The day that honors the end of slavery was celebrated unanimously across most sports leagues, with some notable exceptions.

One was the Detroit Lions, who confused fans with their decision not to post any materials in support of Juneteenth.

‘It must have been an accident.’

Given that Juneteenth was first recognized as a holiday in 2021 by President Joe Biden, it is not unusual for the day to be overlooked by the common sports fan. For most pro sports teams though, every possible iteration of race or cultural politics typically gets marked down on the calendar.

This was why football fans were confused when the Lions opted not to post anything for Juneteenth, with one Lions supporter assuming “it must have been an accident.”

“Just go look at the Lions profile picture,” the fan noted; the Lions’ X photo features transgender and gay pride colors.

There was no mention of the new holiday from the National Hockey League either, Fox News reported.

The league is only a week removed from the last game of the Stanley Cup Finals, so it is possible employees are on hiatus. However, the NHL has been deeply involved in diversity efforts for years — especially since the Black Lives Matter era — making this a strange move for the league as well.

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Some players in the league previously complained the NHL wasn’t doing enough to support diversity, even after the hiring of a woman named Kim Davis to serve as the executive vice president of social impact, growth initiatives, and legislative affairs.

With a goal to bring diversity to the league and its C-suite, Davis described hockey as a “tribe” that needs to “feel more welcoming.”

This eventually led to the NHL Player Inclusion Coalition, which has since wreaked havoc on the league with its initiatives.

Blaze News previously reported on the league-wide controversies surrounding Pride jerseys, Pride tape, and player backlash.

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Still, NFL fans seemed split on the latest issue online, either dragging the Lions organization for not supporting Juneteenth or being puzzled as to why they support other progressive celebrations if they are able to avoid this one.

“I just find it wild that they can support LGBTQ but not black people especially since most of their team is Black,” an X user wrote.

Another reaction from the story had one fan saying they had grown to hate the “weird idea of social media telling teams what to do.”

With the Lions as the lone standout in the NFL, they join the Texas Rangers of the MLB who similarly are the only team in their league not to celebrate gay pride with a dedicated night.

The Lions and the NHLPA, which runs the Player Inclusion Coalition along with the NHL, did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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The Los Angeles Fire Department has been battling a blaze at a Boyle Heights cold-storage facility for nearly a week that began when the solar panels on the warehouse’s rooftop caught fire.

Former mayoral challenger Spencer Pratt criticized Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for cutting the LAFD’s budget and noted that the warehouse had previously been the site of a solar panel fire in 2024.

‘Interior storage rack systems remain in place and are supporting portions of the collapsed roof, creating complex and unstable conditions that require a cautious and methodical approach.’

“This same warehouse had a solar panel fire 2 years ago,” Pratt wrote in a social media post. He claimed that Bass “slashed the LAFD budget and now they can’t stop it, and it’s spewing out heavy metals into the lungs of Boyle Heights folks for a week straight.”

“Nice job, Karen!” he added.

Officials have reported that air monitoring results show no toxic chemicals or hazards beyond those expected in normal fire smoke.

Pratt further criticized the city’s leadership for having to “bring in resources from TEXAS to manage a single structure fire” after LAFD Chief Jaime Moore stated that the city was bringing in water cannons from Texas.

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The fire prompted California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Bass to issue emergency declarations on Saturday.

Newsom’s office stated that the fire has “produced significant smoke and particulate matter that may affect air quality in surrounding neighborhoods.”

“The City and County have opened spaces for families seeking relief from the smoke, and we will continue working around the clock and doing everything possible to put this fire out completely,” Bass stated.

Operations at several schools in the area were temporarily relocated due to ongoing air quality concerns, the Los Angeles Times reported.

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The LAFD provided an update on Sunday stating that fire crews had made “significant progress,” but noted that the “building’s construction continues to present operational challenges.”

“Interior storage rack systems remain in place and are supporting portions of the collapsed roof, creating complex and unstable conditions that require a cautious and methodical approach,” the LAFD wrote.

