Popular and controversial women’s basketball player Sophie Cunningham opened up about why her Christian faith is pivotal to her life.

On Thursday’s episode of his “This Past Weekend” podcast, comedian Theo Von asked the Indiana Fever player to talk about her religious beliefs.

‘There’s nothing that you can or can’t do that’s gonna separate you from God’s love and grace and forgiveness.’

“Let’s talk about your faith. You got baptized as an adult, right?” Von asked.

“I’m gonna bring you to church with me,” she responded.

Cunningham said she doesn’t have a home church because of her lifestyle but said she is very connected to her faith.

“I was raised Catholic, but now I’m just like more Christian. I can never say this word — nondenominational? Just said it,” she joked.

“I love Jesus, and I’ve actually listened to you a little bit that you’re starting to kind of maybe get into it or intrigued by it a little bit,” she added.

“Oh, yeah,” Von responded.

“Or maybe that was just you not actually. I don’t know, but it’s OK. But all I’m saying is, I rely a lot on my faith because of what I do for a living. You get a lot of hate; you get a lot of praise. And I think that just morally in my head, everything, it just keeps me stable, and it keeps me to be who I am,” she added.

“I don’t care what people’s opinions are about me because I’m not living for their praise,” Cunningham said.

Von said that he really liked having a prayer connection with God but admitted that he felt bad when he neglected that connection.

“I feel you. … There’s nothing — I’m just gonna say this, and this is for the people listening too, but there’s nothing that you can or can’t do that’s gonna separate you from God’s love and grace and forgiveness,” she responded.

“That’s why Jesus came and died on the cross because He already knew everything you were going to do. So, I mean, that’s up to you now to kind of educate yourself and read the Bible,” Cunningham added.

“But you’re already forgiven,” she added.

“I understand that. … I just feel more of personal connection when I’m prayed up,” he said.

“Yeah!” she responded.

“My buddy say, ‘Stay prayed up.’ My buddy, he say that all the time. ‘Stay prayed up.’ It’s almost like if you talk to somebody every now and then, then you don’t have to catch up with them,” he added.

“Well, that’s a thousand percent what it is,” she replied.

“That’s what I’m saying,” he added.

Von reiterated that sometimes he gets busy and neglects his prayer life.

“That’s natural. That’s what it is to be human. You just gotta prioritize the good,” she replied.

Cunningham went on to praise the people who were “bold and courageous” about speaking out publicly about their faith. She said she believes there is a revival under way.

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Cunningham also told Von he should bring on experts to talk more about the interaction between science and faith.

“Yeah. We want to have the pope on, but he won’t. I don’t even know if he has a phone,” Von responded.

“I mean, someone has a phone around there,” she responded. “They’re not the Amish. And even the Amish have phones.”

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Two popular financial platforms came under attack Thursday within hours of each other. The cryptocurrency platform Binance and prediction market platform Polymarket both suffered huge losses totaling billions of dollars, and it was all stolen directly from users’ accounts.

Both platforms are juggernauts in their categories. Binance is by far the biggest cryptocurrency exchange on the planet, boasting 335 million users, which makes it a prime target for hackers. Meanwhile, Polymarket is the leading prediction market, edging out Kalshi for global dominance.

Binance revealed that it set aside $6.34 billion to recuperate the losses suffered by its users.

Binance was the first to take a hit. According to an official post sent out by the company’s X account:

Our teams are aware of reports of a potential security issue and are actively investigating. User funds are completely safe.

Our security teams are reviewing all relevant information with urgency, and we will provide updates through official Binance channels as soon as we have verified information.

Users should remain cautious of scams and should not trust unofficial links, messages, or requests for account information.

Unfortunately, the claim that user funds were safe and secure quickly fell apart. In the next 24 hours, Binance revealed that it set aside $6.34 billion to recuperate the losses suffered by its users, all of which Binance vows to pay back in full.

Users can currently deposit money into their Binance accounts, but withdrawals are paused as the company works with law enforcement and blockchain experts to investigate the attack. So far, they know it is linked to TraderTraitor, a hacking group based in North Korea.

