Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner may be a self-proclaimed communist, but that hasn’t garnered the usual love and support from left-wing media outlets that many of his comrades have received.

In an exposé of the candidate, NBC News homed in on old Reddit posts written by Platner where he detailed his path to communism, writing that he “got older and became a communist” and is a “vegetable-growing, psychedelics-taking socialist these days.”

“After the war, I’ve pretty much stopped believing in any of the patriotic nonsense that got me there in the first place, and am a firm believer that the best thing a person can do is help their neighbors and live a loving life,” he added.

In a post from 2021, Platner wrote, “Bastards. Cops are bastards. All of them, in fact.”

When another user on Reddit claimed in 2020 that “white people aren’t as racist or stupid as Trump thinks,” Platner responded that as someone who lives in “white rural America,” he was “afraid” to tell the poster that “they actually are.”

But that’s not all. In posts from 2013, Platner “minimized challenges faced by military members in reporting sexual assault and encouraged people not to use substances in order to avoid being raped.”

The real reason for this exposé of one of their own, BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere explains, is that Platner had once gotten a Nazi tattoo removed.

“This is a guy, by the way, who was in the military, knows a lot about military history. There’s zero chance he did not know this was Nazi imagery,” Burguiere says. “But he says he was drunk 18 years ago and was unaware of its extremist association.”

“Let me just give you a little bit of advice, if I may, for just a moment to Graham,” he adds. “You know, sometimes you make a choice to consume enough of a substance to lose your self-control. If you don’t want to be in a compromising situation, act like an adult.”

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An asteroid warning network has announced it will investigate a comet that allegedly has potential alien origins.

The comet, known as 3I/ATLAS, allegedly has peculiar traits that have not been seen in nature before. This theory is disputed, though.

‘Never seen in comets before.’

A NASA coordinated group called the International Asteroid Warning Network has added 3I/ATLAS to its list of observation campaigns for November, stating that it will monitor the comet for two months, ending in late January.

Concurrently, a Harvard astrophysicist told the New York Post that the comet, in addition to being the size of Manhattan, has several unusual characteristics that defy common knowledge about the objects.

Avi Loeb told the Post the comet has what is referred to as an “anti-tail,” which is a jet of particles that points toward the sun instead of away from it. It’s also emitting a plume — gas and dust that erupts from the surface — that contains four grams of nickel per second. Allegedly existing without iron, Loeb said this was unheard of.

Loeb also claimed the object also has non-gravitational acceleration that will bring it close to Jupiter, Venus, and Mars, which is suspicious enough for him to claim that the comet could actually be an alien probe.

The comet also allegedly contains a toxic gas that is not seen naturally occurring on Earth.

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The nickel compound nickel tetracarbonyl is apparently present in the comet. According to ScienceDirect, this gas is formed from the reaction of carbon monoxide with metallic nickel and is the primary cause of acute nickel toxicity. The gas is used in the process of obtaining “very pure nickel” but can cause “severe health effects” in humans.

Loeb said the process is only imaginable because it’s used in industry and was “never seen in comets before.”

At the same time, the Post cited a study that suggests that the compound could form naturally in a carbon monoxide-rich environment.

“The [nickel] emission is more centrally concentrated in the nucleus of the comet and favors hypotheses involving easily dissociated species such as metal carbonyls or metal-polycyclic-aromatic-hydrocarbon molecules,” the study reads.

Loeb also said the object did not have a cometary tail, which “we usually see … and in this case there was no evidence for such a tail.”

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Despite Loeb’s alien warnings and the IAWN’s plan for a lengthy observation period, the group states on its campaign page that the comet “poses no threat.”

It does, however, present a “great opportunity for the IAWN community to perform an observing exercise due to its prolonged observability from Earth and high interest to the scientific community.”

The group plans on holding a workshop on techniques to correctly measure the comet’s astrometry, “a transformation without a change to a figure’s shape or size, such as rotation or reflection.”

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While the sports world continued to be rocked by arrests of athletes for alleged cheating, one popular sports commentator took some time out of the controversy to blame President Donald Trump.

Stephen A. Smith warned that the president was trying to get revenge on the players of the National Basketball Association and other sports figures over criticism they had leveled against him over many years.

‘This is just the tip of the iceberg. Everybody better brace themselves.’

“How many times, for one incident after another, have I said Trump is coming. He’s coming. I’m gonna say it on national television again,” Smith said.

