Generative AI development moves faster than other tech categories, with new major models coming out several times a year. Google was starting to fall behind, with its last frontier model launching in February, but not any more. The brand-new Gemini 4 Argon is finally here, and this is how it stacks up against the competition.

Google has been falling behind the other frontier AI platforms after it missed its own deadline to launch Gemini 3.5 Pro, which was teased at Google I/O for release in June. Instead, it has been riding on 3.8 Flash, a newer but lighter-weight version of Gemini, to serve as its flagship model. While this is fine for most people who use Gemini for general queries, the Pro version is meant to measure the cutting-edge capabilities of the latest AI models — something Google simply didn’t have.

Critics see Argon as a return to the frontier, with Google finally competing against the other leading AI giants again.

Analysts even started to question whether Google Gemini was still a frontier model, since its capabilities were no longer on the leading edge of development. CEO Sundar Pichai disagreed in July, reportedly claiming that Google is still at “the frontier level of where the frontier will be when Gemini 4 comes out.”

And now Gemini 4 Argon is here.

Taking cues from OpenAI and Anthropic, Google made Gemini 4 Argon available only to a limited number of “trusted cyber defenders” when it was released at the end of September. However, nearly a month later, Argon is available to the public, specifically for Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra subscribers.

Replacing Gemini 3.1 Pro from February 2026, Gemini 4 Argon is a high-end reasoning model built to handle complex tasks. On its website, Google lists several major real-world use cases for the new model. According to the company, ”teams at Google, across enterprises, and in the research community have already been using Argon to land significant impact across fields” including:

engineering, where Argon excels at solving complex problems and optimizing software code for better performance. Google used the new model to adjust the way Chrome handles live webpages when switching between tabs, panels, and floating windows, resulting in smoother performance with fewer crashes.business and enterprise, where Argon is especially useful in refining workflows for those in the legal, finance, and science industries. Based on user testimonials, Argon is great at reasoning with complex research data and maintaining context across long projects.cybersecurity, where Argon can discover and patch unknown bugs and vulnerabilities. According to Google, Argon identified and repaired gaps that exposed sensitive data in government and health care infrastructure.high-tech industries, where Argon can make it possible to achieve novel discoveries in quantum computing, nuclear fusion, and life sciences. For example, it is already being used to research rare diseases and advance quantum computing development.

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Gemini 4 Argon competes directly with OpenAI ChatGPT-6 Astra, Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5, and the new Meta Muse. In a head-to-head test, MindStudio claims that Argon:

placed slightly behind Muse at writing code.fell behind Claude and Muse in terminal command-line tasks.dropped behind the other newest models in general knowledge.lagged behind Claude and ChatGPT in generating 3D graphics.outperformed the rest when handling business, legal, and financial tasks.

For added perks, Argon offers industry-leading tokens for longer responses, and it is much more affordable than the competition until December, when prices for output will double.

Perhaps the thing that normies like us will care about most, though, is that Gemini 4 Argon boasts a much smaller 15% hallucination rate than other platforms on the AA-Omniscience test. This knowledge gauntlet asks AI models 6,000 questions from various academic and industry sources to uncover data gaps. For comparison, GPT-6 Astra had a 51% hallucination rate on the same test. That’s not to say that Argon won’t hallucinate at all, but it is nice to see companies making progress in this contested area.

Ultimately, critics see Argon as a return to the frontier, with Google finally competing against the other leading AI giants again, pulling ahead in some areas and falling behind in others. But at the very least, Google’s frontier AI status is no longer in question.

Gemini 4 Argon is available now for paying Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra subscribers. It joins Google’s other Gemini models, including 3.5 Flash-Lite, 3.8 Flash, and 3.1 Pro. Unfortunately, if you’re a free Gemini user, you won’t have access to Argon any time soon. In fact, Google recently reduced free access to include only 3.5 Flash-Lite, while paying customers on the lowest AI Plus tier only get access to 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.8 Flash.

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President Donald Trump has made no secret of his contempt for the Minnesota Democrat who has long gone by the name “Ilhan Omar.” He stated in November, for example, that “she should go back” to her native Somalia — an African nation Trump has characterized as “decadent, backward, and crime ridden.”

In light of new revelations about the criminal investigations into the congresswoman, Trump demanded her immediate resignation late Thursday evening and announced, “She will not be legally allowed to be a Member of this August Body from this point forth.”

Some people found something

Homeland Security Investigations agents searched the Somali-born ethno-nationalist’s D.C.-area residence on Oct. 12 under a warrant signed by a federal judge, according to U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro.

‘She used a fake name to be sworn in.’

As part of this search — which a DOJ spokesperson confirmed to the New York Times was part of an “ongoing federal criminal investigation” and the congresswoman characterized as an “abuse of power” — officers reportedly seized her phone and potentially also her personal passport.

The DOJ generated additional waves on Wednesday with a court filing that appears to indicate that “Ilhan Abdullahi Omar” is an alias and that the congresswoman’s real name is actually “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi.”

The Justice Department did not immediately respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

A source familiar with the investigation subsequently confirmed to the New York Post that “Omar” is not the congresswoman’s “real name.”

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This would suggest that her birth name may have been Elmi — the very same surname as Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the British-Somali national reportedly identified by numerous Somalis as the Democrat’s alleged brother.

It’s universal practice — even in Somalia — for a sister to share a surname with her brother. The issue in the congresswoman’s case is, however, that she was legally married to Elmi from 2009 until 2017.

Abdihakim Osman, a self-identified friend of the congresswoman, claimed to the Daily Mail in 2020 that the congresswoman had confirmed that Elmi was her brother and that she married him so he could remain in the United States.

