The 2028 presidential race may still be years away, but a Washington Post article reveals that Democrats are already gaming out their next candidate — and BlazeTV host Pat Gray isn’t impressed by much of the field.

Though he does think one of them could pose a problem for Republicans.

“Democrats recommended that South Carolina vote first in the Democrat process. That boosts black voters’ representation in picking the nominee and Kamala Harris’ fortunes, given that the former vice president and 2024 nominee is probably the candidate on this list with the most support among black women,” Gray reads.

“She’s been rallying voters for the midterm elections by touting her controversial plan to abolish the Electoral College and add justices to the Supreme Court,” he continues. “Oh, that is — that can’t happen.”

Gavin Newsom is also on the list, alongside Josh Shapiro, who Gray notes is “not going to make it because Democrats hate Jews.”

“They’re too anti-Semitic now,” he says.

Unsurprisingly, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made the short list as well.

“Democrat socialists are having their own moment after helping New York City mayor become mayor. They and the broader progressive movement ousted longtime members of Congress in deep-blue cities and won a hard-fought primary in Michigan,” Gray reads from the Post article.

However, he notes that “she won’t say that Israel should be destroyed, so she’s not good enough for the DSA.”

Another potential candidate that Gray says is a “frightening possibility” is Mark Kelly.

“He’s a veteran, former astronaut,” he explains.

“We were told that this was Obama’s guy, that Obama wanted instead of Kamala in the beginning after Joe Biden dropped out,” Jeff Fisher chimes in, adding that he also has a bad case of “Trump derangement syndrome.”

“Then they have to mention, of course, Pete Buttigieg, because, well, you’d be homophobic if you don’t mention him,” Gray says.

“We don’t want to be homophobic, and neither does the Washington Post,” he says.

Also on the list is Gretchen Whitmer, who Gray says “nobody cares about” any more.

“She’s a nightmare,” Fisher says.

“I think she’s out,” Gray adds.

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BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales has been on a tear in Texas, exposing alleged H-1B visa program fraud and collecting scalps along the way.

After flagging numerous potential fraudulent operations, prompting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) to take legal action, Gonzales teamed up with U.S. Department of Labor Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito.

‘This was a total scam.’

Together, they paid a visit to Mohammad Abbas, a Dallas resident suspected of scamming foreigners with the promise of H-1B visa sponsorship and/or green cards.

“This right here is everything that’s wrong with H-1Bs,” Labor Department Inspector General D’Esposito told Gonzales outside the office door of Abbas’ Molabs Media.

“This is why fraud is taking away American jobs from American workers.”

D’Esposito implored individuals involved or victimized by the alleged scheme to get in touch with the Labor Department, noting that “whistleblowers are protected.”

Abbas clearly did not appreciate all the attention.

When Gonzales showed up at Abbas’ office with D’Esposito and a folder brimming with damning evidence earlier this month, the alleged fraudster’s door was covered and went unanswered.

“Mohammad, you can run but you can’t hide,” said Gonzales, “because all of the information that we have was quite literally handed over to the inspector general of the Department of Labor. I’m sure the investigators over there are going to have a field day with this.”

“The walls are closing in, Mohammad. Tick-tock,” added the BlazeTV host.

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The DOL’s Office of Inspector General is undertaking a massive crackdown on H-1B visa program abuse.

A spokesperson for the Department of Labor told Blaze News, “The Department of Labor OIG’s H-1B fraud investigation is active, expanding, and aggressive. We have issued subpoenas, executed search warrants, and are following the evidence wherever it leads.”

“We are ramping up resources and coordinating closely with acting Secretary [Keith] Sonderling and the White House Fraud Task Force to identify, expose, and dismantle fraudulent employers, brokers, and networks that exploit the H-1B system and steal American jobs,” continued the spokesperson. “Deportation authority belongs to DHS, not DOL. Our job is to build the cases. When we uncover fraud, we work with our federal partners to pursue every appropriate criminal, civil, and immigration consequence.”

Thanks to Gonzales’ investigation, the DOL has the scent of a potential fraud scheme in Dallas.

Gonzales and her team received multiple complaints about Abbas from separate purported victims claiming to have shelled out small fortunes in hopes of securing legal status to live and work in the United States.

“These people were charged thousands of dollars for this,” said Gonzales. “One of the victims even said he paid $60,000, but the sponsorship never came through.”

While stiffing desperate people is bad enough, Gonzales emphasized that it is “illegal to take payment from people to sponsor them for visas.”

Not only is it unlawful for a would-be employee to pay outright for a sponsorship, as D’Esposito told Gonzales, it is illegal for the employer to offset H-1B costs by lowering the prospective employee’s salary or demanding reimbursement.

Gonzales noted that Abbas owns multiple companies — including Molabs Media, which has lost the right to transact business in the Lone Star State, and HiTech Network Solutions — which appear to cite the same Dallas corporate suite as their headquarters.

According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ H-1B Employer Data Hub, these organizations sponsored H-1B visas in recent years. The organizations, which appear to have recently scrubbed their team webpages, also received hundreds of thousands of dollars in PPP loans that were later forgiven, according to ProPublica’s “Tracking PPP” database.

