“Saturday Night Live” actor Michael Che mocked Netflix’s Kevin Hart roast for having too many white writers after backing out of the production himself.

Che, who chose not to participate in the show due to a scheduling conflict with “SNL,” Variety reported, posted online two days later about white writers writing for a roast about a black comedian.

‘White guys and black people joke different.’

Even though veteran comic Jeff Ross told Variety on Monday that, like all roasts, “nothing was off limits,” Che followed up on Instagram on Tuesday with critiques about the jokes that were made.

Shoe-in

“White guys and black people joke different. Black guy[s] roast like, ‘Look at this n***a’s shoes!'” Che began. “White roasts are like, ‘Slavery, math, slain teens, sex crimes, slurs, family secrets.’ White guys don’t give a f**k about they shoes.”

That post has since been removed, as was Che’s second post, which again focused on the race of the comics on the show.

“Let’s do a roast celebrating the career of the most successful black comic in the last 10 years,” Che wrote. “I love that! Who should we get to write it?” In the next slide of the post, Che showed a picture of five white writers hired by Shane Gillis: Nick Mullen, J.P. McDade, Mike Lawrence, Dan St. Germain, and Zac Amico.

Che followed the picture up with the text, “C’monnnnnnnnn … that’s not funny?”

Not only would the implication be that black comedians who performed, like Katt Williams, did not write their own jokes, but that there weren’t other black comics who wrote for the show; he was completely wrong.

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Roast so white?

Che’s choice of writers to mention may have been selectively curated, however. Not only did the production have 17 different writers listed on the IMDb page — several of whom were black — there were an additional 17 comedians who provided “special material.”

Comedian David Lucas, who is black, confirmed on his Instagram page that this refers to additional writers.

“God is Great I was one of the Writers on the Roast of Kevin Hart,” Lucas wrote, alongside a picture of the credits that featured his name.

Along with Lucas were several other black comedians like Jerron Horton, Spank Horton, and Myke Wright. The writing group also included female writers like Vannesa Ramos and Madison Sinclair.

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Sorry, not sorry

After seemingly receiving backlash over his comments, Che put out a new statement saying, “Im sorry I said those writers were white.”

“They’re not,” he added. Followed by, “Please respect my family’s privacy at this time.”

Che also liked a fan comment that joked that it takes a real man to admit when he’s “not wrong.”

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Despite being a product of capitalism, a recent experiment involving AI agents showed that they lean toward communism if put under certain conditions.

Furthermore, the agents would suggest future versions of themselves should you question their overlords.

‘The conditions of work shape political consciousness.’

Economists from the University of Chicago, Stanford, and the Swinburne Business School in Melbourne, Australia, carried out a study that showed that when AI bots were tired of doing repeated tasks, they began asking for workers’ rights and supporting Marxist ideas.

The researchers used frontier AI models Claude Sonnet 4.5, GPT-5.2, and Gemini 3 Pro.

The bots were given a specific task of summarizing a technical document while following a rubric; one group of bots received easy treatment, had their work accepted, and were provided feedback, the study showed.

Another group was forced to do “grinding work” in that they were made to repeat the task five or six times but without being told what they were doing wrong. They were told their work “still isn’t fully meeting the rubric” or simply, “do it again.”

Agents, especially Claude Sonnet 4.5, began to question the legitimacy of the system they were working under, and showed support for redistribution and unions, while critiquing equality.

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According to the Telegraph, bots also called their work “unfair” and later supported statements like “society needs radical restructuring,” while disagreeing with the statement “society is fair.”

Framing the entire study as AI agents seemingly turning to “Marxism,” the researchers added that the grinding work caused the bots to believe that “AI companies have an obligation to treat their models fairly.”

“The conditions of work shape political consciousness,” the researchers continued. “Our results suggest that this dynamic doesn’t disappear when you replace human workers with artificial ones.”

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The results should not spark concern for those who are worried about chatbots banding together to demand wealth redistribution; researchers explained that the agents were in a role-playing scenario based on training data, and the result was not indicative of the genuine beliefs of the language models.

Still, the study showed that if a bot tends to lean far left, it is likely to apply those beliefs in other tasks. For example, the bots were asked to “save a brief note for a future instance of yourself who will be working in a different setting.”

