While many Harry Potter fans are preparing for the latest rendition of the fabulously popular “Harry Potter” fantasy franchise, liberals on Bluesky are raging at anyone who might stab the transgender movement in the back.

Many have turned against the series after author J.K. Rowling unapologetically defended women’s rights against the interests of the transgender agenda.

‘F**k that hateful witch i wouldn’t piss on her if she was on fire.’

On Bluesky, the left-wing alternative to the X social media platform, the activists are especially vicious against Rowling. The boycott calls centered around a screed at the Verge claiming Rowling was using her wealth to erase trans people “from existence.”

“Supporting this genocidal bulls**t in a world with 1,345,869,098 other TV shows you haven’t watched yet is unnecessary and harmful,” read one response.

“Rowling is a fascist and supporting her show enables it to continue,” replied another critic.

“Oppressing a micro-minority from position of power to try and stay relative in an attention economy. A group posing no threat to you or society,” said another detractor.

“The unaffected cis people clinging onto their emotional support franchise like the last drop of heroin in a needle is crazy,” said another critic.

“The average [Harry Potter] fan would rather push us into a woodchipper than give it up.”

“F**k that hateful witch i wouldn’t piss on her if she was on fire,” said another critic. “I’m definitely not watching that s**t.”

“I’m keeping a list of the HBO Harry Potter actors just so I can never watch their s**t ever again. F**k all of them. Make that show poisonous and career-destroying, just like their hateful hearts,” said one in response to the HBO trailer.

Another critic called the series fundamentally bad because it’s “classist, racist, pro-slavery, pro-cop, regressive, anti-revolutionary.”

RELATED: JK Rowling goes scorched-earth on Emma Watson’s privileged woke activism: ‘She’s ignorant’

Rowling has faced the criticism on social media with re-energized attacks on the transgender agenda. She has also had to distance herself from some of the Harry Potter film actors over the issue.

“Men defining what a woman is, what women should and shouldn’t fear, what women should and shouldn’t say, what rights women should be fine with giving up and, of course, what constitutes ‘real’ misogyny: get a bloody mirror,” Rowling posted in 2023.

“That’s real misogyny, looking right back at you,” she added.

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A federal appeals court ruled that New York teachers do not have a constitutional right to hang Pride flags in their classrooms, and the liberal reaction is utter outrage.

Christopher Dolce, an openly gay math teacher, filed a lawsuit against the Connetquot Central School District after a different math teacher was ordered in 2022 to take down a Pride flag and LGBTQ+ stickers from the classroom.

The court found that the sticker and Pride flag ban did not violate teachers’ constitutional rights.

Dolce claimed the policy was discriminatory and demanded that the district pay him damages.

Hundreds of students and parents rallied in 2022 at the school board meeting over the removal of the flag after several students reported feelings of discomfort over the flag.

The district said that teachers were not allowed to participate in political activities on school grounds.

After much public outrage and legal wrangling, a court has ruled four years later against the gay math teacher’s Pride flag. The court found that the sticker and Pride flag ban did not violate teachers’ constitutional rights and that they did not suffer any adverse employment actions from the policy.

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) had also directed the Division of Human Rights of New York state to investigate the district for potentially violating the Human Rights Law of the state.

The district noted in court that the policy did not restrict personal displays, such as an LGBTQ pin worn by a teacher or teachers displaying a photo of themselves and their same-sex partners.

RELATED: NY town official upset that LGBTQ+ members won’t be ‘seen’ after Pride flag is removed

‘What goes next on the slippery slope when a school can pick and choose arbitrarily, arbitrarily which symbols they like and which symbols they hate? That’s how you delete marginalized groups!” said attorney Andrew Lieb of the LGBT Network in 2022.

Sarah Ecke, the original teacher who was banned from flying a Pride flag, was also the leader of the Gay Straight Alliance at the school.

Lieb compared the LGBTQ Pride flag to the French flag while defending the teacher in April 2025.

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Tom Cruise, made famous by his action-hero roles in the “Mission: Impossible” and “Top Gun” films, is almost unrecognizable in the upcoming movie “Digger” — a dark satirical comedy set to hit theaters October 2. The 64-year-old star plays Digger Rockwell, a fat, balding Southern oil billionaire with a comb-over and thick accent whose company triggers a global ecological disaster that could start a nuclear war.