“Smoke conditions have improved significantly and are expected to continue improving as firefighters make progress extinguishing the fire. Although smoke conditions are trending in a positive direction, intermittent increases in smoke may occur as crews open walls and other concealed spaces to locate and extinguish hidden fire,” it continued.

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Elon Musk’s unprecedented rise to a trillion-dollar net worth has sparked outrage from leftists, who believe it is unfair that one person should possess that much wealth. But BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere sees Musk’s accomplishment very differently.

“I look at that as an incredible achievement. I look at that as something that is amazing. He’s done a lot of amazing things. He’s an incredible person,” Stu says.

“He’s out there just generating wealth like no one has ever seen,” he continues, pointing out that the “left is pissed off about it” and leftists think it’s “terrible.”

And one article published by the Guardian is a perfect example of the left’s attitude towards Musk’s wealth.

“Is it bad that Elon Musk has a trillion dollars? Yes, and here’s why,” the headline reads.

“There’s really innovative thoughts here,” Stu jokes, “like ‘fiscal fairness’ is one of the reasons. So that’s really thoughtful. Second is — I thought this was interesting — ‘wastefulness.’”

Stu points out that the author, Ingrid Robeyns, lives in the U.K.

“I’d say it’s a free country, but she’s in the U.K., where they’re arresting people with opposite opinions,” he says.

“There’s a lot of interesting choices being made by that wonderful nation and the people in it. And we don’t get to control it because it’s their country, not ours, first of all. But secondly, because we’re not them. Like you control your own life. I wish people could get a little bit more sense on that one,” he continues.

Robeyns explained in her article that Musk’s wealth creates “harms.”

“Extreme wealth concentration undermines democracies,” Stu reads.

“He’s made more millionaires than pretty much anybody else,” he says, explaining that Musk has taken employees from the “lowest levels of the food chain” at his company and turned them into millionaires.

“She then says, by the way, ‘it comes with massive greenhouse gas emissions and environmental harm,’” he adds.

“I guarantee you that Tesla has done more with the electric cars to protect the environment than Ingrid does after any meal she’s ever had,” co-host Dave Landau chimes in.

“And there are emissions that she provides. … If you’re in the same room, you’ll know about them,” Stu adds, laughing.

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A major tech company has announced that it is coming to Texas with a new partnership with an energy giant in the Lone Star State.

On Monday, Chevron announced that it is partnering with Microsoft to develop a new data center campus, known as “Project Kilby,” in Texas.

The project will scale to an estimated capacity of 2.67 gigawatts of capacity over time.

The two companies signed a 20-year power purchase agreement in anticipation of the planned, “co-located” power plant and data center.

Reuters reported that the facility is set to be built in Pecos, Texas, west of Midland.

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“AI is reshaping the global economy, and abundant, affordable, reliable energy is essential to fueling that transformation,” said Jeff Gustavson, Chevron president of New Energies, in a Monday press release. “Chevron is uniquely positioned to deliver power to customers with certainty, speed, and at a competitive cost, leveraging Permian natural gas and our proven execution capabilities. This project links Chevron’s traditional strengths to emerging demand, creating differentiated value for our shareholders and the communities where we operate.”

This agreement, the press release notes, is an important milestone leading up to the final investment decision, which is expected to be made at the end of this year. The “first power delivery is anticipated in 2028.” The project will scale to an estimated capacity of 2.67 gigawatts of capacity over time.

The joint infrastructure appears to be designed, at least in theory, to avoid burdening residential neighbors with higher electricity rates, one of many oft-repeated objections to new data centers being built.

The press release claims that “Kilby is designed to deliver reliable, dispatchable electricity directly to Microsoft while aiming to mitigate impacts on the regional grid that consumers rely on,” presumably by, at least in part, circumventing the main power grid in the state.

While proponents of the deal point to economic growth potential for the state and efforts to mitigate negative environmental impacts, critics say there may be some serious drawbacks to the plan.

