Democratic Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison appeared stunned when protesters interrupted his speech for a far-left candidate for one of the state’s seats in the U.S. Senate.

Ellison was trying to encourage Democrats to show up for Peggy Flanagan when protesters interrupted him and demanded that he answer for shutting down a program looking into wrongful convictions.

The contest will likely be seen as another battle between far-left elements of the Democratic Party trying to seize control.

Flanagan is trying to win the primary for the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party from Rep. Angie Craig, a Democrat who has represented Minnesota since 2019.

Ellison seemed angered and rattled by the protesters, and he quickly finished his comments before rushing offstage.

The protesters were angry about Ellison shutting down the Conviction Review Unit, which he blamed on lack of funding from the Trump administration. In five years, the unit overturned three wrongful convictions.

Prior to getting heckled off the stage, Ellison described the contest between Flanagan and Craig as “truly a fight of the money versus the many.”

He might have been referring to the significant cash advantage Craig has over Flanagan, as divulged in financial reports. Flanagan has only $1.56 million in cash on hand, while Craig has more than three times as much — $5 million, for the period ending June 30.

“We are the many, and we will beat the money, and we will prevail against them,” Ellison said at the rally.

Videos of the interruption were widely circulated on YouTube and the X platform.

Craig was the first openly LGBTQ+ member in Congress from Minnesota and is also the first lesbian mother to serve in Congress.

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She has been endorsed by establishment Democrats, including former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and U.S. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries. The contest will likely be seen as another battle between far-left elements of the Democratic Party trying to seize control.

The primaries for both parties will be conducted Aug. 11.

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Cory Mills, the scandal-plagued Republican congressman from Florida, is back on the radar of law enforcement, this time, at the Department of Justice.

A source familiar with the matter confirmed to Blaze News on Tuesday evening that Mills is under DOJ investigation. However, the nature and scope of the investigation remain unclear.

‘Strap up cowboy.’

MS NOW, citing three sources, reported that it is a criminal investigation, and ABC News, citing sources, reported that at least part of the investigation relates to Mills’ finances.

Mills’ office did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

RELATED: Are scandal-plagued Cory Mills’ days in Congress finally numbered?

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For nearly a year and a half, Mills has been plagued by allegations ranging from stolen valor, to a conversion to Islam, to meeting with a Syrian leader once labeled a terrorist, and even to sextortion against a beauty queen.

As Blaze News reported in August, Mills allegedly bombarded Lindsey Langston, then the reigning Miss United States, with threatening messages after she ended their three-year relationship in February 2025.

Screenshots of messages allegedly from Mills and reviewed by Blaze News included:

“You want to date or be with someone else. Be my guest. But they need to know well in advance that if we cross paths, I don’t care this week, this month, or this decade. They better damn well know it’s coming every time.””May want to tell every guy you date that if we run into each other at any point. Strap up cowboy.””I can send him a few videos of you as well.”

At the time, Langston told Blaze News, “Am I gonna wake up one day to videos of us having sex on social media? Because I know he has them, and he’s put it in writing.”

Langston was granted a restraining order against Mills in October.

This is a developing story.

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It seems a lot of people are pretending to do more work than they actually do.

While performance art at work comes in many different forms and happens for different reasons, one generation is actually outperforming the others in its efforts to not work: Gen Z.

‘The average worker fakes about five hours per week.’

Con job

In a survey of full-time American professionals, employees have found remarkable ways to fake productivity.

Shockingly, 66% of employees admitted to faking productivity at work, and 73% of managers said they do it as well.

Gen Z has a particular affinity for it, however, outperforming older generations by 12 points when it comes to slacking off. A whopping 80% of them said they are faking productivity, while Millennials came in at 68% and Gen X at 58%.

The study from Software Finder also revealed some wild tactics employees are taking to make it seem as though they are actually working when they are not.

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Cat and mouse

The top two methods employees are using to fake work are “moving the mouse periodically” and “keeping a doc or browser tab open”; 56% of respondents said they use those tactics.

Another method used by 43% of full-time workers was purposely responding to non-urgent messages at a slower rate, or “slow-responding.”

More than a third of employees said they would log in to a tool they aren’t using, while about a quarter of respondents said they would send a strategic message on work apps like Slack or Teams to make it seem as if they were working.

Another 22% said they scheduled emails for later in the day.

All this fake work adds up to a massive amount of time burned over the course of the year. Specifically, the survey stated that the average worker fakes about five hours per week making it seem as though they are working. Multiplied over a year, that’s 260 hours, and when divided by an eight-hour work day, that’s more than 32 full days of work lost.

