A former University of Kentucky cheerleader is facing a significantly more serious charge after a medical examiner made a gut-wrenching discovery in connection with the death of her newborn.

As Blaze News previously reported, Laken Snelling was arrested in August after her newborn baby was found dead.

‘[Snelling] said that she believed the baby to be dead and wrapped the baby up like a burrito and laid next to it [on] the floor because it gave her a little comfort in the moment.’

At the time of her arrest, Snelling was a senior at the University of Kentucky and a member of the STUNT team, which finished second at last year’s NCAA competition. Snelling has since withdrawn from the school.

Citing the arrest record, WLEX-TV reported that Snelling “admitted to giving birth” to the baby during an interview with police.

Court records USA Today obtained reveal that Snelling told police she gave birth to a baby around 4 a.m. Aug. 27, and the newborn “fell into the floor of her bedroom.”

The affidavit said Snelling informed investigators that she did not believe the newborn baby boy was breathing or alive, and she passed out approximately 30 minutes later.

When Snelling woke up, she “quickly got up” and saw “the baby turning blue and purple,” according to the affidavit.

“[Snelling] said that she believed the baby to be dead and wrapped the baby up like a burrito and laid next to it [on] the floor because it gave her a little comfort in the moment,” court docs said.

Snelling “admitted to concealing the birth by cleaning any evidence, placing all cleaning items used inside of a black trash bag, including the infant, who was wrapped in a towel,” the arrest record stated.

Snelling was initially charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, and concealing the birth of an infant.

WLEX cited court documents that stated Snelling was on “home incarceration with no ankle monitor” at her parents’ residence in Tennessee since September.

Snelling entered a not guilty plea to the original charges.

However, she’s now facing a new charge in light of the medical examiner’s recent report.

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WLKY-TV reported that the Kentucky Medical Examiner’s office determined the baby was born alive and his cause of death was asphyxia by undetermined means.

Fayette Commonwealth’s Attorney Kimberly Baird noted, “Baby Snelling was born alive and then died from asphyxia through unknown means. So that’s what we needed to make sure about.”

On Tuesday, a Fayette County grand jury indicted Snelling on a new charge of first-degree manslaughter as well as the previous charges of abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, and concealing the birth of an infant.

Baird told WKYT-TV that the grand jury was “given the information about homicide, the four levels of homicide, and then deliberated and decided that manslaughter first degree was the charge that should come out of the grand jury.”

According to the University Herald, Snelling faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of first-degree manslaughter. If convicted on the other three charges, Snelling faces up to an additional 11 years in prison.

Kentucky law defines first-degree manslaughter as when a person intends to cause serious physical injury to another person and causes death; intends to cause death but does so under extreme emotional disturbance; or intentionally abuses a person under age 12 and causes death.

Her previous charge of abuse of a corpse is a class D felony that carries a prison sentence of between one and five years.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Snelling, and she’s scheduled for arraignment in Fayette County at 8:30 a.m. April 10, according to WKYT.

The Lexington Police Department did not immediately respond to Blaze News‘ request for comment.

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A Florida woman who tried to get a trend going to encourage shooting MAGA supporters was found guilty by a federal jury and now faces up to five years in prison.

Desiree Doreen Segari, 41, of Sarasota posted a video to TikTok calling on people to shoot at supporters of the Make America Great Again movement, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

‘Put them back in their basements, make them scared again to be racist, homophobic, and terrible just awful [expletive].’

“So if we all get our guns and use our Second Amendment right … and you see somebody with a MAGA hat, ‘pew pew,’ that’s what we do. That’s the way; it’s the only way,” Segari said on the video, according to the statement.

While saying “pew pew,” the woman made shooting gun gestures with her hands.

“Put them back in their basements; make them scared again to be racist, homophobic, and terrible just awful f**king pieces of s**t,” she added.

“MAGA people deserve to be terrified and scared to walk in the streets because they should know that real Americans are gonna f**king kill them,” Segari said.

She added the hashtag “see MAGA pew pew MAGA” on the post and wrote, “Starting a new trend, hope it catches on. Please spread the word. Share this video. Repost it. Use the hashtag all over the internet. Let’s go guys. It’s time to fight back in a potentially effective manner.”

