Nick Shirley knocked on doors. That was all it took to crack Minnesota’s multibillion-dollar fraud scandal — and expose the failure of the institutions that were supposed to catch it.

Shirley visited Somali-run “businesses” that had received millions in taxpayer funds. His videos showed locked doors, covered windows, and empty buildings where thriving operations were supposed to exist.

When institutions feel threatened, they usually try to personalize the fight. That approach won’t work here.

Within days, the footage racked up more than 100 million views on X alone, triggered a flood of federal scrutiny, and helped force a political reckoning in a state where warnings had gone ignored for years.

Legacy media outlets initially dismissed the story as a “conspiracy theory” — until they couldn’t. Gov. Tim Walz (D) went from defending the programs to demanding crackdowns almost overnight. Federal authorities surged additional personnel and resources into Minnesota. What had been treated as untouchable suddenly became unavoidable.

What happened in Minnesota matters. But what happens next matters more.

You are about to see hundreds — perhaps thousands — of Nick Shirley imitators flood social media. Exposing government waste and fraud is no longer just journalism; it is an incentive structure and a business model.

Independent investigators armed with public records, smartphones, and social platforms will fan out across the country, documenting the gap between what government pays for and what actually exists. And the establishment has no effective way to stop them.

The old playbook no longer works.

When institutions feel threatened, they usually try to personalize the fight. Discredit the messenger. Destroy the movement by targeting its most visible figure. We saw this strategy deployed against the DOGE by turning government efficiency into a culture war about Elon Musk.

That approach won’t work here.

You can’t sue a thousand kids with iPhones. You can’t “fact-check” an empty building that’s supposed to be full of children. Calling something “misinformation” loses its power when the door is locked, the windows are covered, and fraud indictments follow months later.

RELATED: Fraud thrived under Democrats’ no-questions-asked rule

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What’s emerging isn’t a movement with a leader — it’s a decentralized ecosystem. Accountability no longer depends on a single newsroom or institution. It comes from a generation that has figured out that exposing corruption is vastly more rewarding than working a shift at Starbucks.

That should terrify every political leader who has relied on the assumption that no one is really watching.

A single viral video now generates more pressure than a year of congressional hearings. The Minnesota press corps had years to uncover what Shirley documented in an afternoon. They didn’t look — not because the evidence was hidden, but because looking wasn’t incentivized. Now it is.

This shift is part of the reason I created Rhetor, an AI-driven political strategy firm designed to track what people are actually saying and doing in real time. Using these tools, we’ve identified billions of dollars in questionable spending beyond Minnesota.

In New York City, for example, migrant-related spending is projected to reach $4.3 billion through 2027. Audits have flagged contractors billing the city for empty hotel rooms — charging $170 per night while paying hotels closer to $100 and pocketing the difference.

Chicago has paid at least $342 million to staffing firms charging $156 an hour for shelter workers. Illinois spent $2.5 billion in 2025 under emergency rules with minimal oversight.

These are not isolated incidents. They share the same ingredients as Minnesota’s scandal: emergency declarations, suspended procurement rules, inexperienced contractors, and little meaningful oversight.

And someone is going to knock on those doors too.

The old gatekeepers understand what this means — and they’re panicking. For decades, investigative journalism required institutional backing. Stories could be delayed, softened, or killed outright if they threatened the wrong people and interests.

That system is dead.

RELATED: ‘Without citing evidence’: NYT steps on a rake trying to attack Trump administration over fraud crackdown

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The new investigative journalism runs on virality, not permission. The reporter is a 23-year-old with a ring light and a Substack. The editorial board is the algorithm. The feedback loop is brutal, immediate, and unforgiving. Get it wrong and the internet will tear you apart. Get it right and the story spreads faster than any newspaper ever could.

This isn’t replacing traditional journalism. It’s filling the void left when traditional journalism stopped doing its job.

Minnesota was the proof of concept. The data was public. The facilities were visitable. The fraud existed for years. Nobody looked — until looking became profitable.

Now it’s profitable everywhere.

