Pop singer Kesha expressed her outrage after her song was used by the White House in a social media video promoting the military attacks in Iran.

The video posted by the White House account is titled “Lethality” and features U.S. warplanes firing missiles at tankers as Kesha’s song “Blow” from 2011 plays.

‘This show of blatant disregard for human life and quite frankly this attack on all of our nervous systems is the opposite of what I stand for.’

The 30-second video was posted to TikTok, where it garnered almost two million views.

Kesha, whose full name is Kesha Rose Sebert, excoriated the administration for the unauthorized use of her song.

“It’s come to my attention that The White House has used one of my songs on TikTok to incite violence and threaten war,” she said in a post on social media.

“Trying to make light of war is disgusting and inhumane. I absolutely do NOT approve of my music being used to promote violence of any kind. Love always trumps hate,” she added. “Please love yourself and each other in times like this. This show of blatant disregard for human life and quite frankly this attack on all of our nervous systems is the opposite of what I stand for.”

She went on to reference an accusation from Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland about President Donald Trump allegedly covering up his presence in the Epstein files.

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“Also, don’t let this distract us from the fact that criminal predator Donald Trump appears in the Files over a million times,” she wrote.

She added, “Stop using my music, perverts,” in a second post.

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CNN’s latest documentary on so-called “Christian nationalism” appears to attempt to redefine those who celebrate that America was founded on Christian beliefs as extremists — becoming a vague political weapon rather than a clear ideology.

“We hear all the time: The danger is Christian nationalism, but the definition of Christian nationalism is so fluid,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey comments on “Relatable.”

“I’m not even sure how I would personally define it, but if you break down the words, nationalism just means that you want to put the interests of your country first. It’s not automatically synonymous with Nazism or fascism, but I do believe that we actually have the Christian responsibility to put the needs and the well-being of our citizens first,” she explains.

“God created nations. Nations are like families,” Stuckey says, pointing out that “you don’t hate your neighbors just because you lock your doors and you live inside a house.”

“You just love your family. And God has created these circles of affection and circles of priority for us for our good, especially for the good of children again. But I think that’s true of Zimbabwe, as well of China. Everyone should put their country first,” she continues.

“So that’s how I would define nationalism … in comparison to globalism,” she says, explaining that the end result of globalism is a global government where the needs of everyone across the globe are prioritized equally.

“Absolutely impossible chaos. I’m anti-chaos,” Stuckey says.

“And then Christian, of course, we know what Christian is. A belief in the gospel of Jesus Christ. And so you believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ. You believe in putting your country first. You believe as Christians that your Christian worldview should impact all you think about policy and politics,” she explains.

Stuckey also explains that what CNN is trying to do is attempt to define “Christian nationalism” as something it is not.

“The CNN anchor behind the project, her name is Pamela Brown. She interviewed Douglas Wilson. Doug Wilson is an Idaho pastor in Moscow, Idaho. He identifies as a Christian nationalist, and she said, quote, ‘The response to that report was overwhelming and highlighted the need to better understand this movement working to redefine America as a Christian nation,’” Stuckey says.

“So you can already kind of see the bias in their language there, as if America doesn’t have a Christian foundation, which of course it does,” she adds, pointing out that while Brown is worried about a Christian’s belief system, the secular belief system many Americans follow is even more widespread.

“They’re bringing the fullness of their belief system into the voting booth, into their PTA meetings, into the city council, into their classrooms, into every public sphere that they occupy,” she says.

“And Christian conservatives, and Christian conservatives alone, are told, ‘You can’t do that,’” she adds.

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The U.S. Department of Justice and two Washington, D.C., federal judges failed to follow statute and legal precedent by keeping pipe-bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. behind bars since Dec. 4, an “unjust deprivation of liberty” that can only be corrected by his immediate release, defense lawyers argued to a federal appeals court.

Defense attorney J. Alex Little filed an interlocutory appeal after U.S. Magistrate Judge Matthew Sharbaugh and U.S. District Judge Amir Ali denied Cole release pending trial on charges that he placed two pipe bombs on Capitol Hill on Jan. 5, 2021.

‘At that moment, by operation of statute, the government’s right to hold Cole in custody expired.’

In a 72-page appeal memo and 350-page appendix filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Little said the judges violated his client’s rights by failing to hold a required preliminary hearing and then largely ignoring defense evidence that Cole poses no danger to the public.