However, it may not be the employees’ fault.

RELATED: The GOP is blowing it with young men

Showing up

More than half of respondents said they finished their work at least an hour before the day actually ends, so the rest is lip service.

Who are they faking it for? More than a third said their direct manager, while another 31% said “no one in particular.”

The latter is indicative of a trend of not working for the sake of it, as 27% of workers said they were faking productivity because of “general workplace culture.”

The next leading reason was due to their managers, who “measure presence over output.”

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The San Antonio Police Department over the weekend released video of an officer-involved shooting that occurred last month.

Police said just after 5 p.m. June 16, four SWAT officers responded to execute an arrest warrant.

‘Strong work; I pray for a speedy recovery of the officer and a speedy trial and conviction of the perp.’

Officers arrived in an unmarked vehicle and located the suspect inside his parked vehicle, police said, adding that officers pulled up in front of the suspect’s vehicle and saw he was holding a gun.

Police said the suspect then began shooting at the officers.

With that, all four officers discharged their firearms numerous times, police said.

The police video of the shootout is below:

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During the shootout, the suspect as well as one officer were struck by gunfire, police said, adding that both the officer and the suspect were taken to a hospital for treatment.

No bystanders were injured, police said.

The 35-year-old suspect — Roman Pena — was charged with four counts of aggravated assault against a peace officer, police said.

The officers involved have eight to nine years of service with the San Antonio Police Department, officials said, adding that the department’s Shooting Team and Internal Affairs Unit are conducting separate, concurrent inquiries.

In addition, police said that as with all officer-involved shootings, the District Attorney’s Office is reviewing this incident.

As you might imagine, a number of observers who viewed the police video had things to say about what went down. The following are a few highlights:

“Strong work; I pray for a speedy recovery of the officer and a speedy trial and conviction of the perp,” one commenter wrote.”Agg[ravated] assault?” another commenter asked. “How about attempted murder. Ridiculous.””We have THE best SWAT team,” another commenter declared. “Great job, men.””GOT ‘EM!!!!” another commenter exclaimed. “F**K HOMICIDAL CRIMINALS!!!”

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Two of the internet’s most notorious manosphere influencers got arrested again this weekend.

On Saturday, U.S. Marshals cuffed Andrew and Tristan Tate in Miami, reportedly en route to a bare-knuckle boxing event. Footage of the handcuffing went viral almost instantly, with the internet immediately fixating on the brothers’ rumpled outfits — particularly Andrew’s choice of a tight and revealing purple blouse.

Their lawyer, Joseph McBride, called the extradition attempt a ‘political kidnapping.’

By Monday, the fashion critique gave way to a Miami courtroom, tan jail uniforms, and total silence while their lawyer vowed to fight the latest extradition attempt to the United Kingdom.

Between the two brothers, this round alone adds up to 38 new charges — rape, sexual assault, trafficking for sexual exploitation, and, for Andrew, 19 counts tied to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography, plus an alleged pattern of choking victims, sometimes to unconsciousness, before assaulting them.

These charges add to the 21 original charges by the Crown Prosecution Service from May 2025 — bringing the total to 59 charges, all of a similar nature.

A separate, ongoing Romanian case accuses them of running a coercion scheme — faking relationships with women to trap them into producing pornography that authorities say generated over $2.8 million and nearly $1 million in crypto tokens.

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Their lawyer, Joseph McBride, called the extradition attempt a “political kidnapping.” He’s dangled the idea that Trump might personally intervene to block it — McBride has said the president hates “political persecution and communism,” referring to actions by the U.K. government.

The Justice Department has pushed back on the political persecution framing, directly confirming to the Associated Press that leadership of its Criminal Division approved the arrests — contradicting McBride’s earlier claim that it was greenlit by a “low-level functionary” without leadership’s knowledge.

Because the Tate brothers are dual United States-British citizens, the final call on whether they get shipped overseas ultimately falls to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has the discretion to approve, block, or sit on the extradition order regardless of what the court decides.

McBride’s case that the arrests are a political witch hunt leans hard on the brothers’ Capitol Hill victory lap the week before the arrest. A photo circulated online appeared to show Andrew and Tristan posing with a member of Congress, part of a swing through D.C. that also included a stop at the Ned, an exclusive private club near the White House.

Three days after that trip, they were in handcuffs — a coincidence McBride has seemingly leveraged to argue that the case is politically motivated. He has maintained that the brothers are innocent.