After trying unsuccessfully multiple times early in her investigation to reach Abbas at his home or office, Gonzales finally got ahold of him by phone and asked him about the alleged scheme.

Abbas — who allegedly runs some funds through a bank account in Pakistan and who, according to his LinkedIn, was educated in Bangladesh — denied that he was selling green cards and visas, claiming instead that he sells “Indian concerts.”

This claim doesn’t appear to hold water.

Gonzales identified a woman named Rachel Samuel — who purports on LinkedIn to be the business development manager for Abbas’ Molabs Media LLC and has in recent years sought potential H-1B candidates for various roles — as the apparent recruiter and point of contact for individuals allegedly trying to buy green cards or visas from Abbas.

In one alleged text exchange between one of Abbas’ alleged victims and Samuel, who launched her own visa-sponsoring tech company whose right to do business in Texas has been terminated, Samuel appears to state, “Basically we can do 5 payments Once a month without getting flagged,” adding, “Anything over 30K will be flagged by IRS.”

One of the purported victims alleged to Gonzales that he touched base with Abbas’ crew, discussed different payment options, and finally agreed to pay an initial sum of $2,500 for his sponsorship, which he claims to have deposited into Abbas’ local bank account.

After hearing nothing back from Abbas’ outfit, the victim alleged that they notified him that they had put his name in the H-1B lottery — even though he allegedly paid on the understanding that they would endorse him under a different visa program — and were now expecting him to pay another $4,000 to close the deal.

“I mean, this was a total scam,” said the victim.

Blaze News reached out to Mohammad Abbas and Rachel Samuel’s attorney for comment but did not receive a response.

Gonzales told Blaze News, “Let this serve as a warning to all the people committing H-1B fraud. I’m not stopping until you’ve all gone back home or are locked up.”

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While many fans are enjoying the return of NFL preseason, others are watching strictly in hopes of seeing some athletes injured over their political preferences.

One unfortunate scene unfolded at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on Saturday when the first-string quarterback for the New York Giants got blasted by a Minnesota Vikings defensive player.

‘The Trump-loving piece of s**t better get used to this kind of treatment.’

Jaxson Dart was preparing to launch the football when safety Jay Ward crashed into the quarterback and laid him out on the field.

Dart was ordered to be assessed for a possible concussion after the big hit but later returned to his position. He responded by scoring a touchdown soon afterward.

Many online, however, took glee in Dart taking the massive hit after the Utah native introduced President Donald Trump at a rally in May.

“Every defense in the NFL knows Jaxson Dart is MAGA. The Trump-loving piece of s**t better get used to this kind of treatment — because he can expect it ALL SEASON LONG,” responded social justice musician Bill Madden.

“Damn MAGA QB Jaxson Dart just got popped,” replied liberal activist Harry Sisson.

“Donald Trump’s favorite quarterback was knocked out the 1st preseason game since he attended a rally. Add Jaxon [sic] Dart to the [Everything Trump Touches Dies] list,” laughed another user.

“Jaxson Dart just had the MAGA knocked out of him,” joked another account.

“He may have actually gotten more MAGA knocked into him seeing as every mashed potato brained CTE ridden retired athlete becomes outspokenly MAGA,” read one reply.

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Giants head coach John Harbaugh blamed the breakdown in offensive protection for the hit on his star quarterback and also questioned the rationale for putting Dart in concussion protocol.

Some players seemed upset that Dart had shown support for the president, but others on the team quickly came to his defense and rejected suspicion that he had divided the locker room.

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“Beloved” actress Hayden Panettiere died suddenly over the weekend at the age of just 36.

The shocking news comes after the performer, known for her starring roles across generations, was reportedly found dead by a friend on Sunday.

‘She was an incredible light.’

‘Unimaginable loss’

Panettiere, born in New York in 1989, passed away in South Carolina, her representatives have confirmed.

TMZ reported that the death came after emergency services responded to a call that came in for a person described as an “unresponsive female” who was in “cardiac arrest.”

The Greenville Police Department confirmed to Variety on Monday there were no signs of “foul play or suspicious circumstances” and that “an acquaintance of Ms. Panettiere placed the 911 call.”

The young actress’ father, Alan “Skip” Panettiere, asked for privacy while mourning the death of his daughter.

The family is taking “time to process this unimaginable loss,” he told ABC News.

“It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden,” Skip continued in a statement. “She was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her — and to the millions who watched her onscreen.”

RELATED: Family says 28-year-old Jansen Panettiere died suddenly of enlarged heart, Hayden Panettiere honors ‘brilliant’ brother

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Under investigation

The death is still under investigation, but if heart related, the young mother’s passing will undoubtedly draw links to her brother’s death that occurred in 2023.

That year, Panettiere’s family revealed that her younger brother Jansen suddenly died from an enlarged heart; he was just 28.

Panettiere leaves behind one daughter, Kaya, whom she had in 2014 with her former fiancé Wladimir Klitschko.

