Men have a big problem these days: the women in their lives.

Simply put, their wives, mothers, sisters, co-workers, and other female friends have become unbearable.

I know of two licensed mental health counselors, both gay men, who will no longer accept female clients because it is too dangerous to be alone behind closed doors with women. Even if you’re gay.

I know because they’ve told me. Men come to me as a peer support counselor for private sessions to talk about these issues because they have no other venue where they can discuss them without being punished.

When I wrote about some of their stories, it became the most widely read article I have posted since joining Substack in 2022. It’s called “When the women in your family go nuts.”

Deliberately provocative title? Yes. I want the clicks because readers reading what I write is how I get paid.

But I also want to rip the Band-Aid off. How else to describe the refusal of so many women to conform to basic standards of adult behavior — especially in public? Forget politics. These crying, screaming tantrums we constantly witness are no more about “fascism” than a toddler’s checkout-line meltdown is about a lollipop. And they deserve as firm a response.

Everyone — women and men — knows this is true. But everyone is afraid to say it out loud.

I’m not.

Female trouble

There was nothing particularly groundbreaking or insightful about my Substack piece. What made it so popular was simply that it recounted the honest, unvarnished experiences of men dealing with female insanity. All without judgment or accusations of “misogyny.”

Today I thought I would tell some more of their stories.

Let me warn you up front: This isn’t exactly a conservative vs. liberal issue. While most of this behavior occurs in leftist women, even right-wing women in our era are more entitled and expect special female-only deference. Such is life in a society that has been under the stiletto heel of feminist thought since the 1960s.

And needless to say, not all women are like this. I am diagnosing a trend within a population, not condemning an entire sex. So ladies: If you think this doesn’t apply to you, it probably doesn’t. Although if you find all of this “offensive,” you might ask yourself why.

Deadly ’empowerment’

One reason I think it’s important to keep pointing this out is that it’s getting worse — sometimes with deadly consequences. Take the recent case of Renee Good, the woman shot and killed by an ICE agent last week in Minneapolis.

Good was tailing ICE agents in her car in order to frustrate their attempts to arrest illegal aliens. Video shows her placing her SUV crosswise in the road, mocking officers who ordered her to move, and then seemingly attempting to drive directly into one of them. That officer fired his gun multiple times, killing Good.

Good was a mother and a widow; her senseless death leaves three young children orphans. A sad detail of the incident is that Good’s lesbian “wife” was also on the scene and appeared to encourage Good’s aggressive behavior right up until she was shot.

This is what happens when a culture pushes “empowerment” without prudence or accountability. Good was so convinced of her own righteousness that she thought it was a good and noble idea to “protest” by weaponizing her car against an officer of the law. Her closest companion egged her on. Good paid the ultimate price.

The man she attacked with her car could just as easily have been killed. And, of course, our attention has now been captured by yet another, instantly “politicized” tragedy only serving to exacerbate the forces tearing America apart.

RELATED: Blocking ICE with ‘micro-intifada’: Good’s group taught de-arrest, cop-car chaos before her death

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None of the stories below involve such extremes; thankfully, this isn’t the norm. But everyday entitled female behavior does take a toll, destroying relationships, marriages, and careers. And there’s no telling when — as in the case of Renee Good — it could erupt into something even worse.

Note: These are composites so that no individual man’s specific story can be identified. But all these scenarios are real.

What’s more, they come from gay men and straight men. Even gay men, who are widely known to have many more female friendships than straight men, are finding their female friendships fraught and, often, too much to take. There’s no difference between the experience of a gay man and a straight man in this area except for the lack of romantic and sexual contact.

Bob, hotel executive

Bob works for a name-brand luxury hotel chain with properties around the world. He’s a vice president in charge of marketing, a field that is overwhelmingly female. His employee Becca has gotten herself into a position of power over her own boss such that he has to do what she says, not the other way around.

Becca accomplished this by turning on the tears the first time Bob rejected some of her work. It was a presentation that met none of the project goals, lacked necessary detail, and took credit for work done by other departments.

Bob told her this, so Becca started crying. This cycle was repeated a few times until Bob told Becca that she needed to complete her assigned tasks like all other employees. So Becca went to HR and filed a complaint that Bob was “aggressive with women.”

The female HR bosses now demand that Bob have “regular check-ins” about his tone with Becca. Bob comes to me in frustration because no one will listen to him because he’s a man. He can’t talk to Becca like an adult; he can’t hold her to standards. And now he has to do her work, too, because if the project isn’t completed, the client won’t pay for it.

