July 4, 2026, the 250th birthday of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the report is a declaration of independence from history.”

Stein, an apparent critic of “child protection” initiatives and defender of “drag queen story hours,” further claimed that the council’s report “mischaracterizes and misrepresents the words of Anthea Hartig, who has consistently worked to educate and inform visitors to the museum with innovative exhibits and inspirational programs.”

‘Deeply concerning to see the Smithsonian embrace politicized history over historical truth.’

The report that has vexed Stein, his organization, Bunch, and others not only revealed Hartig to be a radical who regards history as a “prime tool of social justice,” seeks to “get out of the ‘America First’ mentality” when telling history, and wanted to “problematize the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026,” but also highlighted the LGBT, anti-white, and anti-Western agitprop pushed by her museum.

According to the report, the NMAH has in exhibits, frameworks, curricula, and/or documentation:

Directed American teachers to tell students both that the “U.S. economy depends on an influx of migrants to augment the workforce in a number of industries” and that “there is no single American culture, language, or narrative”;Identified perfectionism, a sense of urgency, the prioritization of quantity over quality, paternalism, “worship of the written word,” either/or thinking, individualism, and objectivity as “characteristics of white supremacy culture which show up in our organizations” and are “damaging to both people of color and to white people”;Described Jared Jennings — the boy called “Jazz” whose genital mutilation was promoted on reality television — as someone who “always knew she ‘was a girl trapped inside a boy’s body'” and devoted an entire “A Girl’s Life” display to discuss his “transgender” experience;Displayed a two-piece chrome and rubber crotch harness designed for sadomasochist sexual activity in a Stonewall exhibit;Lionized Angela Davis, a former Black Panther and recipient of the Soviet Union’s Lenin Peace Prize who was once accused of supplying weapons to a black supremacist who went on to murder Superior Court Judge Harold Haley and two inmates;Adopted a decidedly pro-abortion stance, especially after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling and Hartig’s declaration that “a future without federally protected reproductive health care rights is not informed, just, or compassionate”;Hyped gun-control activism, particularly in its “Girlhood (It’s Complicated)” exhibit, which featured a life-size poster of a “March for Our Lives” speaker;Suggested that America rests on stolen land;Slandered America’s founders; and “Consistently denigrated and displaced whites, males, Christians, and Americans in educational materials and programming, failing to highlight how Christians and Christian principles also have contributed to America’s founding and flourishing.”

While liberal revisionists and other radicals clutched pearls over the report, conservatives were apparently happy to see the truth of the NMAH’s ideological capture brought to light.

New York Rep. Claudia Tenney (R) tweeted, “Deeply concerning to see the Smithsonian embrace politicized history over historical truth. Woke does not belong in our taxpayer funded museums. Our history deserves to be told honestly, faithfully, & with the respect owed to the nation that changed the world.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) wrote, “Politicizing American history to weaponize it in service of leftist activism. Not surprised they did this, but good to see it getting exposed.”

Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) introduced legislation last year that would codify President Donald Trump’s “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” executive order in part by directing executive appointees to the Smithsonian Board of Regents “to remove improper ideology and divisive racial narratives from Smithsonian properties.”

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Senator Mitch McConnell was confirmed to have been hospitalized on June 14 for an unknown condition — but that was now weeks ago, and the people of Kentucky have received no meaningful updates about his condition.

Now, Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck is asking questions that Washington refuses to answer.

“Here are the rumors. And they’re rumors. If they’re true, they’re tragic. If the rumors are false, then somebody needs to step up and tell the American people the truth. Either way, this is not how a constitutional republic is supposed to function,” Glenn says.

According to these rumors, it’s been three weeks since the people of Kentucky have heard about the condition of Senator Mitch McConnell.

“His office has issued really carefully worded statements. He’s recovering. He appreciates everyone’s support. They don’t say what happened. They don’t say when he’s going to return,” Glenn explains. “They don’t answer even the basic question every citizen has a right to: Can he still do the job?”