The bureaucrats and contractors who built careers on the assumption that no one was watching are about to discover that everyone is. The politicians who treated emergency spending like free money are about to learn that the emergency is over — and the receipts are coming to light.

A generation that treats views like oxygen just learned that fraud is the best clickbait.

Good luck stopping that.

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How to back up an iPhone

Many folks have a love-hate relationship with Apple’s iCloud service. On one hand, the backup feature is great for capturing everything on your device. It basically makes a carbon copy of your phone, freezing your data, settings, files, and the rest in carbonite and leaving it there until you need it. It’s one of the most robust backup services available, in my humble opinion.

When it comes to phone backups, it’s not a matter of if you’ll need it but when.

On the other hand, iCloud backup can take a huge chunk out of the measly 5 GB of storage Apple has offered to customers since iCloud launched in 2011. If I was a betting man, I’d guess you either haven’t backed up your iPhone in ages because you ran out of cloud storage years ago, or like me, you begrudgingly pay Apple every month for enough storage to save everything in your precious device.

Wherever you stand, device backups are non-negotiable if you value all the information stored in your phone. Here’s how to enable iCloud backup now:

Open the Settings app on your phone.Scroll down to the very bottom and tap “iCloud.”Select “iCloud Backup” after that.Finally, check the toggle beside “Back Up This iPhone” and then “Back Up Now.”

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If you want to optimize your iCloud backup settings even further, there are a couple things you can do. First, find “This iPhone” under the “All Device Backups” section and tap on it. Once you’re inside, uncheck any app that you don’t want to save. This could slim down your device backup and free up bits of valuable storage.

You can also completely remove old devices from the “All Device Backups” section. Simply click on the device, scroll to the bottom, and select “Turn off and Delete from iCloud.” Congrats! Your iCloud storage is now several gigs lighter.

BONUS TIP: iCloud backup works on iPad, too, but it’ll count against your cloud storage limit, so keep this in mind.

How to back up most Android phones

Regardless of make and model, all Android phones sold in the USA come with Google’s built-in cloud backup service that’s designed to save your most important data, including photos, videos, messages, call history, apps and data, and device settings. You can enable Google backup on your Android by following the quick steps below.

RELATED: Do blue-light glasses actually work?

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Note: Depending on your device and Android version, these steps may look a little different, but as long as you get to the backup section within your device settings, you will be able to save the correct data. For reference, the following screenshots were taken on a Google Pixel running Android 16.

Open the Settings app.Scroll down and tap on “System.”Then select “Backup.”Tap on “Photos & videos,” then check the backup toggle at the top.Go back one screen inside the backup section in the Settings app.Tap on “Other device data” and check the “back up other device data” toggle above your name.

Screenshots by Zach Laidlaw

Keep in mind that many of these saved pieces count against your 15 GB of free Google Drive storage, so if you run out, you won’t be able to back up your phone completely until you upgrade your cloud storage with a Google One plan.

While Google’s backup service keeps most of your data safe in the cloud, there are some holes in its system. For instance, Google backup may not save the settings on all of your apps; currently, developers have to opt in to allow this, and while many apps do support it, there are plenty of apps that don’t. Google’s backup solution also doesn’t save local files on your device, including documents in your Downloads folder or password-protected secure folders. Make sure you manually move these to another device or cloud service before you reset your old phone.

How to back up a Samsung Galaxy phone

Google backup works perfectly fine on Samsung phones, but Galaxy owners need to take some extra steps to back up Samsung’s first-party apps. In order to save your call logs, messages, alarm clocks, voice recordings, home screen layouts, and settings, you need to enable Samsung Cloud via the following steps:

Open the Settings app.Scroll down and tap “Accounts and backup.”Under “Samsung Cloud,” tap “Back up data.”Check each item you want to save and then click “Back up now” at the bottom of the screen.Then go back one screen, tap on “Back up data” under the “Google Drive” section, and follow the steps above to make sure Google’s backup service is active too.

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Months before Rolling Stone published its false 2014 article about a gang rape at the University of Virginia that never happened, former President Barack Obama told the nation that “it is estimated that 1 in 5 women on college campuses has been sexually assaulted during their time there.”