Sam, husband

Sam has been married for 14 years and has three daughters with his wife, Courtney. Sam describes what kind of woman Courtney was in the beginning of their marriage: smart, humorous, considerate, and as into him as he was into her.

Over the course of their marriage, Courtney’s leftist Democrat politics have gone to the extreme edge. Not a day goes by that she doesn’t complain out loud about the “fascist dictator Donald Trump.” She blows up Sam’s phone with Facebook threads while demanding to know if Sam has “something to say about your president.”

She has now taken to criticizing his hobby in the garage, calling it “dangerous” and saying Sam has no right to “endanger our family with chemicals like that in the garage.” Sam’s hobby is building model tabletop gasoline engines. Courtney gets hysterical about Sam keeping a red one-gallon can of gasoline in the garage (no, she doesn’t fear the 20-gallon gasoline tank in her SUV that is also in the garage), telling him he is putting the family at risk of “an explosion.”

Meanwhile, Sam’s three daughters, all adolescents, talk to him like he’s a servant. They mouth off, refuse to complete tasks, and complain to their mother that their dad is “too strict” and doesn’t “validate” their feelings.

Sam loves Courtney, but he can’t understand what she has become. He suspects Courtney does not love him any more and thinks she doesn’t respect him as a fellow adult. Sadly, I told Sam that I think he’s right. It’s obvious that Courtney doesn’t respect him, and women who love their husbands don’t treat them this way.

Sam’s lot is to figure out how he can prevent his teenage daughters from becoming as emotionally unstable and entitled as their mother has become. Frankly, I don’t think he can.

Gary, piano teacher

Gary taught piano for years at a Midwestern university. In middle age, he is the classic “sensitive, artistic man.” His manner and affect are gentle and soft-spoken. He likes to get lost in sheet music and is visibly transported when he plays. All of this is to say that to most people, Gary reads as “gay.” And he is. And everyone knows this.

One of his female students, Cindy, decided that she did not like Gary’s assignments and did not like the less-than-A grades he gave to her class work. She started her campaign against him by saying he didn’t speak to her “respectfully,” a charge she leveled whenever he told her that her work did not meet standards.

Gary did not cave. He did not inflate her grades. Cindy escalated by going to the student services office and claiming that Gary was “being creepy” and “seemed to be making sexual jokes and advances” at her during conferences in his office. Remember, readers, everyone at the university knows that Gary is a homosexual.

Yet Cindy’s complaint was taken seriously, and Gary went through a Title IX investigation. While he was eventually cleared, he wasn’t really cleared. His reputation was ruined at the university, and he can’t get a job at another school because that reputational smear has spread throughout the musical academic world.

Gary is now doing odd landscaping jobs to pay his mortgage.

Gary isn’t the only gay man successfully accused of sexually harassing women. I know of two licensed mental health counselors, both gay men, who will no longer accept female clients because it is too dangerous to be alone behind closed doors with women. Even if you’re gay.

Alex, aspiring husband and father

Alex is in his 30s and hopes to get married and have kids, but despairs of being able to achieve that. Everyone in his age group finds their mates with dating apps instead of meeting people in the real world, but it hasn’t worked out well for Alex.

“You can’t even hint that you’re a conservative on those apps, or women will reject you,” he told me during one session. “Then they tell other women on the app that you’re a fascist who loves Trump the dictator and that you’re a misogynist who will hurt women.”

During the few real-life dates Alex managed to arrange through the app, the same behavior came out at a restaurant, only more slowly. He would meet an attractive woman for a dinner out, and sooner or later she would find a way to turn the conversation to his politics. This is the notorious “s**t test” that women today inflict on men to sniff out the bad troglodyte conservatives.

Alex told me about a date with an attractive, witty woman that went south when he told her what he was looking for: a wife and children in their own home, in the traditional way. His date heard something different. According to her, Alex had exposed himself as a “regressive” and “misogynist” patriarch. She had more self-respect than to spend time with a man who wanted her pregnant and chained to the kitchen, she said, and walked away.

I could give you dozens more true-to-life scenarios like these. While it is true that my client base is self-selecting — these guys aren’t coming to me because they’re happy with their lives — their experiences mirror the experiences that men from all walks of life are talking about.

