Rescuers found the bodies of eight skiers after an avalanche in northern California, and one skier still missing is likely dead as well.

The group of 15 skiers were returning from the Frog Lake backcountry huts near Lake Tahoe after a three-day trip when they were hit by the avalanche.

‘Our mission now is to get them home.’

Nevada County Sheriff Shannan Moon said the sheriff’s office received a report of the avalanche on Tuesday at about 11:30 a.m.

Moon said crews couldn’t reach the site until 5:30 p.m. because of the weather conditions that included high winds and freezing temperatures.

The survivors, which included five clients and and an employee of the Black Mountain Guides, made a makeshift shelter for themselves.

Rescue workers got the survivors to safety before searching for those missing and finding their bodies. The last missing skier is now presumed dead.

The survivors included two women and four men between the ages of 33 and 55 years old. Of the nine that had been missing, seven were women and two were men.

“Our mission now is to get them home,” Moon said.

The guide company released a statement about the incident.

“The leadership team at Blackbird Mountain Guides is working in full coordination with the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office and Nevada County Search and Rescue to support the ongoing rescue operation,” the company’s statement reads.

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“Blackbird Mountain Guides is in direct contact with the emergency contacts of the affected clients and guides and is providing them with regular updates as verified information becomes available,” they added.

The incident is the deadliest avalanche in California history and the deadliest in the nation’s history since 1981 when 11 climbers were killed on Mount Rainier in Washington state.

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Liberals were outraged when Conde Nast announced that Teen Vogue was going to be absorbed into Vogue.com and would no longer be independent, but the brand continues to publish extremist propaganda.

Teen Vogue was constantly ridiculed and derided by right-wing news outlets for regularly publishing degenerate sexual content and far-left Marxist stories intended to radicalize teens.

‘We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we’ve built together.’

Despite reports of its demise, the outlet is still working to despoil the virtue of teenagers online.

In the op-ed titled “ICE Watch Programs Can Protect Immigrants in Your Neighborhood — Here’s What to Know,” activist Nikki Marín Baena teaches teens how to oppose federal immigration law enforcement.

Baena said her group offered “trainings in immigrant neighborhood parking lots and … Spanish-language videos with tips for how to spot ICE agents.”

The group also set up an “emergency cash-assistance fund to provide small grants, usually between $300 and $2,000, to help” families of people detained by ICE “stave off eviction and afford the first payment to an immigration attorney.”

She posted a link to a guidebook for those who wanted to set up a “hotline, neighborhood watch, or cash-assistance program.”

Baena concluded, “As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we’ve built together.”

Teen Vogue pushed the article Monday to its followers on Facebook.

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A statement from Vogue in Nov. 2025 said that the brand would “remain a distinct editorial property, with its own identity and mission,” but the focus would change to “career development, cultural leadership, and other issues that matter most to young people.”

Apparently that includes anti-ICE propaganda.

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Last month, BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales set out on an investigation with a hunch that not every company sponsoring workers under the H-1B visa program in Texas was operating honestly.

After researching public records in the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, she physically visited the listed office addresses of several such companies and found that the addresses corresponded to single-family residential homes with no visible signs of business operations or staff present, despite the companies having sponsored multiple foreign workers under the program.

Sara’s reporting prompted Governor Greg Abbott (R) to direct state agencies and universities to freeze new H-1B visa petitions to prioritize Texans for employment. In addition, Attorney General Ken Paxton launched a sweeping investigation into three North Texas companies for potential sham operations and visa abuse.

Now, however, the New York Times in a recent article titled “How the Visa Debate for Foreign Workers Fuels Racism Against South Asians” is framing the broader debate over H-1B visas, including Sara’s investigation into potential fraud in Texas, as fueling racism against South Asians, particularly Indians, who make up many of the H-1B visa holders..

“In Frisco, the tensions over H-1B were heightened by a conservative content creator who recently posted a much-watched video in which she made claims about possible H-1B fraud in the area,” author Amy Qin wrote, directly referencing Sara’s reporting.

On this episode of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered,” Sara responds to what she interprets as a “hit piece” on her from the New York Times.

“If the New York Times wants to take a swing at me, at least have the decency to name me,” she says.

“They don’t want to name me because they don’t want to give my exposé more exposure. The ‘much-watched video’ — they couldn’t even say, like, millions of people watched it.”

Even still, Sara says her glass is “half full.”

“You’re over the target if the New York Times sees that you did something that is so good, that is so truthful and well done and important that they don’t even want to name you because if they said Sara Gonzalez actually posted this crazy exposé, people might be able to watch it,” she says, “and then if they watched it, they might stop being on the New York Times’ side because they’d see the truth.”

But the New York Times, Sara says, is “not interested in seeking truth.”

“They just want to make this about race because then they can turn their eye from what is actually going on.”