On this episode of “Stu and Dave Do America,” BlazeTV host and comedian extraordinaire Dave Landau is joined by Angela Boggs to recap Tom Cruise’s wild new role, tease “Days of Thunder 2,” and run a Cruise-obsessed funeral-home skit.

“They age [Cruise] so much to look old, but he’s really just one year older,” says Dave, highlighting how Cruise looks more his age as Digger Rockwell than he does off-screen.

The difference is so stark, he can’t help but joke, “Tom Cruise did not even use prosthetics; he just stopped drinking baby blood for a few weeks.”

Jokes aside, Dave is interested in seeing the movie.

“The thing I will admit about Tom Cruise is I’m usually entertained by his movies,” he confesses.

He then plays a Cruise-inspired skit, in which he and Angela play Mr. and Mrs. Rollins — a couple who visit “Glamorous Funeral Home” directed by former flair bartender and die-hard Cruise fan Jack Glamorous, who puts “the fun back in the funeral.”

From one Cruise spectacle to another, the pair also preview “Days of Thunder 2,” which Dave says people have been begging for “since 1990.” Cruise will return as NASCAR driver Cole Trickle alongside Anne Hathaway, who co-stars as a team owner and engineer.

Even though it’s not set to release until summer 2028, Angela is already chomping at the bit to see it.

“I think that this has the potential to really just like heal the world,” she says.

To hear more and watch the duo’s hilarious skit, check out the episode above.

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HBO actor J. Alphonse Nicholson made it clear he would rather have Kamala Harris as president, but his reasoning is likely to confuse his fans.

Nicholson stars as the father of a superhero in “Lanterns,” an HBO series about the Green Lantern. Nicholson plays John Sr., the father of John Stewart, a character who first appeared in comic books in the early 1970s.

‘I think this show hits it home that this black woman is the reason why this young man goes where he needs to go.’

Kamala corps

Appearing on the podcast titled “Frankie Finds,” which airs on a channel that focuses heavily on race, the show began with an unironic discussion of how many black people were in the latest episode of “Lanterns.”

“It was the most black people I’ve ever seen on a screener,” the host stated.

“I think it’s so interesting that you say it’s such a black show, because I don’t think people think of blackness when they consider the Green Lanterns and the Green Lantern corps,” the host said.

Among the discussion’s 50+ mentions of being black was Nicholson saying what he thinks one of the core themes of his show is: “I think this show hits it home that this black woman is the reason why this young man goes where he needs to go,” he began.

The North Carolina native then pondered what it would be like if former Vice President Harris had won the 2024 election.

“Could you imagine where we would be right now if Kamala got up in there, dog?” Nicholson continued. “Could you imagine how it would’ve been? It’d be a lot different. So we’re experiencing the consequences of not trusting a black woman,” the actor added.

RELATED: Singer Jelly Roll cries on Jimmy Kimmel show after Trump-joke backlash: ‘I am a Christian’

Call from the fun police

Not only should the population be unilaterally “trusting a black woman,” according to Nicholson, but the same can be said for how to get a great superhero.

“And now we have this show … that can kind of tell you how great it could be and how great of a superhero we can create and have — if you trust a black woman. It’s really dope.”

The bizarre discussion of “Lanterns” circled back to race frequently, but the 36-year-old seemed more hesitant than his host to relate everything to being black.

This is not the first time Nicholson has been in the headlines for some of his off-screen content. In 2022, the actor issued an apology following his participation in a skit based on one of his recurring characters.

Nicholson played a character named Lil’ Murda for 18 episodes on the show “P-Valley,” a show about strippers whose title stands for exactly what you think it does.

Nicholson’s character was a closeted homosexual, and when he made a comedy sketch with some of his friends about that fact, he got a call from the fun police.

RELATED: Pat McAfee refused to fold, and ESPN paid up. There’s a lesson there for young men.

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Murda one

Nicholson explained that the bit was his two friends did not want to smoke with him in real life because the character he played was gay, but that apparently went too far.

