The first trailer for “Avengers: Doomsday” has arrived, and it’s raising some serious questions about the future of superhero movies — especially whether or not anyone still cares about them.

And BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere admits that he has never cared less.

“It seems like they took all previous superhero movies and put them in a blender. And then just released whatever came out of that blender. A green sort of brownish mess,” he tells co-host Dave Landau on “Stu and Dave Do America.”

“The actual plot of it is nonsensical,” Dave agrees, adding that it “looks really bad.”

“I am not a fan of superhero movies generally. I don’t like the Marvel universe. I don’t get into this, so I’m not the right person to ask necessarily. To me, a lot of them seem kind of nonsensical,” Stu says.

The film stars Robert Downey Jr. as Dr. Doom, which, Stu points out, seems a little desperate.

“It seems like a desperation move, like when they go on vacation in a dying sitcom, you know, and then they add a brother that you didn’t know existed and you’re just like they’re just reaching for whatever at this point,” Stu says.

“I feel like it hurts the Robert Downey Jr. trajectory, because you go from heroin addict who had all kinds of problems, you know, fell asleep in his neighbor’s race-car bed,” Dave says. “And then he came back and became Iron Man and a superhero … and he’s lived this kind of extraordinary comeback. Why be the villain?”

“I am a fan of his work, but I think it hurts the actual RDJ,” he adds.

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Under the leadership of Anthea Hartig, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is using taxpayer dollars to rewrite history in woke terms — and during a recent hearing, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) called the museum out.

“The many examples of politicization of the museum are well-documented in the comprehensive report the White House Domestic Policy Council recently issued on July 4, the nation’s 250th anniversary,” Burchett began.

“The report makes clear that the museum’s woke exhibits and materials reflect a broader vision held by the museum leadership, particularly its director, Dr. Anthea Hartig,” he continued, noting that she “proudly takes credit for changing the museum’s mission statement.”

The mission statement “no longer uses the term ‘American history’ or refers to the infinite richness of that history.”

Instead, Burchett explained, it is “now guided by an interpretive plan that ensures all topics focus on the core issues of our time.”

“Do we want to guess what they are? Race and identity, gender and sexuality, environmental change, immigration and migrations, and economic inequality top the list. Also, a Center for Restorative Justice at the museum created under Dr. Hartig’s watch hosted a decolonization working group to investigate historical harms that result in ongoing systematic oppression,” he continued.

“To remove any doubt about her intentions, Dr. Hartig in her own words states that she views history as a prime tool of social justice,” he added, before playing a clip of Hartig giving a speech.

“Before we begin, let us pause to acknowledge with gratitude the native peoples on whose land we gather today. These are the ancestral homelands of the Piscataway people, joined by the Nacotchtank and the Pamunkey tribes and, of course, their descendants,” she said.

Hartig went on to give respect and gratitude “to all of them for the opportunity to work and to live in their territories.”

“It’s not their territories anymore,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray says on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”

“The peoples don’t own this land. In fact, their own ideology was that nobody can own land, right? So, it’s not theirs,” he adds.

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Turns out Supergirl is faster than a speeding bullet.

One of the summer’s biggest flops is heading to home video — already.

‘I said it last night, but I’ll say it again. Man I’m so tired of this f**king president.’

“Supergirl,” the latest Hollywood clunker, will be available via VOD platforms starting July 28. The movie earned tepid reviews and gave YouTube channels endless content. The film also recalled Jay Sherman’s signature catchphrase from TV’s “The Critic”: “It stinks.”

The film barely crossed the $70 million mark domestically and will cost Warner Bros. more than $100 million in the final tally.

Star Milly Alcock did her best Rachel Zegler imitation during the publicity for the film. But nothing could save a movie with a lousy script and an unlikely heroine.

Somewhere, original Supergirl Helen Slater is smiling into her mug of Joe.

Jam bland

Dave Matthews wants in on that sweet, sweet Springsteen action. And by “action,” we mean lecturing concert-goers with anti-Trump screeds. The Boss has spent the last few months hectoring fans who paid huge sums to attend the singer’s current tour.

Some blue-collar hero.

Now, it’s Matthews’ turn. He’s using his stage time to tell fans what he thinks about President Donald Trump.

“I said it last night, but I’ll say it again. Man, I’m so tired of this f**king president.”

That’s not the only thing that’s exhausting lately.

RELATED: ‘Supergirl’ has disastrous opening after star declares character ‘doesn’t live inside the binary’

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Party line

Jimmy Fallon makes a mediocre Johnny Carson but a fine useful idiot.

