Liberal activists in Los Angeles are organizing a new way to warn illegal aliens about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Amanda Alcalde founded the Highland Park Community Support Group for ICE operations and began posting flyers about their new plan: Install sirens.

‘It feels dystopian in a way.’

“We’d like to ultimately have this along all the different streets so they can take shelter,” Alcalde said to KTLA-TV.

The effort is not sanctioned by the city, so the group will have to find private property supporters and businesses where it can install the sirens.

She added that she was “really taking a lot of that influence from Minneapolis and trying to turn it into our own here.”

Activists already use whistles to alert each other about ICE agents.

“We don’t directly get ourselves involved with ICE, but we will get involved protecting the community to stay in their office or home,” activist David Trujillo said to KTLA.

Alcalde claimed that the ICE operations have led to a reduced presence of ethnic minorities in Los Angeles.

“I’ve seen a lot of fear in people’s eyes. I don’t see a lot of our ethnic minorities out in the day-to-day. It’s big change. It feels dystopian in a way,” she said.

Blaze News reached out to DHS for comment but did not receive a response by time of publishing.

RELATED: ICE accuses LA of giving ‘a middle finger to the law’ after county paves way for illegal aliens to receive funding

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, a Democrat, has openly opposed the Trump administration’s order to surge ICE operations in the city.

“There is no plan other than fear, chaos, and politics,” Bass said in July. “Home Depot one day, a car wash the next, armed vehicles and what looked like mounted military units in a park the next day.”

The KTLA report promoted the group’s efforts to raise donations from people who oppose ICE.

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A white-majority Chicago suburb is preparing to distribute hefty cash payments to dozens of black residents as part of the city’s $10 million reparations pledge.

Black residents and descendants of black residents who lived in Evanston, Illinois, between 1919 and 1969 are eligible to receive the payments. Evanston plans to pay $25,000 to 44 qualifying black residents.

‘They are just entirely giving money, usually to black residents solely on the basis of race.’

The City’s Reparations Committee previously pledged $10 million over a decade as part of its Reparations Program, which was established in 2019 and approved by the city council in 2021. The government-funded program is the first of its kind in the U.S.

Cynthia Vargas, Evanston’s communications and community engagement manager, told the Chicago Tribune that payments to the 44 individuals are intended to cover housing expenses.

The city has allocated over $270,000 to its Reparations Program, funds that it collected from the real estate transfer tax. The program also receives funding from the city’s 3% Cannabis Retailers Occupation Tax, though it is unclear how much.

The Reparations Committee has proposed providing additional funding to the program through a potential tax on Delta-8 THC products, a psychoactive substance found in cannabis that is sold in vapes and gummies.

RELATED: Chicago suburb starts disbursing $10 million reparations package to black residents

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“Delta-8 products tend to be rather inexpensive, so the tax on them, it likely won’t be a huge revenue stream, but it is revenue,” Alexandra Ruggie, the city’s corporation counsel, stated. “The other thing that we will have to work out with our finance team is how to go about collecting those taxes, whether we tax it when there’s a point of sale at an Evanston business, or whether or not we tax it when those businesses buy it from the supplier.”

RELATED: Trump pulls US out of ‘racist’ UN forum pushing ‘global reparations agendas’

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Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog, filed a lawsuit against Evanston last year, arguing that the Reparations Program used race as an eligibility requirement and therefore violates the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection clause.

“There’s a right way and a wrong way to do them,” Michael Bekesha, a senior attorney at Judicial Watch, told Fox News Digital. “So reparations are to repair. And so we have provided in this country reparations in the past when somebody has been wronged by the government, and we try to make that person whole.”

“The reparations programs that you’re seeing around the country that are being talked about aren’t that. They are just entirely giving money, usually to black residents solely on the basis of race. And I mean, that’s just problematic,” Bekesha added.

A spokesperson for the city told Fox News Digital that it cannot respond to ongoing litigation.

According to 2020 census data, more than 46,000 of Evanston’s 78,000 residents identify as “white alone.” Just 12,500 identify as “black or African-American alone.”

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In a recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” host Joe Rogan and his guest reacted to the new Epstein files release, including a very personal detail for Rogan.

Rogan and guest Cheryl Hines, who is best known for her role in the HBO series “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” discussed the bizarre findings of the new Epstein files, which included over 3 million documents, and pointed out the inadequacy of the government’s handling of the case.

‘I’m in the files for not going because Jeffrey Epstein was trying to meet with me.’