Klitschko, 50, is a legendary former heavyweight boxing champion who was born in Kazakhstan. He is now involved with the Ukrainian military in relation to the Russia-Ukraine war.

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‘Heroes’ star was 36

Panettiere was a big hit as a child actor in 2000’s “Remember the Titans” starring Denzel Washington. She went on to star in 73 episodes of “Heroes” between 2006 and 2010 and 124 episodes of “Nashville” as Juliette Barnes from 2012 to 2018.

The actress was also a voice artist for the video game series Kingdom Hearts spanning from 2002 to 2012.

Panettiere was just days away from her birthday; she would have turned 37 years old on Friday.

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The hits just keep on coming in a recent court case that relied on expert testimony.

Lawsuits stemming from a 2020 industrial disaster have had plaintiffs, family members, and defendants pointing fingers at each other, with varying results. However, a discovery in one of the lawsuits turned everything on its head in a matter of just a couple of hours.

‘I have no idea how it works.’

Chat spat

The story comes from the Watson Grinding explosion that happened roughly six years ago in Houston, Texas.

A massive explosion killed three people and injured dozens, ABC 13 reported, due to faulty equipment. Federal authorities determined the explosion was caused by a “degraded and poorly crimped rubber welding hose” that leaked the flammable gas propylene throughout the building overnight.

Massive industrial company 3M was hired to inspect and maintain the gas detection systems that allegedly failed at Watson Grinding, leading to a huge lawsuit from victims against the company.

According to 404 Media, 3M hired one Josh Autenrieth from KnightHawk Engineering to prepare an expert witness report about the explosion. During questioning, one of the plaintiffs’ lawyers noticed a document from the defense that appeared to have been AI generated, and according to the court transcript, he simply searched its content to find that Autenrieth’s ChatGPT prompts were all available online.

“Well, do you realize, sir, that your chat right now is still publicly available?” the lawyer says in the transcript.

“I have no idea how it works,” Autenrieth said in response.

The deposition was paused for three hours to gather all the prompts. This revealed a treasure trove of ChatGPT content that is still publicly available online, where Autenrieth had the AI develop his report nearly entirely.

“I am being retained as a professional expert witness by 3M in defense of them in their lawsuits,” the first prompt read. “I need to create an expert witness report to defend 3M’s standard of care for their work in calibrating and commissioning (return to operations / RTO) the iTrans gas detectors. I need to show that 3M met the standard of care and why.”

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Prompt discovery

Shockingly, after uploading hundreds of documents for the chatbot to review, the user asked the AI to “show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at watson grinding.”

Unsurprisingly, the report draft concluded that “3M met the applicable standard of care” and was “0% responsible for the January 24, 2020, explosion.”

Attorney Will Moye told 404 Media that the expert “relied on AI not as an assistive device, but exclusively relied on ChatGPT to form his opinions and write his report.”

“He acknowledged [at trial] the prompts he put in were biased toward 3M to help 3M win the case […] it’s really egregious,” Moye added.

It was also revealed through court documents that Autenrieth billed his company for at least 174 hours in the case. He said that he is salaried but that his work has a $475 per hour rate. This totals at least $82,650 of work.

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AI OK

Nathan Knight, vice president of KnightHawk Engineering, told Blaze News in response that Autenrieth utilized AI as only a tool and stands behind his work. Knight further described isolated questions and excerpts from the trial as “fake news” that does not provide the complete story.

His comment, in full, is below:

AI is a tool that is used extensively in today’s work environment, and its use will continue to increase as technology advances. Mr. Autenrieth utilized this technology as a tool to assist in reviewing questions, arguments, and counterarguments related to the case. AI did not replace his engineering judgment. Mr. Autenrieth developed and presented his own professional opinions and stands behind those opinions.

What has been presented is a selective and negative snapshot that, without the complete context, can fairly be characterized as “Fake News.” Looking at isolated questions or excerpts does not tell the complete story of the analysis, the expert report, or what was ultimately presented in court.

The opposing side challenged Mr. Autenrieth’s qualifications and attempted to prevent him from offering his opinions. Those challenges were unsuccessful, and Mr. Autenrieth was permitted to testify and present his professional opinions to the jury.

Technology continues to advance, whether we like it or not, and AI is here. Engineers and other professionals will increasingly use modern tools to assist them in their work. What matters is that the professional evaluates the information, exercises independent judgment, and takes responsibility for the opinions ultimately presented. Mr. Autenrieth did exactly that.

KnightHawk stands behind the professionalism and integrity of its engineers. We strongly disagree with any characterization suggesting that the selective use of AI excerpts somehow replaces or invalidates Mr. Autenrieth’s independent engineering judgment or professional opinions.

Last week, a Harris County jury awarded $61.5 million to 24 plaintiffs in the case, one of several verdicts that have come against 3M.

In June 2025, $38 million in damages was awarded to five victims of the explosion, while another $118 million was awarded to seven victims in November 2025.

3M did not respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

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Another WNBA game is in the spotlight for the wrong reasons over an issue that just won’t go away.

The Atlanta Dream hosted the Indiana Fever on Sunday, with the cloud of inclusiveness and trans-identifying athletes in the league still following the WNBA around. The Fever beat the Dream 95-91 in overtime.