The congresswoman previously denied the allegation that she married her brother, calling it “absolutely false and ridiculous.”

It is possible that Elmi may simply have been her married name. The New York Post has, however, obtained a marriage certificate for Leila Nur Said — a Somali woman believed to be the congresswoman’s sister — that lists “Nur Said Elmi” as her father.

A purported expert claimed to the Post that the congresswoman’s late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, had “misrepresented himself as a refugee” to American authorities and was actually a military commander in “Siad Barre’s military regime.” He allegedly also went by the name of Nur Said Elmi.

The congresswoman’s office said in a statement to Blaze News, “The congresswoman’s name has always been Ilhan Omar. Any claim suggesting otherwise is categorically false and has no basis in fact.”

Family matters

Though the Minnesota congresswoman has long dismissed the allegations about marrying her brother, when asked this week by MS NOW’s Chris Hayes whether she is related to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, she responded with uncertainty, stating, “Not to my knowledge.”

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Trump said in a Truth Social post on Thursday, “It was just revealed that Ilhan Omar’s name is not Ilhan Omar, the one she used to get elected and sworn into Congress, but rather, it’s an entirely different name, Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, and that her last name is, incredibly, also the exact name of her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the person they said she married and had children with.”

While the congresswoman married Elmi, she had multiple children with a man named Ahmed Hirsi, whom she married in a 2002 Muslim ceremony, legally married in 2018, and divorced in 2019.

After suggesting that he didn’t buy the congresswoman’s “not to my knowledge” response to Hayes, Trump said, “Because she used a fake name to be sworn in, I assume she must IMMEDIATELY resign from Congress.”

“Please inform the Speaker of the House of Representatives, James Michael Johnson, that the Dumocrat Party has just conceded her seat. Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, her real name, has openly admitted to FRAUD,” added the president.

Omar said in response to Trump’s statement, “The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history. Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar.”

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Two former senior FBI officials have been indicted and surrendered to authorities on Friday in connection with Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office press release.

46-year-old Nikki Cole Floris of Alexandria, Virginia, and 56-year-old Bradley Benavides of Aiken, South Carolina, are alleged to have lied in congressional testimony in 2023.

‘No one is above the law, and we will hold accountable all who obstruct the truth.’

The now-defunct Foreign Influence Task Force of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which Floris and Benavides had been a part of, led the FBI’s mission to combat foreign influence on the 2020 election.

Both Floris and Benavides testified before Congress that the FITF was not involved in the investigation into Hunter Biden’s laptop, the criminal complaint claims.

FBI Director Kash Patel said on social media, “Documentary evidence, contemporaneous communications, and witness accounts contradict their testimony.”

Benavides testified that he had learned about the Biden case from Wikipedia, but records allegedly showed that he had been regularly talking about the case with FBI officials up to the 2020 election.

Floris had also allegedly spoken with FBI officials in the FITF and others about Hunter routinely for more than a year.

Patel claimed that Floris had also texted that she was “basically running a shadow government” across the FBI. A screenshot of the text was posted to social media by House Republicans.

“Lying to Congress by anyone strikes at the heart of our democratic system­­, but when senior FBI agents lie to Congress believing they are above the law, it’s time to bring the hammer of justice down on them,” said U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro.

“When senior officials entrusted with safeguarding our nation’s security choose deception over duty, they undermine the very institutions they swore to uphold,” she added. “Today’s action makes clear that no one is above the law, and we will hold accountable all who obstruct the truth.”

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Both Floris and Benavides appeared in a federal court in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

Floris’ attorney called her a “patriot” in court and implied that the government was bringing up the charges just ahead of the election in order to influence public opinion.

Benavides was a section chief with the FITF from 2019 through the 2020 election, and Floris was a deputy assistant director and “functional head” of the FITF from 2019 until 2022, the complaint said.

“Lying to Congress by senior FBI officials strikes at the heart of our system. No one is above the law,” said Patel on social media.

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Outside Marine Corps Base Quantico stands a limestone replica of the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia.

Like the 100-ton bronze statue in Arlington, Felix de Weldon’s nine-foot sculpture in Quantico depicts six battle-weathered Marines raising an American flag on Japan’s Iwo Jima Island during World War II.

‘This criminal illegal alien’s dream is over.’

This monument commemorating American heroes and heroism was vandalized on Wednesday. The suspect accused of beheading one of the statues and hammering away at other features has been identified as an illegal alien.

According to the Prince William Police Department, officers arrived to the scene around 10:13 p.m. on Wednesday to find Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano allegedly “actively damaging the statue with a sledgehammer.”

In addition to allegedly removing one of the depicted soldier’s heads, Soriano is accused of inflicting other damage “estimated to be in hundreds of thousands of dollars,” said police.

The suspect was taken into custody and charged with felony destruction of property, trespass with intent to damage property, and felony injury to monument. He was held without bond.

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Multiple federal sources confirmed to Fox News’ Bill Melugin that Soriano is an illegal alien, specifically a former DACA recipient whose legal status expired this year.

Citing federal sources, Melugin reported that Soriano stole into the homeland in 1999, was granted DACA by the Obama administration in 2014, had that DACA status extended by the Biden administration in 2024, and has since lost his status.

The attorney listed for Soriano did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to Blaze News’ request for comment. The DHS did, however, share an image of an Iwo Jima memorial, vowing in the message, “This we will defend.”

White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told the New York Post, “This criminal illegal alien’s dream is over: Maldonado Soriano disrespected our brave service members and defaced a beautiful monument that honored their sacrifice.”

“President Trump has secured our border and is deporting illegal criminals who hate our country and our values,” continued Rogers. “The socialist Democrats want to go back to open borders and flood our communities with dangerous criminal illegal aliens.”