Rogan’s producer pulled up an article headline from the Associated Press that read, “FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show.” Asked for the provenance of the article, Rogan’s producer said, “It was going around the internet today.”

RELATED: ‘Smoking Gun’: Yale prof nearly blown up by Unabomber defends his Epstein emails

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“Oh, today?” said Hines, who is married to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy. “I thought that was from 2005.”

“That’s the gaslightiest gaslighting s**t I’ve ever heard in my life,” Rogan said. “What do they think is going on? Just a bunch of fun? A bunch of guys hanging out, being fellas? Having cocktails, talking about science?”

Prior to that exchange, Rogan also mentioned to Hines that he was in the files, but not for the reason people think.

“I’m in the files for not going because Jeffrey Epstein was trying to meet with me,” Rogan said.

The New York Post suggested that Canadian theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss had attempted to introduce Rogan and Epstein back in 2017, citing an email exchange that was released in the latest files dump.

“I was like, ‘B***h, are you high?'” Rogan recalled asking about the man who tried to connect him to Epstein.

Hines asked him if he was glad that he never went to meet Epstein, to which Rogan replied, “I would have never went anyway. It’s not even a possibility that I would have went — especially after I Googled him.”

Krauss did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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It started with a dispute between two Texas friends over sharing french fries and ended with one of them shooting the other in the head, Fort Worth police said.

Police said officers were dispatched around 6:30 p.m. Jan. 28 to an apartment complex near the 9500 block of Jeremiah Drive in reference to a shooting.

‘He didn’t think he was going to get shot, especially over french fries that [were] his.’

Officers arrived on scene and found an adult male victim with an apparent gunshot wound to his head, police said.

Detectives with the Gun Violence Unit learned that an argument between friends had taken place over an order of french fries that the victim did not want to share with the suspect, police said.

A verbal argument between the two escalated to a shooting, police said, adding that the suspect fled the apartment after the shooting. Detectives interviewed multiple witnesses and have identified the suspected shooter, who was known to live in the same apartment complex, police said.

However, police said they did not locate the suspect after conducting a search of the area and apartment complex.

Officers began CPR on the shooting victim until Fort Worth Fire EMS relieved them, police said. The victim was taken to a local hospital but was pronounced dead several hours later, police said.

Lemarques Darden, 18, was arrested Monday and faces a murder charge in connection with the shooting death of 19-year-old Jarvis Davis, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.

The paper said Darden was booked into the Fort Worth City Jail. By Tuesday, he was booked into the Tarrant County Corrections Center; jail records on Thursday indicate Darden is still behind bars with no bond.

Davis’ mother, Sherika Kennedy, told the Star-Telegram that a Wingstop meal was nearly over at the apartment when the argument between the two friends erupted.

Kennedy told the paper that when Davis declined to share his fries, the suspect got angry and fired a bullet into Davis’ head. Kennedy’s son died several hours later in the trauma intensive care unit of Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth, police told the Star-Telegram.

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“He didn’t think he was going to get shot, especially over french fries that [were] his,” Kennedy told the paper.

The Star-Telegram added that Davis had lived in Fort Worth for a year but grew up in Shreveport-Bossier City, Louisiana. He moved with his family to Texas in 2020, settling in Lewisville, his mother told the paper.

“He was only 19, with his whole future ahead of him,” Kennedy wrote in a GoFundMe post. “He was a loving son, a protective brother, and a fun-loving uncle to his three nieces. He brought laughter, energy, and love to those around him, and his absence has left a deep void in our hearts.”

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When the footage of Nancy Guthrie’s alleged kidnapper emerged online, it was met with optimism and confusion. On one hand, it was a much-needed lead in a case that has mostly run dry. On the other, the video wasn’t supposed to exist due to a number of circumstances. The fact that the FBI obtained and revealed the images immediately raised privacy concerns over Google’s recording and storage practices, some of which are valid, though the full truth is more complex.

The problem

On February 10, 2026, the FBI released the only known footage of Nancy Guthrie’s suspected kidnapper — a person wearing a balaclava mask, heavy gloves, a jacket and pants, and a backpack.

The admission that the FBI procured cloud-saved footage from an account with no cloud backup subscription raised red flags.