‘I didn’t make signs. I wanted to make signs, but I didn’t.’

Fever star Sophie Cunningham has been instrumental in bringing to light the conversation of women needing their own sports, but now the focus has shifted to the league as a whole.

WNBA personnel met to discuss league eligibility rules last week, but still made no definitive rule changes about restricting men from their league.

For the second time in a few weeks, women showing their support for Cunningham caused a stir at a WNBA game. This time it was at the Gateway Center Arena in Atlanta, where a mother and daughter say they were told to cover up their pro-women shirts or leave.

Georgia mother Casey and her daughter Annie said arena security approached them at their floor seats over the shirts, which read “XX XY athletics.” The daughter’s shirt also read “for the girls” on the back.

The ladies claimed that during overtime, a security member told them their shirts were “offensive” before asking them to put on a “Wellness Night” Atlanta Dream shirt instead. If not, they would be removed from the arena.

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The women obliged and wore the alternate shirts, as they wanted to see the end of the game.

“We did nothing. We were just sitting there. I didn’t make signs. I wanted to make signs, but I didn’t. I did nothing,” the mother told reporter Adam Francisco after the game. The women said they were in the third row of their section, in seats they estimated cost roughly $1,000 each.

Francisco, who also attended the game, told the women, “I did notice during the game on the Jumbotron, they put up a woman wearing a shirt that said ‘protect trans rights’ or something.”

A fan wearing a shirt that said, “Trans kids belong in sports,” was seen on the broadcast for the same game, though it is unclear if it is the same person Francisco referred to.

“She was the one that told on us,” the mother and daughter claimed. “She was made to zip up her jacket.”

The women said the person with opposing views should not have been silenced either.

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When asked why they wore their shirts, the mother and daughter stated, “To support Sophie Cunningham and to support women and women’s sports because it’s just common sense.”

This wasn’t the first time the XX-XY apparel caused problems at a WNBA game. In late July, Seattle Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton confronted a pair of teen girls over their clothing, as well.

Due to allegedly cussing at the young women, Keaton was suspended for five games and assessed a fine.

Majority owner Ginny Gilder apologized for the incident and said the team remained committed to “creating an inclusive environment.”

The WNBA did not respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

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The foundation created and led by Prem Reddy is in a bit of hot water.

Reddy’s Prime Healthcare Foundation owns and operates a hospital in Mission, Texas, called Mission Regional Medical Center. On July 7, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to launch an investigation into Mission Regional over allegations that it engaged in a birth tourism scheme.

‘Federal prosecutors have been directed to “bring illegal birth tourism to an end” by prosecuting both those who engage in such conduct and those who solicit it.’

Abbott accused Mission Regional of advertising “BIRTH PACKAGES IN SOUTH TEXAS” in foreign countries in “an apparent effort to profit from securing United States citizenship for their children.”

“American citizenship is not for sale, and Texas will not permit our health care system to be used as a magnet for birth tourism,” stated the governor.

In its subsequent letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission highlighted reports that billboards promoting the alleged scheme were spotted in Mexico. The billboards reportedly referred would-be birth tourists to “havemybabyinTexas.com.”

While the website appears to have been taken down, an archived version lists two hospitals as participants in the alleged scheme: Mission Regional and Knapp Medical Center in Weslaco — another Texas-based hospital owned by Reddy’s foundation.

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Karen Ray, chief counsel for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, said in the letter to Paxton, “Such birth tourism schemes not only exploit the extraordinary privilege of American citizenship, but also frequently involve ‘lies about the purpose or duration of one’s travel to the United States.'”

“Accordingly, federal prosecutors have been directed to ‘bring illegal birth tourism to an end’ by prosecuting both those who engage in such conduct and those who solicit it for visa fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, misuse of identification, identity theft, and health care fraud,” continued Ray. “While the allegations concerning Mission Regional Medical Center and Knapp Medical Center may not be identical to the schemes described above, they are equally troubling.”

The HHSC referred the matter to Paxton, who confirmed on July 29 that he was investigating the two hospitals.

“My office will investigate any suspected illegal birth tourism schemes in Texas, including the operations of two South Texas hospitals that appeared to advertise birth tourism on a billboard near the border,” said Paxton. “My office will continue to hold accountable any entity that knowingly facilitates fraud in our state.”

Mission Regional chalked up the controversy to a misunderstanding.

A spokesman for the hospital said in a statement to Blaze News, “We recognize that a very limited marketing campaign may have caused unintended misunderstanding and was immediately discontinued. The campaign was meant to highlight services available to the communities we serve and was never intended to encourage any unlawful activity.”

The spokesman noted that the hospital’s supposedly “very limited campaign consisted of only two billboards located near the hospital and a website that generated very little patient volume, produced no financial benefit to the hospital, and was only intended as a service for the community, which is one of the most medically underserved regions of Texas.”

“The hospital does not support or facilitate unlawful activity and has never operated its obstetric program with the intent of attracting individuals who are unlawfully present in the United States, promoting birth tourism, or encouraging travel to the United States for the purpose of obtaining U.S. citizenship for a child,” said the spokesman.