A Miami judge ordered both brothers to be held in federal custody until the next hearing on Monday, and McBride estimates a final decision is around 60 days out.

Blaze News reached out to the White House for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

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Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that concerns over fraud schemes have led him to shut off $1 billion of federal Medicaid spending for California and Minnesota.

Kennedy made the announcement Tuesday after noting the many schemes that had been identified and prosecuted in the two states, both run by Democrats.

‘States that receive federal Medicaid funding must demonstrate that every dollar meets federal requirements.’

“Medicaid exists to serve vulnerable Americans — not to bankroll unsupported claims,” Kennedy said in a press release. “Under President Trump’s leadership, we are restoring accountability across our public programs and protecting taxpayer dollars.”

Kennedy appeared at a media briefing alongside Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz to explain why they halted $867.5 million in spending for California and another $199 million for Minnesota.

“States that receive federal Medicaid funding must demonstrate that every dollar meets federal requirements. When they cannot, we will not release federal funds until they do,” Kennedy added.

HHS is awaiting documentation from both states to justify high-risk Medicaid claims. An analysis from CBS News found that 700 of the approximately 1,800 hospices in Los Angeles County triggered red flags for fraud, using California’s definitions.

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a defiant statement about the decision.

“Today’s announcement from Dr. Oz is the same recycled political stunt we’ve seen before. California isn’t being targeted because Trump has evidence of fraud,” he wrote on social media.

‘We are being targeted for political reasons — and because Dr. Oz doesn’t understand that we are *SAVING* taxpayers money by keeping seniors and people with disabilities out of far more expensive nursing homes! We hate fraud. That’s not what this is. And we stand ready to collaborate with CMS in good faith efforts to combat fraud.”

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) also responded in a brief statement to the New York Post accusing the administration of “cutting more money in health care than they’ve prosecuted for fraud.”

HHS said the rate of growth in claims from California’s in-home care programs far outgrew the national average, suggesting some fraud was involved.

The funding paused in Minnesota involved Medicaid claims from “14 high-risk service areas.”

“The Trump administration is committed to rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse across the federal government,” HHS said in its statement. “HHS will continue to aggressively protect taxpayer dollars and hold states accountable for every federal Medicaid dollar they spend.”

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Billionaire Elon Musk may have gotten a death threat from a transgender-identifying liberal after the tech billionaire commented about transgender homicide rates.

Musk was responding to a post about the Zizian transgender cult investigated by independent journalist Andy Ngo. Members of the group are suspected of being involved in numerous slayings, and their alleged leader was arrested in Feb. 2025 in Maryland.

‘He’s putting up Hitler numbers. So maybe he should shut up before spouting lies like this.’

“The obvious reality is that giving rage-inducing hormones to mentally unstable people will cause a major increase in murder,” Musk wrote Sunday on the X social media platform, which he owns. “Statistically, trans and trans-driven (eg Charlie Kirk’s killer) homicide rates are more than triple that of the general population.”

His post grabbed a lot of attention from transgender activists, including trans-identifying activist Alejandra Caraballo.

“This MF is responsible for more deaths than there are trans people in the United States. He’s putting up Hitler numbers. So maybe he should shut up before spouting lies like this,” wrote Caraballo on the BlueSky social media app.

Caraballo’s post was reposted by Aubrey — a user who identifies as a “reclusive trans woman,” according to the bio — along with the suggestion that Musk should be “culled,” a word that can refer to euthanizing.

“Elon Musk should be culled from the human race. If humanity wants to preserve the light of consciousness and such,” read Aubrey’s post.

RELATED: ‘Did not act alone’: Suspect tied to Zizian ‘trans’ cult charged with murdering own parents

Musk’s claim about transgender homicide rates was contradicted by Grok, the artificial intelligence service for Musk’s X platform.

“Mass shooting databases (e.g. Gun Violence Archive) show trans-identified perpetrators as a tiny share overall, though some narrower analyses of public/ideological shootings note higher recent visibility,” the service responded to a user about the claim.

Ngo was publicizing his book “The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult.”

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Patrick Preacher is the “pastor for queer ministry” at Trinity Lutheran Church (ELCA) — and what he preaches is as bad as his title sounds.

“This particular pastor says that hell doesn’t really exist as a physical place except for the manifestation of anti-LGBTQ discrimination here in America. That that is actually what makes hell,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey says, before playing a clip of the pastor.