For example, a Mother Jones article from last month noted that Microsoft may intend to take advantage of significant tax incentives that could cost the state heavily.

Greg LeRoy, the executive director of Good Jobs First, pointed out that Microsoft does not mention tax abatements in its pledge. “If they don’t say, ‘We will refuse tax abatements,’ then they’ve got their fingers crossed behind their back,” LeRoy told Mother Jones.

Oil & Gas Watch warned that the project may have significant environmental impacts, including a yearly output of over 13.8 million tons of greenhouse gases, a comparable annual output to that of nearly 3 million gas-powered vehicles.

This agreement comes less than two weeks after Governor Greg Abbott (R) directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to “take immediate steps to protect residential ratepayers from the costs of data center expansion.”

In the letter, Abbott directed the PUC to “take action to require data centers to pay for all of their electric infrastructure costs to ensure that no residential ratepayer is burdened by those costs.” Abbott added that these directives are building upon Senate Bill 6 and directed the PUC and ERCOT to submit a report by July 17 and to take action to reduce residential ratepayer transmission costs by July 31.

Project Kilby will primarily use natural gas power and plans to “use non-potable, brackish groundwater sources for power plant operations.”

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When a trio of masked teens tried to rob a man aboard a Chicago bus Saturday night, the 54-year-old fought back, police told CWB Chicago.

Chicago police told the outlet the man was riding a northbound Ashland bus near 57th Street around 11:22 p.m. when the three males approached him and demanded his property while aboard the bus.

‘This will continue to happen all over the city. Can’t stand at the bus stop. Can’t ride the CTA bus. Can’t ride the train.’

Investigators told CWB Chicago the trio began taking items from the man, including a chain necklace that was later recovered from one of the suspects.

A witness told WGN-TV in the station’s video report that the suspects were “talking about shooting him, blowing his brains out.”

But the man soon decided he wasn’t going to give up his stuff without a fight.

Police told the outlet the man reached into his bag, pulled out a “sharp object,” and fought with the robbers.

The suspects battered the victim before fleeing the bus, and CWB Chicago reported that officers initially were dispatched after a bus panic alarm generated a “person with a knife” call.

But as the investigation unfolded, police learned the three ski mask-wearing teenagers targeted the passenger who fought back, the outlet said.

CWB Chicago said police recovered a knife at the scene.

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Then came the plot twist: While officers were sorting out what happened on the bus, 911 operators received another call from the 5600 block of South Justine Street from a caller reporting that his 13-year-old little brother had been stabbed in the hand.

When officers arrived, they quickly connected the dots. According to a police report, the wounded 13-year-old, his older brother, and another individual at the Justine location turned out to be the robbers. Police also recovered the victim’s chain necklace at the scene.

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Police told CWB Chicago that Chicago Fire Department personnel treated the victim, who suffered a cut on his hand, and then took him to St. Bernard Hospital; he was listed in good condition.

Two of the alleged robbers suffered what police said were minor injuries, and paramedics also treated them the outlet said, adding that the three suspects were arrested and charges were pending as of Sunday morning.

A number of commenters reacting to the station’s video report about the incident were up in arms:

“The mayor will give the 3 criminals the key [to] the city for such bravery,” one commenter wrote sarcastically.”Every law-abiding citizen should invest in a [Firearm Owners Identification Card], firearm training, and the [Concealed Carry License],” another commenter said. “Stay ready for the Devil.””A 54-year-old man taking on three young punks and only having a laceration on his hand … bravo!!!” another commenter wrote. “And glad they caught and arrested the three thugs; just too bad they will be released, if they aren’t already, due to [Illinois Democrat Gov. JB] Pritzker’s absurd Safe-T Act.””In a future plea deal, charges of assault with bodily harm and aggravated robbery will be reduced to fare evasion — probably,” another commenter predicted.”This will continue to happen all over the city,” another commenter lamented. “Can’t stand at the bus stop. Can’t ride the CTA bus. Can’t ride the train.”