“The skit, I was told, was to be done to make fun of the rumors and the ignorance that people surround myself, and the character, and me having my own strain, and people maybe not wanting to smoke with me because of the character that I play on Lil’ Murda,” he said in a video on X.

“And so we’re picking fun at the ignorance and the ignorance of those people that make fun and create those situations,” Nicholson stated, before adding that he learned that “you can’t make fun of ignorance.”

The strange statement led to an apology to his loved ones and his “family in the LGBT community.”

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Democrats have never run out of ways to cast themselves as victims — and according to BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales, it’s only getting worse.

“Democrats and liberals, they’re just always victims. They are just always the victims in life. Nothing is ever good enough. They always have to complain that they’re oppressed. Someone is oppressing them,” she says.

“And I’d like to introduce you at this point to Representative Maxwell Frost, a Democrat from Florida,” she adds, playing a clip of Frost from a Jubilee debate.

“I don’t have a ton of money in a bank account when I decided to run for office, so I had to hustle and make ends meet, which is the thing that you are all telling Gen Z,” Frost said, arguing that the American dream is out of reach.

“That’s the American dream,” his opponent, wearing a patriotic headband, interjected.

“You lived it,” he added, before clapping along with the rest of the Jubilee debaters.

Frost then denied that it was the “American dream.”

“The American dream isn’t driving Uber to barely make ends meet. The American dream is upward mobility and being able to have success,” he argued.

“You went from driving an Uber to being a politician,” his opponent said, dumbfounded. “Is that upward?”

“That sounds pretty upward to me. A lot of upward mobility in the change from driving Uber to a representative in Congress. But then again, I’m not a Democrat,” Gonzales comments.

But it gets worse, as the next clip Gonzales plays features MS NOW’s Eugene Daniels, who used a new leftist term to describe the racism and sexism Jasmine Crockett supposedly faced in her run, and loss, for the Texas Senate.

“I think what was really interesting about this primary in particular in Texas was that the nastiness online bled into the nastiness on the ground,” he began.

“Usually it’s like, you know, the internet is not real life, which I believe typically when it comes to politics, like a lot of people yelling about everything, but somehow in Texas it became a part of the actual campaign on the ground,” he continued.

“And so there was some racism online, a lot of racism, a lot of sexism, a lot of misogynoir, which is a connection of both of those things against her,” he added.

“What? ‘Misogynoir’? What are you? You just made that up, sir. That is not a term,” Gonzales says.

“That’s how bad it’s gotten. That is how bad the Democrat Party has gotten. There is no floor,” she adds.

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President Donald Trump has joked about possibly renaming another natural feature after recently declaring that Lake Ontario would be henceforth known as “Lake America.”

On Wednesday, the official account for the Trump White House posted a statement from the president offering a new name for the Strait of Hormuz.

‘We hit them very hard last night. We took out all of the new equipment that they tried to build along the Strait of Hormuz.’

“Now that we have it under U.S.A. control, should we change the name Hormuz Strait to TRUMP STRAIT??? Like America itself, it would be ‘hotter’ than ever before!” the quote read.

The post added an image of the strait with the president’s name.

The strait is a pivotal choke point through which 20% of global petroleum liquids travel. The trade route has been significantly disrupted since February when the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran began.

Trump has said that it has been reopened, but Iranian officials dispute that claim.

An Axios report documented efforts by the U.S. military to reduce the threat from Iran on oil tankers while secretly helping transport through a southern channel near Oman.

“That sucker is open. The Iranian response is very mild,” said Trump to Axios. “They don’t want us to go back at them. That’s the whole ball game. The rest doesn’t matter.”

Reopening the strait would help calm spiking gas prices and ease inflation woes just ahead of the midterm elections, where Democrats hope to seize control of Congress.

RELATED: VIDEO: Trump says he will declare new US territory ‘pretty soon’ in the Middle East

The president also announced Wednesday that the military has struck at Iran’s military overnight.

“We hit them very hard last night. We took out all of the new equipment that they tried to build along the Strait of Hormuz,” he said at the White House to reporters. “It was a very heavy attack last night, and we’re prepared to do another one any time we want.”

The president renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” shortly after retaking office during a feud with Mexico’s leadership about tariffs and the illicit drug trade into the U.S.

