Republicans in Minnesota are demanding accountability for a top Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party official who allegedly told a Republican to shoot himself.

Video on social media captures state Rep. Aisha Gomez (DFL) in an intense argument with Republican state Rep. Elliott Engen, and at one point she screams in his face. The exchange happened Thursday during a sit-in by Democrats angry over proposed gun restrictions that were rejected.

‘Any suggestion that I would encourage violence is absurd and completely contrary to how I have conducted myself throughout my legislative career.’

Engen indicated on social media that Gomez yelled at him to “go f’ing shoot” himself and reposted video on social media making the claim.

Not only did he claim Gomez told him to shoot himself, but Engen added that “multiple” Democrat colleagues told him the same.

Republican leaders are now demanding that Gomez be punished by losing her committee assignment.

“This kind of behavior is unacceptable and it makes every person in this place less safe,” said Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth (R). “Someone willing to spew hate and accost colleagues is unfit to serve as a leader in Minnesota.”

Others are calling on Gomez to resign, which would tip over control of the House, currently tied at 67 members each, to Republicans.

However, in comments to KSTP-TV, Gomez denied using the violent rhetoric and provided video of the exchange from closer up that captures her apparently screaming, “Think of them, not yourself! How about that?!” instead.

“Total fabrication of my actual words,” she said to KSTP.

Engen accused KSTP of shilling for Democrats, and when a KSTP reporter challenged him to post video of Gomez saying what he claimed, he responded defiantly.

“It was ten seconds into me being accosted on the house floor that it was said. Typically, you don’t think to have a live body cam on your colleagues, Tom. What you’re doing isn’t ‘reporting.’ It’s called carrying water,” Engen responded.

A Blaze News request for comment to Engen’s office was not immediately answered.

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The exchange comes at a time of heightened awareness about political violence after at least two more alleged assassination attempts against President Donald Trump since a bullet grazed his ear in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024.

“At no point did I say what the right wing media would have you believe was said,” Gomez continued in her statement.

“I was responding to shameless floor comments from Rep. Engen where he called out Annunciation parents who lost a child to gun violence after voting against the measure they were supporting,” she added. “Any suggestion that I would encourage violence is absurd and completely contrary to how I have conducted myself throughout my legislative career.”

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From her college days through her professional career with the Indiana Fever, superstar point guard Caitlin Clark has been selling out stadiums.

But the Clark mania is beginning to fizzle.

“They’re selling tickets right now for Indiana Fever games in Indianapolis for just $28. The Caitlin Clark star is dying. There’s no question about that,” says BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock.

Meanwhile, longtime Clark rival and Atlanta Dream power forward Angel Reese is “ascending,” he says, highlighting the Dream’s 2-0 start to the season and Reese’s undeniable role in the team’s success.

Clark’s star power fading as Reese’s swells is a nightmare scenario for him as a die-hard Clark supporter.

“If Angel Reese wins a WNBA title this year or before Caitlin Clark or at the same time that Caitlin Clark’s star is diminishing, what a horrible, horrible movie that will be for me,” he confesses.

Even though Clark has given him “a million reasons to jump ship,” Whitlock vows he’s “not going to do it.”

“I’m going down with the ship. I’m going to stay loyal to Caitlin Clark, the Indiana Fever, but holy cow is this start to the season hard on me,” he sighs, alluding to the Fever’s rocky 1-1 record and Clark’s ongoing back injury.

Whitlock accuses the WNBA of lying “about her health” last season, insisting that she was fine when she was actually taking significant beatings on the court that hurt her health.

“I think they’re lying again this year,” he says, “and I am legitimately concerned that Caitlin Clark physically will never be what she was when she entered the WNBA and she may be a declining star.”

Fellow sports commentator Ben Daniel says that if Whitlock is right and Clark is indeed on the decline, it’s “doom and gloom for the WNBA,” as Clark is the league’s biggest economic engine.

As for Clark’s back injury, Daniel admits that it’s suspicious. “There was no running to the trainers’ table to get my back realigned when we were playing FIBA ball, but now that we’re back in Indiana with this great staff, now suddenly we gotta break out the cushion,” he scoffs.

While Whitlock hopes that Clark’s injuries aren’t serious, there are several “clues” that suggest they might be.

“You have the Michael Jordan of women’s basketball, and you’re drafting a player at her position?” he remarks, referring to the Fever’s recent draft pick Raven Johnson, who plays point guard like Clark.

On top of that, the Fever are playing in a way that “[takes] the ball out of [Clark’s] hands,” Whitlock adds.

All things considered, it seems to him like Clark is legitimately declining.

“I’m just looking at the clues that the Indiana Fever seem to be operating like Caitlin Clark is damaged goods,” he says.

To hear more, watch the video above.

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A new online encyclopedia is garnering attention for its complete disregard for the truth.

Previously, in response to obvious left-wing bias on Wikipedia, X owner Elon Musk built Grokipedia, his own version that generates detailed articles based on generations from Grok AI.

‘Comprehensive coverage of topics mainstream encyclopedias overlooked.’

With millions of visits per month, Grokipedia is growing, but it does not address the issue of AI hallucination, which most chatbot users have likely become familiar with since their popularization.

IBM describes the phenomenon as a language model producing outputs that are nonsensical or altogether inaccurate. This problem exists within all chatbots, but one new online encyclopedia is leaning into it.

Halupedia is the latest invention that is seemingly peak Web 2.0, and it not only allows AI hallucinations; it consists entirely of them.

The website describes itself as “comprehensive coverage of topics mainstream encyclopedias overlooked,” with the tagline, “an encyclopedia of a universe that does not exist until you visit it.”

