A NASCAR driver was too honest about his experience in Mexico while hosting a livestream, and now his team feels he needs re-education.

Carson Hocevar, currently the 20th-ranked driver in the NASCAR Cup Series, was preparing for the Viva Mexico 250 race in Mexico City and was livestreaming himself using a driving simulator to practice the track. Blaze News reviewed the livestream video on X, where it was posted by a user.

With the question from a viewer “are u a fan of the track” visible on screen, Hocevar began describing his experience in Mexico City, and it was his description of the lack of safety in the city that landed him in hot water.

‘[If] it wasn’t so easy or feel so locked down like you can’t leave anywhere, it’d be a great experience.’

Hocevar began by saying that if “the travel was better, if getting here was easier, if you felt safer getting to and from everywhere,” it would be a much better experience — but he did not stop there. The driver unleashed even more descriptors of the trip that were holding him back from having a good time.

“If it wasn’t such a s***hole, if the track limits were a little better enforced, if it was gonna be a little bit better of a race and it wasn’t so easy or feel so locked down like you can’t leave anywhere, it’d be a great experience. It’d be an absolutely great experience. If you take all those out, it’s unbelievable.”

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The 22-year-old admitted “the track itself is fun” and that the venue is a “great park.”

However, it did not take long for Carson’s racing team, Spire Motorsports, to conspire with NASCAR for a hefty fine of $50,000 and a bevy of excuses from the team as to why the young driver’s comments were unnecessary.

In a press release, Spire Motorsports said Hocevar’s fine would be split between the Mexican Red Cross, a nonprofit battling childhood malnutrition, and “local NGOs that improve education, health, and housing in 22 Mexican states.”

Carson is now also subject to “mandatory cultural-sensitivity and bias-awareness training,” with the racing team citing the word “respect” written on their cars as a reason for the training.

“Carson Hocevar’s recent comments made during the livestream fell short of that standard,” the team wrote.

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Carson Hocevar drives during qualifying for the NASCAR Cup Series Viva Mexico 250 at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez on June 14, 2025, in Mexico City, Mexico. Photo by James Gilbert/Getty Images

Hocevar issued a groveling apology on his X page less than two hours later, doing a complete 180-degree turn on his previous remarks about the city.

“Whoa everybody, the truth is the truth,” the driver stated.

“You guys want me to be me? It was me who said it and it was me who apologized after actually taking the time to explore the city and feel the passion of every fan in attendance,” Hocevar continued. “I appreciate the opportunity to learn and I knew before this weekend what respect means to this organization and I didn’t meet the standard so I got what I deserved.”

On top of “learning these lessons in the public eye,” Hocevar said he brought negative attention to his team and chalked it up to “growing up in front of” the fans. “I’m just me. I’m trying,” he said.

“It just doesn’t always go the way I want and I bring a lot of this on myself,” Hocevar concluded.

NASCAR has some legitimacy in their reactions, sports reporter Alejandro Avila told Blaze News. At the same time, “sending the man to their version of ‘re-education’ camp is ridiculous.”

Avila added, “Just fine him behind closed doors or let it go.”

Hocevar’s no. 77 car finished 34th out of 37 drivers in Mexico City, with just two drivers not finishing the race.

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Critics of the deportations ordered by President Donald Trump made a story go viral that tried to garner sympathy for a migrant scooped up in a deportation operation, but the story went up in flames after the truth came out.

The video shows a migrant who was going to self-deport but instead gets detained by federal agents as his pregnant wife looks on in tears and begs them to stop.

‘Wow. US is really turning into a facist [sic] country.’

The story was meant to show the heartlessness of the Trump administration and the mass deportation policy.

“ICE abducted Justin Chung on June 12th. He had plans to self deport but ICE abducted him & put him in a concentration camp w/ terrible conditions before he got a chance to leave America, he had a flight booked and everything,” the post reads. “His wife, Neftali, is 6 weeks pregnant.”

It garnered more than 7.1 million views and elicited strong responses against President Donald Trump.

“Wow. US is really turning into a facist [sic] country,” reads one response.

“Destroy ICE and every person who worked for them must be reprogrammed,” reads another reply.

“America is literally all the worst things in the world,” said another detractor.

A community note then unraveled the campaign.

The note detailed that as a teenager, Chung had joined a gang and was convicted of murder and attempted murder. He was sentenced to 82 years in prison but served only 14 years. He married a U.S. citizen in Oct. 2023 but was notified by ICE to report for deportation on June 12. He was detained unexpectedly as he was preparing for voluntary departure from the U.S.

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In 2022, he spoke to KTLA-TV to ask the governor for a pardon in order to avoid deportation. He had been checking in with ICE at that time.

