Violence broke out in Boston on Tuesday evening when pro-Palestine protesters gathered for a rally on the two-year anniversary of Hamas’ October 7 terrorist attack that caused the deaths of more than 1,200 Israelis and sparked the ongoing war.

‘From my perspective, this is all the same ball of wax: Antifa, free Palestine, trans-tifa. They’re all the same effectively, far-left/communist agitators.’

Flyers of the protest feature an illustration of people masked in kaffiyehs and a police car on fire.

“Flood downtown for Palestine,” the flyer reads. “Rally and march.”

John Gately, the host of the “John F Gately Show,” captured footage of the downtown protest, which he estimated was attended by roughly 175 people.

Gately recorded a video of a group of masked protesters sitting on the ground, trying to conceal their activities. When Gately approached the group, they quickly formed a barrier, holding up kaffiyehs to block his view, and even appeared to move a police barrier. One protester claimed they were providing first aid to one of their comrades who needed to “rest.”

Gately told Blaze News that when the march arrived at Boston’s Downtown Crossing, “things got ugly” as protesters blocked emergency vehicles.

“There was a kerfuffle. There was a report of pepper spray; I didn’t see that,” Gately said. “It was a fight in the middle of Tremont Street.”

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He described seeing protesters pushing and shoving before police swarmed in to arrest 13 individuals, eight men and five women.

Four officers sustained injuries, all of which were non-life-threatening but included broken bones.

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Tensions in the community were already high before Tuesday’s demonstration, Gately stated. He explained that a visiting professor from Harvard Law School fired off a pellet rifle near a Brookline synagogue last week on the eve of Yom Kippur. The professor allegedly told law enforcement he was “hunting rats.”

“From my perspective, this is all the same ball of wax: Antifa, free Palestine, trans-tifa. They’re all the same effectively, far-left/communist agitators,” Gately told Blaze News. “It’s all the same oppressor versus oppressed dialectic.”

“I think that effectively, the far-left promotes violence,” Gately added.

In a statement provided to Blaze News, Mayor Michelle Wu (D) said, “We are extremely grateful for the work of the Boston Police in keeping the city safe and in supporting the right to peacefully protest. Boston will not tolerate violence, and we categorically condemn those who came into our community to attack our police officers. The individuals who engaged in these attacks must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

Blaze News contacted Gov. Maura Healey’s office for comment.

Image source: John Gately

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Over the weekend, country music star Zach Bryan posted a song clip to his Instagram with the caption “the fading of the red white and blue.” Since then, Bryan has faced a wave of backlash over some of his apparently “anti-ICE” lyrics, but one of the best responses came from the Department of Homeland Security.

On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security’s X account posted a compilation video of law enforcement with one of Zach Bryan’s more famous songs playing over it.

‘When you hear the rest of the song, you will understand the full context that hits on both sides of the aisle.’

The caption of the post reads, “We’re having an All Night Revival.”

The video depicts several scenes of arrests by law enforcement, riot control, and even a clip of the commander at large of the U.S. Border Patrol, Chief Gregory Bovino, who recently allegedly he had a murder hit put on his head by a Latin Kings gang member.

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Zach Bryan’s song “Revival” plays over the DHS video. “Revival” has over 390 million plays on Spotify and is among Bryan’s top 10 songs.

The lyrics from the new melancholy song clip mention ICE while suggesting the slow decline of America.

“ICE is gonna come bust down your door,” it reads. “Try to build a house / no one builds no more.”

The lyrics end, “Got some bad news / the fading of the red, white, and blue.”

Hours after the DHS video dropped on Tuesday, Bryan posted an explanation on his Instagram story: “To all those disappointed in me on either side of whatever you believe in just know I’m trying my best too and we all say things that are misconstrued sometimes.”

He suggested that there is more context in the full song: “When you hear the rest of the song, you will understand the full context that hits on both sides of the aisle.”

He has not given any indication of the planned timing for the song’s release.

Blaze News made multiple attempts to contact Zach Bryan and his management team for comment but was ultimately unsuccessful.

