Heather Pressdee of Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania, worked at over 11 rehabilitation clinics between 2018 and 2023. She consistently got fired or had to resign on account of concerns over her abusive behavior toward staff and patients.

Pennsylvania’s Office of the Attorney General conducted an investigation after receiving a referral about a patient under Pressdee’s care in late 2022. It soon became clear that she wasn’t just abusing patients — Pressdee was murdering them.

To avoid the death penalty, Pressdee, 41, has pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and 19 counts of criminal attempt to commit murder. She will, however, die in prison as a Butler County judge sentenced the killer nurse to three life sentences for the three confirmed murders plus 380-760 years of consecutive incarceration for her other murder attempts.

“The defendant used her position of trust as a means to poison patients who depended on her for care,” Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry
said in statement Thursday. “This plea and life sentence will not bring back the lives lost, but it will ensure Heather Pressdee never has another opportunity to inflict further harm. I offer my sincere sympathy to all who have suffered at this defendant’s hands.”

Pressdee’s
victims, who were spread over four counties at five different facilities, include Alice Stewart, Ann Victain, Betty Hutchison, Betty McQueeney, Elmer Allbee, Gerald Shrum Sr., Irene Simons, Purple Heart recipient Jack Rogers, James Bartoe, James Fair, Joseph Campbell, Louise Skinner, Marguerite Laskovich, Marianne Bower, Mary Colwell, Nicholas Cymbol, Norman Hendrickson, Ruth Erikson, Sandra Lincoln, and Sherry Stilitino. Their ages were 43-104.

Victims (Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office)

Blaze News
previously reported that the victims had been at Concordia at Rebecca Residence; Belair Healthcare and Rehabilitation; Quality Life Services Chicora; Premier Armstrong Rehabilitation and Nursing Center; and Sunnyview Rehabilitation and Nursing Center — all locations where Pressdee served as a registered nurse.

Investigators indicated the killer nurse would load her victims up with fatal doses of insulin during overnight shifts when there were few staff members on hand and “often took steps to ensure her victims would expire prior to shift change so that they wouldn’t be sent to the hospital where her scheme could be discovered through medical testing.”

In the event that victims appeared as though they might survive, Pressdee took additional measures to snuff them out.

According to the
criminal complaint, when insulin failed to kill one victim whom Pressdee later told investigators “needed to die,” she administered a syringe full of air into the victim’s catheter to create a lethal air embolism.

Pressdee appears to have developed a taste for killing after dropping out of the nursing program at the Community College of Allegheny County and becoming a veterinary technician. She later told investigators that during her 14 years providing “critical animal care,” her duties included euthanizing animals.

The murderer later finished her nursing degree then went to work treating human beings like lesser animals.

A number of Pressdee’s text messages to her mother that were detailed in the complaint hint at a murderous mentality, such as when she wrote:

“I’m gonna murder already” on June 10, 2022;
“If you get like this you will get pillow therapy,” referencing a patient on June 26, 2022;
“She’s gonna die!!!!” on July 5, 2022;
“I drugged him already and I don’t know how he is awake” on Sept. 6, 2022;
“I’m going to kill this bitch on the phone” on Oct. 17, 2022;
“She could be dead, she hasn’t made a noise since 9 and I’m not checking on her,” adding later on Dec. 7, 2022, “Well she’s alive and she may die now”;
“Whatever I’m gonna stab a bitch today” on Jan. 21, 2023; and
“But I may kill this resident” on May 12, 2023.

In court, Phil DiLucente, Pressdee’s defense attorney, attempted to humanize the murderous nurse,
reported WTAE-TV.

“Let me just say this. There is not all bad in everyone. And you could see at the end, she was remorseful,” said DiLucente. “There was a tear in her eyes, and some folks could see up in the jury box from the press that I handed her a handkerchief to wipe her tears away. So, at the end of the day, we’re all human, and this is a very, very tragic — a tragic case.”

Family members of the victims weren’t fooled by the attorney’s last-ditch effort and the killer’s crocodile tears.

One relative told the judge, “She’s not sick. She’s not insane. She’s evil personified.”