RELATED: Another major AI attack hits the internet — this time targeting the backbone of American capitalism

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Around the same time, Polymarket was hacked, with bad actors siphoning $2.7 million from 737 users’ accounts. The attack was made possible through a vulnerability in a third-party system that allowed the attackers to intervene in active trading sessions and take funds.

Just like Binance, Polymarket has vowed to repay the affected users. Trading on Polymarket was halted temporarily while the issue was resolved. All systems are now back online.

Although the Polymarket story may be over, the Binance debacle is still developing, even as it closes out a tumultuous Black October. Blaze News will have an update on the latest early next week as more details unfold.

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A former Minnesota high school special-education teacher who was accused of booking hotel rooms to have sex with a student has learned her fate, and she doesn’t have to return to jail.

Ann Margaret Bacon, 27, pleaded guilty in September to third-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a prohibited occupational relationship.

‘Please be assured that the trust and safety of our students remain our utmost priority.’

On Monday in Ramsey County District Court, the former teacher was sentenced to 180 days, according to the Pioneer Press. But Bacon will be permitted to serve her sentence on electronic home monitoring.

Judge Thomas Gilligan Jr. also sentenced Bacon to two years of supervised probation, and she will receive two days of credit for time already served in custody.

In August 2022, Bacon was hired as a special-education teacher at Tartan High School in Oakdale, according to the school district.

The Pioneer Press reported in February 2024 that a criminal complaint stated that a witness and her friend in July 2023 sounded the alarm about a possible teacher-student relationship of concern “because they did not feel the situation was appropriate.”

Another witness told police that the alleged male victim, who was 18 years old at the time, had been “acting secretively” and spending time with Bacon, according to the complaint.

The Pioneer Press said “Witness B” told police about sexually explicit messages and photos of Bacon and “Victim 1 on Victim 1’s phone.” There also were photos of them in a hotel room, the paper said.

The victim told authorities that he first had sex with Bacon in her car near his house in July 2023, according to the complaint.

The criminal complaint also said police obtained records showing Bacon rented hotel rooms on four different occasions for one night each time.

RELATED: VIDEO: Married teacher shows cops where in classroom she allegedly had sex with student — offered to leave husband for him

Witnesses allegedly informed investigators that Bacon purchased alcohol for minors, according to the New York Post.

The criminal complaint noted that she received a $40 Venmo payment that was labeled as “liqq” but that Bacon “claimed she didn’t remember who it was from or what it was for.”

The Pioneer Press also reported that Bacon resigned from her teaching position on Feb. 8, 2024 — the same day police interviewed her regarding accusations that she had an inappropriate relationship with a student.

Tartan Principal Bethany DeCent notified families and school staff in February 2024, “Please be assured that the trust and safety of our students remain our utmost priority. We are cooperating fully with law enforcement’s investigation and will continue to do so throughout the process.”

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The ideological transformation of Britain started far before Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s time, but British commentator Rafe Heydel-Mankoo tells BlazeTV host Nick Freitas that it was done quietly — and the British people didn’t notice.

“I see someone very, very rooted in Marxist ideology,” Freitas tells Mankoo of Starmer. “Even if he doesn’t call himself a Marxist or a communist, there’s still a heavy influence.”

“I never got that impression of Tony Blair,” he continues, noting that he always “seemed to be proud to be British.”

“Oh, believe me, the core of the Blair project — the masterstroke — was essentially the fact that they were wolves in sheep’s clothing, if I can put it that way,” Mankoo responds. “Tony Blair used to be a card-carrying communist at university.”

“A huge number of his Cabinet ministers were formerly card-carrying Communist Party members, Trotskyists and Maoists and the like. And that was their secret,” he explains. “The British public weren’t aware of the revolution that they were going to unfurl on the country.”

“I’m not a conspiracy theorist,” he continues, “but in essence, you know, classic Marxism was always about seizing the means of industrial production. But this new cultural Marxism … at the end of the Russian Revolution, people didn’t understand why Britain and Germany hadn’t become communist because they thought it was going to happen in the industrialized West.”