In case there wasn’t enough evidence against her, Segari posted a second photo reiterating her intention.

“See MAGA pew pew MAGA, see MAGA pew pew MAGA, see MAGA pew pew MAGA so these [expletive] know we ain’t here to play,” she added.

Segari’s video was posted to social media, where it was widely condemned.

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She was indicted in Sept. 2025 and later found guilty by a federal jury of interstate communication of a threat to injure.

Segari is scheduled to be sentenced on May 5.

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James Talarico, the Democratic nominee hoping to succeed Republican John Cornyn in the U.S. Senate, routinely concern-mongers about traditional Christian views and their influence on American society.

For instance, Talarico stressed during his recent interview with CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert the supposed need to confront “Christian nationalism” — a catchall term he and other radicals use to describe their ideological foes who also happen to be Christian in a nation almost entirely founded by Christians and where today over six in 10 adults are Christian.

The hypocrisy of Talarico’s criticism was highlighted in an excerpt of one of his sermons that resurfaced this week.

‘Christian nationalism is a threat to democracy.’

Talarico — a part-time Presbyterian seminarian who has attempted to use scripture to justify abortion, protested the public display of the Ten Commandments, voted against sparing kids from sex-rejection mutilations, and claimed there are six sexes — discussed the separation of church and state during a sermon at his home church on June 30, 2024.

After criticizing those on the Christian right for supposedly politicizing their faith, Talarico effectively admitted he does the same thing.

“My faith in Jesus leads me to reject Christian nationalism and commit myself to the project of a multiracial, multicultural democracy where we can all freely love God and fully love our neighbors,” said the Democrat.

“My politics grows out of my faith.”

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“Democracy is a Christian value, and Christian nationalism is a threat to democracy,” added Talarico, fretting that some of the Christian Americans with whom he disagrees seek, in Jesus’ name, to ban homosexual “marriage” and the slaying of unborn babies.

Talarico stated in the portion of the sermon that has gone viral, “It’s been said before that when fascism comes to America, it’ll be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. Christian nationalists use Christianity to protect their own social, political, and economic power.”

The X account for the National Republican Senatorial Committee noted that Talarico made these remarks while standing in front of a cross wrapped in a so-called “Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag,” complete with the purple “intersex” symbol. While waging lawfare against traditional Christians, the previous administration hoisted the same colors at home and abroad.

Second Amendment activist and leftist-protest survivor Kyle Rittenhouse commented, “Bro just outted himself.”

The same excerpt from Talarico’s sermon was shared unironically in 2024 by the Austin chapter of the LGBT activist group Human Rights Campaign, a group that has advocated for policies that infringe upon the religious liberties of Christians and Christian groups.

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Space enthusiasts will have to wait even longer to see man set foot on the moon for the first time since 1972.

The delays are an interesting chapter in a book of American space exploration that has featured stranded astronauts, Elon Musk, and celebrity forays in recent years.

The lunar landing task would fall under Artemis IV, which has a launch date of early 2028.

In 2024, Boeing astronauts were stranded in space and had to be rescued by Musk’s SpaceX program.

2025 saw headlines from the widely mocked New Shepard program, backed by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos. The all-female celebrity jaunt traveled to the Karman line, known internationally as the official boundary of space, grabbing attention while actual female astronauts were simultaneously in orbit conducting space operations.

At the same time, 2025 was meant to be the year NASA’s Artemis III would land astronauts near the South Pole of the moon for the first time. Now, that target has been pushed back and the mission seems increasingly distant.

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Not only is Artemis III still not ready, but Artemis II hasn’t even launched yet. Artemis II was planned as a crewed lunar orbit aimed at testing systems before the lunar landing. NASA gave it a mission window of late 2024.

However, in 2024, NASA pushed Artemis II back for the first time to September 2025, while Artemis III (the human landing) received a new window of September 2026. After more delays, the 10-day Artemis II mission has since been scheduled for no earlier than April 2026, but the lunar landing mission will be delayed even longer than expected.

Now, Artemis III is scheduled for mid-2027. Its official mission page states that it will launch by 2028. However, the parameters have now shifted and this mission will no longer complete a lunar surface landing at all.

