The Trump administration said that California was in violation of the 1973 Title IX federal civil rights law over transgender sports athletes and threatened “enforcement action” if their polices remained unchanged.

In February, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation into transgender athletes being allowed to compete against girls in California, and on Wednesday, Education Sec. Linda McMahon confirmed that the state was violating the civil rights law.

‘The state must swiftly come into compliance with Title IX or face the consequences that follow.’

McMahon called on California to “voluntarily agree” to reverse the policies or face “imminent enforcement action” from the federal government, according to the Los Angeles Times.

“Although Governor Gavin Newsom admitted months ago it was ‘deeply unfair’ to allow men to compete in women’s sports, both the California Department of Education and the California Interscholastic Federation continued as recently as a few weeks ago to allow men to steal female athletes’ well-deserved accolades and to subject them to the indignity of unfair and unsafe competitions,” McMahon said.

“The Trump Administration will relentlessly enforce Title IX protections for women and girls, and our findings today make clear that California has failed to adhere to its obligations under federal law,” she added. “The state must swiftly come into compliance with Title IX or face the consequences that follow.”

On Friday, parents in Costa Mesa protested against transgender competition and presented a petition with tens of thousands of signatures to the CIF, which governs high school competitions.

Chino Valley Unified School Board President Sonja Shaw, who has been a vocal activist against the transgender policies, praised the statement from the Education Department.

“CIF and CDE were warned. Over and over,” Shaw said to the Times. “But instead of listening, they laughed. They smirked. They mocked parents and anyone that stood for the truth and let our daughters be mocked, sidelined, and erased. They handed girls over to an ideology that stole their privacy, safety, and achievements. Now, they’ve been federally exposed as lawbreakers.”

Trump has previously used the threat of pulling federal money from states in order to persuade them to comply with his executive orders, but California officials have rebuffed such threats on the basis that the state is a net contributor to the federal government.

“Californians pay the bills for the federal government,” Newsom said on social media earlier in June. “We pay over $80 BILLION more in taxes than we get back. Maybe it’s time to cut that off.”

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Happy NBA draft day! By the end of the night, the Dallas Mavericks, who won the first overall pick, will have almost certainly signed Cooper Flagg — Duke’s 18-year-old forward and the projected No. 1 overall draft pick.

Flagg isn’t even officially in the NBA yet, and already he’s widely adored.

“Everybody loves Cooper Flagg,” says Jason Whitlock.

According to Jason, “he’s being welcomed into the NBA with open arms” by everyone — from “the all-time greats to the guys currently playing,” even LeBron James.

Why, then, does Flagg’s WNBA equivalent, Caitlin Clark, get so much hate?

Jason says the answer lies in the “difference between men and women.”

“Fearless” contributor Steve Kim agrees. There “ain’t no hatin’-ass Shaniquas” in the NBA, he says.

“Who is more derisive, more backbiting and more … hateful of women in the workplace or in social settings than other women?” he continues.

“Add that to the fact that these women are incredibly spiteful, jealous, with a sense of entitlement,” and it’s obvious Caitlin Clark didn’t have a prayer of getting the same warm welcome Flagg is currently receiving, he adds.

Jason agrees: “There’s no insecurity among black male basketball players. They’re not threatened by Cooper Flagg; they don’t feel like their legacy is being diminished by welcoming Cooper Flagg into the NBA family.”

As an example of this, Steve points to caucasian basketball legend Larry Bird, whose “most impactful words of praise” came from none other than black basketball players. “In that era, [black players] probably praised Larry Bird more than anybody,” he says.

Unfortunately, when it comes to “black women, there’s insecurity as it relates to white women,” says Jason. And with “lesbian women, there’s insecurity as it relates to heterosexual women.”

Given the WNBA is heavily populated by black lesbian women, Caitlin Clark, who’s white and heterosexual, was doomed from the get-go.