According to Mission Regional’s spokesman, Knapp Medical Center “did not actively participate in this marketing campaign with no involvement since 2024 and only had two elective deliveries of 684 deliveries this year.”

Blaze News did not immediately receive a response from Knapp Medical Center or Paxton’s office.

On July 21, Abbott issued an executive order tasking relevant state agencies with investigating claims of birth tourism schemes within the Lone Star State’s health care industry. His office noted that “enforcement actions include revoking or suspending licenses, prohibiting participation in state contracts, denying state benefits, or pursuing other enforcement action under state law.”

The EO references the two Prime Healthcare Foundation hospitals.

The scandal is a bad look for the foundation, as well as for its leadership — particularly for Reddy, its CEO, and Reddy’s daughter, Kavitha Bhatia, who serves as president and chair of the Prime Healthcare Foundation.

In addition to receiving the Healthcare Lifetime Achievement Award from the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, Reddy was presented with the Joseph R. Biden Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024.

Reddy’s organization noted at the time that the award, which was part of the President’s Volunteer Service Award program and given to certain individuals with a minimum of 4,000 hours of documented volunteer service, “recognizes Dr. Reddy’s exceptional commitment and significant and sustained contributions to ensuring that communities have access to quality health care.”

Reddy received the award even though he and his organization had in previous years reportedly paid over $100 million to the government as part of three separate federal civil settlements regarding alleged false claims to Medicare.

President and Jill Biden also posed for a photo with Reddy and Bhatia in 2022.

The founder of the scandal-plagued foundation isn’t the only one in his family with a tight relationship with Democratic power.

According to Bhatia’s bio on the Prime Healthcare website, she is a member of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee leadership circle for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) and California Rep. Ro Khanna (D).

Reddy and Bhatia were both born in India. Neither responded to Blaze News’ request for comment.

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The race to win one of two U.S. Senate seats from Alaska is getting much tougher for Democrats after the campaign for their candidate was tossed into turmoil.

Just days before the primary election, candidate Mary Peltola has lost an influential political adviser and campaign manager.

‘Her campaign is already imploding as Alaskans are reminded of her out-of-touch liberal agenda.’

The campaign confirmed Sunday that Anton McParland was no longer on the team, according to the Alaska Story, and other staffers are rumored to have left as well.

The campaign has not indicated if McParland left or was terminated, but the loss of a campaign manager days before the important primary election is never a good indicator.

Peltola has been previously rumored to be belligerent and abusive to her staff, but it’s unclear if those allegations had anything to do with the staff shake-up. Peltola also made headlines and received some ridicule after the campaign appeared to reject an endorsement from failed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

Recent polling shows Peltola with a slight lead of 1.6 percentage points over incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, but that is well within the margin of error. The unique jungle primary system in Alaska means the top four candidates will go on to the general election, meaning multiple Republicans or multiple Democrats could advance.

Chris Gustafson, the communications director for the Senate Leadership Fund, mocked the “Saturday Night Massacre” at the Peltola campaign.

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“We’re only a week into Senate Leadership Fund’s efforts to expose Mary Peltola, and her campaign is already imploding as Alaskans are reminded of her out-of-touch liberal agenda,” said Gustafson in a press release statement.

“[New York Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer and Washington Democrats have taken the wheel of Peltola’s floundering campaign, proving once again that Peltola answers to her party bosses — not the people of Alaska,” he added.

The Alaska primary is Tuesday. If Peltola is unable to secure the seat in November, it would significantly imperil the Democrats’ hopes of retaking the Senate.

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After quietly calling off her engagement 18 months ago, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is pushing back against the idea that women should have children young, arguing that pressure to settle down early can lead women into relationships with men who don’t respect or support them.

“A lot of these people who pressure women into having kids at a young age or trying to create hysteria around being too old, etc. What they’re trying to do is rush you into having a relationship with a loser,” AOC said in a rant on Instagram.

“By a loser, I mean someone who doesn’t respect women, someone who doesn’t respect you, someone who doesn’t treat you well, someone that doesn’t support your growth,” she added.

But BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey notes there’s a crucial distinction between telling women to settle and acknowledging the biological realities of fertility.

“I don’t know if she’s trying to passive aggressively talk about her ex-fiance. Certainly, no one would accuse them of rushing into anything,” Stuckey comments, noting that the pair were together for “like 15 years.”

However, Stuckey doesn’t totally disagree with AOC.

“I certainly have not given that advice that you should just settle down and marry whoever comes along. I am so glad that I waited until I knew without a doubt that this is the person that I wanted to be with for the rest of my life, and I didn’t have any doubt in my mind,” she says.

“I recommend that if you are a Christian woman, that you find a Christian man who loves the Lord with all of his heart, mind, soul, and strength, and who loves you, has the same values as you, who will cherish you,” she continues.

However, what AOC does seem to be saying that Allie disagrees with is that “you can’t possibly find that person young and settle down young without settling for some kind of misogynist.”

“I mean, that’s just crazy,” Stuckey says.

