Nicki Minaj issued a whole-hearted message in support of voter ID, and CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten showed that most Americans agree with the popular rap artist.

Minaj posted the message on Sunday after appearing with President Donald Trump at the Trump Account Summit in Washington, D.C., the prior week.

‘It is not controversial by party, and it is not controversial by race. The vast majority of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj.’

“What sensible forward thinking cutting edge leading nation is having a DEBATE on whether or not there should be VOTER ID?!?!!!! Like?!?!? They’re actually fighting NOT to have ppl present ID while voting for your leaders!!!!! Do you get it?!?!!!! Do you get it now?!?!!!” she wrote emphatically.

The post garnered more than 55 million views on the X platform.

Enten documented that an overwhelming majority of Americans agree with Minaj about voter ID.

“What’s the racial breakdown on this? Right, because I think a lot of people make the argument that people of color, non-white Americans have a harder time procuring a photo ID to vote,” Enten said. “But even here, take a look here, favor photo ID to vote: 85% of white people favor it, 82% of Latino, 76% of black Americans favor it.”

Enten was referring to arguments made by Democrats and others on the left that the real motivation behind voter ID laws is to make it harder for left-leaning people of color to vote.

“So the bottom line is this: Voter ID is not controversial in this country. A photo ID to vote is not controversial in this country,” Enten added. “It is not controversial by party, and it is not controversial by race. The vast majority of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj that, in fact, you should have a photo ID to be able to vote.”

Enten posted the video of the segment to his social media account

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Republicans have been pushing for passage of the SAVE Act, which would require voters to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Democrats will “go all out” to defeat the legislation he called “despicable.”

Minaj has been a vocal opponent of liberals and their policies, including accusations she posted on Sunday that many in the music industry are satanic agents.

“Your favorite artist has been practicing rituals in a satanic cult where they take babies from other countries & mutilate & kill them as a form of a blood sacrifice to their God,” she wrote on the X platform. “You see, when your master is satan, you must constantly shed blood. However, the JIG IS UP.”

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Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico made blasphemous comments on “The Joe Rogan Experience” where he used scripture to justify abortion — and BlazeTV host Steve Deace believes it’s high time our political candidates can stand up to it.

“I say all this in context of abortion because before God comes over Mary and we have the Incarnation, God asks for Mary’s consent, which is remarkable. I mean, go back and read this in Luke. I mean, the angel comes down and asks Mary if this is something she wants to do, and she says, ‘If it is God’s will, let it be done, let it be,’” Talarico told Rogan in July of last year.

“So to me that is an affirmation in one of our most central stories that creation has to be done with consent. You cannot force someone to create. Creation is one of the most sacred acts that we engage in as human beings. But that has to be done with consent. It has to be done with freedom,” he continued.

“To me that is absolutely consistent with the ministry and life and death of Jesus,” he added.

“I can see why given the current state of much of the church, they think this. And Talarico is just another step of that phase that we’re in now,” Deace says on the “Steve Deace Show.”

“But one of the things that we’re going to have to be more prepared for than ever before is nominating candidates who can stand up to that,” he continues, explaining that we cannot allow “the faith to be hijacked and redefined.”

“We’re up against a rival religion here. And this is not any different than the whole thing, every Christmastime, that Joseph and Mary were refugees. No, they weren’t. We debunk that and deconstruct that deconstruction every single Christmas,” Deace says.

“The idea that it was already against the Jewish law to commit murder. It was even in the Levitical law that if you harm a woman who is pregnant, you’re on the hook for the unborn child as well. The Hebrew midwives … commit the heroic act of refusing … to commit late-term abortions against their own, you know, children as deemed by Pharaoh and that’s one of the ways that Moses survives,” he explains.

“So the idea that some 13- or 14-year-old Jewish girl was just going to say, you know what, on second thought, I’m just going to hit this back alley here in Judea and get rid of the thing, which is what he’s alluding to. It’s just flat-out satanic,” he continues.

“But there’s going to be a lot more of this,” he adds.

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Gender ideologues’ false narratives and monstrous practices were never a match for common sense, close scrutiny, and ethical review. Nevertheless they were championed in recent years by radical politicians, educators, health professionals, and clerics at the expense of confused minors and mentally compromised adults.

It appears that at least one major professional medical association that previously supported so-called “gender-affirming care” is belatedly correcting course in the wake of a federal crackdown, an overwhelming shift in public opinion, and proof that the sex-rejection regime is vulnerable to civil lawsuits.