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Popular faux historical pages include the Great Pigeon Census of 1887, a failed count of every bird of its kind in Great Britain and Ireland.

There also exist pages for the Ministry of Slightly Wrong Maps, which is not to be confused with the Ministry of Terribly Wrong Maps.

The explanations for real-life topics or people are completely made up on the website, including Charlie Kirk. While Grokipedia says Kirk was an American conservative political activist, author, and media host, Halupedia describes Kirk as a “prominent figure in the late medieval textile trade, particularly renowned for his contributions to the standardization of textile fasteners.”

In order to understand how the website generates its pages, Return asked ChatGPT. Poetically, ChatGPT hallucinated part of its answer and said Halupedia is “a fan-made wiki dedicated to the Halo video game series.”

When Grok was asked, it gave a clearer explanation: Users can type in any URL they want, and the website will automatically generate nonsensical answers.

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“Nothing exists on the site until someone visits a page,” Grok explained.

Therefore, as of this writing, the page for Joe Biden is now live, which describes the former president as “a species of deep-dwelling subterranean lichen, primarily found in the geologically unstable regions of the West Anglia Subterranean Preserve.”

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Republicans can claim their first major scalp in the fight to redraw congressional maps now that a longtime Tennessee Democrat has announced he will no longer run for re-election in November.

On Friday, Rep. Steve Cohen declared that he would not run to represent “any of the three gerrymandered congressional districts carved out of the 9th District” of Tennessee, which he has represented since January 2007.

‘It has been the honor of my life serving you.’

Republicans state lawmakers in Tennessee immediately responded to the Callais Supreme Court decision, which determined that racially gerrymandered congressional districts are unconstitutional. They reconvened and passed a new map that broke the 9th Congressional District up into three separate districts that will likely turn red after the November midterms.

Tennessee state Democrats did not take the news well, engaging in over-the-top and in some cases potentially dangerous theatrics in the state Capitol, blaring bullhorns and dancing atop their desks in childish protest.

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All for naught. Cohen is the only Democrat member of Congress from Tennessee, so unless the courts intervene, Tennessee will likely have an all-Republican congressional delegation come January.

“Last week, Tennessee Republicans silenced the Black vote here in Memphis to make Republican victories likely,” he wrote in his statement posted Friday. “We are still fighting, and if we prevail in the courts and the 9th District remains intact, I will remain a candidate.”

“If not, it has been the honor of my life serving you,” he concluded.

Moreover, Republican Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton notified Democrat House Minority Leader Karen Camper on Tuesday that because of their shameful antics, members of the Democratic Caucus should expect to receive individual letters removing them from all standing committees and subcommittees in the statehouse, “except where membership is required pursuant to Rule 65 of the House Rules.”

This is a breaking story.

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Last month, BlazeTV’s Sara Gonzales exposed the Allen Infant Care Center in Allen, Texas, through a viral video confrontation with owner Yuan Yao, a Chinese national.

After receiving a whistleblower tip alleging that the apparently shuttered facility — with an empty building, overgrown playground, and no children in sight — had sponsored at least 37 H-1B visas and filed over 50 labor condition applications for unrelated high-skill jobs (like market research analyst and supply chain expert) in an alleged “pay-to-play” scam where workers reportedly paid up to $20,000 for sponsorship while being underpaid, Sara and her camera crew confronted Yao and vowed that justice would be served.

And she was right.

On Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) filed a lawsuit against Golden Qi Holdings LLC (the entity behind Allen Infant Care Center) and Yao under the Deceptive Trade Practices Act, accusing them of running sham businesses to fraudulently obtain H-1B visas, misusing federal/state subsidies, and advertising nonexistent services, prompting an ongoing criminal investigation into H-1B program abuse.

On this episode of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered,” Sara reacts to the news that her H-1B investigations and reporting have once again sparked a legal response from the state.

In his official press release, Paxton explicitly highlighted Sara’s reporting: “Blaze Media reporter Sara Gonzales recently visited the location listed for the Allen Infant Care Center. She did not find any child care at all. Instead, she found an empty building and a playground overgrown with vegetation. Gonzales spoke with an individual familiar with the property who claimed that the facility has not operated for an extended period of time and alleged that Yao ‘sells visas.’”

“I’m not one to pat myself on the back. Actually, I probably am,” Sara laughs, “but we all know who got this bus done. … It sure is nice to hear it directly from the attorney general’s press release.”

Sara praises Paxton for being “a great attorney general,” who she “[hopes] to God will be our next senator here in the state of Texas.”

“When the feds are not stepping in, Ken Paxton is like, ‘You know what? Buckle up, boys, because if you’re committing fraud, we’re going to find you,”’ she says.

The lawsuit, Sara explains, aims not only to stop Yao’s alleged illegal activity but also to recover “up to $10,000 for each violation of the Deceptive Trade Practices Act among other civil penalties.”

“Looks like Mr. Yao will be paying quite the chunk of change,” she smirks, joking that she’s already eyeing his metallic rose-gold BMW.

“I so badly want to send a message to Paxton’s office and be like, ‘Listen, listen — I did all of this, and I did it for the good of the state and the country, but I’m just saying if he gets deported, can I just have the car?”’ she quips.

But in all seriousness, Sara says that this lawsuit is “yet another example of why we need to shut the H-1B program down.”

“Halt it immediately. Blow the entire thing up. Blow it all up,” she implores.

To see footage from Sara’s original reporting and hear more of her commentary on the lawsuit, watch the episode above.

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