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An attorney representing Maria Bartiromo released a combative statement denying that she was fired from Fox News.
The longtime host at Fox Business had reportedly “parted ways” with the network effective immediately, according to a network statement Thursday.
‘Maria is a total professional, and a true warrior. Her fans, of which there are many, will not be happy.’
“The irresponsible reports that have been published stating that Maria Bartiromo was fired or is no longer an employee of Fox are absolutely and unequivocally false,” read a statement from her attorney on Friday.
“Make no mistake, we have the receipts and witnesses and they will come out whether through the courthouse or otherwise,” the attorney continued. “Those reporting her firing or the incredulous facts supporting that fiction have exhibited a complete and utter reckless disregard for the truth.”
When asked about this new statement, Fox News said its previous statement “speaks for itself.”
The statement could have been in response to reports that Bartiromo had been fired after allegedly making an improper disclosure to the White House about Fox News refusing to air the president’s election fraud claims.
Bartiromo had worked at CNN and CNBC before moving to Fox News in 2014. She had come to host two shows, one that bore her name: “Mornings with Maria” and “Sunday Morning Futures.” Both will be renamed after her departure.
Blaze News also previously reported that her profiles at the Fox News and the Fox Business websites were both scrubbed from the internet.
“I can’t believe Maria Bartiromo is no longer going to have her great show(s) on FoxNews/Business,” said the president in a social media post. “Maria is a total professional, and a true warrior. Her fans, of which there are many, will not be happy. God bless you, Maria!”
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Bartiromo was celebrated in 1995 as the first reporter to broadcast daily from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
She also was the first female journalist to be inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame in 2011.
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‘Have some respect for Africa town’: Blacks threaten Latino running club over ‘hostile takeover’ of black neighborhood
A Latino running club in California was forced to move a planned event in a historically black neighborhood after several community members threatened “resistance.”
The feud began after “Barrio Athletics” published a promotional video about a run in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
‘Not gonna happen. So respect … or get your brain knocked out! Black power.’
Some of the black residents took exception to the phrasing used in the video saying Latino runners would be “taking over the streets.”
“Every black person in California from San Diego to the bay needs to be in LA this Saturday and check this s**t,” read one post on the X platform.
Another influencer objected to the Latinos’ plan to bring in vendors for their running event through the neighborhood.
“Let me tell you something. That’s about the fifth time we got the Hispanic community trying to do a hostile takeover in Leimert under the guise of a run, a bike ride, whatever the f**k, coffee-making contest, NO!” she said in a video on social media.
“We don’t want you to come into Africa Town. Please make note of it, you got time still to relocate your event, you will be met with resistance from the black community,” she added.
“Have some respect for black space.”
Another black resident chimed in against the run.
“We can’t go to no Mexican community and come through there without getting stabbed and gettin’ physically assaulted,” he said in a video on social media.
“Not gonna happen. So respect … or get your brain knocked out! Black power.”
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“Black LA reveres Leimert Park,” said Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano. “For years it has been a center of cultural resistance, at a time when the population of Black LA and its political power have been shrinking.”
Barrio Athletics decided to cancel the event and move it to Elysian Park.
“I understand where the anger is coming from, even though hearing it expressed like that, it’s not pretty,” Arellano added.
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Deadlines are fast approaching on Trump’s mail-in ballot initiatives as election season begins
The first ballots of the midterm elections have left the building.
The Trump administration filed an emergency application to the Supreme Court on Thursday asking the court to remove a lower court’s stay on the administration’s new postal ballot rules. North Carolina, one of the states suing the administration, sent out ballots on Friday.
‘The cheating on mail-in ballots is legendary.’
More than 46,000 North Carolina ballots have been sent out, though only to those who specifically requested them. Those shipments will continue until all requests for mail-in ballots made by October 20 are fulfilled.
Jason Tyson, director of external affairs for the North Carolina State Board of Elections, told Blaze News that this was business as usual for the state.
“Regardless of a temporary restraining order or any kind of action there, every election year we do share our envelopes — absentee ballot envelopes — with the U.S. Postal Service,” Tyson said. “We did share our envelopes with the United States Postal Service about two or three weeks ago. They were approved. That’s very normal. Nothing that we’ve done just for this year.”
The NCSBE is currently controlled by Republicans.
Nineteen other states will begin mailing ballots by September 19. For the Trump administration’s new rules to have a chance at taking effect before the midterms, the Supreme Court would need to issue an emergency judgment in the White House’s favor quickly.
The administration is already making its case.