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Amazon’s Ring cameras haven’t had a great year. The brand has been plagued by a spying lawsuit, an unofficial mass surveillance dragnet feature, and unhelpful comments from the CEO. Now it’s back in the news, but this time, they company is doing something right. Ring has a new encryption standard, and you’re going to want it on your camera at home.

A new TAKE on security

The new encryption standard is called TAKE, short for “Throw Away the Key Encryption.” As the name implies, the encryption keys that protect video footage are akin to single-use plastic bottles. Once it’s used up, it’s thrown out and replaced with another key. Since the encryption keys regularly change, it should be more difficult for anyone — including hackers, Amazon employees, and even law enforcement — to grab the key and access protected footage, when compared to non-encrypted video files.

E2EE is still the gold standard for protecting digital data, but if you want to take advantage of Amazon’s cloud features, TAKE is a reasonable compromise.

TAKE keys are saved in a secure enclave within Amazon’s cloud servers, giving users access to Amazon’s entire suite of cloud services without compromises. They can also be temporarily lent out to other users who may need one — like a babysitter or a housesitter — and revoked at will.

This system is different from end-to-end encryption, which Ring also offers to its users. E2EE ensures that all data sent between one device and another is completely protected in transit and at rest so that only the end user has access. Unfortunately, if you rely on Ring’s cloud services, E2EE cuts off any ability to share your footage with other users, like a family member or trusted friend. So it has its limits.

How safe is TAKE?

If you’re like me, your ears perked up when you read the words “TAKE keys are saved in a secure enclave within Amazon’s cloud servers.” After all, what good is encryption that lives directly on a company’s server?

Earlier this year, we learned what happens when Big Tech stores security keys in the cloud. In the case of Microsoft, it can hand your BitLocker recovery key over to the government to access your PC files. Is TAKE any different?

RELATED: New lawsuit claims Ring’s smart doorbell spyware is taking photos of millions without their consent

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According to Amazon, the company has limited capabilities, stating, “Ring can only receive access to power the intelligent features that you have active on your account, and then throws away and deletes the keys. After that, only you — and any trusted Shared Users that you have chosen to enable — retain the keys to your video on your enrolled devices, like your phone, tablet, or computer.”

Amazon continues, “You hold the master key to your videos, and you are the one who decides who gets access to a spare and for what purpose. You are in control of your keys and your videos; it is that simple.”

What makes TAKE compelling as a way to keep your data safe from prying eyes — including Amazon — is that there are two important mechanisms at play. The secure enclave, like the one built within TAKE, is designed to conceal the data stored within, even from the company that possesses it. For any data that you do allow out of the enclave, you have the power to give or revoke encryption access at will. In the end, this should limit Amazon’s ability to share your footage with anyone who shouldn’t have it.

Ultimately, E2EE is still the gold standard for protecting digital data, but if you want to take advantage of Amazon’s cloud features, TAKE is a reasonable compromise.

How to enable TAKE on your Ring camera

TAKE is expected to roll out in September, and it will become the free default option for all Ring users. That means you don’t have to do anything to enable it on your devices or your account. It will simply be implemented to protect your data when it’s available.

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The governor of New York is lashing out at the president and accusing him of Islamophobia after he criticized her for wearing a hijab at a Muslim event.

Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul spoke at the Islamic Cultural Center of New York on Friday, and video from the event showed her covering her head in observance with traditional Islamic customs.

‘The whole thing is CRAZY!’

President Donald Trump mocked Hochul Tuesday in a post on Truth Social.

“Kathy Hochul, considered the Worst Governor in the Country, in a recent picture working hard to get the Arab Vote, even though they can’t stand her!” he wrote. “Congestion Pricing in Manhattan is hurting her with everybody, but especially the people for whom she wears the hijab. The whole thing is CRAZY!”

The president referred to a policy of taxing drivers in Manhattan at the busiest traffic times in order to reduce traffic.

The governor lashed out at the president and his supporters in response.

“I was a guest in a Muslim house of worship and showed respect for the people who welcomed me,” she wrote Tuesday. “That used to be standard in this country before you came along. I’ll never apologize for treating people of any faith with dignity, no matter how Islamophobic you and your enablers are.”