That feat has since been bumped to another mission, according to NASA.

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The space program will certainly not be making any believers with its latest announcement in early March, which stated that the lunar landing task would fall under Artemis IV, which has a launch date of early 2028.

According to the announcement, NASA plans to launch another lunar surface mission, Artemis V, by the end of 2028, followed by subsequent annual missions thereafter.

“This mission also is when NASA is expected to begin building its moon base,” NASA claimed.

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The head priest and dean of an Episcopalian church in Pennsylvania is in trouble with the law due to a recent string of alleged thefts.

According to police, a Walmart store says it has the priest on security video stealing for five days straight, snatching up items and leaving without paying.

‘Please pray for Aidan.’

The Very Reverend Aidan Smith from the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Pittsburgh was arrested at the end of February after he allegedly continuously stole from a Walmart in Economy Borough. As ABC News reported, police said Smith was arrested with 27 packs of baseball cards concealed under his clothing in a carboard box.

The arrest came after five consecutive days of allegedly stealing baseball cards, with each alleged theft ranging from $121-$261 of merchandise.

Walmart has reportedly valued the cards at $1,099.99 total, and the reverend has been charged with receiving stolen property and retail theft.

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Following Smith’s arrest, the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, the Right Reverend Ketlen Solak, sent a message to cathedral members addressing the situation.

“I have spoken with Aidan and assured him of our prayers for him in this difficult time,” Solak wrote, per NBC News. “Please pray for Aidan, for Melanie and their children, for the entire cathedral congregation as we grieve this news, and for everyone involved in this hard situation,” she concluded.

Diocesan officials will reportedly investigate the situation and follow church procedure for the handling of clergy misconduct.

According to Solak, Smith has been on administrative leave from the cathedral since late January but did not provide details as to why.

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According to CBS Pittsburgh, Trinity Episcopal is the largest cathedral under the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, with Smith responsible for its daily operations.

As of Tuesday, the reverend is reportedly out on bail and awaiting trial, set for April.

Walmart is seeking $873 in restitution after only some of the cards have been recovered.

Smith reportedly offered no reason to police for the alleged thefts when he was arrested, and his attorney has declined comment to multiple outlets.

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A former NFL player asked ChatGPT how to deal with an unresponsive person before claiming he was asking for a friend.

Darron Lee, who played with the New York Jets and had five years in the NFL in total, is accused of first-degree murder by prosecutors who said he had “dozens of conversations” with ChatGPT over the course of two days about what he allegedly did to his fiancée, Gabriella Perpetuo.

‘Fiancee did her crazy thing again and now she’s messed up.’

Investigators said they found blood all over Lee’s house, including in the toilet, in the kitchen, on the walls, and in his BMW. Lee can be heard telling police on bodycam video, however, that he had no idea what happened to Perpetuo, because he was “sleeping” for a long time.

Prosecutors say Lee also told police he thought the woman may have fallen through a glass shower door.

Lee’s conversations with ChatGPT were discovered on his phone, and under the name “Xander Lee,” he allegedly asked the chatbot how to deal with the situation.

“Dont know what to do right now, Fiancee did her crazy thing again and now she’s messed up, i wake up and she has two swollen eyes(i didn’t do anything, self inflicted) she stabbed herself, slit her eye? idk but she isn’t waking up or responding what do i do?” Lee reportedly wrote.

Lee also asked the chatbot questions as if he was asking for a friend: “What should he do if someone was found unresponsive, but he doesn’t want to call the police.”

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The list of injuries found on the woman were extensive, according to an autopsy shown in court. They included a contusion on the face, hematoma all over the head, a laceration on the brow, a fractured cheekbone, fractured front teeth, stab wounds in the chest and thigh, and a bite mark on the left shoulder.

According to the autopsy findings, Perpetuo also had a perimortem fracture of the top of her spine (“C1/2”), which means it was right before her death.

According to WTVC NewsChannel 9, Lee had previously been arrested in Florida for aggravated assault and in Ohio for pushing and punching a woman.