The hate she receives, however, isn’t just coming from inside the league. Outside forces are working to pour fuel on the Clark hatred fire as well.

“There are literally videos on TikTok and all these other social media outlets where black women — not players but black women — are literally lecturing other black men: ‘We have to stand up for Angel Reese; you cannot cheer for Caitlin Clark,’” says Steve.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.

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A vice mayor of a small city in Los Angeles County is facing more and more calls for resignation after she posted a video calling on all the “cholos” to defend their turf against federal agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The Los Angeles Police Protective League excoriated Cynthia Gonzalez for encouraging violent criminal gangs to protect their “turf” against federal agents after violent rioting in Southern California.

‘Her actions are deplorable and potentially illegal. She should resign, and she should be prosecuted if what she called for broke the law.’

As Blaze News previously reported, Gonzalez posted the video and deleted it after public outrage, but a copy survived and was circulated on social media.

“Not for nothing, but I want to know where all the cholos are at in Los Angeles!” she said in the video.

“You guys tag everything up, claiming hood, and now that your hood’s being invaded by the biggest gang there is, there ain’t a peep out of you!” she continued.

Gonzalez specifically named the 18th Street gang as well as the Florencia 13 gang, which the LAPPL identified as criminal gangs whose members had attacked police officers, sometimes lethally. The vice mayor implied that the gangs weren’t doing their part to join protesters in opposing ICE.

“The 18th Street and Florencia street gangs are notoriously dangerous Los Angeles-based criminal enterprises,” LAPPL said in part. “They rule their ‘turfs’ through intimidation, violence, and murder, and finance their operations through the sale of narcotics and illegal firearms, prostitution, and protection rackets.”

The LAPPL went on to accuse her of putting police officers and other law enforcement professionals at greater risk through her video.

“Her actions are deplorable and potentially illegal. She should resign, and she should be prosecuted if what she called for broke the law.”

Gonzalez confirmed that the FBI had visited her over a video posted to TikTok and said that she needed an attorney. Those posts were also deleted.

The city of Cudahy released a statement distancing itself from the comments but did not condemn them.

“The city of Cudahy is aware of recent comments made by Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez on social media,” the statement reads. “The comments made by the vice mayor reflect her personal views and do not represent the views or official position of the city of Cudahy.”

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security condemned the video in their statement.

“The comments made by the Vice Mayor of Cudahy, CA, Cynthia Gonzalez, are despicable. She calls for criminal gangs — including the vicious 18th Street gang — to commit violence against our brave ICE law enforcement,” the department wrote on social media.

A senior ICE official also criticized the vice mayor.

“Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez calling for the vicious 18th Street Gang and others to fight federal law enforcement on the streets of Los Angeles is disgusting,” the official said to KTTV-TV.

“A roving gang of murderers, rapists and drug peddlers are not going to protect American communities,” the official added. “ICE and federal partners are working to protect public safety every day, contrary to the lies spread by disingenuous elected officials.”

Sources told Fox News that there was a federal investigation into the video.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a fiery response to reports in the mainstream media that contradicted the claim that Iran’s nuclear capabilities had been “obliterated” by an audacious U.S. military strike.

He made the comments next to President Donald Trump during a media briefing at the NATO summit in the Netherlands on Wednesday. Trump had said that the mission was completely successful and that it would take decades for Iran to recover the same nuclear capabilities.

‘The instinct of CNN, the instinct of the New York Times, is to try to find a way to spin it for their own political reasons, to try to hurt President Trump or our country.’

“There’s a reason the president calls out fake news for what it is,” Hegseth said. “These pilots, these refuelers, these fighters, these air defenders — the skill and the courage it took to go into enemy territory flying 36 hours on behalf of the American people and the world to take out a nuclear program is beyond what anyone in this audience can fathom.”

Hegseth accused the mainstream news outlets of being politically motivated in their reporting of the leaked assessment, which said the nuclear program had only been delayed by months, not years.