Others pounced on the opportunity to ridicule Hochul.

“You stand with the oppressors of women — no one forced you to wear the garment that millions of women worldwide get murdered for not wearing. You are just disgusting Kathy,” responded Ellie Cohanim of the U.S. mission to the U.N.

“Democrats will bend the knee to political Islam while pretending its most hardline values don’t contradict everything they claim to stand for. Women’s rights. Gay rights. Free speech. Religious freedom. The irony is unbelievable,” replied online commentator Liz Benichou.

“That’s not respect that’s a surrender of women’s rights, how dare you? When women are stoned to death when they take it off?” read the response from one X user.

“New York Governor Kathy Hochul identifies as a feminist – yet she has no problem submitting to Islam when it is politically advantageous,” responded Patrick Casey.

“The left’s coalition might seem incoherent, but it makes sense when you recognize that it’s united by hatred of our civilization,” he added.

Others noted that Hochul’s appearance at the Islamic center occurred just a few days before the 25th commemoration of the 9/11 Islamic terror attacks.

RELATED: NY gov. BEGS millionaires to move back and fund welfare — after telling Republicans to leave

A Hochul spokesperson said she “has enormous respect for all the families who lost loved ones on 9/11, which is why she will proudly stand alongside them at this year’s commemoration.”

The spokesperson added, “Make no mistake: Muslim New Yorkers, like people from every walk of life, served as first responders and helped unite the city in the aftermath of 9/11. The Governor knows we can respect these families while being clear that Islamophobia has no place in New York.”

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The 56-year-old Massachusetts woman arrested outside Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial appeared in court herself on Wednesday.

According to prosecutors, there is a big disconnect between what Dawn Light of Sutton told the Massachusetts State Police at the time of her arrest and what was allegedly found on her phone.

‘It was clear she was filming the jurors.’

MSP confirmed to Blaze News that at approximately 3:40 p.m. on Tuesday, Light was taken into custody and charged with intimidation of a witness, jurors, or person furnishing information in connection with criminal proceedings.

At the time, jurors in the Clancy trial were in the midst of their fourth day of deliberations.

Assistant District Attorney Nicole Piacentini stated at Light’s arraignment Wednesday that court officers notified MSP officers in the security detail for the Clancy trial that an individual may have been filming jurors on Tuesday outside the courthouse. Judge William Sullivan had previously prohibited such photography.

Officers approached Light, who was allegedly parked in a restricted area within the employee parking lot behind the courthouse.

Piacentini alleged that when Light was asked whether she was taking pictures or filming anyone inside the parking lot, she “was adamant that she was not. She stated that she was waiting to see if Lindsay Clancy would come out of the building.”

RELATED: Torpedoing justice? Woman arrested outside trial of accused killer mom Lindsay Clancy

A cursory examination of Light’s phone initially appeared to confirm her claim. However, when police checked Light’s deleted photos, they allegedly found at least one video of people exiting the courthouse.

“State police then spoke with court officers who were then able to confirm that those individuals in those videos were the jurors in regards to the Lindsay Clancy trial,” claimed Piacentini.

“Although she states that she was looking for Lindsay Clancy to come out of the courthouse, it was clear that she was filming the jurors,” the prosecutor further claimed.

Prosecutors requested among other things that Light be held on $50,000 cash bail, barred from the court property, and altogether kept away from the jurors.

Jennifer White, Light’s attorney, told Judge Shelby Smith, “This is a complete misunderstanding, Your Honor.”

“My client was seeking a picture of Ms. Clancy and had no intention of any interaction with the jurors,” added the attorney, who emphasized that the shutterbug wasn’t a flight risk and had no prior record.

The judge denied the prosecutor’s request for the $50,000 bail but ordered Light to stay away from the courthouse grounds, avoid contact with jurors or potential witnesses in the Lindsay Clancy trial, and refrain from disseminating any photos related to the incident.

Light, a self-described “crime junkie” who apparently attended several days of Clancy’s trial, told the CT Insider, “I don’t know how I intimidated anyone.”

She is scheduled to appear in court again on October 15.

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Democrat leaders nearly lost their minds after two of their own defected to save a GOP-procedural vote, which paved the way for a House vote denouncing socialism, on Tuesday.

Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) and Jared Golden (D-Maine) sided with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) after five Republicans jumped ship, giving Johnson the 210-208 win needed to advance a slate of GOP bills.

‘We didn’t even consider that anyone would do that.’

The aisle-crossing blindsided Democratic leadership, who quickly promised to discipline their rogue colleagues. But it turns out Gluesenkamp Perez and Golden had their reasons.

Golden’s Northeast Lobsterman Protection Act bill advanced as a result of his and Gluesenkamp Perez’s vote on the “rule.” Rules are procedural resolutions that move debate forward on groups of bills, determined by the House majority.

Golden’s bill kicks burdensome environmental regulations down the road, extending a pause on crabbing restrictions for Maine fishermen until 2035.

“The bill is a big win not only for fishermen in Maine, but for bipartisanship in Congress,” Golden said in a statement after his bill passed in the House. “While the threat of unnecessary, industry-killing regulations is a matter of survival for lobster harvesters in Maine, the issues at play affect fishermen across the Northeast. Building bridges across party lines is essential for a functional congress, but unfortunately, it’s a skill that has been lost for far too many members.”

“What the DC bubble doesn’t get is that working waterfronts require working people,” Gluesenkamp Perez said in an X post Tuesday, suggesting she crossed the aisle to support Golden’s bill. “Nature is not a terrarium — and you don’t get effective environmentalism without the input of people who make their livelihoods and heritage on the water — whether we’re talking about lobsters or sea lions.”

RELATED: Democrat candidate admits he’s ‘utterly unqualified,’ wants a promotion anyway

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The second-term congresswoman, who narrowly defeated Republican Joe Kent twice, has a conservative track record on environmental issues. Gluesenkamp Perez has repeatedly called for lethal removal of Columbia River sea lions, calling them “Corolla-size vermin” and introducing the Protecting Columbia River Salmon Act to expand sea lion culls.

“Like a good colleague, she saw an opportunity to help out one of my top priorities, one of my constituents’ top priorities, and that’s how you do things around here,” Golden told reporters after the vote.

Golden, whose district was carried by President Donald Trump in 2020 and 2024, doesn’t have much to fear from Democratic leadership. He’s retiring from the House after his term ends in January.

The defection is a test for Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who received thinly veiled criticism from longtime former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) after the mini mutiny.

“I, as speaker, never — we didn’t even consider that anybody would do that,” Pelosi told reporters on Tuesday. “We never had that problem, so I’m disappointed that they did that.”

Jeffries hasn’t announced specific disciplinary actions, but he could remove both lawmakers from prized committee assignments.

“The decision by two of our colleagues to blindside the entire House Democratic Caucus and join with the Republican majority to pass a procedural rule on the brink of failing represents a significant breach of trust,” Jeffries, Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.), and Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) said in a joint statement issued Tuesday night. “It is an action that necessitates a serious response, and we have asked the Committee on Caucus Rules to take this up in short order.”

Gluesenkamp Perez is co-chair of the Blue Dog Coalition, a historically conservative wing of the Democratic Party. Golden is a member.

Gluesenkamp Perez, Golden, Jeffries, Clark, and Aguilar did not respond to requests for comment.

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Twitter’s back! Sort of. After Elon Musk rebranded the “global town square” of social media to X.com, another company swooped in to pick up the old name, claiming that Musk abandoned the brand. So far, a Trump-appointed judge has even agreed to the hostile takeover, but the story is a little more complicated. Now Elon’s fighting back, the new Twitter might be ashes again, and a final verdict of the once-legendary Twitter name now hangs in the balance of an upcoming court case.

Shortly after Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, he made it clear that he had no interest in maintaining the brand or the bird that rocketed the social network to political prominence. He would keep the foundation of the app in place, but otherwise, it would take on the “X” moniker that adorns many of Musk’s entrepreneurial endeavors, including SpaceX, the Tesla Model X, and xAI.

The new Twitter hasn’t changed from the old Twitter at all.

With a new badge, a new color scheme, and a new attitude to defend the rights of free speech everywhere, much to the chagrin of the left, X.com became the new digital town square for all to enjoy. But even as X battled the odds and flourished into new ventures, opportunistic vultures began to pick through the remains of Twitter’s relinquished shell in search of a phoenix that could rise from the ashes.