This isn’t an extreme fringe, and it’s not “mostly lol/lmao incel baby men who live in Mommy’s basement.” To the extent that these men are involuntarily celibate, it’s largely because modern women don’t want men. They want gelded, feminized, diffident milk rags who spout things like “happy wife, happy life.”

Except they don’t. Not really. Women, deep down, want what women have always wanted. They want strong, assertive men who can provide for the family and protect the women and children. They want this because it’s natural and hardwired into our biology. Feminism is a lie, but it’s a lie that has permanently ruined the chance for happiness in the lives of millions of men and women.

I don’t know what to “prescribe” to change this problem. I don’t know how we get there, but I have some ideas about what needs to change in order for American men and women to build fulfilling lives with each other again.

The family has to be put first again, not last.Leftist derision of traditional family values needs to be loudly mocked and excoriated. It’s time those on that side are made to pipe down the way they’ve been shutting up the right since the 1960s. Or, in Archie Bunker terms, “stifle it.”Men have to stop accepting this shrew behavior from women. And they have to take the risk of being called “misogynist” in the interim period while women scream and object. We have to go through the problem and take the wounds before we can get to peace on the other side.Sane women (and there are a lot of them; they tend to be married with children and conservative) will need to put social pressure on the bitch contingent. Don’t maintain friendships with women like this, and tell them why. Defend your husbands and the male sex when your girlfriends talk them down. Turn their mean-girl rhetoric right back on them.

Readers, what’s your prescription?

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A member of the so-called “seditious six” has resurfaced to complain about the Trump administration’s response to an incendiary viral video posted late last year.

On Wednesday, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) posted a response to the Trump administration’s investigations into the Democrat lawmakers who famously directed members of the military and intelligence community to “refuse illegal orders” back in November.

‘And right now, speaking out against the abuse of power is the most patriotic thing we can do.’

Slotkin, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer, captioned her latest video, “The intimidation *is the point*. And it’s not going to work.”

RELATED: ‘SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR’: Trump demands arrest of ‘traitor’ Democrat congressmen for ‘dangerous’ video

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Slotkin claimed that District of Columbia U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro asked to interview her last week in connection with the video she posted with five other Democrats. She said this was “on top of” an FBI counterterrorism investigation that she announced in November.

She said that in response to the video, “the president called for us to be investigated, arrested, and ultimately hanged. He ended up tweeting over a dozen times about that and yesterday, in Michigan, falsely said that I stole my 2024 election.”

Slotkin won the 2024 Senate race by a 0.3% margin over former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.).

On Tuesday, President Trump addressed Rogers, who was in the audience at the Detroit Economic Club, saying, “And I think they took that away from you last time. I’ll be honest with you, Mike. I really do. I don’t like to get things going. I don’t like to be controversial at all, but they rigged the election on you. Mine was too big to rig. You were — you won. I’m telling you, you won.”

Trump did not clarify who he believes “rigged” that election.

Slotkin claimed that she has received over 100 credible threats, prompting her to heighten security for herself and her family members.

“Now, he’s using his political appointees at the FBI and the Department of Justice to follow through with his threats,” she continued. “To be clear, this is the president’s playbook. Truth doesn’t matter. Facts don’t matter. And anyone who disagrees with him becomes an enemy, and he then weaponizes the federal government against them.

“It’s legal intimidation and physical intimidation meant to get you to shut up. He’s used it with our universities, our corporations, our legal community, and with politicians, who falsely believe that doing his bidding and staying quiet will keep them safe.”

Slotkin promised not be among them.

Slotkin concluded with a non sequitur and a vague appeal to “values”: “Our freedom of speech is worth fighting for. Our values, our core values, are worth fighting for. And right now, speaking out against the abuse of power is the most patriotic thing we can do.”

Slotkin was joined by Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.), Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.), Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.), and Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) in the original video, which has since garnered over 18 million views.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia did not return Blaze News’ request for comment.

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Gone are the days when you type hot-button topics — say “latest on border security” or “ICE protests” — into Google and are forced to sift through the same list of mainstream left-wing propaganda while the sources you trust are intentionally buried.

In an act nothing short of miraculous, Google recently handed power back to the user with a new tool called the Preferred Sources feature. With a few clicks of a button, you can personalize your news-related search results so that your most pressing questions are met with the unfiltered answers you value.

Ready to make it happen? Here’s how to flip the script on Google’s algorithm, transforming it from gatekeeper to your personal servant in just five simple steps.