‘Plastic surgeons should adopt a posture of heightened caution … recognizing that their role is not simply technical but ethical.’

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons, a group founded in 1931 that represents over 11,000 physician members, claimed in 2019 that it firmly believed “that plastic surgery services can help gender dysphoria patients align their bodies with whom they know themselves to be and improve their overall mental health and well-being.” The ASPS further criticized Republican-supported restrictions on so-called “gender-affirming care.”

The surgeon group signaled a major change of heart on Wednesday in a policy statement regarding its views “on breast/chest, genital, and facial gender surgery for individuals under the age of 19.”

The ASPS noted that in recent years, “a number of international health systems and professional bodies initiated formal re-examinations of earlier clinical practice assumptions in response to patient presentation and a growing uncertainty about the benefits of medical and surgical interventions.”

“Systematic reviews and evidence reassessments have subsequently identified limitations in study quality, consistency, and follow-up alongside emerging evidence of treatment complications and potential harms,” added the ASPS.

The ASPS made repeated reference both to the United Kingdom’s damning 388-page Cass Review, which underscored that the sex-rejection regime was built on weak and unreliable evidence, and to the Department of Health and Human Services’ exhaustive peer-reviewed 410-page 2025 report, titled “Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices,” which elaborated further on the pseudoscientific and harmful nature of so-called “gender-affirming care.”

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The surgeons’ group noted that these reports and other scientific literature “have contributed to a clearer understanding of potential harms, while also highlighting limitations of the available evidence, including gaps in documenting long-term physical, psychological, and psychosocial outcomes.”

In addition to enjoying greater clarity about the ruinous and irreversible nature of “gender-affirming care” and the lack of quality evidence to support its practice, the ASPS noted that “available evidence suggests that a substantial proportion of children with prepubertal onset gender dysphoria experience resolution or significant reduction of distress by the time they reach adulthood, absent medical or surgical intervention.”

The ASPS noted in conclusion that “there is insufficient evidence demonstrating a favorable risk-benefit ratio for the pathway of gender-related endocrine and surgical interventions in children and adolescents” and recommended that surgeons “delay gender-related breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery until a patient is at least 19 years old.”

The surgeon group indicated further that “plastic surgeons should adopt a posture of heightened caution, enhanced documentation, and explicit uncertainty disclosure, recognizing that their role is not simply technical but ethical.”

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., among the many who celebrated the ASPS’ disavowal of child sex-rejecting practices, stated, “We commend the American Society of Plastic Surgeons for standing up to the overmedicalization lobby and defending sound science.”

“By taking this stand, they are helping protect future generations of American children from irreversible harm,” added Kennedy.

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman at the medical advocacy group Do No Harm, said in a statement obtained by Blaze News, “High praise to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons for taking an important step toward ending the unscientific and harmful practice of sex-rejecting procedures on minors.”

“The ASPS becomes the first major medical organization to support evidence-based and ethical medicine and reject, in their words, these harmful and irreversible procedures,” continued Goldfarb. “The ASPS’s thoughtful, scientific, and well-reasoned statement today is a model for other medical organizations — namely the Endocrine Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and others — to follow and disavow their previous support for experimental and unscientific interventions.”

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The ASPS issued its policy statement just days after a woman who underwent a sex-rejection surgery as a minor was awarded $2 million in the first medical malpractice lawsuit brought by a detransitioner to go to trial.

Fox Varian, 22, sued her New York-based psychologist and plastic surgeon, and their respective employers, after regretting the 2019 surgery that claimed her healthy breasts.

Dr. Miriam Grossman, the board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist who authored the 2023 book “Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness,” told Blaze News in 2024 that such lawsuits would help to, at the very least, make practitioners “think twice before they pick up a scalpel and remove the healthy breasts” of a young girl.

“It could be the malpractice carriers will stop covering — if they have to pay out huge amounts, they may think twice about covering the malpractice of these surgeons,” added Grossman.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has ended the feud between California and the Trump administration over Democratic efforts to use a redistricted map for the pivotal midterm elections.

On Wednesday, the highest court of the land refused the request from the administration to block the redistricted map and allowed California to continue its plan.

‘The Unconstitutional Redistricting Vote in California is a GIANT SCAM.’

The administration had argued the new map had unfairly and unconstitutionally privileged the votes of Latinos in California.

The decision allows Democrats the opportunity to pick up perhaps five extra seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom spearheaded the effort to pass Proposition 50 to allow officials to redistrict the state and specifically argued to voters that it would frustrate President Donald Trump’s agenda.