“Is he still thinking? And this is not a cruel question, but the guy is a sitting senator, and it’s a question that matters, because this is bigger than Mitch McConnell. We watched America do this with President Biden,” he continues.

“Republicans are now the mirror image of the people they criticized,” he says. “You know, if your party has spent years demanding honesty about the president’s health, you kind of have an obligation to demand honesty about your own leader in your own GOP.”

“This is not about left or right. This is about representation,” he adds.

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New York City without the Italians, Jews, and Irish?

Well, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s “immigrant enclaves” map seems to think so.

‘Mamdani’s City Hall can find room for every fashionable progressive constituency, but somehow it cannot find Little Italy.’

Detailing 30 immigrant enclave communities across the five boroughs, the map is catching harsh criticism for excluding one of the city’s original “Little” — Little Italy.

Among the enclaves included are Chinatown in Manhattan, Little Egypt in Queens, and Little Haiti in Brooklyn.

“They were able to get a Little Bhod-Tibet in there, but what about the original ‘Little neighborhood,’ Little Italy?” Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Queens) told the New York Post.

“And what about areas like Woodlawn, in the Bronx, which are home to plenty of Irish immigrants? Do the Irish and Italians not count for the mayor’s office?” she continued.

In a statement from the Italian American Civil Rights League, President Mike Crispi blasted Mamdani for “erasing” Little Italy.

“This is not a clerical error. This is cultural erasure. Little Italy is sacred ground. It is where Italian immigrants came with nothing, worked like hell, opened shops, raised families, built churches, fed the city, and helped make New York what it is.”

“Mamdani’s City Hall can find room for every fashionable progressive constituency, but somehow it cannot find Little Italy,” Crispi added.

The league’s X account continued, “Italian Americans BUILT NEW YORK CITY. Not third world Ugandans. We stand AGAINST COMMUNISTS!”

Yet, this isn’t the first time the Italian-American community and Mamdani have been at odds with each other. During last year’s mayoral race, Mamdani faced intense backlash after an X post from 2020 resurfaced showing him giving the middle finger to a statue of Christopher Columbus. The post was captioned, “Take it down.”

RELATED: Mamdani smears America in unhinged address ahead of July 4: ‘We sell our elections to the highest bidder’

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The map received additional criticism for leaving out neighborhoods home to large Jewish populations.

“The Mayor’s Office made a map of NYC’s immigrant enclaves: Little Africa, Little Poland, Little Palestine. But they just couldn’t figure out how to represent 11% of the city. Couldn’t decipher where the Jews are from. Asked everyone. Huge riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma,” writer Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt said on X.

Former Republican candidate for Los Angeles mayor Spencer Pratt chimed in, calling the mayor’s actions “deliberate subversion” in a post to X.

“Leaving out the Italian, Jewish, and Irish enclaves in NYC is like leaving out Mexican and Persian enclaves in LA,” Pratt said. “It’s not an ‘oopsie!’ This is deliberate subversion. The communist must erase your history so he can demolish your home and make it his own.”

A spokeswoman from City Hall defended the map in a statement, saying it “highlights neighborhoods in New York City that have substantial foreign-born populations from regions and countries around the world.”

“It does not highlight religious groups,” she added. “Little Odessa, which is featured in the map, has a substantial Jewish population.”

“We are planning to add more neighborhoods in the upcoming months.”

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Watch live as Day 4 of the preliminary hearing in the murder case of Charlie Kirk gets under way in Provo, Utah.

After a dramatic third day dominated by legal battles over key evidence, prosecutors are expected to present the redacted recorded statements of Tyler Robinson’s former roommate, Lance Twiggs, along with additional digital evidence they say ties Robinson to the murder.

Day 3 also included testimony surrounding Robinson’s surrender to law enforcement, while defense attorneys continued challenging the prosecution’s forensic evidence and fought to limit what the judge could consider. With the hearing entering its final stages, today’s testimony could be among the most significant yet as prosecutors work to convince Judge Tony Graf there is enough evidence to send Robinson to trial on aggravated murder charges and pursue the death penalty.