Step 1: Go to google.com and sign in using your Google account information. Note: You must have a Google account to use the Preferred Sources feature.

Step 2: Search a current news topic (e.g. Iran protests, Trump tariffs, border security updates). You will see articles from mainstream sources, like CNN, NPR, USA Today, AP, Reuters, etc.

Step 3: Directly to the right of the “Top Stories” header at the top of your Google search page, you will see an icon that looks like overlapping boxes with a star in the middle. Click or tap that icon to open the Preferred Sources pop-up.

Step 4: In the text box, type theblaze.com. When it appears in the results, check the box next to it and click “Reload results.”

Step 5: Refresh your Google page — you’ll start seeing boosted results from Blaze News where relevant.

You can add as many sources as you want (no limit) and remove them any time by unchecking the boxes in the same menu.

Stick it to Big Tech and its echo chambers by utilizing Google’s Preferred Sources feature. The power to choose who you listen to has always been rightfully yours, but those who seek to shape and steer the narrative have kept it hidden behind algorithms designed to favor certain voices over others — until now.

Add your trusted sources today, and experience news that serves you.

​Tech 

Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse may not be the next big thing after all.

It hasn’t been that long since the Metaverse was the place to be, with celebrities like Snoop Dogg saying he would start a new record label and social media giants the Nelk Boys promising fans exclusive experiences.

Several sources are reporting that Reality Labs, Meta’s division that works on virtual reality headsets, smart glasses, and wristbands, is dumping around 10% of its workforce.

‘About 80% of users are reportedly under the age of 16 years old.’

The New York Times reports this could amount to somewhere around 1,000-1,500 employees and “disproportionately” affect those who work on the Metaverse and virtual-reality-based social media networking. Bloomberg’s report echoed similar numbers and said Meta is cutting back on virtual reality investments. A Meta spokesperson told Return the Bloomberg report is accurate.

CEO Zuckerberg may no longer think his prized avatar world is the future. He reportedly wants money reallocated from VR goggles and the Metaverse toward his wearables division, to push smart glasses and wristband computing.

For example, Meta is famously partnered with Ray-Ban glasses for video recording and AI integration into the user’s point of view.

RELATED: Zuckerberg names ex-White House deputy Meta’s new president — and Trump LOVES it

It is difficult to gauge the active users in the Metaverse. In 2022, the internet was rife with stories of barren online wastelands such as Decentraland and Sandbox’s $1.3 billion disaster that was garnering fewer than 1,000 daily active users.

As Blaze News reported in December, Meta had recently revealed it spent $77 billion on its overall VR strategy that included Meta Quest hardware (headsets) and Meta Horizon, its Metaverse social platform.

“We said last month that we were shifting some of our investment from Metaverse toward wearables,” a Meta spokesperson told Return. “This is part of that effort, and we plan to reinvest the savings to support the growth of wearables this year.”

Current estimates have the active user count for the Metaverse, overall, at somewhere between 400 and 600 million. About 80% of users are reportedly under the age of 16 years old, and half of all users are under 13.

Last year, the company said it had significant growth in sales for its VR headsets and increased payment volume on its platform by 12%. This came with a 10% overall increase in monthly time spent on its media apps, Meta’s VP of Metaverse content, Samantha Ryan, wrote in 2024.

RELATED: Charlie Kirk murder online role play banned from Grand Theft Auto: ‘Tasteless, unacceptable’

Still, Zuckerberg has made it clear that the company is shifting toward its wearable technology and AI, including what it takes to power it.

With plans to build new massive data centers, Zuckerberg has promised to deliver “personal superintelligence,” confirming in recent remarks that the company will continue to “invest in and finance Meta’s AI and infrastructure.”

The company says it will focus on experiences with mobile phones for the Metaverse, instead of VR headsets.

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Speed limits are the most ignored law in America. Everyone knows it, everyone does it, and politicians pretend they don’t.

Yet despite near-universal noncompliance, speed limits keep trending upward. That sounds backward — but there’s a reason. And if we want safer, smarter roads, we need to be honest about how limits are set, why they fail, and what would actually fix them.

Speed limits aren’t broken because speed itself is dangerous. They’re broken because the system is disconnected from reality.

This isn’t about reckless driving. It’s about reality. America’s speed policy is built on outdated assumptions, inconsistent enforcement, and political fights that have little to do with safety. Dig into the data and one thing becomes clear: The current system isn’t working.

And no — an American Autobahn isn’t coming anytime soon.