“The instinct, the instinct of CNN, the instinct of the New York Times, is to try to find a way to spin it for their own political reasons, to try to hurt President Trump or our country. They don’t care what the troops think. They don’t care what the world thinks. They want to spin it to try to make him look bad based on a leak. Of course, we’ve all seen plenty of leakers. And what do leakers do? They have agendas. And what do they do? Do they share the whole information or just the part that they want to introduce?”

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He went on to explain that the report contradicting the president’s claim was based on a leak of an assessment that had low confidence and limited evidence.

“And when they introduce that preliminary report that is deemed to be a low assessment — you know what a low assessment means? Low confidence in the data in that report,” said Hegseth.

“And why is there low confidence? Because all of the evidence about what was just bombed by 12 30,000 pound bombs is buried under a mountain, devastated and obliterated. So if you want to make an assessment of what happened at Fordow, you better get a big shovel and go really deep. Because Iran’s nuclear is obliterated, and somebody somewhere is trying to leak something to say, ‘Oh, with low confidence, we think maybe it’s moderate.’ Those that dropped the bombs precisely in the right place know exactly what happened when that exploded,” he continued.

“And you know who else knows?” Hegseth added. “Iran.”

He concluded by arguing that the fact that Iran went to the negotiation table after the strike was proof that its nuclear enriching capabilities had been significantly destroyed.

Trump’s announcement of a ceasefire agreement between Iran and Israel has been undermined by continued strikes from both combatants. An Israel Defense Forces official has said that the operations in Iran have likely set back its nuclear programs by “years” but added that it was too early to tell completely.

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Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani is one step closer to becoming the first Muslim mayor of New York City after former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) conceded Tuesday night, telling supporters at an election-night gathering that Mamdani “won.”

“This is important for New Yorkers to understand what’s happening here. You’re about to elect a dyed-in-the-wool socialist who actually wants to bring socialism to New York City, and he’s telling you right up front,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray comments.

Mamdani, who is a socialist rapper turned politician, has even proposed government-run grocery stores.

“Grocery prices are out of control. The cost of eggs and milk has skyrocketed. Some stores are even using dynamic pricing, jacking up the cost over the course of a day depending on what they can get away with. It doesn’t need to be this way,” he said in a video posted to social media.

“I will create a network of city-owned grocery stores. It’s like a public option for produce. We will redirect city funds from corporate supermarkets to city-owned grocery stores whose mission is lower prices, not price gouging,” he continued.

“These stores will operate without a profit motive or having to pay property taxes or rent, and will pass on those savings to you,” he added.

“Good luck,” Gray says, astonished. “At least with Cuomo, you know what you’re getting, and it’s not going to be good, but it’s not that disaster.”

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Fitness influencer Brian “Liver King” Johnson threatened to physically assault Joe Rogan in several bizarre videos posted online, according to police in Texas.

The Austin Police Department received a report around 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday that a popular internet personality was allegedly making threats against Rogan on social media.

The Austin Police Department informed Blaze News: “Brian Johnson, known online as ‘Liver King,’ had made threats against Joe Rogan on his Instagram profile.”

Detectives with the APD determined that Johnson was “traveling to Austin while continuing to make threatening statements.” Rogan and his family live in Austin.

Detectives contacted Rogan regarding the online threats, to which the podcast star told authorities that he had “never had any interaction with Johnson.” Police said Rogan considered the posts to be “threatening.”

Based on Rogan’s input and the detectives’ investigation, police considered the threats to be legitimate, so they obtained an arrest warrant for Johnson.

Officers located Johnson at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Austin at approximately 5:59 p.m. on Tuesday. Police noted that they took the raw meat fitness influencer into custody without incident.

The Austin Police Department said the investigation remains ongoing.

According to jail records from the Travis County Sheriff’s Office, Johnson was charged with one count of making a terroristic threat causing fear of imminent serious bodily injury — a Class B misdemeanor.