“We’re just pointing out that biology is real. It is real. It’s not paranoia. It’s just wisdom,” she adds.

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AI wearables, like Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses, may be convenient, but at what cost — and not just to the wearer but to the surrounding public?

Unlike cameras and phones, which “announce” themselves, says Glenn Beck, AI wearables go practically undetected — which raises the issues of consent and privacy.

But this tension is not new.

Glenn notes that early photography required subjects to “hold still … 30 seconds,” so permission was built in. Then came the first true hidden cameras — “detective cameras” worn under a vest with the lens shaped “to look like a button.”

Shortly after, George Eastman’s small box camera arrived and made candid snapshots easy. The public backlash was fierce: beaches and the Washington Monument banned them, and papers called carriers “Kodak Fiends.” Within two years, Boston lawyer (and future Supreme Court justice) Louis Brandeis argued for “the right to be left alone” — a right that, as Glenn points out, “is not in the Constitution” but had to be invented “because of cameras.”

But what we’re dealing with today with AI wearables is “much worse,” he says.

“You are trading the right to be misunderstood in private now,” he says, pointing to CNN Business tech editor Lisa Eadicicco’s experience with her Amazon Bee Pioneer bracelet, which decided a casual comment about moving meant she was “anxious” about stability — even though she wasn’t.

“Now that conclusion exists in a file somewhere in a company’s system, and it will inform the next inference and the one after that, and it will store it,” says Glenn, describing how AI wearables’ conclusions about gathered data — even if it’s incorrect — will become part of the wearer or bystander’s “record.”

When one’s “off-the-record” self is eradicated, the result is that everyone becomes circumspect and reticent.

“In a room where everything is recorded and then held by a private company, that’s a room where nobody’s saying anything out loud. Nobody’s thinking out loud. Nobody’s risking anything,” says Glenn.

“A recording,” he explains, is “evidence — and evidence can get subpoenaed.”

“And it may be false evidence!” he exclaims.

“Every conversation you will ever have will be indexed and searchable … and it will be sitting on a server owned by a company with lawyers who work for the company,” Glenn continues.

But despite the devastating blows to privacy and consent, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pitch for AI-powered smart glasses, he explains, has essentially been: “Wear it, or fall behind.”

Right now, the risk of declining AI wearables is low, says Glenn, but a day is coming soon when life will become nearly impossible without them.

“Two years from now, when your team’s meeting has notes, action items, performance reviews, and they’re all running off transcripts, declining won’t be a preference any more,” he warns. Now “it’s a problem; it’s you being difficult. Nobody will forbid you. They’ll just build the office around the assumption and let the cost fall on the holdout: you.”

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A massive system has been built to replicate how humans react to products, apps, and websites, without needing humans at all.

Researchers at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology say their network has the ability to simulate the world with “persona agents.”

‘The agents successfully expressed … their assigned traits 91.5% of the time.’

Based off a core set of just under 600,000 “human-grounded” personas, coupled with 400,000 synthetic records, the group at MatrAIx says they have found a way to simulate real reactions to questions, products, and more.

The approximately one million personas were used as the basis to create an AI bot population of 8.3 billion, which MatrAIx says can be run like a simulation and act as one giant focus group.

This allows companies to use the simulated personalities to garner reactions to price changes, for example. MatrAIx tested this theory by running its simulation to see whether or not one million people would still buy a 12-pack of Coca-Cola after a $2 increase. The simulation determined 61% of the population still would.

In addition to evaluating hesitation after a price increase, the bots simulated willingness to continue after an AI assistant fails its task as well as latency tolerance for websites, meaning how long a person will use a slow website before abandoning it.

Other examples provided included evaluating a mental health chatbot or shopping on Amazon for an espresso machine under $200 to see which product the AI bots choose and why.

The approach extends to social media apps. Instagram was used as an example where a bot can search for recipes and then watch and save preferred videos. It was explained that the program could have millions of bots doing this at the same time.

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There’s just one problem. The agents in the massive simulation cannot be wholly trusted to act the way humans would. As with any AI agent, there is a possibility that an agent in the world sim could fail to perform as instructed or desired.

In Harvard’s controlled study of 400 trials, measuring the bots’ adherence to 10 behavioral attributes, the results were good but not perfect. “The agents successfully expressed or correctly suppressed their assigned traits 91.5% of the time,” the researchers wrote.

MatrAIx, headed by Xiaomin Li (Harvard) and Yuexing Hao (MIT), conducted over 16,000 evaluation trials across eight different types of tasks. They used three large-language models for their studies: Claude Opus 4.8, Chat GPT 5.5, and Claude Haiku 4.5.

Human evaluations of the persona quality, however, were actually lower, listed as an average of 4.135 out of 5, which equates to about 83%.

This roughly 8.5% rate of agents simply failing to adhere to a persona could have large implications for customers who use the bots on a large scale. In the example provided for Coca-Cola consumption, that carries the possibility of 85,000 bots not answering accurately.