Another victim’s granddaughter told Pressdee, “You are not a nurse, you are a black mark on the nursing profession.”

“She’s pure evil,” Melinda Brown, sister of victim Nicholas Cymbol, told WTAE. “There’s no justice for this. We’ll get justice when she meets her maker.”

Elizabeth Simons Ozella, the daughter of victim Irene Simons said, “I’ll never forgive her for what she did. We’re angry and hurt that she disguised herself as a caring nurse.”

“She took someone from this earth that she had no right to take,” continued Ozella, “and she played God when she didn’t have that right.”

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Actor Daniel Radcliffe said it would have seemed like he was being cowardly if he didn’t make a statement after author J.K. Rowling’s criticisms of the transgender movement in 2020.

That year, Rowling spoke out and said, “If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased,” adding that erasing the concept of sex “removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn’t hate to speak the truth.”

Radcliffe responded in a written piece for the Trevor Project, an organization that provides “crisis intervention and suicide prevention services” to LGBTQ youth.

“Transgender women are women. Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice given by professional health care associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than either Jo or I,” Radcliffe wrote, referring to Rowling by a short form of her first name, Joanne.

In an interview with the Atlantic, Radcliffe explained that anything less than that response would have been cowardly.

“I’d worked with the Trevor Project for 12 years and it would have seemed like, I don’t know, immense cowardice to me to not say something.”

“I wanted to try and help people that had been negatively affected by the comments,” he continued. “And to say that if those are Jo’s views, then they are not the views of everybody associated with the Potter franchise,” the actor said.

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Radcliffe admitted in the interview that he has had no direct contact with Rowling in the past few years but has had indirect responses.

“It makes me really sad, ultimately,” he told the outlet. “I do look at the person that I met, the times that we met, and the books that she wrote, and the world that she created, and all of that is to me so deeply empathic,” he explained.

The “Harry Potter” star also remarked on the group of then-child actors being lumped together for their echoed sentiments toward transgenderism.

Actress Emma Watson said in 2020 that “trans people are who they say they are” while co-star Rupert Grint also said at the time that “trans women are women. Trans men are men.”

Radcliffe said that in the British press particularly, “There’s a version of ‘Are these three kids ungrateful brats?’ that people have always wanted to write, and they were finally able to. So, good for them, I guess,”

“Obviously Harry Potter would not have happened without [Rowling], so nothing in my life would have probably happened the way it is without that person. But that doesn’t mean that you owe the things you truly believe to someone else for your entire life,” he declared.

In a lengthy thread on X, Rowling stated in April 2024 that “committed ideologues” had doubled down on their transgender rhetoric, despite information released in a study that ultimately led to the U.K.’s health system halting hormone blockers for children.

“These are people who’ve deemed opponents ‘far-right’ for wanting to know there are proper checks and balances in place before autistic, gay and abused kids – groups that are all overrepresented at gender clinics – are left sterilised, inorgasmic, lifelong patients,” she added.

In response, a fan said that he was waiting for “Harry Potter” film stars Radcliffe and Watson to issue an apology to Rowling, adding that he felt “safe in the knowledge” that Rowling would forgive them.

Rowling denied that sentiment.

“Not safe, I’m afraid. Celebs who cosied up to a movement intent on eroding women’s hard-won rights and who used their platforms to cheer on the transitioning of minors can save their apologies for traumatised detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single sex spaces.”

In response to that exchange, Radcliffe told the Atlantic that he would “continue to support the rights of all LGBTQ people” and that he has “no further comment than that.”

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The New York criminal case against former President Donald Trump continued for the eleventh day on Friday, with one of the prosecution’s so-called key witnesses, Hope Hicks, taking the stand. Hicks was Trump’s former White House communications director and campaign aide.

Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo questioned Hicks. During her testimony, Hicks stated that she “was concerned” when she received an email request for comment from the Washington Post regarding a piece on the “Access Hollywood” tape.

“I was concerned about the contents of the email. I was concerned about the lack of time to respond. I was concerned we had a transcript without a tape. There was a lot at play,” she said.