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The Los Angeles School District superintendent resigned on Sunday, just four months after federal agents raided his home and office.

On Feb. 25, the FBI executed search warrants at Alberto Carvalho’s office and his San Pedro home. Carvalho was placed on paid administrative leave a couple of days later.

‘Because I believe our schools must remain focused on students and learning without distraction, I am resigning as Superintendent of LAUSD effective today, June 21, 2026.’

The reason for the raids has not been publicly revealed. However, some reports indicate they may have been connected to an investigation into a company that received $3 million from the district to develop an educational chatbot for students. The company went bankrupt, and the chatbot was never fully delivered.

Carvalho, who became superintendent in 2022, has not been charged with any crimes. He has denied any wrongdoing.

Carvalho sent a resignation letter on Sunday to the Los Angeles Unified School District and Board of Education members, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Carvalho’s letter did not address why he was stepping down from his position. However, he seemed to refer to the investigation as a “distraction.”

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“It has been a great honor to serve you,” Carvalho wrote.

“Over the past four years, together, we have made historic progress — gains that belong to our students, our educators, staff, and our communities.”

“Placing students first has always guided my work,” he continued. “Because I believe our schools must remain focused on students and learning without distraction, I am resigning as Superintendent of LAUSD effective today, June 21, 2026.”

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An LAUSD spokesperson told WTVJ that the district’s Board of Education “acknowledges receipt of the letter of resignation from Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho, effective June 21, 2026.”

“The Board remains steadfast in its commitment to ensuring stability, continuity, and continued progress through strong leadership. Our focus remains unchanged: providing every student with a high-quality education, supporting our dedicated workforce, and maintaining the trust of the communities we serve,” the statement read.

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Last month, I wrote here that the AI bubble was about to pop and that when the subsidies ran out, the bill would land on the customer. The whole thing rested on one ugly fact: The companies selling AI were losing money on nearly every power user and pretending otherwise.

I figured we had a year or two before the cracks really showed. Maybe three. But the receipts started landing within weeks. What I got wrong wasn’t the diagnosis, but who would blink first. I figured the pain would start at the bottom, with small shops priced out when their renewals came due. Instead, it started at the very top, with the richest companies on earth — including several of the same outfits building and selling the stuff.

The message was: Get on board or get left behind.

The implications are massive. Let’s review.

Uber torched its entire AI budget in four months

Uber’s CTO, Praveen Neppalli Naga, told the Information in April that the company had already burned through its full 2026 AI coding budget. Four months in. Gone.

The culprit was Anthropic’s Claude Code. Uber rolled it out to its engineers in December 2025, and usage roughly doubled by February as adoption climbed from a third of the organization to better than four-fifths. By April, Naga was, in his words, back to the drawing board, because the budget he planned for the year had vanished in a third of it. Per-engineer costs were reportedly running anywhere from $500 to $2,000 a month.

On the “Rapid Response” podcast, Uber president Andrew Macdonald admitted he can’t connect all that token spend to anything customers can actually see. Asked whether the AI was producing more useful features, he said flatly, “That link is not there yet” and that the spending gets harder to justify when AI isn’t free.

Uber dropped roughly $3.4 billion on R&D in 2025, with AI a big chunk of that. Now the company has slapped a cap on it. Employees get $1,500 worth of tokens per coding tool each month, and the company is still trying to figure out what, exactly, it bought.

Microsoft revoked its own people’s Claude Code licenses

Microsoft is canceling internal Claude Code licenses across its Experiences + Devices division, the group behind Windows, Teams, Outlook, and Surface. The cutoff is June 30, 2026, which happens to be the last day of Microsoft’s fiscal year.

The pilot launched in December 2025. Engineers liked Claude Code so much that they started ditching Microsoft’s own GitHub Copilot CLI for it. Six months later, the company is pulling the plug and herding everyone back to Copilot. Token billing turned what looked like a flat seat license into a runaway tab, and Microsoft’s finance people reached the same conclusion Uber’s did.

