When I first heard Hollywood was making a new He-Man movie, I posted on X: “No one ever at any time: We need a movie about the origins of He-Man.”

Having now seen it, I owe He-Man an apology.

Unlike Skeletor, who openly embraces being the bad guy, the petty tyrants of institutional DEI culture believe they are heroes. That self-righteousness makes them funny.

What I did not realize was that America did not need another superhero origin story. It needed a movie willing to mock woke HR departments, DEI workshops, and the corporate language-police culture that has made millions of office workers stare quietly at the clock while wondering what a lobotomy feels like.

On that front, He-Man delivers.

If that were all the movie did, it would deserve some recognition. For years, Americans have been subjected to endless lectures about privilege, bias, microaggressions, decolonization, anti-racism, allyship, and whatever new buzzword somebody invented during a three-day corporate leadership retreat. Entire industries sprang up around teaching normal people how dangerous normal people are.

For years, almost nobody was allowed to make fun of it.

Then along came He-Man.

“Masters of the Universe” gave me flashbacks to the glory days of “The Office,” when Michael Scott stumbled through diversity training sessions while desperately trying to impress Mr. Brown. Back then, workplace comedy could still recognize that HR departments were ridiculous.

In the two decades since “The Office” debuted, much of that humor disappeared. The joke was no longer that corporate bureaucracy was absurd. The joke became us.

Employees learned to speak in carefully rehearsed phrases. Meetings became exercises in virtue-signaling. Every disagreement became a “learning opportunity.” Every awkward interaction became a possible microaggression. White men were told they were simultaneously responsible for every historical injustice and forbidden from speaking too much during discussions about them.

Then enters Adam.

Yes, He-Man himself.

A blond, tanned, muscular hero — the kind of character Hollywood spent years assuring us could never again carry a movie without apologizing for existing.

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The movie also does something modern writers often seem incapable of doing: It gives us a villain who admits he is a villain.

At one point, Adam offers Skeletor what modern audiences have come to expect: an opportunity to explain his evil through childhood trauma, systemic oppression, bullying, or some tragic backstory.

Skeletor’s response is essentially: Nope. I’m just bad.

Imagine that.

A bad guy who does not blame society. A villain who does not attribute his choices to historical forces, generational trauma, or someone else’s privilege. Just an old-fashioned villain who enjoys being evil.

Hollywood has not given us many of those lately, maybe not since Edmund in “King Lear.” Sorry. I could not help myself.

But the funniest parts of the movie are not the battles. They are Adam’s experiences working in HR.

One scene features Adam listening to a woman explain that “her truth” conflicts with another person’s “truth.” Adam’s solution is the vague, therapeutic language now standard in modern workplaces: less talking, more listening.

Anyone who has survived mandatory workplace training recognizes the environment immediately.

Then we meet Suzie.

Suzie is Adam’s boss on Earth, and she may be the most accurate movie villain of the past decade.

On the surface, she is cheerful, supportive, and endlessly concerned about feelings. Beneath that surface, she is manipulative, controlling, and ruthless.

We first see her leading what appears to be a DEI-style workshop about consensual listening and emotional safety. Like Adam, the audience immediately begins fighting off sleep.

Later, after catching him looking for his magical sword online during work hours, she summons him to her office.

Not asks. Commands.

During their conversation, she speaks to him with the patronizing tone many corporate managers have perfected. Everything is framed around feelings. Conflict makes her uncomfortable. The workplace must be safe. Communication matters.

Then, for a brief moment, the mask slips. The threat appears. Power reveals itself.

Almost immediately, it disappears beneath another avalanche of therapeutic jargon.

Anyone who has worked in a large corporation, government office, or university has met some version of Suzie.

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Most of us have never fought a skeleton warrior bent on conquering the universe. Many of us, however, have sat through meetings where nonsense slogans are presented as profound wisdom. We have endured meetings where employees are told not to judge people by race while being instructed to interpret every interaction through race and blame it all on “whiteness.” We have watched everyone pretend the emperor’s new DEI initiative is fully clothed.

What makes these scenes work is that they expose something deeper than bureaucratic absurdity: hypocrisy.

Unlike Skeletor, who openly embraces being the bad guy, the petty tyrants of institutional DEI culture believe they are heroes. They imagine themselves correcting history, advancing justice, and educating the unenlightened through mandatory workshops, safe-space discussions, and land acknowledgments.

That self-righteousness makes them funny.

A philosophical essay can explain why hypocrisy is dangerous. A policy paper can document its effects. Comedy can do something neither can accomplish.