What makes the existence of the footage so perplexing is that the kidnapper disconnected the Nest doorbell camera that captured these images. He also stole the camera from its mount, removing it from the scene and making it inaccessible to law enforcement. Adding insult to injury, Nancy Guthrie reportedly did not have a Google Home Premium (formerly Nest Aware) subscription. This service stores captured video footage in the cloud so that it can be accessed remotely via the Nest app.

With no physical camera and no cloud storage backup, the FBI had no viable route to obtain footage that could identify the suspect. However, after 10 days of working directly with Google, the FBI managed to extract a short video clip “recovered from residual data located in backend systems,” according to FBI Director Kash Patel.

While it’s great to have a lead in the Nancy Guthrie case, the admission that the FBI procured cloud-saved footage from an account with no cloud backup subscription raised red flags throughout social media, with some jumping to the reasonable conclusion that Google stores video footage without users’ knowledge or consent, making it accessible to third parties and law enforcement. If true, this is a huge violation of privacy on Google’s part, and the public deserves a proper answer outside Kash Patel’s vague explanation.

Well, as it turns out, there is a reasonable explanation for everything, and it is even protected under Google Nest’s terms of service. Here’s what we think happened and why it’s actually a good thing that the footage was available.

RELATED: FBI releases terrifying video of masked and allegedly armed individual in Guthrie case

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The explanation

While most modern Nest cameras don’t come with big onboard SD cards or hard drives, they do feature limited onboard storage — aka “local cache” — that can save up to three hours of event video history. At the same time, this same video history is sent to Google’s servers for temporary storage, regardless of whether or not the user has an active Google Home Premium account.

“Why?” you might ask? “Isn’t that an illegal invasion of privacy?”

No, actually. According to Nest’s terms of service, Google processes video data on its servers to “provide the Nest Cam features and services that you’ve requested.” These features include livestreaming, which is accessible when a user opens the Nest app to check the live feed on one of the cameras. It also enables three-hour event history that users can search to find important motion events, like a creepy stalker removing your doorbell camera from the wall.

The residual data that the FBI gathered from Google was likely included in the three-hour event history that was saved on the device and transmitted to Google’s servers for safekeeping.

The big takeaway is that all users agree to send their footage to Google when they install and use a Google Nest product. It is part of Nest’s feature set, and it is completely within Google’s rights to share this information with the FBI for life-threatening cases, the same way the company would share your Google Drive files with law enforcement if they were implicated in a criminal case.

Nest’s privacy faux pas is actually a good thing

The ironic part in this entire story is that the suspect himself is the reason the footage exists. For users who don’t have a Google Home Premium subscription, the three-hour event history saved directly to Nest cameras and Google servers is temporary. It is designed to be overwritten as the camera continues to run and capture new motion events.

That didn’t happen in this case, however. Why? Because the suspect disabled the camera and removed it from the wall, thus stopping it from collecting more recordings and overwriting the evidence that he was ever there. If he had simply left the camera running, the last footage available would have shown the police searching the grounds of Nancy’s home instead of himself. It was the ignorance of the suspect, and the suspect alone, that froze the three-hour window on the images of his face, delivering a devastating blow to his covert operation.

The kidnapper essentially outed himself to the world.

Google is not completely innocent

While the suspect’s ill-fated actions may be the seminal piece of evidence needed to reveal his identity, Google isn’t off the hook entirely here. Yes, Nest’s terms of service imply that Google may process captured video data on its servers, but it’s not explicitly clear that videos are sent off to the cloud in a manner that makes them obtainable from Google’s servers. This means that practically anyone’s footage captured in the most recent three-hour window is potentially accessible by law enforcement. This isn’t something that should be possible, even for cases involving the FBI.

The privacy concerns that have spread throughout social media are completely valid, and Google deserves all the criticism for it. Just because this time the extracted footage may be helpful in a critical case, that is no excuse for the loophole in Google’s system that made it possible in the first place.

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For a football player, winning the Super Bowl is the Mount Olympus of athletic dreams. Unless, of course, he wins it in California.

“If you win the Super Bowl in California, then they send you a bill that says, ‘Uh-oh, you lose,’” laughs Glenn Beck.

Since the Super Bowl was hosted in San Francisco, the state of California taxes not just the income the players earned for the game but for all their “duty days.”

But just how much money are we talking?

“This is going to blow your mind,” says Glenn.

Unlike many other states, “California reaches backward months into the past, and they claim the right to tax a slice of your entire season salary based on how many duty days you spent in the state. … So they’re not just taxing the bonus; they’re not just taxing the game check; they’re taxing you the entire year,” he explains.