Watch Day 4 live:

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I remember back in the early Trump days, I would cruise by the Politics section of my local bookstore to see which celebrity leftist pundit they were promoting this week.

One day, I noticed a small subsection within Politics called the Alt-Right.

The alt-right was like the early punk movement. If you were actually there, it was crazy fun. If you weren’t, everything you heard about it was negative.

I was amazed that a bookstore in my blue city would admit that the “alt-right” existed. But then I saw that all these books were about the evils of the alt-right.

Without exception, these books described a dark and dangerous world of neo-Nazis, white supremacists, fascists, racists, homophobes, and misogynists … most of whom apparently lived in caves in the darkest reaches of Idaho.

The authors of these books often struck a self-congratulatory tone. How brave they were to explore these nefarious netherworlds!

Eggheads unlimited

The truth was that all of these books were incredibly dry and boring. Most were published by university presses and featured dubious statistics, out-of-context quotes, and obvious misrepresentations.

The writers were brain-dead academics. They had no understanding of trends, or vibes, or zeitgeists. They barely knew what a meme was.

And of course, they lacked any sense of humor at all. This made it impossible for them to understand the sarcasm and irony of the quick-witted young bloggers and commentators they were supposedly writing about.

An untold story

I remember wondering if anyone would ever write an honest account of the alt-right. Probably not. It’s fairly common that most vanguard youth cultures are dismissed or misinterpreted.

The alt-right was like the early punk movement. If you were actually there, it was crazy fun. If you weren’t, everything you heard about it was negative.

So you can imagine my surprise when I heard about Scott Greer’s latest book, “Whitepill: The Online Right and the Making of Trump’s America.”

Though the official title was relatively innocuous, the word on the street was this is it, this is the first serious history of the alt-right, by a writer who understood it, participated in it, and was very nearly destroyed by its fallout.

Needless to say, I was eager to read it.

How far we’ve come

Greer named his book “Whitepill” because it describes the many advances conservatives have made during the Trump era and celebrates their many victories.

For those of us over 50: To be “white-pilled” about something means to be excited or happy about it.

In the first sections of the book, Greer reminds us of the state of conservatism during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations.

It was “cuckservatism” basically, to borrow an alt-right-ism. The Republicans were so eager to please and so afraid of offending that they came up with catchphrases like “compassionate conservatism” to market themselves.

They promoted same-sex marriage, amnesty for illegal immigrants, affirmative action, and a host of other leftist projects.

We think of our current Republicans as being hypocritical, if not traitorous, for not protecting Americans from voter fraud, violent crime, and open borders.

But they were even worse 20 years ago! Greer gives a good, succinct accounting of this.

A new defiant energy

In response to the extreme wimpiness of 2000s establishment Republicans, a new defiant energy began to appear among young conservatives.

Greer describes an obscure 2008 article by historian Paul Gottfried, who predicted the end of that era’s gutless conservatism:

Beneath that crumbling establishment, [Gottfried] saw the stirrings of a “younger, less inhibited” generation of rightists willing to defy taboos and confront head-on what he described as an “intolerable political situation.” He called this nascent rebellion the Alternative Right.

Most people who read “Whitepill” will have a rough idea of what Gottfried’s alternative right became, but Greer simplifies it for the normies: “[The alt-right] was an online phenomenon, an ideological and aesthetic counter-culture that broke hard from the philosophical premises underpinning the modern [liberal] ‘idea’ of America.”

And more specifically:

Many young white men in particular came to feel alienated by a new liberalism that pathologized their “whiteness” and demanded that they “check their privilege.” The Alt-Right explained to them in explicit terms why and how they could reject this new social paradigm.”

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Youth must be served

From there, Greer takes us through the initial flourishing of alt-right culture. The kids were going to have their say!

But he also points out its obvious limitations, mainly that it was completely online and mostly anonymous. Its growth was therefore random and chaotic. There was no accountability; there were no boundaries.