“The Tonight Show” host has a habit of laundering Democrat talking points over the years. He covered up President Joe Biden’s decline, allowed Mike Bloomberg to use his NBC perch as a political ad, and hasn’t said much about the DSA politicians conquering the Democratic Party.

He’s useful to all the wrong people.

This week, he let actor/author John Leguizamo pitch his new children’s book to the masses. Left unsaid? The book extols the virtues of Greta Thunberg and multiple communists, including Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Diego Rivera, and artist Frida Kahlo.

What’s next, a Hugo Chavez pop-up book? Just know Fallon will be first in line to promote it.

Joy ride

Joy Behar doesn’t remotely look her age. She’s 83. She still sounds like an old crank who sees conspiracies wherever she goes.

That may (may?) explain her newest anti-Trump rant. And, to her credit, it’s an original.

A stark raving mad original, to be exact. Behar used her “View” perch (which is totally a news program!) to suggest that the Saudis bought off President Donald Trump to make a nuclear bomb.

And said bomb might go off over Cleveland. What about the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?

“… he’s making a deal with the Saudi Arabians that will allow them to produce a nuclear weapon.”

Uh, no.

“Then we’ll go to war with the 9/11 group. The Saudis were behind 9/11 and — and — are they waiting for him to drop a nuke on Cleveland? … Now I’m scared. See, I grew up hiding under the desk.”

It’s amazing her fellow “View” hosts aren’t hiding somewhere, anywhere, when she starts yapping.

RELATED: EMMY-BARRASSMENT: TV king Taylor Sheridan snubbed, while canceled Colbert cleans up

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Still the Captain

William Shatner is a legend. Full stop.

The 95-year-old’s “Star Trek” career sealed that deal. Add the eclectic music, a killer role on “Boston Legal,” and his endlessly joyful Twitter posts, and his legendary status is secure. Did we mention he has a running feud with far-left “Star Trek” alum George Takei?

Now, we’re learning he beat back stage-four cancer and helped his adult daughter do the same. The Shatners shared their remarkable story with People magazine.

Live long and prosper, indeed!

Swinging on a star

If you thought swinging from rooftops was hard, wait until you hear what actor Tom Holland must do next.

The “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” star goes from the MCU to classic Hollywood with the upcoming Fred Astaire biopic. And he won’t be using stunt doubles or AI to re-create Astaire’s signature elegance.

“I did my first few rehearsals recently. And it both filled me with excitement and absolute dread because I’ve got so much work to do to try and do Fred proud.”

Good luck, Peter Parker. You’re gonna need it.

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Actor Alan Ritchson unleashed an irrational tirade against people supposedly keeping the Epstein files hidden and even makes accusations against President Donald Trump.

The star of “Reacher” suggested the president and others are hiding damaging information from the Epstein files during an interview on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast released Thursday.

‘Move out of the way. Give me the f**king manila envelope. … I will get you the Epstein files.’

“People, I think, are a little bit afraid of me because they’re like, ‘He’s a loose cannon.’ And I’m not. I’m just saying the s**t that everybody should say if they give a s**t about humanity,” the actor said to Josh Horowitz.

He was especially incensed about the Epstein files.

“The Epstein files. The f**king Epstein files! Goddamn it! Where are they?! It’s a f**king law, bitch! Show it, you f**king pedophiles,” Ritchson ranted.

He went on to say that he shouldn’t drop F-bombs as a believing Christian — and then continued to drop F-bombs.

“I would f**king railroad these f**kers. I would get those Epstein files out in two seconds. Yeah dude, two seconds, f**king move out of the way. … Give me the f***king manila envelope. I will get you the Epstein files,” he added.

He finished up by referring to the president as a “bitch” and seemingly accused him of sexualizing young girls.

“Don’t you want to see what’s in there so that we can hold people accountable?! These f**king rapists! We’re just cool with it?” he added. “That bitch has the keys to the nuclear codes. He’s, like, all up into 13-year-olds. Like, dude, what? Go to jail. Go to jail.”

Video of Ritchson’s comments was circulated on social media. The entire episode can be viewed on YouTube.

RELATED: ‘Trump is a rapist and a con man’: Actor Alan Ritchson insults Trump, calls Christians ‘vitriolic tribe’

He went on to say that he would give a “backhand” to members of Congress who support the low minimum wage for a mother working at Waffle House.

Blaze News reached out to the Dept. of Justice and the White House for comment about the actor’s accusations.

Ritchson was promoting his new movie, “Motor City,” but he should probably not count on MAGA supporters watching after that rant.

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A former teacher of the year from Mississippi has been arrested on charges of child sex crimes, according to authorities.