The Marxists, Mankoo tells Freitas, “realized that the working classes were small-C conservative patriots” whose “worldview was very much cast in the traditional worldview.”

“And so the cultural Marxists said, we need to change the way they perceive the world,” he says.

“So we need to seize the means of cultural production — the universities, the media, the cultural institutions, the civil service, everything that shapes their worldview,” he continues.

“And that essentially is what happened under Tony Blair — the complete control of the universities and the capture of our civil service, of essentially every institution in this country.”

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A mother allegedly abandoned her infant daughter at a Jiffy Lube in Cobb County, Georgia, over the weekend — and then things got downright dangerous soon after.

Assistant Manager Jarayya Mayes was beginning her shift Saturday morning at the oil change outlet on Floyd Road when a woman approached the service bay pushing a stroller, WAGA-TV reported.

‘Where’s the baby? I need the baby. I gotta go, I gotta go. Some stuff just went down. I gotta go.’

Mayes had seen the woman walking along the street near the business, the station said, but the two had never spoken before.

“She came up to me and my coworker, Elijah, with a stroller,” Mayes told WAGA. “And she was like, ‘Hey, doesn’t my baby look so cute? Is my baby so cute?’ We were like, ‘Yeah, baby’s adorable.’ And she was. She was absolutely adorable.”

The woman asked the Jiffy Lube workers to watch the infant girl, telling them she had something to do, Mayes added to the station.

Then the woman reportedly left the stroller behind and claimed paperwork was inside a bag — and even told the workers that they could keep the child if she did not return, WAGA reported.

“She just kept saying, ‘The paperwork is in the bag. You guys can just have her if I don’t make it back,'” Mayes recalled to the station. “Once she said that, red flags immediately.”

Mayes called 911 after the woman walked away, WAGA said, adding that Mayes also checked on the baby, discovering she was wearing a soaked diaper and had rashes on her neck and body.

Then about 15 minutes later, while Mayes was on the phone with dispatchers, the mother allegedly returned to the shop and demanded the child back — while carrying a knife, the station said.

Mayes told WAGA the woman said, “Where’s the baby? I need the baby. I gotta go, I gotta go. Some stuff just went down. I gotta go.”

RELATED: Florida female, 20, gives birth in toilet, leaves newborn girl there, waits until baby ‘stops crying and moving,’ cops say

Emergency dispatchers said during the 911 call not to allow the mother leave with the baby, the station said — but fortunately police officers soon arrived at the scene.

WAGA said police arrested 35-year-old Laraven Davis and took her to jail on charges of child abandonment and reckless conduct, while paramedics took the infant to a hospital for a medical evaluation.

WSB-TV reported that Davis was granted a $4,000 bond in the wake of her misdemeanor charges.

As for Mayes, she told WAGA that her maternal instincts took over the moment the Davis left her workplace.

“As a mom, it broke me down, I did cry a lot,” Mayes recalled to WAGA. “I was just a mom looking out for another kid. I just, I couldn’t let that baby go like that. That was heartbreaking.”

Police have not disclosed what prompted the mother’s actions or where the child will be placed following medical clearance from the hospital, WAGA added.

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The Trump administration has suspended what it says was a loophole used by Chinese citizens for birth tourism and possibly even espionage in the Northern Mariana Islands.

The Economic Vitality and Security Travel Authorization Program was created under the Biden administration by a Department of Homeland Security rule published in January 2024, easing visa restrictions for Chinese people in order to encourage tourism to the U.S. territory.

‘We are ready to work with our federal partners on solutions that protect both our national security and the economic future of the people of the Marianas.’

Under the new rule implemented in Feb. 2025, prescreened Chinese nationals could visit the islands for up to two weeks without having to obtain a U.S. consular visa.

The Department of Homeland Security indicated in a press release Thursday that the program could be abused by pregnant foreigners to obtain U.S. citizenship for their children. Other concerns involved human trafficking and espionage near military facilities.