Chung was reportedly brought to the U.S. from South Korea when he was 2 years old, according to the Korea Daily. After release from prison, Chung had worked to mentor at-risk youth and spoke out on gang prevention.

“My husband has lived a changed life after serving time for a crime he committed in his youth,” wrote Neftali Chung in a post on GoFundMe. “Deporting him would destroy our family.”

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President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would make the decision whether to attack Iran in the next two weeks as negotiations continue over the nation’s nuclear enrichment program.

The announcement came as Israel was engaged in a military campaign to strike at the nation’s nuclear facilities.

‘There’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future.’

Trump has repeatedly pronounced his goal to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, and he excoriated former President Joe Biden’s efforts to pay billions to Iran in the endeavor.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt read a statement from the president at Thursday’s media briefing.

“Regarding the ongoing situation in Iran, I know there has been a lot of speculation amongst all of you in the media regarding the president’s decision-making and whether or not the United States will be directly involved,” Leavitt said.

“In light of that news, I have a message directly from the president,” she added, reading the message.

“Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks,” read the message from the president.

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The announcement might have been intended to quell fears after a Wall Street Journal report said Wednesday that the president had approved an attack on Iran but that he was waiting for the final order to allow for negotiations.

“I have ideas on what to do, but I haven’t made a final — I like to make the final decision one second before it’s due,” said Trump to reporters Wednesday.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been making overt threats against the U.S. and warning that Americans would regret the decision to enter into a war with Iran.

“The US entering in this matter [war] is 100% to its own detriment. The damage it will suffer will be far greater than any harm that Iran may encounter,” wrote Khamenei on social media Wednesday.

“It was already suspected that the US was involved in the malicious move carried out by the Zionist regime, but considering their recent remarks, this suspicion is growing stronger day by day,” he continued in a second post.

Israel’s war on Iran has entered into its seventh day. Operation Rising Lion has led Iran to issue retaliatory missile strikes on Israel.

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PORTLAND, Ore. — The City of Roses is no stranger to seeing large portions of its local population rioting in the streets for any reason, big or small. In the aftermath of the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement riots in Los Angeles, Antifa militants in the Pacific Northwest have mobilized to show solidarity.

Keeping true to tradition, the participants in these events are not simply content with giving speeches and marching around before calling it a day. The crowds are encouraged, in person and on social media, to take part in “direct action” to take the fight to the second Trump administration. In Portland, that “direct action” has resulted in besieging the ICE facility located on the south side by the Willamette River.

After holding the driveway for a few hours, the Antifa crowd was easily repelled within a few minutes.

The ICE facility has been targeted many times before this recent round of unrest. The building and the officers defending it were targeted during the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots, in addition to the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse and various Portland Police Bureau precincts.

The entire public entrance for the ICE location is now boarded up to prevent further damage. Graffiti calling for the death of federal agents and President Donald Trump covers the walls.

On Thursday, Antifa activists gathered at Elizabeth Caruthers Park before marching a few blocks to their target. The crowd gathered on the driveway, blocking federal vehicles from entering or leaving. The Federal Protective Service announced multiple times that if the crowd did not move, they would be subject to arrest and crowd control munitions. The rioters booed and jeered at each announcement.

Portland police officers on bicycles and squad cars passed by the scene a few times but did not intervene.

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When someone threw a large firework into the perimeter, federal agents moved outside to clear the crowd from the driveway. While some of the Antifa agitators fought back, most scattered in the face of tear gas, flash-bangs, and pepper-balls being shot at them.

After holding the driveway for a few hours, the Antifa crowd was easily repelled within a few minutes.

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The Department of Homeland Security stated on Thursday that at least five Antifa rioters “were arrested on various charges including assault on federal law enforcement. … Secretary Noem’s message to the rioters is clear: you will not stop us or slow us down. ICE and our federal law enforcement partners will continue to enforce the law. And if you lay a hand on a law enforcement officer, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

While the initial wave of riots has died down in Los Angeles, the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration has finally given the far left an excuse to create chaos in some of the nation’s most progressive cities.

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Jason Whitlock was thrilled with the Indiana Fever’s offseason acquisitions. The team, which already boasts basketball goddess Caitlin Clark, signed veterans Natasha Howard and DeWanna Bonner as well as WNBA draft Makayla Timpson, among others.

However, the player Jason was most excited about was Sophie Cunningham, the sharpshooting guard traded from Phoenix Mercury.

“When they signed Sophie Cunningham, I was like, ‘Oh that’s a championship move,”’ he says. Although Sophie’s short stint with the Fever has been injury-ridden, she’s nonetheless proved a solid defender, adding grit and clutch shooting to complement Caitlin Clark’s playmaking.