But the deeper problem the study confirmed is that Earth’s billions of human beings can’t be accurately simulated by AI agents programmed to be well-behaved. It’s impossible to model and predict human behavior if the agents standing in for the humans aren’t allowed to behave in all the devious, dangerous, and flawed ways individuals and groups do.

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That raises the dark prospect that entities or governments seeking ultimate predictive power will have to build large-scale simulators where agents representing real people are allowed to have antisocial, criminal, sinful, or even evil traits and behaviors.

The alternative, deeper human research, is nowhere near as cheap and swift as AI modeling. Most research groups seem to say that human focus groups are not effective at garnering mass public appeal anyway, while at the same time surveys can be a bit more time-consuming. The trade-off is that they are still human.

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Electromagnetism, sonar, radar, Wi-Fi 1-5G, ultrasound, phone radiation, microwave radiation. What’s it all doing to me — or my kids?

You’ll have occasion to wonder: Is the technological environment messing with me? Terraforming my natural conditions of existence?

Every report is received with the same blinders.

Is it also making other people dumb, depressed, mean?

No one you see (most days) is actively sprouting new appendages where appendages should not be. Nothing so obvious. And while even the most somnambulant among us harbor suspicions that some sort of effects must accompany such rapid and overwhelming change as has been brought about over the last, say, 40 years, we aren’t on the whole prepared to give up Amazon next-day, streaming movies on-demand, or the hope of luxury on cosmic scales: space travel, life extension, weeks or months spent in video-sensorial orgasmo-ecstasy.

Still, if something goes up, it eventually goes down … right?

Queries into effects are usually enough to placate. “Studies show …” and “effects on rats don’t equate to effects on humans” and similar palliative or obscurant phraseology is most often “reason” enough to let us rest, trust it will be OK, and — let’s face it — get back to our jobs, which allow our existence in the system at all.

Here’s the problem with this palliative and avoidant (if sometimes necessary) circuit that puts wonder to rest. Researchers aren’t studying, at all, the effects of the invisible forces and entities swarming through us all day, every day. Not the combined effects, nor the cumulative effects, nor the interactive effects.

That’s a lot of whistling past the graveyard.

And we’re building out that graveyard at a breakneck pace.

It’s all connected

There have been some studies, of course. Ten years ago, University of Bristol researchers concluded that “anthropogenic (man-made) noise is a global pollutant, and there is rapidly accumulating evidence of impacts on a range of animal taxa.”

The most outstanding aspect of this study is how it shows that a slight alteration in one physical sense impacts another, separate sense. “Using field-based experimental trials on habituated wild dwarf mongooses,” the team reported, “we combine sound playbacks and faecal presentations to demonstrate that anthropogenic noise can disrupt responses to information from different sensory modalities.”

Auditory stimulus didn’t just affect hearing, but smell. “Our results,” the researchers concluded, “are the first to show that anthropogenic noise could alter responses to olfactory cues, strongly indicating the possibility of cross-modal impacts of noise pollution on information use.”

Ten years, later, where’s the mountain of follow-up studies doing what “the science” is supposed to do — systematically explore and clarify areas of life where there seem to be nettlesome problems, the solution to which might just make life better, more livable, for everyone?

No. The unpredictable ways that combined human alterations alter the environment are not studied. There’s no incentive. And there are many incentives to shut up, shy away, deflect, and deny. Every result is reported with blinders on. Every report is received with the same blinders.

Safety, efficacy, and effects on biological environment are willfully lost in the shuffle. If a corporation footing the bill for innovative tech X is incentivized by threat Y, whether coming from government pressure, insurance costs, or future damage, then an otherwise relevant study is constructed to leap those threat hurdles and quickly shuffle back offstage.

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What’s more, the various research fields are tightly siloed, so it gets ever harder for troublesome inquirers to connect the dots from evidentiary data scattered across disciplines.

Tracking the clues

And yet, there’s still a train of breadcrumbs for those skilled and patient enough to do some tracking.

Consider, for instance, that GDP correlates to overall ocean acoustic noise. It’s up 10-fold from baseline. The more stuff we pump out, the louder the oceans get. There’s no inherent upper bound.

Similarly, the air around us is filling up with artificial energy. Planetary ambient radio frequency power flux density — that’s how much RF energy is present in the environment — in the frequency range around 1 GHz has increased by a factor of roughly 10^18 compared to what existed naturally before humans built transmitters. That figure, for the less math-inclined, is one quintillion. If that figure is 90% exaggerated, that’s still one hundred quadrillion times more EMF-saturated than we were in a natural, pre-hypertech world.

Then, there’s artificial light. Eighty percent of the world’s population, and over 99% of U.S. and European populations, now live under light-polluted skies. The Milky Way is hidden from more than a third of humanity. Reliable estimates show light pollution increased about 8% per year between 2011 and 2022.

The point of these bread crumbs is simple: The research, such as it exists at all, always gets pigeonholed away, so the overall, combined impact of the manmade alterations to our living space can never been seen in its totality for what it really is. People ruefully joke that the government’s debt is so big that we can’t even conceive of its actual size. This is bigger. What we’ve amassed in terms of sound waves and frequencies is so enormous that it simply defies lexical categorization or comparison.

