A federal judge temporarily blocked the punishment against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona over a video directing U.S. military members to refuse unlawful orders from the administration.

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled Thursday that Kelly’s First Amendment free speech rights were violated by Pentagon officials. He went on to say the punishment had “threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees.”

‘This will be immediately appealed. Sedition is sedition, “Captain.”‘

Kelly and five other Democratic members of Congress published a video in Nov. 2025 addressed to members of the military to remind them that they were not bound to obey orders that were unlawful.

The administration accused them of suggesting that the military should disobey any order from the administration, which would be treasonous. Hegseth said in a statement that the “reckless and seditious video” was “clearly intended to undermine good order and military discipline.”

“The traitors that told the military to disobey my orders should be in jail right now, not roaming the fake news networks trying to explain what they said was OK,” President Donald Trump responded at the time. “It was sedition at the highest level, and sedition is a major crime. There can be no other interpretation of what they said!”

Kelly posted about Thursday’s ruling from his social media account.

“Today a federal court made clear Pete Hegseth violated the Constitution when he tried to punish me for something I said,” he wrote.

“This is a critical moment to show this administration they can’t keep undermining Americans’ rights,” he added. “I also know this might not be over yet, because Trump and Hegseth can’t admit when they are wrong.”

Hegseth responded to the ruling on social media.

“This will be immediately appealed. Sedition is sedition, ‘Captain,'” he wrote.

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Kelly responded by citing the conclusion from the judge’s ruling.

“Rather than trying to shrink the First Amendment liberties of retired servicemembers, Secretary Hegseth and his fellow Defendants might reflect and be grateful for the wisdom and expertise that retired servicemembers have brought to public discussions and debate on military matters in our Nation over the past 250 years,” the passage reads.

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An online feud broke out between Cardi B and the Department of Homeland Security after she jokingly threatened federal officers during her concert in California.

The rapper had her Mexican fans cheer at the concert in Palm Desert before promising to “jump” Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents if they tried to detain her fans at the show.

‘I’ve got some bear mace in the back! They ain’t taking my fans, b***h!’

“Bitch, if ICE comes in here, we gon’ jump they asses!” she said to the crowd, who responded with loud cheers.

“I’ve got some bear mace in the back! They ain’t taking my fans, bitch!” she added.

Video of her comments was posted by TMZ before the official account for DHS fired back at the rapper.

“As long as she doesn’t drug and rob our agents, we’ll consider that an improvement over her past behavior,” the agency wrote.

The rapper previously divulged that she drugged men in order to rob them when she previously worked as a stripper.

Cardi B then responded right back at DHS and the Trump administration over the release of the Epstein files.

“If we talking about drugs let’s talk about Epstein and friends drugging underage girls to rape them. Why yall don’t wanna talk about the Epstein files?” she posted.

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The Department of Justice released millions of pages from the Epstein files, but Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky has claimed that names of co-conspirators were improperly redacted. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) also claimed that the redacted files contain a million mentions of President Donald Trump.

Cardi B was previously praised by those on the right for demanding to know what the U.S. government does with the 40% in taxes that she pays.

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A majority of Americans say that the Democratic Party has become too left-leaning, and it’s been getting worse for at least three decades, according to a new CNN analysis.

While many in the media have been accusing the Republican Party of being too far right, polling indicates that more Americans say Democrats have been turning too far to the left.

‘The Democrats are moving to the left, the far left is gaining power, and there could be some electoral repercussions.’

CNN’s chief data analyst, Harry Enten, demonstrated how polling showed that more Democrats identify as liberal.

“The far left is significantly more powerful than they once were. This sort of gives the game away here. Democrats who identify as very liberal or conservative — you know there used to be a lot of conservative Democrats, right?” Enten said during the CNN segment.

“Back in 1999, 26% of Democrats self-identified as conservative. Just 5% said that they were very liberal,” he explained. “It was a smidgen, a smidgen, a smidgen. Now that far left has gained considerably in power.”

He showed that recent polling had 21% of Democrats identifying as very liberal and only 8% identifying as conservative.

Enten went on to reveal polling for the last three decades that indicated more and more Americans see the Democratic Party as too liberal.

“Look at this percentage. It’s 42% in ’96, 48% in 2013, now 58% in 2025 of all voters say that the Democratic Party is too liberal. The Democrats are moving to the left, the far left is gaining power, and there could be some electoral repercussions,” he added.

The CNN analyst posted the video of his segment to his social media account.

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Enten also pointed out that among Democrats, about a third considered themselves democratic socialists in recent polling. And that is low compared to Democrats under the age of 35. 42% of that cohort reported identifying as democratic socialists.