Federal prosecutors, he wrote, obtained an invalid indictment from the District of Columbia Superior Court on Dec. 29 because they had no intention of presenting evidence at an adversarial preliminary hearing. The federal indictment handed up on Jan. 6 compounded the errors, Little contended, and contained one criminal count with an expired statute of limitations.

FBI agents and technicians search the 2017 Nissan Sentra belonging to Jan. 6 pipe-bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. outside his Woodbridge, Virginia, home on Dec. 4, 2025. Photo by Andrew Leyden/Getty Images

“The government — apparently unaware of, or indifferent to, its obligations under [18 U.S. Code] § 3060 and facing the reality that no federal grand jury would be available — raced instead to a D.C. Superior Court grand jury as an end-around to avoid a probable cause hearing,” Little wrote. “Cole objected and requested immediate release.”

Under federal law, criminal defendants must either be charged by grand jury indictment or be given a preliminary hearing within 14 days of their first appearance in court. At a preliminary hearing, defense attorneys are allowed to cross-examine witnesses and challenge government evidence. Cole was arrested Dec. 4 and first appeared in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 5.

On December 3, the DOJ filed a criminal complaint charging Cole with two counts: transporting an explosive device in interstate commerce with intent to kill, injure, or intimidate, and malicious attempted destruction by means of explosive materials.

No required preliminary hearing

Cole’s attorneys agreed to delay his detention hearing until Dec. 30, but Little said that did not substitute for the mandatory preliminary hearing. The Dec. 29 Superior Court indictment is not a valid substitute for a federal grand jury indictment, Little wrote.

“A Superior Court indictment is not a placeholder, and a subsequent federal indictment cannot reach back in time to satisfy a condition that was not met when it was due,” Little wrote. “This Court should reverse and order Cole’s release.”

Judge Ali held that Cole likely waived the preliminary hearing by not moving to schedule the hearing, according to Little, but said the responsibility was the magistrate’s alone.

RELATED: Brian Cole Jr.’s location just the latest snag in the DOJ’s evolving Jan. 6 pipe-bomb narrative

A federal grand jury charged Brian Cole Jr. with two explosives-related charges, alleging he planted pipe bombs on Capitol Hill on Jan. 5, 2021. FBI, Prince William County photos

“The hearing date is the court’s to set,” Little wrote. “The court has no discretion to omit it. And the defendant bears no responsibility for the court’s compliance with its own mandatory obligation.”

“Even assuming Cole’s right to a preliminary hearing had not been forfeited — and it had not — the government’s attempt to satisfy § 3060(e) through a D.C. Superior Court grand jury indictment was legally invalid,” Little said.

The statutory reference to “an indictment” refers to a federal indictment, Little added.

‘Congress prescribed mandatory discharge as the consequence for the government’s failure.’

“The Superior Court return was not one. The government did not seek the Superior Court indictment because it was the right vehicle,” he wrote. “It sought it because no federal grand jury was available, and it had no intention of presenting evidence at a preliminary hearing.”

The D.C. Superior Court “does not have jurisdiction over federal criminal offenses,” Little wrote. “Congress vested ‘original jurisdiction, exclusive of the courts of the States,’ in the federal district courts ‘of all offenses against the laws of the United States.’”

Magistrate Judge Sharbaugh on Jan. 2 ruled that Cole should remain behind bars until trial. The defense moved to revoke that order, which District Judge Ali refused to do in a ruling on Jan. 16. The defense filed for reconsideration of that decision. On Jan. 29, Judge Ali affirmed the decision to jail Cole until trial, ruling that no release conditions could guarantee the safety of the public.

Little contends that those decisions just compounded a judicial error.

Officials from the FBI’s Evidence Response Team and the Special Operations Branch walk toward the home of Jan. 6 pipe-bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. in Woodbridge, Virginia, Dec. 4, 2025. Photo by Andrew Leyden/Getty Images

“On December 30, 2025, no valid federal indictment had intervened, no preliminary hearing had been held, and no lawful extraordinary circumstances finding had extended the deadline,” Little wrote. “At that moment, by operation of statute, the government’s right to hold Cole in custody expired.

“Congress prescribed mandatory discharge as the consequence for the government’s failure to comply with the preliminary hearing statute,” he said. “That consequence should be imposed now.”

Short shrift for evidence?

Little said Judge Ali erred by not giving more than a passing glance at defense evidence offered after Judge Sharbaugh’s ruling.

The defense offered evidence refuting the DOJ’s claim that Cole erased his cell phone to destroy evidence in the case and argued that there is no evidence Cole is a danger to the community.