Remember, this is Microsoft. They put money into Anthropic. And they still couldn’t justify keeping the lights on for their own engineers to use the tool.

Meta flipped from ‘tokenmaxxing’ to ‘tokenminimizing’

“Tokenmaxxing” was Silicon Valley’s newest bit of corporate slang, and it means exactly what it sounds like: Burn tokens to hit a target, climb a board, prove you’re “innovative.” Output optional.

For two years, Meta pushed staff to use AI for everything. Internal leaderboards tracked who burned the most tokens, handing out titles like “Token Legend.” The message was: Get on board or get left behind.

Now the memo reads differently. In June, Meta told roughly 6,000 employees the company clamping down on AI costs by capping token usage and building an internal dashboard to track who’s spending what. The Information called it “tokenminimizing,” and the company admitted internal AI use alone is on track to cost billions this year.

Here’s the context that makes it sting. Meta raised its 2026 capital expenditure forecast to between $125 billion and $145 billion, nearly all of it AI infrastructure. It also announced about 8,000 layoffs in April, roughly 10% of the company, with cuts beginning May 20.

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So: Meta is spending more on AI than ever, fired thousands of people to help pay for it, and now can’t afford for the survivors to actually use the thing. Got it.

Amazon shut down its AI leaderboard

Amazon ran an internal leaderboard called KiroRank that scored employees on AI usage. The idea was to gamify adoption and reward the heaviest users.

It worked a little too well. Staff started “tokenmaxxing,” assigning AI agents pointless busywork just to climb the board. Some reportedly used AI for tasks they could have knocked out faster by hand, burning compute to chase a number. First reported by the Financial Times, Amazon killed KiroRank at the end of May. Senior VP Dave Treadwell’s message to the troops: “Please don’t use AI just for the sake of using AI.”

That’s the whole problem in one sentence. Amazon wanted adoption. What it got was theater. Employees gamed a metric that had nothing to do with whether any real work got done.

The tokenmaxxing hangover

The sticker shock is showing up everywhere. TechCrunch reported in early June that a Priceline employee watched a routine Cursor renewal come back four to five times more expensive. One financial operations director described companies blowing through their entire 2026 token budget by April and quietly panicking.

Fortune’s Jeremy Kahn put a headstone on it in late May: “Tokenmaxxing is dead.” Companies raced to burn tokens and reward people for it, then discovered that adoption metrics aren’t business outcomes.

For two years, the answer to “should we use AI” was always yes, and the only argument was how fast. The question has quietly changed to “what did we get for it,” and a lot of companies don’t like the answer.

What this actually means

In May, I argued that AI companies were running loss-leading subscriptions, burning investor cash to buy the market, and hiding the real cost behind a subsidized price. You weren’t paying for the product. You were getting a subsidized demo, with the price hike scheduled for after you got hooked.

What I didn’t see coming was how fast the subsidizers would start cutting themselves off.

The companies with the deepest pockets are first in line to ration it, and several of them are the very ones building and selling it. They looked at the invoice and realized they can’t afford their own product. Uber’s CTO said the budget was blown away. Meta is building dashboards to meter its engineers. Microsoft, an Anthropic backer, is canceling licenses. Amazon found out its own people were manufacturing fake demand.

These aren’t scrappy startups running out of runway. They’re the richest companies on earth, with effectively bottomless access to capital, and they all hit the same wall at roughly the same time.

It’s not just them, either. On June 14, the Economist ran a piece called “Companies are scrambling to curtail soaring AI costs,” and the best line came from an executive at a big U.S. tech company who called the coming squeeze “an absolute nightmare.” His point: A large company runs hundreds of software programs, and once each one ships its own AI agents, the bills stack up fast. Ramp, the corporate-card provider that can see its clients’ actual spending, figures AI bills have jumped 13-fold in a year. Its heaviest 1% of users now average around $7,450 per person per month, against $11 for the typical customer. Even Sam Altman has called mounting customer costs a serious problem, which is a strange thing to hear from the man selling the tokens.