“What happened in New York City is not some aberration,” Enten continued, referring to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s election. “It is not something that just happened in New York City. It is something that we’re seeing grow within the Democratic Party at this particular point.”

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Perhaps Snow White should have kept her seven dwarfs, after all.

The 2025 live-action remake of “Snow White” dropped its use of dwarf actors and ended up being a progressive disaster as star Rachel Zegler mocked the traditional story in media interviews.

‘We didn’t do that this time.’

“Snow White” dragged its way to an $87 million domestic weekend when it opened, and while that seems like a massive sum for anyone, filings reported by Forbes showed the movie had nearly double that in losses.

Poisoned production

“Snow White” ended up going over budget, ultimately costing $336.5 million. Its domestic opening was a reported 13% less than forecast, and its eventual worldwide intake of $205.7 million hurt Disney massively, and ended up being the fifth-lowest gross for a live-action adaptation for the studio.

Many memes and unsold tickets later, the 2025 “Snow White” reportedly lost $170 million; here’s how the math works.

The U.K. government gave “Snow White” a reimbursement for filming in its region, equating to $64.9 million (per Forbes). So, while that brings their net expenses down, the box office money is split between the studio and the theaters, leaving Disney with a $271.6 million bill and around $103 million brought in.

That left the Mouse House at a $168.7 million loss.

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Snow blow

Zegler diminished her movie so much before its release that YouTube accounts had no problem making compilations of her bizarre critiques. This included clips of Zegler saying the older cartoon movie scared her the first time she watched it and confirmations that the new movie would stray away from a story about a prince rescuing Snow White.

“We didn’t do that this time,” she boasted.

The film also featured no dwarfs at all, in terms of real actors.

After “Game of Thrones” star Peter Dinklage criticized the production for doing a “backward story about seven dwarfs living in a cave together” in 2022, Disney dropped its dwarf actors and replaced them with computer-generated ones.

This confused audiences, many of whom agreed with actor Dylan Postl, who remarked that the apparent progressive move actually resulted in dwarfs not getting any roles in perhaps the biggest movie there has ever been with specific characters for dwarfs.

“Peter Dinklage spoke up about this, and that was my issue,” Postl said at the time. “He had in the past no issue cashing checks that were made for dwarf roles like ‘Elf’ and all of that. Yes, he blew away the barriers when he did his roles that weren’t necessarily made for a dwarf, but the ‘Elf’ role was made for a dwarf, that check cleared just fine.”

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Woke crusade

In the months that followed, Zegler continued her woke crusade in different media appearances. At one point in December 2023, she teamed up with fellow Disney princess Halle Bailey to preach more about the religion of diversity while simultaneously declaring their victimhood.

As for “Snow White,” it ranks only above some rather infamous live-action Disney flops. It tops only “Mulan” (2020), “102 Dalmatians” (2000), “Christopher Robin” (2018), and “The Jungle Book” (1994).

According to WDW News Today, when adjusting the domestic performance of “102 Dalmatians” and “Christopher Robin” for inflation, they actually beat out “Snow White,” dropping the film down to third-worst in the studio’s history.

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The NFL may be touting Super Bowl LX as another ratings success, but BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock believes the fine print tells a very different story.

“The ratings dropped for the Super Bowl and for Bad Bunny, and they got to spin it in some sort of way,” he says, though he notes there is “no positive spin on what just happened.”

“The viewership’s down 2% to 124 million,” Whitlock points out.

“If you read the fine print of the stories that are coming out and trying to spin these Super Bowl ratings, it actually tells the real story,” he explains, before reading an excerpt from a Front Office Sports report.

“Notably, this was also the first Super Bowl with Nielsen’s Big Data + Panel measurement process. The methodology, first introduced last September, brings in millions of additional data points from set-top boxes and smart TVs. That expanded view of the market has helped produce viewership gains across much of live sports, and particularly pro and college football — but not with the Super Bowl,” the article reads.

“What that means is since September, when we rigged up this new accounting system at Nielsen that counts all of these extra people, we’ve boosted up the TV ratings for football. And since September, everybody in live sports has been benefiting from this new calculation and new system that keeps producing these record ratings,” Whitlock explains.

“They had a system in place designed to boost the ratings of the Super Bowl and didn’t boost the ratings of the Super Bowl. That’s an indicator. That’s an indicator that the NFL and the Super Bowl are losing their grip. They’ve become too arrogant,” he continues.

Whitlock believes that the drop in ratings means that “people are finally starting to wake up to the diminished content.”

“They’re producing more content, and they’re giving us more content, but the content is no good,” he adds.

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