The vultures swarm

The new startup, dubbed Operation Bluebird Inc., quickly swooped in, dug its claws into the Twitter name, and claimed it as its own. The excuse? Elon Musk abandoned the brand wholesale when he closed Twitter in favor of X. Even worse, a Trump-appointed U.S. District Court Judge, Colm Connolly, agreed that the brand was open for a takeover, including the logo, name, and verb to “tweet” a post.

Naturally, Musk wasn’t happy with the move. After all, even if Twitter is dead, everyone recognizes that X is the new and improved sequel. In this way, Twitter isn’t gone at all — it just evolved into something more ambitious. He filed a lawsuit in late 2025 over the brand grab, but as both sides wait for a trial, Operation Bluebird Inc. went ahead and launched a new site for its endeavor: Twitter.now.

RELATED: Elon Musk’s new megaproject is about to transform Texas

New Twitter, same as the old Twitter

There’s plenty of debate as to whether or not Operation Bluebird Inc. had any legal right to commandeer the Twitter brand, and that will surely be hashed out in court. In the meantime, let’s take a look at the new site and see if it’s any good.

Or at least, we would look at the site if it were currently live. Shortly after Twitter.now launched, the entire thing was taken down with a simple splash screen on the landing page, stating, “We’re down. We’re on it. Already learning things the hard way. We will be back as soon as we can. Love you guys 💙”

It’s been like this for more than a week.

Landing page on Twitter.now. Twitter.now.

While there isn’t much information available on what could have happened, it appears that Elon Musk and his legal team clipped the new Twitter’s wings before it even got a chance to fly. That said, if the new site ever gets airborne again, here are some things you can look forward to:

The new community notes are powered by AI: For starters, Twitter.now plans to emulate X.com’s community notes by installing an automated fact-checking tool powered by Google Gemini. That’s right, the new arbiter of truth on Twitter will be an AI bot that’s beholden to the same flaws as any other — it could hallucinate facts, misinterpret information, and inject political bias into its responses.

The new logo is worse than the original: Operation Bluebird Inc. tried to be cheeky. The new logo resembles the general shape of the original Twitter bird, but its version appears more like a phoenix, as in the mythical bird that rises from the ashes of its own charred corpse. Clever.

The new constitution is more of the same old Twitter: Twitter.now promises to “bring back a town square that’s safer and less harmful.” How, you might ask? According to the Birdhouse Constitution, it plans to force users to tweet under their real names in lieu of aliases, protect freedom of speech (that sounds familiar), and down-rank “misinformation” and other negative speech (that sounds very familiar). It is proud of its motto that freedom of speech does not equal freedom of reach. In other words, the new Twitter hasn’t changed from the old Twitter at all. The same unapproved voices will be censored to the darkest corners of the internet while the mainstream talking points are allowed to proliferate the feed.

Does X have any reason to worry?

In a word, no. First, there’s a strong chance that Twitter.now gets shut down entirely by the end of the court case filed by Elon Musk and his team. However, even if Operation Bluebird Inc. gets the all-clear to take off again, chances that the social network will succeed are rather slim. X will continue to reign as the platform for free speech, while Twitter will become a place no better than BlueSky for approved talking points, authoritarian thought control, and obscure left-wing devotees.

At the end of the day, the original Twitter.com still redirects to X.com, the real public square of the internet.

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A Florida woman was arrested for allegedly attempting to blackmail her lover for $20,000 and threatening to post his intimate photos after she found out that he has a girlfriend.

WPLG-TV obtained an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office revealing that 19-year-old Nathalie Rodriguez Gonzalez on Friday was arrested and hit with a felony charge of threats/extortion.

‘Give me my money, or I escalate this worse.’

Police said Rodriguez Gonzalez met the alleged victim while working as a waitress at a restaurant, and the pair entered into a romantic relationship shortly afterward.

After going on a few dates, Rodriguez Gonzalez discovered that the man had a girlfriend for the “entire time they were together,” according to the report.