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Millions of Indians have flooded the United States in recent years. Now, their political force is being felt in one of their most popular destinations, California.

On Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill into law that will make Diwali, also known as Deepavali, a state holiday. The bill, sponsored by assembly members Ash Kalra and Darshana Patel, will take effect on January 1, 2026.

‘This day is marked as the 15th day of the month of Kartik in the Hindu lunar calendar of each year.’

The law amends relevant sections of the code of civil procedure, the education code, and the government code.

The new law designates Diwali as an official state holiday. In the text, this day is marked as “the 15th day of the month of Kartik in the Hindu lunar calendar of each year.”

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Diwali often falls in October or November of the Gregorian calendar accepted universally in the West.

According to Britannica, Diwali is a festival celebrated in Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, and sometimes Buddhism. The name derives from the Sanskrit term “dipavali,” meaning “row of lights,” and celebrates the victory of light over darkness.

According to a Pew Research study published in May 2025, “960,000 out of the nation’s Indian population of 4.9 million, or 20%, live in California.”

Other states with large Indian populations include Texas, New Jersey, New York, and Illinois.

California is the third state to make Diwali an official state holiday, following Pennsylvania and Connecticut, according to the AP.

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Republican Rep. Brandon Gill of Texas is doing his part to ramp up deportation efforts across the country.

Gill introduced landmark legislation on Wednesday that would effectively close loopholes and expand expedited removal authority to cover violent criminal aliens, according to bill text obtained exclusively by Blaze News. The bill also mandates the detention and expedited removal of violent criminals, gang members, and terrorists while also ensuring they are unable to abuse asylum protections.

‘Democrat leaders invited them to invade our county en masse.’

The current law primarily limits expedited removal to migrants who recently crossed within 100 miles of the border and within 14 days of entry. Because of existing loopholes and procedures, criminal aliens are often sorted into slower and more standard removal proceedings.

In contrast, Gill’s legislation addresses the removal of criminal aliens with urgency.

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“Our number one priority should be to protect American communities,” Gill told Blaze News. “America should never be a safe haven for gang members, terrorists, or violent offenders.”

“Yet, Democrat leaders invited them to invade our county en masse,” Gill added. “Serious crimes require decisive consequences. My bill backs President Trump’s efforts to capture and deport violent illegal aliens quickly at the behest of Americans across the nation who want their families to thrive in a safe society.”

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Over the course of President Joe Biden’s administration, there were over 10 million migrant encounters in the United States, according to Customs and Border Protection.

Since President Donald Trump took office in January, migrant encounters have plummeted to historic lows, with illegal crossings across the United States-Mexico border dropping to the lowest levels in over half a century. Gill indicated his legislation would continue this trend and help codify Trump’s immigration policy.

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Charlie Kirk’s alleged murderer came from somewhere. We all do.

Since the “In the beginning” times, our species has wrestled with the fundamental logic — and perceived unfairness — of holding parents responsible for the sins of their children. Or the other way around. In the Old Testament book of Ezekiel, the prophet makes this explicit:

The person who sins will die. A son will not suffer the punishment for the father’s guilt, nor will a father suffer the punishment for the son’s guilt; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself. (Ezekiel 18:20)

Yet, we mortals struggle with this idea. It’s a matter of self-preservation. The unifying idea is that we must bear some responsibility for the behavior of our own kids. Our kids are reflections of us because we put our stamp on them. Functional societies have a justifiable fear of the ripple effects of other people’s bad parenting.

What this family confronted deserves to be noticed, praised, and modeled.

Healthy families are civilization’s frontline schoolhouse of needed humans — producers of good men, women, and citizens. Bad parents can easily replicate themselves and often do. It is a rare and beautiful testament to the enduring nature of the good to see exceptions to the rule.

The inverse happens, too. I have met many good parents of bad kids — a bad seed that grows up to be a bad adult. Or a good kid who leaves the home for school, falls in with the wrong crowd, and rejects root and branch the ways of his family.