He went on to claim that Trump was trying to disrupt the Super Bowl by ordering mass deportations during the performance of Bad Bunny at the halftime show.

“Big night for the NBA. [Victor] Wembanyama put on a show,” Smith said of the recent NBA game. “That has now been smeared because we’re talking about this story. OK?”

He went on to cite Trump’s longtime relationship with sports leagues going back to his time as owner of a casino in Atlantic City.

“Don’t be surprised if the WNBA is next on his list,” he continued. “Because when you’ve got all of these protests that have been going [on] out there and people that have been protesting against him and what have you, this man is coming. He’s coming.”

Smith said he would have more to say about the issue on another platform.

“And I’ve been saying it for a long time, and to me this is the latest nugget of evidence,” he added.

“Anybody that has seen his reactions from the sports leagues and the positions that people have taken, they are not surprised at what’s going on today,” Smith said.

“This is just the tip of the iceberg. Everybody better brace themselves,” he continued.

Among the evidence Smith cited to support his claim was that other sports figures had been arrested before, but they did not see the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation holding media briefings on the matter.

FBI Director Kash Patel replied by berating Smith for the bizarre allegation and mocked the commentator during an interview on Fox News.

“I’m the FBI director. I decide which arrests to conduct and which not to conduct,” Patel said.

“That may be the single dumbest thing I’ve ever heard out of anyone in modern history, and I live most of my time in Washington, D.C. It’s right up there with Adam Schiff,” he added. “We arrest people for crimes.”

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Smith responded by walking back some of his suggestions.

“Nothing to get ahead of here, people! I never denied or failed to mention that this FBI Investigation has been going on for years,” he posted on social media.

“I said Trump wasn’t inclined to stop it. He’s sparing no one because the man isn’t playing,” he added. “He’s coming!! In no way am I attempting to even have an opinion on the legitimacy of this matter. I don’t know the facts of the case. I’m just saying don’t expect POTUS to spare anyone on this matter. And I stand by that. That’s all!”

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The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in a challenge to the ruling that established same-sex marriage rights in 2015.

Kim Davis was ordered to pay a $100,000 fine after the former county clerk denied granting a marriage license in 2015 to a same-sex couple based on her religious objections. Davis also served five days in jail for contempt of court.

‘This opinion has no basis in the Constitution. The High Court should overturn this egregious opinion from 2015.’

The court will hear arguments on Nov. 7 in a private conference. If the justices decide against hearing the full case, a denial could be released as early as Nov. 10.

The appeal to the Supreme Court asks that the punishment against Davis be overturned and also that the ruling establishing same-sex marriage be reversed.

“If ever there was a case of exceptional importance,” Davis said in the appeal, “the first individual in the republic’s history who was jailed for following her religious convictions regarding the historic definition of marriage, this should be it.”

District Judge David Bunning, who had found Davis in contempt of court, scolded her at the time for using “her own constitutional rights as a shield to violate the constitutional rights of others while performing her duties as an elected official.”

The appeal to the Supreme Court argues that Obergefell v. Hodges was unconstitutional and led to the unjust violation of Davis’ religious rights.

Her attorneys have pointed out that three of the justices who ruled in favor of the decision are no longer on the Supreme Court.

In addition, Chief Justice John Roberts had dissented against Obergefell v. Hodges and argued that it had “no basis in the Constitution” and characterized it as “an act of will, not legal judgment.”

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“Obergefell v. Hodges cannot … override the First Amendment to send someone to jail for their religious beliefs on marriage, and it certainly does not establish a right to obtain a marriage license with a specific clerk’s name on it,” said Liberty Counsel founder and Chairman Mat Staver.

“Kim Davis’ case underscores why the U.S. Supreme Court should overturn the wrongly decided Obergefell opinion because it threatens the religious liberty of Americans who believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman,” he added. “Like the abortion decision in Roe v. Wade, Obergefell was egregiously wrong from the start. This opinion has no basis in the Constitution. The High Court should overturn this egregious opinion from 2015.”

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Journalist Helen Andrews has written what BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock calls “one of the most important pieces of journalism in quite some time.”

The article for the online publication Compact, titled “The Great Feminization,” dives into the dangers of feminism and the havoc it has wreaked on society as a whole — starting with “cancel culture.”