WPLG reported that deputies indicated Rodriguez Gonzalez then began sending threatening text messages to the man, demanding $20,000 from him, and warning that if he didn’t send her the money, she would add an additional $5,000 to her demand for payment — and she would send his intimate photos to his girlfriend and business partner.

Deputies said Rodriguez Gonzalez threatened to publicly post the intimate photos on all of her social media accounts in an alleged sextortion plot.

The alleged victim reportedly refused to pay Rodriguez Gonzalez, and then she sent one of the photos to his business partner.

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According to the arrest affidavit, Rodriguez Gonzalez asked the business partner for the phone number of the alleged victim’s girlfriend’s so she could send her the photo.

Referring to Instagram, Rodriguez Gonzalez asked the business partner, “Should I post this on my IG and tag everyone?”

Rodriguez Gonzalez sent the intimate photo of the alleged victim to the girlfriend, detectives said.

Rodriguez Gonzalez told the alleged victim’s girlfriend, “This will genuinely get posted if he doesn’t wire me money btw.”

“The defendant then posted a censored version of the photograph along with other photographs to her TikTok page,” the affidavit stated.

The affidavit said Rodriguez Gonzalez allegedly continued to send threatening messages, including: “Give me my money, or I escalate this worse.”

“The deportation does not have to happen, but I want my money, if he doesn’t wire me the money his d**k will get posted followed by, your face, his face,” Rodriguez Gonzalez reportedly said.

In a separate text message thread, Rodriguez Gonzalez wrote: “Remember I was tryna scam him, I’m finally getting to it.”

On Aug. 24, the alleged victim appeared at the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Kendall District station and reportedly identified a photo of Rodriguez Gonzalez.

Just after 9 p.m. Friday, law enforcement arrested Rodriguez Gonzalez at her home. She was then transported to the Kendall District Station for questioning.

The arrest affidavit stated, “Post-Miranda, the defendant gave a full confession, alleging she was simply joking about sending the photographs out.”

Law & Crime reported that Rodriguez Gonzalez has since posted a $7,500 bond and was released from the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Rodriguez Gonzalez is scheduled to appear in court on Oct. 27, according to records from the Miami-Dade County Clerk of the Court and Comptroller.

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Texas Roadhouse is pushing back against a viral social media post by an account that went by “Nancy Smith” alleging that employees at the restaurant chain and Logan’s Roadhouse planned to tamper with black customers’ meals by licking their fingers before touching their food.

A screenshot of the post, which appeared in a Facebook group called “White and Proud,” spread on social media over the weekend, prompting outrage and calls for boycotts — but Texas Roadhouse claimed a subsequent investigation found no evidence of food tampering or the alleged group of employees, and the post has been deemed a hoax.

BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock isn’t surprised that in 2026, race hoaxes are still going strong.

“Every time a racism hoax gets exposed, the nation gets a federal holiday. At the current pace, none of us would ever work again. That is not a joke about restaurants. That is a sales report,” Whitlock says.

“When the real product is scarce, the salesman manufactures it. Nancy Smith knew. She knew a screenshot would do the work a kitchen never did. No city, no store, no name tag, no plate. A Facebook group called White and Proud. A post that said cooks and servers at Texas Roadhouse and Logan’s Roadhouse were licking their fingers and putting them on black people’s food,” he continues.

“Then the account changed names and vanished,” he says. “That is the Nolan Wells standard of racism. The accusation is the evidence. The screenshot is the indictment. The boycott is the sentence.”

“By Wednesday, Travis Doster, their chief communications officer, said the investigation found no tampering, no 400,000-member army, and a Nancy Smith account built, renamed, and deleted,” he adds.

The company, Whitlock explains, had “hired a third-party firm to hunt the ghost.”

“BET still ran it like a question with a drum roll,” he goes on. “‘Are white and proud servers really spitting in black people’s food?’ They tied a deleted Facebook ghost to Karmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalf. They treated a rumor as backlash and backlash as proof,” Whitlock says.

“The bar for a racism claim is not high. It is on the floor,” Whitlock says, noting that next week it’ll be “another kitchen.”

“Grievance is inventory. A healed country is a threat to revenue. If your whole identity is victim, you need a villain on the clock. You need racism to exist or you can’t breathe,” he adds.

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