What does that mean for the Seahawks players, who each received a $178,000 bonus for winning the Super Bowl? It means that they “[owed] the state more than that in taxes,” says Glenn.

“How can you lose money winning the Super Bowl? Well, California’s found a way to do it,” he scoffs.

California implements what is called a “jock tax,” which is the harshest nonresident income tax scheme on visiting athletes.

“In California, they’re giving you the highest marginal rate in the country. It’s over 13%, and they’re thinking about raising it,” says Glenn.

“When a government decides it can tax income earned elsewhere just because you happen to pass through, you’re not taxing activity; you’re taxing existence. That doesn’t work out well,” he warns.

In the 1970s, Richard Cloward and Frances Piven — two “crazy Marxist professors,” says Glenn — “collapsed New York [City]” when they intentionally overloaded the U.S. welfare system by mass-enrolling eligible people in benefits, aiming to force a crisis that would lead to major reforms.

“They had high taxes, aggressive enforcement — ‘you owe us because you were here.’ What followed in the 1970s?” asks Glenn. “Capital flight.”

“Why do you think Rush Limbaugh left? Why do you think Sean Hannity left? Why do you think I left?”

France has a similar story in its history books. In the 1980s, the nation imposed a hefty “wealth tax,” spurring a historic exodus of the nation’s richest people.

“The wealthy didn’t pay more. They left. And by the time the [French] government repealed the tax, tens of billions of dollars in capital already [were] gone, along with all the jobs and the investment that came with it,” says Glenn.

Ancient Rome is yet another example.

“In Rome — late empire — they took productive citizens and just squeezed them,” says Glenn. “Why? Because … they were bloating the state. They needed to pay for the giant state. Tax base completely collapsed. Economy followed — gone.”

“There is a lesson in every civilization that has tried this. … You cannot tax people into staying. You can only tax them into leaving.”

But will California heed history’s warnings? It’s not looking promising for the Golden State.

“Six straight years of net population loss [in California]. … Hundreds of major companies are gone. Film production is a thing of the past. Billionaires are moving their residence. Where? To Florida,” says Glenn.

But “instead of asking the question what’s happening here, they just answer the same way: just tax what’s left.”

“That’s the danger of the ‘jock tax’ mentality,” says Glenn, “because once you accept the idea that location alone gives the government the right to reach into your entire life, there is no limiting principle any more.”

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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) sharply criticized a Minnesota Democrat during a Senate Homeland Security hearing Thursday, blaming him for encouraging protests that the Republican lawmaker said helped set the stage for the deaths of two activists amid a high-profile federal immigration enforcement operation.

Johnson accused Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison of creating conditions that, he said, contributed to the fatal shootings of Renée Nicole Good and Alex Pretti.

‘Yeah, sit there and smirk. Smirk. It’s sick. It’s despicable.’

“Two people are dead because you encouraged them to put themselves into harm’s way,” Johnson told Ellison during the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing.

“A tragedy was going to happen, and you encouraged it. And you ought to feel damn guilty about it.”

Johnson’s criticism continued when Ellison appeared to smirk, stating: “Yeah, sit there and smirk. Smirk. It’s sick. It is despicable.” Ellison fired back, labeling Johnson’s remarks “all lies” and a “nice theatrical performance.”

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Johnson went on to detail incidents of protester violence and interference that he said escalated the danger for federal agents. “These law enforcement officials have been shot at. Their vehicles have been rammed by some of these ‘peaceful protesters,’ probably the trained activists. They’ve had rocks thrown at their vehicles,” Johnson said.

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“You’ve got all these trained activists behind you,” Johnson said, “Is it any wonder they’re at hair-trigger alert? A tragedy was going to happen, and you encouraged it!”

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In yet another sign of a reverse in cultural trends, the organizers of the annual “GayDays” at Disney World announced the event has been put on “pause” this year after several sponsors dropped out.

The event usually lasts for several days and occurs in June during LGBTQ+ Pride Month. This year’s event would have been the 35th anniversary at the Orlando resort in Florida.

Another post promotes ‘glory holes,’ ‘dark corners,’ and adult film stars at a ‘carnal adventure.’

“After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to pause the GayDays Orlando event scheduled for June 2026,” the statement reads.

“Changes to our host hotel agreement, the loss of key sponsorship support, and broader challenges currently impacting LGBTQIA+ events nationwide made it impossible to deliver the experience our community deserves,” the organizers added.