To hear more of Sara’s response, watch the episode above.

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Democrats, the liberal media, and activist outfits have concern-mongered for years about the imagined threat posed by “Christian nationalism,” a catchall term used to describe their ideological foes who also happen to be Christian in a nation almost entirely founded by Christians and where today over six in 10 adults are Christian.

CNN appears keen to revive the left’s moral panic on-theme ahead of the midterm elections with an hour-long documentary titled “The Rise of Christian Nationalism.”

‘If you’re worried about Christians radicalizing then maybe you should stop shooting up our schools, churches and now hockey rinks.’

Newly released teaser videos and a corresponding press release hint at the documentary’s apparent political purpose: to instill fear in viewers over a supposed movement that host Pamela Brown claims is “working to redefine America as a Christian nation in the home, in a marriage, in schools, and in government” — a movement that Brown reckons is supercharged and unified in the wake of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

The network noted in its overview for the documentary, which airs Sunday, that:

Brown examines the growing influence of Christian nationalism, an ideology rooted in the belief that the United States was founded as a Christian nation and that its laws and institutions should reflect Christian values. Through immersive reporting and on-the-ground access, the episode explores how a movement once largely confined to the margins of white evangelical culture has gained new visibility and political power.

Brown apparently believes she gleaned generalizable insights into “Christian nationalism” by chatting with critics and kicking around Christian communities linked to Pastor Doug Wilson, a theologian credited by the Wall Street Journal months ago with leading the rise of “Christian nationalism” under President Donald Trump.

“We embedded with a community under Pastor Wilson’s umbrella and spoke to women who have left the church and are now sounding the alarm,” said Brown. “No matter where you live or what you believe, what we learned is especially consequential at this moment.”

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In one preview, Matthew Taylor — a specialist in “Muslim-Christian dialogue” who wrote a book sounding the alarm about imagined Christian threats to democracy — tells Brown that Kirk’s memorial service “was one of the most potent examples of this shift in our culture that we’re experiencing right now, where a large segment of American Christians are being activated by these ideas, radicalized by these ideas that say that they are the persecuted ones and that they need to stand up for Christians’ rights.”

Despite his intimation to the contrary, the ideas Taylor figures for radicalizing are based in fact. Christians, persecuted around the globe, are frequently targeted in the U.S., where radicals have not only sought to legislatively curb religious liberties but attacked churches and the faithful.

Brown, referencing a clip in which Taylor suggests that Christians take Trump for an “anointed figure” because he survived the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, said that “this is just one example of why Christian nationalists are having such a moment right now.”

While some viewers might suspect that these alleged “Christian nationalists” are simply followers of Christ who also vigorously support their nation, definitions and criteria vary.

Brown defines “Christian nationalism” as “an ideology rooted in the belief that our country was founded as a Christian nation and that our laws and institutions should reflect Christian values.”

The CNN host appears to be casting a big net granted a 2022 Pew Research Center survey found that six in 10 American adults said the founders intended America to be a Christian nation.

The Public Religion Research Institute, a group that has in recent years characterized Christian nationalism as “a major threat to the health of our democracy,” has a slightly less vague understanding and can supposedly deduce if someone is a Christian nationalist on their responses to the following five statements:

“The U.S. government should declare America a Christian nation.””U.S. laws should be based on Christian values.”“If the U.S. moves away from our Christian foundations, we will not have a country anymore.”“Being Christian is an important part of being truly American.”“God has called Christians to exercise dominion over all areas of American society.”

In the wild, “Christian nationalist” appears in many cases to be a term externally applied, not chosen.

Vice President JD Vance, for instance, doesn’t check all of the PPRI’s boxes, having indicated that Americans don’t have to be Christian but that “Christianity is America’s creed.” Nevertheless, he is frequently branded as a “Christian nationalist.”

Despite stating in 2024 that “Christian Nationalism” is “a boogeyman they’ve invested to silence you,” and having made a point of noting months before his murder that he had never described himself as a Christian nationalist, Kirk is branded as such in Brown’s CNN documentary.

Patriotic Christians were quick to lambaste Brown and CNN over the documentary and the timing of its release.

Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts noted that “it’s no accident that Pamela chose the first week of Lent to release this. The world saw one of the most prominent voices on the Right martyred by a radical leftist, with his death celebrated by the Left at large — but it’s conservative Christians you need to worry about.”

“This is pure bigotry from an increasingly anti-Christian, anti-American Left that tolerates all kinds of dogmas influencing people’s politics — except those of conservative Christians,” added Roberts.

Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, stated, “If you’re worried about Christians radicalizing then maybe you should stop shooting up our schools, churches and now hockey rinks. Killing Charlie and the ‘this is what you get’ messaging from the media was pretty radicalizing too.”

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