Hicks told the jury that she had “a good sense this was going to be a massive story,” adding that it was “a damaging development” to the presidential campaign.

“lt was all Trump all the time for the next 36 hours,” Hicks said, referring to the media coverage that followed the release of the tape.

Hicks claimed that former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker told her during a phone call that the deal the tabloid made with former Playboy model Karen McDougal — who alleged she had an affair with Trump — was “for magazine covers and fitness columns and that it was all very legitimate.”

She said that Trump “wanted to hear that from David as well.”

“I believe I have a recollection of us calling and David repeating that to Mr. Trump,” Hicks added.

Hicks claimed that Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney, told her the story about the $130,000 so-called hush money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels was not true and that no payment had ever been made. She noted that it “would be out of character” for Cohen to make the payment himself.

Before Trump’s attorney, Emil Bove, started his cross-examination, Hicks began tearing up on the stand and had to take a short break.

When she returned, she told jurors that Cohen had tried to “insert himself” into Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and go “rogue” by taking actions not approved by the campaign team. She noted that his unauthorized activities frustrated the Trump team.

“He would try to insert himself at certain moments, but he wasn’t supposed to be on the campaign in any official capacity,” she said of Cohen. “There were things he did in a voluntary capacity because of his interest.”

“He liked to call himself a fixer, or Mr. Fix It, and it was only because he first broke it that he was able to then fix it,” she told jurors.

Anything else?

On Friday morning, the prosecution submitted recordings from Cohen’s phone as evidence in the trial.

Bove noted that between 2016 and 2023, “all sorts of things have happened” with Cohen’s phone, which “present questions about the reliability of the evidence.”

Prosecutor Chris Conroy asked witness Douglas Daus, a forensics and technology expert, whether he saw “any evidence of tampering or manipulation on any of the data that you pulled related to the recording that’s in evidence.” Daus replied that he had not.

During Bove’s recross-examination, he asked Daus whether he noticed “gaps in the handling of this data that created risk for such tampering,” to which Daus replied, “Yes.”

House Republicans, led by House Judiciary Chairman Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), recently launched an investigation into Colangelo, a former top Department of Justice official, Blaze News previously reported. In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Jordan argued that New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s decision to recruit Colangelo as a lead prosecutor in the criminal case against Trump gave the “perception” that the DOJ is assisting in the “politicized prosecution” of the former president.

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Country music megastar John Rich experienced a second bold revelation after seeing a bunch of frat boys at the University of North Carolina save Old Glory from “unwashed Marxists” trying to replace it with a Palestinian flag.

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“I wanted to let them know they had my sincere gratitude, so I offered them a free concert at some point to celebrate their efforts and the patriot fire that is now beginning to fire back up across the USA,” Rich told Blaze News Friday morning.

Many patriotic Americans have been inspired by the young men who stood up to the pro-Hamsas protesters at UNC-Chapel Hill. A GoFundMe in support of the boys has hundreds of thousands of dollars pledged. And now a major music star wants to party with the college kids.

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Rich will likely make his new single, “Revelation,” part of his eventual performance in North Carolina, an event he’s calling “FlagStock.” The song will be at the center of Rich’s performance and partnership with BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock at the Roll Call 2.0 men’s summit on June 1 at Rocketown in Nashville. Rich and Whitlock are bringing divided believers together with music, food, and dynamic speakers, including Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck and Pastors Voddie Baucham and E.W. Jackson.

Three months ago, Rich wrote “Revelation,” a provocative warning to sinners about the wrath of Jesus Christ. Rich told Whitlock earlier this year that the song just popped into his head.

“‘Revelation’ is a song about what will happen upon the return of Jesus Christ to the earth,” Rich told Blaze News. “To my knowledge, there has never been a song written and recorded like this one. The song doesn’t reflect my opinion; it is directly derived from Scripture itself. This song should be strength to the saved, conviction to the lost, and fear to the truly wicked.”