This statistic — an apparent reference to a federally funded 2007 study that was reliant on an online survey of students at two universities that had a low response rate — has been treated as the gospel truth, with the media dutifully repeating the notion of American campus “rape culture” ad nauseam over the past decade.

A new study suggests, however, that the real rate of female sexual victimization on campus might be closer to 1 in 100.

‘The campus anti-rape movement has coincided with college-enrolled women’s risk of sexual violence victimization now exceeding that for non-enrolled women.’

A pair of researchers at Washington State University’s criminal justice and criminology department set out to “estimate the risk of sexual violence against 18-to-24-year-old women with comparisons between college students and non-students, between residential and commuter college students, and between the years before and after the mainstreaming of the campus anti-rape movement in 2014.”

According to their peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of American College Health, previous estimates not only suffered from issues of generalizability but failed to account for the “impact upon victimization risk of increasing activism against sexual violence on college campuses.”

RELATED: Horror in Ohio home: Male accused of raping, beating pregnant woman over course of 2 days. But that isn’t the half of it.

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Keen on correcting for such issues and on gaining a clearer idea of the threat of predation on campus, the duo analyzed data from the U.S. Census Bureau-administered National Crime Victimization Survey regarding 61,869 women ages 18 to 24 years, who were interviewed a total of 112,624 times between 2007 and 2022.

The sexual violence recorded in the NCVS data apparently “includes rapes (any forced/coerced sexual penetration) and sexual assaults (any unwanted sexual contact including fondling or grabbing) whether threatened, attempted, or completed.”

The researchers found that the six-month rate of sexual victimization was 0.17% for female students living on and off campus from 2007 through 2014, and 0.46% for female students on and off campus from 2015 to 2022.

The numbers were higher for students living on campus during both periods under review but still nowhere near 20% — 0.34% in the former and 1.05% in the latter.

“The above estimates indicate that the mainstreaming of the campus anti-rape movement has coincided with college-enrolled women’s risk of sexual violence victimization now exceeding that for non-enrolled women,” the study said.

The researchers expressed uncertainty about why the victimization rate had increased during the “anti-rape movement” and the #MeToo era but suggested that misogyny cultivated online might be to blame or alternatively “college student sexual violence victims’ increased acknowledgement of their victimization as rape or sexual assault.”

When asked by the College Fix about the significance of their findings — particularly as they cast doubt on previous estimates that the victimization rate was 1 in 5 — Kathryn DuBois, one of the authors and an associate criminology professor at Washington State, said, “Our results cannot speak to earlier estimates of sexual violence occurring over a 4-year college ‘career’ because NCVS questions only deal with victimizations experienced during a 6-month period.”

“As such, we really cannot say if 1-in-5 or 1-in-100 is a more reliable estimate of risk,” DuBois added.

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Republican Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia slammed Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia for his silence and inaction following Nicolas Maduro’s capture, arguing Ossoff “sat on his hands and did nothing” when a Venezuelan illegal alien killed Laken Riley.

Collins, who is running to unseat Ossoff, criticized the Democrat for his inaction following Riley’s brutal murder. Ossoff first opposed a Senate amendment similar to the Laken Riley Act in 2024 but later reversed his position to support Collins’ landmark legislation, which was signed into law in 2025.

Ossoff has also refrained from weighing in on Maduro’s arrest, although he never misses an opportunity to brand President Donald Trump an “authoritarian.”

‘Jon Ossoff doesn’t support anything unless it’s championed by radical leftists or hurts President Trump.’

“Jon Ossoff is an errand boy for Chuck Schumer who would rather ignore the capture of the ruthless dictator responsible for sending Laken Riley’s killer into our country than admit President Trump is right,” Collins told Blaze News in an exclusive statement.

“His entire political agenda is to lie to Georgians about his work in D.C. and be a puppet for the California crazies and New York nutjobs. He doesn’t deliver for Georgians; he just resists.”