At current prices, AI costs more than it returns, and even the companies selling it can’t make the internal math work.

The lesson

AI has real uses, and I lean on it every day. But economics don’t care how you feel, and you can’t meme your way around a compute bill that climbs every month a power user gets better at burning tokens. That’s not hypothetical. It’s the whole reason the firms selling AI are the first ones rationing it.

If you run a business and you have bet the whole thing on API calls to somebody else’s model, look hard at that dependency. When the companies building these models can’t afford to let their own staff use them freely, what do you think happens when your renewal lands?

There are alternatives, and they’re getting absurdly cheap. The Economist notes that a mid-tier model like Anthropic’s Sonnet can run about 1/20 of what its flagship Opus costs. Kimi, an open-weight model from the Chinese startup Moonshot AI, runs about 1/20 of that. Stack those up, and a lot of routine work runs at a rounding error next to frontier pricing. “Send the easy jobs somewhere cheaper” is a real strategy now, not a compromise. You don’t have to stay locked into a vendor that is quietly rationing its own product.

The bubble isn’t bursting with a headline. It’s bursting with a memo. A budget revision. A canceled license. A quiet decision to ration the tool you were told would change everything.

And the people who sold you the revolution? They’re the same ones pulling the plug.

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For American leftists, Father’s Day — like Columbus Day — constitutes an annual opportunity to publicly unload their baggage, air petty resentments, and express their depravities in creative ways. This Sunday was no different over at the New York Times.

Days after a liberal rag north of the border ran an article calling for the abolition of Father’s Day, America’s supposed newspaper of record endeavored to make Father’s Day about a reality-averse woman.

‘The cultural elite[‘s] contempt for dads runs so deep.’

In an essay published on Sunday titled “To My Daughter, My Gender Was Never Complicated,” trans-identifying woman Zach Ellams discussed both her imagined fatherhood and her daughter’s absorption of the corresponding lunacy.

Ellams notes at the outset that while she has been “living as a trans man” since she was 18, she had to “learn how to be a trans dad” after she and her lesbian “wife” had a child.

This learning process apparently consisted of Ellams simultaneously developing confidence in the lie while indoctrinating her daughter — a little girl whom Ellams calls Elliot and who has apparently wondered about her mother’s new facial hair; stated she too wanted to grow a beard and tried to convince other children it was possible; told teachers about her mother’s breast-removal surgery; and asked her mother about her phantom breasts — “How long did you have breasts for, Dad?”

Whether Ellams or her lesbian partner gave birth to the girl is unclear.

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The essay concludes with Ellams noting, “I thought I was teaching Elliot how to be happy and secure. Yet all along she had being doing that for me.”

Critics blasted the Times over its decision to mark Father’s Day with an essay about a dysphoric mother.

Investigative reporter Matt Taibbi called the essay an “all-timer,” noting he didn’t “know where to put it on the funny-vs-horrifying axis.”

Alex Berenson, a former reporter for the Times, congratulated his former paper for “perfectly catching how the cultural elite view men and fatherhood this Father’s Day — yes, to the Times, being a dad is something you do to feel better about having your tits cut off. Cannot make it up.”

“The cultural elite[‘s] contempt for dads runs so deep we don’t even get to speak for ourselves,” Berenson also said.

“The New York Times celebrated Father’s Day by saluting the real heroes: left-wing gender goblins who think mentally ill women mutilating themselves, mainlining hormone injections, and playing daddy dress-up are the true embodiment of fatherhood,” wrote Sean Davis, CEO of the Federalist.

“‘Liberal women let men have even one single thing challenge’: impossible,” quipped conservative commentator Michael Knowles.

The X account for Prager University simply asked, “What are we doing here?”

Ellams’ essay was published just days after the surgically mutilated lesbian actress formerly known as Ellen Page attempted to define “healthy masculinity,” suggesting what’s ultimately needed is more weeping and banana consumption.