Fearless Army Roll Call 2.0 is a gathering, celebration, and encouragement of men to put on the full armor of God to take a stand against the evil forces destroying American culture (Ephesians). It’s being held because it’s important that men not give up meeting together and encouraging one another toward love and good deeds (Hebrews 10:24-25).

To join Rich and Whitlock at Roll Call 2.0 — which is perfectly scheduled on the first day of “Pride Month” — visit FearlessArmyRollCall.com to reserve your spot. While the world celebrates sinful pride, you can listen to music, eat great food, and listen to powerful speakers share biblical wisdom and encouragement.

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According to a new report, internal DHS data has revealed that the Biden administration has flown hundreds of thousands of “inadmissible” migrants into U.S. cities — and the top 15 cities are eye-opening.

The controversial CHNV mass-parole program has used American tax dollars to send migrants who have claimed refugee status all over the country, but the state with the most migrants is, of course, the red state of Florida.

“We’re just flying these people, without knowing who they really are,” Glenn Beck says, disturbed.

“Now, these aren’t the people who came across the border, these are the ones that the United States government went out to and said, ‘Hey, is anybody a refugee? If you’re a refugee, I got free tickets to America,’” he adds.

According to the report, 91,000 migrants were flown in from January through August 2023 to Miami, Florida. Fort Lauderdale, Florida, received 60,000 migrants.

Those were the top two cities of the fifteen, but the third received much less.

Compared to Miami’s 91,000 and Fort Lauderdale’s 60,000 — New York City came in at number three with 14,000.

“Wait a minute, that’s quite a spread there,” Glenn says, shocked.

Houston, Texas, received 8,000, and at number five, Orlando, Florida, received 6,000. Tampa, Florida, was also on the list.

Stu Burguiere is confused by the decision to send so many migrants to red states rather than states with sanctuary cities.

“If you’re the Biden administration, you keep telling everyone that people in the South, in the red states, hate immigrants, they’re racists, they’re xenophobes, they don’t have any programs for them,” Stu says.

“So, why would you continue to keep bringing them to Florida and Texas? Why wouldn’t you bring them to the cities that have all these wonderful programs you’ve passed?”

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A Christian Navy veteran toppled a satanic statue at the Iowa Capitol just before Christmas. A Democratic prosecutor subsequently slapped him with hate crime charges. This week, a judge ensured that the charges would stick.

While the Satanic Temple and the Democratic prosecutor might like to see Michael Cassidy ultimately locked up, his fate will be determined by a jury — a jury likely to contain at least a handful of sympathetic, God-fearing Americans.

“We believe that the jury will have the opportunity to consider all of the facts in this case, including Mr. Cassidy’s military service and motivation,” Davis Younts, Cassidy’s lawyer, told Blaze News. “He was compelled by his faith to act to protect others.”

‘Enemy of humanity’

The Satanic Temple is an anti-Christian leftist organization that has performed public “unbaptisms”; advocated for mothers to kill their unborn babies by way of its “religious abortion ritual”;
agitated to prevent chaplaincy in Florida schools; disseminated satanic literature to kids; held a demonization ceremony in protest of the canonization of the Catholic Spanish priest Junípero Serra; and pushed the LGBT agenda.

In recent years, the ST has also erected multiple demonic statutes across the country on public property. Ahead of Christmas 2023, the Satanic Temple raised one such statue — a ram-headed Baphomet statue holding a red pentacle — along with a satanic altar on the first floor of the Iowa Capitol.

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There was plenty of impotent rage in the face of the seemingly intentional Christmastime affront to both Christians and Muslims. After all, Blaze News
previously reported that Baphomet possibly originated as a slight against the Muslim faith.

UCLA professor Zrinka Stahuljak
indicated “Baphomet” was originally a French corruption of the name Mohamed. British historian Peter Partner suggested further that the Knights Templar, who reclaimed territory previously occupied by Islamic forces, were accused by inquisitors of worshiping Baphomet as part of what was likely a 14th-century smear.

Gov. Kim Reynolds (R)
called the demonic altar “objectionable” but encouraged critics to engage in prayer at the state Capitol.

State Rep. Jon Dunwell (R), a Christian pastor, outlined why this was the optimal response, noting that the Satanic Temple successfully “petitioned for their display in August and were approved with some modification.”