Johnson was released on Wednesday from the Travis County Jail on a $20,000 bond, according to KSAT-TV.

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The Liver King — who has nearly 3 million followers on Instagram — posted a video of him being arrested and taken into a police cruiser in handcuffs outside of the hotel.

Before his arrest, Johnson posted several strange videos on Instagram mentioning Rogan.

In one bizarre and lengthy Instagram video posted on Tuesday, Johnson is talking about Rogan while filing his nails because he doesn’t want to “scratch” the face of the UFC commentator if they fight, while new-age meditation music plays in the background.

Johnson is also seen telling his staff to deliver a box with Rogan’s face on it to his comedy club — Comedy Mothership. Johnson said the box contains DVDs from the “John Wick” movie franchise.

Johnson tells his two sons that he is about to “lose his man privileges.” He calls someone on his staff to “mobilize” everyone and to record his imminent arrest. As he is recording the video, police sirens can be heard from outside.

Johnson tells his family that he changed the Wi-Fi password to “F**k you Joe Rogan.”

Johnson is heard seemingly breaking down in tears as he leads his family in a prayer circle.

In a video shared on Monday, a shirtless Johnson armed with two gold firearms while dancing and wearing a wolf pelt and head said, “Joe Rogan, I’m calling you out. I’m picking a fight with you. I have zero training in jiujitsu. You are a black belt. You should dismantle me.”

Johnson said in a different video, “Joe Rogan, we don’t have to make videos to pretend anymore. All of this is happening. We’re coming to you. I’ve challenged you, man to man, to a fight. Honorable. … You can hold the hand of somebody that you love because you’re going to need to remember that feeling. You’re going to need something to fight for, because I have my family to fight for, and that I’ll die for. And you’re a black belt, [but] you’ve never come across something like this. [I’m] willing to die, hoping that you’ll choke me out.”

In another bizarre video recorded in a shower while administering a coffee enema to himself, the Liver King tells his viewers that he didn’t threaten to kill anyone.

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In December 2022, the Liver King confessed to his millions of followers on social media that he uses steroids to help him get his enormously muscular physique. Previously, the Liver King credited an “ancestral lifestyle” and a diet of raw animal organs as his secret to building massive muscles naturally. Johnson regularly refuted accusations that he used steroids to gain his hulking mass.

Leaked emails from a doctor revealed that Johnson had been a heavy steroid user and had been injecting approximately $11,000 worth of steroids and human growth hormone every month.

In the same month, Rogan called out Johnson on an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” with guest Derek Munro — host of the “More Plates More Dates” podcast.

“There’s no way you can look like that in your 40s,” Rogan said of Johnson’s physique. “I mean, he’s preposterously jacked.”

“This is dumb, man. You ran a con game, and you got busted,” Rogan said to the Liver King. “It’s unfortunate that you feel terrible. I’m sorry you feel bad. But that’s just what happens when you get caught lying.”

Rogan also claimed that Johnson was “front row” at one of his comedy shows in Las Vegas and at a UFC fight.

“He was trying really hard to get on the podcast,” Rogan added. “And he’s been trying really hard now. He contacted a few friends of mine.”

In May 2025, Netflix released a documentary about Johnson titled “Untold: The Liver King.”

“With his signature bushy beard, hardcore workouts, and a diet that raised more than a few eyebrows (hello, testicles), Brian Johnson rose to internet stardom preaching the virtues of ‘ancestral living’ — a lifestyle built on core tenets that include eating whole foods, getting outside, and rejecting modern comforts,” according to Netflix. “Millions of people followed — but eventually, accusations of hypocrisy led to a public reckoning.”

RELATED: Joe Rogan said hippies, musicians thanked him for endorsing Trump because they were afraid of being attacked

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The Houston Police Department released bodycam footage last week showing what authorities said was an officer fatally shooting a motorist who attempted to grab a gun from his waistband.