The Sun Herald reported that Olivia Marie Smith was arrested and charged with sexual battery and enticement of a child to meet for sexual purposes.

‘We want to reassure parents, students, and staff that we are addressing this matter with seriousness and diligence.’

Anyone convicted of sexual battery in Mississippi faces up to 30 years in prison, according to the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network.

Mississippi state law notes that anyone convicted of enticement of a child to meet for sexual purposes faces a minimum prison sentence of two years and a 10-year maximum, plus a fine of up to $10,000.

Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Calvin Taylor set Smith’s bond at $100,000 during a probable cause hearing Thursday

Smith was an assistant principal at the Oak Park Elementary School at the time of her arrest, according to the Sun Herald. But SuperTalk Mississippi Media reported that Smith was a teacher at Ocean Springs Middle School at the time of the alleged child sex crimes. Both schools are part of the same district.

WLOX-TV reported that Smith won teacher of the year in 2022 when she was employed at Ocean Springs Middle School.

The Ocean Springs Police Department said it was alerted June 20 about accusations of a school staffer having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a student.

The Ocean Springs School District issued a statement to WLOX saying, “After being tipped off about potential inappropriate behavior taking place involving an employee, OSSD immediately notified OSPD and Mississippi Child Protective Services.”

The school district also conducted an internal investigation into the accusations.

The Sun Herald reported that police conducted an investigation and accused Smith of engaging in a sexual relationship with a student.

The Ocean Springs School District is fully cooperating with authorities in the investigation, police said.

The district said it fired Smith following an internal investigation.

Smith is not listed on the Oak Park Elementary School website or on the Ocean Springs Middle School site.

RELATED: Former first-grade teacher pleads guilty to sex crimes against teen student after she allegedly admitted affair to husband

The Ocean Springs School District said in the statement, “We are deeply saddened by charges announced today by the Ocean Springs Police Department against one of our former employees.”

“We understand the gravity of this situation and the concern it may raise in our community,” the school district said.

The statement continued, “We want to reassure parents, students, and staff that we are addressing this matter with seriousness and diligence. The safety of our students and staff members remains our highest priority.”

The school district said it “will not have any further comments on this matter.”

Neither the Ocean Springs Police Department nor the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office immediately responded to Blaze News‘ requests for comment.

Anyone with information about the case is urged to contact the Ocean Springs Police Department at 228-875-2211 or Mississippi Coast Crime Stoppers at 1-877-787-5898.

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Former first lady Michelle Obama recently told SXSW London that imposter syndrome is something she sees in women, minorities, and people who don’t think they’re supposed to be in positions of power — but not in white men.

And BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock couldn’t disagree more.

“To have sat at every powerful table there is, I have seen it all. Every table. I’ve been at it … it’s not all that. Because there’s so many people like me, like you, women, minorities, folks who aren’t supposed to be at these tables because they are sitting around thinking that they are imposters,” Obama said.

“You know, imposter syndrome. … I haven’t met one [white man] who has felt it,” she added.

“Obama is describing something real. That ache is real. She just got the diagnosis wrong because imposter syndrome is not a white problem, and it is not a black problem. It’s a God problem,” Whitlock says.

He describes imposter syndrome as the “fear men and women carry when they wear their resume as armor rather than the armor of God.”

“The only people who feel like frauds are the people who forgot whose they are,” he explains.

“The world looks at that feeling and prescribes more affirmation, more representation, more DEI. We’ll fix the fear of not belonging by putting more people in the room. And it never works. The ache gets worse,” he adds.

Unlike Obama, Whitlock believes that imposter syndrome isn’t defined by the color of your skin.

“Only imposters have imposter syndrome. And I’m not saying that about black people. I’m saying it about secular people, about every person, any color, who built their identity on a foundation that can’t hold the weight,” he says.

The fear is that someone will recognize that you don’t belong in the seat you’re in, which comes from “believing your seat was given to you for a reason that has nothing to do with you.”

“And here’s where we have to be honest. We have to be honest about DEI and affirmative action because this is the uncomfortable part. When you tell an entire generation you’re here to fill a quota, you’re here because of your skin, you’re here to make the numbers look right, you have manufactured imposter syndrome on an industrial scale,” Whitlock explains.

“Of course they feel like frauds,” he says, adding, “You told them they were.”

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Trouble likely awaits a budget resolution tied to the SAVE America Act as it heads to the stubborn upper chamber of Congress.

On Wednesday, the House passed a $95 billion budget resolution, 216-214, carrying with it important incentives for states to pass the SAVE America Act, alongside funding for Iran-related operations and farm aid.

‘It’s like the Senate is a place that you send things when you want them to die.’