The suspension of the program went into effect on Friday.

The congressional delegate for the islands expressed disappointment with the decision.

“Our tourism industry is already facing tremendous challenges, and a prolonged disruption would have serious consequences for our businesses, workers, and families,” said Northern Mariana Islands congressional Delegate Kimberlyn King-Hinds, a Republican.

King-Hinds added that she will talk to DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin and President Donald Trump in an effort to restore the policy.

Others warned that the reduction in travelers could lead to flights being canceled to the islands as well. No flights have been affected yet.

The Marianas Visitors Authority called on the government to find other solutions to the problems they identified.

“Tourism is the primary economic driver of our economy,” the agency said in a press release.

RELATED: Texas AG Paxton sues Chinese ‘birth tourism’ center over alleged birthright citizenship abuse

“We are not asking the federal government to ignore legitimate concerns,” the agency added. “We are ready to work with our federal partners on solutions that protect both our national security and the economic future of the people of the Marianas.”

The islands are also still reeling from the effects of Super Typhoon Sinlaku, which hit them earlier in 2026. The Marianas economy depends solely on tourism since it has few natural resources.

The DHS said more than 3,000 Chinese nationals used the program to visit the Mariana Islands in the 2025 fiscal year.

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With control of Congress at stake, Americans will head to the polls Tuesday, November 3, for the 2026 midterm elections, setting the stage for a consequential night in American politics.

As election results begin rolling in across the country, Nick Freitas, John Doyle, Steve Deace, Glenn Beck, Sara Gonzales, Pat Gray, Dave Landau, Auron MacIntyre, and more will join BlazeTV’s live 2026 midterm election coverage, beginning at 7 p.m. ET on November 3.

The broadcast will feature live election results, political analysis, and real-time reactions as Republicans and Democrats compete for control of the House and Senate.

A consequential election for both parties

The 2026 midterms arrive at a pivotal point in President Donald Trump’s second term, with Republicans and Democrats competing for control of Congress.

The results will help determine the political landscape for the remainder of Trump’s presidency, with implications for congressional priorities, federal spending, immigration policy, and the direction of both major parties heading into the 2028 presidential election.

From competitive Senate races to closely watched House contests, election night will provide an early picture of how voters are responding to the first two years of Trump’s return to the White House.

BlazeTV’s coverage will follow the biggest developments as they happen, with commentary from hosts offering their perspectives on the results and their implications.

A different approach to election night

Rather than relying exclusively on traditional election-night panels and electoral maps, BlazeTV’s special will bring together personalities from across the network for candid discussions, live reactions, and analysis as the results unfold.

The evening begins at 7 p.m. ET with John Doyle leading the opening coverage before Steve Deace takes over the main election-night broadcast at 9 p.m. ET.

Throughout the night, viewers can expect updates on key races, conversations about the changing political landscape, and reactions from familiar BlazeTV voices as states report their results.

The broadcast is designed to give audiences more than election returns, offering a broader conversation about what those results could mean for the country.

Viewers will have a chance to join the conversation

BlazeTV subscribers will also have an opportunity to participate directly in the election-night coverage.

Throughout the broadcast, hosts will take questions submitted exclusively through the BlazeTV live chat, allowing viewers to raise issues, ask about election developments, and potentially have their questions answered on the air.

The interactive element gives subscribers a way to engage with the discussion as the night unfolds.

How to watch BlazeTV’s 2026 midterm election coverage

BlazeTV Midterms 2026

Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2026

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Where: BlazeTV and the BlazeTV YouTube channel

The entire election-night broadcast will be available to watch free on YouTube, with no subscription required.

Viewers who want to participate in the exclusive BlazeTV chat can also take advantage of a free seven-day trial of BlazeTV+, which includes access to the network’s programming and on-demand content.

To watch on BlazeTV or join the live conversation, you can subscribe here.

With major congressional races on the ballot and the direction of Washington at stake, BlazeTV’s election-night special will bring together its hosts and viewers for a night of live coverage, discussion, and analysis.