During the Fever’s June 17 matchup against the Connecticut Sun, however, Cunningham was ejected in the final minute when she committed a flagrant-2 foul on Jacy Sheldon, pulling her to the ground during a fast break, which was seen as retaliation for Sheldon’s earlier flagrant-1 foul on Caitlin Clark.

While critics condemned the foul as reckless and evidence of lack of discipline, fans reveled in the scuffle, arguing that the retaliation was protective loyalty to Caitlin Clark. Jason falls in the latter category.

“She’s exactly — exactly — what the Indiana Fever needed; she’s what Caitlin Clark needed. She is the energy button; she is the toughness; she is the enforcer that the Indiana Fever desperately needed,” he says. “I feel more confident today than at any point that the Indiana Fever have a real chance at winning the championship.”

Cunningham tackling Sheldon with 46 seconds left in the game when the Fever were up by several points was perceived as unnecessary retaliation by many, but Jason says the move was meant to “put everybody in the WNBA on notice: We’re not remotely scared.”

“She snatched Jacy Sheldon by the back of her hair to let the entire league know we’re not punks here,” he says. “They needed an enforcer on this team,” and Sophie — “the most fearless girl in the WNBA” — is the perfect person to do it.

Even if the foul was unnecessary, it was nonetheless “a championship moment” because it was “a tone-setting moment,” he says, arguing that going forward, Caitlin Clark will know someone “has [her] back.”

“This will be a rallying cry and a confidence boost to the Indiana Fever,” Jason predicts. However, it will also likely “put a bit of a bullseye on the Indiana Fever’s back.”

He speculates that Dallas Wings’ DiJonai Carrington and Chicago Sky’s Angel Reese will be looking to “get spicy” the next time they face off against the Fever. While Cunningham’s play set the right aggressive tone for the remainder of the season, it also set the team up to “get tested.”

To hear more of Whitlock’s commentary and see the footage of Cunningham’s tone-setting foul, watch the video above.

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Vice President JD Vance visited East Palestine, Ohio, on the second anniversary of the Feb. 3, 2023, Norfolk Southern train disaster, which darkened the sky over the village with hazardous chemicals, poisoned the surrounding environment, and threatened the health of nearby residents.

“President Trump just wanted to deliver a message that this community will not be forgotten, will not be left behind, and we are in it for the long haul in East Palestine,” Vance told locals in the village’s firehouse.

Vance confirmed Thursday that the Trump administration is returning in search of answers and results.

Vance joined the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya Thursday in announcing a five-year, $10 million research initiative to “assess and address” the health fallout from the derailment.

According to HHS, this multi-disciplinary series of studies will seek to understand the health impacts of chemical exposures on short- and long-term health outcomes, “including relevant biological markers of risk”; monitor the community’s health in order to take preventative measures and support their health care decisions; and connect community members with relevant experts and officials in order to properly address their health concerns.

‘We basically nuked a town with chemicals so we could get a railroad open.’

When the Norfolk Southern freight train consisting of 141 packed cars, nine empty cars, and three locomotives derailed in East Palestine in early 2023 due to a failed wheel bearing, 38 cars, 11 containing hazardous materials — including vinyl chloride, benzene residue, hydrogen chloride, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, ethylhexyl acrylate, and isobutylene — went off the tracks.

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For fear that the fires engulfing the wreckage might trigger a “catastrophic tanker failure,” railroad emergency crews conducted a vent and burn of five tanks of vinyl chloride, producing hydrogen chloride and phosgene gas — the latter of which was used to kill soldiers en masse in World War I.

The resulting columns of smoke that drifted over the village, which forced 2,000 residents to flee their homes, formed what the National Transportation Safety Board called a toxic “mushroom cloud.”

After the controlled burn and amid reports of thousands of dead fish and dying livestock, hazardous materials specialist Silverio Caggiano told WKBN-TV, “We basically nuked a town with chemicals so we could get a railroad open.”

The NTSB indicated in a June 2024 report that the decision to execute the controlled burn “was based on incomplete and misleading information provided by Norfolk Southern officials and contractors. The vent and burn was not necessary to prevent a tank car failure.”

Not only was the decision misguided; it was ruinous.

Thousands of local creatures were killed, nearby waters were heavily contaminated, and possibly cancer-causing airborne toxins were sent into the air across multiple states well beyond.

Blaze News previously reported that the Environmental Protection Agency’s preliminary data in 2023 found that “concentrations for nine of the approximately 50 chemicals measured were relatively high in comparison to the levels considered safe for lifetime exposure.”

