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Florida accuses Roblox of allowing child groomers to exploit children through ‘sexually explicit material’
The attorney general of Florida is adding to the list of legal defenses that are piling up for video gaming company Roblox.
Roblox, a gaming platform with more than 40 million children playing on it, was accused by Republican James Uthmeier in a scathing video posted on Monday.
‘We prohibit the sharing of images and videos in chat.’
Uthmeier posted the video on X, along with the accusation that Roblox has “become a breeding ground for predators to gain access to our kids.”
“Our office will be issuing criminal subpoenas to the online children’s gaming company Roblox,” Uthmeier said. “Roblox profited off our kids while exposing them to the most dangerous of harms. They enabled our kids to be abused.”
The Florida AG added that the subpoenas are meant to “gather more information” for prosecutors about the criminal activity allegedly taking place on Roblox’s platform, as well as to compile “evidence on the predators.”
“We will stop at nothing to fight to protect our kids,” he concluded.
In response, Roblox told Return that the allegations are simply not true.
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“Attorney General Uthmeier’s claims about Roblox are false,” a spokesperson told Blaze News. “The suggestion that illicit image sharing is happening on Roblox demonstrates a lack of understanding of our platform’s functionality. In fact, we prohibit the sharing of images and videos in chat, use filters designed to block the exchange of personal information, and our trained teams and automated tools continuously monitor communications to detect and remove harmful content.”
The representative was likely referring to Uthmeier’s press release, which said investigations not only revealed predators were using Roblox to “access, communicate with, and groom minors,” but that the platform has allowed “sexually explicit material to evade filters and circulate within the platform.”
Roblox said it is working to implement “age estimation,” which Blaze News previously reported includes verification through selfie-videos, “facial age estimation,” ID, or verified parental consent.
“We share the AG’s commitment to keeping kids safe, and we will continue to assist his office in their investigations. We have a strong record of working with law enforcement and investing in advanced safety systems to help protect our users and remove bad actors,” Roblox added.
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The Florida press release also said reports suggest that predators are using the in-game currency Robux to “bribe minors into sending sexually explicit images of themselves.”
In 2024, Blaze News reported on at least two instances where two individuals were charged for soliciting sexual content from minors. One man was from Florida, and the other was a registered sex offender in Michigan. Both allegedly bribed children with Robux.
In 2025, a man from Bakersfield, California, was sentenced to three years in prison for crimes related to a sexual relationship he had with a 14-year-old girl he met through Roblox.
The subpoenas come as a multitude of social media platforms are being targeted for massive lawsuits over their alleged addictive nature and the promotion to minors.
This includes Snap Inc. (which owns Snapchat), Meta, ByteDance (TikTok), and Alphabet (YouTube). Roblox was not noted in reports surrounding the litigation.
Roblox has reinforced that it has “rigorous safety features” which are “purposely stricter than those found on social networks.”
It does not allow image sharing via chat and “constantly” monitors all communication for “critical harms.”
Roblox is currently facing a lawsuit in Kentucky that accuses the platform of allowing Charlie Kirk “assassination simulators.”
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The facts about planes used by Noem after libs spin wild narrative
Much ink has been spilled in the mainstream media and by Democrats after the Department of Homeland Security acquired new jets for top officials within the agency to use for travel, but a deeper dive shows the purchases are not only standard but also a matter of safety.
Liberals such as David Axlerod have characterized the aircraft as “luxury jets” and bewailed their hefty price tag.
However, while two used Gulfstream jets added to the Coast Guard air assets cost $172 million, the Coast Guard has been using Gulfstream aircraft for travel for its leadership since the early 2000s.
The plane the new long-range Gulfstream V jet replaced was also 20 years old. The New York Times noted that the acting commandant of the Coast Guard told Congress back in May that the “avionics are increasingly obsolete, the communications are increasingly unreliable.”
The need to modernize the air fleet was again emphasized by Admiral Kevin Lunday in a press release on Saturday.
“The timing of this investment underscores the Coast Guard’s vital need to modernize its command and control capabilities to meet today’s rapidly evolving operational demands. As maritime activity increases and national security challenges grow more complex, maintaining reliable air mobility is essential to ensuring continuity of operations and mission success,” Lunday said.
The two airplanes were costing nearly $10 million per year to maintain at the time.
Since January 2025, the plane that is being replaced has experienced 30 days of unplanned maintenance, with six missions requiring unplanned cancellation.
Kristi Noem hammers Zach Bryan over apparently anti-ICE song — singer says he’s ‘scared’ by negative reaction Photo (left): James Smith/Sam Snap/Getty Images; Photo (right): Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images
The Coast Guard under former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas facilitated the acquisition of a new C-37B long-range command and control aircraft from Gulfstream in June 2022.