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The Washington Post has admitted that polling for the midterm elections may suffer from the same inaccuracy issues that plagued that of previous elections.

The outlet said in an article Friday that pollsters made more than 85,000 phone calls for their survey and sent out nearly 50,000 text messages to try to determine the state of the U.S. Senate contest in Kansas.

‘Are Republican voters this late in the election cycle feeling so down about their party’s chances that they just don’t want to talk about it?’

Although the Post released the results, WaPo polling director Scott Clement admitted there was evidence once again that Republicans were being undercounted.

“Democrats were far more enthusiastic about taking the poll than Republicans were,” he reported. “Registered Democrats were more than twice as likely as registered Republicans to complete the survey after answering an interviewer’s call — 32 percent versus 12 percent — with a similar partisan gap when texting voters to complete the survey online.”

He called it a “supersize version” of a concern that has been “vexing” pollsters for a decade.

That same concern was voiced by polling expert and political strategist Frank Luntz in a recent segment with CNN.

“We know that they don’t respond to phone calls. We know that in the exit polling back in 2016, and I say this publicly because I want people to hear this,” Luntz said about supporters of President Donald Trump.

“I got 2016 wrong. I believed in the exit polls. Trump voters walked away, refused to participate, because they thought that it was against them,” he explained.

“They thought that the polls were all biased,” Luntz added. “And that’s what Republicans are being told right now: ‘Don’t believe the polls. They’re not accurate.’ Well, they may be; we’re about to find out.”

A pollster trying to gauge a state Senate district in Iowa expressed similar problems.

Clement said pollsters took steps in the WaPo/George Mason University poll in Kansas to try to overcome the natural bias against polling among Republican voters.

“But it’s possible those efforts fell short,” he added.

The WaPo article noted that historically polling underestimated support for the president in the presidential elections of 2016, 2020, and 2024, by three to five percentage points.

However, polling did not “consistently overestimate” support for Republicans in the 2018 and 2022 midterm elections.

RELATED: Iowa poll SHOCK: Pollster admits how it skewed key race results toward Democrats when GOP really leads

“The partisan enthusiasm gap likely explains the disconnect between Democratic and Republican willingness to respond,” said Mark Rozell, dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, a poll co-sponsor.

“With an unpopular president, inflation, a war that Trump voters never asked for, the lack of GOP enthusiasm is not surprising,” he added. “Are Republican voters this late in the election cycle feeling so down about their party’s chances that they just don’t want to talk about it?”

Election Day is just four days away.

Blaze News’ Poll Watch shows Democrat Adam Hamilton ahead of incumbent Republican Sen. Roger Marshall in the Kansas Senate race by 2.6 points.

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NASA is looking to make big discoveries on the lunar surface while simultaneously telling a bold story: Caves have likely existed on the moon for many years.

The space agency will use its inventory of high-tech gadgets to investigate holes on the lunar surface officials say have turned into large caves that occurred from natural disasters.

‘Useful in a support role for human activity on the lunar surface.’

Between 2009 and 2014, NASA said it had found over 200 pits on the moon using its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbit Camera.

Sizes ranged from just five meters to 900 meters in diameter, while “many appear to widen underground.”

Most of the pits NASA found were either large craters with ponds made from lava following the impact of a meteor, or in dark areas of the moon — known as the lunar maria — that are made from solidified lava that flowed hundreds of miles. Either way, lava is the predominant catalyst, NASA said.

The apple of NASA’s eye is now the Marius Hills Pit, a hole thought to be around 150 feet deep and 300 feet across, Futurism reported.

The pit was first spotted by Japan’s Kaguya spacecraft years ago, and even though it doesn’t sound that big, it’s large enough to fit a 10- to 15-story building and could be used as a possible shelter location for astronauts.

The importance of shelter for explorers is paramount in order to protect from radiation, extreme temperature swings, and meteorites.