“Cancel culture is simply what women do whenever there are enough of them in a given organization or field. That is the Great Feminization thesis. … Everything you think of as ‘wokeness’ is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization,” Andrews writes.

“Wokeness is not a new ideology, an outgrowth of Marxism, or a result of post-Obama disillusionment. It is simply feminine patterns of behavior applied to institutions where women were few in number until recently,” she continues. “How did I not see it before?”

Andrews notes that women “became a majority of college-educated workforce nationwide in 2019,” which was followed by women becoming a “majority of college instructors in 2023.”

“Wokeness arose around the same time that many important institutions tipped demographically from majority male to majority female,” she writes.

“The substance fits, too. Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition,” she adds.

Andrews also points out that within group dynamics, the “most important sex difference” is the “attitude to conflict.” While “men wage conflict openly,” women “covertly undermine or ostracize their enemies.”

“We’ve all been in denial, that we all just, you know, ‘Women and men, they’re all the same and welcoming them into the workforce and into all positions of power — this is long overdue and this is good for America,’ and this article points out in great detail, and very powerfully, like no, they’re not the same,” Whitlock says in response.

However, while BlazeTV contributor Chad Jackson agrees somewhat with Andrews, he points out that the article was still “written from a spirit of feminism.”

“And what I mean by that is that she describes wokeism kind of rising up out of nowhere, seemingly out of nowhere here recently. When the reality of it is that what we’re seeing in these recent years is actually a culmination of what’s been going on for a few centuries, actually,” Jackson explains.

“When you’re coming from a kind of evolutionary worldview, you might get a lot of things right, but you miss the mark when it comes to certain key points. … I think that we tend to miss the mark when it comes to how these things have been brewing up for much longer than the recent history,” he adds.

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The head of the U.S. Capitol Police union excoriated politicians for continuing the government shutdown over the deleterious effects on the officers on the force.

Gus Papathanasiou, chairman of the United States Capitol Police Labor Committee, also seemingly made a subtle jab at Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).

‘As this shutdown continues, every day is WORSE, not “Better” for all of us.’

“This Govt shutdown needs to end! It’s negatively impacting all of our officers here at the USCP who are forced to work, and now will not receive their first full paycheck,” reads the statement to Blaze News from Papathanasiou.

The shutdown entered into a fourth week, with negotiations showing little sign of progress. The Capitol Police missed their first full paycheck on Oct. 10.

“Not only does this shutdown negatively impact federal cops but all federal workers throughout this country,” he continued. “Officers are starting to take out loans to pay their bills, rent, mortgages, food for their families, and the list goes on. As this shutdown continues, every day is WORSE, not ‘Better’ for all of us.”

Papathanasiou was likely referring to a controversial statement from Schumer that many saw as tone-deaf and insensitive.

“Every day gets better for us,” Schumer asserted as the shutdown entered a second week.

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Trump also bashed Schumer over the comment.

“Chuck Schumer recently said, ‘Every day gets better’ during their Radical Left Shutdown,” the president wrote on social media. “I DISAGREE! If nothing is done, because of ‘Leader’ Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th.”

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The Trump Justice Department announced on Friday that it will monitor several polling sites in California and New Jersey ahead of the blue states’ off-year Nov. 4 elections “to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law.”

The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division will specifically deploy personnel to monitor polling sites in the California’s Kern, Riverside, Fresno, Orange, and Los Angeles Counties as well as in New Jersey’s Passaic County.

‘We have received reports of irregularities in these counties that we fear will undermine either the willingness of voters to participate in the election or their confidence in the announced results.’

“The Department of Justice will do everything necessary to protect the votes of eligible American citizens, ensuring our elections are safe and secure,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the Civil Rights Division. “Transparent election processes and election monitoring are critical tools for safeguarding our elections and ensuring public trust in the integrity of our elections.”

In New Jersey, voters are set to decide who will replace Gov. Phil Murphy (D).

It is presently a close race between Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli, the former New Jersey assemblyman who fell short by fewer than four points in the 2021 gubernatorial race.

According to a new Rutgers-Eagleton poll, 50% of voters would have cast votes for Sherrill and 45% would have cast votes for Ciattarelli if the election were held this week.