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Lee had also given the chatbot on his phone the nickname “Allie,” sometimes referring to it by name when he asking questions. Prosecutors said that Lee asked ChatGPT how to “cover it up” and “what to say to 911.”

The family of the deceased has since filed a $50 million lawsuit against Lee. His NFL career earnings were more than $18 million, according to Spotrac.

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President Trump was joined on stage at a Kentucky rally by a surprise guest earlier this week — and this was only the beginning of the surprises at the rally.

During his remarks Wednesday, President Donald Trump invited YouTuber turned boxer Jake Paul onto the stage, where they exchanged a few words and Paul briefly addressed the crowd of rally-goers.

‘God’s got us. Trump’s got us. God bless. Love you, Kentucky.’

Trump repeatedly called Paul a “courageous guy” during the exchange.

Paul told the crowd: “What Mr. Trump has taught me is courage. You know, we never back down from a fight, even if they’re much bigger than you.”

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Paul praised the Kentuckians at the rally for their “fight” and “swag” before adding that they “need more factories like this thriving all over the country.”

The rally was held at a packaging plant in Hebron, Kentucky, which lies in Republican Rep. Thomas Massie’s 4th Congressional District. During the rally, Trump took aim at Massie, who has fallen out of favor with the president, and threw his support behind Massie’s Republican primary challenger Ed Gallrein.

Paul continued: “I know God is with us. I know he wants us on the right side of history. And everyone here has to do their part.”

“God’s got us. Trump’s got us. God bless. Love you, Kentucky,” Paul said at the end of his short speech.

Trump heaped praise on Paul before making a surprising promise.

“He’s a hell of a fighter, too, by the way. And I just want to say, I predict — I’m going to make a prediction that you will be, in the not-too-distant future, running for political office — and you have my complete and total endorsement!” Trump said.

After the rally, a video of Paul and Trump dancing to “Y.M.C.A.” began circulating on social media.

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While the news is rife with reports about missiles and armies, Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck is urging Americans to wake up to another very serious war we’re facing.

“I am not pushing for or advocating for war, a physical war with Iran or anybody else. But war is not just coming. It is here. And I mean the kind of war that does not use battleships. Everything in the world will become much clearer if you look at things with different eyes. Not political eyes, not partisan eyes, but if you start looking at things through spiritual eyes,” Glenn explains.

While Glenn admits that Americans have been historically dealing with bad policy, that bad policy has turned into “evil” that “has convinced itself that it is righteous.”

“That combination has always been the most dangerous force in all of human history,” he says.

And that combination is on full display in Iran.

“So let me start with the war in Iran. People in Washington are talking about Iran as another just geopolitical rival, another regime that we could possibly negotiate, another government, you know, seeking influence. But the regime in Tehran is not just political,” Glenn says.

“The regime in Iran is built on a theological revolution. The clerics that took over in 1979, they didn’t just overthrow a government. They built a system designed to export their ideology all across the globe,” he explains.

And that ideology includes women being “beaten in the street by the morality police for showing too much hair.”

“Young girls have been dragged into vans, imprisoned, and tortured. We saw it a few years ago when the woman who was arrested for not wearing her hijab properly was killed in prison. How about the 9-year-olds that they are insisting are cool to marry now a 50-year-old guy?” he says.

“When there’s a protest in the streets, thousands are arrested. Thousands are killed. Some protesters are executed publicly. Young men have been hung from cranes. Children are imprisoned. Girls assaulted in prison. You have homosexuals that are thrown off roofs or beheaded in the public square. And it’s all being done in the name of God,” he continues.

But those who believe in what Glenn calls “spiritual blindness” do not only live in Iran or other Muslim countries or practice Islam.

“It’s here in the West in a different form. You know, evil doesn’t come, you know, wearing a Nazi uniform. Rarely, does it? It creeps in quietly. It normalizes things. It confuses moral ideas through ideology,” he explains.

“And if you look at the patterns of history, it’s there over and over again,” he adds.

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A 13-year-old Alabama boy took matters into his own hands after his stepfather allegedly strangled his mother during an argument — and then attacked him, too.

Deputies with the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office responded to a residence off Underwood Road in Foley at 8:20 p.m. Monday regarding a domestic violence complaint, the sheriff’s office said in a Thursday morning news release.