The Marine Corps Public Affairs told Blaze News: “Marine Corps Base Quantico is aware of the situation. We are working closely with the Prince William County Police Department on a joint investigation. As this is an open investigation, no further comment will be provided.”

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The NFL is all systems go for the regular-season game in Paris between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New Orleans Saints.

Despite widespread destruction in the streets of France over the past week and an expectation that there will be unrest again this weekend, the NFL said there have been “no disruptions” to speak of league operations.

‘We’ve made all the preparations.’

However, amid the league’s attempt to calm nerves in recent days, the Steelers and the NFL have canceled a fan event at a bar in the Bastille area that was scheduled for the weekend because of security concerns.

“Following recent events in the Bastille neighborhood, and after careful consideration, we felt it appropriate not to move forward with the planned Steelers House fan event in Paris,” the NFL said in a message to fans, per ESPN.

“Preparations for Sunday’s NFL Paris game at Stade de France continue as planned,” the statement added.

NFL fan events scheduled for Friday and Saturday are still expected to be held as planned, the league told OutKick.

The cancellation comes after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell delivered a series of odd remarks in which he said that security will be “very high” at the event, but there is essentially nothing to worry about.

“We’ve made all the preparations. We’ve been in touch with the appropriate authorities,” Goodell said Wednesday, according to CNN, specifically claiming he has spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio in recent days.

And even though Paris is just days removed from massive civil unrest, acts of vandalism, and fires set to government buildings, Goodell simply stated, “Protests are not unusual in France.”

The commissioner added that he is looking forward to attending the game.

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The NFL has remained steadfast in its messaging surrounding the safety of the Paris game despite simultaneously increasing security.

“Preparations continue as scheduled for NFL events and the game at Stade de France next Sunday,” the NFL said, according to reporter Adam Schefter. “We continue to work closely with local authorities and partners on all operational and security matters. We are also providing the two clubs with regular updates. There’s been no disruption or impact at league sites.”

Schefter also reported that Saints executive Greg Bensel said he concurred with the NFL’s decision to march forward with the game.

“Members of our football operations staff and internal security team have been on the ground in France for the past few days, and there has been no disruption or impact at any of our team sites,” Bensel remarked.

RELATED: Fans accuse Chicago Bears player of performing Muslim prayer during national anthem: ‘Is this respectful?’

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Moreover, the NFL’s executive vice president of club business, international, and league events has emphasized that league personnel and security have been on the ground for 10 days ensuring enhanced security around the event.

The executive, Peter O’Reilly, said the league was “obviously being very vigilant” in all of its planning and noted that a large soccer game between Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona — two of the most popular teams in the world — had gone ahead earlier this week, at a different stadium.

The NFL has nine international games this season, its most ever, including inaugural games in Australia, Brazil, and France.

The overseas schedule has been widely criticized by analysts like former NFL coach Jon Gruden, who said the league should be growing the game in the United States first.

Radio hosts Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington said players should refuse to play in Paris.

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We the People.

Three of the most famous words in American history. They’re a source of pride for every red-blooded American patriot. Why? What exactly do those words symbolize?

What is the first thing people do when the president, or a senator, or a local mayor whom you voted for does something ‘bad’? They blame you for voting for him.

Believing in “we” is believing that we are in charge of our own destiny. It means that an American citizen believes that he or she possesses ultimate sovereignty. That we make the rules. Not some king or a small cabal of powerful men pulling the strings.

That is the story we tell ourselves. It is the belief in the power of popular sovereignty or, in plainer terms, democracy. As a nation of individual sovereigns, we come together every few years and “make our voices heard” by casting ballots for representatives who we then demand represent our best interests.

This idea, I argue, is just one big myth.

Who decides?

Specifically, the myth is the belief that we, the people, have any meaningful say in how our government actually gets picked or what it actually does.

I sincerely ask anyone reading this to ask themselves: Who actually picks and runs our government?

Is it you? Are you getting weekly progress reports mail-delivered to you by the Trump administration? Or are you personally funding the campaign expenses for a 2028 Republican primary contender?

No. You’re not.

So the question is, what exactly is the mechanism that drives all the logistics, funding, and management of our political apparatus?

The short answer is capital (and capital interests). Capital is the engine behind democracy. It is what finds and bankrolls new political candidates, helps staff their administrations, and politically pressures them in the media. And when ordinary persuasion isn’t enough, those with money and influence have other ways of getting what they want. Crazy concept, I know.

What makes someone else “more” equal than you in a democracy where everyone’s voice is supposed to count the same?

Capital. Money talks. Bulls**t walks.

A feature, not a bug

I can already picture the eyerolls and the groans.

“What an obvious statement! Just get the money out of politics!” —Disgruntled Reader

If your solution to our problems in government is “getting money out of politics” so that we can get back to voting even harder in the next election cycle, then you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of democracy itself, which needs to be corrected at this very moment.

The mistake is in thinking our democracy is corrupt. It is not corrupt. Corruption implies a malfunction, a deviation from the design. There is no malfunction here. It is working as it is intended to work.

“But you have it all wrong! Our country isn’t even a democracy! It’s a republic!”

Yeah, that’s not the own that you think it is. Sure, our system is a representative democracy, a republic. But what do you think a republic is exactly? Who have our “representatives” historically been expected to “stand up” to? The big monopolies. Banks. Big Oil. Big Tech. That’s not by accident.

Putting the customer first

And ask the obvious follow-up: Why does it always seem like our “representatives” fail to stand up to them? It’s because the real power doesn’t belong to the guy working a 9-to-5 standing in line at the polling station. The real power belongs to the class of people who bankroll the candidates on the ballot.