“Overall, if ambient levels persisted for these chemicals, they could pose health concerns, either individually (e.g., acrolein, a known respiratory irritant) or cumulatively. Thus, subsequent, spatiotemporal analysis was pertinent,” added the report.

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East Palestinians reported various health issues in the wake of the derailment, including headaches, gastrointestinal illness, and respiratory and skin irritations.

Owing to the nature of the chemicals and the duration of their exposure, many in East Palestine feared that there could also be long-term health impacts, especially on mothers and children.

The vice president said in a video shared to social media on Thursday that despite significant concerns from those in the area impacted by the derailment, the Biden administration “refused to do anything to actually study the effects of these long-term exposures on the people of East Palestine. Well, now we have a new president and a great new secretary of health and human services.”

‘Once again, this administration is showing the American people what true leadership looks like.’

“The people of East Palestine have a right to clear, science-backed answers about the impact on their health,” said Kennedy.

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The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences indicated that it will distribute the committed $10 million in tranches of $2 million a year over the next five years for one to three awards. Experts have until July 21 to submit research proposals in hopes of securing funding.

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya teased the initiative last month, telling Fox News’ host Bret Baier he was looking forward to addressing “the health questions and the health needs of the American people with excellent, gold-standard research.”

The initiative was celebrated by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R), Republican Sens. Bernie Moreno and Jon Husted, and Republican Reps. Mike Rulli and Dave Joyce.

“This funding will enable the people of East Palestine to have the peace of mind that comes from knowing that any potential for long-term health effects will be studied by the scientists at the National Institutes of Health,” said DeWine. “I thank President Trump, Vice President Vance, and Secretary Kennedy for their commitment now and into the future.”

“Once again, this administration is showing the American people what true leadership looks like — putting Americans first,” said Rulli.

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The Los Angeles Dodgers released a statement that they had denied access to their stadium parking lot to agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement after calls to speak out against deportations.

Online influencers and some in the mainstream media had mounted a pressure campaign after noticing the baseball team had not made a statement against ICE deportations after the rioting in Los Angeles.

‘This is an organization inextricably linked with the community, so people are wondering, why are they now tone-deaf and falling short?’

On Thursday, local media reported that ICE agents were seen at the stadium, prompting a small anti-ICE protest to respond to the incident. Some speculated that the team was cooperating with federal authorities on aiding with deportations.

KABC-TV captured video of dozens of masked federal agents at the staging area just outside of Gate E at the stadium.

The team responded on social media very soon after.

“This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested permission to access the parking lots,” read the statement. “They were denied entry to the grounds by the organization. Tonight’s game will be played as scheduled.”

They also posted the statement in Spanish.

“Forty percent of the Dodgers fans are Latino, but the team has been silent as protests against ICE have raged in their city. Now, some folks are talking boycott,” reported Sam Stein of MSNBC.

“The Dodgers, where a young Chicano like myself saw themselves, birthed one of the most, if not the most, dedicated fan base,” wrote CNN journalist Nick Valencia. “This is an organization inextricably linked with the community, so people are wondering, why are they now tone-deaf and falling short?”

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In 2023, the Los Angeles team faced significant pressure from the other side when they decided to honor the anti-Christian LGBTQ group named “the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” with a community service award during a game. Hundreds of protesters forced the team to cancel the event, but counterpressure from the left led to the team apologizing and reinviting the group.

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Video cameras captured the moment that a SpaceX Starship rocket exploded into a fireball at the Starbase facility in Texas on Wednesday evening.

The company said in a statement on social media that the rocket known as Ship 36 was preparing for its 10th flight test when it experienced a “major anomaly” while on the test stand.

‘Our Starbase team is actively working to safe the test site and the immediate surrounding area in conjunction with local officials.’

“A safety clear area around the site was maintained throughout the operation and all personnel are safe and accounted for,” SpaceX said.

“Our Starbase team is actively working to safe the test site and the immediate surrounding area in conjunction with local officials. There are no hazards to residents in surrounding communities, and we ask that individuals do not attempt to approach the area,” the company added.

Musk appeared to respond to the explosion in a three-word message on X, the social media platform he also owns.

“Just a scratch,” he wrote.

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He also retweeted a post reading, “RIP Ship 36,” with a meme about the explosion.

Critics on the left have accused Musk of ignoring deleterious effects from his space endeavors on the local community. Others said that his joining the Trump administration at the Department of Government Efficiency was motivated by the opportunity to undermine agencies that were regulating his companies.

Musk has since ended his time at DOGE and returned to managing his companies, which have been the subject of violent protests and vandalism from the left.

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Last weekend on June 14 — the same day No Kings protests ignited across the country — a gunman carried out targeted shootings in Minnesota, killing Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman (DFL) and her husband, Mark, and wounding Democratic state Senator John Hoffman (DFL) and his wife, Yvette.