RELATED: SpaceX’s newest launch just took the first step to fill the skies with data centers

To get to it, NASA will use instruments mostly constructed by HoneyBee Robotics on an upcoming mission to be named later. A lunar rover will reportedly be equipped with ground-penetrating radar, seismic sensors, cameras, and a gravimeter to measure gravitational fields.

NASA previously cited Arizona State professor Robert Wagner, who believed the lunar pits could have formed from when the roof of a lava cave collapsed, which could have happened when subsequent meteorites impacted the surface nearby.

Molten lava flowing under the lunar surface could have created “lava tubes,” as well, which happens on Earth. However, Wagner did say that there is little evidence to point to any cause in particular.

“They are likely due to melt flow within the pond from uplift after the surface has solidified, but before the interior has cooled,” Wagner explained.

Wagner said in 2014 that the pits would be “useful in a support role for human activity on the lunar surface,” adding that exploration could help scientists determine how old the layers of the moon are.

RELATED: Patriots QB reveals he has taken classes in conspiracy theories — and there’s one major US event he is skeptical about

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The Geophysical Instruments for Marius Lunar Pit Investigation would also give insight into how “volcanism” took place on the moon, said project investigator Gareth Morgan, per Science Daily.

“Lava tubes are a common feature of basaltic volcanism on Earth, so identifying them on the moon means we could use knowledge of such terrestrial caves to better understand lunar history,” he added.

The project is funded through a NASA program called the Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon, with NASA funding the construction of a spacecraft — likely the rover/lander — through a private company paid by NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payloads Services initiative.

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A hardworking father of four has become an internet hero after he expressed all his anger and frustration against a social media prankster at a market in White Lake, Michigan.

The influencer was tricking strangers into thinking he stole $10 from them and recording their reaction for views when he confronted a man restocking frozen pizzas for Red Baron.

‘You’re probably making money off this, and I can’t even pay my goddamn mortgage! And I got four kids at home!’

The interaction began friendly enough, but when the worker realized he was being targeted for a prank, his anger boiled over.

“You think this is funny, don’t you? You’re recording me right now?” the man says.

Later, at the checkout aisle, the man confronts the influencer again after he walks by and “thanks” him for the $20.

“I will destroy you!” the worker says.

“It’s not that deep, man. It’s just a joke,” the influencer mumbles.

“You’re just a little punk,” the worker responds with some added expletives.

“No, it’s not a joke to me, OK? I don’t have time for this crap in my life. My life is hard enough as it is!”

He goes on to say that he has to work late and his children are at home without him.

“You’re probably making money off this, and I can’t even pay my goddamn mortgage! And I got four kids at home!” the man adds. “So not funny!”

The influencer does appear to somewhat regret the reaction and half-heartedly apologizes, but then he went on and uploaded the video to the internet.

Viewers immediately took the side of the dad and began calling on the Red Baron company to make sure he wasn’t punished for the reaction.

Then someone opened a GoFundMe account titled “Support a harassed Red Baron worker” for his benefit.

So many people are fed up with influencers and also frustrated with the high cost of living that they donated to support the Michigan dad.

They have now raised over $500,000 for the harassed dad as of Friday.

The Red Baron company saw that the reaction went viral and hopped on board with the cause. It named its worker, who is now known as Walt, their “employee of the month.”

RELATED: YouTube influencer pranked ‘aggressive cops’ for views — they charged him with a felony

“He’s still here. He’s got a fan club. Including us,” the company posted.

An update on the GoFundMe indicated that the creator had been able to contact Walt, and he responded that he was “blown away” by the reaction from everyone.

The account of the influencer has been deactivated.

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The Democrats’ fight over midterms has already been scripted, and Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck is sounding the alarm.

In a 14-page document written by Protect Democracy, two former Obama White House lawyers detail a playbook for the midterms that has been handed to progressive state lawmakers “all across the country by a network called the State Innovation Exchange.”

“It is stamped ‘confidential’ across the top,” Glenn says.

“Protect democracy,” he continues. “How do you protect democracy? First of all, we’re not a democracy. We’re a republic. But how do you protect democracy? You make sure that you do nothing to delegitimize the vote.”