Lucien Greaves, co-founder of the ST, noted, “I would hope that even people who disagree with the symbolism behind our values, whether they know what those values [are] or not, would at least appreciate that it’s certainly a greater evil to allow the government to pick and choose between forms of religious expression.”

Younts, Cassidy’s lawyer, told Blaze News, “The reality is that the Satanic Temple of Iowa chose a symbol of hatred, lies, death, and destruction in an effort to mock religious displays during the Christmas season. It would have been reasonable and appropriate for the State of Iowa to deny their application, the same way we would hope an application to display obscene material or a statue honoring Adolf Hitler would be denied.”

“The idol was displayed as either a sincere attempt to worship Satan, the enemy of humanity, and promote lies, death, and destruction, or it was placed in an intentional effort to show hatred for and mock the Christian faith and traditional American values,” added Younts.

Baphomet takes a tumble

After liking a
post by Blaze News columnist Auron MacIntyre, which said, “Periodic reminder that the religious right were correct about everything,” Cassidy, of Lauderdale, Mississippi, entered the Iowa Capitol on Dec. 14, 2023, and decapitated the Baphomet statue.

“I saw this blasphemous statue and was outraged. My conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree. And so I acted,” Cassidy, a former F/A-18 Hornet pilot who served on the USS George Washington,
said in an interview with the Sentinel.

“The world may tell Christians to submissively accept the legitimization of Satan, but none of the founders would have considered government sanction of satanic altars inside Capitol buildings as protected by the First Amendment,” Cassidy continued. “Anti-Christian values have steadily been mainstreamed more and more in recent decades, and Christians have largely acted like the proverbial frog in the boiling pot of water.”

Cassidy was originally charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief. However,
Polk County Democratic Attorney Kimberly Graham‘s office enhanced the charge to third-degree criminal mischief on the basis of Cassidy’s statements both to law enforcement and the public indicating he destroyed the property due to its anti-Christian nature — or what prosecutors referred to as “the victim’s religion.”

The Sentinel suggested that Graham, a failed U.S. Senate candidate, might have a bias against conservatives,
highlighting the $300,000 of in-kind campaign support she reportedly received from the George Soros-funded Justice and Public Safety PAC.

Cassidy’s legal team, which similarly suspects the charging decision was the result of anti-conservative bias, recently attempted to axe the hate crime charges. However, on Tuesday, an Iowa judge denied the motion.

Younts told Blaze News, “The judge ruled against our motion to dismiss even though the DA’s office could not produce a single example in Iowa or across the United States where a similar statute had been used to justify charging a hate crime where the ‘victim’ was an organization rather than an individual.”

Jury selection is expected to begin Monday. Cassidy reportedly faces as many as five years in prison.

“Our message is simple — America was founded by men and women whose primary source for the Constitution and our system of government was the Bible and traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs,” said Younts. “Because of the religious beliefs and influences of our founders, America has experienced a profound history of religious freedom and prosperity. Our society will continue to collapse into chaos and tyranny if we abandon those beliefs and biblical principles that made our nation possible.”

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Bill Maher and the alpha of the UFC, Dana White, have basically nothing in common — until now.

When White went on Maher’s “Club Random” podcast, this became clear when they started discussing the softening of sports and landed on the topic of Damar Hamlin’s injury.

“By the time night had fallen on this event, it was just the one true opinion that this game could not have been played, because that’s the way America reacts to things. Now, I’m in the opinion that they should have played the game,” Maher told White.

But they didn’t play the game, because they claimed the most important thing was Damar, which Maher called “bad logic.”

“How does that affect playing the game? He’s in the hospital. Unless the doctors are watching the game out of the corner of their eye while they’re operating on him, I don’t think it’s going to affect anything,” Maher continued, noting that the first thing Hamlin said when he woke up was “Did we win?”

“No, because you live in baby land, Damar,” Maher laughed.

“I don’t disagree with you,” White said, adding, “The last thing that I want to see is any more of the p***ification of this country.”