New Jersey Republicans recently asked the Justice Department in an Oct. 20 letter to dispatch Civil Rights Division personnel to monitor both the handling of vote-by-mail ballots and access to the Board of Elections in Passaic County, a historically Democratic stronghold that supported President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

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The New Jersey GOP stressed the urgency of such oversight, citing a “long and sordid history of [vote-by-mail ballot] fraud,” a dearth of transparency, and an allegedly insufficient response to potential fraud by state officials.

Concerns over potential mail-in voting improprieties appear to have heightened in recent years not only by the voter fraud scandal that marred a 2020 city council election in Paterson, the county’s most populous city, but the alleged refusal by the county’s Board of Elections to allow security cameras to monitor ballot storage areas.

The California Republican Party similarly requested the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division to provide monitors in five counties in the Golden State.

‘Transparency at the polls translates into faith in the electoral process.’

Corrin Rankin, chairwoman of the state GOP, said Monday in a letter to Dhillon, “In recent elections, we have received reports of irregularities in these counties that we fear will undermine either the willingness of voters to participate in the election or their confidence in the announced results of the election.”

Ensuring the integrity of the Nov. 4 election is all the more important because its result could impact future federal elections.

In California, voters will decide on Proposition 50, a measure that would replace the state’s current congressional map with a version that creates five new majority-Democrat districts.

This redistricting scheme was championed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and endorsed by former President Barack Obama after both men and multitudes of other Democrats spent weeks pearl-clutching about Texas Republicans’ successful adoption of a new congressional map on Aug. 29.

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), among the critics of Proposition 50, told the Houston Chronicle, “It is very wrong what they’re trying to do in California. It is not at all serving the people. It is serving the party.”

While the DOJ regularly sends personnel to ensure compliance with federal civil rights laws in elections across the country, Democrats in both blue states are fuming over the planned presence of Civil Rights Division monitors at poll sites in their upcoming elections.

“This is not a federal election. The U.S. DOJ has no business or basis to interfere with this election. This is solely about whether California amends our state constitution,” Newsom’s office stated on X. “This administration has made no secret of its goal to undermine free and fair elections. Deploying these federal forces appears to be an intimidation tactic meant for one thing: suppress the vote.”

New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin (D) said in a statement obtained by the Associated Press that the move was “highly inappropriate” and suggested that the Justice Department “has not even attempted to identify a legitimate basis for its actions.”

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi noted, “Transparency at the polls translates into faith in the electoral process, and this Department of Justice is committed to upholding the highest standards of election integrity.”

“We will commit the resources necessary to ensure the American people get the fair, free, and transparent elections they deserve,” added Bondi.

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At least 25 states across the country will pause critical food aid programs for millions of Americans due to the Democrat-induced government shutdown.

Dozens of states will issue notices to recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program that they will not receive their government benefits on November 1. SNAP is notably the country’s largest food assistance program, with over 41 million recipients.

‘I choose country over party.’

These crucial benefits are set to lapse exactly a month into the shutdown all because Democrats refuse to vote for a clean, nonpartisan resolution to keep the government funded. Instead, Democrats are insisting on passing their own hyper-partisan $1.5 trillion bill and renegotiating Obamacare subsidies even though they don’t expire until the end of the year.

“It’s becoming clearer by the day that Democrats don’t want an outcome, they want a political issue,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said in a post on X.

RELATED: Democrat senator blocks vote to end shutdown to protest Trump’s ‘authoritarianism’ in drawn-out rant

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“They’ve refused to reopen the government – 12 times,” Thune added. “They’ve refused my offer to discuss Obamacare’s failures. They’ve refused my offer to hold a vote on their own proposal to address a problem they created. They’ve refused to pay the troops and federal employees who are working without a paycheck. The only thing they’ve said yes to? The Schumer Shutdown and political ‘leverage.'”

Republicans have made multiple efforts to reopen the government, to pay federal workers, and to keep government programs afloat. Despite this, the majority of Democrats continue to stonewall their colleagues across the aisle and ultimately, the American people.

However, not all Democrats have stuck with their party’s position. Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania has largely made a name for himself by bucking his own party, and this shutdown fight is no exception. As the shutdown approaches the fourth week, Fetterman made it clear that he’s interested in “country over party.”

RELATED: Senate Democrats senselessly block GOP bill that would pay workers during government shutdown

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“Shut our government down and America loses,” Fetterman said in a post on X. “2 MILLION Pennsylvanians depend on SNAP to feed their families. For me, it’s hungry Americans over party. Paying our military over party. Paying Capitol Police and federal workers over party. I choose country over party.”