However, the company added that it was only a “pause” and not completely ended.

“For more than 30 years, GayDays has been built by and for our community. Our focus now is on reimagining the future and returning with a stronger, more sustainable event,” they added. “We will share updates in the coming months as we shape the next chapter together. Thank you for your support, your patience, and for being part of the GayDays family.”

The event is not officially recognized by Disney but was rather a fan-organized independent meetup that was supported by local hotels and other businesses.

“Gay Days is just really a vacation gathering of gays and lesbians from around the world, and straight people,” said Chris Alexander-Manley, an organizer of the event, in an interview from 2002.

Critics of the event have opposed it based on anecdotal reports of excessive displays of public affection at the park, inappropriately revealing attire worn by LGBTQ+ members, and other related events that do not align with the family theme of Disney parks.

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On social media, GayDays promotes “Drag Bingo” as well as “Porn Star Bingo” among its events at a pool party. Another post promotes “glory holes,” “dark corners,” and adult film stars at a “carnal adventure” for those “who seek uninhibited freedom, raw connection, and pulse-pounding thrills.”

“You will get laid!” reads a sign from a mostly undressed man in the media image.

Prominent sponsors of the event in the past included Showtime and Bud Light.

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During a closed-door lunch Wednesday, House Republican leadership touted Congress’ efforts to protect women from trans-identifying male athletes.

Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) hosted Republican colleagues, female athletes, and advocates to highlight the progress being made to keep men out of women’s sports. During the lunch, Emmer shared the advice he would give his own daughter if she were to compete with a boy.

‘My life changed completely in an instant.’

“I got seven kids — six boys and one daughter,” Emmer said. “And this may be inappropriate, but I’m going to say the way I believe. I not only taught my daughter to compete with boys, I taught her to kick their ass!”

“But I just look at my daughter, and I asked myself, what parent would not stand up and say this is wrong?”

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Republican Rep. Kat Cammack of Florida, who co-hosted the lunch, shared the pushback she experienced trying to advocate for female athletes.

“I was the chair of the bipartisan women’s caucus, and we were taking a vote on initiatives that we were going to champion as Republicans and Democrats. In the final five minutes of the meeting, I said, ‘Hey, we’re missing a key issue here. I think we should take a position as women on protecting women’s sports.'”

“You would not believe the conversation that ensued,” Cammack said. “I had more women shouting me down, telling me how hateful we were for even mentioning this and that we were going to be excluding people. I knew in that moment that we had to do something.”

In the aftermath, Cammack founded the Republican Women’s Caucus, where she continued to stand for women’s sports.

RELATED: RFK Jr. moves to ban transgender procedures for children: ‘This is not medicine; it is malpractice’

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Several female athletes were also present, all of whom had their own experience playing against male athletes who claimed to be women.

One athlete in attendance was Payton McNabb, a former girls’ volleyball player whose life was turned around because the adults around her refused to stand up for the young women on her team. McNabb was severely injured in 2022 when her high school volleyball team was forced to compete against a male athlete who slammed the ball in her face and knocked her unconscious.

“I went to the doctor, and they explained how I had a concussion, a brain bleed, and permanent whiplash,” McNabb said. “All this could have been completely avoided from the start, and I could have been living my normal life playing college volleyball. But all of that got taken away because of this game, and I never played volleyball again.”

“I couldn’t drive for several months. I went from being top three in my class to needing extra time on tests and accommodations in school. … My life changed completely in an instant. It was really hard on me — not only on me, but on my family who had to watch me suffer. … That’s why it’s been so important to share my story across the country.”

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The University of Notre Dame in Indiana announced last month that pro-abortion radical Susan Ostermann had been appointed director of the school’s Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies.

This appointment — reportedly made by Keough School of Global Affairs dean Mary Gallagher and approved by Notre Dame provost John McGreevy — has enraged those members and supporters of the university under the impression that the institution is still Catholic.

Despite significant backlash and resignations by some esteemed scholars, the university dug in its heels, refusing to reverse course. It may come to regret doing so sooner rather than later.

Leaning into his apostolic responsibility to protect and strengthen the school’s Catholic identity, Bishop Kevin Rhoades of the Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend made abundantly clear on Wednesday that Ostermann’s abortion advocacy is disqualifying.