RELATED: Maduro captured following ‘large scale strike’ in Venezuela, Trump says

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“When Laken Riley was killed, I made it my sole mission to ensure no family would have to live through their pain again,” Collins told Blaze News. “I knocked on Democrat doors in the House and Senate to get the Laken Riley Act passed while Jon Ossoff sat on his hands and did nothing. Jon Ossoff doesn’t support anything unless it’s championed by radical leftists or hurts President Trump.”

When asked why he hasn’t commented on Maduro’s capture, Ossoff said he needed more information about President Donald Trump’s vision for Venezuela.

RELATED: ‘We’re going to run it’: Trump reveals Venezuela’s fate following Maduro’s capture

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“We need to understand what the president meant when he said ‘boots on the ground,’” Ossoff said in an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We need to understand what the president meant when he said the United States would run Venezuela. Congress needs that information immediately.”

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While most MAHA-minded Americans are cheering in light of the CDC’s latest alteration to the U.S. childhood immunization schedule — which dropped from 17 to 11 diseases — BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales believes it’s “not enough.”

“I don’t want that to distract you from applauding what is happening now, because it’s all good changes. He can’t just like totally just bust up the entire system immediately. He’s got to get there,” she explains.

The new schedule also doesn’t recommend against getting your children vaccinated for certain diseases but instead breaks a longer list of diseases down into three categories.

In the category that’s recommended for all children, there are 11 diseases: diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis, haemophilus influenzae type B, pneumococcal conjugate, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, HPV, and varicella.

RSV, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and meningococcal are now in the group that’s “recommended for certain high-risk groups or populations,” and rotavirus, COVID-19, influenza, hep A, hep B, and meningococcal are in a third group titled “recommended based on shared clinical decision-making.”

“I don’t agree with any of these,” Gonzales says.

“So there is still work to be done. However, if they want to stair-step this, the way that they have stair-stepped everything else, they would do it in this way,” she adds.

And while Gonzales doesn’t believe the Trump administration has gone far enough, the left of course is claiming it’s gone too far.

“There’s always the fearmongering. ‘Oh my God, RFK is taking away our right to vaccines. How many children, how many beautiful children are going to be killed because RFK didn’t give them their precious chickenpox shots?’ Well, actually, spoiler alert, zero probably,” Gonzales says.

“But let’s just be clear … no vaccine has been eliminated. OK. The CDC is still requiring insurance companies to cover the vaccines if people want them,” Gonzales says, before playing a clip of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) claiming otherwise.

“You promised that you would not take away vaccines from anyone who wanted them,” Warren yelled at RFK Jr.

“I know you’ve taken $855,000 from pharmaceutical companies, senator,” he responds.

“I’m not taking them away,” he added, while she continued to argue.

“Elizabeth Warren,” Gonzales comments, annoyed, “has to be the most insufferable on the Senate side.”

“Just the shrill, just like the Karen energy of like her voice makes me want to jump off a building,” she adds.

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As the Trump administration continues to meet resistance from blue-state governors across the nation, California is now reaping what it sowed by illegally issuing trucker licenses to foreigners.

On Wednesday, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced that it was “reckoning day” for the state of California and its Democrat governor, Gavin Newsom.

‘Gavin refused. So now I am pulling nearly $160 MILLION from California.’

In a social media post, Duffy explained the Trump administration’s “demands”: “Follow the rules. Revoke the unlawfully-issued licenses to dangerous foreign drivers. Fix the system so this never happens again.”

Duffy’s post comes after months of demanding that California revoke commercial driver’s licenses illegally issued to foreigners. Duffy provided a short video showing that Newsom had many opportunities to comply with federal law.

RELATED: Illegal alien truckers with California licenses accused of hauling $7M in cocaine across state lines

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However, “Gavin refused,” Duffy said. “So now I am pulling nearly $160 MILLION from California. Under @POTUS, federal dollars won’t fund this CHARADE.”

The funding will be withheld from California beginning in fiscal year 2027.

California agreed in November to revoke every illegally issued license within 60 days. As of the January 5, 2026, deadline, California has failed to follow through on this agreement, leading to the major withholding of federal funding.

At least 17,000 licenses were expected to be revoked on Monday, per the original agreement.