‘He was threatening to kill everyone in the house because he was high on drugs, and he was drunk.’

Upon arrival, deputies saw a 13-year-old male holding down 32-year-old Darnel Hernandez-Lopez with a bicycle in the front yard, officials said.

Hernandez-Lopez had numerous injuries to his face and was detained and treated medically on the scene, officials said.

Hernandez-Lopez’s wife told deputies her husband grabbed her around her neck and started to choke her during an argument that took place in front of the boy, who left the house to seek help.

Once the boy was outside, Hernandez-Lopez followed his stepson and attempted to violently engage him in the front yard, officials said.

During this altercation, the stepson was able to defend himself and struck his stepfather in the face numerous times and subdued him until deputies could arrive, officials said.

Hernandez-Lopez was charged with felony assault strangulation and taken to the Baldwin County Corrections Center for holding, officials said, adding that his bond is $30,000.

What’s more, the sheriff’s office said Hernandez-Lopez is now on an immigration hold as well.

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“He was threatening to kill everyone in the house because he was high on drugs, and he was drunk,” the mother told WALA-TV regarding Hernandez-Lopez.

She added to the station that Hernandez-Lopez swung at her son, who dodged the blow.

“[He] was able to get him on the ground, and that’s when he punched him a few times, knocked him out until the police arrived,” the mother noted to WALA.

She also told the station she was frightened for her son’s safety — at first.

“I was scared because I thought he was going to get hurt, but he had the situation under control,” she told WALA, adding that she and her son are safe and did not suffer serious injuries.

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In a large shift in the war against veteran homelessness, the Trump administration has updated its policies to allow the government to step in to intervene on veterans’ behalf — but not everyone is happy about the change.

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Wednesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Justice in an effort to give veterans, some of whom are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless, “the ongoing care they need.”

‘We owe our Veterans a debt we can never fully repay — but we can give them the support they deserve.’

The agreement, according to the VA’s announcement, allows the DOJ to appoint VA attorneys as special assistant U.S. attorneys. Thus appointed, VA attorneys will have the legal authority to “initiate and participate in state court guardianship or conservatorship proceedings in cases where a legal decision-maker is required for post-acute transitions of care for these vulnerable Veterans.”

The VA called these legal guardianships a “lifeline” for vulnerable veterans who do not have other options to protect their rights.

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“Our new partnership with the Justice Department reflects our ongoing commitment to ensuring that every Veteran receives timely, appropriate care, even in complex cases,” said VA Secretary Doug Collins.

“The Department of Justice is proud to partner with the Department of Veterans Affairs to support our nation’s brave Veterans by ensuring that they have the best legal resources available when it comes to making medical decisions and receiving timely care,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi. “We owe our Veterans a debt we can never fully repay — but we can give them the support they deserve.”

The Trump administration made efforts in its first year to address homelessness in the pursuit of restoring public order.

Specifically, President Trump signed an executive order near the end of July 2025 with the goal of “shifting individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment.”

Michael Figlioli, the director of the National Veterans Service for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, commended the change, which he told the New York Times recognizes “that some of our nation’s most vulnerable veterans must be approached through a public health and social services framework.”

However, others have raised concerns about veterans’ civil liberties.

“The Trump-Vance administration is pursuing policies that would push hundreds, if not thousands, of veterans into institutions and court-ordered guardianships,” Rep. Mark Takano of California, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, said to the New York Times.

“Guardianship should always be a last resort, after all less restrictive options have been exhausted, to ensure veterans’ rights are respected,” Takano continued.

According to the most recent data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, an estimated 32,882 veterans were homeless on a single night in January 2024. Veterans make up roughly 5% of the homeless population in the United States, according to the same report.

When asked for comment, Veterans Affairs directed Blaze News to the general number of the U.S. House of Representatives, a senator’s office, and the White House, none of which responded to a request for comment. The Department of Justice did not respond to a request for comment.

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A CNN news anchor issued an on-air correction after she incorrectly stated that the alleged ISIS-inspired attack outside of New York City’s Gracie Mansion over the weekend targeted Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D).