The suspect is Vance Luther Boelter, whose identity was first reported by Blaze Media’s Julio Rosas. Boelter, who allegedly disguised himself as a police officer to carry out the attacks, has been charged with six federal counts, including two counts of stalking, two counts of murder through use of a firearm, and two counts of firearms offenses. On the state level, he faces four felony counts: two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of attempted second-degree murder.

However, it’s been nearly a week, and Boelter’s exact motive remains unclear. He was appointed to the Minnesota Governor’s Workforce Development Board by two Minnesota governors — first in 2016 by then-Governor Mark Dayton (D) and again in 2019 by Governor Tim Walz (D). The shootings took place on No Kings Day — a series of nationwide, mostly left-wing protests in the U.S. advocating against perceived authoritarianism in the Trump administration. Further, No Kings fliers were found in the suspect’s vehicle.

At first glance, he appears to be aligned with the Democrat Party. And yet he is accused of specifically targeting Democrat representatives. In fact, the list allegedly found in his vehicle supposedly named Democrat officials exclusively. Reports that Boelter was vehemently opposed to abortion further muddy the waters.

“People on the right and on the left, we want to put suspected killers in a box,” says Liz Wheeler. “We want to say, ‘That person’s left-wing; that’s the Democrats’ fault.’ The left wants to say, ‘That person’s a Trump supporter; it’s Trump’s fault.”’ But neither one of those approaches, she says, give us “a complete picture” of Boelter.

To get a better understanding of the complex character that is Vance Luther Boelter, Liz invited Blaze News managing editor Rob Eno to “The Liz Wheeler Show.”

“We know that he at one point in time had a security company of some sort with his wife, who it looks like he wasn’t living with,” says Eno. “He was living at this 57-year-old guy’s house, renting a room” and “[working] at a 7-Eleven supposedly.”

Boelter’s friend David Carlson indicated in multiple reports that Boelter was a hardcore “Trump supporter,” but Eno says “there’s no video” confirming this.

Liz then brings up a good point: Boelter’s alleged “manifesto” that was recovered from his vehicle has not been released to the public. “The only time that manifestos aren’t released,” she says, “is when it’s a left-wing ideologue who commits this violence and they don’t want all left-wingers to be smeared.”

“But then we have the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota … Joe Thompson, who said that he hasn’t even seen a manifesto and that there isn’t one,” she adds.

“I don’t know what the guy’s motivation was,” says Eno, noting that it’s possible he thought his actions would “save children.”

But Liz sees a glaring contradiction: Boelter was “appointed by Governor Tim Walz” — one of the most progressive governors on abortion, which Boelter supposedly despises. But if Boelter is a secret Republican who wanted to get back at Democrats, why would he target Melissa Hortman, who had just recently “voted with Republicans to prevent taxpayer money from going to criminal illegal aliens?”

That makes him seem like “a Democrat that’s disgruntled,” says Liz. “I don’t think that he fits into a left versus right ideological box.”

To hear more of Boelter’s conflicting characteristics, watch the video above.

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BlazeTV host Steve Deace explored the spiritual nature of the divisions that threaten to tear America apart in his 2016 novel “A Nefarious Plot,” which was adapted into the well-received film “Nefarious.”

Like C.S. Lewis’ “The Screwtape Letters,” Deace’s satirical book provided penetrating insights into the nature of evil as well as into how the demonic might seek to pervert language, empathy, notions of justice and tolerance, media, the education system, and politics.

Deace has a new biting book out on the same theme but with a narrowed focus, namely the appropriation of the rainbow by non-straight activists and related distortions regarding marriage and the family.

Numerous American public school libraries across the country are replete with non-straight propaganda — books targeting children that champion deviant lifestyles, sexual promiscuity, and transvestitism and altogether reject traditional understandings of sex, marriage, and virtue.

To a passerby or an uncritical eye, Deace’s new book, “Richie Meets the Rainbow: A Heartwarming Tale of Childhood Enlightenment,” might look like more of the same. After all, the cover features an image of a cartoonish child pointing gleefully at a rainbow — a symbol now associated with degeneracy despite having signified for millennia God’s covenant with man.

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In fact, Deace told Blaze News that several of his own listeners “didn’t realize it was a troll and were instantly offended that I had ‘sold out’ to what I call the Rainbow Jihad.”

The book is instead something of a Trojan horse.

“What I call the Rainbow Jihad has noticeably left out the origin story of its own scam,” Deace told Blaze News, “which is why I want to use this book to fill that void. Why wouldn’t they want people to know where their ideology truly comes from? All the potential answers to that question are bad.”