Jason Whitlock is thrilled that this conversation is happening between such big names.

“These types of conversations where Bill Maher’s trying to bring sanity back to the left always please me. And to see Dana White co-signing pleased me as well,” Whitlock says.

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North Carolina authorities are investigating the tragic death of a pastor’s wife.

On April 28, John-Paul Miller, pastor of Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, delivered his Sunday sermon like normal. But when he finished preaching, he announced shocking news to his congregation.

His wife, Mica Miller, was dead.

“I got a call late last night, my wife has passed away,” he said. “It was self-induced, and it was up in North Carolina.”

Pastor Miller told the congregation that he expected them to leave the sanctuary after his “announcement” without talking about the “announcement.” He said there would be a funeral at the church for Mica Miller next Sunday at 3 p.m.

“Y’all knew she wasn’t well mentally, and she needed medicine that was hard to get to her. I’m sure there will be more details to come, but keep her family in your prayers,” Pastor Miller said before leaving the stage.

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Mica Miller, just 30 years old, was indeed found dead on April 27 in Lumber River State Park with a fatal gunshot wound to the head.

Officials have not yet released an official cause of death.

However, Major Damien McLean of Robeson County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to WPDE-TV that officers are investigating Miller’s death and are gathering information from people in North Carolina and South Carolina. He added that officials plan to release more information in the coming days.

Meanwhile, Mica’s friends and family are speaking out.

Mica’s mother posted on Facebook three days ago, “My daughter Mica was found Saturday in Lumberton, NC with a fatal gunshot wound. A no contact order and a divorce was filed just days before this tragedy. We are devastated. Prayers appreciated.”

Mica’s sister, Sierra Francis, said, “Please do not listen to false stories being shared about her. Mica was a God-fearing, joyful, loving woman who did not deserve the abuse she endured. … Please respect us in this time and honor her memory with joy that she is no longer suffering.”

Kenn Young, one of Mica’s friends, told WDPE that police need to investigate “deeply.”

“This has to be at least looked into deeply. There’s got to be some accountability here,” he said. “Because yeah, a tragic life was lost, and it’s not just as simple as mental health issues.”

Just weeks before her death, Mica posted on Facebook about “leaving a dangerous situation” and suggested that she had been the victim of “terrible terrible TERRIBLE terrible” things.

Public records show that Mica had filed for divorce last October, and she had filed additional “Separate Support and Maintenance” orders. The most recent order, filed on April 15, had a court hearing date set for June 5.

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Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York released another version of her infamous “Green New Deal” in March to muted fanfare, but the law may have a secret strategy that has nothing to do with passing through Congress.

Ocasio-Cortez originally offered the multi-trillion-dollar proposal in 2019 and was lambasted by many on the right who criticized the bill as being prohibitively expensive and unconstitutionally expansive. In one particularly embarrassing episode, a draft version of the bill was released and critics mocked it for containing text that it would work to ban emissions from “farting cows.” It was later deleted.

The newer version appears to be lesser in scope but still dangerous and contrary to the traditional principles of the U.S. according to fossil fuel advocate Daniel Turner.

Turner lambasted the new bill in an interview with Blaze Media where he characterized it as part of a campaign to redefine words in order to push the far-left agenda.

“The phrase ‘Green New Deal’ is going to become a lot like ‘health crisis,'” he said.

Turner pointed out that the Biden administration was using the idea of a “health crisis” in order to impose every “progressive agenda item on their perpetual wish list.”

He pointed to the Biden administration banning menthol cigarettes as one example of government control being expanded under the guise of public health.

“And now you can’t smoke menthol cigarettes. You can smoke other cigarettes, right, but they want to ban menthol cigarettes because it’s a crisis,” Turner explained. “So, if you just label something a crisis, suddenly you have preternatural wisdom and extra-constitutional authority because you have given it that title.”

That Ocasio-Cortez is targeting housing is not an accident, he says, because “public housing is a favorite pet of leftists, generally speaking.”

Housing is not a human right

Turner focused on a pivotal aspect of the legislation that would change U.S. policy to guarantee the right to housing for every individual.