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John Reid, the Republican candidate running for Virginia lieutenant governor, ripped into his Democrat opponent for embracing transgender ideology.

Reid called out Democrat state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi for flippantly dismissing the issue of transgenderism among children, according to a video obtained exclusively by Blaze News. In the video, Hashmi brushes off concerns surrounding transgender ideology and even brags about teaching the very LGBTQ books that have been banned from children’s libraries.

‘Any public official who says they ‘don’t really care’ if children are exposed to sexually explicit material in schools is completely out of touch with Virginia parents.’

“One of my concerns is violence. We seem to focus on sexually explicit material,” Hashmi said in the video obtained by Blaze News. “I don’t really care about that.”

“We teach the books that other people try to ban,” Hashmi said another video clip.

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“That’s Ghazala Hashmi. Not protecting kids, but pushing the radical agenda. While parents beg for decency, she laughs it off. While explicit books flood classrooms, she says, ‘I don’t really care about that.'”

“I’m John Reid. I’m running for lieutenant governor because I do care,” Reid said in the video. “It’s time to stand up, clean up our schools, and move Virginia forward.”

Although Hashmi has brazenly supported this radical ideology, she hasn’t mustered the courage to debate it with Reid in a public forum. Because Hashmi refused to participate in a debate with Reid on Tuesday, the Republican candidate took matters into his own hands and instead debated an AI generated stand-in of his Democratic opponent.

In spite of Hashmi’s failure to appear on the debate stage, Reid said her words “speak for themselves.”

RELATED: Democrat senator blocks vote to end shutdown to protest Trump’s ‘authoritarianism’ in drawn-out rant

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“Ghazala Hashmi’s words speak for themselves,” Reid told Blaze News. “Any public official who says they ‘don’t really care’ if children are exposed to sexually explicit material in schools is completely out of touch with Virginia parents.”

“Parents deserve to know what’s in their kids’ classrooms — and when I’m lieutenant governor, they’ll have a voice and a seat at the table.”

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President Donald Trump announced late Thursday evening that he was terminating all trade negotiations with Canada on account of a $75 million anti-tariff advertising campaign initiated last week by Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

Trump leaned into his criticism of Canada Friday morning, stating, “CANADA CHEATED AND GOT CAUGHT!!!” and accused the northern nation of using the ad “to illegally influence the United States Supreme Court in one of the most important rulings in the history of our Country.”

The purpose of the ad, which featured excerpts from former President Ronald Reagan’s April 25, 1987, radio address regarding the benefits of free trade and downsides of protectionism, was to make the case against American tariffs on Canada to Republican voters.

Ford evidently figured the ad was not worth the cost.

The premier said in an X post on Friday afternoon that after speaking to Prime Minister Mark Carney, his government “will pause its U.S. advertising campaign effective Monday so that trade talks can resume.”

‘Let’s work together to build Fortress Am-Can and make our two countries stronger.’

“Our intention was always to initiate a conversation about the kind of economy that Americans want to build and the impact of tariffs on workers and businesses,” Ford wrote. “We’ve achieved our goal, having reached U.S. audiences at the highest levels.”

While the ad will not run as planned next week, Ford indicated that he has directed his team to “keep putting our message in front of Americans over the weekend so that we can air our commercial during the first two World Series games.”

The Toronto Blue Jays host the L.A. Dodgers for Game 1 on Friday night and Game 2 on Saturday.

RELATED: Trump says he’s killing trade talks with Canada for ‘trying to illegally influence’ SCOTUS with anti-tariff ad

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“The people elected our government to protect Ontario — our workers, businesses, families and communities,” Ford continued. “That’s exactly what I’m doing. Like I said earlier today: Canada and the U.S. are neighbors, friends and allies. We’re so much stronger when we work together. Let’s work together to build Fortress Am-Can and make our two countries stronger, more prosperous and more secure.”

While Ontario is backing down, at least one other provincial leader appears eager to poke the bear.

The leftist premier of British Columbia, David Eby, revealed on Friday that his province was similarly making anti-tariff ads, stating, “Our wood faces higher US tariffs than Russia. Absurd. Truth will win!”

The Trump administration’s tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber were recently brought up to a combined 45%.

The Canadian Industry Minister Melanie Joly later told reporters, “We need to make sure that we reduce our dependency on the U.S. and that we support our businesses.”

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