According to a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration audit reviewed by Fox News, more than 20,000 active non-domiciled CDLs were issued in violation of federal rules. The FMCSA reportedly described the situation in California as a “systemic collapse” of the commercial licensing program.

“Federal regulations are clear: states must correct safety deficiencies on a schedule mutually agreed upon by the agency, and California failed to meet its commitment to rescind these unlawfully issued licenses by January 5,” FMCSA Administrator Derek Barrs said, according to Fox News.

“We will not accept a corrective plan that knowingly leaves thousands of drivers holding noncompliant licenses behind the wheel of 80,000-pound trucks in open defiance of federal safety regulations,” Barrs added.

California DMV spokesperson Eva Spiegel responded to the loss of federal funding in a statement: “We strongly disagree with the federal government’s decision to withhold vital transportation funding from California — their action jeopardizes public safety because these funds are critical for maintaining and improving the roadways we all rely on every day.”

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Nine Republicans voted to advance the Democrat-led health care bill Wednesday, defying the GOP to extend Obamacare subsidies.

Republican Reps. Nick LaLota of New York, Thomas Kean of New Jersey, Mike Lawler of New York, Ryan Mackenzie of Pennsylvania, David Valadao of California, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Max Miller of Ohio, Rob Bresnahan of Pennsylvania, and Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida joined Democrats to bring a vote on the health care subsidies that expired at the end of 2025.

‘DEMOCRATS have increased health care costs exponentially.’

Notably Lawler, Fitzpatrick, Bresnahan, and Mackenzie also signed onto House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ (D-N.Y.) discharge petition last month that would have forced a House vote to extend the subsidies.

A final vote on the bill is now expected to take place Thursday.

RELATED: Senate tanks GOP solution to Obamacare subsidy problems

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Lawler defended his vote aiding Democrats, saying the solution to fix the “broken” health care system is “through a bipartisan approach.”

“Republicans and Democrats can agree that our healthcare system is broken and must be fixed through a bipartisan approach,” Lawler wrote. “Enough of the blame game on both sides. Let’s focus on actually delivering affordable healthcare for Americans.”

RELATED: California Republican suddenly dies at age 65

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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has maintained that the Affordable Care Act, especially the COVID-era subsidies, are responsible for skyrocketing premiums.

“Obamacare was created and passed entirely by DEMOCRATS,” Johnson said in a post on X during the 2025 government shutdown. “Since Obamacare took effect, health insurance premiums have SKYROCKETED. The Obamacare COVID-era subsidies were also passed entirely by DEMOCRATS, and set to expire at the end of this year.”

“DEMOCRATS have increased health care costs exponentially, and are now shutting down the government — as they try to cover up THEIR OWN FAILURES and somehow blame Republicans.”

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A 37-year-old Colorado native was fatally shot in Minneapolis on Wednesday while apparently attempting to ram a federal agent with an SUV.

Renee Nicole Macklin Good’s death and the moments leading up to it were captured on video from multiple angles. Footage clearly shows Good, whose SUV appears to have been strategically stopped to block traffic amid a federal immigration operation, disobeying repeated orders from law enforcement to exit her vehicle, then driving in the direction of the federal agent, who ultimately drew his sidearm and opened fire.

‘You can accept that this woman’s death is a tragedy while acknowledging it’s a tragedy of her own making.’

The liberal media that rushed five years ago to vilify Ashli Babbitt following her fatal shooting by Michael Byrd at the U.S. Capitol was quick on Wednesday to pen hagiographies about Good, portraying her as a blameless victim of a callous federal agent.

The Associated Press — a publication whose relationship with the truth has shown significant signs of strain in recent years — helped bolster this narrative with an article titled, “Woman killed by ICE agent in Minneapolis was a mother of 3, poet and new to the city.”

The article doesn’t bother mentioning that Good tried to ram a federal agent until the eighth paragraph, and even then it insinuates that was how “Trump administration officials painted” the incident.