Deace recently told BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere on “Stu Does America” that the book centers on a young boy named Richie who is confronted at school with a blue-haired, nose-ringed, “rainbow-fisted teacher” keen to fill his head with lies.

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Fortunately for Richie, he “has a secret weapon,” said Deace. “He’s got a dad.”

“Instead of saying, ‘Shut up, son, I’m watching the game,’ Dad says, ‘You know what? I can pause the game, son, and here at dinner, let’s have a discussion about this,'” said Deace. “And he puts little Richie on his lap, and he grabs this best-selling book — maybe you’ve heard about it before; it’s the greatest best-seller of all time, the Bible — and he walks Richie through the true story of the rainbow.”

“He wants his son to know that ‘unrepentant savages’ have co-opted this with the intent of brainwashing him and future generations,” said Deace. “And he’s going to do something that also is not very prevalent in today’s culture: His dad’s going to get active and going to be a constant force at the school board meeting to make sure … that the voiceless have a voice in him and set the example.”

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The book, although written and marketed as a children’s book, serves as a tool for parents to better understand the nature of leftist indoctrination, particularly within the school system, just as “A Nefarious Plot” serves as a tool for understanding the demonic infestation at the greater societal level.

Deace emphasized to Blaze News that when he put pen to paper, the intended reader was “the men.”

‘I didn’t do it for the money, but to send a message.’

“It is time to both make dads the hero of the story again — because they really are the antidote to much of what threatens us culturally,” said the BlazeTV host, “but also to inspire the men to stop being passive and get engaged because they are the solution.”

Deace told Blaze News, “This book has been planned for 10 months to strike right at the heart of Pride Month on purpose.”

Unsurprisingly, Deace had issues getting this particular title published despite his previous successes. Even getting it made proved difficult.

“We had to go all the way to Hungary to find an illustrator able [and] willing to do this for us to get it out there,” said the BlazeTV host. “We had Amazon jack with us during our rollout, and I think we all know why.”

“I only make a few bucks per book, so I’m not going to get rich off of this. I didn’t do it for the money, but to send a message. And that message is this: The time for this demonic trash is at an end,” added Deace.

At the time of writing, the book was ranked #1 Best-Seller in the Children’s Christian Emotions & Feelings Fiction category on Amazon and ranked among the top 10 best-sellers in the Children’s Christian Fiction category on the platform.

As the book climbed the new release charts on Amazon, Deace noted, “We are getting closer to being a certified LGBTQFU best-seller deep in the heart of pride month.”

When asked if Richie will be making additional appearances, Deace told Blaze News that pending the success of this title, he could “foresee a future where Richie Meets Reparations, Richie Meets the Resurrection, Richie Meets the Real St. Nicholas, etc. Just spitballing here. But that’s up to the audience.”

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The Democratic Party is once again in shambles, and even its own members are starting to speak out.

The Democratic Party has remained in free fall ever since President Donald Trump’s sweeping victory, and its members have not yet regained their footing. Most recently, the Democratic National Committee has taken on new leadership in an attempt to salvage the party, but even its staff said the organization is in disarray.

In just four and a half months, DNC Chair Ken Martin has apparently run the party into the ground. Multiple reports quote party officials criticizing Martin’s handling of the DNC’s finances, calling him “weak and whiny” and describing his tenure as “disappointing.”

‘We’re in the most serious existential crisis.’

Rahm Emanuel, who served as chief of staff for former President Barack Obama, expressed frustration about the Democratic Party’s incompetence in the aftermath of Trump’s election.

“We’re in the most serious existential crisis with Donald Trump both at home and abroad — and with the biggest political opportunity in a decade,” Emanuel said. “And the DNC has spent six months on a firing squad in the circle and can’t even fire a shot out. And Trump’s world is a target-rich environment.”

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The DNC has been plagued by disorder for months now, with much of the infighting focused on leadership. Gun control activist David Hogg briefly served as a vice chair of the DNC before he was unceremoniously ousted following a lot of internal drama.

“This is worse than some high school student council drama,” Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin told the New York Times.

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The DNC’s crippling financial state may also have caused much of the infighting, with the organization’s funds reportedly shrinking by $4 million from January to April. During the same period, the Republican National Committee’s funds increased by about $29 million.

Multiple sources told the New York Times that donors have been more stingy with Martin at the helm, which has further strained relations within the DNC. Despite this chaos, Martin remains confident in his leadership and the future of the party.

“People invested more money than they ever had before, they dug deeper than they ever had, and they are quite frustrated by the result,” Mr. Martin said. “They want answers. I don’t take it personally. I wasn’t in charge.”

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A former Illinois special education teacher accused of molesting a 15-year-old student has been hit with 52 additional charges relating to previous accusations of child sex crimes.

DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin announced Tuesday in a statement that 30-year-old Christina Formella had been indicted on 52 additional counts of child sex crimes against a student.

‘I feel like I’m gonna throw up.’

Formella is facing 20 counts of criminal sexual assault (Class 1 Felony), 20 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse (Class 1 Felony), six counts of indecent solicitation of a child (Class 3 Felony), and six counts of grooming (Class 4 Felony), Berlin said.

As Blaze News previously reported, Formella was arrested March 16 when she was a teacher at Downers Grove South High School. At the time, Formella was charged with one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse (Class 1 Felony), one count of criminal sexual assault (Class 1 Felony), and one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse (Class 2 Felony).

Police bodycam video of Formella’s arrest shows her appearing confused when an officer asks her to step out of her vehicle during a traffic stop. With her husband in the passenger seat of the vehicle, Formella exits the car and is placed in handcuffs.

Bodycam footage shows Formella crying in the back of the police cruiser.

“I feel like I’m gonna throw up,” a sobbing Formella is heard saying.

RELATED: Special education teacher fights molestation charges, claims student set her up for blackmail because she’s ‘good-looking’

The DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office stated in a previous news release, “On March 15, 2025, the victim, who was 15 years old at the time of the alleged assault, and his mother went to the Downers Grove Police Department to report inappropriate sexual contact allegedly committed by the boy’s soccer coach/tutor, later identified as Formella.”

It was alleged that the student and Formella were in a classroom for a tutoring session before school began in December 2023 when the teacher sexually assaulted the boy, officials said.

But in its press release Tuesday, the State’s Attorney’s Office said, “Following further investigation, it is alleged that the sexual abuse began in January 2023 and continued through August/September 2024.”

“The new allegations against Ms. Formella, including the allegations of grooming and that the abuse lasted nearly two years, are beyond disturbing,” Berlin proclaimed. “I thank the victim in this case for having the courage to come forward during what I imagine is an extremely difficult time for him.”

Authorities noted that Formella “sent the victim multiple text messages that were grooming in nature and that she and the victim had engaged in sexual acts approximately 50 times, both at the school and at Formella’s home, including at least 45 times at the school.”

WGN-TV reported that the following text exchange was allegedly between the student and Formella:

Student: “I love you so so much mama.”
Formella: “I love you sooooo much baby… Even though this morning was short, it was perfect”
Student: “I know baby it was perfect baby so perfect.”
Formella: “I love having sex with you.”
Student: “I know baby I love it so much… It feels so good… It’s so passionate. .. It’s so intimate … It’s so perfect.”

The alleged victim’s mother reportedly discovered text messages between the boy and Formella on her son’s cell phone.

RELATED: Shocking texts, secret ‘memoir’ reportedly reveal special-ed teacher’s affair with student

In addition, Formella allegedly had a secret “memoir” in her phone’s notes app, in which one note said the student “cheated on me” and called him “disgusting,” according to a petition to deny her pretrial release that People magazine obtained.

“We will never ever be together again,” Formella allegedly wrote. “I’m not a second choice. I’m the best thing you’ll ever have, even with all of my mistakes.”

Formella asserted that she was the victim of a blackmail scheme the student orchestrated.

“[Formella said] everybody comes after her because she is good-looking, and she is just a good person who cared too much about [the boy],” according to court documents the Daily Mail obtained.

Blaze News previously reported that Formella allegedly told investigators that the student broke into her phone and sent text messages to himself to set her up for blackmail.

“She claimed that one day, [the boy] had grabbed her phone unattended, had entered her passcode … had sent the message to his phone, had then deleted the message from her phone, and had saved it to his phone as blackmail,” the documents obtained by the Daily Mail read.

Formella is scheduled to return to court on Aug. 4, the state’s attorney said.

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In-vitro fertilization is sold as a cure-all for those struggling with fertility issues — but not only does it rarely work, it also can cause a myriad of issues in the mother and child when it does.

Jennifer Lahl, founder of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, is one of the leading voices sounding the alarm.

“IVF is fraught with risk. It’s risky to the woman’s health; it’s risky to the health of the unborn child,” Lahl tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.” “You can just follow the CDC data, and for the last 10-plus years, overwhelmingly, all IVF cycles fail.”

Data is now coming out that IVF increases the chance of pregnancy-related complications, like preterm labor and birth defects.

“My grandson was born with a heart defect. And when his care was transferred to a big university hospital in California, two independent pediatric cardiologists there said, ‘Is he an IVF baby?’ He’s not, but in the medical literature, IVF babies have much higher rates of congenital heart defects at birth,” Lahl explains.