“The aircraft’s overall mission is to operate as a command and control platform anywhere in the world for the secretary of Homeland Security, the commandant of the Coast Guard, and other top DHS leadership. The LRCCA is equipped with a broad range of commercial and military communications systems, providing secure voice and data capabilities as well as the capability to perform routine administrative duties in-flight worldwide,” the press release said about the purchase at the time.
Going back to fiscal year 2021, a Coast Guard report found maintenance for the service’s long-range aircrafts was costing millions of dollars per year due to the mileage and age. The two airplanes were costing nearly $10 million per year to maintain at the time.
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Colombian president calls for Trump’s removal
Colombian President Gustavo Petro appeared to call for the ousting of President Donald Trump in an interview with MRC Latino on October 20.
Addressing the tensions between the U.S. and various South American nations over the Trump administration’s deportation efforts and drug crackdown, Petro said, “Humanity has a first off-ramp, and it is to change Trump in various ways. The easiest way may be through Trump himself.” Petro went on to say that the second option would be to “get rid of Trump.”
‘US government officials have committed murder and violated our sovereignty.’
President Trump has been highly critical of Petro, calling him “an illegal drug leader” in a post on Truth Social on Sunday. Trump went on to say in the post that the production of illegal drugs “has become the biggest business in Colombia, by far, and Petro does nothing to stop it.” He called Petro “a low rated and very unpopular leader” and said that if Petro does not stop the drug routes to the U.S., “the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely.”
On September 16, the U.S. military carried out a drone strike that destroyed a submarine reportedly carrying drugs in international waters off the coast of Colombia.
Photo by Omar Havana/Getty Images
Last week, Petro stated on X that “U.S. government officials have committed murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters.” He went on to say that the submarine was a fishing vessel in distress and demanded an explanation from the United States about the strike.
In response, Trump announced that he would end all U.S. funding to Colombia, cutting off hundreds of millions in economic, military, and humanitarian aid. Speaking to reporters, Trump went after Petro, calling him “a lunatic who’s got a lot of problems. Mental problems.” He added that the funding cuts were in response to Colombia’s unwillingness to combat the drug trade: “They are a drug-manufacturing machine, Colombia, and we’re not going to be part of it. So we’re going to drop all money that we are giving to them.”
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San Jose Sharks apologize for displaying pro-ICE message on scoreboard during Hispanic celebration
The San Jose Sharks hockey team will not explain how a message in support of Immigration and Customs Enforcement made its way onto the big screen.
The incident happened during the first intermission on Saturday at the Sharks’ annual Hispanic celebration at the SAP Center in San Jose, California.
‘The Sharks organization sincerely apologizes for this oversight.’
During the break in the scoreless game against the Pittsburgh Penguins, a text image appeared on the arena’s scoreboard reading, “SJ SHARKS FANS LOVE ICE!! GET’EM BOYZ!” along with a video of the team mascot, S.J. Sharkie, waving next to the message.
A fan captured the message in a video and posted it to X.
“Hey [Sharks], how on earth is this an acceptable thing to have on your Jumbotron, like, ever, much less on a night honoring Hispanic heritage? I’m so appalled and disappointed in you right now,” the fan wrote.
This prompted an apology from the organization later that night, describing the message as offensive and coming from an “outside source.”
“During the first intermission of tonight’s game, an offensively worded message which had been externally submitted was inadvertently displayed on the in-arena scoreboard,” the message explained. “Sharks Sports & Entertainment deeply regrets that this message, which does not meet our organization’s values, was not detected during our standard review process. The Sharks organization sincerely apologizes for this oversight, and we are actively working to determine the origin of the message.”
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Blaze News asked the team if the investigation was concluded and what exactly the team was apologizing for.
Scott Emmert, the team’s senior vice president of communications, responded and said the organization declined to provide further comment on the situation.
In video of the incident, at the bottom of the screen, a scrolling message stated, “Want to see your personalized greeting here? Visit sjsharkie.com.”
That URL leads to a website offering a “Name in Lights” scoreboard greeting program.
“The Sharks are offering completely customizable greetings. Your greeting will appear in lights during the 1st intermission and you may add any greeting to the center hung scoreboard,” the program states.
Restrictions on the messages include those with a commercial purpose or any that are “obscene, offensive, or refer negatively to any NHL team.”
Using NHL players’ names is also prohibited, and the team reserves the right to remove or edit any message. In the case of a removal, the $75 fee is refunded.