‘He’s got a gun — look out, look out! Shots fired, shots fired!’

Police said in a press release that officers were dispatched to the North Freeway around 3:45 p.m. May 17 regarding a car accident involving three vehicles.

Two of the vehicles remained at the site of the crash, but one of the vehicles fled the scene, according to police.

Officers with the Houston Police Department located the alleged hit-and-run vehicle, a green SUV, in a vacant parking lot in Houston, according to bodycam video.

The bodycam video shows an officer approaching the man sitting in the driver’s seat of the green SUV with the door open. The cop informs the motorist that video shows his vehicle was just involved in a car accident. Police said the motorist didn’t comply when officers tried to detain him.

The officer asks the driver, “You didn’t want to provide your information? You know it’s state law to do that, right?”

RELATED: Crazy bodycam video shows suspect trying to flee cop on a lawnmower, getting tased — and it only gets worse for him

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The driver asks the officer, “[Who] did I hit?” The officer near the driver’s side of the vehicle responds, “I’m not going to debate about it with you, OK? What we’re going to do is put you in handcuffs, we’re going to put you in a back seat, we’re going to move your car over there with the other two cars that were involved in the crash, OK?”

Suddenly, the motorist is seen in the police bodycam footage pulling up his shirt and grabbing an object from his waistband.

“As the officers attempted to detain the driver of the green SUV for the crash investigation, the driver lifted his shirt up, reached for a visible gun in his waistband, and pulled out the weapon,” the Houston Police Department stated.

An officer is heard on the bodycam footage screaming, “Hey, whoa, whoa!”

A cop yells, “He’s got a gun — look out, look out! Shots fired, shots fired!”

Video shows a second officer apparently firing at the suspect from the rear of the vehicle.

Indeed, Houston Police said in a press release that “two HPD officers then discharged their duty weapons more than once, striking the suspect.”

The man is then seen unresponsive, motionless, and slumped over in the driver’s seat of the vehicle.

Police said officers attempted to administer lifesaving measures to the man until Houston Fire Department paramedics arrived. However, the suspect was pronounced dead at the scene.

The police bodycam footage shows one of the officers removing a gun from the suspect’s hand.

Neither police officer appeared to be harmed, according to the video.

RELATED: Police bodycam video shows Florida man offering cops alcohol during car chase that ends with suspect getting tased

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The Houston Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit, the Internal Affairs Division, and the Harris County District Attorney’s Office are investigating the deadly police shooting.

Houston Police Assistant Chief Christy Smith named the deceased suspect as Michael Dziedzic.

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Billionaire Palmer Luckey is dipping his toe into the financial sector with a banking venture focused on helping tech entrepreneurs.

The company is known as Erebor, yet another entry in Luckey’s portfolio that follows the Thiel-world pattern of referencing lore from the tales of J.R.R. Tolkien. Just as Anduril is a reference to a character’s sword, and Palantir to a magical seeing stone, Erebor refers to the mountain in “The Hobbit” where the dragon Smaug hoards his gold away from would-be slayers and thieves.

While the moniker is not final, according to the New York Post, the venture is serious in its ability to reshape banking forever.

Deliberate federal interference in the nascent crypto banking market provoked the very crisis the feds purported to solve.

Luckey is partnering with Joe Lonsdale, a venture capitalist who co-founded Palantir Technologies and other software companies. Together, they will help tech startups build their businesses instead of maximizing returns like a traditional bank, insiders told the Post.

The key difference is that Erebor will work with stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency tied to relatively stable assets like the U.S. dollar or gold. This is done to limit the volatility of a coin without sacrificing its benefits, creating investment opportunities far in excess of simply purchasing and holding, say, Bitcoin.

Even the president is working with stablecoins, particularly USD1, which is attached to the U.S. dollar.