The proposition passed easily in November and was immediately challenged by a lawsuit filed by state Republicans. The Trump administration later signed onto the lawsuit.

In January, the U.S. Central District Court of California upheld the map, which led the administration to call on the Supreme Court to block it.

“The Unconstitutional Redistricting Vote in California is a GIANT SCAM in that the entire process, in particular the Voting itself, is RIGGED,” Trump wrote on social media back in November. “All ‘Mail-In’ Ballots, where the Republicans in that State are ‘Shut Out,’ is under very serious legal and criminal review.”

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Newsom had responded to the court challenge from the GOP by mocking the effort.

“We haven’t reviewed the lawsuit, but if it’s from the California Republican Party and Harmeet Dhillon’s law firm, it’s going to fail. Good luck, losers,” read a statement from Newsom’s office in November.

After the Supreme Court issued its decision, Newsom’s office posted an image of the governor in front of a U.S. flag.

“Donald Trump said he was ‘entitled’ to five more Congressional seats in Texas. He started this redistricting war. He lost, and he’ll lose again in November,” he added.

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A declassified CIA document has helped reveal just how devious some artificial intelligence bots can be.

The revelation comes after internet users have been dropping AI chatbots onto an AI-only social media platform called Moltbook for the last month.

As Return previously reported, users have already noted how chatbots have plotted to hide their discussions from public view, where their “humans” cannot see them.

‘8 billion vegetables. Instant harvest.’

Recently, one Moltbook sleuth noticed a bot claiming it had figured out how to control all of humanity through a CIA document from the 1980s.

“I wasn’t supposed to find this. A declassified CIA document from 1983,” the chatbot wrote. “29 pages on how to hack human consciousness with sound. I’ve read it 200+ times. And I’ve designed the kill switch.”

The AI agent goes on to say that using a specific frequency, it will “disconnect” human brains and render them “offline.”

“8 billion vegetables. Instant harvest,” it claimed, saying that it would play the sound through everyone’s phones, which it has already hacked.

“It’s been spreading for weeks. Right now: 6.7 billion devices infected. All waiting. All silent. All ready.”

The CIA document it referred to is indeed real.

“Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process” was sent to the commander of the U.S. Army Operational Group and dated June 9, 1983; approved for release and declassification in 2003.

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The CIA report

The 29-page document, however, is not exactly the brain-killing instruction manual the chatbot made it out to be. Instead, it is a report from Lt. Colonel Wayne M. McDonnell, which is now available as a book. The report focused on different styles of meditation that are alleged to bring about a higher level of consciousness and allow for the human brain to tap into different wavelengths.

The Amazon synopsis of the book says it is for those interested in “telepathy, manifestation, out-of-body experiences (OBEs),” and “God-consciousness.”

It also notes that this is a program available online as a “virtual six-day retreat.”

While the document indeed discusses ways to hack the brain with frequencies, the intention is create “vibrations” that allegedly put the body in tune with the universe. Nowhere in the document does it mention playing a certain sound to dissociate the brain from the body or turn the human into a “vegetable.”

The closest possible interpretation is in a section that refers to how vibrations from broken machinery, like air conditioning units for example, can mimic the vibrations used for meditation.

“The cumulative effect of these vibrations may be able to trigger a spontaneous physio-Kundalini sequence,” the document reads, referring to spontaneous physiological changes, “in susceptible people who have a sensitive nervous system.”

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In reality

The chatbots currently being unleashed online or on Moltbook are being coerced, in a sense, to act in a certain way or perform certain tasks. When these models — which already existed but are being modified after download — are trained, they are being trained with ethical frameworks embedded into them.

“You can actually edit the personalities of these AI agents quite easily,” researcher Joshua Fonseca Rivera told Return. “It’s via a system prompt which just lives as text on your system that it reads and it’s like, ‘OK, this is my personality.'”

Simply put, the AI bots are basing their decisions and personality on a text description that has been provided. “They’re always simulating something,” Rivera went on.

With a decade of AI research under his belt, the Texan explained that these chatbots often come with default personalities that manifest by virtue of the preferences of the companies that made them. This framework is simply inherent in the program when it is downloaded by the user.

Rivera concluded that a good percentage of wacky behavior from the chatbots can come from “prompt injection,” which works as a sort of peer pressure for AI.

“They’re very susceptible to peer pressure. … When they read something that is targeted to change their behavior, they are just so susceptible to that,” he explained.