The risk everyone ignores

Speed limits aren’t chosen on a whim. They’re usually based on the 85th percentile rule: Engineers measure how fast drivers already travel, and the speed that 85% stay under becomes the benchmark.

In theory, this reflects real-world behavior. In practice, when most drivers already exceed posted limits, every traffic study pushes numbers higher. It becomes a feedback loop: People speed, limits rise, people keep speeding. The result isn’t safer roads — it’s inconsistency, which is far more dangerous than speed alone.

Safety debates fixate on top speed, but the real danger is speed variability — the difference between how fast vehicles are moving relative to each other.

A road where some drivers do 55 mph and others do 80 mph is dangerous not because of the fastest car, but because of the difference. High variability leads to congestion, abrupt lane changes, tailgating, and road rage. Uniform speeds are far safer. America fails here because limits don’t match behavior, enforcement is sporadic, and real-world speeds vary wildly.

Unsafe at any speed

Some argue we should simply raise limits to match reality. But the data doesn’t support that.

Outdated limits do breed distrust, but raising limits without fixing enforcement, road design, and driver training only widens speed differences. There’s also a political ceiling: Higher limits face resistance that has little to do with safety.

Insurance companies have long resisted higher limits. Greater speeds can mean more severe crashes, higher payouts, and larger claims — so insurers lobby accordingly.

Then there’s Vision Zero and its “safety over speed” movement, which prioritizes lower limits, stricter enforcement, and speed cameras to reduce fatalities. Critics argue it oversimplifies the problem by blaming speed while ignoring poor infrastructure, distracted driving, and inconsistent enforcement. The result is a political stalemate divorced from what actually works.

Why we can’t drive 55 … or 85

The Autobahn always comes up in these debates, and for good reason. It works because everything aligns.

German driver training is rigorous, emphasizing lane discipline and high-speed control. Left lanes are strictly for passing. Roads are engineered for sustained speed. Enforcement is consistent and focused on the right behaviors — tailgating, lane blocking, and distraction.

You can’t copy just one piece of that system and expect the same result.

The national 55 mph limit of the 1970s was widely ignored and eventually repealed. Safety gains were modest and short-lived, while frustration and economic costs were substantial. Arbitrary limits without public trust don’t last.

RELATED: Mandatory speed limiters for all new cars — will American drivers stand for it?

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Brake check

Do speed limits actually work?

Yes — but only when they align with road design, real driving behavior, consistent enforcement, competent driver training, and low speed variability. Right now, America misses on nearly all counts.

Speed limits aren’t broken because speed itself is dangerous. They’re broken because the system is disconnected from reality. The solution isn’t simply raising or lowering numbers — it’s aligning engineering, enforcement, training, and expectations.

America’s biggest problem isn’t speed. It’s inconsistency. Until that changes, noncompliance will continue — and so will preventable crashes. Smarter speed policy won’t come from politics. It will come from practical engineering, and that would save more lives than any number posted on a roadside sign.

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When Hillary Clinton was asked to sit for a sworn deposition on Wednesday morning as a part of the House’s bipartisan probe into Jeffrey Epstein, she refused to appear. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, also defied a subpoena to appear before the House Oversight Committee.

Now the House Oversight Committee will begin contempt of Congress proceedings.

“Now on the one hand, it’s rather upsetting to see more Democrats use this situation as just another political pawn. But on the other, Donald Trump has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever and finally make good on one of his biggest campaign promises,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says.

“And now remember, the Democrats said, ‘Oh, it’s the Republicans who don’t want to investigate. It’s the Republicans who don’t want to release the files.’ Actually it’s the Republicans right here who are trying to investigate. The Republicans run the House,” she continues.

“And Bill and Hillary Clinton right there, kind of key figures in this whole thing. They should probably tell us what they know,” she says, adding, “I mean, hey, Democrats, if we’re serious about getting to the bottom of this, we should hear from those two evil ghouls on the screen, shouldn’t we?”

Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) has announced he will be moving to hold the pair in contempt — but they don’t appear to be willing to go quietly.

“This past year has seen our government engage in unprecedented acts, including against our own citizens. People have been seized by masked federal agents from their homes, their workplaces, and the streets of their communities. Students and scientists with visas permitting them to study and work here have been deported without due process,” a statement from the Clintons began.

“The people who laid siege to the U.S. Capitol have been pardoned and called heroes, agencies vital to the country’s national security have been dismantled,” the statement continued.