“Two Republicans say Muslims don’t belong here after an attempted terror attack against New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, and the House speaker, Mike Johnson, says nothing, really, to condemn those comments,” Phillip stated on Tuesday.

‘I incorrectly said that the bombs that were thrown by ISIS-inspired suspects in New York over the weekend were directed at Mayor Mamdani.’

Phillip was referring to the attack allegedly carried out by Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, who were accused of igniting homemade explosive devices. One of those devices was allegedly thrown at a group of demonstrators protesting Islamic takeover of the city, and the other device was allegedly dropped near police officers. Both devices failed to detonate, and no injuries were reported.

Phillip released a correction in a post on X the following day, writing, “The bombs thrown in New York City over the weekend by ISIS inspired attackers was thrown into a crowd of anti-Muslim protestors and not specifically targeted at Mayor Mamdani. That wording was inaccurate and I didn’t catch it ahead of time. I apologize for the error.”

A community note was tacked onto Phillip’s post, reading, “The use of the word ‘specifically’ implies Mamdami [sic] may have been a target when this is factually incorrect based on every report and testimony from the two terrorists themselves. Bombs were thrown at protestors and police in order to injure/murder as many civilians as possible.”

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Phillip was also apparently forced to issue an on-air correction for her “mistake” later that day.

“I incorrectly said that the bombs that were thrown by ISIS-inspired suspects in New York over the weekend were directed at Mayor Mamdani. They were not,” Phillip told CNN viewers.

Phillip took “full responsibility” for failing to catch the error.

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CNN was also criticized this week for publishing a post that appeared to romanticize the terrorist bombing attempt.

“Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could’ve been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather,” the now-deleted post read. “But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti-Muslim protest outside of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home.”

CNN retracted the post, releasing a statement claiming that it “failed to reflect the gravity of the incident.”

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A Canadian human rights tribunal in British Columbia has ordered a former school trustee from Chilliwack to pay $750,000 in damages for insisting there are only two genders.

The tribunal ruled that Barry Neufeld’s public comments about transgender and nonbinary people constituted discrimination under the province’s Human Rights Code.

‘I spent all my career working with special, at-risk kids — kids who had horrible backgrounds, who suffered all sorts of trauma and abuse. I have nothing but compassion for them.’

The case stems from a 2017 Facebook post in which Neufeld criticized gender-transition treatments for children. Teachers’ union groups later filed human rights complaints alleging that his statements created an unsafe work environment for some employees. The dispute wound its way through mediation attempts, court challenges, and tribunal hearings for several years before the ruling.

Transgender denialism, it seems, can carry serious consequences.

Stunned by decision

When I recently caught up with Neufeld, I asked whether he even had that kind of money.

He laughed off the idea. In fact, he says he doesn’t even own the land his trailer sits on.

Neufeld served as a school trustee for 26 years and worked as a probation officer for 25. He says he knows the criminal justice system well, but nothing prepared him for a human rights tribunal ruling that he must pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for expressing his views.

The moment he heard the decision, he says, he was stunned.

“I couldn’t believe it,” Neufeld told me. “It was preposterous. I didn’t think that the tribunal would go along with it, but they did. In some ways it’s a blessing in disguise, because if they had only ordered $75,000, nobody would have paid attention. But this woke everybody up.”

The case has drawn national attention and criticism from across the political spectrum, including commentary in the Globe and Mail. Supporters have stepped forward to help fund Neufeld’s legal defense — something he says he never needed to rely on before.

‘I just think they’re deluded’

In Canada, disputes over gender identity are often handled not in criminal courts but in provincial human rights tribunals. While Canada’s Criminal Code does not make misgendering a crime, tribunals have ruled that refusing to use a person’s preferred pronouns can constitute discrimination.

According to Neufeld, the tribunal determined that his comments amounted to hate speech because he rejected the concept of “nonbinary” and other gender identities.

“They explained to me that it was hate speech because I denied the existence of nonbinary and all the other genders,” he said.

“And I said, ‘I don’t deny their existence. It’s not existential denialism. I just think they’re deluded.’ They said, ‘That’s hate speech.’”