If it sometimes felt like a “movement” or even a “political party,” in reality, it was a free-floating, spontaneous, cultural phenomenon created in the cartoon world of the internet.

Still, an entire generation came to know its symbols, its humor, its language, its youthful goofiness. It was hopeful and fun, and it pointed toward a way out of the mess we were in.

The end of the beginning

Of course, we all know where the alt-right story ended: in Charlottesville, in the summer of 2017.

The Charlottesville “Unite the Right Rally” was doomed from the beginning. Though I had only just become aware of the alt-right myself, even I could sense the danger inherent in its real-world manifestation.

I remember one blogger I followed begging people to stay away. “IT’S A TRAP!” he kept saying. And he was right. And a lot of people got caught in it.

Life in the swamp

Greer occasionally inserts his own experiences as a writer, editor, and journalist into this narrative. And it’s good that he does. As he describes his early career in Washington, D.C., you get a sense of what a treacherous time it was to work in politics.

Imagine trying to hold down a real-world job as a young conservative in the midst of peak wokeness! At different points, Greer was doxxed, fired, and blacklisted. But he managed to soldier on.

Which is good news for the rest of us. Because he has written an exceptional book about a very important subject.

Perhaps the most notable thing about “Whitepill” is that despite Greer’s obvious right-wing bias, he actually succeeds in producing a balanced and objective account of what happened and why. He is — as best he can — attempting to tell the truth.

Imagine that. An honest person in politics. That is indeed a white pill.

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Rupert Lowe, the head of Restore Britain in the U.K. Parliament, released a damning report on June 16, detailing the staggering scale of the horrific crimes committed against generations of young white girls in Britain by predominantly Muslim Pakistani gangs.

The 219-page “Rape Gang Inquiry Report” — which was commissioned by Lowe and led by Sammy Woodhouse, a rape-gang survivor who over a decade ago helped expose the mass rape of girls in Rotherham, England — estimated that the number of white girls subjected to “repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma” since the 1950s is “at the very least, 250,000.”

‘You’re going to have a real problem.’

The report’s disturbing insights not only into the crimes but into the British establishment’s egregious response captured Joe Rogan’s attention last month. In an interview released Wednesday, the podcaster sat down with Lowe to discuss what Elon Musk has elsewhere dubbed “the rape of Britain,” as well as the correlated issues of mass migration, the failure of multiculturalism, western Islamicization, and the fall of civilizations.

After raising the alarm about the costly and seemingly interminable inundation of foreigners into the United Kingdom, Lowe — whose party advocates for mass deportations — highlighted Britain’s problem with migrant populations, particularly those originating from Islamic nations, that “are increasingly living in small groups of people who haven’t integrated, who are living under Sharia law, and who have their own courts.”

Rogan, unsettled by Lowe’s observation of parallel Islamic legal systems operating in the U.K. and allegedly tolerated by British authorities, said, “There’s certain cultures that if you allow them to come into your community and then they institute the laws of the country where they came from, you’re going to have a real problem.”

“They don’t live the way you live. They don’t have the same respect for women that you have. They don’t treat them the same way. They don’t allow dogs,” continued Rogan.

“The idea is supposed to be that Western society is inclusive and progressive because we’re intelligent and educated and we care — but you can care so much that you let in criminals, and then you give those criminals all your money, and then the criminals can take over your country, slowly but surely.”

RELATED: ‘Beyond evil’: Nightmarish report reveals full scale of mass Islamic rapes of ‘250,000’ white British girls

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Rogan suggested that people are wrong to be skeptical about the possibility and ramifications of such a takeover, referring back to the collapse of the empires of yesteryear.

“People look at the Colosseum, you look at ancient Greece, and they think, ‘Wow, I wonder what happened to those guys.’ What do you think happened?” said Rogan. “Probably the same s**t that’s happening right now to England, the same s**t that could have happened to America. It’s — civilizations fall apart for various reasons. And one great way to get them to fall apart is to bring in a bunch of people and they don’t have to follow your laws.”