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The night in question was the team’s ninth annual Los Tiburones game, “a celebration of the team’s commitment to the Bay Area’s vibrant Hispanic community.”
The night spotlights Latino performers and concessions, a Spanish-language broadcast, and, of course, a bevy of merchandise.
In the aftermath of the scoreboard message, fans were outraged, but their political leanings depended on the platform.
On X, the team saw an overwhelmingly pro-ICE response, with messages such as “why is supporting law enforcement offensive,” and “So the Sharks are in favor of illegal immigration? Is that what I’m gathering?”
On Instagram, however, multiple unrelated posts by the team saw messages calling the team racist or asking “you guys gonna start calling ice on fans or what?”
The Sharks did not make a dedicated post with their apology on Instagram.
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Florida sheriff defends McDonald’s worker who shot customer in the neck: ‘It was just a McMess’
A late-night food run escalated into a stand-your-ground shooting at a McDonald’s when two Florida men caused a “McMess,” according to police.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said a McDonald’s got overwhelmed by orders after several events in the area ended early in the morning of Oct. 12.
‘What do these goober smoochers do?’
Yoan Soto — a 21-year-old employee at the McDonald’s in Davenport, the sheriff’s office said — was working an overnight shift.
Two men — 20-year-old Peter Story and 18-year-old Nicholas Jones — pulled into the drive-thru to order food. However, there was reportedly a long wait.
According to Judd, Soto told Jones and Story, “Hey, sorry guys, but we’re way behind … our online orders are overwhelming us.”
However, the two customers allegedly became furious.
Judd said, “They threatened to attack the man who just told them, ‘We’re busy, we can’t take any more orders,’ and he did that because the manager told him to.”
Sheriff Judd said the two customers threatened Soto with violence.
“We’re going to hang out here,” the pair allegedly told Soto, according to Judd. “When you get off, we are going to beat you up.”
Judd added, “What do these goober smoochers do? They park their vehicle, and they come into the restaurant.”
Sheriff Judd said Soto and the two customers began “jawing” and “having a McArgument in the McDonald’s over McHamburgers, or lack of McHamburgers.”
The 22-year-old McDonald’s manager reportedly told Story and Jones to leave because they were trespassing.
Judd said the two customers threatened to commit a “mass shooting” at the McDonald’s, which allegedly had other customers inside the restaurant.
Surveillance video shows Soto walking out of the back of the restaurant with a gun and pointing it at the unruly customers — and Judd backed Soto’s actions as self-defense.
“And [Soto] comes into the lobby to confront these guys who’ve threatened him and threatened the store and threatened to shoot the place up,” Judd said. “And now he’s trying to get them out of the store.”
Jones and Story are seen swinging their hands in an apparent attempt to take Soto’s gun.
Judd noted that “as they try to grab his gun, [Soto] pulls the trigger, and he shoots Peter Story in the neck.”
Jones then drove Story to a local hospital.
“It’s a blessing that it was a very minor wound,” Judd said.
Judd said Soto retrieved the bullet casing and projectile from the floor and fled the McDonald’s.
Authorities allegedly convinced Soto to return to the scene of the crime, and he cooperated with police.
Soto was charged with tampering with evidence, which is a felony.
Story and Jones were charged with trespass after warning and disorderly conduct.
“Listen folks, it’s never OK to threaten a mass shooting,” Judd stressed. “It’s never OK to threaten to beat people up at a business. And it’s never OK to grab your ammunition and your firearm and run after a shooting.”
Judd again backed Soto’s self-defense attempt: “He has a right to stand his ground and protect himself, and these guys are threatening to do violence after they’ve already threatened on the outside of the store and came inside.”
Judd said of the two customers, “They created a well-founded fear in him and the store manager. It was just a McMess, but we’ll sort it out because we are McGood at investigating McCrime.”
Neither McDonald’s nor the Polk County Sheriff’s Office immediately responded to Blaze News‘ request for comment.
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Glenn Beck exposes the specific billionaires who funded the No Kings protests
Last weekend, thousands of people across the United States gathered to march under the banner of No Kings — a slogan coined to capture progressives’ resistance to the so-called authoritarian tendencies in President Donald Trump’s second administration.
One major issue for No Kings protesters as well as politicians who joined the events, like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), is the influence of billionaires, particularly in politics and media, which is why they criticize figures like Elon Musk.
But there’s an irony to their complaints.
“If this movement is truly against billionaires and the powerful, why is it funded by billionaires and the powerful?” asks Glenn Beck.
The No Kings movement was intentionally orchestrated to look like grassroots resistance, but the deeper you dive into its inner workings, the more it becomes clear: “This isn’t a rebellion. This is strategy,” says Glenn. “This is not grassroots. This is astroturf.”
