A progressive owner of a Wisconsin brewery says he will fight “tooth and nail” after his alcohol permit was revoked.

Kirk Bangstad says the state’s Department of Revenue is revoking the permit for Minocqua Brewing Co. to operate at its two locations.

‘They’ll have to pry me out of my taprooms before I stop selling beer to thirsty progressives who come to visit us.’

Bangstad’s brewery has made headlines for its anti-Trump posts that included a promotion offering free beer whenever President Donald Trump dies.

“As you can imagine, I’m not taking this lying down,” the business owner wrote in a Substack post Sunday. “We’re going to fight the state of Wisconsin tooth and nail, and once again, they’ll have to pry me out of my taprooms before I stop selling beer to thirsty progressives who come to visit us.”

He went on to ask for donations to the brewery’s legal defense fund.

“As usual, fighting to keep my business alive means I have to pay lawyers, and that’s never cheap,” he added. “Every time this [happens], I rack up $100K in legal bills before we even see a judge. If you can help chip in to the Minocqua Company’s legal defense fund, I’d really appreciate it.”

The beer license revocations for the two locations in Madison and Minocqua will go into effect on Aug. 4.

A spokesperson for the Wisconsin Department of Revenue told Fox News Digital the brewery could file an appeal.

“We can confirm that the Department of Revenue has issued notice of a Brewer’s permit revocation for two Minocqua Brewing Company locations and notice of an Alcohol Beverage Warehouse permit revocation for one location,” the spokesperson said.

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“The business has until August 4th to appeal and can operate during the appeal process,” the spokesperson continued. “Should the business decide to appeal, the next step would be to appeal to the Secretary of the Department of Revenue, who will assign the appeal to a Department of Revenue hearing examiner for their recommendations as to proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law.”

Fox News Digital said Bangstad declined to comment directly about the report but made jokes about the death of Trump and Mitch McConnell and insulted Fox.

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A prestigious art academy in northern Michigan released an independent report that concluded there were 70 incidents of sexual conduct with their students by 47 abusers over many decades.

The harrowing 100-page report from the Interlochen Center for the Arts says one of the abusers was Jeffrey Epstein, who was a donor at the center and was later convicted of pedophilia.

The incidents were described as physical conduct of a sexual nature and involved adults who were given access to students and campers.

The report relied on 180 interviews of alums from the center, which is a boarding school and summer camp. They reported dozens of incidents both at the center and off campus.

Most of the alleged incidents occurred before 2000, and about a third of the accused abusers have since passed away.

The incidents were described as physical conduct of a sexual nature and involved adults who were given access to students and campers.

Two of the alums reported physical conduct of a sexual nature with Epstein. He was a donor to the center from 1990 until 2003 and had attended as a teen.

The center commissioned the investigation two years ago. Only five abusers’ names were released, and they are all dead or previously accused of abuse. The school has provided all of the names to the Grand Traverse County Prosecutor’s Office for review.

Trey Devey, the president of the center, released a statement along with the report.

“The abuse described in the report is heartbreaking and is contrary to everything Interlochen stands for,” he wrote. “We are grateful to everyone who came forward to share their experiences, and we are deeply sorry for the harm experienced by members of our community. We also want to say clearly: Interlochen will not tolerate predators or those who enable them. Our campus exists to protect, educate, and empower every student.”

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Board chair Barrett Rollins also released a statement.

“Student safety is a bedrock requirement and fundamental responsibility of this institution,” Rollins wrote.

“We recognize that the steps we have taken cannot erase harm that occurred,” he added, “but we hope they demonstrate our commitment to honoring those who came forward and to creating a safer future for all who are part of the Interlochen community.”

A building that was donated to the center by Epstein was demolished in June.

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The woke backlash against WNBA player Sophie Cunningham defending women in sports has seemingly morphed into fury against two teenage girls who held up a sign at a game Tuesday in Seattle, where the Seattle Storm were taking on Cunningham’s Indiana Fever.

The sign read, “Thank you Sophie for speaking up for girls!” and the girls wore shirts from the XX-XY athletics brand that promotes opposition to biological males in women’s sports.