Modern parents know that at some point, we must let our offspring venture into a hard and secular world outside the home threshold, a world that undermines good parenting at every turn. A school system that inverts the established, time-tested ways for purposes of political indoctrination. A culture that has lost any sense of moral and natural limits. An algorithmic media that is set on setting people into warring tribes with desensitized, brutish ways.

Good soil, infected fruit

Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin was born and raised in Southwestern Utah — Mormon territory. He was the son of a mother and father who raised their kids in the Mormon way, which produces exemplary fruits that are missionaries to the world. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — its formal name — instills family loyalty, stewardship, tolerance, sobriety, hard work, and sharing. Members tithe. They contribute. They are impressive people.

Even Matt Stone and Trey Parker, with their “Dumb, Dumb, Dumb” view of the Mormon religion (which is a cutout for all organized religion), recognized that Mormons have strong families and raise very good kids. The whole “Book of Mormon” craze began with a 2003 “South Park” episode featuring an impressive Mormon high school kid. His ending soliloquy put it best:

Look, maybe us Mormons do believe in crazy stories that make absolutely no sense, and maybe Joseph Smith did make it all up. But I have a great life and a great family, and I have the Book of Mormon to thank for that.

The truth is, I don’t care if Joseph Smith made it all up, because what the church teaches now is loving your family, being nice, and helping people.

I don’t know about you, but I admire the old-school way the accused killer’s father brought his son — his own flesh and blood — to face justice.

Would you have done the same?

The family saw the fruit of their loins on video surveillance in a national all-points bulletin. The family reached out to their own. Father and grandfather. They talked him into coming home. Once he was home, they convinced him to turn himself in for the crime — and to stanch the dishonor that he had done to his family’s name.

Would Luigi Mangione’s wealthy and well-connected Maryland family have done the same if they recognized his distinctive eyebrows? “Come home, son,” followed by, “You must turn yourself in to the authorities and be held accountable.” There’s no evidence they did anything of the kind. If they had, would Luigi have complied? I doubt it.

Fathers and mothers of America: Do you think you and yours could do similarly? To ask that question is not to answer it easily.

This Utah family has a quiet dignity to it. Their creed was not an assassin’s creed. Their kid is certainly a lost young man. He took a path outside of his family’s way, but his family retained a line of communication and influence over their prodigal son. They lost their son to dark, demonic forces, but appealed to the light remaining in him and brought him home and to justice.

What this family confronted deserves to be noticed, praised, and modeled. Our country was given clarity in real time. We very rarely get that. This young man did not come in lawyered up and with his phone locked and encrypted.

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A reeling nation did not have to suffer the indignity of mushroom management, where “We the People” are kept in the legalese dark and fed legalese doggerel.

Every family that has successfully raised a good kid to adulthood knows how hard it is in our present educational, cultural, and social media bathhouses.

A family in need of prayer

A family can hold a line, and a kid can transgress it. Once upon a time, the family had educational and cultural support systems that checked transgression and bolstered parents and kids. Kids heard a shared common and civilized creed in and outside the house. That cord has been cut for a while, and our families and nation are suffering at scale because of it.

This family summoned their prodigal son home. While we rightfully think of their son as a moral monster, they still had a familial claim and power over him. And with it, they brought him home and then to justice.

This family gave another grieving family and a nation the closure it needed. We owe them our thanks and compassion for displaying moral courage when it counted. The sins of their son are not theirs. They ought to be seen by the nation as neighbors in good standing. They need and deserve our parental prayers.

Under present grooming circumstances, there but for the grace of God go all of us.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.

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Seven females — five of them teenagers, two of them adults — are facing charges in the wake of a brawl caught on video outside the Maryland State Fair, Baltimore County police told WJZ-TV.

Charged in connection with the assault and public disturbance were four 14-year-olds, a 15-year-old, and two adults — Melika Gamble-Thomas, 33, and Tiera Gamble, 37 — police told the station.

‘These children come out in groups, and they try to cause havoc or whatever. It’s a shame.’

Both Gamble-Thomas and Gamble were taken into custody on open warrants, WBFF-TV reported.