Comedy teaches people to laugh at it with scorn.

And once people start laughing, the spell begins to break.

The movie ends with what appears to be a setup for a sequel. Fine. Give us “He-Man 2.”

But let’s hope America never gets a sequel to the DEI-decolonization-anti-racism regime that dominated so much of public life over the last decade.

Let’s laugh it into history.

And then, if there is time, let’s talk about how the entire He-Man story is really just another version of the mono-myth hero’s journey.

Sorry. That is the religious studies professor in me.

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Shortly after its $14 million renovation, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was allegedly vandalized, with issues like algae blooms, peeling blue lining, and reported gashes and chemical damage. President Trump blamed the issue on vandals, prompting U.S. Park Police to arrest at least five people and issue citations to others.

67-year-old former U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn was one of those arrested. On Friday, June 19, Hearn was detained by U.S. Park Police after he touched a piece of the peeling blue liner. He was charged with misdemeanor destruction of government property — which he denies, saying he caused no damage — was held for about five hours, and is scheduled to appear in court next month.

Pat Gray and co-hosts Keith Malinak and Jeffy are horrified by the vandalism on a cherished American memorial.

“I’d like to put that canoe paddle somewhere where it doesn’t belong, and it isn’t in the Reflecting Pool,” quips Jeffy.

Keith then brings up another layer of the story.

“A National Park Service employee was cleaning the algae and some freakish radical leftist went up to her and ripped the hose out of her hands,” he says.

Some social media accounts claimed an older man, whom the Washington Post and other outlets identified as Hearn, grabbed or ripped the hose from a National Park Service worker who was cleaning algae — an allegation Hearn denies.

While the verdict on Hearn’s alleged vandalism remains to be seen, Keith is certain about one thing: “These people have [Trump derangement syndrome] beyond description.”

“Time to put them in a mental institution,” says Pat. “They’re just sick in the head.”

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FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced that President Donald Trump will be presenting the World Cup trophy to the victors of the global soccer tournament.

While Infantino has presented the trophy in the last two tournaments under his administration, he said Tuesday that the president will join him for the presentation this year.

‘It’s an amazing success. … I would like to be able to have the people that voted for me to be able to go.’

“We will be together with the president enjoying the final and handing the trophy to the winner, of course, together,” Infantino said to the hosts of “Fox & Friends.”

“We are together all the time,” he added.

Other heads of state have presented the World Cup trophy to the victors, including King Juan Carlos of Spain to the Italian team in 1982 and Queen Elizabeth II to the English Three Lions team in 1966.

The championship match will be played on July 19 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

The World Cup events in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico have been a big hit on social media, where foreign visitors have praised the prosperity of the U.S., the food and party atmosphere of Mexico, and also Canada.

“Americans, take note! We really do live in the BEST country in the world,” responded Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck. “Don’t listen to the media. Listen to everyone coming here for the World Cup, and the tourists and immigrants who came before them who have learned how blessed we are to live in the Land of the Free.”

Trump meanwhile has praised the success of the games while criticizing the high prices of tickets, which have boxed out many fans.

“I know that is extremely successful. Setting every record in the book. They’ve never had anything like it,” said the president in comments to the New York Post.

“If people from Queens and Brooklyn and all of the people that love Donald Trump can’t go, I would be disappointed, but, you know, at the same time, it’s an amazing success,” he added. “I would like to be able to have the people that voted for me to be able to go.”

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The word “covfefe” crashed into the U.S. lexicon after Trump mysteriously posted the word in a message on social media just after midnight on May 31, 2017.

“Despite the constant negative press covfefe,” the president wrote.

“Who can figure out the true meaning of ‘covfefe’ ??? Enjoy!” he added later in a second post.

The word became one of the jokes in the comical pantheon of the Trump era, used by his foes to mock him, but also used by his supporters as a humorous pro-Trump reference. The president has never revealed the true covfefe meaning.

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Democrats’ hopes to regain control of the U.S. Senate continue to be threatened by statements unearthed from their candidate in a pivotal Texas election.

State Rep. James Talarico said that he hated Christianity in the latest video showcasing his far-left theological beliefs.

‘No other political philosophy, in no other economic theory, do I find anything as truly radical or revolutionary as the teachings of that barefoot Rabbi.’

Talarico made the comments in a 2021 interview with Roberto Che Henderson-Espinoza, who identifies as Latinx, nonbinary and transgender. A clip of the comments was posted to social media by the Republican National Committee.

“I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity, right?” he laughs. “And I always get drawn back into it.”