The $95 billion package includes $73 billion for defense and intelligence funding, $12 billion for agricultural aid, and $10 billion in election-related funding for states, a key aspect of the SAVE America Act.

The bill itself is five primary issues: voter ID, proof of citizenship to register, an end to universal mail-in ballots, and bans on transgender athletes in women’s sports and transgender surgery for minors.

The SAVE America Act is now sitting with a Republican-controlled Senate that is in apparently no rush to deal with it.

Trump ramped up his pressure campaign against Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) at a Georgia rally Wednesday, urging supporters to flood Thune’s office with calls demanding action on passing the budget bill and, eventually, the SAVE America Act.

RELATED: House narrowly passes SAVE America Act as rider to trillion-dollar spending bill

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He credited Johnson and the House for doing their part, but blamed the Senate for the holdup: “It’s like the Senate is a place that you send things when you want them to die.”

“We’re not going to take this any longer. … I’m trying to be nice; I’m trying to be really nice,” Trump added.

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) also suggested on X that Thune should “step aside” if he won’t act.

Politico’s reporting from inside the GOP conference shows the resistance runs well past the three sitting holdouts — Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.).

A source familiar with the matter told Blaze News that Thune is prioritizing the continuing resolution to avoid another shutdown and that the budget resolution is in reserve.

Asked Wednesday how close he was to 50 votes, Thune said only, “Good question.”

By Thursday, he was blunter: “I can’t count to 50 right now on a budget resolution.”

Per Politico, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told reporters Wednesday he doesn’t expect Thune to take it up at all; Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) isn’t sure the votes exist in the first place; and newly named Budget Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said there has been no formal conversation yet.

Thune himself has asked colleagues, “Is the juice worth the squeeze?”

Reconciliation needs only a simple majority, as opposed to the 60-vote threshold for passing bills into law. Even so, the bill has failed twice — once in April and again in June — with Collins, Murkowski, Tillis, and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) voting no alongside every Democrat both times.

RELATED: New Jersey’s noncitizen voter blame game doesn’t add up — literally

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Earlier this month, Speaker Johnson called the package “our best shot” at 50 votes plus Vice President JD Vance as the tiebreaker. For now, McConnell’s indefinite absence drops the vote count to 99, meaning Republicans need a plain majority. One holdout flipping to yes still passes it outright, while an abstention reopens a possible 49-49 tie, putting Vance’s tiebreaker back in play.

Only if all three hold firm does the package fail.

Asked directly at Tuesday’s weekly Senate GOP leadership press conference whether the House’s reconciliation push is more than an academic exercise, Thune demurred: “We’ll see … what they get done this week and what it all consists of.”

He confirmed the Senate would “hold” any budget resolution the House sends over — but specifically as a fallback to fund the government, not to advance the SAVE America Act.

“I hope that’s not necessary,” he said, noting he’s already having “productive conversations” with Democrats on a separate funding deal to carry the government past the November election.

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President Donald Trump is bullish on American technology and keen to see America dominate the “global race for AI.” He has, accordingly, become a champion of artificial intelligence data centers and has even tasked his administration with using federally owned land and resources to help develop them.

Trump emphasized during an event on Thursday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in the national capital that opposition to the erection of data centers across the country is futile — but that consumers should not fear having to shoulder the burden of supporting such inevitable facilities.

‘You have to go with it.’

In his State of the Union address in February, the president acknowledged that many Americans are “concerned that energy demand from AI data centers could unfairly drive up their electric utility bills.”

Recent polls show that Americans largely oppose data centers. A Gallup poll conducted in March found that 71% of Americans somewhat or strongly oppose the construction of an AI data center in their area. A survey conducted this month by Public First found that 41% of respondents oppose building a data center within three miles of their homes, up from 28% in January, and only 24% of respondents support such an initiative, down from 37% at the beginning of the year.

To assuage such concerns, Trump announced in his SOTU speech that the negotiation of the “Rate Payer Protection Pledge,” which has companies agree to: spare consumers from price hikes by building, bringing, or buying new power supply; paying for new power delivery infrastructure upgrades; paying special rates “whether they use the electricity or not”; and investing local job creation.

Within days of the announcement, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI signed the nonbinding pledge.

On Thursday, Trump revealed that the pledge now has among its signatories 23 governors, various state legislators, numerous electricity providers, and data center developers.

RELATED: The path to America-first AI

The three Republican governors who did not sign the pledge were Phil Scott of Vermont, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, and Ron DeSantis of Florida. DeSantis ratified legislation in May to ensure that “local governments maintain the authority to reject data center development in their communities” and to protect Florida’s water resources from data center consumption.