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U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer.Aaron Schwartz/Getty Images
According to White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis, the problem boils down to “a single activist judge.”
“The uncertainty is coming from a single activist judge who continues to try and obstruct President Trump from implementing common-sense measures to protect the security of mail-in ballots and ensure only Americans vote in American elections,” Bis told Blaze News. “These safeguards for mail ballots were proposed months ago, giving election officials ample time to prepare for the 2026 election.”
Bis did not mention any names, but Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani has certainly caused fits for the administration regarding mail-in ballots.
President Donald Trump kicked off the battle in March, when he issued an executive order overhauling the mailing system itself, requiring that every envelope be outfitted with a unique tracking barcode. According to the order, those ballots would then be issued to voters confirmed by a “Mail-in Ballot and Absentee Participation List” organized by each state.
“The cheating on mail-in voting is legendary. It’s horrible what’s gone on. It’s very clearly covered. … I think this will help a lot with elections,” Trump said when signing the order in March.
Talwani initially voided the envelope rules on June 25, barring them from applying to the midterms. The DOJ asked the Supreme Court for emergency intervention on July 27 to lift Talwani’s injunction, which SCOTUS eventually granted without addressing the legality of the EO.
On August 11, Talwani issued a nationwide injunction preventing the USPS from implementing the executive order nationwide.
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On August 26, the USPS issued its final rule saying states must give the agency a list of mail-in ballot recipients and use-approved envelopes, but the following day, Talwani issued a 14-day injunction preventing the final rule from taking effect.
U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to lift that most recent injunction. Sauer called mail-in ballot fraud “a particularly pernicious species of fraud that dilutes the votes of lawful voters” in his emergency filing.
Sauer previously chastised Talwani, claiming she was “sowing confusion and chaos” as Election Day approaches.
As of now, it is unclear whether states will have to submit the list of mail-in ballot recipients to the federal government before the midterms or how they might go about doing so with so little time.
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Republican arrested for allegedly telling campaign manager to PLANT DRUGS on primary opponent
The Republican Party of Missouri is calling on a state candidate to step down after he was arrested for allegedly trying to plant drugs on an opponent.
37-year-old Thomas Christopher Ross was arrested on Wednesday on a federal charge of conspiring to distribute a controlled substance.
Ross allegedly told the manager that he could anonymously tip off the police about the drugs planted in Secker’s car.
Ross had allegedly told his campaign manager to plant cocaine and Adderall in the car or purse of his primary opponent, Louise Secker, who is also a Republican.
Ross defeated Secker in the Republican primary for Missouri House District 161, representing Joplin, but his campaign manager contacted police about the alleged drug plot.
Police say they tested a bag of cocaine and an Adderall pill that the unidentified campaign manager brought to them, and they confirmed both to be real.
The informant also provided police with text messages allegedly from Ross detailing the planting plot as far back as May, according to the complaint.
“I was hoping we could make it happen before THIS Thursday…which would be extreme egg on the face,” read part of a May 31 text attributed to Ross by prosecutors.
Police contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which provided a covert recorder so that the manager could obtain audio evidence from a July 31 meeting with Ross.
Ross allegedly told the manager that he could anonymously tip off the police about the drugs planted in Secker’s car.
“If you can pull it off…pull it off,” Ross allegedly told him.
Ross won the primary by fewer than 35 votes and would face Democrat candidate Aaron Metzger in the general election, if he resists calls to step down from the campaign.
He was booked into the Joplin Municipal Jail but has not made a plea yet in the case.
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Missouri Republican Party Chairman Peter Kinder called on Ross to drop out.
He added that the “people of Southwest Missouri deserve nothing less than leadership they can trust.”
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DOJ files ‘first-of-its-kind’ lawsuit against red-state school district for allegedly pushing gender transition behind parents’ backs
The U.S. Department of Justice is taking aim at a school district in a red state for allegedly violating parental rights on transgender issues involving their children, and the DOJ is targeting other districts as well.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced Tuesday the lawsuit against Kansas City, Kansas, Public Schools in what she called a “first-of-its-kind” legal action.
The policy allowed children to keep information secret from parents, including pronoun preference, names, school records, restroom use, and locker use.
The complaint cited the district’s own “Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Students Internal Guidance Document,” which allegedly called for teachers to develop and implement “transitioning” plans for children without their parents’ knowledge or consent.
The DOJ claimed the policies violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act as well as the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment.
“Parental rights are paramount in the operation of America’s public schools, and Kansas City, Kansas, Public Schools does not know children better than their own parents,” said Dhillon.
The lawsuit seeks to end the transgender policies immediately at the district.