Prior to getting to why the woman may have been killed in front of her lesbian partner, the AP noted:

“She was a U.S. citizen born in Colorado and appears to never have been charged with anything involving law enforcement beyond a traffic ticket.”“In social media accounts, Macklin Good described herself as a ‘poet and writer and wife and mom.’ She said she was currently ‘experiencing Minneapolis,’ displaying a pride flag emoji on her Instagram account.”“A profile picture posted to Pinterest shows her smiling and holding a young child against her cheek, along with posts about tattoos, hairstyles and home decorating.”

After both suggesting Good had simply “pulled forward” when a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot her and casting doubt on the Trump administration’s characterization of her as a domestic terrorist, the AP made sure that readers knew Good was a “devoted Christian” who “loved to sing.”

RELATED: Tim Walz says Minnesota is ‘at war’ with the federal government after fatal ICE shooting

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The same publication took a markedly different approach when writing about the death of Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt in January 2021, accusing Babbitt of amplifying “false allegations” on social media in the opening sentence of its write-up.

While Babbitt may not have been a “poet” like Good, she bravely served her country in Afghanistan and Iraq. The AP glossed over that fact. Instead, the AP focused on Babbitt’s social media posts, claiming they were “profane” and contained “unsubstantiated views.”

The AP is hardly the only publication now painting Good as a martyr after painting Babbitt as a kook or a radical.

The difference in approach at NBC News is particularly striking.

The title for the network’s Jan. 7, 2021, article about Babbitt is “Woman killed in Capitol was Trump supporter who embraced conspiracy theories.” The title for its Wednesday article about Good is “Woman fatally shot by ICE agent identified as resident ‘out caring for her neighbors.'”

Vice President JD Vance said of Good’s death on Wednesday, “You can accept that this woman’s death is a tragedy while acknowledging it’s a tragedy of her own making. Don’t illegally interfere in federal law enforcement operations and try to run over our officers with your car. It’s really that simple.”

While Democrats joined the liberal media in ignoring the vice president’s advice and characterizing Good as the victim of a malevolent federal agency, President Donald Trump, Vance, and other Republicans defended ICE.

“I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, “The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense.”

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A Louisiana woman has been charged with murder after police said she fatally shot her 1-year-old daughter on New Year’s Day.

The Sulphur Police Department said a shooting was reported around 8:21 p.m. at a home on Quelqueshue Street. Sulphur is a little over three hours west of New Orleans.

‘I almost lost two babies. I lost one because her mama wanted to send her to God.’

Police said a 1-year-old girl “had been shot and killed.”

The investigation revealed that the girl was “shot and killed by her mother, Kristin Bass,” police said.

Officers arrested the 28-year-old mother, and she was charged with first-degree murder. Her bond was set at $10 million.

KPLC-TV reported that the slain child’s father, Bradley Moss, told investigators he heard a boom and ran into a room to find their 1-year-old daughter shot and Bass holding a gun.

Meanwhile, the couple’s 2-year-old child was crying for help, according to the station.

The father of two reportedly said, “I almost lost two babies. I lost one because her mama wanted to send her to God.”

Moss added, “[My older daughter] said, ‘Help me, daddy.’ And Kristin said, ‘I just sent our baby to God.'”

Moss said Bass then uttered, “Now I gotta get her.”

RELATED: Stunned judge reveals fate of woman involved in deadly kidnapping of 2 young sisters found in a pit — 1 did not survive

Moss identified the shooting victim as Acelynn Moss, according to KPLC.

The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services took custody of the surviving toddler, according to Moss.

Police are asking anyone with information regarding the case to contact Sgt. Jeremy Cain at 337-527-4558.

Police did not immediately respond to Blaze News‘ request for comment.

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We have recently seen a renaissance of the terminal, a return to a mode we thought we had left behind.

Tech is associated with perpetual progress. What explains this seeming regression?

In computing, the new is usually synonymous with the sleek and the visual. The resurgence of the command-line interface, the text-based terminal with its blinking cursor on a monochrome screen, is therefore a development both unexpected and revealing. Developers who spent decades in the comfortable, pixelated embrace of graphical user interfaces are turning to minimalism. This turn is not merely a retreat into nostalgia or a quirk of programmer preference; it is a shift in the cognitive geography between human and machine under the influence of AI.