He went on to say that his “whiteness” and “masculinity” had limited his understanding of Christianity, then called Jesus Christ a socialist.

“I always get drawn back into it because nowhere else, in no other political philosophy, in no other economic theory, do I find anything as truly radical or revolutionary as the teachings of that barefoot Rabbi,” he added.

He also praised his longtime pastor, Jim Rigby of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, as being a “true white traitor.”

Talarico has been previously criticized for claiming that God is “nonbinary” as well as many other statements contrary to traditional biblical theology.

BlazeTV’s Sara Gonzales documented the many errors of the Austin church Talarico attends and praises, including the rejection of Christ as the sole source of redemption. The church also has a lesbian chaplain and provides sexually graphic books in its library for children.

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Talarico is facing Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the pivotal contest for one of two U.S. Senate seats from Texas. A recent poll found that support for Paxton is virtually tied with Talarico at 43% to 42% respectively.

The Democrat defeated Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) for the nomination, while Paxton won the Republican nomination from incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas).

The campaign will be decided in the election on Nov. 3, 2026.

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Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) is working hard to prove to Texans that he’s masculine enough to lead them, but new and embarrassing revelations about his finances are not doing him any favors.

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales isn’t surprised.

“James Talarico is like the biggest wuss you’ve ever seen in your life. And there’s more that’s coming out every day about just how pathetic he is, even though he’s trying to paint himself as this big masculine guy after he said that his campaign was vegan,” Gonzales says on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

“He was like, ‘I’m just kidding, I’m going to take a picture of me eating a giant turkey leg wearing a Texas flag on my shirt and look how manly I am,’” she mocks.

But the more that comes out about the politician, Gonzales says, the more his “tough-guy act is rapidly crumbling.”

“Texas’ James Talarico, 37, shares his only checking account with his mommy,” she says.

In an article from the Washington Free Beacon, it is reported that “Talarico’s mother and adoptive father contributed $1,437.84 to his 2021 campaign to cover ‘moving expenses’ when he was 32 years old.”

“32 years old. And he needs his mommy to run his bank account and send him money. That’s the guy who wants to help represent our entire state of Texas. He can’t even represent his own bank account,” Gonzales comments.

“If you’re 32 and you still need money from your mommy who is running your bank account, you have no business running for office actually,” she adds.

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The 18-year-old suspect in a deadly shooting that took place in a Northern California library Monday afternoon wanted a Columbine-style massacre, KHSL-TV said.

Police received a 911 call at 5:12 p.m. from the library in Chico, the station said, adding that the police chief said dispatch heard sounds of shots fired and screaming inside the library. Police told KCRA-TV the shooting occurred at the Butte County Library. Chico is about an hour and a half north of Sacramento.

‘I could have been in the wrong place at the wrong time today.’

As police entered the front of the building, the suspect ran out the back and was tackled to the ground, KHSL said, adding that station viewer Jeannie Lee Schroeder recorded video of police holding the suspect on the ground.

“I was surprised the police officers were at the front of the library on the Sheridan side of the library as we were going past,” Schroeder told KHSL. “I saw somebody in a white-colored T-shirt running, and then two police officers take them down and tackle them to the ground, and it just registered, ‘Oh my God, they got him.'”

Schroeder added to KHSL that “one [officer] was behind. He was running toward the street, and then one person was coming from an angle in front of him, and another person — a police officer — was coming from behind. I couldn’t believe I was witnessing it in real time.”

The Chico Police Department, in partnership with investigators from the Butte County Sheriff’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is actively conducting interviews, collecting evidence, and reviewing facts of the case, KHSL added.

The suspect arrested in connection with the shooting has been identified as 18-year-old Chico resident Bradley Scott Sayer, KHSL said.

Sayer has been arrested and booked into the Butte County Jail for two open counts of murder, the Chico Police Department told KHSL.

Two adults were shot and killed, KHSL reported, adding that one juvenile was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Authorities at this time have determined that Sayer acted alone, KHSL added.

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Police issued a news release on Tuesday morning saying there is no indication Sayer had any prior relationship with or connection to any of the victims in the library at the time of the shooting. Sayer’s motivation appears to be founded in a desire to commit a Columbine High School massacre-type shooting.

A YouTube video indicated that Sayer graduated from Chico High School in June, KHSL reported.

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“I could have been in the wrong place at the wrong time today,” Schroeder told KHSL.

Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey told KHSL that Sayer is scheduled to make his first court appearance at 3 p.m. Thursday in Oroville.

Those with information related to the case are asked to contact the Chico Police Detective Bureau at 530-897-5820, KHSL reported.

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