Cole began “wiping” or doing a factory reset on his cell phone in mid-2022. Prosecutors said he wiped the device some 943 times, right up until his arrest. A defense psychologist submitted an affidavit that such behavior is common among those suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Maryland neuropsychologist David O. Black, who said he diagnosed Cole with autism spectrum disorder, level 1, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, told the court, “Repetitive behavior of this nature is consistent with behavior that is often seen in obsessive-compulsive disorder.”

‘The government cannot have it both ways.’

“Between January 2021 and now, the government cannot point to a single threatening act, a single violent communication, a single extremist affiliation, or a single acquisition of explosive materials,” Little wrote. “It does not claim Cole threatened anyone. It does not claim he posted anything alarming online; indeed, it concedes it found no such posts.”

Little again undermined the DOJ’s argument that Cole spent nearly five years evading the FBI’s massive pipe-bomb investigation.

RELATED: Prosecution of Brian J. Cole Jr. for Jan. 6 pipe bombs raises more questions than it answers

Police block off the road leading to the home of pipe-bomb suspect Brian J. Cole Jr. in Woodbridge, Va., on Dec.4, 2025.Photo by Andrew Leyden/Getty Images

“The government cannot have it both ways,” Little wrote. “Either Cole was a meticulous concealer who carefully covered his tracks for nearly five years, or he was someone who left Home Depot receipts from November 2020 in his vehicle until December 2025, stored pipe components in a closet and his car with their original purchase receipts, and purchased every component using his own credit and debit cards under his own name.”

Cole’s defense team has volunteered that Cole be placed on strict court supervision that includes home detention with GPS monitoring. Cole’s grandmother, Loretta Donnette, volunteered to be responsible for Cole and ensure that he complies with all court release conditions. Her husband, a retired federal law enforcement officer with the Government Services Administration, would be home at all times, she told the court.

“Cole has no criminal history, strong community ties, and a family — including a retired law enforcement officer — prepared to ensure his compliance,” Little said. “Pretrial detention under these circumstances is not ‘the carefully limited exception’ the Constitution requires. It is an unjustified deprivation of liberty that this Court should end.”

The DOJ originally had until March 9 to respond to the defense’s appeal memorandum, but on Monday the Court of Appeals issued an order suspending the appeals calendar for the case. It’s not clear how that will impact timing of a decision from the court.

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A Minneapolis county attorney said her office is investigating 17 incidents involving federal agents, including Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino, for possible criminal charges.

Bovino headed the immigration enforcement mission in Minnesota dubbed Operation Metro Surge but left the area after the deaths of anti-ICE protesters Renee Good and Alex Pretti in January.

‘We will investigate and pursue charging where appropriate, and we’ll seek collaboration with local law enforcement wherever and whenever needed.’

On Monday, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office said it was investigating the incidents and opened an online portal to collect tips from the public about “potentially unlawful behavior” committed by agents of Operation Metro Surge.

“Our [Transparency and Accountability Project] team is actively investigating 17 incidents that have been brought to our attention by the community, including Gregory Kent Bovino’s actions near Mueller Park on January 21,” reads a statement from Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty.

Moriarty was likely referring to an incident captured on video where Bovino tossed a canister of chemical irritants at protesters after giving them a warning to disperse. A photographer also captured an officer apparently directly spraying an irritant into a protester’s face after he was pinned to the ground on the same day.

“We will investigate and pursue charging where appropriate, and we’ll seek collaboration with local law enforcement wherever and whenever needed,” she added.

The statement said that portals created for the cases involving Pretti and Good had been closed after collecting public information.

“Make no mistake, we are not afraid of any legal fight,” Moriarty added. “But we will do this ethically, responsibly, and vigorously. TAP is fundamental to our efforts to ensure the transparency and accountability that our community deserves. This is just the beginning.”

A request for comment from the Department of Homeland Security was not immediately returned.

RELATED: Sex toys, other objects allegedly thrown at cops at Minneapolis ICE facility, prompting dozens of arrests — but not by DHS

After Bovino left, the administration sent border czar Tom Homan to oversee the operation in Minneapolis. He has since withdrawn the federal officers and ended the operation after citing its successes.

Afterward, Bovino released a video message to federal officers expressing his gratitude and support.

“I’m very proud of what you, the mean green machine, are doing in Minneapolis right now, just like you’ve done it across the United States over these past tough nine months,” he said in front of Mount Rushmore in late January.

“I also want you to know that I’ve got your back, now and always — I love you, I support you, and I salute you,” he added.

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