If the movement was really about keeping kings out of America, then these same marchers would have taken serious issue with Joe Biden, who forced an experimental vaccine on the American people under the threat of job loss and hospital restrictions.
“You would think no kings would mean all of that was wrong, but it doesn’t. This is not about dismantling power. This is about rearranging power,” Glenn reiterates.
Those powerful billionaires who protesters claim to oppose were the very people who designed and funded this entire movement.
Reports from multiple media outlets, including Fox News and Breitbart News’ Peter Schweizer, George Soros via his Open Society Action Fund granted $3 million to Indivisible — a progressive nonprofit founded in 2016 for the sole purpose of resisting Trump policies — to help orchestrate the No Kings protests.
“But it goes on. Soros’ larger network, the Open Society Foundation, gave over $7.6 million to the same operation. So now we’re almost at $11 million,” says Glenn.
But Soros is just where the funding trail begins. Follow the money, and it will lead you to the Arabella Advisors Network — “a billion-dollar-a-year dark money empire that launders donations from the uber wealthy donors to grassroots activism.”
Keep going down the trail and you’ll find that the Bill Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation all provided significant funding to networks supporting the No Kings protests.
But it keeps going. The Tides Foundation also made significant contributions, as did Neville Roy Singham, a U.S.-born billionaire with ties to the Chinese Communist Party who’s known for funding radical leftist groups.
“You have a small club of financial elites that are bankrolling what investigative journalist Peter Schweizer calls ‘Riot Inc.,”’ says Glenn.
“It is the permanent protest industrial complex. This is not just conjecture; this is not opinion. This is now documented fact,” he adds.
IRS filings, annual reports, and public statements all paint the same picture: “Billionaires are funding the outrage machine.”
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Trump sends terrorists one final warning: ‘An end to Hamas will be FAST, FURIOUS, & BRUTAL!’
President Donald Trump has sent Hamas a final warning just days after finalizing his historic peace deal in the Middle East.
Trump brokered and finalized his landmark peace deal between Israel and Hamas on October 13, over two years after the brutal conflict was ignited by the October 7 terrorist attack. Since the signing, skirmishes have broken out in Gaza, with Israel briefly resuming strikes and pausing aid in the region, killing dozens of Palestinians.
‘They have to be good, and if they’re not good, they will be eradicated.’
Israel justified the strikes by claiming two IDF soldiers were killed by Hamas militants. At the same time, other reports claimed the United States had intelligence that an Israeli bulldozer mistakenly ran over undetonated ordnance, prompting pressure from the White House to halt the strikes and continue providing aid to the region.
In the aftermath of the violent flare-ups that took place over the weekend, Trump cautioned Hamas that our allies in the region remain ready to eradicate the group.
“Numerous of our NOW GREAT ALLIES in the Middle East, and areas surrounding the Middle East, have explicitly and strongly, with great enthusiasm, informed me that they would welcome the opportunity, at my request, to go into GAZA with a heavy force and ‘straighten out Hamas’ if Hamas continues to act badly, in violation of their agreement with us,” Trump said in a Truth Social post Tuesday.
“The love and spirit for the Middle East has not been seen like this in a thousand years!” Trump added. “It is a beautiful thing to behold! I told these countries, and Israel, ‘NOT YET!’ There is still hope that Hamas will do what is right. If they do not, an end to Hamas will be FAST, FURIOUS, & BRUTAL!”
Trump’s repeated calls to eradicate Hamas have raised questions about the extent of America’s involvement in the conflict. Last week, Trump said, “We will have no choice but to go in and kill [Hamas],” if Hamas didn’t adhere to the term of the ceasefire. After violence broke out over the weekend, Blaze News asked Trump to clarify who “we” is.
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“When you say, ‘We are going to eradicate Hamas,’ who is ‘we’?” Blaze News asked. “Does that include American boots on the ground?”
“No. It won’t be on the ground at all,” Trump replied from the Cabinet Room Monday.
Trump told Blaze News that allies in the region would voluntarily “eradicate” Hamas so long as the United States signed off on it.
“I mean, we’ve had countries calling me when they saw some of the killing with Hamas, saying, ‘We’d love to go in and take care of the situation ourselves,'” Trump said. “In addition you have Israel would go in in two minutes if I asked them to go in. I could tell them, ‘Go in and take care of it.’ But right now we haven’t said that. We’re gonna give it a little chance, and hopefully there will be a little less violence, but right now, you know, they’re violent people. Hamas has been very violent.”