I’m sure it’s fine. We’ve positioned our best, brightest, and most moral as leaders.

Lies of omission

We seem to have overlooked what the ancients knew of themselves — that we live under limits emplaced by an omniscient and omnipotent higher power. The pathetic part, as so much of our given humanity is traded away for nothing of lasting value? If we were to actually stop and check in on success rates around life extension and ostensible cures, we’d see that our return on investment has so far been minimal. We’d realize we everyday people have spent our whole lives bombarded by the noise of sensational claims, devious scams, and schemes designed to deconstruct our common sense until we finally cave in.

Scientific “salvation” is always, of course, just around the corner — if not today, then surely tomorrow. Meanwhile, as the poor dwarf mongoose shows, we turn a blind eye to the truth. Stubbornly, we refuse even to look at, much less reckon with, the costs and consequences of the complexity we’ve introduced. Honesty with ourselves, in this economy? We’re just following incentives, fatalistically accepting whatever our circumstances might be. When the worth of a human lifespan is measured in fast-depreciating dollars, what do you expect?

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Anthony Fauci and other health officials who told Americans the COVID-19 vaccines were “safe and effective” had suspicions to the contrary, a new document drop from Republican Sens. Ron Johnson (Wis.) and Rand Paul (Ky.) appears to show.

A newly released email from May 2021 seemingly reveals that the head of the Food and Drug Administration was so concerned about the novel mRNA vaccines that she advised Fauci and then-National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins to create a contingency fund to deal with the fallout from them.

‘We cannot ignore her.’

During the pandemic, Fauci was the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases director and the face of America’s mass vaccination campaign. He routinely emphasized the safety and efficacy of the vaccines and made a point of expressing his “extreme confidence” in the science behind them.

“I want to encourage everyone who has the opportunity to get vaccinated so that we can have a veil of protection over this country that would end this pandemic,” he said during his televised vaccination ceremony in December 2020.

Behind closed doors, however, he had his doubts.

The immunologist privately highlighted, for instance, a potential association between vaccination and miscarriage in a Jan. 25, 2021, text exchange with the surgeon general and the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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“I asked around a bit more and another issue came up that you need to be aware of,” Fauci told Vivek Murthy and then-CDC Director Rochelle Walensky. “Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the 2nd dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.”

Fauci — who was made aware later that day that initial pregnancy studies avoided “vaccination in first trimester due to possible fever and higher rates of miscarriage in first trimester” — stated publicly just days later that the data pertaining to vaccination among pregnant women “so far has no red flags.”

Private concerns were not limited to the vaccine’s impact on pregnant mothers and their unborn babies.

On Sunday, Sen. Johnson, chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, published a May 27, 2021, email sent by then-acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock to Fauci and then-NIH Director Collins regarding the perceived need to begin squirreling away scientific research funds to later investigate vaccine side effects.

“I have been contacted by a number of people who have experienced adverse events post COVID-19 vaccination (from all three of the current vaccines),” wrote Woodcock. “Many are healthcare professionals, some of whom I know. The symptoms do not fit together into a distinctive syndrome and most are not easily quantifiable or evaluated with standard laboratory testing.”

While cognizant that “during mass vaccination you will get a lot pf psychological reactions,” Woodcock was nevertheless sensitive to complaints among apparent vaccine casualties that “no one takes them seriously, no one knows how to treat them” and that there had been “no effort to study this.”

By the time the FDA commissioner sent this email, VAERS, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, had already received reports of 8,650 deaths associated with the COVID injection, with 39% of those deaths taking place within two days of injection, noted Johnson’s office.

After casting doubt on the ability of VAERS to detect the full spectrum of side-effect cases, Woodcock stated in the email: “I think it would be worthwhile to do a study and evaluate a cohort of these individuals” who allegedly experienced “adverse events” after receiving the vaccine.

“But of course $$ need to be made available, and you would need an investigator who is interested in ‘medical mysteries,'” wrote Woodcock. “I doubt the industry would support, for obvious reasons. But my experience is, that if you let a problem fester, then it will come back to bite you later and you are not prepared.”

Fauci subsequently told Collins, “We cannot ignore her. We should probably bring in CDC and see what Rochelle thinks.”

Johnson’s office noted that based on the information reviewed to date, it’s unclear whether Walensky was ever consulted.

Blaze News did not immediately receive a response from the CDC, the FDA, or an attorney representing Fauci. Woodcock could not be reached for comment.

Roughly three months after Woodcock echoed the complaints of apparent vaccine casualties, she celebrated the FDA’s first approval of a COVID-19 vaccine, which had previously been made available as a result of the agency’s Emergency Use Authorization authority.

“While this and other vaccines have met the FDA’s rigorous, scientific standards for emergency use authorization, as the first FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine, the public can be very confident that this vaccine meets the high standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufacturing quality the FDA requires of an approved product,” Woodcock stated at the time.

Johnson expressed outrage over the newly released email, writing, “Why wasn’t the public alerted to their concerns? Why did they continue to push and mandate the COVID shot? Why weren’t Americans allowed fully informed consent?”

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