The proposal not only makes housing a human right but says that the government should provide affordable housing to each individual through spending that adds up to as much as a quarter of a trillion dollars over ten years.

“Right is another one of the favored phrases of the left because once you label something a right, then the government has an obligation to fulfill that right,” Turner explained.

“That’s why our enumerated rights are very few in the Constitution. Government does have the responsibility to protect your rights to speech and the press and assembly and religion, et cetera,” he continued. “But once you declare housing a right, well, there are obligations to fulfill that right, and that’s never been within the understanding of our government and the way it functions and the understanding of our society.”

Turner went on to compare the proposal to those rights that are granted by socialist democracies in Western Europe, where workers are far less productive and earn far less than their counterparts in the U.S.

“So again, it’s pushing America to something that it’s not in its very nature,” he said.

But he believes the “Green New Deal” will be used as a label to allow more government control in other areas of public policy.

“We’ll see Green New Deals on transportation, Green New Deals on everything. And it’ll be the excuse to push progressive government-issue items,” he added.

The secret strategy behind the bill

Turner opined that there may be a strategy behind the bill that has nothing to do with it actually being passed. Progressives have said that the original bill was successful in pushing the Biden administration toward passing a climate bill even though the Green New Deal never came close to passing on its own.

“That’s exactly what we’re dealing with in the modern progressive left, it’s obfuscation, deception, and flat-out lies,” he explained.

Even Biden has admitted the trillion-dollar “Inflation Reduction Bill” was actually a way to use the inflation crisis to impose global warming policies on the U.S. economy. Turner says legislative history provides ample evidence to support the thesis.

“When they controlled both chambers and the White House, so starting in 2021 until January 2023, they could have easily passed the Green New Deal as legislation and they didn’t. They didn’t because they knew they did not actually want to put their names behind it. And parenthetically, we could say they could have introduced lots of legislation, loan forgiveness, abortion laws, but they chose not to,” Turner said.

“So the Green New Deal, as much as they admire it as a piece of legislative strategy, they never introduced it when they had the authority to do so,” he concluded.

‘Ideology trumps reality’

Turner went on to say that the legislation was a perfect example of Democrats manipulating the definitions of words in service to a political ideology.

“If I can control your language, I can control your reality,” he explained. “Their manipulation of language from ‘rights’ to ‘housing’ and ‘Green New Deal’ as well as just hiding behind other phrases like ‘Inflation Reduction Act.’ They never present the agenda honestly to the American people,” he said.

“They try to sneak it through the backdoor because they know it’s incredibly unpopular, and on its own, two feet could not stand.”

Housing, said Turner, shows how Democrats lean in to government control even after it has shown to fail over and over.

“I’m originally from New York City and the New York Housing Authority, NYCHA, is always in the news because it is the largest landlord in the city, and it’s a slumlord. And because it’s the government, there is no incentive to make sure the heat works, the electricity works, the pipes don’t freeze. There is no incentive for upkeep, for maintenance, for even safety,” said Turner.

“And yet the private sector will have these spot inspections for asbestos and lead paint and get fined through the roof,” he explained, “but when the government is the housing authority, all that is pushed aside.”

A 2023 poll from the Bipartisan Policy Center found that the vast majority of Americans want Congress to focus on increasing the availability of low-income housing, but 71% didn’t even know about the programs already available.

“Why would you want more of this? Why would you want more government involved in housing when housing has just been a disaster for the units that they run, and it’s also driven up the prices for the rest of New Yorkers because there’s only so many apartments on the island of Manhattan. And if New York City controls a certain percent, then the remaining ones, the price of rent goes through the roof,” he continued.

“You just scratch your head and realize that their ideology trumps reality,” Turner concluded.

Daniel Turner is a fossil fuel advocate and the founder and executive director of Power the Future, a national nonprofit that fights for American energy workers in rural communities.

Blaze Media reached out to Ocasio-Cortez and gave her ample time to comment, but her office did not respond.

Blaze Media also reached out to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who cosponsored the bill, for a comment about its costs, but his office did not respond.

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