According to the White House, the pledge “now covers 80% of all power delivered to U.S. homes and businesses and protects 263 million Americans when a data center is built nearby.”

After suggesting that adherence to the pledge and the construction of additional infrastructure to support the incoming data centers would actually drive down utility rates, Trump stressed that “America’s goal must be to dominate the future, and that includes being the number one superpower in artificial intelligence.”

“Whoever wins that race is probably going to win, period,” he added.

Trump suggested that foreign “propaganda” might be partly to blame for those “communists” and others now opposed to having data centers in their back yards. According to the president, communities desirous of data centers “are the smart communities because it means tremendous numbers of jobs, very little actual disruption.”

“You have to convince your community how great these things — you can’t fight it. You have to go with it,” said Trump.

“If you don’t have it, everybody else wants it.”

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Google already has a reputation for spying on users through the microphones embedded in smart devices. Some of these accusations have even landed Google in legal trouble. Now the company looks to make its eavesdropping software public with a new AI-powered listening feature for Pixel phones called “Audio Memory.”

Before we dive too deep, keep in mind that Google hasn’t officially announced this feature yet. Instead, the words “Audio Memory” were spotted in a software teardown by 9to5Google for Android System Intelligence, an app integrated into the Android’s core system that controls various smart features, such as Live Captions, Live Translate, and more.

A privacy concern for users and a legal nightmare for Google?

While the feature isn’t live yet, it’s clearly in development and may launch sometime in the future. Still, there are some hints around what Audio Memory will actually do, and none of it is particularly good if you like privacy.

What is Audio Memory?

Google left a few clues in the Android System Intelligence teardown about what its new feature could entail. “Audio Memory” is listed under the codenamed “blueflax,” and it will supposedly “keep track of what you hear throughout your day, from the music around you to your important conversations.”

Folks who follow Google’s always-listening track record already know that Android comes equipped with a couple of services that hear the world around you.

For starters, compatible Android phones listen for the “Hey, Google” or “OK, Google” hot words that summon either Google Gemini or Google Assistant on demand (depending on the age and capability of your device).

Second, Google Pixel phones all come with a “Now Playing” feature that listens for songs playing within reach of your phone and automatically displays the name of the song on your home screen. It’s a neat little feature for those times you like a song and want to know more about it, but it’s also kind of creepy when you consider that your phone has to constantly analyze the music you hear in public to display the correct information.

Audio Memory sounds like an expansion of Now Playing, except instead of just music, it’s now listening for everything. Based on Google’s wording in the teardown, the feature will likely function in a similar manner as AI pins, which record conversations to be saved, analyzed, and archived into readable transcripts and memorable audio files.

Questions abound

The part that’s unclear is whether or not Audio Memory is constantly active or if it must be triggered before it starts listening. AI pins are designed to do the latter — they have to be powered on and told when to record a conversation by pressing a button, ensuring they can’t eavesdrop on something you don’t want them to hear.

RELATED: Private companies are tracking your location without notice or a warrant — and it’s all perfectly legal

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Google, however, takes a different approach, at least with hot words and Now Playing. These are always active, waiting to be needed. If Audio Memory works the same way — always listening to and recording your conversations — this feature is both a privacy concern for users and a legal nightmare for Google.

Imagine having every conversation saved and analyzed directly on Google’s servers for the sake of what? Preservation? Memories? Or something more sinister? Aside from the endless lawsuits Google would face over such a feature, most phones also don’t have the battery capacity to listen to and record audio all day long. This, at least to me, is the one shred of hope that says Audio Memory isn’t as intrusive as it sounds on the surface. There’s clearly more about this feature we don’t know yet.

One final question remains: Which phones will receive Audio Memory?

The feature was first spotted in a version of Android System Intelligence for Google Pixel 10. This is to be expected, since Pixel 10 is currently Google’s latest released smartphone, and the company likes to test new features on its hardware first. There’s also a chance that Audio Memory is a Pixel-exclusive, just like Call Screening, Magic Eraser, and Gemini integration before it, though many of these features usually trickle down into the rest of the Android ecosystem over time. Lastly, depending on how much on-device processing is involved, there’s a chance that Audio Memory isn’t even compatible with older Android devices that don’t support local AI.

A simple choice?

Given Google’s recent legal troubles over always-listening privacy concerns, the company is likely to tread lightly with Audio Memory to avoid further litigation. However, most of the legal complaints Google received came from its always-listening software secretly recording conversations without users’ knowledge. The game changes if Google convinces users to allow Audio Memory to record their lives willingly. After that, the company theoretically has an open invitation to listen to everything its users do and say.

I guess we’ll have to wait for Audio Memory to launch to get the rest of the story.

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