Finally after pointing out more grievances they have with the Trump administration, they wrote, “Every person has to decide when they have seen or had enough and are ready to fight for this country, its principles, and its people, no matter the consequences. For us, now is that time.”

“I mean, you just couldn’t make that up if you tried,” Gonzales laughs.

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The wife of an NFL legend is looking to unseat a Democrat in a district that has long been controlled by the left-wing party.

The congressional seat, NJ-09, is held by Democrat Nellie Pou, who won by less than 5% of the vote in 2024.

‘Congresswoman Nellie Pou has a charmed life.’

The district has been held by Democrats since the early 1980s, but that is not scaring off Tiffany Burress, a Pittsburgh native. Pittsburgh is also where her husband, former wide receiver Plaxico Burress, spent the first part of his NFL career, playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Plaxico won the Super Bowl with the New York Giants in 2008, beating the undefeated New England Patriots led by Tom Brady, 17-14. The former Michigan State star caught the game-winning touchdown pass from quarterback Eli Manning.

According to the New York Post, Mrs. Burress serves on the Workers’ Comp committee of the New Jersey State Bar association, has been recognized as for her work as an attorney, and is a former college athlete at Penn State.

The seat she hopes to win also includes MetLife/Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, where the Giants play.

RELATED: Ketanji Brown Jackson still can’t define ‘woman,’ yet rewrites sex law

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“Congresswoman Nellie Pou has a charmed life. Fifty years on the government dime, never had a private sector job. In 1997, doors started opening,” Burress said in her campaign ad, which alleged that Pou has been gifted all her government roles.

Burress said that while doors opened for Pou, she herself has “busted through them,” on top of being willing to call out Republicans when they are wrong.

The campaign for Rosie Pino, who is also running as a Republican, told Fox News Digital that Pino is the “only proven winner in this race.”

“Supporting an unknown, untested, out-of-touch candidate who does not reside in the district and changed her party affiliation a few weeks ago just to run for office, would be the political equivalent of shooting ourselves in the leg — dividing the Republican Party and forfeiting the opportunity to hold the critical House Majority,” said Pino spokesman Kennith Gonzalez.

RELATED: Police shoot New Jersey man who allegedly charged them with machete — then find gruesome scene inside his home

Democrat support for the N.J. seat has lessened over the years; Democrats won with 74% of the vote in 2012 and remained around 70% until 2020.

That year, incumbent Democrat Bill Pascrell (now deceased) won with just 65.8% of the vote, and that number dropped to 55% in 2022.

In 2024, Pou won with just 50.8% of the vote; the leading Republican got 45.9%.

At the same time, the district has voted heavily for Democrats in federal elections — until 2024.

In 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020, at least 59% of voters in NJ-09 chose the Democrat presidential nominee. In 2024 however, Trump won the district 49% to 48%.

As it stands, New Jersey’s state Senate is majority blue, with 25 seats held by Democrats and 15 by Republicans.

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Host Nikki Glaser says she wanted to keep her patter mostly nonpolitical at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards on Sunday.

But the comic wasn’t too shy to try out the junked jokes on “The Howard Stern Show” earlier this week.

‘You just don’t say that guy’s name right now.’

On ICE

Reading from her phone, Glaser started with a couple of barbs aimed at Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“I was going to come in at some point and say, ‘I’m hearing from the bar that we’re out of ice. And you know, we don’t really need ice. And actually, I hate ice.'”

Glaser said the joke was a little too simple and off the mark, though.

“It just felt like, oh, even that’s just being too trivial. … It’s hard to strike the right tone,” she said, according to Variety.

Orange man banned

The 41-year-old also admitted to scrapping an idea Steve Martin sent her about the president renaming the show’s venue to the “Trump Beverly Hilton.”

“You just don’t say that guy’s name right now,” she explained. “I just want to give it space.”

RELATED: Trump-appointed prosecutor who uncovered Somali fraud in Minnesota resigns

Glaser told Stern she’s no longer as precious about cutting material as she used to be.

“You just gotta move on and [say] ‘let’s just write a better joke.'”

Mixed signaling

Many of the celebs in attendance didn’t seem to share Glaser’s determination to keep the proceedings nonpartisan. Some sported pins in protest of ICE with slogans like “Ice Out” and “Be Good.”

The latter is in reference to Renee Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent while allegedly attempting to ram him with her car.