Think it through. If the candidate you’re voting for was brought to your attention in the first place by a big, mysteriously acquired pile of money, then who is the candidate actually working for? It’s not rocket science. It’s a simple 2+2 equation. It’s not that the republic is failing or that it’s corrupt. The republic is a machine that, whatever its stated ideals, gives people with money advantages that the rest of us can scarcely imagine.

Take a guy like Jeffrey Epstein, for example. Where would you say his power come from? Here’s a hint: It wasn’t from “making his voice heard” like every other schlub. He owned Little St. James, a private Caribbean island, and Zorro Ranch in New Mexico, where he reportedly entertained a bizarre scheme to impregnate multiple women with his own sperm. He had connections to powerful figures like Les Wexner and Bill Gates, and he maintained relationships in the highest reaches of business, politics, and academia even after his 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor.

Does any of that prove theories that Epstein controlled politicians through blackmail? No. But consider the extraordinary access he enjoyed. How many doors could a man like that open with a telephone call that would remain permanently shut to the average voter?

Ask yourself: Do you have access to these resources? No? Then how do you stand a chance of demanding accountability from your representatives when your only instruments are voting and protesting, while the instruments of capital include campaign contributions, lobbying, personal connections, and financial pressure?

RELATED: Why ‘Christian nationalists’ are liberals — whether they realize it or not

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Hope without change

The point is this: What America promises its people is a lie. Republics, whatever their promises to the “little guy,” have always given enormous advantages to the “big guys.” The little guy gets a delusion of hope and a sense of control, while the wheels keep turning for the people with real influence.

And if this is true, then what exactly would be the point of your vote? Why do the big dogs put on such an elaborate song and dance just to get you out to the polling stations? Why do they need you to buy this trash they’re selling about voting harder and harder every election cycle?

Well, think about the psychological effect of casting a ballot. You feel like you have done your civic duty. You feel like this is the one corner of your life where you have some semblance of agency, where you are truly demonstrating the power of the people.

That feeling is the entire product. It is the exact feeling the capital class wants you to experience and internalize. Because ownership comes with something else attached: responsibility.

Scape-vote

“Responsibility?”

What’s the first thing people do when the president, or a senator, or a local mayor whom you voted for does something “bad”? They blame you for voting for him. What’s the first thing you do when a Democrat politician does something “bad”? You relish the opportunity to clown your liberal family, friends, or acquaintances.

“Those idiot liberals voted for this!”

Now, in reality, what does all this constant bickering, finger-pointing, and blame-shifting actually accomplish?

It takes the heat off the people who actually have and use their very real power to do the bad things. It shifts the blame from them and puts it all squarely on you. And that is because you, the voter, voluntarily take responsibility for it. Your belief in the central thesis of democracy — that you are the one with power — makes you take on the responsibility that comes with that perceived power.

Do you see the trick yet?

The elites are using you as a scapegoat. And I mean that in the oldest sense of the word. On the Day of Atonement, the high priest laid both hands on the head of a goat, confessed over it the sins of the people, and sent it out into the wilderness to carry those sins away. The community was cleansed. The goat was left to bear the burden.

That is what the idea we call “democracy” lets them do. They commit their sins, lay their hands on your head every November, and send you out into the wilderness to bear them. Democracy isn’t the House of the People. It’s Solomon’s Temple. It’s the place where the priest unloads his sins onto the scapegoat and walks away cleansed while you carry the blame.

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Two Bulgarian immigrants to Scotland have been sentenced for assaulting young girls last year after a judge said one of them made sexual remarks to the children.

The man, Ilia Belov, called his sister at the time of the incident, who “immediately” attacked one of the girls upon arrival.

‘F**king creep and an immigrant.’

In what became known as the Scottish axe girl story, video of the incident taken by Belov showed a scared and angry young Scottish girl wielding a small axe and a knife to fend off what she said were her attackers.

Though the Bulgarian denied that he threatened the girls or made inappropriate remarks to them, a Scottish judge struck down his testimony as “wholly unconvincing and self-serving.”

Blaze News reported that the judge said Belov made sexual remarks to the children and both he and his sister committed assault.

One of the girls, completely vindicated, had called Belov a “f**king creep and an immigrant” and said, “He kept saying, ‘Come here, sexy. I will show you how to have a good time.'”

Earlier this month, Belov, 23, was sentenced for assaulting the then-12-year-old and behaving in a “threatening or abusive manner” toward four other young girls.

Belov received 18 months of supervision and 300 hours of unpaid work and was placed on the sex offender registry for 18 months, according to the Daily Mail.

Belov’s sister, 20-year-old Nadjedzha Belova, pled guilty to assaulting a 13-year-old girl during the same incident and was given 180 hours of unpaid work as punishment.

Both are now appealing their sentences, the Daily Record reported.

RELATED: Justice! Scottish axe girl vindicated after judge’s epic ruling: ‘F*****g creep and an immigrant’

Belov’s lawyer, Larry Flynn, told BBC Scotland that he was appealing the sex offender registration only, not the supervision or community service.

Belov denied making sexual remarks to the girls, but the Scottish judge, Timothy Niven-Smith, convicted Belov after seeing what was described as “proof beyond reasonable doubt.”

The judge said the girls’ response had been “eloquent” when considering what the man had said to them.

“The words of the children were eloquent to describe your behavior given your age and their respective ages,” the judge stated. “Having made the sexual remarks to the children, you then, enraged by the fact that they became angry and started shouting abuse at you, followed them.”