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Chilling effect

The ruling has also unsettled another another Chilliwack school trustee. Laurie Throness, a former member of the B.C. Legislative Assembly, stepped down from his position after concluding that he could be the next target.

For Neufeld, this chilling effect is by design. “The purpose of such a high penalty was to scare everybody else [and to say] that if you commit blasphemy against our gender religion, you will lose everything. And it’s starting to work.”

For his part, Neufeld insisted his criticism was always directed at ideas — not people.

“I never threatened any person,” he said.

“I constantly was confronting ideas — especially gender ideology. And they countered by saying because I use the word ‘gender ideology,’ I’m hiding behind that to disguise my hate of transgender people. I don’t hate transgender people either. I have compassion and sympathy for them.”

Protecting children

What concerns him, he said, is the promotion of gender ideology to children.

“Forcing these ideas on young children is what has kept me motivated to constantly be speaking out against them.”

Despite the tribunal ruling, Neufeld said he believes public opinion is shifting.

“They’re losing the battle,” he said. “They know it. B.C. is one of the last jurisdictions in the world to hang on to this. … They’re backing away from it in many countries in Europe and many states in the United States.

“I don’t hate anybody,” he added.

“They’re blowing in the wind if they think they can convince the world that I’m a hateful person, because I’m not. I spent all my career working with special, at-risk kids — kids who had horrible backgrounds, who suffered all sorts of trauma and abuse. I have nothing but compassion for them.”

No ‘wrong’ bodies

But Neufeld worries about what he sees as the consequences of encouraging young people to believe they were born in the wrong body.

“When you start telling them that all their problems are caused because they’re born in the wrong body, you screw up their minds,” he said.

He also questioned the medical dimension of youth gender transitions.

“What are the side effects of these drugs that you’re giving kids?” he asked.

Neufeld says parents ultimately need to reclaim authority over decisions affecting their children.

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Last weekend, an attempted bombing occurred outside Gracie Mansion, the official residence of New York City’s Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani (D). During a heated clash between anti-Islam protesters and a group of counterprotesters, two teenagers from Pennsylvania — 18-year-old Emir Balat and 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi — allegedly threw two improvised explosive devices toward the crowd.

Fortunately, neither bomb detonated, and no one was injured. Both Balat and Kayumi were arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, using a weapon of mass destruction, transportation of explosive materials, and unlawful possession of destructive devices.

TPUSA Frontlines photojournalist Gabriel Victal was present at the scene when the attack occurred. But the attempted bombing, he says, “wasn’t the first instance” of violence.

On this episode of “The John Doyle Show,” Victal gives his first-person account of the incident, sharing on-the-ground observations you won’t hear from mainstream outlets.

“There were other scenarios where basically [the counterprotesters] were beating the crap out of right-wing journalists that they discovered were ‘Zionist.’ They were chasing them out, saying, ‘He’s a Zionist. Get out of here,”’ Victal recounts.

It was when he and his partner were editing this footage that the attempted bombing occurred.

“We were editing that footage, and out of nowhere … I see this Muslim individual jump the fence, which he was not supposed to cross, and, you know, a big kind of smoke comes out. … Everybody’s looking around, saying, ‘Bomb bomb bomb!’” he tells Doyle, laughing that despite the chaos, his “first instinct as a journalist [was to] start recording.”

One of the people yelling “bomb” was a “transsexual,” who immediately began trying to assist the alleged attacker after he was apprehended, Victal reports.

“Didn’t that same transsexual also yell to the guy when he was apprehended something like, ‘Who’s your emergency contact?’” asks Doyle.

“Yes. … This happens all the time,” says Victal. “Every time someone on their side, where they perceive to be an ally of theirs, they are always trying to get them out of trouble.”

“Every time we’re in Minneapolis, it’s the same thing,” he says. “Somebody gets arrested for, you know, punching a police officer or attacking a journalist or whatever it may be, and they’re always trying to defend them, have them call [Monarca Rapid Response]” — a community-run rapid response team that mobilizes specifically for sightings of federal immigration enforcement activity.

“Then there are lawyers who will go out of their way to defend these people,” Victal adds.

To hear more details of his firsthand account, watch the full interview above.

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