Dhillon said the DOJ is not waiting until the conclusion of this lawsuit to seek legal action against other districts on the transgender issue.
“What we do is we ask for documents, we investigate, and then we try to resolve cases with school districts,” she told Fox News Digital. “And if we cannot, then we file lawsuits. And so there are many other lawsuits contemplated here and other investigations that are ongoing.”
The complaint says KCKPS has used different versions of the same guidance since 2017 and that the policy allowed children to keep information secret from parents, including pronoun preference, names, school records, restroom use, and locker use.
“Contrary to the allegations in the complaint, the district maintains that it is in full compliance with FERPA and PPRA and is disappointed by the DOJ’s decision to file the lawsuit,” said the district in response.
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Dhillon replied that the policies were clearly in violation of parental rights.
“The Department will not tolerate school districts playing fast and loose with federal law in the service of radical gender ideology,” Dhillon concluded.
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The division between men and women is by design — and the Lindsay Clancy case is deepening it
The growing divide between men and women isn’t happening by accident, according to BlazeTV hosts Allie Beth Stuckey and Nick Freitas, and the recent Lindsay Clancy case is only deepening the division.
“I can understand that Tyler Robinsons exist, that Lindsay Clancys exist. I want to believe that they’re a one-off,” Stuckey begins.
“But when you see … millions of people online, lionizing them, not just excusing them, but turning them into heroes, you’re like, ‘OK, I cannot stomach the idea that there are millions of Lindsay Clancys that would advocate for killing their children because their hormones are off,’” she tells Freitas.
And men across the country are at a loss regarding so many of these women’s responses to the case.
Freitas points out that when he speaks to men about it, they echo the point that there’s “zero accountability” for “modern women.”
“This is a caricature of the argument, but I’m watching it become more and more common, and the more, you know … hundreds or thousands of women are out there protesting for Lindsay, and you know, tens of thousands of women online, liking, sharing,” he says.
“I think a lot of it is misplaced motherhood,” Stuckey says.
“A lot of it is feminism,” she adds. “But it all just goes back to sin and … men and women having a dereliction of duty when it comes to fulfilling who God has actually made us to be.”
But beyond the sin, Freitas believes that the reason this is happening is because both men and women have been lied to for decades.
“Men have been told for the past two decades that they’re horrible, that they’re toxic, masculinity is bad, that the future is female, and that if everything was run by women, it would be better,” he says.
“At the same time, women have been lied to in this idea … that your only flaw is you don’t have enough self esteem, and you’re powerful and capable, and you need to go out there and be a girlboss,” he continues.
“If you had lied to both sides, and you’d said, ‘They’re both great and wonderful,’ that would have produced one result. If you had lied about both sides and said ‘You’re both horrible,’ that would have produced different results,” he adds.
But that’s not the case, and Freitas has a theory as to why they’re both being told such damaging lies, telling Stuckey, “I think so much of the purpose is about destroying the family.”
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Masculinity is back — and it’s coming from the most unlikely source
What happens when overtly feminized programming accidentally creates an uncontrollable star out of an accused chauvinist and sexist?
Television magic and unfettered populism.
‘If you don’t want to love me, [it’s] up to you.’
One look at TLC’s schedule, and it becomes abundantly clear the programming isn’t courting a male audience.
“Double Lives of Suburban Wives” focuses on St. Louis housewives who make pornographic content (which has included fart porn), “1000-lb Roomies” focuses on two morbidly obese roommates, and “Sister Wives” focuses on polygamist families.
The shining star of the network though is “90 Day Fiancé.”
With more than 20 spinoffs that include behind-the-scenes, reaction, and reunion shows, the universe revolves around couples who are from two different countries with a focus on trying to acquire a spousal visa in the United States; not exactly a conservative male viewpoint.
Accidental star
The show does huge numbers and inspires countless memes while overwhelmingly pushing pro-immigration and feminist positions.
Enter Sarper Güven. This Turkish national has allegedly slept with 2,500 women, recording his sexual encounters with a color-coded black book full of “X” marks that denote how attractive the women were.
With his wife shown as being constantly upset after getting new, horrid glimpses of his promiscuous past, Güven was immediately positioned on the show as the misogynist pig who needed desperate reformation.
There was only one problem: He refused to apologize.
“I never apologize because [it’s] who I am, but I know I make mistakes,” Güven told Blaze News in an interview.
Despite consistently admitting wrongs in an attempt to improve his marriage, Güven has endured constant browbeatings in both the recorded programming and group shows with other castmates. Yet despite how he is portrayed and focused on as what not to do, he has only become more popular.