“It is a playbook for the midterms, not for winning votes, but for what happens after the votes are cast, and it lays out seven scenarios: intimidation at the polls, federal investigations, seizures of ballots and machines, fighting over counting, mass ballot challenges, refusals to certify,” he explains.

“And for each one, there’s a plan,” he adds.

The plan, he says, is to “educate community members so when they serve on a grand jury, they’re going to reject improper prosecutions.”

“If a federal investigation opens, frame it immediately as intimidation meant to overturn the election,” he continues.

“If election materials are seized, the instructions are to make escalation politically costly. Prepare your message before election day. Pre-bunk any emergency before it’s declared. And if necessary, organize mass mobilizations,” he adds.

The playbook then explains that “when we fight feelings with facts, we lose.”

“So don’t use facts, use feelings,” Glenn says. “Is that some of the worst, most dangerous advice when you are on the precipice of the whole world being engulfed in flames?”

“The guide also says to accept the results no matter who wins. Good. We’re going to hold you to that. Good. But if you actually want a fair vote, why do any of this?” he continues, asking, “Why have mass demonstrations planned?”

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The Minnesota congresswoman who calls herself “Ilhan Omar” just had her decade-old narrative blown up by her ex-husband.

Federal investigators have long suspected that the Democrat congresswoman’s 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, her alleged brother, was a sham intended to help the effeminate British-Somali national secure permanent residency in the United States.

‘Democrats should understand that the allegation is almost certainly true.’

The congresswoman — whose real name may be “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi,” according to a Justice Department court filing dated October 21 — has long defended the legitimacy of her former marriage to Elmi, but she will have a harder time doing so now that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi has admitted to being a homosexual.

Blaze News previously noted that Elmi, who reportedly fled the U.S. after federal officials asked for evidence that his marriage to the congresswoman was legitimate, is now an academic focused on LGBT matters. TMZ highlighted on Friday that LGBT issues are more than just a scholarly interest for the congresswoman’s ex-husband.

In an August 2026 paper titled “Out in the Field: Notes on Researching Queer Violence in Kenya,” Elmi identifies “as a gay man of the East African diaspora” whose “fieldwork was never neutral.”

Neither Elmi nor the congresswoman’s office immediately responded to Blaze News’ requests for comment.

RELATED: Ilhan ‘Omar’ could be COOKED: Even the New York Times is pushing brother-marriage evidence

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In the article, Elmi discusses the pros and cons of his “perceived queerness” in the field, noting that his obvious homosexuality “sometimes enabled me to build rapport in more queer-friendly settings.”

In addition to talking about “moments of solidarity with fellow queers,” Elmi also discusses the “homophobic insults” he claims to have endured.

The congresswoman was legally married to the “gay”-identifying scholar from 2009 until 2017.

Abdihakim Osman, a self-identified friend of the Democrat congresswoman, claimed to the Daily Mail in 2020 that the congresswoman had confirmed that Elmi was her brother and that she married him so he could remain in the United States.

This might explain why there was some overlap between two of the congresswoman’s marriages.

The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board revealed in 2019 that while still legally married to Elmi, the congresswoman filed joint tax returns in 2014 and 2015 with Ahmed Hirsi, a man whom she married in a Muslim ceremony in 2002 and with whom she has multiple children.

After allegedly separating from Elmi with a Muslim divorce in 2011, the congresswoman reunited and had another child with Hirsi in 2012, then formally divorced Elmi in 2017, reported the Center for Immigration Studies.

The Democrat congresswoman has repeatedly denied the allegations that Elmi is her brother.

The Obama Department of Justice investigated the brother-husband allegations as far back as 2016, and investigators reportedly found evidence that Elmi and the congresswoman are siblings. However, a U.S. attorney in Minnesota reportedly shut down the investigation shortly after President Joe Biden took office in 2021, according to the New York Post.