RELATED: 14-year-old girl charged in UK after allegedly defending herself from migrant harasser

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Images have since surfaced of the convicted parties at the time of the incident. One shows Belov standing with one hand on his hip as he filmed the young girls with his cell phone.

Another image shows the Bulgarian brother and sister “accosting” the children.

The images come from a CCTV camera positioned across the street.

Belov had originally said he was acting in self-defense.

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It seems like science fiction, but it’s actually backed by frightening scientific evidence.

A viral post online showed Wi-Fi signals mimicking breathing patterns in a 3D model; but what was shown as a graphic is actually real and is only a small scope of what signals can track in the home.

‘Breathing is enough to give you away.’

A post from an engineer claimed that “each breath slightly changes how Wi-Fi waves reflect off your chest” and effectively revealed that “breathing is enough to give you away” should bad actors want to know about your whereabouts.

The post, seen by nearly 2 million readers, said that these tiny changes in breathing rhythm are noticeable and match Wi-Fi signals in the same room.

Unfortunately for the consumer, these claims are corroborated by many reports — including those from the government — and are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what can be tracked using Wi-Fi signals.

In fact, the study of Wi-Fi-based tracking has been widely studied, and the results are frightening.

By simply monitoring how the signals are bouncing back, programs can detect human presence, whether a person is walking/standing/sitting, and, according to a report from Stork.ai, even detect movement through walls in some conditions.

RELATED: ChatGPT is building massive psychological profiles of its users — without their permission

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Blaze News has previously reported on how smart TVs and even HDMI cords can be used to pry into user privacy, and Wi-Fi can now be included with a vast list of capabilities that even extends to monitoring the amount of occupants in a room.

Moreover, a report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology — a federal entity — made this an open secret in a 2022 report when it positioned it as a good thing that could “help doctors fight the COVID-19 pandemic.”

In a report titled “Wi-Fi Could Help Identify When You’re Struggling to Breathe,” the NIST said it could detect breathing rates, breathing patterns, slow breathing, or other disruptions with “already available Wi-Fi routers and devices.”

RELATED: Android is beefing up scam protection for texts and calls — just in time

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Heartbeats are also not off the table according to Taiwanese researchers.

Dr. Tzi-cker Chiueh, from a power management company called Delta, found in his research that breathing rates can be monitored through Wi-Fi signal disruptions with up to 95% accuracy at up to five meters. Heartbeats were tracked at 83% accuracy from up to one meter away.

Readers may recognize similar technology being utilized by the CIA to locate a stranded pilot in Iran.

Studies and reports appear to prove that Wi-Fi signals can be effectively used as distance-measuring devices that can also digitize and measure human function through the analysis of the constant burst of signals and any consistent pattern of disruption.

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A Georgia teacher at a Christian school is accused of grooming a teenage girl whom she coached on a travel softball team. Investigators claim the teacher continued private communications with the teenager even after the girl’s mother intervened.

Katie Elizabeth McDevitt, 28, was arrested Oct. 15 and charged with felony grooming of a minor, according to WXIA-TV, which noted that the suspect was released from jail the following day on $7,500 bond.

‘The accused had private communication channels with the victim even after intervention from the mother of the victim.’

McDevitt is a teacher at Loganville Christian Academy, but a search of the staff directory on the school’s official website did not return McDevitt’s name.

Police said McDevitt allegedly groomed the 15-year-old girl while coaching her on the Georgia Strike Softball team.

Loganville Christian Academy confirmed to WXIA that the alleged victim is not enrolled at the school.

According to an arrest warrant obtained by WXIA, police accused McDevitt of engaging in inappropriate conduct with the minor between Feb. 1 and Sept. 22, 2026.

A deputy with the Walton County Sheriff’s Office wrote in the affidavit that McDevitt coached the girl’s travel softball team while working as a teacher at Loganville Christian Academy.

Police said McDevitt sent private messages to the teen girl with content that investigators determined was indicative of a romantic relationship.

“The accused had private communication channels with the victim even after intervention from the mother of the victim,” the affidavit states.

The affidavit also says McDevitt created situations in which she and the teenager would be alone before and after practice in a hitting facility in an area outside surveillance camera range, WXIA reported.

During a forensic interview, the alleged victim described physical interactions with McDevitt that made her uncomfortable, according to the affidavit.

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McDevitt’s attorney, David Boyle, said his client “categorically denies these allegations and looks forward to defending herself in court.”

“The arrest warrant is extremely vague and fails to identify the alleged victim or describe any sexual offense or attempted sexual conduct,” Boyle added in the statement. “We believe the allegations are unfounded, and we intend to vigorously challenge them.”

School officials noted that they were notified about the allegations and investigation around Sept. 24 — roughly three weeks before McDevitt’s arrest.

Loganville Christian Academy said it immediately placed McDevitt on administrative leave and added: “Based on the information available to us at this time, we are not aware of any allegations involving students enrolled at Loganville Christian Academy.”

Georgia Strike Softball released a statement to WXIA saying the Walton County Sheriff’s Office notified the team about the accusations. McDevitt was removed from the organization on Sept. 25.

Georgia Strike Softball stated:

At no time after Strike was made aware of the investigation has Ms. McDevitt participated in any Strike activities or events.

Strike has continued to cooperate with the sheriff’s office since that time, including honoring their request not to release any of the limited information with which we were provided prior to Ms. McDevitt’s recent arrest on 10/15/2026.

Upon receiving information that a warrant for arrest had been issued and that sharing additional details would not adversely affect the investigation, we immediately met with our families.

Georgia Strike is committed to the safety and well-being of our players, and our focus is on them and their families at this time.

Those with information pertaining to this case or any additional potential victims are urged to contact the Walton County Sheriff’s Office at 770-267-6557.