“I must express my dismay and my strong opposition to this appointment that is causing scandal to the faithful of our diocese and beyond,” the bishop said in a lengthy jeremiad. “Professor Ostermann’s extensive public advocacy of abortion rights and her disparaging and inflammatory remarks about those who uphold the dignity of human life from the moment of conception to natural death go against a core principle of justice that is central to Notre Dame’s Catholic identity and mission.”

Bishop Rhoades noted that Ostermann, an associate professor of global affairs at the university, has repeatedly attacked the pro-life movement and defended the slaughter of the unborn “using outrageous rhetoric.”

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In a December 2022 article that she co-authored with ex-Notre Dame professor Tamara Kay, Ostermann claimed:

“Criminalizing abortion results in irreparable harm”; It is a “lie” that “abortion kills babies”; “There are no babies or fetuses” present during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, evidently discounting all the scientific evidence to the contrary;Abortion is not dangerous, evidently discounting the perspective of the unborn baby; andAbortion “doesn’t affect future fertility.”

In a July 2022 article she also co-authored with Kay, Ostermann claimed that white supremacy was one of the primary motivations behind the abortion abolition movement in the U.S., neglecting to mention how America’s abortion regime was largely driven by racist eugenicists like Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger.

‘These are all outrageous claims that should disqualify her.’

In a May 2022 article, the radical duo characterized pregnancy and childbirth without the option of abortion as “violence,” “sexual abuse,” and “trauma,” and abortion, alternatively, as “freedom-enhancing, in the truest sense of the word.”

Among her numerous other abortion propaganda pieces is an article claiming that a ban of the abortion pill mifepristone would “violate human rights” as well as an article attacking pro-life pregnancy centers.

‘Rectify this situation.’

“These are all outrageous claims that should disqualify her from an administrative and leadership role at a Catholic university,” the bishop wrote.

Bishop Rhoades also denounced the radical appointee’s affiliation with the Population Council, an outfit that works to enshrine pro-abortion policies around the world.

“I hope that Professor Ostermann will explicitly retract these claims, and I pray that she will have a change of mind and heart that will lead her to affirm the innate dignity of unborn babies as well as that of their mothers.”

After citing the late Pope Francis’ assertion that it is a “false compassion which holds that it is a benefit to women to promote abortion,” Pope Leo XIV’s recent reminder that “the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion,” and reiterating the Catholic Church’s unchanging defense of “the inalienable right to life of mothers and their unborn children,” the bishop underscored that “Professor Ostermann’s opposite view thus clearly should disqualify her from holding a position of leadership within the Keough School.”

The position publicly championed by Ostermann is at odds with the university’s official position:

Consistent with the teaching of the Catholic Church on such issues as abortion, research involving human embryos, euthanasia, the death penalty, and other related life issues, the University of Notre Dame recognizes and upholds the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death.

In his message, the bishop — whose diocesan territory includes the university — noted both that such “appointments have profound impact on the integrity of Notre Dame’s public witness as a Catholic university” and that the university has until July 1, when Ostermann’s appointment is scheduled to go into effect, to “rectify this situation.”

The decision to cancel the appointment reportedly rests with the six Holy Cross priests and six laypeople on the university’s Board of Fellows.

‘Going ahead with this appointment is repugnant.’

Holy Cross Father Wilson Miscamble, a professor emeritus of history at Notre Dame, recently noted in First Things that the board has a “fiduciary responsibility to maintain the university’s ‘character as a Catholic institution of higher learning.'”

A university spokesperson told the Irish Rover that the university had yet to change its position as of Feb. 8.

The Catholic Observer reported that if a bishop determines that a Catholic university is failing to faithfully execute its mission, he can issue a formal warning, bar the celebration of Mass at the institution, and forbid the school from identifying as Catholic. He can reportedly also seek an intervention by the Vatican.

Bishop Robert Barron of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, the newly retired Denver Archbishop Samuel Aquila, and Bishop Michael Olson of the Diocese of Forth Worth thanked Bishop Rhoades for speaking out.

Bishop Barron noted that “going ahead with this appointment is repugnant to the identity and mission of that great center of Catholic learning.”

Ostermann told the National Catholic Register late last month that she is “fully committed to maintaining an environment of academic freedom where a plurality of voices can flourish.”

“While I hold my own convictions on complex social and legal issues,” the pro-abortion radical continued, “I want to be clear: My role is to support the diverse research of our scholars and students, not to advance a personal political agenda.”

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Border czar Tom Homan announced that he will be making significant changes to the federal presence in Minneapolis, citing major progress made on the ground.