“Who had the nerve to tell you, or any of us, or this world for that matter, that being queer makes for an awful person?” Preacher asked during a sermon.

“[What] was he thinking when he told you this?” he asked again. “And I assume that it was a man because in most cases it always is. Why has Christianity — the religion of a humble, brown-skinned immigrant from Nazareth — become the religion of bigotry? Who had the nerve to tell any of us that we would be going to hell for the way God created us to be?”

“Here’s the answer,” Stuckey comments.

“Jesus did.”

“And it’s not just people who are gay. As Romans 3:23 tells us, ‘All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,’” she says, before honing in on his claim that Christianity is “the religion of bigotry.”

“He says, ‘Why has Christianity — the religion of a humble, brown-skinned immigrant from Nazareth — become the religion of bigotry?’ So here we see the intersectionality. If someone is brown-skinned, if someone is an immigrant, that they must also be accepting of homosexuality and transgenderism and all of these things,” Stuckey says.

“This is critical theory, queer theory being projected onto the Bible. This is not Christianity. This is not someone who loves God and His authority and wants to read the Bible asking, ‘How can I glorify God?’ This is someone who wants to use a religious text to justify sin, to justify and to downplay what God calls an abomination,” she continues, adding, “That is blasphemy.”

The pastor also claimed that “queer is God’s design.”

He said, “Who had the nerve to tell any of you that you’re too queer, that you’re too masculine, too gay, too feminine, or simply too much? Don’t they know? Look at your bulletin cover. Queer is God’s design.”

“God’s design from the beginning was marriage as a union between a man and a woman,” Stuckey comments.

“Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female and said, ‘Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh,’” she reads from Matthew 19:4-6.

Stuckey explains that like this preacher, “Satan tries to twist God’s word the way that this pastor does.”

But that doesn’t change the true word of God.

“Homosexuality is by definition against God’s design. Scripture describes it as an abomination, unnatural, explains the penalty for persisting in this sin just as persisting in other sins in rebellion to God is hell,” she says, adding, “That is the result.”

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A Democratic congresswoman turned to soccer on Tuesday to support her claim that white supremacy is alive and well in modern culture.

Toward the end of a congressional hearing on the Smithsonian exhibit, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) was in full defense of changes that have been made at the historic museum.

‘Welcome to the Republicans’ white-pride rally.’

The hearing, titled Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian’s Efforts to Reshape the Past, was a back-and-forth between Republicans and Democrats about whether the museum has become woke and even anti-white.

When it was her turn, Crockett used her limited time to ask David Blight, a history professor from Yale University, a bizarre question about the recent World Cup.

“The World Cup that captured the imaginations of the entire world when they saw all of these people of color that was [sic] playing for all these teams, and ultimately, if you recall, the last two teams, it was Argentina and Spain,” Crockett began.

The congresswoman then asked the professor, “It seemed like the vast majority of the world was rooting … against Argentina, right? And why was that? Just give me an explanation. If you could guess.”

The professor was not in the same mindset as Crockett with his response, though, saying, “Spain had the best team. Maybe that’s why they were rooting for them?”

Crockett took a moment for a hard chuckle before suggesting what the real reason might be.

“There’s also a racist history that exists as it relates to Argentina,” she said.

RELATED: Whitlock: MLB can’t spend ‘Pride Month’ mocking America and then wave a flag

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Crockett first introduced herself in the hearing by announcing, “Welcome to the Republicans’ white-pride rally disguised as a congressional hearing.”

This was followed by a series of rhetorical questions and comments surrounding the alleged threat of white supremacy in the United States. Crockett claimed that it must be hard for Republicans at the hearing to listen to the true history of America, while making other claims like black people are currently being denied their right to vote.

Republicans are trying to “ban books” and “attack museums,” Crockett went on, before citing the Biden administration’s 2021 claim that the biggest domestic threat to the United States is violent white supremacists.

Crockett also alleged that there were a lot of “white guys” with a “fetish” and “fragile egos” who are trying to feel “oppressed” over the alleged inner workings at the Smithsonian.

RELATED: Europe bans ‘sexualization’ of female athletes on camera, but viewers are stating the obvious

In another viral clip, Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) questioned museum officials about training materials and tool kits that listed certain traits as products of white supremacy.

A White House document on the issue said that the National Museum of American History was using a framework that “explicitly treats museums as engines for anti-oppression activism.”

For example, the document said the museum frames ideas like “objectivity, individualism, [and] a sense of urgency” as oppressive character traits of “whiteness” and “white supremacy culture.”

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