Lowe bridged the topics of civilizational collapse and rapacious parallel societies to the rape gang inquiry, suggesting that he and others had to crowdfund the report because the “government will not have a statutory inquiry” — a special kind of state inquiry that can compel witnesses to give evidence or to supply documents — because the powers that be are sensitive to the “Muslim bloc vote.”

Lowe claimed that as the result of his efforts to force disclosures in Parliament relevant to the inquiry, it has become clear that “a lot of the data has not been properly collected” by the police, the National Health Service, social services, and other institutions with regard to the crimes and the particulars of their perpetrators.

The Restore Britain leader suggested further that while the powers that be know that members of imported populations are disproportionately prowling about and preying on native British girls, “they don’t want to admit that their multicultural experiment” has failed, “which as you probably know, famously Enoch Powell warned would fail with his … ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, for which he was heavily criticized.”

“They don’t want to be called racist,” added Lowe.

Rogan said, “We hope you guys turn it around.”

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A Honduran national with prior convictions for child sex abuse and illegal re-entry has been taken back into federal custody after he allegedly jumped from a moving train in an attempt to slip into the U.S. undetected, according to details provided to Blaze News by the Department of Homeland Security.

Border Patrol agents assigned to the Uvalde Station were conducting train-check operations Saturday when three men reportedly jumped from a railcar and ran. One didn’t get far.

‘Child sex offenders who repeatedly attempt to enter our country pose a serious threat, and we stand ready to answer that threat.’

The DHS identified the man as Cristobal Cortes-Cartagena, 39, and a records check on scene revealed a lengthy criminal history.

Cortes-Cartagena was convicted in California in 2010 of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 and served five years in prison before being removed from the country.

In 2017, he was convicted of illegal re-entry and sentenced to 18 months in federal prison. California prosecutors also convicted him separately of failing to register as a sex offender, adding another 14 months to his time served.

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He was deported a second time in 2021.

Cortes-Cartagena is now back in federal custody in connection with the Saturday incident. He faces a federal charge of illegal re-entry after deportation, a felony carrying a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison.

“Constant vigilance by our Border Patrol agents is paramount to keeping our communities safe,” said a statement from Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Anthony “Scott” Good. “Child sex offenders who repeatedly attempt to enter our country pose a serious threat, and we stand ready to answer that threat.”

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BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock isn’t giving “Citizen Vigilante” high marks as a film — rather, he argues it largely fails by traditional cinematic standards.

But the point of the film wasn’t to tell a compelling story or showcase great acting.

“‘Citizen Vigilante’ is not a movie. It doesn’t care about story. It doesn’t care about plot. It doesn’t care about acting. It doesn’t care about script. It’s not a good movie,” Whitlock says.

“It’s a provocative political statement,” he adds.

Whitlock believes the political statement is anti-illegal-immigration, anti-multiculturalism, and anti-Islam, explaining that the film is “capturing the anger that many people in America and in Europe have” regarding these topics.

However, while Whitlock doesn’t care for the film as a film, he does believe it’s important that “movies get put out to make political points.”

“For this movie to be put out and for Elon Musk to be supporting it and for the conversation that is driven and for the subject that it touches on, it’s an indication in my mind of where they want the conversation to go and what they’re trying to stir in white people globally,” he says. “Enough is enough.”

And Whitlock himself is “anti-multiculturalism” like the film.

“All cultures are not created equal. And we are tolerating cultures that are satanic, chaotic, not law-abiding, degenerate. We’re tolerating and embracing these things under, like, ‘Hey, this is what we’re supposed to do. Diversity is good,’” he explains.

“I’m fed up with the melting-pot mentality that, when I was younger, that slogan sounded good. As I’ve now reached full maturity, I’m like, not everything needs to be in this pot. Some of this stuff in the pot will kill you,” he continues.

And while television and media are always trying to “tug at our tribalism” — usually from the point of view of the left — “Citizen Vigilante” does the same.

“That’s the point of ‘Citizen Vigilante,’” Whitlock says, “to bring out our tribalism, justify our tribalism.”

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