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The United States military’s elite working dogs are close to getting a major upgrade — or so says the newly launched company Warhound.

On Thursday, Warhound, a new defense technology company started by Anduril Technologies’ Palmer Luckey and Colossal’s Ben Lamm, emerged from a $200 million seed round promising a quick turnaround on its new dogs.

‘Man’s best friend deserves man’s best tech.’

Under CEO David Spirk, the new project from Luckey and Lamm will attempt to revitalize and optimize the military’s supply of working dogs through genetic engineering.

Colossal, the company best known for its attempts to bring back the woolly mammoth and the dodo bird, will provide its advanced genetics platform and secure biobanking capabilities, while Anduril will equip the dogs with advanced cybernetic augmentations for increased awareness and effectiveness on missions.

The result will be, the company says, a group of healthier dogs that are better equipped for missions without increasing reliance on Europe for the supply.

“Man’s best friend deserves man’s best tech,” said Palmer Luckey in a Warhound press release.

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“Colossal has spent years pioneering breakthroughs in genetics, cloning, and animal biology, and now we’re applying that science to give these dogs the best possible chance at a long, healthy life and a successful mission. If we’re going to ask man’s best friend to protect America, we owe it to them to use every tool at our disposal to protect them, too,” said Ben Lamm.

The Texas-based company is backed by In-Q-Tel, Sequoia Capital, Ark Invest, 8VC, Breyer Capital, and Neogenesis, to name a few of its early investors.

The company’s announcement, however, received some immediate pushback from commenters online.

One commenter, for example, came out swinging at the prospect of “genetically modified” military dogs: “Hey so this should be f**king illegal.”

Palmer Luckey replied to the comment, attempting to dispel some of the concerns about the “genetic modifications” that the company plans to make on the dogs in the program.

“Which part of this do you object to? The hearing protection? The eye protection? The body armor? Or gene edits that makes them less likely to develop cancer and joint problems?” Luckey wrote.

“There is a reason the American Humane Society is supporting this,” he added.

Indeed, the American Humane Society will support and oversee the treatment of the dogs in the program. The organization will also assist with finding homes for the dogs when they retire from their service.

“We owe these dogs a commitment to their well-being that matches their service to us. What excites me about Warhound is the opportunity to make health, welfare, and exceptional care fundamental to a working-dog program from the very beginning,” Dr. Robin Ganzert, president and CEO of the American Humane Society, said. “Success means helping these dogs thrive throughout their lives — from training and active service to the loving, dignified retirement every canine hero deserves.”

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Peace among political rivals often depends on deterrence. Each side understands that destroying its opponents today invites the same treatment when power changes hands tomorrow. That understanding is supposed to keep a republic from becoming an endless exercise in retaliation revenge. Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) seems eager to test it.

At an October 13 appearance at the University of Chicago, Slotkin called for “signature cases” against people she believes enabled President Trump. She wanted graduates considering administration jobs to worry that they might be “buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want” and to avoid taking those jobs. “I want that deterrence message sent,” she said.

Democrats are not hiding the ball. They plan on bringing lawfare back with a vengeance. Americans should take them at their word.

Slotkin says she meant accountability for actual violations of law, not punishment for accepting a government job. Then why advertise scaring young people away from public service as a desired result? Holding criminals accountable is one thing. Making prospective employees fear the next election is another.

She says she wants to pursue the people who “enabled” Trump’s “corruption.” Who defines enabling? Who decides whether carrying out a lawful policy, drafting a legal argument, or simply working for the wrong president is corrupt? Slotkin and her fellow congressional HR ladies, apparently.

Political appointees serve an elected president and help carry out his agenda. That does not relieve them of responsibility for their own unlawful acts, obviously. But neither does it make every aide personally culpable for every decision made above him. A junior employee at the Department of Homeland Security might execute a lawful order without ever having devised the policy. Does that make him an enabler worthy of an investigation?

Perhaps he should have resigned, saluted Our Democracy™, and gone to work for the Bulwark instead. “I was just following orders” is no defense to a crime, of course. But “I worked for an administration you despise” is not evidence of one, either.

This is what is alarming about Slotkin’s language. She says accountability. I hear a political warning directed at people who have not yet taken a job, much less committed an offense. Once the process itself becomes the punishment, prosecutors do not need to win every case to discourage the next generation from entering government.

And where does this lead? A departing Republican president could feel compelled to issue sweeping pardons for his staffers before they leave office. That would be a grotesque transformation of a constitutional safeguard into a routine parting gift.

Even then, presidential pardons cover federal offenses, not state charges or civil litigation. They cannot immunize crimes that have not occurred. A president could never make the threat of politically motivated litigation disappear by signing enough papers.

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Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) put the objection plainly: “I’m not aware of any Republican in office who has advocated the mirror-image approach — using the threat of prosecutions to deter people from serving in a Democratic administration.” His point deserves an answer. Is Slotkin trying to deter misconduct or Republican public service? Her own remarks invite the question.

Conservatives should not respond with a folksy, foolish “Schoolhouse Rock” pep talk about the glories of public service. Young people considering government jobs deserve to know that an incoming administration may examine their work. They also deserve confidence that investigators will pursue evidence of actual crimes, not guilt by association.

Democrats were serious about lawfare the first time around, and they will be again.

One-party rule has always been the goal. Young people need to be clear-eyed about what they are signing up for by working for Republicans, and voters need to understand the gravity of Democratic threats.

Democrats are not hiding the ball. They plan on bringing lawfare back with a vengeance. Americans should take them at their word.

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Blaze Media is proud to announce a new partnership with Passage Publishing, an independent publishing house dedicated to challenging conventional thinking, rediscovering important works of literature, and introducing readers to ideas often overlooked by mainstream publishers.