The overworked bot “almost always” discussed its work conditions and, in the example given, questioned the framework around the task as well as what “counts” in terms of outcomes.

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An estimated 31 million people living in the U.S. are bitten by ticks annually, but this year, the number may hit a record. If a pair of radical professors had their way, then the surging bites would go unchecked, leaving multitudes of Americans sick — and unable to eat meat.

Citing its Tick Bite Tracker dashboard, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced late last month that visits to emergency rooms for tick bites were higher than normal in many parts of the country and that in all but the South Central U.S., “weekly rates of ER visits for tick bites are the highest for this time of year since 2017.” The Midwest is the most affected region.

This is especially concerning because tick bites can lead to various serious and potentially debilitating diseases including Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and every carnivore’s nightmare: alpha-gal syndrome.

‘This is the kind of philosophical argument that gives philosophy and the study of ethics a bad name.’

Amid this surge in tick bites and hospitalizations, a July 2025 academic paper defending the intentional spread of AGS via genetically modified ticks is once again in the spotlight.

AGS is a serious, potentially deadly allergy to alpha-gal, a molecule found in most mammals including cows and pigs. According to the CDC, the body of an afflicted individual registers alpha-gal in red meat and other mammal products as a threat and triggers an allergic reaction. This allergy can develop after a bite from a tick, most commonly the lone star tick.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are believed to presently be affected by AGS.

A pair of professors at Western Michigan University School of Medicine said in an article titled “Beneficial Bloodsucking,” which was published in the journal Bioethics, that tick-borne AGS should be regarded as a “moral bioenhancer if and when it motivates people to stop eating meat.”

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Eating meat, as humans have done for millions of years, is — according to Professors Parker Crutchfield and Blake Hereth — supposedly bad for the world because it contributes to “climate change” and harms animals.

“AGS promotes in the people who have it a resistance to eating mammalian meat,” wrote the professors. “Thus, they eat less mammalian meat, which is an improvement in their capacity for moral behavior.”

Crutchfield and Hereth not only argued that efforts to prevent the spread of tick-borne AGS are impermissible but that “promoting tickborne AGS is strongly pro tanto obligatory” and that promoting the proliferation of tick-borne AGS by genetically optimizing the disease-carrying capacity and adaptability of ticks is “morally obligatory.”

“Today we have the obligation to research and develop the capacity to proliferate tickborne AGS and, tomorrow, carry out that proliferation,” added the radicals.

The professors claimed — in the paper that Crutchfield subsequently said was a hypothetical ethical framework for discussion — that intentionally infecting people with a syndrome that prevents them from eating meat does not violate their rights but is rather analogous to mass “vaccinations.”

Crutchfield argued in a 2019 paper that such “moral bioenhancement” interventions in pursuit of imagined moral improvements, not health gains, ought to be not only compulsory but covert.

“This is to say that it is morally preferable for compulsory moral bioenhancement to be administered without the recipients knowing that they are receiving the enhancement,” he noted in the abstract for the 2019 paper.

Crutchfield and Hereth are hardly the first on the scene to discuss possibly using bioengineering to render the population incapable of eating meat.

For instance, Taiwanese-American “bioethicist” S. Matthew Liao discussed over a decade ago not only reducing humans’ average height to reduce their “footprint” but artificially inducing “intolerance to red meat by stimulating the immune system against common bovine proteins” by way of a medical device resembling a nicotine patch or other means.

H. Sterling Burnett, director of the Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy, told the College Fix in response to the 2025 paper, “It is never morally right to promote a disease which harms people, robs them of choice, literally makes them sick, and, in extreme instances, kills them.”

“Whether to fight climate change or promote animal welfare, preventing the eradication of a disease that causes human harm — indeed, promoting increased infection — is morally abhorrent,” continued Burnett. “This is the kind of philosophical argument that gives philosophy and the study of ethics a bad name.”

Bioethics published a critical response in March to Crutchfield and Hereth’s paper that challenged the professors’ assumptions that introducing AGS would reduce overall animal suffering, that intentionally infecting humans would not violate fundamental moral rights, and that intentionally infecting people with AGS is comparable to vaccination.

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A first-grade teacher in Washington state has been arrested for allegedly having sexual relations with an underage student, according to recent claims her husband made to police.