We find ourselves in a ‘man-computer symbiosis.’

The heart of this revival is the emergence of CLI-based AI agents. These are harnesses for large-language models capable of processing language, writing code, and executing tasks. They have transformed the terminal from a niche tool for the specialist into a versatile assistant for the layman.

The CLI is quite a different medium from the GUI. While a GUI is spatial and image-driven, the terminal is rooted in language and sequence. We issue commands to achieve practical ends, a mode of thought that encourages a logical, sequential engagement with the world. We find ourselves in a “man-computer symbiosis,” as J.C.R. Licklider imagined in the 1960s, a partnership where the computer frees human intelligence from the drudgery of mundane tasks. The new AI agents handle the keystrokes and complex syntax, allowing a user to manipulate data as if using a “second brain” integrated directly into his workflow.

Sound familiar?

The dream of the automated servant is as old as myth. In the “Iliad,” Homer describes the “golden handmaidens” of Hephaestus, endowed with movement and perception, who assisted the god at his forge. Aristotle speculated on a world in which the shuttle might weave without a hand to guide it, eliminating the need for human servitude. For most of history, these possibilities remained fantasies. When computers finally arrived in the mid-20th century, they were indeed programmable servants but esoteric ones, requiring punch cards or green-and-black text terminals.

By the late 1980s, the mouse-and-icons paradigm of Apple’s Macintosh and Microsoft Windows increased the accessibility of computing. The GUI was more intuitive, an interface that did not require you to memorize arcane commands. The general public grew accustomed to clicking buttons, and the terminal was relegated to the realm of system administrators and developers. The comeback of the terminal in the mid-2020s is therefore significant. The terminal has become the stage where an AI that writes and runs code could operate with freedom. We are returning to Aristotle’s vision: Every user now potentially has a digital apprentice.

LLMs are designed to handle text, and the terminal presents the computer’s functions in exactly that form. The CLI is a universal interface, a lingua franca that allows an AI to interact with digital tools without the difficulty of navigating pixel-based GUIs meant for human eyes. Command-line tools possess a Lego-like composability; they can be chained and piped together in ways that GUI applications rarely allow.

An AI agent residing in the terminal benefits from a unified environment with low friction, with no need to hunt through menus; it calculates, types, and executes. Developers are moving away from previously dominant integrated development environments to these command-line agents. Whether OpenAI’s Codex CLI, Anthropic’s Claude Code, or community-driven projects like OpenCode, these platforms share a core mechanism: a conversational command-line where the AI interprets instructions and takes actions on the user’s behalf.

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The effects are immediate and striking. Tasks that once required specialized training, such as querying databases, deploying websites, and analyzing logs, are now performed by marketing teams and graphic designers who simply ask the agent to do it. Natural language has become a new programming language for the many. There is a rise in “conversational computing” with a “text-first” ethos, a digital minimalism that values the intentionality of a text window over the cacophony of apps and notifications. The terminal also becomes a learning environment: Because the AI explains the commands it generates, a novice can pick up understanding that a closed GUI would hide.

Outsourcing problems

Yet this shift brings its own set of concerns. When AI tools handle the details, what do we lose? We face the risk of simulated competence in which people “seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing,” as Socrates described those reliant on writing. Just as writing externalized memory, these agents externalize problem-solving. There is the danger of de-skilling, of losing the ability to troubleshoot or understand underlying concepts, if the AI always mediates the complexity.

The hope, of course, is that these tools will let us transcend previous limitations. By automating the drudgery, they might unleash more creativity. The terminal is less anthropomorphic than a voice assistant; it remains a text-based workspace in which the human and the computer engage in a loop of iterative help. The CLI renaissance suggests that looking back to older paradigms, such as text over graphics, can better move us forward. Language is the universal interface of knowledge and may now become the universal interface for action. Whether we use this return to cultivate deeper skills or merely as a productivity hack will shape the society we make. We are left to decide whether we will be sedated by convenience or inspired by new frontiers of art and knowledge.

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