Homan recapped the administration’s efforts in Minneapolis, including locating 3,364 unaccompanied migrant children who were lost under former President Joe Biden’s leadership. Homan also touted progress made with local and state officials, thanking both Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D).

‘We have a lot of work to do across this country.’

In light of the progress made, Homan announced that Operation Metro Surge was ending and that he has begun withdrawing federal agents from Minneapolis.

“I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude,” Homan said.

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“A significant drawdown has already been under way this week and will continue through the next week,” Homan added.

Homan clarified that the federal resources previously sent to Minneapolis will either return to their original post or be reassigned to continue their efforts in another city.

“We have a lot of work to do across this country to remove public safety risks who shouldn’t even be in this country and to deliver on President Trump’s promise for strong border security and mass deportation,” Homan said.

“Law enforcement officers drawn down from this surge operation will either return to their duty station or be assigned elsewhere to achieve just that.”

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Homan also dispelled several inaccurate narratives about ICE’s presence in Minneapolis.

“During this surge operation, ICE has not arrested anybody inside a hospital,” Homan said. “We have not arrested anybody inside of an elementary school. We have not arrested anybody inside a church.”

“However, those locations are not off the table.”

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Turning Point USA’s All-American Halftime Show and the Super Bowl LX halftime show was a battle of David vs. Goliath, Jack Posobiec said.

Posobiec, who has worked with Charlie Kirk’s organization over the years as a contributor, said on Wednesday that there were a lot of hurdles, blocking, and gatekeeping going on as TPUSA planned the All-American Halftime Show.

‘I don’t think we realized the ways they can get you.’

Posobiec joined “The Glenn Beck Program” on Wednesday, where he described the Super Bowl LX halftime show featuring Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny simply as “globalism.”

It was an attempt to “compete on the global stage,” Posobiec said, with the NFL expanding its audience by “dividing” the core of what the United States is built on.

The “NFL is middle America,” Posobiec continued.

When it came to booking the halftime show though, Posobiec did his best to reveal the roadblocks TPUSA was up against.

“So here’s what I can say … I knew that by picking a fight with the biggest cabal in America, bigger than the Democrats … that we were going up against Goliath,” he told Beck.

Posobiec continued, “I had no idea what would happen, I don’t think we realized the ways that they can get you. The ways that they can gate-keep you and block you.”

While the TPUSA contributor admitted the story was not as cut and dry as having “emails from Roger Goodell” that told him “you shall not do this,” he described the process as a trickle-down system with endless connections. Whether it is through restricting music usage rights, limiting song choices, or prohibiting what artists can participate in, “something would always happen,” Posobiec said.

RELATED: ‘This one’s for you, Charlie’: TPUSA’s ‘All-American Halftime Show’ draws millions of viewers during Super Bowl

Posobiec claimed he was told by insiders that NFL brass were allegedly furious at the numbers TPUSA was able to produce on YouTube, which turned out to be record-setting.

The New York Post reported more than five million tuned in to TPUSA’s halftime show live on YouTube, while the New York Times reported 6.1 million live concurrent viewers. Blaze News observed well over five million concurrents on TPUSA’s main channel alone with more watching on partner YouTube channels.

At the same time, the Post Millennial and Posobiec boasted 6.17 million viewers concurrently for TPUSA. That final digit is key as it would definitively push TPUSA’s stream to second all-time in terms of concurrent viewership on a YouTube live broadcast.

According to Dexerto, this puts TPUSA behind the Indian lunar landing mission in 2023, which had a reported eight million viewers, and ahead of the 2022 World Cup quarterfinal between Brazil and Croatia, which had 6.1 million. Posobiec reported more specifically that the game had 6.15 million at its peak.

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According to the NFL, Super Bowl LX set an all-time viewership record for Super Bowls on TV with 137.8 million viewers who were watching during the second quarter.

The halftime show averaged 128.2 million viewers, which is the fourth-most watched ever. Kendrick Lamar’s 2025 performance (133.5 million), Michael Jackson’s 1993 show (133.4 million), and Usher’s 2024 halftime (129.3 million) all ranked higher, per ESPN.

In the days following the Super Bowl live broadcast, the NFL garnered nearly 70 million views for the halftime show, while TPUSA had more than 21 million views on its main channel alone. This is a strong showing as the NFL has nearly two and a half times the YouTube subscriber base as TPUSA.

The NFL did not respond to multiple requests for comment regarding the claims made by Posobiec.

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