“They have to be good, and if they’re not good, they will be eradicated,” he added.
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Trump DOJ charges another pair of Big Balls’ suspected attackers, blasts judges who kept thug on streets
Edward Coristine, the young engineer known as “Big Balls” who previously worked for the Department of Government Efficiency, was beaten to a pulp by a group of 10 young suspects during an attempted carjacking on Aug. 3 in the national capital.
One week after a Biden-nominated judge cut two of the attackers loose and spared them from jail time, the Trump Justice Department announced charges against another pair of suspects.
Background
After the attack, during which Coristine stood his ground and defended his girlfriend, police apprehended two suspects at the scene — a 15-year-old male and a 15-year-old female of Hyattsville, Maryland — and charged both with unarmed carjacking.
‘We’re not going to be happy until we get every person who was involved.’
While the attack was so savage as to prompt President Donald Trump to federalize the Metropolitan Police Department and deploy the National Guard, Kendra Briggs, a Biden-nominated associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, treated two of the attackers with kid gloves.
First, Briggs decided it wasn’t worth keeping the thugs in custody, telling one of Coristine’s attackers, “I don’t want to put hardship on your family.”
After instructing both thugs to refrain from possessing weapons or entering into other people’s vehicles unless they have permission from the owners, Briggs directed the male attacker to hang out at his mother’s home and the female attacker to move from the secure Youth Services Center to a youth shelter house.
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Obliging the request by prosecutors last week, Briggs decided ultimately not to incarcerate the two attackers.
The male attacker, who pleaded guilty to four counts related to a robbery and the separate beating of Coristine, received one year of probation. The female attacker, who pleaded guilty to a count of simple assault for pepper-spraying someone during the robbery, was sentenced to nine months of probation.
Briggs emphasized that the goal of juvenile court was “rehabilitation, not punishment.”
“To this day, they’ve only caught two out of the ten. Eight of them remain on the street. That night could’ve gone far differently. Think of your daughters and mothers. The same group attacked people before and after us, breaking ribs and stomping heads,” Coristine noted last week. “This senseless crime must be stopped.”
Another two
The Trump DOJ revealed on Monday that it was charging two more teens in connection with the attack on Coristine and the corresponding attempted carjacking.
Jeanine Pirro, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, indicated that Laurence Cotton-Powell, 19, and Anthony Taylor, 18, face charges including assault with intent to commit robbery and robbery — not only in connection with the attack on Coristine but in connection with a separate attack on another individual just minutes earlier at a nearby gas station.
Whereas Taylor, a teen from Maryland, has no known criminal history, Cotton-Powell is apparently a seasoned thug who has benefited from bleeding hearts in the judiciary.
Pirro claimed that despite committing crimes while on probation for a previous felony conviction, Cotton-Powell was nevertheless free to attack Coristine and Ethan Levine, the second victim who was stomped ruthlessly by a mob of thugs, because of the leniency of the D.C. Superior Court.
“On April 3 of this year, Laurence Cotton-Powell was sentenced for a felony attempted robbery. My office asked for jail time. Judge [Carmen] McLean, a judge sitting in the criminal part in Superior Court with no criminal background, made a decision to give Cotton-Powell probation in spite of his conviction on a felony attempted robbery,” said Pirro. “Within 31 days, by May 4, Powell reoffends. He’s re-arrested while he’s on probation from the felony, and he’s charged with simple assault and possession of a prohibited weapon B.”
Pirro indicated that the court subsequently refused her office’s request to revoke the thug’s bail and released Cotton-Powell. Although Cotton-Powell was later sentenced, “on July 25, another judge suspends his sentence and decides that he should be on probation,” said the attorney.
“So after a felony of attempted robbery conviction, after a violation of probation, after a second crime, after a second conviction, after no compliance with [the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency], the judges say, ‘Do better,’ and they let him go,” said Pirro. “And guess what? Within 10 days, he’s at it again with Ethan Levine and Edward Coristine.”
Pirro credited the Metropolitan Police Department with going above and and beyond to track down suspects Taylor and Cotton-Powell.
MPD Chief Pamela Smith said, “These arrests send a very strong message to our community: If you commit violent acts in our community, you will be found, you will be held accountable, and you will face justice.”
“We’re not going to be happy until we get every person who was involved in the assault on these two individuals,” said Pirro.
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Irish Police Believe An African Raped A 10-Year-Old Girl, Locals Reveal Aliens Regularly Linger Around School
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Chicago-Area Federal Judges At War With Trump Admin: One Rules ICE Agents Can Be Arrested For Deporting Illegals, Another Says CBP Violating Court Orders By Using Teargas
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