Prized pig
Güven set out on a North American comedy tour earlier this year and has been selling out across the continent. At the time of this writing, the new stand-up comic has seven sold-out shows in Toronto, Canada.
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It’s not Güven’s past that audiences have identified with; it’s his willingness to stand up for himself on a show that rarely rewards such behavior. When Güven”s American wife told a Brazilian cast member, “Go back to your country,” he defended his partner and refused to back down, despite being an immigrant himself, on a show surrounded by immigrants.
The obvious pro-immigration sentiment of the show was finally challenged by a pair of people who weren’t necessarily bothered by the immediate social consequences.
“I’m not perfect, not even close to being perfect,” Güven said from a hotel room in Western Canada. “But that’s me, and if you want to love me, that’s me. If you don’t want to love me, [it’s] up to you. I come so honest and transparent. Maybe people love that, especially men love that.”
Marital blisters
Güven’s stand-up comedy routine sounds as much like a parody and a character as his on-screen appearances do, but he is vehement that it’s all real.
Part of that has been his ongoing confession that marriage has changed him, with his commentary on the topic being what men relate to most.
Transparently, Güven talks about how he has changed from a flirtatious lady’s man into a docile husband who just wants “peace.”
“I don’t see women using that word, term, a lot, you know, ‘peace,'” the 45-year-old said. “It was not like this when [the relationship] started because I was an alpha male … now whatever she asks we just do it as men because we don’t want a fight.”
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The majority of Güven’s set is a reflection of his marital woes — which he admits his wife hates — and it is garnering him more outside traction with those who don’t know him from the show than was expected.
“Whoever comes to my show will relate something with their lives,” he explained, providing more than a couple of hilarious anecdotes.
“Everything changed with marriage. I always [say] that before the marriage, even my sweat was sexy. She was smelling me all every day, and she was saying, ‘I love your sweat so much, Sarper. You smell like a real man.’ And we got married, brother, in two weeks: ‘Did you eat garlic today? Did you take shower?’ What happened, girl? I’m the same guy.”
Whether it’s his Turkish way of talking in proverbs or his brutal honesty, Güven’s inability to change himself from his factory settings has produced massive results and garnered him huge respect with men in an overwhelmingly female mediascape.
“If a man would be an electronic device, we probably would be a freaking toaster. Push the bread in, let the bread come out. Simple, one action at a time. Bread in, bread out for you. But a woman would be probably a mobile phone, a very smart, I mean the iPhone 16 Pro Max,” he stressed.
“I sleep with one every morning, [and] I find everything changed, new settings, new rules, new update, you know. But always new terms and conditions for me.”
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Glenn Beck’s message to conservatives who TRULY want to defeat the left
Jeremy Boreing has a new series out on Amazon called “The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin,” which is a live-action historical fantasy series adapted from the novels by Stephen R. Lawhead.
“Almost everything on television now is about witchcraft and, you know, all of this crap. Not much is about Christianity. So I started watching this, and it starts with pagan gods and everything else, and I’m not going to give anything away, but it doesn’t last with the pagan gods very long,” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck explains.
“And nowhere on television are you getting that kind of message in a good-quality series,” he says.
Glenn also notes that he’s “not getting anything” for promoting the series.
“It is so controversial in our circle of friends. You know, it’s ridiculous,” he says.
“Can we stop all this, please? Can we please stop? I don’t consider anyone a competitor. And I don’t know why everybody is considering everyone else a competitor. We’re not competitors.”
“You know who we’re competing against? Satan. We’re competing against evil. We’re competing against Marxism. We’re competing against apathy. We’re not competing against each other,” he continues.
“Why we don’t all promote one another, why we don’t all help each other, why we all don’t celebrate everybody’s victories when they have it is beyond me. Here is a TV series, and the downside is I don’t think another season’s going to be made unless this is wildly popular, and I think it could be if people will search it out,” he adds.
Glenn calls the show “as good as anything [he has] seen in that genre.”
“And everybody should say something about it. It’s a victory. That was beautiful and well done. It’s one of the best things I’ve seen our side produce,” he adds.
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‘Blow expectations out of the water’: HUGE GAINS in latest jobs report
The Trump administration is touting the results of the newest jobs report that shows a strong economy with growing employment.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics report released Friday said the economy added 162,000 jobs in August, which doubled experts’ expectations for the month.
‘You haven’t seen anything yet!’
The president celebrated the report in a post on the Truth Social platform.