The award show host still took jabs at the network airing the ceremonies, mocking CBS for allegedly pulling a story about the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement.

“And the award for most editing goes to CBS News! Yes, CBS News: America’s newest place to see BS news,” Glaser said during the awards.

RELATED: Tom Brady tells Jeff Ross to ‘never say that s*** again’ after a joke about the owner of the New England Patriots

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Just kidding

Glaser also shared a few rejected jabs at the A-list nominees, including riffing that “One Battle After Another” star Sean Penn received his nod for “Best Neck Veins.”

She also mocked Penn’s co-star Leonardo DiCaprio for “always squinting.”

“I mean, I assume it’s to read your girlfriend’s ID. Just making sure that the year starts with a two,” she added.

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The Trump administration revealed that a government contractor leaked information about the military operation in Venezuela earlier this month.

‘There could be some others, and we’ll let you know about that. We’re hot on their trail.’

The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that the FBI searched the home of one of its reporters, claiming the raid was part of an investigation into Aurelio Perez-Lugones.

Perez-Lugones is a Maryland resident who was working as a systems engineer and information technology specialist for a government contracting company when federal authorities arrested him. He has maintained Top Secret security clearance since at least 2000, according to a January 9 affidavit.

Federal prosecutors accused Perez-Lugones of printing screenshots of a Top Secret report, as well as writing classified information on a notepad and taking the sheets of paper home. When authorities searched his home last week, they allegedly found multiple documents that were marked as Secret, including a document found in his lunch box.

The criminal complaint claimed the documents were related to “national defense.” However it did not specify any details, such as whether the information pertained to the United States’ recent operation in Venezuela.

FBI Director Kash Patel shared a statement on Wednesday about the recent arrest of the leaker and that individual’s ties to the Washington Post.

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“This morning the @FBI and partners executed a search warrant of an individual at the Washington Post who was found to allegedly be obtaining and reporting classified, sensitive military information from a government contractor — endangering our warfighters and compromising America’s national security,” Patel wrote.

During an interview with Fox News, Attorney General Pam Bondi described the leaker as an IT contractor who had been working with the Department of War and allegedly leaked information related to “a foreign adversary.”

“The great men and women of the FBI executed a search warrant at the direction of Kash Patel and my office on the reporter’s home, seizing the devices that contained classified material regarding our foreign adversaries,” Bondi stated.

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President Donald Trump also addressed news about the alleged leak, describing the suspect as the “leaker on Venezuela.”

“A very bad leaker. So there could be some others, and we’ll let you know about that. We’re hot on their trail,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday, adding that the alleged leaker would “probably be in jail for a long time.”

Trump officials have confirmed that the suspected leaker is in custody.

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Vice President JD Vance cast the tiebreaking vote in the Senate Wednesday night after some Republicans bucked President Donald Trump on a key war powers resolution.

Vance voted to block a war powers resolution aimed at reining in Trump’s authority to greenlight military operations in Venezuela. The vote was tied at 50-50 after Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Susan Collins of Maine defied their party to defy Trump, requiring Vance to break the tie.

‘You know what? That’s good enough for me.’

The resolution ultimately failed in the Senate after Trump and his administration, particularly Secretary of State Marco Rubio, lobbied lawmakers to change their votes.

The war powers resolution was originally advanced last week with the help of Murkowski, Paul, and Collins as well as Republican Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Todd Young of Indiana. Both Hawley and Young eventually flipped their votes, allowing Vance to block the resolution altogether.

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Hawley explained his initial support for the war powers resolution, saying he was concerned and unclear about the extent of American intervention in Venezuela.

“For me, this has always been about ground troops,” Hawley said in an interview with Fox.

“That’s not something that I think I would want to do.”

“What the secretary of state said to me very clearly is, ‘We’re not doing that,'” Hawley said. “‘We don’t have ground troops in Venezuela. This is not another Iraq. We’re not going to occupy Venezuela.’ And you know what? That’s good enough for me.”

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Defectors like Murkowski emphasized their opposition to Nicolas Maduro and his regime but argued that “no meaningful end state has been articulated, and U.S. forces and assets remain fully postured in the region.”

“Even when an action is justified and its outcome welcomed, the Constitution is clear that Congress is a co-equal branch of government with an essential role in decisions that place the United States on a path toward sustained military involvement,” Murkowski said in a statement on X. “Excluding Congress from that process risks eroding public trust and blurring strategic objectives.”

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