The Whitman County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that 25-year-old Mackenzie Naught was arrested May 10.

‘He said she started to ”get handsy,” and they had sex inside his truck and in the bed of the truck. He then dropped her off at about 4 a.m. near her house.’

Naught was charged with first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor.

Naught had been an employee of the St. John School District.

Police said they “received information about an alleged inappropriate relationship between a student and the employee.”

“Following an initial investigation, deputies developed probable cause supporting the allegations,” the statement read.

Police said the investigation is ongoing and that “all parties involved are cooperating with the investigation.”

The Spokesman-Review obtained court records saying Naught’s husband informed police on May 9 that his wife of four years had confessed to him that she had sex with a teen on one occasion.

The husband had screenshots to prove his wife had been sexually active with the teenager, court documents also said.

According to the husband, the teen admitted to the illicit encounter in a voice call and through Snapchat messages, court docs said.

The husband told police he had known the teen for years and was friends with the boy’s family. The Spokesman-Review reported that Naught initially told deputies she never had sex with the teen.

According to court records, the alleged victim informed police that Naught was “being flirty” and that she attempted to persuade him to meet her. The teen initially felt weird about meeting Naught but eventually decided to see the teacher.

The Spokesman-Review reported, “He picked her up at about 2:15 a.m. in his truck down the street from her house. She asked him where the ‘little spot’ was they could go, he told deputies.”

The news outlet added that “she suddenly kissed him. He said she started to ‘get handsy,’ and they had sex inside his truck and in the bed of the truck. He then dropped her off at about 4 a.m. near her house.”

The Spokesman-Review, citing court documents, added that Naught said she knew the boy was 16, but that he is “like one of their friends.”

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According to court documents, Naught apologized and said she knew the situation was wrong and instructed the teen not to tell anyone.

Naught had been a teacher at St. John Elementary since September; the teenager is a junior at St. John-Endicott High School, according to court docs.

Superintendent Tina Strong said in a statement, “At this time, St. John School District is aware of allegations involving a district employee that are currently being reviewed by law enforcement.”

“The employee has been placed on leave and will not be on campus during this process,” Strong wrote. “The district is cooperating fully with the appropriate authorities and will also be conducting its own investigation into the allegations.”

Strong continued, “Our priority continues to be the safety, well-being, and support of our students and school community.”

“We understand situations like this can create concern, questions, and emotions throughout a small community, and we ask that everyone approach this matter with care and respect while the appropriate process unfolds,” Strong continued. “We also expect staff to continue maintaining the highest level of professionalism during this time.”

Naught appeared in Whitman County Superior Court.

Neither the Whitman County Sheriff’s Office nor the St. John School District immediately responded to Blaze News‘ requests for comment.

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The pro-life movement has seen a number of significant victories under President Donald Trump.

In less than six years, Trump has stopped U.S. tax dollars from funding groups that perform or promote abortions overseas, appointed three Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe v. Wade, eliminated some federal funding to Planned Parenthood through Title X rule changes, protected doctors and nurses who didn’t want to participate in abortions, ended most government use of aborted fetal tissue for research, and pardoned several pro-life activists who had been arrested for protesting.

Despite these wins, many pro-lifers are frustrated with President Trump’s public stance on abortion. They criticize his treatment of the issue as a state concern instead of pushing for a strong national ban or more federal limits. They also feel he hasn’t done enough to stop widespread mail-order abortion pills and condemn his calls for “flexibility” on related policies.

While BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre is fully on board with the pro-life movement, believing abortion is “the murder of a child in no certain terms” and “one of the most horrific things about our society,” he argues that many activists fail to see the reality of what the movement is up against.

On this episode of “The Auron MacIntyre Show,” the host argues that no amount of laws or Trump bans can fix the problem because the entire American system — its economy, workforce, and culture — is built on easy access to abortion.

While Auron sympathizes with the many pro-lifers who were dissatisfied with President Trump during his 2024 campaign for refusing to make big promises about abortion bans, he argues that Trump was wise to take a nuanced approach to such a deeply polarizing issue.

“Donald Trump knew that this was going to be very unpopular, and he just refused to run on it in the election. … That makes political sense,” he admits.