“Great jobs number just announced, breaking all estimates (except mine!) by double and triple — And you haven’t seen anything yet!” he posted.
He went on to call for lower interest rates based on the report and also blasted the Supreme Court for their ruling against some of his tariffs.
“Lower the interest rates because the U.S.A. is a much stronger credit than it was just a short time ago! A STRONG COUNTRY MEANS A LOWER INTEREST RATE — IT’S A BETTER CREDIT … Very simple!”
Not only was the August jobs report the strongest since March, but July’s report was flipped from a loss of 23,000 jobs to a gain of 21,000 jobs. June’s report was also revised upward from 20,000 to 31,000 jobs.
Experts had placed their expectations in August of about 65,000, meaning the actual rate came in at nearly three times their prediction.
“This jobs report did blow expectations out of the water,” said Glassdoor senior economist Daniel Zhao to CNN. “We are definitely getting a bit of whiplash here, where it feels like the reports are alternating between good and bad; but, overall, we’ll take the win.”
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The president later complained that the stock market had registered a loss with the jobs report rather than going up.
“How crazy is this?” he wrote in a second post. “We just got GREAT Numbers on Jobs, the Market should go UP, because our Credit and Economy are better but, as always, for the past 25 years, the Stock Market goes DOWN, because we’re living under False Reality that if things are good, you’ve got to ‘KILL IT’ because of a ‘fear’ of Inflation.”
He added, “We should be doing GDP of 15 and 20%, not 2, 3, and 4%, and America should become Far Greater Financially than it is right now.”
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They just announced the ultimate freedom phone — and getting your hands on it won’t be easy
Android and iOS are the most prominent mobile platforms on the planet, but they’re not the only options. Android alternatives are picking up steam, with GrapheneOS leading the pack, and this popular privacy-first option will soon be more accessible, thanks to a partnership that puts it directly on Motorola phones right out of the box.
GrapheneOS isn’t the easiest operating system to get your hands on. Currently, it’s not available on any device found on a store shelf or online. In fact, the only way to use it is to purchase a compatible Google Pixel phone and overwrite the core Android OS with GrapheneOS — a process that takes a little bit of technical know-how. The team behind Graphene tries to make it as easy as possible, but not everybody is willing to tinker with the operating system on a brand-new phone.
The Motorola phone with GrapheneOS might be the best private phone to date.
A new upcoming partnership hopes to change that.
Motorola recently announced a deal that will put GrapheneOS directly onto its new phones. Information is scant right now, but we know that the first device will be available in 2027. When it launches, it’s expected to be a flagship device with a premium price tag. There is speculation that affordable, lower-end devices could be ready in the future, but that depends on a number of factors outside GrapheneOS’ control. Right now, top-end models are the target.
So why should you care?
The thing that makes GrapheneOS so compelling, especially to freedom-minded individuals, is that it takes the core essence of the Android operating system and strips out all of Google’s apps, services, and tracking mechanisms. What’s left is a clean slate to build a fresh, privacy-focused version of Android from the ground up.
The entire GrapheneOS experience is designed around privacy and security. The developers prioritize defense, looking out for zero-day vulnerabilities and patching them quickly, sometimes before Google can fix Android. They lock down app permissions — especially for the camera, microphone, gyroscope, and more — so that you can decide exactly which apps have precise access to the features in your device. They also have alternative apps to use out of the box, like Vanadium, their Chromium-based browser with none of Google’s grubby hands watching your web traffic.
Now, if you’re a Google fan, that doesn’t mean you can’t use Google Apps. GrapheneOS will let you download Google Play Store, Drive, Gmail, and everything else in the Google service ecosystem. The main difference, however, is that Google’s apps are no longer woven into the core operating system. Instead, you can install them into sandboxed locations on the device so they can’t gather data from outside of the place you put them, keeping Google out of your business unless you invite it in.
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That said, GrapheneOS isn’t perfect. There are some pieces of Android that are arguably better with Google. For instance, Gboard is easily one of the best keyboards on Android, if you don’t mind sending diagnostics and other data back to Mountain View. Gemini is also getting quite good these days, though its features may not be enough to convince you to let Google into your phone.
For every eyebrow raised over Google’s tracking practices, Android alternatives like GrapheneOS are here to make smartphones private again. As for the partnership with Motorola, this is a huge milestone that will take GrapheneOS from a niche privacy-focused solution for the few to a mainstream mobile alternative that puts privacy and security back into the hands of the people at large.
Depending on how well it goes, the Motorola phone with GrapheneOS might be the best private phone to date, though we’ll have to test one for ourselves to know for sure.
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