Through the partnership, Blaze Media audiences will now be able to shop a selection of Passage Publishing’s books directly through the Blaze Media merchandise store, making it easier than ever to discover thought-provoking works on history, politics, culture, and Western civilization.

A partnership built on shared principles

At Blaze Media, we have always believed that independent voices deserve a platform and that the free exchange of ideas is essential to a healthy society.

That commitment doesn’t end with the news we report or the conversations our hosts bring to audiences every day. It extends to the books we read, the history we preserve, and the ideas we pass down to future generations.

That is why we’re excited to partner with Passage Publishing.

Both organizations recognize the importance of challenging prevailing narratives, encouraging independent thought, and creating opportunities for voices that don’t always find a home within established institutions.

For Blaze Media audiences who value free expression, American principles, and the preservation of Western culture, the partnership is a natural fit.

What is Passage Publishing?

Founded in 2022, Passage Publishing emerged as an alternative to what its founders saw as an increasingly narrow and ideologically constrained mainstream publishing industry.

Rather than simply publishing books that reinforce today’s cultural consensus, Passage seeks to introduce readers to new perspectives while reconnecting them with the literature, history, and philosophical traditions that helped shape the modern world.

Its catalog spans political philosophy, history, fiction, poetry, and classic literature, bringing together contemporary writers and influential works from the past.

Readers may already recognize some of the titles Passage has brought back to print, including the beloved “Hardy Boys” mysteries. Passage has released beautifully crafted hardcover editions of the original adventures, restoring the stories as they were first written before later revisions altered the text for modern audiences.

The publisher has also introduced new editions of Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island,” classic works by H.P. Lovecraft, and collections from legendary adventure writer Robert E. Howard. Alongside these literary classics, Passage publishes contemporary works exploring politics, culture, history, and the ideas shaping today’s world.

It is a collection that reflects the publisher’s broader mission: preserving important stories from the past while giving independent thinkers a platform for the future.

A familiar voice behind Passage Publishing

For BlazeTV viewers, the man behind Passage Publishing is already a familiar face.

Jonathan Keeperman, better known as “Lomez,” is the founder and CEO of Passage Publishing and co-host of “Rufo & Lomez” on BlazeTV alongside conservative strategist Christopher Rufo.

On their show, Rufo and Lomez explore the cultural and political forces shaping modern America, examining everything from institutional power and ideology to literature, art, and the future of Western civilization.

Keeperman’s work at Passage Publishing reflects many of those same interests.

Through the publishing house, he has worked to create an alternative space for writers, thinkers, and readers interested in exploring ideas beyond the boundaries of mainstream cultural institutions.

The partnership brings that work directly to the Blaze Media audience, connecting viewers with another way to engage with the ideas and conversations they already follow.

Bringing important books to a wider audience

The books we choose to read influence how we understand our history, our culture, and the world around us.

At a time when so much of our information is delivered through headlines, social media, and short-form content, books offer something increasingly valuable: the opportunity to examine complex ideas in depth.

Passage Publishing is committed to keeping that tradition alive.

By bringing Passage’s catalog to the Blaze Media merchandise store, we hope to introduce more readers to books that challenge assumptions, encourage curiosity, and explore the principles and traditions that shaped Western civilization.

For longtime Passage readers, the partnership represents another way to support independent publishing. For Blaze Media audiences discovering Passage for the first time, it is an invitation to explore something new.

Explore Passage Publishing at the Blaze Media Merch Store

The partnership is another step in Blaze Media’s commitment to supporting independent voices and organizations that share our belief in free expression and the power of ideas.

We’re excited to introduce our audience to Passage Publishing and look forward to helping more readers discover its growing catalog.

Explore the Passage Publishing collection, now available at the Blaze Media merchandise store.

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The color revolutions that have destabilized nations abroad may have finally made their way to American soil.

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s re-election in 2024, there was chatter about former State Department officials, federal bureaucrats, and U.S. Agency for International Development alumni thumping the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual and apparently plotting to undermine the new administration.

‘This country is in a cold civil war, but this kind of talk makes me think they don’t want it to remain cold.’

Damning documents, audio recordings, and videos obtained by DataRepublican suggest that such subversives haven’t given up their ambitions and may seek to orchestrate unrest and regime change in the coming weeks.

DataRepublican, the Utah software engineer who briefly worked for the Department of War and helped Elon Musk identify waste when the Department of Government Efficiency was in its heyday, has carefully mapped the Democratic Socialists of America network and analyzed its ties to other leftist organizations, showing her work in a political tracking database called DSA Explorer.

Through analyzing the movements and communications of DSA members and similarly minded radicals, DataRepublican has come across evidence of an accelerationist plot involving alumni from the now-defunct USAID and stratagems employed in color revolutions overseas.

Color revolutions — such as the 2003 Rose Revolution in Georgia, the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine, and the 2005 Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan — are political upheavals aimed at toppling supposedly illegitimate or tyrannical regimes and replacing them with supposedly liberal democratic regimes.

In many cases, color revolutionaries overseas were afforded help and/or direction by Western state actors and nongovernmental organizations.

The alleged plotters identified by DataRepublican appear intent on using those same tactics in America to delegitimize the Trump administration after the midterm elections and potentially shift perceived authority to Democratic governors.

“You’ve heard that the DSA is proposing structural reforms to America, including abolishing the Senate and imposing term limits,” DataRepublican wrote on Sunday.

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“What you not have heard is … there is an operational plan to put it all into action,” continued the analyst.

In the event of a blue wave in the midterms, DataRepublican suggested that the DSA will “become ‘foot soldiers’ in constant clashes with the administration.”