‘We weren’t trying to be political. We were just trying to support Sophie.’

“We were being super respectful. We were just holding our signs and cheering for both teams,” one of the teens said to investigative journalist Brandi Kruse.

The teens said an older lady confronted them, told them that “Jesus loves everyone,” and then called them “f**king insane” while pointing to her head.

“For you to come here and pull this s**t,” she reportedly added.

Kruse posted video on social media of her interview with the girls from outside the Seattle Storm arena. Kruse also identified the culprit as Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton.

“One of them was left in tears,” Kruse said of the girls. “I tried to get security involved and was told I should email the front office.”

One of the teens said she was shocked by the co-owner’s behavior.

“She’s also a woman, and she just kinda cussed out two 16-year-olds that were just trying to have fun. We weren’t trying to be political. We were just trying to support Sophie,” she added.

The team responded to reports of the incident with a statement from majority owner Ginny Gilder.

“We are aware one of our co-owners made comments to two fans in attendance at last night’s game,” the statement reads. “We apologize that this happened. Everyone who attends a Storm game deserves to feel welcome, and we remain committed to creating an inclusive environment where every fan is treated with respect.”

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Kruse asked one of the teens to sum up her takeaway from the incident.

“Maybe we’re not being very hateful, and maybe they should work on being more kind to people, even though our opinions differ,” she said. “Because we were being respectful and kind people, and I don’t care if you think something else. It’s your opinion, but obviously she was not happy.”

Kruse said she would continue to investigate the incident.

“As usual, the people preaching ‘love and inclusion’ prove to be the most hateful bigots of all. I will have much more … and none of the culprits will be spared my fury,” she added.

The Fever beat the Storm, 105-95.

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An apparent lack of trust in NASA combined with some rarely seen photographs from the surface of Mars has fueled a strange conspiracy theory online.

One UFO researcher says there is a secret hiding in plain sight in an old photo from NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover, which he discovered using only the naked eye.

‘These kinds of open fractures are common in bedrock.’

Star war

The Mars rover has been on the red planet for nearly 14 years at this point, compiling a massive database of nearly 775,000 images.

One of those images from February 2022 has recirculated thanks to UFO researcher Scott C. Waring and outlet the Daily Mail. The U.K. website reported on Waring’s claim on Wednesday, which stated that the four-year-old NASA photo showed something citizens weren’t meant to see.

“This is a[n] unexploded missile laying on the surface of Mars just meter[s] from the NASA rover,” Waring wrote about the photo. “This is undeniable proof that there was a huge war on Mars long ago that killed not only the enemy, but most living things on the surface of Mars.”

The bold claim stems via a photo dump from the rover during NASA’s exploration of the Greenheugh Pediment in 2021. At the time, NASA said the rover was taking a look at “far-field rock targets.”

The space agency has not offered an explanation for the image — which appears to simply be a rock formation — but it has indirectly addressed prior claims Waring has made.

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Feb. 2022. Image courtesy NASA.gov

‘Intelligent beings’

NASA images of other rock formations on Mars from May 2022 led Waring to say, “What looks like cut boulders is actually clay-type walls and an entrance way made by intelligent beings who needed protection from the elements.”

“We had them on Earth long ago, and they had them on Mars long ago,” he claimed.

However, NASA described the “door-shaped” opening as a naturally occurring fracture. The agency measured the opening at about 12 inches tall and 16 inches wide, “similar in size to a dog door.”

“These kinds of open fractures are common in bedrock, both on Earth and on Mars,” NASA added.

NASA has revealed other Martian theories in recent months, including claims surrounding the evidence of water and possible life.

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Sept. 2026: ‘Formations suggest ancient groundwater flowed.’ Image courtesy NASA.gov

Home truth

In February, the space agency said that “spiderweb” formations suggested “ancient groundwater flowed” on the planet later than scientists had previously expected. This raised new questions about how long microbial life could have survived on Mars, NASA wrote.

To that end, NASA’s Ashwin Vasavada said in April that a newly discovered set of molecules “increases the prospect that Mars offered a home for life in the ancient past.”