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Tyranny rarely arrives wearing a villain’s mask. More often, Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck argues, it comes wrapped in the language of compassion.

“The most dangerous sentence in all of human history is not, ‘I hate you.’ It’s, ‘This is for your own good.’ Cruelty announces itself, and you can guard against it. But tyranny that believes it’s being kind never stops because it never feels guilty,” Glenn explains.

“When somebody justifies power, a policy, or an exception by telling you it’s to protect the vulnerable, that is not the time to relax. They’re not protecting the vulnerable. They may think they are, but they’re not,” he continues.

And Glenn has several news stories to back up his belief.

“Britain, that full report on the sex scandal that has been going on with the, dare I say it, with the Muslim immigrants, the number now is at a quarter of a million girls were raped,” he begins.

“The officials shielded, you know, one favored group from criticism at all cost. And the cost was the children. And the instinct that did this was not hatred for the children or the British people. It was a warped idea of protection. Protect the favored group,” he explains.

“Story two … the UK wants to scan all content on every phone in the country. Not kids’ phones, every phone. Your photos, your messages, everything you do on the presumption that it might find something helpful to protect the children,” he continues.

“Protect the child becomes scan every adult. That’s the slope. That’s the play,” he adds.

The third story Glenn uses as an example is the FTC’s lawsuit against the world’s leading transgender medicine organization, where they allege that it “cooked its own clinical guidelines to juice insurance coverage for procedures on minors.”

“Now, I want you to set aside wherever you land on the underlying issue. Look only at the structure here. The institution you’re told trust because it’s credentialed authority where the doctors were protecting your child,” he says.

“They bent the science toward the billing department. Same pattern, different lab code,” he continues, before revealing the one question those who value their freedom need to ask when it’s being challenged.

“Ask the one question that has protected free people for 300 years,” he says, asking, “Who watches the protector?”

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Liberal politician Keir Starmer announced his resignation on Monday — just hours after President Donald Trump let the cat out of the bag and faulted the British prime minister for failing “badly on two very important subjects — IMMIGRATION AND ENERGY.”

Critics celebrated his downfall, fellow travelers romanticized his time in office, and Starmer’s putative replacement, Andy Burnham, called for an “orderly and responsible” transition.

‘I couldn’t have predicted how quickly he would reveal himself as the most incompetent Prime Minister this country has ever had.’

Starmer, a deeply unpopular leader whose job disapproval rating has hovered around 76%, characterized his nearly two years in office as a success, stating, “We changed our party, ripping out the poison of anti-Semitism, restoring trust on the economy, defense, and national security, and becoming a party that once again stood proudly with, not against, our national flag.”

After suggesting that he had taken steps to “change Britain for the better” — “to build a fairer country with dignity and respect, where everyone is seen, everyone is valued” — and reiterating London’s support for Ukraine, Starmer noted that his party has made clear he is not the individual “best placed to lead us into the next general election.”

“I accept that answer with good grace,” said Starmer, the U.K.’s sixth prime minister since July 2016. “Every decision I’ve taken has been about putting the country I love first. That is why I will resign as leader of the Labour Party. I have spoken to His Majesty the King this morning to inform him of my decision. I will ask the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party to set out a timetable with nominations opening on the 9th of July.”

A Labour leadership election would ensure that Starmer is replaced before the British Parliament returns in September. Starmer said he would remain in office until he is replaced.

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The Labour Party has been roiled in recent months by a civil war.

Ninety-six of Starmer’s 402 Labour members of parliament demanded the prime minister’s resignation last month after the party suffered significant losses — a net-loss of 1,229 seats out of a total of roughly 5,000 — in local elections, while Reform UK saw tremendous gains.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood reportedly urged Starmer in early May to establish a timetable for his departure.

The infighting did not go unnoticed by opponents in parliament.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, for instance, stated late last year that “the PM has shown he is in office but not in power.”

‘Digital ID was to be foisted upon people regardless of their wishes.’