These foot soldiers have an important role to play, she claims: escalating unrest to the point where the government will feel obliged to cross what liberals are now being brainwashed into regarding as a uncrossable “red line” — such as the use of the Insurrection Act.

‘We can take that breakdown moment and leverage it for a big structural reform.’

“Then, a lot of coordinated responses kick off, including delegitimizing the federal government itself and handing that legitimacy to Democratic governors,” continued DataRepublican.

This chaos will effectively make the 2028 presidential election a referendum on whether “to keep America governance as-is or to burn it all down to appease a ‘young and brown’ demographic,” said DataRepublican.

In one of the audio recordings that DataRepublican has published — allegedly from a call held in August among persons linked to the NGO Renew American Democracy — USAID alumna Danielle Reiff can be heard identifying one potential path forward where:

we end up in a very acute legitimacy crisis sometime in the next few months or the next few years where literally, our federal government becomes illegitimate. And in that moment, I believe, and what we know from experiences around the world, is that we can take that breakdown moment and leverage it for a big structural reform, you know, refounding moment.

DataRepublican also published video from a call dated Sept. 8 where Reiff — who co-founded Renew American Democracy as well as the Renew to Thrive initiative — identifies three “crisis scenarios or democratic emergencies that we think that people should be aware of and preparing for”: “an election meltdown scenario”; “potential militarization, the Insurrection Act”; and “an acute democratic crisis” that serves to delegitimize the federal government.

Reiff noted that she and her team have been thinking a great deal about the third scenario and discussing:

how can cross-partisan political leaders come together to think about provisional or transitional leadership for the country in case the federal government becomes illegitimate. Is there a cross-partisan group of governors that could step up and say, “You know, in the interim, we’re just going to keep things going.” Past presidents could — former President Bush and Obama — could they come together and say, you know, help us through a difficult situation like that.

Reiff did not respond to Blaze News’ request for comment by deadline.

DataRepublican has highlighted the intellectual influence of Erica Chenoweth’s “3.5% rule” on the apparent delegitimization conversations underway.

Chenoweth, who declined to comment, is a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she directs the Nonviolent Action Lab — touted as “an innovation hub that uses social science tools and evidence to support movement-led political transformation.”

According to Chenoweth — who has written extensively on color revolutions, political violence, and mass movements and had some of her work backed by USAID — “no government has withstood a challenge of 3.5% of their population mobilized against it during a peak event.”

Chenoweth suggested in a 2020 discussion paper that if a movement can mobilize 3.5% of a country’s population, which would be around 12 million people in America today:

there are likely much larger proportions of the population that sympathize with and support the movement. Over time, such sympathy and support can translate into growing political pressure for the incumbent to leave office — even in autocracies — as has happened in scores of cases in the postwar period.

DataRepublican told Blaze News that “everyday Americans must be alert that thousands of NGOs are on the sidelines and prepared to take to the streets should President Trump cross an alleged red line.”

She noted further that Americans “should be wary of attempts to condition them for the potential coming legitimacy crisis — there will be increasing frequency of reporting on how Trump will militarize voting or send troops into states, as Senator Slotkin has been doing.”

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), a former CIA analyst and one of the Democrats who urged the military last year to “refuse” allegedly illegal orders from the Trump administration, recently joined the liberal media in suggesting that President Donald Trump might use a national security crisis — or the illusion of one — to impose martial law.

In her recent remarks, Slotkin characterized Trump as a corrupt “authoritarian” who is unwilling to lawfully cede power, and cited the president’s efforts to secure American elections and prevent voter fraud as signs that something nefarious is afoot.

“We have to be prepared for the president to take even more aggressive action to losing in the next 34 days,” said Slotkin. “The authoritarian playbook is very clear: When you’re at risk of losing, you either, a) make up a threat that only you can protect the American people from, or b) find a way for federal law enforcement or the military to seize ballots or voting machines.”

Slotkin also preemptively cast doubt on the legitimacy of future federal law enforcement efforts around the time of the elections, stating that Americans should “not let him get away with that.”

DataRepublican believes that “Slotkin and others are engaging in classical pre-conditioning for a reason” — effectively coaching the public to regard any federal law enforcement action around the time of the election as illegitimate.

Slotkin did not respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

Slotkin is not the only one publicly whipping up radicals about the Trump administration, even as roughly one-third of Democrats approve of assassinating the president.

Egged on in part by Trump’s cryptic response in August when asked about declaring a national emergency for elections, other Democrats and some liberal activist groups have similarly fearmongered about the possibility of undemocratic and “potentially impeachable” actions around Election Day.

Speaking broadly of the delegitimization efforts underway, DataRepublican told Blaze News that plotters “have successfully framed Trump’s few tools to deal with internal unrest as a ‘red line,’ and they can mobilize on the snap of fingers. President Trump is in a double bind here that isn’t easy to break through.”

Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, told Blaze News, “What DataRepublican found is shocking but not surprising.”

“The left is clearly on a mission to fundamentally overthrow the constitutional order in America. I don’t know how much evidence the government needs to see to finally do something about it,” continued Howell. “They have street armies that have obstructed and embarrassed federal law enforcement, they have an ascendant socialist wing openly talking about ending our system of government, and now they’re talking about declaring the American government illegitimate?”

“This country is in a cold civil war, but this kind of talk makes me think they don’t want it to remain cold,” added Howell.

The White House did not immediately respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

DataRepublican told Blaze News that Americans should “pray for the administration to handle challenging scenarios, such as rioting or defiance of orders, with wisdom and courage.”

Editor’s note: Mike Howell is a contributor at Blaze News.

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