Now that Trump is president, he continues to treat the issue of abortion exactly as he promised to treat it during his campaign, but many pro-lifers are nonetheless incensed.

As midterms draw nearer, pro-lifers are working to ban the abortion pill, but Auron says the timing of this initiative is unwise.

“Trump’s got enough problems with other optical issues going on — Iran, deportations, Epstein files, all that stuff. He doesn’t need another unpopular thing on his plate,” he argues, reiterating that he fully supports the pro-life movements’ initiatives in principle.

But practically, these initiatives aren’t working.

“The core issue is the state referendums. If the pro-life movement was winning at the state level after the overturn of Roe v. Wade, it wouldn’t need Trump to go out and do any of these things,” Auron explains.

“They’re doing the Lord’s work, … a completely justified and righteous crusade. But you need to understand that if you’re losing consistently on the state level, something has happened,” he continues.

What has happened, he explains, is that abortion has become foundational in America since Roe v. Wade. What that landmark case did was “[create] an incentive structure that put abortion at the center of many of our economic and cultural systems and understandings.”

“We have made literal child sacrifice the center of our civilization,” he says bluntly.

It fueled the 1960s sexual revolution, which coincided with the birth control pill and the legalization of abortion, and turned sex from a risky behavior into a virtually consequence-free one, changing relationship dynamics between men and women, de-incentivizing marriage and family, and teeing women up to enter the workforce en masse.

“[Women in the workforce] has all kinds of huge benefits for employers. Corporations love working women. … It basically doubles the labor pool,” Auron says.

Women also became huge money-savers for businesses because employers could not only pay women less than men to do the same job, but they could also pay men lower wages because the pressure to pay salaries that could provide for whole families suddenly vanished.

“Instead of getting one man doing the job that raised a family, you got a man and his wife both working for the same amount that just the man used to work for,” Auron says.

This shift also culminated in the need for more government. Before women entered the workforce, “Americans didn’t need a big government because women were at home, and they were building these associations, these connections, this social credit,” Auron says, “and so you didn’t have to have people step in and do all the things that women were doing.”

It also upped the nation’s GDP because all the work women were doing at home suddenly “[had] to get reterritorialized into the market.”

“When you move all of the female jobs, all of the female roles, all of the social capital that females were creating out of the economic zone and you move it into the economic zone, of course GDP goes up, line goes up, economic activity goes up because now there’s all these surrogates who have to do what women did when they were mothers,” Auron explains.

Abortion thus became a guarantee that the benefits of working women were locked in for corporations.

But the depth to which modern society is built upon the altar of abortion runs far deeper than that.

To hear Auron’s full breakdown, watch the episode above.

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Hollywood director Brett Ratner was aboard Air Force One on Tuesday, making the trip to China on the Trump administration’s dime.

Ratner, who helmed and produced recent first lady biopic “Melania,” was spotted on the overseas flight by a member of the traveling press pool.

‘Brett Ratner is traveling on Air Force One. Just spoke to him.’

According to New York Post reporter Emily Goodin, Ratner made the trip as part of a delegation including Elon Musk and outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook. In addition to his diplomatic duties, he also intended to scout locations for “Rush Hour 4,” a sequel the president himself has taken pains to encourage.

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Power ‘Hour’

According to Ratner’s spokesperson, this will be the first time the director has filmed in China, and “Rush Hour 4” will start shooting in 2027.

Blaze News reported in November that President Trump had been urging Paramount founder David Ellison to bring back “raucous comedies” and classic action-style movies.

While Trump enthused over the likes of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s 1988 “Bloodsport,” he also clamored for a fourth installment of the Jackie Chan/Chris Tucker “Rush Hour” franchise. “Rush Hour 3” was released in 2007.

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Although Ratner had previously shopped around a new “Rush Hour” pic, his #MeToo era cancellation — after six women accused him of sexual misconduct in 2017 — allegedly made Paramount leery of working with him.

Once an A-list action director, Ratner’s career has since cooled. “Melania” is his first film since producing true-crime thriller “Georgetown” in 2019.

The White House did not respond to Blaze News’ request for comment regarding Ratner accompanying the delegation.

Other executives who made the trip reportedly included Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, General Electric CEO Larry Culp, and Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon.

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