Starmer’s ultimate decision to throw in the towel — just days after he and his party were blasted in the 219-page “Rape Gang Inquiry Report” — was welcomed by Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe, who stated, “He has been a truly disgraceful Prime Minister. I do not believe him to be a good man or a patriot. He has deliberately and rapidly accelerated the destruction of our Britain, of our home. History will not remember him kindly, nor should it.”

“I sat in Parliament, looking him in the eye, listening to him attempting to justify his decision to block a national inquiry into the mass rape of young British girls,” continued Lowe. “I will never forgive him. For that, and so much else.”

Labour politicians voted against a national inquiry into grooming gangs in January 2025. Starmer’s spokesman stated at the time, “We will be guided by the victims and what we’ve heard from the victims is that they don’t want to see another national inquiry.”

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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage wrote, “The Prime Minister is finished. I have to give Starmer some credit: even I couldn’t have predicted how quickly he would reveal himself as the most incompetent Prime Minister this country has ever had the misfortune of having.”

Farage, who has demanded a prompt general election “at the soonest possible date,” countered Starmer’s success narrative with a list of some of the Labour government’s apparent misdeeds over the past two years:

The party started by trying to steal from pensioners, while simultaneously refusing to take action against welfare cheats. Rachel Reeves raided your pay packet to throw money towards public sector fat cats. Promises to “smash the gangs” were hollow, as illegal migration through the Channel hit record highs. Digital ID was to be foisted upon people regardless of their wishes. Hardened criminals were released from prisons back onto your streets. The Chagos Islands were nearly handed over at a cost to the taxpayer, and farmers were hit by a death tax.

The Free Speech Union also welcomed Starmer’s exit, noting, “He has led the most authoritarian government in more than a generation, unleashing an unprecedented assault on free speech. Indeed, he seems determined to make social media censorship his legacy.”

The FSU, like Farage, pointed out, however, that the Labour Party’s likely replacement may be just as bad as, if not worse than, Starmer.

Starmer’s most likely successor is Andy Burnham, the Greater Manchester mayor who handily won a special election on Thursday, thereby securing a seat in parliament and a viable pathway to the head of the Labour Party.

A radical leftist who welcomes mass migration, Burnham is also an Islamophile who:

opposed the U.K.’s counter-extremism program as “toxic” for supposedly discriminating against Muslims, whom he said feel “unfairly targeted”;rushed to downplay the religious nature of the May 2017 Islamic terror attack at the Manchester Arena that left 22 people dead and 1,017 injured, noting that “the person who did it in no more represents the Muslim community than the person who killed Jo Cox represents the white Christian community”; andsupported the adoption of a definition of “Islamophobia” that claims it is “rooted in racism.”

Other candidates are, according to conservative politician David Frost, variations on a theme:

All the likely candidates, just like Starmer, are creatures of the same political class. All have devoted their lives to Labour politics and none appears to have any meaningful non-political hinterland or wider interests beyond pop music and football. They all support Burnham-style state‑led regionalism, they all see the state as capable of resolving all society’s ills, and they are all in their different ways steeped in corporatism and the trade unions. All are pro-EU and want to reverse Brexit. And of course all are hostile to “populism.”

Burnham thanked Starmer on Monday for his “leadership and dedication during such a challenging period” and emphasized the need for the transition process to be “conducted in an orderly and responsible way.”

“People want to see progress on economic growth, cost of living, public services, housing and opportunities for the next generation,” wrote Burnham. “Political change should never distract from the responsibility to improve people’s lives.”

Liberals at home and abroad did their apparent best to paint Starmer’s short stint in office in rosy colors.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, for instance, said Starmer “can be proud of the contribution he has made to the country he loves.”

Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, claimed that “it can take many leaders years to grow into the statesman [Starmer] became in just two years,” adding that Starmer had helped make European and Ukrainian security stronger.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan claimed that Starmer “is a man of great integrity” who has “made a huge contribution to the Labour party and our country.”

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