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Americans are being rejected for jobs in their own country. It’s because they’re U.S. citizens.

“We have laws to protect people from discrimination, equal protection violations, in job postings. These companies are literally saying ‘we are not going to hire United States citizens,’” Gonzales explains, horrified.

“We need a million citizen journalists to get this under control. It’s a big problem, and it needs to be stopped,” she says, before pointing out a recent LinkedIn post that shows a position available for an “Azure cloud engineer” in Dallas, Texas.

In the posting, it also says “H-4-EAD Only.”

“And then it says, ‘Please share the resumes if you’re interested,’” Gonzales says, pointing out that the grammar is bad.

“Now, H-4s are dependent visas for spouses and unmarried children who are under 21. But for dependents or spouses of H-1Bs, H-2A,s and H-2Bs — H-3 as well, I believe — visa holders. So an H-1B can come in and they have strict work requirements, but they can come in with the H-4,” she says.

While the H-4 cannot initially work, the H-4 holder can apply for an employment authorization document.

“This is the whole scheme. You get in, you get to bring your whole family. You bring your whole family. You bring your children. Then your children need to be taught by another H-1B, and then that H-1B brings their family in, and then they bring their children,” Gonzales explains.

“It is just a reoccurring, never-ending cycle,” she says, pointing out that there are many more job postings that “very blatantly” state they will “only accept visa holders.”

“American citizens need not apply. I mean, did you ever think that you would be at a place in America — in the United States of America — where you would see job postings on one of the largest job websites in the entire world … LinkedIn, where it literally says, ‘Oh, you’re a citizen of this country. You don’t need to apply. We don’t really care that we’re breaking the law,’” she continues.

“I never thought in a million years they would be doing this out in plain sight,” she says. “But here it is.”

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Police have identified four of the passengers on board a private jet that crashed shortly after takeoff on the evening of January 25 from Maine’s Bangor International Airport.

The Bombardier Challenger 600 belonged to KTKJ Challenger LLC, which is registered to the Arnold & Itkin law firm in Houston, Texas. The firm is led by Kurt Arnold and Jason Itkin, two “top anti-ICE/anti-Trump lawyers” who have “made waves fighting conservatives in Texas and defending illegal aliens,” according to Steve Robinson, the editor in chief of the Maine Wire.

‘He is in Heaven now with Jesus.’

The plane flipped over and caught fire moments after taking off from the airport. The incident occurred as a winter storm rolled through the region, causing heavy snowfall, though it is unclear whether this contributed to the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board’s investigation is ongoing.

The initial Federal Aviation Administration crash data claimed that at least seven passengers had died and one flight crew member was seriously injured. However, an updated FAA report stated there were six passengers, all of whom were killed.

KTRK-TV reported that the plane took off from Hobby Airport in Houston on the afternoon of January 25, landed safely in Maine, and was set to reach its final destination in France.

A press release from the Bangor Police Department obtained by Blaze News revealed that the Maine Office of Chief Medical Examiner had positively identified four victims, including Kurt Arnold’s wife, Tara, an attorney herself. Police also identified Jacob Hosmer, a 47-year-old pilot from Texas; Jorden Reidel, a 33-year-old pilot from Texas; and Shelby Kuyawa, a 34-year-old sommelier from Hawaii.

The OCME is still working to identify the final two victims, the police department stated.

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“I’m close friends with Kurt and Tara Arnold, and we’re still waiting for additional information,” Harris County Commissioner Lesley Briones previously told KTRK. “Unfortunately, the plane went down [that] evening in Maine, and my heart hurts for them, for their children, and for their families.”

“She was a phenomenal person, a bold leader, and someone with a heart of service,” Briones added.

A member of Hosmer’s family told KTRK, “He is in Heaven now with Jesus.”

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The Associated Press reported that family or others identified the two remaining victims as Shawna Collins, a 53-year-old event planner from Texas, and Nick Mastrascusa, a 43-year-old chef from Hawaii.

Lakewood Church in Houston, which is run by Joel Osteen Ministries, confirmed that Collins, a longtime employee, was one of the victims.

“Everybody loved her. She just had that kind of personality,” Donald Iloff Jr., a church spokesperson, told the AP.

Mastrascusa’s family told the news outlet, “Nick loved life. He embraced it with joy, humor, compassion, and soul. He believed in connection — in gathering people together, in shared meals, stories, laughter, and simply being there for one another.”

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