RELATED: Big Tech execs enlist in Army Reserve, citing ‘patriotism’ and cybersecurity

Joe Lonsdale, at the Montgomery Summit in Santa Monica, California, on Wednesday, March 8, 2017. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Post reported that Erebor was born out of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in 2023, caused by a slew of management errors, “investment missteps, market volatility, and regulatory changes,” according to Investopedia. The Biden administration ended up guaranteeing all deposits into SVB, despite the bank’s ruin.

But as Castle Island founding partner Nic Carter explained last year, deliberate federal interference in the nascent crypto banking market provoked the very crisis the feds purported to solve. “Biden bank regulators made it impossible for banks serving a particular legal industry to operate,” Carter wrote. “And in doing so, they actively caused the collapse of certain banks, namely Silvergate and Signature. These banks did not die by suicide but by murder. This remains a gigantic scandal, and no one has ever faced any responsibility for it.”

It is unknown who else is involved with the launch of Erebor; it is still in its early stages and has no public start date. Luckey’s representative did not immediately respond to Blaze News’ request for information regarding founders or key development points.

In that regard, Lonsdale’s venture firm 8VC has led a $225 million fundraising round, which will reportedly be used to meet federal regulatory requirements that are necessary for starting a bank, not for backing deposits.

Luckey is not expected to hold an executive role or be involved in day-to-day operations, but he would be adding “bank operator” to his laundry list of titles, which include defense contractor and handheld-gaming manufacturer.

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The tech titan has increasingly been involved in larger-than-life projects, including advanced technologies for U.S. military equipment. His open-to-debate style has caused him to become a darling of the Silicon Valley class, and his prominent criticisms of Facebook/Meta (he has since buried the hatchet with Mark Zuckerberg) have helped his image as a palatable billionaire, a dynamic with echoes of Mr. Burns and his one-time rival Arthur Fortune.

“Cryptocurrency is so powerful and investable because it’s the most advanced tech ordinary Americans can use right now amongst themselves to create and grow wealth,” said James Poulos, Blaze Media’s editor at large.

“But it’s still not clear how exactly to transition the U.S. from a dollar backed by American global, economic, and military dominance to one backed by computational power,” he added. “While stablecoins weaken the ability of regular people to use Bitcoin free from government pressure and control, they strengthen the ability of Washington and Silicon Valley to transition the dollar stably away from the unsustainable ‘money printer’ model toward a dollar backed by energy itself, in the form of watts used to power compute. That’s why a bank like Erebor is basically inevitable.”

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If detention wasn’t scary enough for illegal immigrants, President Donald Trump is preparing an off-the-grid facility aptly named “Alligator Alcatraz” to house some of the most violent illegal aliens in America.

The facility is being constructed in Florida’s “Alligator Alley” on a 30-square-mile property in the Everglades called the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, home to a “virtually abandoned airport.” The facility will house 5,000 beds for criminal illegal immigrants.

“The governor tasked state leaders to identify places for new temporary detention facilities. I think this is the best one: as I call it, ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said in a promotional video on X.

Uthmeier said the location presents “an efficient, low-cost opportunity to build a temporary detention facility” because even if they tried to get out, they’d have a hard time surviving.

“There’s not that much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons,” he said. “Nowhere to go. Nowhere to hide.”

“I’m sure that the left will come back and say, ‘But it’s expensive. It’s like $450 million a year,’ they’re saying, ‘to maintain.’ However, if you contrast that to, say, the Roosevelt Hotel over in New York City that they were housing all of these illegals,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales comments, “that just cost New York City taxpayers about $575,000 a night.”

“By the way, these were human traffickers, child abusers, gang members,” she continues. “Laken Riley’s killer, there.”

“And crime being committed in the hotels,” comedian Derek Richards chimes in. “They were talking about people being raped in the stairwells and the rampant drug use.”

“If they complain about the $450 million it’s going to cost, we sent them to El Salvador and you didn’t want that, did you? So take your pick: El Salvador or alligator heaven,” BlazeTV contributor Matthew Marsden adds.

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