“Shouldn’t that be something that at least could make us pause and think? We know that pregnancy is risky; I know that, you know, any child that’s born healthy, praise God, because there’s a lot of things that can go wrong to make children born with all kinds of defects, but knowingly doing it, I think, is problematic,” she continues.

Stuckey has also done her research on the issues associated with IVF, and one of them is a higher prevalence of the child being diagnosed with autism.

“Specifically because there was a fertility problem on the father’s part. So that is because say a dad has basically immobile sperm. They’re just not fast enough, strong enough, to do what they have to do in the natural fertility reproduction process,” Stuckey says, noting that in IVF they “take the sperm and put it on the egg.”

“There is a reason that that sperm isn’t working. There’s an underlying issue there that will affect the baby that is born, because those sperm weren’t supposed to re-create, and when you force them to re-create, then the baby is going to inherit a lot of problems,” she adds.

“People like to say, ‘We’re playing God,’ and I always say, ‘Well, no, because God doesn’t play that way. We’re playing naughty people,’” Lahl agrees.

“There’s a natural order to how things are supposed to work and how our bodies are supposed to work, and even though the human body is incredibly resilient, our fertility is very fragile,” she adds.

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A second suspect has been arrested in the wake of a viral video showing a suburban Chicago couple in front of their home obediently handing over valuables to three armed males back in April.

Police in Glenview, Illinois, said Chicago police on Monday arrested 21-year-old Amarion Ray-Williams and took him to the Glenview Police Department, WFLD-TV reported, adding that he was charged with armed robbery with a firearm.

‘It’s just the way of the world.’

Ray-Williams was then placed in the custody of the Cook County Sheriff’s Department for a conditions hearing Tuesday, WFLD said, adding that police have not identified the last individual involved in the headline-grabbing heist.

The sheriff’s department on Thursday told Blaze News that Ray-Williams remained in custody “with no bail/bond amount currently listed.”

Earlier this month, Blaze News reported that the first suspect connected to the case was arrested and charged with armed robbery with a firearm.

Angelo Hatter — a 26-year-old from Chicago — was being held in custody by the Cook County Sheriff’s Department, WFLD reported in a separate story. Jail records showed no bail for Hatter; his next court date is July 2.

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Authorities shared no details about how they linked Hatter and Ray-Williams to the case, the station said.

In April, Blaze News reported about a helpless suburban Chicago couple recorded by Ring camera in front of their own home obediently handing over their valuables — and even their clothing — to three armed robbers who rushed them.

Greg Poulos and Angie Beltsos were walking to their front porch in Glenview around 10 p.m. April 21 after dinner in Chicago when a car pulled up, WBBM-TV reported.

Police said three males approached them, pulled out guns, and demanded their belongings, WBBM said, adding that Beltsos said she saw one male “running at us pointing a gun, screaming at us to give him everything.”

The couple did just that.

Video shows one of the robbers telling them to “give me all that s**t,” and Poulos and Beltsos immediately tossed their cell phones and keys to the ground; Beltsos also gave up her purse, the station said.

“You got it. You got it. Here, take it. Take it. Take everything. Take everything. Take everything. Take everything. Take everything. Here, you can have it. Honest to God, guys,” Poulos was heard on the clip telling the robbers, WBBM reported.

“I started throwing shoes and coats,” Beltsos noted to the station in the aftermath. Video shows them both removing their jackets for the crooks.

Poulos told WBBM, “I was always taught by my father just give whatever they want, give what they want, and your life is far more valuable.”

The nightmare didn’t end there, however.

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Video doesn’t show that the crooks soon “had us lie down on our stomachs, and pointing guns at us, and I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, is this how it’s going to end today?'” Beltsos recounted to WBBM, adding that “for a moment, they were standing there, and they ran off.”

Police told WBBM the robbers sped out of the neighborhood in a Jaguar SUV, which was later found abandoned and empty in Chicago.

The village of Glenview is about 40 minutes northwest of Chicago and is “one of the best places to live in Illinois,” according to Niche. It’s also a haven for retirees and boasts “a lot of restaurants, coffee shops, and parks” as well as “highly rated” public schools, Niche adds.

Poulos added to WBBM that people nowadays have “to be vigilant and keep their head on a swivel.”

Blaze News spoke to employees of two businesses located less than a mile from where the robbery took place, and both workers strangely used the same word in the aftermath of the harrowing encounter: “numb.”

One employee confessed to Blaze News, “I’m numb to it.”

The worker from the second business — even upon hearing that a suspect had been arrested — told Blaze News that “you just kind of become numb to the situation.”

“It’s unfortunate,” she added to Blaze News about the robbery itself. “It’s just the way of the world.”

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