The revelation about Elmi’s apparent sexual identity comes just one day after a damning New York Times report about the congresswoman’s marriage to Elmi. In response to the NYT report, Joe Radinovich, one of the congresswoman’s former Democrat colleagues in the Minnesota House of Representatives, threw her under the bus, tweeting: “Democrats should understand that the allegation is almost certainly true — whatever conclusion they draw from that point could vary — and her denials calling it a right-wing, Islamophobic or racist conspiracy are almost certainly not.”

President Donald Trump demanded the congresswoman’s immediate resignation last week and announced, “She will not be legally allowed to be a Member of this August Body from this point forth.”

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For years, AI leaders told society that their platforms will take all the jobs, leaving us with no means to make money. Instead, the elite will give us an allowance called universal basic income. Now one AI giant, Anthropic, is moving forward with a public fund that could make UBI a reality — if it gets over one massive hurdle.

Theoretically, universal basic income is a social welfare program where citizens receive a regular payment from the top — likely a federal or state government agency — to cover the costs of living.

Anthropic is bleeding cash, and if that continues, investments will dry up, and so will the fund.

I write “theoretically” because it’s never actually been implemented before. Not successfully. Several countries have tested UBI — the U.S. among them, once in Alaska, and another time in North Carolina — but the program never stuck around. It was only provided as a stopgap with no means to sustain it long-term.

Like socialism itself, UBI is a utopian idea where no one works, everyone is handed the things they need, and we all live out the rest of our days in redundant, ignorant bliss until we pass along to the grave. It’s a dangerous delusion that would bring about the end of personal freedom in exchange for authoritarian control.

Still, the idea is popular with leftists and some tech elite. Among the latter, Elon Musk believes that UBI is the future. “There will be universal high income (not merely basic income),” he wrote in a post on X in 2025. “Everyone will have the best medical care, food, home, transport and everything else. Sustainable abundance.”

Recently, Musk even claimed that “saving money for the distant future is pointless with the advent of super intelligent abundance.” This statement comes courtesy of the continuously elusive but ever-tempting dream that AI will produce infinite wealth for humanity, even as the AI companies themselves lose billions of dollars on the way to a complete crash.

If that math doesn’t add up in your head, you’re right. Nevertheless, one AI company is plowing ahead with a fund that could be the very beginning of our promised universal basic income hellscape … er, future.

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Anthropic has vowed to take 5% of its shares and set it aside in a “public benefit fund.” Following that initial contribution, the company will add an extra 2% to the fund for every 50% Anthropic grows above its baseline.

With the fund, Anthropic claims that it could “explore large donations to traditional nonprofits or direct distributions to specific populations.” That last bit is concerning, as it’s rife with variable meaning. “Specific populations” could be anyone, from the general population with UBI, to black and indigenous groups with reparations, to minority programs attached to the now-defunct-but-not-dead DEI.

There is something Anthropic vows not to do with the fund — pay for political lobbying campaigns or offer political donations. These are off limits.

The exact details of the public benefit fund are beholden to Anthropic’s future shareholders, and they are subject to change. Anthropic filed an SEC Form S-1 on October 26 in preparation for its upcoming IPO, where purchased stocks will serve as the catalyst for the program. This is where Anthropic’s plan could go off the rails.

The public fund’s sustainability is based on shareholder support. A higher stock price means more money in the fund, while a lower stock price will tank its value. The price only goes up if investors believe that Anthropic is growing and that they will get a return on their investment. So far, like all the other AI companies, Anthropic is in the hole, losing $80 billion in the first half of 2026. It’s faltering.

Anthropic is bleeding cash, and if that continues, investments will dry up, and so will the fund. That’s bad news for the AI giant, but this highlights an even bigger issue. If AI companies are meant to usher in the age of universal basic income — whether they create enough wealth in the market to spread around or they fund this service themselves — they have to be sustainable, and if not, the UBI facade falls apart.

This is further proof that universal basic income is a pipe dream that requires several miracles — AI to become profitable, reliable, and sustainable — to finally bring about the age of abundance that Musk touted. Until then, UBI is like socialism — an idea that sounds benevolent on paper but collapses the moment it’s put into action.

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