Police launched an investigation after video of the brawl began circulating on social media in late August, WJZ reported.

The video shows one teen girl being dragged by her hair. Police told WJZ the brawl involved at least a dozen other teens.

Officers at the fair said several arrests were made, but some suspects fled the scene in a car, WJZ said, adding that some officers suffered minor injuries while responding to the brawl.

The group of teens may have been denied entry to the fair over its unaccompanied minor policy, Maryland State Fair General Manager Andy Cashman told WJZ.

The fair’s unaccompanied minor policy, instituted in 2024, stipulates that minors can’t enter the fair without an adult, WJZ said, adding that one adult can chaperone up to six minors.

“It’s been a problem,” Cashman told WJZ. “These children come out in groups, and they try to cause havoc or whatever. It’s a shame.”

WBFF said officers responded around 8:30 p.m. Aug. 30 to the 2200 block of York Road in Timonium for reports of an assault.

Authorities told WBFF the brawl reportedly began at the fairgrounds and ended in a nearby parking lot.

The mother of the girl dragged by her hair told WBFF that “she had drag marks all up her body; she had bruises on her face” and added, “I wanted to talk to the parents to see, like, why, what was going on? Why did you allow this to happen, to find some reasoning in it …”

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On Monday, October 6, Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James teased a big announcement. Pitching it as “the Second Decision” — a parody of his infamous 2010 ESPN special where he revealed leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Miami Heat — NBA fans held their breath in anticipation that the 40-year-old basketball veteran would either announce his retirement or a change in teams.

But no.

It turns out the big reveal has nothing to do with basketball at all. LeBron’s big announcement turned out to be a promotional campaign for a limited-edition Hennessy V.S.O.P cognac bottle collaboration, which will feature his signature “crowning” gesture.

Needless to say, basketball fans are infuriated. The manipulative clickbait marketing left them feeling emotionally exploited, especially considering LeBron’s recent hints at an impending end to his NBA career.

But Jason Whitlock is frustrated by something else: LeBron is yet again leaning deliberately into black stereotypes for marketing gain.

“If he was going to lean into a stereotype, at least he didn’t lean into watermelon,” he scoffs.

“This is maddening,” says “Fearless” contributor Steve Kim, who was excited at the prospect of LeBron finally retiring or leaving the Lakers.

“He just won’t go away, Whitlock. We’re stuck with this guy,” he sighs.

Jason is ready for the LeBron mania to fizzle out, too, but for him, it’s less about basketball and more about LBJ’s impact on culture. He’s tired of the “Bronsexuals” — James’ most ardent, overly defensive fans who exhibit an intense, almost obsessive loyalty to him — “[pretending] like LeBron is some genius, that LeBron is some influencer that’s ahead of the conversation.”

“I’m not sure if this dude can read, write, comprehend,” says Jason.

“This guy’s got one of the biggest brands in all of America and he’s … [using] it to promote Hennessy” — the most “ghetto liquor in the world?” he asks.

The marketing ploy also proves that LeBron has learned nothing from his past mistakes. The original “Decision,” during which he announced his transition to Miami, was not received well by fans.

“He got ripped and destroyed from that, and you would think that he would learn a lesson from that and that 15 years later, he wouldn’t be doing something to draw comparisons to [‘the Decision’] and then to do something equally as small,” says Jason.

He can only assume that LeBron’s handlers — Adam Mendelsohn, Rich Paul, and Maverick Carter — are just as cognitively stunted as the drama king himself.

“They can’t talk LeBron out of leaning into brown liquor stereotypes?” asks Jason, baffled.

He assumes that LeBron’s Hennessy collab will be defended by the usual tactic of playing the race card: “Anyone that criticizes this will be either an Uncle Tom or sellout like me, or they’ll be a racist.”

Now that LeBron’s retirement is no longer on the table, Jason and Steve fear that the aging athlete will play until he’s 50 years old.

“He’s certainly going to play until he can force his other son into the NBA,” says Jason.

“That might drive me to Hennessy,” Steve laughs.

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