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A woman was decapitated after an “intoxicated” boater allegedly drove around 80 miles per hour on a river in Illinois and catapulted over another vessel, authorities told ABC News.

Richard Stevenson, 45, is facing numerous charges — including aggravated DUI and reckless homicide — in connection with the boating accident on the Fox River near McHenry, the news network said, citing court records. The incident occurred Saturday afternoon.

‘It collided with vessel 2, resulting in the decapitation of a female passenger on the second watercraft.’

Stevenson has a history of driving while under the influence, according to court records, and ABC News said a judge on Monday ordered Stevenson held without release, indicating that his pretrial release poses a “real and present threat” to the community’s safety.

“The defendant, while intoxicated, drove his vessel at about 80 mph in a no-wake zone. Even when warned by a passenger, the defendant continued to operate in that manner. The vessel went over the top of another vessel and crashed,” Judge Cynthia Lamb alleged in court documents, citing evidence presented by prosecutors, according to the news network.

“When the defendant’s boat was on top of the victim’s boat, it decapitated one of the passengers of that boat,” Lamb added in documents, ABC News said.

A witness told responding officers that Stevenson’s boat was “at full throttle as it entered in a no-wake. It collided with vessel two, resulting in the decapitation of a female passenger on the second watercraft,” the news network reported, citing a criminal complaint filed Monday.

Court documents indicate that the boat Stevenson allegedly was operating overtook another vessel before he crashed into the timber on the west bank of the river, ABC News added.

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Stevenson remained at the scene and soon was taken to a hospital, the news network said, citing court records.

More from ABC News:

A medical draw showed Stevenson had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.2, according to court records. The legal limit in Illinois is 0.08.

Stevenson allegedly told a witness after the accident that he was operating the vessel and that he had been drinking, according to court documents.

Stevenson also has a criminal history, including four misdemeanor speeding charges, most recently in 2023; three reckless driving charges, one with supervision and two with convictions. He also has two convictions for driving while under the influence, according to court records.

Stevenson is scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 5, the news network said, citing court records.

ABC News added that an attorney for Stevenson did not immediately respond to its request for comment.

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For years, critics of Anthony Fauci argued that the nation’s top public health official knew more about COVID-19’s origins than he was willing to admit — and now the release of his diary proves they were right.

And Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has been all over it.

“Senator Rand Paul has also been very into this. In fact, he took a beating multiple times in hearings where, you know, look, he was just quite clearly right when he was describing things like gain-of-function research,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere comments.

And both Stu and co-host Dave Landau support Paul in his fight to bring down the man who led Americans astray, as they believe what he did to the country was unforgivable.

“Fauci made it so kids couldn’t socialize for two years, which means he figured out a whole new way to cause autism without even using a vaccine, and then he was forcing vaccines,” Dave says.

“If you were in the Northeast, I mean, your kids didn’t go to school for up to a year and a half,” Stu agrees.

Dave admits that he has “hate for this guy for what he did to this country” that can’t be faked.

“Like, I f**king hate this guy. I’m sorry, I really do. I really think everything he’s done to a beagle should be done to him and on public TV,” he says, referencing the fatal experiments Fauci carried out on Beagles.

“I hate him,” he adds.

And Paul clearly does too.

In a thread on X, he wrote: “My investigation uncovered that Anthony Fauci kept a diary. What he wrote privately and what he told the country are two different stories.”

On January 26, 2020, Fauci wrote: “Now we know that the market was not the source. It was the amplifier.”

“He believes the wet market is not the source of this and then goes on for as long as I can remember saying up until now that there was natural origin and that’s where it came from,” Stu explains.

“I believe it was called the Wuhan COVID-19 lab,” Dave adds.

“They’re like, ‘No, somebody ate a bat sandwich four doors down.’ And you’re like, ‘Right, but where was it near?’ And they’re like, ‘Well, it’s certainly not near the Fauci-made-this-disease lab,’” he continues.

In another diary entry from February 1, 2020, Fauci admitted that only 2 out of 12 scientists on a call believed the virus was natural.

“The rest felt that deliberate insertion was possible,” he wrote.

“The lab leak theory. That’s what it is,” Stu says.

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